50th Reunion Essay

Allan Gates College: Jonathan Edwards

Lathrop Mead Gates Date of Death: 6-Jul-2009 College: Pierson (This memorial from tributes.com was reprinted in the January/February 2010 Class Notes.) Lathrop M. Gates died July 6 at his home in Kansas City. Lathrop was born on February 1, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri to Clinton Hayes Gates and Doris Mead Gates. He attended Grandview Elementary School and graduated from Pembroke Country Day in 1965. He was a member of the tennis team at Yale…

Thomas Henry Matthew Gates Date of Death: 2-Feb-1997 College: Jonathan Edwards (This report appeared in the February 1999 Class Notes.) Mrs. Helen Gates, the mother of Thomas H.M. Gates, has funded a Yale College scholarship in Tom’s name, in accordance with his wishes expressed prior to his death. The Thomas H.M. Gates scholarship will be awarded each year with preference to a student in Jonathan Edwards College and/or an African American student, with the gender…

John J. Gazzoli, Jr. 16916 Pacland Ridge Dr Chesterfield, Missouri 63005 jgazzoli@aol.com 314-954-6890 Spouse(s): Kathy (1973) Child(ren): John III (1978); Andrea (1981) Education: Yale (BA Economics) 1969; St. Louis University, JD (magna cum laude) National Service: US Navy, 1969-1975 Career: Law Practice and Real Estate Development Avocations: Sports, traditional jazz music, gardening College: Jonathan Edwards Life has been very good to me. After graduation, I spent three meaningful years as a naval officer with tours…

Kyle Gee 2626 Harrison Street Oakland, CA 94612 kylegee@pacbell.net 510-435-6707 Spouse(s): Michelle Migdal Gee Child(ren): Erin Migdal Gee, Paul Migdal Gee Education: USC Law School College: Saybrook I arrived in New Haven in 1965 as a very rough piece of work, coming from the far backwoods of rural Virginia. Despite Yale’s transformative powers—and an intensely enjoyable year in a “spook”—I left Yale in 1969 with a lot of rough edges in place. I taught high…

Richard Gaines College: Ezra Stiles

David Feigenbaum 38 Rangeley Road Winchester, MA 01890 david.feigenbaum@gmail.com 617-521-7817 Spouse(s): Maureen Meister (1979) Child(ren): Peter (1984); Stephen (1989) Education: Harvard Law School JD 1972 Career: Corporate lawyer, what is now K&L Gates, 8 years. Intellectual property lawyer, Fish & Richardson, 38 years and counting. Avocations: Photography, historic preservation, cooking, gardening. College: Branford It was late summer in 1966 when I moved into the Branford triple numbered 800 with my sophomore roommates, Bill Waldman and…

Donald Porter Ferguson Date of Death: 13-Jan-1968 College: Ezra Stiles (This memorial was published by Hopkins Grammar School, The Class of 1965.) Don Ferguson, the eternal optimist with the ready smile, was editor-in-chief of the Razor, National Merit Commended Scholar, and Alumni Scholar. He went from HGS to Yale, but was caught up in “the war”—our generation’s war. Don was killed in Vietnam on January 13, 1968 in a place called Bienhoa. His name has…

T. Angus Ferguson College: Ezra Stiles

Edward Jay Ferraro College: Branford

Daniel Mark Friedlander Date of Death: 22-Feb-1999 College: Branford From the 25th Reunion Class Book: After Yale I continued my education to obtain a PhD. from Columbia in economics with a strong emphasis on statistics. I do statistical analysis of large-scale employment and training programs with a mid-Manhattan research firm and write a fair amount of technical analysis on the subject. The greatest moments of my life so far have been the births of my…

Joel Philip Friedman 15 Horseshoe Ct. Hillsborough, CA 94010 joelpf@earthlink.net 650-619-7109 Spouse(s): Sharon Friedman (1969) Child(ren): Jeff Friedman (1971), Dave Friedman (1974) Grandchild(ren): Elise Friedman (1998), Nathaniel Friedman (2001), Savannah Friedman (2015) Education: Yale (BA – Economics, 1969), Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA, 1971) Career: Management Consulting and Venture Capital, Accenture for 34 years; Corporate Director for 20 years Avocations: Golf, travel, music College: Morse I recall an experience during my working career, sitting…

David Friend 40 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 2116 david@davidfriend.name 617-230-5446 Spouse(s): Margaret Shepherd Child(ren): Zoe, Jasper, Zack, Lily College: Calhoun (Hopper) I’ve had a great time as a serial entrepreneur in the tech space, and in fact I’m still at it as CEO of a cloud storage start-up called Wasabi. You can google it if you’re interested in cloud storage! We’re competing directly with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—I know it sounds crazy but I love…

Edmond Froehlich 6093 Bahia Del Mar Circle, #180 St Petersburg, Florida 33715 ecfroehlich@aol.com 419-944-7576 Spouse(s): Patricia Rodrick Froehlich (1968) Child(ren): Elizabeth Froehlich Zenobi (1977) and Robert DeForest Froehlich (1981) Grandchild(ren): Sonia Claire Zenobi (2008), Cleo Margaret Zenobi (2010), and Alice Katherine Froehlich (2016) Education: Yale BA Intensive History of Art; Graduate studies in education at Yale, and marketing at Case Western Reserve. Career: Advertising agency management: GM, Griswold-Eshleman (Cleveland); CEO, Young & Rubicam (St Petersburg);…

John Gilman Fuchs Date of Death: 13-Feb-1986 College: Calhoun From the Class Notes archive: Gil succumbed to a heart attack, and is survived by his wife Marianna and three daughters Lindsay, Caroline, and Martha. At Yale, the Daily News was Gil’s ruling passion-he wrote about the events of the late ’60s with involvement yet with fairness. He also played a strong right fullback for Calhoun soccer. He served as a conscientious objector in VISTA, trying…

Joseph H. Fuchs College: Trumbull