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William Wendell Fletcher – 50th Reunion Essay

William Wendell Fletcher 3655 Planting Green Stillwater, MN 55082 wendellandsue@gmail.com 651-342-1654 Spouse(s): Susan R. Fletcher (1984) Child(ren): Daniel Abbasi Grandchild(ren): Jordan, Elias, Isabelle Education: Yale AB 1969, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 1977 MS Career: public policy analyst, manager, writer, consultant (current) College: Timothy Dwight Originally in the Class of 1968, I dropped out in my junior year, graduating in 1969 from Timothy Dwight while living off campus on the shore. I spent…

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Howard Christian Floyd – 50th Reunion Essay

Howard Christian Floyd 16 Oxford Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420-2940 Spouse(s): Norma Dominick Floyd (1989) Career: Lead Software Systems Engineer, Retired, The MITRE Corporation College: Branford My life changes but stays much the same as I wrote 25 years ago. I retired in spring 2016 from full time at the MITRE Corporation but still work part-time on call, often at Hanscom AFB. Norma and I live in the same house in Lexington, Massachusetts, and expect to…

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Kimball Howes Ferris – 50th Reunion Essay

Kimball Howes Ferris 4265 SW Charming Way Portland, OR 97225 kimball.ferris@gmail.com 971-22-7318 Spouse(s): Sue Kirby Ferris (1974) Child(ren): Kerby Anne Ferris (1979); Lisa Michelle Ferris (1982); Jill Elizabeth Ferris Harmon (1988) Education: University of Massachusetts (MLA 1974); University of Massachusetts (MRP 1975); Willamette University (JD 1978) National Service: SP-5, US Army Security Agency, Arabic Linguist (69-72) Career: Business attorney practicing in Portland, Oregon from 1978 to the present, since 2011 as a partner at Miller,…

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Robert Dana Ferris – 50th Reunion Essay

Robert Dana Ferris Date of Death: 6-Nov-2010 College: Trumbull (This memorial was published in the Times Argus on Jan. 28, 2011.) Robert Dana Ferris died of stomach cancer in Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 6, 2010. In 1968, following three years at Yale University, Bobby took a year off to work as part of Volunteers in Service to America, the domestic version of the Peace Corps. As a VISTA volunteer, he was assigned to the village…

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Clemmie Parker Engle – 50th Reunion Essay

Clemmie Parker Engle 132 West Maple Avenue Denver, Colorado 80223 clemmie.engle@gmail.com Education: Duke University School of Law, J.D. 1975 College: Morse In 1971, after a couple years of teaching school, draft dodging, and bumming around Europe and Morocco, I put my world in the trunk of my car and headed West, not really knowing where I would stop. As it turned out, I stopped in Colorado, and it has been home to me ever since….

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Karl Raymond Etherington – 50th Reunion Essay

Karl Raymond Etherington Date of Death: 3-Sep-1973 College: Davenport (Karl Raymond Etherington is buried in the Hawthorne Cemetery, Mt Vernon, Washington.) From the Bridgeport Post: Karl Etherington, Yale Divinity School graduate, died Monday from injuries suffered in an August 2 bicycle accident. From the gravestone: Beloved husband of Patricia. From Rich Huttner: My one remembrance of Karl Etherington that is meaningful concerns his meeting freshman year a young woman who became his wife. Unfortunately, I…

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Humphrey Evans – 50th Reunion Essay

Humphrey Evans Date of Death: 1-Sep-1982 College: Saybrook From Robert Lyons: My roommate for two years and my only close friend on campus for the full four was tall, thin, mild-mannered, kind, loving, confident in his art, and filled with the adventure of artistic experimentation that blossomed/exploded in the late sixties. We shared leftist political views, a longing to cross artistic borders and an aversion for organized sports. We relaxed to the music of Francoise…

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William B. Evans – 50th Reunion Essay

William B. Evans PO Box 353 12984 NYS Rt 9N Jay, NY 12941 wbevans38@gmail.com 518-586-1660 Spouse(s): Katy Greene (1979-1985) Education: Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art (1974-1977) Career: wbevansart.com Avocations: Hiking, World history College: Branford I put the brushes down and start writing. It’s a welcome change from painting and trying to get a facial likeness of a friend in Santa Fe, her face in sunlight and partial shadow. Using the template of Monhegan, the artist island,…

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George Alec Effinger – 50th Reunion Essay

George Alec Effinger Date of Death: 26-Apr-2002 College: Branford (This obituary was published on TheGuardian.com and was reprinted on the Class Website.) George Alec Effinger was one of science fiction’s most humorous and eclectic writers. He burst into the field in the early 1970s, with a style that echoed the irreverence of the times. His first novel, What Entropy Means To Me (1972), drew as much on the knowing postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon as on…