First of all this month, I bring you greetings from Tokyo. Jim Schweitzer-san and I visited Bogaty-san in June, partially on the important class business of delivering his class clown — no, that’s not right — class service award. William was appreciative, and he has no doubt proudly stored it in his futon closet. We also were treated to a tour of his office, the very one in which…
There was a certain irony in the fact that our class’s 35th reunion gift exceeded $13 million (50 percent above the goal of $8.8 million) and we were still housed at Jonathan Edwards, one of the last residential colleges in Abu Ghraib condition. It’s a distinct probability that the anonymous donor of $4 million, as well as the three million-dollar givers, weren’t staying there. But those of us in more moderate gift…
Hello, classmates. I begin this submission with a last-minute plug for reunion. If you are still debating attendance, consider this: There will be no presidential candidates at our bash, only a few Skull and Bones members pushing Bush and Kerry. Who would have thought that our class would be distinguished by the fact that it had no presidential aspirants in 2004? If only Mark Dayton or Lamar Smith…
Hello, classmates. As you read this we are only about two months from reunion (unless you are way behind in your reading and it’s now June). Fortunately, a few of you communicated in advance, or I would have had to treat this submission like most of my term papers (i.e., puffing them up with gibberish). Mike Baum wrote with the following personal update and financial advice: “Seems reunion…
Anticipation of the reunion certainly has had an impact on the old mailbag. Your letters are streaming in, I guess because either you don’t want to answer a lot of questions next spring, or you’re not planning to be there. We all hope it’s the former and not the latter. In any event, here we go. Daniel Seiver wrote from Cincinnati: “My daughter graduated from Yale in May, my son graduated from high…
Hello, classmates. Sorry to have been AWOL for the last issue, but I doubt anyone wanted to hear about my summer vacation, and no one else wrote. Thanks to the following, however, there is news this month. First, this biography from Jeff Horton: “I’ve been meaning to communicate with you for a long time. I believe I sent an item to the class notes about a decade ago, so it’s time to get caught up….
Hello, classmates. Just think, if we were a year older we could have visited the White House this May. Maybe next year Mark Dayton and Lamar Smith will co-host a cookout in the Capitol. Anyway, as I mentioned last time, several of your colleagues (I am no longer claiming them) carried out a 25-year-old threat and came to the Kentucky Derby. While we could not surpass consumption records set back in the 1960s, we gave…
Happy spring, classmates! I have received more news than will fit in print, so let’s get right to it. Dr. Stephen Billick has received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He writes: “It was a surprise to find that the years have passed and now I’m old enough to get awards like this!” One question, Steve: Should a psychiatrist be surprised about things…
Greetings, classmates. It’s time for the annual indulgence in which we list all of you who are going broke sending your offspring to dear old Eli, from which you obviously hope they will go on to run for president someday. Here, therefore, are the future Bushes, Kerrys, Deans, Liebermans, etc. John R. Adams, Elizabeth Ann ’04; Frank S. Ashburn,Emma Katherine ’04; Terence G. Benson, Kara E. ’06; James R. Broach, Matthew J….
Greetings classmates, and Happy New Year! I must humbly apologize (Trent Lott’s getting to me) for missing the deadline for last issue, but I attribute the failing to my annual appointment with classmates at the Yale Club for Yale-Harvard weekend. This year, a most impressive group assembled in Manhattan. It included Don Galligan, Steve Dixon, Jim Schweitzer, Tim Harris, Quentin Lawson, Jeffrey Rosen…
Hello, all of you classmates. I hope you can tear yourselves away from the early-bird specials (assuming we’re all 55 now) long enough to read these reports from our colleagues. I seem to sense a trend of increased communication accompanied by apologies for remaining silent for so long. Are we longing for the good old days? Whatever, here’s a note from the irrepressible Michael Harrington. “On…
Hey, guys! Thanks for all the notes. Must be an exciting summer for many of you. First item of business heading to the fall season is a notification of big doin’s in Cambridge come November. John Gazzoli sent on the following announcement: “Classmates are planning another get-together around the Yale-Harvard game in Cambridge this November. There certainly will be a brunch at Lang Wheeler’s house…
“Greetings, classmates. Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. We begin this edition with a submission from my predecessor, the eminent Asian oil man, William Bogaty. It was first sent to me a year ago, but was eaten twice by my cyberdog. I am happy to present it here. ”My two small children were baptized, on April 14, 2001 (Easter eve), in St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Tokyo….
Greetings, classmates. Not much space for small talk this month, because our classmates have been unusually communicative recently. So here goes. Larry Weisswrote from Florida to inform me that I had omitted a Yale offspring from a recent accounting. His daughter Jessica Leigh is in the Class of 2003, he reported, and I can only respond that I hope the registrar is aware of her presence, since they…
Hello, classmates. I hope your new years have gotten off to auspicious starts. Before getting into the mailbag, I must recount the highly disturbing experience which your faithful correspondent and other classmates had in New York in November. As is our wont, we assembled on Yale-Harvard weekend for our annual mini-reunion at the Yale Club of NYC. When we discovered that the club was, inexplicably, not showing the broadcast of The Game…
Greetings. As of this writing, I have not received word of any classmates who were September 11 victims, but the odds are that some of you were directly touched by those events. On behalf of all members of the Class of ’69, I extend our deepest sympathies to those of you who suffered the loss of family or friends. Fortunately, most of the news I have received since last writing is happier. For example, Doug Groome and wife…
