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PAUL HAROLD SEVERTSON (Poison). Born May 6, 1947 in Oakland, California, son of Ansle Theodore Severtson and Hazel Evelyn Berg Severtson. Attended Hoover High School, San Diego, California. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Music Theory major; Dean’s List, 1965-66; National Merit Scholarship, 1965-69. Resident: Saybrook. Manuscript; Yale Symphony Orchestra, Concert Master, 1966-69. Future study: Music. Future…

IRA E. SILVERSTEIN. Resident: Berkeley.

JAMES BLAKEMAN SPAMER (Jim). Born August 29, 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, son of Velmore Blakeman Spamer and Claribel May Nothnagle Spamer. Attended F. S. Bunnell Senior High School, Stratford, Connecticut. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. English major; Dean’s List, 1966-67 (fall term); Ranking Scholar, 1965-66, 1966-67 (spring term). Resident: Davenport. Political Union, Liberal Party, 1965-68; American…

DAVID LYMAN STRETCH. Born December 12, 1946 in Tampa, Florida, son of James Edwin Stretch and Sara Bernice Hutcheson Stretch. Attended Man-hasset High School, Manhasset, New York, and The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Attended Emory University, June, 1968 to Aug., 1968. History of Music major. Resident: Morse (Morse Chorus, 1966-67). Zeta…

CLAUDE W. THAU. Born April 1, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Marcel Thau. Attended Hartford Public High School, Hartford, Connecticut. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Mathematics major; Dean’s List, 1965-66 (fall term), 1966-67; National Merit Scholarship, 1965-68. Resident: Silliman. Future occupation: Teaching (secondary school level). Address: 277 So. Marshall Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06165.

STEPHEN MICHAEL VAUGHAN (Steve). Born June 3, 1947 in Winchester, Kentucky, son of Harold Lee Vaughan and Irene Wilson Vaughan. Attended Thomas Jefferson High School, Dallas, Texas, and Sandia High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Attended Universitat Hamburg, Germany, Sept., 1967 to June, 1968. Intensive German major; Book Award in German, 1966;…

LORENZO ALEXANDER WALLACE, JR. (Zo). Born January 31, 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia, son of Lorenzo Alexander Wallace and Gladys Anita Beverly Wallace. Attended H. M. Turner School, Atlanta, Georgia. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. History of Art major. Resident: Calhoun. Roommate: Richard Allan Funke. Future study: Business. Future occupation: Business. Address: 247 Hopkins Street, S. W.,…

SAMUEL WEISMAN (Sam). Born April 21, 1947 in Binghamton, New York, son of Milton N. Weisman and Doris Eileen Borenstein Weisman. Attended Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Music History major. Resident: Morse (“A” Basketball, 1968-69; Soccer, 1967). Dramat, 1967-69; Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, 1965-69, Tour Manager. 1966-67, Business Manager, 1967-68; Freshman…

STEVEN LAWRENCE WILKINSON (Steve, Wilk). Born November 13, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, son of Lawrence Harold Wilkinson and Elizabeth Lou Horning Wilkinson. Attended Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, California. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. English major; Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship, 1965-69. Resident: Branford (Swimming, 1966-69, Captain, 1968-69; Soccer, 1967-69; Tennis, 1967-69). Dwight Hall Tutoring Project;…

ROGER HUNG TUAN YEE Born June 21, 1947 in New York, New York, son of Bim Faye Yee and Grace Chi-Heng Yeung Yee. Attended Elmont Memorial High School, Elmont, New York. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Anthropology major; Dean’s List, 1966-67; Lispenard Stewart Witherbee Scholarship, 1968-69. Resident: Ezra Stiles (College Aide, 1966-69, Art Aide, 1967-69; Social…

THOMAS LLOYD REED, JR. (Dylan). Born June 13, 1947 in Oberlin, Ohio, son of Thomas Lloyd Reed and Betsy Noyes Mook Reed. Attended Notre Dame International School, Rome, Italy, and Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. English major; Dean’s List, 1966-67; Ranking Scholar, 1965-66 (spring term). Resident: Saybrook (Folk Singer’s Guild,…

GUSTAV CHRISTIAN OTTO PHILIPP VON TURK. Born March 9, 1947 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, son of A. Friedrich von Turk and Adelgunde Gruner von Turk. Attended Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New York. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Intensive History, the Arts, and Letters major; Dean’s List, 1965- 66 (fall term), 1966-67; Ranking Scholar, 1965-66 (spring term). Resident: Davenport….

CHARLES THOMAS McNAMEE, III (Tom). Born July 31, 1947, in Memphis, Tennessee, son of Charles Thomas McNamee, Jr., and Gladys Runyan McNamee. Attended Whitehaven High School, Memphis, Tennessee. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Intensive English major; Scholar of the House; Peter Wallace Memorial Prize in Fiction Writing. 1968; Academy of American Poets prize in Poetry, 1968;…

THOMAS JAMES REED. Born November 5, 1947 in New York, New York, son of Charles Claude Reed and Margo Ilse Zellner Reed. Graduated Trenton Central High School, Trenton, New Jersey. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. American Studies major; New York Yale Club Award for Freshman Achievement, 1966; Dean’s List, 1965-66, 1966-67; Ranking Scholar, 1965-66; S. L….

PANCRAS HENRY VAN DER LAAN (Pan). Born June 22, 1947 in The Hague, Netherlands, son of Pancras Jacob Van der Laan and Rosetta Van der Laan. Attended James-ville-Dewitt High School, Dewitt, New York. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. English major; Dean’s List, 1966-67; Ranking Scholar, 1965-66. Resident: Trumbull (Crew, 1967). Gibbs Society, 1967-69; Alpha Phi Omega,…

JOHN DAVID CUNNINGHAM. Born November 26, 1947 in New York, New York, son of the late James Wilbur Cunningham and Ethel May Mansfield Cunningham. Attended George Washington High School, San Francisco, California. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Psychology major. Resident: Timothy Dwight. Alpha Phi Omega, 1965-67; Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, 1967-68; Yale Friends of the Hill…