Class Notes, Mar-April 2025

James Fishkin ’70 remembers our Victor Norman:

“He was a superb roommate. He was intellectually intense but at the same time incredibly considerate. He even taught me how to do my laundry properly (something I had amazingly not learned earlier). He communicated his enthusiasm for economics by sharing a subscription to the Economist which we discussed weekly. We soon found that we had many interests in common, taking a course together in comparative politics. I also remember our going on an exploration of the library stacks to find some obscure works of German philosophy that he remembered and wanted to tell me about.

As the burdens of an all-male Yale began to weight on both of us, he conceived of a trip to Vassar. Without any contacts there it ended up being a long round trip bus ride fruitless for its original purpose. However, it was a superb intellectual adventure—a continuing dialogue about all the important issues of existence. I remember it as a kind of “My Dinner with Andre” on a bus.

Many years later, when my wife and I were in Norway, he and his wife Christine kindly invited us to dinner for a reunion in Oslo. Despite having been a government minister, having made many notable contributions to economics, and having been a national columnist for one of the major newspapers, he remained as modest as ever and forever curious about the work of others. He even wrote a newspaper article about my work on deliberative democracy and tried to stay in touch. I learned of his passing with immense sadness.”

Paul Franklyn Lozier died in August 2024. From our online sources: “Paul’s life was a testament to his unwavering dedication to those he loved and the causes he championed.

Paul graduated from Yale University as a political science major. After graduation, Paul moved to San Francisco for several years, but returned to the East Coast and graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1974 and embarked on a successful banking career with Merrill Lynch on Wall Street in New York City.

Paul lived for many years in Madison, New Jersey where he raised his two children, Sam and Danielle. He was deeply involved in his community, having served on the local school board, the Madison library board and the board at the Madison YMCA, plus actively participating on his children’s sports teams.

Paul was a longtime member of both Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit, New Jersey and the Fairmount Country Club in Chatham, New Jersey. After his retirement, Paul enjoyed golf, traveling, fishing, map collecting and reading. In his later years, Paul and his wife Jan moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington and recently relocated to Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.”   See also https://yale1969.org/paul-franklyn-lozier-august-23-2024/

Donald Lewis died in July 2024, from complications of long-term illnesses. From his obituary: “From ages eight to twelve, Don worked as a professional model in New York City and appeared in the Sears catalog and magazines. He and close friends, David Gershen and Doug Seroff, were post-beatnik, pre-hippie early discoverers and appreciators of Delta blues, folk music, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. In his teen years, he was also active in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. He attended the second civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The search for truth and beauty were central themes of Don’s life, which he pursued through music, art, philosophy, poetry, religion and meditation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale, then a Master of Architecture from MIT in 1973. After college, Don married Terri Chotiner, whom he had dated on-and-off since their high school freshman year. Their first home in Maine was an abandoned 42-acre farm in the woods of Bucksport. They renovated the farmhouse, which had not previously had electricity or indoor plumbing. In 1989, Don and Terri designed and built a new home in Bangor.

After working for architect Nick Holt in Ellsworth, Don founded his own architecture firm in Bucksport, in the early 1980s. A year later, his friend, Rick Malm, joined him to form Lewis + Malm Architecture. Together, over nearly 40 years of successful partnership (and family friendship that continues to this day), they designed more than 30 schools, numerous city halls, fire and police stations, medical offices, nursing homes, banks and private residences. Don’s proudest architectural achievements include the Bangor Children’s Museum, Downeast Heritage Center in Calais, Ashland and Dover-Foxcroft K-12 Schools, and renovation of the Jewish Funeral Chapel and the sanctuaries of Congregation Beth El and Congregation Beth Israel in Bangor. Don served on the Boards and as President of the Maine Humanities Council and Congregation Beth El of Bangor. He was a founding Board member of the Bucksport Regional Health Center. In his later years Don became an avid student of his Jewish heritage, and especially the ancient Jewish wisdom texts.”

In happier news: The Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund has a market value of $845,450 as of June 30, 2024. Annual Spending Distribution for 2024–2025: $39,651. Our latest scholarship recipient is David Yun, ’28, who is just starting out at Yale. He was a soccer star in high school for Fort Worth Country Day, and he is a first-generation American.  He chose Yale ​“because I would like to learn from the best professors in the world and I wanted to meet people from various parts of the world.”  David is at david.yun@yale.edu.