Class Notes, Mar-Apr 2023

David Click died on May 18, 2021. An edited report from nolo.com: “After Yale he received a J.D. from Yale Law in 1973, and a Master’s in Economics from Yale in 1974. David taught at the law schools of Western New England, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland, including property, trusts and estates, law and economics, constitutional law, jurisprudence, legal research and writing, and appellate advocacy. He returned home to Florida in 1984 with the Jupiter branch of the New York law firm now known as Nixon Peabody and opened his own office in 1986.

He was a lecturer at the Annual Estate and Probate Seminar of the Palm Beach County Bar, a contributor to the annual supplement of the Palm Beach County Estate Planning Council. David taught Business Law and Advanced Legal Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and Economics in their Honors College. He was also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. He was President of Click Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor, and a member of Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund. David was President of the Yale Club of the Palm Beaches, Scholarship Chairman of the Jupiter-Tequesta Kiwanis Club, a past director of the Lighthouse Gallery Foundation, and a member of the Planned Giving Committee of Jupiter Medical Center. He is also a graduate of Leadership Palm Beach County and a member of the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. David is a past recipient of the Cultural Activities Award of the Palm Beach County Bar Association.”

Paul McAuliffe died on April 26, 2022. He was at his grandson’s soccer game and had a heart attack.  Keith Nelson writes: “I was saddened by news of Paul’s sudden death.  Paul was among a group of us in Wright Hall and Branford College who shared many days at Yale. As freshmen we shared time walking to the dining hall and back to the Old Campus, stopping by the post office two or three times per day in search of letters from home.  In the ensuing years together we shared many meals, afternoons and evenings with the Harkness Tower bells nearby, as we talked about life, events, experiences, friends, families and sports. We enjoyed late night basketball games in the squash court in the basement of Branford College.  Often these games were followed by a trek for late night pizza off campus nearby.  We had good times learning to pull together as we rowed on the Branford College rowing team in quest of the Tyng Cup.  Atom Yee was the coxswain.  The days were memorable and I have tears in my eyes as I write this today.  Class reunions will never be the same without Paul.”

Atom himself writes: “I have a fond memory of Paul when he was working as the Chief Ethics Officer at Becton Dickinson (BD, a large global medical technology company). He came to my school, Santa Clara University, to give a lecture to our summer undergraduate chemistry and biology research students on scientific ethics and what that looked like at BD. To explain his ethics officer job he said, “My mother, Irish Catholic to the core, always wanted to have in the family a policeman, a lawyer, and a priest. Well, with me she got all three!””

More information about Paul and David is available on the class website, yale1969.org

Leon Reid Hanson Jr died on August 18, 2022. Michael Foltz reports that “Chuck Apel died in November 2022. He had very severe prostate cancer.  And he was in hospice care for the past six months.” Paul Francis Malamud passed away from complications in heart surgery on

October 26, 2022. We are still following up on these reports and should have more information in a later issue of these notes.

But there is happier news from Michael Pfeifer: “After 48 years of practicing international tax law for mostly non-US high net wealth individuals and families, I retired as Of Counsel to Day Pitney, Washington, my final legal position.  As a consequence, I am now wrestling with Medicare and trying to figure out whether I want a new “act two” career to complement playing golf and tennis, reading, playing with grandchildren and traveling.  Retirement is comfortable but quiet and, given the state of our country and the world, there clearly is more to do.  Plus, my wife, Robin (11 years my junior), continues her legal career, and I feel I should contribute more than taking care of the house and being her “sherpa” (which she quite enjoys).  I am sure that many of our classmates share these feelings to a greater or lesser degree, and I would welcome any suggestions.  Although we’re entitled to celebrate our retirement, it’s a bit of a puzzlement!

Several weeks ago, Robin and I attended a benefit concert for Ukraine at the Kennedy Center that was sponsored by the Chopivsky Family Foundation.  George was there entertaining friends and distinguished guests and his lovely and accomplished daughter, Alexa (Yale 2001), introduced the evening.  The program featured the New Era Orchestra of Kyiv and an outstanding violin concerto performed by Joshua Bell.  It was a wonderful evening and for a very worthy cause.  Kudos to George and his family!”

From Thomas Moore MD: “I retired in January 2022 (and yielded my role of Chief Medical Officer to a colleague) and then in February was ‘returned to active duty’ at 42% time. Much of my new role is continuing my High Risk Pregnancy office practice but also I am the Advisor for the UCSD Hillcrest Hospital Rebuild project.  My wife Peggy and I continue to enjoy the families of our 5 children and their 18 grandchildren.  Of those 18, 3 are in college, none at Yale yet!”

Carl Lazarus writes: “I am Chair of the Brandeis-Osher Lifelong Learning Curriculum Committee, and have been teaching courses to retirees on climate change mitigation and the life and works of Frank Lloyd Wright.”

“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh