Edmund Bartlett – 50th Reunion Essay

Edmund Bartlett

4 West Melrose Street

Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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Spouse(s): Mary T. Bartlett (1980)

Child(ren): Ned Bartlett (1981), Margaret Bartlett (1983), Julia Bartlett (1985)

Grandchild(ren): James Bartlett (2013), Jack Bartlett (2015), Henry Stratoudakis (2017)

Education: Harvard Business School 1973

National Service: Massachusetts National Guard 1971-1977

Career: Banker then Treasurer at Comsat then President of a start up named NRC Express Payment Network

Avocations: Squash until my knees collapsed – now golf

College: Timothy Dwight

Freshman year, my roommate, Mike Yahng, and I took Psychology 101. In the spring semester, we had to write a psychoanalysis of someone. I picked Mike, and he picked me. He aced the assignment with an A on his paper, and I received a C. I have always maintained that it was the subject matter that made the difference, not the analysis. I remarried in 1980 so Mike sent a copy of his analysis of me to my fiancé. Who keeps freshman papers? Luckily, my wife was highly entertained. My other four-year roommate was David Bannard, whom I have known since I was in nursery school. These two were my best friends then, and they are my best friends now.

Since Yale, the major event in our family was the death of our 26-year-old daughter in 2009 due to cancer. Margaret struggled with this disease for three and half years before succumbing. We had amazing support from family and friends. Not a day goes by without us thinking about Margaret. Inspired by his sister, our son, Ned, is now an oncological surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering specializing in sarcoma and melanoma. He is married and has two boys. Our daughter, Julia, is also in NYC and married with a son.

Since high school, I have been involved with the Student Conservation Association (SCA). This group puts kids and young adults into the back country of our national parks. The parks benefit from the work done such as building and maintaining trails and bridges, and the participants develop a strong sense of teamwork, self-confidence, and a lifelong conservation ethic. This program started in 1957 and has grown to more than 5,000 participants each year. As a result of my experience, I have established a scholarship fund at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Services for alumni of SCA.