Feb 2002
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, we located a congenial (we thought) sports bar on the west side that agreed to put the game on one of its beautiful flat-screen televisions. All — except the game — was going along nicely. The service was quick and accurate. The drinks and food were reasonably priced. The manager greeted the customers over his public address system and informed them that because there were no Harvard fans in the bar, everyone should cheer for Yale, since we comprised the largest contingent of customers. Still, all well and good, until he continued by alerting the patrons that the Yale fans were sitting at table #5, “ . . . which the servers are calling ‘the older persons’ table.’” Ugh! Well, friends, I guess we know where we stand. For the record, those present at Scruffy Duffy’s included Jim Schweitzer, Quentin Lawson, Larry Franks, David Stretch, andRob High.
Now on to business. The following bit of shameless self-promotion came from Arthur Klebanoff. “For anyone curious about three decades (!) of life from Yale forward, I have written a book, The Agent, which will be published by Texere, a business publisher, in January 2002 (www.etexere.com). For those classmates who want a deal, a RosettaBooks e-book edition will be available for $5 (www.rosettabooks.com) — one of the advantages of being your own CEO.” Arthur also graciously provided the mailing address for RosettaBooks. It is 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022. The telephone number is (212) 751-4545, ext. 307.
Sad news arrived from Sean Kelly. “On November 26, 2001, my wife, Reid Jameson Fisher Kelly, died at home in the company of myself and our two children, Amy and Ian. She had been diagnosed with cancer less than ten weeks earlier. Her illness produced an outpouring of love, affection, and unity in our community far beyond what anyone had ever seen or experienced. The church was filled to overflowing for her funeral and latecomers stood outside in the rain. We had met at a mixer in 1967 and were married six days after she graduated from Smith in 1970. She was a loving person and an excellent musician, having become an organist after years studying classical piano. We wrote two books together. A charity has been established in her name at the Epiphany School in Milton, Massachusetts.” I know everyone joins me in extending our condolences to Sean and his family on his loss.
The following is a partial list of those classmates with children currently at Yale. The first half of the list appeared in the last installment of class notes. In alphabetical order with classmate first, they are Eugene Linden, Gillian Sage Wemp ’04; Harold R. Mancusi-Ungaro, Marianna ’04; Wentworth E. Miller, Leigh Carolyn ’05; Charles D. Morgan, Jessica Ann ’02; Howard H. Newman, Elizabeth Vardin ’02; Ross K. Peterson,Clayton Ross ’02; Norman J. Resnicow, Joel Ethan ’03; Darrell S. Ross, Meredith Leigh ’04; Daniel A. Seiver, Elizabeth Anne ’03; James D. Seymour, Jeffrey DuBois ’03;Robert J. Shevlin, Kenneth C. ’04; Aviam Soifer, Raphael ’04; Roy L. Turnell, Elizabeth Rebecca ’04; James S. Ward, James Erik ’03; Laurence A. Weiss, Jonathan Mitchell ’02;Scott Williams, Andrew Riggan ’04; Douglas P. Woodcock, Benjamin Power ’02. Last time I misspelled classmate David Click’s name, and I apologize. His son, Adam Elliott, is a member of the Class of 2005. If any other classmates have children at Yale, please let me know and I will dutifully report. Otherwise, keep those e-cards and e-letters coming. Until next time.