May/Jun 2009

Lots to report, including a first missive in 40 years from Bruce Bolnick(bbolnick@gmail.com): “With our 40th reunion next year, it’s time to update class notes on what I have been up to for the past four decades. (FYI, I just sent in class dues, after years of neglect.) After finishing my PhD in economics at Yale in 1972, I taught at the University of Nairobi, followed by faculty positions at Duke and Northeastern. During leaves I spent nearly six years with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) as an adviser to the central bank in Indonesia and the Ministry of Finance in Zambia, and then joined HIID full-time in 1996, heading advisory projects in Malawi and Mozambique. After Harvard shut down HIID in 2000 (a long story), I stayed on at the Kennedy School until 2003 when I took my present job as chief economist for the international group at Nathan Associates, an international economics consulting company in Arlington, Virginia. In this position I do lots of ‘term papers’ on a wide variety of economic policy issues, and a fair amount of traveling.

”Meanwhile, my wonderful wife, Doreen, teaches botanical art at an art school in Bethesda, after having written and illustrated wildflower guides to Zambia and Mozambique, plus a trail guide to a small national park in Rwanda. Our son Dan is a biology professor at UTexas-Austin. His wife Deborah (Weiss, Yale ’99) teaches anthropology at UT-Austin. We also have a (truly!) wonderful granddaughter, Miriam, born last February. Daughter-in-law Deborah plans to attend her tenth Yale reunion in June, giving me a good reason to attend ours. I hope to see lots of old friends.“

Paul Malamud (pmalamud@rcn.com) ”retired from the U.S. State Department after a 29-year stint as a writer and editor in Washington, DC, for foreign affairs agencies. If people who knew me in the Dramat in the late 1960s go to www.pfmalamud.net where I have put some family photos, and click on the college album, they’ll see some pictures of the Dramat from those days. If anyone has some really good Dramat or Yale pics from the late 1960s, I’d be interested.“

A short note from associate district judge Bob Dull: ”Still in Iowa. Ten grandchildren and one on the way; family from coast to coast. Enjoy the alumni mag.“

Michael Baum (mhbaum@gmail.com) writes, ”Wrapping up five years growing a dot-com survivor in the teeth of technology and market changes and a year of retail recession, and hanging up my shingle as an independent consultant. Specialties: K-12 education; franchising and similar forms of distribution; direct marketing; anything else anyone wants to pay me for wisdom about. Plan to visit elder daughter and (so far only) two grandchildren in Pennsylvania on the way to the 40th next year. Other two kids about halfway through college in Chicago and Indiana. See you in June, and write if you get work.“

Albee Budnitz (albee.budnitz@snhmc.org) writes, in his doctor’s best illegible scrawl, what may or may not be the following: ”Five kids; two grandkids; one, Alex, MPA from Yale in graphic design firm in Boston, teaching at Northeastern; another settled outside London, husband teaching at Wellington College; and youngest a chef moving from Providence to Baltimore. Also a good 15 months for me—awards from NY Hospital Association, NY Public Health Association, and NH PA Society for work in tobacco ‘wars’ and teaching.“ Albee, send e-mail next time!

A short e-note from Paul McAuliffe (paulsmca@gmail.com): ”Paul may be found these days in beautiful downtown Newark, New Jersey, in charge of managing employee benefits and compensation programs for the Federal Reserve System, not a dull job these days. Any classmate stranded at Newark Airport is welcome to bunk out on the couch in our office. Paul and Jean celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary in 2008. Daughter Lucy is a freshman at Smith.“

Norm Resnicow (njresnicow@foxlex.com) writes: ”Still practicing law in NYC, even if practice doesn’t make perfect. Good news is that law firms are abandoning mandatory retirement ages, and the bad news is the same. Forever young. . . . Barbara and I have been hanging out periodically with Alan Hurwitz and Ana in Greenwich Village—our place, and in Miami and Amherst, Massachusetts—their places). Got a recent visit fromEliot Norman, both of us trying to find business reasons to travel to France. Our son Joel (now at Stanford Business School) was roommate with Adam Click, son of David Click and Lani, with whom we have kept in regular touch over the years. (Both Joel and Adam are Old Blues.) And son Dan, PhD in molecular biology in hand, is gainfully employed in Boulder, Colorado, at a second-stage startup biotech company (doing stuff I barely understand). Good luck to all in 2009. We will all need it.“

See you at the reunion! We will have numerous class panels/sessions in addition to the Yale activities/lectures. If you haven’t signed up yet, there is still time! ”Think of your fellow man / Lend him a helping hand / Put a little love in your heart”—Jackie DeShannon (1969).