As Garrison Keillor would say, “It’s been a quiet month in Lake Wobegon.” Very little news, either good or bad. Bad: I have been officially informed that Richard Griest has died, but I have almost no information on him. Greg Montes has said he will prepare a memorial. Here is what I have from our yearbook: Richard was born in Salt Lake City, and entered Yale in 1966…
Juan Montermoso writes, “After 27 years in the high-tech industry, primarily with HP, I am now enjoying a second life as a professor of marketing practice at Santa Clara University as well as doing gigs as a leadership development consultant.” Juan also was nominated for an award for his many years of ASC interviewing work. Tom Guterbockwrites that his second grandchild, Phoebe…
Kevin McKeown (kevin@mckeown.net) e-writes: “In my fifth term on the city council, I’m currently mayor of Santa Monica, where I’ve now lived most of my life. WYBC propelled me here, via a radio career that saw me general manager of L.A.’s KROQ just before I stopped trusting myself at age 30. Yes, I once subscribed to The Who’s ‘hope I die before I get old,’ but…
Professor Ted Snow has officially retired from the faculty of the astrophysics and planetary sciences department at the University of Colorado, after 34 years of service. Their newsletter states that “Ted has been a mainstay of our observational astronomy faculty, teaching a wide range of undergraduate courses and writing several astronomy and physics textbooks with student guides…
Your scribe has moved to central California. Some loose electrons fell out of the moving boxes, and I have finally found them. My apologies to Robert E. Levin. He reported via the web in January: “We welcomed Jonah Luis Henao into our family, our first grandson born to our daughter Amelia and our son-in-law Harvey. Despite having a Michigan/Illinois background, we’re…
Bruce Poston died October 21, 2014. From his obituary in the Knoxville News Sentinel: “He graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Law, and was a highly regarded trial attorney for criminal defense in Knoxville. Like his Irish ancestors, he was a born storyteller, and he excelled in the courtroom with his quick-witted sense of humor and his ability to connect with people from all walks of life.… He was a wonderful mentor to any…
Our Class of 1969 Scholar is once again Vincent Tanutama ’16. He is from Jakarta, Indonesia. A TD resident, he is studying engineering, math, economics, and philosophy. He is the first member of his family to attend college. Rob Brodsky ’84 has a website, Yalie.com, which is devoted to highlighting the work of Yale alumni. “The site, which is officially licensed by Yale, makes it easy for Yale alumni to…
From Eric’s obituary: “Eric lived in Macomb (Illinois) most of his life. In 1963 he went to Phillips Exeter Academy.… He got his bachelor’s from Yale and his master’s and PhD at the University of Chicago. He was hired at Western Illinois University as a faculty member from 1977 to 1989, director of the Honors Program from 1987 to 1989, assistant provost from 1989 to 1991, associate provost from 1991 to 2001, and acting provost from…
45th Reunion Class cosecretaries Lang Wheeler and Art Segal, with lots of help from dedicated classmates, put together a superb reunion program. The weather was cooperative, and the Yale staff did a fine job of taking care of us in Timothy Dwight, with mass quantities of food and intoxicating beverages. Our wall-to-wall reunion schedule started on Thursday afternoon, with a session on writing that book in you…
From obittree.com: Tewksbury, MA. Peter H. Burr, 67, formerly of Kennebunk, ME died Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at the Lowell General Hospital in Lowell MA following a period of declining health. Peter was born March 9, 1947 in Portland, the son of Lewis Haskell and Frances Towne Burr. Growing up in Kennebunk, he is a 1965 graduate of Kennebunk High School, where he was an outstanding student. He also participated in track and field, baseball,…
It can still happen! We have been informed via the New York Times that Doug Ousley was recently married. He married Dana Fern at the Church of the Incarnation in New York City, where Doug is the rector. The couple were set up on a blind date in April 2011. According to the Times, Ms. Fern was impressed by Doug’s ability to speak fluent French and Italian. (And I thought…
Dave Tufaro e-writes: “I have now been in Baltimore since 1973, following graduate school and taking my first permanent job here. I have three daughters: Theresa, age 33, who lives in NYC and works for Scholastic handling their marketing in Latin America; Jennifer, age 30, who works with me in the development business; and Christina, 26, who lives in DC and works for Total Wine, the Walmart of wine sales in…
Mike Folz (mfolz@q.com) e-writes: “I’m going around the world again. Mostly because I can. Or can I? Knees and back and maybe mind are getting feeble. Here’s the plan: Circumnavigate Iceland, then Åland Islands and Finland, then Georgia for Abkhazia, then the Nakhchivan enclave of Azerbaijan (don’t ask), then Kurdish Iraq, then Bangladesh, then Brunei and Sarawak. Anyway…
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JOHN CHARLES CROCKETT, SR. 1946 – 2013 John Charles Crockett, Sr., 67, of Prairie Village, Kan., passed away peacefully at home on December 10, 2013, after bravely battling cancer. John was born June 17, 1946, to Charles Allen and Annie Marie (Brewer) Crockett at Norfolk Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. He attended Pembroke Country Day School in Kansas City, Mo., and earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1969. He began his career as a financial analyst…
Rives Coleman Chalmers, M.D., was born in Atlanta, GA, on May 13, 1947. He graduated from Westminster High School in 1965. He attended Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry in 1969. He earned a Doctorate of Medicine from Emory University in 1973. After a year of medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, he joined the United States Air Force as a flight surgeon. In 1978, he began an orthopedic residency program…
