Greg Montes writes: “I learned earlier this year that Richard Griest died on December 21, 2011, at Pleasant Hill, California. I often ate lunch and dinner with Richard in Morse College in 1966–69 and we lived on the same floor of Morse Tower in 1967–68. We had many discussions about politics, history, Yale, and other subjects. I and others who knew Richard over the years found him to be very intelligent and good-humored. My parents enjoyed meeting and talking with Richard when he stayed overnight with them in Omaha, Nebraska, while driving from Yale to San Diego in June 1969.

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…

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…

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…

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…