January with Simon and Garfunkel: “Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to speak with you again. . . . ” Another year quickly passes into memory, never to return. And still we sing, “time and change shall nought avail, to break the friendships formed at Yale.” Raise a glass, my friend, for dear Old Yale. Now the news. Our New York head doctors are getting the kudos: Stephen Billick…

Once again a titanic battle looms between our stouthearted men in blue and the nefarious visitors slouching in from the north. Once again Yale Bowl will throb with the joyous cheers of the victors and the bitter lamentations of the vanquished. Once again your scribe will be in (muted) attendance, and he has but one fond hope: that “Harvard’s team may fight to the end, but Yale will win.” I haven’t…

After steady nagging by your scribe, Nick Putnam (dr.putnam@cox.net) has spilled these beans: “Like most of us I turned 60 this year and life continues good to me and mine, although I had four stents placed in my coronary arteries last year. My older daughter, Ariane, is in Hollywood doing star-quality sketch comedy and improv, happily married, and the mother of my new grandson, Roan. My younger…

Hal Valeche (hal@halvaleche.com) e-mails: “Please add me to the list of class members running for Congress. To shake things up a little, I was not in Stiles but JE. I was elected to the city council of Palm Beach Gardens (pop. 50,000) in November 2004 after being elected to and serving on the board of a special taxing district from 2002 to 2004. I am running in Florida District 16, which is the seat formerly held by…

News from dues: Steve Millner (Stephen.millner.tc.69@aya.yale.edu) writes: “Steve has been working as an independent legal consultant to financial services professionals. He is also active as a professional artist, and his work is shown in several galleries in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He is just beginning his third term as president of Artists of Yardley, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, artists’…

Mike Folz has helped bring Charles Apel (Capel@mail.arc.nasa.gov) back into the fold. Here is Charles’s story: “I look back at my time at Yale with a great deal of fondness and often wonder what would have happened if I had continued there instead of dropping out of the physics program. In the summer of 1966 I enrolled in Harvard summer school to make up for my D in German at Yale. There I met Timothy Leary…

Mike Pfeiffer (MGP@Capdale.com) has taken the midlife marital plunge. Mike writes: “Robin Taub (who accompanied me at the reunion) and I were married in October 2005 in Washington, D.C. Robin is a lawyer with her own family law firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and we reside at my former residence in D.C., which was enlarged and renovated last year to accommodate our five children (her two and my three)…

This column, although submitted before the start of the football season, should reach you shortly before the annual gridiron confrontation with our arch nemesis. (Last year’s titanic struggle caused damage to your scribe’s vocal cords, and in one of life’s minor ironies, the damage was repaired last spring by an ENT surgeon, who was a 1979 graduate of — yup.) For those who intend to watch this year’s Game in Cambridge…

Classmates may still have time to arrange to attend the mini-reunion July 28-30 in Santa Rosa, California, at the Vintner’s Inn. Contact John Gazzoli (JGazzoli@aol.com) for more information. Peter Rodgers (Peter.Rodgers@sablaw.com) brings good news: “I have taken up a periodic correspondence with Jim Grew, who continues to ply his trade as water skiing guru for the able and disabled from his perch…

Changing of the Guard: John Yarmuth (JYarmuth@aol.com) has graciously bequeathed his job to me, so that he can pursue full-time his bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky’s 3rd district (Louisville). We all appreciate his service as corresponding secretary. John’s first political test is a primary on May 16. We all wish him the best of luck. My only real qualification for this job is…