• Timothy McDaniel, March 10, 2009

    ByAdmin

    Posted on the UC San Diego Department of Sociology webpage: Timothy Lambert McDaniel, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, died in San Diego on March 10, 2009, after a brave fight against colon cancer that lasted more than a decade.  He was one of the leading comparative-historical sociologists of his generation, an inspiring teacher, and a man of unwavering probity and extraordinary erudition. A dedicated scholar, he contributed greatly to the…

  • Mar/Apr 2009

    ByDaniel Seiver

    The mailbag is perilously thin. Your scribe is guessing that everyone is saving up stories for the rapidly approaching 40th reunion. So here is our one item, from John Fisher:“John and Didi Fisher live in Atherton, California, where John has a merger boutique for consumer brands, and Didi is retired from three terms as town councilman and mayor. Didi, who is a crack shot, has not yet…

  • Jan/Feb 2009

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Another new year has arrived. The year 2008 will certainly have a special place in American history books, both for the once-unthinkable presidential election of a man with roots in Kenya, and for the financial and economic calamity which befell America and the world. Two eras ended, and two new ones have begun. “You say goodbye, and I say hello.” And now to our classmates. Congratulations to our John…

  • Nov/Dec 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    It’s not too late to plan to go to Lang Wheeler’s (lbw@numeric.com) pre-game brunch on Saturday, November 21, at Lang’s house, 48 Lakeview Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Start time is 9:30 am. All 1969 classmates and their fellow travelers are welcome. Catch up with old friends, meet new friends, enjoy tasty comestibles in abundance, and listen to live Yale music. And then, presumably, witness a Yale…

  • Michael Harlow, October 1, 2008

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    Class Notes: Michael Harlow died October 1 in San Jose, California. Classmate Larry Franks provides this memorial: “Mike had been battling cancer (multiple myeloma, then myelodysplasia) courageously for some years, while maintaining a positive outlook right to the end. Mike graduated in 1975 from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with his first wife, Carol, and then began his professional career—first in Seattle, then overseas, working and living in the Philippines, South Asia, and then Colorado and…

  • Sep/Oct 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Mark your calendars for the biennial Lang Wheeler pre-Game bash: Saturday November 21 at Lang’s house, 48 Lakeview Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Start time is 9:30 a.m. All 1969 classmates and their fellow travelers are welcome. Catch up with old friends, meet new friends, enjoy tasty comestibles in abundance, and listen to live Yale music. And then, presumably, witness a Yale victory over the forces of darkness. Tom…

  • Jul/Aug 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    I promised better news (as best I can make out the handwriting), and here it is: Terry Benson (terrybenson@nyc.rr.com) writes: “Now that my daughter Kara (’06) is out and off on her adventures, singing in the Yale Alumni Chorus is what keeps me connected. Being an ‘Ambassador of Song’ isn’t easy—18 days of a ‘bus and truck’—but it was a wonderful Yale experience.” Ted Robinson…

  • May/Jun 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    I am quite saddened to report three deaths. Hank Payne died in January. Hank received his BA and MA in 1969 and his PhD from Yale in 1973. He was married to Deborah Laipson shortly after graduation. Hank began as an assistant professor of history at Colgate in 1973, became provost at Haverford College in 1985, president of Hamilton College in 1988, and then president of Williams College in 1994. He was…

  • Stephen Parks, April 13, 2008

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    Published in Austin American-Statesman on Apr. 16, 2008 Stephen F. Parks, 60, of Austin died unexpectedly on Sunday, April 13, 2008 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He is survived by his loving wife, Louise Parks; daughters, Ursula Parks and Sarah Ballou Parks; and son-in-law, Rob Acker. Steve is also survived by his sisters, Susan E. Parks of West Stafford, CT and Cynthia A. Parks of Florence, MA and their families….

  • Mar/Apr 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Spring is in the air, and missives appear from everywhere: Bill Krochalis(bill.krochalis@zcsterling.com) e-writes: “Still aspiring to genteel obscurity while residing in Atlanta; very happily remarried and have two in college: one playing hockey for the University of Alabama (really) and one working with autistic and at-risk middle-schoolers while finishing her senior year at Colorado College. A third is…

  • Maxime Derbes, February 13, 2008

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    Maxime Joseph Derbes, III passed away at his home on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. He was born December 19, 1947 to the late Kathleen McCoullough and Max J. Derbes, Jr. in New Orleans, LA and has been a resident of Covington since 1960. He graduated from St. Paul’s High School in 1965 where he was student council president for both his junior and senior years. He received his B.A. in Administrative Sciences from Yale University…

  • Gary Vujnovich, February 7, 2008

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    VUJNOVICH GARY GENE, Of College Park, MD, passed away on February 7, 2008. Born in Kansas City, KS on January 24, 1947, Gary was the loving husband of Jessie Carpenter and devoted father to daughter Marjorie and son Mark. He is also survived by his brother Larry Vujnovich and nephew Michael Vujnovich, both of Kansas City. Gary was a graduate of Yale University and George Washington University Law School. He was devoted to his family…

  • Harry Payne, January 7, 2008

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    Published on the Hamilton College website 17th President of Hamilton College Presented: March 4, 2008, by Dan Chambliss, Professor of Sociology Harry “Hank” Payne, president emeritus of Hamilton College, was born on March 25, 1947, and died unexpectedly on January 7, 2008, at the age of 60. A remarkably accomplished historian and academic leader, he served as president or acting president of three distinguished liberal arts colleges and the nation’s largest independent school, yet he…

  • Jan/Feb 2008

    ByDaniel Seiver

    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…

  • Nov/Dec 2007

    ByDaniel Seiver

    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…

  • Ralph Sando, October 13, 2007

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    (Posted on philly.com, Oct. 16, 2007, by John F. Morrison.) Dr. Ralph Sando, Gentle Eye Doctor It must have been a treat to go to Dr. Ralph S. Sando’s office. Patients could be assured of a cheery greeting by a man who not only knew their names, but also something about their lives and families. He was an ophthalmologist, but he regarded each patient as a special friend, and he often treated more than their…