There was a certain irony in the fact that our class’s 35th reunion gift exceeded $13 million (50 percent above the goal of $8.8 million) and we were still housed at Jonathan Edwards, one of the last residential colleges in Abu Ghraib condition. It’s a distinct probability that the anonymous donor of $4 million, as well as the three million-dollar givers, weren’t staying there. But those of us in more moderate gift…
Andrew Robert “Drew” Wechsler, 57, an economist who had been an adviser to the U.S. International Trade Commission, died June 12 at his home in Bethesda of cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. Since 1991, Mr. Wechsler was managing director of international practices with LECG, a legal and economic consulting firm in Washington. He was a specialist in analyzing international trade, criminal price fixing, mergers, intellectual property and the international “dumping” of goods below…
Hello, classmates. I begin this submission with a last-minute plug for reunion. If you are still debating attendance, consider this: There will be no presidential candidates at our bash, only a few Skull and Bones members pushing Bush and Kerry. Who would have thought that our class would be distinguished by the fact that it had no presidential aspirants in 2004? If only Mark Dayton or Lamar Smith…
Hello, classmates. As you read this we are only about two months from reunion (unless you are way behind in your reading and it’s now June). Fortunately, a few of you communicated in advance, or I would have had to treat this submission like most of my term papers (i.e., puffing them up with gibberish). Mike Baum wrote with the following personal update and financial advice: “Seems reunion…
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Anticipation of the reunion certainly has had an impact on the old mailbag. Your letters are streaming in, I guess because either you don’t want to answer a lot of questions next spring, or you’re not planning to be there. We all hope it’s the former and not the latter. In any event, here we go. Daniel Seiver wrote from Cincinnati: “My daughter graduated from Yale in May, my son graduated from high…
Steve Kovacs (’68) wrote: I met John Starr in August 1964. Alumni put us together since we were the only two guys from San Francisco public schools accepted to Yale. He was handsome, polite, open to people, with a twinkle in his eye. A conservative Irish-American Catholic and a radical Hungarian Jew, we became best of friends. We made a point of seeing each other wherever in the world we might be. Yale was a…
ELKUS, JONATHAN H., Age 55; died on Dec. 7, 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. A graduate of St. Paul School, Yale University and Harvard Business School; He is survived by his twin sister Peggy of Pittsburgh and his brother Christopher of Ligonier, PA and NY and nephew James of Spain. Contributions may be made to WQED, 4802 5th Ave. Pgh., PA 15213 or the Pittsburgh Opera or Symphony. Please sign the guest book at post-gazette.com Published…
Hello, classmates. Sorry to have been AWOL for the last issue, but I doubt anyone wanted to hear about my summer vacation, and no one else wrote. Thanks to the following, however, there is news this month. First, this biography from Jeff Horton: “I’ve been meaning to communicate with you for a long time. I believe I sent an item to the class notes about a decade ago, so it’s time to get caught up….
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Hello, classmates. Just think, if we were a year older we could have visited the White House this May. Maybe next year Mark Dayton and Lamar Smith will co-host a cookout in the Capitol. Anyway, as I mentioned last time, several of your colleagues (I am no longer claiming them) carried out a 25-year-old threat and came to the Kentucky Derby. While we could not surpass consumption records set back in the 1960s, we gave…
Published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on September 2, 2003 UH loses trusted physician Dr. Allen Richardson, a longtime physician for University of Hawaii sports teams and a leader in sports medicine in the state, died early yesterday morning at Queen’s Medical Center. Richardson, 56, had battled cancer for the last five years while maintaining his roles at UH and with Orthopedic Services of Hawaii, seeing patients as recently as two weeks ago. The exact cause of…
Happy spring, classmates! I have received more news than will fit in print, so let’s get right to it. Dr. Stephen Billick has received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He writes: “It was a surprise to find that the years have passed and now I’m old enough to get awards like this!” One question, Steve: Should a psychiatrist be surprised about things…
Greetings, classmates. It’s time for the annual indulgence in which we list all of you who are going broke sending your offspring to dear old Eli, from which you obviously hope they will go on to run for president someday. Here, therefore, are the future Bushes, Kerrys, Deans, Liebermans, etc. John R. Adams, Elizabeth Ann ’04; Frank S. Ashburn,Emma Katherine ’04; Terence G. Benson, Kara E. ’06; James R. Broach, Matthew J….
Greetings classmates, and Happy New Year! I must humbly apologize (Trent Lott’s getting to me) for missing the deadline for last issue, but I attribute the failing to my annual appointment with classmates at the Yale Club for Yale-Harvard weekend. This year, a most impressive group assembled in Manhattan. It included Don Galligan, Steve Dixon, Jim Schweitzer, Tim Harris, Quentin Lawson, Jeffrey Rosen…
Hello, all of you classmates. I hope you can tear yourselves away from the early-bird specials (assuming we’re all 55 now) long enough to read these reports from our colleagues. I seem to sense a trend of increased communication accompanied by apologies for remaining silent for so long. Are we longing for the good old days? Whatever, here’s a note from the irrepressible Michael Harrington. “On…
