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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
Published in Garden City High School ‘65 Lance M. Konselman, a man of high erudition with an abiding commitment to public service and a fixture on the Staten Island cultural scene, died at Silver Lake Specialized Care Center, after a lengthy illness. He was 60 years old and at the time of his death was vice president for finance and administration at the Staten Island Botanical Garden. His career was as diverse and as interesting…
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…
In Memory of David Richard Whelan Richard Whelan was a noted cultural historian, scholar, and one of the great photography writers of the 20th Century. Mr. Whelan was the author of several biographical books including: Robert Capa: A Biography; Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection; Robert Capa at Work: This is War! Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography. With author Evan Cornog he wrote Hats In The Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns. Richard Whelan was…
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’…
We need a volunteer who knew this Classmate to help assemble information for an “In Memoriam” remembrance. Please use the Contact Us form to get in touch with one of our editors. What we need from you is anything about this person that we can use to create a proper tribute — memories from our student days, links to obits that ran in newspapers, pictures, what you know about their lives, email addresses of survivors…
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…
