Walter Cummings, Deceased November 12, 2000 – Needs Content

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Nov 2000

Hello again, classmates. Having survived the summer and the tough duty of helping to organize the PGA Championship in August (Yes, I personally instructed Tiger on the subtleties of the golf course), I return with renewed vigor to pass on your various adventures. Much like the Olympic games, which seemed to happen tomorrow or yesterday but not today, it is my pleasure to report, on September 21, that…

Aug 2000

Whew! New Orleans and the Kentucky Derby on successive weekends. And now this deadline. Well, at least there is something to write about, thanks to prolific classmates. As advertised, several classmates (accompanied by spouses and guests) gathered in New Orleans April 28-30 to socialize, eat, and attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Jim Amoss, editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, made the…

James Spamer, Deceased July 4, 2000 – Needs Content

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Apr 2000

Let’s see, sitting here in February writing for April. If only the school year had gone like that, February in New Haven would have been so much more pleasant. On the late-breaking news front, William Bogaty, former shoveler in this space, was given a farewell evening in Washington, DC, in late February. On hand for the doin’s at Nora’s were organizer James Schweitzer, and Vanda and Rob…

Mar 2000

Hello, everyone. The winter apparently has kept us inside long enough to dash off some communications. Cyberspace has been filled with messages from the class. For example, Rick Platt wrote to report on a fall gathering of classmates who currently have children at Yale. The event, the brainchild of brainy George Chopivsky, was held during parents’ weekend last fall in Anne Platt’s “Beach Club” Silliman room, one entryway from…

Feb 2000

Happy New Year, century, etc. Aren’t we Yalies, as opposed to all other college graduates in the world (and non-graduates, for that matter), lucky to have another momentous event to look forward to next year? I refer, of course, to Yale’s 300th birthday in 2001. We can get a head start on the celebration in New Orleans this April, when the class holds another mini-reunion in New Orleans. At this…

Edward Boyle, December 22, 1999

Edward Boyle, December 22, 1999

Published in the BAMC Beat (Brooke Army Medical Center) Vol.2, No.6, June 2002:   Doctor to be remembered at ribbon cutting It almost seems fictional — too good to be true. The story of a man battling one of the most painful types of cancer and still managing to put in 12 hours of work a day. The story of a man who grabbed a pen and pencil, designed a women’s imaging section he knew…

Dec 1999

Hello, everyone. You seem to be awakening from summer comas, as information is trickling in from classmates. Maybe it has something to do with the Bulldogs’ excellent 5-1 start, or the soccer victory over then top-ranked Indiana, but I am glad to hear from you. First, for those who have been losing sleep over the future of my predecessor Mr. Bogaty, who is caught in the Mobil-Exxon mega-merger, I have learned that he will become CFO of…

Nov 1999

Well, fellow classmates, I feel like a columnist on deadline without an idea. There is little news to report this month. I suppose hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes, and vacations may be responsible, but you have been uncharacteristically noncommunicative. Therefore, like that columnist — or an unprepared Eli — I must rely on my wits and peripheral sources. I shall segue into one with the news…

Byron Brubaker, October 27, 1999

Byron Edward Brubaker Jr., 52, died Wednesday at Baptist Hospital East. He was president of Parallax Consulting Services, a professor at the University of Louisville School of Business, a member of the board of Plymouth Settlement House, and a member of Rotary Club of Louisville, Yale University and MIT alumni associations and Highland Presbyterian Church. Survivors: a daughter, Christine L. Brubaker, and his mother, Lula Mae Brubaker. Memorial service: 11 a.m. Saturday, his church, 2108…

William Wilson, Deceased October 18, 1999

William Wilson, Deceased October 18, 1999

This obituary is written from the ‘heart and soul’. It was my pleasure to room with Bill Wilson for 4 years at Yale and one summer in New York City. For 3 years we shared bunks in the same room of a 2 bedroom suite, and only by senior year did we have separate rooms in a 3 room suite. I’ll begin on day one and week one. Our bonding started that early. I arrived…

William Wilson, Deceased October 18, 1999 – Needs Content

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Oct 1999

Without question, one of the highlights of our 30th Reunion was the “Mid-Course Correction” program, an idea conceived and successfully implemented by classmateMacon Cowles. Since we have space and not so much news this month, I asked him to write a brief report on the session, for those who did not have the opportunity to participate. Therefore, allow me to present Macon. On Saturday…

Aug 1999

Thirtieth Reunion Maybe if the campus were always as beautiful and the weather as glorious as they were during the three days of reunion, all of us would have found a way to stay around New Haven. Alas, as we know, that must have been a mid-life mirage, and while Woody Collins and Walt Cummings deserve credit for a nearly perfect three days of activities and conditions, it clearly was the turnout of…

May 1999

Greetings again, classmates. It is only a few days away from reunion, but this is being written in March, while many of us are emerging from the winter blues. I am still digging out of the email deluge resulting from President Chopivsky’s emailing and the responses. For once, those of you not computer savvy should consider yourselves lucky. The “You’ve Got Mail” announcement never was more obnoxious. It should…