Unfortunately, the mailbag has been pretty empty for the past few months, and even more unfortunately, the balance of the news has been sad. At our 35th, we learned that about 60 of our classmates have passed away since graduation, but several more have been lost since, and this column will be largely devoted to two of them. As most of you know by now, one of our most prominent classmates, both nationally and in…
Published in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 30, 2005 Wright, Herbert J. (58), Passed away August 24, 2005. Herbert Wright was best known as producer and writer of the successful TV series, Star Trek, The Next Generation. He began life in Keokuk Iowa, and then went on to Yale University (where he established the film school) and graduated with honors in 1969. After arriving in Hollywood, he produced, wrote and directed over 50 TV…
Greetings, classmates. As usual, the end of winter is accompanied by numerous, and lengthy, submissions from those who are forced inside by the weather. This edition’s letters come from Chicago, New York, Boston, and Dallas, which can get volatile conditions. But, as you will see, our Dallas writer apparently has been skiing in Sun Valley, which leaves plenty of time for thought. Let’s get to it. Richard…
Published in The Guardian on May 19, 2005, by David Sugarman: Working towards justice for Pinochet’s victims John O’Leary, who has died aged 58, made an exceptional contribution to United States-Chilean relations and to the struggle to bring General Pinochet to justice. As US ambassador to Chile from 1998 to 2001, he brought goodness and a powerful intellect to the office, and worked to redress the effects of Washington’s part in the consolidation of the…
WELLS, Robert Allen Robert Allen Wells, 57, of Kent, WA, formerly of Bloomfield, passed away suddenly at home in Kent, WA on Friday (March 18, 2005). He was born in Hartford on April 18, 1947, son of Arthur James Wells and Shirley Wolcott Wells of Bloomfield. Bob was a graduate of Loomis School, 1965, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1969. After college, Bob served three…
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…
My mission this month is to provide a respite from the past year’s intense political debate, fully manifest in the seemingly endless e-mail letters circulated through the class listserv. While the nation ponders which Yalie to elect in 2008, here is some truly momentous news regarding your classmates. Ralph Sando has notified us that he has suffered the ultimate humiliation: witnessing his wife score an…
Anthony Covell died of cancer on November 3, 2004. His wife of 35 years, Natalie, reports, “He was very well known as the founding director of Poole Centre for the Arts in Dorset, a large complex comprising concert hall, theater, cinema, art exhibition space, and studios. As well as hosting national and international orchestras and solo musicians, touring theater, opera, and dance, the Centre is the home of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Anthony left the Arts…
First of all this month, I bring you greetings from Tokyo. Jim Schweitzer-san and I visited Bogaty-san in June, partially on the important class business of delivering his class clown — no, that’s not right — class service award. William was appreciative, and he has no doubt proudly stored it in his futon closet. We also were treated to a tour of his office, the very one in which…
Robert Cauthorn Alexander August 7, 1947 ~ July 25, 2004 Bob Alexander passed away at home in Larkspur, California on Sunday morning, July 25th, 2004 after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 56. The eldest son of Margaret S. and Donald C. Alexander, Bob was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, cum laude from Yale University, and magna cum laude from…
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…
