Aug 1998

So you’re probably wondering what happened to your class notes (if not your class secretary). It’s a long, and actually fairly prosaic story, involving family pressures (dealing with young kids, dying old folks), work pressures (corporate life isn’t the same since they did away with the executive dining room), and travel (work and pleasure). But you probably don’t care much, and here we are back. I have had offers of…

May 1998

Charlie Sheldon, being a glutton for punishment, has volunteered to assist in recording class notes, effective immediately. You can reach him at 18813 Harris Avenue NE, Suquamish, WA 98392; or email him at sheldon.c@portseattle.org.

Robert Danly, April 27, 1997

Robert Danly, April 27, 1997

ANN ARBOR—Award-winning writer and translator Robert Lyons Danly, University of Michigan professor of Japanese language and culture, died of a brain tumor April 27. He was 50. Danly, who had taught Japanese literature at the U-M since 1980, achieved immediate fame among translators and scholars when his doctoral dissertation—a biography of writer Higuchi Ichiyo that…

Nov 1995

It is my sad duty to report the death of John Mackey. The following note was received from several of his classmates: “John Mackey died on the night of Tuesday, August 15, 1995. All of John’s friends mourn him deeply. We all remember him as he was in the 1960s — young and vital. There was always a vivid excitement about him as well as an uncanny ability to bring out the best in all of us. ”Our…