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Well, here we are in another dizzying round of class notes. By the time you see this, it will be getting reasonably close to the Harvard game, and with luck Lang Wheeler will have issued instructions to one and all on how to enjoy his fiesta for class members at his Cambridge abode. Before we get to the mail, a little something for all you “90s-kind-of guys”: several classmates have let me know about a cute e-mail…
Another issue of class notes, in our continuing effort to serve you better. Your class council continues with its work, in particular the efforts to promote the social side of things through the aegis of our events czar, John Gazzoli. You should have received a letter from him outlining upcoming social events, including a trip in the California wine country (October 23-25), a fiesta at the Yale-Harvard game courtesy of Lang Wheeler…
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…
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.
Tony was born in Nantucket, but grew up in North Carolina, where he was a good student and a prominent member of his high school football team. A resident of Davenport, he played Freshman football with BD, Calvin and the others, but then moved to Davenport tackle football for 66-68. He also played D’port basketball and was active in the political union. His roommates were Robert J. Dull, Jeffery A. Rosen, and he intended to go…
From Class Notes: Clinton Sheerr died in 1997. He was founder (with his wife) of a small architectural firm in New Hampshire which had won numerous awards; he had previously (while at I.M. Pei) had a major hand in design of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. ———— SHEERR-Clinton Jay, 50, prominent New Hampshire architect, died Monday, September 8 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center after a long and heroic struggle…
[from Jerry Schnitt TC 69, Bill’s freshman roommate] Bill attended Yale for only one year. Having been an all-state basketball, football and baseball player in Oregon, he tried out for football in the fall (beat out at quarterback by Brian D). Freshman basketball, he left at six weeks; he hated the coach and quit the team. He didn’t try out for baseball in the Spring. He had sufficient character to confront a group of…
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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 included translations of her short stories—received the American National Book Award for translation in 1982. At the U-M, Danly directed…
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Dr. Geoffrey K. Booth, chief of psychiatric outpatient services at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco and an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UC-San Francisco, died of heart failure Jan. 19. He was 49. Dr. Booth, a Tiburon resident, grew up in Boston and Westport, Conn., and graduated from Yale University and Georgetown Medical School. He joined the Navy in 1971 and completed his residency training in psychology at Oak Knoll Naval…
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The electronic edition of our “Secretary’s Columns” for the Class of 1969, as published in the Yale Alumni Magazine, are not available for all of 1996 and 1997.
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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…
