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…
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Well, the holidays are over, twelfth night has passed, and we are now in that magical, tantalizing lull before the Super Bowl, and it is time to cast around to you for news of your class, destined to reach you at some point around St. Patrick’s Day. A reminder to all of you who run your lives by the rhythms of the calendar: it’s only 30 days or so until your 1994 tax return is due, a length of time which can be measured by…
Apologies for missing the last couple of issues. I have been traveling hard (as opposed to hardly traveling) to unspeakable destinations, and have arrived home to find lots of bills and missed deadlines. Many of you have written in, and are probably annoyed at not having your prose in print. Tough. Waiting patiently builds character. I’ll try to dribble out some of the news, with the usual admonition that it would be awfully nice to…
