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Thomas Henry Matthew Gates – 50th Reunion Essay

Thomas Henry Matthew Gates Date of Death: 2-Feb-1997 College: Jonathan Edwards (This report appeared in the February 1999 Class Notes.) Mrs. Helen Gates, the mother of Thomas H.M. Gates, has funded a Yale College scholarship in Tom’s name, in accordance with his wishes expressed prior to his death. The Thomas H.M. Gates scholarship will be awarded each year with preference to a student in Jonathan Edwards College and/or an African American student, with the gender…

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Lathrop Mead Gates – 50th Reunion Essay

Lathrop Mead Gates Date of Death: 6-Jul-2009 College: Pierson (This memorial from tributes.com was reprinted in the January/February 2010 Class Notes.) Lathrop M. Gates died July 6 at his home in Kansas City. Lathrop was born on February 1, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri to Clinton Hayes Gates and Doris Mead Gates. He attended Grandview Elementary School and graduated from Pembroke Country Day in 1965. He was a member of the tennis team at Yale…

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Jerome DuVivier Gary – 50th Reunion Essay

Jerome DuVivier Gary 191 King’s Point Road East Hampton New York, NY 11937 Jerome@visionairemedia.com 323-683-0593 Spouse(s): Mary Lambert (2018) Child(ren): Jordan Lambert Gary (1992) Education: Yale ‘69 Career: Filmmaker, teacher, production executive 40 years. Other: strategic Director USC Institute for Creative Technologies 2000-2007 Avocations: Travel, hunting, fishing, teaching, biking, yoga, wine. College: Branford “Doesn’t play well with others,” were a teacher’s comments early on. By 1969, I was a spoiled, rich kid, and it was…

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Philip Roger Garvin – 50th Reunion Essay

Philip Roger Garvin 100 W. Noe Road Larkspur, CO 80112 philip@coloradostudios.com 303-549-8585 Spouse(s): Angela Seda-Garvin (10 years) Child(ren): Jana Garvin (1984); Leah Garvin (1986); Nicholas Garvin (1992) Grandchild(ren): Phoenix May (2016) Education: Yale BA, BFA 1969; Yale MFA 1970 Career: Photographer/Film-maker/ Television Producer/Cameraman at PBS and CBS. Founder/President of Colorado Studios and Mobile TV Group. Co-Founder and GM of HDNet/AXs.tv. Author/Photographer: A People Apart (1970); Religious America (1974). Avocations: Ranching; Public Education College: Morse Yale…

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Donald Porter Ferguson – 50th Reunion Essay

Donald Porter Ferguson Date of Death: 13-Jan-1968 College: Ezra Stiles (This memorial was published by Hopkins Grammar School, The Class of 1965.) Don Ferguson, the eternal optimist with the ready smile, was editor-in-chief of the Razor, National Merit Commended Scholar, and Alumni Scholar. He went from HGS to Yale, but was caught up in “the war”—our generation’s war. Don was killed in Vietnam on January 13, 1968 in a place called Bienhoa. His name has…

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David Feigenbaum – 50th Reunion Essay

David Feigenbaum 38 Rangeley Road Winchester, MA 01890 david.feigenbaum@gmail.com 617-521-7817 Spouse(s): Maureen Meister (1979) Child(ren): Peter (1984); Stephen (1989) Education: Harvard Law School JD 1972 Career: Corporate lawyer, what is now K&L Gates, 8 years. Intellectual property lawyer, Fish & Richardson, 38 years and counting. Avocations: Photography, historic preservation, cooking, gardening. College: Branford It was late summer in 1966 when I moved into the Branford triple numbered 800 with my sophomore roommates, Bill Waldman and…

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Richard Allan Funke – 50th Reunion Essay

Richard Allan Funke Date of Death: 11-Nov-2013 College: Calhoun (This memorial appeared in a Chicago Tribune Media Publication, and was reprinted on the Class Website.) Dick Funke, dog lover, recreational pilot, do-it-yourself man (stubborn but always right), impatient driver, and despiser of anything eggplant, passed away on Monday, November 11, 2013 at the age of 66. Not for the faint of heart, Dick was a man of great passion and intensity. After attending Yale University…