Jeff Horton is dealing with a twist of fate in his life and wants to hear from other classmates who are raising their grandchildren. He writes: “After my 33 year old son died in 2022, his two children came to live with me in Palmdale CA, north of Los Angeles. As you all can imagine, it is exhausting, but it is also invigorating.
I’d love to hear from any other grandparents acting as parents from our class at [email and phone in the full story].
We are working on two ideas to add a little music to our reunion. Eliot Norman suggests:
1. Putting “Street” Pianos at the two ends of the tent in the courtyard at TD. Folks can just play a bit as they feel like it, while walking by, whether to entertain friends, jam or just communicate their thoughts.
2. Organizing a “pop-up” band and sing-along participation fun event after dinner on Saturday.
For further information, read more or contact Eliot (email).
As we have profiled before, Chris Hoffman has published four books of poetry and a bedrock book called The Hoop and the Tree, which went through a second edition with some revised and updated materials in 2021. He explained the image and the metaphors of hoop and tree in an article published recently on the Climate Psychology Alliance website. For you audiophiles, Chris also explained the model in a Zoom at Noon presentation hosted on YouTube.
Dick Williams sends this news about Mark Klugheit which he gleaned from the Yale Law Report: “Mark Klugheit continues his second (third?) career as director for Next Stage Theatre Southwest in Tucson, AZ, with very successful 2022 productions of David Ives’s Venus in Fur and Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.
Michael Folz and wife Maureen have been working and re-working some of their songs using some of the newer recording and engineering technology. And it’s mind-blowing … well, more ear-blowing. Compare, for example “Right Through My Heart” from 2015 vs. the revision of the same song they created a couple months ago, The 2015 version was the original recording. No overdubs, etc. Maureen’s voice, totally plain. Their friend Sam, a recording engineer and songwriter in an…
Matt Flynn’s newest book differs from his series on Bernie Weber, math genius. His new thriller is set closer to home, namely, Matt’s experience as a court clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He hastens to add that the scenes in the book about cheating with an attractive Asian co-clerk are pure fiction. 😉
Plot Summary: In The Court of Last Resort, Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants …
UPDATED comments, posted 4/8/24 Remembering Donald P. Ferguson, ’69 Mark Alden Branch’s “Old Yale” article, “The Stories Behind the Names,”, in Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2023, focuses on five of the 35 Yale alumni killed in the Vietnam War. One of them, Donald Ferguson, ’69, is also part of another group of five men killed in that war, memorialized by a plaque, at the base of a flagpole flying the American flag, placed in 2018…
Note: In this essay, Jim Sleeper reports on Death of a Yale Man, a memoir from Malcolm Ross, Yale 1919. Ross, a son of an “old stock,” prosperous family, who graduated Yale in 1919, sold bonds briefly and then turned to years of body-wracking labor alongside miners and oil drillers and became a New Deal official with the National Labor Relations Board.
Editor’s Note: Reunion co-chairs update us with announcements re: which college will be our reunion HQ; previews of likely presentation topics; timing of the memorial service and Class Dinner; and other updates.
Ken Brown, who roomed with Richard Sophomore and Junior years offered the following for the class notes.
Richard L. Farren of New York City, age 76, died suddenly at his home on December 3, 2023. Richard was a practicing attorney at the time of his death. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1965. He matriculated with the Yale Class of 1969 but graduated in three years …
Yes, it’s quaint, and a bit nostalgic, to sleep in our old rooms … on those “Yale single” bedframes that squeak when you sit on them. But many spouses or partners are not so, um, adventurous, nor brave enough to deal with shared bathrooms, third-floor walk-ups and the other limitations of dorm living. They (or we!) want a regular hotel room, thank you very much.
Every member of the Yale community knows that November in New Haven is filled with compelling and colorful events. Whether Princeton or Harvard is the opponent, the campus is energized by championship football, the YAA Assembly, the Yale Medal Dinner, and the Blue Leadership Ball, all concentrated into a single long weekend. This year Harvard was the opponent and The Game attracted over 51,000 to the Yale Bowl, a robust crowd that excitedly saw the…
Bruce was born May 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Skokie, Illinois and attended Niles West High School where he became a state champion gymnast.
He studied economics as an undergraduate and for his PhD (Yale, 1972). For his graduate research he studied how human behaviors can cause departures from the principles of rational economics, a topic that was not well received at the time, but which (as Bruce would wryly note) led to a Nobel Prize for some later researchers.
Note: Op-ed published in Climate Psychology Alliance – North America, December 2023
Fundamentally, all psychology is ecopsychology and all therapy is ecotherapy. This is so because the psyche exists within society and society exists within the environment. A person, or a society, cannot be healthy or whole without a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the encircling hoop of the natural …
Lee Mundell died on June 26, 2023, after a brief illness. From Legacy.com: His wife and children were with him. He served in the United States Air Force where he was a pilot and flew in Vietnam. He then graduated from Golden Gate University (MBA 1974), and the University of Georgia School of Law (1977). While in law school, he was a teaching assistant in the university’s Terry School of Business, became a Notes Editor…
We all know we were born at the right time — our music was the greatest of the century, our football team was the most exciting since Yale joined the Ivy League, we came of age in an Age of Aquarius and our classmates were truly exceptional. Yale just confirmed our preeminence by identifying six people for “lifetime leadership awards” — with two of the six from our class!
