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Julian H. Fisher – 50th Reunion Essay

Julian H. Fisher 320 Dudley Street Brookline, MA 02445 fisher@vzul.com 617-232-3411 Spouse(s): Barbara Wallraff (1992-2009) Education: Yale BA 1969, Johns Hopkins MD 1973 Career: Harvard Medical School faculty (neurology) 1979-present College: Morse Bookends. That is how I view my life in relationship to Yale. I came to Yale with a somewhat single-minded desire to pursue a career in medicine, but with a strong hobby interest in photography. My plans were upended as photojournalism at the…

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Michael Walter Finkbeiner – 50th Reunion Essay

Michael Walter Finkbeiner 50 Harbor View Ln – B Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770 mwfinkbeiner@gmail.com 203-561-3293 Spouse(s): Joan Mathews Planchart (1970) Child(ren): Elizabeth (1971), Sarah (1974), Jean (1976) and Daniel (1981) Grandchild(ren): Andrew (1994), Hannah (1996), Sarah (1997) and Julia (1999) Education: Yale Forest School MFS 1971 Career: Consulting Forester 20 years, Land Surveyor 30 years, Minister 41 years Avocations: Lux et Veritas (the real ones) College: Morse Yale changed me—for better. A formative event to…

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Thomas Finarelli – 50th Reunion Essay

Thomas Finarelli 1437 Southwind Way Dresher, PA 19025 tfinarelli@lavin-law.com 610-574-7097 Spouse(s): Linda (1976) Child(ren): Katie (1978), Laura (1980) Grandchild(ren): Gavin (2005), Emerson (2007), J.Henry (2009), Finn (2014), and Hazel (2018) Education: University of Pennsylvania – J.D. 1972 Career: 45 years of civil litigation defense practice; key element – survival College: Branford

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Paul C. Field – 50th Reunion Essay

Paul C. Field Highlands, North Carolina p.field@earthlink.net 678-296-4375 Spouse(s): Candyce Barbara Nadon (1977) (“Love lifts us up where we belong.”) Education: Duke University, M.Div, 1972; UC Berkeley, MBA, 1982 Career: My career has been in financial services marketing. Seven years with California Casualty Insurance Company, two years at Wells Fargo Bank, nine years in consulting and twenty years at SunTrust Bank. Avocations: While in Atlanta, I enjoyed being active in the Yale Club of Georgia….

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Robert Dana Ferris – 50th Reunion Essay

Robert Dana Ferris Date of Death: 6-Nov-2010 College: Trumbull (This memorial was published in the Times Argus on Jan. 28, 2011.) Robert Dana Ferris died of stomach cancer in Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 6, 2010. In 1968, following three years at Yale University, Bobby took a year off to work as part of Volunteers in Service to America, the domestic version of the Peace Corps. As a VISTA volunteer, he was assigned to the village…

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Kimball Howes Ferris – 50th Reunion Essay

Kimball Howes Ferris 4265 SW Charming Way Portland, OR 97225 kimball.ferris@gmail.com 971-22-7318 Spouse(s): Sue Kirby Ferris (1974) Child(ren): Kerby Anne Ferris (1979); Lisa Michelle Ferris (1982); Jill Elizabeth Ferris Harmon (1988) Education: University of Massachusetts (MLA 1974); University of Massachusetts (MRP 1975); Willamette University (JD 1978) National Service: SP-5, US Army Security Agency, Arabic Linguist (69-72) Career: Business attorney practicing in Portland, Oregon from 1978 to the present, since 2011 as a partner at Miller,…

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Jonathan Harold Elkus – 50th Reunion Essay

Jonathan Harold Elkus Date of Death: 7-Dec-2003 College: Ezra Stiles (This obituary was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Dec. 12, 2003.) Jonathan H Elkus died (of a heart attack) on Dec. 7, 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. A graduate of St. Paul School, Yale University, and Harvard Business School. He is survived by his twin sister Peggy of Pittsburgh and his brother Christopher of Ligonier, Pennsylvania and New York, and nephew James of Spain.

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Thomas F. Elek – 50th Reunion Essay

Thomas F. Elek Summerville, SC 29485 tomelek1369@yahoo.com 843-696-8134 Spouse(s): Faye (1970-74); Debbie (1981-2005) Child(ren): Michele (1971); Jennifer (1981); Ryan (1982); Krystyn (1988); Jason (1991); Brittany (1992) Grandchild(ren): Angelika (1988); Jacob (2004); Jonathan (2006); April (2006); Jackson (2009); Aubrey (2010) Education: Yale BA 1969; Webster University 1997 National Service: USMC Major 1973 – 1993 Career: 20 years as Marine Aviator and Instructor; United Way for 22 years College: Calhoun (Hopper) Unlike some classmates who became leaders…

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George Alec Effinger – 50th Reunion Essay

George Alec Effinger Date of Death: 26-Apr-2002 College: Branford (This obituary was published on TheGuardian.com and was reprinted on the Class Website.) George Alec Effinger was one of science fiction’s most humorous and eclectic writers. He burst into the field in the early 1970s, with a style that echoed the irreverence of the times. His first novel, What Entropy Means To Me (1972), drew as much on the knowing postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon as on…