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Dwight Alton Dodge – 50th Reunion Essay

Dwight Alton Dodge Date of Death: 19-Jan-2006 College: Morse (This memorial was submitted by William Caltrider to the March/April 2006 Class Notes.) It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that our classmate and friend Dwight Dodge died on January 19. The day before, he suffered a massive aneurysm near the brain stem that left him without brain function. Dwight was not only a classmate but also my lifelong best friend, dating from…

Frank A. Dobbs – 50th Reunion Essay

Frank A. Dobbs College: Davenport The big thing about Yale for me was unrealistic expectations about filling the needs of my personality as a truth seeker, of the kind that prefers the truth for its own sake, regardless of personal cost. I had been prepared to turn down HYP and go to a liberal arts college, but my time at the Sorbonne made the idea of a great university attractive. But instead of the community…

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Kenneth Steven Devoe – 50th Reunion Essay

Kenneth Steven Devoe 26 West Helen Street Hamden, CT 6514 kendevoe@comcast.net 203-314-9732 Spouse(s): Cindy (1981) Child(ren): Lucas (1987) Grandchild(ren): Finley (2012); Ellison (2017) Education: Yale, BA in American Studies, 1969 Career: Freelance copywriter since 1984 with my own business, The Media Tree. Before that, copywriter at Sound Concepts (1978-84). Before that, Radio personality, program director and production director at radio stations in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport CT Avocations: High school basketball referee in New…

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Dennis Dahlen – 50th Reunion Essay

Dennis Dahlen 23 Pond Drive West Rhinebeck, NY 12572 BulletPark@aol.com 845-876-5736 Education: Yale BA German Language and Literature 1969, University of Massachusetts BS Electrical and Computer Engineering 1978, Syracuse University MS Computer Engineering 1986 National Service: US Army 69-71 Career: Computer engineer at IBM Avocations: German and Scandinavian literature College: Davenport Majoring in German at Yale and then studying Norwegian at the University of Oslo for a year was certainly not the most efficient way…

Maxime Joseph Derbes III – 50th Reunion Essay

Maxime Joseph Derbes III Date of Death: 13-Feb-2008 College: Trumbull (This memorial appeared in the May/June 2008 Class Notes.) Max Derbes III passed away on February 13, after a long bout with renal carcinoma. Max majored in AdSci at Yale, was captain of the Yale judo team, and won the Connecticut State Judo Championship in 1968. Steve Bemis, who attended the funeral, writes: “Max was the premier commercial/industrial realtor in New Orleans, until very near…

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Steven Andrew Davis – 50th Reunion Essay

Steven Andrew Davis 178 Country Lane San Antonio, TX 78209 drstevedavis@gmail.com 210-887-3311 Spouse(s): Jolene Bryant Davis (40 years as of 2018) Child(ren): Bryant Davis (1981); Suzanne Davis, MD (1983) Education: Yale ‘69, BA, Economics; University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, MD, 1973; Internship in Medicine, University of New Mexico Hospitals, 73-74; Residency in Dermatology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 74-77 Career: Dermatologist, 40 years; CBS Radio Broadcaster, 34 years; Co-founded StemBioSys, Inc, 2012;…