These pages contain all class notes from the Yale Alumni Magazine from 1957 on. The notes appear unchanged from their original publication save for the correction of misspellings and other small errors. The few gaps in coverage that exist result from the absence of Class of 1957 notes in a few issues of the magazine over the years. Also, in keeping with changes in the magazine itself, the frequency of publication occasionally changes.

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Notes: November 1971
Notes: October 1971
Notes: July 1971
Notes: June 1971
Notes: May 1971
Notes: April 1971
Notes: March 1971
Notes: February 1971
Notes: January 1971

Notes: November 1971

There will be a class tent (FREE) before and after the Yale-Harvard game outside of the Bowl. Set-ups, coffee, and a guard during the game will be available. Try to make it. It will be the last time some of us get together before our 15th reunion.

John Shaw has formed the investment counsel firm of Platt, Shaw & Ossorio located at 345 Park Ave., New York City. If you wish to turn your first million into $2,000,000 so you can give the second million to Yale, please call John at 832-1909.

Glen Harris has been made a director of data processing systems and an officer of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford. He and his family live in Glastonbury. George Atkeson has been elected to the newly-created position of Vice President--Product Marketing of Avon Products in New York. George, Mary, and their three children live in Cos Cob. Tim Childs has been promoted to Class 4 in the Foreign Service and is presently in the Department of State as County Officer in the Office of Iranian Affairs. Tim has been in Teheran, Damascus, and Washington. Hope and Tim have two children, Katherine, age 10 and John, age 8. Also promoted to Class 4 in the Foreign Service was Walter Clarke. Walter has been in Colombia, Costa Rica, Burundi, and Washington. He presently is stationed at the American Embassy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Michelle and Walter have two children, Philippe, age 7 and Quentin, age 1. Ken Gergen has been promoted to full Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College and has been awarded tenure.

Copelin and Lee, New York City, received an award of merit from the American Institute of Architects for their design of a 2,000-acre resort project on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They also took second place out of 682 entries from 46 countries with a design for a new cultural center for the contemporary arts at the Center Beaubourg in Paris.

I had the great thrill of meeting Chris Sonne in the finals of a mixed doubles tennis tournament in Tuxedo Park this summer prior to his going to Europe with Merrill Lunch. Because of my partner's ability and hustle (after a very late night) we finished our semi-final match early in the morning and had time to watch Chris and his partner defeat my wife, Nancy and her partner, Jim Whelpley, of the Class of 1958. That match was hard fought, but Chris talked his way into the finals.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: October 1971

Fall and football and my final year as your Secretary. Over the summer I heard from and about several people. Bruce Arneill, who has his own architecture firm in New Haven, is designing houses, schools, hospitals, etc., and has received awards and publicity befitting a member of the Class of 1957. Bruce is chairman of the Greater New Haven United Fund Campaign, which as you all know, is quite a job. Good luck!

I am sure you read that Sam Chauncey has replaced Ben Holden as Secretary of Yale. Need I say more? Someone finally nailed Wayne Moeller on June 19th. The current Mrs. Moeller must be either very large or very persuasive. If you care to find out, the Moellers can be reached at 499 North Commonwealth Avenue, Elgin, Ill. Ted Notz announces the arrival of Isabel Stephanie, born March 11th. Ted and family also live in Illinois. Don Harran (formerly Don Hersh) is living at 24 Ha'Reches, Savyon, Israel. I saw in the Sunday Times book section an ad for The Southern Strategy by Reg Murphy and Hal Gulliver. Averell Harriman wrote about the book, "The cynicism and chicanery depicted in The Southern Strategy is fascinating and would be incredible without the careful documentation of two penetrating observers. It is a 'must' for anyone interested in understanding today's political scene."

Charlie Abuza, who has formed a new law partnership of Schacter, Abuze & Goldfarb at 225 Broadway, New York City, ran one of the best ever Class Dinners at the Yale Club of New York on June 3rd. I would hope that groups in other cities might do the same this fall or next spring--it is great fun. Ed Meyer, New York State Assemblyman from Westchester was good enough to sneak out of a session to tell us a little bit about politics in Albany. He then took a return flight at 10:30 to go back into session about midnight. Bud Trillin followed up with some typical Trillin wit and sent the "senator" on his way. This summer, to unwind, Linda and Ed Meyer drove across the country. They had dinner with Sue and Bide Thomas in Wheaton, Ill. Although Bide is a Vice President of Commonwealth Edison in charge of one of their biggest offices, his main pastime is beating his children--at shuffleboard. After victory he retires to his long cabin in the backyard.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: July 1971

Two May births: a second daughter to Jay and Judy Inglis and a son, complementing a daughter, to Alex and Kate Grinnell.

Dave Reed, a Vice President of the Bank of New York, was kind enough to send me an article from the New York Post about Steve Hopkins. Four years ago Steve left a law practice in New York City to work for Governor Rockefeller in Albany as an Assistant Counsel, working primarily in the areas of labor and civil service. He has now been appointed director of New York's Washington office where he will serve as the state's chief lobbyist. Best of luck to Steve, Judy and their two children, Elizabeth and Allen.

Three classmates were prominent participants in the national Yale Alumni meeting in Atlanta in April: Sam Chauncey, who runs Yale; Bill Barutio, a leading real estate broker in Atlanta who has been elected Chairman of the Fulton County Democratic Party organization; and Hal Gulliver, Associate Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who as the local chairman, introduced President Brewster at the luncheon. Hal is co-author of a new book, The Southern Strategy outlining political developments in the South.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: June 1971

I find it difficult to believe for men approaching their 15th Reunion, but another baby was born. Caroline Hannaford Pillsbury was born on January 30th. Phil is still with the American Embassy. Jim and Kate Brady and family and Bill and Candy Hamm were in Hobe Sound for respective vacations. Also on vacation were Ned Morris, the oldest single stud in captivity, and some friend with Nancy and I in Eleuthera. In typical fashion, Ned speared a big grouper (that's a fish, not a native) the day we arrived; at that point our luck ran out, and we were fishless for the rest of the time.

Lou Pryor was made a partner in the Darien, Conn., law firm of McAnerney & Ryan effective January 1st.

Temby Argall writes that he has "left the pandemonium of general practice to return to a more meaningful home life with wife and two daughters"--and hopefully a boy in August. Temby spends his days at Fairfield Hills Hospital in the medical-surgical unit. He is a shoo-in for election as a burgess for the borough of Newtown, is a trustee of his church, serves on Indian Mountain School's development committee, and finds time to grow some of the best corn and tomatoes in Southern Newtown. Also in God's country are Pete and Marge Williams.

I read with interest and cramping tummy muscles Bud Trillin's article in the May 2nd magazine section of the Sunday New York Times. The subject of his article is his own abhorrence of answering mail and the troubles which might develop if one becomes a conscientious letter-answerer. Very amusing!

I trust all of you have sent in your Alumni Fund contributions for the year. If not, I urge you to do so within the next few days. Yale's financial problems are not new to any of us. Let's all chip in.

Lastly, Howie Gillis, who has done such a terrific job with reunions, has agreed to chair the 15th Reunion next June. As you know Howie was responsible for our Class setting a 10th Reunion attendance record, and he plans to make the 15th even more fun and better attended. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Howie at 27 Yowago Ave., Branford, Conn. 06405.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: May 1971

On June 3rd at the New York City Yale Club there will be a Class Dinner. We are looking for a good turnout and delicious cuisine. Charlie "the Chef" Abuza is in charge. Although notices will go only to those in the area to keep mailing costs down, anyone who happens to be in New York at that time is more than welcome.

Gerry Jonas writes from the New Yorker magazine (he's been there 10 years) that he, Susan, and their two daughters, Phoebe and Sarah, ages almost 1 and 3, are living in New York City. Gerry's latest article was of such importance that it ran in both the March 13th and March 20th issues. It was about the American Friends Service Committee and is part of a book he is publishing on the Quakers in general. He mentions that Hal Gulliver is also publishing a book through Scribners, the one on the GOP's southern strategy. Bud Trillin, another New Yorker magaziner, is flooding the book stores, his latest, U.S. Journal, a collection of his New Yorker reporting pieces on the big and little issues of our time. A question for the class on publishing: Is Dick Allen, who has become an expert on science-fiction as literature and has an epic poem with a science-fiction theme coming out soon; the same Dick Allen as ours who was in Pierson College?

Jon Breslav is now Regional Manager of the newly-created Metropolitan region of the car leasing division of Hertz. He is responsible for customers and prospects leasing five or more cars in New York, Long Island, and Westchester. All you guys with five cars at home should know it's cheaper to lease. Jon, Diana, and their 3-year-old daughter, Alison, are living in Stamford.

I receive a very thoughtful letter from Tung Jeong. He and Anna Chi May Wong were married in 1962 while students at Minnesota where she studied music. They have three children--Allan Chi Man, 6, Alec Chi Ming, 4, and Alicia Chi May, 2. Besides his work in holography at Lake Forest College, Tung has somehow found time to raise an organic Chinese vegetable garden, incorporate international holographics, write a book for the Heidelberg Science Library, and make another film on lasers for Encyclopedia Britannica. Unfortunately his travel schedule, and I might add he is in real demand as a lecturer, precludes at this time his playing the violin in the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra. I would also like to point out, in case I have led any classmates to draw incorrect conclusions that the information for my numerous reports on Tung have come directly from the College, without his knowledge. He was justifiably concerned with all the publicity.

Hope to see as many of you as can make it at the June 3rd Class Dinner in New York.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: April 1971

I hope all of you read Bud Trillin's article in the December (?) issue of The New Yorker. The article was centered around the famous bladderball game, a tradition which has withstood the many changes at Yale. You will all remember that Bud was undoubtedly one of the finest bladderballers ever to play for the News. The article, with some typical Trillin levity discusses Yale today versus Yale way back in 1957. It is well worth reading.

The car leasing division of Hertz has made John North Eastern Regional Manager. This division leases fleets of automobiles for commercial use. John lives in Matawan, N.J., and is a Lieutenant-Commander in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve.

Copelin (of John Copelin fame) and Lee, New York City, have received Architectural Record's Award of Excellence for Apartment Building Design for 1971 for their design of Palmetto Dunes at Hilton Head Island, S.C. This is quite an honor and deserves our congratulations.

Ken Jones recently became Associate Counsel with Hercules, Inc. in Wilmington. His work will encompass environmental control legal problems and new ventures such as land development. Previously, he was with North American Rockwell in Pittsburgh. Ken advised that he and his family were warmly welcomed and are delighted to be in Wilmington.

I find it hard to believe for a man of 36, but Charlie Ard accomplished the impossible, his wife giving birth to a rather large boy. Christian Adam on December 14th. This makes number 5, complementing two boys and two girls ranging from ages 9 to 13. The Ards are in South Euclid, Ohio, and are happy to see a very cold winter end.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: March 1971

I had lunch with Paul Eisele at the Yale Club in New York in January. Paul is one of the wisest men of the Class being among the few who still have working wives. Paul and Karin have two children, 2 and 5. Paul is now working for Doubleday; one of his responsibilities is all the book clubs.

Nancy and I visited Lars and Marit Kulleseid in Garrison, N.Y. We had a great time sledding and tobogganing until I ruined one large toboggan and almost one medium size Class Secretary. Both Lars and Marit looked great, especially after a few cups of hot gloogue (I'm told that is how to spell hot vodka with raisins). Lars is a patent lawyer with Fish, Richardson & Neave, New York City.

Otis Graham, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann, and their two children, Ann (6) and Wade (3). Otis has written his second book which has been published by Prentice-Hall, The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928. He was nice enough to write me, having seen no news of our Class in the November issue. He advises that Jim Banner is at Princeton; George Schuyler is at SUNY Stony Brook, and that Graham Tebbe is at the University of California Berkeley Law School. Another who was nice enough to write after the November issue was Berkeley Tompkins, who is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. He too is writing books, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, The Great Debate, 1890-1920 was published in October by the University of Pennsylvania Press and he just finished Peaceful Change in Modern Society to be published at Stanford. He recently chaired a major international conference on the United Nations at Stanford featuring former and current presidents of the General Assembly, Carlos Romulo, Charles Malik, and Edvard Hambro, and J. Harlan Cleveland, and Henry Cabot Lodge.

Kel Lawrence has just made a partner of Wilson & McIlvaine, attorneys in Chicago.

Jim Cunningham has been elected Vice President in the Commercial Banking Department of the First National Bank of Chicago. He has been with the bank since 1959. He, Marcia, and their three daughters live in Evanston. Lastly, and what column would be complete without it, a report on Dr. Tung Hon Jeong, our holography expert at Lake Forest College. He has been lecturing throughout the country and was primarily responsible for a holography program featured at the 1970 White House Conference on Children in mid-December. This explored the future of relationships between education and the media and involved multi-screen projection systems, computer-programmed learning and the use of giant laser holograms. Tung, you win the FFF Award for 1970.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: February 1971

I have been asked to mention the publication of a new book, The Editor's Window, which is on sale at the Yale Co-op, 77 Broadway, New Haven at $4 a copy. It is a collection of selected articles from Francis W. Bronson's column in YAM. Mr. Bronson was in the process of completing the editing of the articles at the time of his death.

I received a very informative and thoughtful letter from Bill Fleming. Bill was well trained in thoracic and cardiac surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian in New York City and received OJT in Vietnam. Bill said he learned two things in Vietnam: "First, if you haven't spent a number of months there, you can't possibly understand the situation there. Secondly there must be a better method of population control than war." He is out of the Army and is Assistant Professor of Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital. He and Carolyn (Sweet Briar '57) have bought a house at 2827 Wendland Drive, N.W. in Atlanta and are living there with their three children Alice, Will, and Edgar, ages 8, 6, and 4. Believe it or not, there was a Yale Alumni Association on Long Bihn Post, about 20 miles from Saigon, and Bill was declared head man.

Our first Secretary, Gary Bellow, has just received a $2,000 award for his teaching excellence. He is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Three choice comments from his students: "He is the greatest teacher I have had in seven years at this university and I've had some of the best... He's concerned about our country's problems and works hard and effectively to solve them... He truly cares about people."

As a subsequent Secretary of our great Class, I will wait patiently for my award. I might even settle for $200. Would you believe $20? How about 20 cents.

—C. Michael O'Hearn

Notes: January 1971

Special congratulations to our former Class Secretary Ed Meyer, for being elected to the New York State Assembly. Ed was successful in the primary earlier and continued the trend by beating a democrat and a Conservative on November 2nd. He represents a district comprising about one third of Westchester County. I believe the next session begins January 1 in Albany and runs for three months. Ed's commute to his New York City law practice will seem short in comparison, but he is looking forward to doing his best to help solve some of the many problems. Speaking for the Class, Ed, we wish you all the very best of luck.

Two births (I didn't know old men of 35 could still work such miracles): Abraham Carroll on November 18th to Mary and Carroll Brewster, and Nicholas Bartlett and Matthew Mulford to Sally and Chris Sonne, who pulled a "twofor" on October 20th.

Larry Kramer writes that after living in London for ten years, he has moved back to New York and can be reached at 919 Third Avenue in New York City, tel: 688-1100.

Jim Crooks, Associate Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Hollins College, has received a Hollins-Ford Foundation grant to support a summer 1970 research assistant to work with him on the history of urbanization in four dissimilar Virginia cities.

Had a nice visit with Ted Jones at an informal class meeting in New York the Friday before Y-P game. Ted is a Senior Trust Office at the Cleveland Trust Co.

Happy 1971!

—C. Michael O'Hearn