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Notes: December 1984
Notes: October 1984
Notes: June 1984
Notes: April 1984
Notes: February 1984

Notes: December 1984

My favorite issue, because it generates repeat business. You are all encouraged to write indignant letters about omissions, misstatements, high crimes, misdemeanors, and other mistakes on the list of our children now attending Yale.

Donald S. Bab--Andrew ''87, Patrick N. Baker--Carrie '87 and Patricia '86, Samuel L. Berman--Michael '88, William C. Bitting--William '87, Kurt M. Bloch--Marlyn '86, Jonathan N. Brownell--James '86, Timothy W. Childs--John '85, Thomas S. Chittenden--Eva '88 and John '86, Roger W. Cogswell--Steven ''86, Daniel Cornwell--Heather '87, Robert Crafts--Karen '88, William H. Cuddy--Laurie '85, Randolph Guggenheimer--Lynn '85, Charles H. Debrovner--Diane '87, Philander C. Derby--David '88, Douglas A. Dial--Robert '86, Jonathan Dick--Pamela '85, William W. Ellis--Laura '88, William M. Finn--Meredith '88, William H. Fleming--Edgar '88, Lewis A. Froman--Lizabeth '85, Robert A. Goering--Janet '88, Glen A. Harris, Jr.--Mark '87, John L. Harrison--John '87, William F. Hawthrone--Michael '88, Garson F. Heller--Julie '88, George C. Hutchinson--Elizabeth '88, David A. Johnson--Elizabeth '88, Theodore T. Jones--Ellen '88, Allan S. Kaplan--Caroline '87, Augustus G. Kellogg--Erin '85, Lars I. Kulleseid--Lars '85, Vernon R. Loucks--David '88, Charles T. Ludington, Jr.--Charles '87.

Philip M. Lynch--Sarah '87, Joseph A. Mark--Timothy ''88, John F. Mars--Frank '85, J. Edward Meyer--Tory '86, David T. Mininberg--Julien '86, Gerald C. Neary--Elizabeth '87, George J. Neilan--Joyce '86, John L. Newbold--Michael '88, Charles M. O'Hearn--Charles '88, L. Guy Palmer II--Philip '85, Ernest C. Pepples--Eleanor '86, Thomas P. Perkins--Robert '86, R. McNicol Robbins--Margaret '85 and Timothy '88, Ivan Selin--Jessica ''88, Ruben Shapiro, Roger ''88 and Steven '85, G. Kendall Sharp--F. Kendall '85, Alexander Smallens, Jr.--Alexander '87, Gordon H. Smith--Robin '86, Michael J. Sweedler--Jonathan '87, H. Stuart Valentine--H. Stuart '86, Joseph V. Vittoria--Jerome '86, George J. Vojta--Christopher '86, Allen Wardwell II--Lelia '85, Philip B. Weymouth, Jr.--Philip '87, George C. White--Caleb '87, William H. Wrean--William '86, Douglas C. Wright--Douglas '88.

Observations: 13 seniors versus 21 freshmen, definitely a positive trend. Total number 65. 1956 has 74 but 1958 only 46, which is favorable for next year. Earliest class to have a father is 1928--my father's class! Latest class is 1968--quick work. If you would like to see your name in print and do not live through your children you are welcome to write some news.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: October 1984

I keep thinking I should say something profound at the start of a new year. However, nothing comes to mind. What I do have is a lot of not-so-stale news (I hope), cut from the previous issue and also accumulated over the summer.

Ralph Lilore left Johnson & Johnson for his own consulting and venture capital firm with a little legal work still thrown in. Last fall Brad Lovejoy was transferred from Chaplain of USS Mississippi to director of the Recruit Training Command Chapel in Orlando, Fl. Ed Meyer is running for Congress in New York's 20th District. Support welcome. John Miller is back from Okinawa, where he served as Director of Plans & Operations for Marine air and ground forces in Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. He is currently Deputy Director of Marine Corps History and by now should have had published by the Naval Institute Press, his book on USS Houston "the toughest ship in the Navy." The Houston survived the heaviest battle damage yet known (more than 6,500 tons of flood water amidships for a 10,000 ton ship) and a two-week tow, under attack, back to port. For more information you'll have to buy the book. Dan Moalli has two out of college, two in and one at high school. Dan, Jr. graduated from Trinity and works at Creative Program Design in West Hartford, Maria graduated from UNH and is a toxicology technician at Pfizer in Groton. Pamela is at Brown, John at Northeastern and Andrea at high school. (Of course, if you don't want them to come home, you can serve them bad meals.) Bob Neff moved back to Newark to head the Trust and Estate Department for the firm of Kraft & Hughes. He was elected a fellow of the American College of Probate. Buell Neidlinger is "enjoying 1) my wife Margaret and children Miranda and Cecil, 2) some success with my recent record albums Swingrass 83, Big Day at Ojai and Marty's Garage, and 3) private teaching only--no more institutional 'pedadrudgery', i.e. paperwork and arguments with students about their already over-inflated marks." Buell, keep us stuffy, corporate types informed of your doings in the California music world.

Paul Ogden continues to enjoy private medical cardiology practice as director of a coronary care unit and as a professor of Medicine at UCal. S.F. His two sons are at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. Phil Pillsbury reports, "After seven years abroad, four in Italy and three in Argentina, I look forward to returning to the U.S. with my family. The past three years have proved fascinating and never dull. Argentina, a country with vast potential, has failed to find the political leadership which I will coalesce the divergent elements of society here. As I write this, the country will be embarking once again on the uncertain road to democracy. I can only say that after this experience in South America I hope the United States will pay more attention to our neighbors than has been the case heretofore." Millard Prisant's entrepreneurial offspring were featured in a Business Week article last April, but no copy reached me. Your move, Millard. Tom Quirk works in White Plains, N.Y. for Chemical Bank. He is a member of the advisory board of the Westchester Association of Women Executives, obviously at the behest of his wife, who owns her own business.

Mo Raker is still practicing law in Boston with Sullivan & Worcester. Jan and he would be delighted to hear from classmates passing through. Wallace Ritchie has become chairman of the Department of Surgery at Temple University of Medicine in Philadelphia. Bill Ryan crossed the lieutenant colonel off his card, having retired from the Marine Corps. He has settled on a small farm in Elberta, Al, obtained a Master's in Psychology and started work as a counselor in an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. Charles Strong has been appointed Vice President of Technical Operations for Young-Montennay, an affiliate of a Paris firm. He is based in Texas and the firm is involved in specialized mechanical construction, maintenance and energy management. Harry Valentine is struggling ever onward (his words, not mine) in his quest for an M.Div. degree at Yale Divinity School, Finally, Bob Weinmann sent me an editorial from Clinical EEG which he wrote on brain death. Copies on request from Bob in California.

We had a super gathering at The Yale Club in New York last April, all thanks to Sandy Clark. If you were unable to attend, we will be doing it again next spring. (Being Yale men I know it was inability to attend that kept you away, not lack of intelligence). Present were Abuza, Bab, Becker, Briggs, Chittenden, Clark Copelin, Debrovner, Gardiner, Gillis, Girdler, Guggenheimer, Halpren, Hochman, Hockstader, Ingles, Jones, Kaplan, Kner, Kramer, Loud, Marden, Mininberg, Mongillo, Neary, O'Hearn, Peet, Quirk (all thanks to President Tom, too), Roberts, Ryan, Samet, Smith, Sweedler, Turben, and Walsh. (No irate letters from classmates not reported, nor wives and guests omitted for lack of accuracy, but who added immeasurably to the fun.) My garbled notes reflect that Andy Kner told me that Tink Thompson's daughter told him that Chevy Chase had bought the rights to Tink's story of his move from Professor of Philosophy at Haverford to private detective in San Francisco. And that Headmaster Brian Walsh said that he'd kill me if I reported that at his blasé school the only head that turns when Aunt Cheryl Tiegs comes visiting is Brian's.

George Hutchinson writes that daughter Elizabeth is a freshman at Yale (surely not a freshperson), son at Sarah Lawrence, "Who would have thunk it?" he says, and another son at the School of Visual Arts. Jerome Pollitt was awarded the DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Undergraduate Teaching by the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He is Professor of Classical Archaeology and History of Art. Tom Shoop is "not dead, now lost--just residing in the great city of Cincinnati and working for a 'soap works' called P & G. The Shoop family is doing fine, significantly better than the Reds and Bengals, marginally ahead of P & G. Family includes boys 16 and 14 and wife Judy." Tom has seen Joe and Sandi Mesics on an Andover goodwill mission and intends to check in again before the 50th.

Johannes Somary--"Twenty-five years after obtaining my Master's in Music at Yale, I found myself returning to Yale as Visiting Professor of Choral Music for a year. When I went to the School of Music as a student, I was told that in the arts a Master's Degree is a 'terminal' degree. Now when I went back to teach, I found myself leading a program for choral conductors in search of a doctorate. I was also conducting a group which did not exist in our time: the Yale Concert Choir. More recently (this month and last) I took the Fairfield County Choral, which I conduct, on a concert tour through Spain, where we performed Handel's Messiah at the Costa del Sol festival; then with what little energy I still had left, I took the Horace Mann Chamber Chorus to sing at the premiere season of Music at Angel Fire, a new festival in Northern New Mexico. Next year I shall serve as principal choral conductor and adviser to the Madeira Bach Festival. And if anybody from among our Yale friends needs a guest conductor, don't forget: I'm only a phone call away!"

Plan to attend Yale-Princeton where we will tent and fine. More next month.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: June 1984

Somewhere in New Haven a dam has burst. All of you good people who were kind enough to write a note on your class dues notices last fall are about to receive proper recognition. Where these have been between then and now is beyond my comprehension.

Bruce Arneill has moved his architectural practice from New Haven to Hartford. He is a trustee of Quinnipiac College, Vice President of the New Haven Preservation Trust and teaches a course in Yale School of Public Health. (On what? ... bone structure?) Don Backe spent the year as interim principal of the lower school at Rutgers Preparatory School but plans to return to heading his own school next year. Any offers? Bob Beaney, formerly of Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania, writes that he is "attempting to survive the trauma of the break-up of the Bell System." Wife Gayle is teaching nursery school and going to college at West Chester. Pete Bouscaren started a consulting company on retail leasing matters in June 1982. He represents either developers or retailers and recently finished PPG Place in Pittsburgh. To his note that the "attached blurb should help explain," I reply, "It didn't because it wasn't."

A great letter from Cale Carson reported that he and Psi Simons had just returned from a month's trekking in the Himalayan Mountains in central Nepal. "Physically challenging through the experience was even more stimulating for the mind and spirit. As we climbed deeper and deeper into the remote valleys of Nepal, all the normal comfort and convenience of modern living feel away and we seemed to enter an ancient time. One of our many sobering observations was that the poorer and more austere the lives of the local mountains people became, the more friendly and generous they were. Watching their contented, unhurried daily living taught a lesson much more profound than the simplistic "money can't buy happiness.'" Cale enclosed a picture of himself and Psi clad in our reunion shirts shortly before their short-lived attempt at climbing Annapurna. Cale left Nepal by raft, elephant and plane for India and Southeast Asia. Psi's trip was part of his sabbatical leave from Panahou School in Hawaii. Psi spent last summer at Oxford where he was, according to his college master, Lord Crowther-Hunt, "to be hastily civilized." Psi also traveled in Greece, India, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and Japan. Now he and Cale are back playing tennis in Honolulu. Are the rest of us doing something wrong?

Speaking of tennis in Honolulu, what I presume to be news of John Somerville's daughter Betsy was all over the local papers winning tennis tournament after tournament. Paul Leand's Andrea may be in trouble in a few years. John Chequer has returned to Cambridge, Mass., after seven years in California, and is now consulting on energy and finance. Tim Childs taught a course this term at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. entitled "The Eastern Question--from Napoleon to Ataturk: A Diplomatic History.:" Anyone can teach the question Tim--what's the answer? Bill Cuddy reports a good case of inbreeding -daughter Amy '83, married Eric E. Stevens ''80, in September, making among others, three class secretaries happy. He has moved from the Stamford office of Day, Berry & Howard back to Hartford.

Being a good doctor, Wayne Downey has illegible handwriting, which is why I cannot tell which school board of trustees in Madison, Ct., elected him President. Bart Gage reports that all is well with his two sons and wife. The latter recently received a NCTE study grant. Bart is in his 17th year of executive recruiting. Glen Harris was promoted to assistant vice president, data processing systems at Phoenix Mutual Life.

After 18 years in the trust business, ending as head of the personal trust group at First National Bank in Louisville, Ian Henderson has left to become a partner in the law firm of Middleton & Reutlinger. He has two sons at Kenyon and a third "aimed toward Yale." He also possesses a summer place in Murray Bay, Quebec, and "hopes classmates passing through will look us up especially in the duck or dove season." John Hughes served this spring as ships surgeon on the carrier USS Kitty Hawk. Mike Jordan has been named president and CEO of the Frito-Lay division of Pepsico. (Good snacks are practically guaranteed at any class gathering). Mike Kohler has left Kohler, Wisc, for Spartanburg, S.C. to manage the Kohler Co. facility there. This year his four sons were in 1) Chicago working; 2) 3) and 4): Duke Medical School, Spain, and Spartanburg studying, (My wife lures ours home by promising them good meals).

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: April 1984

I have the feeling that I write more columns than I read. When I get to the bottom of this column (don't doubt that I shall), I will have written three columns that have yet to surface. (It's not unlike the feeling of giving a party where no one shows up. Or in my business, clearing a public offering of stock with the S.E.C., releasing the offering for trading, and then having no one either buy or sell it in the aftermarket). This column should surface in the spring with the Yankees, under their 12th manager in 11 years, comfortably in first place to stay. With that fearless prediction set in type, it might be better if no one does ever see this!

Slim pickings: The New York Times reported that Karl Van Horn has left Morgan Guaranty Trust to join Shearson/American Express as Chief Executive Officer of American Express Asset Management Holdings in London. Psi Simons is on an around-the-world sabbatical trip. Vince Marchesi was named the recipient of the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award for contributions to immunohematology. Bud Trillin was spotted selling his book Killings on the "Today" show, inter alia. Sandy Clark graciously consented to host our Class Dinner on April 16 at the Yale Club in New York. (Did he do it?) and we will report on that next time. If you have mailed me any other information that has not been printed here yet, please send it to me again as I have lost it. That's if for now.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: February 1984

It is much easier to write this column without news. Maybe not as interesting--but easier. Unfortunately for me, I have a veritable outpouring in response to my reflection on my writing abilities that you would rather read about yourselves than what I have to say. However, the thought doesn't even enter my mind.

Class Business: 1) We have scheduled a 1957 dinner at the Yale Club in New York, Monday, April 16. Couples expected, attendance mandatory, details later. 2) Toby Briggs reports that at the October AYA Assembly, at which he ably represented us, the theme was the 50-year-old residential college system. Toby particularly enjoyed being assigned to a student host. 3) The dinner following the Yale-Harvard game was a great success and we will repeat next year at Yale-Princeton. (At the request of certain anonymous classmates, who are not satisfied with fine wine, next year the bar will remain open through dinner). Present were Abuza, Boasberg, Correll, Cox, Cronin, Diefendorf, Dunn, Gillis, Guggenheimer, Hockstader, Jensen, Ted Jones, Munn, Ryan, Shapiro, Sharp and Trippe. Cocktails only for Samet and McNabola. At Coxe Cage after the games were Beam, Beer, Bellis, Bloch, Bullwinkel, Chrisholm, Chittenden, Dunton, Eisele, Grinnell, Hopkins, Dick Jones, Vern Loucks, McGill, Meyer, Neary, Oberlin, Palmer, Perkins, Sawyer, and Watling. All of the Coxe Cagers will be expected at the dinner next year. End of class business.

Sandy Clark sent me his brochure on his direct marketing company, stating his "fascination with the quantitative side of direct response." Apparently this is all good, clean stuff. Peter Greer is with Union Carbide in Dallas. He retired from USMCR as a lieutenant colonel. Daughter Lisa is a senior at Alabama and Donna is at North Texas State.

Larry Kramer left N.Y.C. in November with dog Molly for a long and leisurely drive around America with classbook in hand. He says, "As we approach 50, I'm curious where I am and what I notice. It has been a terrible two years for me. I have been involved in the AIDS crisis, and helped to found the main organization responsible for alerting this country to this terrible epidemic. As of this fall, I have known 37 men who have died--in two and a half years." Frank Lin just published a book on FORTAN, and another one on BASIC is due out soon. Gil Merritt, in his words, has "a scrap of dry bread" for my empty cupboard. "In connection with my work as a Federal Appellate Judge I travel very frequently (almost commute) between my home in Nashville and the place where our court meets to hear its cases, Cincinnati. The distance is a little over 250 miles as the crow flies, and I fly a twin-engine Piper Navajo back and forth. Recently, I was almost run over by an American 727 en route to Newark. The local press, as well as NBC, did report it but on the back pages. The FAA reports that with deregulation and the controller strike aftermath, the number of near misses is increasing. I am glad, however, that I was simply a near miss statistic, rather than something worse." Gil has two boys applying to Yale this year and a daughter to college next year. Gracious!

I received a nice chatter letter from Bob Mobley, who is alive and well in San Francisco. Charlie Peet writes, "My wife Penny and I and our two daughters, Alisa (13) and Amanda (11), have just returned to New York City after living in London for the last four years, where I established the London offices of our New York based law firm. While in London we were visited by classmates Andy and Carol Kner and Lars and Marit Kulleseid, saw a troupe of traveling players that included classmate Jay and Judy Inglis, and bought a used car from classmate Joe Vittoria while he was still head of Hertz Europe. We had the good fortune to be able to travel a reasonable amount and were surprised to run into classmate Mike and Bryna Sweedler on the Rialto in Venice. It was an interesting and pleasant experience living aboard for a few years and we are not at all sure that we wouldn't have preferred to stay a few more years."

While Peet travels, Jack Pendergast stays at home. "I am still practicing labor law at Hinckley & Allen in Providence, where I've been since getting out of Yale Law School in 1960. Unfortunately, my connections with Yale in recent years have paled compared to those with Harvard. My two oldest sons, John and Tim, graduated from Harvard in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and both made, for me, somewhat embarrassing contributions to the Harvard athletic program. John played on the football team and Tim was captain of the lacrosse team. As I write this I am looking forward with eagerness to rooting for Yale for the first time in six years. My other four children are in various stages of completing their high school and/or college careers. Terry, the next oldest, is about to enter the Coast Guard. Mary is a sophomore and keeps us company in what is now a rather deserted home."

Finally, I am saddened to report that Gil Hemsley died of cancer September 4, 1983 in New York. He was production supervisor and lighting director of the New York City Opera and designed lighting for dozens of major opera, ballet, theater and television productions. He acted as the production manager for Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 1971, the United States tour of the Performing Arts Company of the People's Republic of China in 1978, and gala inaugural celebrations for Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter. The New York City Opera has set up a Memorial Internship in his name and the University of Wisconsin has set up a memorial for him also. He is survived by his mother Dorothy M. Hemsley, 68 Wethersfield Ave., Apt. 12, Hartford, Conn. 06114, two brothers and a sister.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.