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Notes: December 1985
Notes: November 1985
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Notes: June 1985
Notes: May 1985
Notes: April 1985
Notes: March 1985
Notes: February 1985

Notes: December 1985

Now look guys, I don't want to complain but... (I like to get you interested--what is it that you know I'm going to complain about?) Something has to improve--either your writing or my eyesight. I can't read those wonderful notes you scrawl on the class dues notices. And, since your writing and my eyesight are both going downhill, I think I will complain... even though I don't want to.

What I have managed to reconstruct is: Don Backe is the new headmaster of the Cynthia Warner School in Takoma Park, MD. Carl Becker was elected President of the American Association of Pathologists. Oldest daughter Katherine graduated from Kenyon in May; Jennifer and Christopher are at Cornell. Dana Bray's oldest son Andrew graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, and is employed in Baltimore. Says Dana, "my breeding farm for champions and the rest of the family is enjoying good health." (English majors are invited to keep all comments to themselves!) Dick Brown has no children's graduation to report. However, he will graduate in May from University of Southern Florida with a certificate to teach high school math.

Rod Correll remains at Yale following graduation from the MPPM program at the School of Organization Management. (Rod assumes perfect knowledge in all of us, so I cannot tell you what those letters stand for.) He is program director of a newly–formed Yale program for the study of family firms and a teaching fellow in organizational behavior. He would welcome any information on family firms and how they tick. Joe Clayton speaks not of graduation--at least for a few years. Children Thomas and Katherine are in the Class of 1989 and are nationally ranked squash players.

Charles Carpenter has moved to Bridgewater, N.J. from Milwaukee. Jack Ferguson is "now firmly in the saddle in Austin, Tex., after a half century in the East and loves it." I think I will call this the "graduation issue," because Connie Fisher also has one daughter--Elizabeth, from New England School of Law. She is now practicing in Worcester, Mass. Son Charles is at Tulane. Tony Frayne has formed a new law partnership, Livesey, Roche & Frayne in Philadelphia. Tad Girdler, unable to resist the urge to rub it in, writes, "I have been retired for a year now, and would guess that I am finally near the top of the Class in something! Still see Chris Sonne from time to time, and I enjoyed working with Ted Jones and Tony Bingham on the phone-a-thon last spring."

Bob Healy married Josephine O'Brien Remick last March thus acquiring four more children in addition to his two. Bill Keen's son recently announced his engagement. Bill enumerates his military vehicle collection of jeeps and trucks in his letter, but space limitations and concern for the reader prohibits me from going any further. He is looking for a Reo M-34 2½ ton truck, if anyone can help. Check Kerr was elected a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in May 1984. He was recently divorced.

Mike Kohler has four sons, who 1) recently became vice president of a Chicago computer firm (Jeff -26); 2) is third year Duke Medical School (Matt--24); 3) graduated from University of the South (Andrew--22), and is an eagle scout (Stephen--13). Nice collection. After 28 years, three months and 23 days, John Miller carried out his decision not to make the Marine Corps a career and retired October 1st from active duty to become managing editor of U.S. Naval Proceedings in Annapolis. (Do they have a class notes section?). His book on the light cruiser Houston, which I have mentioned in past columns, is doing well in sales and reviews.

Frank Muggia is starting a few months sabbatical next month at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Sydney, Australia. Dick Munn plans to marry Holley Eaton this month. She brings two grown children to Dick's three. Dick's oldest is getting a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan. Dick is with The Ledgeway Group, a market research and consulting firm in the information systems industry. He was recently divorced.

Mike O'Hearn has a graduate also, Jenny from Brown, who is now working for HBO in New York. Son Charlie is at Yale and Jeff is teaching school in D.C. Tom Perkins continues to serve with Tim Childs on the Yale Development Board. Son Rob should be his second child to graduate from Yale this June. Tom was recently appointed president of the Baltimore City Jail Board, "the largest hotel in Baltimore." Tom invites classmates to drop in. Don Rife moved to Florida in October from Virginia. Sounds good to me.

Rex Robbins is running around putting on plays, commercials and movies. He toured Noises Off last summer and worked on Philip Barry's Parts Bound for the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. Reed Rubin claims "it gets better every year." (I've never been censored yet, so we'll leave that right there.) John Ryan has an enterer rather than a graduate, a son at UVa.

I regret to report that Vince DeMen died of lung cancer on April 21, 1985. He is survived by his wife Mary Lou and four children. He lived at 10 Schoolhouse Lane, Syosset, N.Y. 11791. More news later from you end-of-the-alphabetters, but I am told that I don't have the space I richly deserve.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: November 1985

Business before pleasure, age before beauty and pearls before swine (no insult intended--just idle musing). Reunion shall come in the spring of 1987. The summer poll of fall versus spring produced no clear winner. (I am through, I promise.) According to Howie Gillis 253 responses split almost evenly. The Class Council decided on the May 1987 date. Almost all responses said that they would attend and if even two-thirds mean it, we will have the biggest 30th ever. For Yale-Harvard on November 23, definitely a post-game reception at Coxe Cage, and possibly more, but nothing set at this writing.

Jon Breslav writes, "Since I will turn 50 shortly, will have been married 20 years in August, my daughter has graduated from high school and my son has graduated from lower school. I thought that these rationalizations were enough to have us take the "Petite Tour" of Europe this summer. The highlight of the trip was a dinner in Zurich with Quince and Carolyn Hunsicker and two of their three children. Their son John is at the unmentionable school located on the Charles River and their daughter will finish high school this year after which she is leaning towards Stanford. My daughter will be attending Rollins College this fall and my son Gordon enters seventh grade at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale. My wife Diana continues to teach 11th grade English and I am now in my 27th year in the automobile leasing business, the past five of which have been with Avis in Miami."

I would say that Charles Grimes had sharp eyes to locate Ken Sharp's name at the bottom of a Wall Street Journal article. However, he sent the article to Sandy Clark for inclusion in these notes and I happen to know that Sandy is no longer Class Secretary. The article had Ken presiding over a suit brought by a 60-year-old Florida bishop against the Navy. The bishop suffered a knee injury while playing tennis at a Navy base. The bishop had to give up tennis and has trouble genuflecting. The Navy is countersuing for tennis court fees and the ball is definitely in Ken's court! Respond quickly to Rod Correll's dues notice and we shall have a column next month.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: October 1985

Welcome back you avid readers. I hope your summers went well, your lawns got cut, your leaves got raked, your screen doors got put in or taken out or whatever. (Living in New York City we don't know too much about these things). By now you should have been alerted to our upcoming 30th Reunion. Howie Gillis polled the Class as to whether we meet next fall or next spring and results will be revealed next issue. Meanwhile mark April 17th, 1986 down for the Class Dinner in New York.

Last year's Class Dinner was smashing with over 50 in attendance. It being 6 months old, that's all I have to say about it. (I mean, how long am I expected to keep notes written on a napkin!)

Phil Clover moved from G.E. in Virginia to ITT in New Jersey, where he is group controller for the Fluid Products Group-Worldwide. Dede, Phil and three sons now reside in Ridgewood, N.J. Jack Curlett is now located in Winston-Salem, N.C. as president of Spectra Corporation, a small company that imprints fabrics and metals. In December 1984 he married Anne Taylor and picked up two teenagers to go with his two daughters, the latter of whom is a sophomore at Brown. (You have to pack s lot of facts into one sentence in these columns.) Dr. Wade Covill moved from Montana to Guam where he is now practicing.

Closer to home, Dr. Jim Fischer, the Robert E. Hunter Professor and Chairman of the Department of Therapeutic Radiology, has been elected to the board of trustees of Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Medical School and Harvard's Graduate school of Arts and Sciences. Carl Myrus has been named administrator of the research and development department of Niagara Mohawk Power. Before that he had been nuclear training director and corporate architect. "Wife Shirley has always been great but is getting better, son Whitney is at Tabor Academy and daughter Amanda is at Elmire College." Ed Sherako has been appointed an officer of the Employee Benefits and Health Care Group of CIGNA. Psi Simons spent last June rafting and trekking in the Andes Mountains of Peru with sons Peter '82 and Kiff. They shot the rapids of the Urubama River, crossed 14,000 feet passes and ended up in Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas. You will know that Psi is a history teacher - 23 years at Punahoe School in Honolulu--when I quote him that Machu Picchu was first discovered by Yale Professor Hiram Bingham in 1911 and Punahoe School was founded by Hiram Bingham's grandfather in 1841.

A note from Timmi Smallens reports that Alex has been retired since 1978 with multiple sclerosis, daughter Meredith was Yale '84 and son Sandy is Yale ''87. Sandy continues the family music tradition, carried on by Alex at WYBC in our era, with a band "Beauty Constant," which has played extensively at Yale and in New Haven, etc.

Pete Smith, President of American National Bank in Brunswick, GA, has had two daughters graduate from Georgia, the older of whom is married and works for Xerox in Dallas. His son, also married, graduated from the Naval Academy ("Thanks you fellow taxpayers," says Pete) and is stationed aboard our newest nuclear attack submarine in New London. Pete sounds like a PR man for his state, having been a Georgian with wife Nancy for 25 years. Classmates vacationing at Sea Island or nearby are invited to call.

One of the nicest things about being your amanuensis (take that, English 25), is receiving letters such as the one from Joe Vittoria, President of Avis. Hertz dropped its $25 million lawsuit involving him last spring. Joe, Jr. graduated from Yale last year and is working at Salomon Brothers. Part of the money saved on that and the lawsuit is being used to put daughter Audrey through Georgetown. At a party in May thrown by wife Luciana, partially in honor of that unmentionable birthday, Lars Kulleseid, Vin Marchesi and Ray Lomontagne showed up to Joe's delight.

Jim Banner wrote me that Berkeley Tompkins died in Florida on April 15, 1985. He is survived by his wife Cynthia, 3700 Rosser St., Apt. 102, Alexandria, VA 22311, and three children from a former marriage.

Berk was an historian and, among other things, had taught at Stanford University and been director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a division of the National Archives. In recent years, he has been in the securities business in Florida. The family asks that any gifts in Berk's memory be made to the Tompkins Fellowship Fund, Episcopal Academy, 376 North Latches Lane, Merion, PA 19606.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: June 1985

Mostly clippings from newspapers and old press releases--a sad way to start a column and end a year. If the editors gave me more time, I could report on all the hot news I picked up at our Class Dinner in April at the Yale Club. But, just as I am in suspense now, so shall you be until next October. Have a wonderful summer and report in all your triumphs between now and then.

Bud Trillin's new book was favorably reviewed in The New York Times by Art Buchwald, but I am not going to plug it here until I receive my complimentary copy. As a matter of fact, I am still waiting for Bud's last three books, but he seems to be very successful even without my help. Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart is also making its appearance in the newspaper, and should be playing to standing room only by now. Woody Carlisle has moved from Mishawaka, IN to Willoughby, OH in order to become treasurer of Figgie International. Gary Cann has joined Grain Processing Corporation as a market research analyst in Muscatine, IA. (sometimes we New Yorkers get jealous of town names). Colin Jensen, sending "greetings from the depressed mid-West:" also sent a clipping of Rob Corry leading a 14-man surgical team performing the first liver transplant in Iowa. Colin also talked to Chuck Kerr in Tucson and Ted Frembgen in Santa Ana, CA. Ted has taken a job managing a company manufacturing propane burners. Wayne Moeller has moved to Omaha, but he'll have to tell me what he is doing himself as Colin didn't. Katrina King, alias "Pete", reports that husband Drum King completed the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon World Championship last fall in a most respectable 293rd place. He is age 49, and Pete needlessly asks if this feat is a first for our Class. Are you kidding? Bob Mobley, headquartered in San Francisco, helps corporate executives tell and sell their services and themselves with greater effectiveness and credibility.

As you all can tell from this column, I can't be improved upon. George Vojta has been elected to the board of trustees of Sarah Lawrence College. I think he has a book out that I recently read about, but the same thing goes for him as for Bud. I mean there has to be some reward for doing this column.

Until October...

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: May 1985

Life tends to come at you all at once. Ten years ago, when I thought I was young, my oldest son Randy started at Exeter and I turned 40. This month, my youngest daughter Lynn '85, graduates from Yale and we all know what is happening to us in the age category. The good news--no more educational expenses, the bad news--someone counts the pages of class notes on either side of us. I bet we're in the front half. The above musing comes to you because of a lack of news. If I don't hear from you, you have to hear from me. (How's that for an incentive?)

What I do know is that Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart was featured in New York Magazine as "slamming City Hall" for inaction over the AIDS epidemic. The play is in rehearsal as I write this and is due to open at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Pete Williams reports, in order, divorced in April 1983, still working at Norden Systems Division of United Technologies as Projects Engineer, Avionics Systems; college instructor and children: Susan, a model in New York, Peter working for Champion International in Boston, and Timothy at Bucknell. John Herrmann has taken some of his ill-gotten gains (all gains, except mine, are "ill-gotten") from the sale of Lehman Brothers and purchased a house on 32 acres in Washington, CT. And while I refuse to admit that such things are news, Sandy Clark plans to attend Blackie Chapman's 50th birthday party.

Finally, I am saddened to inform the Class of the death of Mark Blood on December 21, 1984. He is survived by his wife Priscilla and two sons, who can be reached at Lowell Road, Groton, MA 04150.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: April 1985

It is easy to be terminally disorganized. There has to be a system for getting these class notes out on time, but I have not yet discovered it. Missing deadlines, losing your prolific correspondence--(yes, children, you have been good this year)--or just plain messing up--as I said, it's not easy. But, enough of that--on with the show.

Final reminder--Class Dinner at the Yale Club in New York on April 22. If this is the first you hear of it, you will have the right to just show up and yell at Sandy Clark or me, but everyone should plan to attend.

Bruce Arneill is President of the Hartford architectural firm of Stecker, LaBau Arneill Architects. His building is next to the Hartford Civic Center and if the roof blows off again, Bruce is ready. Don Backe is interim principal at Rutgers Prep's lower division. He is seeking to move to Baltimore--DC this year. (You get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I suppose you get to Washington by running?) Terry Carlisle is completing his 25th year as a swimming coach, the last five at the University of Tennessee. Don Edelstein works for the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel, lives in Jerusalem, and is computerizing his organization's membership list of 17,000, representing over 60,000 Americans and Canadians in Israel.

Ray Ellison sent me a copy of a single-spaced, three-page letter detailing the doings of his family and of his TD roommates Phil Hepner, Bob Beaney, Dick Hall, Denis McWhan and Joe Robinson. If I have cracked the code correctly, they all gathered with their families at New Haven last fall. According to Ray, who has got to be a candidate to write this column some day, Phil and Chloe Hepner live in a grand old house in Suffield, CT. Phil is in the nuclear power business and Chloe wholesales needlework supplies. Son Rob is in prep school in Massachusetts. Bob Beaney works for the telephone company in Philadelphia and dabbles in the local Wallingford theater scene. Wife, Gayle teaches nursery school and their three daughters are all doing well. The oldest Linda, is out of school, Nancy is a freshman at Conn College and is on a sabbatical to Alaska, Jill, a senior at high school, is on an exchange program to Australia.

Ray Ellison is still with the family firm, helped out by wife Anne. Daughter Laura is a sophomore at Tufts, daughter Stephanie a senior at Loomis-Chaffee, and son Phillip a freshman at Delbarton School in New Jersey. Ray recently moved from Short Hills, N.J. to Mendham. Dick Hall is a personnel manager for Bell Atlantic. (I think that's where Bob Beaney works, too, but if you weren't paying attention above, you won't notice how beautifully I fudged it). Wife Lynn, a singer, works at the printing department of the University of Maryland. Oldest, Debbie works for Coopers-Lybrand as a CPA, Dave at Virginia Tech, Dan at VMI and Don and Dennis still at school. (Anyone notice what Dick did deliberately? Don't divulge.)

Denis McWhan is still working at Bell Labs in New Jersey while wife Callie teaches history at Kent Place School. Their two girls, Susan and Jeanette, are at Smith and Bates. Son David is in high school. Joe Robinson has left Exxon to become a professor at the engineering school of Morris County College in New Jersey. Wife Kathryn is working on a degree in health and biology, son Joe is an architect and daughter Sabrina is in the management program at Ohrbach's in New York. Thank you, Ray.

Jerry Farnum works for the Fidenas banking group in Switzerland and is President of the American Club of Zurich. He reports that the Class of '57 has taken over the American community there, with Quince Hunsicker President of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Quince is with Baker McKinsey. Peter Hare has just published his first non-philosophical book, A Woman's Quest for Science: portrait of Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons. John Herrmann wrote on his dues notice that "Guggs knows all" which is significantly more credit than any of my Yale professors ever gave me. I do know that John is a managing director of Shearson Lehman Brothers in the merger and acquisition area. Wife Anne has her hands full with their two young sons. Lawrence Herrman is closing his criminal defense law office in New York and is entering a partnership with David Skolnick and John Resnik in New Haven. Wife Eleanor is an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing.

Virgil Highland is finishing a three-year term as Chairman of the Physics Department at Temple. He has been spending a lot of time on research at Los Alamos, NM, where he will spend part of his upcoming sabbatical. A lengthy dues note from Bob Hewett in Munich has him working at the American Consulate General there. Oldest daughter Deborah is married and is in charge of computer purchasing for the University of Virginia. Other daughter is a specialist 4th class with the Army in Germany and repairs fire control systems for the Cobra gun-ships of the 501st Aviation Battalion (combat). (If any of this is classified information, I am in deep trouble.) Bob's son Christopher is in school in Munich. Bob invites anyone in the area to drop in.

Paul Hull has served for two years as Chairman of the ob/gyn department at St. Mary's Medical center in Long Beach, CA. Wife Pamela is an interior designer, daughter Geraldine a student at Penn, and son Robert a student at Andover. Jerry Johnson has moved back to the Houston headquarters of Shell Oil where he is manager of concepts and designs in the retail department. Both sons are career-bound, Jerry working for the Resco Division of Signals Co. and Scott graduation from college this spring. Ian Jones left engineering management in 1979 to start his own financial planning firm catering to high income professionals. Ian has been admitted to the "Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners." Len Katz continues as Professor of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo and has recently become Associate Medical Director for a rapidly-growing HMO, Health Care Plan.

Mike Kohler's news is of the activities of his four sons: Jeff a vice president of a computer software firm in Chicago, Matthew '83, in his second year at Duke Medical School, Andrew a senior at University of the South, and Stephen, age 12, aspiring to Yale. Jay Kuhn "was delighted to see Charlie Grimes and Reed Rubin at Toby Briggs's son's wedding. Toby hasn't changed a bit." (I occasionally allow this column to be used for flattering remarks.) Ted Meyer has moved to Columbus to manage the office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, an eminent Cleveland law firm. Phil Pillsbury has returned to the U.S. after four year in Turin, Italy and four in Buenos Aires. He is currently a student at the National War College at Fort McNair in DC, and finds it "very hard to crack the books again." Phil's next assignment with USIA should be in DC for the next four years.

That's all folks.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: March 1985

Class Dinner, Yale Club of New York, Monday, April 22, and as at the Yale of our time, attendance will be taken and is mandatory. Details to follow. News from dues--Pete Bouscaren has joined a commercial leasing firm in Norfolk, VA, and is responsible for leasing Lafayette Place in Boston and Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove, N.Y. He lives in Baltimore, "but only on weekends." Kim Cheney is practicing law in Montpelier, VT. Wife Dorothy is a prize-winning documentary film-maker who has completed a film on Kim and son aired on Sesame Street, and is working on a film in the Soviet Union about children's art. Tim Childs needs a whole column for this accomplishments, but, distilled, he is on the Yale Development Board, lectures on diplomatic history at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is a trustee of two mid-east colleges, has done a number of book reviews, has given talks at the Smithsonian and is an officer of the Council of Friends of the Folger Shakespeare Library. (Any English major who complains about "distilled" in the previous sentence will never be mentioned in this column again.)

Walt Copeland sold the family gas business in Florida, but plans to "get something going" shortly. Some of the money must be going for son Brett, who is in his 4th year of U. Va. School of Architecture and plans to move on to law school. Sons Walter and Scot are in high school. Dan Cornwell's daughter is good friends with his ex-roommate, Tom Bitting's son at Yale. Don Bab and Bob Mobley's children also met this summer. (Don may have told me "dated," but I err on the side of caution). Lou Deluca is cutting wood, chasing 3-year-old son Sam, and lobbying for the arts. April and he are in good health and loving parenthood. Bill Everett having completed his fourth university degree--MBA from RPI--has opted for the other side of the blackboard and is teaching computers in the law at University of New Haven. Days are still spent at Electric Boat.

Jerome Farnum reports that "the 1984 Whiffenpoofs recently visited Zurich as part of their post graduation road show. Quincy Hunsicker laid on a garden party cocktail hour(s) for all the Yalies (and would-like-to-have-been Yalies) in the area." Lou Franzoni is currently with Northside Realty in Atlanta, GA (residential and commercial). His wife, Janet Brenner, is a psychologist and associate professor at Georgia State. They are now referred to as "damn Yankees," i.e., those who come South and stay. Four of their five children are now married, including daughter Linda '80, to son-in-law Steve Peretti '79. They live in Pasadena, CA with two sons and a daughter.

Fred Guggenheim was married in November to Olivia Rogers Alderson, and amongst all the 50th birthdays and grandchildren he is much to be commended. He is a psychiatrist in Dallas, has just published a book, is head of a consulting service at Southwestern Medical School, and is medical director of an alcohol and substance abuse hospital. Mike O'Hearn sent me a clipping from the Yale Daily News selecting Ken Sharp's daughter Kendal as Budweiser Athlete of the week for her work in T.D. athletics. Mike missed the first winner, one Lynn Guggenheimer, selected three weeks earlier for her Davenport touch football ability.

Bill Hawthorne reports that son Michael has followed in his footsteps as a resident of T.D. Garson Heller writes on his family, "Daughter Julie at Yale, son David at St. Lawrence--spending a semester aboard at Nansan University in Nagoya, Japan. Son Grant plans to get married in 1985. Wife Velma appointed principal, continuing education--Westport, CT, and invites all in area to enroll in her exciting adult ed program at Staples High School. (P.S. I am fine)." John Hughes is still a surgeon serving the Navy until next year. He published a research project on effects of alcohol on skin blood flow, and continues on the faculty at the University of Arizona and Univ. of Cal. at Irvine. "Variety has been the spice of the last few years," he says.

Keith McEligot, nearing 50, claims to feel no older than 75. (No letters from mathematicians on this item, as the earlier threat still applies.) John Miller expects his naval book reported on in an earlier issue will be published next month. Rev. Bob Pelton was elected director-general of the Priests of Madonna House in Canada, following the death of Father John Callahan, who had been director-general for 32 years. "A great personal loss and a big new responsibility, but the Lord has increased my faith." Frank Mongillo gave a smashing class party at his house across from the Bowl before and after the Princeton game. (The game was pretty smashing too.) Enjoyed by the attendees, it will be repeated next year at the Harvard game. Carol, wife of Millard Prisant, fearing her husband's diffidence, sent me a clipping on son Barden's computer service which lists 50,000 artists and 600,000 prices and for a few will tell you what your comparable painting is worth. He has been featured in newspapers, magazines and T.V. (Now why didn't I think of that?)

Don Rife has given up the cold winters of Vermont for the year-around boating of Chesapeake Bay. He has also joined a large group practice of child and adolescent psychiatry, and reports both changes are for the better. Rex Robbins is still "hacking away" in the acting racket. Curt Ryan with his Masters degree in psychology continues to work as a counselor in an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program in Florida. John Ryan's new business and family are both doing well, but he plans to bring only the former public. Johannes Somary, inter alia, has been chosen to head the choral department of the Madeira Bach Festival in June.

J.D. Watson's company, Harbor Homes, is "probably the largest builder of single family homes in Baltimore," according to an article forwarded to me. Other quotes are "quality" (the house) and "tall, lanky and amiable" (J.D.). Bob Weinmann is still doctoring up a storm in California with more accomplishments, awards and publications than this column can handle. Congratulations. Phil Weymouth is an outspoken supporter of Yale in its handling of the strike, but I hope it is ancient history by the time you all read this and his prose while printable is not calculated to advance friendly negotiations. Norton Wright, of Studio City, CA, is at Comworld Productions writing and developing T.V. series. He is still running and did a 10K run in 44.30. Is this good? Son Robert is applying to Yale.

See you next month.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: February 1985

Just as I was ripping some of the remaining hairs out, cursing the silent generation, (or lack of generation?) a package of dues news appears. Rod Correll took all the checks out, but I am happy nonetheless.

Temby Argall has returned to his old home town of Taconic, CT, where he is close to his three children by a former marriage and has two new affiliations; new wife, Ollie Gignoux and new job on the staff of Sharon Hospital. Tony Bingham has published his first novel, The Dawnwatchers, which "takes place in 2004 when new human capacities are threatened by extinction by world government." The book took five years of spare time while he was president of an independent energy company and was helping to raise three teenagers. Available from Tony at 8 Ullman Terrace, Monnsey, N.Y. 10952. Pierre Bourquin reports that daughter Collette is enjoying her second year at Dartmouth. (We Yale fathers had a better time on parents weekend when Yale beat Dartmouth in football). Dana Bray is still active in the oil business and thoroughbred racing. He has three sons in college and a daughter soon to attend, plays tennis four or five times a week and the horses the rest of the time. He saw Jim Brady at Saratoga this summer. (Some people just do it better than the rest of us.) Scott Cannell writes that his wife died May 9 "after a courageous four-year battle with cancer, She lived life fully, with grace and dignity, right to the end, and left our two young sons a rich, loving experience to last them a lifetime." Our sympathies to you and your family.

Sandy Clark's firm has formed a new joint venture in Chicago called Clark/Ladd--a full-service direct response agency. For the last three years Ed Cook has served as President of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. Demonstrating the value of a Yale liberal education, Ed successfully directed the campaign in Oklahoma making the state the last one to gain an open saloon law. Mike Cooke became an American citizen in July and has a new book coming from Yale: Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy. The sub-title, according to Mike, is to snare the unwary--it's not racy at all. John Copelin is a partner at William A. Hall, architecture and planning. Jack Ferguson has moved to Austin, TX. after 22 years in Princeton. He has joined the Technical Staff at MCC.

Kibbe Fitzpatrick reports that wife Merrill Ashley, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, has published her autobiography, Dancing for Balanchine. (This is a new book month for the Class. I haven't written anything except this column, which like virtue, is its own reward.) Sue, wife of Mike Gaskin, did the honors on the dues notice and tells us that they are enjoying Michigan life, especially sailing; have three children in Michigan colleges with two teen-aged sons still at home; and enjoyed a visit from Chet Chester best man at their 1957 wedding, who looks the same, as do the Gaskins! A big year for Peter Greer--both daughters married. Before paying the bills he went cruising in New England. Larry Kramer hasn't written a book, but Joseph Papp will produce Larry's play about the AIDS epidemic, The Normal Heart, at New York's public theater this winter. It's the first gay play he has done, and he has commissioned a second play from Larry. Frank Lin is now teaching computer science at Western Connecticut State University at Danbury. Stephen Jackson is in his thirteenth year with Bahai National Center in Illinois and was recently elected Trustee of the Village of Deerfield.

Dave Mininberg did a bang-up job last year on behalf of the Alumni Fund. Our class raised $104,945, which was 123% of our assigned quota with 42% participation. (By now I am sure we're ahead of last year's pace.) Dick Moneymaker is still practicing bankruptcy law in L.A., has two sons at U.C.L.A., two daughters at high school, and enjoyed the Olympics last summer, including meeting Prince Philip and Princess Anne at the British Olympics Association cocktail party. Frank and Nancy Mongillo graciously hosted our class at the Yale-Princeton game, or at least they should have by the time you read this. More next issue.

Ben Moore writes: "I have bumped into a few of '57's own here at Martha's Vineyard during the past summer: Ned Morris, Temby Argall, and Dick Voigt, Pete Williams, and Lyman Drake of Eli's Chosen Six whom I lured here to do a jazz fund raiser for Martha's Vineyard Community Services of which my wife Paddy is the executive director. The concert was a great success. High point of the summer and indeed the past several years was doing the EST 6-day training, shared with my family. It was extraordinary for each of us individually and as a family. Anyone who is curious, give me a call."

Dr. Franco Muggia concedes life is good since two of four daughters graduated in June and neither is headed for graduate school, his Apple II Plus works, and he's thinking of a sabbatical in May 1986 to attend Yale Med School. I reported on Buell Neidlinger's music activity in October, but did I mention he was nominated for two Grammy awards? Guy Palmer recently became director of Internal Asset management for G.M. Pension Fund in New York. Bill Reimann, updating us on his sculpting activities, completed commissions in Atlanta and Richmond earlier this year and he and wife Helen were in Italy this summer. Son Christopher, a senior at Occidental, spent the summer in Zimbabwe with Operation Crossroads Africa. Bill is presently rowing with the Cambridge Boat Club with Fernando Alvarez deToledo. Bob Rosefsky won an Emmy for best instructional series for his college telecourse "Personal Finance.:" His book, same name, is now available in its third edition. In celebration of their 25th, he and Linda Sue took an eight-week around-the-world odyssey, including London to Hong Kong by train. (I am now no longer jealous of Dana Bray!) George Vojta joined Bankers Trust last spring as Executive Vice President in charge of strategic planning. Prior associations include Citibank, Phibro-Salomon and Deak & Company. Carter Volz is living on a 120-acre farm in Far Hills, N.J. with enough animals to defy listing. He is moving back to work, overcoming adult brain damage, and he and we are delighted. A book is in the offering. (Naturally!)

Tad Girdler sent me a copy of a letter he had sent to Bill Wrean discussing the first recipient of the Don K. Walker Scholarship. His name is Ardel McKenna, a junior who plays linebacker on the varsity football team. Tad has retired from the business world and as of this summer had managed to avoid consulting, etc, in favor of sleeping, fishing, and gardening. George White, president and founder of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, was honored by Sweden in appreciation for his contributions to theatrical exchanges. He also was featured in the New York Times, but I lost the clipping and this is all the mention he gets, unless he sends it to me. Brayton Wilbur received the Yale Music Department's certificate of Merit as President of the San Francisco Symphony Board. Doug Wright was elected a Senior Vice President of Hammermill Paper Company. And I have nothing more to say for another month.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.