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Notes: December 1986
Notes: November 1986
Notes: October 1986
Notes: June 1986
Notes: May 1986
Notes: April 1986
Notes: March 1986
Notes: February 1986

Notes: December 1986

I never took Daily Themes at Yale, but I think I have found out how it feels to sit in front of a blank piece of paper, have a deadline approaching and have no exciting thoughts to thrill the reader. I could write about me, but I am forced to admit that even though I find me interesting, there are darn few of me around that agree with me. (By the way, did anyone notice the "Harvard comma" in the first sentence?)

All this to let you know that not one of our 900-odd (?) classmates has done anything since last month. But, I still have our 30th Reunion to interest you with. (I refuse to re-write that sentence correctly!) The date, May 28-31, 1987. In addition, we have a full schedule of events planned for the year. Some of these have already occurred--the Special Gifts mini-reunion weekend in New Haven in October and the football get-togethers last month. On the schedule are a series of cocktail parties around the country--Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, New York (I haven't told Jane who will be hostessing that one but she'll find out soon enough), Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington. The weekend in New Haven featured our first meeting with Benno Schmidt, Yale's second president to be younger than we, and dinner at Commons. Present were: Pierre Bourquin, Frank Brown, Don Bab, Sam Chauncey, Tim Childs, Tom Chittenden, Warren Clein, Rod Correll, Bern Kosto, Marvin Cox, Ellsworth Davis, Art Diefendorf, Lyman Drake, Pete Fritzsche, Howie Gillis, Randy Guggenheimer, Dick Hall, John Halpern, Steven Hopkins, Ted Jones, Phil Lynch, Dick Massey, Gil Merritt, Dave Minniberg, Frank Mongillo, Mike O'Hearn, Ruben Shapiro, Mike Sweedler, Bud Trillin, Charlie Trippe and Steve Wittenberg. Wives and friends were also present, but the only one who gets mentioned is Sara Davis who insists on knowing if she still has the class baby? - born in October 1985. Happy holidays to all, and don't forget to write.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: November 1986

Is it too late to talk of mid-life crisis? Shall we discuss economics, politics, women's lib, drugs, or other macro subjects? Well, whatever we choose, it will be at Berkeley College on May 28-31, 1987, it will be fun and informative, and it will be our 30th Reunion, Sandy Clark and Howie Gillis, our Chairmen, have been planning and plotting and if all goes according to schedule, mailing #1 is already in your hands. (If it is not, we many have a few openings at the top that have just become available!) Special Gifts Chairman Rod Correll has already converted all of those lists he has labored over into warm people and cold cash. What will make a great Reunion greater is having all of us show up, so plan to be there.

We have had and will have a number of pre-reunion gatherings, the first of which was the October 11, 1986 weekend at Yale. Also planned is a class dinner following the Princeton game in New Haven, a cocktail party following the Harvard game in Boson and our class dinner in New York next April. A special gift (did someone say "special gift?") to anyone who attends them all.

Art Diefendorf informed me that Tom Perkin's son Rob '86 was killed last August in an automobile accident in Colorado. A memorial service in Baltimore was attended by many of our classmates.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: October 1986

Thirty-three years ago we were freshman at Yale, 32 years ago "nothing happened," claimed Bud Trillin, but 30 years ago--next June--we graduated. Therefore we shall reune next May, and I am sure everything is in high gear for a great weekend.

I see no reason why my news is not as interesting as yours, so... last spring Jane and I traveled to the Far East for the first time, visiting Japan, China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, India, and Nepal. It was fabulous. Pictures are available on request. In August older son Randy got married and son Steven intends to in December. (There--I'm through for the year). Charlie Ard is Director of Marketing for E.F. Johnson, an electronics company in Waseco, Minn. Jim Banner is Director of Publications and Communications for Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. Al Boasberg is a lawyer in San Francisco. John Budd is manager of business planning and administration of the Solid State Electronics Division of Honeywell in Colorado. Rod Correll has moved to Johnstown, N.Y., where he has opened his own firm specializing in advising entrepreneurs. Kibbe Fitzpatrick works at the U.N. as a simultaneous interpreter in the Department of Conference Services.

Phil Levine may or may not need an interpreter as he teaches English at Macquarie University in Australia. John Fistere is a consulting engineer at Solar Turbines, Inc. in California. Arthur Gibb reports that son Arthur II is a freshman at the U.S. Bulk Atmospheric, Gas Sales in Dallas. (I think I shall not make any clever comments.) John Halpern is President of Hartz Associates, real estate developers and brokers in New York.

Richard Hanks is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young and is also president of his own company. John Joh is a captain for Delta Airlines, headquartered in Atlanta. When last heard from in May, Ted Jones was running for Republican State Central Committeeman in Ohio. His daughter Winnie rowed on the Yale J.V. crew and on one of her outings he visited with Ed Meyer's son Tory, captain of the men's crew. Richard Lamb is in private practice of internal medicine and is also a clinical instructor at U.A.B. School in Medicine in Birmingham.

Stu Lewis, president of an optical firm, has been elected as director of the Connecticut Society to Prevent Blindness. Bob MacKinnon continues as a partner of Shearman & Sterling in New York. Don McDonald is Vice President and Senior Counsel to Anheuser-Busch. (Having him in the Class guarantees a successful Reunion!) Frank Muggia had the good sense to move last month from Larchmont, N.Y. to become a professor of medicine at U.S.C. in Los Angeles. Mark Reed has been appointed Lineberger Professor of Humanities at North Carolina. He has been on the UNC faculty since 1963 and specializes in Romantic poetry and 18th and 19th century literature. He has published many books and articles including a number on the works of Wordsworth.

Psi Simons took early retirement last June after teaching for 23 years at Punahou School in Honolulu. Over the summer he taught American Studies at Wuhan University in China and then went to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to study language and do some tutoring of English. He planned also to do some trekking in Nepal and Tibet, and next summer plans to trek with his sons in Tanzania and to climb Kilimanjaro. (If that's retirement, I'll stay on the job!) I am sorry to report that Phil Lottinville passed away on May 8, 1986. He is survived by his sister Mrs. Barbara Damon of Alton, Ill.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: June 1986

Four down one to go--meaning years of being your amanuensis. (Anyone who has to look up "amanuensis" must return to English 15, and anyone who doesn't know, but is too lazy to look it up, must return to History 10.) No complaints, though--I've enjoyed it immensely. Bert Bradford continues as an agent for New York Life in Clemmons, N.C., and is president-elect of Winston-Salem Association of Life Underwriters and a member of Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce. Dave Johnson claims I listed daughter Jessica as a Yale attendee but not daughter Elizabeth. Somebody else culpa. Peter Green has built and moved into his dream house in Frisco, Tex., with a great view of Lake Lewisville. Jay Inglis's daughter Sarah was admitted to Yale, as I hope, were many others. Ted Jones is campaigning for Republican State Committeeman in Ohio's 11th Congressional District. A springboard, no doubt, to the White House.)

Ken Jones has asked me what an "Advest" is? a) It is a Hartford-based brokerage-investment banking firm, and b) I run the New York corporate finance office. (I know it's a plug, but he really asked...) Phil Lottinville claims to have been mislaid by Yale but Tony Marshall found him working at Harper-Lawrence real estate in New York. Dick Munn married Holley Eaton in December attended by his son and her daughter. Their honeymoon spread out to California in the fall, Vermont in the winter, and recently St. Maartin. They live in Wellesley Hills, Mass., she a researcher in a hospital, he a consultant in the information systems industry. Daughter Tracy is a Michigan clinical psychology doctorate candidate, son David works with Dick and daughter Julie works in the Vermont Academy Admission office.

Jack Poinier has moved to A.G. Edwards in Seattle. Wife Alice back from a trip to the Galapagos, Sara a sophomore at Middlebury, Anne is in Paris, Jennifer and Katie still in high school.

I wish you a wonderful summer.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: May 1986

Rod Correll, Special Gifts Chairman of our 30th Reunion next May, hosted a kickoff meeting at the Yale Club in March. Those with pencils in hand deciding how generous the rest of us will be were: Don Bab, Marvin Cox, Binky Davis, John Halpern, John Hermann, George Hutchinson, Dick Jones, Gerry Neary, Mike O'Hearn, Tom Quirk, Don Roberts, Gordon Smith and Reid White. All looked fit and successful, which bodes well for May 28-31, 1987 in Berkeley College. Sandy Clark and I will be traveling around the country over the next 12 months, primarily to drink, but also to lure all you fellow classmates back to New Haven.

Joe Clayton's son and daughter completed strong years on their respective Yale varsity squash teams. A third child is at Milton. Joe is a lawyer with Mudge, Rose in New York. Phil Clover became comptroller, ITT Communications Services, Inc. in Secaucus, N.J., last December. Jim Cunningham writes from London where he has been assigned by his employer of 26 years, The First National Bank of Chicago. He is a senior vice president and the senior credit officer for the U.S., Middle East, and Africa. He and wife Marcia have three daughters, one at Wisconsin, one at Kenyon, and a junior in high school in London.

I know news is where you find it, but I should not have to rely on my son's friend Todd Nissen for news on Wayne Downey. However, Todd tells me that Wayne received the 1985 Anna Maenchen Award in child psychoanalysis for the outstanding clinical or research paper on child or adolescent analysis of development. Congratulations. Sue Gaskin reports that Mike is fine and their daughter Catherine was married last August. Daughter and husband are seniors at Western Michigan.

Don Roberts is working at U.S. Trust and has run in 12 straight Boston Marathons. (By the time you read this, the number is probably 13, but I don't like to anticipate things like running in marathons--it tends to denigrate the performance.) Chris Sonne is in international investment banking with Goldman, Sachs. He has three boys in boarding school and one at home. Chris tells me that he travels constantly to Australia and New Zealand. Well, I wanted to start this column pointing out that it is a long time from September to May and that dues have dwindled down to a precious few, but perhaps it is better to hide that line at the end.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: April 1986

These columns have a way of making you predict the past. For example, I predict that Rod Correll had a kick-off meeting of our 30th Reunion Special Gifts Committee last month, with a large turnout and equally large enthusiasm. And I further predict that the invitation for the April 17th Class Dinner in New York did reach enough of us, so that the dinner may/did occur. And, finally, I predict that Sandy Clark and Howie Gillis, co-chairmen of the aforesaid Reunion, are hard at work planning next spring's festivities.

As for the news, Roland Machold, New Jersey's money manager extraordinaire, has been elected a trustee of Teachers College, Columbia University. He, wife and three children live in Princeton (a nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to go to school there.)

John Miller's book, The Battle to Save the Houston is in its second printing. John, as previously reported, is managing editor of Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute's official publication. He was kind enough to send me copies of the magazine including a cover showing a sunlit sail on the Severn, near Annapolis. Looks like a tough life.

Glen Harris wants Jack Ferguson to know that Glen "is taking an evening course on 'complex variables' to keep my brain from atrophying, and the strategy is working." Joe Quander's second son graduated from Brown last spring with a degree in material engineering, and his third son is a senior at Yale, majoring in economics. Dave Reed counts two milestones in 1985; the fifth anniversary of the founding of his executive compensation consulting firm in Chicago, Frederick Teague & Co., and the matriculation of daughter Alison at Wellesley. Previously Dave has been at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. And if you want a longer column than this, you know what you can do about it.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: March 1986

The Class Dinner is scheduled for The Yale Club in New York, Thursday, April 17th. Details to follow or precede, depending on my efficiency. Fourteen months to Reunion and Rod Correll and Sandy Clark are hard at work.

Bathing suit issue--the following children of 1957 are currently attending Yale Class of 1986--Don Bab's Andrew L.; Pat Baker's Patricia E.; Kurt Bloch's Maryln Jill; Dave Bowman's Mathew David; Jon Brownell's James H.; Tom Chittenden's John S.; Roger Cogswell's Stephen T.; Doug Dial's Robert H.; Bill Lytle's Mara; Ed Meyer's Tory A.; Dave Mininberg's Julien, Ernie Pepples's Eleanor E.; Tom Perkins's Robert R.; Larry Perlman's H. Jonathan; Harry Valentine's H. Stuart; Gordon Smith's Robin Lisa; Joe Vittoria's Jerome F.; George Vojta's Christopher L.; and Bill Wrean's William H.

Class of 1987--Pat Baker's Carrie N.; Bill Bitting's William C.; Dan Cornwell's Heather P.; Chuck Debrovner's Diane H.; John Harrison's J. Sergeant; Allan Kaplan's Caroline A.; Towny Ludington's Charles C.; Phil Lynch's Sarah; Gerry Neary's Lisa; Alex Smallens's Alexander W.; Mike Sweedler's Jonathan; Phil Weymouth's Philip B.; and George White's Caleb E.

Class of 1988--Sam Berman's Michael Dan; Tom Chittenden's Eva H.; Bob Craft's Karen; Phil Derby's David P.; Bill Ellis's Laura Ruth; Bill Finn's Meredith E.; Bill Fleming's Edgar H.; Bob Goering's Janet E.; Bill Hawthorne's Michael William; Garson Heller's Julie Margret; George Hutchinson's Elizabeth W.; Dave Johnson's Elizabeth W.; Ted Johnson's Elizabeth W.; Ted Jones's Ellen W.; Vern Loucks's David B.; Joe Marks's Timothy J.; John Newbold's Michael F.; Mike O'Hearn's Charles M.; Rex Robbins's Timothy T.P.; Ruben Shapiro's Roger L.; and Doug Wright's Douglas C.

Class of 1989--Jim Beck's Deborah; Conrad Buhler's Marie-Louise T.; Joe Clayton's Katherine and Thomas; Joel Colker's Elizabeth A.; Dan Cornwell's Daniel; Luke Finlay's Matthew W.; Erwin Fleissner's Jennifer L.; Andy Kner's Anne E.; Bernie Kosto's Adam; Gil Merritt's Eli; George Neilan's Edward George; Ron Ragen's Kent G.; Reed Rubin's Lara; Dick Sargent's Richard M.; Lauren Williams's Andrew S.; Norton Wright's Robert W.; and Tom Wroth's James A.

Total--70 attendees. I expect we'll replenish the graduates with a bright new crop this spring. Keep them coming.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.

Notes: February 1986

We shall start these columns subtly referring to our 30th Reunion coming in May 1987, thereby subliminally (probably the wrong word, but who's grading?) creating in you an overpowering urge to attend. Rod Correll has commenced forming the Special Gifts Committee and Sandy Clark will be direct mailing questionnaires for a class book and the Class Council is "phoenixing" the Class Dinner set for the Yale Club in New York, April 17.

There was a good turnout at the Harvard game. I can personally report on the attendance of Tony Bingham, Ray Ellison, Colin Jensen, Ted Jones, Tony Marshall, Frank Mongillo, and Phil Weymouth. All others did not have the good fortune to see me, but I expect the game made up for that. Charlie Abuzza, Don Bab, Toby Briggs, Frank Mongillo, Tom Quirk, Brian Walsh and I spent a pleasant evening in December at the Yale Club of New York listening to Bart Giammatti.

Tons of news and the threat of space limitation bring us to ... Morgan Browne became Administrative Director of the Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory in June. "Very rewarding working with James Watson who won Nobel Prize for solving the structure of DNA; also continuing as Vice President, Finance at Lunn Industries and Treasurer of Specialty Computer Company." Wife JoAnn is a law student at Hofstra and sons are in Nantucket, IBM, and Lake Forest College. Read Charlton and Ann enjoyed a visit from Bill Hall in Greenfield, VA, in September. Bill also saw Towny Luddington in Chapel Hill. Dan Cornwell has two at Yale (are you listening Rod?) (By the way, have a list of Yale children, coming next issue).

Will wonders never cease--Binky Davis owner of three grown children, reports on the birth of Alexandra Wolcot Davis on October 7. They are in Hartford, she is beautiful and noisy and he is managing director of Constitution Capital Management, a subsidiary of CBT. Don Miller visited Binky and family and is in good form. Lou DeLuca was moved to Frankfort, Ky., from his farm where he is an administrator for the Kentucky Department of Education. Wife April is a computer consultant and son Sam, is in pre-school.

Jack Erickson moved from North Carolina to Westport, Conn., where he is a partner of Decision Processes International, a firm which provides "Software for the Human Computer." (I wonder how many of them read this column?) Jim Ferris's roommate The Rev. James Murphree, officiated at Jim's wedding to Norma Sousa last February. Jim and bride took a belated honeymoon bicycle tour of Ireland in September. Luke Finlay was so busy crewing for others that he never got his boat in the water last year. Son Matthew is a freshman who sails for Yale. Howie Gillis is practicing law in New Haven, but plans to give it up to work on the Reunion. (Actually, I wrote part of that sentence without consulting Howie). Howie has three skiing sons, one at Vermont and two at Colorado. Vic Goodman, a lawyer in Columbus, has been reelected Vice Chairman of the Ohio Board of Regents. Peter Hobart is with Hobart Brothers International in Rome. John Hughes has returned to surgical practice in Tucson after three years in the Navy. He sees Hugh Thompson, an orthopedist, also in Tucson. Ken Jones is an account executive with Blackstock & Co., a NASD firm in Florida.

Larry Kramer's play about AIDS, The Normal Heart, completed a successful run in New York, opened in L.A. with Richard Dreyfuss in December and will open in London next month. It will open, or has, in Seattle, New Orleans, Chicago, 15 foreign countries, and in San Juan in Spanish. It has been published in book form by New American Library. Walt Loesche has written a monograph on tooth decay and is Vice President of American Association of Dental Research. Roland Machold is finishing his tenth year as Director of Investment for New Jersey, where he is responsible for 99 funds aggregating, almost $16 billion. Under a state law enacted in August, Roland was required to divest $2.7 billion in companies doing business in South Africa. "While divestment proponents have worthwhile objectives, nevertheless the divestments will have significant negative effects on the funds."

Tony Marshall, Brad Lovejoy and a New Orleans jazz band celebrated Keene Taylor's 50th last fall. Hi Maxim's daughter Sarah '82, is working for an M.A. at Cornell in Southeastern Asian Studies, son Hiram is teaching German at Woodberry Forest School, and son Merritt is looking at colleges. Hi remarried in June to the former Martha Jane Lynch of West Hartford, Conn. She works at an advertising agency, while Hi continues to operate a subsidiary of the Wiremold Company. Jack Pallas has moved to New Jersey where he now works for AT&T Information Systems integrating hardware components into new systems. Bill Reimann completed major sculpture commissions in Atlanta and Richmond. He recently rowed in Toronto in a double-sculls race which he won. Also seen there were Bill Becklean, Fernando Alvarez De Toledo, Hugh Thompson, and Steve Flagg. Dick Sargent is head of the Chubb Institute, a proprietary school in New Jersey.

Dave Sawyer, after many years of freedom, became engaged to Paula Zahn, a graduate of Stephens College and the weekend anchor on Channel 7 in Boston. Chuck Schaller is the new President and C.E.O. of Essex Vencap which oversees the venture capital projects of Essex Chemical. He commutes from Connecticut to New Jersey. John Shaw is pitching a credit card on TV, inter alia. Dick Sheinhaum is Senior Vice President with Connecticut Bank and Trust at Stamford. Daughter Andrea is at Washington University in St. Louis, son Peter at high school and wife Susan an editor with the Fairfield Citizens News. He helped Chuck Debrovner turn 50 last summer with a yacht trip around Manhattan. Larry Strasburger is President of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry. Charles Strong is in energy management and mechanical construction in Texas. His youngest son is a sophomore and track team member at SMU. Reed Taylor teaches English at a school in Amherst, N.Y. In January he brought a group to Yale to participate in a Model U.N. Assembly. He has been teaching at Amherst since 1963 with a break in the late 60s for a Ph.D. at Emory.

Harry Valentine finished Yale Divinity School in June and will graduate with M.Div. degree this coming June. Steve Wanger is in his 18th year at Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts in the Neurology Department. Son David is at Pennsylvania Law School, daughter Betsy is at Yale Law School, and daughter-in-law Gwen is at Pennsylvania Medical School. He points out, "In our society, two lawyers for one doctor is about the right ratio." Lynn Williams married Warrene in January 1983. (Take that, Binky Davis). Phil Weymouth celebrated his 50th in London with family. He still gets 125 hours of flying in each year in his Cessna. As for Your Secretary, two sons plan marriages this year, so any Guggenheimer children produced will only be visitors to us.

—Randolph C. Guggenheimer, Jr.