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: December 1993
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Notes: Summer 1993
Notes: May 1993
Notes: April 1993
Notes: March 1993
Notes: February 1993

Notes: December 1993

While in San Francisco, attending the American College of Surgeons, your secretary tried to contact some of the 30-odd Yalies in the Bay area. Gathered for drinks at the Nikko were Maffley, Boasberg, Hamm, Hollenbeck, and Rohner.

Tom Rohner, Professor of Urology at Penn State, was also attending the meetings. He informed me that former roommate, Gil Merritt, long widowed, has remarried a young woman attorney (in-house counsel). Bill Hamm has been on the coast for 30 years. After a career with Kidder, Peabody, he is now an independent stockbroker. Daughter Alex just married. Son, William Charles graduated from Duke. Bill just returned from vacation in Venice.

Peter Hollenback has had a long career in the computer industry having worked for IBM, Bank of America, and himself. Daughter Sarah graduated from Yale in 1992 and lives in Washington. Peter's an investment banker. Recently Peter was delighted to receive a letter from Ed VanBuren, who is home after a long hospitalization. Don Maffley practices business law and estate planning. He is married with five children and one grandchild. Although spending more time with his wife and children, he has no intention of retiring from law. With regard to the future, he has been giving thought to "where we go from here." Don hopes to make some intelligent decisions rather than letting things happen by default. Al Boasberg is practicing general law in San Francisco. He joined us fresh from court.

Although I didn't get to see others in the class, I was able to speak with some of them, courtesy of Pacific Bell. Terry Carlisle moved to California in 1986 and lives in San Rafael. He has three daughters, all of whom live in California, and three grandchildren; the most recent is named Hallee. Terry still swims in the master's group. He was part of a relay that swam the Maui Channel. In addition, he and his wife follow "the stones" (not rolling!). Most recently, he was in New Grange, Ireland, where there is a Neolithic passage monument. The sunlight passes through perfectly on the winter solstice. That's impressive for 2,500-year-old engineering.

Peter Cook came to California in 1959. He worked in data processing in a government laboratory in Berkeley. Originally trained in music, Peter is now devoting himself to composing. Gordon Frierson practices internal medicine, specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. He is an attending consultant at the University of California, Berkeley. Gordon is married with two children. His wife is a secretary at an art college.

George Mascarich was coming in from playing golf when I talked to his wife of 34 years. He retired from AT&T two years ago, although he helps the tax-paying public by working at H&R Block from January through April. There are three daughters. The oldest graduated from Texas A&M and is a major in the U.S. Army, now in Washington. She served with the Third Armor Division on the Iraqi border during Desert Storm and was awarded a Bronze Star. Another daughter works as a dental hygienist in Mississippi. Their youngest graduated from Loyola, works for Enterprise Car Rentals, and also lives in Washington. George's wife works for Weight Watchers.

Paul Ogden is a cardiologist in Marin County with two children. Son Charles works with video interactive computers and son David graduated from Chicago Medical and is doing internal medicine. Given what is happening in American medicine, I was interested to learn of Paul's experience in a large multi-specialty group as it faced some of the business difficulties occasioned by managed care. The Ogdens have a second home in Glen Ellen where since 1987 they have been making their own wine. Last year they bottled 100 cases of Cabernet and Chardonnay (Gallo, watch out!). Paul's other hobby is restoring old Packards, of which he has five, ranging from 1932 to 1955.

Richard Rees left teaching in 1986. He had been at Cathedral Hill School for Boys. During Christmas, he works at Macy's running the card and wrap shop. He has also been involved professionally in genealogical research. I missed Gene Tunney, who had just left to visit Connecticut. Gene is District Attorney for Sonoma County. Paul Eisele of Sybervision was going out the door to a board meeting.

I apologize to the following whom I was unable to reach: Richard Alen, Mac Blair, Karl Chester, Gerry Gray, Nate Mobley, Ed Opton, John P. Stockwell, Bob Sweet, Pat Wilde, John Hearst, Talton Kendrick, Jay Kuhn, Bob Mees, Dick Massey, and Tink Thompson, whose investigative skills I could have used. I give the list only so those on the coast know who lives in the Bay Area.

Plans are underway for a midwinter gathering in New Haven, featuring the Yale-Princeton hockey game and Fritzsche hospitality. Set aside Saturday, January 29, 1994. Information will follow soon.

Correction: Date of class dinner at Yale Club of New York is Thursday, March 10, 1994.

And to all classmates, happy holidays and a healthy New Year.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: November 1993

Vernon Loucks, senior trustee and member of the Yale Corporation for 13 years, has resigned. Since 1991, Vern had also served as chairman of Yale's Capital Campaign. As Chairman of Baxter International, the world's largest manufacturer of medical supplies, Vern had recently been involved in a federal controversy. Now, with the business challenges posed by the healthcare measures being drafted under President Clinton, Vern will be faced with overseeing his company's efforts. President Levin said that Vern's departure was a loss for the University: "He has served Yale with devotion and great distinction."

With responsibility comes controversy as Gil Merritt, Chief Judge of the Sixth United States Circuit Court of Appeals, has found in his rulings in the bitter Demjanjuk case. Gil has been the subject of articles in the New York Times and the lead editorial in the Forward.

Last year's dues request brought as almost 50 percent response. Art Diefendorf is aiming at 57 percent this year.

See you at the Mongillos' after The Game. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: October 1993

I hope all of you have had a pleasant summer. Get out your pens and postcards! From the University of Stony Brook, Professor George Hechtel of East Setauket, Associate Dean of Biological Sciences, was selected for membership in the Gold Key National Honor Society, an organization committed to the recognition and promotion of scholastic excellence. George also received his PhD from Yale in 1962.

John Resnik's daughter and law partner Emily Marie is to marry Steven Conn, Director of Sports Publicity at Yale. Bob Ganger is fully retired in Florida. New address is 1443 North Ocean Blvd., Gulfstream, FL 33483. His house in Greenwich is for sale with a "special discount for Yalies."

From the LA Times of June 11: Golden Moniker Awards: Among those honored by the California Lawyer magazine were two Angelenos who won for "most ironic name for bankruptcy attorney"; one of them was our own Richard Moneymaker. The preceding tidbit was supplied by Peter Farrand who is back in Oregon. Peter threatens to come East this fall to visit daughter Lisa who is a stage manager in Hartford. One of my friends who has severe pulmonary problems was on an Outward Bound retreat in Colorado. While there, he consulted with the famed pulmonologist Dr. John V. Weil.

Professor Kong Kyun Do of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology invites any of his classmates who are in Korea for EXPO '93 to please contact him. He will be happy to show them around. Home: 82-2-798-3491 and FAX: 965-5987.

Jim Cunningham has moved from London to Houston and back. In 1991, he joined First City Texas as an executive vice president. Although he helped make great improvements in its position/condition, he was ultimately unsuccessfly. The bank was taken over by the FDIC in 1993, split up, and sold off. So back to London in May went Jim where he joined Rabobank, a large Dutch cooperatively owned back, second largest bank in Holland and one of the 50 largest banks in the world. Most important is the fact that the bank has kept a AAA rating. Good luck to Jim and Marcia.

Alan Lovin's daughter Rachel Ilana was married last summer to Daniel Kazer in Branford, Connecticut.

In Crain's Cleveland Business there is a feature article on Kirtland Capital Partners, whose CEO is Jack Turben. Kirkland "doesn't dismantle the companies it buys to pay off debt and it doesn't generate a typical rate of return. Instead, it builds up the companies it buys with further investment and makes a whopping rate of return." Since Jack's first round investments 16 years ago, he never had an average annual return of less than 35 percent. Sic transit Venture Capital!

Phil Lynch also checks in from Ohio where he is Chairman of the Board of Northern Instruments Corporation, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of proprietary corrosion inhibiting products and electronic sensing instruments. Phil has had a long and extensive involvement in Eastern Europe and is available as a resource to any classmate. (Carpetbaggers need not apply.) After reading Remembering Denny, Phil is moved to remark that our generation was never trained to communicate with any intimacy – slick, yes; polished, yes; but with intimacy, no. How true! Perhaps Fred Guggenheim of Arkansas knows that all too well, Fred was extensively quoted after the suicide of Vincent Foster of President Clinton's staff.

While in Toronto in June, I spoke with Bill Greaves who teaches English and linguistics at Glendon College. Bill confesses that he is in good shape. Son William is a Yale architecture graduate, daughter Ellen is a chef, and daughter Jane, an MA in international studies, is in Beijing. Bill's wife Anne works in arts management at the very exciting Art Gallery of Ontario. The huge gallery of Henry Moore Studies is particularly worthwhile. I also had a delightful rooftop lunch with Ned Baldwin at the Squash Club. Ned has been an architect for 25 years. He owns his own shop. Ned's firm was project architect to the famous 553-meter CN Tower in Toronto. From that expertise has blossomed a host of tower designs in Las Vegan, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait – the last a frequent sight on CNN during Desert Storm. His newest project is a 750-meter tower in Kokura, Japan. When not doing towers, Ned has been doing residential work in New England. An excellent storyteller, Ned kept me fascinated with his tales of high mountain climbing throughout the world.

This summer, the Class of 1957 helped fund Pauline David '95, as a Dwight Hall intern at AIDS Project New Haven. Pauline has written a warm, thoughtful, thank you letter to Frank Mongillo who helped shepherd our involvement. Pauline's efforts have been directed at fundraising, grant writing, sending letters on behalf of clients, and editing both the general and client newsletters. Given Remembering Denny and Larry Kramer's outspoken AIDS advocacy, our support for AIDS Project New Haven is most appropriate. If our class funds allow it, perhaps we can be a position to endow one or more AYA Community Service Summer Fellowships.

It is not too early to mark your calendars for Thursday night, March 19, 1994. The annual class dinner at the Yale Club has been moved to later in the week to encourage more members to come and spend a weekend enjoying all that the Big Apple has to offer.

Frank and Nancy Mongillo again invite classmates to their home next to the Bowl after the game. Details next month.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: Summer 1993

The Hunsicker family is alive and well, living in Switzerland for the past 22 years. After graduation from Harvard Business School in 1965, Quince moved to Europe with McKinsey & Co., his only employer. There was a three-year tour in Tokyo in the mid-1970s. Quince is a director working with primarily Swiss-based multi-national clients in food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical machinery, retailing, and cement (what else is there?) Daughter, Suzanne and son John are married (John with twins), and daughter Karin is living in Long Beach, California. John and Carolyn invite traveling Yalies to stop in. Their address is Seestrass 59, Ch-8703, Erlenbach, ZH.

Dick Vian checks in from Nye, Montana, where since 1983 he has been Chief Geologist for Stillwater Mining Company, the only primary producer of platinum and palladium in North America.

Professor Amnon Kabatchnik recently directed Halloween Dreams by L. Don Swartz, the winning play of the Elmira College Fourth Original Playwriting Award Competition. It was chosen among 306 entries from all over the country and abroad. Amnon also directed Catch Me If You Can, a twisty mystery-comedy for his Vintage Dinner Theatre at the Corning Country Club.

Under the expert directorship of Sandy Clark, the annual class dinner of the Class of 1957 was held at the Yale Club of New York with 57 attendees. After a delightful cocktail hour and colorful, health-conscious meal the guests settled down to hear Bud Trillin talk about his work on the corporation and the search for a new Yale president. A frank, intense question-and-answer period followed. At the end, the discussants repaired to the bar. Next year the dinner will be moved to Thursday night. We hope that will encourage out-of-towners to make it "a weekend" in New York.

Attending alone or with significant others were: Argall, Bab, Bodkin, Bourquin, Bogert, Briggs, F. Brown, Cannell, Chittenden, Christenson, S. Clark, R.I. Clark, Dial, Diefendorf, Fritzsche, Gillis, Halpern, Heller, Herrmann, Hutchinson, Kosinski, Kosto, Kulleseid, Lynch, Marden, Meyer, McGill, Miniberg, Nef, O'Hearn, Pegg, Perkins, Quirk, Robbins, Rubin, Sweedler, Trillin, McEligot, and guests Aileen Quigley and Susie Abuza.

Remembering Denny by Bud Trillin has been extensively reviewed. The book is not only about Denny Hensen, but also about us and "our time." I strongly recommend it and hope that I don't get into trouble with the multiple class authors.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: May 1993

Will Reimann's on the water accomplishments for 1992 include three first places in straight pair, double sculls, and four-oared shell with Cox at the U.S. Master's National Championships in Camden, New Jersey. In Cologne, Germany, at the F.I.S.A. World Veteran's competitions, he won five gold medals, a personal best. On land, he has worked on private commissions, participated in urban plan development for the city of Savannah, Georgia, in anticipation of construction proposed for the 1996 Olympic Games, and has work in progress for the Archdiocese of Boston.

Rex Robbins appeared in The Sisters Rosensweig at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Ed Mulligan writes of his misadventures with a cancerous prostate. He is fully recovered and urges all of us not to ignore that potentially harmfully walnut-sized gland. (I personally know two other classmates who have had surgery for the disease and I have done well.) On a similar topic, George Atkeson wrote that he lost his wife Mary to cancer. They had been married for 35 years. Bill Bogert's wife, Eren Ozker, died of cancer as well. She was an actress, puppeteer, and a founding muppet. Our condolences are sent to both George and Bill.

While your Secretary was in Australia, he found that Dick LaGanza had been seriously injured in a pedestrian accident in September and after emerging from multiple weeks of coma and months of rehabilitation, Dick was being discharged. He sounded well over the phone. From 1959 to 1991, Dick was with Shell Oil in their mining/chemical department. After retirement he became a mining consultant (what else?). His wife Susan is a psychologist and they have three boys. Also contacted was Lockwood de Forest, who allowed how he converted Melbourne to natural gas and developed a solar-boosted heat pump. Lock is semi-retired and raising cattle. He is remarried to an Australian.

I had breakfast with John Spender who is a lawyer in New South Wales, where he also served in Parliament. John was in the midst of a close election campaign which his Coalition Party managed to lose to the incumbent Labour Party. The Coalition's proposed value added tax undoubtedly worried the electorate more than the depression and 11 percent unemployment under Labour. John's wife is a prominent dress designer and owns a dozen shops. On my way home, I called Jaya and Andy Poepoe in Honolulu. Andy, too, is involved in politics, particularly the upcoming gubernatorial campaign.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: April 1993

Peter Morse, art historian and writer, died in Tokyo on January 3, 1993. The following information comes courtesy of Jim Banner in Washington, and Phil Derby and Andy Poepoe in Honolulu. Peter had all his life, even while at Yale, suffered from diabetes. Banner writes that "he should have died long ago but because of a strong will to defy odds, as well as a purposeful change in his diet and exercise habits some 15 years ago, he successfully and productively kept himself going this long. Friends and colleagues knew the 57-year-old as a writer, art historian, collector, print expert, cataloger, and appraiser. "I'm a fact collector," he explained once. "Some people collect stamps or records but I collect facts. My chief delight is finding another piece of information relating to a project that I'm working on and fitting into the much larger jigsaw puzzle." Peter had been in Japan for an exhibition of his own collection of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by the celebrated artist Hokusai. He owned about 250 works by the artist. Peter had moved to Hawaii in 1967, after having left the Smithsonian in Washington, where he had been an associate curator of graphic arts. In 1972 his Jean Charlot's Prints: a Catalog Raisoneé was published by the University of Hawaii Press. His last major project was a collaborative effort to compile a complete catalog of Hokusai's prints. Morse is survived by his former wife, artist Marcia Morse, and his beloved son Daniel, both of Honolulu, and a brother Richardson Morse of Hollywood, California. Marcia and Daniel may be reached at 1245 Aloha Oe Drive, Kailua, HI 96734.

Phil Derby, who wrote to us about Peter, is student housing coordinator at Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College in Honolulu. Frank Lin is teaching computer science at the Eastern Shore campus of the University of Maryland. (I hope he appreciates hardshell crabs!). A daughter who now lives in Sweden is spending a year with him at Bennett High School. Wife Helen is a hematologist.

Dr. Joseph Quander writes from Austin, Texas, where he is an obstetrician/gynecologist, that son #4 Jonathan, graduates from Harvard in June and is applying to law school. Son #5 Martin is a freshman at Duke and contemplates a career in business or medicine. (Is there a difference, some may ask!)

Rufus Goodwin's latest book of poetry, The Open Drawer, was recently published by Urban Press. Rufus is also marketing three short novels, has an agent in Washington, and is at work on another novel entitled Born Tomorrow. Publishers take note! Professor Jim Seymour, now a researcher at Columbia University's East Asian Institute, is increasingly turning his attention to central Asia. In 1992 he spent a month in Eastern Turkistan (now controlled by China as "Xin-jiang"). He expects to return there and also visit Kazakhstan in the spring of 1993. Jim is working on a book concerning the political history of Tibet in recent decades.

Keith McEligot retired from Bell Atlantic last year and is "mostly just enjoying it." To reinforce his distaste for children, he has substituted a dozen or so times at the local elementary school. Recently he has consulted in the "forenzic" engineering area. "Six months ago I couldn't even spell it." (He still can't. It's forensic, Keith!)

Jim and Sue King moved last summer from Wellesley Hill, Massachusetts, to Elkins, New Hampshire, where Sue controls a growing animal raising operation. Current population: three alpacas, two Scotch Highland cows, four angora rabbits, two adult Sky Terrier champion show dogs and a litter of six puppies. Meanwhile, Jim still works in the investment business with the Pioneer Group in Boston.

Ed Cook is still very active in Oklahoma's oil and gas industry. He has a new granddaughter in Los Angeles. Dick Arnold enjoyed his visit to New Haven for the class reunion. Daughter Lydia has begun law school at Georgetown and finds it confusing. "Good. That's how all sensible beginning law students should feel." So says His Honor. R.H. West is now in Japan at Green Mezon Tsurumaki, 3-101, Tama-Shi, Tokyo 206, Temple University's Far East campus. He and Sarah had lunch with Yuji Ito, before they left Japan for sabbatical time at Yale! Paul Eisele has moved to 155 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111, to be CEO of SyberVision Systems, a publisher of personal development videos and audiotapes.

Curt Ryan continues his work as both counselor and teacher with the Waterfront Rescue Mission in Pensacola, Florida. Bob Joost writes to your class secretary in Hartford, the "insurance capital," that there is a second edition of his opus, Automobile Insurance and No-Fault Law. Bob actively participated in the development of no-fault law. John Spender has checked in from Wollahra, New South Wales, where he is both lawyer and author.

The Gordon H. Smith ('57S) Scholarship Fund for 1992-1993 has been awarded to Brian Ingram, TD '93, an applied mathematics major from Plainview, New York.

The resurrected mid-winter get-together was held in New Haven in early February. Under the able organizational skills of Binky Davis, almost 60 classmates, wives, children, and grandchildren gathered to watch Yale beat Colgate at the Ingalls Rink. Following the game, all trudged up Prospect Hill, in the bitter cold, to the warm hospitality of Peter and Ruth Fritzsche in their grand turn-of-the-century Yale house, next to the old infirmary. Peter's boeuf bourguignon was delicious, but the high point of the evening was 88-year-old honorary classmate Murray Murdoch's warm and lively reminiscences. One of our classmates remarked upon leaving how many special people we have in the class of 1957. Attending were: Bourquin, Bulwinkle, Cannell, Davis, Fritzsche, Goddard, R. Jones, T. Jones, Kellogg, Kosto, Massey, E. Meyer, T. Meyer, Mongillo, O'Hearn, Pendergast, Quirk, Richardson, Schiffman, Swinchatt, Walker, and Embersits ('58).

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: March 1993

Peter Greer writes from Foley, Alabama, where he is sailing, golfing, and teaching for the Power Squadron, Wife Joan, has become involved in the four-legged world as President of the local SPCA. Charlie Gold's daughter graduated from Wellesley. Wife Barbara has started work on a master's degree at Yale Divinity School. Rod Kohler, having reached the age of 65, walked away from a car totaling accident with only a few bruises. (Rod was older than most of us to start with). He attributes his good fortune not to his Yale education, but rather to his seat beat. "Buckle up."

Don Backe, who was also at the Washington cocktail party, will have gotten married in January. Daughter number three, Vanessa, is a junior at Yale in Calhoun. John Stockwell has been named to the Board of Trustees of the College of the Atlantic. The Stockwells live in Boxford, Massachusetts, and are the parents of Lisa Stockwell Simis, a 1990 graduate of the school. A Vice President of A.G. Edwards and Sons in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, John also is Vice President of Regional Affairs for the Lawrenceville School Alumni Association. Rod Correll had a pacemaker installed and feels fine. He continues to write and present on family business issues. In addition, he is involved in the local Habitat for Humanity and the YMCA.

Mitch Kur retired from Digital Equipment after 15 years in senior financial and administrative management positions and has joined Phoenix Associates, a management consulting firm started by his brother. Oldest daughter Allison is an attorney for child support enforcement in the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. She married an associate professor at Boston University three years ago. Middle daughter Susan, a course development instructor at Digital, will marry a management consultant and designer of computerized financial systems next June. Dana, the youngest is developing a business catering operation for a Beacon Hill restaurant. She married a teacher at the Cambridge School in Weston last June. Wife Carol is Human Resources Director of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston.

Charlie Strong is still Vice President of Monterey Power in Miami. After Hurricane Andrew, he has had to dispose of plenty of waste. His Miami plant was down for repairs for 11 days after the storm. His home, however, sustained only minor damage. Unfortunate, in that half of his employees lived in the hard-hit South Dade area. Charlie has learned a lot "about psychology and nursing friends through depression and mental anguish" that resulted from the disaster.

Colonel John Miller, USMC, writes from Annapolis that he and wife Susan have a fourth grandchild. He appears to be taken aback that his son-in-law is only a few years younger than the current Secretary of the Navy. He writes that "in the next five years, more than a million military personnel and Department of Defense civilians will enter the job market; more, if cuts are deeper than Colin Powell's Base Force goals." John has been working with a head hunter/outplacement specialist "to help those folks get a toehold in CivLand (where people wear funny clothes, need haircuts, and walk out of step)." Punching Out is John's third book, co-authored with Fred Mastin of Branford, Connecticut, which will be on the spring list of St. Martin's Press. Finally, John continues to enjoy editing the Naval Institute Proceedings, which keeps him in the midst of the debate over post-Cold War reconfiguration of the armed forces, the biggest change since World War II.

Peter Jackson is leaving Idaho for the old family ranch in Nevada, where his new house is recently completed. Sally and Buzz Aronson of Newton announced the engagement of their daughter Jane Elizabeth. Jane is a graduate of Connecticut College and has a Masters in Education from Harvard She is coordinating an after-school program in Cambridge. Her husband-to-be is an accounting and information systems major in the Boston College School of Management.

Bob Beaney retired from Bell Atlantic in December after 35 years. He is moving on to "another stage of activity." Just what that may be he fails to write. Professor Ken Gergen of the Department of Psychology at Swarthmore asks that Merrell Clark write about the reunion he organized for their group who were involved in a "private society" at Yale. "A real blast from the past." We will wait to hear from Merrell.

In response to my call for class projects ideas, Buz Brenton writes from Des Moines, Iowa, suggesting: 1. Unique scholarship programs (It takes $75,000-BK); 2. Some way to help New Haven prosper a bit; and 3. Sponsoring a national or regional symposium on a critical issue. (Keep those suggestions coming in.) Montpelier Publishing Company announced the publication of Best Little Stories from the White House by C. Brian Kelly, editor of Military History magazine.

Sad news brief: Peter Morse died January 3, 1993 in Tokyo. Further information will be in next month's column.

There is still time for last minute planners to attend the Class of 1957 Annual Dinner at the Yale Club in Manhattan, March 24th. Call Sandy Clark at (203) 325-8954. We promise better weather than last year and a prominent humorous member of the Yale Board of Trustees will discuss the "Search for the President." It's a fun evening. Please come.

—Bernard M. Kosto

Notes: February 1993

Gathered at Frank and Nancy Mongillo's home to console one another following the Princeton game were a number of the usual suspects: Mongillo, Gillis, Fritzsche, Bourquin, Trippe, Kosto, Diefendorf, Heller, Davis, Correll, Quirk, Bodkin, R. Jones, and T. Jones. In addition to warmth and hospitality, there was a lovely spread of food and drink.

One week later a small group assembled at the venerable Cambridge Boat Club, courtesy of Will Reimann. The sunny morning on an idyllic location on the Charles River was in sharp contrast to the wet and disappointing afternoon at Soldier's Field. Enjoying refreshments by the roaring fire were: Reimann, Baker, Kosto, Gillis, Alvarez de Toledo, and Dunn. Perhaps in two years we might be able to relish both a lovely morning and afternoon at the boat house which is only a short walk (not in high heels) to the stadium.

At the Washington area Class of 1957 cocktail party hosted by Steve Hopkins at the plush City Club on the day following the national elections, an enthusiastic group gathered for the proverbial good cheer and conversation. We learned that Jim Banner's James Madison Foundation has a U.S. Government endowment not only to carry on its educational mission but also to fund Banner's salary! Present in addition to visitors Fritzsche and Kosto were: Harold Russell, Luke Finlay, Keen and Nancy Taylor, John Lee, Bob and Elaine Joost, Peirre Bouscaren, Bill Eaton, Bill Ryland, and Allen Wendt. Allen has been named ambassador-designate to Slovenia, where he will welcome classmates as soon as we find an embassy.

An honorary doctorate of science was awarded to John E. Hearst by Lehigh University. John is an internationally recognized molecular bio-scientist who has made important discoveries about the biochemistry of genetics. John is known for his investigations in the isolation and characterization of metaphase chromosomes, in the structure of nuclear DNA, in the photochemistry of subcellular components and molecular genetics. Hoffman-La Roche is developing a new and potent drug, discovered by John for treating refractory psoriasis. John also formed his own company, H&I Research, to make that drug and similar analogues available to the scientific community for research purposes. In addition, he is also responsible for important anti-sense DNA therapy, a new gene technique which holds promise for preventing genetic diseases by correcting defects as expressed in genes of the parents. A member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley since 1962, John also serves as a senior staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Director of HRI Research and Steritech, Inc. John earned his PhD, in Chemical physics from Cal Tech (Who said reading this column would by easy!).

Peter Hollenbeck's son Christopher graduated from Stanford in 1991 and daughter Sarah from Yale in 1992. Peter has been in the computer field since 1961. He and wife Martha have been living in Marin County for 22 years. Peter's roommate Ed Van Buren has been hospitalized at the NYU Medical Center for a number of months. Ed would appreciate some mail at his home, 51 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Robert C. Clark of the Atlantic Insurance Company of Savannah has earned the professional designation chartered property casualty underwriter. Bob joined Atlantic in 1988 and is a territorial marketing specialist. Bill Keen, who lives in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, has had a successful cataract extraction and has been dealing with the problems of caring for a 93-year-old father-in-law as well as helping to support a divorced daughter with two boys. At this point, he writes, "times have changed, and not for the better by a long shot."

Bide Thomas has accepted Commonwealth Edison's early retirement offer after 34 years with the company. He and Mary have seven children and soon a tenth grandchild among them. The Thomas' will be spending some of their new free time at their home in Florida. Walter Loesche, Professor and Director of Research at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, received an honorary degree from the University of Ghent, the first dentist to have ever received an honorary degree from a Belgian university. (Is there a connection between cavities and Belgian chocolate?)

Dick Voigt, Pete Williams, and Lee Lorenz (art-editor at the New York Times) are getting ready to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Eli's Chosen Six at Arthur's Tavern on Grove Street in West Greenwich Village, New York, every Sunday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. They are hoping to produce a special recording as a sequel to their Columbia LP of 1955, with the original band members, Lyman Drake, Bob Morgan '58, and Roz Rudd '58. Dixieland lives! (Among your secretary's most treasured possessions is that first autographed L.P.)

Phil Pillsbury has been working for the Clinton campaign since August. We eagerly await news of his future activities. Phil also maintains his wide involvement with the American Architectural Foundation and his work in the field of international young political leadership exchange. Joe Lemmo, Manager of Contracts at General Dynamics Space Systems in San Diego, writes that son John is a junior at Occidental and daughter Loretta is a senior at Long Beach. Barring graduate school, he can see the "light at the end of the tunnel." For three years Joe has been working on the superconducting super collider. (We sure could have used Joe at the Yale-Harvard game!).

Mark Carleton, Professor of History at LSU, has two sons married and "one to go." Mark is also current President of the Louisiana Historical Association. Ralph Winter, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit and Professor of Law at Yale, delivered the prestigious Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture at Harvard Law School on "Paying Lawyers, Empowering Prosecutors, and Protecting Managers: Raising the Cost of Capital in America."

Larry Kramer, playwright and founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and Act Up, authored an op-ed piece for the New York Times, "Name an AIDS High Command." Larry made the following points: 1) The President must grant emergency powers to those working on a cure for AIDS. 2) A list of unanswered questions must be agreed on, 3) Joint Chiefs of Staff should be established for AIDS. 4) All AIDS research must be consolidated. "A war needs generals. So does a plague!" Larry's new autobiographical play, The Destiny of Me, opened to critical acclaim at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York. Also reviewed on the same page in the New York Times is the forthcoming book by Bud Trillin, Remembering Denny. The serious tone of the book about our late classmate Roger (Denny) Hansen is a departure from Trillin's "witty, whimsical nonfiction." The book will be published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux in the spring. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee, Fred Kirgis has written a book entitled International Organizations in Their Legal Setting that was so good, it is now out in its second edition.

George Wiley, former director of compensation of Amoco, has established his own consulting firm, specializing in compensation and organization planning matters. You might guess at the name of the new endeavor--George Wiley, Inc. Craig Bowers wins the honor of having submitted the only typed class news. Son Gregg lives in California, works in computer sales, and is about to make Craig a first-time grandfather. Son Brad graduated from Tulane in 1992, lives in New Orleans and wants to work in marketing and sales. Daughter Amy will graduate from Simmons in 1993 and wants to become a CPA. Craig is President of MAPS Group Ltd., a nation-wide videotape duplicating and packaging company. He had the pleasure of spending time with President Lamar, who gave lectures last summer to both the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado Yale Club.

A first for the class! The varsity football field at Tathall School in Wilmington has been named "Weymouth Field" in honor of Phil Weymouth. Top that! Tom Quirk saw Alex Smallens in New York City at Town Hall where their sons Sandy and Tim and their band were performing for a rock festival. Gerry Jonas's new book was published in December. It's entitled: Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement, by Abrams. It is a companion volume to an eight-part PBS TV series on dance airing in April.

Ted Jones writes: "The silver lining of 1992 for the Ted Joneses was the August marriage of our daughter Winnie '88 to Peter Nordell '88. Yalies attended from class of 1937 to 1990." Ted is currently working with classmate Peter Fritzsche at the Alumni Fund to encourage graduates to consider an active role in University affairs. His term as Chairman expires in 1994; there is so much that he would like to accomplish.

I received a note from Alex Zervanos's brother. Alex has not been well for a number of years. His years at Yale, however, were among his most treasured and fulfilling. His address is 100 Front Street, 16H, Reading, Pennsylvania,

Correction: The 1957 Class Meeting and Dinner at the Yale Club in New York will be on Wednesday, March 24, 1993.

—Bernard M. Kosto