Hello, Classmates,
A note of thanks. Without your participation and submissions, we would not have had this publi-cation.
The question arose, why publish this booklet at all? Well, it just seemed to be fun, a chance to test our memories, wallow in nostalgia, and share some little-known facts regarding your classmates and, hopefully, put a smile (frown?) on your face.
I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge our webmaster, Lou Allyn. Without his help, this publi-cation would not exist.
The accomplishments and awards are yours. Any misinformation, errors, omissions and/or redun-dancy are on me.
Stay healthy,
DeForest W. Smith ‘61
October 2022
WHICH CLASSMATE RODE HIS HORSE FIVE MILES A DAY TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND CAMPAIGNED IN IOWA IN 2015 AS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT? – JOHN COGSWELL
WHO WON A GOLD MEDAL IN CREW AT THE OLYMPICS IN 1964? – BOYCE BUDD
WHO WAS A CHIEF ECONOMIST AT THE WORLD BANK, BUT BEFORE THAT HE TAUGHT ECONOMICS AT BROWN TO JANET YELLEN, AND AT HIS TESTIMONIAL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, JANET YELLEN REFERRED TO HIM AS HER INSPIRATION? – JIM HANSON
WHICH CLASSMATE RAN AS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF NEW HAVEN IN 1969 AND 1971? – PAUL CAPRA
WHAT CLASSMATE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE COMMUNIST YOUTH FESTIVAL IN HELSINKI IN 1972? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHICH CLASSMATE WON A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS? – PETER DIAMOND
WHICH CLASSMATE TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL MATH TO BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN? – FRED WRIGHT
WHICH CLASSMATE OBTAINED A PILOT’S LICENSE BEFORE HIS DRIVER’S LICENSE, KIDNAPPED THE BETA PLEDGE MASTER AND FLEW HIM TO A REMOTE ISLAND IN LAKE ERIE WITH A SUITCASE OF WEIGHTS AND TEN CENTS, AND LEFT HIM THERE? – BOB JONES
WHICH CLASSMATE WENT THROUGH ROTC AT YALE, BUT BEFORE ATTENDING LAW SCHOOL AT HARVARD, HE FOUND HIMSELF FIGHTING GUERILLAS IN CENTRAL AMERICA? – JEFF O’SULLIVAN
WHO WAS RAISED ON A FARM AND HAD TO CARE FOR 200 CHICKENS, GEESE, PIGS, SHEEP, ETC.? – FROSTY SMITH
WHO DID ROSEMARY CLOONEY SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ON HIS 50TH BIRTHDAY; HE HAS ALSO RAISED $20,000 TO FIGHT CANCER IN THE ANNUAL YALE CANCER BIKEATHON? – JIM CASEY
WHICH CLASSMATE HAD A CAREER AS A CHILD ACTOR ON TELEVISION AND STAGE, PLAYING A YOUNG BOY OF 9 OR 10 FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT HIS CAREER CAME TO AN ABRUPT HALT WHEN HIS VOICE CHANGED? – ED CANTOR
WHO WAS THROWN IN JAIL IN THE CONGO FOR FIVE DAYS, SUSPECTED OF BEING A MERCENARY? (LATER IN LIFE, WHILE IN MALI, BUT BEING OBSESSED WITH VISITING TIMBUKTU, HE CHARTERED HIS OWN CARAVAN TO GET THERE.) – NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
WHO FLEW MEDICAL EVACUATION HELICOPTERS IN HOT ZONES DURING THE VIET NAM WAR? – GARY SIMONS
WHO HAD A SUMMER JOB IN HIS JUNIOR YEAR TESTING HIGH EXPLOSIVES AND BLOWING THINGS UP? – DANE MANCHESTER
WHAT CLASSMATE WAS ELECTED AS THE CAPTAIN OF THE CHICAGO BEARS? – MIKE PYLE
AFTER THE SCREAM BY EDVARD MUNCH WAS STOLEN FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN OSLO AND HELD FOR RANSOM, WHO HELPED THE NORWEGIANS AND SCOTLAND YARD SET UP A STING OPERATION TO GET IT BACK? (HE SUCCESSFULLY COACHED AN UNDERCOVER COP HOW TO BE A CURATOR AT AN AMERICAN MUSEUM THAT WAS PREPARED TO BUY THE PAINTING FROM THE THIEVES AND IT WORKED!!) – JOHN WALSH
WHICH CLASSMATE BROKE HIS COLLARBONE WHEN HE FELL OFF HIS HORSE TRYING TO TEACH A BUNCH OF MONGOLIANS HOW TO PLAY POLO? (FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS HE HAS LIVED ON A HOUSEBOAT IN SAUSALITO.) – WILFORD WELCH
WHO SERVED AS THE AMBASSADOR TO SIERRA LEONE AND COLLECTED OVER A MILLION MATCHBOOK COVERS? – MIKE SAMUELS
WHICH CLASSMATE WROTE TWO MUSICALS THAT WERE FEATURED AT A REDWOOD GROVE ON THE RUSSIAN RIVER, THE FIRST ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE SECOND ABOUT DR. JOSEPH WARREN, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO FROM MASSACHUSETTS? – PAUL DOWNEY
WHICH CLASSMATE HAS 9 CHILDREN AND 24 GRANDCHILDREN? – DENNY BATES
WHO SERVED IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE IN GHANA, BURUNDI, JERUSALEM, LONDON, PARIS AND WASHINGTON? – KIM PENDLETON
WHICH CLASSMATE WORKED WITH THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES TO BUILD A DOCK FOR REFUGEE FARMERS ON THE LOCATION THAT HAS NOW BECOME THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT? – PHIL PERIMAN
WHO SPENT A WEEK IN JAIL IN SELMA, ALABAMA DUE TO HIS ACTIVITY WITH DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HIS FREEDOM MOVEMENT? – GORDON GIBSON
WHO CREATED A WEBSITE TO PRESERVE AND STREAM DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT AMERICAN FOLK LIFE – TOM DAVENPORT
WHAT CLASSMATE PERFORMED WITH THE WORLD-FAMOUS TRIO, THE LETTERMEN, AT THE MOHEGAN SUN CASINO, SINGING “I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO”? – LOU ALLYN
WHICH CLASSMATE’S WORK AND TRAVEL TOOK HIM TO 140 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES? – TOM MANSBACH
WHICH TEDDY BEAR OF A CLASSMATE HAS BEEN MISTAKEN MANY TIMES FOR TIP O’NEILL? – DAVE RYAN
WHO SPENT AN ENTIRE SEASON WITH THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS BASEBALL TEAM RECORDING ALL STATISTICS FOR EACH PLAY IN EVERY GAME AND THEN WROTE A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE ROYALS BASED ON THE STATISTICAL DATA WHICH COMPLETELY CHANGED THE ROYALS’ SCOUTING APPROACH AND THE WAY THEY APPROACHED THEIR FUTURE? (NOW, HE NEVER ATTENDS MORE THAN ONE GAME A SEASON!) – ED ROBERTSON
WHO WAS THE FIRST CLASSMATE TO HOLD A MINI-REUNION AND WHERE WAS IT HELD? – SAM WEBB IN SHELBURNE, VT
WHO WAS A GREAT STORYTELLER WITH A BOOMING LAUGH, WHO TAUGHT AT BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND PRINCETON, WAS A SOCIAL WORKER AND MISSILE TECHNICIAN IN KOREA, BUT RECEIVED HIS GREATEST INSPIRATION WHEN HE MET EMMETT TILL? – ISAIAH BAKER
WHO FLEW AN ULTRA-LIGHT AIRPLANE AT 2,000 FEET OVER VICTORIA FALLS IN ZIMBABWE (WITH A LICENSED PILOT BY HIS SIDE)? – FROSTY SMITH
WHICH CLASSMATE DRIVES A HYDROGEN CELL FUEL CAR? – JIM LOOFBURROW
WHO WAS THE SECOND CLASSMATE TO HOLD A MINI REUNION AND WHERE WAS IT HELD? – DICK STRUB IN NEW ORLEANS
AS A PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST IN 1963, WHO BRIEFED GENERALS WESTMORELAND AND ABRAMS BEFORE THEY WENT TO VIET NAM? (LATER, HE RAN BUSINESSES FOR THE OWNER OF THE BUFFALO BILLS WHEN HE RETURNED TO DETROIT.) WHO WAS THAT WHIFFENPOOF? – SANDY MCMILLAN
WHO RECEIVED A PHD IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS FROM HARVARD AND WENT ON TO SUPPORT THE FIRST LANDING ON MARS? – STEVE MCREYNOLDS
WHICH CLASSMATE WAS BORN IN TORRINGTON, CT? (HIS FATHER WAS A BAKER, HE WAS THE FIRST IN HIS FAMILY TO GO TO COLLEGE, AND HE BECAME A PROLIFIC FUNDRAISER FOR THE CLASS OF 1961.) – VINCE TETI
WHO ARE THE FOUR CLASSMATES WHO LIVE AT THE LANDINGS, SOUTH OF SAVANNAH? – BILL BAYFIELD, GEORGE LONGSTRETH, WALTER HOUGH AND AL TOWNSEND
WHO WAS HIT BY A CAR WHILE SLIDING IN NEW HAVEN DURING A MONSTROUS SNOWSTORM? – NICK NOBBE
WHICH CLASSMATE PRODUCED “GREAT PERFORMANCES LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER” AND WON A TONY AWARD FOR HIS PRODUCTION OF PORGY AND BESS? – SHERWIN GOLDMAN
WHO, AFTER AN INITIAL CAREER WITH PAN AM, STARTED ONE OF THE FIRST HIGH END, HIGHLY ACCLAIMED, ADVENTURE TRAVEL COMPANIES? – GEORGE DOUBLEDAY
WHO WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN A ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE AND AFTER YALE, CLIMBED THE SUMMIT OF MATTERHORN, SPENT 23 DAYS CIRCUMVENTING ANNPURNA THROUGH NEPAL AND CLIMBED 19,000 FEEET ON THE TIBETAN ROUTE ON MOUNT EVEREST? – JAMIE MCLANE
WHICH CLASSMATE IS KNOWN AS “THE HISTORIAN OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER”? (HE HAS REPRESENTED THE ESTATES OF COLE PORTER, IRA GERSHWIN AND IRVING BERLIN AND HAS WRITTEN BIOGRAPHIES OF COLE PORTER, THE GERSHWINS AND EUBIE BLAKE.) – BOB KIMBALL
WHICH CLASSMATE SPENT 50 YEARS IN NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE ARMY, SERVED IN VIET NAM AT THE SAME TIME AS TWO BROTHERS AND BECAME THE CONFIDANTE TO SEVERAL GENERALS? – SANDY COCHRAN
WHO STARTED A FREE SURGICAL CLINIC IN KHAMMAN, INDIA? – GEORGE LONSTRETH
WHO SUFFERED A SUBDURAL HEMATOMA, AND WHEN HIS NEUROSURGEON TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD NEED TO DRILL TWO HOLES INTO HIS SKULL TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON THE BRAIN, SUGGESTED “DRILLING A THIRD HOLE IN HIS HEAD SO HIS HEAD COULD BE USED AS A BOWLING BALL?” – FRANK BERNSTEIN
WHO SERVED AS A DIRECTOR OF A BANK FOR 50 YEARS, INTERVIEWED YALE APPLICANTS FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF YALE ALUMNI (ASC) FOR 50 YEARS AND HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOR 50 YEARS – AND, AT AGE 82, STILL GOES TO THE OFFICE EVERY DAY? – FROSTY SMITH
WHO IS OUR ONLY CLASSMATE TO RECEIVE THE YALE MEDAL? – JOHN WALSH
WHICH CLASSMATE WAS EMPLOYED AS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE AND WHO, AS A STAMP COLLECTOR, SPECIALIZED IN STAMPS FROM TONGA? – DAVIS ROBINSON
WHO WAS A COLD WAR COUNTERSPY FOR THE CIA, BASED IN VERONA AND VENICE, AND EVENTUALLY MADE A VERY GOOD LIVING IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY? – BRIAN KELLY
WHO WAS NAMED TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALL-STATE FOOTBALL TEAM, ALL IVY AND ALL-AMERICAN AT YALE AND BECAME CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE CHOCOLATE COMPANY? – KEN WOLFE
WHO TAUGHT ENGLISH TO AFRICAN KIDS IN GHANA? – LYNN JOHNSON
WHICH CLASSMATES MARRIED SISTERS OF OTHER CLASSMATES? – FRED STRATTON MARRIED THE SISTER OF BILL YOUNGCLAUS, JIM TRIPP MARRIED THE SISTER OF PETER MOORE AND JOHN MAYPOLE MARRIED THE SISTER OF STEVE WHITE
WHO RESCUED THE BRITISH AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER, ASTON MARTIN, FROM BANKRUPTCY AND WAS CO-CHAIRMAN FOR 5 YEARS? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHICH CLASSMATE WAS INDUCTED IN TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING IN 2017, RECOGNIZED FOR HIS WORK IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING ON THE SAFETY OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS? – BOB BUDNITZ
WHO FOUNDED THE BATON ROUGE CHAPTER OF THE ACLU IN 1966? – HERB ROTHSCHILD
WHICH CLASSMATES HAD AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN? – BARNES ELLIS, DENNY BATES, JOHN DOWD, BOB BROWNING AND JOHN HOCKING
WHO WAS A GREAT JAZZ FAN, FREQUENTING EDDIE CONGDON’S AND TRYING TO PLAY HIS TROMBONE LIKE JACK TEAGARTEN? (WHEN HE SETTLED DOWN, HE WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF A HIGH SCHOOL IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY WHERE HE RECEIVED AN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FROM RONALD REAGAN AND FOUNDED THE PRINCIPALS’ CENTER IN NEW YORK AND MAINE.) – TOM EDWARDS
WHAT CLASSMATE LIVED IN TRUMBULL COLLEGE AND WAS FOLLOWED BY HIS DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER, ALL LIVING IN THE SAME COLLEGE? – FROST WALKER
WHICH CLASSMATE THOUGHT HE WAS LATE FOR AN AIRPLANE FLIGHT, SO HE DROVE TO THE FRONT OF THE AIRLINE TERMINAL AND SIMPLY ABANDONED HIS CAR? – JOHN DE NEUFVILLE
WHO WAS HIRED BY WINDSTAR CRUISES TO TELL SEA STORIES ABOARD SHIPS AND ON ONE OF HIS CRUISES, MET JAMES MICHENER? – JOHN NOVITSKI
WHO TAUGHT KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ENDED UP AS THE MARKETING VICE PRESIDENT FOR LEVI STRAUSS, WHERE HE CONCEPTUALIZED, BRANDED AND MARKETED THE “DOCKERS” BRAND OF JEANS? – STEVE GOLDSTEIN
WHICH CLASSMATE ATTENDED MEDICAL SCHOOL AFTER YALE AND FOUNDED, AND FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS WORKING CAREER, LED A NON-PROFIT DEDICATED TO DELIVERING MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES TO THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES? – RON O’CONNOR
WHICH CLASSMATE TAUGHT KHADAFFI AND THEN SERVED AS THE AMBASSADOR TO THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, SOMALIA AND ZAIRE? (HE ENDED UP WRITING EDITORIALS FOR THE PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE.) – DAN SIMPSON
WHO WAS IN EAST BERLIN IN AUGUST 1961 THE WEEK THE EAST GERMANS COMMENCED CONSTRUCTION OF THE WALL? – FROSTY SMITH
WHICH CLASSMATE’S FATHER LETTERED IN FOOTBALL, HOCKEY AND BASEBALL AT YALE AND THEN BECAME THE YALE HOCKEY COACH? – DAVID NOBLE
DURING OUR SENIOR YEAR, WHAT TEAM WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN? – THE SQUASH TEAM CAPTAINED BY TAT STARR
WHO WAS DESIGNATED AS BEST JUDGE IN CONNECTICUT BY THE CONNECTICUT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION? – TOM CORRADINO
WHICH CLASSMATE WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA TO TEACH MATH AT A GIRLS’ MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE ‘90s AND STARTED A GIRLS’ SOCCER TEAM USING OLD YALE SOCCER JERSEYS AS UNIFORMS? – ANDY BLOCK
WHO SERVED AS AMBASSADOR TO MOROCCO UNDER RONALD REAGAN, AS CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AT THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND IN VARIOUS UNDER SECRETARY POSITIONS AT THE UNITED NATIONS? – JOE REED
WHO CREATED THE ORAL HISTORY OF IRAN PROJECT, FROM THE 1920’S TO THE 1970’S, AT HARVARD? – HABIB LADJEVARDI
WHAT CLASSMATE STILL HOLDS A YALE RECORD IN TRACK AND FIELD? – JIM STACK IN THE 880
AFTER A CAREER IN AEROSPACE, WHO SPENT MANY YEARS AS A POPULAR PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY TEACHER AT A TOP PRIVATE SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA? (HE ALSO SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA YALE CLUB.) – PAUL TIERNEY
WHICH CLASSMATES EARNED THE MOST VARSITY LETTERS AT YALE? – MIKE PYLE AND DAVE SIMMONS
WHICH CLASSMATE STARTED THE JEFFERSON AWARDS IN 1971 AFTER A CONVERSATION WITH JACQUELINE KENNEDY? (THE AWARDS GO OUT TO OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANTS AND WERE ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. TODAY, THEY ARE NATIONALLY COVETED AND AWARDED TO ABOUT 1,000 PUBLIC SERVANTS ANNUALLY.) THIS CLASSMATE ALSO PIONEERED PROGRAMS FOR OPENING UP LOANS TO MINORITY BUSINESSES AND HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO PUBLIC SERVICE. – SAM BEARD
WHO SPENT SEVERAL YEARS TEACHING COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY TO INMATES AT A MAINE STATE PENITENTIARY THROUGH A PROGRAM SPONSORED BY WARREN BUFFET’S SISTER? – PAT MUNDY
WHICH CLASSMATE MODELED FOR VOGUE MAGAZINE AT YALE AND BECAME A WORLD CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER? – PETER BEARD
WHO LABELED OUR CLASS AND OUR GENERATION AS “THE BLAND LEADING THE BLAND”? – PROFESSOR JOHN BLUM AT OUR 35TH REUNION
WHO BIKED 1730 MILES IN 22 DAYS FROM MINOT, ND TO CLEVELAND, OH, OBSERVING THAT HE SAW LOTS OF CORN ALONG THE WAY? – RON ST. JOHN
WHO SERVED AS THE DEAN OF A NORTHEAST LAW SCHOOL AND WROTE MANY BESTSELLING BOOKS DESCRIBING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENTS AND THEIR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES? – JIM SIMON
WHO NUMBERS, AMONG HIS FRIENDS, THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST GEORGE SOROS AND THE GREAT FINANCIER JAMES WOLFENSOHN? – JACK ALLEN
HOW MUCH DID A LARGE CHEESE PIZZA COST AT SALLY’S DURING OUR SENIOR YEAR? – $1.60
WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE HOCKEY TEAM, BECAME A NOTED HAND SURGEON AND THEN DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO SUCH CAUSES AS LEGALIZING CANNABIS AND ASSISTED SUICIDE? – CHARLIE HAMLIN
IN AN OBVIOUS EDITORIAL BLUNDER, WHICH MAGAZINE DESCRIBED OUR FRESHMAN CLASS AS “THE BRIGHTEST EVER”? – THE NEW YORKER
WHOSE FATHER WAS A NOTED ADMIRAL IN WORLD WAR II AND THE SUBJECT OF A YALE PRESS BIOGRAPHY? – ROBERT RICKOVER’S FATHER, ADMIRAL HYMAN RICKOVER.
WHAT YEAR DID YALE RAISE TUITION AN ASTRONOMICAL $250 TO $1,800 WITH THE TOTAL COST, INCLUDING ROOM AND BOARD, TO $2,800/YEAR? – 1964
WHO RAN WITH THE BULLS AT PAMPLONA AND WAS THROWN IN JAIL IN MAJORCA – FROSTY SMITH
WHO WAS BOARD CHAIRMAN OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S TALIESIN WEST AND BOARD CHAIRMAN OF THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION? – FRED STRATTON
WHO STILL COMPETITIVELY RACES HIS OLYMPIC CLASS SOLING SAILBOAT 2-3 TIMES PER WEEK – BUT THIS SOLING IS 39“ LONG, HAS NO SPINNAKER, AND IS SKIPPERED BY EITHER STUART LITTLE OR THIS INDIVIDUAL WITH A REMOTE CONTROLLER? – JAMIE MCLANE
WHO RAN ON THE CONSTITUTION TICKET FOR PRESIDENT IN 2016 AND PARTICIPATED IN THE IOWAN CAUCUSES, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO END HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, BUT DID NOT END HIS CAMPAIGN FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM? – JOHN COGSWELL
WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK: “ARCHITECT’S GRAVESITES” PUBLISHED IN 2017 BY THE MIT PRESS AND ACCLAIMED AS “A DELIGHTFUL JOURNEY INTO THE LAST BIDS FOR MEMORY GRANTED TO DESIGNERS WHOSE WORK HAD TRANSFORMED THE FACE OF AMERICAN CITIES?” – HANK KUEHN
WHO IS SPENDING THE REST OF HIS LIFE TRYING TO SCORE HIS AGE IN GOLF, CATCH THE BIGGEST BROWN TROUT AND WRITE POETRY REFLECTING ON HIS LONG AND INTERESTING LIFE? – PHIL PERIMAN
WHAT CLASSMATE VOLUNTEERED TO WRITE THE YALE ALUMNI MAGAZINE (YAM) NOTES FOR HIS FATHER’S YALE CLASS OF 1931, AFTER THE CLASS SECRETARY DIED AND NO ONE CAME FORTH TO WRITE THE NOTES? (IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED AT THE TIME AND HE WROTE THE NOTES FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.) – BOB BUDNITZ
WHO, IN THE SUMMER OF 1960, WHILE IN ACAPULCO AND AFTER A NUMBER OF ADULT BEVERAGES DECIDED TO VISIT THE MEXICAN NAVAL BASE AND BOARD A SHIP? (HE MANAGED TO GET PAST THE MAIN GATE AND WAS SOON SURROUNDED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO INGLORIOUSLY ESCORTED HIM OFF THE BASE.) – HERB ELLIOT
AFTER OUR YALE GRADUATION, WHICH CLASSMATES (ROOMMATES) MARRIED SIMMONS COLLEGE ROOMMATES – PROMPTING THE 4 OF THEM TO SAY, “WE SIMPLY SWITCHED ROOMMATES?” – BOB BUDNITZ AND GERRY ROGOFF
WHO WAS THE ONLY CLASSMATE TO PLAY POLO AND FOOTBALL AT YALE? – WILFORD WELCH
WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE HUNGARIAN RESISTANCE IN 1956, ESCAPED TO THE UNITED STATES AND BECAME AN ALL-AMERICAN SWIMMER AT YALE? – BALAZS GYORFFY
WHO IDENTIFIED, IN 1982 IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, SIX MEN WITH A STRANGE AILMENT THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE FIRST CASES OF AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES? – DR. RON ST. JOHN
WHICH CLASSMATES WERE/ARE THE LEADING FORCE IN RAISING MORE THAN $2,800,000 FOR THE YALE CLASS OF 1961 ENDOWMENT FOR THE YALE CANCER CENTER? – ED CANTOR AND JOHN DE NEUFVILLE
WHO WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR (A NYSE COMPANY) FOR 30 YEARS? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHO SPENT A WEEK IN JAIL IN SELMA, ALABAMA DUE TO HIS ACTIVITY IN DR. KING’S FREEDOM MOVEMENT? – GORDON GIBSON
WHO, WITH HIS WIFE, LIVED ON A TRAWLER (BOAT) FOR EIGHT YEARS? – JAMIE MCLANE
WHAT CLASSMATE RECENTLY SHOT HIS AGE IN GOLF? – BOB JONES
WHICH CLASSMATE AND HIS WIFE, WHILE STANDING IN THE SQUARE IN FRONT OF THE BLUE MOSQUE IN ISTANBUL, WAS APPROACHED BY A CAMEL TRADER IN FULL REGALIA? (HE WAS ASKED, “IS THAT YOUR WIFE OVER THERE?” “YES, WHY DO YOU ASK?” “WILL YOU SELL HER?” “OF COURSE, HOW MUCH?” “FOUR CAMELS.” “LOOK AT HER. SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL BLOND. NOT A CAMEL LESS THAN 14.” NO DEAL WAS MADE. STILL MARRIED AFTER 60 YEARS. TRUE STORY. – FROSTY AND NANCY SMITH
WHICH INSANE CLASSMATE FINISHED EACH OF 37 MARATHONS IN UNDER 3 HOURS AND COMPLETED 20 ONE HUNDRED-MILE TRAIL RACES IN HIS 50s AND 60s? – DICK LACEY
WHO IN OUR CLASS BEAT THE EVENTUAL WORLD CHAMPION AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST IN POLE VAULTING (JOHN PENNEL) AT A DUAL MEET WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI … BY 6 INCHES?! – CHARLIE DILL
WHO HAD A DATE WITH DIANA BARRYMORE WHEN SHE WAS IN NEW HAVEN PERFORMING AT THE SHUBERT THEATER? – PHIL CHAMPLIN
WHO HAS 15 PATENTS IN OPTICS SOFTWARE HARDWARE AND THE ONLY SCIENCE COURSE HE TOOK AT YALE WAS ROCKS FOR JOCKS? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHAT CLASSMATE BECAME A JUDGE ON THE NEW YORK STATE SUPERIOR COURT? – JOE HESTER
WHICH THREE CLASSMATES PUT A LIVE PIG IN NICK GARDINER’S ROOM? – OLMSTEAD, SIMPSON, AND GRINSTEAD
WHO WAS A WATER BOY FOR VINCE LOMBARDI, WHO LED THE GREEN BAY PACKERS IN 1957, AND STARTED A CHARITABLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT DISABLED AND HANDICAPPED PEOPLE IN ECUADOR IN THE 1990’s? (HE ALSO RECEIVED THE MCGUIRE GORDON CUP IN 1961, RECOGNIZING HIM AS “THE MEMBER OF THE GRADUATING CLASS IN TIMOTHY DWIGHT COLLEGE WHO, BY HIS CHARACTER, PERSONALITY, AND LEADERSHIP IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COLLEGE, INSPIRED IN OTHERS A DEVOTION TO THE FINEST TRADITIONS OF YALE.”) – DICK EGAN
WHOSE GRANDSON WAS A STALWART ON THE YALE LACROSSE TEAM? (THE GRANDSON’S MOTHER WAS CAPTAIN OF THE YALE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM AND THE GRANDSON MARRIED A CAPTAIN OF THE YALE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM.) – BRUCE AMBLER
WHO, IN FRESHMAN YEAR IN WRIGHT HALL, MADE A SOCCER BALL OUT OF ALUMINUM GUM WRAPPERS, SOAKED IT WITH LIGHTER FLUID, LIGHT IT UP AND KICKED IT AROUND THE HALL? (AT ONE POINT IT WAS KICKED INTO TOM GILMORE’S ROOM AND LODGED UNDER HIS BEAT UP SOFA. THE SOFA CAUGHT FIRE AND WAS FRANTICALLY HAULED INTO THE SHOWER TO DOUSE THE FLAMES. TOM SOLD THE SOFA TO FRESHMEN THE NEXT YEAR. THEY NEVER EXAMINED THE CHARRED BOTTOM – RON ST. JOHN
WHO WAS THE NEPHEW OF THE FAMOUS MONTREAL CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYER AND COACH, TOE BLAKE? – GEORGE BLAKE (LEFT YALE AFTER 1 YEAR).
WHO WAS THE NEW YORK METRO MASTERS 50 CHAMPION TWO YEARS IN A ROW? – DICK LACEY
WHAT YALE TEAM WON THE NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN POLO IN 1960? – POLO. WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN? – JARRETT VINCENT
WHICH YALE TEAM WON THE NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1961? – SQUASH. WHO WAS THE CAPTAIN? – TAT STARR
IN WHAT YEAR DID THE YALE RIFLE TEAM WIN THE IVY LEAGUE TITLE? – 1961
AT THE 1960 YALE VS HARVARD TRACK, WHO WON THE 600-YARD DASH (IN 1:10.5), THE FASTEST 600 –YARD DASH TIME IN THE WORLD FOR THE YEAR 1960? – JIM STACK
WHAT IS THE NAME OF A 19-YEAR-OLD SINGER WHO, IN 1964, MET A CLASSMATE AT A BOWLING ALLEY/DISCOTHEQUE AND WENT WITH HIM TO DINNER AT THE CATTLEMAN IN MANHATTAN? – DIANA ROSS. WHO IS THE CLASSMATE? – DICK LEE
WHAT CLASSMATE PUBLISHED GILBERT DELOR’S BOOK, “TOM JOHNSON OU MUSIQUE LOGIQUE?” – TOM JOHNSON
WHAT TWO CLASSMATES, AS EAGLE SCOUTS IN 1956, WERE SELECTED AS PART OF A BOY SCOUT GROUP OF EIGHT TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN SWITZERLAND, FRANCE AND ENGLAND? – STEVE GOLDSTEIN AND FROSTY SMITH
WHAT CLASSMATE, INSPIRED BY A RUBENS PAINTING IN THE YALE ART MUSEUM, WAS INSPIRED TO DO AN INTERCONTINENTAL SWIM (THE HELLESPONT/DARDENELLES) FROM EUROPE TO ASIA? – NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (NOTE: WE DID NOT FACT CHECK THIS SUBMISSION.)
WHO WAS THE FIRST OF 4 BROTHERS (JERRY ’63, ROBERT ’67, RICHARD ’72) TO PLAY FOOTBALL FOR YALE? (TO SAVE MONEY, WHICH WAS TIGHT IN HIS FAMILY, HE GRADUATED IN 3 YEARS AND WENT ON TO HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL. AT THE REQUEST OF THE YALE COACHING STAFF, HE SCOUTED ALL THE HARVARD HOME GAMES, PREPARATORY TO THE CULMINATION OF OUR UNDEFEATED SEASON IN 1960.) – BRIAN KENNEY
WHO, AS A MEMBER OF THE YALE OUTING CLUB, HOSTED YOUNG LADIES FROM CONNECTICUT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (NEW LONDON) AT THE YALE OUTDOOR CENTER, AND MET HIS WIFE OF 60 YEARS, FLORENCE? – FREDERICK WRIGHT
WHAT CLASSMATE, CALLED UP FROM THE RESERVES IN 1968, REPORTED FOR DUTY AT FORT MEADE, MD AND WAS ASSIGNED TO A TRUCK AND TANK MAINTENANCE UNIT? (TO QUOTE HIM, “ON MY FIRST DAY IN THE MOTOR POOL, I WAS TOLD TO CHECK THE OIL AND WATER IN A LINE OF TRUCKS. I FOUND ONE LOW ON WATER, SO GOT A WATERING CAN, FILLED IT AND POURED IT IN. FINDING THE WATER WAS STILL LOW, I HURRIED BACK TO FILL ANOTHER CAN. THE SERGEANT IN CHARGE ASKED ME WHAT I WAS DOING AND WHEN I EXPLAINED, HE SAID HE WOULD JOIN ME. AS I RAISED THE CAN TO ADD SOME MORE WATER, HE YELLED FOR ME TO STOP AND LET LOOSE MANY EXPLETIVES I HAD NEVER HEARD. I HAD BEEN POURING WATER INTO THE OIL TANK. THE NEXT DAY I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE POST FINANCE BARRACKS. AT THE END OF MY TOUR, I WAS AWARDED AN ARMY COMMENDATION MEDAL.” – DICK LEE
WHOSE LICENSE PLATE READS, “YL1961?” – FROSTY SMITH
HOW DID ROCK ‘N ROLL GET TO THE YALE CAMPUS? IN THE FALL OF 1959, A CLASSMATE ENTICED DINO VALENTI, WHOM HE HAD HEARD PLAYING IN A BAR IN NEWPORT, TO COME PLAY ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE FENCE CLUB. DINO “BLEW THE ROOM AWAY.” THREE WEEKS LATER, CHUCK BERRY PERFORMED AT THE BETA HOUSE. WHO WAS THAT CLASSMATE? – CHARLIE HAMLIN
WHAT CLASSMATE WAS APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT CARTER TO THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD AND HELPED TO DEREGULATE THE AIR INDUSTRY… AND ALSO WORKED FOR RALPH NADER? – REUBEN ROBERTSON
WHO TOOK HIS 7½ MONTHS PREGNANT WIFE, JUDY, DURING A SNOWSTORM IN DECEMBER, TO OXFORD, ENGLAND WHERE TESSA WAS BORN? – PHILLIP PERIMAN
WHO, AFTER OUR YALE GRADUATION, WENT TO MEXICO CITY AND ATTENDED MEXICO CITY COLLEGE (NOW THE UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS)? (HE TOOK ARCHEOLOGY CLASSES AND PICTURED HIMSELF AS CLASSMATE JOHN BIGHAM’S GRANDFATHER.) – BOB KILLEBREW
WHO WAS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE YALE CLASS OF 1961 TO ATTEND THE WASHINGTON AND LEE FANCY DRESS BALL AND THE DARTMOUTH WINTER CARNIVAL ALL FOUR YEARS WE WERE AT YALE? – BOB KILLEBREW
WHOSE PHD DISSERTATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SAN DIEGO (SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY) DEVELOPED A PROBE TO MEASURE THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, INCREASING THE RESOLUTION BY OVER A FACTOR OF 100 FROM PREVIOUS MEASUREMENTS? – MICHAEL GREGG
WHO WAS THE ONLY FRESHMAN MEMBER OF THE YALE CLASS OF 1961 WHOSE HOME ADDRESS (AT THAT TIME) WAS ALASKA? – BILL DIAL
WHO, AS A FRESHMAN, WAS “CAUGHT IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO, BROUGHT BEFORE THE FRESHMAN DEAN AND EXILED OFF CAMPUS FOR A MONTH?” – NICK NOBBE
WHO STARTED THE LARGEST CHICKEN FARM IN IRAN, THAT BECAME 27,000 TONS OF SUBZERO COLD STORAGE? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHAT YEAR READS THE SAME, RIGHT SIDE UP, OR UPSIDE DOWN? – 1961
WHAT CLASSMATE RECOVERED FROM A RUPTURED KNEE TENDON, RETURNED TO SWIMMING AND IN THE MASTERS NATIONALS IN AUGUST 2022 PLACED 2ND IN THE 400M FREE, 4TH IN THE 200M FREE AND 8TH IN THE 100M FREE? – NICK NOBBE
WHO IS MARRIED TO PATRICIA HARRIS, THE CEO OF BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES? – MARK LEBOW
WHICH TWO CLASSMATES DECIDED ON MANAGEMENT CONSULTING AS A RESULT OF ATTENDING CHRIS ARGYRIS’ INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION CLASS ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR? – BOB FRAZIER AND JOSH TAYLOR
WHAT CLASSMATE WAS THE AMBASSADOR TO MORROCCO? – JOSEPH VERNER REED
WHO WAS THE SON OF A LAW SCHOOL DEAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW? – BERT RITCHIE
WHO SERVED ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA FOR 12 YEARS? – H. DAN ADAMS
WHOSE SON IS A GOLF PRO FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS IN CHINA AND COACHED A YOUNG MAN, PERRY KIM, WHO LATER BECAME A MEMBER OF THE YALE GOLF TEAM? – BILL LEAR
WHO HAS THE NAME OF HIS GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT UNCLE, WHO SIGNED THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (ON BEHALF OF SOUTH CAROLINA)? – COTESWORTH PINCKNEY
WHO MADE 18 ROUND TRIPS TO JAPAN (1967-1970) TO PROVIDE CONSULTING SERVICES FOR THE USA PAVILION AND THE PEPSI COLA PAVILION @ EXPO ’70? – JOHN PEARCE
WHO ATTENDED HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL (PHYSICS) BECAUSE IN 1961 HE MARRIED A SOPHOMORE ATTENDING SIMMONS COLLEGE AND HE WANTED TO BE IN PROXIMITY TO HIS NEW WIFE? – BOB BUDNITZ
WHO SERVED AS A MEDICAL MISSIONARY IN PAKISTAN, SOUTH AFRICA, AND HONDURAS? – CHRISTOPHER SMITH
WHO WAS THE FIRST YALE ’61 CLASSMATE TO OWN HIS PERSONAL JET (A CHINESE RED SABERLINER)? – BILL WHITE
WHO RAN IN THE BOSTON MARATHON 7 TIMES. FASTEST TIME – 2 HOURS, 32 MINUTES? – TIM WELLES
WHO OWNS AN ISLAND IN MAINE? – JOHN PEARCE
WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA AND BUILT, FLEW AND STILL OWNS A RV8 KIT AIRPLANE? – TIM WELLES
WHO PUT A ’54 MERC ENGINE IN A ’49 FORD AND ALSO BUILT A WOODEN RACING BOAT? – LOU ALLYN
WHO HAS BEEN HONORED WITH A MEDAL OF HONOR FOR THE ENDERS ISLAND RECOVERY MINISTRY IN MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT? – LOU ALLYN
WHO HAS BEEN CHAIRMAN, FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS, OF THE ST. FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR, CHAIRMAN OF AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM, WHICH IS ISRAEL’S EQUIVALENT OF THE RED CROSS AND IS INVOLVED WITH THE FORTUNE SOCIETY, WHICH ASSISTS FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS TO REENTER SOCIETY? (THAT MAKES HIM THE ONLY Y’61 WHO IS CHAIRMAN OR OFFICER OF A JEWISH, CATHOLIC, AND CRIMINAL REHABILITATION CHARITY.) – MARK LEBOW
WHO FLEW CHARLES LINDBERGH FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS? – BRYSON THOMPSON BACKGROUND: AS A PAN AM PILOT IN THE LATE 1960S, HE REGULARLY FLEW FROM JFK TO PARIS. AS A COINCIDENCE, CHARLES LINDBERGH WAS A PASSENGER ON ONE FLIGHT. AS A PAN AM BOARD MEMBER, IT WAS HIS CUSTOM TO VISIT THE COCKPIT DURING THE FLIGHT.
WHAT TWO CLASSMATES WERE NAVY FIGHTER PILOTS IN FIGHTER SQUADRON 161 ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER CONSTELLATION AND FLEW MANY COMBAT MISSIONS OVER NORTH VIET NAM IN 1966? – JOHN DOWD AND BRYSON THOMPSON
WHO LOGGED MORE THAN 10,000 HOURS FLYING GLIDERS AND AIRPLANES? – TIM WELLES
WHO WAS THE CO-HOST OF THE Y’61 2015 MINI REUNION HELD IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA? – BRIAN T. KELLY
“IT WAS A RAINY NIGHT IN SINGAPORE IN SPRING 1962. OUR YALE CLASSMATE AND HIS COLLEAGUE, AN END ON THE PENN FOOTBALL TEAM WE HAD WHIPPED IN 1960, WERE HAVING DRINKS AT A RUNDOWN CHINESE RESTAURANT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TOWN. TWO BRITISH SEAMEN SAT ACROSS OUR SMALL TABLE.
“OUR UPENN COLLEAGUE WAS VERY DRUNK AND ABUSIVE. FINALLY, ONE OF THE BRITS PULLED OUT A STILETTO AND WAS ABOUT TO LUNGE. OUR YALE CLASSMATE, STILL INSPIRED BY THE EXPLOITS OF JOHN WAYNE, FLIPPED THE TABLE OVER ON THE BRITS, SCOOPED HIS COLLEAGUE ONTO HIS SHOULDERS IN A ‘FIREMAN’S CARRY’ AND RAN FOR THE DOOR – EXPECTING THE STILETTO TO ENTER HIS BACK AT ANY TIME.” CLASSMATES NAME – WILFORD WELCH
WHO HAS 3,750 DIVES IN HIS SCUBA LOGBOOK, HAS RETIRED THREE TIME FROM TEACHING PHYSICS AT THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL, AND IS RECENTLY MARRIED? – PAUL TIERNEY
WHO PRODUCED AND FINANCED THE MOVIE “STEPPENWOLF” STARRING DOMINIQUE SANDA AND MAX VON SYDOW IN 1974? – PETER SPRAGUE
WHO STARTED THE FIRST NAACP OFFICE IN NEW HAVEN, WHEN HE WAS AN UNDERGRADUATE? – IKE BAKER
WHAT CLASSMATE DROVE HIS WHITE CHEVROLET CONVERTIBLE TO CAMBRIDGE IN OUR SOPHOMORE YEAR TO SEE THE YALE HARVARD GAME AND, WITH THE HELP OF SOME TIMOTHY DWIGHT CLASSMATES, STOLE A LARGE HARVARD BANNER FROM THE PORTICO OF THE FLY CLUB? HE AND FELLOW TD THIEVES THEN TOOK TURNS HANGING THE BLACK ABD RED H IN THEIR LIVING ROOMS. – JOHN VENIER