G. Barrett Rich IV  
Secretary

E. Leigh Quinn
Treasurer

Carlton F. Loucks
55th Reunion Chair

Irving F. Jensen, Jr.
55th Reunion Gift Chair

James W.M. Monde
AYA Delegate

C. Paul Pesek, Jr.
Chair of Agents

Class Council

Willis C. Arndt
Harris J. Ashton
David L. Banker    
  Richard G. Bell
William L. Bernhard
Howard M. Brenner
Robert  A. Bryan
W. Murray Buttner
John P. Cleary
Donald K. Clifford, Jr.
P. Cameron DeVore
Christopher A. Forster
S. Joseph Fortunato
John A. Franciscus
Frederick Frank
Richard Gilder
William W. Grant
James A. Greer II
Irving F. Jensen, Jr.
Charles B. Johnson
Steven J. Kumble
Carlton F. Loucks
Robert A. Martin
Thomas L. McLane
Russell W. Meyer, Jr.
Marvin E. Miller
James W.M. Monde
T. Ballard Morton, Jr.
William K. Muir, Jr
C. Paul Pesek, Jr.
Robert C. Quinlan
E. Leigh Quinn
Russell S. Reynolds,Jr.
G. Barrett Rich, IV
Elihu Rose
Carl B. E. Shedd
George A. Shutt
Joel E. Smilow
Gaddis Smith
George L. Spaeth
J. Clayton Stephenson
James Thompson
Charles T. Treadway,iII
Charles G. Watson
Martin T. Whitmer
Howard H. Williams, III
Samuel McC. Yonce

Can Mory's be saved?  
Have an opinion or an idea?  Let's hear from you! 
Email Our Website:  Editor@Y54.org

Yale Daily News articles about Mory's
Mory’s schedules comeback for fall ’09
Labor Costs helped tople Mory's

The Smilow Cancer Hospital will Open in 2009
Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale University announced that Joan and Joel E. Smilow (Yale College '54) gave a major gift to support the new, 14-story cancer hospital currently under construction at Yale-New Haven. The comprehensive patient care facility will be known as the Smilow Cancer Hospital.  Full story.

Surveillance Sanity
By BENJAMIN CIVILETTI, DICK THORNBURGH and WILLIAM WEBSTER
Read the WSJ editorial op-ed, Oct. 31, 2007

Visit the Dick Thornburgh Collection at the University of Pittsburgh


 

Charles B. Johnson (left) and Nicholas F. Brady (right) were presented with Nathan Hale Awards by President Richard C. Levin in honor of their gift supporting the expansion of the Grand Strategy Program.  Story

Need some levity?  Email of the year

Gerald Grinstein retires with class 
Read WSJ story

Class of 1954 Chemistry Building
officially opened
Click here to see Yale article

 Astonishing College Admissions Tactics
The class of 1967 Listserve brought to our attention the eye-opening magazine articles below.  Page urls may change, so if you are unable to secure the articles, email our website and we will forward them by email.
GETTING IN  The social logic of Ivy League admissions 
Does Meritocracy Work?
The Best Class that Money Can Buy
USN&WR Top National College Rankings 2006

We would like to encourage your submissions --articles, books, etc. that you believe would be of interest to our class.

Letter to T.D. classmates from Jay Greer
We welcome more correspondence from classmates as space in the Class Notes is limited.

Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
has gala opening on July 4th, 2006
Read the N.Y. Times story  More information is available as well at the  museum website.

Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman: Interviewed on C-SPAN  Read the History New Network review

Chris Forster gets Yale Medal!
"Commitment to Yale has been your byword for fifty years.  Forging a record of peerless service to the University and your class, you have served as Class Secretary, Treasurer, Class Council member, 40th and and 45th Reunion Co-Chair, and as an active leader of your class's Reunion Gift Committees."

New assignment for Dick Thornburgh
(CBS/AP) CBS News on Wednesday named former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press president chief executive Louis D. Boccardi to an independent panel to probe a story about President Bush's National Guard service.

Gilbert Grosvenor awarded Medal of Freedom

Photo: Mark Thiessen, National Geographic

In a June 23 ceremony at the White House, George W. Bush awarded the National Geographic's Chairman of the Board with the country's highest civilian honor- second only to the Medal of Honor given by Congress for military valor.  "We honor him todav for his good stewardship of a great American Institution," said the President.

To learn more about the award and the other recipients this year, go to the Medal of Freedom website.

From the Anonymous Class Survey:

What books do we read and 
who are our favorite authors?

Here are our favorite actors,
actresses, movies and music

What are our favorite electronic toys?

What is our personal net worth and
and how does it vary by occupation,
geography and happiness level?

ON THE MORALITY CULTIVATED BY COMMERCE
by Sandy Muir

NFL’s Williams Named Football Coach
Tom Williams, a defensive assistant for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has been named the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football. Williams coached at the college level for 11 years before joining the NFL. A captain on the Stanford University football team, Williams served on the collegiate coaching staffs at Hawaii, Stanford, Washington and San Jose State before his tenure at Jacksonville. Williams is the first African American head football coach at Yale and the second ever in the Ivy League.

Yale Shuts Out Princeton 14-0
and weather shuts out bowl                  Photos

Photos by Elliott Novak
The grand dedication of the Yale Bowl 
Class of 1954 Field at the Coxe Cage Nov'07
Harvard 37, Yale 6.  N.Y. Times story
(But Y'54 scored at half-time!) 
 Photos of dedication and game 
Photos by Elliott Novak, Carl shedd
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The Washington, DC Mini-Reunion 
has a record turnout - Photos
Photos by Joyce and Elliott Novak, Carl Shedd

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2006 Mini-reunion in New Haven 
Photos by Elliott Novak

San Francisco not so Mini-Reunion
A good time was had by all April 20-23 thanks to the great efforts and planning by the reunion committee composed of Bill Bardeen, Charlie Johnson, Bob Martin, Sandy Muir, Ivan Poutiatine, Barrie Rich, Bill Stone '52, Wally Stuhr, Tom Swartz, Putney Westerfield '51, and Mason Willrich.
Lots of pictures -click on  "photos" and be patient!
Photos by Elliott Novak, Carl Shedd

Welcome dinner at the St. Francis Yacht Club - Photos
Friday Daytime activities - Photos
Dinner at the Pacific-Union Club - Photos 
Saturday Daytime activities - PhotosClass Dinner at Carolands Chateau - Photos
Sunday Farewell Brunch at Top of the Mark - Photos