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Joel E. Smilow, Secretary  Email: (Subject:  Re: Yale)

By the time you read these Notes you should have received a couple of mailings concerning our 50th Reunion, which is less than two years away. Please give these matters your timely attention. Carl Shedd is now the sole chair of the 50th Reunion book, which will be fabulous --even more so, assuming most classmates reply to Carl's requests for individual material for the book.

You also will have received the notice of our annual mini-reunion to be held on November 15-16 around the Yale-Princeton game. The speaker at our pre-lunch continental breakfast in the Field Center will be Charles Hill, who has been a lecturer at Yale for almost ten years. He's an expert in international affairs, with specific working experience in the Middle East, in the intelligence service and as an assistant to George Shultz and Boutros-Ghali. If you haven't signed up and have lost your reply form, please call my office and we'll send you another copy.

Don't forget to check our reunion Web site at (WWW.Y54-50th.org).

Jay Greer writes about having had a wonderful evening in Los Angeles with Jack and Martha Matloff. Jack retired from the active practice of cardiac surgery but remains very busy putting his considerable experience and skill to work in creating a database that will help physicians improve their diagnoses and measure the medical and economic outcomes of their work.

Russ Goddard continues to work on his book Letters For My Children, an odyssey through the minefields of manic depression. He feels that, with luck, this chronicle will be published before our 50th Reunion.

W. Sibley Towner reports that in 1970 he officiated at the marriage of Sang Chang, recently named as Korea's first woman prime minister, to the also remarkable Prof. Joon Surh Park, vice president of Yonsei University in Seoul. (Subsequent to receipt of Towner's letter, we learned that Sang Chang was not confirmed as prime minister.)

Richard Grosse, who lives in Tybee Island, Georgia, writes about his family's "Yale dynasty." A granddaughter will probably be the fifth of the clan to go to Yale, starting with Richard. He and his wife Mary
spent half of December '01 driving around Costa Rica, viewing "amazing" sights.

David Banker attended a "stylish and memorable 70th birthday house party" given by Charlie Bullock and his wife Sue at one of New England's most elegant hotels in Westport, Connecticut. Also among the 40-plus guests were Jack and Alice Rogers and Bill Bernhard and his wife Catherine Cahill. David's conclusion is that turning 70 can actually be an "upper" -- at least if it's done Bullock-style.

On a somber note, word has reached us about the death of Dr. James C. Carey Jr., who died May 8, 2002.

Joel E. Smilow, Secretary  Email: (Subject:  Re: Yale)

Our 2002 fall mini-reunion will take place in New Haven on Friday evening (121/15/02) and Saturday (11/16/02) around the Princeton at Yale Football game.

Our 50th Reunion Book Chairs, Gaddis Smith and Carl Shedd will soon be sending out the first mailings to all classmates. Please give the mailing timing attention. We're planning to publish a "World-Class" book. A key element in the achievement of this goal is high percentage participation of classmates - EVERY CLASSMATE COUNTS.

Rev. Tom Osgood living in San Mateo, California has retired and loves it. Plans to learn sea kayaking. Jim English celebrated his 70th birthday on March 5th. On April 13th a special private dinner was held in his honor at the New Haven Lawn Club. Gavin Roberson is still working in the out placement field and "loves it" while "thinking more and more about packing it in." He took his wife, June and two of three children and two of six grandchildren to Scotland last year. He's still gloating over the Diamond Backs' World Series win over the "hated Yankees." George Mihalalich has a new mailing address in East Liverpool, Ohio - 515 Hill Boulevard.

Bruce Meacham is changing jobs, but continuing in lending with the Raymond James Bank in St. Petersburg. Claims he "just doesn't know when to quit." He has nine grandchildren with three more expected by July '02. He and Mary Anne took part in last year's Yale Alumni Chorus tour to England, Wales and Russia as well as the Tercentennial events in New Haven. "It was a thrill to make great music again - unbelievable to look around and realize you were singing with guys you haven't sung with for nearly 50 years while making new friends and realizing the instant camaraderie that events like this always create."

Mike Stanley is entering his 15th year as an instructor for Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. He was elected to the school's corporation and finds the work very exciting. Vince Pantalone retired from his second career (18 years) as a teacher at the University of Maryland. He plans to do some consulting as a tax law specialist.

Peter and Rhonda Grant have had a traveling year - an absolutely fascinating excursion to Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania in January with six friends from the World Wildlife Fund. The next trip was a 16 day Alaska cruise including repatriation of artifacts from the Smithsonian, Field and Burke Museums to the Tlingit tribe in Ketchikan. Finally, there was a trip to North Wales and Chester, England.

John Scales has been involved with local and state government, but mostly has been practicing law in Greensburg, PA near Pittsburgh. John is not only an active member of the club's Alumni Schools Committee and Board of Governors, but also a member of a Board of the Association of Yale Alumni. This past year John spearheaded the Club's donation of 32 books each to area high schools, patterned after Elihu Yale's gift 300 years ago.

Doug Stevens is having fun in retirement as President of the Greenville, S.C. Symphony, Vice-Chair of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, Member of the Executive Committee of the Urban League, and upstate S.C. Counselor for the Service Corps of Retired Executives. Elliott and Nuran Marcus traveled with the AYA in September, 2001 along the ancient coast of Turkey. The excellent educational program included a Blue Voyage on a Gulet-style sailboat. He recommends the programs to all fellow alumni.

Your class secretary enjoyed a second winter in Indian Wells, California (Palm Springs area). We emigrated from Florida in April 2000 and built a new winter home in the desert which was more or less "completed" in April. Tom Woodward, our architect turned sculptor classmate, accompanied by his wife Delaney, delivered two large outdoor bronzes to us in March. We also saw Mickey and Carol Poole who were visiting mutual friends in the area and Irv and Tigger Jensen who spent a month in nearby La Quinta. Three days after our return we went to Howard Brenner's birthday party. Ed Toohey, Steve Kumble and Joe Pinto were also on hand for a preview of Howard's "big one."

Dick Walken died December 28, 2001.