Class Notes March/April 2003

Class Notes March/April 2003

Mark your calendars for our annual Class Dinner at the Yale Club of New York City on Friday, October 31, Halloween. Our classmate, astronaut and man in the Senate, Bill Nelson, will be our speaker. The Bulldogs play Columbia the next day in New York. Jeff Miller and Tony Dunn report that our Hockey Dinner was both a sellout and a huge success. The Bakers Dozen (all 15 of them), orchestrated by Dan Bergfeld, capped their performance with a rousing version of “Bright College Years,” which inspired those present to rise and sing. Jeff concluded that “Yale lost a tense contest to Dartmouth…but showed plenty of zip and still has a good chance of making the top 4 seeds for the ECAC tournament. All in all, a lot of fun.” Thanks, Tony and Jeff, for organizing this event for us. Lorraine Donn Aiken was born to Nathalie and Hugh Aiken on February 11, 2002. Nathalie and Hugh commute between their foundry businesses in Atchison, KS and Paris. Don Alderman’s daughter, Holly, an art teacher, recently married Clint Schrader, a contractor, in Santa Rosa, CA. Don wrote that he’s looking forward to grandfatherhood. Linda and Bob Leich spent their Christmas holiday skiing in Aspen, where they dined with Denny Sutro and his date, Ruthie Edwards. They plan to reconvene in Florida in February. Bill Rawn was quoted in the January 27 New York Times on the trend toward single bedrooms in new college residence halls. Bill’s practicing architecture in Boston designing residence halls (Please don’t call them “dormitories” anymore) at Northeastern, Trinity, Amherst, Swarthmore and Grinnell. Reflecting on his college experience with a roommate, Bill commented that he and Ed Townsend are still best friends. Sad news. Peter Char died January 12 after a brief illness. After Yale, Peter received his law degree from Northwestern and returned to Hawaii, where he became a prominent medical malpractice defense lawyer. He also served as advisor and chief campaign fundraiser to the mayor of Honolulu. Peter is survived by his wife, Lynette, his children, Janelle and Greg, and a brother and two sisters. Peter’s middle name was Chi Ping, which means, “possessing the quality of peace.” The Peter C.P. Char Memorial Fund is being established at First Hawaiian Bank. Jim Wheelock died on December 28 from leukemia, for which he had undergone a bone-marrow transplant in March. After graduating magna cum laude in Italian Studies and fluent in three languages, he pursued his interest in Italian literature with a Ph.D. from Columbia, where he received a Fulbright Fellowship. Subsequently, he became the youngest department chair in the history of the University of Colorado. In 1980, Jim left academia and entered real estate development, concentrating on historic preservation in Denver. In 1986, he returned to New York, where he worked at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In 1996, he began JTSW Consulting, specializing in data management for not-for-profit medical organizations. He is survived by Thomas Padon, his partner of 18 years, his son James, Jr., a granddaughter, a sister and three brothers. In 1990, Jim wrote, “All in all, there are very few decisions I would have made differently. In this I count myself lucky.” Contributions may be made to further bone-marrow transplant research in Jim’s name at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center, Box E, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021.