Class Notes March/April 2005

Class Notes March/April 2005

Fortieth Reunion: June 2-5 chaired by Carl Farrington and Bob Leich. Carl and Bob are looking for your ideas and volunteers to make this our best one. Sign up to help and mark your calendars now. After 38 years in advertising, Peter Barnett has started a second career in higher education as executive director for advancement at The American University of Paris, along with his adjunct associate professorship in international communications and business. Peter reports that, “Life in Paris continues to be marvelous for Cissie and me.” They’ll see us at our 40th Reunion. Frustrated by inadequate third party compensation and exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums, Charlie Beaumont retired two years ago from private orthopedic surgical practice in Waterbury, CT. However, he’s still putting his skills to good use, doing missionary surgical/medicine abroad. Charlie had previously volunteered at hospitals in Latvia and Estonia, but his most recent excursion was a dangerous one of two weeks to a Christian facility in the heart of Nigeria’s volatile Muslim north. Charlie operated all day, without the benefit of X-rays, on cases involving severe trauma and associated infections and genetic defects. He found the experience rewarding. At home Charlie helps his wife, Heidi, with her African safari company, International Ventures. His two children Jennifer, 20, and Linsay, 24, are doing well, living and working in Florida. Charlie will also be at our 40th Reunion. Sam Bruttomesso’s son, Jon Carlo, is a Yale senior majoring in music theory and composition, writing for Rumpus “and creating havoc in Suite 13.” His younger sister, Meijin, in on the freshman crew and participating at WYBC. “They’re as different as sibs could possibly be, but are best friends who are making the most of Yale’s diversity,” says Sam. Peter Char’s widow, Lynette, has retired after serving ten years in the cabinet of the mayor if Honolulu. She is enjoying visiting her children and granddaughter, Melina, in California and taking cruises to Norway and the Mediterranean. Bill Cole’s daughter, Katie, graduated from Yale and is now the ’04 Class secretary and a first year law student at Vanderbilt. Chris Cooke is back in harness, having formed a new law firm, Cooke, Roosa & Valcarce in Anchorage and Bethel, while Georgeanna Lincoln has retired from the Alaska Senate after 14 years of service. Daughter Karin married Eric Phillip, and they have a new son, while younger children and grandchildren are active and prospering. Thanks for the great photos, Chris. In a masterpiece of understatement, Christine and Carl Farrington wrote on December 27, “We were on Poda Island – near Phuket, Thailand – when the tsunami hit. A 25-foot wave on an island 3 feet above sea level is no joke. Others not so fortunate. More detains when I get to a real PC.” Hillie Hillenmeyer’s son Hunter, a Chicago Bears linebacker, played a fine game against the Dallas Cowboys in the nationally televised Thanksgiving Day contest. Alan Horton retired Dec. 1, after nearly 11 years as head of the E.W. Scripps Company’s newspaper division. Alan’s and Beverly’s permanent home will be in Naples, FL, but they will spend up to 4 months each year in Cincinnati. Betty and Moodie Moore have retired from teaching in Connecticut to San Diego. Betty is principal of a school for children with special needs and the president of the San Marcos Kiwanis. Moodie has resumed playing the trombone and is pursuing his interest in cooking. He enrolled in a culinary program at Crossmont College and competed in the Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany in October, receiving the Diploma of Excellence in the cold platter show with buffet platter for eight and six hors d’oeuvres. The competition was fierce. More than 1200 cooks and chefs from 52 countries, several states and regional teams participated. Nice going, Moodie! Barry Preston and his company, Armory Revival, participated in the renewal of Providence’s West End neighborhood with the renovation of Pearl Street Lofts. This project transformed an historic mill complex into residential condominiums, rental apartments, commercial condos and rental warehouse space. Thanks to Henry Petty for this item. Ed Townsend wrote the following about Peter Szilagyi, who died September 8, 2001: “Peter funded a Yale scholarship for Eastern European students. Last year, the scholarship was awarded to Peter Varga, a Hungarian, who my Hungarian wife, Zsuzsi, and I have come to know. Peti is from Komarom, on the Hungarian/Slovakian border; he leaned English in eight months to win a competition and scholarship ? he was admitted to Yale and graduated this past June. He is now in Budapest studying international relations and European studies. Since we have a second home in Hungary, we hope to stay in touch with him over the years. (Our classmate), a 1956 Hungarian refugee, stateless for many years, was sponsored by and English family, and later by a New Haven family, and given his education in England and at Yale, he, in turn, gave back, and I thought should be remembered for this.” Bob Trupin’s sculpture of Boston Celtics great, Bill Russell, is on permanent display at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. Sadly, I report the passing of Chung P. Wu on October 3. I have no further information.