Class Notes September/October 2003

Class Notes September/October 2003

Upcoming events. Yale v. Dartmouth football game, October 11. Tony Dunn and Jeff Miller have reserved a “sky box” (private tent at top of Yale Bowl) for 40 of us. Details in the mail. Sign up while there’s still space. Class Dinner, October 31, Yale Club of New York City, chaired by Bob Leich. Our speaker will be Bill Nelson, our U.S. Senator and astronaut. Please get your reservation in. Northwest mini reunion, September 17-19, 2004 (tentative). Carl Farrington, Mal Harris, Ed Newbegin, Page Stockwell and players to be named are putting together a gathering for us in Oregon in anticipation of the Lewis & Clark bicentennial. If you’d like to help, please let Carl or me know. They’ll keep us posted as the plans develop. Kathy and Ward Barmon have left Vienna for Buenos Aires, where Kathy will be Counselor for Science and Environment at our embassy and Ward will act as accompanying/golfing spouse (a growing area of endeavor for our classmates), having retired from the State Department in 1995. Their daughter, Jennifer, Georgetown ’96, recently married and graduated from law school at Northeastern. Beginning in October, classmates in Buenos Aires should look up Ward through Kathy’s office at the embassy. Charlie Coyne reports from Botswana that he is a grandpa. Daughter Ninani, a Mount Holyoke grad, gave birth to Madalena Mawatle on November 6, 2002. After maternity leave, Ninani plans to attend medical school. She lives in Gaithersburg, MD, with her husband, Lucio. Charlie’s two sons are at universities in Perth and Newcastle, at opposite ends of Australia. Charlie enjoys trotting the globe visiting his offspring. He also noted that Botswana is enduring a serious drought, with little hope of relief. Yalies in The News. The front page of the May 11 Santa Fe Sunday Journal featured a picture of Peter Cummings preparing for a protest rally against the then-anticipated U.S. action in Iraq, occasioned by President Bush’s presence in Santa Fe to play golf. Above Peter’s picture was one the president holding a driver. Although literally they were “on the same page,” this was not true metaphorically. Terry Ellsworth reports that his son, Tod, has produced a CD for the singer Marion James, Nashville’s Queen of the Blues. Terry says that “while she can really get down in the blues, she has a soft lyrical touch reminiscent of Billie Holliday on the jazz stuff.” Doug McPheters’ company, Holo Touch, Inc., has licensed its patented interactive holographic (touchless) control technology for use in information kiosks on New York City’s and Westchester County’s sidewalks and other public spaces. People operate these devices by “touching” 3-D images floating in the air, gaining easy access to information about their surroundings, restaurants, entertainment, etc. This is but one of a number of potential uses for this exciting technology. The citizens of Pittsburgh are warmer, cooler and are going to be healthier, thanks to Tim Merrill. Tim is heading NRG Thermal in Pittsburgh, supplying heating and cooling on the north side of town. He is also a board member of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, a consortium of 40 hospitals, employer-premium payers and insurers dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare and headed by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. John Shank is a member of the board of the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation with responsibility for a 1200 mile trail that follows the advance of the last glacier in Wisconsin. Beside the usual board duties of budgeting and planning, John also gets involved in the actual trail building, noting that it’s “a lot of fun with a great group of people and fantastic exercise.” It also reminds him of his civil engineering training in the Army Corps of Engineers. Jennifer and John saw Jackie and Jack Rosholt on Easter weekend. Jackie is becoming a Foreign Service officer with our State Department, and Jack will be the “following spouse.” Jan and Murray Stein have moved to Switzerland (address: Weinplatz 4, 8001 Zurich). Murray has a year left as president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and hopes to have more time to read, write and enjoy life. “Children are in a good place and thriving. I became a grandfather last fall, which is a special experience for sure. Many changes,” Murray concluded. Peggy and John Thatcher visited the Falkland Islands, Chile and Argentina, including two weeks in Patagonia (“the Andes were superb”) and a cruise from Buenos Aires to Valpariso, with stops at Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego (“(a) marvelous part of the world!”) They were joined for parts of their trip by their children, Katie, a master’s degree candidate at Columbia, Jack, a teacher at Greenwich Country Day, and Tine, an engineering student at Northeastern, and also by Stuart Wrede. We received a nice thank you from Ron Wilmore for our support of a Community Service Summer Fellow at Northwest Settlement House in Washington, DC, where Ron is executive director. He wrote: “This Class support is one of the beautiful things that have happened to me these last eighteen and a half years at NWSH.”