In Memoriam

David Lawrence passed away on June 25, 2022.  Here is the profile he contributed to Yale1969.org just prior to the 50th reunion. Following my life backwards from the present (2018). A retired commercial photographer of politicians (hired by the campaigns of three Presidents), movie stars, celebrities, and Titans of Industry, I live with my wife…

(from Legacy.com) GREEN, Joseph Benjamin Of Cambridge, Massachusetts, passed away on August 17, 2022 at 74 from pancreatic cancer. An accomplished attorney and tennis player, Joe was known for his integrity and agility, both in court and on the court. Born in 1947 in New York City, Joe attended Horace Mann School for junior high…

Frankly, Reid didn’t leave too much of a footprint online, so classmates who knew or remembered him are encouraged to add comments and remembrances below. He entered Yale a year before us, in September 1964, as a member of the Class of ’68.  He spent our sophomore year at Millsaps College and the University of…

Editor’s Note: The Hopkins School in New Haven was Jim’s high school, and here are some remembrances from his HS friends, as well as some pix from their 50th reunion in 2015.

James (Jim) Stanford Nippes died unexpectedly Monday evening, May 16, 2022, at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Jim was born on July 10, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1965; from Yale University in 1969 with a double major in Physics and History; and from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1973. After receiving an LLM Degree in …

Chuck Resor, longtime valley resident, conservationist, co-founder of Jackson Youth Skating and inventor of the Flashmaster, died April 24 at his home in Jackson. He was 75. The following was provided by his family.

Classmate, roommate and old friend Scott Herstin died of a heart attack Thursday, April 14, in Naples FL, following a period of declining health, including a failed kidney for which he had received a transplant.   He was 75 years old. He is survived by two daughters, Hillary Mone and Sara de Groot and five grandchildren. …

Robert “Bobby” Bradley Haas, passed away unexpectedly of cardiac complications on September 28, 2021.   See a traditional obituary from the Dallas Morning News and the longer story from the Wall Street Journal below.  See also, our earlier story “Bobby Haas Launches New Motorcycle Museum.”

(from Boston Globe)   Louis Casagrande, who made the Children’s Museum a go-to place for all of Boston, died at 74. A voice for ensuring that the Children’s Museum and similar institutions nationwide served children and families of all cultural and racial backgrounds, Mr. Casagrande died in the Seasons Hospice in […]

David Click died on May 18, 2021. An edited report from nolo.com: David graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1965 and with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Yale University in 1969, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Yale Law School in 1973, and a Master’s degree in Economics from Yale in 1974. David has taught at…

On December 21, 2020, Ed Mitchell, who began his Yale career with our class, passed away at his home in San Francisco, after a long battle with liver cancer.  He died peacefully in his bed, set up with a view out his bay window to a distant Golden Gate Bridge, as his longtime partner, Alan…

Ned died recently in his beloved Sao Tome y Principe, a small island nation off the coast of Africa. Here is my remembrance of him, along with several tributes from those who knew him well.

We have received word that Robert Eisenhauer, Morse ’69, passed away in the summer. He was one of our “fallen away” classmates … he never attended any of the reunions, didn’t maintain email or other contact information with the Yale Alumni office, and he didn’t submit anything to the 25th Reunion Essays or the 50th…

Quent had a truly generous spirit to go along with a consistently sweet disposition. He was a marvelous storyteller and had a wonderful, dry sense of humor.  As Robb High once said, Quent “could make a stone laugh.”  Those of us clueless social science majors who stumbled through astronomy junior year recall Quent’s […]

“I arrived at Yale as a shy, socially awkward 17-year-old, from a Southern family of very modest means,” he wrote in the first sentence of his essay for the 50th reunion book. This is an old-fashioned way of opening a story of adventure and discovery, as Tom, an English major, knew.

From the Tulsa World Gene Carson Buzzard, aged 73, passed away on July 21, 2020, surrounded by his loving family at their home in Tulsa. He will be remembered by his family and many friends for his intellect, humor, curiosity, generosity, loyalty, general gusto, and for living his life with joy. His enthusiastic dance style…

Jerome M. Schnitt, MD (“Jerry”), 73, of Guilford, CT passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning, June 9, 2020 after a decade-long battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his family until his last moments.

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