Mar/Apr 2011
Kathy and Lang Wheeler’s pre-Game brunch was, as always, a smashing success. The food and drink were outstanding, the company was stellar, and the Whiffs sang. (What transpired afterward in a nearby stadium will not be discussed here.) Here is a list of attendees (*with spouse, family members, and/or SigOs): Ned Culver*, Paul Henry*, Carl Lazarus, JP Goldsmith*, Brian Dowling*, Hughes Norton, Bob Sokolowski*,Rick Huttner, Sam Weisman*, David Feigenbaum*, Ken Brown*, Carney Mimms, Frank Aronson, Julian Fisher, Joe Green, Jeffrey Denner, Richard Farren*, Michael Pfeifer, Tom Earley*, and Dan Seiver*. Apologies if we missed anyone.
This briefest of mini-reunions should inspire others. Any classmate with a suggestion for a regional mini in 2012 should contact our co-secretaries Lang Wheeler and Art Segal.
Tom Earley, after a bit of subtle arm-twisting by your scribe at Lang’s brunch, submits this update: “Still enjoying the food and agriculture consulting life. Fortunately, business has been steady despite the economic downturn. After her best consulting year ever, Jane decided to go back to government and is now working on pharmaceuticals and medical devices for the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration. Caitlin is ABD on her PhD in art history at the University of Texas, and Nick is an environmental educator at a camp in Sonoma County. Had a great time at Lang and Kathy’s brunch.”
Tom J. Walsh (twalsh@fordharrison.com) e-writes: “Like many of my fellow lawyer alums, I’ve been selected for annual listings in The Best Lawyers in America. At this stage in my career, I think it’s akin to a Lifetime Achievement Award; you practice long enough and somebody feels obligated to honor you. In any case, I gladly accept the honor. Jean’s and my two daughters, Courtney and Meredith (both Smithies with various combinations of Yale Nursing, Tulane, and UMass), have both chosen fulfilling medical careers, as nurse practitioners. We can now call them to diagnose our ailments for free. Courtney and her husband Peter Marsh have blessed us with three amazing (of course) granddaughters, ages 3, 7, and 9, future Yalies no doubt. We relish grandparenthood. It’s all that was promised and more. I highly recommend it. Best to all.”
Alan Levin ’71 started in our class. For those who knew him, he has a life update which should appear in the class notes column for 1971.
News from dues: Juan Montermoso (montermoso@comcast.net) writes: “In August, my wife Susie and I had lunch with Bill Taylor and his daughter Isabel when they visited San Francisco. Besides my teaching in the Santa Clara University MBA marketing program, I continue to do consulting at companies like Google, Cisco, and Visa here in the Bay Area.” Steve Billick (stephen@billick.com) writes: “I have been elected president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. I’ve also been elected to the vestry of L’Eglise Française du Saint Esprit, a small French-language parish in New York City dating from 1628. After two years of sustained effort I have finished writing a play in French.” C’est formidable, mon ami!
In politics, John Yarmuth and Lamar Smith have been reelected to the U.S. House, and Mark Dayton has been elected as governor of Minnesota. Congratulations to all. In law, Paul Field sent in a Yale press release noting that George L. Priest, the newly appointed Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law at Yale, is considered one of the nation’s foremost antitrust scholars.
In golf, in what might be a record for late reporting, your scribe (a devoted non-golfer) just learned at the Wheeler brunch that Hughes Norton was Tiger Woods’s agent from 1996 to 1998. Golf.com has a story about how this came about.
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”—J. M. Barrie.