Alumni in the News

Class notes November-December 2023

Our call for “Draft Lottery Night” recollections has been generating many submissions, including from Bill Hammond, Mark Hassett, Jim Morgan, David Pudlin, Jim Pullman, Jim Seaton, Bob Shulman, Steve Swerdlow, Mike Weaver and Jerry Yesavage. Jay Gitlin and Michael Goodman are working with Tim…

November 16, 2023

Class notes September-October 2023

Bill Hammond retired at the end of 2022 from a corporate transactional law practice after 32 years. Prior to his law career, he worked in international banking before “burning out with the Latin American foreign debt refinancing saga.” He spent the first six months of his retirement helping to care…

July 17, 2023

Class notes July-August 2023

Joyce Ann (Wilder) Anderson died on November 16, 2022. After Yale, Joyce earned her JD degree from Cornell University Law School in 1974, and later she earned an LL.M. in tax law from Boston University. She practiced law in Nashua, New Hampshire, for several years, and in 1989 she and her husband…

May 12, 2023

Kapor publishes “Closing the Equity Gap”

CLOSING THE EQUITY GAP Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing By Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor Filled with “inspiring example of responsible capitalism.” – Kirkus Included in the Next Big Idea Club’s list of March Books to Watch Companies backed by venture capital account…

March 17, 2023

Class notes March-April 2023

Class Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: Bil (“Snake”) Johnson reports that he and Carol connected with Don Oldenburg and Ann over lunch in Greenwich, CT, during the holidays. Don and Ann couldn't attend our Reunion last June because they were in Italy (Ann has a teaching gig there through Georgetown).…

March 14, 2023

Class Notes for January-February 2023

Greetings for the New Year.  I hope that your holiday season was a safe and happy one.  Unfortunately, I begin this column with the sad news of the passing of two of our classmates.   Priscilla Lundin sent word that her close friend and Trumbull classmate J. Brian Sheehan died on September 4,…

January 16, 2023

Class Notes for November-December 2022

Our Secretary Andy Kaufman writes:             Dori Zaleznik, co-editor of our Class of ‘71 much acclaimed 50th Reunion classbook, is launching a new project to tell the stories of the historic beginning of coeducation at Yale College. The full story of that interesting time has not yet been told.…

September 30, 2022

Class Notes for September-October 2022

Our Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: With our terrific “50th + 1” Reunion behind us, and with almost four years remaining until our 55th, we can take a breather -- at least temporarily -- from Reunion planning. In the meantime, I’ll return this column to reporting more traditional news from and about…

September 30, 2022

“American Justice on Trial” screens at 50th reunion

Yale '71ers Lise Pearlman (Producer/Creator) and John Lissauer (Music) were on hand in Sprague Hall to discuss and answer questions about their new film American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton.  An excerpt from the press kit follows: American Justice on Trial World Premiere SFFILM Festival,…

July 14, 2022

Kaplan’s History of Wall Street Dazzles

I've always been in awe of the number of Yale '71ers who have achieved significant accomplishments in fields in addition to the ones in which they are best-known professionally.  Jim Kaplan, for example, is a mild-mannered trust-and-estates lawyer by day -- and a passionate chronicler of New York…

June 9, 2022