General News
Class notes January-February 2025
As we roll into 2025, I have generally happy and upbeat news to report regarding our classmates. Many of you will remember John (JT) Toth, who died in 2008. As an undergraduate, JT was heavily involved in WYBC, as both Andy Wiesenthal and Tim Powell remarked in their memorials to JT in our 50th…
January 15, 2025
Class notes November-December 2024
Martin Klotz has retired from the practice of law. He still lives in Brooklyn, as do his children and five grandchildren. As a retirement project, he is writing books on American history. His book Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon was just released, and he is now working…
November 18, 2024
Class Notes for September-October 2024
From Jennifer Tolbert Roberts: “Since my husband's death last year I have made a point of reconnecting with my Yale classmates, few of whom knew me while I was at Yale since I was living at home with my previous husband and our toddler. It has been lovely to start getting acquainted with you both…
October 10, 2024
We’re back…better than ever.
Yale71.org has been restored after a major outage that lasted for three weeks in September. In the process of squashing the bugs, we’ve also implemented a number of small improvements. Over Labor Day weekend, an alert classmate brought it to our attention that certain features of this site were not…
October 7, 2024
Class Notes for July-August 2024
Pam Fairley sent me the sad news that her husband, Kent Foster, suffered a massive heart attack and died suddenly on April 15, 2024, while they were snorkeling together with friends in the waters off Belize. After Yale, Kent attended Boalt Hall School of Law at UCBerkeley, where he and Pam (a…
July 11, 2024
Class Notes for March-April 2024
Andy Sherman answered Yale’s call last fall to return from his semi-retirement and accepted the position of Interim Co-Executive Director of the Yale Center for Research Computing while Yale searches for a new permanent executive director. As co-executive director Andy is leading the technical work…
March 11, 2024
Class Notes for January-February 2024
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 another of our classmates, Ruth Klarman, who died on January 9, 2023. Following Yale, Ruth graduated from the University of Chicago Law School…
January 11, 2024
Class Notes for 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 for 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 for 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