General News
Bob Shapiro
It is with great sadness that we note that our classmate (and NYC class lunch table co-organizer) Robert Shapiro, husband of Connie and father of Phillip and Elana, died on May 27 at 4pm. The funeral was held Thursday May 29, at 10:00 A.M. at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 333 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th…
May 30, 2008
Mitch Garner Elected
Congratulations to Mitch Garner, elected to the National Board of Directors of the Road Runners Club of America, the governing body for running clubs and road racing in the United States, at the RRCA's annual meeting on May 2 in Cincinnati, Ohio. For details click here and here.
May 13, 2008
Rubin on Livesey
BOOK REVIEW 'The House on Fortune Street' by Margot Livesey Two cohabiting couples, four interlocking narratives and the vicissitudes of love and luck. By Martin Rubin, L.A. Times, May 2, 2008 "The eponymous London house is not only the locus for the events quotidian and life-altering that take…
May 6, 2008
Class Lunch NYC Fri. May 16
Jim Kaplan, Bill Primps and Bob Shapiro write: "The Yale Class of 1971 table at the Yale Club will be held in the Tap Room on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm. (This is instead of May 9 which would be our usual timing.) Please contact Jim through his secretary Lisa Mastropolo by email, lmastropolo…
May 6, 2008
Rubin on Russia
And from the LA Times back in March: 'Magical Chorus' by Solomon Volkov The Russian musicologist surveys Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. By Martin Rubin, Special to The Times, March 7, 2008 "As its subtitle suggests, this engaging book, translated from its author's mother tongue,…
April 7, 2008
Martin Rubin: No on Coe
By and large the Martin Rubin reviews we've excerpted on this site are favorable reviews, but this one, not so much: Bookmarks By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal April 4, 2008 THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS By Jonathan Coe (Knopf, 240 pages, $23.95) Rosamond, who as a child was evacuated from wartime…
April 7, 2008
NYC Class Lunch Fri. April 11
Jim Kaplan, Bill Primps and Bob Shapiro write: "The Yale Class of 1971 table at the Yale Club, will be held in the Tap Room on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Please contact Jim through his secretary Lisa Mastropolo by email, lmastropolo at herzfeld-rubin dot com, or by phone, 212-471-3229…
April 4, 2008
Catherine Ross Invitation
Catherine Ross writes: To all the members of the Class of '71: My husband, Jon Rieder (Yale Ph.D. '78), has a new book out on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am writing to invite you to an event at Barnes and Noble, Broadway and 82nd on Friday April 4, the 40th annniversary of Dr. King's death. The…
March 31, 2008
Meyer Gift
Roz Milstein Meyer and her husband Jerry are profiled in the March-April issue of Medicine@Yale, the Medical School's newsletter, on the occasion of their recent gift for melanoma research: "Couple with a cause: "$10 million gift will drive research, trials of new skin cancer treatments "Roz…
March 29, 2008
Protter Talk Apr. 3
Philip Protter, who teaches operations research at Cornell, will give the annual Bullitt Lecture at the University of Louisville on April 3. The topic is "Mathematics meets Wall Street: How high finance became safer and more dangerous at the same time." For a cute (yes, cute!) poster on the event,…
March 28, 2008