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Part I - Basic Info

First Name (required)

Douglas M.
Last Name (required)

Laney
Nickname

Doug
Current Hometown

Tucson, AZ
Your Residential College

Saybrook
Other Colleges Attended

Arizona State University and the University of Arizona
Web Sites

yale71.org
Your Major at Yale

Unspecified
Yale Activities and Clubs

Sterling Memorial Library research archives

Part II - Personal Updates

Tell us about your professional life/ career

MAI real estate appraiser, retired, specialty eminent domain and open space acquisition
Publications

Appraisal Review panel for the Appraisal Journal
Tell us about your personal life these days...

Lap swimming, photography, language studies in Spanish and French, folk music, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of Arizona
Family

Married since 1978 to Judith D. Ratliff, landscape architect, retired
How often do you visit New Haven?

Once, to visit Dean Martin Griffin
Most influential book?

Preferred form, short stories

 
Best Yale Course?

A. Bartlett Giamatti
What's been your most memorable life experience since Yale?

Acquisition of MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute, expert testimony in Pima County Superior Court
What the most memorable trip you've taken since Yale?

France 1977
If you could relive your Yale experience, is there anything you'd do differently?

Would have reached the top of Harkness Tower