Reunion 2003

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Ben and Blanche Lyons moved this year to a new and very active retirement community in West Redding, Conn., just 10 miles from Westport and Norwalk, where he had his ophthalmology practice. We had to forgo attending the 65th reunion activities because Blanche fell and injured her pelvis just before the scheduled meeting. She is recovering at home after spending some time in the hospital. Lester Wallman, married to Elizabeth, has spent more than 50 years on the faculty of the University of Vermont Medical School as a professor of neurological surgery and remains active as an emeritus professor. The Wallmans found it difficult to attend the Yale reunion because of his close relationships at Vermont and was attending some of the festivities of the reunion there. He has three children, a son, also a physician, and two daughters. John McGillicuddy is in an assisted-living facility in Framingham, Mass., and for the past 10 years has had extensive neurological problems, including severe loss of sensation in both legs. Ed Roberge of Stratford, Conn., also suffers from extensive neurological problems. Jim Radcliff, who is almost blind, lives in Fairhaven, Mass., with his wife, Betty. With all of us in our 90s, it is difficult to attend.
—Ben Lyons

Eight members of the Class of 1943M attended the reunion in June. Our class numbered 48 at graduation. This was a remarkable attendance when one considers classmates who are ill and those who have died.

“Bill” Davey received the Peter Parker Medal this year for exceptional service to the Yale medical school. (See opposite page.) He is preparing two manuscripts for publication—A History of the Yale Medical Library and A History of Neurosurgery. Rocko Fasanella, now fully retired, contributed his unique charm, warmth and good humor during the gathering. He was accompanied by his daughter. Gerard Fountain retired from psychiatric consultation and supervision of psychiatric residents at the Dartmouth Medical School. He devotes many hours each day to painting. He comments:

“Some paintings I keep; others I throw away.”

Stuart Joslin, having completed several decades of pediatric practice in Stratford, Conn., was increasingly concerned as to why so many children are unhappy. In 1970 he entered a psychiatric residency and a fellowship program at the Yale Child Study Center. Following this training he practiced child psychiatry in Stratford, retiring in 1998. He hopes to write a book about his experiences.

Henry Markley practiced internal medicine in Greenwich, Conn., from 1950 to 1979. He continues to direct the Greenwich Hospital Home Care service, which he founded in 1956. This program added hospice care in 1980. It serves as a model for new home care programs throughout the country.

Sophie Trent-Stevens, after an extraordinary career in tropical medicine in various parts of the world and 20 years of primary practice in Meriden, Conn., enrolled as a graduate student in the art department at Central Connecticut State University, and received her m.a. degree in art and art education in 1982. Her “new career” in the art field has led her to serve as a docent at the New Britain Museum of American Art. She spends much of her time writing poetry and painting. She has published four books of poetry. Many of her paintings have received awards.

Morris Wessel continues as pediatric consultant two days a week at the Clifford W. Beers Child Guidance Clinic. He was one of the founders of the Connecticut Hospice 25 years ago and has an interest in the role primary pediatricians can play in serving children who experience significant losses. He has published several articles on this subject. Robert Wyatt retired 10 years ago from a gynecological practice in Greenwich, Conn., and moved to Del Ray Beach, Fla. His son accompanied him to the reunion.
—Morris Wessel

1943 December
60th reunion

On one of the rare perfect days of June this year we began our 60th reunion celebration. Only Hunter Comly and Tom Bucky came. Tom, with wife Doris, and Hunter, with Rita Iannace, attended the wonderful clambake together and sat with members of the Class of ’43 March and enjoyed their humor as they spouted poetry. We enjoyed ourselves, but regretted not seeing again our old classmates; there are now only about 20, and it was a lost opportunity. They would have appreciated, as we had, that the old cooperative spirit of Yale Med toward teaching and learning has not changed, despite the enormous growth. The new buildings on the medical campus were bewildering (after 60-plus years) but beautiful and inspiring. The modern medical student is fortunate. We hope you’ll all attend the next reunion.
—Tom Bucky and Hunter Comly

Spring seems to have escaped us this year. But we did catch a day of sunshine on Friday, June 6, which made the clambake all the more enjoyable. Although turnout for our class was disappointing, our financial secretary, Ben Rush, provided information about some of our absentees. Ben’s wife, Nora, passed away this year after a long illness. Ben continues in his retirement role as professor emeritus of surgery at the New Jersey Medical School, teaching medical students and imparting his medical and surgical experiences to residents as well. He was able to take the Yale alumni trip to Australia. He reports that out of a class of 55, 40 of us are still on this side of the green although the health status of most is unknown. He did report that Jim Needham and Art Terrill felt that travel was not an option and that others felt the same way.

Our other secretary, Paul Koehler, was present with his wife, Marge. Paul has two new hips and a knee and has remained sequestered at his home in Newbury, N.H. Our former secretary, Paul Goldstein, with spouse Betty, did not have to travel far from Branford, Conn., to be part of the celebration. Paul spends his retirement keeping his hand in the delivery of health care. He is a supervising attending in the pediatric primary care clinics at Yale-New Haven and the Hospital of St. Raphael. The young, sharp and bright residents help to keep his cerebral circuits stimulated. He finds they can still stand a bit of gray-haired wisdom. Howard Simon with wife Chris came to the clambake but couldn’t make the dinner on Saturday. Bob Lempke and wife Mary were present at our dinner at the Graduate Club, where we were guests of the medical school along with the Class of 1953. Bob has found his niche in retirement with painting in oils, acrylics and watercolors. He has been rewarded with shows both locally in West Lafayette, Ind., where he and Mary live, and statewide as well. Mary also celebrated her reunion here with the Yale School of Nursing. Our stalwarts Allyn Bridge and wife Charlie came in from Moreno Valley, Calif. Charlie is the class agent for the School of Nursing ’48 and celebrates her 55th as well. She is busy as a volunteer for AARP, helping seniors in tax counseling. Al is active in a Learning in Retirement program at the University of California, Riverside. They love California.

News from some of our absentees: Bud Rowland and wife Ester were scheduled to be with us, but last-minute personal matters cancelled their plans. Bud recently retired as chair of neurology and director of the Neurological Institute at Columbia. In his retirement he published a book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Arden and Helen Miller just sold their home and moved into a villa nearby, where many of the chores of home ownership are delegated to others. Paul Goldstein found David Holman celebrating his 50th at the Graduate Club; David reported that brother Hal Holman, M.D. ’49, is still full time at Stanford Medical School. Hal continues his research in autoimmune disorders and recently was cited by the American Rheumatoid Arthritis Society for his work. He spends most of his time promoting and developing a unique primary care delivery system to the great Palo Alto community.

We had a remarkable class and produced many stars in the medical science and health care fields. There are many great memories of years in New Haven, particularly the first class show we produced with the Class of ’49 and the basketball and squash games in facilities now gone. You would be amazed at the renovation and expansion that has taken place. The Boyer Center, the Hope restoration and the new six-story building at 300 Cedar St., the site of the old nursing dorm, are reasons alone to come back for our 60th.

A stronger effort to attend would make for an even more pleasant event. Stay well!
—Paul Goldstein

Wow!! Our 50th reunion broke all alumni attendance records, with 27 of our 46 survivors, almost 60 percent, attending. As far as we can tell, this is the largest number and the highest percentage in medical school history. All enjoyed a busy and convivial weekend filled with camaraderie and love.

Fred Young requests reverse alphabetical order so let’s say he and Mary Lou are among our most consistent returnees. Bill and Martha Wilson ferried in from Block Island. Bill and Connie Shepard were first-timers from California. From the coast of Maine came our devoted Barbara and Irv Rosenberg—he’s in charge of our reunion fund giving. Flying in from Puerto Rico were Jose and Leila Ramirez-Rivera. Paul and Betty Quie arrived from Minneapolis. Rhoda and Ed Powsner arrived from Ann Arbor. Wick Potter was accompanied by his New Haven native, Joanne. Harvey Peck, still working full time, brought Betty Thompson, recently retired. Janiece and Bob Nolan returned for their second 50th, having been here last year. Faithful Hyla and Bob Melnick tooled up from Larchmont. Equally faithful in their attendance are Carol and Fred Lane. Dick Knowles, from Newport, accompanied by his delightful son and daughter, arrived for Saturday’s events. From across the country came Dave and Barbara Holman. Our other gracious first-time couple was Bernice and Bud Hauser. Vince Gott, who chaired the committee responsible for the class survey, brought both Iveagh and his PilotPoint. Peggy and Irv Goldberg returned, but had to leave before the Sunday brunch. Betty and Tom Gentsch, now in Seattle, are reunion regulars. Lou Del Guercio, just elected to the Executive Committee of the alumni association, was accompanied by his wife, Paula. Rex Conn joined us once again. Tooling down from Auburn, N.Y., were Emily and Bill Chaffee. Jeanne and Remi Cadoret made their every-five-year trip from Iowa. Hal Bornstein proudly received his Distinguished Alumni Service Award from then-Dean Kessler at the annual meeting of the alumni association. Claude Bloch joined us for much of the weekend. We enjoyed Andrea and Seth Abramson’s company for both Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch.

Our classmates and spouses were especially pleased and proud to welcome back four of our class widows: Anne-Marie Doppman, Doe Dunn, Helen Etzwiler and Nina Whalen. While it was not always easy for them, we’re sure they enjoyed themselves, since they indicated they’d be back in five years!!

As the 50th we were guests of the medical school for both the Friday night clambake and Saturday night dinner. We had a class meeting on Saturday afternoon in the sparkling new education and research building at the corner of Cedar and Congress, previously the site of the nurses’ dormitory. The weekend closed on a talkative and delicious note as Maureen and I accommodated 44 guests at our home for Sunday brunch.

The good Lord willing, all the classmates who returned plan to come back in five years. We hope some of the non returnees will also plan to join us.
—Harold D. Bornstein Jr.

The 45th reunion of the Class of 1958 was an outstanding success with 20 members of the class entering into the festivities. The high point of the weekend came when Andy McGowan and Bob Donohue each received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award. The awards were given during the alumni association business meeting, which was held in the new Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education, a major addition to the campus on the site of the old nurses’ dormitory at 300 Cedar Street.

Friday afternoon, early arrivals gathered to talk about what they were doing and going to do. Pauline Wood, who had retired from the University of Rhode Island’s Health Services, was honored by having a building named the Dr. Pauline B. Wood Health Services. Her medical school compatriot, Marcia Kraft Goin, has not retired and has been elected president of the American Psychiatric Association.

Otherwise the rest of the weekend was spent feasting. Friday evening the group attended the medical school clambake. Saturday there was a buffet at Harkness after the awards. A small group opted for clam pizza at Pepe’s. Saturday night we dined at the Union League Cafe through the good works of Michael Kashgarian.

The dinner was attended by George K. Aghajanian, John P. Arnot, Gerard N. Burrow, David A. Carlson, John A. Creatura, Robert J. Donohue Jr., Lawrence Dubin, Donald D. Duncan, Marcia Kraft Goin, Stanley Harris, Michael Kashgarian, Theodore W. Lieberman, Andrew J. McGowan Jr., Albert Muggia, Carol F. Phillips, William B. Radcliffe, Paul A. Rudnick, Raymond W. Turner, John Patrick Wood and Pauline B. Wood.

Jay Kislak and Jim Greenwald were scheduled to attend but never appeared. Ted Miller sent his regrets. Suffused with good fellowship and warm feelings for the Class of ’58, the group disbursed, vowing to return in five years.
—Jerry Burrow

Neither the noisy union demonstrators on Friday nor the rainy weather on Saturday could dampen our enthusiasm as we gathered in New Haven on June 6th and 7th to celebrate our 40th anniversary as Yale M.D.s. The sumptuous clambake on Friday provided an ideal venue for aggiornamento, with ample food, drink and conversation. Our class dinner Saturday night at Zinc on Chapel Street provided a more intimate ambiance to continue our reminiscences and share our current lives. Apparent throughout the weekend were the youth and beauty of the wives and significant others in attendance. The salutary effects on their partners were quite obvious.

Of the 16 classmates in attendance, three have retired completely: Dave (Carol) Fulmer from internal medicine, Bob (Marnie) Mueller from pulmonary medicine and Chuck Wilson from radiology. The professors in our midst, actively involved in advancing our profession, included John (Michelle) Conte in infectious diseases, Bill (Jackie) Friedewald in biostatistics, Craig (Gail) Llewellyn in military medicine and Sheldon (Doren) Pinnell in dermatology. Also still actively in practice are Art Ackerman in anesthesia, Dudley (Hedva) Danoff in urology, Alex (Christine) Gaudio in retinal surgery, Bob Grummon in primary care, Ben (Janice) Harris in rheumatology, George Holsten in pathology, John (Judy) Mahoney and Jay Pomeranz in psychiatry. Hal (Barbara) Kaplan continues an active mix of gastroenterology and hospital administration.

After dinner we shared memory lane excursions and philosophical insights and enjoyed a drop-in visit from then-Dean David Kessler. We distributed and shared the written responses from many classmates who sent their regrets along with some insights. Barbara Rosenthal Almond continues an active practice in psychoanalysis; Dave Cross and Dave Holden have both retired from primary care. Professor Peter Gregory has gone emeritus, but still does some liver clinic time. Tom Tillack is still a full-time professor of pathology, but going part time in July. Lee Talner is already on the part-time track in academic radiology. Jerry Winer remains active full time as professor of psychiatry.

We remembered with fondness and sadness our deceased classmates: Miguel Alonzo, Millard Amdur, David Langtree, Peter Livingston, Tom Peters, Marvin Skolnick, Robert Shapiro and Gary Van Galder.

Finally, planning has already begun for our 45th reunion. Everyone in the class has been deputized to get on the phones and help ensure a massive turnout in 2008. We felt badly for all the classmates who missed out on sharing a great weekend. We missed them.
—Alex Gaudio and Hal Kaplan

We shared our 35th reunion dinner in New Haven at the Quinnipiack Club. Then-Dean Kessler joined us for cocktails and spoke optimistically about new activities and buildings on campus.

The sad news for us was the loss of C. Bruce Wenger in November of 2002. We shared a note from his wife and remembered all our classmates who have died since graduation.

Rutledge Currie enjoys the good life as a radiologist in North Adams, Mass. Alan Finesilver goes west from his Wisconsin rheumatology practice to fly-fish in Montana as often as he can. William Flynn, surgeon in Boston, is as eager and energetic as ever, and … continues as a baseball “nut.” Grace Jordison-Boxer enjoys a practice in community medicine in Jackson, Mich., while husband Larry teaches and practices at the University of Michigan. Frank Lucente leaves New York City for long weekends at his country house near West Point, N.Y., where he enjoys the rural life and cooks wonderful things. Don Lyman continues as a public health official for the state of California and will serve as president of the American Cancer Society (California Division) in 2003-04. Rod and Joan Martinez invite us all to visit them in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where—they say—the town has gone modern with strip malls and traffic lights. Chuck Post seems to spend more time at sea and less in the air with his gadget-laden sailing craft. Elizabeth Short is moving from Washington, D.C., to Pasadena, Calif., where her husband will be CEO of City of Hope hospital.
—Donald O. Lyman

Thirty years later, eight members of the Class of ’73 met for dinner and reminiscing at the Polo Grille in New Haven. There were the customary reunion activities reported elsewhere, but the eight of us that made it found that three decades make you closer, if grayer—all grayer except for Chris Kull Walsh, who everyone agreed hasn’t aged, and Tom Sweeney, whose red hair has matured well.

Chris, a professor of clinical pediatrics and pediatric cardiologist at Albert Einstein, has completed two terms on the executive board of the AYAM and was elected its new secretary. Her election keeps her on the board and the class representation at two, including yours truly, giving our class the singularly best representation. Chris brought her husband, Sean.

Reunion gave me and my wife, Sue, the excuse and the motivation to come in from our new home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where I now work for Kaiser as a full-time plastic surgeon. Coincidentally, Jim Robertson is also in Santa Rosa, practicing nephrology. He couldn’t make it but sent his regards. I also had e-mails expressing similar wishes from John McDowell, Tom Romano, George Lister and my former Houston next-door neighbor, Bob Galloway.

Next furthest, Marvin Miller, a pediatrician, flew in from Dayton, Ohio.

David Coulter drove down from Boston. David is a pediatric neurologist at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard. Incidentally, David was recently elected vice president of the American Association on Mental Retardation, making him, in June 2004, the first M.D. to serve as AAMR president in 20 years.

The others were the faithful local denizens. Harry Romanowitz and his wife, Sheila, remain in Stamford, where he now serves as pediatrician-in-chief for Stamford Hospital. Jim Sullivan lives in Waterford with his wife, Rita, and practices adult and pediatric neurology with a multi-specialty group in Mystic. Tom and Anne Sweeney and Rick and Dotty Young remain in New Haven. Tom is in a private vascular surgery practice, the heir to Stern and Toole. Rick is chief of pediatrics at St. Raphael’s.

The class population, according to most recent records, remains at 87. We noted and respected the passing of four: Omieri Mitoko, John Frederick Neil, Robert Joseph Polakwich and Charles F. Stroebel.

The conversation over dinner, as you might expect, brought us up to date with current careers, children and interests. Then-Dean Kessler stopped by to visit. Reminiscing suffered somewhat from failing memories. Some paths have crossed in the last 30 years, and Chris seems to have maintained correspondence with most of the women. We had a room in the restaurant all to ourselves to chat the hours away, until we all realized it was getting past our bedtimes—that never happened in medical school.
—Harold R. Mancusi-Ungaro Jr.

Twenty-five members of the Class of 1978 gathered in New Haven in early June for their 25th reunion and enjoyed a warm, relaxing evening at the Graduate Club Saturday night for dinner. This report is offered with apologies for omissions, misspellings and misidentifications, but with hope that everyone will return for the next reunion to set the record straight. I’m especially sorry for crimes against spouse names. With Bacchus as my witness, and with your forgiveness, here’s who was there: Stan Tillinghast (cardiology practice in California) and wife Margaret, Sally Rudicel (alive and well in Boston), Kathy Ales (internal medicine and hospice care in Pennsylvania), Emily Fine (ob/gyn in New Haven), Suzie Hodgson (pediatrics) and husband John, Duke Cameron (cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins), Jonathan Weinberg (psychiatry in Boston), Robert Kraft (plastic surgery on Long Island) and wife Ruth, Harry Staszewski (heme-onc in Long Island) and wife Sherrie, Stu and Amy Forman (psychiatry in Hartford), David Cawthon (neurology in Seattle), Ken Lee (hand surgery in California), Cindy Kretschmar (oncology in Boston) and husband John, Joanne Bodurtha (genetics in Virginia) and Tom Smith (oncology in Virginia), Eric Einstein (internal medicine in Norwalk) and wife Claudia, Art Gershkoff (internal medicine in Philadelphia) and wife Grace, Olag Ogland (psychiatry in Connecticut), Bob Gelfand (endocrinology and drug development near New Haven) and wife Susan Boulware, Rich Baron (internal medicine in Philadelphia), Tom Amatruda (oncology in Minnesota) and wife Lynn, Mac Hansing (directs a new internal medical school in the United Kingdom), Seth Powsner (psychiatry at Yale) and wife Elizabeth Yen, Kay Johnson-Keys (ob/gyn in South Windsor, Conn.) and her family. John Wagner was in for the reunion, but had to leave before the dinner. Linda Hall and Marcia Wade both sent regrets. Pictures of each class member will be printed on decks of cards at the next reunion and distributed to make identification easier. See you in 2008!
—Duke Cameron and Seth Powsner

To describe the many contributions of our classmates to the fields of clinical practice, academic medicine, teaching of medical students and residents, basic research, clinical research, government service, public health, international health, genomic and pharmaceutical enterprises, state societies and national association leaderships would take far more space than we are allotted. In fact, asking any classmate “what are you doing?” results in an answer that would more than fill our column in Yale Medicine. Included here are thus just snippets of news about classmates. Once again we show that our class really is, as we sang in our second-year show theme song, “one singular sensation, Yale Med Class of ’83 ...”

Our 20th reunion included opportunities to learn what is new at Yale both academically and architecturally in the medical area. A highlight of the reunion was the visit by then-Dean David Kessler at our class reunion dinner at Sage’s Grill (best known to us by its former name, Chart House, home of “mud pies” and ocean views).

Attendees at our reunion included: Brent Neuschwander-Tetri, gastroenterology/hepatology, St. Louis University; Elena Citkowitz, cardiac rehabilitation, St. Raphael’s, New Haven, and teaching internal medicine, Yale; Lois Morton, psychiatry, Connecticut; Alan Reznick, orthopaedics, Connecticut, with Liz; Dwight Stapleton, cardiology, Guthrie Clinic, Pennsylvania, with Susan and their two kids; Michael Tom, otolaryngology, New York, with Linda; David Norton, pediatrics, Mary Lane Hospital, Ware, Mass., and teaching and international health work; Leslie Greengard, mathematics and computer science, NYU, and founder, software company, Connecticut; Steve Socket, immunobiology/allergy, New York.

Other classmates heard from or about recently include: Peter Blier, pediatrics, Riverbend Medical, Massachusetts; Alan Bloom, ophthalmology, Rochester, N.Y.; Linda Grais, founder, structural biology company, California; Jim Grober, rheumatology, Northwestern, Illinois; Tammy Harris, family practice, Southboro, Mass.; David Helfgott, internal medicine/ infectious disease, NYC; Don Johns, neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts; Judy Melin, internal medicine and administration, Lahey Clinic, Massachusetts; Dan Oren, psychiatry, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and teaching psychiatry, Yale; Susan Seward, internal medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Dan Sosin, CDC, Atlanta; Valerie Stone, internal medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Eric Winer, medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts; Tina Young Poussaint, radiology, Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts.

We owe special thanks to David Helfgott for doing the initial coordination work to get us ready for our reunion. Many thanks to David Schwartz for leading the philanthropy efforts for our class. Particular thanks to David Norton, Elena Citkowitz, Leslie Greengard and the alumni association staff who provided information about our reunion events. We are, as always, indebted to Patty DiNatale, Sharon McManus and Diane Morrissey of the Yale Medical School Alumni Affairs Office for their terrific coordination and planning efforts, and to Claire Bessinger of Yale Medicine for assuring our events are recorded. Let’s all get together in 2008 to hear about each other’s accomplishments. See you (all) at the 25th!
—Judy Melin

We had an intimate number of returnees for our 15th reunion. Ironically, the Yale medical school campus seems more different than any of our classmates!

Things are looking clearer to Joi Barrett, who recently had LASIK surgery. She can now find her children in the swimming pool. This is important in Sacramento, Calif., where Joi is an internist. Joi takes the farthest-traveled award, hands down. Closest was Mike DiGiovanna, who walked over after oncology rounds to get one of the last lobsters Friday. Mike devotes most of his time to breast cancer research.

Martha Brochin brought husband Joe Camilleri and two children. As a pediatrician, she seems to know everyone in the greater New Haven area and had a lot of news from various encounters at Stop and Shop!

Rhonda Karol and Steve Bowers joined us for Saturday dinner. Rhonda recently took over her father’s Queens dermatology practice. She and hubby Gordon Berger have two children. Steve spent five years in the Indian Health Service before returning to New Haven. Apparently an ER job and family aren’t challenging enough, so he is beginning the master’s in public health program.

A weekend highlight was a tour of the new anatomy lab with Bill Stewart. Shiny stainless-steel boxes with downdrafts hold cadavers, and computer monitors hang from the ceiling. The entire course is available online. The beautiful new Anlyan Center (half classroom, half lab space) towers over our old parking lot, and the site of Acky’s coffee shop is now the bookstore.

Several classmates sent news via e-mail. Ken Andreoni is doing transplant surgery in Chapel Hill, N.C., and has two daughters. He reports that Joe Dizon lives in Westchester and is commuting into NYC. Walt Stadler does oncology in Chicago, and Gerri Mogavero reads X-rays in Indianapolis.

Lisa Conrad Larkin writes from Cincinnati, where she practices internal medicine and has two children. She hears from Kelle Harbert Moley, who does reproductive medicine research in St. Louis. Depending on the season, Mike Mockavack tells me he is either snow or water skiing, when he isn’t doing ophthalmology.

Nicole Davis and Alex Vukasin couldn’t come, due to their children’s soccer and ice hockey schedules. (Who’s running our lives, anyway?) They have surgical practices (gynecology and urology, respectively) in Princeton, N.J.

In Alamo, Calif., Sue Valley rides horses with her daughter. Julia won a world championship in 2000 in Louisville! At work, Sue is the chief of anesthesiology at the VA Northern California Health Care System.

I recently saw Leslie Weinstein and met her 2-year-old son. Leslie has a solo ENT practice in San Francisco. I am practicing dermatology in Rhode Island. In the winter, we enjoy skiing. In other seasons, I live on soccer fields with my three children.

I hope all of you will put June 2008 on your calendars and come for the 20th!!
—Kathleen Carney-Godley

Most of us agreed that we looked the same and that no one had aged. Most of us had moved beyond or were on the verge of moving beyond the fellowship-training era. Conversation focused on practice associations, billing, mortgages and children. In keeping with Yale tradition, the class continues to demonstrate leadership in areas in and out of medicine. We were all delighted to find the Yale System still intact!! The reunion was attended by 18 alumni and several family members.

Juan Bartolomei is practicing neurosurgery at Yale. He and his wife, Nicole, were both present. A few alums retired to Juan’s place in Madison, Conn., after the clambake to reminisce about good times. Adina Chelouche and husband George Tellides, M.D., a cardiovascular surgeon at Yale, came with children Theodore, Julia and Alexander. Adina is practicing obstetrics and gynecology at Yale.

Eileen Deignan arrived with husband Victor Hsu, M.D. (rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital), and son Evan. Eileen is in a private dermatology practice in the Boston area. Dee Dockery, who made the trip from Dallas, Texas, is practicing radiology at Baylor University Medical Center. Ann Dolinsky lives in New York City, where she is an attending psychiatrist at Columbia University. Stephanie Falcone, who brought her daughter, Hana, practices general surgery and specializes in breast surgery in New York. Christopher Fey is practicing radiology in Greenwich, Conn., and continues to make even the grumpiest among us laugh. He was all smiles, as was everyone else around him. Joe Fodero made the trip from Livingston, N.J., where he practices plastic surgery. Myles Greenberg, who traveled from North Carolina, has joined a venture capital investment firm interested in promoting biotechnology. He continues to serve as part-time faculty in emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina. Gregory Heinen brought the entire clan all the way from Riverside, Calif. His wife, Judith, and children, Geoffrey, Jonathan and Katrina, were all a pleasure. Greg is practicing orthopaedic surgery and specializing in arthroscopic reconstruction. John Houston practices pediatric urology in Chicago at the Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Medical School. Robert Iannone practices pediatric hematologyoncology in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael Kaiser is an attending neurosurgeon at Columbia Presbyterian in New York. His wife, Michelle, is an attending at Columbia in internal medicine. Children Nicole, Cindy and Christopher were present. William King made the trip from Philadelphia. He is currently practicing general pediatrics at Temple University Children’s Medical Center. Stephen Marshalko, wife Lisa and son Stephen were present. Stephen completes his fellowship in interventional cardiology at Yale this June. York P. Moy practices urology in Waterbury, Conn. He and wife Veronica and son Nicholas were present. Stephen Solomon made the trip from Baltimore. He is an attending radiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital & Health System. Thanks go to Dave Tendler who rallied many of you to attend. Dave made the trip from Durham, N.C., where he is an attending gastroenterologist/hepatologist at Duke University Medical Center.

The reunion was certainly a joyous celebration and ended after dinner with hugs, handshakes and good wishes. We hope all 1993 grads will plan to be in New Haven in 2008 to celebrate our 15th reunion.
—John T.B. Houston

A record-breaking 26 members of the YMS Class of 1998 returned to New Haven for our 5th Reunion.

Childsy (Robinson) Art is a private practice pediatrician in Williamstown, Mass., where she lives with her husband, Jamie, and daughter, Maddie. Although she misses California, she does appreciate her proximity to the Woodchuck Cider brewery.

Not content with a mere M.D., Senai Asefaw has been moonlighting as a hospitalist at YNHH while pursuing an M.B.A. at the Yale School of Management.

Tamar Braverman and husband Michael live in Westville with their daughters, Yael and Talia. Tamar is a community internist, and reports annual attendance at the second-year show, although we’re not sure why.

Christi Cavaliere drove from Michigan to the reunion with her grandmother, and reported making a U-turn across the median of I-80 to avoid a jackknifed, burning tractor-trailer. Christi is finishing the two-year research component of her plastic surgery residency at the University of Michigan and starts back on the wards this summer.

Also a resident in plastic surgery at Michigan, Catherine Curtin has embraced the opportunity to be a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow by taking art lessons, joining a women’s soccer team and studying epidemiology. She and Terry Spauling also enjoy the occasional golf round.

Dan Coghlin has just joined wife Barb in a community pediatrics practice in Rhode Island. Their infant daughter, Molly, states that all of her immunizations are up-to-date.

A second-year dermatology resident at Northwestern, Naomi Donnelley enjoys living in Chicago, where she and her golden retriever take regular walks in Lincoln Park. Naomi’s dog is named after the Mark Twain character, Huckleberry Finn. He is not, as we had originally thought, named after the Hanna-Barbara character, Huckleberry Hound.

Caroline Dumont and husband Brian Tobin continue to call New Haven “home” and to call their new daughter “Cecille.” Caroline is finishing up her psychiatry residency on a part-time basis; though she has two more years of 20-hour weeks, she appreciates the time she gets to spend with Cecille and Brian.

Lori Etter is joining a dermatology practice in Durham, N.C. She and her boyfriend, Jeff Welty, have recently purchased a home to share with their dog, Millie, and their dog-to-be, Otis.

Naomi Botkin has one year left in her cardiology fellowship at UMass. She lives in Worcester, and purports to be able to pronounce it.

Karin Finberg, after spending 47 consecutive years in New Haven, is heading to Boston for a pathology residency at Mass General.

Scott Floyd has finished an internship at St. Raphael’s. He, wife Stephanie and son Jack have bought a house in Boston, where Scott will complete a residency in radiation oncology. Actually, we doubt Jack really contributed much toward the down payment.

Peter Hunt stayed on at UCSF for a fellowship in infectious disease. He has been awarded a five-year grant to study hiv. He reports playing trumpet fortnightly in a band that features Finnish folk tunes as well as jazz standards.

Now a dermatology faculty member at the University of Maryland, Lynda Kauls is settling into Baltimore with her husband, Geoff Emerson, an ophthalmology resident at Johns Hopkins.

Despite looking like he hadn’t slept in about two years, Matt Levine reports being thrilled to be a general surgery resident at Mass General. Matt and wife Leslie enjoy living in Charlestown with their dog, Jack.

After finishing a combined residency in medicine and pediatrics, Rich Lyn-Cook is staying at Mt. Sinai for a med-peds-epidemiology fellowship. His wife, Monica Lopez, is a surgery resident at Einstein.

Ursula McVeigh has finished her chief resident year in internal medicine at the University of Vermont and will stay on as a hospitalist in Burlington after a one-month solo hike along the Appalachian Trail.

Matt Mealiffe made a heroic effort to make it to the reunion, coming up for Friday night despite having to present a poster at the gene therapy meeting in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon. Matt continues his fellowship in medical genetics at the University of Washington, and will be moving down the block to a new lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center this summer.

Heather Nye has completed her combined med-peds residency at Harvard and is heading out to San Francisco to be a hospitalist at UCSF. She is particularly looking forward to being near family after 16 years of East Coast living.

Leo Otake is completing his internship at YNHH in general surgery on his way to becoming a plastic surgeon.

Greg Raskin’s daughter Daphne won several awards at the reunion, including Least Likely To Smear Herself With Food. Greg, who works at a biotech investment fund in NYC, thinks that Daphne got most of her charm from her mother, Jackie Weiss.

A.J. Rubineau (nee Babineau) is a family practice resident at Brown. She and partner Brian Rubineau (ne Rubin) have two children, Eli and Daisy.

Lisa Gale Suter is completing a rheumatology fellowship at Yale before starting a two-year Robert Wood Johnson fellowship. She and husband Lindsay have an 18-month-old son, Fenn, and a 10-foot waterfall, complete with sluice gate.

Having finished her pediatrics residency at the University of Washington, Meena Thayu has been a hospitalist at the University of Pennsylvania for the past year. She eagerly anticipates starting a pediatric GI fellowship at CHOP.

Steven Williams is a plastic surgery resident at YNHH. We would like to apologize for having teased him so much during medical school for his cell phone—if only because we pretty much all have one now. Just another reminder that it’s a fine line between punch line and prophet.

Ashley Wivel is a chief resident in emergency medicine at the University of Indiana. She and husband Ryan Kime, also an ER resident, have become huge NASCAR fans.
—Greg Raskin