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Reginald Eugene Ford III – 50th Reunion Essay

Reginald Eugene Ford III 610 Oakview Way Emerald Hills, CA 94062 reg.ford@aya.yale.edu 650-576-4041 Spouse(s): Cynthia (1969) Education: University of California, Berkeley, PhD 1976 Career: Software engineer, computer science researcher, and program leader, SRI International (Menlo Park, CA). Still work in the Computer Science Lab, but mostly retired. Avocations: Music, gardening, art, science/math, history, books/audiobooks, running College: Saybrook If it was five years ago I would say a lot about my work and what it’s meant…

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Harry C. Forsdick – 50th Reunion Essay

Harry C. Forsdick 46 Burlington St. Lexington, Massachusetts 2420 harry@forsdick.com 781-799-6002 Spouse(s): Marsha Baker, 1977 – now Child(ren): Benjamin 1981 and William 1984 Education: Yale College BS, 1969; MIT MS 1973 Career: Internet Research, Bolt Beranek and Newman 23 years, 8 years in .COM hyperbole and aftermath. Avocations: Travel, Art, Photography, Internet, Computers College: Pierson Enough, Basta, Dayenu. This may not be perfect, but it’s overdue. Story of my life. Just in case I missed…

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Michael Walter Finkbeiner – 50th Reunion Essay

Michael Walter Finkbeiner 50 Harbor View Ln – B Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770 mwfinkbeiner@gmail.com 203-561-3293 Spouse(s): Joan Mathews Planchart (1970) Child(ren): Elizabeth (1971), Sarah (1974), Jean (1976) and Daniel (1981) Grandchild(ren): Andrew (1994), Hannah (1996), Sarah (1997) and Julia (1999) Education: Yale Forest School MFS 1971 Career: Consulting Forester 20 years, Land Surveyor 30 years, Minister 41 years Avocations: Lux et Veritas (the real ones) College: Morse Yale changed me—for better. A formative event to…

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Julian H. Fisher – 50th Reunion Essay

Julian H. Fisher 320 Dudley Street Brookline, MA 02445 fisher@vzul.com 617-232-3411 Spouse(s): Barbara Wallraff (1992-2009) Education: Yale BA 1969, Johns Hopkins MD 1973 Career: Harvard Medical School faculty (neurology) 1979-present College: Morse Bookends. That is how I view my life in relationship to Yale. I came to Yale with a somewhat single-minded desire to pursue a career in medicine, but with a strong hobby interest in photography. My plans were upended as photojournalism at the…

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Michael O. Flanagan – 50th Reunion Essay

Michael O. Flanagan 507 Tulane Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87106-1344 flanagan44@msn.com 505-415-6278 Spouse(s): Dianna Byrnes (1969 – 1980); Valerie Jill Young (1989 – present) Education: University of New Mexico School of Medicine: M.D. 1983 National Service: Navigator: US Air Force 1971 – 76 Career: Neurobiology/Biochemistry graduate student: (UNM) 1979 – 80; Psychiatry Resident: (UNM) 1983 – 85; Neurology Research Fellow (U. Otago) 1988 – 90; Medical Practitioner, Albuquerque, NM 1991 – 2006; Student of the…

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William Wendell Fletcher – 50th Reunion Essay

William Wendell Fletcher 3655 Planting Green Stillwater, MN 55082 wendellandsue@gmail.com 651-342-1654 Spouse(s): Susan R. Fletcher (1984) Child(ren): Daniel Abbasi Grandchild(ren): Jordan, Elias, Isabelle Education: Yale AB 1969, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry 1977 MS Career: public policy analyst, manager, writer, consultant (current) College: Timothy Dwight Originally in the Class of 1968, I dropped out in my junior year, graduating in 1969 from Timothy Dwight while living off campus on the shore. I spent…

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Howard Christian Floyd – 50th Reunion Essay

Howard Christian Floyd 16 Oxford Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420-2940 Spouse(s): Norma Dominick Floyd (1989) Career: Lead Software Systems Engineer, Retired, The MITRE Corporation College: Branford My life changes but stays much the same as I wrote 25 years ago. I retired in spring 2016 from full time at the MITRE Corporation but still work part-time on call, often at Hanscom AFB. Norma and I live in the same house in Lexington, Massachusetts, and expect to…

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Paul C. Field – 50th Reunion Essay

Paul C. Field Highlands, North Carolina p.field@earthlink.net 678-296-4375 Spouse(s): Candyce Barbara Nadon (1977) (“Love lifts us up where we belong.”) Education: Duke University, M.Div, 1972; UC Berkeley, MBA, 1982 Career: My career has been in financial services marketing. Seven years with California Casualty Insurance Company, two years at Wells Fargo Bank, nine years in consulting and twenty years at SunTrust Bank. Avocations: While in Atlanta, I enjoyed being active in the Yale Club of Georgia….