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40th Reunion | 2005

The 40th Reunion of the HGS class of 1965 took place on Friday May 6 and Saturday 7, 2005. It was an extraordinary event that was class focused, full of new ideas, exciting, at times very moving, and always very interesting. Click on the links for the full archives and photo albums of each day.

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The two day event began with the opportunity to attend classes Friday morning and afternoon.

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Paul O'Connell, Hutch, and John Mordes attended a Military History Class taught by Gerard Casanova.
 

Our class banner, which once hung at our graduation and then at reunion dinners in the gym, has been transformed into a large photo that now hangs with dozens of others in the Heath Commons.

 

Nothing endures but change.

Fugit tempus.

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Friday

Our 40th reunion of the HGS class of 1965 began on Friday, May 6, 2005. It was an extraordinary day for those of us who were there.

The two day event began with the opportunity to attend classes Friday morning and afternoon. Paul O'Connell, Hutch, and John Mordes attended a Military History Class taught by Gerard Casanova. Here is Mr. Casanova with two senior students in a renovated 3rd floor Baldwin Hall Classroom.

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In the afternoon, Dr. John attended. Mrs. Katsaros' French I class. It was held in the same room that for decades was that of Mr. De Noyon. New was a TV on which the student watch some of the classic Cocteau 1946 movie La belle et la bête.Several of the students has been prizewinners in an extramural competition.

 

Dr. John also attended attended an third year Spanish class.

The session was held in Hopkin's extraordinary new web-based language laboratory, a far cry from the telephone-switch-based system of our era. Paul and Hutch also attended an Atlantic History class in the afternoon. 

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Then it was on to Mory's for an evening of fun, food, libations, and conversation. Fifteen of us were there.

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The graciousness, hospitality, and good natured interest of Barbara Riley and all the staff and faculty were in evidence throughout the weekend and greatly appreciated by all of us

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Here is a list of classmates who came on Friday ​

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  • Milstone

  • Cherniavsky

  • Schulz

  • O'Connell

  • Lendler

  • Jose

  • Seldon

  • Hutchinson

  • Mordes

  • Waterman

  • Clark

  • Delaney

  • Mack

  • Romero

Here is a gallery of the Friday events​

Saturday

The 40th Reunion of the HGS class of 1965 concluded on Saturday, May 7, 2005. It was an extraordinary day, especially the morning and the moment many of us saw Nick Doob for the first time in nearly 40 years.  The day was exciting, at times very moving, and always very interesting.

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We convened on Saturday at 11 a.m. with coffee in a private lounge in the Heath Commons.

The idea was, well, just to talk. We thought that our own histories were probably the most interesting events.That turned out to be true.

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Dr. John started things rolling by explaining what the idea of the morning and, indeed, the reunion was. We didn't need much prodding. We covered a lot. Just a few of the topics:

Dr. John's "Cliff Notes" take on the looming crisis in health due to rising rates of obesity and diabetes. Paul O'Connell's insights (as an authority in espionage and as a  security consultant) into current American geopolitics. John Cherniavsky on the nature and future of the National Science Foundation. Gordy Clark's odyssey from a brush with the ministry to a career in providing mental health services for the disadvantaged. Mark Lendler shared a little about his decade as a worker in the factories in Cincinnati and the circular path that took him back to Yale, authorship, and family life in Wallingford. Tom Delany told us about his experiences as a nuclear submariner. Hutch on business, Texas, sailing, and more. Mack on the transformation of printing and his career change. Pensive moments of reflection on our classmates now gone, most recently Nick Payne and John Gamble. And lots of thoughts about F. Allen Sherk and Evans Meinecke.

 

Then we adjourned to the Malone Science Center media room. We were rewarded by the appearance of Nick Doob  for the first time at a reunion. He brought his incisive documentary on Al Franken, which generated much discussion. We were reminded by Nick that his career in film was the direct consequence of the opportunity that was given him to do a Senior Project in lieu of the last 6-8 weeks of classes in the spring of 1965.

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Next up: a social hour. And some of us can still dance the night away....

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Here is a list of classmates who came on Saturday:

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  • Hutchinson

  • Mordes

  • Doob (for the first time!)

  • Waterman

  • Clark

  • Delaney

  • Mack

  • Romero

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  • Milstone

  • Cherniavsky

  • Schulz

  • O'Connell

  • Lendler

  • Jose

  • Alderman

  • Seldon

Here is a gallery of the Saturday events​

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