“Dear Classmates, I am sorry I missed the reunion last year. Unfortunately, death and illnesses interfered with our best-laid plans. After working at George Washington University School of Medicine for 25 years, and serving as the Director of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension in the Department of Medicine, I joined the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the NIH as Senior Advisor, concentrating on acute kidney injury and the genetics of kidney diseases. I was honored recently with election to Mastership in the American College of Physicians. I hope to devote part of my time over the next several years to research in the psychosocial factors related to patients ill with kidney disease. We recently published a paper outlining associations of mortality and income distributional inequality in the US end-stage renal disease hemodialysis patient population. I responded to Hannah Rosin’s review of Nathan Harden’s book on contemporary Yale in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (August 26, 2012) in a letter published September 9. I hoped it was a vigorous defense of the climate of intellectual freedom I felt while we were undergraduates. I decried the lack of data upholding Ms Rosin’s assertion that the quality of the sexual experience at Alma Mater was not comparable to that at Big Ten schools, but this portion of the letter was deleted by the overzealous NYT editors. (I do not know why they would not publish intact a 4000 word commentary from a concerned alumnus.) The letter  can be accessed on the web at  www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/lux-et-veritas.html   (The second letter in the group, if briefer, was funnier). My wife Prudence and I hosted a signal birthday party last year. Several classmates attended.  I am thrilled that I am younger than Ron Knight.”