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Ted Jones '64 reports on the 2024 Fall golf outing

To paraphrase, “But cloudy skies shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale.” In that spirit, golfers from the Class of 1964 gathered in late September to continue our decades-long semi-annual tradition of golf outings. With the Yale course closed (and now throughout ’25 versus opening that spring), we returned to Tashua Knolls in Trumbull, where we had played prior to the Reunion, and added a second course the following day in Hamden, The Vue. We were nervous about the weather, as forecasts had been for rain both days. Happily, other than a fine mist early at The Vue, it was only threateningly gray, not wet.
 
For Tashua, the players were Mike Arons, Don Edwards, Bill Galvin, Ted Jones (pictured at right), Jan Truebner, and Ward Wickwire. The course is gorgeous and very interesting, and the two nines are somewhat different with the first being more open and level (though not THAT level), and the back twisty with more varied terrain. The hero of the day was Bill Galvin, who achieved a golf rarity by beating his age (by three strokes). Yay Bill!!!
 
After golf we adjourned to Mory’s bar where Marie took good care of us. Present were Wickwire, Lindsay, Evans, Jones, Galvin, Arons, Edwards (clockwise in the photo below) and we were joined by the spirit of Neil Hoffmann, a devoted participant and former “Captain” of our group, who passed this June. Prior to dinner, Don Edwards opened with some moving thoughts on Neil’s warm, engaging, and fun persona, and his devotion to golf. Others joined in with their thoughts and shared their joy in having known him. John Evans closed our reverie with all holding hands and singing the Doxology. You can be sure the food and the conversation were nonpareil.

The next day dawned more threatening and the windshield on the way to the course was damp but not doused. Happily, there was no rain after we started. Present were Arons, Evans Jones, Hetherington (who had introduced the idea of this course), Lindsay, and Tully. The course was in fine shape, and really fun and interesting. Words like roller-coaster and pretzel-shaped were brought to mind to describe the holes. The highlights (lowlights??) of the round, though, were the two — count ’em two — times Arons hung his cart on the cart path curb, requiring Herculean effort by Jones and Lindsay to bring the cart to rights. Given the ever-darkening skies at the end of nine holes, only stalwarts Arons and Lindsay set off on the back nine.
 
All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable couple of days with friendships formed at Yale — and we missed those of you who could not make it.