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Michael Linares — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:24:00 -0400

The Yale AIDS Memorial Project (YAMP) is an alumni-led initiative to honor and document the lives of hundreds of men and women from the University who perished during the AIDS epidemic. YAMP will pay homage to the deceased—students, faculty, and staff—by creating profiles with their biographies and photos, along with stories from their friends and family. By telling the story of AIDS through the lens of a single institution, YAMP will make the epidemic palpable for a younger generation and help to stimulate an AIDS memory boom.

In all likelihood, more Yalies died of AIDS than died during World War II. Until now, however, no attempt has been made to memorialize or document Yale’s history with the AIDS epidemic.

Each profile on this site consists of photographs, a mini-biography, a list of extracurricular and post-graduate affiliations, and, most importantly, personal stories from friends and family. The site’s functionality approximates that of a social network, allowing users to search against a number of variables, including class year, group membership, and profession.

YAMP is a vast and ambitious collaboration of volunteers and supporters, and we’d love for you to join us.

Robert Lancaster Hoskins

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:37:53 -0400

Profiles/RobertLancasterHoskins

Robert Lancaster Hoskins (CC ’60) was born on August 3, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Cincinnati Country Day School. A member of Calhoun College, he majored in political science and was assistant manager to the varsity basketball team. Though upon graduation he aspired to a career in public relations, he followed a decidedly different career path. After a brief stint at the Hartford Insurance Company, he taught at the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York, before earning an M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati in 1968.

Hoskins later moved to New York, where he met nightlife impresario Erv Raible. Together, Hoskins and Raible bought and managed the Duplex Cabaret and Piano Bar in the West Village. The pair brought many big names to Duplex, including Woody Allen and Joan Rivers; renowned comedian and talk show host Dick Cavett (YC ’58) made his first New York appearances there. Together, Hoskins and Raible assumed ownership of several such venues including Don’t Tell Mama and Brandy’s, and became a powerful force behind the ongoing revitalization of New York’s cabaret scene.

Robert Hoskins died on December 23, 1984 at age 46.

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1984

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:36:27 -0400

Timeline/1984

Charles Ludlam plays the titular role in the American Ibsen Theater production of “Hedda Gabler” in Pittsburgh, PA.

Robert Hoskins dies on December 23. He was 46 years old.

Jose Moscoso begins work for the law offices of Baker & McKenzie in Manhattan.

Timothy Lenahan receives earns his M.Arch from Yale School of Architecture and begins working for Robert A.M. Stern in Manhattan.

Christopher Kales earns his MD and begins practicing medicine as a general physician in New York City.

1968

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:34:53 -0400

Timeline/1968

Tim Dlugos joins the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order, and enrolls at LaSalle College.

Robert Hoskins earns his M.Ed from the University of Cincinnati.

John Tardino begins his two-year fellowship with the Yale-in-China Association.

James Terrell earns his Master’s from the Yale School of Architecture.

1960

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:33:38 -0400

Timeline/1960

John Wallace was born on June 1.

Robert Hoskins graduates from Yale with a degree in political science.

Jack Winkler began studying at St. Louis University.

Jose Moscoso earns his BA from Harvard University.

1938

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:32:57 -0400

Timeline/1938

Robert Hoskins is born in Cincinatti, OH on August 3.

2007

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:31:45 -0400

Timeline/2007

David Springer dies of cancer on June 19 at age 55.

1996

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:30:38 -0400

Timeline/1996

Michael Palm’s foundation awards a $2.5 million capital gift to Gay Men’s Health Crisis to establish the organization’s headquarters in New York.

David Springer, while working with Lambda, represents Jamie Nabozny, a Wisconsin man who sued his high school district for its negligence during anti-gay harassment.

David Brudnoy receives an honorary doctorate from Emerson College. Later that year, he publishes his memoir “Life is Not a Rehearsal.”

Derek Anson Jones is awarded the NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship.

David E Springer

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:30:30 -0400

Profiles/DavidESpringer

David E. Springer (BA ’74 JD ‘77) was born in Evanston, IL on January 20, 1952. Sprigner graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa before attending Yale Law School, where he studied complex corporate litigation.

Springer’s legal career began in the business litigation department at the Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis. In 1986 he joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he represented major corporations including WorldCom and Kmart and eventually became a partner.

Openly out since high school, Springer was an outspoken advocate for gay rights and liberation. Throughout his career, he represented a variety of clients on a pro-bono basis through his involvement with Lambda Legal. In 1996, while working with Lambda,Springer represented Jamie Nabozny, a Wisconsin man who sued his high school district for its negligence during anti-gay harassment. Jon W. Davidson, Lambda’s legal director, celebrated the case’s landmark victory, saying it, “…sent a message to school districts around the country.” Springer also served as a mentor for young lawyers, advising in the fields of legal writing and trail advocacy. Springer established his credibility on such matters through publishing a number of articles on legal ethics throughout his life.

In addition to serving on the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and the boards of directors of GLAAD and The Hubbard Street Dance Company, Springer was a member of the City Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, and the Trial Bar of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Springer lived HIV+ for several years. His partner of 17 years, Bill Strausberger, is a Ph.D, a Research Associate at the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Biology. Aside from a one-year break in the 1990s, Springer continued to practice law well beyond the years of his diagnosis.

He died of cancer on June 19, 2007. He was 55 years old.

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1986

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:29:16 -0400

Timeline/1986

James Snead publishes Figures of Division, an analysis of race and language in the novels of William Faulkner.

Michael Palm begins working at Berkshire Hathaway with his business partner Steven Gluckstern.

David Springer joins Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he represents major corporations including WorldCom and Kmart and eventually becomes a partner.

Harry Kondoleon is diagnosed with AIDS.

Terence Beirn joins the staff of the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

1977

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:28:22 -0400

Timeline/1977

Between 1977 and 1979, Frank Moore studies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, supporting himself by teaching English to Muslim youth.

David Springer graduates from Yale Law School.

Leonard Raver joins the New York Philharmonic.

Warren Smith graduates from Harvard, and begins working for Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates (now Debevoise & Plimpton).

Jack Winkler is the sole faculty member to help organize Yale’s first Gay Rights Week.

Lawrence Jacobs earns an Architecture Record House Award. He also begins his own architectural firm in Manhattan.

Harry Kondoleon graduates from Hamilton College.

1974

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:27:48 -0400

Timeline/1974

Warren Smith graduates from Yale in January and then travels to Ebersberg, outside Munich, for a three-month fellowship from the Goethe Institut to study German.

David Springer graduates from Yale.

Terence Beirn graduates from Yale and pursues a career in broadcast journalism in San Francisco.

Jack Winkler earns his PhD from The University of Texas.

John Tardino graduates from the University of Buffalo Medical School.

1952

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:26:24 -0400

Timeline/1952

Warren Smith is born in Chicago on April 15.

Terence Beirn is born in New York City.

David E. Springer (BA ’74 JD ‘77) iss born in Evanston, IL on January 20.

Jorge Enrique Garcia Rodriguez

Michael Linares — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:21:27 -0400

Profiles/JorgeEnriqueGarciaRodriguez

Jorge Enrique Garcia Rodriguez ’70 was born in Havana, Cuba on August 22, 1948. In 1961, his parents moved to Maine, where they practiced general medicine. Jorge graduated from Milo High School in 1966 before majoring in Art History at Yale, where he was a member of Saybrook College. While at Yale, Jorge participated in Gymnastics, the Yale Political Union, the Yale College Council, the Saybrook Dramat, and the Cheerleading team;

His artistic works as an undergraduate were consistently sexual or relating to a life of pleasure, with his cartoonist-like paintings including such titles as “Amorous Octopi” and “A Harlot’s Series.” Although provocative in nature, Jorge’s work earned him the Art Department’s Best Senior Painting Prize upon graduation. Following commencement, he moved to Manhattan alongside fellow classmates Robert Endo, Douglass Smith and Richard Arnold.

In 1975, Jorge abandoned art and pursued a career in publishing. Following a brief stint in architectural publication, Jorge began work at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich publishers, where he specialized in the production of foreign language materials, specifically Spanish textbooks. A member of the Islanders Club, Jorge and his partner Danny Goggin, a writer of Broadway musicals, annually rented a home at the Pines in Fire Island.

He died in the spring of 1989 of AIDS related complications.

He was 41 years old.

Douglass Dean Smith

Antonio Sanchez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:12:10 -0400

Profiles/DouglassDeanSmith

Douglass Dean Smith ’70 was born on May 11, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1966, he graduated from the Latin School of Chicago before obtaining his BA in English from Yale in 1970. A member of Saybrook College, Smith was active in the Yale Glee Club, the Yale College Council Key Society, the Yale Episcopal Society Student Committee, and the Elizabethan Club. He also served on the Committee of Religious Concern and was a student deacon at Battel Chapel. Smith was selected as a member of Manuscript, a senior secret society.

Upon his initial move to the city, Smith worked as a city planner. In later years, he worked as a financial officer at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, although he was expected to leave when it was revealed he had AIDS. Following his diagnosis-driven-departure, Smith became active in the New York City Chapter of the People With AIDS Coalition, often attending social events at the local community center. In the final years of his life, he lived in the same Manhattan apartment building as his mother.

He died on June of 1988 from AIDS related complications. He was 39 years old.

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Timothy Lenahan

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:13:17 -0400

Profiles/TimothyLenahan

Timothy Egan Lenahan was born in Bryn Mawr, PA on July 1, 1958. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale (B.A. 1980, M.Arch. 1984). Lenahan’s studies focused largely on the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape.

Following graduation, Lenahan moved to Greenwich Village, where he lived and worked as an architect. During his career, he designed projects including the Kol Israel Synagogue in Brooklyn and the Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul’s School. Lenahan worked with Robert A.M. Stern from 1984 to 1989.

He died on September 7, 1992 at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan at age 34. Two years after his death, the Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Fund was established to support the teaching of landscape and architectural design.

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Enno Poersch

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:32:51 -0400

Profiles/EnnoPoersch

Enno Poersch ’72 was born Nov 22, 1944 in Portland, OR. Following his graduation from Yale, Poersch pursued careers in set and graphic design for stage and film. He was one of a small group of homosexual men in Manhattan who formed the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in the winter of 1981, a collective aimed at exploring the origins of AIDS while providing support services for individuals affected by the virus. A key fundraiser for the organization, Poersch served as GMHC’s director for three years. He died on May 6, 1990.

He was 45 years old.

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Bruce Binderow

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:30:03 -0400

Profiles/BruceBinderow

Bruce D Binderow SY ’85 was born on April 26, 1963 in Douglaston, New York. He was a biology major who attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed one year of medical school before becoming sick.

He died of AIDS on August 2, 1990 at age 27.

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Gerald Olanoff

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:45:15 -0400

Profiles/GeraldOlanoff

Gerald (Jerry) Bruce Olanoff was born on December 11, 1952, he was raised on Long Island and later in Queens before attending Yale, where he graduated in 1974. He moved to Manhattan where he met his partner Ron Csuha, an artist. Olanoff then pursued a master’s degree in architecture at Columbia University, receiving it in 1977. During those three years, Olanoff became active in in National Gay Task Force.

Olanoff spent several years working at the firm of Phillip Johnson and John Burgee, but was not satisfied with his progress as an architect there. He moved to Davis, Brody & Associates in 1979; Here, Olanoff was much more comfortable and became project architect for the design of new conservatories and the renovation of the old conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden which were completed in 1988. He was also a project architect for the renovation of the old Bird House at the Bronx Zoo but had to leave this when he was no longer able to work because of AIDS.

Olanoff was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, and started getting major health problems in 1991. Davis Brody was very supporting of gay architects and luckily Olanoff was able to continue working longer than most because of this support. Even after his diagnosis, Olanoff was made an associate of the firm.

On April 3, 1994, Olanoff was featured in a New York Times article on the effect of AIDS of architecture firms: AIDS and the Practice of Architecture, written by his friend David W. Dunlap.

While working for Davis Brody, he was also able to work on the design of homes for private clients in New York, Massachusetts, and in the Pines on Fire Island. Five of these houses were built in a modern style using traditional materials of wood and stone to achieve large double height spaces to serve as living rooms. The plans for the design of these houses are archived at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.

In 1983, Jerry became a founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, and headed the architecture committee to deal with design problems in the building acquired by the Center, the former Food and Maritime High School on 13th Street in Greenwich Village, NYC. The committee was responsible for the building’s first renovation, which began in 1995.

Olanoff was an outspoken activist who disliked having had to hide his identity so much so that his life seemed to truly embodied the ACT UP slogan “Silence is Death.” He was highly indignant at the ways gays were treated during his life, chiefly among these treatments being the way a family of one partner could legally confiscate assets of his or her gay union. Though he was an activist, he was not a member of ACT UP, but greatly appreciated their work. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he and his partner Ron marched regularly with Act Up in the annual Gay Parade.

Olanoff died on October 22, 1995 from AIDS related complications. He was 42 years old.

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John Tardino Jr

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:33:34 -0400

Profiles/JohnTardinoJr

John Anton Tardino, Jr., was born in Merrick, New York, in 1946; He was the youngest of three children. At Yale, he majored in history with an independent concentration in American Studies and sang in the Yale Glee Club, Spizzwinks(?), the Silliman Chorus, the Dwight Hall Tutorial, and the Whiffenpoofs. He was also a member of Book and Snake, a secret society.   Through his many activities at Yale, John moved around the country and the world. In 1966, the Spizzwinks(?) went to Venezuela and toured universities and hotels with the help of the U.S. government and Creole Oil. In 1967, he auditioned and was selected to act in a mobile theater program funded by Urban Corps, a federal program to give students summer jobs in New York City. When the Urban Corps director decided his idea was infeasible, Yale students took it over and ran the Mini-Mobile Theater themselves. John helped rally resources from municipal agencies and then built sets onto the project’s sixteen-foot flatbed truck. He became a manager, setting up stages and driving actors to the performances. John was selected in 1968 by the Yale-in-China Association to teach for two years at New Asia College in Hong Kong graduated from the University of Buffalo Medical School in 1974. He entered family medicine, then a new type of medical specialty, and worked at New York City’s Family Care Center.   He was a member of the American Fern Society.

John Tardino died in the early-to-mid 1980s in New York City.

Scot Haller

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:12:14 -0400

Profiles/ScotHaller

Scot Kevin Haller was born September 29, 1954 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati before coming to Yale, where he wrote for the Yale Daily News, acted in productions of the Yale College Dramat, and majored in English. After graduating magna cum laude he pursued a career in journalism, working as an editor at the Saturday Review before moving to California, where he became a senior editor of People and chief of the magazine’s Los Angeles bureau. During his time at People, he authored over twenty cover articles based on interviews with many celebrities including Bette Davis, Sally Field, and Rock Hudson. He was also a contributor to Esquire, New York, Horizon, the Dial and TV Guide magazines. He died on June 24, 1990.

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Dan Friedman

Antonio Sanchez — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:10:12 -0400

Profiles/DanFriedman

Dan Friedman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945. From the Midwest, Friedman went to college at Carnegie Mellon, where he received his BFA in Graphic Design. Following his undergraduate career, Friedman journeyed to Basel, where he studied orthodox modernist graphic design at the Schule für Gestaltung. He returned to the United States in 1969, marking the beginning of his career as a graphic design instructor for major corporations and institutions. From 1970-1973, Friedman taught Graphic Design at Yale, in addition to holding teaching posts at the State University College at Purchase, N.Y., and at Cooper Union. He also held positions at Anspach Grossman Portugal, where he was a senior designer from 1975-1977. While working for Pentagram (during the years of 1979 to 1984), he designed posters, letterheads and logos for clients including Citibank and Williwear. In 1982, he designed a book for his dear friend Keith Haring and worked for the Neotu Gallery. In 1994, he published “Radical Modernism,” a lavishly illustrated text which meditated on the constraints of post-modernity. He died on July 7, 1995 at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. He was 49 years old.

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Terence Beirn

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:42:32 -0400

Profiles/TerenceBeirn

Terence Beirn was born in New York City in 1952. Before attending Yale, Beirn graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. After earning his Bachelor’s in 1974, Beirn pursued a career in broadcast journalism, becoming a correspondent for KGO in San Francisco until 1984.

That same year, he was diagnosed with AIDS.

Following his diagnosis, Beirn began working with Senator Ted Kennedy on AIDS policy. In 1986, Beirn committed himself entirely to the organization of major AIDS legislation by joining the staff of the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. During his time there, Beirn garnered support for the first comprehensive piece of AIDS legislation, the 1988 HIV Organ Policy Equity Act. The HOPE Act, which was renewed by President Obama in 2013, is a law that modified rules regarding organ donation between HIV-positive individuals. Two years later, Beirn was instrumental in the passage of the Ryan White Care Act, for which he advocated directly with President Bush.

Beirn was a fierce AIDS activist; he was responsible for compiling quarterly directories of AIDS treatment for doctors and patients, fund-raising for AmFAR and other research organizations, and pushing legislation to fund clinical trials of experimental treatments and drugs.

Beirn died at the age of 39 in 1991 from AIDS-related brain cancer.

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1990

Antonio Sanchez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:36:24 -0400

Timeline/1990

Jim Brudner publishes an Op-Ed in The New York Times, ‘AIDS activism is good for research,’ explaining the science behind the then current AIDS research.

John Boswell serves as chair of the History department until 1992.

John Wallace dies of AIDS-related causes on February 28. He was 29 years old.

Jack Winkler passes away on April 25 in Palo Alto.

Scot Kevin Haller dies on June 24 in "Los Angeles:L#LosAngelesCalifornia.

Tim Dlugos dies on December 3.

Julian Bingham Abbott dies at the age of 64.