ORDER OF SERVICE

Prelude:

Adagio (1715), BWV 974 (Marcello) in D Minor and Preludes from Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (1722) Johann Sebastian Bach

Performed by Eliot Norman ’69

Welcome Rev. J. Douglas Ousley ’69

Steal Away Wallace Willis

Performed by Geoffrey Anderson, Mark Curchack, David-Marc Finley, Kenneth Knight, John Lehr, William Mackoff, F. Jared Sprole and Richard A. Williams, Jr., all ’69 [plus others]

Reflections Rev. J. Douglas Ousley ’69

Goin’ Home Antonin Dvorak

Performed by Richard A. Williams. Jr. ’69 Accompanied by Eliot Norman ’69

Reading of Names Daniel Seiver ’69

During the reading of names, classmates and others are welcome to speak a few words about our deceased class members with statements of one minute or less.

Kontakion and Encomium From the Orthodox Christian funeral service

Among the saints give rest, O Christ, to the souls of Thy servants, where there is neither sickness, nor sorrow, nor sighing, but life everlasting. May their memory be eternal.

Sung by Michael H. Baum ’69

El Molei Rachamin (Merciful God) Traditional Jewish prayer for the souls of the departed

Performed by Richard A. Williams, Jr. ’69

God, full of compassion who dwells on high, bring perfect rest under the wings of the Divine Presence (Shekinah), amid the ranks of the holiest and pure, who shimmer like the sky at its most brilliant moments, the souls of our beloved and blameless, who are on the path to the next world, and for whom we are praying so that their souls will become a sacred memory. May their resting place be the

Garden of Eden. May you, who are the source of mercy, shelter them beneath Your wings eternally, bind their souls among the living, that they may rest in peace. And let us say, Amen.

Moments of silent prayer and reflection

Nocturne No. 13, Op. 48 No. 1 in C Minor (excerpt) (1841) Frédéric Chopin Performed by Eliot Norman ’69

Bright College Years words by Henry Durand

Benediction Rev. J. Douglas Ousley ’69

Postlude

Rhapsody in Blue (finale) George Gershwin (1924) Performed by Eliot Norman ’69

Bright College Years

Bright College years, with pleasures rife, The shortest, gladdest years of life;

How swiftly are ye gliding by! Oh, why doth time so quickly fly? The seasons come, the seasons go,

The earth is green or white with snow, But time and change shall naught avail To break the friendships formed at Yale.

In after years, should troubles rise To cloud the blue of sunny skies,

How bright will seem, through mem'ry's haze Those happy, golden, by-gone days!

Oh, let us strive that ever we

May let these words our watch cry be, Where'er upon life's sea we sail:

"For God, for Country and for Yale!"

Classmates Deceased Since June 2019

Charles L. Apel	Paul Francis Malamud
Bruce Robert Bolnick	Paul Stephen McAuliffe
Morrison M. Bonpasse	John Paul Meyer
Gene Carson Buzzard	Terrence Clark Miller
William Rogers Caltrider, Jr.	Wentworth Earl Miller
Louis Bartholomew Casagrande III	James Vincent Minor III
David Forrest Click	Edward F. Mitchell
Robert George Eisenhauer, Jr.	Lee Carter Mundell
John Randolph. Elliott	John Eric Nelson
Richard Lavington Farren	James Stanford Nippes
Donald Patrick Galbraith	John Geoffrey O'Leary
Joseph Benjamin Green	William Charles Pennington
Robert Bradley Haas	Eric Harvey Prosnitz
Leon Reid Hanson, Jr.	David Langdon Raish
Nicholas Mackechnie Hawkin	Charles Pillsbury Resor
Scott Webster Herstin	William K. Sacco
David Harrison Idol III	Jerome M. Schnitt
Gregory Peter Karampalas	Edward Stow Seligman
William B. Kiesewetter, Jr.	Hartley Steven Spatt
Terry Allen Landers	James Allen Steffenburg
David Perry Lawrence	William Francis Streicker
Quentin Anthony Lawson	Thomas James Walsh, Jr.
Richard Earle MacKay	William Barnum Wickwire