Richard+'Dick'+Yeo

Thanks to Bud for the virtual reunion. I was glad when Wes Burwell came in the class behind me, adding another New England accent to mine and Peg King's - fodder for Mrs. Anderson to try to purge us on the theory, evidently, that the Word might not be heard in strange lands with our regional diction. After 1958, I became the director of a conference center in Mass. before a four year stint as Associate Chaplain-Congregational at my alma mater, BU. Go Terriers! Elinor Lockwood (Union BD, 1958) joined the staff, we courted over hockey games, married and had two sons in Boston. Then on to George Washington in DC for four years as campus minister. Our radical student leaders there initiated a 40 year reunion in Boston last year - a real treat. We then went to Milwaukee for campus ministry, gravitating to the management of private foundations for me, and leadership of reproductive choice issues for Elinor. Four years turned into twenty! When our three sons came back "home" for college, we returned to Boston where I continued in dual careers of foundation management and local church internships. After eight years of reconfiguring the Walker Center, a conference/residential center in Newton, I "retired". Elinor and I spend a great deal of effort at Old South Church in Boston (UCC), a vital growing congregation in the Back Bay with a tradition of troublemaking stretching back 339 years and doing well at it today. Elinor is liturgist for the first service on Sundays; I sit on committees when asked and help with our extensive hospitality ministry. Two of our sons live in DC - one as Vice-President of the UN Foundation; the other as a partner in Steptoe and Johnson with a specialty in international trade arbitration and hearings before the WTO. Our nearby son manages watershed protection for Massachusetts and serves on the Newton School Board. After five grandsons, finally came Elinor, named for her grandmother.