Yenwith Whitney

Dr. Whitney was my friend and mentor. I lost my father at age thirteen and my mother decided to send me to Boggs Academy. Dr. Whitney took me under his wing, we shared an interest in tennis and photography and help me to become the man that I am today. I later found out that Dr. Whitney was a Tuskegee Airman after I enter the US Air Force. I asked over the years of our friendship why he never mention his service? Dr. Whitney answer was that he did not wish to receive the accolades but...

Bobbi and I were married, here in Arizona, by a good friend and Methodist minister, John Oneal, also a fellow amateur radio operator.

John is about fourth generation native Arizonan.

I put the Yenwith story on the radio last week. Radio folk call a passing a "silent key." John heard me. We spoke on the radio and John informed me that his Dad flew a B24, one that was protected by the Tuskegee Red Tails. His Dad had told him that they would not take off until they could...

My parents, my two brothers and I were neighbors of Yenwith’s family on Albany Crescent in the Bronx in the 1930s. In 1938, when I was five, my father died, my family scattered and I lost track of the Whitneys.

Ten or fifteen years ago a former commandant of the Tuskegee Airmen was a guest on a radio talk show here in Rochester, New York—it might have been that he had a book on the Airmen published. I called in, hoping to locate Yenwith. I remember the man’s reaction quite...

I feel privileged to have known Yen, to have heard Yen speak of his experiences and to have enjoyed his company as a fellow MIT alumnus. My condolences go out to his family for their (and our) loss.

Dear Dr. Curry and Miss Whitney, I was so lucky this morning to hear on the news of your father's funeral, so I came, mainly to honor him, a great man who served his country well in many areas of the world and in various activities. I asked him to speak at Florida Youth Academy in early 2004, and he accepted most graciously. FYA was a girls' jail in Pinellas County where I was teaching. He was a big hit, and the girls and many staff wanted to have their pictures taken with him. The service...

Yenwith was a wonderful and richly accomplished man. I was fortunate to have known him and played baseball with him in his yard in the Bronx.
Robin Jolkovski