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DEPARTMENTS 

26 101 Things To Do Before You 

Graduate 

30 Living In History 

The Washington Study Group has witnessed politics and 

history in the making for 75 years 

36 Diary From Haiti 

UN photographer Sophie Paris ’97 shares her work 

documenting the first three months after the devastating 

Haiti earthquake 

3 Message from Marilyn Thie, Core Revision 

Committee Chair 

4 Letters 

6 Work & Play 

13 Colgate history, tradition, and spirit 

14 Life of the Mind 

16 Arts & Culture 

20 Go ’gate 

24 New, Noted & Quoted 

42 The Big Picture 

44 Stay Connected 

Call for nominations: Alumni Council candidates and awards 

45 Class News 

58 2010 Reunion awards 

76 Marriages & Unions 

77 Births & Adoptions 

77 In Memoriam 

80 Salmagundi: Puzzle, 13 Words (or Less) caption contest, 

and more 

On the cover: What makes a good story? The spring Children’s Theater Worskhop explored 

that question in A Dozen Characters in Search of a Story — written, produced, and 

performed entirely by students. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13. Left: A stroll around Taylor 

Lake in August proves that the Chenango Valley is still the “land of the bullthistle.” Photo by 

Andrew Daddio 


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Contributors 

English major Matt 

Muskin ’10 (“101 

Things To Do Before 

You Graduate”) has 

about 101 things on his 

résumé, from Student 

Government Association 

VP and Student 

Governance Affairs 

Board, to admission 

communications and 

athletics marketing internships, 

to Theta Chi 

brother. He’s been hired 

as an honors paralegal 

specialist with the U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

scene online 

Watch 

Traditions: www.colgate.edu/video 

Check out our fun look at some of the most enduring 

Colgate traditions — our love affair with the number 

13 and the Torchlight Ceremony — on the 

CU@Channel 13 video console. 

Listen 

Colgate Conversations: www.colgate.edu/podcasts 

Gary Eichhorn ’75 discusses his nonprofit, Music & 

Youth Initiative, which brings music education to 

underserved young people in urban areas. 

Get connected 

The Hill at Home: 

www.colgatealumni.org/hillathome 

The Hill at Home puts Colgate at your fingertips with 

webcasts, Reunion College classes, presentations, 

event information, and more. Visit today! 

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scene: Summer 2010 

The portfolio of Norm 

Bendell (“101 Things To 

Do Before You Graduate”) 

includes two of 

the most successful illustration 

campaigns in 

the history of advertising, 

Perrier and Budget 

Gourmet, as well as the 

launch of Prodigy and 

the bestselling American 

Girl Library books 

The Care and Keeping 

of You and The Feelings 

Book. 

Jim Leach (“Living In 

History”) retired in 

2005 as vice president 

for public relations and 

communications after 

25 years at Colgate. He 

redirected his energies 

to a second career as a 

higher education communications 

consultant, 

freelance writer, and 

nature photographer. 

When Sophie Paris ’97 

(“Diary From Haiti”) 

last left Haiti, little did 

she know she’d soon be 

back shooting the worst 

disaster in the country’s 

history. A United Nations 

photographer, she 

has covered UN affairs 

worldwide, from peacekeeping 

efforts, to 

Security Council meetings, 

to the secretarygeneral’s 

missions. She 

also freelanced as a 

photographer for Hillary 

Clinton’s presidential 

primary campaign. 

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one of the largest social media blogs, heralded as 

Yearbook 2.0. 

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Message from Marilyn Thie, Core Revision Committee Chair 

When asked about their most meaningful academic 

experiences, many Colgate alumni are quick to bring up the core curriculum. Core courses, they say, gave 

them new ways of looking at the world, fuller perspectives on problems and issues, reasoning abilities they 

use every day, and, sometimes, an unexpected interest in a new subject of study. 

And they often report that things they learned in the core show up in 

their personal and professional lives in intriguing ways. Some identify a 

particular text, such as Plato’s Apology or a new interpretation of Genesis; 

another says their career in an Asian city was inspired by a Core Japan 

course and study group; yet another credits a Scientific Perspectives 

course with helping them sort through priorities in health care. 

When they arrive on campus, the Class of 2014 will be the first to take 

Colgate’s newly revised core curriculum. Many of the core’s goals remain 

the same — virtually unique among undergraduate general education 

programs, the core remains interdisciplinary and still represents what 

we believe all students should study. In this revision, our committee of 

faculty members from across the university considered the question, 

what should be the heart of a liberal arts education today? We asked 

ourselves, what is different about the world now, compared to when we 

designed the current core program in the mid-1990s? How have students, 

and teaching, changed? What will our students need to know, to have 

thought about, and to be conscious of, so that they can live responsibly 

and well in today’s complex, interdependent, and diverse world? 

Under the theme “Crossing boundaries,” we built on the known 

strengths of the four existing core components and continued 

expectations of critical reading, thinking, and writing. In addition, we 

encouraged greater commonality among courses in each component. 

Andrew Daddio 

Shining a spotlight on the reality of our globalizing world — for 

good and ill — is the major change. Two important implications follow 

from this new emphasis. The first is to break down the bifurcation 

between “the West and the rest of the world” inherent in the core’s 

structure. The second is the introduction of a fifth component called 

Global Engagements. The revised core embodies these two points in the 

following ways: 

• The original Western Traditions (Core 151) course has become 

“Legacies of the Ancient World.” This new focus recognizes that those 

who helped to shape Western culture, tradition, and thinking were not 

solely from the West. Acknowledging this allows for examination of 

the interactions among these groups; for example, the peoples who 

generated the Hebrew Bible were from the Middle East, and so, different 

from the ancient Greeks and Romans. 

• Challenges of Modernity (Core 152) now features six common 

texts and will include non-Western materials. The modernity course 

has always centered around the ideas, problems, and phenomena 

surrounding the intellectual, social, and material forces that have 

transformed life in the modern world. The increased commonality 

of readings and broadening of subject and time period will more 

effectively ensure that students learn to examine their own habits of 

mind, presuppositions, and prejudices within a global and historical 

perspective, as they practice real-world problem-solving skills. 

• The component Cultures of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, which 

offers a variety of courses about geographically defined areas, has 

become Communities and Identities. This broader framework, which 

is still largely internationally focused, can now also include courses 

that emphasize multi-ethnic complexities and tensions within diverse 

communities in Western Europe and North America. In effect, this more 

inclusive framework ends the outdated approach of framing “non- 

Western” cultures in the context of “others.” 

• Changes to the Scientific Perspectives on the World (SP) component 

were essentially in instructional planning and organization. Each 

interdisciplinary SP course focuses on a specific, compelling area of 

scientific research to deepen students’ understanding both of how we 

use the scientific method to acquire knowledge about the world and how 

to apply it to a broad range of issues inside and outside of science. 

• Global Engagements, the new fifth component, will consist of 

departmental and interdisciplinary program courses, as well as new 

courses. Most students will complete this requirement after the first four 

components through a course in their major or minor. 

Thanks to this refined version of our longstanding model of 

liberal arts education, our future graduates will have an even sounder 

foundation for the global reality they will live within. 

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Expressing thanks 

Owing tO an acute health issue, it was 

necessary for me to have 45 consecutive 

radiation sessions at University 

Hospital in Syracuse. 

After Dave Hale ’84 [vice president 

for finance and administration] 

learned of this development, he 

organized a great group of students, 

faculty, administrators, and area residents 

to pick me up every day at 7:10 

a.m., then drive to Syracuse, wait in 

front of the hospital, and then return 

to 27 Payne St. 

I am deeply grateful to Hilary Mc- 

Connaughey ’11, Evan Lorey ’10, Jim 

Leach, Janet Hayduke, Bob Tyburski 

’74, Ben Eberhardt, Sue McVaugh, Bob 

McVaugh, Reg Wilson, Mike Woltman, 

and, of course, Dave, who not only 

drove often but also managed the 

entire process. 

Paul Schupf ’58 

Hamilton, N.Y. 

The retiring Prof. Balmuth 

i quite enjOyed the Spring 2010 edition 

of the Colgate Scene, especially the 

article by my adviser, Jerry Balmuth. 

Fabulous scholar and human being, 

and I wish I had availed myself of his 

wisdom more often. 

Jim Dorsey ’83 

Hanover, N.H. 

A Rooney connection 

my grandniece Alexandra Augsbury 

’10, who just graduated from Colgate, 

sent me your spring edition of the 

Scene. I was very interested in the 

story on Andy Rooney by his son 

(“A Few Minutes with the Rooneys,” 

Spring 2010). 

Andy got his start in journalism 

with the Stars and Stripes as did I, but 

somewhat later than Andy. I was the 

photo chief with them for 35 years, 

and during that time and subsequently 

met Andy several times. I am very 

fond of him and liked the story very 

much. 

Francis “Red” Grandy 

Herman, N.Y. 

The two Bobs 

funny stOry [re: the “two Bobs” Slices 

photo contest, Salmagundi page, 

Spring 2010 Scene; see also p. 80 in 

this issue]: I was in the student group 

that assisted with Bob Hope’s visit. 

Among other things, we provided 

local insight for some of his material. 

Mr. Hope traveled to his performances 

with about 200 pounds of large cue 

cards of general one-liners prepared in 

advance. We were alarmed to discover 

they had not arrived with him. (They 

had mistakenly been loaded onto a 

plane bound for the Middle East!) 

With just a few short hours before 

the show, the cards were located and 

rerouted. Since I was a “townie” and 

knew the back roads to the Oneida 

County Airport, I was elected to retrieve 

them. 

Doug Culp ’80 

Verdi, Nev. 

as a member Of the Colgate Thirteen, 

I performed with the group during 

Bob Hope’s show in the fall of ’79, one 

of his stops on a tour of colleges for 

a TV show that was broadcast later 

that year. It was one of the great, 

weird events of the school year, with 

Hope singing and joking with a “disco 

queen” of the day, Canadian singer 

France Jolie. Colgate even made up 

T-shirts with Hope’s famous pen-andink 

profile on them. I still have mine. 

Most folks who were there that 

night will recall that Hope came out 

from backstage to open the show to 

much applause. But Hope laughed and 

said the applause wasn’t loud enough. 

So he went back behind the curtain 

and came out again to a much louder 

ovation, doing a sort of “retake” for the 

TV videotape. 

The show was a great experience 

for everyone at Colgate that year. For 

the Thirteen, it was a chance to sing 

on the same stage as a real entertainment 

pro. We visited Hope briefly in 

his “dressing room” backstage before 

the show, and later that night, we 

headed downtown to serenade him at 

the Colgate Inn, where he was staying. 

We did two or three songs as the snow 

fell, and Hope looked down on us from 

his window. A sublime moment, and 

a great memory for all the Thirteeners 

who were there. 

Tony Farrell ’80 

Richmond, Va. 

bOb marley played a Halloween concert 

and Bob Hope filmed one segment of 

a four-segment “Homecoming” television 

special that November. 

I don’t remember the exact date 

of the Bob Hope special off the top 

of my head, but it was on the T-shirt 

that I got for working the stage crew. 

Teen Canadian “disco queen” France 

Jolie was his guest act for our segment. 

I was the only freshman invited 

to work on the crew because of my 

production experience in high school 

theater and my “current” (at that time)

involvement with the University Theater 

program at Colgate. Hope’s production 

company hosted a wonderful 

banquet for both the professional and 

student volunteer crews. 

Marley’s production company 

didn’t share what they brought with 

them, but there was a cooler of beer 

on hand for the student crew after 

the concert was over and all of the 

equipment was “struck,” packed away, 

and reloaded onto the trucks. Marley’s 

crew also had a little motorcycle they 

kept on one of their equipment trucks, 

and they took turns riding it around 

inside Cotterell Court while we were 

setting up for the concert. 

Working “stage crew” was always 

a lot of fun (I also worked on Dave 

Mason, Pat Metheny, John Sebastian, 

and several others). Back in the days 

of “festival seating,” the best part was 

that we always got in first for the actual 

show. During the Marley concert, 

after the crew reset the stage once the 

warm-up band was done, the crowd 

pushed right up to the stage, and we 

had nowhere to go. The head roadie 

signaled us all simply to sit on the 

edge of the stage. I sat down where I 

was and then realized that I was right 

between Bob Marley’s monitors. I got 

to stay there for the entire concert 

— no more than two feet from him 

for the whole thing — and much less 

whenever he felt inclined (literally) to 

lean out over the audience! 

Dave Marion ’84 

Chapel Hill, N.C. 

i remember seeing Bob Hope perform 

in Huntington Gym. I’m pretty sure 

it was in the early winter months of 

February 1943. If not then, it was a 

year later. At any rate, I had hardly 

heard of Bob Hope when I saw him 

perform at Colgate. He put on a great 

show. 

Albert A. Bartlett ’44 

Boulder, Colo. 

Farnsworth ahead of his time 

i was sO saddened to read of the passing 

of Professor Farnsworth (In Memoriam, 

Spring 2010). He was truly a 

legend on campus for all of us who 

were there while he was a professor. 

Indeed, he was clearly way ahead of 

his time in teaching economics 

through practical training at his 

Poolville Country Store. I never had 

the opportunity to take that course 

from him, but I did have a memorable 

“Jan Plan” with him down on Wall 

Street, which I still remember vividly 

(and I have my course paper close at 

hand to prove it!). 

My condolences to the entire family, 

and of course to my classmate, 

Frank Jr. 

Howard M. Liebman ’74, MA’75 

Brussels, Belgium 

Remembering Bill Skelton 

fOr many years, Bill Skelton (In Memoriam, 

Winter 2010) spent every fourth 

semester guiding unsuspecting and 

unworthy young travelers through 

the meandering paths of his own 

love affair with India. For the toll of 

one skyward-arched eyebrow and 

the willingness to return a changed 

person, a lucky few of us were led into 

temples overcrowded or forgotten; 

palaces, train stations, puja ceremonies, 

and the dwellings of monkeys, 

monkey gods, elephants, and elephant 

gods; onto Kerela beaches, motor 

rickshaws, and the living-room floors 

of mrdungum masters, philosophers, 

and yogis; through drum circles, the 

buzz of nagaswarams, and the scent 

of sandalwood smoke; over sacred 

rivers, sacred cow-trodden jasmine 

petals, and the footsteps of Purandara 

Dasa, Krishnamacharya, Rama, and 

perhaps even Shiva. 

We were drawn infinitely closer 

to the heart of a culture both ancient 

and thriving more than our own 

merits would have afforded. Bill’s 

only request was that we approach 

his beloved with respect and a bit of 

humility. 

You will be missed, Bill — by us, 

and even moreso by present and 

future wayward-looking students 

who will have no idea that they are 

missing you so deeply. Nandri, romba 

nandri; farewell in this world, vanakam 

in another. 

Greg Lasky ’01 

Riverside, R.I. 

What they’re saying 

online 

Posted to www.colgate.edu: 

In response to “Filmmakers back 

alumnus in First Amendment flap” 

about the legal battle between filmmaker 

Joe Berlinger ’83 and Chevron 

over the release of raw footage from 

his critically acclaimed documentary 

Crude: 

“Joe, if you are reading these comments… 

GO, GO, GO! I am inspired 

by your pursuit of your rights. To be 

embroiled with Big Oil at this horrific 

time (6-16-10) is a powerful thing. 

How can I help?” — Your KED Buddy, 

Christie Brooks King ’83 

“…Crude was shown at Albany’s 

Spectrum movie theater a few 

months ago. It was one of the most 

powerful films I’ve seen… Let’s support 

a fellow Colgate alum who is 

doing good in this world of ours, 

where oil continues to spew out of a 

well drilled a mile under the ocean’s 

surface. We owe it to our planet and 

our children’s children that a filmmaker 

like Joe Berlinger should not be 

intimidated.” — Frank Barrie ’72 

On Colgate’s Facebook page: 

June 24/Colgate University: Residents 

of upstate New York, including 

some people here at Colgate, are all 

a-twitter about some minor shaking 

that rattled desk chairs and computer 

monitors. Early reports suggest a 

minor earthquake that was centered 

near Cornwall, Ontario. Did you feel it 

around 1:40 p.m. today? 

May 6/Markus Batchelor: “Hello! Just 

checked out the website from here 

in Washington, D.C., and looked it up 

on college board and was instantly 

infatuated. I am now dedicated to 

becoming a member of the Colgate 

Class of 2015! (I am now listening to 

WRCU). If anyone has any suggestions, 

recommendations, etc., please do reply 

to this message.” 

Martin Dudziak ’71: “Markus, I am 

glad I went to Colgate instead of a few 

other big-name schools where I was 

also accepted — Colgate gave me a 

breadth and depth I don’t think I could 

have found elsewhere.” 

Laurie Cermak ’99: “Write a real 

offbeat, creative essay, i.e., not about 

your inspirational senior trip to Italy 

where you learned about different 

cultures… (you and 500 others). I 

wrote about my fear of my basement, 

wth live dialogue and all, and they let 

me in!” 


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work & play 

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A Say cheese! Class of 2010 graduates stop for a quick photo 

outside Memorial Chapel after the baccalaureate service in 

May. Photo by Andrew Daddio 

B They’ve got the beat. Taiko drum performance by students 

from Tamagawa University, Tokyo. Photo by Janna 

Minehart ’13 

C A tug-of-war in the war on rare diseases. Members of the 

football team competed against one another at the Lift for 

Life charity event. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 

D The Fabulous Class of ’50 celebrates 60 as part of the All- 

Class Parade at Reunion 2010. Photo by Andrew Daddio 

E Putting some back into it, Interim President Lyle Roelofs 

wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and get dirty at the 

groundbreaking of Colgate’s community garden. Photo 

by John Pumilio 

F Students sway to the beat of rapper Shwayze during Spring 

Party Weekend. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 

G How to tell when spring has sprung: the Hindu Student 

Association led students on Whitnall Field in the celebration 

of the colorful holiday Holi. Photo by Janna Minehart ’13 


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Philosopher Martha 

Nussbaum addresses 

the Class of 2010 

regarding the value of 

the liberal arts at commencement 

in May. 


Started on life’s 

educational journey 

In May, speakers at Colgate’s 189th 

commencement exercises praised the 

Class of 2010 for their contributions to 

campus and implored them to maintain 

a commitment to their ongoing 

education in the liberal arts. 

Interim president Lyle Roelofs 

recognized the graduates for speaking 

out against bigotry and in appreciation 

of diversity, and also for their 

contributions to the region through 

the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, 

and Education and the Upstate Institute. 

He also thanked the graduates 

for their class gift of $26,000 to the 

Class of 2010 Sustainability Fund, as 

well as for their efforts to start a community 

garden — a project realized 

this summer. 

The keynote speaker, philosopher 

Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund 

Distinguished Service Professor of 

law and ethics at the University of 

Chicago, offered a spirited defense of 

a liberal arts education provided by 

schools such as Colgate and warned 

against succumbing to pressure to 

adopt narrow, profit-focused educational 

models. 

She commented that Colgate’s 

core, which has been at the heart of 

the curriculum since 1928, is among 

the most ambitious interdisciplinary 

general education programs in the 

country. This kind of liberal arts focus 

is critical for producing citizens who 

can keep democracy alive and realize 

its promise, she said. 

Nussbaum urged graduates to 

promote and defend the concept of a 

liberal arts education. “Above all, just 

talk a lot about what matters to you. 

Spread the word that what happens 

Andrew Daddio 

on this campus is not useless, but 

crucially relevant to the future of democracy 

in the nation and the world.” 

Nussbaum received one of four 

honorary degrees conferred at the ceremony. 

The other recipients included 

Rev. Roger A. Ferlo ’73; trustee Daniel 

Benton ’80, chairman and CEO of Andor 

Capital Management; and Ronald 

Crutcher, president of Wheaton College 

in Massachusetts. 

Ferlo addressed the graduates the 

previous day at the baccalaureate 

service in Memorial Chapel, asking 

them to maintain a balanced perspective 

in life. “There are dangers in what 

we are up to here,” he said. “One is the 

danger of spiritual pride, of intellectual 

hubris, the conviction that our 

educational achievements somehow 

make us more entitled. 

“But the converse is also true,” he 

noted. “There are times and places 

in America where a deep resistance 

to learning will make itself felt. My 

hope and prayer for you is that you 

will steadily resist such know-nothing 

religion, and that you will wear the 

yoke of your continuing learning with 

passion and determination.” 

Colgate minimizes tuition 

increase, allocates more for 

financial aid 

The university has set the smallest 

rise in tuition in at least 35 years, 2.2 

percent, for the coming year. The 

increase appears to be the smallest 

at any school amongst Colgate’s peer 

institutions, which are averaging 

tuition hikes of more than 4 percent. 

Total student costs at Colgate during 

the 2010-2011 year will be $52,060. 

Simultaneously, the university will 

increase spending on financial aid by 

4.4 percent, bringing the financial aid 

budget to $38.9 million for the year. 

Colgate continues to meet 100 percent 

of the demonstrated financial need 

of all enrolled students and is therefore 

able to provide full assistance 

to students whose family financial 

situations may have deteriorated as a 

result of the recession. 

In the wake of this challenging 

economic climate, said David Hale ’84, 

vice president for finance and administration, 

Colgate has been successful 

in its efforts to maintain academic 

excellence through a universitywide 

economic review. That process led to 

a decrease in the overall 2010–2011 

operating budget, achieved through 

a combination of salary and hiring 

Views from the hill 

What are your summer plans? 

“I have two part-time 

internships in Philadelphia. 

One is for the 

Franklin Institute, 

doing research and 

evaluation, and the 

other is with the 

Philadelphia Zoo doing 

public programming.” 

— Dorien Langezaal ’12, psychology 

major from New Providence, N.J. 

“I’m doing a summer 

research project on 

Japanese language 

and religion based on 

my study abroad last 

semester in Kyoto.” 

— Naveed Ghannad ’11, 

religion major from 

Atlanta, Ga. 

“I’m doing a few things. 

I’m working in Boston 

at Vineyard Vines. 

Then I’m going to the 

World Cup in South 

Africa with my family, 

which will be great. 

Then I’m working on 

the vineyard for Vineyard Vines.” 

— Alex Grieve ’13, classics major from 

Topsfield, Mass.

freezes, an early retirement incentive 

program, streamlined programming, 

and a reworking of the employee 

health insurance plan, he said. 

Kasparov scolds Putin 

government in campus talk 

At a campus address in April, former 

world chess champion Garry Kasparov, 

who turned to politics after retiring 

from chess in 2005, lambasted 

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 

Kasparov then spelled out his own 

opposition coalition’s efforts to create 

a “true democracy” in Russia. His visit 

was supported by the The Kerschner 

Family Series Global Leaders at Colgate 

program and the Institute for Philosophy, 

Politics, and Economics (PPE). 

“The number one export of Russia 

is corruption,” said Kasparov. He 

added that a nation such as Russia can 

call itself a democracy, but turns that 

into a misleading and empty label if 

the government doesn’t adhere to the 

Go figure 

The mighty oaks — and 

other campus trees* 

2,292 Trees on the main campus 

59 Oak trees along Oak Drive 

100+ Age of several Oak Drive trees, 

the oldest on campus 

> 7 Oaks at Seven Oaks Golf Course 

73 Willows on the Willow Path 

1991 Year the ailing Willow Path trees 

were replaced with German white willows 

7 Grounds crew members certified in 

logger safety 

1,406 Trees over 35' tall 

560 Yards of mulch used per year to 

protect campus trees 

1 Each of several specimen trees: 

Russian olive, black walnut, bald cypress 

2 Kentucky coffee trees 

263 Sugar maples, the most populous 

species on campus 

*according to a 2009 inventory 

Politician Garry Kasparov spoke 

candidly on campus about the state of 

Russian politics. 

rule of law, protect individual liberties, 

and provide accountability. 

Now the chairman of the United 

Civil Front and political leader 

of The Other Russia, a coalition of 

opposition parties, Kasparov likened 

Putin to Lord Voldemort, the 

villain in the Harry Potter books. 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev 

can fire Putin under the country’s 

constitution, said Kasparov, 

but the president doesn’t have 

the physical constitution to do it. 

Kasparov noted that his coalition 

pursues nonviolent forms of 

opposition, and that by employing 

“tactics of survival” and utilizing 

the Internet to help spread 

the message, it has made some 

progress. 

Jason Finder ’12, who took the 

course Liberal Democracy and 

its Limits with political science 

professor and PPE director Stanley 

Brubaker, was among those who 

continued the discussion with 

Kasparov at a dinner in the Hall 

of Presidents. “I think in some 

ways we need to take what we 

hear from a government with a 

grain of salt,” he said. “We need to 

consider everything we can learn 

and evaluate it as a whole.” 

Alumni reflect on founding 

of campus cultural center 

For Gregory Threatte ’69 and 

Todd Brown ’71, the watershed 

events of the late 1960s that gave 

birth to Colgate’s first cultural 

center remain indelible moments 

in their lives. “This valley was 

transformative,” Threatte, a Col- 

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Back on campus 

Reunion College 2010 

More than 30 alumni returned to lead Reunion College sessions June 3–6. Highlights 

included showings of four documentaries by Jon Alpert ’70 as well as a Q&A 

session on his experiences; a look at Colgate in 1909 leading up to World War I by 

George Tamblyn ’60; and a discussion about the future of Afghanistan and Iraq by 

Larry Cooley ’70, who has worked in Iraq with the United States National Capacity 

Development Program, and R. Michael Smith ’70, who is executive assistant to the 

president and general counsel at the American University of Afghanistan. 

There were also plenty of opportunities for the more than 2,000 alumni, family, 

and friends to relax during Reunion 2010. On Friday afternoon, chef and author 

Lauren Braun Costello ’98 led a High Tea Tasting Event at the Colgate Bookstore, 

where she offered samples of herb-flavored iced drinks like thyme lemonade and 

ginger peach black tea. She paired these thirst-quenching beverages with unique 

treats such as the biscuits for which she provides the recipe below. 

Lavender Vanilla Bean Tea Biscuits with Rosewater Icing 

Fragrant and mildly floral, these shortbread cookies are an unexpected treat for a 

summertime garden party. It is important to use the seeds of a vanilla bean instead 

of the more typical extract so that the natural, rich flavor shines. The dried lavender 

gets a little boost from the optional rosewater icing. 

Cookies: 

1 cup sugar 

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter at room 

temperature 

2 eggs 

seeds of one vanilla bean 

1 teaspoon dried lavender, crushed 

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 

1 teaspoon baking powder 

1 teaspoon fine sea salt 

Optional icing: 

2 cups powdered sugar 

3 to 4 tablespoons milk or water 

1/2 teaspoon rosewater (if you can’t find this at your grocery store, visit 

kitchenkrafts.com) 

To make the cookie dough, beat the sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla bean seeds, and 

lavender in a large mixing bowl until fluffy and well combined. In a separate bowl, 

combine the flour, baking powder, and salt, and then stir it into the butter/sugar 

mixture. Divide the dough into two equal parts and roll into logs in plastic wrap. 

Store in the refrigerator for at least one hour, or until chilled enough to slice. 

Preheat the oven to 350°F. 

Once the dough is chilled, cut the logs crosswise into 1/8 inch–thick circles and 

space an inch apart on a lined or greased cookie sheet. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes. 

Remove the cookies from the oven to a cooling rack. 

Meanwhile, prepare the icing. Whisk the powdered sugar, milk, and rosewater 

together in a mixing bowl and drizzle over the tea biscuits once they are completely 

cool. 

Makes about four dozen cookies. Store in an airtight container for up to one week. 


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work & play 

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Gregory Threatte ’69 

and Todd Brown ’71 

(background) returned 

to campus to share 

memories about the 

Civil Rights Era at 

Colgate. 


gate trustee emeritus, told members 

of the campus community in March 

during an impassioned discussion 

about the founding of the ALANA 

Cultural Center. 

Days after the assassination of 

Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, 

the discomfort level on campus 

reached a tipping point, they ex- 

Janna Minehart ’13 

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plained, when a member of the Sigma 

Nu fraternity pointed a starter pistol 

at African American students. “It was 

a scary time,” noted Brown, a university 

trustee, “but we showed that nonviolent 

direct action could promote 

change.” 

Threatte — one of three dozen 

African American students on campus 

— gathered the courage to stage an 

impromptu rally outside the student 

union. “None of us had any idea where 

that day would lead us,” he said. 

After the rally ended, Threatte 

recalled, nearly half the student body 

and faculty marched into the administration 

building, with hundreds 

refusing to leave until campus leaders 

took action. “I turned my head around 

and there was a sea of people following 

me. I couldn’t believe how many 

people would support us.” Newspaper 

clippings that hang on the walls of 

the center today highlight the event’s 

importance. 

Village Green 

The landmark Colgate Inn is undergoing 

a long-overdue renovation. 

Improvements include a new outdoor 

seating area, an upgrade and 

relocation of the kitchen facilities 

to create more space for banquets 

and meetings, and expanded parking. 

Work began in June and will 

continue through the summer of 

2011. To read more and see an 

architect’s rendering, visit www. 

colgate.edu/about/capitalprojects/ 

colgateinn. 

In June, the fourth-annual 

Skyway Festival of music, food, 

and arts and crafts was held at the 

Eaton Street ballpark to benefit 

Hamilton Central School’s music 

programs. Hostess Meredith Leland 

Getchonis teamed up with the 

Earlville Opera House, the Oddfellows, 

and other Hamilton groups 

to bring “bluegrass, baseball, BBQ, 

and belly dancers.” The festival was 

created in memory of Getchonis’s 

late husband, Craig, a well-known 

Hamilton musician, former Colgate 

Bookstore employee, and son of 

former mayor Charlie Getchonis. 

Hamilton-based band Same 

Blood Folk (with Brendan O’Connor 

’09 on drums and band manager 

Sean Nevison ’03), has been hitting 

the road lately. In June, the group 

After a series of failed talks with 

administrators, additional sit-ins 

throughout the following year ended 

with a 70-hour occupation of Merrill 

House in spring 1969. Thanks to activists’ 

persistence, the former buildings 

and grounds office site was designated 

as home to Colgate’s first cultural 

center, which moved to its current 

building in 1989. 

“I remember sitting on the floor 

of the center for hours as some of the 

key figures in the civil rights movement 

visited,” said Brown, describing 

how he helped organize talks with 

Adam Clayton Powell ’30, Ralph Abernathy, 

and Muhammed Ali, among 

others. “We were able to attract folks 

of this caliber because we got noticeable 

attention for what we had done. 

People were interested in the actions 

of this small group of students in 

upstate New York.” 

After graduating, Brown was hired 

as the center’s second director, helping 

brought their eclectic mix of 

Americana, soul, and bluegrass to 

the Saratoga ArtsFest (Saratoga 

Springs, N.Y.), a four-day celebration 

featuring music, dance, visual 

art, film, theater, and literary art. 

The group also shared the stage 

with The Felice Brothers (whose 

track “Whiskey In My Whiskey” 

was featured on the first season 

of True Blood on HBO) at Brewery 

Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y., 

on July 24. 

A new local hook was added 

this year to Slater Brothers Entertainment’s 

Hamilton Film Festival 

in August: a special competition 

and screening of short films made 

in upstate New York. The festival 

was founded by Grant Slater ’91 

and his brothers Wade and Todd 

(sons of the late Colgate men’s 

hockey coach Terry Slater), to support 

their hometown and enhance 

the careers of filmmakers. Events 

included short, student-made, 

feature-length, and documentary 

film showings as well as panel 

discussions, an Awareness Walk 

to benefit the Hamilton Food Cupboard, 

and a special screening at 

the Palace Theater to benefit the 

Hamilton Central School Athletic 

Department. 

— Avi Israel ’10

to transform the venue from “a safe 

haven for African-American students” 

into a “thriving community venue for 

all people of diverse backgrounds.” 

Threatte and Brown’s fight for 

racial equality not only left a mark on 

the campus community, but also gave 

them the conviction to achieve their 

own dreams. “Here’s a guy who is the 

head of pathology at SUNY Upstate 

Medical University,” said Brown, a 

former Kraft Foods executive and 

recently retired bank president, pointing 

at Threatte. “In 1969, we never 

thought this could be possible.” 

Fellowships support 

students’ passions 

Nine seniors and a recent alumna 

have been awarded prestigious fellowships 

that will take them around 

the world to explore their interests. 

Shae Frydenlund ’10 and Jennifer 

Rusciano ’10 received the Thomas J. 

Watson Fellowship. Frydenlund plans 

to create a documentary exploring 

the complex ecologies and sustainability 

of medicinal plant markets. 

Rusciano will explore the relationship 

between chocolate, communities, and 

culture in Europe, Africa, and Latin 

America. 

Conor Tucker ’10 received the Paul 

J. Schupf ’58 Fellowship, allowing him 

to read for his master’s in modern 

British and European history at Oxford 

University. 

Eight recent graduates will share 

daily life and professional and creative 

insights with people of a host 

country as part of the U.S. Student 

Fulbright Program. Victor Chiapaikeo 

’10 will teach language and culture 

lessons to students in Indonesia; Max 

Counter ’10 will work with students 

in Colombia; Matt Geduldig ’10 will 

teach students in South Korea; and 

Tara Woods ’10 will emphasize crosscultural 

understanding with students 

in Germany. Julia Quintanilla ’10, 

who will assist teaching students in 

Mexico, also plans to volunteer in a 

local gallery, museum, or community 

center. In a project titled “Voices from 

the War of Resistance,” Jessica Chow 

’09 will interview Chinese survivors 

of World War II to create documentary 

films highlighting the lifelong impact 

of war. Alison Wohlers ’10 will travel 

throughout Morocco to study the 

effects of globalization on Moroccan 

identity through the manifestations 

of colonialism and the creation and 

legacy of dualistic cities. 

In recognition of her outstanding 

potential and intention to pursue a 

career in science, Meghan Healey ’11 

was awarded honorable mention by 

the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship 

program. 

An independent study by Steffan Pierre ’10 (center) and Meg Cronin ’10 (second from 

right) inspired students, faculty, and staff to create a “Relectronics” station for recycling 

small electronics on campus. A Green Summit committee brought the new station, located 

in the Coop, to fruition, in May. It provides a venue for the responsible recycling of waste 

such as spent batteries, charger cords, old cell phones, and more. 

Brooke Ousterhout ’10 

Get to know: Mike Jasper ’91, MAT’96 

Associate Director of Facilities and 

Manager of Lands and Grounds 

Student experience: political science and education major; linebacker, football team captain, 

1991; Richard Mangano Award for team scholar-athlete; Delta Upsilon 

Responsibilities: A lot of people think we’re just catching a suntan on a lawnmower, but 

there’s a little bit more to it than that! We take care of the grounds, snowplowing, athletic 

facilities, event setups like commencement, reunion, and bands who’ve come here over the 

years, like Run DMC (I’m dating myself now!). 

Path back to Colgate: For three years, I had a sales job in the family products division of 

Playtex Corp. Then I did some teaching and coaching in the area, and worked on campus 

while going for my master’s. I became the athletic facilities coordinator in 1995. I got to 

know everything about the grounds and golf course (I was the superintendent for a year), 

and earned various certificates and licenses. I’ve been in my current job since 2002. 

On tending one of the nation’s prettiest campuses: We want the campus to blend into the 

surroundings; we don’t want to get gaudy. We take a lot of ownership and pride in that. 

On being the swan handler: The swans garner a lot of attention. We constantly get phone 

calls with concerns for the swans, but as long as they have open water, they are happy. 

Most challenging task: Dealing with Mother Nature and trying to make Colgate life work 

around her. It makes me and the guys I work with feel good when staff members tell us on a 

snowy day, “Jeez, I drove here today and the best roads were on campus.” 

Odd jobs: Digging for burials in the cemetery is one of the more unusual things we do. 

How being a former football player caring for the stadium plays out: Our proudest moment 

was having the playoff games here in 2003. We didn’t have artificial turf then, so we were 

under a lot of pressure. Just before the Western Illinois game, 10 inches of snow fell. Guys 

brought in their personal four-wheelers, and we were plowing the lines during timeouts. I 

asked the ref if we could paint lines in red at the goal and sidelines. When Colgate drove for 

the winning score, the ref said, “Thank God you guys painted those lines red, or I’m not sure 

I could have seen if it was a touchdown!” 

Pastimes: I’m the varsity football coach at Sherburne-Earlville. I do a lot of hunting and 

fishing. If you live in this area, you kind of have to get into it. I train my dogs to do bird 

hunting. 

Must-haves if stranded on a desert island: A knife, for sure. I never go without. With two 

kids (daughter Courtney starts at St. John Fisher College this fall, and son Austin will be in 

9th grade), I’ve gotten to be a cell phone/texting junkie. And I’d just as soon have something 

comfortable to drink that’s going to take the edge off. Plus, you could use it to start a fire. 


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work & play 

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Passion for the Climb 

My Boogie Stop 

Shuffle 

By Michael Coyle, Professor of 

English 

“Writing about music is like dancing 

about architecture” — Google this 

quotation and you’ll find it attributed 

to any of a dozen people ranging from 

Thelonious Monk to Lou Reed, from 

Martin Mull to Elvis Costello to Frank 

Zappa. Doubtless there’s a story to be 

told about how this quip turned into 

the stuff of urban legend. But most 

everyone who has ever thrilled to a 

favorite song knows the force of it. I 

sure do. I’ve been writing about — or 

trying to write about — music since 

I was in college, driven by the sheer 

futility of it, but also by that deeply 

human need to communicate what is 

beyond words. 

Hegel believed that music is the 

art of arts precisely because it is 

beyond language, and any number of 

philosophers and aestheticians after 

him have tried to explain its power 

with arguments about how music 

bypasses the rational mind and works 

directly on the soul. I don’t know. I can 

only say that anytime I’m moved by 

music, I feel in the presence of something 

much bigger than me. There are 

analogous moments in the other arts, 

including the one I’m trained to teach, 

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but nowhere else do attempts to 

express what I’m feeling more seem 

only inadequate translations. 

In high school, I did what musicbesotted 

teenagers usually do — 

played in garage bands. Needless to 

say, those efforts also felt like translations 

(though they were better than 

the poems I was writing). Eventually I 

made my way into college radio, and 

discovered in its mix of discussion 

and transmission new possibilities of 

community. To “translate” means to 

convey; radio affords one opportunity 

to do that. It’s not just the occasional 

call from a listener who likes something 

I’m spinning — it has also been 

the company of other DJs. 

Every semester I meet new 

WRCU DJs whose passion for music 

rivals my own. I’m lucky. But getting 

involved at first took a little pressure 

from Professor of English Emeritus 

Bob Blackmore, who, with the glittering 

eye of some Ancient Mariner, 

called me to task. It was Bob who 

negotiated my first being asked by 

the WRCU board to serve as station 

adviser, and I’ll always be grateful for 

that. For about 15 years, about once 

a week, I was a regular visitor in Bob’s 

den, enjoying late-into-the-night 

conversations over growing stacks of 

LPs. He himself was still doing shows 

back then, and in retrospect, I realize 

that the ongoing contests we’d get 

into (I’d play something on my show, 

to which he’d respond the next night 

on his, challenging me to “top that”) 

amounted to a sustained graduate 

seminar, conducted with the deftest 

of touches. Bob, too, was always 

looking for connections with the 

music. 

I called my first WRCU show 

R&Be-bop. I was then, as now, seeking 

music that busted genres as well 

as expectations. My theme song was 

Big Joe Turner’s 1959 “Switchin’ in 

the Kitchen,” and I’d play things like 

Jimmy’s Liggins’s 1947 jump blues 

cover of Charlie Parker’s be-bop masterpiece, 

“Now’s the Time.” But after 

Bob’s passing, it was time to pick up 

the torch. I couldn’t replace Bob, but 

I could carry on in my own way. So I 

conceived a new show, calling it after 

(and choosing as my new theme song) 

the Mills Blue Rhythm Band’s 1933 

swingfest, “A Jazz Martini.” As a good 

cocktail mixes and balances ingredients 

and spirits, so this show drew on 

everything from 1920s Hot Jazz to 

the contemporary avant-garde. 

Two years ago, however, my life 

changed completely: the legendary 

(at least to jazz record geeks like me) 

“Slim,” of Cadence Records, left her 

job to start a new life with me here 

in Hamilton. Let me make it fast with 

one more thing and say that she is 

still working with Cadence; I wouldn’t 

sabotage my favorite record label! 

With Slim in town, I quickly found 

myself in new weekly radio contests 

— with her throwing down challenges 

every bit as hard as Blackmore’s. This 

situation lasted three semesters 

before it dawned on us that we’d have 

more fun doing one show together. 

And so, the name of my show changed 

once again, becoming Slim and Him, 

with a new theme song: Mingus’s 1959 

recording, “Boogie Stop Shuffle.” Now 

there’s a dance! 

Radio remains my regular, but not 

sole, means of trying to share the 

joy: music is important to my course, 

“The Jazz Age”; I write academic 

articles about jazz and pop history; I’m 

developing a book about cover songs; 

I offer jazz lectures for Core 152; and 

I continue to review jazz books and 

records for Cadence magazine. Sometimes 

I think I come close to producing 

language that’s just about adequate, 

but most of the time, I finish a piece 

simply resolving to do better next 

time. I’ve learned that that’s the whole 

Faustian point. As F. Scott wrote: it 

eluded me then, but that’s no matter 

— tomorrow I’ll run faster, stretch out 

my arms farther… And one fine morning 

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Read more essays from our 

Passion for the Climb series, or see 

how you can submit your own essay, at 

www.colgate.edu/scene/pfcessays

A JAZZ LEGACY 

On December 12, 1940, the wildly popular jazz 

musician Duke Ellington and his band performed on the 

stage of Colgate Memorial Chapel to a standing-roomonly 

crowd — the 13th event in that year’s Concert and 

Lecture Series. 

Colgate student and future English professor Bob 

Blackmore ’41, a jazz musician himself, was in the 

audience that day. He was one of the top three student 

trombonists in the country, once invited to play as a 

guest performer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. 

He also helped to form the student band “The Maroon 

Raiders.” After graduating, while stationed in Florida 

during WWII, he haunted jazz dives and nightclubs 

exploring the roots of jazz, and in the 1950s, he started 

amassing a collection of record albums. 

Returning to Colgate to teach English in 1960, 

Blackmore spent the rest of his career on the faculty. 

From 1961 to 2001, he also shared his passion for jazz 

through his weekly Monday-night WRCU jazz show, 

“Your Monday Date With Jazz.” Most of the records 

he spun came from the thousands and thousands of 

albums in his personal collection, which eventually 

became one of the largest and most complete jazz 

collections in the country. 

Before he passed away in 2002, Blackmore donated 

his massive collection to Colgate. It has taken nine 

years to catalog it — donations from his family and 

former students helped to finance the herculean task. 

Today, the Blackmore Jazz Archive of about 17,000 

LPs is housed in Case-Geyer Library and is accessible 

to the public for listening by appointment. The library’s 

Robert Blackmore Alcove houses display cases telling 

Blackmore’s story and features a listening station and 

space for exhibitions out of the collection. The first 

exhibition, up through December 2010, highlights that 

momentous Ellington concert and some of the artist’s 

colorful album covers. 

New exhibitions will be mounted each year, 

according to English professor Michael Coyle, curator 

of the collection, with plans for them to occasionally 

tie into the curriculum, such as his course The Jazz Age. 

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AZZ 

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for Colgate tradition, history, 

and school spirit.

life of the mind 

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Students in Biology 

211: Evolution, Ecology, 

and Diversity gather 

soil and detritus samples 

in the woods above 

campus. By quantifying 

invertebrate species diversity 

in samples from 

several different forest 

settings, they set out 

to determine whether 

there was a correlation 

with aboveground plant 

species diversity. 


From thought into action 

Take an idea and make it a reality. 

That’s the challenge Andy Greenfield 

’74 issued to students in his “practical 

entrepreneurship” course, Thought 

Into Action. Although students were 

not awarded university credit, they 

received mentorship from a marketing 

professional and the chance to see 

their ideas come to fruition. 

The students: those possessing an 

entrepreneurial spirit, the maturity 

to test their real-world skills, and the 

commitment not only to the monthly, 

5-hour Saturday class, but also to 

the projects. The teacher: Greenfield, 

entrepreneur and founder of Greenfield 

Consulting Group, a qualitative 

marketing research firm in Westport, 

Conn. 

Each class began with a lecture, followed 

by group discussion. Students 

would leave with a plan for their next 

steps. Between classes, Greenfield 

offered individual phone and e-mail 

consultations in which he would assess 

students’ progress and help them 

troubleshoot. 

From campus-based change to aiding 

people in Ghana, all of the projects 

this past semester trended toward a 

socially oriented theme. 

Some students, like Stephani 

Nummelin ’12, came in with largerthan-life 

intentions. “I wanted to get 

everyone into college,” Nummelin 

recalled. Greenfield helped her hone 

her idea, develop a plan, and set into 

motion a program through which 

Colgate students will help local high 

schoolers with the college application 

process. He also coached her in working 

with high school administrators. 

As with any idea, obstacles arise 

when turning theory into practice, so 

projects evolved. Christov Churchward 

’10, co-president of the composting 

club, set out to make composting a 

part of campus culture. In achieving 

Janna Minehart ’13 

this goal, he also became a leading 

force in getting approval for the new 

campus community garden, in which 

composting will play a role. 

Matt Shafman ’10 will continue to 

develop his business plan to create 

a social network–based fundraising 

website after graduation. Through 

Giveglobe.com (which hasn’t yet gone 

live), people who are trying to attain a 

goal, like quitting smoking, can place 

bets on themselves. If participants accomplish 

their goals, they will keep the 

money they pledged; if not, the money 

will go to their charity of choice. 

Shafman said Greenfield helped him 

structure what he called his “jumble of 

ideas” and stressed the importance of 

clarity in his marketing strategy. 

In addition to Greenfield’s advice, 

students benefited from the class 

dynamic. “The brainstorming sessions 

helped me think, not just about my 

own project, but I also got to listen to 

others and get different perspectives,” 

Shafman said. 

The class also created a sense of 

personal accountability. “It was a lot of 

help, if for no other reason than to give 

external motivation,” Churchward said. 

“There is no way I could have achieved 

this on my own.” 

Greenfield will continue to mentor 

students from the class as he prepares 

for the 2010–2011 seminar. He is 

motivated by the belief that “a key role 

of the university is to prepare people 

to change the world.” He also hopes 

that more alumni will follow his lead 

by returning to Colgate to share their 

knowledge. “It is about giving students 

the skills and experience of making 

something happen, and that is one of 

the most empowering feelings someone 

can get.” For more information 

about this program, contact Tennille 

Haynes at thaynes@colgate.edu. 

Class and county partnership 

Madison County mental health officials 

said they are thrilled with a website 

built for them by students taking 

a computer course taught by Professor 

Alexander Nakhimovsky. The website 

will be a valuable resource for county 

residents seeking information about 

programs and services for individuals 

with disabilities, said James Yonai, 

director of the county’s Mental Health 

Department. 

Yonai and other county representatives 

attended a rollout of the website 

at an April meeting at the Colgate Inn. 

Also attending were four first-year 

students — Jake Caldwell, Alex Bahr, 

Sarah Bassett, and Laura Johannet — 

who helped finalize the design and 

site architecture. The students had 

worked with their classmates on design 

approaches as part of the course 

Computers in Arts and Sciences. 

“We worked as groups and narrowed 

it down to this version,” said 

Caldwell. “We hope it is something 

that everyone will be able to use and 

to navigate easily.” 

Yonai singled out Caldwell during 

the presentation for his leadership 

and interpersonal skills in seeing the 

project to such a positive conclusion. 

Nancy Joerger, special education 

parent advocate with Community Action 

Partnership (CAP), met with the 

class back in February to outline the 

project and coordinate the county’s 

role. “Jake and the other students 

were so easy to work with and so 

incredibly helpful,” she said. 

Nakhimovsky said he thought the 

students learned the course materials 

better because they had a greater 

degree of involvement. “Some had a 

very useful experience in interacting 

with real-life ‘customers,’ responding 

to their needs, and understanding 

their background,” he said. 

Bahr and the other students said 

that they also learned more about the 

county in which they now live, and 

about the services it makes available. 

Debate Society hosts first 

international tournament 

In March, the university’s Debate Society 

hosted its first-ever worlds-style 

tournament, which drew participants 

from around the world and from 

around the country. The International 

Intervarsity Debate Tournament 

received high grades from both participants 

and judges. 

The 24 teams that competed 

during the March 27–28 competition 

were from the University of Sydney 

(Australia), Rhodes University (South 

Africa), University of La Verne, Cornell 

University, Williams College, Hobart 

and William Smith Colleges, University 

of Vermont, King’s College, and 

Ohio Wesleyan University. The 22 

judges came from as far away as Malaysia 

and Ireland for the inaugural 

invitational. 

“We would love to thank Colgate 

for all the work they have done,” said 

Bronwyn Cowell, of the University of 

Sydney. “The tournament has been 

excellent fun.”

Faith and Fact 

Gazing at the constellations in the 

springtime sky, you might pick out 

Orion and his faithful dog on the trail 

of a vicious bear. But the lights blinking 

down on you are more than what 

— or when — they seem. 

After spending the day with students 

in Core 106A: Galileo, Church, 

and Scientific Endeavor, Father George 

Coyne spoke to a crowd in Love Auditorium 

in April. In a lecture titled 

“The Dance of the Fertile Universe: 

Chance and Destiny Embrace,” the 

Jesuit astrophysicist, University of 

Arizona professor, and former Vatican 

Observatory director pointed out that 

nearly 1,300 light years separate us 

from the Orion nebula. So the light we 

saw during Coyne’s campus visit was 

produced on a spring evening when 

Chinese chemists were inventing 

gunpowder (ca. 710 A.D.). 

Coyne mentioned how atoms 

swirl around one another, combining, 

splitting, spawning new and heavier 

elements, and interacting through 

both necessity and chance while he 

hinted at the ways in which galaxies 

and humans came to be. 

When two hydrogen molecules 

meet an oxygen molecule, they must 

form water. But must they meet? 

Destiny and chance have produced 

three generations of stars since the 

beginning of time. Coyne argued that 

the ferment generated enough carbon 

and other elements to build our own 

toenails, hair, arms, legs, and evermore 

complicated brains. But there is 

a giant leap from the building blocks 

of life to life itself, and that is where 

the scientific becomes philosophical. 

Did God do it? “I don’t know,” 

Coyne admitted. But if so, “God is a 

nurturing parent with respect to the 

universe.” He has created something 

dynamic, then allowed it to assert its 

own personality, for better or worse, 

Coyne explained. 

“I thought he made a lot of concrete 

arguments using science, and he 

made a distinction between what he 

believes versus what he can prove,” 

said astronomy major Michael Lam ’11 

of Coyne’s lecture. 

The lack of a single concrete answer 

does not disturb Coyne. When 

scholarship falls short, he has his faith. 

Two retire from faculty 

Two members of the faculty were 

recognized at the awards convocation 

during Commencement Weekend for 

achieving emeritus status upon their 

retirements. 

Jerome Balmuth, Harry Emerson 

Fosdick Professor of philosophy and 

religion, joined the department in 1954 

after graduate work in philosophy at 

Cornell University. His research focused 

on the philosophy of language 

and on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. 

As his citation read, “His efforts 

in hiring and mentoring have had a 

formative influence on his depart- 

Jesuit astrophysicist George Coyne (left) speaks to students and visiting faculty in the 

Galileo, Church, and Scientific Endeavor course. With him is Professor Jeffrey Bary. 

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ment, and his work and wisdom have 

helped make the university what it is 

today. He has taught more than 9,000 

students — nearly a third of Colgate’s 

living alumni. 

In his 56 years 

at Colgate, Jerry 

invited all of us, 

colleagues and 

students alike, 

into a vigorous 

and continuing 

conversation 

in which age, 

gender, race, 

sexual orientation — features that all 

too often separate us — mattered not 

at all. Doing so, he has shown us that 

the life of the mind is not a solitary 

one, but a communal search for truth. 

His retirement leaves a lacuna that 

Colgate cannot hope to fill, but attending 

to his contributions will continue 

to remind us of the best that we have 

to offer our students and each other.” 

Carl Peterson, associate professor 

and head of special collections and 

university archivist, began work in 

the University Libraries’ acquisitions 

department in 

1980. He moved 

to special collections 

and 

archives in 

1988 and was 

promoted to 

head that unit 

in early 1994. He 

holds bachelor’s 

degrees in English and biology from 

the University of Alabama, an MFA 

from Cornell, and an MLS from the 

University at Albany. His citation recognized 

his many accomplishments, 

which included “cataloging and conserving 

rare books and manuscripts, 

implementing archival best practices, 

widening the scope of library exhibits, 

and acquiring the Weiner collection 

of George Bernard Shaw material. 

He pioneered Special Collections as a 

research and teaching tool for classes, 

increasing the number of classes 

taught, and establishing close departmental 

ties with other Colgate units. 

Carl was also instrumental in moving 

our precious collections during and 

after the construction of Case Library 

and Geyer Center for Information 

Technology. He has been an invaluable 

member of the library staff and is well 

known and respected as an expert on 

Colgate history and traditions.” 

Live and learn 

In May, students on the spring 2010 

Geneva Study Group got a rare peek behind 

the scenes of an international media 

organization when they visited Radio Free 

Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headquarters 

in Prague, Czech Republic. 

The 17 students spent a day devoted to 

“hands-on” journalism, including a master 

class on the challenges of covering 

democracy and human rights issues with 

Russia Services Senior Correspondent 

Irina Lagunina, and a discussion with Akbar 

Ayazi, who oversees programming in 

Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq. 

“I learned a lot about Russia, and it was 

nice to learn about current events there 

and new developments that you wouldn’t 

see in a textbook,” wrote one student in his 

visit evaluation. 

The visit was part of an extensive set of 

field trips in western and Central Europe, 

including to the Auschwitz extermination 

camp, meant to complete the coursework 

for International Institutions, the class 

taught by group leader Barry Shain, associate 

professor of political science. 

The course explores the nature of international 

institutions, the underlying 

assumptions of those working in and supportive 

of them, and their role in shaping 

relations between states and other international 

entities. Students also examine the 

continuing repercussions of the Holocaust 

and communism in Central Europe. 

Shain said he chose the day at RFE/RL 

because “it gives students a sense of 

how news not only is a reflection of world 

events, but is, in a way, created.” 

Kathryn Esteves ’11 said she especially 

enjoyed sitting in on an editorial meeting 

because “it illustrated the steps taken to 

develop story ideas.” Mary Beth Spencer 

’11 found the meeting “very informative 

and cool — it was nice to see the organization 

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German photographer 

Christina Zück explores 

the possibilities for 

understanding and 

makes her presence 

felt by the viewer of her 

photographs. Her exhibition 

Defence Phase II 

Karachi appeared at the 

Picker Art Gallery from 

April through July. 


Picker exhibitions 

challenge stereotypes 

Two dramatically different spring 

exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery 

each dealt with the common theme of 

challenging conventional stereotypes. 

In Of Someone and Something, 

associate art and art history professor 

Linn Underhill displayed selections 

from seven major photographic series 

that she has created since the early 

1990s. The images were taken in a 

studio, with several different props 

and the artist as her own model. The 

retrospective included images from 

Cosmic Dominatrix, 2000-2001, in 

which Underhill said the idea was “to 

think about how it would look if women 

were in charge of the world, and if 

they behaved in a way comparable to 

the way men behave in power.” This 

alternative world includes an image 

of Underhill as a leather-clad goddess 

hovering on a black cloud in a scene 

reminiscent of Michelangelo’s fresco. 

“[This exhibition was] informed by 

feminist theory and gender theory, 

and much of it has to do with trying 

to come up with new ways of representing 

women and thinking about 

gender as a masquerade,” explained 

Underhill. Her hope, she said, was that 

Colgate students would walk away 

“think[ing] about gender roles as being 

malleable.” 

Just opposite Underhill’s exhibition 

was German photographer Christina 

Zück’s Defence Phase II Karachi, a 

series of photographs taken with an 

analog medium-format camera, in 

Karachi, Pakistan, in 2008. 

Christina Zück 

Curator Joachim Homann 

explained that the images “are an 

investigation of public life in a city 

in Pakistan that is so often in the 

news because of the difficult political 

situation, with an officially pro- 

American government that is getting 

all these different demands from the 

people there.” 

Homann has known Zück and 

admired her work since they were in 

graduate school in Germany together. 

“She really wants to allow visitors 

to zoom in on individual images, and 

in those images, you will find details 

that might teach you something 

about the reality,” he said. 

One such photograph depicts two 

women on a street corner wearing 

hijabs. One woman is turning away, 

the other, staring into the camera. 

Homann pointed out that on closer 

examination, the woman who is 

staring is carrying a notebook with 

diagrams of DNA on the outside, suggesting 

she is in a medical profession 

of some kind. 

“The camera is a way for Christina 

to communicate with people,” said 

Homann. “She is always very interested 

in how the subjects react to 

her presence. She’s also bringing her 

own cultural values into this context, 

and that’s reflected in the images as 

well. This precludes her from giving 

an objective narrative. It is more an 

open-ended conversation that she 

hopes to provoke.” 

— Kate Preziosi ’10 

Shapes for Hamilton 

Just as each person in Hamilton is 

unique, so, too, are the almost 2,000 

printed shapes that artist-in-residence 

Allan McCollum distributed 

to town residents in April. The New 

York City–based artist chose Hamilton 

as the location of his newest 

project, meant to both represent individualism 

and unite the community. 

In 2005, McCollum designed a 

system through Adobe Illustrator to 

produce enough two-dimensional 

shapes that a different shape could 

be created for each person on the 

planet. The system also keeps track 

of the hand-drawn computer images 

to ensure that no two will ever be 

alike and that no two people will 

ever share the same shape. 

At the opening reception on 

March 10, members of the Hamilton 

and Colgate communities saw 

their shapes for the first time on a 

Open mic 

Finn McCool,* by Arianne Templeton ’10 

When I choose to trench a river, 

I drag my little toe through 

dirt, rocks, squiggling worms — 

grime under my smallest toe 

would bury lesser men 

(Girth! Wealth! Patriotism!) 

in glorious progress. 

I’ve been molding Earth since 

before Ireland was serpentless. 

Forests snap their trunks above the roots 

(count the rings long past 1776) 

to make way for squares of cement — 

limestone, shale, iron ore, sand — 

I’ve mixed them all with whiskey after 

the longest days of burying cities. 

Tara, being razed to the ground 

every year by that hideous monster 

for the passing of 23 seasons, 

was free when I tamed the destruction — 

he was my lapdog until he limped 

out of decrepitude to nothing. 

Some white-beard highwayman shouted 

when I de-clawed the dragon: 

“new life springs from under piles of ash, 

and fire cleans the dead leaves from the grass. 

We gloried in the green.” 

I ground his soft skull to make my stew 

heartier. 

Many are the Giant’s Causeways 

you should thank me for. 

From the first causeway, 

with rounded pillars and friendliness 

that invites tourists to clamber on it 

that I drummed up 

while skipping rocks from Antrim beach, 

to my latest sky stairway in Dubai. 

You’ve heard it was built by men? 

Time was, you’d have known it was Finn 

and your human knees would’ve quaked. 

But even though you’ve forgotten I can 

twist California off like the end of a ripe bean, 

I’ll keep bulldozing mushroom clouds into 

myself. 

* According to Irish folklore, Finn McCool was 

a giant who created the landscape of Ireland 

by walking on it. First published in the 2010 

Colgate Portfolio.

computer in the gallery, recorded the 

section of the gallery in which it was 

located, and then found their 5" by 7" 

printed shapes. The shapes were later 

distributed to community members at 

various locations including Hamilton 

Central School, the Palace Theater, 

the Poolville Community Center, and 

Colgate’s quad. Each shape was signed 

by McCollum and provided free of 

charge. 

Art and art history professor De- 

Witt Godfrey coordinated the project 

with McCollum, the 2010 Christian 

A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Distinguished 

Artist in Residence in the 

Department of Art and Art History, 

through the Institute for the Creative 

and Performing Arts. 

A team of students and Colgate 

staff members contributed to the 

Shapes for Hamilton project with 

community research, distribution 

planning, and setting up the exhibition. 

“Each of his creations is unique, 

yet they remain remarkably similar 

to one another, like us humans,” 

explained Shapes staff member Gabe 

Rosen ’12, a studio art major. 

Although McCollum has used 

the shapes system in other projects, 

this was the first time he distributed 

individual shapes to each member of 

a community. Shapes can now be seen 

Can I have my shape, please? A Hamilton resident picks up her own individual “shape,” created 

by artist Allan McCollum, from art professor DeWitt Godfrey, who invited McCollum 

to bring his Shapes Project to town. McCollum can produce more than enough unique twodimensional 

shapes for every person on the planet. Before the shapes were given out, they 

were displayed in Little Hall’s Clifford Gallery. 

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around town, hanging in the windows 

of homes, in professors’ offices, 

and even in school lockers at Hamilton 

Elementary. 

Two receive Schupf/Lorey 

Senior Art Prize 

Seniors Kelly Boyle and Emily Rawdon 

received the 2010 Schupf/Lorey 

Senior Art Prize, which, since 2007, has 

been awarded for outstanding work 

as identified by Paul Schupf ’58 and 

Robert McVaugh, professor of art and 

art history. 

Boyle, a native of New Hampshire, 

was an art and art history major and 

an Islamic studies minor. Her ensemble 

of four strikingly inventive video 

pieces, Story of Some Kind, explores 

personal and media imagery in the 

context of American discomfort with 

ambiguity. 

Rawdon, daughter of Dick Rawdon 

’65, was a double major in art and art 

history and theater from Kentucky. 

Her photographic installation Usual 

Flow-voids of the Circle of Willis are 

Preserved explores the psychic mingling 

of euphoria and fear associated 

with epileptic seizures. In August, she 

will enter the School of the Art Institute 

of Chicago. 

“Professor McVaugh and I worked 

long and hard to choose these two 

first-class art works. Owing to the 

overall high quality of this year’s 

senior art exhibition, several other 

entries might have been chosen,” said 

Schupf, who expressed special thanks 

to Evan C. Lorey ’10 for his gift that allowed 

Colgate to award an additional 

prize this year. 

The awards were given at the 

senior awards convocation in 

Memorial Chapel on Saturday, May 

15. See a full list of award recipients at 

www.colgate.edu. 

Poetry that matters 

Her voice was characteristically 

scratchy and barely louder than a 

whisper. Yet, true to form, Louise 

Glück, the Pulitzer Prize–winning lyric 

poet, held her audience spellbound for 

45 minutes as she read nine poems 

from her latest collection, A Village 

Life, at the end of March. 

Glück received the Pulitzer in 1993 

for The Wild Iris, her sixth of 11 books 

of poems. Early in her career, she also 

authored Proofs & Theories, a collection 

of essays on poetry that received 

the PEN/Martha Albrand Award 

for First Non-Fiction. Presently, she 

teaches at Yale University. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning lyric poet Louise 

Glück reads from her latest collection, 

A Village Life. 

After decades of writing with 

a minimalist’s precision, Glück 

changed course for the poems in her 

latest collection, using language that 

she characterized as “more relaxed, 

even gawky.” Nonetheless, the poems 

she read included the “punches 

to the gut” described in her introduction 

by English professor Peter 

Balakian. Earlier in the day, she spoke 

to his Post-WWII American Poetry 

class. 

Scott Reu ’13, who reads his poetry 

at open mics and is a member of the 

student group Poetically Minded, 

came to the reading eager to ask a 

question that, he said, led his father 

to burn reams of his own early 

works. Reu wanted to know: “How 

can writers, especially younger ones, 

distance themselves enough from 

personal experience to create poetry 

that really matters?” The question 

was especially apropos, not only for 

the only American poet who has 

twice served as judge for the prestigious 

Yale Series of Younger Poets, 

but for one whose work addresses 

such universal issues of the human 

condition as being young, coming 

of age, and love affairs beginning or 

ending. 

“There’s a difference between the 

circumstantial and the intensely 

personal,” Glück said. “A dramatic 

breakup with a lover can make a 

great poem, but experience has to 

undergo a transformation. It can’t 

simply be decanted onto the page.” 

Reu was encouraged. “Her 

response set my mind to work,” he 

said. “I am astonished that a single 

answer to a single question could 

have such an impact on the way I 

think about poetry.” 


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Author Augusten 

Burroughs meets with 

students at Merrill 

House before delivering 

his public lecture. 


Running with Scissors memoirist 

raises big issues 

Augusten Burroughs, who chronicled 

his unusual childhood in his 2002 

memoir Running with Scissors, delivered 

a candid keynote address at Colgate’s 

fifth annual Big Gay Weekend 

in April. His messages ranged from 

developing inner strength (“What 

you need is not more confidence. You 

need to subtract whatever it is that 

prevents confidence, and that is caring 

too much about what other people 

think”), to the inevitability of legalized 

gay marriage (“There will be a day 

when you will hold today’s discrimination 

in the palm of your hand, like a 

charming memento”). 

While Burroughs considered 

himself to be an unlikely special 

guest — because, he said, he “never 

had a moment where he ‘came out’ to 

anything” — he gave members and 

supporters of Colgate’s Lesbian, Gay, 

Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning 

(LGBTQ) community a lot to talk 

about. 

Burroughs’s now-famous childhood 

provided fodder for his first 

memoir, which became a film of the 

same name. When his mother was 

no longer able to care for him, he 

was sent to live with her psychiatrist 

and an extended family of long-term 

patients, many who were psychotic or 

schizophrenic. “In that environment, 

my sexuality was not an issue,” he 

said. “I didn’t ever think about being 

gay. It was like being right-handed. 

Why? I don’t know. I just am.” 

The theme of the weekend was “Be 

Yourself.” About that, Burroughs said: 

“I wish I could take forensic evidence 

out of my brain and stick it in yours 

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Entropy Barn 1-29, Entropy House 1-4, and Entropy Shed 1-3, digital prints by Bryan 

Kretschmer ’10. “These works are an exploration of the built space that surrounds us in 

daily life but often goes unnoticed,” Kretschmer explained in his artist’s statement. “Each 

of the structures was built for a specific purpose or function. The silhouettes serve to show 

that, although they are purpose-built, they have an underlying aesthetic beauty that is 

often overlooked. In addition, the silhouettes serve to record a specific point in each of the 

buildings’ ongoing process of entropy.” To see more of this year’s senior art projects, visit 

Arts & Culture at www.colgatealumni.org/scene. 

so you would know that that’s all you 

have to be. That’s everything you have 

to be.” 

But things aren’t always that 

simple, said Aleksander Sklyar ’10. 

“It makes me happy to know that 

there are individuals out there, like 

Augusten, who did not have to go 

through the pain and difficulty of 

‘coming out.’ However, for many in the 

LGTBQ community, me included, being 

ourselves is anything but simple; 

the process to self-acceptance and 

self-assertion was anything but an 

easy one for me.” 

New music champion 

The Society for New Music (SNM), 

co-founded by Neva Pilgrim, Colgate’s 

voice teacher and artist-in-residence, 

was a 2010 recipient of the American 

Music Center’s Letter of Distinction. 

Pilgrim and several SNM board 

members attended the awards ceremony 

in New York City in May. “It 

was a who’s who of American music 

— people from BMI [Broadcast Music, 

Inc.], people from ASCAP [American 

Society of Composers, Authors and 

Publishers], famous composers, other 

performers — and to be recognized in 

that company was a thrill,” she said. 

Pilgrim founded the SNM with 

musicians Ralph D’Mello and Greg 

Levin in 1971 when all three moved 

to the Syracuse region from big cities 

and believed the area needed a 

stronger new music presence. The 

society’s board of volunteers now 

presents about 25 concerts a year, 

including a winter series in Syracuse 

and a month-long summer arts festival 

called Cazenovia Counterpoint. In 

addition, the group funds composers’ 

involvement in inner-city schools, and 

Pilgrim tapes a weekly music program 

on WCNY-FM. 

The American Music Center, which 

is dedicated to building a national 

community of artists, organizations, 

and audiences creating, performing, 

and enjoying new American music, 

described the SNM as “a driving 

cultural force for contemporary music 

in the United States.” SNM was one of 

four recipients this year, joining the 

ranks of past honorees including Leonard 

Bernstein and Dizzy Gillespie. 

Courage, heart, and brains: 

Oz Project helps children break 

down barriers 

In April, friends, family members, and 

supporters of The Oz Project filled the 

Palace Theater to watch an inspiring 

production of The Wizard of Oz. On 

stage, children with and without special 

needs performed their hearts out 

in the culmination of an eight-week 

theater program created by Colgate 

students and faculty members. 

The program’s goal is to foster an 

inclusive social learning and growing 

environment for children with a wide 

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ange of needs, including autismspectrum 

and related disorders. 

Alexandra Snell ’10 said the idea 

for the project emerged from conversations 

she had with fellow seniors 

Lindsey Simpson, Lauren Kaplan, 

Samantha Horn, and Hannah Sandler, 

and with psychology professor Regina 

Conti and educational studies professor 

Sheila Clonan. Throughout the 

semester, this core group of students 

and faculty met regularly to develop 

and critique curricula and activities 

that were used with the children, as 

well as to monitor the engagement 

and growth of the children involved. 

As the project grew — attracting 

elementary students from Hamilton 

and other communities — so, too, did 

the team supporting it. More than a 

dozen Colgate students, along with 

community volunteers, took part. 

Workshops, set to the themes of 

The Wizard of Oz, facilitated development 

of social skills such as making 

new friends in uncomfortable situations, 

like Dorothy did with the Tin 

Man, Scarecrow, and Lion in the 

unfamiliar land of Oz. Participants 

learned new ways to deal with many 

challenges, from feeling left out to 

responding to a bully. “By using drama 

games, music, and performance to 

teach different social skills, we were 

able to concentrate both on personal 

growth and commitment to a larger 

group of people,” said Simpson. “It was 

really inspiring to see how the kids ex- 

celled individually, but also grew as a 

group who supported each other and 

celebrated one another’s accomplishments,” 

she added. 

Children also learned to use sign 

language during the song “Over the 

Rainbow,” thanks to community volunteer 

Bethany Sackel, who also worked 

with volunteer Delaine Dacko to choreograph 

and facilitate creative movement 

within the energetic group. 

All the children, be they energetic 

or quiet, were encouraged to express 

and recognize their differences. 

“The beauty of The Oz Project was 

most apparent in the day-to-day interactions 

among the kids. They could 

look beyond the obvious differences 

between them and focus on what 

they shared,” said Kaplan. 

This sense of teamwork was evident 

in the final production, in which 

close to 30 children, comfortable with 

each other and their differences, sang 

and danced like stars. The production 

was a big hit with the audience, but 

the true success was found within 

each and every participant on stage, 

who overcame the challenges of social 

situations and grew to embrace new 

friendships. 

Although its cardinal leaders all 

graduated in May, it is hoped that 

the project that Snell said touched all 

aspects of the Hamilton community 

will be reprised for years to come. 

— Eileen O’Brien ’10 

The Oz Project, an eight-week theater program created by Colgate students and faculty 

members, brought together children with and without special needs for a performance of 

The Wizard of Oz. 

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Get to know: Jesse Henderson 

Visual Resources Curator 

How she got here: Before joining the Art and Art History department, I did my master’s in 

library and information studies at McGill University in Montreal. I directed my assignments 

toward image collections, so I really focused on hoping to land this exact job, even though I 

didn’t know it was available. 

The mission: The main charge of the visual resources library is making analog and digital images 

available for faculty. We’re transitioning this analog collection to digital based on what 

the professors are using. They basically curate the collection; they come in, bring books, and 

say, “I want these images for my lectures; I need them so I can project them, show them, and 

talk about them.” We’re up to almost 12,000 in the four years that I’ve been here, but we’re 

dealing with a 90,000-image slide collection. 

Favorite medium and color: I’m a painter at heart — I love oil painting. Any opportunity I 

have to discover new painters while handling the collection is great for me. And my favorite 

color is red. Definitely red. 

Crowd shocker: I always surprise people when I tell them that I was the homecoming queen 

of my high school, because it’s such a stereotype. I try to tell them to shock them, and then 

they’re like, “No!” Other than that, I’m pretty much an open book. 

Working on the Shapes for Hamilton Project: I built a fairly simple database in Filemaker 

Pro and ended up cataloguing all of the shapes into the database. Once we got the lists of 

people, I integrated them and randomly matched them up with a shape. In the gallery, once 

you made contact through the database and found yourself, you saw your shape and started 

thinking about what it looked like compared to all the others. It brought a new perspective 

to the project that none of us were expecting. I just made the tool, and then it turned into 

something wonderful that helped streamline all this information. 

World traveler: The second year I lived in Montreal was heavenly. I lived in a very artsy 

neighborhood called “the Plateau,” and that was really the first serious metropolitan living 

experience I’d had. With access to the cafés and all the art, the pace of life was really fun. 

Guilty pleasure: Frozen pizza. A good, cheap, frozen pizza. 

She’s crafty: I made a quilt by hand. Some great local Hamilton ladies taught me how. My 

most recent crafty endeavor was with Emily Oren (assistant curator) and her husband. We 

made these handmade, painted little dice that say “you” on two sides, “us” on two sides, and 

“me” on two sides. They’re marriage dice, so people can use them to settle their disputes. 

She plays banjo, too – is she the next Béla Fleck? No way. In four years, I’m still playing 

the same 12 small ditties, so I doubt it. But it’s fun, and I’m hoping to expand my knowledge 

more over the summer. My husband plays guitar really well, so at some point, I have to learn 

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Equestrians jump to new heights 

Colgate English riders finished their 

season by qualifying four riders — 

Alexis Apostol ’12, Elizabeth Brodsky 

’11, Jessica Morlando ’11, and Sara Reisler 

’12 — for the Regional Equestrian 

Finals at Skidmore College in Saratoga 

Springs, N.Y., on April 3. Apostol set 

a Colgate record by finishing fifth in 

the region in the Open Rider Division, 

jumping at the height of 3'6", 

the maximum for college competition. 

This was the highest finish for a 

Colgate rider in any division in the 13 

years since the equestrian program 

began. 

Despite its status as a club sport, 

Colgate’s team competes against 

some of the top varsity programs in 

the country, including Skidmore, Cornell, 

Hartwick, and Morrisville. Colgate 

finished sixth out of 15 schools this 

season. 

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Anna Hackney coaches the 

30-member team at Saddleback Farm 

in Hamilton, where they train twice 

a week with hour-long lessons in 

addition to more extensive training 

sessions before the eight horse shows 

that run from October to March. 

Team captains Emily Messing ’12 

and Eri Sato ’12 provided invaluable assistance 

to the team as it reached and 

successfully competed in the regional 

finals. 

Out of five riders on the Western 

team, Yvett Sosa ’12 qualified for 

regional championships in March. 

Coached by Valerie Logsdon, they 

finished in fourth place overall, with 

72 team points for the year end. 

Rivalry renewed 

One of Colgate’s most storied rivalries 

will be renewed this fall when the 

Raiders football team travels to Syracuse 

for a Sept. 25 contest with the 

Orange at the Carrier Dome. 

It will be the first time the teams 

have met since 1987, and the first time 

since 2003 that Colgate, which is in 

the Division I Football Championship 

Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), 

will play against a team in the Football 

Bowl Subdivision. 

The Raiders and Orange have met 

65 times, with Colgate holding a slight 

edge in the all-time series 31-29-5. 

Syracuse won the 1987 game, 52-6, and 

owns a 3-0 record against Colgate in 

the Carrier Dome. Colgate’s last victory 

in the series came in 1950, a 19-14 

win at Archbold Stadium. 

Colgate dominated the series early, 

going 13-5-2 over the first 20 games 

the teams played from 1891 to 1917. 

The Raiders also ruled the series from 

the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, winning 

11 games and tying another two. Syracuse 

began to dominate in the 1950s, 

and the regular games ended after the 

1961 contest. 

Student, athlete, humanitarian 

Colgate student-athlete Ethan Cox 

’10 was named the 15th recipient of 

the BNY Mellon Wealth Management 

Hockey Humanitarian Award at the 

2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four. The 

award — open to any male or female 

Saddleback Farm in Hamilton, with its 

sweeping countryside vistas, serves as the 

home barn for Colgate’s equestrian team 

— a club sport at Colgate that regularly 

competes with varsity squads at other 

universities. 

Ask Raider 

When did the Colgate-Syracuse 

football rivalry begin? — Raider 4 

Life 

Way back in 1891. It was only Colgate’s 

second season fielding a football team, 

and our first season with a coach, Samuel 

Colgate Jr. We won the game 22-16, and 

went on to win all five scheduled games 

that season! 

Why is the field above Andrews 

and Stillman called the “old golf 

course?” — Gate fan 

In 1917, some faculty and townspeople 

took the initiative to make that area into a 

golf course. It was redone and expanded in 

1928. They called it Seven Oaks after the 

ancestral village of the Colgate family in 

Kent, England. The course was relocated to 

the valley east of campus in 1958, leaving 

the open space behind the dormitories to 

be remembered as “the old golf course.” 

How many Colgate alumni have been 

drafted into the NBA? I think most 

people would say one – Adonal Foyle 

’98 – but I can think of three. — Doug 

Chiarello ’98 

Actually, 11 Colgate alumni have been chosen 

in the NBA draft. They are Neil Dooley 

’48 (Boston Celtics), Carl Braun ’49 and Ernie 

Vandeweghe ’49 (N.Y. Knicks), Bill Dodd 

’53 (Philadelphia Warriors), Milt Graham 

’56 and Jack Nichols ’57 (Syracuse Nationals), 

Robert Duffy ’62 (St. Louis Hawks), 

George Dalzell ’67 (Detroit Pistons), Don 

Ward ’71 (Buffalo Braves), Mike Ferrara ’81 

(Washington Bullets), and Adonal Foyle ’98 

(Golden State Warriors). (The team name is 

the drafting organization.) 

Do you have a Colgate sports trivia topic 

suggestion or question for Raider? Send 

an e-mail to scene@colgate.edu and put 

Ask Raider in the subject line.

Raider hockey forward Ethan Cox ’10 (left) 

accepts the Hockey Humanitarian Award 

recognizing college hockey’s finest citizen 

at the 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four. 

collegiate hockey player from any 

NCAA Division — is given out annually 

to college hockey’s finest citizen. 

The recipient is a player who embraces 

humanitarian efforts that help out 

a community, a certain philanthropy, 

or a cause. 

“This recognition speaks volumes 

to the following and dedication that 

the Colgate men’s ice hockey team 

and fans have to the betterment of 

their community. To be recognized for 

such an award is truly an honor and I 

hope that it will inspire other people 

to get involved within their local communities,” 

said Cox. 

Jim Rosvold 

Cox has been involved in local and 

national philanthropic events since 

arriving on campus in 2006. In his 

first year, he organized a weekendlong 

fundraising benefit through the 

Make a Wish Foundation for eightyear-old 

Miranda Hadlock, who was 

battling cancer. The girl’s mother, 

Holli Hadlock, works in the university’s 

mailroom. 

During the last three holiday 

seasons, Cox arranged canned food 

and toy drives to help local families 

in Hamilton and Madison County. 

Proceeds went directly to the Hamilton 

Food Cupboard and the Interfaith 

Holiday Council. Overall, Cox and his 

teammates have raised more than 

$14,000 in cash and donated items 

for various local and national charities. 

Cox was also active in helping the 

campus raise $25,000 for the American 

Cancer Society, worked with the 

football team to encourage students 

to be tested for potential bone marrow 

matches, assisted the women’s 

soccer team in raising funds to help 

with the costs of a student-athlete’s 

cancer treatment, and was involved 

in several “Facing off against Cancer” 

and “Drink4Pink” events promoting 

cancer awareness. 

Raider catcher Nicole Siedhof ’11 makes a play at the plate in a match-up against the 

Binghamton Bearcats in April. Although the Raiders did not win that game, they finished 

the season 27-23 and upset the top-seeded Army Black Knights in the opening round of the 

Patriot League Tournament. 

Bob Cornell 

In the summer of 2009, Cox was 

honored with the Hamilton Business 

Alliance Community Service Award 

for his efforts. 

Olympian on board 

Colgate head women’s ice hockey 

coach Scott Wiley announced the 

hiring of 2010 Winter Olympian Karen 

Thatcher as an assistant coach. 

“The addition of Karen Thatcher is 

a great step forward for our program,” 

stated Wiley. “She is a dynamic and 

energetic person who has a true passion 

for the sport. She has excelled at 

every level, been a great ambassador, 

and understands what it takes to be a 

successful student-athlete. Karen adds 

After four decades, Colgate track record broken at IC4As 

A 41-year-old Colgate men’s track and field team record was broken at the IC4A 

Championship at Boston University on Sunday, March 7. Ed Boulat ’11, Tim Metivier 

’12, Jon Knowlton’11, and Andy Smith ’11 ran a 7:33.25 in the 4 x 800-meter 

relay, finishing seventh overall and earning all-East honors. 

Greg Lavin ’70 had recently penned this reminiscence about the day his team 

set the previous record (7:35.10) at Madison Square Garden. We couldn’t resist 

sharing his account of how it went down in 1969: 

At that time, we lacked indoor track facilities and 

home meets, but made up for it with charcoal heat 

in a tiny trackside hut next to the tennis courts. 

Of the four of us (Jim Andrews ’69, holder of 

the Colgate 2-mile indoor record; Hank Skewis 

’69, 1000-yard record holder; and Lionel “Skip” 

Meno ’69, mile record holder), I was the neophyte, 

a soccer player with one season of indoor track 

experience. Coach Bob Milner, an ex-Marine officer, 

tailored our workouts; mine was the shortest, 

befitting one who didn’t know that a 5-mile warmup was to be done on the roads 

around Hamilton, not on the wooden, banked 160-yard track. 

Before we won the Boston Athletic Games’s Two-Mile Relay, the highlight of 

my athletic experience at Colgate had been a soccer win over 8th-ranked Hartwick. 

But the Boston relay win landed our track squad on a national stage at the 

U.S. Olympic Invitational, against invitees to the Olympic Trials. We showed our 

passes at the gate and entered the infield of Madison Square Garden in maroon 

warm-ups. Tuxedoed officials were everywhere. Wide World of Sports TV cameras 

were located at each corner. 

We watched Olympians compete: decathlon hero Bill Toomey, long jumper 

Ralph Boston, pole vaulter Bob Seagren, hurdler Willie Davenport, 400-meter runners 

Larry James and Vince Mathews, and miler Marty Liquori. Finally, our turn 

came. 

Andrews ran a blazing opening leg, handing me a lead. I took off on what felt 

like my fastest start ever, but one-third of the way into my half-mile leg, Ron 

Stonitsch of CW Post passed me as if I were standing still. I had never experienced 

such speed in close quarters. Stonitsch had a near-sub-4-minute mile to his credit. 

So did Manhattan’s Brian Kivlan, who ran the third leg against Skewis. By the end 

of the straightaway, I had picked up the pace faster than I had ever run. Would I 

last until the hand-off to Hank? 

I remember handing off, but not much else until Skip was nearing the finish. 

Skewis had brought us back against Kivlan, and now Skip drew even with Manhattan’s 

anchor, Tom Donahue, passing him briefly in the last lap. Donahue held 

on for the win. We finished in second place, 8/10 of a second behind. 

Coach Milner collected our silver Olympic trophies at trackside, smiling 

brightly. It was a school-record performance. 

The capstone was being greeted by the entire track team the next night in 

Albany, where Colgate was entered in an open meet at the Armory. We went 

jogging downtown, where we noticed a television playing in the window of an 

appliance store. Wide World of Sports was broadcasting the prior night’s Olympic 

Invitational. We could see ourselves in our sweat suits on the infield, awaiting our 

race. It was a magic, pre-video-recording-era moment, a reminder of having met 

our challenge. 


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Students, faculty, 

and staff all enjoyed 

the 2010 intramural 

softball season, 

with games played 

on Whitnall Field. 

Here, the Norbs, at 

bat against Phi Tau 

A, went on to win the 

game 17-16. 


instant credibility to our program and 

will help us achieve our goals. We are 

thrilled that she has joined our staff.” 

Thatcher made her Olympic debut in 

2010, winning silver in Vancouver, after 

representing the U.S. team at two world 

championships. Thatcher won gold 

with the team in 2008 and 2009, and 

was named to the 2007 Worlds Team. 

She was also a three-time member of 

the U.S. Women’s Select Team for the 

Four Nations Cup and the U.S. Women’s 

Under-22 Select Team for the Under-22 

Series with Canada. 

A 2006 graduate of Providence 

College, Thatcher was a three-year letterwinner 

on the Friars women’s ice 

hockey team, after transferring from 

Brown after the 2002-2003 season. After 

Providence, Thatcher played for the 

BC Breakers of the Western Women’s 

Hockey League (WWHL) in 2006–2007, 

where she led the team and ranked 10th 

in the league with 36 points (19-17) in 26 

games. 

During the 2007–2008 season, 

Thatcher played for the Vaughan Flames 

of the Canadian Women’s Hockey 

League and helped the team to the 

inaugural CWHL championship. In 2008- 

2009, she returned to the WWHL and 

helped lead the Minnesota Whitecaps to 

their league championship. 

Chun wins national honor 

Senior Associate Athletics Director and 

Senior Woman Administrator Vicky 

Chun ’91, MA’94, has been named the 

Division I FCS Administrator of the Year 

by the National Association of Colle- 

Andrew Daddio 

Midfielder Chris Zielinski ’12 (#7) scored a career-high six points off three goals and three 

assists as Colgate upset No. 16 Lafayette 14-9 in the last men’s lacrosse home game of the 

season. 

giate Women Athletics Administrators 

(NACWAA). 

The award, sponsored by Jostens, is 

bestowed upon NACWAA members 

who have made significant contributions 

as administrators of intercollegiate 

athletics. 

Chun’s primary responsibilities 

include overseeing corporate sponsorship, 

marketing and promotions, and 

personnel management for athletics. 

She also serves as the administrative 

liaison for Daktronics Sports Marketing, 

ECAC Hockey, and the Student Athlete 

Advisory Committee. In addition, Chun 

supervises and performs the administrative 

duties of men’s lacrosse, women’s 

ice hockey, and volleyball. 

In 1994, Chun was hired as the head 

coach of the volleyball team, a position 

she held for three years. She posted a 

67-27 record as head coach, guided her 

squad to two conference championships 

and Colgate’s first-ever NCAA Tournament 

berth, and was named the 1996 

Patriot League Coach of the Year. 

Chun was promoted to associate athletics 

director in July 2007, having served 

as the assistant athletic director since 

February 2006, and on an interim basis 

since the summer of 2005. 

Senior Athletic Awards 

Outstanding student-athletes in the 

Class of 2010 were recognized during 

commencement weekend. Jillian 

Arnault (soccer) and David McIntyre 

(ice hockey) were each awarded the 

Director of Athletics award; Ian Aguilar 

(football) and Susan Fortkiewicz (indoor 

and outdoor track, cross country) were 

honored by the Joseph Huther Prize 

Fund; and Sarah Pedersen (field hockey) 

and Sarah Sciarrino (swimming) were 

each awarded the John T. (Jack) Mitchell 

Memorial Award, and the Gottesman 

Award for Excellence in the Sciences and 

Athletics. The awards were presented 

at the senior awards convocation in 

Memorial Chapel on May 15. 

Onto the world stage 

The Toronto Nationals selected Ryan 

McClelland ’10 in the 7th round – 42nd 

overall – of the Major League Lacrosse 

(MLL) draft in June. He is the fourth 

Raider selected in the MLL draft over the 

last three years, and the first by Toronto. 

McClelland, who is from Brampton, 

Ontario, was also selected for the Team 

Canada roster at the Federation of International 

Lacrosse World Championships 

in Manchester, England, in July. 

Perfect scores 

Eighteen Raider athletic teams achieved 

a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s 

academic performance standard, the 

Academic Progress Rate (APR), for the 

2008-2009 academic year. Nine of those 

teams posted perfect multi-year APR 

scores based on data from the 2005– 

2006 through 2008–2009 school years. 

The APR uses a series of formulas 

related to student-athlete retention and 

eligibility to measure the academic performance 

of all participants on teams at 

every Division I college and university. 

The 18 teams to post a perfect score 

last year were men’s and women’s cross 

country, men’s and women’s ice hockey, 

men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and 

Brooke Ousterhout ’10

women’s tennis, men’s and women’s 

indoor track and field, men’s and 

women’s outdoor track and field, men’s 

soccer, field hockey, softball, women’s 

rowing, women’s swimming and diving, 

and volleyball. 

The Colgate teams to post perfect 

multi-year APR scores were golf, men’s 

lacrosse, men’s soccer, men’s indoor 

track and field, men’s outdoor track and 

field, softball, women’s cross country, 

women’s swimming and diving, and 

volleyball. 

When mentoring is mutual 

Carlton Walker ’10 and Ron Ransom 

’93 have more in common than four 

years at Colgate. They both graduated 

How to 

Putt with confidence at Seven Oaks 

According to Seven Oaks golf pro Marian Blain, the 

greens on Colgate’s golf course are not only the best 

in central New York, but they’re also the fastest. This 

comes as no surprise to those who have watched their 

birdie tap-ins quickly turn into saves for a bogey. Blain 

has provided five simple tips to help golfers at any 

level tame the greens. 

1. Less is more. Choke down on your putter to reduce 

the energy that is transferred to the ball. 

2. Overdo it a bit. Play more break than you normally 

would. The line of golf balls shows the path the putt 

should take. 

3. Lighten up. Loosen your grip for better control and 

pacing. Take a shorter backstroke and increase your 

acceleration through the putt. Blain shows the position 

you should be in at the end of the swing. 

4. Be the ball. Putt with your shoulders, not your 

wrists. When putting with your shoulders, you create 

a more delicate stroke, which is necessary for fast 

greens. Remember to stroke through the putt, though. 

The club under Blain’s arms shows the correct positioning 

of the golfer’s shoulders for this technique. 

5. Let it roll. When putting downhill, place the ball just 

off the toe of your putter. This will deaden the hit. 

As you consider how to incorporate these tips into 

your putting, don’t overthink it. Putting is about feel, 

so start by looking at the hole, checking your line, and 

thinking about the speed you need to roll it in. Then, 

practice with your eyes closed. This type of drill helps 

to get you focused on feel and pace. Using these tips 

and practice drills will make you an expert on fast 

greens in no time. 

from Columbus Academy in Ohio, 

both played football for the Raiders, 

and both are African American. 

But without the Maroon Council’s 

mentoring program, created to assist 

football-playing student-athletes with 

virtually any life issue that may arise, 

their paths might never have crossed. 

“Ron and I had a bond right off the 

bat,” said Walker, who is one of about 

100 current or former players who 

actively engages with his mentor. “He 

explained to me ways to cope with 

being so far from home, and we talked 

about how I could succeed in an environment 

that, at least on the surface, 

appeared to be less diverse than our 

high school.” 

Over the past four years, Walker 

and Ransom e-mailed frequently and 

caught up in person when Ransom 

came to campus for the annual T-Bone 

Weekends he created to commemorate 

the late J. Tyler Whaling ’93. 

“I found it very difficult to approach 

alumni for the first time, and Ron was 

there for me in order to act as that 

liaison. His guidance helped me when I 

branched out beyond Colgate in my job 

search,” observed Walker. 

Although he is modest about the 

role he played, Ransom, too, felt the 

bond. “I’m not sure how I’ve helped 

Carlton, but he has helped me stay 

grounded,” Ransom said. “It’s easy to 

forget one’s path to their current loca- 

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tion; but by spending time with Carlton 

I could reflect on how our hometown, 

high school, and Colgate all helped me 

become who I am. When I see Carlton, 

I see a fresh world waiting for him to 

take it by storm.” 

At least for the moment, Ransom’s 

job is done, and it is Walker’s turn to 

lead. Beginning in the fall, Walker will 

teach history and coach four sports as 

a faculty fellow at the Wesleyan School 

in Norcross, Ga. 

Football experience is not required 

to become a Maroon Council mentor. 

Learn more and connect with Colgate’s 

football alumni at www.maroon 

mentors.org. 


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Books & film 

Information is provided by publishers, 

authors, and artists. 

AIMbitious: A Life of Enlightened 

Self-Leadership 

Scott A. Annan ’05 

(iUniverse) 

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candy companies, and many others. 

Built on unprecedented access and 

sourcing, the book’s examination of 

this secretive world begins with a look 

at the nation’s first true “private eye,” 

and extends through to the connections 

today between global intelligence 

services and the top investigative 

agency on Wall Street. 

Peripheral Visions: Politics, 

Society, and the Challenges of 

Modernity in Yucatan 

Co-edited by Gilbert M. Joseph ’69 

(with Edward D. Terry, Ben W. Fallaw, 

and Edward H. Moseley) 

(University of Alabama Press) 

Yucatan has been called “a world 

apart” — cut off from the rest of 

Mexico by geography and culture. The 

essays in Peripheral Visions show that, 

despite its peripheral location, the region 

experienced substantial change 

after Mexico achieved independence. 

Essays focus on at least three challenges 

for study of the peninsula 

BookCase 

A selection from the new 

titles shelf at Case Library 

• Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics 

Explains Religion 

Larry Whitham 

• Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of 

Desegregation 

Stuart Buck 

• Britten and Brülightly: A Graphic Novel 

Hannah Berry 

• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 

James Shapiro 

• The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s 

Treatment of Prisoners of War from the 

Revolution to the War on Terror 

Robert C. Doyle 

• Anthill: A Novel 

E.O. Wilson 

• Fashion of the 20th Century: 100 Years 

of Apparel Ads 

Edited by Jim Heimann, Written by Alison 

A. Nieder 

• Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood 

in Modern America 

Rebecca Jo Plant 

• Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: 

Culture, Conflict, and Creativity 

Edited by Kelly Bulkeley, Kate Adams, and 

Patricia M. Davis 

• 1934: A New Deal for Artists 

Ann Prentice Wagner 

today: politics after 

the fall of the 

Institutional Revolutionary 

Party 

(PRI), scholarly 

demystification 

of the Maya, and 

the transition to 

a post-henequen 

economy featuring tourism, migration, 

and assembly plants known as 

maquiladoras. Disciplines represented 

in the collection include history, anthropology, 

sociology, and economics, 

painting a strikingly rich picture of 

the region as it has developed. 

Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story 

Behind the Greatest Rescue in 

Coast Guard History 

Kalee Thompson ’96 

(William Morrow) 

Deadliest Sea is 

a daring adventure 

tale that 

chronicles the 

power of nature 

against man, and 

explores the essence 

of the fear 

people must face 

when confronted with catastrophe. 

Kalee Thompson explores the harrowing 

tale of the fishing trawler Alaska 

Ranger as it sank into the Bering Sea 

in 2008, and the incredible rescue effort 

launched by the Coast Guard that 

followed. 

In exploring the largest cold-water 

Coast Guard rescue in history, Thompson 

raises questions about the negligence 

that leads to the preventable 

sinking of dozens of ships each year. 

She also pays tribute to the courage, 

tenacity, and skill of dedicated service 

people who risk their own lives for the 

lives of others. 

Anticorruption in the Health 

Sector: Strategies for 

Transparency and Accountability 

Edited by Taryn Vian ’80 

(co-edited with William Savedoff and 

Harald Mathisen) 

(Kumarian Press) 

Corruption is a serious problem under 

any circumstances, but in the health 

sector, it is literally a matter of life and 

death: facilities crumble when repair 

funds are embezzled; fake drugs flood 

the market with corrupt regulators 

managing supply; and doctors extort- 

In the media 

“Some lakes look like they might be ready to come back, 

and if we cut the emissions more they would.” 

— Rich April, professor of geology, offers his expert insight for a 

Smithsonian.com story about the impact of acid rain on the ecosystem 

“This is a way to get some exercise, meet other people, and 

emphasize that nature is right outside our office windows.” 

— John Pumilio, sustainability coordinator, describes Colgate’s bird 

watching expedition in a U.S. News & World Report article about Earth Day 

activities 

“In a city [Utica] that’s been economically struggling for a 

long period of time, just a little change in the economy can 

lead to pretty significant reductions in the properties they 

own.” 

— Nicole Simpson, associate professor of economics, talks to The Observer- 

Dispatch (Utica) about the impact of the lagging economy on Utica’s 

shrinking tax base 

“It’s our responsibility as people of relative privilege to 

help people in need.” 

— Rebecca Blake ’10 describes to The Jewish Week (New York) her 

experience volunteering in Harlem as part of a Hillel service-learning 

project 

“All of our budget restructuring is absolutely in response 

to the economy.” 

— Dave Hale, vice president for finance and administration, in a Central 

New York Business Journal report about the 2010–2011 budget, which 

includes the lowest tuition increase in at least 35 years 

“Of all the enterprises I’ve been involved with, this is by far 

the most gratifying.” 

— Al Chagan ’64 featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about his role as 

CFO of Impact Thrift Stores, a community venture in which proceeds from 

the sale of “gently used” items are donated to charities 

ingunder-thetable payments 

from patients fail 

to provide needed 

care. Until now, 

those preparing to 

fight corruption in 

the health sector 

have had few resources 

to guide them. Anticorruption 

in the Health Sector brings practical 

experience to bear on anticorruption 

approaches tailored specifically to 

health, in a manner that is both practitioner- 

and classroom-friendly. 

Also of note: 

As the western frontier began to close 

after the Civil War, some families 

sought rural locations for summer living 

in which to maintain the frontier 

ethos. In Campsteading: Family, Place, 

and Experience at Squam Lake, New 

Hampshire (Routledge), one of the first 

works published on the American 

institution of campsteading, Derek 

Brereton ’68 approaches one such 

community from an anthropological 

perspective. 


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Things to do 

before you graduate 

By Matt Muskin ’10 

Illustrations by Norm Bendell 


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As my sophomore year came to a close, I suddenly 

realized that my experience here so far had been just a 

glimpse of the amazing opportunities Colgate provides 

on a daily basis — and I knew there were many more 

that I had not yet discovered. 

nce I began to see all that Colgate would do 

for me in four years, I knew I had to find a way to 

help other students see the same for themselves. So 

much of what happens here is a shared experience, 

and each person’s perspective shapes his neighbor’s. 

The trouble is, time slips by faster than one would 

expect, so a “cheat sheet” with some ideas about 

how to take advantage of everything that Colgate 

offers seemed like a great idea. I decided I wanted to 

make a list that would capture a moment, but could, 

and would, change over time: 101 things, as uniquely 

Colgate as possible, that students should consider 

doing before they walk the stage at commencement. 

Working with Beverly Low, dean of first-year 

students, I was able to develop my idea further and 

make it a reality. The process of making the list come 

alive was both fun and creative. It required that I 

actually delineate all of the ways I spent my time on 

campus. I e-mailed a large group of friends and other 

students and began to collect “data” — all of the 

unique and special experiences people told me they 

had at Colgate. What they shared ranged from the 

pedestrian (a weekly Sunday dinner with friends) to 

the sublime (a first kiss on the Willow Path). I also 

found myself wanting to try everything I received 

for the list. 

Alumni and students from across the generations: What’s on your must-do list? 

Visit www.colgatealumni.org/scene101 and post your comment. 

In true Colgate fashion, this list is inexhaustible; 

every student has at least one moment that has 

helped define his or her time here. 

The most exciting part of the project was when I 

hand-delivered a copy of the list to each member of 

the Class of 2012 on their move-in day. Amidst all of 

the chaos and excitement that comes with meeting 

roommates, choosing beds, and saying goodbye to 

parents for the first time, the incoming class had a 

living document — created by their peers — that 

gave them an idea of how unpredictable and exciting 

their four years could be. 

We updated the list for the Class of 2013 (for one, 

sadly, Big Norm, the world’s largest pig, had died, 

so that field trip to Hubbardsville was off the table) 

and again in anticipation of the arrival of the Class 

of 2014. 

Ultimately, we created a guide that truly embraces 

a Colgate value: being well-versed in not only 

one’s studies but also in one’s surroundings. I have 

always admired that quality, and the list is a great 

way for students to get to know Colgate inside and 

out, and to make the most of their time here.

1 Make 13 your lucky number 2 Organize a campuswide event relating to a personal interest 

3 Throw down a blanket and have a picnic on the Village Green 

4 Explore the trails and the Darwin Path at the top of the Ski Hill 5 Find the best hill for sledding…by trial and error, of course! 

6 Play or sing your heart out at the Barge’s Open Mic Nights 7 Have a “beach day” at Lineberry Natatorium’s Open Swim hours 

8 Shake it on stage or in your seat at Dancefest 9 Go to the Hamilton Theater’s 

Midnight Movie and pay $3 for a ticket and a slice of pizza 10 Hang out with Adam and Eve while reading by Taylor Lake 

11 Take a gym class in a sport you’ve never tried before 

12 Get adventurous and sign up 

for an Outdoor Ed. trip 

13 Learn the definition of triskaidekaphobia 

14 Learn more about a professor while having dinner at his or her house 

15 Try a little romance and go out on a date! 

16 Take a chance on a class in a department that is out of your comfort zone 

17 Have a weekly Sunday dinner with a group of friends 18 Slip (only once!) on the Persson steps 19 Say “hello” and start a conversation with a stranger (this one 

you can do many times!) 20 Volunteer through one of the many programs at the COVE 21 Be a Rowdy Raider and 

support Colgate athletics! 22 Go for a dip in Lebanon Reservoir 

23 Get out your telescope and look at the stars from the Old Golf Course 

24 Try a problem of a different kind at the Angert Family Climbing Wall 

25 Play on an intramural sport team; whether it’s trapshooting or ping-pong, you can compete against 

the campus’s best 26 Catch a great view and study in the Persson skybridge 

27 Attend 24 Hour Burn, the annual play that is 

written, cast, and performed in a single day 

28 Check out the constellations from the Foggy Bottom Observatory 29 Put yourself out there: go to a professor’s 

office hours just to introduce yourself 30 Find your center at Buddhist Meditation 31 Take advantage of the great weekly events at Donovan’s Pub, 

like Poker Night 32 Stop into President Herbst’s office hours, even if just to meet him 33 Create a Relay for Life team and stay up all night to fight cancer 

News and views for the Colgate community 27

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34 Be the founding member of your own club 35 Throw Big Red gum onto 

the ice at the Colgate-Cornell hockey game 36 Visit Chapel House and peruse the books and art in its amazing library 37 Hear it 

from the pros at an English department lecture or poetry reading 38 Experience new cuisines at Frank’s cultural food nights 39 Keep yourself up to 

date on what’s happening in the world — it’s easy to get lost in the Colgate bubble 40 Jump into Taylor Lake (and then wonder why you did) 41 Challenge some of 

the most knowledgeable people in Hamilton at the Colgate Inn’s Trivia Night 42 Get out on the links at Seven Oaks, one of the best college golf 

courses in the country 43 Get a great milkshake at Gilligan’s Island in Sherburne 44 Make yourself heard (or read): write an article for the Maroon-News 

45 Try to stand an egg up on the Autumnal Equinox (9/22/10 at 23:09) 46 Satiate that sweet tooth with some goodies at Maxwell’s Chocolates 

47 Have a first kiss on the Willow Path bridge — but choose wisely! Legend has it that 

a first kiss here leads to marriage. 48 Steal a tray from Frank to 

use as a sled when the snow calls 49 Find the Colgate Rock 

Quarry above the Old Golf Course 

50 Go to an Off-Off-Off-Off-Broadway show at Brehmer Theater 51 Feeling 

stressed? Treat yourself to a massage at Mezza Luna 52 Become a little 

more limber: take a student-taught yoga class 

53 Go to the dollar store, and try to find something that actually costs a dollar 

54 Embrace your inner foodie: try all of the great restaurants in the towns 

surrounding Hamilton 55 Share your musical inclinations: host a radio 

show on WRCU 90.1 FM 56 Picking up a new tongue? Visit the tables of Babel in the back of Frank to perfect that accent 57 Attend a Senate meeting to stay 

aware of what’s happening in Student Government 58 See your books move at the LASR Observation Deck on the 4th floor of Case Library 59 Wander 

the library’s archives and get a little lost in a sea of books 60 Have a great conversation and a free lunch at a Brown Bag 

discussion 61 See the stars and much more in the Ho Tung Visualization Lab 62 Support Colgate’s finest men in the Mr. Colgate 

competition 63 Realize your dream of being a cowboy or cowgirl: ride the mechanical bull during Spring Party Weekend 64 Enjoy the company of your 

roommates over the weekend: watch a movie and just relax! 65 Become a human canvas for beautiful colors at Holi, the 

Hindu spring festival 66 Broaden your view: attend a religious ceremony of a faith that is not your own 67 See two great movies in one sitting 

at CAB’s Take Two 68 Remember to make a connection on every Friday the 13th by wearing Colgate clothing!

69 Impress yourself by building the biggest snowman you’ve ever seen 70 Support local businesses at the Saturday morning Farmers Market on the Village Green 

71 Rent a kayak from the boathouse and get out on beautiful Lake Moraine 72 Feed your craving for sweets with the 

Dessert Sampler at the Colgate Inn Tap Room 73 Taste some local beers like Saranac and Ommegang, and see where they are made on a brewery tour (when you’re old enough!) 

74 Study for your next quiz on a comfy couch with a hot chocolate at the Barge Canal 

Coffee Co. 75 Shop your heart out at the legendary Wegmans supermarket in Syracuse 

76 Learn to throw a Frisbee (and maybe even play a game of Ultimate) 77 Master the elusive art 

of public speaking by joining the Colgate Speaking Union 78 Become a master on your feet: take 

one of Colgate’s many dance classes 79 Order a “slice” to your room 

from Slices 80 Get a “Slices Come Plain Only” T-shirt and wear a Colgate tradition 

on your back! 81 Have a prank war with friends 82 During finals, take a breather with 

one of the many study breaks offered throughout the week 83 Set up a picnic with friends 

on the top of the Ski Hill 84 Discuss timely topics with professors 

and other first-years at Think Tank in Frank Dining Hall 85 Find your inner Nostradamus and predict Colgate’s first snowfall 

86 Looking for a study space off the beaten path? Take refuge at Conant House 87 Got some extra energy? Run a half-marathon in the Colgate area (visit www.cnyrunning.com) 

88 Find out where Adam and Eve spend their winters 89 Have a BBQ at the grills located between Curtis and Drake or Andrews 

and Stillman, by Birch 5, or in front of Commons 90 Find out all of Colgate’s “13” connections 91 Explore the various ski slopes in Colgate’s neighborhood 

92 Revel in a cappella, one of Colgate’s finest traditions, 

at Jambo and Akfest 93 Go green: sign up for the GreenBikes program 

94 See the tallest building in central New York at the Turning Stone Casino 

95 Be a part of Colgate history: ring the 

Chapel bell and sign your name on the wall 

in the bell tower 96 Introduce yourself to Dean Low as soon as 

possible in your first year 97 Follow the “Powers of 10” Glass Panels in the Ho Science Center 

98 Get to know every person (and his or her name) in your residence hall 99 Ask Gary Ross if he remembers your application essay; you’ll likely be pleasantly surprised! 

100 Be an Olympian — a Colgate Winter Olympian 101 Spread the Colgate love: host a prospective student through the admission office 


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Living In 

For 75 years and counting, students 

on the Washington Study Group 

have witnessed politics and history 

in the making 

By James Leach 

As an intern in the Washington office of Florida Senator 

George LeMieux, Matt Scheer ’11 had an insider’s 

view of the legislative process as health care reform 

made its way through Congress this year. 

Scheer — a self-described political junkie — was 

one of 13 students on the 2010 Washington Study 

Group, the latest edition of a program conceived in 

1935 by Professor Paul Jacobsen as “a laboratory in 

political science.” This year’s group, led by Professor 

Stanley Brubaker, continued a 75-year tradition 

of Colgate students being at the source as history 

unfolds. “Living it day to day was incredible,” said 

Scheer. 

Since Jacobsen described the inaugural study 

group in the 1937 Journal of Higher Education, the 

goal has remained remarkably consistent: “The 

fundamental purpose of this off-campus study was 

to give the student an opportunity to see the government 

at work — to learn how it operates by watching 

‘the wheels go round’ from vantage points of 

intimate contact and association with the officials.” 

“I feel enormous continuity when I read Paul Jacobsen’s 

article,” said Brubaker, who has led 19 of the 

groups since 1986. “Reading what he said, you realize 

the importance of choosing your parents wisely.” 

Widely regarded as the first study group offered 

in Washington by any college or university, Jacobsen’s 

experiment was also Colgate’s first semesterlong 

off-campus experience. It became the model 

for a distinguishing feature of the modern academic 

program; today, nearly two in every three Colgate 

students participate in one or more of the university’s 

20-plus faculty-led study groups in the United 

States and abroad. 

More than 60 Washington Study Group alumni 

responded to an e-mail inviting reminiscences for 

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this story. Their comments illustrate the program’s 

impact on participants’ lives across seven decades. 

Capacity for judgment 

Throughout its history, the study group has melded 

rigorous study with practical experience. Working 

from “basic textbooks and supplementary readings,” 

wrote Jacobsen, students in that first study group 

“secured a balanced viewpoint representing both 

the theoretical and the practical, the close-up and 

the long-range perspective.” 

With that same balance as a constant goal, the 

syllabus has evolved to include two courses and 

“When they interview someone, they 

knock their socks off.” 

— Prof. Stanley Brubaker 

a detailed case study in addition to the required 

12-week internship. During their first two weeks in 

Washington, today’s students are immersed in a 

daily seminar titled “Our Changing Constitutional 

Order,” which Brubaker describes as covering “a 

week’s worth of material in each class meeting.” 

Texts on the five-page-long reading list include the 

U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers, works on 

historical realignments of the political parties, a 

couple dozen of the Supreme Court’s “greatest hits,” 

Antonin Scalia’s A Matter of Interpretation, and the 

daily Washington Post, among many others. 

That course and an eight-week seminar on political 

organization (Readings and Research on American 

Government) sharpen students’ understanding 

of their experience. “We want our courses to help 

students understand that some of what they see is 

ephemeral,” said Brubaker. “We want students to develop 

a capacity for judgment as citizens — to make 

the distinction between what’s new and what’s 

important.” 

In the final seven weeks of the semester, overlapping 

their internships, students examine a contemporary 

policy issue in depth. Through extensive 

reading and a series of interviews with key players 

from government, interest groups, think tanks, and 

the media, students hone their understanding of the 

substance and politics of a chosen issue. Then, operating 

like a congressional committee and following 

parliamentary procedure, the students mark up a bill 

that is central to the issue at hand. 

This year’s group researched President Obama’s 

health care plan. Earlier groups have studied such 

topics as reinventing government, impeachment, 

and campaign finance. Joel Omansky ’00 said his 

group’s examination of Social Security “was the first 

time something I was studying had direct real-world 

implications. It was a fascinating insight into how 

Washington works, in a 

way that a policy text- 

book could never quite 

describe.” 

“The students get to 

be impressive experts 

on these subjects,” 

said Brubaker, “and 

when they interview 

someone, they knock their socks off.” While studying 

constitutional aspects of the War on Terror, the 

2006 study group interviewed Georgetown’s David 

Cole, the principal author of a statement by major 

law professors who opposed wiretapping by the National 

Security Agency. “Cole commented that in all 

of the interviews he had had on the subject — with 

congressional staff, members of Congress, and the 

media — he had never been asked such astute and 

informed questions,” wrote Brubaker in that year’s 

annual report. 

Hands on 

Just as academic work enlightens students’ internships, 

the real-world internships enrich their 

understanding of the political science literature, said 

Brubaker. The Readings and Research on American 

Government seminar contributes to that exchange 

by providing background on organizational theory 

and decision-making, at the same time bringing 

students together to discuss and compare their 

internships. 

Bert Levine ’63, a former Washington lobbyist 

who now teaches political science at Rutgers, 

has led the group three times. “Lots of schools see

History 

internships as a kind of vocational preparation,” said 

Levine. “Colgate makes the internships a part of the 

academic experience, bringing that discussion into 

the seminar room to amplify and add nuance.” 

Today, Washington-based Robert Samuels, a PhD 

with extensive government agency experience, 

assists the study group directors in overseeing the 

details of the internship program and teaching in 

the readings and research seminar. 

Courtesy Library of Congress 

1930s 

Donald Foley ’38 grew up in Hamilton, 

the son of a faculty member. He wrote 

of the 1936 group, “It was a particularly 

wonderful experience for me to get this 

immersion in the out-there world of 

Washington.” 

Professor Joseph Wagner, who led a group in the 

late 1980s, describes the approach to internships as 

having “a liberal arts emphasis. We engage students 

in seeing the world not just as practical problems 

that need solutions, but as intellectual puzzles about 

what makes government work. We develop their understanding 

of how difficult it is to run a democracy.” 

Working 30 to 40 hours a week in political offices, 

government agencies, think tanks, or in the media, 


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1940s 

students have a wealth of practical experiences to 

draw on. Tricia Keith Baione ’99 had been interning 

in the White House press office for just ten days 

when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. As an 

intern in the foreign affairs division of the Library 

of Congress, Bill Schmeh ’59 drafted speeches for 

members of the House and Senate. Chas Schmitz ’01 

was interning in Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s press office 

when Al Gore picked Lieberman as his running mate 

Washington Study Group participants 

with President Truman, Jan. 1949 

Frank Godson ’48 wrote of Washington 

Study Group creator Paul Jacobsen: “‘Jake’ 

knew that by seeding a young mind with 

unforgettable experiences, understanding 

would be reaped years later.” 


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(Schmitz also interned in the clerk’s office at the 

Supreme Court). After being fired from a summer job 

for unionizing the dish room at Jackson Lake Lodge 

in Grand Teton National Park, Ted Vaill ’62 interned 

at the concessions management division of the 

National Park Service (payback ensued). 

Between internships and the academic workload, 

“It’s an enormously complicated, taxing thing these 

students do,” said Professor Tim Byrnes, who led 

the groups in 2008 and 2009. He selected student 

participants on the basis of academic performance, 

personal flexibility, and interest. “Especially in Washington, 

you need a group who are going to take their 

responsibility seriously,” he said. “They are going 

to represent Colgate in the highest rungs of professional 

institutions.” 

Kelly McKallagat ’05 acknowledged the workload: 

“I’m not going to lie. At times we were all miserable. 

It wasn’t a ‘fun’ study group, but it was an amazing 

experience. Sitting around a conference table with 

12 other students who were driven, committed, passionate, 

and bright made me want to do more and 

do better.” Today McKallagat is a lawyer in the Office 

of General Counsel for the Department of the Navy. 

“I would not be a lawyer if I had not gone on the 

study group,” she wrote. 

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Witness to history 

For more than seven decades, students on the Washington 

Study Group have taken a front-row seat for 

historical events that ranged from the declaration of 

war to the inauguration, resignation, and impeachment 

of presidents. 

“I was an eyewitness to history,” wrote Jim 

Milmoe ’69 of his experience on the study group led 

by Professor David Stern in 1968, a year that would 

see the Poor People’s March on Washington, the 

assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy’s 

presidential candidacy and assassination, and 

“It wasn’t a ‘fun’ study group, but it 

was an amazing experience.” 

— Kelly McKallagat ’05 

a country divided over the war in Vietnam. “My New 

Frontier optimism was about to end, and an education 

in the realities of politics was about to begin,” 

wrote Milmoe. “I went back to Colgate that fall with 

a lifetime of experiences and a conviction that a life 

in politics was not for me.” 

1950s 1960s 

Jack Schramm ’53, who has spent his 

career in politics and government affairs, 

wrote, “The study group affected my 

entire life and gave me a great background 

for everything I have done.” 

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Robert McCallum ’43 was on the Washington 

Study Group in December 1941 when the Japanese 

bombed Pearl Harbor. “I was standing within 

25 yards of the West Wing when I heard from a 

bystander’s portable radio that the bombing was 

in progress,” he wrote in his class’s World War 

II Memoirs. A short while later, classmates Noel 

Rubinton, Bill Barber, and Ed Jones were at the steps 

of the State Department when Japanese Ambassador 

Kichisaburo Nomura and Special Envoy Saburo 

Kurusu arrived for a fateful meeting with Secretary 

of State Cordell Hull — Barber and Jones appeared in 

the background of Life 

magazine’s photo of No- 

mura and Kurusu from 

that day. The following 

day, Bob Beitz ’43 was in 

the visitors’ gallery to 

hear President Franklin 

Roosevelt deliver his 

famous “A Day Which 

Will Live in Infamy” speech to Congress, seeking a 

declaration of war. 

A year later, in December 1942, the Class of ’43 

would graduate six months early so the men could 

join the armed services. The Washington Study 

Group was suspended during the war years, resum- 

For some, the group had the opposite effect: 

“I think most of us went to Washington 

in hopes of getting started in a career in 

politics,” wrote Bruce Clark ’62. “As far as 

I know, being on the study group cured us all 

of that ambition.” 

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ing in fall 1947, again under Jacobsen’s leadership. 

A 1947 press release reported that 55 of the 80 students 

who had participated in the eight pre-war 

study groups had gone off to war. 

Less than 30 years later, the United States 

was at war again, this time in Vietnam, and the 

mood in the nation was decidedly different. Mark 

Nozette ’71 was in Washington in spring 1970 on 

the study group led by Professor Edgar Shor. As 

the war escalated with the invasion of Cambodia, 

campuses across the country were in turmoil. After 

six students died in clashes with police and the National 

Guard during war protests at Kent State and 

Jackson State, an ad hoc committee of the House 

of Representatives convened to hear student views 

on the policy in Southeast Asia. Nozette, who was 

the newly elected vice president of the student 

body, testified. “Many of my peers do not wish to 

see lives taken — be they Vietnamese, Laotian, 

Cambodian, or their very own — for what they 

consider to be a worthless cause,” Nozette told the 

committee during his extended remarks. 

As an intern, Nozette often represented Congressman 

Ben Rosenthal when students came to 

the office. “I don’t think you could say where the 

job stopped and the academic work began. It all 

became part of one,” recalled Nozette, whose study 

Courtesy National Archives 

and Records Administration 

group experience influenced his decision to study 

law. 

Don Foley ’38 saw Franklin Roosevelt’s second 

inauguration (“We stood on a roof of the Capitol in a 

drizzle looking down at the ceremony”). Jim Adams 

’70 witnessed Richard Nixon’s first inauguration 

(“probably 20,000 people, 10 percent of the Obama 

crowd”). Peter Coniglio ’74 had standing room for 

Nixon’s second inauguration (“every morning 

brought a new headline in the Washington Post 

about the Watergate scandal”). Margie Palladino 

’82 recalled Ronald Reagan’s inauguration (“and 

his attempted assassination, and the release of the 

American hostages in Iran after 444 days”). Through 

a contact with future Clinton press secretary Mike 

McCurry, Prof. Levine secured tickets for the ’93 

group to attend President Clinton’s MTV inauguration 

ball (“the toughest ticket in the city,” said Brian 

Lewis ’94). And Byrnes said he organized his 2009 

study group to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration 

together as their first event of the year (“the biggest 

crowd I’ve been in in my life, and a wonderful way 

to be introduced to Washington for the semester”). 

Anne MacDonald ’00 attended the Clinton 

impeachment hearing; “An interesting time to be an 

‘intern,’” she wrote. 

Frank Godson ’48 

“Every morning brought a new headline 

about the Watergate scandal.” 

— Peter Coniglio ’74 

1970s 1980s 

Courtesy National Archives and 

Records Administration 

“A 21-year-old could not have asked for more,” wrote 

Chris Fager ’70. “Today, I’m still on a trajectory 

inspired by that semester.” Now a TV executive in 

Los Angeles, Fager worked in Washington as a public 

interest lawyer with the Reporters Committee for 

Freedom of the Press following law school. 

Ronald Reagan Library 

was in the gallery 

when President 

Truman addressed 

a special session 

of Congress; “Since 

we were the only 

group of its kind 

in Washington at the time, we had access to most 

of the leaders of Congress, one cabinet member, and 

one Supreme Court justice.” 

Larry Kenna ’68 saw smoke billowing over downtown 

Washington as he hitchhiked down Connecticut 

Avenue with classmates Tom Blatner ’69 and 

Ray Elliott ’69. “A black man pulled over and told us 

to get in,” Kenna recalled. “He told us that Dr. Martin 

Luther King had been shot and that the smoke we 

saw was the result of rioting and the burning of 

businesses in the predominantly black section of the 

Attorney Susan Eckert ’85 met Senators Lloyd Bentsen and Ted 

Kennedy while interning for study group alumna Laurie Sedlmayr 

’78 in Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini’s office, and volunteered 

for Gary Hart’s presidential campaign: “The 1984 group provided an 

essential foundation for my career representing labor unions and 

employees and shaped my interest in politics and public service.” 


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Finding John Dean 

In the spring of 1971, our group had an interview 

in the Executive Office Building with the 

Nixon Administration’s official in charge of 

Indian affairs. I don’t remember anything he 

said, but I do remember that after the interview, 

Jim Capalino ’72 and I went off on our own in 

search of another administration official whom 

we heard had attended Colgate, at least for two 

years. He had a job we didn’t know much about: 

counselor to the president. His name was John 

Dean. Watergate was still just a fancy apartment 

complex near the Potomac. 

Security was different back then. No one 

bothered us — two college kids wandering the 

halls of the Executive Office Building. We found 

Dean’s office, told his secretary we were from 

Colgate, and asked if he was free to talk to us. 

He was. I think he talked about his job and his 

two years in Hamilton. What I remember most 

was that in the midst of our impromptu interview, 

Dean got a phone call, whispered something, 

then asked if he could have a moment 

alone. After a few minutes, we were invited back 

into his office. Dean didn’t explain the mysterious 

call. It was more than a year before the 

break-in at Democratic Party headquarters at 

the Watergate, and before Dean warned Nixon 

about the “cancer on the presidency,” but I’d like 

to imagine that was the phone call that started 

it all. 

— Bob Minzesheimer ’72 

(who became a political reporter and later a 

book critic with USA Today) 

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city. He was on his way to his own business to see if 

he could save it.” 

Blatner worked on Robert Kennedy’s primary run, 

and recalled walking through Washington’s burning 

streets with him. Lyndon Johnson withdrew from 

his race for reelection that spring; Steven Naclerio 

’68 stayed “Clean for Gene,” working on the presidential 

campaign of Eugene McCarthy. 

The people they met 

From tea at the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt, 

to in-depth interviews with policy makers, to chance 

encounters with national figures, members of the 

Washington Study Group have contact with the 

people who make and interpret history. 

Jim Milmoe’s “heart still races” when he recalls 

standing next to Robert Kennedy at the St. Stephen’s 

altar on Ash Wednesday. Entering the Senate elevator, 

Jack Schramm ’53 “crashed into Nixon. He was 

quite gracious,” he said. The “nice older man” who 

led Amy Mason ’99 and her disoriented tour group 

back to their starting point turned out to be Wisconsin 

Senator Herb Kohl. 

Professor Robert Elder introduced Jesse Etelson 

’55 and the members of his study group by name to 

Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. “When we left,” 

Courtesy John Vagianelis ’94 

Courtesy John Vagianelis ’94 

1990s 

wrote Etelson, “Rayburn acknowledged each of us by 

name.” Bruce Clark ’62 and the members of his study 

group had a different experience meeting J. Edgar 

Hoover: “We each shook his hand and then were 

waved to a door at the other side of the room, which 

we presumed was his conference room. We found 

ourselves in a hallway.” 

Kirk Raab ’59 and members of his group interviewed 

Senator Lyndon Johnson and Congressman 

Jerry Ford: “We all felt they were going to do big and 

important things some day,” Raab remembered. Tom 

Blatner described a “ghost-like encounter with Congressmen 

Cheney and Rumsfeld” in 1968. Nearly two 

decades later, Ted Price ’87 would intern in Cheney’s 

office. 

Marvin Morse and Alvin Goldstein and their 

1949 classmates, who had witnessed the drama in 

Washington when Harry Truman defeated Thomas 

Dewey, were invited to join the president in the Oval 

Office for a group photo that ran in the New York 

Times. 

In-depth interviews with Washington figures 

have long been a feature of the Washington Study 

Group. “People are almost always happy to see us 

because they know Colgate students will do a good 

job,” said Brubaker. While many prominent names 

Heidi Belden Peiper ’93 moved back home to Seattle 

after a post-graduation stint in Senator Pete Domenici’s 

press office. “Even though I’m not in the political arena 

anymore, I learned so many skills that I use every day,” 

she wrote. “And I never see a State of the Union or an 

inauguration the same way.”

surface in alumni recollections of those interviews, 

no one is mentioned more than Supreme Court 

Justice Antonin Scalia, who first met with the group 

in 1988 and has been back almost every year since. 

“Justice Scalia does it with such great humor,” 

said Brubaker. “There may be a moment where 

“It’s an enormously complicated, 

taxing thing these students do.” 

— Prof. Tim Byrnes 

students are intimidated — he’s such a presence and 

he’s also pugnacious — but then they realize his playful 

manner and become engaged. He comes back 

because our students are prepared. They’re ready 

with the argument and he’s willing to take them on.” 

Students also frequently interview Colgate 

alumni, some of whom are study group alumni 

themselves. Peter Ackerman ’68 and Jack DuVall 

’68 were friends at Colgate and on the 1967 study 

group. Thirty years later, they co-wrote the book A 

Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict 

Courtesy Time 

and collaborated on a related PBS documentary, 

which has subsequently been viewed in more than 

80 countries. Today they head the International 

Center on Nonviolent Conflict, where Ackerman is 

the founding chair and DuVall is the president and 

founding director. They met with study groups in 

2008 and 2009. 

When Peter Co- 

niglio ’74 talks to the 

group about the ethical 

obligations of executive 

branch employees, 

he speaks from the 

perspective of someone 

with experience in the 

Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, 

and the General Services Administration, but also 

with a memory of Washington in 1973, when the 

Watergate scandal was in full bloom. Of that spring, 

he remembered, “it appeared the wheels were coming 

off our government, and perhaps the country.” 

Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin ’68 played a 

central role in this year’s health care decision. “He is 

unparalleled in what he tells students about the history 

of the Senate,” said Prof. Byrnes, “and he gives 

the greatest tour of the Capitol imaginable.” 

2000s 

Courtesy Department of Defense 

“My experiences in DC helped to sharpen my focus and 

determine that I was most interested in the legislative 

branch and wanted to be with those helping to make policy 

decisions,” wrote Alli O’Leary ’08, who works today as a 

legislative aide in the Massachusetts State House. 

The names and events change across the years, 

but the quality of the experience remains constant. 

As both a constitutional scholar with an appreciation 

for the enduring legacy of James Madison 

— and a study group director building on the lessons 

and performances of people like Ed Shor, David Stern, 

and, above all, Paul Jacobsen — a reflective Stanley 

Brubaker said, “I am struck by how fortunate we are 

to live in the heritage that they’ve given us.” 

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More than 60 alumni responded to the Scene’s 

e-mail inviting reminiscences for this story. 

Read more anecdotes and view photos at 

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scene: Summer 2010

Diary From Haiti 

By Sophie Paris ’97 

I 

was standing on 50th and First when the faint 

ring of my cell phone reached my ears through 

the din of Manhattan traffic. It was a corner I 

know well, from my years of coming and going 

into the photo unit on the ninth floor of the United 

Nations. 

I was heading to the UN offices to meet and 

shoot the secretary general, one of the many kinds 

of assignments on my docket. I was running late, but 

juggled my heavy bag of camera bodies and lenses 

as I considered whether to answer my phone. It was 

my father — an odd time for him to call. 

“Where are you?” he asked. 

“On my way to a shoot; why, what’s wrong?” 

“It’s all over the news. Haiti’s had a terrible earthquake. 

I don’t want to alarm you, but it sounds bad.” 

He didn’t have to say more for me to realize the 

harsh implications. During my eight years of working 

my way up from darkroom assistant to staff 

photographer, I’d spent two-and-a-half of them 

documenting MINUSTAH, the UN’s mission to bring 

security, reduce political turmoil, and facilitate elections 

in Haiti. I had lived on the island, crisscrossing 

its mountains, learning Creole and French, and falling 

in love with its kind, spirited people. That assignment 

had ended three years ago, but of the 300 UN 

civilian staff still in Port au Prince [PAP], I knew half 

of them well. A dozen remained close friends. I heard 

myself exhale as my head became crowded with 

questions. But of one thing I was certain: I had to get 

to Haiti. 

The following entries are excerpted from my 

notes and e-mails about the journey that ensued. 

Clockwise, from top: A young boy tries to break through the 

rubble of his home in the Haitian slum of Nerette. 

Workers in the U.N. Development Programme’s Cash 

for Work program line up to receive payment at the Sant 

Triyaj Fatra in the Kafoufey neighborhood of Port-au- 

Prince. Every 15 days, a new batch of 1,500 people is hired; 

with a 6,000-person wait list for street cleaner jobs, they 

cannot work for the program again. Each is paid a little over 

minimum wage, 180 Haitian Gourdes per day. 

Mourning the loss of more than 230,000 people, a 

commemoration of the one-month anniversary of the 

earthquake began with prayer services throughout 

Port-au-Prince. On Champs de Mars, thousands of people 

crowded around the square, dancing and singing their 

prayers, led by a preacher over a loudspeaker. 

Nearby, a boy prayed in front of the collapsed National 

Palace. 

1/12/10 

New York City 

A confounding, dark blur of updates arrives hour by 

hour: A 7.0 earthquake has ripped across the capital 

city of Haiti. Seventy percent of the buildings are 

in rubble. Scarce gasoline and food supplies are 

now gone. The airport is damaged and shut down. 

Churches, schools, hospitals — even the maximum 

security prison — are badly damaged. Looting is getting 

out of control. A million people are homeless; up 

to 200,000 are trapped inside buildings or have been 

crushed to death. Late into the night, I hover over 

a small television with my coworkers. No one asks 

the cutting question out loud, but it gnaws at our 

silence. What about the UN headquarters, housed in 

the relatively modern and sturdy Christopher Hotel? 

Did our colleagues survive? Then, at close to midnight, 

CNN breaks the news. The UN headquarters 

had collapsed at 4:56 p.m., while the building was 

humming with staff. It is simply too hard to accept, 

too hard to comprehend. Before I go to bed, I write 

an e-mail: 

Dearest Family – As you all have heard, there has 

been a massive earthquake in Haiti. Thank God most 

of my friends have been accounted for (Gille’s fam, 

Gaelle, Cyril, Logan, and many others); however, 

many of my colleagues are unaccounted for … Just 

spoke to Logan, the UN photog who replaced me, 

and it is really bad … a lot of people evacuated the 

UNHQ building before it crumbled, but a lot were 

still in it. … I am literally begging my boss to send me 

down there to cover the situation … 

Trying to get in with OCHA, the UN’s emergency 

management arm … I have two friends from the 

graduate program I attended last year at the International 

Center of Photography who are going, so we 

decided that we would go together … Most journalists 

I know left tonight for Santo Domingo to get 

into PAP by dawn. Amazingly, Getty called me and 

asked me for contacts/fixers etc. in PAP. Just makes 

me want to get there that much more… xoxooxoxox 

1/13/10 

I have 12 hours to rearrange my life — convince the 

UN that they have to send me. I argue that I know 

the city and country well, speak the languages, 

and, as a photographer and photo editor, know the 

demands of working in dangerous situations among 

people in crisis. I’ve survived muggings, gun fights, 

robberies, and a few bouts of malaria. In the process, 

I’ve taken my emotional hits and have seen my share 

of death and decimation, but it’s also taught me my 

limits — how to get through it and keep going. 

For the next 36 hours, when not lobbying for my 

departure, I establish a relay from a computer on a 

military desk in Haiti. Logan Abassi and our second 

UN photographer, Marco Dormino, will send me 

their images via satellite in New York. Logan tells me 

that he’d been inside the entrance of the UN headquarters 

when the terrible cracking and shaking 

began. With only a camera bag on his shoulder, he 

leapt outside and was among the last to escape. He 

tells me about trying to pull others out of the towering 

stacks of concrete before his instincts to just go 

shoot take over…He tells me that he traveled by foot 

and whatever means he could along the decimated 

streets of the city to his apartment at the Montana 

Hotel, but found nothing but wreckage. Marco 

and Logan are on an adrenaline-fueled odyssey of 

shooting without food or sleep. I stay up with them, 

editing and feeding their images of the first hours of 

the tragedy to the best publications in the world. 

1/15/10 

It is clear to me that Logan and Marco will soon 

collapse from exhaustion and the psychic toll of living 

through so much tragedy. David Wimhurst, the 

chief of the public information office in Haiti, has 

sent an urgent request to UNHQ for me to be sent 

as soon as possible. Together, we’ve been lobbying 

every bigwig involved. Unsure if it will be approved, 

I pack my duffel bag anyway with the essentials to 

survive what could be an indefinite ordeal: mosquito 

repellent, lighters, batteries, medicines (especially 

to avoid malaria, dysentery, and dehydration), knife, 

soap, precious toilet paper, sleeping bag, and my 

well-used but dependable hiking boots that will let 

me walk through blood, excrement, and mud. I add 

to that my requisite iPod, two novels, a few candles, 

my Powerbook, and as much photo equipment as I 

can carry. Last but not least, I throw in a corkscrew. I 

haven’t forgotten my Colgate roots. But I wonder if 

I’ll ever taste another bottle of wine. 

1/16/10 

At last, it’s happening. I’m leaving for Haiti tomorrow. 

I show up at UN headquarters at 5:00 a.m. and 

join Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s carpool to JFK. 

How did this happen? I wouldn’t hear “no.” Maybe 

everyone got tired of fighting me. I hope I wasn’t 

obnoxious. But it worked, and I am keyed up and 

frightened beyond belief to reach Haitian soil. 

1/17/10 

Sent from temporary UN headquarters, end of the 

runway, PAP airport 

Dearest Fam– It’s a total hellhole here and we might 

as well be at war in terms of sleeping arrangements. 

Nowhere to even pitch a tent! … I’m fine though, just 

hot, mosquitoes everywhere, lots of dirt and dust 

and people who are miserable. My UN colleagues 

are NOT ok, I repeat they should all be evacuated and 

new staff flown in. They pulled two guys out of the 

UN building today, one of them while the SG was 

here so shot that. So exhausted I will sleep fine on a 

floor, have my mat and sleeping bag. Nighty night 

and will give you much more of an update tomorrow. 

LOVE YOU ALL! xoxoxoox 


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1/20/10 

Hi Dad – I’m absolutely exhausted … Too busy to not 

sleep at logbase. Also roads are not very clear, so 

hard to get anywhere unless you are on a motorcycle. 

Most of the dead have been picked up from 

the streets, though you see an occasional body and 

you can certainly smell bodies that are still stuck in 

the buildings … lots of UN people died, people who I 

still can’t believe are gone … going to the Christopher 

Hotel is just too painful. I went when Ban Ki-moon 

was here, but was able to put it out of my head and 

just shoot but it smelled of rotting corpses and to 

think that some of my friends died because they 

were walking down the stairs at the wrong time 

is just unfathomable. Anyway, I’m dealing with it 

because everyone around me is … We watched (and I 

photographed) 17 Brazilian military who died put on 

a plane today after a ceremony. There will be many, 

many more memorial services to go to. Tomorrow, I 

will tell you about the people of Haiti, who are faring 

much worse than the UN people. xoxoxooxo 

1/21/10 

Hi All – We had a 6.1 earthquake this a.m., but I am 

fine. I was sleeping in my tent with a colleague and 

she and I panicked fumbling with the zipper on the 

door but by the time we got out of the tent it was 

over … This is exactly why we are all sleeping outside. 

xoxoxoxo 

1/26/10 

Dear Friends and Family – Unfortunately my 

Blackberry was taken from a pocket in my cargo 

pants yesterday when Pres. Preval decided to appear 

on the lawn of the collapsed presidential palace. 

There is a camp full of thousands of people who 

Left to right, top to bottom: Bodies of unidentified earthquake 

victims were brought from the morgue in Port-au- 

Prince to be buried in eight mass graves in an area called Ti 

Tanyen. A Catholic priest oversaw the burials. 

Marie Jose, one of several citizen supervisors of the 

U.N. Development Programme’s Cash for Work program 

in the Kafoufey neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, stands 

in the rubble that was once her house. The author tells her 

story on page 41. 

About 50,000 internally displaced people made a 

makeshift tent camp on the golf course of the Petionville 

Club, a private golf and tennis club in Port-au-Prince. 

Teetering in the remains of the Christopher Hotel, 

formerly the headquarters of MINUSTAH (the United Nations 

stabilization mission in Haiti), an engineer removes 

photographs of officials that were still hanging on their 

hooks, including the mission’s leaders, who were among the 

96 staff members who perished in the earthquake. 

Protection for recipients of food aid like this woman 

and her 20-kilogram bag of rice became an essential part 

of relief efforts. The U.S. Army and Peruvian peacekeepers 

working for MINUSTAH provided security for a World Food 

Programme distribution, coordinated by the international 

humanitarian aid organization GOAL, at the makeshift 

camp in Place St. Pierre in Petionville. 

A MINUSTAH memorial service for the military peacekeepers 

who lost their lives in the earthquake. 

are homeless directly in front of the palace where I 

happened to be, so I ran over to try to get a shot of 

everyone screaming through the fence at him. They 

were chanting that Preval should leave, that he is 

“kaka” and a thief and that they want Aristide back 

… anyway, I got in the middle of a lot of people and 

someone clipped it … xxxxoooo 

1/28/10 

Excerpt of message sent from Boston by Sophie’s 

father, Jay, to friends and relatives 

Recently, Sophie asked me to share her news. We 

were very pleased to hear her voice. Her voice was 

raspy from bronchial inflammation, a chronic health 

issue for most in PAP, where the irritants from dust 

and molecular debris continue to suffuse the air. 

She is living in a tent at the entrance to the UN 

compound located 60 yards from the runway of the 

international airport, where planes and helicopters 

rumble in and out around the clock. Even though she 

arrived a few hours too late to get a cot or a pillow, 

she spoke of how quickly you accept these shortcomings 

when you spend your days among people who 

are still starving, dehydrated, and homeless … most 

of the original staff who survived are being relieved 

because the various and frightening symptoms 

of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are increasingly 

evident — depression, spontaneous crying jags, 

inability to concentrate, mania at work, and hostility 

— hard to witness but especially difficult among 

depleted colleagues and dear friends. 

… she has hired a local Haitian with a motorcycle 

to provide her daily transportation (US$35 a day, 

cash). She said he is an expert if audacious driver 

who has been instrumental in helping her file two 

photo stories a day. They roam the city and occasionally 

the countryside for developments, returning 

at night to a workstation where she edits her shots 

for a few hours and files them to the wire services 

before the 10:00 p.m. deadline. Then up at dawn to 

start the process over, seven days a week … 

Last Thursday she and her driver left the city to 

do a story on the mass graves and gravediggers 30 

miles from PAP. The burial ground they discovered 

had hundreds of corpses arriving by the hour as the 

bulldozers cleared loam from a pit almost as large 

as a football field. Only a short distance away was a 

pristine beach, empty, with Caribbean water as clear 

and blue as the opulent and manicured 5-star shores 

of Campo Rojo in the Dominican Republic, not even 

100 miles away. Far off, she could see a grey dust 

cloud hovering over the damaged hills of PAP. She 

said she swam, finally bathing for the first time… 

2/2/10 

Hi Dad – I’m losing it; Gaelle, my best friend here, is 

on her way to pick me up now, we are going to go up 

into the mountains to breathe some fresh air. Can’t 

pick up my camera today. Tomorrow I will shoot the 

WHO vaccination campaign and amputees who 

have to be re-amputated as well as looters. Saw a 

guy get shot on Saturday night, was shooting the 

looters downtown and a US private security dude 

killed him … I need a break. So I’m taking today off 

and will be totally refreshed tomorrow. The UN 

photog from Lebanon is arriving next Tuesday, when 

he gets acclimated I will leave for 2 days to the DR for 

a bed, food and hot shower. I think I’ve lost 20lbs?! 

My pants are falling off of me. I’m working so much 

and really only eat one meal a day, plus I have no appetite. 

Please don’t be worried, I’m fine just in a bad 

bad mood today and fed up … 

Met Sean Penn last night! He just walked into logbase 

and I ran right into him as I was chowing down 

on a piece of chicken! I shared it with him. He’s been 

here for 11 days living in an IDP [internally displaced 

persons] camp. He’s a nice guy, totally normal! Oh, 

and I had a respiratory infection, not sure if I mentioned 

that, so am on cipro and vitamin C. Within 

two days I started feeling MUCH better. LOVE YOU! 

xoxoxo 

2/5/10 

CARMI!!!! … I really appreciate your sending all 

of these emails and it makes me feel so good to 

read all of them! … Angelina Jolie is coming next 

week and only an Italian photographer and I are 

allowed to shoot her, which will be interesting! 

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXO 

2/8/10 

Hi Sus – I’m still in desperate need of a break. I think 

you are absolutely right that we need to put ourselves 

on a schedule of regular break days. Problem 

is that all UN MINUSTAH staff have been evacuated 

and they are being replaced by people from peacekeeping 

missions all over the world. I have now 

been here longer than any of the people who came 

from NY or other missions … Everyone else who has 

come are coming for 2 weeks only, it makes me feel 

very much alone (except for the head of the mission, 

Edmond Mulet, who I absolutely adore, he and I are 

comrades, when we see each other we almost burst 

into tears, including in front of Preval!). 

Today my old roommates sent me a video they 

made with the song “3 is the magic number” as the 

music, and just seeing my house and them made me 

cry. I’m happy to be here and realize that I’m resilient 

(not as much as the Haitians of course); however, it is 

so hard to hear the same stories over and over again 

about people who lost all their children and a leg or 

arm. And people are not happy about having their 

photos taken lately. 

…One of my colleagues who was evacuated is 

returning next week with cash and a blackberry 

from Alejandro. Alejandro has been amazing, I transferred 

money into his account and he took it out in 

cash, bought me a new blackberry etc and went to 

my apartment and collected a bunch of things that 

will make me happy to have here. So funny what 

makes you happy, I want a specific tee shirt, a voice 

recorder, a specific necklace and ring. I want mascara 

and more socks and the book I was reading. 

I’ve been giving my laundry to a woman who 

cleans the bathrooms here at logbase, but it takes 

4 days to get the laundry back, so I go 4 days in the 

same clothes every 10 days. And the clothes smell 

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she cleans them in some dirty river in PAP and I half 

expect to see my clothes drying in one of the IDP 

camps I’m shooting! 

… A school director I met took me to his school 

that collapsed; he wants to build a new one (there 

are no schools anymore) so I took his picture and got 

a list of everything he needs. He has found a place to 

rebuild. I’m going to raise money for him to do this. 

There are no prisons and all 4000 prisoners 

escaped, so the police are shooting people, or at 

least shooting them in the hand to punish them for 

looting and robbing, etc. … The best is that the police 

steal from the looters! I’ve witnessed it. Already 

escaped prisoners are starting to run certain neighborhoods. 

Everywhere I go people tell me how NGOs 

drop off food and as soon as they leave the Zenglendo 

(Creole for bad guys) come out with guns and 

steal all of it and give it to their own families … there 

are people shooting and robbing people downtown. 

The smell of dead bodies is dissipating, but you 

still get a good strong whiff every now and then. 

The mass graves that I shot a couple weeks ago were 

horrendous, but then at the same time they weren’t 

even humans to me. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but 

that’s how I felt. I was actually listening to U2 with 

headphones as I shot it. A surreal moment for sure, 

but it is all surreal. 

My friend, photographer Marco Di Lauro, who 

I have been spending a lot of time with, has introduced 

me to a bunch of photographers … They have 

all been very sweet to me and actually realize that 

they need me. I should start a business “fixing” for 

photogs in Haiti. I give so much information out 

about everything because I know this place so well … 

Bill Clinton was here last Friday with our beloved 

Paul Farmer, which I shot … 

I’ve seen more dying, starving children … The 

American doctors don’t know what to do. They are 

giving them Pedialite, but that’s all they can do. And 

of course when they find out I work for the UN they 

Left to right, top to bottom: At the Handicap International 

prosthetic clinic in downtown Port-au-Prince, amputees 

are fitted with new legs and taught how to walk again. 

A new campsite, Santos 17, with tents provided by the 

disaster relief charity Shelter Box, was set up by the International 

Organization for Migration (IOM), the Dominican 

Civil Defense, and the Civil Defense Directorate to provide 

shelter for about 1,400 people. 

School in a Box opened on Monday, February 15, with 

306 students in attendance at the IDP (Internally Displaced 

Persons) camp at La Centre Sportif in the sprawling 

slum of Carrefour. UNICEF partnered with the Danish Red 

Cross to provide two large tents along with desks to be 

used as temporary elementary schools. Teachers trained by 

the Red Cross work with traumatized children. 

People in the slum of Cite Soleil line up for a food and 

water distribution from the World Food Programme. 

Two young girls help with the removal of rubble at what 

used to be the Petionville market in Port-au-Prince. 

A couple pose outside of their new home; 194 families 

(about 4,000 people) resettled into a site in Croix-des- 

Bouquets that IOM, Shelter Box, and the Dominican Civil 

Defense built and maintain. 

ask me to help save these children and what the hell 

can I do? Nothing. I’m sure this sounds bleak, and it 

is, but food distributions have picked up in the last 

3 or 4 days, and UNICEF along with ACTED has been 

installing water bladders in the camps … xxooo 

2/10/10 

Dear Fam – The tremors are weaker and weaker, I’ve 

actually gotten so used to them that I don’t even 

feel them … Confirmed with Michelle, my new boss, 

today that I’m going to Santo Domingo for three 

nights next week/weekend … plan on lying in bed for 

three days and ordering room service (with an emphasis 

on veggies, I have had the equivalent of one 

tomato and a handful of lettuce since I’ve been here, 

and for those of you who have eaten with me, you 

know that that’s not acceptable!), swimming in the 

pool, and of course taking many hot, clean showers. 

I might move into Gaelle’s place because she has 

an extra bedroom; by MINUSTAH rules I must not 

live anywhere in PAP because they are sure that 

there will be another devastating quake. I need to 

be sane in order to work and therefore need a bed, a 

hot shower, and real food. It has been cleared by Canadian 

engineers as being safe to live in. It’s in Paco 

near the Palais. But little by little, it gets better. 

2/11/10 

Hi dad – I have my new BB and I’m in heaven. On my 

way to Jacmel to shoot two stories. … Lots of armed 

gangs again, and huge demonstrations. Ran into a 

gang checkpoint yesterday (if you can call it that; 

more like they want to stop you and rob you), my 

moto driver was scared but I’m calm in these situations, 

so I started joking around with them, and one 

of them recognized me from 2004! He was thrilled to 

see me and told me how he escaped from the prison 

during the earthquake then gave me his phone# and 

told me to call him if I have any problems. Love it! 

This means I can work freely in Bel Mir anyway. All 

makes me chuckle. Xxxooo 

3/6/10 

Dear Fam – Haiti is transitioning again into partial 

cleanup mode; rains have started and camps are 

turning into mini-slum cities. And suddenly the UN 

has reorganized itself. Peacekeepers are patrolling 

again and doing a lot of work to clean debris, provide 

medical aid, feed people, etc. So there are all sorts of 

things to shoot. We also resumed regular helicopter 

service to all the regions so now I can travel and 

shoot stories outside of PAP. I just completed two assignments, 

one from UNDP [United Nations Development 

Programme] and one from the International 

Postal Union in Geneva. Feedback from both editors 

was very positive and they want to “hire” me in the 

future to shoot assignments for them — FINALLY! 

Which brings me to: I resigned from my post in 

NY yesterday and I am officially a MINUSTAH staff 

member. I have an FS5 post, which is better than 

what I had when I left here in 2007. I have a temporary 

post for 3 months. They may want to keep me… 

I am supporting a lovely family whom I met 

through a UNDP assignment. Marie Jose lost her 

husband and daughter, but has her grandchildren 

and three other kids to look after. They live on the 

street, and she works for the Cash for Work program, 

which gives 180 Gourdes per day to men and women 

to clean the street. It’s a nice project. 

Marie Jose has been supporting her whole block 

on her salary. I spent four days with her family and 

just fell for them all. I am having “dinner” with them 

under their tarp tomorrow. Her daughter is giving 

me Creole lessons in exchange for English and MJ 

is cooking dinner for us … She insists on feeding me 

whenever I’m around and won’t take money. But I’ve 

given them money for tents, clothes, and food (after I 

was done with my assignment, of course!). 

MJ is a very talented singer and dancer and has 

a beautiful presence; I’m just blown away by this 

woman and her resilience and determination to not 

give up and to do anything she can for her family. 

xoxoxooxox 

Postscript, May 6, 2010 

My first 33 days in Haiti after the earthquake 

is a blur to me now. I have never 

felt exhaustion, both physical and 

emotional, so intensely in my life. I am 

still in shock that my beloved little Haiti experienced 

something so devastating. This is the first time that 

I have seen both the elite and the poor suffering simultaneously, 

with the loss of homes and loved ones 

across the socio-economic plane, and this is very 

significant. In a country where two percent of the 

population holds 90 percent of the wealth, and there 

is virtually no middle class and no public education 

system, everything is disproportionate. 

I have always been amazed by the ability of the 

Haitian people to create homes, musical instruments, 

transportation, artwork, or children’s toys out 

of nothing. Now, they have maintained their dignity 

in the face of utter chaos. Watching people scavenge 

for metal rods in collapsed buildings to ingeniously 

build homemade wheelchairs for the thousands 

of amputees, I am simply blown away. Instead of 

waiting for a solution to fall from the sky, people 

are proactively finding a way to move on with life. 

Sometimes it brings me to tears, but more often 

than not, it forces me to engage in a reality that, as 

extreme and intense as it is, I’m in love with. 

The debris is slowly being removed and new 

“settlement camps” are being built for the homeless 

to move into before the heavy rainy season begins. 

Schools have re-opened in the IDP camps, some in 

makeshift tents made of a stick with a bedsheet over 

it, the lucky ones in large tents and with school materials 

from UNICEF and Oxfam — and they are all 

tuition free. The Haitian people are emerging with 

a greater hope for their country — so culturally rich, 

with so much potential — than ever before. My work 

here is sustained by these people who are tougher 

than hell. 

Editor’s note: See more of Paris’s photos from Haiti 

and read about her photographic roots at www. 

colgatealumni.org/scene. 


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Get to know: Know: Heidi NameBulow HereParsont 

’90 

– Alumni Council member since 2009; Scene class 

editor, class secretary, 12 years; class gift 

committee, 20 years; reunion chair, 1995 

– VP, Business Development, McKinley Marketing 

Partners 

– MBA, International Business, Georgetown University 

What is it about your job that gets you up in the morning? 

I really like helping people, and my job allows me to do that — I place 

individuals looking for a job with people looking for talent. We work 

with some smaller companies, but our clients are mostly Fortune 

1000, such as Verizon, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Discovery. I 

also really like building relationships with them. 

Do you have a favorite question you ask candidates? 

What past job gave you a runner’s high? There’s no right or wrong 

answer; what it tells me is the type of environment they work best 

in and why. It gets at the crux of who we are. 

How would the people who know you best describe you? 

I think they would say I’m a good listener. That I’m very much a type 

A. Headstrong (which sometimes gets me into trouble!). I’m also a 

very family oriented person. As hard as it is to be a working mom, I 

spend as much time with my family as I can. 

So tell us about your family. Do you have a favorite pastime? 

My husband Marc stays home with our kids. Brandon turned 3 in 

April and Lindsay just turned 2. Every Saturday morning that we’re 

home, we go to the local farmer’s market. It’s fun to spend time 

having them look at the different fruits and vegetables. They get 

chocolate milk, and mommy and daddy get a hot drink with plenty 

of caffeine. 

What would people be surprised to learn about you? 

I sang “Never Knew Love Like This Before” in my eighth-grade talent 

show — to the laughter of every parent in the audience, I’m sure! 

Name a Colgate person who made an impact on you. 

It was actually a group — my friends in Alpha Chi Omega. The spirit 

and the friendships that developed, the fun that we had, has given 

me good memories of school. 

Tell us about your Alumni Council experience. 

I’m excited about the career services side of it because it is such a 

good match with what I do for a living. I’ve made the commitment 

to do Maroon Advantage events a couple times a year, in different 

places; so far, in D.C. and at Reunion College. Trying to help people 

find jobs, especially in this economy, is near and dear to my heart. 

From your class editor years, do names run through your head in 

boldface? Yes! Last night in the Reunion tents, I could still say to 

people, “This is what you were doing; what are you doing now?” and 

they were like, “Good memory!” 

Andrew Daddio 

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Call for nominations 

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Alumni Council seeks recommendations 

for candidates for this 

55-member volunteer board. From 

unique perspectives and diverse 

backgrounds, the council advises the 

university; opens lines of communication 

between Colgate and its alumni; 

mentors the next generation of graduates; 

and proudly tells Colgate’s story 

to the world. 

Each year, 11 to 13 new members 

are selected to represent specific 

eras and geographic areas as well as 

at-large positions. Candidates, initially 

identified through the nominations 

committee, are ultimately ratified by 

the full council. Ideal candidates exhibit 

several of the following qualities: 

• Varied Colgate volunteer service 

• A demonstrated commitment to 

Colgate over time 

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accomplishments or contributions 

to the greater community 

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financial support to Colgate 

The awards committee of the Alumni 

Council seeks nominations from the 

classes ending in 6 and 1 for awards 

to be presented at Reunion 2011. 

Categories include: 

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for Distinguished Service* 

*All candidates having previously 

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Send nominations for alumni awards 

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MA’72, Executive Secretary, Colgate 

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For more information, visit www. 

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Alumni Club Awards 

Colgate’s district alumni clubs had 

another banner year hosting more 

than 320 events, thanks to terrific 

volunteer leadership. We are pleased 

to recognize this year’s club award 

winners, as well as our volunteer of 

the year. Congratulations to all! 

Gateway Clubs: Most Outstanding: 

Saratoga. Most Improved: Lehigh 

Valley. Sustained Excellence: New 

Mexico. 

Small Clubs: Most Outstanding: San 

Diego. Most Improved: Rhode Island. 

Sustained Excellence: Chenango Valley. 

Revitalization Efforts: St. Louis 

and Twin Cities. 

Medium Clubs: Most Outstanding: 

Rockies. Most Improved: Rochester 

(N.Y.). Sustained Excellence: Atlanta 

and New Haven. Revitalization Efforts: 

Puget Sound 

Large Clubs: Most Outstanding: 

Philadelphia. Most Improved: Northern 

New Jersey. Sustained Excellence: 

Chicago. Excellence in New Social 

Media: Northern California. 

Metro Clubs: Most Outstanding: New 

York City. Most Improved: Boston. 

Innovative Programming: Washington, 

D.C. 

Alumni Club Volunteer of the Year: 

Christopher Schweighart ’97, San Diego 

13 Ways to Volunteer 

John Gillick ’67 offered his law firm’s 

conference space for a Colgate Club 

of Washington, D.C., event in April 

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expert Adam Burnett gave 

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and Storm Patterns.” How can you 

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1935 

George Carmichael 

930 Regency Square 110 

Vero Beach, FL 32967 

George: 772-569-6951; 

hoagiec93@pavlovpost.com 

1936 

Elizabeth Gallagher-Saward 

Apartment 513 

505 N. Lakeshore Dr 

Chicago, IL 60611 

Elizabeth: 312-527-1492 

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Gerald A Vernon 

23 Lighthouse Way 

Darien, CT 06820-5612 

Herb Gladstone in Oswego, OR, has moved to 

a retirement home called Visiting Angels! He 

says that it is an exceptional place near Reed 

College, where, as we know, Herb is a professor 

emeritus. 

I have had some interesting conversations 

with George Hunt in Owego, NY, concerning 

developments among colleges and universities. 

This is especially interesting when one has 5 

grandchildren in various universities as we do. 

Jim Sprague and his lady friend, Shirley, in 

Miami have not slowed down a bit, driving into 

town to see operas, horse races, and what have 

you. Shirley returns to her home in TN in April 

and I suppose Jim will escort her himself. 

Ed Hornung in NJ sounded great. He ought 

to get a job as a radio announcer! He said that 

he still has a valid driver’s license but using it is 

just a memory. 

The last time I graced a motor vehicle dept, 

the processing lady handed me the license and, 

smiling, said, “Good luck!” We will see! 

Jerry: 203-655-4592; gav10999@sbcglobal.net 

1938 

Don Foley 

1050 Mariposa Ave 

Berkeley, CA 94707-2444 

Dan Miller (Mentor, OH) says he’s now given 

up both competitive and social tennis. He and 

his wife are less active but have no complaints. 

“We’ve been incredibly fortunate.” Dan admits 

he’s not in his sister’s league — she’s turning 

100 next year. His final comment: Being a good 

Unitarian, he’s not fantasizing about “life everlasting.” 

(We’re Unitarians, too.) 

H. Guyford ‘Guy’ Stever died Apr 9 at his 

home in Gaithersburg, MD. After receiving his 

PhD in physics at Cal Tech, he had a long, very 

distinguished career as a professor at MIT and 

in various key federal positions. From 1965–1971, 

he served as president of Carnegie Tech and, 

after merger, Carnegie Mellon. His wife died in 

2004. Our condolences go to his sons, Roy and 

Guy Jr ’70, and his daughters, Sarah Stever and 

Margarette Weed. (See In Memoriam for a full 

obituary.) 

Katharine and I recently had our 3 greatgrandchildren 

together for the 1st time: Kaitlyn, 

4, Matthew, 10 months, and Nico, 4 months. 

Having just read and enjoyed Alison Gopnik’s 

recent book, The Philosophic Baby, we had lively 

case-study tots to observe and cherish. 

Don: 510-525-6983; dfoley@berkeley.edu 

1939 

Gus Nasmith 

16003 W Falcon Ridge Dr 

Sun City West, AZ 85375-6689 

We have lost 3 more stalwarts: Frank Farnsworth, 

Cuy Low, and Dave Thurber. After getting his PhD 

at Harvard, Frank taught econ and became dept 

chair at Colgate. Cuy was a lawyer-banker and 

our class editor for many years. Dr Dave was our 

pres for the 65th Reunion; he always regretted 

that asthma prevented him from military service 

in WWII or Korea. 

In March, about 180 ladies who were Women 

Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in WWII received 

the Congressional Gold Medal. Did you know 

that the wife of late classmate Ted Ferree, ‘Hut,’ 

was pres of that group for several years? 

Jim Dickinson has been invited to this year’s 

reunion, where he will reminisce about the good 

old days when he was VP. 

We are down to a class of 15. Please tell us 

about your grandchildren, infirmities, indiscretions, 

or something. 

Gus: 623-546-9487; BGNasmith@cox.net 

1940 

Fred Tedeschi 

Unit 9D 

2555 Youngs Ave 

Southold, NY 11971 

Not much news to report this time. 

Hal Heim ’45 has issued a challenge to the 

Class of 1940 to play them in a game of touch 

football on Whitnall Field sometime during the 

2010 Reunion. Hal, we shall await. 

Received notice of the death of Richard W 

Rogers, at the age of 90, on Feb 14. 

Also, note the passing of Marion Collins, wife 

of our classmate Donald Collins. 

1941 

Ted Clapp 

PO Box 579 

Damariscotta, ME 04543-0579 

We are told that right now several thousand 

American WWII veterans die every day. Almost 

all of our Colgate ’41 class took part in the WWII 

war effort. In this issue of the Scene, we are saluting 

the growing number of classmates who are 

passing on. 

Ed Milkey was with the field artillery in 

Europe from 1942–1946. He had a taste for the 

internatl setting through his participation in our 

class’s DC study group. He died in VT in Dec. 

Bill Berberich also developed a broad view 

of things as a member of the Internatl Relations 

Club at Colgate. His whole career was as an 

educator after earning his master’s and PhD at 

Columbia. He died in Oct ’09. 

Armando ‘Army’ Caseria joined the USAF in 

1942 and retired as a colonel in 1967. He was a 

flight instructor for many years thereafter. He 

also served in the Pentagon in DC. He and I corresponded 

regularly for many years from coast 

to coast. He died in Feb in CA. 

Wef Warner enlisted in the Army as a private 

in 1942. As a 2nd lt, he participated in the UT 

Beach landings and in campaigns in France and 

the Rhineland. He received the French Croix de 

Guerre, 3 battle stars, and was promoted 3 times 

during the European campaign and discharged 

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Colgate basketball 

team that beat Syracuse in 1941. 

bibendum. Sed mattis enim feugiat 

Andy Ryan was a great public spirited person 

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in his 60 years in Rome, NY, from volunteer 

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leo Betty convallis had 5 children, congue. 17 grandchildren, and 26 

great-grandchildren. Colgate honored him with a 

Maroon Citation. 

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next issue. 

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an endowed scholarship. I cannot disclose the 

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recipient’s name because of privacy reasons, but 

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mi 3804 suscipit Brandonfermentum. Avenue 

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Congratulations purus non to tortor. Ted Persson’s In urna widow, justo, 

Helen, who was honored with the Civic Leader 

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lacus, her contributions nec varius to local risus organizations odio sit amet such as 

ante. the Kravis Duis Performing vulputate Arts tellus Center, ac Palm justo. Beach 

Atlantic U, and the Palm Beach Opera. 

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tate the Internet. tincidunt Back in quam. our college Cras days, dignissim we com- 

magna municated vel with orci. a pay Praesent phone or nec mail. libero. Now I am 

grateful to be able to communicate with family 

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and friends via e-mail. The family communicates 

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Don’t hesitate to contact old friends by your 

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quis Bob: 540-776-2329; neque a arcu rcs2@cox.net consequat ullamcorper. 

Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum ante 

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ultrices Joseph W. posuere DeBragga cubilia Curae; Nulla 

ultricies 51 Wavecrest porta Dr massa. Nullam ac diam. 

Duis Islip, NY rhoncus, 11751-4015 augue quis bibendum 

dapibus, quam magna porttitor 

nisi, 1944 id sollicitudin nulla nisl a nisi. 

Maecenas Ellsworth Johnson justo elit, tincidunt a, commodo 

1309 Meadow vitae, Ridge rutrum ut, felis. Phasellus 

rhoncus Redding, CTmagna 06896-3224 eu nibh. Nulla odio 

metus, sodales ac, iaculis non, sagittis 

Clem Furey, class proxy, has been enjoying his 

sit annual amet, FL winter est. Aliquam escape. Even neque. so, it was Fusce cold 

blandit enough so sollicitudin that their 1st swim mauris. was about Aliquam April 

sodales. 1. He and Martha Maecenas were looking adipiscing forward rhoncus to Cape 

libero. Cod again Quisque for the summer tellus by leo, mid-April. rutrum Clem ac, 

reports that George Tift has had surgery and will 

fermentum eu, euismod tincidunt, 

be home shortly. 

neque. Millie Morbi and Jim faucibus. Denton are well Aliquam and looking sit 

amet forward elit. to a Cras possible euismod. class mini-reunion in the 

fall. 

Sue and I planned a trip to VA April 14 to enjoy 

spring flowers, etc. 

Hank Towers is on the go, as usual. 

Sad news dept: Richard L Pockman, Adrian F 

Persico, Arnold A Whitehouse Jr, and Sam C Harris 

have died. Our class is shrinking. 

It would be helpful if a number of you fellow 


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classmates checked in by phone or mail with 

news about your activities. Then you won’t be 

just an obit. Try me at the phone number below. 

Ellsworth: 203-544-8168; 1200 (fax) 

1945 

Bob Husselrath 

Apt 1217 

18755 West Bernardo Dr 

San Diego, CA 92127-3013 

Greetings from idyllic So CA, home of earthquakes, 

massive fires, and bleached blondes. I felt 

an earthquake from Baja, CA, last Sunday while 

sitting on the porch reading. This building, a 

retirement facility, is only 20 years old and built 

to absorb shocks. Most of the buildings around 

here are relatively new. Down nearer Mexico 

and the epicenter, the shock was greater and 

there was some damage, but nothing at all like 

Haiti. This earthquake has generated over 200 

aftershocks, but we don’t feel most of them. Most 

of the homes damaged by the fire 2 years ago 

have been rebuilt. The owners say their biggest 

problem was not the fire but the insurance 

companies. The bleached blondes I can handle … 

figuratively. 

Chuck Wittig planned to attend his grandson’s 

graduation from Deerfield Academy in May and 

then the ’45 Colgate Reunion. He was going to try 

to get Augie Jandorek over to the reunion. Chuck 

says the annual snowbird mini-reunion in FL is 

getting smaller. The Clem Fureys, Ted Heidenreichs, 

and Chuck were there. Chuck still enjoys 

tennis a few times a week, playing with various 

groups including a “ladies group” — young 

housewives in their 40s — and some “grumpy 

old men.” Chuck, you’re tempting me. 

Al Cameron was not at the snowbird reunion. 

Hal Heim wrote to tell us that Al was in very 

bad shape, and shortly after, we learned that 

Al passed away on April 27. He served as class 

treasurer for many years. 

Here’s Jim Noble: “Like most people my age, I 

keep slipping. I’m now on my 10th year of living 

on oxygen 24/7. Did have a nice visit with my 

sister-in-law and niece last Friday. Hadn’t seen 

either since Roger Provost’s wake. You may remember, 

Fran was his wife, my wife’s sister. We 

have a new great-granddaughter, 4 months old. 

Really a pretty baby. Her mother is Lithuanian, 

so they’re planning on raising a bilingual child. 

We have several in our family: Russian/English, 

Spanish/English. No vacations.” 

Here’s Gene Ralph: “I have 6 granddaughters 

and 7 great-granddaughters. The great-granddaughters 

range from teens to less than 1 year. 

The granddaughters live in the following states: 

VT 1, CT 3, CA 1, and MA 1. Great-granddaughters: 

VT 4 and CA 3. This is probably more than you 

need; I just had to brag a bit.” 

Bob: 858-395-3213; husselrath@mac.com 

1946 

Don Schaefer 

45 Lydecker St 

Englewood, NJ 07631-3008 

When you read this, it will be summer, and the 

terrible winter with its heavy snows, record 

rains, fallen trees, power outages, and flooded 

basements will just be a memory. But the 

weather is now beautiful. 

Eva and Layton Clark are enjoying good 

health. Like all of us, they have their ups and 

downs. Their daughter Victoria has a PhD 

in psych and is working in Philly. Layt was a 

physicist working on satellite communications. 

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His machine shop and gardening are his hobbies. 

He still works on his own cars. He has great 

mechanical aptitude. I am the opposite. Anything 

mechanical stumps me, including most 

computer applications. 

Layt asked about Bob Orth. Bob just wrote 

that he caught a world-record, 224-lb Pacific 

sailfish while at the Tarpon Star Club in Panama. 

He beat the old record by 3 lbs. He hooked, 

landed, and released his record fish. Later, he 

went to Chile for fly-fishing but was caught in 

the earthquake in Santiago Feb 27. He didn’t get 

home until March 6. No fishing, but he was safe. 

What a life he leads! 

Richard Carr lives on a family farm in 

Rochester, MA. He lives on one end of the farm 

and his married daughter lives on the other end. 

This arrangement assures him of at least 1 good 

meal a week (at his daughter’s). His 5 children are 

spread out. One lives in NV, 1 in WI, 1 in TX, and 

2 daughters in MA. Richard was a Sigma Nu and 

asked me to say hello to Jim Fee for him. At Colgate, 

Gus Wilken was his best friend; Gus passed 

away 4 years ago. 

Now, Richard’s closest friends are those who 

served with him in the 507th regiment of the 

17th Airborne Div in WWII. They parachuted into 

combat from the Bulge to Berlin. Richard lost his 

wife, June, 7 years ago. Their hobby had been 

sailing. He’s in pretty good health and helps out 

at the local hospital and church. 

Ellie and John Butler are doing well. They live 

in Lexington, MA. After Colgate, he took grad 

work at Penn State and Harvard. Later, he was 

an administrator at both schools. John served in 

the Marine Corps in WWII and the Korean War. 

One of his granddaughters is Colgate ’04. She is 

now doing grad work in public health at BU. John 

has always had an interest in astronomy and a 

new world view of the story of the universe. He 

is fascinated by the Hubble telescope and its discoveries 

— deep-field photos. He says our planet 

is the mind of the universe. 

From interests in machine shops, farms, sailing, 

and fishing, to astronomy and the remote 

galaxies, the Class of ’46 certainly has been active 

and interested in the world in which we live. 

We are all doing pretty well. It’s just that old 

age comes at a bad time. Stay well. 

Don: 201-568-0309; 

donald.a.schaefer@verizon.net 

1947 

Jack Scollay 

Apt. 315 

95 Elizabeth St 

Delaware, OH 43015-4312 

Jack: 740-362-4035; afscollay@aol.com 

1948 

George F Greene Jr 

36096 N Newbridge Ct 

Gurnee, IL 60031-4511 

George: 847-856-0704; 

thegomar@sbcglobal.net 

1949 

David S. Davies 

109 Barker Street 

Wellington, OH 44090-1132 

Colgate’s alumni records office sent an e-mail 

that said, “We had a report that Mr Joseph 

Mockaitis had passed away, but … sources cannot 

confirm this.” A call to the last known Mockaitis 

number in Spring Hill, FL, was answered by a 

man who was asked whether he was related 

to Joseph Mockaitis. There was a pause. Then, 

“This is Moe Mockaitis.” After explanations 

about the reason for the call, and a reference to 

Mark Twain’s comment that reports of his death 

were exaggerated, Moe said that Colgate must 

have learned of the death last June of his wife, 

Dorothy, and somehow concluded that he also 

had died. “I’m in general good health except 

for occasional bouts with arthritis,” Moe said. 

“I’m getting over the shock of Dorothy’s death. 

I play golf twice a week, and see my 3 children, 

5 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren up 

north twice a year.” He says he keeps his mind 

“bubbling” by following baseball, basketball, and 

football in season, and doesn’t do much driving. 

“I don’t trust modern medicine a whole lot.” 

After long periods of chemo and other medical 

treatments for lung cancer, he said Dorothy was 

declared free of cancer on May 20 and died of the 

disease on June 28. 

Marge and Robert Magee write that they 

have maintained an association with Esi and 

Richard Simons, enjoying golf outings together 

and making ocean cruises to AK, Baja, and most 

recently, in Feb, to Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, and 

the Bahamas. He said they had looked forward to 

being joined on the Caribbean cruise by Wanda 

and Home Lydecker, but that Home died in Jan 

after a struggle with a debilitating blood disease. 

Magee, Simons, and Lydecker were roommates at 

the Sigma Chi house. Bob reports that after Colgate 

and marriage to Marge, he spent 41 years in 

the building-materials business, 33 of them with 

Johns-Manville, ending up in Marietta, GA, and 

early retirement, and 8 with an Atlanta-based 

roofing materials distributor. Retired for good, 

Bob has been a volunteer rules official with the 

GA state golf assoc and for 10 years a volunteer at 

the Atlanta stop on the PGA tour. He says he has 

attended 20 or more Masters tourneys, mostly in 

a business capacity, and he and Marge belong to 

the GA Senior Golfers Assn that hosts 11 tourneys 

a year in the SW and other resorts around the 

country. “Since landing in GA, my son and I share 

Atlanta Braves season tickets with 8 other Braves 

devotees.” Bob mentioned that several years ago, 

Simons received an important award from the 

NYS Bar Assoc. Investigation showed that this 

was the Bar’s Medal for Distinguished Service, 

and that the atty who received it the year before 

Simon was Ruth Bader Ginsberg, assoc justice of 

the US Supreme Court. 

The US Marines were responsible for William 

Collis becoming a Colgate student and graduate. 

After participating in landings at Kwajalein atoll, 

Saipan, and Tinian, Collis says that his colonel 

pulled him out of the group that was training for 

the invasion of Iwo Jima and had him sent back 

to the US for officer training (he was a private 1st 

class). When he arrived, he was offered a chance 

to attend college, and Colgate was one of the 

options. William says that after Colgate he married 

twice, each time for about 10 years, without 

children. “The 1st divorce was my idea, and the 

2nd was hers.” She sent me a certified letter announcing 

that we were no longer married.” He 

says he had cataracts removed from both eyes 20 

years ago and still needs glasses only for reading. 

At 88 he no longer drives. A fellow Marine 

veteran drives him to meetings of the Marine 

Corps League in Troy, NY. “I think often of how 

important it was to drop atomic bombs on Japan. 

We would have lost hundreds of thousands of 

troops if we had invaded that country.” He says 

he regrets that the Japanese leaders were not 

tried and hung after the war. William lives in a 

2-bedroom mobile home, sleeping in 1 bedroom 

and manufacturing ammunition in the other 

one, for the target practice that he enjoys. 

Raymond ‘Al’ Fox writes from Chattanooga, 

where he was in the business of owning and 

running carpet plants for 40 years and has been 

married to Shirley 58 years. They have 21 grandchildren. 

Al played football at Colgate, was a DU, 

and stayed involved in athletics after graduation, 

playing tackle and linebacker a couple of years 

in the old All-America Conf for the LI Indians and 

the Valley Stream Red Raiders. Out of football, 

Al played and officiated racquetball for 26 years. 

“It kept me trim,” he says. As his grandchildren 

grew up, he played every possible sport with 

them — racquetball, baseball, softball, soccer, 

football, and basketball. Along the way, he 

moved his family to Saudi Arabia for 5 years to 

manage a carpet factory he’d sold. Back in the 

US, he and his wife and other family members 

did construction work and real estate and then 

started a business involved with financial mortgages, 

a business they are still in but that “has 

been bad for 2 years.” Al says he’s fit, but feels his 

83 years “like every one.” 

Leah Wood, Chuck Wood’s widow, writes “to 

set the record straight.” Chuck was a DU, which 

wasn’t mentioned, and he contributed to his 

fraternity until his last year. “Even I, as a ‘Skiddie,’ 

enjoyed the house parties in ’48 and ’49.” Got it, 

Leah, and thanks. 

Class pres Phil Sanford sends his treasure 

chest of news from classmates who keep in 

touch with him. Bob Gardner writes from 

Huntsville, Ontario, that he has joined 2 sr 

citizen clubs, is taking line dancing lessons, tried 

square dancing (awful), and motored west to see 

daughter Linda and granddaughter Jill in Des 

Moines, son Glen, daughter-in-law Nancy, and 

2nd granddaughter Rebecka in Niagara Falls, 

and was waited on hand and foot by daughter 

Karen while in a hospital for a quick cancer op. 

Gardner also sent best wishes through Phil to 

“the 2 Jacks,” Babeuf and Cashin, and wished 

all classmates, near and far, a great 2010. Phil 

reported that Bob Howard has sold his Lake Saranac 

summer home, spent 3 weeks in Jamaica, 

and will travel to Slovakia in the fall. For himself, 

Phil reports that he is well, and that he will be 

capt of the USA golf team at the 12th annual Sun 

City Ryder Cup match in Oct. 

Carl Braun Jr, who played 15 years for the NY 

Knicks and lived the last 30 years in Stuart, FL, 

with wife Joan, died on Feb 10 after a long illness. 

Following basketball, Carl was a Wall St institutional 

stock broker, “and a good one,” Joan says. 

He and Joan had 4 daughters — Patricia, Susan, 

Nancy, and Carol — and 6 grandchildren. 

James Z Patsalos, who was 85 when he died 

Jan 29 in Newburgh, NY, was Colgate to the core. 

With wife Peggy-Ann, he had 2 daughters who 

graduated from Colgate, Constance ’86 and 

Susan Huffard ’87; other alumni relatives include 

a niece and nephew-in-law, Cameron ’77 and 

Karen Walsh MacNaughton ’77. The Patsalos’s 3rd 

daughter, Elizabeth, graduated from UVM. Jim 

was a Sigma Nu, a member of the Internatl Relations 

Council, and on the class gift committee 

’95–’09. He was pres of Shipp & Osborn Insurance 

Agency and bought and sold land in Orange 

County. Peggy-Ann says that his health had been 

in decline for the last year or so. 

Robert F Doyle died on Oct 15, in Scottsdale, 

AZ. He was 86. He is survived by his 2nd wife, 

Elaine, having been predeceased by his 1st wife, 

Ida. He majored in econ at Colgate. 

It is not stretching a point to suggest that 

some classmates are dying to get mentioned in 

the Scene. But that’s the irrevocable way, with no 

chance to note an error of fact or interpretation. 

As you can see from what has gone on above, 

’49 is large and diverse, with even a surprise or 

two. So, surprise someone. No one lives 80 years 

without having something to share. 

David: 440-647-5306; davidsdavies@verizon.net

1950 

Bunn Rhea 

383 Clearbrook Dr 

Avon Lake, OH 44012-3117 

At this writing, Bob Lankford was having 

problems that would keep him from the June reunion. 

But retirement in Ocala apparently keeps 

him “busy-busy-busy.” He still hasn’t gotten 

together with Wally Sheer but does occasionally 

keep in touch with Bruce Cramer. 

From Woodstock, VT, Sandy Hadden wrote 

that he was entertained royally in Savannah 

recently by Cliff Heaslip and his brother Hal ’52. 

Alan Jolly is now in Bowling Green, KY, keeping 

reasonably close to his doctors in BG, Louisville, 

and Nashville (Vanderbilt). He reports that his 

brother Jim ’48 has health problems and is being 

watched closely over in SC. 

And from Bill Mayer in Dunnellon, FL, we 

received the following: “I have been a hospice 

volunteer for the past 13 years, and I highly 

recommend it to fellow old geezers who think 

they may have gotten too old to be useful.” Bill, 

long a familiar and enthusiastic presence in 

the Hospice of Marion County (FL) since 1997, 

started with the Speakers Bureau and moved on 

to become a patient support and transitions volunteer. 

He has volunteered at the Butterfly Festivals, 

Steel Horse Stampedes, Flutterbye Days, 

Camp Mariposa, and just about every event that 

supports hospice. In 2009, Bill joined a new hospice 

service through which volunteers can help 

patients write letters to leave to their families. So 

far, he has written 2 memoirs that will be forever 

cherished by the hospice families. Last Dec 2, his 

name was announced as the winner of the Cartwright 

Award, which is presented every 2 years 

to a member of the hospice community who has 

helped their mission by “embodying the hospice 

spirit, serving as a spokesperson and advocate, 

and going above and beyond to ensure that 

hospice services are available to all who need 

them.” His nomination submission read, “Bill is 

a remarkable role model in the diverse ways he 

has chosen to serve Hospice of Marion County. 

He has accepted assignments in a variety of 

settings with an open mind, kind and gentle 

spirit, and genuine warmth that endears him 

to everyone.” Bill says he hopes to stay actively 

involved in hospice services for years to come. 

Dave Wilson, who monitors our Class of 1950 

Memorial Endowed Scholarship, tells us that 3 

outstanding students — from the classes of ’10, 

’11, and ’12 — have been announced as recipients 

of this year’s scholarships. This trio boasts 

some amazing achievements, both inside and 

outside the classroom; they excel as scientists 

and researchers, mentors and activists, artists 

and performers, adventurers and athletes. Our 

endowed scholarships make an outstanding 

education attainable for many grateful students. 

Dave Davies ’49 and Bunn Rhea teamed up for 

a visit to Hamilton last Jan during the Alumni 

Council meeting weekend. One of the highlights 

was a talk at the Real World luncheon by Austin 

Murphy ’83, sr writer for Sports Illustrated, who 

entertained everyone with tales of his amusing 

experiences as SI’s main writer for college 

football and while covering 3 winter Olympics. 

Later at the athletics committee meeting, we 

listened to an informative, well-received talk by 

Dick Biddle, head football coach — who, by the 

way, had just been awarded a new contract by 

Colgate, where he has the most wins in school 

history. Also attending were Howie Sutliff and 

John LeFevre ’41, one of the most dedicated 

alumni. (He looks great!) 

John ‘Jack’ Hathaway was apparently bit- 

ten by the geology bug early on and went on 

to do exceptional things. The son of a Class of 

’20 Colgate grad and a Vassar mom, you may 

remember him in the Commons Club, band, flying 

club, ski team (co-capt), and as a geology dept 

teaching asst. After attending MIT (1945–47) in 

its Marine Engineering and Transportation Dept, 

he received his BA (magna cum laude with high 

honors in geology) from Colgate and was Phi 

Beta Kappa), then went on to receive his MS from 

the U of IL at Champaign. 

Jack and Ilene, his wife of 59 years, have 4 

children, 12 grandchildren, and 8 step-greatgrandchildren. 

They have been travelers extraordinaire. 

With 4 round-the-world trips and cruises, 

they have visited more than 34 countries and all 

continents except Antarctica. 

From summer farm hand to surveyor’s asst to 

those teaching asst jobs at Colgate and IL, Jack 

progressed to geologist, US Geological Survey 

(1952–93). He was chief of USGS Sedimentary 

Petrology Lab and, after combining the fields of 

marine technology and geology, was founding 

member of the USGS marine geologic team in 

Woods Hole, MA. He took part in the Atlantic 

Margin scientific cruises 1962–85, including 2 

dives in the research submersible DSRV Alvin, one 

in the oceanographer canyon to 1-mile depths, 

and a dive investigating banks in the Gulf of ME. 

He was chief scientist for the Atlantic Margin 

Coring Project, using the drilling ship Glomar 

Conception, and was a delegate to the NATO conf 

on seafloor slumping in 1980 and a member of 

the Deep Sea Drilling Project Data Mgmt Commission. 

He was chief consultant for the USGS 

contract to assist the Indonesian govt in the 

formation of their Marine Geological Institute 

in Bandung, W Java, while living in Indonesia 

1986–89. He retired as scientist emeritus, US Geological 

Survey, in 1994. 

Along the way, Jack produced 80 scientific papers 

and abstracts as well as many other recognitions, 

among them being guest lecturer as pres 

of the Clay Minerals Society. On the recreational 

side, he has maintained continuing interests in 

skiing, soaring, sailing, computer graphics, and 

carpentry. He has earned his private pilot license 

with both single-engine land and glider ratings. 

After living in 3 other states, the Hathaways 

settled in Falmouth, MA, which they have called 

home since 1962. They also have a summer home 

in Martha’s Vineyard. Jack says that they’ll be 

traveling a lot less from now on as Ilene’s memory 

is taking a hit from encroaching Alzheimer’s, 

and he has to be concerned with a diagnosis of 

melanoma on his nose, which was facing an 

operation in April. Just a small bump in the road 

for this multitalented man, who in late March, 

“got in a beautiful day of skiing at Loon Mt, NH,” 

with his daughter Debbie, also a geologist with 

the USGS. “Better yet,” Jack says, “over 80s ski free 

at Loon.” There’s really not much evidence to suggest 

that Jack Hathaway is slowing down. 

Bill Miller got in touch via Facebook, saying 

that he and Nan are happy and healthy, that he 

is still involved in “Ham” radio backup communications 

for his county’s emergency mgr, and 

he’s skiing well at 85. He also stays in frequent 

contact with Jack Hathaway, who skied on the 

Colgate ski team he coached in 1951. 

Russ Fowler says that after 5 operations in 

the past 3 months, he is temporarily keeping a 

low profile, so, “Sorry, will be a no-show for the 

reunion.” 

Iris Sirois, wife of Ed Sirois, sent a nice e-mail 

saying that Ed no longer travels. He still enjoys 

his Texas longhorn cattle and paint horses. They 

are down to 5 of each on their ranch in CO. He 

still talks about his days at Colgate and his lifelong 

friends from Andrews Hall, where he once 

Andrew Daddio 

Get to know: Alex Restrepo ’12 

Alex Restrepo ’12 said he has never been on a “real boat” before, other than ferries and 

rides at Disneyland near his hometown of Fullerton, Calif. But he’s already set his sights 

on joining Colgate’s sailing club next year. With this “try anything” attitude, Restrepo leads 

by example for other students, particularly underclassmen whom he mentors through his 

various roles on campus. Restrepo is a residential adviser at Andrews Hall, acting president 

of Brothers, ALANA ambassador, Student Government Association senator, and Latin 

American Student Organization treasurer. 

“I came to Colgate because I wanted to do something completely different — to make my 

college experience what I want to make of it,” he said. “I encourage a lot of first-years that if 

they want to do something, just do it. If it doesn’t work out, at least you tried, and hopefully 

you learned something along the way.” 

Among Restrepo’s many involvements on campus, he is a liaison for Vision, composed of 

campus identity group leaders, who meet to talk about their plans and new opportunities 

for collaboration. “The goal is to have bigger and better events and bring together different 

pockets of campus,” he explained. 

Over the past year, Restrepo has also been working with the multicultural committee in 

the admission office, giving prospective students his take on Colgate and what the university 

has to offer. “There are a lot of opportunities here to expand and grow as a person,” he 

said. “I always tell them, ‘Whether you decide to come to Colgate or not, this is the time in 

your life when you want to do everything you can so that when you look back, you have no 

regrets.’” 

Restrepo serves as a mentor not only for Colgate students, but also for high school 

seniors in Columbus, Ohio, whom he helps through the nonprofit organization HighRise. 

Founded by his older brother in conjunction with Nationwide Insurance, HighRise aids 

underprivileged students with the college search, application, and financial aid process. 

“It’s amazing to hear what these kids have gone through and to know that they still do so 

well in school despite all the adversity that they face,” Restrepo said. One of the students 

he worked with had been accepted to Colgate and at press time was seriously considering 

attending next year. 

Restrepo is volunteering with HighRise again this summer while also interning for a 

second year at Nationwide. Now a history major and economics minor, Restrepo changed 

from majoring in English after spending last summer as a finance intern with the insurance 

company. Although he had no background in economics, the company gave him a two-week 

trial internship, and Restrepo’s hard work convinced them to keep him on for the remainder 

of the season. “It was a great experience, and so much of it changed my path,” he said. 

After Colgate, Restrepo hopes to spend a few years in finance and then return to his 

original plan of becoming a high school history teacher. “After taking The American School 

as my FSEM with Professor [Barbara] Regenspan, I realized the best teachers I had in high 

school were the ones who went into education later in life. So I decided I wanted to do 

something other than education right after college.” 

His positive high school experience is largely what fuels him to mentor others. “The 

reason why I was so successful is because I received such good mentorship and, because of 

that, I want to give back and help people.” 

— Aleta Mayne 


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The philosophical neuropsychologist 

In 1965, a reporter covering the first commencement of the City University of New York’s 

Graduate Center asked Daniel N. Robinson ’58, one of its first two degree recipents, what 

he hoped to achieve. The newly minted 

neuropsychology PhD indicated that he aspired 

to the status of a footnote. Robinson 

has far exceeded his modest aspiration. 

That anecdote and assessment were 

recounted when CUNY honored Robinson 

last spring with its President’s Distinguished 

Alumni Medal. A distinguished 

professor emeritus of philosophy at 

Georgetown, Robinson is a faculty fellow 

at Oxford University and a Board of Scholars 

member at Princeton’s James Madison 

Program. His extensive teaching and writing 

span the realms of moral philosophy, 

legal history, philosophy of mind, intellectual 

history, and the history of philosophy 

and psychology. His book An Intellectual 

History of Psychology is a classic in the 

field, and his Wild Beasts and Idle Humors 

is considered a definitive history of the 

legal conception of mental competence. He 

has served as president of two divisions of 

the American Psychological Association, and consultant to the NSF, NIH, U.S. Department 

of Health and Human Services, and the award-winning PBS programs, The Brain and The 

Mind. Shortly before returning in January for his 20th year at Oxford, where he gives the 

core lectures on Kant, Robinson chatted with the Scene. 

Describe your fascination with the philosophy of mind. As a neuropsychologist, most of my 

early publications were on human brain function, with particular attention to the visual system. 

Consulting to neurosurgery and neurology services in New York, I got broad experience 

with persons with brain damage and resulting changes in their cognitive, motor, and sensory 

abilities. I got interested in problems like the extent to which brain mechanisms determine 

action. These things raised in my mind problems of a philosophical nature, such as to what 

extent the actor is morally responsible for what he does. So my publications moved in the 

direction of how best to understand that very complex phenomenon called human nature. 

Why do you teach? I just wrote a chapter for a volume devoted to the case of Terry Schiavo. 

Look at the range of things that figure in a case like that, from functional MRIs and brain 

scans to arguments for and against euthanasia, from parental versus spousal rights to the 

role of the government when it declares it has a compelling interest in life. As science progresses, 

these issues are going to become ever-more difficult. How are we preparing young 

men and women to deal with these things in ways that are better than the ways we dealt 

with them? When you think of it, teaching is a civic office. Somebody’s got to take responsibility 

for everything society has to deal with. 

What are some fond Colgate memories? I can remember, quite vividly, some of my professors 

lecturing. Alfred Seely Brown in chemistry had a kind of Everett Dirksen diction about 

him. I remember the day Ralph Antone and I locked Huntington Terrell [philosophy] out of 

the classroom. He was coming up the walk very cheerfully, to give us a lecture on Plato. 

Ralph and I wondered how philosophically calm and neutral he would remain if we stopped 

him from coming in. He made some vague threats about what he would do if we didn’t let 

him in and we chuckled, but then we relented and let him in. He had a wonderful sense of 

humor, and knew we were just kidding around. 

When you’re not at Oxford, how do you spend your time? During the fall term, I give 10 lectures 

at nearby Hood College (we live in Middletown, Md.), and I lecture all over the country. 

The rest of the time is devoted to reading, writing, and gardening. My bride of 43 years, 

Francine, and I have wonderful overlapping interests, from old movies and potato chips to 

rather serious scholarly things. 

If you could have dinner with any three people living or dead, who would they be? I would 

love to hear Kant and David Hume go at it over a nice long supper, and at the end of the day 

see if they have resolved whether the moral dimension of life reaches an objective fact of 

the world, or whether it’s, finally, a species of feeling. And, of course, then I’d turn to Aristotle 

to find out which of them was right. 

— Rebecca Costello 

48 


had the title of Maharaja, which allowed him to 

cover the wall and ceilings with chemical equations 

so that he could study every minute that 

he was awake. He later got his MS in chemistry 

from Wesleyan. 

One should never underestimate the satisfaction 

earned from staying in touch and bonding. 

Fine examples are the “Colgate 3”: Dan Fountain 

’52, MD, Rev Sherwood Anderson, PhD, and Rev 

Morgan Roberts, DD, buddies for 60 years. 

Dan was a Baptist medical missionary in 

Vanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

for 35 years. He has an MD from U of Rochester 

and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins. 

Colgate granted him an honorary doctor 

of science degree in 1978. Morgan and Sherry 

graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary 

in 1953; then Sherry went on for a PhD at U of 

Edinburgh in Scotland. Morgan was for many 

years the sr minister at Shadyside Presby in Pitt, 

a very distinguished pulpit. Colgate awarded 

him an honorary DD degree in 1980. Sherry’s last 

position was sr minister of the Winter Park, FL, 

Presbyterian Church. He was a chaplain in the 

US Naval Reserve for 27 years, serving at naval 

stations, hospitals, and training stations across 

the nation and in ships at sea. 

These 3 retirees are still in touch and now live 

in FL: Dan in Ft Myers, Morgan in Palmetto, and 

Sherry in Winter Park. For a look at how they 

appeared on campus in 1949, check out the photo 

posted on our l950 class page at www.colgatealumni.org. 

We said good-bye to the following classmates: 

Douglas R Hamilton (Phi Tau, majored in econ) 

died on March 8, after a long illness, in Bath, NY; 

Raymond F Jahn (Theta Chi, majored in geology) 

died on Sept 9, 2007, in Stuart, FL; Charles N Ludlow 

(Phi Kappa Psi, majored in social psych) died 

on Feb 28, in Damariscotta, ME; and Donald R 

Scott (Lambda Chi Alpha, majored in econ) died 

after open heart surgery on Dec 16, in Winston- 

Salem. See In Memoriam to read their full obits. 

Many thanks to those who helped me fill this 

column. Please continue to send me news about 

yourself and other classmates; bios are particularly 

welcome. I hope everyone has a great summer. 

Back to you in the fall. 

Bunn: 440-933-4137; 50news@oh.rr.com 

1951 

Nels MacCallum 

1915 Clark Rd 

Rochester, NY 14625-1830 

Writing the column on a sunny, warm (70°) early 

April day. Trusting you’re reading it on a sunny, 

little warmer day, and hope you had a great 

spring and have a fine summer going. 

Warren Prince opens the column as he and 

Bonnie are wintering in Ormond Beach, FL: 

“Sorry for the delay” (Warren wanted to get his 

note to me by the deadline for the spring issue). 

“The family seems to be happy and healthy. We 

are in FL, late Oct ’til May. I still travel back and 

forth to the Baton Rouge plant once every 6 

weeks while in FL. Business has been somewhat 

slow, but we are on the right side. Have run into 

a few Colgaters down here, and my granddaughter 

applies to Colgate this year” (Good for her; 

that will get the grandparents to the campus 

more). “All the best to classmates.” 

Bob Ravitz checks in from NYC: “Alive at 80. 

Still working” (Great, Bob! Both the 80 and the 

working). “Went into the USAF right after graduation 

and ended up in Korea. Then, Harvard Law 

and 6 years practicing in NYC. Then joined Alan 

Greene’s firm and we have been partners for 48 

years.” (Say hello to Alan and tell him we’d like to 

hear from him — it’s been a while.) Been married 

to Francine for almost 53 years. Have 2 children 

and 4 grandchildren, all living close by. I keep in 

touch with Chuck Harff. I marvel at how much 

Colgate has changed for the better. All the best.” 

Dave Reynolds trumpets from Bennington, 

VT: “Phyl and I are settled in a cottage at a VT 

retirement village near daughter Sara and family. 

Granddaughter Elise is headed for Dartmouth 

next fall. Other grandchildren: 3 graduated and 

working or still in college (U of PA, American U, 

Williams).” (Fine colleges, Dave. Our 1st college 

grandchild starts this fall: Maggie is going to 

Williams, plans to play lax and hopefully tennis; 

Colgate was a close 2nd, but we were outnumbered. 

Her other real grandfather is the 30+ year 

most popular lax coach whose former players 

raised funds to build a state-of-the-art lax-only 

stadium named for him, and her step-grandfather 

is the former long-term provost. Both are 

now retired, living in Williamstown.) “Enjoying 

Elise’s sports: soccer, x-c skiing (VT champs), and 

tennis; x-c close by ’til April and biking starts 

after that, for us, too.” (Good for you and Phyl). 

“Wonderful musical and cultural activities near, 

too.” (Still playing the trumpet?) “Just a mile from 

the Colgate family homestead and their friendly 

descendents. Sons Larry (Deb), from Rochester, 

and Steve ’75 (LA) visit occasionally. Best to all 

classmates.” PS: Steve, Colgate grad; Larry (U of 

Rochester grad) was a business colleague of mine 

and Bob Reiners, and is still successful in the 

business. 

Al Sexton updates from Weston, MA: “It’s hard 

to believe it’s close to 60 years since I left Hamilton. 

Health has not been too great: arthritis in 

hips and knees, and emphysema in the lungs. 

End result = no more golf, no more wading for 

trout and char, and no more hunting expeditions 

to NW territories, Labrador, Newfoundland, and 

above all, Africa.” Sorry for all the problems, Al. 

I share some; stenosis and some arthritis have 

greatly lessened mobility, so golf (not missed) 

and tennis (missed very much) are out. 

Bill Southworth writes from Scituate, MA: 

“The Ides of March … and the last day of a 3-day 

nor’easter, one of many suffered this winter. Everything 

is wet. But have finished Ulisie (a model 

of an ocean-going tug boat) and look forward 

to beginning a model of Driftwood, a 32' lobster 

boat (on a scale of 1 to 24, as anything smaller is 

a dreadful chore with shaky 81-year-old hands), a 

family acquisition of recent vintage.” (I think you 

do great with your hands, Bill. I can’t grip a golf 

club firmly with my left hand; if I took a swing at 

a ball, the club would go farther than the ball.) 

In Jan, Don Fenner wrote from Springfield 

Center, NY, to let me know he had received word 

from Kyoko von Baravalle that her husband, 

Edward, died on Aug 5, 2009, in Shizucka, Japan, 

where they had lived for at least for 50 years. I 

have a vague memory of Ed, now slightly enhanced 

by a scan of a Nov ’47 photo showing the 

4 Stillman Hall roommates of that freshman year 

(Gene Krisher, Vern Blackman, Don, and Ed). Don 

and I couldn’t picture Ed after the freshman year 

and could find no record of him being there. If 

anyone remembers when Ed left Colgate, let me 

know. Don wrote on a postcard, showing a fine 

photo of the historic Fort Herkimer Church, one 

of the oldest churches in NY, built between 1753 

and 1767, used as a fortified stronghold during 

the French and Indian War as well as the American 

Revolution. Don was very instrumental 

— and modest about his contribution — in the 

restoration of this beautiful old church. He was 

honored for this by the NY State Historical and 

Restoration Society. We learned and wrote about 

it in the ’51 column of the Scene at that time, 

thanks to his good friend Cal Sutliff. In other

correspondence, Don gave a bit of “news” for the 

column: his grandson, Spencer Staley ’13, told 

him to go on the Internet to Colgate student life 

and check out the pictures on the front page, and 

behold, there was Don giving a hug as he said 

good-bye on his 1st day at Colgate. And Don has 

been enjoying a woodcarving project sponsored 

by the Mohawk Valley Art and Woodcarving 

Assoc. They sent out a pattern of an eagle cane, 

which when carved, is sent on to have a shaft 

fitted to it, and is then presented to a wounded 

veteran of the Iraq or Afghanistan war who 

needs a substantial cane. Don considers this a 

very worthwhile endeavor (indeed, Don!) and 

was working on his 4th one in Feb. 

Sad news: John G Updike died in Waiblingen, 

Germany, Jan 23. Next of kin is widow Ellen. Relatives 

include brother Edwin H Updike ’47; uncles 

Stuart N Updike ’24, G Campbell Updike ’22, and 

Frank R. Greene 1906; and cousins Franklin 

Greene ’44, John M Greene ’52, and Stuart J 

Updike ’57. 

We have also been notified of the death of 

Paul Vansant’s wife, Marian, on Feb 13. Paul is in 

Rockland, ME. 

Also, Dave Mueller died March 26. Next of kin: 

widow Marilyn. Contact me for her address. 

Hope you’ve had a great spring and are off to 

a fine summer. Now finish the summer in grand, 

active style. See you in the fall, maybe at a game 

in Hamilton. 

Nels: nelsaud@webtv.net 

1952 

Jackson T King 

476 Grace Tr 

Orange, CT 06477-2619 

I received the following note from John Sias: “I 

guess I’ve procrastinated long enough. Without 

having this sound like an obit, here’s what I’ve 

been up to the last few years. Retired from my 

PR business in 1990. Helped organize the Greater 

Nashua, NH, Big Brothers Big Sisters in 1983. 

Was 1st pres and remained a dir for some 15 

years. Had 3 Little Brothers, adopted the 1st one, 

and changed the state law to be able to do it. 

We went on the Today Show with Katie Couric. 

Was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001. 

Organized the NH Prostate Cancer Coalition in 

2006 and have served as pres since then. Takes 

all my time. Just like a f/t job. But, of course, it’s 

volunteer work. Healthwise, I’m fine. Play golf, 

ski, work out 2–3 times a week, cut and split a 

cord of wood each year. Weigh 3 lbs less than the 

days I’d step on the scale in Huntington Gymnasium 

after freshman soccer in 1948. 

“I have written 7 books, 1 in its 9th printing. 

Have been more than amply rewarded. Received 

a humanitarian award in 2007 from NH Charitable 

Fndn, and selected Citizen of the Year by the 

Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce in 2008. 

For 58 years I have avidly followed Colgate’s football 

and hockey teams. Before the scores were 

posted on the Internet a few years ago, I’d run 

500' to the mailbox every Sunday morning to get 

the score and read about the football team. I’ve 

saved every Colgate calendar since 1983, thinking 

that I was going to frame each month and hang 

them all on a wall, but discovered that I didn’t 

have that much wall space. The calendars remain 

in a pile in my office. Anyone want them? 

This is the most beautiful college campus in the 

US. 

“A great regret is that I’ve never returned to 

campus for a football game. However, I did attend 

the Frozen Four in Detroit in 1991 when the 

Colgate hockey team beat Boston U but lost to 

WI for the natl championship. My brother-in-law 

was the asst athletic dir at BU and arranged for 

me to ride from Boston to Detroit on the bus full 

of parents of the BU players. He also provided me 

tickets in the BU section at the Joe Louis Arena. I 

sat next to him and my sister and cheered loudly 

(and alone) each time Colgate scored a goal. 

“My adopted son applied to Colgate but was 

not accepted. He got a scholarship from BU and 

graduated cum laude. And the son of my roommate 

Butch Burdick was likewise not accepted. 

Butch said, ‘And he was my smartest son!’ 

“I talked with Tom Kelley, who winters in FL 

and summers here in NH. Tom and I went to 

Medford HS, and he was the quarterback of the 

undefeated state champs. 

“If any of you fellow classmates get close to 

southern NH, please call and visit!” 

I also received this note from Richard S Merrill 

updating us on the Annual Fund: “We have 

reached better than 70% participation (and as 

high as 80%) since our 25th Reunion. However, 

we fell a little short last year at only 65%. Our 

goal is 75% this fund year.” 

In another bit of news, Genl Tom Morgan 

(USMC retired) has been very active in the program 

to get veterans to apply to Colgate. He visited 

Dartmouth and met with key people there, 

including the recently retired pres, James Wright. 

Wright was the driving force to get wounded 

vets to come to Dartmouth. He had spent quite a 

bit of time at Walter Reed Hospital talking with 

wounded vets. After an initial start with 2, there 

are now 16 vets attending Dartmouth. There are 

150 at Harvard and 0 at Colgate. 

Tom has been active with other active serving 

military people. He arranged a recent meeting 

at Camp Pendleton (CA Marine base) with the 

commanding general and other key marines for 

Gary Ross, Colgate dir of admissions. This was to 

review their program with western US colleges 

about the GI Bill program. It has been very successful 

getting vets to apply and get accepted. 

Tom has also made a contact with the Garrison 

Commander at Ft Drum (near Watertown 

and only a 2-hour trip from Hamilton). He hopes 

to determine the best point of contact for Colgate 

and how the best arrangements could be established 

for them to get together. Ft Drum is one of 

the major Army bases in the US. 

The GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program can 

get a qualified vet in Colgate for free. 

William J Cooksley Jr died on Jan 6, in Vestal, 

NY, at the age of 81. He was a member of Theta 

Chi and the Class Gift Committee ’94–’95. He majored 

in psych. He is survived by his sons, William 

III and Alan. 

Everett M Fogal died on Jan 6, in Lighthouse 

Point, FL, at the age of 79. He majored in natural 

sci and math and was a member of the Commons 

Club. 

I would certainly appreciate hearing from you 

by phone, mail, or e-mail. 

Jack: 203-795-9111; jtking@kingandshaw.com 

1953 

Lou Wilcox 

20727 Cove Rd 

Bivalve, MD 21814-2004 

Food for thought from the good ole Class of ’53 

for the summer 2010 Scene. I revealed earlier that 

Gene Schulze regularly entertains me with his 

marvelous e-mails, all of which contain interesting 

pieces of info. Gene’s latest find was the 

world’s largest dog — Giant George — a Great 

Dane. George weighs in at 245 lb and measures 

almost 43" at the shoulder. He measures 7'3" from 

nose to tail. George consumes 110 lb of dog food 

every month and sleeps alone in his own queen- 

size bed: his owners had to move him out of their 

king-size bed! I wonder if Bernie Siegel has a cat 

this large. 

Gene’s items that point to the fact that “times 

are a changin’” to wit: I got a pre-declined credit 

card in the mail. I ordered a burger at McDonald’s 

and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you 

afford fries with that?” CEOs are now playing 

mini golf. If the bank returns your check marked 

“insufficient funds,” you call them and ask if 

they meant you or them. McDonald’s is selling 

the 1/4 ouncer. A truckload of Americans were 

caught sneaking into Mexico. The mafia is laying 

off judges. Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 congressmen. 

US Congress says they are looking into this Bernhard 

Madoff scandal. Oh, great! The guy who 

made $50 billion disappear is being investigated 

by the people who made $1.5 trillion disappear! 

Arnie Koch sent along a marvelous reprint 

from the Maroon about the 1953 Winter Carnival 

with Jimmy McPartland and his Allstars featured 

at the winter prom. “Brings back memories!” 

Norm Newman wrote: “This past weekend we 

had the pleasure of having Esther and Chuck 

Hargrave as our house guests for an enjoyable 

3 days. Even though the weather was a bit cool 

for Ft Myers, it felt good to them compared to 

Farmington, NY. On Sunday, Sara Lee and John 

Sanborn drove down from Venice, FL. The 3 of us 

went out to a local restaurant for dinner with 

Ginger and Bert Snyder. In effect, the 8 of us had 

a mini-reunion of the Colgate Commons Club. 

The time went by much too fast.” 

Three of us ’53ers came to Colgate from Westfield, 

NJ: Paul MacCowatt, Al Wanamaker, and me. 

Al checked in recently, writing, “Thanks for your 

work on the class notes. Having done that for 15 

years, I understand meeting deadlines. I retired 

as a NYS administrative law judge about a year 

and a half ago and moved from northern NY to 

Sun City Center on the east coast of Tampa Bay. 

My neighbor here at Freedom Plaza (a great place 

to retire) is Dick Schubert ’51. Dick and I attended 

a recent Colgate luncheon in Sarasota to hear 

the interim pres; we were joined at our table by 

classmates Jerry Blackwood and Pete Perretti 

as well as Chuck Carrier ’52. Life is good here at 

Freedom Plaza, but frankly I miss the seasons, the 

nip in the air, and the snow crunching underfoot. 

Best to all.” 

Art Cooper checked in: “I enjoy reading your 

columns about the Class of ’53 so much that I 

now feel compelled to write you. [Sure wish that 

more classmates would feel compelled to write!] 

I had dinner here in Raleigh with Dave Roach, 

Colgate’s athletic dir. He has been on a sabbatical 

this spring visiting other schools and picking 

their brains. He was in the Triangle area during 

a visit to Duke, UNC, and Davidson. Knowing 

he would be in our area, I e-mailed him and we 

managed to get together. Some of the talk was 

about the current state of college athletics, some 

about Colgate, and some about my experience as 

faculty athletic rep at NC State during the ’90s. 

My impression is that Colgate’s athletic program 

is in strong, competent hands. 

“Despite Vail Taylor’s characterization of 

me as a forestry expert, I remain only moderately 

active in the field, mostly through work in 

professional forestry orgs. I did get some nice recognition 

when I received the profession’s highest 

award, the Gifford Pinchot Medal, in 1999, a nice 

way to start to close down a career. Now I am 

concentrating on volunteer work and writing. 

I work as a volunteer host on the train NC runs 

from Raleigh to Charlotte. This has been most 

rewarding: 1) it fulfills my childhood passion for 

‘riding the rails,’ and 2) the work of volunteer 

train host played a small, but important part in 

NC’s success in getting funding for upgrading its 

rail system between Raleigh and Charlotte and 

for development of a high-speed rail connection 

with the NE. I also do volunteer income tax work 

with low-income people during tax season. It 

is interesting, frustrating, and hard to believe, 

all rolled into one. It has given me a heightened 

sense of compassion for people when I realize 

how close to the ragged financial edge a lot of 

them are. This year, at least half the people I have 

done have had unemployment compensation, 

whereas before it was uncommon to run into 

it. The writing has been mostly personal stuff: 

the biggest project is documenting the nearly 6 

years I spent in a political position in state govt. 

I am doing it because some of what happened 

is historically important and needs to be written 

down, some of it defies all understanding 

and needs to be documented, and some of it 

is downright hilarious and the stories need to 

be preserved. I have no idea what I’ll do with it 

when I get close to finished. I may just take it to 

my grave with me. I don’t believe in throwing 

Granny out in the snow, but I sure hope I don’t 

end up the way she is — it can’t be fun for her. 

Except for minor problems, I have been blessed 

with relatively good health. My wife, however, 

has serious arthritis, which limits her mobility 

and our ability to travel. We did, however, make 

it to the ’53’s 55th and will do our best to be at 

the 60th. Enough about me. You need to put 

something in your column about yourself and 

life on the Eastern Shore. We’re interested in your 

doings, my friend.” 

OK, Art, here is a report about life on the Eastern 

Shore, also called the Delmarva Peninsula 

since it is occupied by DE, MD, and VA. I moved to 

said peninsula 13 years ago and find it interesting 

from the historical, ecological, and sociological 

perspectives. It reminds me of the historic 

Collier County, FL. Until 1952, the peninsula was 

very isolated and underdeveloped — lots of 

farm land and chicken farms. In 1952, when the 

Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built, people came 

flooding in from all over the place and development 

started. The crabs and striped bass, not to 

mention the watermen, resent this influx for it 

has increased the pollution of the bay. As for me, 

I do not care for the heat, humidity, and haze of 

the summers, but love the long springs and falls. 

I continue my lifelong love affair with plants, 

and have lots of gardens of all sorts, including a 

large vegetable garden and many fruit trees and 

vines. I love this time of year when my asparagus 

comes in, soon to be followed by strawberries. 

My biggest crops are onions of all sorts, garlic, 

and shallots. Otherwise, I grow enough to eat 

and do no canning or freezing except for my annual 

production of chunky salsa, which I freeze. 

I continue to advocate for those with developmental 

disabilities and serve on the board of 

directors of the org that runs homes where my 

son Terry lives. The big time-consumer in my life 

for the past 5 years was writing a book about 

my son’s life. It has been a great experience, a 

real learning experience with much research in 

preparation for the writing. Of the moment, I am 

in the final revising phase with the help of lawyers 

and editors. I hope to have it to the publisher 

this year and then we will be off to the races to 

market same. During the fall and spring, I do get 

in a few rounds of golf to just get away from the 

intensity of writing. 

Well, that’s about it for this go-around. Please 

keep all those cards, e-mails, and letters coming, 

and remember, it is only 3 years to our 60th 

Reunion. I hope that someone in the class will 

volunteer to organize it. And, remember, this 

column is not for purposes of fundraising, and 

anything you send in is not used for fundraising 

purposes. Yes, Robin Jaycox will send you a note 


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“Bob Fox and Nancy are in year 8 of their around-the-world travel on their motor yacht Andiamo. This 

particular 3–4 month leg included out-of-the-way islands such as Borneo, Komodo, Palau, Papua New 

Guinea, Solomons, Sulawesi, and Vanatau.” — Paul Beardslee ’59 

from time to time about donations, and that 

is separate from this column. So, send me your 

news! Let us know what your life is like in the 

late 70s. Have a happy summer. 

Lou: 410-873-2944; bylou13@comcast.net 

1954 

Peter W Rakov 

159 Edgewood Ave 

Hurley, NY 12443-5406 

Summer is upon us. Amen. This mid-Hudson Valley 

had it easy, but our fellow alums in CT, NYC, 

and NJ really caught hell. 

Received a Post Standard (Syracuse) clipping 

from Don Perricone. He and Donna celebrated 

their 50th Dec 26. Cheers for a wonderful couple! 

We will be in Columbus, OH, o/a this issue’s publication 

date. Dave Kurtz graciously invited us to 

stop over in Waite Hill, if our itinerary and time 

permitted. (I can’t keep up with Gary Chandler’s 

going about the US, however.) Jeanne and Dr Bob 

Davis “doing well” in Plattsburgh, 12 years after 

retirement. 

My sole Christmas greeting from a classmate 

was from Jim Robinson. I’ll summarize the 

graphic greeting: Santa holding a funnel-type 

device against Rudolph’s rear, above a box labeled 

“Catalytic Converter.” Some guys just never 

change. 

Steve Humes passed on Feb 20 in Houston. 

Our class condolences to widow Diane. 

Lang Hatcher isn’t too happy with the “new” 

Scene format. Says it is too costly. Believes it 

should be published only 2 or 3 times per year, 

with perhaps a simple news sheet once in a 

while. 

Jim Fraser, after 35 years, still plays tennis 

3x/week. “Keeps the body toned up, but hurting 

much of the time.” He heard from Bill Jupp, who 

was inquiring about Cedar Key, FL, the Frasers’ 

winter place. NB Charlis Gill, I did get your e-mail 

telling me of your visits with Mary and Fred 

Boos ’55 in Tucson, Sally and Dick Woolbert ’55 

in Cape Cod, and Jan and Ray Smith at Mary and 

Don Beck’s Saranac Lake place, along with the 

Woolberts. 

Peter: 845-340-0659; therakovs@aol.com 

1955 

Bruce Burke 

4661 Sweetmeadow Cir 

Sarasota, FL 34238-4334 

By the time you read this, it will be past our 

55th Reunion on campus. So, you will have to 

wait until the fall issue to read reports from the 

campus reunion scene. Ben Barnes sent a copy of 

his message to the Sigma Chi’s to get organized 

for the reunion. I assume they are doing this as 

I write. Ben and Beth have enjoyed their winters 

in ME, which includes being close to their grandkids 

and family. Ben is helping out the bishop 

of ME with Trinity Church in Lewiston. It is full 

of daily activities as the basement “parish hall” 

has been converted to a service center, serving 

meals to hundreds a day, and providing clothing 

to transients and referral services to job seekers. 

Students from nearby Bates C volunteer at the 

center helping to keep the programs going. Beth 

works as a speech and language pathologist 

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helping young children; she also sings in the 

choir. 

Heard from Bill Boyle and received a copy of 

his reminder to the TKEs to attend the June 2010 

reunion. He has communicated with the interim 

pres, Dr Lyle Roelofs, and received a promise that 

he would visit the class tent at reunion time. Bill 

has always been a steady class communicator, 

writing letters and e-mails regularly. 

Another steady communicator is our prexy, 

Bob Quitzau. He wrote in Feb that he had 

counted 25 of our classmates were returning 

to the class reunion. I am sure everyone had a 

terrific time in Hamilton in June. He was also 

hoping that Bill Beyea and other class musicians 

would be playing at the class tent. Dick Colwell 

wrote this spring that he was looking forward 

to a great reunion with a good turnout for our 

class. He congratulated the Colgate professional 

leadership for providing plenty of great support. 

I could not attend the reunion because my 

mobility is limited and I cannot deal with 

airlines, etc. I assume that those of you who did 

had a great time. Let me know how it went. Since 

there is sure to be a good crowd of ’55ers, that 

means many can write to me describing how our 

reunion went. 

Bruce: 941-926-3244; 

bruceb@msu.edu, johnbburke@comcast.net 

1956 

Jerry Rhodes 

101 Magerton Ct 

Cary, NC 27511-7303 

First of all, some admin business. My begging 

e-mail got rejected from the following guys: 

Messrs Huther, Schupp, Engle, Ford, Oppenheimer, 

Hillyer, and Hartley. You know how 

poorly I handle rejection, so please send me your 

correct e-mail so I will feel a lot better! Thanks. 

Unfortunately, there is also some sad news 

to pass on. I have been told of the deaths of 3 

classmates: Thornton Penfield, Pete Anderson, 

and Gerry Holland. Thorny died in New Orleans 

on Aug 27, 2007, and I understand he had been 

active in NO jazz circles for some time. Pete died 

in Cleveland on Feb 27, and Gerry died in Williamsburg, 

VA, on March 2. I have family contact 

info if any of you would like it. Like all our other 

late classmates, these gentlemen will be missed, 

and we pass on our sincere condolences to their 

families. 

Ed Johnston reports that he, Ron Schaupp, 

Corky Steneri, John Wise, and Bill Deysher had 

a delightful Colgate reunion in early March in 

Orlando. It was over dinner and a few bottles 

of wine and a lot of remembering and roaring 

with laughter. Sounds like fun. Linda and Mickey 

Warburton are going on their 14th year down 

in Vero Beach at Sea Oaks. He sees Ben Patt 

and Duke Foster there frequently. He was just 

asked to become pres of the Treasure Coast 

Colgate Club and plans on continuing the annual 

Colgate luncheon and a football gathering for the 

Colgate-Lehigh game. 

Dave Hood says that, “The news about Pete 

Anderson (more commonly known by all as 

‘Homebrew’) was especially saddening to me as 

he was my frat-house roommate, best man at my 

wedding, and more importantly, my best friend. 

His nickname perfectly described his nature — 

even-keeled, relaxed, natural, and just plain fun 

to be around. An all-around good guy who will 

be sorely missed by his legion of friends.” 

Dave also says that the word “retirement” 

is not part of his lexicon as he continues f/t 

employment. The primary reason is he has a 

19-year-old daughter pursuing a bachelor of 

music (performance) degree at CA State Long 

Beach. Dave says, “Just to show my allegiance to 

the great Class of ’56, I sired an offspring at age 

56. I always thought I was the oldest classmate 

to report news in the birth announcements, but I 

believe Herky Lewin beat me out.” Thanks for the 

note, it was good to hear from you. 

Heide and Gordie Miller enjoyed having the 

whole family, kids, and grandkids at St Croix over 

Christmas and New Year’s. In April, the Millers 

headed to Boca Grande on FL’s West Coast and 

hoped to bring some warm weather with them. 

He also included the following: “More important, 

it is not too soon to get in shape for our 55th Reunion, 

June 2–5, 2011. The class record for returns 

is 40 alumni. No way we can’t top that! We do 

get priority at the Colgate Inn, but get your reservations 

in now!” Thanks for the reminder, Gordie, 

and all y’all get ready for that big event. (I guess 

I’ve been in the Tar Heel State too long!) 

John McKenzie wrote that he was “very sorry 

to learn of Pete Anderson’s passing. Dave Houghton, 

Jim Treese, and I worked a summer at the 

Cape with him after our freshman year. Homebrew 

was a great guy and will be sorely missed.” 

John got a call in the late fall from Mickey Warburton 

indicating he and Linda would be on the 

Cape visiting their grandson, who is in the Coast 

Guard there. They were able to get together for 

a lunch at the Land Ho, a local watering hole in 

Orleans; much reminiscing and a great time, of 

course. The 4 of them hadn’t seen each other in 

about 5 years. John says that “not much happening 

in these parts, although we did have some 

interesting things going on in Jan when Scott 

Brown, the state senator from our district, won 

the former Kennedy seat in the US Senate, here 

in the ‘Peoples Republic of MA.’” 

Gene Soechtig writes in early April that ski 

season was finally coming to an end and he and 

Patty were getting ready to return to MI. It was 

time to hang up the skis and get out the fly rod. 

Gene says, “Once again I did not manage to ski 

my age as I’ve been threatening to do for the 

past several years, but over 50 days on the slopes 

isn’t too bad for an old ‘gomer.’ Besides, Patty 

did it for me. She’s had 80 days!” (Editor’s note: 

neither of them are 80!) The Soechtigs had a 

fairly busy spring planned. A week after they got 

back to MI, they went to DC, where Patty had a 

board meeting for the Grier School. In mid-May 

Gene returned to CO for a week to do some early 

spring fly-fishing. Sounds like you’re enjoying 

retirement, Gene. 

Lastly, I should probably explain something. 

Whatever news you are reading now was sent 

to me back in early April and is just now being 

published. Eddie Vantine had wondered about 

this, and I told him I thought it was about a 

6-month delay. As usual I misspoke, as you are 

reading the summer issue, not the fall one. So, if 

any of you think I may have forgotten to include 

anything (I really try not to, but you understand 

how things are as one approaches 76!), please be 

gentle with me as what you read is most likely at 

least 3 months old. Would that it were otherwise, 

but that’s the way it is! 

Thanks to all who contributed to my musings, 

and I really do wish we could hear from more of 

you. Anyway, that’s all I have, so until next time… 

Jerry: 919-363-1980; rhodes_j_c@att.net 

1957 

Ev Smethurst 

6 Son Bon 

Laguna Niguel, CA 92677-8601 

It’s another beautiful day in SoCal. It will be 

80° today. I will be taking the 2 grandkids to the 

local pool. They have responded to my sterling 

lessons in the pool by being very average. But 

Lena (9) has begun her softball career. She has 

played 8 games; still has not hit the ball. Arlene 

and I, along with the expectant parents, continue 

to make all the games and cheer with passion. 

Arlene and I went to a great Colgate event in San 

Diego a month ago. It was held at the Beach and 

Tennis Club in La Jolla, and there were 60 alums 

and partners. The star of the evening was Tony 

Aveni, who is in his 45th year at Colgate. His message 

was witty and very informative — all about 

the Maya in the Yucatan. He talked about the 

end of the world — some time in 2012. I am glad I 

was in the liberal arts: I don’t believe it. 

Just after I wrote the last report, I received a 

sad phone call from George Behling. He told me 

of the passing of his close friend Malcolm Dale. 

Malcolm had been quite ill and passed away earlier 

this year. I remember a nice lunch I had with 

Malcolm about 10 years ago. We had been corresponding 

about the passing of one of our fellows. 

I told him I would be coming to NYC and he 

invited me to a great lunch. Malcolm and George 

had been HS friends and also good friends at 

Colgate. So, we mourn the passing of our friend 

Malcolm along with his extended family. George 

and I had a nice talk about the KDR swimmers, 

Bud Foote, Gerry Bonniol, and Sam Johnson. I 

hope they are all alive and very well. 

Finally, a welcome e-mail from our leader Ellis 

Rowland: “Suzee and I are enjoying our annual 

stay in FL and recently met up with several of 

our classmates at a very enjoyable lunch at the 

Colgate Club of Suncoast meeting in Sarasota. It 

was good to catch up with Jean and Tito Macias, 

who are proud new grandparents. Elise and Jim 

Aston and Therese and Walt Reichert were also 

there. The speaker was Lyle Roelofs, interim pres. 

After the lunch, we unanimously elected our 

new social chair, Walt, to arrange for all of us to 

get together next month. On our way south to FL, 

we stopped to see Natalie and Jacques Theriot in 

SC. They are very gracious hosts and always fun 

to be with. I’m happy to report that age has not 

dimmed Jacques’ sense of humor. We also visited 

with Meredith and Cliff Heaslip ’50 on Skidway 

Island, GA, and were joined by Shirley and Frank 

Speno ’56. All were doing well, although Frank 

has been having serious back problems. He told 

us he has a new doctor and is optimistic for the 

future.” Thanks, Ellis. I hope to see a home football 

game in the fall: will let you know. 

At the top of this report, I forgot to mention 

the other grandkid, Little Ev. He is 4 1/2 and full 

of energy. He is my buddy, ready for soccer in the 

fall. See you next time. 

Ev: 949-495-4862; mrews@cox.net 

1958 

Bob Woodruff 

3017 West Garfield Street 

Seattle, WA 98199-4243 

I recently read Arthur Rashap’s plea asking for 

a volunteer to be the new class editor for the 

great Class of 1958. At just about the same time,

I attended a Colgate Alumni event at Seattle’s 

Space Needle. Lyle Roelofs, interim pres, and 

Nancy Serrurier P’09, Board of Trustees member, 

brought us up to date on the happenings at Colgate. 

These simultaneous events spurred me to 

action. I have volunteered to take on the assignment. 

I am Bob Woodruff, your new class editor. 

My 1st task was to send out an e-mail blast 

a week ago to the members of the class asking 

for your help and assistance: 11 of you responded 

on short notice. You know who you are. Thanks 

for your quick response. I realize that some of 

us may not have easy access to e-mail, so let me 

pose my questions again: What is happening 

in your life that others from our class might be 

interested in hearing? What differences are you 

making in the world? With whom have you 

been in contact? Please keep the correspondence 

rolling! 

Arthur Rashap writes that that he has 

founded the Lifelong Learning Program under 

the Upstate Institute at Colgate, has served on 

its advisory board, and has conducted 4 courses, 

some with Dick Cheshire. He is now working on 

a proposal to bring “town and gown” closer together. 

Arthur meets with Paul Schupf regularly 

and reports that he continues to be amazed with 

“Paul’s broad knowledge of everything.” (Chalk 

it up to our great liberal arts education?) Arthur 

continues by saying, “I hope all our classmates 

will share some stories and news with the new 

editor. Go, Bob!” Thanks, Arthur, for this support 

and your encouragement, and thank you for the 

job you have done as class editor all these years. 

Robert Clegg has been living outside Paris for 

some 41 years, working in the wine business. He 

says his quality of life is enhanced with the wonderful 

wines and food of the region. He reports 

that the US wine business has taken a nose dive 

because of the economy, but he is working well 

with the Chinese as their import of French wine 

is growing steadily. He and I had a fun exchange 

of some of this info in French as I am a Francophile 

also. 

We have a couple of classmates who have 

reported publishing books. Dan Robinson tells 

me that the Columbia U Press published his 19th 

book, Consciousness and Mental Life. Last year he 

was awarded CUNY’s President’s Distinguished 

Alumnus Award, the 2nd time it was rewarded 

in 45 years. He will be returning in Jan for his 

20th year of teaching for the philosophy faculty 

at Oxford. (See p 48 for more.) Al Ristori’s book, 

The Complete Book of Surf Fishing, was published 

last year. As a saltwater fishing journalist, Al recounts 

numerous fishing stories and adventures 

that have taken him around the world. He and 

his wife are living in Manasquan Park, NJ, and 

they are looking forward to retiring in FL to be 

closer to their children. 

Wally Kramer reports that he is still practicing 

law and during the winters spends his time 

on his sailboat at Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. 

Nice life if you can get it, Wally. 

A year after our 50th Reunion, Bob Balentine, 

Larry Wood, John Glynn, Frank Gatland, and I, 

along with some of our spouses, spent a wonderful 

June weekend at Bob Balentine’s summer 

home in Harper’s Ferry, WV, sharing tales, 

touring Gettysburg and Antietam, talking jazz, 

attending a jazz fest, and just recounting the 

wonderful time we had seeing each other at the 

50th and planning for the future. See a photo of 

us on our class page photo gallery at colgatealumni.org. 

We were caught in the photo singing, 

“Old Colgate” or “Old Alpha” or old something! 

We heard from Bernard Whittier’s daughter 

Allison, who wanted to announce that Bernard 

and his wife, Judy, celebrated their 50th anniversary 

in March. There was a private family 

gathering at the Carriage House in South Bend, 

IN, to celebrate. The Whittiers have 3 daughters 

and 2 grandchildren. Having lived in St Joseph, 

MI, for nearly 30 years, Bernard remains active 

in his community through his involvement in 

Rotary International and as a member of the St 

Joseph-Benton Harbor club. He also is applying 

his lifelong passion for trains by serving as vice 

chairman of the MI Assoc of Railroad Passengers, 

a rail advocacy group promoting greater use of 

rail travel. See a photo of the happy couple 50 

years ago and today on our class page photo gallery 

at colgatealumni.org. 

In addition to those mentioned above, I also 

heard from Elmer Humes, John ‘Moose’ Merz, Bill 

Mitchell, and Michael Rudolph. I am really looking 

forward to hearing from the rest of you! Keep 

it coming. 

Mystery classmate of the quarter as submitted 

by Ron Greenleese: “One of our stellar ’58 

grads, who put his 2 daughters through Colgate, 

and whose father also graduated from Colgate, 

has a grandson about to be drafted into the NFL. 

The grandson starred at NC State. Who is that 

classmate?” Please submit your responses to your 

class editor. Your prize is a mention in the next 

quarterly Scene. Relatives are not eligible! Thanks, 

Ron, for being your usual creative self, unless you 

are the grandfather! Who would like to submit 

the next offering for our “mystery classmate of 

the quarter”? 

Bob: 206-550-6715; rbwoody@mac.com 

1959 

Paul W Beardslee 

Tunnel Mt B&B 

Rt 1 Box 59-1 

Elkins, WV 26241-9711 

It is the day after Easter and I can finally trade 

my snow shovel for a scribe’s writing instrument. 

Perhaps this move still holds some risk for we 

can still see some remnants of this past winter 

on some of the sheltered hillsides. Of course, 

when you are reading this, it will be difficult 

to visualize hillside snow, and the mention of 

a snow shovel will be like speaking another 

language. I’ll let you know how risky I was next 

winter! 

In our last writing (written in Jan, read in 

April), news was promised about several “holiday 

greeters.” First among them is Bob ‘Nasty’ Nastanovich. 

The details are slim, but Katy wrote that 

Bob is “doing much better now!” Beyond that, we 

are in the dark, but we’re glad the news is good. 

Bob and Katy celebrated their 50th anniversary 

in March ’09, so we can now say “Happy 51st to 

the Nasties!” By the way, the Nastanovichs spent 

a family vacation last summer at the Homestead 

Resort, VA. I mention this because we need to 

put the Seiberts (Bill ‘Scoop’ and Joyce) on alert, 

since they, too, adjourn to the same location on 

a regular basis. We also learned, from Joyce, that 

Scoop knows which end of a snow shovel is the 

working end! What a winter, huh?! 

Dave Bowman’s greeting was brief but he 

referenced the reunion last year, telling us how 

great it was. We trust Dave and Nan are planning 

a Chenango return in 2014. Be sure to wear that 

hat, Dave! Also mentioning the Hamilton gettogether 

was Rich Keating, our instigator of the 

very successful class art show. Rich reports that 

Jody is in good spirits and has had some good 

news from her doctors. He still stays active in the 

botanical world and was hoping (at this writing) 

to finish a manuscript. We shall hope for continued 

good news from the MW. Greetings from the 

West Coast (Bill Williams) also raved about our 

reunion. Needless to say, we all agree, and thank 

Catching up with a curmudgeon 

A Q&A with Jay Darrin ’69, owner of the travel business Curmudgeon and Friends 

in Nashua, N.H. 

Where are you now? 

The Animal Kingdom at Disney, sitting by a waterfall. This is just a fun tour with some 

friends. That’s the beauty of this job — I get to do a lot of my own travels, too. 

How did you become a 

travel guide? 

I was a teacher for 35 years, 

and during that time I led a lot 

of National Park camping trips 

with students. When I got into 

my 50s, I got too old to drive 

a school bus and sleep on the 

ground, so one of my friends 

suggested I start leading trips 

with adults. 

Why did you decide to 

name your business 

Curmudgeon and Friends? 

When you get in a vehicle with 

students, they hop on and 

they’re fine with wherever you 

go. When you travel with adults, 

you drive about a quarter of a 

mile and they say, “Why are you 

taking this route? Have you ever thought about going here?” So, I incorporated a philosophy 

statement that explains that they’re traveling with a curmudgeon and they might have lots 

of good ideas but I wasn’t interested in them. I told them that while Burger King was “Have it 

your way,” I’m the anti–Burger King: Have it my way. 

What are the similarities between being a teacher and a tour guide? 

[At Colgate] I had Doc Reading, who was a great raconteur, and I also had Russell Speirs, so 

I realized that bringing a little drama into the classroom, even in math, can dress it up. And 

I found that that works well on trips. If you can bring a story and humor into it, it seems to 

resonate with people. 

How many trips do you lead? 

I travel about 160 days of the year. This year, I’ll be doing about 10 overnight trips and 120 

day trips. Some of them are just one night, like to Tanglewood [Music Center]. We do some 

trips that last almost two weeks. This year, we’re going out to the Door County peninsula in 

Wisconsin. 

Describe your clientele. 

It’s mixed, but mainly retirees, especially for the day trips. I’ve had a woman who I think was 

102 who’s gone on some of the trips. 

What’s the most interesting part of the business for you? 

I keep going to new destinations. Sometimes people make suggestions about things I had 

no idea about. In one instance, we have a woman who is blind who travels with us and I was 

trying to think of things she would enjoy, so I learned about the Porter Music Box Company 

[in Vermont]. I thought it was going to be boring, but it turns out, this guy isn’t making tiny 

music boxes, but big pieces of furniture. He also had an antique collection that he played. 

How do you become knowledgeable about the places you’re going? 

Part of the motivation for me doing this with students was that I had something to look 

forward to and I would do a lot of planning during the winter, so I’ve continued that. I really 

enjoy doing the research, and I ask a lot of questions along the way. 

Where are your favorite places to travel? 

My two favorite national parks are the Grand Tetons and Bryce Canyon. For day trips, I love 

going to Cape Ann [Mass.]. Newport, Rhode Island, is another good destination: you can do a 

tour of the mansions, theater, and the cliff walks. 


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Bill for helping make it a special time. By the by, 

Bill and Carol also did some other traveling — to 

Vietnam and Cambodia, the Grand Canyon, and 

last fall, Bill and his family were featured guests 

in an Apple Fest parade in Bill’s hometown of 

Oak Harbor, OH. Why? Well, back in 1838, Bill’s 

great-great-grandfather helped build the town 

and a park was dedicated in his honor. We trust 

no one rained on Bill’s parade! 

Other greetings were brief, but it was great to 

hear from Bill Cashman’s widow, Joan, who told 

us that Scoop filled her in on reunion activities. 

And, from John Leyden’s widow, Bev, we had a 

similar thanks, although she also mentioned a 

great visit with Hildy and Bill Davenport. Hence, 

we are hoping we might get some word from 

Stone Ridge, NY, in the not-too-distant future. 

We had a Jan note from Chuck Berky, who told 

us he was registering for Colgate’s 1st Summer 

on the Hill program this June. Chuck has been 

pushing for such a program, so we hope it will be 

warm, the sun will be shining, and that we will 

have a follow-up report from Chuck for one of 

our future missives. And speaking of reports, we 

heard from Bob Fox, telling us that he and Nancy 

are in year 8 of their around-the-world travel on 

their motor yacht Andiamo. This particular 3–4 

month leg included out-of-the-way islands such 

as Borneo, Komodo, Palau, Papua New Guinea, 

Solomons, Sulawesi, and Vanatau. Keep the reports 

coming, Bob! We can all do some vicarious 

dreaming and, perhaps, a few of us will even pull 

out the atlas! We are curious, Bob. How was the 

name Andiamo chosen? Stay tuned, readers! 

We had mentioned Lew Thurston last round. 

Lew and Mary Jane are carried on our Tunnel Mt 

visitors rolls, but did you know that Lew had a 

35-year career in NJ govt and politics? Among his 

roles were chief of staff to Gov Tom Kean, COO 

of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, COO of 

the Garden State Parkway, and exec dir of the NJ 

Senate. Lew is now retired, but he still does some 

teaching, volunteering, plays in a community 

band, plays some golf, and spoils his grandchildren! 

Now that’s an impressive résumé for 

someone who decided “not to be a lawyer”! 

Did you know that Bob Armata was at our 

reunion, at least at its beginning? We saw Bob 

on arrival, but we think he left early. Since Bob 

is an avid Red Sox fan, we’re wondering if he 

ventured back to Fenway! When you write with 

clarification, Bob, tell us what you’ve been doing 

since insurance, brokerage, elderly housing work, 

school commission, and selectman activities. Are 

you writing (authoring) another auto reform 

bill? Mates should also be aware that Bob has 2 

daughters who are also Colgate grads. Quite a 

résumé, which we hope Bob will expand upon 

down the pike. 

We had hoped to share some info on Clyde 

Case, but we lack data in Scoop’s “Reflections.” 

Hence, all we have is a quote, rendered during 

our walk down fraternity row (Broad St) on our 

way to the alumni luncheon at reunion. Clyde 

was observed waving to onlookers as we paraded 

with our class, at which point he gleefully 

shouted to all, “Remember to vote on Tuesday!” 

Here’s hoping Clyde will retort with some more 

fun stuff! 

We had similar hopes, re: referencing “Reflections,” 

for Dick ‘Doctor’ Myers. Unfortunately, the 

Doctor’s writing is missing, so we can only tell 

you we had a great chat while parading down 

Broad St. Here’s hoping Dick will be prodded to 

jot us an update in the coming months. 

We had more success with Bob Webster, my 

predecessor in this scribe work. In addition to 

some great chats at reunion, you’ll enjoy reading 

about Bob in the class “Reflections”: 45 years 

with the same law firm, but make note of some 

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of Bob’s assignments. As he said, he was often a 

“canary” for internatl banks — one way of saying 

he was placed (kind of) in harm’s way on more 

than 1 occasion. It’s interesting that Bob feels his 

“work” in retirement follows similar lines. Bob, 

feel free to drop us 1 or 2 (lines) should you wish 

to expand on any of those internatl exploits! 

Prior to the winter holidays and all those 

major snow removal experiences, we had a note 

from Jim Madura, who was inquiring about Bob 

Conklin. While we have no further details, we 

hope Bob can find some comfort in knowing 

there are mates out there thinking and praying 

for him. By the way, Jim did send some more 

“quiz” items, which will be shared in upcoming 

missives. Hopefully, Jim will come to our next 

gathering, so we can have him conduct a “quiz” 

class on Whitnall Field! 

Bob Shapiro sent a note: “I just retired from 

a 32-year career with NY State, and guess what I 

was given as a gift? One of my co-workers, knowing 

how much we love Colgate, contacted the interim 

president’s office (just before Mr Herbst arrived) 

and a congratulatory letter was sent. Then, 

he contacted the bookstore and ordered a Colgate 

wristwatch, which is being engraved for me and 

will be sent out shortly.” 

Before closing for another round, please join 

me in conveying sympathies to the family of 

Tom Biggs. We lost Tom back in Nov, but we have 

few details other than Clovis, CA, was Tom’s last 

known address. Hopefully his Sigma Nu brothers 

will be able to share sympathies and condolences 

with Tom’s family. From us, Tom, Godspeed. 

And now we close your summer–fall reading 

lesson. We’d love to have updates from “lots” of 

you. You can dial, do the e-thing, or try the oldfashioned 

notepaper! Meanwhile, gents, be well 

and enjoy everyday fully. Cheers, Paul. 

Paul: 304-636-1684; beardslee@meer.net 

1960 

Stephen Greenbaum 

4242 Stansbury Ave, PH6 

Sherman Oaks, CA 91423-4265 

This is a strange column: I am writing it before 

the reunion, yet you will be receiving it after. 

Many entries below allude to the reunion, and 

Roger Wanamaker directs you to the reunion 

yearbook for more info about him. 

During the past months, I have been working 

with Jack Blanchard, putting together the 

yearbook and proofreading the bios. In that role, 

as well as class editor, I have come to know so 

many of you. Who would have thought back 

in ’56 through ’60 that you would become 

such famous scholars, doctors, lawyers, execs, 

entrepreneurs, teachers, profs, clergymen, musicians, 

pilots, and world travelers — leaders in 

your community, an inspiration to many that 

you have met personally or who have come to 

know you through your deeds. I am amazed (but 

I majored in English, not sociology). 

For those of you who haven’t purchased a 

yearbook, you will be able to. For those of you 

who didn’t submit a bio, the wonders of cyberworld 

will soon let you. For those of you who 

couldn’t attend the reunion for the many reasons 

that made it impossible, you were missed. And, 

for those of you who have left Colgate because of 

your personal reasons, I am saddened. 

Peter Piven writes: “In Dec I resigned from 

the Coxe Group, the consulting firm I incorporated 

in 1979, and started a new firm under 

my own name: Peter Piven Mgmt Consultants. 

As an optimist who fell off the observation deck 

of the Empire State Building was overheard to 

say as he passed the 85th floor, ‘So far, so good.’ 

Caroline and I continue to travel recreationally; 

we have 2 more trips scheduled to France — one 

to the Dordogne and the other to Paris with our 

13-year-old granddaughter — and a sailing trip 

on the Adriatic. In Feb, I had a nice chat with Phil 

Perham from the development office, who paid 

a visit while he was visiting Philly, a nice reconnection.” 

Arnie Gross writes: “The impulsive decision to 

attend our 50th was motivated by my thankfulness 

for having been able, to some degree, to apply 

the things learned in my Colgate experience. 

As the short-term memory fails, the teachers, 

classmates, and “Colgate Spirit” remain more 

vivid in my mind. Having received a master’s in 

social work and a PhD in social planning from 

Brandeis, I’ve spent 42 years living in Israel working 

in academia and developing new approaches 

to social welfare problems. My wife and I live 

in a small suburban town outside of Beersheva 

with our daughter and 2 granddaughters 5 

minutes from us. Every few days I look at the list 

of those attending our 50th, and each name conjures 

up a face and an experience. I look forward 

to seeing you and others in June.” 

Charlie Ehin published another article in Feb. 

It was for the KnowledgeBoard.com in the UK: 

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/3056. 

Dex Morrill writes: “My wife, Barbara, and 

I are moving to the Poughkeepsie area after 

40 years in Hamilton. We sold our house on 

the village green and are moving in April, just 

before the reunion. Barb has been a health 

professional since college days, most recently 

as a cardiology researcher at Basset Hospital 

in Cooperstown (and saw Bob Knopp once in a 

while at meetings). I think Bob will be back in 

June. Recently, I managed to find Vic Strite in 

TX, and was worried he had passed away, but he 

seems OK, although not in great health. Gail and 

Stieg Reichart will try to make it from TX, too, although 

health has also been a problem for them. 

I am still busy composing along with my job of 

packing up the house.” 

Mary and Dave Croft were looking forward to 

being at the reunion this June. Dave writes: “We 

will be staying at our home in Saddlebrooke, AZ, 

until mid to late May before returning to MN 

for the summer. We visited Grand Canyon for a 

couple of days last week, with Mary and some 

friends hiking down and back up in 1 day. We 

always enjoy the canyon. With lots of rain in the 

desert this winter, the wild flowers are great and 

the desert green.” 

Roger Wanamaker writes: “I retired in Sept 

2008 after 48 years in aviation. Flew Navy fighters, 

then as capt on a major airline’s domestic/ 

internatl ops, and more recently, high-end corp 

aircraft. I am now enjoying retirement, with 

sailing my main hobby. After years on the road, 

it’s a pleasure to stay home with my wife, Julie, 

getting our 2 kids through college. Our daughter 

Christie had been offered a scholarship at 

Colgate to play soccer but she chose CO C and 

the great skiing in the Rockies. More detail in the 

forthcoming class yearbook for our 50th Reunion.” 

Frank Gundlach received WA U, St Louis 

School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Award. It’s 

appropriate to flesh out Frank’s career as stated 

by the award committee: “Frank N Gundlach 

(JD ’63) is senior counsel at Armstrong Teasdale 

LLP. He began his legal career in the US Dept of 

Justice as a trial atty in the tax division trying 

cases around the country. For 2 weeks in the 

summer of 1964, Gundlach was assigned to 

the Civil Rights Division, investigating alleged 

violations in MI of recently enacted legislation. 

In 1966, Gundlach joined Armstrong Teasdale. 

He has spent his legal career as a trial lawyer 

and, at an early age, was elected to the American 

Academy of Trial Lawyers. Gundlach has tried 

to completion more than 100 cases and argued 

numerous appeals involving high-profile clients 

covering a broad field of subjects. He is a trustee 

of the US Supreme Court Historical Society and 

the American C of Trial Lawyers Fndn, where 

he currently serves as secy.” That’s more like it, 

Frank. 

Tom Murphy ’90 wrote: “My dad, Tony Murphy, 

suffered a bad accident in July 2008 and has 

not been in good health since. He fell down the 

stairs, broke his neck, and was never able to 

recover from the surgery. He’s had Parkinson’s 

for about 15 years, which has progressed where 

it made the recovery from the trauma of the 

fall exceptionally difficult. After many months 

in an area hospital, he was transferred to the 

only nursing home that can care for him, in 

upstate CT, far from our family. He is effectively 

a quadriplegic with a trach, so communicating is 

difficult. 

“We have been in touch with his friends 

and your classmates, Bruce Warwick and Paul 

Jenkel, both of whom have seen him since the 

accident. Needless to say, Dad won’t be able to 

make it to the reunion. If you could let some of 

your classmates know that he would love to be 

there if he could, that would be wonderful.” 

Harold ‘Bud’ Rollins writes: “After Colgate, my 

lovely wife, Judith, and I moved to Madison, WI, 

and I earned my MA in geology at UW. Then, in 

1963, on to NYC and Columbia, where I received 

a PhD in geology in 1967. After a couple years 

as an asst prof at Antioch C in OH, Judith and I 

adopted our son, Steven, and took up residence 

in Pitt, working (both of us) at the U of Pitt, me in 

the Dept of Geology and Planetary Sci and Judith 

in the Dept of East Asian Languages and Literatures. 

When I retired from Pitt in 2002 (as prof 

and dept chair at that time), Judith and I moved 

to my old homestead outside of Hamilton. Soon, 

however, we bought a house in Dunnellon, FL, 

and have now become seasonal ‘trackers’ of the 

warm weather. 

“My career has revolved around teaching 

and research. My professional activities have 

been focused upon paleobiology (a passion, I am 

certain, I ‘inherited’ from one of Colgate’s all-time 

great teachers, Bob Linsley), paleoecology, coastal 

geology, and geoarchaeology. My field investigations 

have largely been in the US and S America 

(Peru). I continue to pursue research and publish, 

as a prof emeritus. I hold research associateships 

with the American Museum of Natural History 

(NYC) and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 

(Pitt). Non-professional activities (always the 

best kind!) include fishing and boating with Judith 

on the Withlacoochee River and FL’s Nature 

Coast.” 

Leo Hamill is still living with Leiden V Mutation 

Factor and, to add to his woes, had a stroke 

last Dec, and is living with drugs dealing with 

blood clots and bleeding in or on the brain, so 

he’s struggling with the double-edged sword. Leo 

is eager to hear from any doctor classmates who 

might help — and he’s a willing test subject for 

any new treatments. He’s off to a 2nd opinion at 

Houston Med Ctr. Leo has given me permission 

to print his phone number — 614-880-9411 — if 

anyone has info, that would be helpful. He hopes 

to make the reunion, but is looking more forward 

to reunions 55, 60, etc. 

Good friend to all, Jeffrey Munson, dentist to 

those who pay on the installment plan — or not 

at all — will be at the reunion, of course. He has 

been in regular contact with Bob ‘Popeye’ Wright 

and Strat ‘Mr Insurance’ Kane and their wives. 

They have several yearly get-togethers, while 

Stieg ‘Texan Ranger’ Reichert badgers the group

to come to TX for an armadillo round-up. 

Dave Van Woert stays close to Vegas but occasionally 

goes to Padres games in San Diego, 

UT, and Mexico for fishing and friends. He and 

Tom Haley have retained their close Colgate 

friendship. 

Bob White, after 50 years, has found work he 

loves: new media marketing. With a 25' commute 

to his home office and the worldwide market on 

the web, this classmate has found a way to stay 

out of trouble and stay young. He’ll be traveling 

to Lubbock, TX, at reunion time to watch daughter 

Claudia ’86 attempt to qualify for Kona in the 

Ironman Triathlon. 

Wilkie Wilkerson and many other Gamm’s 

visited campus 3 years ago to witness the deeding 

of the Gamm house to the university. Mike 

Batza ’63, Harry Mariani ’59, Dick Hamilton ’59, 

and Ray Boushie ’61 entertained those attending 

at the Colgate Inn and Hamilton Inn. Wilkie and 

Kathy will be at the 50th. 

Bruce Pearson has kept his life consistent: 

retired recently from many years as a lawyer; 

married for 43 years; lived in same house for 34; 

4 sons over 30; Irish terriers for 29; and 7 grandchildren, 

with more to come. He’s healthy and 

playing softball with the VA Cavalier’s traveling 

teams. Bruce is eager to marry off his 6'2" youngest 

son, Willie, to a classmate’s daughter who 

likes to travel, sleep on the ground, and possesses 

extreme patience. 

Frank Cook is looking forward to seeing Dave 

‘Croftie’ Croft at reunion. Frank has enjoyed 30 

years of genl law practice with his father, Larry 

’32, and other partners. He has 3 boys and 6 

grandchildren. In ’94 he became a family court 

judge and an acting Supreme Court judge for the 

state of NY in Oneida Cty. He retired from that in 

2006 but is still working p/t as a judicial hearing 

officer for Oneida Cty and 5 other surrounding 

counties. He and his wife travel greatly, and 

Frank is now an eager student pilot. 

The most difficult task of class editors is 

to report the death of our classmates: James 

Creedon, a physics major, on the Dean’s List and 

Newman Club member, died of cancer. His family 

requests that donations in his name be made 

to a hospice or cancer center in your area. Other 

classmates who passed recently include: Robert 

Christie, Lambda Chi, math major and active in 

sailing, tennis, cross country, and WRCU; and 

Peter Gross, TKE, math major, Dean’s List, active 

in track, tennis, cross country, choir, and the Glee 

Club. 

Much thanks to so many of you for your kind 

words of my work over the decades. Your updates 

have made the columns and also have kept me 

more connected to Colgate. Please keep them 

coming. 

Steve: 818-999-2777; 788-2557 (fax); 

stevegreenbaum@sbcglobal.net 

1961 

Kent Blair 

4535 Sanderling Circle West 

Boynton Beach, FL 33436-5120 

As I write this column in early April, the weather 

in FL has finally returned to normal after one 

of the coldest winters on record. Although 

the temps were nothing like what we had in 

Hamilton 50 years ago, it was a shocker to us 

snowbirds who come south to play in the sun. 

By the time you read this, our 50th Reunion will 

be less than a year away: June 2–5, 2011. I hope 

you’re making plans to attend. It will be a great 

party. Bill Swezey has started to organize our 

events, which will include a special class dinner 

on Thurs, a golf tourney on Fri, the all-class 

parade (which we will lead) on Sat, and a class 

dinner that evening, at which our new pres, 

Jeffrey Herbst, will be the speaker. Our class will 

be housed in the Wendt U Inn, a new hotel just 

outside of Hamilton. No more sharing dorm 

bathrooms. Shuttle buses will run continuously 

between the campus and the hotel. No more 

driving late at night. 

Once again, I received a large number of 

responses to my March e-mail request for info. 

Remember, any classmate wishing to contact another 

alumnus can do so by checking the Alumni 

Directory at www.colgatealumni.org or calling 

the alumni office, which will provide e-mail addresses, 

phone numbers, etc. 

First, the sad news. My roommate Bill Shoen 

passed away in March. For the past 24 years, he’d 

been in a VA hospital after being the victim of a 

hit and run accident in AZ. He loved rock and roll 

music and was affectionately known as the “Big 

Bopper.” Despite our vastly different personalities, 

he was a great friend. We visited ’Cuse and 

Caz all the time and had a ball. When I was the 

drum major and not enough guys in the band 

showed up for a game, Bill would march holding 

a French horn, which he had no idea how to play, 

just to make the band look bigger. I’ve missed 

him for the past 24 years and will continue to do 

so. On the brighter side, Russ Bartley checked 

in from the redwood hills near Ft Bragg, CA. He 

retired 14 years ago from the UWI as prof of 

history. He and wife Sylvia are deeply involved 

in local history and the geology/paleontology 

of northern CA. They have also co-authored a 

lengthy paper on Thorstein Veblen (remember 

him from “The Worldly Philosophers” in jr-year 

econ) that is scheduled to be published this summer. 

Judy and Brett Beazley are living on Lake 

Keowee in SC, playing some golf and doing a lot 

of boating. They have 4 grandchildren, 1 of whom 

is in college. Brett finds the passage of time scary. 

He’s not alone. Colgate plays Furman this fall, 

and Brett would like to see any classmates who 

come to the game. The Lueckes and Monroes 

are planning to attend. Some day, Ken Monroe 

promises to tell the world exactly what he does, 

but for now it’s all cloak and daggers. I’m waiting 

for that call, Ken. Mike Davie, who left Colgate 

after 2 years, ended up graduating from our then 

archrival Syracuse in ’70. He continues to support 

Colgate, partly in memory of his father, J Ralph 

Davie ’33. Mike retired after 22 years as a USAF 

European SIGINT linguist and then had a 2nd 

career in IT. He and his wife live near Baltimore. 

His 1st-year roommate, Mike Brody, calls him 

each Dec. He closed his e-mail with “it has been a 

good life.” 

John Fornuto gets the award for being the 

1st to e-mail me a photo, a great shot of him 

and Marie on a snowmobile in VT. John talked 

with Ed Ramm, a dorm mate in Stillman. Ed 

was career Navy and served on a destroyer in 

Vietnam. Thanks for your service, Ed. Jay Gaines, 

the youngest member of our class (entered at 16), 

is now 90% retired from practicing medicine. He 

still teaches infectious diseases at Yale, however. 

He and wife Priscilla winter in Santa Barbara 

and summer in New Haven. He started golf 10 

years ago and is a real nut over it, as am I. Jay has 

invited any classmates who would like to play 

the Yale course to contact him. He’d like to hear 

from Steve Baker, Ed Fincke, and Bob Gray, as 

would I. Bill Gernhardt now spends much of the 

winter in San Diego to get away from the gray of 

the Pacific NW. He’d love to see any classmates 

passing through town. Karl Gordinier, who’d 

been enjoying retirement, is now consulting 

at Monmouth U. He finds this very rewarding. 

Fred Holmes wrote from Marin Cty that he and 

wife Janalee have lived in CA for 46 years. They 

raised 2 athletic (surprise, surprise) daughters, 

1 of whom teaches them yoga. Other activities 

include golf, hiking, swimming, biking, and 

fly-fishing. They’ve traveled to China, Spain, 

Scotland, Italy, and Cape Cod. 

I was happy to receive an e-mail from “totaladman,” 

aka Warren Lutz (guess what business 

he was in), as I hadn’t heard from him in quite 

a while. After a wonderful month in China last 

year and a good summer at his home in VT, he 

was laid low by Lyme disease. Long recovery, 

but now he is on the mend. John Marshall wrote 

from Mexico that he plans to continue living 

there for the next 30 years or so. I always remembered 

him as an optimist. His passion is animals. 

He is about to become pres of a local animal 

welfare group, Lakeside Friends of the Animals. 

Bud Sales says that the winter in Pinehurst was 

the pits, almost like being up north. He spent 

months just hunkered down waiting for spring. 

Natick, MA, is having its 1st athletic hall of fame 

inductions and Pete Smith, a member of the ’57 

undefeated Class B champs basketball team, will 

be honored. He writes that Hardy Bedford will be 

back at Colgate this fall for a 50th Reunion of the 

undefeated ’60 soccer team. I’d like to hear more 

about this, Hardy. Jack Stovel still enjoys teaching 

history p/t at a girls’ school in Palo Alto. He 

also loves the winters there. No kidding! Charlie 

Warner is still living in the Atlanta area and 

regularly sees Whitey Schmid, Leon Jones, and 

John Finn. He visited Bob Lambrix in FL during 

the winter in an unsuccessful attempt to escape 

the cold. John Weber checked in from New Zealand, 

where he had just come in 2nd in his age 

group in the NZ Ironman triathlon. Since retiring 

from Cornell Medical School/NY Hospital, he has 

done 29 marathons and 61 triathlons. He’s also a 

passionate art collector. How’s that for a diverse 

set of interests? Maybe Bill Swezey can organize 

some heavy-duty athletic events for our reunion. 

Ed Wilbur e-mailed that wife Marty was making 

great progress after her knee replacement. She’ll 

be able to continue biking along Lake Champlain 

at their house in VT. They and their children 

and grandchildren lead very active outdoor and 

cultural lives. He and Marty have done several 

mission trips to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 

He is involved with the Church at Prison and 

teaches a math course at VT tech. 

Thanks again for all the e-mails, and please 

keep those cards and letters coming. 

Kent: 561-731-5331(winter); 908-277-3295 (summer); 

kblairjr@aol.com 

1962 

Stuart Angert 

179 Greenaway Road 

Amherst, NY 14226-4165 

Well, my begging seems to have had some effect! 

I received several responses from our classmates. 

Bruce Clark writes of his recent trip to HI, where 

wife Judith was born. They were joined by their 

kids and grandchildren. This was their 3rd trip; 

the last, in 1992, was a washout but this one was 

ideal. “We visited places of Judith’s memory: the 

blow-hole, big wave beach, the Bishop Museum. 

We saw wild-escaped parrots, Brazilian cardinals, 

mourning doves, cockroaches as big as Chihuahuas. 

We all went on a cruise to swim with the 

dolphins and turtles. They passed beneath us as 

if we were seaweed. A humpback whale sounded 

with its tail fluke in the air. I read ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ 

to the grandchildren. I was hoping we would 

see a live Hawaiian mongoose. We all went to a 

luau on the beach. The kids and Judith danced on 

the stage with the native dancers. We ate wild 

boar. I have a little radio with earphones that I 

Maroon’d… 

in New Orleans, La. 

Ryan Meyers ’10 recently launched a 

new venture with his mother and aunt 

called Cook New Orleans, which offers 

five-day culinary excursions in The Big 

Easy. Through the company’s evolution, 

Meyers, a native New Orleanian, has 

immersed himself in the culture and 

cuisine of the city. 

Don’t miss the… hands-on cooking 

classes at New Orleans School of 

Cooking. Roll up your sleeves and cook 

alongside New Orleans chefs using recipes, 

ingredients, and techniques passed 

down through generations. 

Best tour for your taste buds… Take 

a culinary history tour and go into the 

kitchen of the city’s oldest restaurant, 

Antoines, down Pirates Alley, and 

through the French Quarter, all while 

sampling the classics of New Orleans 

cuisine, from gumbo and muffuletta to 

pralines, red beans, and more. 

Antiques and boutiques… There is 

nothing better than “Rue Royal” (Royal 

Street) for shop after shop of antiques 

and fine locally made wares. And there is 

always a street performer to entertain 

you while you shop! 

Coolest nighttime adventure… walking 

cocktail tour. The cocktail was invented 

in the French Quarter, and this tour not 

only gives you the history of each drink, 

but you also get to taste them all. From 

the popular Hurricane to the Sazerac, 

you will have the chance to imbibe these 

specialties in the place where it all 

began. 

Stay… in the Vieux Carré (French Quarter) 

in the Bourbon Orleans or a Creole 

townhouse with a beautiful courtyard 

and antique stained glass windows, 

where you can see and hear the jazz 

come alive right outside your window. 

Have tips for people who might be 

maroon’d in your town? Write to us at 

scene@colgate.edu and put Maroon’d in 

the subject line. 


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listened to on and off during the night. I heard 

something about a tsunami warning for HI but it 

didn’t register and I went back to sleep. A while 

later I was wakened by the next door neighbor’s 

dog moaning. It hadn’t made a sound before 

that. At about 4:30 in the morning, a car drove 

into our driveway. It was Judith’s brother Petrie. 

He told us about the tsunami alert and that 

we had to get to high ground. We learned that 

there had been an 8.8 Richter scale earthquake 

in Chile; 8.8 was exponentially larger than the 

Haiti quake a month ago. The shock waves were 

traveling toward HI with the speed of a jet plane. 

It took less than 20 minutes to wake everybody, 

pack up for 4 kids and 5 adults, clean out the 

refrigerator, and head out in a caravan toward 

Petrie’s family, who live in the mountains. They 

were predicting 15' to 20' waves. We unloaded all 

9 of us into Petrie and Dorothy’s apt. The tsunami 

sirens confirmed that it was a serious condition. 

Scientists predicted the 1st wave would hit Oahu 

precisely at 11 AM. There would be aftershocks 

that would cause maybe even bigger waves. Petrie 

said there was no easy way up the mountain. 

Neighbors coming up the hill said that traffic 

was bumper-to-bumper downtown. People were 

screaming at each other. TV cameras in high-rise 

hotels at the shore were ready to broadcast the 

massive wave as it devastated. We watched stopaction 

photography showing the sea level at the 

shore going down as the wave built and then 

… nothing. The tsunami wasn’t as big as most 

of the waves we had seen surfers using on the 

northern coast. We captured on film the family’s 

state of tension as the wave approached.” Bruce’s 

experience can be found on YouTube at http:// 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgnP_bj-SZk. 

On a sad note, we lost another member of 

our class. Phil Jackson, US Army (retired), passed 

away in DC. Michael Sullivan and Bob Wollam 

were bedside for the week prior to his death. 

That act speaks volumes for the humanity of 

Michael and Bob, and for the permanent bond 

that was formed by many of our classmates. Phil 

worked tirelessly to improve the lives of children 

in the DC foster care system. 

We also learned of the loss of Bella Duffy, wife 

of Bob Duffy, to lung cancer. Our thoughts are 

with you and your family, Bob. For those who 

wish to contact Bob, let me know. 

Pinky and Dave Luerssen just returned from 

a long weekend to the Orlando area, where they 

reuned with the Vintage Thirteen, the group of 

Colgate Thirteen members from the ’60s era. “We 

sang at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World and 

had a great time.” Dan Adams adds that he and 

wife Suzanne had a wonderful weekend with 

the group. Dan also identifies the classmates and 

spouses in attendance. “About 30 attended. The 

event was hosted by Lynda and Bud Hedinger 

’69. From our class, we had a good turnout: in 

addition to Suzanne and I, we also had Dick 

Murdock, JoAnne and Tom Behr, Marty and Pete 

Behr, Jennifer and Beau Clark, and Dave and 

Pinky Luerssen. Suzanne and I are planning a 

Bicycle Adventures trip in July, which includes 

what is billed as a 6-mile ‘ride to the sun,’ so 

we’re getting in shape now. We did one last year 

to the Columbia Gorge and it was fabulous.” I am 

assuming that Dan and Suzanne are taking the 

ride through Glacier Natl Park and the “Going 

to the Sun Highway,” which is truly spectacu- 

“When I was the drum major and not enough guys in the band showed up for a game, Bill Shoen would 

march holding a French horn, which he had no idea how to play, just to make the band look bigger. I’ve 

missed him for the past 24 years and will continue to do so.” — Kent Blair ’61 

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lar. Beau Clark also reported on the gathering 

in Orlando, adding Bruce Hutchins ’63 to the 

members attending, as well as their performance 

at Bergamo’s Restaurant. Visit our class page at 

colgatealumni.org to read a full report on the trip 

by Pete Behr and Priit Vesilind ’64 on the message 

board and see a photo on the photo gallery. 

Dave Luerssen also alerted us to the following: 

Doug Naismith recently was named First Citizen 

2010 by the Suffolk and North Suffolk Rotary 

Clubs. Aside from being the former head of 

Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, Doug is active in 

such organizations as the Suffolk Center for Cultural 

Arts, Obici Healthcare Foundation, Suffolk 

Sister Cities, Suffolk Partnership for a Healthy 

Community, and more. 

Ted Vaill and his girlfriend of many years, 

Joan Yang, “had a wonderful time in Buenos 

Aires in Jan 2010, a city that is a combination 

of Paris and NYC. It was summer there, and we 

danced some tango (now there’s a photo op), 

and went shopping and bar hopping in Palermo 

Soho, where our home exchange luxury apt was 

located. We also ate Argentine beef and tasted 

Argentine Malbec wine, some of the best of 

both we have ever had. We did a day trip across 

the River Plate to Colonia, Uruguay, an ancient 

walled city, and flew to Iguaçu Falls, which Joan 

admitted was more impressive than Niagara 

Falls. On the way back, we stopped in Santiago, 

Chile, and hiked in the Chilean Andes, a month 

before the earthquake hit the Santiago area. Joan 

has bought a condo in NYC, so I will be spending 

more time there in the coming months, and I 

hope to see more of our East Coast classmates, 

get to some Colgate football games, and visit the 

campus more often.” As an aside, Bill Sheehan, 

who is no longer with us, and I trekked to Iguaçu 

Falls in 1960 when we were members of the 

Argentine Study Group. At that time, the area 

was very primitive. We traveled from Asuncion, 

Paraguay, by oxcart, and crossed the Paraná River 

from Paraguay into Brazil in a dugout canoe. We 

spent 2 weeks in the Mato Grosso and Pantanal 

with the Guarani Indians. The experience was 

life defining. 

Rob Sullivan sent the brief note: “The good 

news is that I am still around to read your plea, 

and tell you that I really have nothing new to 

report.” Rob, we are pleased to have learned that 

you are alive and well! Bucky Dalton also sent 

one sentence. I thought that attys were paid by 

the word. 

Bill Murphy, who came to Colgate as a 

transfer student in his jr year, joins us with this 

comprehensive retrospective. “This is a quick 

update to cover about 50 years. I taught HS math 

and science in Miami Beach for 1 year, and then 

joined the Navy for 6 years — flight training, 

various aviation billets from being a navigator in 

the north Atlantic, based in Canada, to flying out 

of Iceland. Went back to the training command 

and became qualified for airborne combat info 

officer (Navy AWACS), and then again went back 

and became an instructor in fighter tactics. Final 

active duty tour was as a range safety officer in 

the Bahamas, working on the development of 

what at that time was the most advanced ASW 

(anti-submarine weapon) weapon we had. Went 

into the naval air reserve and served in a number 

of squadrons, became XO (I think that this means 

“exec officer”) of 1, and later had a command of 

my own. Retired quite some time back. I then 

received an MBA as well as a JD. In private life, I 

became an investment banker in the early ’70s, 

and later an atty. Have a firm in N Miami Beach, 

and still much more active than I would like. 

Mostly do commercial litigation. I am trying 

to reduce my law practice as I am working on 

developing some business interests in China, and 

have made 3 trips there in the last 3 years. I am 

the mgr of an LLC that markets water-treatment 

equipment for a number of major internatl 

manufactures of same. I still do a little running, 

but not enough, and until I had an injury, I was 

on a dragon boat team that last year won the 

Community Division World Championship. Like 

Batman, I have a lot of toys, but most are broken 

right now: sports car, 1980 MGB, all original; 

Rhodes 22' sailboat; and a small motorcycle. Years 

ago, I took a trip to Annapolis to watch a Colgate/ 

Navy football game. Although I am retired Navy, 

there was no question as to which side I was 

rooting for. I have gone back to Hamilton maybe 

3 times over the years, the most recent about 4 

years ago when I was looking for a place in NY 

or New England to perhaps spend part of the hot 

months down here. Saw the formerly ‘Red’ Raiders 

beat Princeton, and a great change of season, 

something we do not get much of down here.” 

Bill, thank you for sharing your inspiring story as 

you continue to reinvent yourself. 

Jim Delong writes: “In 1964 I purchased a 1932 

Chevy Cabriolet with the intent of restoring it to 

perfection. It took me 3 days to totally dismantle 

it, and since then, have been towing it from city 

to city as my career progressed. Earlier this year I 

picked up where I left off some 40 years ago, and 

am making significant progress bringing it back 

to original pristine condition. I also recently took 

a run at pursuing a new career by completing all 

the prerequisites for RN nursing. Got in the program 

at a local college and found myself working 

8–10 hours a day with ‘clinicals,’ studying, and 

classroom instruction. I visualized myself going 

from Tahiti to St Johns and other economically 

depressed regions assisting the poor and infirm. 

However, started listening to the horror stories 

regarding potential litigation against practitioners, 

and asked myself if all the time and effort 

was worth the hassle. I decided no. I have now redirected 

my efforts into the profession of antique 

automobile mechanic!” 

Michael Blanc writes: “I must confess I have 

lost touch with my Colgate friends and classmates. 

Except for my son’s graduation in 1996, 

I never returned to the hill. I, however, treasure 

the education I received. Because of SAT results 

I began concentrating in math and physics. But 

I did poorly in chemistry, so my dream of med 

school extinguished. By the middle of soph year 

I was on probation, and was forced to change my 

major. I had received more Ds than anyone in my 

class and, yet, managed to survive (Editor’s comment: 

That statement reminds me of Flounder’s 

response to Dean Wormer in Animal House when 

asked what he had to say for himself when he 

received 4 Fs and a D. ‘Well, Dean, I must be concentrating 

too much on one subject.’). During a 

guidance session, the counselor learned I loved to 

send away for yacht catalogs, put tracing paper 

over the floor plans, and redesign the interiors. 

He asked the obvious question no one, not even 

me, had ever asked, ‘Ever thought of making this 

a career?’ As the trite saying goes, ‘The rest is 

history.’ After that session, I began taking art and 

philosophy courses. I learned I could argue philosophy 

as well as the bright premeds in Kendrick 

House! By the end of jr year I was on Dean’s 

List. I went on to Princeton Architectural School 

(for which I was totally prepared by Colgate) to 

get a master’s in architecture, worked in NYC for 

10 years. Then in 1970 I opened my practice in 

Stamford, CT. I will celebrate my 70th bday in Oct 

but my practice continues to thrive, and I love it. 

We do predominantly residential architecture, 

but I still send away for boat catalogs! 

“I have slowed working a little. Five years 

ago, Mimika, my wife of 40 years, and I bought 

an apt in Palm Beach, and from Oct–April we 

go for 10 days a month. During the CT summers 

we do a lot of boating on LI Sound. I close with 

a wonderful and significant event: Christopher 

’96 and wife Sarah blessed our family with 

a granddaughter, Simone Kathryn, on March 23.” 

This retrospective reinforces the notion that one 

mentor can change the life, and, in fact, save the 

life of another. It’s a beautiful story. 

“Aloha” from Larry Stults. “Stuart, thanks for 

your attention to duty in trying to get us slackers 

to turn in our papers on time; not much different 

than as undergrads. Living way out in mid-Pacific, 

I don’t cross paths with anything Colgate very 

often. A year or so ago, I did make e-mail contact 

with Sigma Nu brother Dick Breslin, USAF, 

retired, living happily in Biloxi, MI. With my wife, 

Takako, a former JAL purser, and our 13-year-old 

son, Sam, I again toured the ancient capital of 

Kyoto, Japan, over spring break. It’s a city of over 

1,000 temples, so always fascinating. This visit, 

by pre-appointment we toured both the old Imperial 

Palace and Moss Temple (Koke Dera) with 

vast Japanese garden-style grounds beautifully 

carpeted with several species of moss. Kyoto, and 

neighboring Nara, give a whole new definition 

to ‘old,’ eg Moss Temple was constructed in 792, 

but ‘renovated’ in 1388. Our trip was celebrating 

Sam’s successful 1st season on the intermediatelevel, 

inter-scholastic golf team at Punahou 

School (Obama’s alma mater) here in Honolulu. 

For those who remember meeting my father, 

Allen, we rejoice in his remarkable health and fitness 

approaching age 97, living in a wonderfully 

luxurious elder home, Splendido, in Oro Valley, 

AZ, where we visit at least 2–3 times annually. 

Best wishes to ol’ soccer and lax teammates, New 

Trier HS alums, other Colgate pals, and brothers 

of Sigma Nu.” 

As for Joyce and me, we are on our way to 

Italy and Greece with Sue and Jim Himoff ’65. 

Please continue to send the latest news. Note 

that due to publication dates, your submission 

will not appear in the next issue of Scene, but 

will appear in the subsequent issue. Stay well. 

Stuart: 716-913-7772; 

stuart.angert@roadrunner.com 

1963 

Carl G Langbert 

Princeton Manor 

46 Edgemere Dr 

Kendall Park, NJ 08824-7000 

At this writing, the spring of 2010 is upon us. I’m 

sure that it is beautiful in the Chenango Valley. 

Barbara and I had a very meaningful visit 

to SE Asia, especially Vietnam, which was 40 

years since I had been there in 1968–69 with 

the Army in the 44th Medical Brigade and also 

attached to the 1st air cavalry up in Quan Loe on 

the Cambodian border. Our trip definitely elicited 

many feelings, eg waiting to go on R&R in HI, the 

ultimate sacrifice made by Colgate’s 20 men, etc.

I received a notice of the death of William Gallagher. 

I remember Bill well. He was a fraternity 

brother at DU, played baseball and football, and 

also majored in history. He died on Feb 27, 2009. 

Our condolences go out to all of Bill’s family. 

Got a call months ago from Dodge Ferreira, 

who was still contemplating about a visit to 

Haiti many years ago, where he accidentally met 

Mel Klein, who also was on business at this time. 

Have also spoken to Doug Reilly, Co Bertsche, 

and Walt Schoenewolf. Everything is well with 

all of them, which I’m always glad to hear. 

Although Reunion 50 is 3 years away, I’ve 

been doing some preliminary work for it. In that 

capacity, I spoke to Mike Batza in order to get his 

always excellent advice. This time was not an 

exception. Also spoke to Dick Jackson to get him 

involved. He, too, is looking forward to participating 

in efforts for our class gift. 

Received a letter from Richard Berleth, who 

recently published his new book Bloody Mohawk 

about the French and Indian War and the 

American Revolution on NY’s frontier. “Enclosed 

is a copy of my new book on the history of the 

Mohawk Valley and the country around Colgate. 

You’ll notice the Payne plinth in the illustrations, 

and if you read the text, you’ll be introduced to 

the history of Hamilton Village in the aftermath 

of the Revolution. I think this will add an interesting 

dimension to the area around the college 

for ’Gates of our era and later. It is available in all 

Barnes & Noble retailers as well as other outlets.” 

News from Jim Barnshaw. I plan to get 

together with Jim very soon, especially since 

we live close to each other. “About a year ago, I 

started hiking with Keith Johnson, my fraternity 

brother. Keith is well, and along with his 25+ 

completed marathons since leaving Colgate, 

where he was not a runner, he has hiked all the 

high peaks in the Catskills and soon will complete 

a winter round. He has helped guide me up 

and down these interesting mountains. 

“I am staying busy with several volunteer 

activities in NJ after a very busy 3-year stint as 

president of the Adirondack Forty-Sixer’s hiking 

club. Still plenty of time to play golf and tennis 

along with serious hiking in the Catskills and 

Adirondacks during winter and the rest of the 

year. Trying to get back into running but not 

easy.” 

Received more info about Roger Busch and 

his discus. The USATF Natl Masters Track & Field 

Championships were held in Oshkosh, WI, last 

week. After winning the silver medal in the age 

65–69 group for the past 3 years, Roger won the 

gold. The guy he beat is an 11-time natl champion 

and a former masters world record holder. Roger 

will be defending his title this July in Sacramento. 

He said he is a long shot to win this year 

because he will be an elder in the age group at 

69 and there are 3 excellent 65-year-old youngsters 

entering the group this year. Roger said he 

will have a better shot in 2011 when he will move 

up to the 70–75 group. 

The following note was received from Steve 

Gold: “I have been relatively active despite 

some serious physical limitations that prevent 

me from walking much (a right knee bursitis 

and complications following back surgery in 

2003). I practice 2 days a week and teach in a 

hospital residency program on a limited basis 

in the periodontics grad program at Columbia. I 

have continued to write a quarterly column on 

dental history (odd topics like “insider trading,” 

“dentists and cowboys,” and Hitler’s teeth) and 

recently finished a history of a regional specialty 

group on its 50th anniversary. 

“I have enjoyed reading the letters in the recent 

Scene about the careers of Steve Lefrak ’60 

and Mel Watkins ’62, both of whom I knew while 

at Colgate. I have followed Mel’s career since his 

days at the NY Times Book Review and remember 

what an inspiration he was as a talented basketball 

player and a gifted thinker. 

“I do get around well enough to have gone 

salmon fishing again in Iceland (one of my great 

passions). I have been keeping up with issues at 

Colgate by attending NY events like the Charlie 

Rose panel and the Thomas Friedman panel … 

both of which were outstanding. My son, Geoff 

’86, who is an alumni council member and has 

been active on the annual fund, is a constant 

source of pride and info.” 

Hope everyone has a great summer. 

Carl: 732-422-0556 (H); 247-0630 (O); 

545-1934 (fax); barbaralangbert@aol.com 

1964 

Richard J Johnson 

22 Goose Point Ln 

Box 1825 

Duxbury, MA 02331-5120 

Obviously, my best days as a predictor of sporting 

event outcomes is apparently past, and I will 

make no more predictions until my prescience 

returns … hopefully, that will be before football 

season. 

The Colgate Thirteen [Geezer Division] took 

over Disney World for a weekend in March. After 

a warm-up cocktail party and dinner get-together 

at the home of Bud Hedinger ’69, a bevy of 

former Thirteeners entertained Mickey, Minnie, 

Snow White, and Donald as well as any vacationers 

within earshot both at the Central Pavilion 

and at various locations around the park. They 

then spent hours practicing their new hit song 

“It’s a Small World After All,” while endlessly 

riding the teacups. Steve Steele reported that 

the aging Thirteeners were better than ever and 

had lost nothing off of their respective fastballs. 

In addition to Cub, the Class of 1964 was well represented 

by Priit [my name is Squeaky, but you 

can call me Juho] Vesilind, Kurt [Tonto] Brown, 

Dr Edward [Biff] Jones, John [CA Dreamin’] 

Weingart, and Jim [Clipper] Citrano. Jim Citrano 

actually may have missed the singing part, but 

certainly not the party part. Hey, where was Pete 

Halstead? Sounds like another great Thirteen reunion; 

keep up the great work. For a full account 

of the trip, written by Priit and Pete Behr ’62, as 

well as a photo of the group, visit our class page 

at www.colgatealumni.org. 

You are strictly forbidden from profiting in 

any way from the following insider info: Mike 

Heffernan, after 8 straight winning elections and 

32 years of living the good life as a probate court 

judge, is not going to seek re-election and will retire 

from the probate court. Mike’s legal practice 

will stay open for business, and Mike will leave 

the door open for a possible run at Chris Dodd’s 

Senate seat in the near future. Congrats, Mike, 

and good luck on your next adventure. 

Relaying good news to you for the Scene is always 

enjoyable, but hearing about the passing of 

friends and/or classmates is not, and I am sorry 

to again have to report that we have lost 2 more 

of our classmates. 

Dave Newbert called me one evening to tell 

me the sad news that Mark Leonardi had died 

in a bicycling accident. To me, Mark was the 

sleeper excellent athlete at Colgate. During each 

intramural season at Phi Gam, his name would 

come up and we would ask the question, how 

do we handle Mark Leonardi? While we knew 

he would be a problem, he would still, of course, 

beat me on a deep pattern to win one of the football 

championship games. I will also never forget 

making the mistake of thinking that I could 

A super show 

For the past 10 years, scores of young performers have been given the chance for their 

stars to shine, singing, dancing, and acting before a packed house, thanks to the creative 

energy of Anne Eddy Beaty ’76. 

Beaty volunteers her time to create and direct the hugely popular annual SuperShow 

at Central Middle School (CMS) in Greenwich, Conn., which has become a true communitybuilding 

event. Far from a conventional school play, the SuperShow features skits based 

on the best of Hollywood, Broadway, television, and the Internet, performed by students 

from CMS and its feeder schools. Alumni of the program often return to serve as guest 

actors, dancers, instructors, stagehands, ushers, and backstage assistants. Beaty takes a 

truly inclusive approach to theater: she does not hold auditions, there are no lead roles, and 

everyone gets a turn — even the audience. 

Lifelong Greenwich resident Tom McGarrity ’79 (whose own son Tucker has performed 

in the SuperShow and whose wife, Debbie, coordinates the volunteers) wrote in a letter to 

the local paper, “While there are scores of volunteers who are critical to the success of the 

show, it is Anne’s blood, sweat, and, yes, tears that inspire our children to have a memory of 

a lifetime — to be a star!” 

This year, Beaty got a bit of the star treatment herself when the Colgate Thirteen — two 

of whom are SuperShow alumni — made a special appearance and serenaded her as their 

finale. 

Beaty’s theater background includes teaching and directing in New York City. She also 

directed a series of performances by New York City Fame dancers and inner-city teenage 

actors in a national tour aimed at raising awareness and funds for women in crisis and 

providing a productive outlet for youths, breakdancers, hip-hop artists, and rappers. 

– Rebecca Costello 

handle the 440 dash for Phi Gam in the track 

championships my sr year. Hockey had ended 

just a few weeks earlier, so how hard could it be 

to run all out for a minute or so? When I lined up 

and Mark was standing next to me, I remembered 

getting beaten deep in football and knew 

that I was in trouble. My plan was simple: run 

as fast as I could (it was only 440 yards) for the 

whole race. We took off together, one tall fluid 

runner and one less tall, less fluid runner, one set 

of legs flowing, the other set pumping (or maybe 

flailing), side by side, dead even through 220 

or so yards, at which point my arms fell to my 

side and I fell over, totally drained of energy and 

unable to function. I lost my lunch and was sick 

for hours … and Mark, of course, won the race in a 

breeze. He was one of those tall, graceful athletes, 

with a very quiet personal demeanor. In recent 

years, I had heard from Newbie that Mark skied 

a lot in New England and I had hoped to run into 

him some time, but it just didn’t happen. As you 

will read in his obit, Mark met with great success 

in NH as a businessman and as a community 

leader, and he will be very much missed by 

his family and friends. I will always remember 

Mark as well, one of the really nice, quiet guys at 

Colgate, who was one of the best athletes on a 

campus of really good athletes. Besides his wife, 

Prebbie, Mark leaves behind daughter Lisa Meuse 

and her husband Adam, son Mark F and wife 

Susan, brother Gene, sister Marilyn Taylor, and 4 

grandchildren. 

Kurt Brown e-mailed the bad news that Rett 

Foster had passed away after a difficult battle 

with cancer. At Colgate everyone knew that 

Rett was a real character, and Deni and I got 

to know Rett and Judy, as well as Nancy and 

Sandy Conde, far better when we all worked 

together at Tucker Anthony in the late ’70s and 

all of the ’80s. In Bermuda at one Tucker conf, 

we were riding around on motor scooters (corp 

Hell’s Angels) and generally acting badly. We 

were riding up and down the hills at the Castle 

Harbour Golf Course (illegally), and as a few of 


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Photo courtesy of Tom McGarrity

Kelley Raab Mayo ’81 and her husband, Yvon 

Bridging mind and spirit 

As an ordained minister and assistant professor of psychiatry, Kelley Raab Mayo ’81 is one 

of the few taking a unique approach to mental health by bridging the gap between mind and 

spirit. She hopes that her new book, Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health, will be used 

to better integrate spirituality and spiritual resources into the mental health treatment 

model. The group of scholars in this niche is so small that in 2007, Raab Mayo co-founded 

the International Association for Spirituality and Mental Health so that the members could 

meet every few months to network and collaborate. 

“It’s coming, but it’s slow,” Raab Mayo said. “Not too many psychologists or psychiatrists 

have been trained in or are interested in spirituality, so they don’t often recognize that it 

can be important to clients.” She added, “I wrote the book so it would be recognized that this 

can be very important in healing and recovery from mental health issues.” 

Raab Mayo said she has pondered the concepts of God and spirituality since childhood. 

At Colgate, she became involved in University Church, Intervarsity, and a group that explored 

religious questions called Skeptics and Others Seeking. Through her participation in 

these groups, the university chaplain at the time, Rev. Coleman Brown, became a mentor to 

her. Although she had entered Colgate intending to become a doctor like her father, Brown’s 

influence swayed her decision to go into the seminary after graduation. “He put the idea in 

my mind of doing pastoral counseling or some sort of chaplaincy work,” she said. 

Today, as chaplain at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Canada, Raab Mayo 

counsels people on an individual and group basis, provides spiritual care to clients and 

staff, and conducts religious services. Part of the healing process, she believes, involves 

coaxing out people’s creative and spiritual sides. “[It’s] helping people look at what their 

deepest values are and their sources of meaning and purpose,” she said. 

In a research study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Raab Mayo 

collaborated with a psychologist and a psychiatrist on a spiritually oriented approach to the 

treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. “I used exercises to help people discover what 

their values were and have more coherence with their meditation and mindfulness practices 

to calm anxiety,” she explained. 

Some tools that she believes can help people understand who they are include reflective 

activities such as walking in the woods, journaling, reading spiritual texts, and music. 

The chaplain practices what she preaches. Music is one of her personal creative outlets 

and was another seed that was nurtured at Colgate. Raab Mayo played violin in the University 

Orchestra, took her freshman seminar on Bach with Marietta Cheng, and spent two Jan 

Plans focused on music — one with a retired professional violinist and the other with the 

university organist at the time. Tendonitis forced her to put the violin down, so for the past 

year, she’s been learning the trumpet and playing in a beginner band. 

Her book allowed her to try her skills at fiction writing, a creative outlet that she hopes 

to delve into more. The last chapter of the book is a fictional account that serves as an 

example of how creative expression can play a healing role. Raab Mayo does not negate the 

need for pharmacological treatment, yet she believes that medication is not the whole answer. 

In “A Story of Salome,” the main character, Jesus’s sister, learns to stabilize her mental 

health issues by playing an instrument, painting, and dancing. 

“I’d like to get more into creative writing, but it’s a future enterprise,” Raab Mayo said. In 

the meantime, the chaplain/professor has plenty to keep her busy. 


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George Popadynec 

us sat at the bottom of a hill regrouping, Rett 

flew down the hill at top speed, slammed on his 

brakes, and did a perfect sliding stop right beside 

us. As it was happening, I thought that a terrible 

accident was about to happen, but Rett pulled 

it off, laughing uproariously at his own wild act 

and at the looks on our faces. It was a classic Rett 

moment, pushing the envelope and loving every 

minute of it. Rett’s dynamic personality helped 

him become a very successful businessman, an 

incredibly generous philanthropist, a tireless 

leader in community and charitable causes, and 

a loving family man. When you read his accomplishments, 

you wonder how one person could 

find either the time or the energy to do so much 

for others. He did, though. With Rett’s passing, 

Clarkson U lost its chair of the Board of Trustees 

and northern NY lost one of its most energetic 

and enthusiastic leaders and fundraisers. He will 

be sorely missed in the upstate community and 

by his friends and family. In addition to his wife, 

Judy, he leaves son Benjamin, daughter Katherine 

V Meyer, brother Henry, sister Susan Work, and 4 


Thanks to all you e-mailers for keeping us 

laughing: Dan Baird, Biff Atwater, Kurt Brown, 

Mike Foley, Gary Ripple, Bill Sheeser, John 

Weingart, and Norm Platt, among others, have 

done a great job of keeping up us to date on the 

latest political humor (and other types of humor 

as well). 

Do your best to keep yourselves healthy and 

let your classmates know what is going on in 

your lives. Take care of yourselves. 

Dick: 800-829-9199 x5148; johnsonri@stifel.com 

1965 

Garner Simmons 

22126 Providencia St 

Woodland Hills, CA 91364-4133 

“Luck,” at last, has smiled on Bill Barich. That’s 

the title of the new HBO series, the pilot of which 

he co-wrote with series creator David Milch (Hill 

Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, etc). Set in the 

world of thoroughbred horseracing, the series 

has acquired an impressive pedigree including 

actors Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte, and Dennis 

Farina. Bill and his wife, Imelda, are here in LA for 

the shooting as Bill works with Milch to develop 

additional scripts. Sheila and I met them for 

lunch at a quiet Mexican restaurant in Topanga. 

Meanwhile, Bill’s next book, Long Way Home: On 

the Trail of Steinbeck’s America — the one he researched 

while traveling cross country and writing 

a blog for the NY Times during the run-up to 

the 2008 presidential election — will be out in 

the fall, just in time for the midterm elections. 

Having read in the last column about George 

Johnson’s sojourn into Thailand, Joe DeLuca 

wrote, asking for George’s e-mail address. He 

added: “As for Bic and I, in theatrical terms, you 

can say that I am now ‘at liberty.’ My job with the 

Defense Department ended in Oct, so I guess I’m 

officially retired until I decide to do something 

else. Bic is still working and will probably retire 

from her job with DOD in Jan or July 2011. Glad 

to hear Ken Roffe is still motoring on. We Westchester 

guys, he from New Rochelle and me from 

Port Chester, have to keep busy. Hope to give Karl 

Maggard a call while we are on the Gulf Coast.” 

As for Lord Jim (nee: George), himself, I finally 

heard from the intrepid adventurer. George 

Johnson, indeed, has slipped his moorings in 

Stuart, FL, and wound up in Jomtien, Conburi, 

Thailand — a beach that’s 80 clicks south of 

Bangkok along the eastern coast facing the Gulf 

of Thailand. He writes: “My longtime friend Asa 

Voak ’68 has been living in Thailand for 9 years 

and found the lifestyle very agreeable. Had 

been trying to persuade me to visit for many 

years and I finally decided to get out of Dodge 

for a while. My stay here was a real eye opener. 

I decided to go back to FL, settle my affairs, and 

return to Thailand. There is a young lady I met, a 

mere lass of 50, who helped me heal up after my 

motorbike crash in Feb. Spending a lot of time in 

prayer and meditation together and still hanging 

out with Bill Wilson’s friends (28 years dry on 

3/12). I have been trying to learn Thai on my own 

with extremely modest results. I don’t know how 

long I will be here but suspect it will be quite a 

while.” 

Meanwhile, in a more tranquil vein, Frank 

Pommersheim sends along a photo of a seated 

Buddha floating among the spring blossoms. Beside 

it is a poem, presumably Frank’s: “Buddha’s 

Cookbook: Without a recipe/or ingredient/Every 

morsel/great and good.” 

Received an article from Phil Karli on his 

son Dr David Karli’s work in sports medicine. A 

physical medicine and rehab specialist with the 

Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, CO, David has 

been working with MN Twins star closer, Joe 

Nathan, whose UCL tear threatens to sideline 

him. David is an expert in platelet-rich-plasma 

therapy, having performed more than 1,500 nonoperative 

PRP treatments at the clinic. Justifiably 

proud, Phil writes: “David’s specialization in this 

relatively new area of medicine has put him 

on the cutting edge. I guess he got his mother’s 

brains.” 

March 27, Peter Vogel, Pat and Bob Improta, 

and I attended a dinner honoring Lee Woodward 

as Camarillo, CA’s 2010 Man of the Year. Having 

retired from the Search Assoc, the job placement 

firm he helped found, Lee’s community service 

has been exemplary. Given that he and Joan have 

3 daughters and a son, he spent 21 years coaching 

his own children’s teams in AYSO soccer and 

basketball. However, for the past 13 years he has 

been coaching kids who were physically and 

mentally challenged to play AYSO VIP soccer and 

basketball. Also, for the past dozen years, Lee has 

taught reading to non-native speakers, and for 

over a decade, he and Joan have done weekly 

visits to local hospital terminal wards dressed as 

Raggedy Ann and Andy. Following the event, we 

adjourned to the Woodwards’ for a cerebration 

that included many of his VIP kids. Already on 

the job, Lee has since volunteered at Camarillo’s 

Juvenile Detention Ctr to tutor young offenders 

who want to get their HS equivalency degree 

and try to turn their lives around. 

Having read the update on Keehn Gray’s situation, 

Bud Eisberg e-mailed for Keehn’s contact 

info. He also reported: “My ski season slowed 

down a bit when I broke my collarbone doing 

the old ‘catch an edge’ trick at Tahoe a few weeks 

ago. The local orthopod said I should be back to 

normal in 8 weeks. At least, that’s what I heard. 

Lynn claims the doctor said 6 months. Anyhow, 

Andy Warner planned to come out West to ski in 

early April.” 

Kudos to Charlie Veley whose Gilbert & Sullivan 

on Wall Street, book and lyrics by Charles 

Veley, music by Arthur Sullivan, has just been 

selected by the LA Academy for New Musical 

Theater as best new musical for 2010. As winner, 

Charlie’s musical received a workshop with the 

Academy Repertory Company in May and a 

concert reading in Nov. 

Ken Roffe sent along a note from Jim Muzzy 

’67, a fellow TKE, announcing the 90th birthday 

on April 16 of Ruth Wallace, the long time TKE 

“cook, house mother, and early warning device 

for visits from the dean.” Any TKEs reading this 

who weren’t contacted by Jim and who would 

like a copy of his tribute to Ruthie’s life over

the past 45 years, let me know and I will pass it 

along. 

Congratulations to Craig Bell, whose new 

novel Berkshire October: The Final Mission of an 

Accidental Spy is now in print. Copies will be 

available through the Colgate Bookstore. In the 

interest of full disclosure, Doug Quelch and I 

had some small part in this. Several years back, 

when Craig first wrote to say he was writing 

a book that was partially set in Saudi Arabia, I 

suggested he contact Doug, who had lived in 

that part of the world and is also an exceptional 

proofreader. Craig took the advice, and Doug was 

instrumental in convincing Craig to rework the 

text and find a publisher. It came full circle when 

Doug asked me to read and make suggestions 

as well. But all this is minor compared to energy 

and time put in by Craig himself. Generous as 

always, Craig has included a thank you in the 

book. 

Heard from Peter Clark: “Enjoyed your 

mention of artist Lee Brown Coye’s mural at 

the Hamilton Post Office. When I was on the 

Advisory Board of Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery in 

2005, we reviewed his work for a show the Picker 

was about to do on his body of work. I went to 

the Yale-Colgate hockey game in Hamilton and 

ran into Lee Woltman, who is doing well. Enjoyed 

reading the tale of Mike Bragg’s GA license plate. 

Would love to see more stories including memories 

from the 1961-65 era. Retirement is going 

well. I’ve become something of ‘gym-rat.’ Doing 

lots of swimming to help rehab from lower back 

surgery a couple of years ago, and some power 

walking on the indoor track. Can’t wait to get 

back to biking. Planning a trip to Italy in the fall 

after my wife retires. Still wondering about ‘the 

case of purloined ground round’ you were good 

enough to mention in the last column. So far, no 

one’s come forward.” 

In late March, Wynne and Ev Egginton flew 

up from Las Cruses, NM, where Ev continues to 

teach at NM State, to help celebrate the birthday 

of his brother Geoff ’63. Sheila and I joined them, 

along with Geoff’s wife, Susan, at the apt he 

rented in Marina Del Rey while working as lead 

architect on the makeover of the Bradley International 

Terminal at LAX. Now that the project 

is fully funded, permitted, and moving forward, 

Geoff’s job is done and he’s headed back home 

to Waccabuc, NY. With Geoff acting as chief cook 

and bartender, we had a great afternoon catching 

up and reminiscing. A talented artist in his 

own right (he’d majored in art under Fitchen and 

Ryan), Geoff has recently begun to take freehand 

drawing classes again and showed us some his 

sketches. Very impressive. 

Received a terrific e-mail from Sam Cote: “I 

have been based in the northern tundra of MN 

all my life. I still hole up in the Twin City area 

during the winter months, but head to northern 

MN for the summers. I run a summer camp for 

kids (much like Jim Himoff), Camp Lincoln/Camp 

Lake Hubert, founded in 1909. Last summer was 

our 100th anniversary. My dad was a counselor 

for the camps in the late teens and ended up 

purchasing them in 1923 at the age of 23. In addition, 

our family owns and operates a large resort 

and golf complex in northern MN (Grand View 

Lodge and Golf & Tennis Resort), plus a dude 

ranch just outside of Tucson, AZ — Tanque Verde 

Ranch. Thus, we are in the hospitality business, 

along with a big cattle operation and real estate 

division — all keeping us busy. That is partly 

why I have not been able to make the reunions 

— our summers are extremely busy and I am 

100% hands-on. My wife, Mary Jo, and I were 

married Thanksgiving weekend senior year, and 

we returned to Hamilton for a honeymoon in 

the Colgate Inn, where we lived for a few weeks 

“The shock waves were traveling toward HI with the speed of a jet plane… They were predicting 

15' to 20' waves.” — Bruce Clark ’62 

until we found an apt down the street. Deni and 

Dick Johnson ’64 were another couple whom we 

got to know at the time. MJ and I were at Colgate 

a few years back for the first time. Not much has 

changed really. Lots of girls, though, and that is 

good. One of these days I will be able to retire 

and hit the Colgate scene once again.” 

Having retired from banking, Geoffrey Craig 

is now in pursuit of a 2nd career as a writer. He 

e-mails: “The Wilderness House Literary Review is 

publishing my verse novel, The Brave Maiden, in 

quarterly installments. This is the same review 

that published several of my short poems in their 

winter 2010 issue. Another review, Word Catalyst 

(now in hiatus), has also published several short 

stories from a collection I’ve titled ‘Carmichael.’” 

Geoff’s daughter, Danielle, is a 1st-year player on 

the Wesleyan squash team. Geoff ran into Ken 

Kramer, whose son and daughter also play varsity 

squash. Ken wrote: “Yes, I saw Geoff several 

times at squash events. Last year we met at prep 

school tournaments. His daughter was at Hotchkiss 

and my daughter, Evelyn, captains the St 

Paul’s team. This year we saw Geoff at the Little 

Three tournament. My son Nick was captain at 

Amherst. On the job front, I reached mandatory 

retirement age at Shearman & Sterling on Dec 31. 

I joined JAMS, the preeminent arbitration-mediation 

firm, in March and will work as a neutral 

at my own pace. The retirement gig is great. In 

addition to the arbitration-mediation work, I 

chair the board of ESS, a social services agency. 

Also serve on several other nonprofit boards. But 

best of all is the ability to vacation without constantly 

checking my Blackberry. For the first time 

we skied for 3 straight weeks in Montana — no 

conference calls, no client complaints. We are off 

to the English Lake District next week for 10 days 

of hiking, and I am planning to do the pilgrimage 

to Santiago Compostella in the fall.” 

Turning to reunion, congratulations to Lee 

Woltman, who received the Brian Little Award for 

Distinguished Service. As the individual from our 

class — or any class — who most makes a difference, 

I can’t think of anyone more deserving. 

In friendship, Gar 

Garner: 818-713-1353; 1392 (fax); runnrit@aol.com 

1966 

Robert Malley 

322 Shore Rd 

Westerly, RI 02891-3904 

I’m writing this column in early April, and spring 

has finally arrived here. The news for this column 

is very slim. 

John Wilkins has joined the ranks of ’66 

grandfathers. Daughter Hadley had a healthy 

baby boy in March in SF. Congrats, John, and 

remember, the Colgate Bookstore has many baby 

gift items to choose from. 

Toby Griggs e-mailed earlier this month to 

send pictures of the 1st 2 calves born into his herd 

on April 1, followed by a 3rd on April 5 “with 12 

more expected soon.” Thanks for getting in touch, 

Toby, and good luck with the ranching. You can 

view the pictures of Toby’s newborns on our ’66 

class page photo gallery at colgatealumni.org. 

That’s all the news I have this time around. 

Stay in touch — without you, there isn’t any 

column. 

Bob: 401-322-0908; 322-7411 (fax); 

BMalley@colgate.edu 

1967 

Edward A Ryan 

69 Portland Rd 

Summit, NJ 07901-3011 

Pres Alden Joe Doolittle continues his activities 

as storyteller. In Jan, Joe was the featured 

speaker at the Hamilton Club, a local assn 

that meets at the Colgate Inn. Attendees at his 

presentation, If the Rivers Could Talk! Mohawk 

Valley Tales of Home and Here, included Dr 

John Morris, who retired to Hamilton from his 

position as pres of Union C, and Prof Edmondson, 

who started as chair of the psych dept our soph 

year. In May, through his resident company at 

the regional Proctor’s Theater, Joe is producing 

Grace O’Malley the Pirate Queen, with storyteller 

Marni Gillard and a musical cantata accompaniment 

by Tom O’Hare ’66, a lawyer in Hopkinton, 

MA, who was the leader of the Thirteen 1965–66. 

Joe maintains a quarterly lunch program with 

John Tracy, Bob Williams, and Bill Koester. John 

is in commercial real estate, Bob a practicing 

psychologist, and Bill is commissioner of aging in 

Rensselaer Cty. Rob Ellis, Ken Paccioni, and other 

visiting dignitaries sometimes join the group. Per 

Joe: “If you ever get to Albany, give us a yell. We 

do burgers and beer at the drop of a hat!” Joe is 

also trying to arrange a gathering in northern NJ 

in the fall. He was hoping to meet at my gentlemen’s 

club until I reminded Joe I would never 

join any club willing to accept me as a member. 

Does anyone know a good watering hole in the 

northern NJ area? 

Joe and Keith Fagan provided updates on 

recent activities of our very own Gleeks, who I 

predict will soon appear on Oprah. Per Keith: “28 

members of the Vintage Thirteen had another 

reunion last month. This one was in Orlando 

and was hosted by Lynn and Bud Hedinger ’69. 

Bud arranged for us to sing at Disney World and 

at Bergamo’s Restaurant. Bergamo’s features 

opera-singing waiters and it was hard for us 

to compete with them, but we gave it our best 

shot. At the end of the evening, Bud brought the 

house down with a bravura performance of ‘Old 

Man River,’ which isn’t even in our repertoire, 

but will be soon. Besides Joe and myself, other 

’67s present for the weekend were Paul Bradley, 

Rick Gehret, my fellow 1st tenor, and, best of all, 

Chuck Thomas, attending his 1st Thirteen event 

since 1992. Chuck was our leader 1966–67 and 

one of the best soloists the group ever had, and 

we are very glad to have him back in the Vintage 

fold. Wren Blanchard and Dave ‘Tree’ Phillips 

couldn’t make it this time, but we expect to 

see them both at Lake George in Sept when we 

again convene at Chez Bradley. The weekend in 

Orlando happened to coincide with Paul’s 65th 

bday, so we took the opportunity to honor him 

and Linda by presenting them with a ‘Ties That 

Bind’ award ‘in recognition of the love, generosity, 

and commitment that have made our Lake 

George reunions possible.’ Those of us — men 

and women — who attend these reunions regularly 

have come to feel that they occupy a very 

special place in our lives, and we owe that feeling 

in great part to Paul and Linda.” 

Keith also noted: “While I seem to be involuntarily 

retired from the practice of telecom law, I 

am doing some volunteer work for Fairfax Cty 

(VA) Govt. I’m working on 2 projects: increasing 

pro bono legal involvement in foreclosure 

prevention, and providing computers and 

broadband access to low-income families. It’s 

very interesting work and I am enjoying it very 

much.” 

My former W Stillman roomie, Bill Hearn, 

an atty who resides in the DC area, sees Bob 

Corbin regularly when Bob comes to town to 

do battle with the SEC or DOJ. During Bob’s last 

visit, the duo met for dinner. Bob mentioned he 

had recently returned to Hamilton and visited 

with Prof Balmuth, Colgate’s outstanding teacher 

of philosophy, who is still as active as ever. Bill 

recalled the opening scene in every Balmuth 

lecture, with the purposeful entry on stage and 

the violent opening of the window, which both 

awakened and terrified students. 

Roger Higle writes: “Marion’s daughter Courtney 

is graduating U of AZ Law School May 15 

and has accepted a job offer with a firm in Vegas 

starting in July. Marion and I are taking vacation 

in June in Great Smoky Mtns at a timeshare. My 

work on training programs continues for Keller 

Williams, now re-making our education program 

for newer agents. My son Ben is doing well in 

financial services recruiting in NYC. We are all 

very fortunate in these times that are tough for 

so many people.” 

John Gamel, former FBI special agent and 

current PI in the Boston area, reports, “Wife Beth 

recently received 2 awards: 1) American Institute 

of Public Accountants Personal Financial Planning 

Natl Service Award for 2009, and 2) she was 

also named the Boston Estate Planning Council’s 

Estate Planner of the Year 2010. She’s a co-owner 

of Pillar Financial Advisors of Waltham, MA, and 

they work exclusively with financial planning 

for wealthy individuals. Son Scott, 36, is about 

to be awarded an MBA from Boston U. Daughter 

Diana is a nurse practitioner and got married at 

the end of May. I’m still planning a 5,000-mile 

solo motorcycle trip in the fall on my BMW 

R1200RT, and until then, will keep slogging my 

way through various private detective matters.” 

Marc Hoffrichter was inducted into the 

Lou Holtz Upper OH Valley Hall of Fame for 

community service to the East Liverpool, OH, 

area. “We’ve shared Penguin hockey tickets for 

years with Karen and Guy Bradford. We see Amber 

and Dean Bierkan frequently. The Hoffrichters, 

Bierkans, Bradfords, and the Tom Honeymans 

all had a mini-reunion at the Aug 16 wedding of 

our daughter Andrea ’99 at the Harvard Faculty 

Club.” Congrats, Marc! 

Clark Smyth is happily retired (especially due 

to what has happened to the real estate market), 

and is now busier than ever. “One of the things 

I’m doing is the Hamilton Initiative, which is a 

committee working to revitalize the village. We 

are presently working on remodeling the Colgate 

Inn and building some ‘golf cottages.’ My son 

is still running his WY/MT fly-fishing business. 

My daughter is in physician’s asst grad school 

in Pitt — the pits in the winter, but great in the 

summer. I see Bob Strumor regularly, Turner 

Porter on occasion, and Jeff Cook. We touched 

base last fall with the Cooks in Paris and Naples. 

He also was out here skiing this winter. He says 

that he only skis so that he can aprés-ski. On occasion, 

I bump into Graham Closs, Pat Grant, and 

Brewster Boyd.” 

Mike Dale, prof of law at Nova SE U in Ft 

Lauderdale, forwarded an e-mail from Jim Muzzy, 

alerting TKE frat members to the upcoming 90th 

bday of the fraternity’s long-time cook, Ruth Wallace, 

who still resides in Hamilton. Jim provided 

further detail: “I reached out to 260 Tekes from 


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2010 Reunion awards: Recognizing dedication and service 

Kenneth Belanger, G. Kirk Raab ’59 Associate 

Professor of biology (above), and Karen 

Harpp, associate professor of geology 

(abroad on a research trip) received the 

Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. 

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This year’s Humanitarian Award went to 

Glenn Langer ’50, founder and director of 

The Partnership Scholars, a Californiabased 

mentoring program for low-income 

children in grades seven through 12. 

Andrew Daddio (5) 

Fifteen alumni and staff members 

received Maroon Citations at Reunion 

in June. Front row, from left: G. Bruce 

Knecht ’80, Julia Bergeron ’75, Gift 

Records Associate Carol Baker, Christine 

Quirolo ’00, Devon Skerritt ’00. 

Middle, from left: James A. Smith ’70, 

Gabriel Schwartz ’00, Head Football 

Coach Richard Biddle, Robert Dorf 

’80, Mark Falcone ’85. Top, from left: 

Kevin Rusch ’85, Peter Sears ’60, 

Robert Burke ’85, Bob Quitzau ’55. 

Not pictured: Stephen Burke ’80. 

Joanna Allegretti ’05 and Katie 

Finnegan ’05 received the Ann Yao ’80 

Memorial Young Alumni Award. 

The Wm. Brian Little ’64 Alumni 

Award for Distinguished Service, the 

highest award of the Alumni Corporation, 

was given to (left to right) Paul 

Jenkel ’60, Lee Woltman ’65, and 

Daniel Benton ’80. 

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For more coverage of Reunion 

2010, from complete award citations 

to photos and video, visit 

www.colgatealumni.org/reunion. 

the ’58 class through the ’71 class when TKE 

closed. These were the years Ruth cooked and 

often guided us when asked and sometimes 

when we didn’t ask. My favorite story about 

Ruth, and the only time I ever heard her use a 

mild expletive, is when I came back to visit in the 

spring of 1968. I walked into an empty house and 

asked Ruth where everybody was. She replied, 

‘They are up in the administration building.’ 

I asked, ‘What are they doing there?’ She replied, 

‘They took over the damn thing, and if they think 

I’m going to send them food up there, they are 

going to starve.’” There has been an overwhelming 

response with Ruth receiving many cards 

and remembrances. Mike and Jim: many thanks 

for sharing this great story about Ruth! 

Richard Schaper enjoyed a recent latte in 

the park with Marion and Alan Brown and applauds 

the news of the publication of Marion’s 

poetry. On a recent family reunion, Richard (AKA 

“Dick”) did a 2-tank dive off Grand Cayman with 

wife Anita and daughter Ava. Richard has also 

enjoyed being back in touch with Profs Don and 

Wanda Berry. Alan had another triumphant return 

to Cotterell Court in Feb when he attended 

the annual alumni basketball game. Pictures of 

Alan, including one in which he is mugging a 

player near the basket, appear on our class page 

at www.colgatealumni.org. 

I received a call from Pete Solinger ’73, who 

read about the adventures of Hank Evans aboard 

Queen Anne’s Revenge and wanted to invite the 

Queen to Mystic, CT, this summer. Hank sent the 

following report: “Mystic is in our plans for this 

summer, so I’ll give Pete a call. After completing 

the Great American Loop of 6,500 miles, we continued 

down the rivers from St Louis to Mobile 

and on to Key West. We spent 2 months there at 

the Navy Marina. We crossed the Gulf Stream 2 

weeks ago and are now exploring the Abocos, 

Bahamas. This summer will take us up the East 

Coast to ME and New England. We have 10,000 

miles under the keel so far and having a ball 

living the cruising life. Cheers from Queen Ann’s 

Revenge @ Marsh Harbor, Aboco, Bahamas.” 

CB Blackshear, who lives in Chadds Ford, 

PA, retired from medical practice. CB enjoys 

horseback riding for entertainment. He plans 

to return to Colgate this fall for the 2nd annual 

Pete Schaehrer ’65 peace studies lecture. Larry 

Geller is looking forward to spending his 7th full 

summer working at Tom Tucker’s Camp Fiver in 

Poolville, NY. Per Larry: “This is really a remarkable 

place and any of our classmates who are 

up in Hamilton this summer should try to visit 

the camp. I will be teaching swimming and be a 

public speaking and interviewing coach at the 

camp. I think I am one of the luckiest people to 

have this unique opportunity to be around so 

many wonderful youngsters. It is a treat to see 

Tom and Mike Barnett, who is a member of the 

Fiver Fndn.” 

In March, Mark Krinsky returned to Houston 

to rejoin family and childhood friends. Mark 

notes: “I left Houston more than 43 years ago, in 

Aug 1966, for our sr year at the ’Gate! It’s good 

to be back home, especially to enjoy the warm 

weather and a much earlier start to spring relative 

to St Louis and the MW.” Bob McEwen writes: 

“I watch quite a bit of MSNBC news. It’s good to 

see Colgate alum Howard Fineman ’70 making 

regular appearances. Also, commentators such as 

Keith Olbermann (Cornell) and Chris Matthews 

(Holy Cross) evoke a feeling of familiarity and 

like-mindedness, having attended colleges near 

to or in the same league as Colgate. There is, of 

course, Andy Rooney ’43, whose observations are 

always a source of wry amusement to me. If we 

were ever to meet, I don’t think he would like 

me very much since General George Patton, the

object of Rooney’s enmity from time to time, is 

a distant relative of mine. I’m afraid I inherited 

a good bit of the general’s proclivity to anger, 

which has gotten me in a lot of trouble out here 

in the hinterlands.” 

Dr Thomas F Godfrey, who took over a failing 

health care system in CA and restored its health, 

has signed up to revive another ailing institution, 

the PA Academy of Music. Godfrey was 

named PAM’s interim exec director, agreeing to 

stay in the virtually f/t post through year-end 

for a salary of $1. Tom welcomes the challenge, 

noting that the 310-student academy’s teaching 

and performing activities remain at a high 

level. Godfrey was born in Philly but raised in 

Lancaster, graduating from Lancaster Country 

Day School. Tom earned his medical degree 

from Hershey Med Ctr. After post-grad work at 

Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA, he was an ER 

physician, then shifted to health care admin. He 

led the turnaround at Kaiser Permanente Kern 

Cty in Bakersfield from 1996–1999, raising its 

health-plan enrollment from 52,000 to 83,000 

and rebuilding its network of medical practices. 

From 1999–2006, he was medical dir of Kaiser 

Permanente Medical Center in LA, then assoc 

dir of the Permanente Federation in Oakland in 

2007. Tom’s wife, Kathleen, is chief of staff for the 

pres pro tem of LA city council. 

Thanks, guys, for all the news! Enjoy your 

summer, and please remember to check out the 

Colgate website periodically. 

Ed: 908-277-4128; eandryan@comcast.net 

1968 

Peter M O’Neill 

10 Nassau St 

Princeton, NJ 08542 

Jay Benedict, who has been regularly corresponding 

with your class editor, reports that 

he, along with Fred Meyland-Smith and Larry 

Kenna, made their annual sports trip in Feb to 

Colgate and watched 2 hockey games and a 

basketball game. They replenished their weary 

bodies at the famous hotel resort and spa known 

as the White Eagle. Jay reports that they had 

enjoyable talks with coaches Vaughn and Davis 

and had a unique opportunity to additionally 

talk to the swim team at the request of Coach 

Jungbluth with respect to post-grad job searches. 

Derek Brereton has published an anthropological 

monograph called Campsteading: Family, 

Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, NH. Derek 

and his wife built a small log cabin in NH from 

scratch, and you can read about it as well as see 

photos on our class page at www.colgatealumni. 

org. 

By the time class members read this, your 

class editor will have spent Mother’s Day weekend 

in Paris with wife Anne and Michele and 

Cal Trevenen. In anticipation of needing time to 

recuperate from the high-cholesterol intake that 

eating in France involves, this will be the last 

Scene article that I will write for the Class of ’68. 

I am happy to report that Jay Benedict, who, as 

noted above, has been a regular contributor to 

the class news, has agreed to take over the job. 

His contact information is below. 

In yielding this post to Jay, let me state what 

an unequivocal pleasure it has been for me to 

have had the opportunity to report the news 

of our class to fellow classmates. The experience 

of hearing from you about life’s twists and 

turns has been a pleasure in ways that cannot 

be quantified. But suffice it to say in passing 

the baton to Jay, I have told him of the pleasant 

surprises I encountered in reaching out to the 

classmates. In parting, let me say thank you to 

my friends in the Class of 1968. 

Please send your news to Jay Benedict: jnbenedict@comcast.net, 

333 Brampton Court, Lake 

Forest, Ill 60045-3410. 

Peter: 609-924-0700; pmoneill@earthlink.net 

1969 

C James Milmoe 

1700 Verrazzano Pl 

Wilmington, NC 28405-4040 

As this is written in early spring, I just ended a 

mid-March ski holiday in CO, including a Colgate 

connection at the Vail slope-side condo belonging 

to Tom ’83 and Kathy Lewis ’83 Tyree. After a 

number of years in NY with Goldman Sachs, Tom 

joined a natural gas exploration and development 

company in Denver. The condo is heavily 

used by the Tyrees and their 3 children, Thomas, 

Jack, and Sarah, and is occasionally rented. Joining 

us were Sandy Pomeroy Goehring ’83 and 

Anne Milmoe ’97. There were a number of other 

Colgate connections over the winter. 

At the request of the Scene editorial staff 

doing a story on the DC Study Group, I provided 

some memories of my WSG semester in 1968 and 

solicited others to do the same. Chuck Genrich 

’68 responded that photos I sent reminded him 

of our meeting with Commissioner of Education 

Harold Howe II and his then-special asst 

Stephen Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg was Chuck’s 

mentor then and is still his friend 40 years later. 

Chuck operates a high-end limo business in DC. 

His son is an Army capt serving in Afghanistan 

for his 3rd combat tour and his daughter Gillian 

Genrich ’02 is graduating from GW Med School in 

May. His other daughter has blessed him with a 

granddaughter. 

Steve Naclerio ’68 remembered the spring of 

1968 as a most exciting time to live in DC with 

the antiwar presidential campaigns, the LBJ 

resignation, the King assassination, and the riots 

(and the protests we missed on campus). Steve 

roomed with Don Anna ’68, Dick Loverd ’68, and 

me in an apt just south of DuPont Circle, which 

was a command post for the Natl Guard during 

the riots. On the 1st evening of martial law, one 

over-exuberant guardsman grabbed a mic and 

announced, “It is now 7 pm and the curfew is 

in effect: If we see you on the street, you will be 

shot. If you are not killed, you will be arrested!” 

(No one in the WSG was shot.) 

On a more peaceful morning that spring, 

Steve remembers a meeting with the Bolivian 

ambassador at the embassy. Things went 

smoothly and as the group readied to leave, 

the ambassador asked if there were any more 

questions to tie up loose ends. One of us asked 

about Che Guevara and the circumstances of 

his capture and execution. The ambassador said 

this was a complicated subject and deserved a 

full explanation, and then offered us drinks. His 

secretary appeared with 15 glasses of Scotch at 

about 11 am. We consumed the beverages and 

listened to the ambassador’s account of Che’s 

last days. Steve remembers that his internship 

was in the office of Sen Jacob Javits and that his 

main responsibility was bringing the senator his 

breakfast on the mornings he flew in to DC from 

NY. After graduation, the grateful senator helped 

Steve get an ROTC deferment so he could attend 

Duke Law. Steve sent 2 daughters to Colgate, 

Christine Naclerio ’05 and Catherine Naclerio 

’09. 

Another member of the spring ’68 WSG group, 

Larry Kenna ’68, wrote that he learned 3 things 

from his experience: “1. DC is not Herkimer, NY. 

Beyond the opportunity to participate in the 

terrific program put together by Dr Stern and 

those who came before him, just being in DC 

was an unforgettable experience for me (and I 

suspect for a lot of us in those days). I grew up in 

Herkimer, and had never been to DC before Jan 

1968. I will never forget tramping around the 

city for hours on end (Larry still has photos of the 

makeshift huts inhabited by the war protesters 

on the Mall; 2. DC may not always be the best 

place to be. I went with Tom Blatner and Ray 

Elliott to play golf at a course north of the city in 

April 1968 and as we started to hitchhike back to 

the city proper, we noticed considerable smoke 

billowing from the downtown area, as if a large 

bomb had been dropped. We had no idea what 

was going on. A black man pulled over, asked us 

where we were going, and then told us to get in, 

golf clubs and all. He told us that Dr Martin Luther 

King had been shot and that the smoke we 

saw was the result of rioting and the burning of 

businesses in the predominantly black section of 

the city. He was on his way to his own business 

to see if he could save it. After he dropped us off 

safely at our apts, we spent the next week confined 

to quarters by curfew while the Natl Guard 

patrolled the city; 3. The powerful in DC are just 

like you and me. One of our many informative 

meetings was with John McCormack, the speaker 

of the House. Speaker McCormack invited us all 

into his spacious office and told his asst not to 

disturb us ‘unless absolutely necessary.’ (I had 

visions of Pres Johnson calling and being told the 

speaker would get back to him when his meeting 

with the Colgate group was done.) We proceeded 

to have a vibrant discussion of Congress and 

the issues of the day until the speaker’s asst 

interrupted and told him he was wanted on the 

phone. The speaker told us that he ‘had to take 

this call.’ The call involved a lot of ‘Yes, dears’ and 

‘No, dears’ until he finally said, ‘Bye, love you, too.’ 

Speaker McCormack excused himself and told us 

that it was his wife, Harriet, on the line and that 

he had to pick up some things from the grocery 

store before returning home that evening.” 

Nick Brill contributed a picture of the 1969 

group and a copy of his remarks at the rededication 

of the Stern Award at our 40th Reunion. 

Nick, who was in the 1969 WSG, missed the 1968 

riots, but made up for it after graduating in ’69. 

He worked for a consulting firm in DC. In the 

Dec 1969 draft lottery, his number was 52, so he 

joined the DC Natl Guard. During all of the war 

protests in the early ’70s, he patrolled DC like Barney 

Fife, with a rifle and no bullets. Nick wrote, 

“My days would start with my then-girlfriend 

and now wife putting my long hair up in bobby 

pins and then placing my short-haired wig on 

top. While I patrolled the streets of DC with my 

wig on and full fatigues, she was downtown 

protesting.” 

This is the 4th consecutive edition of the class 

notes commending Alan Frumin ’68 for his role 

in the enactment of Health Finance reform. As 

this is written, the House has passed the Senate 

bill and the pres has signed it. The publicity that 

Senate Parliamentarian Frumin received during 

the legislative maneuvering prompted a small 

avalanche of e-mails from his Lambda Chi brothers, 

including Tom McTaggart, Chad Reid, and 

Bill Travis. Apparently, a NY Times reporter was 

soliciting them for stories from his college days 

to use in an article that might have compromised 

him in the Senate debates. Atty Chad Reid advised 

that Alan’s distinguished career as Senate 

Parliamentarian should not be sullied by any 

embarrassing behavior in the 1960s, so all info 

about Alan should be kept in the cone of silence. 

The efforts of Art Clark and Woody Swain 

to make us more electronically connected are 

starting to yield some results. These e-notes are 

getting positive responses, notably from Dave 

Helman. John Licciardi is one of several people 

who asked how to access our class page on 

Colgate’s Alumni website. Here is how it’s done: 

Go to www.colgatealumni.org. You may have to 

register if you have not already. If you have, log 

in. Click on “Clubs, Classes and Groups,” Select 

“Class Year 1969,” and there you are. 

Frank Battistelli wants everyone to know 

that his new e-mail is fabvab@q.com. And 

peripatetic Bill Berry, currently in Phoenix, 

abandoned CT and his old e-mail address when 

he and Jane “went on the lamb” to explore the 

American West in his motor home. The only 

way to reach him is at berryeli@gmail.com or 

williamberry1@mac.com. In Feb, Bill became 

the grandfather of twins born in Boston to his 

daughter-in-law, a Colgate grad. Bill also traveled 

to Missoula to meet another recently born 

grandchild. 

I got requests to join Facebook or Linked In 

from Allan Dodds Frank, Don Kinsella, and Tom 

McTaggart. McTaggart wrote that he was officiating 

at the March 2010 IC4A indoor championships, 

where Colgate’s men’s relay team broke 

the school record set at the same meet back in 

1969 by Jim Andrews, Hank Skewis, and Skip 

Meno. (See this issue’s Go ’gate for more.) 

Colgate ice hockey provided a venue for 

Internet-organized get-togethers this winter. 

John Higgins is my source for this report. Joining 

Higgins at the Quinnipiac game at New Haven 

were Frank Gasparini, Art Clark, Peter Lewine, 

and Keith Radhuber, who came the farthest 

distance after digging out from a blizzard in 

southern NJ. Late scratches were Allan Dodds 

Frank (recuperating from rotator cuff surgery) 

and Ted Sharron ’70, who felt that the long drive 

in a snowstorm from Lancaster, PA, was more 

than school spirit required. The group convened 

at Frank Peppe Pizza in New Haven, to call and 

thank Ricky Ross, who used his sway in the 

Nutmeg State to get the group tickets. Gasparini 

organized a Colgate follow-up at the Colgate- 

Harvard hockey game in Boston. The turnout included 

Higgins, Margaret and Nick Brill, Michael 

Brown, Dave Knauer, Cathy and Paul Parshley ’72, 

and a variety of Gasparini paisanos. 

In other important sports news, I am proud to 

say that in the 1st time in years of trying, I was a 

winner in the NCAA Final Four Bracket pool run 

by John Gillick ’67. There are so damn many Gillicks 

in the pool that it is really tough for a nonfamily 

member to win. I had Duke all the way, as 

I do every year, and this time it was enough to 

overcome all the nepotistic Georgetown fans. 

Read McNamara finally responded to my call 

for reunion memories. For him, it was all about 

the re-connections, especially “the long-lost but 

spry and youthful” Tom Gallmeyer. In addition, 

Read was happy to see folks he had not seen in 

40 years: John Zarecki, Dave Grant, Walt Theis, 

John Reid, and many others. Read thanks Art, 

Woody, Sam King, and everyone who helped 

to get the troops assembled. Read is “still trying 

to retire, and failing.” He claims that the 4 

McNamara kids, who all graduated from Colgate, 

have ensured that he will be living in penury at 

least until our 50th Reunion. Read splits his time 

between Rochester and ME, and always looks 

forward to seeing Colgate friends. Bob Haberer 

wrote from London that he couldn’t make the 

reunion, but was able to return to campus in July 

for the alumni golf tourney, and everybody was 

still talking about the band in the Class of ’69 

tent. 

Like McNamara, Michael Lassell finds himself 

somewhere between the world of work and retirement. 

He wrote that Metropolitan Home mag, 

his employer for 18 years, closed in Nov, victim 

of the economy. Michael doesn’t know whether 


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to call himself unemployed or semi-retired, but 

he is not doing nothing. He is busy as a freelance 

writer for a variety of design mags and doing a 

Best of Met Home book, which will be out in fall 

of 2010. Michael’s last book, Glamour: Making It 

Modern, is now in its 4th printing and has been 

the #1 interior design book on Amazon.com for 

most of the last year. He hopes the work, and 

severance, will be enough to carry him through 

to Medicare. Thanks to Frumin, Michael and all of 

us baby boomers have a chance. 

The Vintage Thirteen recently gathered at 

Walt Disney World, where the group sang beside 

the Princess’s Castle at the Celebration Central 

Pavilion as well as at Bergamo’s Restaurant. The 

idea for the Disney excursion was hatched by 

Bud Hedinger, whose Orlando-based radio talk 

show has made him a regional celebrity, and Joe 

Doolittle ’67, who travels there on business, at 

a dinner last fall at the restaurant. Hedinger’s 

contact at Disney opened the doors. Visit our 

class web page at Colgatealumni.org to read a 

full account of the gathering as reported by Pete 

Behr ’62 and Priit Vesilind ’64, and see a photo of 

the group. 

Obits seem to have become a standard feature 

of these notes. This time we mourn for Charlotte 

Lee Whiting MA’74. Charlotte grew up in Oneida, 

NY, with Don Kinsella, Doug Palmiter, Mark 

Ritter, Paul Fish, and me. She graduated Phi Beta 

Kappa from Elmira in 1969, and after Colgate, 

got a PhD in French lit from Syracuse. Charlotte 

lived in the Boston area since 1980, working 1st 

in the news business and then in the public info 

office of the MA Supreme Judicial Court. She 

leaves a brother and a sister. Another MA, Walter 

Jandura, passed away on Dec 11, at the age of 64. 

He was raised in NJ and attended Rutgers before 

coming to Colgate. He moved to Toronto, became 

a Canadian citizen, and worked as a writer and 

editor for Commerce Clearing House and Simpson’s, 

as well as other establishments. 

Jim: 910-256-5522; smilmoe@aol.com 

1970 

George Murphy Jr 

1510 Ocean Ave 

Mantoloking, NJ 08738-1516 

Congratulations to David Coen, who was elected 

pres of the Natl Assoc of Regulatory Utility 

Commissioners (NARUC). The NARUC represents 

state public service commissioners who regulate 

essential utility services, such as electricity, 

telecommunications, gas, water, and transportation. 

David will have a strong voice in national 

debates on energy and telecommunications 

policies, according to the release. He will provide 

general oversight of the assoc and serve as its 

primary voice, leading NARUC before Congress, 

the courts, and administrative agencies. “We as a 

nation are facing changing times, and regulators 

must remain focused on the public interest,” he 

said. 

No news otherwise. If no news is good news, 

things are certainly looking good for all of us. 

Enjoy your summer. 

Murph: 732-892-0217; 7806 (fax); 

gfmdmw@aol.com 

“I worked with a MD state senator on passing a bill. I testified in support of the bill in front of a State 

Senate Committee, and my op ed was published in the Baltimore Sun. This summer, I am working in 

the Office of Genl Counsel at the Executive Office of the President of the United States.” — Avery Blank ’08 

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1971 

Richard C Beck 

4290 SE Augusta Loop 

Gresham, OR 97080-8435 

This article begins our 39th year of columns 

since graduating from the ’Gate. Next year at this 

time we will have celebrated our 40th Reunion. 

That is hard to believe, isn’t it?! I hope you will be 

making plans to attend. 

Stephen Winningham notes that he and the 

family moved to London in Aug 2007 and live 

in Notting Hill. Steve left CitiGroup Investment 

Banking for a position with the Lloyds Banking 

Group. He would like to see any classmates who 

may be passing through. This past Feb, Douglas 

Moritz was appointed assoc VP of multifamily 

for the Mortgage Bankers Assoc (MBA). Doug 

is joining MBA from the company he founded, 

DOMO Consulting LLC, where he served as 

principle. In Doug’s new position, he coordinates 

policy positions on multifamily issues and oversees 

multifamily activities for MBA, including 

interaction with members and representations 

before various federal agencies, including HUD, 

Fannie Mae, Freddie MAC, and other groups 

involved with this type of housing. Doug has also 

held positions with Prudential Mortgage Capital 

Corp and WMF Washington Mortgage. The MBA 

is headquartered in DC. 

Bruce W Selleck, geology prof at Colgate, recently 

participated on a 4-person panel discussing 

the pros and cons of horizontal drilling and 

“hydrofracking” in the Marcellus Shale, which is 

found along the southern tier in NY. Hydrofracking 

(which is the underground injection of a 

water/chemical slurry under high pressure) 

would break up the shale, resulting in the release 

of natural gas that is stored in the rock. The 

discussion was featured on a WAMC NE public 

radio broadcast. Bruce was a proponent of drilling 

as a source of income for rural NYS residents 

and as new source of energy. However, he felt 

that drilling should only occur under stringent 

supervision by the state, ensuring that the 

slurry water would be captured and treated and 

that environmental protections are met. Panel 

opponents felt that there would be potential 

contamination into the environment through 

the release of trace elements as a byproduct of 

the process. It was also felt that huge amounts of 

clean water would be needed for the process. It 

was an interesting broadcast on what is becoming 

an emotional issue in the state. 

Finally, I am saddened to note that our 

classmate Ann Parrott Cochran passed away 

on March 21 in Hamilton from a cancer-related 

illness. Ann was one of the first 10 women to 

graduate from Colgate and she later went on to 

earn her MAT in 1979. She spent her professional 

career as a prof of psych at SUNY Morrisville for 

over 28 years. She retired in Dec 2000. Ann was 

a longtime member and 1st pres of the board of 

the Mid York Fndn. Surviving are her husband, 

John, retired chem prof; her children, Eric and 

Stacy Cochran, of NYC, Jill and Joe Baker of 

Tampa; 5 grandchildren; and several nieces and 

nephews. 

Until next time... 

Richard: 503-512-8085 (H); 986-3375 (W); 

504-8431 (C); richardcbec@verizon.net 

1972 

David M Brockway 

201 Lincoln Rd 

Horseheads, NY 14845-2267 

Hi, everyone! A kind of quick column this time 

around. An old poli sci colleague, Joel Gandelman, 

sent me an e-mail to let me know that 

centrist author John Avlon, a CNN contributor 

and former Giuliani aide, has named Joe among 

the top 25 centrists and commentators. I have 

also caught Joe numerous times on CNN as a 

frequent weekend commentator on a panel of 

independent voters. Joe is the editor and chief of 

themoderatevoice.com. 

I am thrilled to write of newcomer to the 

Scene Kent Bernard. Kent retired a few years ago 

as VP and asst gen counsel of Pfizer Inc. He’s now 

an adjunct prof at Fordham Law and says he’s 

having a great time. He brings expertise in the 

areas of antitrust, health care, and mergers & 

acquisitions. 

As you know, class VP and former ’Gate 

soccer goalkeeper Eric Luce frequently keeps 

me updated on class news. Unfortunately, I 

misplaced one of his missives last fall. However, 

I have found it. He recounts his attendance at 

numerous sports events and venues, which he 

continues to this date. Having retired from his 

college admin and teaching duties, he has more 

time to enjoy such things. Among soccer teams 

followed and attended last year was the NY 

Red Bulls. Eileen and Joe Sabbatino, along with 

Eric and Jane, shared a few of those times. Of 

particular interest was following the Red Bulls 

and their keeper of last season, Alec Dufty, son 

of David Dufty ’75. Alec currently is signed with 

AC St Louis. Eric and Joe also pleasantly recalled 

their “powerhouse soccer team” of our 1st year. 

“That team was hard to score on and even harder 

to beat,” says Eric. Here’s who they recall being 

on that roster: attackers Steve Houseman, Fred 

Drew, Jeff Busch, Charley Meuse, Bob Weber, 

Rich Lewis, Paul Rutter, and Louis Roberts; 

midfielders Dean Jacobson, class pres Rob Jones, 

Tommy Matthews, Steve Peters, Dick Kadesch, 

Karl Kleuver, Dana Thompson, and Paul Parshley; 

defenders Cliff Kramer, Joe Sabbatino, Russ 

Nemecek, Dave Snyder, Rob Gunther, and Don 

Grimes; and goalkeepers Frank Zuccari, Eric Luce, 

and Tom Birkel. Hopefully, I haven’t left anyone 

out. I’ve got to note that these guys are also loyal 

reunion attendees for the most part, too! But, 

I’m not sure we’ve heard from some of them in 

a while, so drop a note! Finally, Eric also proudly 

added that daughter KC is scheduled to have 

graduated this spring from Muhlenberg with 

honors in English and drama. Way to go! 

I guess that wraps it up for now. As always, 

send us your news! 

David: 607-739-0267 (H); 737-2901 (O); 

737-2961 (fax); dbcolgate@gmail.com 

1973 

Marc Gettis 

43 Summit Avenue 

Gillette, NJ 07933 

Ask and ye shall receive. One e-mail blast to the 

entire class, courtesy of technology provided by 

the alumni office, yielded an enormous response. 

In order to avoid any possibility of the Scene’s imposing 

size limitations on the column, we’ll dispense 

with your editor’s usual pithy comments 

and observations and go straight to the news. 

Glenn Ivers, in the twilight of a long career in 

human services, has taken an interesting turn 

and become exec dir of Wanderers Rest Humane 

Assoc in Canastota, NY. In late June, Wanderers 

Rest held its 1st annual Wanderers Ride 2-day 

bicycling fundraiser, including an overnight at 

a Colgate dorm and dinner at the Colgate Inn. 

Glenn is always looking for an opportunity to 

show off the most beautiful college campus in 

the world. 

Lydia Woodward is a writer/producer in TV, 

currently working on a pilot for HBO. Lydia and 

her husband travel back and forth between 

homes in Santa Monica, CA, and Great Barrington, 

MA. They recently caught up with Robert 

Dudzik and Perry Kreidman in NYC, where 

they all joined in supporting Jan Warrington and 

husband Frank Starr, whose dog was entered in 

the 2010 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. 

Their dog, a vizsla, showed well but, unfortunately, 

didn’t win. “She was robbed!” 

Leslie Zeoli Hathaway reports that she 

and Sandy Carr ’74 visited Saba Gessesse 

Hamilton for an “empty nest” reunion weekend. 

Saba, Sandy, and Leslie lived together at what 

was then known as 84 Broad St at Colgate. They 

commiserated (and rejoiced) at having their 

children gone from home, at least most of the 

time, but this milestone was just an excuse to 

get together. Leslie’s daughter is an engineering 

student at Johns Hopkins and her son is at Cornell. 

Although he’s only a few miles from home, 

he lives in the dorm, so Leslie and husband Steve 

really qualify as empty-nesters. Sandy, Saba, and 

Leslie plan to invent other milestones for future 

reunions. 

Last year, Jim Ashenfelter reorganized his 

law firm, now known as Ashenfelter, Slous, Mc- 

Donough & Trevenen LLP. Cal Trevenen ’68 is one 

of the partners. The firm moved to new offices in 

Montclair, NJ, which was no small feat as it had 

been in the same location since the early 1950s. 

Jim is proud to say his kids have graduated from 

Bucknell (’04), Duke (’07), and Penn State (’10). 

His wife is still working and coaching a natl-level 

swimming program and Jim still swims 3,000 

yards each morning with a group of former college 

swimmers. His middle son was capt of the 

Duke swim team, so Jim has become a devoted 

Dukie and big fan of Coach K, even making a 

couple of trips to Cameron Indoor. He also made 

it to 4 football games at Penn State last season, 

noting that 110,000 fans makes it somewhat different 

from games at Andy Kerr Stadium. In Jim’s 

words, “A friend told me, we are only as happy as 

our most miserable child, so I am a happy guy.” 

Dick Samuels is still at MIT, where he directs 

the Ctr for Internatl Studies. Wife, Debbie, a food 

writer for the Boston Globe, had her 1st cookbook, 

The Korean Table, published last year by Tuttle. 

She is now hard at work on a 2nd book, My Japanese 

Kitchen. Dick and Debbie traveled to Seoul, 

Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo this past winter 

for research and speaking — she on food and he 

on politics and regional security. “It all started 

with the Colgate Japan Study Group!” Their son 

Alex, 29, lives in Berlin, where he is completing

grad work and doing radio spots for NPR and 

Deutsche Welle. Son Brad, 32, is an architect in 

NY, who with his colleagues specializes in digital 

fabrication and built many of the models for the 

Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective of Frank 

Lloyd Wright last year. 

Speaking of books, Steven Worthy recently 

completed a 300+ page manuscript for a cultural 

bio on the Kress Family of NYC (known for their 

retail store empire, nonprofit fndn, and donations 

of collections to the Natl Gallery of Art and 

other museums and colleges), their ancestors, 

and descendents. He is preparing to market the 

book this fall. Steve has also taken the lead, as a 

former board trustee of the Ossining, NY, Historical 

Soc, in obtaining natl, state, and local landmark 

status for 2 buildings and gardens, which 

were part of the Rush H Kress 72-acre Rockhill 

Estate in Ossining. Landscaped and designed as a 

Bavarian-style family compound, complete with 

horses, cows, chickens, fountains, greenhouses, 

and an ice house that pumped chilled air into the 

attic of 1 building where some of the Old Master 

artwork was stored, the Rockhill Estate is where 

Steve found the initial impetus to write the book, 

which he began in 2005. Steve also maintains 

and is continually adding to the Steven A Worthy 

Kress Family Archive, containing thousands 

of digital images and articles of the Kress 

family exploits, books, DVDs, CDs, PowerPoint 

presentations he has created, and multimedia 

presentations he has given at libraries and other 

locations. More details are posted on our class 

web page at colgatealumni.org. 

Another author in our ranks is Eleanor 

McNees, who is working on a book on the 

influence of James Fitzjames and Leslie Stephen 

on Virginia Woolf’s essays. She attended the 

Colgate Women’s Book Group meeting in Denver 

in May. Eleanor is prof of English and chair of 

the Internationalization Advisory Board at U of 

Denver. She has 1 son who is about to begin his jr 

year at U of Denver and another who just graduated 

from U of CO and is heading to law school 

this fall. Eleanor would like to hear from Bill and 

Susan Venarde Mahoney. 

Moving from books to newspapers, Jim Kevlin 

and wife MJ own the Freeman’s Journal, Cooperstown’s 

202-year-old newspaper, and started 

Hometown Oneonta in that nearby city. Their 

older son, John, is a lawyer in SF and younger 

son, Joe, is a HS jr and football player at CCS. Last 

fall, when Jim had to pick up John in Syracuse, 

they stopped for a photo (which is posted on our 

class web page) in front of the Landmark Inn, 

Bouckville, where Jim’s father hosted a graduation 

dinner for relatives in 1973. “Time passes.” 

Bob Stewart and his best friend Pam recently 

celebrated their 37th anniversary. They’ve lived 

in Longmeadow, MA, the entire time, with Pam 

being summer school administrator for the 

town and Bob being an independent insurance 

agent, pres and CEO of Chase, Clarke, Stewart & 

Fontana in Springfield, MA. Bob is also lead dir 

of United Bank, having been on its board for 19 

years, served 12 years on the school board (chair 

3 times) and has done a lot of volunteer work, 

including Behavioral Health Network, a social 

service org where he has served on the board 

for 10 years and chaired. Daughters Laura ’02 

and Sarah ’04 are both Colgate graduates (Bob is 

thus a member of a very elite group, ie members 

of our class to have had 2 children graduate or 

attend Colgate). Laura married Austin Derosa ’02 

last Sept and they live in Atlanta, where Laura 

is a HS art teacher and Austin is in his 3rd year 

of residency in urology at Emory Hospital. Sarah 

lives in SF, working for Room to Read, a nonprofit 

that builds schools and libraries in 3rd world 

countries; her boyfriend, Cam Pittelkow ’05, is in 

his 2nd year of a doctorate at UC Davis. Bob’s son 

Tim (UVM Class of ’09) still lives in Burlington, 

VT, working at Willow Hill Cheese Farm 

and with Burton Snowboards. In their spare time, 

Bob and Pam ski, fish, and golf in Mt Snow, VT, 

spend several weeks every summer at Martha’s 

Vineyard, and love to travel the country to see 

their kids and friends. 

Elise Frost Alair is the dir of HQ ops for the 

Office of LMSB (for the uninitiated, Large and 

Mid-Sized Business) Division Counsel in DC, 

having relocated to DC 2 years ago after 24 years 

as a field litigator for the IRS in Hartford, CT. Her 

husband, Pat, is deputy corp counsel for the Town 

of W Hartford. Daughter Olivia (Georgetown ’06) 

is press secy for Secretary of Transportation Ray 

LaHood, and daughter Allyssa (Tufts Engineering 

’09) is lead engineer for Kan-Pak. They’re all 

keeping busy, but Elise would love to hear from 

friends. 

On the subject of hearing from friends and requests 

to hear from certain individuals, Colgate’s 

privacy policy prevents publication of phone 

numbers and e-mail addresses in this column. 

Far be it from me to attempt to replace Facebook, 

but if I can be of assistance, let me know. Also, 

you can find contact information in the alumni 

directory at colgatealumni.org. 

In the previous column, it was reported that 

Fausto Miraglia and Bill Cornachio and families 

made their annual trip to the Army-Navy game 

at Lincoln Financial in Philly and watched Navy 

beat Army again. Bill has since provided a few 

additional details, including that Faust and Susan 

provided an Italian feast at the tailgate, which 

was much appreciated by the Cornachio boys 

and their companions from the Naval Academy 

(one of Bill’s sons has since graduated the Naval 

Academy and the other graduated last year 

and is now serving as a 2nd lt in the US Marine 

Corps). Just a few parking stalls away, Ray Allen 

’74 was tailgating with family and friends. Ray Jr, 

who roomed with Bill’s son Mark at prep school, 

graduated USNA last year with Mark and is in 

Pensacola, FL, training as a Navy pilot. 

Also having a Navy connection is Rick Eytel, 

who recently moved to Brick, NJ (at the shore), 

to be close to the water and his boats, but still 

commutes 70 miles to his pediatric dental 

practice in W Orange. He describes himself as “a 

Parkway Warrior.” Rick and his wonderful bride, 

Anne-Marie, are about to celebrate their 35th anniversary. 

Their son graduated from VMI and was 

commissioned in the Navy; having finished sea 

duty as navigator aboard the USS Monterey, he 

is currently a lt, teaching at the Naval Academy. 

Their daughter graduated from Susquehanna 

and works in marketing in Key West. Rick is now 

a grandfather — Madelyn King Eytel (projected 

’31). Sailboat racing and fishing occupy most of 

his spare time. While in FL in March, Rick ran into 

members of the Vintage Thirteen (past Thirteen 

members from classes from the 1960s to 1970), 

who were performing at Disney and were in fine 

voice. 

When Sean Hallahan checked in, he was 

preparing to represent Colgate as part of a presentation 

of liberal arts schools at Brooklyn Tech, 

a NYC HS for the best and brightest. A few weeks 

earlier, he joined Colgate students for dinner 

after their Harlem Renaissance day (see photos 

on our class web page). Sean spoke with many 

of the students, visiting each table and finding 

that the most popular part of the day was their 

visit to the Apollo Theater. Sean said, “One of the 

students remembered hearing ‘Mr Schiffman’s 

name’ during a telling of the Apollo’s history. As 

you may know, our classmate Howie Schiffman’s 

dad was an owner and manager of the Apollo.” 

Sean stays in touch with a few students, now 

Get to know: Dr. Ramón García ’77, Colgate Trustee 

– Trustee since 2008; 2009 Diversity Week panelist; class gift agent 

– Founding director, Garcia Medical Centers and Chicago Endoscopy Center 

– Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of 

Gastroenterology & Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago 

– M.D., Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena; F.A.C.P. 

Tell us about your work. Did you always want to be a doctor? Since I was five — I tell people, 

I never had to make a decision! I founded the Garcia Medical Centers and the Chicago 

Endoscopy Center, a gastroenterology procedure facility, 20 years ago. I see patients and 

employ five other physicians. More than 90 percent of my patients are Spanish speaking. 

Because of the language barrier and culture, a lot of them wouldn’t be as comfortable elsewhere, 

so we need to serve them. My wife, Marilyn, and I have been talking about starting a 

free clinic. 

Describe your Colgate experience. I remember kind of being overwhelmed. It was tough. 

Just a few years before I came to Colgate, my family immigrated to New York City from the 

Dominican Republic. I was pre-med, and barely spoke English. I learned most of my English 

at Colgate. And I thought it was the most beautiful place on Earth. I was a kid in a candy 

store the whole time I was here. 

Name a key professor who made an impact on you. Elmer Trumbull, who died last year, was 

my organic chemistry professor, and I just loved that guy. I still remember things he would 

tell me. He once told me, “Ramón, this is going to be the most intellectually stimulating 

experience you will have.” And it was so true. My astronomy professor, Tony Aveni, also was 

a significant role model. 

What do you feel you bring to the table as a trustee? Obviously, diversity, both ethnically 

and professionally, is where I stand out. This year, I am the only Latino, and the only doctor, 

on the board. With the changing demographics of our country, I’d like to see Latino diversity 

increase both on the board and on campus. It’s hard, because we are competing for particularly 

talented Latino students. We have to see these kids as national treasures; they are 

going to be the leaders of a great chunk of our population. So if Colgate can prepare a lot of 

these future leaders, it will be great for the school. There’s a lot of work to be done; I like to 

champion that cause. 

What other aspects of the issue of diversity are important to you? We are known for academic 

excellence, and we should continue that. And, beyond my board role, I’ve been talking 

to a group of professors about how we can attract, and keep, more minority professors. One 

of the things that is happening at Colgate is, it’s fairly easy to recruit minority professors, 

but it’s a different issue to get them to stay. That’s one of the issues that I like working on most. 

Tell me about your family. My wife is a social worker. Gabby is my 20-year-old, a communications 

major at Miami University of Ohio. Then I have Nico, who’s a 12-year-old seventh-grader. 

We hear you’re a commercial pilot. I’ve been flying since 1992. I remember flying to my 

reunion and buzzing the procession on Oak Drive. But 90 percent of the time, I fly around 

the Chicago area, going to little airports in Wisconsin and eating greasy hamburgers at the 

airport diners. Particularly in the cloudy wintertime, I like going above the clouds and flying 

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Andrew Daddio

Giving good days to children who 

need them 

“Don’t sweat the small stuff.” That’s the simple yet profound lesson that Wendy Bleier- 

Mervis ’88 has taken away from working with children who have cancer. “When you’re with 

these kids, your problems seem very small compared to what they have to deal with on a 

daily basis, and the unknown of what’s going to happen in their lives,” said Bleier-Mervis, the 

executive director of Camp Good Days. 

Her husband, Gary Mervis, founded the camp in 1979 for his daughter, who was diagnosed 

with a malignant brain tumor at age 9. Because Teddi was the only child in her school 

with cancer, he built Camp Good Days 

on New York State’s Keuka Lake so that 

she could spend time with kids who were 

having similar experiences. 

“Especially with childhood cancer, it’s 

often a rare disease, so they could be the 

only one in their school who is battling 

cancer, and they probably feel alone,” 

Bleier-Mervis explained. “We give them 

the opportunity to be with others who 

understand what they’re going through.” 

She added that the children get to be 

themselves for a week: “They don’t have 

to wear their wigs, they can have dessert 

instead of their dinners, they run around 

— we let them be kids.” 

The Colgate connections to the camp 

have been there since the beginning. 

“Doc” (Merrill) Miller, Student Health 

Services director, was one of the first 

doctors to volunteer at Camp Good Days 

in 1980. Various student groups have 

supported the camp through fundraising 

initiatives, as have alumni. 

The camp has expanded to include 

programs for children with HIV/AIDS, 

in the foster care system, and those 

affected by domestic violence, as well as international children with cancer. It also offers 

adult weekends for women with cancer as well as for parents and partners of those with the 

disease. “For the adults, it’s a network and a friendship: they can share what’s going on and 

questions they have,” Bleier-Mervis said. 

Coming to the camp after working as a physical education teacher and coach, Bleier- 

Mervis had started there as a lifeguard on her summers off. While at Colgate, Bleier-Mervis 

was a four-year starter on the women’s basketball team. Later, at the camp, her athletic 

talents made her a natural activities coordinator. “These kids do things that they’re not 

going to be able to do back home, like go in a hot air balloon, ride in a seaplane, fish all day.” 

Eventually, she became program director and then camp director. 

About three years ago, Bleier-Mervis took a leave of absence from teaching and coaching 

to play a larger role at the camp. In the off season, she spreads the word about Camp 

Good Days and fundraises for the camp’s programs, which are offered free of charge to 

attendees. 

Although she doesn’t play the sport as much as she used to, Bleier-Mervis stayed 

involved with basketball as a coach and was recently inducted into the Section V Basketball 

Hall of Fame for her role on the varsity team at West Irondequoit (N.Y.) High School. 

It was this continued involvement with sports that brought her and her husband 

together. The couple met at a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, where they discovered that 

they had shared interests. He had spent most of his career in politics working for the state 

legislature; she majored in political science at Colgate. He received his bachelor’s degree in 

physical education and has coached football for many years at different levels; she spent 

most of her career as a physical education teacher and coach. 

Now, their common goal is to give those in need a memorable experience. “At camp, 

everything else in your life seems so unimportant compared to making sure these kids have 

a great time,” Bleier-Mervis said. “We tell our counselors that if the kids are pushing you 

over to get on the bus, then you should find something else to do, but if they’re crying and 

clinging to you because they don’t want to leave, we’ve made an impact. And ninety percent 

don’t want to leave because they feel that’s where they belong — no one is judging them, and 

everybody understands them. They know when they leave camp that they have a new family 

and that there are other kids just like them, so they’re not alone in the world.” 


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grads, from his tennis-team mentoring days. He 

recently played with ex-Colgate captain Mike 

Shea ’08 and was proud to last an hour and 45 

minutes of Mike pounding the ball at him. Sean 

really enjoys staying involved with students, 

finding it keeps him young. 

Jim Sowers finds himself in a new role as 

practice leader for Wipro Consulting’s HR Mgmt 

and Transformation Practice. He’s been doing a 

great deal of traveling and gets to the NYC area 

frequently, although he’s still based in Houston. 

Jim says it’s fun to be building another business 

just as we are coming out of the “Great Recession.” 

He plays golf regularly with Jerry Jasko 

(based in Austin) and John Bloom (Houston). Jim 

was disappointed with the untimely end to the 

Raiders men’s hockey season, as he had planned 

to go to Albany to see the ECAC semifinals with 

Rick Stickle (Red Hook, NY). 

Debbie Ciampi and her husband have been 

very much involved in Colgate events in the 

last 8 years as parents of Cornelia Kolman ’07. 

They have really enjoyed being members of the 

Parents’ Steering Committee, especially interacting 

with families, the admin, alumni office, and 

alumni. Debbie highly recommends it to other 

parents whose children are entering Colgate 

or attend now. She is hoping her son becomes 

a member of the Class of ’22 so they can do it 

again. 

Bob O’Shea finds that he has developed a new 

fondness for Colgate, not that he ever lost it, but 

it is renewed. Last spring was the only semester 

in the past 4 years that he didn’t visit the campus 

at least once, as his “chip,” Grace Kendrick O’Shea 

’11, was studying abroad in Barcelona. Check out 

this issue’s “Colgate Seen” to see a photo, which 

is also posted on our class web page. It pictures 

Bob and “La Pubia,” standing outside her dorm 

in Barcelona (Bob confided that they’re standing 

near somebody else’s motorcycles so they appear 

cooler than they really are). Bob would like to 

give a shout out to Marty Madeira (Grace’s sister’s 

godfather), nephew Mark Miller ’11, friend and 

neighbor Tom Oliver ’72, great friends Bud Cary 

and Rob Moreno, and to Grace’s aunt and uncle, 

Missy O’Shea Miller ’76 and George O’Shea. 

Paul Raeder and his partner, Bob Holley, are 

still living in Princeton, where Paul works at the 

university’s annual giving office. They share 

a great interest in the cultures of the ancient 

Americas. Starting 25 years ago with a trip to 

Cancun during which they visited the Mayan 

city of Chichen Itza, they have tried to see all 

the great cities in Mesoamerica. More recently, 

they’ve made 2 trips to Peru, staying at Machu 

Picchu and visiting many major pre-Inca sites in 

northern Peru. Their quarter century journey culminated 

in a trip in March to the Mayan ruins of 

Copan in Honduras. (See the class web page for 

a photo of Paul and Bob at the Copan ruins.) Paul 

says that while not claiming to be archeological 

experts, they now have a great appreciation of 

how advanced these cultures were and what 

wonderful structures they built hundreds and 

thousands of years ago. 

Don’t forget to visit our class web page at 

www.colgatealumni.org/clubsandclasses (select 

“Class of 1973” on the pull-down menu). If you’re 

not receiving the e-mail blasts, please adjust 

your settings (or check your spam folder) so 

as to allow e-mails from my address and from 

noreply@imodules.com. 

Marc: 908-580-1414, 580-1946(f); 

marcgettis@comcast.net 

1974 

Gregg McAllister 

21 Ross St 

Batavia, NY 14020-2307 

First, a correction and an apology: Claudia 

Miner is the VP of development at Waterford 

Research Inst in Sandy and Salt Lake, UT, where 

she has been for a couple of years. Waterford is 

a nonprofit research ctr (with a private school) 

dedicated to developing high-quality educational 

models, programs, and software: 500,000 

children across the US use Waterford programs 

in schools. I apologize that in my last column I 

indicated she was still at the Desert Research 

Institute, her previous employer. 

On the move: Former NY atty genl Dennis 

Vacco became a partner in the law firm of Lippes 

Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP in Buffalo, where 

he will specialize in helping businesses work 

through complex state and fed governmental 

regulations. Dennis served as US atty in Buffalo 

1988–93 and was elected atty genl in 1994, the 1st 

Erie Cty resident to win that post since 1928, and 

served in Gov George Pataki’s admin 1995–1998. 

After leaving the AG’s office, Dennis became VP 

of NY ops for Waste Mgmt Inc. 

Still skiing: Doug Carlson, Andy Greenfield, 

Claude Johnston, and Tom Gilman met in Deer 

Valley during the winter for some skiing. Doug, 

who lives in Menlo Park, CA, admits that none of 

them have fully functioning knees, “but we get 

by, thanks to superb slope grooming, plenty of 

Aleve, and appropriate ‘refreshments’ throughout 

the day.” Andy has a daughter, Shaela, in her 

soph year at Colgate. He visits her while teaching 

a seminar on leadership/entrepreneurship (see 

this issue’s Life of the Mind for more). 

Another CA contact: In San Diego on a recent 

business trip, Bob Chamberlain had dinner 

with 2 Colgate ATO brothers, Chip McAteer ’75 

and Alan Bombard ’75. They are planning to get 

together again for a long weekend in Bob’s part 

of the state — Carmel. 

Student-professor collaboration: Don Ferencz, 

who earned his degree in Peace Studies, teamed 

up with Prof Nigel Young, dir of Peace Studies, 

1984–2004, at Magdalen C in Oxford this spring 

for the book launch of the 4-volume Oxford International 

Encyclopedia of Peace (see the photo 

on our class web page at Colgatealumni.org). Prof 

Young served as a contributing author as well as 

editor-in-chief. Don was among the contributors, 

writing on the history and workings of the 

internatl criminal court. For the past 5 years, 

Don’s been involved as a consultant to the court’s 

working group on the crime of aggression — an 

offense branded by the Nuremberg Trials as “the 

supreme internatl crime.” Don also traveled to 

Kampala, Uganda, where the 111 member-countries 

of the court convened to decide whether 

the crime of aggression will be made actionable 

before the court. Don lives in Maidenhead outside 

of London, and advises that he’d be happy 

to share a pint with any alums who are passing 

through! 

Sorry to report: the sudden death of Dave 

Sheldon in Kingston, RI. He was a civil engineer 

for the state for 30 years before joining Thielsch 

Engineering. He also coached youth soccer, basketball, 

and baseball. He and Ed Schnittger, aptly 

named Sheldon & Schnittger, often performed 

together around Colgate and even cut a record 

together, which is still in my basement with my 

collection of LPs. Dave maintained his passion for 

music throughout his life, playing guitar with 2 

local bands. He is survived by his wife, Debbie, 

and 3 children.

Charlotte L Whiting MAT’74, a French major, 

died in Jan in Belmont, MA. 

If you meet a classmate while vacationing 

this summer, don’t forget to send an update to 

share with the Scene. 

Gregg: 585-345-6154 (O); 343-9796 (H); greggmca@verizon.net 

1975 

Carolyn Swift 

2022 Columbia Rd NW, #514 

Washington, DC 20009-1316 

By the time you read this, I will have plenty of 

news about our 35th Colgate Reunion, but I’m 

sending this in April, so I don’t have the news 

yet. Check the Class of ’75 page on colgatealumni.org 

for lots of info and pictures about the 

great weekend! 

Less news this time around, but I am making 

up for it by calling classmates to ask them 

whether they are coming to reunion. So far, 

many have been responding in the affirmative, 

so I’m looking forward to a lively time trying to 

catch up with everyone! 

As mentioned in my last column, I talked a 

while back with Jonathan Husch, chair of the 

Geological and Environmental School at Rider 

U, and he referred me to his personal Rider 

website, which included the history and update 

info for him and his family. After Colgate, 

Jonathan studied, researched, and TA-ed in the 

Dept of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at 

Princeton, where he earned both his master’s 

and PhD. In 1978, he married Gerri Hutner (BA 

SUNY-Albany ’75 and master’s NYU ’77). Gerri 

has been the public info officer/dir of communications 

for the W Windsor-Plainsboro Regional 

School District since 1999, was a member of the 

Lawrence Township Board of Ed, and worked for 

19 years as the managing editor of NJ Medicine, 

the monthly journal of the Medical Society of 

NJ. Gerri and Jonathan love to travel, and over 

the last few years they’ve been to Chile (to visit 

Jonathan’s family), London, Paris, Province, 

Normandy, Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Siena, 

Venice, and Quebec and Victoria, Canada. Gerri 

also is a voracious reader of books and appeared 

on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2002 as an 

Oprah’s Book Club panel member, discussing 

Toni Morrison’s novel Sula. Gerri and Jonathan 

have 2 sons, Benjamin (Wake Forest ’06, MA 

Rutgers ’08) and Jared (U of Richmond ’08, now 

completing a post-baccalaureate, pre-medical 

cert program at U of Miami and applying to 

med school). Since 1996, Jon has been the Rider 

NCAA Faculty Athletics rep and is involved in a 

wide variety of athletic issues and projects on 

campus. He also represented Rider as a member 

of the 2001 People to People Delegation to Cuba 

on Women in Sports, and recently traveled to 

Costa Rica, Iceland, the Galapagos Islands and 

Ecuador, and Panama as part of a team teaching 

for the Nature’s Business course. Finally, he was 

honored for his teaching excellence by being 

selected for inclusion in the 2002 and 2007 editions 

of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 

and for his service to the university by being 

awarded the 2005 Frank N Elliot Award for 

Distinguished Service. I wish I’d asked Jonathan 

about the “geology tradition” mentioned by 

Aliza Michaels Metzner below. 

I recently called Aliza Michaels Metzner, 

who lives in Orinda, CA, with her husband, 

Peter. Their older daughter, Claire, is graduating 

from Oberlin this spring, and talking about her 

graduation made Aliza and me start talking 

about our graduation back in 1975. Then we 

had to catch up on everything we’ve done since 

“Lizzie O’Rourke found herself in a brief meeting with Michelle Obama, and the two joked about their 

Chicago accents.” — Melanie Kiechle ’03 

then, so I’m afraid I kept her on the phone far 

too long, but I had a great time catching up 

and talking about the good ole days at Colgate. 

Aliza had a couple of great Colgate memories, 

including what was reported to be an old 

geology tradition — grabbing a fellow student 

and tossing him into Taylor Lake. (Of course, 

Colgate still had a swimming requirement back 

in those days…) By 1971–72, though, a fellow 

student might also be a “her,” and so it came 

to pass that an unsuspecting Aliza, who was 

walking by, followed a geology major called 

“Woodman” into a mud bath resulting from 

the dredging operation that was under way… 

Apparently, the maid who cleaned the Stillman 

Hall ladies shower the next day was appalled 

by the muck still left from the clean-up! Aliza 

and I also talked about how glad we both are 

that we went to a school like Colgate, where the 

faculty was dedicated to teaching undergrads; 

students left classes still talking about ideas 

and points raised and continued the discussions 

back in the dorms, houses, or the Jug; and how 

Colgate felt then, and still feels to us now, to be 

a community that we joined then and to which 

we still belong. We talked about how many 

people from Colgate with whom we are still in 

touch (Aliza mentioned Amy Lennard Goehner 

’74) and then we told some more stories from 

back in the day… Which is probably why we are 

both feeling called to go to our reunion and tell 

or hear some more! 

I hope you were there and we spent some 

time together, but if not, tune in to the autumn 

issue class column and the class page on the 

alumni site for stories and pictures of Colgate in 

June 2010 and then send me an update or just a 

hello! 

That’s it for this issue. Next issue will be the 

report on the reunion. Until then, enjoy and 

take care! 

Carolyn: 202-483-0809 (H); 752-7169 (O); 

752-6158 (fax); cs14105@yahoo.com 

1976 

Valerie Avedon Gardiner 

40 St Andrews Rd 

Severna Park, MD 21146-1439 

Wild winter weather behind us, your class 

editor wonders where all the news is? You 

guys still hibernating? She enjoyed drumming 

some news up herself with a trip into DC in 

April to catch up with sr-year apt mate and 

now fabulously famous Francesca Zambello 

’78. Cesca was in our nation’s capital for a few 

weeks to run another winning production at 

the Kennedy Center. Her life’s accomplishments 

(that humble this lowly correspondent) have to 

be Googled to be believed! 

I was the 1st to hear about her next adventure, 

which will be to breathe new life into 

Cooperstown’s Glimmerglass Opera Summer 

Fest, and staying closer to home to spend more 

time with her loved ones. That’s one lucky opera 

org. She emanates graciousness, confidence, and 

love for her art, and they are fortunate to have 

her. What a gal! It has been fun on Facebook to 

reunite our old apt mates: Andrea D’Amico, Pam 

Ross, and Roni Jubinsky Adair ’77, and all keep 

in touch. 

In a cool coincidence, Freddie Foulke got 

back in touch with a super newsy note and 

shared that she continues to work in the of- 

fice of the general counsel at, guess where, the 

Kennedy Ctr. One of her big jobs was to, without 

incident, get a 350-person Syrian adult and kid’s 

choir in and around town for a 4-day fest. Wow! 

Freddie’s beautiful daughters are nearby. Courtney 

is a Union C grad with a good job (rarity for 

college grads these days!) with SOS Villages (a 

group that provides for the needy internationally), 

coaches field hockey at a local HS, and plays 

ice hockey w/ an area women’s team. Chelsea 

is in her 2nd year at Johns Hopkins School for 

Advanced and Internatl Studies, and as Freddie 

puts it, “is still smitten with Africa,” spending 

last summer in Uganda. Chelsea is also a marathon 

runner. Such an accomplished group of gals; 

good for them! 

Speaking of great gals, I have really enjoyed 

getting to know Lynn Plant ’77 on Facebook in 

the last few months. She shared with me that at 

alumni meetings up at CU in Jan, our class was 

once again used as a successful example of “how 

to do it right” with our active classmates participating 

in debates and staying connected via the 

Internet. Good for us! 

Speaking of overseas, Jeff Kleiser was excited 

to be learning a new sport: cricket. Yes, cricket! 

Another incredibly talented class member, Jeff 

is in India — yes India — working with Sharukh 

Khan on a new Bollywood movie, Ra. (I am pretty 

sure he did not say Chaka Khan but he was 

pretty excited about it!) It’s on to London then 

back to Mumbai ’til this Nov. Is our class the coolest 

of the cool, or what? 

Speaking of cool, Jeff Steltzer’s fiancée, Cathy 

Moore, likes to share cool YouTube videos of Jeff 

fishing the wild creeks of WV. The latest was in 

several feet of snow, waders frozen to his boots, 

frozen to his socks, frozen to his feet. Jeff works in 

the mining industry in WV, and although he was 

not personally touched by the recent tragedy, as 

he and Cathy said, “We are one big family and 

we all share in their grief.” Jeff and buddies have 

a fishing trip to AK scheduled for this summer. 

Sounds great. 

Welcome home from a few years overseas, 

Gerry Gilligan. I am sure we will all enjoy reconnecting! 

For those of you who have inquired as to 

Barry Stanton’s whereabouts, he continues to 

call ESPN his work home, FYI. 

Thanks to Bill Freeborn, Steve Solomon, 

Joanne Spigner, Sandy Braddy Hall, and Jeff 

Oberg for their hard work representing our class 

at Alumni Council and Board of Trustee meetings 

and functions over the last year. There have been 

many tough issues to deal with at Colgate; our 

class is always so well represented. 

Hope you will continue to be heard by writing, 

e-mailing, Facebooking, whatevering... 

Valerie: 410-987-8808; valgate76@aol.com 

1977 

Carl P Barone 

176 Reilly Rd 

LaGrangeville, NY 12540-9530 

Hoping you are having a relaxing and enjoyable 

summer so far. It’s early April as I write the column, 

but it sure feels like summer in upstate NY, 

with temps in the mid-80s of late. Don’t forget to 

check out our class page on Facebook — you can 

connect with many friends and classmates 24/7. 

It’s a great way to stay in touch! 

Bob Roche is loving his post-Cephalon days. 

He has been doing some traveling, a little consulting, 

and thinking about what to do next. 

Chip Steppacher remains affiliated with the 

commodities group at JP Morgan, living in London 

with his family. He has been involved with 

acquisitions and has been the CFO for the European 

Power & Gas and Global Metals businesses. 

He enjoys playing golf and had a fabulous time 

visiting N Ireland with friends, including Paul 

Craig, to play golf at Royal County Down and 

Royal Portrush. 

Heard from Angela Moody Robinson with 

news that she finished her doctorate in education 

from Nova SE U last year. She looked at 

students and developmental and college-level 

math courses and what factors contribute to success 

and failure for them. She is having the most 

fun reacquainting herself with something other 

than her computer and a lit review. 

Linda Buchanan Allen answered my plea for 

news with fond memories shared of her visit 

with Susan and Scott Dittman ’75 in Lexington, 

VA, last summer while on a college tour 

with her daughter Marjorie. Scott is registrar at 

Washington & Lee. Linda’s daughter opted to 

attend Loyola in Baltimore. Linda is still freelance 

writing, riding horses, and volunteering at the local 

equine rescue barn. Also heard from Cynthia 

Grim Dade, who is the sr partner at her law firm, 

Dade & Hochman, in NYC, where she specializes 

in trusts and estates law. Her older daughter, Gabriella, 

graduated from Hunter C in May and has 

commenced her master’s in counseling degree at 

Hunter. She also works p/t at the law firm. 

Ed Wallack sent in a photo of him and his 

wife, Margo Haist Wallack ’78, in front of the 

pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. Visit our class page 

photo gallery on colgatealumni.org to see the 

happy couple. 

Hoping our paths cross soon! 

Carl: 845-227-1854; marooncarl@aol.com 

1978 

Linda Pattillo 

Suite 230-271 

245 N. Highland Ave. 

Atlanta, GA 30307 

Ginny McColough Keeshan wrote in with sad 

news: “John Ciraldo passed away April 18 from 

brain cancer. He is survived by his wife, Julie, and 

3 children, Alexandra, Christopher, and Madeline. 

John had been living in the Portland, Maine, area 

for the past 25 years and had a very successful 

career in law. I’ll submit happier news next time. 

Take care.” 

Linda: colgate78@gmail.com 

1979 

Kimi de Murga 

227 E 66th St, #1A 

New York, NY 10021-6413 

Although I am writing this in April and you will 

be reading it in Aug, I wouldn’t be surprised if 

the temp is the same. We had an early taste of 

summer for the past few days, with yesterday 

breaking a record and hitting 90! It has been a 

wild winter with extremes. I hope it is not an 

indication of what is to come. 

Colleen Brown loves living in Middlebury, 

where she is the one and only US bankruptcy 

judge for the state of VT. She is enjoying the 


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splendors of being a grandmother to a 3-year-old 

granddaughter. Colleen belongs to the Unitarian 

Universalist Church and recently gave a sermon 

titled “Forgiveness in a Time of Bankruptcy.” 

Preparing for the sermon made her reflect on 

all she learned about philosophy and religion 

at Colgate, believing that Colgate cultivated in 

her an appreciation for the many complexities 

and dimensions of life, and in particular led her 

to take a spiritual view of what she does as a 

federal judge. The essence of her sermon was 

that bankruptcy law is the only area of the law 

that focuses on forgiveness, and that serving as a 

bankruptcy judge has informed both her professional 

and spiritual development. 

Dr Barbara Needell was certified as a diplomate 

in the American Board of Forensic Odontology 

(ABFO). It often takes a decade or more to 

meet the criteria for certification, so her journey 

to ABFO board-certification has not been short 

nor has it been easy. Further, the certification 

exam is a very difficult comprehensive test of the 

depth and scope of a candidate’s knowledge and 

abilities. The ABFO was formed in 1976, and since 

that time, only 145 dentists worldwide have been 

certified as diplomates. Congrats, Barb! 

Janice Mandel sent a photo of Colgate alumni 

gathering April 3 at Carmine’s restaurant in NYC. 

Coming from the suburbs of NY, NJ, Philly, and 

DC were: Arthur Amron ’78, Sam Abady ’77, Peter 

Loevy ’79, Marc Edelman ’78, Peter Margulies 

’78, Sara Pearl ’80, and Jon Schneider ’78 and 

Janice. Check out the picture on our class page 

at colgatealumni.org. Sam Abady added: “Jon 

Schneider, Arthur Amron, Peter Margulies, Marc 

Edelman, and I lived at 10 Spring St, along with 

Matt Morley ’78 (not shown in the photo), and 

affectionately refer to our group as ‘The Spring 

Street Gang.’” 

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer! 

Kimi: 212-517-6776; Gate79@aol.com 

1980 

David H Alvord 

424 Washington Ave 

Oneida, NY 13421-1906 

Spring is arriving in CNY as I write. Your editor 

just got to hear an inspirational Easter sermon 

from Stuart Wattles ’72. 

Rick Calley is based in Dallas. He joined Shaw 

Environmental in early ’09 as a client program 

manager and conducts environmental training 

and assessment services for major retail and 

telecom clients. 

Gigi Giacomara got to see Bruce Springsteen 

and the E Street Band perform the final concert 

in old Giants Stadium. She still makes the 200mile 

roundtrip daily commute to work at the 

Bronx Zoo and recently acquired a bright red ’95 

Honda CB250 Nighthawk motorcycle. See our 

class page photo gallery at colgatealumni.org for 

a picture. 

Marj and Dan Kobrin spent a couple of nights 

in NYC in March to celebrate his bday. Daughter 

Abby graduates from HS this year and plans to 

attend UMass. 

I hope everyone is having a good summer. 

Next issue will feature a report on Reunion ’10. 

David: 315-363-2117; jalvord@cnyconnect.net 

“I am now initiated as a shaman in the Huichol tradition, and I am setting up a healing practice here 

in Bend.” — Larry Messerman ’81 

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1981 

Nancy Horwitz 

77 Islington Rd 

Auburndale, MA 02466-1009 

Here we are, summer of 2010. Just 1 year from 

our 30th Reunion. Time continues to march on, 

doesn’t it? At this stage, our life experiences are 

so incredibly varied: some are discovering new 

careers and/or callings in life while others are 

nearing or at retirement; some have children 

who have graduated from college while others 

have young children at home; some have grandchildren 

while others may not have children of 

the 2-legged variety but have raised the 4-legged 

kind (and you know who you are); some have 

lived in the same place since graduating from 

college while others have moved around a bit. 

News from our class for this quarter’s column 

reflects some of these things. 

Larry Messerman writes: “My wife, Jessica, 

and I moved to central OR a year ago after living 

in CA for nearly 25 years. We love it. Lots of open 

space, beautiful rivers, and a stunning panorama 

of volcanic mountains and buttes.” Larry spent 

many years in grad school following Colgate, receiving 

his MA from the Grad School of Internatl 

Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego 

and then his PhD from the Gevritz School of 

Edu at UC Santa Barbara. In Larry’s case, he says, 

“Something funny happened on the way to the 

last degree: I discovered my real work was via an 

indigenous healing tradition. So much for all the 

school! I am now initiated as a shaman in the 

Huichol tradition, and I am setting up a healing 

practice here in Bend.” He’d love to hear from any 

old friends (emphasis on old). 

Patti and John Nozell moved to London last 

summer, when John joined Seabury Group LLC 

as managing dir, head of investment banking, 

for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. When 

not traveling or busy with family obligations, 

Patti has enjoyed exploring Hampstead Heath 

with their 2 dogs. Their daughters, Melissa ’10 

and Kristen ’11, are at Colgate. By the time this 

column is published, Melissa will have graduated 

— along with her roommate Tara Woods, 

daughter of classmates Greg and Lizann Whelan 

Woods. John and Patti would love to show you 

around their new neighborhood should any of 

our classmates travel to London. 

Marti Prashker Murray wrote in to report on a 

gathering of 1981 alumnae: “On April 17, a group 

of 10 women from the Class of 1981 enlivened the 

very elegant Surrey Hotel in NYC. The evening 

was the brainstorm of Cathy Hoffman, living 

in Washington, DC, and Barb Sheehan, living 

in NYC. Janie Kershaw Chadwick traveled from 

Vieques to be there; others came from Boston 

(Laura Bergan), D.C. (Phyllis Corrao Doran), 

Cooperstown, NY (Cari Fuertes), and NJ (Jenny 

Groel Beimfohr). The rest of us were local NYCers 

(me, Heidi Feigenbaum Selig, Barb Sheehan, and 

Laurie Greenberg Cardilo). During our years at 

Colgate, we had lived off campus in 2 houses 

on Pine Street. The recent gathering took place 

as the volcanic ash continued to spew over 

Europe, stranding travelers worldwide. I had 

been forewarned that after so many years it 

might be difficult to recognize one another and 

that perhaps we should wear name tags. To the 

contrary — Colgate women clearly know how 

to take care of themselves; long, cold winters 

mean copious amounts of moisturizer. Everyone 

looked terrific, and there was much laughing, 

dancing, eating, and a little drinking. There was 

much catching up on the status of everyone’s 

kids and sharing Blackberry photos of same. Our 

children cover a wide age span (5–22) and many 

are fast approaching their college years. My 

daughter Emily Murray just finished up her first 

year at Colgate. We had some good old pictures, 

Heidi Feigenbaum Selig made a great DVD, and 

we had the face book, and our yearbooks. We 

vowed to meet again at our 30th Reunion in June 

2011.” Photos of the event are on the class page 

photo gallery at colgatealumni.org. 

Keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming. 

It’s a terrific way to stay in touch with classmates. 

Enjoy your summer! 

Nancy: 617-558-9781; nhorwitz@nlhcoaching.com 

1982 

Margie Jiampietro Palladino 

37 Boulder Rd 

Wellesley, MA 02481-1502 

As the tail end of the blizzard of 2010 was winding 

down, Jean Connolly Giorgio was reading the 

latest Scene, pondering whether the print on the 

class news pages is getting smaller (“or is that 

part of the ‘turning 50’ thing?”), and reminiscing 

how the landscape outside her window 

reminded her of our years at Colgate. Aside from 

turning the clock to a new decade, just about everything 

in Jean’s life is changing. Her husband, 

Frank, started a new position in Providence, RI, so 

they are packing up, selling their house on LI and 

moving to the Providence area. Jean is quickly 

becoming an expert on all things RI and would 

love to connect with Colgate alums there. Jean 

plans on celebrating turning 50 all year long — 

with every one of her friends. “Any excuse for 

a dinner out, a spa day, cocktails, or a weekend 

away!” She particularly is looking forward to her 

annual girls’ weekend in Saratoga with Karen 

Limner Mertz and Ann Flynn Wolney, which will 

take on a real celebratory feel this year. Jean says, 

“It’s bizarre because 50 always seemed like a long 

way off, and I thought it would feel ‘old.’ Instead, 

other than the extra aches and pains when I 

get up in the morning and the scary wrinkles (I 

mean laugh lines) that appear before me in the 

mirror, I don’t feel any different than I did at 25 

or 40. I have found, however, that 50 ‘wears’ differently 

on everyone; some of my friends haven’t 

aged at all, and yet for some, 50 does seem old! I 

guess it really is just a number!” 

My old sr roommate Christine Linkie, who 

won’t round the corner ’til next year, nevertheless 

has taken this change of lifestyle very seriously. 

Her 1st big change is that she recently married! 

She and husband Doug Michali live in Erie, 

PA, where Christine moved a few years ago to be 

closer to her family and to take a position with 

the Ophelia Project (a natl nonprofit committed 

to creating safe social environments in schools 

and communities). Her next big change is that 

she is a recent homeowner! As if these changes 

were not enough, her house is a fixer-upper and 

she (uh, Doug) is doing a lot of the construction. I 

wonder if anyone ever told the happy newlyweds 

that home-improvement projects and 

marriage do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. 

Continuing with this theme of change, Christine 

has ventured down a new career path. While she 

continues to work half-time for the Ophelia Project, 

she has a new job as an occupational therapy 

evaluator for driver rehabilitation. She evaluates 

people with disabilities and older adults, ordering 

adaptive equipment, and, yes, teaching 

people to drive. Christine is finally putting to use 

her catlike reflexes, Andretti-like driving skills, 

and keen sense of direction with the help of 2 

GPSs and her Tom-Tom (she never leaves home 

without him). Christine’s last piece of news is 

that she is excited to be part of the very active 

theater community in Erie. Although it was hard 

for her to leave the bright lights of NYC, Christine 

was delighted to finally be on stage again last 

spring, playing Constance in the Erie Playhouse 

production of The Constant Wife. She describes it 

as “coming home.” So, amidst all her change, she 

held on to her constant — her love of acting. That 

is good. I look forward to visiting Erie and seeing 

Chris at her wedding celebration later this summer. 

In other exciting news, Bob Corwen, Rich 

Klein’s old roommate, couldn’t wait to spill the 

beans about Carey Vames Klein’s recent heroic 

efforts saving the life of a fellow gym member 

in her town of Chappaqua, NY. Carey, who 

happens to be a paramedic and member of the 

Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corp, was at 

her gym when a fellow gym member collapsed. 

Carey immediately sprang into action and is 

credited with saving the man’s life. Way to go, 

Carey! 

Meanwhile, life has been flying by for Bob in 

New Rochelle, NY, where he’s lived with wife Kelly 

and their 4 kids for the past 10 years. Son Sean 

is a jr at Holy Cross, while son #2, Connor, will 

be a 1st-year at Bucknell this fall, joining Jodee 

LaMotta Novak’s daughter Emily. Both boys are 

avid rowers, so Bob looks forward to watching 

them row at the Head of the Charles in Boston 

this Oct. Bob laments, “I still can’t bring myself 

to wear any collegiate attire from either of these 

Colgate rivals, so I have pledged to only put on a 

hat or sweatshirt from either school if I’m cheering 

on a son at a race.” Son #3, Brendan, is 13 and 

already 6'3" tall. Bob hopes he’ll be his Colgate kid 

and a Raider basketball player as well! Daughter 

Meghan is 10 and “a breath of fresh air for her 

mother as she tries to cut through the testosterone 

levels in our household.” After 70 years 

in retail furniture, Bob’s family business shifted 

over to commercial real estate mgmt about 10 

years ago. Bob said it has proved to be quite the 

challenge the last few years but they are surviving. 

Bob wishes all his classmates a happy 50th 

and “hopes it takes them less time to get their 

bones out of bed in the am than it takes me!” 

I was so happy to receive a note from Rene 

Jackson, my 1st friend at Colgate before classes 

even started! (We met at the summer orientation 

weekend, along with Rosemary Kearns Zemanian, 

Pam Gannon, and I think Jay Woerdeman. 

I know there are more of you who attended the 

weekend 32 years ago but I just can’t remember 

— another “turning 50 thing” — so feel free to 

write in.) Rene apologized for procrastinating 

all these years by not writing and just wanted 

to say hi and let me know she is alive and well, 

living in CA. She sent me a photo of her and her 

very handsome 19-year-old son at his HS military 

school graduation. Judging from her photo, Rene 

will be celebrating her 40th, not 50th, bday this 

year. Rene is looking forward to meeting up with 

Scott and Chris Scannell Giacconne in NY and 

promised to let me know if their reunion is fit for 

publication! 

Congratulations to Derek Sorenson for being 

named one of 18 Quarles & Brady AZ-based 

attorneys who were named in the 2010 issue of

Southwest Super Lawyers magazine as among the 

top 5% of attorneys in AZ and NM. 

Lastly, I have finally turned 49 years and 12 

months. (I tired of saying I turned 39 for the 12th 

time.) As I mentioned in my 1st column of the 

year, I was having a hard time facing 50. Your 

e-mails really helped to put it all in perspective. I 

have to say, it hasn’t been so bad. I have decided 

to celebrate it like Jean Connolly — why not 

stretch out the celebration over a year? During 

this year, I have committed to reconnect with 

friends from all different times of my life, many 

whom I have not seen in several years. I have so 

enjoyed getting reacquainted with old friends 

whether for a dinner (like I had with Jeannine 

Breton Adams to celebrate our bdays) or a party 

(like Liz Orbe Fischer’s 50th, where I had fun 

catching up with Ann Lackey Chao and Casey 

Chandler), or lunch and a walk (like I had with 

my freshman and soph year roommate Amy 

Donovan Beecher). I also decided to challenge 

myself by doing a 40-mile, 2-day breast cancer 

walk in honor of my milestone bday and in 

memory of both my children’s godmothers who 

died of cancer in the past 2 years at ages 50 

and 46. (Mark Miller’s wife, Maryellen, was my 

daughter’s godmother, who died of breast cancer 

and we miss her dearly.) When I look back on 

my life in decades, I see how each decade had a 

focus: 20s was about building my law career; 30s 

was about building my family; 40s was about 

rebuilding myself — being single again (let’s not 

even talk about dating in your 40s) and starting 

a real estate development business. What will 

my 50s bring? We shall see… If I am still writing 

this column at age 60 (now there’s a way to 

make 50 not sound so bad), I will be sure to let 

you know. In the meantime, please keep those 

e-mails coming. 

Margie: 781-235-9386; mjpalladino@comcast.net 

1983 

Gwen Tutun Campbell 

22 Old Hill Road 

Westport, CT 06880 

Hello, classmates. I have so enjoyed hearing 

from many of you, and the addition of Facebook 

makes the process even better. 

Congrats to Gregory Miller, who has joined 

Virtual Law Partners after a long stint with 

Google. Greg was managing dir at Google.org 

through late 2009, leading its philanthropic 

investments, grants, and legal teams. 

Mary Hill writes that she has been in touch 

with Miriam Garron, who is working for the Food 

Network/Bobby Flay show Throwdown. Mary is 

busy out in St Paul as a college guidance counselor 

and enjoying it! 

So glad to hear from Michele Cortese. Her 

daughter just finished her 1st year at Colgate. 

Michele is loving the opportunity to spend more 

time in the Chenango. She assured me that 

Andrews Hall on a Sunday morning looks and 

smells pretty much the same as it did 30-plus 

years ago. Doug and Laura Glassman Hercher 

also have a son in the Class of 2013. Michele has 

been practicing child welfare law since leaving 

Columbia Law School in 1987 and started a new 

venture in 2002 to try to coordinate the process 

of foster care with a team of professionals for every 

family, with very good results. She is living in 

Croton on Hudson, and in addition to her daughter 

Madeline, Michele has a son, David, who is 

a 1st-year in HS. She recently had dinner with 

Tracy Gallagher last spring. Tracy is a pediatrician 

in Manhattan, happily married with 2 kids. 

Last fall, Michele caught up with Tom and Kathy 

Lewis Tyree, who moved from Manhattan to 

Denver. Also, Michele reported that Chris Paine’s 

film, Who Killed the Electric Car, was shown in 

her HS’s AP Environmental Class. The film was 

also shown at Colgate this winter as part of a 

sustainability and alternative transportation 

conversation. 

And, finally, I’m absolutely thrilled to report 

that Keith Drill sent an adorable photo of aspiring 

Colgate student Andrew Drill — who, at 11 

months, already has an impressive assortment of 

’Gate wear! 

Have a wonderful summer, and please continue 

to send me your news! 

Gwen: 203-226-2608 (h); 203-856-2922 (c); 

gwentcamp@optonline.net 

1984 

Diane Munzer Fisher 

4356 Stilson Cir 

Norcross, GA 30092-1648 

Thanks to everyone who responded to my 

request for info via e-mail and Facebook. Please 

make sure that Colgate has an accurate e-mail 

address for you. Many of the ones on record 

bounced back. 

Tina Buzak believes she may have accomplished 

something before any of our classmates. 

This spring she had a hip replacement after a biking 

accident last June. She was looking forward 

to testing out the new hip by walking around 

campus during Colgate’s Summer on the Hill 

program at the end of June. 

Sally Rothwell has been living in Anchorage 

with husband Greg Bernoski for 17 years now. 

Sally works as a sr environmental coordinator for 

ConocoPhillips AK, an oil and gas company. She 

spends her free time enjoying the outdoors with 

Greg and her dog Cooper skiing, rafting, fishing, 

hiking, and biking to work. She stays in touch 

with Di Keller ’81 and recently celebrated Di’s 

50th with her in HI — the 50th state on her 50th 

bday! Won’t be much longer before the Class of 

’84 hits this milestone. 

Mimi Pirrmann Santoro, who lives a few blocks 

away from Gail Baechtold Winkelstein in northern 

VA, sees Sara Dougherty Jones on a regular 

basis and runs into Baman Rusby at swim meets. 

Gail and her daughter visited Atlanta in May 

for my daughter Michelle’s bat mitzvah. Also 

celebrating with us was Heather Lubking Brown, 

who was in town picking her daughter Chelsea 

up from her 1st year at Emory. Heather is working 

on her doctorate in education and continues to 

teach in CT. 

Carol Crowdus Barbour joined the board of 

the Summer Theatre of New Canaan and threw a 

big fundraising event at Le Beau Chateau to offer 

part of the summer season, Shakespeare’s Henry 

IV, free to the public this summer. 

Lydia Mc Nally Danenberg lives in Chatham, 

NJ, with husband Brian and son Paul, 9. She was 

recently promoted to VP at Novartis Pharma, 

where she has worked for 11 years. In her new 

role, she will continue to be the head of the 

patent group for the oncology business but now 

takes on the additional responsibility of site head 

for all US patents. 

Chris Gavigan is pres of Charon Planning, an 

employee benefits consulting firm in Warrington, 

PA. 

Rod Powell has been married to Esther since 

1998 and now resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

He is employed as an ops analyst with Pennwest 

Energy Trust. 

Charles McChesney is living in his hometown 

of Liverpool and recently celebrated his 19th anniversary 

with wife Jane (UME ’85). They have 4 

fast-growing children, all of whom can sing, or at 

In the know: choosing children’s literature 

Diane Bailey Foote ’89, a professional reviewer of children’s and parenting books, is a member 

of the 2010 Newbery Award Committee and 2011 Coretta Scott King Book Award Jury, 

both American Library Association (ALA) youth media awards. She holds an MS in library 

and information science from the University of Illinois and is a past executive director of 

the Association for Library Service to Children. Here, Bailey Foote offers tips for hooking 

young readers up with great books: 

1. Encourage enjoyment. Don’t force kids to read something because it’s “good for them,” 

unless it’s also something they’ll genuinely enjoy. Real pleasure in books translates into 

increased time spent reading, which research shows leads naturally to greater reading (and 

writing) ability and broadens children’s knowledge and awareness. 

2. Know your audience. There’s no substitute for familiarity with a child’s individual reading 

ability and interests. No book, even one with starred reviews and awards, is suitable for 

every reader. Babies and toddlers need clear, bright illustrations in picture and board books. 

Children just learning to read need simple vocabulary and a clear layout (humor helps!). 

Reluctant readers need high-interest topics. If you don’t know a child well, ask someone who 

knows about that child’s interests. Animals? Space? Art? History? Action? Animals in space? 

3. Ask the experts. A bookseller or librarian can offer invaluable advice and suggestions, 

particularly if you know which books a child has enjoyed previously. There are many lesserknown, 

well-written elaborate fantasy series that Harry Potter fans may wish to read next, 

for example. If you remember particular books fondly from your own childhood, an expert 

can suggest similar contemporary titles. Many states offer child-voted book award programs 

that feature appealing reading selections; ask at your school or public library. 

4. Allow children to read outside of their grade level. Plenty of kids read above or below 

their grade level. It’s OK if a child reads a book that might be “too easy” once in a while; don’t 

grown-ups enjoy reading “easy” stuff sometimes? It’s also OK for children to come across 

unfamiliar words or concepts in a book. That’s how learning happens. Make sure you or another 

approachable adult is available to answer questions and, perhaps, help guide further 

exploration of new words and ideas. 

5. Consider nontraditional formats. Great reading isn’t found only in novels! Informational 

books, poetry, graphic novels and comics, audiobooks, and magazines offer a wide range of 

topics, styles, and genres for all ages. Exposing young readers to a variety of reading material 

increases the chances they’ll discover something they love, and helps them hone their 

tastes and critical thinking skills. 

Visit http://www.ala.org/yma for more information on the ALA’s wide array of youth media 

awards, including recommended lists of fiction, nonfiction, young adult books, books for 

beginning readers, and audiobooks. 

To read more about Bailey Foote’s experience on the Newbery committee, check out 

an interview with her on http://beyondthemargins.com, a literary-themed blog created by 

Nichole Bernier ’89. 

What do you know? If you’re an expert in an area of your field or avocation and would like 

to share your sage advice, e-mail scene@colgate.edu or write to the Colgate Scene, 

13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346. 


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Theresa Bertocci

least sing along to “1819.” Charles is a reporter on 

the breaking news team at his hometown paper, 

the Syracuse Post-Standard. One bonus to working 

in CNY, says Charles, is that he gets to write 

about Colgate once in a while, including a piece 

last year about green initiatives on campus. 

Classmate Suzannne Blanchard would be 

happy to read about those initiatives. In Dec, 

Suzanne joined Smart Growth VT as program dir, 

where she works to integrate growth, environmental 

protection, and econ opportunities into 

VT’s local planning framework. Prior to joining 

Smart Growth VT, after practicing environmental 

law for a decade in DC and Princeton, Suzanne 

was an editor and consultant. Suzanne graduated 

VT Law, worked for the VT Agency of Natural 

Resources, and clerked at the US Dept of Justice. 

Suzanne also serves on the Chittenden Cty 

Regional Planning Commission and is a board 

member of the Chittenden Cty Metro Planning 

Org. She has worked on housing, land use, and 

environmental issues for 2 decades. And, when 

she’s not working or volunteering her time, 

Suzanne likes to get out on the lake or the Island 

Line with her partner, Nancy, and 2 children, ages 

1 and 2. 

This spring, John Dieffenbacher-Krall spoke 

at Lemoyne C about his successful efforts to have 

the Episcopal Church repudiate the Doctrine of 

Discovery. Under the Doctrine of Discovery, the 

title to newly discovered lands lay with the govt 

whose subjects discovered new territory. This 

led to taking of lands from indigenous peoples 

throughout the US. Along with the Episcopal 

Church, the Quakers and the Unitarian Universalists 

have joined this burgeoning movement 

for indigenous justice. John lives in ME. 

Karina Thomas connected with Bill Eaton at 

her egg-coloring party in Breckenridge, where 

Bill was skiing and instructing for several weeks. 

Karina continues her estate-planning practice 

in Denver, where she enjoys mtn biking if she 

can make time for it. Yet another get-together 

happened in ski country. During spring break 

in Solitude, UT, Larry Freedman and family 

reconnected with Dick Badenhausen and his 

daughter Liza. Dick is thriving as an English prof 

at Westminster C, when he is not skiing at Alta. 

Dick’s kids Liza and Will are top-notch skiers in 

the Alta jr program. 

Not every mini-reunion happened in snow 

country. This spring, Kim ‘Munchie’ Gray Carroll 

visited family in Glastonbury, CT, from Denver 

and had lunch with Becky Rawson Cavazuti, 

Annie Reiser Haling, and Silvia Bogdanovics 

Durno. They spent hours eating, shopping, 

and catching up. Anne Hershberger Miller and 

Corinne Costanzo Wickel could not make the 

trip, so they were included via text messaging. 

Munchie & Andy’s 2 sons are now 17 and 18. 

Drew will be attending Fort Lewis C in Durango, 

CO, in the fall. Jack is attending Gary Gilchrist 

Golf Academy in CA for his jr and sr year of HS. 

The Carrolls see Anne and Ken ’82 Miller all the 

time. In Colgate fashion, they are trying to visit 

every microbrewery in the state of CO. Corinne 

and Heather Stearns Scozzarella had their own 

mini-reunion. They live about 20 min away from 

each other on the Cape and frequent many of the 

same places. Yet they never ran into each other 

until they began a correspondence via Facebook. 

They had a great dinner in Hyannis with their 

husbands and look forward to many more. If 

any classmates are on Cape Cod this summer, 

look Heather and Corrine up. They’d love to see 

you. Heather is very involved with Big Brothers 

& Big Sisters on Cape Cod and has loved her roll 

as a Big Sister to a wonderful smart, funny, and 

sweet 12-year-old originally from Jamaica. She 

was recently nominated for Big of the Year and is 

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one of the finalists. Heather highly recommends 

getting involved in this great org in any way possible. 

“It takes so little to make a difference in a 

young child’s life and the rewards are huge,” says 

Heather. 

So many of our classmates are making a 

difference in the lives of others. In one case, a 

classmate’s life was saved because of the generosity 

of another. John Piedra was not able to be 

at reunion last June because he had just received 

a kidney transplant. The outcome has been 

very successful. The very unlikely donor was his 

wife, Lana; 5 family members where rejected 

as possible donors. John encourages all Colgate 

alums to consider organ donation. There are 

some 65,000 patients in this country awaiting 

transplantation, and only 5,000 living donations 

per year. You can truly save a life! John is happy 

and healthy and living in NC at the beach. 

While it’s hard for any marriage to be as life 

changing as John and Lana’s, we wish a lifetime 

of happiness to the newlyweds in our class. Rev 

Joan Williams married Rev Willie James Jarrell 

in Sept. They are both sr staff ministers at Bethel 

Gospel Assembly Inc in Harlem and make their 

home in Mt Vernon. Laura Kurlander married 

Jeff Nagel (Cornell ’81) in March. They have 4 

teenagers — Naomi, 16, Lucy, 14, Dana, 13, and 

Noah, 13. Says Laura, who is a commercial real 

estate atty with Dow Lohnes in ATL, “It’s a loud, 

crazy, but fun house.” Laura has spent the spring 

training for another Olympic distance triathlon 

this summer. Congrats to Laura, also, for being 

nominated as a regional VP on Colgate’s Alumni 

Council. 

Looking forward to hearing about everyone’s 

summer activities. Feel free to drop me an e-mail 

with your news. 

Diane: 770-209-9341 (h); 

diane_fisher@post.harvard.edu 

1985 

Michael Yardley 

18806 North 95th St 

Scottsdale, AZ 85255-5562 

Sadly, the deadline for this column preceded our 

June gathering under the tents in sunny Hamilton, 

where we shared stories and memories 

spanning 25 years. Has it really been that long? 

Just typing that number frightens me, not to 

mention having had to live it. We don’t have a 

ton of news this time. We can collectively anticipate 

what I can only imagine will be a veritable 

avalanche of freshly gathered info following 

reunion. Until then, all I have to offer is a few 

tidbits, morsels really, to whet your appetite for 

the next column. 

And speaking of appetites (hearty ones, that 

is), I had the chance to connect recently with 

Greg Richter during his business trip to my 

sleepy little hamlet of Scottsdale, AZ. As always, 

his visit was courtesy of the fine folks at CS First 

Boston, for whom Greg works. We had a beer 

and caught up on life, talked about how much 

older he must be than me given that his son is 

getting ready for college. My oldest son is getting 

ready for the 7th grade, and unless the stock 

market rockets up 300% in the next 5 years, the 

closest he will get to college is attending my 30th 

Colgate Reunion. But he doesn’t need to know 

that just yet; it’s better that he continues to cling 

to the dream. 

Another classmate who has no business 

with a child at college age is Kevin Osborn, who 

contacted me recently via this newfangled World 

Wide Web thing. Ironically, Kevin was ahead 

of the curve on all this computer stuff back at 

’Gate. In fact, his was the 1st name I recall being 

associated with the term “computer nerd.” But it 

never seemed to bother him, even though back 

then the term did not have quite the same cache 

as it does today. Anyway, it seems that his oldest 

daughter is also getting ready to matriculate as a 

frosh in the fall, and if I read the e-mail correctly, 

I believe she is going to Colgate. Oh my, another 

generation of Osborns at Colgate. 

And sticking with the nerd theme, my good 

buddy Bob Haran and I recently participated in 

one of the longest games of phone tag in recent 

memory. So long, in fact, that both of us eventually 

gave up and agreed to catch up in person at 

reunion. But from the voicemail trail of evidence, 

I can tell you a few things about Bob. He’s still 

in W Hartford and still works in some kind of 

exec position for some well-known insurance 

company. If memory serves, he’s been in the 

insurance business since the week following 

graduation (see my earlier comment re clinging 

to your dreams). He also indicated that he just 

got engaged, which was puzzling to me, and not 

because there’s anything wrong with getting engaged, 

but because the last time I talked to him 

he was married. Oh well, perhaps I’ll unravel the 

mystery after a few Old Milwaukees at reunion. 

So there you go, even more to look forward to in 

the next column. 

Staying on the old buddy theme, Bart Goodell 

and his family recently came through AZ on 

spring break, looking to warm up after a long 

Skaneateles winter (is there any other kind?). 

Although we were not able to work out the 

logistics for a visit, I did point them to some of 

our local tourist spots. They had a very ambitious 

itinerary, with visits planned across the state, 

from Phoenix to Sedona and all the way up to the 

Grand Canyon (I told Bart that it’s overrated, really 

just a big hole and not worth the drive, but he 

would not be deterred). I was not able to find out 

too much more than that, but I was able to glean 

from his e-mail signature that he works for some 

very hip design firm called 10 Red Design. I could 

tell it was hip because there were clues, like the 

word “red” being in red font, and the term “mob” 

used instead of the conventional “mobile” to 

denote his cell number. But that’s Bart, always 1 

step ahead of the rest of us, creatively at least. 

Michael: 480-301-4459; 

Yardley.Michael@mayo.edu 

1986 

Michele Radin 

681 Indian Ridge Drive 

Palm Desert, CA 92211-7485 

Correction: In the spring issue, Christine Murphy’s 

news was accidentally published as being 

reported by Christine Oliver. Our apologies for 

the error. 

Michele: 706-641-6357; mlledaffodil@aol.com 

1987 

Adam Weiss 

54 Alan Lane 

New Canaan, CT 06840 

Summer’s here and the time is right for _______! 

First up is Bruce Haines, lobbing in his debut 

Scene correspondence! He lives in Bethlehem, PA, 

with wife Holly (married now 22 years!) and son 

Grant, 17. Bruce owns 2 specialty running stores 

and, true to form, planned to run in the Providence 

half-marathon this May with buddy Chris 

Jones. Bruce and Grant recently visited Colgate 

with the hopes of making the Class of 2015. Best 

of luck. 

A quick and brief update from Jared Landaw: 

He’s living the dream as COO of a hedge fund in 

NYC. 

Chris Vyhnal, wife Theresa, and 4 kids are 

resting comfortably in surreal Ojai, CA. Chris has 

stepped up his homebrewing activities. He’s a 

regular at the Maltose Falcons homebrew club 

meetings, is judging beer competitions, and 

entering beers in competitions that he judges. 

His latest is a keg of bourbon espresso cream 

stout — sweet! The Vyhnals will be making their 

annual summer pilgrimage to the Midwest (Lake 

Michigan and then a few weeks in Tulsa), finishing 

up with a few days in Yosemite. 

News just came in from fellow Phi Tau Bob 

Schrock. Bob and his son recently visited fraternity 

and real-life brother-in-law Jim Kelley out 

in Boulder for a few days of powder skiing with 

Jim and his family (wife Suzie Schrock Kelley and 

their 2 kids). Bob, his wife, Marijke, and their kids, 

Bryan and Stephen (15 and 5), have been in Houston 

for the past 13 years, and he now works for 

Vivante GMP Solutions Inc as the quality control 

dir. Vivante is a pharma company manufacturing 

and testing new-generation virus-based 

gene therapy therapeutics and vaccines for other 

pharma companies. P-Chem and that semester 

abroad in Scotland finally paid off for Bob. 

Barry ’86 and Katie Flohr O’Sullivan are in 

high gear for the summer on Cape Cod. Barry’s 

still working for Birst, a CA-based company, and 

Katie is working as the editor of the online mag 

CapeWomenOnline.com. If anyone out there has 

a Cape connection and would like to submit a 

story or article for the mag, Katie would love to 

hear from you! Katie’s working on her next book, 

a follow-up to her thriller Unfolding the Shadows. 

She has plans to see Dan Rosen and wife Jordana 

this summer, as well as Mike ’86 and Nicky 

Cordaro Davis, and finally to get together with 

Elizabeth Zack Meyers. Katie will also be at the 

Nancy Walker girls’ getaway vacation in Aug. 

For any wine lovers traveling to the Bay area, 

look up Brian McGonigle. He and wife Hillary 

own the SF Wine Center, an attractive destination 

in downtown SF, where wine collectors and 

wine aficionados can store their wine, taste it, 

and talk about it. There should be one of those in 

every city! 

Thanks to everyone for the updates. Again, 

you can see the class notes online at our class 

page at www.colgatealumni.org. If you’d like 

photos posted on the website, send them either 

to me or the alumni office (alumni@colgate.edu). 

Have a great summer! 

Adam (Pugsly) Weiss 

Adam: akweiss65@yahoo.com 

1988 

Jack Kearney 

Sarah Bowen Shea 

2508 NE 24th Ave 

Portland, OR 97212-4830 

Greetings from Portland. Sarah is off promoting 

her book Run Like a Mother with co-author Dimity 

McDowell ’94 Davis. They started in Austin, 

and Sarah is working points north and west (Seattle, 

Vancouver, SF, Portland), while Dimity hits 

the south and mountains (Albuquerque, Denver). 

We had a recent visit from retired ’Gate prof 

Dick Sylvester. Sarah went on the Russian Study 

Group with Dick during the ’86–87 school year 

and they’ve kept in touch since. They chatted 

about their own doings and of friends from the 

Russian trip, including AJ Wasserstein, Doug 

Bruun ’87, Kati Fritzsche Sciortino ’89, Nicole 

Klimow, and others. 

Stacy Harris e-mailed that he is back in Kenya 

with no hitches with immigration. Stacy is the

program dir for the global fndn of Intl Cardiovascular 

Services. You can follow him on Facebook 

as he makes an impact by arranging medical 

care in Africa. He has attended several heart 

surgeries; it makes him feel like he’s on the show 

ER. During one surgery, a patient flatlined, but 

was revived and is recovering. During another 

surgery, the doctor (who knows Stacy’s love of 

nyama choma, or roasted goat), looked at the patient’s 

open chest, then looked at Stacy and said, 

“It looks like nyama choma.” That’ll help your 

appetite. Kudos to Stacy for all his hard work. 

Steve Prough writes that he and Sara 

welcomed Caroline Kelly into the world on Oct 

29 and that she’s happy, healthy, and sleeping. 

Steve is still in-house counsel for Ralph’s Grocery, 

a subsidiary of Kroger, and said that it’s a great 

work/life balance. 

Steve notes Lee ‘Cackles’ Reichert is a named 

partner in his fast-growing law firm in Denver 

(now one of CO’s 10 largest). In order to address 

the stresses that come with the job, he has taken 

up therapeutic finger painting (which he can 

also do with his 2 young children, Helen and 

Augie). Steve also notes that Steve Cance is still 

going 100 mph — coaching Little League, soccer, 

chess, and swimming for his 3 boys and working 

long hours for Sun Micro/Oracle as an exec in 

San Jose. Cance remains active in sports as evidenced 

by his participation in the over-40, under 

5'9" soccer league. 

That’s all for now. SBS and planned to be at/ 

near the ’Gate in early July. Until next time, go, 

’Gate. 

Jack and Sarah: 503-288-7874; 

kearndog1@yahoo.com 

1989 

Brent Goldstein 

13709 Lakewood Ct 

Rockville, MD 20850-3649 

Congratulations to Kathryn Hytten, who was 

one of 2 Southern IL U Carbondale women cited 

as Women of Distinction in March during an 

annual celebration of scholarship by and about 

women. The award, given annually by the University 

Women’s Professional Advancement office, 

recognizes women who have demonstrated 

leadership, vision, and action in their profession 

and a sustained commitment to diversity. Kathryn 

is interim chair of the Dept of Educational 

Administration and Higher Ed with a cross 

appointment in women’s studies. A College of 

Education and Human Services faculty member 

since 1996, Kathryn’s commitment to diversity 

seems “part of her DNA,” as demonstrated by her 

research, teaching, and service, said her dean in 

a letter nominating her for the award. 

Brent: 240-838-6170; skibrent@comcast.net 

1990 

Julie O’Leary Muir 

48 Barr Farm Rd 

Bedford, NH 03110-5221 

Greetings, Class of ’90! Wasn’t our reunion 

fabulous? Aren’t you glad you made the trek 

to CNY? In the interest of full disclosure, you’re 

reading this column in July; I am penning it in 

April. I have no idea how reunion will be, but I’m 

a betting gal, and my bet is that we had a helluva 

lot of fun, or at least I did, gathering up juicy 

tidbits for future columns. 

This edition’s superbly coherent thesis 

(ahem), which forcibly ties together some of 

the info I have amassed, is titled, “I knew you 

at Colgate, and Holy Toledo, Look at You Now!” 

If you’re like me, and I assume you are, I am 

amazed and humbled that so many of our fellow 

classmates are notable in their fields, leaders in 

their industry and communities. And yet I fondly 

recall so many of us at the Jug, in the basements 

of frat houses, getting our schwerve on during 

Spring Party, generally slacking at Case Library, 

scrounging for change to go to NY Pizza late 

night … perhaps not at our best in some of these 

locales, but nonetheless, who knew or could 

glimpse your future fabulousness? 

Kim Combs-Vanderlaan, holy Henry James, 

you’re a prof! Kim lives in Ruston, LA, with husband 

Brett (MIT ’90) and son Kai. Kim is enjoying 

her tenure-track job at LA Tech U, where she 

teaches American lit and composition. She’s even 

had 2 articles published, lest she perish, on Henry 

James and Willa Cather. Kim and her family are 

enjoying their transition to life in the south, and 

son Kai is loving school. 

Much like Kim, Benjamin Shults is guiding 

young mathematical minds at Bethel U in 

Minneapolis. Benjamin is an assoc prof of math, 

and he also teaches computer sci and particularly 

enjoys teaching software design. He is also 

involved with the gay-straight alliance at Bethel. 

Benjamin enjoys living in St Paul with wife 

Hongyi Lan, PhD, and son Linc, 4. They visit China 

as a family every few years, and met up with 

Walter Burt in Shanghai last summer. According 

to Benjamin, Walter is “as witty, brilliant, and 

hilarious as ever,” and enjoys living in Shanghai 

with his lovely wife and daughter. Walter is CEO 

for the Black River Co, a corp that sells industrial 

components such as plastic injection molds and 

finished products worldwide. Holy Mr McGuire 

in The Graduate, Walter! Plastics! There’s a great 

future in plastics! Apparently, Marc Walter also 

took Mr McGuire’s advice, because he runs a 

mid-sized plastics manufacturing company in 

Germany. He has lived there for the past 6 years 

with his wife and 2 sons, Connor, 11, and Collin, 

6, and hopes to move back to the States at some 

point. Oh, you captains of industry, I salute you! 

Dr Rob Stephenson, holy scalpel, you’re a 

general surgeon in private practice in Fort Worth! 

Rob lives with wife Azilee (ECU 93) and 2 daughters 

— Jane, 8, and Charlotte, 6. Rob attended 

Johns Hopkins for med school, did his residency 

at Duke, and a year of fellowship training at 

Penn. Rob’s practice has an emphasis in surgical 

oncology. In his spare time, he is a member of the 

board of trustees of the Ft Worth Opera Fest. Rob 

keeps up with his brother Andrew ’93, as well as 

Bret Silver ’88, and Dr Lindsay Watt Stadtler ’94, 

whose son is in school with one of Rob’s daughters. 

Katie Redford, esq, is, quite simply, changing 

the world for the better. She is living in Chiang 

Mai, Thailand, with her husband and children 

— Alexis, 12, and Htoo Eh, 8. Katie continues 

to co-direct EarthRights Internatl, a human 

and environmental rights nonprofit that she 

co-founded. Her groundbreaking legal work has 

literally changed the face of corporate accountability 

in overseas human and earth right abuses 

all over the world. Holy humanitarian, Katie, your 

work and tenacity have impacted so many. Katie 

writes that she had a great visit earlier this year 

from Jen Fedin ’93, and that “there may have 

been a beer shortage in Thailand after the visit, 

but the locals certainly love their new repertoire 

of Colgate rugby songs.” 

Erik Rosen, holy modern artist, you are the 

founder of a completely new, completely cool 

type of synthetic art called cNOTE. Erik’s amazing 

story of battling stage IV Hodgkins lymphoma 

and ensuing stem cell transplants yielded him 

the sensory experience of a lifetime during his 

2nd transplant. Erik actually saw the Velvet 

Nick ’91 (left) and Paul Verbitsky ’94 

A family production 

Television shows are known for the people on screen, but perhaps just as important is what 

goes on behind the scenes. Nick ’91 and Paul ’94 Verbitsky may in fact be the masterminds 

behind what you are watching, though you’ll never see their faces. 

The brothers are CEO and VP of production, respectively, at Blue Chip Films, a fullservice 

film and television production company they founded in 1998. Their work includes 

everything from the production of three separate documentaries about the lives of polygamists, 

to a new television series called Intersections for Speed Channel. 

“Each episode of Intersections compares two machines that are seemingly different,” explained 

Paul. “Basically, the idea is to uncover the hidden things that link them.” The brothers 

have been working on 13 episodes for the show’s first season, with hopes for more to come. 

Nick and Paul take great pride in the series, which is the product of a collaboration with 

the television sales agency CableReady. “We like to tell stories and be creative,” explained 

Nick, “and Intersections is something that we have been working on from the ground up.” 

Although the brothers are passionate about the series, it is hardly the only project on 

their plate. “With television and movies,” said Paul, “when a job gets greenlit, it can get killed 

just as quickly. You always want to keep juggling multiple things.” That is why the brothers 

also work on smaller commercial and internal projects for a diverse group of corporate 

partners such as Pepsico and the NFL. 

The latter is an appropriate client for the Verbitskys’ company, which traces some of its 

roots to Colgate’s football team. After graduation, Nick began working in the radio business, 

while Paul found a position in television with Comedy Central. Despite working in different 

industries, the brothers collaborated annually to produce highlight films for the team, of 

which they are both alumni. 

The experience helped inspire the brothers to forge their own path in television production, 

and introduced them to John Dabrowski ’99, who is today a producer with Blue Chip 

Films and one of their closest friends and collaborators. “When we were doing highlight 

films for the football team,” explained Paul, “I realized I had forgotten a bunch of things 

that I needed. I dialed CUTV, and John answered the phone.” Since that chance encounter, 

Dabrowski has collaborated on nearly 300 projects with Nick and Paul. 

The brothers attribute some of Blue Chip Films’ success to such internal family and 

friendship bonds, which make the company more approachable than larger firms, especially 

when filming documentaries. “In our business,” explained Nick, “a lot of [filmmakers] will say 

the story is going to be one thing, and then bring it to the edit room and cut it together to 

make something completely different. We don’t do that to people.” 

As the Verbitskys continue working on projects like Intersections, they look forward to 

more creative opportunities in the future. “Our goal is to expand and build on the success 

that we’ve had in the television business,” said Nick, “and to move on from that to a bigger 

presence in documentary film.” 

Paul is quick to add that no matter how much success he and his brother find, don’t expect 

to find them wearing leather pants, or their sunglasses at night. “Nick and I? We’re just 

two DU guys.” 

— Jason Kammerdiener ’10 


67 

John Rottet

Leading green efforts at a major 

NYC hospital 

Jessica Prata ’01 is working on the forefront of the sustainability effort as it relates to 

health care, and she is doing it on a big stage. The alumna is the sustainability officer at 

New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), which has more than one million inpatient and 

outpatient visits in a year and employs 18,000 people in New York City. 

“Hospitals have a responsibility to serve the community, and sustainability plays a big 

part in that because it helps provide a safer and healthier healing environment for patients,” 

she said. “It’s incredibly gratifying that my work allows me to contribute toward such an 

important mission.” 

She works with teams from throughout NYP on initiatives such as a mixed recycling 

program that is now saving the hospital $30,000 a month. 

Building a management framework to monitor such programs is critical to creating a 

coordinated sustainability effort, and Prata helped establish an infrastructure that allows 

for communication about sustainability across all disciplines, and at every level of the 

organization. She also helped create and launch the NYP Green Champion program, a staff 

engagement model that taps into employees’ grassroots efforts. 

Prata was named the hospital’s first sustainability officer in January 2009, a position 

that reflected a new need at the hospital and in health care in general. 

“Hospitals and organizations need a point person to push forward what ‘greening’ is 

going to look like at that specific organization,” she said. 

An alumnus helped Prata land her first job at NYP, a story shared by many Colgate 

graduates. And like many alumni, she is eager to give back and help current students 

through events such as the Real World career conference, where she spoke to seniors 

earlier this year. 

“It’s about taking advantage of the opportunity that Colgate consistently puts forward 

to students and alumni to get together, to mingle, to connect,” she said, adding that she is an 

active member of the New York City alumni and Women at Colgate groups. 

There are no predefined paths for securing jobs related to sustainability, she said. In her 

position, it is her ability to build relationships, effectively and passionately communicate a 

vision, and coordinate a multitude of details that helps her be successful. 

A history major while at Colgate, Prata said that after graduation it was all about “accessing 

her passion” and discovering what kind of work environment best suits her. She 

found that environment at NYP. 

Prata talks about sustainability and the varied career opportunities it presents in Colgate 

Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members of the campus community. 

To listen, visit www.colgate.edu/podcasts. 

— Tim O’Keeffe 

Underground’s Rock and Roll reflected against 

the walls of his hospital room, and his brilliant 

artwork is the result. In his cNOTES, Erik transforms 

music into fine art and, wow, is it awesome. 

Last summer, his artwork was featured in 

the lobby of the Conde Nast building in NYC, and 

fellow classmates Steve Gershowitz, Alex Miles, 

Nicole Wetzold, Mark Steinmeyer, Jon Dienst, 

Lynda Dennen Costello, and Lisa Errickson were 

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Amelia Panico 

there for the opening. (See Arts & Culture in the 

autumn 2009 Scene for more.) 

Jackie Jafarian Broad, my beloved NYC roomie, 

has also made her way in the arts. Holy Dr 

Seuss! She has written and published a delightful 

children’s book called Grandma Wants to Eat 

My Baby Sister!, a humorous story about children 

misinterpreting common figures of speech. The 

series sequel, Blastoff to Breakfast!, is scheduled 

for release in fall 2010. Jackie lives with husband 

Ken ’89 and 3 children in Mill Valley, CA. You go, 

girl! 

Kristin McCarthy Macchi is doing amazing 

community work in MA. Holy horse whisperer! 

Kristin is the life skills program dir for the 

BiNA Farm, which allows children and young 

adults with disabilities to share experiences with 

siblings and friends, and to learn about sustainable 

living and horsemanship. Kristin writes, 

“I’m really proud of the program. My 6-year-old 

was diagnosed with autism at 2, and has been 

receiving intensive therapies since then that 

have helped us a great deal. Now that I can take 

a step back, I can finally give back to the community 

that has supported us, and I’m looking 

forward to working with the kids and helping 

the program grow.” Kristin lives in Jamaica Plain 

with husband Tony and 2 adorable sons. Well 

done, my friend, well done. 

Finally, I must end with the recognition of 

an old formal date of mine from ’Gate. Yes, he 

literally fell asleep on me on the bus ride home, 

but I forgive you, Kenny Reisman, for not finding 

me completely captivating. It seems my sweet 

and sleepy date was elected to the Steamboat 

Springs, CO, City Council in Nov. I trust you’re 

finding the council meetings exciting and more 

thrilling than our bus ride. 

So there, dear classmates, are just a few of the 

many superb friends we know, loved, and made 

completely bad decisions with, and yet somehow 

they are our leaders today. Scary, isn’t it? To the 

classmates whom I reconnected with at reunion, 

sent me info, or scribbled down something in 

my reporter’s notebook on Whitnall while I held 

your Solo cup, no worries. I have your info safely 

tucked away, ready to pillage and plunder for our 

next column. 

Julie: 603-488-5454; nhmuirs@comcast.net 

1991 

Kathryn Dillon Marcotte 

45 Ridgewood Lane 

Wakefield, RI 02879 

I hope you are all enjoying this summer 2010. 

This time around, I was lucky enough to hear 

from a lot of our old friends, from all over the 

country. In Tuscon, Dave Bea is the CFO at Pima 

Community College, overseeing the finance, 

facilities, food service, bookstore, and college 

police — or, as he said, pretty much everything 

that can go horribly wrong reports to him. He 

finished his PhD in education from Claremont 

Grad U in 2004 in higher education, finance, 

and econ. Once in AZ, he met wife Jennifer (BA, 

Occidental; PhD, U of AZ) to find that they had 

grown up only 10 miles from one another in CA. 

Jennifer is a post-doc researcher at the U of AZ’s 

cancer ctr, working mostly on issues related to 

breast cancer recovery. They married in 2007, 

and in Jan 2009, they had a baby, Jillian, who is 

the joy of their lives. If that weren’t enough, Dave 

is an avid runner and competed in last year’s 

Boston Marathon. 

After 12 years as a sell-side equity analyst 

covering retail, Danielle Turnoff Fox left Merrill 

Lynch in 2008 and started her own research 

consulting firm, Research Fox LLC. The firm 

specializes in consumer-related projects. Danielle 

lives in Westchester, NY, with husband Trevor 

and children — Simon, 5, and Laurel, 3. Danielle is 

still close with Melissa Flemings Lush, who lives 

in Boston with her family. 

Brian Manning was recently admitted to the 

NYS Bar. Brian practices for Hodgson Russ in Buffalo, 

and concentrates his practice in general corp 

law, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and 

antitrust law. 

It was great to hear from Scott Jules, who 

has lived the past 7 years in Moraga, CA, a small 

town in the SF Bay area (and famous in Colgate 

circles as the hometown of Jenny Olson). Scott 

misses seeing East Coast friends and family more 

often, but it’s a great area. Scott is enjoying Ben, 

6, and Avery, 3, with the great adventure being 

coaching Ben’s baseball team, and as Scott offers, 

squeezing that experience in just barely before 

the kids know more than he does about baseball. 

If any Colgate friends make it to Scott’s neck of 

the woods, he would love to hear from you. 

Anna Steel has done a wonderful job representing 

us all on the Alumni Board, and she has 

enjoyed the experience with her fellow talented 

and dedicated alumni. Anna is busy managing 

sales and marketing for Steel’s Gourmet Foods, 

her recently acquired 25-year-old business. They 

serve health-conscious consumers and diabetics, 

also answering Michelle Obama’s call to help 

children battling obesity! Should be a great year! 

Anna referred to the Jan Alumni Board meeting, 

at which one of the highlights for her included 

a walk to the KKG house. She acknowledges 

that she’s come a long way from their chapter 

meetings on the 3rd floor of Alumni Hall. Anna 

gave them all of her composite photos and other 

memorabilia from what was then the 1st pledge 

class! She hopes they find a great way to use 

them. Anna also took her dad, Howie Steel ’42, 

and mom to NYC to honor his friend and room-/ 

classmate Andy Rooney ’42. She was impressed 

with the amazing tribute. Anna also recently 

saw Cinda Goulard Lord and her son Jake, in 

Haverford, PA, for his squash tourney at the 

Merion Cricket Club. They cheered him into the 

finals. Anna sends her best to everyone! 

Another fun blast from the past, Glen Thomas 

heeded my call. He is living the suburban dream 

in Phoenixville, PA (outside Philly). He has an 

amazing wife, Tana (ASU ’92), and 3 great kids 

— Tony, 7, Glenallen, 6, and Talia, 3 — who take 

up most of their time. Glen coaches soccer, basketball, 

and baseball for the kids. He started his 

own business about 3 years ago, GT Power Group, 

and he’s still having a blast with it. He claims 

to have decided that he’s pretty much the only 

guy he can work for. In addition to soccer dad 

extraordinaire, Glen — and Tana — ran the Walt 

Disney World Marathon in Jan in a brisk 29°. 

As for general updates, Glen and friends are 

trying to turn their Colgate golf weekend into an 

annual event. I am assuming it included Glen’s 

entire list of characters: Harry Burg, who Glen 

assures me is still great at waffle ball, still not 

a great dancer, and playing the role of Principal 

Skinner of the Hudson Valley; Jon Massari, who 

in the words of his “friend,” still loves the Eagles, 

still loves beer, and has honed his ability to sell 

a dead guy liability insurance via his website 

by his own name; John Wahl, who Glen reports 

has given up his hoop dreams for eternal salvation 

— Rev John is spreading the good word in 

Buckeye nation every week; and Dave Larkin, 

who has 3 kids who reportedly all look like him. 

Glen mentioned that Dave still scares him and he 

never feels quite safe in his presence. Also in that 

group is Mike Gouldin, who has an incredible 

wife and has been known to talk about Colgate 

on YouTube? Then there is Doug Hartman ’92, 

who supposedly had a hang nail issue that kept 

him from the golf festivities, but in truth, is 

avoiding Glen, having went to BU School of Law 

and landing in a small civil litigation firm. He has 

3 sons — Jacob, 12, Douglas, 11, and Aidan, 6. And, 

lastly, Joe Lewis ’89, who Glen insists wishes he 

was a ’91er. Last summer was fantastic if not 

slightly upsetting for them all to walk into the 

Hour Glass without getting carded.

Well, that’s enough shenanigans for one 

Scene. Please get in touch with me for the next 

issue. We want to know what you’ve been up to. 

Kathy: 401-783-3897; dkmarcotte@cox.net 

1992 

Crissy Singer Shropshire 

66 Indian Hill Rd 

Mt. Kisco, NY 10549-3827 

On March 27, I drove up to W Newbury, MA, for 

Anne Cole’s wedding to Nicholas Wise Norman. 

Anne looked lovely and beamed as she and Nick 

said their vows. The wedding party was filled 

with siblings, nieces, and nephews, but the 

matron of honor was Anne’s 1st-year roommate, 

Jen Byalick Altman. I had a great time catching 

up with Jen and meeting her husband, Brian, 

who should be a voice-over artist, but instead is, 

according to Jen, “an internatl man of mystery.” 

They have 2 kids — Hannah, 4, and Matthew, 

2 — and live in Bergen Cty, NJ. Jen works 1 day a 

week counseling in LI. Also at the wedding were 

Shekhar and Carla Marcocci Ojha. They live in 

Berwyn, PA, with their 3 kids — Sid, Lakshmi, 

and Leela. Although little Leela, at 6 months of 

age, crashed the wedding, she was definitely 

the most well-behaved guest. Patti Birbiglia 

rounded out our Colgate table. She’s been living 

in SF for the last 10 years. Anne and Nick honeymooned 

on a remote island of the Bahamas, 

accessible only by boat. They live in Brooklyn. 

After the wedding, I spent the night in Somerville, 

MA, with Alix Reiskind, husband Cheney, 

and strapping baby boy Dashiell, 1. All is well 

with Alix and Cheney, though I’m sorry to report 

that Dashiell does not like apples mixed into his 

cereal. 

Mark ’90 and Carrie Boodin Zehfuss are 

parents for the 3rd time. Braeden Luke was born 

on Nov 2, 2009, joining sisters Emma, 10, and 

Chloe, 8. Carrie says, “He is a joy and it’s fun to 

have a bit more testosterone in the house!” The 

family lives in Richmond, VA, where Mark is the 

pres of Baby Jogger (“perfect timing for us!”) and 

Carrie is “retired” from practicing law. She enjoys 

staying home with her family. 

Brad and Talby Reyner Taylor have also just 

welcomed baby #3. On Jan 21, Lynden Kate was 

born. She joins brother Will, 6 1/2, and sister 

Daryn, 3. Congrats to all our moms. 

Good news came in from Elizabeth Sherwood 

Krol, a client program manager at Shaw Environmental, 

Inc: “I was very fortunate to be named as 

a Top 20 Under 40 by the CREW Network of Commercial 

Real Estate Women. This is an inaugural 

award and I was selected from more than 125 applicants 

by an 8,000-member natl professional 

real estate organization.” Congrats, Elizabeth! 

And finally, as promised in the last issue, I 

have this update from Patrick Shaw. “My wife, 

Finley Oakley’95 Shaw, threw me a big party 

for my 40th in Nov, hosting a Colgate-style 

throw-down at our house in Easton, CT. Lots 

of Colgate friends and family helped put some 

Chenango Valley into the party by coming from 

all over the country. In attendance were my 

father, B Robert Shaw ’64; my brother, Ben Shaw 

’93; my brother-in-law and his wife, Ned ’98 

and Amanda Bulkley ’98 Oakley; Jon Glickstein; 

David Ganz; Dina Cagliostro Jonasz ’91; Remy and 

Hy Schwartz; Marshall and Meredith Safirstein 

’91 Bergmann; Ana and Caleb Silver; Celia Gerard 

’95; Ethan Gundeck ’90; Heather and Brett ’98 

Tucker; Bryan ‘Stealthy’ Mayurnik ’98; Kari and 

Jason ’95 Pinkernell; Sandi and Chris ’95 Wright; 

Alyssa and David Portny ’94; Brook Seidler ’94 

and Wells Beck; Elise and Doug Halvorson ’94; 

Chiara and Ben Edmands ’93; Bob Morgan ’93; 

“My days would start with my then-girlfriend and now wife putting my long hair up in bobby pins 

and then placing my short-haired wig on top. While I patrolled the streets of DC with my wig on 

and full fatigues, she was downtown protesting.” — Nick Brill ’69 

Lauren Felice and Doug Ryder ’93 (just married!); 

Sharon Kim ’93; Edwin ’95 and Suzanne O’Brien 

’95 O’Connor; Greg and Elise Martin Bates ’93; 

and Dawn and Tom Kreitler ’79. Special honors 

go to John Hewson ’91, who attended on the eve 

of his 3rd child’s birth. His son Finn will no doubt 

have his priorities in order (thank you, Courtney!). 

Also, thanks to Hunter Montgomery ’91, 

who trekked all the way from DC. Special props 

also go to Ben and Chiara, who may have altered 

the course of art history by superimposing my 

face on a 19th-century portrait of Napoleon 

Bonaparte. This masterpiece is still fighting for 

space on the walls of our house, but it has received 

some amazing double-takes! Finally, Chris 

St Pierre was actually in Hamilton the weekend 

of the party, so he gets partial credit and was 

repaid in full when his wife, Melanie, threw him 

a surprise 40th in NY a few months later. Told he 

was meeting Melanie at an engagement party 

for a friend at the Thompson Hotel, I believe his 

exact quote was, ‘I feel sorry for the sucker who’s 

paying for that party!’” 

Speaking of which, I am guessing that many 

of us will have 40th bday parties throughout this 

year. As you gather with your Colgate friends, 

please consider dropping a line to include in the 

Scene. If we have to turn 40, at least let’s share 

the experience with each other. Enjoy the summer! 

Crissy: 914-864-1387; cshrop@optonline.net 

1993 

Kaori Nakamura DiChiara 

61 Mustato Road 

Katonah, NY 10536-3725 

Happy summer, everyone! It has been an incredibly 

warm day today in NY, with temps up in 

the 80s, pollen in ridiculously high counts, and 

tomorrow’s weather is expected to reach a high 

of 59 … with rain — welcome to spring in NY, 

people! Well, it was down to the wire, but my 

husband managed to put away our Christmas 

tree the day before Easter and all the madness 

with the arrival of the iPad brought back memories 

of the 1st year I started writing this column, 

when the iPhone made its debut. The same 

crazy people who lined up for days outside the 

Apple store for that phone were most likely the 

same crazies who camped out this year in order 

to buy this enormous iPhone-looking device. I 

almost wanted to tell them all, “Just do what my 

friend Marc Glogoff did. Wait until the store is 

about to close and you can get one without waiting 

(or needing to shower)!” By the way, I still do 

not know how to upload music to my iPhone… 

So, let’s start with baby news. As mentioned in 

the previous Scene, Dan Carsen and wife Talene 

are now parents of 2. Mayri Olivia was born on 

Nov 5, 2009, weighing 8 lb, 9 oz. She is described 

as having a great set of lungs and has given Dan 

quite a (re)hazing into parenthood. Sister Lucine 

gives her lots of love and is competing for her 

father’s attention very well! 

A couple of weeks before Mayri’s birth, Pete 

and Gretchen Jordan Menzies made a trip up 

to Colgate with their 2 boys during Parents’ 

Weekend. Pete was asked to present a movie he 

worked on to the students. Since the local places 

to stay were fully occupied, they rented an RV 

and road-tripped. The pictures Gretchen shared 

were awesome, and she mentioned that their 

kids were completely sold on Colgate (surprise, 

surprise). So, for those of you who procrastinate 

on registering for our 20th, the RV idea may be a 

good option! 

In early Feb, Chris and Sally Burnett Wilson 

made a trip to NYC. Being that it was such a great 

opportunity for us to get together, Kim Russo 

Rutenberg rallied and flew up for the weekend. 

Unfortunately, Kat Griffin McCleland couldn’t 

make it as she and husband Sam and daughter 

Avery, 2, were enjoying their last trip to FL for the 

winter months. It was Chris’s 1st trip to NY and 

Sally got to show off her old city. We all enjoyed 

dinner and drinks on Fri night and brunch the 

next day. It was nostalgic to experience the 

hustle and bustle of a NYC restaurant during 

weekend brunch hours. I think I consumed a 

carafe of coffee and my plate was ridiculously 

clean shortly after I received my order. Some 

things don’t change after college. 

During one of the many cold, rainy days of 

early spring, my family and I made plans to 

meet Dan Glusker and his family at the Westchester 

Mall. For a few years, we have done this 

on bad weather days so our children can play 

(in a space larger than our homes) and entertain 

each other by throwing pennies into a fountain 

while the adults catch up. The pennies go fast. 

The price of uninterrupted adult conversation 

ends up costing anywhere between 2 and 4 

rolls of pennies. With our kids getting older 

(mine — Mia, 6, and Chrism, 4.5; Dan’s — Sam, 5, 

and Robbie, 3.5), we may need to come up with 

another activity since our kids can now throw 

their pennies across and over the fountain. There 

were some close calls on hitting some passers-by 

on the opposite end! After we finished lunch, 

we ran into Steve Cho with his wife and 2 kids 

at the food court. The Chos still live in Rye and 

Steve continues to work for Goldman Sachs in 

foreign exchange. Having grown up in Katonah, 

Steve knows N Westchester Cty and he told us 

how he enjoys biking to/from Rye to N Westchester 

“for fun.” We were more than impressed, and 

Dan was tired out just from the thought of it. 

Jeff Clarke, wife Nina, and son Charlie made 

the move from NYC to the ’burbs. They now live 

in Norwalk, CT. Instead of 15 minutes, Jeff now 

has a 1.5 hour commute to Brown Brothers Harriman, 

located downtown. The positive in this 

is that he’s getting a lot of reading and sleeping 

done on the train! 

I recently reconnected with a childhood 

friend and soon learned that her husband works 

for NOI (Net Operating Income) Strategies, a 

company co-founded by Tama Huang. I was 

informed of this days after my friend accompanied 

her husband to a work party. When hearing 

that Tama attended Colgate, she asked her if she 

knew me. Stories were shared as Tama and I first 

met 1st year on the rugby field, clearly having 

no clue what we were in for! I was fortunate 

to have been teammates with Tama for the 2 

years I played women’s rugby. Pub practices = 

good times (except for when you’ve only had 

a Coop muffin to eat that day)! When looking 

up her company’s website, I was pleasantly 

surprised to see Ari Zentner in a company group 

photo. Ari is a managing dir and is a specialist in 

general mgmt and organizational optimization. 

NOI Strategies, founded in 2007, is a consulting 

company that “blends proven methodologies 

with innovative business process services that 

maximize asset valuation for global real estate 

owners, operators, and investors.” If that’s not 

impressive enough, I also learned that Tama 

is fluent in English, German, Mandarin, and 

Taiwanese. 

Congrats to Courtney Bent on producing 

Shooting Beauty, a film directed by her 

husband, George Kachadorian. The NY screening 

took place at Tribeca Cinemas on April 15. This 

movie, which has been awarded 12 festival 

awards thus far, is about Courtney’s journey as 

a photographer and how meeting with a group 

of people living with significant disabilities 

10+ years ago changed her perspective and the 

course of her career. As these people become her 

friends, she becomes inspired to adapt cameras 

for them so that they can create a documentary 

of their own life experiences for this project. I 

hope you all get an opportunity to see this wonderful 

movie! (For more, read the feature story in 

the autumn 2009 Scene.) 

As for me, I was shocked to learn Family Circle’s 

interest in running a story on me and how I 

(try to) incorporate walking for exercise. Through 

my sister, I received an e-mail from a freelance 

writer looking for women between the ages of 35 

and 50 who walk for exercise. Expecting nothing, 

I responded to the e-mail. Next thing I know, I 

was asked to send a photo and answer a series 

of questions for an article scheduled to come out 

in April. Guess I should subscribe to them now? 

Hopefully, as you are all reading this, I will be 

visiting Kim in SC, enjoying a long overdue time 

away. 

As always, looking forward to hearing from 

you all. Write in for the next Scene! 

Kaori: 914-232-0549; KaoriOTRL@optonline.net 

1994 

Allison Good 

#8 

319 West 88th Street 

New York, NY 10024-2271 

Most exciting news ever: Chip McConnell got 

married in March to the lovely Eliza in Berkeley, 

CA, or thereabouts. I have absolutely no details 

on these festivities, so I am going to wing it. 

Let’s say it was an amazingly lovely day, the 

groom managed to play a little guitar during 

the reception, and the bride is the luckiest little 

lady we know. And, pretty much all of the most 

fun people we know from school were there to 

celebrate with the happy couple. How did I do? 

Hopefully, I did Chipper justice, because he is an 

amazing person and a truly fantastic friend. 

Some of Chip’s pals wrote in with perhaps my 

Answer key to Making 

Connections puzzle on page 80 

Colgate Thirteen 

Debate Society 

Salmagundi 

Swinging Gates 

Student Senate 

Masque and Triangle 

Maroon-News 

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favorite Scene update ever, so many thanks to 

Mike Galligan and Jesse Coburn, who apparently 

have no lives. I know this because they went to 

Colgate on a Sat evening this winter … wait for it 

… to watch a hockey game. Hmmmm… Oh, boys, 

I jest. It is boring writing this column; if I can’t 

make fun of you, my little coal heart just isn’t in 

it. And, honestly, Mike is a much better writer 

than I am, so here it is, from Mr Saturday Night 

himself: “Jesse and I braved the incredible, bonecrushing, 

muscle-clenching cold Saturday night 

and met in Hamilton to watch the Colgate-St 

Lawrence hockey game, have some drinks, and 

catch up. 

“A few takeaways: (1) the Wendt U Inn is 

perfectly adequate for a night’s stay in Hamilton. 

Not a Motel 6, exactly, maybe like a Motel 5.5ish, 

just fine. However, do not walk there at night 

if it is below 10° or it becomes a very long walk. 

That being said, if it is cold outside and you are 

without a hat, consult the ad hoc lost and found 

in the corner of the Back Bacon by the pool table 

(Editor’s note: ewwwwwwwww); (2) The Nichols 

Bar, in the old Main Moon space is a nice place to 

spend a winter afternoon; (3) The hockey team 

is scrappy, despite a heartbreaking overtime loss 

to the Saints; and (4) Gary Ross: nicest guy ever.” 

Also, just as an aside and because I feel like it, 

I will add that Mike has the cutest son on the 

planet. In all fairness, I have probably mentioned 

this before. 

Another country heard from! David Evans 

and his Spanish wife run educational travel 

programs for HS students out of NYC, called ASA. 

Apart from being responsible for other people’s 

children in the summer, they have 2 children of 

their own — William, 5, and Lucas, 1. They regularly 

see David Burrell, Marc Badner ’93, Thorne 

Perkin ’97, and Steve Polakoff (Steve is based in 

Moscow but comes to NYC 4 or 5 times a year). 

I have a hard and fast rule about reporting 

weddings before they happen (ahem, my 

journalistic integrity astounds), but since I am 

getting on a plane in less than 24 hours, I think 

it’s safe to say this one is going to happen! Our 

sweetest and sassiest friend, Ursula Guise, is 

marrying Eric Levy’s best friend and the funniest 

person alive, Greg Medow, in Calistoga this 

weekend. Full report on all the festivities next 

time. 

Enjoy the summer, and cook me up some 

news! 

Allison: 212-875-0751; agood@email.com 

1995 

David A. Schreiber 

1717 West Schubert Avenue 


Greetings, classmates, and happy summer! I 

hope these warmer months have been treating 

you well. While class news has been slow the last 

few issues, as I write this column in early April, 

our 15th Reunion weekend is quickly approaching, 

so we should have a full column in the next 

issue. Please send updates as you can. So, without 

further ado, here is the latest news on our fellow 

classmates… 

Kathy Bennett and husband Phil Zaccheo 

welcomed their 1st child, Evan Michael, on Dec 1. 

They are all doing well and Kathy enjoyed a few 

months off with their little man before returning 

to her law practice, Bond, Schoeneck & King, in 

“An unsuspecting Aliza Michaels Metzner, who was walking by, followed a geology major called 

‘Woodman’ into a mud bath resulting from the dredging operation that was under way.” — Carolyn Swift ’75 

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Syracuse. They look forward to taking Evan to his 

1st Colgate hockey game next season, and he is 

already very well prepped with plenty of Colgate 

attire. They were disappointed to have missed 

the annual Colgate/Syracuse basketball game 

at the Carrier Dome, as Kathy had just gone into 

labor, but Mary Dispenza Snyder ’97 kept her apprised 

with a few text messages from the game. 

Jennifer Bastolla ’95 visited them shortly after 

Evan’s birth and they all enjoyed some Dinosaur 

BBQ takeout. 

Deane and Ansley Newsom Kreitler continue 

to live in Denver and are happy to report the 

arrival of son Rhys, who joined sister Tatum on 

Oct 24. Samantha Beinstein, Rhys’ godmother, 

visited Ansley in March and both Ansley and 

Samantha are looking forward to catching up at 

reunion. 

Greg and Kristen Noonan Pringle had their 

3rd child, Brendan Taggart ‘Tag,’ Dec 14. Sisters 

Audrey, 3 1/2, and Bridget, 20 months, are very 

excited and Kristen is keeping busy and happy 

with family life in Hingham, MA. 

Russell and Karen Bloch Morse welcomed 

their 2nd, Olivia Adele, on March 3. Olivia joins 

sister Madelyn, who is nearly 2. The Morse family 

continues to enjoy life in sunny LA, where 

they recently purchased a house in Encino. 

Michael Steinberg is moving to Chicago, 

where he will continue to work for Pariveda 

solutions and help the company’s Chicago office 

build its business in the Midwest. 

Please take care and stay well. 

David: 773-281-8152; dschreiber2004@kellogg. 

northwestern.edu 

1996 

Kelly Connolly 

15 Hale Street 

Apt. 2 

Randolph, VT 05060 

Greetings, classmates. Here’s the news, hot off 

the press … er, computer… 

It was great to hear from Kalee Thompson, 

whom I believe is a 1st-time writer to the Scene. 

She has had quite the eventful year, as she 

writes: “Last Aug I married Dan Koeppel (Hampshire 

C) at my parents’ home in northern NH. 

Quite a few Colgate friends were able to make 

it, including my college roommates Meredith 

Lloyd Rice and Laura Klepeis. Angie Hussein 

Hirsch ’94, Daria Hirsch ’97, Cory Fellows ’94, 

and Jeff O’Connell ’94 also added to the fun. 

Angie’s daughter Cecily was adorable as one 

of our flower girls. Dan and I live in the Silver 

Lake neighborhood of LA, where I moved to 

from Brooklyn about 3 years ago. We are both 

freelance writers. For the past couple years, I’ve 

been working on my 1st book. It’s a nonfiction 

survival story about an Alaskan shipwreck. The 

title is Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind 

the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History and 

it will be published on June 1 by HarperCollins. 

Needless to say, I am excited about the book and 

am hoping to run into more old Colgate friends 

at readings this summer!” We’ll all look forward 

to reading this amazing story. 

Eben Krim also wrote in. Eben and wife 

Hannah (UMI ’94) had their 1st baby in Nov, 

Elias Jude. Everyone is happy and healthy. Eben 

and his wife both work at law firms and live in 

Boston. Congrats to Eben and Hannah! 

And there’s great news on Michael Gordon, 

on whom I received a press release that reads, 

in part: “NY Life Insurance Company announced 

that Michael Gordon has been promoted to sr 

VP in charge of the newly formed Agency-Life 

Ops org, which was created to better align the 

company’s life product manufacturing with its 

career agency distribution.” 

That’s it for now. Enjoy your summers! Write 

soon. 

Kelly: 240-686-1538; keconnolly@vermontlaw.edu 

1997 

Amy McKnight Fazen 

68 Pine Crest Road 

Newton, MA 02459 

Hi, everyone. Happy summer! It seems the Class 

of 1997 family keeps expanding — plenty of 

births to announce! 

Whitney Sayia Reid writes, “Ella Suzanne was 

born Dec 7, at 8:56 am, 7 lb, 2 oz, and is doing 

great.” 

Laurie (Ithaca ’98) and Tim Bollin also welcomed 

a baby girl on Nov 19, Avery Marie. She 

joins her sister, Shay, 6, and brothers Timmy, 4, 

and Preston, 2. 

Dara Lucks Bellace writes that she “and Matt 

Bellace (Bucknell ’96) were thrilled to welcome 

Roy Justin into the world on Friday, Nov 13, 

2009.” This was a very lucky day for Dara and her 

husband, and just happened to be Colgate Day as 

well! 

Vicki Gabriel-Foster writes, “Aside from being 

buried in snow, we are all doing well in Chicago. 

Our latest news is that we are now a family of 5! 

We were blessed with a 3rd son, Joseph Gabriel, 

in July. So, as if I weren’t already, I am now officially 

outnumbered! It is all fun, though, and 

never a dull moment, which is why it’s taken me 

6 months to write you this update!” 

Michelle and Mike Morrone welcomed their 

daughter, Ryan Pippa, on March 19. Mike, Michelle, 

and Ryan live in SF. 

Barbara Andruk Cohen writes, “My husband, 

Joe, and I have been keeping extremely busy 

with the newest additions to our family. Twins 

Margaret Pearl ‘Maggie’ and Benjamin Winiker 

‘Ben’ joined sisters Gabby, 5, and Ellie, 3, on June 

20, 2009. They were good-sized for twins (5 lb, 4 

oz, and 5 lb, 14 oz) and we brought them home 

from the hospital with us after 4 days. After a 

whirlwind summer at home with the babies, I 

went back to work in a new position as a controller 

for a start-up here in downtown Austin. We 

are basically just juggling the work-life balance 

craziness of life with 4 small children on a dayto-day 

basis, but are loving it. In Jan we took 

the whole family up to Boston for my sister’s 

wedding and got to enjoy playdates with fellow 

classmates Alicia Fishman Volovick and Donna 

Pistilli Robbins.” 

Kristen Bunn recently joined the Eagle Cty 

Schools (Vail, CO) team in order to provide direct 

support to the Math Partnership assoc (UC Colorado 

Springs and CORE), which is a program being 

sponsored by Pres Obama’s initiative aimed 

at improving science and math instruction. In 

addition to her degree from Colgate in psych and 

poli sci, she has a master’s in elementary education 

with an emphasis on aesthetics, and a PhD 

in curriculum and instruction/educational policy 

from the U of Denver. 

Congrats to all. Thanks to all who sent in info. 

Keep it coming! 

Amy: colgate1997news@hotmail.com 

1998 

Carmella Alvaro 

2517 S Walter Reed Drive, #A 

Arlington, VA 22206-1212 

Scott Hoekman writes, “The April 9–11 weekend 

marked my 8th trip to Colgate in the past 3 years. 

One of those trips was for our 10th Reunion, but 

the other 7 were for the Alumni Council, which 

has been a special honor for me. The school, students, 

administration, faculty, and new president 

(Jeffrey Herbst) can be described in one word — 

great. During these trips, I have received 3 speeding 

tickets, funding a few Chenango Valley village 

governments (~$400). And on this last visit, 

I met up with Melissa Macewicz at the Brae Loch 

Inn. (Yes, the staff there still wears kilts.) Melissa 

is disappointed she missed reunion in 2008 but 

told me about her good married life, fun vacation 

trips, and successful physician assistant career in 

Syracuse. Funny enough (and sorta expected), it 

snowed … in April. Only at Colgate. One other big 

highlight from the most recent weekend was a 

concert at a re-established frat called Phi Kappa 

Tau. Imagine Alumni Council members (alumni 

in their 30s, 40s, and 50s) and administration officials 

partying with students — a surreal experience. 

The band was the actual Otis Day and the 

Nights from Animal House fame, and yes, they 

sang ‘Shama Lama Ding Dong’ and ‘Shout’ (but 

there were no togas). Tons of fun.” 

Paige Horiuchi Raper reports, “James ’99 and 

I welcomed our 2nd little boy into the family. 

On March 2, Emery Daniel was born and made 

Cranford a big brother. Now off to shop for some 

teeny Colgate T-shirts!” 

Nicole Thurston writes, “My husband is in the 

Army. Three of my kids and I recently moved to 

Fort Lewis Washington from Deanboro, NY.” 

Rebecca Katz writes, “At the time of this writing, 

I’m coming up to 6 months at my current 

position and am enjoying it immensely. It was a 

tough call to leave academe, but I was offered a 

position at a unique small investment counsel 

firm, the Golub Group, LLC (for a firm in finance 

to hire an applied ethics PhD, it simply has to be 

unique … and hopefully on to something!). It’s 

neat learning something new after 7 years of 

intense concentration on 1 highly specific topic 

and finding interesting ways to incorporate my 

doctoral work into a totally different arena. Kevin 

(Colorado School of Mines, BS, MA; Stanford, PhD) 

and I are enjoying our new place in the redwoods 

and have plenty of room for visitors, as long as 

you don’t mind our 2 goofy Shepherds climbing 

onto your lap. While only 8 miles from Stanford, 

it feels worlds away and is sparsely populated 

— which makes the fact that Achim and Corrine 

Bethke Moesta live down the street somewhat 

amazing.” 

Emily Loeb writes, “I don’t know how a year 

has passed since I last wrote an update, but I 

realize that I never wrote to say that I had another 

baby in April 2009. Sam is a happy and, I’m 

glad to say, easy-natured boy, and my daughter, 

Hannah (3.5) is a wonderful big sister. I’m still 

in Seattle, where my husband is about to finish 

his 3rd year of med school. I work part time from 

home as an editor for a company that works on a 

variety of Native American issues, mainly for the 

federal govt. Life is busy, but really good.” 

Eli Chamberlain reports: “We welcomed our 

2nd son, Ryan Foley Chamberlain, into the world 

this past fall. Big brother Brady (5) is very excited. 

Suzanne, the boys, and I are still living north of

NYC in Westchester and looking forward to the 

summer.” 

Keri Krynski updates, “Been living in San 

Fran for about 2 years now, working at Ernst and 

Young as a sr manager in the financial services 

consulting practice. Looking to make partner 

before 40 and retire by 50! San Fran is gorgeous, 

and if any ’98ers are in the area this summer, 

look me up and we can catch a Giants game! 

(Still an unfortunate diehard Cubs fan, though...)” 

Jessica Deckard reports, “Last Nov, my essay, 

‘Spontaneous Ingénue Seeks Mute Pirate,’ was 

the recipient of the Shelby Foote Prize for the 

essay given by the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society 

as part of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom 

Creative Writing Competition. Roy Blount Jr of 

NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me was the judge of 

my category. As part of my prize, I got to meet 

with both an agent and an editor. I met with 

Salman Rushdie’s editor, which was a total 

thrill!” 

Jennie LeClere writes, “We had Alexa Gabriele 

on 5/8/09, joining her 3-year-old brother, Jayce. 

And I’m transitioning jobs, so I’ll be back at 

Columbia working in Peds Metabolic Genetics.” 

From Jennifer Sharp: “No husband or kids 

to brag about on my end. I’m finishing up the 

course work for my 2nd master’s degree (American 

Studies at Trinity C) and still working full 

time cataloging manuscripts at the CT Historical 

Society. I still love reading other people’s diaries 

for a living. If anyone is interested, you may 

read about the cool stuff we find at manuscripts. 

wordpress.com. I just hosted a reception for the 

kids accepted to the Class of 2014 and worked 

on an alumni event that coordinated with Prof 

Graham Hodges’s book talk at the CHS. You can 

also check out my winning entry in the ‘Where’s 

your seal’ contest at www.colgatealumni. 

org/1819, and in between all of that, I spend as 

much time as I can bicycling the hills and valleys 

of central CT. Hope everyone is doing well.” 

From Jill Allen Murray: “I had Charlie Murray 

on 1/13/10. In true Colgate style, he arrived on the 

13th. He’s our 2nd (Ella is now 2 1/2) and such a 

happy, smiley baby.” 

Alex Teeter writes, “News from the Teeter 

house. John Hugo was born on March 5, 2010. 

Mom Stephanie (UVM 2001), Dad, and brother 

Declan are all doing great and enjoying the new 

addition.” 

Caitlin Oldham Bohlman writes, “I am still 

living in NJ with my husband, Ted Bohlman ’99, 

and our 2 kids: Marin, 4, and Keegan, 20 months. 

Since Keegan was born, I have had the exciting 

career of stay-at-home mom. Definitely different 

from the VP job I had in advertising, but I am 

loving it all the same. I recently got into the city 

to help celebrate Frank Martin getting his PhD, 

and I got to catch up with a lot of other Colgaters. 

Natalie Volkman, Susanne Stallkamp, Emily 

Hayes, Karen Clemente, Greg Dahlberg, Steve 

Donahue, Karyn Bove, Allison Yockel, Adam 

Schrager ’99, Sarah Kelly ’99, and Tiffany Alvarado 

’00 were all out to help Frank celebrate.” 

Ella Esente reports, “Over the holidays, I flew 

to Sweden with my husband and kids to visit 

Daria Baron-Hall Eriksson and her beautiful 

family, husband Andrè, son Filip, and daughter 

Linnea. We stayed in their stunning home just 

outside of Stockholm, and were lucky enough 

to get a few feet of snow, which reminded me 

so much of Colgate winters. The kids got along 

great, and we found out firsthand just how child 

friendly a country Sweden is. Daria planned a 

wide range of activities, and we had such a great 

time that we can’t wait to visit again.” 

Lauren Braun Costello writes, “Sean ’97 and 

I took a quick trip to CA with our son in Feb to 

sign books with Tyler Florence at his shop in Mill 

Valley, where we had the pleasure of seeing Chris 

Dale ’97, his wife, and adorable son, Theo. We 

then went to Squaw Valley for some skiing, and 

Colgate was represented strongly; we bumped 

into Bob ’83 and Lee McConaughy ’82 Woodruff 

in the elevator. Go, ’Gate! Next on the book tour: 

Colgate Reunion 2010!” 

Not much from me. I have settled into Raleigh 

and am very much enjoying not being stuck in 

DC traffic anymore. This place suits me much 

better. Allison Gleason Besch lives nearby on 

the Carolina coast in Beaufort, so I get to see her, 

husband Matt (Kansas State), and baby Eli every 

few weeks. 

Carm: colgate1998@gmail.com 

1999 

Katie Raisio Abstoss 

Greetings, fellow ’99ers! I’m thinking we need 

to have a class playgroup, as many more babies 

have joined our crew! Former class editor Sam 

Kohn Gaggion and husband Amedeo welcomed 

their 1st son, Matteo Luke, on Jan 15. Josh and 

Jill Axelrod Linder had a beautiful baby girl, 

Anna Juliet, on Feb 28. Bill and Kathy Reinemann 

Rooney welcomed their son, Will, on Sept 

19, 2009. Will joined sister Shannon, 4. Trip 

Timmermann and wife Rosemarie are thrilled 

to announce the birth of their son, Jack, on Jan 

12: “Everyone is doing great, and we are happily 

adjusting to life as part of the Brooklyn stroller 

brigade.” 

Heidi Brennan Nelson wrote in announcing 

her 2nd child, Brennan Robert, born Jan 28. 

Catherine (Princeton ’02) and Brett Honneus 

welcomed their daughter Elleanor Louise on 

March 25. Colgate couple Melissa Russo and Mike 

Gorfinkle had a little girl, Georgia Grace, on Dec 

17. And for the 1st twins announcement of my 

tenure as editor: Will and Erin Palmisano Berry 

welcomed William Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell 

on Feb 25! William and Ellie’s grandfather, 

William Berry ’69, is also a Colgate alum. 

Eric and Violet Klecha Vincent are excited to 

announce the birth of their daughter Madelyn 

Helen Vincent on March 5: “Both Eric and I are 

thrilled to be new parents for our happy, healthy 

baby girl!” And Mieke Nevig Duxbury wrote in 

with lots of news on ’99er babies, all born this 

March. In order, Jesse Chaset McGranahan had a 

baby girl named Ellie, Liz Fricke Dutkewych had 

a baby boy named Henry, Sally Moll Rubenstein 

had a baby boy named Will, and Heather Liddell 

had a baby girl named Emme! 

Chris Weinwurm Anderson has updates on 

children, moving, and a new job! “We moved over 

Christmas from Lansing, MI, back to the DC area. I 

changed jobs and now work for CACI as a trainer 

for Federal Investigations. We welcomed our 4th 

child, August Justin, on Feb 18. He joins sister 

Madison, 5, brother Aaron, 3, and sister Gabrielle, 

2. We are hoping for a calmer summer of sun and 

fun.” Mark Soden and wife Colleen welcomed 

Liam Montignani Michael on Dec 28. Mark and 

Colleen were married in Aug 2006. 

Jessika Erickson got engaged while vacationing 

in Mexico in Feb and will be marrying Jason 

Stauffacher this summer. The ceremony and 

reception will be held at Jessica’s parents’ home 

in WI. Brian Boyle continues to work at ESPN and 

traveled recently to Melbourne for the Australian 

Open, “but the big news is I just got engaged to 

my girlfriend whom I had brought to reunion, 

Katie Perham.” 

Jeremy Manger, wife, and son Jake, 9 months 

old, are moving to Ethiopia this summer for 

2 years. “I will teach 1st grade at the Internatl 

Community School of Addis Ababa. We are super 

Portrait of a young curator 

From the Challenge of Modernity to the challenge of co-curating the 2010 Whitney Biennial, 

Gary Carrion-Murayari ’02 has triumphed artfully. 

His first big break into New York’s art scene was landing a post-graduation internship at 

the Whitney Museum of American Art under film and video curator Chrissie Iles. “She took 

her mentor role seriously,” he said. “She brought 

me with her everywhere: to galleries and artists’ 

studios. We literally went to every show at every 

museum in the city.” 

A mere seven years later, after being named 

co-curator of the Whitney’s 2010 Biennial, he 

landed a spot on the New York Times style magazine’s 

list of Nifty 50: America’s up-and-coming 

talent. Since then, New York magazine, the New 

York Observer, Art Pulse, and Art in America have 

noted his meteoric rise. 

In the modern art world, Carrion-Murayari’s 

relative youth serves his purpose. 

“My background and prejudices were formed 

at a particular historical moment,” said Carrion- 

Murayari, who was born in 1980 and began visiting 

New York City museums when he was a high 

school student in Carmel, N.Y. Today, he is most 

drawn to post-1960s art, especially video works 

from the 1970s and beyond. At the Whitney in 2007, he curated Television Delivers People, 

which examined the relationship between television and the viewer. 

At Colgate, Carrion-Murayari studied film history and theory with Professor John 

Knecht, and took courses in studio art and video. “I never thought I’d be an artist, but those 

classes made me realize that what artists do is very exciting,” he said. 

While concentrating in art and art history, he also worked as a docent and intern at the 

Picker Art Gallery. “It was an incredible experience,” he said. “By being able to handle art and 

look at art up close, I learned respect for the art object. I also learned to talk about art in 

public.” 

Over time, Carrion-Murayari has come to trust his curatorial voice. For the biennial, he 

traversed the country in search of “intelligent work and the artists who are making it passionately.” 

The 55 artists he helped choose included, for the first time, more women than men. 

There also were fewer mid-career artists or senior figures, because, he said, “that’s not 

where contemporary art is happening in its most vibrant form.” 

Putting together a high-profile biennial is an art as well as a science. And it’s nearly 

impossible to satisfy critics, artists, and the viewing public. 

“The people who chose us to curate the show have respect for what we value in contemporary 

art,” he said. “So we put together a picture of what that looks like.” 

— Barbara Brooks 

psyched for the opportunity to live and breathe 

another culture so distant from ours. We look 

forward to exploring the local community as 

well as traveling throughout Africa.” 

In more career news, Matthew Gennaro 

recently joined Clyde & Co, a London-based law 

firm. 

Lenny Hirsh is living in LA, having finished the 

f/t MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School 

of Mgmt and occasionally appearing in natl commercials, 

including a Bud Light ad during this 

year’s Super Bowl. He and girlfriend Kate visited 

Jamie and Kelley Barker Gilbert in Jackson Hole, 

for an amazing weekend of skiing and catching 

up in early Feb. Also in attendance were Katie 

and Brendan Taylor, Mike Favazzo, and Sue and 

Brian Scranton ’98. “We had a great time, with 

lots of fresh snow and good cooking. We even 

got to hang out with Jackson Hole locals Joanna 

Snyder, Andrea Rongey ’00, and Kenny Hadden 

’04.” And lastly, Kareem Watson spent time in 

NYC recently with Eric Lewin, who was in town 

for business. Erik recently moved from France to 

London. 

Thanks, everyone. Hope you are having a 

fantastic summer! 

Katie: kabstoss@gmail.com 

2000 

Katie Tone Brock 

411 Sloan Road 

Nashville, TN 37209-4654 

I hope everyone enjoyed kicking off the summer 

at our 10-year Reunion. If you couldn’t make it 

back to Hamilton for this one, we hope to see 

you there in 5 short years. The class column with 

news from reunion will come in the Scene’s autumn 

issue. For now, there’s lots of news to share: 

Kim Haranczak writes: “I got married to Derric 

Moses on Sept 26, 2009. Val Byrd Fulwider was a 

bridesmaid, and husband Ben and their son Will 

attended the wedding, along with Colleen Baron 

and Anne MacDonald. Since our wedding was 

small, I was able to spend time catching up with 

everyone, which was really great! Anne is getting 

married this fall, so I am excited to see everyone 

again for her big day!” 

The award for the most original update goes 

to Sujay Koneru from Chicago: “This isn’t your 

typical new job, new kid, or marriage update, but 

I did win my 3rd-consecutive Fantasy Football 

title against a bunch of classmates including 


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Graham Newhall

Interrupted plans present new 

opportunities 

When Chris Reid ’03 began working as an attorney at the nonprofit Legal Aid Society of New 

York last year, it was an unexpected — although, he believes, ultimately fruitful — hiccup in 

his career path. 

Reid was on track to join the ranks of the big city law firm Ropes & Gray after graduating 

from Fordham Law School. He had worked with the firm as a summer associate, and, while 

still in school, accepted an employment offer from them. But when the global recession 

struck during Reid’s final year at Fordham, “A lot of firms started saying, ‘We promised all 

these jobs, but we don’t have enough work for incoming associates,’” he explained. 

Ropes & Gray responded with a compromise: incoming associates could either defer 

their start date for several months, or the firm would pay them a reduced salary to pursue a 

one-year public interest “externship.” After the externship, they would be guaranteed positions 

at Ropes & Gray as second-year associates. 

The sudden change in plans was understandably startling for Reid, who had hoped 

to practice intellectual property litigation (patent law). “I took a few weeks to panic like 

everyone else did, and then to think about it,” said Reid. “What I realized was that this was 

an excellent opportunity. Twenty-five years from now, am I going to say: ‘Hey, when I got out 

of law school the economy was bad and I’m really glad that I just waited three months and 

took my normal job to make a little more money’? Or am I more likely to say: ‘I’m really glad I 

chose to have an experience that changed my outlook and my career’?” 

Reid, therefore, jumped wholeheartedly into public interest law, searching for a challenge 

and finding it with the housing arm of the nonprofit Legal Aid Society in New York. “I 

wanted to do something entirely different and that deliberately put me outside my comfort 

zone. I figured it was a great way for me to grow and get confidence.” Reid knew that 

practicing housing law to benefit indigent people of the city would expose him to extensive 

contact with clients, and significant time in court — incredible opportunities for a first-year 

lawyer — and he seized the opportunity. 

His enthusiasm for the experience caught the attention of a New York Times reporter 

who was investigating the new externship programs of big law firms and filming a video for 

the newspaper’s “City Room” blog. The reporter met with Reid on several occasions, and 

even filmed Reid’s first day in court. 

In his first few weeks on the job, even with the added pressure of a news crew checking 

in on him, Reid began finding success. One client, whose case Reid helped to settle, expresses 

gratitude for Reid’s service in the New York Times video: “Chris [was] checking on me. Is 

everything okay? Can we look at your case? Is this going right? … And that showed me that 

somebody does care.” 

As expected, the work has been challenging, and, at times, emotionally taxing. “You can’t 

come in and just see it like an office job,” said Reid, “because it really does matter. Results 

impact an actual person.” 

Reid plans on returning to Ropes & Gray after the externship, but knows he has grown 

immensely from the experience. He also now has an idea of how he would like to direct 

future pro bono work. “I made a lot of good friends at Legal Aid. Those are connections that 

will stay with me. I will always feel closer to issues of housing and poverty. I don’t regret my 

decision at all.” 

— Jason Kammerdiener ’10 

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Justin Ricci (Philly), James Baker (Portland, OR), 

Gordon Watson ’01 (NYC), BJ Tucker (NY), Jon 

Desmond ’02 (Boston), RJ Gregory ’99 (Newport 

Beach, CA), Eric Zaleski ’99 (NJ), Luke George ’99 

(Utica), Brian Gallozzi ’99 (NY), and Chris Tierney 

’99 (SF). The league has existed since 2001 and 

has been a great way for people to stay in touch. 

Winning 3 championships in a row is a very rare 

and special accomplishment … something that 

may have not happened in the history of fantasy 

sports.” 

Our classmates are quite the entrepreneurs! 

Chad Cooley shared a great announcement: “I 

am excited to report that I left my job after 8 

years at the Related Companies in NY to start 

a new business. I have partnered with hotel 

industry veteran Klaus Ortlieb to pursue hotel 

investment and mgmt opportunities in major 

markets around the country. Wish us luck!” 

Suzanne Lowell works as the education 

coordinator at the Flynn Center for the Performing 

Arts in Burlington, VT. She also runs a cake 

business. 

Kirk Kardashian stopped practicing law and is 

now living in VT, working as a writer. 

Ed Jalinske followed his passion and started a 

company: “After graduating from GW Law School 

in 2006 and practicing for 2 years, I gave it up 

and started my own business, EJ’s Serve First 

LLC. The Serve First team provides training and 

consulting in tennis, fitness, wellness, nutrition, 

student athlete college advising. We are in the 

process of building a 6,000-square-foot indoor 

tennis, fitness, and athletic training facility in N 

VA, with 4 other locations slated for construction 

and completion no later than the fall of 2012. It’s 

what I love doing and I have never looked back.” 

Ron and Stephanie Scott Varnum welcomed 

daughter Mallory Louise on Sept 2, , 2009. Courtney 

and Devon Skerritt welcomed a baby boy, 

Cullum, on Feb 1. All are enjoying the adventures 

of parenthood! 

Jennifer Craft Hogan writes: “I’m still living 

in Albany. My husband, Gavin, and I have spent 

the better part of the last 2 years renovating 

our house. The list never ends, but we are proud 

of what we have accomplished so far. Our 2nd 

daughter, Lindsey Aidan, was born last Aug 14. 

Her sister, Ashley Ryann, is 3 1/2. I have been 

working p/t from home since Lindsey was born 

but will soon be leaving my job as dir of the Pathways 

Into Education Ctr at U Albany to be a f/t 

mom. Gavin just took a new programming job at 

CommerceHub, so there is lots of change in our 

household! In addition to our professional jobs 

and parenting, we also have rental properties to 

keep us busy. There is never a dull moment!” 

Josh Fine wrote: “Laurie Mason and I would 

like to announce the birth of our 1st child. 

Brayden Alexander was born Jan 7. He weighed 

7.5 lb and was 19.5" long. Mom and baby are doing 

great! We couldn’t be more excited.” 

Kasey Sudmeyer Conrad spent a long weekend 

in Denver with Anne Currier Michaels: “We 

were both child-free and enjoyed a spa day, some 

shopping, and embarrassing ourselves by looking 

at old pictures and letters! I did get a chance 

to meet Anne’s youngest, Luke, and see her other 

2 adorable kids, Lucy and Jack, and husband 

Adam ’99 for a quick lunch before I left. What a 

good-looking and fun family! Eric and I are having 

so much fun with our 2 1/2-year-old, Max!” 

Melanie Randall Sanborn writes: “Sunny FL 

is treating the Sanborn clan very well. Audrey 

celebrated her 2nd bday in May. She is a little 

chatterbox; I have to admit, when she told 

me: ‘Mama, chill,’ I was a little surprised. My 

husband’s deployment to the Middle East was 

canceled at the last moment. Instead he was 

sent to Cuba, where he is taking care of those 

stationed at Guantanamo Bay while Audrey and 

I man the house in Jacksonville. We will soon 

be world travelers in that in the last 2 weeks we 

have been to S CA and Atlanta, and we leave for 

Cuba for a short visit later this week. Have fun 

and if any visit northern FL, let me know.” 

Many congrats and best wishes go out to 

the numerous newlyweds and newly engaged. 

Kristin Kraska shares her good news: “On March 

20, I married Chris Catterson (CIA ’99), at what 

my guests are calling a ‘turbo ceremony’ (it 

was only 8 minutes long!) at the de Seversky 

mansion in Old Westbury, NY (on LI). Jennifer 

Lemanski Monaco was one of my bridesmaids; 

she attended the wedding along with husband 

Andrew. Chris and I are very excited to start our 

new life together. We’re currently living in Forest 

Hills, NY, with our 2 cats, Evie and Pinot.” 

Chrissy Quirolo also celebrated a March 

wedding: “I married Jon O’Keeffe (Villanova ’02) 

on March 20 in Westport, CT. It was a beautiful 

1st day of spring and there were many Colgate 

alums in attendance to help celebrate and dance 

the night away: Lyla Bibi, Kate Wissel, Stephanie 

Mueller, Joel ’98 and Rebecca Shooster Warburton, 

Andrew Rozbruch, Leigh-Anne Bennett 

Redfern, Andrew Gillick, Jessica Prata ’01, Kelty 

Weeks ’99, and Rebecca Nackson ’03. 

Tiffany Alvarado is engaged to be married in 

Sept to Robert McKenna. 

Emily Bauman shares great news: “I’ve been 

living in DC for the past 10 years, since graduation, 

during which time I earned my PhD in 

clinical psych from American U. I am currently 

working as a licensed psychologist in 2 private 

group psychotherapy practices in the DC area. I 

specialize in treating adults with posttraumatic 

stress and dissociative disorders. Last fall I got 

engaged to Keith Kaufman (UNC ’02), and we’ll 

be getting married in CT in Oct 2010. He’s also a 

psychologist, so it makes for quite an interesting 

household! I regularly see my best friend and 

1st-year roommate Bridget Vath Steuer, who 

conveniently lives within walking distance from 

me. Bridget got married to her HS sweetheart, 

Christopher (Penn State ’01), in April 2009. 

Their wedding was a blast, and it was great to 

spend time with Laura Meany and Erin Thomas. 

Bridget works as an exec admin asst for the 

head honchos of a psychiatric hospital, and in 

her spare time immerses herself in her artwork. 

Most recently, she has become an extraordinary 

wedding gown designer and creator. She made 

herself one of the most stunning wedding gowns 

I’ve ever seen, and I am thrilled to report that 

she’ll be making mine, as well.” 

Jenny Dressler married Peter Orabona (West 

Point ’95) and honeymooned on the big island 

of HI. On March 10 they welcomed son Aaron 

Joseph, 8 pounds, 7 ounces. Her son David is 3 1/2 

and is excited to be a big brother. 

Mike Esposito and his family are moving 

from Manhattan to Westfield, NJ, this summer. 

Daryl and Stacey Joyce Wright celebrated 

their 1st anniversary. They are living in the 

Seattle area. Stacey teaches middle school sci in 

the Seattle public schools, is working toward a 

certificate in educational admin from Seattle U, 

and will soon be looking for principal positions. 

Amanda and Brendan Fritzsche bought a 

restaurant in CA: “We’re stoked to have this great 

place; it’s a quaint beachfront bar and grill in the 

central coast area. However, I was really looking 

forward to seeing the school and all my friends 

and classmates at reunion. Hopefully, we’ll be 

able to make the 15th. In the meantime, if anyone 

reading this finds themselves halfway between 

LA and SF (we’re in Cayucos), and looking for a 

great place to catch a bite, I have just the place 

for you.”

Tre and Katie Waszkiewicz ’02 McCroskey 

welcomed their 1st child, Madeleine ‘Maddie,’ 

on April 24, 2009. “To add to the excitement, her 

birth coincided with business school final exams, 

job searching, house hunting, and moving back 

to DC. It all worked out in the end: I finished my 

MBA (focused on real estate development) from 

UVA-Darden in May 2009, started with Deloitte 

Consulting’s real estate practice in June, and we 

bought our 1st house in Aug! To cap off the year, 

in Nov, I joined Phil Gager, John Thompson, Alex 

Broussard, Conor Murphy, and Andrew ‘Mr Wigs’ 

Wigton at Enrico Palazio’s wedding to Michelle 

Kahn (Binghamton ’00). It was an unforgettable 

beach wedding in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. 

They exchanged vows at sunset and we partied 

until sunrise!” 

Many thanks to everyone for sending in their 

good news. I look forward to receiving your updates 

— please continue to stay in touch! Enjoy 

the rest of the summer, take care, and be well. 

Katey: 615-417-9727; kptone@gmail.com 

2001 

Jane Seney 

83 Bradford Road 

Watertown, MA 02472 

Jane: janeseney@gmail.com 

2002 

Betsy Yates Long 

445 Legacy Ct 

Westerville OH 43082 

Hello, Class of ’02! Well, ask and ye shall receive, I 

believe the proverb goes. Thank you to everyone 

for your submissions, and let’s get started! 

Things are going well with good friend Leron 

Richards, who enlisted in the Army Jan 20, 2009. 

In basic training in Ft Leonard Wood, MO, Leron 

met Brandon Rogers, who happened to be in 

his platoon. Now, Leron’s located in “sunny” 

Monterey, CA, learning Arabic at the Defense 

Language Inst. The schedule is much like college 

with classes, PT, and other military duties. 

More military news to share, with a heads-up 

to those living in the Seattle area! Robin Pedersen 

Flannery will be journeying out with her 

husband, thanks to a relocation with the Coast 

Guard from Baltimore. Robin’s lucky enough to 

be able to work from home in her new locale 

with her current company, continuing to do 

research for a stem cell therapeutics company 

coordinating clinical trials. I hope Robin finds 

some Colgate people on the West Coast, so she 

makes quick friends after sightseeing crosscountry 

during the move. Congrats to the Flannerys 

and I hope that we’ll hear more about their 

adventures traveling west! 

Now onto ’02 marriages, and there are quite 

a few to celebrate! Ian Franke just got engaged 

over Easter weekend, which may change his 

living situation with Brendan Sandel in Boston. 

Angela Puliafico was married in Aug ’09 to Scott 

Biondi (Providence C). Kyle Weber updates us on 

his Oct ’09 wedding to Emily Kaufman (WA U St 

Louis ’01). Attendance included best man Nishad 

Shevde ’00, Zach Yurch, and Alex Menotti. Drew 

Gilligan ’00 celebrated with the crew in Vegas 

for the bachelor party. Emily and Kyle still live 

in the Vail Valley, CO. Sean Duffy is the most 

recently married of all, having tied the knot on 

March 27 in Chicago with lovely bride Meghan 

(IO ’01). A bunch of Raiders were in attendance, 

including Justin Samaniego, Matt Anastasi, Bill 

Chiodetti, Brendan Sandel, James Franke, Ed 

Hirshberg, Dana DeBarr Anderson, Dave Zoeller, 

Eric Cooper ’01, and Jon Anderson ’03. Sean 

writes that it was a beautiful weekend and a 

fantastic time. Good luck to all the newlyweds! 

More details have come in regarding Matt 

Richenthal’s beautiful Puerto Rico wedding to 

Kate Sage on March 20, thanks to Jane Murray. 

Colgate representation included Luke Dwyer, 

Tom and Leanne Nassar Wines ’00, Toby Ralston, 

Jessica Ciottoni, Alex Woodcock, Steve Marsi 

’01, Alex Pogorzelski, Hunter Southworth, Noah 

Schwarz, and Ben and Susan Rosenthal Maisel. 

Although the events were happy and went off 

without a hitch, a non-Colgate participant won 

the dance-off at the rehearsal dinner; but Jane 

promises the Colgate contingent put up a good 

fight. 

Scott Rosenthal leads off our newly made 

parent list with the birth of his son, Noah, on 

April 4. The Class of ’02 is among the 1st to be 

notified of Scott and wife Hilary’s new addition 

to their Boston home! On Oct 8, Josh and Devin 

Hallett Snyder welcomed son Zachary. Christine 

Schwartz and husband Evan welcomed Isla 

Elizabeth on Dec 20; Isla was a blizzard baby, and 

Christine writes that “getting to the hospital was 

quite an event!” Glad to hear that all the happy 

families are safe and sound and doing well. 

Doug Miller is quite the socialite, writing on 

many a Colgate grad from his 14th St apt in NYC. 

In the NY scene, Doug travels to Williamsburg to 

see Chris Reid ’03 and Charles Mastellone, who 

ironically also lives on Manhattan’s East Side. 

Doug also often runs into Daisy Pilbrow, who 

now lives in downtown Brooklyn, Frank Smith, 

and Dave Duong, who recently was featured in a 

spy-themed calendar and lives in the W Village. 

Outside of work and the Brooklyn scene, Doug’s 

active in the NY kickball arena, which gives him 

the opportunity to see Michael Roffe and Jay 

Cason ’04. Michael is still working for British law 

firm Lovells, and is engaged to a beautiful girl 

named Randy Nozik, whom he met in Israel. 

Farther afield, Doug keeps in touch with many 

a ’Gate grad. In Boston, Doug competed in some 

late-night Guitar Hero with Curt ’03 and Emily 

Roper Doten after running a 5K in Somerville 

and visiting with Lori Mele ’05, who is in her 

2nd semester of a doctorate in Hispanic lit at BC. 

Doug has spoken recently to Alyssa Verbalis, 

who’s in DC right now completing the research 

for her doctorate before beginning post-doc work 

in Cinci in the fall. Doug also traveled back to 

Rochester over Christmas and had the chance to 

see Sarah Compter ’04 and her new house, which 

she shares with her boyfriend on the shore of 

Lake Ontario. He also saw sister Nancy ’05, who 

lives in Rochester with her fiancé. 

Doug writes, “I also continue to see a fair number 

of Phi Delts, Thirteeners, and Resos of all ages 

in NY, including Matt Brogan ’05, Matt Lamb ’04, 

and Adam Palmiter ’03. I’d be remiss if I failed to 

mention Brogan’s older sister, Jane, whom I saw 

at the most recent performances by the Colgate 

alumni-run Just ASK productions [Case Aiken 

’06, Adam Samtur ’06, and Matthew Kagen ’07] 

in the E Village. Finally, I ran into Lauren Parr ’05 

earlier this evening, which prompted me to send 

in this update.” 

Along with Alyssa’s exciting grad news and 

Matt Lamb’s dental school, there are a few other 

Colgate grad students out there. Gillian Genrich 

will begin her pathology residency at UCSF upon 

graduation from GW Med School in May. Kate 

Pientka writes in about her May ’10 graduation 

from Emory’s MBA program. Kate’s in school with 

Jeff Goran, who’s slated to finish in May ’11 and 

who just welcomed a new baby girl, Elise Claire, 

on March 11 with wife Kristen. 

A plug for Rod Blackhurst, who is currently 

working on a couple of projects, including directing 

photography for Music Voyager (PBS & 

Natl Geo), a short film about a group of casual 

musicians in rural upstate NY called “The Only 

Band in Town,” and will be relocating to the West 

Coast, around production on a feature-length 

documentary about 12-year old Zach Bonner, 

who is walking from FL to LA for the next 6 

months to raise awareness about homeless 

youth. Congrats to Rod, and I ask the class to 

watch TV schedules and film fest headlines for 

his name! 

Finally, a word from Michael Torpey, who 

wants to clear something up. Torpey writes, “I 

would like to clarify a posting in the Scene Class 

of 2003 round-up from Jan 2010. In an update on 

his situation, Sean Goldman ’03 mentioned that 

he ran into me at SuperCuts. While Mr Goldman 

was there getting his haircut, I feel the need to 

inform you that I was not. I was there because 

I was buying the place. I currently own over 26 

SuperCuts locations in NY, NJ, CT, and TN. Now, 

my position within the company makes me 

very familiar with the American and European 

hairstyles SuperCuts offers at very reasonable 

prices, so I, as much as anyone, can understand 

how it may have seemed like I was there to get 

my hair cut. Going to SuperCuts makes total 

sense for anyone simply needing their hair cut, 

and especially for a man who has just turned 30 

and is not making as much money at this point 

in his life as he had expected when he left school, 

though is still doing well in what has proven 

to be a very tough career choice and totally has 

nothing to be embarrassed about, especially 

not about getting a smart, modern haircut at an 

affordable price. However, I was simply there to 

buy the place. Not to get my haircut.” Glad that 

he cleared that up. 

Have a great summer and keep it coming, 

Class of ’02! 

Betsy: 614-506-0534; betsy.yates.long@gmail.com 

2003 

Melanie Kiechle 

176 Maple Avenue 

Metuchen, NJ 08840 

Greetings, all! I hope you are enjoying these 

warm, sunny days and making the most of 

your summer. I’m doing a bit of travel myself, 

and looking forward to hearing all about your 

adventures — and sharing them — in the coming 

months. The news this time is slim, but all 

good. Enjoy! 

From TJ Gamble comes the happy news of his 

marriage to Kelly Mitchell (Boston University 

’02) at the St Paul Cathedral, St Paul, MN, on Oct 

24. The happy couple was surrounded by many 

friends, including the following from Colgate: 

Viraj Puri, James Walsh ’01, Andrew Fuller, Chris 

Messa, Richard Demato ’01, Bret Doverspike, 

Jordan Krawll, Tim Ledbetter ’01, John Woolard 

’04, Owen Fileti, Jeremy Eisemann ’01, Josh Cohn, 

and Richard Nordlund ’67. From the pictures I 

saw, it looks like everyone had a wonderful time. 

Congratulations! 

Kelli Wong wrote with the happy news of 

the wedding of Maurice Robertson and Tamika 

McGowan ’04 on March 20: “It was a beautiful 

and fun occasion. Mika came laughing down 

the aisle, and Mo greeted her along the side of 

a garden pond with his signature smile. I had a 

blast, and I couldn’t be happier to have shared 

the night with them.” Congrats, Mo and Mika! 

I had my first update via gchat, and it is 

from the newly proud parents Ben and Allison 

Cochran Shirley. Their son, Andrew Christian 

Shirley, was born on March 24, weighing 8 lb, 8 

oz. Mother and son were doing well when Ben 

shared the happy news, and you can look for the 

family in NYC this summer. Ben graduated from 

Cornell B-School at the end of May, and planned 

to return to Deloite Consulting. 

You’ll now find Maraga Flynn Martens in 

NYC as well. She recently moved there with her 

husband and dog, and I caught up with her while 

she was settling in to their new place in the 

financial district. Since arriving, Maraga has seen 

Becky Fertig, Ali Rauh, and Sean Cusick ’04 … 

and she plans to see lots more before she moves 

again. 

Dave Roberts wrote with the wonderful news 

that he finished his PhD in comp sci at Georgia 

Tech on April 2, and is moving to the research 

triangle this summer. In Aug, Dave’s new 

adventure begins, as he starts his position on the 

faculty of NC State’s comp sci dept. If you’re in 

the Raleigh area, be sure to look Dave up. 

Dave Kolodney is living his love of sports 

full-time in his new position as assistant to the 

commissioner of the United Football League. 

Chrissy Ott will soon be returning from the 

Emerald Isle — she’s completed med school 

there, and will be starting her residency at St 

Christopher’s Children’s Hospital in Philly. I’m 

thrilled that my former roommate will be close 

by for a change! 

This column’s final update is a big one — it 

comes from Lizzie O’Rourke just a few days 

before her flight to Ghana, where she is starting 

a 2-year assignment at the US embassy. This is 

Lizzie’s first tour with the State Dept, and she 

couldn’t be more excited. This follows Lizzie’s MS 

in foreign service from Georgetown, where she 

took a class taught by Madeline Albright, and a 

short-term stint at the main State Dept. During 

this short assignment, Lizzie found herself in 

a brief meeting with Michelle Obama, and the 

two joked about their Chicago accents. Whatever 

Lizzie does next, you can be sure it will be exciting 

… and I, for one, can’t wait to hear! 

Melanie: 315-778-0497; mkiechle@gmail.com 

2004 

Moira Gillick 

Tottering Hall 

2501 Calvert Street NW 

No. 705 

Washington, DC 20008 

Hello, all you beautiful people! I *LOVEIT* when 

the bait works and I get fresh blood for the 

column! SO, to kick off this travel column, I will 

disclose that I am leaving for Peru in a few days 

for a wedding (friends from school in London, 

they met while working on a group project, what 

a cliché!). Therefore, let us start our journey with 

the Americas south of here… 

Matthew Brennan writes from AZ: “I am just 

finishing my MFA in creative writing from AZ 

State, and at ASU I work as the program coordi- 

“Katie Redford’s groundbreaking legal work has literally changed the face of corporate accountability 

in overseas human and earth right abuses all over the world.” — Julie O’Leary Muir ’90 


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“Congratulations to Sian-Pierre Regis, who was awarded a Natl Assoc of Black Journalists award for 

producing BET’s 8-month You(th) vote! Campaign.” — Bob Fenity ’06 

nator for global engagement at the Piper Ctr for 

Creative Writing. I run the logistics of sending 

our MFA students abroad for teaching, conf, and 

workshop opportunities. And I often travel with 

them! Over the past 3 years, for work, I have 

traveled to Calgary and Banff, Canada; Oaxaca, 

Mexico; Hong Kong, Beijing, and Singapore; and 

Australia, where I visited the Colgate study group 

last fall. On my own, I have also done archaeology 

and missionary work in Central America.” 

Chris Conti is also bound for Central America: 

“I haven’t contributed to the class notes before, 

but I figured I’d chime in this time around, given 

what you said about internatl travel! I’m a 

professional photographer, and in May I’m going 

to be going on a 2-week shoot through Central 

America on indigenous cultures. The photos will 

be on my website.” 

Let us depart Central and S America to visit 

the sailing babes around Seattle and the Caribbean. 

Megan Addison writes, “I don’t think I’ve ever 

submitted to one of these! But when you said 

you wanted notes on internatl travel, I thought 

while I haven’t done much of that, exciting 

expeditions is where I’m at! So here goes it: I 

spent most of last year living and sailing aboard 

the 97-year-old schooner Adventuress in Puget 

Sound, WA. We take trips up to 6 days long in 

the San Juan Islands and other areas of Puget 

Sound with teenagers and adults, teaching about 

sailing, the marine ecosystem, and what we can 

do to improve the health of the environment 

around us. After a year of sailing, I’ve transitioned 

to the office of the organization, Sound 

Experience, developing programs and organizing 

schools, youth groups, and other organizations 

to go sailing for a day or 6 days. So much fun! 

There’s something about raising 3,000-lb sails 

with a group of 25 people then feeling the wind 

rush by that makes for quite a travel experience, 

regardless of whether it is internatl. One of these 

days I’ll make it back to the East Coast to visit, 

but I’m pretty happy with WA State for now. 

Thanks for all you do to keep us posted on cool 

things classmates are doing!” My pleasure. 

From Allison Fleming: “If my plans aren’t 

botched by any of the oil and gas companies I 

cover deciding to do a big deal in June, I will be 

heading to the British Virgin Islands and renting 

a 50' catamaran to sail around for either a week 

or until the beer runs out, whichever comes first. 

If the beer does run out, I imagine I’ll dock by an 

island bar for a few days. Should be fun!” I would 

go sit my aspiring expatriate behind on the 

beaches of the BVI any day. 

And West 2 frosh year, Kristyn Fredericks visited 

my homeland during Easter to find much of 

it closed. “I just got back from a week in Ireland. 

It was amazing; what a beautiful country. I went 

with my friend from HS. It was a very chill trip. 

We rented a car (a Micra — teeny on the outside, 

but surprisingly big on the inside) and just drove. 

Ended up in some very small towns, but the 

locals were extremely friendly and helpful. And 

who could resist their accent? My only regret is 

that we didn’t get to visit the Guinness Brewery 

since we were in Dublin on Good Friday, when 

the whole country stops serving alcohol and 

pretty much shuts down. Didn’t see that one 

coming! I’m probably going to Argentina in Aug, 

and perhaps Amsterdam somewhere in between 

then and now. I’ve decided that I need to do more 

traveling for sure.” Amen indeed, Kristyn. 

From her frosh year Wilderness Adventure 

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buddy, Tucker Bailey: “I have been living in 

Australia for the past 2 years, traveling across 

Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, and SE Asia. 

From March 2008 until January 2010, I was living 

in Sydney and Melbourne, heading up marketing 

for my company across the Japan Asia Pacific 

region. Although I was ‘living’ in Australia, I was 

spending around 75% of my time overseas and 

on planes. I think I ran something like 300,000 

frequent flier miles last year.” That’s living the 

dream, Tucker. 

Whilst in SE Asia, I got a message from someone 

legitimately not just back from international 

travel but still on international travel. Brett 

Stuckel writes, “Writing to you from Varanasi, 

India. I’ve been crisscrossing India lately, sourcing 

hand-knotted and flat-weave rugs for Mark 

Inc Fine Carpets.” 

I am mostly sure that Brett and Sobby Arora 

did India together a few years ago, but based 

on what I have seen on Sobby lately, he is the 

best traveled postgrad student in the history 

of the world. With the world’s most successful 

Facebook prod, Sobby coughed up: “I suspected 

that you would be on my case if you saw my pictures 

… ha ha. If you’re in the big city sometime, 

holler and we will grab some beers. I am in the 

homestretch of finishing my MBA at NYU Stern, 

which is not a good thing because in true bschool 

student fashion, I have utilized all breaks 

and long weekends to satiate some wanderlust. 

In the past year, I have been fortunate to travel to 

several countries in Eastern and Western Europe, 

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania, 

and Dubai, among a few others that I’m sure I’m 

forgetting. Colgate, as always, has a strong showing 

at NYU, with Oliver Brassard, Patrick Kosiek 

’05, Charles Macon ’03, Amelia Hanley ’02, and 

John Brouillard ’00 in my graduating class. Being 

in NYC also affords the opportunity to close 

many bars down with the help of Tzetzo Kotzev, 

Suman Roy, Udayan Dasroy, Nick Rudnick, and 

John Penner, among many others. Last month, 

Bev Low paid a much-needed visit to the big city 

and we had a good ol’ fashioned cookies and 

juice party for the former Link staff members. 

Notable appearances from Colgate people who 

were born in the 1980s included Andy and Dana 

Colbert ’05 and Alex Collins Wight. Bart Hale, 

a wannabe Link staff member, also crashed the 

party. Happy?” Yes. Very. Thank you, Sobby. 

And now for the elements that every column 

cannot escape: law school, NYC, and weddings. 

But I will start this bit with the thread of the 

Venice Study Group. Joe Brazauskas, at the end 

of his 3rd year at the American U DC College of 

Law, responded to my big message: “I travel to 

the library — does that count?” Sure, Joe. 

And now to other kids on the Venice group, 

Sara Kahn’s mother wrote in to say she is 

also here in DC: “Sara will be graduating from 

Georgetown Law this May with an LLM in tax 

(post-grad).” 

And also of Venetian pupilage, Katy Pape, 

long done with law school at Brooklyn, wrote 

to say, “I am prosecuting sex crimes in Brooklyn 

this year. Going to trial is very exciting! Anyway, 

I plan to go to Turkey, Greece, N Africa, and Italy 

at the end of Aug on an archaeological cruise following 

the trip of Aeneas. That’s my travel plan 

at the moment! I’m going to FL in 2 weeks, but 

that isn’t very exciting.” Take what you can get! 

And also of Brooklyn Law tutelage, Steph De- 

Giacomo writes with wedding news and therefore 

subsequent honeymoon travel (I like it!). She 

says, “I’m getting married to my HS boyfriend on 

May 15 and we’re going on a 3-week honeymoon 

that will take us 1st to Dubai and then on to 

visit friends in Uganda, go gorilla trekking in 

Rwanda/Congo, go on safari in the Serengeti, and 

finish with a beach holiday in Zanzibar. I normally 

wouldn’t publicize my vacation plans, but 

I figured that if there were 1 plan worth sharing, 

this would be it.” I say so. Best wishes, Steph! 

And here’s the big finish with 2 NYC girls with 

big travel and big weddings to spout about. From 

my fellow diva Lynmerie Parris: “I’ll be going 

to Paris in May to celebrate my 28th bday and 

my sister’s 30th with my best friend who lives 

there. We plan on visiting Cannes, so I’m excited. 

I’m still in NYC, just moved into my own apt on 

the UES and recently Mike Latek came to visit. I 

also hang out with Jeff Chick, and Daeyna Grant 

lives across the street from me, so I see her all 

the time! I will also be a bridesmaid in Andria 

Graham’s wedding this summer in CA (reported 

in spring column, worth repeating!) and attending 

Stacia Kutter’s bachelorette in Key West and 

wedding in Tallahassee!” 

And LBNL, from my fellow redhead, Lisa La- 

Valle: “Rachel Marcus and I took Katie Hogan out 

to an exotic meal of nachos, chicken fingers, and 

wings to celebrate her engagement to Leon Van 

Horn III. The proposal story involves a gazebo, 

a 10-mile run, and a snow globe, but I swear it 

wasn’t part of The Amazing Race. Katie is very 

much looking forward to adding ‘the 3rd’ to the 

end of her name. The wedding is taking place 

on LI on Sept 17 and we’re all really excited! Her 

fiancé went to C of NJ ’03 and Notre Dame ’04. 

And I promise his name is really Leon Van Horn 

III!” 

People. Pack. Your. Passport. And GO. 

As always, I look forward to hearing from you, 

and if not, hearing about you. 

Moira: moirag@gmail.com 

2005 

Amy Griffin 

1461 W. Walton St. 

Apt. 2 


Well, hello. This column will come out after 

reunion, so let me just assuage your fears: the reunion 

recap will be featured in the fall column. I 

plan on walking around reunion with a notepad 

and one of those old time-y fedoras with a “reporter” 

card stuck in the brim, just to make sure I 

capture any and all possible ’05 news. Please find 

me and tell me things! 

In Colgate/Chicago happenings, I was able to 

get up to Evanston to visit Ryan Molloy at Kellogg. 

We went to this … place … called the Keg. If 

you want to imagine it, picture the Jug, but just 

4 times as big. Otherwise, exactly the same. We 

had a grand time, almost Hamilton-worthy. 

Speaking of b-school (everyone’s doing it), 

I’ve heard from Jeff Cloetingh that he’s going to 

be starting his 2-year MBA program at Cornell 

next fall. He says he’s “looking forward (I think) 

to 2 more years of school in the snowbelt.” Alex 

Glover will be starting at Ross in Ann Arbor, MI, 

next fall, and joining him in the move to the MW 

will be Kelly Dearie. By that time, they will be 

married! Their nuptials are planned for this summer 

in Newport, RI. 

I also heard from Erick Bond: “I wanted to let 

you know that Kate Rousseau and I got married 

in Sept in Middletown, CT. Despite the rain, 

everyone had a great time! The wedding party 

included Mariana Martinez, Dave Hosford, Jason 

Cason ’04, and Doug Miller ’02. There was also 

a great Colgate crowd besides that, including 

Dan and Beth Wolyniak Dicesare, Greg and Kay 

Traester LaBanca, Bart Hale ’04, Matt Kovalcik, 

John Phillips ’05 and Trisha Hutchins, Evan 

Timbie ’01, Dan Ranbom ’04, and even Bob and 

Becky Olsen P’06. 

Courtney Bassett reports: “The Denver/Boulder 

Colgate crew is doing well! Cara Sturman got 

engaged this summer while in London and will 

be getting married in VT this Sept. She is currently 

a sr asst dir of admissions at CU-Boulder and 

planned to graduate from the U of Denver with 

her master’s in higher ed this spring. Marisa Lubeck 

graduated with a master’s in environmental 

journalism and mass communications from 

the U of CO in May 2008 and is now a public 

affairs specialist at the US Geological Survey. In 

Nov, I started with the U of CO Fndn as a development 

assoc in the C of Engineering and Applied 

Science at CU – Boulder. We see Mike Anderson 

’02, Patrick Crawford ’04, Emily Drummond, 

Diana Heinicke ’04, Andy Klein ’04, Dan Knaus, 

Katherine Lynn ’04, and Danielle Maloney Seiss 

frequently and have enjoyed visits from some 

’Gaters from the NE this winter: Alissa Valiante 

met up with Marisa, Cara, and me while attending 

a conf in Denver; Mary Yurch joined the girls 

in Breckenridge for a ski weekend; and Kelsey 

Karsten ’06 flew to Denver en route to Vail and 

spent time with Courtney while in the Mile High 

City. James Rothstein makes frequent visits to 

Denver since he is clerking for a federal judge, 

so the 4th-floor Curtis friends have been getting 

together whenever James is in Denver. James 

recently got engaged to Alexis, who also met up 

with us in Denver.” 

CO is the place to be for Colgations: a large 

group of ’05 girls got together for some skiing 

in Breckenridge, facilitated by Biz McDermott, 

who lives in Denver. We considered it a reunion 

warm-up and the group consisted of Katie 

O’Hare, Erin Pulice, Debra LoCastro, Jen Busby 

Hughes, Laura DiLorenzo, Cara Angelopulos, 

Sarah Fitzgerald, Carly Kiel, Leah Anderson, and 

Gabrielle Provencal. 

Thanks for reading to the bottom. Go, ’Gate. 

Amy: amyegriffin@gmail.com 

Info, please: 

If you know of the whereabouts — home 

address, phone, fax, or e-mail — of anyone 

on this list, please contact Alumni 

Records: 315-228-7453; 228-7699 

(fax); alumnirecords@colgate.edu. 

Thanks for your help! 

Frank J. Miller MA’64 

Mark D. Bookbinder ’74 

David W. Anderson ’75 

Francisco G. Irby ’81 

Richard S. Grunther ’88 

Evan G. Steinberg ’90 

Eric D. Anderson ’91 

Se Joon Kim ’95 

Jennifer A. Slyker ’97 

Steven J. Matthews ’03

2006 

Bob Fenity 

1415 Rhode Island Ave, NW 

Apt. 704 

Washington, DC 20005 

I hope the summer has been treating you well. 

I first wanted to apologize to our class for slipping 

the last couple of issues and not reporting 

any news. It was a failure on my end and won’t 

happen again. The Class of 2006 has been busy. 

Here’s what some of your classmates have been 

up to over the past year: 

Ryan Patterson was a great help and reached 

out to many of our ’06ers to get some winter 

2010 updates. 

Emily McAuliff writes: “I’m engaged to Mike 

Gentithes ’05 and we plan to wed at Colgate’s 

chapel this summer. Levi Benson stayed with 

us in Chicago as one of the many stops on his 

rendezvous around the country to interview for 

residency programs, as did Erin Shope in her 

pursuit to find an ideal locale to practice pediatric 

dentistry.” Congrats, Emily and Mike. 

Ali Zaltman writes: “I am working for a Boston 

city councilor (John Connolly) and waiting 

to hear back from law schools for the fall. In my 

spare time, I’ve been volunteering on campaigns 

and thinking a lot about joining a gym. I had a 

great mini-reunion with my former college and 

after-college roommates, Sue Bielamowicz and 

Emily Misch, along with Lexi Gewertz and Meg 

Thomas, at Whole Foods’ salad bar in Boston and 

spent New Year’s Eve with Sian-Pierre Regis 

and some of our HS friends. I run into Matt 

Grygiel a lot, who works right across the street 

from me, and Sam Yazdanseta, who lives a few 

minutes away. Chris Woodyard and I met up to 

try to re-create our weekly Main Moon ritual at 

Chef Chang’s in Brookline. Very good but not the 

same.” 

Emily Cobb writes: “Bill Hoelzer and I are 

engaged and will marry in June. Bill is finishing 

up his master’s in philosophy at SU.” Congrats, 

Emily and Bill. 

Kristin Kim writes: “I started my master’s in 

school counseling at Rutgers and I’m loving it! 

Over Thanksgiving and winter break, I was able 

to catch up with Amy Cole (who’s in her 1st year 

at AZ State for a master’s in school psychology), 

Levi Benson (who’s in his last year of med school 

at Penn State), James Silas (who’s in his 1st year 

at NY Law … yikes … ha ha), and Andrew Middleton 

’04, who was in town interviewing for residency. 

I took Levi and Andrew to a Korean sauna 

in NJ, and needless to say, it was awesome. Right, 

guys? The best part being our discounted rate 

of $28 each for all-day relaxation. If any of you 

are ever in town, you are more than welcome to 

come with me next time! For New Year’s, I got to 

ring in 2010 with none other than the fabulous 

Marianne Colahan, Katie Mclean, James, and Levi 

here in NYC. Marianne is in her 2nd year at CO 

State doing an MFA in creative writing, and Katie 

is working her way up at VH1. I’m so proud of 

her!” 

Abby King writes: “I’m studying energy 

efficiency and renewable energy policy. If all 

goes according to plan, the U of Chicago will 

award me a master’s in public policy this June. 

After that, I’ll be getting some wilderness time 

in working for the Appalachian Mtn Club in 

Golden, BC, near Banff, Yoho, and Glacier Natl 

Parks. Over winter break, I got to visit Meg Lyons, 

my former NYC roommate, in her new apt in 

Gramercy that she shares with her sister Erin 

Lyons ’07.” 

Meg Lyons writes: Still working and living 

in NYC and see Kate McLean, Erin Maloney, and 

Sian-Pierre whenever schedules allow. Got back 

to up to school last winter for Akapellafest with 

my boyfriend, Russell Gunther ’04, and planning 

on trekking up again this year.” 

Ryan Patterson adds: “I am in my last semester 

at Fordham U, getting my master’s in social work. 

This past fall, I visited Tisza Bell out in Boulder, 

CO, who just finished her master’s in environmental 

science. Had an awesome time in the 

great outdoors: hiking, yoga, climbing. In Dec, 

Emily Misch and Meg Thomas visited NYC, meeting 

up with Kristin Kim, Katie Frohlinger, and I. 

Emily is working at the Harvard School of Public 

Health, and Meg is in her 2nd year at Tufts Med 

School. Emily told me about a great trip she had, 

visiting Mary Margaret Acoymo in LA, where she 

hit up all the insider celeb hot spots. 

“Over the week of New Year’s, I partied it 

up with Kristin Kim, James Silas, Levi Benson, 

Sian-Pierre, Erin Maloney, and Larry Donahue at 

different events in NYC. Erin is going on her 4th 

year at Lord and Taylor, just got promoted to an 

assoc buyer. She was really excited to be traveling 

with Caitlin Lyons to visit Bri Tsukamoto in 

Hawaii in March. Larry is finishing up med school 

at the U of Rochester and searching for residency 

programs. Plus, he got engaged. So exciting!” 

Congratulations to Sian-Pierre Regis, who was 

awarded a Natl Assoc of Black Journalists award 

for producing BET’s 8-month You(th) vote! Campaign. 

Sian Pierre is back from a 6-month stay 

in Paris where he grew Swagger: Paris, which, 

among other things, has received press from Elle 

magazine and Glamour magazine. 

Laura Dowgin shared that in the early part 

of this year, a bunch of ex-Colgate cheerleaders 

got together in NYC for a mini-reunion. Megan 

Sobel, Maeve Bowman, Ericka Eatherton, Jaime 

LaBelle ’05, Hale Cowin ’05, Merissa Porter ’07, 

Kelly Dolan ’08, Hayley Smith ’08, Sophia Ressler 

’09, and Emily Quartz ’09 got together for dinner, 

drinks, and toasts to retired coach Jill Strand. 

Honorary cheerleader Lexi Arias joined in the 

fun, and they are looking forward to a future gettogether. 

Megan Sobel writes: “Way back in the start of 

2010, Brian Riley and Pippa Davidson came into 

DC where they spent a very Colgate New Year’s 

Day when they had brunch with DCers Brian 

Yellin, Megan Sobel, Bryan Cecala, Rachel Mulcahy, 

and Andrew Lang. Megan also got to catch 

up with Leslie Safier when she flew in from 

Berkley (where she is finishing her last semester 

of grad school) for a quick East Coast tour.” 

Congratulations to Allison Paiano, who married 

Robert Toste last fall. The Class of ’06 women’s 

ice hockey team, including Becky Irvine and 

Mel Barclay, as well as others — Maura Crowell 

’02, Shelby Nelson ’05, Kristin Cirbus ’05, Ashley 

Johnston ’07, Ashley Bradford ’07, and Elayna 

Hamashuk ’09 — all attended the wedding in Ottawa, 

ON. Allison writes: “The team surprised me 

at the reception with a hockey jersey in honor of 

our wedding and welcomed Robert to the Colgate 

community. The party was awesome and it was 

so great to see everyone who came from all over 

Canada and the US.” 

Richard LeBeau is in his 2nd year of graduate 

school at UCLA, where he is getting his PhD in 

clinical psychology and loving life in CA. He 

wanted to report the following news: “After 

meeting during their junior year at Colgate, making 

it through the first 2 years of their molecular 

biology doctoral programs at Stanford and Berkeley, 

and surviving a bachelorette party weekend 

in Las Vegas and a bachelor party celebration 

in San Fran, Matthew Barber and Nicola Harper 

were married in Victoria, BC, on July 18, 2009. I 

was honored to be a member of the wedding par- 

ty, which also included Matt’s brother, Nicola’s 

brother and sister, and Colgate alums Carolyn 

Collins and Maureen Lynch. The wedding was 

absolutely spectacular and nearly a dozen other 

Colgaters made the trip across the border to 

celebrate. Among them were Sarah Fryc, Becky 

Armstrong, Kyle Dolan, Tara LaLonde, Erin Shope, 

Carlee Leraris, John Merkel ’05, Brian Dinneen, 

Greg Mole, Gavin Gregory, and fellow newlyweds 

Alex Agnant and Mary Gaynin ’08, who were 

married last year as well in NY. Naveen Hussain, 

who was instrumental in getting the newlyweds 

together during their semester at the NIH, was 

unable to attend due to her pregnancy. Naveen 

gave birth to a happy, healthy baby boy named 

Humza on Sept 2, 2009.” Congratulations, 

Naveen, and happy 1-year anniversary to Matthew 

Barber and Nicola Harper. 

After 3 crazy years of law school, Alex 

Shindler graduated from Pace U School of Law 

last year. Congrats, Alex, and good luck with your 

professional advancement in NYC. 

Last summer, Stephanie Wortel completed 

the NYC Teaching Fellows program, and received 

an Americorps Grant. She spent the summer 

around the American Museum of Natural History, 

having helped to write the educator guide 

for the planetarium show “Journey to the Stars” 

and coordinated the Saltz Expedition Center high 

school internship program on the weekends. 

Steph also appeared in Lad, a Dog, a musical 

piece by Jon Deak, 1st bassist of the New York 

Philharmonic. 

Adam Samtur was also busy last summer 

with both freelance writing and a variety of 

theatrical activities. Keep an eye out for the release 

of a savings/shopping book by a division of 

Penguin Publishing for which he did ghostwriting. 

Adam also managed several performances: 

Twin Towers, as part of the Planets Connectivity 

Festivity and the Golden Fleeces operas, Raya 

& Sag-In, and Lad, A Dog (which Stephanie 

Wortel starred in). He also played 2 small roles 

in the Piper Theatre company’s productions 

of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s 

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at Byrne 

Park in Brooklyn. Case Aiken, Matthew Kagen 

’07, and Adam’s own theater company, Just ASK 

Productions, completed a very successful 2nd 

show, What(’s) Happen(s)(ed)(ing) in the Elevator, 

receiving a rave review on nytheatre.com. Case 

also sang with the Westchester Chordsmen, an 

a cappella chorus that placed 3rd in the region at 

the district competition in Lancaster, PA. His play 

Family Symmetry (which he wrote, directed, and 

produced) was featured in the Midtown International 

Theatre Festival as well last summer. 

Congratulations to Brice Chaney and Lyndsay 

Dinatali, who were engaged at the end of Feb 

and are now living in DC. 

And a final congratulations to Liz Pavle, who 

was recently engaged to Brian Mixer, a Bucknell 

alum. We won’t hold that against you, Liz. I had 

the honor of joining the engagement surprise 

with Amy Dudley, Liz’s great parents, and Darcy 

the dog. An unforgettable evening for all. 

Lots of news, lots of congratulating, and a lot 

we’ve all been up to. As we enter our reunion 

year, please make sure to send me an update. 

Bob: 585-506-5981; rfenity@gmail.com 

2007 

Allie Grimes 

Apt 2B 

120 East 11th St 

New York, NY 10003-5311 

Allie: Alexandra.grimes@gmail.com 

Colgate seen 

The spirit of alumni sporting their Colgate 

gear is seen here, there, and everywhere 

around the globe. Where was your latest 

spotting? On a Machu Picchu trek? At a 

mini-reunion in Pocatello? An election 

polling site in Houston? We’re collecting 

photos of Colgate sightings around the 

world. Send them to scene@colgate.edu. 

Elizabeth Wolyniak DiCesare ’05 collected 

biofilm samples from Pocono Creek in Tannersville, 

Pa., to use in her PhD research 

at Lehigh University — in the right sweatshirt! 

Her field assistant and husband, Dan 

DiCesare ’05, took the photo. Read more 

about Elizabeth’s groundbreaking research 

on drinking-water quality at http://www. 

lehigh-research.org/page/2. 

Bob O’Shea ’73 recently visited his daughter 

Grace ’11 in Barcelona, Spain, where 

she was studying abroad. 


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2008 

Sarah Greenswag 

2124 Birchwood Lane 

Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 

Hi, all! Hope everyone is enjoying lovely spring 

weather wherever you may be: 2010 has been 

a very busy year for our class and I am excited 

to announce that our Facebook group has been 

extremely successful. I received more updates 

than ever. If you haven’t already joined, please 

search for Colgate Class of 2008 on FB. This is the 

best way to send updates and keep in touch with 

classmates. 

Several of our classmates have either started 

or continued work on their grad degrees. Seems 

like that bachelor’s isn’t enough to guarantee 

employment these days! Allison Pendleton 

started working toward her master’s in early 

childhood education at Fordham Grad School 

of Education. Erika Scuadroni is also working 

toward her master’s in early childhood education 

and is concurrently working at the Met in 

NYC. Anna Spinelli was accepted to Columbia’s 

Teachers C, and she begins work this summer. 

Ruben Leavitt updated us all the way from U 

of Oxford, where he is in his 2nd and final year 

as the Paul J Shupf ’58 Fellow for a master’s 

in political theory. Like Ruben, Tanya Lubicz- 

Nawrocka will also be heading to the UK, where 

she will attend Cambridge to pursue a master’s 

in modern sci and global transformations. Becky 

Billmire will be graduating from GWU forensics 

master’s program in May. She, Paul Glineburg, 

and their new puppy, Kirby, will be heading up 

to UPenn in the fall, where Paul will be starting 

vet school and Becky will be joining UPenn’s cell 

and molecular bio PhD program. They are hoping 

Mallorie Heneghan joins them there for med 

school! Pat Sullivan will be completing his master’s 

in psych from American U, and will then 

begin doing research f/t for the VA in DC. Charley 

Tharp will begin med school this fall at the U of 

CO. Fernanda Delmondes de Carvalho was admitted 

to Columbia U’s MD/PhD program and will 

be doing her 1st research rotation this summer. 

Dan Fichtler will be attending Princeton to get 

his master’s in public affairs. Dan Grubaugh and 

Katy Fallows are engaged! Congrats to you both. 

Katy will begin her PhD in astrophysics at BU, 

and Dan will be starting his PhD in immunology 

at Harvard. Luke Champlin is finishing 

his master’s in Russian and Eastern European 

studies at Georgetown, and Michelle Wiggins 

will be completing her master’s in accounting at 

Binghamton. Ashley Wallis completed her master’s 

at UMDNJ this past semester as well. Dan 

Streim will begin Georgetown Law in the fall. 

Julie Geifman is also starting law school this year 

at Cardozo in NYC. You are all impressive, and I 

am officially feeling like one of the underachieving 

members of our very ambitious class! 

Avery Blank sent the following update: “The 

2nd year of law school has flown by. This spring 

semester, I worked with a MD state senator on 

passing a bill. I testified in support of the bill in 

front of a State Senate Committee, and my op ed 

was published in the Baltimore Sun. This summer, 

I am working in the Office of Genl Counsel 

at the Executive Office of the President of the 

United States. I think this will make for a very 

exciting summer!” 

While several of our classmates are continuing 

their education, many others are enjoying 

the lovely world of the working man. Helena 

Fishbein is teaching 10th-grade English and 

reading at Immokalee HS in FL. She finished up 

her MAT at Colgate in Dec and is happy to have 

a job in education! She occasionally runs into 

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Richie Rosabella ’09 at Stevie Tomatoes, where 

he runs Colgate-style trivia. Lisa Belgam joined 

a local DC orchestra, the Elegy String Orchestra. 

If you are in the DC area, definitely check out 

one of her concerts. Rob Thering graduated 

Army Officer Candidate School and received 

his commission as a 2nd lt in July. He branched 

armor and graduated the Armor Basic Officers 

Leadership Course in March. Rob was one of 6 

students selected to attend Army Ranger School, 

which started in May. He is attached to the 10th 

Mountain Division and will deploy to Afghanistan 

next fall as a Cavalry Scout Platoon Leader. 

Best of luck to you, Rob! 

Sophia Gerde has been working in CA at 

Verizon’s engineering dept. This past Jan, Julia 

Gooding visited Sophia in LA while on staff for 

a Buddhist retreat at the His Lai Temple. Anna 

Spinelli also visited LA for Sophia’s bday. The 3 

went to Santa Barbara for the day to celebrate! 

Sophia will be heading to the Boston/NYC area 

this May to catch up with some Colgate friends. 

In other West Coast news, Doug Collins is living 

in San Diego. He recently returned from a trip 

to the Sierra Nevadas, where he took measurements 

to see if air pollution is affecting rainfall 

and water resources in CA. Doug will be getting 

involved with the SD Colgate Alumni Club and 

is hoping to catch up with more Colgate alumni 

this summer! Katie Castino, Mary Beth King, 

and Kara Culgin are the co-presidents of the WA 

State Colgate Alumni Club. They are planning 

some volunteer events, trivia nights, Seattle 

SPW, and much more! 

Dan Glaser sent an update: “I caught up with 

Jesse Winchester when he visited NYC during 

the NHL’s break for the Winter Olympics. He is 

doing well, and his team, the Ottawa Senators, 

qualified for the playoffs as the Eastern Conf’s 

#5 seed. Later in Feb, I saw many of our classmates 

at Olympics and bday parties, including 

Ian Elliott, Andrew Kreidman, EJ Atamian, Osato 

Ukponmwan, Kevin Tarrant, Dan Belke, and 

Matt Lalli. Just before Easter, I also had a chance 

to see Jesse Brooks, Mike Nanna, and Alex 

Whitaker on the Lower East Side. Mike and Alex 

are currently at SUNY Stony Brook and Buffalo 

med schools, respectively. While the programs 

are challenging, both are definitely on their way 

to becoming successful doctors!” Thanks for 

the update, Dan. It was good to run into you in 

Chicago! 

Kimmy Cunningham has been working for a 

company called Directorship since Sept 2008 

and will be starting an MBA at CU Boulder’s 

Leeds School of Business this fall. Katie Zarrella 

is living in NYC and working as a fashion and 

art journalist. She is a contributing editor at 

the Dossier Journal and a contributing writer at 

Interview mag and i-D Magazine. She covered 

fashion week in Paris and is very excited about 

her piece titled “The Hemingway Nights,” 

which appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of 

i-D Magazine. Lee Waldman is also living and 

working in NYC at the NYSE. Erik Burke recently 

accepted a job working for MA General Hospital 

as the sr research coordinator for the orthopedic 

trauma unit. He starts work in May and will 

be living with some other ex-Colgate football 

players. Erik has also been busy with his band, 

The Whirlybirds, and applying to dental school. 

Sarah Beal has been living in Burlington, VT, 

where she is working as an athletic dir. She is 

joined in Burlington by some other Colgate 

alums, including Lindsay Pittard ’09, who is in 

her 2nd season as the asst coach of the UVM 

women’s lax team. Sarah has plans to meet up 

with Jane Sheehan, Cait Jones, Tamara Stojkov, 

Nikki Newhouse, and many others later in the 

spring. Matthew Fortin is currently feeding 

walruses at the NY Aquarium and is aspiring to 

be a vet. Jill Blinderman recently accepted a new 

job at Federated Media after leaving her position 

at Forbes. 

Joe Bliss played the role of Fyedka in a May 

8–16 production of Fiddler on the Roof with the 

Village Light Opera Group of NYC. 

As for me, I am still enjoying the perks of 

living with my parents (“roommates”) and I 

continue to love my job as HS history teacher 

in Grayslake, IL, outside of Chicago. I am really 

looking forward to some upcoming travel plans 

this spring and summer. I’ll be in NYC at the end 

of April celebrating the bdays of Ari Hershey, 

Adam Sauerteig, and Bill Santare. In June, I am 

going to China for 2 weeks with 3 other teachers 

and 22 students for a summer school/study 

abroad opportunity. And finally, in late July I will 

be heading out west to Seattle and then SF to 

visit Ali Whitehurst. Again, please keep me up to 

date on where you are, what you are doing, and 

who you are running into. E-mail me or join the 

Colgate Class of 2008 Facebook group and send 

me messages! 

Sarah: sarah.greenswag@gmail.com 

2009 

Samantha Gillis 

3 Juniper Lane 

Falmouth, ME 04105 

Hi, Class of 2009! I hope everyone is enjoying 

the summer! There has been a lot of gatherings 

of Colgate alums. Friends threw Dan Lieberman 

a going-away party before he left for the 

Peace Corps in Belize. Friends in attendance at 

Johnny Utah’s in NYC included Sam Miller, Joe 

Rusckowski, Tommy Cramer, Dan Hubbard, Kyle 

Cooper, Jeremy Levine, Adam Dudek, Ginger 

Northrop, Sarah Hilzinger, Claire McConnaughey, 

TJ Opladen ’07, Cliff Orsher ’07, Dara-Ann Bauman, 

Jess Hill, Julia Sobel, Nicole Varallo, Kate 

Lamb, Liz Freedman, Kate Hirschhorn, and Emily 

Aronowitz. In addition, Emily organized the NYC 

Colgate pub crawl on St Patrick’s Day, where 

there were over 200 Colgate alums attending, 

many of which were from the Class of ’09. 

David Gershel and Jackson Fager ’06 were 

joined by Bill Kindler ’08, Evan Xenopoulos ’08, 

Dave Greene ’08, Chris Hines ’08, Conor Nangle 

’06, and Taylor Rogers ’06 for French Quarter 

Fest in New Orleans. Jackson, Conor, and Taylor 

headlined Friday night at the Cat’s Meow. Jake 

Nardi and Dave Correa were in Breckenridge, CO, 

for the winter as ski instructors. 

On Feb 13 on Ocean Beach in SF, Stanley 

Konoval, who is pursuing his MA in philosophy 

at SF State U, proposed to Vanessa Persico, who 

is pursuing her JD at UC Hastings C of the Law. 

Many of our classmates are heading back to 

school after taking a year off. Maddie Watrobski 

is researching in a neurodegenerative research 

lab at the U of Rochester Med Ctr and will begin 

her master’s at the Simon School of Business at 

the U of R this coming winter. Also, Mike Roos 

will be going to Columbia U’s School of Internatl 

and Public Affairs Master of Public Admin in 

Environmental Sci and Policy Program. Kelly 

McKay got her MA in performance studies from 

the Tisch School of the Arts and will begin a PhD 

program in theater historiography at the U of 

MN this fall. 

Heading farther west, Jordan Scott will be 

going to CA Institute of the Arts this fall, where 

he will be pursuing his MFA in directing at their 

School of Video/Film. Also, Lisa Marchi writes 

that she will be attending Clemson’s master of 

architecture program. But before she heads to 

school, she and Antonio Perez, 2 former Colgate 

athletes, will be hiking the northern portion of 

the Appalachian Trail. 

In NYC, Meredith O’Leary is the studio manager 

at MajorTom, a post-production editorial 

company, and has continued her study of music 

with Juilliard voice prof Robert White. This 

summer, she will be heading to Luxembourg for 

a few weeks, where she was accepted into the Vianden 

Music Fest. Bryan Splittorf is also in NYC, 

where he started his new job at a staffing firm, 

Forrest Solutions. In the DC area, Ted Marshall 

began a new job with ABBTECH Staffing Services. 

As for fellow 2009 grads who are abroad, 

Alexander Cougar Lourenco writes that he and 

Laura Kavanaugh ’08 are currently living in 

sunny Nazare, Portugal, where they recently 

had a Colgate mini-reunion with Connor Tucker 

’10, Andrew Burten ’08, Ryan Dunbar ’08, and 

Melanie Goldberg, who all came to visit and celebrate 

Laura’s bday! Richie Rosabella is playing 

football overseas in Denmark and David Morgan 

is playing football in Italy. Jennifer Geffner and 

Theresa Kevorkian are both studying in Oxford. 

They recently went into London and had lunch 

with Prof Alan Cooper. 

Please keep sending updates! 

Sam: 207-807-4116; shgillis@gmail.com 

2010 

Kim Siembieda 

734 Arlington Rd. 

Narberth, PA 19072 

We welcome Kim Siembieda as the new 2010 

class editor. Please send her your news so that 

she can keep your class updated on everyone’s 

post-graduation endeavors and get-togethers! 

Kim: 610-952-0491; ksplash19@aol.com 

Marriages & Unions: 

(2010 unless otherwise noted) 

Laura Kurlander ’84 and Jeffrey Nagel, March 21 

Joan M. Williams ’84 and Willie James Jarrell, 

Sept. 6, 2009 

Abigail Smith ’89 and W. Philip Wentworth, June 

6, 2009 

Jennifer Ochsner ’93 and Christopher Sullivan, 

Feb. 22, 2009 

Fred Klein ’96 and Nicole Oestreich (UNH ’96), 

Dec. 5, 2009 

Kristina N. Weston ’97 and Michael E. Amilov, 

Nov. 15, 2009 

Stephen Ward ’98 and Sarah Brooks, March 12, 

2009 

Ben Forssell ’00 and Laura Smith, July 2008 

Christine Quirolo ’00 and Jonathan O’Keefe, 

March 20 

Lisa Mangiamele ’01 and Brian Eastwood, Oct. 

4, 2009 

Jane Passberger ’01 and Christopher Anderson, 

March 4 

Heather Lambert ’03 and Jeremy Kidde, Aug. 8, 

2009 

Lindsey Olsson ’03 and Aaron Shamshoian, July 

2009

Brooke Taylor ’03 and William A. Fossey, May 

23, 2009 

Andrew Wellner ’03 and Amber Fontaine, Feb. 20 

Katherine Roache ’04 and John Boxberger, Nov. 

6, 2009 

Jonathan Simmons ’04 and Margot Lowenstein, 

March 6 

Craig Cerone Jr ’06 and Emily Colahan ’06, Jan. 

30, 2009 

Ted Rossman ’06 and Chelsea Swank ’06, March 

20 

Erin Silver ’06 and Joseph Piccola, Sept. 13, 2009 

Births & Adoptions: 

(2010 unless otherwise noted) 

To Joseph T. Murphy ’81 and Sharon Gibson: 

Haylee, June 28, 2009 

To Craig T. Shouldice ’88 and Carla: Owen Lewis, 

Jan. 29, joining Téa 

To Todd Squilanti ’90 and Maria: Mark, Aug. 18, 

2009, joining Julianna and Karina 

To Christopher and Jennifer Ochsner ’93 Sullivan: 

Matthew, Nov. 30, 2009 

To Marshall Reid ’93 and Margo: Leo, Dec. 30, 

2009, joining a sister 

To Denniston Reid ’94 and Charlene: Kennedy 

Marie, April 27, 2009 

To Kathleen Bennett ’95 and Philip Zaccheo: 

Evan Michael, Dec. 1, 2009 

To Brandon Himoff ’95 and Caressa: Tessa Claire, 

Nov. 12, 2009, joining Callie 

To Robert Knight ’95 and Amanda: Thomas Jack, 

Feb. 14, 2010, joining Alex 

To Andrew Prescott ’95 and Catherine: Celia 

Dove, Feb. 21, joining Connor and Austen 

To Doug and Caryn Sokolow ’95 Putchat: Marlye 

Joy, Oct. 9, 2009 

To Marc and Kristen Carver ’96 Giordano: Max 

Stratton, Feb. 18, joining Ryan 

To Tim Bollin ’97 and Laurie: Avery Marie, Nov. 

19, 2009, joining Shay, Timmy, and Preston 

To Christopher ’97 and Evan Mingle ’97 Brooke: 

Finnegan, Jan. 20, joining Willie 

To Adam and Victoria Gabriel ’97 Foster: Joseph 

Gabriel, July 21, 2009, joining George and Samuel 

To Derek and Amy Grennan ’97 Werner: Ava and 

Brooke, Feb. 9 

To Matt and Dara Lucks ’97 Bellace: Roy Justin, 

Nov. 13, 2009 

To Whitney Sayia ’97 and John Reid: Ella Suzanne, 

Dec. 7, 2009 

To Matthew and Cindy Weener ’97 Remis: William 

Michael, March 12, joining Abby and Emma 

To Mark Hayes ’98 and Alicia: Zoe Seiger, Dec. 15, 

2009 

To Justin LaCorte ’98 and Susanne: Brayden, Jan. 

23, joining Carter 

To Michael Remey ’98 and Aimee: McKenna 

Winifred, Feb. 18, joining Greyson 

To Josh and Jill Axelrod ’99 Linder: Anna Juliet, 

Feb. 28 

To Eric and Jessica Chaset ’99 McGranahan: Ellie 

Grace, March 8, joining Angus 

To Alexander ’99 and Victoria Armellino ’00 

Fine: Ethan J., May 30, 2009 

To Matt and Deborah Goldstein ’99 Baum: Max 

Charles, Jan. 15, joining Beatrice 

To David Schwarz ’99 and Kristen: Hayden, Nov. 

12, 2009 

To Chris and Lony-Ann Spelman ’99 Sheehan: 

Tucker, Oct. 20, 2009 

To Drew and Kate Berry ’00 Tompkins: Jacob 

Simon, Feb. 2 

To Gavin and Jennifer Craft ’00 Hogan: Lindsey, 

Aug. 14, 2009, joining Ashley 

To David ’00 and Sarah Hilmer ’99 DuBois: David, 

Oct. 31, 2009 

To Francis and Melinda Hains ’00 Willard: Carys 

Rhea, Oct. 12, 2009 

To Jason and Erika Huther ’00 Clark: Tabor 

Joseph, Dec. 23, 2009 

To Scott and Magnolia Levy ’00 Grossman: Lilac 

Emmeline, Feb. 18 

To James and Lisa McClelland ’00 Hoppes: Adah 

Elizabeth Morgan, Aug. 13, 2009 

To Andrew ’00 and Kristin Minnick ’01 Munson: 

Katherine, Nov. 18, 2009 

To Freddy and Kristin Bailey ’01 Ferbert: Frederick 

Winzer, Oct. 29, 2009 

To Joseph ’01 and Amy Hargrave ’03 Leo: Jonathan 

David, Sept. 30, 2009, joining Joshua 

To Matt and Callie Raspuzzi ’01 Stewart: Sylvia 

Maryann, Jan. 27 

To William Robinson ’01 and Lindsay: Luke, July 2, 

2009, joining Liam 

To Gary Braham ’02 and Mellissa: Cassidy Mae, 

Jan. 6 

To Darren Gertler ’02 and Yvette Pettersen- 

White: Dean Robert, Jan. 6 

To Joshua and Devin Hallett ’02 Snyder: Zachary 

Aaron, Oct. 8, 2009 

To Michael and Maeve Mullally ’02 Bergan: 

Ciaran Michael, Feb. 12, joining Declan 

To Ben ’03 and Allison Cochran ’03 Shirley: 

Andrew Christian, March 24 

In Memoriam 

The Scene runs deceased notices on all alumni, 

current and former faculty members, honorary 

degree recipients, and staff members and others 

whom the editors determine would be well 

known to alumni. 

H. Guyford Stever ’38, April 9, 2010. Phi Beta 

Kappa. PhD, California Institute of Technology, 

1941. He contributed to seminal research on radar 

during World War II and developed international 

cooperation among scientists in radar and 

guided missile work. After the war, he became 

a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, then took leave to be chief scientist 

at the Air Force. Helping establish NASA in the 

late 1950s, he was a key player in the nation’s 

space program. In 1965 he became president of 

the Carnegie Institute of Technology and 2 years 

later led its merger with the Mellon Institute of 

Research, becoming Carnegie Mellon University. 

He led the school until 1972, when he became 

director of the National Science Foundation and 

science adviser to President Richard Nixon. Nixon 

abolished the White House Office of Science and 

Technology, but when Congress reestablished 

it in 1976, President Gerald Ford asked Stever to 

lead it. After the space shuttle Challenger exploded 

in 1986, Stever was appointed by the National 

Research Council to lead a panel of experts who 

served as independent watchdogs over the rebuilding 

of the shuttle’s booster rockets. For this 

and other successful endeavors, he was awarded 

the National Medal of Science in 1991 and the 

National Science Board’s Vannevar Bush Award 

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in 1997. His wife of 58 years, Louise, predeceased 

him. He is survived by 2 sons including H. Guyford 

Jr ’70, 2 daughters, 7 grandchildren, his sister, 

and his niece Vicki McShirley ’75. 

Richard M. Davis ’39, March 13, 2010. Phi Beta 

Kappa, Austen Colgate Scholar. US Army Air 

Force, 1942-1946. Cornell University: MA, 1941; 

PhD, 1949. A retired economics professor, he 

had taught at Lehigh University as well as the 

University of Oregon, where he was professor 

emeritus. 

John T.C. Low ’39, March 15, 2010. Theta Chi, 

swimming; class editor ’94-’99. JD, Columbia University, 

1942. He practiced law in several locations 

before becoming head of the Trust Department 

of Deposit Guaranty Bank in 1972. Later, he established 

the law firm of Low and Furby. He was 

predeceased by his wife, Jeanie. He is survived 

by a daughter, brother-in-law, and several nieces 

and nephews. 

David C. Thurber ’39, February 20, 2010. Phi Tau, 

track, concert orchestra. US Army Medical Corps. 

MD, University of Rochester. He practiced internal 

medicine for 25 years in Rochester, N.Y. He 

then served as the in-house physician for Nazareth 

College before working at the Kodak medical 

department for 15 years prior to retirement. He 

was predeceased by his father, Arthur 1909, his 

brother, Stephen ’41, his sister, and uncles John 

1906 and Clarence 1912. He is survived by his 

wife, Ellen, a daughter, a son, 2 nieces, a nephew, 

2 stepdaughters, and many grandchildren. 


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Robert M. Finlay ’40, April 7, 2010. Delta Phi 

Alpha, ski club. US Navy, WWII. He was a production 

manager in the advertising field in Boston 

and New York. Prior to retirement, he was the 

VP of Collier Graphics. He was predeceased by 

his wife, Trudy, and his sister. He is survived by 

2 sons including James ’68, 2 daughters-in-law, 

2 daughters, 10 grandchildren, and 3 greatgrandchildren. 

Richard W. Rogers ’40, February 14, 2010. Kappa 

Delta Rho. US Public Health Service, WWII. DDS, 

Case Western Reserve University. He practiced 

dentistry in Warren, Ohio, for more than 50 years. 

He is survived by his wife, Betty, 2 daughters, 4 

sons, a sister, 15 grandchildren, and 3 greatgrandchildren. 

Douglas Brown Jr. ’41, February 7, 2010. Alpha 

Tau Omega, Maroon, Salmagundi, Konosioni, 

Maroon Key, student government, wrestling, 

cross country. US Army, WWII. MBA, New York 

University, 1953. He was the manager of the Park 

Avenue Office Branch of the Bank of New York 

for 35 years. He is survived by his wife, Jean, 3 

sons, 7 grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. 

Armando Caseria ’41, February 7, 2010. Phi Delta 

Theta, Konosioni, football, boxing, wrestling. US 

Air Force. He retired from the Air Force after 26 

years and became a flight instructor at Riverside 

Airport as well as an instructor of aviation at 

Riverside City College (CA). He is survived by a 

daughter, 2 sons, 4 grandchildren, and 4 greatgrandchildren. 

Clarence A. Heuer ’41, April 10, 2010. Sigma Chi, 

basketball, football. Military Police Corps, WWII. 

After the war, he began a career in the surety 

bond business that would lead to his position 

as a principal in the Puritan Agency. He was 

predeceased by his wife, Kathryn. He is survived 

by a daughter, 3 sons, 14 grandchildren, 4 greatgrandchildren, 

a nephew, and 2 nieces. 

Robert W. Jenkins ’41, March 1, 2010. Phi Gamma 

Delta, baseball, swimming, chorus. He was a 

retired commercial pilot. He was predeceased by 

his wife, Nancy. He is survived by a son, a daughter, 

and his grandchildren including Irene ’03. 

Andrew J. Ryan ’41, March 12, 2010. Phi Kappa Psi, 

Konosioni, Salmagundi, cheerleading, student 

government, soccer. He owned 2 auto dealerships 

in Rome, N.Y., before founding A.J. Ryan 

Real Estate, which he operated with his daughter 

and son-in-law. He was predeceased by his wife, 

Elizabeth. He is survived by 5 children, 17 grandchildren, 

and 26 great-grandchildren. 

Frank E. Sayer Jr. ’41, February 14, 2010. Salmagundi, 

Maroon, Konosioni, International Relations 

Council, cheerleader, student government. US 

Army, WWII. He owned and operated E. Sayer 

and Son, a grocery and real estate business in 

Oswego, N.Y. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, a 

daughter, 3 sons including Steven ’74, 8 grandchildren, 

and 3 great-grandchildren. 

Wefel W. Warner ’41, March 19, 2010. Sigma Chi, 

basketball; Alumni Corporation Board, 1986-1989. 

US Army; French Croix de Guerre, 3 battle stars, 

and 4 overseas service bars. He was chairman 

emeritus of Merchants Bonding Company, where 

he was employed for more than 60 years. He 

co-founded Nations Bonding Company in Austin, 

Texas, and was past president of Northern Casualty 

Company. He was predeceased by his first 

wife, a son, and a great-grandson. He is survived 

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by his wife, Barbara, a daughter, a daughter-inlaw, 

6 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, and 

3 stepchildren. 

John H. Fowler ’42, May 19, 2009. Delta Kappa 

Epsilon. He was retired from his career in sales. 

He was predeceased by his brother, Lyndsay ’38. 

He is survived by his wife, Burnice, 2 sons, and a 

daughter. 

George E. Schott ’42, April 25, 2010. Commons 

Club, Washington, DC, Study Group, International 

Relations Council, Maroon Key, debate. JD, Cornell 

University, 1943. He began practicing law in New 

York City before moving to Elmira, N.Y., to work 

as a mortgage officer while continuing a limited 

practice of law. In 1966 he opened his own 

law firm and managed a branch of an abstract 

corporation. In 1970 he started his own abstract 

business, which he sold in 1988 but continued to 

work part-time there until 2002. His wife of 65 

years, Norrinne, predeceased him. He is survived 

by a son, 2 daughters, 6 grandchildren, 4 greatgrandchildren, 

his brother, his brother-in-law, 

and several nieces and nephews. 

Adrian F. Persico ’44, February 8, 2010. Lambda 

Chi Alpha, basketball. US Army, Korean War. 

MD, New York Medical College, 1947. He was a 

general practice physician in Freeport, N.Y., until 

his retirement in 1993. At times, he was president 

of Lydia Hall Hospital and was a member of its 

utilization committee. He was predeceased by 

his wife, Catherine. He is survived by 2 sons including 

Alan ’76, a daughter, and 2 grandchildren. 

Norman J. McGowan ’46, September 4, 2008. Theta 

Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, Austen Colgate Scholar. 

US Army, 1942-1945. He was in sales for many 

years before becoming president of State-Wide 

Counseling Service in Rochester, N.Y. He was 

predeceased by his wife, Margaret. He is survived 

by 2 sons, 2 daughters, his brother, his cousin, 11 

grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, and several 

nieces and nephews. 

Frederic S. Knight ’47, March 22, 2010. Colgate 

Thirteen, chorus, soccer. US Marine Corps. A colonel 

in the Marine Corps, he served in WWII, the 

Korean War, and Vietnam. For his service in Vietnam, 

he was awarded the Legion of Merit with a 

V for valor. He retired in 1972 and then worked in 

sales for several years. He is survived by his wife, 

Barbara, their children, and a grandson. 

Gunnar E. Sydow ’48, April 14, 2010. Lambda Chi 

Alpha, Delta Phi Alpha. US Air Force. DDS, Columbia 

University, 1952. He was a retired dental 

consultant. He is survived by his wife. 

Roger S. Ingalls ’49, October 27, 2009. Phi 

Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, Austen Colgate 

Scholar, George Cobb Award. US Army, 1943-1946. 

He was retired from his position as president of 

the insurance underwriters Chubb & Son Inc. He 

is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and 2 sons. 

Homer B. Lydecker ’49, February 20, 2010. Sigma 

Chi, International Relations Council. US Navy. He 

was president of his own real estate and insurance 

company in Nyack, N.Y. He was predeceased 

by his first wife, Lilly, and his cousin Doane ’57. 

Surviving are his wife, Wanda, 3 sons, a daughter, 

9 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, stepchildren, 

and step-grandchildren. 

Donald M. Shaw ’49, February 20, 2010. Kappa 

Delta Rho, Outing Club. US Army, 1944-1946. He 

was a manager at Uniform Maintenance Co., 

becoming a vice president, and later owned the 

Literary Lion Book Store. He is survived by his 

wife, Barbara, 2 daughters, 2 sons, and 5 grandchildren. 

Roy T. Anderson Jr. ’50, January 17, 2010. Sigma 

Chi, Maroon, International Relations Council, 

Outing Club. US Army, WWII. His career began at 

Patterson Publishing Co., where he continuously 

advanced until retiring in 1989. He is survived by 

his wife, Nancy, 2 sons, 3 daughters, 10 grandchildren, 

and a great-grandchild. 

Douglas R. Hamilton ’50, March 8, 2010. Phi 

Kappa Tau, Outing Club, Colgate Thirteen, chorus, 

marching band. He was president and owner of a 

highway equipment company before leaving to 

start a sign business, which he sold in 1994. His 

wife, Marjorie, predeceased him. He is survived 

by 2 daughters, a stepson, and a cousin. 

Raymond F. Jahn Jr. ’50, September 9, 2007. Theta 

Chi, Outing Club. US Navy, WWII; ATO ribbon, 

Victory Medal. He had a sales and marketing 

career with the Union Carbide Corporation. He is 

survived by 2 sons and a daughter. 

Charles N. Ludlow ’50, February 28, 2010. Phi 

Kappa Psi, psychology club. US Navy, WWII. His 

35-year business career began in New York City, 

in international sales, with Allied Chemical, Occidental 

Petroleum, and Ruco Polymers. He was 

predeceased by a son. He is survived by his wife, 

Joan, 2 sons, 5 grandchildren, and his sister. 

Donald R. Scott ’50, December 16, 2009. Lambda 

Chi Alpha, soccer. US Navy. He worked with the 

Nestlé Company in market research and later 

changed his career path to purchasing and 

materials management consulting with several 

New England companies. He is survived by his 

wife, Della, 2 daughters, a son, a granddaughter, 

and 3 grandsons. 

John H. Goewey ’51, April 17, 2010. Delta Upsilon, 

ROTC, baseball. US Air Force, Korean Conflict. 

LLB, Harvard Law School, 1956. He began his 

law career as a trial attorney for Gaston, Snow, 

Motley & Holt. In 1973, he established his own 

law office, where he practiced until retirement. 

He also taught at Suffolk Law School and Clark 

University. He is survived by his wife, Gloria, 5 

children, and 6 grandchildren. 

David L. Mueller ’51, March 26, 2010. Theta Chi, 

swimming. BDiv, Southern Baptist Theological 

Seminary; PhD, Duke University. He was a professor 

emeritus at Southern Baptist Theological 

Seminary in Louisville, Ky. After his retirement in 

1995, he was visiting professor at the Presbyterian 

Seminary in Austin, Texas. He is survived 

by his wife, Marilyn, a son, a daughter, and 3 


John G. Updike ’51, January 23, 2010. Lambda Chi 

Alpha, hockey. MBA, Columbia, 1957. He worked 

briefly with IBM before moving to Germany and 

taking a leading role in the candy company Fr 

Kaiser GmbH, remaining there until his retirement 

in 2002. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, 2 

daughters, a son, his brother Edwin II ’47, and 6 


J. Clayton Noia ’53, MA’57, November 17, 2009. 

Phi Kappa Psi, Maroon, Masque and Triangle. 

US Marine Corps. He taught English and served 

as headmaster at several college preparatory 

schools, and was a published novelist. He is 

predeceased by his brother, Richard C. ’50. 

Stephen S. Humes ’54, February 20, 2010. Sigma 

Nu, ROTC, golf. US Air Force. He was a commodities 

trader for 35 years at Merrill Lynch until 

retirement. He is survived by his wife, Diane, 2 

daughters, 6 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren. 

Peter D. Anderson ’56, February 27, 2010. Phi 

Kappa Psi, WRCU, ROTC. US Air Force. Throughout 

his career, he worked in sales, insurance, and 

investment banking. He is survived by his wife, 

Barbara, 4 children, 2 stepchildren, 9 grandchildren, 

and his brother, David ’59. 

Gerald R. Holland ’56, March 2, 2010. Alpha Tau 

Omega, Alumni Memorial Scholar, student 

government, sailing club, chorus. US Army. MBA, 

Shippensburg University, 1957. He graduated 

from Officer’s Candidate School in 1958, rose to 

the rank of colonel, and retired in 1985. He then 

joined Camber Corporation as general manager 

and VP of the Washington office, retiring in 1996. 

He is survived by his wife, Avonelle, 2 sons, a 

daughter, 7 grandchildren, a great-grandchild, 

2 sisters, 2 brothers, and several nieces and 

nephews. 

Ralph M. Antone ’58, February 12, 2010. Phi Kappa 

Psi, Konosioni, Newman Club, baseball, football, 

lacrosse. He was semi-retired and working in the 

petroleum industry. He is survived by his wife, 

Donna, 3 sons, a daughter, 8 grandchildren, a 

brother, and many other relatives. 

Lawrence M. Griffin ’58, March 3, 2010. Phi Kappa 

Tau, Mu Pi Delta, chorus, marching and pep band, 

track, student government. MS, SUNY Cortland. 

A lifelong educator, he retired as an elementary 

school principal in Cassadaga Valley Central 

School District (N.Y.) in 1992. He is survived by his 

wife, Joan, a daughter, 2 sons, 4 grandchildren, 2 

brothers, and 2 sisters. 

Peter H. Ill ’58, August 6, 2009. Alpha Tau 

Omega, Outing Club, swimming, sailing club, 

marching band. US Army. He worked for more 

than 30 years with Hoffman La Roche as a hospital 

sales representative before retiring in 1995. 

He is survived by his wife, Maryann, 2 daughters, 

a son, 3 siblings, and 17 grandchildren. 

Thomas W.V. Biggs ’59, November 14, 2009. Sigma 

Nu, Maroon, chorus. US Army. After graduation, 

he worked with the Borden Company in New 

York as a sales marketing associate. He later 

moved to Florida and joined Palm Beach Newspapers 

Inc. as a pressman. 

Michael L. Freedman ’59, February 16, 2010. 

Maroon, Konosioni, Hillel, student government. 

MD, Tufts University, 1963. His medical career 

included serving as a surgeon for the National 

Institutes of Health as well as a physician at New 

York University Medical Center and assistant 

professor at the medical school. He is survived by 

his wife, Cora, a son, a daughter, 3 granddaughters, 

and a sister. 

James M. Creedon ’60, March 2, 2010. Maroon, 

Newman Club, physics club. US Army, Cuban 

Missile Crisis. MBA, New York University. In his 

career, he held various positions including investment 

analyst, trader, and portfolio manager 

with such institutions as AXA Equitable and 

Citicorp. He was predeceased by his brother John. 

He is survived by 3 brothers as well as 4 nieces 

and nephews.

Joel B. Day ’60, March 31, 2010. US Army. A TV 

and radio broadcaster, he worked for numerous 

stations before founding Key Chain Inc. in the 

Florida Keys. After selling Key Chain, he served 

as VP and general manager for both Paxson 

Communications and Clear Channel. In his latter 

years, he turned from radio broadcasting to radio 

brokerage, and later formed Day Broadcasting. 

He was predeceased by his father, Harold ’28, 

and uncle Charles ’24. He is survived by his wife, 

Lee, 2 daughters including Neva ’91, a son, and a 

grandson. 

William C. Shoen ’61, March 20, 2010. Baseball, 

football, marching band. US Army, Vietnam War. 

Following his military service, he was a salesman. 

He is survived by 2 daughters, 3 grandchildren, 

a sister, and 4 nephews. 

William F. Gallagher Jr. ’63, February 27, 2010. 

Delta Upsilon, Newman Club, basketball, 

football. JD, Syracuse University, 1966. He was a 

partner of the law firm Basloe, Basloe and Gallagher 

in Herkimer, N.Y., for many years. He was 

later employed as the regional attorney for the 

New York State Department of Environmental 

Conservation until his retirement in 2007. He is 

survived by 3 sons, a daughter, 5 grandchildren, 

a brother, 3 sisters, and several nieces, nephews, 

and cousins. 

Everett G. Foster ’64, February 20, 2010. Phi 

Gamma Delta, Outing Club, swimming. Navy 

Reserve, 1964-1965. MBA, Boston University, 1967. 

He had a career in stock brokerage and was managing 

director of RBC Wealth Management at 

the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, 

Judith, his daughter, Katherine ’93, and a son. 

William Luther King II ’64, March 26, 2010. Mu 

Pi Delta, Austen Colgate Scholar, WRCU, Maroon, 

chorus. University of Hawaii: MA, 1968; MBA, 

1976; JD, 1976. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in 

Thailand 1964–1966. He then became an instructor 

in the Law and Trade Program, Foundation 

for American Chinese Cultural Exchanges in 

Shanghai. In 1979, he began working for a civil 

rights law firm. After moving to another firm 

and specializing in intellectual property law, 

he retired in 2003. He is survived by his sister, 

2 brothers, a niece, a nephew, an aunt, and a 

cousin. 

Mark E. Leonardi ’64, March 4, 2010. Phi Society, 

baseball. MBA, Boston University. His banking 

career was predominantly with Nashua Trust 

Company in New Hampshire, where he served 

as senior loan officer and secretary of the board 

of directors. He is survived by his wife, Lenore, 

a daughter, a son, 4 granddaughters, and his 

brother and sister. 

William L. Hunsberger ’68, April 13, 2007. Delta 

Kappa Epsilon, Maroon. He worked for many 

years at Eastman Kodak, beginning in its physics 

research division in Rochester, N.Y. He later started 

WLH Communications and Presentations. He 

is survived by his wife, Gail, a son, a daughter, his 

father, a brother, and a grandson. 

Walter A. Jandura MA’69, December 11, 2009. 

BA, Rutgers University. A writer and editor, he 

worked at Commerce Clearing House and Simpson’s 

in Toronto, Canada. 

Ann Parrott Cochran ’71, MA’79, March 21, 2010. 

Debate club. She was a psychology professor 

at SUNY Morrisville for 28 years, retiring in 

December 2000. She was predeceased by her son 

and her brother. She is survived by her husband, 

John, 2 children, a brother and sister-in-law, her 

brother-in-law, 5 grandchildren, and several 

nieces and nephews. 

David R. Sheldon ’74, March 17, 2010. Phi Kappa 

Tau. BS, Roger Williams University, 1987; MS, 

University of Rhode Island, 1990. He was a civil 

engineer for DEM, DOT, and DOA for 30 years 

before retiring. His last position was with 

Thielsch Engineering in Cranston, R.I. He was 

also an adjunct professor at CCRI and Roger Williams 

University, as well as a professional land 

surveyor. He is survived by his wife, Debbie, a 

daughter, 2 sons, and a cousin. 

John A. Ciraldo ’78, April 18, 2010. Phi Kappa 

Psi, rugby. JD, Fordham University, 1981. He was 

president, shareholder, and director of Perkins 

Thompson in Portland, Maine. His legal expertise 

was in trials and appeals in the federal court 

and business litigation. He also was an adjunct 

law professor at the University of Maine. He is 

survived by his wife, Julianne, 3 children, his 

parents, and his brother. 

Geoffrey H. Davis ’78, MAT’81, April 1, 2010. Phi 

Delta Theta. PhD, University at Albany, 1993. Having 

dedicated his professional life to education, 

his career began at Waterville Central School 

(N.Y.) as a science teacher. In 1982, he joined the 

Little Falls City School District as assistant principal 

and went on to become elementary and 

then high school principal. From 1988–1996 he 

was superintendent of the district and was then 

appointed district superintendent of Hamilton- 

Fulton-Montgomery BOCES, where he last served. 

He is survived by his wife, Cindy, 3 children, a 

brother, a sister, and 4 nieces and nephews. 

Donald G. Hester MA’79, February 18, 2010. He 

was an adjunct professor and administrator in 

graduate admissions at Marist College. He is 

survived by 3 sons. 

Alexander M. Browning ’81, June 20, 2008. MA, 

University of Kansas, 1985. A teacher, he was 

most recently an instructor at Haskell Indian 

Nations University. 

Cheryl D. Gardiner Callahan MA’82, October 21, 

2008. She lived in Savannah, Ga., working as a 

science teacher and head of the science department 

at the Savannah Country Day School. She is 

survived by a daughter, 2 sons, and a granddaughter. 

Barbara A. Whitney MA’85, February 24, 2010. BA, 

College of St. Rose, 1960. She was a French and 

English teacher for Herkimer High School (N.Y.) 

until her retirement in 2002. She was predeceased 

by her husband, George. She is survived 

by 2 sons, a daughter and son-in-law, 3 grandchildren, 

and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. 

Lisa I. Ryland ’88, April 14, 2010. Alpha Chi Omega. 

She was predeceased by her father, J. Conrad 

MacQuarrie ’56. She is survived by her husband, 

John ’86, a son, and a daughter. 

In tribute 

John D. Hubbard ’72, longtime 

Colgate photographer, writer, editor 

The Scene lost one of its own when John D. Hubbard ’72 passed away on May 6. Despite 

the fact that he had retired from Colgate in 2005, not a week goes by in the office that 

we don’t come across one of his stories or photospreads in a back issue, or that a graduate 

being interviewed doesn’t ask about him. After all, John spent more than 25 years chronicling 

the life of the campus (and the Hamilton community) in photos and words, from the 

Scene and annual engagement calendar to admission, fundraising, academic, and athletics 

publications. 

No matter the occasion, from the momentous to the mundane, John was seemingly 

always there, a familiar presence in his khaki vest, camera at the ready. But the peripatetic 

photographer could also park himself at his Mac and bang out a sparkling alumni profile in a 

single morning — all it needing? A simple proofreading polish. 

With all the people he knew, he was always the one folks walked up to at events, and who 

made the necessary introductions. 

His office was a drop-in destination for many — colleagues, students, and his own 

children. It had interesting scenery, too: amongst the family photos, heaps of books and 

documents, and boxes and boxes and boxes of slides and prints, a crinkly paper wasp nest, 

several fuzzy things (a mink pelt draped across his monitor, a dried-up bat), the skull of 

some rodent (woodchuck? beaver?). One never knew what he might bring in with him next. 

John came into the Office of Communications in 1979 as photographer/writer. Over the 

years, he received several promotions: in 1989 to assistant editor of the Scene; in 1994 to 

assistant director of communications and associate editor of the Scene, in 1996 to associate 

director of communciations and managing editor of the Scene, and in 2001 to director 

of advancement communications. 

Among his many awards and honors were a bronze medal in the Photographer of the Year 

competition, silver and bronze medals for two individual faculty portraits, silver awards 

for an admission prospectus and a campaign case statement, and two gold medals for 

documentary film production in 1985; and a bronze medal for periodical staff writing in the 

Scene in 1993, all from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In 1994, 

the Alumni Corporation awarded him a Maroon Citation. 

Following his retirement from Colgate in 2005, he was appointed director of public 

relations and development at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton and was later 

promoted to vice president for community services. He was well known to Madison County 

residents through his weekly newspaper column, “At the Hub.” 

As a student, John was an English major, made the Dean’s List, was an active member of 

Delta Kappa Epsilon, and worked as a freelance photographer as well as an athletic trainer. 

After graduating, he worked for 6 1/2 years as sports editor and chief photographer for 

the Bennington (Vt.) Banner, where he won several awards. He also taught photography and 

freelanced for the Boston Globe, Vermont Life, Associated Press, and UPI. 

John Hubbard, who died following a long battle with cancer, was born on June 20, 1949. 

He grew up in New Hartford, N.Y., and attended the Trinity-Pawling School. Among his 

survivors are his wife, Mary Jo, his children Sarah, Sam, and Emma, and his grandchildren. 

You can view a slideshow of some of John’s Colgate calendar photos at www.colgate 

alumni.org/scene. 

— Rebecca Costello 


79 

Guy Danella

salmagundi 

80 

Making Connections puzzle 

By carrying letters down from one set of blanks to the next, you can get the names of eight familiar Colgate 

student organizations. The paths show you which letters move down, but you’ll have to figure out other 

missing letters yourself. Colors are used for different letters in different sections of the puzzle. For 

example, a blue path may connect Rs in one section, while a separate blue path may connect Os elsewhere. 

Three letters have been placed to get you started. Answer key on pg. 69. 


13 Words (or Less) 

Puzzle by Puzzability 

Submit your creative, clever, or humorous caption of 13 words or less for this vintage Colgate 

photo to scene@colgate.edu or attn: Colgate Scene, 13 Oak Dr., Hamilton, NY 13346. The winner 

will receive a Colgate Scene T-shirt, and their caption will be announced next issue — along with 

the story behind what’s really going on there! Deadline: September 3, 2010. 

Slices 

Mick Castellanos ’83 won a Slices 

T-shirt for his correct entry for the 

Spring 2010 “two Bobs” photo ID 

contest. (Answer: Bob Marley and 

Bob Hope both performed during the 

1979–80 academic year.) 

Several folks shared fun anecdotes 

about those shows. 

“Bob Marley performed at Colgate on 

Halloween 1979. That awesome show, 

following the Russian Study Group in 

the Soviet Union, made 1979 the most 

memorable year of my time at ’gate!” 

— Carolyn Kemp ’82 

“My then-girlfriend and now-wife 

(Cindy Hart ’83) braided my hair into 

dreadlocks for the Bob Marley show! 

Ya, mon, a great night!” 

— Bill Montgomery ’81 

“I was there for the Hope show, but 

was too young to appreciate the 

import of Bob Marley’s presence at 

the time!” 

— Holly Nye ’82 

Read more reminiscences about the 

“two Bobs” in Letters (pg. 4). 

Rewind 

Rewind is our column for Colgate 

reminiscences. Send your submission 

of short prose, poetry, or a photograph 

with a description to scene@ 

colgate.edu.

Above: “And do I have fifty?” Auctioneer Sam Solovey 

’98 keeps the bidding going at the 13th Konosioni 

Charity Auction in the Palace Theater. Back cover: 

Flags placed alongside the paths on the Quad helped 

to mark Big Gay Weekend, which promotes awareness 

of the LGBTQ community on campus, in April. Both 

photos by Andrew Daddio 

News and views for the Colgate community

scene: 

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