June 18, 2018
Dear Classmates,
After months of no regular class notes because the SCENE did not publish a summer 2018 issue, it is good that my notes will be published in the fall issue. Because of the level of news and communications surrounding plans for our 50th reunion next May, I mailed out interim notes in February and April to those of you on the Alumni Office mailing list. I am asking the SCENE to include those notes in the fall issue and they are included in the notes below. With all the reunion planning activity, especially gathering bios for the Reunion book, I am getting lots more information from lots more people. I will continue to provide interim notes every 6-8 weeks until next May to keep everyone current.
The good news is that in the last 6 months there have been no deaths. Let’s keep it that way until out reunion This edition of the notes, particularly the May-June segment, has lots of news from the May reunion. I attended along with Art Clark, Bob Seaberg, and Greg Threatte, to develop ideas for our reunion next year. I can tell you that it was a fun, interesting, and informational experience. I also confess that, because I attended a 2-day pre-reunion event for Betas in the classes of 1965-71, the notes for May-June are more Beta-centric than usual.
I am deeply engaged in our 50th reunion as editor of the reunion yearbook. Colgate began this feature of the 50th reunion program with the class of 1965. These yearbooks are coffee table quality products you will be proud to have in your home and will be free to all. The personal biographies have been the most popular part of the past yearbooks. The more bios we have, the better our yearbook will be.
It you haven’t done so already, please post your biography soon. We will start “locking up” the book in June – now! We need to get all biographies as soon as possible, so we can put it all together over the Fall and distribute an excellent yearbook in December.
We already have over 100 bios/essays posted, about 25% of our living classmates. We want more, and there is no need to be shy or exhibit false modesty in declining to submit one. Everyone has a story to tell. You are the best person to tell your story. Your classmates would like to know what Colgate meant to you, how it may have transformed you, and what people and events have been important to you. At the class of ’68 reunion in last month, I met the wife of a prominent member of that class. She was very disappointed that the ’68 yearbook did not include her husband’s biography. I explained it was not Colgate’s fault, but rather her husband’s failure to provide his biography that caused the omission. Posting a biography is not a narcissistic act of self-congratulation. It is a gift to your classmates, friends, and family. For most of us, there will not be another chance like this to tell our own stories. By not sharing your story, you are depriving your classmates of a chance to renew the bonds of friendship that began in 1965.
To post your biography, go to www.colgate69.com to register, log in, and follow the instructions to update your information and create your biographical essay. Take time to post a story or a picture on your page. When that is done, browse a bit and learn about your classmates’ lives. You may see that a friend is deceased. Go back to your page post a remembrance of that friend.
Finally, after you post your biography and other contributions to the yearbook, keep sending your personal news to me at smilmoe@aol.com in the coming weeks so it can be published in the April edition of the class notes. Also, send current news and pictures to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/Colgate69/. By keeping up a good exchange of news on the three platforms we will meet at our 50th as old friends, and not as strangers.
All the best,
Jim Milmoe
Colgate Class of '69 Editor
PO Box 5622
Breckenridge, CO 80424
910-262-3512
Visit the class of 69 web page at www.colgate69.com to update your personal page, share your biography, and see what your classmates have posted.
Class of 1969 Notes – January-June 2018
January-February notes …
Reunion plans are developing… Ringmaster Art Clark presides over committees of dedicated classmates who are working hard to make the reunion a success. Gift committee Chair Bob Seaberg is loaded with ideas to make giving easier (planned gifts, minimum distributions from 401(k)s and IRAs, and 5-year pledges) and ambitious goals (69% participation, and a 10-figure total gift that would make our class one of the top 3 ever). John Higgins has agreed to bring his managerial and creative energies to help me produce the class reunion yearbook. The yearbook committee has focused on wrangling bios in January-March, and, as the bio total reaches our goal, we will focus more on articles, stories, and pictures. Dick Johnson has written remembrances for almost 50 deceased classmates, an emotionally draining task that took some serious investigative journalism in Colgate archives, on the internet, and interviews of next-of-kin. Gregg Threatte, Barnet Kellman, Allan Dodds Frank, Steve Waters, Pete Lewine, and Jack McGlynn are ready to do articles on topics ranging from the 1968 Ad Building sit-in, to Vietnam, to the arts and music of our times. Tom Orsi and Rick Marsi will compile and organize pictures for publication. Kellman had to miss a conference call in February to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. He was surprised to find Laurie Roberts among the mourners. It turned out that Laurie was a high school classmate of Barnet’s sister in law. I expect Laurie will submit a bio and attend reunion. Barnet has been an enthusiastic bio wrangler with many classmates responding to his request. One of them was Michael Lassell whose story includes his transformation from math major to actor at Colgate, friendships with Meryl Streep and Peewee Herman, and a literary career of some note.
Another early bio poster was Ron Burton, who went from leadership on the athletic field, to success in the business world, to serving Colgate as a trustee, his Montclair home town, New Jersey home state as Commissioner of the NJSEA (managing sports facilities, including Giant stadium), and Director of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Another early bio poster was Florida talk radio personality Bud Hedinger, who went from the Colgate Thirteen to a broadcasting career in Syracuse, followed by a stint in Nashville, and finally in Orlando.
All this talk about reunions is making me think I will go to the reunion this year as a warm-up/preview, and to see what the class of 1968 does for its 50th. Phil Goetz ’68 is organizing a pre-reunion gathering of Betas from 1965-70 for golf, museums, cocktails and dining in Cooperstown which I plan to attend. Also expected are 1969 classmates John Higgins, John Rice, Jep Possee, Greg Threatte, Dave Knauer, and Michael Brown. More Beta news came from Ron Graf ’67, who was on campus for his 50th last May and reported, “I was looking forward to meeting old Beta brothers and friends and showing off the beautiful campus to my wife and reliving fond memories of the Beta House. Sadly, only Wren Blanchard ’67 and George Abramowitz ’67 were there to represent the Betas of our class. But most disappointing was the physical condition of the Beta house “
Attorney Bill Sarris wrote from his Hamden, CT, home that his wife Lisa is on the mend after has been through “5 years of hell” with a serious medical issue. Things began to improve when they went to NY Presbyterian Hospital in an emergency ambulance transport from New Haven and experienced two ICU stays, but Lisa started responding and is now feeling about 80% better. Bill also was looking for Fred Noel's email address.
I am pleased to report that, after dealing with a family health issue, Read McNamara is re-engaging with our Reunion Committee. Read wrote. “I will be retiring from my position as Assistant Dean at Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management on May 31. It has been a wonderful “Sunset Years” gig after 35 years in the corporate world. Mary and I will be splitting our time between Nashville and Popham Beach, Maine. I am looking forward to seeing a lot more of our five children and eight grandchildren. I also look forward to seeing a lot more of my classmates. I just got off the phone with Larry Blake, and an uplifting talk with Larry is motivating me to see more of the Great Class of 1969. Other “to do” activities that I have put off and now plan to re-start include more time at the two non-profits I support and on whose Board I sit. Finally, a half-written book on life at a single sex boarding school [fiction but skating fairly close to the edge of personal experience], is screaming at me for completion. Any advice from my classmates on how to enrich the retirement experience would be greatly appreciated.”
Except for frequent visits to our class Facebook site, I am not much for Facebook. However, it is a good tool for conveying birthday greetings. I appreciated messages from Van Parker, Larry Oswick, Bill Travis, Dick Johnson, Kelly Adams, Art Clark, Nick Brill, Jep Possee, John Higgins, and Don Kinsella.
I got a note from the Hon. Ray Elliott, from Troy, NY a State Supreme Court Judge in 3rd Judicial District (Albany area). Ray and I were in the Washington Study Group together in the Spring of 1968 -- a very exciting time to be in DC. Ray wrote, “The Washington Study group was certainly the highlight of my time at Colgate. As I recall, there were 8 seniors and 4 juniors – you, Tom Blatner, Ray Fuller and me. The Washington experience is what convinced me to seek a law degree. I did not necessarily want to become a lawyer, but it seemed as though everyone we encountered had a law degree in their background even though they were not practicing law.” The upperclassmen in the 1968 WSG were Tim Fusco ‘68 (a lawyer in Michigan), Chuck Genrich‘68 (who was running a Washington DC limo company the last time I saw him), Larry Kenna ‘68 (a retired lawyer living in Beverly, MA), Dick Loverd ‘68 (a retired college professor), Don Anna ‘68 (deceased, was a government lawyer) and Steve Naclerio, ‘68 (a lawyer in Florida). Tom Blatner is the Founder and CEO of Janus Solutions, a human services consulting firm. Before leaving state service to start Janus in 1988, his public sector professional experiences included serving as Director of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (the state’s child welfare agency) and Director of the Office of Policy, Planning and Advocacy in the New Jersey Department of Human Services. After Colgate, Tom earned a Master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Ray Fuller went to Harvard Law School and is practicing Law in Guadalupe, CA.
I am personally soliciting bios from several classmates, including Bill Beery, who recently retired from his consulting business as a management psychologist, occasionally fills in as a Priest for Episcopal churches in Eastern North Carolina, and skis near me at Arapaho Basin; Paul Fish, who grew up with me in Oneida, NY, and is a decorated USAF colonel now retired (with a consulting business) and living in Florida; Dave Werner, who expects to come to our 50th , but still owes us a bio; Vic Herson, Werner’s longtime pal, who will be with us for the 50th and has a bio in the works; Florida attorney George Meier, Jim Molt, and Michael Gindi, who plan to attend reunion, if only to participate in one more Colgate torchlight procession down the Hill; Al White, an Albany NY attorney; Herman Karl, who has been a USGS geologist, and with whom I had a memorable road trip to Boston in the Spring of 1969.
The growing contingent of classmates in Florida shrunk by one in December as John Loden sold his Naples home in December. He wrote, “For the past couple of years, Marilyn and I have been thinking about selling our place in Florida and consolidating our operations in Napa. We finally took the plunge and put our place on the market in September. Despite the hurricane, we were able to sell the property at the end of December at close to full asking price. So, I'm afraid we won't be spending the winters in Florida from this point forward.”
Colgate hockey correspondent John Higgins reported “The Class of 1969 showed up in force for the first in a series of regional social events leading up to the class' 50th Reunion in Hamilton in 2019. The event -- co-orchestrated by Michael Brown and Frank Gasparini -- was a post-game tunk at The Red House Restaurant to celebrate Colgate's stunning 2 - 0 victory over the Harvard Crimson at Bright Arena in which sophomore goalie Colton Point stopped an amazing 51 shots for a career record. The Red House venue was secured by Jack McGlynn, who gets an assist despite his absence due to previous commitments in Marco Island with his Deke brothers. Jack will be organizing more gatherings for Northeast-based classmates in the coming months.” Attending the game and post-game tunk were the following 69ers: Dave Schantz, John Huntington, and Nick Brill as well as Gasparini, Brown, and Higgins. Participants from less distinguished classes were Paul Parshley, John Gibney, and Rick Casagrande, all from the class of 1972; Bill Reitzell, ‘74; and former Colgate ice hockey standout Don Wilmot ‘66.
March-April notes…
It has been a good winter for Colgate, for the class of ’69, and for me. As I write this in mid-April, it is snowing in Breckenridge, where the ski lifts will be running for a few more days, and at Arapaho Basin, where they will be running for six more weeks.
At Colgate, the winter sports teams did well, led by the women’s ice hockey team that went all the way to the NCAA national championship and took the Clarkson women into overtime before losing 1-0. Along the way, they defeated Wisconsin, avenging a Colgate loss to the Badgers in the 1990 men’s National Championship game. On campus, the great debate about banning the torchlight parades ended not with a ban, but, instead, with a renewal, with several reforms designed to make the ceremony more meaningful, including brass torches which graduates will be allowed to keep. Several classmates, including George Meier, Jim Molt and Michael Gindi, expressed grave concern about the possible end of torchlight ceremonies. That is not going to happen now.
Work on the Yearbook is proceeding apace. We are approaching 100 bios of living classmates and Dick Johnson has done and outstanding job of collecting information on deceased classmates. Johnson did such a good job so quickly that the committee recruited him to do more writing. He is wrangling bios from freshman soccer teammates like Doug Peterson (Avon, CT) and John Hoaglund (Valencia, CA). I urge everyone to visit class web page at www.colgate69.com, peruse some of the fascinating stories in classmate bios, then post your own. You will find stories like Freshman Class President Allan Frank beginning a very successful career in electronic journalism as a $160 a week reporter for The Anchorage Daily News where over a three year period he was a photographer, sports editor, columnist and Juneau Bureau Chief; Greg Threatte tells an impressive story of his humble beginnings in a Pennsylvania coal town to a medical career and position as Professor and Department Chair at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse; Greg has also drafted a highly personal and moving account of his experience at Colgate and the sit-in that will be an article in the yearbook – other classmates are welcome to submit their own memories of civil rights and the sit-in using the “stories” tab on your personal page at the class website; Jim Waters bio tells how this statement from Jerry Balmuth explains how Colgate influenced his life, "Liberal education is moral education. And moral education is the choices of one's actions in day-to-day life and ultimately in the choice of not only how to live one's life but also how to relate to others in that life"; Barnet Kellman’s bio describes his entertainment career from being Gogo in “Waiting for Godot” our freshman year to his current post at USC as Professor of Comedy; and Barnet has also posted an emotional memory of Bill Robinson, well-worth a read. Bud Hedinger took some time out of his busy schedule to help the yearbook committee with some bio wrangling and story ideas, particularly involving the Colgate Thirteen. Bud has posted his bio outlining a long career in TV and radio broadcasting, culminating in a popular a three-hour daily opinion driven call-in radio show in Orlando.
My bio-wrangling efforts have put me in contact with several long out of contact classmates. Bob Helliesen wrote from Berkley, CA to provide this memory of Bob DeMarrais who died a year ago. “Bob and I grew up together in the small suburb of Haworth NJ, as did Drew Nettinga. Bob and I were friends in grade school. As a boy, Bob liked to build rockets and explode fireworks - his nickname was "Bomb" DeMarrais in the neighborhood. I was sorry to read of his passing. I hadn't talked to him since the Colgate 25th reunion. I am four years retired from investment consulting at Milliman. I am keeping my fingers in it by being on a number of non-profit investment committees. I play lots of music and helped organize the past three annual El Cerrito Free Folk Festivals.” Tom Orsi, exchanging memories with John Rice about the 1960 Packers-Eagles NFL championship game after the Eagles Super Bowl win this year, wrote from Oregon, “That was Norm Van Brocklin's last game as a player (and as an Eagle). The receivers and tight end coach for the Eagles that year (Charlie Gauer) played college football at Colgate. Charlie later became a part of the Eagle's radio/TV broadcasts. My dad, John Orsi ’32, coached Charlie at Colgate, and Charlie lived next door to us for a while in the early 50s.”
I spent a couple of days in early March in Florida visiting my sister and while there spent 24 hours in Vero Beach with Dick Johnson, Dave Knauer, Rick Marsi, and Rick Dalton ’71. Bagpiper Knauer spends most of the winter in Vero, and Johnson does the same in Deerfield Beach. Marsi and Dalton were short term visitors, but Knauer and Johnson love the Florida fishing, boating and beaches. I missed seeing Pete Kenny, a Deland, FL lawyer, on the trip because I only had 24 hours to make Colgate connections. Massachusetts marine researcher Tom Ermack has posted a bio and wrote that he has posted a remembrance/tribute to the late Rick Gunnill, who was a fellow graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and continued our friendship and shared interest in marine biology/oceanography. I urge all classmates, after they have posted their own bios to review the class list on the website to look for friends who have died and post a short remembrance on your own web page as Tom has done for Rick, and Barnet Kellman did for Bill Robinson.
Nick Brill posted a picture of the 1969 Washington Study Group, including Steve Wax ‘70, Jim Adams ‘70, Ron Sternberg ’70, Louis Lansing (deceased), Ed Rice ’70, Elliot Gewirtz (Lawyer, Retired), Chad Reid (Lawyer, Retired), Art Pinto (Law Professor, Retired), Jeffrey Prottas, George Fogg (Lawyer, Retired), and Nick. Keith Radhuber also posted a great picture taken at a late autumn gathering at West Point in about 2005 at a decidedly shabby motel. Keith said, “There was more than one protest about the chilly temperatures and army textured blankets at night. Attendees cooked out, imbibed, went to a football game or hockey match. In the picture are Art Clark, Ben Blackshear (retired California builder), the late Mike Martin, Sam King (retired Rochester investment banker), Ray Wengenroth (Massachusetts builder), Leslie Wengenroth ’74, John Anderson ’68, David Heath ’68, Greg Costich (Florida photographer), Bill Holbrook (Pennsylvania packaging product manager), Tom Campbell (retired human services executive), and Keith. Investment Advisor John Huntington, an active member of our reunion gift committee, recommended on our Facebook page that classmates consider planned giving as a way to stretch our gifts to Colgate. Jack McGlynn and Mel Pettit also held a mini-reunion in Florida, with fewer Dekes than usual. McGlynn has posted some then-and now pictures of the hockey team on our Facebook page. Read McNamara and Jay Darrin tried to revive the music of the Sixties by Facebook posts. Read’s was on the meaning of “American Pie” by Don McLean, and Jay offered a quiz challenging Beatles Fans to name 29 Beatles songs by one lyric.
May-June notes
As our reunion approaches, I see more and more classmates retiring, some to a pure life of leisure and enjoying grandchildren, many moving to second careers or community service.
In May. I attended the Class of ’68 reunion, along with Art Clark, Bob Seaberg, and Greg Threatte, to develop ideas for our reunion next year. It was a fun, interesting, and informational experience. I also attended a 2-day pre-reunion event in Cooperstown, NY organized by Phil Goetz ’68 for Betas in the Classes of 1965-71. Phil did a great job organizing the affair. Class of 69 affinity groups may want to consider extending their upstate NY time next year to include a pre- post-reunion gathering to provide more opportunities to be with Colgate friends without worrying about conflicts with the crowded schedule of on-campus reunion events.
The official on-campus reunion was a splendid event. There were stimulating programs on: the role of the Senate in maintaining constitutional checks and balances, led by Alan Frumin ’67; the 50th anniversary of the 1968 sit-in with a panel of speakers including Vaughn Carney ’68, Bob Seaberg (who was president of the Student Senate at the time of the sit-in), Woody Berry ’67 (an alum who supported the sit-in), and an elderly, but still very with it, Professor Charles Naef (one of the many faculty members who joined the sit-in knowing it could cost them their jobs). On Saturday morning I attended two brain stretching programs, one on why wind and solar generation will never replace fossil fuel generation, and a second exploring the Samuel Huntington thesis that the end of the Cold War would not mean the end of history and the triumph of liberal democracy and free markets. The prescient Huntington thesis, first published in 1993, is that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic extremism, not nationalism or political ideologies would become the biggest threat to world peace. There were two off-beat exhibitions especially interesting to a Madison County native. One was an anthropology exhibition of farm-to-table food in Madison County, and the other was on the geology of Madison County.
There were moving moments like: the Friday night awards ceremony in the Chapel; a good old-fashioned torchlight parade from the front of the chapel down college walk to Whitnall Field (I accompanied my niece Sandy Pomeroy Goering ’83, and my nephew Charlie Hurdman ’83); the Saturday morning memorial service in the Chapel; my first-ever Mass in the Colgate Chapel, seated next to Ruthanne Loveless MA ’68;and the interment of the ashes of the late, great supporter of Colgate and dear friend, John Gillick ’67 in the Colgate cemetery across from Chapel house. Whew. I spent more time in the Chapel over the weekend than I did in four years as an undergraduate.
There were plenty of opportunities for fellowship at all class lunches, all-class dinners, and at the Whitnall Field tents and concerts. These gave me a chance to visit with 2 fellow members of the 1968 Washington Study Group. The first was Larry Kenna ’68 who served in the Marine Corps after Colgate and is now retired after 30+ years as a litigator for a top Boston law firm. The second WSG alum was Steve Naclerio, who went to Duke Law school, had a long career at Bacardi Rum before retiring as General Counsel and is now active as a lawyer with a Miami law firm. I caught up with retired Bucknell Dean Gerry Commerford ’68, whose Dad was my Dad’s regular golf partner. The Saturday night concert featured the Fabulous Skycoasters with their #1 groupie, Art Clark, in the mosh pit in front of the stage. If I had to pick out a single event that was most important, it would probably be President Casey’s presentation on Saturday afternoon. I have not been very impressed with our presidents since Neil Grabois and, without having met him, was skeptical about President Casey. I am now a supporter, having heard him share his vision and concrete plans to move Colgate forward. He is a dynamic, compelling, funny speaker who can take Colgate to a level it has never been before.
There were more than 20 Betas and almost as many spouses at the Beta event. There were four pre-68 alums: Cooperstown home town boy Pete Clark ’65 retired curator of collections at the Baseball Hall of fame; John Wild ’66, a retired business executive/owner who splits his time between homes on Cape Cod and in North Carolina; John Wilkins ’66, a former Beta house president who is still active leading the Boston investment counsel firm he founded; and, from New London, NH, John Stewart ’67 who became a Marine Corps helicopter pilot after Colgate, then spent the rest of his career in the aviation industry, including a stint in Saudi Arabia. I partnered with Ned Frey ’68 and Jim Closs ’70 for a round of golf on the famed Otesaga Golf course. Ned, a retired publishing executive, now lives in Williamsburg, VA with his wife Gail, his Colgate sweetheart from Wells College. After Colgate, Closs returned to his Rhinebeck, NY home town, where he was a bank executive and active in civic affairs including the as president of the local golf club. I am pleased to report that with my help, Ned and Jim were able to defeat a powerful team composed of Dr. Greg Threatte, Chairman Emeritus of the Pathology Dept. at SUNY Upstate Medical University, playing only an hour from his Slingerlands, NY home; John Higgins, a key member of the reunion yearbook committee; and John Rice, an active investment advisor with Merrill Lynch, who flew in from his Wilmette, IL home. The $3 I took from Dr. Theatte as my share of the dollar Nassau pot paid for almost half a beer at the Otesaga bar. Other ‘68ers attending were retired investment advisor George Griswold ’68 and wife Beth; John Darrin ’68, from Frederick, MD, is a retired nuclear radiation expert who is now writing thriller novels; David Nelson, who was a terror as Beta pledge master, became a leading Manhattan ophthalmologist and then was a kind and generous friend to Rusty Drumm during Rusty’s terminal illness; Roger Birn ’68, who has a Providence, RI photography business; and Russ Jones, who runs a hearing aid business in Hawaii. After Colgate, Russ was drafted, volunteered for OCS, and became a Green Beret. Shortly after he arrived in Vietnam, he was seriously injured by a land mine, and permanently lost almost all his hearing. No longer eligible for combat, he got a communications position at Army HQ, which made him in charge of sound crews for stars like Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jr. touring with the USO. Hope praised Russ so highly to General Westmoreland that he got a of commendation. Even better, during the Davis show tour Russ began a relationship with one of Davis’s dancers that lasted long after his tour in Vietnam ended. The class of ’69 had the most Cooperstown attendees. In addition to Rice, Threatte, Higgins, and myself, there were the old stalwarts: retired college development officer Dick Johnson, retired pharmaceutical R&D executive Frank Gasparini, retired Boston Harbor cleanup manager Mike Brown; Binghamton journalist Rick Marsi, New Hampshire real estate broker Jep Possee; retired paper industry executive Dave Knauer. The seldom-seen Kerry Brown showed up with his wife Betty Ann, who he married while still at Colgate. After a short time in and AT&T management program (with John Loden’s wife Marilyn), Kerry left to have a long career as an English and Humanities teacher in private secondary schools. He retired from Cape Cod Academy in 2013 but remains an active teacher in adult education programs on Cape Cod. Finally, the young pup at the event was non-profit education foundation CEO Rick Dalton, who has sponsored a couple of Beta mini-reunions at his Essex, NY home.
In late April, I took a subway from Queens to visit Woody Swain’s Manhattan apartment for a reunion committee meeting. Woody retired after more than 30 years in the advertising industry as a creative director. The feature of his luxurious apartment is the “Titanic” room, featuring memorabilia from the 1912 disaster. I missed a chance to see Tom Ermak who was in Littleton CO last year for a family reunion. For our reunion book, I have received excellent articles from Greg Threatte on the 1968 sit-in, from Barnet Kellman on why the Colgate in the late 60s was a lot like the movie “Animal House”, and stories from the Vietnam era from Gene Detwiler, Dick Johnson and Tom Orsi. Several other classmates have promised Pete Lewine that they will contribute their stories about the war, whether as warriors, opponents, or something in-between. Our class was represented at the April President’s club dinner in NYC by Michael Gindi, Art Clark, Nick Brill, Dick Herbst, Ron Burton, and Tom Baker. I met up with Larry Oswick at Vail in April to ski with him and his grandson, who was better than both of us. After skiing with Oswick, I spent 2 weeks hiking in Virginia and, one night when I was near West Jefferson, NC, I called Bill Berry to see if I could spend a night with him. My timing was off. He said I could spend the night with him, but only if I was in Nova Scotia, where he was visiting his sister.
Gary Hummel is an adjunct professor of Architecture at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale teaching a survey course on architecture from prehistory to the end of the Gothic era. After retiring from a 27-year management career with AT&T in Chicago, Gary earned a Master’s degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles in 2006. After graduation, he worked designing high school buildings for the LA Unified School district until 2009, when he moved to Fort Lauderdale to pursue a career in teaching and design. Gary wrote, “The job is interesting and challenging. My students come from very diverse backgrounds but are all capable and enthusiastic.” Gary has a web site at www.garyscape.com.
From the class Facebook site… Read McNamara has announced his retirement as Assistant Dean at The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt. Read wrote, “There has intentionally been no "gentle off-ramp" to retirement and I certainly will not be consulting or dabbling part time. Mine is a complete, 100% retirement in order to maximize my time with our 5 kids and 8 grandkids. Mary and I will be splitting our time between Nashville and our home in Maine. I look forward to seeing my classmates in Hamilton for our 50th." In May, there was a DKE lunch at Connolly's Pub in midtown Manhattan. Attending were Fred Noell, Bob Haggerty, Peter Lewine, Bryce Suydam, Peter Madsen, and Dick Herbst. Each Deke promised to submit a bio for the 50th Reunion Yearbook in soon. Another Deke, Charlie Seyffer, has posted a biography describing his 20+ years teaching English and history in public schools in Maine and Virginia and then for many years in private programs and schools. He coached, provided drug and alcohol counseling, served as an athletic director, and worked with high-risk students in residential treatment programs, group homes, and wilderness settings. Kelly Adams sent a 1969 picture of himself, Larry Pearl and Stephen Horne claiming "49 years ago and we haven’t changed a bit."
To send news: email Jim Milmoe at smilmoe@aol.com, call 910-262-3512, or write to PO Box 5622, Breckenridge, CO, 80424.
