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st. lawrence university magazine | fall 2014
they will wear the halos or pitch
forks that will be available for par-
ticipation in the parade. Our goal
is to three-peat the Hervey Cup.
Winnie has sold her home of 36
years and is moving into a three-
bedroom townhouse on Catskill
Creek, which flows into the Hud-
son River. It is a huge change to
downsize, but she won’t have all
the yard work, pool, and terraces
to deal with. She is looking for-
ward to the visit from her daugh-
ter, Stacey Thorn Shields ’83, and
granddaughter, Siena, age 6.
Hundley tells me his business,
Rose Chauffeured Transporta-
tion, has received two notable
awards. Limo Digest named Rose
its Operator of the Year, Large
Category, and they also received
the Wake Forest Family Busi-
ness Center of the Year Award.
Hundley started the business five
years before the end of his radio
career in 1985. Now, 29 years later,
with 54 vehicles including motor
coaches, Rose does business up
and down the East Coast. Hund-
ley asks, “Retire?” and answers,
“I can’t, I’m not tired.”
Bob Ernst reported from New
Jersey, where he was camping
for approximately nine weeks in
Cape May Courthouse. “It changes
the air in my head,” he said. “Like
everyone else, time is catching up
to me but I keep running as fast as
I can.” For 15 years, he has traveled
to St. John, USVI, at Thanksgiving
to visit his daughter. When he at-
tended his grandson’s graduation
in the Boston area, he visited
Leslie Zittell Jose. They went
out for lunch and had a great
time reminiscing.
Leslie is very involved with her
activities at the Natick Senior
Center. The Boston Globe cov-
ered her experiences with the
Sages and Seekers, groups of
high schoolers at a local private
academy. She has recently been
involved with technical high
schoolers who represented two
socioeconomic levels. Now, she
is part of the “Bridges” program,
which is for fourth graders. Leslie
says it is so rewarding to see how
the seniors bridge the gap from
burg Ferry ’56 (she’s in the Sports
pages in this issue) is chairing the
reunion for 1956 and is super-
organized and full of ideas. Their
parade theme, which we’ll piggy-
back on, honors the Saints and the
Sinners. The Saints are having a
special reunion, so we should en-
joy some wonderful and nostalgic
singing over the weekend.
If you’d like to help with planning
or calling folks to see how they
are and if they can attend, please
let me know. And do put a big
circle around the last weekend in
May to revisit your alma mater,
old St. Lawrence. If we don’t re-
turn for our 60th, then when?
Please keep in touch – drop me a
line and see your name in print!
1956
Priscilla Harvey
Schroeder
2215 Windbrook Court
Westlake Village, CA 91361
805-495-9758
Next Reunion: 60th May, 28-
31, 2015 (Cluster with '55)
In the next several columns there
will be updates about our 60th
reunion. Our illustrious planning
chair, Doris Kloppenburg
Ferry, has already started plan-
ning. (For more about her, see the
Sports pages.) Be ready to assist
her so this reunion will top even
the last one in 2011. The theme
is “Saints and Sinners, An Affair
to Remember.”
Since Doris and Connie Doughty
Knies ’55, the class of ’55 planning
chair, were both at the 2014 re-
union, they started to coordinate
2015 reunion activities. We are
clustered for this reunion. Doris
has already contacted Hundley
Thompson to return as master
of ceremonies plus “play the
devil” in the parade, along with
Winnie Pisani Thorn to acti-
vate the Sinners, and Jan Knost
to contact the Saints. All class-
mates need to determine whether
bout of babesiosis, a malaria-like
disease caused by deer ticks, he
and Esther moved into a new con-
do community in northern Jame-
sport, near Riverhead. While in
Huntington, they raised three sons,
including Rick ’84, who happily
all live nearby. His brother-in-law,
Chuck Luyster ’62, and Chuck’s
son Todd ’93 are also grads.
Graham has had several serious
surgeries, but “All in all, doing OK.”
What we all hope for at this stage!
He has, however, increasingly
become the caregiver for his wife,
which has curtailed the traveling
they had enjoyed here and abroad,
including many years in time-
shares in Barbados and Mexico.
Their lives have included church,
library (board president) and
historical organization (trustee) in-
volvement. He has devoted major
time for several years to landscape
and travel photography, with
shows, exhibits and contests in
many venues. He sends a big “Hi”
and shares this long-held belief:
“Faith, Family and Friends - when
you have those, everything else
falls into place.” Wise words to live
by, indeed.
Jane Carpenter Patterson
emailed from Smyrna Beach,
Fla., noting that a number of
classmates belong to P.E.O., a
philanthropic and educational
organization, and that she finds
it “gratifying to be helping young
ladies further their education
through loans, grants and scholar-
ships.” She reported on a St. Law-
rence party that Bud Garlock
and Ann Clough’56 had hosted in
their rented condo on the beach.
Bill ’59 and Jan Fowle Bigelow ’57
and Bill Plimpton and Sandy
Steinkuller ’59 also were there,
enjoying redfish and trout that
Bud and Bill had caught.
Finally – our reunion, next May.
We are joining forces with the
Class of 1956, so you’ll get to see
not only our classmates but also
friends from the year behind. We’d
hoped that ’54 would also join us,
but those folks feared waiting an
additional year. Doris Kloppen-
youthful) judges! Sistie and Tom
visited St. Lawrence’s Sustainabil-
ity Farm since their granddaugh-
ter, Michaela Lewis ’15, is involved
in environmental science.
Peg Prior said that they had
moved a bit ago from Sarasota to
Spring Hill, Florida. In the summer
they migrate way up north – to
North Carolina. They have five
children, none of whom gradu-
ated from St. Lawrence. Their
families are spread from Florida
to Alaska, and they have a grand-
daughter at William & Mary.
Jack Elmer, our class’s lone Can-
ton resident, showed up at several
functions looking tanned, fit and
smiling. He often carries the ban-
ner in the alumni parade alone, I
think, but not this year!
Sally Mason Crowell, there
with husband Howard ’54, was
also fit and smiling, but reported
having tripped and broken her leg
earlier in the year and having to
spend months putting no weight
on it. She said that when she went
to the grocery store she would
push the cart and Howard would
push her. Apparently, the excel-
lent logistical skills that made
him a general didn’t extend to
the aisles of Safeway! They were
proud on the way to Canton to
have seen their grandson gradu-
ate from Annapolis.
Sally said that they had recently
gone through what so many of
us have: moving to a retirement
home, one that Howard had been
instrumental in founding. They
had to go through the torturous
process of donating, throwing
out, wishing stuff on kids and
putting boxes into storage to be
sorted later.
On a sadder note, I had word that
Kenneth G. Stark of Hyde Park,
N.Y., passed away on April 4.
Aside from the reunion, I have had
several welcome emails. One came
from fellow Long Islander
Graham Glover, who wrote
that after living in the Huntington
area for 36 years he has moved to
the North Fork, his old stomping
ground. Following a very serious
wife, Nancy, and helps his children
with a family catering business
which specializes in healthy food
and has the unlikely name of
Roly-Poly. He said that the family
jewelry business is now run by his
son and nephew.
As we strolled across the verdant
campus to dinner he reminisced
about a youthful venture working
as a roughneck in the oil fields.
It was not too profitable, for he
arrived home, hitchhiking, with 35
cents in his pocket. When he saw
I was taking notes, he threatened
to stop talking.
Peggy Carlton Prior and Ty
’54 and Vivienne “Sistie” Sime
Lewis and Tom ’54 were at Pub
56 (bistro between Hulett and
Jencks dorms) on Friday night
as we all played SLU Trivia. Do
you know the month and day in
addition to the year of the found-
ing of St. Lawrence? We didn’t (it
was April 3, 1856), but when the
emcee called for the words to the
alma mater, our table, including
the Lewises and Peter ’54 and
Alida Isham Millham ’56, stood up
and belted it out, to the applause
and extra points of the (very
amount of work in progress was
mind-boggling. Congratulations
to President Bill Fox ’75 and the
folks at Alumni Engagement for a
wonderful celebration. We had 33
classmates and spouses on hand,
in addition to another 16 guests.
Those who made it to reunion
were Bill and Barbara Bell
Bartlett, Tom and Marion
Flotow Clement, George
Clift, Howard and Sally Mason
’55 Crowell, Bob Daly, Jack and
Mimi Grow, Bertha Harri Harte,
Waddie Kalil, Dave and Janice
Shonka ’56 Karlen, Dick and
Connie Doughty ’55 Knies, Rod
and Priscilla La Croix, Hal and
Nancy Lansing Hoffmann-
Lennon, Tom and Sistie Sime’55
Lewis, Peterand Alida Isham’56
Millham, Paul and Elizabeth
Morss, Jack and Sue Palmer, Ty
and Peg Carlton ’55 Prior, Gerry
Regan, Dick and Ann Robie,
Gail Seamans, Frank and Mimi
Shields, Fred and Vivian Stein,
Martha Cheney Thomas,
and Bud ’53, Dave and Joyce
Sullivan’55 Thompson, Dick
Thompson, Dorothy Nims
Topping and Bob, and John and
Gretchen Underhill.
But the largest showing by our
class was the 59 percent who con-
tributed to the reunion fund drive.
That figure enabled us to take the
“Scarlet and Brown Participation
Award.” Nice going, fifty-fours!!
Thanks for your support.
I can’t close this edition without
noting the deaths in the month
before Reunion of three popular
guys who will be missed—Larry
Schneible, Claude Richer and
Chuck Bradbury. For more on
Larry and others who passed
on earlier in the year, turn to “In
Memory.” I know classmates will
join me in extending our most
heartfelt sympathy to the families
of these Laurentians.
1955
Connie Doughty Knies
43 Westgate Blvd.
Plandome, NY 11030
516-365-9029
Next Reunion: 60th, May 28-
31, 2015 (Cluster with '56)
At the end of May I accompanied
my husband, Dick ’54, to Canton,
where he celebrated his 60th
reunion. If you’d told me when I
was a student that I’d be there
for a 60th, I’d not have thought it
possible for anyone that ancient
to possibly hobble back, but there
we were. Actually, there were more
than 30 from ’54, and seven of us
from ’55. I hope that won’t out-
number our returnees next year
for OUR 60th, next May 28-31.
We caught up with Joyce
Sullivan Thompson. Radiating
her familiar warm and caring pres-
ence, she instructed me to take
notes, so I dutifully did, figuring,
rightly, that she knows all about
this job of class reporter, having
done it for nearly 60 years. She’s
surrounded at home by several of
her five daughters, who not only
live in her town, but also on her
street!
Rit Lennon, who came to share
festivities with brother Hal ’54, is
tanned, hearty and still very ac-
tive. He said that he’d had a heart
attack many years ago and had
veered into a healthier lifestyle.
He skis, plays golf and tennis, and
paints watercolors (which I enjoy
greatly, too), but no longer flies.
He also enjoys traveling with his
YOUR Alumni Council
camelot in canton
Follow the Alumni Executive Council: facebook.com/SLUAlumniAssoc @SLUAlumniAssoc on Twitter
Late in my college years, I was delighted
to discover the Arthur window in Gunnison
Memorial Chapel. One the sanctuary’s first,
the window portrays the legendary British
king and his capital of Camelot.
As I begin my work as president of the
Alumni Executive Council, I’ve been drawn
to the metaphor that that lovely old win-
dow presents.
Connections between Canton and Camelot are conspicuous. The
ancient capital is a symbol of fidelity and integrity with a dash
of adventure, while our North Country college is all those things
made real. Just as Camelot is described as mystical, we know St.
Lawrence is magical — the wonder of the Laurentian experience
transcends generations.
St. Lawrence, then, is our Camelot. On the Alumni Council,
carrying that metaphor forward, we believe we are all Laurentians for
Life. To support our conviction, we work with visionary and inspiring
spirit for our University in these ways:
• We engage alumni through SaintsNetwork events,
Reunion and social media
• We recruit prospective students
• We support the University’s focus on helping students
prepare for careers
• We support the New York City Semester
• We raise funds to support the University through a silent auc-
tion program and SaintsWear, a line of clothing and accessories
at Brewer Bookstore
• We work to recognize alumni achievements and to select alumni
to serve on the council
And we’re not going to let up.
As we approach our 100th year of service to St. Lawrence in 2015,
we plan to extend our reach:
• We will expand the council from 35 to 50 volunteers by 2016
• We will seek new revenue through innovation and creativity
• With staff and faculty partners, we will engage alumni through
career networking and affinity gatherings in Canton and around
the world
It’s a privilege to lead this dynamic legion of volunteers. I’m humbled
to serve the college to which I owe the foundation of my education,
the skills I use every day as a journalist, my best friends, and my family.
Edward J. Forbes ’02
Alumni Executive Council President
Ed Forbes began his term as president in June. He lives in Mount
Kisco, N.Y., with his wife, Emily Hunt Forbes '04, and their daughter,
Caroline. He is the senior digital editor at lohud.com and The Journal
News in White Plains, N.Y.