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st. lawrence university magazine | fall 2014
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1962
Steve Wahl
7899 E. Soaring Eagle
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
480-575-5300
Next Reunion: 55th, 2017
Bev Beyer Stautzenbach tells
of a wonderful mini-reunion of
the Class of 1962 Pi Phis. On
June 5, she and Cindy Larsen
Verruso-Dudeck, Marian
Katz Schenke, Katie Chase
Danis, Pat Conly Tufenkjian,
Sue Vosseller Dreghorn,
Ginny Sigafoos Herrick, Phil
Vico Gold and Bonnie Baker
Landino converged in Williams-
burg, Va., from Florida, Michigan,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Chica-
go, Tennessee and Pennsylvania
for a journey back in time. Bev
writes, “Our personal journey
was the main focus of the week-
end, as we caught up with each
other’s lives over the years since
we last met and, as is always the
case with our reunions, tested
each other’s memories and cre-
ated lots of laughter with stories
of our years at SLU.”
Bev lives in Venice, Fla., with hus-
band Mark. They were planning
a couple of weeks in August at
their Adirondack house with kids
and grandkids. The whole family
(19 people from six households
in five states) was together in
Venice for Thanksgiving last year.
Colby “Moke” Walton reports
he received a clean bill of health
in early April: cancer-free!! He’s
feeling great and getting back
into good conditioning fast. He
and Claudette got away for a
great three-day visit to Charles-
ton, S.C., arriving as the Spoleto
Festival began.
Willoughby Richardson sent
a very newsy tome, which I am
forced to whittle to fit my page!
For Christmas and New Year’s
he returned to Germany to visit
his son in Munich, but also spent
some time with Barry Swanson
in Frankfurt. He enjoyed a father-
home, Ken keeps busy at the
American Legion.
Sandee Huebenthal Fleisher
proudly wrote of a new grandson,
born in April in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Tim Stevens and Kathy spent
the summer at their cabin in our
49th state; their granddaughter
spent three weeks with them in
June and their grandson did the
same in August.
Jim Pritzker enjoys spring and
summer in New England – walk-
ing, biking, kayaking and lots of
events with their five grandchil-
dren. In early June he attended a
bi-annual reunion at Honeywell,
where he worked his entire career
in their computer division. He says
“Hello to my SLU classmates.”
Pat Linderoth Taylor continues
to be a frequent traveler. In June
she went to France with two of
her granddaughters and then she
and John ’59 planned a trip to
Iceland in July. For more on the
Taylors, see the Sports pages.
Natalie Beaumont was looking
forward to a folk dance trip to
Ireland in July. In August, Steve
Anderson planned a week at
Chautauqua Institution in New
York and then a week in the
Poconos with six grandsons and
their parents.
For the past several years, Gordy
Brown and Maria have spent
December to April in Panama City
Beach, Fla., which is like a second
home with all of the friends they
have there. Wanting a change of
routine, they planned their first-
ever trip to France for May: Sight-
seeing in Paris, high-speed train
to Avignon, and then touring the
French Riviera with a day trip to
San Remo, Italy. Sounds fabulous!
I know you all join me in express-
ing our sympathy to Jack Van
de Water upon the loss of
his brother, Peter ’58. (See “In
Memory” in the last issue for more
on Peter.)
The third silent classmate is
Doug Lawrence. He writes,
“After graduation, I married Jane
Ferner’60 and spent nine years in
the Marine Corps, five in a fighter
squadron flying the F8 Crusader
in Beaufort, S.C., and (from) a
number of aircraft carriers. Dur-
ing this time, we had one son.”
After the Corps, Doug joined IBM
in human resources, retiring 28
years (and three more children)
later, only to join Shared Medical
Systems (SMS) in Malvern, Pa., as
the head of human resources.
“After six years,” he continued,
“I again retired and we moved
to Scottsdale, Ariz., but returned
to Rhode Island when the
grandchildren came along.”
During this time he rejoined IBM
in their Global Services division,
and spent another 13 years do-
ing contract HR work. He is now
“totally retired.”
I thought Mark Harran had
retired a lot of times, but maybe
Doug has him beat! Mark writes
that he has fully recovered from
last year’s health problems. He
has resigned from several boards
so most of his time is spent
on the farm, making hay in the
summer and maple syrup in the
winter/spring. He does, however,
remain president of the Connecti-
cut Maple Association and VP of
the International Maple Syrup In-
stitute. He travels to the 13 “maple
states” and four maple-producing
Canadian provinces and was look-
ing forward to meetings this fall in
Nova Scotia.
Beth Anne Freilich Gordon
is still showing greyhounds. They
have four. Beth Anne and John
live in New Mexico, and the dog
shows range from Ft. Worth, Tex-
as, to southern California. That’s
a lot of driving! Once again, Beth
Anne just missed seeing Carole
Sperzel Clark while she and Bill
wintered in Palm Desert, Calif.
In April, Craig Ruhm and Ellen
rented a house in Phoenix. “It was
special to spend a lot of time with
my son, Chris,” Craig said.
In June, Ken Shilkret saw his
granddaughters’ annual dance
recital and then headed to South
Carolina for golf before seeing the
U.S. Open in Pinehurst, N.C. When
Robin McNallie writes that he
has long been retired from the
English department faculty at
James Madison University. He
continues to both teach and at-
tend classes in the Lifelong Learn-
ing system at JMU. He and his
wife, Chris Edwards, enjoy travel,
last summer journeying across
Canada by rail.
Sadly, our class has lost three
of its members in the past few
months: “Bill” Bailey Jr., Irving
Smith and Ronald H. Woods.
For more on them, turn to
“In Memory.” St Lawrence has
also been notified of the death of
Robert C. Waite on
July 16, 2013.
1961
Hulit Pressley Taylor
1713 Surrey Lane, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-625-0203
Next Reunion: 55th, 2016
For this issue, we have three
classmates who either have never
sent an update or who haven’t
done so in years!
Dave Crystal is still practic-
ing law in New York City and as
an arbitrator for the Financial
Industry Regulatory Association.
He’s been married to Judy for 49
years; they have three sons and
four grandchildren. He shoots
skeet, trap and sporting clays in
the winter.
Jonathan Levine, after teach-
ing at Hunter College for 10 years,
worked for the New York City
Board of Education as an admin-
istrator for over 20, then ran the
largest wine-tasting society in the
City for 25 years. He wrote a wine
column for close to 25 years, and
is chairman emeritus of NYC's
largest organization of wine com-
municators. “Since retiring from
the wine business,” he told me,
“I teach bridge to a few students
and am on the board of my co-op
(was chairman for more years
than I want to remember), and
my wife and I travel a lot.”
1960
Ann Younger Moore
41 Brookside Drive
Wilbraham, MA 01095
413-596-9335
Next Reunion: 55th, May 28-31,
2015
I received a nice letter from
John McIntyre telling of his
many adventures since leaving
St. Lawrence 54 years ago. Soon
after graduation, he served as a
captain in the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. He married Ravena
Green from North Carolina, and
has three children and five grand-
children. They have come back
home to New Hampshire, where
they reside on Lake Winnisquam
in Laconia.
He worked for 34 years with Tyco
International, where he became
a division head and officer of the
company. His division designed,
manufactured, installed and main-
tained trans-oceanic underwater
fiber optic telecommunication
cable systems for commercial
and military use. A long-time di-
rector of Revere Copper in Rome,
N. Y., he and his family enjoyed
many wonderful moments in the
North Country.
John owns and operates rental
properties in New Hampshire,
Maine and California. His life style
is "nomadic" with lots of inter-
national travel. He and Ravena
winter in Santa Barbara, Calif., and
ski often at Lake Tahoe. Summers
are spent back home and "Down
East" in York Harbor and Moody
Beach, Maine.
Another nice letter came from
Douglas Campbell , telling
of an exciting summer trip to
Europe. He and Diana planned
to take a Black Sea cruise from
Istanbul to Turkey's North Coast,
then to Odessa, Romania and Bul-
garia before returning to Istanbul,
then London for five days before
heading home.
another house that weekend,
making the trip impossible. How-
ever, Cathy-Anne “Kitty” Hughes
Morrison ’83 and Michael
McKinnon ’83 were able to come.
It was terrific to see them and vis-
it with their friends who returned.
We must concentrate on making
our next reunion an imperative.
Schedule it now!
One of the last events of the
weekend is a Service of Remem-
brance at which the names of
Laurentians who have died in the
last year are read. Far too many
names this year from our class
and others held special mean-
ing for me. I hope you read “In
Memory” in the magazine each
time; more often information ap-
pears there. The names read for
our class were Ellenjane
Beattie Booth, Robert J.
Bray, Robert D. Curtis, Daniel
S. Day, Martin Marino and
Peter E. Van de Water.
Until next time, friends, be well,
drop me a line whenever you have
the time, and contact that class-
mate you remember with a smile.
1959
Linda Marlow Castle
P.O. Box 766
420 Honeysuckle Hill
Lexington, VA 24450
540-460-2637
Next Reunion: 60th, 2019
It was a two-graduation year for
Claire McGarrahan Strang.
Granddaughter Emma graduated
from high school and prepared
for the University of Rochester.
Her grandson, Matt Dudley ’14,
graduated from SLU and headed
for Abu Dhabi on a fellowship
from NYU. Although it was
great to have him here for four
years, meaning frequent visits
from Claire, I will miss seeing her
whenever the Laurentian Singers
perform or Matt is being honored
in some way. We are trying for a
roommate reunion. We can man-
age to get Barbara Blair
Nangle there, but Carol
“Scotty” Kleinsmith Newton
is the major hurdle. How about
it, Scotty?
Reunion was its usual hectic self.
Hal Robertson and I repre-
sented our class, but Hal alone
attended the Honor Guard dinner,
his attempts to get Dick Meili to
come having proved unsuccessful.
Seated with a number of student
hosts, he regaled the group with
accounts of beanies, signs, “The
Wall,” the L Club and overcuts.
They shared tales of their studies
abroad. Hal and Betty plan to
spend a month or so in the Keys
and south Florida next winter. No
special trip was planned for last
summer, although they greatly
enjoyed a cruise from South-
ampton, England, to Iceland and
Norway last year.
All my children and one spouse
had a cluster reunion, but Christy
McKinnon Cooper ’84 and John
Cooper ’83 were moving to
I would like to thank Jack
Buchanan for his willingness to
help my roommate’s grandson,
Matt Dudley ’14, by reading a
paper Matt was hoping to publish
and offering some suggestions.
Jack spent some time in South
Carolina, at an international bat-
tlefield archaeology conference
and then touring battlefields with
friends who are local authorities
on the Revolution in the Carolinas
and Georgia. He recommends
traveling by overnight train from
South Carolina to Penn Station.
Summer plans included a trip to
Germany to see Susi’s family, and
visiting in Paris and Dordogne
with friends and colleagues.
Jack let me know that Richard
Collins died on May 22. Jack
said, “Dick and Della were neigh-
bors of ours in Vetsville, and for
about the past decade Dick and
I had exchanged e-mails. They
lived in a retirement home in Gig
Harbor, Wash. Della plans to stay
on as she has many friends there,
a daughter nearby, and a son in
Seattle. Their other son lives in
Albany, N.Y.” For more on Dick,
see “In Memory.”
Ed Myers sent me a detailed
recollection of the ATO Hawai-
ian party of 1957, relived a bit in
our reunion last year. It certainly
evoked many memories. I know he
sent it along to a number of broth-
ers and has received responses in
the form of other recollections of
that memorable event.
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