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st. lawrence university magazine | fall 2014

Guttman

, also stopped

in their travels to visit other

friends and family while they

were “in the neighborhood.”

Sue Rose Bullock

and

Janet

Allen McFarland

, Canton resi-

dents, had the shortest drive

(and probably the comfiest

sleeping accommodations).

Without a massive workload

and prodigious herding skills by

Nancy Current Martin

and

Carol Pratt Hecklinger

over

the last year, the weekend could

never have moved so seamlessly

from high point to high point.

Words of praise for their strength

and grace fall far short of giving

any sense of what they managed

to do. Fortunately, a small army

of callers encouraged classmates

to attend and to get ready for

our days in the sun, and once we

were there more “soldiers” took

on vital roles.

Our sixty-six official celebrants,

and a few like

Jan Plumadore

who joined for only an event

or two, spent a weekend filled

with laughs, hugs, ceremonies,

memories, friendships made and

friendships renewed, and food,

food, food. We could have gained

the old “freshman 15” in a single

weekend. The college’s Dining Ser-

vices gets at least three more stars

since our days of bread, Jello and

mystery meat at Men’s Rez.

What no one could have planned

for was a weekend of beautiful

North Country sun by day and

cool late-spring evenings. That

made all of the outdoor activities

including hikes, golfing, tennis

and a trip to the Thousand Islands

both possible and pleasant.

Picnicking and ice cream on the

greens were a quiet, cool respite

to the other activities. Walks to

venues (when we weren’t being

ferried by our golf cart guides)

enabled us to enjoy the crisp

Adirondack air and the University’s

lovely plantings. Side trips down-

town and out of town were easy.

Perfection: especially for sleeping

in a dorm without air conditioning.

Some of our core of veteran at-

tendees this year included

Sandy

Coventry Palmer, Larry

Cohan, Sheila Caulley Hill,

Dave Niles, Kathy

Mangion Mofield, Sue

Mildner Walters, Tom Burke,

Diane Friday Fisher, Kathy

Shipway Crumb, Don Rose,

Diane Peterson Reynolds,

Eugenia Anderson-Ellis,

Jeanette Pike Mayo,

Patty Paige Malvik

and

Sheila

Rorke

It was also gratifying to see so

many “first-timers,” including

Bob

Goodfellow, Dave Guttman,

Edie Schmidt Kilgour, Janet

Olsen Myrin, Ken Kinlock,

Jean Crayton Simes, Marietta

Kiley Teret, Barb O’Brien

Bouchey

and

David Buettner

Some class members were

accompanied by their brave

non-Laurentian spouses, including

Bob Gardner, Charlie

Freeman, Carolyn Garlock

Curley

(though Pat is a parent),

Rich Glazer, Brenda Ball

Knight, Rick Wilkins, Rick

Williams

and

Charlie Smith-

ers

. Then there were those who

brought their spouses from other

classes:

Carol Pratt Hecklinger

(Dick ’65),

Mary Lou Sprague

Madsen

(Russ ’65),

Susan

Parsons Wolfe

(Mike ’65),

John

Haskell

(Patty Dain Haskell ’65),

Jeff Bijur

(Mary Fishel Bijur ’65)

and

Al Walden

(Elaine Wintsch

Walden ’63.)

Harvey Meer

was

accompanied by his lovely daugh-

ter, Vanessa. Our single class

couple was

John

and

Linda

“Bim” Runey Walsh

. And in

other SLU connections,

Leigh

Berry

roped in former faculty

spouse Tom Coburn, and

Janet

Allen McFarland

went home

from events with many good

wishes to “our “professor, George.

It was impressive to see the

journeys many people made,

but most impressive was

Ken

Kinlock

, who arrived from

France.

Grant White

and

Barbi

Zinner Reed

were among the

Californians.

Jeff Bijur

had

made a different, but very difficult

journey – one of recovery from

a horrendous pedestrian-vehicle

accident last year in New York

City. It was terrific to see him look-

ing in fine form. Many, like

Edie

Schmidt Kilgour

and

David

team won the local bar/restaurant

race series for the fifth consecu-

tive year. Congratulations!!

Gene Simonsen

writes from

Vero Beach, Fla., that he’s enjoy-

ing paradise there with golf,

tennis, and more. He said

Joe

Jiampietro

organized a fantastic

SAE reunion last spring; to see

who was there, check the picture

on the previous page.

I received the sad news of the

death of

Margaret Kane

Holtman

. “Max” was an accom-

plished horsewoman who was a

member of our riding team. She

was a teacher, docent and world

traveler. She will be missed by her

family and friends.

Thank you again for all your let-

ters. I do like writing this column.

Enjoy the winter and keep in

touch! Life is good!

1964

Sherry Gage Chappelle

800 Bayard Avenue

Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

302-226-1594

brucesher20@comcast.net

Next Reunion: 55

, 2019

Writing this only a few weeks

post-Reunion, there is a flood of

information to share rather than

the usual trickle, so be fore-

warned this time there you only

get a tributary. Next time or two,

we’ll visit more of the streams

and ports of call on an amazing

weekend. You all got the Reunion

Book, so I won’t be sharing so

much of the personal for a bit:

you have the resource for that

right at your fingertips.

If you were there, I don’t have to

tell you what a great time it was.

If you missed it, we missed you.

And be assured your name came

up in the “remember whens.”

(

George Corsilia

’s twice within

a few hours to this reporter, for

example.) Forgive me if I misrep-

resent, missed or misreport news

and views. I wished all weekend

that I could clone myself to ferret

out all the interactions and stories

and visit all the venues. I’ll be

happy to print retractions and

corrections for things I misheard

or misremember!

Newnham Lloyd, Ann

Breitner O’Reilly

and three KDs

from other classes) meet every

winter in the Orlando area.

Chris Hopf-Lovette

visited

Jackie Thompson Lois

Venice, Fla., and spent a fun

afternoon and had a dinner with

Janet Lefkowitz Schotz

, who

lives there. Chris and Emmett

Mahoney also took a trip to Italy

with her sister, Barbara, and Linda

Hopf-Pope ’68 and her husband,

David Pope ’67. They rented a villa

in Impruneta and took self-guided

tours of the area. According to

Chris, they had “a terrific time (if

you cancel out the clever thief

who deprived me of my money

and iPhone as we got off a train at

our first stop in the Cinque Terre).”

Chris posted lovely pictures of her

Italian adventure on Facebook.

Gerry Hamburger

writes, “I’m

a kid again, living with my wife,

Cathy, in Bucksport, a small town

in Maine. We have a cabin in the

woods with occasional bears,

deer, but no moose yet. We’ve

been stocking our pond with

brook trout and have succeeded

in attracting loons, great blue

herons and eagles.”

Gerry has retired from a teaching

position at New England Institute

of Technology in Warwick, R.I. He

says he’s busier now than when

he was working.

Ken Gross

received two presti-

gious awards this year! He was

honored by the Automotive Hall of

Fame with a Distinguished Service

Citation, and his 2013 book,

Sensu-

ous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles

earned him the International Motor

Press Association’s Ken Purdy

Award. Congratulations, Ken!

Kayla, 18, is at Lynchburg College

and Jake, 19, drove back to James

Madison University in time for

rugby practice. Son Chris is still

rocking and rolling with the Spin

Doctors and Jeremy, 44, lives in

Boston, where he creates com-

puter programs that help doctors

and hospitals interface.

Doug Brown

and Mary Lou M’73

celebrated their 50th anniversary

by treating themselves to a Ver-

mont Bicycle Tours (VBT) bike and

barge trip in the Netherlands. They

had a wonderful time. Doug’s ski

when I asked where she was

going, she grinned when I told

her that I went there. She fell in

love with St. Lawrence from the

first visit.” Last November, Dave

added, he and his wife went on

a Viking cruise from Prague to

Paris through Germany, and met

Paddy Mackenzie '76 and John

Duford '74 from Rochester, N.Y.

1963

Leah Kollmer Puzzo

135 Hillcrest Avenue

Leonia, NJ 07605

201-461-7052(home)

201-321-5519(cell)

lkpuzzo@msn.com

Next Reunion: 55

, 2018

A big thank-you to all who

responded to the eblast sent out

by the University! It was great to

hear from you. Please continue to

share your news.

What a pleasant surprise to hear

from

Sally Viean Flinn

. Sally

left St. Lawrence after freshman

year and finished her B.A. at the

University of Oregon. After gradu-

ation, she moved back home to

Hawaii, married, had four children

and became an insurance agent.

Her especially great friends from

St. Lawrence are

Pat Warne

Randall

and

Grace

Napolitano Zanazzi

Janet Ghattas

and John

Hand are conducting their 23rd

program to Senegal, West Africa,

where they were Peace Corps

volunteers from 1962 through

1965. The dates are December 28,

2014-January 13, 2015. They wel-

come Laurentians to be among

the five participants. Please

contact them when you are in

the Cambridge, Mass., area. They

would love to see you!

Nancy Palmer Appich

spent

two weeks in June on Sanibel

Island, Fla., at her annual family

reunion. After a restful reunion,

she and grandchildren spent

several days at the Disney parks!

Nancy and her KD group (

Helen

Badger Druce, Betsy Barratt

Lutz, Vivien Easton Bower,

Jean Sutherland McKee, Ann

Rather than current events,

Bruce Boss

provided a nostalgic

note recalling our freshman life

in “Men’s Rez,” now Sykes. He

and

Peter Kermani

lived across

the hall from one another, im-

mediately next to the cafeteria.

Among other things they played

bridge and cribbage and shared

their love of classical music.

Bruce recalls Peter entertaining

their hallway by putting his stereo

in his doorway on Saturdays and

playing Bruno Walter’s rendition

of Mahler’s Second Symphony.

Bruce thanks the Kermani family,

whose musical interest inspired

a gift toward the Peterson-Ker-

mani Recital Hall at St. Lawrence.

Bruce recalls our freshman year

as the best year of his life; he still

has his scarlet beanie with the

’62 on the front.

While on a transcontinental train

trip from California, whose last

leg was on the

Lake Shore Lim-

ited

eastbound from Chicago,

George and

D.D. Cushman

Harrington

captured a photo

of a passenger car belonging to

the Adirondack & St. Lawrence

Ry. Co. She planned to meet

Pat

Chester Burd

in Kennebunk-

port, Me., where they both own

summer cottages.

Dave Daniels

sent this picture

of himself with one of his tennis

team members, Camille Burger

’18. He’s been the Longmeadow

(Mass.) High School girls’ tennis

coach for three years, having

been a math teacher there until

retiring in 2000 (upon which he

taught math at Western New

England University until 2011).

“I did not influence Camille to

apply to SLU,” he says. “In fact,

kept them in the game for a

while, they fell way well behind

the younger teams.

Speaking of annual get-togeth-

ers,

Kate Griffin

reminds us that

each fall

Sandy Brown Lepore

Diane Peterson Reynolds ’64 and

Leigh Berry ’64 meet for a hiking

and biking vacation. By the time

this report goes to press they

will have met for the 23rd year

for the exercise and the requisite

chatting and laughter.

Kate tells us that the Sackets

Harbor Historical Society, of

which she is a board member,

hosted Matt Dudley ’14 as a

speaker in June. Kate and Matt

first connected in Canton during

our 50th reunion in 2012. Matt

was giving a talk on the War of

1812, titled "Agent 13 in the North

Country." He has expanded

on his research with financial

support from St. Lawrence that

allowed him a month in the

Archives of the Indies in Seville,

Spain, as well as time at the

Chicago History Museum. His

Sackets Harbor presentation

was on the War of 1812’s General

James Wilkinson, titled "For King

and Countries: the Remarkable

Life of an Occasional Spaniard

and Fair-weather Patriot." The

talk received rave responses by

local War of 1812 experts.

Anne Henehan Oman

enjoyed

home-and-home visits with

Linda Cassidy Kline

. They met

at Linda’s West Coast Hunting-

ton Beach, then Anne’s East

Coast Fernandina Beach (no

sunburns, I hope)! They had a

great time doing watercolors on

the beach, by the river and in the

marshes, and then exploring the

Okefenokee Swamp.

son bonding weekend to Pilzen

and Prague and hiking through

snowy woods in Mittenwald,

with side visits to Garmisch and

Oberammergau. Once home, he

spent February and March on a

car trip around our country. He

visited Peggy LaRock ’63 and

Jim Blanchard

in Madison,

Wis., where he also saw Kent ’65

and Mary Ann Fuller. Then he

headed for Steamboat Springs

for a few skiing days with Jane

Schwartz ’63 and

Bill Schaffer

His return trip took him thorough

Albuquerque, where a lady friend

joined him for the southerly re-

turn back east. They took in the

vastness of the Southwest, visit-

ing White Sands National Monu-

ment, Carlsbad Caverns, Pecos

(of Judge Roy “The Hanging

Judge” fame) and San Antonio

(“Remember the Alamo”) among

other iconic American venues.

Ron Rencurrel

and Evie have

two skiing stories. In February,

they met Dave ’61 and Karen

McDonald Walton ’63 and

Gary

Gibson

and Gayle at the Land-

grove Inn in Vermont to ski and

play for a few days. This is an

annual event they have done for

five years! Then in May, while in

Colorado, they took a side trip

to visit the Schaffers, and on

Memorial Day, Bill skied his 137th

day of the season. The next day,

they all took a 20-mile bike ride

(all downhill) along the Roaring

Fork River to Basalt for lunch.

SLU- educated, they smartly

took the bus back to Aspen!

In June, Ron played in the Saints

Hockey Alumni and Friends Golf

Outing at New Seabury Country

Club on the Cape. He was paired

with Sam Sammis ’60 and Jinny.

Despite help from Jinny, who

SAEs from the Class of ’63 who enjoyed a reunion in Florida last spring were,

from left,

John Reddy

John Mason,

host

Joe Jiampietro,

Frank Taylor

Gene Simonsen, Dick DesReis, Chuck Ross

and

Pete Kross.