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st. lawrence university magazine | fall 2014

Jackie Roy Hallock

was

honored to be elected to the

Alumni Executive Council last

spring! The council's mission is

to increase alumni engagement

and support the University in a

number of meaningful ways. If

you want to be more engaged or

become part of the AEC, please

email her at

jackieroy81@gmail

com. Congratulations, Jackie, and

thank you for serving us!

It has been a decade since we

left the beauty and comfort of St.

Lawrence and embarked on our

adult lives. I’ve had the pleasure

and privilege of reporting our

news for the last several years,

but this will be my last column. I

am grateful for the opportunity to

have represented you. If you are

interested in donating your time

and serving as our next class re-

porter, please see the instructions

at the top of this column.

Until we meet again, I wish you all

the best!

2005

For information about becoming a

reporter for this class, please contact

Sharon Henry, 315-229-5585 or

shenry@stlawu.edu

, or Kim His-

song, 315-229-5837 or khissong@

stlawu.edu.

Next Reunion: 10

May 28-31, 2015

For her final column,

Danielle

Sanzone

writes:

I was happy to hear from so many

2005 grads, some of whom went

to the reunion this past spring.

Doug Smith

attended with

his wife, Amanda Church Smith

’04, for her 10th reunion. “It was

program’s 50th year (for excerpts

of Prof. Caldwell’s remarks, turn

to the feature pages). I met Phi-

losophy Professor Laura Rediehs

at Brewer Bookstore for tea, and

we reminisced about the time we

spent in those very chairs discuss-

ing the philosophy of language

and, often, life.

A generous handful of our class

was there, even though many old-

er alumni acknowledged that the

10th reunion falls at a difficult time

for young adults and families. I ran

into many of you at various points

during that wonderful weekend,

and I heard your stories, the details

of which escape me now. Among

those encounters, I forged new

friendships with

Elizabeth

Teczar

and Paul Maurer ’03,

Adair Swain

and

Josh Earl

Allison Turcotte VanGuilder

and I spent much of reunion

together.

Maggie Proulx

and I

shared a fatbag at 1 a.m., in the Chi

Omega dining room.

Jolie Roetter

and I recalled

memories of our France semester

over lunch at MacAllaster House.

I saw my Rebert Green Wing FYP

friends

Cassie O’Brien-Bates,

Emily Hunt Forbes, Josh

Wyman

and

Drew White

At various times and places

throughout the weekend, I saw

Jess Noble, Cate Doucette,

Abbey Green Mongosa, Me-

lissa Wordelmann Johnson,

Mat Johnson, Travis Wyman,

Eric Klapper, Jeremy Pierce,

Geoff Faiella

… surely I am for-

getting some as I try to recall the

details of a whirlwind weekend.

Please forgive me. I encourage

you all to write in and tell your

stories so we can share in your

joys and successes!

My dear friend Liz Johnston Hub-

bard ’03 picked me up at the tiny

Watertown airport, and we drove

familiar Route 11 through towns

whose names had slipped to the

back of my memory: Evans Mills

with its race track, a Philadelphia

far different from my hometown,

Gouverneur and its Life Savers

monument. At last, the road came

to a T at the Cascade Inn. We

turned right onto Main Street. I

was home.

For me, Reunion was a perfect

blend of old and new. I revisited

places rich with memories (the

Chi Omega house at 18 Elm,

Brewer Bookstore, the tree-lined

path from the corner of Park and

University to Richardson Hall).

I also discovered places new to

campus or new to me. On a jog,

I finally discovered the Avenue

of the Elms and felt a rush of

pride to tread that beloved path.

I toured the state-of-the-art

Johnson Hall of Science, a build-

ing I never would have set foot in

even if it had existed in my time.

I saw the new residence at the

foot of the Quad and marveled at

how well it blends with the older

buildings on campus and how the

Quad will once again be a true

green center of campus. I mourn-

ed the sight of a steeple-less

Gunnison Chapel while simultane-

ously filled with gratitude that the

damage was not more severe.

More significant than the places,

though, were the people I shared

time with. I experienced the

remarkable acoustics of the

Peterson-Kermani Recital Hall,

singing a few tunes with Barry

Torres. I heard Roy Caldwell re-

count highlights from the France

program history as alumni from

half a century filled Sykes Com-

mon Room to celebrate the

manager for Xylem Corp., and

particularly enjoys the parts of

her job that allow her to travel

on charitable missions to Central

America consulting on clean

drinking water projects.” Todd

is finishing his Ph.D. in clinical

psychology this fall at Syracuse

University, and has accepted a

postdoctoral fellowship with the

Department of Veterans Affairs

in Canandaigua, N.Y., focused on

suicide research and prevention.

2004

For information about becoming a

reporter for this class, please contact

Sharon Henry, 315-229-5585 or

shenry@stlawu.edu

, or Kim His-

song, 315-229-5837 or khissong@

stlawu.edu.

Next Reunion: 10th, May 29-

June 1, 2014

Retiring Class Reporter

Rachel

Peterson

writes:

As the leaves begin to fall and

the air turns crisp, thoughts of

St. Lawrence flood my memory.

The beauty of the North Country

in the fall is rare and wonderful,

though it is not the only season

marked by beauty.

In late May, I flew from drought-

stricken southern California to

Watertown en route to Reunion.

The plane descended over an end-

less canopy of deep green dotted

with glistening lakes and sleepy

small towns. My heart raced and

filled with wonder as my eyes took

in colors and landscapes I had not

seen for five years.

new addition. Chance’s hobbies

include spitting up and frequent

rides in a diesel pickup that lull

him to sleep.

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Bridgette Holmes

Gallagher

11 State Street

Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

518-727-4527

bridgegallagher@gmail.com

Next Reunion: 15

, 2016

(Cluster with '00, '02)

2002

Katie Evereth

1220 Marion Street #26

Denver, CO 80203

703-517-0071 (cell)

katie.evereth@gmail.com

Next Reunion: 15

th,

2016

(Cluster with '00, '01)

2003

For information about becoming a

reporter for this class, please contact

Sharon Henry, 315-229-5585 or

shenry@stlawu.edu

, or Kim His-

song, 315-229-5837 or khissong@

stlawu.edu.

Next Reunion: 15

, 2019

(Cluster with '04, '05)

Todd Bishop

wrote to the Uni-

versity, “Spurred on by the birth

of our first child, Emma, on April

18, 2014, I wanted to pass along

a long-delayed update. Ellen Ler-

rigo and I were married on June,

4, 2005, in Ellen's hometown of

North Bennington, Vt. There were

a lot of SLU folks there, includ-

ing several of my brothers from

ATO. Ellen is a trade compliance

I did complete the NYC Marathon

back in October as part of a team

organized by Brian Hetzel ’02,

and hope to get back out there

with the alumni teams in 2015.”

My wife, Dawn-Marie Webster ’96,

and I met our new son, Chance,

on April 14. Older sister Addison,

5, is mostly pleased with the

ners. He was scheduled to receive

the award at the annual meeting

in July when he wrote, saying,

“I’ve been with Northwestern

Mutual since 2010 as part of the

New York Capital District network

office. Meanwhile, I’m recovering

from ACL surgery. While this de-

rails my chances of running with

any SLU alums over the summer,

in international development and

humanitarian assistance at the

University of Denver and is very

excited to be heading to Zambia

this summer to work in a refugee

camp with the UN.”

Tom Wilder

is one of North-

western Mutual’s 2014 Commit-

ment to Excellence Award win-

Laurentian Connections

Luke Dolce ’96 – Play This 2 Play That, a Parental Control App

www.playthis2playthat.com

How often have you looked for your smartphone or tablet and found it in your child’s hands?

Luke

Dolce ’96

has three young children who, at times, have been addicted to games on their devices,

which has frustrated him and his wife, Sarah.

“Our kids were more interested in perfecting their shots on

[Angry] Birds than working on any academic skills,”

he says. “We

thought they should be spending more time on educational achievements.

That’s when we looked into creating something that incentivized our children

to engage with educational apps while earning time to play the games they

love.”

After months of time, money, research, writing business plans and finding a

developer to work with, the Dolces launched “Play This 2 Play That,” a paren-

tal control app for Android devices, in early 2014.

One of the best parts about the app is how easy it is to use. Parents decide what apps on the device

are educational. Their kids must use those to unlock time to play games. Apps on the device that

parents don’t select are not accessible when Play This 2 Play That is active.

“Parents have full control and can set and adjust appropriate time limits,” Dolce says. For instance, a

parent could set parameters so the child uses an educational app for 10 minutes to earn five minutes

of game time. The phone vibrates when the educational time requirement has been met, and when

game time is up, Play This 2 Play That kicks the user back to the educational app to earn more time.

At first, the Dolces’ children were lukewarm, but they’ve grown accustomed to the app thanks in part

to one of its features. “Our app pauses the game being played so our kids don’t lose where they are

because time is up,” Dolce explains.

Dolce notes that parents still need to monitor the device’s overall use, but “our app helps control what

children are doing while they are allowed to be on it.”

For Dolce, who works for a private investment firm in Greenwich, Conn., this is a passionate side job.

He’s committed to getting the word out and presenting it to Apple in the coming months. For more

information, find Play This 2 Play That on Facebook and Twitter (@Playths2playtht).

As part of the observance of

the 40th anniversary of the

Kenya

Program

, colloquia centered on

a half-century of the nation’s

independence focused on such

topics as the status of Kenyan

politics, human rights and

development.

Two members

of the

Class of ’84

who evidently

were glad to run into each other

at their 30th Reunion were

Jackie

Hasper Kuno

, left, and

Deena Giltz

McCullough

. Kuno was a Reunion

planning co-chair, while McCullough

is a past president of the Alumni

Executive Council.

Spring came late

to the North Country

in 2014, but it was

just in time to frame

countless small

gatherings here and

there on campus.

A breakfast