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40 SUMMER 2012 | ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
their e orts to receive increased funds from the
city. In addition, she’s secretary of the local histor-
ical society and continues to write her memoirs.
I was delighted to receive
Sue Hunter Schultz
’s
belated Christmas letter. It was “dictated” by
their poodle, Pepin, whom they rescued from the
show dog world. And did he have stories to tell!
Travels to Mexico, Hawaii, the spectacular shores
of northern Wisconsin, and then all of the visits
from the kids and grandkids! Sue,
Marty Nuttall
Heath
,
Kay Robertson Tomasi
and I are talking
seriously about a sophomore-year roommate re-
union!
Jay Fleisher
hopes to “get my retirement back
after willingly being recruited to direct the Juneau
Ice eld Research Program for the past two years.
I never would have agreed if not for the fact that
this program was instrumental in launching my
professional career dealing with glaciers."
”After joint replacement, he was looking forward
to returning to the Juneau Ice eld as participat-
ing faculty in June, followed by “a two-week eld
excursion to Iceland that I will lead in July.” Then
he was “hoping to reconnect with plans for a hut-
to-hut trek in the Alps.”
In April,
Floyd Sandford
and his wife, Sharon,
vacationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
with their daughter, Susan, a graduate student at
Duke. In June, Floyd and Sharon traveled for two
weeks in Morocco, and in September, Floyd will
take a week to solo-hike a stretch of the Superior
Hiking Trail, which follows close to the shores of
Lake Superior from Duluth to the Canadian bor-
der. When not travelling, Floyd plans to plant over
100 trees at his cabin and acreage in Northeast
Iowa.
I sent
Mark Harran
an article about how the
mild New England winter played havoc with the
maple sugar crop. As he con rmed, “That's farm-
ing! Next season has got to be better!”
James Pritzker
reports that the oldest grand-
child is looking at colleges and medical schools.
Anita HillsWeeks
writes that her business, Anita-
sangels, is going well; she relieves people of their
major stressors by phone.
Ken Shilkret
wrote
that he is active with the American Legion, local
ambulance corps, high school hockey team and
infection control association, and
Vic Nardone
sent a note from the warm Puerto Rican climate.
On a sad note, the University learned of the pass-
ing in June of 2010 of
Bob Mullin
. Our sympathy
to his family and friends.
Wishing you a wonderful summer!
1962
SteveWahl ’62
7899 E. Soaring Eagle
Scottsdale, AZ 85266-1280
480-575-5300
slubadger@cox.net
Next Reunion: 55th, 2017
1963
Leah Kollmer Puzzo ’63
135 Hillcrest Avenue
Leonia, NJ 07605-1508
201-461-7052(home)
201-321-5519(cell)
lkpuzzo@msn.com
Next Reunion: 50th, May 30-June 2, 2013
1964
Sherry Gage Chappelle ’64
800 Bayard Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
302-226-1594
brucesher20@comcast.net
Next Reunion: 50th, 2014
Editor’s Note:
Overzealous editing caused a factual
error in our last issue. The beginning of Denley Roth-
mann Ra erty’s trip description should have read,
“I traveled to Russia and the Baltic countries (Lithu-
ania, Latvia and Estonia) in August with Dick Hersey
’65’s sister.”
St. Lawrence
regrets the error.
From
Betty Jones
, lots of travel notes! With her
partner, Robert, she has made enough journeys
for several lifetimes. As of this writing, her most
recent trip was a cruise from Santiago to Rio.
Past trips have included Fiji for diving, Australia
and New Zealand, Vail each winter for skiing, and
Cozumel, for more diving. Since retiring from a
career as a human resources director in 2005, she
has also been to Russia, Egypt, the Balkans, Peru,
the Greek Isles, China and Tibet.
Betty wrote in detail about the fascinations of
their trip last fall to Southeast Asia. She found cit-
ies like Hanoi, Phnom Penh and Saigon large and
modern, but the countryside little changed in the
last millennium. Running water is non-existent;
toilet facilities are the bush; houses are built of
reeds and scraps of wood andmetal, and elevated
to escape ooding.
In Cambodia, they visited the Tuol Sleng Geno-
cide Museum, devoted to the Killing Fields. An-
gkor Wat, the largest religious complex in the
world, nine centuries after its construction, still in
the process of being reclaimed from the jungle,
was another stop.
Betty said she learned to eat noodle soup with
chopsticks. She also described how to cross a
street in cities where tra c is not cars but mo-
torbikes and “stoplights are few and often not
obeyed: Walk at a steady pace; don’t stop, don’t
dart, but keep going. This way, bikers can gage
where you will be as they zip by. Rush hours were
wall-to-wall motorbikes going in all directions
and frequently cutting corners by using the side-
walks. The government will not let foreigners rent
cars, for obvious reasons.”
And now for something completely di erent
from
Leigh Berry
:
“Well, she's out...she's public...she's in print...she's
made her rst appearance in the weekly
Warren
Times-Gazette
. Granny Grammar is alive and on
the prowl in Rhode Island!”
With a highlighted faux pas of the week, each of
Leigh’s Granny Grammar columns comes illustrat-
ed by a grammar error photo from our intrepid
sleuth. Leigh explains this venture: “This is some-
thing I've wanted to do for YEARS, and it's nally
come to fruition after a wonderful chat with the
editor. I already have 20+ photos to ll up the pa-
per for the next few months. I hope the hate mail
won't overwhelmme!
‘Doesn't this old broad have
better things to do?’ ‘The nerve of her to come into
my store and take pictures!’
Next thing you know
I'll be in the police blotter column!”Perhaps Leigh
can franchise this idea to classmates since we all
nd plenty of examples on signs and billboards
and in newspaper ads in our own neighborhoods.
1965
Jane Petrie Davis ’65
P.O. Box 730
Manchester Center, VT 05255-0730
802-362-3621
jphteam@comcast.net
Next Reunion: 50th, 2015
I was delighted to hear from
Jane Munson
on her life since college. She worked 34 years at
Concord (N.H.) Feminist Health Center as a health
worker and counselor. She and her second hus-
band, Syd Lavigne, live in Concord, an hour away
from son Matt, his wife, and their granddaughter,
Holly. Also living nearby is Jane's rst husband,
Arpy Saunders
, with his wife, Jill.
Jane still plays the piano and was on the board
of the Granite State Symphony Orchestra for 10
years. Her interest in music comes from her fa-
ther, Dr. Kenneth Munson, chair of the music de-
partment at St. Lawrence for over 40 years.
Jane hears from
Merrily McCabe
, who lives in
Oregon, and
Ruth Mentley
in Louisiana.
In March, Tony and I had lunch with
Alice Roth-
mann Demarest
and John '63. They had just
returned from a month in Fort Meyers, Fla., and
are now enjoying their lakeside home near Cam-
bridge, N.Y.
1966
Jim and Stevie McPhee Michaelson ’66
22 Gouverneur Street
Canton, NY 13617-1214
315-386-5250
jmichaelson@twcny.rr.com
Next Reunion: 50th, 2016
Our two featured classmates this time are
John
Ewing
and
Ray Silverman
. Thanks to
Dick Mor-
row
in gathering information on John in phone
conversation and from the February/March 2012
issue of the
MAA FOCUS
(The news magazine of
the Mathematical Association of America). John
received the Yueh-Gin Gung and Charles Y. Hu
Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics...
the most prestigious award for service o ered by
the Association. Congratulations, John!
John received his Ph.D. in mathematics from
Brown and taught at Dartmouth and other colleg-
es. He then became the executive director of the
American Mathematics Society for 15 years and is
currently president of Mathematics of America.
His task is to recruit math teachers for the major
metropolitan areas. John and his wife, Janice,
raised three children and have ve grandchildren.
In his spare time, he is editor of a graduate text in
mathematics.