CLASS NOTES
CLASS NOTES
winter 2014 | St. Lawrence University Magazine 37
36 winter 2014 | St. Lawrence University Magazine
Gregg and
Martie Root Peterson
remained in
the North Country for more fun and relaxation af-
ter our 2012 reunion. NowTexans, they continued
their driving trip from Canton to Iowa and visited
relatives. From there, they explored some more
of our beautiful country including the Badlands,
Mount Rushmore, Belle Fourche, Devils Tower and
the Garden of the Gods. They did some hiking and
took way too many pictures, fortunate that they
were in these areas prior to the horrible fires of
that year.
Their last stop before heading home was in Lub-
bock to see the Buddy Holly Museum. After sev-
eral weeks on the road, it was nice to be home.
The Petersons continue their volunteering at sev-
eral non-profits, one of which is the Commemo-
rative Air Force (CAF) B-25 World War II airplane.
There have beenmany air shows inwhich the B-25
has participated. These events are fun to attend
and do help bring in revenue to keep the plane
maintained and flyable.
This year they enjoyed a lovely cruise to Alaska,
where the scenery was wonderful and they were
able to do some rafting while enjoying the ambi-
ance of the Alaskan communities. The summer’s
itinerary was to include the Montana, Wyoming
and Colorado areas; exploring Glacier and Yel-
lowstone Parks; then on to some wonderful
parks in Utah.
Volunteering is a common theme among our re-
tired classmates.
Moe Brown
reports that he does
work for Habitat for Humanity. Among his other
charitable occupations,
Art Plitt
volunteered last
summer at Camp Braveheart, leading a group of
11- and 12-year-olds who have lost loved ones.
Bruce
and Peggy
Boss
have a daughter, Sarah
Beth, and four grandchildren. Sarah had been
teaching in Alaska (Petersburg, on an island in
the Panhandle) where it rains and snows all the
time and loved it, but due to medical problems
she and her family have moved to Henderson,
Nev., where Clark County hired 1800 new teach-
ers and it almost never rains or snows. Sarah Beth
teaches English and Spanish high school courses
and is a reading teacher for K-12. She has won
many awards as a teacher. In Petersburg, it is usu-
ally in the 50s during summer while Henderson is
over 100 degrees! Sarah says,“You can shop in real
stores here without a long ferry ride.”
Bill Richardson
writes that he scratched an-
other line off his bucket list: he drove a NAS-
CAR racecar around the New Hampshire
Speedway. That was followed by a trip to Saco,
Maine, with his kids and grandkids for kayaking,
rope swinging and dining on lobster.
I think
D.D. Cushman Harrington
is mocking
us retirees! She says, “Not too much news here
except making repairs, selling some homes, and
planning a logging operation on the farm.”D.D. re-
ports that
Pat Chester Burd
played her daughter,
Lauren Burd ’06, in the finals of their flight in the
Club Championship at Webhhanet Golf Club in
Kennebunk, Me. Youth prevailed. D.D. also bowed
to youth (and skill) in the finals of the Champion-
ship flight.
Robert “Bo” Donly
reports that he and Mimi
Kohler ’64 built a new home in Dania Beach, Fla.,
a little closer to the ocean, with all the ideas they’d
collected over time. Quite a move after living in
one house for 47 years! Their grandkids are close
by and spend lots of time with them.
Harriet Butler Mitchell Boyden
flew to Colo-
rado to spend time with son David Mitchell and
his family. She then attended the Gold Star Wives
Convention in Denver, where she was installed as
national president. Congratulations, Harriet! Her
granddaughter, Dana Block, joined her on the trip
home to Aiken, N.C. Three days later, they flew to
Maine, where they visited with family and friends
and joined David and his family and in-laws for a
week. Harriet and Dana then headed to the Thou-
sand Islands, where they also visited with family
and friends.
Last August 28 was the 50th anniversary of the
1963 "March on Washington" at which Martin
Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a Dream” speech.
Having attended the original march, this sum-
mer Pidge (Eleanor) and
Tom Hunt
attended a
"recreation" at a community college near Sacra-
mento. To their surprise, they became the center
attraction at the event, not just marching like ev-
eryone else but being individually interviewed
for a Sacramento TV station morning news
broadcast, reading parts of the speech at the
recreation and conducting a two-hour discus-
sion session, attended by over 250 people. They
talked about what it was like to be at the march
and hear the speech, what we believe is the last-
ing importance of the speech, and how King's
speech influenced Tom and Pidge’s ultimate de-
cision to have civil rights law careers.
I’ll close this dispatch with some thoughts on
“Senior Creativity.” I know we don’t like to admit
that we are now classified as senior citizens, but
some of us refuse to play golf and watch TV!
Bob
Leonardi
is just such an individual. An article in
an Auburn, N.Y., newspaper entitled“How toMake
a Roasted Beet Salad” was attributed to our Bob.
Another non-retiree, Bob owns a fine wine and
gourmet store near Boca Raton, Fla., and also runs
an event planning and catering business. Appar-
ently he also dabbles in recipe creation, and his
beet salad recipe found its way to his hometown
newspaper. Way to go, Bob!
Cheers to everyone; don’t forget to drop me
a note!
1963
Leah Kollmer Puzzo ’63
135 Hillcrest Avenue
Leonia, NJ 07605-1508
201-461-7052(home)
201-321-5519(cell)
Next Reunion: 55
th
, 2018
Hilary Hartman Goodwin
spent an event-
filled summer at her ranch in Wyoming. She
and her husband spend time with Jack and
Ann Cogswell Caldwell
riding horses and enjoy-
ing each other’s company. Hilary and Ralph spend
the winter in Florida. She said she and
Richie
Broadbelt
were sorry to miss the 50th reunion,
but“plan to be at the 55th, God willing! We might
be a parade of two and in our wheelchairs, but
we’ll be there—what a hoot.”
Jim and
Karen Allred Quinn
escaped the giant
forest fires in Sun Valley, Idaho, while they were
working at the Writers’ Conference held there
every summer. They also took a trip to Europe in
the fall.
Please keep me posted on what you’ve been do-
ing so I can share it with the rest of the class.
Classmates, teammates and friends of the late
Bob Perani ’66
gathered in front of Appleton
Arena in October to dedicate a bench honoring the hockey standout who died in 2012. From left
are
JimMichaelson ’66, Lyn Bedell ’66, Mike Savage ’66, Anne LeBeau Savage ’66, Stevie
MacPhee Michaelson ’66
and
David Ross ’67
. The plaque on the bench reads, “In memory of
Robert Perani ’66, 1942-2012, given by his Friends, Classmates and Family, October 2013.”The
bench joins four others memorializing Laurentians near the main entrance to the arena.
1964
Sherry Gage Chappelle ’64
800 Bayard Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
302-226-1594
Next Reunion: 50
th
, May 29-June 1, 2014
Our 50th reunion – only months away! Have you
made your reservations, called your best buds
and BFFs, planned your route to Canton? It’s not
too late. As any veteran reunion-eer (and there
is a core of us) can tell you, it’s a fantastic way to
see how the campus has grown and changed –
not to mention our classmates. Filled with good
food and shared memories, it’s a unique way to
connect-the-dots on our life’s journey for others
and discover the paths they have taken. What
more could you ask for?
An email from
Bill Bradbury
illustrates one
man’s path. Bill sends“best regards from Idaho. As
of this January, I’ve pretty much retired to Eagle,
near Boise. I live on the Boise River in the shadow
of the Sawtooth foothills. …a pretty place, peace-
ful, mostly quiet except for home football Satur-
days at oft un-defeated Boise State’s Bronco Sta-
dium. We have our own pro hockey team too: the
Idaho Steelheads…not bad, but I think the ’61-’64
Saints could handle ’emmost nights.”
Bill remarried last April. Michelle Guyer hails from
California; they met through a mutual business
interest seven years ago. “Travel keeps me out of
saloons and church pews alike,”he writes.“We like
Jackson Hole, Key Largo, and Big Fork, Montana,
and we visit family in Fort Worth often.”
When Bill wrote, he was about to celebrate the
birth of his 10th grandchild. He has three in Texas,
five in Boise and, by now if all went well, two in
New Jersey. He still skis, “albeit a lot less aggres-
sively,” golfs “a lot less accurately” and rows his
Adirondack guideboat “anywhere I can find flat
water out here. We tour around in our ’44 Jeep
and do a lot of hiking and cycling.”He has climbed
Mt. Kilimanjaro, done a little volunteer work with
Habitat for Humanity and coordinated the re-
union of his Army veteran friends from the 1960s.
“I amproud to say that we have successfully locat-
ed most of my old 40-man platoon...organizing
reunions was not part of the ROTC curriculum!”he
says. He’s “very proud of my ol’ Beta roommate
Ralph Lawrence
. I’ll start making my plans
with the entire class on campus next May…
you all come!”
And from another
Bill – Baynes
this time –
comes news of
Bunt!
, his novel for baseball fans,
particularly teenage readers whose tastes don’t
run to the literary, but who might be easily en-
grossed in game action and baseball lore.
Bob Gardner
, another Vietnam veteran, made
headlines in July as theproudGrandMarshall of the
annual Franklin, Mass., Independence Day Parade.
When Bob retired in 1994, he was also a 26-year
veteran of the FBI. Most of his family was able to be
inFranklin to cheer himon. He, too, was planning to
be part of a fall reunion of Vietnam veterans.
Thanks to all three guys for helping me give a
more gender-balanced sense of the happenings
of our men of ’64.
The University passed along news of
Ron Mason
and his induction into the United
States Hockey Hall of Fame. Ron’s college coach-
ing record of 924 wins ranks second in college
hockey annals and his winning percentage is
among the top 10 in the sport. He coached at
Lake Superior State University (1966-73), Bowl-
ing Green State University (’73-79) and Michi-
gan State (’79-2002). He served on the NCAA Ice
Hockey and Ice Hockey Rules Committees, and
from 2002 until his retirement in 2007, he was
director of athletics at MSU. He was already a
member of the Sports Hall of Fame at each of
those universities, as well as at St. Lawrence.
In that same packet, there was a link to another
of
Karen Hitchcock
’s essays for Northeast Public
Radio. She was supporting New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo’s Tax-Free NY economic plan,
setting forth arguments for cooperation among
research universities, state and federal govern-
ments, and industry as a way to benefit the econ-
omy. The short squib at the bottom mentioned
her presidencies of Albany and Queen’s (Ontario)
Universities, and her honorary doctorate from her
alma mater.
A July phone came from the ever on-the-go
Yvonne Garbaccio Robinson
lauded the “won-
derful week” she had just returned from at Ca-
naras. It was a great time with Laurentians of all
ages, says Yonnie. Canaras has been an important
part of her summers since 1977, partly because
many of the folks she has met return year after
year. After that, she was off to Italy to help with
her grandkids, ages 3 and 5 (they live there), for a
fewmonths. By the time you read this, she will be
planning, with
Barbara Thurston Shilkret
and
Thelma Ketelsen McNulty
, to facilitate another
conference, this time in Florida.
A short email from
Marietta Kiley Teret
noted
some of the overlap in our local life – she had
just visited from the Baltimore area. I hope she’ll
stop by my place when she’s in the neighbor-
hood again. And that goes for all of you! Sun,
sand, ocean breezes on tap here in “The Nation’s
Summer Capitol.”
And now the public service announcement.
Don’t forget to send your contributions (pictures
and info) for the Reunion Book.
Rick Wilkins
and
I are hoping we can get 100% inclusion, and with-
out you that can’t happen. Kudos to
Al Bloomer
,
the first person to send along his news – don’t you
be the last.
See you at Reunion!
Bickford ’66Wins History Prize
Charlene Bangs Bickford ’66,
second from left, and her three co-editors of the Documentary
History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791(DHFFC)
are the 2013 recipients of the prestigious
Thomas Jefferson Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG). Bickford
directs The GeorgeWashington University’s First Federal Congress Project, which has the publica-
tion of the DHFFC, a projected 22-volume collection of documents on the nation’s first Congress
after the passage of the Constitution, as its primary goal. The series is being published by the
Johns Hopkins University Press. Volumes 18-20, published in 2012, earned the award, the third
time the series has been so honored. An announcement in the SHFG newsletter,
The Federalist
,
provides background:
“The First Federal Congress, 1789 to 1791, has been de-
scribed as ‘the most important and productive Congress in
U.S. history.’Members began to interpret the Constitution and
pass enabling legislation, addressing challenging issues such
as the funding of the nation’s Revolutionary War debts and
configuration of the federal judiciary.
“(Volumes 18-20 of the DHFFC, alongwith five other volumes
of correspondence) provide over 13,000 letters to and from
members of the First Federal Congress,”as well as hundreds of
public opinion pieces from contemporary newspapers.
The announcement continues,“Drawn fromdozens of repositories around the country, these un-
official documents supplement official records published in previous volumes. They are rich with
information about behind-the-scenes negotiations, member-constituent relationships, and other
details that illuminate the challenges of the country’s formative years. The editors supplement the
documents with extensive contextual and reference material.
“Volumes 18 through 20 represent a valuable compilation of great breadth that contributes sig-
nificantly to our understanding of federal history.”
Bickford, a history major who holds a master’s degree from George Washington University, says
“I've spent my life” on the First Federal Congress Project, having begun work on it in 1967. “Two
more volumes to go! I'm loving being a grandmother to two boys, 5 and 7,” she said in a note to
St. Lawrence President William L. Fox ’75 last summer.
--NSB
James Chandler
’15
