CLASS NOTES
CLASS NOTES
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48 winter 2014 | St. Lawrence University Magazine
Lue McWilliams
is a professional actress in New
York. Her latest film,
NakedAsWeCame
, premiered
in September 2013 to positive reviews. The film
features Lue as a terminally ill mother seeking to
reconcile with her children.
Rich Tebbetts
reports that he is teaching at
Bellevue College, Bellevue, Wash.
Tom Keat-
ing
also teaches, though he primarily practices
appellate law. He enjoys hiking with his family,
often in those mountains not far from our alma
mater, but which shall remain nameless because
Tom noted they are becoming too popular. He
and his family did meet some other St. Lawrence
alumni on a peak in August though, so I’m afraid
his secret is out.
Another attorney,
Leon
Silver,
is the recipient of the
2014 Advocacy Leadership
Award from the YWCA of
Maricopa County, Ariz. It will
be presented to him Febru-
ary 1 at the annual Tribute to
Leadership Awards Dinner in
Phoenix. Leon was featured
in an
Arizona Attorney
(April
2013) article,“Leading a Double Life,”that profiled
attorneys who are also artists. In his case, those
arts are painting andmusic, including performing
with his band,
Guilty as Sin
. Leon's firm also ad-
vised that he was recently selected for inclusion
in Southwest Super Lawyers 2013 in the category
of Business Litigation.
Andrew Wilson
is the managing partner of
Bossie & Wilson, PLLC, a Manchester, N.H., law
firm handling family law and specialized criminal
defense matters. He and his wife, Karen, reside in
Bedford, N.H. Their 19-year-old son, Jake, attends
college in Burlington, Vt., and their 15-year-old
daughter, Hannah, is a sophomore in high school.
Richard Heidt
’s daughter, Kristin, is a freshman
at St. Lawrence, and is on the volleyball team. This
gives his family many opportunities to cheer on
the Saints at her games.
Deborah Shippee Papin
’s daughter, Molly
Papin ’11, also attended St. Lawrence, and is
now in graduate school. Deborah is the English
department chair at Indian River Central High
School, Philadelphia, N.Y., and an adjunct profes-
sor at Jefferson Community College, Watertown,
N.Y. She is also the proud grandmother of two
future Laurentians.
Last spring,
Eric Miller
became senior vice presi-
dent at Financial Profiles, Los Angeles, a corpo-
rate communications and investor relations firm.
And
Doug Beckerman
is director of finance at
Veristat, a Massachusetts-based clinical research
organization. He recently placed Ted Blewitt ’13
with the company, demonstrating SLU’s alumni
network in action.
Julie Pearsall
and her husband, Ken, have
moved from their long-time home in Auburn
N.Y., to the warmer climes of Rockledge, Fla. Her
update included that “retirement” word, which
I’m sure must be a mistake because our time at
SLU was just yesterday, wasn’t it? In any case, the
move will bring them closer to their son, Greg,
who is a computer engineering student at Florida
Tech. They are in touch with
Mike Kelley
, and
would love to hear from other alumni in the area.
Jared Crawford
, Pittsford, NY, participant in the
Kenya Program, has been spending more time in
the U.S. than in previous years. He explains, “I’ve
been watching the phenomenon of third-culture
kids for years now and in 2010 got it into my head
to uproot my family fromAfrica and deposit them
in upstate N.Y. The idea was that it would be dif-
ficult for the children (ages 6, 8 and 14) to obtain
the full value of growing up overseas without be-
ing rooted somehow in a culture in which they
have citizenship. We had the choice of the United
Kingdom or the U.S., so we naturally ended up in
Pittsford. It has been an interesting experiment,
and we still split our time between home in the
States and our safari and conservation businesses
in Africa. Somehow, we have managed to keep
one foot in the snow and the other in the mud
and it is a pleasure to see my children experience
the Adirondacks, learn to ski, etc. My English wife
is less convinced. Meanwhile, I remain involved
in monitoring the international trade in wildlife
products, especially ivory, and continue to design
and implement projects to ‘green’ tourism opera-
tions through the use of solar power throughout
Africa and in India.”
Bradford Craighead
has also relocated back
to the U.S. from overseas. “After living in London
since 1999, I moved in August with my family to
our place in South Salem, N.Y.,” he said. “It's prov-
ing to be a radical change in lifestyle, though we
welcome the country life after so many years of
living in big cities and non-stop travel. As a con-
sequence, it seems I've wrapped up 25 years in
banking and it’s time to get busy with new chal-
lenges and by starting work again on our early
18th-century home and garden.”Brad’s wife, Trac-
ey, continues with photography and charitable
work, currently focusing on a book project with
Women for Women International. Their 14-year-
old daughter attends boarding school in Con-
necticut and her younger sister is attending a
local day school.
As for me, I admit the “retirement”word has also
crept into my life. After years of practicing envi-
ronmental law and building a law firm based
in Ukraine with my husband, Markian Silecky, I
have recently stepped away from practicing law.
Through a series of mergers, our firm is now a
part of Dentons, where my husband is a partner.
The nature of his practice, international corporate
law, and our penchant for globe-trotting keep our
suitcases perpetually packed. Summer 2013 trips
included Ecuador and the Galapagos, followed
by a People-to-People Educational Exchange in
Cuba. These trips are always great bonding times
with our 19-year-old son, Matej Silecky, who is a
student at UC Berkeley, aka “Cal,” but who always
says that visiting St. Lawrence with us feels like
“going home.”
Deena Glitz McCullough
sent an update that
well describes our St. Lawrence connections and
the satisfaction of ongoing involvement in the
campus community: “I’m hoping to attend Re-
union and know it is another milestone for our
class. To me, each reunion brings fonder memo-
ries and an opportunity to reconnect with class-
mates that I didn’t even know I had in the early
1980s. I’ve been honored to become reconnected
with St. Lawrence in the past decade, spending
time on the Alumni Executive Council and unable
to resist the urge to be its president. This is a great
multi-generational group and I have to say I have
made true friends for life. Now I am involved in
a pilot program for mentoring first- and second-
year SLU students and find that the time spent
with students is extremely gratifying.”
Now, that should encourage everyone to attend
reunion!
St. Lawrence family and friends gathered over the July 4th weekend in Little Compton, R.I. Left
to right are
Michael Keigher '85, Henry Samson '16, Annie Samson Celander '85, Cary Regan
Keigher '85
and
Earl “Trip” Samson '80
.
1985
Cary Regan Keigher ’85
1 MacPherson Drive
Greenwich, CT 03860
203-622-5030
Next Reunion: 30th, May 29-June 1, 2014 (cluster
with ’83, ’84)
It was great to hear from
Amy Ness Payne
, who
wrote about a small group of classmates gather-
ing last spring in Jupiter, Fla., to celebrate their
joint 50th birthdays. Please see the photo of the
girls standing proudly on their paddle boards:
Nancy LoganMontone, Jeanne Kirby, KimCo-
han Dyer, Beth Limoge Stvan,
Amy and
Teddy
Hartry Springer
. They are saluting their class-
mates who are reaching the same landmark year!
Amy filledme in on their busy lives. After living in
Vermont for 17 years (the last few spent undertak-
ing recovery work in the town of Waterbury from
Hurricane Irene),
Jeanne Kirby
and her husband
are moving to St. Paul for a new job.
Nina Bishop
Tuttle
is very excited to welcome Jeanne to her
home state!
Beth Limoge Stvan
sees
Amy Jef-
fery
and
Teddy Hartry Springer
frequently as
they’re all neighbors in the D.C. area.
Kim Co-
han Dyer
has a new job as an elementary school
counselor and invites skiers to visit her anytime
in Colorado.
Nancy Logan Montone
is the new
director of development at Explore & More Chil-
dren’s Museum in Buffalo, busily raising the nec-
essary funds to move the museum to Buffalo’s
revitalized waterfront.
Amy recently moved to Menlo Park, Calif., with
her two children. She has a new job as the literacy
specialist at Synapse School.
Tracy McGuire Brinker
recently saw our for-
mer classmate,
Page Curran Victor
, in the fall
when she helped move Page’s daughter in for her
freshman year at Boston College. Tracy lives in
Wilmington, Del., and also has 11-year-old twins,
Phoebe and Ty.
Mike Keigher
and I encourage all of you to plan
on attending our 30th Reunion clustered with the
Classes of ’83 and ’84. The date is Friday, May 30 –
Sunday, June 1. Watch for details!
1986
Joy Ciarcia-Levy ’86
26 Sherbrooke Rd.
Hartsdale, NY 10530
914-591-1936
Next Reunion: 30
th
, 2017 (cluster with ’87, ’88)
Joseph Gray
was nominated as a Republican
candidate for re-election as Massena Town Super-
visor; elections were in November. He and Marcy
celebrated 22 years of marriage on Sept. 21.
Steve Amick
has joined the fiction faculty in the
Pacific University MFA writing program. It's low-
residence, which means he gets to stay in Ann Ar-
bor, Mich., and they fly him out to Oregon twice a
year for 10 days. It’s been rated number three of its
kind, so it's pretty exciting to be included. He's also
got a pretty outrageous, hopefully funny, story in
the fall 2013
Cincinnati Review
.
Please write to me with your news. It's always
great to hear about what's going on in your lives!
1987
Elizabeth Solomon Hubbard ’87
2761 Bernard Place
Evanston, IL 60201
847-864-2821
Next Reunion: 30
th
, 2017 (cluster with ’86, ’88)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that
Robert J. Kenney Jr
. has joined the firm as part-
ner in the Corporate Litigation group. He is based
in the NewYork City office. He had been with Hof-
heimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP in NewYork, where he
was a partner, and a trial attorney in the United
States Marine Corps. Bob is a board member of
The Salvation Army, Greater New York Division;
a committee member of the New York Leather-
neck Scholarship Ball, Marine Corps Scholarship
Foundation; and a member of the NewYork State
Bar Association’s Federal and Commercial Section
committee. He has worked with the H.E.L.P. and
Sanctuary for Families pro bono organizations. He
received his law degree from Union University of
Albany Law School.
1988
Susie Somerville Swindell ’88
173Weed Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
203-966-4695
Next Reunion: 30
th
, 2017 (cluster with ’86, ’87)
After graduating from St. Lawrence,
Rajeev Ka-
poor
received his MBA in human resource man-
agement from Pace University. Based in New
York since 2006, he is a director with CTPartners,
a premier retained executive search firm, and a
key member of the firm’s professional services
practice.
Tim Upton
reports that he is back living in his
hometown of Wallingford, Vt., with his wife, Tracy,
and their two sons, Ben, 16, and John, 13. Last
summer, Ben attended a Lake Placid Soccer Club
camp hosted by St. Lawrence. He trained with
Coach Durocher and some of the St. Lawrence
players and stayed on campus for a week, living in
Rebert and eating his meals at Dana.
Barb Leber Fraser
has lived in Colorado for 11
years. She is a psychotherapist with a private prac-
tice working with adults, children and families
who struggle with grief, loss, anxiety and depres-
sion. Barb and her husband, Rob ’90, celebrated
their 20th wedding anniversary in November.
They reside just south of Denver in Cherry HillsVil-
lage with their three children and Zamboni, their
105-pound dog. They love to ski, camp, hike and
follow college hockey.
Ken Gonyea
is VP of operations at PCB
Piezotronics in Depew, N.Y. He lives in
North Tonawanda, N.Y., with his wife of 22 years,
Mary, and their three daughters: Meghan (a ju-
nior at Canisius College), Ali (a freshman at Ni-
agara University) and Olivia (11).
Last summer,
Tom French ’85
met up with his college friend and musical partner
Roger Hol-
loway '86
in St. Louis, Missouri. “He and I were a guitar duo as students,” French explains, as
demonstrated in the “old” photo in the Noble Center Fireside Lounge, with Holloway on the left.
In St. Louis three decades later, they traded places and look a little different, but “We had a chance
to jam together, hack our way through some old original songs, and show each other some new
ones,” French said, recalling that they also played Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; the Allman
Brothers; James Taylor; and The Grateful Dead.
Holloway is director of operations at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis; the facility features a
wildlife hospital for the rehabilitation of injured birds, and educational programs including sound
tracks for other wildlife facilities. French is a school teacher in Massena, N.Y., and a writer; he lives
in Potsdam.
David Pynchon ’13
Six St. Lawrence classmates gathered in Jupi-
ter, Fla., to celebrate their 50th birthdays.
Proudly saluting form their paddle boards are,
from left,
Nancy Logan Montone ’85, Jeanne
Kirby ’85, Kim Cohan Dyer ’85, Beth Limoge
Stvan ’85, Amy Ness Payne ’85
and
Teddy
Hartry Springer ’85.
