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st. lawrence university magazine | WINTER 2015
We drove through campus one
fall day, and a highlight was the
reconfiguration of the Quad
bordered by our beautiful new
residence hall and patio and
impressive stone steps and ter-
racing on the chapel side. There
were many students enjoying
the new-found area. The chapel
is still being worked on but is
slowly getting a face lift and the
word is that it should be back to
normal by Commencement this
May. We took in a football game
(vs. Norwich) in the rain with Carl
and Dorothy Shaw Hoffman, who
were on their way to Vermont to
visit with family and with Bob ’67
and Pat Woehike Horne in the
Middlebury area. All is well on
campus; even the Beta Temple is
getting refurbished to be used by
faculty and students.
Reamy Jansen wrote that he
and Leslie have a great studio
in Lexington, Ky. He is finishing
a new book, entitled Intervals, A
Childhood.
Pete Henry sends greetings to all
from the West Coast. "Retirement
keeps me busier than ever,” he
says. “With three vacation rentals
an outstanding career in higher
education fund-raising and has
volunteered to co-chair our
reunion gift effort along with Kent
Fuller and Mary Fishel Bijur.
Dan reports that Susan
Parsons ’64 and Mike Wolfe still
split their time between Marsh-
field, Mass., and Costa Rica. He
has also spoken with Sally Byrnes
Magin, Kathy Lyons Metcalf, Kar-
en Kellogg Spooner and Elaine
Hollenbeck Stewart . He ended
his email by saying how special
he feels our class was and is and
what a positive outcome it made
for the St. Lawrence experience.
Jill Casler Colver sent an email in-
quiring about classmates. She has
four grandchildren; one is a senior
in college. She spends part of the
winter in Vero Beach, Fla., where
she sees Nancy Hall Sugahara.
1966
Jim Michaelson
22 Gouverneur Street
Canton, NY 13617
315-386-5250
Next Reunion: 50th, 2016
I hope to see you all at our 50th
Reunion in May!!!
Last July, Jessie Rightmyer
Osborne and Dick '64 and Jan
and Rick Richmond joined
Mary Lou Sprague '64 and Russ
Madsen at their summer home in
Canandaigua, N.Y. Rick and Jan
came from their home across
the lake; the Osbornes spent the
night while on their way home
to Michigan after visiting New
Hampshire. They’re pictured on
one of these pages.
Dan Sullivan sent a wonder-
ful email mentioning all the
classmates he and Ann have
seen or with whom they have
spoken. They have moved back
to Northfield, Minn., to be near
their daughter and her family and
old friends from their 15 years at
Carleton College.
While at the Chautauqua Institu-
tion last summer, they saw Mike
and Jan Keppler Brink. The
Brinks have consolidated on Cape
Cod and plan on attending our
50th reunion as well as the 20th
reunion of their daughter Laura
’94. Another couple who attend
Chautauqua every couple of years
are Stan and Sally Macdonald.
Stan taught journalism at SLU in
2007-2008 and helped with The
Hill News.
Dan and Ann see Dave Laird and
Joanne often in Minnesota. Dave
plays percussion in the band, The
Mouldy Figs.
Dan visited Carol Pratt ’64 and
Dick Hecklinger when he was at
a higher education conference in
Washington. Carol has finished
her term as a trustee at
St. Lawrence, and although
retired, Dick takes on lengthy and
complex U.S. State Department
assignments.
Dave and Margee Burns Grow
met the Sullivans at Chautauqua,
in Canton for a hockey game, and
at their home in Rome, N.Y. Dave
is still busy with his family's law
firm and Margee helps with her
grandchildren.
Doug Hartford met Dan for lunch
in St. Paul. Doug is retired from
to. I also went home with a base-
ball signed by our premier senior
softballer, Richard Glazer.
Of course, the best souvenirs
were our connections with each
other. Sometimes it was getting
to know each other for the first
time, as Janet McFarland said of
her “sit down “with Sue Mildner
Walters. Marietta Kiley Teret was
able to catch up as she stayed
with Janet. It was also reinvigo-
rating old friendships as Leigh
Berry did with Barbi Zinner Reed.
(It was a great chance to meet
Barbi’s new husband, too.) With
all of us, new friends and old, it
was tales of kids and grandkids,
new lives in retirement, travels
and travails, health, careers – all
the details making up our lives
back home.
As always, we recognized
the passing this year of our
classmates Jim McInnis, Pegge
Freeman Flannery and Bruce
Groff at the Service of Remem-
brance. Marietta Teret and I loved
being able to join Scott Manuel,
Larry Cohan, Janet McFarland
and Thelma McNulty in preparing
and singing wonderful old SLU
songs at this meaningful service.
So ended a weekend of “a sea of
smiles,” as Carol Hecklinger put it,
and loads of laughter with a quiet
reflective note and thoughts of
our personal blessings.
All our collective memories were
bookended by our common arriv-
al as freshmen and our launching
into the world at graduation. Now
those of us who were there can
add the bond of our 50th reunion.
If you were there, but weren’t
quoted here, consider this an
open invitation to contribute your
own memories to future columns.
And of course, we continue to
look for the ongoing life news and
events from everyone in the class
of ’64. Write, call, email, drop in
when you visit southern Delaware.
1965
Jane Petrie Davis
P.O. Box 730
92 Coventry Lane
Manchester Center, VT 05255
802-362-3621
Next Reunion: 50th,
May 28-31, 2015
every event: picnic, parade, tours,
golf, running, climbing.
Speaking of the picnic, one
special moment for Bob Gardner
was seeing and hearing Charlie
Freeman sit in on piano with the
band that was entertaining. (I
have been a huge fan of Charlie’s
playing since my first freshman
event when he was at the piano
channeling Brubeck.) The Gard-
ners and Freemans also walked
down to the digs on Park Street
that they had once shared with
Major Eagan and John Fox. The
new owner gave them a guided
tour.
Bob’s weekend was much
improved by Barrie March. Bob
had injured his right arm before
coming to reunion, and, in pain on
Friday, searched out the hospital
(finding that it was no longer in
its earlier Canton location.) The
Gardners considered going home
until a discussion with Dr. March
allayed Bob’s concerns, with a
diagnosis of “hurts like hell and
looks awful, but it’ll heal up fine.
No need to head home.” How nice
to have a doctor in the house.
Oh, and lawyers, judges, profes-
sors, oh my.
For nostalgia of place, nothing
beat the fun for the women of
their return to Dean-Eaton: Find-
ing our freshman rooms, sharing
memories that included our
roommates and hall mates, phone
calls in the hall, sharing cigarettes
in the “smoker,” or picking up our
mail from home in the (now miss-
ing) mailboxes. One special group
of women visited “their” third
floor, swapping stories of making
life an “experience” for their least
favorite hall mate, Dean Stout. (I
can’t imagine how she might have
felt!) The guys were just all aston-
ished to be on the inside of those
heavy wooden doors. I even heard
tell of some souvenir smooching
on Murderer’s Row.
Souvenirs: we all went home with
our share of Brewer Bookstore’s
goodies. A mecca of literature
and learning, it is also a source
for all things St. Lawrence. I am a
connoisseur of book stores and it
is one of the best I have ever been
greeted and feted as treasured
members and colleagues of that
larger pond of Laurentians. Then,
there were all the smaller, quieter
moments that made the weekend
memorable for each of us. What
follows,in no particular order, are
some that stood out to this writer
and others who were there.
Having Thursday night to our-
selves to come together as a class
was a great way to begin the
weekend with laughter, recogni-
tion and even a pig-related “psy-
chological profile” courtesy of the
Berry-Coburns. Saturday morning
brought us the Alumni Parade
with our winning entry and the
Alumni Citation ceremony with
our own Nancy Current Martin’s
gracious acceptance of recogni-
tion as a Citizen of the World.
When all the classes prior to ours
met for the Honor Guard dinner
Saturday, we were inducted as
members. Our personal treat was
a surprise musical time capsule
of our years at SLU delivered in
fine voice by reunion co-chairman
Carol Pratt Hecklinger, aided and
abetted by Scott Manuel, Janet
Allen McFarland, Thelma Ke-
telsen McNulty and Larry Cohan.
Yet, the smaller, more personal
moments were magical too: The
care classmates took of Diane
Friday Fisher when she was
tripped up by a Dean-Eaton step.
The ladies of the class teasing
Grant White about who he had
to pay to get the best room
in the dorm (one with its own
bathroom). Having a great time
riding to the Thousand Islands
on the bus with Edie Schmidt
Kilgour and finding how similar
our world view was. (I’ll remember
that long after I forget the tour of
the islands!) Laughing out loud
with Barbara O’Brien Bouchey,
who could have had a career as a
stand-up comedian. Catching up
with my high school friends Bob
Goodfellow and Dick Hecklinger
’65.
Yvonne Garbaccio Robinson
mentioned the exceptional North
Country weather we were treated
to for the whole weekend. We
couldn’t have ordered better than
the cool, dry, bright, sun-filled
days and crisp evenings. That
added a layer of enjoyment to
friends of Dr. Carl Bozenmayer,
who died in February. Carl was a
dentist in Rocky Hill, Conn.
1964
Sherry Gage Chappelle
800 Bayard Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
302-226-1594
Next Reunion: 55th, 2019
Last summer, Bruce and I took the
Ebert grandboys to a fish hatch-
ery in the wilds of New Hamp-
shire, where we all wondered at
the many pools of hatchlings, fry
and young fish in various sizes.
In the largest pool the “show
fish,” iridescent-golden-gorgeous
adults, rose to the surface,
flashed by us to be admired and
fed. Rainbow trout, brown trout,
Atlantic salmon. Some crowded
assertively at our end of the pond,
while others quietly swam at the
far end.
The experience reminded me of
all of us: hatchlings arriving at
SLU in 1960, fry setting off into
the world in 1964, and now gor-
geous adults in our reunion pond
last May. We had grown into who
we were meant to be, not identi-
cal, not swimming in the same
way or looking alike, yet shining
together again.
Over that long Reunion Weekend,
we shared many moments. We
were certainly well fed. We were
at the “ripe old age of 46”! Leah
visited them in Oklahoma during
her school vacation, and was
hoping to visit them in New York
at Christmas. Leah says, “I am still
teaching 5th grade in Las Vegas,
but I really think this is my last
year. I’M TIRED!!!”
Carla Schlossbach Treatch-
Mungai spent two wonderful
weeks in Virginia in July. She
played in the Veterans’ Soccer
Cup in Virginia Beach with her
women’s O65 team, “Arizona An-
tiques.” In October, Carla played
on the “young” O60 team from
Seattle called “No Regrets” in the
Huntsman World Games in St.
George, Utah.
Other than soccer, Carla keeps
busy as a field supervisor for the
Census Bureau. She hopes to
retire in about 2020. Her three
granddaughters are volleyball
players; the older two play for
Arizona Christian University in
Phoenix and the youngest plays
for her high school team. Cary
and Carla go to as many games
as possible.
Hilary Hartman Goodwin is sell-
ing their ranch in Wyoming and
moving into town. She and Ralph
have bought a home on a golf
course south of Sheridan on the
road to Big Horn. They have spent
fun times with Jack and Ann
Cogswell Caldwell.
Condolences to the family and
From left, Russell Madsen ’65, Jessie Rightmyer Osborne ’65, Dick
Osborne ’64, Rick Richmond ’65, Jan Richmond and Mary Lou Sprague
Madsen ’64 met at the Madsens’ summer home in Canandaigua, N.Y., for
dinner. “We all had a great time talking about SLU 50th reunions—the
one celebrated in 2014 and the one this year,” said Russ Madsen.
Following up on the 50th anniversary observance of the program in
France, St. Lawrence’s first international study program, at Reunion
last spring, members of the Class of ’66 who were participants in that
program organized their own gathering in Atlanta in October. From
left are Nan Griffin, Phyllis Martin, Carole Ashkinaze Kay, Joan Cushing
Marcus, Jackie La Croix Fagin, Rob Prince, Anne LeBeau Savage and
Charlene Bangs Bickford, singing a French drinking song, "Chevaliers
de la Table Ronde."
“’Reunion Central’ was the home of Carole Ashkinaze Kay and her hus-
band, Irv,” says Anne Savage. “We had a wonderful time sharing memo-
ries, photos, mementoes and our various returns to Rouen, Normandy,
Paris and France in general. Carole and Irv delighted us with ‘all things
French,’ from croissants pour le petit dejeuner to French music, French
wines and a wonderful catered crepe dinner. Lunch at a marvelous
French bistro and dinner at Violette gave us an opportunity to brush
up our French language skills with the French waiters.”