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st. lawrence university magazine | WINTER 2015
mercial development. For the
next 17 years he was the CEO of
Tejon Ranch Company, a NYSE-
listed company and the largest
landowner in California, retiring
in 2013. Now they are in Rancho
Santa Fe, Calif., and (Bob’s words)
“to avoid the long, harsh, cold San
Diego winters” (break my heart,
Bob) they winter in the Palm
Desert area. They have two chil-
dren and four “fantastic and fun”
grandchildren, and feel blessed.
Mack Thayer and Porter still live in
Richmond, Va., and have no retire-
ment plans. Porter is a freelance
graphic designer, and Mack runs
Junior Golf Scoreboard, a website
that for 16 years has tracked com-
petitive junior golf, following more
than 2,000 events and ranking
more than 11,000 junior players
18 years of age or younger. He
has also joined the boards of a
local YMCA and the Richmond
Justice Initiative, which fights
human trafficking. Mack recently
visited Wheaton Griffin ’68, who
has been the director of the New
York YMCA camp in Huguenot,
N.Y., and fellow alumnus of Camp
Dudley, where several Laurentians,
including the late soccer coach
Bob Goodwin, have attended or
been on staff. His next project
is to write a book about building
strong youth ministries and
leading small groups for high
school youth, something he has
been passionate about for
several years.
As is becoming all too common in
this column, I must note the pass-
ing of Rick Hughes and
Meg Yandon White, who were
both memorialized in the last is-
sue. Our condolences go out to
their families.
1970
Dennis Szymanski ’70
915 Hillwood Ave.
Falls Church, VA 22042
703-534-1253
Next Reunion: 45th, May 28-31,
2015 (cluster with ’69, ’71)
After a successful career with
Morgan Stanley, Chris Lazowski
Henke fled the snowy North and
has settled in North Carolina.
She's kept in touch with Ellen
Briggs Kreitler '69 (known to all
While they didn't all make it to the
finish line together, their friend-
ship remained strong. And so it
was proclaimed, 'It's been fifty
years, let's get together!’ Thus
Gene Power, Dan Schmidt ’71,
Bill Brewer, Tony Loucas,
Rodgers Williams and Al did get
together. Flagons were raised and
a great feast was consumed. And
it was good."
I get many requests for emails
and phone numbers but I have no
information that is not already on
the "My St Lawrence" website. Go
to
home and fill out any information
on your profile. There’s an Alumni
Directory to make it easy for
classmates to connect.
If you enjoyed (and/or survived)
your 50th high school reunion
this year, think of how much fun
you’ll have at our 50th…in 2018.
Do you believe it’s less than four
years away!
1969
Patti Black Giltner
16 Pellett Street
Norwich, NY 13815
607-336-1202
Next Reunion: 45th, May 28-31,
2015 (cluster with ’70, ’71)
Please come to Reunion, whether
you come every time or have
never been back. We always have
a great time. Thanks to Pete
Ticconi for heading up this one.
Bob Stine has decided “once ev-
ery 45 years.…” Bob and his wife,
high school sweetheart Betty,
celebrated their 45th anniversary
in 2014. After he got his MBA
from Wharton, they moved to San
Diego, where he spent six years
with Coldwell Banker and 17 years
with two partners in private com-
Canton.” Have you college friends
like that?
Leanna Abrams Landsmann saw
Ann Todhunter Brode in Santa
Barbara, both her home and
office where she sees clients for
her somatic bodywork (sbhealth-
source.org). Ann’s husband, Ben,
who crafts furniture, is also a
California landscape painter (see
the book In Search of the Dark
Watchers ). Leanna noted that
Ann and Ben love watching and
guiding their grandchildren as
they grow.
I visited in Sunapee, N.H., with
Annie Montgomery, who is on the
Alumni Executive Council. She is
excited about the “Laurentian for
Life” initiative as well as the sup-
port that the AEC gives to many
SLU activities and programs like
the one Annie’s involved with, the
New York City Semester. Annie
is studying with the Ackerman
Institute for Family and Couples
Therapy.
After my trip to Ireland and the
Orkney Islands last summer, I saw
classmates on the north shore of
Boston. One was Kathleen Wajda
Howlett, who splits her time
between Rome N.Y., and Savan-
nah, Ga.
Gareth Whittier Huggins ’69 in
Prides Crossing, Mass., and I get
together; my latest visit happily
coincided with that of her sister,
Lauren Whittier Schweizer. Lau-
ren and Paul will be spending the
winter in Phoenix and returning to
Elmira next summer.
I so enjoyed this missive from
Al Vincent: "In September 1964
AD, a group of men descended
upon Men's Res in the Hall of
Abbott, and it was good. They
ate together, drank together,
played together and even studied
together, forming lasting bonds,
a fraternity without Greek letters.
In September, I had a quick but
wonderful visit from Ginny
Fosdick Stevenson and mutual
friend Carol Hamilton, who were
in Seattle for an Alaskan cruise.
We had a beautiful day to cel-
ebrate our 50 years of friendship.
1968
Anne Lauriat
6 Bishops Forest Drive
Waltham, MA 02454
617-484-6841
Next Reunion: 50th, 2018
We have some news but if it
dries up I shall be forced to go
on Facebook and search sites
for information. So beware what
you post!
Jim Garbarino’s new book, from
the University of California Press,
will come out this winter. Listen-
ing to Killers: Lessons Learned
from My 20 Years as a Psycho-
logical Expert Witness in Murder
Cases is his "magnum opus"
about violence. It occurred to
Jim a few years ago that he was
coming up on 20 years since his
first case and it was time to put
all that together in one place. The
book blends first-person case
reports with scientific analysis of
human development issues in the
lives of killers.
Jim lectured recently in South
Africa on violence. His son Josh is
a lawyer and daughter Joanna is a
family therapist. Both are married
but no grandchildren as yet.
Jim says he sees Dan Clayton
in Colorado, where Dan is a
professor at Regis University. Jim
describes their visits as “one of
those timeless friendships that
grace one's life. When we are to-
gether it is as if time is irrelevant
and it is still the mid-1960s in
ish Homeless Street Soccer team.
The Homeless World Cup has
been in Rio de Janeiro, Mexico
City, Milan, Paris and Poznan,
Poland, and in October was in
Santiago, Chile.
Upon her husband’s retirement
from Morgan Stanley, Debby
and Artie moved to Silverthorne,
Col., near seven ski areas. Their
daughters live in Boulder and
Denver, and Debby teaches skiing
at Copper Mountain. They also
snowshoe in the National Forest
behind their house, and Debby
plays hockey on a women’s team.
When spring rolls around, you
will find them in “Down East”
Maine, in the very small coastal
town of Roque Bluffs, where they
bike, hike and kayak. They think
they have the best of all possible
worlds.
Ellen retired from a 27-year career
with IBM in 1994 and then retired
in 2001 from NetSchools, a com-
pany started in ’96 with her two
IBM bosses. She’s lived in Atlanta
for 35 years and invested very
heavily in the early ’80s in small
single-family houses with 15-year
mortgages, which turned out to
be huge in helping her retire at a
fairly early age. She’s had a 10-
year relationship with Carl, an IBM
retiree who was widowed in ’99.
They met when Ellen organized a
block party in his neighborhood
in 2004. Shows you what being a
social organizer does for you!
Shirley and Dave Grahek ’65 live
in the mid-coastal community of
Cypress Landing, N.C. They stay
active with sports and volunteer-
ing. Travels to see family keep
them busy, as does a yearly
winter stay in Aruba. “An Alaskan
cruise and Dave’s 50th SLU re-
union are on the agenda for 2015,”
she said.
Dottie says husband John retired
for the second time in April.
Although they love their life in
Wilmington, N.C., their house is on
the market, and they’re planning
to move to the Charlotte area to
be closer to family.
is busy working on poetry and
short prose. They have traveled
extensively, including a recent trip
to Tuscany.
Tom and I had a spirited exchange
about our respective islands,
Whidbey and Long. I mentioned
a legal decision that determined
Long Island to be a peninsula vs.
an island, bestowing the honor of
“Longest Island in the Lower 48”
upon Whidbey, where I live. Of
course, coming from New York, I
find that hard to swallow, but we
had a roaring good time emailing
back and forth over it!
Julian Bergman , ever the loyal
alumnus, says he is already look-
ing forward to our 50th reunion
less than three years away. He
and Marcia had all three of their
grandchildren at their home in
Florida for the summer. He asks,
“Ever try to take care of 3-year-
old twin boys? They are on the
go from sunrise to sunset. Luckily,
they love our pool and spend a lot
of time in it. I watch from my chair
as I did when I was a lifeguard 50
years ago.”
Julian says he sees Jim Davis,
who earned a master’s degree
in physical education our senior
year, a couple of times a year,
since Jim and his wife rent a
condo in Naples, Fla., in the
winter. The Bergmans have been
traveling, too: a Panama Canal
cruise last fall and Hard Rock
Resort-Punta Cana in the Domini-
can Republic in the spring.
Dottie Houghton Kosicki sent lots
of news. In May, she, Katie Winkky
Liekoski, Debby Gay Scipione,
Ellen Wilkinson and Shirley
Rommel Grahek got together
at the Graheks’ beach house in
Ocean Isle, N.C. She said they
made “a toast or two to SLU and
the good old days!”
Katie, now retired from teaching
math for 40 years, maintains a
home in Solon, Ohio, but travels
to Helsinki, Finland, several times
a year, and to Los Angeles to
see her two grandsons as often
as possible. She has traveled to
some unique places as her hus-
band, Timo, helps coach the Finn-
live on Long Island. Did you see
George on the Food Channel's
"Farmhouse Rules" in the fall? The
show was about preparing duck
and George was the hunter and
the guest for dinner.
Pam Scalise Roth said that Tony
’43 is still doing fine at 96 and
moves between Olando, Fla., and
Duluth, Minn. Terry Phelps contin-
ues to stay in touch from the West.
Let us all hear from the rest of
you...we are only a click away.
1967
Meg Smith Eisenbraun
4460 Norris Lane
Oak Harbor, WA 98277
360-682-2345
Next Reunion: 50th, 2017
Wow, I feel like I’ve won the
lottery! Lots of news from class-
mates and even a visit from one!
Tom Randall says he and his wife
have published five books about
cemeteries around the world. Tom
(Sea Ranch and two in Tahoe) I
am constantly traveling back and
forth, updating, restaining." He’s
refining his historical novel, Hard
Chargers from the Sky, published
on Amazon and Kindle and
available in bookstores through
Ingram Distribution. Deb and he
travel up to San Francisco “almost
weekly to spoil our grandchildren,
Sydney, 4 ½, and Noble, 2."
George Colclough wrote that he
and Kathryn continue to be very
retired, 14 years now, in Wilbra-
ham, Mass., where they have been
since 1972 when George was
mustered out of the Army the first
time. Thirty years later he retired
from the Army Reserves (couldn't
stay away), and thinks often of
the oft-used expression, "Where
did the time go?" He said he loved
every minute of it. He had just
returned from a reunion of his
Vietnam platoon and was amazed
at how many showed up after 45
years. His son, George Jr. '98, and
Christina are both JAG officers at
Ft. Bragg, N.C. And his daughter,
Heather Wellesley, and grandson
Alumnae from the Class of ’67 shared a reunion at Ocean Isle, N.C., in
May. Seated is Dottie Houghton Kosicki, while standing left to right are
Ellen Wilkinson, Shirley Rommel Grahek, Katie Winkky Liekoski and
Debby Gay Scipione.
#SLUReunion
Visit alumni.stlawu.edu/reunion to see who is planning to attend, view
a sample schedule of events, get updates on your class committees
and more! Classes celebrating milestones are: 10th – 2005; 20th – 1994,
1995, 1996; 25 th – 1990; 40th – 1975; 45th – 1969, 1970, 1971; 50th – 1965;
55th– 1960; 60th – 1955, 1956; 65th – 1950; 70th – 1945; 75th – 1940
Special Affinity Reunions: Alumni Executive Council - 100th
Anniversary, Singing Saints - 65th Anniversary
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