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st. lawrence university magazine | WINTER 2015
Yellowstone National Park) and
Nancy Eichin Gunderson over
Labor Day in Washington, D.C.
They had dinner at Old Ebbitt's
Grill and enjoyed a day in Old
Town Alexandria, where Nancy
lives.
Alice Smith Clark and husband
Jake '86 enjoyed moving their son
Jack ’18 into Reiff College (the old
Phi Kap fraternity) for Orienta-
tion and are thrilled he chose to
attend St. Lawrence. Alice reports
that the campus looked spectacu-
lar and was excited to hear that
Merrill Chapman Shafer’s son,
Thomas, is a member of the Class
of 2018 as well.
Chris Gammill and his family
are spending the school year
traveling around the world. While
they homeschool their children,
they will visit New Zealand,
Australia, Southeast Asia and
India with brief stops in Europe
and Brazil. You can follow them
on their blog, The Bossa Travelers.
Upon returning home in June
2015, their sons will go to Camp
Dudley on Lake Champlain in
upstate New York. Chris recently
saw Leigh Kelleher Everitt at
their 30th high school reunion in
California and continues to stay in
touch with John Dent, who now
owns a home in San Francisco,
and Randall Attix, who recently
toured France and Switzerland.
Kim Coghlan Ivey has spent
the past 14 years as a pharmacy
manager for a Native American
tribe in Upper Michigan. Her four
1988
Susie Somerville
Swindell
173 Weed Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
203-966-4695
Next Reunion: 30th, 2017
(cluster with ’86, ’87)
Early last summer marked a mini-
reunion of senior-year house-
mates of 35 East Main. Martha
Ryan Graff, Whitney Flegal
Pierpont, Merrill Chapman
Shafer, Sheila “Kirk” Walsh
and I gathered at Martha’s family’s
home in Mantoloking, N.J. Unfor-
tunately, Loren Poole Dixon
wasn't able to be there as two
of their children were graduat-
ing that weekend, but she was
with us in spirit as we reminisced,
walked the beach, rode bikes, and
enjoyed a delicious dinner with
Sarah Harrington Johnson,
all with a view of the sun setting
over the bay. It was a great re-
minder of how college friendships
stay steady and true even as the
decades pass by. Can’t wait to do
it again!
Last December, Norma Tarbell-
Sunday ’89 and her family,
returning from out West for the
holidays, stopped off in Oklahoma
City to have dinner with Norine
Fitzsimmons , who is still serving
in the Air Force there at Tinker
AFB. Norine also connected with
Colleen Curry (who lives in
Livingston, Mont., and works at
and music and are very happy
together.
Another update via FB came from
Jennifer Gardella Faircloth.
She and her husband are still
living in Cary, N.C. Jennifer is a
marketing communications man-
ager for Cisco. This job allows her
to work from home most days.
She loves this because she gets
to hang out with her two dogs.
Jennifer is also a “dog match-
maker” volunteer with the SPCA
of Wake County. Sounds like she
and Whitney would have lots to
talk about!
Jennifer also told me about
a recent visit with Melissa
Sargeant. Melissa and her two
kids still live in the South Bay
Area, where Melissa has her own
law practice.
Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP,
a Raleigh, N.C., law firm, has an-
nounced that Patrick Flanagan
has joined the firm’s manage-
ment team. Based in the firm’s
Charlotte, N.C., office, Patrick
is chair of the Municipalities &
Public Entities Practice Group
and Vice Chair of the Employ-
ment Law Practice Group. He has
been practicing defense litigation
throughout North Carolina since
1994, and has handled criminal
and civil matters in the Army
Judge Advocate General’s Corps
(JAG) and as a Special Assistant
U.S. Attorney. He earned his law
degree at Wake Forest University
School of Law.
Looking forward to hearing from
more of you in the future, since
no one has taken me up on my
suggestion of taking over this
column! Be well and write soon!
its Wikipedia page and found
this: “Though St. Lawrence today
is non-denominational, it was
founded in 1856 by leaders of the
Universalist Church, who were
seeking to establish a seminary
somewhere west of New England
and were enthusiastically courted
by the citizens of Canton. The
church almost did not place the
school in Canton, however, as
they felt that students might be
exposed to too much ‘excitement’
within the village limits in 1856.”
Good thing for all of us that they
took a chance!
Speaking of being exposed to
too much excitement, the annual
get-together of a group of Phi
Sigs took place at the end of the
summer at Andy Mager’s place
on Higley Flow in Colton, N.Y.
Andy, Tim Corley, Pete Lein-
bach, Dan Boardman ’86, Dan
O’Connor, Chris DeLorenzo,
Randy Sieminski, Eric God-
frey and D.J. Weeks enjoyed
an SLU football game and a few
(ahem) beers at The Hoot Owl.
Sounds like they had a great time
catching up!
Elizabeth “Beth” Colucci, still
working at the University of Buf-
falo, was recently appointed coor-
dinator of Nationally Competitive
Fellowships and Scholarships. She
works with outstanding students
as they compete for awards such
as the Marshall, Goldwater and
Truman Scholarships. She contin-
ues to enjoy her work with college
students, telling them that she
loved college so much she never
left! I know from FB that she has
one son at SLU and another in his
last year of high school. Sounds
like a busy life.
Whitney Brice wrote that she
was busy organizing an alumni
event in her hometown of Roch-
ester, N.Y. Hopefully she had a
big turnout to watch the SLU- RIT
men’s hockey game in October.
Whitney works for Hochstein
School of Music and Dance, rais-
ing funds for the institution she
calls a “gem.” She also keeps busy
rescuing pit bulls at a local city
animal shelter and spending time
with her parents, who live nearby.
Whitney and her boyfriend, Barry,
both enjoy the outdoors, dogs
While on business in Nairobi,
Kenya, last fall, George Quinlan
met Judi Wakhungu ’83 for din-
ner. “Geo” lives in El Paso, Texas.
1986
Joy Ciarcia-Levy
26 Sherbrooke Rd.
Hartsdale, NY 10530
914-591-1936
Next Reunion: 30th, 2017
(cluster with ’87, ’88)
Paula Kienert completed her
master’s in finance at the London
Business School and has a new
job at Fidelity Investments as
vice president, research analytics.
Her partner, Simon Steel, and
she have been in London for five
years now.
Last fall, Doug and I sent our
daughter Tara off to Keene State
College in New Hampshire. Her
major is journalism with a minor
in public relations. My son Trevor
is an avid gamer and plays la-
crosse. I continue to teach
communications courses at
The College of New Rochelle
and teach ice skating.
1987
Elizabeth Solomon
Hubbard
2761 Bernard Place
Evanston, IL 60201
847-864-2821
Next Reunion: 30th, 2017
(cluster with ’86, ’88)
I know that many of our class-
mates have kids already in college
and possibly some who have
already graduated! My daughter is
a freshman in high school, and it’s
making me reminisce about my
path to St. Lawrence. In thinking
about our alma mater, I went on
1985
Cary Regan and
Michael Keigher
1 MacPherson Drive
Greenwich, CT 03860
203-622-5030
Next Reunion: 35th, 2019
(cluster with ’83, ’84)
I recently ran into Beth Fletcher
Wirsul, director of financial aid
at Westover School, an all girls’
prep school in Middlebury, Conn.
Beth has worked at Westover for
13 years. She and her husband,
Robert, have been married for 27
years, have two dogs and spend a
lot of time at their place in Ando-
ver, Vt., near Okemo.
Beth frequently runs into Bruce
Keyes at various Secondary
School Admissions Conferences
and saw him last June. Bruce is
an associate director of admis-
sions at St. Andrews College, an
all boys’ prep school in Ontario.
Bruce writes, “I have been in the
recruiting business now for 15+
years. I travel in Europe, Asia and
throughout Canada.” He has
three daughters, two hockey and
lacrosse players and a dancer.
Bruce still plays hockey and
coaches one of his daughter’s
teams, “so I am in rinks five or six
days a week.”
Ali Webb Jahn and I met up
this summer in Rhode Island for a
beach day. Ali lives in Newbury-
port, Mass., with her husband,
Anders. and their two children,
Tommy and Annika. Ali is busy on
the college search with Annika,
and works in the advancement of-
fice at Shore Country Day School.
Ali sees Allison Granger
Godfrey in the Boston area. Al-
lison and her husband, Nick, live
in Charleston, Mass., with their
two children, who are in Middle
School.
Bobbie Bush, of Bobbie Bush
Photography in Salem, Mass.,
has been awarded first place in
the Best Children’s Photographer
category in the 2014 Boston City
Voter A-List competition. It was
her fifth consecutive year being
recognized among the top
two children’s photographers
in the Boston area. Bobbie
resides in Salem and her
company, established in 1996,
specializes in photographing new-
borns, children and families
at all stages of life.
region near Chickaloon, Alaska.
John has worked with NIH for 23
years, and part of his job is to or-
ganize community meetings like
this around the country, to listen
and to engage scientists with
neighborhoods. In the case of the
Yupik, John concludes they “have
a difficult life at the far edge of
the last frontier.” This visit was the
first time a NIH director had come
to St. Lawrence Island to hear
their concerns.
John claims to "have the second-
best job at NIEHS." In addition to
this unique visit to St. Lawrence
Island, Alaska, his work has re-
cently taken him to Seattle, New
Orleans, Boston, Los Angeles,
Louisville, New Brunswick, Detroit,
Harlem, Milwaukee, Research Tri-
angle Park, Sausalito, Tucson, Bal-
timore and Rochester. John lives
in an old Sears & Roebuck house
near Duke University. His son, Eli-
jah, attends Chapel Hill High and
his daughter, Mikaela, has started
college at the University of North
Carolina, Greensboro.
St. Lawrence continues to play a major role in the top echelons at The
Hearst Corporation. Top, Sue Katzen ’86, center, has been named
publisher of Redbook magazine, joining Todd Haskell ’90 , senior
vice president and chief revenue officer, right, and John Loughlin
’79, EVP/general manager, on the leadership team, along with Kevin
O’Malley ’79, publisher of Elle magazine (right) and Gil Maurer ’50
(left), retired executive vice president / chief operating officer.
A gathering at the Lynn, Mass., home of Letitia Howland ’89 (top row,
right) in August brought together these alumnae and their families: top,
Sandra Hauke Dickin ’88 and Jeannine Kelsey Tocco ’88, second
and third from left respectively; and Cindi Hull Martin ’89, middle right.