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st. lawrence university magazine | WINTER 2015
Nina Serach also had a July
2014 wedding. She and Jeff Lauer
were married on the 26th at Bryn
Mawr Vineyards in Salem, Ore., in
front of fellow Laurentians Jessy
Gill, Michaela D’Acchille and
Nancy Decker as well as family
and friends.
And thanks to the wonders of
social media, I can tell you Jarell
Roberts ’12 and Ryan Hubbard
were married on July 18, 2014, in
Bolton, Conn., and Sam Tyler
and Amanda Bramble were
married on September 13, 2014, in
Longmont, Colo.
Finally, Kayla Delahanty is
engaged to Sean Coffey ’13n.
2012
Lauren Liebhaber
510 East Broadway
Boston, MA 02127
315-527-8452 (cell)
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(cluster with ’11, ’13)
Courtney Kuno ’12 and Ben
Burds ’11 were married on August
30, 2014, in the Adirondacks, in
company with many SLU family
and friends.
Alison Limoncelli completed
her master’s programs in business
administration at Bentley Univer-
sity Graduate School of Business
last May. While attending Bentley,
she was a research assistant at
the Center for Marketing Technol-
ogy and a “Master Minds” blogger
for the Emerging Leaders MBA
program. Alison is the marketing
manager for Revolution Lacrosse
in Boston, Mass.
and dinner, guests danced the
night away, pausing briefly to
capture the requisite St. Lawrence
photo [see page 65], and then
returned to the dance floor to
belt out ‘Sweet Caroline.’ The
St. Lawrence banner has been
passed on to best man Andrew
and his fiancée, Alison, for their
August 2015 nuptials. And happily
ever after has begun!”
Jim Powers sent a photo from
his wedding; it too can be seen in
the Wedding photos section, He
married Karli Stone on February
22, 2014, at the Crooked Lake
House in Averill Park, N.Y. He
said, “My grandmother, in the
middle of the picture, is Betty
Flint Davenport ’54; she’s had two
children and five grandchildren
attend SLU, as well as 30 siblings,
cousins, and nephews!”
Thanks to all for these updates!
Please send yours, and they
will be included on a quarterly
basis. Our classmates would
love to hear about weddings,
engagements, new jobs, SLU
connections, or general
life developments.
2011
Beth Spadaccini
17 Stevens Street Apt. B1
Canton, NY 13617
315-323-0650
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(cluster with ’12, ’13)
Lots of happy notes this time
around; apparently it’s wedding
season for a lot of our classmates!
Alison LePage wed Stephen
Miller last June 29 in Waterville
Valley, N.H., with a large contin-
gent of ’11 grads in attendance,
including Ben Burds, Cait
Estes Robator, Lily Rougeot
and Greg Gotta. Alison also
passed along the news that Ben
married Courtney Kuno ’12 on
August 30, 2014, and Cait tied the
knot with Scott Robator ’10 July
10, 2014, in Bolton, Conn.
Chelsea Nuffer Lloyd, who
was at Reunion, started a
three-year term on the Alumni
Executive Council in June. She
explained who alumni are this
way: “If you completed one
semester at St. Lawrence, you are
part of the great, the proud, the
Alumni Association. Congratula-
tions!” Among council activities,
she mentioned the alumni career
panel at last fall’s Family Week-
end. “You will see us around,”
she said; “follow #sluaec or find
us on Facebook: St. Lawrence
University Alumni Association.”
As noted briefly last time,
Assistant Professor of Biol-
ogy Karin Heckman shared that
Rebecca Klar received a grant
from Autism Speaks to fund her
pre-doctoral studies. Becca was
a neuroscience major and com-
pleted her honors thesis working
with Prof. Heckman. It studied the
use of antioxidants to treat mouse
models of multiple sclerosis.
Becca is now a Ph.D. student at
Vanderbilt University.
Andrew Cochran married
Alyssa Smith last August 16
in Newport, R.I. There were
many classmates and nearly 50
total Laurentians at the wedding!
Check out the photo of the
huge SLU group in the
Weddings photos!
Caity Hamilton Sonagere
wrote, “On May 25, 2014, a beauti-
ful and sentimental wedding cer-
emony and celebration was held
at Riverstone Manor in Glenville,
N.Y., as Matt Sonagere '09 and
I were married on the banks of
the Mohawk River. The wedding
party included best man Andrew
Krause '09, Liam Delahanty '09,
Julian Holland '09, Hayley
Lipsky Faba-Sack, Katie Sho-
rey and Faye Andrews. Carol
Moran '79 read from 1st Corinthi-
ans. Proud parents of the bride
were Lynne Nicolson '79 and
Doug Hamilton '79. After cocktails
Graduate
Programs
Monmouth College president
Clarence Wyatt, right.
A 1964 Monmouth College
graduate, Tom was selected
for the honor for leadership
and innovation in interna-
tional education and for
humanitarian service during
his distinguished career in
international education. An
admissions counselor at St.
Lawrence in the 1960s and
1970s, he was director of the
University’s Austria program
in Vienna in 1973. Over the
succeeding years he worked
in international higher educa-
tion in numerous capacities
and in several countries, in-
cluding England, Switzerland
and Germany. He moved to
China in 2001, becoming su-
perintendent of Yew Chung
International Schools, one of
the top international schools
in Asia. He is a Klingenstein
Fellow at Columbia Univer-
sity Teachers College, and
has been involved in several
charitable activities.
Canton piano teacher
Barbara Tollefson
Burdick M.Ed. ’87 gave a
piano recital at the Hayner
Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio,
at Thanksgiving. She played
works by Smetana, Debussy,
Chopin, Mercer and others.
In Canton, she is president
of the community theater
group Grasse River Players
and treasurer of the North
Country Music Teachers As-
sociation, and has directed
the pit orchestra for several
high school musicals.
2014
Stephanie Eldon
266 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-380-4641
Next Reunion: 5th, 2019
Christina Robichaud has
accepted a position as an as-
sistant director in the Office of
Undergraduate Admissions at
Dartmouth College. She started
last August, and has moved to
New Hampshire.
Merrill Clerkin is working for
Teach for China, a Teach for All
affiliate program helping to close
the educational divide between
rural and ubran China by teach-
ing English in a low-performing
middle school in Yunnan.
Erik Miller is volunteering for
AmeriCorps VISTA for a year in
Des Moines, Iowa, at Outreach,
Inc. He’s helping start an initiative
with the intent to end hunger
within the state. He continues
his love for art as he expands his
freelance art website and brand.
Jamie Caroccio got hitched in
New York City on November 29,
2013, to Jorge Muñoz-Delgado
Ramos, whom she met in Madrid,
Spain, during her year abroad.
Gary E. Krolikowski M’77
4380 Lakeshore Drive
Castile, NY 14427
585-237-6168
Tom Ulmet M.Ed. ’77 was
inducted last fall into the Mon-
mouth College Hall of Achieve-
ment, the highest honor the col-
lege bestows upon its alumni. He
was presented with the award by
Jordan Pescrillo is on a
10-month post-graduate teaching
internship with the Minmahaw
Education Foundation at an
English-immersion school on
the Burma-Thai border, teaching
Burmese youth ages 17-24 in a
variety of subjects. The Minma-
haw Education Foundation is a
nonprofit educational organiza-
tion opened in 2007 to educate
Burmese youth with disadvan-
taged backgrounds. Jordan’s
internship is supported by Sarah
E. Johnson ’82, a member of the
St. Lawrence University Board
of Trustees.
Joe Spadaccini works for
Weaver Materiel Service, Inc. as
a technical sales representative
for the Eastern Region. Joe is re-
sponsible for covering all of New
England in addition to New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
2013
Brittany Moten
225 West End Avenue
Apt#25
New York, NY 10023-3644
858-444-7298
Next Reunion: 5th, 2017
(cluster with ’11, ’12)
Congratulations to Mary Bau-
com, who received her master’s
degree from the Medill School
of Journalism at Northwestern
University! Mary is happy to
announce that in August she
accepted a job offer to be the
editorial assistant for Healthline,
an online health and medical
information website based in
San Francisco.
It’s exciting to hear about all of
the amazing things that we’re
doing, so keep the good
news coming!
▼ CLASS OF 1970
University Trustee Emerita Katy B.
MacKay died September 30, 2014. “Loved
by countless Laurentians around the
world,” as President Fox put it in a cam-
pus announcement, she had retired from
a quarter-century career with the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey
and the New York State Budget Division.
She was a member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Council of Governing Boards
of the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU), and,
among numerous other posts, served on the Advisory Council for the
Disabled for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the Governor’s
Advisory Council on the Disabled, and as a charter member of the
Center for Women in Government in Albany.
As an alumna, she was a member of the Alumni Executive Council
and the President’s Associates Membership Committee; reunion
development committees, planning co-chair for three class reunions
and Laurentian Singers reunion co-chair; and a career advisor. She
established the Katy MacKay University Fellowship Fund to support
student research.
A sociology major, Katy “loved the school songs and never missed
joining the chorus when the Laurentian Singers, by tradition, invited
alumni to sing,” President Fox wrote. “Katy had the strong voice of a
singer, but it was her ready, happy laughter that punctuated a voice
speaking the words of life wisdom and careful thinking.”
▼ CLASS OF 1932
At 102 years old, Vivian Winn Dilday died August 8, 2014, at her home
in Winston-Salem, N.C. She majored in Latin and was a member of the
women’s basketball team and Kappa Delta sorority. She also received
a certificate of religious studies from the Canton Theological School.
▼ CLASS OF 1949
Ann Harvey Somerhausen of Brussels, Belgium, died August 14, 2014,
while vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland. An English major, she earned
departmental honors and Phi Beta Kappa membership. She was a
sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma and was involved in campus
publications, including The Laurentian magazine. Her husband was a
diplomat, and they lived internationally with time in Cuba, Brazil and
India. She enjoyed writing about her experiences in these different
countries and was a beloved member of the Brussels Writers’ Circle.
▼ CLASS OF 1952
W. Paul Blankman died June 21, 2014, in Lebanon, Tenn. He was a
member of Phi Sigma Kappa, Mummers and the Outing Club, loving
his time spent in the Adirondacks. He enjoyed writing and photogra-
phy. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, three children, two step-
sons, 11 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
▼ CLASS OF 1954
John H. Winston of Wilmington, N.C., died July 20, 2014. He received
a B.A. in business administration and was a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. He met his wife, Patricia “Pat” Powers Winston ’55, while at
St. Lawrence and they were married two years later. After serving in
the U.S. Army for two years, he began his 30-year career at Riggs
National Bank in Washington, D.C. He and Pat retired in 1997 to
Wilmington. He is also remembered by his two children, four
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Maj. Gen. John D. “Don” Granger died July 9, 2014, at his home in
Costa Rica, where he had spent the last 23 years. He earned a B.A.
in business administration and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and
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