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and mild winds since they were far enough west of
the problem areas.
Nancy Dayton Houston sent news “from
the past several years!”...but hey - better late
than never! Nancy writes, “My husband, Stephen
Houston, an archaeologist and specialist in the
ancient Maya (he received a MacArthur Fellow-
ship in 2008), has been busy teaching at Brown,
organizing a traveling exhibit on the Maya & the
Sea, giving invited lectures in places like Madrid,
Paris, London and Washington, D.C., and excavat-
ing in northern Guatemala. For the past several
summers, I’ve gone down to Antigua, Guatemala,
for his project’s ‘lab season.’” They’ve also taken
pleasure trips toVenice and Florence.
Their son, Anders, graduated from Rhode Island
School of Design (RISD) in 2009 with a degree in
illustration, moved to Salt Lake City that Decem-
ber “and has been trying to break into the graphic
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major, graduated from Maryland Institute College
of Art (MICA) in May. She and Steve are spending
the academic year in Williamstown, Mass., where
he has a sabbatical fellowship at the Clark Art In-
stitute.
Nancy has kept in touch with Sharon Zakuta,
who she met in NYC for a couple of days last
year; Jeff ’79 and Kim “Sunshine” Yeaton
Wheeler (who she was sorry to see move to
the South); Steve ’76 and Nancy Von Leng-
erke Wheeler; Connie Atkinson Holberg
and Mark ’76; and Lee and Neal van Laer. She
drove to Lee and Neal’s place in Sparkill, N.Y.,
on Memorial Day “for a pleasant change of pace
while waiting for Steve to return from his dig in
the jungle.“
She’s also seen Kath Anderson and Doug
Dempster a couple of times since graduation.
She added, “I keep hoping that one of these sum-
mers, I’ll see them at the Casa Herrara, the Univer-
sity of Texas’ study center in Antigua, Guatemala,
which is under Doug’s auspices in his role as dean
of UT’s College of Fine Arts.”
Mary Izant ’76 kindly sent along this update from
Betsy Locke Oberst: “Jerry and I have been in
Oswego for the last 32 years (never planned that!).
He still works in admissions at the university and
I have been the alumni director and now associ-
ate VP for 27 years!” Daughter Caitlin graduated
from Notre Dame and Temple Law School and is
an attorney in Philadelphia. Megan graduated from
the University of Delaware, then spent three years
living in Turkey, Spain and Argentina teaching Eng-
lish (“she had the international travel bug - and we
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graduated in 2010 from SUNY New Paltz and is
looking for a job in NYC.
1978
Joel Collamer ’78
29 Hassake Road
Old Greenwich, CT 06870-1329
203-698-0677 (home)
203-820-4523 (cell)
jcollame@aol.com
Next Reunion: 35th, 2013
(cluster with ’77, ’79)
In July, Mitch Brown and I exchanged several
emails as we coordinated on preparing an article
for the fall SLU magazine about the John Clark
“Roast”/Wrestler Reunion held over the weekend
of June 10-12 in Canton. Mitch was one of the
main organizers for the event. I learned that he
was traveling to Richmond,Va., to watch his daugh-
ter play in a lacrosse tournament July 15-17. While
there, he hoped to coordinate a get-together with
Andy Reinhardt ’75, who was captain of SLU’s foot-
ball team during Mitch’s freshman year. Mitch was
looking forward to catching up over dinner. During
the trip, he also wanted to link up with Dr. Tom
Eschenroeder and Janet Dingle Brown, Esq.
We hope to hear more news in a future column.
In June, I wrapped up employment with Wipro’s
Insurance Vertical practice and lined up an inde-
pendent consulting assignment with Navigant Con-
sulting. The assignment is with a Wisconsin-based
commercial insurance carrier; I will lead the busi-
ness requirements process to replace their policy
processing system.
1979
Kim Hoffmann Amoroso ’79
35 Cedar Street
Marblehead, MA 01945
781-639-4945
SLU79KA@comcast.net
Next Reunion: 35th, 2013
(cluster with ’77, ’78)
I’m so excited: my daughter, Megan ’14, has fol-
lowed in my footsteps and pledged KDS. Also
joining was Carey Kaiser ’14, whose dad is Bill
Kaiser. I also heard that Meg Friske Mont-
gomery’s son, Robert ’14, pledged Beta. The
Greek system has changed a lot since we were
there but they are still hanging in there. There are
two fraternities now, ATO and Beta, both recolo-
nized, and four sororities: KDS, Delta, Chi Omega
and KKG. Let me know if there are some CHIPS
I missed.
I saw Peter Sullivan FVMI¾] PEWX WYQQIV EX
Canaras. Both of his kids are in college this year;
Amy is a junior and Eric a freshman.They are both
in schools in Washington state; Pete still lives in
the Seattle area.
I saw a few classmates last summer at the July
wedding of Kelly Waterbury and Trevor Ma-
comber, son of Elizabeth Collins and Jon
Macomber. In attendance were George and
Eileen Eichmann, and Beth Drummond and
David Kearney. Daughter Emma ’12 also was
there.Trevor and Kelly got married in the Collins’s
backyard on the ocean in Samoset, Me. Elizabeth
and Jon were married there 30 years before.The
entire wedding party, minus one, from 30 years
ago came back.
I’d love to hear from more of you. Please friend
me on Facebook and send me some news.
1980
Fran Russo-Cress ’80
273 Converse Street
Longmeadow, MA 01106
413-565-2620
mfcress@comcast.net
Next Reunion: 35th, 2016
(cluster with ’81, ’82)
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a move to bigger space in Santa Maria. So I am
busy!”
Peter Hewitt reported on his Canada road
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with Al Karnas in Honeoye Falls, N.Y., then
hooked up with Ron Pelligra and drove to Ni-
agara Falls.‘Luca’ didn’t have his passport but after
some very convincing and persuasive dialog, the
border agents somehow let us slide.We took the
Maid of the Mist boat ride along the Falls on a
beautiful summer day (highly recommended ex-
perience).” Afterwards, they drove to Grand Is-
land to meet Pete Hayes ’78, then to Toronto to
meet up with Joe O’Rourke at a golf club.“We
jumped into his truck to make our way to Beaver-
ton, Ont., to see Ron ‘Hoot Owl’ Harris ’77,” he
reported. “We had a great time meeting Ron, his
lovely wife, Kellie, their daughter Stacey and many
locals at the annual DozerFest Barn Bash.We’ve
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Can’t wait to pull out the long johns for that - just
like the old days in Canton!”
John Johnson andAnn Charity Higgins ’77 had
number two grandchild born August 20. Filip Ken-
dall joins his older sister,Talida Charity.
Scott Shabot says he was in Islamorada in July,
at a lodge 30 feet off shore — on a pier, fortu-
nately, because he encountered two sharks! He
was “playing lots of tennis and building lots of
websites and running lots of Google Key Word
ads: see www.SASDigital.net.” His son, Jordan, has
taken a new management position at the Breakers
Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., after almost two years as
a manager at the Plaza Hotel in NYC.
Josie Lowden Chapman emailed from
campus in August with, “I am up at SLU right now,
dropping off my son, George, who is starting his
freshman year! It was such fun to see Chris Auty
dropping off his daughter and Shawn Smeallie ’81
dropping off his daughter, Marie! And, fun knowing
that Pris Menzies Keller’s son Cooper ’14 was
at football practice. The campus looked so good
and so vibrant and full of anxious but excited new
students. I could only feel excited for them all and
a bit sad it wasn’t me starting my freshman year
with all of you all over again! What a wonderful
time we all had and what a special place it is!”
1977
Bonnie Steuart Taylor ’77
9823 Fosbak Drive
Vienna,VA 22182
703-281-2281
bonnie.steuart@gmail.com
http://slu77.blogspot.com
Next Reunion: 35th, 2013
(cluster with ’78, ’79)
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was a crazy summer/fall everywhere, wasn’t it?
Paul Barbour posted an interesting video on
his facebook page (sent to him by Mike Quinn ’78):
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the Adirondacks by Hurricane Irene. Paul and his
family live in South Colton on Higley Flow, about
17 miles from Canton. His parents had a camp in
that location since the early 1960s and about 17
years ago, Paul tore the old camp down and built
to live there year-round. He said they were lucky
during Irene and only got about two inches of rain