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WINTER 2013 | ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
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Doc, factual and fictional
I was thrilled to see the picture of Doc Del-
mage in your summer 2012 issue (page 34).
Doc and I knew each other in the 1940s,
when we were both on the faculty. I taught
languages for four years. He was a close
friend, very philosophical, very intelligent.
He made a permanent impression with his
personality, so much so that I made him a
main character in my novel,
The Agony of
Defeat
.
He appears as Doc Delluge, but in
the history department. Just about all of the
characters are based on actual SLU faculty of
that time. Most of the non-football episodes
also occurred at St. Lawrence, including the
inadvertent poisoning of the faculty at a
fraternity smoker.
It is amazing to see a picture of Doc after so
many years.
Max Horlick | Silver Spring, Maryland
The network works
Thanks for your article on Gerry Ross ’78
regarding his Maui farm (Spring 2012). My
wife, Elizabeth Trenchard King ’97, and I
toured Gerry’s farm last fall with our two kids
and our parents during a Maui vacation. We
swapped our home-caught Alaska salmon
for an in-person farm tour. The kids got a
kick out of Gerry’s “chicken tractor” and his
dragonfruit while the adults enjoyed some
fresh-brewed Kupa’a coffee.
Jonathan King ’96 | Anchorage, Alaska
Roundup of news from
campus. For more, go to
www.stlawu.edu/news
.
Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli ’81
has been appointed to the
James Henry Chapin Profes-
sorship of Geology and
Mineralogy at St. Lawrence
University. The professor-
ship was endowed in 1904
and supports an exceptional
member of the geology
department.
The National Science Foundation has
awarded
Michael Schuckers,
associate profes-
sor of statistics and director of the Martha
E. '62 and Gregg E. Peterson Quantitative
Resource Center, a $49,652 grant to create
and develop, with collaborators, a workshop
and handbook for mathematics and sci-
ence professionals at colleges. The July 2013
workshop, planned to bring together leaders
of quantitative and math support centers at a
variety of higher education institutions, will
begin the process of developing materials and
infrastructure to outline best practices and
procedures for the centers.
An essay by
Associate Professor of English
Paul Graham '99
has been featured in
Best
Food Writing 2012
,
published in October
2012
by Da Capo Press. "Sweet Spot," about
tapping sugar maple trees to make syrup, was
initially published in Issue 13 of
Alimentum:
The Literature of Food
,
alimentumjournal.com.
The
first class to graduate
from the Col-
lege of Letters and Science includes two
women, Sarah Sprague and Mary Herrick.
1865
1869
Tree Holiday
is instituted; it
becomes Moving-Up Day in the
mid-1920s.
Scarlet and brown
are named
the official St. Lawrence colors
1876
Bell invents the telephone
fyi
Doc
Network/
Ross
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