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president of the Los Angeles/St.
Petersburg Sister City Committee.
He also is a board member
of Chamber Orchestra Kremlin,
Moscow. … Kent Porter ’59
has operated by the rule of
ones. One God, one wife for 50
years, and one house that he’s
owned for 46 years. He is on his
eighth career as a serial entrepreneur
and executive coach.
… Pat Mattison ’59 stays
active in publishing and printing
in northern Illinois. … David
Youmans ’59 is a professor
emeritus of Washington State
University. He lives with his
wife, Julia Correa-Youmans, in a
quiet college town in the green
Tennessee hills. … George
Reeves ’59 is a director of the
Armed Forces Service Center
in Miami, Florida. He is also a
director of the Navy League
Broward County Council, and
director of the Rotary Club
of Coral Gables with T-birds
Chris Morrison ’73 and Rob
Hatfield ’68.
1960s
Gene Wick ’60 recently met
Thunderbird classmates Jack
Donnelly ’60 and Mike
Santellanes ’60 for lunch in
Scottsdale, Arizona. ... Mack
Hopkins ’60 lives in Seattle,
Washington, in a fl oating home
on Portage Bay. … Mike
Santellanes ’60 is president of
Las Brisas, which produces
pineapples for Chiquita. He
visits the project every other
month in northern Costa Rica.
… Tony Martinez ’60
volunteers as a guest speaker
in Georgia schools to discuss
Civil War and World War history.
… Burt Risser ’60 has joined
Dow Chemical and now
manages the company’s
distribution and transportation
offi ce in San Pedro, California.
… Bert Lerner ’61 retired in
2000 but still provides tax
preparation and bookkeeping
services in Middleboro,
Massachusetts. ... Avery
McCarthy ’61 retired in 1989
and moved to Florida. … Tim
Wilbur ’61 is retired from
Wilburgraphics and lives in
Oceanside, California. One of
his neighbors is Allan
Paloutzian ’69. … John
Wilbur ’61 has returned to
Oregon with his wife after living
and working in Peru for many
years. … John C. Cooper ’61
retired in 2000 from Merrill
Lynch, London, and returned
home to the Florida Keys. …
Bill Hartley ’62 and Shirley
Wood Hartley ’62 have been
retired for 20 years. They spent
two years in São Paulo, Brazil,
and currently live in Hernando,
Florida. … Jose Maria
Roggiano ’62 worked for the
Brazilian branch of Behr until
2009. Since then he has built a
consulting company that helps
clients from Germany, the
United States and Australia
enter Latin American markets.
… Richard Loth ’62 founded
the Fund Investor’s Schoolhouse
in 2012 and serves as its
co-publisher. The Schoolhouse
is a learning center that uses
monthly instructional lessons,
reference works, and educational
booklets for mutual fund
investing guidance. … Jim
Benson ’62 retired in 1997 and
relocated to Wild Rivers Coast
near Brooking, Oregon, with
Jane, his wife of 53 years. …
Ron Burkard ’63 retired in
1996 after a 30-year career
with CARE that included 17
moves around the world. He
then worked for seven years
as executive director of World
Neighbors in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. … Jim Kelly ’64
has directed the global
expansion of a variety of U.S.
fi rms in more than 15 countries.
He has lived in Europe, the
Middle East, North Africa and
Asia and speaks French, Italian
and English. … Michael
O’Keeffe ’65 retired in 2008 for
about one month. Then he got a
wonderful job teaching in the
MBA program at Edgewood
College in Madison, Wisconsin.
… Joe Burke ’65 is chief of
party for a U.S. Agency for
International Development
competitiveness project in
Zimbabwe. … Chuck Hardy
’65 is involved in commercial
real estate. He works for Lee &
Associates in Orange, California.
… Jim Whittlesey ’65 runs a
company that he started about
22 years ago in Tampa, Florida.
He has a 45-foot sailboat, and
enjoys trips to the Dry Tortugas
and other parts of the Caribbean.
… Harold McArthur ’65
retired from the University of
Hawaii in 2010 as Assistant
Vice Chancellor for Research
Relations. He and his wife of 39
years, Rochelle Almansor
McArthur, now split their time
between Honolulu, Hawaii, and
Manila, Philippines. … Ward
Clarke ’65 is retired in
Redmond, Washington, but
works part time at Microsoft. …
Larry Prager ’65 has lived in
San Diego County, California,
since 1987. He is a senior
adviser for SCAFCO Grain
Systems Company. Over the
years he has traveled to about
60 countries. … Andy
Chryssolor ’66 has lived in the
United Kingdom for 38 years,
where he serves on the boards
of two international companies.
He plans to slow down in 2013
and move to Hawaii. …
Jonathan Verity ’66 fi nished
his banking career in 2005 as
president and CEO of Bank One
Trust Company in Chicago.
Since then he has moved to
Beaufort, South Carolina, where
he works in the investment
management business with his
brother. Jonathan also plays
senior golf at a national level.
… Lee Havis ‘66 serves as
director of the International
Montessori Society. He also has
conducted education workshops
in Brunei, Malaysia,
Indonesia, and the Philippines.
… Diego Veitia ’66 lives in
Costa Rica with his wife,
Marsha, whom he married in
July 2012. … William Jeter
’66 takes volunteer missionary
service trips with an international
Protestant organization
called Campus Crusade for
Christ/Jesus Film Project. …
Joe Thompson ’66 retired at
age 49 to go sailing. After fi ve
years, he joined the Citizen
Democracy Corps in Poland and
Russia. Then he moved to
Illinois, where he did fund
development for Planned
Parenthood. He fi nally re-retired
in 2008. … Mack Shaw ’66
retired at 55 from his restaurant
business in the British Virgin
Isles. He now lives in West Palm
Beach, Florida, with his wife,
Betty Sue. … Taylor Hoskins
’66 quit his job as an international
insurance broker and
started his own company in
2005. He also is writing a book
about former United Nations
Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold. Taylor’s son,
Harwood Hoskins ’13, is a
current T-bird. … John Smith
’66 is president of Lake City
Arts, a community arts
organization in rural Colorado.
He is a husband, grandfather,
fl y fi sherman, traveler, and
Kansas Jayhawks basketball
fan. … William Messett ’67
runs an international search
fi rm in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
… David Carpita ’67 and his
partner have operated Seasons
of Provence Cooking School in
Saint-Remy-de-Provence,
France, for 20 years. They
spend their winters in the Red
Sea town of Hurghada, Egypt.
… Vic Fontaine ’67 works
with various international
outreach organizations,
including the Life and Career
Changers Ministry. … Bob
Eichfeld ’67 serves on the
board of EFG Hermes, a Middle
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