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tapped me, as a fellow Zoo member, to
help publish the 1959 Melange. Paul
was business manager and sold enough
ads to keep us out of the red. He was
active on campus, especially in editing
The Lafayette, in which he showed
courage with and tolerance for my
literary rantings.
Paul authored at least two books.
His biography of Butch van Breda
Kolff was particularly interesting.
Before he moved to Florida, Paul
lived in Chatham, N.J., and attended
every home football and basketball
game. He has demonstrated a caring
devotion to Lafayette and the Class of
’60. Sidelined now for health reasons,
Paul is still the consummate Leopard
supporter and, thankfully, a fountain of
knowledge and history for me. Thank
you, Paul, for a job well done. You can
reach him at paulluscombe3@aol.com.
Bob Edwards writes, “I am still
healthy enough to row with the local
rowing club.” However, due to record
rainfall and flooding along the Delaware
River near Bob and Nancy’s home in
New Hope, Pa., Bob has been relegated
to an indoor rowing machine.
An executive coach in the Bay area,
Ed Bantlow divides his time between
family on the East and West coasts. He
was writing a book, Management and
Leadership Changes for the New Economy.
I keep looking for it at Barnes & Noble,
but I suspect that Ed’s new grandson,
Erawan, takes time away from his
writing. We have to settle for his
responses to articles in Drucker Exchange
or the writing on his business website
(www.execworth.com). Ed can be
reached at ebantlow@execworth.com.
If you cannot reach Ed on his website,
it may be due to Tom Rennert. Still
working on his golf game, Tom keeps in
weekly contact with his fellow Theta Chi.
I recently received an email from
Maureen Hurst, spouse of “Captain
Backcourt” Jim Hurst. Married
50 years, the Hursts had a July 9
gala celebration at Renault Winery’s
Tuscany House Hotel near Atlantic
City, N.J. Jim also celebrated his 75th
birthday at the event. His five children
and 12 grandchildren gave him a threewheeled
motor scooter, which Maureen
insists on calling his “tricycle” while his
kids insist he wear a helmet. Jim retired
in 1995 from Woolworth Corp. and a
20-year daily commute from Princeton
Junction, N.J., to New York City.
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Maureen, a registered nurse, retired
from Johnson & Johnson in 2001.
The Hursts live in Ocean View, Del.
Contact them at maihurst@aol.com.
Carol and I met Bob and Sheila
Brodie, recently returned from a tour
of Scotland, at the Capital District
Lafayette–Lehigh luncheon. Bob
turned over operation of Diamond
Point Marina on Lake George in New
York to his sons. Bob’s contact info:
brobob@aol.com.
With 50th anniversaries making the
news in our class, Duncan O’Dwyer
and his wife, Alice, will temporarily
increase the population of Grafton, Vt.,
by at least three score when they
celebrate their golden event there in
June. Dunc practices law at Forsythe,
Howe, O’Dwyer, Kalb & Murphy in
Rochester, N.Y., where he has been
managing partner for the past 20 years.
He met Alice in third grade (she was in
first) in Larchmont, N.Y. Their two
children carried on the legal gene,
with daughter Pam married to Andy
McGaan, an attorney, and son Jeff
working as associate general counsel
at United Health. Dunc is a trustee
of Roberts Wesleyan College and
Northeastern Seminary. He also has
served on a panel advising Lafayette
students considering law school.
Old number 64, Gary Schulz,
has been “in the harness for 60 years”
and plans to retire from his part-time
Home Depot job in Windham, Maine.
Continuing the family football tradition,
Gary’s son and grandson were also
college gridders.
Recalling Gary had a number of
part-time jobs and a wife and son while
at Lafayette struck a chord with me,
and we compared notes. I learned that
the Schulzes bought their first house
just a few miles from my new residence
in Burnt Hills, N.Y. At the time, Gary
was a zone manager for Sears, having
started with the company right after
school. After having to explain where
I lived to family, friends, and clients, it
was good to find someone who knew
where I was.
Gary expressed something I hear
frequently: a desire to return to the
College “one last time, see all the
changes, and revisit old haunts.”
The first fellow freshman I met at
Lafayette was Don Ohnegian. He and I
formed the “Big 10,” which could best
be described as an “anti-Calumet special
interest group.” Meeting at the old
power plant near Jenks Hall, we hatched
elaborate midnight schemes, which
came to naught. Don joined Delta Tau
Delta, played football at guard, graduated
with a bachelor’s in government and
law, served his Army time, finished
Rutgers School of Law, and finally
married Betsy. (She was all he talked
about when I first met him.) They
have three children, Debra Ohnegian
Bennett ’90, Scott (Amherst, 1992),
and Peter ’94, who served as Lafayette’s
strength coach after graduation.
Sadly, Don succumbed to cancer
Dec. 13, 2010, at his home in Ramsey,
N.J. As I lived in Ramsey when he
became ill, I visited him. He had
continued practicing law and was active
in town government and county politics.
Since both of Don’s sons played
football, the family established a scholarship,
the Donald C. Ohnegian ’60
Memorial Scholarship Fund for
Leadership, which will be awarded
to an outstanding football player
for his senior year. The scholarship
is administered by Community
Foundation of New Jersey.
Bill Kindig passed away July 24 in
Binghamton, N.Y. Recruited for
football, Bill came to Lafayette as a
member of the Class of ’55. He went
into the Air Force for four years and
“got it all together” while serving in
Japan and playing football. He returned
to Lafayette in 1957, married Peggy,
and moved into the cluster of
apartments and houses on Spring
Garden Street.
Blessed with a wife who was a math
teacher and knew calculus, Bill
graduated as an electrical engineer and
went straight to General Electric,
working as a manager in the missile
guidance control system program.
Retiring in 1988, he and Peggy filled
their lives with travel, grandchildren,
and two special interests: they delivered
countless meals in their 21 years with
Meals on Wheels of Western Broome
County while also running an antique
shop, Lady Paydacker, for 15 years from
a converted barn in Greene, N.Y.
Residents of Endicott, N.Y., Bill
and Peggy lived in the same house
they started in originally “just for five
years,” as Bill said. He is survived by
his wife of 54 years, two children,
and four grandchildren.
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