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NEW 

DIRECTIONS 

IN THE ARTS 

MAGAZINE SPRING | 2010

emerge the bones like steel . . . blood like mercury from the exhibit Computation, Vision: Emergence 

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FEATURES 

6 NEW DIRECTIONS 

IN THE ARTS 

Faculty in the arts lead creative crossovers 

BY GEOFF GEHMAN ’80 

18 TRIO 

Musicians Larry Fast ’73, Ko Umezaki ’91, 

and Katie Todd ’00 


22 MODES OF EXPRESSION 

Treyvon Jackson ’10 helps kids discover their 

potential through performance 

BY MEGAN ZARODA ’07 

28 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 

Lafayette wins the College Fed Challenge 

BY CARLY COLATCH 

38 SPLENDID CALM 

Stage manager Arthur Lewis ’84 keeps his cool 


DEPARTMENTS 

LAFAYETTE TODAY 

Spotlight on people and programs 

ALUMNI IN FOCUS 

Profiles, reflections, and more 

President’s Message 2 

From the Vice President 3 

Alumni Spotlights 12, 48, 56 

Lafayette Moments 14, 16, 52, 54 

Faculty Spotlight 26 

From the Archives 50 

Sports 58 

In Our City 62 

Class Notes 65 

MAGAZINE 

JENNIFER TAYLOR 

LORI MARGULES 

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SPRING 2010 • lafayette 1

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 

THE CREATIVE AND 

PERFORMING ARTS MAGAZINE 

Published by the Division of Communications 

As many of you 

know, one of the 

key objectives of 

our strategic plan is 

making our programs 

in the creative arts 

an essential feature of the College 

and ensuring that they are known for 

their outstanding quality, presence, 

and relevance to both the campus and 

larger community. 

The investments students make 

in the artistic process in the classroom, the studio, the rehearsal 

room, the concert hall, the media lab, and in countless other 

campus locations are fundamental to the College’s educational 

enterprise and to the goals of a liberal education. 

Through the Williams Center for the Arts, the Williams Visual 

Arts Building, the Experimental Printmaking Institute, and the 

departments and programs they house, Lafayette already makes 

a visible statement about its commitment to excellence in the 

creative arts, and we’re now striving to position the creative arts 

even more centrally in the life of the College. 

Thanks to the generosity of Bruce ’65 and Jackie Maggin, who 

recently established the Maggin Family Creative and Performing 

Arts Fellowship program, we are in a position to make Lafayette 

more attractive to prospective students interested in the arts 

and other creative endeavors. Each participant in this highly 

competitive program will qualify for a grant of up to $7,500 

during his or her four years, with these funds to be applied toward 

special projects, study abroad, or other purposes that would 

support the student’s creative development. This spring, grants 

were awarded to five current students to launch the program. 

A new interdisciplinary program in film and media studies, just 

approved by the faculty in March, is a noteworthy enhancement to 

Lafayette’s offerings in the creative arts. It will integrate rigorous 

critical study with creative production within a liberal arts context, 

building on and enhancing existing strengths. We envision that 

the program will forge active relationships with established film 

and media artists, integrating career opportunities for students 

within local, regional, national, and international centers of film 

and media activity. 

This issue of Lafayette Magazine includes features and shorter 

pieces that focus on the creative and performing arts and on 

interdisciplinary initiatives in the arts and other fields. I hope 

these and the entire issue will be of interest to you. 

2 lafayette • SPRING 2010 

Daniel Weiss 

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engineering; Chun Wai Liew, associate professor 

of computer science; Michael C. O’Neill, 

associate professor of English and director 

of theater; Dana Matassino, senior assistant 

director of admissions; Julie Mulé, senior assistant 

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FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT 

COMING BACK, GIVING BACK 

Last June, my wife and a number of her 

Lafayette classmates returned to College 

Hill for their 25th Reunion. Seeing the 

pride, the loyalty, and the enthusiasm 

with which Mandy and her friends 

marked this milestone has made me 

even more excited about the celebration my own class 

will hold this spring. 

The approach of that weekend has made me more 

aware than ever of what it means to be part of the 

Lafayette family. Having grown up in Easton, I 

was well acquainted with the College even before I 

spent four memorable years on campus. Except for a few years immediately following 

graduation, I have spent my entire professional career here, starting out with the 

Annual Fund and assuming my current position in 2003. 

Many things, including the appearance of the campus, have changed since I began 

my studies here nearly three decades ago. We’ve added impressive programs on campus 

and off. We’re also considerably better known nationally and internationally. What 

means the most to me, however, is that the same things that set Lafayette apart for me 

as an undergraduate are still valued by students today: the professor who encouraged 

me to take on a difficult assignment, the coach who challenged me to practice even 

harder, the lifelong friends I made among my fellow students, and the alumni who 

gave me a boost along the way. These are the people who made a difference in my 

life—and who have always made Lafayette a special place. 

If your class, like mine, will be celebrating a reunion this year, I encourage you to 

return to campus June 4-6. I guarantee we’ll have perfect weather, plenty of time to 

relax and reconnect with friends, and activities that will delight guests of all ages. 

While you’re on campus you will also learn about opportunities to become more 

involved with the Alumni Association and with the College. Information about these 

opportunities is also available at www.lafayette.edu. 

The other date I hope you’ll remember is June 30, the end of Lafayette’s fiscal year. 

If you haven’t made your gift for 2009-10, please remember that the College counts 

on your financial support every year. 

I especially encourage you to consider an unrestricted contribution to the Annual 

Fund, which remains a driving force behind Lafayette’s success. Despite the economic 

tailspin that affected all of us last year, Lafayette continues to make impressive progress 

toward achieving the goals outlined in the strategic plan. Because unrestricted annual 

gifts enable us to offer the important “extras” that make such a difference in the 

quality of a Lafayette education, we will depend even more heavily on contributions 

of that type this year and in the years to come. 

To all of you who support Lafayette so generously with your time, service, and 

resources, I extend a heartfelt thank you. 

James W. Dicker ’85 

Vice President for Development 

& College Relations 

“ We’re creating 

environments where ideas 

can circulate and 

not hit brick walls.” 

Ed Kerns, 

“New Directions in the Arts,” page 6 

“ You have to really, really 

love music and be willing 

to push as hard as you can 

to get to the next level.” 

Katie Todd ’00, “Trio,” page 18 

“ If all these kids had an 

individual who cared about 

them, they would be so 

much more successful.” 

Treyvon Jackson ’10, 

“Modes of Expression,” page 22 

“ I thought, We really have 

a chance to win this thing!” 

James DeVault, 

“National Champions!” page 28 

“ I like to say every crew 

I’ve got is the best 

crew in the world.” 

Arthur Lewis ’84, 

“Splendid Calm,” page 38 


LETTERS 

APPLAUDING 

STUDY ABROAD 

From my humble perspective 

I cannot say enough about the 

opportunities to study abroad now 

available to Lafayette students 

that were described in the fall 

edition of Lafayette Magazine. As 

a government major myself many 

years ago and as one who spent a 

career in foreign affairs, including 

18 years in East Asia, I heartily 

endorse the value of getting an 

early understanding of the world 

beyond our own shores. 

This is particularly critical as 

we enter an era when America may 

no longer be the sole superpower. 

A more united Europe, a rapidly 

ascendant China and India, and 

an economically stronger Asia in 

general all mean those involved 

in international activities, whether 

in government, business, or 

academia, need to have a better 

appreciation for the histories, 

cultures, languages, economies, 

religions, governments, and 

popular attitudes in the countries 

in which they are serving. We don’t 

have to “go native,” but we do 

have to respect other societies and 

remember that how we conduct 

ourselves is a major way foreign 

societies measure America. 

As a consequence, I applaud 

the availability of study-abroad 

programs at Lafayette, the creation 

of a Center for Global Studies and 

a major in Asian studies, and the 

earlier establishment of a policy 

studies program. These steps 

will make Lafayette a positive 

contributor to that pool 

of individuals who will best 

serve the United States and its 

institutions around the world. 

— Harry McAlpine ’51 

McLean, Va. 


REMEMBERING BOB NISHIYAMA 

I was delighted to see the article in Lafayette Magazine 

(Fall 2009) about Bob Nishiyama ’52. I would like to share 

a memory. 

While serving as an 

infantry communications 

officer in Korea in the 

spring of 1953, I went to 

Tokyo on R&R. I spotted 

Bob in the lobby of the 

Imperial Hotel, and we 

both smiled and shouted, 

“Lafayette College!” He 

said he would like to take 

some friends and me on 

a tour of Tokyo. 

As we got into a cab, 

Bob said the evening was on him and we should keep our 

money in our pockets. We protested, but to no avail. We 

drove through Tokyo for more than half an hour and arrived 

at a geisha house for an excellent dinner and entertainment 

(all very proper), then Bob took us to a nightclub for a few 

nightcaps. 

The next morning a buddy and I decided to do something 

for Bob for providing us with a truly wonderful evening. 

At the Tokyo Army PX we each bought a 20-pack of Gillette 

razor blades (Bob had complained about Japanese blades) 

and a carton of cigarettes. My buddy bought a box of 

Hershey bars, and I bought a box of Fifth Avenue bars 

(they were then made in Reading, Pa., my hometown). 

We took our gifts to Bob’s office at Piper Aircraft in the 

Imperial Hotel. Graciously accepting them, he told us, 

“I don’t want to embarrass you, but I know what these items 

cost you. Every Japanese knows PX prices. You paid more 

than the whole evening, taxi fare included, cost me last 

night.” We were skeptical, so Bob added with a laugh, 

“I’m Japanese and I know what to pay. G.I.s pay too much!” 

— Donald K. Bobb ’51 

Wyomissing, Pa. 

Write to Us! 

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and comments about the 

contents of the magazine 

as well as all aspects of the 

Lafayette experience. 

Email: 

alumninews@lafayette.edu 

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Lafayette College, 

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Letters may be edited 

for length and clarity.

ALUMNI MAKE A DIFFERENCE 

Vince Petitto ’89, senior manager of customer operations at Pfizer, 

hosted Matt Ferber ’10 in an externship at the firm’s Manhattan 

headquarters. “It’s important to support current Lafayette students, 

and the externship program is an ideal way to do that,” Petitto says. 

“I wish I had taken advantage of this type of program when I was a 

student. I was nervous about stepping into the real world, and I 

understand now that the anxiety was primarily due to fear of the 

unknown. Even the relatively brief exposure to life outside Lafayette 

that an externship provides helps remove some of the mystery and 

gives a student reassurance.” 

VINCE PETITTO ’89 

CHUCK ZOVKO

FEATURE 

NEW DIRECTIONS 

IN THE ARTS 

FACULTY IN THE ARTS LEAD CREATIVE CROSSOVERS 

6 lafayette • SPRING 2010

Students and faculty from art, computer science, 

electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, 

and neuroscience explored the connections between 

art and science in a project that culminated in 

an exhibition of artworks entitled Computation, 

Vision: Emergence. Ed Kerns (L-R), Chun Wai Liew, 

Elaine Reynolds, Khine Lin ’10, and Long Ho ’10 

B Y G E O F F G E H M A N ’8 0 | P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C H U C K Z O V K O 

ED KERNS runs a creativity 

laboratory without walls. The 

art professor-painter regularly 

collaborates with specialists outside 

his field—poets, musicians, archi- 

tects—as part of his quest to ask 

questions he can’t ask by himself. 

He’s a true-blue disciple of the unity 

of knowledge, or consilience. 

Last year Kerns taught a new 

course on consciousness and art with 

a neuroscientist. He and a computer 

scientist coordinated an exhibition 

of digital painted prints linking such 

universal patterns as branches and 

brain fissures. With an economist and 

an engineer, he continued planning 

programs for a communal cultural 

center in one of New Orleans’ most 

devastated districts. 

“We’re creating environments 

where ideas can circulate and not 

hit brick walls,” Kerns says. “We’re 

embracing ambiguity and chaos. 

What we’re doing is very American— 

it’s jazz.” 


CURRICULAR CROSSOVERS 

Kerns and his colleagues are leading a new wave of 

curricular crossovers at Lafayette. Funded by a threeyear, 

$300,000 Mellon Foundation grant for innovative 

alliances, faculty members have developed courses 

in everything from the mechanics and aesthetics of 

fluids to the harmony between music and lyrics. This 

multidisciplinary mission is supplemented by a new 

series of lectures by prominent change agents and a new 

series of practical fellowships for students in the creative 

and performing arts. The whole campaign extends the 

strategic plan’s call for global citizenship, strengthens 

the College’s strong suits in humanities and sciences, 

unites left brains with rights. 

The brain is the spine of The Neuroscience of Music, 

one of the new Mellon-financed courses. Scheduled to 

debut in fall 2011, it will be team-taught by Lisa Gabel, 

an assistant professor of psychology and an authority 

on music and memory, and Jennifer Kelly, an assistant 

professor of music and an authority on music and 

movement. They expect to explore why melodies can be 

healthy and why different societies play the same tempos 

differently. They also expect to learn from one another. 

Kelly looks forward to testing how music changes 

emotions; Gabel looks forward to testing a musiceducation 

system called “rhythmic gymnastics.” 

Parallel universes united in The Art and Science 

of Flow Visualization, a course team-taught by Jenn 

Stroud Rossmann, assistant professor of mechanical 

engineering, and Karina Skvirsky, assistant professor 

of art. Skvirsky, a photographer, taught students how to 

develop images of clouds. Rossmann taught them how to 

read clouds as weather maps. Everyone found a common 

ground in Harold Edgerton’s remarkably clear photo of 

a bullet piercing a playing card, one of his many examples 

of scientific art. 

The fluids class was an intellectual lubricant for 

Lauren Novotny ’11, an art history/economics and 

business major who once wanted to be a meteorologist. 

She discovered the magic of density by burning incense. 

She encountered moral ambiguity—also known as the 

banality of evil—in Skvirsky’s photos of lynching sites 

near the Mason-Dixon Line. She learned it’s pretty cool 

to study with two very different teachers at the same 

time. 

The course changed the teachers’ courses, too. Skvirsky 

says she feels free to embrace science, something she once 

feared. Rossmann feels free to be more conversational, 

more colloquial. “In an engineering class it’s rare to 

have true discussions—it’s basically Newton’s Law and 

this is what we want to do with it,” she says. “Karina is 


Students mounted an exhibit of 

photographs in a seminar taught by 

Jenn Stroud Rossmann (mechanical 

engineering) and Karina Skvirsky (art). 

“I enjoyed learning about both fluid 

mechanics and art,” says Melanie 

Schor ’11, who majors in international 

affairs and French. “It was interesting 

to see both sides.” 

brilliant at leading really meaningful, meaty discussions, 

helping students unpack and interpret knowledge. I was 

absolutely taking notes as to how to imitate her.” 

EXPLOITING FREEDOM 

Rossmann and Skvirsky are exploiting a freedom that 

neuroscientist Elaine Reynolds has exploited for two 

decades. During her 12 years at Lafayette, the associate 

professor of biology has ventured outside her academic 

specialty, cell molecules, to develop courses on aging 

and fear. She admits she probably wouldn’t have this 

advantage at a research university, where she’d be 

confined to writing grant proposals and managing 

graduate students. 

In 2007, Reynolds helped Kerns and architect

Elizabeth Chapman create an exhibit of works bonding 

humans, cities, and galaxies. Last fall, Reynolds and 

Kerns upped the ante by introducing a course on art 

and consciousness. They encouraged students to explore 

the fine line between what Kerns calls “modest success 

and magnificent failure.” Three neuroscience majors 

accepted their challenge by making a cerebral-cortex 

cake with materials conventional (flour, eggs) and less 

conventional (M&Ms, wires). 

For Reynolds, the cerebral dessert demonstrated how 

“artists have been playing tricks on the nervous system for 

a long time.” For Kerns, it proved how multidisciplinary 

studies “break molds and help students own their own 

minds.” 

Kerns and Reynolds have a kindred spirit in computer- 

science chair Chun Wai Liew, who in 2007 received a 

$590,000 National Science Foundation grant to upgrade 

the digital skills of teachers and students outside his field. 

His ponytail and Socratic-Zen methods separate him 

from most of his button-down, data-driven peers. One of 

his favorite instructions is “Here’s the problem—go for 

it.” It not only encourages imagination, it discourages 

his least favorite question: “What’s your grading rubric?” 

Liew used a little reverse psychology to recruit Rhodes 

Baker ’10, one of his prize pupils, to design software 

for the patterns exhibit he was coordinating with Kerns. 

Baker initially balked, thinking he’d be imprisoned 

in computer-graphics limbo or video-game hell. He 

changed his mind after Liew promised him he could 

basically skip “the art part.” 


Baker ended up enjoying his two-year crash course 

in abstract art. He enjoyed creating images rather than 

crunching numbers, working in a dynamic studio rather 

than a static computer lab, creating software that nonscience 

students could easily manipulate. Imogen Cain 

’12 and Scott Lyttle ’10 were among the art majors 

who manipulated images of basic patterns (bronchia, 

branches) into more complex entities (birds, snakes); 

printed, painted, and layered the arrangements on 

transparent sheets; and created everything from DNA 

barrier reefs to Abstract Expressionist MRIs. 

Last fall, these evolution sandwiches were on view 

in an exhibition titled Computation, Vision: Emergence 

in the Grossman Gallery of the Williams Visual Arts 

Building. A reception drew nearly 400 visitors, triple 

the normal crowd for a gallery opening. Organizers 

ran out of food and ordered pizza—proof that curricular 

crossovers unify not only ideas but people as well. 

The patterns project changed the patterns of its 

Chun Wai Liew (L-R), Scott Lyttle ’10, 

Rhodes Baker ’10, Khine Lin ’10, 

10 and lafayette Long Ho ’10 

• SPRING 2010 

participants. Cain switched one of her majors from economics 

to psychology. Lyttle, who came to Lafayette after 

a 25-year hiatus from college, hopes the all-hands-ondeck 

workshop will help him graduate from graphic 

designer to art director. Baker believes that customizing 

prototypes for student-clients helped him land a job as a 

software engineer with an electronics company. 

“A lot of people are good at programming computers,” 

says Baker. “Fewer people are able to understand and 

communicate concepts way out of their comfort zone. 

That helps make you a more well-rounded employee— 

and person.” 

GROWING ROOT SYSTEMS 

All these collaborations please Provost Wendy Hill, a 

champion of curricular crossovers. “Multidisciplinary 

projects allow you to be more deliberate and aware in 

your definitions,” says the neuroscience professor, who 

once team-taught a course on Darwinism with the late

James Lusardi ’55, an English professor and a florid 

Shakespearean. “If you work outside your field you need 

to be more crystallized. It’s similar to the old adage ‘You 

need to make it clear to your grandmother.’” 

This spring, the entire campus resembles a multidisciplinary 

network. Liew and Kerns expanded their 

patterns project with a series of lectures by such thinkers 

as Jonah Lerner, author of the book Proust Was a 

Neuroscientist. A new course, Music and Lyrics, is being 

taught by James Woolley, Smith Professor of English 

and an expert on poet Jonathan Swift, and Jorge Torres, 

associate professor of music and an expert on composer 

Erik Satie. 

A committee chaired by Hill is awarding new Maggin 

Family Creative and Performing Arts Fellowships to 

current and incoming students. Supported by Bruce 

’65 and Jackie Maggin, the grants fund research, 

internships, and study abroad (see page 32). Students 

and faculty are crossing disciplinary boundaries and 

collaborating creatively not only in the arts, but across 

the curriculum. 

In the near future, that network could become a nexus. 

McKelvy House and Reeder House scholars could, 

for example, devote weekly dinner discussions to the 

best-selling book This Is Your Brain on Music, which 

Gabel and Kelly plan to teach in their Neuroscience 

of Music course. Maggin Fellows could, say, help 

Kerns and partners Gladstone Fluney Hutchinson 

(economics) and David Veshosky (civil and environmental 

engineering) develop programming for an arts/ 

neighborhood center in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth 

Ward, one of Hurricane Katrina’s saddest victims. 

According to Kerns, the New Orleans team is 

trying to restore civic pride through compassionate 

citizenship. “So many people in academia hide in silos of 

information,” he says. “What we’re trying to do is grow 

root systems under those silos.” ■ 


The bride dances barefoot in the Pacific waves. The 

steam rising from the lobster bisque curls just so. The 

dog grins. “I know when to shoot,” says photographer 

Kira Stackhouse ’02. These are her moments. 

Stackhouse chronicles life in the Bay Area—and adds spice to it— 

in her businesses and blogs, including Nuena Photography (images 

of people), Fetch Foto (of pets), Scutte (shirts for dogs), Fryhole 

(restaurant reviews and pics for foodies), and the Little Bark Book 

(her take on cool stuff for pets). 

While managing her companies, making photos, recycling donated 

T-shirts into canine fashions, learning to sew, helping dogs find 

homes, swimming to Alcatraz Island, and participating in triathlons, 

Stackhouse has added another spinning plate: working full-time in 

marketing for the Sierra Club. 

“I do have a lot of things in my basket right now,” she says with 

a laugh. “But I’ve been a creative type my whole life.” 

Before starting college, she thought she might major in the sciences. 

Then, at Lafayette, “I saw all this cool art by Christo and Jeanne- 

Claude. I had never had that challenge before.” She dined with the 

artists, became pen pals with Jeanne-Claude, and switched her major 

to art. 

Inspired by meeting the installation and performance artist 

Ann Hamilton during Hamilton’s Grossman Residency at the 

College in 2000, Stackhouse dove into performance art herself. In 

her debut at the Williams Center, she walked barefoot on a spiral of 

raw eggs, wrapped in the American flag. Opening the flag to expose 

her body, clad only in Saran wrap, she recited a poem about identity 

and gender. 

“I was really bold in college, and Lafayette has such a strong 

art department,” she says. “I was given incredible opportunities.” 

A vacation in San Francisco hooked her on the West Coast. But what 

to do? 

“Never for one second did I consider being a photographer,” she 

says. Things revealed themselves when a friend asked Stackhouse 

to shoot her wedding. “It was fun to take pictures. I put ads on 

Craigslist and got 12 wedding bookings.” 

Building Scutte (say “scoot”) consumes a lot of time right now. 

The need to protect her new Boston terrier against cool seaside 

nights sparked the idea. 

“All the clothes in the pet stores were kind of tacky. So I went 

to thrift stores, cut up shirts, and gave them to the dog,” she says. 

In half a year she’s placed Scutte fashions in 10 stores, with more 

coming. She donates 10 percent of the proceeds to a shelter that 

finds homes for older dogs. 

“I finally found something that I was really good at where I 

could make money and not get bored,” she says, talking about the 

photography and dog-clothing businesses. “All the hard work, 

someday it will pay off.” 


P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C H U C K Z O V K O

HER 

MOMENTS 

B Y D A N E D E L E N 

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT 

PHOTOGRAPHER 

KIRA STACKHOUSE ’02 

CHRONICLES LIFE 

IN THE BAY AREA 


With Sydney Peyser ’10, 

Lew Minter, director 

of the art department’s 

media lab, created prints 

of images made by the 

environmental artist 

Brandon Ballengée of 

Charles Darwin’s pigeon 

research specimens 

for complementary 

fall exhibitions at 

the Williams Center 

Gallery and England’s 

Shrewsbury Museum.

a LAFAYETTE moment... PHOTOGR APH| B| CHUCK ZOVKO

Elizabeth Witmer ’10 

(left) directed College 

Theater’s February 

staging of David Mamet’s 

Oleanna, starring 

Brett Billings ’12 and 

Rachel Ports ’10.


FEATURE 

TRIO LARRY 


FAST ’73, KO UMEZAKI ’91, AND KATIE TODD ’00

B Y G E O F F G E H M A N ’8 0 

COURTESY OF THE SILK ROAD PROJECT. © DAVID O’CONNOR 

Larry Fast ’73 is a renowned performer and 

designer of electronic keyboards. Kojiro 

Umezaki ’91 writes pieces for computer 

and shakuhachi, a bamboo flute he plays in 

a world-music collective founded by a famous 

cultural ambassador. Katie Todd ’00 is a pianist, 

singer, and leader of a jazz-rock band popular among 

MySpacers and YouTubers. 

All have a Japanese connection. Umezaki grew up in 

Tokyo. This year, Fast released collector’s editions of 

his records in Japan. One of Todd’s songs is covered by a 

Japanese guitarist in an Internet video. 

And all three had pivotal musical experiences at 

Lafayette. Fast sharpened his producing skills as a 

WJRH engineer. Umezaki sharpened his improvisa- 

tional skills in a student jazz group. Todd sharpened 

her career skills during a Manhattan jazz session led 

by retired music professor William Melin, who introduced 

Umezaki to Fast. 

continued on page 20 

Katie Todd ’00, Larry Fast ’73 

(below left), and Ko Umezaki ’91 

playing shakuhachi with the 

Silk Road Ensemble, fronted by 

percussionist Shane Shanahan 

and cellist Yo-Yo Ma 


continued from page 19 

PUSHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL 

Katie Todd didn’t have a chance to thank the motorist 

who stopped at a green light to let her turn into a busy 

city intersection. The Good Samaritan did give her 

the green light to drive straight home, switch on her 

keyboard, and start writing a song about the ins and 

outs of being a Good Samaritan. Impressed by her frank 

lyrics (“You, you’re always last in line/You cover up the 

footprints of the unwanted kind”), an editor made her 

tune the theme of a 2009 publicity tour for a book of 

six-word meditations on love, heartbreak, and the whole 

damned traffic jam. 

The afterlife of “The Polite” is one of many unusual 

turns in Todd’s career as a composer, singer, keyboardist, 

band leader, and fashion model. The Chicago resident 

has opened for Steve Winwood, played the Lollapalooza 

festival, and helped National Geographic educate college 

students about global warming. YouTubers dig her hot 

concerts, cool videos, and funky hats. 

Todd began studying piano at age 4 and writing 

sonatas at 10. At Lafayette, where she began as a geology 

major, she had two pivotal experiences. She composed a 

string quartet as a senior project and received valuable 

advice from veteran musicians during an interim session 

course in Manhattan’s jazz world. Trumpeter Lew Soloff 

and bassist Ray Drummond both told her to work hard 

and love her work harder. 

After graduation, Todd played open mikes three times 

a week and supported herself as a barista at a music 

café. Her first big break came in 2002, when she won 

the “Big Break” competition at Summerfest, a massive 

annual event in Milwaukee. In 2004, she was a finalist 

in a contest for independent musicians hosted by Jewel, 

who lived in a car before she became a pop heroine. 

Along the way, Todd developed a loyal following for 

her passionate vocals, colorful keyboards, and lashing 

lyrics. Inspired by a bad breakup, “Leave” accuses a 

lover of “harmonizing with a .45 in mind.” The song 

appeared in MTV’s College Life show and in a YouTube 

video starring a Japanese guitarist. “Face Down,” a 

wake-up call for tranquility, received more than 300,000 

downloads after iTunes.com made it a free song of the 

week. Its lingering last line – “I wanna make some time 

for wasting” —cries out for a T-shirt or bumper sticker. 

Todd sounds happier on her fourth and latest record, 

Mumbled Speech. Songs are shorter, lighter, nimbler. 

“I was so tired of writing about breakups,” she says. “I 

thought: Wouldn’t it be nice to just enjoy life and not 

worry so much? To live simpler, make some time for 

wasting.” 


Todd has very little time for wasting. She’s forming 

a new band after a two-year stretch when she lost her 

guitarist and her brother-in-law drummer to the West 

Coast and her bassist to a full-time gig as a college English 

teacher. Without the support of a major record label, 

she and her manager are working overtime to increase 

bookings and improve song placements. Like many indie 

musicians, young and not-so-young, she relies heavily on 

the kindness of Facebook friends and MySpace strangers. 

“A lot of the music business is being in the right place 

at the right time,” Todd says. “Or you hit a chord with 

somebody for some reason. It’s a big game. You just 

throw something against the wall and hope it sticks. I’d 

tell people starting out: Don’t get discouraged, because 

9 out of 10 times, no matter how good you are, you’re 

going to get a no from somebody. You have to really, 

really love music and be willing to push as hard as you 

can to get to the next level. You have to take advantage of 

the internet to gain fans without traveling and spending 

a lot of money and hoping two people will show up.” 

Those who show up at Todd’s shows are treated to a 

healthy assortment of her 100-odd hats. “They’re one 

of my very few obsessions,” she says with a laugh. “For 

whatever reason they make me feel centered.” 

ON THE SILK ROAD 

Kojiro Umezaki has played a flute invented by Japanese 

monks in a Japanese temple, performed an ancient 

Azerbaijan opera at Lincoln Center, and riffed off old 

Chinese blue-and-white plates in a natural-history 

museum. He’s visited these landmarks as a member of 

the Silk Road Ensemble, a global collective founded 

by cellist-cultural ambassador Yo-Yo Ma to explore 

commonalities along an ancient trade route between the 

Far East and West. 

Known as Ko, Umezaki began uniting hemispheres 

in his native Tokyo. His Japanese-born parents met at 

a U.S. university. His mother taught at the American 

school he attended. There he studied Western flute 

along with shakuhachi, an end-blown flute that conjures 

wind, bird chirps, and other phenomena. Zen Buddhist 

monks created the bamboo instrument in the seventh 

century to help them meditate and become “priests of 

nothingness.” 

At Lafayette, Umezaki sharpened his improvisational 

skills with jazz musicians and action painters. After 

receiving a degree in computer science, he analyzed 

junk bonds, taught at colleges in Japan and Canada, 

founded an urban jazz trio, and developed commercialmusic 

software. In 2001, he was studying electronic 

composition at Dartmouth when he auditioned for the 

Silk Road Ensemble at the request of a professor who

doubled as the group’s executive director. His audition 

was a “very scary” duet with Yo-Yo Ma, one of the 

world’s best, and best-known, crossover kings. 

Since then, Umezaki has floated in and out of a 

60-member-plus caravan with a Galician bagpiper, a 

Mongolian horse-head fiddler, and a Chinese mouth 

organist. One time he rushed into a gallery performance 

without knowing what to perform. A tabla player rescued 

him by whispering a folk melody popular among Indian 

boat rowers. 

Some of Umezaki’s favorite Silk Road moments involve 

his homeland. He celebrated the 400th anniversary of a 

castle in Kumamoto as part of an outdoor music series 

run by a cousin. His planets really aligned during a 

performance in a 1,200-year-old temple in Nara. He had 

the sublime pleasure of playing a Buddhist instrument 

near a two-story Buddha and a lantern image of a 

shakuhachi player. 

Umezaki’s role in Silk Road has grown from performer 

to leader. The ensemble’s repertoire includes his arrangement 

of a traditional lullaby from his father’s prefecture. 

He co-curates concerts at the American Museum of 

Natural History in Manhattan, site of a temporary 

exhibit of Silk Road artifacts. His repertoire includes 

a multimedia piece about the evolution of blue-andwhite 

porcelain from Persia to China. “The idea is not 

just to bring a tradition from the Silk Road,” he says, 

“but to embody the idea of travel and exchange and 

transformation.” 

Umezaki spreads this message off the Silk Road. He 

teaches a course on integrating culture and technology 

at the University of California, Irvine, where he’s an 

assistant professor of music. He rips sonic envelopes in 

compositions for shakuhachi and computer. He blurs the 

line between notation and imagination with Brooklyn 

Rider, a string quartet that gigs and jigs with Irish and 

Persian fiddlers. 

Umezaki thanks Ma for tuning him into fine-tuned 

frequencies. “He stresses the importance of creating 

musical hybrids that are tasteful, respectful, and effective. 

We don’t want to pander to globalization and exoticism. 

We’re not carpetbaggers.” 

HIS OWN SYNERGISM 

SYNERGY is the name of Larry Fast’s one-man 

electronic orchestra. Synergisms drive his professional 

and personal lives, whether he’s playing a computer 

keyboard in a progressive-rock festival, designing sonic 

logos for satellite radio stations, or saving historic homes. 

The son and brother of Lafayette graduates (Sheldon 

’45 and Tom ’79), Fast majored officially in history 

and majored unofficially in instruments that would 

make history. The native of Livingston, N.J., tested 

synthesizers for electronics companies, customized 

synthesizer modules for Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, 

demonstrated synthesizers in a course on 20th-century 

music. “Talk about what you know: it’s an easy way to 

get a really good grade,” he says with a laugh. 

On campus, Fast wrote material for his first SYNERGY 

album, Electric Realizations for Rock Orchestra. Released 

in 1975, the collection of eclectic, tuneful soundscapes 

reached No. 66 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. Over the 

next dozen years, he composed and issued eight more 

SYNERGY records, scored the Cosmos television series, 

and served as sonic wizard to a host of pop-rock stars. He 

introduced programmable drums and ambient effects to 

Peter Gabriel’s “World without Frontiers” and “Shock 

the Monkey,” in the studio and in concert. 

Exhausted by 18 months on the road with Gabriel, 

Fast swore he wouldn’t tour when he was 40. He kept his 

promise by running an electronic-music record company 

and starting his own label to re-release SYNERGY 

projects. He fudged his vow in 2000 by joining a group 

led by bassist Tony Levin, a fellow Gabriel alumnus, on a 

European-Asian tour. 

These days, Fast plays live with Levin and alone in the 

North East Art Rock Fest, an annual powwow at Lehigh 

University. His equipment rig is small but mighty. The 

main instrument, a Kurzweil 2661—“really, a computer 

that looks like a keyboard”—stores nearly 12,000 

sounds, or 11,960 more than his early ’70s Moogs. 

After being all over the map in the 20th century, 

Fast is just as adventurous in the 21st. He’s composed 

for a Japanese water park, designed infrared auditory 

aids for court rooms (his wife is a technician for the 

hearing disabled), and raised money for an electronicmusic 

museum. Meanwhile, his history degree keeps 

resonating. His concert versions of Metropolitan Suite, 

a SYNERGY piece, feature computerized images of old 

New York City: work crews on skyscrapers, riders of the 

first subway cars. 

He also leads two heritage groups in New Jersey’s 

Morris County, the site of his house, one of George 

Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, and of 

the perfection of the telegraph. “I don’t like developers 

running amok, knocking down 250-year-old homes and 

putting up McMansions,” he says. 

In fact, Fast is an historic artifact himself. His 

scores are featured in Laserium shows at planetariums. 

Electronic-music experts consider him a pioneer of 

keyboards controlled by microcomputers. Generation X 

prog rockers regard him as a sage. He’s become his own 

synergism. ■ 


FEATURE 

Modes of Expression 

TREYVON JACKSON ’10 

HELPS KIDS DISCOVER 

THEIR POTENTIAL 

THROUGH PERFORMANCE. 


Aveteran performer even as a 

way. It all goes back to tap dancing. 

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college junior, Treyvon Jackson 

’10 had heard plenty of applause 

in his young life, but the acclaim 

of Jose touched him in a special 

It’s the fourth grade, and Jackson sits among friends 

as two women from the Washington Performing Arts 

Society volunteer to teach the students tap dance. He 

tries it out like “a piece of playground equipment.” It’s 

new, novel, potentially exciting. What he doesn’t realize is 

that putting on tap shoes will create connections that will 

provide a supportive network and, eventually, inspire him 

to provide opportunity to others.

Modes of Expression, a mentoring program begun by Treyvon Jackson ’10 (center), exposes Easton middle school students to 

the performing arts. 

“Tap dance is what has gotten me where I am today,” 

Jackson says. “I mean it in more ways than one. It put me 

in a position to realize that things happen for a reason.” 

In middle school and high school—Friendship 

Collegiate Academy in Washington, D.C.—he was a 

member of Tappers With Attitude, the well-known 

ensemble based in Silver Spring, Md. Tap dancing 

saw Jackson through a rocky childhood—a broken 

family, a parent’s depression, eviction, a murder in his 

grandmother’s apartment. It wasn’t just the immersion in 

dance, but also the support that came from relationships 

made in the studio: tap teachers-turned-mentors Yvonne 

Edwards and Myrna Sislen, the second home he found 

with fellow dancer Justin Lewis’ family. 

“On that first day when they told me about that tap 

program, there was a reason why I raised my head and 

said, ‘Hey, I want to do it.’ If it hadn’t been for that day, 

I wouldn’t be here today,” Jackson says. 

“Looking back on these years, I realize all the support 

I had and how many kids don’t have parents who care 

for them and get them the support they need,” he says. 

“If they have just one person to sit down with them 

and show how much they care, it’s that much more 

motivating to want to do better. That’s why I wanted to 

put this program together.” 

Modes of Expression, that is: the program that touched 

Jose. 

When Jackson arrived at Lafayette, he thought 

about forming a tap group, but instead, inspired by 

Professor Michael O’Neill, he channeled his talent and 

passion for his art form into a mentoring program called 

Modes of Expression. 

Jackson had a vision of bringing together the College’s 

performing arts groups to do something that would 

open kids’ minds and open doors for them by exposing 

them to the performing arts. He thought, “We’re here 

because someone told us, You can tap, you can sing. 

Someone provided you with the opportunity to develop 

those skills to be where you are today. This is a good 

opportunity for us to step up. This gives us a way to help 

someone else realize what they’re capable of.” 

He talked about it with a friend, AJ Ernst ’09, who 

had mentored students at Shawnee Middle School. Ernst 

thought Shawnee’s principal would welcome a new 

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and Modes of Expression debuted in the spring of 

2009 with heavy participation by members of WORDS 

(Writing Organization Reaching Dynamic Students), 

Dance Crew, and the College’s a cappella groups. The 

daily program included an hour of homework help and 

an hour of arts-related mentoring for at-risk fifth-graders 

and sixth-graders. 

Jackson developed Modes of Expression as an 

independent study with O’Neill, who was Jackson’s 

adviser as the student created a customized, interdisciplinary 

major called performance studies. This 

year, Jackson continued the work in an internship with 

Bonnie Winfield, director of the Landis Community 

Outreach Center, and Modes of Expression became an 

established Landis Center program. 

“I was thrilled when Treyvon told me he wanted to 

bring Lafayette students into the community to work 

with school kids on arts-related projects,” says O’Neill, 

the director of theater and an associate professor of 

English. O’Neill first connected with Jackson in his 

Introduction to Theater course, where he learned that 

Jackson had studied with the tap dancer Savion Glover, 

the star and Tony Award-winning choreographer of Bring 

in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk on Broadway. “Like a 

physics student telling his professor he had studied with 

Einstein,” O’Neill says. 

“I’ve seen Treyvon tap—he’s amazing, by the way— 

and as we talked, I kept visualizing him as a 10-year-old 

learning to tap, starting the process that got him here 

to continue the cycle,” O’Neill says. “The fact that he 

wanted to help kids discover their potential through 

performance was exciting enough. The fact that Modes 

of Expression was modeled on his own experience 

learning tap as a kid made me believe in his dream as 

much as he did.” 

The program has been beneficial and the 

students blessed, says Gina Ambrusico-Lynn, who 

coordinates Modes of Expression at the Shawnee end. 

Her youngsters “feel that they are important to the 

college students and the community,” she says. “They 

would like to grow up and do what the college students 

are doing, mentoring and helping others.” 

Elyse Schunkewitz ’12 brought experience tutoring 

in Easton schools through other Landis Center programs 

to her work in Jackson’s initiative. She misses Julio, with 

whom she bonded at Shawnee, since he moved back to 

his native Puerto Rico. 

“It takes time to familiarize yourself with someone 

new, no matter what age you are. But Julio expected me 

and looked forward to my visiting him twice a week,” 

she says, adding, “Seeing him actually helped me get 

through my week.” 


“ If they have just one person to sit down with them and show 

how much they care, it’s that much more motivating to want 

to do better,” Jackson says. “That’s why I wanted to put this 

program together.” 

Then there’s Jose. A performer of a sort, he seemed to 

enjoy entertaining himself and disrupting his classmates 

with loud outbursts in defiance of his teacher. Jackson 

challenged Jose to change his behavior, and eventually 

Jose began taking responsibility for his actions. 

A questionnaire Jackson later gave the students asked 

the youngsters to name influential people in their lives. 

“Surprisingly, Jose wrote my name. I barely knew 

this kid for even two weeks! It was one of those 

moments. . . . For him to even consider putting my 

name on there—that made me feel good to know that 

I made that much of an impact on him in such a short 

time,” Jackson says. “If all of these kids had an individual 

who cared about them, they would be so much more 

successful in what they want to do and have that much 

more confidence.” 

Stories like Jose’s and Julio’s fuel Jackson’s motivation 

to ensure that Modes of Expression continues after he 

graduates in May. As for Jackson, after he completes 

the capstone semester of his performance studies major 

—which includes doing the choreography for College 

Theater’s production of As You Like It—he’ll join the 

currency operations department at Goldman Sachs. A 

member of Lafayette’s first group of Posse students from 

Washington, he served internships at Goldman during 

the past two summers. 

Goldman will be Jackson’s next act, but it’s not his 

ultimate goal, he says. “One of my greatest aspirations 

is to have my own talent agency. It’s my number-one 

priority. I can use my future to fuse mentoring and arts 

together. Having that agency is a gateway to provide 

opportunities and resources for the kids.” ■


Exploring Theatrical Forms 

Playwright Monica Flory (right) gave a workshop for students in Mary Jo Lodge’s 

course on theater for young audiences. The students will stage a production of 

Flory’s adaptation of The Jungle Book this spring. 

A NEW INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON NON-WESTERN THEATER 

aesthetics and techniques has students learning about forms such as Noh, 

traditional Japanese theater; Kabuki, stylized Japanese popular drama with 

singing and dancing; Bunraku, Japanese puppet theater; Kathakali, the 

classical dance-drama of India; and shadow puppetry. 

“The theater program embraces Lafayette’s aim to create global citizens, 

and we are pleased that we can now educate students about the arts and 

theater of many cultures beyond those we have examined in the past,” says 

Mary Jo Lodge, assistant professor of English, who is collaborating with 

Michael O’Neill, associate professor of English and director of theater, 

and Suzanne Westfall, professor and head of English. 

In the fall, the theater program welcomed the company responsible for the 

shadow puppets used in the Broadway smash The Lion King. This spring, 

College Theater’s production of As You Like It, directed by O’Neill, and a 

production of The Jungle Book mounted by students in Lodge’s course on 

theater for young audiences include puppets designed by theater artist Alisa 

Sickora Kleckner. 

Other visiting artists include the IchiFuji-kai Dance Association, presenting 

a workshop on Kabuki dance, and Boris Daussa-Pastor, an internationally 

recognized expert on Kathakali. It’s all aided by a grant from the Andrew W. 

Mellon Foundation that supports faculty innovation and collaboration across 

the curriculum. 

“In this time when many arts organizations, both professional and academic, 

are struggling to stay afloat, we appreciate that Lafayette has made global 

education and the arts, specifically theater, a clear priority,” Lodge says. ■ 

CHUCK ZOVKO 

Wilkins’ 

Frydlant Nights 

FRYDLANT NIGHTS is 

the latest CD of jazz from 

Skip Wilkins, associate 

professor of music. Recorded 

with the International Quintet 

last August at the studios of 

Radio Prague during a tour 

of clubs and festivals in the 

Czech Republic, the disc 

features original compositions 

by the group, including four 

by Wilkins, “Elbow Room,” 

“Frydlant Nocturne,” “LGT,” 

and “Waiting for Prague.” 

It’s on the Czech Radio 

Prague label. 

The quintet includes Wilkins 

on piano, fellow Americans 

Neil Wetzel on alto saxophone 

and Gary Rissmiller on drums, 

and Czech musicians Rostislav 

Fras on tenor saxophone and 

Josef Feco on bass. The group 

will play in Prague, Berlin, and 

Bonn this August, its fourth 

European summer tour. 

Wilkins is a regular faculty 

member in the annual 

Karel Velebny Summer Jazz 

Workshop at Frydlant in 

the Czech Reupblic. ■ 


FACULTY SPOTLIGHT PROF. POLLY PIERGIOVANNI 


“ I know each 

student’s interests. 

Working with 

them one-on-one, 

that’s what I like best, 

and I’m committed 

to it.”

“ The educational experience of Lafayette students, 

like those at other outstanding small colleges, 

depends fundamentally on the quality of the 

faculty and on the faculty’s effectiveness in 

maximizing each student’s intellectual development. 

The College takes justifiable pride in the 

accomplishments of its faculty as master teachers, 

talented guides and mentors, scholars of national 

distinction, and leaders within their disciplines.” 

—The Plan for Lafayette 

“When I came here to interview, I didn’t know much about places like 

Lafayette,” says Polly Piergiovanni, associate professor of chemical and 

biomolecular engineering. A member of the faculty since 1990, she earned 

her Ph.D. at the University of Houston after doing her undergraduate 

work at Kansas State University. “Once I saw how engineering and the 

liberal arts can both be emphasized, I realized Lafayette was the perfect 

combination—small classes, a liberal arts environment, all these things 

that fit me.” 

A recipient of the College’s Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, 

Piergiovanni teaches Introduction to Engineering and courses on unit 

operations, process control, and biochemical engineering. She also 

developed and teaches two interdisciplinary courses, a First-Year Seminar 

on quilts as a means of expression and communication and a VAST 

(Values and Science/Technology) seminar on the chemistry and impacts 

of indigo dye. She has mentored more than 25 students in collaborative 

research projects, independent studies, and honors theses. 

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 

When U.S. Federal Reserve chair Ben 

Bernanke speaks, people listen: his words 

can and do move financial markets around 

the world. But James DeVault doesn’t remember 

a thing he said. That’s how excited the Lafayette 

contingent was when Bernanke congratulated the 

champions of the 2009-10 College Fed Challenge. 

DeVault and Julie Smith, an associate professor and 

assistant professor, respectively, in the Department of 

Economics, were advisers to a six-man Lafayette team 

that outdid Harvard, Northwestern, and Rutgers- 

Newark Dec. 2 in a simulated meeting of the Federal 

Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve Board 

in Washington, D.C. This was the title round of the 

College Fed Challenge, a competition sponsored by 

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LAFAYETTE WINS THE COLLEGE FED CHALLENGE. 

better understanding of the U.S. central bank, the forces 

influencing economic conditions in this country and 

abroad, and the ways the economy affects everyone’s 

lives. 

Bernanke had joined the Fed Challenge finalists 

moments before the judges announced the order of 

finish beginning with No. 4. 

“After seeing the teams’ presentations, I did not 

expect us to win,” DeVault says. It did not surprise him 

when Northwestern was announced as the fourth-place 

team, but when Harvard was called next, “I thought, 

‘Oh, my God, we really have a chance to win this thing!’ 

And when we won, I was in total shock.” So much so 

that he can’t recall what Bernanke said as he handed the 

championship trophy to Teevrat Garg ’10 and posed 

for photos with the team. 

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THE RIGHT MIX 

The College Fed Challenge is an offshoot of the 

National Fed Challenge, a program for high-school 

students created in 1994 by Lloyd Bromberg, who 

recently retired as the New York Fed’s director of 

school programs. 

“We saw the potential for students to learn how to 

manage monetary policy,” Bromberg says. “The college 

teams got a nudge from former high school students 

who treasured the experience.” Lafayette has competed 

every year since 2003. In 2004, Lafayette’s team 

advanced to the championship round and placed third. 

This year, more than 80 colleges participated nationally, 

with Lafayette taking the $25,000 top prize. 

As always, the advisers looked for the right mixture 

of personalities and skills to make this year’s team 

successful. To be considered, students had to meet 

certain academic prerequisites and be nominated by 

faculty. 

“It’s not just about brainpower,” DeVault says. 

“Interpersonal skills are important. They also have to 

be cool under fire and speak well. Enthusiasm is just 

as important as academics. They need that fire in the 

belly.” 

“We tried to get the students to think like economists. 

They have to talk about costs and benefits and realize 

the difficulties faced by policy-makers,” Smith says. 

“I was happy and excited for them. It means a lot 

to me, but it means more to them because of their 

preparation.” 

Indeed, as Bromberg puts it, “There’s no faking your 

way into the competition and doing well. You must 

spend time working on it.” Beginning in September, 

the team met as a class three times a week to prepare 

for the first competition in Baltimore. By October, 

they were meeting nightly. They read speeches from the 

Fed’s Board of Governors, prepared questions for one 

another, collected and discussed data and research, and 

wrote a script for the presentation they would give at the 

competition. Scott Placke, the director of the College’s 

Forensics Society, gave them suggestions for making the 

presentation more passionate, exciting, and persuasive. 

Garg, of Haryana, India (who helped lead the 

Forensics Society’s speech team to a championship 

at the National Forensics Association’s national 

tournament last May), was the only two-time member 

of Lafayette’s Fed Challenge team. 

“Last year, there was a returning student who was 

very helpful, so I thought I might be able to offer some 

guidance this year,” he says. 

For Dylan McNamara ’11 (Pasadena, Md.) the trip 

to the Fed’s Washington headquarters was a repeat 

visit. His team at Severn School had advanced to the 

Lafayette outdid Harvard, 

Northwestern, and Rutgers-Newark 

in a simulated meeting of the 

Federal Open Market Committee 

at the Federal Reserve Board 

in Washington. 

final round of the high-school competition. He cites 

that experience as the reason he pursued economics 

at Lafayette and joined the Fed Challenge here. The 

other members of the team were Chencong Bao ’11 

(Shanghai, China), Alex Petroulias ’11 (East Quogue, 

N.Y.), Nick Stacey ’11 (Mbabane, Swaziland), and 

Dan Stefan ’10 (Havertown, Pa.) 

“We didn’t know each other well at the start, but we 

got to be close friends,” Garg says. “There was a lot of 

synergy on the team.” 

BALTIMORE, RICHMOND, WASHINGTON 

Even those who understand little about the workings 

of the Federal Reserve felt the impact of the decisions 

it made last year at the height of the economic crisis. 

The central bank influences everyone’s day-to-day lives, 

whether they realize it or not. 

“Its job is to determine credit, monitor borrowing 

and lending, and determine interest rates,” DeVault 

explains. “Its decisions have global ramifications, as they 

can affect other interest rates around the world.” 

In response to the economic downturn, the Fed 

created new lending programs to stimulate the economy. 

With frequent policy changes taking place, there was an 

enormous amount of new material for the students to 

absorb, including speeches and meeting minutes. 

In the Fed Challenge, teams give 20-minute 

presentations on monetary policy and are judged on 

content, teamwork, responses to questions, presentation, 

and style. In the first round, at the Baltimore branch 

of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Lafayette 

defeated 14 schools, including American, Lehigh, and 

the Naval Academy. The team went on to defeat James 

Madison and the University of North Carolina, Chapel 

Hill, to win the Fifth District regional competition in 

Richmond and advance to the championship round. 

At the final, McNamara was confident about 

Lafayette’s presentation. “I was surprised at how calm I 

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was going into it,” he says. “I was a little 

nervous at first, but once we started, I was okay.” 

While the presentation was important— 

“You don’t get to that level of competition unless 

you have a superb presentation,” DeVault says— 

it was the Q-and-A that set Lafayette apart and 

sealed the victory. The teams were asked two 

common questions plus other questions specific to 

their presentations. One of the common questions 

was particularly challenging, DeVault says, but 

Lafayette “hit it right out of the park.” 

Smith says that’s when they realized they stood a 

real chance of winning, “although it was difficult to 

gauge the reactions of the judges,” who included a 

senior economist and policy adviser at the Boston 

Fed, a senior vice president of the New York Fed, 

and a senior vice president and director of research 

at the Richmond Fed. “It’s subjective. I knew our 

students did well, and it was sometimes a struggle 

for the other teams, but there was still uncertainty.” 

HARVARD: “PRETTY GOOD” 

“I had thought Harvard’s presentation was pretty 

good, but when they were announced in third 

place, I knew we’d won,” Garg says. He called 

economics department head Ed Gamber, and 

news of the team’s success spread on campus. 

“It was on the department web site before we’d 

even returned to Easton,” he says. “We had so 

much support from the College.” 

For the students, it was a labor of love. “You 

have to really understand and be passionate about 

the material,” Garg says. “If you can’t do that, it’s 

not rewarding. It reflects that the best at Lafayette 

could compete with the best of everyone.” 

The students split $15,000 of the $25,000 prize, 

and the rest went to the economics department 

to fund future Fed Challenge teams and other 

projects. 

The challenge now is to hold on to the title. 

McNamara already plans to return to the team for 

his senior year. He is working with DeVault and 

Smith to restructure the class to begin at the end 

of the spring semester, rather than the beginning 

of fall. 

“It’s good to start earlier, because the team will 

get to know one another and have time to get used 

to working together,” McNamara says. “It will 

make our team more competitive.” ■ 



Summer Internships in Venice 

ERICA KAMIN ’11 AND Lauren Novotny ’11 

will have an incredible opportunity to contribute to 

the conservation of renowned art works in Venice 

this summer. They will assist with research and 

documentation related to the conservation of ceiling 

canvases recounting the Old Testament story of 

Esther by the Renaissance master Paolo Veronese in 

the Church of San Sebastiano. 

The inaugural year of summer internships with 

Save Venice, Inc. is made possible by the support of 

Mary Kolarek Frank ’79 and her husband, Howard. 

Diane Cole Ahl, Arthur J. ’55 and Barbara S. 

Rothkopf Professor of Art History, worked with Mary 

Frank, who is a member of the board of Save Venice, 

to launch the program. The internships will be fully 

subsidized, Ahl notes. 

“Erica and Lauren will have the extraordinary 

experience of seeing Venice not as tourists do, but 

as residents for a sustained period of time,” Ahl says. 

“They will live and work in the city, hone their Italian, 

and come to understand first-hand the integration of 

Venetian culture and life. This is a unique opportunity, 

and we are most grateful to Mary and Howard Frank 

for their support.” 

Kamin is an art major, and Novotny a double 

major in art and economics and business. “I never 

imagined I would be able to combine my love of travel 

and art history in a summer job,” says Kamin, who 

is considering a career in art education. “This will 

provide me with real-world experience as well as an 

up-close look at some of the most amazing works of 

art. Very few people can say they had the opportunity 

to actually see what they have been studying in the 

classroom.” 

Save Venice has sponsored more than 200 

restorations of threatened masterpieces. “Howard and 

I believe travel abroad can be a life-altering experience 

for college students,” says Mary Frank, who spoke on 

the San Sebastiano work in the annual Dorian Lecture 

in Art History at Lafayette in March. ■

Nobel Laureate Visits Campus 

ELINOR OSTROM, recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 

for 2009, spoke with students and faculty in an afternoon seminar before 

delivering an address on governing for sustainable water in complex 

environments in Colton Chapel March 4. 

She is a professor of political science and senior research director of 

the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. 

Her visit was sponsored by the Meyner Center for State and Local 

Government, a Mellon Foundation grant supporting the College’s 

Environmental Studies Initiative, and the policy studies program. ■ 

Gilman Scholarships 

TWO STUDENTS WERE AWARDED Gilman International Scholarships 

by the U.S. state department to support a semester of study abroad this 

spring. Khadija Abdel Hafiz-Sokaria ’12 is at the American University in 

Cairo, and Jasmine Little ’11 is participating in the International Honors 

Program, which is taking her to South Africa, Vietnam, and Brazil. 

Abdel Hafiz-Sokaria, an international affairs major, is taking courses in 

Arabic language and literature, Islamic law reform, the social and political 

history of the Middle East, and the art and architecture of Cairo. In 

IHP’s Health and Community program, Little (psychology) is taking four 

courses that illuminate the biological, ecological, economic, political, and 

socio-cultural factors that affect human health. 

The Gilman Scholarship program offers grants for students who have 

been traditionally underrepresented in education abroad. It aims to 

encourage students to choose non-traditional study abroad destinations, 

especially those outside Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. ■ 

CHUCK ZOVKO 

Never Married, 

Over 40, 

Well-Adjusted 

NATIONAL and international 

media spotlighted research by 

Jamila Bookwala, associate 

professor of psychology, on the 

psychological health of unmarried 

adults over 40. 

Her study, published in the 

Journal of Social and Personal 

Relationships, was featured by 

HealthDay news service and 

appeared on the web sites of 

media outlets in the United 

States and abroad, including 

ABC News, U.S. News & World 

Report, Forbes, MSN, Yahoo, 

India’s Daily News & Analysis, 

and the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

Using data from the National 

Survey of Midlife Development 

in the United States, Bookwala 

and co-author Erin Fekete of the 

University of Miami examined 

responses from more than 1,500 

Americans age 40 to 74 who 

identified themselves as either 

“married” or “never married.” 

The survey showed that so-called 

“long-term singles” who identify 

themselves as highly self-sufficient 

in their daily lives report the same 

level of overall psychological 

well-being as those adults in the 

same age group who chose to 

get married. ■ 



First Arts Fellows Named 

THE FIRST RECIPIENTS of the College’s new Maggin Family Creative 

and Performing Arts Fellowships have been awarded grants ranging from 

$2,500 to $4,500 to pursue their interests and talents in the arts. Made 

possible by Bruce ’65 and Jackie Maggin, the CaPA Fellowships, as they 

are known, will support a wide array of endeavors and contribute to a more 

vibrant campus. 

Brett Billings ’12 envisions establishing a radio theater group. “For almost 

half a century, radio theater entertained audiences without auditoriums, 

scenery, costumes, or props. It invites listeners to create the scene 

themselves,” says Billings, a biochemistry major and College Theater veteran. 

An album of original hip-hop songs focusing on diversity is in the mind’s 

eye of Sean Ryon ’12 (English). An accomplished musician and DJ, he 

calls hip-hop “an art form potentially capable of unifying people of all races, 

ethnicities, creeds, and countries.” 

Samantha Smith ’12 (economics and business), who is involved in a 

spectrum of artistic activities at the College, says, “I want to find synergies 

to help students cross into different areas of academia and art.” 

In addition to pursuing their own artistic goals, Billings, Ryon, Smith, 

Nina Horowitz ’11 (art) and Sara Somach ’13, who has yet to declare 

a major, will “act as ambassadors to the incoming first-year students who 

receive CaPA Fellowships,” says Jim Toia, the director of Community- 

Based Teaching in the Department of Art and the coordinator of the 

CaPA Fellows program. 

Beginning this fall, selected members of each entering class will receive 

up to $7,500 over their four years at the College to pursue their interests 

and talents in the arts through special projects, internships, research, study 

abroad, and other activities. It is expected that about 10 fellowships will be 

awarded each year. The recipients will be selected by a committee of faculty 

in the arts and humanities chaired by Provost Wendy L. Hill. 

“The intention is to give the arts a larger presence on campus and in the 

surrounding community. The CaPA group will meet monthly to discuss 

issues of the arts and their particular form of expression and will meet with 

Lafayette faculty, staff, and visiting artists. Much of the work created will 

involve students reaching out to the community for collaboration in the 

artistic process,” Toia says. ■ 


New Program: 

Film and 

Media Studies 

INTERDISCIPLINARY MAJOR 

and minor programs in film and 

media studies, approved by the 

faculty in March, will enhance 

Lafayette’s offerings in the 

creative arts. 

Focusing on the history, 

theory, and practice of film and 

other forms of digital visual 

and audio media, the programs 

will build on collaborations 

between departments already 

offering film and media courses, 

including English and art, and 

upon less obvious collaborations 

that include American studies, 

anthropology and sociology, 

computer science, engineering, 

foreign languages and literatures, 

philosophy, music, and theater. 

The faculty also approved 

new courses in film and media 

studies, including a special topics 

seminar, integrated capstone 

course, independent study, and 

honors thesis. Additional courses 

are being developed, and a new 

tenure-track faculty position in 

film and media studies has been 

filled. 

The major will be available 

to students beginning with the 

incoming class this fall. Students 

beginning with the Class of 2012 

may declare a minor. ■

Artist in Residence Dig the Earth 

Jena Newman ’04, senior art director at Catapult Marketing, Westport, Conn., 

spoke with Lauren Longenecker ’10 (right) and other students during a visit to 

the Williams Visual Arts Building. “What Lafayette did to help me be successful 

is not something I learned in any one class,” Newman says. “Lafayette gave 

me diverse sources of inspiration and taught me how to communicate my 

thoughts effectively. That’s invaluable because this industry is built upon ideas, 

communication, and confidence.” 

BBC Features Allan 

THE BBC PLANS to feature Robert W. Allan, associate professor 

of psychology, in a major new television series about science this year 

to tie in with the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society in London. 

BBC host Michael Mosley and a video crew visited campus in December 

to interview Allan, a respected researcher in the branch of psychology 

known as behaviorism, which studies the relationships among behavior 

and environment in animals and humans. 

The new series, Science Story, will feature six one-hour programs. 

It will air in the United Kingdom and be distributed by BBC Worldwide. 

“The final program in the series looks at how we have understood the 

brain and the mind throughout history,” says Sarah Forster, production 

coordinator for Science Story. “One of the key figures in the program is B.F. 

Skinner. Professor Allan is a behaviorist in the tradition of Skinner, and he 

agreed to let us interview him and to do a demonstration of behaviorism so 

that our audience can understand this psychological theory.” ■ 

CHUCK ZOVKO 

A DOCUMENTARY FILM 

created by students and faculty has 

been screened in several venues in 

the United States and Canada since 

its premiere on campus last spring. 

Dig the Earth was shown at the 

10th Black Bear Film Festival in 

Milford, Pa., and at the Lehigh 

Valley Watershed Conference at 

DeSales University in the fall. 

This winter it was featured at the 

Princeton Environmental Film 

Festival and the annual conference 

of the Pennsylvania Association for 

Sustainable Agriculture. Excerpts 

were screened at international 

conferences on the environment in 

Portland, Ore., and Victoria, B.C. 

The 40-minute documentary 

is about “Corn on the Quad,” a 

yearlong companion project to 

the summer reading assignment 

for the incoming class in the fall 

of 2008, The Omnivore’s Dilemma 

by Michael Pollan. The project 

included the planting of three plots 

of corn in the center of campus and 

had students in all majors engaging 

with a variety of topics related to 

the book’s themes, including world 

hunger, energy production and fuel 

costs, causes of obesity, and land 

use and sustainability. 

Dig the Earth was produced and 

directed by Andrew Smith, assistant 

professor of English and chair 

of American studies, and John 

O’Keefe, director of academic 

technology and network services. 

Patrick Kelley ’09, a double 

major in music and mathematics, 

composed the original score. 

Natalie Cothren ’09 (English) and 

Courtney Bentley, instructional 

technology program coordinator, 

were associate producers. Students 

in Smith’s course on film theory 

and practice conducted on-camera 

interviews, edited footage, and 

reviewed and critiqued the work. ■ 



Working Group Studies Greek Life 

A WORKING GROUP ON GREEK LIFE and the Campus Community 

has been formed to examine how fraternities and sororities can best 

contribute to Lafayette’s future in the context of the College’s strategic 

plan. Its objective is to understand more clearly the benefits of fraternity 

and sorority membership and develop insight on avenues for preserving and 

enhancing these benefits while mitigating problems the chapters face. 

Co-chaired by Barbara Levy ’77, chair of the Trustees’ Committee 

on Student Life, and Ashley Juavinett ’11, former president of Student 

Government, the panel will seek to determine ways in which the Greek 

system may better align its primary purposes and daily operations with 

academic excellence, diversity and inclusion, student learning outside of the 

classroom, responsible alcohol use, personal integrity, and the development 

of organizations that both support their members and challenge them 

to grow and develop. It also will focus on the relationship between these 

organizations and nonaffiliated students. 

Last year, an Ad Hoc Committee on Residence Life undertook a review 

of Lafayette’s residence life program to provide direction as the College 

implements the strategic plan and continues shaping the residential 

experience for students. The committee was chaired by Robert Sell ’84, 

vice chair of the trustees’ student life committee. Its final report sets forth 

25 recommendations for consideration by College officials. In it, the 

committee expresses the “studied opinion that resolution to the issue 

of how fraternities and sororities can most effectively contribute to the 

College’s mission requires further study.” 

“Many students and alumni who belong to Greek organizations articulate 

forcefully the merits of membership, merits that extend far beyond their four 

years on campus,” President Daniel H. Weiss said. “However, as the ad hoc 

committee reported, the perception also exists that Greek chapters may have 

a deleterious effect on important community values. 

“In conversations with members of the Lafayette community and others, 

the working group will seek to improve our understanding of the benefits of 

Greek membership and the contributions of the Greek system at Lafayette 

and increase our knowledge of best practices with respect to fraternity and 

sorority policies and management,” Weiss said. “This will help guide our 

future efforts as we work with the undergraduates and alumni of Greek 

organizations to mitigate problematic issues.” 

The working group plans to share its findings, observations, and 

recommendations with the College community during the fall 2010 semester. 

It includes alumni Paul McCurdy ’82, president of the Alumni Association, 

and Kevin Canavan ’76; faculty members James Schaffer, professor of 

chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of institutional research, 

and John Shaw, associate professor of psychology; and administrators 

James Krivoski, vice president for student affairs, Karen Forbes, director 

of counseling services, and Laurel Peffer, assistant director of residence 

life and adviser to fraternities and sororities. 

Juavinett is a neuroscience major. Other student members of the working 

group are Max Bass ’10 (American studies), Kyara Gray ’11 (economics 

and business), Justin Kamine ’11 (economics and business/policy studies), 

Elizabeth Katz ’10 (psychology), and DeAndre Morrow ’10 (history). ■ 


National Title 

for Squash Club 

WITH A 6-3 WIN over Bryant 

in the final round, the Squash 

Club captured its second straight 

national title in the Hawthorne 

Cup division at the College 

Squash Association Team 

Championships. 

Lafayette defeated clubs from 

Fordham and Vermont to reach 

the final of the tournament, 

held at Yale in February. The 

Hawthorne division field also 

included Bard, Bucknell, the 

College of Charleston, and 

Notre Dame. 

Leading up to the CSA 

championships, the team played 

about a dozen matches and 

competed in a tournament with 

Patriot League teams Bucknell, 

Colgate, Lehigh, and the 

Naval Academy. 

“It was fun to see how the 

team improved throughout the 

year and the close bonds and 

friendships that developed,” 

says the club’s vice president, 

Chip Culp ’12, an economics 

and business major. “Winning the 

Hawthorne Cup again was the 

cap to another great season for 

our up-and-coming program.” 

Carter Rufe ’12 (Spanish) 

is the club’s president. Other 

members are Mark Bottini ’12 

(economics and business), 

Molly Clarke ’12 (mathematics), 

Frank Dalicandro ’12 

(economics and business), Rob 

Elliot ’11 (civil engineering), 

Will Giammattei ’13 

(engineering), C.J. Horning 

’13 (engineering), Aung Lin 

’10 (mechanical engineering/ 

economics and business), and 

Lexy Pierce ’10 (American 

studies). ■

Miller, Students Contribute to 

WWII Documentaries 

DONALD L. MILLER, John Henry 

MacCracken Professor of History, played 

a key role in companion materials to The 

Pacific, the 10-hour HBO miniseries on 

World War II that debuted March 14. 

He is chief historical consultant and writer 

for The Pacific’s web site, which includes 

interactive battle maps, a documentary on 

the making of the miniseries, a history of the 

Pacific War, background pieces on the show’s 

episodes, and interviews with Miller and 

veterans of the war. He also is featured as 

an on-camera expert on DVD and 

Blu-ray presentations of the program. 

The executive producers of The Pacific 

are Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the creative team 

behind HBO’s Emmy-winning miniseries Band of Brothers. Miller also 

worked with Hanks as a writer and consultant on Beyond all Boundaries, 

the IMAX film produced and narrated by Hanks that is a signature attraction 

at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. 

Miller was the writer and chief historical consultant for WWII in HD, a 

10-hour History Channel series that was inspired by Miller’s 2001 book 

The Story of World War II and produced by Lou Reda Productions in Easton. 

Ten Lafayette students contributed to the project as interns working with 

Miller and the Reda team. WWII in HD aired over five nights in November 

and was the network’s most-watched program last fall. ■ 

Student Voices 

A HALF-DOZEN STUDENT BLOGGERS are sharing their news 

and views in a new feature on the College’s web site. 

Daisy Chen ’12, Jared Katz ’12, and Jared Piette ’12 are blogging from 

abroad. Chen, a chemical engineering major from Hackettstown, N.J., is 

in Bremen with Lafayette’s faculty-led program at Jacobs University. Katz 

(Stoneham, Mass.) is writing from Guatemala. A history major who added 

a self-designed major in archaeology, he’s studying in Antigua and 

San Bartolo. Piette (Granby, Conn.), a mechanical engineering major, 

is in Florence. 

Blogging from College Hill are Kameisha Hodge ’11 (Washington, 

D.C.), an English major; Ioana Marin ’11 (Galati, Romania), a 

neuroscience major; and Alan Raisman ’10 (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.), 

a double major in international affairs and government and law. 

Check out the posts and join the conversation! Visit www.lafayette.edu 

and select Voices. ■ 

nextWeb 

THE COLLEGE’S web site 

is undergoing a complete 

transformation, including new 

technology, design, and content. 

Wendy L. Hill, provost and 

dean of the faculty, and Robert 

J. Massa, vice president for 

communications, announced the 

project, dubbed “nextWeb,” in 

February. “We are excited about 

the prospects for a new web site 

that will serve the promotional 

needs of the College while also 

being a source of information 

for the College community,” 

they said. 

Viget Labs, Falls Church, 

Va., has been engaged to work 

with a team from Information 

Technology Services and the 

Communications Division on the 

web redesign, which is scheduled 

to wrap up in August. Led by 

John O’Keefe ’96, director of 

academic technology and network 

services, the team also includes 

Jason Alley, instructional 

technologist; Erwin Annulysse, 

assistant director of electronic 

media for web development 

and design; Courtney Bentley, 

instructional technology program 

coordinator; Dave Block ’93, 

associate director of electronic 

media for web content and social 

media; and Kris Todaro, director 

of news services and electronic 

media. Among Viget’s successes 

is a redesign of Duke University’s 

web pages completed last fall. 

Faculty, staff, and students 

are submitting suggestions and 

ideas for Lafayette’s new site via 

an interactive “wall” in Farinon 

College Center. Members of 

the Lafayette family on and 

off campus can stay abreast of 

progress at a special site (sites. 

lafayette.edu/nextweb) with 

information about the project, 

a timeline, and frequently asked 

questions. ■ 



Winning Poems 

Ross Burlingame ’09 

and Elizabeth Cortese ’10 

were the 2009 winners 

of the annual campus 

poetry contests sponsored 

by the Department of 

English. 

Burlingame’s “Syob, 

Hungary at the Railroad 

Worker’s Strike” took first 

prize in the H. MacKnight 

Black Poetry Competition. 

Open to seniors, it is 

named for MacKnight 

Black ’16, who at the time 

of his death in 1931 was 

one of America’s most 

significant poets. 

Carolyn Forché, a poet 

and professor of English 

at Georgetown, served 

as judge. 

Cortese’s “Coal Region” 

won the Jean Corrie Poetry 

Competition. Supported 

by the Academy of 

American Poets, it is open 

to first-year students, 

sophomores, and juniors. 

The judge was Katie Ford, 

a poet and assistant 

professor of English at 

Franklin and Marshall. 


• 

Syob, Hungary at the Railroad Workers’ Strike 

by Ross Burlingame 

A weeping tram, steaming through the night— 

The Daedalian plan simplified by a look from above, 

Chastized in vigilante hyperbole 

And curiously vermiculate paths— 

Falling prey to this gathering of laborers. 

…And we could before the thoughts! 

If I thought this train was lost, 

But there is no Danube to cross 

Nor flooded river deep my dike, 

Just my cold war in Hungary 

In Syob, with the railroad workers’ strike. 

And I killed myself across Prague 

Made a run for Kosovo, 

I pleaded with the Chechnyan rebels 

In the Gymnasium across the way; 

They freed my coca-cola freeze 

Where the trains freely flow 

In meandrous trails of paper’s ease. 

In the smallest, most satanic of verse, 

When poetry was true, and so was the work; 

When Brecht was there, and Stalin was smart 

Where everything flowed together, 

Coalescing on the dining cart 

(With you in it—speaking the Magyar 

Which to me sounds like French). 

But there is no romance, 

No Germanic in our language, 

Only lazy railroad roughnecks 

Building a pipeline across Eastern Europe— 

A pale fire of sentimentality 

Across this frontier of riches.

Coal Region by Elizabeth Cortese 

At the Veterans Memorial Day Parade, 

Soot faced little boys 

Stand on the Yorkville block, 

Boasting both 

Hometown and patriotic pride. 

Small shoulders swallowed 

By Crimson Tide football players, 

Brothers, uncles, 

Fathers. 

They wave tiny American flags, 

Chasing candy 

Before it reaches the gutter 

The crash and smash 

Of the Minersville marching 

Band’s Hail to the Varsity 

Reminds me of the 

Bittersweet 

Friday night lights 

Our boys, 

The breaker boys, 

Tackled their way 

To Hershey stadium 

But their valiance 

Dropped 

Just a few yards short. 

Second best 

Team in Pennsylvania 

But the papers called us 

The first losers 

Clad in painfully 

Outdated uniforms, the band looks 

Heartbreakingly similar to 

Sad soldiers, 

Stark white 

Dinkles move in 

Tandem in the 

Hot hot heat. 

The fire trucks 

Plow down Mahantongo 

Past Rotary park, 

Where my older brother 

Smacked his first 

Little League homerun. 

To celebrate, 

My dad threw a 

Party at Ivyside. 

Cracking springboard and 

Frigid cold pool, 

Rusted chain link fence 

Marks the entrance to 

Our childhood paradise. 

I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y T E R R Y S T O U T 

The kids 

Elbowed each other 

In the water, 

Hoping to be the one 

To capture 

The greased watermelon. 

While parents drank 

Yuenglings 

Atop the rotting picnic tables with 

Carved hearts containing 

Initials of their first 

True love. 


FEATURE 

The concert’s title, We Are One, could be Lewis’ creed. 

Thanks to a rare combination of industry and dignity, 

kindness and humor, he’s an extremely busy co-pilot 

for many of America’s largest live shows. In a five-week 

stretch this winter, he worked the Miss America pageant in 

Las Vegas, the Who’s halftime show at the Super Bowl in 

South Florida, a civil-rights concert at the White House, 

and his sixth straight Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles. 

“To be a stage manager you have to be a people person, 

and Arthur listens very carefully to people. He gives them 

the confidence to trust him,” says Jeff Pearl, who last year 

assisted Lewis on the Obama concert and the Rock and 

Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary shows. “He cares 

with honesty and integrity. I think that’s unique, not just 

among stage managers but most humans.” 


SPLENDID CALM 

STAGE MANAGER ARTHUR LEWIS ’84 KEEPS HIS COOL. 

Arthur Lewis ’84 is coordinating Barack Obama’s inaugural concert at the Lincoln 

Memorial. Stationed by the president-elect’s box, the head stage manager is 

supervising 10 stage managers who are supervising a massive cast of politicians, 

choirs, celebrity actors (Tom Hanks), and celebrity musicians (Stevie Wonder). 

Nothing bothers him—not the bitter cold, not Denzel Washington blocking his view, not even the vice 

president-elect speaking from an unarmored podium. He’s shielded by a great crew, the satisfaction 

of producing a significant event, the splendid calm of a self-described “rodeo clown with rubber 

underwear.” 

B Y G E O F F G E H M A N ’ 8 0 

EVERY CREW IS THE BEST 

Growing up in Philadelphia as a middle child, Lewis 

learned to be respectful and assertive, key qualities for an 

effective stage manager. At Lafayette, he picked up other 

crucial skills while presenting shows for the Joint Cultural 

Program. He assisted comedian Robert Klein, whose 

HBO specials he’d monitor, and made his grandmother’s 

cornbread for the B-52s. Another training ground was 

fencing, which taught him about timing, precision, and 

when a good offense is a great defense. 

Lewis began his entertainment career as an NBC page, 

aided by a Lafayette parent who was a network executive. 

There he was mentored by the late Freddy Lights, the 

network’s first African-American stage manager. After 

leaving NBC, he toured with the Philip Glass chamber

Arthur Lewis ’84 (left) was head stage manager for the live telecast of President Barack Obama’s inaugural celebration at the 

Lincoln Memorial, which featured Denzel Washington and his wife, Paulette Pearson, and a host of other luminaries . . . 

opera 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof, aided live shows at 

the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and served Cosby, one 

of Bill Cosby’s sitcoms. His ability to coolly follow the 

comedian’s improvisations earned him the nickname “the 

man with asbestos underwear.” 

These days Lewis keeps his cool with many tools. When 

things are seriously out of joint, he breathes deeply, recites 

mantras (“It’s never easy; sometimes it’s just harder than 

other times”), repeats industry jokes (“Show biz is just 

high school with money”). When he’s out of joint, bored 

by such boring tasks as reminding the Miss America host 

when he can and can’t visit the bathroom, he imagines 

himself as a wedding planner, mentally wearing the shoes 

of the groom, the bride, and all their guests. 

“Pageants are not my thing, per se,” Lewis says. 

“With these ceremonial live events I just keep thinking: 

This is the head cheese manufacturer’s biggest night of 

the year. So, for a week, I’m in bed with these cheese 

manufacturers. The bottom line is, How well can we do 

this show with the resources we have—the set, the crew, 

the time. That’s why I like to say every crew I’ve got is 

the best crew in the world.” 

NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL 

Lewis picked his best crew for the Obama inaugural 

concert, knowing a reliable team would help him scale 

a logistical, emotional mountain. He and his 10 aidesde-camp 

had only eight days to accomplish what usually 

takes eight weeks. Three of those days they rehearsed 

outdoors in polar-bear conditions. At one point, the 

show’s producers asked Lewis and company to work the 

show in gray overalls, which they thought would register 

better than traditional black outfits against the Lincoln 

Memorial’s white marble. Lewis vetoed the suggestion as 

undignified: “I wasn’t going to meet the president-elect 

on his campaign bus dressed like a sanitation man.” 

Lewis did wear the overalls during a rehearsal. Roomy 

enough to fit over a parka and four other layers, they 

protected him during an 8-degree, 12-hour day. They 

also gave him a startling resemblance to the Stay Puft 

Marshmallow man, which cracked up the crew, making 

a hard job easier. Says Pearl: “He looked hysterical. We 

kept asking him where his brooms and his mops were.” 

During the concert, Lewis was a black-uniformed 

traffic controller and coach. He praised his colleagues. 

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. . . including Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen 

He reminded Jack Black, Marisa Tomei, and other actors 

where and when they would salute presidents and other 

honorable Americans. He made sure choirs switched 

places as smoothly as possible during their four-minute 

allotments. He guided the easily distracted from the path 

of 40-foot rolling platforms, “explaining,” Pearl says, “in 

his inimitable, gentle style that there’s a big heavy object 

coming your way.” 

There were surprisingly few glitches during the show, 

which was watched by an estimated 400,000 in person, 

including rooftop sharp-shooters. Vice President-elect 

Joseph Biden Jr. committed the biggest faux pas, speaking 

on “The Dignity of Work” from an unarmored 

podium because it was closer than his designated armored 

one. The wrong move bothered Secret Service agents, 

but not Lewis. “Oh yeah, classic Joe,” he says with a wry 

chuckle. “Which was fine. We survived.” 

For Lewis, We Are One was business as usual, and yet it 

wasn’t. It’s not every day, after all, that a stage manager 

gets to shadow Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger as they 

sing “This Land Is Your Land” by a monument to the 

president who officially ended slavery. And it’s not every 

year that the African-American grandson of a railroad 

porter helps stage a concert celebrating the first African- 

American president at the site where Martin Luther King 

Jr. famously said, “I have a dream that one day this nation 

will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 


‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are 

created equal.’” 

AND YET . . . 

No, for Lewis, We Are One wasn’t business as usual. And 

yet it was. “It was extra special, and quite profound. 

That’s why everyone was so focused and buoyant,” he 

says. “And, you know, these difficult-weather shows 

always have a sense of drama about them. It was just nice 

being part of a caring team sharing an historic event. That 

someone you’re sharing that hug with might be Denzel 

Washington or Denzel Washington’s au pair or a stage 

carpenter.” 

It’s this disarming blend of modesty and decency that 

charms stage manager Lynn Finkel, who has assisted 

Lewis on The Chris Rock Show and the Tony Awards 

ceremony. She insists he’s taught her all the virtues: 

Remember everyone’s names. Praise the entire team 

when a teammate rescues another teammate. Calm 

everyone by staying calm. And when a co-worker is overthe-top 

pregnant, reverse roles and bring her delicious, 

nutritious smoothies. 

In fact, Finkel loves everything about “Arthur, that 

darling boy” except one thing. “Can I say something 

annoying about him? He can eat all day—good food, 

junk food—and he is as solid as a rock. That’s the one 

thing I can’t stand.” ■ 

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Advocate for the Aging 

Just a short time into his tenure as president and CEO of 

the Alliance for Aging in Miami, Max Rothman ’62 is 

already seeing the fruits of his efforts to restructure the 

organization and institute a new strategic approach. The 

alliance, which oversees the distribution of $60 million in federal and 

state grants and other funds annually to agencies that provide services 

to older people in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, was honored 

by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging with its Aging 

Innovations Award. 

“The award was for something we called Team Miami, a community 

partnership for evidence-based solutions for improving elders’ health,” 

Rothman says. “It focused on diabetes among Hispanics in two areas of 

Miami that have the greatest number of preventable hospitalizations for 

diabetes. We put together a team that represented the community, health 

care professionals, and aging-services professionals.” 

That kind of teamwork was new for Miami, but it was not the first 

groundbreaking initiative Rothman has directed. He founded the Center 

on Aging in Florida International University’s College of Health and 

Urban Affairs and was the first district administrator of the state’s health 

and human services programs in the Miami area. He also co-authored 

Judicial Responses to an Aging America, published in 2004, the first 

national study of how courts address issues created by the increase of 

older persons in the courthouse. 

A government and law major at Lafayette, Rothman holds a law 

degree from the University of Michigan and an LL.M. from the George 

Washington University Graduate School of Public Law. 

As an advocate for the aging on Capitol Hill, Rothman calls the need 

for long-term care “a fundamental challenge.” 

“Medicare does not provide long-term care. The fact of the matter is 

that more people are living longer, they’re living healthier, but at some 

point they will need long-term care, which is very expensive. Unless 

you’re incredibly wealthy, you can’t afford it, and unless you’re incredibly 

poor, you’re not going to get assistance,” he says. “As a matter of public 

policy, the country has not addressed this effectively.” ■ 

Working Together 

Tiffany Patafio ’10 worked with Daniel Kilmurray ’75 

in a summer internship at UBS Financial Services, New York City. 

“The internship not only exposed me to the world of finance, it 

also helped me to network and connect with people in other fields. 

I worked with wonderful people who had much advice to offer 

about career paths and how to approach my job search. I learned 

so many valuable things about the finance world and gained 

so many beneficial contacts in all industries that I truly feel this 

internship will help shape my career and, consequently, the 

rest of my life.” 

Three Courses 

Jessica April ’05 loves 

her job. Formerly a web 

producer and project 

manager at the Partnership 

for a Drug-Free America, 

she’s now digital production 

manager at rollingstone. 

com, leading an overhaul and 

redesign of the web site that’s 

scheduled to debut in April. 

“It’s an interesting place. 

One time, I was walking down 

the hall, and I ran into this small 

woman. Later I found out it was 

Yoko Ono.” 

Three Lafayette courses and 

professors really challenged her, 

April says. “Everyone should take 

them!” 

ENG 337, Milton (Paul Cefalu, 

associate professor of English). 

“The whole course on Paradise Lost 

was a group discussion that forced 

students to be quick on their feet 

and jump in. It was challenging, 

but we discovered something new 

in each class.” 

GOVT 311, Constitutional 

Law and Politics in the United 

States (Bruce Allen Murphy, 

Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of 

Civil Rights). “He was such a 

convincing professor, he inspired 

me to take the LSAT—twice. Even 

though I ultimately decided not 

to go to law school, I’ll always 

remember his course.” 

PHIL 102, Basic Social Questions 

(George Panichas, James Renwick 

Hogg Professor of Mental and 

Moral Philosophy). “The course 

was so hard, but I was lucky to 

get into it. I have never felt so 

passionate, angry, and excited all 

at the same time. I give him credit 

for evoking such strong emotions 

from students.” ■ 



Easing Transitions, Heightening Achievement 

Ivo Ucovich ’65, who has been an Alumni Admissions Representative in Peru for two 

decades, vividly remembers interviewing a student who had written to Lafayette explaining 

why he wanted to attend the College. 

“He was a teenager who had lost his father and 

inherited the business and had to manage it. The 

maturity with which he expressed himself in that letter 

and the correct English he used were astonishing to 

me,” he says. That incident, some 15 years ago, and 

his own experience at Lafayette continue to inspire 

Ucovich to help Peruvian students find a home on 

College Hill, where support from faculty eased his 

adjustment to new surroundings. 

“The experiences of an alumnus are necessary 

to help students make the change from high school 

to college and from one country’s culture to another. 

I explain to them that it was hard for me to adapt to 

the new environment, but with the help of College 

counselors and new friends, the process was less 

painful,” says Ucovich, a metallurgical engineering 

graduate. 

Enjoy a three-day academic immersion on campus 

led by President Daniel H. Weiss; Diane Cole Ahl, 

Arthur J. ’55 and Barbara S. Rothkopf Professor of 

Art History; Jamila Bookwala, associate professor 

of psychology; David Brandes, associate professor of 

civil and environmental engineering; Dru Germanoski, 

Dr. Ervin R. VanArtsdalen ’35 Professor of Geology 

and Environmental Geosciences; and Robert I. 

Weiner, Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Professor 

of History. 

Ten 90-minute course sessions will include 

“Art and Culture in the Age of the Crusades” 

and “Writing About the War in Vietnam” (Weiss), 

“Leonardo da Vinci: Beyond the Last Supper” 

and “From Boyz to Men: The Early Works of 

Michelangelo” (Ahl), “Successful Aging” and 

“Our Relationships, Our Health” (Bookwala), 

“River Form and Function and Their Ecological 


Ucovich doesn’t help only those interested in his alma 

mater. The chairman of the board of the mining firm 

Compañía Minera Milpo SAA, he has spearheaded a 

company-financed initiative to help many who will never 

attend college. 

“The expectations of the people high up in the Andes 

Mountains are mainly monetary, but they do not spend 

money wisely, so it does not help them in the future,” 

he says. “The program prepares the younger generation 

for the challenges of the globalized world. Mainly, 

it gives them a good academic base so they can go 

through a higher educational level. We first tested all 

the students to give us a baseline to later evaluate them. 

At the end of the program, we gave exams and had a 

25 percent improvement over the baseline.” 

“Lafayette gave me a broader view of the world, 

especially 45 years ago,” he says. “My experience gave 

me the solid base to be what I am today.” ■ 

Return to the Lafayette Classroom this Summer 

The Office of Alumni Affairs, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, is proud to 

offer an Alumni Summer College for alumni, parents, and friends July 15-18. 

Impact” and “The World Water Crisis: New Challenges 

& Opportunities” (Brandes and Germanoski), and 

“The Nature and Impact of World War I” and “The 

Origins of World War II” (Weiner). 

Lifelong learners, this is an opportunity to resume 

your education and be involved in the intellectual life 

on campus–without the fear of a pop quiz or blue book! 

It also provides wonderful opportunities for networking 

and socializing with alumni, faculty, staff, and parents. 

Return to your alma mater to share the joys of 

intellectual challenge, engaging classmates, and— 

at the heart of it all—Lafayette’s outstanding faculty. 

Registration has begun. For information, visit www. 

lafayette.edu and select Alumni, then Alumni Summer 

College. Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni 

Affairs at (610) 330-5040, (800) LAFAYETTE 

(outside Pa.) or alumni@lafayette.edu. ■

Friend to Migrant Workers 

Imagine going to see your doctor in the middle of a 

tomato farm, with card tables and folding chairs furnishing 

makeshift waiting and exam areas. A nightmare? For migrant 

farm workers in rural Tennessee who otherwise would have 

no access to health services, it’s an oasis. 

Ask Kelly Melear-Hough ’88. She has been involved with Rural Medical 

Services, Newport, Tenn., since 1991 and has been its director of operations 

for the last six years. 

“A tomato farm here in Cocke County employs more than 300 migrant 

workers every July, August, and September,” she says. “We provide free 

medical services, actually see patients in the field. They can be seen for any 

type of problem, but our ability to provide services on-site is limited because 

we only have with us what we can carry out there.” 

In 2002, she received the Tennessee Primary Care Association’s Charles 

E. Darling Award for outstanding achievement in organizing, delivering, 

and financing health services for vulnerable populations. She helped add a 

second bilingual clinic at Rural Medical Services, allowing RMS to serve 

25 percent more patients, and wrote a grant proposal that brought federal 

funding to hire more practitioners and expand the number of exam rooms. 

She also helped lead a new breast-health outreach project funded by the 

Komen for the Cure Foundation. “We provide 170 mammograms each year 

for women who otherwise would not have mammograms, and we found two 

breast cancers, which is two lives that may have been saved because of early 

detection and treatment. We also provide education to literally thousands of 

people each year with outreach workers teaching people about screenings, 

monthly exams, and getting yearly physicals.” 

Good mentors, small class sizes, and the opportunity to spend a semester 

in Spain made Lafayette a perfect fit for the anthropology and sociology 

graduate. Melear-Hough says her semester abroad made her fluent in 

Spanish, a skill she uses every day on the job. ■ 

Lafapalooza: 

National Day 

of Service 

Nine of the College’s 

regional alumni chapters 

are planning service 

projects to mark Lafayette’s 

annual national day 

of service known as 

Lafapalooza. 

The chapters in Boston, the 

Lehigh Valley, Long Island, 

New York City, New Jersey 

Skylands, Northern New Jersey, 

Philadelphia, the San Francisco 

Bay Area, and Washington, D.C., 

will serve their communities in a 

variety of ways. In the Bay Area, 

for example, the Lafayette group 

will sort and package food items 

and ready them for distribution 

at the San Francisco Food Bank, 

which prepares 350 tons of food 

per week to benefit 23,000 lowincome 

families. The Long Island 

chapter will remove invasive 

plants, restore and repair trails, 

and do other work to prepare the 

Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & 

Audubon Center, Oyster Bay, for 

the spring season. 

Most of the service projects 

will be done on April 17, and 

some on April 24. To learn the 

details and get involved, visit 

www.lafayette.edu and select 

Alumni, then Lafapalooza. ■ 


CONNECTING 

LAFAYETTE AND MY DOUBLE LIFE 

Since graduation, I’ve worked as a double agent. By day, I run a top secret government 

research lab, a job for which my computer science, math, and physics studies at Lafayette 

prepared me. By night, I do what no self-respecting engineer likes to admit to: I write. 

It started with John Meier, my Calculus III professor, 

who authored a book on the connection between creative 

writing and mathematics. He had us write in his math 

classes—a radical idea—and liked my essays enough to 

ask permission to include them in his book. 

By my senior year at Lafayette, while I was puzzling 

out Computational Geometry with Professor Bjorling- 

Sachs, I was also taking Shakespeare and Creative 

Writing. I went to London for a January term with the 

irreplaceable Professor Lusardi, who taught me to love 

Shakespeare in performance, and I spent my evenings 

writing poetry and prose. Jim Lusardi even encouraged 

me to submit an article to Shakespeare Bulletin, which 

became my first published work. 

Since then, I’ve written and published many short 

stories, and my first novel, a work of science fiction called 

Terminal Mind, from Meadowhawk Press, received 

the Philip K. Dick Award, given by the Philip K. Dick 

Memorial Trust and the Philadelphia Science Fiction 


Society for the best paperback science fiction novel 

of the year. 

Again, I can thank Lafayette for the genesis. In an 

Artificial Intelligence class with Professor Chun Wai 

Liew, the textbook outlined a future where people’s 

brains could be sliced open millimeter by millimeter, 

their every synapse captured in a computer, thus 

achieving virtual immortality. I found this unlikely— 

surely the experience of waking up in the dark with no 

body and all familiar connections severed would lead to 

mania or psychosis, unless . . . unless the patient was a 

very young child. With this idea was born the story of 

Terminal Mind, in which a young boy learns to cope with 

a whole new concept of what it means to be human. ■ 

David Walton works at Lockheed Martin’s facility in 

King of Prussia, Pa. He resides in Brookhaven, Pa., 

with his wife and their five children. Read about his 

fiction at www.davidwaltonfiction.com. 

B Y D AV I D W A LT O N ’ 9 7 | P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C H U C K Z O V K O


Hutchison ’93 

Back on Broadway 

Brian Hutchison ’93 is costarring on Broadway with Valerie 

Harper in Looped, a comedy about actress Tallulah Bankhead 

that opened at the Lyceum Theatre on March 14. 

Looped takes place in a sound studio in 1965. Summoned to re-record, 

or loop, one line of dialogue for what would be her last film, Die, Die My 

Darling, Bankhead arrives inebriated. “As she stalls and stutters, expressing 

infinite scorn for the tedious process, she perfumes the stale air of the studio 

with snappy one-liners on her favorite subjects, namely her own eccentric 

behavior and uneven career, and the consoling seductions of booze, drugs, 

cigarettes and sex,” writes reviewer Charles Isherwood in the New York 

Times. 

A showdown ensues between Harper’s Bankhead and Hutchison’s 

character, sound editor Danny Miller, who “has been corralled into 

supervising the session because the director skipped town,” Isherwood 

writes. “The boyish Mr. Hutchison provides more skillful acting than is 

strictly necessary in his role as the butt of, and audience for, Tallulah’s 

rampaging cattiness. He brings an emotional intensity to his confessional 

scenes that’s persuasive.” 

Last spring, Hutchison costarred with Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon 

in Exit the King at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. His Broadway credits also 

include The Invention of Love and Proof. Off-Broadway credits include From 

Up Here, Oh The Humanity, Mr. Marmalade, People Be Heard, Indoor/ 

Outdoor, The Hiding Place, Theophilus North, Can’t Let Go, and She Stoops to 

Conquer. He has had film and TV roles in Love and Other Drugs, Ghostown, 

Dealbreaker, Hope & Faith, Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order: CI. ■ 

CAROL ROSEGG 

Oscar 

Nominations 

for The Last 

Station 

The Last Station, which 

drew Academy Award 

nominations this year 

for Helen Mirren, as 

best leading actress, and 

Christopher Plummer, as 

best supporting actor, is 

based on the 1990 novel 

of the same name by 

Jay Parini ’70 that 

explores the last years 

of Leo Tolstoy’s life. 

Parini, who is the author or 

editor of more than 40 books 

of poetry, fiction, criticism, and 

biography, played an advisory role 

on the film, which critic Rex Reed 

called “passionate, profound, and 

unforgettable.” 

A movie tie-in edition of his 

book was issued in January. 

In his latest book, Promised 

Land, Parini discusses 13 

books that changed America, 

“works that helped to create 

the intellectual and emotional 

contours of this country [and] 

played a pivotal role in developing 

a complex value system that 

flourishes to this day.” Here 

are his picks: Of Plymouth 

Plantation, The Federalist Papers, 

The Autobiography of Benjamin 

Franklin, The Journals of Lewis 

and Clark, Walden, Uncle Tom’s 

Cabin, Adventures of Huckleberry 

Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, 

The Promised Land, How to Win 

Friends and Influence People, 

The Common Sense Book of Baby 

and Child Care, On the Road, 

and The Feminine Mystique. ■ 



Fry ’82 Named Drexel President 

John A. Fry ’82, president of Franklin & Marshall College, 

was named president of Drexel University on March 10. 

He will return to the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia, 

where he served seven years as executive vice president of the University 

of Pennsylvania before joining Franklin & Marshall in 2002. 

Under Fry, Franklin & Marshall has improved its admissions profile, 

lowered the student-faculty ratio, broadened the curriculum, and 

transformed the student residence environment into a college house 

system. 

At Penn, Fry was responsible for all matters related to finance, investments, 

human resources, physical facilities, real estate, public safety, 

information systems and computing, auxiliary enterprises, technology 

transfer, corporate relations, internal audit, and compliance. He helped 

develop and implement the plan that guided Penn’s strategic initiatives 

from 1996 to 2001, including a nationally recognized neighborhood 

revitalization of West Philadelphia. 

Lafayette awarded Fry an honorary doctor of humane letters degree 

at the 173rd Commencement in 2008. ■ 

Working Together 

Brett Muney ’86 hosted Chris McConnell ’09 in a summer 

internship at Saratoga Futures, New York City. 

“Chris was able to learn about everything involved in our 

business while sitting next to one of the principals of the firm. 

We involved him in as many aspects of our business as we could 

(only those things that require a securities license were offlimits). 

He was a great asset and a great representative of the 

Lafayette community. We certainly enjoyed his time here and really 

appreciated the effort he put forth. His curiosity, ambition, and 

energy should serve him well in the future.” 


COURTESY OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY 

Philadelphia 

Chamber Honors 

Austen ’86 

Mary Stengel Austen ’86, 

president and CEO of 

Tierney Communications, 

Philadelphia, was the recipient 

of the Greater Philadelphia 

Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 

Paradigm Award, the region’s 

most prestigious award for 

businesswomen. 

The award is given annually to 

an influential chief executive of a 

for-profit enterprise with a strong 

economic impact on the region. 

Austen was honored in March at 

a luncheon where she designated 

$25,000 in charitable gifts provided 

with support from Ernst & Young. 

Austen was nominated for the 

award by Joseph A. Frick, president 

of Independence Blue Cross. “Mary 

is a passionate Philadelphia business 

executive, committed to building 

her company and to enhancing 

the social fabric of our community 

through her energetic involvement 

in many activities and causes,” 

Frick said. 

The Philadelphia Business Journal 

named Austen a 2004 Woman of 

Distinction, and, in 2005, the City 

of Hope presented her with its 

Spirit of Life Award. Last year, she 

was recognized by the Pennsylvania 

League of Women Voters with its 

Civic Leadership Award and was 

chosen as the Woman of Heart 

Honoree for the American Heart 

Association’s Go Red for Women 

Luncheon. ■

Taylor ’03 Helps Keep 

California Running 

Though she’s never played a superhero in films—unlike the 

governor she answers to—Crystal Taylor ’03 faces her own 

heroic task. As budget officer in the executive branch of California’s 

Franchise Tax Board, she leads the team that coordinates a $600 million 

budget for the department that collects personal income taxes and bank 

and corporation taxes for the state. 

Taylor majored in math at Lafayette and served a summer internship at 

the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C., then earned dual 

master’s degrees at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. 

She says, “I want to be that person everyone teases because I’m doing 

the hardest work. I thought, Where’s the hardest place where I can make a 

difference? I’m going there.” That drive landed her in California’s Legislative 

Analyst’s Office after Princeton. 

Only two months into that job, Taylor testified before the state legislature 

in a televised hearing, discussing her department’s program ideas, including 

how to keep tensions low among callers to the state’s tax call center. She says 

that “speaking truth to power” in that hearing changed her. “I had to find 

conviction for every word I said.” 

Today, Taylor makes a difference not only in the state’s operation, but also 

in the lives of its employees. Confronted with a mandate to lay off workers, 

Taylor and her group negotiated a deal with the governor’s fiscal officers that 

saved 300 jobs. “I know the decisions I make impact people, even if they 

don’t know me.” 

As for Lafayette faculty members who had an impact on her, Taylor names 

more than 20, including Gladstone Fluney Hutchinson, associate professor 

of economics, and Ute Schumacher, visiting assistant professor. 

“That someone takes the time to get to know you and believes you are 

special and have promise— that was inspiring to me, even when I wasn’t so 

sure of myself,” she says. “It was so common at Lafayette to have someone 

say, ‘You can do it. I believe in you. Here are steps you can take. Here’s a 

book you can read to learn more.’ I can’t imagine being who I am today 

without that.” ■ 

Sharing 

the Arts 

When he was eight, Jadrien 

Ellison ’02 and his sister 

produced a radio show, 

“839 Hot Beat,” out of 

their home. Later he took 

center stage in his elementary 

school play. His childhood 

swirled with music, dance, and 

storytelling. Today, he is the 

performing arts director at The 

Children’s Aid Society in New 

York City, helping youngsters 

discover the same joy the arts 

brought him. 

“Only now can I fully appreciate 

how much of an outlet performing 

became for me,” he says. After 

attending Rosa L. Parks School 

of Fine and Performing Arts 

in Paterson, N.J., he came to 

Lafayette planning to major 

in electrical and computer 

engineering. After graduating 

in five years as an Africana 

studies major, he worked in the 

College’s Office of Intercultural 

Development for four years. 

“There was still a lot to 

contribute and a lot to be gained 

from Lafayette,” Ellison says of his 

years in OID. “And yet, I found 

myself farther away from one of 

my original passions, performing.” 

So he went to London and earned 

a master’s degree in contemporary 

performance at Brunel University, 

satisfying a desire for experience 

abroad and “uncovering a 

source of creativity that was long 

suppressed.” 

Today he embraces a view of 

the arts as a vehicle for promoting 

cross-cultural interaction and 

understanding and envisions a 

dream job that is international 

and artistic: leading high school 

students on creative retreats and 

cultural study tours around the 

world. ■ 




Inventors’ 

Champion 

JIM POOLEY ’70 HEADS 

THE U.N.’S PATENT-LAW ARM. 

B Y S A M U E L T. C L O V E R ’ 9 1

California’s Santa Clara County was still known for 

its orchards when Jim Pooley ’70 moved there with 

a new law degree from Columbia. 

Three years after graduating from Lafayette as an international 

affairs major, he joined a 10-lawyer firm in Palo Alto, and as the 

agricultural past of the newly dubbed Silicon Valley gave way to a 

high-tech future, Pooley himself got into something new: a career in 

intellectual property law. With entrepreneurially minded employees 

skipping from one technology firm to another and taking their 

ideas with them, the companies—Apple, Hewlett Packard, Sun 

Microsystems, and others—were taking each other to court. 

A passionate litigator, Pooley was in the middle of it. 

Today, he is at the center of intellectual property law globally as 

the deputy director general for patents of the World Intellectual 

Property Organization. WIPO is the United Nations agency 

in charge of an international system for intellectual property 

(defined as inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, 

names, images, and designs used in commerce) designed to reward 

creativity, stimulate innovation, and contribute to economic 

development while safeguarding the public interest. 

It is headquartered in Geneva. 

Nominated by the White House, Pooley began a five-year term 

Dec. 1. His job includes helping developing nations identify and use 

indigenous brainpower and resources. That’s “particularly exciting,” 

he says, for someone who watched Silicon Valley become what it is. 

Looking back on his own development, Pooley says, “I don’t think I 

had any idea what a patent was” when he arrived on the West Coast. 

He hadn’t studied intellectual property law because Columbia didn’t 

teach it. (Now he’s chairman of the National Inventors Hall of 

Fame.) His first firm “was like a country law practice. We handled 

everything that came in the door.” 

“My first solo jury trial, a year out of law school, was on behalf 

of a concrete subcontractor at a Wendy’s restaurant,” he says. “The 

dispute was over the quality of the curbs that he had poured in the 

parking lot. We filed a claim for $570. The other side filed a $5,000 

counter claim and asked for a jury trial. We won.” 

What a long way from that courtroom to later cases with higher 

stakes. In 1997, for example, the British software company Quantel 

Ltd. alleged that Adobe’s Photoshop software imitated features of its 

own patented products. Had Pooley lost the case, Adobe would have 

had to pay $138 million in damages, at minimum, and essentially 

withdraw its flagship product. 

“The issue was a technique called blending,” he explains. To 

help show that the idea for it had been in the public domain before 

Quantel secured its patents, Pooley went low-tech. As an expert 

witness, he brought in an artist who drew on paper with crayons 

and “rubbed it with Kleenex like we did in kindergarten. And he 

had pictures of cave paintings from the south of France that showed 

this technique of blending. We grounded our story of how this 

technology wasn’t really new in 20,000-year-old cave paintings.” 

And? 

He won that case, too. “You could see the jury got it,” he says. 

“They really understood.” 

P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C H U C K Z O V K O 


FROM THE ARCHIVES 

The first impetus for college theater 

at Lafayette was provided by the 

sophomore tradition of burning 

calculus texts at the end of term, which 

evolved into the “Cremation of Calculus” 

plays by the 1890s. Musical theater 

debuted with the Sock and Buskin Club 

at the turn of the century, and theater 

entered the curriculum in the 1920s. 

Under faculty direction, the Marquis 

Players began performing in the Little 

Theater in Brainerd (now Hogg) Hall. 

Their annual Shakespearean play, 

performed on the green below Pardee 

Hall, was a Commencement-week 

tradition. The ’20s also saw a run of 

Latin plays, modernized by Professor 

John Raymond Crawford. 

Biannual faculty plays, featuring lyrics 

by professors William Watt and James 

Vitelli and music by Gilbert and Sullivan, 

were produced between 1938 and 1986. 

Set at “Lackawanna College, Weston, 

Pa.,” they spoofed events occurring at 

Lafayette. In 1986, the Marquis Players’ 

name was revived for an annual musical 

sponsored by the chaplain’s office 

to raise money for hunger and 

homelessness causes. Since 1983, the 

traditional college theater program 

has offered a varied repertoire, with 

emphasis on modern drama. 

Diane Windham Shaw 

College Archivist 


A THEATRICAL TURN 

Above left: Much Ado About Nothing, 1923. 

Above: The Faculty Flame, 1953. 

James Vitelli (L-R), Tinker Vitelli, 

and Richmond Rudden. 

Above right: As You Like It, ca. 1919

Lafayette College Theater, Girl Crazy, March 1985.

Keara McCarthy ’10 

as Rosalind and 

Mason Carter ’11 as 

Duke Frederick in 

College Theater’s 

March production of 

As You Like It, directed by 

Michael O’Neill



As You Like It: 

Lindsey Ryan ’12 

as Celia and Keara 

McCarthy ’10 as Rosalind

Roger Newton ’72 has sold a therapeutics company for 

$1.3 billion, earned a sterling reputation as a wellness 

entrepreneur-motivator, and been bear-hugged by a 

newly healthy stranger in Australia. They’re all side 

effects of co-discovering and championing Lipitor, 

the world’s best-selling prescription drug. 

Newton faced many challenges during the 15-year journey of the bad 

cholesterol-shrinking agent from concept to market. A chief challenge 

was convincing Parke-Davis executives to release a drug that could 

challenge Zocor, Merck & Co.’s patented phenomenon. Encouraged by 

his wife, Coco, a nutritionist, to enliven a pivotal meeting with humor, 

Newton fell to his knees and pleaded to elevate Lipitor from lab to 

clinic. Entertained by Newton’s Al Jolson Jazz Singer shtick (“They 

just roared!”), Parke-Davis officials agreed to seek federal approval of 

Lipitor as an investigative drug. It was a major step toward Lipitor’s 

initial sale in 1997, the start of a $13 billion-a-year juggernaut. 

Newton himself was treated to extreme behavior while introducing 

Lipitor to Australia. A stranger aggressively embraced him, saying 

Lipitor had dramatically lowered his bad cholesterol and raised 

his quality of life. Like his Australian fan, Newton is a veteran of 

the health roller coaster. Despite his key contribution to Lipitor’s 

success, he was passed over for promotion when Parke-Davis merged 

departments. He found solace, wisdom, and inspiration in Robert 

Quinn’s book Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, internalizing 

the bumper-sticker tip “Don’t let your company kill you!” In 1998, 

Newton founded his own company, Esperion Therapeutics, in Ann 

Arbor, Mich., to develop a drug that could do what Lipitor can’t: 

significantly increase good cholesterol. 

In 2004, Newton sold Esperion to Pfizer for $1.3 billion. The 

pharmaceutical giant acquired an extremely promising experimental 

drug, a synthetic version of a rare protein that protects residents of an 

Italian village from heart disease. In 2008, Newton bought back patent 

rights after Pfizer closed Esperion during a global restructuring. He 

raised more than $22 million of venture capital and launched Esperion 

2 on May 1, 2008, his birthday. 

Newton hopes to test and sell the first commercial drug that reduces 

plaque, which ruptures arteries and causes the heart attacks and 

strokes that kill nearly a million Americans a year. In the meantime he 

promotes better health through walking, dieting, and eating bananas 

instead of banana-flavored cupcakes. 

“Pharmaceuticals don’t cure disease; they only treat it,” says 

Newton, who takes only nutritional supplements and baby aspirin. 

“We need to prevent disease before it comes. We need to be more 

conscientiously conscious of what we do to ourselves.” 

Newton supports other health visionaries through his Esperance 

Family Foundation, which has funded scholarships and lab renovations 

at Lafayette. It’s his way of thanking two mentors, Shyamal Majumdar, 

professor emeritus of biology, who taught him the value of researching 

and searching, and Newton’s mother, who taught him the value of 

studying birds in the woods. 

Newton repays his teachers in classes and workshops. Pursue causes 

with bulldog tenacity, he tells current and future risk-takers. Surround 

yourself with skilled, loyal teammates. Follow your heart—healthy 

advice for a heart-disease warrior. 


P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y C H U C K Z O V K O

HEART’S 

TRIUMPH 

ROGER NEWTON ’72 

PROMOTES 

GOOD HEALTH 

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SPORTS

RESURGENCE 

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SPORTS 

Rare is the unexpected moment that lasts longer than, well, a moment. How about an unexpected 

moment that lasts four months? That was the men’s basketball season. The resurgent Leopards, 

under Patriot League Coach of the Year Fran O’Hanlon, electrified the campus and the community 

and battled to Lafayette’s first league championship game in a decade. 

On the third of March, the month of madness, Kirby 

Sports Center goes berserk as Lafayette hosts its first 

Patriot League playoff game since the team’s back-toback 

league titles and NCAA tournament appearances in 

1999 and 2000. Support from a highly energized student 

cheering section helps propel the Leopards to a 73-65 

win over Colgate in the quarter-final game (19 points 

from guard Jim Mower helps too) and a berth in the 

conference semi-finals. 

When the league’s preseason poll was announced in 

October, it was no surprise the Leopards were picked 

to finish last. In 2008-09 they were 8-22 overall and 

tied with Bucknell at the bottom of the league standing 

at 4-10. The No. 8 seed in the league’s post-season 

tournament, they were crushed by American, the top seed 

and eventual conference champ, in the first round. What 

may have been a surprise, though, was the unanimity 

of the league’s head coaches and sports information 

directors: they all picked Lafayette last. Not much of 


an endorsement for Fran O’Hanlon and his team as he 

entered his 15th season as head coach. 

“The preseason poll certainly motivated our guys to 

work extra hard to prove they’re not as bad as people are 

saying,” O’Hanlon said later. 

That’s for sure. Four wins in the first five games had a 

basketball buzz going by Thanksgiving. A month later, 

the team was 6-5 at the final exam break, with consecutive 

home wins over Fairleigh Dickinson and Long Island 

University halting a four-game skid that included losses 

at Georgetown, La Salle, and Princeton. After exams, the 

Leopards won three of four games, including Penn and 

Columbia at home in the first week of the new year, to 

close out the pre-conference schedule at 9-6. 

One of just three Patriot League teams with winning 

records as conference play began, the Leopards shot to 

the top of the league with consecutive wins over Holy 

Cross, the league’s preseason favorite, Colgate, Navy, and 

Bucknell. After stumbling at Lehigh, they beat Army and

fell to American, both at home, to close out the month of 

January and the first half of the league season at 5-2, tied 

with Lehigh for first place. 

The Leopards remained in first or within a game of 

the top until the final weekend of play. Cycling through 

the league a second time, they beat only Navy in the first 

quartet of games, while losing to Holy Cross, Colgate, 

and Bucknell. But they throttled Lehigh, 90-75, at home 

and Army, 80-54, at West Point, for a league mark of 8-5 

going into the finale at American. A second loss to the 

Eagles gave Lafayette the No. 3 seed in the tournament, 

behind Lehigh, at 10-4, and Bucknell, at 9-5. 

The league semi-final, it turns out, is at home, because 

No. 7-seed Holy Cross upset Bucknell in their quarterfinal 

game. March 7, Kirby Sports Center. The fans are 

frenzied, and the game is, too: back-and-forth, 11 lead 

changes. In the second half, Holy Cross erases a 12-point 

Lafayette lead, but the Leopards don’t quit, and when 

junior center Jared Mintz hits a jump shot with 35 seconds 

left, then adds two free throws in the final seconds, 

Lafayette wins, 66-63. Next will be the Patriot League 

championship game, the Leopards’ first in 10 years. The 

team finds out later that night who the opponent will be: 

Lehigh has beaten American in the other semi-final, so 

Lafayette-Lehigh III is set for Stabler Arena on March 

12, to be televised coast-to-coast on ESPN2. 

“We could have folded against Holy Cross, but the 

crowd wouldn’t let us,” O’Hanlon said. “They were 

great and they really energized our guys.” 

“The fans rallying behind us toward the end of the 

season meant a whole lot to us as players,” said cocaptain 

Jeff Kari ’10. “They were definitely great and 

they really helped us win some of the tighter games down 

the stretch.” 

Lafayette’s allotment of tickets for the championship 

sold out more than 24 hours before the game. Six 

buses hauled students who delayed or cancelled spring 

break plans to cheer on the team. In fact, the gym was 

dominated by maroon and white. Hundreds of Lafayette 

rooters spilled over into sections designated for the 

Lehigh crowd. And the Leopard fans were loud, really 

loud. 

The Leopards battled valiantly but weren’t able to 

shock the world and become the first team seeded outside 

the top two to win a Patriot League tournament. Their 

19 wins were the most since 1999-2000. 

“More than half the fans in that arena were Lafayette 

fans,” Kari said. “I remember getting heckled by just a 

few Lehigh students when we were warming up before 

the game and turning to one of my teammates and saying 

‘our fans are completely dominating them.’” 

“It was so exciting for everybody,” O’Hanlon added. 

“It was great to see this type of enthusiasm return to 

campus. I had not seen that level of school spirit for a 

long, long time. It was tremendous.” ■ 


EASTON IN OUR CITY 

IN OUR 

CITY 

ON THE BRINK OF SUCCESS 

But it would take something totally unrelated to 

create the momentum that would begin a renaissance. 

People with disposable income began to flood out of 

New Jersey and New York and into large homes in the 

cornfields of Forks, Palmer, and Bethlehem townships. 

They were used to good eats, so restaurants such 

as River Grille opened downtown and the new 

suburbanites—who saw Newark, not Easton, as a 

tough town—began to test the culinary market. 

In the past, new downtown business announcements 

were followed within weeks with notices of closure. 

But the restaurants not only survived, they multiplied, 

becoming a destination. 

And, gingerly, people returned downtown. Fear 

would be replaced by feasting, and even in these terrible 


A FEELING OF REBIRTH IN DOWNTOWN EASTON 

This opinion piece by the editors of The Express-Times of Easton ran in the newspaper Dec. 18, 2009. 

Easton’s downtown neighborhood, since the early 1970s, has struggled with perception 

and reality. For years, both stunk. But with Crayola’s decision in the mid-1990s to bring 

its child-friendly learning center to Centre Square and the city’s choice to pack up city hall 

and the police station and place them a few digits away just off Centre Square, it seemed 

times would soon change. 

economic times, the fragile thought was born that 

prosperity could burn for more than a fleeting few 

seconds. 

A couple of brave people even left the security of 

College Hill to buy a home downtown. But the costly 

condo dreams promoted by maxed-out speculators 

died with the downturn. 

And that may not be such a bad thing. Because they 

evolved into the concept of median-priced rentals, which 

could draw people with decent jobs but not saddle them 

with overwhelming debt. 

Which gets us to Easton today, a city recasting its 

reputation, restoring its historic look, and driving itself 

toward a hopeful future. No guarantees. But a chance.

As we head into a new year, a walk around the 

downtown presents a feeling of rebirth, with significant 

challenges that could quickly trash any real gains. 

Some positive signs: 

Lafayette College is actively redeveloping the exterior 

of the old Mohican Club on North Third Street, 

beginning the demolition across the street for a new arts 

plaza, and we hope the old Hubcap and Wheel Store 

building will soon just be a bad post-industrial memory. 

The long-abandoned train station at the southern 

entrance to downtown is soon to get a cosmetic 

makeover, with lights and paint and murals. It ties into 

a thinner Larry Holmes Drive that offers more attractive 

access to the riverfront. 

The 400 and 500 blocks of Northampton Street have 

seen spectacular facade makeovers, highlighting the 

beauty of late 19th and early 20th-century architecture. 

The new Northampton County history museum will 

be a jewel in the 300 block of the main drag, and the 

side streets and alleys have shared in the city’s tentative 

renewal. 

A $10,000 privately funded grant will give city leaders 

direction in bringing tourists to take advantage of all 

that is new. 

And a second parking garage on South Third Street 

would present tourists a nearby place to safely stow the 

car and possibly visit another museum. 

But challenges remain: 

The Pomeroy’s building is once again on the brink 

of sale, to reportedly bring reasonably priced apartments 

and necessary retail to the city. But it’s one thing to buy 

Pomeroy’s, quite another to make decent use of it. 

The former Bixler’s and Lenny’s buildings are sore 

spots on the square, and while the proposed Lipkin’s 

multiuse rehab is encouraging, we’d like to see 

construction wrap up in a reasonable time frame. 

The onetime Weller Center still isn’t a brew pub, 

as financing has hampered its reuse. And the buildings 

next to Kaplan’s, just west of the free bridge, are still a 

wreck as New Jersey drivers are introduced to the city. 

The new year will be a key year for Easton’s 

downtown. Police need to keep visitors safe, the 

government needs to keep looking for grants and 

other creative financing as well as actively attracting 

entrepreneurs, and the economy needs to take a turn 

for the better. 

Another year or two (or three) like this year and the 

city’s reputation could become compelling rather than 

concerning, leading to a success not seen since Easton 

was a go-to place for high-end shopping and good living 

—so many years ago. ■ 

The Express-Times is on the web at lehighvalleylive.com. 



Tilger ’94 

is Honored 

Shawn Tilger ’94, 

senior vice president for 

business operations of 

the Philadelphia Flyers, 

is the recipient of a 2010 

Forty Under 40 Award 

from Street & Smith’s 

SportsBusiness Journal and 

SportsBusiness Daily. The 

annual awards honor promising 

young executives in the sports 

industry. 

In his six seasons with the 

Flyers, Tilger has hosted 

externships for several Lafayette 

students. He is responsible for 

the day-to-day management 

of the organization’s business 

operations, including marketing, 

broadcasting, communications, 

finance, budgeting, community 

relations, fan development, 

ticket sales, game presentation, 

customer service, new media, 

publicity, and merchandising. 

A government and law major 

at Lafayette, he holds a master’s 

degree in sports management 

from Springfield College. He 

previously served as Comcast- 

Spectacor’s vice president for 

marketing and as a regional 

marketing manager for the 

Harlem Globetrotters. ■ 


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The itinerary includes Campania, “Italy’s breadbasket”; three 

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Class Notes 

1940 

Herbert Rednor 

1912 S. Crescent Blvd. 

Yardley, PA 19067-3118 

(215) 493-5575 

President: Harold Bellis 

Floyd Labarre wrote to inform me 

about his activities in the model 

railroad world. He attended the 

Train Collectors Association’s annual 

model railroad club get-together, 

traveling by train, taking the 

Vermonter from Wilmington, Del., 

to Burlington, Vt. He has designed, 

built, operated, and sold 13 model 

railroad layouts of various sizes 

during his 85 years in model 

railroading. He is building his 14th, 

15th, and 16th layouts in various 

stages. He describes his hobby as an 

“avocation,” an interest spurred 

because his father was a lifelong 

employee of the Lackawanna 

Railroad. He continues to serve as 

honorary president of a local model 

railroad club in Morris Plains, N.J., 

via remote control from his Maryland 

home. Floyd recommends that 

everyone visit the Strasburg (Pa.) 

Rail Road, which he says is the most 

successful tourist railroad in the 

United States, and the TCA Model 

Train Museum right next door. 

Joseph B. Moore writes that 

he resides in Allentown, Pa., after 

retiring in 1983 as an engineer from 

PPL Corp, where he worked on the 

construction of the Susquehanna 

nuclear power plant. He determined 

that he is the only Lafayette alum to 

have been stationed at and survived 

the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 

Unfortunately, that is all the good 

Class Notes 

1936-1939 

Alumni who don’t see their class listed here and would like to volunteer to serve as a class correspondent, please contact the 

Office of Alumni Affairs, alumni@lafayette.edu, (610) 330-5040 (for calling within Pa.) or 1-800-LAFAYETTE (outside Pa.). 

news. I must sadly report on several 

deaths. 

Arthur Sternberger Jr. passed 

away Jan. 18, 2009. He is survived 

by his wife, Judith, daughters Dr. Ann 

Connaghan and Joan Jacobson (and 

her husband, Jim), and son Arthur 

III, as well as several grandchildren. 

Services were held in September. 

Contributions may be made to the 

Forbes Health Foundation, 2570 

Haymaker Road, Monroeville, PA 

15146. 

Roland P. Osterland died 

Feb. 18, 2009, after a brief illness. He 

was raised in Mountain Lakes, N.J., 

and during World War II served with 

the 90th Infantry Division in five 

campaigns in the European Theater. 

He was in the initial landing forces on 

D-Day at Normandy and later served 

as a captain. He received both the 

Bronze Star and the Silver Star for 

gallantry. Osterland resigned from the 

Army with a rank of major in 1952 

and was senior financial manager for 

General Foods Corporation until 

1979. He was active in community 

affairs, the Republican Club, United 

Way, Rotary Club, and his church, 

Presbyterian Church in Katonah, N.Y. 

He was a town councilman in 

Bedford, N.Y., and served as a 

volunteer counselor for SCORE. 

He also helped reorganize the town 

government of Chatham, Mass. In 

1987, he and his wife, Jackie, moved 

to New Hampshire and lived in a 

retirement community. After 45 years 

of marriage, Jackie died, and Roland 

moved to Newport, Vt., where he 

lived in the Bel-Aire Center for eight 

years. He is survived by three 

daughters—Lindy Sargent, Robin 

Stone, and Laurie Lakin—and their 

husbands, as well as six grandchildren 

and a new great-granddaughter. He is 

also survived by his sister-in-law and 

brother-in-law and many beloved 

nieces and nephews. In addition to 

his wife, he was predeceased by three 

brothers. He was buried with full 

military honors in Arlington National 

Cemetery. Contributions may be 

made in his memory to the National 

Breast Cancer Foundation, 2600 

Network Boulevard, Suite 300, 

Frisco, TX 75034, or the Alzheimer’s 

Association, 225 North Michigan 

Avenue, Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601. 

Elmer “Rip” Regn of Lely Palms, 

Fla., died Oct. 25 after a long illness. 

Rip was born in Camden, N.J., and 

earned a civil engineering degree. Like 

most of us, he was inducted into the 

Army in 1941 and attended Officer 

Candidate School. He fought in 

World War II and landed at Utah 

Beach on D-Day plus one. Rip earned 

many medals and awards during his 

career, including the Silver Star, the 

Bronze Star with an oak leaf cluster, 

the Purple Heart with two oak leaf 

clusters, and the Legion of Merit. 

After 33 years of military service, he 

retired in 1974 as a colonel. Rip is 

survived by his wife, Kathleen, and his 

daughters, Sandra Oliver, Kathleen 

Scott, and Deborah Palans. He is also 

survived by his wife’s daughters, 

Nancy Frykholm and Susan Swetlik. 

Contributions may be made to the 

Alzheimer’s Support Network of 

Naples, Fla. 

Richard D. “Dick” Grifo passed 

away Aug. 6 at home, surrounded by 

his family. Until slowed by illness, he 

remained active following his retirement 

as senior judge of Northampton 

(Pa.) County after 34 years on the 

bench. “He was a genuine human 

being and a very giving person,” said 


Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. Dick’s wife, 

Lee, was also active in the community 

and was instrumental in revitalizing the 

State Theatre. Dick was active in the 

local chapter of the Sons of Italy, which 

has been renamed in his honor. Dick 

wrote a book about his Italian heritage 

for the Northampton County Historical 

and Genealogical Society. The mayor 

describes him as a role model for young 

Italian-American boys. Dick was 

appointed a judge in 1968 and was the 

first son of an immigrant to sit on the 

bench of Northampton County as a 

judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 

The present Northampton County 

President Judge Kimberly McFadden 

recalled serving as a law clerk during 

Dick’s tenure and describes him as “a 

kind and generous man who served the 

Bench with distinction for many years.” 

She also stated that the County Bench 

and Bar have lost a valued friend and 

colleague. 

Dick was married to Lee for 

54 years. He was president of his 

graduating class at Easton Area High 

School, a role he also filled at Lafayette 

as our class president. He attended law 

school at the University of Pennsylvania 

on a senatorial scholarship and was 

an instructor at Lafayette in the 

department of government & law, 

1944–50. From 1944–46, he clerked 

for the Honorable William H. 

Kirkpatrick, president judge of the 

United States Federal Court for 

the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 

He practiced law for 24 years in 

Northampton County, making certain 

to serve the needs of first-generation 

Italian-Americans until his appointment 

to the Court of the Common Pleas by 

Governor Raymond Shafer. He was 

successfully re-elected and retained for 

a second 10-year term. He served as 

senior judge until his retirement was 

mandated by the Supreme Court for 

judges over 80 years of age, retiring 

Jan. 6, 2003, at the age of 84. Dick 

served in numerous positions of honor 

and distinction among state judges. He 

was a lecturer for the Pennsylvania 

Banking Institute and with Anthony 

Noto ’41 co-authored History of the 

Impact of Italian Immigration into the 

Class Notes 

1940–1941 

Easton Area and also wrote 

History of Italians in Pennsylvania 

commissioned by the Pennsylvania 

Historical Association. He was a 

member of the Northampton County 

Bar Association and a member of the 

Pennsylvania Bar Association and the 

American Bar Association. 

Dick was borough solicitor for 

West Easton for 21 years and was 

solicitor for the County of 

Northampton, 1951–55. He was 

active in the United Way, on the 

board of trustees of Moravian 

Academy in Bethlehem, Pa., a 

member of the Northampton 

Historical and Genealogical Society, 

the Italian Sons and Daughters of 

America, and many other public 

service organizations. He was also an 

avid outdoorsman and was a member 

of the Easton Rod and Gun Club, 

the Easton Anglers Association, 

Trout Unlimited, the Ruffed Grouse 

Society, and Ducks Unlimited. In 

addition to his wife, he is survived by 

daughters Antonia M. Grifo, a lawyer 

(and her husband, Ronald W. 

Shipman, Esq.), Dr. Francesca T. 

Grifo (and her husband, Dr. William 

Hahn), and Carla Gunn (and her 

husband, Walter), as well as five 

grandchildren, two step-grandsons, 

a step-great-granddaughter, sisters 

Jean Reese and Nellie Erkinger, and 

brothers James P. and Anthony. Dick 

was predeceased by a brother, Jack, 

and a sister, Emily Herbert. 

In addition to the preceding 

members of our class, the College has 

reported the July 15 death of George 

Falconer. I will attempt to research 

that information and provide more 

details in my next column. 

1941 

Anthony F. Noto 

3414 Drighton Court 

Bethlehem, PA 18020-1334 

(610) 758-8055 

Fund Manager: W. Craig Kennedy 

It is with sadness that I write of the 

deaths of two prominent members of 

our class: Dr. Lloyd M. Felmly Jr. 

and Andrew W. Bisset, Esq., both 

members of multigenerational 

Lafayette families. 

Lloyd, 89, died Sept. 3 in 

Carrollton, Ga. After graduating from 

Lafayette, he attended Yale University 

School of Medicine. However, in early 

January 1942, he enlisted in the Navy. 

He served three perilous years behind 

Japanese lines with the elite Sino- 

American Cooperative Organization 

(SACO). His unit engaged in sabotage 

and guerilla activities intended to 

divert and distract the Japanese forces 

occupying Southeast China. There he 

received the surrender sword from the 

Japanese on behalf of Gen. MacArthur, 

which he in turn presented to his 

grandson, Stephen D. Maddox, upon 

Maddox’s graduation from the U.S. 

Air Force Academy in 2000. While in 

Navy uniform, Lloyd received many 

citations for his service during World 

War II. Lloyd missed our 50th reunion 

in 1991 because he was in Nashville, 

where he was installed as permanent 

secretary of SACO. 

After his discharge from the 

Navy, he resumed his studies at 

Yale, graduating in 1950. He then 

established his medical practice, 

mostly in upstate New York. 

To say that Lloyd, a member 

of Chi Phi, was active during his 

Lafayette years is an understatement. 

As they are too numerous to list, 

I refer you to his write-up in our 

Melange. During his senior year, he 

was even head cheerleader. (I mention 

this only to remind younger readers of 

this column, if any, that in our time 

Lafayette was all male.) Lloyd and the 

rest of us had a lot to cheer about. 

Our senior year 1940 football team 

was the last Lafayette team to go 

undefeated and the only Leopards to 

beat Army (19–0). Army then was a 

national power, unlike its teams of 

recent years. The 1937 team, our 

freshman year, was also undefeated. 

Four generations of Felmlys have 

graduated from Lafayette: Lloyd Sr. 

’16, Lloyd, son William Felmly ’81, 

and granddaughter Annalese F. 

Maddox ’07. I’m indebted to 

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Annalese for providing me with 

data about Lloyd and his family. 

Lloyd’s father, longtime editor of 

the Newark Evening News, was a 

member of the Lafayette College 

Board of Trustees, 1946–71. As board 

chairman, 1956–64, he played a 

pivotal role in uniting the College 

community at a troubling time. 

The last time I saw Lloyd was in 

February 1993, when my wife and I 

were guests in the timeshare Venice, 

Fla., unit of Marge and Stan Kulaitis, 

both since deceased. At a luncheon 

sponsored by the Kulaitises, we got 

together with Lloyd and wife Peg, 

Lenore and Sandy Fogelson, and Bill 

Buchanan. Later we were guests of 

the Felmlys at their Venice home. 

Lloyd is survived by Peg, his wife 

of 60 years, three daughters, two sons, 

a sister, 12 grandchildren, and one 

great-grandchild. Our sympathies to all. 

Andrew W. Bisset, 90, died in 

Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 26. He was the 

oldest of five children of Vice-Admiral 

Andrew G. Bisset and Helen W. Bisset. 

A member of Phi Delta Theta, 

Andrew served as its president his 

senior year. He also was president 

of our class our junior year. He was 

involved in a wide variety of campus 

activities yet managed to maintain a 

high scholastic average. His major 

was government & law. 

During World War II with the 

Navy in the South Pacific, Andy 

served primarily as a maritime artillery 

officer, achieving the rank of captain. 

Among his citations was the Bronze 

Star with a Combat V. 

Following his military service that 

spanned 1941–46, he graduated from 

Yale Law School, specializing in 

estates and trusts. As his write-up in 

The Melange so aptly put it, “Andy 

[was] the ‘old-school’ type of 

gentleman, operating successfully 

in a modern environment.” 

All of his life Andy loved sailing. 

He was a past commodore of the 

Pequot Yacht Club of Connecticut. 

The last time I saw Andy was in 

early June 1991, when he and his wife, 

Holly, attended our 50th Reunion. In 

addition to Holly, his wife of 67 years, 

Class Notes 

1941 

Andy is survived by three sisters, three 

sons, eight grandchildren, and five 

great-grandsons. Two of his sons are 

Lafayette grads, Andrew E. Bisset ’67 

and M. Douglas Bisset ’69. To all, 

our condolences. 

My thanks to Richard May for 

sending me Andy’s obituary. Dick, 

though it was good to hear from you, 

I wish the news you relayed had not 

been so sad. 

Dick and his wife occasionally 

crossed paths with the Bissets. In the 

early 1950s, he and his wife were 

regulars with a square dance group that 

met in an unheated barn behind Andy’s 

house. A few years later on the Mays’ 

first trip to Europe, Pan Am saw fit to 

assign them to seats adjacent to the 

Bissets. None were aware that such 

would be the case. Finally, the Mays’ 

subscription seats to the Westport 

County Playhouse turned out to be 

next to those of the Bissets. Memories 

are made of such coincidences. 

Sadly, still another death to report, 

that of the indefatigable Frank E. 

Craig Sr., who passed away Aug. 23 

at age 90. If Craig had a passion, it 

was keeping fit by running. While at 

Lafayette, he was a four-year member 

of both the track and cross country 

teams. For 45 years, he coached both 

sports at various Florida high schools 

as well as for 18 years at Brevard 

Community College. 

At Lafayette, he earned a degree 

in metallurgical engineering. During 

World War II, he served with the Army, 

later joining the Army Air Forces as a 

reservist, retiring as an Air Force 

lieutenant colonel in 1978. In 1950, 

Frank was employed by the government 

at an Air Force base near his home. 

Frank was predeceased by Mary, 

his wife of 61 years. He is sur vived by 

two daughters, two sons, two grandchildren, 

and four great grandchildren. 

Our condolences to them all. 

Last September, I had a phone 

call from Elbert Huselton, inquiring 

whether I was planning to attend 

the Lafayette–Liberty football game. 

Through his church, he had received 

tickets to the game. If he went, he 

planned to sit on the Lafayette side 

even though the tickets entitled him 

and his wife to sit in the visitors’ 

north stand. Because of my poor 

vision, I told him that I did not plan 

to attend the game. Furthermore, it 

was a night game. 

El’s wife Mary is also experiencing 

vision problems. Like the rest of us, 

the Huseltons are not as mobile as 

they used to be. 

About 10:30 p.m., July 29, a 

lightning bolt struck the Seabury 

retirement complex in Bloomfield, 

Conn., causing extensive fire and 

water damage to 46 apartments, one 

of which was Jim Farrell’s. Although 

Jim’s apartment had little damage, 

mostly water, he was obliged to 

vacate. Rather than go to some other 

retirement facility, Jim accepted the 

invitation of his daughter, Lynn 

Swain, to stay in her family home until 

repairs at Seabury made it ready for 

re-occupancy. 

As of Dec. 20, Jim had not moved 

back. Though he doesn’t mind staying 

at his daughter’s home, where he 

enjoys her culinary skills, he nevertheless 

longs for his own digs. If there’s 

merit in the old adage that lightning 

never strikes the same place twice, 

when Jim does return home, he 

should be able to sleep securely. 

Early last December, I had a phone 

conversation with Lillian and Craig 

Kennedy. Craig is experiencing 

serious mobility problems, relying on 

a walker or a wheel chair. He’s had 

surgeries on both knees. He is 

generally confined to his home, 

reluctant even to accompany Lillian 

whenever she has social or family 

obligations. Whatever your problems, 

Craig, I was pleased to hear from you. 

During the past Christmas–New 

Year’s interval, I received greetings 

from the following 1941 widows: Alva 

(Joe) Marticelli, Helen (Bill) Snyder, 

and Winnie (Howard) Swick. 

Alva has been working for the 

Rochester, N.Y., chapter of the 

American Red Cross since 1996. As 

she is a certified CPR instructor, her 

duties include training others to be 

CPR instructors. She is also certified 

to administer CPR on pets. 


Helen keeps busy visiting, or being 

visited, by her children, grandchildren, 

and other relatives. Sunday is her work 

day. She plays music for services at the 

church affiliated with the Presbyterian 

Village North, an assisted living 

facility in Dallas, Texas, where she 

is a resident. 

Winnie, a long-time Phillipsburg 

resident, is now living in an assisted 

living facility in nearby Nazareth, Pa. 

Mayo Lanning once again came 

through with a year-end letter. Mayo, 

a self-styled patriarch, is 93 and 

proud of his descen dants, who range 

from great-grandchildren to daughter 

Bonnie. 

Mayo is in his own apartment, 

relying on a cane and a walker to 

move about. He sold his vintage Ford 

Escort to a grandson. He relies on 

Bonnie to drive him to medical 

appointments, church, and shopping. 

His last comment was “the changes 

on the Lafayette campus are 

unbelievable.” Yes, quite a dif ference 

from dorm row of our time. Hang 

in there, Mayo. 

By the time you read these words 

of mine spring 2010 will have arrived. 

The older we get, the faster tempus 

fugit—loosely translated: “Where 

have the years gone!” 

1942 

Robert W.B. Johnston 

7507 Glenheath 

Houston, TX 77061-2823 

(713) 644-4212 

rwbjohn@att.net 

President: Otto Alden 

The Class of 1942 sponsors a football 

scholarship. Otto Alden has 

forwarded an update by the director 

of student financial aid. The book 

value of the scholarship fund in 

November was $450,364. At the close 

of September 2008, the value was 

$561,320. 

DeAndre Morrow ’10 and. 

Nathan J. Dixon ’11 received aid in 

2009. The recipients maintain “B” or 

“B+” averages, and both have been 

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1941–1944 

important to the success of the 

football program. 

George William Thoma died in 

August 2008 in Galveston, Texas. At 

Lafayette, George graduated magna 

cum laude. In 1945, George 

graduated from the University of 

Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 

Dr. Thoma then entered the Navy 

and served at various locations. Upon 

release from the Navy, he served a 

residency in pathology at Allentown 

General Hospital and later an 

American Cancer Society Fellowship 

at Jefferson Medical College. George 

was called to serve in the Korean 

War at the U.S. Navy Hospital in 

Portsmouth, Va., where he was 

certified by the American Board of 

Pathology in anatomical, clinical, and 

forensic pathology. Following release 

from the Navy, he served several 

positions in Virginia. In 1955, he 

moved to Galveston as pathologist 

and chief of laboratories at St. Mary’s 

Infirmary. In 1961, he moved to 

Houston at the M.D. Anderson 

Hospital at the Texas Medical Center 

as staff pathologist and professor of 

general pathology in the University 

of Texas dental branch. He retired in 

1983 and moved back to Galveston, 

where he taught weekly seminars in 

pathology at the University of Texas 

medical branch. 

Jean, his wife of 65 years, 

son John, daughter Ann, four 

grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren 

survive George. 

Dr. Paul H. Stillman of Chapel 

Beach, Fla., died in October 2008. 

Scudder Mackey reports from 

Exeter, N.H., “I feel almost naked, 

as I sold my L.C. Smith skeet gun 

and auctioned off my duck decoy 

collection.” The holidays were 

hectic, as wife Lois fell out of bed 

and broke her hip. 

In the current release of Lafayette 

Magazine, there are only two classes 

older than 1942 with columns. That 

should be an incentive for you to send 

your news for the next column. 

1943 

Richard E. “Dick” Hartung, 

correspondent for the Class of 

1943, passed away Oct. 25 at 

home, surrounded by his family. 

He was 87. 

An Eagle Scout, Hartung’s drive 

and leadership skills transferred to 

Lafayette, where he was president of 

the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity 

and captained the swim team. In the 

pool, he set several records that stood 

into the 1960s. 

Hartung served in World War II, 

attaining the rank of lieutenant. 

Stationed on the USS St. Croix, an 

amphibious transport ship with the 

Seventh Fleet in the southwest 

Pacific, he and his crewmates saw 

such battles as Iwo Jima and Leyte 

Gulf. After V-J Day, he helped 

prepare the Bikini Atoll for the first 

post-war atomic bomb tests. 

In civilian life, Hartung saw the 

future in plastics. He founded and 

was president of Seajay Mfg. Co., 

was a director of Blowmex Ltd in 

Holland, and was a director of 

CCMex SA in the Dominican 

Republic. His inventions include 

the plastic milk bottle and plastic 

tape dispensers. He was a member 

of the Society of Plastics Engineers 

and the South Jersey Inventors Club. 

Hartung was also a member of St. 

Georges Church in Rumson, N.J., 

for over 50 years. 

Teena, his wife of 62 years, sons 

Stephan (and wife Lorraine), Scott 

(and wife Sharon), and Richard Jr., 

daughter Stephanie Chandler (and 

husband Warren), and seven 

grandchildren survive him. 

Memorial contributions may be 

made to Clean Ocean Action, 18 

Hartshorne Dr., Suite 2, Highlands, 

NJ 07732. 

1944 

The Rev. Robert G. Sandercock 

1961 Hayes Short Lane 

Colfax, NC 27235 

jsandercock@triad.rr.com 


1946 & 1947 

Van T. Boughton Jr. 

5124 Fellowship Road 

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 

(908) 580-0765 

vboughton@fvonline.net 

1947 Fund Manager: W. Robert Magee Sr. 

Though winter is now behind us, 

I personally don’t mind the cold 

as long as I can sit tight during the 

snowstorms. I did get out with some 

elderly buddies for a day—well, more 

truthfully a morning—of skiing. It 

was beautiful on the mountain near 

Palmerton, Pa. Betty and I looked 

forward to our annual excursion out 

to Park City, Utah, late in February. 

Dick Katz ’46, who lives in 

Clearwater, Fla., with his wife, Claire, 

sent a brief email. Dick says that 

playing golf and working out at the 

gym fills most of their time. For the 

past three years, he and Claire have 

joined Bill Harding ’58’s gettogethers 

in Largo, Fla., to watch the 

Lafayette–Lehigh football games. 

I am sorry to report the death of 

S. Grove Lugar ’47, who died at 

his home at The River Club in Port 

Royal, S.C., Nov. 9. Grove graduated 

from Abington (Pa.) High School, 

where he met and courted his wifeto-be, 

Gail, who passed away in 

2003. He attended Swarthmore 

College, served in the Navy during 

World War II, and graduated from 

Lafayette. 

After graduation, Grove began a 

career in industrial equipment sales 

around the Philadelphia area. In 

1972, he moved to Vermont and 

became a partner/owner of the 

Gilmore Home Center in Bomoseen. 

He retired in 1982 and 10 years later 

moved to Dataw Island, S.C. You 

may recall that a few years ago 

Grove wrote a letter, included in 

these notes, telling of 

the adventures he and his wife had 

cruising 12,000 miles in their 40-foot 

trawler from Key West to the Great 

Lakes via the Intracoastal and other 

inland waterways. 

Class Notes 

1946–1949 

Several other belated death 

notices, with only minimal 

information, have been passed to me: 

William L. Goodman ’47 passed 

away Aug. 28, 2008. 

Dr. James S. Skinner ’46 of 

Gladwyne, Pa., died Oct. 28, 2008. 

Henry A. Bodine ’47 of Pawleys 

Island, S.C., died Nov. 3, 2008. 

1948 

Harvey H. Hunerberg 

7015 River Club Blvd. 

Bradenton, FL 34202 

(941) 351-0303 

President: Harvey H. Hunerberg 

Reunion Chair: William Lockett Jr. 

It was a proud day in June ’48 when 

257 bright, young world beaters 

heard Ralph Cooper Hutchinson 

charge us to “go out and fight the 

good fight.” 

So much has changed since 1948. 

After our graduation, we were last in the 

book. Now there are only five reporting 

classes in front of us: ’40, ’41, ’42, ’44, 

and ’46/’47. How can we be marching 

into oblivion? We must rise up! 

For your New Year’s Resolution, 

repeat after me: “We, the Class of ’48, 

will forestall any attempt to reduce 

us to zero!” Stay with it! 

Here’s Harry Fisler to tell us about 

his life as an alum: 

“This letter will report that I am 

still alive and very healthy. My home is 

in Pinellas County, Fla., on a lakefront 

property. Originally in the Class of 

’46, World War II came along. I was 

drafted and spent two years on active 

duty in the Navy. I became a ’48 

graduate on my return. 

“I stayed in the Naval Reserve 

program for 21 years and was 

discharged—or retired—as a 

commander in Naval Intelli gence. 

My civilian career was with the 

Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. as a 

professional engineer, electrical, by 

test. I was a marketing and services 

manager upon retirement. 

“Hope this letter can give you 

some input for Class Notes. 

“P.S. Nine members of my family 

were Lafayette grads.” 

A nice letter and a great life, Harry. 

Thank you all for listening and for 

your comments. 

1949 

Werner Hennig 

8310 E. Bronco Trail 

Scottsdale, AZ 85255-2172 

(480) 585-4790 

President: Harrison W. Wright 

Douglas Ellison Arnold of Clinton, 

S.C., passed away July 12 at age 93. 

He grew up in Easton. 

Surrounded by a family of musicians, 

he matured into a fine vocalist. The 

Army called in 1941, and while on 

maneuvers in South Carolina, he sang 

in a local church. One of the church 

families invited him home, where he 

met Paula, the daughter, whom he 

married in 1944. Five children 

followed: Doug, Ed, Melanie, John, 

and Bill. 

A veteran of the D-Day landing, 

Doug also fought in the Battle of the 

Bulge and achieved the rank of captain. 

He was awarded four battle stars, the 

Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star. 

After the war, Doug and Paula 

moved back to Easton, where he 

graduated from Lafayette with a degree 

in chemical engineering. The military 

recalled him to Korea; for his service at 

Inchon, he received another battle star. 

After the war, Doug took a job as a 

shift supervisor with DuPont at the 

Savannah River Plant near Aiken, S.C. 

He stayed with the company until his 

retirement in 1978. 

In his free time, Doug was the 

backbone of the Fairview Presbyterian 

Church choir in North Augusta, S.C. 

He also participated in their theater 

productions, served as deacon and 

elder, taught Sunday school, was 

Sunday school superintendent after his 

retirement, and loved the King James 

Bible. He visited every U.S. state and 

made several international trips with 

Paula. An avid outdoorsman, he also 

worked with the Boy Scouts. He was 


known around the North Augusta 

Country Club for continuing to play 

with a wooden-shafted putter. His 

appreciation of wood extended to his 

furniture making. 

Paula died in 2004. Doug’s son Ed 

died in 1966. Survivors include Doug 

and Barbara Arnold, Melanie and 

Tim Howie and their three children, 

John and Sheila Arnold, and Bill 

and Beverly Arnold and their three 

children. Memorials may be made 

to the Fairview Presbyterian Church 

Choir Fund, 1101 Carolina Ave., 

North Augusta, SC 29841 or to the 

Presbyterian Communities of South 

Carolina, 2817 Ashland Road, 

Columbia, SC 29210. 

Jacob A. “Jake” Burrows died 

April 3, 2009, in Port St. Lucie, Fla., 

at age 87. A native of Stroudsburg, 

Pa., he made Florida his home, 

working 34 years as an engineer with 

Pratt & Whitney at its Palm Beach 

County location until retiring in 1983. 

During World War II, Jake served 

with the Army Air Forces. He was a 

member of the First Presbyterian 

Church of Port St. Lucie. 

Arlene, his wife of 10 years, sons 

Ronald and Wayne, brother James, 

and four grandchildren survive him. 

Brothers Robert and Ashton preceded 

him in death. Memorial contributions 

may be made to his local chapter of 

the American Cancer Society, 865 S.E. 

Monterey Commons Blvd., Stuart, FL 

34996. 

John M. Levinson, M.D., of 

Rockland, Del., and Kennedyville, 

Md., died Oct. 4. In addition to 60 

years of experience as an obstetriciangynecologist 

in the Delaware 

community, John pioneered medical 

and humanitarian work worldwide, 

serving refugees and civilians in 

Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and 

Nicaragua. 

A Navy enlistee at 17, John later 

served as a colonel in the Air Force 

Reserve after graduating from 

Lafayette and from Jefferson Medical 

College. Beginning in 1963, he made 

26 trips to Southeast Asia, teaching 

surgery at the University of Saigon 

and working in remote jungle 

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1949 

hospitals. His paper on medicine in 

South Vietnam was the first of its kind 

in American medical literature. Dr. 

Levinson pioneered the Volunteer 

Physicians in Vietnam program, 

initiated laparoscopic surgery in 

Delaware (1971), and performed the 

first laparoscopic surgery in China 

(1979), which earned him accolades 

from the Chinese Ministry of Health 

and helped him to establish clinics in 

the country. He trained health 

workers in the Kingdom of Bhutan, 

through Aid for International 

Medicine (AIM) and The Explorers 

Club, and in 1986 established the first 

OB/GYN surgical unit for Afghani 

freedom fighters. As the founder and 

president of AIM, John facilitated 

millions of dollars of aid to the 

developing world. In 1971, President 

Richard Nixon awarded him the State 

Department’s A.I.D. Commendation, 

and People to People International 

bestowed on him the Eisenhower 

Award for “significant contributions 

to the advancement of international 

understanding.” John worked closely 

with Sen. Edward Kennedy as a 

medical consultant to the Senate and 

testified before Senate committees 

and Veterans Affairs on health issues. 

A 40-year member of The 

Explorers Club, John also served as 

president, 1985–87. Oceangoing 

tours of the Arctic and Antarctica 

relied on John’s surgical skills, and he 

organized and chaired the world’s 

first conference on polar medicine. 

(As a Rotarian, he organized another 

first: a Rotary Club meeting held at 

the North Pole.) He published 31 

medical papers and edited two 

medical texts. For his international 

body of medical work, which spanned 

all seven continents, Jefferson 

Medical College awarded him to the 

title of Honorary Professor of 

Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2007, 

he became only the fourth 

Delawarean to receive the Ellis Island 

Medal of Honor. Boards he served 

on included The Royal Geographical 

Society of London, the World Affairs 

Council of Wilmington, Planned 

Parenthood, Blue Cross and Blue 

Shield, and Delaware’s Board of 

Professional Responsibility. 

He enjoyed sailing and carving 

wildfowl decoys (about which he 

authored a book). He is survived by 

his wife of 54 years, Elizabeth Carl 

Bell; his daughter, Patricia Anne, and 

her two daughters; his son, John Carl 

Levinson ’78, and his wife, Ellen, and 

their two sons; and his son, Mark Jay, 

and his wife, Frances, and their three 

daughters. The family suggests 

donations to his favorite charities: 

Doctors Without Borders, doctorswith 

outborders.com or (888) 392-0392, 

or The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 

cbf.org or (410) 268-8816. 

William C. McClure died May 8. 

He served in the Air Force and retired 

from the South Carolina Department 

of Health & Environmental Control 

as an environmental engineer. He was 

a member of Forest Lake Presbyterian 

Church in Columbia, S.C. 

Rosamond, his wife, sons Mark 

(and wife Rachel) and Kent, daughter 

Margo Schulte (and husband 

Michael), and four grandchildren 

survive him. 

William E. “Bill” Walton died at 

86 years old in Marietta, Ga., Dec. 15. 

He and wife Grace moved to Roswell, 

Ga., in April 2009 from South 

Burlington, Vt. After graduating from 

Lafayette, Bill joined the Army Air 

Forces and served in World War II. 

For 38 years, he worked for General 

Electric Co. as a mechanical engineer. 

Favorite activities included skiing, 

hiking, and camping with his family in 

his beloved Vermont. Grace, sons Ben 

(and wife Pam) and Luke (and wife 

Karen), and daughters Elizabeth 

Gustin (and husband Michael), Peggy 

Selman (and husband Jeff), and Vicky 

Malcolm (and husband Scott), and 

nine grandchildren survive him. 

Donations may be made to Cochran’s 

Ski Area (www.cochranskiarea.com), 

P.O. Box 789, Richmond, VT 05477, 

(802) 434-2479, or to Vermont 

Foodbank (www.vtfoodbank.org), 

Attn: Annual Fund Manager, P.O. 

Box 254, South Barre, VT 05670, 

(800) 585-2265. 


1950 

Irving S. Bravman 

211 Colonial Homes Drive NW 

Apt. 2309 

Atlanta, GA 30309-5201 

bravman@comcast.net 

President: Donald B. Chubb 

Fund Manager: Donald B. Chubb 

Reunion Chair: James R. Madara 

Web Page Administrator: 

Irving S. Bravman 

Molly and Dick Logan of Hockessin, 

Del., hosted a mini reunion with Jan 

and Bob Twitchell and Hilary and 

Don Kennedy. He also reports that 

his squash buddy, Bill Killinger, had 

to give up the game because of bum 

knees and failing eyesight. Dick got 

together with Bill and Bob Bradley, 

and Bill would love to hear from other 

classmates. Bill’s new address is 314 

Marshall Landing, Glen Mills, PA, 

(610) 358-9149. Meanwhile, Dick 

stays busy; he has served with SCORE 

for 14 years, is involved with several 

committees in his continuing care 

community, and is active in his Quaker 

Meeting. And he still plays tennis and 

bowls a couple times a week. Both his 

granddaughters are in college but, 

unfortunately, not at Lafayette. 

After Lafayette, Jim Woglom 

spent 38 years as a principal for 

four of the largest environmental 

engineering/planning domestic 

and international firms. During 

this period he earned a master’s in 

planning and an MBA. Following 

his retirement from engineering, he 

spent 13 years as an independent 

consultant, finally retiring in 2001. 

These days, Jim and Eleanor divide 

their time between a townhouse on 

a small lake in Reston, Va., and a 

condo in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. 

They have four married children and 

10 grandchildren. Because of carpal 

tunnel syndrome surgeries, Eleanor 

had to give up golf. Jim survived 

combat in World War II in Europe 

and leukemia, and he is now battling 

heart problems discovered in 2009. 

He still works part time as a marshal 

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1950–1951 

on the golf course and has met his 

two golfing goals, a hole-in-one 

and shooting his age. 

As previously reported, we lost 

one of the college leaders in October, 

Ralph Ward. Without repeating his 

multitude of accomplishments, with 

the College as well as in his exemplary 

career (chronicled, in part, in the Fall 

2009 Class Notes, page 71), I must 

mention that he served as a college 

trustee and received the George 

Washington Kidd Class of 1836 

Award as well as an honorary degree 

from Lafayette. Our condolences go 

out to his wife, Elaine, five children, 

15 grandchildren, and five greatgrandchildren. 

We also lost Dr. Colin Browne 

of Charlotte, N.C., July 25. He had 

retired from Celanese Corp. after 36 

years as manager of the research and 

development lab. Colin was preceded 

in death by his wife, Sally, and is 

survived by his longtime companion, 

Mary Catherine Shank, two sons, 

three granddaughters, and a 

grandson. 

Carlton Berger of Whitehall, Pa., 

passed away Oct. 21. During World 

War II, he served in the Army Air 

Forces. After Lafayette, he received 

his master’s degree in education from 

Temple University. He was a teacher 

and athletic director for the Wilson 

Area (Pa.) School District for 25 years 

before becoming the principal of 

Wilson Area High School, 1977–85. 

He is survived by two sons, a sister, 

and four grandchildren. 

Richard Woodcock of Harrisburg, 

Pa., passed away Nov. 6. He was a 

graduate of Dickinson Law School. 

Surviving is one daughter. We also 

lost William Relick of Southampton, 

Pa., Aug. 2. He leaves his wife, 

Helen, a daughter, a son, and two 

grandsons. And Carmen De Santis 

of Morris Plains, N.J., died July 4. 

Unfortunately, I received no obituary 

details on Carmen. 

Tom Diamond of Rydal, Pa., died 

of heart failure Nov. 5. He served in 

the Army Air Forces in the Pacific 

during World War II and was later 

stationed in occupied Japan. He 

worked for Remington Rand from 

1950 to 1955, and then for 10 years 

as a systems analyst for the accounting 

firm Arthur Andersen, in Philadelphia. 

From 1969 until retiring in 1999, 

he owned Diamond Management 

Systems, a provider of accounting and 

point-of-sale software. Tom’s twin 

brother, Gilbert, passed away in 

March 2009. Surviving are two sons 

and two granddaughters. 

Dr. Robert Kudlich passed away 

Jan. 4. He served in the Army Air 

Forces in World War II, training 

belly gunners for B-17s. He received 

a master’s degree from Harvard 

University and his Ph.D. in electrical 

engineering from the University of 

Illinois. He worked as an electrical 

engineer throughout his life, starting 

at Bell Laboratories, and thereafter at 

General Motors, AC Electronics, and 

Raytheon, before retiring. He leaves 

behind a son, two brothers, a sister, 

and two grandchildren. 

The class continues to shrink far 

too quickly, and our thoughts go out 

to the families. Meanwhile, do not 

forget the BIG 60, June 3–6. 

1951 

John B. Cornish 

1424-C Catasauqua Road 


jbcornish@plazarealty.net 

President: Joseph I. Diamond Jr. 

Fund Manager: Henry Kohlenberger Jr. 

Reunion Chair: Richard H. Knox 

Our fund manager, Henry “Hank” 

Kohlenberger Jr., received the award 

for our entire class as the 50+ class 

achieving the highest rate of 

participation for 2008–09. All of us 

who contributed to the Annual Fund 

share in this award. Congratulations 

to us! And thanks to Hank for keeping 

all of us informed. 

Kenneth W. Sheeleigh reports 

he’s still working half a day at West 

Shore Resource Inc., which he 

founded, in Goshen, N.Y., and he 

turned the position of president over 

to his son, Peter. He and wife Doris 


spend winters in Florida, where 

they’ve had a home for over 20 years. 

In Florida, he sees DKE brother Allan 

Kirby ’53 and plays golf with George 

Davidson. He included a picture of 

five family alumni that I will submit 

for online publication. 

Frank Downing and Bruce 

Castor cheered loudly at the annual 

Lafayette–Lehigh game, but a couple 

of flukes gave the win to that other 

team! Allen Arkett sent a photo of 

Harvey Russ and him with their 

wives at the game (see online). 

I talked with Ann recently, and 

she reports Dutch (Hilton Rahn) is 

holding his own with the help of his 

friend, Rocky. Dutch sends regards to 

all the ’51ers and particularly appreciates 

the Christmas cards that they receive. 

Dutch wrote an article on “Lafayette 

Alumni Parade Reminiscences” that 

I will submit for future publication. 

The Class of ’51 added another 

to The Maroon Club Hall of Fame, 

as Dr. Wilbur “Billy” Oaks was 

presented the award. Billy had a full 

table, with wife and family there. Billy 

was also honored in Philadelphia for his 

work with the homeless by establishing 

a soccer team and teaching the 

principles of life’s values. He also 

teaches 25 hours each week at 

Hahnemann University Hospital. 

Hank Bilhuber, John Cornish, 

George Davidson (a previous Famer), 

Joe Diamond, Rich Hinterleiter, and 

Dutch Rahn (in spirit) were there for 

class support! John was asked to close 

the evening by leading the Alma Mater. 

Steven A. Rifkin died Dec. 6 in his 

Amhurst, N.Y., home. He owned 

Fantastic Sams Hair Salon franchises 

after a career in retailing. Born in 

Hazelton, Pa., he served in World War 

II in France. He suffered frozen feet 

there while on patrol. He worked at 

his father’s business, until recruited by 

national retail chains, as head of 

merchandising for men and boys. After 

moving to the Buffalo area, he worked 

first for Twin Fair then as vice president 

for Hens & Kelly department store. He 

then opened a Fantastic Sams Hair 

Salon franchise and eventually sold 77 

franchises, making Sams a household 

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1951–1952 

name in Buffalo and creating 

thousands of new jobs. He was a 

genius in marketing and public 

relations. A member of Temple Beth 

Zion, he traveled to Israel in 1987. He 

is survived by his wife, Sandra Berliner, 

son Dr. Daniel L., and two daughters, 

Lynne Shine and Hillary Ilecki. 

William C. Zint Jr. died Sept. 11 

at the Palliative Care Center in 

Burlington, N.C., surrounded by loved 

ones, including Peggy, his wife of 58 

years. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 

and served 34 years with General 

Electric before retiring to become an 

engineering consultant. Bill was active 

with the Miss Virginia and Miss 

America scholarship pageants for 40 

years and was a member of the national 

judging committee. He was a member 

of the Moose Lodge and Macedonia 

Lutheran Church in Burlington. Bill 

enjoyed fishing and cruising with 

friends. He had five children, 13 

grandchildren, and was Great Pop 

to four great-grandchildren. 

1952 

Cyrus S. Fleck Jr. 

409 W. Pierce St. 

Easton, PA 18042-1757 

cyrus.fleck@rcn.com 

John D. Kinard 

209 Buttonwood Way 

Glenside, PA 19038-3305 

j.d.kinard@att.net 

President: Cyrus S. Fleck Jr. 

Fund Manager: Hugh H. Jones Jr. 

Reunion Chair: John D. Kinard 

Web Page Administrator: Cyrus S. Fleck Jr. 

The news for the class that entered the 

halls of Pardee 62 years ago was sparse 

over the holiday period, which brought 

a freezing cold wave to College Hill. 

The loyal ’Pards are still suffering from 

our anticlimactic loss to the Mountain 

Hawks. However, we enjoyed a 

winning season, 8–3, including 4–0 

against the Ivies. 

Missed in Bruiser’s column was a 

note from Bryson Hoff, who entered 

Lafayette after two years at Drew 

University and joined Delta Tau Delta. 

Bryson was assigned to Army Aviation 

helicopters during the Korean War, 

worked for Armstrong, later bought his 

own business, and still works with his 

son in their industrial products 

distribution company. He has been 

married 51 years to Pat, and they, their 

daughter, and their son spend winters 

in Vero Beach, Fla. He recalls his good 

times and outstanding education at 


Nov. 9, Dominique Lapierre 

thrilled a rousing audience with a 

review of his latest book, A Rainbow in 

the Night, on the birth of South Africa. 

He also recalled with fervor some of his 

recent books, which include Freedom at 

Midnight (on India–Pakistan) and City 

of Joy (on Paris). His lovely, spirited 

wife, Dominique, joined him for the 

occasion, a special event worthy of a 

place in the Lafayette archives. He also 

talked about his roommate, Bob 

Nishiyama, and the fact that he was 

cheerleader for the football team. In 

attendance, in addition to the Flecks, 

were Joy and John Neff and David 

Drinkhouse. 

It is with great sorrow that we 

mourn the farewell of Kahler Hench, 

son of Philip ’16, the Nobel Prize 

winner for his discovery of cortisone. 

Kahler was a brother in SAE and a 

member of the swim team. He later 


Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He and 

Barbara attended recent reunions and 

demonstrated a zest for tennis. Internships 

included University of Colorado 

Medical Center and fellowships at the 

Mayo Clinic. During his career, he 

trained 38 fellows in rheumatology and 

presented more than 100 invited 

lectures and abstracts. He was cited in 

Who’s Who and Best Doctors in America. 

Kahler’s interest was nonarticular 

rheumatism, and he is credited with 

coining the term fibromyalgia associated 

with the condition. He is survived by 

Barbara, children Philip, John, and 

Amanda, as well as four grandchildren 

and a brother, John ’65. 

Stay well and give a cheer for our 

families, troops, and all Lafayetters. 

Cy 


1953 

Leon H. Fox Jr. 

6 Firethorne Circle 

Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2405 

foxls@msn.com 

President: Alan FitzGibbon 

Fund Manager: George E. Patton Jr. 

Reunion Chair: H. David Moore Jr. 

I received the following from Stan 

Vass in August, too late for the last 

deadline. He reports that he made a 

short visit to Lafayette after returning 

from his 60th Class of 1949 Blair 

Academy (a prep school in Blairstown, 

N.J.) reunion on his way back to his 

Leesburg, Va., home. He was met 

on arrival by Sherri Jones, director 

of alumni relations, who made it 

possible, in a 2½ hour visit, to see 

the College alumni parade, make a 

20-minute tour of the campus by golf 

cart, and enjoy the alumni picnic on 

the Quad. President Dan Weiss 

extended a personal welcome to Stan, 

wife Wilma, son Jeff (Blair Academy 

’79), and grandson Bennett Vass, who 

may be a possible LC premed student 

in a few years. 

Lois and I attended the Maroon 

Club Hall of Fame dinner and reception 

Nov. 20. It was a wonderful evening. 

Our condolences go to Richard L. 

Kunkle and his family on the death of 

his wife, Helen, July 27. 

With great sadness I report the 

Oct. 31 death of Alfred Sheldon 

“Duke” Reed Jr. at Langdon Place 

of Exeter (N.H.). Duke is survived by 

his five children, eight grandchildren, 

four step-grandchildren, and his sister. 

He was an avid outdoorsman and 

volunteer and was appreciated for 

helping businesspeople, his family, 

and his community. 

Our sympathy goes to the family 

of Lee Turner Von Stein, who died 

Nov. 26. Lee is survived by his wife, 

Jan, three sons, and one grandchild. 

Following several years in the Army 

and 15 years with Florida Power & 

Light Co., he worked with his father 

and brother in property management 

and real estate development. 

Class Notes 

1953–1954 

Bill Jacob reports that his has been 

an eventful year. They had graduation 

and wedding trips that took them 

from their St. Augustine, Fla., home 

to the University of North Carolina– 

Chapel Hill for a grandson’s 

graduation, plus they attended the 

high school graduation of twin 

granddaughters in Naperville, Ill., 

and the marriage of a grandson. 

Joel Abrams reports that he is 

“moved at this time of the year to 

report a little.” He and Joan, his wife 

of 55 years, are in good health, with 

some hips and ankles replaced. They 

live in Trumansburg, N.Y. (near Cornell 

University), and enjoy watching 

Cornell basketball. He remembers 

freshman ball, with Petie (Pete Carril 

’52), a senior, playing for Butch (van 

Breda Kolff). Thanksgiving was 

celebrated with all six grandchildren 

and three out of four children. Joel is 

selling commercial real estate in Ithaca, 

N.Y., and having fun, while swimming 

and working out at the local health 

club. He speaks with Mal Davis. 

Charles Flanagan reports that he 

and his wife are well. They celebrated 

their 50th anniversary with their 

family in Costa Rica over Christmas 

and New Year’s. Their son’s and 

daughter’s families, four members 

each, stayed in a large rented house 

overlooking Arenal Lake and took 

advantage of all the activities and 

sights. Chuck and Jane continue to 

travel to Florida and New Hampshire, 

where they see Paula and Chuck 

Kuehn. When the Flanagans are 

home, they keep busy with regular 

swimming and tai chi, golf, and a 

few favorite volunteer groups. 

1954 

John A. Ferrante 

4 Del Mesa Carmel 

Carmel, CA 93923 

irenaferr@aol.com 

President: Ronald E. Philipp 

Fund Manager: Robert Aiello 

Class Notes, in addition to the print 

copy, is available online. To access, go 

Alumni Memoriam 

1934 Irving Ritch 10/23/09 

1938 Frank P. Liberman 9/20/09 

1939 Charles D. MacMakin 9/14/09 

1939 Emil H. Roeder 11/27/09 

1940 Richard D. Grifo 8/6/09 

1940 Roland P. Osterland 2/18/09 

1940 Elmer M. Regn 10/25/09 

1940 Arthur Sternberger Jr. 1/18/09 

1941 Andrew W. Bisset 9/26/09 

1941 Frank E. Craig 8/23/09 

1941 Lloyd M. Felmly 9/3/09 

1942 George W. Thoma 8/8/09 

1943 Richard E. Hartung 10/25/09 

1944 James F. Mahon 8/12/09 

1944 Robert W. Sherman 10/10/07 

1946 James S. Skinner 10/28/08 

1947 Henry A. Bodine 11/3/08 

1947 S. Grove Lugar 11/9/09 

1949 John M. Levinson 10/4/09 

1949 William E. Walton 12/15/09 

1950 Carlton L. Berger 10/21/09 

1950 Colin L. Browne 7/25/09 

1950 Carmen R. De Santis 7/4/09 

1950 Thomas D. Diamond 10/29/09 

1950 Pierre H. Grelet 9/9/09 

1950 William J. Relick 8/2/09 

1950 Ralph E. Ward Jr. 10/7/09 

1950 Richard M. Woodcock 11/6/09 

1951 Steven A. Rifkin 12/6/09 

1951 William C. Zint Jr. 9/11/09 

1952 Robert H. Dettre 7/5/09 

1952 P. Kahler Hench 10/28/09 

1952 Edward H. Wenzelberger Jr. 10/10/09 

1953 Alfred S. Reed 10/31/09 

1953 Lee T. Von Stein 11/26/09 

1954 Robert T. Renfrew Jr. 12/5/09 

1954 Parviz Soltan 11/2/09 

1954 Richard J. Weissenborn 11/22/09 

1955 Edward Hausburg 7/6/09 

1955 Robert G. Johnson 12/25/09 

1956 Thomas Burcak 11/5/09 

1956 Daniel W. Desmond 12/3/09 

1956 Ira H. Green 11/23/09 

1956 Ivan Haftkowycz 11/4/09 

1956 Peter S. Wendell 12/18/09 

1958 Russell J. Daiello 11/20/09 

1958 James P. Hart 11/14/09 

1958 Robert L. Yohe 10/13/09 

1959 Russell A. Garlin 11/19/09 

1960 Philip D. Hamlin 11/15/09 

1961 Sheppard Arluck 12/9/09 

1961 Vincent P. Bolcar 10/25/09 

1961 Richard H. Grenfell Jr. 7/30/09 

1962 Francis T. Brennan 8/8/09 

1962 Peter E. Vogel Sr. 10/24/09 

1963 Morris H. Gillet 9/15/09 

1963 Robert G. Hager 8/28/09 

1964 Edwin B. Pease Jr. 12/25/09 

1967 Thomas H. Murray III 12/9/09 

1968 George J. Avril 8/23/09 

1970 William S. Hewlett 8/8/09 

1970 Peter R. Schenck 8/17/09 

1979 Michael J. Leone 9/10/09 

1984 Elizabeth Feeman Millet 11/23/09 

1999 Bradley A. Plotner 12/9/09 


to www.lafayette.edu, click on Alumni, 

and find the recent edition in the 

right sidebar. 

Received an email note from 

Sandy Cooper: “My wife of 24 years 

died suddenly in 1996. I sold my 

small business, remarried a couple of 

years later, and Rena and I moved to 

Florida, where we are living happily 

ever after. 

“We live in a nice golf community, 

where we play as often as we can— 

considering that she beats me every 

time. Rena was our women’s club 

champion last year. In response, I 

have taken up tennis for the first time 

in my life, which has only served to 

demonstrate how unresponsive my 

old body is. I gave up my next favorite 

love—ownership of my wonderful 

airplane and flying, which I had done 

for 45 years—a year ago. Miss it 

terribly. I see Marv Kaulkin, Dick 

Brown, and Bart Levenson when 

we get together for Lehigh game 

telecasts. 

“Dick Brown swam for the 

Leopards and still swims, according 

to reports, a thousand miles a year. 

What a man! Also, had a nice, lengthy 

phone conversation with Gene 

Harrison a few weeks ago when we 

learned our fraternity brother Bobby 

Renfrew died. I regularly have 

thoughtful communication from 

Ray Howe, who wrote recently 

to let me know of our loss of Rick 

Weissenborn. Ray dropped by to visit 

for a day a couple of years ago. Hope 

he does again. We are narrowing 

down.” 

Robert Renfrew was born 

Nov. 22, 1928. He died Dec. 5 in 

Chambersburg, Pa. He was 81. Bob 

served in the Marine Corps before 

entering Lafayette. He graduated with 

a bachelor’s in mining engineering. 

He was president of the Maroon Key, 

secretary of Calumet, worked on The 

Lafayette and The Melange, and was a 

member of the John Markle Society. 

In sports, he played freshman football 

and baseball and was on the 

sophomore wrestling team. Survivors 

include his wife of 53 years, Anne, 

daughter Kimberlee A. ’80 of 

Class Notes 

1954–1955 

Pasadena, Calif., and sons Robert T. 

III of San Antonio and E. Andrews 

’83 of Boalsburg, Pa. He also leaves 

seven grandchildren: Casie, Robert 

Thompson IV, Whitney, Tracey, 

Ashley, Benjamin, and Cameron. As a 

member of St. Andrews Presbyterian 

Church in Lebanon, Pa., he served 

as a teacher, elder, and synod 

representative. Honored by Who’s 

Who in America for his professional 

success, he worked as a head mining 

engineer for Bethlehem Steel Corp. in 

Cornwall and Bethlehem, Pa., for 30 

years. An active community volunteer, 

Bob gave many hours to the Lebanon 

County Workshop for the Mentally 

Handicapped, the United Way, and 

the Lebanon YMCA, and as a coach 

of Little League baseball. He was a 

member of the Society of Professional 

Engineers and the American Legion. 

Parviz Soltan, known as Sully to 

co-workers and friends, died Nov. 2 at 

age 80. An inventor, Parviz built one 

of the first three-dimensional video 

display systems in his laboratory at the 

Naval Command, Control and Ocean 

Surveillance Center in San Diego. His 

engineering and applied physics career 

spanned more than four decades and 

produced 22 inventions. Parviz 

graduated with a bachelor’s in 

electrical engineering. He was 

member of the Cosmopolitan Club 

and social chairman of the Institute 

of Radio Engineers. 

To make the 3-D display that 

capped his illustrious career, Parviz 

and his team crafted a large, plastic 

double helix that spun 10 times a 

second. When a scanning laser 

projected 40,000 points of colored 

light onto the structure’s reflective 

surface, a 3-D image viewable from 

any angle resulted. One example of 

the device’s capabilities included 

generating the ground and airspace 

around San Diego International 

Airport, complete with animated 

airplanes that landed and took off. 

Parviz believed air traffic controllers, 

submarine navigators, and surgeons 

would embrace the technology. 

Business Week, Popular Mechanics, 

Discover magazine, and the BBC 

featured stories on the device. 

Richard J. “Rick” Weissenborn, 

77, of New Milford, N.J., died 

peacefully Nov. 22 after a lengthy 

illness. Rick graduated with a 

bachelor’s in economics and was a 

member of Kappa Phi Kappa. He 

worked on The Lafayette for two 

years, was listed in Who’s Who in 

American Colleges and Universities, 

and played basketball all four years. 

He was a member of the track team in 

his junior year. He was married 51 

years to Evalyn (née Gattoni) and was 

dad and father-in-law to Richard ’82 

and Theresa Weissenborn, Robert 

and Linda Weissenborn, and Lynn 

and Cory DeRobertis. Rick had five 

grandchildren. After graduating, he 

served two years in the Army as a first 

lieutenant, stationed in Germany. He 

attended teachers college at Columbia 

University and received a master’s 

and Ed.D. degree in educational 

administration. Rick began his 

teaching career at Lincoln School in 

Wyckoff, N.J. He and Eve were 

married in 1958 and Rick was hired 

to teach history and coach basketball 

at Fort Lee (N.J.) High School, 

where he was assistant principal from 

1963 until his retirement in 1996. 

After retirement, Rick’s greatest 

pleasures were traveling and spending 

time with family and friends at Lake 

Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. 

Well, Class of 1954, please send 

me information on what or how YOU 

are doing so we can share it with our 

classmates. 

1955 

John W. Gilbert Jr. 

12 W. Edinburgh Road 

Ocean City, NJ 08226-4618 

(609) 399-3109 

pards55@comcast.net 

President: Ralph O. Doederlein Sr. 

Fund Managers: Thomas F. McGrail, 

Mark B. Weisburger 

Reunion Chair: Ralph O. Doederlein Sr. 

Bob Worth of Mahwah, N.J., phoned 

me in December as part of his giving 


season’s greetings to class members. 

He mentioned that he had spoken 

with Bill Turner, who had just 

returned from the Poconos. Bob 

also spoke with Frank Kocik. 

Paul Inscho of Madisonville, 

Tenn., is a retired educator, having 

taught high school and at Hiwassee 

College, where served as an associate 

professor of physics. Paul also has 

served as a high school and college 

football official of 41 years standing. 

He is a supervisor of officials for the 

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic 

Association. 

Ed Hausberg died in Ocala, Fla., 

July 6. A retired teacher, Ed left five 

children. No formal obituary was 

available. 

Remember, come to Easton for 

our 55th reunion, June 4–6. 

1956 

Donald L. Mitchell 

365 Carr Hill Road 

Gettysburg, PA 17325 

(717) 642-9094 

dmitchell365@comcast.net 

President: Richard W. Graham 

Fund Manager: Cornelius Alexander IV 

Reunion Chair: H. Kermit Green Jr. 

In keeping with my custom, I begin 

with the sad news of several classmates 

who died in the later months of 2009. 

Dick West ’53 was the first to inform 

me that Ivan Haftkowycz died Nov. 

4 at the University of Pennsylvania 

Hospital. Ivan was born in Buchach, 

Ukraine, in 1933 and immigrated 

with his family to the Trenton, N.J., 

area in 1949. Before attending 

Lafayette, he received an associate 

degree from Trenton Junior College. 

Upon graduating as a civil engineer, 

he accepted a position as a tool 

designer with Boeing, where he 

remained for two years until enlisting 

in the Army. After two years service as 

a special services training engineer, 

Ivan accepted employment with the 

state of New Jersey in its division of 

taxation, where he remained until 

retirement in 1996. For 18 of those 

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1955–1956 

years, he was chief of the engineering 

section responsible for review and 

approval of municipal tax maps and 

for appraisal of railroad properties 

within the state. He was also a licensed 

surveyor. When he retired, the New 

Jersey State Board of Engineering 

awarded Ivan a citation recognizing 

his expertise in the field of mapping. 

He was a trustee of St. Josaphat’s 

Ukrainian Catholic Church in 

Trenton and a member of the church 

committee. A lifelong interest in 

scouting found him in leadership 

roles in Plast, the Ukrainian scouting 

organization, and Stancyia, its 

Trenton branch, as well as the 

Ukranian scouting fraternity, 

Chornomortsi. As a tireless advocate 

for preservation of Ukrainian history 

in the U.S., he served on committees 

to commemorate the millennium of 

Christianity in Ukraine, and the 1933 

famine in Ukraine (Holodomor). 

Ivan is survived by his wife of 46 

years, Nadija, daughter Vera, son 

Mark, and two grandchildren. Our 

sympathies go out to his family. 

Thomas Burcak died Nov. 5 at his 

home in Endicott, N.Y., following an 

extended struggle with stomach 

cancer. Tom was 74 and had recently 

celebrated 53 years of marriage with 

his wife, Clara Ann. Four children— 

Janice, Susan, Thomas, and Michael— 

as well as 11 grandchildren also 

survive. He grew up in McAdoo, Pa., 

and graduated from its high school 

before attending Lafayette. With a 

major in electrical engineering, Tom 

joined IBM upon graduation. His first 

assignment was at its military products 

lab in Vestal, N.Y., and later he was 

transferred to its Owego facility. 

During the latter stint he earned a 

master’s in electrical engineering from 

Syracuse University. For the next 25 

years, the positions Tom held with 

IBM were primarily in product 

assurance disciplines, and for two 

of those years he was Owego plant 

manager. In 1982, he was appointed 

technical adviser to the corporate 

quality staff. Tom served as a member 

of the board of examiners for the 

Malcolm Baldridge U.S. Quality 

Award and New York state’s Excelsior 

Quality Award. He also helped define 

a comparable program within the 

IBM Corporation. His extensive 

travels in connection with his work 

sparked his interest in world cultures, 

with special interest in his ethnic roots 

in what today is Slovakia, where he 

enjoyed frequent visits following 

retirement in 1992. 

Those of us who knew Ira Green 

were grieved to learn of his death. His 

and my friendship started through our 

membership on Interfraternity 

Council and Freshman Class Council 

and evolved from there. Though his 

Nov. 23 death at home was 

unexpected, he had been the recipient 

in 2008 of a lung transplant after a 

protracted siege of pulmonary fibrosis. 

He was 75. Ira grew up in St. Louis 

and Easton, graduating from Easton 

Area High School in 1952. He 

majored in government and was 

elected president of Zeta Psi fraternity. 

Graduating with a commission in the 

Army, he was stationed at Fort 

Benning before deployment to Korea 

for 16 months with the 24th Infantry. 

He later served with the 1st Cavalry 

Division. Following his discharge in 

1958, he worked for First National 

Bank in St. Louis until 1971. He left 

First National as a vice president and 

moved to Houston to form the bond 

department at First City National 

Bank. That department evolved into 

the investment division of First City 

Bancorporation of Texas, where he 

held the title of executive vice 

president. In 1984, he joined Westcap 

Corporation in Houston as its 

chairman and CEO. He retired from 

Westcap in 1994. Besides holding 

titled offices in several professional 

banking/finance organizations, Ira 

was an untiring volunteer (alongside 

his wife of nearly 50 years, Margaret) 

in PTAs, and as a member of 

Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 

where he was president of memorial 

assistance ministries. An Eagle Scout, 

he served in leadership roles in Cub 

Scouts, athletic boosters clubs, and 

other organizations during his 

children’s formative years. 


In addition to Margaret, he is 

survived by a daughter, Kathryn, and 

three sons, Ira Jr., Christopher, and 

Michael, their spouses, and several 

grandchildren. 

The sadness of Zeta Psi brothers 

over Ira’s passing was compounded 

with news of Dan Desmond’s death 

Dec. 3. At the time, he was a resident 

at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Life 

Care Center in Wilmington. Dan was 

74. He, too, was a president of Zeta 

Psi. His degree was in history. Born in 

1935 in Danbury, Conn., Dan 

graduated from the Loomis School in 

Windsor, Conn. He spent 41 years as 

a stockbroker before relocating to 

Wilmington, N.C., where he worked 

for Scott & Stringfellow Inc. until 

retirement. Dan had worked 

previously in Houston, San Francisco, 

New York City, and Charlotte, N.C. 

He was registered with the New York 

Stock Exchange and the National 

Association of Securities Dealers 

(NASD). During his Charlotte years, 

he served as a volunteer for the 

Charlotte–Mecklenburg Historic 

Properties Commission. After retiring, 

he was a volunteer in Investors 

Roundtable, Adult Scholars 

Leadership Association, the Center for 

Lifelong Learning at the University of 

North Carolina–Wilmington, The 

Plato Group, and the CEN Mentoring 

Program sponsored by Cameron 

School of Business at UNCW. He 

was also an arbitrator for the NASD. 

Dan and wife Lydia had been 

married for 37 years; she and two 

daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, and 

three grandchildren survive. Our 

sympathies to Dan Desmond’s and Ira 

Green’s families and to their Zeta Psi 

brothers. 

Peter Wendell, a friend and clergy, 

colleague, died Dec. 18 in Virginia 

Beach, Va., after 18 months fighting 

cancer. Those of us who sang in the 

choir with Peter will remember his dry 

sense of humor and his low-key 

presence in spite of his great height. 

His talents spoke louder than his quiet 

demeanor, evidenced by his 

commanding first place oration in the 

1956 Barge Oratorical competition. 

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1956 

I remember notable points he made 

at the time, and one in particular 

referring to Norman Vincent Peale’s 

signature mantra, “the power of 

positive thinking.” Peter argued for 

the necessity of negative thinking in 

the exercise of reason and critical 

research. Following college, Peter 

taught English for a year at Abadan 

Institute of Technology near the 

Iraq/Iran border, before returning 

home to prepare for the parish 

ministry at Princeton Theological 

Seminary. Peter served several 

churches in Pennsylvania and New 

Jersey prior to relocating in Florida, 

where he retired after an extended 

pastorate. He was born in Chicago in 

1935 and retired in 2001. At the time 

of his death, Peter had been ordained 

for 49 years. His wife, Lee, 

predeceased him, dying in a tragic air 

accident years earlier. He is survived 

by a son, David of Missouri, and two 

daughters: Cynthia of Virginia Beach 

and Dianne of Florida. Fifteen 

grandchildren and six great children 

also survive. A memorial service was 

held in King’s Grant Presbyterian 

Church, Virginia Beach, Dec. 21. 

Our condolences to the family and his 

wide circle of friends. 

Charles Raymond Kozischek died 

Jan. 5 at his home in Easton. He was 

born Feb. 9, 1934, in Pittston, Pa. 

After graduating from Pittston High 

School, he entered Lafayette and 

majored in history. He also played 

football all four years. Following 

graduation, Charley served in the 

Army and then took a position with 

Easton Area High School as a Spanish 

teacher, where he remained for 35 

years. Early in his tenure he was an 

assistant football coach, but his talents 

went beyond the classroom and 

football field. A devout Catholic, he 

served as president of the Newman 

Association while at Lafayette and for 

35 years as choir director and organist 

in the former St. Joseph’s Catholic 

Church and later in Our Lady of 

Mercy Catholic Church, both in 

Easton. He also served the Easton 

community as a life member of 

Liberty Hose Company. 

Charley’s wife, Geraldine, and their 

daughter Karen, preceded him in 

death. He is survived by a daughter, 

Suzanne Mullick, of Ridgewood, 

N.Y., and a son, Kenneth, of Bronx, 

N.Y., as well as three grandchildren. 

Our sympathies to Charley’s many 

friends in our class and his family. 

Only days after learning of Tom 

Burcak’s death, I caught up with Stan 

Student, now retired in Scottsdale, 

Ariz. Insofar as Stan and Tom grew 

up together in McAdoo and roomed 

together for three years at Lafayette, 

I wanted to express my sympathies 

and re-establish an old relationship. 

Though we seldom intersected at 

Lafayette, being in different majors, 

Stan and I shared a common 

background. Having been reared in 

the anthracite coal region of eastern 

Pennsylvania and playing baseball and 

basketball for our high schools, we 

competed against each other. In a 

memorable baseball game, I pitched 

for Hazleton High and Stan caught for 

McAdoo High. The embarrassing side 

of the story is that I was the losing 

pitcher, and, as I recall, Stan 

contributed to the loss with a solid 

clout off one of my left-handed sliders. 

But our relationship is not my primary 

reason for mentioning Stan here. 

Along with growing up and rooming 

together, Tom and Stan shared majors 

in electrical engineering, surely one of 

the toughest. (One of those majors 

that required study!) Yet both 

graduated magna cum laude and were 

elected to Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta 

Kappa. Aside from Stanley Student’s 

storied name, his and Tom’s roots in a 

small Pennsylvania coal town, their 

friendship as roommates, plus the 

duplication of high academic 

achievement are, I believe, worthy 

of a place in Lafayette College lore. 

Stan tells me he retired in 1986 

from AT&T Technologies. After 

Lafayette, he went with Bell Labs in 

New Jersey. In their eagerness to 

nurture and harness his mental skills, 

Bell sponsored his pursuit of a master’s 

in electrical engineering at New York 

University, allowing for an irresistible 

weekly schedule of three days of class 


and study and two of work. At the 

time, he was engaged in design, 

development, and research. Eventually 

he was moved to a Western Electric 

facility in Colorado, followed by a 

return to New Jersey, where he was 

head of the service division, that is, 

PBX services. Stan and his wife have 

four children and nine grandchildren, 

who, like most of our kids, are 

scattered east and west. Now too old— 

like the rest of us—to chase large or 

small white balls around, his primary 

sport is mastery of his computers, or as 

he put it, “Making them do what I 

want them to do.” Enjoy!! Glad we’ve 

reconnected, Stan! 

Kit Green wrote to inform me that 

Howie Fredericks suffered a mild 

stroke last summer. Since his 

recuperation, Howie has managed to 

make Lafayette football games, 

including the Lehigh game. But he has 

had to forego his favorite pastime, golf, 

at least for the foreseeable future. Kit 

also reported that Sandy Smith had 

serious surgery in November. Kit and 

wife Robin expect to spend some time 

with Sandy and Janet on Longboat 

Key, Fla., in February or March. 

Shriner’s Hospital in Philly continues 

to be Kit’s favorite volunteer venue, 

testified to by his more than 110 trips 

there. 

Kit also mentioned that Saul 

Cooperman and his new bride, Janet, 

are snuggling up in Florida for six 

winter months. Saul himself took time 

to send me a swell letter encapsulating 

his itinerary over the past 53 years. 

Many of us are aware of his career in 

teaching and his upward mobility 

through the ranks of educational 

administration after receiving his 

Ed.D. That rich background 

eventuated in his elevation to the 

office of commissioner of education 

in New Jersey during Tom Kean’s 

governorship, a post Saul held for 

eight years. Less well known, though, 

is a subsequent call to head a 

committee of educators with a 

mandate to launch the New American 

Schools reform effort in the 1990s. 

Lamar Alexander handpicked Saul 

for the job, which earned him an 

Class Notes 

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invitation to a Rose Garden ceremony 

(that he was “never promised”) with 

four other educators, recognizing their 

“contributions to education in the 

country.” (That’s the WHOLE 

COUNTRY, man, not country as 

in rural !) Saul’s reputation as an 

educator is well established for 

generations with authorship of 67 

journal articles and his book, How 

Schools Really Work: Practical Advice 

to Parents from an Insider. He also 

penned op-ed columns for six years 

in New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger 

newspaper. 

In March 2004, Saul’s beloved 

wife, Paulette, died from pancreatic 

cancer. After the ensuing years of grief, 

Saul met Janet Youmans, who was 

also widowed. When Saul eventually 

proposed, she apparently thought they 

should take a chance on “happiness 

ever after.” As of this writing, Saul says 

the chance has paid off. 

Pete Reeves and wife Elizabeth, 

with several Lafayette and Lehigh folks, 

attended a television party of the 

Lafayette–Lehigh game in Ocala, Fla. 

Apart from the disappointment of the 

Leopards’ loss in overtime, a good time 

was had by all. It just goes to show 

how benign we get as we grow older, 

when Lafayette and Lehigh fans can get 

through a football game without a 

donnybrook. I’m sure my buddy Pete 

played a role in keeping the peace. And 

why not, there’s always 2010 when 

we’re sure to trounce Lehigh. 

Class President Dick Graham 

informs me that he and Mary have sold 

their Wyoming ranch, because of the 

increasing threat of grizzlies and 

mountain lions traversing their land. 

It begs the question: Are Leopards 

no longer a threat to bears and lions? 

Dick also said that they have sold their 

Gladwyne, Pa., house, downsizing to a 

condominium. They still enjoy visits to 

their Maryland farm. Dick continues to 

serve on the board of his alma mater, 

The Haverford (Pa.) School, where he 

works out five days a week, building up 

muscle and nerve in case he runs across 

bears or lions, or vice versa. Of his and 

Mary’s four children, three are in the 

Philadelphia area, with one in Chicago. 

Dick also reported on the current 

recipients of financial aid from the 

Class of 1956 Scholarship Fund. Bryan 

Hendrickson ’10, from Belvidere, 

N. J., is a three-time recipient. He is 

a dean’s list scholar majoring in civil 

engineering. His average last semester 

was 3.86/4.0. Also co-captain of the 

rugby team, he is certified as a USA 

Rugby coach. Bryan is the grandson of 

Arthur Hendrickson ’51. Elizabeth 

Blake ’12, from Downingtown, Pa., a 

granddaughter of Gordon Wright, is 

receiving aid for the second time. She 

maintains a “B+” average as a French 

major. Her extracurricular activities 

include student government, the 

Sojourners Christian Fellowship, and 

the Lafayette Chamber Singers, who 

sang last March at Carnegie Hall, 

joining other college choruses in a 

performance of Ralph Vaughan 

Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. They 

were accompanied by the New 

England Symphony under direction of 

Christopher Cook. The current book 

value of the Class of ’56 Scholarship 

Fund is $147,024. As of Sept. 30, its 

market value was $153,453. 

Talking about Dick reminds me of 

extended conversations with two other 

brothers of Delta Upsilon. Shark 

Alexander is still doing financial 

counseling and selling insurance in 

the Greater Philadelphia area and 

continues his service on the Lower 

Merion Hall of Fame committee. 

Fifty-five years ago, when Neil played 

basketball for Lower Merion High and 

I played for Hazleton High, the 

schools played one another during the 

Christmas break. I was a bit surprised 

when Neil revealed that the only thing 

he remembered about the game at 

Hazleton was the avalanche of snow 

that impeded their return trip to 

Lower Merion. He recalled absolutely 

nothing about the phenomenal setshot 

I made from half-court. How 

glory fades! Nevertheless, Shark 

deserves our gratitude for his work 

as our class fund manager. 

The other DU who called was 

Greer Arthur. Our extended 

conversation was inspiring and 

interesting. On the personal level, 


Greer and Veronica have two 

daughters and two sons, and two 

grandchildren by each of them. All live 

nearby in San Francisco. Greer and 

Veronica did their courting over 41 

years ago in Paris while he was on 

assignment from Scoville 

Manufacturing. That was after law 

school at Columbia University, a brief 

stint with a small law firm, and 

eventual employment with the wellknown 

management/consulting firm 

McKinsey & Company. With an 

ambition to work overseas, Greer was 

enticed to leave McKinsey to work for 

Scoville, who provided the experience 

abroad. That enabled him to arrange 

the romantic prelude to marriage in 

Paris. After returning to the States, he 

and Veronica sealed the marriage with 

a kiss somewhere on Long Island. 

Later, Greer embarked on a business 

venture with former friends from his 

McKinsey days, concentrating on 

maritime container leasing. That 

demanded moving the family to 

California. What started as a 600 

container leasing company grew into 

an enterprise owning 30,000 

containers by 1974. The same year 

Greer went independent with his own 

container leasing company, Trans 

Ocean Ltd. By the late 1990s when he 

sold Trans Ocean to TransAmerica, 

500,000 containers figured in the 

transaction. Greer’s achievements have 

been highlighted in a recent brochure 

distributed by Columbia Law School 

as a primer for aspiring law students, 

highlighting how a law degree can 

enhance one’s desire for a career in 

business rather than law per se. 

Since retiring, Greer and Veronica 

(who is multilingual) frequently travel 

to Russia as part of their membership 

in the Young Presidents’ Organization 

and it graduate group, Chief 

Executives’ Organization. Since 1970, 

they have hosted five events in Russia 

for as many as 150 club members. 

They are also planning a family 

project: to accompany each of their 

grandchildren on overseas trips to 

destinations of the children’s 

choosing, after each is 10 years old. 

Bon voyage, “Jerry” and Veronica! 

Class Notes 

1956 

Dick Batts and Joyce met Gayle 

Parker and Carol at a telecast of the 

Lafayette–Lehigh game in Charlotte, 

N.C. The Parkers live in Sun City, 

S.C., not far from Charlotte, and are 

both well. Dick has tried to steer his 

grandson toward Lafayette, but it 

appears that Pennsylvania winter 

winds have blown the lad back in the 

direction of North Carolina State or 

Clemson universities. Good try, Dick! 

Apparently Armin Kuder is 

healthy, for he still keeps respectable 

working hours in his Washington, 

D.C., law firm, Kuder, Smollar & 

Friedman, and has taken up golf at 

the age of 72. He assures me that he 

manages to resist the temptations that 

go with the game. That is to say, he is, 

and I quote, “...not as proficient as 

Tiger Woods.” Glad to hear that, 

Rick! Remember that old Scottish 

maxim: “‘Scoring’ is not everything 

in life.” 

I’m happy to say that John 

Salvador is still alert and holding 

forth at Lake George in New York, 

where he and Kathleen retired 28 

years ago to set up business in a resort 

and boat club. Since selling the lodge 

in 2001, they’ve retained ownership 

of the marina, which is managed by 

their son, John. In the meantime, 

Kathleen was diagnosed with 

Parkinson’s and subsequently suffered 

a hip fracture, followed by another 

after undergoing a total hip 

replacement. Her need for ongoing 

care and therapy keeps John busy as 

her primary support team and has 

abbreviated his involvement in 

community affairs and his passionate 

interest in political and economic 

issues. We wish for a healthier 2010 

for Kathleen, John! 

Dick Faust’s wife, Deloris, also 

underwent a hip replacement recently 

and is doing well. By all appearances, 

Dick continues to thrive after a series 

of treatments for cancer. He certainly 

keeps my email post office humming 

with attachments of interest and 

jokes. 

In a previous Class Notes, I 

mentioned that Warren Mann was 

still playing lacrosse. In case anyone 

doubted the truth of my report, I 

have incontrovertible proof: actual 

pictures (see online). I thought I was 

in good shape because of my ability to 

push the vacuum cleaner and swat 

flies. But take a look at Warren’s form 

and agility—and get a load of those 

calves. Watch and weep! 

An appreciated contact from 

Harold Hartman came my way early 

in December. After leaving Lafayette 

with his degree in chemical 

engineering, Harold received a 

master’s in the same discipline from 

Northwestern University. Although 

“nearly retired,” he continues parttime 

work for Professional Analysis 

Inc. in Oak Ridge, Tenn., assisting 

clients to review documents prepared 

by contractors. He mentions that his 

son, Brian, produces a sports talk show 

there. Harold grew up in Port Royal, 

Pa., and still makes trips north to visit 

family and relatives there and in New 

Jersey. He is active in Kiwanis and the 

First United Methodist Church in Oak 

Ridge and serves as a Lafayette Alumni 

Association Representative in the 

Knoxville region, which takes him to 

college fairs to interview prospective 

students. Thanks, Harold. Keep the 

updates coming! 

Again in 2009, Phi Delts from 

the classes of ’56, ’57, and ’58 

reconstituted themselves for 

Homecoming. We’ve done this for 

three years now. A tailgate, followed 

by the game against Fordham and 

dinner afterwards, made for a funfilled 

day. Although our Penn Alpha 

Chapter of Phi Delta Theta no longer 

enjoys legitimacy on campus, we 

come back to remind our alma mater 

that we once tramped her paths and 

brought fresh air into her classrooms. 

Attending from ’56: Norm Riley 

and Linda, Art Herrmann and Ann, 

Charley Myers and Donna, Bud Jost 

and Sally, Jake Hannemann and 

Jude, Jim Phelps and Jane, and 

Marion and I. From ’57: Skip Ellison 

and Mary, Gordon Brown, and 

guests Hugh Gallagher and 

Francesca. From ’58: Joe Bozik and 

Peg Marcin, Dave Branch and Betty, 

Jim Hourihan and Sharon, Bob 


Graham and Betty (all the way from 

Sacramento), and Bill Kurtz and 

Lucille. We were also joined by Al 

Costantino, our chef in those years, 

and his wife, Mary. 

Last summer, Marion and I did 

indeed visit Charlie Sitkin in Seattle, 

Wash., and had a terrific time. Charlie 

and I roomed together as 

sophomores, so it was good to 

reconnect on his home turf. He and 

dear friend Edie devoted two full days 

to showing us the unusual beauty of 

Seattle and some of the unique 

culture indigenous to the great 

Northwest. I’ll be anxious to hear 

about his trip to Israel in the fall, 

which prevented his attending our 

Phi Delt reunion. Charlie has kept in 

touch with Angelos Paleologos, 

whom Misty Sayenga reported on in 

a recent Class Notes. We hope to 

hook Charlie for Phi Delt IV next fall. 

And for the second year, Marion 

and I spent a weekend with Norm 

and Linda Riley in South Bend, Ind. 

We watched with dismay as the Irish 

dropped another game, this time to a 

talented Navy team. It was apparent 

by then that Charlie Weis would not 

be on the Notre Dame sidelines for 

another year. But after recovering 

from the loss, we managed to laugh 

before getting more serious for a 

marvelous choral concert in the 

basilica on the ND campus and a 

meaningful worship service on Sunday 

at Linda and Norm’s home church. 

We were even treated to a lecture on 

John Calvin by none other than a 

professor from Notre Dame’s faculty 

(as 2009 was the 500th anniversary 

of Calvin’s birth). It warmed my 

Presbyterian heart to hear Calvin 

praised among the Irish. Times 

have changed! 

Thanks to those of you who 

released info or took time to talk with 

me in preparation for this column. I 

hope others will follow suit. Until the 

next one, stay healthy, Go ’Pards, and 

“let there be peace on earth!” 

Class Notes 

1956–1957 

1957 

Glenn E. Grube 

77 Eagle Harbor Trail 

Palm Coast, FL 32164-6149 

(386) 437-9715 

glenngrube@bellsouth.net 

President: Walter Oechsle 

Fund Manager: Robert E. Moss 

Reunion Chair: Glenn E. Grube 


David E. Cary, www.class1957.net, 

decary35@aol.com 

David Cary is doing a magnificent 

job with the web page at www. 

class1957.net. In addition to 

assistance from the College staff, he 

has received excellent ideas and 

correspondence from Jim Sandford, 

Bob Moss, and especially George 

Tiger, who recently suggested a link 

to Lafayette’s Digital Collection 

(cdm.lafayette.edu). A link to this 

unique source of Lafayette history is 

also posted on our web site under 

HISTORY. George described his find: 

“It was great browsing the buildings 

that were there during our four years, 

special pictures of students we know, 

The Lafayette newspaper, etc.— 

interesting stuff. Great reading on a 

rainy day.” David went even further 

by posting some facts about the Class 

of 1870 from the first newspaper. 

George was researching who 

carried our banner in the 2006 

reunion parade. I suggested that it 

might be Ken Milhous, judging from 

the photograph taken from behind 

the banner carrier. Does anyone know 

for sure who it was? 

Stu Murray sent me the longest 

letter I have ever received, sharing 

information about Phil Wolfe, 

Gordie Brown, Walter Oechsle, and 

Gary Evans, all of whom were at 

Homecoming last fall. He also wrote 

about a dinner he attended where 

Wilbur Oaks ’51 was honored and 

mentioned a large group of athletes 

from other classes. Dick Fitzgerald, 

our perennial baseball player, went to 

lunch with Stu and shared some 

history about his short Lafayette 

career before moving on to the 

professional ranks. Believe it or not, 

Stu’s new grandson “looks more like 

a football player than a basketball 

player.” 

I had a great experience walking 

Vic Garber through the steps to give 

his grandson the best possible shot at 

being enrolled at Lafayette. Vic went 

with him for a campus interview and 

was admittedly amazed at the quality 

of the campus and student body. 

I recently spoke at length to Jim 

Sandford and we are planning a 

New England vacation in 2010. 

Carl Albero, after selling his 

company a few years ago, got bored 

with retirement and bought another 

one. He shared with me that Bill 

Rude is having a tough time healthwise. 

He also wishes that Dick Poole 

would contact him to catch up on 

old times. 

The updates from President Dan 

Weiss (September and December) 

were so positive that every one of us 

should wish that we could return to 

campus for a week or two to 

experience the greatness of Lafayette 

College in this century—provided 

that we could meet the admissions 

requirements. Imagine the elation of 

being in school with published poets, 

nationally ranked chess players, 

inventors, and a competitive fencer 

who has mastered the medieval long 

sword. Four football wins over Ivy 

opponents; first place in a Federal 

Reserve Board competition, beating 

teams from Rutgers, Northwestern, 

and Harvard; study abroad 

opportunities in Germany, Spain, 

England, and Ghana—how would we 

choose from all the delicacies on the 

table! 

Thank heavens I received a note 

from Bryan Satterlee ’56 in which 

he stated, “I remember that night, 

like it was yesterday!” I had begun 

to question my veracity and mental 

health as the story about Jimmy’s hot 

dogs that I shared in my Fall 2009 

column seemed almost too 

preposterous to be true. Bryan 

confirmed that he bought one 

hundred hot dogs for $20 while 


under the influence and tried to 

share them with a police officer in 

Phillipsburg. 

I am beginning to wear down after 

writing this column for the past 37 

years and, although unwilling to give 

up this plum task, I would appreciate 

one or two volunteers who would 

write one column every year or so as a 

guest columnist for the Class of 1957. 

The pay and recognition will likely be 

8–10 times greater than what I get, 

so the benefits are truly spectacular. 

Of special importance will be the 

opportunity for the guest columnist 

to share information about classmates 

that I do not regularly hear from or 

see. Call or email me to volunteer and 

get additional information about the 

gathering of information and the 

writing of the column. 

Keep those cards and emails 

coming so I do not have to make up 

new stories or disinter past stories 

about you to include in future 

columns. I have some great ones in 

reserve about Pete Scadron, Ray 

Carey, Enso Mattioli, Walter Ball, 

and David Jones, as well as other 

classmates to be named later. 

1958 

Edward Brunswick 

4931 Bonita Bay Blvd., Apt. 801 

Bonita Springs, FL 34134 

(239) 949-0801 

(239) 949-0802 (fax) 

ebrunsw901@aol.com 

Jim Hourihan 

8513 Sparger St. 

McLean, VA 22102-1715 

(703) 821-8225 

jahourihan@hhlaw.com 

President: Elbern H. Alkire Jr. 

Fund Manager: S. Robert Beane Jr. 

Reunion Chairs: C. Douglas Cherry, 

Spencer A. Manthorpe 


Elbern H. Alkire Jr., 

alkire1121@gmail.com 

As most of you know, Bob Yohe 

passed away Oct. 13. His life has been 

written up all over the country in 

Class Notes 

1957–1958 

many publications as well as our class 

homepage. I attended the memorial 

service at Lafayette along with 

Bob Harris, Ray Pearson, Spencer 

Manthorpe, Doug Cherry, 

Ed Alkire, Dave Branch, and 

Ed Feather ’59, and many more 

alumni from various classes. We were 

regaled by stories of Bob as a Navy 

officer. He was known as Grins to all 

of his shipmates. Another nickname 

that he received was UB, standing 

for “Uncle Bob,” by his nieces and 

nephews. Both former and current 

College presidents Arthur Rothkopf 

and Dan Weiss spoke at the memorial. 

After a beautiful reception at the 

Pfenning Alumni Hall given by the 

Yohe family, Ed Alkire, Dave Branch, 

and I went to Pearly Baker’s for dinner. 

For those who have not been in Easton 

for a while, this restaurant is on Center 

Square in the corner near where the 

Circlon used to be. 

Russell Daiello passed away 

Nov. 20. Russ was an engineer and 

manager for STV Inc. He was well 

traveled, having visited China, Turkey, 

Istanbul, the Antarctic, and his 

favorite, Germany. He was also active 

in the Army Reserves and reached the 

rank of lieutenant colonel. 

James Hart passed away 

Nov. 14 after a courageous battle 

with Alzheimer’s. He was a veteran 

of the Korean War, serving in the Air 

Force for four years in Biloxi, Miss. 

He was a manager of industrial 

engineering for IBM in Endicott, N.Y. 

FYI, from the class home page: 

We have 93 deceased classmates 

and 259 living. Take care of 

yourselves. We’re aiming for the 

55th reunion! 

Bill Harding informed me that his 

father celebrated his 100th birthday. 

They had a celebration for him in 

Belleair Beach with the family and 

friends attending. His tag line was 

“Come celebrate with us. Gifts? 

Anything to do with 100.” My first 

choice would be something 100 proof. 

Congratulations, Mr. Art Harding. 

Lem Howell keeps getting awards 

from the Washington State Bar 

Association. He recently received the 

President’s Award “in recognition of a 

career devoted to the tenacious 

pursuit of civil justice for the injured 

and the passionate protection of civil 

rights for all.” Lem, we need you 

in Washington, D.C., to straighten 

things out. I surrender. I’m a 

Democrat, but I now see how you 

could help out with the present 

administration. 

Chuck Stevens told me that he 

has spent time with Bob Pulcipher, 

catching up with each other at Bob’s 

home in Denver. Dave Hutchison 

also visited. Bob is the preeminent 

historian of Colorado. Chuck 

continues to work selectively in the 

instrumentation of industrial and 

municipal facilities. They are in 

Sanibel, Fla., for the winter. 

Bob Beane, class fund manager, 

reported in a fall letter to the class on 

the favorable results we achieved in 

supporting the College last year. In 

spite of shrinking retirement accounts 

and a challenging economic 

environment, our Annual Fund and 

overall giving was consistent with past 

nonreunion years. Way to go, guys! 

Keep it going. 

Reports from numerous sources 

say that the Homecoming Weekend 

was a success. At the Friday Marquis 

Society Dinner were Bob and Betty 

Graham, Doug and Connie Cherry, 

Bob Beane, Ed Alkire, and Kay 

(Thomas) Morgan. The Saturday 

tailgate included Dick and Carol 

Cole, Paul Greenhalgh, George 

Watson, Bob and Betty Graham, 

Dave and Betty Branch, Joe Bozik, 

Jim and Sharon Hourihan, and 

Ed Alkire. 

Additional notes on the 

Homecoming weekend in no 

particular order: 

Doug Cherry is not yet fully 

retired; he remains active in his 

engineering firm, now merged with 

another. Kay Morgan just moved 

to a new retirement community 

in Bethlehem, Pa., and is still 

volunteering at St. Luke’s Hospital. 

Bob Beane, back for the Trustee 

meetings, sat with his old roommate 

Gary Evans ’57 at Friday’s dinner. 

Bob Graham sings in the Sacramento 

Choral Society and enjoys it. Dick 


Cole continues to sing with The 

Graduates and does the national 

anthem at home football games. 

George Watson was relishing 

socializing with recent alumni football 

players back for a reunion. 

Speaking of football games, I went 

to Big Al’s in Bonita Springs, Fla., to 

watch the Lafayette–Lehigh game on 

TV. Our gang took over the front of 

the restaurant, and there were about 

35 people from the two colleges. Lots 

of betting, cheering, beer, and good 

food marked a great time—except for 

the outcome. Lehigh had no clue how 

they won, and I believe that Lafayette 

might have been a little overconfident. 

However, it was a great game, settled 

in overtime. Joe Skladany ’82 was 

our host. It was fun to see friends 

from both colleges. 

Class President Ed Alkire sent his 

annual letter to the class just in time for 

those who made New Year’s resolutions 

(or bucket lists). He encouraged all 

classmates to get in touch with their 

college friends and to plan to visit the 

College sometime soon. There was 

even a short itinerary with suggestions 

on things to do on campus. Maybe 

when it warms up a bit. 

Watch out for those Phillies in the 

2010 season. New trades make them 

stronger. Anyone want to put together 

a betting chart for the baseball season? 

Stay healthy and well. 

1959 

Norbert F. Smith 

227 River’s Edge 

Williamsburg, VA 23185-8933 

(757) 229-7377 

norbert.f.smith@cox.net 

President: Edwin H. Feather Jr. 

Fund Manager: James F. Mallay 

Reunion Chairs: Jordan Engelman, 

Bruce L. Forbes 


Frank V. Hermann, 

frankh@lasvegas.net 

Greetings to all our ’59 classmates, 

wherever you may be! This column 

will cover class activities and classmate 

updates through December. New 

Class Notes 

1958–1959 

guidelines established by the College 

mean classmate photos with captions 

and alumni profiles have been moved 

from print to the online version of 

Lafayette Magazine on the alumni 

portion of the College’s website. I 

recognize this will be a transition for 

many of us, but please continue to 

send me your photos, and I’ll make 

sure they get onto the web site. 

Thanks! I’ll also take this opportunity 

up front to thank each and every 

classmate for your contributions to our 

’59 columns; your updates make our 

class notes interesting and informative 

to all and keep us connected! 

Our class was well represented at 

the 2009 Lafayette Marquis Founders 

Dinner conducted last October. 

Class President Ed Feather sent the 

following note: “Very nice Marquis 

Founders Dinner last night at 

Lafayette! Mayleen and I attended— 

a lousy, rainy night but it still went 

over very well. There was a tent next 

to Marquis Hall for the cocktail 

reception, full bar, and hors d’oeuvres, 

then dinner in Marquis. Spoke to 

Dr. Mike Moskow and Dick Wright. 

Kurt Steckley was also there, but I 

did not get to talk with him. President 

Dan Weiss announced the opening 

and dedication of Scott Hall (the 

former Phi Delt house), named for 

Walt Scott. Walt and Kate were there, 

and I spoke to them for a brief 

moment. Ralph ’55 and Elizabeth 

Doederlein were at our table, and 

I also spoke with Bob Beane ’58, 

Dick Booth ’60, Joe Samaritano 

’91, and George Tiger ’57.” 

Our classmates were recognized 

once again for outstanding 

achievements by our alma mater at the 

2009 Alumni Association Awards 

ceremony conducted last November. 

(See photos online.) Bruce Forbes 

received the George T. Woodring ’19 

Volunteer of the Year Award, 

recognizing an Alumni Association 

volunteer for outstanding leadership 

during the previous year. Jim Mallay 

received the Ernest G. Smith ’94 

Annual Fund Award, honoring the 

Lafayette class achieving the highest 

participation from the 11th through 

the 50th alumni classes. I received the 

Elmer E. Huhn ’24 Correspondent 

Award, recognizing a correspondent 

who actively seeks out and includes in 

the class columns many classmates 

from diverse regions and walks of life. 

Congratulations, Bruce and Jim, from 

all your classmates for your 

outstanding leadership and 

commitment to our class and to 

Lafayette over many years! 

The ’59er Fans of Lafayette 

Football attended the 2009 Lafayette– 

Colgate game, and I joined the 

following classmates to root the ’Pards 

on to victory: Jordan Engleman, 

Ed Feather, Bruce Forbes, John 

Kingfield, Tery Snyder, and Charles 

Treloar. It was an incredible game 

to watch, with the ’Pards ultimately 

prevailing, 55–49. Rob Curley ’10, 

the Lafayette quarterback, threw seven 

touchdown passes, and the Colgate 

running back scored five rushing 

touchdowns! You’d have to go back 

many years to see that many points 

scored in a Lafayette football game! At 

the postgame tailgate, I greatly enjoyed 

talking with Bob ’57 and Norma 

Moss, and Phil ’57 and Joanne Wolfe, 

longtime friends from the Marquis 

Society. 

Fred Benson has made the big 

transition from the Washington, D.C., 

scene! “Ann and I moved full time to 

Maine and live on Mount Desert 

Island, the home of Acadia National 

Park. The original name of the park, by 

the way, was Lafayette Park, based on 

his involvement in early land deals, in 

which a French woman named Cadillac 

(their family crest remains the Cadillac 

automobile logo) was given the eastern 

half of the island. We had a wonderful 

visit from DU brother Wally French 

and wife Dot, and we live about 45 

minutes away from Jim Carey, who 

has been a good friend since 

childhood. Don “Moose” Allen 

is also a Mainer (a real Mainer, that 

is) but we have not gotten together 

yet. I continue to write “Capitol 

Commentary,” a syndicated, centrist 

political column that may be found at 

www.bensoncc.com, and I am serving 

on a few boards, one of which is the 

Center for Naval Analysis, a top-notch 

group of young Ph.D.s who are 


actively engaged in many important 

military, homeland security, and 

education programs. I am writing this 

in the midst of a huge storm, with 

gusts to 60 mph, snow blowing 

sideways, and visibility about zilch. 

Winter is here.” Fred’s new address 

and phone number are P O. Box 487, 

Mount Desert, ME 04660-0487, and 

(207) 288-9892. Fred’s email remains 

fredbenson3@aol.com. 

I’ve received a nice update from 

Bill Campbell, another of our 

classmates residing in New England. 

“Norb, I’m just making the deadline! 

Anne and I celebrated our 50th 

anniversary in December by taking 

our family to the Balsams Resort in 

northern New Hampshire for a few 

days of communality. It was a great 

experience. Included were our sons, 

one of whom is Bruce ’84. Anne and 

I met during high school, and she 

attended several weekend celebrations 

at Lafayette while I was a student 

there. She accompanied me to our 

50th reunion in June, and we both had 

a great time renewing friendships and 

reliving memories. We are both active 

in town. Anne is helping the Exeter 

(N.H.) Academy’s admissions office in 

the winter during their crunch time, 

and volunteering at Exeter Hospital. 

I went back and taught at the academy 

last fall, but I have spent the bulk of 

my time as chairman of the board of 

selectmen for the town of Exeter. 

Trying to get a budget for the town 

involves things I never learned from 

professors George Sause or Alfred 

Pierce! (They left town politics out 

of the economics we learned.) Life is 

good.” Congratulations to you, Anne 

and Bill, on your 50th wedding 

anniversary, and we all greatly enjoyed 

being with you once again at our 50th 

reunion! Bill’s email is wcampbell@ 

exeter.edu. 

Jim Carey sent the following note: 

“Norb, thanks for the photo, great 

reunion. Will plan to return sooner 

than the next official reunion. Perhaps 

a game.” Jim’s email is jcare@ 

mainecoastmail.com. 

Pat De Michele has a new email 

address: jpdemichele1@verizon.net. 

Class Notes 

1959 

Jordan Engelman has a new email 

address: jordan6@ptd.net. Great to see 

you at the Colgate game, Jordan! 

Dr. Ron Eshleman sent a nice 

note: “Norb, thank you for keeping in 

touch. FYI, Judy (Class of 1959 at 

Ursinus, Ph.D. at Illinois Institute of 

Technology, 1968) and I celebrated 

our 50th wedding anniversary 

Aug. 30. Jerry Turnauer and Dave 

Stephens attended our wedding in 

Hershey, Pa., at Derry Presbyterian 

Church in 1959. If there were 

others, I apologize in advance.” 

Congratulations, Ron and Judy, on 

your 50th, and for celebrating two 

golden jubilees in the same year! It’s a 

small world, Ron. Jerry and I roomed 

together in Newkirk Hall our 

sophomore year, and Dave and I have 

been neighbors in Yorktown and 

Williamsburg, Va., for almost 30 years! 

Ron’s email is JANEsh1828@aol.com. 

Ed Feather reported that he and 

Mayleen made their annual timeshare 

trek to Hilton Head, S.C., and to 

Orange Lake, Fla., last October. 

Maryellen and I missed having Ed 

and Mayleen stop by Williamsburg on 

their return trip north, as we were 

attending the Penn State–Minnesota 

game in frozen, snowy State College 

that weekend. In a dialogue last year 

with Jim Mallay, Ed gave a wonderful 

update on home life, family, and 

grandchildren for Mayleen and 

himself. “I guess, in a way, we have 

been fortunate not to move much. 

We stayed right in Montgomery 

County, Pa., with our homes, and 

still live in the county in Hatfield. 

Four of our five children and nine of 

12 grandchildren live no farther than 

30–40 minutes from us. Of course, 

we have our eldest granddaughter 

who graduated in December 2008 

from James Madison University in 

Harrisonburg, Va. Her sister is a 

senior at JMU this year and swims on 

the varsity team. My one daughter’s 

eldest boy is a junior at Penn State; 

their number two child, Patrick, is a 

first-year student at Bloomsburg 

University. We have grandchildren 

from 6 to 24 years old!” Ed’s email 

is feathersnest@hotmail.com. 

In early October, Bruce and Bette 

Forbes hosted Maryellen and me for 

a fabulous three-day visit to their 

beautiful home in Old Saybrook, 

Conn., and to historic New England! 

We made a day trip to Newport, R.I., 

and spent a delightful time touring the 

city and the Newport Mansions, 

including the magnificent Vanderbilt 

estate, The Breakers. The next day, a 

friend of mine and retired Coast Guard 

admiral, who was a former 

superintendent of the U.S. Coast 

Guard Academy in New London, 

Conn., and also a former CEO of 

Mystic Seaport, gave the four of us 

a great full-day tour. 

Rear Admiral Doug Teeson spent 

the entire morning touring us through 

Mystic Seaport. If you’re nautically 

minded, you have to visit this historic 

place! In the afternoon, we were then 

treated to a specially arranged tour of 

the Coast Guard bark USCGC Eagle in 

its home port of New London. Every 

Coast Guard Academy cadet spends a 

summer cruise aboard this magnificent 

sailing ship. Our day then concluded 

observing the weekly pass in review 

ceremony conducted by the academy’s 

corps of cadets. Every American should 

be very proud of the dedicated service 

of our young men and women in 

uniform. Then on Saturday we traveled 

to New Haven, where we were joined 

by Chuck Wynn to watch the 

Lafayette football team take on Yale. 

The ’Pards achieved a great victory, 

31–14, and this was our first win ever 

over Yale. Our team dominated in the 

second half and led 31–7 until the final 

minutes of the game. Wow, what a 

fabulous visit, Bruce and Bette, and 

one Maryellen and I will fondly 

remember always! By the time you 

read this, Bruce and Bette will have 

returned from their annual winter stay 

in Fort Pierce, Fla. Bruce’s email is 

mtawk5@yahoo.com. 

Through Dick Poey, we have the 

sad duty to report the passing of 

Russell A. Garlin in November. He 

had been in ill health and could not 

pull through. Russ and his wife, Zoe, 

have lived in the Phoenix, Ariz., area 

for several years. He received a 


achelor’s in business administration in 

1959. While on the Hill, Russ was a 

member of Zeta Psi fraternity and was 

its treasurer. He was also a member of 

the investment club, The Marquis, The 

Melange, and intramural sports. I 

shared several business classes with 

Russ, and he was a great classmate. 

Zoe’s address is 1309 Clearwater Lane, 

Gilbert, AZ 85234-2603, phone: 

(480) 497-0413. I do not have a 

current email address. We send our 

sincerest condolences to Zoe and to 

Russ’ and Zoe’s family. 

Hoot Gibson sent a great update, 

including photos (see online), of his 

participation in the 2009 Senior 

Games. “Norb, I had a real thrill this 

past August. My 70 to 74-year-old 

basketball team won the gold medal 

at the Senior Games. We played at 

Stanford University. About 10 years 

ago, I was on a team that won the 

bronze medal. I have been playing in 

the Senior Games for 17 years and 

hope to continue playing. The Senior 

Games has 18 sports, and I have 

competed in basketball.” Wow, 

congrats from all your classmates, 

Hoot, on your significant achievement 

and being the best of the best; I’ll 

ensure that your photos go online for 

all to see. Hoot’s email is ritastoy@ 

verizon.net. 

Ned Halteman has a new email 

address: nedgerry@verizon.net. Great 

to see you and Gerry at our 50th, Ned! 

Bob Hays sent an update on his 

wonderful family and his great business 

career since our graduation. “Dear 

Norb, I had a great time returning for 

our 50th reunion, along with Gavin 

and Carolyn Jenney, and Pat and 

Ruby Ho. A little update, since you do 

such a nice job of writing our Class 

Notes. I spent the first 17 years after 

graduation in the cement and concrete 

business with Lehigh Cement. Of this 

time, five years were spent in 

Richmond, Va., and five in northern 

Virginia. In 1970, I moved to Florida 

and managed Lehigh’s cement business 

in Florida. During the downturn in 

1976, Lehigh sold out and I then came 

to Florida Rock Industries in 

Jacksonville. I spent the next 26 years 

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growing the concrete and concrete 

block business in Florida and Georgia, 

retiring in 2002. I turned this job over 

to George Hossenlopp ’65 when I 

retired in 2002, and he kept the ball 

rolling until his retirement in 2008. 

The Florida Rock business was sold to 

Vulcan Materials in 2007. My wife, 

Terree, and I celebrated our 50th 

wedding anniversary in September with 

a surprise party organized by our two 

sons and their wives. Pat Ho was in 

our wedding. He and his wife, Ruby, 

attended the party in Jacksonville all 

the way from Southern California. 

Brother Tom Hays ’56, my best man, 

also came from Wadsworth, Ohio. I 

served as president of our Jacksonville 

Rotary Club, the first Rotary Club in 

Florida. I have been active in a number 

of construction groups and former 

chairman of the Florida Concrete and 

Products Association. Terree and I are 

blessed to have four wonderful 

grandchildren! I hope this update 

will give you some small amount of 

material in your next publication.” 

Thanks, Bob, so much, for this update 

on your wonderful family and on your 

magnificent professional career. You 

indeed have a lot to be proud of! We 

greatly enjoyed seeing you and Terree 

at our 50th! Bob’s email is bobhays@ 

bellsouth.net. 

Warren Hogan also sent a very 

meaningful update on his life 

experiences since our graduation. 

“Thanks for your appreciated work in 

keeping up with the communications. 

It was great to see a number of people 

at the reunion that I had not seen in 

50 years. Here is a quick update on me. 

After graduation, I went to work with 

Alcoa in Cleveland as a metallurgical 

engineer. Then 3½ years later, I 

changed career directions by joining 

Texas Instruments’ metals and 

controls division in Attleboro, Mass., 

in technical marketing. I spent 20 

years there, going up the ladder in 

marketing, business development, and 

starting a company within the company 

as a division manager of a $100M 

business unit. I left TI in 1982 to move 

to Dallas as president and CEO of a 

small electronic connector company. 

After spending five years there, and 

growing the business from $12M to 

$28M, I founded the Hogan Center 

for Performance Excellence in 1987. 

The Center provides training, 

consulting, and products that help 

organizations achieve higher levels of 

operational and financial performance. 

Six Malcolm Baldridge and 10 Texas 

Award for Performance Excellence 

recipients have been Hogan Center 

members. 

“As a result of a domestic violence 

situation when I was 8 years old 

that resulted in the shooting of my 

mother, uncle, and grandmother by 

my father, who then shot himself, 

I became my own ‘god’ at the age 

of 9. Unfortunately, my uncle and 

grandmother died, my mother 

survived, and (ironically) my father 

didn’t perish, instead landing himself 

in jail for a long time. I became a 

‘righteous agnostic,’ righteous to the 

extent I believed in honesty, integrity, 

and man’s law. On April 6, 2003, I had 

a ‘Damascus Road’ experience, a 

physical encounter with God. This set 

in motion a new direction for my life: 

into marketplace ministry, to help 

people around the globe experience 

God’s love and grace in their 

marketplace. In June 2008, after 

receiving a very clear message from my 

new boss (aka God) that I was to step 

down as CEO, I merged the Hogan 

Center into U.S. Leadership, where I 

serve as chairman emeritus. This has 

positioned me to take a very active role 

on the advisory board of Shelter the 

World, a ‘doing business as’ name of 

IADDIC Shelters. Our mission is 

dealing with the 1.4 billion people 

around the globe who are completely 

without housing or are living in 

inadequate shelter. Through a vision 

given to Rich Grabowski in 2005 

about the need, and subsequent 

revelations on how to help solve this 

problem with foam technology, and 

with patents in 40 countries, we are 

in the final stages of making this 

technology available, with a goal 

of sheltering a half billion people. 

For more details, look up www. 

sheltertheworld.com. Those who want 


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to know how they can get involved 

from a ministry point of view or as an 

investor that will bring both heavenly 

and worldly returns, they can contact 

Richard Grabowski at rgrabowski@ 

iaddicshelters.com.” Thanks so much, 

Warren, for your wonderful update on 

your magnificent business career and 

on your life experiences in helping to 

make our world a better place to live 

for millions of our fellow human 

beings. We greatly enjoyed being with 

you at our 50th! You can contact 

Warren at warren@hogancenter.com 

and (214) 377-2881. 

Here’s a nice note from our world 

traveler, Bill Lee. “Hello, Norb, and 

thank you for the email, but sadly 

enough another great guy from 

Lafayette, Russ Garlin, has left us. It 

sounds as if it is a blessing that he is no 

longer suffering. Also, I did not know 

that he was living in Gilbert, Ariz., 

I will send his wife and family a 

condolence card. By the way, on a 

lighter note, in just a couple of months 

we are off to South Africa for another 

great adventure. Also, we spent a day 

and had lunch with Jon and Carole 

Clayton in Jerome, Ariz. We had a 

chance to catch up with them before 

they were on their way back to New 

Jersey for the winter.” Thanks, Bill, and 

we’ll all look forward to another great 

trip report on your recent adventures! 

Bill’s email is knblee@mindspring.com. 

We all know the outstanding 

performance Jim Mallay has 

contributed to our class throughout five 

decades as our class fund manager, and 

highlighted in 2009 with his selection 

for the Ernest G. Smith ’94 Award, 

mentioned above. No one has given 

more of his time, dedication and 

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devotion to our class than Jim has—50 

years! What you may not be aware of 

are the many aspects of Jim’s personal 

and family life, so I’d like to quote from 

two dialogues he sent last year related 

to his family plans and activities for the 

Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. 

“My daughter is coming here for 

Thanksgiving. It will be the first time 

we have had any relative visit us for 

Thanksgiving since 1976. It seems like 

we are always thousands of miles away 

from all our family, but our daughter is 

working in San Francisco, which makes 

her only 650 miles away. I guess we live 

a different lifestyle than most in that we 

are lucky to see any relatives more than 

once a year. As you know, we move a 

lot. This is our 32nd home since my 

graduation from Lafayette. It will 

definitely be our last home, until or 

unless we get carried off to assisted 

living. My younger sister, for example, 

recently forgot what state we were 

living in. She now knows, because we 

stayed with her for our 50th reunion. 

(She lives in Phillipsburg and has almost 

never been out of New Jersey.) 

“Hey, we didn’t move last year. We 

are still living in the same house we 

lived in last Christmas. See, we do 

know how to settle down! Compared 

to the last few years, 2009 was 

remarkably calm and uneventful. 

Oh, except for our daughter Cindy’s 

wedding in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 

March 2009, which was beautiful, 

heartwarming, and completely 

wonderful. The day was sunny and 

warm, the waves lapped gently onto 

the golden beach, we laughed, we 

cried, we danced, and had a marvelous 

time!” Thanks so much, Jim, for 

sharing some of your family life 

experiences. Every one of your 

classmates truly appreciates and thanks 

you for the tremendous amount of 

time and dedication you give to keep 

our class one of Lafayette’s greatest! 

Maryellen and I greatly enjoyed being 

with you and Nancy at our 50th! Jim’s 

email is jamesmallay@aol.com. 

One of ’59’s, Lafayette’s, and our 

nation’s greatest business icons, Tom 

Neff, sent me another eye-catching 

article (“Spencer Stuart Grabs Lion’s 

Share of Headhunting for Bailed-Out 

Firms”) about his company, Spencer 

Stuart, and himself, which many of us 

read in the Aug. 6 edition of The Wall 

Street Journal. “Norbert, you may have 

seen the attached WSJ article. Who 

would have thought that the U.S. 

Government would encourage the 

use of search firms?” What an 

understatement, Tom! Spencer Stuart 

has been at the forefront of finding 

executives for federal bailout recipients 

AIG, General Motors, Chrysler, 

Citigroup, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, 

and GMAC. Since joining the firm in 

1976, Tom, chairman and top CEO 

recruiter, has handled more than 350 

board searches. Congrats, Tom, and 

wow, this article says it all. You’re the 

best in the business! We greatly enjoyed 

seeing you again at our 50th! Tom’s 

email is tneff@spencerstuart.com. 

Sam Payne, one of our commercial 

aviation pilots, sent a nice update in 

September. “Norb, thanks for the 

photos of that Russian Antonov 225 

aircraft. A really big machine. As big as 

it is though, the cockpit still looks a lot 

like a Boeing 707 and not one of those 

fancy glass cockpits. Things here in 

New Jersey are fine, although it was a 

very wet summer. I went to the 

hospital three weeks ago to have my 

right carotid artery cleaned out. It was 

80 percent blocked with cholesterol. I 

feel fine now. My wife and I are going 

to see my old roommate, Dick Wright, 

and his wife this weekend. We met at 

the reunion, and this will be the first 

time in 50 years that we will be getting 

together. It should be lots of fun. I 

mean we have 50 years to talk about!” 

Great to be with you at our 50th, Sam, 

and we’re very glad to learn that you’re 


ack in top physical shape! Sam’s email 

is sampayne@comcast.net. 

Walt Pickwell sent us an update. 

“Norb, Pat and I send best wishes to 

you and Maryellen and greetings to 

all the gang from ’59! We were in 

Williamsburg for three days in 

mid-November...enjoyed the old 

town and had an opportunity to play 

golf at Colonial Williamsburg’s 

Golden Horseshoe. Sorry we didn’t 

get in touch with you, but with all 

the walking, activity, and wonderful 

restaurants, I was ready for bed early! 

Will promise to get in touch with you 

the next time we are in the area.” 

Thanks, Walt, and we’ll look forward 

to linking up with you on your next 

visit to Williamsburg. Maryellen and 

I greatly enjoyed sharing the All- 

College Dinner with you and Pat 

during our 50th! Walt’s email is 

pwybadiity@msn.com. 

I always look forward to hearing 

from our very talented sculptor, Dick 

Poey, and he has sent us another great 

update! “Hi, Norb. As one might 

expect, the art business has slowed 

down quite a bit, but that hasn’t 

stopped me from creating and 

marketing. Earlier last year, I 

completed a bronze entitled Tango– 

the three minute love affair, which 

references the fact that tango tunes are 

generally about three minutes long. 

Last summer, I finished a beautiful 

alabaster and bronze piece called 

Pensive. I was also in a half dozen 

exhibitions last year, including the 

Society of Minnesota Sculptors annual 

juried exhibition. You and your 

readers can see all the pieces in the 

show by looking at our web site, 

www.mnsculptors.com, clicking on 

News, and then selecting the Fall 

2009 newsletter, Highlights and 

Shadows. (I’m the editor.) I also had 

a joint show with my wife, Heidi, 

at the Alliance Française, a national 

organization celebrating French 

culture. Last year was a busy travel 

year for the Poeys, particularly on the 

water. In February, we cruised the 

Caribbean, taking in five islands. Then 

in April, we took a river cruise in 

Holland, hitting the tulips at their 

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peak. It was SPECTACULAR! Over 

the holidays, we’ll be taking a threeweek 

cruise from Santiago, Chile, 

around Cape Horn to Buenos Aires, 

Argentina. On land, we traveled to 

Grand Rapids, Mich., to see the 

Frederik Meijer Sculpture Garden; 

Cleveland to see my daughter and 

family; Colorado to see the two largest 

sculpture shows in the country; and to 

Cape Cod to visit with my friends 

from the Kodak days.” Thanks, Dick, 

and keep on doing what you love best, 

sculpting and traveling! Dick’s email is 

poeyart@comcast.net. 

Terry Snyder sent a great note on 

the 2009 holiday activities celebrated 

by the Philadelphia/Wilmington area 

Lafayette alums. “Congratulations and 

thank you, Norb, for all your reunion 

work and for setting what must be a 

new record for number of pages in the 

Fall 2009 Lafayette Magazine for the 

GREAT CLASS of ’59, eight pages 

plus! Georgia and I went to the annual 

Christmas Party at the Wilmington 

(Del.) Country Club for Lafayette 

alums, sponsored by about six or so 

active alums from the Class of ’55 and 

by the College. Attendees included 

Allen Donahower ’55, Al ’55 and 

Sally Good, Roger Gordon ’55, 

Dr. Joe and Nancy Lees ’60, 

Dr. Billy Oaks ’51, Joe and Peggy 

Stefanowicz, Chuck Stevens ’58, 

John ’55 and Joan Stevens, Bill Wall 

’54, and many others from the area. 

All enjoyed the season with oysters, 

clams, wonderful hors d’oeuvres, 

and, of course, much libation.” Wow, 

what a great group and a great way 

to celebrate the holidays! Terry’s 

email is tersny3@yahoo.com. 

On a much sadder note, Terry 

sent along the very sad news of the 

passing of Bob Yohe ’58 in October. 

Bob was the epitome and standard 

bearer for everything good in this 

world and for Lafayette. He was the 

mentor and Theta Delta Chi 

fraternity brother to many of our 

classmates, a valued trustee of the 

College, a very successful senior 

executive in his business profession, 

and a true and loyal friend to 

everyone. We are all better people for 

having known Bob, and he will be 

truly missed. 

Last October, Jad Sortore sent a 

short article, accompanied by a photo 

(see online). “Things are about the 

same here, as one retirement day 

blends nicely into the next. I thought 

of a short article as follows, using the 

enclosed photo: ‘During his Class of 

1959 reunion, Jad Sortore points 

toward his second floor corner room in 

South College, overlooking the city of 

Easton, that he occupied 54 years ago 

as a Lafayette freshman. The dorm 

burned in March 1956, and most 

students lost all clothes, papers, and 

books to either the fire or to water 

damage. Jad remembers that terrible 

Saturday night as well as the superb 

rebuilding effort of the College.’” 

In November, Jad sent me another 

great article, entitled “Memories, Inter 

Alia, of my First Lafayette–Lehigh 

Game”: “The high point of the autumn 

social calendar had arrived, the annual 

Lafayette–Lehigh game on the third 

Saturday in November. Each living 

group competed to create a distinctive 

mural or sign depicting the pending 

game. Many were clever indeed. 

During the week preceding, a large 

amount of old lumber and scrap wood 

was brought to March Field and 

stacked about where the Phi Kappa Psi 

house stands now. This was to be 

burned Friday night in a big all-campus 

pep rally. We were told that Lehigh 

students were trying to sneak onto the 

Hill to set our fire alight before the pep 

rally. Someone set up a guard duty 

rotation, where we pledges were tasked 

with defending certain approaches to 

the campus. My station, along with 

other Kappa Sigma pledges for several 

cold hours each night, was the corner 

of McCartney Street near the SAE 

house. I remember carrying a long 

truncheon with instructions from some 

upperclassman to use it on any Lehigh 

student caught in the area. (Can you 

believe it?) Evidently, we defended well, 

since no Lehigh men were spotted and 

the bonfire took place on schedule 

Friday night. On game day, it snowed. 

An older Kappa Sigma Army veteran 

brother, George, and I went to 


Bethlehem, Pa., in his 1950 Ford. 

He said that he always liked to drink 

whiskey at a game to keep warm. 

Being young and impressionable, I 

joined him and we each drank the 

better part of a pint of cheap liquor 

called Kessler’s. After the snowy and 

muddy game, he drove us back to 

Easton. On the following Wednesday, 

we broke for our first off-campus 

break, the Thanksgiving recess, and 

went to our respective homes different 

teenagers from the youths that had 

left home two months earlier.” Wow, 

does this bring back lots of fond 

memories! Thanks, Jad, and we’ll 

definitely be nominating you as our 

class historian! Jad has additional 

recollections that I’ll describe in future 

columns. Jad’s email is rooster1@ 

gforcecable.com. 

In response to my request for 

column input, Dave Trutt sent a very 

informative update on several of our 

“missing” classmates. “Norb, thanks 

for your work on this project. I have a 

question and some comments. Fouad 

Mashal does not appear anywhere in 

the ’59 database. He was born in Iran, 

and I was one of the few who saw him 

at length during college days. He 

roomed in Kirby Dorm. Any info on 

him? Steve Rosenberg lives near East 

Brunswick, N.J. (I forgot his address, 

since I moved out of New Jersey.) I 

saw him over the years before I left 

the state. He was/is an optometrist 

and worked for many years in the New 

Brunswick, N.J., area. I think he is 

retired now. Larry Lefkowitz: I have 

not seen him in about 40 years. About 

35 years ago, a Lehigh University 

religion studies professor (I think it 

was Alice Eckardt) came back from a 

conference/lecture in Israel, and she 

had run into him there. Somewhere 

I heard that he married an Israeli and 

lives there. But I’m living in Jerusalem 

eight months a year and have been 

unable to locate him. By the way, the 

phone number listed for me, (732) 

710-4020, is a VoIP (Voice over 

Internet Protocol) line that rings in 

Jerusalem. When I’m not there, one 

can leave a message and I get an email 

message notifying me of it. I am in 

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Florida in January and February, 

usually, and sometimes part of March. 

This is my only U.S. address.” Thanks 

so much for your informative update, 

Dave, and I will indeed put Fouad 

Mashal back on the “Status 

Undetermined” list, and request the 

College for any information they may 

have about him. Our ’59 Melange 

listed a post office box in Tehran for 

his address. Thanks also for your 

updates on both Larry Lefkowitz and 

Steve Rosenberg; I’ll pass this info on 

to the College. Dave’s email is 

davetrutt@gmail.com. 

Jerry Turnauer sent a great photo 

(see online) of a December visit he 

and Sandye had with Jim Mallay and 

Nancy Zacha. “Here’s the pic of our 

lunch visit with Jim and Nancy, with 

Sandye and me, our son Mike, and 

grandson Ryan in Vancouver, Wash.” 

Thanks so much for sending it, Jerry. 

Jerry’s email is jturnauer@ 

bayshoreford.com. 

Bob Turner made a transition in 

2009. “Carol and I have moved. We 

sold our Arroyo Grande, Calif., home 

and have moved inland to Clovis, 

Calif., to be near one of our children 

and his family. Our new address and 

phone number are P.O. Box 2068, 

Clovis, CA 93613-2068, (818) 

903-2378. We have four 

grandchildren in college: Josh, a 

junior at the University of North 

Carolina–Wilmington; Briana, a 

sophomore at Clark College in 

Vancouver, Wash.; Bethany, a first-year 

student at Biola University in La 

Mirada, Calif.; and Alyssa, a first-year 

student at George Fox University in 

Newberg, Ore.” Thanks so much for 

the update, Bob, and we hope life is 

good in your new home in Clovis! 

Bob’s email is rhturnerag@yahoo.com. 

The Rev. George Werner, our 

esteemed spiritual leader, gave the 

opening prayer at the morning session 

of the U.S. House of Representatives 

Sept. 10. “Having survived our 

fiftieth, this should be a walk in the 

park.” When I sent a congratulatory 

note on being chosen for this 

prestigious honor, George, in typical 

fashion, responded, “Please come visit 

me in federal prison after I tell them 

they all should resign!” Congrats, 

George, on giving them your “divine 

guidance,” and so far, you’ve escaped 

federal prison! George’s email is 

glww17@gmail.com. 

Here’s a great note from Dick 

Wright: “Jackie and I attended the 

2009 Lafayette–Lehigh football game. 

We met Jim and Susan Haering at 

the Marquis Society pregame 

luncheon and then proceeded to the 

game. As is frequently the case with 

the Army–Navy game, the team with 

the best year’s record doesn’t always 

win the BIG one. We met up with 

John and Bette Ziegler and 

proceeded to Jim’s home for predinner 

cocktails, where we were joined 

by Gary Carney, director of 

development at Lafayette, and his 

wife, Kelly. Following cocktails, we 

went across the street to the Saucon 

Valley Country Club for dinner. The 

club has a large membership that 

graduated from Lehigh, so we had to 

endure some good-natured abuse! 

During dinner, Gary enlightened us 

on many of the excellent plans and 

programs being undertaken by the 

College. It makes you proud to learn 

what is underway for the future of this 

great institution.” Thanks, Dick, and 

great to know that all the Phi Psi’s 

were there to root on the ’Pards! 

Dick’s email is cdrcrw@verizon.net. 

Lastly, from yours truly, Maryellen 

and I took our West Coast family to 

Washington, D.C., during the 

holidays. One of the highlights was a 

guided tour of the U.S. Capitol and 

the new Capitol Visitor Center. 

What struck me the most, however, 

were the tours of the House and 

Senate chambers, as it had been 

almost 30 years since I had last visited, 

when I was assigned to the 

McDonnell Douglas D.C. office. 

When we sat in the House gallery, I 

noticed two, and only two, large oil 

paintings to the left and right of the 

rostrum of the speaker of the House. 

To the right of the speaker’s rostrum 

was the painting of George 

Washington, the father of our country. 

But to my amazement and great 


satisfaction, the painting to the left of 

the rostrum was none other than the 

Marquis de Lafayette (from his 

farewell tour of 1824–25)! I asked the 

U.S. Capitol Police attendants present 

if the painting had been there a long 

time, and they said it had. (I know 

from past experience that they move 

the paintings around.) When you 

think of the number of great Americans 

whose paintings could have been 

hanging there, what a significant honor 

this is for the Marquis! So the next time 

you visit the House gallery, be sure to 

look for the painting of the great man 

and patriot whom our College is 

named for, and feel a lot of pride! 

One admin note: If you would like 

a copy of our ’59 class database but 

don’t have email or Microsoft Excel, 

drop me a note to my home address 

or email me, and I’ll be very glad to 

mail you a copy. 

That’s all for now. Maryellen and 

I wish all the ’59ers and your families 

the very best, wherever you may be! 

1960 

Paul A. Luscombe 

737 Dowding Way 

The Villages, FL 32162 

(352) 750-2943 

(973) 980-2629 (cell) 

(352) 391-9169 (fax) 

paulluscombe3@aol.com 

President: Robert S. Brodie Jr. 

Fund Managers: Lauritz K. Knudsen, 

M. Alden Siegel 

Reunion Chairs: J. Richard Booth, 

Donald J. Nikles 


Paul A. Luscombe 

Welcome to the 50-Year Club! Well, 

not really, but we’re getting pretty 

close. To assure that all of your 

accommodations are lined up for 

our Class of 1960 reunion set for 

June 4–6, it pays to register as soon as 

you can. Your early commitment will 

help your committee organize a better 

reunion. So far, everyone I have called 

responded that they are expecting 

to attend. 

Class Notes 

1959–1960 

On the occasion of our 45th 

reunion, I broke out a maroon and 

white banner with “1960” marked 

clearly thereon. We subsequently 

employed the banner at various 

functions, particularly at away football 

games, so as to easily spot our 

traveling tailgate parties. When I 

moved to Florida, I entrusted custody 

of the banner to Alden Siegel. A sign 

of our collectively increasing memory 

loss, Alden promptly forgot where he 

filed it. After a 2½-year lapse, Alden 

found the banner in the deep chasms 

of his basement. 

The Siegels, Phil and Bernice 

Bollman, and Dr. Marion and 

Barbara Vujevitch were probably the 

first members of our class to visit the 

nation of South Africa on a vacation. 

Alden said of the trip, “Aside from the 

24 hours of travel each way, this is a 

very attractive country to visit. We 

all had a good time and saw a large 

sample of African wildlife.” 

Wayne Wavrek is a classic 

snowbird, as he and his wife, Gloria, 

maintain two residences—one in 

Tampa and the other in Chicago— 

alternating their time between the 

two locations wherever the weather is 

nicer. In October, Wayne had his left 

knee replaced, and he elected to stay 

up north a little longer to keep up 

with his physical therapy sessions. He 

expects to be at our reunion with a 

properly functioning new knee. 

Wayne writes, “I expect to emerge a 

bionic man, having earlier had two 

hips and the other knee replaced.” 

Bruce Boyd reports from his 

retirement residence in Valdez, N.M. 

Last spring, Bruce had his hip 

replaced, and he claims the new hip is 

“serving him just fine,” although he 

has cut short his running career lest 

he risk injuring his other hip. He has 

remained active, however, as he tries 

to walk at least 20 miles a week. 

He has also been doing voluntary 

landscaping at the community centre. 

Additionally, he has taken up 

woodcarving using local juniper and 

cedar trees. He remains on the board 

of an insurance trust and weighs the 

same as when he entered Lafayette. 

Bruce writes, “I feel very fortunate to 

live in such a beautiful, if sometimes 

harsh, place and to be so close to my 

son, Jayson, my wife, Jane, and our 

grandson.” 

Ted Gailer has been nursing a bad 

back but hopes to play in our class 

tournament June 4. Ted has been 

working as a groundskeeper at his 

local golf course in Griffin, Ga. Back 

in June, Ted and his wife, Alta, visited 

us in The Villages, and we lunched at 

the Arnold Palmer Country Club. 

Ted has been a strong supporter of 

my writing products. He writes in a 

recent email: “Paul, you have a very 

easy reading style and blend in plenty 

of humor. I now have three Paul 

Luscombe books and can’t wait for 

the next venture.” 

Joel Gustafson and I met for 

lunch at the Embassy Suites in Ft. 

Lauderdale, Fla., on the eve of the 

Miami Dolphins–Indianapolis Colts 

NFL game back in September. Joel 

was quite excited about our 50th 

reunion. He planned to attend the 

event with his daughter Stacey 

Parkinson ’85. Her husband is 

Anthony Parkinson ’83. 

Dr. Jim Silvestri continues his 

private psychological counseling 

practice in Nutley, N.J. “I am still 

working. But I never touch the 

computer!” 

David Saalfrank also mentions 

that he is “still at it” as a financial 

adviser, trying to help his clients aged 

55 and over to make “their money 

behave the way they want it to.” Dave 

is a senior vice president, investments, 

with Raymond James & Assoc. in 

Paramus, N.J. 

In talking with Bill Cameron, he 

volunteered that Carl Meier, Roger 

Bird, and he were planning a lunch 

together as a warm-up for the 50th! 

Wayne Anderson will attend a 

portion of the reunion, since our 

function will conflict with those of 

his wife’s Cedar Crest College 50th. 

Neal Dyer and his wife, Sheila, 

have completely settled into their new 

home in Preston on the Maryland 

Eastern Shore. Neal sold his privately 

owned printing/publishing company 


some time ago, but he continues to 

work for the surviving company, 

Todd Allen Printing Co. At press 

time, he was working on the 

Georgetown University graduation 

program, a 300-plus-page document 

listing each graduate’s name. 

I am sad to report that Richard 

Beck’s wife and my friend and 

neighbor—Eleanor Steffenson Beck— 

passed away Sept. 9 after a bout with 

pancreatic cancer. Residents of The 

Villages, the Becks had been very 

active in locally organized activities. 

Forever competitive, Elly enjoyed 

playing bridge, softball, and tennis. 

She was known for her extensive 

collection of antique sewing machines, 

which decorated a large portion of 

their new home. Dick retired from 

NASA about two years ago. Elly is 

survived by Dick, four daughters, one 

son, and 11 grandchildren. Dick and I 

watched the Lafayette–Lehigh game at 

an Ocala Alumni Chapter function. 

Bernie Guenther and his wife, Maria, 

were also in attendance at the telecast. 

Also, I regret to report the death 

of Phil Hamlin, who passed away 

about one week after his 71st 

birthday, Nov. 15. Prior to moving to 

California, Phil lived in Nevada. He 

served in the Air Force at Fort Sam 

Houston, Texas, where he bumped 

into Doug Hobby ’61. An industrial 

engineer by trade, Phil lived in 

Susanville, Calif., with his wife, 

Carol. Additionally, Phil is survived 

by his brother and sister, plus four 

stepchildren. Phil played the guitar 

and enjoyed country and western 

music. 

1961 

Douglas A. Hobby 

29 Rowan Road 

Chatham, NJ 07928-2210 

doug_hobby@hotmail.com 

President: Joseph C. Nyce 

Fund Manager: Ronald E. Geesey 

Reunion Chair: Edward C. Auble 


John A. Harobin 

Class Notes 

1960–1961 

Like it or not, you will be hearing and 

receiving lots of news regarding our 

50th reunion, which will be upon us 

sooner than you think. Our class 

reunion chairman, Ed Auble, insists on 

trumpeting the event, and you don’t 

mess with Ed. He carries a big stick 

and does not speak softly. In 

September, the reunion committee 

toed the line and actually made some 

significant strides planning the big 

event. Along with the four jokers who 

comprise the class leadership team, 

classmates who attended the meeting 

were Dan Schutter, Dick Webster, 

Bill Remaly, Jim Oehlert, Ed 

Baumgardner (with wife Trudy) and 

Dave Dietz. Representatives from the 

College were also there. I thought this 

would be a good time to note some 

of the items agreed to (in addition to 

where to have lunch), and to review 

the current reunion schedule. Class 

President Joe Nyce has already 

provided some of these details in a 

recent letter to the class, but an 

elaboration may not be a bad thing. 

Besides, since some of you may not 

be embracing email technology, it’s 

possible you did not receive Joe’s letter. 

Our reunion is scheduled to 

commence Thursday afternoon of 

the reunion week. Traditionally, the 

Thursday night dinner is held at the 

Chateau high on College Hill. 

However, due to space restrictions and 

other concerns, the Chateau is out as 

the dinner site. Most likely Marquis 

Hall will be substituted, but that has 

not yet been confirmed. President 

Dan Weiss is slated to be our speaker 

at Thursday’s dinner. Friday morning 

will be the golf outing. Originally we 

had planned to hold it at the nearby 

Riverview course, but that may be 

changed. At the Marquis Society 

Dinner in October, I had a nice chat 

with Neil Van Cleef, who heads his 

own civil engineering firm in 

Hillsborough, N.J. Neil is wellconnected 

with The Club at Morgan 

Hill and its residential community. He 

hinted that he would do some nice 

things for us if we selected Morgan Hill 

as our golf site. So, Neil, you are on the 

hook! Friday night is the all-reunion 

party on the Quad. (Wasn’t this once 

known as the Smoker?) Saturday 

morning is the parade, which, to the 

disappointment of some, including 

George Benson, will not be held 

downtown. Saturday night is the Class 

Dinner, which usually is the highlight 

of the weekend. In addition to these 

various events, there should be plenty 

of time to catch up with old friends and 

share experiences. 

Ed and Trudy Baumgardner will be 

responsible for the class uniforms and 

favors for the spouses. You should be 

hearing soon from Dick Webster asking 

for bio information and pictures for the 

reunion yearbook. Compiling this is a 

difficult task, and we urge that you 

assist Dick in this effort. The good 

news is that the College is planning to 

upgrade the yearbooks previously 

developed for the reunion classes. 

These should provide a lasting 

memento of the reunion and your 

college years. 

By now you should be aware that 

our planned class gift will be, in some 

manner, global in scope. The class 

leadership committee would prefer to 

use the gift to sponsor an international 

speaker series or symposium. However, 

other options are still under 

consideration. The amount of money 

received for our class gift will no doubt 

impact the final decision. 

Believe it or not, I have been 

encouraged to provide another 

quiz that, I hope, will bring back 

remembrances of your college days and 

whet your appetite for the reunion. 

You may skip to the next paragraph if 

you cannot remember what you did 

yesterday, much less 50 years ago. I 

tried to make this one a little more 

classmate-oriented. Answers appear 

at the end of the column: 

• Who was our tallest classmate? 

• Who was the only classmate 

graduating summa cum laude? 

• Who from our class won the 

Pepper Prize? 

• Which classmate later refereed a 

Final Four basketball game? 

Bob Howard was inducted into 

Lafayette’s Maroon Club Athletic Hall 

of Fame Nov. 20. Bob is the only 


member from our class to receive this 

honor, so it was not surprising to see 

many of our classmates in attendance. 

At the event I spotted John 

Hossenlopp, Tom Heist, Otto 

Behrens, Dave Bloys, John Sedovy, 

Joe Nyce, George Benson, and Ed 

Auble. This year, the introduction of 

the inductees, featuring their 

accomplishments and character, was 

handled via a video pre-taped by a 

teammate or friend and shown at the 

event. Benson had the honor of 

introducing Bob via the video, and he 

did a terrific job. It must also be noted 

that Behrens went all out to get Bob’s 

DU brothers and football teammates 

to the event, and several dozen of them 

showed up. It was a great night for 

’61ers and DUs. 

At Homecoming this year, I 

happened to spot a gentleman working 

as a Lafayette special events staffer and 

wearing a Class of ’61 cap. Who could 

this man be? It turns out it was 

Anthony Lelli, who told me an 

interesting story of how he eventually 

graduated from Lafayette. Anthony 

recently celebrated his 80th birthday, 

which tells you he did not attend 

college in the traditional manner. After 

high school, Anthony went to work for 

Alpha Portland Cement, and they 

provided a scholarship for him to 

attend Lafayette. However, Alpha’s 

union heard of the scholarship and 

demanded that their members be 

offered one also. This could not be 

done, so Anthony lost his scholarship 

after his freshman year and had to drop 

out. He continued to work at Alpha, 

and after eight years, with help from 

another local business, was able to gain 

enough money to re-enter Lafayette 

and finish his degree in economics. 

Anthony retired from Alpha Portland 

and for many years has been teaching 

math and reading comprehension to 

at-risk and handicapped children at the 

Career Institute of Technology in 

Easton. His work as a Lafayette staffer 

is voluntary. Anthony and his wife, 

Catherine, have been married 50 years. 

Bob Stevenson was kind enough to 

send a note letting us know what he has 

been up to in recent years. In 2000, 

Class Notes 

1961 

Bob finished a second career 

as an executive director of a churchowned 

camp and conference center 

in southeast Michigan. For the next 

three years he worked part time in 

horticulture, where, he claims, the fresh 

air and sun kept him fit. Bob is now 

retired and doing a lot of traveling with 

his wife, Hildegarde. They often go to 

Austria and Germany, where Hildegarde 

still has several friends and relatives, and 

to the highlands of Scotland. They are 

the proud parents of four sons, two of 

whom are married with two daughters 

each. Bob and his wife live in Stephens 

City, Va. We are hoping that Bob will 

make it to the 50th. 

A few years ago, I contacted Bill 

Reynolds in hopes of gaining some 

business from him for the software firm 

with which I am associated. Bill, at the 

time, was the director of the Center for 

Management and Entrepreneurs at 

Rutgers University–Camden. Although 

no business has yet been generated, I 

keep in touch with Bill. The latest news 

from him, however, is less upbeat than 

normal. Bill retired from RUC in July. 

He noted that he did not intend to 

retire completely, but family health 

issues have pushed him in that 

direction. His wife, Mollie, has not 

been in good health, which requires 

that he be available. He indicated that 

“after 48 years of marriage with her 

doing for me, it’s time for me to do for 

her.” God bless you, Bill, and we hope 

you can make it to the 50th as well as 

some of the upcoming reunion 

committee meetings. 

Norm Gauss was unable to attend 

the September reunion committee 

meeting due to travel commitments, 

but he did indicate that he would go all 

out to get some of his Kappa Sigma 

brothers and hometown friends to the 

reunion. Norm mentioned that he has 

been in contact with his Kappa Sigma 

brothers Bill Obermann (Denver) and 

Ron “Dutch” Graf (San Antonio) as 

well as Delta Tau Delta brothers Bob 

Mayer (Waretown, N.J.), Mel Smart 

(Pauley’s Island, S.C.), and Frank 

Schlageter (Pompano Beach, Fla.). 

They all were attending their 50th high 

school reunion in Union, N.J. My 

feeling is, if these guys are willing to 

travel that far for a high school 

reunion, I expect them to also be 

at our 50th. Norm is retired from 

Lockheed Martin in Pennsylvania, 

where he was director of engineering, 

and is living in Robbinsville, N.J. 

Ron Geesey retired from 

Citigroup, where he was a senior 

officer in the overseas group, spending 

much of his later years with them in 

Germany. This past year, Ron moved 

into a new home he had built in Snow 

Hill, Md. (the Eastern Shore region), 

and was also able to sell a cottage he 

owned in Ireland, which is where his 

wife, Hazel, is from. All Ron needs 

now is for Citigroup stock to rebound. 

After the September reunion 

committee meeting, I was sitting with 

Geesey and Dave Dietz at Big 

Woody’s (that’s right, it’s a sports bar 

in Forks Township). It was interesting 

listening to them discuss their past 

overseas business ventures. Before 

retirement, Dave was an international 

telecom manager for AT&T and 

traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. 

I also discovered that Dave is practically 

a neighbor of mine, living in 

Morristown, N.J. He is married and 

has two grown children. 

Ed Auble noted that he visited with 

Larry Cassel a few years back in San 

Francisco, which included a pleasant 

trip to a Napa Valley winery. Larry is 

long retired from the Pacific Bell Co. 

He promised to rattle the cages of 

some of his Sigma Chi brothers and 

encourage them to attend our 50th. 

Ed also visited with Hank Lorish, 

who lives in Williamsburg, Va., not far 

from fraternity brother Dan Schutter. 

Hank is retired from United 

Technologies Corp., where he was 

manager of financial planning. 

Concerning Dan, at the reunion 

committee meeting, it was resolved 

that he would have to bring his wife, 

Linda, to our 50th. For those of us 

who attended the 45th, Linda was 

the delightful gal who drove the 

convertible in Dan’s absence and 

was the life of the parade. 

Approximately six years ago, I 

attended a legacy dinner with my 


daughter, Catherine ’05, and was 

convinced that I was the oldest parent 

there. That is, until I bumped into 

Bob Bogart, who was attending for 

the same reason. We had a good laugh 

as I relinquished the crown to him. 

He and his wife, Cecelia, live in 

Annandale, N.J. Bob reported that 

he heard from Bill Sibal. 

Ron Hargreaves agreed to 

be a class agent for our 50th. He 

indicated that he would like to 

hear from some of his Kirby House 

classmates, in particular Leo 

Greenstein, Robert Graper, and 

Robert Kroeger. Hey guys, you can 

reach Ron at ronhargr@yahoo.com. 

He is retired from IBM, where he 

was a senior industry analyst, and 

is living in North Carolina. 

Again I have to report the death 

of two more of our classmates. Dr. 

Sheppard Arluck passed away last 

December in Staten Island, N.Y. After 

Lafayette, Shep graduated from the 

Downtown Medical Center in 

Brooklyn and served in the Army 

during the Vietnam War, where he 

was stationed in Vietnam and Ft. Lee, 

Va. He subsequently maintained a 

medical practice in Geneseo, N.Y., 

for many years and lived nearby in 

Livonia, N.Y. He was an active 

member of the Rochester chapter of 

the New York State Medical Society. 

Shep was a fan of the New York 

Yankees and Giants. At Lafayette, 

he was a dean’s list student and a 

member of Alpha Chi Rho. Shep 

leaves two daughters and five 


Vincent “Vinnie” Bolcar died at 

age 75 at Kirkland Village near his 

home in Bethlehem, Pa. Vinnie was 

born in Phillipsburg. After high 

school, he spent four years in the Air 

Force as a staff sergeant and won a 

trophy as airman of the year. He 

subsequently went on to earn a 

bachelor’s in mechanical engineering 

at Lafayette and worked as an 

engineer at Western Electric and later 

at AT&T and Lucent Technologies in 

Allentown, Pa. Vinnie retired in 1999 

from Lucent as a senior engineer. At 

Lafayette, he was a member of Tau 

Class Notes 

1961–1962 

Beta Pi, the honorary engineering 

society. He is survived by his wife of 

47 years, Margaret, a sister, four 

children, and eight grandchildren. 

I hope to hear from more of you. 

My email address is listed above, so 

please drop me a line. Just one more 

request: Please let the College know 

of your current email address if they 

do not already have it. It will be to 

your benefit. The College has email 

addresses for only about half of us. 

Thus, we are not able to communicate 

reunion plans and other College news 

to many of you in a timely and 

economical manner. Thanks. 

Quiz answers: Peter Hanson, John 

Wurmser, Joe Nyce, Pete Pavia 

1962 

Jim Hartsel 

10755 Moss Hill Lane 

Cincinnati, OH 45249-3640 

(513) 489-6786 

jharts1940@aol.com 

President: Jeffrey Ruthizer 

Fund Manager: John R. Weis 

Reunion Chairs: James A. Lyttle, 

James M. Montgomery Jr., 

Gale R. “Sandy” Schwilk 

Web Page Administrator: Jim Hartsel 

I guess it is symptomatic of our age 

group, so I shouldn’t be surprised that 

I seem to be reporting obituaries in 

every recent column. This time I must 

report the passing of two classmates. 

Francis “Tom” Brennan passed 

away at his home in Woodbury, N.J., 

Aug. 8. Tom worked at Summit Bank 

in Woodbury for 35 years, retiring in 

2001. He was a member of the 

National Guard, the American Legion, 

the White Oaks Sportsman Club, and 

a past member of the West Deptford 

(N.J.) Rotary Club. He is survived by 

his wife of 42 years, Edrie, daughter 

Ann Elizabeth Bathavic, son Colin, 

brothers David and James, and several 


Peter Edward Vogel Sr. of Forks 

Township, Pa., died Oct. 24 at Easton 

Hospital. Peter graduated from the 

Storm King School in Cornwall-on- 

Hudson, N.Y., and Dean Junior 

College before he attended Lafayette. 

He had worked in various sales 

positions in the scientific metrology 

field for firms such as Guideline and 

Panasonic and retired from a sales 

position for Weichert Realty in Easton. 

Pete served in the Air Force in airborne 

telemetry at Vandenberg and Patrick 

Air Force bases. He was an avid 

fisherman, hunter, and sprint car racing 

enthusiast and was a member of St. 

Jane Frances de Chantel Catholic 

Church in Palmer, Pa. He is survived by 

Joan, his wife of 43 years, sons Peter Jr. 

and Timothy, and a daughter, Kathleen. 

I had a nice Christmas greeting 

from Pete Knudsen down in Texas. 

He reported a rare occurrence: a white 

Christmas on the prairie! 

George Ealer sent a very interesting 

letter, and since George writes so well, 

and I am getting lazy in my old age, 

I will include most of it to conclude 

(read: pad) this month’s column: 

“After reading the last Lafayette 

Magazine, I decided I had to write an 

update of sorts on where we are in 

life. My wife of 44 years and I lived in 

one house in New Jersey while I 

worked for Union Carbide for 40 

years. We moved to our present 

address in Georgia when I retired in 

2001. We have three sons who are 

spread out over a wide geographical 

area, as is the wont of the next 

generation, and I am convinced that 

they are the better for it. 

“Tim, 42, lives here in Georgia, has 

an associate’s degree, and spent 14 

years in the Air Force as an electronics 

specialist. Now he is the manager of a 

countywide 911 system. He has given 

us two grandchildren; Chris is 19 and 

works in computers, and Katherine is 

15 going on 18 (shudder!) and a 

sophomore in high school. Tim, a 

marathoner trying to get his time 

down so he can run the Boston 

Marathon, also loves horses. John, 

40, graduated from the University 

of Iowa and then from the University 

of Southern California School of 

Cinematic Arts. He lives in Los 

Angeles and is a director/ 

cinematographer for numerous full 


length and short movies, 

commercials, industrial ads, and 

documentaries. We do not look at 

movies like we used to since we 

learned more about how they are 

made! Jim, 40, graduated from 

Williams College and spent time in 

graduate programs at Yale and 

UCLA before deciding to go into 

computers. He built a full-service 

computer company with another 

person in Los Angeles, and then he 

moved to Hood River, Ore., where 

he consults in the computer industry. 

He is into multiple sports activities, 

including wind surfing, skiing, 

showshoeing, biking, sailing, and 

marathon running. 

“My wife Mary was an organist/ 

schoolteacher and worked for AT&T 

while we were in New Jersey. In 

Georgia, she stays very busy in many 

programs serving the community, 

but her passion now is exercise and 

athletics. She competes in local sprint 

triathlons and often places first in her 

age group. She has qualified for and 

competed in both the sprint triathlon 

and numerous freestyle swimming 

events in the Senior National Games. 

I enjoy gardening, especially 

hybridizing daylilies. I am involved 

in many church activities, coordinate 

four blood drives a year, and also 

compete in the statewide Golden 

Olympics in the 100-meter dash and 

various walking events. My knees 

object to too much running. Mary 

and I both walked the full Portland 

Marathon in 2007. It was worth the 

eight hours to do it, but we don’t 

need to do that again! Life has been 

good, and I look forward to more of 

it. While the old times were good, the 

present times are better. And it has 

been interesting over the years to 

watch the Class of ’62 column move 

toward the front in Lafayette 

Magazine !” 

Well, that empties the mailbag for 

this issue. I write this from Naples, 

Fla., where we spent the winter 

months. We planned to see Dick 

and Mary Gilbert while down there 

and to stop in Tennessee on the way 

home to visit with Ted and Beverly 

Class Notes 

1962–1963 

Elsasser. In the meantime, please 

take a few minutes to send me a note 

on what you’re doing. I will need 

some material for the column! Until 

next time, may God bless. 

1963 

D. Frederick Day 

52D Springfield Ave. 

Summit, NJ 07901 

fred_day7@yahoo.com 

Dr. Michael A. Stillman 

131 San Marco Drive 

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 

drstills@aol.com 

President: John H. Cooper III 

Fund Manager: Robert T. Burns 

Reunion Chair: Ronald A. Garfunkel 


L. Steven Minkel, 

steveminkel@aol.com 

Joe Gillings gained first team New 

Jersey All-State Baseball honors, 

among other awards, and for that was 

inducted into the New Brunswick 

High School Athletic Hall of Fame 

last May for his outstanding sports 

achievements. 

Jack Stutz retired at the end of 

2009 as president and CEO of 

Tamco Steel after a 47-year career in 

the steel industry spanning the 

transformation from small, local, “bar 

mills” into diversified producers of 

long products. He had formerly 

worked for Wheeling-Pittsburgh 

Steel, Marathon Steel, and 

Birmingham Steel. Stutz, who built a 

strong reputation as a troubleshooter 

and then as an operations specialist 

headed the Rancho Cucamonga, 

Calif.-based reinforcing bar producer 

for 13 years. Stutz, whose football 

exploits as a high school and college 

running back landed him a place in 

the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of 

Fame, joined Tamco in 1997. 

Wayne Boulton has retired as a 

Presbyterian minister after serving 

for one year as pastor of the oldest 

Congregational church in the U.S., 

First Church in Charlestown, Mass. 

The Fred Day family is happy to 

announce the Dec. 11 engagement of 

son Graham Day ’99 to Kelly Knapp 

(University of Virginia), both of 

Raleigh, N.C. 

In January, Michael Stillman 

coordinated a mini Lafayette reunion 

at BallenIsles Country Club in Palm 

Beach Gardens, Fla. Ron Garfunkel 

and Sandy were in town and enjoyed a 

great evening with Michael and Esther, 

and Steve and Elyse Perl. We even got 

to sing “Way Down in Easton” just 

before dessert. Michael runs into Ted 

Poritz often at duplicate bridge events 

around the area. Ted plays for the Ibis 

bridge team and Michael for the 

BallenIsles team. Ron, our reunion 

chairman, and Esther are already 

working on the uniforms and promise 

to make this a most memorable and 

fun weekend. All of the above are 

committed to attend our 50th in 

2013. You only get one chance to 

attend your 50th—be there. 

At the annual Summit (N.J.) 

Antique Car Exhibit last October, we 

talked to one of the entrants, Joe 

Cornell ’62, and his wife, Anka, who 

were showing his 1956 Triumph and 

a newly restored 1966 Mustang, 

pictures online. 

It is with sadness that we 

announce the loss of two of our 

classmates: 

Morris “Butch” Gillet of Viera, 

Fla., died Sept. 15, after living in 

Scotch Plains/Fanwood, N.J., for 36 

years. He moved to Florida in 2005. 

He had been the owner/operator of 

Standard Nipple Works Inc. for 30 

years and the owner/operator of 

Essel Paint & Wallpaper in Gillette, 

N.J., for 10 years. After retirement, 

Butch enjoyed spending time with 

family and friends and boating. He 

is survived by his wife of 44 years, 

Karen, and their three sons: Bill, 

Jason, and Brad. 

Robert Hager of Carlisle, Pa., 

died Aug. 28 at home after a long 

illness. After graduating from 

Lafayette with a degree in economics 

& business, he added graduate 

degrees from Purdue University and 

Western Baptist Seminary. He is 


survived by his wife, Janette, 

daughters Elizabeth, Anna, and Sarah, 

and sons Jonathan and Matthew. 

1964 

Stephen H. Green 

Dolchin, Slotkin & Todd P.C. 

2005 Market St., 24th Floor 

Philadelphia, PA 19103 

(215) 751–1920 

(215) 665-1565 (fax) 

sgreen@dolchin.com 

President: Gordon R. Evans 

Fund Manager: Jeffrey P. Brown 

Reunion Chair: Jeffrey P. Brown 


Thomas L. Greenbaum, 

tlg@groupsplus.com 

The Honorable Bill Wertheimer sent a 

fact-filled note. Still on the New Jersey 

Superior Court bench (25 years), still 

married to Kate (35 years), still has two 

lacrosse-playing sons (Boomer and 

Liam), and now has a prodigal 

grandson (Mason). He then concluded 

that, given the facts and his personal 

observation of the participants in his 

life, he has no complaints “by all 

reasonably objective standards.” 

Bill Pedersen, who learned how to 

fly in a cornfield in Forks Township, 

Pa., returned to the Hill for the first 

time in 30 years. He liked what he 

saw. Still living in North Carolina, Bill 

spends his time on ham radio, sailing, 

kayaking, cycling, and traveling, most 

recently to New Zealand. He invited 

all of us to stay at his house but failed 

to provide an address or directions. 

Phil Linker proudly reported that 

son Dan ’99 and his wife, Lauren, 

brought grandson Ryan Bruce Linker 

(Class of 2026) into the family to 

provide balance, given the prior 

arrivals of Abigail and Heidi, 

daughters of daughter Carrie 

Almskog ’97. Phil and Ingke live in 

Bayport, N.Y., but do a lot of sailing 

in summer and skiing in winter, and 

Phil continues to recruit prospects as 

one of the longest-serving AARs. 

Tom Greenbaum also reported 

that another grandchild was born, 

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Kathryn Sophia, daughter of son 

David and his wife, Laura. 

Sad to report: the death of Robin 

N. Wolfe, one of our undefeated 

College Bowl team, a tenacious 

New York litigator. 

I was also saddened to note the 

passing of Stephen G. “Jerry” Miller 

’62 and Klaus Fischer ’66, both 

fellow Solesmen. Jerry was the best 

intramural basketball player I saw 

in my four years; Klaus was a math 

professor at George Mason who 

treasured the Upper Hamilton 

Gravediggers (Steve Yolen, et al.). 

Both were very good people. 

An Addendum from the College: 

The College apologizes for and would 

like to correct an error that was made 

in the 2008–09 Summary of Giving 

online publication. Charles A. Corson 

was accidentally listed in the “Loyal 

Leopard” donor section when he should 

have been listed among the “Marquis 

Founders” donors. In addition, he 

remains a sustaining member (10-plus 

consecutive years) of the Marquis 

Society. The corrections have been 

made to the publication, but Lafayette 

wanted to inform the entire class as 

well. Thank you to Charlie, and the 

Class of ’64, for your consistent and 

generous support of Lafayette in honor 

of your 45th reunion year. 

1965 

Marshall J. Gluck 

1133 Park Ave. 

New York, NY 10128-1246 

mjg@robinsonbrog.com 

President: Edward A. McNally 

Fund Manager: Howard N. Heller 

Reunion Chair: 

Stuart N. “Buzz” Hutchison III 

This past fall I was at the College to 

attend the Colgate game, which was 

probably one of the most exciting and 

highest-scoring games I have ever seen. 

I drove up with Ken Winarick and 

Richard Koplin ’64 and saw other 

members of our class at the game, 

including Bruce Maggin, Howard 

Heller, Harold Ganz, and David 

Little. Ken’s son, Daniel, is in his third 

year in the Ph.D. clinical psychology 

program at Adelphi University. 

I also had the pleasure of attending 

a leadership council luncheon at the 

College in October and saw Bruce 

Maggin and Richard Grossman ’64, 

both trustees, as well as 50 other 

alumni and staff who are very much 

committed to Lafayette. 

On the personal side, my daughter, 

Abbe, previously served in Governor 

Corzine’s administration, practiced 

as a senior lawyer in New York City 

government, and then became a 

visiting scholar and lecturer at 

Columbia Law School. Now she has 

received an appointment as an associate 

professor at Columbia Law School, 

where she will be teaching classes in 

federalism, legislation and statutory 

interpretation, and the government’s 

role in health care. My grandsons, Ollie 

and Ryan, are now 3 years old and 

have moved beyond wanting to take 

everything apart to demanding the 

keys to the car so they can drive 

whenever they visit me during the 

summer in Wainscott, Long Island. 

I received a note from John 

Hench, whom I fondly remember 

from our days in Easton Hall. John 

tells us that he and his wife, Lea, have 

moved from their home of 34 years in 

Worcester to Shrewsbury, Mass., which 

is one town further to the east. John 

and Lea are now living in an “active 

adult” condo community, and we all 

know what that means. 

I also received a press release from 

the American Iron and Steel Institute 

naming John Kulicki the recipient of 

the 2009 Richard S. Fountain Award 

(see photo online), which is named for 

the founder of the Steel Bridge Task 

Force. The award is presented annually 

to recognize leadership in steel bridge 

research and outstanding efforts to 

advance American Association of State 

Highway and Transportation Officials 

(AASHTO) specifications. The award 

plaque recognizes John’s “significant 

contributions to the advancement of 

steel highway bridges through the 

design of major steel superstructures, 

the development of comprehensive 


idge design specifications, and 

providing inspiration to the Bridge 

Task Force and T-14 throughout all of 

our endeavors.” John is chairman and 

CEO of Modjeski and Masters Inc., 

which provides specialized technical 

expertise in the design, inspection, and 

rehabilitation of all types of bridges, 

with headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. 

John joined the firm as a staff engineer 

in 1974 and held subsequent positions 

as partner, president, and chief 

engineer. He was named CEO in 

2003. In his current position, John is 

principal-in-charge of technical 

development for structures projects 

and for the design team that analyzed, 

designed, and detailed the awardwinning, 

$80 million Second Blue 

Water Bridge in Port Huron, Mich., 

the first structure in the U.S. built 

using AASHTO’s new codes. 

In 2000, John was named Engineer 

of the Year by the Central Pennsylvania 

Engineers Week Council. He received 

a special citation from the National 

Steel Bridge Alliance for contributions 

to the art and science of bridge 

engineering in 2001. In 2002, he 

received a Lifetime Achievement 

Award from the American Institute of 

Steel Construction and was named 

Engineer of the Year by the 

Pennsylvania Society of Professional 

Engineers. In 2005, John received the 

Bridge Design Award from the Bridge 

Engineering Association and the 

Transportation Research Board’s Roy 

Crum Award. He was elected to the 

National Academy of Engineering in 

the Class of 2006, and in 2007, he 

presented the chairman’s lecture at 

the annual meeting of the AASHTO 

Subcommittee on Bridges and 

Structures. In 2008, John was named 

a lifetime national associate of the 

National Research Council. In 

addition, he has contributed to two 

engineering handbooks, Structural 

Steel Designer’s Handbook and The 

Bridge Engineering Handbook. He has 

authored or coauthored more than 80 

technical papers and presentations. 

Prior to joining the staff of 

Modjeski and Masters, John was a 

visiting assistant professor at Lehigh 

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University and an assistant professor at 

Lafayette College. He is a graduate of 

Lehigh University as well. 

Obviously, John has had a very 

successful career in the steel industry, 

and we all wish him continued success 

and honors in the future. 

I also heard from Rusty Shunk, 

who tells me after 34 years at 

Dickinson College and a total of 44 

years in education (including serving as 

assistant director of admissions under 

Dick Haines ’60 at Lafayette, 1967– 

70), that he retired as of Dec. 31. 

Rusty started his career at Easton 

Junior High and finished at Dickinson 

as executive vice president for College 

and Community Development for the 

last decade. He was also director of 

admissions at Wilson College under 

Charley Cole (former professor of 

history at Lafayette) from 1970–75 

and then went to Dickinson in 

admissions for 23 years, ultimately 

serving as dean of admissions. Rusty 

very proudly wrote that his grandson, 

Owen, was born this past year and is 

being spoiled by his parents, Rusty’s 

son, Scott and daughter-in-law, Marcie, 

in Cambridge, Mass. 

I also heard from my old Pi Lam 

roommate, Michael Roberts, who 

writes: “After college, I went to 

George Washington University 

Medical School and graduated in 

1969. I roomed with two other 

Pi Lams, Kenny Fox and Harvey 

Laskey, both of whom were going to 

law school at the same time. I married 

a girl from New Jersey and the 

University of Maryland, Ginger, who 

was an elementary school teacher in 

suburban D.C. We are still happily 

married after 41 years and have two 

grown children. My son, Andrew, an 

assistant professor of political science 

at Northwestern University, is married 

to a Czech woman, Lenka, and they 

have my only grandchild, Matthew, 

age 4, who I’m proud to say is 

bilingual. My daughter, Lisa, is an 

attorney whose career began with Paul 

Hastings in NYC and then in 

Washington, and now she’s with 

Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey. 

Some years ago while visiting my 

daughter at the University of Vermont, 

I rebonded with Ken Fox and Andy 

Golbert, who were both living in the 

Burlington area. 

“I am in private practice of 

rheumatology and internal medicine in 

Princeton, N.J. I am the former chief 

of rheumatology at the University 

Medical Center at Princeton. From 

time to time I see Bruce Miller, who 

lives in Princeton.” I told Mike that 

maybe more of our classmates will send 

me emails now that they see how nice 

it is to get caught up. 

I look forward to hearing from 

more of you. All you need to do is 

drop me a quick email and I will be 

glad to put your name in print. Again, 

I send you all my best regards. 

1966 

President: Bradford C. Pierce 

Reunion Chair: David J. De Vries 

1967 

Henry D. Ryder 

30 McClelland Ave. 

Pitman, NJ 08071-1059 

hryder@verizon.net 

President: William Vonroth Jr. 

Fund Manager: Christopher Cathcart 

Reunion Chairs: Laurence G. Cole, 

Thomas Royall Smith, Karl W. Pusch 


Henry D. Ryder 

I regret to inform you of the death 

of Tom Murray of North Conway, 

N.H., Dec. 9 from complications 

from a stroke he suffered two days 

earlier. Tom acquired the nickname 

“Moon” while living in South College 

our freshman year. He was a member 

of Zeta Psi, and in our junior year, 

he married Chris Shepardson from 

Centenary College. He then left 

Lafayette, was drafted two weeks later, 

and chose to enlist in the Air Force. 

Tom returned to Lafayette and 

received his degree in geology in 1971. 

He had been assistant director for the 

National Ski Areas Association, 

director of marketing for Group W 


Communications and the Nashville 

Network, and had been director of 

marketing and promotion for Gibson 

Guitars. He was retired but had 

planned to do radio reports of ski and 

snow conditions for Cranmore 

Mountain Resort in North Conway 

this winter. He was an avid skier and 

surfer. He is survived by son T. Holt 

Murray IV and his wife, Cortney, of 

Stow, Mass.; daughter Heather Murray 

and her husband, David Romiza, of 

East Sandwich, Mass.; two 

grandchildren; and his sister, Susan. 

Tom and Chris were married for 20 

years; though they divorced in 1986, 

they remained friends. We send our 

condolences to his family. 

Following graduation with an Army 

ROTC commission, Randy Thornton 

spent two years on active duty, took his 

business boards in Vietnam (where he 

served as a combat engineer platoon 

leader with the 9th Infantry Division) 

and completed an MBA at Columbia 

Business School. He spent 34 years at 

Citigroup in New York, doing 

corporate restructuring for the last 

20-plus years, retiring in 2004. Randy 

and Kate, his wife of 36 years, live in 

Vero Beach, Fla. (John’s Island), and 

Charlestown, R.I. (Quonochontaug). 

They have two daughters, Rebecca, 

32, who is married, and Jamie, 28. 

Randy is active on a number of 

corporate boards, including CEO of 

Comdisco Holding Company in 

Chicago, where he manages the 

monetization of the company’s assets 

for the benefit of bondholders and 

shareholders following its bankruptcy 

filing in 2001. He is also non-executive 

chairman of Core-Mark International, 

a San Francisco-based, broad-line 

distributor to convenience stores 

throughout North America. Randy has 

taken up golf and is working hard at a 

nascent game as well as keeping up 

with his passions for salt water fishing, 

tennis, and skiing. 

Marcia and Kirk Colton have been 

wonderfully married for 42 years and 

have been blessed with five children 

and seven grandchildren. Their 

daughter Anne married Carl 

Deirmengian last December in 

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Philadelphia. They live in Newtown 

Square, Pa., and are both physicians 

specializing in orthopedics, with 

separate practices. Rob (Kirk’s eldest), 

wife Kathy, and their three children 

love Alabama, where Rob works as a 

marketing and advertising director for 

Nucor Steel. Daughter Kris and her 

husband, John Reilly, live in Salisbury, 

Mass., and are parents of the other four 

grandchildren. Daughter Sarah is a 

product manager at MCS Industries, 

an international picture frame company 

in Bethlehem, Pa. The “baby,” 

Marybeth, lives in California and was 

laid off as a math teacher last June due 

to declining enrollment, but she was 

then rehired as interim registrar. Kirk 

writes: “We have been living in Easton 

since 1971 after two years at the 

University of North Carolina in Chapel 

Hill for my master’s degree in Spanish, 

and two years in the Army serving as 

the officer-in-charge of a petroleum 

tank farm in Germany (an interesting 

job for a Spanish major in Germany). 

After 18 years in Catholic education, 

the last 15 at Notre Dame High 

School in Green Pond, Pa. (13 years as 

principal), I was hired to start a parent 

committee at Lehigh University in 

1989. I am the director of development 

for the parents program at Lehigh 

and have served on the executive 

committee of the national Parents 

Fundraising Conference since 1992. I 

travel a great deal for Lehigh and make 

a few football and basketball games and 

an event at Lafayette when possible. I 

have been involved in our church and 

the community and was appointed by 

former Mayor Tom Goldsmith ’63 to 

the Easton Suburban Water Authority 

board in 2004, being joined last year 

by another fine Lafayette alumnus, 

Ted Veresink ’68.” 

John Gaines has taken two 

trips to Malawi to work for the nongovernmental 

organization Water 

for People. His work has consisted 

of monitoring water pumps and 

evaluation of sanitation and hygiene 

projects. Avoiding malaria, cholera, 

and keeping away from large crocs 

was part of the job. Interestingly, 

his roommate both times was Joe 

Goodwill ’04, an environmental 

engineer. Malawi is one of the ten 

poorest nations in the world, with 

extreme poverty and high rates of 

HIV/AIDS. Anyone wishing to help 

John with his work in Malawi can email 

him at Malawikids@hotmail.com. 

Tom Smith practices labor law for 

management with Jackson Lewis in 

Boston. Although he continues to 

practice in New England, a large part 

of his practice is now in Florida. He 

finds the commute to be challenging, 

but being in Florida in the winter 

has its advantages, especially when 

it comes to golf. At this point, 

retirement seems like a long time 

away. He and Sharon now have two 

grandchildren, and their youngest 

daughter is getting married this 

summer. We will be hearing from 

Tom in the not-too-distant future, 

as he is co-chairing our 45th reunion 

in 2012. 

Bill Rappolt has been married to his 

best friend, Pam, for 40 years. They 

have lived on their farm in Chadds 

Ford, Pa., for over 20 years. The 

Marquis de Lafayette was wounded 

within walking distance of their back 

pasture, and Marley & Me was filmed 

not far from them as well (no 

connection). Bill remains active at 

Lafayette, serving on the Maroon Club 

executive committee and chairing both 

the Hall of Fame committee and the 

Friends of Field Hockey. He is also the 

official P.A. announcer for the field 

hockey team. He is the non-paid vice 

president for investments for the Delta 

Upsilon Educational Foundation and 

also serves on a number of other boards. 

Bill and Pam received the Tower 

Hill Founders’ Award from Tower Hill 

School in Wilmington, Del. (where 

their children attended prep school), 

for a lecture series they started 12 years 

ago. Over the years, they have had 

speakers such as David Gergen, Elie 

Wiesel, Buzz Aldrin, George Will, 

Stephen Ambrose, Joe Biden, and John 

Lewis address current event issues and 

historical topics. If anyone is interested 

in attending these lectures at Tower 

Hill, Bill can get tickets and will send a 

flyer when they put together a program 


for next year. Contact him at rappolt1 

@verizon.net. 

Bill writes: “I am enjoying 

retirement with our granddaughter. 

Our youngest graduated from law 

school and has a job. Our middle 

daughter is going into the Peace 

Corps, and our oldest, after a stint 

of teaching at Harvard where she 

received her Ph.D., supervises 

government grants for a nonprofit. 

I still compete in the amateur jumper 

division and travel the mid-Atlantic 

states. I may be one of the oldest 

competitors, but as long as my horse 

will go, I’ll hang in there.” 

Jim Albus is semi-retired but still 

works as a consultant in mostly energy 

and environmental areas; some with 

his brother, Bob ’68. Jim and Monica 

are approaching their 40th wedding 

anniversary. Monica works for 

Continental Airlines as an overseas 

flight attendant. She enjoys the 

camaraderie of the friends she’s made 

over the years and probably won’t quit 

any time soon. Jim finds it enjoyable to 

be able to pop overseas now and then 

for a couple days’ break. Their 

youngest son, Michael, is a Navy pilot 

with a rank of lieutenant commander 

and is on duty at the Navy War College 

in Rhode Island. The Albuses have five 

grandchildren, and later this year, if all 

goes well, another two will be added. 

1968 

Howard S. Rednor 

984 S. Broad St. 

Trenton, NJ 08611-2008 

seeligandrednorlaw@comcast.net 

President: Robert E. Albus 

Fund Manager: Steven P. Bottcher 

Reunion Chair: William L. Messick 


William L. Messick, 

messy12@aol.com 

Paul Levy continues to serve in 

his position as president of the 

Philadelphia Center City District and 

Central Philadelphia Development 

Corp. He resides in Center City 

Philadelphia with his wife, Philadelphia 

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Inquirer editor and film critic 

Carrie Rickey. In November, Paul 

co-authored an op-ed commentary 

in the Inquirer that urged reform 

of the Philadelphia city tax system. 

According to the article, Philadelphians 

are the most heavily taxed large 

city residents in the United States, 

with a particularly egregious effect 

on small business. The article 

outlined four major recommendations 

for reversing the on-going downward 

spiral of jobs and businesses 

departing the city. 

As anyone who has viewed our class 

web site is aware, George Avril died 

Aug. 28. I want to thank Bill Messick 

for posting that information on the 

class web site. As a result of his 

information, I was able to track 

down information concerning 

George’s passing. George died at the 

Connecticut Hospice in Branford. He 

was the managing director and founder 

of the Maresfield Group LLC, a 

financial services consulting firm. 

Previously, he was an executive with 

the American Stock Exchange, where 

he served as managing director of its 

European headquarters in London. 

George was an avid skier and sports 

enthusiast and loved to cook. He also 

maintained homes in Fairfield, Conn., 

and Bondville, Vt. His wife, Shirley, 

brother, Fred, and sister-in-law, Merna, 

survive him. He is also survived by a 

sister-in-law, Linda, and her husband, 

Bruce Keller, and numerous other 

relatives, including an aunt and many 

nieces and nephews. George was 

predeceased by his parents. A life 

celebration for George was held in 

September at his residence in Fairfield. 

Memorial contributions may be made 

to Connecticut Hospice, 100 Double 

Beach Road, Branford, CT 06405. 

David Stone ’68 

I use the Alumni Online Community to help me 

connect with students who are fluent in the use 

of technology, have a global perspective, and who 

(like my brother Jim ’64 and me) love new ideas. 

I mentioned in my previous 

column that Edward A. Ahrens 

passed away April 9, 2009. I have 

further details to pass along. 

Edward lived in Hamburg, N.Y. 

He was the brother of Sally Adams, 

the godson of William and Jean Kleis, 

nephew of Whilma Kleis, Betty 

McCarrick, Jayne Ahrens, and the late 

Dorothy Wattengel, William Ahrens, 

and Evelyn Kleis. Donations in 

Edward’s name will be accepted by 

one of the following veteran 

organizations in which he was a 

member: American Legion Hamburg 

Post #527, VFW Hamburg Township 

Post #1419, or the AMVETS Boston 

Post #219. 

Unfortunately, that is all the news 

I have. Except for Bill Messick, no one 

provided me or the College with any 

information for the column. 

1969 

Michael L. Mouber 

4001 Lincoln Drive West, Suite F 

Marlton, NJ 08053-1525 

(856) 985-1000 

mlmlegal@aol.com 

President: John C. Becica 

Fund Manager: David W. Fraser 

Reunion Chair: David A. Piacente 


John C. Becica, becica@juno.com 

I heard from Earl Barlieb. When 

we attended Lafayette, Earl was a 

commuter and indicates that he spent 

more time working than he should 

have. Earl has been living in Europe 

for almost 40 years. At the time of 

graduation, Earl was commissioned in 

the military. Apparently as a result of 

graduating with a degree in 


mathematics, he ended up in missile 

training, which led to assignments in 

Germany and Vietnam. He left the 

service after three years and decided 

to pursue an international career. 

Prior to that, however, he obtained 

his MBA in international businessfinance 

from the Penn State Smeal 

College of Business and then did 

some audit work in Philadelphia, 

which resulted in a transfer to Paris. 

He has lived in Paris, London, 

Brussels, and Munich. Earl’s children 

were born in Bethlehem, Pa., raised in 

French and international schools in 

Paris, took degrees at Vassar College 

and Pratt Institute, and have their 

own careers and families in London 

and Berlin/Tel Aviv. Also, on a 

personal side, Earl’s wife of almost 

40 years has been ill for about eight 

years, and he states that he will stay 

in Europe because of the quality of 

health care. Earl also bought a house 

on Omaha Beach in Normandy, 

France, during the 50th anniversary 

year of D-Day. It is 700 miles each 

way from Munich, and he spends 

about a month there around Easter. 

All class correspondents received a 

communication from the College 

regarding changes to Class Notes in 

the newly renamed Lafayette 

Magazine. These changes are due to 

the pressures of the current economic 

turndown. As you already know, one 

recent edition of Class Notes was 

published online only. In addition, as 

of the Fall 2009 edition, the number 

of printed pages of Class Notes has 

been reduced by moving pictures and 

noncolumn features online. (It seems 

to me that the College is encouraging 

more viewing of the web site.) To 

meet the standards the College is 

providing to us at this time, we are 

asked to focus these columns on news 

about classmates. In the event of a 

limitation on space, other portions of 

the column may be edited down. 

However, I again ask that you send 

me information about yourselves so 

that we can all be aware of how 

you’re doing. I hope this column 

finds you all well. 

Class Notes 

1969–1970 

1970 

Michael H. LeWitt, M.D. 

1128 Cymry Drive 

Berwyn, PA 19312-2042 

(610) 647-0732 

(610) 993-0288 (fax) 

mlewitt@pol.net 

President: Gary R. Platt 

Fund Manager: Robert H. Strouse 

Reunion Chair: Gary R. Platt 

In May 1969, Barry Lewis, Gary 

Yngve Oleson, Rich Burns ’71, 

Larry Flohr, and P.J. Staun set out 

on the ultimate college road trip: the 

Kentucky Derby in Louisville. That 

event provided a rally point for the 

next 40-plus years. The five friends 

made the same trip the next year, 

then P. J. moved to Louisville to 

start his career with General Electric. 

Over the next four decades, this 

horseracing event provided the 

vehicle for many other classmates and 

their family and friends to maintain 

contact and continue making strong 

memories that were fostered at 


Over the years, Mike Kelly ’72, 

Gunard Travaglini ’72, Jim Bellis, 

and Gary Molchan became part of 

this road show. Tom McCombs 

never made it, but he sent a winning 

bet with the boys on Dust 

Commander in 1970! 

Barry retired from Alcoa and is still 

working full time in Evansville, Ind., 

in the aluminum business. Barry’s 

wife, Linda, passed away in 2003 

from cancer. In 2005, Barry married 

Kathleen; P.J. was the best man 

(again), and Gary and Rich attended 

the wedding. 

Yngve retired from United Airlines 

and started a trucking business in 

California. Most recently, he has been 

overcome with the lure of flying again 

with Worldwide Jet. His dear wife, 

Jodie, is maintaining the truck 

business and wishes Yng was home 

more often! 

Rich graduated in 1971 but was 

such a dear friend of all the ’70 

brothers that he must be mentioned 

here. Rick passed away in July due to 

heart disease. His friendship and 

leadership were a gift we will all miss. 

P.J., Gary, and Mike attended the 

funeral service and shared memories 

with his children, Rick and Keith, and 

his wife, Janet. 

P.J. writes: “Rich’s time at 

Lafayette was unique in that he was 

there at different times due to his 

service in the Army. He became 

friends with several years from the 

’60s and ’70s. I will leave it up to you 

all on the best way to communicate 

his passing in Lafayette Magazine 

and within your alumni groups.” 

P.J. attended the Breeder’s Cup 

in California. Horseracing is still a 

passion, and wife Karen continues to 

put up with him. After retirement in 

1995 from the traditional corporate 

world, P.J. built a pool service 

company in Scottsdale, Ariz., which 

provides enough excitement and 

freedom to enjoy helping others, 

travel, and still follow the horses. 

The 40th Lafayette Football Reunion 

’68 was a great time for all of us. 

Larry, where are you now? Larry 

and wife Ann came to the Derby in 

’76, and we assume they are retired 

now or still in New Hampshire with 

the Navy. We hope to see them at the 

40th reunion. 

Jim just retired this year. He and 

Nancy always go to the Preakness 

with P.J. (Molch used to go.) They 

enjoy visiting their children and 

traveling a lot. They still live in their 

first home, and we all love visiting 

them—such great hosts in 

Reiglesville, Pa. 

Molch has been retired for a while 

and is quite the history and nature 

buff now. During our annual trip to 

Baltimore, Molch led P.J. and Mike 

on a 6-mile trip along the Appalachian 

Trail. Molch and Deb are busy with 

grandchildren and enjoying golf. 

Coincidentally, they now live in 

Easton, Md. 

Tom has retired from teaching in 

his hometown of Carmichaels, Pa. He 

had heart surgery last October and 

missed the football reunion, but we 

called him, and he got to say hello to 


a lot of friends. He enjoys playing too 

much golf and still finds time for 

Joyce, his lovely wife. 

Jay Parini, one of America’s most 

distinguished authors, spoke at 

Lafayette in October on 13 books 

that changed America. (He has 

written more than 13 books.) I am 

sorry I couldn’t hear him speak in 

person, but I will see if it was 

recorded and try to provide a link 

thereto. 

Clayton Spangenberg III is living 

with his wife in Stockholm, S.D. He 

retired from the Army Reserve, then 

last year from the Department of 

Homeland Security’s Federal 

Emergency Management Agency. His 

email address is clay.spangenberg@ 

sls-enterprises-inc.com. 

George Wengen Jr.’s son, Mark, is 

looking to hear stories from us about 

his dad. You can email him at 

sturdy13@yahoo.com. Mark writes of 

his dad: “After graduating from 

college, he was employed for Sun Oil 

Co. in Marcus Hook, Pa., primarily as 

a chemical engineer, but he also did 

mechanical engineering for them. He 

was credited as the inventor of Patent 

No. 644210, filed Christmas Eve 

1975, for the benzene vapor control 

systems used in loading the tanker 

trucks at the refinery. He was also 

instrumental in the design for pressure 

relief valves beneficial to the reduction 

of pressure in the holding tanks, 

which reduces the risk of explosion in 

the field. He worked there until the 

mid-1980s when he took a job with 

Huber Corp. in Havre de Grace, Md. 

“He passed away Sept. 11, 1990, 

due to complications from diabetes. I 

would appreciate contact from anyone 

who knew my father in college, or 

afterwards, and I thank you for your 

time.” 

Unfortunately, I have to report 

the deaths of two of our classmates. 

William Shepard Hewlett, 60, 

of Granby, Conn., beloved husband 

of Rosa, passed away suddenly 

Aug. 8. He had a bachelor’s in history 

from Lafayette and an MBA from the 

University of Massachusetts. At the 

time of his death, he was a manager 

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1970–1972 

of financial business development at 

the Prudential Insurance Co. He had 

two surviving children, Andrea and 

Brett, three sisters, Lynne, Janet, 

and Beth, and his mother. Memorial 

donations may be made to the 

Granby Ambulance Association 

(www.granbyambulance.org) or to 

Hewlett House (hewletthouse.org), 

an organization that serves and 

educates cancer survivors. 

Peter R. Schenck, 61, of Wind 

Gap, Pa., died Aug. 17. He had a 

bachelor’s in English, worked in the 

auto parts distribution industry, and 

was a prolific writer and student of 

philosophy. He is survived by a sister, 

Gretchen, a niece, and two nephews. 

Donations in his memory may be 

made to American Society for the 

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

Our condolences go out to the 

families at this time of loss. 

Please think about coming back 

for our 40th reunion, June 4–6. For 

many of us, it will be the last reunion 

before retirement, and our situations 

may change in five years. Contact 

those you were friendly with when at 

Lafayette—ask them to come back. 

The more reasons you have to come 

back, the more fun you will have. 

Encourage spouse/family/partner/ 

significant other, etc., to join you. It 

won’t be just beer and barbecue. 

1971 

Arthur H. Goldsmith 

29 Forest Ave. 

West Newton, MA 02465-2503 

(617) 527-2640 

(617) 244-1670 (fax) 

arthurgoldsmith@earthlink.net 

President: Ronald C. Diment 

Fund Manager: Paul H. Dimmick 

Reunion Chair: Open 

It has been a number of years since I 

have done any self-reporting, but the 

dearth of other news enables me to 

self-promote. This past summer, I 

won the Newton Centre (Mass.) 

Senior (60 and older) Clay Court 

Tennis Tournament. An article and 

photo were published in The Newton 

Tab Sept. 16. 

Larry Magnant reports that 15 

unidentified classmates gathered in 

Williamsburg, Va., for unspecified 

fun and activities. 

NYC medical malpractice defense 

attorney and McAloon & Friedman 

law partner Gary Greenfield 

celebrated his 60th birthday with a 

soiree Sept. 20 in Long Island. In 

attendance were Steve Zamore, Mike 

Cohen ’70, Jim Strauss ’68, myself, 

our respective wives, and Gary’s 

children: Andrew, who runs junior 

golf tournaments for the Atlantabased 

American Golf Association, 

Matt, a senior researcher and 

producer for NBC’s Today Show, 

and Ruthie, a sophomore at Duke 

University. 

Thomas H. Murray III of North 

Conway, N.H., passed away Dec. 9. 

Tom lived in Longmeadow, Mass., 

for 13 years and Nashville, Tenn., for 

10 years prior to moving to North 

Conway in June. An Air Force veteran 

of the Vietnam War, Tom was the 

assistant director for the National Ski 

Association and director of marketing 

with Group W Communications and 

The Nashville Network. An avid 

surfer and photographer, Tom is 

survived by his wife, Cortney, son 

T. Holt, daughter Heather, and two 


1972 

Francis T. Julia Jr. 

20403 Sawgrass Drive 

Gaithersburg, MD 20886-4599 

francis.julia@fcps.org 

President: Edward C. Yakobitis Jr. 

Fund Manager: 

Ladimer Stadner Nagurney 

Reunion Chair: Raymond F. Green 


Francis T. Julia Jr. 

Hi, classmates. I hope that 2010 has 

been going well for you and your 

families as you read this in the spring. 

I do not have a lot of input for this 

column, unfortunately. 


I reported in an earlier column 

about Henry Dubroff’s change of 

career, as he started the Pacific Coast 

Business Times, a weekly business 

journal. Henry contributed a nice 

article to the Alumni Online 

Community site. 

Dr. Peter Mitchell reports that he 

is working for the University of 

Florence, Italy, as a patient safety 

expert, using human factor principles 

to reduce errors in hospitals. 

As for me, not really much is 

happening other than normal work 

and life. I have begun to explore 

geocaching. This is an outdoor sport 

where you use a handheld GPS device 

to find hidden boxes in urban, 

suburban, and rural settings. It’s 

enjoyable and a way to get outside 

to hike and have fun. 

That’s really all I have for this 

column. Let’s make a deal: For my 

next column, every classmate will send 

me a two to three-sentence email 

highlighting summer activities. Use 

my home email address, fjulia@juno. 

com. So, looking forward to hearing 

from you. Go ’Pards. 

1973 

Larry Gasda 

2010 Huntington St. 


(610) 758-9617 

lgasda@gmail.com 

President: Lee Hoeting 

Fund Manager: John W. Sullivan II 

Reunion Chair: James C. Roberts 


Caron B. Anderson, 

caron@towerproducts.com 

The December blizzard that hit 

the East Coast the weekend before 

Christmas enabled George Kuttruff 

to find the time to send along an 

update from Richmond, Va. George 

and his wife, Lynn, an executive with 

Bank of America, were headed home 

to Charlotte, N.C., after visiting family 

in Delaware and Pennsylvania, when 

the weather forced them to find refuge 

in Virginia. George has retired after a 

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1972–1973 

career in banking but is teaching 

American and African American 

literature at Central Piedmont 

Community College “virtually full 

time.” He described his job as a “pure 

pleasure circumscribed by many hours 

of reading and grading. We serve a 

very diverse population at the 

community college level, and the 

interaction is terrific.” George and 

Lynn have two children, Abigail and 

Aaron, and two “great” grandkids, 

Emma and Gavin. George still dabbles 

in antiques and works monthly shows 

in Charlotte. George also mentioned 

that Shahzad Akbar and his family 

stopped by on their way back from 

Atlanta to Richmond and that it was 

great to see him after so many years 

and to meet his wonderful family. 

They proceeded to call Pete Thomas 

in Atlanta and surprised him with New 

Year’s greetings! All three gentlemen 

indicated that they’d love to hear from 

you if you’re in their area. 

I had better luck outrunning that 

same blizzard that stranded George 

bringing my daughter home to 

Bethlehem from Boston University. My 

several trips to Boston over the past 

two years have taken me through 

Waterbury, Conn., and I’ve often 

wondered how Sean Butterly from 

nearby Watertown was doing. I was 

pleased to hear from Sean just a few 

days later, and I am happy to report 

that all is well with him and his family. 

It should surprise no one that Sean’s 

career has been filled with public 

service. He has served on the 

Watertown town council and in the 

Connecticut state legislature. He is 

currently an attorney with a private 

practice in Watertown, but he is deeply 

involved in public education. He has 

been a high school teacher and a coach 

and was elected to the Watertown 

school board in November. He has 

served with numerous organizations in 

Watertown and is the type of person 

every community needs. He and his 

wife, Dinah, a teacher, are the parents 

of two sons: Casey is an attorney, and 

Rory is an English teacher. 

Norman Browning sent an email 

reporting that he unsuccessfully 

dropped in on John Hughes while 

visiting family in Manchester-by-the- 

Sea, Mass. John was at a theological 

conference in Germany, and Norman 

hopes that John might send 

information to this column to let us 

all know how he’s doing. 

I remember frequently tuning into 

Larry Fast’s radio show on WJRH; 

he sent along a nice email updating 

us on what he’s been up to. “My 

A.B. history degree is finally getting 

some good use. I never made it to 

law school after graduation from 

Lafayette. Instead, I followed my 

hoped-for career in the music 

business as an electronic composer, 

producer, and recording artist. 

Though that has been a rewarding 

way to spend the last several decades, 

I actually had managed to absorb my 

history courses, plus a couple of 

semesters of architecture, urban, and 

engineering studies at Lafayette. After 

nearly 15 years of volunteering locally 

on historic preservation projects, I 

was appointed to two government 

historic boards in Morris County, 

N.J., in 2003. I’m chairing both the 

Morris County Heritage Commission 

and the Morris County Historic 

Preservation Trust Fund board. 

Along with the chair comes the title 

of Morris County Historian. The 

trust fund assesses projects and grants 

money for architectural historic 

preservation projects within the 

county. The heritage commission 

manages the government’s historic 

archives and public programs. 

“The connections with Lafayette 

College are strong because the site of 

the Marquis de Lafayette’s quarters in 

Morristown during the Revolutionary 

War is just up the road from our 

offices. Because of my focus on 

technological history, I’ve also been 

active with the Thomas A. Edison 

National Historic Park in West 

Orange, N.J., and the Bob Moog 

(Synthesizer) Foundation, tracing 

the history of electronic music. 

“I’m living in Long Hill 

Township, N.J., with my wife, 

Phyllis, who is originally from Bucks 

County, Pa. Over the last few years, 


we’ve restored and expanded our old 

house near the Great Swamp 

National Wildlife Refuge. I’ve 

continued with my music work, most 

recently touring and recording both 

solo and with my former Peter 

Gabriel bandmates. In the last 

decade, among other projects, I’ve 

created sonic identities for XM 

Satellite Radio and Tribune 

Broadcasting TV stations. The 

broadcast work is an extension of my 

audio production origins at WJRH. 

Some new album production work is 

planned for 2010. I also assist my 

wife in the business she founded, 

Sound Choice Assistive Listening, 

which manufactures infrared audio 

transmitters used by the hearing 

disabled. I developed the product 

line, including the electronic designs 

for which I received a few patents. 

An interesting turn for a history 

major. 

“No kids, just cats, but my niece 

Carolyn Fast will graduate from 

Lafayette as a member of the Class of 

’10. She’s the latest family member 

to attend and is from the third 

generation of Fasts, who have been 

coming to Easton since 1936. 

“Friends can find me on Facebook, 

LinkedIn, or at lfast@aol.com.” 

Scott Spitzer was elected mayor 

of Basking Ridge (Bernards 

Township), N.J. Scott was deputy 

mayor in 2009 and has served on the 

township committee for the past two 

years. He has served the township in 

various appointed capacities over the 

past 11 years, including five years as 

chair of the planning board. Basking 

Ridge has 27,000 residents and 

occupies 24 square miles in central 

New Jersey. Scott also serves as a 

trustee of the Bernards Township 

Education Foundation, which raises 

funds for supplemental financial 

assistance to the township’s public 

schools. He is a Lafayette Alumni 

Admissions Representative and is a 

member of Lafayette’s Alumni 

Admission Representative national 

board. He has also sponsored midyear 

externships and summer 

internships for Lafayette students 

Class Notes 

1973–1974 

during the past several years through 

the College’s Office of Career 

Services. Scott is senior vice 

president, general counsel, and 

corporate secretary of Bowne & Co. 

Inc., a New York Stock Exchangelisted 

company that is a leader in the 

financial communications industry, 

with $800 million in sales and 2,700 

employees in 50 locations worldwide. 

Bowne is also the oldest public 

company listed on the NYSE, and 

was originally organized in 1775. 

Alan Pralgever is partner at 

Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis in 

Roseland, N.J., specializing in 

business litigation. His daughter 

Jenny ’10 is a cheerleader and loves 

Lafayette and football. She is premed 

and a psychology major and 

hopes to work for a year before 

figuring out the rest of her life. 

Alan’s other daughter, Holly, is a 

junior at New York University and a 

speech pathology major who loves 

the City. Alan lives in Mendham, 

N.J., and still plays a lot of tennis and 

golf. He writes: “I saw a lot of 

Lafayette football this year; more 

than I did when I attended Lafayette. 

The new stadium and fieldhouse are 

magnificent, and the campus is 

stunning. Jenny said to me when I 

dropped her off this year, ‘I can’t 

believe this is my last year; I miss it 

already.’ Who could ask for anything 

more? All my best!” 

Caron Anderson reports: 

“We still have our home on Lake 

Wallenpaupack but want to do some 

traveling this year. That’s our excuse 

for buying a small camper—not road 

tested yet, but we did sleep in the 

yard to check it out.” 

Finally, Joel Nemec wrote to say 

he has nothing new to report but 

wants to wish everyone a healthy and 

happy 2010. I think that’s a fine way 

to end this column, and I hope to 

hear from more classmates in 

upcoming issues. 

1974 

Edward K. DeHope 

75 Fairwood Road 

Madison, NJ 07940-1460 

(973) 377-7338 

edehope@riker.com 

President: Rhoda C. Rothkopf 

Fund Manager: Robert A. Jacob 

Reunion Chair: Joseph P. Grimes 

Web Page Administrator: Jay H. Krall, 

jhkrall@earthlink.net 

Neil Gray reports he had a terrific time 

at our 35th reunion this past June, 

despite the fact that seating at dinner 

during the banquet got somewhat 

dispersed. (He did meet nice folks from 

’78.) Neil and former roommates John 

Hasnas (now residing in Virginia) and 

Mark Stephenson (Arizona) spent two 

fun-filled days reminiscing and 

Ultimate Frisbee-ing with fellow alum 

Marty Bernstein (New York) and 

Mark’s family. 

Neil’s eldest son, Ben, 29, who 

is choral director at the Deer Path 

Middle School in Lake Forest, Ill., 

had a full holiday concert series this 

December, including conducting 

select choirs with the Chicago 

Symphony Orchestra (quite an honor) 

and the Northern Trust Company. 

Middle son Jonathan, 25, re-entered 

academe in the new year as a graduate 

student at Loyola University in 

Baltimore pursuing his master’s in 

counseling education. And daughter 

Katie, 18, is a first-year student at 

Syracuse University with her own 

campus radio show, Z89, touting 

Top 40 British tunes. (She’s an 

Anglophile.) 

Bob Jacob writes that the entire 

Jacob clan gathered in Westfield, 

N.J., this past August to celebrate 

the 90th birthday of Bob’s father. 

Even his 93-year-old uncle was able 

to attend. 

Class President Rhoda Rothkopf 

advises that four Lafayette students 

benefited from the Class of 1974 

Internship Stipend this past summer. 

Our class raised over $22,000 to 

benefit student interns. 


Chris Noll received the 2009 

Distinguished Engineer of the Year 

Award last May from the American 

Society of Civil Engineers. Chris and 

wife Debra were in Panama in early 

January to attend a wedding. 

Joe Grimes writes that our class 

has a new web presence on Facebook. 

Joe has linked our old website to our 

Facebook page. Classmates on 

Facebook are encouraged to join the 

Lafayette College–Class of 1974 

group. Our class site has entertaining 

photos of the 2004 and 2009 reunion 

festivities. If anyone has trouble 

navigating Facebook from our site, 

please email Joe at josephpgrimes@ 

aol.com for the link. 

Joe also reports that daughter 

Lindsay ’08 is engaged to her 

counterpart co-captain of the men’s 

swim team, Jaryd Freedman ’08. A 

wedding is planned over Labor Day 

weekend. Lindsay has been accepted 

to law school and is set to begin 

classes this fall. This will bring the 

Grimes’ lawyer count to six: Joe and 

three brothers, a brother’s wife, and 

now Lindsay. Lindsay’s fiancé is 

attending Temple University School 

of Medicine (second year) and reports 

that Lafayette prepared him well for 

classes and lab work there. 

June Slotter provided an update of 

her life since graduation. June worked 

for two years at a bank in Chapel Hill, 

N.C., and obtained in-state residency. 

She went back to school and 


North Carolina in 1981 with a Ph.D., 

majoring in school psychology and 

minoring in clinical psychology. 

June married Ed Malachosky in 

1984. They moved to Coppell, Texas, 

where they resided for 16 years. Sons 

Edward and Christopher were born in 

Dallas and are true Texans. In 2000, 

the family moved to Spring, Texas, 

which is north of Houston. Ed works 

for Baker Hughes and has a master’s 

degree in chemistry from the 

University of South Carolina and an 

MBA from Southern Methodist 

University. June gave up her private 

practice when the family moved to 

Spring. She volunteers for a number 

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1974–1975 

of organizations, but June’s favorite is 

Operation Interdependence, which 

ships care packages to troops stationed 

overseas. 

Eldest son Edward is on a full 

academic scholarship to Washington 

and Lee University and is a member 

of Sigma Nu fraternity. Youngest son 

Christopher is a plebe (first-year 

student) at the United States Military 

Academy in West Point, N.Y., where 

he is a member of the rifle team. Both 

boys are Eagle Scouts and graduated 

in the top 10 of their 800-strong 

graduating classes. 

Your correspondent is starting his 

32nd year of practicing law with Riker, 

Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti 

LLP in Morristown, N.J., a 

150-lawyer firm that dates back over 

100 years. Our family spent the 

holidays in Los Angeles, where we 

enjoyed the company of our daughter, 

Aimee, who works and attends school 

there. Temperatures near 70 degrees 

on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 seemed strange, 

but I could get used to it. 

1975 

Carol Pescatore Harpster 

95 Oxford St. 

Glen Ridge, NJ 07028-1605 

carol.harpster@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: Paul Steckel 

Fund Managers: Laneta J. Dorflinger, 

David R. Taschler 

Reunion Chair: Charles P. Kurowsky 

Web Page Administrator: J. Gary Caputi 

Thank you all for filling my email box 

for the past two columns. Keep the 

good news coming! 

Well, they say nothing brings folks 

together like a wedding or funeral. 

When Maureen Sundman Angevine 

passed away in September 2008, her 

good friends from Lafayette, family 

members, and other dear friends 

vowed to get together each year on or 

near her birthday to remember the 

impact she had on all of us. This past 

December, we laughed, cried, and 

remembered as we gathered at the 

Union League in Philadelphia. I 

joined Jane Leader Janeczek, Pat 

McBride Haines, Bob Angevine ’72, 

and others as we raised our glasses to 

our beloved friend. Nancy Miller 

Rodman was unable to attend but 

was there in spirit. Live on, Maureen. 

I hope you have met Paul Newman, 

who departed this Earth the same day. 

Bob Leighton just missed our last 

deadline and reports that he is 

working as an air quality expert 

specializing in air quality problems 

associated with construction work 

on steel structures painted with leadbased 

paint. Now based in Great 

Neck, N.Y., Bob has four children and 

reveals that his real passion is longdistance 

bicycling. Bob logs 5,000– 

6,000 miles a year and recently 

completed the Bicycle Tour of 

Colorado, riding 585 miles in six 

days in the Rockies. 

At Homecoming this past fall, we 

tailgated with Nancy Kuenstner, 

Bruce Haines ’73, and Elsie Rogers 

Davis and her husband, Neil Davis. 

(See photo online.) The Davis’s 

daughter, Kate ’09, is in Baltimore 

working for the National Foundation 

for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Their 

son, Mark ’12, found the time to stop 

by the tailgate and grab some free food! 

Neil just celebrated five years as vice 

president of operations at the Emerging 

Technology Centers, a nonprofit tech 

business incubator affiliated with the 

city of Baltimore. 

The Lafayette legacy continues as 

Steven Goldberg reports that his 

daughter, Stacey, is a sophomore at 

Lafayette. She was recently selected 

as news editor for The Lafayette, 

continuing the 130-year tradition 

of that great newspaper! 

In case you are wondering 

whatever happens to former Leopard 

mascots, Wes Wubbenhorst is now 

an Episcopal priest working in the 

Diocese of Maryland, serving as youth 

missioner. Wes lives in Annapolis, 

Md., and remains busy shuttling his 

five kids all over town. Wes gets back 

to campus every year for the 

Lafayette–Lehigh game with Scott 

Pyle ’76, Bruce Groves, and Bob 

Wilson ’76, where they raise their 


glasses, call Paul Schwartz ’74, 

and tell him he should leave Michigan 

and get to a game! 

Jan Petro takes the prize for the 

longest Christmas letter! He is now 

retired, while wife Marsha continues 

to work for Healthzone Chiropractic. 

The Petros have two children, Michael 

and Carlye, who are out of college and 

successfully employed, with no 

weddings in the foreseeable future. 

After 30 years in Westfield, N.J., 

Liz Stellar Fallon and Chip Fallon 

’73 moved to North Charleston, S.C. 

While Chip finally admits to being 

retired, Liz works as a special 

education teacher at a Title I school— 

very different from AP psychology in 

Millburn, N.J. Their three daughters, 

Katie, Becky, and Caroline, made the 

move and love the warmer weather. 

The Fallons are delighted with the 

Charleston area and encourage others 

to come down and see for themselves! 

No retirement yet for John 

Reimold. He has been in private 

practice optometry for 30 years in 

Greenville, Pa. He and his wife have 

raised four very successful children. 

Son John is a professional basketball 

player in Europe; Nolan is the left 

outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles; 

Shamus is in medical school in Erie, 

Pa.; and Dierdre is an international 

model, based in Manhattan. 

And last but not least, Deborah 

Maurer Gildersleeve and her 

husband live in nearby Hunterdon 

County, N.J. Daughter Kailen, a 

College of William & Mary graduate, 

is married and living in Williamsburg, 

Va. Erin recently received her master’s 

degree in economics from the 

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 

and plans to remain in the U.K. 

Deborah is president of a specialty 

detergent manufacturer in central 

New Jersey, where working and 

running keep her busy and fit. 

As a reminder, our 35th reunion 

is scheduled for June 4–6. Look 

for further announcements and 

information, but mark your 

calendars now! 

Class Notes 

1975–1977 

1976 

Betsy Huston Fadem 

fademb@aol.com 

Susan Krieger Harris 

sjharris@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: James A. Curnal 

Fund Managers: Lori Glauberman Rubin, 

Debra Waldele Champagne, 

Ellen Kravet Burke, 

Susan Barnes Carras 

Reunion Chairs: Ann Shellenberger Bell, 

Susan B. Tischler 


James P. Simos, njss@aol.com 

Springtime greetings to the Class of 

’76. There isn’t much to report this 

time around, so I am making a plea 

right from the start of this article for 

you to send Susan or me your news. 

We are thankful to Doug Tuttle, 

who took time to report exciting news 

about Bill Starr. Bill received 

Lafayette’s Alumni Association 

Chairperson of the Year Award for his 

alumni work in Texas. The person 

honored by this award is “one who 

during the past year has given 

exemplary leadership to his or her area 

committee as demonstrated through 

effective communication and training 

activities and through the involvement 

of the committee members and the 

success of their efforts.” 

Congratulations, Bill! You make us all 

proud. Bill was presented with this 

award on campus and was cheered on 

by Doug, Dick Garvin, Rich 

Werner, Nick Carter ’77, and Rich 

O’Hara ’77. After the presentation 

ceremony, they all went to the 

Lafayette–Colgate football game and 

then back to Dick’s house in Strafford, 

Pa., for a great dinner. The group 

concluded that it took all of them to 

remember what actually happened 

during their four years on the Hill. 

Sad news to report about the death 

of Richard W. Nichols. Richard’s 

wife, Karen Lefchuk Nichols ’77, 

advised us that Richard passed away 

Oct. 28, 2008, after a short but hardfought 

fight with pancreatic cancer. 

Richard was an actuary in the 

corporate finance division of Travelers 

in Hartford, Conn. He is survived by 

his wife and two children, Stephen 

and Jennifer. His family writes that 

Rich enjoyed helping people in many 

unsung ways, whether he was 

designing a system to score swim 

meets, serving as the membership 

secretary at the Metacon Gun Club, 

or simply being a coach and mentor. 

He will be missed. 

By the way, I took the plunge and 

established a Facebook account, so if 

it is easier to find me there, please do. 

I am listed as Betsy Huston Fadem. 

Thanks ahead of time for your 

attention and help for rounding up 

more class news. 

Betsy 

1977 

D. Kirk Harman 

1510 Unionville-Wawaset Road 

West Chester, PA 19382-6755 

kharman@harmangroup.com 

President: Barbara Levy 

Fund Manager: Michael A. Saffer 

Reunion Chairs: Barry I. Bregman, 

Michael Margello, 

Nancy Edgar Winkler 


Paula Askman Byrum, 

paula@academuc.net 

Charles “Chuck” Cuttic was elected 

to the board of directors for the 

Association of Physician Assistants 

in Cardiovascular Surgery, the 

professional organization that 

represents physician assistants in that 

surgical subspecialty. He also became 

one of the first group of PAs granted 

associate membership in the Society of 

Thoracic Surgeons. Chuck’s youngest 

son, Alex, made the varsity lacrosse 

team last year as a first-year student at 

Downingtown (Pa.) High School West 

as goalie, and his eldest son, Evan, is 

completing his junior year at West 

Chester University. Evan hopes to 

teach history at Downingtown West 

and eventually become the head 

baseball coach there, where he played 


third base for the Whippets. Chuck is 

living in West Bradford, Pa., but 

looking south for possible retirement 

locales. (“What’s retirement?”) 

Class Fund Manager Michael 

Saffer traveled to Lafayette in 

November to accept an award on 

behalf of our class. Our class received 

the Lafayette College Fund Award (for 

the second year in a row) for the 

nonreunion class achieving the highest 

fund total. We raised almost $250,000. 

Great job, Michael and Class of ’77! 

Michael also reported that Doug 

Miller and Glenn Forrest received 

awards recognizing their 10 years of 

participation in the College’s 

externship program. 

Timothy Bannon was inducted 

into the Verona (N.J.) High School 

Hall of Fame in December. He was the 

alumni association’s athlete inductee. 

Tim’s father, the late Robert Bannon, 

was inducted in 2005. While at VHS, 

Tim was the captain of the soccer, 

basketball, and baseball teams and 

earned All-State, All-County, and All- 

Conference honors in all three sports. 

As we know, Tim was a standout 

player at Lafayette in both basketball 

and baseball. Tim is the director of 

business development at Neil Cerbone 

Associates in South Orange, N.J. 

Peter Whipple received an 

honorary Doctor of Laws degree 

from Elizabethtown College last May. 

Peter is the longtime Elizabethtown 

borough manager and was honored 

for his efforts involving water, sewer, 

transportation, commercial, and 

residential planning. The borough 

received the Governor’s Award for 

Local Government Excellence in 

2009. 

Barry Bregman has been 

appointed chair of the Alumni 

Association’s Career Services 

Committee. Barry is vice chair of the 

executive search firm CTPartners in 

New York. He has hosted a number 

of Lafayette students for externship 

over the last few years. 

Class Notes 

1977–1979 

1978 

Kent R. Buzard 

9113 Cotton Press Road 

Charlotte, NC 28277 

(704) 910-1495 

buzardk@mac.com 

President: Charles M. Snyder 

Fund Manager: John A. Broderick 

Reunion Chairs: Alan C. Good Jr., 

Carol Coffey Tarsa 


Melinda Kwasnik Kraus, 

msubq@aol.com 

Hello, ’78 classmates. I got an email 

from the College the other day 

requesting that class correspondents, 

for reasons of economics and a green 

initiative, limit our columns to just 

business; in other words, no more 

chit-chat. My first reaction, as a child 

of the ’70s, was to dust off my picket 

sign and organize a march on Markel 

Hall! However, after thinking about 

it, I’m going to encourage everyone 

to take out a pen and write a check to 

the Lafayette College Fund, lest you 

miss a single word of this poetic prose. 

In all seriousness, the prolonged 

recession has reduced the amount of 

alumni support for the College, so 

those of us who can need to step up. 

Since I received zero letters and 

emails after my last thrilling column, I 

have been forced to glean information 

from Facebook, or as Bob Baer put it, 

“The largest single invasion of privacy 

since the cell phone.” Janet Helms 

received an MBA from Drexel 

University in ’85 and is now employed 

as a product manager for Fiserv Inc. 

in Valley Forge, Pa. Jan Grayson 

Grayzel owns a personal training 

business in New Jersey. Too bad she 

isn’t closer; I could use the 

motivation. James Perito graduated 

from the University of Connecticut 

School of Law in ’83 and is now a 

“dirt lawyer,” specializing in real 

estate in New Haven, Conn. 

Domenick Colangelo lives in 

Valhalla, N.Y. Sorry about the Giants, 

Dom; there is always next year! David 

Dibbell lives in South New Berlin, 

N.Y., and works for Procter & 

Gamble as a technical leader. Cindi 

Sabo lives in good, old Easton, and 

her daughter, Kelly Bernabucci, is a 

member of the Class of ’13. Kelly 

cheers for the ’Pards, and Cindi had 

some great photos of the Lafayette– 

Lehigh game on her Facebook page. 

Someday, I need to get back to one of 

those, but I have to admit it is a lot 

warmer at the telecast party here in 

Charlotte. Cindy Fox Kuhn is 

married with three children and lives 

in Davenport, Iowa. Cindy is the 

director of the Habitat ReStore, which 

generates income to build Habitat for 

Humanity houses and recycles 

building materials. I have worked on a 

couple Habitat houses, and it is a 

great organization. 

In my three years as class 

correspondent I have been 

consistently amazed at the great things 

you, my classmates, have accomplished 

and are currently doing. This is our 

time, ’78ers; we have the next 10–15 

years to make our mark on this great 

nation! And by all means, send me the 

news when you do. As for me, I’m 

heading out to sell something, and 

perhaps we can get this economy 

going again. 

1979 

Thomas J. Feehan Jr. 

5005 40th Place 

Hyattsville, MD 20781 

tfeehan2@aol.com 

Barbara Bingham Kalavik 

36 Prospect Ave. 

Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 

(973) 839-1472 

bkalavik@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: Laurie B. Samet 

Fund Manager: Laurie B. Samet 

Reunion Chairs: Bonnie Butler, 

Barbara Felter Liptak 


Laurie B. Samet, lsametpt@ptd.net 

Steve Oplinger wrote to say that 

daughter Lauren is a graduate of 

Holy Cross College and works at 


JPMorgan, while son Justin is 

graduating from Yale University and 

will work for Morgan Stanley. He 

and Missy are also proud parents of 

Eric, a first-year student at Lafayette 

doing very well and playing lacrosse, 

and youngest son Matthew, an eighth 

grader at the Pingry School in 

Martinsville, N.J. Steve will be 

sponsoring several internships for 

Lafayette undergraduates this year at 

Credit Suisse Securities, where he is 

managing director of leveraged finance. 

Rand Fishbein has been elected to 

the board of governors of JewishGen, 

a nonprofit organization dedicated to 

research and promotion of Jewish 

genealogy and an affiliate of the 

Museum of Jewish Heritage in New 

York City. Randy is a widely respected 

national security expert and president 

of Fishbein Associates Inc., a public 

policy consulting firm in Potomac, 

Md. After Lafayette, he earned his 

Ph.D. with Distinction in 

international studies from Johns 

Hopkins University and was a 

Fulbright Scholar at St. Anthony’s 

College, Oxford University, and again 

at the University of London. He 

previously served on the U.S. Senate 

Appropriations Committee as a 

professional staff member and is 

frequently called upon to advise 

members of Congress in his areas 

of expertise. 

Laurie Samet received her 

doctorate in physical therapy in 

August from Regis University in 

Denver. She owns and manages 

Laurie Samet Physical Therapy in 

East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

Major General James M. “Mike” 

Milano assumed command of the 

Armor Center at Fort Knox, Ky., 

Aug. 27. Prior to this appointment, 

Mike served in Iraq as commanding 

general, Civilian Police Assistance 

Training Team, Operation Iraqi 

Freedom. He received his rank of 

major general Nov. 3, 2008. 

Mike Bell wrote to say that a 

group of Phi Delts from the Class 

of 1979 had a mini reunion in 

October at fabled Pinehurst, N.C. 

Attendees included Ted Tarsa, Bill 

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Kievit, Mike Doscher, and Carl 

Mischinski. They were also joined by 

Rob Kurz ’78 and Kevin Carlisle 

’78 and shared a weekend of great 

golf, food, drink, and, I imagine, 

some great stories. Mike has retired 

after selling his business to Walgreens- 

Opticare and then managing it for 

them for a year, and he and Cathy 

split their time between their homes 

in Shrewsbury, N.J., and Tequesta, 

Fla. Eldest son Michael is a 2008 

grad, middle son Brian is a 

sophomore at Brookdale College, and 

youngest son Kevin is a junior at 

Christian Brothers Academy in 

Lincroft, N.J. 

Terry Madonia Breslin provided 

an update on her family. Son Michael 

completed his first year at Hamilton 

College, majoring in theater and 

singing in several musical ensembles. 

Son Tommy is a junior at Pope John 

XXIII Regional High School in 

Sparta, N.J., and a very successful 

cross-country runner, being named to 

the All-County team and receiving 

honorable mention at the All- 

Conference level as well as a Coaches’ 

Award. Up next for him is basketball 

season, where he starts at the guard 

position. Youngest son Kevin is in 

eighth grade, plays basketball in three 

different leagues, and is looking 

toward high school, hopefully at Blair 

Academy in Blairstown, N.J. 

Dr. Richard Salman operates in 

private practices as an oral and 

maxillofacial surgeon in Howell, N.J., 

and Monroe Township, N.J. He is 

also an attending surgeon at 

Monmouth Medical Center and the 

New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. 

Oldest daughter Alyssa graduated 

from Dickinson College and is a 

second year law student at Tulane 

University Law School. Daughter 

Rebecca is a senior at Franklin & 

Barbara Kerlavage Siegel ’79 

Many of us are looking for new jobs for one reason 

or another. I find that reconnecting [through the 

Alumni Online Community] helps to broaden the 

network for a more effective job search, and I also 

use the job-related tools on the Lafayette web site. 

Marshall College, and son Jonathan is 

a first-year student at Tulane 

University. Richard says that with two 

children at Tulane, he frequently visit 

New Orleans and can safely say the 

town would make anyone who 

attended Lafayette in the late ’70s 

feel at home! 

Laura Roberts sent a note saying 

she is beginning the college search 

this year with daughter Becky, a senior 

in high school, and that son Patrick is 

13 and an awesome electric guitarist. 

Laura owns and runs Right Angle 

Research in Lansdale, Pa. I had a 

chance to catch up with her, Cathy 

Hanlon, Barb Kerlavage Siegel, 

Sue Longenbach Cooley, and Pam 

MacColl ’80 at the Maroon Club 

Hall of Fame dinner in November. 

That was my definition of a table full 

of talent! 

Steve Hurlbut was recognized on 

the Lafayette web site in September 

for his achievements as senior 

executive producer and director of 

programming for the Mountain West 

Sports Network. He was one of the 

architects that created this network 

concept for the Mountain West 

Collegiate Athletic Conference, and 

his efforts have garnered the network 

a nomination for a Global Media 

Award after only three seasons in 

existence. You can see the article and 

photo at www.lafayette.edu/news.php/ 

view/14015. 

With deep sadness I report the 

passing of Michael J. Leone Sept. 10. 

Mike lived in Newtown, Pa., with his 

wife, Patti. He had three daughters, 

Rebecca and Nikki, both at home, 

and Jackie, residing in San Diego, 

Calif. Mike worked for Merrill Lynch 

in Yardley, Pa., at the time of his 

death. 

You can find additional 

information, Reunion XXX photos 


and lots of interesting and fun ’79er 

stuff at www.LC1979.org, so check it 

out and continue to keep in touch 

with Barb and me. 

1980 

Susan Sheehan Lee 

1209 Wisteria Drive 

Malvern, PA 19355-9736 

seslee@aol.com 

President: Open 

Fund Manager: Gary J. Uzelac 

Reunion Chairs: Daniel T. Everett, 

Susan Sheehan Lee 


Erica S. Bonime 

If you hadn’t heard by now, the logo 

at the top of this column should serve 

to remind you that we expect to see 

you in Easton June 4–6 for our 30th 

reunion. Plans are in full swing, and 

we’re looking at a record turnout. If 

you need information on the reunion, 

you can go to our web site: reunion. 

lafayette.edu/class/class-of-1980/. 

For those of you on Facebook, you 

can join our group Lafayette Class of 

1980 to see updates and pictures of 

our classmates. This year promises to 

be our best attendance yet, so please 

plan to be there for all or part of the 

weekend. 

In keeping with the trend toward 

a paperless society, we expanded the 

online availability of news. For 

example, on the Lafayette web site 

you can read Sarah Costlow ’09’s 

article on Robert A.C. Jacoby, who 

is CEO and primary shareholder of 

commercial mortgage banking firm 

U.S. Realty Capital LLC. Jacoby’s 

daughter, Riley ’09, graduated cum 

laude with a degree in history. For the 

full article, go to the Alumni News 

section of the site. 

Charles Daniel writes: “Since 

August 2008, I have been president of 

the Princeton Committee on Foreign 

Relations (PCFR), a chapter committee 

of the American Committees on 

Foreign Relations (acfr.org) in 

Washington, D.C. PCFR is a nonprofit, 

nonpartisan organization which 

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educates civic leaders about matters of 

foreign policy, hosting eight meetings 

per year with foreign policy experts and 

ambassadors as speakers. I also sit on 

the executive committee of the board 

of ACFR, whose annual conference 

includes an embassy reception, a day of 

foreign relations panels and keynote 

speakers, and a dinner at the diplomatic 

reception rooms of the U.S. 

Department of State.” Charlie and his 

wife have had the opportunity to meet 

the EU and the Japanese ambassadors 

to the U.S. and many of the foreign 

policy experts we see on current affairs 

programs. (See photo online.) He asks 

you to contact him if you are near 

Princeton and might be interested in 

participating with his group. 

Dr. Martin S. Schnier was named 

the new chief of staff at the Big Spring 

(Texas) VA Medical Center. He will 

have responsibility over all the clinical 

programs at the hospital. Martin 

relocated to West Texas from 

Orlando, where he served as chief 

medical officer for the Orlando VA 

Medical Center’s community-based, 

outpatient clinics (CBOC) program. 

During the five years he has been with 

Veterans Affairs, he has worked 

primarily in the area of expanding 

CBOC services. Prior to joining the 

VA, Martin was in private practice, 

specializing in geriatric medicine. He 

received his medical degree from the 

University of Medicine and Dentistry 

of New Jersey. He was also awarded a 

fellowship by the American College of 

Osteopathic Family Physicians and a 

certificate of added qualification in 

geriatric medicine. 

Eric Krieg never left the north 

Philly suburbs after graduating. He 

has been married to Ellen and in the 

same house in Upper Dublin 

Township for the last 25 years. Eric 

still uses the electrical engineering 

degree he earned at Lafayette to do 

embedded TCP/IP instrumentation 

for Sapling Inc. in Huntingdon Valley, 

Pa. His daughter, Linda, is engaged to 

be married to an engineer in August. 

His eldest daughter, Sarah, teaches 

language and lives nearby. His 

youngest, Philip, has started at East 

Stroudsburg University (at least near 

Lafayette!) in industrial physics. 

Eric reports the sad passing of 

Glenn Edward Duvall, husband of 

Margie Lusch Duvall. Glenn passed 

away Nov. 2 at St. Joseph’s Hospital 

in Atlanta after a valiant battle against 

cancer. He was 55 years old. Many 

of us will remember Glenn from 

reunions past, with his sense of 

humor and warm personality. 

The Class of 1980 football players 

had a mini reunion at Homecoming 

in October. (See photos online.) I 

asked Gary Uzelac to give me an 

update, which you will see he 

provided with stellar results. (He 

insists it was ghostwritten, but that 

was only after I offered him my job as 

correspondent.) I will publish it below 

in its entirety, but as you read it, 

I hope you will think as I did of the 

rejuvenating effect of seeing your old 

college friends. I know we all get 

together with our inner circle, 

whether it be fraternity brothers or 

sorority sisters or teammates and 

roommates. The beauty of a class 

reunion is catching up with others— 

people in your major, people you were 

in the talent show with, or people you 

rode with to NYC when Lafayette was 

playing at the Gardens and you were 

never sure how you got home...well 

anyway, you get what I mean. Enjoy 

the guest column below, and then go 

register; we’d love to see you! 

First, a personal update about 

Gary: At the Homecoming game 

against Fordham University, he 

organized the 30-year reunion for our 

former classmates who were on the 

football team. That team went 5–3–2 

during our senior year and included 

three classmates who participated in 

NFL training camps, co-captains Rich 

Smith and Tim Gerhart, and Dave 

Shea. Bob Rasp, who played for 

the Miami Dolphins, was also in 

attendance. 

Gary has had a successful career in 

the property and casualty insurance 

business since quarterbacking the 

Leopards. He and his wife, Carrie, are 

the proud parents of Haley, who is a 

high school volleyball player, and 


middle school son Brian, an aspiring 

hockey player. Gary is active with the 

Friends of Football steering 

committee, and designed a fundraiser 

print for the football program 

celebrating Lafayette’s rivalry with 

Lehigh, our invention of the football 

helmet, and our creation of the 

huddle, all helping to shape the 

history of the game. 

Here is Gary’s update on former 

teammates who attended the reunion: 

“Bob and Joyce Rasp earned the 

Traveled the Farthest Award, coming 

from Camarillo, Calif. Raspo is living 

the good life, having sold his company 

in a leveraged buyout. Dave Shea 

drove from Ohio and still looks like 

he could shut down the opposition’s 

best receiver with no problem. 

“Life after football has also been 

kind to Dave’s former roommate, 

Michael Davis. After an enriching 

career on Wall Street, Mike spends a 

good portion of his time at the Jersey 

Shore and playing golf. 

“Making the trip from western 

Pennsylvania were Tim Gerhart and 

Max Shoemaker. T.G., a former All- 

American defensive end and inductee 

into the Lafayette Hall of Fame, is an 

engineer and gentleman farmer in 

Donegal, Pa. Max is a high school 

football coach and a principal in the 

Bedford, Pa., area. Combining 

coaching, farming, and also being a 

principal is Ned Roebuck, who 

attended with his wife, Val Roessle 

Roebuck ’79. The Roebucks live in 

Montgomery, N.Y., and have a 

daughter who is a fellow ’Pard, 

Jesslyn ’06. 

“Making the trip from Sarasota, 

Fla., were Brent Beyer and his wife, 

Rhonda. Brent has a dental practice 

in Venice, where he met Rhonda at a 

Lafayette alumni function. Rhonda’s 

son, Trey Martell ’07, also starred 

on the football team. 

“Fellow linebackers Ernie 

Fabrizio, Ralph Garrison, and Dave 

Shropshire made it back. Ernie and 

Ralph, who played on the same high 

school team, both work for IBM in 

Connecticut. Shrop, who finished 

college at Virginia Tech, has his own 

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engineering firm in South Jersey. Also 

attending from South Jersey was Ray 

Garganio. Big Ray is an engineer 

designing and developing Rite Aid 

drugstores and is one of the few 

players who looks like he can go toe 

to toe with today’s linemen. 

“Joe Kamnik made the trip from 

Philly, where he is director of financial 

services in the Family Court system. 

Joe really made us feel old, as he showed 

us pictures of his grandchildren! 

“Jon Best and his wife, Marie 

Puglia Best ’82, were there. Jon wins 

the Incredible Hulk to David Banner 

Transformation Award. Mongo, as he 

was known for his prowess on the 

defensive line and in the weight room, 

now spends his leisure time fencing 

and works as a physical therapist in 

New York, healing bodies as opposed 

to crushing them. Jon’s transformation 

from Beaver Falls, Pa., outdoorsman 

to urbanite is now complete, as his 

daughter recently graduated from 

New York University and his son 

attends Manhattan College. 

“Jon often sees Geof Mulford, 

who can’t believe that he now 

outweighs Jon and who observed 

that he spent more time on the field 

during our group’s Homecoming 

introduction than he had in his four 

years on the team. Geof also reports 

that his brother Greg ’81 has two 

daughters attending Lafayette, 

Sarah ’10 and Rebecca ’12. 

“Glen Vereb and his wife, Amy, 

made the trip from Bowie, Md. Glen 

is an attorney with the Department of 

Homeland Security. He must have an 

important position because his title 

barely fit onto his business card. The 

Verebs’ son recently graduated from 

the University of Pennsylvania, and 

their daughter is attending the 

University of Delaware. 

“A most interesting returnee was 

Dave McCullough. Dave spent many 

years teaching English at a private 

school in Hawaii (the one made 

famous by one of its alumni, Barack 

Obama) but recently returned to 

Sudbury, Mass. Dave had two of his 

sons, reportedly excellent athletes, 

with him. Both were very impressed 

with Lafayette’s fine athletic facilities. 

We all had a laugh as we recalled 

Dave’s work with Ralph Garrison, 

correcting and basically rewriting 

Ralph’s essays for English class. 

“Dan Everett has had a successful 

career in the telecom industry. Dan’s 

wife, Karen, was at the Salisbury 

University varsity football game, 

where their son was making his 

collegiate debut as a starting defensive 

back. Rumor has it Dan’s former 

teammates shamed him into attending 

the reunion. Don’t worry, Dan; if 

your son is anything like you, he will 

be starting many more varsity games 

over his collegiate career. 

“Providing many laughs, and 

disruptions, was Tim Uglow, who 

made the trip from Meadville, Pa., 

along with his dad. 

“While Dan and Tim’s beloved 

Phi Delt may no longer have a house 

on campus, Michael Weber made all 

Phi Delts proud by providing all the 

tailgaters with the proper libations. 

Weebo is residing in the Lehigh Valley 

and is a longtime employee of Banko 

Distributing Co. 

“Unable to attend, but expressing 

their best regards, were Sam 

Clement, who lives in Radnor, Pa., 

Tony Lupod, who resides in Texas, 

Andy Bramnick, who is an attorney 

in D.C., and Dave Heverling, who 

has carved out a nice career with 

Verizon Wireless in the Boston area. 

“It was also great to see former 

teammates Karl Sivek ’79 and Tom 

Feehan ’79, who attended the dinner. 

Tom is very active with the Friends of 

Football organization at Lafayette, 

and Karl is a teacher and coach for 

West Chester (Pa.) East High School. 

“At the dinner that followed the 

game, heartfelt speeches were given 

by Rich Smith, current head football 

coach Frank Tavani, Friends of 

Football chair and Mr. Lafayette 

football Jack Bourger ’71, and 

former head football coach Neil 

Putnam. Coach Putnam motivated 

most of the former coaches to come 

back and join the players in sharing 

many memories. He remains a 

gentleman and a class act. 


“Rich ‘Smitty’ Smith, co-captain 

and All-American tight end, is sales 

manager of Inolex Chemical in Philly. 

He has spent a lot of time traveling to 

the Far East and racking up those 

frequent flyer miles. Rich is 

recuperating at home from brain 

surgery, but we are glad to report 

that he is doing well. Wife Esther 

also attended the reunion and makes 

sure Rich does his rehab exercises. 

“Perhaps the most moving 

moment of the day was provided by 

coach Joe Sarra, who, despite being 

afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, 

provided an inspirational talk about 

treasuring each moment we are given. 

Each one of us has some sort of Joe 

Sarra story (or stories) to tell. It was 

an honor to play for him. We were 

fortunate to have had these coaches 

and teammates play such a pivotal role 

in our Lafayette experience and look 

forward to seeing our other classmates 

at our upcoming 30-year class reunion 

in June. Go! Fight! Win!” 

1981 

Laura Isken Doyle 

9706 Layminster Lane 

Vienna, VA 22182-4404 

(703) 255-1570 

lauraidoyle@aol.com 

President: Antonio F. Fernandez 

Fund Manager: Sharon Tchon Gruet 

Reunion Chair: Daniel B. Rockafellow 

Just think, our 30th reunion is about a 

year away. The time is really flying by! 

I received a holiday card from 

Mark and Debra Winpigler 

Richmond. They live in Ellicott 

City, Md., with their two children, 

Stephanie, 19, and Gregory, 15. 

Big news in their household was 

Stephanie’s election as Cornell 

University’s 2010 drum major. Also, 

John and Debbie celebrated 25 years 

of marriage and both turned 50! 

I guess all of us have reached that 

milestone in the last year. Debbie went 

over the hill full steam ahead by 

driving a NASCAR car and whitewater 

rafting! Mark won an Unsung Hero 

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Award presented by the county 

executives for his efforts in bringing in 

several large grants. After 12 years 

with Sun Microsystems, Debbie 

will be looking for a new career 

move in 2010. 

Tim McAndrew was appointed 

vice president and chief underwriting 

officer with NYMAGIC in its Mutual 

Marine Office Inc. subsidiary. He 

has over 28 years experience in the 

insurance industry, and he has worked 

in the marine insurance industry since 

1983. Tim joined the company as 

a marine underwriter in 1989. 

Previously, he held positions with 

Allstate, Navigators, and Highlands 

insurance companies. After graduating 

from Lafayette, Tim attended Rutgers 

University Graduate School of 

Management. 

John Tall is busy with his wife, 

Laurie, raising their five children, ages 

17, 14 (two), 10, and 8. He works for 

GE Healthcare in sales and lives in 

Collegeville, Pa. 

Ana Duarte McCarthy has been 

busy at work as a chief diversity officer. 

Her daughter, Alissa, started high 

school and is a member of the ski team. 

Steve Bulger and a group of Phi 

Delts and other ’Pards got together 

on the night of Friday, Nov. 13, for a 

surprise 50th birthday party for Pete 

Gargiulo. The location was the 

Zeppelin Beer Hall in Jersey City, 

N.J., which Steve writes “was right up 

our alley, with 150 different beers on 

tap.” Pete’s wife, Lynn, did a great 

job putting the party together, and 

the surprise was complete on Jewels. 

Joining in were Jim and Bernadette 

Maher Flanigan, Dave ’80 and Gina 

Zevas ’80 Hansen, Bill Johnston 

and wife Jude, Bill Kurtz and wife 

Jeannie, Warren Breig ’82 and wife 

Kerri, Rick Speaker, Joe Brugger 

’80, and about 75 other friends and 

family. 

Hal Hocking has been transferred 

to a new position in Frederick, Md., 

from Tampa, so now he is in driving 

range of many more get-togethers! 

Hope to hear from more classmates 

for the next issue. Have a great 

summer! 

1982 

Robert J. Meindl Jr. 

3 Nolan Farm Road 

Wayland, MA 01778 

(508) 358-3393 

bmeindl@cisco.com 

President: Joan Dowgin Hilovsky 

Fund Manager: Tracy Hagert Sutka 

Reunion Chair: William M. McCartan 

As I write this column, I’m thinking 

that we are about halfway between 

our 25th and 30th reunions. For 

those of you that attended the 25th 

reunion, you know it’s an event not to 

be missed, and you should pencil June 

2012 on your calendars now (yes, the 

entire month—it’s a big one). I am 

especially excited that we get to 

squeeze in our reunion before the 

Mayan calendar expires. The movie 

industry has convinced me that this 

Mayan calendar thing is serious and 

provides all the more reason to 

provide updates to your classmates 

and stay connected through Class 

Notes. Resolve to provide a news 

update, large or small, prior to our 

30th reunion and see the note at the 

end of the column on ways to connect 

with your classmates. 

IMPORTANT: Bill McCartan 

(see update below) is the coordinator 

of our 30th reunion, and he writes, 

“As an individual that never had an 

original thought, I am open to 

suggestions as to what people would 

like to do.” Find Bill on Facebook and 

share your suggestions 

I am sad to report that two of our 

classmates have passed away since our 

last update. Lynn Matthews Rutz 

reports that her husband, Howard, 

passed away from an undiagnosed 

heart condition. She writes, “My 

daughter, Jen, 17, my son, Erik, 11, 

and I really appreciate the support 

we have received from our Lafayette 

friends during our loss. The cards, 

kind words, flowers, and generous 

contributions to the education fund 

for Jen and Erik have been 

overwhelming. I was deeply touched 

when so many of our Lafayette friends 


and Howard’s Theta Chi fraternity 

brothers joined us for the memorial 

service for Howard in May. I am 

grateful to have met Howard our first 

year at Lafayette, to have been married 

for 27 happy years, to have two terrific 

children, and to have wonderful family 

and friends supporting me. Thanks so 

much!” 

John Marr passed away in June. 

John was an engineer through and 

through, going on to get masters’ 

degrees in computer science and 

chemical engineering in 1984 and 

2000, respectively. He was also the 

treasurer for the American Institute 

of Chemical Engineers, Northern 

California Section. John lived and 

worked all over the world, including 

Holland, Germany, England, South 

Africa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Japan, 

Hong Kong, and in the U.S. in 

Tucson, Ariz., Houston, and 

Camarillo, Del Mar, and Walnut Creek, 

Calif. He was living in Walnut Creek 

and is survived by his wife, Mary. 

On a positive note, Jeen Lee wrote 

a short but poignant note that was 

equal parts touching and mysterious: 

“Dr. Greg Ginsberg saved the life of 

someone very dear to me. He’s a 

terrific doctor. With gratitude, Jeen 

Lee, M.D.” 

Bill McCartan writes that he and 

his family are doing well and live in 

Delmar, N.Y. (near Albany), as they 

have been for the past 25 years. Their 

daughter Shannon will be attending 

Lafayette as a member of the Class of 

’14. Is it me, or does it seem like there 

are more and more offspring of the 

Class of ’82 attending Lafayette each 

year? Shannon, a runner like Kathy 

and Bill, will compete on the crosscountry 

and track teams, like Kathy 

and Bill, and is hopeful that there is 

no one left at Lafayette that will 

recognize that she is related to her 

parents! Their eldest daughter, Erin, is 

a junior at the State University of New 

York–Cortland, and their son Billy is 

in ninth grade. Bill is director of sales 

and marketing for Fenimore Asset 

Management Inc. and serves as a 

director for the Bassett Hospital 

Foundation in Cooperstown, N.Y., 

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and the Boys and Girls Club of 

Schenectady, N.Y. 

In January 2009, Bob 

“Steamtunnel” Kleinert and his 

family were invited to the 

commissioning of the USS George 

H.W. Bush by Bob Roth ’81. Roth is 

the executive officer of the carrier and 

was front and center of the ceremony, 

as he emceed the event at which 

former President Bush was present. 

Bob (Kleinert) was also at a high 

school wrestling match watching his 

son Nick, who wrestles on the varsity 

team, and found himself sitting next 

to fellow Delta Upsilon brother Tim 

Wilson ’80. It turns out Tim’s 

daughter is a cheerleader for the 

wrestling team and his son wrestled 

for the team the previous year. Tim 

still gets together with Dave Whitney 

’80, Donny Rehill ’80, and Dave 

Gilhooley ’80 in New York City 

every so often. 

Joe Skladany provided a great 

update from sunny Naples, Fla. After 

10 years of restaurant ownership that 

grew to eight units in Florida and 

Ohio, Joe decided he had to sell off his 

interests due to the downturn of the 

economy. Never one to sit still for 

long, he started an interactive web 

site company, CHIPS (Creative High 

Impact Promotional Solutions). He 

is also helping his brother expand 

his medical representative company’s 

services into Florida with a new 

technology involving retinal imaging 

exams. The solution involves a 

telemedical procedure allowing 

primary care doctors and 

endocrinologists to improve diabetic 

patient care through early eye problem 

detection. Joe’s been teaching sports 

marketing classes at Florida Gulf Coast 

University as well as coaching high 

school football for the past 18 years. 

He’s been approached by two 

schools to become their next head 

coach, so our next update from Joe 

could involve him becoming a fulltime 

teacher/coach. Joe’s wife of 

25-plus years, Robin, is hospitality 

manager at the Naples Bay Resort, 

early training for “the day we plan on 

operating a bed and breakfast in the 

Islands.” She is also a realtor, so if 

anyone is looking for a great deal on 

a home in Florida, you know who 

to call! Joe’s son, Joey Jr., graduated 

from Northwestern University with a 

3.9 GPA, took the summer off, and is 

negotiating with CNN and a PR firm 

for a position. Joe writes that he and 

Robin are “looking forward to being 

empty nesters again.” His daughter, 

Sami, is in her sophomore year at 

St. Louis University, where she is 

studying to become a nurse. She 

attends classes year-round in an effort 

to graduate early. Joe’s recently been 

in touch with Mark Mullholland 

’81, Steve Bialie, Luke Drayer, Jeff 

Leonard, and Eric Schmude. All are 

well. He also saw his first-year 

roommate Steve “JM” Schnall over 

dinner at Mesa Grill during his last 

trip to New York. Joe says that “every 

Leopard fan is welcome to look me up 

if they are ever in southwest Florida. 

I always have time for a fishing trip 

or the chance to win a few bucks on 

the golf course!” 

Beth Tengdin Jones wrote that 

she has joined the ranks of people 

with master’s degrees after the 

opportunity to pursue a degree “fell 

in my lap.” As someone with one or 

two of these things, I guarantee that 

it didn’t fall into her lap unless it was 

a matchbook cover degree! With two 

kids in high school, a frequent travel 

schedule, and a husband (Darrell), 

she launched a program of study that, 

18 months later, led to her obtaining 

her master’s in quality systems 

management with a black belt in Six 

Sigma. She writes, “Interestingly, one 

of the two papers I wrote at Lafayette 

researched an early quality 

improvement pioneer.” The word 

launch was not used casually above, 

as Beth is a bona fide rocket scientist. 

She has been the same company since 

leaving Lafayette but is on her third 

rocket engine program. Beth leads a 

team that is responsible for the 

manufacture, testing, and launch of 

the RS-27 rocket engine, the booster 

engine for the Delta II launch vehicle. 

This rocket is used to launch GPS and 

weather satellites, the Mars Rover, 


and, most notably, the satellite used 

to take the picture of the mall for 

President Obama’s inauguration. Her 

two high school children are now 

seniors. She keeps up by Christmas 

cards with Tony Ruegger and the 

Rutzes. This year’s big news is of the 

college search for the four seniors 

from these Class of ’82 families: 

Emma Ruegger, Jenny Rutz, and 

Dillon and Conor Jones. Tony’s card 

this year featured family photos from 

around the world. Tony in front of 

the Eiffel tower, Tony in front of a 

pyramid, and Tony on Copacabana 

beach—all in business clothes. Beth 

writes, “I guess after all those college 

years drinking in a suit, he can relax 

anywhere.” 

Through the magic of technology, 

there are many easy ways for you to 

stay connected to your classmates. In 

order of preference: (1) The most 

direct route is to email me at the 

address shown at the top of the 

column or, if you still have stamps, 

pencils, and pens in your house, you 

can send me a letter. (2) You can 

“friend” me on Facebook. I am 

setting up a Class of ’82 list, so I can 

easily contact you using Facebook 

messages and try to ferret out 

updates. I PROMISE not to write 

an update on anyone from online 

information without checking with 

you first. (3) Go to the Lafayette web 

site, click on the Alumni link, then on 

the Alumni Online Community link 

in the right sidebar. Sign in and either 

create a profile or update your 

existing one. It is hard to figure out 

what is and isn’t new at this site, so 

this is not the best method to use. 

Class Notes 

1982–1983 

1983 

Michael D. Browne 

935 Park Ave., Apt. 4B 

New York, NY 10028 

(917) 363-0856 

Michael.D.Browne@baml.com 

President: Jeffrey R. Purdon 

Fund Managers: Cheryl L. Johnson, 

Ellen Poriles Weiler 

Reunion Chairs: Theresa Heaney Galla, 

Ellen Poriles Weiler 

Thirty years ago, the Class of 1983 

was entering its second semester at 

Lafayette. Concurrent with our return 

to campus, the U.S. Olympic hockey 

team was in the middle of its “Miracle 

on Ice” gold medal run, the Iranian 

hostage crisis was entering its long 

stalemate stage, 66-year-old Ronald 

Reagan was beginning his presidential 

run, the U.S. economy was looking a 

lot like the 2008 U.S. economy, and 

AC/DC had the biggest-selling rock 

‘n’ roll album in the country, 

something Tom Garcia, Russ 

Grimley ’84, and Tony Furey never 

quite got used to. On a personal note, 

your correspondent was coming back 

to campus after a first semester full of 

accomplishment: a 2.35 GPA, a scoring 

average of 3.8 points per game as sixth 

man on the legendary 1979–80 men’s 

freshman basketball team (which was 

still looking for its first win at that 

point), and the attainment of a hardfought 

and coveted spot in the 1980 

DKE pledge class. Aside from 

reminding classmates of important 

historical milestones and trying to 

solicit responses from Joe Hawk, Jeff 

Vincent, and Commencement speaker 

Neil Armstrong, this column’s primary 

goal has been to solicit and report on 

the activities of a continually expanding 

group of classmates, capitalizing on the 

success of prior correspondents Terry 

Heaney Galla and Bob Mahr. To 

date, I think we are making progress 

on that goal. 

First off, I got a note from Heidi 

Rowe, who reports that she now lives 

in central Delaware, where she teaches 

at a private school. Heidi also reported 

on Delaware’s flat topography (fellow 

Delaware native Tony Furey has also 

been vocal about the First State’s lack 

of mountain ranges, unlike 

Philadelphia, where he was born) and 

that she spends most of her vacation 

time in New Hampshire and 

Massachusetts. Heidi, who is a regular 

at our reunions, was on the field 

hockey team while at Lafayette and 

noted that she has taken over coaching 

responsibilities for the school’s JV 

team. Unfortunately for Heidi, the 

squad posted a 0–14–2 record in her 

first year at the helm. Heidi was quick 

to point out that while she thoroughly 

enjoyed the girls on her team, it was 

her first experience with a full season 

without a victory. 

Also reporting with sports-related 

news is new Class President Jeff 

Purdon. Jeff, who lives in Atlanta and 

is actively involved in alumni and 

recruiting efforts, had rotator cuff 

surgery last year (the injury possibly 

sustained at our 25th reunion), which 

kept him off the tennis court and golf 

course. Jeff is planning a summer trip 

to Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis., 

which, if memory serves me correctly, is 

hosting this year’s PGA Championship. 

He also notes that he will be going to 

Minneapolis later this year to visit the 

Twins’ new stadium. This trip is part of 

a quest to see all of the major league 

baseball stadiums, which Jeff is about 

two-thirds through at this point. He 

didn’t add this, but I sense the quest 

probably includes a beer or two at each 

new stadium as well. Professionally, Jeff 

works for Robert W. Baird & Co. and 

was recognized by Atlanta magazine as 

one of the top financial planners in the 

city. Jeff also teaches investing part time 

at Oglethorpe University. 

Mark Friedman sent a report and 

sounded in good spirits. Mark lives in 

Westfield, N.J., with his wife of 16 

years, Debbie, and twins, Dana and 

Evan, both of whom are closing in on 

college age. Mark works for Warnaco 

Group Inc., the apparel company 

(owners of the Speedo and certain 

Calvin Klein licenses), in New York, 

where he is chief digital marketing 

officer and runs the e-commerce part 

of the business. Mark has been in 

recent contact with Gregg Fader, a 


dentist in New York, and Jim Mooney, 

with whom he played golf as part of 

an American Cancer Society event. 

I got an extensive update on a 

number of classmates from Mike 

Moroney, whom I sat with at dinner 

(along with J.B. Reilly, Scott Gordon 

and Ben “Benjie” Boscolo) at our 

25th reunion. Mike said he has kept 

in close contact with Philippe 

Monrougie over the years. Philippe 

was the best man at Mike’s wedding 

back in the late ’80s. He has been 

married a touch over 10 years, and he 

and his wife, Doreen, split their time 

between homes in Brooklyn and 

Miami. Philippe runs his own business, 

Hub City Media, based in Edison, 

N.J., and does an extensive amount of 

worldwide travel for both business and 

vacation, most of it with Doreen. Mike 

also reports that he stays close with 

Dave Wagner. Dave lives in State 

College, Pa., and has three children, 

Alexandra, David, and Elizabeth. 

He spends a lot of his free time at his 

kids’ soccer and basketball activities. 

I remember Dave being a pretty 

formidable athlete when we were in 

school. According to Mike, Dave 

organizes summer vacation outings 

in the Outer Banks of North Carolina 

with a group that, at times, has 

included Ron Ragan, Ed Stahl, 

Jerry Penrose, and Jim “Boom 

Boom” Clarke ’85. 

Many will remember that Mike was 

a member of the DTD house and he 

reports that the members of the house 

from the early ’80s remain in regular 

contact. Recent golf and tailgate 

outings have included Scott Beisler 

’80, Greg Eggert ’79, Joe McNulty 

’81, Carl DiPiazza ’81, Dave 

Marione ’82, Tom O’Connor ’82, 

Pete Ramsey ’82, and my nighttime 

Fordham Law School classmate Jim 

Valenti ’82. Finally, Mike was able to 

give me a partial update on the 

whereabouts of Jim Torrence. This 

correpondent has been after an update 

on Jim for the better part of three years 

now. Mike ran into Jim, with wife 

Penny, at a convention in New Orleans 

a few years back. Jim and Penny were 

on an elevator, returning to their room 

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1983–1984 

after a cocktail party at the convention 

they were collectively attending. That 

led to Jim’s appearance at Mike’s door 

15 minutes later, where they spent the 

better part of the next four hours 

catching up on a dozen years of lost 

contact. 

Mike also brought me up to date 

on his own activities since graduation. 

He graduated from law school at the 

College of William and Mary in 1986 

and has been practicing law in New 

Jersey ever since. Mike is a partner at 

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton 

Fires & Newby, which is headquartered 

in Philadelphia and has multiple offices 

in New Jersey. Mike has been married 

for 20 years to his wife, Barbara, and 

has three children, Murphy, Maggie, 

and Griffin. Murphy, the oldest at 17, 

will be a member of the Class of 2014 

and will play lacrosse at the College. 

As part of his update, Class 

President Purdon reminded me of 

his goal to have 70 percent attendance 

at our 30th reunion in June 2013. 

Regular reunion stalwarts and first 

timers, including Diane Goldsmith, 

Sandy Frank, Rick DiPaolo, Jim 

Glascott, Sarah Sheeleigh Jeffers, 

Tim “Rodney” Lucas, Charlie 

Churchill, Mark Gibbons, Dave 

“Gleas” Gleason, Laurie Tropiano, 

Jeff “Ranger” Ranges, Mark “DeLo” 

DeLorenzo, and Mike Beck have 

indicated that they plan to attend. Also 

committed to providing late night 

music for the event is Alan “Goodie” 

Good ’78. Goodie has offered to add a 

set to his usual program from 1–3 a.m. 

on Friday night, which will include his 

regular Tower of Power and Martha 

and the Vandellas rotation. For our 

next issue, your correspondent would 

like to hear from Lynne Fitzpatrick 

Werley, Jeff Oshinskie, Dennis 

Gillooly, Jim Donnelly, Rich Coshal, 

Chris “Turtle” Hyde, Sue Bastan, 

Ron Ragan, and Maura McNamara 

Powers. Please note my new address 

and updated email address as well. 

1984 

Karen Ziegler Kelly 

4304 Big House Road 

Norcross, GA 30092-1357 

(770) 329-2244 

kzkelly4@msn.com 

President: Mandy Shane Dicker 

Fund Manager: David E. Schwager 

Reunion Chair: Douglas K. Easterly 

Hello, classmates. The good news is 

that as we celebrated the beginning of 

a new decade in 2010, the world is 

finally slowly emerging from a global 

recession. The global War on Terror 

continues, as well as our efforts in 

counterterrorism, in an effort to 

achieve world peace. Hopefully, in the 

midst of all of this turmoil, you and 

your loved ones are experiencing a 

good start to 2010. 

Mike Getz sent an email letting 

me know that he and his wife, Lynn, 

live in Muncy, Pa. along with their 

two daughters, Larissa, 12, and 

Cierra, 7. Mike remains the chief 

operating officer for Best Line 

Equipment. Best Line is a contractorgrade 

compact equipment sales and 

rental company with nine locations 

throughout Pennsylvania. Mike 

reports that he heard from Tom 

Gordon over the holidays. Tom 

and his wife, Charlene, have been 

stationed the past two years in 

the United Kingdom on a special 

assignment with Lockheed Martin. 

Tom’s assignment will be ending at 

the end of the first quarter of 2010; 

he will be returning to the U. S. to 

accept a new position with Lockheed 

in Virginia. 

The Times Union newspaper in 

Albany, N.Y., published a story in 

October on the Reverend Beth 

Illingworth. She is the Protestant 

chaplain and spiritual adviser at 

Russell Sage College and Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute. After Lafayette, 

Beth graduated from Harvard 

Divinity School and was ordained in 

1989. She lives in Kinderhook, N.Y., 

with her husband, Paul Greene, and 

their two children, Julian, 17, and 


Isaiah, 12. Previously, she was the 

pastor for 10 years of Oakwood 

Avenue Presbyterian Church in Troy, 

N.Y. In addition to being chaplain 

and spiritual adviser to Russell Sage 

and RPI, Beth is employed by Troy 

Area United Ministries, where she 

created the Damien Center for those 

affected by HIV/AIDS. According 

to Beth, “It is my goal to help 

students reflect more deeply on what 

they believe and discern what is 

meaningful in their lives—the lives 

they are called to live.” 

Lynne Kizis emailed to say that 

life is good. She practices law at 

Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in 

Woodbridge, N.J. She is director, 

a shareholder, and co-manages the 

mass tort/class action team. She 

lives in Manasquan, N.J. year-round 

in an arts and crafts-style home she 

designed a few years ago. Lynne 

has taken up boating, surfing, and 

gardening, and she maintains a 

passion for learning anything and 

everything. She is proud to be a 

“Pank” (Professional Aunt, No Kids) 

and she enjoys spoiling her nephews 

and niece. She saw a number of epic 

Springsteen concerts in 2009 in the 

tri-state area. 

It is with great sadness that I 

write of the death of Elizabeth 

Freeman Millet. Elizabeth died 

Nov. 23 at her home. After 

graduating from Lafayette, she 

attended Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute in Troy, N.Y. She was 

employed for 18 years by 

Rehabilitation Support Services in 

Albany. Elizabeth and her husband, 

Richard, had four children together: 

Joanne, Julia, Louis, and Gerald. 

Please continue to update me 

with any news you would like to 

share with the class. 

Class Notes 

1984–1985 

1985 

Sandy Kazinski 

444 E. 75th St., Apt. 9H 

New York, NY 10021-3448 

skazinski1@msn.com 

President: Leo J. Greco Jr. 

Fund Manager: Anne Harwood Matlack 

Reunion Chair: Charles F. Smith Jr. 

Web Page Administrator: Sandy 

Kazinski 

Classmates, it’s 2010, which is a big 

reunion year for us, our 25th! Keep an 

eye on your mailbox and email inbox 

for reunion announcements from 

Chuck Smith, our reunion chair, 

and the planning committee. 

I’ve been hoarding some carryover 

news that arrived after my last 

deadline. Mark Bowen and his wife, 

Denise, are suffering their children’s 

college choices during Lafayette– 

Lehigh games. Their daughter, 

Victoria ’13, is studying 

neuroscience. Son Mark, a Class of 

’12 business major, attends Lehigh. 

Mark said he would cheer the winning 

team but would be wearing maroon 

and white, shouting, “Go ’Pards.” 

Anne Harwood Matlack, our 

class fund manager, was awarded 

Drexel University’s 2009 Executive 

MBA Alumni Award for Service to 

Alma Mater. Anne served on the 

alumni board since its inception in 

2000 through 2009. Congratulations 

on that honor! 

Joe Heaney has been sending 

periodic updates of his “50 by 50” 

quest. He set a goal for himself last 

July to climb or hike the 50 highest 

points in the United States, one per 

state, before his 50th birthday. As of 

Columbus Day, Joe was at 20 down 

and 30 to go, as he, his son, Moe, and 

friend Cory headed to Mt. Washington, 

N.H. I’m going to share some of Joe’s 

storytelling: “As most of you know or 

may have heard, Mt. Washington is 

known for extreme weather conditions 

and the highest recorded winds on the 

planet, with a maximum wind speed 

recorded at 213 mph. By those 

standards it was a mild day, but we did 

experience sustained winds of 50 mph, 

with higher gusts.” He also shared: 

“The bottom weather conditions were 

overcast, slight rain, and 45 degrees at 

an approximate elevation of 1,900 feet. 

What was going on up top? We would 

soon find out. Cory and I decided to 

hike up the auto road to the trailhead. 

As we headed up the quiet road, rain 

slowly switched over to sleet and then 

snow. We hiked down the Jackson 

Road Trail 0.4 miles to the sign 

(Nelson Craig Trail, summit 3.4 

miles)—piece of cake. As we proceeded 

upward, the temperature dropped, and 

the trees shortened due to the strong 

winds. We left clear air and entered 

into the clouds, then at 4,000 feet left 

behind the trees. Rime (frozen fog) 

accumulated on us. The winds 

intensified. Ice soon coated the rocks. 

We navigated from cain (stone 

markers) to cain. Due to poor visibility 

and ever-thickening ice conditions, 

we left the trail and hiked on the road. 

We hiked the final 1.2 miles on the 

exposed road before we heard the 

idling cog railway engine. We had 

reached the summit. We took some 

photos, ducked into the hot house 

for a coffee and lunch, and checked 

conditions: sustained 50-plus mph 

winds, which made a wind chill of 1 

degree. Soaked with sweat, we bundled 

into dry clothes and hiked back down 

to Pinkham Notch Camp. Time up the 

mountain from departure of 8 a.m.: 

4½ hours. Total hike time: just over 9 

hours. And for those of you counting 

calories: 4,708.” Joe mentioned Mt. 

Hood in Oregon in January would be 

his first taste of mountaineering. Stay 

tuned for more of the 50 by 50 

adventures! Joe, be safe! 

Please consider volunteering with 

the reunion committee or taking on a 

class officer role. We will need to fill 

the president and class correspondent 

roles (as this is my second-to-last 

column), and it can’t hurt to think 

about the reunion chairperson role for 

2015. This way we aren’t scrambling 

in 2014 to find someone to take the 

lead! If you are interested, let me 

know, and I can connect you to the 

Lafayette alumni resources. 


Please also check out the online 

version of Lafayette Magazine. Photos 

you sent me are published online and 

not in the hard-copy Lafayette 

Magazine. Additional alumni features 

are also posted. Go to www.lafayette. 

edu and click on either the Lafayette 

Magazine icon or the Alumni link. 

1986 

Peter A. Gilbertson 

96 Battin Road 

Fair Haven, NJ 07704-3203 

(732) 842-8590 

peter.gilbertson@willis.com 

President: Robert D. Correll Jr. 

Fund Manager: Open 

Reunion Chairs: Wynne A. Whitman, 

Thomas J. Kleinert 

A little light on the response this goround. 

It must have been the hectic 

pace around the holidays. I urge you 

to keep us up-to-date with your news; 

that’s what makes the column fun to 

read and fun to prepare. We have a 

lot of great classmates involved with 

fascinating careers, circumstances and 

adventures. Don’t be shy! 

Todd Marcus writes that he will 

celebrate his 17th wedding anniversary 

in March. He has two kids, Zach, 14, 

and Jenna, 11, who both play soccer 

and basketball. Todd has coached 

hoops for the past four years. Like 

most of us, he is busy at work. As a 

litigation partner at the law firm of 

Bingham McCutchen LLP, he 

represents primarily financial 

institutions in high-stakes litigation. 

With this economy, I’m confident 

business is booming in that arena. 

Let Todd know when you’re in NYC. 

Jamy Galliker Floyd-Jones and 

husband FJ ’85 proudly announce 

that their eldest, Abby, will be a 

member of Lafayette’s Class of 2014! 

(Remember way back when we 

proudly announced the birth of our 

kids and THAT made us feel old?) 

Abby will be on the swim team and 

will be permitted a carefully 

moderated amount of fun. (Right, 

Abby? Everything in moderation, just 

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1985–1986 

like mom and dad!) The Floyd-Jones’ 

other kids are Will, a first-year high 

school student, and Jake, a fifth 

grader. They’ve resided in West 

Chester, Pa., for the past 15 years, 

where Jamy is self-employed doing 

work for the auto industry. Jamy looks 

forward to catching up with fellow 

’Pards at FJ’s reunion this year and at 

our 25th next year. (Can you freakin’ 

believe it’s here already?) 

As of the first of the year, Dan 

Nickerson and family are now back in 

the U.S. after 1½ years in Irapuato, 

Mexico. They successfully ran a 

mobile library project there, the 

Bibliobus, and celebrated one year of 

service Nov. 28 with a huge fiesta for 

the community. They will continue to 

support the project, which serves over 

8,000 people in five communities and 

has over 2,000 books in stock. They’ve 

also written a bilingual children’s book 

about the history of the 30-year-old 

bus as it made an interesting life 

journey to become the Bibliobus. 

Anyone with publisher contacts, 

please let Dan know. 

Dan will pursue a teaching degree 

for high school math and science, 

and his wife, Ada, will work in legal 

advocacy. Dan says the experience has 

been a blessing for his whole family. 

Look out for Bibliobus II (The 

Sequel) coming to a rural community 

near you! 

Cathy Barthelmes Granzow 

reports further details to her last 

update. In addition to new daughter 

Elise Mary, born Nov. 30, 2008, she 

has sons Benjamin, 15, and Timothy, 

10. Sadly, as reported in our last 

edition, another daughter, Caroline, 

passed away in 1998 from a congenital 

heart defect at the age of 4 months. 

It is very important to Cathy and her 

family that we all remember Caroline. 

Cathy, we are with you. 

Cathy runs a gardening/biology 

program at a Montessori school 

and lectures about insects and birds 

at other area schools. Cathy is 

involved in her younger son’s 

school gardening program as the 

“chairperson of the subcommittee on 

composting.” (Does that require a 

Senate confirmation hearing?) She’s 

also involved with the New Jersey 

Farm to School Network, a group 

consisting of local farmers, the 

state Department of Agriculture, 

educators, parents, and school 

lunch program administrators. The 

organization promotes the use of 

locally grown, sustainable farm 

produce in school lunch programs 

and advocates the use of school 

gardens as an educational tool for 

better understanding healthy food 

and our role as consumers in the 

ecosystem. 

Cathy is also active in the Lehigh 

Valley Alumnae Chapter of Sigma 

Kappa with fellow members Sharon 

Roche Ashton ’85, Cindi Sems 

Combi ’90, and Kim Law Bennet 

’90. This past year, she enjoyed having 

lunch with Beth Halberstadt 

Rosenblatt, Wynne Whitman, 

Claudia Bierschwale Muller, and 

my Sigma Kappa big sis, Liza Smiles 

DeBlis ’84, and continues to keep 

in touch with Doug Livornese, 

Lisa Lacroce Patterson, and 

Dan Sammartino ’84. 

Last November, Cathy bumped 

into Father Tom Hagen, former 

Catholic chaplain at Lafayette. Father 

Tom had come all the way from Haiti, 

where he lives permanently, for a 

Confirmation event. Father Tom still 

runs the humanitarian organization 

Hands Together in partnership with 

Doug Campbell. 

I was part of a fun, holiday dinner 

gathering in NYC, which has now 

become an annual event. Attendees 

included Bob Gannon, Kevin 

McCartney, Chris Thatcher, Glen 

Forrest, and Andy Nygren ’89 (with 

no-shows Mark DiMaggio, Bob 

Correll, and Mike Heaney). We all 

decided it would be a great idea to stay 

overnight in the city. You know, that 

way we get much more sleep and wake 

up fresh the next day. So, what do you 

think happens when six Lafayette 

friends get together in NYC and know 

they don’t have to drive home? 

Many laughs were had. 

See you in the summer edition. 


1987 

Edward I. Ackerman 

276 Brookline St. 

Needham, MA 02492 

eackerman@photonicsinc.com 

President: John C. Santos Jr. 

Fund Manager: Sally Elbert Kalin 

Reunion Chairs: Elise Nappi, 

Madeline Green Smith 


Edward I. Ackerman 

My dear readers, please allow me to 

apologize for failing to submit 

columns in the past. But you know 

how it is: You’re mowing the lawn, 

your mind drifts off into its little 

prime number amusement park, and 

suddenly, it’s Christmas. 

In truth, there is little to report 

because nobody sends me news. But it 

would be inappropriate to rebuke you 

here, so I’ll proceed to share the one 

small but impressive bit of news I 

received. In August, Amy McMahon 

McQuade was named to Quest 

Uranium Corp.’s new management 

advisory board to help the corporation 

communicate its progress in the 

exploration of rare earth elements and, 

you guessed it, uranium. After 

Lafayette, Amy pursued graduate 

studies at Columbia University and 

worked in trading and global asset 

management at Lehman Brothers for 

seven years. She then worked 12 years 

for the American Stock Exchange as 

vice president of business development 

for the Western U.S. and Asia, and is 

currently vice president of global 

market development in San Diego. 

Congratulations on your fascinating 

career, Amy! 

So here’s the place where I make 

you feel ashamed. How do I get you 

people to make with the info? You’re 

reading this column, so that means 

you’re interested in hearing what your 

classmates are up to. Ergo, others 

reading this want to hear about you! 

If that logic escapes you, maybe our 

hairy ancestors wasted their time 

touching that monolith. And hey, not 

to put the NAG in INFORMATION 

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1987–1989 

AGE, but could it be any easier to 

share news these days? Email, 

Facebook, semaphore flags...it’s all 

good. Oh, but if you do the Facebook 

thing, please post to my wall or send 

me a message, because if you just type 

in the “what’s on your mind?” or 

“news feed” boxes, I’m likely to miss 

that. Unless what’s on your mind 

involves prime numbers. Like 1987— 

hey, wow! 

1988 

Tim Hylan 

50 Old Tappan Road 

Glen Cove, NY 11542 

hylant66@aol.com 

President: David R. Rose Jr. 

Fund Manager: Rachel Nelson Moeller 

Reunion Chair: Elizabeth C. Freebairn 

1989 

Marguerite Valinoti White 

63 Nicholson Drive 

Chatham, NJ 07928 

(973) 635-1110 

margueritewhite@comcast.net 

President: Erin Bass-Goldberg 

Fund Manager: John T. Donovan 

Reunion Chairs: M. Katherine Longo 

Van Cleef, Marguerite Valinoti White 

Web Page Administrator: Vincent J. 

Petitto, petitto@yahoo.com 

Dear Classmates, 

My exciting lead story for this 

issue is news of the marriage of our 

lovable DTD friend Larry Usilaner. 

(See photo online.) His BFF from 

our days on second floor South 

College our first year, Rob Hess, 

filled me in with the following details: 

“Hey, Marge, hope all is well. No real 

news on my end, but big news for 

Larry: He was married Oct. 18! I was 

the best man; others in attendance 

were Don Young, Chris and Kirsten 

McCumber, Doug Gallacher ’90, 

and Don Sirey ’90. The wedding 

was incredible and extremely classy. 

It was black tie and took place at the 

Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. It was a 

rough weekend for me: I was a 

groomsmen in another wedding that 

Friday (for Scott Halsey, Jim 

Halsey’s brother, as Scott happens to 

be very good friends with my wife, 

Karen, from their high school days in 

Long Island—Scott introduced us). 

Then, on that Saturday night, I went 

to a Yankees playoff game with Don 

Sirey and Doug Gallacher, followed 

by Larry’s wedding Sunday 

afternoon. Pretty great weekend.” 

Not to be outdone by the DTD/ 

Chi Phi extravaganza at Larry’s 

wedding, the Zetes also had a mini 

reunion over the holidays, with one 

Chi Phi in attendance just to mix 

things up. Dave Leyrer filled me in 

and writes: “We spent the holidays in 

Deer Valley, Utah, and had a lot of 

Lafayette activity. Chris Lytle ’91 

and his daughter stayed with us for 

several days, we had Tom Amster 

and his family over for pizza dinner 

one night, and my wife, Alicia, skied 

with Sheryl Amster. We also skied 

and spent time with Pete Najarian 

’88 and his family and had a couple 

of dinners with Dave Dixon ’91 and 

his girlfriend, Lindsay.” Meanwhile, I 

also learned that Doug ’86 and 

Tracy Krauser ’88 Fincher ran into 

Pete Najarian on Main Street in Park 

City, Utah, and almost crashed a 

dinner. And a note to everyone: Beth 

Sutton Burnette and her family live 

in Park City, so give her a shout next 

time you’re in the area. Tommy ’88 

and Bonnie Snyder Winant did last 

year and got treated to full-blown 

Utah hospitality and a barbecue at 

her house! 

After being an MVP at our 20th 

reunion, Bryan Smith resurfaces 

with great updates. He sent an email: 

“I did more cycling this year, easier 

on the joints and more fun! It was 

great to see everybody at the 

reunion. So, here’s a quick update 

from me: Not much, and right at the 

deadline—sort of like my history at 

Lafayette! 

“The highlight of our year was a 

move into a larger home on a cul-desac 

just a couple blocks from our 

previous five-year abode in Boulder, 


Colo. Mom and dad enjoy a full 

bathroom and closet, and the kids 

just love the basement playroom and 

riding bikes, scooters, and other 

moving contraptions in the street. 

Family trips this year included Long 

Island, Hilton Head, S.C., and 

Patagonia, Ariz. 

“I moved into a global account 

management role at Rally Software, 

where I help software teams within 

large information technology 

organizations in the New York tristate 

area improve their development 

velocity and quality.” 

Bryan crossed paths with Carrie 

Lee while in NYC. She writes: “Maria 

Sigmond ’90 and I went to South 

Beach, Fla., for a quick jaunt after 

Christmas. I think it was the first (of 

many) trips we have taken together 

where we did not wake up each 

morning with hangovers. In fact, 

we went running on the beach each 

morning of our stay! Also, Bryan 

Smith swung into NYC for a few 

days in December. We met for a few 

cocktails at Rob James’ fab pad in 

Manhattan. Just like old times, baby! 

(Some of you met Rob’s even more 

fabulous wife, Harriette, at our class 

reunion last spring).” 

I was happy to hear from Stacey 

Bradford, who sent me a lengthy 

update: “It has been some time since 

I checked in. I’m still in Arlington, 

Va., doing employee benefits law, but 

with a different firm, Slevin & Hart 

P.C., for the last four years. My 

10-year-old Chihuahuas, Pancho and 

Cisco, still rule my household. Travel 

has been my M.O. of late, with trips 

to Paris and Normandy the last 

couple years and Bermuda and Italy 

on the calendar for 2010. Pam 

Gerran and I made it to New York 

last year for a holiday dinner with 

Tanya Anson Ehrlich, Karen 

Langevin Lynch, and their families 

and friends. Last year was special 

for me, with a much overdue bodily 

makeover. After nine months of 

training and having melted away 

almost a third of me, I rewarded 

myself with a trip to Peru, where 

I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu 

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Picchu. My knees have yet to forgive 

me, but it was one of the most 

rewarding and emotional experiences 

of my life. Hope to see everyone at 

the next reunion.” 

Kristin Woycik Yohannan 

Moore also sent a big update. She 

has been busy and reports: “I figured 

I would write right away or I would 

forget. Here is the news about me: I 

just married a wonderful man, Martin 

Moore, in October. It is the second 

marriage for both of us. I have a 

daughter, Emma, 15, a first-year high 

school student, and a son, Ethan, 12, 

a sixth grader. It is truly hard to 

believe that I have a high schooler, 

by the way. I also have two 

stepdaughters, Nicole, 18, and Lori, 

17, and two stepsons, Christian, 14, 

and Matthew, 12. Yes, we are the 

Brady Bunch. 

“We live in Alexandria, Va., where I 

have lived for 19 years. I am a partner 

at a law firm in Washington, D.C., 

Morrison & Foerster, where I am a 

patent infringement trial attorney. 

I try patent cases in U.S. District Court 

and before the International Trade 

Commission. I also handle patent 

appeals before the Court of Appeals for 

the Federal Circuit. I am fortunate to 

keep up with a bunch of Lafayette folks 

who live in D.C. I regularly see Susan 

Athari Soltany, Alicia Berkowitz, 

Karen Dolphin, and Todd Bennett. 

Also, I am still very close with Kira 

Lieschke Almeida. As you may recall, 

Karen, Kira, and I lived over Pops our 

senior year; we still reminisce about 

those delicious Cold Russian 

sandwiches. I had a great time at 

the reunion and am looking forward 

to our 25th!” 

As for the sports section of my 

column, the big event was the New 

York City Marathon in November. 

Edson Jones flew into town to run his 

first marathon. I also ran it, but with 

over 40,000 runners competing, I did 

not bump in to any familiar faces at the 

start. Lewis Meyers also ran, as did 

Jim Kelly’s wife, and I’m sure many 

others. Edson shared his thoughts: 

“Congratulations on running the 

marathon Nov 1. My first full 26.2 

miles was a humbling experience. 

Finished just over 4 hours after 

bonking badly at mile 20. (You can see 

some nice pictures of me walking in 

Central Park on brightroom.com.) I 

blame my poor performance on the 

three evil Dougs (Kerridge/Ng/ 

Warden), who had me walking around 

the Greenwich Village Halloween 

Parade until way past bedtime the 

night before. I am running my next 

full marathon here in Houston mid- 

January—hoping for a Boston 

qualifier!” 

As I dug for a scoop for this 

column, Jeff Mann obliged and sent 

me this note: “We have our annual 

guys-only ski trip to Vail over the 

Martin Luther King Day weekend. 

This year, the lineup was Lewis 

Myers, Chris Lytle ’91, Matt 

Headington ’90, Doug McDermott 

’90, Lance Levy ’90, and I. We also 

have a daddy–daughter ski weekend 

in March to the Berkshires.” 

Some final updates: Jill 

Rothenberg Shapiro wrote into 

College Hill from NYC to let 

everyone know what’s up with her. 

She let us know she has been a stayat-home 

mom for 14 years. Her 

husband is the president of IFC/ 

Sundance Networks and is always 

willing to talk to Lafayette students 

and alumni. Thanks for the offer, Jill! 

And finally, Brian Luscombe 

reported from Basking Ridge that he 

relocated back to New Jersey and had 

a baby, Reece. He started his own 

consulting business for marketing, 

new product development, 

professional education within the 

medical device sector. 

So if you readers have gleaned 

anything from this column the 

highlights would be: 

• Zetes like to ski and go to 

posh resorts. 

• DTDs still party festively all 

weekend and burn the candle at 

both ends. 

• Chi Phis are chameleons 

and mix with everyone. 

• Carrie Lee knows how to 

have a great time but still kicks 

butt professionally. 


• There is a big trend for 

Lafayette graduates in their 40s to 

run marathons. 

• If you’re planning on running a 

marathon, steer clear of the Dougs. 

Hope all is well, classmates, and 

that you are inspired to send me an 

update for my next column! 

1990 

Beth Altman Saunders 

431 W. 5th Ave. 

Conshohocken, PA 19428 

basaunders929@yahoo.com 

President: Open 

Fund Manager: T. Brendan Gilligan 

Reunion Chairs: 

Kimberly Ramstad Streamer, 

Sharon M. Vivaldi 


Beth Altman Saunders 

Did someone say REUNION? Yes, 

this year marks our 20th! Along with 

reunion committee members Kim 

Ramstad Streamer, Jill Crocker 

Bornstein, and Steph Deigan, I hope 

to see you all June 4–6. As Steph says, 

call your friends, roommates, sorority 

sisters, and fraternity brothers, and 

come back to the Hill for some 

laughs, drinks, and catching up. In the 

meantime, join the Facebook group 

Lafayette College Class of 1990 20th 

Reunion and then read this update 

from some of our friends. 

Congratulations to Charlene 

Hoppe! As of Sept. 4, she is Charlene 

Conklin, having married Jerry Conklin, 

a native Californian. Charlene is an 

account manager with Maritz Travel 

and lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif. 

Several Lafayette classmates made the 

trip for the big event: Leslie Pursel 

Temple, Susan Smith Hartong, and 

Julie Urban Hughes. Check out the 

photo online. 

After being with Ingersoll Rand 

Co. for 10 years, Anne Russell has 

moved up and out! In the past decade, 

Anne has moved from Bethlehem, Pa., 

to Vancouver, Wash., to Virginia 

Beach, Va., to Mooresville, N.C., and 

back to Hellertown, Pa. As of Jan. 18, 

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she has taken up residence in 

Portland, Ore., but this time it is to 

take on a sales leadership role with a 

small, privately held company, Argo 

International. Best wishes, Anne! 

Steph Deigan was reminiscing at 

the new year’s start and sent this very 

newsy update: “It’s hard to believe 

2010 is already here. Last year was an 

interesting year. One of the highlights 

for me was a two-week trip to South 

Africa with my boyfriend, Dan. In 

addition to visiting Capetown, we 

traveled to various game reserves, our 

favorite being Madikwe. We had lush 

accommodations and saw all sorts of 

game, including giraffes, elephants, 

lions, impalas, hippos, kudus, zebra, 

black-backed jackals, wild dogs, and 

rhinos. We were able to drive through 

some of the Madikwe Reserve on our 

own because we stayed in two different 

lodges. The excitement of seeing the 

game was increased immensely when 

a bull elephant, who clearly wasn’t 

thrilled with my taking photographs of 

him, charged our rental car. His ears 

started flapping, his feet stomped, and 

then he did a 180 and headed straight 

for our car. Fortunately, we made a 

quick getaway—barely. My heart was 

pounding out of my chest for a good 

hour or so after that close call. 

Thankfully, Dan had his wits about him 

and didn’t stall the car or I probably 

wouldn’t be writing to you right now! 

The experience was INCREDIBLE, a 

bucket list must. If anyone is interested, 

I’m happy to provide information on 

where we visited and stayed. All I can 

say is GO! (Check out the photos 

online and contact Steph at stephd35@ 

optonline.net.) 

“On a professional note, I left my 

job as president/COO of AFM Inc. at 

the end of June after 13 years working 

with my father. It was time for me to 

move on and figure out what I want 

to be when I grow up. I’m still trying 

to figure that part out. I’ve been 

doing some serious soul-searching and 

hope to find something that inspires 

me. I’ll have to keep you posted on 

that front, and I hope I’ll be happily 

employed in the near future! 

“On the personal side, I’ve been 

lucky enough to see several of our 

classmates in recent months. Joanna 

Giddon Mandell was in NYC in the 

summer, and I met with her, Maria 

Sigmond Warner, and some of 

Joanna’s friends from home. Joanna 

looked great and lives in Boulder, 

Colo., with her husband, David, and 

two kids. Maria and her husband, 

Dennis, live down the Jersey Shore 

with their two kids, and everyone 

is doing well. We had a lot of laughs 

and some very strange Greek shots 

(yikes!). I don’t think I had ever 

seen Joanna do shots before, so it 

was quite a treat! 

“In mid-December, Dan took me 

to Boston for my birthday weekend. 

We braved the cold and did some 

sightseeing, but the best part was 

hanging out with my old roomie, 

Ellen Balmas Greer. It was fun to be 

in Boston for pleasure and actually 

enjoy the city and seeing Ellen. She is 

doing well, living in Winchester, 

Mass., with her two adorable kids, 

Emily and Jeffrey. Over Christmas, a 

bunch of us got together in Short 

Hills, N.J., at Kim Hart Hein’s 

house: Jeanne McIntyre, Maggie 

Longo Murphy ’91, and Noelle 

Bastardi Anderson. Noelle had a 

baby boy, Ryan, in December; he joins 

his big sister, Kate, and is absolutely 

adorable. He joined the festivities, as 

did Maggie’s kids and hubby. Maggie 

has four kids, two boys and two girls 

(whoa!). Kim’s hubby, Steve, was 

there as well, as was their son, Casey. 

It was quite entertaining watching all 

the kids play together. I also got 

together for lunch after Christmas, 

again at Kim’s, with Kim, Noelle, 

and Liz Dore Napoli.” 

Lt. Col. Robert Familetti has 

moved back to Kentucky and is 

happy to be there. He wrote that he 

and his family were moved to Fort 

Knox in support of the Army 

Cadet Command. Rob is married 

to Shannon Scully and has three 

children: daughters Dislinn, 10, 

and Lauren, 8, and son Martin, 6. 

It is a couple years late, Rob, but 

congratulations on the promotion to 

lieutenant colonel! Hope you and 


your family are safe, happy and 

healthy! 

In July, Chris Schnittker 

was appointed vice president of 

administration and controller at DOR 

BioPharma Inc. in Princeton, N.J. He 

joined the company after 18 years of 

financial management experience in 

publicly held life science companies. 

Good luck with the new job and the 

exciting challenges it brings! 

See you in June! 

1991 

Susan Githens Cable 

506 Jennifer Lane 

Gibsonia, PA 15044 

cable_susan@yahoo.com 

President: Patrick J. Mazur 



Catherine Moran Lippman 

Hello, classmates. I hope that you’re 

starting to get some warm, sunny 

weather if you live in colder climes 

like I do. Also, I hope that you’re not 

smarting because I did not offer class 

news in the last edition. I apologize. 

Herewith, all the news that’s fit to 

print... 

I am happy to report on the 

nuptials of Heather Stoddard. She 

and Adrian Dybwad, both of Draper, 

Utah, married at First Christian 

Church in Scranton, Pa., May 31, 

2008. They held their reception at 

Patsel’s in nearby Clarks Summit, Pa., 

where Heather’s parents reside. 

Adrian is a computer network 

engineer for Wyless Group and a hang 

glider pilot. Heather, also a hang 

glider pilot, is employed as a registered 

nurse in the emergency room at the 

University of Utah Hospital in Salt 

Lake City. Heather and Adrian spent 

their honeymoon on a cross-country 

hang gliding trip. How many of us 

can say that? Congratulations, 

Heather and Adrian. 

Rachel Rankin Van Der Stuyf 

wrote to share that she and Katie 

Moran Lippman walked 39.3 miles in 

the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Oct. 

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10–11 in NYC. Other than a few 

blisters, they had a good time and felt 

fine at this amazing event. Rachel 

shared that she walked in honor and 

support of Katie, who is a breast cancer 

survivor. Together they walked in 

honor, support, and memory of many 

family and friends who have been 

affected by breast cancer. Please be sure 

to check out the awesome photo of 

Katie and Rachel at the finish line in the 

online version of Lafayette Magazine on 

the alumni web site. 

Beth Rowland shared that in 

April 2009 she was promoted to 

director at INTEGRITYOne Partners, 

based in Reston, Va. She leads teams 

delivering business consulting services 

to the federal government and is 

building her company’s health and 

sciences practice. She added that she is 

the captain of her company’s triathlon 

team. In April 2009, the team raised 

over $5,000 for Autism Speaks, a 

nonprofit organization providing 

services and advocacy. The team also 

participated in the Washington Area 

Bicycle Association’s Bike to Work 

Day in late May. 

I pried this news out of Beth in 

April 2009, when she hosted our 

Lafayette friends and me as we 

gathered to jointly celebrate our 

40th birthdays. With Holly Marcin 

Demeritt, Lisa Pfeiffer Freeman, 

and Debbie Kuhn-Dames, I spent 

three days in Washington, D.C. (See 

photo online). We ate out, ordered 

room service, hit a spa, took a yoga 

class, and laughed over a DVD of our 

first 40 years in pictures. How 

fabulous it felt to be with my dear 

friends (and without kids), toasting 

this milestone. It’s not too late to 

share news of your 40th birthday 

celebrations and mini reunions. 

Finally, if you have any kind of 

update, please send it to me. 

Remember, it’s easy to post your own 

update at www.lafayetteexperience. 

com/alumni/. You can log in, post 

your news, check out what other 

classmates are up to, and view photos. 

I will always check there before 

writing my column to be sure you 

are represented. Enjoy your summer, 

and I’ll talk to you again in the next 

edition of Class Notes. 

1992 

Rachel Gordon Skrzypczak 

224 Central Ave. 

Pleasantville, NY 10570 

srmk22@verizon.net 

Antonella Maviglia Berthin ’92 

I lived abroad for many years, so I enjoyed reading 

updates on the Alumni Online Community. I felt that 

after moving back to the U.S. and making such a 

change in my life it was time for me to share my 

news with classmates. 

Presidents: Laurie Gormley Broderick, 

Jennifer Van Cleef Wilke 

Fund Manager: Thomas J. Costello 

Reunion Chair: Christine O’Hea Pitluk 

Greetings, classmates. This is a big 

year for many of us, as we turn— 

ack!—40. I, for one, plan on acting 

half my age until I come to my senses 

sometime around 2020. And maybe 

Ed McDow will have some news for 

us then too. 

Echoing the sentiments of one 

fellow classmate, it would be great if 

more people would write into Class 

Notes. So, please keep sending me 

your news and updates to my email 

address below, Facebook, or postal 

mail. 

Justine Gaeta Bobrowski and her 

husband, Stan, welcomed daughter 

Samantha Marie Oct. 10. She weighed 

8 pounds, 1 ounce. Big sister Gianna 

is excited to have a little sister. 

Jon Goldstein and his wife, 

Nical, welcomed a son, Michael 


Joseph, Dec. 8. He weighed 

7 pounds, 10 ounces, and was 20 

inches long. Jon reports that both 

mother and child are doing well, and 

big sister Rebecca, 4, and big brother 

Noah, 1, are very excited about their 

new brother. 

In career news, Conrad Boland was 

promoted to director of manufacturing 

operations at Loveland Products Inc., a 

manufacturer of agricultural chemicals 

and fertilizers. “It means I have all the 

plants reporting to me, with more to 

worry about and more travel. But I am 

enjoying the challenge,” writes Conrad. 

“I still live in northern Colorado and 

enjoy it very much. My three kids are 

doing great, and they all seem smart 

enough to attend Lafayette!” 

C.J. Roberts sent an update that 

he lives in West Chester, Pa., having 

moved there from the Baltimore area 

three years ago. He and wife Lin have 

been married for 13 years and are still 

“going strong.” Lin’s father, Thomas 

Moyer ’60, went to Lafayette, and the 

family goes to the Lafayette–Lehigh 

game every year. C.J. and Lin have 

three children: Zachary, 10, 

Christopher, 8, and Carolyn, 5. “They 

are good kids, and all play soccer!” 

writes C.J. Career-wise, C.J. has worked 

for 14 years with Weyerhaeuser in many 

different roles, from engineering to 

management, and now has a sales 

territory in New Jersey, Delaware, and 

Maryland. “I keep in touch with Tom 

Ruddy and Joe Blannett, both 

married with children too,” says C.J. 

“Also, I am still running. I just finished 

my 25th marathon last fall, and I’m 

doing four in 2010—trying to do every 

state before I croak!” 

Speaking of marathons, Frank 

Austin wrote that he and Jeff Wylde 

’95 ran the New York City Marathon 

in November. And he’s been keeping 

up his Bruce Springsteen concertgoing 

marathons by going to nine 

shows last year. 

In August, Jared Tamarkin met 

Dirk Becker, Anthony De Paolo, and 

Mike Merola in Chicago for a reunion 

weekend. “The four of us hadn’t been 

in the same city together in nearly a 

decade, far too long,” Jared writes. 

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“We now combine for 12 children and 

approximately 2½ heads of hair (see 

the photo online of the four of us at 

Wrigley Field concealing the evidence). 

Chicago was a nice meeting point for 

the four of us, with Dirk an engineer in 

Seattle, Mike a lobbyist in Washington, 

D.C., and Anthony and I attorneys in 

central Connecticut and New York 

City, respectively. While in Chicago, we 

watched the Cubs beat Pittsburgh, had 

some fine steaks, drank more beer than 

any of us can handle anymore, and had 

many laughs. More neutral-city 

reunions are planned for the future.” 

And that’s all I received for news 

this time around. Thanks so much for 

sending your updates, Justine, Jon, 

Conrad, C.J., Frank, and Jared. Let’s 

get going, Class of 1992, and have 

even more news for the next edition 

of Class Notes! 

1993 

Stan G. Horowitz 

342 E. 67th St., Unit 3E 

New York, NY 10065-6239 

stan4105@gmail.com 

President: Alexis J. Belladonna 

Fund Managers: Monica Morgan Levy, 

Ryan E. Schedler 

Reunion Chair: Mark Suffredini 

To the Class of ’93 and those in and 

around our year, I am sorry to have 

been a bit delinquent in my column 

duties. I hope that this gets me back 

on track and inspires some of you to 

email me with an update. But enough 

of my yacking. 

At the classy and prestigious 

Eamon’s in NYC, I attended a 

gathering of many. In attendance 

were Pete Izmirly, Andrew 

Burdick, Ryan Schedler, Brian 

Hutchison, Phil Berkeley, Michael 

Kimelman, Dino Capuano, Chris 

Johnson, Randy Oser, Graham 

Michener, Stu Plenninger Ragins, 

Karen Anathan, Morris Fodeman 

’94, Brady D’Elia ’94, Matthew 

Podwoski ’94, Greg Bazarian ’94, 

John Hossenlopp ’92, Jeff Wylde 

’95, and Julian Choi ’95. If I forgot 

someone, there is probably good 

reason. 

Laurie Flatt Mobley gave birth to 

her second son Sept. 18. James Lewis 

Mobley was 6 pounds, 14 ounces, and 

20½ inches at birth. Big brother Jack 

is now 2½. Laurie’s family lives in 

Arlington, Va., while she works for 

WeissComm Partners, a health care 

public relations firm. 

While undergoing chemotherapy 

for breast cancer, Ruth Gilbert Crane 

started a foundation that provides 

earrings to women undergoing chemo. 

The program is thriving in the 

Cleveland Clinic and Akron General 

Hospital, and it has donated over 

1,500 pairs of earrings to women 

going through this very difficult time. 

Ruth is in the process of expanding the 

foundation, and more information can 

be found at www.earstoyou.org. Most 

importantly, Ruth says she feels great 

and is excited about growing the 

foundation. To keep her busy when 

not expanding her foundation, she has 

three boys, 11, 8, and 3, and is the 

bookkeeper for the engineering 

business of husband Travis ’94. They 

live in Medina, Ohio, and enjoy skiing, 

snowboarding, and heading back to 

the Jersey Shore to visit family and 

friends. 

Eileen Murray is finishing her 

Ph.D. in mathematics education this 

summer. After one more year as a 

postdoc at the University of Georgia, 

she will be looking for academic jobs as 

a professor. Recently, she saw Patrick 

Consolla and his wife, Naomi, in D.C. 

They live in Tokyo and have a son who 

is 1½. Eileen also reports that Jen 

Kelleher Tamis and her husband, 

Chris, live on Manhattan’s Upper East 

Side and have a 2-year-old son. Tina 

Bode Irvine lives in Smithfield, N.C., 

with her two daughters, ages 10 and 

12, and a son, 2, along with her 

husband, Rob, who is an engineer. 

Tina is an English professor at the 

local community college. 

John Wakiumu checked in from 

Nairobi, Kenya. After Lafayette, John 

attended the Yale School of 

Management and got his MBA in 

finance. He worked in Texas and NYC 


in asset management before returning 

to Kenya in 1998. There he worked as 

an investment banker for Citibank, 

Nairobi, and two local advisory firms 

over the next 10 years. After a career in 

the private sector, he decided to give 

something back and joined the Alliance 

for a Green Revolution in Africa 

(chaired by Kofi Annan), an 

organization established in 2006 

with funding from the Gates and 

Rockefeller foundations. He is the 

senior innovative finance program 

officer. Anyone traveling to Kenya 

is encouraged to contact John at 

jwakiumu@yahoo.com. 

Brad Linville runs his own law 

practice in Columbus, Ohio, is married, 

and has two boys, Hunter and Cole. 

He recently returned to campus and 

was amazed at all the changes but 

disappointed to see that FIJI was 

kicked out. (Welcome to the club!) 

Rebecca Nelson completed 

the 2009 ING New York City 

Marathon! 

And on my end, my wife, Rachel, 

gave birth Sept. 5 to our daughter 

Sarah Thevenet Levin Horowitz. 

Older brother Harris, soon to be 5, 

could not be a better big brother 

and even helps on the diapers. My 

small general law practice is surviving 

in midtown Manhattan. It would be 

great to see anyone who is in town. 

Please consider sending me an 

update for the next column! 

1994 

Mara Weinstein Friedman 

15 Rainbow Ridge Drive 

Livingston, NJ 07039 

(973) 994-1128 

marajaye15@gmail.com 

President: Wendy R. Furrer 


Reunion Chairs: Wendy R. Furrer, 

Melanie Armstrong Jaenicke 


Tracey Long Berton, 

bertont@lafayette.edu 

Hello, everyone. This column is a bit 

light, as I have not heard from too 

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many of you. Please keep your news 

coming; I can only print what I receive! 

Carl Gambello wrote: “I was 

bummed that I missed the reunion. 

Even though we are in the age of 

Facebook, I figured that I’d drop you 

a note with a little Gambello update. 

I live in Westfield, N.J., with my wife, 

Liza, and our three children, Jack 8, 

Nicolas, 6, and Devan, 4. (See photo 

online.) In May 2008, I joined 

BlueWater Communications Group as 

a vice president and general manager 

and opened their New Jersey office. 

A highlight was working on the New 

York Red Bulls arena project with 

several other Lafayette grads. John T. 

Amorosa ’79 of the Red Bulls, James 

Hancik ’99 of Hunter Roberts, and 

I worked to deliver an IT network 

solution that will enable the Red Bulls 

to provide a 25,000-seat, state-of-theart, 

soccer-specific facility in Harrison, 

N.J., in 2010. Here is a URL for the 

project: www.redbullarena.us. One 

last note: We are expecting number 

four in May!” 

Tanya Brubaker Kiefer had a busy 

past year. She left her job at a large 

pharmaceutical company last fall to 

start her own human resources 

consulting practice. The business has 

been doing well, and Tanya enjoys the 

variety and flexibility being on her own 

has brought. Also on the job front, her 

husband, David ’95, made partner at 

his law firm and was recently honored 

as one of the “Top 40 under 40” by 

NJBIZ. The Kiefer family decided to 

relocate in New Jersey, so they moved 

to Westfield for a nice downtown and 

proximity to work. They enjoy the 

quality time the changes have given 

them with their two sons, Max, 6, and 

Alex, 3. Kim Gronquist Dennison 

and husband Greg ’93 welcomed a 

beautiful baby girl, Julie, into their 

homes in September. Kim is a frequent 

Facebooker, so check out her pictures! 

I was just in Florida and had dinner 

with Neelah Alpert, who is getting 

married May 15 to Jason Pincus in 

South Beach. I am so excited to be part 

of the wedding party! I also met up 

with Meredith Nelson Blackwell ’92 

at a rollerskating rink with all of our 

kids. That’s all for now. Please keep 

the updates coming! 

1995 

Vicki Salemi 

c/o Pfenning Alumni Center 

Lafayette College 

Easton, PA 18042 

vicki@bigapplebytes.com 

President: Karen L. Hughes 

Fund Manager: Meegan E. McVay 


Siobhan Crann Winograd 

Web Page Administrator: Vicki Salemi 

Hey, hey, the gang’s all here! Quick 

reminder: A fabulous reunion 

weekend is just around the corner, as 

our June 4–6 arrival on College Hill 

beckons. Stay tuned to your mailbox 

for details. You can make a cameo 

appearance for one night, one day, or 

the entire weekend; it’s all up to you. 

Geoffrey “Geb” Bligh wrote with 

celebratory news! His wife gave birth 

to triplets Dec. 11. Chloe Francesca 

Bligh, weighing 3 pounds, 13 ounces, 

was born at 5:19 p.m. Her sisters, 

Serina Audrey Bligh and Presley Regina 

Bligh, were born one minute later, and 

weighed 2 pounds, 8 ounces, and 3 

pounds, 3 ounces, respectively. 

Other newsworthy classmates 

include Elizabeth Howard 

Stephenson. She and Bill live in 

Rockport, Maine, where he has a 

pediatric practice. Elizabeth notes: 

“In 2007, I got a master’s degree in 

marine biology and marine policy at 

the University of Maine and am now 

working (telecommuting, actually!) 

for the New England Aquarium in 

Boston, managing a grant called the 

Marine Conservation Action Fund. 

We have two wonderful little boys, 

David, 2½, and Jack, 5 months.” 

Thanks to classmates who 

submitted photos of their babies. 

Please note photos are now located in 

the Alumni portion of the web site. 

Okay, that’s all for now. Looking 

forward to hearing from you soon! 

Gotta jet, peace out. 


1996 

Alison Shipitofsky 

1500 Hudson St., Apt. 6-S 

Hoboken, NJ 07030 

alison_shipitofsky@yahoo.com 

President: Thomas A. DiGiovanni 

Fund Managers: Lynne A. Cavanaugh, 

Rawle G. Howard 

Reunion Chair: Stephen H. Konya 


Audrey Twyman Langan, 

alangan2007@gmail.com 

Welcome back to Page ’96! Let’s get 

right to the updates. 

Rob Ubhaus’ restaurant, 

Resto (www.restonj.com), is doing 

well, and more importantly, Rob 

wants to announce the opening of 

his second restaurant, Rob’s Bistro 

(www.robsbistro.com). It is a classic 

French bistro serving the dishes seen 

in the neighborhood restaurants of 

Paris. And much thanks to Tom 

Urbaniak, who was the general 

contractor for the renovation of 

Rob’s Bistro. Both restaurants are 

located in Madison, N.J.: Rob’s 

Bistro, 75 Main Street, and Resto, 

77 Main Street. 

Dan Kapsak reports that he, wife 

Wendy, and sons Drew, 3, and Evan, 

1, now live in St. Louis. Dan works 

as an assistant U.S. attorney and 

has been doing so since 2007. He 

specializes in prosecuting major 

drug organizations. 

Christian Krokus was appointed 

to the faculty of The University of 

Scranton as an instructor of theology 

for the 2009–10 academic year. 

Jarrett Shine is the Brunswick 

School football coach in Greenwich, 

Conn. 

And now news from the stork: 

Matt Schapiro and wife Marni 

welcomed Daniel Bing Schapiro 

July 8. (How cool that his birthday 

is 7/8/09.) Matt reports that Daniel is 

a hilarious, frolicking, little gentleman. 

Tom DiGiovanni and wife Amy 

Ahart ’97 welcomed their first baby, 

Mia Ahart DiGiovanni, Oct. 19. I 

hope she has her dad’s musical talent! 

Class Notes 

1996–1997 

The stork was particularly busy 

with my Pi Phi pledge class one week 

in August: 

Allison Waters Doherty and 

husband Colin are the proud parents 

of daughter Kemble Waters Doherty, 

born Aug. 15, in Boston, 7 pounds, 

7 ounces. Jacqueline Harris 

Freeman and husband Matt 

welcomed Edward Matthew “Teddy” 

Freeman to their family Aug. 19. 

Teddy was 8½ pounds and 21 inches. 

Big brother George looks forward to 

showing Teddy the ropes. Bridget 

Mangan Love and husband Joe 

welcomed daughter Emily Aug. 21. 

Emily joins her older siblings 

Madison, 6, Cate, 4, Annie, 4, 

and Patrick, 2. 

In non-stork news, Toby Schilke, 

wife Sara, and their dog just moved 

back to the USA from Switzerland. 

He now works for Genentech in San 

Francisco as an associate director of 

finance. While they are crazy busy 

with the move, they’re excited to be 

back in the USA. 

Amy Gagnon Stauffer writes that 

she is loving life raising her five kids: 

Luke, Molly, Ty, Troy, and Jane! 

The Federal Reserve Bank’s 

division of banking supervision and 

regulation and the division of 

consumer and community affairs 

honored Jonathan Burns as one of 

the 2008 recipients of the William 

Taylor Award for Excellence in Bank 

Supervision. The award recognizes 

those individuals who have 

demonstrated sustained and 

extraordinary achievement and 

professionalism in the performance 

of their responsibilities. It represents 

supervision’s highest and most 

prestigious honor. The Federal 

Reserve System recognized only four 

individuals with the award for 2008. 

Congrats, Jonathan! 

Steve Konya had quite a year and 

made the rounds catching up with his 

Lafayette friends. In April, he left 

Accenture and the consulting world 

for a job with the federal government 

and now works for the National 

Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 

Bethesda, Md. Last summer, he met 

up with Nuri ’99 and Diane Bonita 

’99 Eraydin and their daughter, 

Suzan, for the annual Musikfest 

reunion. In September, he caught 

up with his old roommate Chris 

Cosgrove ’98, along with his wife, 

Steph, and daughter, Mattingly, to 

watch the Leopards take on 

Georgetown University in D.C. 

In November, Steve met with Joe 

Orlando in Orlando. Joe is a dentist 

and looked tanned and rested. Steve 

wrapped up his tour of Lafayette 

friends by having lunch with 

Joe Tacchino, who lives in 

Springfield, Va. 

And that’s all folks! 

1997 

Shannon Gregg Agin 

325 Lafayette St., Apt. 6 

New York, NY 10012 

shannonlagin@yahoo.com 

President: Kimberly A. Leary 

Fund Manager: Timothy E. Herburger 


Michele Kaplan McMillan 


Shannon Gregg Agin 

Hey, ’Pards. Here’s what’s happening 

with our classmates! 

Ian Murray married Jamie Roach 

May 30 at St. Elizabeth’s Church in 

Edgartown, Mass. A reception 

followed at the Edgartown Yacht 

Club. Jamie, a graduate of Deerfield 

(Mass.) Academy and Princeton 

University, received her medical 

degree from the University of 

Connecticut. She is a pediatrician with 

Stamford Pediatric Associates. Ian is 

the co-founder and CEO of Vineyard 

Vines. After a honeymoon in 

Bermuda, the couple resides in 

Stamford, Conn. 

Dr. Matthew Cantner is set 

to wed Shaleighne Fahey in July 

2010 at the Essex Yacht Club in 

Connecticut. Shaleighne earned a 

bachelor’s degree with honors at the 

University of Delaware and a 

master’s degree from St. Joseph’s 

College, both in early childhood 


education. She is an early childhood 

educator at the Charter School for 

Young Children on Asylum Hill in 

Hartford, Conn. After receiving a 

dual bachelor’s degree in biology and 

economics from Lafayette, Matthew 

went on to earn a doctorate of dental 

medicine at the University of 

Pennsylvania School of Dental 

Medicine, where he also completed a 

three-year residency in periodontics. 

He is a periodontist in the practice of 

McAraw, Canter, and Canter, whose 

offices are in Madison, Old Saybrook, 

and Waterford, Conn. 

Jodi Morgen Katz runs her own 

full-service ad agency, jmk creative, 

which caters to skincare, fragrance, 

luxury, and lifestyle brands. The firm, 

which has an office in New York City 

and a team scattered throughout the 

country, counts L’Occitane, Bliss, 

Cartier, Ford Models, and Lavanila 

Laboratories among its clients. Prior 

to starting her own agency, Jodi was 

the creative director of France-based 

beauty brand L’Occitane. 

Anthony Tessitore and his wife, 

Kimberly, live in Westfield, N.J. He 

is an attorney-partner at Mendes & 

Mount LLP, in Newark. Their 

daughter, Emily, is 2 years old. 

Andrew and Tracy Jasinski ’01 

Wetmore welcomed son Ryan into 

the world Oct. 16, 2008. They live in 

Hoboken, N.J. Andy is a portfolio 

manager with Carlson Capital LLC in 

New York City. 

Conrad and Elizabeth Holt ’99 

von Peterffy enjoy life in Chicago. 

The couple, along with son Spencer, 

2½, welcomed their second son, 

Oliver Anderson (8 pounds, 12 

ounces; 22 inches), into the world 

Aug. 29. (See photo online.) The 

couple looks forward to spending time 

in Europe this summer, including a 

visit with Eric Linn ’98 and his 

family. 

Beth Ann Donofrio Coombs 

and her husband, Rob ’95, welcomed 

their son, Thomas Mahaffey, into the 

world Sept. 26. Big sister Caroline 

really enjoys her new role! The 

Coombs family moved to a new 

home in Wall, N.J. 

Class Notes 

1997–1998 

Terry Cooke and his wife, 

Catherine, are the proud parents of 

daughter Phoebe Catherine, who was 

born Nov. 30. Big sister Anna and big 

brother TJ are a big help. The Cookes 

live in Dallas, Texas. 

Congrats to all! Hope to hear from 

more of you soon. Best of everything 

to you and yours in 2010. 

1998 

Maureen Rafferty Hopper 

3424 Wabash St. 

Denver, CO 80238 

maureen_rafferty@yahoo.com 

President: David A. Cheney 

Fund Manager: Jonathan S. Ellis 


Nicole Magnant Morrissey 


Maureen Rafferty Hopper 

I hope this column finds all of you 

well. Thanks to those of you who 

answered my plea for updates. Now 

we have plenty of news to report! 

Susan Waters married Christian 

Schwarz in New York City in July. 

(See photos online.) Their wedding 

was held at the Church of Our 

Saviour with a reception at the Yale 

Club. Christian graduated from 

Duke in ’96, but his father (James 

’68) and uncle (Ferdinand ’61) 

both happen to be Lafayette alumni, 

so there were plenty of ’Pards in 

attendance. The newlyweds 

moved to Houston in August, but 

technically, Susan is still working in 

New York. She is a senior manager 

in the governance, regulatory, and 

risk practice at Deloitte. She was 

fortunate to find a long-term 

engagement in Houston. After 

spending last year on the road, Susan 

is happy not to be traveling and is 

adjusting to life as a Texan. 

Matt McGowan lives in NYC and 

just got engaged to Bianca Gardner 

in Salzburg, Austria, in December. 

He is running the U.S. business for 

Incisive Media. Kate Detterline and 

her boyfriend of five years, Randy 

Godshall, got engaged in December. 

They plan a 2011 wedding. They 

live in Pennsburg, Pa., with their 

9-month-old daughter, Samantha 

Paige Godshall. 

Dani Shotel Greene had 

wonderful news to share. After 

waiting almost two years, she and 

her husband were happy to find out 

their adoption went through. Their 

son, Samuel “Sammy” Henry, was 

born Aug. 12 in Virginia. They 

were looking forward to enjoying 

Sammy’s first holiday season with 

their families. 

Carine Marangosian Spitz lives 

in Los Angeles with her husband, 

Josh. She is the director of sales for 

NBC Universal’s property, iVillage. 

She and Josh welcomed their first 

child, Jillian Simone, Aug. 25. They 

visited family and friends in New 

Jersey and are happy to be back 

home in a warmer climate! 

Jennifer Maloney Schott and 

her husband, Joe, live in Boston and 

welcomed a baby girl last summer. 

Meghan Elizabeth was born Aug. 17 

and joins big brother Matthew. 

Yolanda Wisher and husband Mark 

Palacio welcomed Thelonious Mark 

Sept. 29. He weighed a healthy 8 

pounds, 12 ounces. Eric Linn and 

his wife, Karine, welcomed their first 

child on Halloween, a beautiful little 

girl named Gilliane Keira. The Linns 

live in Switzerland. Megan Morsell 

Crow and her husband, Kevin, 

welcomed a baby girl, Marykate 

Claire, Aug. 24. 

Jen Cascardi Pierce welcomed 

her third child, Ty Thomas, May 27. 

His brother, Cody, 5½, and sister, 

Brooke, 3½, just love him! Heidi 

Kozic lives in Philadelphia with her 

husband and new baby boy, Asher 

Miles, born Sept. 10. Heidi loves 

being a mom! Jon and Melissa 

Carnahan Ellis became the proud 

parents of Fiona Leighton Ellis 

Oct. 7 and enjoy parenthood. 

Christine Rosario Villa was 

expecting her first child, a boy, in late 

January. Rick Eagles and his wife, 

Marielle, are expecting their third 

child, also a boy, in May. Rick still 

travels frequently, most recently to 


California. While the travel is 

draining, the California climate has 

been a welcome reprieve from the 

cold D.C. winter. 

Jackie Solomon Goldberg reports 

that her daughter, Olivia, enjoys 

kindergarten and is truly a princess. 

Her son, Evan, turned 3 in August 

and enjoys preschool, although he 

would rather spend his days at home 

with mom! 

After living in Atlanta for five 

years, Kathryn Pallotta Fitzpatrick, 

husband Ryan ’97, and their 

1½-year-old daughter, Ellie, moved 

back to the Philadelphia area, settling 

in a new house in Moorestown, N.J., 

in time for the holidays. 

Brooke Hanna Irving and her 

husband, Scott, planned to move to 

New Zealand in January to live in a 

town called Ngunguru (where Scott 

is from) about 2½ hours north of 

Auckland on the Tutukaka Coast. 

Brooke is looking to work in the cafe 

industry until she can get her own 

started up. 

Nathan and Karen Ohsiek 

Beyeler and their three boys, Luke, 

5, and twins Timothy and Jonathan, 

3, live in Ireland. They enjoy the 

proximity to Europe and recently 

vacationed in France. They hope to 

go to Legoland, U.K., in the spring. 

They miss American food immensely 

and dream of pizza, but otherwise, 

they are all doing well, and the kids 

are beginning to speak with an Irish 

accent. Cute! 

I wish you all a wonderful 2010 

and hope your year is filled with 

success, happiness, and lots of news 

to report! 

Class Notes 

1998–1999 

1999 

Pamela Perez 

11660 Church St., #65 

Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 

pamelaperez99@alumi.lafayette.edu 

President: Amanda Alpert Knight 

Fund Manager: Amanda Alpert Knight 

Reunion Chairs: Taryn Boland, 

Megan Sweeney Waite 

Web Page Administrators: 

Adriana Franceschini Casey, 

Jennifer Padgett Ferrie 

Greetings from the West Coast! I 

hope the year is being good to you 

all. I was excited to get news about 

alums getting together in 2009. 

Joe and Melissa Wright Librizzi, 

Lynn Echan Beer, Christine 

Wilkens Lombardi, Nicole Piccione 

Bigg, Sarah Proffitt Bogardus, 

and their families rented a house 

on the Chesapeake Bay this summer. 

(See photo online.) They also got 

together for their annual Christmas/ 

New Year’s party in Chatham, N.J., 

with Donna DiGregorio Weller 

and her husband. 

Nathan Carle visited Karen 

Berrier Woodmansee and her family 

with his children, Helen, 3, and 

Peter, 6, on his way to vacation in 

Delaware. (See photo online.) Erica 

Mellin Scioscia and Saskia Witkam 

Valentine and their husbands met 

with Donna DiGregorio Weller and 

Christine Wilkens Lombardi for a 

Christmas cheese tasting at Murray’s 

Cheese Shop in New York City. 

While some alums were getting 

together, others were tying the knot 

in 2009. Christine Wilkins married 

Stephen Lombardi in Red Bank, N.J., 

Oct. 24. It was a big year for 

Kimberly Brown. She married Roger 

Dahlman in Nashville May 16. (See 

photo online.) They live in New York 

City but are relocating back to 

Nashville, where Kim will become the 

director of the innovative translational 

research shared resource and project 

management officer for the 

Vanderbilt–Ingram Cancer Center at 

Vanderbilt University. And to top it all 

off, she and Shayne Figueroa ran the 

New York City Marathon—a first for 

Kim, and Shayne’s second. Emily 

Theriault married Luca Laino in 

New York Nov. 21. Emily is 

relocating to the London office of 

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney as a 

vice president for investment banking. 

Congratulations to all our newlyweds! 

It seems like the stork has made 

quite a few visits to our class this past 

year. I know a lot of you are expecting 

in 2010, and I look forward to sharing 

your arrival news with our class in my 

next edition, but on to the ones that 

have already arrived! 

Ben Woolf welcomed Kate Darling 

and Finnley Michael into the family in 

September. The twins have already 

attended their first Lafayette–Lehigh 

viewing party with the rest of the 

Denver Lafayette alumni in 

November. Melissa Veitengruber 

Skrocki also welcomed twins: Kate 

Wallace and Mia Grace, born July 28. 

The girls had a fantastic first Christmas 

with mom and dad. It seems that July 

28 was great day for our alumni, 

because Arianne Naismith Slocum 

welcomed her baby girl, Madeline 

May, that same day. 

Corinne Brophy Sterneckert and 

husband Brett are pleased to 

announce the birth of their second 

daughter, Cecilia Christine, Nov. 30. 

Jeff Butterworth and his wife, Kelly, 

had a baby girl, Sienna Crystal, born 

Oct. 5 at 8:43 p.m. in Bellevue, 

Wash. John MacLachlan and his 

wife, Shannon, welcomed their next 

edition, Emma, Nov. 14. And I am 

truly excited to announce the arrival 

of Santiago Vicente, born to dad Jon 

Gray and mom Isabel last fall. Hope 

he can kick that soccer ball around 

like his dad! It seems like we have a 

lot of future Leopards in the making! 

Kathy Dykes Young lives in 

Hawaii with her husband, Tim, who 

is a commander in the Navy. She has 

gone back to school to earn her 

degree and certification in dietetics. 

She interns at Hickam Air Force Base, 

where she helps in the rehabilitation 

of active military members and their 

families. Mary Barker Steblein is 


active in the Society of Women 

Engineers (SWE) on both the 

national and local levels. She served 

as a past president of the SWE’s 

Rochester Chapter. As an associate 

member of the American Society of 

Civil Engineers, she loves teaching 

children about the field through 

hands-on activities, such as Science 

Saturdays at the Rochester Museum 

& Science Center. 

Nicole Glaser-George is happy to 

announce that she, husband Chris, and 

baby Brooks celebrated Christmas in 

their new home in Maryland! 

As for me, I had a fantastic end to 

2009. For the first time in five years, 

my entire family—five brothers and 

a sister, three nieces and nephews, 

parents, and grandparents—got 

together in Orlando to celebrate 

Christmas. I could not have asked 

for a better gift! Especially since my 

sister had a baby boy just days before 

Christmas. 

It is with a heavy heart that I close 

this column. Bradley Plotner passed 

away Dec. 9 after a long illness. After 

Lafayette, Brad went on to earn his 

law degree from the University of 

North Carolina Law School in Chapel 

Hill. He was working as a litigation 

lawyer in Pittsburgh. I remember 

taking classes with Brad in Kirby Hall 

and debating the dynamics of U.S. 

politics with him. I know that he 

will be missed. Consider making a 

donation in his name to the Humane 

League of Lancaster County or the 

Muscular Dystrophy Association 

of America. 

That is all for now. Reach out 

to me on Facebook or email me 

your news. 

2000 

Colleen Gleeson Greshock 

478 Shakespeare Drive 

Collegeville, PA 19426 

colleengreshock@yahoo.com 

President: Jeremy A. Weinstein 

Fund Manager: Daniel Turrentine 

Reunion Chairs: Bryce G. Murray, 

Jeremy A. Weinstein 

Class Notes 

1999–2000 

You might have noticed the new 

layout of Lafayette Magazine. In an 

effort to become greener and cut 

down on expenses caused by the 

recent recession, some changes have 

been implemented to make the 

publication smaller. Therefore, alumni 

photos and individual profiles are now 

in the online version only. 

Matt Curcio was featured in 

The Morning Call for “living the 

dream as part of ESPN’s team.” Matt 

is a senior financial analyst for ESPN. 

He oversees the budgeting and 

accounting for its NASCAR division 

as well as some smaller sports. In the 

past two years, he has traveled to 65 

races and has met a number of 

NASCAR’s biggest names. 

Liz Hahn, daughter of Pamela and 

Jeff Hahn ’78, married Jeff Scott in 

Shenandoah National Park in Virginia 

Sept. 6. (See photo online.) It was a 

beautiful ceremony on a gorgeous late 

summer day. Meredith Davis Hill, 

Jodi Bruder Morrison, Nicole 

Reilly, Tom Greshock ’99, and I 

were in attendance. Sister of the bride 

Meredith Hahn ’04 was a maid of 

honor, along with Liz’s other sister 

Stephanie (a Lehigh grad). 

In December, John Reap received 

his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. 

He writes: “The path to a Ph.D. 

proved a patchwork of twists, turns, 

falls, and ascents. I worked one 

project for my master’s degree only 

to pursue a radically different topic 

for the Ph.D.” In the latter half 

of his program, he and his adviser 

collaborated closely to win a National 

Science Foundation grant to investigate 

biomimicry as an approach to 

environmentally benign, sustainable 

design and manufacturing. John has 

lived in many places since graduation: 

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Vermont, 

Montana, Hawaii, and the U.K. 

Along the way, he met up with many 

fellow alums. He further explains: 

“I roomed with Steve Ryder ’01 

while interning at Lutron Electronics 

and met Dan Howe on multiple 

occasions. I met Peshala 

Pahalawatta in Chicago while 

attending a conference. Heather 

Stoltz and I got ‘lost’ in the woods 

of upstate New York a few years back, 

but more recently, she’s motivated 

me to find efficient ways into 

Manhattan. Ryan Gildea inspired 

lessons in the double rope technique 

of climbing trees. More recently, 

I practically stumbled into Leidy 

Klotz in Hawaii.” John is now back 

in Pennsylvania and is looking for 

a faculty position at an engineering 

school. 

Jackie Benschip Ryan and her 

husband, Mike, welcomed their son, 

Nicholas Sean, March 10, 2009. He 

weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Jackie 

says that he is their little angel and is 

already a comedian who will do 

anything for a laugh. 

Anthony and Jill Licari Fasano 

had their second child, Adam Joseph, 

“AJ”, July 13. Big sister Brianna is 

very excited to have a new little 

brother. Anthony finished training to 

become a certified professional coach 

and plans to inspire thousands of 

people to move forward with their 

careers and businesses. 

Jeremy Silva launched a patentpending 

framework called PanoTrends, 

which can process large volumes of 

electronic data and analyze the mood or 

temperature of data. You can check out 

a demonstration at PanoTrends.com. 

We have received some updates 

through the Alumni Online 

Community. Brian Want is a college 

adviser at the University of Chicago. 

Jonathan Jacoby is a financial analyst 

for The Vanguard Group and lives in 

Radnor, Pa., with his wife, Hollye 

Powell Jacoby. Marisa Gaudreau 

Riley is a senior financial analyst at 

Mitre Corp. in McLean, Va. Gregg 

Stratton is a research economist for 

the National Association of Realtors 

in Washington, D.C. Greg Oshins 

works for National Realty & 

Development Corp. in Purchase, N.Y. 

Check out the Alumni section of 

Lafayette.edu and join the online 

community; you can post news, 

update your directory information, 

and reconnect with old friends. 


2001 

Paige Olek Ingelsby 

1321 Statesman Road 

Norristown, PA 19403 

paige.o.ingelsby@gmail.com 

President: Sara Viehman Diehl 

Fund Manager: Rebecca Waxman 

Kaufman 

Reunion Chair: Nicholas M. Groch 

Hello, class! Hope everyone is well. 

The following is the latest news on 

the Class of 2001. Remember to 

email me your news and photos or 

post them on the Alumni Online 

Community on Lafayette’s web site. 

Dana Platania Koelbel posted on 

the Alumni Online Community that 

she and her husband, Gregory, 

welcomed a baby girl, Madeline Grace, 

May 20. Madeline weighed 8 pounds, 

6 ounces. In other baby news, 

Samantha Masotti Wickwire reports: 

“My life is crazy but great, busy with 

two little ones and working from home 

doing government contracting. My 

daughter, Sienna, born June 4, 2007, 

welcomed a baby brother, Sumner 

‘Blake,’ June 1. She loves being a big 

sister.” (See photo online.) Laura 

Seymour Paro and her husband, Jim, 

welcomed a baby girl Aug. 11, 

Charlotte Hope. Laura writes, 

“Parenthood is amazing, and we’re 

loving every minute of it!” 

Kim Kirsch Huddleston and her 

husband, Dan, had a baby boy, 

Theodore “Teddy” Knox, Oct. 28. She 

writes that Dan accepted a neurology 

fellowship at Emory University 

Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., so the family 

plans to move this summer. 

Meghan Weidenbush-Soell and 

her husband, Casey, relocated to 

Houston. They welcomed their 

daughter, Caroline Casey, Nov. 9. 

Meghan is working full time on her 

stationery company, www. 

PaperEtiquette.com, while staying 

home with Caroline. 

In June Jason Carlough started a 

new position with MassMutual as 

managing director for the Metro 

NYC region, having worked 

Class Notes 

2001–2002 

previously as regional vice president 

and retirement plan counselor for 

American Funds Distributors Inc. 

Jason is based in New Jersey and 

MassMutual’s headquarters is in 

Springfield, Mass. 

Ben Persofsky writes: “I am 

doing quite well for myself in 

Philadelphia. I’m a vice president at 

a bank, hoping to make partner, if 

that’s even a real title.... Also, I 

perfected a recipe for brisket and 

submitted it to Martha Stewart 

Living, which picked it up for its 

BEST BRISKET OF THE 

DECADE! (Thanks to Christie 

Taylor for letting me use her 

computer today, as my Cessna 707’s 

laptop is in the shop.)” 

See you next time. Cheers, and 

take care! 

2002 

Christine D. Socha 

(908) 451-9159 

christinesocha@yahoo.com 

President: Clifford C. Michaels 

Fund Manager: Cara E. Belardi 

Reunion Chair: Tracy Kirwan Fay 


Christine D. Socha 

Hello, Class of 2002! I hope this 

edition finds you well. I will get right 

to the news since there are some 

great stories to share. 

Michelle Angelo and Jason 

Barbely were married Aug. 8 at St. 

Patrick’s Church in Bay Shore, N.Y. 

(See photo online.) The reception 

followed at the waterfront Land’s End 

in Sayville, N.Y. The new Mr. and Mrs. 

Barbely arrived at their reception by 

boat. According to Michelle, “It was 

a great party and an amazing day.” 

Following the wedding, they 

honeymooned for 11 days in Hawaii. 

Michelle and Jason live in East Islip, 

N.Y., in the home they bought 

together and are slowly fixing up. Jason 

works as an electrical engineer for APS 

Technology in Connecticut. Michelle 

finished her master’s in education in 

May and just received her New York 

certification in adolescent social studies. 

Haley Sarsfield married Will 

Harton Oct. 10 in Charleston, S.C. 

(See photo online.) In attendance 

were Carter and Sarah Silver 

Figueroa, Alyssa Zagrobski, Ali 

Streim, Elida Terry Mullarkey, 

Kristen Caruso, Erin Vanacore, 

Jaime Schwartz, Jessie Lupo 

Morey, Ami Davey, Sarah Ryan, 

Dustin Davis, and Jen Evans 

Salzman ’01. Haley works as a trust 

officer at U.S. Trust, the private 

wealth management division of Bank 

of America. She and her husband 

reside in Charleston. 

In keeping with the wedding 

theme, I am happy to report the 

engagement of my very good friend, 

Lindsay Carifi. Lindsay’s fiancé, P.J. 

Mingle, proposed at the Ritz Carlton 

in Orlando in August. The couple 

met while obtaining their MBAs at 

Duke University. A May wedding is 

being planned. 

Also planning a wedding is Jill 

Geisenheimer and her fiancé, Craig 

Bienstock. Craig proposed last 

November and a January wedding 

is in the works. 

Erin Wyble Newcomb and her 

husband, Matt, welcomed their 

daughter, Lucy Grace Newcomb, to 

the world Sept. 25 at 8:13 p.m. Lucy 

weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and 

was 18 inches long. Mom, dad, and 

baby Lucy are doing well. 

In career news, Dayna DeSimone 

graduated from the Stern School of 

Business at New York University last 

May with her MBA. 

And Bradford C. Schundler is 

now executive vice president for 

Borer Financial Communications 

Inc. Borer Financial works with 

CFOs and financial executives of 

publicly traded companies to reduce 

fixed expenses by outsourcing 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

compliance filings, saving them 

money. Bradford would like to 

network with alumni interested in 

outsourcing their company’s or their 

client’s SEC filing requirements. For 

more information on his position 

and/or Borer Financial’s EDGAR 


filing and news release services, 

email Bradford at bschundler@ 

borerfinancial.com or call him 

at (954) 873-5500. 

Check out NationalJournal.com 

and read the Aug. 28 interview with 

Evan White about his memories of 

meeting Sen. Ted Kennedy when 

Evan, at age 14, testified at a hearing 

chaired by the senator about Lyme 

disease. Evan is now a labor and 

employment lawyer in New York. 

That’s all for now! Email or 

Facebook me with your updates, 

and I will include them in the next 

column. Take care! 

2003 

Liza Lesser 

lizalesser@gmail.com 

President: Morgan Albus Mooney 

Fund Manager: Melissa Mitchell Pizarro 


Alison Ahart Williams 


Michael De Lisi, 

delisim@comcast.net 

Hi, Class of 2003! We have lots 

of updates, so let’s get to it. 

Congrats to Katie Schmidt on 

her marriage to Mike Saioni ’02. 

(See photo online.) They are about 

to celebrate their first anniversary, 

as the happy couple was married in 

April 2009. Lots of Lafayette friends 

were in attendance, including Tim 

Lenahan (former soccer coach), 

Fernando Barboto (former soccer 

coach), Dennis Bohn (current 

soccer coach), Paulo Coelho, 

Keith Evans ’02, and Mike ’01 

and Allison Fischer ’01 Gualtieri. 

Meghan Vacca married Scott 

Spurr May 9 in Farmington, Conn. 

(See photo online.) Kelly Martin, 

Debbie Katchen, Jess Dotson ’02 

Melchiors, and Jon-Paul Marnien 

’02 attended the wedding. Meghan 

and Scott headed to the happiest 

place on earth, Disney World, 

for their honeymoon. They are 

excited to share with everyone that 

they just bought their first house. 

Class Notes 

2002–2003 

Michelle David married Joey 

Simpson last August. Mary David 

Anzalone, Alana Anzalone ’04, 

Katie Iannucci, Alexis Kaliades, 

Billy Anzalone ’98, and Geoff 

Kintzer attended the wedding. 

Jennifer Conway got married this 

past September to Michael Fenn in 

Cambridge, Mass. Julia Friedman, 

Morgan Albus Mooney, and Jessie 

Porro Long were in attendance. 

Juliana Spagnolo got married last 

October. Karin Bennett, Katie 

Iannucci, Alana Anzalone ’04, Mary 

David Anzalone, Michelle David 

Simpson, Blakely O’Bannon, 

Kristin Valvanis, and Geoff Kintzer 

attended the wedding. 

Congrats to Kate McGovern, 

who married Matt Ferriola Nov. 14. 

(See photo online.) Kate and Matt 

met at the wedding of Matt ’02 and 

Abigail Santoro ’02 Goff. Many 

Lafayette friends were at the wedding 

to celebrate: Abigail, Matt, and their 

son, William, who was the ring 

bearer, bridesmaids Liza Lesser and 

Lauren Mack-Teti, and friends 

Carrie Chaitt, Jen Conway Fenn, 

and Alexandra Pelberg Slawter ’02. 

Kate and Matt honeymooned in 

Hawaii and live in Mahwah, N.J. 

Friends Kaajia Bruck and Cory 

Delafield both got engaged, by 

coincidence, on the same day last year. 

Kaajia is engaged to Chris Cassin, who 

attended Lehigh, and they are set to 

marry in October. Simone Solivan 

introduced Kaajia to Chris. Cory is 

engaged to Stark Townend, and they 

are planning a December wedding. 

Erin Reynolds is engaged to 

Dan Kelsh, and they are planning 

an October wedding. 

Jess Rowlands plans to get 

married this July. 

William Stocker ’03 

The Alumni Online Community is a good resource 

to look back and see what the people who were such 

an important piece of your life for so long are up to. 

It is a break from the everyday we are all faced with 

in our new adult worlds. 

Tracy King got married Sept. 19 

to Gregg Schorner at the Beach Club 

on Fripp Island in South Carolina. 

(See photo online.) A few other 

Lafayette alumni were at the 

wedding, including Louise Pacewicz, 

Valerie Mazzola, Charlene 

Fernandes, and Chris Hannan. 

Tracy is an engineer for Amgen in 

Rhode Island. She and Gregg bought 

a house in 2006 and have become 

master DIYers, as they are renovating 

the kitchen in their spare time. 

Last spring while in Rome, Ryan 

Shaffer got engaged to Dee Rivera. 

They plan to marry May 29 and are 

thrilled that John Ahearn and Dan 

Kiessling ’02 will be in attendance. 

Erin North wrote: “After 

attending a housewarming party for 

Joe Hamill in New Jersey Dec. 13, I 

drove to New York City for a day trip 

with my boyfriend of almost three 

years, Aaron Dean, and later that day 

we got engaged in Grand Central. 

We are planning a Nov. 27 wedding 

in Pittsburgh, where we both reside. 

My bridesmaids include Corinne 

Loveland, Kristin Pontoski, and 

Hiranya Parakrama Patterson.” 

Stephanie McCarter was married 

to John Flynn Nov. 1, 2008, in 

Rumson, N.J. Meghan Fell, Barbara 

Gubner, Alyssa Harmon, Melissa 

Papa, and Jodi Spector Kimmel 

were bridesmaids. Other guests in 

attendance included Shannon Rowe, 

Lily Fardshisheh, Lucas Kimmel, 

Monica Patterson, and Leidy Klotz. 

Stephanie and John live in Sea Girt, 

N.J., and are expecting their first 

baby, due in May. 

Jessie Porro Long and her 

husband, Bill, welcomed their 

daughter, Audrey, last April. 

(See photo online.) 


Ashley Wesmiller Flick and her 

husband, Jeremy, welcomed their son, 

Kellan James, Nov. 10. He weighed 8 

pounds, 4 ounces, and was 19¼ inches 

long. Ashley writes that Kellan “has 

already taken over our lives and our 

hearts!” The Flick family has spent 

quite a bit of time hanging out with 

Chris ’04 and Emily Myers Royle, as 

they lived in Maryland before moving 

back to Philly. (See photo online.) 

Chris and Emily were expecting a baby 

in January. In December, Katie 

Schrack Poor, Cheryl Christianson 

Tucker, and John and Allie Gross 

’04 Ricketts got together at Emily’s 

baby shower. 

Adam and Diana Griggs Foltz 

welcomed their first child, Parker 

Raymond, Sept. 19. He weighed 

7 pounds, 2 ounces, and was 

19¾ inches long. 

An excited Emily Murphy wrote, 

“Four of my short stories were 

published in A Christmas Sampler: 

Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday 

Tales. As a result, I spent the six weeks 

before Christmas going to book 

signings throughout the Lehigh Valley 

and New Jersey, and even one in 

North Carolina! I ran into a couple of 

other Lafayette alumni at those events, 

Tom Gauntner ’04 and Amy Carson 

Gross ’02. Of course, my husband, 

Adam Glickman ’04, was supportive 

and attended as many signings 

as he could.” 

Mike De Lisi received his master’s 

in engineering management from 

Tufts University this past summer. 

He’s engaged to Kate Murphy from 

Springfield, Mass. Mike met up with 

Stacey Wagner for New Year’s Eve 

while skiing at Breckenridge. 

Margaret Leschuk, Rachel 

Benaroya, Sandy Furnbach, Chrissy 

Randazzo, Whitney Cooper, and 

Nadine Kwiatkowski got together 

for their annual Christmas ladies’ 

dinner at Bar Artisanal in Manhattan. 

They shared good times over wine 

nd fondue. 

Brandon Cochenour wrote: 

“I am in the D.C. area, working for 

the Navy at a research lab. I received a 

fellowship about a year ago through 

Class Notes 

2003–2004 

the Department of Defense to pursue 

a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at 

North Carolina State University. I 

lived in Raleigh for a bit while taking 

classes...and I’m about to move back 

to D.C. to finish all the thesis work. 

While in Raleigh, I saw Mark Kolba, 

his wife, Tiffany, and his brother, 

John ’06, for the Lafayette–Lehigh 

telecast party. We all know how that 

ended. Also, earlier this summer I was 

awarded Outstanding Young Engineer 

of the Year by the Maryland Academy 

of Sciences, which was a neat honor. 

I met with Maria Mignogna and 

her boyfriend, Kris Letang, over 

the holidays in our hometown of 

Pittsburgh for a Penguins hockey 

game. Let’s go Pens! She is about to 

finish her Ph.D. and is doing well. My 

former roommates Justin Gaudreau 

and Steve Connlain ’05 are both 

recently engaged.” 

Kathryn Lambert was promoted 

to multi-property director of human 

resources in the Bethesda, Md., 

market for Marriott Hotels. She also 

completed her master’s in 

organizational development and 

knowledge management from George 

Mason University. 

Alana Anzalone ’04, Mary David 

Anzalone, and Alexis Kaliades all spent 

a weekend in Philly for Katie 

Iannucci’s annual birthday celebration 

in December. Michelle David Simpson 

and Karin Bennett couldn’t attend 

because of the snow storm but were 

there in spirit. Alexis traveled all the 

way from Oahu, Hawaii, where she 

has been living while getting her 

master’s in social work. 

Jess Papada Swarr wrote: “My 

husband Dan and I are wrapping up 

our time here in Houston. He is 

finishing his residency in pediatrics at 

Texas Children’s Hospital this June, 

and we are set to move back to 

Pennsylvania. Work has kept us busy 

as usual, but we did find time to 

vacation in Yellowstone National Park 

this summer. (See photo online.) 

Now I am onto a search for my next 

physician assistant job and am hoping 

to become a homeowner in a few 

months!” 

Jennifer Langoski finished her 

first year in Arlington, Va., with 

Langan Engineering’s new office. Last 

year, she also passed the professional 

engineering exam, so she is now 

licensed, and is also LEED certified 

for green building. 

I received a lot of great pictures of 

our classmates’ weddings, babies, and 

other fun times, which can be seen on 

the Lafayette web site. Thanks to 

everyone who wrote in; it’s always 

exciting to hear what we’re all up to 

and how great everyone is doing. 

2004 

David R. Norton 

3415 B. Holmead Place NW 

Washington, D.C. 20010 

david.r.norton@gmail.com 

President: Alex L. Karapetian 

Fund Managers: 

Megan Longo Villanella, 

Christine L. Bender 

Reunion Chair: Amy A. Giacobone 

After spending half of the last decade 

on College Hill, it’s fun to look back 

and see where we’ve been but even 

more fun to look ahead to what this 

next decade will bring. This issue is a 

little lighter than most in the past, but 

I guess no news is good news. Still, 

please continue to update us on your 

good news or update the Alumni 

Online Community and stay in touch! 

Jonathan Schecter and Malorie 

Ferrick ’07 are engaged. The couple 

lives in New York and plans for a fall 

wedding. 

Alyssa Picchini spent the second 

half of the decade pursuing a Ph.D. 

in psychiatry, and this year she 

graduated with distinction from 

Columbia University. She is 

completing a short postdoctoral 

fellowship in the department of 

psychiatry at Columbia. 

Shoshana Friedman resides in Tel 

Aviv, Israel, and is happy to report she 

is now an entrepreneur. This year, she 

started a cupcake company called TLV 

Cupcake (www.tlvcupcake.co.il). The 

company currently caters personal 


events, but Friedman hopes to open a 

store in the near future. 

Friedman also works full time at 

Kenes International, a large company 

that organizes and produces medical 

conferences all over the world, where 

she works in the production and 

logistics department. One of the perks 

is international travel. Perhaps she’ll 

bring a cupcake to your neck of the 

woods on her next assignment. 

Finally, Tim Jones and Caitlin 

Goos have quit their jobs and will 

spend the whole of 2010 circumnavigating 

the globe together. The 

travelers left the states in January for 

their first stop in Australia, from which 

they will later travel west through Asia 

and South America before returning to 

the states in December. Prior to their 

trip, Goos lived and worked in Boston, 

and Jones lived and worked in 

Washington, D.C. 

It’s good to see that our class is still 

moving and shaking and making their 

mark on the world. Have a great 

spring—hope to see many of you at 

Reunion Weekend in June. 

2005 

Catherine A. Hobby 

29 Rowan Road 

Chatham, NJ 07928 

(973) 769-0012 

cahobby@gmail.com 

President: Louise A. Boudart 

Fund Manager: Lee M. Goldfarb 

Reunion Chair: Erin C. McKan 


Yashpal Subedi, 

yashpals@gmail.com 

I hope everyone is doing well and 

getting ready for the spring. Soon 

enough, we will celebrate our fiveyear 

reunion. How crazy is that? 

I’d like to take this opportunity to 

remind you that June 4–6 is our 

five-year reunion at Lafayette, so do 

NOT plan anything else! If you have 

scheduled a wedding for that day, 

I’m afraid you’ll just have to 

reschedule. Or at least send me an 

update later so I can write about it. 

Class Notes 

2004-2005 

All right, enough of this free 

advertising for our reunion (you’re 

welcome, Erin McKan), here are the 

updates! 

Drew Moyer proposed to the 

beautiful Ansly Paulk in the beginning 

of September! Ansly (Dartmouth ’04) 

met Drew through Tom Soldan ’04 

while at a football game at the 

University of Georgia, where she was 

attending law school. Drew hoped to 

move down to Georgia by the end of 

2009, and the newly engaged couple 

plans to wed in spring 2011. 

In other engagement news, 

Lindsay DiBiase is engaged to 

Eric Saccollo (Colgate ’04). Their 

wedding is set for Aug. 14. 

Congratulations, Lindsay! 

Katie Coyne-Mannion made a 

beautiful bride Aug. 15 on Long 

Beach Island, N.J. Lafayette alums 

in attendance were Alex Psathas 

Delabar, Jessica Linder, Kim 

Whelan, Sam Blais, Ruthie Gelber, 

Jessica Whitman, Erica Flynn, 

Mike Farrell ’04, and Melissa 

Boskey ’06. Katie and Jeff took 

a long honeymoon cruise of the 

Mediterranean and stopped in, 

among other places, Egypt, where 

they saw the pyramids. Katie also 

recently passed not only the 

Pennsylvania Bar but also the New 

Jersey Bar! Congrats on all of your 

accomplishments, Katie, and keep 

the updates coming! 

Allie McGann wed Tom 

Campbell, a Boston College graduate, 

Dec. 5 at the Wequassett Resort in 

Chatham, Mass. (See photo online.) 

Leopards in attendance included 

Betsy Feinberg, Charlotte Smith, 

Kenda Kuncaitis, Meredith 

Gaffney, Dru D’Amico, Jess April, 

Samara Newman-Caplan, Katie 

Chris DeAppolonio ’06 

The Alumni Online Community is a huge asset 

because of the ability to search for and connect with 

alumni, especially with fellow Leopards who may 

have graduated years before you but can provide 

valuable knowledge, wisdom, and advice as you 

venture out into the world. 

Cinnamond, Meri Finch, Nick 

Halaby ’89, and Greg Koskinas ’00. 

Congratulations, Allie, and thanks so 

much for your picture; you look 

beautiful! 

Abby Weichert and R. James 

“Jeb” Madigan ’04 were married 

Aug. 22 in Lancaster, Pa. (See photo 

online.) Meghan Davis ’06, 

Michael Caulfield, and Jonathan 

Cohn ’04 were members of the 

wedding party. Other alumni in 

attendance included Carrie 

Abildgaard ’04, Jessica Hronich- 

Cohn ’04, John Troup ’04, Joseph 

Galyean ’04, Anthony Hawthorne 

’04, Jesse Nickerson, Carly Reiser, 

Lori Astheimer Best, and Jennifer 

Aranda ’07. Abby and Jeb enjoyed a 

relaxing New England honeymoon 

and now live in Albany, N.Y. 

Samara Newman wed Eric 

Caplan in September. Samara’s 

beautiful maids of honor were Emily 

Goldberg and Lindsay DiBiase. 

Other bridesmaids included Steph 

Shelton and Valentina Musco. 

Other lady Leopards in attendance 

were Ilana Strauss ’04, Jess April, 

Betsy Feinberg, Dru D’Amico, Allie 

McGann, Meredith Gaffney, Kristen 

Mahlstedt, Lindsay Napier, 

Adrienne Nagy, Michelle Carson, 

and Jessie Stehle. Best wishes in 

your new marriage, Samara! 

Mike De Gregorio is in his 

second year of the Ph.D. program in 

mechanical engineering at Arizona 

State University. Seeing that Mike 

has yet to be asked to leave, things 

seem to be going well for him in this 

area. Mike is also doing research on 

how to improve prosthetic and 

robotic hands to make them more 

human. Through this research, Mike 

hopes to enable users to regain some 


functionality that may have been lost. 

In the last year, Mike has presented 

at two major conferences on his 

research and work. Great job, 

Mike, keep up the good work! 

Speaking of people doing well 

while working toward their 

doctorates, Mayank Lahiri was 

kind enough to inform me that he 

is in his last year of his Ph.D. at the 

University of Illinois–Chicago. He 

planned to spend January 2010 in 

a research outpost in central Kenya 

chasing giraffes in Jeeps for the better 

part of the day. Thanks for the news, 

Mayank, and hope you had a great 

time in Kenya! 

To continue with the doctorate 

theme, Hart Feuer informed me 

that he will be living in Cambodia 

for most of 2009–10 while on 

Ph.D. fieldwork, and he enjoys it 

immensely. Hart is still slated for 

a late 2011 graduation from the 

University of Bonn, Germany. 

Thanks for the update, Hart! 

If you’re in the NYC area, keep 

an eye out for Jaclene Paolucci, 

who runs a children’s boutique on 

the Upper East Side. The boutique 

is called Mish Mish and sells clothes 

for newborns through age 10. If 

you can’t make it to NYC and are 

expecting a baby Leopard, you can 

find Jaclene’s boutique through 

Facebook under Mish Mish 

Lexington. 

Kim Moore Herget started a 

new job at the beginning of the year 

doing cancer research at the Utah 

Cancer Registry. She is a research 

analyst and helps produce cancer 

rates and statistics for the state of 

Utah. Kim was sure to note how her 

work is interesting and she enjoys it. 

Kim and her husband, Aaron, also 

bought their first house over the 

summer in Salt Lake City. Thanks for 

the update, Kim, and keep up the 

hard work! 

Matt and Diane Mitchell Young 

have been living in the Clearwater/ 

Tampa area since graduation but 

planned to relocate to the Baltimore 

area in January to be closer to their 

families. Diane landed an opportunity 

Class Notes 

2005–2006 

as a marine mammal (dolphin) trainer 

at the National Aquarium in 

Baltimore after working at the 

Clearwater Marine Aquarium for 4½ 

years and reaching the director of 

animal care position. The happy 

couple is looking forward to being 

closer not only to their family and 

fellow Lafayette friends but being 

able to finally attend Lafayette– 

Lehigh football games! Thanks for 

the update, and congrats on all the 

new events! 

Damian Gill was kind enough to 

send another update and informed 

me that he finished his four-year 

commitment with the Army and 

started a new career with Exxon 

Mobil in April 2009. Glad you are 

back and safe, Damian. Thanks so 

much for your update! 

Surprisingly, Kelly Foran did not 

send an update, but I am looking 

forward to seeing her this August 

when she plans to marry Mike 

Tuller! I hope to see Joelle Sobin, 

Devon Landers, Taryn Landers, 

Lauren Doyle, Jackie Chomsky, 

and Erin Wolfson at or before this 

undoubtedly awesome wedding. 

Well, that’s it for this round of 

updates. As usual, thank you to 

everyone who sent an update, and 

please keep them coming. I hope to 

see you all in June as we reminisce 

about Lafayette memories made five 

years ago and make enough more 

to last another five years! 

2006 

Amy B. Schwartz 

(908) 403-3492 

amyschwartz@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: Kelly E. Barrows 

Fund Managers: Kelly E. Barrows, 

Melissa J. Spitz 

Reunion Chair: Melissa J. Spitz 


David C. Glasser, 

david.glasser@gmail.com 

Congratulations to Megan Rhadigan 

and Michael Brack, who married last 

May in Turks and Caicos. The couple 

held a reception back in Megan’s home 

state of Michigan later in the summer 

and now happily live and work in the 

Lehigh Valley. Also wed in May were 

Sharon Bandstra to David Wu in 

Hawthorne, N.J. Among the 

bridesmaids were Shawna Showalter 

Eddy ’04 , Maureen Jackson, and 

Amanda Pikarsky ’07. Brenna 

Ghent ’05 and Megan Kunkelman 

Royes ’07 also took part in the 

ceremony. Sharon and David live in the 

Philadelphia area, where Sharon 

continues her graduate work at Drexel 

University, and David is beginning his 

residency program. Jessica Fennell 

married John “J.J.” Heranic this past 

August in Pittsburgh, Pa. Natalie 

Kuzla, Caryn Donohue, Daria 

Szkwarko, and Jenny Ziznewski were 

all bridesmaids. Also in attendance 

were Taylor Robinson, Erin Githens, 

and Rachel Jacobs DeMarco ’07. 

Other August weddings included 

Brandon Sipple to Allison Ligorano, 

and Laurel Kalp to Stephen Sviatko 

III. Laurel and Stephen now reside in 

Edinburg, Va., where Laurel is a 

teacher and Stephen works for the 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

David Glasser and Andrea Weiss also 

tied the knot this past year in 

September in Clarks Summit, Pa. 

Kristen Tull and Jonathan Rowe 

were married in October in the Duke 

Gardens. Thank you to everyone for 

sending in your wedding photos (see 

online), and congratulations again! 

Cedric Lourie and Kristen 

Rabuck bought a house in 

Gilbertsville, Pa., and are busy making 

final preparations for their upcoming 

wedding in April. We look forward to 

hearing about the wedding. In other 

engagement news, Maggie Gerry got 

engaged to Matt Hall (USC ’04/ 

Loyola Law School ’07) and moved 

to Denver in September. She is excited 

and hopes for a fall wedding. Maggie 

is looking forward to this summer, 

when she’ll be attending Melissa 

Korpela’s and Sue O’Connell’s 

weddings with other alumni. 

Congrats to all of the recent law 

school grads, among which are Jen 

Ryan, Mike Hamburger, Crystal 


Benaroya, and Jessica Zafonte. Mike 

graduated magna cum laude from 

Fordham Law School, passed the New 

York Bar exam, and, since November, 

works at a firm in New York. Jen 

graduated from St. John’s University 

School of Law, and, since October, 

works at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt 

& Mosle LLP law firm in Manhattan. 

Upon his return from Japan, where 

he was teaching English, Sean 

Comerford decided to pursue law at 

Brooklyn Law School, where he looks 

forward to exploring different areas of 

legal interest and discovering what 

specialization he would like to pursue. 

Among other alums pursuing further 

degrees are Sarah Templeton and 

Tomasso Marsella. After spending 

the years since graduation living and 

working in Europe, Sarah moved to 

Sydney, Australia, to complete her 

masters in cross-cultural 

communication. Tommaso now 

attends the University of Maryland 

for a master’s in higher education 

administration after finishing a position 

as a consultant for Phi Kappa Psi 

headquarters. Matt Saybolt is busy 

finishing up his fourth year at the 

University of Medicine and Dentistry, 

New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson 

Medical School, interviewing for 

residencies, taking his licensing test, 

and finishing up final internships. Matt 

plans to go into internal medicine and, 

in the future, subspecialize in 

cardiology. Best of luck to all of those 

who are beginning or are currently in 

graduate school programs, and 

congratulations to those who have 

earned further degrees. 

In business news, Chris 

DeAppolonio accepted a position 

this summer with R*Works, based out 

of Dallas, as an experiential marketing 

specialist. He is promoting Chevrolet 

and its sponsorships of the Texas 

Rangers, Houston Astros, and 

Louisiana State University football. 

Chris enjoys Texas immensely but 

says, “Don’t expect cowboy hat, 

boots, and a twang,” when he comes 

back to visit the East Coast. David 

Van Schaik joined Ameriprise 

Financial in Saddle Brook, N.J., as a 

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2006-2008 

financial adviser. He is also working 

with Sarah Trimmer, assistant 

director of alumni affairs, to help 

bolster northern New Jersey alumni 

event participation. Last but not least, 

Joel Miner left his job at Turner 

Construction to pursue a lifelong 

dream of becoming a professional 

wrestler. He is training out of a gym 

in Atlantic City, where his stage name 

is Joel “The Minotaur” Miner. 

Blake Costanzo continues to 

receive media attention as a special 

teams member for the NFL’s 

Cleveland Browns. Benjamin Berlow 

was accepted for a unique academic 

fellowship sponsored by Abraham’s 

Vision, a conflict-transformation 

organization that pairs six Jewish 

Fellows and six Palestinian Fellows to 

explore the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 

using comparative conflict and social 

justice analysis. Congratulations to 

our classmates for these great 

accomplishments. 

Thank you to everyone who wrote 

in with their updates, and I look 

forward to hearing from the class in 

the future! 

2007 

Jillian M. Gaeta 

gaetaj@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: Meghan J. Hargrave 

Fund Managers: Carli A. Siger, 

Matthew J. Potter 

Reunion Chair: Lauren M. Fisher 


Frank R. Giannelli III, 

devilsfan30@att.net 

Val Simone and Drew Weisman ’04 

got engaged in New York City 

Dec. 16. They plan to marry in 

late summer. Congratulations, 

Val and Drew! 

Emily Goldman got engaged to 

Pete Garibaldi (Lehigh ’07) and has 

set their wedding date for Oct. 2 in 

Bernardsville, N.J. The wedding party 

will include alumni bridesmaids 

Chrissy Fallivene, Sarah Smedley, 

Kelli McMahon Sanchez, Courtney 

Ramsdell ’08, and groomsman 

John Lucas ’07. Congratulations, 

Emily and Pete! 

Keith Bloom and Shannon 

Fisher got engaged March 10, 2009. 

The wedding is set for June 25, 2011. 

Congratulations, Keith and Shannon! 

JP Botti applied and was accepted 

into the Coast Guard’s Officer 

Candidate School. Beginning his 

training January 2007, JP graduated 

top in his class and accepted a 

commission as an ensign last May. 

Currently stationed in Charleston, 

S.C., on the USCGC Dallas, JP 

performs counter-narcotics, migrant 

introduction, and rescue missions in 

the Western Caribbean and South and 

Central America. He will be in 

Charleston until he transfers in 2011. 

Silvia Mancebo plans to begin 

medical school at State University 

of New York–Downstate in Brooklyn 

in the fall. 

Vijay Krishnan completed a 

master’s in economics from Boston 

University and now works as an 

analyst for Compass Lexecon. 

Stephanie Morain received a 

master’s in history and ethics from 

Columbia University and is working 

towards her Ph.D. in health policy 

ethics at Harvard this year. 

2008 

Lauren Steinitz 

1014 Spruce St., Apt. 4-1 

Philadelphia, PA 19107 

(206) 459-0687 

steinitzl@alumni.lafayette.edu 

President: Carolyn R. Romney 

Fund Managers: Steven T. Roe, 

Andrew L. Stella 

Reunion Chair: Amanda L. Niederauer 

Web Administrator: Stefan J. McVeigh, 

mcveighs@lafayette.edu 

Christine Fitzherbert is engaged 

to Sam Singer. Christine works 

for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in the 

vaccines department, and Sam is a 

geotechnical engineer at Langan 

Engineering in NYC. 

Lindsay Grimes is engaged to her 

counterpart co-captain of the men’s 


swim team, Jaryd Freedman. The 

much-anticipated All- Lafayette 

family event is scheduled for Labor 

Day weekend. And further good 

news: Lindsay has been accepted to 

law school and plans to start classes 

in the fall, the moment she returns 

from her honeymoon. 

Jaryd continues his excellent 

academic career after Lafayette, as he 

is deep in his second year of study at 

Temple University School of 

Medicine. He reports that Lafayette 

prepared him well for medical 

school, as he continues to excel in his 

classes and lab work. 

Aviva Goel works in New York 

City as a research associate at 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer 

Center and is also applying to grad 

school for a Ph.D. in cancer biology, 

so it’s been a busy year! 

Megan Muldowney started 

graduate school at Fairfield 

University for a master’s degree in 

communications and also works as an 

announcements editor for the news 

web site Darien Patch. 

2009 

Colleen Sullivan 

3 Dunhill Road 

Jackson, NJ 08527 

colleensullivan12@gmail.com 

President: Arthur P. Ernst Jr. 

Fund Manager: Sarah E. Maxwell 

Reunion Chair: TarynAnn H. Barry 

Web Administrator: Robert A. Follett, 

rafollett@gmail.com 

Class Notes 

2008–2009 

Reunion Weekend 

June 4-6 

Friendship, good times, and memories 

are waiting for you! 

Register online at the alumni web site.

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