“A planned excursion to buy some Adirondack chairs in Cadyville (south of Plattsburgh) on June 11 was disrupted when 800 troopers surrounded the town looking for the 2 escapees.” — Stephen Horne ’69 moments ever. After the race, I believe we ended up at Paul Schneider’s parents’ house in New Hyde Park.” Frank was also in attendance in ’77 and ’78 when Seattle Slew and Affirmed won Triple Crown victories. Bob Haggerty organized a recent Deke reunion lunch at Connolly’s bar in midtown Manhattan, attended by Pete Lewine, Fred Noell, Bryce Suydam, and Dick Herbst. Pete said they had a great time and did lots of catching up. Rick Ross was supposed to be there but had to cancel at the last minute for court business for a client. Pete says Herbst is working harder than ever, as president and managing partner of Roundtable Investment Partners. Ray Elliott wrote, “I enjoyed the news about my Washington Study Group roommate Tom Blatner in the winter class notes. I have not seen Tom in years. I am trying to remember if you ever went golfing with Tom and me when we were in DC. [Ed Note: I did not. Golf is an affliction I did not acquire until I was in my 50s.] On another note, I usually have a monthly lunch with Mike Morgan ’69 and Peter Corrigan ’70 to swap Colgate stories and to catch up on our families.” Read McNamara wrote, “Once again, my retirement plans have been de-railed. I assumed the position of assistant dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management on July 1. This is definitely an end-of-career gig. I recently attended Canterbury School’s Centennial, which happened to coincide with my Class of 1965 50th Reunion. My fellow Canterbury classmates included Chip Rafuse. With our Colgate 50th Reunion aligning with the bicentennial, I thought it was an interesting bit of coincidence.” Read also sent some memories from Henry Stimson ’80 about traveling Route 20 through central NY. We have a lot of doctors, lawyers, teachers, and businessmen in our class, but when you need to design, build, and operate a parking garage, the go-to guy is Mike Swartz. See him talk about it on YouTube at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=bp26s-lZUfo. He served as senior VP of administrative services at Standard Parking Corp, a leading national provider of parking facility management services. Mike joined the Standard Companies in 1983, initially serving as VP. He received his MBA degree from the U of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1971. He has been a member of the board of directors of the International Parking Institute since 1997. His new e-mail address is mswartz1948@gmail.com. John Loden sent a kind note about my wife and added that he did not have any West Coast news for the Scene except to report that “Napa Valley Vineyards have yet to be damaged by the California drought. That news should make my fellow Colgate wine connoisseurs very happy!” Tom Orsi reported that he was shipwrecked on a European river cruise, and survived. John Higgins wrote that Dave Knauer is “catching big fish and announcing it to the world.” John and Jack McGlynn are organizing a group that will go to Belfast over Thanksgiving weekend for the first-ever Belpot Hockey Tournament. In typical Colgate fashion, everything is secret and there has been little follow-on communication. Maybe it’s the influence of the secretive Dekes. I was browsing the Marin (CA) Independent in June and found an article titled, “Barry Spitz to be inducted into the Dipsea Hall of Fame.” I know Barry, but had no idea what the Dipsea was. It 60
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seems Barry has been the voice of the 100+-yearold “Dipsea” road race for more than 3 decades. The article called Barry one of the “strongest advocates” of the 7.4-mile race in scenic Marin County, and “perhaps its greatest ambassador.” On June 14, for the 34th year, he was its venerable race announcer at the finish line. Barry has been the Dipsea’s historian, its authoritative figure, and a champion for the Dipsea and all it stands for. For all of that, Barry was inducted into the Dipsea Hall of Fame. Barry moved to Marin County in 1975 and became actively involved in the running world, as a runner and racer, and as a writer. All the best, Jim Milmoe Jim: 910-262-3512 (C); smilmoe@aol.com
197 0 George Murphy Jr 1510 Ocean Avenue Mantoloking, NJ 08738-1516 908-330-4485 Our 45th Reunion in Hamilton held May 28–May 31 was better than ever. If you have attended reunion, you know that the fun begins on the ride up to and through the Chenango Valley. The scenery at the time of reunion is magnificent (we were back home after finals at that time of the year). It never ceases to amaze me how little has changed along Rte 12 and Rte 12B since we graduated. I always enjoy reuniting with classmates whom I knew back in the day, but I especially enjoy meeting and getting to know classmates whom I didn’t know or hang around with back in 1966–1970. Reunion makes me appreciate that we really have an amazing class of good people. Hopefully, more of us will attend our 50th Reunion in 2020. This year, the list of attendees included: Jonathan Alpert, William Baker, Charles Beitz, Harold Borkowski, Scott Christensen, Lawrence Cooley, Phil Corrinet, Harold DeLaRoi, Chuck Fox, Matt Goldstan, Jeff Hall, John Halstead, Ray Hartung, John Heisler Jr, Paul Horowitz, Cris Johnson, Bruce Jones, Richard Kessler, Rob Littlehale, Charles Mayberry, Bill McKissock, John McQueen, George Murphy, Reyn Perlee, Mark Pinzur, Bill Potter, Steve Reilly, Dennis Riordan, John Romano, Marcus Rosenbaum, Bill Ross, Ed Russell, Jim Smith, Mike Smith, John Tripp, Scott Turner, and Russ Wilkinson. The Friday afternoon and evening barbecues were followed by the traditional and highly impressive torchlight parade and bonfire backed by bagpipe music and capped by fireworks. A number of our classmates played golf in the scheduled tournament on Friday, but some of us played Saturday morning and many attended a seminar given by Jon Alpert dealing with sexuality in Cuba today. Later Saturday, we had our class cocktail party and dinner at the Hamilton Inn followed by a well-received talk by Professor Jane Pinchin regarding her recollections and impressions of Colgate in our era. Late Saturday night found a hard-core group of the Class of 1970 (and many others) dancing to the music of the ’60s and ’70s played by the Sky Coasters on a bandstand set up in the middle of Whitnall Field. Although I have photographic and video evidence of the event, I have been requested not to post it without prior approval by the subjects in question.
Until next time, enjoy the changing autumn leaves, and stay warm and healthy. Murph: 732-892-0217; 7806 (F); gfmdmw@aol.com
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Reunion June 2–5, 2016 I hope you had a great summer. This marks my 1-year retirement anniversary and I love it! If you are contemplating retirement, jump on in, the water’s fine! After 20 years as a banker in NJ and the last 15 years in Washington, DC, as a bank regulator, Bill Reeves has retired. Bill plans to work on his golf game where one measure of success will be losing less than a half dozen balls per round! At this age, fore-spotters would be a big help! Bill stays in touch with Tom Bara, Guy Michael ’70, and Bob Angelo ’70 — all active members of the NJ Phi Psi contingent. Bill would like to hear from Denman Penniston, and he wonders what ever happened to Pat Fitzgerald ’72 and Keith “Rocco” Sikorski ’72. He says that they all still owe him bar money from Jim and Betty’s. Continuing on the retirement theme, Stuart Roberts retired on Sept 1, 2014, as a diagnostic radiologist from Danbury Radiological Associates after 34 years in private practice. He became a permanent resident of Carlsbad, CA, as of 7/25/15 and he hopes to volunteer teaching radiology to med students at UC San Diego. His 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, will be starting high school. Stuart would like to hear from long-lost roommate Tim Collins. Tim Connolly is now “fully retired” and enjoys playing golf and living in Severna Park, MD. He makes it up to Colgate at least a couple of times a year to enjoy the campus and attend athletics events. He supports the Hardwood Club for Colgate basketball and attends 4–5 games a year. Last September (2014) he attended a women’s soccer game when Colgate played the U of VT. His niece plays soccer for Vermont. He was looking forward to attending the Navy – Colgate football game this fall in Annapolis. Tim asked me to remind you that our 45th Reunion is June 2–5, 2016. He hopes we will have a good turnout, so mark your calendars! Jim Van Bourgondien continues in the furniture business in the greater NY metro area. He now works for Lexington Tommy Bahama. However, after 44 years in the business, he is thinking about retirement. By coincidence, Jim and wife Joan love spending time at their 2nd home in Naples, FL. It’s been 2 years since Paul Wedel retired as president and executive director of the Bangkokbased Kenan Institute Asia. He was on loan to the institute from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul spends his time on personal projects: building furniture for his daughters’ apartments, getting into better shape, taking Latin and ballroom dancing with his wife, Yuangrat, and fixing up their cottage in the mountains north of Bangkok. On a more serious note, Paul and his wife have started work on a sequel to their 1987 book Radical Thought, Thai Mind that will examine the ideological conflicts that have been partly behind the past 10 years of political violence, coups, and protests in the
country. They hope to complete the book at the end of 2016. The Wedels have enjoyed supporting the work of their daughters, Pailin and Jinda, who have now relocated to Bangkok. Upon leaving the AP, Pailin has been busy as an independent documentary filmmaker. After working as a TV news announcer, Jinda is head writer and features editor at Prestige magazine. In their spare time, the Wedels have done some traveling. They just returned from a 2-week tour of Japan visiting Kyoto and the Northern Japanese Alps. From the working world, I have heard from a number of you. Richard Kessel has left the govt and is consulting with clients on the development of energy infrastructure: specifically transmission, generation, and renewables. His first child, Eli, is 7 years old and he is ready to attend the ’Gate! Jean and Dan Kohanski are in their 2nd tour of duty at the US Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco. As a consular officer, he is involved in visa work and other diplomatic duties. As in their previous assignment in the Philippines, the Kohanskis have taken the opportunity to explore Morocco and other countries; think Sweden. Recently, Jean headed back to San Francisco to celebrate her grandson’s 2nd birthday. Dan indicates his work with the consulate comes to an end next year due to him reaching mandatory retirement age. Marc Black has a lot going on with performances in general and the Sing For Silenced campaign in particular. The campaign deals with the social, economic, moral, and environmental issues surrounding hydraulic fracking. Marc, along with John Sebastian, Happy Traum, and Peter Schickele (think PDQ Bach), just finished a CD. They were preparing for a July 19 bus tour into the center of the controversy in PA. For details, visit SingForTheSilenced.org. Gary W Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of human ecology at Cornell U, spent the academic year on a Guggenheim Fellowship writing a book on poverty and child development. Nancy ’76 and Bruce Selleck missed this year’s reunion because they were co-directing the Colgate Study Group in Cardiff, Wales. Bruce is still teaching in the geology department, and he recently was named to the Thomas A Bartlett Chair. Honoring President Bartlett who led Colgate from 1969–1977, the chair is a 3-year rotating appointment held by a senior faculty member who functions as a mentor to junior faculty. Bruce is honored for the chair and he noted that President Bartlett’s grandson Thomas just graduated in the Class of 2015, majoring in geology. Finally, I am saddened to announce the passing of Dr John L Santopolo, who was involved in a fatal automobile accident on Jan 5, 2015. While at Colgate, John played soccer and he was a member of Delta Upsilon. Upon graduation, he went on to Georgetown U, where he got his degree in dentistry specializing in endodontics (root canals) and his MScD from Boston U. John practiced for more than 30 years, with offices in Woodmere and Merrick, NY. He was founder and president of Long Island Endodontics, and he was considered a leader in the field. John was one of the first to apply new technologies such as the YAP laser. He frequently lectured throughout the East Coast and published articles on a variety of topics related to his field. John served on the staff of Peninsula Hospital Center until the Far Rockaway facility closed in 2012. John was a lifelong and active member of the community. He was president of the local merchants association and an officer of the Hewlett-Woodmere alumni association. John is survived by his wife, Beth, daughters Suzanne,