“I’M PRETTY SURE LEIGH GUYER ’83
(SIXTH FROM THE LEFT, WITH THE BEARD AND BLACK HELMET)
PLAYED IN THE IHL, AND WHILE IT RARELY LEADS TO A PRO CONTRACT, THE ‘LOVE OF THE GAME’ WAS DEFINITELY AN OUTCOME FOR MANY. FAST FORWARD MANY YEARS, AND THOSE WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR LOVE FOR THE GAME ENOUGH TO LACE ’EM UP WITH REGULARITY CAN REAP CONSIDERABLE REWARDS . . .” —JOHN KNIGHT ’83
Josh Binswanger ’80 and his son Colin posed
under the Great Tent at Reunions with 2015 Morsman Award recipient Norm Therien. / Rob McDowell ’81 visited with classmate Win Faulkner ’81 and his son Cole ’15 in Anchorage, AK.
1981 “I reconnected with my classmate Morris Housen, who came to New Orleans for a business conference. We hadn’t seen each other since graduation. When Morris isn’t working as a stunt double for Kiefer Sutherland, he works as CEO and president of Erving Industries, whose holdings include a paper mill in Erving, MA, which is more than a century old and since 1960 has produced high-quality paper products exclusively from recycled materials. I’ve lived in New Orleans since 1988 and I’m director of programs, marketing, and communications for the nonprofit New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. After a leisurely brunch in the hip Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, we checked out the African drumming circle and costumed Mardi Gras Indians in historic Congo Square. Then we headed into the Tremé neighborhood (made famous by the HBO series Tremé) to catch one of New Orleans’ fabled ‘second-line’ parades, complete with brass bands and lots of dancing in the streets.”—Scott Aiges
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