ALUMNI News
’75
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Members of the Class of 1975 Dave Title and Bill Bogle enjoy opening day at Fenway Park. Bill notes: “For over 20 years, we have been part of a group that purchases Red Sox season tickets.” On a recent business trip to the Los Angeles area, Mary Kate Behlke Donais ’87 (right) was able to catch up with Betsy Kalin ’87 during a quick visit to Santa Monica pier and dinner with an ocean view.
1973
David Brody, writes: “The Chiapas Project, the volunteer medical/dental group founded by the Brody family 11 years ago to serve the Zoque (Mayan) people of rural Mexico, will have its next week of service in July. On its last trip, our group treated 1,108 patients. Our website, chiapasproject. org, can be consulted for details although it is sadly out of date (Any webmasters out there?), or contact David.BrodyDMD@ gmail.com.”
1974
The Men’s College Officials Committee of U.S. Lacrosse recently presented Michael O’Malley with the Bernie Ulman Award for service to the game. Michael reports: “Some of my mentors were previous winners, so it was a great honor. This summer, I’m running the seventh annual Park 44 |
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City (Utah) Ski Town Lacrosse Shoot Out, a youth tournament that draws from nine western states and helps to train new officials.” Morwen Swilling Two Feathers is “in a period of transition, (i.e., unemployment).” While searching for her next position, she has been volunteering as co-chair of Sustainable Concord (Mass.), “raising local awareness and building community towards a sustainable future,” she writes.
1975
“Time flies by,” writes Kevin Cronin. “Our oldest, Megan, got married in November 2010, and our middle kid, Justin, got engaged in April. The youngest, Bridget, is a junior at Colgate.” Tracey Wetstone Siegel writes that her daughter Sarah graduated from Wellesley May 27 and lives in the Boston area.
1977
John Gallic, Loomis and University of Connecticut baseball alumnus, recently called his former coach, retired Loomis history teacher Allen Beebe, to tell him that John’s son Mike has been drafted in the 18th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the San Diego Padres. Mike attended Tolland High School (Conn.), where he was All-State in baseball and football; he then went on to Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. This past season, Mike led the Red Foxes in home runs (6), runs batted in (43), stolen bases (12), and triples (3). He also
batted .292, scored 43 runs, was second on the team in total bases (94) and tied for second in doubles (14). He played in 165 games and made 160 starts in his Marist career. He batted .293 with 173 hits, 129 runs scored, 107 runs batted in, 35 stolen bases in 38 attempts, 33 doubles, and 15 home runs. He was a Second Team All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference selection. Mike is slated to play in Eugene, Ore., this summer, and John now plans to take his summer vacation there. Mike Gallic is the grandson of Roger Gallic ’47. Andrew Gibian reports that he lives in Manitou Springs, Colo., and is doing well.
1979
“Life in Charlotte, N.C., is terrific,” writes Andrew Plepler. Claudia and I have more or less control of our three kids — Allie, 16; Jonny, 14; and Cate, 9. We’ve added a dog, Lucy, and a horse, Bitsey, just to keep things interesting. My golf game is pathetic, but I can still beat Scando!”
1980
Keith Scribner’s third novel, The Oregon Experiment, was released June 14 by Alfred A. Knopf (Random House). The novel is set in a fictionalized Corvallis, Ore., where Scanlon Pratt, a political science professor and expert on mass movements and radical action, has come from the East Coast for a position at Oregon State University. His wife, Naomi,
In his first season as Trinity College head men’s lacrosse coach, Michael Higgins ’89 was selected as the 2011 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year. He guided the Bantams to a 12–3 overall record, a 6–3 conference mark, and the program’s first-ever appearance in the NESCAC semifinals. Here Mike guides Trinity to a big win over Bowdoin. Trevor Stern ’07 is a Trinity captain. Photo: James “Grim” Wilson
a fragrance designer who has lost her sense of smell, is pregnant with their first child. Soon, their lives become entwined with Sequoia, the leader of a fledgling secessionist movement, and with Clay, a local anarchist. Critic David Vann writes: “Keith Scribner is certainly one of our most gifted and generous writers. In the midst of anarchists, secessionists, violent clashes and desperate plans, he offers uncommon sympathy and grace in a marriage lost then found, an unlikely hero, a world sensuous and rich, and even redemption from what we might fear most — that we can’t run from who we are, that the past is waiting to ambush us.” Keith is an associate professor at Oregon State University. His wife, Jennifer Richter, published her first poetry collection, Threshold, last year. They make their home in Corvallis with their two children.
1981
Anthony J. “Tony” Dennis is the author of three books on Islamic fundamentalism. Author of Osama Bin Laden: A Psychological and Political Portrait, he has been interviewed by the media on the death of the al-Qaeda leader. Tony’s work has been published by Oxford University Press and used by producers at the BBC in the creation of a documentary on the jihadist movement. Tony is a corporate lawyer in Hartford and co-hosted a 10-part PBS show, which won an Emmy in 2007.