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Minnesota. He is communications director of the Minnesota Wire & Cable Co., teaches a class in leadership, and writes speeches and articles for officials at Lockheed. His father (Honorary Regent Bruce Laingen) and mother (Penne) have done quite a bit of traveling around the country speaking on Iran. Both are working on novels.
’80 Capt. Clayton G. Tettelbach assumed command in September of the Navy Operational Support Center at Whidbey Island, Washington.
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and the kids are doing great—still loving the Bavarian farm life. If you are in the neighborhood, please drop me a line.”
Duncan White duncan.m.white@accenture.com Todd Wells twells1@twcny.rr.com
Ray Liddy and Chris Croninger ’83 met for dinner and laughs in San Antonio in January. Ray, a lieutenant in the Marine Corps reserves, is on active duty in California.
Dave Flanagan flans@nycapp.rr.com Dave Wagner david.g.wagner@owenscorning.com Greg Zinn greg@zinn.com
The April 16 edition of The New Yorker featured an article entitled “The Interpreter” by John Colapinto that cited the work of William T. S. Fitch III, Ph.D. The article references Fitch’s work with the Piraha tribe of Brazil, as well as the paper Fitch co-authored with Noam Chomsky in 2002 about recursion (the linguistic operation of embedding one phrase inside another).
The January issue of Swimming World featured Rich Saeger, who led Team TYR of the Southern Pacific LMSC to 11 individual world records, five relay world records, and four meet records at the recent FINA Masters World Championships. In the article, Rich described former Mercersburg swim coach John Trembley as one of his most memorable coaches.
Kenneth Hyatt and his wife, Retta, run two businesses, Hyatt Sporthorses LLC and The Golden Guardians. Hyatt Sporthorses, a horse-breeding business, aims to produce horses that will suit one or more of three basic disciplines (dressage, show jumping, and cross country). The Golden Guardians specializes in home nursing care. Kenneth lives on the farm with his wife and two of his three children, and he welcomes anyone coming to the Eastern Shore for a visit. He can be reached at rett@goeaston.net.
Peter Winebrenner writes, “I joined Hord Coplan Macht (HCM), a 100-person architecture firm in downtown Baltimore. I was hired as a principal to help HCM expand its public and private school market share in the region. Before joining HCM, I completed the design and construction of a new indoor ice hockey arena for Mercersburg’s rival The Hill School. My wife, Lisa (Pauley) ’81, continues to teach at St. Paul’s School for Girls. Our two children, Shriver (13) and Madeleine (10), are doing well. We often see Guido Porcarelli ’83 and cousin Ted Smith ’83. We would love to hear from other alums in the Baltimore area.”
John Koch, not being able to get enough of the Army, returned to active duty in a “permanent” status last September. He reports, “I volunteered for the Call to Active Duty program, which placed me back in the regular Army and will allow me to retire upon reaching more than 20 years of active federal service. Guess a year in Afghanistan, and the prospect of a possible yearlong deployment to Iraq, made me sense I’d be better off on the active side. Luckily, I was granted a reprieve from the field artillery, and now work in my Functional Area (57) as a simulations operations officer (which I was doing as a civilian). I am director of operations at the Joint Multinational Command Training Center in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and expect to stay here until the summer of 2008. (I’ll hopefully make it to the reunion in 2008.) Dee
Mark Pyper mark.e.pyper@smithbarney.com Bruce Ricciuti jbr@birchrea.com
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Yvonne Pelletier Hewitson writes, “A year or so ago, I was contacted by classmate Tonio Bahner, and we met for dinner here in Knoxville, where I teach at the University of Tennessee. It was a lot of fun. He highly recommended attending a reunion, so I may actually try to make it this time. Twenty-five years is a really long time, and I have a hard time taking it in. Almost none of my students were alive then, and do not understand references to Caddyshack, I am sorry to say.”
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Chris Croninger is a senior insurance representative at USAA’s home office. Paula Johnson Smith won the University of Utah's Distinguished Early Career Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching. She was also granted tenure and promoted to asso-
Gloria Jean, born September 2, 2006, daughter of Addison Hunt ’82 and his wife, Christine Parker.
Delia Geraldine, born March 24, 2007, daughter of Andrew McCabe ’84 and his wife, Lisa.
Children of Amy Konikowski Lamperti ’87 and her husband, Rich: Anna (2), Edward “Eddie” Francis (born January 23, 2007), and Mario (3).
William Oscar, born September 12, 2006, son of Bill Su ’88 and his wife, Kathleen.
Thomas Rash with his new baby brother, Garrett Halligan, born August 26, 2006 (sons of Emily Reed Rash ’90 and her husband, Hodges).