Jerry Jaiven ’73 on vacation with wife Kathy and daughters Hannah and Becky
based out of my home office in Holland, Mich. We just had the second snowiest winter in recorded history, with 153 inches of fluffy snow. I had the pleasure of dashing to Philadelphia and joining many fellow Sigma Chi’s to witness Union’s hockey triumph. Last summer wife Kathy, daughters Hannah and Becky, and I toured Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, and Budapest, highlighted by Hannah playing in the Czech Challenge Cup (women’s ice hockey), where she came in second to a Russian team with many national players. One of our fondest discoveries was in Pezinok, Slovakia, where we toured the National Museum of Wine. It was quite an impressive presentation with over 80 varieties of hand-selected wines available for tasting. For relaxation I continue to play ice hockey in local 40+, 50+, and coed leagues and squeeze in as many Friday night drop-in games as I can. I look forward to seeing a large crowd of Sigs in St. Augustine, Fla., this November for the seventh annual Union College Sigma Chi Golf Outing.” William Miller writes, “I have now been retired from the U.S. Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard for four years. My grandbaby is three
Celebrating Union’s NCAA Hockey Championship at Jim Brennan’s home in Ridgewood, N.J. in April are (front, left to right): Kevin Donnelly ’74, Fred Weil ’75, Peter Tavino ’74; (middle) Garrett Andrews ’78, Robert Johnson ’75, Gary Luks ’74; (back) Jim Brennan ’74, Ian Gluck ’74, Forest Jones ’80, Dave Gordon ’76 and Caren (Fox) Linden ’74.
years old. You can find me as Bill Miller on Facebook, maybe among the other 10,000 Bill Millers. My wife still directs a women’s shelter for sexually assaulted and abused women. My son and his wife are fixing to adopt their second child. My daughter and her husband raise deer. It is called T3 Whitetails, also on Facebook. I live in Texas so do not make it to northern New York very often for ReUnions.”
1974 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Gerald A. Dwyer geraldadwyer@gmail.com
Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., recently hired Tim Moran as chief executive officer. He has more than 35 years of healthcare leadership experience and formerly served as chief executive officer at Valley Hospital in Spokane, Wash., providing leadership and strategic direction for the 123-bed facility, which is part of Community Health Systems.
1976 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Leslie Steinecker-McHugh 17 Virginia Place Patchogue, N.Y. 11772 lesmch2@aol.com Helena Binder directed Opera Saratoga’s production of The Elixir of Love at the Spa Theater in June. Helena is a respected actor and director of plays and musicals. Just a few examples of the productions she has led and the companies she’s worked with include New York City Opera, Ermione; Opera Toledo, Madame Butterfly; and Minnesota Opera, Tales of Hoffman. Helena has been director of the Legislative Correspondents Association Show at the New York State capitol, the oldest political satire revue in the country, for the past 27 years.
1977 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Tony Romanazzi 73 Bay St. Glens Falls, N.Y. 12801 romanquatro@gmail.com
Amorfix Life Sciences, a product development company focused on diagnostics and therapeutics
for misfolded protein diseases, recently announced that it appointed William Copeland to its Board of Directors. William was a founding partner of Vinik Asset Management, a Boston hedge firm, where he was a capital market analyst and senior portfolio strategist for 17 years. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments, where he was a senior technical market analyst serving both the equity and fixed income divisions of the management company. William received his MBA from the State University of New York. He is a recipient of the Graham and Dodd Award from the Financial Analysts Federation.
1978 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jeff Laniewski Jlaniew1@maine.rr.com Harris Halpert writes, “After getting together with a group of my close Union friends last summer for our 35th ReUnion, my wife Ellen and
Six Union grads enjoy their second annual Downton Abbey party last November. Back row, from left to right, are Bruce Reichlen ’79, David T. Robinson ’79 and Ben Dibble ’79. Front row, from left to right, are Sara (Simmons) Campbell ’80, Geoff Blum ’78 and David H. Robinson ’50. Fall 2014 UNION COLLEGE
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