Class of ’58 Gears up for 50th in 2008
Rita Itkin Schwartz ’58 and Sylvia Amarel Infantine ’58 recently spent a wonderful time in Portland, Maine at Sylvia’s new home, talking Potsdam people, grandsons and the class of 1958’s upcoming 50th reunion. They urge their classmates to make plans to attend Reunion Weekend in July 2008.

In addition to a weekend filled with class activities, a class memory book will be compiled, with everyone in the class contributing a page about themselves, including photos. So begin thinking about your page—who you are and what you’ve done for 50, yes, count them, 50 years!

Class members will begin receiving information about Reunion Weekend, including a memory book form. If you’d like to help plan this milestone and get in touch with classmates, please contact the Alumni Office at (315) 267-2120 or e-mail alumni@potsdam.edu.

1940s
Mollie Damon Bangs ’40 has been busy raising money for the restoration of the historic organ in her church.

Mary Jean Lynch Fake ’44 retired in 1985 and moved to Florida permanently in 2004. She and her husband, Lon, spend their summers in Scarborough, ME.

60th Reunion in 2007
Charlotte Tanzer Garlough ’47 and her husband, Bill, recently moved to Holland, MI, and have been enjoying being with their children and grandchildren.

Rita Pangborn Osborn ’48 recently has completed her autobiography titled “Muff.” She and her husband, Don, reside in Florida and have five daughters.

Anna Campbell Young ’48 of Bradenton, FL, recently visited classmate Celia Timerson Gallup ’48 of Orchard Park, NY.

Mary Wilkinson Cherry ’49 is enjoying retirement. She is a member of her church’s choir, plays golf and delivers food for Meals on Wheels.

Talbot Thayer ’53, director of the Da Capo Chorale, presented a program consisting of capella madrigals and varied choral works from many different periods.

Liz Cole Hobkirk ’54 and her husband, David Hobkirk, were the 2005 Dream Gala honorees and received the Founder’s Award at the 2005 East Tennessee chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Fundraiser.

Norman Stoddard ’54 performed in February with the Schoharie Valley Concert Band in which he was the vocal soloist on Gershwin’s “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” He plays baritone in the band and is the organist/choir director at the Esperance-Sloansville United Methodist Church. Jacqueline P. Pierce Catlin ’56 and her husband, Eugene, are doing well and currently reside in Redwood, NY.

50th Reunion in 2007
Patricia Adams Sundell ’57 is directing a women’s chorus that performs seven concerts during the Christmas season.

Valerie Johnson Waage ’57 is still active with the Rockland County Christian Women’s Club as their prayer advisor. She also sang backup in a gospel choir CD that was cut in August 2005.

Judith A. Hewitt Niles ’58 is currently playing in the Philharmonic.

Barbara Seaman Taranto ’58 has been working doing private teaching and choral directing.

James Brophy ’59 is residing in Long Island with his wife, Bonnie. In December, he accompanied the Westhampton Beach elementary, middle and high school choruses.

G. Richard Patri ’59 was inducted into the Central Square School District’s Hall of Fame for the Visual and Performing Arts. The newly created hall of fame recognizes and honors members of the Central Square community who have demonstrated success and dedication to the arts.

1960s
Susan Schaefer Sullivan ’60 endured the loss of her husband, John, in December 2004. Her happy memories and positive outlook has gotten her through this tough time.

James P. Conley ’63 is the organist at St. Mary’s in Plattsburgh and the Elks Club organist and news- letter editor.

Ann Jensen Mendocha ’63 is enjoying being retired but keeps very busy with lots of music, activities and travel. Carolyn

Murdock Wallace ’64 is doing well and resides in Victor, NY.

Connie McDougal Froschauer ’64 has kept in touch with fellow 1964 classmates for 42 years through e-mail, visits and letters.
In photo: Barrie Doyle Czerkies, Connie McDougal Froschauer, Carol VanderWater Argus, Patti Henderson Eaglestone, Barbara Cook Clark, Jan Connelly Berens, Barbara Collins Andrews and Marily “Midge” Meallett Best.

Through the help of the SUNY Potsdam Alumni Directory, former Delta Kappa Theta brothers Dr. Charles “Bud” Caputo ’66, Dick Clark ’66 and Anthony “Tony” Aversano ’66 reunited in Florida after 40 years. Harry R. Gardner ’66 is retired and active in the Elks Club. He would love to hear from his Delta Kappa Theta brothers.

Mary Ellen DeCrescente McCarthy ’66 and her husband, Cornelius, are doing well and now reside in Houston, TX.

Jeanne Peck ’66 is a teacher at Rotterdam Mohonasen Central School in Schenectady, NY. She specializes in kindergarten to second grade special education and is the arts in education coordinator.

Cleary ’67 publishes second book of poetry
Michael Cleary ’67 recently released his newest book of poems, Halfway Decent Sinners. Among other accolades, he was honored with the 2005 Paumanok Poetry Award for group poems. He received $1,000 and a trip to read his poetry at Farmingdale State University of New York. His other works include Hometown, USA.

Clearly has been faculty member at Broward Community College in Ft. Lauderdale since 1978.

40th Reunion in 2007
Paul Jeser ’67 received the prestigious SHERUT L’AM (Service to the People) award from the Hebrew Union College. He and his wife, Faye Jeser ’66, are doing very well.

Nadine Eskoff Brown ’68 is finishing her 12th year as an assistant principal in a school in Indiana. She sends her best wishes to the Class of 1968.

Jutta Siefert Dudley ’69 was elected president of Science Teachers Association for New York State for 2006 to 2007.

Hollace Feather Roelkey ’69 is teaching language arts at Brunswick Middle School in Brunswick, MD. She has been named to “Who’s Who” twice in recent years and also is the conductor of the Rohrersville Band, the oldest community band on the east coast. Rosalyn

Paul Schenbeck ’69 is the choral editor of the “Choral Journal,” which is the national publication of the American Choral Directors Association. She recently wrote a review of Worry Early.

1970s
Maria Argyros ’70 is the chair of the voice department at the Turtle Bay Music School in Manhatten, adjunct associate professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the teaching staff of summer seminars at the McClosky Institute of Voice.

Ralph B. Hastings ’70 had his organ composition “Chorale Prelude on Bradbury” accepted for publication by the Wayne Leupold Editions of Colfax, NC. The composition will be included in “The Organist’s Companion.”

Jim Vaugh ’70 (right) of Wilmington, NC, visited SUNY Potsdam last semester to speak to students in computer and information sciences classes about his 30-year career with the FBI. Vaugh spent most of his career in Washington, D.C., where he was in charge of units in the National Crime Information Center for data on stolen property and fugitives, as well as the Uniform Crime Reporting section, the national program for reporting crime statistics. While in Potsdam, Vaugh also visited Potsdam Police Chief John Kaplan ’82, to discuss how his department uses the computer programs developed during Vaugh’s tenure at the FBI. He was one of the first graduates of SUNY Potsdam’s Computer Science program.

Karen A. Bromley ’71 was the keynote speaker at SUNY Potsdam’s first-ever Master’s Commencement Ceremony. She is the director of graduate studies in education and professor in the School of Education at Binghamton University.

Ruth Thompson Hurley ’71 is looking forward to retirement, complete with RV travel, ocean cruises and European travel.

Rosemary C. O’Keefe ’71 is the author of two local history books: Southeast Rochester (Arcadia, 2006) and Rochester’s South Wedge (Arcadia, 2005). Rose and her husband, Robert P. Meadows, are semi-retired and have a delightful 7-year-old grandson. Bob assisted with photographs in both her books.

Maurice Dalton ’72 was the interim superintendent of Mt. Morris Central School this past year.

Melissa Doyle ’72 retired from Kodak in December 2005 after working for 33 years.

Katharina “Kathy” Schreiber ’72 is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

Sherman E. Lyke ’73 is retiring after 33 years at Grand Island Central School District.

Kaye E. Mero ’73 continues to teach private voice, suzaki and traditional piano lessons.

Terry Steinburg ’73 retired in January from Massena Memorial Hospital.

Sherman E. Lyke ’73 is retiring after 33 years at Grand Island Central School District.

Kaye E. Mero ’73 continues to teach private voice, suzaki and traditional piano lessons.

Terry Steinburg ’73 retired in January from Massena Memorial Hospital.

College’s Distinguished
Service Award Named For Linden ’74
As a part of Commencement 2006, SUNY Potsdam recognized Roger B. Linden ’74 Esq. for his unparalleled dedication to and selfless investment in the College by naming its most prestigious award for him.

A 1977 graduate of Albany Law School, Linden has practiced in the Potsdam area for most of his career. His presence has made Potsdam a better place because of his abiding leadership.

Despite an extremely busy practice, Linden continues to work closely with students. He has hosted nearly two-dozen SUNY Potsdam interns in his office, offering the students a glimpse of what an attorney does on a day-to-day basis.

Currently the chair of the SUNY Potsdam College Council and secretary of the Potsdam College Foundation, Linden helps to make tomorrow a reality for the thousands of students who walk the campus each day.

Known for his inherent sense of fairness, Linden has won the praise and affection of those with whom he has worked in every circumstance. An articulate advocate for Potsdam, Linden’s sincere and genuine love of his alma mater is, by far, his greatest gift.

In recognition of his steadfast support of SUNY Potsdam and his dedicated leadership, the Distinguished Service Award is, henceforth, named the Roger B. Linden Distinguished Service Award.

Lynne Boles ’74 was the keynote speaker at SUNY Potsdam’s 172nd Bachelor’s Commencement Ceremony. She is now in her 30th year at Procter and Gamble and vice president of global advertising. Boles is a trustee of the Potsdam College Foundation.

Dennis A. Powell ’74 has taught vocal music for 25 years at Vestal High School and has completed his 32nd year of teaching.

Mary Anne Catherine Tartaglia-Straube ’74, a mathematics teacher at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, FL, was honored with the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Junior High School Mathematics Teacher by the Mathematical Association of America. She was one of 60 teachers selected from all of the junior high schools in the United Sates for this prestigious award. She is in her 33rd year of teaching.

Tartaglia-Straube also is working for the University of Central Florida with Project Central to develop, implement and facilitate a program called Algebra Success Keys to train K-12 teachers. It gives teachers strategies to teach diverse learners. She has helped to train more than 150 teachers in Florida.

Additionally, Tartaglia-Straube has completed her two-year term as president of the Alpha Eta Chapter of the Delta Kappy Gamma International, a society of women educators.

Gary Krolikowski ’75 presented at the National Social Sciences Association’s conference in Montreal, titled, “From PowerPoint to 50-cent; Building Classroom Rapport.” He is currently a faculty member at SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Empire State College and is collaborating with Dr. Karen Duffy on a text in social psychology to be published by McGraw-Hill in 2007.

Lt. Col. Palmatier ’75 graduated from the U.S. Army War College with a Master of Strategic Studies degree. As Commandant of the Army School of Music, he is responsible for training all of the soldiers and leaders in the U.S. Army Bands.

Mary E. (Liz) Winkler Laughlin ’76 is the principal of the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. She was named the California Music Educators Association - Southern Border Section (CMEA-SBS) High School Administrator of the Year in March 2006. This award honors a school administrator who has contributed powerfully to the support of music education.

Thomas Piché Jr. ’76 was named director of SUNY Potsdam’s Gibson Gallery.

Carol D. Stevens ’76 was appointed to the board of directors of the County Attorneys Association of the State of New York.

30th Reunion in 2007
Margaret Hoyniw Gomula ’77 and Joseph Gomula ’78 are doing well in California.

Donnalyn Eaton Shuster ’78 co-presented the workshop “Great Musuem/School Partnerships” at the 46th annual conference of the National Art Education Association in Chicago in March. She has participated in a school/technology symposium sponsored by Madison-Oneida BOCES and Hewlett Packard in Utica, presenting the program “The Past Meets The Present - Integrating Art Criticism with Technology” with 21 other school districts in December 2005.

Michael Benedict ’79 and his band, “Michael Benedict Big Band,” performed in a concert at the North Pointe Cultural Arts Center in January. He currently teaches high school instrumental music in Greenville, NY, and continues to work regularly with his own band as well as other small groups.

Denise Bonsack Dunbar ’79 was appointed principal of Charlotte Sideway Elementary School in the Green Island School District in Green Island, NY.

1980s
Suzy M. Nelson ’80 was named Harvard College’s associate dean for residential life.

Mark Boyea ’81 was appointed senior minister at The First Congregational Church of Westfield (NJ).

Mark Petrie ’81 and his band, “Tathu,” have been performing in coffeehouses and libraries in central New York. It is a trio of musicians that perform instrumental Celtic tunes.

Marcia Connelly Eggleston ’82 is the library media specialist at Norwood-Norfolk Jr./Sr. High School and recently assumed the position of president of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association.

Penny Schiek ’82 is the director of the Adirondack Voices Community Chorus, which performs a concert every spring. She is also the vocal music director at Queensbury High School and a voice adjudicator for the New York State School Music Association.

Kristin Clarke Simko ’82 spent 15 years teaching in special education and high school art. She is now a writer and workshop speaker on various educational topics while at the same time raising an active 3 year old.

25th Reunion in 2007
Lance Evans ’83 of Watertown, NY, competed in the 2006 Empire State Games. In the age 45-49 Master’s Divisions, he placed fifth in the 50 meter Breast Stroke, third in the 100 meter Breast Stroke and second in the 200 meter Breast Stroke.

Kevin Frisch ’83 is the managing editor for Messenger Post Newspapers in Canandaigua, NY. He has been with the newspaper since 1987.

Shari Greenleaf ’83 delivered the Hind Lecture titled “Student Free Speech” at SUNY Potsdam in February. She was able to catch up with some of the politics faculty, including Drs. Phil Neisser, Richard Del Guidice and John Massaro.

Peter Nelson ’83 joined Informz as an e-marketing advisor. He will be responsible for actively supporting and training clients on the Informz environment.

James Short ’83 is the new superintendent of Plattsburgh City School District.

Anne Marie Smith Sheehan ’84 has her first CD, “Until Next Time,” available for purchase at Moseskill Marketplace in Argyle, NY. She currently lives in Queens, NY, and has been a repeat guest performer on the Joey Reynolds Show at WOR, The Roosevelt Hotel and George O’Neils in midtown New York City.

Tom Ioele ’85 was featured in the business section of the “Democrat and Chronicle” in Rochester, NY. He is the president and CEO of Employee Relations Associates and works with recruiting workers in the area.

Kathleen Mannix Healey ’86 assumed the position of managing attorney for the Dutchess and Ulster Offices of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley.

Eric Sharlow ’86 organized panel discussions at Salmon River School, where he is employed, to discuss Native American issues.

20th Reunion in 2007
M. Nicholas Coppola ’87 was assigned as the program director of the Army-Baylor Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration. This program is currently ranked 20th in the nation for all accredited programs that offer a graduate degree in healthcare administration by U.S. News and World Reports. He also was the 2005 recipient of Baylor University’s Educator of the Year and Researcher of the Year awards and was appointed to a four-year-term as a member of the board for the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

Frieda Toth ’87 had her short story, “The Amazing Turnip,” accepted for publication in Highlights for Children. The story is a modern retelling of a Russian folk tale. She and her husband, Glen Carlsen ’84, are enjoying their daughter Rosalie Carlsen.

Tom Holmes ’88 was one of four ice artisans at “Eaglefest” in Narrowsburgh, NY, on Jan. 14, 2006. Each artist had a 300-pound block of ice that they had to make into an eagle-themed sculpture.

John White ’88 is working at CRS Retail Systems as a quality assurance analyst and enjoying spending time with his wife, Deirdre, and their two children, Alexander and Ariana.

Kaplan ’82 Honored With Leadership Through Service Award
SUNY Potsdam recognized John Kaplan ’82, chief of the Potsdam Village Police, for his outstanding service to the North Country during Commencement Weekend by awarding him with the Leadership Through Service Award.

SUNY Potsdam established the Leadership Through Service awards to honor those individuals who have demonstrated a commitment of service to the Potsdam community. Each year, award recipients are acknowledged for demonstrating a special kind of leadership. He and his wife, Cathy Fallon Kaplan, live in the Village of Potsdam with their dog and two cats.

Lennysue Mayne French ’89 and ’93 was featured in the 2005 edition of Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (for the fourth time) and the 2006 edition of Who’s Who of American Women.

Keisuke Hoashi ’89 is co-founder and director of communications at the New York Summer Music Festival. It is a six-week camp for young musicians hosted at SUNY Oneonta.

Frank R. Leavitt ’89, after 13 years of teaching and 14 years of directing middle school musicals, moved on to become the education outreach coordinator at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY. He continues to sing with Albany Pro Musica and very active in theatre roles.

Laurence Tallman ’89 was recognized by SUNY Potsdam as being an “Outstanding Alumni Leader in Diversity Education.” He is currently a music theory and piano teacher at the Rush-Henrietta Senior High School and is involved in many organizations that focus on issues of diversity and student leadership with a special emphasis on Native American education.

1990s
Lisa McArthur ’90 returned for a third annual concert at Floyd United Methodist Church. She is currently an associate professor at Campbellsville University in Kentucky.

James S. Rizzo ’91 became an associate at the law firm of Saunders, Kahler, Amoroso & Locke, L.L.P., in Utica, NY. He was previously corporation counsel for the City of Rome, NY, from 2002 through June 2006, and served as first assistant corporation counsel of Rome from 1996 to 2002 Lucienne Diver Wheeler’s ’92 first novel Playing Nice will be available in November. She published it under the pen name Kit Daniels.

15th Reunion in 2007
Helen Wilcox ’93 was nominated for a second time for Disney’s Teacher of the Year. She was nominated the first time in 2004.

Dave Shacket ’94 held services for Life Christian Center at Saratoga Springs High School.

Anthony W. Kelsey ’95 was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the United States Army. He has served in the military for 18 years.

Travis J. Birkholz ’96 was selected for inclusion in the 10th edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2005/2006. Susanne K. Neidrich ’96 was promoted to senior manager at Mengel, Metzger, Barr and Co.

Chris Todd ’97 is an attorney in private practice in Springfield, MA.

10th Reunion in 2007
Paul Maguda ’97 became department head for Barker Road Middle School music department in Pittsford, NY where he has been teaching for nine years.

Kimberly Catalina Hasbon ’98 is looking into international connections with colleges in Europe and inquiring about employment overseas.

Rich Feola ’98 joined the Rick Leasure Division firm as a licensed sales agent.

Stan Shubsda ’98 joined Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., as a software engineer. In this position, he will design and configure software for use on projects that involve data collection, data integration and data enhancement for electric, gas and telecommunications utilities.

Lisa Sitek-Shaver ’98 is a high school physics teacher at Burlington High School. She and her husband, Joe Shaver, reside in Burlington, VT.

Jonathan Cervoni ’99 became the assistant principal at West Seneca East Senior High School.

Brian Doe ’99 co-wrote a controversial novel, Waking God. Through the use of fast action, religious discussion and elements of science fiction, the book weaves a tale that offers a new look at human spirituality that rejects long-held dogma.

Louella Lazore ’99 organized panel discussions at Salmon River School, where she is employed, to discuss Native American issues.

Tammi Scott-Lynch ’99 became a board member of the INNterim organization in the fall of 2005. She is the head of the fundraising committee and had one of the most successful fundraising fall appeals in the organization’s history.

2000s
Tiffany Joy Greene ’00 was named branch manager of the Potsdam Key Bank KeyCenter. She is responsible for maximizing the KeyCenter’s productivity, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction and managing the employees within the KeyCenter.

Charles Holmes ’00 published his first book, The Little Book About Big Success. He is a member of the U.S. Army and served in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division. He was awarded the Bronze Star. Holmes is now a captain with the Maryland Army National Guard.

Jessica Moquin ’00 joined SUNY Cortland as associate director of the Cortland Fund. She has key responsibility in the college’s telemarketing and direct mail fund- raising operations.

Donald Whitman ’00 is known at Blind Brook Middle and High School as a teacher, colleague, mentor and friend. He has been teaching in the music department there for three years.

Rebecca Elliston ’01 was named the student cantor at Temple Adas Israel for the summer.

Brendon Knight ’01 was named head coach of Hamilton College’s women’s hockey team.

Robert Mineo ’01 is using his mathematics skills from his experience in the Air Force Research Laboratory to teach technology in math at Westmoreland Central School.

5th Reunion in 2007
Margaret LaFrance ’02 organized panel discussions at Salmon River School, where she is employed, to discuss Native American issues.

Harpist Ruth Bennett ’02 is having a whirlwind year of opportunities and successes. Bennett just returned from a three-week tour of Japan as second harpist with the Metropolitan Opera, where she performed Die Walkure and La Traviata featuring Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo and others with conductors Andrew Davis and Christoph Eschenbach.

Bennett was busy preparing for the world’s most established and prestigious competition, the 16th International Harp Contest in Israel that took place in October. Just being accepted to compete is quite an achievement—she was one of 34 harpists selected from around the world to participate in this four-stage event. Bennett was accompanied by one of her two present coaches, Dr. Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, with whom she also studied while at Crane.

After returning from Israel, Artists International will present Bennett on December 9 at 5:30 p.m. in a New York recital debut as a Recipient of a Special Presentation Award, in the Special Presentation Winners Series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall for the 2006-2007 season.

After graduating from Crane, Bennett went on to complete her master’s degree in harp performance with performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and a diploma in professional studies from the Manhattan School of Music. Bennett presently makes her home in New York as a free-lance harpist and subs regularly in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast and The Producers. She is part of the Open Gate Ensemble that will include Crane on its tour in a concert of music by Gregory Mertl on January 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Hosmer Hall.

Dozark ’04 bikes across Africa
Doug Dozark ’04 of Florida spent his summer in a bit of an unconventional way—he biked nearly 4,000 miles through sub-Saharan Africa with a friend.

Bryce Courtenay’s 1989 novel, The Power of One, was one inspiration for the trip, Dozark said.

The book’s lead character is a British boy growing up in Africa during World War II, a lonely youngster whose close friends and mentors become older men of diverse cultures who inspire him to help the oppressed.

His ride, a specialized brand cyclocross, was equipped with four panniers, or saddlebags. His travel kit included spare bicycle spokes, cables and chain and inner-tube patch kits. Dozark majored in studio art (ceramics and photography) while at Potsdam.

Erin Therese McGill ’03 graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh with a Master of Science in literacy education.

Jenna Ogden ’04 is employed at Cicero’s CanTeen Teen Center. She works with about 40 teens a day at CanTeen that serves an area roughly compassing the North Syracuse school district.

Richard Viglucci ’04 recently won the position of director of bands and woodwinds at Minot State University. Sarah Lynn Alexander ’05 was the fourth runner-up in the Miss Niagara scholarship pageant.

Kate Kaczmarek ’05 was named an assistant women’s basketball coach at Gilford College (NC).

Christian Turner ’05 was accepted to Upstate Medical University’s College of Medicine. He participated in the 2001 New Vision Allied Health program offered by Oswego County BOCES at A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital in Fulton.

Joshua Sperling ’06 won Best of Show Award at the Jericho Arts Council’s 2006 Fine Arts Show for his charcoal drawing.