Friday, October 9, 2009 thru Sunday,
October 11, 2009
Normanside Country Club
150 Salisbury Road
Delmar, NY
12054
Dick and Sheila were joined at the hip before graduating
from VI and made it official in June 1963, following Dick's graduation from Boston College.
We resided in the Boston
area for three years while Dick worked for Arthur Young & Company, one of
the national accounting firms. More importantly, during that time, our
first child, Rich, was born. In late 1966, we moved to the NYC-NJ
area so that Dick could attend Columbia
University full time
(MBA, 1968). Shortly thereafter, our second most important event took
place with the birth of our daughter, Christine. Dick joined Prudential's
private placement investment department and was with the firm till his
retirement in 1994 at which time his group's portfolio consisted of
Prudential's leveraged buyouts, asset-backed securities and troubled loans.
Sheila's work activities started once the kids were grown. One position
introduced her to the joys of a dance studio. Sheila went from
receptionist to student to competitor - and a successful one at that, capturing
medals locally, in Boston and in the Philadelphia area.
She was smart enough to partner with a professional in these Latin ballroom
competitions since Dick, despite numerous lessons, continued to struggle
to keep off her toes.
The family has grown to include four grandchildren
ranging in age from three to twenty-three. Our home is now The Villages, Florida, which we love
immensely.
50 Wincoma Lane, Queensbury, NY 12804
(518) 743-0507
Email: DaveCollins@Roadrunner.com
Email: JSCollins12804@Roadrunner.com
The Last 50 Years….Reader’s Digest Version
After graduation, Dave went off to Boston
College, Judy Schaller (VI ’61) to
Saint Rose 1963-1965 Lt. and Mrs. Collins were stationed at Fort Knox KY.
In late 1965 we returned to Albany
and Dave began a 35 year career in Information Technology which took us to:
Boston
Montreal
New Jersey
Lower
New York State
Queensbury
We settled “back home” in Queensbury in 1991 and Dave launched
an IT consultancy while Judy took a position as Registrar/Administrator of the
Double H Ranch in Lake Luzerne,
NY. The
mission of the Double H Ranch is to provide specialized programs and year-round
support for children and their families dealing with life-threatening
illnesses. The
Ranch was cofounded by Paul Newman and local business entrepreneur Charles
Wood. Judy began a career in real estate with Century21 in 2003 and Dave
followed suit in 2005.
We have 3 children and 8 grandchildren, all living within 50
miles of one another in Northern Maryland.
Jennifer graduated from St. Michaels
College and Albany Law and is Executive Director of
the Center for National Policy in Washington D.C. Jacqueline graduated from
Virginia Tech and is an architect/project manager for a professional services
company in Northern MD that designs and
constructs restaurants in airports and other public facilities. David graduated
from St. Michaels, taught school in Colonie, and after 10 years with Sylvan
Learning is now a Business Consultant with Kiddie Academy.
We enjoy our semi retired existence in the Adirondack
foothills and keep active by volunteering at the Double H Ranch and
entertaining our friends and family.
Dave is an ardent bird hunter and trout fisherman and
recently returned from a weeklong “cast and blast” adventure with his son 200
air miles southwest of Anchorage,
AK. Do not ask him for pictures
unless you have half a day on your hands. Easier to click on…http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=7bc0c107a912d249&sid=8BZt27Zoxasm8
and suffer through 163 pics.
We’ll leave a light on for ya……..
Not much more to add to Dick Hume's excellent
compilation from 5 years ago.
Our 5 now live in Austin,
TX, Des Moines,
IA, Denver, CO, and Anchorage, AK.
As of 36 hours ago we are up to 5 grandkids and one more due in IA in
November. One of our twin girls will be married in the cathedral in Denver about 3 weeks
before the reunion. I'm attaching 2 photos from last year's celebration
of our 40th anniversary.
P.O. Box 9098
Horseshoe Bay, TX 78657
Email: holtslag@zeecon.com
After leaving VI, I went to Siena College
and graduated with a B.S. in Economics in 1963.
In my junior year, I married Sanda R. Walker (Sandy).
I received my commission in the U.S. Army Artillery as a 2nd
Lieutenant through Siena’s
R.O.T.C. program. Our first child,
Tracy, was born in June 1963 and I was given a deferment until March 1964. After Officer’s Basic Training at Ft. Sill, OK, we were
assigned to the 11th Air Assault (experimental division) at Ft. Benning, GA. In 1964, our son Jay was born and in 1965,
our Division was designated the 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile)
and ordered to Vietnam. Sandy remained
at Ft. Benning, GA,
with the two children and I left for Vietnam in July 1965. I was wounded in January 1966 and returned to
the U.S. I was recruited by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) as a Special Agent in 1966.
After training at Quantico, VA, Sandy,
Tracy, Jay and I were assigned to the Charlotte Division in North
Carolina where I worked civil rights matters involving the KKK,
and then assigned to Raleigh,
NC, Resident Agency where I
worked general criminal matters.
In June 1967, we were transferred to the Kansas City
Division and assigned to the St. Joseph Resident Agency where I worked all FBI
matters in 20 counties in Northwest Missouri and Kansas.
During the 20 year assignment in Kansas
City, I was heavily involved with police training,
primarily Firearms and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT). During this time our son, Eric, was born in
1970.
Books were written about two of my notable cases during this
assignment. One written by Harry N.
MacLean and titled “In Broad Daylight”
was made into a made for TV movie. This
concerned the 1980 vigilante murder of Ken
Rex McElroy by citizens of Skidmore,
MO. The second book was about a
serial murder case. It concerned the
imprisonment of an innocent man for the sexual assault and murder of a 4 year
old boy in St. Joseph. The case culminated in the conviction of the
real killer, Charles Hatcher (who later admitted to murdering 16 people) and
the release of the innocent man. A
bestseller true crime book “St. Joseph’s Children”, by
Terry Ganey was written in 1987.
We were transferred to the Honolulu Division in 1987. Tracy and Jay had already left home and Eric,
a junior in high school, went with us.
While in Honolulu I was initially
involved in police training and extensively traveled the Pacific teaching
various police agencies in Guam, Micronesia, Samoa and the Mariana
Islands. I then worked in
our Special Operations Group (SOG) primarily doing surveillances, and took over
our aviation program and directed and flew aerial surveillances with our SOG
team.
Eric met and married Jennie, a Polynesian girl, in 1994. We were getting ready to retire at that time
and did not know where. An agent that I
worked with knew Sandy and I liked warm weather, water activities, golf, and a
reasonable cost of living. He was from Texas and suggested we check out the “Hill Country” and
the Highland Lakes
outside Austin. After making a trip to Texas (first time in
Texas), we fell in love with the Hill Country, the people, the climate and the
lakes and decided to request a Bureau transfer to the San Antonio division. A year later, in January 1995, we were
transferred. Jennie and Eric came with
us and bought a house in San Antonio. Sandy and I lived with them while we looked
for our retirement home at Lake LBJ (one of the lakes in the Highland Lakes
chain).
I took over the San
Antonio flying program as Aviation Coordinator and
worked at an offsite for the SOG. We had
3 planes and 12 pilots and conducted aerial surveillances all over south Texas. In June 1996, I retired with 30 years service
with the FBI.
We found ‘paradise east’ (Hawaii being ‘paradise’) in Horseshoe Bay
Resort and our dream house on the water.
Anyone interested in our life style can take a virtual tour at www.hsbay.com on the internet.
We arrived at HSB in June 1996 and have been here
since. We have three Robert Trent Jones
golf courses, yacht clubs, a tennis complex, fitness center and many other
amenities including a Marriott hotel.
Sandy and I bought a Nautique ski boat, a couple of wave
runners, brought our kayaks from Hawaii
and, all in all, enjoy the ‘good life’.
We water-ski year round, play golf about three times a week, travel
occasionally (Australia and New Zealand), we enjoy SCUBA diving and have
traveled to Belize, Costa Rica and the Caribbean diving.
We also enjoy the close proximity of family and see them often.
Tracy, with two sons, Mitch
19 and Nick 14, live in Dallas. She is a project manager for the IRS.
Jay, who spent 20 years in the military and U.S. Government
in Alaska, has retired and moved to Bandera County, Texas,
near San Antonio. He is a Real Estate agent and married to Kim,
a DEA agent in San Antonio.
Eric and Jennie still live in San Antonio with our two other grandsons,
Josh 9 and Jake 6. Eric works for Wells
Fargo Bank and Jennie is a full time mom.
That’s it from here.
God has blessed us with a wonderful family and life style and we are
very thankful. Sandy and I celebrated
our 47th wedding anniversary in August and look forward to many more. I hope all is well in your life. God bless you and take care of each other.
2419 Bream Ave
Augusta, GA 30906
Email: grammamac5@yahoo.com.
My name is Margery Simmons McDonald of the class of 59.
After high school I entered the Sisters of Mercy and left before final vows.
Worked at Home Savings Bank Mortgage Dept. I was married Aug 6,1966, I have
four children Kathi Olszanowski who was born in 67 and has one son, Mark 21,
and they live in Minnesota, Terri McDonald was born in 69 and has three
children Jennifer who will be 21 in Nov and goes to the University of Hawaii at
Hilo, Abigail who is 10 and in 5th grade, and Andrew who is 17 months old; and
they live in Seattle; Thomas McDonald Jr who was born in 72,he lives down
here in Georgia is married and has two children Caitlin who is 8 and in 3rd
grade and Keegan who is 5 and going into kindergarten and last but not least
Michael who was born in 74 and is single. After I had the children and when the
youngest was ready for school I went back to college at St. Rose and got my B S
in Education. I taught kindergarten at Our Lady of Angels and then got my
Masters in 87. At that point I moved to Augusta,
GA and taught kindergarten until
the doctors suggest I retire because of my heart. I am partially disabled. I
love to read; crochet, and line dance with my walker (a 3 wheel one) and I love
to spend time with my grandchildren. I lost my husband in 89 and have not
remarried.
David & Joan Oboyski, Sr.
10 Sarazen Street
Saratoga Springs, NY
12866
(518)
584-2347
E-Mail: saratogaheart@verizon.net; or saratogamom@verizon.net
After graduation, I attended Siena College
for 1 ½ years, moved into the workplace in banking, freight, legal publishing,
and finally packaging. I returned to school and received my BBA in Accounting
with a minor in Marketing from Siena
College in 1974.
I met my current wife, Joan, in
1974 and we married in November of that year. She was a widow with five
children and I was divorced with four children. Joan is a graduate of Bowling Green University. We have lived in Saratoga Springs for
nearly forty years and watched our kids graduate from high school and almost
all from college, including graduate school. Our children participated in a
variety of sports including baseball, softball, track, soccer, lacrosse, and
ice hockey.
The majority of my career was
spent with a company in Glens Falls
known today as Pregis Corp. I worked as Accounting Manager, Controller, and
National Customer Service Manager. I was transferred to Chicago
in 1999 and spent six years at their corporate headquarters before retiring
back to Saratoga Springs
in March 2005 with 31 years of service. Joan followed with her retirement from
Willow Creek Association in April 2005 where she worked as Executive Assistant
to the VP of Conferences.
All but one of our children is
married and we now have sixteen grandchildren. They are scattered across the USA from Tampa,
Fl to Tucson, AZ
to Kansas City, Pittsburgh,
Rochester, NY, Marlboro &
Ashland, MA.
Needless to say, we travel considerably.
Currently, Joan and I both work
part-time – she at our church in South Glens Falls as Facilitator of Group Life
and me in a small business service company in Glens Falls. We are very active
in our church serving as Community Group Leaders and Director, Guest Services.
In November 2007, we purchased a
seven-bedroom home in a gated community in Kissimmee, FL
just ten minutes from Walt Disney World. We travel down there about four times
a year to check up on the home and when are not staying there, we rent it
people from all over the USA
and UK.
Our plans are that one day we will live in Florida 4-6 months a year. We have no desire
to leave Saratoga Springs
as we have found it to be a place of immense satisfaction and enjoyment.
Having just gone through Joan’s
50th reunion in Ohio,
I have come to appreciate far more the high school years at VI and all the memories
that it holds. I trust that my fellow graduates share the same thoughts.
Patrice
and her husband Bob Kahn have been involved in matters relating to the Internet
since the 1970s. A note by Patrice concerning the Internet available at the
follow site may provide some idea of her recent interests http://sspnet.org/News/Some_Myths_about_the_Internet/news.aspx. Bob has received many awards for his role in
the creation and evolution of the Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kahn).
After
graduating from Georgetown Law Center
in 1969, Patrice worked as a legal officer at the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris,
and later in the Office of General Counsel of
the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, before entering private
practice in Washington, D.C.
Patrice is currently Corporate Counsel at Bob’s non profit research
organization Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
Patrice A. Lyons at
a conference in Germany
(May 2009)
[photo by HPI]
As described in my writing five years ago, the road of life
since Vincentian has taken many twists and turns. In 1966, I moved to San Francisco. I married
and moved to Los Angeles
in 1970. On November 7th, 1971, my son, Eric was born and on
December 1st, 1974, my daughter Heather was born. In 1994, I was
divorced and chose to go back to my maiden name. In 1995, I moved back to the San Francisco Bay area and finished my education at a
local community college, graduating in 1996. In 1997, I received a Women’s
Programs and Services Certificate and was out in the work force again doing
temporary jobs. Starting in 2000 to April 2009, I worked for a non-profit
organization under contract with California Department of Alcohol and Drug
Programs as a Coordinator for training of professionals working with older
adults regarding substance abuse.
Update since the last
class reunion:
In 2007, my son, Eric moved to Portland,
OR and is greatly enjoying his new city. My daughter,
Heather married Christopher Phelps in Camarillo,
CA on May 17th, 2009.
They live in Cambridge, MA.
I am a two time cancer survivor (2007 and 2009 – not
related), I finished radiation treatment July 28th and currently am
not working but concentrating on getting healthy again.
Life has taught me many lessons, the most important ones
being to live in the present and have gratitude for all the gifts that have
been bestowed upon me.
John and Ellen (Sis) Soffey
After graduation from Vincentian,
I attended Hamilton College in Clinton,
NY, graduating in 1963
with a Bachelor of Arts degree. I married Ellen (Sis) Banker, also a
1959 VI graduate, and we were blessed with four beautiful daughters
who are living in different states throughout the country.
I worked as a Claims Adjustor for the
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance Co. for five years and then received
an offer to work for the State of New York,
Department of Civil Service, on the State Campus in Albany, New York.
I started as a Computer Programmer and was promoted to an Associate
Computer Programmer after a few years. I then was offered a position in Human
Resources and ultimately became the Director of Human Resources for the
Department.
In my capacity in Human Resources, I
was in charge of negotiations with the employee unions and the union
representatives. I also was responsible for disciplinary hearings before
arbitrators and had to testify for the department in union related disciplinary
matters. I oversaw the employee attendance and leave program, including time
cards, leaves of absences, reduced work schedules, and retirements. In a
department with almost 1,000 employees, I was fortunate to know and work
with most of those dedicated employees. I made many friends
with whom I am still in contact.
I retired in 2003 after 35 years of
service.
As an avocation, I became an official for
sporting events in 1965. I officiated three major sports at the
college level: football, basketball and baseball. In the late seventies, I
became a major college football official and Sis would travel around the
country with me while I officiated football games. I officiated many Bowl
Games from the east coast to the west coast, including the Orange Bowl in Miami, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans,
twice, and the Holiday Bowl in San
Diego. I had the privilege and the honor to be
selected to officiate the Army vs Navy game twice in my career. I
officiated a number of games at Notre Dame, Boston College, Miami,
Virginia Tech, Texas, and many other schools.
In 1998, I was offered the position
of Coordinator
of Football Officiating for the Big East Conference. As
the Coordinator, I was responsible for a staff of approximately 60 major
college football officials. My job was to evaluate and train
officials. I reviewed and critiqued game films every week and provided
feedback to the officials. When Instant Replay was approved in college
football four years ago, I was responsible for the Big East Conference
replay program and staff. I retired from the Big East Conference in 2008.
Sis and I are now Florida
residents, living in Naples,
Florida for seven months a year.
We still have our home in Albany,
NY and consider it our
"seasonal" home for the summer and early fall months.
We consider ourselves very fortunate to
be able to visit our daughters, son-in-laws, grandchildren, and friends
throughout the year. We were truly blessed to be VI graduates and are
looking forward to being with so many friends at our 50th Reunion.
tomashea@hotmail.com
After ministering in Peru
for 40 years i have recently been reassigned to minister in the USA at
nativity parish in Brandon Florida. I joined the congregation of Holy
Cross after graduation, getting a BA in philosophy from Stonehill College
near Boston in 1964 and finishing my
formation at the Gregorian University in Rome Italy in 1968.
i was ordained priest in Rome in December 1967
and after celebrating a mass with family and friends at VI parish in Albany in July 1968 I sailed to Peru where i spent 40 happy years
of ministry as a religion teacher in the public school system and as a
parish priest in different capacities especially informal education. i am
looking forward to seeing all of you again over the reunion weekend in October.
I would love to hear from you and about you . if you are
ever in the Tampa area of Florida please let me know and maybe we can
get together.
20 Wachusett Road
Chestnut Hill, Massacusetts
02467
Phone: 617-965-0423
Email – pbechet@brkl.com
My first three years of high school took place in Syracuse and Utica,
New York. After another job
promotion for my father, we moved to Albany
where I became a member of the V.I. class of 1959.
Thereafter, I went to Siena College
where I majored in accounting and graduated with honors. I was class president
in my junior and senior years. During my college years, I met my bride to be,
Marianne McGuirk, who graduated from Holy
Names Academy
in 1960 and St. Rose in 1964. We have three daughters and four grandchildren.
Upon graduation from Siena, I
joined the Albany
office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., now known as KPMG, one of the “Big
Four” public accounting firms. After being in the Albany
office for six years, during which time I became a certified public accountant
(CPA), I was asked to transfer to the office in Paris, France
where I ultimately spent seven years and was admitted as a partner in the firm.
In 1976, I transferred to the firm’s Boston
office and, in 1997, I retired from the firm to become the chief financial
officer of Brookline Bancorp, Inc., a $2.6 billion bank. I still serve in that
capacity.
Marianne and I love to travel and have managed to take
annual two week trips in Europe. Being a very
poor golfer, my main hobby is to put together large jigsaw puzzles comprised of
up to 12,000 pieces. (The size of a 12,000 piece puzzle is usually around five
feet by eight feet upon completion.) A few of my “masterpieces” are mounted on
the walls of my puzzle room.
After VI went through me, I joined some class mates at Holy
Cross which was a great experience.
After I earned my BA in History from Holy Cross and a Master of Arts in
Teaching from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard, I started teaching
at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, where I also served as the high
school Social Studies Chairperson and later as the district Social Studies
Chairperson. During the seventies and eighties, I had many enjoyable
experiences working in a number of local and state professional
organizations. In 1989, I accepted a
part-time position as an adjunct professor at Union College,
where I supervised Social Studies interns.
After 39 years I retired from BH-BL, but I continue to enjoy my work at Union.
1973 brought about a significant change in my life. I took a tour of the Soviet
Union. My tour group included a colleague of mine from BH-BL. The tour was great, but more importantly it
became a courtship opportunity for the two of us. Susan Smith and I were married on December
22, 1973. We have three children. Laura lived, worked and studied in the D.C.
area for about ten years. A few years ago she accepted a teaching position at
the College for Nano Science at SUNYA.
Christopher graduated from Holy Cross and works for an investment firm
in Boston,
while studying for his MBA at BC. He and
his wife will present us with our first grandchild on or about December 1,
2009. Michael graduated from Fordham
and, after working in New York City for several
years, moved to Pittsburgh
to pursue his dream. His dream is to be
in frequent attendance when the Pirates have a winning season. In the meantime he works for a mortgage
company, while he and his fiancée plan for an April wedding. Sue continues with
her work as a school librarian, so that I can stay home to read and play golf
with an occasional distraction of mowing the lawn or doing the laundry.
Retirement and freedom are good things. The part-time job allows me to stay connected
with students and teaching. The United
Way and the Schenectady Education Foundation help
to keep me occupied. Now that the college tuition days have faded into the
past, Sue and I are able to engage in our passion for travel during school
holidays. Life is good.
Mary Anne Harrison Styczynski
For those who own or have read Dick Hume's booklet
assembled after our 45th reunion five years ago, you probably know more than
you ever wanted to know about my life post graduation from VI. I tend to ramble on! The only thing changed since then is that
Jack and I have stopped doing craft fairs.
The real reason we stopped is because we got lazy. However, it sounds much better if we tell
people that our hand-painted slates just got too heavy for us to lug around to
craft fairs in our dotage. The only
other change is that we are now the grandparents of 5 rather than the 4 we had
in 2004. Our son Mark and his wife Laura
had a baby girl on May 26 of this year--Brooke Ann Styczynski.
For those who have
not had the privilege to plow through my five-year-old essay, following is the
abbreviated version:
After graduating from VI, I went to St. Rose for three
years majoring in Business. I left in
1962 and went to work for NY Telephone Co on State St. in Albany.
In 1963, I married my highschool (schoolbus) sweetheart, Jack Styczynski
(VI '57). Yes, this is the same
"Jackie" I was ALWAYS talking
about! We have lived in the area since
our marriage (Gloversville, Troy,
Clifton Park--35
years, and Saratoga Springs--6
years). We have three children--John
(Jack), Jr, born 1965, single and working in New York City as a internet
researcher and an adjunct professor at CUNY; Mark, born 1969, (married and the
father of three children--Christopher, 17,
April 7, and Brooke, 4 months),
and a New York State Trooper assigned to the Governor's Detail in Albany; and
Julie, born 1973, (married and the mother of two children--Aidan, 9, and Noah,
5) and working from her home as a Medical Transcriptionist.
I spent most of my married life as a homemaker after the
children came along, working part-time from home as a dressmaker, and later as
a manuscript typist. I also did several volunteer jobs during those years in
the community, church, and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. After the children graduated from college,
Jack retired after 30 years with Norton Company in Watervliet (formerly Behr
Manning). In 2002, we sold our home in Clifton Park,
where we had lived and raised our children for 35 years, to our son Mark and
his wife, Laura, and we bought a townhouse on the McGregor Greens Golf Course
in Saratoga Springs. Neither of us play golf, but we love the
house and area and Jack says the golf course makes it look like we have a huge
back yard! We also purchased a small
condo in Ogunquit, Maine where we spend a great deal of time
both winter and summer.
I still cherish my memories of VI and all the friendships
I made there, especially since I was a girl from Latham, who didn't know anyone
when I started there in September 1955. Love
to all who read this.--Mary Anne
M. Patricia Cassidy Parker
Following graduation from V.I. , attended The College of
St. Rose, graduating in June 1963. In December 1963 I married Michael Parker.
Mike and I moved to Guilderland,
NY in 1965, where we raised our
four children; Kathleen 1972, Maureen 1973, Michael 1975 and Matthew 1976. Our
grandchildren are Cassidy 1998, Mason 2000, Genevieve 2001, Isabela 2005, Fiona
2007 and Sofia 2008. They will welcome two babies due in December 2009 and
February 2010. I have been an active member of the Fort Hunter Volunteer Fire
Company Auxiliary since 1968. I was an elementary teacher in the Guilderland
Central District for twenty six years, retiring in June 2001. My first teaching
experience was at Guilderland Elementary and then Lynnwood Elementary with
second graders.
I “retired” for the first time in 1971 and stayed home to
raise our four children. In 1983, I returned to Lynnwood as a Kindergarten teacher for a
year, followed by first graders. In 1987, Guilderland Elementary reopened and I
spent most of the remaining years team teaching first and second grade children
in a primary cluster. The last year of teaching was spent with third grade
children. Although, I retired from teaching in 2001 it has been a wonderful
experience spending many happy hours with our grandchildren. Our family was
fortunate to spend my interesting vacations together…including “the grand
American Road Trip” and several weeks in the land of our ancestors…Ireland.
(Press Release from the Asphalt
Recycling & Reclaiming Association, Annapolis,
MD 2/14/09)
Edward J. Kearney of Loudonville, New York
received the President Award from the Asphalt Recycling and Reclaiming
Association (ARRA) at its 32nd Annual meeting held in San
Jose del Cabos,
Mexico. The
award is presented to an individual who has, through long term involvement,
worked to advance the goals of ARRA and to promote the growth and technological
advances of the industry. Mr. Kearney is the twelfth person to receive the
award in the 32 year history of the Association.
He is a graduate of the
University of Notre Dame with a MS in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He recently
retired after 44 years in the highway industry – the most recent 20 years
involved with recycling of asphalt pavements.
He has presented Papers on
various types of asphalt pavement recycling at several US and International
Associations including ARRA, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the
National Academy of Engineering, the American Society of Civil Engineers and
the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists.
Kearney chaired the ARRA Committees on
Recycling Education and Cold Recycling and serves on the TRB Pavement Rehabilitation
Committee. He contributed and reviewed several ARRA publications and
educational PowerPoint presentations. He has lectured at most Engineering
Colleges in the Northeastern US and developed and teaches a course on asphalt
paving and rehabilitation for Cornell
University.
In
his retirement Ed plans to do some consultant engineering work on cold in-place
recycling for the New York State Department of Transportation. However, he also
plans to spend a lot of time traveling with Kathy - his wife of 41 years. Time
with his three children and five grandchildren, an occasional round of golf and
some photography will fill the rest of his days
After Siena I went to Europe
on a lark where I met my future wife, Sue, in Rome. We married in 1964, have had a great
life, and have been blessed with four children and now seven grandkids. Our lives took us from the Albany
area to Burlington, Vermont
to the US Territory of Guam, back to Vermont,
then to South Bend,
Indian for the long haul.
I spent my career as a wordsmith—writing, editing, and
teaching. I’ve worked for newspapers, a magazine, and a book publisher and
while freelancing wrote from the Far East and
Western pacific for the old Chicago Daily News.
I joined Ave Maria Press at the University of Notre Dame--a publisher of
high school texts, parish materials, and a variety of books—and became its
President and Publisher in 1993.
Meanwhile, Sue directed experiential learning programs at the University’s
Center for Social Concerns.
We retired to the Lake Michigan town of South Haven, where I do some writing and
publishing projects, too much yard work, visit kids and grandkids, and pursue
our lifelong love of travel. I’ve become and avid trekker, hiking 500 miles
across Spain in 2007, and
200 miles in France and the Pyrenees last Spring. A walk across England is planned for next Spring.
Ted and his wife, Sheila, life in southwest Portland, Oregon.
Ted R. Winnowski currently is a private
investor and consultant dealing in financial activities for businesses or
projects as TWINN Management LLC. Ted
recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Centennial Bank, Portland, and Centennial Bancorp, Portland, Oregon. He joined the bank in 1998 and was
responsible for all administrative, financial and marketing activities of the
bank. The bank was sold in 2003 and
merged with another local bank; Mr. Winnowski served as consultant to the
company until December 2003.
From 1985, Mr. Winnowski had
served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and President of Key Bank of Oregon. In May of 1995, Mr. Winnowski was named
Executive Vice President and Group Executive Northwest Region of KeyCorp. As Regional Executive, he was responsible for
directing and managing regional activities of KeyCorp’s Northwest Region, which
included 295 branches in the states of Oregon,
Washington and Alaska.
Mr. Winnowski has more than 30 years of financial and banking expertise,
having begun his career at KeyCorp’s flagship bank in Albany, New York.
In his banking career, Mr.
Winnowski has managed Trust Investment activities, headed Planning and Systems,
and Marketing for KeyCorp’s flagship bank prior to becoming CEO of several
KeyCorp banks. He directed a KeyCorp
bank in Long Island, New
York before his assignment in Oregon.
A native of upstate New York, Mr. Winnowski graduated with a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Economics from Siena
College, Loudonville, New York. Further studies included post-graduate work
in business and management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studies at
the National Graduate Trust School of Northwestern University. Mr. Winnowski has also worked for the U.S.
Treasury Department in training as an IRS Revenue Officer and served two years
as an officer of the U.S. Army, assigned to an intelligence unit in France.
Mr. Winnowski is a current board
member for Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon.
He serves on the Board of Regents for the University of Portland
and recently completed six years as Board Chairman. Other activities include being Co-Chair for
“Coalition for School Funding NOW” and Board Member of the Regional Economic
Crime Investigation
Center (RECIC)
Foundation. Ted serves as an Honorary
Board Chair for the Portland Chamber of Commerce (currently Portland Business
Alliance), former board member of United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon
and Southwest Washington, and former board
member of the Oregon Symphony.
Former affiliations and community
activities include: Past Chairman and
Executive Committee Member for the Oregon Bankers Association; former member of
the Mayor’s Business Round Table of the Association for Portland Progress; of
the Advisory Board for the River District Association; of the Advisory Board
for the Catholic Education Endowment Fund; and a member of the Word Affairs
Council of Oregon.
Married in 1961 to VI grad. three children (Kim,
Boulder, CO; Jeff, Vail, CO; and Eric, Albany,
NY.) Divorced 1970.
As a single mother, I joined the Albany County
District Attorney's office where I worked until the District Attorney was
defeated in the 1974 election. I then was employed as an office manager in two
law firms. Seeking a new challenge, I moved on to the Capital Repertory Theater
as business manager (a real fun job)
Son Eric is physically and mentally challenged
and is along time employee of the Albany
Center for The Disabled.
He lives independently, owns and drives a car and participates in Special
Olympics. Seeing a need, upon my
retirement at 50, I became a certified ski instructor of disabled persons and
taught skiing at Ski Windham in the Catskills and at Paul Newman's Hole in The
Wall Camp in the Adirondacks (terminally ill children) and at Crested Butte and
Breckinridge, Colorado. (disabled military veterans)
Married in 1982 to Ralph Smith, father of three
children, (Mark, Ft. Collins, CO; Tara, Columbus,
OH; Todd, Ft. Collins, CO)
Moved to Cape
Cod, MA upon Ralph's
retirement. We have enjoyed travel to Europe, China,
Australia, New Zealand, Egypt,
and throughout the USA,
including Alaska, Hawaii and .many of the national parks.
Other interests include garden club activities, home gardening, sailing, biking
(including 50K fundraising rides with Lois Degearro and others on Martha's Vineyard) and volunteering at a local food
pantry.
I have had a great life and a great start at VI.
Upon
graduating from VI, I went to Syracuse
University where I received a degree
from the College
of Business Administration
with a major in Insurance. After
graduation I returned to Albany,
and went to work in my father’s business, the Charles N. Golden Insurance
Agency.
A
couple of years later I met Connie and we were married on June 24, 1967. We have two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and
Lori. Lori lives in Lafayette,
California and Mary Beth lives in Rochester, New
York, with our granddaughter, Alexa who celebrated
her 16th birthday in September.
My
father retired in 1968 and I took over operation of the Insurance Agency. In 1986, Jim McManus and I combined our
Agencies to form Golden/McManus Insurance Associates, which provided a full
range of insurance products and services to many local businesses and families.
In
January of 1998, I merged the Agency with Capital Region Insurance Agency and
served as Vice President until my retirement.
Connie
and I still live in Loudonville. We also
have a home in Fort Myers, Florida, where we enjoy spending the winters.
PO Box 281
Newcomb, NY 12852
(518
582-2115)
I
participated five years ago in the “Memories” book that Dick Hume put together,
so some of what I have to say here may be repetitious for those who read Dick’s
book at that time.
First
of all, I have served on the last couple of reunion committees and it has been
an absolute joy to work with John, Sis, Lois (my childhood girlfriend from
kindergarten through high school) and all the other people who have helped out. We had a lot of laughs as we put together our
reunion weekends. Fifty years may have
gone by, and we may not see each other from year to year, but the friendships formed from 1955 to 1959
have endured to this day. What a
treasure!
After
graduating from V.I., I went to Mildred
Elley Secretarial
School. After graduation
I started working for various state agencies, including the Department of Labor
where I met my future husband, Jim DePasquale.
Jim grew up in Schenectady and graduated
from Linton High
School and Villanova
University. During the time I was working for state govt.
I also attended the evening division of Russell Sage
College as a history
major. Jim and I were married in 1969
and our first child, Jimmy, was born in 1970. We lived a short time on Edgewood Avenue
before buying our first house in Niskayuna. I
continued my studies at Russell Sage after Jimmy was born and after trekking
back and forth to the Albany and Troy campuses for several
years, I finally got my bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1977. After anxiously waiting for another child for
several years, our second son, Tom, was born in 1978. I stayed at home with the kids for 17 years
volunteering at church, school, and a children’s theater group in Schenectady. After getting a Master’s Degree from Russell
Sage in 1987 I started teaching fourth grade at Rosendale
Elementary School in Niskayuna. I continued in that position until I retired
in 2004. Teaching turned out to be one
of my great loves. I also volunteered for many years with a faith-based group
in Schenectady
called Schenectady Inner City Ministry. Of all the things I’ve done in my life,
my association with SICM has probably been one of my more rewarding volunteer
jobs. This group runs a food pantry, homeless shelter, HIV/AIDS drop-in center,
and many other programs to help people in the inner city of Schenectady.
When my husband retired after 32 years with state government, he became
the assistant director of this organization until we moved to the Adirondack’s four years ago.
Today
our permanent address is Newcomb, New York, better known as “The Heart of the Adirondacks.” We are living on a small lake called the
Goodnow Flow in the town of Newcomb (about 14
miles east of Long
Lake). We had a camp on this lake for 23 years. Five years ago we tore down the camp and
built a year-round home. We have the
most gorgeous scenery in the world and every day brings a new experience. While we always loved the winter months at
our camp we knew we were getting older and arthritis, etc. was keeping us from
those winter sports we used to enjoy so much. So, a couple of years ago we took
a short two-week trip to New Mexico and Arizona looking for a place to stay for
a couple of months during the height of the winter season. The experience of the southwest changed our
lives forever. In 2007 we bought a house
south of Tucson
which is now our winter home from about Dec. 1 to May 1. We return to the Adirondack’s for the spring/summer/fall months.
Our
two sons, Jim and Tom, are now 39 and 31 years old respectively. They have led incredibly interesting lives,
although they have not always traveled along the “beaten path.” After
graduating from Clark Univ. in Worcester,
MA, Jim decided to get a degree
in forestry management from Paul Smith’s College in upstate NY. After
graduation that college, he traveled to Homer, Alaska to find a job. He not only found a
job in forestry but he also met his future wife. Jimmy and his wife Jamie now
live in Palmer, AK where Jim works for a firm that surveys ocean floors as well
as land surveying. He has worked in the
Gulf of Mexico with the Army Corps of Engineers, and his company is now
planning a major surveying deal in Saudi Arabia . Our daughter-in-law
has a degree in international relations and political science, but always
wanted to be a mid-wife. Toward that end
she enrolled in nursing school and graduated two years ago. Presently she does outreach medical
assistance to children living in remote parts of Alaska.
Her means of travel is via small aircraft. Our younger son Tom left high
school at age 16, got on a bus and traveled to Oregon
and Arizona
where he attended community colleges. He returned to NY and graduated with
honors from Union
College. Last year he
finished a master’s degree program in art history through Syracuse Univ.
He lives in Florence, Italy
where he is teaching Syracuse
undergraduates about Renaissance art. He returns to the states next spring at
which time he will start a PhD program in art history at a still-to-be named
college. We’re so proud of both these guys.
Sometimes we wonder how they could be the offspring of such simple,
run-of-the-mill parents! They have opened up a whole new world for us. We have
enjoyed several trips to Alaska and Italy.
Sometimes
people ask what it’s like to live in the Adirondacks: “What in heaven’s name to do you when it’s
not July and August?” Well, let me tell you I’ve never been so busy! I belong
to a fantastic book club in Long Lake, I sing with a community choir that puts
on two productions each year, I attend Yoga class every week, I golf at our
gorgeous new 9-hole golf course in town about 4 times a week, I run the yearly
garage sale at our church, I substitute teach at our school, and our house
literally becomes a B&B in the summer for our family and friends. The Adirondacks are alive with wonderful activities for all
times of the year. We still come to Albany and Schenectady for haircuts,
doctors, shopping, and visiting family, but we’re always happy to return to the
mountains. Please stop and say hello if you’re ever going through Newcomb. We would love to show you our little piece of
paradise.
Well,
that’s it for me. How blessed I was to become a V.I. grad. I wish you and your
family the very best in the years ahead. Remember, there’s always a 60th
reunion to look forward to!
Brian and Helen (O’Brien)
Maher
After
graduation, I attended St. Bonaventure University, Olean NY,
graduating in 1963 with a BBA and a commission in the US Army. Helen and I were married in November of that
year and after Officer Basic Course I spent a year in Korea. Upon my return to the US, we were stationed at Fort Sill, OK
where our first child (Gretchen Barat) was born in 1966. We spent three years
in Europe, stationed in Germany. In 1968, I left the Army as a Captain,
designated as a nuclear operations officer.
I
started out on Wall Street with Francis I. du Pont & Co.,
eventually owned by H. Ross Perot. My
career then evolved into banking with Citibank.
After
15 years, I moved into community banking positioned as the Chief Lending
Officer/Chief Credit Officer for several regional banks including the largest
African American Bank in the U.S. Currently, I am the SVP/CCO for a multi bank
holding company located in Fairfield,
CT.
While
all the above was happening, Helen and I had two more children (Brian II, 1969)
and (Gertrude Sheary O’Brien, 1970).
After all the children were in school, Helen became a Realtor in Greenwich, CT.
in 1981. She has been frequently awarded
Prudential CT. Chairman’s Circle, representing the top 2% of Realtors
nationally.
.
We
currently have 6 grandchildren, 5 under the age of 4, with another on the
way. All our children live within twenty
minutes of our home in Old Greenwich, CT.
Helen
and I look forward to seeing you all in October.
