Alumni News & Notes

et al.: Alumni News & Notes I u m ew otes involved with the University. Another goal is promoting the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center as the central alumni home on campus with programs and activities geared to alumni needs. Finally, we intend to excel in internal and external communications to better serve the wide range of ages, backgrounds, and changing demographics of alumni. I'll be glad to send you a copy of the e Rev. Dr. center, a complete strategic plan if you wish. As you faithful participant in past Reunions, enjoyed last can see, it is an ambitious program, but one year's event with Bob Dewey, left, director of we feel confident will result in a closer and Planned Giving, and Forrest Witmeyer 'z8. Phillips just retired as fourth dean of Hendricks Chapel. more meaningful relationship between our office and our wonderful alumni. new friends you can look forward to see ing at future Reunions. You can spend time with the dean of your college and hear about the college's progress and future plans. Lil Breul O'Rourke '77 When you attend classes at Reunion Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations Alumni College you'll meet SU's finest edu cators, who offer fascinating glimpses into OUR STRATEGIC PLAN REUNION: JUNE 4-6 the subjects you've always wanted to For many months the Office of Alumni t's almost here! From June 4-6, you can know more about. Relations has worked with the Alumni Ibe part of an exciting Reunion weekend. Finally, the Arents Awards dinner will give Association Board of Directors to develop a While all alumni are welcome, this year you an opportunity to recognize fellow strategic plan. Tiuoughout the process we've the University honors classes ending in 4 alumni who make significant contribu welcomed input from various groups on and 9, as well as our special so-year class, tions to the University and their professions. campus and off campus. Now our office the Class of 1949. It's a weekend sure to be filled with will implement the plan, working in part The campus has never looked better. You'll laughter and nostalgia. Be part of it. nership with our Alumni Association love walking around the Quad, seeing the And don't forget our Millennium Re Board of Directors and our board commit latest improvements, and marveling at the union! We've already set the date for tees. It will serve as a vehicle to guide alum new buildings that have appeared since Reunion 2000. Right now, take your red ni relations efforts and programs. your SU days. pencil and mark June 2-4 on your calendar, We identified five main program goals. You'll rekindle friendships with class especially if you're part of a class ending in First, we want to make the Alumni Asso mates at luncheons and dinners, and make 5 oro. ciation and our office a more effective um brella and coordinating organization for alumni and alumni groups on and off campus. We'll accomplish this through a variety of methods, including developing councils to coordinate off-campus activity, establishing an Alumni Relations Coordi nating Council on campus, and creating stronger links and leadership develop ment opportunities with our clubs. Second, we'll strengthen our volunteer program and promote involvement in clubs, councils, and in Reunion and Homecom ing. We'll also broaden student participa tion in alumni activities. The Class of 1928 had an excellent turnout for last year's Reunion. Seated in front is Dorotha Satchell Butler. Next, we'll expand our alumni-centered Standing, from left, are louis Godfrey, Willis Cozad, Helen Honsinger Halstead, Gordon Halstead, Erwin programs to encourage more alumni to stay Cronk, Hazel Wallister lee, Esther Ruttan Doyle, Forrest Witmeyer, and Dorothy Golub Spira. Published by SURFACE, 1999 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 15, Iss. 3 [1999], Art. 14 T-shirt to casual activities, and outfit your architectural drawings, and entering com n Fairfield, Connec children and grandchildren in them. Sport puter data. Archives personnel can plan the Iticut, they know it, a Syracuse umbrella-you'll be amazed at tasks around your schedule; you can work every time they who comes up and introduces themselves, long term or on a project-by-project basis. pass Ted Mey whether you're on Main Street, Fifth Ave To find out more contact Ed Galvin, er's of nue, or the Champs-Elysees. At profession University Archivist, at 315-443-9760 or fice. All al appointments, carry a notebook with e-mail [email protected] the SU seal. And whatever you do, don't forget that orange scarf or tie! TRAVELS WITH SU States they Almost no one speaks English and all the know it, when INSIDER'S LOOK AT SU signs are in Cyrillic. There's no Ticketmaster, ever they hear urious about SU's past? If you're retired, so you must know the local system to get Carol Auerbach Chave a few free hours a week, or are just museum or theater tickets. Once you ven Saline give a looking for a fascinating inside glimpse at ture outside the main cities, finding accom speech. These the people and events that shaped Syra modations-even transportation-isn't easy. two people wear cuse University, the people in University "Going to Russia isn't a vacation, it's an their Orange with pride. adventure," says Peter Gray, as "''ve got my furry Otto the Orange sociate director of SU's Center right on my door," says Meyer '95, for Support of Teaching and project leader in corporate media Learning. Gray, who's made sev relations for General Electric. He eral trips to Russia and frequently received a dual bachelor's degree entertains Russian students at from the S.I. Newhouse School of SU, helped lead SU travelers on Public Communications and the last summer's Journey of the School of Management. "Whenever Czars, a two-week exploration on there's a big game, or SU is in the the waterways of Russia. playoffs, I show up wearing my The alumni joined several bright orange tie." other university and professional Meyer is not alone among GE groups aboard the intimate employees; Trustee Joyce Hergen 302-passenger Novikov Priboy han '63 and Carla Fischer '87 often .. "This was an educational tour join him in an informal cheering with lectures and demonstra section. What's more, he and Fischer tions aboard ship, so we all had return to campus four or five times a lot in common," Gray says. "It a year to recruit for GE. was a most congenial group." ''I'm proud of my education at Their adventure started in St. Syracuse," says Meyer, who was New Peters burg, where travelers were house's Class Marshal at his Com treated to a private performance mencement. "I received a great edu by the Kirov Ballet. "The program cation that got me the best job pos was arranged by our guides, sible. I want everyone to know I who were extraordinarily knowl went to Syracuse." edgeable and well connected," Saline, who received a dual Eng Gray says. "It took place in Cath lish and journalism degree in 1961, is erine the Great's theater in the senior writer at Philadelphia maga Hermitage." zine, author of six books-two of them best-sellers- and a popular After travelers explored the city, national lecturer. their ship wound its way to Lake Ladoga and through a series of "I've just completed Best Friends, SU travelers to Russia marveled at the Church of the Transfiguration on locks in the Russian countryside. part of a trilogy of photo essay col Kizhi Island, which was built entirely without nails by, or so legend says, one laborations, and speak often about man using only an ax. It contains 30,000 shingles on 22 separate cupolas. As they voyaged down the books, sisters, mothers and daugh- Volga River and then the Moscow ters, and women's relationships," she says. Archives have a project for you. River, travelers visited Kizhi Island, Yaroslavl, "Whenever I'm introduced, my hosts al Archives needs volunteers to help orga Kostroma, and Uglich, passing small villages ways say I graduated magna cum laude nize more than 15,000 boxes of historical where they stopped to visit historic sites. from Syracuse University. I like being iden records, 50o,ooo visual images, 2,500 films "This is territory many Russians never tified with SU. I take pride in it." and videotapes, 75 file drawers of clippings, see because it's so difficult to reach," Gray Showing your pride in Syracuse is easy and other SU-related material. says. "Transportation here is almost nonex to do. Tell people you graduated from the Projects include planning and mounting ex istent and there is no place to stay. But on a University. Decorate your work space with hibits, cataloging photographs, doing research cruise, you have your hotel with you." SU memorabilia. Wear an SU sweatshirt or on former SU buildings, sorting posters and In the village of Irma, for instance, voy- https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol15/iss3/14 2 et al.: Alumni News & Notes agers found one enterprising woman who had set up a small breakfast cafe. "We had sweet cakes, tea, and a shot of vodka," Gray laughs. "Everyone gave her a couple of Amer ican dollars-a lot of money for a Russian." The differences in Moscow in just a few years astonished Gray. "Tverskaya Street is unbelievable, with beautiful store facades like those you see in Paris and London," he says.

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