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OSALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE STATEW UNIVERSITY OF NEWE YORK AT OSWEGGO n VOL. 41, NO. 4 On FALL/WINTER 2015 OZ to LA: Oswego Graduates Transition From Campus to California PLUS: Wicked Weather Oswego’s Meteorology Alumni Predict and Reflect We give you Oswego however YOU want it! Can’t get enough NEWS about Oswego? Make sure you’ve opted IN to ALL of our email categories! To help our alumni customize your interactions with your alma mater, we established more email categories so you can receive the news and announcements you want to know about. You can opt in to the kinds of emails you wish to receive at any time by logging in to OsweGoConnect, the exclusive online community for Oswego alumni, at alumni.oswego.edu. 4 Alumni General 4 Regional Events 4 Reunion 2016 General interest alumni Invites to events/happen- Communications relating communications or those ings in your geographic to a specific year’s reunion with expected appeal to a area, osweGO Digest activities, currently broad alumni audience monthly events calendar Reunion Weekend 2016 4 Newsletters 4 Campus General 4 Solicitations Lake E-ect, athletics, Major campus news Appeals for support for Parents, special interest and messages from the The Fund for Oswego and school/departmental president or college and special fundraising newsletters leadership challenges and initiatives [email protected] Do you still use your oswego.edu email? One of the many benefits offered to alumni by the Oswego Alumni Association is lifetime use of an oswego.edu email! In an effort to enhance security, alumni who want to keep an oswego.edu email 315-312-2258 will be required to renew your account annually. Look for an email alumni.oswego.edu coming to you soon to renew your account! [email protected] Alumni_Email Ad_final.indd 1 11/5/15 2:50 PM FALL/WINTER 2015 Alumni Association of the State University of New York at Oswego We give you Oswego OSOSWEGOWEGO Vol. 41, No. 4 however YOU want it! Oz to LA 21 There are more than 600 Oswego graduates living in the City of Angels, working in different professions from lawyer to author Can’t get enough NEWS to apparel manufacturer to filmmaker. A few alumni share why and how they came to be residents of LA. about Oswego? Wicked Weather 26 Part of SUNY Oswego alumni’s bragging rights resides in Make sure you’ve 9 having conquered the (sometimes) inclement winter weather. But the dramatic weather and lakefront campus also make the college the perfect place for students to learn in a world-class opted IN to ALL of meteorology program. Including: our email categories! Translating Mother Nature in All of Her Temperaments 27 To help our alumni customize your interactions with your alma mater, we established more SUNY Oswego’s signature program in meteorology email categories so you can receive the news and announcements you want to know about. has prepared hundreds of the leading weather experts, including many who appear on our televisions every day. You can opt in to the kinds of emails you wish to receive at any time by logging in to OsweGoConnect, the exclusive online community for Oswego alumni, at alumni.oswego.edu. The Blizzard of ’66 31 Jim Farfaglia ’77 shares stories from the Blizzard of 1966 and the late meteorology professor Bob Sykes 4 Alumni General 4 Regional Events 4 Reunion 2016 in his two new books. General interest alumni Invites to events/happen- Communications relating 18 The Storm of the Century 33 communications or those ings in your geographic to a specific year’s reunion Al Roker ’76 talks with Syracuse-area meteorologist with expected appeal to a area, osweGO Digest activities, currently Molly Matott ’15 about his new book, The Storm of broad alumni audience monthly events calendar Reunion Weekend 2016 the Century, during an on-campus event. 4 Newsletters 4 Campus General 4 Solicitations The Last Word 48 Former FBI Agent William Eric Plunkett ’81 traces his ability Lake E-ect, athletics, Major campus news Appeals for support for to write his first book, The G-Man and the Diamond King: A True Parents, special interest and messages from the The Fund for Oswego FBI Crime Story of the 1930s, to his essay writing at Oswego. and school/departmental president or college and special fundraising 15 newsletters leadership challenges and initiatives PLUS Campus Currents 3 Calendar 17 Class Notes 35 Alumni Bookshelf 40 [email protected] Weddings 44 In Memoriam 46 Do you still use your oswego.edu email? ON THE COVER: One of the many benefits offered to alumni by the Oswego Alumni Association is lifetime use of an oswego.edu email! In an effort to Illustration by Marty Blake enhance security, alumni who want to keep an oswego.edu email 315-312-2258 will be required to renew your account annually. Look for an email alumni.oswego.edu 16 3227 coming to you soon to renew your account! [email protected] Alumni_Email Ad_final.indd 1 11/5/15 2:50 PM FROM THE OSWEGO Alumni Magazine Elizabeth Locke Oberst Sam Carges ’14 President’s Desk Publisher William Eric Plunkett ’81 Margaret D. Spillett Jeff Rea ’71 Editor Contributing Writers ooking out on foliage, crisp, snowy winters and beautiful Eileen Crandall Paul Cardinali ’65 Associate Editor Brian Denman ’09 the late autumn sunsets all year round. SUNY Oswego Don Mortimer ’58 L Tyler Edic ’13 alumni take pride in your ability to with- Dan Nicolette ’72 Oswego campus Associate Editor Michael Riecke landscape and stand the strong winter winds off Lake Online Magazine Chuck Perkins Jim Russell ’83 Heather Sheffield ’07 reflecting back on Ontario and enjoy trying to surpass each Staff Photographer Nadine Sherman 2015, I can still feel other’s accounts of record snowfall storms. Kiefer Creative Alex Mance Sorbello ’07 Graphic Design U.S. Lacrosse the electricity and Read about one of those storms, the Bliz- Lisa Potter Contributing Photographers enthusiasm that filled zard of ’66 detailed in a new book by Jim In Memoriam Morgan Altland ’17 Megan Maye ’16 Pearl’s Sunset Strip Farfaglia ’77, on page 31 and see where Michael Bielak Julie Blissert Aaron Wilson ’17 President Interns Deborah F. Stanley in West Hollywood your class year stacks up in the accompa- during an Oswego nying Top 10 snowiest seasons chart on The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. alumni event last February. The room page 32. Board of Directors Keith Chamberlain ’87 Kathy Smits Evans ’84 literally buzzed from the dozens of But perhaps, more powerful than President La-Dana Renee Jenkins ’94 Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) even lake-effect storms in uniting our Lisa Marceau Schnorr ’87 Maureen Flynn Kratz ’04 First Vice President Don Levine ’78* and other alumni networking, brain- alumni through generations and across Steve Messina ’91* storming ideas, pitching projects and great distances is the role that SUNY Donna Goldsmith ’82 Josh Miller ’08 Second Vice President Dana Segall Murphy ’99 swapping stories with each other. Oswego has played in your life. During my Elizabeth Locke Oberst Cathleen Richards ’09 Executive Director Mark Salmon ’93 Here, in sunny California, our Oswego travels throughout 2015, you expressed Dan Scaia ’68 Edgar Ames ’68 Stefen Short ’10 alumni were connecting and creating and gratitude for the life-changing friendships Tim Barnhart ’02 *Jennifer Shropshire ’86 Marc Beck ’93 caring about each other’s careers and about and mind-opening experiences you had Christie Torruella Paul Brennan ’93 the happenings at their beloved college. here at SUNY Oswego. You can relate to Michael Byrne ’79 Smith ’08 Jeffrey Sorensen ’92 As you’ll read in the “Oz to LA” article on the stories I share about the transforma- Mike Caldwell ’70 Karen Colucci Coia ‘89 **Deborah F. Stanley page 21, West Coast alumni connections tions occurring in our current students and Raelynn Cooter ’77 Kevin Sutherland ’05 Lisa Court ’83 Koren Vaughan ’95 to Oswego remain strong despite the nearly about their dreams being formulated and **Kerry Casey Dorsey ’81 Rick Yacobush ’77 Thomas Yates ’89 Amy Vanderlyke 2,700 miles that physically separate them realized. You know because you experi- * At large ** Ex officio Dygert ’01 from our lakeside campus. Their energy for enced this, too. I am confident sending our Jerry Esposito ’70 their work and their passion for their alma future graduates into the world knowing State University of New York at Oswego mater are yet another example of the that you’ll be there to support and guide Deborah F. Stanley Kerry Casey Dorsey ’81 Oswego alumni ties that bind. them—one Laker to another. President Vice President for That event in LA was one of more than So as the snow begins to fall this Lorrie Clemo Development and Provost and Vice President Alumni Relations 20 events the college hosted this year across holiday season, I hope that no matter for Academic Affairs Jerald Woolfolk Vice President for Student the country, including New York, Boston, where you are, you will carry Oswego Nicholas Lyons Vice President for Affairs and Enrollment Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., with you, as you will always be part of Administration and Finance Management Phoenix, Chicago and cities in Florida. No our Oswego family. Office of Alumni and Parent Relations matter where we are or what the season— King Alumni Hall, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126 the first question we hear is: “So how’s the Phone: 315-312-2258 weather in Oswego?” Fax: 315-312-5570 Email: [email protected] The shared experience of studying on Website: alumni.oswego.edu our lakeside campus unites Oswego facebook.com/oswegoalumni alumni, no matter where you are in the Warm wishes, @oswegoalumni country—or in the world.