THE JOURNEY

CONTINUES 5 Welcome Back By Colgate President Brian W. Casey 7 anks to All By 50th Reunion Chair Art Clark 8 A Note From the Editor By Jim Milmoe 10 To Be A (Colgate) Man By Barnet Kellman 19 While We Were ere By Jim Milmoe 32 Freshman Dorm Composites Photo Scans by Tom Orsi 37 Athletics 1965 –1969 By Dave Shantz 46 Remembering Dean Griffith By John A. Higgins 48 Still in Tune By Mark Miller 54 In Memoriam 55 Class Directory and Essays

2 312 Bridging Troubled Waters By Gregory A. reatte, M.D. 318 e Maroon : Campus Battleground By Allan Dodds Frank 325 WRCU – Voice of the Chenango Valley By Stephen Waters and Allan Dodds Frank 328 Stories of Colgate ’69 and Vietnam By Peter Lewine 337 To Be a (Colgate) Woman By Jim Milmoe 342 Memories of a Fortnight By Barnet Kellman 352 Colgate Gold: Married 50+ Years By John Huntington 356 Class Leaders and Awards 50 Years of Service 358 On the Road By Woody Swain 360 Geographic Index 366 Bonfire and Fireworks

3 4 COLGATE AT 200 YEARS

Dear Colgate Class of 1969,

I had the great honor of hosting members of your reunion committee for lunch at Raab House last spring. ey have been working diligently on your milestone festivities ever since. e All-Class Reunion in 2019 — where we will celebrate Colgate at 200 Years and recognize the Class of 1969 at 50 years — promises to be a remarkable occasion. I look forward to welcoming you back, joining the commemoration of your golden anniver - sary, and applauding your impact on the university and the world beyond.

rough the years, your class has made valuable contributions in a wide range of endeavors. You have been doctors, educators, attorneys, finance and sales professionals, public servants, business executives, clergy, and many of you were self-employed in a variety of fields. Your classmates contribute in meaningful ways to charitable efforts and similar activities.

As you reconnect with each other on campus and celebrate the accomplishments of the last five decades, you will find that your alma mater is embracing a strategic vision that honors Colgate’s past while embracing its future as a leading national institution.

Our longstanding commitment to academic rigor is unwavering, and the university still offers significant financial aid to students in need. Colgate undergraduates from across America and around the world are as ener - getic and engaged as ever. Of course, the university community continues to relish athletic competition at the highest level.

Colgate has also evolved. Students pursue the Colgate experience in a variety of new buildings: Little Hall, the Robert H. N. Ho Science Center, the Class of 1965 Arena, and Benton Hall — the new home of Career Services, ought Into Action, and the Office of National Fellowships and Scholarships. Two new resi - dence halls will open in 2019. Colgate has integrated the latest technology into the classroom and expanded its off-campus study programs. A concrete, unified plan to foster the arts at Colgate is in development.

ese advances are made possible through your generosity and your loyalty. e Great Class of 1969 has been a leader in contributions of time, talent, and financial support over the years. So, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, the Alumni Council, our students, faculty, and staff, I thank you for all you have done — and continue to do — for Colgate.

I look forward to welcoming you during your 50th Reunion, May 30–June 2, 2019.

Most sincerely,

Brian W. Casey President

5 Lyrics © John Lennon and Paul McCartney; published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

6 “ON CE A GAI N, IT’S T IME TO S ET ALL STOR IE S STR AIGH T.”

May 30-J une t2,h 2019 1819-2019 th Reunion , Anniversary 50 CLASS OF 69 200 Dear ’69ers, Tradition, passion and change are the words that best describe the Colgate Class of ’69. Appropriately, we named our 50th Reunion Yearbook “(R)Evolution” after the Beatles song Revolution , which says it all (“We all want to change the world”). It’s also appropriate that our class is the featured class at Colgate’s Bicentennial Reunion Weekend, May 30 – June 2, 2019. And it’s been amazing to see the passion shown by the talented group of ’69ers and Colgate staff who worked tirelessly to produce a highly memorable and successful 50th Reunion. My hat’s off to the entire Reunion Team shown below. Make sure you thank them when you see them at our 50th Reunion. Attendance: Tom McTaggart headed up the Attendance Committee of Affinity Captains consisting of Tom Baker, Dave Grant, Bud Hedinger, John Higgins, Tom Himmel, John Huntington, Bruce Johnson, Andy Linder, Peter Madsen, Jack McGlynn, Ed Miller, Keith Radhuber, Dave Shantz, Greg reatte, Ned Waite, Jim Waters, and Stephen Waters. Gift: Bob Seaberg headed up a Gift Committee consisting of Tom Baker, Larry Blake, Nick Brill, Ron Burton, Allan Dodds Frank, Dave Grant, Tom Himmel, John Huntington, Dick Johnson, Barnet Kellman, Jack McGlynn, and Greg reatte. Program: Read McNamara headed up a Program Committee consisting of John Abraham, Bill Beery, Nick Carter, Kimm Dietrich, Barnet Kellman, Bill Miles, Laurie Roberts, Dan Salvesen, and Phil Wickeri. Yearbook: Jim Milmoe, Editor-In-Chief, headed up the Editorial Board consisting of John Higgins, Dick Johnson, Tom McTaggart, Tom Orsi, Woody Swain and a team of talented feature writers and photographers including Allan Dodds Frank, John Huntington, Barnet Kellman, Peter Lewine, Larry Pearl, Rick Marsi, Mark Miller, Dave Shantz, Greg reatte, and Stephen Waters. Communications Team: Peter Lewine, Van Parker, and Woody Swain. Colgate Staff: Yariv Amir, Gary Bridge, Patty Caprio, Andrew Coddington, Dan Gouh, Rich Grant, Lindsey Hoham, Sarah Keen, Don Lang, Nina Lindberg, Darcy Loveless, Tim Mansfield, irza Morreale, Michelle Jacobsen, Michelle Smith, Vicky Stone, Jen Stone, Mark Walden, and Beth Wood-Amir. Enjoy reading through this special edition 50th Reunion Yearbook that chronicles our journeys over the last half-century. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? We have a lot to talk about in May! See you at our 50th Reunion and Bicentennial.

Arthur E. Clark, Jr. 50th Reunion Chair

7 A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

ur GreAT reunion ChAir Art Clark selected “Time to Set All OStories Straight” as the theme for our 50th Reunion with the yearbook as the vehicle for telling our stories. Over 450 of us came to Colgate in Fall 1965. Now, 50 years later, it is time to share the stories of the living and the departed, stories about what we did at Colgate, and what we have done since Colgate — our lives, careers, and families.

Art asked me to lead the talented, hardworking, Colgate-loving team of editors and contributors who put this book together. Foremost among the contributors are the 210 classmates who supplied the best stories of all: their own. Major credit for wrangling those biographies goes to the indefatigable Tom McTaggart who managed to get stories from over 50% of the living members of the Class. Dick Johnson topped that, getting biograph - ical information for 100% of the 50 deceased members of the class. Dick also took on the task of editing the submitted bios from class - mates, some of whom had forgotten the writing lessons learned in Core 15.

Managing Editor John higgins turned a mountain of words, pictures, facts, and ideas into a storybook, published and distributed months before reunion, that will keep Col - gate alive in our hearts for the rest of our lives. More thanks go to Photo Editor Tom orsi and Artistic Director Woody Swain who enabled us to tell the stories in pictures as well as words. Orsi took on the additional task of being what the Maroon used to call the “issue edi - tor”. He was primarily responsible for working with Reunion Technologies to create the final text, layout, look, and feel of the book.

Picking a one-word title for a book covering our Colgate years as Baby Boomers in the turbulent Sixties and the decades that followed was a challenge. So, with a nod to the Beatles, we picked two words, Revolution and Evolution, and melded them into (R)Evolu - tion. When we were Freshmen, it felt like a revolution was coming. Our beloved President

8 Kennedy was replaced by Lyndon Johnson, who was personally and politically repugnant to most of our generation and the country. ere was war in Vietnam, violence throughout the third world, and violence in the streets at home arising from racial injustice. But the revolu - tion never happened. ere was peaceful change — evolution — at home, abroad, and at Colgate. e Colgate Sit-in was a model of effective, peaceful action for social change. Col - gate was a better place when we graduated and is better still today.

e book offers a great lineup of stories on the peaceful personal and social (R)Evolu - tions that occurred at Colgate while we were there:

• e transition from high school to Colgate, by Barnet Kellman • e events leading to the April 1968 Sit-in, and afterward, a very personal account by Greg reatte • Colgate and Vietnam — individual stories, compiled by Pete Lewine • Sports stories, by Dave Shantz • Stories on Arts and Music, by Barnet Kellman and Mark Miller • Campus controversies as told in the media, by Allan Dodds Frank and Steve Waters • e first two female undergraduates, based on interviews with our classmates elaine Matczak and Michela Gallagher • Love and Marriage on campus, by John huntington

Fifty years later we can say four years at Colgate transformed us and Colgate influ - enced the rest of our lives, in most cases for the better. e title of the athletics article is taken from the speech Andy Kerr made in 1965 when the football stadium was dedicated to him: “On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other fields on other days will bear the fruits of victory.” Kerr noted the words came from West Point Superintendent Douglas MacArthur, who was talking about battlefields. Kerr said he thought the quote was applicable not just to battlefields, but to life. I salute the Great Class of 1969 that took the seeds sown on campus in 1969, nourished them, and 50 years later has harvested wonderful stories of productive lives that, taken together, serve as conclusive evidence that we have in - deed evolved.

e reunion yearbook team is pleased we were able to set your stories straight.

Jim Milmoe Breckenridge, CO October 2018

9 TO BE A (Colgate) MAN SCENES FROM AN UNWRITTEN SCREENPLAY By Barnet Kellman

n 1988, on The SuCCeSS oF Murphy Brown , my wife, Nancy Mette, and I moved to Southern California. I had directed the first season of the hit show and was Ifortunate to have been nominated for an Emmy Award. Nancy and I settled in a 1918 Tudor house, (venerable by LA standards). Our first visitor was John Romano, Colgate class of ’70, who wisecracked: “You finally got your dream; You’re living in the Deke House!” I had to laugh. What he said was true! When I came to Colgate in 1965, the architecture at the south end of Fraternity Row spoke to me of a world I wanted to be part of. And when I arrived on the Quad, at the doorstep of East Hall, I got exactly what I was looking for. And what was that? Precisely the opposite of everything I had known for the previ - ous 17 years. I came from suburban Long Island, a place pretty much stripped of natural beauty by the hasty overdevelopment of post-WWII tract houses. To my eyes, Hamilton was one of the most beautiful and pristine places on earth. I had attended public school and was entering a private, selective, and exclusive institution. I looked upon this all-men’s college as an oppor - tunity. For what, exactly? What was I looking for? I was looking for change. Today, in my office, as I contemplate the approach of the Class of 1969’s 50th reunion and the 200th anniversary of the founding of our col - lege, I sift through notes, papers, and artifacts, primary sources I’ve carted with me in boxes from Hamilton to New Haven to New York and now to Los Angeles. I’m looking at four years of Salmagundis , at course catalogues, and relics like the Colgate Student Handbook , a Colgate Directory , a maga - zine called Orientation ’65 , dozens of yellowed Maroons and a Colgate News or two. ere’s a pro - gram from the “Fortnight of Active Arts” and a university publication written to mollify angry alumni by explaining the 1968 Sit-in. My box has dusty files and brittle newspaper clippings, and a glossy copy of Where e Girls Are – A Social Guide To Women’s Colleges In e East . Why did I keep this stuff?

10 In the first years after we doused our torches into Taylor Lake and com - menced into the world, I thought I’d write a screen - play about our time at Col - gate. I collected material, took notes, and wrote brief sketches. en came Ani - mal House , a college com - edy so successful that, despite any differences mine might have had, I thought it foreclosed my opportunity to tell the tale Then came Animal House . . . of students and faculty at an elite, Eastern men’s lib - eral arts institution -- a place of learning and “boys will be boys” fun and games -- in the last years of its long existence as a bastion of white male privilege. It had been done. Mine would have been different, of course. It would have been more observational, more anthropological, more thoughtful. ere would have been some similarly gross ele - ments – definitely a food fight (we had those after all) -- and perhaps even a romantically er - rant faculty wife (we had stories). But let’s be honest, my screenplay would have been written from the point of view of the Tekes, not the Sigma Nus. But the success of Animal House caused me to put the Colgate file into my trunk, where it sat until today. As I look at its contents now, I’m filled with nostalgia. e word comes from the Greek, nostos for nest and algia meaning ache. I ache for my nest. My years in Hamilton were among the happiest and certainly the most formative of my life. I know that Colgate was the crucible where I was formed, and I can’t resist revisiting

11 it, at least one more time, in hope of knowing better who I was then and how I became who I am. e scenes that follow come from my notes. ey are the scenes of from an unforget - table time and place. ey are the scenes of an unwritten screenplay.

orienTATion —1965

at week looms large in my memory. Fall of ’65 may have been the last year Freshmen took seriously Orientation and the indoctrination that came with it. We did. We wore our beanies and jackets and ties, even if the ties were permanently knotted and only looped, noose-like, around our necks. We said hello to strangers on Willow Path and were ready to sing the alma mater if commanded by men wearing blazers, embroidered with pocket badges signi - fying membership in the senior honor society, Konosioni. An orientation tells you where you are, and Colgate was not reticent in letting us know we were not in Kansas! I find this among my notes:

ey have kegs of beer for us on Whitnall Field.

Some of us have never had a drink be - e Incunabulum (our Freshman photo Book) fore. also offered tips Some of us aren’t yet 18.

We are learning already!

Drinking seems like part of the curriculum. ‘e Spirit that is Colgate’ comes out of a bottle!

If the freedom to drink to excess was the first adjustment of Freshman year, surely the absence of women was the second. At Orientation they taught us the rules:

No co-eds in the dorms, unless during a party weekend when all dates must be registered.

Doors must be unlocked.

If a co-ed is in the room place a necktie over the doorknob.

One foot must be kept on the floor at all times. Although I think one hand on the floor would have been a better prophylactic.

12 But the sheer and shocking dearth of women made these rules hardly necessary. I know I wasn’t the only Freshman who had broken up with a high school girlfriend to free myself up for the new adventures and experiences to come. Many of us now pined for our old sweethearts and desperately tried to renegotiate the terms of our separations. Judging from the talk Dean William Griffith gave in Chapel that first week, one might conclude the college considered women, and the consequences of “knowing” them, to be the greatest hazard to a young man’s success. Griffith explained Colgate’s relation to us as being in loco parentis . at meant that, whatever the law of the land, the Administration had the responsibility and right to enforce rules for our behavior as they saw fit. We learned that if the Hamilton police picked us up for drunkenness, they would call the Dean, sparing us criminal prosecution but making us vul - nerable to expulsion. And if we “got a girl pregnant”? Griff was equivocal on that point:

“If it comes to my attention that you have gotten a young lady in trouble, you will be expelled from school. If you come to me and say that you have gotten a young lady in trouble and you wish permission to marry her, likewise you will be dismissed. If you tell me you have not gotten a young lady in trouble but you wish to marry her, I will take the request under consideration, and if your grade point and extracurriculars are in order, I might give you my blessing.”

at’s how I remember his speech, which ended, of course, with the immortal admo - nition: “Remember boys, a stiff prick has no conscience!” Did Willy the Griff actually say that or is it a bit of apocrypha floating in the soup of Colgate lore? I don’t care. It is happily burned into my brain forever. • • • at week e Colgate 13 serenaded us for the first time: e co-ed leads a sloppy life, She eats potatoes with her knife, And when she's done she takes a scrub, And leaves a ring around the tub. (bass solo) e dirty thing! (all) And yet she's loved by everyone Who is a loyal Colgate son! We had much to learn that week. ere was the new argot in which familiar words took on new meanings. “Ace,” “bag,” “hook,” “dog,” and “flag” were now grades A, B. C, D, and F, all of which made up a GPA called a “cume.” “A hook” could also mean a phone call. Context was everything! “Grind” was to study to excess and “Punt” to slack off. “Rocks” meant Geology, and rocks were for jocks. “Chips” were the scions of Colgate men of yore. “Turkey” meant an upperclassman who wasn’t in a fraternity, and the “turkey coops” was where these poor souls lived, A “house” was a fraternity, a place you could only visit when they were throwing a

13 “tunk,” a neologism used only at “e Gate.” en there were the fashion do and don’ts. Moving into the dorms I saw a freshman count freshly laundered Gant shirts into a drawer which quickly filled with neat piles, yellow, pink, pinstripe, white. He pulled a pair of Weejuns from the bottom of his trunk and took them into the bathroom where, out of his Dopp kit, he took a roll of adhesive tape. Finally, with the practiced hand of a doctor he meticulously wrapped a bandage around the instep of one shoe. I loved this stuff. I savored it. Speaking the lingo and rocking the look made me feel “in”. • • • During orientation there was an event where all of us Freshmen got dressed up in blazers, rep ties, and beanies, and formed a procession from the Coop to the President’s House on the hill, where we were greeted by a receiving line of administrators. I approached Associate Dean Scovill with my roommate, Larry Sorkin. We were both Jewish and both from Long Island. e Dean extended a hand to shake and, leaning in confidentially, said with a wink, “I hope you boys like rooming together…I made that hap - pen. I thought you’d be more comfortable that way.” Larry and I looked at each other and, as soon as we were alone we cracked up. We knew the Dean meant only to be welcoming. It wasn’t his intention to make us feel like we were…well, guests…but it did remind us that we were from a visiting tribe. “Tribe” being the operative word. Not that we were offended. To the contrary. We knew our presence was somewhat new, somewhat provisional, part of an experiment in change, and change can be awkward. We knew and were ready for that. Not all fraternities were likely to welcome our membership, that was a given. Sure, there was casual anti-Semitism and racism on campus, but Colgate’s paternalism was there, in loco parentis , to look out for us. Fourth floor East Hall was 50% Jewish, although Jews at Colgate made up maybe 12% of the student body, but that didn’t mean we had to think of it as a ghetto. Colgate was becoming ecumenical. Each day classes paused for “Chapel Period” but our attendance was, for the first time in college history, optional. e church on the quad sat nearly vacant while most of us crammed into the basement of East Hall for wake-up coffee at the Coop. And what of our few Black classmates (to use a word that we would never have dreamed of using in ’65)? Ron Burton and Dean Taylor lived together on the first floor of East and Bill Robinson lived in a single on the third. I remember once seeing Bill get off a bus from Syracuse and I asked why he went there. “To get a haircut”, he told me. ere was no one in Hamilton, he patiently explained, who “cut black hair.” at got my attention. Got me thinking… Yes, there was plenty to learn, but we were up to the task.

FreShMAn YeAr — Songs of innocence and experience

Orientation told us where we were and who we were. I heard it said that we Colgate guys had chips on our shoulders. We were “Ivy League rejects” and, thus, always felt we had something to prove. is caused us to always try harder, fight harder, work harder, play harder. We were perpetual underdogs – and we liked it that way.

14 We embraced this identity and the lore that went with it: “Undefeated, Untied, Unscored upon and Uninvited!” It was said that our Profs were tougher and graded harder than those at the Ivies. Once you were accepted at an Ivy, they said, it was next to impossible to flunk out. Not at Colgate. You had to work and study to make the grade or they’d ship you off to Mitchell! “Work hard and Play hard” . . . was our motto. Still, few high schools prepared you for Core 17, Philosophy, Religion, and Drama, taught by the most terrifying elite band of professors the college had to offer. Many of them were the most venerated of our faculty, the kind at whose feet at other schools only seniors would get to sit. At Colgate, thanks to the Core, we hit these guys day one. And the first P&R exam was our D-Day. e anticipation and mounting tension of the night before the exam was legendary. All of us freshman, all housed on the hill, were all engaged in the same activity, cramming. e mounting frustration, fear and flop-sweat rose like a funk traveling from room to room, suite to suite, floor by floor until, inevitably, as predicted, someone flung a window open to the freezing night air and yelled: “Kant Sucks!” . . . which cry was answered from a room across the quad: “Hume Bites!” . . . until all the windows in East and West, Andrews, and Stillman stood open and the fleecy peace was shattered with the most vulgar critiques of Western civilization’s greatest minds echoing across the valley. And then, without warning or command, hordes of freshmen poured out of the old dorms and onto the quad like migrating beasts or salmon running. Forming a mindless mob, we marched in a frenzy to fulfill one of the most heinous traditions in the Colgate liturgy – and act as unforgettable as it is regrettable – the raid on the “Turkey Coops” to harass the upper-class independents. • • • e faculty had long been wanting to limit the influence of fraternities and mitigate the violence of their social sorting. In an at - tempt to accomplish this, the year prior they had pushed a reform called “Deferred Rush,” and we were its guinea pigs. is meant we freshmen were mostly quarantined on the quad, and, since we were prohibited from hav - ing cars, our weekends were spent stir-crazy on campus. e first snow arrived on September 20th, a date so unseasonable that it has stuck in my memory for half a century. at night we picked our way, slipping and sliding on the precipitous path down to the Student Union

15 for dinner, some of us mastering the art of “snowboarding” on the cafeteria trays, the first of many lessons of upstate winter. With more snow on the way and the promise of even greater isolation, I cadged a ride to Wells with some fraternity guys. As the packed car drove west, beers were chugged and cans merrily tossed onto Route 20. Just past Caz we saw a student on the shoulder hold - ing a sign that read “Colgate to Elmira”. My hosts didn’t like his attire so, at first, we passed him by, but a debate arose as to the merits of having another rider to split the cost of gas. We stopped and, before the matter was quite resolved -- the guy ran to catch up. He squeezed into the backseat and, though no one asked, he said he was a senior and had a girlfriend at Elmira College. Hearing our mission – going to Wells in hopes of meeting women -- he laughed and said none of this would be necessary once Colgate went co-ed. e air in the car turned cold. Names were hurled at the hitchhiker along with suggestions that he “go back to Russia” if he didn’t like Colgate the way it was. Someone got out, opened the back door, and ushered our inter - loper back onto the side of the road, and off we drove. Many beers and piss stops later we ar - rived at Wells, too drunk to be of much use or interest to any coeds, but full of good cheer and fellow-feeling. But that hitchhiker was a harbinger. All roads lead from Colgate In 1964 Bob Dylan wrote:

As the present now will later be past, the order is rapidly fadin’. And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a changin’.

On November 9, 1965, the Great Blackout eclipsed the entire Northeast. It was my 18th birthday and I sat in my dorm in darkness burning my forged draft card, the fake ID I would no longer need. I performed this ceremony for light and in mock protest. I was legal to drink now. And now I could be drafted. Yet it wouldn’t be until senior year that I would have the right to vote. In the dead of that first winter Rep. Gerald Ford came to speak on the hill. e guys in the liberal fraternity who were rushing me said he was a “hawk” and ask me to join the picket line they were forming. A circle of about a dozen of us paraded in front of the Chapel carrying signs. I got hit by a heckler’s flying egg. at was my first brush with politics. ere were just a few pockets of activism in the faculty and among certain students, and I was starting to fall into them.

16 Soon enough gigantic icicles began to loosen their grip on the slate roof of Lawrence Hall and thunder to the ground. It was deadly if you walked under one. e Spring semester arrived and with it the long-awaited Deferred Rush. We went to “tunks” and hoped for “bids”. e night they arrived was fraught. I’ve forgotten the mechanics but the details are burned in my memory. ere were mattresses laid in the hallway. Some guys slept out there on the floor to be close to the phone booth. Were they wait - ing for calls from the Row? Bids were slipped under doors. Roommates were sep - arated. Young men fought back tears. Some worked to hide their elation, while oth - ers did not and celebrated openly. Acceptance into Colgate did not guarantee inclusion. Whatever benefit this delayed rush was supposed to convey was not evident on that night.

1965 – 1969

e Colgate that greeted our arrival was poised on a fulcrum, anchored by tradition but weighted toward the future. Geographic isolation and winter weather were the eternal ballast on the side of continuity, but an ambitious young fac - ulty and broadening student demographics (we were told we were the first class ever with a majority 51% from public schools) tipped us toward change. Drugs weren’t part of Colgate in 1965 but even by sophomore year things were changing. When Donovan’s Mellow Yellow album came out, we fried banana skins and tried smoking them. One week we cleaned Reed’s Hardware out of morning glory seeds when someone said they gave a good buzz. We didn’t know you were supposed to boil off the insec - ticide first. Barfing ensued. en there was a rumor that a weed called “mullein” grew on the ski slope. Bill Gordon, who was practically a one-man SDS chapter on campus, had found it. He said it was a sure high. We harvested the stuff, nearly denuding the slope. I remember driving with six other guys (no seatbelts, no limit on the number of passengers who could fit in a car) to Montreal for Expo 67 smoking these greens out of a corncob pipe formerly used for Cherry Blend tobacco. Result: a four-day headache. One day I walked into a room to find two guys entwined on the floor. “What are you doin’?” I asked. “Wrestling” was the reply. e word “gay” didn’t emerge until after the1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village when it stepped out with a vengeance. e re - lationships that “gay” referred to didn’t exist at Colgate – or so most of us thought. Or were we just not ready to see? 1965 to 1969 were four years of change and evolution. In 1965 talk of coeducation was treasonous. By 1969 the tide had turned the other way. Like coeducation and drugs, so much of what dominated our consciousness as we

17 walked through the hockey rink to graduate in 1969 seemed inconceivable in 1965. We took our diplomas that sesquicentennial year from the hands of the provost, the president who had welcomed us having resigned in response to a Sit-in no one in 1965 could have predicted. When we matriculated, Vietnam was a far away place and there were a plethora of deferments available to any college grad who didn’t care to go. By graduation America was deeply at war there, and most of those deferments had been rescinded. We entered Colgate the masters of our destiny but left feeling at the mercy of others and events. e Colgate we left was an institution in the throes of change. It was heavily politi - cized and polarized, with much of the student body at odds with parents and alumni, and much of the faculty at odds with the board. We had been shaken from compla - cency by the assassinations and events of 1968 and the escalation of the war. Owing to our own increasingly vulnerable draft status, many of us would serve while others would take ex - treme measures to avoid or resist the draft. But all of us would be changed. And thus we commenced into “the world” changed and changing. Change is the business of youth. Change and growth. Barnet on the set And the business of education, too. Colgate supported that. We changed and grew, and Colgate changed and grew with us. Colgate changed and grew because of us. And continued to change and grow after we departed. at’s what I wanted to say in my screenplay and show in a film. But now in 2018, I think these scenes have found their true audience, the people I really wanted to address. What audience could be better than my classmates, the Sesquicentennial Class of ’69? e community that was formed in 1965 endures 50 years later in Colgate’s bicen - tennial. And faces the future with, well… Ready for more inevitable change!

18 WHILE WE WERE THERE COLGATE 1965 –1969 By Jim Milmoe

AKinG SenSe oF our Four YeArS AT CoLGATe means reviewing them in the broader context of American History. We were the first wave of the MBaby Boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964, children of parents who lived through the depression and World War II. We grew up in a time of growing economic prosperity, but also liberation and social upheaval. – for Blacks in America and for colonial peoples around the world. Never had a demographic cohort held so much power. In 1966, Time Magazine named the Baby Boomers “Man of the Year”. Many of us were among the first in our families to attend college. Many of our childish illusions were shattered before we got to Colgate by the assassination of President Kennedy, by the grim reality of Vietnam, and by the realization that our country had a long way to go to achieve racial justice. is com - pilation of events puts developments at Colgate in the broader context of the rapid cultural changes of the late Sixties, beginning with the first combat action in Vietnam in 1965 and ending with the Woodstock Festival in 1969. It provides an opportunity to measure and re - flect on how we may have progressed individually and as a class in the time since. Freshman Year: 1965-66 Summer U.S. forces authorized to assume combat role in Vietnam for the first time. President Johnson orders increase in the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 and doubles the number drafted. President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and legislation creating Medicare. e Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of music, playing before an audience of 55,600 in Shea Stadium. Race Riots rage in Watts for 5 days.

September Maroon • Class of 1969 Colgate’s “Biggest and Best” ever. • Shepardson dorm for upperclassmen opens.

october War begins between India and Pakistan. Maroon • Steve Mark faces partial paralysis after scrimmage injury. • Football upsets Army 29-28. november Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protestors picket the White House and march on the Washington Monument.

19 Maroon • Northeast blackout affects campus, several states for up to 13½ hours.

December Top movies of 1965 include “e Sound of Music,” “underball,” and “Doctor Zhivago.” Maroon • Senior loses library job because he refuses to shave his beard. • The biennial Career Conference opens with 75 experts representing 28 career fields. • Two endowed professorships are established by $1.5M gift, “largest ever.”

January Indira Gandhi becomes Premier of India. Maroon • President Barnett announces a new endowed chair in International Relations. • Steve Mark recovering; plans to resume studies. • Eighty men recruited for new Rugby squad.

February Maroon • The Blizzard of ’66 isolates campus but no impact on registration or rushing. • Fraternity rush ends; only 65% of freshman join houses.

March Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Maroon • Dean Griffith reassures students that no one will be drafted out of Colgate. Dean Griffith goes on to warn that students who are “wasting time in college may very well be drafted.” • New owner group begins renovation on the Colgate Inn. • “Alchemist” to be First Play Presented at Dana Arts Center.

April Mao launches cultural revolution in China. Bill Russell becomes first African American to be a professional coach, also the highest paid.

May Bob Dylan’s seminal album, Blonde on Blonde, is released. Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War. The Beach Boys release their album Pet Sounds . Maroon • President Barnett and Charles A. Dana dedicate the Center for Creative Arts. • Senate votes 11-9 to remain in “ultra-liberal” National Student Association.

20 Summer Civil Rights activist James Meredith shot by a sniper. The Supreme Court rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them ( Miranda v. Arizona ). U.S. planes begin bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. Sniper Charles Whitman kills 14 and wounds 32 from the University of Texas at Austin Tower. The Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, their last performance as a live touring band.

Sophomore Year 1966-67 September Star Trek debuts on NBC. Maroon • Phi Delta Theta national votes to end its “restriction clause.” • University names Football Stadium for Andy Kerr. • Fall Concert Doubtful; Lack of Funds Cited.

october Negotiations to end the Vietnam War begin in Manila, Philippines. Maroon • Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller at Colgate for “non-political” election season visit. • Undergraduate marriage fraught with problems and pitfalls. • President’s Report proposes 50-man limit for living units. • Dean Griffith urges all Seniors to take draft deferment test.

november Actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California. Ed Brooke is first Black ever elected to the U.S. Senate. Floods in Florence, Italy damage art treasures. Maroon • Speaker John Dos Passos says “New Left lacks sense of history”

December Top Movies of 1966 include: “A Man for All Seasons,” “Hawaii,” “e Russians Are Coming! e Russians Are Coming!,” and “e Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Maroon • All-course evaluation beginning; all profs to undergo scrutiny.

January Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in first Super Bowl. Apollo 1 Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee killed in flash fire. Draft Board refuses Muhammad Ali exemption.

21 Maroon • Dean Griffith announces that Scholarship Students can drive cars on campus. • Everett Barnes announces retirement as Athletic Director. Hal Lahar named as replacement. • Committee on Conduct and Social rules fornication immoral.

February e 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Presidential succession and disability) is ratified. Red Army takes charge in China. Maroon • Faculty approves plan for a pass-fail option. • Tuition hiked from $1800 to $1950. • TKE announces it will end pledging. • Memorial Service for Dean Storing. • Core 15 Freshman English Course ends; to be replaced by Sophomore English Course. • Lloyd Huntley ’24 retires after 20 years as Director of Student Activities

March e Cambodian civil war by the Khmer Rouge. Maroon • Norman Fischer named Maroon Editor; James Greenfield is Assistant Editor. • Faculty requests study on fraternity pledging. • SDS members challenge rights of Air Force ROTC on campus.

April Muhammad Ali refuses draft and is stripped of boxing title. “Expo ’67” World’s Fair opens in Montreal, receiving 50 million visitors in six months. Maroon • Special committee on co-education sends a report to the Board of Trustees recommending admission of 600 women. • Gerald Ford speaks in support of Vietnam War effort. • Faculty forms Committee on Academic Freedom. • Black Group is formed to articulate campus grievances.

May Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blocking Israel’s southern port of Eilat and Israel’s entire Red Sea coastline. Maroon • Dean of Admissions Shirley calls ABC bias claim “Ridiculous.” • Senate establishes committee to bring Blacks to University. • Dean Griffith: Marijuana is illegal; students using it will be subject to university discipline. • Russian Poet Voznesensky captivates crowd.

22 Summer President Johnson and Soviet Premier Kosygin hold summit in Glassboro, NJ. The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, which becomes No. 1 for the entire summer of 1967. Israel launches a preemptive strike on Egyptian Air Force, starting the Six-Day War. The U.S. Supreme Court declares all state laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional. The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality. The Beatles release the song “All You Need Is Love.” Race riots break out in Newark, lasting five days and leaving 26 dead; in Detroit, lasting seven days with 43 killed, 342 injured, and 1,400 buildings burned; and in Washington, DC. Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court. Junior Year 1967-68

September Nguyen Van ieu is elected President of South Vietnam.

Maroon • 540 Class of 1971 Freshmen arrive — “Bigger, but are they Better?” • O’Conner Campus Center opens; Bryan complex opening delayed. • Hamilton’s first “psychedelic” store opened on Lebanon Street in the center of town. • The Student Senate announces they had secured The Lovin’ Spoonful for Fall Party Weekend. • Faculty creates Committee to Question Survival of Fraternities. • National Student Association (NSA) Black Power resolution causes rift in Colgate delegation.

october Guerilla leader Che Guevara captured and executed in Bolivia. The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. 70,000 Vietnam War protesters march in Washington. At the Pentagon, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to “levitate” the building and “exorcise the evil within.” U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. He remains a POW for more than five years. Maroon • ABC (Association of Black Collegians) charges racism and takes action against the “Row.” • Frosh escalate “P&R Riot,” attack Sigma Nu.

23 • Sigma Nu promises to reform after several Fall incidents, including the premature burning of the traditional bonfire. • Senate demands right to govern Student Affairs. • Three fraternities initiate rushing and pledging reforms. • Faculty committee urges establishment of co-ordinate woman’s college

november e Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour , which includes the songs “All You Need is Love,” “Penny Lane,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Baby, You’re a Rich Man,” and “Hello Goodbye.” Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presiden - tial nomination, challenging incumbent President Johnson over the Vietnam War. Maroon • A Pro-War group is formed on campus. • Trustees call co-education “one of top priorities.”

December Christiaan Barnard carries out world’s first heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. Top films for the year include “e Graduate,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “In the Heart of the Night,” and “Cool Hand Luke.”

January Alexander Dubcek chosen as leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. e Green Bay Packers defeat the Oakland Raiders by the score of 33-14 in Super Bowl II in Miami. e Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam. Maroon • President Barnett approves on-campus armed forces recruiters and condones peaceful draft protest.

February Maroon • New standards characterize rush; pledge boycott troubles Phi Delt. • University adopts new policy on sexual conduct; fornication “not condoned,” but no punitive action will be taken unless in violation of state laws • Fraternities liberalize pledging programs. • Robert Kennedy visits Campus; takes firm stand against Vietnam War, poverty, LBJ.

March My Lai Massacre — American troops kill scores of civilians. e story helps undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam. Senator McCarthy’s strong showing in New Hampshire convinces President Johnson to announce he will not seek re-election.

24 Maroon • Fortnight of the Arts headlines Buckminster Fuller, the Doors, Merce Cunningham Dance, John Cage, and others. • The Student Senate votes to suspend Phi Delta Theta for discrimination. • Financial losses hurt Sigma Nu; kitchen closed, social activities suspended. • The University announces a co-ed Jan Plan for 1969 with Skidmore. • Maroon names Goldman, Rubin, Brumbaugh editors for 1968-9. • Franklin Wallin named Dean of Faculty. • Seaberg elected Senate president; Zarecki vice-president.

April Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis. Riots erupt across country. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Dubcek initiates “Prague Spring” liberalization reforms in Czechoslovakia. Maroon • After a firearms incident, President Barnett closes the Sigma Nu house and suspends the charter for the rest of the semester. • A 100-hour Sit-in by 400+ students and 40 faculty at Administration Building forces revocation of Phi Delta Theta charter.

May France paralyzed by student-led strike against the government. Maroon • Campus referendum supports NSA Black Power resolutions. • Faculty accepts student membership on its committees. • The 1968 Salmagundi is dedicated to Dean of Students William Griffith.

Summer The Standard and Poor’s 500 index closes above 100 for the first time at 100.38. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. President Johnson signs the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce incorporate their microprocessor manufacturing firm . The Republican National Convention nominates Nixon for President. The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia, halting the Prague Spring reforms. “Hey Jude,” the first Beatles single issued on their Apple label, is released. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, police and Illinois National Guardsmen go on a rampage, clubbing and tear-gassing hundreds of antiwar demonstrators, news reporters, and bystanders. Vice President Hubert Humphrey wins the Democratic nomination.

25 Senior Year 1968-69

September CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” debuts. Boeing rolls out first 747 Jumbo jet. Maroon • President Barnett resigns. • Diversity marks the Class of ’72; three women admitted. • Trustees adopt Fraternity Report; pledge selection by majority vote only. • Fraternity members now a minority of upperclassmen. • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. speaks at Colgate.

october At the Olympic Games in Mexico City, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos receive the gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter dash, then raise gloved fists during the national anthem to protest violence toward and poverty among African-Americans. Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, President Johnson orders a halt to “all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam.” Maroon • Faculty asks Trustees for seats on its committees. • Colgate-Skidmore exchange program set for January; Vassar exchange in Spring semester. • Board takes steps to admit co-eds in 1969. • Student Senate denies Phi Delt bid for new local charter by 15-14 vote. • Alpha Delt, TKE, Phi Tau, Phi Gamm choose open housing. • Maroon celebrates 100th anniversary. • Presidential Election: Humphrey? Nixon? Abstain? • Bill Russell speaks out on prejudice against Black athletes.

november President Johnson halts all bombing of North Vietnam. Nixon wins the Presidency, beating Humphrey by just 0.7 percent of the popular vote. Segregationist candidate George Wallace carries five Southern states. O.J. Simpson of USC wins the Heisman Trophy. Maroon • Smokey and the Miracles concert loses $3,000; Senate cancels all concerts. • Senate unanimously demands review of Weyter tenure denial.

December Demonstration of world’s first mouse and word processor at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Top Movies of 1968 include: “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “e Odd Couple,” “Bullitt,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Planet of the Apes,” and “e Lion in Winter.”

26 Apollo 8 becomes the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth.

January e New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts, 16-7, in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Richard Nixon sworn in as the 37th President. Maroon • Olin Life Sciences Building approved for completion in Fall 1970. • Franklin Wallin named Provost.

February Palestine Liberation Organization created; Arafat named leader. e last issue of e Saturday Evening Post in its original form hits magazine stands after 147 years. Maroon • Bartlett named Colgate’s 11th President effective June 1. • Barnett gives farewell press conference. • Andrews, Skewis victorious at Madison Square Garden, Meno sets Colgate Mile record. • Andy Kerr dies. • Laura Nyro performs in Chapel. • Seaberg resigns as President over frustration on open housing, institutional racism.

March Former Milwaukee schoolteacher Golda Meir, 71, becomes premier of Israel. President Eisenhower dies after a long illness. Maroon • Governor Rockefeller speaks at Charter Day Convocation. • Fineman named Maroon chief. • Kellman receives Danforth grant; Joseph awarded a Fulbright. • Lambda Chi drops national; decries racism. • Arthur Goldberg named to speak at Class of ’69 graduation. • Alleged beating of two black students strains town-gown relations. • Aveni, Thurner, Wilder, and Honkaleto granted tenure.

April First artificial heart transplant. Harvard University Administration Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the SDS. Before the takeover ends, 45 are injured and 184 arrested. Blacks at Cornell seize student Union. Maroon • ABC demands “Culture Center.”

27 • ABC holds library “Book-Out”; members leave town to press bid for Culture Center. • ABC occupation of Merrill House ends after 69 hours following threat of injunction. • Culture Center negotiations continue; fund raising begins. • Last designated “Party Weekend” begins Friday.

May Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned moon landing. Maroon • Motion asking the Student Senate to abolish itself is defeated 24-12. • ABC and University agree to create Cultural Center. • At graduation honorary degrees go to Arthur Goldberg, Vincent Barnett, John K. Colgate, Gene Bartlett, and Jerome Holland.

Summer Nixon begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Warren Burger, nominated by President Nixon after liberal Abe Fortas resigned under pressure, is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States. e Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay-rights movement in the U.S. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy on Chappaquiddick Island. 200,000 gather for Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, NY.

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FRESHMAN DORM COMPOSITES

eAST hALL 1 & 2—row 1: Dittrich, Diamond, Wierich, Benion, Belschner, robinson, Tobin, hedinger. row 2: Santiago, Mays, elliot, huntington, Palmetter, hanssen, Kirchner, Waters.

eAST hALL 3,4,5—row 1: Miller, Kellman, Weaver, richardson, rich, Simon, noren, hawley, Kluchin, hummell, Allman. row 2: Fish, Lamme, Garity, Swartz, newell, Ferraris, Grender, oliver, Schweyer, Sorkin, Goldman, Goodwin, Shaw. row 3: Johnson, Walton, rusin, Chirgwin, Short, vanBenschotten, Paske, Kessler, Carney, robbins, Walker.

32 WeST hALL 1, 2—row 1: Pompa, harris, Baum, Warren, Levy, Lewis, Kyker. row 2: Trevett, Schweyer, Lamb, D. Jones, Christensen, howard, Gorton. row 3: Poppleton, Bracy, Moulton, Gartell, Scott, haskins, haberer.

WeST hALL 3, 4, 5—row 1: r. Adams, rhodes, romeo, Purdy, Battistelli, hoffman, Sternberg, hodgson, read, S. Keiser, Sharon. row 2: Mastraccio, Dandar, Palmer, Sprow, Targum, Quick, Weidman, Wharton, huntington, Palgut, Zarecki, ermak. row 3: e. Waite, Wulffleff, Peterson, reynolds, Poppin, Chandler, Tonner, Carroll, Lydic, hoaglund, herson.

33 eAST AnDreWS hALL—row 1: Wickeri, Suzuki, holbrook, Abraham, Carlucci, reilly, Silvestri, Grant, Dingman, Zammiello, Miles, Sullivan, Payne, Costich. row 2: Lowe, Lacour, Woolf, Steelberg, Schaab, Weibush, Blake, Glenn, Santacroce, Sawyer, hoppin, Dow, B. Johnson, Gordon, himmel, radhuber. row 3: MacWilliams, Gomer, Licciardi, e. Kurtz, B. Kurtz, Wengenroth, Zwirblis, reatte, Seaberg, Beebe, Goeckel, Stone, Mizell, Whitney, Clark.

WeST AnDreWS hALL—row 1: Groby, rogers, Gomer, Pearl, Wagner, Angelini, Beery, Andrews, Maxim, Davis, Kessler, Swain, hagny. row 2: Berkey, herbst, Sudmeyer, Dunn, Parker, Kinsella, Schrumpf, Felder, hommel, Morris, James, Waldo. row 3: hale, Wells, haggarty, de noyelles, Benneville, neueld, Bisciglia, Lincoln, Meier, Smith, Gunnill, Gindi.

34 eAST STiLLMAn hALL—row 1: Sachs, Albu, Wilson, Pukinskis, Morrissey, omhart, Baum. row 2: ellis, Cronin, Yeungling, Adams, Swinehart, King. row 3: Miner, rudoy, Detwiler, Miller, Spitz, nealy, Geyer.

CenTer STiLLMAn—row 1: Seehorn, Yates, rubin, oberon, Cohen, Cooke, J. rice, Shantz, Cos - bert, J. Weiss, Milmoe, Frank. row 2: orsi, Good, Lassell, reina, Karl, Kennedy, Kenny, Jenkins, Barnes, Griggs, Candler, King, Fisk, Balonek, Blitzer. row 3: nevius, Brumbaugh, heffernan, Darrin, Molt, reed, MacGruer, Fuller, Tucker, Binge, Milano, Walzak.

35 WeST STiLLMAn—row 1: Good, Frost, Possee, ross, Tifft, Kulig, Goldsmith, noell, higgins, Mitchell, Weckstein. row 2: Safflund, Gasparini, Clewell, Gerwitz, Carter, W. Johnson, Brill, r. Williams, Parker, Schultz, Belden, haas, Greene, DeMarrais. row 3: hurnung, heffernan, Knauer, Carrithers, Tymeson, Coupe, M. Brown, Loden, Brattain, helliesen, r. Johnson, Winn.

KenDriCK, eATon, DoDGe—row 1: Ford, W. Jones, Brocco, Morgan, ritter, Ambell, Conrad. row 2: rich, M. Barrett, Pacini, Beer, Knapp, Lewine, Clupper. row 3: Combs, Chassin, Wooster, John, Sheehan, S. Walling, McTaggart.

36 ATHLETICS 1965 –1969 ON THE FIELDS OF FRIENDLY STRIFE By Dave Shantz

THLETICS, INTERCOLLEGIATE, INTRAMURAL , and pick-up games, have always played an important role in Colgate’s history, culture, and undergraduate life. ALessons learned on fields, courts, and other venues augmented what we were taught in the classroom. As Gil Joseph opined in one of his many thoughtful pieces written as the sports editor of the Maroon , “Few would Gil Joseph Series in the Maroon deny the constructive role that intercollegiate athletics play at a liberal arts college. e locus In our Senior year the Maroon ran a series of education is not restricted to the class - of articles by Gil Joseph that questioned the room.” Despite differences of opinion regard - level of competition that Colgate scheduled and ing Colgate’s level of competition and the amount of resources being allocated to the expenditures for athletics ( see sidebar ), most intercollegiate sports program. e issue agree to their intrinsic value. And, heck, quickly devolved into a campus shouting they’re just downright fun. match, but eventually became a reasonable dis - e Class of ’69 arrived on campus cussion. e tipping point was the overwhelm - ing rejection by the students and administration 495 members strong and was immediately in - of an Athletic Council proposal for a week of doctrinated into the underdog theme of Col - spring training in June for the football team. In gate’s athletic tradition of competing at the bringing up the need for constant examination highest levels, while fielding teams comprised of interscholastic athletics’ proper place in rela - solely of true student-athletes. Yes, we had a tionship to Colgate’s mission as a liberal arts in - few “gut” courses (“Rocks for Jocks” and Edu - stitution, Gil laid the groundwork for cation 101 come to mind) that attracted a dis - discussions that continue today. proportionate number of student-athletes, but —Dave Shantz all students were held to the same academic performance standards. Yet, the Red Raiders (we weren’t quite so politically correct then) won their share of games and the players repre - sented the university as principled, but highly competitive sportsmen. A few weeks after arrival, we were confronted with a most impactful athletic event dur - ing time at Colgate. On Sept. 27, 1965, during a freshman intrasquad scrimmage, linebacker Steven Mark lowered his head to make a tackle and the ensuing collision fractured two of his vertebrae. His injury resulted in permanent paralysis and left him a paraplegic. His life and transcendence of his injury have been chronicled in greater depth elsewhere. But for all of us, whether we knew Steve or not, his accident made us face life outside in the real world. At that time the NCAA did not allow freshmen to compete at the varsity level. erefore, colleges fielded teams comprised solely of freshmen in most sports. It was a true feeder system for varsity teams and, more important, it gave many more students the oppor - tunity to experience intercollegiate athletics. Colgate competed as an NCAA Division 1 school, the same as all athletic powerhouse institutions. e reclassification of football pro - grams into D-1A and D1-AA (to which Colgate belonged) didn’t occur until 1978 and D1- AA didn’t become FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) until 2006.

37 ’69 Freshman Teams

Football : While they had a 0-4-1 record, the Freshman Football team, with players like Ron Burton, Archie Coupe, Ted Beekman, Dean Taylor, and Pete Nagle, showed they had enough ability to be counted on heavily by the varsity squad in Fall 1966. Soccer : e Freshman Soccer team posted a 5-2-1 record, led by goalie Rick Umpleby, Freshman Soccer plus Doug Peterson, Bob Fisk, Sam King, e ’64 Freshman team had gone unde - Henry Rey, Rich Tobin, John MacGruer, Bill feated, despite not having a coach. By our Lincoln, John Hoaglund, Austin Belschner, Freshman year, Colgate had hired Ron Ryan to and Vic Pompa. e season was highlighted be Varsity Hockey coach. He was also asked to by a win over the usually dominant Hartwick coach the ’65 Freshman Soccer team. Coach team. Ryan started his first team meeting with, “I Cross Country : e Cross Country team don’t know a damned thing about soccer, but began to give us a glimpse of what would be a you guys are going to teach me.” We soon repetitive theme for Colgate’s successful track found that he was a quick learner and that we and field squads throughout our stay: winning would be in the best shape of any team that we’d face that season. And, yes, running the ski often and often winning big. With a record slope was definitely part of the story, as it was of 6-1, the squad was led by Hank Skewis, Jim with many Colgate teams of our era. Andrews, and Greg LeRoy. —Dave Shantz Wrestling: e Wrestling team sported the undefeated Gene Detwiler with excellent per - formances from Pete Nagle, Jeff Seehorn, Jeff Whitsett, Jim Boomer, Andy Lindner, Len Berkey, and Tom McTaggart. hockey: e Hockey team was anchored by goalie Jack McGlynn, Pete Madsen, Greg Wentz, Bob Shore, and eventual Varsity Captain Bob Stanley. Basketball: John Reid, George Erikson, Denis Cronin, Rick Caputo, and Bobby Breuer formed the backbone of the Freshman Basketball team that worked its way to a 6-6 record. Also on the team were Walter eis, Dave Helman, and Pat Luskey. In a tough loss to the Syracuse frosh, Reid was the top scorer with 33 points, and Cronin snagged 24 rebounds and scored 20 points. Swimming: e “Mermen,” as the Maroon dubbed them, swam to a 3-5 record with Greg Costich, Gerry LaCavera, Mike Flanagan, Chip Demerest, and Larry Oswick playing key roles. Lacrosse : Tough guy Coach Howie Hartman took some talented athletes, several of whom had not played lacrosse in high school, and turned many of them into players who made the Varsity as upperclassmen. e team, which only won one game, included Bill Travis, Charlie Pellaton, George Meier, Bob Shore, Dick Schrumpf, John Grenda, Henry Rey, Jim Milmoe, John Loden, Chris Pope, Rusty Drumm, and Bill Holbrook. Tennis: e Spring brought our only undefeated frosh team as the tennis squad went 6-0, led by the duo of Bob Kulig and Larry Blake. In the Fall, Larry won the freshman tennis championship and extended Intramural champ Huntting Brown ’68 to five sets in the All- College Championship match.

38 Sailing Club: On the individual side, Bruce Kennedy skippered his boat to many an inter - collegiate victory as a member of the Outing Club. rugby Club: Spring 1966 also saw the establishment of the Colgate Rugby Club. Many of the inaugural team members were freshmen and Phi Gamms, including Bruce Maclean, Dave Grant, John Griggs, and Steve Keiser. In the first Rugby game ever played in Hamilton, NY, Colgate defeated Syracuse 20-0 in a rain-soaked Parents Weekend game. One thing that all our athletic teams shared was running up and down the ski slope.

Varsity Sports highlights: 1965–66 through 1968–69

Colgate varsity teams performed quite well during our Freshman year as all but one had winning records.

Fall 1965 Football: e Football team recorded a very Varsity Football upset over Army respectable record of 6-3-1 in a season of ups Varsity Football Upset over Army and downs. In three of the wins (one of which “Regardless of what happens from here on was a stunning upset over Army [ see side - out, the 1965 football season stands as a huge bar ]), the Raiders shut out their opponents, success.” us began the article in the Maroon but in all the losses we were shut out and the reporting on Colgate’s huge upset of Army (an tie game was a scoreless duel with arch-rival opponent who held the series lead at 13-2-2, Cornell. and which, in 1965, was recognized as a na - tional power). e previous meeting of the two Winter 1965–66 teams had resulted in a 68-6 Army romp. e week before, a bad Brown team beat Colgate 6- hockey: e Hockey team qualified for the 0. Playing at Michie Stadium and coming back ECAC’s on the strength of its 16-10-1 record from a 21-6 first half deficit, Colgate took over that included a 5-3 win over top-ranked the lead late in the game on a run by Ray Ilg, Clarkson. At that time the ECAC was not one of several Red Raider heroes on the day. limited to the 12-team conference that we e 29-28 win was secured by a Tom Wilson know today. Instead, it comprised all the top end zone interception on the last play of the hockey programs in the East, including pow - game. When our class thinks of special Colgate ers such as Boston College and Boston Uni - moments, “e Army Game” is often recalled. versity. Unfortunately, Colgate was —Dave Shantz eliminated in the first round by the top-seeded Clarkson squad we had previously defeated. Basketball: On the hardwood court, the Bas - ketball team ground through an 8-14 season but revealed a star player in George Dalzell ’67. Both times that we were matched against the Orange of Syracuse, Dalzell outscored their All-American and eventual NBA Hall of Famer, Dave Bing.

39 Spring 1966 Another Army Game Baseball: Spring, or what passed for Spring in —Baseball Beats west point Hamilton, arrived and the Varsity baseball team began its season 1-3 following a “southern Colgate’s 1966 Varsity Baseball team trip” to Queens, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and amassed a record of 16-3-1, which included a final game victory over an Army team that had Manhattan. But the Raiders turned it around, won the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League ending up with a 16-3-1 record, including a title and was led by All-American pitcher Barry final game win over Army ( see sidebar ) and a DeBolt. After allowing the Cadets to score four bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament. runs in the first inning, the Raiders chipped away at DeBolt’s lead and won the game on a Fall 1966 bases-clearing hits by the Army destroyer, Ray Fall of our Sophomore year was, perhaps, the Ilg. e Raiders were selected to compete in most memorable sports season during our the NCAA Regional Tournament Playoffs for tenure at Colgate. Each of the three Fall only the second time in history, but lost to teams — Football, Soccer and Cross Country tournament winner St. John’s. —- had only one regular season loss. —Dave Shantz Cross Country : e Cross Country Harriers, bolstered by ’69 stalwarts Andrews, LeRoy, and Skewis, continued to pound opponents, while racking up a 7-1 record. Football: e Football team recorded its best season since Andy Kerr’s “Unbeaten, Untied, Unscored Upon, and Uninvited” 1932 squad, posting an 8-1-1 record that featured four shutouts, including one at Princeton. e only loss was by one point to Cornell. e team was fifth in the nation in rushing yardage, in no small measure to quarterback Ron Burton. With this history, it was only fitting that this was the season in which Andy Kerr Stadium was dedicated to the legendary Coach Kerr. In his speech accepting the dedication, Coach Kerr said, “On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.” Soccer: Led by newly named Coach John Beyer, the Varsity Soccer team followed up on an initial defeat by Columbia by winning seven straight matches outscoring opponents 25-7 and ending up 8-1. Colgate was chosen as one of only 16 teams to participate in the NCAA tournament ( see sidebar ). at team included fourteen ’69ers who made the jump to var - sity: Rick Umpleby, Doug Peterson, Bob Fisk, Sam King, Henry Rey, Rich Tobin, John MacGruer, Bill Lincoln, John Hoaglund, Austin Belschner, Vic Pompa, Al Frank, Dick Johnson and Dave Shantz.

40 Winter 1966–67 hockey : e team slipped to 12-15 record Soccer to nCAA’s and missed the ECAC playoffs. Bob Stanley was a standout. e season ended on a high With new coach John Beyer in charge of the Varsity for our Sophomore year, we were note with a 6-5 upset of UNH and a scare of not sure what to expect. We beat a SUNY Al - undefeated BU before losing 4-1 on three bany team, 3-1, in a scrimmage at their new third-period BU goals. field, but Coach Beyer and the players felt that Basketball : In Coach Bob Duffy’s last season, we had underperformed. at intuition was the Cagers went 10-13, winning 10 of the 11 confirmed when we dropped our first game to games they had a chance to win. John Reid Columbia. At that point two things came to - was the top scorer in several games. gether. e team had a players-only meeting one evening up on the hill and Coach Beyer de - Wrestling : Led by Gene Detwiler (9-2) and vised a new system of play to replace the tradi - Bob Raiber (7-1-1), the Wrestling team took a tional 5-3-2 player alignment. e ensuing 6-5 record into the Eastern Wrestling Cham - 3-4-3 alignment was revolutionary for that pionships where it finished 10th bolstered by time. e team’s re-commitment led to seven Detwiler’s third-place finish. straight victories and an invitation to the Swimming : e Swimming team led by NCAA tournament. Although the game was played on our home field, a team from the Uni - record setter Buck Wheat ’68 also finished versity of Bridgeport dashed our championship 10th in its Eastern Championships. Chip De - hopes, 3-1. However, the camaraderie that was marest was part of the relay team that finished built within that team was only exceeded by its 6th and set a school record and also set a respect and love for John Beyer – a brilliant school record placing 6th in the 100-yard coach and a caring individual. butterfly. —Dave Shantz

Spring 1967 Baseball : e season began with a 3-3 early season road trip to Florida. Sophomores Ron Burton, John Reid, Bob Sudmeyer, Bill Reina, and Ted Beekman saw plenty of action. Re - turning north, the team slumped and finished below .500. Tennis : Coach Abrahamson’s team went 16-2, with sophomores Bob Kulig (14-3) and Larry Blake (15-2) leading the way. e Raiders dominated most of their opponents, including wins against previously undefeated Rochester, St. Lawrence, and Buffalo, and the losses to Army and Maryland were close.

Fall 1967 Cross Country: e Harriers again posted a 7-1 record, upsetting a powerful Syracuse team and beating the likes of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Cortland along the way. eir only loss came in the season finale against Rutgers. Soccer : A year following the team’s NCAA bid, Soccer had a respectable 5-3-1 season. Football: Although the team endured a long 2-8 season, there were bright spots. Ron Bur - ton became the complete offensive threat, leading the team in rushing and scoring. Mark Hubbard ’68 cemented his bonafides for the NFL draft and went on to star as an All-Pro for the Oakland Raiders.

41 Winter 1967-68 Basketball: : Under the direction of first-year head coach Ed Ashnault, the basketball team managed a 10-16 record. Denis Cronin, John Reid, and Rick Caputo were key members of the team. Walt eis, Dave Hellman and Manager Al Melvin also contributed. hockey : e Hockey team put together a .500 season, winning 12 and losing 12. John An - derson ’68, Captain Kevin Fleming ’68, Tom Earl ’70, John Dandy ’70, and Terry McLaughlin ’68 were memorable players. Track: Highlight of the indoor season was Tom Albright winning the 600-yard National Championship in Detroit. Albright had finished sixth the week before in the 600 at the IC4As and Skip Meno finished seventh in the mile. Wrestling : e Grapplers finished at 6-7, losing to some true powerhouse programs of that era, including Princeton, Lafayette, Springfield, Rutgers, and Cornell. One could argue that no Colgate team faced tougher competition, year-in and year-out, than did the wrestlers. Swimming : Captained by Buck Wheat ’68, the 8-5 Swim team featured numerous ’69ers, including Costich, Demarest, Tom Arnold, Gerry LaCavera, and Michael Flanagan.

Spring 1968 Spring sports were somewhat overshadowed, in reality and in Maroon coverage, by the cam - pus turmoil following the Martin Luther King assassination and the Ad Building Sit-in. Baseball : e team compiled a 6-11 record. Track : In an already brief season, truncated by nasty Spring weather, the Colgate Track & Field team completed only two meets, beating Alfred, 106-34; and losing to Cornell, 105- 49. Classmates Ed Morris, Walt Zwirblis, Dave Knauer, Craig LeRoy, Gil Botvin, Hank Skewis and Captain Jim Andrews formed the core of the team. Lacrosse : Juniors Dick Schrumpf, Bob Shore, Rusty Drumm, Rick Wiebush, Bill Holbrook, Charles Oliver, John Loden, Al Hanssen, Bill Travis, and Basil Scaljon were part of the 1968 Lacrosse team that amassed a 6-6 record. Golf : e Golf team also went 6-6. Most of the seven-member squad were ’69 classmates, including Pat Luskey, Bob Hodgson, Chris Rich and John Licciardi. Tennis : e Varsity Tennis team, led by Cal Trevenen ’68, fashioned an incredible 16-2-1 record in Spring, 1968. ’69ers Larry Blake and Bob Kulig continued their amazing run of victories. Tom Orsi served as manager.

42 Fall 1968 Our senior year was again a successful one from the perspective of won-lost records, as only two teams completed their seasons with losing tallies. Although the unofficial overall record was 95-68-1, it’s certain that we all gained immeasurably from our exposure to intercollegiate athletic competition. Football : On the heels of a losing season in 1967, the Football team, under the leadership of Ron Burton and Dick Schrumpf, came back strong in 1968 to post a 5-5 record. Quarter - back Burton won the inaugural Andy Kerr Trophy as the top offensive player, while line - backer Schrumpf garnered the inaugural Hal Lahar Trophy for defense. Gene Detwiler was the scoring leader and rushed for two 100-yard games. Ron set a Colgate career passing mark of 2,388 yards and finished the season as the #41 leading ground gainer (4,128 yards) in NCAA history. Other classmates contributing to the team’s success were Doug Hale, Dean Taylor, John Grenda, Pete Powers, Jim Lydic, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Beekman, Bill Glenn, Bob Bis - ciglia, Tim Geyer, and Terry Kushner. Soccer : e Soccer team was led by Sam King and included Henry Rey, Bob Fisk, Rich Tobin, Doug Peterson, Austin Belschner, Al Frank, Jeff Kosberg, and goalie Rick Umpleby. e team’s record of 8-3 was highlighted by a 4-2 win over previously unbeaten (6-0) Hartwick, a team that had already shut out opponents five times. As usual, Ump shined in goal that day. rugby : e Rugby Club was undefeated that Fall, buttressed by a number of ’69ers, includ - ing Co-Captains Bruce MacLean and Dave Grant, plus John Hoaglund, Gene Detwiler, Dick Johnson, John Griggs, Jim Molt, Steve Keiser, and Jeff Reilly. Cross Country : e Cross Country squad was also undefeated right up until its last meet, when it lost to Rutgers to finish 8-1. Jim Andrews and Skip Meno competed in the NCAA Cross Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park, NYC

Winter 1968 –69 All the Winter sports teams were hampered in their efforts by a round of Hong Kong Flu in December-January that negatively affected a number of game outcomes.

hockey : Bob Stanley captained the Hockey team to a near .500 record (12-13) with the help of Alternate Captain Mike Webb, Greg Wentz, and Jack McGlynn. e season highlight was the defeat of perennial power BU by a score of 5-2.

43 Basketball : Denis Cronin led the Basketball team to a respectable 11-14 record and was as - sisted by John Reid and Rick Caputo, who became the fourth leading scorer in Colgate his - tory. indoor Track : e Indoor Track & Field squad shined as usual, highlighted by a second place finish at the 17 school Cortland Meet, where Captain Ed Morris gained an upset vic - tory in the 60 Yard Dash and tied the school record in the 1000. At the IC4A Meet, Hank Track &Field Skewis set a school record in the mile but was defeated by Villanova’s Marty Liquori. Also e final Colgate team to qualify for the competing for ’Gate were Greg LeRoy, Jim NCAA’s during our era was the Indoor Track & Andrews, Tom Robertson, and Gil Botvin. Field team in 1968. ey deserve recognition for sustaining what had become a Colgate tradi - Swimming : e Swim team posted an 8-4 tion: dominance of our squads in all three sea - record under the leadership of Greg Costich, sons of running and track and field. Be it the aided by Chip Demarest and Mike Flanagan. Indoor group led by Ed Morris, the Spring Wrestling : e Grapplers wrestled to an even Outdoor team led by Jim Andrews or the Cross Country harriers co-captained by Hank Skewis 6-6 record and Captain Gene Detwiler was and Andrews, Colgate Track & Field established undefeated. Len Berkey, Jim Boomer, and some amazing records. Some of our classmates Tom McTaggart also made major contribu - still hold Colgate records: tions. • Hank Skewis—Varsity 1000 Yards • Ed Morris—100-Meter Relay team e end of the winter sports season also saw • Fisk, Lauback, Morris, reatte the end of a Colgate legend as Andy Kerr died —Varsity Indoor 800 Relay in February. His place in Colgate history will • Greg reatte—120-yard High Hurdles never be forgotten. (Freshman) • Fisk, reatte, Morris, Moncrief—440 Spring, 1969 Relay • Gill Botvin—Pole Vault Track: Spring brought the continuation of • Jim Andrews—member of the Track & Field dominance with the same cast Distance Medley Relay team of characters previously listed, plus Harold —Dave Shantz Jenkins. Baseball : Captain Ted Beekman and the Base - ball team were selected to compete in the NCAA playoffs, despite the loss of Ron Burton, who was declared ineligible because he signed a professional contract with the Dallas Cowboys (who also signed Pete Nagle). e slack was ably picked up by John Reid, Doug Hale, Jeff Smith, Dick Grady, Bill Reina, Bob Sudmeyer, and Paul Fleischauer. In the playoffs, the team defeated Seton Hall, then was eliminated when NYU won 2 out of 3 games from the Raiders. Lacrosse : e Lax squad improved its record to 7-7 and Bill Holbrook was recognized as an All-America Honorable Mention. Bob Shore, Skip Oliver, Bill Travis, Charlie Pellaton made important contributions. Golf: Pat Luskey, Bill Short, Chris Rich, John Licciardi, and Whit Wells were very successful out on the fairways of Seven Oaks, as well as other courses hosting the Golf team.

44 Tennis : During their time on the varsity Tennis team, 1969 Co-Captains Bob Kulig and Larry Blake had volleyed their way to an incredible team record of 45-8-1. Both players were regionally and nationally ranked at different times, and both greatly embellished Colgate’s athletic reputation.

e tradition of Colgate athletics is not limited to playing days on campus. Many team - mates/classmates stay connected or re-connect by gathering at games played by the current undergrads. Here, during tailgates, tunks and after-contest meals, alumni share athletic memories, keep old relationships going, and establish new ones.

45 REMEMBERING DEAN GRIFFITH By John A. Higgins

Are iS The CLASSMATe who does not have some image of Dean of Students William F. Griffith ’33 imprinted indelibly on his memory. Or an anecdote or a Rstory of an interaction or run-in with “the Griff.” Many are portrayed in this volume. e Dean was an essential part of our early introduction to life in the Chenango Valley. As Barnet Kellman recalls in his vivid recreation of our early days, the Dean was the voice of au - thority, the moral arbiter, the law and, looking back, a protector of our interests. My Freshman year I was called to Dean Griffith’s office be - cause I had slept through two classes of Spanish II. e Dean told me that one more absence signaled my departure from Hamilton. He got my attention, and the “B” I earned in Spanish spared me a trip to New London. Jim Milmoe will be forever grateful to the Griff for going to bat for him twice with the Oneida draft board when Jim was still an undergraduate My favorite story of the Griff comes via Jack McGlynn, who recalls receiving a tele - phone call from the Dean shortly before graduation exercises. In that call the Dean told Jack that he was short one credit required for graduation. Ironi - cally, it was a PE credit. When Jack asked what he could do to rectify the missing credit, the Dean said he was willing to create a one- of-a-kind special project for Jack. e mandate was for Jack to retrieve at least half of the alleged 200 volumes checked out of the Case Library that were thought to be scattered around the DKE House and were long overdue. Jack graduated and has gone on to a great career as a Boston lawyer and Massachusetts legislator. Jack’s story illustrates the great insights that Dean Griffith had into the mind of the Colgate man. Yes, William Griffith was smart and scholarly. at’s why he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa degree and earned an M. A. in Education from Cornell. But more important, he knew what it meant to actually be a Colgate man — because he was one. And when our class entered Colgate, the Dean was in his 20th year, so he knew what he was doing. He began his career at Colgate in 1945 as Director of Student Aid and steadily moved up the ranks.

46 His close observation of nearly four decades of student life at Colgate convinced him that it was better for students to study hard and then “get out of town every three weeks or so.”

Colgate Bicentennial historian James Smith ’70 acknowledges the important role the Dean played in helping to transform the university: “Dean of Students William F. Griffith favored opportunities in higher education for women but contended that true coeducation did not exist anywhere unless it meant truly equal opportunities for women. He maintained that extracurricular activities at coeduca - tional colleges were decidedly “slanted in favor of the male.” While he did not oppose the establishment of a coordinate women’s college in Hamilton, he feared even that step might be risky. He looked skeptically at the relationship between Brown University and its coordinate women’s college, Pembroke College, and was convinced that the close proximity of the two was the cause for what he per - ceived as Brown’s “anti-intellectual - ism.” His close observation of nearly four decades of student life at Colgate convinced him that it was better for students to study hard and then “get out of town every three weeks or so.” In other words, the Dean was a devotee of the road trip and he knew the needs and habits of the flock he tended. And that is what made him so right for his role. But there is more. In October 1965 the Society of Families mailed an eight-page newsletter to our par - ents outlining what lay ahead for us in the Class of 1969. e newsletter contained a one- page profile of Dean Griffith in which he revealed his understanding of what was to unfold for all of us over the ensuing four years. “I have always felt that there are two marvelous qualities about students – impulsive - ness and impatience, and that is more true than ever before,” he said. “Today’s students are no longer content with the status quo; they want to bring about change. “As individuals they are more active in the academic life of the University, express a much greater concern over social issues, and are assuming increased responsibility for the management of their own affairs.” Right on, Dean Griffith. How right you were!

47 STILL IN TUNE MEMORIES OF THE COLGATE 13 By Mark Miller

he riDe FroM BALTiMore to Colgate Freshman year remains a Tsweet memory. Both parents were with me and as excited about my college career as I was. I landed at East Hall and I caught my first frisbee from another freshman named Bud Hedinger, and as fate would have it we are the best of friends to this day. We solidified our friendship as members of the Colgate 13 and many other friendships stemming from that group remain strong today. Imagine a 17-1/2 year-old standing 5’5” and weighing129 lb entering into a world of athletics, high level academics and a world of new possibilities with no idea what to do and who to know. What possible activity could furnish an experience with classmates at all levels and interests and the ability to leave campus as a group under the blessing of the university. As someone involved with music that opportunity was the Colgate 13. I was fortunate to enter the group in early fall and was even more fortunate to experience the leadership of Tom O’Hare and Chuck omas. I was “under the wing” of upperclass - men Joe Doolittle, John Hanna, and Paul Bradley who made the 13 a family experience that exists to this day. e 13 did create academic stress as we were off campus on most of the Fridays of the school year entertaining in the northeast as ambas - sadors of the college. Studying was difficult in the party atmosphere of the group and the trips were often long. Somehow, we graduated. When the question comes up about the most valuable learning experience for those of us in the 13, I am sure the majority would say the involvement in the 13. Many of us were psych majors, but we learned more psychology on the road than in the classroom.

48 We generally stayed with alumni or friends of the alumni and we saw and ex - perienced real world situations which could make an excellent TV series. We also had time to know each other on the long rides to our concerts and learned even more about ourselves. Performing in front of audiences both friendly and antagonistic gave all of us the confidence to deal with success and failure in our subsequent endeavors. For me personally, I believe that it made me a better physician en - abling a better understanding of people. I am sure the lawyers, entertainers, businessmen, and entrepreneurs that experienced the group would say the same. e only thing the group did not provide was an understanding of women in general and coeds in particular. I was a good leader Senior year but success with the ladies came late. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the college went coed immediately after our group left campus. I am very jealous of those who came after us who had the experience of sharing the campus with the ladies. Finally, the 13 class of 1969 had the co-leadership and magnificent voice of Bud Hedinger who is legendary to our group and to Colgate in general. anks for throwing that frisbee to me in 1965. It’s been the most important catch of my life. All of the best to our ’69 group and to those we lost along the way who made Col - gate a grand memory we continue to share today. Happy 200th birthday to Colgate and to the next 75 years of the Colgate 13.

49 50 51 52 53 IN MEMORIAM

William C. Beneville December 13, 1983 John B. Lamb May 30, 1985

Bennett L. Blitzer January 19, 2017 Louis F. Lansing August 13, 2011 robert L. Boney September 11, 1996 Jeffrey J. Lewis February 19, 2005 edward W. Carlucci Jr. February 9, 2003 Stephen M. Lowe December 25, 2009

Joseph T. Carney Jr. May 4, 2010 Bruce D. Maclean February 27, 1991

James M. Carrithers Jr. December 5, 2003 Donald Macomber iii August 15, 1983

David S. Carroll Jr. october 23, 1992 Steven P. Mark July 29, 2015

Clifford B. Chirgwin February 5, 1989 Michael S. Martin october 29, 2016

Gary e. Combs February 10, 2017 Peter r. nagle February 19, 2017

John e. Cordes April 1, 2006 Brian L. neufeld July 13, 2014

Don h. Davis April 25, 1990 George M. nicholson Jr. September 26, 2007 robert r. DeMarrais February 1, 2017 William S. oleson April 15, 2002

omas A. Dickerson July 26, 2018 Wayne V. B. osbourn october 17, 2002 russell M. Drumm Jr. January 16, 2016 robert r. read September 4, 2001 William J. Fager January 18, 2013 norman A. rice February 27, 2016 robert W. Fisk January 4, 1990 William B. robinson november 4, 1999 John M. Foley May 3, 2012 William e. rondeau December 5, 1977 edward T. Geyer March 9, 2015 Barry M. rosen March 20, 2009 Frederic C. Gunnill June 1, 2009 Anthony A. SantaCroce December 11, 2010 Douglas K. hale March 12, 2012 randolph e. Scott August 21, 2006 robert F. heinlein September 11, 2004 Kenneth P. Steelberg December 7, 1994 Craig W. humphrey December 28, 2012 Glenn W. Tymeson Jr. october 7, 2009 George F. Kessler Jr. December 31, 2002 Geoffrey h. Wells november 13, 2007 robert D. Kirschner July 10, 2014 Gregory J. Wentz December 6, 2017 George r. Knapp July 21, 2014 robert C. Willis April 5, 2016

James h. Wooster May 20, 2017

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