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.