FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Building Stronger Connections Alex Karapetian ’04, president [email protected] t feels like it was just yesterday Lisa Kassel ’79, president-elect [email protected] that I was sitting on the Quad for Commencement, yet as I write this ALUMNI RELATIONS letter, I am just a few days away from Rachel Nelson Moeller ’88, executive director attending my 10-year reunion. I can [email protected] Istill remember the concurrent feelings of For a list of Alumni Council members apprehension about leaving my “home on and Alumni Relations staff, the Hill” and excitement for the journey go to alumni.lafayette.edu ahead. Reflecting on my time at Lafayette 223 Pfenning Alumni Center has reminded me how grateful I am for Easton, PA 18042-1768 the strong friendships I built with fellow (610) 330-5040 in Pa.; students, the enduring relationships I EAUX 1-800-LAFAYETTE outside Pa. formed with College faculty and staff, and C MON Fax: (610) 330-5833 the knowledge and experiences I gained, I [email protected] both inside and outside the classroom, RAND that have all had such an important CLASS NOTES Dan Edelen, editor impact on shaping the person I am today. [email protected] One of my primary goals as the newly elected president of the Alumni Association is to engage alumni in College-related activities. Each and every one of you can help shape Gayle F. Hendricks, graphic designer Lafayette’s future through your involvement and participation. Sharon Sanders, assistant editor Among the many ways you can do this are sponsoring an internship or externship for a current student, participating in alumni-sponsored events, and making a donation. It Social Media Directory for links to alumni is important that we continue to improve the percentage of alumni who give, as this has groups: https://communications.lafayette. a direct impact on our rankings. Every gift counts, regardless of the size. And Lafayette edu/social-media-directory/ enables donations to the Annual Fund to be directed toward areas or programs of the Visit www.lafayette.edu and click College that are of most importance to you, or for use on the most strategically important on “alumni” to register for special initiatives that are critical to moving our school forward. events, update your contact information, The alumni community is the backbone of Lafayette. We need you to be our join the Alumni Online Community, review benefits, find Alumni Council ambassadors. We need you to be involved. And we need you to donate. We are all members, and subscribe to the monthly different from one another, except for one thing that will always bring us together— electronic Marquis Mailer. Visit a bond that cannot be broken, but only strengthened. We are family. We are community.lafayette.edu for alumni Lafayette. It is our obligation as alumni to make our family stronger any way we can. news and photos on the class websites, Beat Lehigh! chapter websites, and to send your Compass story about an experience at Lafayette that changed your life. Alex Karapetian ’04 President UPDATE REGARDING JSTOR Thanks to Friends of Skillman Library, 28,000 alumni have free access to JSTOR, a growing digital library of back issues of more than 2,000 scholarly journals. Use your alumni network ID to access JSTOR. To COMPASS: EXPERIENCES THAT obtain an ID go to: http://help.lafayette.edu/faqs/alumni. The message from the Alumni Association in LAUNCHED LIVES Lafayette magazine (spring 2014) incorrectly attributed the donation from Arthur ’55 and Barbara Rothkopf, community.lafayette.edu/compass which was given in support of the digital archive of 80 years of Lafayette Magazine. 42 lafayette SUMMER 2014 CLASS NOTES FOR MORE He was a pioneer in the field of CLASS NEWS 1941 radioactive isotopes and served R. Sanford Fogelson, 93, died as head of radiology at Chilton 1948 For all class Feb. 14 in Venice, Fla. Sandy resided Memorial and Barnet hospitals In my previous column, I (Harvey news, photographs, in Newton, N.J., when he enrolled (N.J.). Sandy taught interns at Mt. Hunerberg) mentioned that Paul baby and wedding at Lafayette. He was a mainstay Sinai, NYC. Grassey, a former Class of ’48 announcements, of our varsity basketball team. The two recipients of Class of president, wrote It’s Character That reunion planning, During World War II, Sandy 1942 Football Scholarship Fund Counts. It’s still selling! The book is and more, go to served with the Army and was awards for 2013-14 are Anthony about six pilots he knew in World community. discharged as a first lieutenant. Baker ’15 and Michael Boles ’14. War II, each of whom displayed an lafayette.edu. He operated the family’s bakery important characteristic. Paul is Click on “classes,” and served as mayor of Newton. President: Otto Alden actively involved with the Mighty then select He retired as a probation officer Correspondent: Robert W.B. Johnston Eighth Air Corps Museum in 2000 Holly Hall St., Apt. 911 your class year. from Sussex, N.J., Probation Pooler, Ga. Department. Sons David ’72 and Houston, TX 77054 I’ve been notified that I Jeffrey ’69 are alumni. David (713) 644-4212 received a brick. It’s a product Please continue to [email protected] send updates to your informed us of this news and of Fleck Consistent Giving stated that his father was one Society, and it can gift you class correspondent of the oldest survivors of the with a brick, too, and will or to alumni@ basketball team. Jim Farrell, feature your name and class. & lafayette.edu if captain of the team during senior 1944 1945 The bricks form the pathway your class does year, lives in Connecticut. Correspondent: around Skillman Library. not have one. To The Rev. Robert G. Sandercock ’44 volunteer to serve Correspondent: Anthony F. Noto 1961 Hayes Short Lane President: Warren O. Groves as a correspondent, 3414 Drighton Court Colfax, NC 27235 Reunion Chair: William Lockett Jr. [email protected] contact the Alumni Bethlehem, PA 18020-1334 Correspondent: Harvey H. Hunerberg (610) 758-8055 Relations office. 7015 River Club Blvd. Bradenton, FL 34202 Class notes may (941) 351-0303 & be edited for 1946 1947 Fund Manager (’47): length and clarity. 1942 Dr. Sanfurd Bluestein died W. Robert Magee Sr. March 9. Sandy was Phi Beta Correspondent (’47): 1949 Deadlines Van T. Boughton Jr. Fall 2014: Aug. 8 Kappa and served in KRT, as The J.R. “Jack” Ralph’s picture books Lafayette news editor, in Little 9000 Fellowship Road #326 for children are described in a Spring 2015: Dec. 8 Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 Theatre, and played basketball and StreetInsider.com review as “vehicles Summer 2015: April 8 (908) 580-3838 Ext. 6132 tennis. He attended Yale School [email protected] of unrelated little stories, vignettes of Medicine, graduating in 1946. and observations that portray a child’s awe, dream-like wonder and simple descriptions of the world and its inhabitants. These descriptions dovetail with the author’s mission to entertain, to educate, and to attract Leroy Nunery ’77 and stimulate his young audience’s (center), founder and interest in examining dreams, principal of PlusUltré LLC fantasies and other influences in consulting and former their lives.” acting superintendent/ CEO of Philadelphia President: Harrison W. Wright school district, visited Correspondent: Open campus to speak on “Why Educational Reform Won’t Work” April 9. Before the lecture, he talked with 1950 Danialie Fertile ’16 O The Rev. Bob Hamlyn has had an VK (L-R), Dominique O ambitious and productive career. Tucker ’15, Robert Young ’14, CK Z Sixty years ago, he was ordained U and Natalie Smith ’16. CH an Episcopal priest. He received a SUMMER 2014 lafayette 43 CLASS NOTES grant to study full time for three years at a graduate institute with profIle 11 other Protestant clergy. Upon completing the program, Bob joined Westchester (N.Y.) Medical Verbyla ’06 Goes Online to Recover Resources Center as the first director of clinical pastoral education and chief Cyberspace may help solve problems of water waste. of chaplains serving the hospital, Matt Verbyla ’06, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering county home, jail, and penitentiary. In 19 years, the team trained more at University of South Florida (USF), is using social-media savvy to than 1,000 community clergy. help start the Reclaim initiative. Bob was co-founder and the first Reclaim (usf-reclaim.org) is an interdisciplinary network of president in 1964 of Foundation engineers, anthropologists, biologists, marine scientists, and for Religion and Mental Health, educators who share information about the recovery of nutrients, which served the tri-state area. The water, and energy from wastewater. Using social media to summarize foundation operated 11 community- and discuss the latest research allows anyone to interact with based pastoral counseling centers researchers to learn more about developments in the field. with a staff of more than 100 professionals. He was a charter Solutions to global problems such as drought, overpopulation, and member of American Association poverty are context sensitive, says Verbyla. “The problems cannot be of Pastoral Counselors and a four- solved by a single person or a single group working in isolation.” time delegate to International Weekly Twitter discussions hosted by USF graduate students Congresses of Pastoral Educators. center on waste renewal, such as using life-cycle thinking to Bob retired in 1991 and, a year determine appropriate ways of producing energy or nutrients. later, co-founded and was president Participants from 10 organizations in six countries and from diverse of Caribbean Ministries, which academic backgrounds join the chats.