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1959
Frank Martintmartin@nycap.rr.com
 
David M. Fahey
recently retiredater 46 years as a history proessor,the last 40 o them spent at MiamiUniversity in Ohio. He taught Brit-ish and World History. He authoredor edited a hal dozen books, moston temperance and drink in Britainor the United States. He has severalother books under contract or hisretirement years. His wie, MaryFuller, is an associate proessor o English at Miami University, andthe director o the Ohio WritingProject. Their daughter, Juliana(Jay) Fuller, recently graduatedsumma cum laude at the Universityo North Carolina at Asheville andsoon will begin graduate work insociology at Ohio State.At our 50th class reunion week-end,
Francis (Fran) Martin
wasawarded the Reverend BenjaminKuhn, O.F.M., Distinguished Alum-ni Award or specic contributionsto improve the Siena community.Our class reunion was held onFriday, June 5, 2009, and was at-tended by 48 o our classmates andtheir guests at a wonderul dinner inSiena’s newest house at 33 FiddlersLane. We succeeded in raising over$25,000 to establish a scholar-ship rom our class. Several o ourclassmates attended the Saturdaymorning President’s Circle Cham-pagne Brunch and DistinguishedAlumni Awards Ceremony. Laterin the aternoon, we attended theAlumni Memorial Mass, ater whicha hard core group went to dinner atthe Century House to conclude theweekend on a high note.We also discovered that our classhas two “Santa Claus” representa-tives who bring cheer and happinessto many children. Keep up the goodwork,
Dick Kane
and
Ron Lather
.
1962
 
Ken Deitcherdukaytravel@att.net 
1965
 Jack Mulvey, Jr.jkmulvey@netscape.com
1967
Rick Spatarorspataro001@twcny.rr.com61 State Street Malone, NY 12953518-483-3566
1968
Bill McGoldrickbmcgoldrick@wash-mcg.com
1971
Ater 37 years, 33,000+ classes,over 950 women’s varsity sotballand basketball games coached, andnot one sick day,
Rich Pepe
’71retired rom teaching English andcoaching at Schalmont High Schoolin Rotterdam, N.Y. this June. InSeptember he will join the sta atHamilton-Fulton-MontgomeryBOCES near Johnstown N.Y.,where he will put all o his experi-ence to good use as an instructorin their “Careers in Education”program. In an interesting rolereversal, his new boss will be JayDeTraglia ’93 who was his Sienastudent teacher years ago, provingthat networking is not just orbusiness majors.
1972
 Jack Callahan Jackcallahan33@gmail.com
1973
Brian Valentine202-586-9741bgvalentine@verizon.net 
Greetings to all Siena’s commu-nity—aculty, students, alumni,amily, and riends! And greetingsto my ellow Siena College 1973classmates—I hope everyone hada wonderul summer. Did anyonehave a memorable vacation lastsummer? Please write to me, andtell us about it!Among all the wonderul achieve-ments o the Class o 1973, I ampleased to announce the retiremento one o our Siena 1973 classmatesrom the FBI:Ater almost 29 years with theFBI, ormer Bayonne, N.J. resident,Special Agent
Peter D. Yachmetz
 (B.S. Finance) retired on October31, 2008. Upon graduation romSiena, Peter was recruited by theChase Manhattan Corporation andaccepted a position with the Corpo-rate Internal Audit Sta. Over thenext three years, Peter rose to theposition o senior auditor and wasresponsible or the periodic audito the departments within ChaseManhattan Corporation or ac-counting procedures and compliancewith banking regulations. Peter wasappointed by the Director o theFBI as a special agent o the FederalBureau o Investigation (FBI) on January 21, 1980. Peter held numer-ous special agent and supervisorypositions with the FBI throughouthis distinguished law enorcementcareer. Peter’s special expertise incounter-terrorism, hostage negotia-tion, and surveillance led him onnumerous domestic and interna-tional assignments, including the USEmbassies o Kuwait, the Bahamas,and the UK. Peter’s expertise helpedto ree a U.S. kidnapping hostagein Bogotá, Colombia. Since 2002,Peter’s nal assignment with the FBIwas lead criminal investigator or theKennedy Space Center, as membero a resident FBI agency in Tampa,Florida. Peter’s extraordinary anddistinguished law enorcementcareer was recognized at a receptionheld in his honor on October 31,2008, at the DubsDread CountryClub in Orlando and was attendedby amily members, riends & col-leagues rom the Tampa Divisiono the FBI, FBI Headquarters,United States Attorneys OceMiddle District o Florida, NationalAeronautics & Space Administra-tion (NASA), United States SecretService, U.S. Department o State,The Florida Department o LawEnorcement, County Sheri ocesand local police departments. Peteris married to Patricia A. Yachmetz(Prusek), also ormerly o Bayonne.They have 2 sons.So what are your plans now,Peter? Have any good retirementadvice or the rest o us?
1975
 Janet Gutowski Halljanet.hall@wku.edu
 
Lynn Rondeau
’s March 2009brush with kidney cancer was theimpetus or a ew ’75ers to meet inAlbany in June, and to tag alongwith the class o ’74 as they cel-ebrated their 35th reunion (ours isnext year, but more about that later).I joined Lynn (who’s doing ne),
 Julianne Martorana/Grennen,Marcia Cappuccilli
and PeggyNaughton Marshall (OK, she’sactually class o ’76) or an outdoordinner on Saturday night, where we
 Janice Goca, Assistant Director o Alumni Relations and Victoria Abdulla ’07, Development Assistant Please submit all o your Class Notes inormation to your Class Coordinator, or i there is no coordinatorlisted or your class, please send all inormation to alumni@siena.edu or posting in the magazine.
 clas note 
 A L U M N I
Update us!
 Want to stay connected and well-inormed about thegoings-on at Siena? Make sureto update the Alumni RelationsOfce with your current con-tact inormation! I you haven’t already, send your current address, phone number, ande-mail to alumni@siena.edutoday!
NEWSMAKER
Rich Pepe ’71
 Joins the sta at Hamilton-Fulton-MontgomeryBOCES
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reminisced—without censors—inront o Jule’s daughter Katie (’10).Later, we went to the ’74 dinner,where we ound President
KevinMullen
entertaining the gang. Bythe way, please keep Fr. Kevinin your prayers, as he has a hipreplacement scheduled or July.This might be the beginning o hisSix Jillion Dollar Man makeover—allowing or infation. I’ll keep youposted.Thanks to
Ellen Beberwyk/Morgan
’s proud sister, I have muchto share about Ellen. Ater graduat-ing with a B.S. in chemistry, Ellenreceived an M.S. in engineeringmanagement/statistics rom RPI.She started her career working indata analysis/management in thepharmaceutical industry. In 1995she became a co-ounder o Synter-act, a ull service contract researchorganization in Carlsbad, Cali.As CEO and President, Ellen es-tablished the company’s businessstrategy, which ocuses on clinicaltrials, data management, statisticsand medical writing, as well as FDAsubmissions or the medical device,biotechnology and pharmaceuticalindustries. In addition to multipleawards in her eld, Ellen receivedthe 2008 Athena Pinnacle Award,which recognizes organizationsthat, through the development andpromotion o skilled and talentedwomen, have had a signicantimpact in the technology, lie scienceand healthcare sectors in the SanDiego area. She was a nalist or theErnst & Young Entrepreneur o theYear Award in 2006, and semi-nal-ist again in 2008. Ellen lives in SanClemente, Cali. with her husband, Jim Mossler, and daughter, Kara.Her son Brian is a graduate studentat UC Davis. Read more aboutEllen’s company at http://www.synteract.com/about/About.aspx.Thanks to Facebook, I discoveredthat
Greg Bell
is married with twochildren—a 16-year old daughterand a 14-year old son. He has o-cially qualied or sainthood as aspecial-ed teacher in Albany or thepast 30 years. He is also the ownero Guthrie/Bell Productions, aconcert promotion company special-izing in jam bands and roots rockconcerts at nightclubs, theatres andarenas. He’s looking orward to ourreunion next year, and is already onthe committee. Since he was also atthe ’74 reunion, I got to hug him inperson.Speaking o Facebook, you cannd me under janet.hall@wku.edui you’d like to say hello or send anupdate. Please be advised that thelag time or the Alumni News is along one, so make sure you checktwo issues beore you give up onseeing your stu in print. Mean-while, enjoy your all and keep intouch. It won’t be long beore weare all together again on anotherspring day at our 35th reunion.
1977
Linda Fitzsimmonslftzsimmons@hvc.rr.com
1979
Sue Reilly/HayesCLIFTON522@aol.com522 Chili-Riga Town Line RoadChurchville, NY 14428585-889-2072
Well, it’s hard to believe thatour much-anticipated 30-yearreunion has come and gone, butmany wonderul memories remain.I think I have enough updates onclassmates to ll up two or threecolumns, but I’d like to start witha ew heartelt thank yous…to
Dave Smith
, who arranged or thestunning on-campus locale or ourgathering (the mansion and gardens,dubbed 33 Fiddlers, also housesDave’s oce…a beautiul place tocome to work every day althoughhe insists he DOES NOT use thesteam room and sunken tub in his“executive washroom”!)…to MaggieSimone (wie o 
Ralph Simone
)who volunteered to compile all ouravorite Siena-era tunes (Maggietold me she already had most o therequested music on her iPod. Oneo her brothers played percussionwith rocker Todd Rundgren, andshe’s been a huge an o ’70s musicever since)…to
Michele Williams/Brennan
, who combined photosrom classmates with yearbookand Alumni Oce pictures to puttogether a stunning PowerPointpresentation that entertained usall evening, punctuated with a ewgroans and laughs at hairstyles andwardrobe items!As we enjoyed each other’scompany at the reunion, prom-ises were made to do a better jobo staying in touch. One groupo classmates has perected thatart.
Terri Dupre/Sleasman, JaneBarnes/Casale, Mollie Austin/Bell
,and
Karen Beha/Wentworth
, allo whom live in the Capital Districtarea, have gone out or a Sundaynight girls’ dinner every month ortwo or the past 30 years! They saidit sometimes takes them an entiretwo months to coordinate amilycalendars and pick a ree night. Inaddition, once or twice a year, theydo a road trip to Ipswich, Mas-sachusetts or an overnight withtheir close riend and 1S Hennepinwingmate
Diane Tower/Fitzgerald
.Terri and Diane carry the reunitingeven urther…both spent a semesterabroad in Denmark while at Siena.Every year since graduation theyhave gotten together in Chicago ornorthern New Jersey with the othertwo US riends who they stayedwith while in Denmark!Distance didn’t seem to stop’79ers rom getting to AlumniWeekend.
Greg Garvin
came romHouston, Texas where he relocateda year or two ago. He reports thathe loves the heat and is very happywith his new community.
WilmaKahler/Wells
travelled rom anothersunny locale, Phoenix, Ariz. She’staking a deep breath, preparing orthe adventure o having THREEkids in college next year. I enjoyedtalking to Wilma about how musicalher amily is…all her kids play (andactually practiced over the years!)instruments, and Wilma hersel hasbeen known to accompany themon her clarinet at holiday con-certs at church.
Ed Frieberg
camerom New Orleans where he’s thepediatric critical care chie at TulaneUniversity and Medical Center.When I googled Ed post-reunionto get his title, I learned that he wasnamed one o the top doctors in hisspecialty in New Orleans, and inLouisiana by regional publications.Congrats and keep up the goodwork, Ed! 
Len Shustack
wasted no timending me during the reunion cock-tail hour to report that his gol our-some (
Len, Lee Borko, J.D. Strong
,and
Dan O’Connell
’80) succeededin dethroning the 13-year reigningchampions at the Alumni WeekendGol Tournament at Briar Creek.The group did their ritual breakastat the Wol Road Diner, ollowed bya pre-tourney toast o bloody marysthat Dan whipped up rom his cartrunk bar. Len comments, “I thinkthat might have been the dierence,because once we got started we wereloose and hot, birdying two o ourrst three holes…and we just keptplaying like that.” They nished thescramble ormat 13 under par andwon by one stroke! Len also playedin the Saints Alive Mid-Hudson gol tourney, a undraiser or Siena ath-letics, back in May. He was joinedthere by ’79ers
 John Stubenrauch, J.D. Strong
, and
Brian Zwilling
.Congratulations to our classmate
Dave Crandall
, who was honored atFr. Kevin Mullen’s President’s Cir-cle/Distinguished Alumni Awardsbrunch on Saturday. He received theDr. Egon Plager Award or Humani-tarian Eort, or all the work he hasdone over the past 20+ years withthe creation and sustaining o theDonna Murray/Crandall Founda-tion (
Donna Murray/Crandall
is adeceased member o our class o ’79)to help those with Cystic Fibrosis(see story in another section o thismagazine). Dave, we’re inspiredby how you turned your personaltragedy into an opportunity to assistmany others in a meaningul way.Oops, just noticed that I’m wayover the word limit or my columnand I still have loads o tales let totell. To be continued…and please,please don’t stop sending me scoops.Summer vacations, kids’ accomplish-ments, get-togethers with otheralumni…keep ‘em coming.
1980
Diane DeSilvaDiane0429@gmail.com
Greetings, Class o ’80!I am now local (Cliton Park),and willing to keep everyoneaware o just how much we haveall accomplished! I became agrandmother to Ella Lynn Granton March 8, 2009.
 Joyce Miller
 and
Paul McLean
worked togetheras student assistants at the Sienalibrary more than 30 years ago.They’re again working togetherat a college library: this time, atAdirondack Community Collegein Queensbury, N.Y.! Joyce is aproessor o library science andhas been ACC’s reerence andinstruction librarian since 1995. Paul
NEWSMAKERS
Lee “Long Ball” Borko ’79, Dan O’Connell ’80, Len Shustack ’79and J.D. Strong ’79
Alumni Weekend Gol Tournament winners
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 joined the administration in 2008, asthe coordinator o distance learning.Their oces are next door to eachother. Paul has been known toregale Joyce with classic jokes thatFather Mackin used to tell. Pleasesend me your news at diane0429@gmail.com and I will be sure toupdate everyone in uture issues!
1982
Bob YoungRYoung60@aol.com
As Class Coordinator, I have along way to go to live up to the fowo inormation that Elvira (Classo ’83) supplies with each update. Ihad considered creating a ctitiousupdate to generate some response,but decided to keep to a ew simpleacts, and ask all reading this to sendme an update or the next issue.A ew items I can oer to get theball rolling: my oldest son, Robert,graduated rom NYU this year asa recording engineer and musi-cian, and my second oldest, Jerey,graduated high school this June andwill be entering the reshman classat Siena in the all. Last weekend,I attended one o the state o Connecticut’s high school lacrossechampionship games or FaireldPrep where Brendan, second oldesto 
Mike and Bettianne Baldwin
,scored two goals in their ourthstate championship in as manyyears. He will be attending HolyCross in the all.I hope that this brie update getssome emails generated or the nextissue, and I look orward to hearingrom many!
1983
Elvira Altimari-Jaeger60 Wyatt RdGarden City, NY 11530eaj6@optonline.net 
Hi all. A major congrats goesout to
Ginny Darrow
. Ginnyreceived the Reverend BenjaminKuhn, O.F.M. Award at Reunionon June 6, 2009. The award is or“specic contributions to improvethe Siena Community.” Thank yourom all your classmates, Ginny, orsharing your time and treasure withour beloved alma mater. A specialthank you to all o you who sentcongratulations e-mails to Ginny.All o the e-mails were put togetherin a scrap book and presented toGinny at the President’s Brunch.She loved the book and was touchedby your thoughtulness.I heard rom shout-out
StanPingelski
, and wie SheilaCoughlin ’85, who were disap-pointed that they couldn’t makeour 25th reunion last year. Theireldest daughter was graduating romhigh school that weekend. Stan hasbeen working at Campbell SoupCompany as the director o IT SalesSystems or 24 years. His tenureincluded multiple stops in a varietyo eld sales roles beore moving tocorporate headquarters, and spend-ing the last 10 years in Camden, N.J.Sheila and Stan will be married 24years this all and have 3 children:Lauren, 18, will be a sophomore atSt. Bonaventure; Michael, 14; andHannah, 13. They currently live inMedord, N.J., ater stops in Bing-hamton, N.Y., Schenectady, N.Y.,and Croton, Md. Stan said he wasnostalgic or his TeePee Rowdiesdays as he watched Siena in theNCAA Tourney this winter.I have a special invitation toanyone in our class who wants to bekept in the loop. An idea has beenhatched by a classmate in “the Bu”(you can all guess who). The ideacenters on our “50th” year with abirthday bash to celebrate a hal cen-tury on earth, and a great excuse toget together beore our 30th reunionin 2013. We are still in the very inantstages o planning and would liketo have input. A committee is beingormed, so please send an e-mail i you want to be in on the planning o this “original” event.Unortunately I have some verysad news to report. Our riend andclassmate
Don Schneider
passedaway in March. Don will be missed.I know I will always remember hissharp wit and his inectious laugh.Shout-outs go to:
Rob Karath,Maureen Mc Cormick, AnthonyVettoretti
, and
Virginia Smith
.Where are you and what have youbeen up to?
1984
Lisa San Fratello/McCutcheon305 The ParkwayIthaca, NY 14853mcclisa@yahoo.com
1985
Catherine & Ron Bjorklundbjork90@comcast.net 14 Stevens LaneTabernacle, NJ 08088-9744
 
Ram Verma
is a daddy! EdwinGayumba Johnson was born onFebruary 10, 2009 in Morrisville, Vt.to Ram Gayumba Verma and JennyMarie Johnson. He was 8 pounds,9 ounces and 21.5 inches long.Congratulations Ram and Jenny!The Carrier Dome in Syracuseunknowingly played host to a miniSiena reunion in May. Alumni gath-ered to watch Siena men’s lacrosseplay Syracuse in the rst roundo the NCAA tournament. It wasSiena’s rst ever appearance. Inattendance were 1985 alumni
Pauland MaryBeth Snien/Finnerty,Kevin and Deb Ramski/Coman, Mark Stiner, SeanStack, Dom Sabatino, Pat Britt
 along with Bill Morgan ’84 andMatt Morgan ’08. 
Save the Date!
Next June 4–6,2010 is our 25th Reunion week-end. Mark your calendars now toattend this un event. For those o you who attended the 20th, youwill remember the Class o 1985knows how to throw a party! Weare starting to plan now, so i youhave any ideas, send them alongto bjork90@comcast.net or tomnnerty@siena.edu. Also, onceagain, we would like to have aphoto presentation (not sure o the ormat yet) so i you have anyideas or pictures, send them tobjork90@comcast.net. All photosmust be scanned and sent viaemail or on a CD/DVD (to Ron& Cathy). I you don’t know howto scan your old photos, ask yourkids…they will do it or you…seriously.We only have 269 valid emailaddresses or our class. Updateswould be great! Updated contactino can be sent to
MarybethFinnerty
’s attention at mnner-ty@siena.edu or 518-782-6818.MB set up a Facebook group, soanyone on Facebook can join the“Siena Class o ’85 25th ReunionGroup” to participate, and keepup to date as we plan. We are alsolooking or committee members.Anyone interested? Let us know!
1987
 
Gerry McAndrewGeraldine.m.candrew@comcast.net 
 
Donna Neary/Wang
has abusy lie! During the day, Donnais an RN/investigator or the NYSDepartment o Health. Donnacontinues to be active in theArmy Reserves, and is LieutenantColonel. She was selected to serveas the Equal Opportunity Advi-sor or the 98th Division (ArmyReserve—Rochester, N.Y.), com-pleting the Reserve ComponentsEqual Opportunity Advisor’sCourse at the Deense EqualOpportunity Management Insti-tute in Florida; graduating on theCommandant’s List in June 2008.In her ree time, Donna teachesher son Stephen how to drive.I also heard that
Kevin Grace
 recently received the Volunteero the Year Award rom HOBY(Hugh O’Brian Youth Leader-ship). Kevin was complimentedor being a driving orce o optimism,commitment, and leadership. Heworks to recruit and mentor vol-unteers, and plans logistics at localseminars. It is no surprise that Kevinis described as a “riend and educatorto all o us when we least expect it butneed it the most,” and he has a uniqueability to lead by bringing out the bestin others. Congratulations, Kevin!!!!I you have not joined Facebook,think about it. I joined about a yearago and ound that a number o class-mates are on there—it has been unreconnecting. Don’t be shy, keep thoseclass notes coming.
1988
 
Paula CacossaPc888@comcast.net 
Hi Class o 1988!
Phil Hoshue
wrote, “It seems likeyesterday I was having chicken wingsat the Ratskellar or trying to get intothe “21 Club” by sneaking by Mrs. Vwith a ake ID.” Phil married a SienaAlumna in 1996—
 Julia Goldin
’91.They have one daughter, Siena, 9. Theylive in Bradenton, Fla. where Phil hasa laboratory supply and equipmentcompany. Business is great and thewater is ne. I there are any Sienaalumni in the Tampa Bay area—givePhil a shout at philius01@yahoo.com.
Karen Weaver/Novelli
is a teachero physics, chemistry, biology andecology. She is now living in Croton-on-Hudson in N.Y. with her two sons Johnny, 16, and Michael, 15. 
Rachel Sahut/Parent
is happilymarried and living in Boise, Idaho. Sheworks at Saint Alphonsus, a TrinityHealth hospital, as an IT project man-ager. Her oldest daughter, Allison, isentering her junior year at Universityo Portland. Aaron, who just turned18, reports to recruit training or theUSMC in early July. Nicholas willenter 7th grade and Sean will be in 3rdgrade in the all. They enjoy skiing,biking, hiking, tennis, and traveling.She wrote, “It has been a blessing toprovide Catholic education or ourchildren, which I believe Siena nur-tured in me. We very much enjoy ourspiritual lie, and I am so grateul to theFranciscans and Siena’s education. Itis because o Siena, and especially theFranciscans, that I have such blessingsin my lie—truly, the grace o God!” 
MaryBeth Mc Cusker
is living abusy lie in Southbury, Conn. Shereceived her M.B.A. rom FordhamUniversity in 2000. She has beenmarried since 2001 with 3 kids (twostep daughters)—Natalie, Danielleand Madison. Her oldest daughter isgoing to University o Delaware inSeptember and youngest daughter is just nishing rst grade. She has beenworking or IBM or the past 12 years
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