Ora McCreary of New York City has worked at Broadridge Financial Solutions since 1999. Occasionally Ora performs with the Oratorio Society of New York. The works include Handel’s Messiah in Carnegie Hall and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Recent travels included a trip to Australia. W. Thomas Fagan, J.D., of Honolulu teaches political science as an adjunct instructor at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU). He reports being punch-drunk from grading so many essay answers. Tom comments, “If you are one of my HPU students and the grade I gave you was a ‘K,’ a ‘Q’ or a smiley face please contact me immediately.” Those of us who have endured graduate student essays can relate: Been there, earned the faculty T-shirt. In 1984 Tom joined the law firm O’Connor, Playdon, and Guben, where he is a partner. Marvin Soroos retired in 2008 as professor of international relations and global environmental politics at North Carolina State University. He divides his time between Raleigh, North Carolina, and his childhood home in Missoula, Montana. An accomplished artist, the subjects of his paintings are drawn from the Big Sky country of Montana and rural North Carolina and from his extensive travels both within the United States and abroad. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Finland and Bulgaria and at Williams College in western Massachusetts. He and Carol traveled to Spain visiting Barcelona and Madrid. Marvin reports Spain has an amazing history of artistic innovation with the likes of Goya, Picasso and Gaudi. Check out Marvin’s works: quite impressive. Gary Erickson of Sarasota, Florida, since 2002 has been with Executive Search Partners, where he serves as the managing partner. Gary recently played golf at the St. Andrews Old Course in Scotland with both his sons; a great experience, one for any golfer’s bucket list. Birthday greetings were offered by Bruce Pacht to Tom Woodruff. “You really have that Papa Hemingway thing going, don’t you, you Old Man in the Mountains! I’m glad you’re hitting this milestone nine months before me. I’ll need your experience to handle my own passage.” May you all age well! Bruce Pacht of the Rotary Club of Lebanon, New Hampshire, has been nominated to be the district governor of Rotary International in 2014-15. Since 2006 Bruce has been resident/CEO at Twin Pines Housing Trust in White River Junction, Vermont. As reunion chairman Bruce is actively putting the final touches together for the upcoming class gathering. The 45th reunion will be October 11-14. Highlights are listed on the class webpage. Let Bruce know he can count on your assistance.


—Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230-3918; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@txdirect.net