Class Note 1979
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Before we get to the news let’s give a round of snaps for Jim “Wazoo” Wasz, our outgoing class president, and roll out the red carpet for Mark “Wink” Winkler, our new commander-in-chief. September 2014 marked the third time in Wazoo’s five-year term and a record sixth time overall that our class was recognized as Class of the Year! Thank you all for helping to make this possible.
Paul “Bear” Berryman is an engineer at Science Applications International Corp., working on Navy mine warfare systems. After graduation Paul laid low for a couple of years in Berkeley, California. He then went through the U.S. Navy’s officer candidate school and started driving cruisers and destroyers for a living while also earning a master’s in physical oceanography and meteorology. Paul says, “I’m enjoying life in northern Virginia with my wife, Laurie, and my precocious daughter, Elena (15), who loves horses, gadgets and oriental noodles. I’m in regular touch with Bill Fleming and Steve Koch ’77, with whom I get away for an annual men’s ski weekend (i.e., nonstop tequila-poker party) at Mammoth Mountain.”
Doug Furth writes, “After practicing law for 32 years I left legal practice to attend Yale Divinity School and just finished an amazing first year. My goal is to be one of the oldest individuals to get a doctorate in early Christian history. The demands of intensive biblical Greek caused me to miss our 35th reunion, sadly. Fortunately, I passed and can now watch baseball for the rest of the summer. The last weekday contest I recall watching on television was in the Beta ‘library’ when I cut class and was rewarded with the famous Bucky Dent Yankees-Red Sox game! Summer off will also enable me to visit my oldest son in California and then take my youngest on a bike trip in England. I live in Chappaqua, New York, and commute to New Haven, Connecticut, which, to my surprise, is shorter than my old commute to midtown Manhattan. I have five kids, including one in high school and one now living at home while starting her first post-collegiate job.”
Congratulations to Bob Glicini and his wife, Paula, who celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary in August. “After finishing my general surgery residency,” says Bob, “I worked for 19 years at Geisinger Health Systems before joining a local Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, community hospital seven and a half years ago. My son, Michael (26), and I climbed Mount Katahdin during reunion weekend—up the Cathedral Trail, across Knife Edge and down Dudley Trail. Naturally we stopped at a couple of Maine brewing companies, as well as L.L. Bean, along the way. I still enjoy working outdoors and brewing homemade beer; now I’m trying to combine the two and grow my own hops! Finally, it was great catching up with Scott Filler and his wife, Bett, in L.A. last year.”
We hope everyone had a great summer. Are you ready for fall football? Here’s to head coach Buddy Teevens and the Big Green gridders!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu
Paul “Bear” Berryman is an engineer at Science Applications International Corp., working on Navy mine warfare systems. After graduation Paul laid low for a couple of years in Berkeley, California. He then went through the U.S. Navy’s officer candidate school and started driving cruisers and destroyers for a living while also earning a master’s in physical oceanography and meteorology. Paul says, “I’m enjoying life in northern Virginia with my wife, Laurie, and my precocious daughter, Elena (15), who loves horses, gadgets and oriental noodles. I’m in regular touch with Bill Fleming and Steve Koch ’77, with whom I get away for an annual men’s ski weekend (i.e., nonstop tequila-poker party) at Mammoth Mountain.”
Doug Furth writes, “After practicing law for 32 years I left legal practice to attend Yale Divinity School and just finished an amazing first year. My goal is to be one of the oldest individuals to get a doctorate in early Christian history. The demands of intensive biblical Greek caused me to miss our 35th reunion, sadly. Fortunately, I passed and can now watch baseball for the rest of the summer. The last weekday contest I recall watching on television was in the Beta ‘library’ when I cut class and was rewarded with the famous Bucky Dent Yankees-Red Sox game! Summer off will also enable me to visit my oldest son in California and then take my youngest on a bike trip in England. I live in Chappaqua, New York, and commute to New Haven, Connecticut, which, to my surprise, is shorter than my old commute to midtown Manhattan. I have five kids, including one in high school and one now living at home while starting her first post-collegiate job.”
Congratulations to Bob Glicini and his wife, Paula, who celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary in August. “After finishing my general surgery residency,” says Bob, “I worked for 19 years at Geisinger Health Systems before joining a local Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, community hospital seven and a half years ago. My son, Michael (26), and I climbed Mount Katahdin during reunion weekend—up the Cathedral Trail, across Knife Edge and down Dudley Trail. Naturally we stopped at a couple of Maine brewing companies, as well as L.L. Bean, along the way. I still enjoy working outdoors and brewing homemade beer; now I’m trying to combine the two and grow my own hops! Finally, it was great catching up with Scott Filler and his wife, Bett, in L.A. last year.”
We hope everyone had a great summer. Are you ready for fall football? Here’s to head coach Buddy Teevens and the Big Green gridders!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu