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Memorial Service Will Honor Robert Yohe '58 in Colton Chapel Saturday
Nov 13, 2009
Trustee Emeritus Robert Yohe '58 Dies
Oct 15, 2009
Former Trustee Ralph E. Ward Jr. '50 Dies
Oct 14, 2009
Hank Darlington '57 Rides Bike from California to Boston Hank Darlington '57 made the trip of a lifetime on his bike to raise money for both Lafayette and a scholarship fund. The route was a grueling one. It took Darlington to the soaring mountain heights of the Rockies and dropped him 14 feet below sea level in the Coachella Valley. It led along lonely stretches of desert in Arizona and New Mexico, and through endless fields of grain in Kansas. It journeyed past cities in Illinois and near the Great Lakes in northeastern Pennsylvania, before finally terminating at the cradle of the Revolution, in Massachusetts. From start to finish, the route covered 3,415 miles, crossed 14 state lines, and involved climbing a total of 90,043 feet over a period of 50 days.
Oct 07, 2009
Washington State Bar Awards Top Honor to Lem Howell '58 Lem Howell '58 has received the President’s Award from the Washington State Bar Association "in recognition of a career devoted to the tenacious pursuit of civil justice for the injured and the passionate protection of civil rights for all." Early in his career, the Seattle attorney won a groundbreaking case that opened construction unions to African-American workers in Washington. He won another case that established the responsibility for general contractors to ensure the safety of all workers on their construction sites. A history graduate, Howell is listed in America's Best Lawyers and as a "Super Lawyer" in Washington Law & Politics. He a founding member of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
Sep 17, 2009
Memorial Service Will Honor Life of William Lanigan ’52 Aug. 20
Aug 04, 2009
Trustee Emeritus William Lanigan ’52 Dies
Jul 21, 2009
At Age 73, He's Pedaling 3,420 Miles Across 15 States
May 12, 2009
Correspondence of Great Literary Figure Robert Heilman ’27 Published
University of Washington Press has published correspondence by the late Robert Heilman ’27, a great literary figure of the 20th century, in Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters. The book includes more than 600 exchanges with over 100 correspondents, including Saul Bellow, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart, Charles Johnson, Bernard Malamud, and William Carlos Williams. The letters follow Heilman's career from the time he was a 36-year-old member of Louisiana State University's English department, through his tenure at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1975, until a few years before his death in 2004. He received five honorary degrees, two Guggenheim fellowships, and one fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Apr 14, 2009
Charley Rose ’58 Learns, Helps Others in World Travels
After retiring at age 55 from Scott Paper Company, where he was vice president and mill manager, Charley Rose '58 searched for overseas work. He joined International Executive Service Corporation and found an opportunity to serve as a business consultant in Cairo, Egypt. Armed with several contacts, Rose began doing work with an Egyptian-owned chain of fast food restaurants and an Egyptian-owned textile company as an independent consultant in 1999. This fall, he will make his 25th trip to Cairo to help the companies implement effective business strategies. "I know I have positively impacted people’s businesses and personal lives; it's a wonderful reward to me and the reason I continue to work to make a difference,” he says.
Mar 31, 2009
Charley Rose ’58 Leads Reversal of Fortunes for Egyptian Companies
Mar 31, 2009
Bill Mulligan ’52 Finds Excitement in Harness Racing
Bill Mulligan '52 knows a fine horse when he sees it. Spellbound Hanover, a filly he purchased for only $35,000, later returned nearly a million dollars in winnings in her career. As a breeder, Mulligan works with just under three dozen mares and foals. He also competes as a harness racer through the Delvin Miller Amateur Driving Association. In 2005, he finished second in total race points for the season. Driving his own horse, Sophia Let’s Go, he won the prestigious amateur race at The Meadowlands during the run-up to the Hambletonian. In 100 races against pros and amateurs, Mulligan’s notched more than 15 wins, with numerous places and shows. “That’s what makes this exciting and keeps me going after all these years,” he says.
Jul 03, 2008
Harmon Brown ’52 Blazes Trails in Athletics as Researcher and Team USA Coach
Harmon Brown '52 coached nine USA track and field teams, including two Olympic and two Pan-Am teams. He served on the Medical and Anti-Doping Commission of the International Association of Athletics Federations. "Over the last fifteen years, I’ve set up teaching programs in sports medicine for track and field doctors in Third World countries," a work that’s taken him around the globe, he says. He did pioneering research on the effects of strenuous exercise on the female body to demonstrate its performance capabilities. Since 1983, he has chaired the Sports Medicine & Sports Science Committee for the national governing body of track and field. In August 2007, he received the IAAF Veterans’ Pin for his 24 years of service to international track and field.
Jun 19, 2008
A Half-Century Later, Second Leopard is Born For its senior class gift, the Class of 1958 wanted to give Lafayette something different than the outdoor bulletin boards and benches that classes had donated in the past. A bronze leopard was proudly installed on the hill leading down to Fisher Field in front of what is now Oechsle Hall. For its 50th Reunion gift, the class decided it was only fitting to give Lafayette another leopard. Officers enlisted the help of Michiko Okaya, director of Lafayette art galleries. They decided to make a copy of the original and commissioned Bedi Makky in Brooklyn, N.Y., the same foundry that created the original leopard 50 years ago. The second leopard clawed its way onto campus at the end of March, ready to be unveiled at Reunion.
Jun 03, 2008
President Emeritus Rothkopf Honored for Service to Higher Education
President Emeritus Arthur J. Rothkopf '55 is the 2008 recipient of the Francis J. Michelini Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education from AICUP, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania. Rothkopf is past chair and vice chair of AICUP’s board of directors. He is is senior vice president and counselor to the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. His responsibilities include leadership of the chamber's Education and Workforce initiative, including the nonprofit Institute for a Competitive Workforce. In addition, he is responsible for supervising the National Chamber Foundation, a nonprofit public policy think tank affiliated with the Chamber.
Harvard Business School Notes Successes of Bryan Satterlee '56
When people at IBM, then in its mainframe computer heyday, discovered that Bryan Satterlee ’56 wanted to leave the company after ten years, they thought he’d lost his mind. He founded a company that pioneered the leasing of IBM 360 Series mainframes, a radical idea at the time. That market sense proved canny when he founded his next company, maker of the first all-electronic business phone system. In light of Satterlee’s success, Harvard Business School wrote a case study on his ventures to discuss how a start-up company can compete against large competitors like AT&T and IBM. Satterlee co-founded Northeast Ventures in 1989, making minority investments in 45 high-tech ventures, nearly all surviving the Internet bubble of the early 2000s.
May 05, 2008
Fred Gehle ’55 Leads Group of 50 volunteers in Veterans History Project
Fred Gehle ’55 is director of the Veterans History Project in the Augusta, Ga., and Aiken, S.C., area. Sanctioned by Congress in 2000, the project collects video and audio recordings of wartime tales of U.S. veterans. Gehle leads a crew of about 50 volunteers. "I was eight years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. From that point on until the Japanese surrendered, I followed the war," he recalls. His family housed a couple Royal Air Force pilots temporarily. “I brought these two Brits to school as part of show and tell.” Collecting newspaper articles from those times, from D-Day to V-J Day, he turned his schoolboy interest into “a lifelong passion,” eventually amassing about 1,500 books on WWII.
May 02, 2008
Tom Neff '59 Earns Reputation as Nation’s Top Executive Search Professional
Conventional wisdom claims that CEOs wield the power in the business world. However, the truly wise pay attention to those behind the boardroom curtain, such as Tom Neff ’59. His discreet orchestrations as the top executive search professional in the country ensure that corporations seat the right CEO in the top-floor office. With more than 200 CEO and 500 board member searches in his nearly 32 years with Spencer Stuart, Neff continues to live up to his billing by The Wall Street Journal as “the No. 1 brand name in CEO searches.” The former Lafayette trustee also is coauthor of Lessons from the Top: The Search for America’s Best Business Leaders (1999) and You’re in Charge—Now What? (2005).
Apr 28, 2008
“Leopard Class” Will Celebrate 50th Reunion June 5-8
For the Class of 1958 at this year's Reunion, highlights will include a barbecue at the new Leopard statue, a private tour of the Bourger Varsity Football House with head football coach Frank Tavani, dinner at Chateau Chavaniac with College archivist Diane Windham Shaw, and a presentation by Michiko Okaya, director of the Williams Center for the Arts gallery, on the creation of the new statue. For Bill Harding ’58, this will be his first time attending Reunion. “I wouldn’t be where I am today without my experience on the Hill,” he says. “I’m looking forward to renewing old acquaintances, remembering the good times past, and feeling again the pride in what Lafayette has become and where we are going.”
Mar 18, 2008
‘An Especially Wonderful Experience’
Class Reunion Chair H. David Moore Jr. '53 is glad the class has many supportive people willing to help contact friends and classmates and encourage them to attend Reunion. "When you reach a certain time in your life, it’s an especially wonderful experience to get together and appreciate [each other] and talk about what the College is doing today and our experiences," he says. “It’s easy to remember those experiences when you’re back on campus.” While some events are still in the works, alumni can look forward to a class dinner on Saturday evening at Chateau Chavaniac. "I care a great deal about the College, the Class of 1953, and the experience I had at Lafayette. And even at 76, it really hasn’t diminished," says Moore.
Mar 14, 2008
