River Campus Undergraduate: 1960s

1960

Tim Schum sends an update: He concluded a seven-year research project this fall when Binghamton University published From Colonials to Bearcats: A History of Binghamton University Athletics, 1946–2006, a book that chronicles the transformation of the Binghamton athletic program over the course of its 60-year history. After earning his M.A. in education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1961, Tim taught history at West Irondequoit (N.Y.) High School before joining the then Harpur College faculty in 1963. A member of the physical education department, he served as Binghamton’s men’s soccer coach for 29 seasons and for 10 years was an associate athletics director. Tim also served as editor of the 24,000-member National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s magazine Soccer Journal for 22 years, published a history of the NSCAA in 1992, authored Coaching Soccer in 1996, and served as editor of The Soccer Coaching Bible in 2004. While officially retired as a full professor from Binghamton in 2002, he has remained on the staff while overseeing the University’s role in hosting New York’s Empire State Games in 2004 and in 2008.

1962

Jane Steinhilper Krebs sends a report from a reunion last fall that brought together members of the Class of 1962 and the Class of 1961, “most of whom spent 1958–59 on Hollister 4 and the rest of their time on Morgan 6, along with two carefully selected husbands who also graduated from the University.” The group gathered at the home of Stefan ’59 and Jane Rearick Shoup ’62 near Big Falls, Wis. Jane Krebs, who is retired from New York State, where she was a fiscal analyst and human resources manager, offers an update on the group: Before retiring Jane Shoup was a member of the biological sciences faculty at Purdue University at Calumet while Stefan worked for Inland Steel. Jane continues to hold an undergraduate science course on environmental issues and concepts for Purdue students on their property. Sondra Rhodes Rice ’62 became an adjunct professor at Santa Barbara City College after retiring as an IBM chemist and engineering manager. Joan Cook Chesney ’62 is the director of the academic program office at St. Jude Children’s Hospital and is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where her husband, Russell ’67M (MD), is the Le Bonheur Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and a professor of molecular science. Mary Jones Curran ’61 lives in Clifton Park, N.Y. Estella Loomis Lauter ’61, ’66 (PhD) is a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh; Charles Lauter ’60, ’62W (MA) is retired from Lawrence University. Jane notes: “Sandy and the Janes were freshmen on Hollister 4, where Estella and Mary were the sophomore counselors. Joan joined us the following year on Morgan 6.” Among the reunion highlights, Jane writes, were “evenings of sparkling and insightful conversation during which the world’s problems were solved, even if we didn’t all have the same solution. It was like the best of life at the University, minus looming papers or tests, and with the addition of grandchildren’s pictures!” After the reunion, the Lauters, Mary Curran, and Barbara Stege Dewey ’61W—“the other sophomore counselor on Hollister 4”—spent a few more days together at the Lauters’ home in Fish Creek, Wis. Barbara is a consultant for the Waldorf School Without Walls and lives in Bowerston, Ohio.

1963

Dorothea de Zafra Atwell sends a photo showing her and former roommate Phyllis Lyons ’64 celebrating their “Welcome to Medicare” birthday year together with two friends at Phyllis’s home in Evanston, Ill., on July 4, 2007. The four friends, who call themselves “the Sisterhood,” gather every five years for a mutual birthday celebration. Dorothea has retired from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Phyllis is an associate professor at Northwestern University.

1964

Phyllis Lyons (see ’63).

1965

Dana Lim vanderHeyden was awarded an honorary degree at the Middlebury College commencement ceremonies in May 2007, as was her husband, Marc vanderHeyden, who retired in July after 11 years as president of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. The photo shows Dana with the ceremony’s main speaker, former president Bill Clinton.

1967

Kenneth Small writes that he was recognized with the 2007 Faculty Achievement Award from the University of California at Irvine. A year ago, Ken retired from the university after 22 years as a professor in the economics department, and shortly after was inducted as a fellow of the Regional Science Association International. He notes that he and Adair Bowman Small ’68N became proud grandparents in February.

1969

Kimiko Fukushima Gosney sends a photo taken a few miles from her home and writes, “Congratulations to all you serious folks out there. Instead, I’m winding down and I’ve moved to Bethel, Alaska, where I’m an analyst in the technology department of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. I’m having a wonderful time out in the bush country. We play tourist in the usual spots sometimes, too, but home is better.” . . . Janice Hundley Young-Gonzalez W writes that she retired from the Montgomery County, Md., school system after teaching kindergarten for 32 years—28 of them at the same school. She writes, “Since I don’t ‘idle’ well, I’ve taken a ‘retirement job’ on the faculty at the University of Maryland, teaching early childhood education at its lab school, the Center for Young Children. My retirement gift to myself was a Mediterranean cruise to Spain, Italy, and France.”