ALUMNI CLASS NOTES Editors: Mary Beth Finnerty ’85, director of alumni relations, Kathy Palumbo, development assistant of alumni relations, and Joseph Redding ’15, assistant director of alumni relations. Please submit all of your class notes information to your class coordinator. If there is no coordinator listed for your class, please send all information to alumni@siena.edu for posting in the magazine. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Joe Harrison Jotler60@gmail.com
Kevin Raymond Kraymond27@comcast.net
John Aidala is celebrating 76 years of his business, Quail Auto Sales. They also give back to various charities that bolster the community. He received an appreciation award last May for his dedication to Albany and also to the community where his family business has been since 1943.
Dick Holmes and his wife Katey have been enjoying life as snowbirds with winters in Venice, Florida and summers in Loudonville. He is using his leadership skills in his sixth year as president of their condo association in Florida.
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Lou Zampier campzamp@yahoo.com Capt. John Moore, USN, (Ret.) and his wife Peggy visited Moscow, beautiful St. Petersburg, and a few very interesting Russian villages along the Volga.
Patrick McGovern and his wife Bridget are enjoying visiting with their children and five granddaughters. Pat looks forward to our 60th reunion and noted that many of the professors receiving awards at graduation are named in honor of professors during our time. Taught by the best!
SPECIAL EVENT
Capt. John Moore '61, USN, (Ret.) and his wife Peggy in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral.
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Joe Suozzi joesuozzi@msn.com The class of ’64 had a great turnout at Reunion Weekend. Congratulations to Joe Varkey, who was recognized with the Professor Egon Plager Award for Humanitarian Efforts. Thank you to the reunion committee for helping to rally the class to attend and contribute to the class gift.
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Jack Mulvey jkmulvey@gmail.com
1966 If you are willing to help as a class news notes coordinator, please contact alumni@siena.edu.
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Rick Spataro rspataro67@gmail.com
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Jerry DeFrancisco gdefrancisco@siena.edu Farewell Bob – In January we said goodbye to our friend Bob Klein. Bob was a true friend to all of us: a loyal son of Siena and the “glue” that kept our class together for the past five decades. “Kleener” leaves a legacy of friendship and goodness for all of us, and he will be missed. In March we did a “soft launch” of our Spirit of ’68 legacy endowment fund.
NEWSMAKER
Jack Mulvey, Jr., ’65, CLU, ChFC, AEP, is the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Kenneth Black Jr. L eadership Award presented by the Society of Financial Service Professionals (FSP).
The purpose is to assist in “sustaining the Franciscan values of Diversity, Optimism, Respect and Service that distinguish a Siena Education in the context of world issues that affect the society in which the College exists.” We had a dinner and guest speaker Dr. George LaMaster on the subject of Civil Discourse, followed by a workshop the next day. Our first launch will be this fall, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the meeting between St. Francis and Sultan Malik al-Kamil of Egypt. Crossing the battle lines of the bloody 5th Crusade, Francis traveled to the Sultan’s camp and spent three days in dialog. He gained appreciation for the similarities between the two religions, influencing his later writings and later preaching to the Friars how intelligent actions were more important than force. Fr. Mark Reamer ’83, OFM
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