50th ReunionClass of 196950th Reunion

Class of 1969

Welcome Home!Welcome Home!On behalf of the entire campus community, we are DELIGHTED to see you back at Rollins in celebration of your 50th reunion. We sincerely hope you enjoy this special time to rekindle old friendships and to get reacquainted with the College today. Reawaken your inner Rollins student as you stroll through the picturesque campus and recall the experiences that made your Rollins story. This is YOUR weekend to reminisce about days gone by and to share in the laughter of stories too good to be forgotten. Welcome back to where it all began! WELCOME HOME!

Alma MaterAlma MaterSet like a gem amid the waters blue, Where palms and pines their fragrant incense brew; O Alma Mater, as the swift year runs, Sing we thy praise, thy daughters and thy sons.

Sons who uphold thy fair unsullied fame, Daughters who love thine ancient honored name, True to thy colors blazoned far on high Gold of the sun and blue of bending sky.

Far from thy walls, wherever we may go, Still with a heart where loyal memories glow, Still with a song for Rollins ringing clear, Guide of our youth, O Alma Mater, dear.

In MemoriamIn Memoriam*Indicates Holt School graduate

Robert “Bob” R. Allen*

Kyle N. Anderson ’70MED*

Helen McQuire Bailey*

Ann Armistead Bearse*

Vernon L. Bengtson, Sr.*

Pamela S. Bernstein

Lorne J. Besse*

James C. Blackman

Sharon P. Boss ’72MED*

Clyde C. Bradford, Jr.*

George R. Brister*

Barbara Smith Carlock ’80MED*

Frederick B. Chasteen*

Claude A. Chevalier ’70MBA

Fred A. Collins ’71MED*

Kathleen Moore Coren

Larry G. Cox*

Henry G. Dezwart*

Joel S. Dick

Charles M. Dillon

Patricia Nielsen Driever

E C. Fehner

Dennis W. Frankenberry

William D. Fries*

Peter J. Gaidis ’70MBA

Edward M. Gervase*

Jacquelyn Gilliam

Karen L. Girard

Barbara Sobel Goldman

Ephraim L. Hallman*

James M. Hardin*

G G. Hinckley

Martha M. Hoskins*

Roger A. Hurst*

Warren E. Jacobs ’74MSM*

Logan B. Jenkins

David T. Johnson

Jack L. Johnson*

William R. Judd

Geraldine A. Keeth ’71MAT*

Judith S. Kleiman*

John J. Knapp*

William “Bill” H. Kanuer Jr.

Frank C. Kovacik*

Cesar F. Larrinaga ’76MED*

Rudolf W. Leven*

Kathryn Brown Linn

George J. Lombardi*

Jimmy B. Martin

Mary LeeH. Mason*

Thomas J. McCarthy*

Douglas McKinny*

Michael A. Miller

Bryan “Terry” J. Rhodes Mollica

Frances Moss Moody*

Dennis P. Mullin

William “Bill” R. Myers ’70MBA

William E. Nance*

Nord B. Newman*

Larry D. Norby*

Frank M. Ockerman*

Donald K. Paul*

Christopher J. Quinn

DorothyAnn P. Randolph*

Millard W. Rice ’73MSM*

Sonia T. Weaver Richardson*

Meredith Riddell

Alma R. Ring*

Nancy E. Robinson ’73MED*

Karl Schultz*

Steven M. Serafin*

Chris Broving Shollenberger

Erich W. Sippel

Arthur P. Snider*

Fred W. Snyder*

Guy S. Somers

Rex C. Stanley*

Drew M. Stephens

Robert F. Stonerock, Jr.

Billie L. Study*

Donald L. Surbeck*

Garry R. Swain*

John H. Tucker*

Frederick S. Turnmyre*

John V. Twitty*

Gail G. Van Ormer*

Ronald J. VanGelder ’71MBA

Gail Acker Vann*

Beaufort E. Willis, Jr.*

Patricia Tunnicliff Wilson

Betty H. Windsor*

Hugh G. Wright ’72 MED*

Fox Day Proclamation,May 13, 1969Fox Day Proclamation, May 13, 1969

WHEREAS, the clouds are high, and the air is soft, and turtles are lumbering out of the lakes for a high purpose, and fireflies are darting tender messages on the blackboard of the night to glow worms below, and elderberry blossoms are adding lacey elegance to the woods, and the ducks are gone except our Florida mallards, and spring has come to this great state, and

WHEREAS, our soccer, golf, tennis, basketball and baseball teams and our crew have made this a year of glory, and to be remembered, and

WHEREAS, Rollins is the kind of college which can gather in this way for gentle pleasure,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, the Rollins Fox do hereby cancel all classes, meetings, seminars and other gatherings of the residential college scheduled for this day, and urge the students to spend these hours in those pursuits which strengthen friendships and banish discord and add memories which give pleasure and urge all others in the college to do the same, remembering that college service must be maintained and office telephones guarded, and reminding all

that supper will be served on the Horseshoe from six to eight or later, urging all to bring their families and reminding the students of our meeting in the Chapel at ten o’clock this night.

And, now, a special word of greeting to our seniors, a noble class and firm in high resolve. Some of you will follow paths which lead relentlessly away. Others will return seeking talisman to banish years and bring back what is gone or never was. You will find new vistas, different sounds, eyes which glance and move away.

Then remember this. Some things do defy the years. The campus sand will be the same. The squirrels will never go. The sky will roll with the same rhythm, blue, white and blue, gray, darkness splashed with stars. And more important still, the Rollins each of you has made within himself will never change. It is forever yours. No one will tear its buildings down, or take away its friendships, its adventures, or its victories. And, also, think of this. Spring will always come, and always with it hope and that will last as long as time; and that is well.

AND, FINALLY, that quiet word of friends which heralds change and hints at feelings deep and difficult to say – farewell.

GIVEN in my lair on the thirteenth day of May, 1969.

WITNESS MY PAW AND SEAL.

Louis BanksCommencement SpeechLouis Banks Commencement SpeechIn that faraway congestion of humanity called Manhattan Island, I was lunching last week with a group of my colleagues in the Time and Life building. The subject turned to commencement addresses, and we all shuddered to think how often–man and boy through the years–we had heard that standard commencement messages “We, the older generation, have made a mess of the world, and it is up to you, the new generation, to go forth and do better.” One of our number said brightly, “We’ve done a damn good job in our day–and take care to see that you don’t botch it.” I’ll spare you the final cliché, the one that says “the truth lies somewhere in between.” Because it doesn’t.

The truth of our day, on which we will all rise or fall, is that we are–all of us–walking off this lovely campus into a totally new world. Since you now know that I have an editor’s aversion to clichés, I’ll duck the word “revolutionary” (although, if we all botch it, it could be that, in the real sense of guns, tear gas, and barricades.) I’ll settle for the word “evolutionary,” which really is a far more exciting word. It is also where we both come in.

The first sign of this great new release of human energy is a seething impatience–in some cases a blind rage–to set things right in terms of the new view from here. If you are all that we raised you to be and want you to be, it’s hard to think that it could be much different.

I can well understand that in this balmy and benign setting some of my contemporaries might think I am exaggerating the

growing intensity of youthful feeling. If we of our generation did nothing it would come in some form or another, simply because these young men and women–with their new, intolerant eyes–will inevitably move into positions of power, and run things their way. But there never was a time when a collaboration–and a mutual understanding–between youth and experience were more essential. For this is a world in which, in truth, we are all freshmen, and need to know all there is to be learned. We, on our side, have tended to give the processes of production an overriding priority in our lives. We know–and celebrate–the resulting achievement. But the achievement in turn relaxes the need for that priority, and–even at the cost of some efficiency–the priorities of social and human values must inevitably move up the scale.

There is, as well, much about us that youth must take quite seriously. And by “us” I mean “us” in depth. Ours is a great and unique society, the product of generation after generation of bloody struggle to defend the proposition of liberty under law. Its economic achievements, upon which I have perhaps dwelt too long, are but one of many means to the end of developing in man the best of the powers that the Creator has endowed him with. And to this end a succession of gallant Americans have fought wars, pioneered new lands, built public schools and universities, embraced immigrants, advanced the arts, revolutionized the growing of food, and thrown themselves into great reforms.

I congratulate you, ladies and gentlemen, for being a part of us. And far more ardently, and expectantly, I congratulate us for being a part of you.

–Louis Banks, May 30, 1969

Class of 1969Class of 1969

Gene H. AlbrechtVentura, CA

Sandra Haskett AndryFort McCoy, FL

Pamela Miller AskewTuscaloosa, AL

Charles “Chuck” J. BauernschmidtBratenahl, OH

Joe H. BeardWilton Manors, FL

Ann Elmore BerlamNaples, FL

Karolle “Josie” T. BidgoodKaneohe, HI

Constance “Connie” Griffin Blackburn ’70MEDThomasville, GA

Gail Pattison BlackmerSarasota, FL

Susan Gregory BlakelySaint Simons Island, GA

Jane Carrison BockelSmyrna, GA

John T. BottomleyNorth Hampton, NH

Pati-Fran McCrary BrummettAlbuquerque, NM

Wiley T. Buchanan ’71MCSWashington, DC

Jeffrey M. Burns ’71MCSNewark, OH

John BurnsQuincy, FL

Russell H. Calamia ’72 ’76MSCJSarasota, FL

Richard “Rick” B. CampOjai, CA

George H. Chapin IIIIvoryton, CT

Janet “Jan” Carter ClantonWinter Park, FL

H. Lawrence “Larry” ClarkAnnapolis, MD

Gale F. ColemanHull, GA

A. Heywood CooperHouston, TX

Michael W. Corbett ’70MBAFort Lauderdale, FL

Gene H. AlbrechtVentura, CA

Sandra Haskett AndryFort McCoy, FL

Pamela Miller AskewTuscaloosa, AL

Charles “Chuck” J. BauernschmidtBratenahl, OH

Joe H. BeardWilton Manors, FL

Ann Elmore BerlamNaples, FL

Karolle “Josie” T. BidgoodKaneohe, HI

Constance “Connie” Griffin Blackburn ’70MEDThomasville, GA

Gail Pattison BlackmerSarasota, FL

Susan Gregory BlakelySaint Simons Island, GA

Jane Carrison BockelSmyrna, GA

John T. BottomleyNorth Hampton, NH

Pati-Fran McCrary BrummettAlbuquerque, NM

Wiley T. Buchanan ’71MCSWashington, DC

Jeffrey M. Burns ’71MCSNewark, OH

John BurnsQuincy, FL

Russell H. Calamia ’72 ’76MSCJSarasota, FL

Richard “Rick” B. CampOjai, CA

George H. Chapin IIIIvoryton, CT

Janet “Jan” Carter ClantonWinter Park, FL

H. Lawrence “Larry” ClarkAnnapolis, MD

Gale F. ColemanHull, GA

A. Heywood CooperHouston, TX

Michael W. Corbett ’70MBAFort Lauderdale, FL

Commemorative Pages Class of 1969Commemorative PagesClass of 1969

Ann Elmore Berlam

Activities that kept you busy at RollinsPhi Mu sorority, Panhellenic Council, Chapel Belles, and enjoying sailing on Lake Virginia and connecting lakes.

If you could choose your major today, what would it be? Journalism

Favorite ClassPsychology

Best Campus SpotMills Library lawn

Funniest MomentBeing taught in astronomy class that the best way to identify the North Star was to go to the tennis courts and look over the top of the Kappa Gamma House for the brightest star!

What went through your mind on your first day as a student?Do I really have to wear this “beanie” all week?

Your biggest moment of triumphBeing selected as a recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Lesson you learned as a student that you still value today Getting to know students not only from around the country but international students. I learned that living and working together we can all strive to make the world a better place.

Person you met at Rollins who you will always respect President Hugh McKean. He was a gifted leader who respected all students and got to know all of us.

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Your Rollins Story After graduation, I received a master’s degree from Duke University and began my career in Washington, DC working for a member of Congress from North Carolina. That job turned into the opportunity to open the first DC office for the NC Department of Education to represent the needs of the NC public school system before Congress and the Federal Government. Meeting my husband, Bob, in DC, we decided to move to Raleigh, NC where my career changed by representing the public school system at the state level before the NC General Assembly. Before retiring, I was recognized by the UNC Chapel Hill Public Policy Institute as one of the top 50 lobbyists in North Carolina.

Upon retiring in 2000, Bob and I moved to Naples, FL where we both became very involved with volunteer efforts in the community. I completed the Greater Naples Leadership Masters Program to learn about community and to use what I learned to better the community. In that regard, I served on the GNL Board of Directors and became President. I also served on the Board of Trustees of the Community Foundation of Collier County including the Executive Committee. Governor Charlie Christ appointed me to the Board of Trustees of Florida Southwestern State College (formerly Edison State College) also serving as Chair of the Board and

chaired the search committee for a new president of the college. Prior to my appointment to the Trustees Board, I was chair of the Edison State College Foundation. My volunteer activities also include serving on committees for Fun Time Early Childhood Academy and involvement with the League of Women Voters.

In recognition of my volunteer activities, I was honored to be recognized as a Woman of Initiative by the Community Foundation of Collier County, as the Distinguished Leadership Award recipient of Greater Naples Leadership and as a Woman of Achievement by the American Association of University Women.

My husband and I enjoy traveling (especially cruises), walking the Naples beaches, and enjoying our family and friends. I am blessed with my wonderful husband, Bob, four step children and five grandchildren.

Clifford Montgomery

Activities that kept you busy at RollinsVarsity tennis, soccer, and Sigma Nu fraternity

If you could choose your major today, what would it be? Human Resources

Favorite ProfessorFred W. Hicks

Favorite ClassHistory

Best Campus SpotThe Beanery

Your biggest moment of triumphGoing undefeated (25-0) playing #3 singles as a freshman for the varsity tennis team under Norm Copeland and playing in the first US Open at Forrest Hills in 1969.

Lesson you learned as a student that you still value today Combining hard work while having a good time.

Person you met at Rollins who you will always respectHugh F. McKean

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Your Rollins StoryHere in my retirement, I am currently a part-time certified Career Coach and provide coaching support to executives and others in a variety of human resource areas and additional details can be found at my website, montgomerycareercoaching.com.

Prior to this role and until my retirement in 2011, I was the Sr. VP for Teva Pharmaceuticals Americas.

I joined Teva in Aug. 2005 after a 35 year career in HR including 20 years with GE having worked in nine different locations in five different businesses including a four year assignment as head of HR for GE Plastics Europe, headquartered in The Netherlands.

After GE, I led HR functions for three other global corporations and traveled the world as part of my responsibilities.

I attended Rollins on a tennis and soccer scholarship and was proud to be voted All South in both sports and after graduation, proudly served in the US Army Reserves from 1969-1975.

I am a published author and in addition to my book, Q&A With The Career Coach, I also have written various articles featured in HR Magazine, HR Innovator, and Inside the Minds of HR Executives, in addition to bi-monthly articles in the Charleston Regional Business Journal on the subject of career planning.

I remain active in all sports and completed the Escape From Alcatraz triathlon in 2013 and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa in Sept., 2014.

I have two grown children and currently live with my wife Karen on Seabrook Is., SC where we moved in 2016 but our current plan is to return to our previous home in New Hope, PA in early 2019.

David M. “Dave” Nix

Activities that kept you busy at RollinsAcademics, of course. Fraternity life (Kappa Alpha Order - no longer on campus), Varsity Crew

If you could choose your major today, what would it be? Finance + Business Administration, maybe economics

Favorite ProfessorDr. Lane - history professor

Favorite ClassWestern Civilization

Best Campus SpotFraternity House (Rex Beach Hall)

Funniest MomentToo many to list, but I remember when our 8 man shell (crew) got swamped during a regatta when a squall suddenly created huge waves and overcame us. We lost the race, but had a good excuse. Other boats weren’t affected.

What went through your mind on your first day as a student?What did I do to deserve this! I thought I entered paradise.

Prank you can’t believe you got away withDuring those days there was a rail road (the Dinky Line) that went along Lake Virginia. One night we ambushed the train and sprayed the engineer with a fire extinguisher.

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Partner in crime and your favorite memory togetherJohn Jenks (class of 1970 - now deceased) rented an off-campus house my senior year and we enjoyed ourselves all year. We were right on the Lake Osceola.

Your biggest moment of triumph Graduating!

Lesson you learned as a student that you still value todayArriving from a small town in Pennsylvania I had learned to appreciate and respect that we live in a very large country with diverse views. I learned tolerance.

Person you met at Rollins who you will always respectI respected Steve Ward the most (Class of 1966), my fraternity Big Brother (mentor).

Your Rollins Story Upon graduation, I was drafted almost immediately into the U.S. Army. The Vietnam war was in full swing, and there was no lottery or volunteer army in 1969. After nearly 2 years of training, I was granted a one year, all expenses paid to visit to southeast Asia as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 46th Special Forces. When all military obligations were completed in 1972, I began a 42 year career in the steel industry starting with U.S. Steel, mostly involving line sales and marketing positions

in Buffalo, Minneapolis, Akron, Ohio, and Fairless Hills (Philadelphia), PA. In 1980, I switched from the mill side of the steel business to the service center side (steel processing and distribution) and moved to northeast Ohio to start a 6th plant for Feralloy Corporation in Cleveland. During my time with Feralloy (a German owned, multinational company), I met Sarah Sharpe Bullock and we were married later that year in Akron, Ohio. While working for Feralloy, I was transferred to Chicago where I was able to travel to Europe extensively and where our daughter, Alice, was born (1986). Alice is now living in Denver. In 1989, I made my last move back to northeastern Ohio where I was offered a position with Independent Steel Company, a regional, single location steel processor and distributor, and where I spent an enjoyable 25 years. Independent Steel is now part of the Esmark Steel Group. Concerned that my generation in steel business would end up like dinosaurs thrashing in the tar pits, most of us were fortunate to exit the steel business before its yielding to the post industrial, digital age. I retired in 2014 and Sarah and I are enjoying a slower pace of life, serving the community where appropriate, traveling, and reconnecting with old friends and family.

Gail Pattison Blackmer

Activities that kept you busy at RollinsMost of my time was spent in various music activities. I sang in the Chapel Choir, the Rollins Chorale, and The Rollins Singers. I also spent many hours as a voice major, practicing for a recital of some sort each term.

If you could choose your major today, what would it be? Music

Favorite ProfessorRoss Rosazza

Favorite ClassCreative Writing

Best Campus SpotThe Chapel

Funniest MomentWhen a group of serious music majors were at a Florida Symphony concert watching a cello soloist. He was making the funniest faces while playing, and we were all in hysterics!

What went through your mind on your first day as a student?I arrived at Elizabeth Hall with a case of poison ivy and a sprained ankle, so I just figured that college couldn’t make me feel any worse!

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Your biggest moment of triumph This would have to be my Senior Recital on the stage of the new (at that time) Crummer Hall. I have a CD copy of the performance made from a reel to reel tape. It may not be the best quality recording, but it does bring back wonderful memories of my Rollins experience!

Lesson you learned as a student that you still value todayNever underestimate what you can learn from others if you make the effort to listen to their stories.

Person you met at Rollins who you will always respectFred Rogers

Your Rollins Story I was married only one month after my Rollins graduation, and Russell and I are planning to celebrate 50 years together this June! We lived at first in Lincoln, NE, where our two children, Rusty and Robin were born. I was soprano soloist at First Presbyterian Church where Russell was the organist and director of music. In 1982 our family moved to Sarasota, Florida, and I did accounting work as well as continuing as soprano soloist at Pine Shores Presbyterian, the church where Russell was now the music director. Rusty attended Rollins and graduated in 1994, exactly 25 years after my own graduation! Robin graduated from Stetson University, but we love her anyway! In 1996 Russell

retired, and we moved to Oviedo where we enjoyed being closer to Rollins, and we even sang in the Bach Choir for several years. While in Central Florida, I worked as a paraprofessional at Aloma Elementary School in Winter Park and sang in the First Congregational Church choir. When Robin moved back to Sarasota and had our first grandchild, we decided to move back to Sarasota where we live today. I retired in 2012 after working again in the accounting field. We have two grandchildren, Knowlan and Sydney, and are happy to be able to live close by as they grow up. I continue to sing in our church choir, and also enjoy ringing in the church handbell choir. I have just become the treasurer of our condo association, and Russell and I try to keep active with daily walks and occasional trips to the gym. My years at Rollins were wonderful and a good foundation for the rest of my life!

Gene Albrecht

Activities that kept you busy at RollinsClasses, friends, and fraternity

If you could choose your major today, what would it be? Biology

Favorite ProfessorErich Blossey & Carl Sandstrom

Favorite ClassOrganic Chemistry & Comparative Anatomy

Best Campus SpotTKE House (O’Neal Hall now site of Keene Music Hall)

What went through your mind on your first day as a student?I arrived before dawn by train from Portland, Oregon. Stowed my bag at the police station and walked around town and campus. A magical tropical world of Spanish architecture, clay tennis courts, and brick streets. Later that day all my many freshman classmates and overcrowded dorms that first semester.

Your Rollins StoryI was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. I attended Rollins on a full scholarship and was a TKE when we had top fraternity honors in both intramural sports and scholastics. After graduating with a B.S. from Rollins in 1969, I became a doctoral student in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Chicago. Quite a change

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from my undergraduate experience but Rollins prepared me well to be a successful scholar. My Ph.D. in Anatomy was awarded in 1976 based on a very esoteric doctoral dissertation on the craniofacial anatomy of macaque monkeys from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. From 1975 to 1978, I was

on the faculty of the Department of Anatomy of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1978, I joined the Department of Cell and Neurobiology of the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where I remained until retirement in 2016. I had a long career of award-winning teaching of human gross anatomy to medical students. My research focuses on morphological, functional, and evolutionary relationships within/among various groups of vertebrates, especially primates (e.g., population-level morphological variation in primate species related to geography, environment, and habitat). Of equal interest is the theory and applied use of quantitative and statistical methods for the analysis of variation in biological structure (e.g., multivariate morphometrics and allometric methods for analyzing size and shape variation). Following retirement, I continue an “emeritus” research project seeking new insights into the classic problem of how brain size relates to body size in mammals. Besides my long career in higher education, I was a founder of New West Charter Middle School, a high-performing public school which opened in Los Angeles in 2005. In 1993, I was blessed with triplet sons for whom I was able to be a stay-at-home dad by doing my university research and writing in my home office. For the last 10 years, I’ve been equally blessed to share life with Paula Markgraf at our

homes in Ventura, CA, and Portland, OR (we’re “rainbirds”). Paula and I are now in travel mode with past trips to Ecuador, Peru, Iceland, Japan, British Columbia, the Southwest, the Northwest, and upcoming trips to Patagonia and Africa for a month long safari including a gorilla trek in Rwanda.