Our 25th reunion was simply great! The rain held off and the sun was shining (or at least it appeared that way since we were in the midst of having so much fun).
Classmates came from California, Seattle, Idaho, Italy, the East Coast, and even Tokyo. (Robert Manning, you win the long-distance award.) Rhode Island’s newest U.S. senator, Linc Chafee, even got away from Washington, D.C., to join the celebration.
We picked up our party favors – wide-brimmed straw hats, silver picture frames, and black-and-red bookbags – and started our weekend on Friday afternoon at class headquarters in Arnold Lounge at Keeney Quad (known as West Quad in our day). The University hosted a lovely evening under the stars, complete with a delicious buffet, in a tent in front of Slater Hall. We enjoyed a chat with President Sheila Blumstein.
Next we gathered in front of Faunce House to enjoy Campus Dance. For traditional dancers, there was big-band music on the College Green, while jazz lovers listened to a small group near Manning Chapel. For many of us, however, the music was a backdrop for talk about Brown memories, current hobbies, children, and careers.
Saturday was a day to learn and have fun. At the Commencement forums we learned about the selective world of college admissions, the significance of Peruvian elections for Latin American democracies, and the state of present-day Russia. Barnaby Evans, who received an honorary degree, also presented a forum. Barnaby’s award-winning WaterFire show has brought life to downtown Providence at night. The Field Day tradition continued, and so did the tradition of the ’75 lacrosse players: players Rich Meister, Scott Cummings, Scott Livie, Randy Sherman, Bob Rubeor, and others posed for a photo. Julie Liddicoet Meister, were you the camerawoman?
We elected our new class officers: Alex Szabo, president; Faith LaSalle, Gail McCann, and Kenneth Colburn, vice presidents; Rhonda Port Walker, secretary; Dennis Coleman, treasurer; Faith LaSalle, reunion-activities chair; Susan Van Diepen Schreiber, annual-giving chair; Randy Sherman, Webmaster; and Bill Taylor, multicultural chair.
Saturday night was a gala affair at our class dinner in Alumnae Hall. Next we went to the Green, where we listened to the Temptations at the Commencement concert.
We had our Sunday barbecue at the Haffenreffer Estate in Bristol, R.I. It was a fun-filled day of bocce games, volleyball, horseshoes, rock climbing, and chatting. History buffs, including Paula DiLuglio DeCollibus and Faith Tomases, visited Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Bright and early on Monday morning the die-hard classmates (and there were a lot of us) gathered on the Green, and proudly and loudly, under the stewardship of Bill Taylor, Diane Jass Ketelhut, and Susan Ryan Chiarulli, carried the 25th reunion banner through Van Wickle Gates. As Jim Busam cheered with enthusiasm for his classmates, we watched with equal enthusiasm as his daughter, Teresa ’00, marched by. Several classmates had positions of honor in
the procession: Gail McCann, assistant chief of staff; Chuck Connell, Susan van Diepen Schreiber, and Alex Szabo, aides to the chief marshal; Susan DiMeo and Randy Sherman, guides; and Pete Chelovich, Mark Doyle, Jean Lahage Cohen, and Faith LaSalle, class marshals.
Saul Kaplan e-mailed us the following Monday to say that he had not been to a reunion since the 5th, but now he doesn’t plan to miss the 30th. We hope that all will join us in 2005! Please send any suggestions for the next reunion to flasalle@zlplaw.com. –Faith LaSalle, on behalf of the reunion committee
25th reunion attendees:
Amy Levine Abrams
Baer Max Ackerman
Peter Allstrom
Leslie Miller Altman
Frank Altman
Elizabeth Armstrong
Douglas Arnold
Doris Averyhart
James Barker
Elizabeth Bartman
Michael Baxter
Christine Begole
Robin Bell
Emily Berger
Gregory Bertovich
John Berylson
Janet Blacher
Denise Bledsoe
John Bonacum
Timothy Boyd
Linda Brandon
Annette Breingan
John Breuer
Paul Broomfield
Christopher Brown
Vincent Browne
Richard Browning
Richard Brust
Crawford Bunkley III
Stanley Busam
Bradford Buxton
John Cangemi
Jeannette Chambers
Peter Chelovich
Susan Ryan Chiarulli
Michael Chiarulli
Dean Christian
John Clark
Leonard Cleary
Jean Lahage Cohen
Steve Cohen
Gerald Cohen
Kenneth Colburn
Dennis Coleman
Chalmers Congdon
Charles Connell
Kevin Connolly
Leslie Conover
Elizabeth Counihan
Danny Crane
John Crawford
Terri Kiser Cristy
Carl Critz
Rebecca Crown
Richard Cruz
Scott Cummings
Duncan Davidson
Steven Davis
Marilyn Dawson
William de Camp
Paulo de Oliveira
Paula DiLuglio DeCollibus
Joseph Deltito
Jane Mackenzie Dennison
Philip DiDomenico
Susan DiMeo
Charles Donchess
Stuart Douglas
Mark Doyle
Karr Farrell
Richard Finn
Nancy Fitch
Claire Flanagan
Charles Folkers
Bruce Fong
Candice Francis
H. Renton Frederick
William Frey
Scott Gadwa
Helene Nicodemus Gadwa
Eugene Gaffken
Geoffrey Garth
Joseph Gau
Valerie Gebert
Harold Gever
Jeffrey Gilbard
Jerome Gilligan
David Given
Charles Glerum
Devra Lifshitz Golbe
Michael Golrick
Joseph Gosha
Christopher Graham
Steven Greenberg
Ronald Grelsamer
Ellen Gurney Gurney
Marc Halpern
Paul Hanson
Brett Harper
Barbara Hirsch Harrison
Patricia Hart
David Hayman
Susan Connors Helland
Barry Heller
David Hirshland
Lisa Holden-Pitt
Edgar Hopkins
Pamela Bosch Hughes
Pamela Stratton Hutchinson
Alexander Hutchinson
George Hutchinson
Mark Ivanick
Carol Taylor Jamison
David Jarmul
Valorie Jennings
Thor Johnson
Russell Johnson
George Joseph
Catherine Iaciofano Joseph
Nora Beck Judd
Saul Kaplan
Richard Kavanaugh
Thomas Kavazanjian
Ellen Galkin Kenner
Diane Jass Ketelhut
William Ketelhut
Richard Kettler
Christine Jordan Khatib
Daniel Klein
Thomas Knapp
Eric Kolbell
James Kress
Brian Lacey
Laurie Jean Lamb
Faith LaSalle
Gary Leeds
Patricia Field Leiter
Kathryn Kavazanjian Leonard
Robert Levin
Lucy Leyland
Matthew Lieber
Lorna Douglas Lindsay
Terry Anne Ipacs Littleton
Ellen Littman Littman
Scott Livie
Margaret Ewing Lloyd
Robert Lobue
Matthew London
Kenneth Lury
Josef Machac
Robert Manning
Paul Margolis
Ward Mazzucco
Gail McCann
Herbert McKnight
George McNamara
Marianne McGowan
Julie Liddicoet Meister
Richard Meister
W Merritt
Andrew Miller
Gary Miller
Jose Miranda
Sollace Mitchell
John Monsees
Claude Montgomery
Richard Morford
Elizabeth Cohn Morris
Robert Mueller
Thomas Munsell
Jonathan Naiman
Peter Neilson
Robert Nielsen
Gerald Norton
William Oris
Timothy Otter
David Peterkin
David Peters
Claire Philipp
Hope Pillsbury
Maurice Pitt
Robert Place
Virginia Point
Joan Potterfield
George Powers
Kathryn Arnold Pugh
Linda Putman
Linda Quander
Robert Quinn
Lynn Rakatansky
James Randall
Frank Reynolds
Amy Richardson
Karen Rinaldi
Richard Robb
Robert Rose
Robert Rubeor
Vivian Sege Saper
Theodore Saunders
Judson Saviskas
Stephen Scholz
Susan van Diepen Schreiber
Eric Schurenberg
Dina Schwartz Fisher
Mark Scott
Diane DiGianfilippo Scott
Michael Scott
Randall Sherman
Howard Shire
David Sholem
Denise Brown Sneed
Michael Sokolowski Sr.
Andrew Solomon
Kathleen Mitchell Souza
Neil Steinberg
Alexander Szabo
Gary Tashjian
Juan T. Tavares
William Taylor
Dorothy Harvey Thompson
Austin Thompson
Cynthia Wilson Thompson
Clifton Thompson III
Susan Ticker
Faith Tomases
Maureen Traber
Guy Tuttle
Kathryn Mast Uhde
Amy VanNostrand
Robin Blacklow Verin
Daniel Wagenberg
Sarah Wald
Rhonda Port Walker
Alan Warner
Sandra Wogrin Warren
Jeffrey Warren
Suzanne Garber Weaver
Charles Weinstein
Barry Whittaker
Leighton Wildrick
Bradford Wing
J. Scott Wolf
Janice Woo
Linda Wood
Jeffrey Young
John Zachary
Elizabeth Zeldin
