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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
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Jan 14, 2008
Frank Franz ’59 Transforms UAH into ‘User-Friendly’ Campus When physics graduate Frank Franz ’59 assumed presidential duties of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in 1991, the institution was on the verge of financial collapse. Following his tenure as the longest-serving university president in Alabama, UAH is thriving. "We built pride in UAH as a smaller, student-centered research university of distinction,” he says. “[In 2006-07] UAH reached $70 million in federally financed awards for research; many of our undergraduates work on these projects. We attracted students from, of course, all over Alabama, 44 other states, and more than 75 other countries.” Franz received the 2006 Brotherhood/Sisterhood Award from the Huntsville chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice.
Dec 12, 2007
James Carter Schaub ’59 Attended 50 Straight Lafayette-Lehigh Football Games
James Carter Schaub '59 watched every Lafayette-Lehigh football game in person for 50 consecutive years, a streak that ended in 2007. Instead, he viewed the game at a telecast party in Florida, one of about 60 coordinated in conjunction with alumni affairs this year. "It has been said that anyone can start something in life, but it takes a smart person to bring that something to an appropriate end," he says. "Fifty consecutive years has been a good run! From here on in, I will be watching from Florida. It was a pleasure to enjoy the company of friendly fans in a warm room with good food and drink before a widescreen television."
Nov 30, 2007
Bill Harding ’58 Keeps Gulf Coast Alumni Connected
As president and owner of Mariah Management Consulting, Bill Harding '58 has his hands full on a daily basis. But the chemistry graduate still finds time to serve as president of the Florida Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter. "My primary responsibilities are to keep the area representatives and alumni informed and motivated," he explains. "To identify new areas where more local representation might be needed, to be a host for at least one event per year, and to try to develop a strategy for expansion of the chapter." This past summer he hosted Lafayette Day at the Beach at his home in Belleair Beach. Other events he has hosted include a telecast party for the Lafayette-Lehigh football game and a luncheon with President Dan Weiss.
Nov 15, 2007
Lem Howell '58 Champions Cause of Minority Workers, the Poor, and the Injured
In 1968, lawyer Lem Howell '58 won in federal court on behalf of African-American workers barred from a construction union. The ruling precipitated the federal government’s involvement against the same defendants. In another construction industry case that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Washington, Howell successfully sued for greater safety precautions on job sites. Again, the case sent tremors throughout the country. He continues to champion the cause of minority workers, the poor, and the injured. He’s been listed in The Best Lawyers in America multiple times, been featured on the cover of Seattle magazine's "Best Lawyers" edition, and was named "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association.
Nov 13, 2007
Arthur Rothkopf '55 Named to New Post in U.S. Chamber of Commerce Arthur J. Rothkopf ’55, president emeritus of the College, will be head of the National Chamber Foundation, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Rothkopf has been appointed executive vice president of NCF and will assume responsibility for its management and strategic direction effective January 1, 2008. He also was elected to NCF’s board of directors. Rothkopf will retain his current title as senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber and counselor to the chamber’s president and CEO, Tom Donahue. He will continue to lead the Chamber’s Education and Workforce initiative and the Business Civic Leadership Center, a Chamber affiliate that advances the positive role business plays in society.
Nov 09, 2007
Richard Bergenback ’48 Competes in Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, Hammer Throw
Richard Bergenback ’48, who retired in 2002 after 34 years as professor of geology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, participates in shot put, discus, javelin, and the hammer throw in five or six meets each year, including the Senior Games and Masters Track and Field events. Among his countless trophies and medals, Bergenback finished second in the very first National Masters Track and Field Championships, in which he participated when he was 41. And, in 1989, he earned the gold medal in the hammer throw for the 60-64 age group at the Senior Games National Championships. After his shoulder gave out at age 69, he switched from his right hand to his left. He attended Lafayette on a football scholarship.
Nov 07, 2007
