Reunion
Please save the weekend of September 28-30th, 2012 for our
long awaited 50th reunion!!
Activities begin on Friday afternoon with a tour of Nottingham,
conducted by our Wall of Fame recipient, J.Sehl Burns. Later
that day, we’ll have an informal gathering at the Metro Grill
and Café on Westcott Street. Saturday, there will be a luncheon
boat cruise on Skaneateles Lake, and in the evening, our MAIN
EVENT – cocktails and dinner at Traditions at the Links.
A farewell brunch on Sunday morning will be held at the host
hotel, The Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville. A block of rooms will
be reserved for us. All events are optional, but we look forward
to seeing you at many or even all of them!!
A “Save the Date” notice will be sent in February, including a
list of missing classmates. The invitation, registration forms
and more details will be sent in the spring.
Please contact Sedona Brown at doni31344@yahoo.com if you would
like to be part of the outreach to locate missing classmates and
to encourage those we have located to attend.
Our committee sends warmest regards and looks forward to seeing
everyone again!!
Susan Donovan, Sehl Burns, Sedona Thomas Brown – CoChairs
Richard Murphy, Jil Hammer, Linda Fox Fine, Eunice Cohn Balinoff
– Committee Members
Obituaries
Donald H Holstein ('58) passed away April 14,2009. He retired from Marine Midland/HSBC in 1994 as a vice president and then went to work as a service manager for Chase in Dewitt. He is survived by Nancy Grossman Holstein ('62) and son Richard, an attorney in Buffalo.
Elizabeth "Beth" Edna Wheatley Kodama ('62) died on August 27, 2010, of cancer, surrounded by her loving family. She was 64. Beth was the beloved daughter of William B. and Martha M. Wheatley of 170 Winston Way, Syracuse, NY, and Skaneateles Lake. She was born on December 5, 1945, in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Syracuse. Always a good student, she graduated from Nottingham High School in 1962 and earned a bachelor's degree from Muskingum College in Ohio. In her junior year, she studied at the International Christian University in Tokyo, and that experience motivated her to pursue a master's degree in Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University. There she met Kenneth Kodama from Honolulu, Hawaii; they were married in Syracuse in 1967. Beth worked as a copy editor for Yale University Press in Connecticut, then for Tokyo University Press during a three-year residence in Japan. While in Japan she was featured on a television program teaching English. Later, she worked as a copy editor for the Brookings Institution Press in Washington, DC, and as an analyst for the U.S. government in Maryland. Beth and her husband, Ken, retired to Eugene, Oregon, in 2001. Beth's many talents included learning languages, crafts, dancing, music and gardening. Her lifelong love of sailing began during many summers spent at Skaneateles Lake at the family cottage. Her many volunteer activities included supporting food banks in Maryland and Oregon, the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum in Oregon and the Eugene Public Library. Survivors include her husband; her parents; daughter, Emily Kodama of Missoula, Montana; son and daughter-in-law, Matthew and Rachel Kodama and grandsons, Miles and Jude of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; brothers, William J. Wheatley of Petersham, Massachusetts, Daniel Wheatley of Arlington, Massachusetts, Jonathan Wheatley of Walpole, Massachusetts; and sister, Barbara Wheatley of Middletown, Maryland.
Patrick L. Carroll (’62), of Duluth, GA, died June 13, 2007. He moved to Georgia in 1986. He is survived by his sister, Kathy, of Atlanta, and several aunts and cousins.
Bruce H. Schwartz (’62), 62, of Santa Rosa, CA, died February 7, 2007. He practiced law in Syracuse, San Francisco, Marin County, and Sonoma County. He is survived by his wife, son, and two step-children.
Dr. Martin F. Hilfinger Jr., 87, of Syracuse and Tully, NY, died Feb. 2, 2006, in Syracuse. He
was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College. After
graduating summa cum laude from the Syracuse College of
Medicine, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WW II.
He became an associate Professor of Pathology at the College of
Medicine in Syracuse, and was appointed in 1963 as Onondaga
County's first full time Medical Examiner, a position he held
for the next 20 years. In 1963 he was selected to the Sports
Illustrated Silver Anniversary All-America Football Team, given
for lifetime achievements in Athletics and Medicine. A
specialist in the Pathology of Cancer, he received the annual
award of NY State division of the American Cancer Society in
1956. He is survived by the former Nancy Taylor (’36),
his wife of 63 years; daughters,
Sarah (Tom) Tomb (’63) and Heidi Wilson,
both of Fayetteville, NY; a son, Martin, III (’62)(Nyla) of Tully, NY.
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