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impromptu get together in
Scottsdale, Ariz., in February
when Jack and his wife from
Boise, Idaho, were there visiting
their son and playing some golf.
Ray, from Toms River, N.J., was
there for a business conference.
They had a very nice lunch at
The Village Tavern and have
committed to trying to make it
an annual event, to which they
hope other grads of 1970 might
be able to attend.
1971
Rev. Larry
Baird
(religion)
retired in July
following
43 years of
ministry with
The United
Methodist
Church. For eight of those
years, he served as a district
superintendent, and was
elected to the General and
Jurisdictional Conference as
a delegate from The Western
New York Conference and The
Upper New York Conference.
Dr. John Carlson
(chemistry)
has been honored as a top
physician on Geisinger’s Wall of
Fame. Carlson is a neurologist
for the Geisinger Medical
Center.
1972
Janet (Turzak) Barlett
is
now working as a fundraising
consultant for Advancement
Advisors.
Paul Betlyn
(physics) was
recognized on television and
various internet platforms in
January for fixing a furnace
for free for a woman whose
husband was deployed
overseas.
1973
Joe Montesano
(business
administration) was named the
Greater Lehigh Valley Chief
Financial Officer of the Year
in the category of “private
company with revenues up to
25 million.”
1974
Dr. Bruce Carpenter
(economics) received
the President’s Coin at
Mansfield University’s spring
commencement. This is a
new tradition in which the
student government chooses
four faculty or staff members
who best exemplify the core
values of the Mansfield creed:
character, scholarship, culture
and service.
Jack (John) Weiss ’71
(business administration) and
Ted Dravde ’74
(business
administration) enjoyed an
outing at the Gallatin Valley
Ranch Sporting Clays course.
Jack and Ted live in the
Bozeman, Mont., area and met
at River’s Edge Fly Shop in
Bozeman. After learning that
not only were they both from
the East, they realized both
graduated from Lycoming.
That conversation prompted
the meeting at the course,
where Ted’s wife, Patty, joined
them.
1975
Lois S. (Smires) Rowland
(biology) retired after 24
years at Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BI), where
she monitored the bio analysis
of clinical trial samples for the
past 12 years. Before that she
worked in the lab for 12 years
at BI, seven years at Merck, and
six years at the University of
Pennsylvania Dental School.
Prior to that, she raised her
children, Scott and Kelly. Her
husband, Bob, is a retired pilot
teaching others how to fly.
They have two grandchildren,
Camden and Riley Jones.
Joe Montesano ’73 and
Christopher Spadoni ’73
Wally Skok ’70, Ray Keller ’70
and Jack Myers ’70
Rev. Larry
Baird ’71
1976
Hadyn McLean
(biology)
had a paper, “Perfect Timing”
accepted by the Dangerous
Ideas program, sponsored
by Wisconsin Public Radio.
The paper
advocates for
the placement of seminary-
educated and clinical pastoral
education (CPE) trained
non-sectarian chaplains in
the public school systems,
to provide pastoral care and
didactic instruction in religion
in the high school classroom.
The Journal of Pastoral Care
and Counseling
published
“Scar Tissue” and “Promises,
Promises,” and
Sharing the
Practice
, a publication of The
Academy of Parish Clergy,
has published the article, “The
Second Reformation.”
Third annual Alpha Sigma Phi Poconos golf outing. From left to right:
Jeff Swenson ’76, Andy Herb ’76, Kelsey Green ’74, Greg Bussy ’74, Steve
Keech ’76, Dave Melick ’77, Bill Mellor ’76, Doug Kepler ’78.
1977
Susan (Fracaroli) Petniunas
(political science) and her
husband, Raymond, traveled
to China and Japan this past
October. They visited Hong
Kong, Shanghai, and saw the
Three Gorges River Dam (Ziling,
Wu and Qutang Gorges) via a
cruise on the Yangze River. They
also visited Guilin, Xi’an and
Beijing and concluded their trip
by staying in the heart of Tokyo
near the Emperor’s Palace.
Susan Petniunas ’77 and her
husband Raymond
Jack Weiss ’71, Patty Dravde and
Ted Dravde ’74
Three Lycoming College
graduates met at the United
Methodist Communities’ Board
Retreat, Feb. 19, 2016, at the
Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank,
N.J. The Rev. Virginia Samuel
Cetuk ’72, chairperson of the
board of directors (center),
Norman Cetuk ’72 (left) and
the Rev. John Callanan ’84,
corporate director of mission and
pastoral care (right), swapped
stories about Dean Buckle, John
Piper and campus life during
different decades.
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