Members & Friends - Then & Now

		Barry Aden – Class of ‘60 After graduating from Tulane, Barry got his M.D. from Mississippi College in Jackson in 1964, and has had a long career as an Anesthesiologist. Barry is married to Carolyn Donnell. They have four daughters and two grandchildren.
		Lou Alfaro – Class of ‘62 After Tulane, Lou went into the Army Reserve for six months. He then joined the Secret Service in Houston. He was part of the detail guarding VP Hubert Humphrey, and lived in Washington, DC, then Miami and Tampa. He then was on the detail guarding President Ford. He is now retired from the Secret Service and living in Mooresville, North Carolina. Since finding out through our emails that Pat Hatch lives in South Carolina, Lou has visited with Pat, and attended some Reunion events in N.O. Lou met his wife Marianne at Newcomb, and has been married to her since 1975. He has his private investigator’s license and does background investigations for the Department of Defense.
		Dick Bainbridge – Class of ‘6? Dick lives in Sarasota. He was contacted last by Ray Westbrook. Dick does environmental testing for a living. He is divorced and has two children.
		Gary “Pup” Baker – Class of ‘62 Pup entered the Air Force and had his pilot training in Selma, AL, the year before the civil rights march. He was assigned to the F4 Phantom at George AFB in California for training for Vietnam. During his second tour to VN, while waiting for his brother to arrive for his tour, he was notified of his brother’s crash on his first counter-insurgency mission in a T28 in Thailand. He returned to the States for the funeral, and was denied a return to combat. He went back to George as an instructor preparing F4 pilots for duty in VN. There he met his wife of more than 40 years. They completed the military commitment and hired on with Continental Airlines in Los Angeles. After two furloughs, three strikes, five base changes, and two bankruptcies, he was forced to retire on 911 due to the FAA mandatory age limit. They have three sons, one a U.S. Naval Academy grad. They live on 30 acres with one son and his family raising miniature Hereford cattle. Last we heard, their family includes seven granddaughters and one grandson.
		Leo Bashinsky - Class of ‘68 Halfway through his sophomore year, Leo left Tulane and transferred to the U. Alabama, earning a BA in history and a Masters in special education there. Leo’s grandfather founded Golden Flake Potato Chips, so Leo inherited money young and has not had to work. He taught special ed for a while, then taught museum ed, then was a photographer for a newspaper in a little town near Lafayette, Louisiana. Then he moved back to Alabama where he plays the stock market, or is a “venture capitalist” as he puts it. He has two children by his first marriage, and three by his second wife who is from Louisiana and teaches music at Montevallo College in Alabama. They live outside Birmingham and are very happy.
		Fran Bass – Class of ‘65 Fran transferred to the U. of the South - Sewanee in 1962 and majored in Political Science. He attended Vanderbilt Law School, married his first wife Brenda, and graduated in 1968. Having NROTC experience at T.U., he went to Navy OCS and joined the Navy JAG Atlantic staff. He was then assigned to the White House Liaison Office of the Sec. Navy (Chafee). He was then sent to the Navy Law Center in Memphis, where he was the only lawyer licensed in Tennessee. Upon release from active duty, Fran helped start a bus tour business, Gray Line of Nashville, and ran a family farm. With two daughters, he was divorced from Brenda in 1978. He married again to Kathy in 1980 and had another daughter & a son with her. In 1994 he joined Tennessee DHS as a trial attorney for children & the elderly.
		Daryl Beam – Class of ‘65 Daryl graduated along with Judd Tooke from Shattuck School in Minnesota in ’64, and over the years roomed with Judd & Tom Tooke, Ed Weidlich, “Kahuna” Cunliffe, and “Salty” Holt. Daryl pledged Kappa Sigma, but partied with Phi Delts for years. He is convinced that La. Alpha should receive royalties from the “Animal House” movie. Since college, Daryl has worked as a fishing guide in Yellowstone Park, owned and operated a travel agency in Billings, and married his long-time wife, Carol. For 30+ years he was a builder & realtor. He squeezed in a retirement at his log cabin in Montana for a couple of years, but he and Carol are now involved in the local organic co-op grocery, and are very active in activist environmental, conservation, and heritage organizations. They are both tree-hugging Democrats, avid hikers, and they “trout fish our buns off.” They are also LSU Tiger football freaks.
		Neil Benner – Class of ‘68 Neil swam on scholarship for Tulane while they were in the SEC. He graduated T.U. with a degree in Philosophy. He attended Kentucky School of Law until drafted into the Army. He was a guided missile technician and Instructor in low-altitude air defense at Fort Bliss, TX. He finished up in Germany. He spent 30 years as a manufacturer’s agent brokering raw materials in a business started by his father. In 1972 he married Jane Branch, an American Airlines flight attendant. The family business was sold in 2003. Neil is now a Property Manager and partner in an estate sales business. He and Jane have two daughters, one of whom managed to win $25,100 on Wheel of Fortune four days after her college graduation.
		Tiff Birmingham – Class of ‘67 After graduation from Tulane, Tiff married his girlfriend Mary, and went to Air Force flight school. He flew C-130’s and rescue helicopters world-wide until his retirement with the rank of Colonel. He was married to Mary for seven years and had one daughter, who gave them three grandsons that Tiff says are really good guys. Tiff remarried, but proved after 13 years that he did not “have the right stuff” for that institution. Ergo, he has been unmarried since the early ‘90’s. But he has a special lady who lives close by and they visit often. After the Air Force, Tiff was a financial guru with Mass. Mutual Financial Group. He sold his “book” after 12 years. He is currently involved as a very silent partner in businesses in Atlanta, NYC, and Nashville.
		Manny Blessey – Class of ‘55
		Charles Plowden Bridges – Class of ’62 Plowden earned a Medical Doctor degree and practiced in Baytown, Texas.
		John Brothers – Class of ‘61 John graduated in math and zoology and went on to Vanderbilt Medical School. He married Anne Carter in 1964. He stayed at Vandy for a surgical internship and residency, and then a specialty in Orthopedics, finishing in 1970. He spent the next two years in the Navy at Chelsea Naval Hospital in Boston. He lived in Marblehead, MA, and loved it and New England. He learned to ski on Vermont and New Hampshire snow (what we call ice). He went back to Nashville in 1972 in a private practice group of four. He retired in 2006 from the practice that had grown to 26 MD’s in seven locations. He and Anne have three boys (none doctors) and they enjoy five granddaughters. The family all ski, but he and Anne had to give it up years ago. Golf, computer stuff, and woodworking are now his passions.
		Paul Brown – Class of ‘67 Paul married Gere whom he dated in college, and they have several kids. He was a banker in charge of approving high-end commercial loans in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina he retired and they moved to Virginia.
		Fred Cagle – Class of ‘60
		John “Geek” Callandar – Class of ‘67 John married Joannie and went ot work for Owens-Illinois. In the early 70’s he was transferred to Scarsdale, NY, then to Toledo, Cincinnati, back to Toledo, and then Alton, IL, accumulating three kids with Joannie along the way. His business success took a toll on his home life, however, ending in divorce from Joannie. He ultimately found a wonderful ‘significant other’ woman, a school guidance counselor, to help him raise the children. John is still friends with Joannie and her third husband. All of John’s kids turned out great, and at last count had given him three grandchildren.
		Prentiss Carter – Class of ‘64 Prentiss began Tulane Medical School on an accelerated program while still an undergraduate. He lives in Morton, Illinois, and has had a very busy OBGYN practice for several decades. He is married; his wife’s name is Mary. They have three children and three grandchildren.
		Edmund Christy – Class of ‘61 Ed went to graduate school at Tulane and received a PhD in physics. He helped start a very successful company in New Orleans that provided 1^st-generation offshore geo-positioning services. After many years, the business was sold, but Ed stayed on as a technical consultant. Ed and his wife, Mae Whitson, have two children (boy and girl) and 5 grandchildren. They still live on Paladin Place in Metairie.
		Harley Cluxton – Class of ‘68 After Tulane, Harley was in the Army Special Forces for a number of years. Then he went back to Tulane for Law School. After law school, he practiced with a large firm in Chicago for one year, but then decided to go into business instead. He was offered the Ferrari franchise for the territory west of the Mississippi. He chose Arizona over California because of importation laws. He raced Ferraris in ’65-66 and ’71-75 at Sebring, etc. He also bought the Mirage Racing Team. Mario Andretti and other famous drivers raced for him and brought many impressive wins. In 1988 he sold the Ferrari dealership, but still sells to collectors. He features antique race cars in the $1 – $2 million range. As an attorney, he is also a sports agent for race car drivers, football and baseball players, etc. Harley still owns the Mirage Racing Team.
		Mike Coffee – Class of ‘65 Mike married Sandy Sammons, who attended LSU, but visited him in N.O. at the Phi Delt house many times. He left Tulane after his sophomore year and received his electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Mike and Sandy had three kids, and now have grandkids. Both Mike and Sandy have now remarried. Mike lives in Atlanta where he is founder and CEO of a pre-IPO communications-equipment company that develops and markets products to support next-generation converged-media networks (whatever those are).
		Bob Coleman – Class of ‘62 During the 70’s / 80’s (?), Bob Coleman and Robbie Robertson were partners in Coleman-Robertson, Inc., an advertising company in New Orleans. Bob now lives in Boulder, Colorado. Lou Alfaro says that he designs shelving for stores.
		Grant Collier – Class of ‘60 From 1960-68, Grant was a Naval aviator, a carrier pilot in the Vietnam War, and flight instructor. After the war, he joined Pan American Airlines , for whom he copiloted Boeing 707’s for a couple of years. From 1972 to 2006 he worked as an insurance executive. Since 2006, he has been involved in the entrepreneurial marketing of touch-screen computer point-of-service systems to business owners. He lives in Slidell, Louisiana, and has three children and ten grandchildren. He lists his hobby as building and flying “giant scale aircraft.”
		Phil Cook – Class of ‘69 Phil transferred from Tulane to the Merchant Marine Academy where he graduated. He was with the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) until 1980 when he was injured and went on disability. He then studied and got a job as a nuclear reactor handler, and now is with the State of Louisiana as a supervisor with the Department of Corrections. Phil lives with his family in Mandeville, Louisiana, on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
		Lou Costa – Class of ‘64 Lou got a masters in City Planning from U.Va., and except for 3 years in the restaurant business, has worked in government & planning ever since. He managed the French Market for several years. He is now a Project Manager for DMJM Harris, a national engineering company that is part of AECOM. His last big project was the Environmental Impact study for 38 miles of a new Interstate, I-49. His current project involves estimating the impact of moving 100 million cubic yards of clay (18 cubic yards per truckload) around N.O. to build new levees. Lou’s wife Mary Len is the interim president of the Arts Council of N.O. His daughter Lenora is the curator of Longue Vue House & Gardens, a museum house.
		Bill Croft – Class of ‘65?
		James “Jake” Crosland - Class of ‘64 Jake graduated from Tulane Law School and worked for a couple of years with a government-sponsored legal services law firm. He moved to Miami and was senior partner with a large labor firm for the management side, which merged with a larger firm. He is a very prominent labor attorney. Jake is married with two kids.
		Light Cummins – Class of ‘68 Light was at Tulane for a year before his dad pulled him out for making C’s and D’s. He had to go to work in an oil field, where he saw another worker get his finger cut off on the job. The fellow wrapped it in a cloth, put it in his pocket, and went back to work. Light decided that this was not for him, so he pursued studies in lieu of manual labor. He went to SW Texas College and studied hard, graduating in two years. He also started a Phi Delt chapter there. An ex-ROTC trainee, he did a tour of duty all over the world as a USAF intelligence officer. In 1972 he went back to T.U. for a PhD in history, and there met his wife, Victoria, also a T.U. history PhD. He then spent two years in Spain as a Fulbright Scholar. He is now the chair of history at Austin College in Sherman (Dallas), Texas. His specialty is Spanish Borderlands. He has authored well-known books on U.S. history, and lectures frequently in Louisiana. Light and Virginia have two daughters.
		Rick Cunliffe – Class of ‘68 After Tulane, Rick flew the F-4 Phantom as a weapons systems officer in the USAF. His duty in the Philippines, Thailand, and S. Vietnam through 1973 included 297 combat missions, earning him the rank of Captain. He obtained a masters in Intl. Mgmt. from the American Graduate School of Intl. Mgmt. in 1975, and worked in Milwaukee until 1977. From 1977 to 1980, he lived in Paris, Ivory Coast, and London as Regional Manager for Harnischfeger Intl. and Morgan Equip. Co., traveling extensively in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. As regional manager for Grove Intl., he lived in Singapore from 1981-86. From 1986-90 he was with Clemco Ind. serving the aircraft industries. He founded Escadrille Intl. in 1990, working with more than 25 aerospace defense companies in 30 countries. Altogether, Rick has lived more than 22 years outside the U.S. Since 2002 Rick is senior VP for defense systems at QinetiQ Inc. He and his wife Carol have two children.
		Steve Derbes – Class of ‘61? Steve is an Medical Doctor in New Orleans. He specialized in Internal Medicine.
		Bob Evans – Class of ‘65 Bob married Helen Carney after graduation in a raucous wedding. They spent a year in grad school at Purdue. Bob joined Johnson Controls in Charlotte, then Atlanta. Leaving in 1971 with two sons, they moved to Tokyo for three years to start a joint venture company. Desiring to “live in a smaller city,” they moved to NYC in 1974, and have been in the same apartment since. Helen got a PhD in art history from the IFA in 1990, and is now a noted curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bob worked in sales, marketing & management for JCI, ending up as manager of their investment real estate accounts worldwide. After Helen was established at the Met, he left JCI and consulted for years before retiring. They have four grandchildren. They travel regularly to Europe, Russia, and the Mediterranean for her work, and to San Francisco to see grandkids.
		Charles “Chuck” Farrar – Class of ‘65 Chuck practices law in Miami. After law school, he moved to Miami and worked with the U.S. Attorney’s office prosecuting criminal cases. When Jimmy Carter was elected President, there was a turnover of the office. Chuck and another U.S. Attorney opened and office specializing in Federal Court litigation. He has never married, but has had the same girlfriend for 30 years.
		Carl Flescher – Class of ‘6? Carl lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and worked in marketing for BMW. We think he is now retired.
		Bill Forman – Class of ‘60?
		Jacques Fortier – Class of ‘38 Jacques has attended at least one of our reunions in New Orleans.
		Betty Foster – HouseMother 1960’s During the 2000 Reunion, Barry Jones was able to locate Mrs. Foster by phone in Santa Monica, CA, where she and John were retired, a few blocks from the ocean. They talked for an hour. Barry said the conversation was somewhat chaotic since she was taking care of grandchildren at the time. Kearny Robert spoke to her during that call, and reports that she had a vivid memory of running across him in front of his State St. home on her way back from the grocery when he broke the news to her that President Kennedy had just been assassinated. Barry said she seemed to be doing well. She and John would go to N.O. every few years or so, and said they had been to Venice twice. Their daughter Carol lives in Antigua in the Caribbean. Their other daughter, Nora, lives in Bel Aire in Los Angeles and is married to an attorney. She died of cancer a few years ago.
		Gregg John Frelinger – Class of ‘64 John graduated from Kentucky Law School but does not practice law. For a couple of years he was with a government Legal Services operation in N.O. Then he went to work for Martin’s Wine Cellar here as a wine salesman. He later left Martin’s and went with another wine distributorship in N.O. His job is to go around to restaurants and introduce the people to new wines. He has never been married. How can someone with a job visiting all the restaurants in N.O. stay so skinny? John says he “cut back on beer.”
		Field Gomila – Class of ‘59?
		Ron Gurtler – Class of ‘68 Ron was in the class of ’68 and was a good friend of the Phi Delts. He went to Tulane Law School and then served as an intelligence officer in the USAF. He practiced law in N.O. until 1979, when he was made president of an oilfield service company in Westwego (N.O.). He then moved to England in 1981 as head of a similar company. He returned to the U.S. in 1988 and consulted in the international oil patch. In 1994, his wife, Sharon, inherited an oilfield service company in Bogotá, Columbia. They have managed that company from afar since then. They live in Orlando, FL, and also have a house in Brevard, NC. Ron has two grown daughters by his first marriage, and one daughter with Sharon. He has a commercial balloon license. His hobby is genealogy.
		Rick Guth – Class of ‘67 After graduation Rick went into the family lighting business and married a girl he had known since the seventh grade. Guth Lighting Co. was sold in the early 1970’s, but Rick stayed on until the late 80’s. In the last eight years he traveled the country as V.P. of Sales, pushing the reps to sell more. He periodically visits Paul and Gere Brown. In 1988 he started his own lighting rep company. He has two daughters and one son. He lives in Alton, Illinois, just outside of St. Louis, and sees John Callendar on a regular basis.
		Tom Harrington – Class of ‘64 Graduated from Tulane Law School on Tulane Law Review and worked for two large firms in New Orleans. In 1982 he opened his own office, doing mostly plaintiffs’ work. His office is in Gretna, on the West Bank of New Orleans. He has been married twice and has no kids. We have an ominous report of some very bad health problems, and no recent news of Tom.
		Pat Hatch – Class of ‘65 Pat graduated with an EE degree and joined the USAF as a pilot in Vietnam. He flew primarily C-130 aircraft. In 1971 he founded an airline and charter company in Costa Rica. He married his wife Linda from Nashville, and had two children, now grown. He sold the company in 1979 and started a corporate flight department flying Lear 35’s for Del Monte Corporation in Miami, FL. In 1986 he transferred to Winston-Salem, NC, with RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. He flew Falcon and Gulfstream aircraft, and was promoted to Chief Pilot. Pat and Linda’s third child, an adopted daughter, Chloe, was born in 1995. Pat retired from Nabisco Corp. in 2000 with 21 years’ service. He was then hired by TAG Aviation USA in W. Palm Beach, FL, where he flew Gulfstream V aircraft. He was promoted to Regional VP- Aircraft Sales, and retired in 2005 to Vero Beach, FL. Pat lives on a barrier island with Linda and Chloe. They enjoy kayaking, biking, and sports aviation. Pat flies an airplane he built himself.
		Tom Herd – Class of ‘68 Tom dropped out for financial reasons, but came to most of the Phi Delt parties over the years. After graduating Tulane in 1968, Tom went into the Navy as a Russian linguist. He then went to submarine school at New London, CT, and active duty in Misawa, Japan. After the war, he attended Law School at the Univ. of Florida. He became an attorney with Prudential Insurance Co., specializing in labor law. He retired and they transferred to New Jersey, where his wife is a VP in Prudential’s home office. He is now in his second marriage and has a grown step-daughter of whom he is very proud. He enjoys retirement and is taking guitar lessons and a course in creative writing. Tom and Susan look forward to building a retirement home in Beaufort, SC, 20 or so miles northwest of Hilton Head.
		Pete “Higgy” Higinbotham – Class of ‘64 Pete was in Vietnam and went to Tulane Law school. He practiced law in Fairmont, West Virginia. For several years recently he worked half time. He spent half the year in a French Quarter home. He is married to Jan, whom he dated since law school; they have two adult daughters. Pete and Jan bought a house right below the Quarter, two blocks below Esplanade, which contains apartments they are renting. He retired in 2008 and has been living in New Orleans full time since then.
		Roger Higgs – Class of ‘68 Roger graduated from the U. Missouri Medical School in 1974 and came back to N.O. for an internship in internal medicine at Ochsner. He spent three years with the National Health Service Corps of the USPHS, working in underserved rural areas of South Carolina, then Oregon. From 1978-80 he did an Internal Medicine residency in Boston. For two years he was the regional Clinical Coordinator of the National Health Service Corp. in Seattle. He went into solo private practice in Seattle in 1981, with a specialty in family practice and gerontology. In 1992, he married Cindy, a computer expert and excellent “ugly food cook” and traveling companion. For 20 years, he had hard work and almost no vacations., until he sold his medical practice in 2001 and took a job with International SOS, a company providing modern health care to Westerners working and living in third-world countries. His first post was in Shenzhen, China, a border town to Hong Kong; then Almaty, Kazakhstan for a couple of years; next in the mountains of the Republic of Georgia; briefly on Sakhalin Island, Russia; then West Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia, one year. They are currently in Lagos, Nigeria, a cess-pool of crime and corruption, but otherwise pleasant enough. Vacations in this job are plentiful (3-6 mos/year), so they are very knowledgeable of India, China, Central Asia, West Australia, South Africa, western Europe (UK, Spain) , and parts of Indonesia. Roger and Cindy welcome stories or questions from other ex-pats or world travelers.
		Paul Hogan III – Class of ’63? Paul had a long banking career with Whitney Bank in New Orleans. He has had 3 wives and 2 children.
		“Salty” Holt – Class of ‘69 Salty died around 1989 of diabetes aggravated by alcohol. Apparently he was not supposed to drink because of the diabetes, but did anyway. Rich Kidwell visited him in Minneapolis approximately 1976, with Salty’s wife Mary and daughter Holly. Salty never worked and was supported by his father all his life. Rich talked with Mary in 1987 and learned that Salty had lapsed into a diabetic coma. He was apparently in the coma for two years and died in 1989.
		Jack Hooper – Class of ‘63 Jack met his wife, Lisle Castleman from Louisville, as a blind date at the Phi Delt House. Five decades later, they are still dating and have two children and five grandchildren. Jack finished college in Nashville with a major in accounting. He worked three years for Price-Waterhouse, then five years for a regional wholesale food distributor. He was owner of Tennessee Wine & Spirits Co. Then as part of a ceramics business he obtained world-wide rights for representation of Elvis Presley. He was owner of Rock Harbor Marine boat sales & marine restaurant, and was a real-estate developer in Wyoming. Until the early 2000’s, Jack and Lisle lived solely in Nashville. They are now retired and share their lives between Nashville and (mostly) Jackson Hole, Wyoming, enjoying the year-round outdoor activities there.
		Tim Irwin – Class of ’60? Tim, or “Pimp” as he was affectionately known to the pledges, went to Tulane Medical School and specialized in ENT medicine. He did a residency at Barnes in St. Louis, and returned to New Orleans for medical practice at West Jefferson Hospital, where he was Chief of Staff for some time. At last word, he was still active in medical practice. Tim and his wife Martha have three children (two boys and a girl) one grandchild and two step-grandchildren.
		Hardy Jones – Class of ‘65 After leaving Tulane, Hardy went into the Peace Corps in Peru. He returned to the U.S. and joined CBS News, where he worked for two years before becoming an anchor man at a CBS affiliate in Alaska. He left Alaska to go to California, where he ran seminars with the likes of Buckminster Fuller, physicists, consciousness gurus, etc. Hardy is married to Deborah Cutting. After 32 years of living in California, Hardy and Deborah moved to St. Augustine, FL, where they concentrate on BlueVoice.Org, their non-profit organization dedicated to preservation of the marine environment. Lately they have focused on pollution in the marine environment and how it enters the human food supply.
		Dave Kellogg – Class of ‘65 After Tulane, Dave went to Vietnam, then received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He joined Citibank in 1970 and spent nine years in Asia and several years in New York before coming to Dallas. He joined Continental Bank in 1990, which was subsequently bought by Bank of America. He travels to Asia frequently as a consultant to HKS, a leading U.S. architectural firm, helping them develop their Asia/China business (they designed the Venetian Resort & Casino in Macau). At last word, Dave is still active as a banker, is living in Dallas, still enjoys skiing, and has three children.
		Mary Hobart Key Ed Key ‘65 lived with his distant cousin, Mary Hobart Key, in the French Quarter. Rich Sherman knew them well when he was in law school. Ed Key died sometime in 1975-80. Rich was told he went in to have a routine operation, maybe on his back, and died on the operating table. Pat Hatch, Rich, and other Phi’s remember Ed fondly, and consider Mary a dear Friend of the Chapter.
		Rich Kidwell – Class of ‘69 Rich graduated from Florida State in 1969 and entered the U.S. Army as an Intelligence Officer, serving at Fort Holabird, MD, Vietnam, and Fort Huachuca, AZ. He was an instructor at the Army Intelligence School, and Team Chief for the clandestine intelligence collection effort in Vietnam, earning the Silver Star and Bronze Star. From 1972-88, as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Loa Angeles and San Jose, CA, Rich conducted criminal investigations of major drug traffickers. From 1988 to 1999 he was assigned as Resident Agent-in-Charge with NASA’s Office of Inspector General at the Ames Research Center, CA. He managed a full range of investigations of NASA employees and contractors for procurement fraud, kickbacks, mis-charging, bribery, product substitution, and internal affairs. Since his retirement in 1999, Rich has been an independent Investigative Consultant conducting background investigations of personnel security for Homeland Security, DoD, NSA, and Customs & Border Protection. He has trained TSA checked-baggage screeners, and also performed investigative consulting services for for corporate clients. Rich now resides on Gone Away Farm (Registered Angus) in Lincoln, Arkansas. We have no information that Rich has ever been married.
		John Kyff – Class of ‘64 Robert Kyff reports that his older brother, John Kyff, is retired on a farm in Culpepper, Virginia. John transferred from Tulane to Ohio State and received a business degree there. He worked for IBM in personnel and human resources, living eventually in Manassas, Virginia, before retiring from IBM and moving to Culpepper. He is married with two sons.
		Robert Kyff – Class of ‘65 Bob Kyff graduated from Tulane with a B.S. in Chemistry and Psychology. He did graduate work at Tulane and North Carolina State U., but did not get an advanced degree. He then was a chemist for IBM, and for Dupont for 12 years. His title was Chemical Engineer, but he was a chemist, not an engineer. He grew tired of being transferred around and retired to a 50-acre farm in Tennessee where he has a little sawmill and is building a house. He spends the winters with his parents at their home in Deerfield Beach, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He has 2 kids and 3 grandkids. His brother, John, was also a Phi.
		Frank Lane – Class of ‘69 Frank ultimately graduated from the Univ. Connecticut with a BA in economics. He has worked for Tilcon Connecticut, the largest quarry, sand & gravel, concrete, and asphalt supplier in Connecticut, as well as one of the largest paving and heavy construction and highway construction contractors. Tilcon is currently owned by CRH Oldcastle materials of Dublin, Ireland. He is the Director of Real Estate and Environmental Compliance. Frank has been married to one wife, Tanya, since 1976. Frank and Tanya have two grown children, a son and daughter.
		Marty “Root” Lewis Our dedicated cook for decades. After the Chapter House closed, Marty went on to work for Richard Freeman at Coca-Cola. Ed Weidlich used to go by and see him from time to time. Marty is now deceased. Not sure exactly when or why.
		Bob Love – Class of ‘58 Bob attended Tulane for pre-med and medical school. He married Edwynne Joiner in 1962. After graduation from med school, they went to San Francisco for a one-year internship at Southern Pacific General Hospital (Floyd Fraser was there also). From there they went to the Univ. Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock for a residency in General Surgery, then on to the Univ. Mississippi Medical Center for a residency in Plastic Surgery. They moved to Greenville, MS, where Bob was in private practice for 37 years. For 33 of those years, he ran a burn unit and burn center. Along the way, he got board certified in Plastic Surgery and General Surgery. He was a trustee of the local county hospital, and chairman of commercial exhibits for the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgery. Bob is a former President of the American Association of Hand Surgery. He retired just short of 70 years of age. Bob and Edwynne have four children, three boys and a girl. Two reside in Little Rock, and the other two in Atlanta and Chicago. They enjoy eight grandchildren, one boy and one girl from each child. Bob and Edwynne spend most of their time in Greenville and Arkansas.
		Michael Lynch – Class of ‘65 Mike graduated from Medical School at LSU and was a U.S. Navy medical doctor. He now practices as an orthopedic surgeon in Memphis. He has two grown daughters and several grandchildren. Fran Bass reports he has stayed good friends with Dr. Lynch.
		Mike Maher – Class of ‘6? Mike graduated from Tulane with a degree in chemical engineering. Since the early 80’s, he has lived in Richmond, Virginia, working for the tobacco industry. He has worked in various areas of the industry, but now is involved in strategic planning. Mike is married and has no kids. But he tells us he does have a dog, two cats, and a parrot.
		Dan Maker – Class of ‘68
		Harvey Marice – Class of ‘64 Harvey was one of the “Prisoners of the Owls” (Chi-O’s) at Tulane. He married Mary Weed and worked for several years at Kalvar Corp. in N.O. Then he went back to T.U. to study medicine. After graduating from T.U. Medical School, he joined the staff at Ochsner Med. Center in N.O. as an anesthesiologist. He and Mary have two grown children, a daughter and son. Harvey retired from Ochsner several years ago. He and Mary split their time between homes in Metairie, Louisiana, and Four-Mile-Village (next to SanDestin), Florida. Kearny and Susan Robert have remained close friends and see them regularly in New Orleans.
		Wylie McDougall – Class of ’60? Wylie apparently was yet another Phi to succumb to the “Louisville allure,” marrying Debbie Earl from Louisville, KY, in 1963. Wylie and Debbie have three children and six grandchildren. Wylie retired from the 70-year-old family business of metal manufacturing and construction in 2006. He and his brother owned and operated the family business for 40 years. Wylie’s son, Alec, is the third-generation McDougall to own and run this business. Wylie bought a non-working farm 65 miles from Nashville in Hickman County, which according to Wylie is “aptly named and very rural.” When Wylie is not playing golf or attending grandkids’ ball games, it is a good bet that he is at the farm. He spends as much time hunting and fishing as he can. He enjoys being retired.
		Wayne McVadon – Class of ’60?
		Gene Moorhead – Class of ‘69 Married to Kathy from the Phi Delt days for over 30 years. He was in the radio broadcasting business for 18 years. Since 1992 he has been a partner in an advertising agency in Montgomery, Alabama.
		Bill Mysing – Class of ’6? Bill is an attorney practicing in Covington, LA, on the NorthShore of Lake Pontchartrain.
		Jimmy Nieset – Class of ‘64 Jim was one of the “Prisoners of the Owls” (the Chi-O’s) at Tulane, and married Mercedes Plauche, whom he first dated there. Jim is an attorney in his father-in-law’s firm in Lake Charles, LA. He has been recognized by Tulane as a distinguished alumnus. He and his family are strong supporters of the University and the Law School.
		Jim Northington – Class of ‘67 Jim is a prominent plastic surgeon in Florence, Alabama. He graduated #3 in his class at Tulane Medical School. He specialized in plastic surgery in the Army, from which he retired in 1982. He went home to Florence and opened his own clinic. He was married to Jean for 31 years and has two girls, both Phi Beta Kappa’s, one of whom is graduating from medical school. He and Jean divorced in 2003, and he remarried. He has been president of the state society. He points out that his plastic surgery website has a lot of juicy pictures. His life as a plastic surgeon is is like a teenager’s fantasy; he is thinking about renaming his clinic, “Tits-R-Us.”
		Charles Nutter – Class of ’60? Charlie had a distinguished career in public service in New Orleans. He was notable as the Director of the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) for many years.
		Sam Pace – Class of ‘66
		Richard Palmer – Class of ‘65 Dick attended the 2005 Reunion and wanted to attend in 2008, but had a conflict. After graduating from Tulane, Dick went to graduate school at Texas, then went into Navy OCS and did two tours in Vietnam. The first was in a minesweeper, and the second was in a patrol boat. After Vietnam he started out in the real estate business building ski lodges. Now he is a land developer in Denver and Aspen. He said he mainly does subdividing, buying land and cutting it into subdivided parcels to sell to builders.
		John Pittman – Class of ‘61 After obtaining his BA from Tulane, John married Patricia Ann (Rusty) Russum in 1963, and earned a DDS from the Univ. Tennessee in 1965. He then served in the U.S. Army at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, from 1966-68. From the Army, John went on to a residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) at the Louisiana State University Medical Center at Shreveport. In 1971 he began a long-time private practice in OMS in Pascagoula, Mississippi. John and Rusty, a teacher and director of First Methodist Preschool for over 30 years, have two daughters and four grandchildren. John retired in 2000. He reports that he has lots of spare time, most of it spent unproductively, but incredible enjoyable! He and Rusty lost their house in Katrina, but think they fared pretty well, all things considered. They keep an apartment in Pascagoula, and have a place in Gainsville, GA, where both of their girls and grandkids are within an hour’s drive. They expect to spend more time in Georgia as Rusty continues to phase out her preschool obligations in Pascagoula. John is interested in old friends from New Orleans and sends this message to Louisiana Alpha: “LIFE IS GOOD!”
		John “Polecat” Poser – Class of ‘65 John graduated from Tulane Law School. He practices law in Wisconsin. He does a general practice, but mostly trust and estate work. He is married. We think that he has no children.
		Kent Putnam – Class of ‘69 Graduated from Florida State U. Law School and went to work as an attorney with the First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee, one of five appeal courts in the State. He had been there several years and is the senior attorney at the court. He was divorced, and remarried, and has two children.
		Erskine Ramsey, II – Class of ‘68 Erskine finished at Brimingham-Southern College with a BS in biology/chemistry. He then obtained an MS in engineering from the Univ. Alabama. For 10 years he was a Project Engineer for a large mechanical contractor. In 1982, he started Superior Mechanical, Inc., with his father. He sold the business in 2000 and remained as CEO until 2005. He is presently with Brasfield and Gorrie in Birmingham, a $2-billion general contractor that is the largest hospital contractor in the USA. Erskine is married to the former Laura Dean. They have two sons, the older of which is married with a boy and a girl. Erskine and Laura have a summer home in Cashiers, NC, and a beach house in Fort Morgan, AL. They live in Mountain Brook, AL, one mile from where Erskine grew up.
		Andy Raymond – Class of ‘6? Andy died in Baton Rouge in a one-car accident, around 1981. Judd Tooke grew up with Andy in Shreveport and still represents the family and their oil company. He said Andy never had a serious job, but was supported by his family. He dabbled in a number of things. At one time, he tried being a photographer. He lived in Baton Rouge. He was gravely injured one night when he struck a bridge abutment. His father was really upset, as would be expected, and kept Andy on life support in a coma for a year. Family members and doctors finally persuaded him it was hopeless and unplugged the life support.
		Kearny Robert, Jr. – Class of ‘64 A “Prisoner of the Owls” (Chi-O’s) at Tulane, Kearny is still married (since 1967) to Susan Hanckes, to whom he refers as his “first wife.” He received his PhD in physics & mathematics from Tulane in 1970. He was a research physicist and department manager at the Gulf South Research Institute in N.O. for six years. He then was an adjunct professor at Tulane, and a research scientist at the Southern Regional Research Center in N.O. involved in agricultural research for 30 years, including group leadership responsibility for part of that time. Along the way he survived a quadruple cardiac bypass in 1999 and another heart procedure in 2001. After Katrina, he was transferred to the U.S. Cotton Ginning Lab at an Agricultural Experiment Station outside Greenville, MS, for 2005-06. He returned to the N.O. facility in 2006, and retired in 2007 with some medical problems. He and Susan did not complete the recovery and return to their house until 2008. Susan teaches Kindergarten at Newman School. Kearny and Susan have three grown sons and four granddaughters. Their eldest son (Kearny III) is a prominent orthopedic surgeon in N.O. Kearny day-trades stocks and is building an internet commission-advertising & retail business. In early 2009, Kearny donated this web site to the Chapter. He is currently writing a book on timing of stock market index trends with technical analysis using circular CycleCharts^TM, which he invented.
		Robbie Robertson – Class of ‘61 After T.U., Robbie married Kirsten “Kitte” Lendal of Swendborg, Denmark. Sadly, Kitte died at age 33, leaving Robbie to bring up two children, a boy and a girl. In his mid-twenties, he went to work for the (now) Houston office of DDB Worldwide. After five years or so, he returned to N.O. and began Robertson Advertising, for which he worked for almost 15 years. Robbie and Bob Coleman were partners in Coleman-Robertson, Inc. during that time. There was a second marriage, which Robbie calls “a long story.” After selling the agency business, he became very much involved with a Roman Catholic nun who had invented “a whole new way to have school.” Her classroom management system was far ahead of its time, enabling startling advances in learning, grades, and standardized test scores. After five years of an entrepreneurial social effort to transform a “failing” neighborhood school, the project was de-commissioned by Hurricane Katrina. It lives on, however, via the N.O. Health Dept., an original partner, where Robbie now serves as the Office of Innovation. In the mid-90’s, Robbie invented Zydecola, a coffee-based soft drink that failed after successful test-marketing and favorable national taste reviews (Robbie says, “Go figure!”). Robbie reports that he hangs out a lot with Betty DiMarco of the Federal District Court (HR) who knows a lot about growing people and neighborhoods. His two grown children have produced four lovely granddaughters and an equally appealing grandson.
		Jim Rogers – Class of ‘68 Dr. James O. Rogers, Jr., lives in Lakeland, Florida. He transferred from Tulane to the U. Missouri in his senior year, graduated from there, then worked in advertising for several years. He then returned to the U. Missouri and received his PhD in Art History and Archaeology. He taught at a small college in Columbia, MO, for a few years. In 1992 he moved to Florida to be a professor at Florida Southern College. He is now Chair of the Art History Department at there. He has been married since 1982, and has two grown children.
		Jim Ryan – Class of ‘63 Jim was an Air Force jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After the war, he completed Tulane Law School. He married Beth, whom he had dated in college. After law school he went with a large firm in N.O. and was a partner there. Around 2003 he opened his own firm. His son is in the practice with him. He is a trial attorney specializing in insurance defense. He and Beth have a very nice house in the Garden District, and have two daughters.
		Al “Lucky” Schorre – Class of ‘68 Until recently, Lucky was county District Attorney of Midland, Texas, a town of 100,000. Lucky transferred from Tulane after one year, and received a law degree eventually from the U. Texas Law School. He practiced insurance defense law for about 8 years, then in 1980 ran for D.A. of Midland, and was elected. He held the office for more than 25 years. He is married and has two boys.
		Jim Scott – Class of ‘64 John Poser reports that Jim Scott lives in Pittsburgh and is a stock broker.
		Bob Sehlinger – Class of ‘67 After leaving T.U., Bob graduated from U. Louisville in 1968. After four years in the Army, he earned an MBA at the U. Kentucky. From 1973-78 he was the CEO of a wilderness arts teaching & expedition company producing outdoors skills courses (kayaking, climbing, survival, etc.) for client colleges. In 1975 he was elected president of the Eastern Professional River Outfitters Association (commercial whitewater river runners). Until 1992 he was a partner in companies that rafted the Obed and Big South Fork (Cumberland) Rivers in Tennessee, and the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers in Maine. He wrote five books on whitewater canoeing and kayaking for Thomas Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan, before joining that publisher as its director of marketing. During that time, Bob was also a visiting prof at (then) predominantly-black Kentucky State University. In 1982, Bob founded Menasha Ridge Press in Birmingham, AL. They publish about 75 titles a year in a wide range of non-fiction and reference subjects. In 2007 Menasha Ridge acquired Clerisy Press. They also create titles for other publishers. They are best known for the 70-title Unofficial Guide Series done for John Wiley & Sons, one of which – The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World -- is the number one best-selling travel guide in the U.S. Highlights of Bob’s career in book publishing include serving as president of the Publishers Association of the South, founding the annual Publishers Winter Conclave for entrepreneurial and establishment publishers. He continued to teach through the Univ. Denver Publishing Inst., and the Univ. N. Carolina Publishing Inst. His greatest thrill was an invitation from the U.S. State Dept. & USIS to represent U.S. publishing on a 5-person faculty that conducted educational missions for publishers in Hungary, Romania, and Russia. In 2001, Bob married Joan Burns of Birmingham after a 19-year engagement (he is not one to rush these things). Bob has two grown children, a boy and girl from his prior marriage. His son, Trent, is an environmental consultant in N.O. Bob has three grandchildren, a grandson in N.O. and two granddaughters in Birmingham. He has a Monday night supper club there where he takes the girls to a different place each week to “practice” their restaurant manners. Bob still plays drums and a little guitar, and spends as much time in the woods as possible – paddling, mountain biking, or skiing.
		Rich “Tank” Sherman - Class of ‘68 Rich graduated with honors from Tulane Law School. Rich lives and practices in Fort Lauderdale. He is very specialized and handles only appeals for insurance companies and corporations, mostly in larger verdict cases. He was with a large firm for 10 years, then opened his own office in 1983. He was married twice and is now single again. Rich has two sons and a daughter from the first marriage. Both sons were Phi Delts at FSU and graduated cum laude from the U. Miami Law School. His daughter is an ultrasound technician. Rich has several grandchildren in Fort Lauderdale.
		Ron Smith – Class of ‘64 Ron attended Tulane on a football and track scholarship. After two years he transferred to Indiana U., but reports that he had to drop out of both colleges because of his grades. He went to work on an assembly line, but later went back to Indiana to finish his undergrad studies, then completed Indiana Law School. He joined Steward & Irwin in Indianapolis in 1985, becoming managing partner in 1991. He and his second wife own a bed & breakfast in the Smoke Mountains in Waynesville, NC, called The Yellow House. He is there ten days a month. They have four children and five granddaughters. He said he had a well-deserved “Animal House” reputation at Tulane, and his present life is boring by comparison.
		Joe Tardo – Class of ‘67 Joe lives in the Silicon Valley of California. Apparently Joe is one of the computer geniuses of Silicon Valley we hear about. After receiving his Electrical Engineering degree from Tulane, he eventually earned a Ph.D. at UCLA. He worked for Digital Equipment Company for a number of years. He is now with a computer systems development company maned Bluesteel Networks.
		Warren “Rip” Taylor – Class of ’61? Rip Taylor is a former brother-in-law of Jim Ryan. Jim reports that Rip lives in Texas and works for IBM.
		Judd Tooke – Class of ‘68 After his one year of Cajun-style party-hardy at his older brother’s clubhouse on State Street, Judd finished up his undergraduate work at Centenary College. He then attended LSU Law School. He married in 1975 and divorced in 2005, after three children, including twin girls. He practiced law for 30 years, and is now retired. He has at least one grandchild. At last report, Judd was managing the law office of Claire Sharp, with whom he was co-habitating.
		Angelo D. Tooke Toups (Mrs. Thomas Tooke) Angelo is the wife of the late Tommy Tooke, who was a popular former President of the LA Alpha Chapter. They were married in 1967 and lived in New Orleans for several years while Tommy went to Architecture School. They then moved to New York city where their daughter, Phoebe, was born. After several years in NYC, they moved to Princeton so Tommy could get a masters in architecture. They came back to New Orleans, where Tommy was working for August Perez Architects at the time of his death in 1980 due to cancer. Angelo returned to school at UNO to study accounting. She was a tax accountant until her retirement in 2007. Angelo was remarried in 1984 to another architect, Michael Toups. He is in practice with Errol Barron in N.O. In 1985, Angelo had a second daughter, Elizabeth Toups. The older daughter, Phoebe Tooke, has been living in San Francisco working in the film industry since obtaining her masters in film. Elizabeth Toups recently got her masters in Advertising. Angelo and her family remain close friends of The Chapter.
		Bob Van Ness – Class of ‘65 Bob lives in Sarasota, Florida, on a 45-foot houseboat, which is quite a large houseboat. He recently moved to Sarasota from Braden. After Tulane he received an MBA degree from U. Florida. He manages a Mini Storage USA that is the second largest mini storage facility in the country. He has two children, one of whom is an attorney in Sarasota in the State Attorney’s office, and the other is a retired naval officer who is married to a naval doctor, and who is in the process of becoming a teacher.
		Richard Voelker – Class of ‘6?
		Rich Vogel – Class of ‘6? Rich earned a law degree and entered the Army JAG (legal corps), attaining the rank of General.
		Bryan Wagner – Class of ‘65 As anyone who knew him at Tulane was well aware, Bryan was infatuated with politics. That turned into a lifelong obsession as a political junkie and politician. Bryan was the first Republican ever elected to the City Council of New Orleans. He was actually Mayor of the City of New Orleans for three days. He has been a delegate to seven Republican National Conventions. He was Chair for the McCain campaign in Louisiana (did we mention that he is a Republican?), and past Chairman of the National Park Board. Bryan also earned an honest living: as an insurance agent and president of his own insurance agency. Additionally, he is a past minority owner of the New Orleans Saints. Bryan has two children and one step-child, plus 5 young grandchildren. He is still active in Bryan Wagner Insurance from his office on Carondelet Street.
		Ed Weidlich – Class of ‘66 Ed is an attorney in New Orleans. He was with a large firm for several years. Then he left and was with Shell Oil. Then he left to be the attorney for the large Harrah Casino in New Orleans. Now he is back with Shell.
		Drews Wilkinson – Class of ’65?
		Dalton Woolverton – Class of ‘60 In 1960, Dalton graduated from Tulane with a BS in engineering and married Marilyn Ciaccio (Newcomb ’61). He went on at T.U. to advanced study in engineering. In 1962, after he received his MS in engineering, he went to work for Boeing in New Orleans on the Saturn moon rocket program. After three years as a research engineer in the space industry, he decided that work was not for him. He completed an MBA degree at Loyola University in 1966. He went to work in the construction industry for Rumold, Inc., a small mechanical contracting business. When he became president of the company, he expanded the company into general contracting, building hospitals, hotels, schools, libraries, and pumping stations. He was subsequently hired by Deutsh, Kerrigan & Stiles, Counsellors –at-Law as their Director of Administration. That was a very interesting job that he liked very much, but he missed the construction business. In 1993 he was offered the position of assistant director of design and construction on the Harrah’s Casino in N.O. That was a challenging and exciting job. The project was estimated to take 15 months, but actually took 4 years (and two bankruptcies)! Dalton now works as an independent consultant in construction administration. Dalton and Marilyn have four sons (ATO, DKE, KA, but no Phi Delts). They are living in four different cities. One is in N.O. and one in Baton Rouge. The other two are in California and Tennessee. They have three grandchildren, including twin girls.
		Paul Woolverton – Class of ’62?
		Dudley Youman – Class of ’60 After graduating in 1960, Dudley attended Tulane Medical School and received his MD in 1964. In 1965 he was an Intern at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He also in 1965 married Sandy in Houston, then joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, in Internal Medicine. From 1968-70 he was with the U.S. Public Health Service in Salt Lake City, Utah. There he learned to ski, with the best snow in the country 30 minutes from his back door. In 1970-71 he was back at the Mayo in Hematology-Oncology. Since 1971, he has been in Austin, TX, practicing Hematology-Oncology in a group of 19 in the same specialty. Dudley and Sandy have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Dudley says that except for the end of his left 3^rd finger amputated by a riding mower, he is still intact, but he has gone from racquetball, running, and water skiing to mainly biking for exercise. They have a 341-acre ranch north of Austin where he plays with chain saws, tractor, etc., hunts deer and turkey, and enjoys the land, as well as a Grey Goose martini with a few drops of Scotch rather than vermouth. They now have a house big enough for all 13 as well as a large cement floored barn. Both kids and grandkids love it. His message to the Phis is: “HOOK’EM HORNS!”
		John “Squirrel” Young – Class of ’61? John Young was a doctor in Natchez, MS. We have an unconfirmed report that John passed away in 2007.