David Eckerson

 ... Dave Eckerson here ... I retired from the Foreign Service two years ago and now split time with my bride between houses in Northern Virginia and Seattle.  I was lured back to USAID to run our development program in Burma for a few months last September, and just did a month in El Salvador mentoring all the young'uns who now fill USAID's ranks.  On New Years Eve our daughter married the son of a family friend who died in the Asian Tsunami ten years ago.  We attended an amazing Buddhist remembrance ceremony on the remote island off the coast of Thailand where he died, along with survivors from around the world who came back to witness and relive that infamous day.  Five days later we had our daughter's wedding on the beach where her husband's dad was pulled out to sea.  Needless to say, the wedding and party afterward became one hell of a celebration of life on the island. We spent a month afterwards exploring Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos before returning to Virginia.  We head out to Seattle mid June via a northern route, and will return via a southern tack in October.  My email handle is davesbirthday@gmail.com if anyone wants to connect when we are either going or coming.     

Diane Storm

I'm glad I finally found our blog. Not much happening here, in Arizona. Yesterday was my first day at the pool since last summer. It sure felt good even though the winds were in excess of 25 mph. I'm looking forward to travelling back East this Fall and catching Josh Groban in Boston! I can't wait to see my daughter and family in NH, sister in VT, and maybe my daughter in GA.. The family is forever growing ~ 11 grandchildren (including triplets) and great grandson, Atty. Lots of plans to travel  'cause I'm really bored. Great to see what's happening with our class of '66!

Dan Sheedy

About the only "news" from here is about the two television series I've been doing for the past few years; "Living Alaska" and "Building Alaska."
Both are, obviously, filmed in Alaska and are based on life there. In "Living Alaska," we follow the home searches of families moving from the lower 48 to Alaska and in "Building Alaska" the film crew keeps track of wilderness builders who are struggling against the elements as they construct remote cabins and lodges out in the wild. 
Our older son, Ben, is getting married at the end of October. Jonathan, 24, is revving up his aerial video/photo business.
Jill and I are wobbling along together. Somehow, she has managed to stay married to me for almost 33 years. She must be crazy.

Maria Pulos Levy re Ed Zimmerman

Regarding ED -

It seems to me that he was a fictitious character in our class - Someone (wish I knew who) started signing "Ed Zimmerman was here" on desk tops, lockers, etc., etc.

WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHO THAT "SOMEONE" WAS -

 

Cinda Meachem Sutton

....I am retired (almost 2 years now) from my "main job" of the past 29 years, teaching health & nursing & being the department head/director of the Practical Nursing program for our local Technical Center. I am currently working for a private company teaching review classes at schools of nursing for their national licensing exam.  I get to travel a lot & I love my job!  It is very flexible.  I can take an assignment or not, as I choose. I generally travel about 12-14 weeks a year.  I have 2 grand children who live a few blocks away & 2 others in Dallas.  I am hooked on my fitbit, walking 3-5 miles a day & doing swim aerobics daily when I am not on the road.  We see Larry Craigie each year, as well as Debbie Goode McCormick (FM Class of 67) I usually make at least 2 visits back to the FM area each year. We have a group of 8 of us who travel both in the US & abroad.  We are especially fans of River Cruising in Europe.  We will be spending a week in NYC this fall after spending a couple of weeks in Manlius with my Nursing School roommate.  All in all, it is a pretty nice life.  Can't complain! Just hard to believe it will be 50 years next year!! Where did the years go??

 

Lucinda Sutton

Linda Vandeven Beidleman

Linda Vandeven Beidleman lost her husband Jack last August. She has moved to Idaho to be near her son

John Beidleman* (1945 - 2014)   ( FM Class of 1963) 

John Bennett Beidleman Jr., 69, died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, at his home in Idaho Falls. He was born June 13, 1945, in Buffalo, N.Y., to John Bennett Beidleman Sr. and Mary Louise Stern Beidleman. He lived in Buffalo, Northboro, Mass.            

 

Herman Hale

Does anyone have a photo of Herman Hale?

News

Does anyone have news for the blog. Have not had contact with classmates in quite awhile. Is anyone even looking at this blog?

Please get in touch with me at debbydoolittle@yahoo.com

FM's Cross Country running team

Fayetteville Manlius High School cross country teams makes the news
see the link and click on it

www.today.com/video/today/57048488#57048488

50th Reunion

 

Just a reminder our

50th reunion

will be held in the fall of 2016

From Larry Carigie

 

My sister sent this to me.  I'm sure the 6666ers would like to see it.

Merry Christmas

Larry Craigie:
The Lombardi of Teen Running

High School Coach Bill Aris Has Won Nine National Titles by Stressing Teamwork Over Individuality

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lombardi-of-teen-running-1418431353

 

Aris became head coach at FM in 2004

Camp Tellman continued

Friends and Family,

We had a great Bon Voyage party on Sunday, November 30!  Weather was in the 60's, we stood around snacking/drinking/talking in the gravel road and almost everyone got to tour the boat.  I think it helped for people to see where we would be living and they realized the boat was less like camping...and in fact is a cozy little home w/ more ammenities than they imagined!

The next day we took our first trip on the boat in nine years. We went to Oriental (4 hour trip north on the ICW) to have radar installed and that went well.  However, during the trip we realized how rusty we had become from so many years of not boating...so it was a rather stressful trip (starboard bow line not there, ran aground, crash landings, etc).  Plus we still had several issues to solve...alternator, diesel heater, navigation screen that goes dark after 30 minutes.  We returned to Beaufort pretty stressed but kept working on issues and provisioning the boat...hoping for a December departure...and all the while waiting for this to become more fun! 

Well, at the end of the week one kind and brave friend of ours gently suggested we might consider delaying the trip south and do some local practice boating this winter.  And, we need to feel secure that everything on the boat is working well...something we don't feel right now.  That had been our plan for the fall...but we ran out of time so we were just going to leave and gain the skills on the way south.  We both quickly agreed that that plan made sense...so we are not going away this month after all.  Instead we are driving to Florida for a couple of weeks to be w/ my daughter and her family for Christmas.  When we return...we'll do short trips to New Bern, the Cape, Okracoke, etc.  Won't be the warm boating we'd planned on but at least we have a boat where we can be at the helm inside where it's warm. Richard...thanks for the great advice!

Disappointed?  Yes...but we've endured many worse disappointments in our lives!  So we'll just keep the faith and now we're looking forward to a spring trip...this time north?  Haha...we really shouldn't announce any plans!

Night, Lisa and Camp

Camp Tellman

Friends and Family,

Most of you know that Camp retired in June and Lisa is taking a trial year off from working so that we can spend the winter cruising on our sailboat.  It's been a lot of work to get ready but we are leaving within two weeks!  Our plan is go to where it is warm...south!  We will be in Ft Lauderdale near Callie and her family at Christmas and eventually start exploring the Keys and Bahamas.  That's the extent of our plans to date.  We'll return when it gets too hot down there!  Don't worry about our cat, Yeoman...he's going with us!

No, we've never cruised like this before...but we'll learn along the way. Camp has a lot of sailing experience and Lisa has been a first mate during all of our recreational sailing for a couple of years when we first met.  But the best way to learn is by doing so we'll gain a lot of knowledge.  We know the Coast Guard requirements and are fully compliant!

We will be traveling on a Nauticat '33, built in 1985.  This is not our boat but a stock picture from the Nauticat website nauticat.com.  These boats are made in Finland and are very seaworthy and good for living aboard.  Ours looks very much like this picture.  Her name is DULCINEA.

 

Camp has spent 9 years replacing/updating all systems so much of the boat is new (yes, 9 years...he's Dutch and can stick to a project like no one I know).  We have installed navigational systems that will keep us safer and make boating easier.  We are going to travel down the ICW with our friend, Dowl Bond, who has done it many times before.  When we cross the ocean to the Bahamas (just a one day or night trip) we will go with a group who has done it before.  So, we've done about as much as we can to ensure success.
 

If you would like to follow our travels please visit our blog:  http://elbarcodulcinea.blogspot.com/2014/11/blog-post.html.  In the right hand hand corner is a gray bar and you should be able to subscribe with your email in the 'followers' box.  If you do, you will receive an email to let us know that we have written a new post.  El barco means 'our boat' in Spanish.

 

 

Prayers for our classmate Dave Costello

Dave Costello

October 30 at 9:34am ·

Yesterday was a difficult day for me. It appears my time in Vietnam and exposure to Agent Orange has caught up to me. I have been diagnosed with the Leukemia noted below. That's a game changer and I am up for the challenge. God bless everyone and as I have said many times, enjoy each day you have as you never know when something like this happens. Prayers welcomed.

Chronic B-cell Leukemias and Agent Orange - Public Health

Veterans who develop chronic B-cell leukemias and were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides during military service do not have to prove a connection between their disease and service to be eligible to...

publichealth.va.gov|By US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

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By the way

I don't know if you noticed or not, but I listed a post as complements of Ed Zimmerman. Someone has been sending me obits for a couple of years now with a fake return address and signed Ed Zimmerman.

Any ideas on who it might be?

Tom Weller

It is Autumn in Alaska, one of the prettiest times up here.

We took a trip into the Interior about 150 miles northeast of Anchorage for a little R&R and a fall color journey.

I'll attach some pictures to this to give you a sense of the majesty of this great state. Winter is just around the corner, there is snow on the mountain peaks just north of town, so it won't be long before we revisit some of the typical Syracuse weather we tried so hard to get away from all those years back.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

 

Complements of Ed Zimmerman

James R. Hall  English teacher at FM junior high school.

Obituary James R. Hall, 81, of Jamesville, passed away Thursday. James was born in Cortland, the son of Clayton and Ruth Hall. He graduated from SUNY at Cortland in 1955 and did his graduate work at Bexley Hall, Kenyon College Ohio and Syracuse University. James was a teacher working for the Fayetteville-Manlius School District for 30 years and then 17 years with BOCES until his retirement in 2005. He loved his church and was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church. He worked for 30 years at the State Fair and was the Director of Cub Scout Camp Woodland. He was an avid sports fan. Surviving are his wife of 57 years, Gwendolyn; three sons, Scott (Gail) of Kirkville, James (Beth) of Herkimer, Keith (Kathleen) Hall of East Syracuse; four grandchildren, Morgan, Kathryn, Kelsey, and Bryce Hall; and 13 nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 6, 2014 at St. David's Episcopal Church, 14 Jamar Dr., Fayetteville. Contributions may be made to if

 

Barbara Lipe passed away

Barbara C. Lipe

 Barbara C. Lipe, 87, of Manlius, passed away surrounded by family. Born on November 13, 1926 in Syracuse, Barbara graduated from Nottingham High School in 1944 and Syracuse University in 1948 with a B.S. in Food and Nutrition. Barbara was co-owner and manager of Lipe’s Dairy and established the first Village of Manlius Recycling Center. May 4, 1989 was declared Barbara Lipe Day in the Village of Manlius. Barbara was a crusader for the NYS Bottle Bill after opening a recycling center at Lipe’s Dairy in the early 1970s. She served on the OCCRA Board, received the F-M Rotary 1989 Citizen of the Year Award for volunteer service, the Post Standard 1990 Women of Achievement for Ecology the NSDAR Conservation Medal. Barbara was a charter and Board member of FM A Better Chance, member of the Preservation Association of CNY, served as a Trustee of the Manlius Library, a Girl Scout Leader, and volunteered for the Food Bank of CNY - Vista Volunteer Food Finder 1985-86, Regional Learning Service, Meals on Wheels and Literacy Volunteers. She served on the Environmental Management Council and was Task Force Chair and on the editorial staff of the CNY Environment newspaper. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Manlius and Trinity Episcopal Church in Fayetteville and had served on the Vestry of both churches.
She was predeceased by her husband Willard C. “Bill” Lipe. She is survived by her children Pamela Lipe (Gary) Revercomb, Rebecca Lipe (Charlie) Fountain, Susan Lipe Edwards and Willard (Susan) Lipe; brother, Franklin Crandall; eleven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two foster children: Don Perry and Vinh Vu.
A celebration of her life will be 3:00 pm Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 106 Chapel St., Fayetteville.
Contributions: may be made to FM A Better Chance, P.O. Box 355, Manlius, NY 13104, Women’s Opportunity Center, 901 James St., Syracuse, NY 13203 or the Food Bank of CNY, 7066 Interstate Island Rd., Syracuse, NY 13209.

 

Tom Weller

Hi all.

It has been a while since I have contributed to the site, so I thought I would update things a little. We have lost some great folks in the very recent past, so if you have not contacted your friends from class, it might be wise to do so. One never knows whether we will have the chance to communicate with those we were close to in school. As the years go by, we lose more and more friends and waiting until the reunions might be too late. Take the time to get in touch.
Anyway, I am still living in Alaska and enjoying every minute of it. While it might seem counterintuitive to have moved from San Diego to Anchorage, I believe it was one of my better decisions. This is an amazing state and I would highly recommend adding this place to your bucket list. Contrary to what you might see on TV these days, we don't all live off the grid and eat moose meat to survive, although given the state of the world, it might not be such a bad idea. However, civilization is alive and well up here.
After 38 years and many moves, I have retired from my career; that of repairing office duplicating equipment. While the career allowed me to work in some pretty amazing places(NYC, Philadelphia, San Diego), and work with some pretty amazing people, the business climate is becoming more challenging and less enjoyable, and I felt it was time to move on, if for no other reason than to regain my sanity a little. However, I was not ready to quit working, so I accepted a position working retail sales in the fishing department of the new Bass Pro Shops here in Anchorage. This is a 180 degree departure from my former career, but what better place could I wind up working in in Alaska? Probably will only be able to put up with it for 15 or 20 more years!!
That's about it from the " Last Frontier". Be well, take care, and as I said earlier in this rambling note, take the time to get in touch with those you cared about if you can. Tomorrow might be too late.
Tom

Memories

memories of the fifties….

 

Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place - Safeshare.TV

sent by Penny Zimmerman Jackson

John Bennett

Deb,
Appreciate all of the updates that you have been sending. I admit that I have been remiss in keeping you up to date. 1st of all I am still alive and kicking. After HS is spent 1 1/2 yrs in college (not my best effort). Then 4yrs in the navy on subs. After the navy I finished college and worked at Crouse Hinds for 13 yrs. Then I went to Goulds Pumps as the international credit mgr for 25 yrs. Where I traveled all over the world, to about 40 different countries I retired 3 yrs ago and now my wife of 44 yrs, split our time between Charleston, SC and Canada. We have 2 boys, NO GRANDCHILDREN.

Sandy Tice Flanders

Our classmate Sandy Tice Flanders has passed away

Sandra Tice Flanders went home to Jesus on July 26, 2014. She was born December 14, 1947 in Manlius, NY to Niles and Grace Tice.

She is survived by her husband, Ernest E. Flanders; children, Scott (Lynn) and Robin; grandchildren, Emma, Leslie, Jeremy and Kyle (deceased); and a great-grandchild, Kyle. She will be missed by the folks at Magnolia Point Realty and her beloved church, Living Waters. She was loved by all who knew her.

In lieu of flowers, the family would ask you to consider making a contributionto Community Hospice of Northeast Florida or to Living Waters Church located in Green Cove Springs.

Please sign the family's online guestbook at www.broadusraines.com. Arrangements under the care of Broadus-Raines Funeral Home, 501 Spring St., Green Cove Springs, FL 32043, (904) 284-4000. 
Date of Death: July 26, 2014

Published in Syracuse Post Standard from July 28 to July 29, 2014

Dave Courtwright

David L. Courtwright, Obituary

David L. Courtwright, 66 of Liverpool, passed away Wednesday at the V.A. Medical Center in Syracuse. David was raised in the Pompey, Manlius and Fayetteville area and then was a resident of the Town of Volney for over 25 years. He was a graduate of Fayetteville-Manlius High School in 1966. He was employed as a truck driver for over 30 years, most recently with Gypsum Express in Baldwinsville. David was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving with the U.S. Navy. He was of the Catholic faith. David was predeceased by his parents, Earl and Lois Courtwright and a brother, Peter Courtwright.

Surviving are his sons, David J. (Anne) Courtwright of Tully, Patrick (Jennifer) Courtwright of Mexico and Christopher Todd Courtwright of Pulaski; his daughters, Erin Comstock (Scott) of Parish, Shada Courtwright (Chris) of Liverpool, Abbagail Courtwright (Brett) of Constantia and Kylie Courtwright serving in the U.S. Navy; his brothers, William of Manlius and Thomas (Pat) of Chittenango; his sister, Carol O'Hora (John) of Florida; his sister-in-law, Amanda Courtwright of Chittenango; 14 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be 5 p.m. at the G.F. Zimmer Funeral Home, 702 Legion Drive, Chittenango. Burial with military honors will follow in Oakwood Cemetery, Chittenango. Calling hours will be 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home prior to the service. Contributions in his memory may be made to Clear Path for Veterans, 1223 Salt Springs Road, Chittenango, NY 13037. G.F. ZIMMER F.H. CHITTENANGO 687-3366 - See more at: http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?n=david-l-courtwright&pid=171855347&fhid=13170#sthash.6esQLXuJ.dpuf

Penny Zimmerman Jackson

You know all those seemingly endless public radio fund-raisers?  We are sustaining members and are told that we’re entered into all the drawings.  After years (and years) of being members we’re driving to Boston and after hearing the, “Please call now, 1-800-639-6391” plea for the umpteenth time I said to my husband, “Yeesch, you’d think after all these years we’d win something.  I wonder if we’re really entered in all the drawings.”  Yup, 15 minute later what do we hear but “Congratulations to Penrose and Schuyler Jackson of Hinesburg, Vermont.  They’ve just won two round trip airfares for anywhere in the U.S.”  Surreal.

 

GUY BECK

Hi Debby, Glad to be in touch. For starters, here is the obit for Jim, as he was FM '67 just behind us: http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?pid=167774408 James Dale "Jim" Beck

To Me

Today at 1:30 PM

Hi Debby,

Glad to be in touch. For starters, here is the obit for Jim, as he was FM '67 just behind us:

http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?pid=167774408

James Dale "Jim" Beck Obituary: View James Beck's Obituary by Syracuse Post Standard The family and friends of James Dale Beck mourn the loss of a beloved brother, uncle, friend, musician, artist, and philosopher, who passed away of natural causes on September 10 in his residence in Read more...

The Memorial Gallery Show will be at Delavan Center 509 W. Fayette St (near Armory Square), on Friday June 20  5-8 PM. Sat June 21 10-4, and Sunday June 22 Noon-4. There will be some musicians playing (myself included) and refreshments.

I hope to place it in Syracuse New Times paper as well. 

Regarding my activities, I am still teaching world religions as well as giving lecture-demonstrations of Indian music. I recently returned from giving a concert and workshop at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas!

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Thanks,

Guy