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Jack James ’62 hoists the Reunion Giving Participation Cup in celebration. The 50th anniversary class posted 48 percent participation in giving.

Reunion Classes Set Giving Records

Reunion 2012 was a record-setting one for reunion class giving. All milestone reunion classes broke records and exceeded their goals, with the total amount from all reunion classes reaching $385,366.21.

McCarthy, Murphy Join OCF Board

McCarthy, Murphy Join OCF Board

The Oswego College Foundation Board of Directors welcomes two new members. They will serve three-year terms.

Shropshire to Lead The Fund for Oswego

Shropshire to Lead The Fund for Oswego

Jennifer Shropshire ’86 has accepted the position of chair of The Fund for Oswego. In her new role, she will lead the volunteer effort to raise funds for SUNY Oswego through the annual fund.

Photo: LECET Supports Presidential Scholars

Photo: LECET Supports Presidential Scholars

March Matchness a Slam Dunk with Young Alumni

March Matchness a Slam Dunk with Young Alumni

All eyes were on March for Development Office fundraisers this year as a first-ever monthlong campaign that sought to boost young alumni giving kicked off.

Donald ’62 and Linda Mykland Blauvelt ’61 returned to campus for Reunion 2011 and made a Sesquicentennial bequest, naming Oswego in their will.

Grateful Teachers Pass Along Oswego Education to Future Generations

For Donald ’62 and Linda Mykland Blauvelt ’61, Oswego is a special place. It’s where they met and fell in love, prepared for a fulfilling career in education and met professors and friends they still remember fondly half a century later.

David Cutler ’74, front row, right, established the Public Justice Excellence Fund, which is now endowed at a quarter million dollars. He is joined by students and faculty from the public justice department, including his nephew, Zachary DiGiulio ’13, front row, left;  and back row from left, Junho Oh, Visiting Assistant Professor Diane Brand, Sylvia Chestnut ’11, Associate Professor and Chairperson of Public Justice Margaret Ryniker and Patrick Vinette ’11.

Cutler’s Public Justice Excellence Fund Reaches Quarter Million

Sylvia Chestnut ’11 developed a passion for family court law when she served an internship with the Greene County Family Court. The public justice major and African American studies minor hopes to go to law school and have a career in family law.

Pam Delfino '10, left, and Ashley Thompson '10, who were practicum partners, celebrate at the Commencement Eve reception.

Educational Dreams Supported by Alumni Generosity

When she was a young mother, divorced from her first husband, Pam Delfino ’10 wished she had had the opportunity to complete the college education she started before her marriage. “I cleaned houses, because I had no skills to fall back on,” she says of the struggle to support her young family.

Ruth Sayers' sixth grade class at the Campus School. Included from left, Babara Phillips Frankoskey, Sandy Wright, Shirley Felk, Mary Broadwell Greene, Joanne Michaels Geers, Laurel Sivers Helvie and Joanne Vona Gianetto.

Sayer Funds Education Scholarship

Former Campus School teacher Ruth Sayer and her late husband, Frank, an Oswego businessman, wanted to do something to give back to the institution that enriched their lives and that of their community.

“Frank and I both felt all along that we are fortunate to have the college as an important part of Oswego,” Ruth said. That appreciation, along with their satisfaction with President Deborah F. Stanley’s leadership, led Ruth to endow the Frank and Ruth Sayer Education Scholarship.

David "Agarn" Crisafulli '81

Group Makes Pitch for Baseball Fund

The late David “Agarn” Crisafulli ’81 titled his autobiography Good Enough.

A close friend and former baseball teammate wants his legacy to be much more than good enough. Richard Lashley ’80 spearheaded the David “Agarn” Crisafulli ’81 Fund, in collaboration with former coach Walter Nitardy and current skipper Frank Paino.