Former residents of Kendrick Hall (and ’88 alumnae) gathered in the Swedish archipelago in June to celebrate more than 40 years of friendship — and nearly 24 hours of daylight during Midsommar, the longest day of the year. Learn more in the ’88 column.
Ingrid Eicher ’14 and Reid Shepard ’14 married on June 14 at Eicher’s family home in Basking Ridge, N.J., surrounded by Colgate friends. “We actually didn’t know each other very well in college and reconnected at the Bicentennial Reunion in 2019,” writes Shepard.
Jim Elrod ’76 hosted a reunion of 11 fellow ATOs at his Saranac Lake camp over the summer “as a warm-up before our 50th,” writes Mark Johnson ’76. Read more in the 1976 class column.
Class of 1977 friends Joel Adler, David Kutik, Michael Ahearn, Bruce Glendening, Tom Robinson, and Carl Barone celebrated their 70th birthdays on a trip that began in London and continued with guided walks along the coastal routes in Cornwall. Their signature swag: Colgate caps with “70 and still trekking” on the back. Read more in the 1977 class column.
Todd Estabrook ’81 and Steve Brown ’81 hosted a mini-reunion of 24 Colgate Thirteen alumni for a July weekend that featured “swimming, boating, golf, pickleball, croquet, and (of course) singing,” writes Rod Thomas ’79. Read more in the ’79 column.
In late June, nine former Colgate Thirteeners and Swinging ’Gates and their spouses traveled to southern France for a six-day cruise down the Loire River — the 40th such trip for the group, who has vacationed together almost yearly since the mid-’80s. “We’re already planning our 41st destination!” writes Alison King Haley ’84, who shares more on the tradition in the ’84 column.
Ellie Kucera ’21 married Oliver Green ’19 in July in Jackson, Wyo. Ellie’s dad, Bill Kucera ’94, shared this photo from the celebration, noting: “There were 56 people from Colgate at the wedding, ranging in age from the Class of 1957 to the Class of 2028. Deacon [and University Chaplain] Mark Shiner flew in from Hamilton to officiate.”
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