Greg Scherer '68 Receives Alumni Achievement Award

Greg Scherer '68 (right) receives congratulations on receiving the Alumni Achievement Award during class reunion activities at Homecoming. With him is Tom Yencho, a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Greg, a retired business executive, was recognized for his many and varied volunteer commitments.

A Note from Jim Nicholson '68

I was saddened to see that Pat Antrim died and on my birthday.  I have no idea of Pat's life after SJU, but in 1964 he was a stocky, cheerful guy from Breckenridge. 

One January weekend, Pat invited Steve Heinemann and me to hitchhike to Breckenridge for the weekend.  We started early on a very still, very bright Saturday morning.   The temperature was -26.  Only a stupid Okie would have agreed to such a plan.  I had a pair of heavy Sears boots that my father, a guy from Tennessee, insisted I would need in Minnesota winters, and the Breckenridge adventure seemed like the perfect opportunity to break them in. 

We got lucky leaving campus and managed the first 40 miles pretty quickly.  After that our luck ran pretty thin.  As you winter veterans know, the stillness of the weather masked the temperature, and we got very cold standing there pleading by the highway. My Sears boots did not keep my feet warm, but they sure kept them freezing once the cold set in.  An elderly woman picked us up and got us to within 60 miles of Breckenridge. 

The afternoon was wearing on when Pat called his mom to come and get us.  She did, and we lived.  That evening, as the temperature continued to drop, Pat's parents took us to the country club for dinner.  His dad, a locomotive engineer, left the car running in parking lot the entire time we were there.  I remember his saying that having a warm car running was worth a quarter tank of gas.  I couldn't have agreed more.

Pat taught me to play cribbage, a mixed gift I admit.  Already prone to mismanaging time, Pat gave me an important tool to mismanage it more effectively. We spent many hours honing our point counting skills.  He was a great friend.

I never hitchhiked again, and I never again wore those miserable boots.

Jim

A Note about Sergio Lugo '68

Sergio Lugo '68 lives in Denver with wife Pam (40 years this December). He is retired from work and yet heavily involved in stamp activities, and President of the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library (RMPL) in Denver. He has completed 4 self published monographs on social welfare organizations that worked with the military in the First World War, and had a book published entitled CAMP GENTER: COLORADO GHOST TOWN MAIL. He has three kids - one a youth pastor in Valrico, Florida; another a case manager/supervisor at a Colorado Youth Correctional Facility, and the oldest is a social activist and Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator in Tennessee. Sergio will be at the reunion, and hopes to see many (old) classmates.

A Note From Dr. Patrick A. O'Dougherty '68

Mini-Reunions Already Underway

Mini-reunions are already getting underway. John Guild '68 reported in November that he, Gary Loosbrock '68, Mike Beutz '68, Mike Haider '68, Bill Hoss '68 and Doug Ray '68 all got together -- for the first time since graduation -- at his lake home on Gull Lake last summer. They are talking about coming back for the big reunion next fall.

In June, 2007 Alumni gathered at the Cronin's lake place near Nisswua, Minnesota.

From left to right: Jane Mullen, Mike Perry '68, Joann (Berens) Cronin, CSB '68, Tom Farrell, '67, Joe Cronin, '68, Judy (Jeska) Perry, CSB '68, Eileen (Stepan) Farrell, CSB '68, and Joe Mullen, '68.