Best wishes to St. Lawrence's future students, faculty and staff. These messages will become part of a time capsule that only Laurentians can create - a time capsule of hopes, dreams and very best wishes for our successors.

Wendy Treash'82
Many, many more, SLU!

Adam Hogg '06
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence, my four years at SLU have made memories to last a life time. Let's hope SLU has made it back to the Frozen Four in hockey. Thanks for a great college career!
Go Saints

Frederick C. McCabe (Fritz)'51
Happy Birthday and continue to strive for greater heights and endeavors.

Britton Wean'06
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!! Thank you so much for all the memories... Good luck the next 150 years!

Ben C. Mitchell '09
Happy Birthday, SLU! Here's to 150 more!

Timothy J. Burch '89
Happy 150th Birthday St. Lawrence! May the next 150 years be even better, and may you continue to shine brightly in the wilderness and continue to provide a warm and caring environment that allows for life-long friendships and life-long learning. To our successors - know how dearly we love this institution, and how we trust that you will continue to strive to make it even better so that in 150 years you will be adding your best wishes to future generations as well. Fides et Veritas!

Katie Gleason'09
Happy Birthday SLU!!! And I wish you many more!!

Craig Ruhm'61
I had planned to be present for this great event as Reunion Chairman for my class, but a rather rare medical problem has me grounded for the time being. This will be my 1st missed reunion since graduation. Happy Birthday on this great day. Having been involved with St. Lawrence as a student, alumni, staff member,and a member of the Alumni Council, I have a deep respect and appreciation for all of those qualities that make St.Lawrence a truly unique experience. Thanks, and again, a special Happy Birthday to all who have made the St. Lawrence experience, the "gift that has never stopped giving".

Tim Byrne'74
What a great place to grow up- learn and learn how to learn; make lifelong friends; a place to dream - and figure out how to reach at least some of those dreams. It was and is a safe place to learn how to make decisions, and do so in an atmosphere of support. And it's a place that will always be in my heart.

J. Mark Erickson, faculty
My hope is that by your 200th birthday you will have matured into a just, rational and well rounded institution that is confident enough in itself to be able to accept ideas and opinions of all persuasions with tolerance and collegiality. May great faculty bring great wisdom and may great administrations hear that wisdom and respond. If so you will truly be in tier one by 200! I hope congrats are in order.

Lucy and Fred Funke'56
On behalf of our sons Frederick R. Funke III '87 and William P. Funke'89 and "twigs", Taylor,Creighton and Egan Funke we wish St. Lawrence University our heartiest congratulations as you celebrate 150 years. Furthermore and on behalf of future generations of laurentians, we enthusiastically support the university's recent adoption of the proposal for a sustained commitment to environmental stewardship.

Viki Kish Christensen, friend
May the Spirit of truth, wisdom, joy, and peace continue to abide with this stellar institution. All the best to St. Lawrence with much affection and appreciation.

Kelly Cordes '10
Happy birthday SLU! I can't wait to attend in the fall!

Minerva Arias '03
Oh dear Larryland! Who would have thought that I'd look back and say that you gave me some of the best years of my life (thusfar). As I embark on the next great journey of my life, the Peace Corps in Zambia for the next two years, I must give you thanks for preparing me for all of my life's adventures & mostly to the HEOP family!! And for giving me some of the best friends and best memories I could ask for! LCL 4life!

Kate Schneider '05
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! Last year seems so far away, but the laughter is still fond, the cold still scary, and the knowledge still valuable. Thank you for so much.

Kristina Grube '07
I've had the best years of my life at St. Lawrence, Happy Birthday!

Chris Fee '07
St. Lawrence has been a magical experience thus far, after I have departed from this wonderful institution of higher learning I will forever be in debt for all the wonderful experiences Ihave had, here's to 150 more years at this heaven on earth. GO SLU FOOTBALL

Christopher Sepulveda '03
"If I have seen far, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton
Happy Birthday SLU. Here's to another 150!

Brankica, parent
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! You are the best. Keep it up!

Liz MacDougall, staff
Happy 150th St. Lawrence!!! I am honored to be part of the best community in the North Country. I wish you continued success in all that you provide.

John D. Gursky '07
Dear St. Lawrence, Happy 150th Birthday!! I cannot begin to thank you for all that you have done for me these past three incredible years.

When I look at snapshots of SLU 150 years ago, it is hard to imagine how much we have grown and changed. I know that St. Lawrence will grow even more and provide many, many more generations with experiences they will hold onto for the rest of their lives. Happy Birthday!
Fondly, John Gursky '07 and my late grandfather, Frank Demshaw '51

Kathy Druce Halloran '89
Happy 150th Birthday and thank you for the some of the best times of my life!!

Chris Taft '02
Happy Birthday SLU! Thanks for everything!

Dick Southwick '80
There is no place like you. The cold beauty of the North country winters, the warmth of friendship, the horizons you reveal. At 150 you are just getting started-the best is yet to come.

Suzanne Noble, staff
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!! I've spent nearly half my life here and gotten great joy from the people I've met. Here's to 50 more SLU.

Jeff Cook '70
Happy 150th to a remarkable, vibrant community of wonderful people. Before going, I was told that if you make through the first winter, you will have friends for a lifetime. It was true then and it is still true 40 years later. Amazing caring and giving people: students, faculty, administrators, staff, alumni, parents and friends. It must be the water or the air! There is an energy and an enthusiasm about St. Lawrence that amazes people. "Oh, they're from St. Lawrence" is a common refrain. And it continues from generation to generation. Finally, the University has a tradition of creative and effective presidents and board chairs that have lead us all on this extraordinary journey. We are getting better and we are just warming up!

Cynthia (Cindy) Habeeb Bufalini '82
May the candle in the wilderness never be extinguished! On to the next 150!
Happy Birthday SLU!

Kyle Zander '06
Happy 150th, St. Lawrence! Thanks for an amazing (but too quick to pass!) four years, and here's to the next 150 years.

Gene Maloney '47
Happy Birthday to SLU.......although I did not graduate I spent 6 semesters at SLU in the V-5 program in 1944-45. After discharge from the Navy, I went to law school, so I never got a degree. I have many great memories of the time I spent there and I consider myself an Honorary member of the class of '47

Ellen Fitts Byrne '74, P'06 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!!! May you continue serving the community and teaching our "children" for many years to come......

Paula Faust Newcomb, past staff
I've been thinking about St. Lawrence all day. I have wonderful memories of my almost nine years of work in Vilas Hall. Happy Birthday.

Pamela Burton '94
happy 150 birthday SLU!
being part of the st. lawrence family, i love SLU as much as i hate it. campus will always be my third home; i miss it (but i don't miss the cold!). i wrote a little something for SLU's birthday. it's still in rough draft, but i hope someone enjoys it.

"so Alex"

miles to go before you sleep,
somehow you seeped beneath my skin
and became everything i wanted to be
and nothing that i needed.

so alex, i sit writing a birthday note to college,
something that you only once visited in a dream.
they wrote you off as nothing worthy until we
begged for your return.

and so you did with grace and dignity, and
became a symbol of coyote hope and kisses.
i think you, alex, because of you...i remembered
what i loved more than what i hated.

tori taught us the power of woman,
and duckie taught us elegance.
the coyotes taught us the meaning of loyalty
while the originals gave us legands.

whitman poetry and purple horses,
gilmore stars and kanakaredes.
memories and future scenes
are kept in our castle keep.

so alex, thank you for spending years with me,
and i'll try not to cry as you leave.
you've got many miles to go before you sleep
and more promises to keep.

Rainie Blanchet '42
Did you know that today is my birthday too?...class of '42, age 87?? All my athletic training at SLU stands me in good stead. I carry on in that vein. Swam 40 lengths (25 meter pool) this a.m.
So....Happy Birthday in return to SLU!

Bob Brandon '50
I truly appreciate the education I received at SLU.

Kenneth Hepburn Noble '79
Dear SLU, Thank you for our great grounding in Earth Sciences and Envrionmental Studies. For the first time I have been teaching undergraduates in introdutory Earth Sciences. After all of these years the education SLU provided in the North Country is as solid as the Adirondack Anorthosite. Congratulations to the SLU hockey women in their NCAA championsip quest. Keep on keeping.....oh,the men didn't have bad year either. Go SLU lax!!

Jessica Sullivan '08
You're looking great for 150, St. Lawrence! I sometimes wonder how I made it here from Kansas, but there's really no other place I'd rather be--thank you, SLU, for what will certainly be four of the best years of my life!

Bridget M. Everly '02
Thank you to St. Lawrence, its faculty, staff, and students. Without you, I would not be me. Happy Birthday!

Lawrence J. Winston '60 (Chair, Board of Trustees)
HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY ST.LAWRENCE!!
I was here for the 100th and we were pretty good then. I am here for the 150th and we are much better now than we were 50 years ago. I won't be here for the 200th (except in spirit) but all the Trustees are counting on all of you to do what you can (and must do) to make us even better for the next one. Good luck and the ball is in your court now!

Lynne Barnes Leahy '72
Congratulations St. Lawrence!!!!! You're the best! ....a great opportunity in life, another chance to excel!!!! XXXX

Debbie Bishop, staff
St. Lawrence University is truly a unique and special place, my second home/family for the past 28 years; 19 of them with the First-Year Program. This year, the First-Year Program will celebrate its 20th birthday. My husband Gene also works here as the Information Technology Audio Visual Technology Specialist and has been here close to 20 years. St. Lawrence is unique in its people, community, traditions, and atmosphere. If you love where you are, others will feel it and love it too. Learn from those that have been here before you and you will enjoy the wonderful experience. Happy 150th Birthday SLU!

Danielle Weaver '07
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence, thanks for all the memories so far...with more to come!

Joe and Cindy Riggs '73
We celebrate the accomplishments of the past and look forward to a future in which St. Lawrence is thriving.

Joe Richardson '63-Trustee
As an active alumnus, I continue to be encouraged about how teaching and learning is being strengthened at St. Lawrence and the kind of research collaboration between students and faculty.I trust that this will continue to strengthen in the next 150 years! We have extraordinary students with talents of inquiry and critical thinking. May we continue the commitment to excellence and thus remind us why St. Lawrence is such a remarkable place to learn.

Mary Rennie Norton ‘45
Dear Fellow Laurentians,
I am thinking of all of you scattered in various venues across our country, you who will be celebrating our 150th birthday on Monday! Husband Fred and I regret that we are unable to attend any of them.
It is always with true delight and feeling of deep gratitude that I recall my years at St. Lawrence during the war years. There is also a small feeling of regret – wondering what life on campus would have been like had I attended other than during World War II – and been able to experience a more “normal” life on campus.

However, St. Lawrence truly provided me with a wonderful education – one that equipped me to enjoy a variety of experiences in the workplace, our home, and leisure time. Fred and I were married in 1946 immediately (2 weeks!) after his return from the European Theatre of Operations. I enjoyed being an assistant engineer at GE in Schenectady, an instructor of mathematics at Champlain College, a grade school teacher, an educational director in a large Methodist church, and after receiving my MLS - a Community Activities Coordinator (adult programming) in a public library, and a children’s librarian in a Catholic academy. Some part of what I had been exposed to at St. Lawrence prepared me well for each change in career, including raising three successful children! We have also enjoyed camping and traveling, visiting national parks and many museums – life has been blessed and my years at St. Lawrence played a big part!

We now live in our own villa at Copeland Oaks, a United Methodist related life care retirement community in Northeast Ohio with each of our children and their families within a short drive. Here we are able to enjoy many and varied activities (including FREE golf), but also have the opportunity to volunteer – continuing to “contribute.” Our campus is only 5 miles from Mount Union College. We recently attended Tim Russert’s lecture there with our daughter who is just off a term on MUC Alumni Council. Affairs on campus bring back great memories of St. Lawrence, and the College of William and Mary (we returned to Ohio in 2001 after 25 years in Williamsburg, Virginia!) We are relatively healthy and extremely happy – truly blessed. Thank you St. Lawrence, and my classmates, for your part in this! Here’s to the St. Lawrence 200th birthday!

Casey Peterson '03
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! I will forever be indebted to St. Lawrence and the people that make it so special. Here's to another 150 years!

Elizabeth (Johnston) Hubbard '03
Happy birthday SLU! If it weren't for SLU I would never have met my husband (Jason Hubbard '02) or fell in love with the North Country. Hopefully in 50 years when our first little one (expected in about 4 weeks) reads this she'll be an alum too!

Janet '75 and Bob Kmetz '75
Janet Olchowski and I met at SLU and were later married. We still have very close SLU friends that we see frequently. Some we have vacationed with for close to 30 years! For future generations at SLU, this is the SLU gift; memories AND active friendships that can last a lifetime! Build and enjoy them!!

W. J. (Jack) Howell, Jr. '62
A genuine milestone. May SLU enjoy another 150 years of continuing growth and excellence. I'm very proud to be an alum.

Kimberly Hubbard '99
Happy Birthday SLU! Thank you for the memories and the friendships.

Brad Rauch '89 and Kristina Bonin '90
Happy Birthday and here's to another 150 years

Bart Salmon '59
After a distinguished 150 years, may your stature continue to grow in the promising years ahead...

Roger Brandt '80
Here is to another 150 years as well as a long line of St. Lawrence families lining up to carry on the great traditions.

Tricia Nash Gomer '74
I can't remember a time when I didn't know St. Lawrence. My parents, Bill '48 and Esther Nash, were born and raised in Canton, so I listened for the chapel bells, gazed down the Avenue Of The Elms, and cheered at hockey games in Appleton Arena long before I moved into Carnegie Hall in the fall of 1970. The former science building had been transformed into dorm rooms for 60+ freshmen. The first "Carnegie Girls" were a tight knit, fun loving group with the biggest closets and windows on campus! Thank you St. Lawrence for a fine education, lifelong friends, fond memories and especially for my husband, Chuck '73! I hope our daughter, Sarah '08, will feel as rewarded by her SLU experiences as I do. Happy 150th Birthday St. Lawrence!

E-Ben D.Grisby '99
Cheers on the Sesquicentennial and many more years as a great university with excelent people!

Steve Amick '86
May you ever thrive under that canopy of bright stars and Northern Lights.
As you grow,stay true to the notion of "the candle in the wilderness," remembering always that the surroundings, the natural setting and the isolation--the "wilderness"--is as important as the candle. In this world of inundation, that's the thing that makes St. Lawrence so uniquely suited for fostering both camaraderie and contemplation.

Betsy Maloney Kolber '78
Happy Birthday SLU! Many of my strongest memories and livelong friendships were made while I was at St. Lawrence. Here's to others making their own memories and establishing important relationships while at SLU...

Ken Polk '91 (Alumni Executive Council)
How exciting it was to spend Charter Day with 25 alumni in Buffalo knowing that hundreds of others were celebrating tonight around the country as well. Happy Birthday SLU!!! I hope I'm around for the 200th. Thank you for being such an important part of my life.

Richard M. Lennon '55
Congratulations on 150 years of outstanding contributions and success. May St. Lawrence continue that tradition ten times over.

Marian F. Moore '56
Best Wishes from one of the Centennial class about to celebrate at my 50th reunion.
Happy Birthday, SLU

Roberta Pallante Fitzgerals '88
Happy 150th Birthday St. Lawrence!!! May you continue to provide a quality education for your students for many years to come.

Jack and Judy Talor, retired staff
The best 30 years of my life were spent working for St. Lawrence! The college was very good to me, and I worked very hard so I could give back and show my gratitude. I love visiting the campus to see friends and the progress in the building program. Even after 12 years I am amazed at how many faculty and staff remember me.
St. Lawrence is a unique college, I have always said it is unfortunately a well kept secret. I don't understand why more students aren't breaking the doors down to attend this wonderful college. Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!!!!!!!! Our Love to you and ALL!

Anne Ferris Cassidy '74 (Alumni Executive Council)
It is the voices of St. Lawrence that I will always treasure - those we hear often and those we hear far too infrequently. I hope that future Laurentians will enjoy this great gift, too. Happy Birthday!

Shelly L. Pike Ahlfeld '96, M.Ed'01
Happy Birthday! It's good to see this little candle in the wilderness thriving after 150 years. Hail, Alma Mater...we'll ne'r forget the scarlet and the brown!

Bruce Carlisle '78
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!. I practically grew up on the campus and I had a great four years. I'm delighted with all of the steps the school is taking to become ever more competitive. It's a special place.

Lennelle McKinnon '58 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy Birthday, St. Lawrence! May you continue to provide students long into the future with the love of learning, the lifelong friendships with fellow students, faculty, and staff, and the countless warm memories that were your legacy to me. Thank you for the richness you have brought to my life. I know you will continue to provide students with challenging opportunities to learn about the world and themselves. Keep the chapel bells ringing!

Sally Byrnes Magin' 65 & P ' 06
Nestling 'neath those purple shadows,
St. Lawrence has always had that special something that sets it apart from from the rest. Happy 150th Birthday, SLU. I know that you will continue to provide future generations with unique experiences, unforgettable friendships, and a solid foundation for successful and happy lives.

Samantha Nichols Markey McGoldrick '97
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!
A bit of History: Two of my three cousins (Ellen Markey Linza: 1988 and Sean Liam Markey: 1990), my sister (Sarah Humiston Markey Bushweller: 1994) and I attended St. Lawrence University. Ellen and Sean received North Country scholarships, my sister had her heart set on SLU so she applied early admission, and I received a scholarship for strength of character (if not all A's). Thank you very much to a most generous couple for which the scholarship is named!

My sister and her husband, Scott Bushweller (1992) met at Larry-land. In 46 days, I shall wed a SLU alum, Aaron Jess McGoldrick (1996). In case you were wondering exactly what a Larry is - it was the self-given nickname for all students / alums / professors / staff at St. Lawrence. Now society has swung a bit in the conservative direction and it is no longer politically correct to use this name. Not entirely sure why this is, but also being the age of marketing, branding is very important. Clearly someone decided that "The Saints" conveys a more favorable image - especially as SLU moved further and further away from its liberal roots of the 60's - 80's. But I digress...

Aaron was the first person I met as a freshman. Arriving early for a Pre-Trip (canoeing trip), my sister pointed me towards Lee Hall, at the time housing Residence Life. The person who gave me the combination to my door was none other than the man to whom I shall shortly be wed.

As a student at SLU, there are various milestones I fondly remember:

1. Joining the Women's swim team
2. Acting in plays
3. Singing with Laurentian Singers and traveling to Italy during spring break for a concert tour
4. Meeting amazing professors like Dr. Tom Greene, Dr. Andrea Nouryeh, Dr. Frank Whalen, Dr. Natalia Singer, Dr. Grant (who headed up the London Program 1996/1997), Dr. Ron Ortiz, Dr. Henry Crimmel, Dr. Stanley Romenstein to name the most cherished
5. Living in London, England for a semester-abroad (Ellen went to Kenya and Austria, my sister tried to go to Kenya but there was too much liability because she has Diabetes {pancreas doesn't produce insulin} which hopefully now has a cure).
6. Joining Chi Omega Sorority so I could hang out w/ my (blood) sister the one year we were both at St. Lawrence
7. Watching hockey games
8. Hanging on the quad (which is now taken up by buildings)
9. Trying to break into the tunnels
10. Relaxing at Camp Canaras for student group retreats
11. Staying at Catamount lodge for orientations and club outings

Now as alums, we are fortunate enough to attend Alumni Week 8 at Camp Canaras (upper Saranac Lake) with my cousin Ellen. It is a magical place where the outside world disappeared (until they built a cell phone tower in Lake Placid and then our Blackberries (PDA) and phones received signal). We make new friends each year - people from all graduating classes, unified by our common experience and love for St. Lawrence.

I hope life finds you well, dear reader, with the ability to exercise independent thought, to question experiences and to seek out explanations and deeper meanings.

As far as dreams - for my descendents (chips and twigs), you must compare with family lore... I floundered around after college from career to career until I figured out that business is a necessary evil but my place was in the classrooms of inner cities. My dream to fight against a system that ignores those most in need - the economically depressed - I hope to see to fruition. My dream to market my parents' artwork not only because they are talented, but because the world might be moved by their paintbrush and pen (especially b/c computer graphics are all the rage: any one can do them but find someone with an eye for composition is another matter entirely). My dream to travel to Senegal with my (soon-to-be) husband, back to the village that welcomed him in his Peace Corps stint. My dream to write children's books - to break language, ethnic and cultural barriers and to teach a little common sense (adults are often sorely lacking this important quality - hence the age of!
litigation and "wars for oil". Ahh, now I must rest, as tomorrow brings another day (and 3 wedding dress samples should arrive in the mail tomorrow)!

....we'll ne'er forget the Scarlet and the Brown.

Greg Chase '98 (Alumni Executive Council)
Best wishes to all who made these years great ones.

Martha Jones (Powers) '76, Parent of 02, 04
Happy Birthday to SLU! I have wonderful memories of SLU that I cherish, especially the volunteer work I was able to do with needy children. I ended up becoming a teacher then a school principal. Both my sons followed suit and went to SLU, Matt Class of 2002 and Jeremy Class of 2004. I think their best memories were with the intramural Rugby Club! We're glad the university is still so strong and offers so much to its students!

Ashley C. Ross '08
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!! May there be many, many more to come.

Kelly D. Johnston '00
Happy Birthday SLU! Forrest and Bubba live on. I had the best years of my life at SLU and will always hold you dear in my heart.

Claude Wiese '47
Oslo, April 3, 2006
The time I spent at SLU was a great and valuable experience, which gave me a great and everlasting faith in America ! Hail to Old SLU today with hearty congratulations and best wishes for the future!

Alexandra Kirby Taylor '89 (Alumni Council VP)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY- SLU! You have given me so much beyond just the great education I received in the 4 years on Campus. The friends I have and will always cherish and the great opportunities to give back after graduation. In the last 6+ plus years on the Alumni Council, I have learned so much more about the University. The dedication of the faculty and staff to make it the best place for students to learn, grow and be great global citizens. Also, many, many dedicated Alumni who give time and money to make sure the SLU tradition lives on. We are all Laurentains for Life and are so lucky to have been a part of a rich 150 year SLU history. A toast to you all !!!

Kathleen Douglass Dailey '71
Happy Birthday, SLU. I have wonderful memories of the campus - especially of hiking to the top of the Chapel to play the 'chapel bells' each night - to end the day and head for dinner. The Alma Mater was played every evening. Both of my parents attended SLU and I have hopes that my son will consider the school when he reaches college age! It was a great place to grow!

Macrina Martin '69
Dean Eaton, snow on the quad, Appleton Arena, History classes in a quonset hut-Thanks for the memories! Dr. Rossie, Dr. Wells, Dr. Lammers, Dr. Culpepper, and Dr. Angus-Thanks for the strong foundation that has stood me in such good stead. I liked SLU so much that I never left the college campus for too long. After serving in Student Affairs and teaching Psychology at Syracuse University, Penn State,and Mount Olive College, I am now the Disability Counselor at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, NC.

As Dylan would say "If you're travelin' to the North Country fair,Where the wind hits heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there, For she was once a true love of mine." Bless you SLU on this 150th and may there be many more!

Meg Bernier '07(Alumni Executive Council)
St. Lawrence transformed me and has truly been my candle in the wilderness of life. Happy 150th birthday-- may the many wonderful St. Lawrence traditions continue on for another 150 years!

Rick Hasse'76
St. Lawrence is a wonderful institution. My education, experiences and memories continue to this day, thank you and happy birthday!

Beth Nicholas Bemis '82
May your doors remain open to fresh ideas and aligned with nature.

Fernanda Carcamo '08
Happy Birthday SLU!

Betty Trainham Swain '03
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!!!!

Greg Ferrero '84 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy Birthday SLU!! May your next 150 years be even better than the last.

Jana Morgan '07 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!

Kelly D. Johnston '00
Happy Birthday SLU! Forrest and Bubba live on. I had the best years of my life at SLU and will always hold you dear in my heart.

Bell Herndon '47
As a Navy V-5 and V-12 student and battalion officer in 1944 who returned after 1944 who returned after WWII on the GI Bill graduating. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON 150 YEARS ! We have always enjoyed the many reunions and the big Navy reunion in 1995 50 years after WW2.

Ed Forbes '02 (Alumni Executive Council)
I wish the very best to all Laurentians today 150 years after St. Lawrence was chartered. I owe so much to the University and I'm very proud to be a Laurentian, especially today. All the best .

Karen Kellogg Spooner '65
For about 77 years, SLU has been a part of my family, with my parents and two uncles attending before me and before my daughter. Three generations. I never believed a school could mean so much to a family. The warmth that one feels there. The friendships made are everlasting. Moreover, it provides the best education available. And so I send greetings on behalf of all my SLU family members: Margery Howe Kellogg, John W. Kellogg, Earl P. Savage, Norman P. Kellogg and my daughter Alison L. Spooner '05. Thank you to all who have made SLU what it was yesterday, is today and will be tomorrow.

Gregg Ferguson (1981) and Martha Ferguson (1949)
Happy 150th Birthday SLU!! The "candle in the wilderness" has been a "bright shining light" in both of our lives. Best wishes for 150 more wonderful years of helping to shape the future of the world's youth.

Jesse Wingate '07
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!

Leigh Berry '64
Joy on this day of your birth St.Lawrence, mother dear! To you we sing Happy Birthday tonight here in Boulder, Colorado. No wilderness this, but we'll light lots of candles. Tom Coburn and I send you 150 scarlet and brown birthday wishes.

Vince Bianchi '69
Happy birthday SLU! Thanks for four wonderful years in my life made possible by a caring professional staff, a warm Canton community, and great friends. Good luck to future Laurentians.

Debi Hoskinson '99
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! May you continue to be a place of knowledge, growth and friendship for years to come!

Eleanor & Jim Moore, parents
Happy Birthday, St. Lawrence!!! We are so proud to be parents of SLU students, Beth, '05 and Andrew, '09.

Derrick B. Holt '79
As the years pass, unused formulas and facts fade in the dark recesses of ones mind. Still glowing in the heart are the memories of friends and values formulated during those precious 4 years. The legacy of this light will glow for generations. May the new guardians of this light honor the solemn responsibility and never let this light fade. Happy Birthday

Barry E. Swanson '62, CFP
Happy Birthday to a wonderful institution.
Zum Wohl von Heidelberg, Germany

Karoline Chrzanowski '06
Happy Birthday, St. Lawrence! Thank you for the best years, may there be 150 more

LauraBeth Albanese '05
They say 150 is the new 30, Happy Birthday SLU!

Anita Hamada McCollester '52
Happiest of Birthdays to my dear Alma Mater! When I arrived in Canton from NYC via the railroad all by myself in 1948, there was nobody to greet me. I did not know which direction to take to the campus. Inadvertantly, I headed toward downtown. A local resident, quite amused by my disorientation, indcated the correct direction. It was a lonely walk to the Hill. Eventually, I found my way. At first everyone thought that I was an heiress from Hawaii. WWII was not to far behind me in history. Needless to say I enjoyed the attention for being a Japanese-American in those days was not very pleasant(today, the situation is not as edgy - I am considered an Eurasian-American). In due time, truth prevailed I was not from Hawaii but a bewildered freshman from Long Island. After clearing much misinformation, I was duly registered and ensconced in Dean-Eaton Hall. Henceforward, I have become and remain a devoted "Larry." My dear Alma Mater has opened many doors for me during my lifetime. I shall eternally cherish the sound education, the sincere and continuing friendships, the Pi Beta Phi affiliation (twice alumnae president),the extra-curricula activities while at SLU - everything which had prepared me for my future career in teaching, in community commitment and in family life. Thank you, thank you, thank you dear St. Lawrence University. Wish I could celebrate this day with fellow alumni and students! God Bless America, St. Lawrence University and All affiliated with this great institution!!!

Angela D. Garenani '02
Good luck for the next 150.

Kennedy S. Khabo '91
Happy birthday SLU. I wish you continued success.
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Pam Sperling Short '74, M'77
St. Lawrence has always been a part of my life.I grew up going to hockey each winter, I am the third generation in my family to attend as well as having children who have attended or are presently attending SLU. I have been fortunate to have worked at SLU on three different occasions and I currently have a spouse employed at SLU. I have a passion for St. Lawrence and its students, faculty, and staff. Perhaps its genetic and perhaps its familiarity, but each time I come on campus I feel like I am "coming home". Happy Birthday and continued success and growth for future generations.

Woody Parker '09
Happy Birthday, SLU. Have a good day! Cheers to many more!

Dick Baldwin '54
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Carolyn Baldwin M'64 (spouse)
Happy 150th SLU! The Larries & the Saints continue to be distinguished in higher education, and so many USA and afar institutions desire to discover that Scarlet & Brown magic.

Al Darrone '66
Happy Birthday, SLU! I think of you often and am grateful for the four years I spent in the halls. It has been exciting to see how you have grown and prospered since my days on campus. May this continue for yet another 150 years.

Suzanne D'Amico-Sharp '78
Happy Birthday to the grandest of institutions! Love ya' SLU!

Daniel M. Francia '83
Happy Birthday to a truly great University.

Adam W. Casler '06
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence. I can't believe four years have gone by already, it's been a great time. We're all lucky to have been a part of a place that is so amazing. Here's to another 150 years of excellence!

Judy Ombura '89
Happy Birthday. Thank you for the opportunity of a lifetime, and continue your educational support to others like me.

Norm Kozlowski, parent '07
St.Lawrence has taken my son who had always been quietly confident and made him a thinker who now expresses his options freely. St. Lawrence has make him a well rounded thinking individual who now knows what he wants out of life but more importantly knows what he must give back to the world he lives in. Thank you St. Lawrence for being that candle in the wilderness and for lighting the path he will inevitably follow the rest of his life. St. Lawrence as a good for us and will always hold a special place in our hearts.

Catherine Schulte-Hamilton '82
Happy B-Day SLU! Thank you for instilling in me a love of learning and a special love and appreciation of the the great "North Counrty". My four years at St. Lawrence were some of the best years of my life and gave me some of the strongest relationships I could ever imagine. Cheers to you and those that come after us!
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Holly Steuerwald '89, M.Ed '91
Dear alma mater -
Happy birthday! Here's to another 150 years of chapel bells, beautiful(and cold!) mornings on campus, hockey games, and friendships that last a lifetime. Here's also to another 150 years of producing thoughtful, engaged, global citizens who are both fun and fun-loving! I trust that you future Laurentians are doing all that is within your power to carry on St. Lawrence's wonderful legacy. SLU made me who I am, and for that I am forever indebted!

Tony Ross '75, M.Ed. '78
Congratulations to all of us who celebrate the history and legacy of St. Lawrence. I wish that SLU continues to be a voice for quality educational experiences in a region that values education for all. Accessibility and inclusivity are the guideposts for the future and I hope the students, alumni, and university leadership are up to the challenge of meeting the needs of future generations of students.Happy 150th Birthday, St. Lawrence University.

Leonard G Rich '45
Congratulations on 150...Many happy returns. It's great to watch SLU's success.

Henry M. Goldberg '68
Keep up the good work and innovation! always keep the smallness and close community feeling at SLU.

Laurie Ballentine '97
Happy 150th Birthday St. Lawrence. Many of my fondest and funniest memories took place at St. Lawrence!

Tom Myers '85 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy 150th Birthday, SLU!!!We share a birthday today -- April 3. May we both live and prosper long into the future!!!

Corey Murray '03
My four years at St. Lawrence will always be dear to my heart. It's close-knit community made it easy establish a rapport with your professors and form lifelong friendships. I'm proud to be a Larry. St. Lawrence helped define me as a person. The least I can do in return is to wish it a Happy Birthday, all the best for another 150 years, and may all the students who come after me have a college experience as joyous as mine. Happy Birthday.

Barbara Blair Nangle '58
Congratulations and best wishes for a very successful 150 years. May you continue to prosper and develop as successfully for many many years to come.

Kerianne Murphy Barry '02
Happy Birthday, SLU! I miss you lots and think of you often!

Nancy Sieper Berggren '71
Happy Birthday from the 2 generation Bennett-Sieper-Berggren alumni family!

Tom Ham '65
May there be at least 150 more years of learning, sharing, caring and opening of new doors for our youth. Felicitations a tous!

Jaime Marie Ross '03
Wishing the best to each and every Laurentian on this special day! May there be many more birthdays to celebrate!

Katherine Snedeker '02
Happy Birthday, SLU! You've seen many Sneds pass through your halls, and we've all been incredibly fortunate to be a part of your history. Cheers to many more!

Elizabeth Colucci '87
Happy Birthday to a place that means so much to me.

Karen Helle Nemiah '82 (Alumni Executive Council)
Happy 150th on YOUR day of creation. From Freshman Hall to the (Vienna) Abroad Program, to friends I didn't meet til senior year and post graduation...wrapped up with experiences big and little and lots of learning and living in between, may we all savor the impact that SLU has had on us and our lives and keep it alive by staying connected...to people, places and memories. Thanks SLU for the many gifts you've given me.

Bill Davison '55
Dear S.L.U.,Thanks for the memories and Happy Birthday. I'll send another note after the next 150.

Aileen Ang '00
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!

Ted Harrer '72
Thanks for the fun and memories! Great Experience and preparation for life!Happy Birthday Noble Old St Lawrence. Here"s to the next 150. Cheers!

Thomas T. Keating '84
Here is 150 years more!!

Nancy Frank '67
Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday!

Robert L Freudenheim '56
"its been a hell of a run"

John Green '83
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! Cheers! May you continue to welcome and educate students of all socio-economic backgrounds and provide support for the North Country community.

Elizabeth Boyd '08
Happy Birthday and congratulations for making it to 150!

Donna (Dokus) Russo '85
Happy Birthday!!! These four years were the most important and unforgettable years in my life. My mind, heart and eyes were opened to a wondrous experience. May S.L.U. continue to excite and embrace young lives for at least another 150 years!!

Tom Wilder '00
My time at SLU has provided me with one of the best stories I can tell to any alum. Sitting at a stop light in Baltimore, I saw a young man in the car next to me make a gesture that I should roll down my window. I did and he said to me "Hey, I saw the St. Lawrence sticker in your window. Did you go there?" I said that I did and he explained that he had been accepted and wasn't sure if he should go. Without pause I told him, "those were the best four years of my life." Thanks for the dear friends and treasured memories. Here's to many more great years!

George and Linda DeHaas, parents '06
Best Wishes to St. Lawrence on the 150th.....We had a great four years of parenting a "Saint" student and lacrosse player!

Genevieve Feldmann '09
To all the good times had at SLU and to the many more in the future. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SLU!

Bruce '75 and Janeen (Gould) '75 Frank
Happy Birthday and Congratulations to an outstanding institution. We have so many memories and are grateful for the fine education and fabulous life-long friends from our time there. Thank you and keep up the terrific legacy.

Armand '73 & Stephanie '72 Rapetti
Happy Birthday to the scarlet and the brown. We have warmed ourselves by the candle that you lit.

Bill "Patch" Paczkowski '93
The more things change, the more they stay the same ... Time goes by so fast, but the memories, friendships, and experiences that St. Lawrence University helps us enjoy are just as strong today as they were 150 years ago, and I'm sure they will be just as strong looking back 200 years, and BEYOND! Happy Birthday St. Lawrence, and many more!

Carol Ann Kissam, staff
I wish a very happy birthday to St. Lawrence University. I'm sure the founders who imagined and created this institution of higher education in the North Country had no idea how fine it would become. I'm sure if they were to return today, they would be very proud of what St. Lawrence University has become. Just take a walk around this beautiful campus; just talk with students, faculty, administrators and staff; just hear the pride coming from the mouths of alumni; just experience the aura of campus life, and you will agree. What better tribute than from those who know and have come to appreciate!

Anne Joslin Slater '74
Some of the best times of my life, KDS, Snow Bowl and hanging out with friends at the library and over long dinners in Sykes Dining Hall fill my memories of SLU. Later, as a parent, Parents Weekend, dancing at the Tick Tock, dining at the Glass Onion and partying with my daughter Beth and her Delta friends are also fond memories! My current job (children's librarian)and volunteer activities (ski instructor for the disabled) are directly related to my education at SLU. Happy Birthday and thanks for the memories!

Wendy Zolto Smith '73
Life-shaping lessons and events, life-long memories and friends, life-tested character - this University gave me this and more. My wishes to the generations ahead that they benefit in the same way. Thank you and Happy Birthday St. Lawrence!

Daniel O'Connor, Faculty, 1959-1990
It was 47 years ago this month that I first came to Canton on the "Canton Creeper", 47 years since I first had that warm feeling of being in the right place at the right time, St. Lawrence, you welcomed me, made me feel needed, wanted and at home. I had the privilege of teaching your students for thirty years, hoping to instill in them a love for my field and a respect and love for you. May your first 150 years be but the beginning of your place within, and service to, the North Country and beyond. And may all who come to you seeking knowledge and understanding of the vast legacy of the past and a fuller insight into mysteries confronting them in the present, find it all within your classrooms, your sport fields and your dormitories.Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! Daniel Wm.O'Connor

Shazia Shahnaz '09
Happy Birthday! What are you going to wish for when you blow out the candles?

Jean Sotherden Clune '65
Bonne Fete, SLU! C'etait pendant mes etudes chez vous que j'ai passe une annee scolaire a l'universite de la Sorbonne, avec l'aide de Hamilton College, juste avant que SLU n'ait commence son propre programme. Et j'etais a SLU quand "Satchmo" est venu. Quelle energie! Je pense aussi avec affection a Alpha Delta Pi, a Dr. Reiff, a Mme Purcell, et au hockey. Quel melange de bonne memoires.

Diana Runyan Kurty '75
To St. Lawrence........thanks for the memories! And to future students......may you make many wonderful memories at St. Lawrence and always follow your dreams!

Jo Davey Piehler '80
Happy Birthday! Thanks for 4 great years and lots of special memories. I'll always be proud to be a Laurentian.

Martie and Gregg Peterson '62
SLU has provided a marvelous education for a multitude of students. We can not think of a nicer University to have 150th birthday in 2006. Enjoy this message in 2056. Congratulations.

James and Culleen Mandigo, former staff
Happy Birthday SLU.

Barbara Hall Johnson '64
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! THANKS FOR FOUR OF THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE AND THE WONDERFUL FRIENDSHIPS I MADE!!

Melody Diegor '01
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! Thanks for a wonderful experience and a lifetime of memories! (Alumni Executive Council)

Marjorie & Keith Wallace '55
Happy Birthday SLU! We wish you another 150 years of continued growth and success.

Linda Gallagher '72
"Those were the best years of my life!" Here is to you, Bob; I remember every day. May SLU mean as much to students as to we who experienced the turbulent'1970's on your grounds. Happy Birthday to the most important and meaningful time of my life--four years at SLU!

Catherine Ball Church '73
Despite the passage of many years, St. Lawrence is still such a part of me. I knew the minute I visited, as a timid high schooler, that it was a one-of-a-kind place, and the place for me. Now, as a resident of Michigan, I soak up every bit of SLU news and check the website often. It was such a kick to have our middle daughter choose St. Lawrence too. Happy Birthday, St. Lawrence! I hope maybe a grandchild or two might come your way one day.....

Frank S. Beckerer, Jr '65
Best Wishes in charting the future!!!

Cory Haynes '00
May all past, present, and future Laurentians enjoy and share their peace and prosperity with others, as to reflect St. Lawrence's true purpose. Happy Birthday!

Carl Willner '80
Happy 150th birthday, St. Lawrence! Congratulations on a century and a half of lighting a candle in the North Country, and thanks for many happy memories!

June Daly Milliman '66
Prior to the civil war of this age of email messages, St. Lawrence taught the value of saying "hello" with a smile. May that lesson continue.

Brendan Brew '01 & Jacquelyn Troy Brew '03
We will forever cherish the memories we have of St. Lawrence! Happy Birthday and best wishes for another successful 150 years!

Aimee Leigh Landry '00
I thought my four years at SLU were going to be the best years of my life; I was wrong. St. Lawrence provided me with an education (both inside and outside the classroom) that has enabled me to grow and prosper in the years since graduation - thanks for providing me with such a wonderful stepping stone for Life! I am anxiously awaiting the day when my niece and nephew are old enough for college - I'll definitely steer them to SLU!

MaLora McCullough '91
I couldn't let this opportunity pass without saying "Happy Birthday" to what has undeniably been one of the greatest things to ever happen to me --- St. Lawrence! St. Lawrence is like a parent that you don't always tell you love but to whom you are forever indebted. My time at St. Lawrence confirmed what I always knew in my heart of hearts to be true, that the world was much bigger than inner city Buffalo. And I was meant to be a part of it. The support I received and the knowledge I gained while attending SLU have helped me to not only survive in the Big Apple but to thrive. Thanks SLU! May you be blessed with another 150 years!

Doug Hartford '65
Happy Birthday to St. Lawrence. There are many happy memories from my four years in Canton and the path begun in the North Country has been and interesting and rewarding road. Thanks for the great start and best wishes for the next 150 years

Amy Mezoff '79
Happy Birthday St. Lawrence! Best wishes for 150 more years of service and great education.

Melita LaBrecque Malley '72
May the flames of the "candle in the wilderness" and the candles of the SLU birthday cake continue to light the minds and hearts of those future students of St. Lawrence. Only those of us who have had the good fortune to attend St. Lawrence can truly understnad the depth and breadth of this experience.Happy, happy birthday!

Chris DeLorenzo '87
Best wishes to all of the alumni, students, faculty, and staff who make St. Lawrence so special. Extra special cheers to classes '84-'90.

Denley Rothmann Hersey Rafferty '64
Happy Natal Anniversary to the school where I spent some of the happiest days of my life.