Like many St. Lawrence University students past and present, Mike Arpey ’85 grew up in a family where there was never any talk of Wall Street or the world of finance at the dinner table. Neither of his parents went to college. But while he was a student at St. Lawrence University, he met John Hannon ’44, a St. Lawrence alumnus and then CEO of Bankers Trust.
A recent study shows that St. Lawrence University’s economic impact on the North Country region of New York increased nearly $15 million over the last two years to just over $276 million.
Whenever someone asks me about my time at St. Lawrence, I say without hesitation that I absolutely love it. More than just love, I’m obsessed with it. And it is an obsession – how else would I come to...