Letters
I enjoy receiving each issue of the Review. As a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, I naturally tend to look at the music articles more than the others. However, I was reading the article 鈥淟ives in Letters鈥 (March-April 2016), and the achievements of William H. Seward caught my attention. What I especially noted was his involvement in acquiring Alaska (鈥淪eward鈥檚 Folly鈥). As a stamp collector, primarily of Canadian and musical stamps, the Alaska reference rang a very distant bell. After some snooping around the Scott Catalogue of postage stamps, I found what I was looking for. Scott Catalogue #370 and #371 (the imperforate version) honors Mr. Seward. These U.S. stamps were issued in 1909 as the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Issue. I thought Professor Slaughter and company, as well as readers, might be interested. Keep up the good work.
Alan Denike 鈥74E
Regina, Canada
Top Teams
I just read the great article about the 1989鈥90 men鈥檚 basketball team (鈥淧rinces of the Palestra,鈥 March-April). Nice work!
The article prompted me to think about the 1991 men鈥檚 cross country team, which also won an NCAA Division III championship. That championship was the pinnacle achievement during the long and successful career of cross country and track coach Timothy Hale. During the late 1980s and 1990s, Coach Hale鈥檚 teams were as successful as any team, in any sport, in any era, in UR鈥檚 long history. Coach Hale went on to become the athletic director at SUNY Oswego. He is retired now and living in North Carolina.
The runners on the 1991 championship team鈥擠ave Boutillier 鈥93, Jim Dunlop 鈥92, Anthony Kerr 鈥93, Ray Lawson 鈥92, Joe Mello 鈥92, Christian Reed 鈥92, 鈥94 (MA), and Chris Rizzo 鈥92, 鈥93 (MS)鈥攁re an outstanding group of men, and they have all achieved success in their careers in business, education, and the military.
Tom Tuori 鈥87
Rochester
The writer was a six-time All-American member of the men鈥檚 cross country and track and field teams.

Engaged in Debate
The picture on page 53 of the March-April issue is from the 1995鈥96 school year. I was the coach of the Debate Union at the time. That鈥檚 me on the end, with the beard. I鈥檓 leading some team members in one of my 鈥渄eep visualization for victory鈥 training exercises. Others in the picture include Randy Pittelli 鈥95, Louise Vella 鈥97, Bimal Desai, Alex Helderman 鈥96, Chetan Gulati 鈥99, Paul Kerr, Jon Herman, Curtis Sturdivant 鈥98, David Nowak 鈥99, Ryan Pitterson 鈥97, Liz Jarrait 鈥96, Carrie Rosen 鈥97, Miranda Chiu 鈥96, Josh Clinton 鈥96, and Angela Watterworth Kroboth 鈥98. This was a wonderful team and included many more amazing debaters not pictured here. All of that year鈥檚 debate team members still keep me supplied with fond memories all these 20 years later!
Sam Nelson
Ithaca, New York
Nelson, who coached the Debate Union from 1990 to 2005, is director of forensics at Cornell鈥檚 Industrial and Labor Relations School.
I believe that the photo that appeared on page 53 in the March-April issue was from 1995. I was active on the debate team from 1992 to 1996. My partner, Marc Schatten 鈥95, and I won the Eastern Regionals Junior Varsity Championship in 1993, beating Cornell. Among those I recognized are Sam Nelson (coach), Miranda Chiu 鈥96, Carrie Rosen 鈥97, Elizabeth Jarrait 鈥96, Alex Helderman 鈥96, and Bimal Desai.
Josh Clinton 鈥96
Brentwood, Tennessee

Recollections
Frosh Camp was the best experience ever鈥攑laying baseball, writing the class song, a big pajama party, meeting upperclassmen on the bus who taught us all the University songs (Ask the Archivist, September-October 2014). We got on the bus as clueless and random individuals, and left the bus as a united group who felt the U of R was where we were supposed to be.
The Class of 1967 was required to pass the swimming test to graduate (Ask the Archivist, January-February 2016). At graduation, one student in my group was stunned to receive a letter to that effect instead of a diploma.
As for 鈥淵ou Say 鈥業nterpreze,鈥 I Say 鈥業nterpress,鈥 or Maybe 鈥業nterps,鈥欌 (Ask the Archivist, March-April 2016), we pronounced the yearbook 鈥淚nterps.鈥
Lauren Conner Taylor 鈥67
Ocean City, Maryland
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