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Alumni News
Catching Up with You
Bill Wagner ’55 is still partially active in his
frm and is in a new home after his wife passed
away.
William Beckley ’87 with his wife Dana
Beckley in NYC where they recently attended
The Book of Mormon performance on
Broadway.
These photos includes Brothers from the 1952 – 1954 class.
Courtesy of Bill Wagner ’55.
Have news? Promotion, married, new baby
or grand kids, invent something, write a book,
climb a mountain? We want to share your
news with our Gamma Xi family. Send your
news and updates in the enclosed envelope or
email them to our account manager, Kasey
Breedlove at kbreedlove@thelaurusgroup.net.
Photos are great too!
The Honorable Robert G. Rich, Jr. ’52
worn in as the second Director of the Department the rank of Minister, where
SUnited States Ambassador of State’s Crisis Operations he successfully negotiated an
to Belize in August 1987, Center, he was a member of the extension of American military
Ambassador Rich served as 1972 class at the National War base rights. In 1986, he was
ambassador to that Central College. the principal U.S. Government
American/Caribbean nation In 1972, Ambassador Rich representative in Hawaii
until August 1990. However, served as Staff Director of the responsible for managing the
more than 21 years of his Board of Examiners of the issues created by the evacuation
diplomatic experience was Foreign Service, responsible of former Philippine President
devoted to solving problems for selecting new career Marcos and his entourage.
of U.S. relations with three Foreign Service Offcers. From The ambassador retired
major Asian countries—Korea, 1974 to 1977, he was deputy from the U.S. Foreign Service
Indonesia and the Philippines. U.S. ambassador to Trinidad in 1991 and for almost four
The Ambassador entered and Tobago. years was Vice President and Gamma Xi of Beta Theta Pi as
the Foreign Service in early Returning to Washington Senior Director of the Korea No. 417 in 1949, he received
1957. After serving as a staff in mid-1977, he served the Economic Institute of America. his B.S. degree in Physics
offcer in the Offce of the next four years as Director After a subsequent period from the University of Florida
Secretary of State (John Foster of Korean Affairs, managing as editor of an international in 1952 and later did graduate
Dulles), his frst overseas the problems of proposed economic journal, he returned work in cultural anthropology
posting was as a Political U.S. forces withdrawals and to the Department of State and Asian studies at Cornell
Affairs Offcer in Seoul, the “Koreagate” scandals on a half-time basis in late University. He served on active
Korea. From 1962 through on Capitol Hill. This was 1998 working on diplomatic duty at sea as a Naval Offcer
1969, he was working on U.S.– followed by a year at the Senior archives, where he managed the during the Korean War from
Indonesian relations at the end Executive Seminar on National declassifcation of diplomatic 1952 to 1954. He speaks fuent
of the Sukarno era. During this and International Affairs, records twenty-fve or more Indonesian. Hobbies have been
time he served successively as where he was class President years old. After more than spelunking, ocean sailing, and
Political Affairs Offcer in the and wrote a major monograph a decade in this work, Bob reading. The Ambassador has
Embassy in Jakarta, Principal on U.S. troop withdrawal issues retired, for the third and fnal four adult daughters and eleven
Offcer in Medan, Sumatra, in Korea during the Carter time he says, in December grandchildren. He is married
and as Indonesian Desk Offcer administration. 2011. to the former Mary Ann Coté
in the State Department in In 1982, Mr. Rich was Bob Rich was born of Maine and lives in Reston,
Washington. named deputy U.S. ambassador in Gainesville, Florida, in Virginia.
After a period as Deputy in Manila, the Philippines, with November 1930. Initiated into
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Catching Up with You
Bill Wagner ’55 is still partially active in his
frm and is in a new home after his wife passed
away.
William Beckley ’87 with his wife Dana
Beckley in NYC where they recently attended
The Book of Mormon performance on
Broadway.
These photos includes Brothers from the 1952 – 1954 class.
Courtesy of Bill Wagner ’55.
Have news? Promotion, married, new baby
or grand kids, invent something, write a book,
climb a mountain? We want to share your
news with our Gamma Xi family. Send your
news and updates in the enclosed envelope or
email them to our account manager, Kasey
Breedlove at kbreedlove@thelaurusgroup.net.
Photos are great too!
The Honorable Robert G. Rich, Jr. ’52
worn in as the second Director of the Department the rank of Minister, where
SUnited States Ambassador of State’s Crisis Operations he successfully negotiated an
to Belize in August 1987, Center, he was a member of the extension of American military
Ambassador Rich served as 1972 class at the National War base rights. In 1986, he was
ambassador to that Central College. the principal U.S. Government
American/Caribbean nation In 1972, Ambassador Rich representative in Hawaii
until August 1990. However, served as Staff Director of the responsible for managing the
more than 21 years of his Board of Examiners of the issues created by the evacuation
diplomatic experience was Foreign Service, responsible of former Philippine President
devoted to solving problems for selecting new career Marcos and his entourage.
of U.S. relations with three Foreign Service Offcers. From The ambassador retired
major Asian countries—Korea, 1974 to 1977, he was deputy from the U.S. Foreign Service
Indonesia and the Philippines. U.S. ambassador to Trinidad in 1991 and for almost four
The Ambassador entered and Tobago. years was Vice President and Gamma Xi of Beta Theta Pi as
the Foreign Service in early Returning to Washington Senior Director of the Korea No. 417 in 1949, he received
1957. After serving as a staff in mid-1977, he served the Economic Institute of America. his B.S. degree in Physics
offcer in the Offce of the next four years as Director After a subsequent period from the University of Florida
Secretary of State (John Foster of Korean Affairs, managing as editor of an international in 1952 and later did graduate
Dulles), his frst overseas the problems of proposed economic journal, he returned work in cultural anthropology
posting was as a Political U.S. forces withdrawals and to the Department of State and Asian studies at Cornell
Affairs Offcer in Seoul, the “Koreagate” scandals on a half-time basis in late University. He served on active
Korea. From 1962 through on Capitol Hill. This was 1998 working on diplomatic duty at sea as a Naval Offcer
1969, he was working on U.S.– followed by a year at the Senior archives, where he managed the during the Korean War from
Indonesian relations at the end Executive Seminar on National declassifcation of diplomatic 1952 to 1954. He speaks fuent
of the Sukarno era. During this and International Affairs, records twenty-fve or more Indonesian. Hobbies have been
time he served successively as where he was class President years old. After more than spelunking, ocean sailing, and
Political Affairs Offcer in the and wrote a major monograph a decade in this work, Bob reading. The Ambassador has
Embassy in Jakarta, Principal on U.S. troop withdrawal issues retired, for the third and fnal four adult daughters and eleven
Offcer in Medan, Sumatra, in Korea during the Carter time he says, in December grandchildren. He is married
and as Indonesian Desk Offcer administration. 2011. to the former Mary Ann Coté
in the State Department in In 1982, Mr. Rich was Bob Rich was born of Maine and lives in Reston,
Washington. named deputy U.S. ambassador in Gainesville, Florida, in Virginia.
After a period as Deputy in Manila, the Philippines, with November 1930. Initiated into
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