I
am happy to announce that some of our fellow Club members have sent in generous
contributions to the Gevertz '83 Memorial Fund.
So far the following Club members have sent in contributions:
Peterson '86
Coash '82
Willett '90
Chafee '85
Beams '66
Thanks guys!
IMPORTANT........... Please note that I will be forwarding all checks made
payable to Middlebury College to the College and I will make sure that the
funds are credited to you and deposited into the Gevertz Fund. The
College will mail you a receipt for tax purposes.
BUT......... all guys planning on traveling to Vail this summer must send me a
check for $55 payable to the Middlebury Alumni Lacrosse Club. I cannot
deposit checks made payable to Middlebury College. If you want to send a
few extra dollars for the Gevertz Fund and you don't care about tax deductions,
I will collect all funds over the $55 amount and list your name and year and
send a combined check from the Club to the College.
What about Bruce? For those of you who might not know what
happened to Bruce Gevertz '83, here is a very short synopsis. At
Middlebury College, Bruce was a member of the KDR fraternity and played
football and lacrosse. I think a bunch of us can relate to that
description! Bruce was at the top of his game during the winter of
1998. He was a managing director at Bear Sterns and he was married
to his college sweetheart with whom he had several young children. Out of
the blue, he went home from work on the Friday before the holidays with a fever
and over the weekend he developed pneumonia and died soon after arriving at a
hospital the following Monday. Bruce had his spleen removed (? sports
injury) years earlier and therefore he was susceptible to certain types of
bacterial infections. But he was a perfectly healthy adult and his death
was a serious blow to his family and friends. I was able to attend the
memorial services later in the week and I must admit that my life has not been
the same since that day. I look at things in a very different way and, in
fact, I changed several things in my life that very day. While I only
knew Bruce for a short time, he was the kind of guy you don't forget. So
let's all contribute generously to a fund that will memorialize Bruce and what
Bruce was all about. Someday there will be scholar athletes at Middlebury
who will be the beneficiaries of our contributions in Bruce's memory.
They will help carry forward what Bruce started and what he didn't get to
finish.
http://www.middleburylacrosse.org/gevertz.html
Bobo