I was a classmate of Ed's at Marist, and we both majored in psychology. We were both officers of the Young Americans for Freedom, an ultra conservative student group in the 1960s. We canvassed for Barry Goldwater, and attended a rally for him at Madison Square Garden where the keynote speaker was an actor named Ronald Regan. (I since changed my political position, and I don't know if Ed did also, but at least while at Marist, Ed was staunchly conservative. He wanted to serve in Viet Nam, but he had previously joined the Naval Reserve, and the Navy initially was not in Viet Nam. Ed wrote to the Secretary of Defense to see if he could get out of the Navy in order to join the Marines, and according to Ed, the reply was "to sit on his hands". I expect he was probably the only one to make the request to change services for that purpose. I recall Ed as fun-loving (he once began a term paper with a quote attributed to E.A. St. Germain to see if the teacher was attentive - he wasn't), and he was always creative and 'on a mission'. I saw Ed last about twenty five years ago at a classmate,Brian McIntyre's home and Ed was mwentioning that he had become a lawyer in California. I thought of him often over the years, and I'm sorry to learn that he has died. Ed was a character who had an important effect on my life. He - and you Susan - will be in my thoughts and prayers. Sincerely, John Scileppi