January 30, 2012:  We have completed a second cross check of our membership database with the latest from the UAlbany Alumni Association following their campaign to update their records in preparation for the latest edition of the UAlbany Alumni Directory.  There are still a couple of discrepancies to resolve between the two, and when that is complete an updated abbreviated Potter Club membership directory will be published to this web site at the link to the left. 

However, in the process of the cross check we identified several Potter members who are now known to be deceased.  A complete up to date list of Potter Deceased, now numbering 278, can be viewed through the In Memoriam link at the left.

In Memoriam:  One deceased Potter man from among the recently identified is R. (Riley) Clay Sprowls, 1942.  Dr. Sprowls died Tuesday, July  12, 2011.  He had responded to our initial survey of interest in the 80th Anniversary Potter Club Reunion with the following regret, "I am unable to attend, confined to wheelchair, don't travel anymore."  His passing occurred shortly afterward.  The obituary and extensive write up of his lifetime appears in the UCLA Anderson School of Management web site which can be viewed at: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x38361.xml   The date of his death was found elsewhere.

January 10, 2012: In Memoriam:
Martin (aka "Newt" or Mike) Owens, Class of 1956. November 14, 2010. 
(Reported by Ben Jackson.  No obit available.  Owens, originally from Troy, was at Albany in late 40s, graduating in 1956.)

Nicholas W. Conte, 61, died at home Friday, December 30, 2011. (Obit supplied by Paul Ward)
Born in Utica, he was the son of the late Francis Joseph and Ann Marchetta Conte. Mr. Conte was a guidance counselor at Albany High School, retiring in 2007. He was a graduate of SUNY Albany, 1972, where he was a member of the Edward E. Potter Club Fraternity and played on the varsity football team. Nicholas belonged to the Capital District Counselor Association, and was an avid sports fan. He was the father of Joseph P. Conte and Kerry E. Conte; former husband of Jean Hobbs Conte; brother of Mary T. Conte (Deena Pers).

UAlb preparing latest issue of Alumni Magazine:  An article will appear chronicling the Potter Club  80th Anniversary Reunion.  Watch for it in the Spring.

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