Regis Seaman Obituary

George Fry '66 said:

A message to Regis (My Best Friend): I remember when we first met. We were both Four Years Old. I was standing underneath the neighborhood street light, your walking up the hill with a (JOE PALOOKA) punching bag on a rope. You asked me if I wanted to punch it. That was the beginning of a friendship that lasted till the day you passed on . We grew up in a (Working Poor) neighborhood. Very ethnic 99% Polish. I was the only kid that was not Polish or Catholic and did not go to Saint Ignatius Church and School. But we all got along great I went to your church a lot and attended celebrations. We grew up together. We joined the Boy Scouts, We went camping, We learned how to swim, We went to the DOWN TOWN PITTSBURGH YMCA Every Saturday in the Winter To Swim. We went Skating Every Friday Night. Thank God that’s where I MEET THE LOVE OF MY LIFE (LINDA DANZIGER) I was 14 years old. We played Hooky a lot. And a lot of things that will stay between me and you. We have stayed in touch all our lives you have gone missing a few times but you always contacted me when you returned from where you were in the world. Linda and I also had the pleasure of having you live with us in our home in Orlando Florida for a couple years. So I think I can say with all honesty I know every chapter of your life. There is a lot more to Rege Seaman that the News Clip above. On the Day we graduated Rege was Married to Jolene and awaiting the arrival of


of their daughter PEGGY. When we were planning on what to do before we have to find a job or go to War or go to College Rege was planning a future for Three people. His future was being based on every thing he learned at CVHS. Rege Started with Drafting. Working for a company in Pittsburgh. Next was the first move I know of. Rege and Jolene moved to Washington DC. Rege did some sort of Under Cover Work for the Government during the Student Unrest. When he returned to Pittsburgh he got into the Steel Mill building business. He traveled the world building steel mills as Head Construction Engineer in Europe India Mexico and many other locations. As the manufacturing industry left the USA so did his work. That is when the trouble in the story above happened This happened to a lot of people our age. Some years later Rege was going through his second Divorce and was in a bad state of mind. That is when I invited him to come to Florida and stay with us for awhile. He came and went to work for The largest Conveyor System used in All the Airports for luggage handling. He soon was there head design engineer and was soon traveling all over the USA installing the systems. That Job is how Rege ended up in the Philippines. His company was contacted by the Chinese Goverment they were building 45 Airports. They sent Rege to China to look the job over. They came back with a offer to start a company over there the owners refused the deal but the Goverment offered a Teaching Job at a Engineering College to teach American Engineering English at the College. Three years and retire so he did it. While in China he served on several Boards of different company’s. On his way home He visited Vietnam for awhile and then the Philippines. Once he got there he told me he would never come back. He met very young girl fell in love and got married. Put her through College and build her a new home. Rege never worked another day after he left China. He lived a very full life with a lot of adventures and has had things happen to him that I know many of us would not be able to handle. All I got left to say is “NOT BAD FOR A KID WHO USED TO CARRY THE TRAVELING $20 DOLLER BILL FROM HIS MOTHER TO MY MOTHER AND I WOULD TAKE ITBACK TO HIS MOM ON Payday” That’s what I Remember about Rege Seaman My Best Friend REST IN PEASE. GEORGE FRY

Mary Kuberek '70 said:

A Butler County man says he is poorer and... UPI ARCHIVES OCT. 26, 1984
PORTERSVILLE, Pa. --A Butler County man says he is poorer and lighter after an unsuccessful odyssey to North Africa in search of a $60,000 loan from Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy to help him pay the mortgage on his farm. Regis Seaman was expelled from Tunisia Oct. 16 upon completion of a 30-day sentence he served for non-payment of a $4,000 hotel bill. Seaman, 36, and his son Regis Jr., 16, embarked on their quest in May, carrying with them $1,500 in savings and $6,000 in loans from friends. They traveled to London, then hitchhiked, walked and took trains across Europe.
The unemployed draftsman said he decided to try and seek the money from Khadafy because he was unhappy with the amount of money the U.S. was dispensing in foreign aid. They took a ferry from Italy's southern tip to Tunisia May 30 after Libyan diplomats in Rome assured them they would be able to obtain a visa to enter Libya. But Libyan officials there balked at granting him permission to enter the country because he wanted to see Khadafy.
'You have to understand that I wasn't just asking them to go to Tripoli (the Libyan capital). I was asking them to see Khadafy and that was an entirely different situation.' Seaman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an interview published today. Seaman and his son tried to go through channels in order to see the Libyan leader, and when that failed they tried to enter without permission. They were turned back at the Libya-Tunisia border by Cuban troops. They returned to the city of Tunis and stayed at hotels and continued to try to gain permission to see Khadafy.

In mid-August, the Amilcar Resorts Hotel demanded payment of a $4,000 bill, which Seaman said he could not pay. 'They arrested me, gave me a 10-minute hearing before a judge, and threw me in jail,' Seaman said. U.S. officials persuaded the Tunisians to allow Seaman's son to go home. 'Jail over there is bad, really bad. They really don't mess around. You get a small loaf of bread in the morning and a small loaf of bread in the afternoon and that's it,' he said. He could hear the sounds of prisoners being whipped in the courtyard, Seaman added.
Seaman now owes the U.S. government $1,200 for his flight home and has other personal debts, although his lawyer was able to stave off foreclosure of a $54,900 mortgage on his client's farm. He dropped from 176 pounds to 150 pounds during his prison stay and his wife, Jolene, left him to live in Pittsburgh, taking with her Regis Jr.
'Three dollars and five packs of cigarettes is all I got in the world, and because of my political viewpoints, I don't know who would hire me,' Seaman said.