He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta , N.Y. His late parents , Mr. Babchak Jr. and M. Priscilla Crawford Babchak , lived in Peekskill , N.Y. Mr. Babchak 's mother was the president of the women 's auxiliary at Peekskill Community Hospital in Cortlandt Manor , N.Y. His father was a managing partner in Babchak , Daly & Lavery , a law firm in Ossining , N.Y. Mr. Walsh , 60 , retired as a special education teacher at the John W. McCormack Middle School in Boston .