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JUNE 1992

VOLUME 94NUMBER 10

CoverIllustrator DianaSouza had abright idea forthis month'scover.

21 Cornell's InventorsBY KATHY BODOVTΓZAND ED HARDYINTRODUCTION BYKEITH JOHNSON

Inventions devised byCornellians range fromEzra's own cable-layingdevice to the Heimlich Maneuver to mechanical air conditioning.An honor roll of Cornell inventors.

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36 Why Airline Deregulation WorksBY ALFRED E. KAHN

The architect of airline deregulation explains why, despite some high faresand crowded skies, deregulated airlines are the best kind.

39 I was a Middle Aged Freshman

BY JANE DICKINSON

Forty-five, divorced, the kids away at school. Sounds like the perfect timeto start college.

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DEPARTMENTS

4 NewsTuition for state schools inthe 1992-93 academic yearwill be $7,000 for state resi-dents, $13,250 for non-residents.

7 LettersLet the freshmen choosewhere they want to live,readers say.

10 FacultyClean ground water may be ahandful of bacteria away, aprofessor says.

12 StudentsMost Cornell students thinksome of their peers cheat.Just don't ask them who.

15 AuthorsMolly Kite's Breach of Immunity.

16 ResearchA graduate student says hehas evidence of female infan-ticide in India.

18 SportsThe Schoellkopf steps are aphysical and mental challengeRed athletes find hard to resist.

44 News of Alumni

81 Legacies

84 Alumni Deaths

87 Calendar

88 CornellianaGone fission at the WardLaboratory.

87 Cornell Classifieds

68 Cornell Hosts

72 Professional Directory

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V A C A T I O N

June 1992

MAINEAugust 24—29,

August 31—September 5

Cornell's Shoals Marine Labo-ratory on Appledore Island in theGulf of Maine, just off the NewHampshire coast, is a beautiful,stimulating place, a perfect getawayfrom the city. Join in for one of fivedelightful explorations of land andsea: "Ecology of the Gulf of Maine,""Nature Photography," "Archaeol-ogy of New England and the MaineCoast," "Marine Mammals," or"Birds, Islands, and the Sea."

Richard B. Fischer, John B.Heiser, Mary Beth Norton and oth-ers will be teaching.

CHICAGOOctober 9—14

Frank Lloyd Wright and therise of modern architecture will bethe focus of explorations in Chicago,Racine, Wisconsin, and Taliesin,Wisconsin, each of which possessessome of the finest examples ofWright's work, as well as that ofLouis Sullivan, Mies Van der Roheand others. This midwest journeywill be led by urban historian StuartBlumin and architecture school deanWilliam G. McMinn.

SPA WEEKENDOctober 23—25

Join historian Joan JacobsBrumberg, nutritionist DavidLevitsky, and psychologist RonMack for a look at our national fasci-nation—some would call it apreoccupation—with health andbeauty. While examining healthpractices and attitudes today you'llexperience life at the very pleasantNew Age Spa in the Catskill Moun-tains near Neversink, New York.

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Cornell's Adult University

Ancient Civilizationsof Turkey and the Aegean

Vol. VINumber 4

October 8—26

Join archaeologist David I. Owen and classicist Frederick Ahl for a mostunusual itinerary, which combines eleven days on land, in Istanbul, Ankara,and central Turkey, with seven days at sea, aboard the privately charteredM.V. Aurora II, cruising the Aegean to visit Rhodes, Crete, Bodrum andHalicarnassus, Santorini, and Ephesus. The sites, the faculty, the accommoda-tions, and the spirit of the group promise to make this a memorable journey.

UpcomingStudy Tours

WINTER AND SPRING1993

In July, CAU's program announce-ment for Jamuiry—June, 1993 will becoming your way. We'd like to teaseyou a little before it arrives!

In January, study tour plans in-clude Papua New Guinea with zoologistHoward Evans and geologist FrankRhodes; Tahiti and the Society Islandswith marine biologist John B. Heiserand anthropologist Billie Jean Isbell.In February: Belize with John B. Heiserand Grenada with botanist John M.

Kingsbury and invertebrate zoolo-gist Louise G. Kingsbury. In April,enjoy London theater with AnthonyCaputi and Alain Seznec. In May we'lltravel to South Korea and Japan withAsianist Karen Brazell.

If you'd like to stay closer to home,we'll be heading to Key West in Feb-ruary with literature specialist PhilMarcus. In March, we're off to theTexas Gulf Coast with ornithologistand naturalist Richard B. Fischer. InMay, choose from Flagstaff, Arizonawith naturalist Verne Rockcastle andastronomer YervantTerzian; Chesa-peake Bay with marine biologist JohnB. Heiser and historian Mary BethNorton; or the Otesaga Hotel inCooperstown, New York, for a week-end seminar on contemporaryGermany with David Bathrick andJohn Borneman.

For full program details and registration materials please call or write:Cornell's Adult University, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca NY U850 (telephone 607-255-6260).

NEWS

U niversity trustees raised1992-93 tuition at thestate-supported collegesby 8.5 percent to 10.9percent for undergradu-

ates and by 8.9 percent to 12percent for graduate stu-dents—reflecting the impactof the state's fiscal crunch.

Beginning in the fall, un-dergraduates from New YorkState will pay $7,000 a yearin tuition at state-supportedcolleges, up 8.5 percent fromthis year's $6,450, and non-residents will pay $13,250, up10.9 percent from $11,950.The state-supported collegesare Agriculture and Life Sci-ences, Human Ecology, Indus-trial and Labor Relations andVeterinary Medicine.

Most graduate tuition inthe statutory colleges will riseby 10.2 percent, to $8,200from $7,440. The exception is in theVet college. Graduate tuition therewill climb 9.6 percent, to $9,100 from$8,300; those pursuing the doctorof veterinary medicine degree willhave an 8.9 percent increase, to$11,000 from $10,100 if they arestate residents, and a 12 percentincrease, to $14,000 from $12,500,if they are non-residents.

Part of the tuition increase willpay for higher costs that are notcovered by the reduced state appro-priations to the statutory colleges;part was required because SUNYraised its own tuition by $500, ac-cording to Nathan Fawcett, theuniversity's director of statutorycollege affairs.

Earlier this year, trustees ap-proved a 6.5 percent increase inundergraduate and graduate tuitionin the endowed colleges, to $17,220from this year's $16,170.

Within the Ivy League, tuitionincreases for next year average 6.5percent, with Penn approving thesmallest hike, 5.9 percent, and Yalethe biggest, 7.4 percent. (Columbiahad not set tuition for 1992-93 as ofpress time.) Those increases willplace Cornell's endowed tuition fifth-highest in the Ivy League next year,behind Princeton, Yale, Brown andDartmouth. However, the differencebetween Princeton's $17,750 tuition

and Cornell's $17,220 is only $530.The cheapest tuition in the IvyLeague? Harvard's, at $15,870 a year.

NEW HOLOCAUST ADREJECTED

The Cornell Daily Sun turned downanother Holocaust-related advertise-ment submitted by Bradley Smithof the Committee for Open Debateon The Holocaust and explained itsdecision in an editorial headlined'Once Was Enough."

Smith submitted and the Sun ranlast November an ad titled "TheHolocaust Controversy: The CaseFor Open Debate." The ad claimedthe Holocaust never happened andsparked sharp criticism both on andoff campus of the newspaper's de-cision to print it. Smith's new ad,submitted to thirty-six college news-papers, claims that Nazis did notmake soap from the remains of Jews.

This time, the Sun ran a briefnews item on the front page of itsApril 15 edition explaining that thead had been submitted and that thenewspaper's editorial board hadvoted not to run it. Inside the sameissue an editorial explained the

board's decision."Enough is enough," the edito-

rial said. "The Sun opened its pagesto what was clearly a tendentiousargument last November, noting itsobligation to expose readers to a widerange of viewpoints. If the formereditorial board was wrong to printthe first ad, then obviously this adis also not appropriate for publica-tion. And even if printing the firstad was the right decision, that doesnot require the current board to al-low the continued use of The Sun'spages for the propagation of hate,especially when it is disingenuouslydisguised as scholarly inquiry."

Campus Public Safety officers wereinvestigating thirteen different casesin which an intruder dressed in blackand wearing a black hood enteredstudents' unsecured rooms. The lat-est report, as of CAN'S deadline,came from a woman who said a mandressed in a black shirt entered herCascadilla room early on a Saturdaymorning in mid-April and touchedher chest. She awoke, saw some-one leaving her room and contactedPublic Safety, the Sun said. She re-ported that nothing was stolen fromher room.

An intruder wearing black cloth-ing and a black hood has touched orattempted to touch students in sevenof the recent incidents.

Public Safety Capt. William Boicetold the Sun, "It's pretty hard to pin-point him," noting that the intruderhas been spotted in Collegetown andon both West and North campuses.Public Safety is reportedly also in-vestigating incidents in U-Hall 1,Low Rise 7, Low Rise 6 and HighRise 5.

MULTICULTURAL VOTEAfter two hours of lively debate, theStudent Assembly in April passed aResolution on Multiculturalismwhich will create a committee thatcould recommend campus-widechanges such as the addition of

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Persistent rumors have become reality. A Wendy's hamburger restaurantopened recently in Collegetown, on the northeast corner of Dryden Roadand College Avenue. Some say this is the beginning of the end ofCollegetown's distinctive atmosphere, but others welcome the arrival of aquick burger and fries. "It would be terrible if Collegetown became toocommercialized," Jennifer Hussar '94 told The Cornell Daily Sun, "becauseyou can go to Wendy's anywhere. It's the atmosphere, not necessarily thefood—that's what makes Collegetown so special." But Ike Nestopoulos,owner of the Greek House restaurant, says, "I haven't been affected onebit. I've been doing the same business for ten years." A Wendy's managersays a large neon sign will be hung outside the store.

multicultural education activitiesduring the greek-sponsored GAM-MA week and the availability of moreethnic food in campus dining halls,the Sun reported.

Members of campus Christiangroups objected to a clause in theresolution that they claimed associ-ates Christians with a "dominantgroup" responsible for the oppres-

sion of those who fall outside theculture of "white, male, hetero-sexual, able-bodied, adult, Christianand upper- or middle-class."

Other students protested theclause suggesting increased multi-cultural programming during Orien-tation, insisting that only the Ori-entation Steering Committee hasjurisdiction over Orientation.

PROF. LEBOW LEAVESGovernment Prof. Richard NedLebow is leaving Cornell to go tothe University of Pittsburgh nextacademic year, a move he said wasprompted by the university's elimi-nation of the post of his wife, CarolBohmer, an adjunct professor in thesociology department. Lebow andBohmer will teach primarily inPittsburgh's Graduate School forPublic and International Affairs andwill also teach undergraduatecourses.

Government Prof. BenjaminGinsberg will also be away next year.He is taking a one-year leave of ab-sence to teach political science atJohns Hopkins University and to runits Washington Center for the Studyof American Government. JohnsHopkins has offered Ginsberg anendowed position as the DavidBernstein Professor of Political Sci-ence. Ginsberg declined to say if heplans to return to the Hill after hisleave.

GRAD SCHOOL RANKINGSCornell's graduate English programwas ranked third in the U.S. Newsand World Report grad schoolrankings, making it the highestranked of all the university's graduateschools in the magazine's annualsurvey.

Among professional schools,Cornell's medical school was rankedtenth (Harvard was first), theJohnson Graduate School of Man-agement was ranked twelfth(Stanford was first) and the lawschool was ranked fourteenth (Yalewas first).

The university's graduate engi-neering and history programs eachranked ninth and political science(called government here) rankedfourteenth.

RAPE CHARGEDA university freshman was arrest-ed in April and indicted by the Tomp-

JUNE 1992

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NEWS

kins County Grand Jury on chargesthat he raped a female student inhis Dickson Hall room.

Michael D. Pfendler '95, a 19-year-old engineering student and amember of the Navy ROTC, wasindicted on one count of first-degreerape and two counts of first-degreesexual abuse, all felonies. At presstime, he had not yet been arraignedon those charges, nor had he en-tered a plea.

After his arrest, he was releasedto the custody of NROTC CaptainSteven W. Dowling. He posted$5,000 bail the following day, whichreleased him from Bowling's cus-tody. After meeting with ResidenceLife staff, Pfendler was relocatedfrom his Dickson room to one inMennen.

Pfendler is from Oregon and wasa defensive tackle for the freshmanfootball team. The campus judicialadministrator is also investigatingthe alleged rape to determinewhether Pfendler violated the Cam-pus Code of Conduct, which prohibitssexual abuse, sexual assault andrape.

GRAD STIPENDS CUTGraduate students are feeling theuniversity's budget pinch this sum-mer after the Graduate School cutthe allotment for summer stipendsby $150,000. Students were espe-cially angry because the GraduateSchool has a year-old policy of guar-anteeing incoming students in cer-tain departments four years of sum-mer stipends—at the expense ofstudents whose arrival predated theguarantee.

In the government department,for instance, twenty-one of thedepartment's thirty-four summerstipends went to first-year gradu-ate students. David Reynolds, a gov-ernment grad student, told the Sunthat some of the graduate studentsin his department who work asteaching assistants and had beencounting on the summer moneywere planning to meet to discusshow to react to the stipend cuts, andsaid there was talk of withholdinggrades for undergraduate courses.

MURDER CHARGES FILEDTwo men have been charged withthe September murders of BryanBernstein '90 and Laura Cruz Bern-stein '91. The husband and wife, both22, had been traveling from Alabamato attend graduate school at theUniversity of California, Los Ange-les when they were robbed and shotnear a highway parking area in Ari-zona.

The suspects, 26-year-old Gre-gory Scott Dickens and 16-year-oldTravis Wade Amaral, are chargedwith two counts each of first-degreemurder and armed robbery. San Di-ego police detectives uncoveredevidence that led to the arrests whileinvestigating an unrelated rape case.Dickens was already in jail oncharges of assault with a deadlyweapon, kidnapping and child mo-lestation. He signed a waiver in Aprilallowing authorities to extradite himfrom the San Diego County Jail toArizona. Amaral was being held ina San Diego juvenile detention cen-ter and had an extradition hearingscheduled for mid-April.

ORIENTATION WEEKSTARTS DRY

As part of an increased effort to dis-courage alcohol abuse during Ori-entation Week, the university willbar fraternities from serving alco-hol at social functions during the firstweekend of Orientation this fall.

Randy Stevens, assistant dean forgreek life, said that fraternities arenot solely responsible for drinkingproblems during orientation but"clearly they are responsible forsome of it."

The move was prompted by anincrease in alcohol-related incidentsduring last year's Orientation Week.The Sun reported that twenty-sixstudents were arrested for under-age drinking and four new studentswere taken to Tompkins Commu-nity Hospital for alcohol poisoning.

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LETTERS

LET THEEditor: I am writing in regard to theproposed random assignment offreshmen to on-campus housing.

A prerequisite to being able todo one's best in any endeavor—es-pecially education—is having some-place secure and comfortable to re-treat to when the going gets tough.There one can recoup the losses,and gird up for the battles yet tocome. For myself and many of myfriends, Risley Hall was such a place.

I came to Risley after an ex-tremely bad first year in one of theU-Halls. Had I known about Risleybefore coming to Cornell, and had Irequested it as housing, I feel cer-tain that my first year at Cornellwould not only have been a moreenjoyable one, but also a more pro-ductive and educational one. Risleyalso gave me a feeling of securitythat enabled me to open up enoughto start helping people with theirproblems, while at the same timedealing with my own.

Other Cornellians have told simi-lar stories, though not of course allabout Risley. People who lived inEcology House had similar tales, asdid people who lived in Ujamaa.Assigning freshmen randomly tothese houses would cripple programsby putting people who did not wantto be there in situations that madethem uncomfortable. And I would bewilling to bet that their schoolworkwould suffer. The people who wantedto live there would be unhappy sincethey would have to deal with a lotof negative feelings from the peoplewho didn't want to be there.

I see nothing positive to begained from the proposed randomassignment of freshmen to housing;a lot might be lost if the policy wereadopted. Those in favor of the policyshould be reminded that mixing ofall kinds of people occurs in the class-room, on the playing fields and in

the dining halls. I thinkthese encounters arehealthy and a necessarypart of a proper universityeducation, but I do notthink that one needs toplace insecure freshmenin situations which theyare not equipped to dealwith, and which may infact retard their socialeducation as well as their academiceducation.

David K. Aftandilian '90Chicago, Illinois

Editor: At our '65 Reunion in 1990,I was one of the "wet blankets" whodid not share the university's en-thusiasm for the Akwerkon House[the American Indian theme house]that would duplicate the social mis-take of Ujamaa House by again fos-tering isolation of yet another mi-nority on campus.

Sure enough, now that Cornellhas indicated reverse racial isolation,I get to read in The New York Timesand the Alumni News that "64 per-cent of minority students who liveon campus choose to live on NorthCampus while 21 percent live onWest Campus."

What a surprise!They didn't even have the good

sense to build [a theme house] onWest Campus.

"If you force black students intoa situation where they're spread allover campus, I think they'll be con-fused and angry," says Corwin Jacobs'94, co-chair of Black Students United.

Jacobs and others have the sameisolationist and segregationist think-ing that has given this country ourBlack Caucus in Congress, a MissBlack America, the Black Entertainerof the Year, the Black Athlete of theYear, et cetera, ad nauseam.

If Jacobs and others are correct,

then why not just have blacks at-tend one of the excellent black in-stitutions (Cornell-affiliated Hamp-ton Institute comes to mind).

On the other hand, it would benicer if minorities on campus becamecolor-blind and respectful of the factthat my son, entering freshman ChrisRakov '96, will be rooming with hisblack high school buddy, JarrettGibson '96, on West Campus (if theyget their choice). We should thenhope that Jacobs and others don'tconvince Jarrett that he should be"confused and angry" or "spread allover" by living on West Campus. Itwould be nice if Jarrett was as com-fortable in an integrated campus lifeas he has been in Roosevelt Highin Yonkers, New York.

If not, then my alma mater hasfailed by paying heed to reverse rac-ism of Jacobs and others by its cur-rent buildings that are fostering eth-nic self-imposed isolation on an oth-erwise open campus.

Howard A. Rakov '65Yonkers, New York

HOLOCAUST AD, REDUXEditor: As evidenced in the MarchAlumni News, the controversysparked by The Cornell Daily Sunin publishing holocaust revisionistadvertisements has brought its share

JUNE 1992

LETTERS

of emotional as well as intellectualresponses. Even though I reluctantlysupport the Sun in its decision, thereneeds to be more reflection on bothsides of the question.

But does rejection of the offen-sive advertisement by the studenteditors at Yale, Brown, Harvard andPennsylvania mean that the Brad-ley Smiths [who placed the ad] andDavid Dukes of our world do notexist? Is it not better to illuminatethe potential threat than to createmore political fodder for PatBuchanan to use in his "selfless"pursuit of intellectual and historicalintegrity? Ultimately, that is why Isupport the Sun.

I am a first-generation Ameri-can whose father still carries thenumber 115364 neatly tattooed onhis left arm as a perpetual reminderof his three years in Auschwitz. Norevision of history will change that.My mother was saved by righteousChristians. The capacity to cope withthis legacy was, in large measure,fostered by the challenge and en-lightenment of my four years atCornell. I learned to think beforejumping to conclusions about oth-ers. I learned to think before takingaction.

Samuel Varsano '69Parsίppany, New Jersey

Editor: Hats off to the Sun for dar-ing to print the invitation to debatethe Holocaust. Since when is histo-ry to be denied any review?

Paul Christner '38Pavilion, New York

Editor: I have been deeply shockedto read of the vicious anti-semiticadvertisement recently accepted andrun by The Cornell Daily Sun. Thisextreme example of poor taste, theMarch Alumni News tells us, couldnot be controlled by the universitysince the rotten rag is self-support-ing and receives no university fund-ing.

In any event, the universityshould strongly and publicly con-demn this demonstration of utterpoor taste on the Sun's part by opt-ing for commercial gain over com-mon decency. For the first time sinceI graduated, I am deeply ashamedof the Sun and of the failure of

Cornell to take a strong and posi-tive stand.

John S. Thatcher '40Toms River, New Jersey

ATHLETIC CUTSWILL HURT

Editor: I took up fencing at Cornellafter six secondary school yearsduring which a conservative doctorprohibited me, a would-be jock, fromparticipating in athletics. I sought outfencing, a sport with a long tradi-tion for both men and women at Cor-nell beginning with my coach, Georg-es Cointe. Because it was a sportthat received so little attention inthe U. S., I could begin without pri-or high school experience. Ironical-ly, it is this very lack of attentionthat has placed it under the fiscalscalpel in competition with othersports that attract more participa-tion and visibility.

Each segment of the universitycommunity must undertake an ex-amination of its balance sheet, andif there is to be a bias thrown in bythe administration, I for one, wantit to be in favor of maintaining andadvancing the academic superiorityof the institution. The pen shouldbe mightier than the sword.

I have two residual concerns.First, that fencers will be permit-ted to seek their own destiny as aclub sport after 1993 with practicespace allocated and with the varsitystatus necessary for intercollegiatecompetition, but with responsibilityfor their own funds. And second, thatthe tradition reflected in the fenc-ing program at Cornell will not belost to those who come after us. Iwould ask that a wall or corner inSchoellkopf or Alberding Field Housebe set aside for trophies, pictures,and memorabilia of that tradition asa visible reminder of the importantplace it has had in Cornell sportshistory.

Richard W. Pew '55Belmont, Massachusetts

Pew was a two-time ECAC epee

champion and finished fourth in theindividual epee at the 1956 Olympics.

Editor: The athletics department hastaken appalling actions by cuttingfour teams. Collegiate fencers musthave NCAA status in order to com-pete. In the fencing world, club sta-tus means death, although a bit slow-er than just being cut.

Who will get to use the roompromised to fencing in Alberding andthe gymnastics room in Teagle? Isit really sportsmanlike to takefencing's space twice? The old fenc-ing room in Teagle is now a weightroom. Sports like fencing and gym-nastics must set up and take downtheir equipment hundreds of times,taking away valuable practice time.That fact is not an asset for any sortof recruiting.

Does cutting fencing mean theend of Cornell's prestigious GeorgesCointe Award, given at the annualIFA tournament at the season's endto honor one person at the tourna-ment who best exemplifies the high-est standards of fencing?

Fencing is about 100 years oldat Cornell. We've had an Olympianand a national champion and a lot ofexcellent competitors. While fenc-ing was once only for the elite, it isnow for all individuals who are at-tracted to and excel at the sport. Inthe modern world, it is both eliteand egalitarian—a lot like Cornell.

Gladys Lunge Stifel '58Kensington, Maryland

SOUPED UPCAN

Editor: Well, you certainly havesouped up the old CAN.

For years, after opening it to scanthe alumni deaths (for the age-oldreason) and check out the classnotes, I rarely read much of it. Nomore. With your last several issues,filled with lively graphics and read-able, interesting articles, I've de-voured the entire magazine fromcover to cover. You are to be com-mended for a long overdue overhaul.

Nancy Taylor Brown '52Clayville, Rhode Island

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WAR MEMORIALEditor: At Reunion 1990, veteransfrom the classes in attendance de-cided that we would create a me-morial honoring the Cornellians whodied as a result of the Korean andVietnam wars, as well as create ascholarship fund in their memory.A memorial has been designed. Itwill be located in the rotunda areaof Annabel Taylor Hall immediate-ly across from the memorial com-memorating the Cornellians whodied in World War II.

The names of forty-five Cornel-lians will be engraved in stone. Theyrepresent five decades of classes,from Theodore B. Freeman '27 toRobert Jessie Riser '71 and Ken H.Taketa 71.

The Korean War claimedCornellians who had fought in WorldWar II and were recalled to servicein Korea. At least one of the casu-alties during the Vietnam War hadalso served in the Korean War. Eachperson had his own story and all ofthe stories will be told at the me-morial and dedication, planned forJune 1993. The one thing they allhad in common was that they wereCornellians.

Anyone interested in serving onthe organizing committee or contrib-uting to the memorial and scholar-ship funds should contact Bill Hulingat the Johnson Graduate School ofManagement, (607) 255-7242. Ascommittee chairman, I would liketo thank all who have contributedto the project to date.

Joseph E. Ryan '65Buffalo, New York

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Γ ost people think of bacteriaas the enemy, the culprit be-hind salmonella poisoning anda host of other gut-wrench-

Ling illnesses.But under the direction

of agricultural and biological engi-neering Prof. William Jewell, thesemenacing microbes are proving theirvalue to the world. An expert in thehandling and disposal of all kinds ofhazardous waste, Jewell has patenteda filtration system that uses bacte-ria to attack dangerous industrialwaste and reduce it to harmlesscompounds. If proven effective onan industrial scale, JewelΓs livingfilters could purify ground water atthe hundreds of contaminated sitesin the United States targeted forclean-up under the EnvironmentalProtection Agency's Superfund ef-fort.

"These bacteria are really neatlittle guys," muses Jewell, who of-ten ascribes human traits to hismicrobes. "They work for nothingand they never go on strike."

This field of attacking waste withbacteria, known as bioremediation,is not particularly new. Municipali-ties have used microbes to treatwaste water for decades. More re-cently, the organisms proved theirworth by chewing through much ofthe spilled oil along Alaska's PrinceWilliam Sound.

JewelΓs system is turning headsin the field because it neutralizes aparticularly nasty class of industrialwastes known as chlorinated sol-vents. Used in numerous industries,from dry cleaning to nuclear weap-ons production, these cancer-caus-ing compounds have eluded all pre-vious attempts at remediation.

"Our system has such potentialbecause it eliminates the problemat the source," says Jewell, a na-tive of Maine who received his PhDin environmental engineering fromStanford in 1968 and has been atCornell since 1973.

JewelΓs system can reducewater-borne concentrations of theindustrial solvent tetrachloroethyl-ene from lethal levels of 10,000 partsper billion to less than one part perbillion—suitable for drinking by EPAstandards. Currently these wastesare siphoned off sites, concentrated

Clean ground watermay just be a handful of

bacteήa away.

and stored in landfills, wherethey can leak again. "Generallyspeaking there has been nomagic bullet," says DavidWickersham, the eastern re-gional manager for DuPont En-vironmental Remediation Ser-vices. "Often you need multipletechnologies to treat these sites."

But economic pressures andregulatory restrictions are forcing areassessment of conventional meth-ods. The EPA's new land-ban regu-lations restrict disposal of toxicwastes at landfills, while high costsand community opposition discour-age the use of incinerators. Thepotential value of JewelΓs break-through is also heightened by theprevalence of chlorine-solvent con-tamination and the chemical's po-tency. "This stuff is not only nasty,"says EPA spokeswoman WendyButtler, "it's ubiquitous."

Chlorine solvents are dangerouseven in small amounts. A spill asseemingly small as five gallons cancontaminate several square miles ofground water, a resource for whichconservationists are voicing increas-ing concern. Ground water provideshalf the drinking water for Ameri-can cities and more than 80 percent

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of the water used by rural familiesand livestock. Already, the EPA es-timates as much as 2 percent of thisresource is unfit for drinking. Nev-ertheless, as many as 1.5 millionAmericans consume it anyway.

Jewell's system of neutralizingthese wastes depends on two filtersfull of gravel coated with bacteria.Ironically, as the chlorinated solventsmake their way through the firsttank, they are converted into an evenmore lethal compound known as vi-nyl chloride. Before Jewell's break-throughs, the technology stalled atthis point. "The thinking was if allyou can do is convert these solventsinto something even more hazard-ous, then why bother?" Jewell says.

The secret to Jewell's successis a second system where a differ-ent type of "kamikaze" bacteria at-tack the vinyl chloride in what Jewellcalls "a biological burning process."The bacteria die during the attack

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but in the process convert the vi-nyl chloride into salt, carbon diox-ide and traces of newly-formed wa-ter. After the silt settles, the once-poisonous industrial waste water canbe raised in a toast.

Crucial to this system is a simplemethod of providing the bacteria withthe proper work environment. Tra-ditionally, microbes in this type offilter float freely in a solution andare easily washed away in the rushof contaminated water. Jewell usestiny granules that provide the bac-teria a foothold. As a result, 10,000times more bacteria are exposed tothe contaminated water than waspreviously possible.

Moreover, Jewell's two-tankmethod has proven effective in wa-ter as cold as 50 degrees, which isvital because bacterial activity slowsdown as temperatures drop. Accord-ing to the EPA, three of the top fivemost-polluted states on the Super-fund list are in the Northeast wherethe ground water is cold.

T he optimism surrounding Jew-elΓs recent breakthrough iscertainly an encouraging sign.The Radian Corp., an environ-mental consulting firm based

in Austin, Texas, is overseeing a pilotscale-up of his technology at the De-partment of Energy's Savannah Riv-er nuclear weapons production plantin South Carolina.

"Any contaminant you can imag-ine is here," says Patricia Weber, aspokeswoman with WestinghouseCorp., the DOE's main operatingcontractor for the plant. Weber es-timates that there are more than215,000 gallons of chlorinated sol-vents in about one billion gallons ofground water at Savannah River.Engineers predict the experimen-tal scale-up of Jewell's filter systemwill be able to process about 40,000gallons of water a day. But, for ap-preciable clean-up at large sites, itwill have to be able to process hun-dreds of thousands of gallons a day.

"If we're successful with thisexperimental project," says DannyJackson, Radian Corp.'s project di-rector at the DOE plant, "then we'veessentially got a green light for alarge-scale operation."

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Students are cheating at Cornell.While some observers may findit hard to believe that some ofthe nation's elite students arecopying their friends' answers

on tests or plagiarizing informationin academic papers, faculty membersand students alike say that cheat-ing occurs on campus.

"I think that cheating goes onat Cornell, and . . . it's a problem,"says Walter Lynn, dean of the uni-versity faculty. Incidents of cheat-ing are handled individually by eachof Cornell's seven colleges; the Artscollege, which has the university'slargest undergraduate enrollment(3,868), convicted seventeen stu-dents of cheating in the 1990-91 aca-demic year, down from thirty-threethe year before.

And the problem is not limitedto the Hill: a survey of some 6,000students at thirty-one "elite" schoolsnationwide found that 70 percent ofstudents cheat at least once in col-lege. Although Cornell students didnot participate in the study, con-ducted by Rutgers University Prof.Donald McCabe, the results of thesurvey are germane because themean SAT score of students enter-ing the schools surveyed was 1,240,only slightly lower than that ofCornell students.

To cheat at Cornell is to violatethe university's bible of scholarlyethics, "The Code of Academic In-tegrity," which sets very explicitguidelines for what cheating is andhow it will be prosecuted. "Abso-lute integrity is expected of everyCornell student in all academic un-dertakings," states the code, whichwas adopted by the faculty in 1976.

The code names six violationsthat will be prosecuted: "knowinglyrepresenting the work of others as

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one's own; using, obtaining or pro-viding unauthorized assistance on ex-aminations, papers orany other academicwork; fabricating datain support of labora-tory or field work;forging a signature tocertify completion of acourse assignment orrecommendation tograduate school; un-fairly advancing one'sacademic position byhoarding or damaginglibrary materials; andmisrepresenting one'sacademic accomplish-ments."

Although all stu-dents receive a copyof the code when theycome to Cornell, manydon't take the time toread it and learn ex-actly what constitutescheating. "I don't thinkpeople realize all thedetails involved in thecode," says Melanie L.Lieber '95, a studentin the College of Human Ecology."Nobody took the time to explainthe code to me."

Most students say they believe

their peers cheat. "I don't think 100percent of the student population canbe totally honest, so of course cheat-ing happens," says Russ D. Levitan'92, a student in the Ag college. Butin the same breath they use to saythey think their fellow studentscheat, most students also say theydon't want their names used in anarticle about what one senior calls"an evil way to get ahead." Theyare also unwilling to discuss specificincidents of cheating or plagiarism.

While students name many rea-sons for cheating, most blame theacademic pressure they say they feelat Cornell. Many students say theonly way to maintain a high GPA atCornell is by occasionally cheatingon exams or assignments. "Peopleare always under so much pressure,and when it comes time to take atest, they'll do anything they can fora good grade," says Lieber. TheRutgers survey bears out the pres-sure theory: the survey showed thatstudents who planned to go to gradu-ate or professional school were more

prone to cheating than those whowould receive only a four-year de-gree. Some 78 percent of aspiringMBAs had cheated, while 69 per-

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cent of premedical students and 64percent of pre-law students admit-ted to the infraction.

When a professor charges a stu-dent with any form of cheating, aprimary hearing is held where thefaculty member listens to the stu-dent and decides if a violation of thecode occurred. If a student is foundguilty at the primary hearing, a max-imum penalty of a failing grade canbe imposed. However, if the profes-sor feels that a more severe penal-ty (such as expulsion) is in order, ifthe student has been found guiltypreviously or if the student proteststhe decision, the case is broughtbefore the college's academic integ-rity hearing board.

These boards, composed of achairperson, three faculty membersand three students, review each caseand issue a verdict ranging from find-ing the student innocent to recom-mending that the student be ex-pelled. But Lynn adds that he be-lieves that many professors do notfollow the formal steps in dealingwith cheaters because of the bureau-cracy of the system, which he called"cumbersome and time consuming."James McPherson, secretary of theintegrity board in the School of In-dustrial and Labor Relations, agrees."It's very difficult to understand ifthe cases that are heard in primaryhearings and in the hearing boardsindicate the true extent of cheatingat Cornell," he says.

Most faculty members have sto-ries to tell about how they combatcheating. Prof. Bruce Ganem, whoteaches "The World of Chemistry"to 300 students each spring, saysthat "every few years, some veryblatant examples of cheating occur."He says he tries to deter his stu-dents from cheating by "taking thebull by the horns and addressingcheating in a very straightforwardmanner from the beginning of thesemester." He also says he has stu-dents sit in random seats for examsand ensures that his tests are heavilyproctored.

Government Prof. AndrewRutten says he caught a student whohad plagiarized an entire assignmentin one of his classes two years ago.Rutten says the guilty student hadasked to look at another class mem-

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by Rick Lipsey

Some seventy Cornell graduates havecompeted in the Olympic Games since1904. Rick Lipsey profiles some of themost memorable athletes, from four-time Olympic hammer thrower AlbertHall '56 to Kent Manderville '93 andDan Ratushny '92, Canadian hockeysilver medalists.

HORACE KEPHARTby Paul Cody

Like HuclςFinn, Horace Kephart 1881,Grad 1884, the man who was instru-mental in the establishment of theGreat Smokey Mountains NationalForest, couldn't stand being "sivil-ized." So he quit his library job andlived in a tent in the mountains.

REUNION '92Our coverage of this year's gala, in-cluding great photographs and notesof the Reunion classes, ϊf your classends in a two or a seven, you'll wantto see this.

INSIDE THE PENTAGONby Kathy Bodoυitz

From the Secretary of Defense's righthand man to a Cornell in Washingtonintern, there's a Cornellίan on everyside of the Pentagon. Associate Edi-tor Kathy Bodovitz profiles them.

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ber's paper to get ideas for her own,and instead copied it word for word.It was easy to find the problem inthe four-person class, says Rutten.After he caught the student, he "gaveher reason to believeshe was going to diea horrible death/' headds.

Although he does ?not know what hap-pened to the student cyyr'ohe caught cheating,Rutten says that now ήf he questions the in-tegrity of all students f™/he teaches. "The realproblem with cheat- /^ing from the prof-essor's point of viewis that it poisons yourattitude toward the entire class andfuture classes. It makes it hard toget motivated to be a good teacher."Rutten says that he continues to takeextreme precautions against cheat-ing in his classes, such as makingstudents use brightly colored scrappapers during tests so that proctorscan easily spot any students withother unauthorized information. Buthe adds that he "can't always knowwho's cheating and who isn't."

R ecently, a junior at RutgersUniversity proved McCabe'stheories correct by publishing"Cheating 101: The Benefitsand Fundamentals of Earning

an Easy A." Michael Moore, authorof the eighty-seven-page manual onviolating academic integrity says thatcheating promotes "originality, clev-erness, managerial skills, courage,confidence, creativity and—most im-portant—intelligence." In the $6book, which he calls "a step-by-stepstroll down Academic Easy Street,"he outlines sixty-five different waysto cheat on exams and assignments.One method includes detailed in-structions on how to cheat with yourfriends on a multiple choice test byusing your feet like a gear shifterin a car, with one position for eachpossible answer. He adds that,"Cheating is also a way to graduatewith good grades and without twostomach ulcers, a face full of pim-ples, an addiction to caffeine, pillsor speed and no fingernails." Al-

though the Cornell Campus Storedoes not stock Moore's book andhas no plans to do so, the guide hassold well over 3,000 copies.

Both students and faculty are

quick to agree that there will alwaysbe cheaters among the honest stu-dents at Cornell. They strongly be-lieve that the ivy towers and schol-arly wisdom at the university can-not exist without some students whowill always try to advance their aca-demic standing by using unethicalmethods.

"Cornell is a demanding placein many ways and there are a lot ofstudents who react to that environ-ment by finding easy ways to ad-dress the problems," Lynn says."There are people who are alwayslooking for shortcuts. But anybodywho cheats never forgets it. Theymay never tell anyone about it, butthey never forget it. The greatestdamage they do is to themselves."

—George C. Bullίs '94

DEBATERSCornell's intercollegiate debatingteam finished the 1991-92 seasonranked fifth in the nation. It was thehighest placing of any Easternschool, and Cornell's best finishsince 1988. Highlights of the sea-son included the second-place fin-ish of Rachel Grover '93 in the oralinterpretation of literature programat the National Speech Tournament,and the team of Julie Frank '95 andStacy Putter '94 winning the nationalnovice debate tournament.

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AUTHORS

I t was 1:20 a.m. when the firstcall came in to the Hinton Met-ropolitan Police Department. "Iwant to report a rape," said theman on the phone. "Of me."The call sets in motion the cast

of characters in English Prof.Molly Kite's new detectivenovel, Breach of Immunity, acompelling, contemporary who-done-it in which a transvestiterapist attacks seemingly randomhomosexuals. Both the victimsand the police soon wonderwhether the rapist actually hasa more heinous crime in mind—murder. In the age of AIDS, Kiteoffers a quick-paced story thatknocks down stereotypes: aboutvictims, about police, aboutwomen and men.

Leading the investigation isLieutenant Anna Blessing, whostands nearly six feet tall,weighs in the neighborhood of300 pounds (her colleaguesguess) and consumes donuts bythe dozen. Kite writes: "Anna's girthmight be perceived as renderingAnna unfit for duty, 'unfit' being ajudgment with a disconcertingly lit-eral meaning under these circum-stances. Moreover, Anna had madea career of fitting, of being thewoman who passed. Now she wasin charge of detective operations inthe most important precinct in thecity, and passing was no longer arequirement or even an issue. Shemade the decisions; everyone elsehad to fit. Or that was the spirit inwhich she seemed to be taking herpromotion."

The detectives assigned to thecase are Mike Annunzio and PriscillaCarmody. "They took turns doingthe questioning and the writing, al-ternating responsibilities with cau-tion since their initial week as ateam, when Mike had proposed that

she do all the transcribing becauseshe was better at it. This incidenthad marked the beginning of Mike'seducation on the subject of the pre-vailing sex/gender system, an edu-cation that had proceeded with some

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success during the last two yearsdespite the fact that it tended toexpose Mike as culpably naive aboutthe conditions of his own upbring-ing."

The trio, with the help of thelocal gay community, tries to figureout the identity of the rapist—theman who wears a circle skirt witha crinoline, spiked heels and a bouf-fant wig when he strikes.

Breach of Immunity is Kite'ssecond novel. (St. Martin's Press)

LOVE'S CHILDRENBy Judith Sheffield Chernaik'55. This novel imagines a yearin the lives of the poet PercyBysshe Shelley and four youngwomen who fell under his spell:Harriet Westbrook, Mary and Fan-ny Godwin and Clare Clairmont.(Alfred A. Knopf)

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC IN THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURYEdited by Margaret C. Jacob, PhD'69 and Wijnand W. Mijnhardt. Thiscollection of eighteen essays byDutch and American historians looksat a neglected chapter in the histo-ry of the Netherlands. (Cornell Uni-versity Press)

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SYSTEMSEdited by Prof. Mary M. Kritz, ruralsociology; Lin Lean Lim; Hania Zlot-nik. The authors argue that inter-national migration trends should belooked at in relation to flows of cap-ital, goods, information and technol-

ogy. (Oxford University Press)

ABORTIONBy Patricia Lunneborg '55. Lun-neborg, a retired professor of psy-chology and adjunct professor ofwomen's studies at the Universi-ty of Washington, subtitled herbook, "A Positive Decision." (Ber-gin & Garvey)

THE POLITICS OF INTERESTEdited by Prof. Mark P. Petracca'77, political science, Universityof California, Irvine. Petracca hascompiled sixteen essays on con-temporary American interestgroup activity. (Westview Press)

MY WAY TO ORNITHOLOGYBy Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr.,

PhD '33. This is the autobiographyof the man who was director of theuniversity's Laboratory of Ornithol-ogy from 1960 to 1973 and authorof Laboratory and Field Manual ofOrnithology. (University of Oklaho-ma Press)

AROUND THE TABLEBy Sholom Aleichem, translated byAliza Shevrin '52. Shevrin offersfive Aleichem stories about the fam-ily, written for children but relevantfor all ages. (Scribners)

LEARNING FROM GAL OYABy Prof. Norman Uphoff, govern-ment. Uphoff recounts a successfulprogram that introduced farmer or-ganization for self-managed devel-opment in the largest and most run-down irrigation system in Sri Lan-ka. (Cornell University Press)

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RESEARCH

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omen who participate in clubs, or-ganizations or volunteer work aresignificantly more likely to enjoygreater psychological and physicalwell-being in older age and to live

longer, says Phyllis Moen, professor of hu-man development and family studies andof sociology.

"We found paid work, on the otherhand, was unrelated to either psychologi-cal or physical health in our studies/' saysMoen, possibly because many of thewomen in the study worked out of neces-sity, not choice, during the 1950s and '60s.

The study collected detailed life his-tories of 313 women, all of whom werewives and mothers in 1956, when theywere first interviewed. A follow-up inter-

lilt

view was conducted thirty years later, in1986.

"Women need to engage in a varietyof experiences throughout their life course,rather than immerse themselves in justone role, whether it's work or family/'says Moen. "Role involvements not onlyprovide social contacts but also give womensocial identity and social status. And theroles we engage in give purpose, mean-ing and guidance to life."

ProtectingNew YorkCity Water

Two dozen university faculty andresearchers are part of a teamworking to prevent farming fromcontributing to contaminationof the Delaware/Catskill water-shed that provides New YorkCity's drinking water.

The intent is to keep thewatershed free of pollutionand thus eliminate the needfor a $6 billion filtration sys-tem to ensure safe drinkingwater. Though the water sup-ply is clean and safe to drink

now, the state health department proposed that thewater be filterd by 2005, then agreed last year thatwater quality could be guaranteed through careful landuse management in the watershed. Pollution comesfrom an array of sources, including waste water treat-ment facilities, salt and chemical runoff from roads andparking lots, and farms. Cornell faculty and research-ers are conducting studies in preparation for makingrecommendations on hydrologically sensitive areas, thefarm economy and business, animal-waste management,nutrient management, pathogen control and pest andpesticide management.

Milk May InhibitBreast Cancer

Cow's milk contains a growth inhibitor that significantlyslows the proliferation of human breast cancer cells inlaboratory tests, university scientists say. The finding,coupled with the fact that cows tend not to get breastcancer, suggests that milk may contain a tumor sup-pressant, says Ronald Gorewit, professor of animal sci-ence.

"Although it would be premature to conclude thatthis factor is a tumor suppressor in humans, the evi-dence to date suggests it has potential," he says. Nothingis known yet about the effect of this substance on breastcancer patients and no human studies are being doneat present.

The growth inhibitor is present at the level of mil-lionths to thousandths of a gram in a glass of milk,says loannis Politis, a research associate working withGorewit. It plays an important role in bovine lactationand diminishes by 50 percent the proliferation of hu-man breast cancer cells and normal bovine mammarycells in laboratory cultures.

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Detecting DrugsFemale Infanticide in India

University scientists have developeda new technique to more easily de-tect drugs such as LSD and anabolicsteroids in the human body. Thetechnique could be used to checkathletes for illegal substances, togreatly reduce the time it takespharmaceutical companies to com-pare possible drugs for effective-ness, or to detect toxic pollutantsin the range of a trillionth of a gramper milliliter.

Jack Henion, professor of toxi-cology in the Vet college, says thenew technique uses mass spectrom-etry and can directly detect LSD,for the first time, in urine at tinyconcentrations.

Because the technique is fast,^^^^^ relatively easy

to use and in-volves equip-ment that iscommerciallyavailable, the National Col-legiate Athletic Associationhas contracted with Henion

to develop improved methods for detecting themetabolic products of anabolic steroids in ath-letes. Current tests involve a time-consumingand expensive procedure that is not always re-liable.

Keeping FishFresh

Fresh fish can be kept palatable for weeks afterit is caught if it is shipped in modified atmospherepackaging (MAP) gasses that inhibit spoilage, foodscience Prof. Joe Regenstein says.

The method uses a different proportion ofthe gases normally found in air by pumping themixture into plastic packages. This atmospheremakes life difficult for microorganisms that spoilfish. "Modified atmosphere packaging can ex-tend the shelf life of fresh, unfrozen fish for acouple of weeks, depending on the type offish,"he says. "The technique works best for whitefish or the flounder and cod families, but salmon,for example, will keep for a month in modifiedatmosphere and proper refrigeration."

The packaging technique is used success-fully in great Britain and the obstacle to its usehere is overly-cautious federal agencies, accordingto Regenstein.

graduate student in nutritionalsciences says he has collected thefirst documented evidence of in-fanticide in rural southern India,proving that the weii-known short-age of women on the Indian sub-continent is due in part to the kill-ing of female infants.

In a four-year study in ruralsouthern India, about 120 mileswest of Madras, Sabu Georgefound that in a population of13,000, almost three-quarters ofthe thirty-three deaths amongnewborn females were confirmedinfanticides. No male babies wereknown to have been killed de-liberatelv. i4In most cases, moth-

ers did not want to kill their chil-dren/' George said. "Most of thepressure to commit infanticideconies from older women and hus-bands/1

Infanticides are routinely re-ported as natural deaths, he said.But he and a team of researchersestablished contacts in villages andlearned directly from family mem-bers when infants were killed. Insome cases, they were told be-fore the birth that an infanticidewas planned if a child turned outto be female, George attributes thepractice to the low social statusof women in India and the highcost of women's doweries.

New York'sFoodMarkets

New York leads the nation in thenumber of specialty markets, and thestate's supermarkets have more prod-uct variety, space, productivity andservice per square foot than the na-tional average, according to a uni-versity study.

New York has more than 6,100

K specialty food stores—twice the na-tional average and more than anyother state. (Specialty stores sell

particular foods such as baked goods, seafood, coffee, healthfoods). In addition, the state's supermarkets typically carryabout 24,000 products, 45 percent more than do supermar-kets of comparable size elsewhere, according to EdwardMcLaughlin of the university's Food Industry ManagementProgram in the agricultural economics department. The studywas sponsored by Kraft General Foods for the New YorkState Food Merchants Association.

Researchers also found that only 16 percent of the state'sfood markets are supermarkets. Thirty-six percent are smallgroceries and 48 percent are specialty stores. Nationally, 22percent of food stores are supermarkets, 50 percent are gro-ceries and 28 percent are specialty stores. As a result, NewYorkers spend an average $126 per capita per year in spe-cialty food stores—almost twice the national average of $67.

While about 7 percent of the country's consumers livein New York State, 9 percent of the country's food storesare located in New York.

And of the 12,395 food stores in New York State, morethan half are located in the five boroughs of New York City.Of those, more than two-thirds are specialty stores, repre-senting more than half of all specialty stores in the state.

JUNE 1992_

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'The goal of all inanimate objects isto resist man and ultimatelydefeat him."—Russell Baker

It is late on a winter day. The ther-mometer reads 38 degrees, butas you stroll into Schoellkopf Sta-dium you feel the wind blowinghard—and bitter cold—amid a

flurry of activity.To your left, a young woman lies

on the patch of brown grass in frontof the locker rooms, stretching care-fully, while a young man jogs slowlyaround the track, moving to thesounds of a Walkman. Both seemimpervious to the chill in the air.That, you judge, is dedication.

To your right, two dozen stu-dents—half without shirts—chase afilthy soccer ball around the northend of the field. Two overturneddesks, about forty yards apart, serveas the only boundaries. There's onlyone rule: Hit the desk, score a goal.That's enthusiasm, you think.

As the sun falls behind the weststands, it sets its last rays upon theCrescent and two men standing atits bottom left corner.

You see them suddenly run upthe first vertical row of steps. Sec-onds later, they are jogging backdown. They move over to the nextrow, and the process begins anew.Run up. Jog down. You catch yourbreath as you notice there are twelvemore rows to be conquered, with

those in the mid-dle of the Cres-cent more thanthree times ashigh as the first.

You shakeyour head at thescene—unsurewhether yourmild disbelief isaimed at theirability to run the steps or your in-ability to even count them. Stand-ing there, knowing that the best ex-ercise you've had all day was whenyou filled your car with regular un-leaded, you strike back with the onlyweapon you have. You rationalize.

That, you mumble to yourself asthe men near the top of the thirdset of steps, is insane.

T he Crescent, rising from thehighest point of the Cornellcampus like some monolithictribute to the bell curve, hasstood unmoving for sixty-eight

years. Conceived in 1921 and bornthree years later, its parents weretechnology and demand.

When Schoellkopf Field was firstput into use in the fall of 1915, thelargest crowd ever assembled at anyathletic event in Ithaca numbered

"Better tfian sex"; tΛe 1,520 Crescent steps.BRUCE WANG/CORNELL

less than 5,000. The original seat-ing capacity of 9,000 seemed morethan ample—until the developmentof automobiles and good roadsbrought unforeseen numbers to thescene.

In deference to the largercrowds, the east stands of Schoell-kopf Field became a colonade-toppedconcrete monster—20,950 seats,fourteen vertical rows, approxi-mately 1,520 steps. It was only amatter of time before physical be-ings faced up to the psychologicalchallenge.

Today, visit the Crescent at areasonable hour and you're likely tofind at least one brave soul runningthe stadium steps. The product oftechnology has become, in a sense,the symbol of its rejection. NoStairmasters or treadmills for thesefitness fanatics; just fourteen rows

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up and fourteen rows down—orsome variation of the theme, likerunning only half, or sprinting upand walking down, or as the trulyobsessed do, bounding up on a singleleg.

"I was looking for the ultimateexercise," says Michael Kraus, a 47-year-old Ithaca resident, "and it hap-pened to be there. As soon as I ranthem once, I was hooked."

Kraus now uses the word "ad-dicted" and the phrase "better thansex" to describe his relationship withthe Crescent. The exercise itselfis invigorating, he says, but his en-ergy—before and after—comes fromthe thought of facing up to the chal-lenge. "It's spiritual, psychologicaland physical," he explains. "WhenI finish, I feel better about myself."

Richard Branca, a sometime run-ning companion of Kraus, admitsthat, after a hard day of work, hisdaily decision to run the steps con-stitutes his own version of "the roadless traveled."

"If I didn't have this, Γd prob-ably go take a nap. So instead I dothis, and I come out of it more re-freshed than if I would have takena nap," says the 48-year-old resi-dent of nearby Trumansburg. "I feellike I learn to relate to physical andmental barriers. It translates to ev-ery part of my life."

Bernie DePalma, Cornell's headathletic trainer, is somewhat waryabout the physical benefits of run-ning the stadium steps. "It's a goodexercise to develop lower extrem-ity power and strength in your quads,your buttocks, your hamstrings," hesays. "But if you don't do it correctly,it can cause a lot of overuse inju-ries."

That is, injuries from too muchexercise—shin splints, inflammationunder the kneecaps, maybe even astress fracture. DePalma points outthat running the steps can be quitedifferent from running up a hill. Inthe latter, since you tend to leanforward and run on your toes, you'repushing yourself more than pullingyourself.

Running on a track, he says, isalso a bit less stressful to the knees.According to DePalma, running thesteps puts the knee in a positionwhere the kneecap is in maximum

contact with the cartilage under-neath. In other words, he explains,"biomechanically, you're in a posi-tion your knees don't want to be in."

But DePalma knows that thephysical aspect of exercise is onlyhalf the fun, particularly with a chal-lenge as formidable as the Crescent.

"Some people can get what youcall a training high from it," he says."Basically, it's the same thing any-body gets out of playing a sport.People are looking at it probablymore as something that, psychologi-cally, they conquer."

Dave Kucik, head coach of theCornell men's heavyweight crew, hashis squad run the steps two or threetimes each week. "They did it longbefore I started coaching here," hesays. Kucik used the steps in thestadium at the University of Wis-consin, where he coached before hecame to Cornell, to condition the U.of W. rowers.

"Athletes like to have somethingto do, training-wise, where they canmeasure themselves. Once theyestablish some kind of referencethere, the next time they go out anddo it, they're just going to do onemore," says Kucik.

It is a case of inanimate objectas barometer, the challenge of anunchanging scale.

"It's about intuitive goal-settingand achievement. It should give thema real sense of confidence," he saysand then adds with a laugh, "besidesmaking them bloody tired."

—Brad Herzog'90

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WHAT MAKES A

GOOD INVENTOR?

IT'S NOT JUST

NECESSITY.

ALTRUISM HELPS.

SO DOES A

DESIRE TO

MAKE SOME

MONEY. AND

WHILE YOU'RE

AT IT GET A

GOOD LAWYER.

n old joke has it that

the toughest task a

writer confronts isn't

getting that first sen-

tence down on pa-

per—it's persuading

his editor that he's working, when all he

appears to be doing is staring out the win-

dow.

Inventors doubtless run the same sort

of risk, since the seed of inspiration may be

sprouting when it seems to an observer as

if those rare spirits are doing absolutely noth-

ing at all. Whatever the truth is, I like to

imagine James Watt reclining in a Scottish

meadow one sunny summer day, idly con-

sidering the clouds as they scud by, when

suddenly the; revolutionary thought strikes

him that a contraption called a condenser

could make steam engines function more

efficiently.

But would it have looked like he was

working?

It's not true, of course, that Ezra Cornell

was lying lazily supine in his Ithaca pasture

contemplating the cumulus when he figured

out that glass insulators would make pos-

sible an inexpensive way to string the nation's

first telegraph wires from Washington to

Baltimore. But without the fortune he sub-

sequently made from the Western Union

Telegraph Company^ which he gave the name

to, you would probably not-—among other

things—be reading this magazine today.

So the long Cornell tradition of inven-

tion really goes back to the founder. It has

been part of the fabric of the university from

the moment it undertook to teach not only

the classical liberal disciplines but also "ag-

riculture and the mechanic arts," in the fa-

mous words of the Morrill Land Grant Col-

lege Act of 1862. In those days the oldest

American universities, founded mostly to

train young men for ministry to colonial con-

gregations, considered such mundane sub-

jects beneath their dignity. Cornell has hon-

ored the practical from its beginning, and

perhaps because of that a remarkable array

of its graduates have distinguiβhed them-

selves as inventors.

The stereotypical inventor is something

of a loner, toiling on his own in the garage

far into the night to the neglect of food, family

and friends. Even if an occasional inventor

happens to be as solitary as that caricature

suggests, however, what he or she creates

can affect millions. At some point in the pro-

cess that spreads the fruits of an invention,

technical matters recede in importance com-

pared to the rules that a society sets up to

encourage and (protect innovation. Once an

inventor's work shows commercial prom-

ise, the lawyers corne out of the woodwork.

Forget the relatively orderly processes of

technology. Now we're in the messier realm

of public policy, which has to resolve an in-

triguing problem: How should the benefits

of an invention be shared?

An invention is a valuable piece of intel-

lectual property. To qualify for protection

by a patent, it must be "useful, new, and

not obvious," explains David W. Plant '52,

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Utl

LLB '57 of the New York City law firm of

Fish & Neave, specialists in the subject. A

patent awards an inventor the right to own

and profit from his creation for a certain

number of years. But how exclusive should

that right be? How long is too long? Or not

long enough?

That is the dilemma patent laws try to

resolve. If you allow an inventor complete

control, forever, over the exploitation of his

invention, that assures him maximum profit ι

and gives him the maximum financial incen- I

tive to invent. But in that case he may not

share the invention quickly and widely—and

cheaply—with everyone it would benefit.

The AIDS drug AZT, though perhaps not

strictly an invention, illustrates the prob-

lem well. Pharmaceutical companies spend

great sums on research and development,

often without useful results. Because a

Burroughs Wellcome organic chemist named

Janet Rideout had the wit to see that AZT

might impede the reproduction of the HIV

retro virus, her company had a monopoly on

making and selling the drug for that pur-

pose. To help recoup its research and de-

velopment costs, Burroughs Wellcome ini-

tially put a high price on AZT—so high a

price that many AIDS patients who might

have benefited from it could not afford to.

On the other hand, if a society protects

intellectual property only loosely, then the

largest possible number of people can take

rapid advantage of an innovation. But the

inventor may get small reward for this cre-

ation and at least his financial motive shrinks

or disappears. Result: less innovation,

slower technological advance, even di-

minished competitiveness for society as

a whole.

In the Burroughs Wellcome analogy,

more AIDS patients might have gotten

AZT faster if patent law were more lax—

but maybe the company would not have

troubled to spend all that money on the

R&D that produced the crucial intel-

lectual leap in the first place.

Fortunately for us all, many of the

inventive alumni liii faculty you will

! meet in the following pages did their

inventing out of genuine altruism or just

I for the sheer intellectual joy of it. They

' weren't worrying about putting the kids

, through Cornell or ensuring themselves

I a comfortable old age in some Arizona

! oasis. Does Henry Heimlich '41, MD

'43 collect a royalty ev|ry time the ma-

ί neuver he devised saves a life?

To be sure, others have rhade for-

tunes from the consequences of their

curiosity. Yet most of us have been

happy, for example, to enrich Willis Carrier

'01 and his heirs in exchange for a blessed

blast of cool air when we return indoors on

a scorching July afternoon- Come to think

of it, without his invention of air condition-

ing no one would consider retiring to Ari-

zona in the first place. It's an admirable case

of an innovation that has amply served both

its creator and the world at large.

Keith Johnson '56 is a member of the boardof editors of Fortune magazine.

JUNE 199223

COXUVE

INVENTIONS DEVISEDBY CORNELLIANS

RANGE FROM EZRA'SOWN CABLE-

LAYING DEVICETO THE HEIMLICH

MANEUVERTO MECHANICAL AIR

CONDITIONING TOTHE INTERNALPACEMAKER.

HEREWITH, ANHONOR ROLL

OF CORNELLIANINVENTORS.

EZRA CORNELL

While Ezra Cornell's greatest invention is hiseponymously named university, the carpen-ter, mill worker and farmer also devised aditch-digging machine in 1843 that was usedto lay the telegraph line between Washing-ton and Baltimore.

In the summer of 1843, Cornell paid avisit to the Honorable F.OJ. Smith of Maine,editor of the Maine Farmer, member of Con-gress and tinkerer. Smith had won the con-tract to lay the Washington-Baltimore tele-graph line for $100 a mile. Upon Cornell'sarrival, Smith was describing to another visi-tor his idea for a machine that would dig aditch two feet deep and leave the dirt de-posited on each side, to be replaced by asecond machine after the telegraph line, in-side a protective pipe, was laid.

Cornell had a better idea. He conceivedof a single machine that would dig a verynarrow ditch and lay the line at the sametime. The ditch would be so narrow it wouldsoon close itself and conceal the pipe.

Smith was hardly convinced that the ma-chine would work, Morris Bishop '14 writesin A History of Cornell, but he agreed to payfor its construction. "The machine worked

perfectly. Ezra Cor-nell was put incharge of the pipe-laying betweenWash-ington and Balti-more," says Bishop.

But Cornell's pri-vate tests convincedhim that the insula-tion of the telegraphwires was defective.His efforts to warnProfessor S.F.B.Morse were ill re-ceived, Bishop says,but one day Morsetook Cornell asideand said he'd like tomake some tests be-fore any more pipe

was laid. "Cornell promptly devised a ma-chine for withdrawing the wires from the pipesand reinstating them," according to Bishop.

Cornell spent the winter in Washingtonreading everything about electricity he could

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find in the Library of Congress. "His read-ing convinced him that underground wiringwas impracticable and that the wires shouldbe strung on glass-insulated poles," writesBishop. ''Although Cornell claimed the in-vention, certainly with justice, the same ideaoccurred to others. Indeed it had alreadybeen put in practice in England."

In the spring of 1844, however, it wasCornell who built the overhead line fromWashington to Baltimore and on May 24,Morse tapped out the historic message:"What hath God wrought!" from the SupremeCourt chamber in Washington. The instru-ment that received that first message is nowhoused on campus.

"THE WORLDDOES NOT

NECESSARILY

BEAT A PATH

TO YOUR DOOR

WHEN YOU COME

UP WITH

ELLIOT SIFF '52

SOMETHING

BETTER."

Over the years Elliot Sίff, whoholds patents on more thantwenty different technologies,has discovered that coming upwith the invention itself is of-ten relatively simple comparedwith getting it out on the market. "The

world does not necessarily beat apath to your door when you come up with something better/'

Sίff says.Siff graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering

and later received a master's in engineering and business

from Columbia. His first patents involved gyroscopic instru-ments and electromechanical devices. In the early 1970s he

started a business based on one of his inventions called the

supergyro. At the time, Siff says, it was the smallest gyro-scope in production, used to stabilize everything from mili-

tary field glasses to lenses in television and movie cameras,

In 1975 Siff developed a stow-away step stool which Black

& Decker bought the rights to and later sold as an accessory

to their "Workmate" workbench. "It folded up to one inchthick so it would slide into the trayrack but it could hold

2,000 pounds," Sίff says.The idea for one of his next patents came four years later

while Siff was in the hospital. Ί was lying there and I had anIV," he remembers. "Every fifteen minutes the nurse would

come in and adjust the drips. I noticed that if you lifted your

body up a little bit the drips got slower and if you put yourbody down the drips got faster."

The result was an ambulatory intravenous system that al-

lowed patients to move through the hospital without an intra-

venous pole. Siff's unit is a vest that has a micro controller

powered by carbon dioxide cartridges. He patented the idea

in the mid-1980s and licensed it to a company which failedto get it into production. Siff recently got the rights back and

says he hopes to get the vest on the market in the near fu-ture.

One of Siff's more recent inventions is a pump-saver de-

vice. ."It's for deep-well water pumps. It keeps pumps that

have an automatic shutoff from cycling," he says. The inspi-ration for this appeared one afternoon while Siff was at home

in Westport, Connecticut. "We're on a well and we have sprin-

klers so the pump runs a.lot. I happened to be sitting downworking on something in the basement and I heard the pump

going click and then about twenty seconds later it goes click

again. I'm thinking, 'My god that motor's starting up about

every twenty seconds. That's going to kill it.1 So I came up

with a very simple mechanism that eliminates the cyclingwhile the water's running."

Above, Willis Havilaπd CarrierΌ1; below, Carrier units from the1930s.

THE CATCHY TERM

"AIR CONDITIONING"

WAS QUICKLY

APPLIED TO

CARRIER'S AIR-

CHILLING DEVICE.

WILLIS HAVILAND CARRIER '01

In the summer of 1902, the Sackett-WilhelmsLithographing and Publishing Company inBrooklyn had a problem. The company pub-lished the popular humor magazine Judge,

but production wasnot going smoothly.When the air washumid, the paper ex-panded and the inksthe company useddried slowly. Whenthe air was less hu-mid, the paper con-tracted and the inkdried faster. The re-sult: colors printedon humid dayslooked different fromthose printed ondrier days—so im-ages looked blurry.

Enter Willis Hav-iland Carrier '01, a25-year-old engineerat the Buffalo Forge

Company. Carrier figured that he could re-move the bothersome moisture at the print-ing plant by chilling the air. So he designeda machine that blew air over artificially cooledpipes. He called his invention the "Appara-tus for Treating Air."

Great idea, dull name.Meanwhile, tex-

tile mills were con-cerned about humid-ity for the oppositereason: they neededhigh humidity to"condition" theiryarn. Textile engi-neer Stuart Cramerdevised a less sophis-ticated system to re-lease humidity intothe air and called it"air conditioning."

Bingo.The catchy term

"air conditioning"was quickly applied toCarrier's air-chillingdevice as well and theyoung engineer was

on his way to a career that put air condi-tioners bearing his name in buildings aroundthe world and earned him a spot in the Na-tional Inventors Hall of Fame.

Willis Haviland Carrier was born on afarm near Angola in western New York in1876. The young Carrier won a state schol-arship that paid his tuition at Cornell. Topay for room and board, books and clothinghe took odd jobs and, in his senior year, heand another student formed a cooperativestudent laundry agency and made close to$1,000 each. In June 1901 he received thedegree of mechanical engineer in electricalengineering.

His air conditioning was a quick hit andCarrier spent much of the rest of his liferefining the technology and applying it todifferent types of buildings and differentconditions.

In 1908, Carrier designed an air condi-tioning system for the Celluloid Corpora-tion of Newark, New Jersey, which madefilm for the movie industry. In 1914 he in-stalled the first air conditioning inPittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital toadd extra moisture to the air in a prema-ture infant ward, helping to reduce infantdeaths caused by dehydration.

The next year, Carrier and six youngassociates combined their personal savings,borrowed some money from friends and cameup with $32,600 to found the Carrier Engi-neering Corporation. Banker Cloud Wampler,

•GRACE 4/ - o 1991 CAROL TERRli

who consulted for the company during theDepression, says in Father of Air Condition-ing that Carrier's employees felt both af-fection and respect for the man they called"the chief." "How well that name fitted theman!" Wampler writes. "For he was abso-lutely fearless—physically, mentally andspiritually. He did not hesitate to move intoareas that were uncharted. He was alwayspushing across new frontiers. His entire lifewas that of a pioneer."

ith Carrier at the engineer-ing helm, his fledgling corpo-ration continued to improveon his original invention.

Movie theaters bought air conditioners inthe 1920s to boost business during the sum-mer, when attendance usually fell becauseit was too hot and stuffy inside. The J.L.Hudson Company in Detroit was the firstdepartment store to buy air conditioning—to stop customers from fainting in the store'scrowded basement during sales. Filene's andMacy's soon followed.

In the late 1920s, Carrier air conditionedthe chambers of the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives and the U.S. Senate and in 1930installed air conditioning in the executiveoffices of the White House.

The late 1930s saw the introduction ofroom air conditioners, made possible by theavailability of the nonflammable refrigerantFreon. (Carrier didn't invent Freon, but wasquick to use it in pioneering small air con-ditioners.)

In 1952, Carrier Corporation developedthe first mass-produced unit for central airconditioning of homes. To introduce it, thecompany convinced a St. Louis builder tooffer air conditioning as an option in a newhousing development. The novelty of an air-conditioned home caused a sensation andon opening day, which was covered by Lifemagazine, the model home was deluged withvisitors. Within two weeks, the entire sub-division was sold out.

Carrier died in New York City in 1950,shortly before his 74th birthday. The Car-rier Corporation is now a subsidiary of UnitedTechnologies and its products still cool someof the world's best-known buildings: theWorld Trade Center in New York, the SearsTower in Chicago, LaDefense in Paris, KingSaud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

LELAND CARMICHAEL, PhD '59

In addition to being one of theworld's experts on viruses thatattack small animals, Dr. LelandCarmichael, the John M. Dim pro-fessor of virology at the James A.Baker Institute for Animal Health,also holds four patents, ail in thefield of small animal diagnosticsand vaccines.

Of these the most lucrative is a patent for the canine parvovirusvaccine, which Carmichael developed in 1978 with Max Appel,a professor of microbiology, immunology and parasitology. Thevaccine is regularly administered to young dogs to prevent whatotherwise could be a serious intestinal infection. The vaccine isused throughout the world and has earned Cornell more than $2million in royalties. This year alone it is expected to generatesome $400,000 in income. This money is all reinvested in re-search at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Carmichael says his lab is not working on any new parvovirusvaccines, "The laboratory is more concerned with the structureand function of the parvovirus and how this virus has undergoneevolutionary change in the past decade," he says, "The ques-tion is whether new vaccines are needed because of the slightchanges that have been observed."

Carmichael has also developed aherpes virus vaccine for dogs; and hediscovered canine brucellosis, a dis-ease that can result in heavy financiallosses for breeding kennels. In 1985Carmichael was named "Inventor of theYear" by the Central New York PatentLaw Association,

THE VACCINEIS REGULARLYADMINISTERED

TO YOUNG DOGSTO PREVENT

OTHERWISE

COULD BE A

SERIOUS

INTESTINAL

INFECTION.

JUNE 199227

HENRY HEIMLICH '41, MD '43

Henry Heimlich has a whole philosophy nowabout creativity, including what he hasdubbed the four essential steps to being cre-ative. But fifty years ago, he says, "I had noidea that I had an inventive streak."

He did, and still does. Today Heimlich'sname is synonymous with his single mostfamous invention: the "maneuver" he de-veloped to save choking victims.

An earlier invention drew his attentionto choking, he says. In 1950, Heimlich cre-ated a replacement esophagus made from aflap taken from the stomach. Before that,people with esophagus problems were fed

RATION BY DIANA SOUZA

through a tube that was inserted into thestomach. "As a result of the prominence thisattained, I was sent patients from all overthe world with swallowing problems/'Heimlich says.

hen, in the early '70s, Heimlichsaw an article in the New YorkTimes Magazine that said chok-ing was the sixth leading cause

of accidental death. "I thought it just hap-pened occasionally," he says. The article had

a big impact. "That'sthe key to why, in1974,1 put my mindto work on solvingthe choking prob-lem."

That determina-tion became step onein his four steps tocreativity. To begin,"You must be both-ered enough by theproblem to con-stantly realize youmust do somethingto solve it. Alongwith that, you re-search what has beenattempted before,which enables you tosee the errors of thepast."

For years, con-ventional wisdomhad it that the bestway to treat some-one who was chok-ing was to slap himon the back,Heimlich says. Buthe did some researchand found medical articles from as far backas 1854 that said you must never hit someoneon the back if he is choking because that onlydrives the object farther into the throat or lungs.

"I had to conceive of a method that al-ways drove the object away from the lungsand out the mouth," he recalls. "Being achest surgeon, I knew there was alwaysenough air in the lungs so that by compress-ing that air, they would act as a bellows andblow the object out." (You can only be cre-ative in a field where you have adequateknowledge, Heimlich notes.)

Step two is conceiving of the solution."It comes in bed, it comes when I'm driv-ing my car, preferably when I'm at a redlight," he says. Heimlich thought about howbest to expell an object from the throat andtried a variety of ways. "I came upon themethod of pushing up under the diaphragm.I made diagrams of air flow out of the mouthand pressure attained by pressing differentways." At the same time, because people diefrom choking in as little as four minutes, "It

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PROFESSOR WENDELL L, ROELOFS

The Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of insect biochemistry came to Cornell in 1965,thanks, in part, to the publication of Rachel Carlson's SUent Spring. 'There was a big uproaramong the populace in the U.S. over the misuse of pesticides," he says. That led to.universitysupport for research into alternatives, and to a job for the young chemist.

Twenty-seven years later, Roelofs holds patents for chemical compounds that offer an alterna-tive to pesticides by duping insect pests and keeping them from reproducing. Roe lo fs has pat-ented several synthetic pheromones, the substances insects release-to communicate sexual desireto each other. When synthetic pheromones of the grape berry moth are released into the air in avineyard, for instance, they mask the true location of the female moths. The male moth thinks he issurrounded by females but can't actually find one, so he can't mate—and can't create the larvaethat eat the grapes.

"This is an environmentally safe form of .birth control," Roelofs says. "It doesn't harm thepeople who apply the treatment and it doesn't leave a. toxic residue on the grapes."

Roelofs' first insect pheromone was that of the codling moth. 'The male moth uses his an-tenna to scoop the [pheromone] molecules from the air," he explains. "We knew that the antennaof one particular species was atuned to molecules of its own species." Roelofs isolated the par-ticular insect's pheromone compound by making novel use of an electroantennogram. "We tookan antenna from the male moth and hooked it up between two electrodes. When you puff a mol-ecule across it, the oscilloscope shows that the receptors on the antenna are firing off. We foundout which molecules the antenna responded to."

As a result, Roelofs holds patents for the pheromone compounds for about a half-dozen pests,including the codling moth, the grape vine moth, the tobacco budworm and the potato tuberworm.His work earned him the National Medal of Science-in 1986, among a variety of other awards.

While the synthetic pheromones have created a viable and, in some places, widely used alter-native to pesticides, Roelofs says their high cost will probably keep them from replacing chemicalpest controls.

had to be simplified," Heimlich says. He settledon squeezing the choking victim from behind.

Step three in Heimlich's creative pro-cess is proving that you're right. He pub-lished his new anti-choking method in Emer-gency Medicine in 1974, calling it"subdiaphragmatic pressure." By August ofthat year, he says, the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association reported that manylives were being saved using Heimlich's"subdiaphragmatic pressure" and dubbed itthe Heimlich maneuver. Step four in the pro-cess of creativity is making your accomplish-ment known, he says. "If only you know it,it really is not a successful creation."Heimlich certainly got the word out, andthough no one knows how many people hismaneuver has saved, Dr. O. Wayne Isom,chief of cardiothoracic surgery at New YorkHospital-Cornell Medical Center, says, "It'san extremely significant procedure and hassaved innumerable lives."

Heimlich counts among his other inven-tions the Heimlich chest drainage valve, de-

vised in 1960 to drain chest wounds so thelungs don't collapse. He says it saved thou-sands of lives in Vietnam. More recently,Heimlich has worked from his home baseat the non-profit Heimlich Institute in Cin-cinnati on the micro-trach, a device that helpspeople who need to take oxygen, and ontreatments for cancer and Lyme disease thatuse a curable form of malaria to build im-munity. He's also preparing to make Cin-cinnati the first official "caring city"—"toinduce everyone to get up in the morningand say, Who can I help today?' " The firststep, he says, will be to print in the localnewspaper the names of people who havedone caring acts each day.

But perhaps Heimlich's biggest thrill isthat the Maimonides Research Institute inHaifa, Israel, named after the twelfth-cen-tury physician and philosopher, is going tocall its new wing the Henry HeimlichMaimonides Museum. "They said they feltI was similar to Maimonides, as a physician-philosopher," he says.

"I KNEW THERE

WAS ALWAYS

ENOUGH

AIR IN THE LUNGS

SO THAT BY

COMPRESSING

THAT AIR, THEY

WOULD ACT AS

A BELLOWS AND

BLOW THE

OBJECT OUT."

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ROBERT MOOG, PhD '65

From the dry-as-a-bone title of Robert Moog's doc-toral thesis, Ultrasonic Absorption in Sodium Chlo-ride, it's difficult to imagine that he would head a companythat built musical synthesizers coveted by rock groups fromthe Beatles to the Monkees. But as Moog points out, at rootthese were both simply questions of engineering physics.

Moog first came across the idea of building synthesiz-ers—electronic keyboards that allow musicians to both re-create the sounds of traditional instruments and craft a nearlyunlimited range of new electronic sounds—when he met acomposer from Hofstra University, Herbert Deutsch, Throughtheir colaboration Moog began developing devices capableof producing the kinds of sounds Deutsch was looking for.The two later received help on the project from MyronSchaeffer, who was then on the faculty at the University ofToronto,

The result was Moog's first synthesizer/called the Moogmodular synthesizer, which he completed in 1964. It wasless bulky and less expensive than the original synthesizersand after a demonstration at a meeting of the Audio Engi-neering Society, musicians and composers began placingorders, Moog Music, the company Moog founded to make

the instruments, took off. The best known of Moog's synthe-sizers was probably the Mini Moog, a second-generation ma-chine that appeared in the late '60s. "It was smaller, lighterand it had more dials," Moog says. "You could do more withit." At the time a Mini Moog cost anywhere between $1,400and $2,000, "which was a lot of money in those days/' Moog says.

Through the 1960s Moog's synthesizers were built inTrumansburg, New York. Moog moved to Buffalo in 1971 andto North Carolina in 1978, Today, however, Moog Music isno.longer in production. "The company exists as a sheaf ofpapers in someone's drawer," Moog says.

Moog describes his current company, Big Briar Inc., basedin Leicester, North Carolina, as usort of out on the fringe ofthe electronic music frontier." The company designs and buildsboth touch-sensitive keyboards and Theremins.

"A Theremin," Moog explains, "is an instrument you playby waving your hands around in the air." The machine pro-duces an electrical note but the pitch and tone are controlledby the distance between the player's hands and metal rodsthat serve as antennas. The machine is named after the Rus-sian inventor Leo Theremin and was popular during the late1920s. Moog's touch-sensitive keyboards allow musicians toshape the sound of a note, as you would on a stringed instru-ment, simply by touching the key differently.

Various electronic tone generators and even synthesizerswere around as far back as the 1920s, Moog says, addingthat it's not exactly clear where his synthesizers belong on atree of keyboard evolution. "We just came along at a timewhen there was an interest in this kind of music and the tech-nology was there to make these kinds of electronic sounds,"he says,

"IT'S HARD

TO COUNT HOW

MANY PEOPLE

WOULD NOT BE

HERE TODAY IF

NOT FOR THE

PACEMAKER."

WILSON GREATBATCH '50

In 1958, Wilson Greatbatch made what turnedout to be a momentous decision. "I had$2,000 in cash and enough besides to feedmy family for two years. I put it to the Lordin prayer and felt led to quit all my jobs anddevote my full time to the pacemaker," herecalls in his 1983 book, Twenty-five Yearsof Peacemaking. "I gave the family money tomy wife. I then took the $2,000 and wentup into my wood-heated barn workshop. Intwo years I built fifty pacemakers, forty ofwhich went into animals and ten into pa-tients. We had no grant funding and askedfor none. The program was successful. We

got fifty pacemakers for $2,000. Today, youcan't buy one for that."

Alone in his workshop, Greatbatch madethe first implantable pacemaker—a hugeimprovement over the original, external pace-makers that used large, cumbersome bat-teries for their power. The implantable modelruns on a battery and transmits an electri-cal signal to the heart to make it beat regu-larly. Pacemakers today are lifesavers forpeople with congenital heart defects, heartdisease or infection or deterioration thatcomes with age.

That he became an inventor was not agreat surprise to Greatbatch. "I've alwaysbeen interested in technical things," says

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"WE JUSTCAME ALONG

WHEN THERE WAS

AN INTEREST

IN THIS KIND

OF MUSIC."

the man who built his first two-tube short-wave radio receiver in his teens, in WestSeneca, New York. He attended Cornellon the G. I. Bill, graduating with a de-gree in electrical engineering in 1950. Hethen received a master's degree in elec-trical engineering from the University ofBuffalo.

While Greatbatch worked at Taber In-strument of North Tonawanda, New York,where he designed plug-in transistor mod-ules and aerospace medical amplifiers (in-cluding the biomedical amplifiers used onSam and Miss Sam, the monkeys sent upon NASA's Little Joe Mercury spacecraft)he moonlighted with a Buffalo doctor whowas researching the sound of heartbeats.Greatbatch used a movie camera to recordthe sounds off an oscilloscope. When heinstalled the wrong part into one of theoscilloscopes, he serendipitously discov-ered what was needed to drive a heart."For the next five years, most of theworld's pacemakers were to use a block-ing oscillator just because I grabbed thewrong resistor," he says.

reatbatch says the technicalkey to his success was theinvention of the transistor in1956. "I knew I could build

an implantable pacemaker but not withtubes and batter-ies," he says. Withthe new transis-tors in hand, heheaded to hisworkshop. "I'dwork a while,make a device,take it down to thehospital and try itout. The first twoyears, I did only ani-mal pacemakers."When those provedsuccessful, hemoved on to pace-makers for humans.

The hardestpart was sellingthe invention toskeptical doctors."There were yearsof traveling acrossthe country, goinginto research sem-inars at eight in themorning and convincing a group of recal-citrant doctors that this would work. Af-ter a while it became obvious they had to

use them," he says. Greatbatch formed Wil-son Greatbatch Inc. and licensed theChardack-Greatbatch Implantable CardiacPacemaker to Medtronic, Inc. of Minneapolis.

More than $1 billion worth of pacemak-ers were sold last year and doctors are nowquick to praise Greatbatch's invention. Dr.Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, a cardiologist at theMcGuire Veterans Administration Hospitalin Richmond, Virginia, and a member of theAmerican Heart Association's Committeeon Electrocardiography and Cardiac Elec-trophysiology, says the implantable pace-maker has saved thousands of lives. "It'shard to count how many people would not behere today if not for the pacemaker," he says.

Greatbatch has recevied many honorsfor his work. The Association for Advance-ment of Medical Instrumentation gave himits highest award, the National Society ofProfessional Engineers honored the pace-maker as one of engineering's ten outstand-ing contributions to society in the last fiftyyears, and the National Inventors Hall ofFame inducted him in 1986.

"I'll be 75 in another three years,"Greatbatch says, "and I plan on retiring thenand getting a PhD. Γd like to do some morework in molecular biology. I think that'swhere the future of all sciences lies. I gettired of the kids who say there's nothingnew to do."

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JUNE 199231

ELMER SPERRY

Elmer Sperry loved to revise Thomas A.Edison's quote that "genius was 1 percentinspiration and 99 percent perspiration." ToSperry the process of invention was "110percent sweat." Persistence, he would say,was the only quality that separated the dil-

MARVIN MIDDLEMARK '41

In the fifties and sixties, well before that ubiquitous blackbit of coaxial cable appeared to wire together a good por-tion of America's televisions, Marvin Middiemark's invention couldbe found atop TV sets across the country. Middlemark, who died in1989 just before his 70th birthday, was the inventor of the "rabbitears" indoor television antenna.

Middlemark started off on a career asa machine tool salesman yet he was also atinkerer, constantly looking for ways to re-vise and improve bits of household tech-nology. Over the course of several decadesthis curiosity resulted in sixty-two patents,mostly for electronic devices, although thelist does include a design for a water-drivenpotato peeler.

But in the mid-1950s Middiemark's per-fection of the "rabbit ears" antenna brokethrough as a commercial winner. Middlemarkthen formed his own company, All Chan-

nel Products Corporation, based in Queens, which became a leaderin the production of indoor television antennas. The company went onto develop an entire line of indoor antennas, including one that con-tained a clock. Middlemark eventually sold All Channel Products for$5 million in the mid-1960s.

Following the sale Middlemark devoted himself to other projects.One involved work on an ultimately unsuccessful way to revive deadtennis balls by heating them in a microwave oven and injecting themwith air. Since Middiemark's death his heirs have been embroiled ina legal battle over the estate.

ettante from the successful inventor. He livedby his own words: in 1930, when Sperrydied at the age of 69, Scientific Americanranked him second only to Thomas Edisonin the field of American invention. Sperryheld more than 400 patents, for items rang-ing from arc lighting to electric automobilesand gyroscopic guidance systems, which at

the time were called"robots."

Sperry was bornin Cincinnatus, NewYork and raised byhis grandparents inCortland. He was fas-cinated by mechani-cal devices as a childand attended theCortland NormalSchool. Sperry hadonly a glancing asso-ciation with Cornell:in 1879-80, whileworking part time atthe Cortland WagonCompany, he com-muted to Ithaca toaudit a physics lec-ture. (But two ofSperry's sons, EdwardGoodman Sperry '15and Elmer Sperry Jr.'17, did graduate andlater worked for theirfather at the SperryGyroscope Companyin Brooklyn, NewYork. Sperry Hall,aka U-Hall 6, onWest Campus isnamed for the inven-tor.)

Many of Sperry'sbest-known inven-tions were used atsea. One was thefirst gyro stabilizerfor ships, a devicewhich evened outthe effects of swellson the open ocean.Sperry later refinedthe stabilizer for useon airplanes and tor-pedoes. As magneticcompasses of theearly 1900s provedrelatively useless onmetal ships, Sperryalso invented a gyro

PROFESSOR ARTHUR KUCKES

Drilling companies faced with oil wellsburning out of control often spend monthstrying to cap them. Yet when all else failsthese companies frequently turn for help to VectorMagnetics, a tiny Ithaca-based firm. "We're used

magnetometer. "Getting the 100 feet down tosix inches is where we come in," Kuckes says.

The number of wells Vector Magnetics iscalled on to cap each year varies, but in 1991they were sent to eight different disasters, oneas far away as India. Lately though they havealso been asked to help protect aquifers and de-

as a last resort, but what we do has a very im-portant niche," says Professor Emeritus ArthurKuckes, a physicist who invented a capping pro-cess and helped found Vector Magnetics in theearly 1980s.

One often-preferred way to shut down an oilwell blow-out involves drilling a relief well nextto the troubled well and intercepting the flow ofoil or gas thousands of feet below the surface.While drilling companies can easily sink thesewells to within 100 feet of a blown out well, findingthe exact point to make the interception was amajor problem until the arrival of Kuckes's in-vention.

Developed as a spin-off from research intothe way electricity is conducted underground, thetechnology Vector Magnetics uses involves send-ing an alternating electrical current down the cas-ing of the blown-out well while the resulting mag-netic field is measured by a magnetometer low-ered into the relief well. Crews on the surfacecan then calculate the exact direction and dis-tance to the well by using information from the

velop storage fields for natural gas. "We've beenexpanding into these very modest programs ratherthan just the mega-projects," Kuckes says.

During one recent trip Vector Magnetics wasasked to help withtwo we l l s thatowners had beentrying to cap foreight months. "Onone we came inand polished it offin eight days,"Kuckes says. "A lotof people are be-ginning to realizethat while drillingrelief wells soundsl ike a long in-volved procedure,it's something theycan do with confi-dence and itworks."

compass. This was followed by an automaticsteering system known as "Metal Mike"which would keep a ship on a set course.

perry, who always wore perfectlytailored suits and carried a pocketcircular slide rule of his own de-sign, also patented high-powered

airport beacons, lighting systems that wereused in the motion picture industry, elec-tric mining equipment, improved street carbrakes and even a collapsible tripod to sup-port a golf bag. In 1928 he devised a devicecapable of detecting transverse fissures inrails. This went a long way toward endingthe problem of broken rails which at the timewere a major cause of train wrecks.

Like many inventors, Sperry derived hisgreatest satisfaction from watching a device

of his creation go to work for the first time.As he said in 1928 after receiving the JohnFritz Gold Medal, the highest award forAmerican engineers: "On such occasionsthere comes over me a welling up fromwithin, a sort of elation, and life takes onnew and exalted aspect. That is living."

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JUNE 199233

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EUGENE ROCHOW31, PhD '35

On May 10, 1940 Eugene Rochow was atwork in the ceramics department at the Gen-eral Electric Research Laboratory inSchenectady, New York when he made adiscovery, that in effect, founded the mod-ern silicone industry.

As Rochow, now a retired Harvard chem-istry professor who lives in Florida, describesit, in the days B.S. (Before Silicone) the worldhad ceramic materials, which made fine in-sulators and stood up under high tempera-tures but were brittle, and organic com-pounds, which could be stretched and moldedbut fell apart when confronted with extremetemperatures.

"Along came some people at GeneralElectric who thought that industry and theconsumer need something in between theceramics and the organic materials," he says."Something to fill in that vast void betweenceramics and natural rubber and gums andgoos." GE was particularly interested in asubstance to improve electrical insulationin stoves, and while some not-very-usefulorganosilicon compounds had been con-

structed 100 years earlier, the procedure toproduce these was long and complicated.

n coming up with a better materialRochow, who had been working onthe problem for over a year, tooka grey form of silicon used in many

metallurgic processes and let it react withmethylchloride, a gas, at 325 degrees Cel-sius. He discovered that small organic groupsof atoms attached themselves to the siliconatoms. He exchanged the chlorine atoms foroxygen and the result was a new material—polydimethylsiloxane.

"The basic patents for the material andthe new procedure for making it were is-sued to me, and as required by my 1930scontract I assigned these, and thirty-odd oth-ers, to GE for $1 each," Rochow says.

The process is still known as the EGRprocess or the Rachow synthesis and theproduct, dimethyl silicone, eventually allowedthe production of an astonishing range ofproducts—from astronauts' boots that stayedflexible in extreme heat and cold, to minia-ture electronic devices, perfumes and evena coating for razor blades.

THE PRODUCT

ALLOWED THE

CREATION OF

ASTRONAUTS'

BOOTS, PERFUME

AND MINIATURE

ELECTRONIC

DEVICES.

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PROFESSOR JOHN SANFORD

Unlike other academics who may become inventorsin the course of doing research, horticultural sci-ences Prof. John Sanford says he sees himself as anatural inventor.

Indeed, his "gene gun," developed with electrical engi-neering Prof. Edward Wolf and Nelson Allen, technical ser-vice supervisor at the National Nanofabrication Facil i ty-oncampus, has earned the university the largest amount everpaid for a Cornell invention: $2.28 million in royalties andresearch support. The gun propels genetic material into liv-ing cells, a process called transformation.

Sanford began as a strawberry and raspberry breeder,and holds patents for new varieties of the two fruits. But inthe early 1980s, he developed an interest in delivering newgenetic material into plants to improve, for instance, theirresistance to disease or to insect pests. He tried a variety ofmethods—delivering DNA mechanically into cells with a sortof. syringe, using a micro-laser to cut a tiny hole in the cellwall. Then someone suggested he talk to Wolf, who workedwith electron beams that could perhaps be used to cut holesin the cell walls. Although the electron beam didn't workout, the two men came up with the idea of shooting par-ticles into the cells.

So they went to Allen and he built them a prototype gun."The first apparatus was nothing more than a modified BBgun," says Sanford. But it worked, "[The device] showed wecould shoot particles into living cells,'1' Sanford says. "Butthis idea was so radical and laughable that no normal grant-ing agency would fund it." He got help from the CornellBiotechnology Program, which had established a funding pro-gram specifically to support innovative ideas that would nototherwise get help.

The next incarnation of the gun was a gunpowder deviceSanford and colleagues developed. He has since developeda helium-powered version. The gene gun, called Biolistic(biological + ballistic), is a stationary enclosed chamber. In-side it, a mechanism fires a helium Shockwave, which drives

Kathy Bodovitz is associate editor of the Alumni

a plastic disk, the surface of which contains tungsten par-ticles coated with genetic materials. A metal screen stopsthe disk, but allows the microparticles with genetic materialto enter cells that are also inside the chamber.

Before long, Sanford and Wolf realized their device couldhave market potential, so they sought and received from theuniversity a license for the technology. (The university ownsthe patent rights to inventions made on campus, but is not in

the business of manufacturing, so it sometimes grants toinventors the technology license.)

"Things just snowballed," Sanford recalls, "All of a sud-den everyone wanted to use the process." He and Wolf quicklyrealized it was more than they could handle and sold therights to the gene gun to DuPont. The gun is being used nowby a variety of seed companies to improve their plant culti-vars, Sanford says, including the country's major corn com-panies. It is also being used on rice, cotton and soy beans,and Sanford is looking into applications for apples, beansand wheat.

Meanwhile, Sanford has taken a half-time leave from Cornelland has founded his own company, Sanford Scientific Inc."The academic world usually does not have a place for in-ventors because they don't tend to fit your traditional aca-demic pigeonholes," he says, "The way you're expected tooperate is to carve out a niche and stick to it. It's considereddisreputable to jump around,"

At Sanford Scientific, he can do just that. For now, thecompany is focusing on genetic engineering of ornamental,or non-edible, plants. At the same time, adds Sanford, Tvegot patents pending on ways to engineer virus resistance andgenetic engineering of gene therapy for AIDS," B

.'88 is a freelance writer.

JUNE 1992" 3 5 ~~

BY ALFRED E. KAHN

WhyAirlineDeregulationWorks

hen Alfred E. Kahn, the Robert Julius

Thome professor emeritus of econom-

ics, took over as chairman of the Civil Aero-

nautics Board during the Carter Administra-

tion, airline ticket prices were set by the gov-

ernment. Kahn changed all that by effectively

deregulating the airline industry, opening the door to Peoples'

Express, super-saver fares and frequent-flier programs.

Now that the skies are crowded and the cost of a full-fare

ticket is as high as the jet stream, many people are wondering if

deregulation is still a good idea. Kahn maintains that it is, and

that consumers just need a sense of history, a bit of flexibility

and a bargain hunter's persistence.

JUNE 199236

II ather early on a recent Sat-f^ urday morning, I receivedm mJ an anβry telephone call.

• WThe caller didn't identifyhimself.

"Is this Alfred Kahn?""Yes.""I have to go to Chicago, and they

told me it will cost $862!" By nowthe caller was furious.

"Look, Γd be glad to talk to youabout it, but I've got to be ..." Butmy anonymous caller wasn't inter-ested in anything I might have tosay; he started to say somethinghostile about "deregulation," and Ihung up.

Since his indignation was under-standable, and it wasn't ridiculousof him to want to hold me respon-sible, I pondered during the next fewhours what I would or should havetried to say, if he'd given me theopportunity.

First, I would have offered somepractical advice: go to a travel agentyou trust and get his or her help insearching for the lowest availablefare. That's what I do. An agent'scomputerized reservations systemsare programmed to find the bestfares.

See if you can qualify for a dis-count, perhaps by traveling at a lessconvenient hour. In November 1991,the latest month for which I havefigures, more than 94 percent of allpassenger mileage was logged ondiscount fares that averaged less than34 percent of the full coach price.Examine all the possible competi-tive alternatives. If you're travelingfrom Ithaca, for instance, try Conti-nental via Newark or US Air via Pitts-burgh. Or try driving or taking theairport shuttle to Syracuse and fly-ing from there on American, United,USAir or Continental.

Second, I would have tried tomake my caller understand the na-ture of the regulation and deregula-tion over which I presided. Underregulation, the government system-atically suppressed price competi-tion. When I took over the chair-manship of the Civil AeronauticsBoard in 1977, its biggest bureau wasthe Bureau of Enforcement, a col-lection of sleuths whose job it was

to police the airline industry and toimpose fines on price-cutters. In itsentire forty-year history, with oneminor exception, the board had re-fused to license even a single newairline to compete directly with theexisting carriers.

With strong support from Presi-dent Carter, Senator EdwardKennedy and such organizations asthe Consumer Federation ofAmerica, Ralph Nader's Public Citi-zen Committee and Common Cause,I set out to get the board to stopprohibiting price-cutting and to stopexcluding newcomers such asPeoples' Express, New York Air andSir Freddie Laker's World Airways.I also pushed to let existing carri-ers like Southwest, Pacific South-west Airline and Air Florida bringto interstate travelers the same kindof highly efficient, low-fare servicethey were already providing withincertain states.

Most of the newcomers are gone,alas, but the intense price competi-tion that they sparked is still withus, in the form of those ubiquitousdiscounts. "Have you even takenadvantage of those bargains?" Iwould have challenged my caller."And if you blame me for the $862fare, how about thanking me forthose others?"

Despite the disappearance of allthose price-cutters, the industry hasbeen suffering heavy losses over thelast couple of years—precisely be-cause it is still so competitive. Andthat, too, is why so many airlineshave been driven out of business andothers are on the verge.

Nevertheless, a significant mi-nority of passengers, like my angrycaller, are paying higher fares—insome cases, outrageously higher—than they would have had regula-tion continued.

There can be no objection inprinciple—except, perhaps, from themost doctrinaire free marketer—tothe government imposing price ceil-ings in situations in which consum-ers could otherwise be subject tomonopolistic exploitation. I certainlyimposed ceilings vigorously when,as chairman of the New York Pub-lic Service Commission, I was re-

sponsible for pricing of electricity,gas, water and local telephone ser-vice.

Deregulation makes sense incircumstances in which effectivecompetition is feasible. It does notmean government should abdicateresponsibility for protecting the pub-lic where competition does not pro-tect consumers sufficiently, but I amnot convinced we are lacking thatprotection from the airline industry,which is certainly not earning mo-nopoly profits.

I do not exclude the possibilitythat we may have to reimpose priceceilings on the airlines, to limit fareslike the $862 my caller was so an-gry about, but it is no simple job todo so in a highly competitive indus-try that is losing a great deal ofmoney. Can you set ceilings with-out also fixing floors, and so slip-ping back into government-enforcedcartels?

And what of the fact that mostof the travelers who can't qualify forthe discount seats—because theycan't stay over a weekend, or maketheir travel plans well in advance andbuy non-refundable tickets—stillhave the benefit of more frequentand convenient scheduling and fre-quent-flier credits? Is it possible toset price ceilings without also stipu-lating that there be no deteriorationin those other benefits, which thehigh fares help make possible?

Brookings Institution studiesestimate that deregulation has savedtravelers more than $100 billionoverall and continues to save themabout $5 billion a year. Air travel isnow possible for families of very lim-ited means.

But being a successful consumertakes a great deal more effort thesedays, and with average fares about13 cents per mile, I can't blamesomeone for being angry whenforced to pay 50 cents a mile to flyto Chicago.

That's what I wish I'd had anopportunity to say to my indignantanonymous telephone caller. H

This article originally appeared in theIthaca Journal.

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Forty-βve, divorced and the nest empty.Sounds like a great time to start college.

W hen I graduated from high school Chevies roamed

he earth, kids smoked Camels, and Rocky Marciano

was heavyweight champion of the world. I didn't go on to

college; I got married. Then, when I was 45, divorced,

and my children all away at college, I applied for admis-

sion to Cornell, where I was working as a typist in the

College of Engineering.

I was accepted as an early decision candidate, which

meant that I had nine months in the office before starting

school. It was then that people who had never said an

amusing thing in their entire lives suddenly found a voice:

"Are you going out for cheerleading? Will you pledge a

sorority? Do you think you'll be Homecoming queen?"

When I entered the College of Arts and Sciences as a

freshman, a dean told me I was the only person my age

enrolled as an undergraduate in the college. That was un-

fortunate because middle age (such an awkward time of

life) is like adolescence, which is undoubtedly why the

two groups go out of their way never to mingle or mix in

each other's business. The office I worked in was an ex-

ception. It was neutral territory, belonging to neither side.

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. . . THE PROFESSOR, WHO HAD GATHERED THE CLASSON THE SIDEWALK AT THE FOOT OF CASCADILLA GORGE,

EXPLAINED THAT WE WERE STANDING ON AN ALLUVIAL FAN.BE STILL MY'HEART.

But the classroom was different; it belonged to them.

For the first few months after I started school there was

no attempt on either side to become acquainted. There was

no one at home, and I missed my children. I felt as though

I didn't belong anywhere, because to return to school as an

undergraduate is to become a girl again in an authority

system where ideas filter down, never up, a system that

turns a person of any age into a striving adolescent, either

looking for approval or resisting the need for it, anxious

over relationships, worrying about grades.

one morning in November I went off toMr. Stallworthy's poetry class in the A.D.

White House to slouch, depressed, on a red velvet chairin a corner, secretly picking at the inlay in a little eigh-teenth-century Chinese desk, while Mr. Stallworthydiscussed Byron and his depression during his thirty-sixth year. Thirty-six. What did Byron have to be depress-ed about? Then I found out he didn't live to be 37.

Going down the driveway afterwards, I was over-taken by Iris, a girl from class who, after a little con-versation in which she found out I was a full-time fresh-man, said, "Oh, I wish my mom would do that. How doyou like it?" I said, "It s ." Iris was clearly stumped.For a moment she was quiet, and then she asked meto have lunch with her at the Temple of Zeus in thebasement of Goldwin Smith.

The Temple of Zeus was a huge room that lookedlike the graveyard of the gods with enormous nakedstatues lining the walls, suspicious-looking carpetingon the floor, and a menu of soup and shopworn bagels.Over lunch Iris talked about poetry and gossiped aboutthe class. Gradually our table filled with people andafter a while I began feeling sorry for Byron, that hedied before middle-age, such a wonderful time of life.Although I wouldn't have believed it, I was to spendmuch of the next four years in that room, discussingwork, drinking coffee, handling the bagels, droppingfood on the floor. I never expected to make friendswith undergraduates nearly thirty years younger thanI, and I didn't. Nevertheless, we were on the friendli-est terms; I sometimes had coffee with them, some-times had dinner with them, met some of their par-ents. I would say that we appreciated each other.

t's no use pretending to be physically fit when youhaven't cared about it for twenty years. It's like

Jl trying to retrieve your short-term memory inmiddle-age. It isn't up to you. It has already been de-cided. It's evolution, and you're on the wrong end. Myworst experience with counter-evolution was Geology101. We took lots of field trips. For our first one wemet outside Upson Hall in the rain to go inspect some-thing called an alluvial fan. I was wearing sandals and anew London Fog raincoat that had never seen rain,and I was expecting a bus. The professor arrived, madea few remarks, and abruptly flew off like Batman. Wefollowed.

We started down—down through back yards andlittle dirt paths, down a way I'd never seen before. Islipped and slid in my sandals on the wet grass, in thethick mud, plummeting down among the trees, downthrough an old cemetery. The professor disappearedbeyond a wall or around the bend, down and furtherdown until at last we dropped like a ball of lead on ourtarget, an alluvial fan. I looked around. We seemed tobe on Court Street in downtown Ithaca where the pro-fessor, who had gathered the class on the sidewalk atthe foot of Cascadilla Gorge, explained that we werestanding on an alluvial fan. Be still my heart. While hetalked about the formation and history of the alluvialfan, I wondered which long, steep Ithaca hill we wouldbe taking back to campus.

As it turned out, we didn't take any of them. Wewent up the gorge.

Until that day I had always looked down on thegorge from a bridge high above, where the expanse ofrock and trees below seemed distant and mysterious.Now, I kept stopping to look up, only connecting withthe class in time to hear the professor's final remarkswhen he stopped to explain the layers of rock or thepot holes in the floor of the gorge. Then the groupflew ahead while I minced around the slippery rock inmy sandals, alone. I couldn't keep up and they wouldhave been foolish to wait for me, as it was an impos-sible situation we all just seemed to accept. Especiallythem.

By now it was raining hard, a steady pelting rainthat fell straight down. The sole of one sandal had comeunglued, and I had stopped looking anywhere but atmy feet. When I finally paused to look up, there, throughthe fog that had rolled in, way off in the distance, I sawthe professor and the class going up the side of a wa-terfall with the aid of a rope. I watched for a minute,then turned right, climbed a steep embankment, andfound myself in Collegetown. This was a miracle. I satby the window in Collegetown Bagels with an onionbagel and hot coffee, just sat by the window, slappingmy sole against the wood floor, watching it rain.

American history was a large lecture course taughtin an auditorium by a young professor who possessed

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that mixture of intellectual sophistication and a kind ofreckless charisma that keeps a class both enthralledand intimidated. I sat in the second row taking intense,unintelligible notes I couldn't read and never referredto again.

One day during his lecture on the First World War,the professor mentioned in an aside that he despisedWoodrow Wilson. I didn't know what to make of it. Ihad stopped taking notes, still lost in his remark when,a few minutes later, in his discussion of the post-warveterans' riots he said he detested MacArthur. I leanedmy chin in my hand, closed my notebook, and lookedout the window. While I watched the leaden Ithacasky, I heard him say, "Is something bothering you?" Ilooked around, then at him. I was bewildered until helooked at me and repeated his question. "Is somethingbothering you?"

Because I was afraid of him, I was surprised tohear myself say, "I guess Γm wondering whether ornot Γm supposed to remember that you despise Wil-son and detest MacArthur. I mean, should I take noteson that?" Slowly, unexpectedly, he replied in a mildway, "No."

After class I said Γd like to talk to him, and he saidwe'd go to his office which was in a building acrossthe quad. I waited for him while he gathered up histhings, put on his sun glasses, jacket and back-packand strode out of the room and down the hall. It wasmy introduction to the politics of walking. At first Iran to keep up with him. Then I slowed down, andfinally I was half a hall behind him. I wondered whathe would do at the door. He waited.

Once; outside, we each changed our pace and endedup walking more or less together. He asked me whatthe problem was, and I said that I wondered exactlywhat history was, in the first place. Was it the event,or was it everyone's interpretation of an event or, sinceit was written, was it fiction?

He said, "That's right." (Which I later learned isan answer professors often give in order to mystifyand remain enigmatic. They actually get away with it.)

We went up to the fourth floor of McGraw. Oncein his office he seated me across from his desk, wherehe sat with his feet up, leaning back in a swivel chair,his fingers laced behind his head. Sitting stiffly in mystraight chair across from him, I said to his hiking boots,"We're not graduate students in history. We're fresh-men. How are we supposed to evaluate your opinion?"He replied, "Every professor has opinions, they justaren't up front with them. I'm up front with mine. Iwon't slip in my opinion as though it were history."

I said, "You have a big impact on a class. Your per-sonal opinion carries a lot of weight."

He smiled.I looked at the floor.He said, "I once had a student, a young woman,

who was majoring in Greek history. After taking my

course she changed her major and today she's workingon a Navajo reservation." I thought about studying inGreece or working on a Navajo reservation. I said, "Thatwas some favor you did her."

He smiled with his chin in his hand, gazing intospace. Then he looked up and laughed out loud.

I took two years of American history with this pro-fessor and during that time we became friends. In thebeginning of my last semester with him we were meetingone night for our first discussion section, and he wastelling the class of about twenty students that they hada responsibility because as Cornell graduates they wouldbe among the future leaders of the country, that theywere special, that they were part of the elite. I put myhand to my mouth and said, "Yawn." He went on, "Youare all part of the elite except for that women rightover there. She's ordinary." There was a shocked si-lence as everyone turned to me, and then to him. Helooked around and said, "Uh ... I'm kidding ... I knowthis woman. What I mean is, we've been together acouple of years. We're FRIENDS. Tell them. We'refriends."

I just looked at him.He said, "What are you doing this to me for?""For Woodrow Wilson," I said. "And for the girl on

the Navajo reservation."

B efore going to Cornell I had read Dickens, theBrontes, Austen, Melville, James, Tolstoy. I hadnever read—and probably never would have if

they weren't part of the syllabus—Eliot, Woolf, Chekhov,Turgenev, Mann, Dickinson, Joyce and most of the eigh-teenth-century authors. Overall, I think that for me,finding that whole literary world of which I was igno-rant was the single most important permanent benefitof going to college.

You can love reading, you can love writing about itand you can still have difficulty with course papers.Pleasing the teacher is what finally counts. When myRussian literature paper on War and Peace was returned,I discovered that I had used a premise that was "unac-ceptable, illegitimate, and arrogant." The title of mypaper was Little Women in War and Peace. The profes-sor had used a ball-point pen like a weapon to piercethe margins with comments. Even though I had attackedthe beloved, elfin Natasha, I was still surprised that Icould generate so much passion. The inflamed Bic fairlypunctured the last page with the news that I needn'tthink about a rewrite. Instead, I could pick a new topicand do a brand new paper. I said, "Surely" and wroteabout the symbolism of blue sky in War and Peace.

I defended scoundrels like the cad, Pechorin, in AHero of Our Time, and picked on people like the de-voted father in Disorder and Early Sorrow who I triedto turn into a child molester. What I learned about myselffrom all this was that I was a kind of amateur tabloidinvestigator and not a scholar.

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HAD RECEIVED AN EDUCATION RATHER THAN A TRAINING, AND ITWAS HARD TO EVALUATE. IT SEEMED ABSTRACT.

"I could have graduated Phi Beta Kappa if Γd beenbabied the way you were," I heard from friends whowent to other colleges in their middle-age. My bestfriend went to a women's college down south whereto satisfy the gym requirement she ended up takingtap dancing. I was excused from gym because of age.My reply to critics was that I thanked God that Cornellhad left the Dark Ages and had not required me toengage in barbaric activities like field hockey.

While my friends got Ds in French, I was eventu-ally excused iron the language requirement but onlyafter I tried—in vain—to keep up with members of aSpanish class who had all studied the language before.I was like a mole coming out of a cellar—neither of uswas ever going to see straight.

I rented tapes and then tried to hold conversationswith them. Standing at the sink, at the stove, drinkingmy coffee in the morning, I tried to talk to Carlos andMaria. "Como esta usted, Maria?" I would greet her.But rude, self-centered Maria was already into a rapid-fire blah, blah about her family and her home. I re-peated Carlos's Castillian lisp. "Buenoth Dioth, Carloth,"I would say. But Carlos never waited for an answer ora response, he just talked about himself. I learned moreSpanish from Doris Day than I did from Carlos andMaria.

There is a little book, Amalia, about a nineteenth-century revolutionary heroine that is used in first yearSpanish to introduce students to Spanish literature. Itwas 11:30 one autumn night when I had just returnedfrom failing a Spanish prelim and sat pouring overAmaliafor a quiz the next day. I kept dozing off. Slowly, Iclosed the book and gazed at the illustration on thecover. "Amalia," I whispered. "Adios."

I tossed her face down in the fireplace and toucheda match to her little red skirt. I watched her darken,blacken, turn to ash and sail up the chimney. Then Iwrote a note in English to my Spanish T.A., SeήoritaDebbie: "I'll take an F. Γm never coming back." And Inever did. The advising deans in the College of Artsand Sciences, proving their humanity, excused me fromSpanish and let me substitute Russian Literature intranslation.

here is a language of critical theory calledsemiotics or deconstruction that has gained wide-spread currency at Cornell. It takes apart, or

deconstructs, a text (what we used to call a book). Alot of people find deconstruction exciting. Small won-der. Consider, for example, a deconstruction of "now":

"The process by which the living now, producingitself through spontaneous generation must, to be anow, retain itself in another now, affect itself, withoutrecourse to anything empirical, with a new primordialactuality in which it will become a non-now, etc. is thesame only by being affected by the other, by becomingthe other of the same."

When I was a senior I attended a semiotics confer-ence being held at Cornell because I had read that therewas to be a lecture on Remembrance of Things Past.

After some preliminary remarks I didn't completelyunderstand, the speaker went to the blackboard to give,he said, an analysis of the plot. My pen was poised. Hewrote something like: A5 [B2] C5 [051 (E21)] F5 [511HS 1141]. It went all the way across the blackboard. Ilooked down at my notebook, then back up at the pro-fessor.

I stole a glance at the people around me. They lookedinterested, the way people look when they understandthe universe and know that the world is a hick town.

I put down my pen, leaned back and gazed at thehandout I had been given at the door, "Analytical Scoreof Third Level Semantic Codification." It looked likethe first three bars of "Stardust." I leaned my head onmy hand and dozed until the coffee break. Then I wenthome.

W hen I graduated from college, Hondas roamedthe earth, kids chided their parents about their

smoking, and no one knew who was heavy-weight champion of the world. It was a brilliantly sunnyday at the end of May, Cornell at its best, lilacs every-where, the library chimes echoing around the campus.I sat on the grass with my daughters, off to the side ofthe stadium that held my class, done up in their capsand gowns.

I wondered what my parents, who had graduatedfrom Cornell sixty-nine years before when the dormswere heated with wood stoves, would think of me. Iwondered whether central heat with its implicationsfor separateness alienated them the way the computeralienated me.

During Commencement I began setting memoriesin place—I'll never forget this, I'll always rememberthat—memories transformed into imaginary snapshots,deliberate, self-conscious nostalgia in advance.

I had received an education rather than a training,and it was hard to evaluate. It seemed abstract. I didand I didn't feel its impact sitting there on the side-lines of the football field, watching the graduation cer-emony. I had been on the Dean's List and graduatedWith Distinction. So had about 25 percent of the restof the class. I felt I was myself as I had always been, astranger to my own mental processes. Maybe,deconstructed, I would be like "now," "the living now,"still in "the process by which the living now producingitself through spontaneous generation must, to be anow, retain itself in another now." It was kind of aninteresting idea. Ξ

Jane Dickinson '81, MFA '84 is an assistant professor ofwriting at Ithaca College.

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MALLETajor Charles E. Boyle, who coached early Big Red poloteams, is shown in this photograph with a line-up of play-ers who dominated intercollegiate polo competition justbefore World War II. Boyle is in uniform, standing next to

, Steve Roberts '38, C.C. "Buddy" Combs '39 and TommyLawrence '38—the first-string (nine-goal-rated) varsity winnersof the Intercollegiate Championship in 1937, who established ateam record of 338 goals scored in the season—then Dave Pollak'39, Art Christian '39 and Walt Naquin '38. A report on the poloplayers' April reunion to honor Roberts, a veterinarian and retiredVet college professor and long-time polo coach at Cornell, ap-pears on page 86.

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I ^\ The famous women's pageant ofA I I 1917 (75 years ago) was the first

r I \/ ever put on by the women of Cor-I y\ nell, according to the posters an-I I 1 nouncing it. So far as I know, none

JL ^ of its size has been put on since.A few women's colleges have a May Daydance or similar traditional fete, but nonewith "a cast of 1,000, including 750 youngCornell women, 150 Ithaca public school chil-dren, the Cornell Orchestra, and the SageChapel advanced choir." The photo on pages40 and 41 of the March 1992 Alumni Newsbrings back memories.

All four undergraduate classes took part,practicing scenes and dances in our smallSage gym. Instead of boring winter routines,we worked on the pageant. The Cascadillaamphitheater was used for rehearsals as soonas its ground condition warranted. In thebackground of the (March issue) photo canbe seen the upper ground, with a seat cutinto the cliff, and a trail coming toward it,permitting action on two levels. There werethree "episodes" and a finale: I. Arts and Sci-ences; II. Professional Colleges; and III. Col-lege of Agriculture and Home Economics.Episode I had two scenes, one dealing withthe arts, the other with science. The photoshows, I believe, the end of the first scene,which featured the Greek poet Sappho (Hil-da Eulenstein Wolverton Ί7). A group inthe upper right is waiting to go on for thesecond scene, based on the story of AbbessHildegarde.

In the foreground is the Elf-girl (Mar-garet Luckings Rowand) who had come in,dancing, leading the procession. Margaretwas in many scenes, sure-footed and grace-ful, a talented dancer, with some previoustraining.

Planning for the pageant was long-range,for "400 trees, given by the forest depart-ment . . . were planted last spring . . .seatswill be arranged for 2,000 . . . while manymore will be able to obtain standing roomalong the sides of the gorge" (from the Syra-cuse Post-Standard of May 5, 1917). Thebook was by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie'12, and the student chairman was our Eliz-abeth Alward Kilbourne.

The event was dedicated to Cornell, and"presented" under the patronage of "Presi-dent J. G. Schurman; Dr. Edith Matzke, Ad-visor of Women; Miss Gertrude Nye, War-den of Risley Hall;, and Mrs. E.M. Barbour,Warden of Sage Hall." Risley and Sage werethe only women's dormitories. Proceeds fromthe Pageant were to be given "to the Cor-nell Ambulance Units" in World War I, andto "the Women's Dormitory Fund." Remem-ber that Congress's declaration of war againstGermany was in April 1917.

The dress rehearsal, with music, hors-es, and children, was an opportunity for pic-tures, and many students and professionalphotographers took advantage of it. From myscrapbook comes the photo reproduced onthe following page, showing a group of

"Greek maidens" gathered around a largerock at the edge of Cascadilla Creek. Nowonder the "Pageant of Ί7" has remainedin our memories to this day. D Irene M.Gibson, 119 S. Main St., Holley, NY 14470.

I ^\ As I write this at the end ofΛ 1 1 March, it appears spring is real-I I B ly "just around the corner."I ^rm Some snow this month, but thisI f / winter has been milder than usu-

JL ^J al for New England (though stillnot considerate of my age and arthritis!). Stilla dearth of news from classmates, but myplea for items of interest was heard by JeanWay Schoonover '41 of New York City, whohas sent me news of her mother HildaGreenawalt Way '19, of the famous Cor-nell dynasty which goes back to BenjaminCornell, nephew of Ezra, to Benjamin's son-in-law William E. Greenawalt 1887, andto Cassius Way '06. From these roots havecome 17 Cornellians. At our 70th Reunionin 1989, four generations were present forour class dinner, namely Hilda, Jean, and sis-ter Barbara Way Hunter '49, JamesSchoonover '79 (who was one of the clerksat our 60th Reunion), with his wife and sonKevin, 18 months. Jean and Barbara areformer trustees, and are both in the publicrelations business. Hilda is the widow ofWalter D. Way '17.

Quoting from Jean's March 19 letter,"Mother is doing fine, though she complainsshe doesn't have the energy she used tohave; but still beats all of us at bridge. LastDecember 28 was her 95th birthday and itwas celebrated in style as a joint venture withthe marriage of her granddaughter VictoriaHunter '83 to Matthias Gohl. The weddingwas here in NYC in the Puck Building Ball-room, with 250 guests and the Bishop ofNewark presiding. "Teese," the bridegroom,is Swiss, and a dozen members of his familywere present. All are remarkable musicians,and the ceremony included vocal and instru-mental solos as well as a wonderful octetperformed by his father, mother, sisters, andother relatives. Mother was part of the cer-emony, too. Invited to say a few words, shecharmed the audience with stories of otherbirthday celebrations and the first weddingshe attended as a young girl. The six-tieredwedding cake was a masterpiece. It was agreat occasion." Π C. F. Hendrie, 67 Can-non Ridge Dr., Artillery Hill, Watertown, CT06795.

A few more notesfrom classmates.Paul S. Krieg, for-merly of 289 Rich-mond Rd., Ridge-wood, NJ, writes as

follows: "I finally gave up on home of 35years and now have an apartment with nomore yard and other work and with ameni-ties furnished. W. Ted Ernst Jr., a personalrepresentative, writes as follows concerning

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HISTORICAL WOMEN

These "Greek maidens," photo-graphed alongside CascadillaCreek, are members of the Class-es of 17, 18, 19 and '20, castmembers of the Cornell Pageant

of 1917. They have just finished a dress F ,jjrehearsal for the production, in whichvirtually all undergraduate women tookpart.

The "Foreword" of the printed pro-gram began with this (unattributed)quote, "There is nought that man hasever done/But some brave woman hathattempted it," and continues, "Through- B ^out the ages of history, a few bravewomen stand out in bold relief who through theirexample have made the vocations of the presentday women possible. It is fitting then, that we, thegirls of Cornell, in our wish to show our loyalty tothe university, should choose to present a Pageantrepresenting these historical women as characteristic of the advantages which Cornell is offering ustoday. We therefore dedicate the Pageant to our

Alma Mater."The Class of 18 column in this issue contains

more information on the Pageant of 1917. Memo-ries of the Pageant were sparked in Class Corre-spondent Irene M. Gibson 18 by a panoramicphotograph published on pages 40 and 41 of theMarch 1992 Alumni News. She supplied this pho-tograph and a program from her collection.

Felix A. Peckham, formerly of Big PineKey, FL: Dear class members: It is with re-gret that I must advise you of the death ofFelix A. Peckham. He died July 26, '91, age90, after a short illness. For 90 years Felixled a vigorous life, including square dancing,bicycling, canoeing, photography, and trav-eling. He was also known for his many phil-anthropies for the needy and downtrodden.Also, William C. Streets of Fairfax Station,VA writes regarding Ruth Luscher Streets,his mother; "I regret to advise you that RuthL. Streets died Feb. 7,1991 at the age of 90.While maintaining her residence in the townof New Scotland, Albany County, her deathoccurred in Virginia while she was visitingme. She is survived by two children, sevengrandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.She was buried in Clayton, NY. My motherhad not been active in Cornell activities forseveral years due to eye problems that pre-vented her from driving. However, she re-mained quite interested in the Albany Cor-nell Club and other Cornell news right toher death.

Here is a list that I do not like to bringto your attention; classmates who passedaway without survivors. Who will pjut flow-ers on their graves? Gordon G. Brown diedNov. 19, '91 at Branford, CT; Paul S. Krug,March 23, '90 at Rochester, NY; John D.Green, March 1, '89 at Williamsburg, VA;

Alexander G. Lewi, Law, Feb. 21, '89.Now on a more cheerful vein—do you

have your plans made for our Reunion? Daysare much longer as I write this and June willbe here as you read it. G Ned Giddings,Wright Rd., Cazenovia, NY 13035.

^^ W Here's some good news concern-f I /I ing the Class of '24 Memorial* l\ Scn°larsmP Fund. Since it wasf ^1^ established, added gifts and inter-

I 1 |1 est or dividends have increasedMfl A its value by more than 250 per-cent. Currently, its principal amounts to over$138,000. For this enhancement we owethanks to the university's investment offi-cers and, to borrow from PBS, "donors likeyou." All you have done or plan to do for thefund is greatly appreciated. This year's re-cipient of the 1924 Scholarship has been asophomore in Engineering: Kevin Minter'94, from Brooklyn, NY. He is a needy, wor-thy awardee, and he is most appreciative ofour financial support. While on the subjectof gifts, it is with great pleasure that we canreport that the highest dollar amount evercontributed by a Cornell class for its 65thReunion was given by the Class of '24. Theamount? $850,373. A record we can all beproud of!

The bad news that just made it into thelast column, concerning the death of '24 stal-

wart Fred Wood on March 28, is repeatedhere with the information that he is survivedby a son Edward R. of Pacific Grove, CA anddaughter Meredith Wood Einaudi of Stanford,CA. Another advisory from the campus in-forms us that a bequest by Dr. Robert Lintz,Tryon, NC, has made possible the establish-ment of a book endowment in his name, tobe used by the library. Busy as he was, therewas hardly a '24 event that Bob didn't at-tend, including Reunions.

In case you missed the letter whichCarlyle Ashley of Manlius, NY, wrote tothe editor of the Alumni News concerningDavid Starr Jordan, Class of 1872, the firstpresident of Stanford, here is a quote fromit: "David Starr Jordan was an ichthyologistas well as a college president and a spell-binding speaker whom I heard more thanonce in Washington, DC. During my vaca-tion from Deep Springs College, my motherand I visited Stanford and Dr. Jordan. Thesubject of foreign languages came up, andDr. Jordan said that he could read over thevocabulary just once and always rememberit." Truly an ability to be envied, especiallyat our age.

Displaying talent of another sort, wehave a note from Wilton Jaffee which reads:"All I can tell you is that I'm the oldest skiidiot in Aspen. Indulging in athletics seemedlike something I'd enjoy, and I do." Paul

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Beaver of Longmeadow, MA makes thisobservation: "No news is good news." Yes,Paul, except when you're trying to write aclass column." Π Max Schmitt, RR 5, Box2498, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Elizabeth Doyle Miller makes light of herinfirmities of age. She writes, "On my 90thbirthday, my grandson James Henry Miller(who has a PhD from MIT) sent me a planeticket and an invitation to come to Califor-nia. I went. Alone! Alone is only noteworthybecause I am legally blind. Well, Jim and wifeLinda and their three little girls all met myplane with their arms full of red carnations.That was a real 'Barbara Bush' welcome. Jimis an oceanographer, teaches at the NavyGraduate School and does government re-search. A grandmother brag? Never!" Sheasks if anyone else is legally blind and offersto tell them how to cope. From Betty's ac-count, it appears that a good sense of hu-mor, plus a dash of courage helps. She alsosays she could tell a story about going backto school at age 73 and getting a degree fromthe U. of Connecticut. Bravo! Carry on,Betty. We need more of these encouragingpieces for our column. Classmates, pleasesend me your contributions personally.Π Gwendolen Miller Dodge, 230 ShirleyDr., Charlestown, RI 02813.

^\ fm Madalene Koby DeueΓs daugh-

111 ter Kate writ68 fr°m 103 Frey* / 1 Ave., Fort Collins, CO that in/ I 1989 Madalene suffered a stroke

I 1 I I which, though not severe, in-IH ^J duced her to move from UnionSprings, NY to Kate's home, where she nowlives. The Deuels had lived in Geneva, downthe street from the late H.T. "Jeff' Searlesand his family while the children were grow-ing up, and Madalene and Jeff served on theGeneva school board at the same time; it wasnot 'til 1990, however, that they learnedthrough their children that they had beenclassmates at Cornell.

One night in the winter of 1924-25,when Ithaca was resting quietly under an ab-normal blanket of snow, I received a call froma maiden at Prudence Risley who was, shesaid, in dire straits; she had acquired a coldwhich bordered on pneumonia and requiredprompt treatment with rye whiskey, andcould I get her some? At the time, apparent-ly, I thought it necessary to respond to anycry of a maiden in distress. I knew where tobuy what passed as gin in those days, butdidn't know where to get the more exoticsubstance. I consulted Brother John Levick'26 (then in the Class of '25), who volun-teered to take me to a vendor in or near theLehigh Valley House. We walked down thehill and across Ithaca (students still walked,even in winter), and I paid $5 (a major ex-penditure) for a pint of alleged rye, which Isurreptitiously delivered to the ailing maid-en at Risley. The medication worked remark-ably well, and she recovered rapidly. About40 years later I met a couple of women whoturned out to be Cornellians who had livedat Risley back then and, along with most ofthe dormitory, had heard about me—and therye—from the patient. According to them,she didn't have a cold but did have a heavydate, and had merrily told her neighbors howshe got me to produce her contribution to

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the party. She must have told a good story,since they still remembered it. A few yearsago I read that the once-merry maiden haddied, after an especially exemplary life; I hadlost track of her long ago. Why am I tellingyou all this? So that (a) you can try to con-vince your great-grandchildren that murderwill out, even after 40 years or so; and sothat (b) I can fill our allotted space, in theabsence of other news of our class (the maid-en was not a classmate, however).

The folks in Ithaca are arranging to sendtwo sample issues of the expanded AlumniNews to virtually all alumni on the rolls, re-gardless of their duespaying status, to letthem see the quality of the magazine, putthem in touch with Cornell, and encouragethem to become duespaying subscribers. Forour class the sample issues will be those forSeptember and October, for which the re-spective deadlines are July 1 and August 3.Please make an extra effort to get your re-cent news to me in time for me to get aninteresting column together for those dead-lines. Right now the cupboard is bare.D Walter Southworth, 744 Lawton St.,McLean, VA 22101.

^\ /\ Two classmates have gained spe-\Wm cial renown—one by wading, one

M 1 by schussing. They're Dr. Ed-/ I I win L. Harder, Pittsburgh, PA,

§ m\ m Norman A. Miller, Evanston,••i \^ IL. Ed, whose shipwreck sagawas detailed in last January's CAN, has driedout and repaired his 20-foot boat, the CozyCub, and "been poking into the rivers alongthe west coast of Florida, coming north inMarch for a family reunion." (Of note: West-inghouse presented him with its LifetimeAchievement Award in recognition of his 66US patents for electrical theory and designand service to the company.) Meanwhile,Norm, like Ed an enthusiastic sailor, has alsobeen headlined in his "Sheridan Shore YachtClub News" as an equally enthusiastic win-tertime skier, at Wilmot, WI, averaging atleast 30 runs down the man-made mountaineach trip there. "Not bad for an 86-year-old.Look out, Alberto Tomba." Like so many ofour class, "age cannot wither, nor customstale, their infinite variety" (with apologiesto both Shakespeare and Cleopatra).

Alfred M. Boyce, Riverside, CA,looked forward to celebrating his 91st birth-day this May. Al has acquired an impressivebackground over the years: Cornell, '26 BS,'27 MS; U. of California, Berkeley, PhD '31,LLD '69. He had chaired the entomologydepartment and served as dean of agricul-ture, California Agricultural Experiment Sta-tion, Riverside. Following retirement, hebecame a consultant to the Rockefeller Inst.for some years. Laura J. Burnett, Gal-veston, TX, is anxious to know any Ithacanews—she remembers vividly the views.Catherine Whitehill Fischer has movedfrom Los Altos to Cupertino, CA. EleanorHulings Gatling, Asheville, NC, feels she isfortunate to be as well as she is, despitemoderate emphysema, to enjoy life, and eventravel. May Eisemann Reed has moved toa health-related apartment in Anaheim, CA,to be near her family. She was sorry to havemissed everyone at Reunion. Dorothy DalyJohnson has settled in Augusta, ME. Sheenjoys visitors, "and has her phone, to keep

in touch." Ethel Cole Leffingwell, Canaan,CT, will celebrate her 94th birthday in Au-gust, with the help of children, grandchildren,and six great-grandchildren (anyhow). Dor-othy Burnett Townsend, Cazenovia, NY,has dropped her tutoring activities, exceptfor doing Latin with a mother of three "whowants to exercise her mind," so Dot exer-cises hers keeping up. Though her family isscattered from coast to coast, she has man-aged to see them all recently.

Them Were the Days Note: Varsity foot-ball our freshman season (1922): Cornell 339,opponents 27. The printed schedule was"Compliments of Dick Couch, Cornell Out-fitters." Π Stew Beecher, 106 CollingwoodDr., Rochester, NY 14621.

Ethyl Goldstein Al-per recently cele-brated her 50th yearof admission to theBar. "It was an excit-ing experience for

me because when I was admitted, there wereonly two or three women. Now, though, theBar is about all women. Times do change."Ethyl is well recovered from a fall in whichshe broke her hip. Although she no longerdrives, she keeps busy and active. Fallingseems to be a malady of our age, no matterhow careful we try to be. Jo Conlon Ern-stein was badly shaken up by one but wasrecovering when I talked to her in Febru-ary. And Irene Moffat Longwell, recover-ing from a broken hip, felt Reunion was toorisky. She's another pioneer. A recent news-paper article about how women are givensuch marvelous help, guidance, and encour-agement in engineering prompted me towrite to her of my renewed admiration; theonly woman in Civil Engineering in our timewith no aid, no help, no encouragement,fending for herself. To my delight she tele-phoned from Palo Alto, surprised that I re-membered. Dot Smith Porter turned 86with many congratulations, including onefrom the White House. She and Don are backfrom their winter stay in Florida, at their"beloved" farm in Baldwinsville, NY.

We mourn the loss of two loyal class-mates, Emily Fasoldt Grams and ZandaHobart Vollmer. To Lillian Fasoldt Schu-macher and Zanda's three children go ourlove and heartfelt sympathy. Reunion report,next month. Π Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

Two notes from Gene Tonkonogy mayhave arrived too late to serve their purpos-es: in the first, he expresses his fervent hopethat Juan "Joe" Martinez of Mexico Citywill be at our 65th Reunion so that Genewill once again be cheered by "that unfor-gettable broad, warm smile" of Joe's; in thesecond, Gene "challenges anyone (male orfemale) to a singles tennis match" during our65th. Gene seems to have the confidence ofa poker player holding four aces.

Reunion Fund Chairman Ray Fingadocontinues to add to his laurels. Last fall theStaten Island Rotary Club honored him forhis 50 years of dedicated services as a Ro-tarian and community leader; previously Rayhad been the recipient of Good Scout, Dis-tinguished Citizen, Wagner College, Distin-guished Community, and YMCA Meritori-

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ous Service awards; and today, Ray, a past-president of the Chamber of Commerce, isan active participant in the Service Corps ofRetired Executives which advises small busi-ness proprietors. Ray's brother Gustav '21and daughter Gail Fingado Brawner '69joined Ray in inspiring grandson Kami Bad-away to matriculate with the Class of '95.Nat Sherman's granddaughter PennyHamlet, JD '91 upholds his family tradi-tion as a fourth-generation Cornellian.

Fred Behlers, who with wife Gert ex-pects to attend our Reunion, leaped into thelead in the Great-Grandchildren Derby withnine, passing Sam Nathan with seven andMorty Gottlieb and Clark Wallace, tiedfor third place with six each. Fred's poten-tial baseball team emerged from seven grand-children parented by Fred and Gert's threechildren. Chess grandmaster Walt Muir andwife Dorothy (Saunders) '30 celebratedtheir 60th wedding anniversary. Herm Red-den writes that if anyone is interested in anorgan recital, he has had his gall bladder re-moved. Π C.L. Kades, PO Box 132, Heath,MA 01346.

Roger Jones has been fightingParkinson's disease and has sixgreat-grandchildren. GrangetKammerer has left Hempsteadand the Interstate, the Belt Park-way, Lincoln Tunnel, and Sunrise

Highway and now drives with a Colorado li-cense. His youngest grandson has enlistedin the Navy with the hope of an appointmentto the Naval Academy. Fred Kuehn had abotched cataract operation with a hole in theretina. Be my guest! I had the same prob-lem 15 years ago and will have the othereye done in May. Fred also had a "male op-eration" in 1990 which was OK. John Moor,Toledo, OH, sends no news, except that hereturned from Lake St. Clair with numer-ous ducks. Cyril Small attended the 60thReunion of wife Gertrude (Andrews) '31and hopes to attend his 65th. He recentlyreceived an award for 32 years' service as avolunteer to the National Health Service.His hobby is gardening. Ludolph Welan-etz enjoyed a tour of the Canadian Rockies,which were wonderful. Joseph "Nash" Wil-liams lost his wife after 58 happy years. Wecondole. Charles Clement is living in a re-tirement community. He is the victim ofAlzheimer's disease, but gets wonderful care.John White died in December. He lovedCornell and urged his children and grand-children to attend, which they did. Also re-cently deceased are Harold Brown, Mat-thew Hall, Herbert Levine, August Pod-boy, and Ted Thompson. Π Ted Adler, 2Garden Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

I hope some of you will be in Ithaca for Re-union, June 4-7.1 know president Katty Al-temeier Yohn, and Secretary-TreasurerRuth Lyon plan to come. Alyene FennerBrown and I hope to join them for some ofthe activities. Perhaps there will be others.Alyene and I sent a letter to classmates inMarch. We hope you paid attention to it andgot out your checkbook and spent your mon-ey on dues, our Memorial Garden, and theAlumni News. We get a special rate on theNews and now is the time to renew or sub-scribe. Checks for that go to Ruth who sends

them to the News.I sit here with my cockatiel chewing on

one end of my legal pad as I try to think ofitems you would like to read about. This lastday of March brings bright sun so the cro-cus open up their cheery colors and the tem-perature is in the 50s. Someone promisedto bring me pussy willows tomorrow! ByJune this will change and we hope there willbe good weather for Reunion and all the ac-tivities. Remember, next year will be our65th! Start planning now to come back andsee your friends and all the changes on cam-pus. Please send me news of your summerplans so your friends will know what you areplanning and doing. Π Rachel A. Merritt,1306 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

^% ^\ Margaret Noyes Goldsmithf i l l writes that Mansion House,f m M wnere sne lives, is part of the

f ^m original Oneίda CommunityI L f m founded in 1865 by her grandfa-l ™ ^J ther. Recently it was still an ad-junct to the Oneida Ltd. silverware compa-ny; but is now an independent entity. Mar-garet broke her hip in October 1991 but isimproving constantly, is now walking withor without a cane. Eula Croissant Noyes'29 also lives at Mansion House. News fromDorothy Heyl Jones (Mrs. Roger W. '28)is that a new great-grandchild is expected inOctober; perhaps another Cornellian—itseems to run in the family. Both grandfatherRoger H. Jones '57 and father Michael H.Jones '83 are alumni. Dot does not expectto see the babe for some time since the par-ents live in Chicago, too far for Dot and hub-by to drive since they have been staying closeto home, giving up most of their former ac-tivities.

Another Cornell family was started bySara Mazza Parker, continued by Gordon'53 and Mary Parker Dennis '57, who havedaughter Linda '92. Sara and husband movedsome months ago from Bradenton, FL to aretirement home at 202 Maple Knoll Cir.,Cincinnati, OH. She sends her best to class-mates. Kay Hannon Oldberg, from whomyou have heard recently, suspended hermany activities to spend time with husbandSidney '29, who had been in the hospitalfor eight or nine weeks. We all hope he'll begoing home soon.

Sad news from Agnes Gainey Williams:Helen C. Durham McGuire died March 9,'92 at Oak Hill Manor after a prolonged ill-ness. Widowed in 1936, Helen had returnedto Ithaca, joined the First PresbyterianChurch choir, directed by Eric Dudley, sing-ing a joyful alto with the likes of Allan '21and Pauline Bird Treman, Tommy Tracy'31, Wes Thomas, and Bill Corcoran '23.During the Depression years Helen workedfor FDR's WPA organizing sewing projectsand, in 1938, she married Erwin JohnMcGuire. They were both avid sailors withthe Canandaigua and Rochester yacht clubs,members of the Rochester Power Squadron,and traveled extensively as pilot and naviga-tor, as well as passengers, in retirement. Hervolunteer work with the Rochester Assn. forthe Blind, Cornell Clubs, and Alpha Phi, aswell as figure skating and ballroom dancing,kept her busy. She lost four of five brothers,but leaves George Durham of Rochester; herdaughter of first marriage, Virginia Hallett

Hardesty '49 of Ithaca; four grandchildren;and five great-grandchildren. Π GerryD'heedene Nathan, Bl Pine Run Commu-nity, Doylestown, PA 18901.

Gertrude Coyne Drake's roman-tic novel is named The Zombi,written over 30 years ago as awhim, and is now on sale at book-stores. I heard from BettyTowne Schaeffer that we share

a common ancestor, a Capt. Francis Cooke,who arrived on the Mayflower. It was newsto me. Any of the rest of you related toCooke? Betty was going to Hartford, CT toattend a granddaughter's wedding. She keepsbusy with her genealogical work, visitingvarious children and stepchildren. HelenLipschitz Click's husband Fred is doing wellafter heart surgery. The move from theirapartment in New York City to their homein Hillsdale, NJ was quite an ordeal, as theyfrantically gave away furniture and otherthings, moving the remainder to an alreadyfull house. There was no time to sort, dis-card, or organize.

Anne Makarainen Venable Rault wasmarried to Mr. Venable while living in Wash-ington, DC area, where she taught academi-cally-gifted fourth graders. They traveled inEurope and Scandinavia. He died in 1975.She later married Mr. Rault. After his death,she moved to 925E 26th St., Apt. A-104,Ashtabula, OH. She says, "Life is for the liv-ing!" Agreed. Jane (Barker) and GeorgePringle '33 have moved to Waterman Vil-lage in Mt. Dora, FL. It is a retirement com-munity with life-care facilities. They arethankful that both are in good health, but, atages 80-plus, it's good to know there will becare. Jane was saddened to learn of the deathof Alice Jean Paddock Hardy. I'm on a newcourse of chemotherapy, hoping for goodresults. G Eleanor Smith Tomlinson, 231SE 52nd Ave., Portland, OR 97215.

I eschew classmate obituaries, normally, inthis column. They are too saddening. Thisone is a command performance (from threesources, and more may be on the way) forMonroe C. Babcock, another class stalwart.I didn't know him in undergraduate days. (Hewas Ag, I was Arts.) And the Cornellian doesnot shower him with great campus fame. Butfame touched him later, aided no doubt byhis Cornell education. Most of us knew himby virtue of the many outstanding Reunionclass barbecues which he hosted at his famedBabcock Poultry Farm across Cayuga fromthe campus, which became Babcock Indus-tries, a publicly traded enterprise which hadbegun as a storefront chicken hatchery atW. State and Meadow streets in Ithaca in1930. He developed the Babcock strain ofwhite Leghorns, which in addition to beingthe popular feature at the barbecues, gainedthe all-time, world egg-laying record in 1945.The record has never been broken.

Under Monroe's guidance, the enter-prise expanded into international marketsand diversified into the swine breeding andbiologies fields, with 11 worldwide subsid-iaries, winning honors and awards and in-ternational renown for his innovative tech-niques. At age 78, he authored "How to Starta Business with Other People's Money." Apast president of the NY State Poultry Coun-

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cil, member of the Agriculture and Life Sci-ences alumni council, director of the IthacaChamber of Commerce and First NationalBank in Ithaca, he was inducted in 1980 intothe Poultry Industry Hall of Fame for a life-time of significant contributions. Monroe wasa regular at our Reunions, even after he soldthe poultry farm. He will be missed. I speakfor the class in extending our sympathy toDorothy and their son Bruce M. '57, andMonroe's other descendants Thanks toJoyce Porter Layton, Class PresidentCharlie Treman, and Matt Homan forsending me clippings. Π Benedict P. Cot-tone, Bay Plaza #802, 1255 N. GulfstreamAve., Sarasota, FL 34236; (813) 366-2989.

Λ J Let's hope the Class of '32, et al,I I Λ are greeted this month by thoseJ I halcyon days we all enjoyed just^ I one year ago. Jumping back a few

I I I decades to "our time," a sudden^J JL memory rises of June swims upFall Creek from the head of Beebe Lake tothe waterfall below Forest Home, then float-ing back in time to watch Ken Fairfax exe-cute a beautiful swan dive from the high bankabove the stone bridge.

From Bal Harbour, FL, Gladys Dor-man Raphael writes of welcome visits fromfar-flung relatives and friends. She adds, "Iswim every day and enjoy reading the latestmysteries. I am very particular about mymysteries; the authors must be English andpreferably women!" Her younger son, Alan,who teaches at a law school in Chicago, hasa three-week session in Rome, then goes toAustria to teach criminal law in a five-weekcourse sponsored by the U. of Texas. Lastyear Chief Justice Rehnquist of the SupremeCourt taught constitutional law there. Thisis one of the perks of university teaching.Gladys probably holds the class record forfamilial law. She and husband Ben, their twosons, and both daughters-in-law areattorneys. Π Helen Nuffort Saunders, 1Kensington Terr., Maplewood, NJ 07040.

Maurice Jackson, 2892 Komaia PL, Hono-lulu, HI 96822, obviously regards the "con-tiguous 48" as a "great place to visit, but..."He writes: "Drove 2,900 miles enjoyingthree Northeastern states during 1991 sum-mer, and attended Jackson-Bauer family re-union in Candor, NY. Hawaii is a great placeto live." After our 60th, L.H. "Doc" Ward-ner (51 Waterside Lane, W. Hartford, CT06107) sent me for "the Class Archives" thememorabilia that he had so kindly loaned fordisplay in the Class Room at the Statler.These were: leather-covered booklets forour Freshman Banquet and Senior Week,programs for the 1931 Baccalaureate and1931 Commencement, including the namesof the graduates. I made photocopies of each,and sent the originals to Gould Colman '51,PhD '62, university archivist, Olin Library.If any of you would like a photocopy, let meknow. The programs for the Freshman Ban-quet and Senior Week appear to be in themale chauvinist pig mode of the era—justfor men. Query: Do any of you women havecopies of similar programs for the women ofthe class that we could sent to the archivistto complete the collection for '31?

In the March issue of CAN, Helen Nuf-fort Saunders in her laudatory note on Dr.

Bertha Rader (390 1st Ave., Apt. 13G, NYC10010) struck a note that rings in my mindevery time I read about some classmate'saccomplishments in an obituary. Helenwrote, "What a force for good she is! Shedeserves our respect and admiration!" I amcertain there are many others of the classwho have helped make the world a betterplace to live, and who, out of modesty or leth-argy, have not let us know. If you knowsomeone who deserves recognition, sendHelen or me a tip. D Bill Vanneman, Box234, Old Greenwich, CT 06870-0234.

Lt. Col. Lewis M.Nutting (USMC,ret.) spent 22 yearsof his service in Ha-waii. His travels havetaken him and his

wife all over the world. Rene A. Vizcar-rondo had kind words for our class officers.He wrote: "Three cheers for Jerry(O'Rourk) and all who keep the Big RedFlame burning." Have been engaged in alively exchange of letters with Louis de A.Gimbrede. Monte lives in Lafayette, LA.(You understand that "LA" is the way thePostal Service wants us all to abbreviateLouisiana and it is not a reference to LosAngeles.) Anyhow, the Gimbredes comenorth to the Thousand Islands each summerand have stopped in Ithaca a time or two inthe past, but the Reunion, which will be go-ing on about the time you see this, will bethe first Monte has attended.

Jacques B. Crommelin retired earlylast year and, as is the case with other retir-ees, finds himself busier than ever. He is ingood health, continues to live in PalmSprings, and sends "warmest greetings toall classmates." Lt. Col. Courtland V.Guerin Jr. wrote last September that hewould be unable to attend Reunion becausehis wife is in poor health. The Guerins arestill active in their church, however, andCourt bowls and plays golf once a week.Their "newest" great-grandson visited themlast summer. Arthur L. Boschen and Shir-ley "are living quietly and contentedly in(their) retirement home—the Heritage Clubin Denver, CO."

There is a very active Cornell Club inthe Sarasota-Bradenton (Florida) area, saysMarvin W. Fenton, who enjoys retirementthere, with plenty of good swimming, fish-ing, and boating. The note from Sheldon W.Williams says he has little new to report.He continues to work mornings as a volun-teer agricultural economist with the U. ofIllinois International Soybean Program andon an ad hoc North Central regional dairycommittee. Π James Oppenheimer, 140Chapin Pky., Buffalo, NY 14209.

Virginia Haviland Vreeland had a greatsummer last year at Long Beach Island,where she has a second home. She celebrat-ed a "big" birthday with a cruise on theQueen Elizabeth II to Nova Scotia and envi-rons. Clare Smith Burdan is still workingas a social work consultant to nursing homes,but tries to keep it to no more than threedays a week. She is also on the boards ofseveral organizations, sings in the churchchoir, serves on the church council, teachesadult Sunday school, etc. I admire her ener-

gy, and perhaps envy it a little. CharlottePrince Ryan met two Cornell geologistswhen she was in Lhasa last October. They—Prof. Larry Brown, PhD '76 and K. Doug-las Nelson '75, senior research associatein geology—ordinarily found in Snee Hall,had been mapping tectonic plates in the Him-alayas with sonar. Charlotte went on to Kat-mandu and Bhutan before heading home.Charlotte adds that the battle over schoolfunding in Massachusetts goes on, but theirbill is still in the running and the outlook forthe court case is favorable.

Louise Wulff looks forward to readingthe CAN, especially the '32 column. (JimOppenheimer and I both thank you, Lou-ise.) She is a member of the Southern Tier(NY) Cornell Club, which is very active. Al-though age and youth sometimes conflictover goals, all are proud to be Cornellians,whether 86 or 36. Π Martha Travis Houck,PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

Another visit, their fourth, toPapua, New Guinea was enjoyedlast year by Dr. Shepard Aron-son and wife Muriel. They nowhave a fair collection of NewGuinea sculpture—from the

Sepik River and Trobriand Islands, mostly.Shep added, "I can make these trips to Asiabecause Γm one of the younger members ofthe class—only 78!" In February of this yearthey planned to visit Martinique followed bya Caribbean cruise on the Seabourn acrossthe Panama Canal to Acapulco, then home.It was to be Muriel's first trip through thecanal. The week in Martinique includedFrench food—their favorite cuisine. "Great1992 to all '33." It was a long, hot, and drysummer in southwest Florida last year andElizabeth Reynolds Wilson managed to fi-nally get away for Thanksgiving in Virginia,near Washington, DC. She still loves Flori-da and keeps busy with church activities,bridge, and Meals-on-Wheels.

Roger Babcock is still able to play alittle golf, swim a few laps, and enjoy dupli-cate bridge—while watching his eight grand-children mature. Dorothy Katzin Green-field and husband Leonard are both well anddo a bit of traveling—recently to the Ama-zon. They also enjoy their grandchildren asthey ferry them to after-school activities.Dorothy still keeps in touch with JennieKauffman Schwartz. She recently learnedfrom a neighbor, Helen Nuffort Saunders'31, that 60th Reunioners can stay at theStatler and added, "Can't wait—on to 1993."Dorothy Noonan Foote writes she is stillin good health and continues to live alone inthe convenient house she and her late hus-band, Alton G. '30, built in 1979. It is roomyand easily accommodates frequent visitorsfrom up North, the West, and Florida. Trav-eling is limited to annual visits with herdaughter in Phoenix and son in Anamosa,IA. She has four grandchildren and threegreat-grandchildren—but seldom sees them.Keeps busy with church work—treasurerand teacher of adult Sunday school. For re-laxation—counted-cross-stitch projects, cro-cheting, knitting, and reading. A lens implanta year ago makes such activity possible. Shewas looking forward to a second implant thispast January—"Then I should go twice asfast."

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Charles Schleifer and wife Florenceenjoyed a trip through England and Francethis past June and hope to travel more thisyear. Last winter they enjoyed a good vaca-tion in Florida at the Hollywood Golf andTennis Club. They see classmate Dr. Sam-uel Marsh at various bridge clubs inQueens, NY. After 50 years of practice infamily medicine, Dr. Marsh retired in 1984,now spends his time doing a lot of reading,bridge playing, and tennis. He and wifeSylvia find time for a great deal of traveling.Last year they spent two weeks in Tunisiawith a British bridge group and enjoyed itvery much. Π Garret V.S. Ryerson Jr.,1700 Lehigh Rd., Wantagh, NY 11793.

It was great to hear from Presi-dent Bob Kane that his recov-erY from the stroke he sufferedtest August is positive, althoughslow. Bob adds, "I am gratefulthat I can speak well and my ill-

ness has not affected my ability to articu-late." Bob's book Good Sports, about peopleinvolved in Cornell athletics, will be on salelater this year. Its dust jacket, at least, willbe displayed at Reunion. Bob sends a "hel-lo" to all his class friends. Since his retire-ment as a partner of KPMG Peat Marwickin 1976, John Overhiser of West Chester,PA has served as a director of Pinkerton'sInc., a technical consultant of the NY StateSociety of CPAs (for 12 years), and treasur-er of his local "village." Currently, he is aboard member of Collingdale Millworks anda trustee of the Pinkerton Foundation. Johnantl wife Cordelia have also found time toenjoy several alumni junkets to Alaska, west-ern Europe, and the Caribbean.

Frank De Beers has moved to theGeorgian retirement home in downtownEvariston, IL, which is in the center of ac-tivities and only a few blocks from the homeof Jim Kittleman. In April Frank was tocruise the Far East, including visits to Hoko-date (Japan), Dailan (Manchuria), Vladivos-tok (Russia), and several China ports. Hughand Florence Westfall, Sarasota, FL, enjoygood health and their travels each summer.They are already making plans to attend our60th Reunion in 1994.

On behalf of our class, I wish to conveyour deepest sympathy to Dick Hosley,whose wife Betty died last October.

To those classmates who have not beenregular subscribers to the Alumni News, wehope you have enjoyed reading these lasttwo issues; perhaps they have rekindledsome of the interest you had in our univer-sity. We warmly encourage you to "comeaboard" as a duespaying member of our class,which will insure that you will receive eachissue of this lively and colorful magazine, alsoto join your classmates as we all look for-ward to our 60th Reunion. Π Hilton Jayne,Carter Point, PO Box 29, Sedgwick, ME04676.

A big thank you for all your news, good andbad. The bad news includes reports of poorhealth and the reduction of class notes spaceto one column. I did hear from Doris Cam-den Filner for the first time. She deploresthe sorry legacy we leave our children; re-members the beautiful Cornell we knew 60years ago. She is well and busy. Mary Sea-

man Stiles cannot see to write news, but acheery printed Christmas letter tells thatboth she and husband Everett are active,busy in Cocoa Beach, FL and in Syracuse.They both suffer macular degeneration. Peg-gy Pedersen Alford wrote from the hospi-tal in October 1991 that she had a massiveblood clot in her right leg. This followed theremoval of a benign brain tumor in Decem-ber 1990, a heart attack, a first blood clot,pacemaker, and a second heart attack. Goodluck, Peggy.

I spent the day with Betty Bell Powellin February. Her new rented retirementhome apartment is convenient and beauti-ful. She sent a big load of things back to NYState, where her three daughters live. Iphoned Cleo Angell Hill, who told me shewas to have a knee replacement in March1992. June Anderson Robertson and sisterMay started toward Florida to visit Cleo.May, who is ten years older than June, gottoo tired and they went back to Lexington,KY, leaving Cleo and me disappointed.

Frances Goldstein Sadoff died April17, '91, in Hollywood, FL, without survivors.Π Lucy Belle Boldt Shull, 3229 S. Lock-wood Ridge Rd., Sarasota, FL 34239.

Traveling still holds magic formany of us. Russell and EdithMiHer Harris '37 went on aGrange tour to Nashville, saw ashow at the Grand Ole Opry, andstopped at Kentucky Horse Park

to see the museum and horse show.Katherine "Kay" (Doring) and Art New-kirk '36 spent a skiing weekend at theTrapp Family Lodge at Stowe, VT, an AdultUniversity (CAU) weekend at MohonkMountain House, where they saw DorisRathbun Lee and Chester '34, and theCAU trip to New Zealand led by PresidentRhodes—"beautiful weather at MilfordSound and Mt. Cook, where we landed on aglacier." Also on the trip was E. "Betty"Myers Martin. In the summer GeorgeHawley toured Eastern Germany, in the fallwent to the Carolinas, and later visited hisbrother Ed in La Jolla, CA.

Jean Farnsworth Pinson and Ernesthave traveled to 49 states, Canada, Green-land, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Mexico. Theyvisit children Judith, Joan, and Lex in Cali-fornia and Wright in Nashville, TN. RuthHarder Dugan (Mrs. William D.) goes of-ten to Ithaca to see son Dirk '72, an ortho-pedic surgeon who does sports medicine forCornell. Last June she joined brother EdHarder '26 for his Reunion and later wentto the Western parks with brother BillHarder '30. Anne Shulman Sonfield(Mrs. Edwin C.) visited Myra SteinbrinkFreund in Laguna Hills, CA, and then wenton to Berkeley to be with her daughter C.M."Lynn" Sonfield '69. Isabel Stewart Regespends summers with her eldest daughterin England. Weekends they go to Wales,Scotland, and the countryside to see castles,gardens, historic sites. "We stay at B&Bsand eat in the pubs—it's great fun."

Bob Anderson serves as a volunteerwith Common Cause in Washington, DC.Bill Mudge lives in Naples, FL, on the golfcourse where he plays four or five times aweek; other days he drives for Help onWheels—"healthy and happy with my bride

(Mel) of 56 years, who still has to give mestrokes." Frank Ptacek enjoys life at Nor-mandy Farm Estates, PA, a retirement com-munity, and often visits daughter Sherrie inHarwinton, CT. Robert Maust became agreat-grandfather for the first time in Au-gust—"I guess since I'm from a family ofslow starters, the gene has passed on to de-scendants."

Norma Nordstrom Junek and Ches are"both well and enjoying these senior years."Their grandchildren—four boys and threegirls—range in age from 3 months to 19years. The eldest, Caitland Fitzgerald, is asophomore at Vassar and rows on the team"up and down the Hudson." Millie EvansJeffery "made a good recovery after heartsurgery in 1990." She and Earle celebratedtheir 50th wedding anniversary in August.Congratulations!

Sadly we report that on Fri., March 13,Cornell lost a devoted son, Bo Ivar B.Adlerbert, who will be greatly missed. Apast-president of the class, Cornell Fundrep., University Council member, he was aleading force at Reunions, minis, class, anduniversity activities. He and Lori hosted attheir home annual Cornell vs. Dartmouthfootball weekends and, most recently, a125th Anniversary Celebration garden par-ty and reception for Cornellians in Vermontand New Hampshire. He endowed a chairin economics and was a generous donor tothe university. We extend deepest sympa-thy to Lori and the family. A rare compan-ion, he was an irreplaceable presence in ourranks. C Mary Didas, 80 N. Lake Dr., Or-chard Park, NY 14127.

f\ f\ C SterHng Tuthill, 16 Musket•If* Lane, Whiting, NJ, states that fol-^ 1 lowing several years of illness, his

^^ 1 wife Lois Kendall Tuthill, passedI 11 I away peacefully in her sleep in\/ \J 1990. They had been married 50years. She leaves Sterling, daughter Debo-rah Herlihy, and grandsons Thomas andPatrick Herlihy. Our sympathies go to you,Sterling, and we will look forward to seeingyou sometime soon at Cornell. Wilton E.Baty, 24 Penataquit PL, Huntington, NY, isnow retired and enjoying his motor homeand traveling around the States. Max M.Kleinbaum, 62 W. Pierrepont Ave., Ruth-erford, NJ, is now retired for the second time.Daughter Sharon was ordained a rabbi by theReconstructionist College in Pennsylvaniaand is now working in Washington, DC. SonAaron is an environmental engineer and re-ceived his law degree from Rutgers in June1990 and is currently with a law firm in New-ark where Max's oldest son also practiceslaw. Daughter Sarah is a child-care workerin Paramet, NJ. Max and his wife are nowplanning to spend more time with their sixgrandchildren, between visiting friends andother fun.

Addison B. Scoville Jr., 41 ConcordPark E., Nashville, TN, and Frederick"Don" Hart play golf almost every week asmembers of a foursome. Unfortunately, nei-ther of them is a threat to anyone on a golfcourse unless one of their balls should hap-pen to hit a spectator. Keep up the golf, andenjoy the game.

Charles Swan III, 463 W. Church St.,Elmira, NY, is still with the law firm and real

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estate practice. His wife of 46 years passedaway. Fortunately, one daughter, her hus-band, and two granddaughters reside acrossthe street. His other daughter and her fami-ly reside on Long Island and his son returnedafter 13 years in California and now helpswith the real estate business. Π Col. Ed-mund R. MacVittie (AUS, ret.), 10130 For-rester Dr., Sun City, AZ 85351.

President Dottie Greey Van Bortel wrotethat she attended the memorial service forLeon Schoen, husband of our treasurer,Margaret "Miggs" Edwards Schoen, onSeptember 1. On September 4, there was aburial with full military honors in ArlingtonCemetery. Our greatest sympathy to Miggs.Dottie says she keeps busier than ever, andin November had a delightful visit with ErnaKley Pettibone and husband Russell '33on Cape Cod. They, too, lead a busy life, ac-tive in community affairs. In April Dottie at-tended the Adult University (CAU) TheaterStudy Tour to London. They saw nine playsin ten days—a very worthwhile trip.

Do Hendee Jones had a wonderful fiveweeks in Australia and New Zealand in thefall—"a super trip," she said. She was get-ting "two new knees for Christmas," so shecan, hopefully, take a leisurely up-the-Mis-sissippi steamboat cruise next summer. Al-ice Bailey Eisenberg has three "children"and five grandchildren, doing well. Twograndsons graduated from college and thank-fully are working. Two granddaughters arein college; one grandson, in prep school. Al-ice is active in volunteer work.

Harriet Blatt Osterweis wrote thatshe and husband Steve are no longer NewYorkers, but divide their time between Flor-ida and Connecticut—October to May in Sa-rasota, and May to October in Old Saybrook.They travel quite a bit, to visit their chil-dren in San Francisco, Washington, and Ath-ens, Greece, and their grandchildren, usual-ly adding extra destinations near where eachlives. Π Allegra Law Ireland, 125 GrantAve. Ext., Queensbury, NY 12804-2640.

I write this columnwith mixed emo-tions, as it will be mylast. I have enjoyedthese last 15 yearsas women's class

correspondent for the Alumni News, espe-cially my contacts with Bob Rosevear,Mary Wood, Doris Brigden Medsger, andMargie Kincaid Look. I am not giving upbecause I want to, but because some nag-ging physical problems make it impossiblefor me to continue. My total knee replace-ment has not been as successful as that ofClara Jane Swan. CJ had surgery in thewinter of 1990, has no pain, walks without acane, can get to New York City alone, getson and off buses alone, and you will see herat Reunion. She has lived at Pennswood Vil-lage, Newtown, PA, where a number of Cor-nellians live, for the past 11 years. She be-longs to the Cornell Club-New York, says itis a wonderful, convenient place to stay andto entertain friends and highly recommendsit. She is chairman of their legislative com-mittee, which has been working directly withthe State Legislature on the living will bill.Edna Strobeck (Mrs. William) VanDyke

LouiseRreuzerMontgomery

O ur "Harum-Searum Kreuzer" in college days aced andsmashed her way to the women's singles tennis championshipin New Jersey and Maine and at Cornell. Now she's acing in adifferent way.

In 1985 she and her late husband, Claude, an artist, tooktheir savings and bought a three-story home they named FriendshipHouse, for homeless men in Portland, Maine. Volunteers andfriends helped them renovate, furnish and support "this miracle onBrackett Street," as the Maine Times called it. At Reunion thatyear, classmates helped out with donations of heavy clothing. In theyears since, more than 600 "guests" have found there the warmthand strength to start over again (and many return for Christmasreunions). The Montgomerys and their friends have done all thiswithout city, state or federal funds.

Last summer Louise Montgomery fulfilled her dream of found-ing a refuge for "homeless moms (abused and otherwise) and theirbabies." Donations from friends in Oklahoma, Maine, Mexico andSpain (where Claude had traveled to paint) helped buy Faith Housein Portland, which opened in December 1991. Articles in MaineTimes, the Portland Telegram, Down East, and Guideposts, as wellas Montgomery's talks before service clubs and churches, stimu-lated response. Montgomery is pictured here with a young friend inthe Faith House yard, where she hopes to build a playground forthe children.

Her efforts have been recognized by the American Institute ofPublic Service, the Maine Martin Luther King Award for Commu-nity Service, as well as by Governor McKernan in his State of theState Address. The City of Portland declared Louise MontgomeryCitizen of the Month in January 1992.

And now and then, she still finds the time to sneak in a littletennis.

—Mary Didas '35

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writes that her only daughter, Mary Van-Dyke Penney '64, has four sons, the oldestof whom attends U. of Maine. Ellen Car-nell Seaburg (Mrs. Roy E.) reports that theytook their grandson, 12, for his first visit toNY State, including Ithaca, Cooperstown,Thousand Islands, and Niagara Falls. RuthMikels Miller is retired. Her most recenttrips are a 12-day Caribbean cruise and twoweeks in Texas. Π Mary M. Weimer, 200E. Dewart St., Shamokin, PA 17872.

Alvin Moscowitz enjoyed reunions withtwo former roommates, Dr. Herb Sarett,MA '37 in Sarasota, FL, and Joseph Leon-ard and wife Flo (Singer) '38 in RanchoMirage, CA. The last time Al had seen Joewas a chance meeting in New Caledonia dur-ing World War II when they were serving inthe South Pacific. Joe was a doctor on a shipAΓs truck company was unloading. Remark-ably, classmate Myron Silverman wasthere, as well. Al found himself much in de-mand as defense counsel, thanks to Myron'sproving that a stain on a knife owned by AΓssoldier client was rust and not blood! Now,in more placid times, Al is "of counsel" tothe law firm which grew out of one that heonce headed.

Chairing the town planning board inhometown Montour Falls, NY, John T. Bar-ton still operates Seneca Engineering whenhe's not busy as men's class dues chairman.Wife Ramona is a very active and concernedenvironmentalist. Sons John '66, MS '68 andGeorge '68, MBA '70 are engineers; daugh-ters are Linda Barton Fosburg, MA '67and Deborah (U. of Rochester). Grandchil-dren round out the clan at ten.

Near-perfect weather blessed RobertG. Luburg during last summer's five-weekcruise in his boat The Renaissance up theNew England coast from Connecticut toMaine where, with only one day of fog, heenjoyed cruising around Penobscot Bay.Walter F. Crissey, another sailor, visitedthe Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes,including Newfoundland, but by automobile.Granddaughter Heather O'Hara '92 grad-uates this month; grandson Kelly O'Hara('95?) kept the Cornell presence when heenrolled in January. Dr. Morris SiegeΓsCornell connections include son Jonathan'66 and granddaughters Aliza Locker '87and Sari Locker '90. Morry and Gertrudefound the alumni tour to the then-SovietUnion tremendously exciting and provoca-tive. They have recently traveled to Israelwith Israel Tennis Centers International.Π Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd.,N., DeLand, FL 32720.

Though winter months are spentin St. Thomas, Sylvia GluckGrossman and her husband are"at home" on Long Island, whereSylvia is still active in the visitingnurse service and in housing for

the homeless. Jean Duncan Patterson hada wonderful Alaskan tour last summer, withspectacular displays of Northern Lights andbeautiful scenery. Eileen Mandl Goodwin's1991 calendar included a Mediterranean-Bal-tic cruise with ten days in Stockholm, lotsof tennis and swimming back home In Cali-fornia, two cataract surgeries, and a Mem-phis visit to see the Catherine the Great

exhibit! Mabel Levy Gerhart's three acresinclude not only gardens (with plenty of veg-etables for canning) and a pool, but woodedareas appealing to a variety of birds. Addmany visitors to all that, and you can imag-ine her schedule! This past autumn she anda friend planned to visit eastern Germany.

Recent Adult University (CAU) partici-pants include Vera Ford Biehl (Wall Streetand Health) and Elizabeth Jennings Perry(Rome). Jeanne White Church has a grand-son enrolled in Cornell's computer program.Eleanor Sichel May and husband celebrat-ed their 50th in New York City, whereEleanor serves on the Board of Temple Is-rael, but the Mays winter in Florida, withlots of sunshine and golf; Eleanor had a hole-in-one last season. Other 50th celebrantswere Grace (Ballard) and Ed Lotspeich,with a gathering that included 16 children,grandchildren, and spouses. Π Helen Rei-chert Chadwick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston,NY 14092.

A. Howard Thompson's helped son Ar-thur II '64 with surviving the disaster ofhis Hickory Machine Co.'s burning to theground, a half-million-dollar loss only part-ly covered, and with relocating to a newlocation at nearby Newark. G. Page Westwrites, "Still enjoying good health; playlots of golf and travel quite a bit." TheDave Misners "sold our home in Massa-chusetts, so we are now full-time Floridi-ans (1417 Causey Ct., Sanibel, Fla.), withlots of travel and golf."

Bill Arthur's "very much enjoying re-tirement" and why not, as he and his wife"love to travel," and had a Danube Rivertrip and saw Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest,Belgrade, Bucharest, and Istanbul. Also,they're traveling through genealogicalrecords and finding a link to a New Hamp-shire governor and his brother who signedthe Constitution. "So far, no horsethieves."Robert "Slick" AbelΓs into volunteerwork for free dining-room and home-de-livery service of food to the needy and el-derly (like us, folks) but can't find many1930s Cornellians in California's MarinCounty with whom to share hobbies of golfand such, although he claims another '38er(name deleted) comes through once in awhile from Ohio on his way to Nevada'sMustang Ranch (that's a joke, son; and itbetter be). Joe Antrim travels with nonebut the best: awhile back he was on theAdult University (CAU) trip to Indonesia;President Rhodes and two faculty mem-bers were along, so that made it "most in-teresting and educational, a real treat!"Hank Beuttell and Coley Asinof got to-gether for a mini-reunion with Ed Pfeiferwhen Ed had a New England trip. Hankhimself did some New England and NorthCarolina stops on a trip back to Florida'sVero Beach.

Carl and Ludmila "Mimi" KoshkinBeve '37 had four 1991 weeks in Swe-den and five days in Norway, then began1992 in Fort Pierce, FL. Warren Bohnerand Marion "did" the Four Corners—aretouring with two archaeologists and sawsites where Anasazi lived back to 500AD. Π Fred Hilligas, 7625 E. CamelbackRd., Maya Apts. #220-A, Scottsdale, AZ85251.

There is almost a "white-out"blizzard as I write these notes inMarch (f°r June) which makes mynext week's planned visit toCharlestown, SC look even moreinviting! From your pink sheets:

Elsie M. Hughes Wolff (Mrs. Philip G.'38): "We enjoy southern California for sixmonths and the Adirondacks the rest of theyear. We have four grandsons, 6 to 6 months.Last fall traveled the delightful Scandinaviancountries." From Peggy Schuman Green(Mrs. Egbert T. Jr. '40): "I spent threeweeks during the summer in Alaska travel-ing with daughter Margaret and son-in-lawThomas Koehler '62, visiting son Charles'71 in Fairbanks. Held a mini-reunion at ourcamp in the Adirondacks with Bill '42 andBetty Luxford Webster '39 and your cor-respondent, Sally Steinman Harms, in Sep-tember."

From Ibby Whiton DeWitt (Mrs.Harold F. '37): "Took one Elderhostel atDeerfield Academy, ME and another withHelen Gustafson Gravelding. HurricaneBob left us without power for 56 hours butour recently filled 32-year-old freezer heldout. Not so, parts of old maple trees."

Sad to report: Marion Sandman Pele-gan (Mrs. Claude) has died. Π Sally Stein-man Harms, 22 Brown's Grove, Scottsville,NY 14546.

Reunion time again, and ours is only twoyears away, but we can wait. There's a lotof livin' to do in the meantime. Henry"Hank" Keller hadn't seen Harold Mayersince college and now they're neighbors inNaples, FL. The Kellers have lived there forsome time, but the Mayers are new in the"neighborhood." Hank says they calledHarold "Max" at Cornell. John Kling of Am-sterdam, NY, spent the winter of 1990-91 atKill Devil Hills, NC. For you landlubbers,that's near Kitty Hawk and the Cape Hat-teras National Seashore. (I looked it up.) Ijust noticed that Dick Turrell of Oneontavisits Duck, NC, which is right near there.

Mrs. Denyse Ellis, wife of Dr. George,writes that her husband suffered a strokefour years ago and that's why they didn't at-tend our 50th. (They had attended in 1984.)George was a pediatrician in Brooklyn, NY,and they now live in Longwood, FL. Threeyears ago they were able to go to Brusselsto visit friends and relatives there and inFrance. They have a son who is a surgeonin Orlando, a daughter in Miami who is ananesthesiologist, and another daughter inSyracuse, married to a US Marine back fromthe Persian Gulf. Al Trainor of W. Leyden,NY, says "Moving along in the stream oftime, my journey continues in the pursuit ofa 'way of life,' determined with a definite goalin mind, by certain ancestors with well-founded hope based on truth and fact."Amen! Also heard from Don Modrall ofSanibel, FL, who says he and Elizabeth are"working at growing old gracefully on ourisland in the sun, where you don't flush forNumber 1."

R.S. "Bob" Taylor is retired dean ofthe School of Information Studies, SyracuseU. but still writes and advises students. TheTaylors greatly enjoyed an alumni trip toRussia in 1987. Bill Garrison keeps busywith youth work for the Bath, NY Lions Club,

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of which he is the last active charter mem-ber (50 years). Stolen tidbits: "Angels flybecause they take themselves so lightly."Yesterday, the high temperature in Buffalowas 39 degrees. Π Henry L. "Bud" Huber,152 Conant Dr., Buffalo, NY 14223.

40Have a nice note from BobBlazey. He and family spenttime in 1991 cruising from theirhome in St. Petersburg, FL. InMarch they were in NewZealand, Tasmania, and Austra-

lia areas. Later in the year they cruised fromSouthern California, Mexico, Central Amer-ica, through the Caribbean and, eventually,back home. The rest of the year they en-joyed golf, tennis, bicycling, swimming, and"just walking." They had a great visit withGeorgiana (Selzer) and Burt Inglis, alsoRose (Brodbeck) and Clarence Padgham.Bob tried my phone number in Marbleheadlast summer to no avail. May through LaborDay I am in Hartford, NY. My phone thereis (518) 632-5171. Rose Padgham tells ofgranddaughter Tara Minardi, honor gradu-ate of Binghamton High School, class presi-dent, prom queen, both junior and senioryears, scholarship winner to Union College,and exchange student to France. Proudgrandparents!

Another cruise of a different mode fromW. Jordan Severinghaus: "Younger son,John B., received a PhD in psychology fromU. of Washington; was there for his com-mencement. In May, older son, Cdr. Rich-ard J., arranged for his brother and me toride with him atop the 'sail' of Annapolis SSN760 as that nuclear attack submarine waslaunched down the ways, stern first, at Elec-tric Boat in Connecticut. Richard (USNA '73)commands the Annapolis. In September1991, with Dr. Pat Peavy instructing in theaft cockpit, I repeated each maneuver heperformed during the 1-1/4 hours in his PittsSpecial acrobatic biplane. I had earned mylicense in 1938 while at Cornell in the Civil-ian Pilot Training Program; had not beenactive at controls since 1944. We did everytrick in the book, except a full outside loop.Did a 1/4-pull 4 Gs positive and 3-1/2 Gsnegative. Can't remember having so muchfun in so short a time. Am back to a quietlife more normal to a 72-year-old boy." Italked with Jordan this morning to clear thestory and he admitted to having been almostovercome with his own genius, that perhapsPeavy's hand was on those controls! He add-ed that his general health was good; dietaryadvice sent him out shopping—came homewith a 100-pound bag of bran for $10. Helives in Shreveport, LA. Gordon G. Daleand his wife and son visited with Severing-haus last fall—they live in Laguna Niguel,CA.

Some of you will recall a story in thecolumn about the travels of Walter Ives,our wandering cyclist. He is still at it, on hisBelgium-based 250cc Honda scooter, cover-ing just under 5,000 miles in 60 days, in-cluding air travel from his home in Baltimoreto Amsterdam and back this past summer.His description: "Was in 12 countries, count-ing England, Wales, Northern Ireland, andScotland as four, starting in Belgium, throughthe British Isles, to Norway and back to Bel-gium. My nights were spent tenting at 14

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campsites, staying with friends at five loca-tions, four youth hostels, one night on theNorth Sea ferry vessel, and one night at aninn. New areas of exploration on this tripwere Cornwall, south Wales, southwest Ire-land, lovely County Tyrone, across lowerScotland, south of Glasgow to south of Edin-burgh, and the Sognifjorden and Geirangerf-jorden areas of Norway. I was wet, cold, andvery comfortable with delightfully lovelyscenery around me the entire trip. Everycountry has its own beauty. I travel the backroads and super highways on the scooter andhave a blast!" He signs his name Waldo,"The Back, Back Road Kid." Π Carol ClarkPetrie, 18 Calthrope Rd., Marblehead, MA01945.

IT J Many thanks to treasurer KayΛ A Barnes who forwarded notes in-/• I eluded with dues and ended my^Ij I panic! Kay's life in Ithaca is busy"T^ I and satisfying, especially because

JL JL of the rich cultural offerings ofCornell. In addition, Kay finds work with sev-eral refugees most rewarding and is amazedat how quickly they get on their feet and run-ning. For several years Kay has worked withthe transportation system for the elderly anddisabled, and is excited about its plannedmove to a new facility which will have city,county, and Cornell counterparts. State andfederal transportation agencies are interest-ed in this innovative program.

It was especially good to have a writtenupdate from Mary Jane Webb Acton, whoattended our 50th with husband Charles H.'40 and enjoyed it thoroughly. The Actonslive in Doylestown, PA, where they do a lotof gardening on two-plus acres, now that theyare retired. Since 1968 they have made nu-merous trips abroad—British Isles, WesternEurope, the former Soviet Union, Scandina-via, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Alas-ka, Canada, to name a "few." They have fourchildren, including son Charles H. Jr. '67,M EE '70, as well as seven grandchildren.Mary Jane has enjoyed volunteering at theMercer Museum, Fonthill Museum of BucksCounty Historical Society for 25 years andhas also served the Doylestown Hospital. Itoccurs to me that a column could be devot-ed to "retirement traveling." Many of youprobably have a "most memorable trip" (andwhy), ideas on essential gear, Elderhosteland other bargains, guided trips vs. "on yourown," beforehand preparation and study, tocruise or not to cruise, etc. Send me yourideas—or maybe you think a case should bemade for staying home!

An abbreviated 50th Reunion was re-ported by Dolores Dirlam Daudt from Mid-land, MI. Dolores and Helen Hubert Peter-son drove from Helen's home in Corning onSaturday for the Human Ecology breakfastand brief visits with Jean Way Schoonoverand Agnes Glueck Mansion. They wereback in Corning by noon when Dolores andhusband Bill bid farewell to Helen and Mil-ton and headed for Kitchener, Ont., Canadato pick up a British guest who was subse-quently delivered to the Detroit airport forhis return flight to London. Dolores says thisis not news suitable for this column—I dis-agree and think it illustrates how strong ourties are to Cornell and how much energy weare willing to spend to keep Cornell friend-

ships alive. Incidentally, Dolores thinks allof us look young—that's enough to give youa mention, Dolores. D Shirley RichardsSargent, 15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY12054.

Congratulations go to Secretary-ChairmanLou Boochever for his friendly, informative,and colorful first News & Dues letter usinghis newly designed letterhead for the greatClass of '41. Lou and Virginia have just re-turned from a trip to Australia. Fisher Freewrites to say tuition for our class was $400,not $440: $220 for the fall term and $180 forthe spring term. Also he wrote of memorieswhen we took basic ROTC. Lou Conti paysthe following tribute to Hal McCullough:"One of my closest friends at Cornell wasHal McCullough. A graduate of Boys High inBrooklyn, he was probably the finest, mostselfless athlete to put on a Cornell uniform.Besides football, he threw the javelin for thetrack team. He was such a natural athlete,with a fierce, competitive spirit, that I alwaysfelt he could have excelled in any sport heput his mind to. With an easygoing outwarddemeanor, he was a well known and likedperson on campus. Students in the Hotelschool, we used to hold finals study sessionsin my fraternity room. Hal and Kirk Her-shey would come over and join WilliamPaul "Pete" Mathers and me for the ses-sion. He and Florence James married inour senior year, and after graduation and aseason with the old Brooklyn Dodgers of theNFL, Hal went into the Army and served ina mortar platoon with the 70th Army in Eu-rope. After the war he returned to Cornellas the backfield coach of the football team. Ijoined him and Al Kelley on the staff in!949.Hal left coaching in the late '50s and joinedBill Hughes '44 in a concrete pipe manu-facturing plant in Ambler, PA, which he con-tinued with until he retired. Besides havingbeen inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hallof Fame, Hal was a member of the Boys HighAthletic Hall of Fame. Our close relationshipcovered 54 years until his death in 1991. Hewas one of a kind, a loss to his family, friends,and to Cornell."

Thomas C. Shreve, New Canaan, CT,writes: "It takes a good bit of optimism to be-lieve that after five more years we will haveanother Reunion, but having a brother (Rich-mond B. Shreve '31) who returned for his60th, we can hope." John R. Borst, Belan, NM,and Mickey (nee Lucille Heise '42) have aReunion coming up in June with Mickey's 50th.They look forward to seeing Betty McCabe'42, Theta Delt brothers Bob Harris '42, LynnTimmerman '42, Frank Eldridge '44, BillBright '42, and others. His 55th at Exetercomes up just before their return to Ithaca.Ralph Antell had good reasons for visiting NewOrleans during Mardi Gras week: 19 of hisfamily were there, celebrating four birthdaysand Ralph's 50 years of marriage to Anne Har-dy. D Ralph E. Antell, 9924 Maplestead Lane,Richmond, VA 23235.

This is a hard col-umn to write be-cause we are delight-ed so many areexpected to enjoyReunion, but, at the

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out. Reunion history began at the first re-corded meeting of the Yale Class of 1821 in1824. Everyone who attended received anMA degree. They had such a good time, theidea spread even to Oxford, England, wherethe MA is still a pro forma degree at the firstreunion. Those who can't attend, receive itin the mail. So much for Oxford MAs.Howard A. Newman (Katonah, NY) retiredas chairman and CEO of Western Pacific Inc.He serves on the University Council and hasestablished the Newman professorship inAmerican civilization in Arts and Scienceswith a gift from the Jerome A. and Estelle R.Newman Assistance Fund, founded by hisparents. He is also director and past presi-dent of the Jewish Guild for the Blind.

Among those attending the Solid Gold50th will be Charlie and Eleanore ReedToan (Winchester, VA) who winter in Na-ples, FL and our esteemed treasurer, LizSchlamm Eddy (New York City) who en-joyed the alumni Alaska trip. During her pub-lic relations career, Liz was named Adver-tising Woman of the Year. Now she enjoysduplicate bridge and is taking piano lessons.Ed Auringer and Carol Brach Hyman '44were also on the trip. Ed is a radiologist andCarol a pediatric oncologist hematologist. ArtFoster (Bellevue, WA) toured the US and isadding on to his home. He plays ice hockeytwo nights a week. He visited New Zealandthis year. David Mendelsohn (ChagrinFalls, OH) traveled to Nantucket and SanFrancisco. He and Carole enjoy tennis, ski-ing, and bicycling.

Dr. Reuben Garner (Medina, NY), pro-fessor emeritus, retired in 1983 as mentor,Empire State College. He enjoys being a do-cent at the Memorial Arts Gallery and is amember of the Coalition to Abolish the DeathPenalty. The year 1990 was a big one, for hemarried a fellow faculty member, an artistand art historian, and published The RealmofHumanitas. Still teaching in Empire State'sCenter for Distance Learning, he recentlyenjoyed an assignment to Israel, France, andEngland.

Martin Lane (Groton, CT) returned toCornell after four years of World War II ser-vice in the US Marines, then rejoined theMarines for the Korean War. He had an ar-chitectural firm in Poughkeepsie for 26 years,designing banks and commercial and educa-tional edifices in the mid-Hudson Valley. AtReunion, I hope to talk to his wife CarolynLane, who writes children's books and playsand is the recipient of numerous prizes. Da-vid Milhan (Covington, LA) enjoyed an in-teresting career as general manager of Pre-stressed Concrete Products. He was chiefengineer of Lake Pontchartrain Causewayand many other bridges in the South. Nowhe is busy as assistant state coordinator forAARP's 55/Alive driving program and istreasurer of Covington Community ConcertAssn. He and Elizabeth (Mendenhall) wentto his 50th high school reunion. They enjoygolf and tennis, duplicate bridge, and squareand round dancing. The new News & Duesform has elicited exciting and interestingnews so we have much to catch up on. Givea gift subscription; we need just 75 more toincrease our column space. Please say "Hel-lo" in Ithaca. Π Carolyn Evans Finneran,2933 76th SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA98040.

Larry Lowenstein sent me apage from the publication of ahospital with the initials WCMCwhich might be WestchesterCounty Medical Center, but youcouldn't prove it by me. It pic-

tured George E. Reed, MD, WCMC chiefof cardiothoracic surgery (where the hellwould your heart be but in your thorax?) wholast fall headed up an eight-member teamthat went to Dhaka, Bangladesh to initiateand support an open heart coronary bypassprogram at the Inst. of Cardiovascular Dis-eases at Shaheed Suhrwardy Hospital. Wal-ly Seeley reports that after 39 years he hasreturned to central NY State and has happi-ly resettled at 12 Green St., Cazenovia, andlooks forward "to more frequent associationwith our Alma Mater."(Harris's translation:fostering mother.)

If you were looking for Rex Malmberg,he moved from Brasstown, NC back to Edge-water, FL. Also from Florida, Dr. Theo-dore Zimmerman writes: "Elaine (IthacaCollege grad) and I are in good health. Ambusy writing my autobiograhy: Ά Zoo Vet-erinarian's Tale.' Enjoying sixth year of re-tirement. We see alumni Renee Wolf Stein-berg '44 (sister-in-law), Phil Rosen,Charles Lowenfeld '40, Alfred "Buddy"Robins '41, Arny Allison '39, etc. Look-ing forward to our 50th."

Another retired veterinarian—ten yearsnow—Dr. Donald McKown, winters in, ofall places, Winter Haven, FL. He retired fromthe Sidney (NY) Town Board two years ago,after 30 years' service, 25 as town supervi-sor, and the last five years as councilman.His summer mailing address is Unadilla, NY.My map is such that I don't know whether Icould push a peanut with my nose—even mynose—from Unadilla to Sidney.

I have an old note from our British cor-respondent, Dick Simmonds, who wrotethat his garden produced strawberries, rasp-berries, loganberries, figs, tomatoes, lettuce(What no lovage!), cucumbers, peas, beans,beets, carrots, fresh basil, dill, chard, spin-ach, zucchini (Zucchini? Lovage would havebeen better.) and a host of flowers. "Fortu-nately our Italian gardener is coming back,so wife Mickey and I are off to Amalfi for amonth of water skiing." Their address, youmay remember, is Braeside SheethangerLane, Felden Kernel, Hempstead, England.

Which should be a lesson to RobertLarson, who lives in Edison, NJ, at 64 Gig-gleswick Way, and who has with wife Mar-go formed a new corporation—Laramco—to initiate trade and joint ventures primarilyin agriculture and food processing. The Lar-sons are members of the Polish-AmericanEconomic Council and in order to visit Po-land several times each year depart Giggles-wick. Π S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164,Spinnerstown, PA 18968.

44Now is the time for all good peo-ple who have two houses to headfor the other. Forris B. Chick,after wintering on Sarasota Bay,where he is public relations offi-cer for the Venice Power Squad-

ron and Lynne is a realtor, spends summerson the St. Lawrence River among the Thou-sand Islands. En route the Chicks alwaysstop in Ithaca to drive past their old cottage

on Cayuga. From Stuart, FL, CharlotteBurton Sparling, a retired teacher of nurs-ing at a community college in Fort Pierce,and Richard trek to their "camp overlookinga babbling trout stream outside Osceola, NY"each summer.

Lena Hunt Burdin and Art '38 ofLakeland, FL spend six months on SenecaLake every year. In 1991 they visited daugh-ter Carol Burdin Bergin, MS '70 in Ire-land and Judy Burdin Asuni '69 in Lagos,Nigeria, where she has lived since gradua-tion. Judy is in charge of American studentstaking a semester abroad under the auspi-ces of the Experiment in International Liv-ing, and Lena and Art got to see some of thecountry with the 14 students, barely escap-ing religious riots in the north. This was theirthird trip to Nigeria. They were not tempt-ed to stay longer.

Sedona, AZ to Nantucket is Bill Wheel-er's path. In Sedona he polishes his golf gameand in Nantucket he's busy sailing. DaveYoung says he retired a couple of years agoand built a winter home on Skidaway Islandoff the Savannah coast. Ted Smith and hiswife live there, too. But Dave and Nancyspend six months in Pittsburgh racing theirpacers and trotters. And, they own 10,000Holsteins on farms in Georgia, Florida, andMaryland, with plans to expand by buildingmodern dairies in Mexico, Puerto Rico, andCosta Rica. Wonder what he did before heretired?

Geneal Summers Pavlock writes fromMilwaukee: "Retirement is great—twohomes, a few travels around our beautifulUS, and varied other interests keep us busy."This is the year of the first wedding amongtheir three children and their 50th anniver-sary.

Bob Greenburg and Edwina had a greattime visiting Peter Tolins, MD (retired) andGloria in Syosset, LI. They hadn't seen eachother in 40 years. Bob plays tennis with EdCarman in Bethesda, MD. VeterinarianCharles Robinson of Madison, NJ andYolanda, healthy and happy in retirement, tellof quarterly mini-reunions with Joseph andJeanne Neubecker Logue, Irving Reedand Edmond Lawrence and their wives.

A round robin letter started soon aftergraduation, writes Mary-Helen Peel Bor-den, got lost along the way but was resur-rected after Reunion in 1989. These are thecorrespondents—Kay Snell Sigety of Pi-persville, PA, Barbara Van Slyke Ander-son of Cochiti Lake, NM, Barbara ChapinWeeks of Ballston Spa, NY, Ruth GillettMurray of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, andRosemary Pew Correll of Richmond, VA.Mary-Helen and Lawrence live near enoughto exchange visits bi-monthly with WinifredWright Edwards and Irving.

Maryellen Severinghouse Bowersand Wayne, PhD '43 have many ties toCornell. They visited son John, who chairsthe modern languages department, andgrandson Isaac '92. She mentions otherCornellian relatives—brothers Jordan '40and C.W. Severinghaus '38—who visitback and forth.

The Alumni News is sending this onelast issue to all classmates. If you haven'tbeen a duespayer, come join us. Π NancyTorlinski Rundell, 1800 Old Meadow Rd.,#305, McLean, VA 22102.

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W ^ This column is a bit longer thanΛ I ^ usual, and includes March news/• l k which was swallowed by a com-/ |j puter gremlin, which Ithaca""W I I seems to breed these days. The

A ^ Gold Rush for 1995 is on as ourhard-working Reunion committee, headed byStan Johnson and Eleanor Dickie Rich-ardson, is mining great ideas. See our ad inthis issue; if you have knowledge of missingpersons, send it so we can mail them theReunion Rouser. As you know from readingit, one of the projects being considered is agift to Cornell Plantations for a permanentinstallation. You may have seen in the Sep-tember CAN a photo of the "Garden in aGlen" which '46 underwrote as a 40th Re-union project. Transforming what we calledWee Stinky into an "idyllic rock garden" maybe all right for '46, but I would choose tak-ing on the Plantations poisonous plants col-lection and insuring that a bagful of driedherbs from it were sent annually to the U ofPennsylvania to add to their turkey stuffing.Of course what was the Turkey Day Classichas been reduced to just another footballgame, so I'm obsolete. Maralyn WinsorFleming, our Ithaca Point Person (whodreamed that one up?) for the project, hasother ideas.

Incidentally, if you haven't visited thePlantations, by all means do so on your nextIthaca visit. Rym Berry '04, in his CANcolumn, "Now, In My Time," referred occa-

sionally to the informal meetings Prof. Bris-tow Adams hosted at his little house by theswing bridge. They were great fun and Ad-ams's interest in the Plantations was reflect-ed in his editorship of the Cornell Plantationsmagazine for many years. It has changedfrom B.A.'s day, but is still delightful, and amodest contribution earmarked for Planta-tions on your Cornell Fund form will bring itto you.

Probably Ruth Bussell McLay (Holm-del, NJ) will favor our project, given her in-terest in Mother Nature. Spoofie and Bobhave been on the move attending Elderhos-tels, such as a Kentucky one last spring, fol-lowed by a trip to Broken Arrow, OK to vis-it their daughter. She says the trip requiredlots of driving but the flowering trees andwildflowers made it worthwhile. They alsoattended one in Ocean City, MD, after visit-ing Sally Reed Reidinger in Newark, DE.Last year's Elderhostel was in Mt. Trem-blant, PQ, Canada, where they brushed upon their French before the planned (as re-ported by Dickie last year) barge trip inFrance through vineyard country.

Our Reunion communicator and prede-cessor at "manufacturing news" for this col-umn, Mary Jane Dilts Achey, kindly wrotea note of encouragement and reported thearrival of her fourth grandchild, named forher great-grandmother Edith Rulifson Dilts'18. If you have any Reunion ideas, sendthem to 15 E. Franklin Ave., Pennington, NJ

08534. M. Elizabeth Rumpf Penney (Pitts-boro, NC) upstaged M.J. with a fifth grand-child. Libby lives in Fearrington Village, nearChapel Hill, and loves it. She will be at ourGolden 50th!

We express our sympathy to JeanneLawless Cornell, having received news ofthe passing of two of our Massachusetts stal-warts, Jeanne's husband, Dr. George Cor-nell (of Wellfleet) and his fellow EE JohnA. Bernier (of Lexington). John was vicepresident (engineering) of Thermo-Jarrell-Ash and a world leader in computer readoutsystems for metallic spectrochemicalanalysis. D Prentice Cashing Jr., 317 War-wick Ave., Douglaston NY 11363-1040.

Λ "We are finally grandparents,"' I wrote Gordon '44 and Priscilla^ Alden Clement. Gordon Patrick

I Clement was born Oct. 31, '91.I Ruth Wood Green (Roscoe, NY)

^J enjoyed her first Reunion. Ruthand husband Ken spend the three wintermonths in Titusville, FL. I heard from Flo-rence Bronsky Kaganowich about the deathof her husband in 1979. She has been mar-ried to Manuel Hochran since 1983. Theyenjoy traveling and spend the winter in PalmDesert, CA. Arlene Newton Hilton (Cum-berland, RI) is "a library technical assistantat Brown U." Gloria Clyne (Brooklyn) is"a counselor/professor at Borough of Man-hattan Community College of the City of

OWe need your help in locating missing members of the Cornell Class of 1945, as we prepare forour 50th Reunion. None is considered armed, and only a few are considered dangerous. If youknow the whereabouts of any of the fugitives listed below, please contact Cornell University,Alumni Systems and Gift Services, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, or call 607/254-7136, Fax607/254-7166. We'll make sure they get the justice they deserve—a personal invitation to ourGolden Reunion festivities.

! An unforgettable weekend of fun, friendship andfrivolity for all members of the Class of '45 we can apprehend. Help us bring 'em all in for 1995!

Adele Kaplan AdlersteinMaj. Gen. John G.AlbertJean Frank AllenRoland P. AllenJamshid AmouzegarRobert A. Anderson, Jr.Joseph K. ApatGeorge W. ArmbrusίerRobert J.AronsonHarold N. Arrowsmith, Jr.Mary-Louise DonderoAtwellGeorge H. BaileyJohn M. BaileyDavid A. BarkerRobert P. BarnesRobert W. Bauer

George C. BeckerCharles R. BennettG. Robert BensonJohn M.Beres.Jr.Robert T. BergrunRichard R. BoothMartha Snow BottomleyWillis C. BradleyKenneth E. BraendleLorraine Stoler BrennerFrank W. BreslinBarbara Srenco BrierShirley Panesh BrodskyCharles A. Brooks, Jr.John R. Brophy, Jr.Carl F. Brown

Chester J. BrownDouglas S. BrownMargaret Page BuckinghamOscar C. Carr, Jr.Thomas A. CartmillSally WillcoxCartwrightPaul CarusKatherine Jones CaudillKenneth A. ChantlerWilliam D. ChapinJulian D. ColeHarry B.ConollyGuillermoA. CookMary Frost CooleyJohn R. CornellDomenicoV. Costarella

Alice Bull CountrymanMills B.CrandellMarie Kornacker CrossanHoward H. DaltonDale M. DasslerRoy L. Davenport, Jr.Ltc. Leon L. De CorrevontWalter M. DecewRobert D. DeweyEileen Grady DielCol. Raymond 0. DietscheJoseph C. DobieLois Gannett DoolittleJames W. DoppJohn H. Doughty IIIWilliam T.Duboc

Jack DymmDavid N. EaglesonCharles R. EbleBarbara Straus EderMargaret Leffingwell EdwardsNancy Blanche EllisThomas H. FarnhamRalph P. FedermanGeorge B. FickTed V. FisherJack G.FlintCarl B. FogleRobert! Follestad

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A TEACHERS' TEACHER

F or twenty-five years," Elaine Baker Temkin writes, "my ca-reer has been a fortuitous combination of excitement, fun andfulfillment. I love what I do, whether it is teaching a class,working with future teachers, or developing curriculum. Iseem to have a passion for it."

In May 1991, Brown University President Vartan Gregorianagreed when he awarded Temkin the Doctor of Humane Lettersdegree. (Temkin is pictured that day, below.) Fellow honorary de-gree recipients included Zubin Mehta and Eduard Shevardnadze.

In a statement read at the awards ceremony, Gregorian said,"You have devoted yourself tothe students of Providence andthe profession of teaching .Your belief in the ability of allchildren to learn, your commit-ment, enthusiasm and compe-tence have inspired generationsof students whom you haveprodded and supported to reachbeyond themselves. You havesimilarly challenged and nour-ished scores of Brown studentteachers who have learned theircraft—and their love of it-—-atyour side . . . You are, in HenryAdams's words, a teacher 'whoeffects eternity; (who) cannever tell where (her) influencestops.' To all who seek to re-new our schools you exemplifyAmerican education at its best/'

Temkin retired in 1990 aftertwenty-four years as a historyteacher at Classical High Schoolin Providence. She has served on numerous educational boards andcommittees and continues as a consultant to Brown University'seducation department. In 1987 she was given a DistinguishedTeacher award by President Reagan.

Now, her husband, David, is "'semi-retired," and although ElaineTemkin says her educational consulting business "helps keep meout of mischief/' the Temkins are able to "travel more, and life isnot quite as hectic as it used to be."

Meanwhile, the thousands of students and teachers whose livesTemkin touched are moving about in the world, "effecting eter-nity."

Elaine Baker Temkin

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New York." Iris Smith Morris is a physi-cian in Great Neck.

Received a note from Caroline Stein-holz Goldsmith about the European trips shetook with husband John "to celebrate 65years of life, 20 years of marriage, 25 yearsof my job at Rider Finn, and 10 years of ArtTable. Their son David and wife also live inNYC. Last September, Meg Ceiling Mur-dock (Lewisburg, PA) took a 3,500-mile bus

tour through the national parks with SagaTours. "The number of Cornellians in ourarea is growing—starting a Cornell club—anyone in central PA is welcome." AdultUniversity (CAU) attendees in 1991 also in-cluded Kathryn Keyes—at Monterey;Richard '41 and Betty Rosenthal New-man, and Mort and Barbara Cohen Weis-enfeld—at Mohonk.

The class columns I mail in at the be-

ginning of September and October will ap-pear in the November and December issuesof the Alumni News that will be received byvirtually all '46ers, so if we haven't heardfrom you in years, why not send me a spe-cial note and I will try to include as many aspossible. G Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503Morris PL, Reading, PA 19607.

I am writing this the first week in April andspring has arrived in the Rockies. What awonderful time of the year—70 degrees oneday and six inches of snow the next. Icouldn't resist writing about Paul Levinefrom San Carlos, CA. I still belong to theRotary Club there and his note brings backhappy memories. Paul is retired and enjoyshis grandkids who (the lucky devil) live only35 minutes away in San Francisco. Hespends much of his time helping his wife or-ganize summer activities for kids from 7-20which include camps, college campus exper-iences, and trips. John Bagby of Anaheim,CA wrote to Alumni House with recentnews. John had a very varied and interest-ing career as a mechanical engineer. Heshared in 17 patents in mechanical engineer-ing, bio-engineering and optical engineering.He authored scientific papers in astronomy,geophysics, computer programming, andseismology. He lives in the right area forhis last avocation.

James Johnstone Jr., Wynnewood,PA, writes concise and to the point. He tran-sited the country several times looking fornew accounting software and as a culturedCornellian discovered California has greatdining, but he still likes the East best. Hespent the usual ten days in Bermuda in Oc-tober and fortunately missed the hurricanes.Charles Jamison's letter is worth quotingverbatim: "During a visit in early Octoberto the Family History Library in Salt LakeCity, we took time out to drive the length ofthe Alpine Loop into the mountains. The loopis 25 miles of switchbacks through spectac-ular mountain scenery, which at that timewas enhanced by the golden glory of aspenfoliage in the fall. A demanding drive but wellworth it." Have a pleasant and safe summer.P&H. Π Bill Papsco, 3545 Clubheights Dr.Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

This, faithful reader,is known as the Re-union issue. Howev-er, we must not con-fuse it with nextmonth's Reunion is-

sue which will highlight all that nostalgia,those feats of derring-do and promises ofeternal fealty that will surely flow from ourJune extravaganza. I can't wait! Okay, on tothe news. Sawyer "Tommy" Thompson,who still operates Thompson Associates inJuno Beach, FL was honored by his gover-nor's appointment to the Loxahatchee Riv-er Environmental Control Board. Tommy'sbusiness activities have also moved intowaste water treatment reuse and sludgemanagement. He thanks the Cornell Engi-neering Quarterly for two issues that wereof great interest and assistance in his en-deavors. When not "up the river," Tommyconducts "negotiations seminars" for busi-ness clients. Elizabeth A. "Betty" Brownchecks in from Ithaca as a retiree, world trav-

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eler, and volunteer involved in many inter-esting activities, including those with Cor-nell Plantations. Jane (Yetter), spouse ofFred Studer '48, is still making it happen.Jane is executive director of the Trehab Cen-ter in Montrose, PA. The only problem, Jane,is that after giving it considerable thought,your correspondent is still puzzled aboutwhat goes on in a "Trehab Center."

Please forgive one more mention hereof the irrepressible W. Barlow Ware, whostill hangs out in Ithaca after 35 years of "de-velopment work" at Cornell. Barlow is nowhelping to develop "Planned Giving Pro-grams" for the Boy Scouts of America andthe Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.Barlow, always an active Rotarian, and past-president, still lends a helpful hand whenneeded. Oh yes, Barlow has a few storiesthat he could tell if his lips weren't almostsealed. You figure that out.

Edward J. Gouvier, now retired (read,no regular paycheck), has six grandchildrenwho take him from home in Toledo to Ba-ton Rouge or to Phoenix at regular inter-vals. Between travels he lends his talents tomany Cornell-related activities. See you atthe tent, Ed. Norton I. Reiss is still involvedin the family real estate management busi-ness in W. Orange, NJ, but the firm's ad-dress on "Fairway Drive" may provide a cluethat all is not plumbing and elevator mainte-nance. Ethel Schiff Ershler remains in-volved with her important work as family

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counselor for the Jewish Family & Children'sService of Philadelphia. Dr. Marjorie HelgansHughes continues her work as a physicianfor the Virginia Dept. of Human Serviceswhile living in Arlington. John La Tour isstill "charged up" as an electrical engineerwith Economy Electric in sunny DaytonaBeach.

Have a great summer, everyone! Fromyour correspondent, it's hail and farewelltime as we put away the "pink sheets" and"flat list" and again look forward to reading,rather than attempting to write, these fewhundred words each month. Thank you oneand all—it has been fun! LI Stu LaDow,4211 Latour Ct., Allison Park, PA 15101;(412) 487-3613.

If you haven't received your"Pre-Reunion Suggestions Ques-tionnaire," you will soon. Pleasefill it out if you haven't alreadydone so, and let the Reunioncommittee have the benefit of

your wishes and suggestions. John R. Sha-fer, Napa, CA: "After 22 years in education-al publishing I switched, moved the familyfrom Chicago to Napa Valley, and becamewhat the locals call a city farmer. After sev-en years we started making our own wine(1978) and now have a family wine estatewith very small production, with sales to 30states and eight foreign countries. Havinglots of fun. I run across many alumni of the

Hotel school who are beverage managers andhotel general managers, etc." Claude "Bud"Stone, Morton, IL: "Appointed last Marchto the county board to fill a vacancy untilNovember elections. Now on four commit-tees—health services, budget and finance,property and low cost housing, plus the ex-ecutive committee. This required carrying apocket calendar all over again. This is on topof duties on the Morton Planning and Zon-ing Commission and chairing the Tri-Coun-ty Regional Planning Commission's land useadvisory committee. What's this retirementbusiness people talk about? Have grandchil-dren in Tucson and Torrance, CA, who wedon't see often enough. We took some near-by granddaughters to visit them last Easter.Looking forward to the 45th and 50th Re-unions."

Joan Shelton Beveridge, Fleet PostOffice, San Francisco: "We just won the cou-ples' prize at the Halloween costume partyat the officer's club. Last Veteran's Day wewere guests of the Subic Naval Base Offi-cers' Club in recognition of Bob's 32 yearsin the Army and Air Force. Last week wastraveling on a C-130 to get to the Philippinesfrom Okinawa to open school in Subic BayNaval Base, now restored to almost fullyoperational use. Solution: Hand out morebirth control pills instead of money for for-eign aid and the third world countries couldsupport themselves." Lea ShampanierGould, Pacific Palisades, CA: "Hal, MA

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Harold N. Fonda, Jr.Elizabeth Acheson FranciscoWilliam A. FranklinTheodorJ.FrascoLois M. FreemanWilliam E. Frenaye IIIAmy MacDonald FrickKarl W. FriesePaul E. FrishkornFrank J. Gagen, Jr.Marion Ross GallEleanor Molesworth GermanWilliam G.GibbsAlexander R. GillisDavid S. GillmorMilton GinsburgGuidoH.GioiaHerbert W. Given, Jr.Betty BurlingameGoddardJ. Lawrence Goepfert, Jr.Robert L. GrahamFrances Ingram GreeneFrank GreenwoodRobert F. GroverMary Palmer GrussWilliam H. GurneyWilliam A. HaasDoris Hatfield HaddadIra Hand, Jr.

Frank Hanshaw, Jr.M \ Λ / II U A'iviary vvaικer narαigreeAnnabelle L. HartranΐtThomas J. HaydenΩpnrπp 1 HPlΊ^ΓlΓlUCUIyC 1_. 1 ICIIαllU

George H. HerlitzFrederick A. Hill IIIPeter HodshonRichard M. Holsten, Jr.Alfred M. Hotaling, Jr.Dixon B. HoyleRobert F. HufnerMargaret McDermottHutchisonLewis D. HutchisonJuneLavalleyJamiesonGeorge JarvisLambert D, Johnson, Jr.Margaret Husson KaiserRobert G.KeirFaeScheinisKelleyHarvey G. Kittredge, Jr.Ruth Bernstein KrasnoίίMarvin K. LaneAndrew J.LazarusElizabeth J.Le BlondLt. Jg. Robert Y. LeeFrancis J. LemboRichard LittauerJames P. LivingoodJuanG.LIadoJohnS. LobellAdeline Dallas LoosCreighton A. Lundy

Robert D. MaddenPaiil F MίinHphi IΓΠPΓΓdui L. iviαyucuuiyci

John K. MasonJoseph N. MayerCharles H. McArthur, Jr.Shirley Smith MerritieldHarvey W. MertzMervyn C. Meservey, Jr.Harold B. MeyersNeil B. MillsJohnB. Mollnow.Jr.Kenneth N. MoreseAlice Winslow MorseDwight M. MurrayWilliam P. MorrisStanley NossWilliam N. OgdenBarbara Mosser OhrvineGeorgiana Doubrava PacentJames A. PaddockRuth Wills PadgettCharles W. PageHarry PannorCatherine Blodgett PartykaJoseph F. PellegrinoLt. Col. Wilson Percival IIIEvelyn Binder PerlmanRichard W. PerlmanMichael Phillips, Jr.Ray F. Pollard, Jr.Richard B. PresbreyLeo A. PriceRaymond L. QuickAlbin A. Rakowski

Robert E. RathMelville RinglerDewey W. RobertsEugenio Rodriguez-FontNancy Nixdorf RoseRuth Ogren RothHorace J. RuizSalvador J. RullanDonald E. RutherfordJune Barrett RyanEdwin C. SantWilliam M. SantoroMohammad SarwarRichard H. ScalzoWilliam R.ScharfΐElizabeth FisherScharffenbergerDon ScottDonald H. ScottWarren H. ScottJohn A. SelfFredericks. SenningCatherine A. SerafineBertJ. SerdenKarl E. ShapiroRalph A. SheheenWilliam W.ShepardFrank A. SherwoodWilliam R. Shimer, Jr.Carlton L. ShmockBernice Fastenberg SimonGeorge SistiAllan SlocumClifford D. Smith, Jr.

David M. Smith v-jiHarold T.SmolandJulian A. Sohon.Jr.Eugene F. SpadaroPaul David SullivanRichard P. TaberCampbell K. ThompsonWilliam R.ThompsonGeorge J.TremblayJoseph P. TrovatoYuan-ChioTungWilliam A. UmphreyAllan M. UngerRobert J.ValentineWilliamJ.VaneWendell E. VeachGeorge J.VincentWilliam A. WalterRichard H. WebberRobert L. WeeksRichard J. WellsLewis H. WestEmmons J. Whiίcomb, Jr.Donald H.Whitmer, Jr.Vivian Sudarsky WienerMathew WienerRobert S.WilsonRichard C. WolffAliceAlkan WolfsonJeremy S. WoodWilliam M.WoodburnWilliam M. WoodfordGlenn C. WoodmancySuat F. Yasa

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'48, PhD '53 and I are lucky to have twograndchildren, Seth and Darya, near us. At-tended 125th Anniversary Celebration in'Frisco last Columbus Day. Had grand timeand saw Jackie and Tolly Browde. Justlearned that San Gorgonio Mountain is11,499 feet tall. All problems can be solvedwith a steam shower." Rosalie SmolinMandel, Lakewood, NJ: "Grandchildren aregreat. Saw New York Thanksgiving Day pa-rade with family. After some wonderful over-seas trips in the 1970s and '80s, we are nowbusy catching up with beautiful USA, includ-ing Hawaii, Arizona, California, Florida, andNorth Carolina." Dr. Eileen Blanche Peck,Kensington, CA: "Retired last July after 22years with State of California, 13 at U. ofCalifornia, Berkeley and nine at Dept. ofHealth Services as a public health nutrition-ist. Have been to Eastern Europe, China, andMexico (to see the great eclipse). Enjoy thefreedom. Hope to see all in 1993.

Roger Amorosi, Detroit: "Amorosibrothers had a big reunion in Hyde Park,NY. Gil '32, Al '34, Norm '37, Roger—allEngineering graduates." Lillian Soelle Aus-tin, McLean, VA: "Great week with our chil-dren and grandson at Outer Banks. Anothergreat week at Adult University (CAU) learn-ing about "The Caribbean from Columbusto Castro" from Prof. Lochsley Edmondson.We all know now who Bob Marley was!"Marylin Aikman Beardsley, Auburn, NY:"Played golf and picked apples last year, wasin Canadian Rockies last week, and playedbridge yesterday. Would rather be golfingright now." D Robert Persons Jr., 102 ReidAve., Port Washington, NY 11050.

49'Tis St. Patrick's Day as wewrite this column, and the mindis cluttered with memories ofgreen brew, Paddy Murphy par-ties, a dragon on the Quad, and,perhaps, a class to attend. But

our mind is clear enough to realize that thisis the last "sample" issue that will be readby virtually the entire class, unless! By nowyou have received your 1992-93 unusualNews & Dues notice. Please dig it out ofthe peat moss of "things to be done" andrespond today. Hopefully you will join "94-4-49" or "49-4-94", but all duespayers be-come subscribers to this magazine, whichkeeps you in touch with Cornell and class-mates. Remember, other '49ers want toknow about you. Send in your news on theback of the dues notice. Do we have to kissthe Blarney Stone? Again?

In our November 1990 column we re-ported on Norm Baker and his 122-year-old schooner Anne Kristine. We sadly reportthat this gracious schooner was lost at seaaround midnight Oct. 28, '91. Known to manyCornellians, she sailed as the oldest originalvessel, by a quarter of a century, in the 1986Statue of Liberty Centennial Tall Ships Pa-rade and remained on exhibit at the SouthStreet Seaport Museum in New York City.(A photo and brief feature appeared in theMarch 1989 Alumni News.} The Anne Kris-tine had been in continuous service sincelaunching at Skancvik, Norway in 1868 andwas the sister ship of Roald Amundsen'sGjoa, which carried him on his expeditionthrough the Northwest Passage in 1903. The95-foot schooner was only a derelict hulk

when Norm and wife Mary Ann found theship in the British Virgin Islands in 1982.The restoration took four years, the majori-ty of the work being done by the entire Bak-er family. Much of the original oak frame wasin good condition and planks were trenail fas-tened with the original wooden pegs. Theprotective layer of tarred reindeer felt be-tween the hull and ice plates on the bow wasin excellent condition! After the rebuild, theschooner proved herself eminently seawor-thy, covering almost 20,000 miles from theCaribbean to the Canadian Maritime Prov-inces. Before her loss, the Anne Kristine wasready for a winter of Caribbean charters.Cornell had a seminar scheduled aboard andthe Center for Coastal Studies was going todo whale research. It was not to be. "On themorning of October 25 she sailed out of NewYork with excellent weather forecast; for thefirst time ever without Norm aboard. He wasto spend time writing and editing the AnneKristine book and film, joining the ship inBermuda. She sailed with a young, well-qual-ified, relief captain who knew and loved her.The next night, about 200 miles off the Car-olinas, they heard of a hurricane formingsouthwest of Bermuda. Mistakenly, the cap-tain turned east, thinking he could skirt thestorm. Impossible. The only exit from aNorthern Hemisphere hurricane to the southis to the west. They sailed into one of themost wide-spread hurricanes ever, whosename, ironically, was Grace. By the morn-ing of October 28 they had to put about torun west before 100-mile-per-hour winds in45- to 50-foot seas. Through it all, the youngcaptain failed to radio Norm, who could havetold him what to do under these extremeconditions. Anne Kristine held fast, perfect-ly. However, mistakes multiplied. The en-gine room and galley vents were not closed,water flooded below, and the high-volumepumps were never properly used. Finally,Anne Kristine had to be abandoned with theentire crew rescued by Coast Guard heli-copter. When left, she was functioning per-fectly, all sails and rigging intact, but filling.She has not been seen since." George Mi-nois, in his book History of Old Age, cites anAfrican motto: "When an old man dies, a li-brary burns down." So, too, with the loss ofa great, old schooner. Farewell, good AnneKristine.

We regret to report the deaths of Ed-ward A. Merdes, Fairbanks, AK; AlbertE. Quinton, Miami Shores, FL; and EldonT. Ellis, Naples, FL.

In dire need of a mood-brightener, wereached for another "poem" by our unknownclass poet-laureate Albee Moore Wittier (!)who now signs them "The Bard of Rave-on":

In JeopardyOff to California I did go,To test for the popular "Jeopardy Show!"Equipped with a variety of information,I was prepared for any confrontation.I soundly answered all their queriesOn basic facts and way-out theories.But, just as I approached the acceptedapex—

I was rejected by a question quite complex.I just couldn't answer without a flaw—The two countries in the Spanish-Ameri-

can War?

And you still do not think we are des-

perate for more duespayers, more readers,and news? "94-4-49", "49-4-94." Whatever.Π Dick Keegan, 179 N. Maple Ave., Green-wich, CT 06830; (203) 661-8584.

50As many of you may have heard,the university is planning a me-morial to honor a number of Cor-nellians who perished during theKorea and Vietnam wars. Ourclass lost one in Korea. If you'd

like to join in remembering the contributionto service by Edward J. Rock Jr., you cansend your gift to Cornell University, desig-nated for the Korea/Vietnam MemorialFund, Office of Special Projects, 55 BrownRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

E. Stanley Wolfe, Avon, OH, writesthat he has been a farmer since graduationand that his life is still so exciting and inter-esting that there aren't enough hours in theday. He did find time off from the farm tovisit Hawaii last year, however. Victor D.Withstandley III, Laurel, MD, reports thathe is still at work in optical physics. Heworks in Maryland but commutes home toPennsylvania on weekends and holidays. Vic-tor visited Hershey, PA with his family lastAugust. He has a grandson, 19 months,whose activities are mainly mischief whennot eating or sleeping. Sounds just likeSpring or Fall Weekend back in Ithaca! M.Ruth Downey Sprunk, W. Springfield, VA,reports that she retired from the Fairfax, VApublic schools in November 1990. A monthlater her husband William '49 died sudden-ly, the day before Christmas, of a heart attack.Ruth says that it has been a different sort ofyear for her, learning to manage her affairs,but that friends have been very supportive.

Bernard N. Roth, N. Dartmouth, MA,is still enjoying his consulting work withsmall business owners—value business as-sets. He helps turn around businesses af-fected by recession or by various owners'midlife crises. He also regularly puts onspeaking engagements for local service or-ganizations. Bernard is active in the localChamber of Commerce, some venture for-ums, a development grant committee, andseveral company directorships. He has alsoserved on his local community SecondarySchools Committee—now Alumni Admis-sions Ambassador Network (CAAAN)—for38 years! Bernard and wife Eleanor returnedfrom Russia on a pleasure/business trip andurged that we send food to help stabilize anuneasy political and human needs situationthere. The Roths were recently blessed withanother grandson—Michael Nathan Rose, 1.Bernard regularly finds time to interviewprospective Cornellians. M. Theodore Nor-dahl, in Wilmette, IL, reports that he hasretired from Westin Hotels and Resorts asarea director of sales and now serves as asenior sales consultant for his old company.He also works with the Illinois Children'sHome and Aid Society and has recently ac-cepted a position as trustee for the CSHFoundation. Theodore sees alumni, includ-ing John Anderluh '56, Hal Binyon '61,John P. Gallagher, Jack Heitnian '64, andR.W. Barker '51. He also finds time forgolf, antiquing, a little opera, and two monthsat Palm Springs last year.

John H. Phillips, Mt. Vernon, WA, hadmajor changes in 1991. He sold his house at

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Liberty Lake and put the furniture in stor-age, officially retired from the RockwoodClinic after 29 years, did a locum tenens foran oncologist in Mt. Vernon for three weeksin May, drove cross-country to Brick, NJ,where he and his wife spent three monthsrepairing his sailboat Hobson's Choice, hadthe boat trucked back to her new berth inAnacortes, WA, and started a new solo prac-tice in hematology-oncology in associationwith two colleagues. D Ralph C. Williams,Jr., 2516 NW 20th St., Gainesville, FL 32605.

j^ I Margaret "Pepper" DutcherI ^ A Fluke and husband Don forward-• 'I ed a copy of their latest Christ-" I I mas letter, a summary of their ac-• I I tivities, 'which include Pepper's^J M. ongoing involvement at the pot-ter's wheel, with three shows last year andmore projected this year; a long-term inter-est and involvement in theater, focusing onGilbert and Sullivan; and fanatic interest incollege basketball and Duke's team. (As thiscolumn is written, March Madness is in fullswing and the Brandts stay up night afternight watching basketball, so we can relatevery well to the Flukes' interest.) Bill Rey-nolds advises that Pepper has told him hecan't expire until after our 45th Reunion in1996, since he is her co-chair for the event,and that he is looking forward to it. Is thatexpiration or Reunion, Bill?

Bill Phillips devotes a large amount ofhis time to Outward Bound as chairman ofits international advisory board. Recently hetraveled to Costa Rica with an OutwardBound group, including L.W. "Bill" Kay andwife Britt. Traveling a bit farther afield wasElmo "Mo" Franklin, who enjoyed thealumni tour, Wings over Kenya—a trip toKenyan game parks. Mo reports seeing plen-ty of elephants, lions, etc. He shared a Land-rover with Julia (Palmer) '50 and Al Al-ley '49. William Zimmer retired last yearafter 39 years with the State of NY in vari-ous capacities. Since retirement Bill and wifeElaine (Shannon) '52 have been to Hawaii,Canada, Florida, Virginia, California, NewHampshire, and to Ithaca for Reunion, withmore trips projected. Between trips there'svolunteer work and courses at SchenectadyCommunity College.

Robert Williams writes: "Decided not tostay retired; now teach marketing courses atThe Citadel in Charleston, SC and enjoy it."Barbara Berkowitz Rubin, who teaches atNazareth College, Rochester, writes: "All isblissfully stable at the moment. An interestingtrip in May 1991 to Sochi on the Black Sea (fora meeting) where we stayed at the extremelyelegant Sanatorium Sochi and I saw Soviets whovacationed and dressed extremely well. It wasStalin's copy of the Palace at Versailles. Man-agement was already wondering if the Swiss orFrench could be lured so far east for vacation. Iwonder who goes there now?" Π Bob andJoanne Bayles Brandt, 60 Viennawood Dr.,Rochester, NY 14618; (716) 244-6522.

Nancy Radick Lynkof Delmar returnedto work after 20years, cross-countryskis, and tries to nav-igate sailboards. She

looks forward to grandmotherhood. Of class-

BRANCHING OUTFROM BOTANΪ

S ince retiring as principal economicbotanist with the U.S. Forest Ser-vice's Institute of Tropical Forest-ry in Puerto Rico in 1983, Arnold Krochmalhasn't spent much time in a rocker. He has

traveled for pleasure to the former USSR and Po-land, to Denmark to address the Centre for Alter-native Energy Research, to the Folk Medicine Fes-tival in Tennessee, and to Clemson University'sdepartment of biology. He has written about but-terflies and the cooking of Afghanistan (where hewas director of an experiment station in the late1950s) for newspapers and magazines.

With his wife, Connie, he has written"Satanism, Witchcraft and Other Religious Sects";"Mental Retardation"; "Acid Rain: The Controver-sy"; "World Hunger"; and "Aging: The Facts andthe Myths"—all published by Pamphlet Publica-tions of Dayton, Ohio. The Krochmals' A FieldGuide to Medicinal Plants (Times Books, 1973) isstill in print; the Library of Science calls it "the de-finitive work on medicinal plants." It identifies anddescribes nearly 300 medicinal plants, and listseach plant's purported medical use.

Krochmal is an adjunct professor of forestry atNorth Carolina State University and associate edi-tor of the International Journal of Pharmacognosy.And he has written for publications as diverse asthe American Bee Journal and the North CarolinaDaily News.

A decorated World War II combat veteran, andfather of two sons, Krochmal lives in Asheville,North Carolina. He and wife Connie have beenmarried 21 years, and "work together 95 percentof the time" on writing. The secret, he says:"Connie is 31 years younger than I am."

ArnoldKrochmal

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mates she sees often: Helen Stewart Fri-derici is an accomplished Chinese brushpainter, donating to DVM auctions for schol-arships.

Mary Shear Brennan and ClaireSchmitt, wife of RMI president, co-authoredNatural Areas of Albany County, profits togo to an environmental clearinghouse ofSchenectady. Mary's tours of New York'sCapitol District included a celebrity versionfor the Glee Club in January 1991. GovernorCuomo, Elizabeth Moore '75, counsel toCuomo, and other staff (Bob Smith '76,Ken Thobalds '81, and Hank Dullea '61

(now vice president for university relations)can explain. Nancy Lynk sees this capitol"beat" as she works a block away, endeav-oring to keep the university's Office of Gov-ernment Affairs alert, conversing with JoyceWhite Cima, Margie Bailey Redmond, andWalter Relihan. She further reports EllieCarey is the new chair of the Home Eco-nomics Legislative Monitors (HELM) of NYState, a coalition of some ten years' existencepartly due to Joan Hartford Ferreira '51.

David Louis Greenwood was marriedto Anne M. Barry of Exeter, NH and NewYork City late in 1991. David heads the in-

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strument and software quality assurancegroup at Ortho Diagnostic Systems, aJohnson & Johnson company in Raritan, NJ.Edward H. Wilkens of E. Brunswick, NJ,grandpa of two, still enjoys working, travels,and jogs.

Robert E. Clark, Pound Ridge, NY,sees Veterinary college classmates, loves thework with animals and owners who make itinteresting. With three grandchildren in Har-risburg and two in Santa Fe, NM, he makesmention of something we are finding out, thatbeing grandparents has a little work to itbesides the fun? A U. of Michigan friend hada grandparental objection to the dry summer,"Can't get the wickets in!" Not to mentionthe electronic world a lot of us would as soonnot bother with to stay current with evenvery small guys. And these are small diffi-culties.

Philip F. Gottling Jr. of Wyoming,Ohio, retired after 36 years (Procter & Gam-ble), could help out on the electronics nodoubt. High quality audio recording for mu-sicians has become full-time work. With ason in the Honolulu Symphony and a 5-1/2-year-old granddaughter there, Hawaii was anatural recent destination. A daughter, whois a veterinarian as well as mother of two,lives in Monument, Colo., giving Phil a sec-ond fine place to visit. "Went to first-everChimesmaster's Reunion in June 1991.GREAT. Reunion? Maybe." He enjoys manymusical events in Cincinnati and saw "CarlLeigh in Chicago in June 1991 when we at-tended the Ravinia Festival." So where isthe "simpler life" for all of you? At Halei-wa's Rosie's Cantina, on the Hala Terraceof the Kahala Hilton, in under an antique car,or at an easel? Always happy to hear! D E.Terry and Dorothea Crozier Warren,1046 Locust Dr., Ashtabula, Ohio 44004.

Onward, if not precisely like aswallow. Pete Hallock, wholives on the water at Swansea,MA, rows, recreationally, hesays, every day and races sail-boats on Narragansett Bay, "sum-

mer and winter." Pete also flies a plane helately acquired, qualifying him for the 1953air force, which also includes flyfolk (not onlyflyboys) Barry Merrill, Bob Dunbar, Ed-ward Morris, Albert Hand Jr., and NaomiPollin Zucker. No doubt there are many oth-er senior birdmen and women among us.When on land, Pete still runs Gripnail Inc.,and two other fasteners businesses. Daugh-ter Anne (Amherst '89) helps edit FamilyFun magazine in Northampton, MA, andPeggy, Pete's wife of 38 years, keeps at herart work.

Left Coast report: Peter McDonoughjoined the 500-member Cornell AlumniAssn. of Northern California, of which PatGunderson Stocker is president and Dot-tie Clark Free, an active director. Retiredin Tucson, Hilary Levin Mindlin says,"Cornellians in southern Arizona are finallymeeting each other, thanks to a series ofluncheons sparked by Sally Clark Shumak-er '71, a transplant from Binghamton. Thereare some 375 of us! So far, Lee and I havemet alums from '29 to '71." From jCharlieWest: "Beverly and I were married Janu-ary 2 on the beach at north Padre Island,TX, by a minister friend who was sharing

our condominium with us. His wife was theonly attendee other than a few gulls. Ofcourse, Beverly is no stranger. We've beenhanging around together for 12 years. Shewill retain her surname, Cree. She is a con-sultant in child development, and travelsextensively. I am planning to retire in June.I'll continue to teach at the U. of North Caro-lina, Wilmington, one course a year, in thespring, when Beverly is most busy. Am look-ing forward to the freedom! And I couldn'tstand to miss out on any Social Securitychecks." Less than two weeks after the nup-tials, Charlie's first grandson, Derek, wasborn to daughter Susan.

Back East, Irv and Sheila LefcourtGoldman say son Glenn (Dartmouth '87)became MD '91. "Yes," Sheila adds, "theysang the Άlma Mater' at the graduation inAvery Fisher Hall." The young doc went onto intern at New York Hospital. J. EliotMcCormack's daughter Christina '92 wasto finish in Mechanical Engineering aboutnow. Son Scott '89 earned a master's inEngineering last year. The winter issue ofBostonia, a magazine for the literate of theland of the bean and the cod, was the bright-er for Dave Kopko's essay, "On Not Watch-ing," on selective non-viewing of the tube,and the pleasure of "missing," say, "Ali;"while painting the kitchen. The tone of vin-tage 1953 Widow obtains.

Gerry Grady was back home in End-well from Jumby Bay, Antigua, in time forSt. Patrick's Day, not to mention anotherReunion. He was reading To Honor andObey, the new book on the legal defense ofLouann Fratt. To mention still another Re-union, Number 40 is now only a year away:June 10-13, '93; a PREunion is planned atthe Westport, CT pool of Clark and ClaireMoran Ford, July 25. Π Jim Hanchett, 3001st Ave., NYC 10009.

M W Springtime! and in cleaning upI Λ we f°und some items that did notl k /• make the original column—I• 1 Ij hope they still apply. Bob Mor-• I^^Λ rison started his own business^ A in 1981 and says he should havedone it sooner. He represents five manufac-turers of large hospital equipment and isworking harder, making more money, andhaving more fun than ever before. He hasspent 28 years in organized skiing, current-ly with the Mogul Meister Ski Club. Moretime is spent working on environmental con-cerns, through the Sierra Club, AudubonSociety, and the New Canaan Nature Cen-ter. He gives presentations to groups on con-servation, problems in wildlife management,predators, scavengers, and prey animals."Having majored in conservation at Cornell,I guess I thought it was high time that I start-ed using my education." Bob Ceisler hasbeen an investment counselor with Shear-son Asset Management for "many moons"and wife Toni (Wellesley '59) is a trust andestate attorney. Daughter Emily graduatedfrom Brown and, recently, from HarvardMedical School. Son Andrew is at Brandeisand spent last spring at Kings College inLondon. Daughter Elizabeth is in tenth gradeand keeps all busy and young. Please notethe new address for Jim Potter, senior vicepresident for business development, Inter-continental Hotels, London. You can reach

him at Box 697, E. Hampton, NY. IrwinKaufman is now at 3900 Cathedral Ave.,NW, Washington, DC and works for the Inst.for Defense Analysis (busy days!). EdieBuermeyer Ledbetter is also in the DC areaand is vice president of finance, development,and administration for the Defenders of Wild-life. Judy Starr Carr is a research librarianfor Roten & Partners in New York, and Cyn-thia Tuccillo Kowalczyk is executive direc-tor of the Westfield, NJ area Chamber ofCommerce, and does everything from plan-ning street festivals to legislative programs.She and Ed were at the Princeton game lastfall with roommate Doris Caretti Oniskeyand Len '55: "Game was awful but it wasgreat to be together again."

Sydney Cohen Glick is membershipsecretary of the Denver Botanic Gardens andJean Lanigan Lenehan is a tour coordina-tor at Tours a la Carte in Wayne, PA. Busi-ness travels have taken her from easternEurope to Australia and New Zealand.Daughter Ann (Mt. Holyoke '87) has beentransferred to London and son David (Hobart'89) moved to San Francisco, so she and Jimdo lots of traveling. Jim Carville is presi-dent of Reliable Plastics in Dunnellin, NJ andClint Cooper is president of Safe-T-WayManufacturing in Youngstown, OH.

Don Belk writes that he is a grandfa-ther at last—daughter Geri '80 had a babygirl last October. Don is working less andtraveling more, off to Val dΊsere now thatthe Olympians have left town. He is activein the Southern California Cornell Club. Allenand Anita Zicht Fial are proud grandpar-ents, too, sharing the fun of grandsons Jor-dan, 3, and Andrew, 1, with Alan and HelenTeschner Greene '52 . Anita is presidentof Lewis and Neale, public relations consult-ants in New York. Catherine Ryan Nelsonand husband Bill have been roaming thecountry in their Airstream trailer, meetinginteresting people, including some Cornel-lians, and suggest that a rally site be desig-nated for our next Reunion. Any takers?

Drop me a line with your comings andgoings and news of Cornellians you'veseen—perhaps in Ithaca at Reunion? ΠLouise Schaefer Dailey, 51 White OakShade Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840.

Responses to Class PresidentAnne Morrissy Merick's letterare starting to come in—watch foryour news to turn up here in thenext few months. Marilyn HechtDainoff, from Cincinnati, Irv

"Bin" Pettit, Quechee, VT, and GinnyBrane Schulz, Palo Alto, sent hasty noteswith their checks, explaining that they'd mis-placed the News & Dues form. You're allback on the mailing list, no problem, alongwith many other classmates who've report-ed in. Your class dues are $35, which in-cludes a subscription to the Alumni News,so please get your checkbook out now, ifyou haven't already. As we look ahead toour 40th Reunion in 1995, and look backnostalgically to the years we shared at Cor-nell, it puts a new spin on the old question:How did we get here from there? Write andtell us how you did it!

Management consultant Frank Tetzsays he's looking forward to retiring after20 years in consulting with Towers Perrin

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in Philadelphia. Frank will stay active inJohnson Graduate School of Managementactivities, and they plan to travel, visitfriends, and enjoy their three houses: one inPrinceton, one on Lake George, and the "oldfamily home in Elmira—a great jumping offplace for Ithaca happenings." We'll look foryou among the '55 group at Homecoming onOctober 24, Frank.

To hear Jim Freeman tell it, the placeto be is North Carolina. The Freemansmoved from Simsbury, CT to Tryon, NC,,an"absolutely wonderful" area. "If you're real-ly smart, you'll think about relocating here,"Jim says. He left a partnership at PrudentialSecurities in Hartford and has reassociatedwith Raymond James & Associates as a reg-istered financial advisor and CFP. Both Jimand wife Nancy, a family therapist, plan tokeep working because they like what theydo—"but we're slowing down the pace a bitto enjoy life, see friends, and spend moretime at our house in Seaside, FL."

How about some belated news of theOlympics? No, not last winter's Olympics;try 1988—that's when Andy Kostaneckiwas team leader of the US sailing team inKorea. The team won five medals for theUS. Andy is chairman of the sports equip-ment and technology committee, in chargeof the "star wars" program for the US Olym-pic team. When it's "get real" time, Andy'san industrial designer in New Canaan, CT.

After being retired from teaching forfour years, Donna Avery Darling has re-cently joined the business world—as deputytown clerk in Newfield, NY. Donna also singswith the Cayuga Chimes and enjoys birding.In November, during a day of hawkwatchingwith former roommate Kay Stevens Crane'56 on Franklin Mountain in Oneonta, theyspotted three Golden Eagles, an unexpectedbonus. No moss grows under the fleet feetof retiree Konrad Bald. He set the all-timerecord in Illinois in the 60-65 age group forthe half marathon event, and when he chang-es out of his running shoes, Konrad chairsthe local Alumni Admissions AmbassadorNetwork (CAAAN) committee. This year hecoordinated the interviews of 58 applicantsto Cornell, and interviewed 15 himself. Al-though the Balds missed our 35th Reunion,Konrad promises to be back on campus forthe 40th Reunion of wife Dell (Tauscher)'52 this June.

The university is planning a memorialto honor Cornellians who died during theKorea and Vietnam wars. Our class lost onemember, Henry Repeta, in Vietnam. If youwould like to make a contribution to thismemorial in Henry's name, please send it tothe Korea/Vietnam Memorial Fund, Officeof Special Projects, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY14850. D Nancy Savage Morris, 110A Weav-er St., Greenwich, CT 06831.

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Now that Reunion is history,some of us get together in the"hot stove league" to talk aboutthe latest events. Recently,around the lunch table, I learnedthat Keith Johnson was in great

shape following back surgery, that Ernie andBarbara Lang Stern had a great trip to Lit-tle Dix Bay, that Burt and Naomi SegalSiegel are enjoying their daughters, bothmarried and single. Already talk is increas-

ing about our next Reunion but more aboutthat in a year or two.

William B. Eisen is president of Cru-cible Research Center which is an addition-al responsibility. He lives at 1390 TerraceDr., Pittsburgh, with wife Diane (Hoffberg)'59 an executive director of Competitive Em-ployment Opportunities. It was nice hearingfrom Michael Fellner, MD, a dermatolo-gist at 30 E. 60th St. in New York City. WifeFredda (Ginsberg) '57 is chief of pediatricendocrinology at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Daugh-ter Melinda '89 is a May 1992 graduate ofCardoza law school and was looking for ajob at latest count. Another proud father isBarton R. Friedman of 2916 E. OverlookRd., Cleveland Heights, OH. Bart is profes-sor of English at Cleveland State while sonJonathan '84 just received his PhD in phys-ics at Colorado State and has been awardeda post doctoral fellowship at the Cornell-NSFAtmospheric Physics Lab. in Arecibo, Puer-to Rico. As previously reported, Erika TateHolzer is moving to Santa Fe and puttingher Bedford, NY home on the market. Wewill forward the new address as soon as pos-sible. Her new book about the breakdownin the criminal justice system is due out inearly 1993 by St. Martin's Press.

Bill Hudson is back in the States, pro-moted to executive vice president, interna-tional for one of my favorite corporations,AMP. He had been stationed in Japan foreight years. His three sons are all marriedand live in the Chicago area with a total offive children. Bill's new address is 410 LaurelDr., Hershey, PA. Marilyn Thomas Ken-nedy of 1005 Circle Dr., Elm Grove, WI is ahospitality consultant and finds time to workfor the Milwaukee Symphony as well as civ-ic groups. She recently took a tour of thePacific Rim with husband Don '55. SonStephen just graduated from Columbia'sMBA program.

Eleanor Kamholz Levine teaches atmy old elementary school, Fox Meadow,Scarsdale, NY. Husband Robert '54 is a hos-pital planner. Daughter Deborah is chief psy-chiatric resident at Columbia PresbyterianHospital after going to Yale and Columbiamedical school. Son David '89 is in his firstyear at New York law school. Her home is 3Brentwood Ave., White Plains, NY. DorothyVrooman Taylor loves her job as media spe-cialist at Needham Public Schools. She justmoved to 33 Conant Rd., Weston, MA. Dor-othy spent New Year's Eve with Jean PurdyRosseau in New Hampshire and was recentlyvisited by Trudy Hutchins Hickox.

E. Baxter Webb may be reached atthe Beverly Japan Corp., Kyodo Bldg., 2ndFloor, 16 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo102, Japan. He is on the boards of boththe Japan American Society and the Yoko-hama Union Church. He and Ann havetraveled extensively in the Far East andare due to visit the US about the time youread this column.

Although it may have been previous-ly noted, the following classmates ofblessed memory have passed away: BobR. Davis (Lighthouse Pt., FL), WilliamF. Cooper (Smithfield, VA). Dr. CharlesA. Kircher, DVM '56 (Briarcliff Manor,NY) and David S. Vandewater (Glen-ham, NY). Π Stephen Kittenplan, 1165Park Ave., NYC 10128.

I hope many of youwere able to make itback for Reunion andenjoyed seeing class-mates—familiar fac-es, as well as some

new ones. Pre-Reunion news items includ-ed Carol Johnson Saylor's—that her fifthgrandchild arrived in December. Carol is theassistant director at Long Term Care ofRochester and spent most of last year trav-eling between Rochester and Camden, ME,where Charles, MBA '61 is director forKodak's Center for Creative Imaging. Mari-lyn Jaffee Jones welcomed a fifth grandchildlast year. Marilyn is the branch manager ofa bank in Birmingham, MI and is swampedthese days with refinancing mortgages. Sheand John have a cottage on Lake Charlevoixin northern Michigan and had a visit fromEllen Dixon Granger '58 and husband.

Retired from teaching is Patricia Po-desta, Kingston, PA. But that doesn't meanshe's out of education; Patricia has writtentwo math books, tutors, and occasionallyteaches a course at a local college. Bob andM. "Betty" Starr King are planning aheadfor retirement, having bought a second homeat Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, athree-hour drive from their first home inWashington, DC. Betty is assistant directorin housing management at American U. SonBill is in the computer field in Washingtonand daughter Sara King '83 just returnedwith her husband from teaching the past twoyears in Asia. Daughter Lisa, a graduate ofU. of Michigan, is teaching in Mexico. Re-union news next column! D Judith Reus-swig, 5401 Westbard Ave., #1109, Bethes-da, MD 20816.

This is somewhat of a lame duck column,since Reunion may well be over as you readit. Reunion notes will appear in the July/Au-gust issue. On the subject of lame ducks,but not really, a number of classmates haveofficially retired, but are working. WarrenMcLaine, after 30 years in the Navy, re-tired as captain in 1988 and is active in manycivic affairs in and around Springfield, VA.John Maclay left AT&T in 1989, but hasbeen consulting with the company, planningand installing a new underwater ocean cableplow. He was forced to spend two monthsin Singapore last year and considerable timelast winter in Honolulu in connection withthat project. Paul Garrett retired from Ag-way last year and now has his own agricul-tural consulting company, with a primary af-filiation with Universal Dairy Equipment ofKansas City, covering 11 Northeasternstates. Jeremy Fitzpatrick is semi-retiredand active in investment management andmarine pollution control systems, and DonGarrett sold his last cross-country shop andwould like to talk to anyone about buyinghis 258-year-old house in Downington, PA.

On the medical front, Dick Cavell spenta month in Romania with Project Concern,a volunteer medical organization. A fascinat-ing article in The Washingtonian tells ofMartin Wolfe's career as a parasitologist,treating exotic patients who have exotic dis-eases. He was associated with the State De-partment when Henry Kissinger was prac-ticing shuttle diplomacy, keeping bugs (notthe electronic kind) off the secretary in all

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I n 1984 Chevron Corporationtook over Gulf Oil for theheady price of $13 billiondollars, and Kenneth Derr,then head of Chevron's do-

mestic operations, was giventhe job of the merging the twocorporate giants. "I went homeafter I got the job/' Derr toldPatrick Lee of the Los AngelesTimes, "and I took a whole yel-low pad, and said, Tm going towrite down how the hell to goabout this/ I sat there for twohours looking out the windowand hadn't written a thingdown, and I probably went outand played golf/'

When Derr went back towork soon thereafter, he usedthe advice of "thirty-seven em-ployee study teams to restruc-ture the two companies intoone," according to the Los An-geles Times, "methodicallyeliminating 20,000 jobs andselling about $5.4 billion inassets to cut debt from thedeal/' His efforts were seen asa model for corporate mergers,and in January 1989 Derr be-came chairman of the board andchief executive officer of Chev-ron.

Chevron is the third-largest

Kenneth T.Derr

'58, MBA '60

oil company in the United States,after Exxon and Mobil, with assetsof about $35 billion. In areas suchas oil refinery and natural gas pro-duction, it is the nation's largest.Despite the enormous pressuresof running a multi-billion-dollarcompany, Derr keeps things inperspective: in 1985, reports theLos Angeles Times, "while awaitingthe transfer of nearly $2 billionthat would clinch the sale of GulfsCanadian unit, Derr put everyoneat ease by organizing a penny-pitching game in a Toronto board-room/'

Derr grew up in Wilkes-Barre,. Pennsylvania, and afterearning degrees in mechanicalengineering and business ad-ministration on the Hill, heheaded west to join California-based Chevron, the company hewould one day head. He and hiswife, Donna (Mettler) '60, havea daughter and son-in-law whoalso studied business atCornell—Karen Derr Gilbert,MBA '85 and Christopher H.,MBA '84—as well as twoyounger sons. By now, Califor-nia is home.

parts of the world. He has lived in everyunpleasant place in the world except Bay-onne, NJ and is currently associated withseveral prestigious institutions in the Wash-ington area. Quoting from Mr. Kissinger,Martin "practices medicine like a Jewishmother." Π John Seller, 563 Starks Bldg.,Louisville, KY 40402; (502) 589-1151.

As vice president of the Office ofNational Affairs of the AmericanArbitration Assn. Thomas Colo-si is AAA's full service Washing-ton, DC representative to nationalorganizations including private

trade associations, federal agencies, and pub-lic and private sector unions. He has au-thored and co-authored papers and publishedmany articles on dispute resolution-trainingtechniques and negotiations. He has alsotaught courses as a visiting professor at theILR school and as an adjunct professor at

the U. of Maryland law school and the Wash-ington College of Law of the American U.Bob Mayer is a securities industry execu-tive with Prudential-Bache. He recently builta wine vault and was awaiting the arrival ofBordeaux futures. Nick Wing is currentlyvice chief of staff and chairman of the boardof directors at Akron General Medical Cen-ter. In his spare time he enjoys building dollhouses and play yards for his grandchildren,who numbered seven. Leo Stack and hiswife visited Antarctica, Falkland Islands, Ar-gentina, Brazil, and Peru during a 26-daycruise in 1991. He highly recommends theexperience, but only for those in good healthand nature minded. He said there were end-less photographic opportunities and he isnow giving travelogues. "Being of Polishdecent, now I can truly call myself a SouthPole!"

Beverly Blau Miller bought a camp onCayuga Lake in the village of Cayuga and

plans to motorboat to Ithaca and Cornell. Sheis assistant nursing director of CommunityHealth for Onondaga County. Benny But-ler Manganaro is a sales rep for City Meatand Provisions in Phoenix. She loves the joband invites all classmates to come to Arizo-na and eat! Jeanne Perkins Du Bois is stillrunning a day care organization, but sayssome days it runs her! They are trying tosell their big old house and build a new or-ganized one! Trish Thomson Herr visitedher daughter, in the Peace Corps in Hunga-ry, in a little town called Zalaszert-Grot andthen did some textile research in EasternGermany. She is into Morovian textiles andrecently had one of her quilts on display atthe Johnson Museum. Liz Fuchs Fillo hadboth sons marry last year, and says she nowloves having daughters! She is now boardpresident for the McCarter Theater and saysit's just what she should be doing at thispoint in her life—"a great sense of giving

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back to the theater all those years of joy itgave to me!" The garden scene has alsobeen a busy one for her this past year. Therewas a dedication of the Elizabeth Fuchs Fil-lo Garden at the Cornell Center for TheaterArts last May. What a lovely thing to do!

In December 1990 Barb Beuhrig Or-lando joined the NYC Dept. of Sanitation asdirector of public affairs, after ten years asdirector of public relations with Money mag-azine. Now, she says "it's garbage and gov-ernment!" She says despite whatever onereads or imagines, there are an impressiverange of professionals working hard to main-tain and improve life in the city! Π Jan ArpsJarvie, 6524 Valley Brook Dr., Dallas, TX75240.

^ ^\ "It's such FUN to be a grand-I J I I mother!" writes Sally Wheaton1 ^ \ J Gillan, 24 Brandywine Lane, Fair-

1 ^m port, NY. Sally's first grandson,( I f f Ray, was born February 1 toV/ \/ daughter Sue (Guest) '84 andNeil Henninger in Boston. Feeling at homein distant places: a week ago (mid-March-—we have early deadlines for these columns!)while lunching at a giant computer and com-munications trade fair in Hannover, Germa-ny, I read the February 17 international edi-tion of Time. On page 2, in the letters column,the magazine gives a correction for mistak-enly attributing a quote about Hillary Clin-ton "to political-science professor DianeDivers Blair." Diane, as those of you whoregularly read this column know, took a leaveof absence from the U. of Arkansas to workon Bill Clinton's campaign. Continuing towork my way through Time, I reached anarticle on a topic of growing interest as weage and deal with aging parents: "Can DrugFirms Be Trusted?" Among the expertsquoted was physician Sidney Wolfe, direc-tor and co-founder with Ralph Nader of PublicCitizen's Health Research Group: "Hundredsof people have been killed and thousands in-jured because data has been falsified," saidWolfe. The most recent book published bySid and the Health Research Group is Wom-en's Health Alert: What Most Doctors Won'tTell You About (Addison-Wesley, 1990), withinformation on hormonal replacement ther-apy, hysterectomies, cesarean sections, di-eting, and other topics. Their earlier book,Worst Pills, Best Pills, on prescription drugsfor older adults, has sold more than 900,000copies.

Hope you have lots of wonderful plansfor summer—and that you'll share your ex-periences with fellow '59ers by writing tome. If you're still wondering how to spend avacation, remember Adult University (CAU);it has a fabulous variety of programs sched-uled for this summer and fall. Alumni tripsare another possibility: talk to Dave Port-man of Armonk about the "great time" heand his wife had on a trip to the then-SovietUnion in 1990. And if you're a tag-sale ad-dict, as I am, and you're in the Ithaca area,give Peggy Flynn Dunlop (Mrs. David) ofBrooktondale a call. She heads Peggy A.Dunlop Antiques, appraises estates, and man-ages tag sales. Finally, an important remind-er: it's not too late to pay class dues! Don'tmiss out on the opportunity to support theClass of '59, and to have the pleasure of read-ing about your classmates RIGHT HERE!

CLASS NOTES

Π Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village,Bethel, CT 06801; (203) 792-8237.

A positive result of our Reunionssince the 20th have been fourclass projects that enhance theuniversity: an endowment for therestoration of rare books; estab-lishment and endowment of a gar-

den at the entrance to campus on TowerRoad; endowment of the new Scoreboard atBarton Hall; and the establishment and en-dowment of the Class of 1960 Women in Ed-ucation (WISE) scholarship. The WISEscholarship now has an endowment of morethan $36,000, and this year has benefitedAmy Liedtke '93, an English major, with a$1,000 scholarship. Amy spent her fall se-mester as part of the Cornell in Washingtonprogram, works part time in the fine arts li-brary, and is a member of Council Appoint-ed Special Advocate (CASA, where abusedkids can find someone to talk to and trust asa friend) and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.She hopes to attend graduate school.

Steve Conn welcomed first child OrinAllard with great joy and a rousing Cornellwelcome October 25, '91. Attending physi-cian was Peter Liebert '56; pre-deliveryLamaze advice came from health columnistJane Brody '62; and new parent guidancewas offered to Grin's father during a shop-ping expedition for supplies by Janet Spen-cer King '64, mother of two and former ed-itor-in-chief of Working Parents and ParentsToday I Mother, new son, new father, are alldoing well. Ron Pereira, now CFO forHunterLab in Reston, VA, sent recent greet-ings with a sweet photo of his three young-est children, all togged out in Cornell sweat-shirts. Also with a new position is PeterJedel, vice president, sales, Smith Barney—Tulsa. Dick Brunswick splits his time be-tween New Orleans and Aspen, practicingcardiovascular surgery and running a com-pany producing microcomputer image pro-cessing systems.

Carolyn Creamer O'Connor sharedher moving and thrilling article about herfamily's encounter with the savage October30 northeaster that hit the Gloucester, MA,coast with a ferociousness not seen sincethe Blizzard of '78.1 wish I could share theaccount in its entirety—its intensity of de-scription and emotion brought chills. Caro-lyn and Bill have lived at the edge of thesea on Rocky Neck for the past 25 years.Barbara Baillet Moran had her own fierceencounters—with the "professionals" ofmodern wedding planning, determined toturn her daughter's forthcoming "simple"summer wedding into something else."Though it often seems that there is no lifebeyond wedding planning," she taught chil-dren's literature at the School of Education(U. of North Carolina, Greensboro) again thisfall, is working on an oral history book, andserves as a guest lecturer on multi-culturalliterature. ^

Rosalee Szabo lives in San Franciscowith husband Donald Kubitz, a psychiatrist,and daughter Laura Michelle. A professor ofEnglish at Canada College, Redwood City,she is on leave for research on integratedbrain studies and applications to teachingwriting. She is also a mezzo-soprano, and hassung with local opera companies and orches-

tras and in recital. Eva Metzger Brown, af-ter a year of intense study, celebrated herbat mitzvah in September. Husband Normanis president of the medical staff at their lo-cal hospital, son David is finishing his resi-dency in internal medicine, daughter Caro-lyn will receive her law degree in May, andson Michael is applying to law school.Grandson Jacob, 2, keeps her "feelingyoung." Geoff Bullard reports on son Bar-ney (U. of Rochester '94) and daughter Thes-saly, currently at Wisconsin, who expects toenter Cornell this fall. His family is spon-soring two of Vittorio Sicherle's childrenfor college in the US: Diego (U. of NewHampshire '95) and Camillo, Grad, who isgetting his master's in law at Cornell. Vicand wife Kathy live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

I must end this column with a note ofsadness by reporting the deaths of class-mates George E. Beine, in March 1989;Dr. Merrill Leroy Andrews, in August1991; and G.C. "Rod" Belden in Septem-ber 1991. Ron Denier '59 sent a movingtribute to Rod written by a Harvard MBAclassmate. A non-smoker, he was taken bylung cancer in a matter of weeks, leaving alegacy of great respect, family devotion, andmultiple successes in building two electron-ics companies and an investment firm. Pleasecontact me if you would like to contact thefamilies of these three men. Π Gail TaylorHodges, 1257 W. Deer Path, Lake Forest,IL 60045.

j\ I "Good heavens, Holmes! What• * A kind of school is that? "Elementa-mf\ I ry, my dear Watson." What this• 1 I co^umn needs is—but I'm gettingI I I ahead of myself. First a few wordsV/ -M. from classmates: Dances WithCajuns—"Any Cornellians in New Orleans,please call," writes Frances Shapiro Ivker."We'll show you where the local Cajunsdance and even teach you how to do it." Shehad visits from Barbara Thalenfeld in Oc-tober and Fran Goldreich Raab in January.And she is still delivering babies, by the way.

In San Diego, call Judith ReamerCox—she would be glad to hear from visit-ing classmates. An administrative secretaryat a private power company, a Presbyteriandeacon, Alumni Admissions AmbassadorNetwork (CAAAN) committee chair; hergreatest source of pride is children Jim '86,Ted '88, Kate '93.

John F. Sobke has been "consigned tothe purgatory of the Pentagon" as assistantchief of engineers. "I continue to support theuniversity's efforts to memorialize those wholost their lives, military and civilian, duringthe Korea and Vietnam wars," he writes."We are now trying to raise a modest sumof money toward that end." Of the 27 Cor-nell Vietnam casualties, three were class-mates: Douglas D. Crowe, Gordon S. Per-isho, and John S. Roederer. Donations canbe made to Cornell University, designatedfor the Korea/Vietnam Memorial Fund, Of-fice of Special Projects, 55 Brown Rd., Ith-aca NY 14850.

Anita Hollmer Hodson, fresh from en-joying the 30th Reunion (her first—"I wishI had gone to previous ones"), became a fel-low in the American College of EmergencyPhysicians last October. She works full timein emergency medicine. Lawrence B. Less-

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er's work for the State Department's Officeof Inspector General took him last year toThailand, Taiwan, Burma (or Myanmar),Bahrain, and Algeria. In his free time he isan arbitrator of consumer disputes, and me-diator of family and other disputes, for sev-eral organizations in the Washington, DCarea. Now, as I was saying, what this col-umn needs is—no, I give up on haikus. Howabout humor? Are there any Cornell jokes,or Cornell '61 jokes? For example, What'sthe shortest major-league career?—The one-minute manager. Sorry, just trying. Youcould do better. Send jokes or gnus. Π AllanMetcalf, 212 Brookside Dr., Jacksonville, IL62650; also Nancy Hislop McPeek, 7405Brushmore, NW, N. Canton OH 44720; (216)494-2572.

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The new lower air-fares eliminate yourlast excuse for miss-ing Reunion, June 4-7. Be there! JohnDoolittle is a man-

agement consultant with Performance As-sociates in Danville, CA. He and Susan livein Dublin. Dania Moss Gamble has two mar-ried daughters and two offspring at home.Dania took Teya and Trevor on a biologicaljourney boat trip to Alaska's inland passagelast year while husband Foster remainedhome with his new company, Mindcenter,in Palo Alto, CA. There are directors amongus: Saab USA employs William Walters asdirector of planning in Orange, CT. JoannNantz Heppes is director of marketing forthe Dairy Council. She and Don '61 willcome to Reunion from their home in RiverForest, IL. Lil and Don Boose returned fromduty in Japan to the US Army War Collegein Carlisle, PA, where Don is director ofAsian studies. Don keeps in touch with DaveDarker, his former roommate, and GeorgeWinters '63. Betty Kreps Zielinski is ad-ministrator of Louisville (KY) Third Centu-ry, a volunteer organization working to bet-ter the downtown area. Bob is with Unisys,son Rob, a lieutenant, junior grade based inNorfolk, and daughter Julie, an actress.

A roster of classmate attorneys includesGeorge Loveless, in Philadelphia. He andShirley (Morrison) '63 live in Moylan, PA.Across the state, James Sweeny is withBuchanan Ingersoll in Pittsburgh. We arewell represented in the New Jersey Bar, withJames "Jary" Hancock, who lives in West-field and practices law in New York City.Suzanne (Diamond) and Charles Rosenlive in Roseland, NJ, where Charles's prac-tice is located. Steve Ploscowe also prac-tices in Roseland, NJ, where he and Wend-ie (Malkin) '65 live. Andy Samet is withAllied-Signal Inc. in Morristown. Livingston,NJ is home to Peter Cobrin, a New Yorkpatent attorney. Peter's son Larry '92 is aphysics major; daughter Pam is in graduateschool. Bill Goldman is a lawyer in Wash-ington, DC; he and Linda live in Bethesda,MD. David "Buzz" Ruttenberg's name ison the door at Ruttenberg & Ruttenberg inChicago.

Tax law and business/estate planning isthe specialty of Aline Holstein Lotter inManchester, NH. She lives with daughterNancy, who also plans a law career, andgranddaughter Tabitha. Son Andy is at U. of

New Hampshire. Aline is active in many lo-cal organizations. There really is a publica-tion called Lawyers Other Lawyers Call, andFred Luper of Columbus, OH is in it. He isalso listed in Best Lawyers in America and ischairman of his 25-member law firm. WifeCarol (Perlmuter) '64 continues as a TVnews reporter for the local ABC affiliate andis producer and moderator of her own newsmagazine show. Their daughter Betsy is incollege. David N. Brown is a Washington,DC attorney who commutes from Bethes-da, MD. James D. Campbell Jr. commutesto Harrisburg from his Camp Hill, PA home.Donald Lincoln is a partner in a San Diegolaw firm. He and wife Mary Jane (Ness)'61 live in La Jolla, CA. Rounding out thecross-country barristers' list is JeffreyBrown, a legal administrator with Sullivanand Cromwell in NYC.

Moving on to the medical field, PaulSchreiber is a pediatrician in Brockton, MA.He and Merilyn (Klorman) '65 live in N.Easton. In Hyannis, Herbert "Hub"Mathewson is medical director of Cape CodHospital. In the nation's capital area, Lau-rance Kupperberg is a physician with theRadiology Diagnostic Center in Greenbelt,MD. Martin Kolsky is an ophthalmologistin Washington. Richard Kaiden is also anophthalmologist in River Vale, NJ. Dr. Lin-da Himot practices in Pittsburgh. Pat RiceDe Hart is completing research for her dis-sertation on neurologic morbidity in low-birth-weight infants. She expects to receivethe ScD degree from Johns Hopkins Schoolof Hygiene and Public Health. Pat plans tocontinue research in perinatal and pediatricepidemiology. Pat and Cor, a psychiatrist,have five children and live in Greenville, DE.Barbara Kahan Mazie is a psychologistwith Clifton (NJ) Family Practice. Judy Ro-sen Itzler works as a psychotherapist/arttherapist at Silver Hill Foundation in NewCanaan, CT.

On the West Coast, Ruth H. Kraussis chief of ob/gyn at Group Health Coopera-tive in Seattle. She keeps a horse, scubadives, plays the piano, and travels as muchas possible. Recent trips include Micronesiaand the Galapagos, trekking in Nepal, andsix weeks in India. Richard H. Fine is aphysician at San Francisco General Hospi-tal. Dick lives in San Francisco. MickeyLangsfeld has practiced dentistry in Phila-delphia for 27 years. Mickey and Judy havethree offspring, including Liz '94. "I havevisited Cornell more in the past two yearsthan in the previous 29. Wonderful place!We should all be proud of the school." Seeyou there in June! G Jan McClayton Crites,2779 Dellwood Dr., Lake Oswego, OR97034.

J/^ND PROUD τo BE! Lots of newsfrom classmates all over the coun-try s month Starting with JoelLichtenstein in Cincinnati. Hisoldest son has graduated from theU. of Virginia and works as a

chemist in Indianapolis; a younger son iscompleting his first year at MIT. Gus Key-sor writes from Setauket, LI, NY that heplans to attend the 30th Reunion—hopemany of you are making plans for it. WhinMelville's daughter Amy '95 is finishing herfirst year in ag economics. Whin saw Walt

Williams at Walt's daughter's wedding. RaeMesser Reilly has left her position as ex-tension textiles and clothing specialist atIowa State U. to enjoy "other pursuits and aless harried life style." Sounds good! Bigchanges also for Harold Nathan, whomoved to Japan to open an office in Tokyofor his law firm, Winthrop Stimson. He wouldlike to hear from classmates in Tokyo.

Lila Fox Olson writes, "I finally did it!"She received an MA in English from Cali-fornia State, Fullerton last year and prompt-ly celebrated with a holiday in England thatincluded a three-week class on Shakespeare.Lila has been teaching and tutoring and mayteach in a junior college. Also in Californiais Gary Orkin, in Berkeley, who fills hisspare time with running, gardening, modelrailroading, rooting for the Oakland As, andcoaching girls' softball. Irmgard Muller hasretired after working for 23 years at the plantpathology department at Cornell. Now shekeeps busy with volunteer work at CornellPlantations, Friends of the Tompkins Coun-ty Library, and tutoring students in Englishas a second language.

Cornell Dawson is finishing what hecalls a "crunch" year, with three children incollege. He is with IBM, working with ven-dor-supplied application software for electri-cal computer-aided design. He was electedlast year to the local school board and isstruggling with budget decisions. WilliamOscarson is director of engineering for theGeorge M. Martin Co. in Emeryville, CA.He has lived in the Portola Valley for 12years. Congratulations to Neil Kochenour,who has been promoted to professor of ob-stetrics and gynecology and vice chairmanof the department at the U. of Utah medicalschool. Jay and Karen Dean Abbe '65made the trip to Ithaca from California lastyear for the graduation of daughter Sarah'91. Nan Rick lives in Boise, ID, where sheis expanding her current bookstore and ren-ovating a second building for a new book-store.

As many of you have heard, the univer-sity is planning a memorial to honor Cornel-Hans who died during the wars in Korea andVietnam. Nicholas Krimont and RonaldRingwall '62 , BS Ag '63 died in Vietnam.If you would like to make a contribution intheir memory, please send your gift to Cor-nell, designated for the Korea/Vietnam Me-morial Fund, Office of Special Projects, 55Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. Hope to hearfrom more of you next month. I] ElenitaEckberg Brodie, 3930 Lake Mira Dr., Or-lando, FL 32817.

64Many thanks to you who haveresponded to our appeal for duesand for news. We hope the restof you will do so soon. Worth re-peating: save June 9-12, '94—our30th Reunion. Co-chairs Janet

Spencer King and Stan Morgenstein arealready gathering ideas for both Reunion andpre-Reunion events. Write any suggestionsyou have on the dues invoice, or separately,and we'll pass them along.

In this election year, our class has a di-rect participant. Tony Smith (6861 LovittCir., Anchorage, AK) is running for the USSenate as a Democrat against the incumbentRepublican. Better-late-than-never Congrats

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to those who have a child who has recentlybecome an alumnus, too: Michael '61 andAlice Fried Baker's son David '90; Her-man and Maddie Bierman Axelrod's sonRobbie '89; Phil Green's daughter Beth'92; and Ed and Ellen Luther O'Neal'sdaughter Colleen O'Neal '90. Alice, an in-structor at Bristol Community College, andMichael are now empty-nesters at 19Thatcher Rd., Plymouth, MA, as their daugh-ter is in college. Ditto for Maddie and "Axe"at 9 Northview Dr., North Hills, PA, as theirother son graduated from college last year.Maddie freelances as a motivator and staffdeveloper for school districts, working withadministrators, teachers, and parents. Phil,vice president of the commuter/regional air-line Trans World Express, and wife Mary-ann would love to hear from classmates whofind themselves in the Plattsburgh area (theirhome is 50 Sandra Ave.) or the Burlington,VT, area (company headquarters). Ellen(7219 O'Neil Dr., Harahan, LA) is a teacherand team leader at a nearby country dayschool.

George Yankwitt (82 Whitson Rd.,Briarcliff Manor) reports eldest son Ian,Grad has finished his second year at the lawschool—following in dad's footsteps. Georgeis a lawyer with Robinson, Silverman,Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman in New YorkCity. It'll be a long time before Karen andArt Birnkrant (45 Washington Ave., Rum-son, NJ) have an "empty nest"; the young-est of their four children is only four. A der-matologist/internist in solo practice at Free-hold Skin Clinic, Art enjoys sailing, garden-ing, and playing baseball/Softball with hiskids. Ditto for Carol and Gary Cocks (4006Highview Dr., Silver Spring, MD), whose sonis still in elementary school. A scientific ed-itor at the National Academy of Sciences inWashington, DC who enjoys jogging, Garyreports they visited Scotland and Ireland twosummers ago.

Real estate developer Larry Feldmanand wife Carole (Goule) '65 vacationed ina different direction: Peru, Ecuador, and theGalapagos. They and their teenaged son arestill at 5 Linden Dr., Boulder, CO. LeslieDaus Stacy is used to having her two chil-dren away from 3C3 Brookgate Apts, Tor-rington, CT. She's busy as a family relationscounselor for the Family Relations Div. ofthe Superior Court in Waterbury. Barbaraand Gerald Reiss are getting used to hav-ing 5200 Arthur St., Hollywood, FL, to them-selves, as their second son started collegelast fall. Gerald is a partner in the CPA firmof Koch, Zelko, Roth & Reiss. Douglas Coo-per, a physicist at IBM, writes that he isreally enjoying his family life and work. He,wife Tina (Su) '66, and their son are at 26Ledgewood Commons, Millwood.

In the Houston area, Richard Reed, ageologist at Marathon Oil, has added ham-burger flipper as a second job—he boughtBubba's Texas Burger Shack, so his "spare"time is now not. Still at 502 Mulberry Lane,Bellaire, TX, with wife Sharon and theirthree elementary school daughters, Richarddid manage to take off enough time last sum-mer for a fun family vacation driving westinto New Mexico and Arizona.

Cornell is planning a memorial to honorCornellians who perished during the Koreaand Vietnam wars. Amazing to me, our class

lost only two in Vietnam: Richard Aaronin 1971 and David Hall in 1967. If you'dlike to contribute toward this project, youcan send a check made out to Cornell Uni-versity and designate it for the Korea/Viet-nam Memorial Fund, Office of SpecialProjects, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Be sure to keep those News & Duescomin'. Π Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chest-nut St., Deerfield, IL, 60015.

Barry and Marika Cutler writefrom their new home in Bethes-da, MD. Barry is the director ofthe Bureau of Consumer Protec-tion of the Federal Trade Com-mission in Washington, DC. In

July 1991, just days before the coup, Barrytraveled to Moscow as the US representa-tive of a delegation to advise on a new con-sumer protection code for the Russian Re-public. Barry notes, "If every American couldspend three days in Moscow, we would allbe much more thankful for what we have inthe USA!"

With Gorbachev now out of power, theSoviet military forces are being reorganizedand reassigned. Watch for the upcoming TVspecial, "Mikhail's Navy." Ed and JudithEdelstein Kelman '67 write from Stamford,CT. Ed is an entertainment attorney, Judith,a novelist. Their children are Matt '93 andJosh, a high school senior.

Barry M. Hecht sent this note from

Delmar, NY. "In 1990, the NY State Legis-lature created committees in the nine larg-est urban areas of the state to develop plansfor implementing the Federal Americanswith Disabilities Act for accessible transpor-tation. I have been appointed to chair thecommittees in Nassau, Suffolk, andWestchester counties. This gives me theopportunity to work with the county andtransit officials and with consumers with dis-abilities in these areas. These plans were tobe ready for implementation in early 1992.Our oldest daughter, Arielle '94, is on theHill and doing well. Wife Bradlea and I con-tinue our work interviewing Cornell appli-cants." The law offices of Levene, Gouldin,and Thompson announce the opening of newoffices in Vestal, NY, including our own JohnJ. Carlin.

One of our class activities is the Classof '65 Scholarship. The current beneficiaryis Oscar Gonzales '93. Oscar is in ILR.He is a vice president and a very activemember of MASA, the Mexican AmericanStudent Assn., and in his spare time enjoystennis, golf, and basketball. After graduation,he plans to attend law school. We'll keepyou informed on the progress of this fineyoung student. The development office sentour class a fine letter of congratulations andappreciation for this scholarship fund. BillRuling '68 sent a notice reminding us thatthe university is planning a memorial to hon-or Cornellians who perished during the Ko-

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rea and Vietnam wars. The Class of '65 lostthree (known) members in Vietnam: Rob-ert Leroy Crosby (Sept. 26, '69), KennethArchibald Keith (Sept. 28, '66), and Wil-liam Lee Sullivan Quly 4, '70). Supportersof this memorial may send a gift to CornellUniversity that is designated for the Korea/Vietnam Memorial Fund, Office of SpecialProjects, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.If you are aware of additional death infor-mation, demonstrably accurate, you shouldnotify this column or the Alumni News atthe address above. Our condolences go tothe families and friends of those who werelost in those conflicts.

William B. and Linda Reynolds arenow in Walnut Creek, CA. Bill is a generalmanager for Paceco Corp. Their children areMichael, 8, Cindy, 17, and Lisa, 20. Billyand Judy Silverman Kaufman '67 writefrom Stamford, CT. "Still plugging away inthis lousy economy. Judy gave up her jobwith the housing authority a year ago and islooking for something more interesting. Scu-ba diving is our new interest; we dove at St.John last year. Still snow ski, most recentlyin Aspen and Whistler with Donald Weiss.Steve Fortner was to meet us, but busi-ness kept him away. Really enjoyed Re-union, although for us it was abbreviated byour daughter's high school graduation."

Barbara and Michael Manheim are inJamesville, NY. He is a lawyer in Syracuseand son Jeffrey '94 is in the Hotel school.Jay R. Martin wrote from Schuyler, VA tosay, "Visited Cornell for the first time in toomany years. It was as grand and magnifi-cent and beautiful as ever; even with thenew buildings and the loss of the IvyRoom—at least as we knew it—it is still in-spiring." Alexander "Lex" Mastoris andPeggy write from New Hope, PA. The res-taurant is going well. The family includesNicky '90 and Michelle '95. Lex notes,"We want to see MORE of you all at thenext Reunion." Frank E. McCreary III isa partner at Vinson and Elkins in Houston.David and Valerie Mellon are in W. Bloom-field, MI. Valerie is the director of housingat Greater Pontiac Area Lighthouse, a hu-man services agency. Kim, 22, is a sales rep;Andrea, 20, is in school at the U. of Mel-bourne, "down under." David says, "Re-union was great. Now, let's see ALL formerfootball and lacrosse players at our 30th in1995."

Joe Ryan is busy in Buffalo, NY, de-veloping abandoned properties into afford-able housing. Joe is co-chairing the Korea-Vietnam Memorial and Scholarship Fund.His address is 628 W. Ferry St., Buffalo14222. Best regards to each and every class-mate. More news next time. Π ScotMacEwan, 2777 SE Bybee Blvd., Portland,OR 97202-8733.

It is hard to believe a whole yearhas passed since our fabulous25th Reunion. Classmates justcan't stop raving about it. But lifegoes on and we've all had a busyyear. Bruce Bergman had two

articles published, one in the New York StateBar Journal, entitled "First Mortgage vs Con-dominium Common Charge Lien—in Legaland Political Battle," and one in the "RealProperty Law Section Newsletter" of the NY

State Bar, "Those Insidious Claims of OralRepresentation—Some Emerging Comfortfor Lenders." Bruce is a partner with thefirm of Certilman, Balin, Adler, and Hyman,where he chairs the foreclosure department.He and wife Linda had dinner with Michaeland Audrey Rauchway in St. Petersburg,FL while Bruce was on a business trip.

Our Hawaiian classmates have beenbusy. Erin Fleming Starr tells us thatHugh has been setting up an office athome for his real estate and restaurantbusinesses, while maintaining his office intown. Son Forest '93, a member of Sig-ma Pi, is a teaching assistant in the com-puter labs, and enjoys rock climbing. Rich-ard Turbin has been elected chairman ofthe international tort and insurance lawand practice committee of the AmericanBar Assn. Nathan Wong, still enjoyingthe "stuff" of Reunion, had hoped to takeanother month-long voyage on the sailingcanoe Hokulea as a crewman/physician, buthis assignment to an additional adminis-trative post in the Hawaiian region of Kai-ser-Permanente has left him little time forsuch things.

Richard Lockwood writes of his chil-dren's activities. Daniel '94 spent thisspring semester at the U. of Sao Paulo, Bra-zil studying economics. David went to Paristhis year on a high school exchange programand has been accepted on early admissionto MIT. John Monroe's son is studyingmusic at Princeton. John keeps up with hisown musical interests and played the StarSpangled Banner on the trombone at a SanFrancisco Giants home game last summer.Careerwise, John is quality/productivity man-ager for Hewlett-Packard's computer sys-tems business. This keeps him traveling tocompany plants in the US, Europe, Asia, andPuerto Rico.

John Van Amber is completing hisfirst year as scoutmaster of his son's troop,where Brian, 16, is an eagle scout. Johnworks in logistics support and technical writ-ing in the aerospace industry, in the B-2 di-vision of Northrup Corp. Annmarie EllerWinters is also a scout leader, as co-den lead-er for her son Eddie's Cub Scout den.Daughter Beth was at Reunion and likedCornell because it is "out in the middle ofnowhere." An apt comment from a backpack-ing, rock-climbing 16-year-old. Annmariealso keeps busy with daughter Katie, 2. JoeJaffe has left the practice of law in SullivanCounty, NY. He has joined the consultingand investigating firm, Decision StrategiesInc. as managing director.

Paul Goldsmith writes that John andShelly Benjamin visited him and his fam-ily in Mill Valley, CA, and that Paul andhis wife spent a great "Reunion" eveningwith Andy and Karen Barchas. Paulfound Reunion personally very satisfying,in that 25 years ago he chose the rightfriends for the right reasons and that Cor-nell brought out the best in all of us andwe should continue striving to nurturethose qualities. The joy of the Reunionexperience was echoed by many others ofyou, including Diann Goodman Mann,Catherine Eugenia Brown Sander,Irene Green Blumenkranz, and StanleyFalkenstein. Π Susan Rockford Bittker,424 Pea Pond Rd, Katonah, NY 10536.

Ann G. Martin, 636W. Waveland Ave.,#3F, Chicago, writesthat she "movedfrom building balancesheets (Continental

Bank) to liquidating them (Resolution TrustCorp.). It is an experience! Contrary to somereports, however, this two-year-old govern-ment agency (world's largest real estate cor-poration) progressively built a team of pri-vate industry professionals who, on balance,are highly effective in minimizing losses andmaximizing remaining values for US taxpay-ers. Still see Sylvia Lewis regularly (also aChicagoan) and, when visiting New York,Ann-Marie Flood Frater Soto. Sylvia is as-sociate publisher and editor of the AmericanPlanning magazine, active on several indus-try boards, and is a health club and garden-ing devotee. Ann Marie is a consultant tothe textile/home sewing industry, author, andmother of a wonderful 4-year-old, Gabrielle."

"Keeping milk in every store at a rea-sonable price continues to be a challenge,"reports William F. Newell, 5304 PenderCt, Alexandria, VA, who's at the US Dept.of Agriculture. Daughter Mary Helen, 6, hasstarted swimming so Bill and wife Brendaare "now occupied with practices and meets,"as well as a trip to Disney World last fall.

Two classmates report children on theHill: Jack Schwartz, 3005 Shore Rd, Bell-more, NY, notes that son Jeff '95 is in ILR,"loving it and doing well"; Doris Klein Hiatt,173 Rumson Rd, Rumson, NJ, indicates she andhusband Mark '68, MD 72 were delighted withson Brian's early-decision acceptance to Artsfor this fall. Doris is associate professor of psy-chology, Monmouth College, and in private prac-tice of individual and family therapy.

Lots of news from Karen KaufmanPolansky, 3008 Marlynn St., Carmichael,CA: "Steve and I were also at the gala 125thin San Francisco. It was spectacular. Alsosaw Helen Lewis Irlen with husband Bob'66. Steve just returned from a month inNepal, where he climbed Mt. Mera. Daugh-ter Jenny '95 is in Arts. Neil Principe'sdaughter Stacey '95 is in Engineering. Iserve on the University Council and have aspecial interest in admissions, am also pres-ident-elect of the Human Ecology alumnaeassociation, on which Marsha Beirach Eis-en also serves. Had lunch with Carol Far-ber Wolf, who works for Scholastic. Her sonJason graduated from Georgetown, son Spen-cer graduates from high school this year. Wesaw Roger Abrams and wife Fran. Roger iscurrently dean of Nova U. law school, Ft. Lau-derdale, FL. Spoke to Harriet Hecht Gould,who'll be unable to attend Reunion because herson is graduating from high school. Her daugh-ter is at Emory U. Harriet works for the BostonGlobe as personnel director."

By the time you see this, it's likely thatReunion will have come and gone. Hope youwere part of it. Π Richard B. Hoffman,2925 28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Let me start off with a letter fromMiriam Myra CoppersmithRhodes. She writes: "I have beenmeaning to write for a couple ofyears, and I am happily amazedto see it's really happening. Meir

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lyn and I teach physics at Beis Rivkah HighSchool. We have been speaking at differentcolleges (from Vassar to U. of California,Berkeley) on Jewish issues—from mysti-cism to Soviet Jewry's spiritual renaissance,to how to have peace in the home and heart.Last summer I gave a sabbath talk at Ana-belle Taylor Hall." William Schneiderworks in educational publications with Simon& Schuster's Prentice Hall division in En-glewood Cliffs, NJ. Last year Bill had somebusiness and vacation travel in Kenya. JackEisenberg is an attorney with Harter,Secrest & Emery in Rochester, NY. GeorgeShelden lives in Charlotte, NC. HermanPenner lives in Arlington, VA.

A note from Victor Berlin reports thatfor the past ten years he and Janice (Milk-man) have been running General Commu-nications, a computer/business school foradults in Rockville, MD. The staff has grownto 100 employees and Janice serves as theCEO. Two years ago Vic founded the Poto-mac Education Foundation, which subse-quently received approval to establish Poto-mac College, the State of Maryland's firstnew college in 12 years. Potomac is a pri-vate business and computer school author-ized to award bachelor's degrees in manage-ment and microcomputer systems. Theschool is geared toward working adults, par-ticularly seeking admission in business orgovernment, with classes held evenings andweekends and students earning creditsworking in paid internships.

Don Stein lives in North Canton, CT.Richard Coyle is an attorney with Perkins,Coie, a law firm in Seattle. Barbara BeerMcGee lives in Mountain Lakes, NJ and re-ports that she serves on the local board ofeducation and also interviews high schoolseniors for Cornell. Her son Andy attendsPrinceton. William Fitchett works withH.P. Hood in Newburgh, NY. Jerry Foxworks with IBM in software development.Jerry does a lot of business travel to Eu-rope, Taiwan, etc.

Peter Greene works in hotel develop-ment in Skokie, IL. Laura Sevush Lang-worthy and husband Dick '66 celebratedtheir 20th wedding anniversary in January1990. Dick is a vice president with H.P.Hood and Laura has an interior design firmbased in W. Newbury, MA. The Langwor-thys often see Kristin Davis David.

Ed Gregorian is an attorney in MenloPark, CA. Laura Gushin lives in Tampa,FL. Gregory Fried lives in Great Neck, NYand is a deputy chief surgeon for the NewYork City Police Department and chief ofsurgery for an HMO in Manhattan. Anotherphysician is Lou Germaine, who lives inScarsdale and works with a radiology groupin Jefferson Valley, NY. Also practicing med-icine is Richard Goodman, who lives inPlantation, FL and practices in N. MiamiBeach. The Goodmans have seen RichardGarick and also report a son, Benjamin'94, at Cornell. Thomas Hadderman is vicepresident of human resources at Chilton Co.in Radnor, PA. Barbara Kipp Schmidt andhusband Mark live in New Canaan, CT. Bar-bara is a teacher at Greenwich Country DaySchool and Mark is an outdoor outfitter withWhite Creek Expeditions. I'm not sure whatthat is but it sounds like something I'd en-joy. Send in pictures from your summer va-

cation. I look forward to hearing fromyou. Π Gordon H. Silver, The PutnamCompanies, 1 Post Office Square, Boston,MA 02109.

John Sulpizio and family are liv-ing in Sacramento, where Johnis assistant director of the Sac-ramento-Yolo Port District,"loading ships with ag productsfor all the world. Recently visit-

ed home country in Ohio to visit relatives,and have heard from Larry Hofmann, nowin San Diego, and Lloyd "Chip" Ruth inChicago. If in the area, say hello at 2925Rubicon Way, W. Sacramento, CA." John andChip both had correspondence with Herbertde Sola, who writes that after 13 yearsabroad, he is back in El Salvador; "Still, wetravel often and look forward to visiting Cor-nell sometime in 1992. The 25th is a must!"Tamar Asedo Sherman left a 21-year ca-reer as a journalist to open EARTH andSPACE, in Roslyn, NY on Long Island—astore devoted to toys and books for the nat-urally curious of all ages; "Picking and choos-ing just the right educational but fun itemsfor this specialty store is challenging and re-warding." Interested Cornellians can stop byat 1388 Old Northern Blvd.—it's the storewith the astronaut suspended in the window.

Barbara Levitz Lindheim has workedin the pharmaceutical industry since getting

a Harvard MBA in 1983. "Being back in busi-ness school at 34, in the middle of the roar-ing 1980s, was quite an experience. Love themix of technology, marketing, public policy,and strategic planning my current positionat Sterling Winthrop affords. See BonnieCarroll and Lynne Beyer Sagalyn when-ever they get to New York City or I get toOak Ridge (Bonnie, infrequently) or Boston(Lynne, often)." James C. Chiafery (And-over, MA) travels quite a bit on business butcombines some trips with short golf or ski-ing vacations. "I was pleased to read thatCornell football was on Sports ChannelAmerica, so I signed up just in time to seethe first game and enjoyed seeing all the tele-vised games. I look forward to next years'games."

Liz Levy Carp and husband Bruce soldtheir Harrison, NY house to Kurt Mazur andmoved to Santa Fe, NM, where Liz will con-tinue her work in jewelry design and pho-tography and Bruce will do venture capital.Son OJ. Sykes '95 is in Arts. Liz was ex-pecting a visit from freshman dormmateNancy Marsden and says she still sharesChristmas cards with former roommateMary Anne Klein Chapman who lives inConcord, ,NH with husband Tom. SuzanneNielsen Andriukaitis has moved to the sub-urbs "after 18 years of rehabbing in Chica-go, and now, of course, rehabbing in OakPark." Peter, 10, is "practicing for a career

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ter Lindsay are all doing fine."Joe Cervasio (Nutley, NJ) joined Mar-

riott Ownership Resorts in October 1991 asnational director of offsite operations.George Chapman (Maumee, OH) left hisToledo law firm to join Health Care REITInc. as executive vice president and generalcounsel. It is a public company traded on theAMEX that finances nursing homes, psychi-atric hospitals, rehabilitation and other healthcare facilities. He and wife Debbie have threesons. Π Joan Sullivan, 51 Skyhill Rd., Al-exandria, VA 22314.

W"7^\ Carol Peacock is married toJ I m \ Tom Gagen (new address: 32/•I Fern St., Auburndale, MA). Their• I I family includes Carol's stepsonI I I Jonathan, 10, a dog, a cat, a ham-• ^J ster, and an ant farm! Carol is a

psychologist with the Northeastern FamilyInst. in Newton. She directs a group homefor psychiatrically disturbed adolescents anda small private practice in Cambridge. Tomis an editorial writer for the Boston Globe.Jack Bilson lives at 1623 Todd Lane, Ches-ter Springs, PA with wife Nancy, a U. ofPittsburgh grad. After a reasonably success-ful career in human resources, he was laidoff following a corporate merger. His back-ground is in compensation, employment,employee relations, college relations, and asa generalist. Hopefully, we can assume Jackhas found a new position, but he asks if any

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John and Sandy Shands Elligers livein McLean, VA and are active in soccercoaching and PTA, respectively. Sandy is anattorney with the National Labor RelationsBoard and drafted their rule establishing bar-gaining units in hospitals. The rule was up-held by the Supreme Court in the spring of1991, in a landmark decision facilitating unionorganizing in hospitals throughout the na-tion. John is an attorney with the Washing-ton Metro. Rani Ulrich is a systems pro-grammer with Miller Brewing in Milwaukee.In March 1991, she visited with GretchenNicholson in San Francisco. Gretchenmissed our 20th Reunion because she wastraveling and singing in Europe with the Pa-cific Ensemble. Ginny Hardesty Bucci con-tinues to be a mom, etc.! Their third son(in four years), Charles Loren Bucci, wasborn Feb. 20, '91. He is their "ReunionBaby," conceived June 10, '90! Congrats. Willwe see you all in 1995?

Sharon Gerl is the owner and manag-er of Forefront Designs Inc., a manufacturerof commercial casework and cabinets. Sharonalso has a filbert farm, Hayellea Farm, andshe raises bouvier des Flandres dogs underthe kennel name of Du Shane Bouviers. Hertrue love is running and triathlons. In April1991, she was selected to represent Eugene,OR at the Hakeguania Marathon in Japan.Meryl Pugash Bralower is a consultant and

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T here's nothing like being a baseball announc-er for a major league team/' says ClevelandIndians play-by-play man Jack Corrigan, "nomatter what the record/'

Corrigan, in his eighth season behind themike for the Tribe, is shown, at right in the photo,with his broadcast partner, former big leaguerMike Hegan. "This season is our fourth together,"he says. "We both grew up in Cleveland, so we'requite familiar with following a team that has nothad much success down through the years. Onceyou're an Indians fan, you stay with them no mat-ter how dismal it might seem at times."

A varsity football player on the Hill from 1971through 1973, Corrigan says, "I still proudly wearmy 1971 Ivy League Championship ring." He wasa history major, and "was well prepared for theresearch duties of my position, thanks to peoplelike Fred Marcham, Al Bernstein, and L. PearceWilliams" [Frederick G. Marcham, PhD '26,Goldwin Smith Professor of English history,emeritus; former-Professor Alvin H. Bernstein'61, PhD '69, ancient history; and L. Pearce Wil-liams '48, PhD '52, the John Stambaugh professorof the history of science.] Corrigan went on toearn a master's degree in telecommunciationsfrom Kent State.

In addition to Indians play-by-play, Corrigandoes some baseball work with ESPN, calls college

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football and basketball games,and has a production company,Cornell Kid Productions, thathas done highlight videos forthe Indians, the Cleveland Cava-liers, colleges, and even his oldhigh school, St. Ignatius, whenit won Ohio's state footballchampionship,

Corrigan and his wife Lisahave two children, Megan, 10,and Mike, 7. He stays in closetouch with Cornell as a memberof the Athletic Advisory Counciland working with the AlumniAdmissions Ambassador Net-work (CAAAN). He adds, "Theonly disappointment is the in-ability to get back to Ithaca dur-ing football season to see theBig Red play."

executive vice president of Right Associates,Boston, an international outplacement firm.She lives in Chestnut Hill, MA with Jenni-fer, 16, and Rob, 13. She has been inter-viewed on two radio talk shows about ca-reers during an economic downturn. Dr. Ju-dith Nowak is a physician in Washington,DC, married to Esra Bennathan. Judith ispresident of the Washington Psychiatric So-ciety. Also in the Boston area, MichaelBaglino is division manager of TeradyneInc. He and wife Shelley have Andrew, 11-1/2, and Taryn, 5. His free time is spent wa-terskiing, windsurfing, gardening (spring,summer, fall) and in the winter he waits forthe warm weather to return! In our July col-umn look for "fresh" news! Have a greatand safe summer. Π Connie Ferris Mey-er, 16 James Thomas Rd., Malvern, PA19355.

W^ I First, a few short reports: Brucef I Λ Fischer resides in Chesterfield,

m I MO and is an accountant for ITTf 1 Financial in St. Louis. CarynI 1 Furst is a public relations coun-• M. selor at Burson-Marsteller in New

York City. John and Susan Anderson

Geise are now residing in Burlington, VT,where John is vice president and trust offi-cer of Vermont National Bank, and Susan isteaching marketing at Champlain College.Gordon Harris is a psychologist in Clay-ton, OH, near Dayton. Timmy Hess is afishery biologist in my part of the country,with Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources inAtlanta. In Mamaroneck, NY, Cara Nashlason is an attorney. Two reports from SanFrancisco: Robert Kahn is a physician; Al-ton Knight is a transportation consultantwith David Evans and Associates Inc.

Michael Kubin lives in Greenwich, CT,and just finished his first year as presidentof Club Med (North America), which he re-ports as exciting, what with going throughadvertising agency selection, staff reorgani-zation, and establishing new marketing di-rections. Mike reports contact with BobBeleson, who recently took the job of chiefmarketing officer of Playboy (in Mike'swords—"not too shabby"). Mike is close toclassmates Cliff Essman, Bert Distelburg-er, Stu Oran, Marty Irwin, Ted Gross-man, Marty Michael, and Danny Bern-stein '70.

It is with sadness that I report the death

of Dr. William C. Knauf Jr. from Arcade,NY. Bill was a dentist, who had graduated in1975 from Buffalo School of Dental Medi-cine. He served as past-president of the Ar-cade Lions Club, was active as a Boy Scoutadvisor, was a member and past presidentof the Wyoming County Dental Society. Heis survived by wife Janet, son Billy, anddaughters Jessica and Sara.

As many of you may have heard, theuniversity is planning a memorial to honor anumber of Cornellians who perished duringthe Korea and Vietnam wars. If you'd like tojoin in remembering the contributions to ser-vice of Robert Kiser and Ken Taketa, youcan send your gift to Cornell designated forthe Korea/Vietnam Memorial Fund, Officeof Special Projects, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850. Bob Kiser, from Stanford, CT,died April 3, 71; Ken Taketa, from Los An-geles, on July 27, 71.

Recently received a great letter fromLaurie Brooke Seidenberg: "I do have afew things I can say without embarrassment,but I do not know whether these things arepolitically correct. I am serving my secondterm as president of the Wyoming chapterof the American Civil Liberties Union, have

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practiced law for the past 16 years in myown law firm, now called Seidenberg andFulton, testified in front of the House Judi-ciary Committee for the State of Wyoming,opposing a bill which would have made abor-tions illegal in the State of Wyoming, andsaw the bill soundly defeated. I am the au-thor of several editorials in the ACLU's Ad-vocate and in the Casper Tar-Tribune andhave been an active supporter of women'srights. I am especially interested in immi-gration issues and my law firm is one of thefew in the region which represents immi-grants, or as they are termed by our gov-ernment, 'aliens/ I am frequently called uponto speak at the Law School and to communi-ty groups on the impact of Supreme Courtcases on civil rights." Π Joel Y. Moss, 110Barnard PL, Atlanta, GA 30328; and Mat-thew Silverman, 356 Smith Rd., YorktownHeights, NY 10598.

Sharon (Burstein)and husband Dr.Donald Walkersend their duescheck from Flanders,NJ. Martha (Rob-

erts) has been married for 14 years to B.John Williams Jr., a tax attorney. They livein McLean, Va. with children Robert, 13, Sar-ah, 12, Anne, 10, and Bernie. 8. Marti is ahomemaker, a board member of GunstonHall Docents' Assn., and a volunteer withImmanuel Christian School Parent-TeacherFellowship. She resumed piano lessons andenjoys music with the whole family. Martireports that she became a Christian in 1974and has been serving the Lord since then.She says that many of the questions weasked in the 1960s have answers in the Bi-ble. Another northern Virginian is Eric Sie-gel, who resides in Vienna, Va. Jeffrey Cor-nett lives in Monroe, Conn. Jain Elliott '71is a school teacher in Eugene, Ore., has a 7-year-old son, and "is still a hippie."

Zachary W. Carter is a US magistratejudge for the US District Court, Eastern Dis-trict of NY in Brooklyn. Dr. Andrew Sar-nat lives in Rancho Santa Fe, Cal. ThomasForsberg works at Brown U. and reportsthat Brown, like other institutions, is reor-ganizing, down-sizing, and generally tryingto figure out how to do what's importantwhile resources diminish. Change is continu-ing, Tom says, and thinking about the nearfuture is both exciting and stressful. Outsideof work, Tom coaches Little League base-ball in Bristol, RI. When the News & Duesform arrived, his team of 13 boys and twogirls was battling for the second half cham-pionship. David F. Cooper works for ArgoSystems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Cal., a subsid-iary of Boeing Inc. Scott C. Brown lives inSharon, Mass. Michael R. Smith residesin Webster, NY.

Kenneth Halpern is an attorney inNewton, Mass. His practice concentrates inpersonal injury and medical malpractice. Aparticular specialty of Ken's are brain-injurycases. He finds that these cases directly util-ize his psychology background, which he hadnot expected to utilize as an attorney. Hispractice has substantially expanded and Kennow employs two attorneys. Ken takes pridein having success with brain-injury caseswhich have been rejected or undervalued by

other law firms. In July 1990 he spent twoweeks in Israel and Egypt. It was his firsttrip to Israel and he found himself reactingin all the predictable and expected ways. Thetrip was extremely moving for Ken. He verymuch enjoyed his "side trip" to Egypt. TheValley of the Kings in Luxor was fascinat-ing. Ken noted that the complexity and de-gree of development of the Egyptian cultureof 3,000 years ago is a marked contrast tothe poverty, decay, and decline of the cur-rent society. He purchased his first housein Newton, Mass, that has an acre of wood-ed land and "feels" secluded despite its prox-imity to Boston. Much to his joy the woodsare full of wildlife, including foxes. Ken hasfrequent contact with L. Jed Berliner, whois an attorney practicing in Springfield, Mass.Jed's new joy/toy is a motorcycle. Ken alsogot together with Mark Greenwald '70 andwife Carie in Greenwich, Conn., where Markis a landscape designer. We'll have a reportof Reunion in the next issue. Π Sue Rosen-berg Thau, 6217 29th St., NW, Washing-ton, DC 20015.

WT^\ Reunion plans for our 20th in JuneΓ f I 1993 are beginning to shape up,i J and details will be following, both• ^ in this column and in mailings to111 class members starting this sum-• ^ mer. If you are interested in help-

ing, please contact me—particularly if youwould like to participate in our Reunion re-

cruiter contest. Sandra Black-Stubbs andhusband Gary '74 live in the Bronx. Sandihas been working with the Black AlumniAssn. (CBAA) for the 1992 Reunion and thetheme was to be "Continuing the Legacy ofInstitution Building: Giving Back to our Com-munities." She chaired the publicity, mail-ing, and registration committee. She is alsoa member of the University Council's finan-cial aid sub-committee. James W. Pearceis living on a farm near Knoxville,TN withhis wife and children Ryan, 4, and Loren, 18months. They have lots of horses and re-cently added several cows to the menager-ie. Looking through the list of class donorsfor the 1990-91 Cornell Fund campaign,James expressed wistfulness at reading somany well-remembered names. Reunionnext year would be a great opportunity tocatch up with those people, Jim! CherylCovey Evans of Rochester, NY is alreadylooking forward to seeing her suitematesfrom North Campus—Sue, Lisa, and Jan—at our 20th.

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ico for July's total solar eclipse. He says itbeats working! Bruce I. Cohen and his fam-ily live in San Francisco, where daughterPaula (a kindergartner) is excited aboutriding her bike across the Golden GateBridge. Bruce didn't finish his thesis priorto wife Gale's 40th birthday as he had hoped,but he did make it right after his 40th. Henow has his PhD in computational biology.

Carol Fox Hantman and her entirefamily—Stuart '71, Melissa, 12-1/2, andMarc, 8-1/2—train in karate. They enjoy theexercise and learning self-defense. Carol isactive in school, community, and religiousorganizations in the Coral Springs, FL areawhere they live. Joan Tompkins Lifson andhusband Peter are in Spring Valley, NY. Joanwould like to know where Marideth Sand-ier, S. Mitch Savitsky, and Carrie Gluck-son Gale are these days. (Our files show:Anchorage, AK, San Francisco, and Sharon,MA, respectively.) Π Martha Slye Sher-man, 48 Woodstone Dr., Voorhees, NJ08043; (609) 627-1984.

in W Navy Lt. Cdr. William Baker ofJ j J* Sherborn, MA was called to active

m 11 ^u^ at e Newport, RI naval hos-• ^Ij pital in support of Operation Des-• ^j^ ert Storm. We received no newsI JL beyond that, but I'm sure we'd all

like to hear about our class's contribution tothe war, so those of you who have stories totell, please write to us. Charles Lalley ofBίnghamton received the "Go-GetterAward" for outstanding sales performance ofBristol-Myers Squibb Co. last year; he is arep for the New England division. I receiveda note from Jim Grossman recently. Jimrecalls (fondly, but hazily) poker games on thefourth floor of Donlon. Funny, I have the samehazy memories but I could swear it washockey on the second floor. I took the timeat our 15th to tour the facility and was sur-prised to find little had changed, bedspreadsincluded. Jim notes he's director of the SchollCenter for Family and Community Historyat the Newberry Library in Chicago, and a re-search associate at the U. of Chicago. His book,Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners,and the Great Migration was released in pa-perback last year. Good to hear from you, Jim.

Another note came in from a Donlon andGrey Hill House crony, Brad Buchanan.He spends considerable time traveling in Cal-ifornia and Hawaii at construction projects,which isn't so strange when you consider heworks at Swinerton & Walberg. Brad remar-ried in July and is taking up snow skiing again.Daughters Marisa and Margo are 12 and 9.Brad would like to hear from Jim Stone,John Ramsay, and Suzanne Pudvin.

From Boston comes news from Dr. RonPies, whose new book Psycho-Therapy To-day, a guidebook for the general public, willbe appearing soon. Nancy GeiselmannHamill was re-elected to her third six-yearterm as district justice in Stevens, PA. Associety changes, crime increases, and civillawsuits increase, Nancy is busier than ever.But no raises in five years is a part of thegovernment that doesn't change. DaughterKaren is 2, but threatening to be a challeng-ing teenager, according to Nancy.

Dr. Larry Schulman is a full-time fac-ulty member of Columbia U. College of Phy-sicians and Surgeons. He recently announced

a set of twin boys in addition to his two old-er children, but left out the particulars. Vic-tor Fornari and wife Alice (Johnson) re-side in Great Neck, NY. They're pleased toannounce the birth of their third child, Mar-ci, in 1990, joining Eric, 11, and Amy, 8.

Merrill Witzner Naughton writes fromStamford, CT that she's one of the top twosalespeople in the cash management divisionof Citibank in NY. She's busy remodeling

a home again to accommodate daughterMeredith. She just spent time with EllenFranklin Silver, who was visiting from LosAngeles. Ellen and Roy are parents of Jerry,2, and David, 1. On the personal front, Irecently returned from a fascinating trip toFinland and Russia. I had a chance to gosnowmobiling above the Arctic Circle, andactually drove a reindeer sled. In Russia Ihad the opportunity to break bread with aJewish family in St. Petersburg, newly dis-covering the joys of both freedom and reli-gion. Two things really made an impressionon me: capitalism is alive and well in spiteof 70-odd years of repression, and theysure could benefit from a few Hoteliesover there! I also have the pleasure of work-ing with Teresa Maloney '88, who's withFinnish National Distillers in NY. From ourdiscussions, I get the feeling that whileyears may have gone by, the Cornell expe-rience hasn't changed all that much. [See alsopage 70 for word of a classmate.} Π SteveRaye, 25 Litchfield Dr., Simsbury, CT06070.

W^9 ^\ I hope that you all have receivedJ j m t your News & Dues forms and de-i mf\ cided to become duespaying• p i members of our class. You will beI I I a^e to rea<^ ak°ut classmates inI ^J the Alumni News and even get

your name in print! Dr. Joyce Davis wrotethat she moved her dermatology privatepractice to new and larger quarters, now lo-cated on lower 5th Avenue in New YorkCity's Flatiron District. All alumni andfriends are invited to stop by and visit. MarkCurtis, MD, is in the pathology departmentof the U. of Pennsylvania. He is married toElena (Canals) '77 and they have childrenMark Peter and Dana.

Working toward an MS in accountancyat Bentley College, Janis Lang Giles iskeeping busy. She is in school part time andat home with sons Daniel and Andrew. Dave'77 is an engineering manager for Teradyne.Janis wrote that they caught up with SueSmith, who is alive and well in W. Roxbury,MA. In February 1991, Fred Kaplan accept-ed a position as controller of PBR Consult-ing Group Inc., which specializes in micro-computer technology. In June, he was elect-ed to the board of directors and corporatesecretary. In October 1990, PBR was rankedthe third-fastest-growing privately held com-pany in Philadelphia by the PhiladelphiaBusiness Journal

Paula Griffin Davis wrote that afterseven years of work in nonprofit public rela-tions for a zoo and a public TV station, sheis working as library literacy coordinator forWood County, OH. She will be starting upand managing all aspects of the library-basedprograms to fight illiteracy in northwestOhio. In her spare time she tutors Russian-Jewish refugees in English as a second lan-

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guage, and provides foster care for injuredorphan wildlife. A move for James Fitzger-ald III and wife Anne and their three chil-dren to New Hampshire: James joined OmniHotels as vice president, asset managementin their corporate headquarters there. Afterseven years with Marriott, this is a greatopportunity to utilize his operations, finance,and real estate skills.

After 12 years of flying P-3 aircraft outof Moffett Field, CA, David Demming hasaccepted an overseas assignment with aNATO staff in Denmark. David and wifeDebbie love Denmark and have plenty oftime to travel in Europe. Debbie has beenstudying Danish and is doing well with thisdifficult language. They managed a trip toCornell before leaving the country and hadnot been back to Ithaca since 1977. Davidwas amazed at all the new buildings, and theyhad a great two days and stayed at theStatler. Virgil Dearmond told of his exper-iences in Saudi Arabia. He wrote in July 1989that his assignment would provide him witha unique experience in a completely differ-ent culture. He did not know that 18 monthslater, practically all the US military wouldbe there while the world watched on CNN.He was amazed to see how things operatedfrom the inside and not always as portrayedin the media. He included a picture of him-self near Abha, near the Red Sea. He wasvisiting a radar site and had to stop and feedthe baboons! He described the day as cooland dry, barely 120 degrees! Π Lisa Dia-mant, 31 Ingleside Rd., Lexington, MA02173.

^TP^% On behalf of our class correspon-f /I 1 dents, welcome to all class mem-i \/ bers who are receiving this sam-1 y\ pie issue of the Alumni News. WeI I I h°Pe y°u fmc* the magazine so in-I ^ teresting that you'll decide to be-

come a duespayer and receive our columnsten times a year. The more duespayers wehave, the more space we get to publish newshere. Besides, how else will you be able tocatch up on all the class news before our15th Reunion next June?

We begin with news of a couple of wed-dings. Attorneys Debra Bromson and MarkLichtenstadter were married May 24, '91.Cornellians in attendance included SharonRothschild Silver, Carol S. Levin, MaryWilensky Kahn '79, and Matt Adler '80.Psychologist Nicola Wolfe married Mat-thew Tuchow, June 30, '91. On the babyfront, Evelyn Sturm Berkowitz and Alan'77 welcomed daughter Cara Lauren, Dec.10, '91. Cara joins brothers Daniel andMichael in Cherry Hill, NJ. Dick '75 andWendy Haynes Hauptfleisch had Eric inJanuary 1991. Both Dick and Wendy workfor Exxon in Baton Rouge, LA. Wendywrites that she learned all about motherhoodwhile visiting Pat Moran Peters, who livesin Houston.

In academia, Michael "Mick" Rogersis in the MBA program at U. of California,Davis. Also there is Steve Southwick, whohas been working as a scientist for more thanfive years. Steve writes that he married aCalifornian and is starting a ranch in north-ern California. Charles A. Schulz is also inCalifornia, working at Lockheed in Sunny-vale. And in Pasadena, Cynthia Kubas and

husband Roger Hackett, PhD '85 live in a1926 Spanish-style house. Cynthia works insales for Ortho Biotech. Virginia "Ginny"Gorman married Don Turley in the fall of1990 and moved to Reston, VA, where shewalks to work. She writes that David '77and Ilean Stein Voigt live in Chicago whereDean "retired" to spend time with theirdaughter, 4. Keep those News & Dues formscoming so that we have something to writehere! Π Angela DeSilva DeRosa, 12550Piping Rock #28, Houston, TX 77077; PepiF. Leids, 7021 Boot Jack Rd., Bath, NY14810; Andre Martecchini, 17 SevernaAve., Springfield, NJ 07081; Sharon Palat-nik Simoncini, 145 4th Ave., Apt. #5N, NYC10003; and Henry E. Farber, 6435 289thAve. SE, Issaquah, WA 98027.

As your new class correspondent,I send greetings from E. Hamp-ton> NY» and hope many of youwill write with your news. Sever-al classmates returned to the USafter spending time abroad. Da-

vid Rupert is back in New York City after awhirlwind tour of duty in Asia and can bereached at (212) 783-7548. Anne Marie"Amar" (Reilly) and husband Joe Hadley'80 are also in the NYC area, following twoyears in London. Beth Linderman writesthat husband Bob Kimball spent fourmonths in Saudi Arabia last year, where hissurgical services were, fortunately, not ingreat demand. On the homefront, Charlie, 7,and Katie, 4, keep Beth and Bob very busy.Classmates currently abroad include MarkHansen, who left Booz Allen & Hamilton toset up his own company, Trans-Sim Busi-ness Consultants, in Singapore. Mark writesthat efforts are underway to set up a Sin-gapore Cornell Alumni Assn. If you want fur-ther information, Mark is listed under "M"in the Singapore telephone book(!). IrisFinkelstein Stoner, husband Tad, anddaughter Erin continue to live in Hong Kong,where Iris is a free-lance writer. They had afun visit with Lloyd Herman, wife Julie, andson Geoffrey last year. Iris reports the samephenomenon we all experience^ at the 10thReunion: neither she nor Lloyα looked anyolder.

Newcomers to Istanbul, Turkey, includeTiernan Shea and husband Doug, who isthe general manager for the local Pepsicosnack foods operation. Before leaving forTurkey, Tiernan was the maid of honor atCathy Cappucci's marriage to Bob Needlein June 1991. Bob and Cathy's reception wasat the Statler Hotel. Other classmates attend-ing included Barb (Kulik). and DaveCrouthamel and Lynda J. Black. Cape Codwas the setting for the wedding of GinnyHoyt and Tony Bouza Sept. 7, '91. ZenaSaunders and husband Glenn Schlossberg,Renee Smith '78, and Lori Altshuler '78were on hand to help celebrate and had aterrific time. On Sept. 28, '91, Linda Sara-zen married Patrick Hickert. After a honey-moon in France, they returned to Charlotte,NC, where Linda is an attorney with Petree,Stockton & Robinson. Andrew Mikeswrites that he married "a lovely lady," CarolA. Schults, Nov. 16, '91, in Tenafly, NJ.

Several classmates, myself included,have become parents for the first time. Rob-ert and Michelle Sens Novo announce the

arrival of Alexandria Jeannette, Nov. 19, '91.Cindy Estis Green writes that NathanialAlan was born Aug. 28, '91. Both she andthe baby "are doing well." Mark L. Wilsonand Denise (Rempe) '80 welcomed RyanMichael Wilson in June 1991. In Princeton,NJ, Laurence Joseph Jordon IV was born July13, '91, to Larry and Debbie Moon Jor-don. Debbie writes that "L.J." was 10pounds, 12 ounces, and 22 inches long. AnneElizabeth, 2-1/2, adores her brother. Larrycontinues to practice surgery and recentlybecame a fellow of the American College ofSurgeons.

Dr. Emily Fish Haynes and husbandMark finished a busy year building theirhome in the Rocky Mountains at Nederland,CO. Robert R. Gilbert and wife Trish havepurchased a brownstone in Park Slope,Brooklyn. They enjoy having a back yard andusing the barbecue in the good weather.Speaking of good weather, enjoy the sum-mer, and keep in touch! Π Cindy AhlgrenShea, Cattle Walk, PO Box 1413, E. Hamp-ton, NY 11937.

Here is a scoop that, we hope,beats the Class of '81: Class Cor-nell Fund Chair Peter Cooperand wife Celia Rodee '81 wel-comed Alexander Rodee Cooperon March 3. The Cooper-Rodee

crew are rapidly adjusting to life with babyin Brooklyn. Peter, we do not think you areover-sensitive about getting a family an-nouncement in the '80 column! The rest ofthis month's news comes from some remain-ing 1991 News & Dues notes.

George and Florence Hudson live inPurchase and George commutes to Stam-ford, CT, where he is a financing analyst withthe IBM Credit Corp. Peter Hawley is as-sociate director for new business develop-ment at Ethicon in Somerville, NJ. On thelegal front, Ira Halfond practices law onLong Island and is married to Ellen Kaplan.And out West, Scott Haber practices lawLos Angeles style. Down on the farm, Doug-las Corwin raises ducks on Long Island.Outdoor work occupies James Fetterly inChino, CA, where he is a golf course super-intendent.

Cathy Howell Halayko is assistant di-rector at the Bethlehem Preschool in Glen-mont. Heidi Weiss Diamond is at ThePrinceton Review and lives in E. Rutherford,NJ with husband Wayne '79. Interested in"optimum fitness?" Robin S. Goldman is avice president at Optifit in Baltimore, whichoffers everything from diet counseling toone-on-one training. Sounds good to me!Guy Fusco works in human resources man-agement at Baxter Healthcare in Deerfield,IL. Also, in the field of human resources isMartha Francis Fischer, who is employeerelations manager for Surgical Laser Tech-nologies in Malvern, PA. The Houston realestate market keeps John Fedorko busy.Marcie Besdine Cappell works in real es-tate finance for Chemical Bank in New YorkCity.

Research and development engineerScott Damesek works for ABB-Power Au-tomation in Melville. Maggie Markey Cor-ey is a hazardous waste engineer in Mont-gomery, AL. Moving a little west to Texas,David Alve works for Embassy Suites in

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marketing systems and lives in Big D Dal-las. Down in San Antonio, Sharon Baileyis in business development for Nix MedicalCenter. Back in NYC, Jeffrey Axelbank isa psychology intern at the Brooklyn VAMedical Center. Dr. Diane Barton practic-es medicine at the Cooper Hospital in Cam-den, NJ. That about does it for this month.Please remember to send your dues andplenty of news! Have a warm, wild, and won-derful summer. D Jill Abrams Klein, 12208Devilwood Dr., Potomac, MD 20854; JonGibbs Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd., Syracuse,NY 13207; and Pam Simons, 213 Elm St.,Albany, NY 12202.

^\ I It was only one year ago when we1 1 Λ were all at Cornell celebrating our\ί I 10th Reunion. Only four years tof\ I g° before our 15th! As always,1 1 1 there's plenty of news from class-^ JL mates. The Class of '81 baby boomcontinues with news from Class CornellFund Rep Celia Rodee and husband PeterCooper '80 who had a boy, March 3, at NewYork Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.(Where else?) Alexander Rodee Cooperweighed eight pounds, 12 ounces at birth.Kealy Elizabeth was born to Mary Beth andJohn Hartman, March 3 in Atlanta. Gary'80 and Lori Swidler Gertzog (believe itor not) also had a baby on March 3! BryanScott joins Allison.

I saw a few classmates at the CornellBlue Moon Ball in New York City on Sat.,Feb. 29. Celia Rodee and Peter Cooper co-chaired the event. Also in attendance wereDon O'Connor, who was on the organizingcommittee, Fred Cohen, and Sondi John-son, who was on the benefits committee.Proceeds from the evening will be used tofund two Cornell Tradition Fellowships.Betsy Silverfine tells us that Paul and GailEinbender Jacobson had second child DanaKristine on Jan. 19, '92. Dana weighed eightpounds, four ounces. Betsy has a new job asregional director for developmentally dis-abled children in Israel; her office is in NYC.Michael McCully wrote to say he and wifeEllie had Tyler Kain, Sept. 23, '90. Son Cam-eron is 4-1/2. Michael is vice president atLehman Brothers in NYC and works in in-vestment banking. He stays in touch withJon Levine, Jim Evans '82, BS Eng '83,CJ. Allen Murphy '80, and Steve Silver-stein. Regina Rousso has been travelingaround. She was a staff member of the "Se-mester at Sea" program in late 1989, thenassistant to the vice provost for student af-fairs at the U. of Cincinnati until April 1991,when she was promoted to director of resi-dence life/housing.

Here's some "feel good" news. Ourclass, by initiating the Class of '81 MemorialCornell Tradition Fellowship is helpingChristine Franzese '95 achieve her aca-demic goals. Through our class gift, we andsome anonymous donors have raised $4,405toward the goal of $25,000. Christine is afreshman in the Ag college, majoring in bi-ology, and is from Watkins Glen, NY.

Congratulations to Mynn Paige, whojoined the public relations firm Hill andKnowlton in Chicago as a senior specialiston nutrition. Mynn was the manager ofhealth professional programs at the Nation-al Dairy Council. Mynn is a registered dieti-

tian who received an MS from Tufts U. Con-grats also to Class President MichaelHoard, who was recently elected to the Cor-nell Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) board.Michael does marketing for American Na-tional Can Co. in Norwalk, CT. He stays intouch with Daniel and Barbara Schellen-berg Nagel, who work as lawyers and livein Connecticut with daughter Sarah. Michaelalso hears from Miriam Rogers, who re-sides in Monmouth Junction, NJ and worksin brand management for Johnson & Johnson.Tell us what's new with you! C RobinRosenberg, 2600 Netherland Ave., Apt. 201,Riverdale, NY 10463; Kathy Philbin LaSho-to, 114 Harrington Rd., Waltham, MA 02154;and Jennifer Read Campbell, 103 CrescentRd., Glastonbury, CT 06033.

Hope you've packedyour bags for our10th Reunion. Wehave lots to look for-ward to as we "Re-new the Memories

Together." Many thanks to Tom Carboneand Nate Rudgers for their planning, organ-izing, and tireless efforts in putting togetherour Reunion weekend. Five years is a longgestation period! And my thanks to all of youfor your encouraging cards, letters, and sup-port over the past five years. It's been a priv-ilege to serve, not to mention a great deal offun keeping up with friends and meetingclassmates. Speaking of friends, Greg Lan-gan and Julia Martin announced the arrivalof Tess Martin Langan, born on proud pa-pa's birthday, March 12, '92. Greg is an as-sociate at the New York City law firm ofWhitman Ransom, in the labor department;Julia is a free-lance magazine writer. Thom-as and Trudy Scott Ives sent news fromAtlanta about the birth of Lindsay in Febru-ary 1991.

Friends out West include Jeff '81 andSandy Molner Whitlock and daughterBrenna, who are settling into their moun-tain home in Littleton, CO; Mark and KathyGettings Trauner, who are now in Boulder,CO; and Wendy Raymond, who is one ofthree Cornellian postdoctoral fellows in thegenetics department at the U. of Washing-ton. (The others are Elizabeth "Betsy"Malone '85 and Haskell Adler, BA '84.)Reunioners from Seattle, along with Wendy,will be H. Torsten Griem, Chris Hansonand wife Katharine Wright, and possibly JannHoopes Cassady and Caroline McKallor.Wendy encourages all East Coast classmatesto make extra contributions to Cornell forthe amount that our faraway classmatesspend just to travel back for Reunion. (Niceplug, Bob Ramin!) Wendy also writes, "takeCliff Lomboy off the missing persons list!"Cliff, wife Marygrace, and their daughter andson are moving to Lancaster, PA, where hewill be in private practice as a gastroenterol-ogist; he completed his residency at theMayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

John McDaniel got out his typewriterto send news of classmates he keeps in touchwith and hopes to see at Reunion: DanLoughridge, Earle Weaver, E.B. "Ned"Ensor, Chris Lynch; Todd Parker, in LosAngeles, working for the LA Kings; Daveand Nicki Lazare McDonald and son Dix-on; T.O. "Tim" Daly, working for Mercan-

tile Safe Deposit and Trust; Susan Pitzer,doing marketing for AT&T and riding hors-es in her spare time; and Howard and Di-ana Friedman. Scott Bortner is fulfillingone of his senior-year pledges—a PhD andlaw school, somewhere in the San Franciscoarea. Dick Tucker is also a mystery—whereare you? John reported that David '81 andJoan Lucas Meyerhofer had a baby, Mar-garet Jean, last November. As for John, he'sin a new job at Baltimore Gas & Electric ineconomic research, so he may get to use hisoperations research training yet.

Val Baum moved to Rome last Septem-ber, in care of the American Embassy, andis doing economic research; she sends re-grets she won't make Reunion. Last weheard, Kathleen Miller, chief, managementaccounting division for the US Army, was stillin Europe; back home is Michael A. Green-berg, manager of recruiting coordination anduniversity relations for Schlumberger Ltd.,in Houston. While most of his time is spentvisiting college campuses throughout the US,including Cornell's, his former Schlumberg-er assignments gave him opportunities toexplore several locations in Brazil, Argenti-na, and Angola.

And, finally, congratulations and thanksto Class President Brian Zimmerman onhis marriage to liana Gruebel in January, andfor his continued leadership of ourclass. D Nina M. Kondo, 323 W. 82nd St.,4A, NYC 10024; and Nancy K. Rudgers(Boyle), 25 Mist Hill Dr., Brookfield, CT06804.

Personally, I like oΓ Kate andSpence, but my new casting forthe "Philadelphia" Story will beclassic. Leading man: LaurenceGoodman, able to procure court-room props and represent the ac-

tor's guild as a union attorney for Walters,Willig. Ira Cohn, a Merion resident by nightand vice president of sales, marketing, andplanning at ARA Services by day. JeffreyKahn, an unknown from Philly. RandallHarris, a long-shot from Erie. I'll have tooffer Harlow Russell big bucks so he won'tmove to Indonesia as planned to manage acompany. (He recently had his '71 Volks-wagen stolen from the front lawn of his moth-er's Richboro home.)

Leading lady: Stephanie Brown, tallblonde, vice president of the Philly CornellClub, and a Rosemont resident. Carla Col-angelo, an Allentowner best suited for theroller coaster scenes. She's a member of theAmerican Coaster Enthusiasts. Ellen Bob-ka adds General Hospital-esque high dramaas a health care administrator (and my BrynMawr roomie). Cindy Harris Gray, a healthcare business owner now living in Devon.

Leading couple: Scott and PatriciaPalmer Dulman are aching to perform theromantic scenes. This real-life husband andwife team moved to Berwyn last year. Pattyis a technical writer. If needed, I can castmy crowd scenes in New Jersey. I can "dis-cover" David Berger of Hoboken, Mat-thew Lambert of Maplewood, and JohnMacDonald II of Montclair. Will I "shoot"Robert Fischer, a Salomon Brothers em-ployee who moved to Marlboro last year, orJames Christ, a consultant for Buck Con-sultants, who resides in Millburn? I need a

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Any cyclist worthhis or her PhilWood grease cantell you that pas-ta and bicycling

are a natural (some-times mandatory)match. Lauren Heffer-on has gone to thesource on both, marry-ing her love of Italyand things Italian (es-pecially pasta) withher passion for cycling. The result: Ciclismo Clas-sico, the company Hefferon founded, which runsweek-long bike tours through Italy during thesummer,

"Cycling is a simple pleasure/' says Hefferon,who lived in Europe after graduation and pedaledmore than 25,000 miles around the Continent."When you pedal through the Italian countrysideit's almost like you're churning out the scenery asyou bike. You can't really experience the soundsand smells of Italy when you're stuck in a train ora car/' Cyclists seem to agree: when Hefferon ranher first tours, in 1989, 25 people signed up; lastyear 130 pedaled along.

Hefferon, pictured here on her favorite mode of.transportation, divides her time between her homein Somerville, Mass, and Italy, where she scoutsnew routes by staying in small hotels and arrang-ing meals made from local specialities.

This year's tours will cover routes in Sardinia,Tuscany and Elba, Sicily and a traversal of the Ital-ian penninsula. Riders average about 40 miles aday, but at a pace Hefferon says runs from /'lei-surely, for the person just looking for a nice way tosee the real Italy/to really fast, for Joe Biker. Peo-ple can just go at their own pace/1 The tours,which cost an average of $1,800, include bike rent-als, all hotels, and most meals. "It's a cultural im-mersion/' Hefferon explains, "not a luxury immer-sion, But you get all the pasta you can handle/'

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really good off-camera crew. For those toughlighting shots, Linda Penny Kiggins, ofHoboken, fills the bill as an architecturallighting designer. Or will I hire CatherineFeudi Mulvey of Ridgewood, Kathy Lit-win Kronick of S. Orange, or SusanRaduziner Blain of Mt. Laurel? MarijaneMagliaro Zona moved her talents to Hobo-ken last year. Dr. Eva Bostek, DVM ofMorris Plains, is the four-legged critics'

choice. Eva works at the Madison Veteri-nary Hospital and she's hunting for a housein north-central Jersey. I would like to thankmy director, Linda DeAnguera Koons ofWestwood, who often consults with Liz Ca-use. Liz works on Long Island as a physi-cal therapist for children. My producer isMauro Chiaverini of Lewes, DE. Ithaca au-ditions will be held at our June 1993 10-yearReunion along with class officer elections.

Robert Ewald '84 wrote us about a specialnomination: F.R. "Renny" Mendez marriedLeslie Henshaw in September of last year.Bob was best man. Send us your scripts!Π Caroleen Vaughan, PO Box 8256, Rad-nor, PA 19087, and Michele SilvermanKrantz, 1811 19th St., NW, #5, Washing-ton, DC 20009.

By now you all should have re-ceived your News & Duesforms. Tim Becker and I aredesperately in need of yournews for our column eachmonth, so please send lots of it

along with your forms. As promised, I willcontinue this month with news of our class-mates in New York City. In fact, a book ar-rived in the mail from New York the otherday; John Constantino recently publishedA Poor Man's Proof for the Existence of God.John's book has an endorsement from Pres-ident Rhodes, among others, on its back cov-er. John is currently a resident pediatricianand psychiatrist at the Bronx Municipal Hos-pital Center. After studying philosophy atCornell, he received his medical degree fromthe Washington U. School of Medicine in St.Louis. John, wife Michele, and their daugh-ter live in the Bronx. In his acknowledge-ments, John thanks, among others, his "Eng-lish professors at Cornell who taught himhow to write."

News from Brooklyn from AnthonySolomita, who works as a director of mar-keting: Anthony traveled on business toHong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia,Singapore, China, and Thailand, since hiscompany's corporate manufacturing facilitiesare located in those countries. Anthony's lei-sure time activities include softball, volley-ball, bowling, and baseball card collecting.Curtis "Chip" Alliaume is a senior productmanager for St. Martin's Press, and also livesin Brooklyn.

From the Bronx we hear from Jeff Sil-ver, Leonard Pinsker, and Leah Stern.Leah writes that after five years of floatingfrom one job to the next, she entered a grad-uate program in nutrition education at Teach-er's College/Columbia U. She graduated inOctober 1990, and is now doing a dieteticinternship at various hospitals associatedwith Columbia. She has visited several Eu-ropean countries, and enjoys outdoor activi-ties, such as biking and running. Joan Good-man is a teacher in Riverdale.

In Manhattan, Pamela BorthwickBass is an associate marketing manager forNewsweek. Alan Straus is a portfolio man-ager. Jayme Ratner is a marketing manag-er. Stacy Bush Klestadt is a graduate stu-dent. Dr. James Kefgen is an executiverecruiter who has recently traveled to Por-tugal. James saw Mike Cahill while skiingin Vermont at Stowe. Carolyn Gusoff is aTV news reporter. Jeffrey Glick is a de-partment store buyer. Laurie Girsky is ininstitutional sales. Adam Dener is a bank-er. Stacey Bradie is in marketing. TeresaYan is in insurance. Kevin Cook and wifeTami (Bitter) '83 now live in Manhattan.Susan Klugman Gorobetz is in her chiefresidency in ob/gyn at Albert Einstein. Avi-va Weintraub works for the Jewish Muse-um, and visited Hungary, Poland, and Czech-oslovakia. Amy Weingart-Rothman is a

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hospital administrator. Robert Feinbergstarted a new job as assistant US attorney,federal criminal prosecutor, in the EasternDistrict of New York. Christina Melite alsostarted a new job as a nutrition coordinatorwith the Health Insurance Plan of GreaterNew York. She graduated from New YorkU. with an MS in nutrition, and enjoys run-ning in Riverside Park.

In Queens, Marlon Brownlee leftAndersen Consulting, where he had beenworking since 1986, and joined Vista USAInc., a small consulting firm specializing indeveloping information systems for clientsin the publishing industry. Wife Jeaniene(Mosley) completed her MBA at Columbia.She recently began working at AmericanExpress in Manhattan, where she is an as-sistant manager in travel-related services.Marlon is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.Laura Abramson graduated from StanfordU.'s graduate school, and returned to NewYork. Laura writes that Myra Karasik isliving in Sydney, Australia, that LauraDavidson is an associate at a law firm inNew York, and that Linda Edelman is in-volved in the travel industry and took sometime off to travel around the world. DarrenMiller lives in Forest Hills and works inadvertising.

Living in Manhasset, Elizabeth Par-rella is a securities analyst for GoldmanSachs. James Gearhart is an Andersenmanagement consultant and lives in Melville.

Well, that completes my supply of newsfrom the 1991-92 News & Dues forms. Ifyou would like to have either Tim Beckeror me to include your news in an upcomingAlumni News, please either send it directlyto one of us, or include it with your dues.Wishing everyone a happy spring! G LisaStarsky Bronstein, 77 Haverford Ct., Hills-borough, NJ 08876; Tim Becker, 4145Landing Dr., #3A, Aurora, IL 60504.

^\ P^ In keeping with this column's11 I j thematic tradition I tried to fig-\f l k ure out what I might associate/\ I with the month of June, other• I f f than the obvious (brides). I came^ ^ up with: 1) June Cleavers, a trib-ute to classmates who are butchers; and 2)June bugs, a column honoring estival ento-mologists. Alas, however, I could find in myfiles neither summer bug lovers nor vealchoppers, so I resort once again to (youguessed it) wedding news.

The following actually qualifies as "an-niversary news" at this point, because lastyear I received so many wedding announce-ments that I am far behind reporting thesehappy happenings. On the better-late-than-never theory, here's news that ScottBookner, a physician at the Children's Hos-pital of Buffalo, wrote long ago of his wed-ding to Elissa Jaffe (U. of Pennsylvania '85),while Dr. Robert Bahadori also sent wordof his Washington, DC nuptials with ParinazZiai. Another doctor, David Gerber, atEmory's Department of Surgery, wrote tosay he'd attended Sam Gershenfeld's wed-ding to Lisa Lavin, also attended by AdamSlutsky and Wendy (Auerbach), MikeOringer, Andy Shuster, Mike Goodman,Will Richmond, Lenny Goldstock, andEllen Eskenazi '88. David also noted thatI could add his name to the spouse list; he

wed Ann Griesser last October. (Note to SamGershenfeld: do unto others as they havedone unto you; send me details of Dave'swedding to Ann!)

Last year A.C. "Tony" Martinez madeJoanne Campanelli a June bride in a cere-mony in which Tony's ILR buddy, VincentSuppa, served as best man. Two monthsearlier, Nancy Parkhurst and Steve Law-less had tied the knot before moving to sun-ny Newark (California, that is). JulieKephart just missed being a June bride, butshe probably didn't mind; her July 7 wed-ding to Don Salady took place at DiamondHead Beach Park in Waikiki, a fitting spotfor the human resources director of MauiLand & Pineapple Co., "the largest produc-er of private label pineapple in the US."

In groom news, Keith Symonds, a con-sultant with the Transport Workers Union,Local 1OO, formed a happy union of his ownwith spouse Jennifer Ellenberg '86. Con-gratulations are also due Keith for his elec-tion to the presidency of the NYC Home-brewers' Guild and for becoming one of only130 certified beer judges in the country. (Youjust know that Keith's Phi Sigma Kappabrothers are saying, "We knew he had it inhim!") Alan Winsor wrote to say that hejudged Shawn Marie Brown to be the per-fect bride during their Dixie wedding in Bir-mingham, AL. In another sunny clime, An-thony Smoller, an independent film produc-er in Los Angeles, married Maria-Flora Mill-er, a Pacific Oaks College grad, while Dik-ran Kadagian, a financial consultant withShearson Lehman Brothers, has found hiswife, Deborah Learn, an Ithaca College grad,in an icily familiar spot.

Getting Met Life obviously paid forMarc Schwarz, the lucky husband of Melis-sa (Frank), a Metropolitan Life Insuranceactuary who is now also an associate of theSociety of Actuaries. Their November 1990wedding (I did admit to being behind theTimes) was attended by Marcy Roth Rihm,Stacy Kaiser Gilmour, Tara LarsonCapecci, and Anne Mitchell. However, thewinner for oldest wedding news to see thelight of day goes to Marcella Linahan, whosuccessfully commandeered US Army Capt.Patrick Healy to the altar in an August 1990ceremony attended by Deborah Schondorf.I think it is only fitting to mark the end ofthe nuptial news in my files by presentingthe Wedding Good Sport Award to DavidVotypka, who wrote to say that his formerlongtime Cornell sweetheart, Ann Mattar,had married another guy, Dennis Bischof,and that the couple now lives in Vienna, VA.Thanks to David for gallantly providing thatscoop, and to all of you who took the timelast year to fill out those News & Duesforms. Although I still haven't gotten to allthe news you sent, I promise to keep try-ing! Thank you for your patience and for yoursupport. Π Risa Mish, 630 1st Ave., #5H,NYC 10016.

For the benefit of the large num-ber of you who don't regularlyreceive this magazine, welcometo the Alumni News and theClass of '86 column. This is typ-ically our little corner to publi-

cize events, make introductions, and whis-per the latest gossip while the teacher's not

looking. We'll take a brief sojourn into thelives of our peers before a State of the post-reUnion address. Here's how things fare inthe hectic world of, among others, lawyers.Beware the stampede of New York City at-torneys, including Michelle Adelman, Eliz-abeth Aldridge, Matt Berke, CarrieCiganek, Janine Cone, Laurie Green-berg, Suzanne Perla, and Rob Yellen.Janet Elie practices in Boston, while AlanBlock is in Los Angeles and Jeff Dunlap inChicago. Jeff writes he's reliving college-likedays with old roommate Byron delaVarre,DVM '90 on Chicago's near North Side. Jeffsalso in touch with John Smales, who's par-layed a degree in human development into acareer in rock music, playing gigs all overUpstate New York, including an opening actfor Meatloaf and the Black Crowes at Alba-ny State College. Rock on, dude.

Money: Brian Schwinn is a banker forChemical Bank in NYC. Meredith Berg isa personnel manager and Michelle FalkTemares is assistant vice president of mar-keting for the Bank of NY; Michelle cele-brates a two-year anniversary of marriageto husband Mark (Yale '84) this month. Deir-dre Maltais Heisler is an account execu-tive for a business in Burlington, MA,Gennaro Concolino is an accountant inSyracuse, and Donald Watros is a financialplanning manager for a company in Cleve-land.

reading for a moment and thinkabout whether you've paid yourclass dues. By paying Class of '86dues of $35.00, you'll receive asubscription to this award-win-ning publication. And you'll behelping to support the class. If youhaven't paid your 1992-93 duesyet, why not take a minute to do itright now. Just send your checkmade payable to "Cornell Class of'86" to Alumni House, 626 Thurs-ton Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850, Attn:Cathy Dowhos. Or, to charge dueson your Visa or MasterCard, call(607) 255-3021.

JUNE 199277

David G.Pagan

Richard A.Lipsey

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Mark D.Podgainy

O n November 3 of last year, three recentgraduates completed the New York CityMarathon. And although their respectivetimes didn't make headlines, they helpedraise money for good causes (Podgainy

helped Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital;Lipsey helped The Lighthouse, a social serviceagency), and forged a bond they'll likely cherishfor years to come.

Lipsey and Podgainy trained and hadplanned to run the race together, but, saysLipsey, "we bumped into Dave the morning ofthe race by the starting line and decided to runtogether." The three are pictured running inCentral Park (though not on race day)—Lipseyin shorts, Podgainy in the Cornell Crewsweatshirt, and Pagan in the yellow windbreaker.

Lipsey finished in three hours and fortyminutes, Podgainy took four minutes longer,and Pagan, who "had a tough time with the'wall/ " according to Lipsey, finished a bit later.

Now for some broader brush strokes:1986ers have remained active since gradu-ation with strong showings at Cornellevents. The yearly success of the Interna-tional Spirit of Zinck's nights, local 125thAnniversary celebrations, and local alumniclub trips and outings reflect a continuedinterest in the university by members of theclass. Enthusiasm peaked last year at Re-union when some 200 classmates got reac-quainted back at the scene of the crirne. And,although most of us have outgrown the UHalls (now refurbished) and the Dustbowl(now grassy), very few left without at least

one warm fuzzy feeling during the course ofthe weekend. Our class gift, a refurbishedtrail down into the Cascadilla gorge, was fi-nally dedicated, and new class officers wereelected. Stephen Brinkmann, former ma-jor gifts co-chair for the class and regionalmanager of Brinkmann Instruments in West-burn, NY, is president. Noreen Kennedy,former Reunion co-chair and a group man-ager for Prudential Life Insurance in NYC,is vice-president; Andy Wallenstein, cur-rently the Alumni News's business manag-er, is class treasurer; and Stacy Davidsonis secretary. Class correspondents include

myself, Karen Dillon, who's doing a longstint as a journalist in Britain, and severalothers.

Subscriptions to this magazine, a re-flection of the number of dues-paying mem-bers, have dropped off over the years froman initially strong start, and from this endthere are noticeably fewer contacts to thiscolumn. Fundraising efforts targeted at theclass have abated considerably, but Γm toldon good authority they'll resume at somefuture date. Through it all, this column re-mains one of the most viable voices of andto the class, quite independent from any of-ficial functions or financial motives. It's read(or at least skimmed) by every classmatewho receives the magazine and it prints with-out bias (and with only a little editing) what-ever you have to say. Usually this takes theform of recent events and newsworthy chit-chat, as above (who married whom, traveledwhere, published, did or won what), but itcan help you with social and job contacts innew cities, locating old pals, election cam-paigning (anyone running this year?), eventsof special and general interest, lonely-heartsquests, organizing get-togethers, and so on.It helps reach a large number of people eas-ily and for free.

As class correspondents we'll alwaysdredge up news that's fit to print, but thecolumn is more fun to read, and much morefun to write, when we get letters with theinformation that you really want printed. Somake yourself famous and embarrass a friendat the same time, send ideas for class con-tributions or functions, or put out an APB(All Points Bulletin) for lost friends. Theclass and what we can do for Cornell canfind or gain momentum through this column.Consider a subscription to the Cornell Alum-ni News as a renewed contact with the uni-versity and the class. And get involved lo-cally as things come up: interviewing appli-cants, serving as a contact for Cornell's jobsor career networks, as an organizer ofZinck's nights or other regional events. Thatway, our class won't lack for enthusiasm orfunds to carry out chosen projects, or mem-bers to think them up. Send questions to me(below) or to Alumni House, 626 ThurstonAve., Ithaca NY, 14850-2490, (607)-255-3021. If you're interested in participating onfuture steering committees, contact SteveBrinkmann (el Prez) at 1 Cantiague Rd., POBox 1019, Westburn, NY 11540-0207, (516)-334-7500. And don't touch that dial. Nextmonth: more of the news you've been wait-ing for. Write me! Π Michael Berkwits,630 2nd St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

As of this month, the countdownis on! Only one more year untilReunion. Hard to believe, isn'tit? I recently got a delightful let-ter from Ramon Reyes, Jr.,who writes that he has been at-

tending Brooklyn law school, where he hasserved as the editor-in-chief of the BrooklynJournal of International Law. Ramon workson the journal with Thomas D. Perreault'89, who serves as the managing editor. To-gether they are responsible for producing a"top notch" international legal publication.Tom spends his off-hours with wife Elisa(Diamond) '88. Ramon writes that othersworking on the Journal include Jessica

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Hausknecht '90, Nina Kim '87, and Pe-ter Chin '87. Ramon keeps in touch withScott Bailey, who is jamming away with hisband, Popthing. By day, Scott works as aparalegal for Arent, Fox in New York City.He also spends time with Lisa Simms, whoworks as assistant manager of Blooming-dale's linen department. Other news fromRamon: Aaron Spitz is finishing his fourthyear at Cornell Medical College and NaseerHashim is an associate with Skadden Arps,the largest law firm in NYC.

Three Cornellians were recently men-tioned in The New York Times. Amy Don-ner married David Allen Mann '89 at theTerrace on the Hudson in Haverstraw, NY.Amy is a staff assistant in the developmentoffice of the Woods Hole, MA Oceanograph-ic Inst. David is a PhD candidate in marinebiology at the Massachusetts Inst. of Tech-nology. And, in New Jersey, Jane Wieneris teaching English at Ridgewood HighSchool. After graduation, Jane received hermaster's degree in education from Harvard.Other news from the News & Dues forms:Jeff Childs is working as a performance an-alyst at Neuberger & Berman in NYC andliving in Hoboken, NJ. Also in NYC, WendyMyers is an information systems consultantat Andersen Consulting. Phyllis AschnerSaltz and Brian '87 report the birth of BanaBeth, Dec. 12, '91. Randy Stuzin is an at-torney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, andlives in NYC with wife Nancy (Henken).

On a final note, I'd like to bring you allup to date on the Class of '88 Scholarship,our senior class gift to Cornell. This year,our gift went to Alan Chen '92, who ma-jored in economics in Arts & Sciences. Itseems our gift idea has inspired a veryworthwhile trend—the three senior classesfollowing ours have also used their seniorclass gifts to create new Cornell Traditionfellowships. It's great to hear from you, soplease keep sending news! Also, rememberto renew your dues to keep your AlumniNews subscription coming. And when you do,take a minute to jot down what you and yourfriends have been doing. We'd love to knowwhat's going on. Send your news to:Π Pamela Chertok Caine, c/o CornellAlumni News, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY14850; Jacques Boubli, 433 E. 80th St.,#19, NYC 10021; and Jason McGill, 470W. llth St., Claremont, CA 91711.

Welcome to all of you '89ers whodon't usually receive the AlumniNews. The chances are prettygood someone you know will bementioned in this column—may-be even you—but the best way

to assure that we're all kept up to date onnews of you and your friends is to keep theclass correspondents up to date! Send your1992 dues in along with some current info,and you'll receive the Alumni News maga-zine for a year, and we'll have news to putin the column. Michele M. Trester has sentin lots of news: Dan Kaufman is studyinglaw at the U. of Pennsylvania. Before goingto law school, Dan was a member of a localBoston theater company and performed asEsther Smith, the Judy Garland role, in aproduction of Meet me in St. Louis. He wasalso a community activist working againstcensoring gay phone-sex advertisements.

Dan plans to work with gay rights organiza-tions in former-Soviet Union countries dur-ing the summer. Michele also reports thatWeiben Wang is earning his master's inlibrary science at the U. of Michigan andspends his free time playing in a fusion jazzband. Weiben spent a summer working at apeace camp in Nevada protesting desertwildlife hunting. He complains of the lack ofstudent activism in Ann Arbor.

According to Michele, Julie Nelson '91is earning her master's in information sci-ences at the U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.Julie has earned her scuba diver's license.Michele herself lives in Brooklyn, NY andis working for District Council 37—AFSC-ME. Michele would like to hear from JuliaSchuelke, Heather Ashley '90, DaphnaRoth, and Tevi Troy. Maria Carrillo hastaken this opportunity to surprise all of hernon-duespaying (but hopefully soon-to-beduespaying) friends by stuffing this columnwith their names and hijinks. The followingindividuals are Maria's classmates at theNational Law Center at George WashingtonU.: Cindy Meyer, Pam Burke, John "Jay"Fisher '90, Loren Lembo '88, ElysaGraber (who was recently married), BartColombo '87, Susie Sisskind, and LynnKnockwelter. Amy Huang, David Isling-er '88, and Eric Wenger '90 are also at-tending the National Law Center. Maria alsocontributes the following information: Cin-dy Ginsburg is working for Paine Webberin NYC, where Erinn Duffy '90 is workingfor Schumacher; Mike McGrann '88 isworking for National Westminster Bank, alsoin NYC, as is Kathleen Foran Giles '87,while Grant Gieringer '88 works for Sum-itomo Investment Bank there; Maureen"Mo" Donate '88 and Debbie Sloan '87were married recently (but not to each oth-er!); Shannon Buckley is working in as anengineer in Washington, DC; M.H. "Missy"Minoff is teaching English in Japan; JoshGreene is in Hong Kong working in hotelconsulting; Lynda Ferrari is in Boston;Spencer Hodson '88 is attending businessschool; Noah Weissman is attending NewYork U. law school; Scott Chernoff '88 isalso in NYC, as are Lenny Breslow '88,who is attending NYU law and also gettinghis MBA (whoa!), and C.J. "Dean" Kartso-nas '87.

Thank you to Violeta Argueta '90 forpaying her dues. Violeta is living in GreatNeck, NY and attending Fordham law schoolalong with Sue Guarnaschelli. DuespayerDavid Belcher is an environmental engi-neer with ABB Environmental Services Inc.Heather Borden is a magazine publicist forTV Guide. Heather hangs out with JudyPrutzman, Lisa Berg, Heather Alex-ander, and Andrea Reinwald. Paige Rie-ley married Michael Caldwell on July 1, '90.The Caldwells are living in Stowe, VT. Paigeworks in the development office at the U. ofVermont, where she is also taking classes.Steven Frank included lots of informationwith his dues payment: he is freelance writ-ing for several major publishing houses whilehe is studying for his PhD in English at NYU;he received his MA in February 1992.Steven is in touch with Ian Sklaver '88,David Yellin, Peter and Lisa Gle, and KarinGoldman. Lynn Weidberg is a group ser-vice manager at the Waldorf-Astoria in NYC,

and keeps in contact with Robyn Weslerand Allison Freedman.

Jennifer Aliski is a teacher at the St. An-thony School in Bristol, CT, and spent last Val-entine's Day weekend cross-country skiing inthe Adirondacks with Tara Brosenne, CarloBarton, Lynda Ferrari, Stephanie Ralston,and Tom Ryan. Mark "Roscoe" Anbinder isa computer consultant in Ithaca; he can bereached via E-mail at MHA on America On-line or Mha@memory.ithaca.ny.us on theInternet. (I don't know what any of thatmeans. Γm just reporting—hopefully—asrequested!) Mark sadly reports the death ofMHAHONDA, his 1984 Accord, that wasresponsible for many late night trips toMano's diner, road trips to Boston for ECAChockey, and other (mis?)adventures. Markkeeps in touch with Kappa Delta Rho alums,and saw a bunch at their annual pledge/alumice hockey game on February 22.

Th-th-that's all, folks! As usual, keep thenews coming. For all of you who enjoyedthis column or wish you had seen your name:pay your dues and send us all the info youhave! We include it all. D Dina Wisch Gold,950 25th St., NW, 429N, Washington, DC20037.

90Did you ever spend a summer atCornell? Remember lollingaround in the gorges, picnickingat Taughannock, wearingSHORTS almost every day? InITHACA—what a treat! Listen-

ing to foreign accents floating around StatlerHall's international program, snickering atjuvenile Advanced Placement students (wewere never that young!) traveling in packs,concerts on the Arts Quad, fewer lines, sun-sets at nine. Ahhh, what a life. Shorts. Everyday. Enough reminiscing. First up, thanksto Tracy H. Evans for calling in her info.She just graduated from the U. of Marylandwith a master's in social work. She also re-ported that Michelle Silver '91 is workingtoward her PhD in psychology at the U. ofDelaware and Rachel Korn is employed ata travel hotline in Boston. Randi FreedmanMeyer dropped a line to announce her mar-riage to Gary last August in Atlanta. Classof '90 delegates to this happy event were:Leslie Waltzer, Nancy Solomon, MaggyPeavey, Melyssa Plunkett, Melissa Ben-jamin, and Carolyn Colton. Also attend-

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PLANNING FOR GROWTH

hen Nicholas Ngwira ar-rived at Cornell in 1988,he was many, manythousands of miles awayfrom his home in Malawi

in east-central Africa. After earn-ing a master of public adminis-tration degree with a specialty inrural development, he made thelong journey home and put it towork. Last fall Ngwira was re-warded for his efforts and his ex-pertise when he was namedtown clerk and chief executive ofthe city of Mzuzu. He wears therobes—and wig—of office in thisrecent photo.

"Mzuzu," he told a reporterfor This is Malawi, "is a veryfast-growing city, probably thefastest growing in Malawi, andhence has enormous problems toachieve its ambitious pro-grammes. There's need for thecity council to create and help inthe creation of job opportunities

for the growing number of cityresidents." He points also to theshortage of housing, and theneed to help those who live inMzuzu's squatter settlements.

Nicholas Ngwira has had lotsof experience as a planner. Fol-lowing his graduation from Chan-cellor College in 1971, Ngwirabegan working in the public ser-vice sector as a planning officerin the Ministry of Works. Hespent the next twenty years in avariety of local and national plan-ning positions, as well as ingraduate school at KingstonPolytechnic in the United King-dom and, later, on the Hill

The father of six, Ngwira ishimself one of eight children. Inthe little spare time available tohim, he enjoys photography,countryside walks, and classicalmusic. And, no doubt, the factthat he is no longer so manythousands of miles from home.

ing were P.M. "Trish" Drobner '89 andVinnie DeliaValle '89. Randi is a systemsspecialist for Lithonia Lighting in Atlanta andis earning an MBA part time .

Karen Black wrote, too. (This is fun,Γm getting mail now.) She spent 13 monthsworking for JET (Japanese Exchange Teach-ing) in "remote but culturally rich" Kanaza-wa, Japan, and has now returned to New York

City to use her Japanese language skills asan assistant trader at Fuji Bank. An uniden-tified packet arrived recently from OutwardBound, Hurricane Island, ME. Upon open-ing it, I discovered an update from KirstenSpille, who has been sailing and climbingmountains there for two years now. She'llbe traveling around the country this sum-mer and would like to see people. Write to

her at The Little Echo Hollar Farm, St. Ag-atha, ME. She reported that Fran Raymondis headed for a Peace Corps assignment inthe Dominican Republic. Write to her in careof her parents at 140 Fairfield Rd., Prince-ton, NJ. Michael Pagnotta sent an update,too; he is now "loving it" as senior researchtechnologist in instrumentation developmentat International Paper's corporate researchcenter in Tuxedo, NY. His good fortune hasrecently allowed him to settle into his owncondominium in Chester, NY.

Some news from my side of the coun-try, now. Kavin Bloomer, MPS HA '90and wife Saniya extend warm greetings totheir friends at the Hotel school and theMPS Class of '90. Kavin is the resident man-ager at the Sheraton Grande Torrey Pines,a 400-room luxury resort in La Jolla, CA.E.E. "Ned" Brown, MPS HA '90, alsoworks there. In March, the hotel hostedDean Don Randel, Arts & Sciences, whilehe was touring the West Coast givingspeeches.

I've had some Class of '90 sightingsaround Los Angeles—I found J. YasminSalas at Overseas Filmgroup, where sheuses her banking knowledge to keep thebooks balanced. While on the ManhattanBeach Pier, I bumped into Ben Pavone tak-ing a breather from UCLA Law School. Anddriving down Santa Monica Blvd., I spied RobFitzgerald '89 in the window of a diner (aState Street Diner stand-in?). He is due tostart a graduate program in architecture nextyear at UCLA. Scott Whitney, a sales rep-resentative for Prodata, works out of hishouse near the beach in Playa del Rey, try-ing to convince attorneys that they need Pro-data's billing services to correct their cashflow problems.

Here's an interesting piece I never re-ported—classmate Christopher Rosbrooktook off to Peru last November to spend oneyear breeding llamas with a man named Phil.Anyone have any news on him? If you wouldlike to be featured with your update, writeto Sam Zia Zarifi by July 1 for the Sep-tember issue, Regina Duffey by August 1for the October edition. PLEASE note thatwe cannot publish engagements or pregnan-cies. By publishing only weddings and birthswe avoid duplicating news in our ail-tooshort space. Happy Summer! ΓJ KristynBenzinger, 14013 Captains Row, #107, Ma-rina del Rey, CA 90292; Sam Zia-Zarifi,31 Maplewood Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850; Re-gina Duffey, 1850 Center Rd., W. Seneca,NY 14224; Jennifer McComb, 1230 EvaAve., Los Altos, CA 94024.

^% J It's difficult to imagine that we've• 1 A been away from Cornell for a full111 year already (except for some\Λ I lucky folks such as Jessica§ § I Lifland, who spent this past year^J M. at Cornell). Being away seemedsurreal at first, and it certainly took sometime to adjust to new surroundings. How-ever, being away in body does not mean thatwe are separated in spirit. For example,Robert Weiner writes that he's "Still re-ceiving feedback from Cornell course assign-ments," and explains that he recently re-ceived a best paper award from the NewEngland Political Science Assn. for a paper

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he wrote for a history class and presentedat a conference last year. Robert also writesthat he is working as an environmental con-sultant with the Cadmus Group Inc., in Bos-ton, where he's active with the Cornell Club.He asked me to encourage other classmatesto get involved in that particular club, butthe message holds true for almost anywhere.The Cornell clubs provide a great way tomeet other Cornellians and to maintain tiesto the university. Congratulations, Robert!

Oona Lim has managed to locate class-mates in Buffalo, where she is a first-yearmedical student at the U. of Buffalo medicalschool. Oona says that there are about 20members of the Class of '91 there, and alsothat she thinks "it's awesome, althoughbusy." Classmates living in Upstate NewYork include Christopher Daddis, who's asociotherapist in Rochester, Suzette Bou-is, a landscape architect with Clough Har-bour & Associates in Albany, and SarahFord, a veterinary assistant near Troy. TheNew York City area is also well represent-ed. Both Andrew Galligan and AvinashMehrotra are working in the banking in-dustry in New York, the former at The FirstBoston Corp. and the latter at Morgan Stan-ley. Avinash included his business card withhis information form! Also in the area areRob Cignarella, an engineering consultantat LS Transit Systems in New Jersey, andStephen Di Camillo, also an engineer inthe Garden State. Finally, Jodie Rayburnis working as a research assistant at theAmerican Health Foundation in Valhalla, NY.

Fotene Niforos is a graduate studentat the U. of Pennsylvania and is interestedin getting in touch with Cornellians in thePhiladelphia area. Steve Ryu is also a stu-dent in Philadelphia. Going a little bit far-ther from the city, we find Cindy Miller,who's a process engineer at Air Productsand Chemicals Inc., in Allentown. Thatseems to be a popular profession among ourclassmates, as it's shared by David Toh.David may have a little bit more trouble lo-cating fellow Cornellians than some of therest of us—he's living in Singapore. Thereis a middle ground between the Northeast-ern US and Southeast Asia, of course, andsome classmates have managed to find it.After graduation, Linda Shih took a cross-country trip to San Fransisco, where shestarted a new job. Francine Simon is alsoin that area, where she started a PhD in so-ciology at Stanford. Graduate students canalso be found in the Midwest; for instance,David Schleuning is a student in Chicago.And, finally, Joan Kochan writes that sheis working toward a master's degree in foodengineering at the U. of Wisconsin, Madi-son. Joan offered a suggestion that we shouldhold a one-year reunion. Although the uni-versity only organizes such events everyfive years, maybe this column can provide asimilar function on a more frequent basis.But to do that, we need your input. Withoutyour letters, we won't have information toinclude in our columns. So to those of youwho have written, a heartfelt thank you, andplease continue to write. And to those ofyou who haven't, please start. We really doappreciate hearing from all of you. ΠHoward Stein, 3909D Leonardtown, U. ofMaryland, College Park, MD 20742.

The 5,422 new undergraduate and grad-uate students, including new studentsin the Medical College, who enteredthe university in the 1991 spring andfall terms included 295 who are knownto be the children, grandchildren,

great-grandchildren, or great-great-grandchil-dren of alumni. They represent 5.44 percentof all new students, down .66 percent from1990's 6.1 percent.

The information for these lists of stu-dents entering in 1991 was gathered by anAlumni Office program that keeps track ofthe children of alumni who apply for admis-sion, are admitted, and then matriculate atthe university. No such list is ever consid-ered to be complete, though, so additions andcorrections to the lists that follow are wel-come, both for publication in the AlumniNews and for the accuracy of universityrecords.

Among the incoming students was agreat-great-great-grandson of Ezra Cornell,the university's founder: Jonathan Roth is thegreat-great-grandson of Cornell's daughterEmma and her husband, Charles H. Blair1872, and the great-grandson of Blair's sonCharles H. Blair 1897 (all deceased). Anoth-er matriculant in 1991 is the granddaughterof the university's President Emeritus DaleR. and Nellie Griswold Corson. The name ofAmy Corson '95 is included on the following"Two Cornellian Parents" list, as her moth-er and father are both alumni.

Renee C. Wicks, a transfer student hasfifth-generation connections to Cornell. Sheis the great-great-granddaughter of the lateJay B. Kline 1871, and the great-granddaugh-ter of the late Willard Garabrant and the lateHarvey H. Wicks 1894.

Nine of the new students are fourth-gen-eration Cornellians:

Peter Haight is the great-grandson of thelate James C. Rockwell '04, the grandson ofWilliam S. Rockwell '38 and the late Olive(Vroman) '39, and the son of Gary S. '66 andAnne Rockwell Haight '66;

Ellen Leventry is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late Roy L. Leventry '11, the grand-daughter of the late Roy L. Leventry Jr. '33and the daughter of R. Robert '61 and Mar-jorie Lorig Leventry '62;

Douglas May is the great-grandson ofthe late John C. McCurdy, '08-12 SpEng, thegrandson of the late Milton R. '34 and RuthMcCurdy Shaw '37, and the son of LindaShaw May '61;

Amy Melville is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late Raymond P. Heath '11, thegranddaughter of Robert H. Heath '41, andthe daughter of Whinfield D. Melville '63;

Alexandra Ornitz is the great-grand-daughter of the late Nathaniel B. Ornitz '20,the granddaughter of Martin N. '42 and Bea-trice Swick Ornitz '43, and the daughter ofRichard M. Ornitz '67;

Ariel Sheldon is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late Henry T. Sheldon, MS 1894,

the granddaughter of Henry T. Sheldon '43,and the daughter of Melissa Michael Winter'83;

Andrew Slocum is the great-grandsonof the late George W. Slocum, 1898-1900SpAg, the grandson of the late Arthur E.Slocum '30, and the son of George S. Slo-cum '62, MBA '67;

Brian Thompson is the great-grandsonof the late Charles A. Clark Sr. '12, thegrandson of Charles A. Jr. '37 and HelenHarding Clark '36, and the son of Richard L.Thompson, PhD '74;

Curtis E. Volin is the great-grandson ofthe late Otis F. Curtis II, PhD '16, the grand-son of Otis F. Curtis III, PhD '40, and theson of Timothy E., PhD '71 and Cynthia MayCurtis Volin, MBA '68.

Seven other new students have fourth-generation Cornellian connections:

Robert Baldwin is the great-grandson ofthe late Eugene Thompson '09;

Saralyn Ness is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late Joseph H. Middleton '03 andthe granddaughter of the late Joseph C. Mid-dleton '36;

Brittany Pipes is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late J. Carlton Ward '14;

William Rollinson is the great-grandsonof the late Charles B. Swartwood 1897;

Lara Romansic is the great-granddaugh-ter of the late James G. O'Neill '03;

Harold Wilke is the great-grandson ofthe late William P. Wilke '09 and the grand-son of the late William P. Ill '34 and Marga-ret White Wilke '34;

Susan Woolf is the great-granddaughterof the late Robert Gregg '06 and the daugh-ter of Kenneth Woolf '60.

In the legacy listings that follow, de-ceased alumni are designated by asterisks(*) and a dagger (t) indicates a step-parent.Where Cornellian couples are listed, thewife's maiden name is indented, followingthe husband's name.

Grandparents OnlyIncluding third- and fourth-generation enter-ing students and others with multi-genera-tional Cornellian connections listed else-where in this section, 103 noted at least oneCornellian grandparent. Of these, 60 notedonly grandparents. (In some instances theclass year of the grandparent suggests thatthe student may be a great-grandchild rath-er than a grandchild. As always, correctionsand additions to any of these legacy lists arewelcome.)

Grandparent(s) Grandchild*R. McNeil Peck, Christian Africa

'27-28 SpAgLuis A. Nazario, MS Ag '44 Hector ArceMargaret Schultz Kirk '30 Adam BaackeRaymond C. Fingado '27 Rami Badawy

* George J. Knandel '24 Lillian BauerFrederick Underhill '47 Christopher

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*Irving Feinstein '28, Joshua Bell'28-29 Grad

Albert Heit '32, JD '34 Casey BergmanAlan W. Eraser, MD '43 Todd Bickford

* Katherine Scudder Eraser, MD '44H. Arthur Schuyler '39 Marci BinsackAlvin A. Meyrowitz '38 Michael BlankE. Jackson Taylor '37 Jonathan Blocksom

*Eleanor (Nye) '38Paul Van Nest '36 Peter BraunJames W. Oppenheimer '32 Lawrence BrownMillard L. Brown '41 Millard Brown III

* Adelaide Rowe Catlin '44 Anne CatlinFranklyn P. Cism Jr. '49, Cheryl Cism

MS Ag '50Gilberta (Stevens) '45

*Max V. Shaul '42 Steven ConineEunice (Goodman) '40

*John R. Cunningham '40 Erin CunninghamWilliam E. Van Atta '41David Dannis, MD '23 Seth Dannis

*Alvan R. Dean '29 Karen DeanServillano C. Yuson '28 M. Christina

De LeonJames F. Huxtable '37 Rebecca Dow

Adeline (Weaver) '38* Albert R. Blanchard '26 Elizabeth Evans*Benjamin Zimmerman '29, Heather Frank

MD'32Elwood Gray Glass, Jr. '39 Jennifer Glass

Flora (Daniel) '37*Richard M. Kochenthal '28 Evan Griffing*Ch'ian-Chi Ku '28 Kai Gu*David N. Hammerschlag '28 Benjamin

Hammerschlag*William H. Baily '33 Elizabeth Jordan

Dharam Vir Kohli, MS '49 Rakhi Kohli*Armida Sgrecci Peter LaMoreaux

LaMoreaux '32Ruth May Mehlenbacher Warner '47

Joan Scheffel Evans '46 Caryn LeviteJohn Verney '31 Marnee LewisThomas B. Martin, Sr. '34 Jeremy Martin

Martha (English) '34*J. Douglas Colman '32 Sarah Medlin* Percy C. White '33 Leslie Mesnick

Emma Joy Gonzalez, Mariemma MonroigJD '39

*B. Roy Norton Jr. '37 Mary Norton*Marlo H. Perry, Marcia Perry

'33-35 SpAgLuis Rodriguez-Gelpi '42 Frederick PrelleMary Etta White Whitney Reynolds

Reynolds '38John M. Hansen '42 Christianne Rich

Jean (Shaver) '44William S.Roberts Sr. '32 Ann Michelle

RobertsRobert S. Rochford '44 Melissa Rochford

*Daniel W. Schmitt, Nathan Schmitt'14-16 SpAg

*Otto B. Schoenfeld '33 Shelly SchoenfeldSolon A. Sternbergh '48 Katherine

Schoenfelder*Howard Schwartz '36 Jennifer Schwartz*John F. Church '39 Martin Snyder

Jeanne (White) '38Clifford L. English '26 Philip Spiller Jr.

*Arthur E. Stanat '28 Alexandra StanatToini (Pasto) '27

John S. Stewart '38, JD '40 Andre StewartEllen (Saxe) '40

Noel R. Stewart '32 Christine Stewart*Paul J. Weimer, Sr. '42 Matthew Tata

Lynn P. Himmelman '33 AlexandreTsutsumi

Three Cornell GenerationsOf the students entering in 1991, 32 are listed as third-generation Cornellians, Fourth-generation Cornellians and others with fourth- and fifth-generation connections arelisted in the introductory text on page 81.

Grandparent(s)Herbert W. Bean '40

*RichardJ. Bookhout '39,JD'41* Florence (Fieg) '41

Albert J. Blackwood'24* Pauline (Mcϊntyre) '24

De Graff Everett Bliss, MS '44Milton S. Gould '30, JD '33'Fr edric. C, Burton '42Alvern H.D. Butler'42Lawrence A. Christensen '37

Mary Fish Ferry '44*RayE. DeueΓlO* William E. Doll Ίl*Imre Thomas Gellert '27

Catherine Rohrer Gross, MS '42*Wihthrop D. Hamilton '29

Doris (Warren), '34 Grad*Ernest M. Rίggs '40

Henry W. LengyeΓ41, JD '48^Elizabeth (Price) '42

Joseph F. Artusio Jr., MD '43

'*Edward J, Martin Jr. '24Isabel (Niesh), '25-29 Grad

*Clement E. Crook '16William H. Latham'39

* William Daniel Moeder '27

*George W. Murray '24Albert E. Palm '36Robert A. Beck '42, PhD '54Arthur Leff '29, JD'30James T. Harbison '45

*Leon Pressman '26*Sophia (Platnik) '28

""Lawrence L, Levy '29Robert D. Sweet, PhD '41

*Milton Weiss'23, JD '25*Clayton S. Young, DVM '44

Pareπt(s) Child*Nancy Bean Abramowitz '68 AndrewRobert Biggerstaff '66 Rebecca

Katherin (Bookhout) '65, MAT '66*James M. Blackwood '53 Janet

De Graff E. Bliss Jr. '63, DVM '68Patricia Gould Booth '61Fredric C. Burton II '65Russell B. Butler'63C. Roy Christensen '67, MEM '68

Barbara Ferry de Mare '66Ray E. Deuel Jr.'38William E. Doll Jr. '53WilliamRobert S. Gellert '63, MBA '65Patrick W. Gross '65Wίnthrop W. Hamilton '63

John Homajr. '75Stephen P. Lengyel '64, ME CH '66

Neil R. Maclntyre Jr., MD 72Suzanne (Artusio) '70 BS Nurs

Edward J. Martin III '59

Peter M. Martin '67Kathleen Latham Meyer '68Charles William Moeder '64, MBA

Susan L (Poit) '63Cameron B. Murray '55Daniel J. Palm '65Janyce Beck Petzold 70Joanna Leff Pinsky '64Patricia Harbison Potts '69Darry A. Sragow '66

Susan (Pressman) '67Elizabeth Levy Carp '69George Tama '64

Christina (Sweet) '64Roger James Weiss '61, JD '64Charles!. Young'69

CatherineOliviaElizabethLauranneEric andKennethHeatherAlan

JoshuaGeoffreyW. James

JessicaStacey

Catherine

Julian

SilasEmilyHeather

CraigJacobCarlaLeaR.KimberlyLara

Oliver SykesI.sho Tama-Sweet

GregoryPeter

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Florence Moulton Wagstaff '34 JulieWagstaff

Arthur D. Wiser '42 JeffreyWiserMary (Raecher) '39

Helen Sleeper Ryan '42 Katherine WoodsMitsu Yoshimatsu '30 Takashi Yoshimatsu

Two Cornellian ParentsSixty-five new students are known to haveboth Cornellian mothers and fathers. Ofthese, 9 have Cornellian grandparents, great-grandparents, or great-great grandparentsand are listed elsewhere. The other 56 arelisted here.

Parents ChildKenneth M. Beal '62 David

Carole (Nelson) '63Roger K. Bentley II, JD '63 Meredith

Jane (Palminteri) '63Elliot R. Benton '65, MEE '66 Phillips

Janetta (Rebold) '67

Amy

Jill

Charles

Victor Berlin '68Janice (Milkman) '68

H. Bruce Bernstein '65Janice (Ostroff) '66

Richard N. Blazey '63Jacqueline (Norris) '65

William Blunden Sr., MArch '62 WilliamElizabeth Kelley Blunden '61Gifford C. Brown, PhD '74 Henry

Frances Cummings Brown, PhD '75Samir Ted Bustany, PhD '70 Paul

Laufey (Vilhjalmsdottir), '67-68 GradJames E. Capron '66 AmyBetty Lou Splunder Capron '68Richard A. Church '64 Stephen

Joyce (Payne) '64David W. Corson '65, PhD '74 Amy

Carolyn (Wright) '65Albert N. Cox '68 Krysta

Pamela (Streeter) '68Jack C. Dobson '64, MArch '69 Kelly

Diane (Barrett) '66N. Joel Edwards '62, DVM '64 Carol

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James G. Evans '62, MEE '64 JeffreyLinda (Edgett), '63-64 Grad

Miles M. Fisher '66 JanetPeggyJo(Daino)'69

Peter Fried '69 LisaWendy (Zisfein) 71

Joshua I. Goldberg '63, MS '65 NancyBetty (Schultz) '61

Robert D. Gosse '57 HollyLois E. (Heikkila) '64, PhD 70

James W. Grace '68 ElizabethVicki (Van Wormer) '68

Bruce H. Hardy 71, JD 75 CristinKristin (Mazza) 72

Miles J. Haven '67 RyanJean (Walton) '68

Gary Hellinger '61 RichardMarilyn (Schur) '63

Hermann Jenny '66 RobertSusan (Blair) '65

J. Erik Kamfjord '67 KatrinaKaren (Klitgord) '66

Jules B. Kroll '63 DanaLynn (Korda) '65

Joseph J. Lengermann, PhD '69 PaulPatricia Madoo Lengermann, PhD '69Alan L. Libshutz '67 Jeffrey

Joan (Smiley) '68Yung S. Liu, PhD 73 Alan

Ming I. Lee, '69-70 GradBenjamin Lucio, PhD 79 Araceli

Eglantina (Zavaleta), MS '69Peter J. Matteo, MS CS 71 Nicole

Marcia (Norby) 72J. Jeffrey McNealey '66 JohnAnne Gerhart McNealey '66William G. Merrill, PhD '59 BrianSusan Hartdegen Merrill, MNS '58tDaniel J. Decker 74, PhD '86 Alek Osinski

Christine (Kramer-Osinski), '82-84 GradGregory H. Persbacker '69 Christopher

Sharon (Huey) 70Gerald A. Peterson, PhD '60 Tycho

Cynthia (Wyeth) PhD '64Steven Polansky '67 Jennifer

Karen (Kaufman) '67Stanford Reaves 72 JosinaWendy E. Brown 74David B. Rogers, ME-C '67 David

Mary E. (Whitley) '66David P. Rosen '68, MPA 70 Caryn

Candice (Rosenberg) '68Lewis M. Rothman '61, MD '65 Jeffrey

Anne (Klein) '61Robert A. Schreiber '64 - Nathan

Helen (Schonbrun) '68Frederic T. Spindel '65 Laurel

Rhoda (Gaily) '67David Sun, ME-E '68 Richard

Mary (Fu), PhD 70Edward E. Swenson, PhD 74 Edward

Maria (Scaiola), PhD '69James V. Tarbell '57 Kristin

Roberta (Kupfrian) '65Richard L. Tax, MD 70 Jason

Anne (Wolin), '67-71 GradStephen A. Tyler '69 Bridget

Ingrid (Dieterle) '69Samuel Varsano '69 Joshua

Ann (Goldsholl) '69John H. Wiley '59 John

Virginia (Chase) '57David T. Woehr '63 Amy

Susan (Nye) '65Gary F. Wood '64 Eric

Jill (Poliakin) '67

Anthony P. Zavadil IΠ '65, MD '69 AnthonySandra (Passman) '65

James F. Zimmer '65, MatthewDVM '68, PhD 79

Eileene Nuttall Zimmer, '65-83 GradPaul H. Zittel '64 Mark

Linda (Hardy) '65

One Cornellian ParentOf the 163 new students noting one Cornel-lian parent, 34 also claimed at least one Cor-nellian grandparent and/or great-grandparentand are listed elsewhere. Names of the re-maining 129 follow:

Parent ChildJan Shapiro Abrams '64 CleoWilliam W. Allen Jr., DVM '69 ElizabethtAndrea L. Parrot, PhD '81 Julie AllenRobert H. Altshuler '65, JD '66 KarinGlenn W. Armstrong '66 DianeSewa R. Arora '68 SabenaRuth Waterston Baidas 71 LanisetWilliam D. Henry 73 Brandon

BaldwinMary Guyer Berg '61 ElenaBruce J. Bergman '66 JenniferJeffrey A. Berman 71 ArielleNaomi Joan Weinstein Berman '68 CarolWilliam B. Berman 70 GurRichard P. Bigelow, MD '54 RichardRoger C. Bransford '66 StephenBernard L. Brody, DVM '68 KateJames Murfree Butler '65 Jamestjoseph M. Quigley '54 Zachary CahillErwin L. Capener '49 MerrillJoseph H. Chen, PhD 71 DanielHua-Shan Chi, PhD 75 AnnAnthony J. Cooper Jr., MBA 73 Anthony IIIJames M. Cox, PhD 76 MatthewWilliam A. Coy Jr., '45-47 SpAg WilliamAustin Wendell Crowe Jr., Mattison

JD'64Robert J. Daly, PhD 72 SusannahJ. David Damaske 70 JohnEdwin M. Dealy '64, MBA '66 EdwinFrank W. De Santo '69 ChristopherDennis A. Diamond, MS '57 JoannaJakow G. Diener '69 JeffreyDianne Pilgrim Digilio '67 SandraDonald T. Gould '63 Kimberly DreherJeffrey S. Dubin '65 JenniferJ. Michael Duesing '62 AmyDonald H. Duncan '69 StevenElliot R. Eisenberg '66 JasonHernan H.G. Etcheto, MBA 75 DiegoRita Tavel Fogelman '63 SethRichard D. Fors '59 AndrewEdgar W. Francis III '65 RaquelKaren L. Hansen Freiberg, MS '68 SigneWilliam S. Frommer '64 HillarytMary Falvey Fuller '63 GlenJohn J. Gately '69 JesseLawrence M. Ginsburg '53 PhilipMarc S. Goldberg, JD '67 LeslieSamson Gombe, PhD 72 Mirabel and

SpringClare Downey Graham '65 ElizabethRobert C. Gray '64, MEE '66 DaveMitchell J. Grayson '64 SharonArmin J. Green '62, MNS '64 MitchellDavid M. Green Jr., PhD '82 EricGeorge D. Greenberg '65 JoshuaPhilip Griffen '57 SaraMichael R. Griffinger '58 Gillian

Sandra Goldman Gross '68 EricAlan J. Grout, DVM '64 DerekPeter G. Guthrie, JD '66 RachelStuart A. Hammer '65 KimberlyEric V. Hansen, PhD '68 PeterGilbert E. Harrington '61 LewisRonald H. Harten '66 EricJohn E. Hayes Jr. '65 MeghanRobert C. Heath, EdD 72 AnnRoger D. Hecht, JD 71 ShawnBetty Marie Heichel '86 JohnDavid B. Heinzelman '61 StephenCharles Henderson III '68 JenniferThomas D. Hill, PhD '67 DanaAxel P. Hochkoeppler '55 TulioJean Claude Hollant '60 ClaudineAndrew E. Hospador '62, MEE '69 EllenRonald B. House, PhD '88 AdamRichard Yu-Tang Huang, Mel

71-72 SpHotelRichard Koch Hughes, JD 72 SaraW. Larry Hymes, MS Ag '80 WendyM. Iqbal Wahla, PhD 70 Omer IqbalMichael S. Isaacs '58 NoraDavid B. Jacobsohn '65, JD '68 AmyCharles F. James '57 DeborahRalph Janis '66 DanielGeraldine Miller Jennings '62, Andrew

BS Nurs '63Dewey W Johnson III 72 TracyBarbara Brown Kaplan '66 IraStephen Lewis Key, MBA '68 TimothyHarvey Kinzelberg '67 JohnStanley J Kishner '65 AndrewKenneth W. Kleinman '66, Jennifer

MBA '68James E. Konstanty '64 JaredCarol Cleaves Korenbrot '68 TaliaMarc C. Kornfeld '63 DanielGeorge K. Kraemer '68 EricHenry Simon Krochmal '66 MichaelPaul S. Kruger '64 Michael*Robert S. Lamson '62 RobertCarlos A. Lazaro, ME C 72 Alberto

Benson P. Lee '63 MelissaGary W. Leonhardt, JD '61 RobertAllan M. Lerner, JD '67 CarolineCharles R. Levitan '68 RussHarold M. Levy, PhD '82 AmyJoan Squires-Lind, JD 77 Jason LindMaria Bramwit Lind '62 RobertAnn Kristin Dahlstrom Loeber '66 GregArthur M. Lustgarten 70, Abrahm

MBA 77Ronald P. Lynch '58 AndrewRichard Douglas Malcolm '53, Kristina

JD'58Barbara Lester Margolin '61 SarahtLewis E. Platt '63 Amanda MargolisMichael F. Marino III 71 MichaelAlexander N. Mastoris '65 MichelleLawrence R Matura '66 AmyGeorge A. Maylin, PhD 71 WendyGwendolyn Pierre McClain 72 FamettaJohn H. McDonald '52, JD '55 MatthewCarlton M. McKenney '67 IngridChuh Mei, PhD '68 DavidThomas A. Meldrim '65 AmyDuane R. Merrill '67 MichaelMaurice Z. Michelman '52 RolandRobert G. Miller '69 ChristineLinda Bernstein Miller '66 JamieRichard Charles Miller '63 LeeJames A. Moravac '67 MichaelRichard D. Morse '60 Russell and RogerArthur H. Morth '63 Todd

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tPatricia Kwiatkowski Snowden 70 JamesMorton

Richard M. Nalevanko '69 MeganJohn W. Nestor Jr. '58 JohnAlfred Arnold Nielsen '69 EricPamela Hobart Obolsky '66 JasonJohn J. O'Donnell '50 NeilDavid Curtis Parrish IΠ, DVM '67 David ΓVNorman S. Pava '51 DavidWilliam D. Perez '69 William IIRichard C. Perkins '61, MBA '63 DiannaRichard A. Peterson '68 CarolineAndrew J. Piscione '65 AndreaGeorge J. Pitely '64 BrookeJosef M. Powell '64, DVM '67 LisaTimothy L. Preddice '70 GreggJohn E. Price '52, M Ed '65 JosephMichael O. Pulling '67 MelissaHoward W. Raymond '64 DanaJohn H. Remmer '63 SharonTimothy W. Richards '65 KennethRichard S. Rivitz '64 MarcWilliam S. Roberts Sr. '32 AnnCharles J. Rosak '58 AtenaGary L. Roth '67 RachelRichard M. Salsberg '67 BrianConstance Lanfranchi Lauren

Schaevitz '62Peter Schluter '55 CharlotteRichard J. Schwartz '60 JenniferJack Schwartz '67 JeffreyJudith M. Gleicher Seiff '65 JoanneRichard Shaper '68 AlieBruce Richard Sheirr, DVM '62 KennethRichard L. Shortlidge '73 SethMarc Leonard Silverman '68, Kira

JD '72Neil J. Simmons, '61-62 SpAg KimberlyMarjorie Greenberg Smith '67 BrianMarylane Yingling Soeffing '63 JanetSteven Sotsky '67 TaraEric Marshal Spiewak '69 SarahRobert S. Spitalnik '66 RichardRobert J. Stanton, PhD '74 JonathanSchuyler Stebbins '50 MichaelRobert Lawrence Stover '65 KeithRoslynn Schulbaum Strell '58 StevenNaomi Strichartz '70 MirandaDonald L. Strobl '69 StaciTheodore J. Szymanski, MS '70 SeanJane Barrows Tatibouet '62 CecilyEmily Galenson Taylor '69 DanieltElizabeth A. Blatherwick Supawadee

Hughes '70, MBA '88 TesinEverett Drake Thomas, MS '67 MatthewJohn C. Tunney, JD '71 ChristopherRobert J. VanEe '71, MEE '72 JamesIrene Keddy Van Rompay '65 PaulThomas L. Ward '72 AndrewHarold Ware '77 JasonDavid W. Warner '59 DerekRoy P. Weber, PhD '71 GregoryAlec B. Wendell '64 Heather and

AlexanderL. John Wilkerson '70 ChristopherOliver S. Williams III '72 Oliver IVRonald B. Williams '64 JenniferMichael I. Wolfson '63, JD '67 JenniferBogdan Edward Woroniecki '73 AryanSamuel S. Yasgur '63 StuartJoseph Yu '80 BernardJohn D. Ziegler '62 ChrisStephen William Ziemba '71 Kevin*John Thomas Zimmerman '54 ThomasJohn A. Zollweg '68 EmilyRoger W. Zurn '65 John

'12 LLB—Newman E. Wait of Ganse-voort, NY, Dec. 2, 1991; retired in 1973 af-ter 54 years as trust officer, president, andboard member, Adirondack Trust Co.

'13 B A—Albert Leskowitz of St. Peters-burg Beach, FL, formerly of Brooklyn, NY,Dec. 17,1991; retired in 1960 after 45 yearsas a teacher of high school mathematics,Boys High School, Brooklyn.

'17 BS Ag—Samuel H. Koslin of theBronx, NY, Dec. 20, 1991.

'17 BS Ag—Austin W. Young of Los An-geles, CA, Jan. 11, 1992.

'18 BS Ag—George L. Dawson of Spring-ville, NY, formerly of Hamburg, NY, Oct. 13,1991; retired in 1961 after 34 years withWheat's Ice Cream Corp.; former president,Hamburg School Board; active in church,club, and fraternal affairs.

'22 BA—Isabel Houck Kideney (Mrs.James W.) of Buffalo, NY, Dec. 26, 1991;former president, American Association ofUniversity Women; active in community,alumni, political, and club affairs. Alpha Phi.

'23 ME—Leonard Maleson of Philadel-phia, PA, actual date of death unknown.

'24—Edmund A. Roy of Wilbraham, MA,Jan. 2,1992; president, Pioneer Valley Lum-ber Co.; active in church, professional andcivic affairs.

'25—Marvel S. Platoff of Fort Lee, NJ, Jan.3, 1992; former president and general coun-sel, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Fairview, NJ.

'26 BA, MA '29—James D. Nobel of So-lon, OH, Jan. 25, 1992; founder, Council onHuman Relations. Wife, Ruth (Uetz) '29.

'26 BA, MA '46—Fatanitza L. Schmidtof Massena, NY, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Dec.10, 1991; retired in 1970 after 34 years asan editor, Cornell University Press and Cor-nell's Office of Public Information; active inchurch, volunteer, and alumni affairs. ChiOmega.

'26 BA—Frederick H. Schroeder ofSouthbury, CT, Jan. 12, 1992; a retired se-curities industry executive; active in profes-sional, church, and club affairs.

'27—Charles F. Bullard Jr. of Rochester,NY, Jan. 1, 1992.

'27 BS HE—Cornelia Parsons Davids(Mrs. William J.) of Morton, NY, Nov. 6,1991.

'27 ME—Richard H. Mollenberg of Buf-falo, NY, Dec. 18,1991; former president and

chairman, Mollenberg-Betz Inc.; active inprofessional and club affairs. Sigma Pi.

'27 BA—Nathaniel S. Sherman of Jeri-cho, VT, Jan. 18,1992. Wife, Virginia (Thom-son) '28.

'28 BA—Randall V. Oakes of Tampa, FL,Dec. 16, 1991.

'28 BS HE—Emma Enos Pond (Mrs.Chester B.) of South Bethlehem, NY, actualdate of death unknown. Husband, ChesterB. Pond '27.

'28 BS HE—Nellie Wilson Pond (Mrs.James D.) of Littleton, CO, Nov. 27, 1991.Delta Zeta.

'28 LLB—Clifford C. Pratt of Santa Bar-bara, CA, Dec. 31,1991. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'28 ME—John W. White Jr. of Short Hills,NJ, Dec. 16, 1991. Psi Upsilon.

'29 BA—Eunice Schoster Ballis (Mrs.William) of Ann Arbor, MI, Jan. 11, 1992.

'30 BA, MD '34—Peter L. Carnesale ofMemphis, TN, July 20, 1991; retired ortho-pedic surgeon; active in professioanl affairs.Sigma Pi.

'30 BS Hotel—Alfred B. Merrick of SanDiego, CA, formerly of Valhalla, NY, Dec.30, 1991; former president, Roger SmithHotels. Sigma Chi.

'31 Grad—Dorothy Muir Bowman (Mrs.James W.) of Lake Worth, FL, Jan. 24,1986.

'31 ME—George H. Cottrell of Lake Bluff,IL, Jan. 17, 1992; retired in 1970 after 34years, International Harvester Co.; active inalumni affairs.

'31 CE—Richard B. Essex of ChevyChase, MD, Jan. 14, 1992. Sigma Nu.

'31 MA—Frederick J. Leverich of Elmira,NY, April 1989.

'31-32 Grad—Lewis H. Rohrbaugh MD,of Rockport, ME, actual date of death un-known.

'32 BA, MA '37—Mary Udall Ash (Mrs.J.E.) of Bethesda, MD, Dec. 30,1991; an arthistorian, retired from the National Galleryof Art.

'32 PhD—Maurice O. Baker of Austin,TX, actual date of death unknown.

'32 BS HE, MS '48—Dorothy LutzByrne of Rocky Point, NY, Jan. 2, 1992.

'32 BA—Clayton D. Root of Crown Point,

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IN, Dec. 6, 1991; former owner, Root Lum-ber Co.; active in civic, professional, and clubaffairs. Beta Theta Pi.

'32 BS Ag—Arlene Nuttall Sadd ofFreeville, NY, Jan. 8, 1992; active in church,alumni, community, club, and charitable af-fairs. Chi Omega.

'32 ME—William K. Tracy of Skaneate-les, NY, Jan. 13, 1992; retired in 1967 as asupervising engineer, Allied Chemical Corp.;active in church, club, and fraternal affairs.Chi Phi.

'33—Myra Shore Farber (Mrs. Isidor) ofFort Lauderdale, FL, Dec. 28, 1991. Hus-band, Isidor Farber '28.

'33 MA—Maurice Ozer of Harrisburg, PA,Dec. 8, 1991.

'33 BA—Herbert B. White Jr. of Darien,IL, Dec. 16, 1991. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'34 CE—Melvon A. Beesinger of River-side, CT, Dec. 19, 1991; retired in 1973 af-ter 38 years as a marketing executive withIBM; active in alumni and volunteer affairs.

'34—Clara Savage O'Connell of Moravia,NY, Dec. 27,1991; retired in 1972 as a homeeconomics teacher, Elmira Heights, Ithaca,and Moravia schools; active in church, pro-fessional, and alumni affairs.

'35 BA, JD 38—Richard B. Tolins ofGuadalajara, Mexico, formerly of Alfred, NY,Jan. 11, 1992; retired attorney.

'36 BArch—Charles B. Irish of Houston,TX, 1960.

'36 BS Ag—Clarence O. Pratt of Lyndon-ville, NY, Dec. 10, 1991. Phi Kappa Tau.

'37 BA—Horace H. Corbin Jr. of SouthHadley, MA, Jan. 15, 1992; retired in 1980after 33 years as professor of psychology andeducation, and chairman of the psychologydepartment, Mount Holyoke College; activein community, professional, and theater af-fairs.

'37—Frederick E. Hoeppel of Islip, NY,June 16, 1980.

'37 DVM-—Alan A. Livingston of Wood-side, NY, Jan. 30, 1992.

'37 BA—Marguerite M. Neylan, MD ofChestnut Hill, MA, Dec. 24, 1991; a retiredpediatrician; active in professional affairs.

'37 BA—Olive Bishop Price of Fort My-ers, FL and DeLancey, NY, Jan. 8, 1992;former librarian, Virginia Polytechnic Insti-tute, US Navy, and Department of State; ac-tive in professional and alumni affairs.

'38 MS—Robert A. Butcher of Gulfport,MS, June 7, 1989.

'38—Philip W. Hustis of White Plains, NY,Dec. 12, 1991; a free-lance commercial car-toonist; active in community, club, and

church affairs. Alpha Tau Omega.

'38-40 SpAg—Edward L. Peckham ofTucson, AZ, actual date of death unknown.

'38 BS Ag—Jean Doren Rezelman (Mrs.John) of Bath, NY, Dec. 17, 1991. Husband,John Rezelman '41.

'39 BA—Carl C. Joys HI of Milwaukee,WI, Dec. 24, 1991.

'40 BS Ag—M. Trumann Possum ofWashington, DC, Dec. 12, 1991; a florist in-dustry consultant, and former economicsanalyst with US Department of Agriculture.

'40—Charles V. Munschauer of Buffalo,NY, Nov. 22, 1991.

'40 BS Ag—Gordon P. Parsons of Lau-rens, NY, Dec. 17, 1991. Wife, Jean (Fra-sier) '42.

'41—David A. Lapp of Le Roy, NY, Jan. 5,1992.

'42 MS HE—Dorothy Lohmeyer Rayburn(Mrs. Frank C.) of Kansas City, MO, Nov.25, 1991.

'43 ME—John A. McDougal of Detroit,MI, Dec. 28, 1991; an engineer and inven-tor; active in professional and club affairs.Beta Theta Pi.

'44 CE—Lathrop Milman of Menlo Park,CA, Dec. 11, 1991.

'44 DVM—David B. Porter of Deposit,NY, Jan. 13, 1992; retired in 1987 after 27years as director, veterinary research, Nor-wich Pharmacal Co.; active in professional,club, and youth affairs. Delta Chi.

'44 BA, MD '46—Daniel Welner of BocaRaton, FL, formerly of Buffalo, NY, Jan. 2,1992; retired in 1986 as chief of pediatrics,Millard Fillmore Hospital; active in religious,professional, and charitable affairs.

'45 MD—Merle M. Mahr of Madisonville,KY, Dec. 22, 1991; retired in 1987 after35 years as a surgeon; clinical professor ofsurgery, University of Louisville MedicalSchool; active in community and profession-al affairs.

'45 PhD—Ruth Hatcher Thomas of Swan-nanoa, NC, Sept. 10, 1991.

'46 ME—Charles C. Jamison of NewtownSquare, PA, Dec. 7, 1991; retired in 1989after 30 years as a mechanical engineer,General Electric; active in church, profes-sional, alumni, musical, and historical affairs.Wife, Mary (Charles) '46.

'49 ME—Harold W. Ferris of Terre DuLac, MO, Jan. 6,1992; a helicopter engineer,Bell Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, and the Fed-eral Aeronautics Administration; active inconservation, church, and fraternal affairs.

'49 B A—Frances Holmes of Newfield, NY,Dec. 18, 1991.

'49-50 SpAg—Nancy Smith Saltonstall(Mrs. Leveret Jr., PhD '48) of Ithaca, NY,Jan. 11,1992; a philanthropist; active in com-munity, conservation, club, artistic, and alum-ni affairs; university benefactor.

'51 BS Ag—Dexter W. Bennett of Fay-etteville, NY, Dec. 22, 1991.

'51 BS ILR—Jack G. Buckley of Wil-mington, DE, Nov. 17, 1991.

'51—Edward J. Costigan Jr. of Roches-ter, NY, 1973.

'53—Elaine Van Deusen Andrus (Mrs.Norman G. Jr.) of Boulder Creek, CA, Jan.18, 1991; active in community, educational,and volunteer affairs.

'53—John D. Fisher of New York City,Dec. 10, 1991; retired from Family CircleMagazine.

'54—Charles H. Booth of Denver, CO,Nov. 29, 1990. Wife, Patricia (Berkner) '52.

'55 BS Ag—Ralph H. Long Jr. of MountDesert Island, ME, Jan. 7, 1992; retired af-ter 21 years as biology teacher, MountDesert Island High School; author, NativeBirds on Mount Desert Island and AcadiaNational Park', active in conservation, gene-alogical, and community affairs.

'58 BS ILR—Patrick O'Shaughnessy ofBuffalo, NY, Aug. 13, 1988.

'60 PhD—Robert R. Dince Jr. of Athens,GA, Dec. 26,1991; retired professor of bank-ing and finance, University of Georgia; con-troller of currency, US Treasury Depart-ment, 1976-1980. Wife, Miriam (Konvitz) '50.

'60 PhD—Robert J. Di Pietro of McLean,VA, Dec. 20, 1991; senior professor of lin-guistics, University of Delaware.

'61 PhD—Paul G. Blount of Stone Moun-tain, GA, Jan. 5, 1992.

'61 PhD—Reginald N. Farquhar ofWeston Act, Australia, April 28, 1990.

'69-70 Grad—William P. Swarts of Al-fred, NY, May 21, 1982.

'74 PhD—Avalon L. Dungan of Harlem,GA, July 26, 1991.

'74 BS AG—John W. Gallagher of Brook-lyn, NY, Jan. 9, 1992.

'78 BS Nurs—Jean G. Whitney of Raleigh,NC, Jan. 11, 1992.

'91—Lori Z. Figelman of Brookline, MA,Jan. 12, 1992.

'93—Crystal-Lynn M. Brooks of Pittsfield,ME, Jan. 13, 1992; was an undergraduate inEngineering.

'93—Brian A. McMahon of N. Mass-apequa, NY, Jan. 10,1992; was an undergrad-uate in Human Ecology. Sigma Nu.

JUNE 199285

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

I t may set a record asthe longest pologame ever played.On two consecutivedays, April 24 and 25,

the Equestrian Centerriding hall on Pine TreeRoad came alive withthundering hoofbeats,yells of encouragementand direction, the occa-sional trill of the refer-ee's whistle, and the fre-quent, unmistakable"whump" of mallet hittingball and ball hitting wallduring twenty-one chuk-kers of spirited play. Sowhat brought nearly 200former Big Red playersback for this marathon game? Morethan the chance to swing a malletagain, this was considered a greatway to honor Dr. Stephen J. "Doc"Roberts '38, the retired professorof veterinary medicine and, for thirtyyears, the polo coach who more thananyone else has kept collegiate poloalive and kicking at Cornell andacross the land.

Still, about half of the alumniplayed for at least one five-minutechukker. (Regulation polo games aremade up of four seven-and-one-half-minute chukkers.) Each wore a redor a white shirt to differentiate thethree-player sides. And announcerDave Drogo managed somehow tointroduce them all and keep thenames straight during play. On Sat-urday Doc Roberts "showed themhow" in a couple of chukkers, scor-ing—as expected—and even beingcalled for one foul (unheard of!). Atrio from the 1984 national cham-pion women's team re-formed tooutscore handily their male oppo-nents of the day. Cornell's string ofhighly trained and agile polo poniesmanaged to tolerate the successionof riders—some of whom hadn'tplayed the game in twenty years orso. At the end, the red shirts pre-vailed, 45 to 42—close, not that itmattered much.

Jack Lawrence '37, long-timetrainer of thoroughbred race horses,came from Long Island. He hadplayed on the earliest polo team rep-resented. Scores of players of the'50s, '60, and 70s, some still active

A POLOPAKIΎ

FOR Doc

Player Stephen J.Roberts '38.

in the game, traveled in for thefun—Pat Dix '65, all the way fromSpokane, Washington. Also on handwere a fair number of men andwomen players of the '80s.

It is the tradition of Cornell polothat fun and fellowship fol-low intense combat. Fordecades, win or lose, post-game parties were held atthe home of Doc Robertsand his wife, Betty Jane"B.J." (Harris) '38 (whodied last fall and whose ab-sence—along with those ofa number of players—wasnoted with sorrow). Thistime the party on Saturdaynight was in the Memorial Roomof the Straight, where players andother guests circulated with storiesof old mishaps and glories.

Somewhere between the primerib and dessert, David Eldredge '81,current coach of Big Red polo,awarded team honors to membersof this year's national championmen's team and the women's teamthat had come within a goal of win-ning the title again this year. As inmost sports, there are awards forexcellence and for improvement:the "Hardest Worker" title wentto Hilary Mroz '94. The two "MostImproved" award winners werePablo Pulido '94 and CatherineCorson '92. In polo, there's evenan award for the horse that playedin the most chukkers in the pastseason (Chester earned this "IronHorse" title).

Doc Roberts

Doc Roberts is the clear fatherfigure for this somewhat unruly polofamily of all ages, and this time dadgot his due in the speeches of praise,poems of high and low humor, andearthy jokes of a parade of speak-

ers. Dϊerk TerLouw '60, aformer player and formercoach, made the introduc-tions. There were gifts—among them a chest of pol-ished wood inscribed withthe best wishes and namesof the "Hawaiian contingent"of former players who wereunable to make the trip thistime—and the unveiling ofa plaque bearing Doc's like-

ness. Appropriately, it was agreed,Roberts is the first person to behonored with a place on the newPolo Wall of Honor in the Eques-trian Center. Roberts respondedwith slightly embarrassed gratitude,but with characteristic confidence inthe continued strength and vitalityof polo at Cornell, despite theuniversity's announced cutback onfunds for the sport in the comingyear.

Then, almost twenty years af-ter his first retirement from Cornellto practice veterinary medicine inWoodstock, Vermont, Doc Robertsinvited all present and former play-ers to "come back again for my nextretirement, in 2002." The players,knowing Doc, will be counting onit, and they won't be surprised tofind him playing then, too.

—Elsie McMillan '55

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NEW ALUMNI TRUSTEESThe newly-elected alumni trustees, whowill begin four-year terms on July 1,are Richard A. Aubrecht '66, PhD 70of East Aurora, New York; and JaneB. Tatibouet '62 of Honolulu.

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CORNELLIANA

Not even Homer Simpson,America's best-knownnuclear industry employee,would fish in a nuclearreactor. (Or at least eatwhat he caught.) Nof whatHoward Aderhold, thereactor supervisor atCornell's Ward Laboratoryof Nuclear Engineering, isdoing in the abovephotograph is attending tothe marriage of appropriatetechnology (the fishing rodand reel) and hightechnology (a nuclearreactor).

Aderhold is shownusing the rod to lower aspecimen of shards ofpottery, recovered at anarcheological dig in theMideast, into the reactor.The pottery will sit in thereactor overnight, beingbombarded by neutrons.When the specimen isretrieved, technicians willconduct tests to determine,based on the types ofisotopes that result fromthe neutron bombardments,just what elements wereused to make the pottery.Then, by comparing potteryof similar composition,archaeologists canreconstruct medievalcaravan routes. Similarly,when volcanic rocks aresubjected to neutronbombardment, geologistscan compare the activitiesand similarities of differentvolcanoes.

Aderhold's fissionlicense, by the way, isissued by the NuclearRegulatory Commission.

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