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VOLUME 98 NUMBER 7

BY MEREDITH F. SMALLAll Tony Di Fiore wanted to do wasstudy monkeys. But while trying todo field work in the Ecuadorian jungle, he also gotlessons in economics, diplomacy, carpentry—and persistence.

30 The Lawyer in WinterBY DAVID FOLKENFLIK

Milton Gould has lived long enough tosee his dreams come true and then van-ish. But a great lawyer fights on—forthe pure joy of the contest.

Departments

4 Up FrontSo long, Hammerhead.

6 NewsAthletics restructures; Kendal fills up; senior wins aRhodes.

10 LettersVets at a hotel in Watkins Glen, and more.

14 FacultyHow Prof. Duane Chapman's western vacation gothim into the newspaper.

17 SportsRed track Coach Lou Duesing adds white and blueto his uniform colors this month as he helps TeamUSA at the world cross country championships.

37 News of Alumni

Alumni Profiles42 Charles H. Pratt '38, BS Ag '3952 Carole Rapp Thompson '5666 William C. Dietsche '84, BArch '85 and Gilbert A.

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72 Alumni Deaths

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75 Give My Regards To. . .These Cornellians in the News.

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UP FRONT

So Long, Hammerhead

In his more reflectivemoments, Associate

Editor Paul Cody, MFA '87will tell you that "Nobodyever gave me anything."But that's not true. I gavehim a job.

Cody is the first person Iever hired. Soon after Ibecame editor of this pub-lication, in 1991, I had tofind someone to check thespelling and class affiliationof all the names listed in Class Notes. It's a job thathas the twin burdens of being tedious and incrediblyimportant. It was suggested that we contact Cody. Hewas, we were told, attentive to detail and, like mostunpublished novelists, looking for a decent-paying part-time job.

Cody sent in his resume and some clips, mostly op-edpieces from the Boston Globe. He was, his resumesaid, an honors graduate of the University of Massa-chusetts at Boston, whose campus shares a spit ofland in Boston Harbor with my high school. I liked theidea of two Irish guys from Boston running an IvyLeague magazine. When he came by for an interview,obviously uncomfortable in an ill-fitting blue blazer andknit tie, he asked me more questions than I could askhim, something you look for in a journalist. He joinedthe staff a couple of weeks later.

Paul quickly became my favorite writer, and a favoriteof many of our readers, too. He and I had some fa-mous shouting matches about the nature of his pieces.I seem to recall the words "anti-intellectual," "pre-cious," "hack-job" and the all-purpose "hammerhead"being kicked around. But the end result was always aterrific story. I learned an awful lot about editing, writ-ing and managing from Paul.

Now he's leaving us to pursue success as a novelist.I'm sure he'll find it. I'm also sure that I, and his col-leagues on the staff here, will miss him. For besidesteaching me about writing, he's taught me a lot aboutfriendship.

Fair skies and following seas, Hammerhead.Stephen Madden '86

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NEWS

M-Suffi cient SportsMajor changes in athletics

mean that three more varsityteams will soon be paddling

their own canoes.

Cornell's Department of PhysicalEducation and Athletics an-nounced a restructuring in earlyFebruary designed to end a dec-ade of financial deficits. Under

the plan, three men's varsity teams—baseball, tennis and lightweightcrew—will eventually need to sup-port themselves completely. In ad-dition, 23 physical education courseswill be eliminated.

"This restructuring is driven...by our desire to improve the qualityof our programs," said Director ofPhysical Education and AthleticsCharles Moore '51. "It's the only waywith limited resources that we willbe able to see an improvement. Wecan no longer be all things to allpeople."

The three men's teams that mustbecome self-sufficient will join seven

This restructuring is driven... by ourdesire to improve the quality of ourprograms," said Director of PhysicalEducation and Athletics CharlesMoore '51. "It's the only way with lim-ited resources that we will be able tosee an improvement. We can nolonger be all things to all people.

other varsity sports already respon-sible for their own funding: men's andwomen's polo, lightweight football,men's and women's squash, co-ed

golf and the women's equestrianteam. Moore said that the funding forthe sports—between $50,000 and$100,000 per year per sport—will beraised by each team's coach and theathletic department's public affairsstaff. For the first year of the plan,which begins July 1, athletics willcover the cost of coaches' salariesand benefits for the teams. Mooresaid he believes that each team wouldbe completely self-funded by the endof June 1997.

In the four academic years from1990 to 1994, the combined recordof Cornell's varsity athletic teamsagainst Ivy League opponents was316-443-17, slightly above .400.Since Ivy League play was formal-ized in 1956, Cornell has won feweroutright Ivy titles than Harvard,Princeton and Yale. Men's lacrosse,

men's ice hockeyand wrestling ac-count for 72 per-cent of Red titles."One of our goalswith this restruc-turing is to makeCornell teamscompetitive with-in the Ivy League,"Moore said.

In the 1995-96academic year, thedepartment is of-fering 76 physicaleducation courses.Under the restruc-

turing, the department will offer 53courses, and 11 of the retainedcourses which were previously freewill now require participants to pay

a fee before they can enroll. The 23courses that will be eliminated wereamong the department's coursesdrawing the lowest enrollments.

Outdoor Education, the wellnessprogram and intramurals will not beaffected by the restructuring, Mooresaid.

Moore said that he believes theself-supporting teams all have thesupport of alumni, friends and par-ents sufficient to meet their finan-cial needs. He also noted that themen's and women's polo teams,which won their most recent Na-tional Intercollegiate Polo Champi-onship titles in 1992 and 1991, re-spectively, have been self-funded fora number of years. "The example ofthe polo teams will show you thatwe're serious about quality and ex-cellence," he said.

Moore stressed the need foralumni to increase the size and fre-quency of donations made to theathletic department. "Only 7 percentof the money given to Cornell byundergraduate-athlete alumni is ear-marked for athletics," Moore said."If the self-funded sports are to re-main viable, that has to change."

—Stephen Madden '86

Geneva StationMakes A FortuneWhat has cream-colored flesh, isslightly spicy and is sweet and juicy?

It's not the latest addition to thegang on television's Melrose Place,it's the new apple from Cornell's NewYork State Agricultural ExperimentStation in Geneva. Immensely popu-lar with growers during developmenttrials, the lowly "New York 429"apple has been given the name For-tune. Geneva horticulturists expectFortune, a hybrid of the SchoharieSpy and Empire apples varieties, tobe on its way to commercial accep-tance in just a few years, a processwhich commonly takes new varie-ties 15-20 years.

Audubon described the Fortuneas, "gently sweet and reminiscent of

CORNELL MAGAZINE

Cornell Senior Goes From AlaskaTo Oxford

A Cornell senior who grew up in theAlaskan wilds and never attended a

school until he reached college has beenawarded one of academia's highest honors,a Rhodes scholarship. Twenty-three-year-oldBarnaby Marsh '96 [see the December1993 Cornell Magazine] describes his child-hood as "an extended exercise in wildernesssurvival." That experience, along with earlyhome schooling, a lifetime of self-educationand the support of Cornell faculty, helpedhim earn not only a BA in three-and-a-halfyears, but also one of the 32 Rhodes scholarships awarded toAmericans this year.

"I've been largely self-taught, but since coming to college I amwhat I am because a lot of people believed in me," he said. Ί hadno academic records, but people were willing to believe in me. Theydeserve the credit."

Living in camplike conditions in aptly named Spartan, Alaska,Marsh's parents gave him an elementary education, to about fifthgrade. After that, he taught himself from books and by observing hisnatural surroundings. After a brief period at Harvard, Marsh enrolledas a Cornell freshman, attracted by the university's ornithology de-partment. He enrolled in the Arts college's College Scholar program,which allows students to design their own majors, and wrote hissenior thesis on social and environmental policies in Brazil.

During his short academic career, Marsh has worked at theSmithsonian Institution, taught high school and written several schol-arly papers. He will study behavioral ecology, which has been hismultidisciplinary major, at Oxford University next year.

CornelliansRetire To KendalAt Ithaca

the Delicious apple that is part of itsgenetic makeup, but with a juicyMclntosh snap when bitten into." It'shighly colored, has a crisp texture andstores well.

Geneva horticulturists have intro-duced more than 200 new varieties offruit to New York State growers dur-ing the 115-year history of the

Geneva Station,including 63 va-rieties of apple.

developed atthe station—Cortland, Em-pire, Jonagold,Jonamac andMacoun—ac-count for nearly

20 percent of the state's total appleproduction of about 1 billion poundsper year.

—Beth Sαulnier

A 109-acre tract of Cayuga Heightsland that Cornell once used for agri-cultural research is now home to thefirst lifecare community in New YorkState. Kendal at Ithaca—a $53-milliondevelopment boasting cottages, apart-ments, an indoor swimming pool, anursing home and two dining rooms—opened the day after Christmas.

For many residents, the move issomething of a class reunion: about 60percent of the people moving into thedevelopment are Cornell graduates,according to KendaΓs director of admis-sions and marketing, Karen LindsaySmith '64. Retired university faculty andstaff and their spouses (some of whomare also alumni) also account for 60percent. One alumnus from Spainsigned up to live at Kendal sight-unseen,and he hadn't been back to Ithaca sincehis graduation.

Run as a nonprofit enterprise by agroup of Quakers, Kendal offers resi-dents lifetime security—albeit at apremium price. After buying one of thedevelopment's 220 cottages and

apartments, at prices ranging from $79,000 to $250,000, residents pay amonthly maintenance fee of $1,500 to $3,500, depending on the price of theliving unit. Regardless of the level of care residents eventually require, fromminimal at-home assistance to a long-term stay in KendaΓs on-site nursingfacility, that fee stays the same. Residents do not sign their assets over toKendal, one of 1,100 lifecare communities nationwide. When residents die,Kendal sells their units to new families.

"It's tough getting older," muses Jack Stewart '38, JD '40, who bought a one-bedroom cottage with his wife, Ellen "Toni" Saxe Stewart '40. "But other thanthat, Kendal will be much easier than other phases of our life. You don't have tolift a finger. You just push a button, and the nurse is at your side."

Savage Farm, as village residents still call the land, is named after Cornellanimal husbandry Prof. Elmer S. Savage, PhD ' 1 1 , for whom Savage Hall wasnamed, and his wife, who bought the parcel in 1922. It stopped being used asa farm around World War II, when Cornell bought it. There was some discus-sion of building faculty housing there, but the university mainly used it foragricultural research. Plans to sell it to a developer fell through about 15 yearsago, when the Village of Cayuga Heights balked at the plan to carve the parcelup into 109 one-acre homesites. In the late 1980s, a group of Ithacans askedKendal to consider building a lifecare community here; Kendal eventuallybought the land from Cornell for $2.73 million.

More than 70 percent of the units are already spoken for, including all ofthe two least expensive of the five sizes, ranging from studios to two-bedroomcottages with den. Even before Kendal opened, people on the waiting list for astudio could expect to wait four years.

—β.S.

MARCH 1996

V A C A T I O N B U L L E T I N

March 1996

• It was a luxury to

spend a week on

campus for myself

. . . it was a pamper-

ing experience. I met

a lot of interesting

people, and every-

one Was SO blight ' t > s t ' m e to s t a r t t n i r | ki n β about summer! More specifically, it's time you brought thefamily to summer CAU! You'll find big reductions in the cost of bringing children or

it was an honor tO be grandchildren; air-conditioned lodging options for everyone in the family; more than

with them J f ^ ' ^ m a r v e ' o u s courses led by Cornell's finest teachers; and all the usual summertimepleasures of Ithaca and Cornell. More than 30,000 Cornellians, families and friendshave been to CAU since it began in 1968. How about you? If you aren't on our mailinglist, contact us and we'll send you all the details.

Week of July 7Art and Society in the Islamic Mediterranean David Powers and Dede Ruggles DNA in the

Modern World Jim Blankenship and Rita Calvo Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and the

New American Canon Lois Brown Writing That Works: A Workshop Steven Youra It's All

Alimentary: A Guide to Healthy Eating David Levitsky Sculpture Studio: Bronze Casting Gail

Scott White Field Ornithology Charles Smith Sports Clinic (Tennis, Squash, and Fencing) and

Seminar Charles Moore and Cornell University coaches

Chris Eng '84Sayre, Pennsylvania

Week of July 14Searching for America: The Debate Over National Identity Glenn Altschuler and R. Laurence Moore

• The Physics of Everyday Things Verne Rockcastle Anna Karenina: A Seminar Patricia Carden

The Videocam Studio: An Introduction to Video Filmmaking Marilyn Rivchin What Makes Great

Paintings Great? Color, Form, and Space in Art Norman Daly Culinary Workshop: New Ideas for

Old Hands and Novices Charlotte Bruce Cayuga Lake Archaeology and Paleobiology John

Chiment Outdoor Thrills and Skills David Moriah and Cornell Outdoor Education staff

The setup at CAU

has been ideal... The

week has passed too

quickly... Our

grandchildren say

they'd love to come

back next year.Ken, DVM '43 and

Catherine Gumaer,Stuyvesant Falls, New YorkWeek of July 21

China Today: The Perils of Prosperity Charles Peterson and guests Thomas Christensen and Victor

Nee Moliere: A Seminar Alain Seznec Antiques and Antiquing in the Finger Lakes Nancy Green

• Seeing With A Camera: A Photography Workshop Jean Locey Home Landscape Design

Workshop Marvin Adleman Wines and Cuisines: The Road to Perfect Combinations Barbara Lang Natural Life in the Finger Lakes Richard B.

Fischer Outdoor Thrills and Skills in the Wild David Moriah and Cornell Outdoor Education staff

Week of July 28The Roman Imperium and Its Consequences Frederick Ahl and Barry Strauss The Human Mind: Marvels and Mysteries Daryl Bern and Stephen Ceci

• James Joyce's Ulysses: A Seminar Dan Schwarz Memory into Memoir: A Writing Workshop Lydia Fakundiny Digital Image Processing: A

Creative Cyberspace Workshop Gail Scott White Secrets of the Forest: A Field Seminar Peter Marks Outdoor Thrills and Skills David Moriah and

Cornell Outdoor Education staff

u\- 96Pleasures of the mind in places you'll

remember: that's the phrase we often

use to describe the many CAU pro-

grams you can enjoy "on the road."

Whether you can spare a weekend or

several weeks, whether you're seeking

a wilderness adventure or the comforts

of a cruise, we think you'll find some-

thing of interest at CAU in '96. Please

write, phone, or fax us to obtain a

program announcement or to register.

The Summer/Fall 1996 CAU programannouncement, containing full detailson all these programs, is available. Ifyou aren't on the CAU mailing list,please let us know!

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Robin '70 and Howard Schlei,oι J. , .^ . .. n Megnon, WisconsinSkytop Lodge in the PoconosApril 26-28"Race Matters in American Society" with Glenn Altschuler, William Cross, Susan Murphy, and Nick

Salvatore.

The Czech Republic and SlovakiaMay 11-25Lands and cultures of the "Velvet Revolution": Prague, Bohemia, and Moravia, to Bratislava and theTatras Mountains, with George Gibian.

Three Valleys of CaliforniaJune 1-10Habitats and ecologies of the San Joaquin, Yosemite, and Death Valleys, with Verne Rockcastle.

Opera in Santa FeAugust 5-11All the pleasures of Santa Fe, performances of Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Daphne, and TheRake's Progress, and seminars with Art Groos.

The North Sea: Study Tour and CruiseAugust 8-22Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen, the Norwegian fjords, the Shetland and Orkney Islands, Edinburgh, andYork: led by Stuart Blumin, Frank H.T. Rhodes, and Frank Robinson, aboard the privately chartered M.V.Song of Flower. Cabins are available as we go to press.

The Grand Tetons and YellowstoneAugust 10-15History of the American West among the great landscapes of Wyoming, with Dan Usner.

Syria and JordanSeptember 29-October 15The Mediterranean to the Euphrates, Palmyra to Damascus, Amman to Petra; major sites of antiquity,fine hotels, and marvelous bazaars; with David I. Owen.

Cape May WeekendOctober 3-6Enjoy the peak of the fall migration season with an all-star team of naturalists: Bob Budligei; RichardB. Fischer, Anne Galli, and Dick McNeil.

Martha's VineyardOctober 10-14History and natural habitats of a most beautiful, tranquil island, with John B. Heiser and Mary BethNorton.

Mohonk Mountain WeekendNovember 1-3"Down to the Wire: The Campaign of 1996", with Glenn Altschuler, Ronald Ehrenberg, and Joel Silbey.

LETTERS

Making Babies, DFOs

Editor: Your cover article inthe September issue ofCornell Magazine did morethan catch my eye. I was oneof those former GIs who cameto the Hill after World War II.My bride and I had housing atthe Glen Springs Hotel inWatkins Glen. Ours was thegeneration that produced the"Baby Boom" and those of us inWatkins Glen did our part. During thetwo years we were there somecouples were starting on their thirdchild. I think the obstetrician and pe-diatrician in that town must haveretired after the veteran students leftbecause we certainly had given theman awful lot of business.

We never missed a football orbasketball game as a special bus wasscheduled for the vets and theirwives. It really was a great experi-ence. Perhaps we will be able to re-turn to relive them at our 50th Re-union.

Dr. R. William Clark '48Portland, Oregon

LET DOWN

Editor: I always feel let down, afterreading our cherished magazine, toturn to the back cover and find anAbsolut advertisement. Thesepeople are cashing in on our goodreputation. I recommend that wecancel them out and try to run ourCornell without their dirty money.

Robert C. Morton '36Minneapolis, Minnesota

SHOCKED, DISGUSTED

Editor: I was shocked, saddened,ashamed and disgusted when I readabout the offensive e-mail circulatedfrom campus. [See p. 5 January/Feb-ruary Cornell Magazine.'] For the first(and I hope, last!) time in my life I'mashamed to admit Γm a Cornellian.Such behavior is not a mere fresh-man prank, it is an insult to all loyal

Cornellians, students andalumni, to the "fair name" ofCornell and, especially, toCornell's new president.These individuals—I will notcall them students; it is anhonor and a privilege to be aCornell student, or at least itwas until now—should beexpelled immediately. Such

behavior is not what the foundingfathers meant by "free speech."Elizabeth Fessenden Washburn '36

Charlotte, North Carolina

UFOsEditor: Joey Green's article on theTen Best Pranks brought it all backfor me. A unnamed person familiarto me, and his fraternity brothers, inabout 1969 (plus or minus twoyears—it's a little hazy) created aUFO frenzy in Ithaca. As I remem-ber, articles were written about it inthe Daily Sun, and at least one as-tronomy professor was offering areward for confirmed sightings. I doremember that the Campus andIthaca Police took an interest in it.

At night, in the vicinity of BeebeLake, mysterious yellow or orangelights would appear in the sky, hoverover the area for as long as fifteenminutes, then disappear, sometimeswith a small fireball just before dis-appearance. In addition to the as-tronomy department and the police,some students did gather for UFO-watching sessions (any reason to sitaround and drink beer would do).

The truth can now be told. TheUFOs were simple dry cleaners'bags, turned into hot air balloons withthe addition of a balsa or bamboobracing, a three-by-five card and abunch of birthday candles. Once lit,in a non-conspicuous place, the bagfilled with smoke, which softened thelight of the candles into a softly glow-ing yellow-orange ball. They rose fastin the cold night air, and once theywere up 150 feet or so, you really

couldn't tell what they were. Thewind would carry them away fromthe launch site (usually at the un-named fraternity that looked a littlelike Theta Xi) and they would justdrift around until the candles burneddown, catching the card, then thebraces and bag, on fire, eliminatingthe evidence.

Looking back, the whole thingwas dumb, and we were lucky wedidn't start a fire. However, as asimple and pointless exercise in stir-ring up the community on some slowwinter nights, it worked great.

Don L. Verdiani '69,BS Eng 70, ME Ch 7 1

West Chester, Pennsylvania

WHERE ARE THEY?

Editor: It's Academic, the nation'soldest and most prestigious highschool quiz program is celebrating its35th anniversary on television.Thousands of our country's bright-est teenagers have competed on theprogram, and a great many of themwent on to Cornell.

The roster of It's Academicalumni includes First Lady HillaryRodham Clinton; Angus King, gov-ernor of Maine; and Donald Graham,publisher of the Washington Post Weare now trying to reach all of ourformer contestants and find out whatthey are doing today.

There are It's Academic alumniin every Cornell class since 1962. Wewould like to know the current posi-tion, address and phone number foreach of them, and the school, city andyear in which each competed on theshow. All replies should be sent to:It's Academic, PO Box 4, Washing-ton, DC 20044.

Sophie AltmanWashington, DC

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Federation Directors-at-Large. Director-at-large candidates have beenselected, by the Federation's Nominations Committee, from a pool ofalumni volunteers who have demonstrated interest, involvement andleadership in alumni activities.

The Federation's bylaws call for six directors-at-large to be electedeach year by the alumni. Each director serves a two-year term; termsare staggered so that six are elected each year.

The committee on nominations has identified nine well-qualifiedcandidates to run for these six seats. The six receiving the highest num-ber of votes will serve a two-year term, beginning in May 1996.

Please use the cut-out ballot below to register your vote. In house-holds with more than one Cornellian, please feel free to make a copyof the ballot. Please carefully review the biographies of the nine can-didates and VOTE FOR NO FEWER THAN THREE AND NOMORE THAN SIX CANDIDATES. Your vote for candidates playsan enormously important part in the success of Cornell and its future.

For consideration next year, the committee on nominations wel-comes your submission of the names of alumni you feel would makeeffective directors-at-large and asks that you send them to the Fed-eration Committee on Nominations, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, NY14850-2490.

Alan T. Beimfohr '66 BS ENG• Cornell Activities:

Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network, CommitteeChairman, Orange County

Cornell Alumni Association of Southern California: Treasurer;CAAAN Chairman; President; Past President; Cornell FundRepresentative; Scholarship Chair; Board Member at Large

Cornell University CouncilTower Club, Member

• Professional:Canterbury Capital Services, Inc., President/CEO (since 1988)

• Personal:Spouse: Linda A. Mongno; children: Alison, Nick, Kurt

Sandra J. Bricker '69 AB• Cornell Activities:

Cornell Club of Lancaster, President (since 1994)Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network

• Civic Activities:Lebanon Family Health Services, Board Member and Public

Relations CommitteeHospice of Lancaster County, Public Relations Committee; Board

Member; Vice President; Chair of the Building CommitteeGeneral Edward Hand Medical Museum, Site Selection CommitteeConcord ClubWomen in BusinessHousing Development Corporation of Lancaster, Board Member

and Treasurer

• Professional:The Bricker Group, President (since 1986)Frequent Speaker at Board Retreats and Planning SessionsHas Conducted Seminars in Continuing Care and Marketing for

the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania, the PennsylvaniaHealth Care Association, and Temple University

• Personal:Spouse: Jeff L. Bricker

Richard I. Caplow '81 BS ENG, MBA '86• Cornell Activities:

Cornell University,Council (since 1994)Cornell Alumni Federation, Board of Directors (since 1994)Johnson Club of Boston, Board of Directors (since 1987); President

(1990-93)125th Anniversary New England Area Regional Committee (1991)City Campaign Committee (since 1992)Cornell Club of Boston, Board of Directors (1990-94)Johnson School Alumni Association, Board of Directors (since 1993)

• Civic Activities:Boston Business Clubs, Board of Directors; President (1990-

95); Director (since 1989)Boston Cares, Board of Directors (since 1993)Community Consulting Teams Projects (since 1993)Soccer (Baystate League, Division II)Ice Hockey

• Professional:Product Manager, Banyan Systems, Westborough, MA

Andrew R. Chang 74 BS ENG• Cornell Activities:

Cornell University Council (since 1993)Cornell Asian Alumni Association, Treasurer (1990-92);

Tradition Scholarship CommitteeCornell Club of Long Island, TreasurerCornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network

• Civic Activities:Volunteer, parish homeless shelter for women and breakfast

program

• Professional:Cisco Systems, Systems Engineer

• Personal:Spouse: Karen Chin BS AGR '83

Barbara J. Eng '85 BS AGR• Cornell Activities:

Cornell University Council (since 1995)Cornell Asian Alumni Association, President (1993-91); Vice

President, University Relations (1992-93)Cornell Alumni Federation, Special Constituency Representa-

tive (1993-95)Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network

• Civic Activities:International Association of Business CommunicatorsAIDS Center of Queens County, Board of Directors (1990-93)

• Professional:National Broadcasting Company, Manager, Employee

CommunicationsHonored by the public relations industry with a 1992 Silver

Anvil Award, 1992 CIPRA Award, a 1990 Big AppleAward and 1990 Mercury Award

Elise Billings Hamann '89 AB• Cornell Activities:

Class of 1989, President (since 1989)Cornell Club of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Vice

President of Programming and Membership (since 1994)

Cornell Campaign (1992-95)Young Alumni Association, Vice Chair (since 1991)Young Alumni Task Force (1995)Cornell Club of Tampa, Executive Board; Programs and

Membership Committees (1992-94)Cornell Club of Washington, DC, Executive Board; Programs

Committee (1990-92)Volunteer Project Coordinator for DC, Tampa and RI Clubs

• Civic Activities:Providence Preservation Society, 40th Anniversary Committee

(1995-96)First Night of Providence, Board of Directors (1995)South County of RI Chamber of Commerce, Board of

Directors (since 1994)International Institute Gala, Event Committee (1995)

• Professional:American Power Conversion, Director of Media/Public

Relations

• Personal:Spouse: Jim Hamann BS '89, M ENG '90, MBA '91

Martin H. Lustig '63 BEE• Cornell Activities:

Cornell Club of Mid America, Founder and President (since 1983)Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors NetworkCornell University Council (1985-89 and 1991-95)Presenter of "Team Effectiveness" Managerial Skills Program

for Johnson Graduate School of ManagementAnnual Lecturer at Masters of Engineering SeminarVolunteer Consultant to Cornell on Total Quality ManagementCornell Society of EngineersCornell Club of Rochester, ASSC Chairman (1970s)

• Civic Activities:Visiting Nurse Association, Board of Directors (1984-90)Wildwood Outdoor Education Center, Board of Directors

(1988-94)Kansas City Association for Mental Health, Technical

Assistance Award

• Professional:Sprint, Director of Corporate Quality DevelopmentSprint's Executive Sponsor for Recruiting from Cornell

UniversityMalcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Senior Examiner

(1995); Examiner (1991-94)

Missouri Quality Award, Judge (1994-96)U. S. Air Force Quality Award, Judge (1996)Telecommunications Industry Benchmarking Consortium, Past

Chairman

• Personal:Spouse: Dianne Flannery Lustig HE '66; children: David, Celia

Gregory J. Miller '84 BS HOT• Cornell Activities:

Cornell Alumni Federation, Director-at-Large (since 1994)City Campaign CommitteeCornell Club of Arizona, President (1991-94)Cornell Society of HotelmenCornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network

• Civic Activities:Tourism and Travel Research Association, Vice PresidentAmnesty International of Arizona, Past Vice PresidentPhoenix & Valley Sun Convention and Visitors Bureau Marketing

ForumSelection Committee for A.O.T's Advertising Agency for Tourism19th Annual Arizona Governor's Conference on Tourism, Featured

SpeakerFrequent Guest Speaker at Arizona's three major universitiesAmerican School of International Management (Thunderbird),

Guest Speaker

• Professional:Crowne Plaza Development, Regional Vice PresidentCertified General Real Estate Appraiser

• Personal:Spouse: Desiree Honeycutt

Roberto L. Prats '90 BS HE• Cornell Activities:

Cornell Club of Puerto Rico, Inc., President (since 1994)Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador NetworkCornell Club of Puerto Rico Scholarship Award, ChairJoint Partnership Fund for the Arecibo Observatory, Founder

• Civic Activities:Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Executive Director

• Professional:Goldman, Antonetti & Cordova, Litigation AttorneyMember of the American Bar AssociationMember of the Puerto Rico Bar Association

Official Ballot for Cornell Alumni Federation Directors-at-Large

1. The number of directors-at-large to be elected is SIX.2. For your ballot to be valid, you must vote for no fewer than three and no more than six candidates.3. DESIGNATE YOUR CHOICE BY PUTTING AN "X" IN THE BOX NEXT TO THE NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES FOR

WHOM YOU WISH TO VOTE. You are not restricted to the regular nominees but may vote up to the number of vacancies to be filledfor any alumna or alumnus you desire by writing in the name or names in the blank space provided on the ballot; you may vote onlyonce for any one candidate.

4. Send sealed ballot to: CAF Elections, Alumni House, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850-2490.5. This ballot must be received by the Office of Alumni Affairs by April 15,1996. NO BALLOT RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE WILL

BE COUNTED.6. The results will be announced on April 30,1996.

• Alan T. Beimfohr '66 BS ENG

• Sandra J. Bricker '69 AB

• Richard I. Caplow '81 BS ENG, MBA '86

• Andrew R. Chang 74 BS ENG

• Barbara J. Eng '85 BSAGR

• Elisθ Billings Hamann '89 AB

• Martin H. Lustig '63 BEE

• Gregory J. Miller '84 BS HOT

• Roberto L. Prats '90 BS HE

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FACULTY

Where the Glow Goes

Professor Duane Chapman and graduate student JonErickson.

D uane Chapman's trip out westin the summer of 1994 resultedin a public relations contro-versy that followed him home.But the resource economics

professor considers another, simplerevent the trip's high point. He and hiswife, Carol, had been riding horsebackthrough the outback of YellowstoneNational Park, accompanied by cow-boy guides. Where they camped lateat night, the professor says, "An owlstarted to hoot and the mules camerunning up to the horses and, with allthis racket going on, a wolf started tohowl across the river to the west ofthe camp."

A campfire-sized controversyensued. "The cowboys didn't wantto say it was a wolf," says Chapman,"because they couldn't rememberone being in that area before. But

after thinking it over, they figured,it's not a coyote."

So, while the rest of their groupwent riding the next morning,Chapman went down to the river-bank. His curiosity—more personalthan academic—sought proof. Chap-man, who is studious and trim, lookslike someone who could be as com-fortable in the great outdoors as inthe halls of a university. He wears ahoot-owl's beard of graying hair andan open collar. He runs from a neck-tie. Along the riverbank in Yellow-stone he followed his instincts to thecorrect location and knelt down overa wolf print in the sand.

That may be the story he tells hisgrandchildren someday. The storythat followed him home, however, thatlit up the headlines in The CornellDaily Sun in fall 1994, involved a

How DUANE

CHAPMAN'S TRIP

RESULTED IN A PUBLIC

RELATIONS MELTDOWN.

sidebar to the professor's vacation, athree-day trip to the MescaleroApache Indian Reservation nearRuidoso, New Mexico. In the highchaparral of the Sacramento Moun-tains, under the shadow of the sacredMescalero peak of Sierra Blanca, theprofessor and his wife visited the res-ervation which, at that point, was avolunteer site for temporary storageof the nation's high-level nuclearwaste. The project, called MonitoredRetrievable Storage (MRS), is de-signed to buy time for the federalgovernment, which has agreed toaccept the utility industries' spent fuelrods starting in 1998, until a perma-nent site has been constructed.

In this instance, Chapman was notan average sightseer from the East.He has been a student of nuclearenergy issues for almost 30 years. Hehas advised both business and gov-ernment on the subject, worked forthe Atomic Energy Commission andserved on three National Academy ofScience panels on energy and theenvironment, two of which were in-volved with nuclear power. Togetherwith Jon D. Erickson, a Cornell gradu-ate student in resource economics,and Ronald E. Johnny, program direc-tor for the National Judicial Collegeand former chair of the Fort McDer-mitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Chap-man has published several papers onthe MRS question. Among them is acollaborative work published after histrip in the American Indian Law Re-view (November 1994), which con-cluded that siting an MRS facility onIndian land is both "unethical and dan-gerous."

The policy, Chapman explains,rids the government of an "eternalliability," and forfeits the peoples'right to sue tribes should a catastro-phe occur. Furthermore, Chapmansays, the policy not only dismisses

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outright the previously establishedcriteria for a nuclear waste site, butexploits the poverty and sovereigntystatus of the Native Americans.

"I tried to see it both ways," saysJon Erickson, who did much of thewriting for the law review article. "Itcould be seen as Indian governmentstaking advantage of their sover-eignty, which was robbed from themthe last 500 years." Erickson con-cludes, though, that the MRS is "justanother exploitation of an economi-cally depressed group of citizens."Part of his research included studiesshowing that poor people and minori-ties are far more likely to be exposedto toxic hazards than the middle class.And with a potential fee of $10 mil-lion per year of storage for the vol-untary host site contrasted with a percapita income of less than $5,000 ontribal reservations, the governmenthas made tempting the placing of vastquantities of the world's most lethalsubstance into the hands of thoseleast able to deal with it.

Monitored Retrievable Storagehinges on the same loophole—in the1934 Indian Reorganization Act—that allows Indian tribes to operategambling casinos in states such asNew York, Michigan, Connecticutand Rhode Island.

Using Native American sover-eignty as a shield, Chapman found,the government can put an enor-mously risky enterprise into thehands of tribal governments and, byand large, sidestep public debate.With this in mind, Chapman visitedHarlyn Geronimo, grandson of theApache warrior, on the MescaleroReservation. He went, says Chap-man, "to see what the situation waslike there." He talked to numerousother Mescaleros, old and young, andvisited the white community innearby Ruidoso. He found the Nu-clear Information Office, a pro-MRSlobby, with a "closed" sign on itsdoor. Chapman called the town'smayor, Jerry Shaw, and the twotalked. Shaw recommended thatChapman talk to a reporter from theRuidoso News, and Chapman did notpull his punches.

When Chapman returned home,he saw the Daily Sun headline ofSeptember 28,1994, "Tribal LeaderCriticizes C.U. Agricultural Prof."

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Chapman read stinging letters fromMescalero's tribal president, Wen-dell Chino, and from Miller Hudson,who works for a company that con-structs storage and shipment con-tainers for spent fuel. The letters,sent to then University PresidentFrank H. T. Rhodes and to the DailySun, asserted that during his visitChapman had "tarnished" Cornell'sreputation by circulating "inaccurateand intentionally inflammatory rheto-ric" concerning the safety of the pro-posed MRS project.

Chapman admits he was angeredby the letters, not only because heconsiders the allegations untrue, butbecause, while letters were sent toother parties, no effort was made tocontact him.

In response, President Rhodesquickly wrote letters to Chino andHudson, defending both Chapman'sexpertise and his right to speak hismind. Editorials in the Sun praisedthe university's response, defendingfree speech and stressing Chapman'sintegrity.

Chapman's anger cooled. "After-ward, I felt really proud to be a partof Cornell. The administration under-stood the need for universities tohave a close but objective relation-ship to problems that affect us."

Would all of this, in the end, haveany impact on the MRS site proposalon the Mescalero Reservation?"Maybe a little bit," Chapman says.He clearly does not see himself as arescuer. "I was impressed," he says,"by how well informed the Mescaleroand the people of Ruidoso were.They took their individual interestsin the matter pretty seriously. Myimpact was certainly not that great."

Jon Erickson agrees. While con-cerned with the outcome of the de-bate, he does not appear to sufferfrom illusions about his role in na-tional policy or Mescalero decision-making. Navajo leader Ronald Eagl-eye Johnny summed up their impactanother way. Chapman, Johnny says,"helped the Indians analyze whatthey could do for themselves. But theIndians are not much different thanwhites in how they decide things.They don't want the states, or any-one else, telling them what to do.They want good information, thenthey want to chew on it and take it

home and chew on it some more. Inthe end they will decide for them-selves what they should do."

The Navajos also have a legend,Johnny says, in which the earliestmedicine men had a choice to makebetween the yellow dust on theground and the yellow corn pollen.The dust, of course, was uranium ore."In the end, they chose the cornpollen," Johnny explained, "becausethey knew it was healthier."

POSTSCRIPT: On February 1,1995,six months after Professor Chap-man's visit, the Mescalero Apache ofNew Mexico, in a tribal referendum,voted 490 to 362 to force their gov-ernment to discontinue further ne-gotiations for siting an MRS on theMescalero Reservation.

At this writing, the governmentsof the Skull Valley Goshute and theFort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshonetribes remain active in pursuit of acontract to store this nuclear wasteon their sovereign tribal lands.

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SPORTS

Lou Knows TrackTrack coach Lou Duesing

leads the Red tochampionship seasons.

Afew weeks after Lou Duesingarrived at Cornell in the fall of1990 as the new head coach oftrack and cross country, someof his runners had "Lou Knows

Track" T-shirts printed with his faceon the front, complete with right-sided grin and cat's-eye sunglasses,in a parody of Nike's then-popular BoJackson ad campaign.

The Cornell women's crosscountry team finished fourth at the1992 NCAA championships, ahead ofscholarship powerhouses such asGeorgetown and Penn State. Whenthe team members received theirtrophy at the awards ceremony in ayellow-lit gymnasium in Blooming-ton, Indiana, other coaches, im-pressed by Cornell's high finish,began a bellowing chant: "Lou, Lou,Lou . . ."

This March, Duesing will onceagain be celebrated—not by his ownteam or by his coaching peers, butby running's national governingbody, the U.S. Association of Trackand Field. He will travel to the WorldCross Country Championships inCape Town, South Africa as theAmerican team's "chief of the mis-sion" (head diplomat) and head coachof the USA women's team.

"It's a neat honor," says Duesing,who will be making his seventh ap-pearance at the World Cross Coun-try Championships as either coachor spectator. "As a coach, you setgoals for yourself—win a conferencemeet, send a team to nationals. Be-ing chief of the mission and headcoach for a world championship teamwas one of those goals."

What "Lou Knows" is what theother coaches recognized in Bloom-

ingtόn: Duesing believes it's impos-sible to choose between a soundmind and a sound body. "You don'tneed prized recruits or scholarshipsto win at the league level and com-pete at the national level," he says.

"When I interviewed here for thejob, I saw a lot of athletes who, forwhatever reason, weren't enjoyingtheir sport," he says. He set out inhis first year to turn that attitudearound. In Duesing, Cornell got acoach who doesn't take sick days,who will arrive at practice early andstay late to accommodate students'schedules, who has a squad brim-ming with more than 80 athletes butdoesn't make cuts and who prefersto be on a first-name basis with hisrunners. The coach brought with hima style that lies somewhere on theserious side of happy-go-lucky andon the light side of relentlessly fo-

cused.Duesing grew up in Warwick,

Rhode Island and has a bachelor'sdegree in history from LafayetteUniversity. He earned a master's inhistory from the University of NewHampshire and began coaching trackin 1974 while he taught high schoolhistory in Montpelier, Vermont. Hecoached at Penn State as a graduateassistant while working on a master'sin performance assessment, and thenat the University of Missouri as headcross country coach and assistanttrack coach for six years before com-ing to the Hill. "I'm an Easterner, andmy dad went to Brown," he says."From day one I've been taught theconcept of the student-athlete andthe idea that academics come first.The Ivy League is the embodimentof that."

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Men's Basketball(6-9) cumulative recordCornell 82, Lehigh 61Colgate 75, Cornell 70LSU 70, Cornell 60Kansas 100, Cornell 46Bucknell 80, Cornell 59Cornell 90, Elmira 52Harvard 65, Cornell 47Dartmouth 68, Cornell 57Cornell 78, Army 75Cornell 75, Columbia 71Holy Cross 68, Cornell 61Cornell 76, Columbia 63

Women's Basketball (8-7)Navy 82, Cornell 58Cincinnati 66, Cornell 52Radford 82, Cornell 71Niagara 63, Cornell 57Cornell 80, Lehigh 68Cornell 63, Colgate 58Cornell 70, Harvard 69Dartmouth 65, Cornell 55Cornell 58, Columbia 55Bucknell 57, Cornell 54Cornell 68, Columbia 43

Women's Fencing (3-7)Cornell 19, Fairleigh Dickinson 13St. John's 20, Cornell 12Pennsylvania 30, Cornell 2Yale 28, Cornell 4

Women's Gymnastics (0-1)Penn 174.85, Cornell 164.225Brockport Invit. 3rd

Men's Hockey (9-7-3)Rensselaer 5, Cornell 3Cornell 5, Union 5Cornell 2, Massachusetts 1Finland 3, Cornell 1Colorado College 1 1 , Cornell 0Cornell 6, Air Force 2St. Lawrence 5, Cornell 4Cornell 6, Clarkson 3Army 4, Cornell 1Colgate 4, Cornell 3Cornell 6, Colgate 3Cornell 8, Massachusetts 1

Women's Hockey (10-6-2)Cornell 3, Northeastern 1Dartmouth 3, Cornell 0Cornell 4, Queen's 1Cornell 5, Boston College 3Dartmouth 5, Cornell 3Cornell 5, Princeton 1Cornell 3, Yale 0

loved the sport and runs every day."My personal experience in sport hasbeen in football and basketball/' hesays, "but philosophically, thesesports and the way they're coached

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Cornell 4, Brown 1Cornell 6, St. Lawrence 3Colby 6, Cornell 4New Hampshire 4, Cornell 0

Men's Squash (3-12)Franklin & Marshall 9, Cornell 0Dartmouth 9, Cornell 0Amherst 9, Cornell 0Trinity 9, Cornell 0Cornell 8, Army 1Cornell 5, Colby 4Bates 6, Cornell 3Cornell 9, Wesleyan 0Yale 8, Cornell 1Brown 9, Cornell 0

Men's Swimming (4-5)Harvard 73, Cornell 46Princeton 176, Cornell 114Navy 150, Cornell 93Syracuse 181 , Cornell 73Cornell 139, Providence 80

Women's Swimming (5-3)Cornell 155.5, Princeton 138.5Cornell 174, Dartmouth 126Syracuse 145, Cornell 94Cornell 182, Providence 52

Men's Indoor Track (4-4)Georgetown 76, Cornell 62Cornell 62, Colgate 6Cornell 62, Syracuse 52Penn 6 1 , Cornell 59Cornell 59, Fordham 12Cornell 59, St. Joseph's 48Harvard 57, Cornell 48Brown 64, Cornell 48

Women's Indoor Track (6-2)Georgetown 78.5, Cornell 61.5Cornell 61.5, Colgate 5Cornell 61.5, Syracuse 42Penn 82, Cornell 73Cornell 73, Fordham 12Cornell 73, St. Joseph's 15Cornell 58, Harvard 48Cornell 58, Brown 42

Wrestling (9-3)Cornell 26, Lehigh 15Sunshine OpenCornell 22, Purdue 19Cornell 24, Georgia State 12Cornell 29, Tenn.—Chattanooga 13Cornell 24, Virginia 9Cornell 32, N.C. State 6Cornell 18, N. Carolina 16NYS Tournament 1stPenn 2 1 , Cornell 16Cornell 34, Seton Hall 6Rider 24, Cornell 9Cornell 53, Princeton 0

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big red sports

A SPECIAL

Cornell's Department of Physical Education and Athletics

has announced an ambitious restructuring program de-

signed to better serve the needs of students and stu-

dent-athletes and improve the university's performance

in intercollegiate athletics. At the same time, it will put

the department's affairs on a

sound, long-term financial base.

"It's never easy making changes

to a program as large as ours,

but the time for change was

upon us," says Director of Physi-

cal Education and Athletics

Charles Moore '51.

We anticipate that the alumni, par-ents, student-athletes and friends ofAthletics will have a lot of questionsabout the restructuring. Here are afew of the ones we expect well hearmost, answered by Charles Moore,

What was the department's mandate?

While Cornell historically has emphasized the

quantity of its athletic and physical education

programs, new financial realities mean that we

need to concentrate our efforts on the quality of

our programs so we can ensure the viability of

the department as well as its future excellence.

Our first order of business was to offer a first-rate

program with a balanced budget. The department

has run a deficit in each of the last 10 years,

and we face a serious shortfall this year. This

obviously can't continue. In addition, we want to

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ensure that we continue to enhance opportunities for women.

So what were our options?We could eliminate some programs and benefit from direct

savings; we could restructure our efforts to achieve maximumefficiencies; or we could raise the level of outside revenue.

So what are we going to do?We're going to restructure our intercollegiate athletics

program, restructurecertain of ourphysical educationprograms and initiatenew and innovativeprograms to increaseincome. In doing so,we will avoid makingcuts as much aspossible, althoughthere will be a few. Itdoes mean that wewill rely heavily onincreased financialsupport from alumniand other friends.

What criteria were considered?We considered a number of things: a program's perform-

ance to date and potential for success; how many students theprogram served; staffing; how the elimination would affectgender equity; how the program affected our demand forfacilities; the program's potential to produce revenue; and howsupportive alumni were of the program.

What impact will this have on Cornell's varsity sports?Cornell will continue to support 36 varsity-level programs:

17 men's sports, 18 women's sports and one coed sport,involving more than 1,100 student-athletes. What will change ishow three of the men's teams—lightweight crew, baseball andtennis—will be funded. The university will make a concertedeffort to assist these three varsity programs in arranging foroutside funding and will provide some financial support duringthe transition period. Student-athletes should notice nodifference during this time. Lightweight crew, baseball andmen's tennis will become increasingly responsible for fundingthemselves, just as seven other sports—men's and women's

polo, lightweight football, men's and women's squash, co-ed golfand the women's equestrian team—have been for varying periodsof time now. In the long run, alumni and other friends will need tostep forward if the programs are to remain viable. For example,funds received from alumni and friends will determine if theseteams will play their usual Ivy League schedule or if travel will belimited to central New York. In addition to some spendingreductions, the restructuring will lead to a reallocation ofresources to maximize our ability to compete successfully in theIvy League.

What impact will this have on Cornell's physical education,intramural, wellness and outdoor education programs?

Intramurais won't be.affected. We have one of the largestintramural sports programs in the country—last year almost 2,000teams (comprising more than 12,500 students, faculty and staff)participated in 3,800 contests—and we want to keep it that way.The wellness program won't be changed, nor will outdoor educa-tion. There will be some changes in the physical educationprogram. Currently, we offer 76 courses—33 that require a feeand 43 that are free. Eight fee-based courses will be dropped and15 non-fee courses will be eliminated. At the same time, 11"free" courses will become fee-based. So at the end of the daywe'll still offer 53 courses, from archery to soccer to advancedvolleyball. There also will be an increase in cost for fee-basedcourses. The decision on which courses to drop was basedprimarily on prior enrollment and facilities; we've retained themost popular courses, such as beginning and advanced swim-ming, which last year helped more than 400 students becomemore comfortable in the water. At the same time, we're consider-ing the merger of Cornell's extensive fitness programs andfacilities to better accommodate campus-wide use under one feestructure.

What will be the impact on Cornell's 40 sport clubs?There will be no change in the status of any of the university's

sport clubs as part of this restructuring.

What will be the impact on gender equity?The restructuring will enhance the quality of our women's

programs, thereby reaffirming our commitment to gender equity.Even with budget constraints, we will continue to strengthen thescope and quality of opportunities for women in athletics and tomaintain Cornell's compliance with Title IX of the Civil RightsCode. In the current structure, this will be accomplished withoutdecreasing participation opportunities for men.

Get Involved!Why you should help:• To ensure that the sound minds of Cornell's

students develop in sound bodies.• To make sure that our student-athletes can

compete with—and beat!—any Ivy Leaguecompetitor they face.

• To help your favorite sports.• To guarantee the future of your favorite

self-funded sports.• To help physical education and athletics

continue to help Cornell.

How you can make a "Qfinancial commitment: ^• By making a regular annual fund

gift to your favorite sports.• By making a gift to help ensure the

future of your favorite self-funded sports.• By responding to our needs for capital

improvements and endowment growth.• By including Cornell athletics in your will or

considering another form of planned giving to helpthe Big Red in the future.

What have we done so far?We've already realized some savings in the area of

administration. We've reorganized our marketing, ticket and eventmanagement operation as well as our summer sports camps.We've also saved by eliminating the Cornell Sports Network andleaving vacant our facilities and operations management position.It is also important to note that over a period of two years, theuniversity will have increased its funding level by 18%.

How does Cornell compare athletically with other Ivy Leagueschools?

Not well! Since Ivy League play was formalized in 1956,Cornell has won fewer outright titles than Harvard, Princeton andYale. Without the contributions of wrestling, lacrosse and icehockey (which account for 72 percent of all of our Ivy Leaguevictories), we share the basement with Columbia and Brown.Women have won only 15 outright titles; that puts us second fromthe bottom of the league. Over the last four years, Cornell teamshave won a mere 40 percent of our Ivy League matches.Naturally, we're quite thrilled with the fact that we won 76 percentof our Ivy matches last fall.

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It takes more than money to help.Other ways you can support the BigRed:Go to a contest—home and away—and bring a friend.Join one of our advisory groups. Tell us what you think.Help us benefit from your expertise.Help spread the word. Tell people about the good workbeing done here!

How do you plan to improve the performance of Big Redteams?

We want to attract more elite scholar-athletes through betterrecruiting and improved cooperation between admissions andathletics. Current capital projects to raise funds for our plannedstrength and conditioning and track and soccer facilities also willhelp to improve our teams, now and in the future.

Our success to date in putting these building blocks in place isencouraging. Now we need to raise the shared expectations forteams' performances. We can't do this alone.

What kind of support do our alumni currently provide?Cornell athletes are extremely generous to their alma mater.

The Big Red's former athletes comprise 15 percent of theuniversity's undergraduate alumni body; they give 37 percent of thefinancial support the university receives from that same group.Some 7,000 alumni and friends made a gift to Cornell athleticslast year and the vast majority of those gifts were in the $50 to$100 range. That support was extremely helpful, but now we needto increase both the number of people who give to athletics andthe size of their gifts.

So how do you increase support?We're planning to establish an annual athletics membership

organization—The Spirit of the Red—like the university's givingsocieties, to encourage regular, increased giving. We also plan tocontinue to pursue endowment of coaching positions; severalalready exist. For example, the Robert E. Gallagher Coach ofBasketball was endowed in 1992. In addition, we will encouragealumni and friends to include athletics in their planned giving.

How are the capital facility projects going?Our department has some critical capital needs and we're

working hard to identify funding for a number of important projects.We've just completed renovations of both our women's ice hockeylocker room and the ergometer room for our crews. Construction ofa new fencing facility is underway. In addition, we expect to breakground later this year on our new strength and conditioning facilityfor student-athletes, as well as the Robert J. Kane Sports Complex,a new track and soccer facility. All these projects are being fundedentirely by gifts from alumni and friends, and we're grateful foreveryone's support. But there's still work to be done, includingdevelopment of improved strength and conditioning facilities for thegeneral student body as well as a field for our women's Softballteam.

Cornell just announced a record-breaking campaign total of$1.5 billion. How can there be a shortage of funding for yourdepartment?

True, the university did just complete a tremendous campaignand all of us are very grateful to everyone who was part of thateffort. Gifts to athletics during the campaign totaled slightly more

than $21 million. Of that, approximately 30% representedannual giving to our many program areas over the five-yearcampaign period. Another 35% was earmarked for capitalprojects, including the Reis Tennis Center, Phillips OutdoorProgram Center, the Stifel Fencing Facility, the Robert J.Kane Sports Complex and the Friedman Strength andConditioning Center (these last three have yet to becompleted). New gifts to endowment represented 15% ofthe total, another 9% of our department's $21 million totalcame in the form of planned gifts that have yet to matureand the remaining 11% is a combination of gifts-in-kind andother miscellaneous contributions. Those gifts allowed us todo some important things, but as we move forward, newgifts and commitments will be critical to our ability toachieve our goals. Your support now is more important thanever.

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ornell is a very special institution.Frank Rhodes called it "the bestplace in the world to be." HunterRawlings speaks of the "enduring

value of learning" that's recognized here. Together, athleticsand physical education at Cornell have consistently served as acritical part of the delivery system for our university's broad-based goals.

The Department of Physical Education and Athleticsoperates one of the largest, most diverse college programs(intercollegiate and otherwise) in the country. The departmentplays an essential unifying role for the entire undergraduatebody and, indeed, for the Cornell community as a whole. Ourprograms do as much or more to promote a sense of commu-nity than any other campus system.

The department-wide restructuring described in thepreceding pages is intended to strengthen our programs in boththe short and long term. While we cannot be all things to allpeople, we want cost-effective, broad-based programs. We willstress quality in everything we do, recognizing that our centralmission is to enhance the academic experience of Cornellundergraduates. We will achieve financial equilibrium and at thesame time raise the level of performance expectations—on thepart of students, coaching faculty and alumni.

We will not be successful in this undertaking without morefinancial and other support from our alumni and friends. Inreality, you are our sponsors. Why? Because you rememberyour own experiences at Cornell and the meaningful ways yourparticipation in intercollegiate athletics, physical education andintramurals contributed to and shaped your lives. Our studentstoday, and tomorrow, depend on your help now so that theybenefit, as you did, and return to give as we are asking you todo. It's a cycle that must work for a very special institution.

Charles H. Moore '51

A MessagefromHunter R.Rawlings III

ven before I moved to Ithaca, Iinvited Charlie Moore to Iowa todiscuss his expectations for theDepartment of Physical Education

and Athletics. He had six goals:• Improve dramatically our men's and women's intercollegiate

programs through higher and/or redirected goals (including costeffectiveness), coach development and training, and a commit-ment to fund programs.

• Preserve excellence in our intramural, outdoor educationand weilness programs and maintain the quality of our physicaleducation programs within available resources.

• Create an environment that ensures gender equity andprovides the opportunity for all students to participate at thehighest level at which they are capable while pursuing a qualityeducation.

• Insist that all enterprises be self-funding. These enterpriseprograms and facilities are important assets to the Cornellcommunity, as well as a significant inducement to prospectivestudents, faculty and other visitors.

• Vigorously raise external funds to satisfy priority facilityneeds and to defray, in part, necessary increases in operatingcosts and new initiatives.

• Establish a culture that stresses excellence, trust andleadership built on a foundation of openness and accountability.

The restructuring just announced culminates a comprehensivereview that never deviated from those goals and will bring thedepartment into financial equilibrium. We are grateful to all whohelped in the deliberations, including the Faculty AdvisoryCommittee on Athletics and Physical Education, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, the Athletics Alumni Advisory Counciland, of course, the coaches and department managers. Theyhave all contributed to the building blocks for new successes.

Alumni and friends of Cornell need to know that the adminis-tration is just as committed to having a first-rate athleticsprogram as we are to having a first-rate academic program. Yourhelp and commitment will be vital to achieving our new standardof excellence.

Hunter R. Rawlings III

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(Continued from page 18.)are completely antithetical to myapproach in the classroom."

"One way to run a classroom isas a dictator with everyone sitting inrows," he says, "but I don't see theteacher as the fount of all wisdom.Γm not a yeller and screamer, and Ilike give-and-take in the classroom."His approach is the same when itcomes to coaching track. He says thatat a school like Cornell, it has to be.

"Kids here are wound up so. Iwould never jump all over them aboutdedication and commitment. Thedaily level of stress is too high. Whathas them here in the first place is thatthey're perfectionists," he says.

"I try to keep it relaxed and keepit simple. All you have to do here isimply that something's important. Ifyou hammer someone about commit-ment at practice, they're gonna getfried. I have yet to be disappointedwith the intensity and quality ofpeople's performance at practice."

On any winter afternoon in Bar-ton Hall, track practice begins with acluster of runners clad in Cornell-is-sue T-shirts and Gore-Tex jacketsstanding at the far turn of the indoortrack. Duesing is at the hub of thegroup, in shirt-sleeves and tie, asking,"How we doing?" He's getting feed-back before giving a workout plan.

"Many coaches give a workout ona piece of paper, and either you do itor you don't do it," says Brian Clas'94, a four-time Ail-American who willbe joining Duesing in South Africa asa member of the USA men's team."Lou is really concerned with adjust-ing each workout to the individual."

Both Pam Hunt '94 and Clas wentto the 1991 World Cross CountryChampionships in Antwerp, Belgiumto compete for the U.S. junior team.Hunt and Laura Woeller '95 com-peted in the 1992 Worlds in Boston.(Duesing went to Boston to watch hisCornellians.)

At the national level, Duesing hascoached six Cornellians to Ail-Ameri-can status a total of 22 times, and hiswomen's cross country team finishedfourth in the NCAA championshipsthree years in a row, from 1991 to1993. The men placed 19th in thecountry in 1992.

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three annual Heptagonal champion-ships. Before Duesing arrived, theteam had never placed better thanthird in a Heps championship in crosscountry, indoor track or outdoortrack. Since his arrival, they've woneight of the 16 championships con-tested and finished second in fourothers. The men's cross countryteam brought home a Heps champi-onship in 1993, and Duesing hascoached Cornellians to win six indi-vidual men's Heps events.

I n distance running, a sport whereindividuals have different recipesfor success, the only common in-gredients are hard work and, asDuesing says at the team meet-

ing that kicks off each year, "an un-inhibited confidence and belief inself." The rest comes from within.He designs interval workouts, but hisrunners are responsible for directingtheir own training.

"Lou doesn't try to change any-one," says Woeller. "He works withthem. The whole program is self-motivated and motivated by team-mates. If you want to run 65 miles aweek, fine. If it's 45 miles a week,that's fine too. He makes suggestions,but he won't tell you what to do."

As a teacher, Duesing's subject

has changed from history to running,but at Cornell, he says, his intellec-tual curiosity has persisted. "Γm al-ways bugging history and Englishmajors to tell me what classes they'retaking and bring in their readinglists," he says. "I really wish I hadtime to take classes here."

Duesing once went with ArtieSmith '96 to a European intellectualhistory class during the three lec-tures on Madame Bovary, a book hehad always wanted to read. "I knewLou was interested in history, but itwas really neat to share a class withsomeone so visibly excited about it,"Smith says.

As a self-proclaimed child of the1960s, Duesing told stories duringvan rides to competitions to helpclarify things for Kate Walker '97,who was studying protest songs fora class on the history of that era. Heeven made her a tape of his favoriteSixties songs.

"I love the students here andsome of the insightful things theysay," he says. "One big adjustment tomy job was that for the longest timeI would drive to work with a big smileon my face, thinking 'what a greatplace to be and what a great job tohave.' That's the God's honest truth."

—Loren Mooney '93

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BY MEREDITH F. SMALL

Anthropologist Anthony Di Fiore '90 has a

dream. In the dream, he wakes up in a palm-

thatched hut to the roar of howler monkeys

bellowing their territorial call. Parrots swoop

into the clearing and land on banana trees,

their bright red-and-blue bodies fluttering on

the trunks like feathered tropical flowers. Wiping away the

sweat of the Amazon jungle, he jumps off the army cot and

throws on green fatigues and sturdy hiking boots, grabs his

clipboard, water bottle, stopwatch and binoculars and heads

out, alone, into the forest. A razor-sharp machete comes in

handy on the walk; he swings it low to hack a trail through the

greenery and uses it to push slimy liana vines out of his face.

Suddenly, there is movement high in the canopy. There they

are: the elusive woolly monkeys, their buff-colored coats a

sharp contrast to the sea of tropical green. He spends his

day with them, writing down what they eat and what they

do, each nuance transformed into a complex code of num-

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bers that only he and a computerunderstand.

At dusk, the monkeys retreatto their sleeping trees and Di Fioreheads back to camp. He fixes asimple meal of rice and hot teaunder the glow of a kerosene lampwhile bats and large moths fly abouthis open-air home. Exhausted fromthe day's work, he stretches out onthe cot once again and listens to thesound of the jungle in the darkness,eventually drifting into sleep,dreaming about monkeys leapingthrough the trees. And after twoyears of this exotic routine, hecomes home with enough data fora PhD dissertation.

Unfortunately, the past threeyears have taught Di Fiore thatdreams don't always match reality.Instead of a paradise of monkeys,birds and bats, his real-life experi-ence of research in the tropics nowincludes bouts of malaria, intesti-nal parasites, hostile indigenouspeople, hands-on lessons in globaldiplomacy and plain old fear. He hasalso learned that there are no morepristine places left on earth, and thatscience requires a certain kind ofstamina not learned in classrooms.

Di Fiore first wentto Ecuador in thesummer of 1991,after his first yearas a graduate stu-dent in biological

^^f^V^jrij-ij- anthropology atthe University of

California, Davis. His advisor, Dr.Peter S. Rodman, was interested inestablishing a research site whereDi Fiore and other graduate stu-dents could live for many years andcollect enough data to compare thebehavior of several species of SouthAmerican monkeys. Di Fiore's con-tribution to this project was to be along-term study of woolly monkeys.Woollys are of particular interest toprimatologists because they have afission-fusion society—a pattern ofcoming together and spreading apartthat is found in only a few species of

primates.On several trips during the

early 1990s, the Davis group con-centrated their search for a re-search site on tributaries of the RioNapo at the head of the Amazon ineastern Ecuador. This area seemedpromising because other anthro-pologists had seen woolly and spi-der monkey skulls hanging inQuichua Indian villages in the area;evidence of hunting usually meansthe animals are in good supply. Ona typical day, they loaded up a ca-noe at daybreak and motored up anddown rivers, scanning the shorelinefor movement; the usually stillcanopy might bend as a troop ofmonkeys passed through. They alsolistened for the alarm calls of ani-mals frightened by intruders.

If a patch looked promising,they beached the canoe andtromped into the forest, looking upand around for monkeys and think-ing about the logistics of livingthere. They would need land for ahouse, an established village near-by, and the river close enough toprovide easy access in and out ofthe area. Sometimes the riversdried up just when things lookedpromising ahead, and they had toturn back. More often, the dearthof a particular monkey species madea place useless for their purposes—hunting and forest destruction havetaken a toll in even the most remoteparts of the Amazon.

Di Fiore, who went along on twoof these expeditions, is familiar withthe frustrations of scouting out theperfect spot. Surprisingly, the lackof an established study site aftertwo visits to South America didn'tbother him; he knew that most an-thropologists spend several monthsfinding the right place to conductoriginal research. So in the springof 1992 he was back in Davis, study-ing for his exams and working on aresearch proposal, confident thatwhen his research design was inorder, the study site would besettled too.

In the summer of 1992 he

neaαeα soutn once again, mio mesame area near the Rio Napo. Ac-companied by guides from the lo-cal Quichua community, Di Fiorewandered deeper into the forest.For five days they walked, madecamp and searched for animals. Butthey found no monkeys. The mostexciting possibility, a site borderedon three sides by rivers and on thefourth by the Andes, was largelyimpassable. At one point, Di Fiorefound himself standing on the edgeof a 50-foot drop into a rocky gorgewith a rushing river at the bottom—scenic, but not an ideal researchsite.

It was time to regroup. Back inCoca, an Amazonian oil boomtown,Di Fiore met up with Rodman, andthey had a bit of frontier luck. A ca-noe driver told them about seeinglots of woolly monkeys during a re-cent stint working for an oil com-pany cutting seismic lines throughYasunί National Park. The newswas exciting, but both of them knewworking in the Yasunί might betroublesome. This park, and theland surrounding it, is some of themost controversial real estate onearth: a virtual paradise perched onbillions of barrels of crude oil.

The 1.6-million-acre YasunίNational Park is one of the largestprotected wetlands in the Ecuador-ian Amazon. Filled with fragile plantand animal species found nowhereelse, it is also home to a group ofindigenous people, the Huaorani,who maintain a traditional life byhunting and gathering. In the hopesof protecting the Huaorani, the Ec-uadorian government establishedthe Huaorani Ethnical Reserve,which overlaps the park, but nei-ther the reserve nor the park is pro-tected from development. The Ec-uadorian government, hoping to de-crease its crippling national debt,has also sold leases for oil extrac-tion in both areas.

In 1986, Conoco was givenrights to test for oil in Block 16,which includes parts of the park andthe reserve. Conoco relinquished

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those rights in 1989 because deal-ing with environmental groups andirate Indians became more troublethan it was worth. Maxus EnergyCorporation, an independent oilcompany based in Dallas, Texas,took over the service contract atthat point. Maxus, unlike mostother oil companies, claims it willextract oil in an environmentallysensitive way. According to Tho-mas Sullivan, public relations man-ager for Maxus, the company workswith botanical, archaeological andanthropological groups to cause aslittle damage as possible. Maxusalso appears concerned about its re-lationship with the indigenouspeople. As a symbol of their com-mitment, company representativessigned a contract directly with theHuaorani, and have followedthrough on promises of educationand health care.

But even if Maxus conductseco-friendly oil extraction in thisarea, its intrusion into the forestleaves a legacy that no one cancontrol—roads. Roads open up anarea to colonists, people looking fora better future. These settlers typi-cally clear-cut and burn largepatches of forest for pasture andcropland, which destroys the forest.Colonists also tend to overpopulatean area, and decimate the nativefauna as they hunt to feed theirfamilies. Not "of the forest, thesepeople are seen by indigenouspeople as unwelcome squatters. Al-though Maxus and indigenousgroups have managed to close thearea to colonists so far, no one canaccurately predict what will happenwhen the oil company is no longerthere to help guard it.

Environmental groups, of course,find the very fact of oil extraction inthe Yasunί National Park and theHuaorani Ethnical Reserve unaccept-able. Shannon Wright, head of theAmazon Campaign for RainforestAction Network in San Francisco,points out that the Yasunί is a na-tional treasure and should be pro-tected from any development. She

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is also skeptical of Maxus's claimsof attention to the needs of theHuaorani. Their treaty is suspect,she says, because the meeting ofcorporate minds and indigenouspeoples is, by definition, an unbal-anced relationship.

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the controversy. They spent weeksin the Yasunί, motoring down theRio Tiputini in a canoe, camping inthe rain, eating freeze-dried foodand looking for monkeys ontransects that had been cut throughthe forest by oil companies. Theirdecision was made—this was theright area for monkey watching, andthey needed only to pinpoint a spe-cific site and gather the appropri-ate permissions from the Ecuador-ian government to work in the park.They would also be depending onthe oil company by using its roadsand working on leased land. Andthen there were the Huaorani, whomove freely between their reserveand the park and consider all theland theirs. No one knew how theHuaorani would react to foreignerswho had come to study animals theHuaorani consider dinner.

With official permissions inhand, Di Fiore and another Davisgraduate student, Larry Dew, re-turned to the Yasunί in the sum-mer of 1993 hoping to establish aresearch station. They knew abouta major road Maxus was buildingthrough the park, which was sup-posed to cross the river just wherethey wanted to work. Maxus agreedto help the researchers set off forthe field. They were first treated toa quick flight over the park to theeastern edge of the Huaorani Re-serve, where Maxus was set to signan agreement of respect with 21Huaorani clans. Here Di Fiore and

Dew saw their first Huaorani. "Larryand I felt like we were witnessingColumbus coming to the newworld," says Di Fiore. "Some of theHuaorani were in traditional dress,little more than penis sheaths andspears, but some of them were wear-ing Bo Jackson T-shirts."

Looking forward to a produc-tive month in the park and the pros-pect of finally establishing a fieldsite, they set off from the celebra-tion by motorized single-log canoedown the Rio Tiputini. During thistrip, they passed a Quichua settle-ment being developed for tourism;saw groups of monkeys leapthrough the canopy and heard themcall out territorial songs; noticedpeccary tracks; sighted a jaguarhigh on a ridge; and landed at whatwas then the end of the new Maxusroad, where the sound of chainsawsfilled the forest. "We hadn't seenanyone else for 18 days," Di Fioredescribes, "and suddenly there wasa Brazilian engineer handing uscrackers and Cokes."

They decided on a particulararea two hours upriver from thenew Maxus road, far from the hunt-ing land of the Quichua and outsidethe Huaorani Reserve. Back inCoca, they arranged for materialsto build a primitive house: boards,corrugated zinc-coated roofing,plastic piping for gutters, nails andhammers. It took several days toget back to the site where theywanted to build their research sta-tion because the river had becomeso low that loaded canoes had to beportaged over fallen trees. But fi-nally, under the scrutiny of scarletmacaws screaming overhead andconga ants biting underfoot, theyerected a platform house and ajungle-style latrine. Maybe now,they thought, the research couldbegin.

But they were wrong. They hadbuilt their research station in a tribalhot spot.

Everyone in the Yasunί, localsand gringos alike, is fearful of a cer-tain band of Huaorani, the Tagaeri,

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who have stayed relatively iso-lated—they certainly have notsigned any agreement with anyone,for anything. Their reputation islegend: Tagaeri leave crossedspears in the forest, and they killthose who ignore this warning tostay out. A few years before, theyhad killed a missionary and pinnedhis body to the ground with 17spears.

The Quichua guides living withDi Fiore and Dew were convincedthat the Tagaeri were close by,stewing about the strangers on theirland. The guides wanted to leave.At the same time, a local Huaoranifamily had recently settled down-river, and was also unhappy thatoutsiders had moved in.

Negotiating with the local fam-ily was delicate. During one passageupriver, the family, led by two mennamed Pego and Yeti, demandedmoney. "They were giggling andlaughing, and saying they were go-ing to kill us and our canoe driver,"describes Di Fiore. "We didn't wantto pay them any money, because wefelt this would encourage them tostop us every time. We had Maxus'spermission, Ministry of Agricultureand Ecuadorian government per-missions, and where we wanted towork wasn't national parkland.They said it was all Huaorani landbecause the Huaorani were herefirst. I later heard that Pego thoughtI was a tourist because I had longhair, and I had these visions of let-ting Pego cut my hair in a peace-saving gesture!"

The family demanded that theresearchers get personal permis-sion from certain Huaorani leaders.After days of delays and repeatedthreats, the scientists appealed toMaxus negotiators to settle thematter. As Di Fiore explains, "Wedidn't want to antagonize theHuaorani. We wanted to work therefor a long time, and we wanted themcomfortable with us. We told themwe weren't tourists, we weren'thunters; we wanted to study themonkeys to know how much landthey need to keep them from dyingout, so that the Huaorani would

have game for generations." Butthings were still unresolved withthe family, and with the suspiciousQuichua guides, when Di Fiore andDew left for the States.

our months later,in the winter of1994, Di Fiorewas back in thejungle, alone, andit looked asthough things

might finally go more smoothly.The once-arduous journey into thejungle had turned into a fast drivedown a good road to the RioTivacuno. He offered to hire thevery family that wanted him to stayout, and the ploy worked—he couldproceed to the research site with-out paying a toll. He quickly foundthe camp, covered with termitesbut still standing. More importantly,there were monkeys everywhere.Surely, he thought, it's finally timeto settle in and start taking data.

But an uneasiness came overhis Huaorani companions. They,like the previous Quichua guides,talked often of the Tagaeri, tellingstories of war and murder. And thistime there was evidence of foot-prints and broken branches on theother side of the river. "Pego saidit was likely the Tagaeri had heardour motor and had come to inves-tigate. He was freaked out," DiFiore says. The guides refused tostay, and he knew that being alonein an area that terrified indigenouspeople was not a smart idea. Onceagain, he abandoned the site tomonkeys and macaws. The stationwas later burned to the ground byunknown arsonists. The boundariesof the Huaorani territory had beenredrawn, and the tribes were re-claiming their land.

At that point, Maxus said itcould not guarantee Di Fiore'ssafety and that it was time for himto look for a new site, to start over.Frustrated, but determined, DiFiore went deeper into the forestand tried to meet with anotherHuaorani head man. This meetingwas refused because the leader felt

Di Fiore was suspect; men whofollow monkeys are hunters afterland. Fed up with the situation inthe Yasunί, the scientist left thepark to scout out yet another pos-sible site under control of a differ-ent group of indigenous people, theCofan. But once again, the monkeysin the Cofan forest were not thespecies he wanted to study.

And so he went home, back tosquare one, with no research siteand no data. Perhaps it was time tofind a different forest, a differentmonkey, a different continent—maybe even a different career.

During that spring, word filteredback to the States about a privateenvironmental monitoring groupthat had been hired by Maxus totrack faunal changes in the Yasunί.This group, called Ecquambiente, in-formed Rodman they had a comfort-able research station in an area fullof monkeys. Also, they were happyto share their digs with other biolo-gists. All Di Fiore had to do now wasdig into his reserves of optimism andhead south one more time.

He returned to the Yasunί lastAugust. To his surprise, life seemsto be catching up with his dream.Ecquambiente's headquarters, On-kone Gare (House of Piranha), is setin a clearing surrounded by pristineforest. Neatly brushed gravel pathsconnect sturdy wood houses. Tou-cans and monkeys hang out in thebranches nearby. His Huaoraniguides and assistants like him andseem happy with their work aroundthe research station. Even the foodis good. Most importantly, down theroad lie nine square kilometers ofundisturbed forest designated foryears of monkey watching.

If Di Fiore can avoid malaria,stave off intestinal parasites, stayfriendly with his Ecuadorian col-leagues, keep in the good graces ofthe oil company and not lose trackof the monkeys, he just might getthat PhD. H

Anthropology Professor MeredithSmall is a Weiss DistinguishedTeaching Fellow.

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Milton Gould has

lived long enough

to see his dreams

come true and

then vanish. But a

great lawyer fights

on—for the pure

joy of the contest.

By David Folkenflik

ilton Gould '30 graduated

from Cornell Law School in

1933 and went to New York

City. He was a Jew, the child

of immigrants, and he

couldn't find any real oppor-

tunity at the white-shoe law

firms then dominating Man-

hattan legal circles. So he

eventually teamed up with

an Irish guy named Shea,

for whom a Queens base-

_ _ _ _ _ ___-.-. . _ _ . . _ _ _ ball stadium would later be

named. Shea & Gould

would grow to become one of the powerhouse law firms in New York City. Almost a half-

century would pass. Near the end of that time, Milton Gould would fight a landmark libel

suit against Time magazine on behalf of a man he did not even like, Israeli General Ariel

Sharon. After that, Gould began to scale back his working hours, and the sharks came

to feed on his baby, Shea & Gould. The lion had found himself in winter.

But first, that lawsuit, and the question of why a lawyer, toward the end of his years

and for no pay, would fight to a bitter stalemate for someone he despised, yet consider

it a fitting cap to his career. Because the performance is the thing.

It remains as true today, while he practices law almost as a guest within the confines

of someone else's firm, as it was a decade ago, when Gould, then 75, could be found

holding court before a federal jury in New York City. He mixed dashes of earthy humor and

invoked lofty principle to browbeat Time magazine in what was then the largest libel suit

ever filed on American soil. Gould had been ailing, recovering from open-heart surgery.

No bed rest would have healed Gould as quickly as this case, Judge Abraham D. Sofaer,

now retired, recently observed.

General Sharon sued Time for $50 million for stating that he had encouraged a

massacre of unarmed Palestinian refugees in retaliation for the assassination of Lebanese

leader Bashir Gemayel. Then, as now, the Middle East remained a fertile field for violent

conflict; every development ratcheted up the tension to make pacts like last year's peace

agreement seem like pure fantasy. Gould, a New Deal liberal like many prominent Jews

of his generation, never hid his contempt for the Jewish hard-liners in America—or in

Israel.

When Arnold Forster, a longtime counsel for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai

B'rith who was of counsel at Shea & Gould, suggested that Gould represent Sharon, Gould

raised a series of objections. It would be drawn out and expensive. Gould himself was

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in poor health. Besides, Gouldthought, he hated Sharon's politics.Gould had always left politics alone,allowing his partner, the renownedlobbyist William Shea, to roam thefield.

Through his securities practice,Gould had become close friends withWilliam Casey, Ronald Reagan's1980 campaign manager and CIAdirector; Gould even representedCasey twice at Congressional hear-ings and in a series of private trans-actions; yet Gould rarely missed anopportunity to tell Casey in privatewhat a mess he thought the nation'stop Cold Warrior and his boss weremaking of national affairs. No, Gouldtold Forster, he was not sure hewanted Ariel Sharon as a client.

Forster tried again. "This articleaccuses a Jewish general of promot-ing a pogrom and it's a lie," Forstertold Gould. "It would be great if wecould prove it's a lie." And as Gouldrecalled, he responded," 'Well, if wedo it, we would be doing it for theJews, not Sharon. We've been thevictim of so many pogroms, we don'tneed to go around creating 'em.' "Gould waived his generally siz-able fee.

Admiring colleagues liken Gouldto a graceful boxer who cagily circleshis opponent, delivering sarcasticjabs and waiting for the right momentto land a series of ferocious, disablingblows. Like many a heavyweight,Gould also winks at the crowd dur-ing breaks in the action. Less flatter-ing descriptions contend he is moreof a showman than a successful at-torney. Gould clearly sees himself asboth. "You'd be amazed at the depthsof bullshit to which I can descend,"Gould joked to reporters during abreak in the Sharon trial. It wasquintessential Gould—a profanitywrapped in a perfectly parsed phrase.

Time's reporter and editors ad-mitted two things during tense cross-examinations: first, that the reporterbelieved Sharon had gestured, notspoken his assent to the massacreby Lebanese Christian militia; andsecond, that the reporter, formerIsraeli soldier David Halevy, had in-ferred that a military inquiry's confi-dential appendix directly blamedSharon for the deaths. Halevy hadnever actually seen the full report.

Despite boasts about confidentialsources, Halevy had no inside line toan Israeli "Deep Throat." It was astunning admission, one which drewthe ire of many journalists. AndGould was not about to let it go un-noticed.

In any American libel trial, thereare three grounds of battle. Is thedisputed statement provably false?Does it defame the person de-scribed—that is, does it damage hisreputation? And third, was the authoracting with "actual malice"—in otherwords, did the author either know thestatement was false or "recklesslydisregard" indications that it mightbe? Sharon, who had already filed suitin an Israeli court against Time,wanted to win on the first twogrounds—he wanted an Americanjury in a New York City courthouseto declare the article false and defa-matory. The money, Gould and hislegal team asserted from the firstdays of the trial, was never the point.And Gould would deliver the two-thirds victory.

"We wrote the closing argu-ment," said Adam Gil-bert, one of the team ofShea & Gould attorneyswho prepared Gould forthe summation of his ca-reer. "What [Gould] de-livered bore very littleresemblance to whatwe wrote—and it waselectrifying. He addedhis own phrases, hisown flourishes, his own gestures,that made it really a spectacular clos-ing argument."

Even Stuart Gold of Cravath,Swain—the opposing counsel, whopoints out that Time technically wonthe case—says he'll never forgetGould's summation. "The best wayto sum up Gould is he gives goodtheater," Gold said. "What was it hesaid? Έrase the libel.' I subscribe tothe theory that the jury tends to stripaway the theater and look at the facts.But he gives jurors what they expectfrom the movies. It keeps most ofthem awake."

What Gould actually said in hisclosing argument on January 11,1985, blending a gruff common-senseapproach with a grandiose appeal tothe jury's sense of fairness, was this:

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"Your verdict will go a long way todetermine whether [Sharon] will godown in history as a great man, a greatsoldier, regarded by countless peopleas the savior of his country, or on thebasis of the lies and vicious specula-tion which I say have been created,engendered by what Time has saidabout him in this article, whether hewill go down as a kind of monster, an-other Herod, a man who ordered amassacre of women and children..."

"This really is a remarkablysimple case," Gould continued. "Itcenters on a single paragraph in anarticle in Time magazine, an articlewhich by this time you must be sickof hearing about, as I am sick of hear-ing about it." Gould pointed out thatSharon himself had called for a fullinquiry of the killings of refugees heldat Sabra and Shatilla, an inquiry car-ried out by Israel's respected chiefjustice. "Only a maniac knowing thathe had sat there and had such a con-versation . . . would say Ί want aninvestigation.' You've got to be nuts,and Sharon ain't nuts. He may be fat,but he ain't crazy!"

he old man did it withbody English, mockingthe gestures on whichreporter Halevy basedhis accusation. He did itwith exalted citationsfrom a centuries-deadFrench writer. He sim-ply did it. Amid a throngof journalists and lawyers

reveling in a good fight, Gould'sdaughter, Patricia Gould Booth, satwith a friend in the courtroom dur-ing his final summation. For her, itwas mesmerizing—but she alsowinced. "It was hard for me to seehim in court," she said. "I wouldthink: Όh, no—don't do that.' I'msomebody who likes no affectation.He is an actor, and he plays to hisaudience."

For hours, Gould paced the court-room on that bitter January day andunraveled the rationalizations of areporter so sure of the truth he didnot need the facts and of editors sosure of themselves that they couldnot acknowledge they allowed anerror to appear in print. "What wasdone to Sharon was an infamy,"Gould told the six-person jury. "You

One legal wag cleverly dubbed the firm

a marriage of blarney and chutzpah. Iknow, about 200 years ago, there wasa man named Voltaire . . . Infamy, hesaid, is bigotry. Infamy is discrimi-nation. Infamy is disregard of theinhumanities visited on one group ofmen by another group of men. Infamyis doing it by recklessness, andVoltaire devoted himself with suchpassion to stamping out this kind ofthing that every letter he wrote,every speech he made, every bookthat he put his name one, carried thislittle phrase in French: ΈcrasezUinfame—stamp out infamy/ stampit out, kill it.

"And I suggest to you that in thiscase you six American citizens cantake advantage of Sharon's courageand the perseverance of the peoplewho have associated themselveswith him and his project, and you helpus strike out this infamy!"

This was the punctuation of theclash of two latter-day Titans, IsraeliGeneral Ariel Sharon and Timemagazine—but to Gould it repre-sented his own crusade against thearrogance of the press. The Sharoncase uncaged the lion in winter, al-lowing Gould to stage one final, bril-liant, over-the-top performance.

Judge Sofaer wanted no retrial,and he instructed the jury to returna verdict on each of the three ele-ments of the allegation. The jurywould not ultimately find Time guiltyof "actual malice"—and hence foundthe magazine not guilty of libel. Butit found the statement defamatoryand false—and the jury's foremanread an additional statement sayingthat Halevy and other Time employ-ees had "acted negligently and care-lessly in reporting and verifying theinformation."

Both sides claimed victory inSharon v. Time. Sharon, ever a thornin the ruling Labor Party's side, isnow blasting the Israeli-PLO accordand mulling a bid for the primeminister's seat. It would have beenan unthinkable prospect in 1984. Yetthe two-thirds win engineered byGould in New York City takesSharon's quest from delusionaldreaming to the realm of the possible.Stranger things have happened inMiddle Eastern politics. Strangerthings may yet.

Soon after the Sharon trial endedin 1985, Gould and partner William

Shea, both in their 70s and in poorhealth, bequeathed control of Shea& Gould to a group of fiftysomethingpartners. These men had waited along time to be given the reins ofpower, longer than their peers. Theyfigured it was their turn.

Shea & Gould was initiallyfounded in the late 1950s by fourattorneys, and by 1963 had whittleddown to a partnership of two ethnicprincipals as an institutional poke inthe eye to Manhattan's manneredlaw practices—white-shoe, Protes-tant firms like Cravath, Swain.

Just before Gould graduated fromlaw school, he had been granted aninterview with J. DuPratt White,chairman of Cornell's board of trus-tees and founder of White & Case,which was then and remains one ofthe city's foremost firms. Gould wasoffered a job by the wary White—"hekept looking at the angle of my nose,"Gould recalled—and shown wherehe would work: in a small, window-less back room with the only twoother Jewish attorneys on staff. Aslittle eager to be consigned to a legalghetto as he was to join the all-Jew-ish fraternities he had disdained atCornell, Gould stormed out, andended up under the tutelage ofSamuel Kaufman, first as an assis-tant U.S. attorney and later atKaufman's own law firm.

Shea & Gould became a modestmelting pot, a haven for young law-yers without regard to social, reli-gious or ethnic background (althoughblacks and women at Shea & Gould,as elsewhere, waited longer for theirturn). It was a quiet affront to thelegal establishment, but one thatcould be found in every bare-knuck-les deposition with the older firmsthat had tried to keep Gould at thefringes of the law.

For the late Bill Shea, an IrishCatholic known for backroom ses-sions with politicians, not courtroomarguments, the baseball stadium inQueens that is home to the New YorkMets serves as his monument. ForMilton Gould, that monument was tohave been Shea & Gould.

One legal wag cleverly dubbedthe firm a marriage of blarney andchutzpah, and the tag stuck—but itsfrequent repetition obscures that thetwo maintained something much like

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a professional marriage. It was Shea,a man with little interest in learning,but an uncanny instinct for how tomake the law, who could calm Gould,a man prone to anger and withdrawal.Gould says now that he cannot recalla single argument the two ever had—and when Shea fell ill during theSharon trial, it became clear that thetwo would soon have to hand overcontrol of the firm they had run withthe absolute authority of somewhatbenevolent despots. Shea died sev-eral years later.

Freed from the conservatism ofMilt Gould and Bill Shea, the firmexpanded its reach and its concen-tration, seeking offices in Miami,Washington, DC and Los Angeles.No longer would the firm be seensolely as a Manhattan powerhouse.The money was in expansion. Andas the younger partners shed theirinhibitions, they also shed theslightly worn offices on MadisonAvenue that had served the firm ad-equately for the previous three dec-ades, moving instead to the plushExxon building on the Avenue of theAmericas. "We built it out to look likethe Taj Mahal. It was just too grand,"said Adam Gilbert, who left the firmon New Year's Eve, 1993, just weeksbefore its final implosion. "When youget people who have lived throughthe Great Depression, they have aslightly more conservative viewabout the future."

Gould was appalled. These werelawyers two or more decades out oflaw school who were acting like teen-agers, he thought. They were part-ners in name only when Shea and hewere in control—they had beengiven the keys to the bathroom andlittle more, he thundered more thanonce. He had wanted money not forits own sake, but for the freedom itpromised: freedom from having to dowhat others told him to do. By themid-1980s, he amassed wealth sev-eral orders of magnitude beyond thedreams of his parents, who wereJewish immigrants from EasternEurope. He wrote frequently on thelaw, had a cadre of judges and law-yers who revered him, and if certainstrains of the legal establishment didnot approve, that was too bad.

The news that Gould feared mostarrived by telephone in late January

1994. Gould sat stunned in his win-ter home in Florida. He was informedthat the firm had been dissolved bya vote of the partners, effectiveMarch 31. Gould raged, Lear-like,livid, impotent. He was all too awarethat the men whom Shea and he hadselected to sustain his firm—hislegacy— had voted to liquidate it asthough it were a failing local retailshop. Gould's career was not sup-posed to end like this, with not a bangbut a foreclosure. "I know," his wifeof 60 years, Eleanor Gould, toldhim. "It's like losing a child." Itmeant victory for the Whites andCases of the legal world—theWASPy enclaves from which he hadalways felt barred.

Attorneys formerly at the firmsay sadly that its founders bear muchof the responsibility for its demise.Bill Shea and Milt Gould held ontopower for so long, and ruled over itso firmly, that their protegesthrashed about to create a peckingorder that had never previously ex-isted. The executive committee wasled by Thomas Constance and LeonGold, men whom Gould had person-ally trained, the "kids" who them-selves had become the barons oflucrative Shea & Gould fiefdoms.

"It broke his heart," ArnoldForster said about the firm'sbreakup. "Everything that he hadbuilt with Bill Shea was destroyed ina fight by younger men for power andcontrol. It was not destroyed in a fightfor money." Many of the press re-ports that upset Gould so much fo-cused on bickering over payouts. Butthe fight that raged over money wasa symptom, not a cause, of the col-lapse. In 1993, the firm pulled down$53 million in gross revenues, onwhich it reportedly drew a profit of$18 million. Not a magnificent year,but one which would enrich the part-ners. "The real problem with thisfirm," said a management consultantbrought in to save the partners fromthemselves, "is that you guys hateeach other."

As for Gould, he said he does notwant to point fingers. But his re-marks clearly save their sting forthose at the helm as the ship ranaground. "It didn't work because theywere pigs," Gould said. "They weregreedy and in their effort to get more

money for themselves, they createdan atmosphere in which nobodytrusted them. Nobody believed them.And they cheated the younger people.Where Shea and I, we decided howmuch money we wanted to make.Then I would say to Bill, 'We don'tneed that much money. What the helldo we need that much money for?Let's take another half-million bucksand give it to the kids.'One year we gave themone and a half millionbucks over and abovewhat we had alreadyagreed to give them.

"These guys woulddo just the opposite.Each of them thought hewas Bill Shea or MiltonGould. And they wantedto make what we made. In order toget to those figures, they had to cheatthose kids. And they did." Gould alsobears little respect for the way thenew leadership chased clients. "Ofthe four men who combined to de-stroy the firm, . . . two were fakeswho made their positions on the basisof developing clients that I gavethem. And they did it by the assidu-ous cultivation of the personalitieswho dominated the clients, some-thing I never did.

"In one case, a very big client, hiswife and the head of the firm's wifebecame very close friends. No ques-tion about it. Like a whore pickingup a guy on the side of the street, hewent after the client. I criticized it,but everyone said how can you criti-cize it—it worked," Gould paused."I never joined any clubs or kissedany asses—never."

"There are a lot of great lawyersthere," he said, describing a firm thatno longer existed as he spoke. "Butnot at the top."

Gould has rebounded from themorose withdrawal of the firstmonths in the two years since thefirm's closing, friends and familymembers said. Along with a smallcluster of other Shea & Gould alumni,he has found a home at LeBoeuf,Lamb, Greene & MacRae. He maybe saddled with a title that even hecannot explain; he may be perform-ing little more than the token femalelawyers of two generations ago, whoheld the hands of widows during

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estates proceedings; he may be leftwaiting interminably for the chauf-feured cars that used to whisk punc-tually to the curb whenever he leftthe office. But Gould remains aboveall a lawyer. "The idea with Miltonwas that he's going to die in thesaddle," one former associate said,in a comment repeated by severalothers.

n the saddle these daysmeans puttering aroundLeBoeuf, Lamb's suit-ably dignified offices, re-galing younger attorneyswith tales of his days atthe bar, inevitably with alesson to be learned,equally inevitably with apunchline. "Why do you

think I came back from Florida?" hequeried a visitor. "Why do you thinkI'm here? I'm here because I thinkthat my reputation, my name wassuch that I didn't want to go down tothe grave with people thinking thatI ran away like a beaten dog. That'swhy I came here."

"Nothing is more important"than his reputation, Gould added. "Itreasure that."

Yet even at 86, even in a law firmnot his own, he remains involvedwith clients and the court. He willinterrupt the anecdotes to cross-examine associates who preparemotions for him to review.

"I have deluded myself, perhaps,from day one in this case," he barkedcongenially into a phone one recentafternoon, "that we were anxious toget as much of a settlement discus-sion as possible into the record be-fore this judge. Am I correct in thatassumption? Wait, wait, don't sayanything more, you're digging a holefor yourself here. Am I not reason-ably correct that if they make thoseobjections that they don't want thatsettlement conversation here? Am Inot also right that in the latest memo-randum I've obtained they now saythey want everything in?" He ex-cused himself with a nod and a waveof the hand, and he once more edgedback toward the wings of the stagewhere he rightly belongs. H

David Folkenflik '91 is a reporterfor the Baltimore Sun.

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Class Notes^ \ ^ \ Only two news and dues forms

I I on hand at the moment. We hopem ^L others of you will send news,

m B reminiscences, and other itemsf i l l for the column to the address™" ^ ^ listed below. Col. Raymond O.Ford, Maitland, FL, sent dues last June,along with word that he had just returnedfrom a cruise on the Royal Viking Sun fromNew Orleans to Montreal. The other class-mate heard from, Virginia Needham Jud-son (Mrs. Cyrus F.) sent no news at all.She lives in Falls Church, VA. ••• Class of23, c/o Cornell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ith-aca, NY 14850-1266.

^ \ A Frances Murphy Thurber toldI Λ me recently that she is recover-

m / 1 ing from a mild heart attack andm mΛά a case of pleurisy. She is, how-l I W ever, planning to be well and*•• ^ strong again for two scheduledweddings, planned for this summer for twoof her grandchildren. "Murph" is still sew-ing. She made more than 100 pot holders forher church bazaar, and every one of them sold.

Lillian Rabe McNeill was taken to thehospital in early October, where they in-stalled a pacemaker. Her heart was just tiredout. Lillian has been caring for an older sis-ter, who is now in a nursing home. Our verybest wishes to Lillian for a quick adjustmentto her pacemaker.

Mary Claudine Johnson Ault, Enga-dine, MI, writes that she went to New YorkState in August and found two new peopleto add to her family records. She and herson Don are researching their family records.They recently went to a church supper, andMary Claudine volunteered to help with acouple of church activities. She planned tospend Thanksgiving with son Edgar.

I wonder how many of our class remem-ber living in one of the "outside houses" andeating in Cascadilla with Ann Elizabeth"Betty" Neely '19, assistant dean of wom-en, presiding? Betty taught us all the Cor-nell songs and got us well-acquainted witheach other. At 125 Highland PL, we had awonderful group of freshman girls, includ-ing Mae Oswald, Mary Claudine Johnson,Dot Joslovitz, Fanny French, ElsieSmith, Vera Yereance, Florence War-ner, Louise Kreuter, and me. What a gangthat was! • Florence Daly, 91 Old Win-throp Rd., Augusta, ME 04330.

One of the great pleasures of being a classcorrespondent is hearing from classmateswith whom we have not been in touch formany, many years. The latest of such en-joyable surprises is a response to last Au-gust's class newsletter from Collis Bardin,postmarked Portola Valley, CA. Colly wentto high school in Avon, NY, studied chemis-try at Cornell, was managing editor of TheCornell Chemist in his senior year. He is oneof the younger members of our class, hav-

ing graduated at age 19, and is one yearyounger than our President Don Wickham.It would be great to hear more from you,Colly, perhaps some word about what you'vebeen doing in recent years and somethingabout your present interests.

It's also good to hear from the widowsof classmates from time to time. One is Con-nie Sprague of Stratford, CT. Another isMarg Webber of Williamsburg, VA. BobSprague, as you may recall, was in civilengineering, editor-in-chief of The CornellCivil Engineer in his senior year. You un-doubtedly remember Wendell "Wen" Web-ber, head cheerleader in our undergrad days,to whom we responded with many a "Yell,Yell, Cornell."

I hate to wind up this column on a sadnote, but I must tell you that we have lost astellar member of our class—John Hartell,"an artist and teacher of artists for 40 years,who had a distinguished association withCornell for over half a century," whosemany, many drawings in the Cornell Widow,other publications, programs, posters, etc.we all remember so well. • Max Schmitt,RR5, Box 2498, Brunswick, ME 04011-9632.

f B W^ "You're Invited To a Birthday1 1 Party For Clifford, The Big Red

m r V Dog," barked a bookstore ad inm I the Washington Post the otherg j I I day. I had never heard of Clifford,^• ^ ^ and I wondered what Romeyn"Rym" Berry '04 would have thought aboutthis singular application of his brainchild.You may remember Rym's story, reprintedin the Alumni News some years ago, abouthow he and his musical Brother in the Bondcomposed "The Big Red Team." As I recallit, they did the whole job in a single after-noon, in response to an offer of $25 for anew football song. Rym had reached a pointwhere "the Cornell team" was the logicalphrase, but "Cornell" didn't fit; the first syl-lable had to be accented. With the same fa-cility that his later works display (my words,not his), he came up with "the Big Redteam."

So "the Cornell Team" became "theBig Red Team" not only in a song still partof Cornelliana, but as a handy, made-to-or-der catchword for sports writers, as long assportswriters wrote about football in the IvyLeague. Nowadays, of course, one has tolook to p. 4 of the Washington Post's sportssection, in the fine print of an all-inclusive"Eastern" column, to find how the Penngame came out—an inevitable result of theobservation, even among alumni, that a uni-versity's excellence doesn't depend on foot-ball scores.

Some years ago, Dartmouth found thatits team required a politically correct nick-name, and it became "the Big Green team;"but it didn't have the same ring. Then Dis-ney's ad agency borrowed the words for"The Big Red Boat"—the first purely com-

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mercial use, as far as I know (I like to imag-ine Rym's report of her captain's disgust athaving his ship called a "boat," not to men-tion all the red paint). And now we're of-fered "An Autograph From Clifford The BigRed Dog Himself."

At about the time that the Dog appearedto capitalize on both Rym Berry and ColinPowell, you must have received the mailingfrom Ithaca which included "Campus News,"made up of several condensed (I hope) arti-cles from The Cornell Daily Sun. If you gotpast such expressions as "intellectual pas-sion" (not what you first thought) and "need-blind admissions" (likewise), you found theCornell men's soccer team referred to as"the Big Red," whereas the football team,where it all started, is merely "the Red"—something like the Cincinnati baseball team,or the former Soviet Union. • WalterSouthworth, 744 Lawton St., McLean, VA22101; e-mail, walters669@aol.com.

Cornell was a wonderful place to be duringthe 1920s. It was supposed to be anti-coed,but of course the charter said there wouldbe women, so it didn't make much sense tobe opposed. Certain fraternities were anti-coed, but that didn't mean that they all abid-ed by it. The girls had a wonderful time. Ev-ery Saturday night there was a "hop" in theArmory, and the men lined up and cut in onyou. If you went around the floor with thesame man twice, you thought you were"stuck," as we called it.

I was in the Arts college until my sen-ior year, when I transferred to Law. Therewere three girls in our class. I rememberthat Prof. Edwin Woodruff, LLB 1888,who was probably senior professor, calledme when the weather was bad and said thatI need not come to class. I assured him thatI loved snow and would be there. More nexttime. • Virginia VanVranken Woolley, POBox 183, Claverack, NY 12513; tel., (518)851-7115; fax (518) 851-7021.

^ \ ^\ Virginia Case Stevens,I • ' MS 71 wrote last fall that

m l ^ k her student "grandmoth-/ I I er" was "Florence Dalyf j I I '24 [class correspondent^ " ^ ^ for the women of '24], whois now a well-known art i s t . . . I mar- "ried husband Walter Stevens '24. CDOur daughter Katharine Stevens Γ"jCrane '56 and son Orrin (Syracuse '57) Ehave produced six grandchildren and ί-5three great-grandchildren. Grand- ^T?*daughter Ann Crane '83 is a Cornell- Oian and the five grandsons are all col- Mlege graduates.

"I taught home economics in Greenville,NY, then taught at Morrisville Agriculturaland Technical College, now SUNY Ag. &Tech. College, Morrisville, from 1945 to1971. In August 1995 family and friendsgathered at my Morrisville home to cele-brate my 90th birthday. I enjoy my home,gardening, and the usual small town andchurch activities."

Isabel "Bets" MacBain Barrett alsosent news along with her dues: "A hearty'hello' to all '26ers! May the 70th be a greatReunion year. I would love to attend, but Iknow I may have some health problems. I

have spine disabilities to a degree—my 91styear saw me 'acquiring' those all-too-fre-quent ailments of our age group and if theyincrease I would not be able to handle therequired walking, etc. (and stairs!). Afterhaving had excellent health for so manyyears it is difficult to accept any lesseningof it.

"I guess all I can say is that if healthpermits, I'd love to 're-une' with all '26 sur-vivors, but if not, know I'll be with you allin spirit and hope that weather and all cir-cumstances are favorable for a wonderfultime. If you wish, I will write later to con-firm or cancel my tentative answers to thequestions asked about the 70th. If it mustbe in the negative, again—good luck andhappy days to you, one and all."

Another duespayer who mentioned Re-union is Estelle "Stel" Randall Burnette(Mrs. Robert C.) of Skaneateles, NY. Shewrote last October, "I moved back to Ska-neateles from Boca Raton, FL four yearsago. Am now on the waiting list for Kendalat Ithaca. I wonder whether I'll be in Ska-neateles or in Ithaca by our Reunion inJune!"

Reunion planning continues and theplanners are hopeful a good turn-out of'26ers will be in Ithaca for the festivities,June 6-9. • Class of '26, c/o Cornell Maga-zine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

^ ^ l ^ | There follow excerpts from a let-• i ter (dated Nov. 16, '95) to the

m m undersigned from Sarah L.M • Pankow '92: "I am a fellowf j I Cornellian who is currently work-* • ™ ing as an English teacher at Wil-liamsville East High School. Every year, mystudents are required to do a researchproject at mid-term. This year the studentsare choosing a historical period that inter-ests them, researching it, and creating acharacter whose story will bring that timeperiod to life.

"I research and write along with my stu-dents, and I have chosen the 1920s as theperiod that I would like to focus on. I amlooking for sources. What I am particularlyinterested in are personal stories and remi-niscences of what life was like during yourcollege years at Cornell. Where were yourfavorite places to hang out? What classes didyou take? What were the traditions at Cor-nell in the 1920s? The social "hot spots?"What kinds of things concerned you? Whatdid you need to know in order to survive asa Cornellian in the mid- to late-1920s?

"Basically, [I hope you'll send] whatev-er memories of your college years you wouldlike to share. Primary sources are the mainfocus of my research, as I feel that I canbring the Cornell version of the 1920s tolife better through real-life Cornellians thanI can through any history textbook or bookwritten on the subject. I would be deeplyappreciative.

"I can be reached on e-mail(sarahshay@aol.com) or by letter at 71 Lex-ington Terr., Amherst, NY 14226. (Signed)Sarah L. Pankow."

Now here is an unusual opportunity forus to give aid and comfort to an imaginativeteacher who researches and writes alongwith her students, and simultaneously tell

her how it was in the Roaring Twenties atCornell when we were young. When wewere young?—"Ah, woeful When! / Ah, forthe change 'twixt Now and Then!" • C. L.Kades, PO Box 132, Heath, MA 01346.

With winter nearly over, Grace EglintonVigurs and Dot Smith Porter, the onlysnowbirds left of the considerable numberthat spent the winter months in Florida, willbe returning home. Elizabeth "Ginny"Lawson Churchman had a strenuous 17-daytrip to Central Europe, and Henrietta Low-enburg Marquis, MD had a trip to Spainsponsored by her local art museum.

Mary "Polly" Enders Copeland en-joyed a cruise to Alaska, "with whales andwildlife all over the place in great numbers."Most of us are now content to stay at homeand remember past travels we once enjoyed.• Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563 Dean St.,Schenectady, NY 12309.

Λ ^ \ The Class of '28 has a new hon-1 1 I or roll inspired by Ezra Cornell,

E \ t who gave $500,000 to found his/ I I new university. Alumni whof i i f make lifetime gifts of $500,000^•" ^ ^ or more to Cornell may havetheir names inscribed on the Founders Wall.Stan Krusen, Floyd Mundy, Gil Weh-mann, Ira Degenhardt, and J. B. "Bud"Murdock have their names there.

We are very pleased that KathrynAltemeier Yohn's name is now on the wall.She had planned to leave to Cornell in herwill an apartment building she owned, butat the 65th Reunion she made the gift of itto Cornell. • Theodore Adler, 2 GardenRd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

^ \ ^ \ Jerry Loewenberg writes that1 1 I he has recently spent lots of time

m I I in the hospital. He recalls howm ^ ^ healthy he was when he flew

Mi i t missions in World War II. WeΛ β V ^ each remember our 1945 condi-tion. Howard Beers has three children whoare grandparents, with progeny from coastto coast. Up in the northwest corner ofWashington State, old hurdler Frank Bey-er has "slowed down." Local track teamswill miss his advice.

Colonial Williamsburg is enjoyed byAl "Blackie" Blackman, who also remi-nisces about the glory days of Cornellcrews at Poughkeepsie. He recalls beingin the winning junior varsity boat on arough day and watching the varsity getswamped and have to swim for it. Anoth-er old crewnian is Irv Dale, who has aregular Cornell family including his formerwife, the late Marian (Duschnes) '28,son Harvey '58, and grandchildren Lisa'91, BA '92 and Oliver '94. He lives inAtlantis, FL, is "reasonably healthy andactive," and has worse handwriting thanmine.

"Eclectic" is the word for John E.Coleman, who has been active for years onthe Reserve Officers Assn., Company of Mil-itary Historians, and Dayton Society of Nat-ural History, plus doings with children,grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.• Don Layton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY14850.

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Word was just received of the death of Flor-ence Davis DeLaney from her daughter, Peg-gy Mallette. Our sympathy goes to her. Peggysaid Flo died Aug. 27, '95 "after a month ofhospitalization with a swift-moving cancer ofthe brain. During June she had visited me inMontana, where we played golf and soaked inthe hot springs." Flo was active in golf, bridge,quilting, church, and local library.

On a happier note, M. Genevieve Coonreports never a dull moment and just givespraise for awakening to face new opportuni-ties and challenges each day. Having to re-place her 1981 Plymouth Reliant, which"rusted out" before she did, she considers ahappier and cheaper event than a knee orhip replacement which many have faced.

A week's visit to Sarasota by Agnes"Tib" Kelly Saunders gave Jo Mills Reis,C. "Kit" Curvin Hill, and me a chance tovisit and reminisce. •> Ethel Corwin Ritter,4532 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota, FL 34242.

^ \ ^\ Dear friends, the well is almostI I I dry. What do I use for news? We

m I I ^ a v e ^ v e c^ through almost a cen-• I I tury> t n r o u § h wars and peace,

I 1 1 1 from the time of horses andV ^ \J Henry Ford, from the birth ofradio and TV to space flight, computers, andgoing "on-line." And many of you are grand-parents and more. What experiences youhave had! Surely you can share some inci-dents with us. Aren't you curious about whatothers have done?

Do you look on the shelves of your lo-cal libraries for LARGE PRINT books? Mylatest 'cause' is to write to publishers ask-ing them to print in LARGE PRINT someof the instructive books by Asimov, McPhee,and Carl Sagan, David Duncan professor ofastronomy and space sciences at Cornell,about biology, computing, physics, geology,space, and the stars. Do you know what theHubble is doing, or the astronauts, up in thesky so blue? Publishers reply there is nomarket for such books and go right on pub-lishing adventure, detective stories, and ro-mances. Again, aren't you curious?

Margaret Hopkins Loughlin writesthat she couldn't come to Reunion using acane, not realizing that taxis and buses andramps now make all campus structures avail-able. She likes living in North Carolina,which has just enough snow to remind herof Cornell, and with children and grandchil-dren nearby. Her son, a pediatrician, has twosons who have graduated from college."Time passes so swiftly," she says.

As I write, pre-Thanksgiving, Ithaca'sfirst big snow is falling, warning me to getback to holiday cooking. • Joyce PorterLayton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

An update on a 65th Reunion item whichremains newsworthy: The class gift to theJohnson Museum in honor of Frank andRosa Rhodes has again been featured by themuseum, this time on the cover page of themuseum's annual report in its brilliant goldand black and with a vivid display of the per-sonalities portrayed on the plate. Addition-ally, on an inside page of the report, is apicture of a handsome couple, Charlie andMargo Treman, shown taking "a closer lookat the ancient Greek plate given by the Class

Genevieve Coon

had to replace her

1981 Plymouth

Reliant, which

'rusted out' before

she did . . . a hap-

pier and cheaper

event than a knee

or hip replacement

which many have

faced, she says.

ETHEL CORWIN RITTER '29

of 1930 (see cover)." The entire report of64 pages is beautifully done and is appar-ently not sent to all alumni. I thankfully re-ceived a copy by request of Dr. Sid Tamarin,himself a past contributor of valuable arti-facts enhancing the museum's stature, asnoted in past Cornell Magazine issues andother university publications. Sid, along withCharlie, was the source of the idea of theplate as a class gift to honor the Rhodeses.

The 1995 News and Dues sheets havelong been in. Those of you who sent in newsitems are owed my own apologies that theyhave not appeared. I won't plead my age. It'sbetter to explain that last year's news itemswere of an unusually large volume and con-sumed space almost up to Reunion time. Imissed the regular deadline for this CornellMagazine issue because of unavoidable ab-sence from my desk around deadline time, buthave generously been granted a reprieve bythe Cornell Magazine staff for inclusion of theabove. I promise to try to review the sheetsand to write up all or as many as possible itemssent in for the forthcoming 1996 issues.

I add what I am sure was and is theofficial class wish that each of you had a mostenjoyable holiday season, and will continueto enjoy even more the rest of this centuryand much of the new one. • Benedict P.Cottone, Bay Plaza 802, 1255 GulfstreamAve., Sarasota, FL 34236; phone and fax,(941) 366-2989.

^ ^ ^ Our long-time Reunion Co-I I Chairpersons Ethel Bache

^ I Clark and Frank O'Brien^ I cleverly took advantage of a

l l I cruise Ethel and husband ι\J JL> Larry were to take in No-vember 1995 out of Ft. Lauderdale, FLto get together on the plans for our

Super-Sensational 65th Reunion in June. Re-sponses to the initial announcement werestill coming in as they met, but at that earlydate the following, in addition to those al-ready mentioned, had indicated their plans,or at least their hopes, to attend:

Steve Bean, Lorna Bennett, Mar-garet Ellis Blabey, George R. Bradley,Bliss Clark, Dick Cohen, Bob Collins,Helen Lautrup Durnell, Myrtle Uetz Fel-ton, A. H. "Has" Forman, Gene Fouse,Henry Garretson, Sid Goodman, Ger-trude Murdoch Goodwin, Len Gordon, S."Lem" Gorlick, Emily Gorman, DorotheaHall, Bob Hazlett, Abbott Hessney, AlHodge, Kevin Howard, Bill Jennings,Tom D. Kelley, Jim Knipe, A. J. "Mirk"Mirkin, Bill Murray, Jim Oest, Ted Os-born, Dave Pollack, Bill Pruyn, HaroldReynolds, Martin Riger, B. "Otts"Roessler, Katherine Rummler, HelenNuffort Saunders, R. B. "Pat" Shreve, DanTerry, John Townsend, Bill Vogel, L."Roy" Wardner, Alba Wilhelms, and Os-car Zurer.

Any of you who want the addresses offriends to write or phone, to encourage themto join you at Reunion, just call or write oneof the following. We all have lists: Frank L.O'Brien Jr., 1636 S. Ocean Dr., Ft. Lauder-dale, FL 33316, tel., (205) 359-4972; Mrs.Lawrence D. Clark, 21 Emerson Rd., Med-field, MA 02052, tel., (508) 359-4972; Mrs.Donald B. Saunders, 445 Valley Forge Rd.,Devon, PA 19333-1298; or yours truly, ad-dress below.

Quite some time ago the "grapevine"reported that Bob Collins (310 E. 70th St.,#10E, NYC 10021-8620) had had a seriousstroke. Reaction: "Oh! Oh! That's going tocut out his traveling!" Wrong again! His duesform received in early May 1995, includinga nice "additional contribution," has in theaddress space on the front "All year travel."On the back he documents this with "Evenwith a stroke in February 1994, after muchrehab, etc. Patricia and I attended the 50thanniversary of D-Day in June 1995 in Eng-land and France. This past February, tendays in Redington Beach, FL; home fourdays, then a cruise through the Panama Ca-nal from Ft. Lauderdale to Acapulco. Bigplans now for a trip to Hawaii after touringthe Western parks and visiting with daugh-ter and two grandsons in Seattle, WA. Longweekends planned in the Poconos, Skytop,and Mohonk. In October, Sarasota, FL for agathering of folks I worked with in Venezu-ela, followed by a cruise on the Sea God-dess, Rome to Malaga. Our motto, 'Do itwhile you can.' " I hear they accomplishedall of the above and more. Our admirationand congratulations on the "intestinal forti-tude" it required to believe that you "can"and then to "do it." • William M. Vanne-man, Thirwood PL, #250, 237 N. Main St.,S. Yarmouth, MA 02664-2000.

Last May one of Dorothea Hall's cousins(two generations younger) was married inPhoenix, AZ. Dee enjoyed all the activitiesout there for a week, then headed home toAmherst, NY to rejoin her camera club andbotanical society members, looking forwardto "one of the less strenuous field trips."

Sad news from Gertrude Andrews

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Small. She writes, "My husband, Cyril G.Small '28, died on Dec. 20, '94. I am stillliving in the same house for the present. Ourfour children are a great help." She adds,"I'm still in touch with Vida Walker Scud-der Button. She now lives at 48 Oatka St.,Warsaw, NY 14569." • Helen NuffortSaunders, 445 Valley Forge Rd., Devon, PA19333; tel., (610) 989-9849.

^ \ ^ \ B. L. "Ben" Falk, our Reunionm I chair, has instructed me to plug

^ m our 65th, which will be only 15^ m months in the future when you

i l f j read this. As a result, I work in a^ ^ *•• comment in every letter I writeto a classmate. Example: Frederick T.Rope, now of Westford, VT, was broughtup in and around Buffalo. He is interestedin a Frank Lloyd Wright complex in his oldneighborhood, so I sent him some relevantnewspaper clippings, and he replied: "ThatMartin project will truly restore the jewelof Jewett Parkway."

He also said: "No Reunion man (hehasn't attended any within my memory),should I make it to June 1997, I'll give the65th pride of place on my agenda." He alsodescribes Westford, his home since retir-ing from the US Foreign Service, as anoutpost of Burlington with a population of1,000 scattered over a few beautiful squaremiles.

Fred's house, built in the 1840s, hasbeen made "elder-friendly." He lives therealone, but his daughter and family are justacross the road. Son Bill is the Americanco-director of the Johns Hopkins U.—Nan-jing U. Center for Chinese-American Stud-ies. Fred adds: "God willing and if thecreeks don't rise, I'll head for Nanjing inApril."

A letter recently arrived from Rob-ert C. Trier Jr. of Kulpsville, PA. Bobhas been having some health problems,but his characteristic ebullience hasn't di-minished. He observes that as he looksback over his abundant years, he "missesmost the many opportunities [he] had andof which [he] did not take advantage . . . "The old libertine! His letter was postedwith a Marilyn Monroe stamp. •> JamesW. Oppenheimer, 140 Chapin Pkwy.,Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

On Nov. 21, '95, I received from the alumniaffairs office all of the News and Dues formsthat had been returned to them from the wom-en of '32 up to that time. I was very pleased—a real Thanksgiving present. The envelope hadseven forms in it, but there was not a line ofnews.

I did notice, from her secondary ad-dress, that Noel Russell Stewart spendsthe coldest part of winter in Sun City, FL.Really, my friends, you must do somethingwith your time, even if it is no more ex-citing than what I did this morning—bak-ing peanut-butter chocolate-chip cookiesfor a meeting this afternoon of our localsenior citizens group.

You know I would feel badly to losethis job, so write to me now and then, ifonly to keep me happy. • Martha TravisHouck, PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ07921.

Nat Apter sent this interestingnews of Bill Schneider and hiswife from Oregon. TheSchneider Museum of Art atSouthern Oregon State Collegeowes its existence to Bill and

wife Florence, who gave a large sum of mon-ey toward construction costs. To honor theirgenerosity, the Oregon State board decidedto name the museum after Bill's parents,Samuel and May Schneider. Portland archi-tect Will Martin was selected to design thebuilding in 1985. In September 1986, thebuilding was completed with a unique Palla-dium window wall of special glass which re-flected the trees, hill, and sky. ArchitectMartin and his son, after the groundbreak-ing ceremony, were killed in a plane crash.He had wanted the museum to be "a rare,small jewel" to enrich the community andprovide educational and artistic experiencefor people of all ages.

George Pringle writes from Mt. Dora,FL with wife Jane (Barker) '30: "We arehere for our 30th winter in Florida. Westayed first at Boynton Beach, then Lees-burg for 15 years, now in Mt. Dora. Wespend summers at the Pringle Homestead,Chautauqua County, that my great-grandfa-ther bought in 1838. Our four daughters livein eastern New York, New Jersey, Arizona,and Hawaii, all good places to visit. BrotherDick Pringle '32 lives in the Philippines."

Morris Reisen, on Longboat Key, con-siders himself fortunate to have sold his lum-ber business to his employees before he re-tired five years ago. Since then he has livedwith his wife in Florida and New Jersey.Morris plays bridge and watches ball gamesof all kinds on TV. Due to Parkinson's dis-ease, his physical activities are limited. Twoof their four children are Cornellians. Grand-children are at Harvard, but the youngerones range in age down to 3 years.

Dorothy Daniels Angelus is now in anursing home, as reported by Leslie Daniels,W. Hartford, CT. Dorothy Pentecost Jonesspends time with her sister-in-law, who is89 and legally blind, near Arlington, VA.

Some of the many who sent dues butno news are Eleanor B. (Crombie), wifeof A. Cornwell Shuman, W. Lafayette, IN,Catherine Sigler; Dr. S. Richard Silver-man, Gainesville, FL; Dorothy TenchSims, Tallahassee, FL; Blanche PearlmanSinger, Red Hook, NY; Evelyn CharneyStein, Passaic, NY; Helen Cotter Strom-beck, Owego, NY; Reba Shinn Taylor,Temple Terrace, FL; William Verlenden,Lookout Mt., TN; Beatrice AlexanderWeingart, Van Nuys, CA; Alvah E. Worth,Delmar, CA; and Herbert N. Woodward,Attleboro, MA. Your friends will be glad youare still alive, so let's have a line from you.

Deaths to report follow: John T. An-drews (Engineering) Dec. 29, '91 in PennYan, NY; John E. Lee (Agriculture), whoseson, Wally, survives in Miami; John CuylerPage (Agriculture), whose wife, Mrs. J. C.Page, survives in Ithaca. Condolences alsoto Caryl MacLaughlin Brackenridge '61 onthe death of her mother, Ruth BedfordMacLaughlin (Arts & Sciences), in LongValley, NJ.

Let L. Stanley Green have the lastword. "Now really, how can you expect us

octogenarians to have much news? Most ofus live with memories and are kept alive bythe astounding developments in medicine—bypasses, transplants, new joints, etc. I amliving with a new regulator pacemaker. Un-fortunately not much has been done to revi-talize our minds. We spend much of our timehunting for lost objects—clothing, keys, bill-folds, glasses, teeth, aids, and the like. Wehave little time to make news." All the moreremarkable when we do, Stanley. • Mar-jorie Chapman Brown, HC3, Box 420, OldTown, FL 32680-9685.

^ \ A It has not been the best of win-m Λ ters for our Class president Bill

^ / • Robertson, who underwentB ίΛά surgery last October at the New

l l W England Baptist Hospital in^ ^ ^ Boston for the fourth replace-

ment of his right hip. We hope that Bill hasdiscarded his crutches and is now well onhis way to recovery in the new condo thathe shares with his lovely wife Anne at 55Colonial Sq., Peterborough, NH 03458; tel.,(603) 924-8654.

Cornell and our class lost a good friendlast October when Jim Kittleman died athis home in Salita, CO. Jim was a founderand leader in the field of executive searchfor non-profit organizations. His clientsincluded the National Park Service, the Na-ture Conservancy, and the Chicago Commu-nity Trust. We convey our deepest sympa-thy to his wife, Madeline, and family. Jimwas always active in our class affairs and wasa member of the Tower Club, the CayugaSociety, and a life member of the UniversityCouncil. We will miss him very much.

Also last year, Harriet McNinchWright '33, the wife of former Class Presi-dent Truman Wright, died at their homeon St. Simon, GA. We wish to convey ourdeepest sympathy also to Truman and theirchildren.

Several members of our class have tak-en advantage of offerings of the Adult Uni-versity (CAU) program last year. KarlSchmidt and wife Jeanne went to Germanywith the program, and Georgianna Robin-son Walker attended "Estate Planning."Both Winifred Loeb Saltzman and MartinDavenport (with daughter Lissa Davenport)attended "Taking Charge." • Hilton Jayne,2311 River Crescent Dr., Annapolis, MD21401; tel., (410) 573-5950.

\ Now, in November, I can tell youthat the Class of '35 was repre-sented at the inauguration ofPresident Hunter Rawlings andalso at the University Councilmeeting last October by Jim and

Viola Henry Mullane, Al and Dotty Pres-ton, my wife Ginnie (Sturtevant) '39, andme. It was a truly wonderful Cornell event,made especially memorable by the partici-pation of all five of Cornell's living presi-dents: Deane Malott (age 97), JamesPerkins, Dale Corson, Frank Rhodes, andRawlings. You may recall that Cornell wasabout 65 years young when we were stu-dents; now (at age 82), what's 65 years?

Garner A. Adams's wife, Frances,wrote recently saying that Gar had passedaway on Oct. 4, '95 after enduring Parkin-

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son's disease for two years, and that his lovefor Cornell was surpassed only by that forhis devoted family. Gar, among other activ-ities, was business manager of The CornellDaily Sun as a student and later served asan assistant alumni secretary at one time.Their son Randolph M. Adams '64, DVM'66 practices in Marshfield, MA.

Mabel MacGregor Cladel, who at-tended our 60th Reunion, also visited daugh-ter Nancy Cladel Scholes '65, BS Nurs '66,for three weeks in Sweden, where Nancy'shusband was on sabbatical leave at U. ofGoteborg. Then Mabel flew to Prague forfive days—a beautiful city of cathedrals—where she attended concerts each night. Shestayed in a pension, a former prison whereCzech Pres. Vaclav Havel had been a politi-cal prisoner. Mabel is looking forward to our65th Reunion!

Fred Giesecke and wife Sarah report-ed with his dues that they were planning anINTRAV trip to France, including Paris,Provence, and the Riviera this last Septem-ber. Sounds great—hope they made it. RuthC. Tachna, who had a daughter visiting herat the time, was sorry to miss our 60th Re-union. She spends winters on Singer Island,FL, and summers at 446. E. 86th St., Apt.11C, NYC 10028. She enjoys theater, con-certs, ballet, opera, and seeing family andold friends.

Ruth Gates Fisher (Mrs. Charles A.)is grateful for a year that brought visits fromher scattered family, a trip to Spain with hersister, and another trip to Austria with herdaughter.

Your classmates want to hear what youare doing, so please keep your news, opin-ions, and comments coming! ••• Ed Miller,10101 Grosvenor PL, #1515, Rockville, MD20852.

^ \ ^\ Constance "Connie" Le-I • bair Percy, who has had

^ l ^ k world-wide influence in• I I c a n c e r research, wrote

l i I f from Rockville, MD thatV # \ ^ she had been editor-in-chief of Histology of Cancer, a supple- *"jment to the journal Cancer, January f^s1995 edition. The supplement had 20 —yarticles, and she wrote the introduc- £"jtion. She also celebrated her 80th | 3birthday with a party given by more h ίthan 60 people from all over the US φand from her office staff at the Nation- Mal Cancer Inst., where she was still ϊ""working full-time. She was also given an-other big family party, and in between shewent to India for two weeks, attending theInternational Cancer Congress in Delhi andthe International Assn. of Cancer Registriesin Bangalore, giving papers at both. Thenshe went for a week to Nepal, where shetook great pictures of Mount Everest andother Himalayan mountains. Her childrenmade a video of her life, including picturesof Cornell and Balch Hall.

Joseph Terry, living in Corona, CA,said he and wife Lily planned to be in LasVegas, NV to attend the 50th anniversaryof his rescue by the 11th Airborne from be-hind the Japanese lines in the Philippines,"one of the most successful military opera-tions during World War II." They are both

You may recall that

Cornell was about

65 years young

when we were stu-

dents; now (at age

82),-what's 65

years?

— - E D MILLER '35

well and enjoy traveling by land and by sea,but are always glad to return to sunny south-ern California, their home for the last 40 years.

Walter Grimes, in Arlington, VA,wrote that he and his wife travel about 60percent of the time. In December 1994, theyreturned from a 49-day cruise around SouthAmerica aboard the Regent Sea. They sawIguasu Falls ("fantastic") and Macchu Pichu("unbelievable, considering when the citywas built"). Charles Gildersleeve movedin 1994 from Chattanooga, TN to FortWorth, TX, eliminating the 800-mile drivefrom Chattanooga to Fort Worth. He said,"Cutting the grass on this level ground isalmost a pleasure." He still makes semi-an-nual flights to San Francisco for the birth-days of his daughter and his son.

Mary-Emily Wilkins Wells and hus-band Jim still have busy lives, he having apart-time job, so that much of the travelsare just for long weekends. In March 1994,however, they visited Florida and stayed twodays with Lloyd Jones [husband of the lateDoris "Do" (Hendee)]. The Wellses attend-ed an Elderhostel at Deerhaven Camp inOcala National Forest, and visited otherfriends. They took trip to southern Califor-nia in August to see Jim's daughter and fourgranddaughters there.

Wendell Wheeler and wife Helenspend mid-October to mid-May in Leesburg,FL, and the other months in Des Moines,IA. Wendell wrote that they had just re-turned in fall 1994 from a 23-day trip to LosAngeles, then Australia and New Zealand.They saw a lot of the eastern half of Austra-lia and the two main islands of New Zealand."A great trip, but a bit too vigorous at our age!"

Elizabeth "Tiern" Tierney Nation isliving in Davidson, NC on Lake Norman. Sheis active in the Davidson Seniors Club (pres-ident, last year). They have an active Friend-ship Force with Davidson students, whichmeets students for lunch or dinner. She par-ticularly enjoys the young people, becauseher own family is still on Long Island. Sheis active in the Alzheimer's Disease SupportGroup, which is very satisfying work sinceher husband had Alzheimer's disease before

he died, and she at that time had had noidea what to do. She had a happy reunionwith Elizabeth Fessenden Washburn at thelocal Cornell Club luncheon. • Allegra LawIreland, 125 Grant Ave. Ext., Queensbury,NY 12804-2640.

^ ^ l ^ ( August E. Kehr is a director inI m the North Carolina Arboretum

^f m Society with a hobby interest in^ • plant hybridization. Home is on

i l l serene Tranquility Place inV ^ m Hendersonville, NC. He is listedin Who's Who in America. Augie and MaryLouise have a daughter and two grandsons.Recent travel has been in Germany, Swit-zerland, Italy, and France. Ellis Jacobson'sdaughter Gael Jacobson '70 returned fromChina last fall bringing his adopted grand-daughter An, a very special addition to thefamily. Grandpa writes from Lake Worth,FL, that since the little lady is barely a yearold now, there's really no great rush to ap-ply for admission to Cornell.

Arthur J. Poelma says he feels a bitolder now that he, too, has an adopted grand-son just a year old. Art, a former vocationalag teacher and life-long farmer, is semi-re-tired but still a partner with grand-nephewGary Davy '75 in the 2,000-acre Poelma-Davy Farm near Albion. Art, always activein the community, in Farm Bureau, on theschool advisory council, and, with wife Lois,a retired high school English teacher, intheir church. The Poelmas enjoy winters insunny Florida.

After 22 summers of working at Mon-mouth Park Raceway in New Jersey, ArthurK. Harris has again retired. Continuing hislifelong fascination with puzzles, he recent-ly enjoyed the convention of the NationalPuzzlers' League in Portland, OR, then at-tended his grandson's wedding. To celebratetheir 55th anniversary, Frank A. Parsonsand his wife went on a cruise through thePanama Canal from Los Angeles, CA aroundto Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Their home is in mid-America: Carmel, IN. Frank was with theBell System for 43 years; he retired as vicepresident for support services at Indiana BellTelephone Co. • Robert A. Rosevear, 2714Saratoga Rd., N., DeLand, FL 32720-1403.

Helen Clark Halliday continues to live inher old house in Wilmington, OH, which wasrecently chosen by Cincinnati Magazine asthe most liveable small town in the Cincin-nati area. Helen keeps busy with a host ofactivities, including gardening and seeingmany friends. Last year the Raders—Stephanie (Czech) and husband Bill—drove a total of 4,734 miles in a three-weekperiod, visiting friends and relatives alongthe way to Cheyenne, WY, Colorado Springsand Breckenridge, CO.

I recall that Ruth Mason Phillips andher family, former neighbors of mine, spenttheir vacations hiking and climbing; Ruth iscontinuing this practice. Last summer shewent to Scotland with her hiking group.Over a perior of five days they hiked 36miles and climbed 4,000 feet. Last summershe enjoyed a wonderful visit with Hilde-gard Velzmann Wilson, her Cornell room-mate for two years. They spent a day withEllen "Nellie" Seaburg.

MARCH 199641

Tlie CheapestCharles H. Pratt '38, BS Ag '39

harles Pratt is a man of all seasons and a sportsman innearly all elements: earth, air and water. The Elizabeth-town, NY resident has competed in cycling, running,

orienteering and swimming events at the New York State SeniorGames in Cortland since 1988. He also enjoys hang-gliding with hisgrandsons and recently took a hot air balloon trip with his wife fortheir anniversary.

Ί have become convincedthat regular exercise is thecheapest medicine," he says. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

And at 83 years of age, the key ^ ^ B ^ . ^ . ^ L Jto staying active is no secret, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • • M β B W P

but "simple determination." Headmits that some days he lacksmotivation, but is determined tobike or run at least four milesevery other day.

For Pratt, it's not the timesachieved nor the medals wonthat mark his accomplishments;it's participating, mastering theskill and doing his best to helpothers. Ί believe that joiningthe Boy Scouts and adoptingthe Scout Oath and Law haveunquestionably had the greatestimpact on my life," he says. Pratt has been an active Eagle Scoutsince 1929 and received the "Good Scout" award in 1990. Hisphilanthropic work spans organizations including Habitat for Human-ity, Literacy Volunteers of America and the Fresh Air Fund.

"My adult life has been like a kaleidoscope of involvement," hesays. "I like to think that the purpose and meaning of life is bestexpressed in the words of Teilhard de Chardin: 'Someday, after wehave mastered the winds, the tides, and gravity, we shall harnessfor God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the his-tory of the world, man will have discovered fire.'"

Indeed, Charles Pratt has discovered that fire.—Loren Mooney '93

Shirley Leighton Doughty reportseight grandchildren, ages 31-5, and twogreat-grandchildren, Michaela, 2, and Pat-rick, 3 months. She moved in June fromGlen Head, NY (after 45 years) to Yarmouth,ME. She loves her new home, lives nearher older son and family, and finds it easierfor her other children to visit her.

Helen Dunn went to Spain and Portu-gal in the spring and recently returned fromMaine and the Maritime Provinces of Cana-da. She serves on the scholarship commit-tee and is one of the coordinators of theEmergency Action Group in her retirement

center. • Gertrude Kaplan Fitzpatrick, POBox 228, Cortland, NY 13045.

Hardy Cook, after his 1981 re-tirement—following 20 years asresident head of industrial sta-tistics and quality control forWestinghouse (now AT&T) inBaltimore—continues to be ac-

tive in local and national levels of the Amer-ican Society for Quality Control. Son HardyIII, PhD, has been promoted to full profes-sor and head of the humanities departmentat Bowie State U., a component of U. of

Maryland.Richard Mandigo and Barbara (Keen-

ey) '37 celebrated the 55th anniversary oftheir marriage, which began at Sage Chapel.

Jim McKay (bless him; he typewriteshis info) is still practicing law (except for"lengthy trials in faraway places"), is doinga considerable percent of "pro bono" workfor military veterans, and is serving on acommittee hearing disciplinary chargesagainst attorneys. He has an honorary doc-torate from Georgetown U. (but avers, "no-body calls me Doctor"). Two of three grand-children have just entered college ("but, alas,not Cornell"), thus perhaps ending an un-broken chain going back to Jim's great-grandfather, a member of the first Big Redfaculty and dean of its English department.Two of Jim's children have attended Cor-nell. Jim says he "can't stay away from thehome of my ancestors," is planning a sev-enth trip to Scotland in May.

Preston Weadon says he's "fightingennui" and—get out your Funk & Wag-nail's—"entropy"); his son's daughter, Mol-ly Weadon '98, is a third-generation Cor-nellian.

Hezekiah "Hez" Webster "recentlyenjoyed a month's visit to Australia and NewZealand." George Hobby, who retired in1981 and in 1994 lost his wife of 50 yearsand one month, has moved to be closer tohis daughter and grandchildren and threegreat-grandchildren; his new address is 3751Eastern Hills Lane, #1616, Cincinnati, OH45209, and he's realizing his expectation:"life has perked up considerably." •> FredHillegas, 7625 E. Camelback Rd., MayaApts., #220-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

Betty Jokl Brodt and her husband movedfrom Manhattan to a co-op in Minneapo-lis, and find that each day brings newfriends and invigorating experiences.They'll winter in Italy; last year in Rome,this year Firenze. At the time she wrote,Grace "Johnnie" Johnson Crosby's paint-ings were on exhibit at shows in Pennsyl-vania and Birmingham, MI, and she anti-cipated a September interlude of study onMacinac Island.

Margaret Sullivan Davis lost her hus-band last year, and she is now dividing hertime between Florida and Ithaca. Her daugh-ters are residents of Indiana and Rochester,NY, and a granddaughter is a student atUnion College. Alma Naylor Elliott'syoungest grandson is a Cornell sopho-more—the fifth generation in the family tocarry on the Cornell tradition.

Ted and Gerry Miller Gallagherwere part of the "mini" group in Septem-ber, and Gerry also attended last June'sReunion Weekend in Ithaca, with the op-portunity to hear President Rhodes's fare-well speech and witness the emotionalreaction of the Cornellians of all ages whowere present. The Gallaghers' oldestgranddaughter attends Messiah College inPennsylvania; five younger siblings followclosely behind. Marian Harloff Bowman'sgrandson attends Pennsylvania State U.,while her granddaughter is a Rotary ex-change student in Belgium. •> Helen Reich-ert Chadwick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston,NY 14092.

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CLASS NOTES

Last fall John and Astrid Hullwere kept busy with a lot ofwrap-up chores, including paint-ing the garage (one side eachyear). A trip to Brownsville, TXbrought back memories of the

late 1940s, when Pan Am had used a bigroll of bright, lightweight clo*th, which wasunfurled if they went down to help search-ers. While enjoying 23 years of full retire-ment, Herman Hegyi stays in shape withgardening and tending a deer- and turkey-hunting lodge in Virginia. During the win-ter, a well-stocked city library reading roomin St. Petersburg serves as a mainstay inhis continuing education program.

Retired from the practice of internalmedicine, Ed Holcomb fondly recalls anAdult University (CAU) trip to Alaska witheducation Prof. Emeritus Verne Rockcas-tle, PhD '55 and his wife. Ed and his wifethoroughly enjoy an active program of sail-ing, skiing, and tennis. Spring and fall bringthem to the wild dunes and seashores ofSouth Carolina.

Ev Randall recalls their last vacationto eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, plus theBoston Commons to USS Constitution Free-dom Trail, on foot. He's still recovering fromthe latter. In full swing with his part-timejob of income tax preparation is John Mc-Donald, while continuing with his year-round volunteer work with the library, low-income housing, and church missions. Ourthoughts are with him in the sudden deathof his wife as they were planning for a tripto Scotland.

A winter condo in Cocoa Beach is muchmore appealing to Marcel Mulbury andMarian than the cold of northern New York,where they have retired from owning andmanaging a 500-acre fruit farm along withtheir son.

Tidbit: spring is when you feel like whis-tling, even with a shoe full of slush. • RussMartin, 29 Janivar Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Eleanor Culver Young reports "21 happyyears of retirement," for which she is grate-ful. She revisited Montreal last August, re-calling 1945, when she heard the news ofHiroshima as she was completing her mas-ter's thesis. Ruth Gold Goodman has giv-en up teaching English as a second languageafter 15 years, and is now volunteering atthe public library. She is also active in theCornell Campus Club, and is "very busy do-ing wonderful things."

Jean Linklater Payne toured the Ca-nadian Rockies by bus and train last July—to Vancouver and Victoria, BC. Granddaugh-ter Angela '99, daughter of Robert Payne'67, MBA 72, entered the College of HumanEcology last fall. Another granddaughter isstudying nursing.

Marian "Put" Putnam Wentworthwrites, "We are getting more 'retired' ev-ery day, and still find plenty to do at ourcottage on Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario, and athome." On a trip last April to Costa Ricaand the Panama Canal, she acquired a staphinfection on her leg while leaping into a dug-out canoe in the jungle! She continues herinterest in Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithol-ogy and our '39 Remembrance Garden. Shenotes that "1995 was a big year for grand-

children's weddings, bringing home the gen-eration gap!"

Helen Heald Rader took a trip to NewEngland last June for a prep school reunion.She also visited her two brothers and theirfamilies and saw her first and only grand-son, born last April. ••• Ella ThompsonWright, 7212 Masonville Dr., Annandale, VA22003-1630; tel., (703) 573-5403.

A ^ \ Went to bed last night with BenΛ I I Gay—you romantics, don't get

/ I I I excited! I'm hand-piecing aLMέ I I complicated quilt, and my wrist

W \m needed some soothing. Worked^ ^ ^ great. Three deaths to report:

Alta Mosher Benedict of Hamilton, NY diedon Aug. 2, '95; Edgar L. Kleindinst Jr. ofSnyder, NY, on Sept. 5, '95; and James B.Lyon, on March 31, '94. James lived in Sa-vannah, GA.

Joseph Taubman wrote from NewYork City that he is still practicing law andhis wife works as his secretary. They wereat Reunion and took a trip to the Bay areaof California in late August, then on to LosAngeles. Wearing their Reunion straw hats,they attracted a lot of attention and inquir-ies as to what "C 40" meant!

Some personal bits from our popularformer Reunion Co-Chair. Ellen "Toni"Saxe Stewart and husband Jack '38, JD'40 were to move in January to the continu-ing-care community named Kendal at Ith-aca. She tells of two grandsons working, onein Providence, RI, the other in Denver, CO.Another is a senior at New York U. and theyoungest, Donald Jason Stewart '98, afourth-generation Cornellian, is in Agriculture.

Dr. George Friou has retired from acareer as professor of medicine at U. ofSouthern California and later at U. of Cali-fornia, Irvine. Who's Who in America tellsso much he has achieved it can't all be re-peated here. He is listed as an immunolo-gist, physician, and educator. Starting hisinternship at New Haven, he went on toserve at Yale, U. of Oklahoma, then to Cali-fornia. His research is in the rheumatic dis-eases, immunology, cell pathology, infectiousdiseases, and so much more. He and his wifehave three daughters and a son. He and Car-olyn enjoy both coasts, living at NewportBeach, CA as well as at Lower Davis Point,Friendship, ME.

Jerry Affron, JD '42 was honored atthe St. Lukes Hospital Annual Ball in rec-ognition of his 25 years as a member of thehospital board of trustees. He, his wife, anddaughter went on an African safari lastyear—"strictly photography!" DorothyCorlis lives in Medina, NY and treated her-self to an Adult University (CAU) event atIthaca. This past fall Lois Milhening Vince-lette went to Thailand for the eighth time,including visits to Rangoon, Burma thistime! She was in Europe this past summer,and found it crowded and hot. Doubts thatshe will return there, as she finds Asia moreinteresting. When at home, find her on San-ta Fe Trail, Bayonet Point, FL. "Trail?"—agood address for her.

William A. White Jr., Dennis, MA,still works part-time. He did not say anymore than he wants us to know he thoughtthe Reunion chairs did a swell job. He lost

his wife of 49 years in 1992. He has six chil-dren, and is an active tennis player.

Gordon Dale says he has six childrenand 12 grandchildren! He adds that he istrying to retire from his law practice. Hetells of a trip to South Africa where he sawhis first genet and almost stepped on a puffadder. Later, he had a trip to his favoritetowns in Italy. He has missed all Reunions,but will be there for the 60th. • CarolClark Petrie, 18 Calthrope Rd., Marblehead,MA 01945.

A ^ Here's some news held IΛ I from last summer. Howard

/ I I Eckerlin: "Your dun ar-^Λi I rived just when taxes done,

Γ I and I still have $30. So you^ ^ might as well get yours. Be- I

sides, that cruise looks great—hey, ^*jyou never know." Norman Singer: ("^"Retired. Now immediate past presi- ^-J

dent of North American Rock Garden pjjjSociety. Comment: Nice there are or- Z Jganizations for all of us to join. We H-̂once joined umpires group when liv- Oing in Elmira. Also one for basketball h jofficiating in New York and Pennsyl- ^vania." Frank "Bud" Finneran spends timeand energy with 13 grandchildren. StanDavis just celebrated 75th birthday and as-sumes that is average for all of us (consid-ering the alternative). He was dean of stu-dents at Cornell for five years. Then he wentto Ithaca College as vice president of stu-dent affairs. Students like to have many af-fairs! In 1972, Dr. Davis returned to Cor-nell to teach in the Hotel school. In 1983 heretired to California. He misses Ithaca:"There is genuine excitement in being partof a vibrant community."

Bob Harley traveled in Spain celebrat-ing 51st wedding anniversary. Dali Muse-um was the high point. His wife has bookeda Panama Canal cruise to celebrate their76th birthdays. Francis Higgins: "Enjoy-ing retirement from Harrison Division, Gen-eral Motors. We are blessed with four chil-dren, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren." Bill Hagar, maker ofReunion milk punch from Cornell's content-ed cows, signs off "From the golf course atVero Beach, Horrible Hagar."

Phillips Wyman had a group of 42 per-sons from the Cornell Club of Southern Ar-izona for a barbecue. Royal "Duke" Tread-way and Dick Davis did the cooking. •Ralph Antell, 9924 Maplestead Lane, Rich-mond, VA 23235.

I am writing this in November, about twoweeks before my marriage to KennethDarmer (who plans to accompany me to our55th next June, so you will get a chance tomeet him). Because my life will change con-siderably (I will become a snowbird for atleast two months in Florida), I am writingseveral columns at this time and would liketo turn over the task of class correspondent(which I have enjoyed) to someone else atour Reunion.

Now for news of you—Felicia RogPfeiffer and husband Leonard celebratedtheir 50th anniversary on November 19.Their seven children are scattered over theUS, and in Bombay, India and London, Eng-

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land. Len had a successful bypass operationin January 1995, and they keep busy run-ning two homes in New Jersey and enjoy-ing 12 grandchildren. They would love visi-tors, especially classmates, and plan to makeit to our 55th.

I am sorry to report that two of ourclassmates are no longer with us. AliceMary Sarah Scott died on May 22, '95 andwas buried in Downham, Essex, England,having been born in London. Our sympathygoes to her sister Joyce and brothers Rob-ert and Eric. Ruth Szold Ginzberg died onAug. 22, '95, having lost her courageous bat-tle following the stroke she described sohumorously in the December 1994 column.A prior column gave a review of Ruth'sbook, Children and Other Strangers, which Ithoroughly enjoyed. We send deep regretsto Ruth's husband, Columbia U. ProfessorEli Ginzberg. • Shirley Richards Sargent,15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

A ^ \ Bumper sticker seen on MercerM I Island—"My daughter and my

/ I m money go to Cornell." Remem-ίMέ m ber when wisdom had it that

Γ f j "for $425 we get food like this!"Λk. mm Served at white-covered tables

for eight in Risley and Sage dining halls.Allen Shotwell, Union Springs, NY, is pres-ident of the Cayuga County Retired Teach-ers Assn. and was awarded the NY StateRetired Teachers Assn. Service Award. Lastfall he enjoyed touring Israel and Egypt,cruising Cozumel and Key West, and dancingon the Big Band Cruise. He's also active withthe Lake County Cornellians, includingFrances Robb Bowman '36, Julie RobbNewman '38, and Thelma Drake Robin-son with husband Don '41 (Castile, NY).

Bob Dame (Kailua, HI) is a semi-re-tired engineer. He volunteers at the HawaiiContemporary Museum. An avid athlete, heplays tennis at the Kailua Racquet Club andis on the US Open tennis technical commit-tee attending the yearly championships inFlushing Meadow. He has run all 11 of the8.2-mile Great Aloha runs. He also retainshis licensed radio amateur status and dab-bles in computering. He boasts six kids andfour grands.

Gordon Kiddoo (Brevard, NC) volun-teers with United Way, keeps in touch withPete Wolff, and is a member of the CornellAssn. of the Blue Ridge Mts. He and Loisenjoyed a trip to the Galapagos Islands andvisited Salzburg for Christmas 1994 and thento Vienna. He goes to Great Books discussiongroups. Because of a new knee, he is not pres-ently dancing or playing tennis, but keeps ac-tive rowing a 22-foot recreational shell.

Talk about busy retirees. Marie CallWells (Lockport, NY) retired as a therapistbut now volunteers with a hospice, Meals-on-Wheels, Rape Crisis Advocates, and herchurch, and leads a senior center discussiongroup. She still finds time to visit her chil-dren and 13 grandchildren spread fromCairo, Egypt to Ithaca and places in between.

Another Great Books discussion leaderis Arthur Dutky (Omaha, NE). He alsochairs and is founder of the Committee forHyperthemia Awareness and serves as anescort for abortion clinics. Just as busy isJane Smiley Hart (Washington, DC), re-

tired from her Smithsonian Museum duties,but who continues volunteering at the In-ternational Student House. She reports thatMarge Schminck Dalenius (Providence,RI) had her own art show in Newport andDotty Andrews Owens and Bill '40 (Ar-lington, VA) enjoyed a trip to the Orient.Jane and Pete journeyed to San Franciscofor the 50th Anniversary of the United Na-tions, where he was honored for his workat its inception. They also attended the lasthurrah of the OSS, disbanded 50 years ago,and many family reunions.

James Bean (Hustontown, PA) servesin a semi-official capacity on the county plan-ning commission. Every winter he visitsfriends and relatives in Florida. He observedhis army unit's reunions in Nashville lastyear, and will attend this year's in Cincin-nati. Sadly, he reports the passing of hisbrother, Bob '41.

Claude Wall (Blue Bell, PA) is still tak-ing photographs as he travels with hisdaughter to Daytona Beach and Freeport.Chuck Jack volunteers with his Home Own-ers Assn., travels to Sweden, Denmark, andNorway, enjoys wood-carving, and plays lotsof golf. • Carolyn Evans Finneran, 293376th SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040.

A ^ \ News today from medical types.Λ M "Retiring shortly," writes Dr.

/ • ^f Bertram Oppenheimer fromLMέ \ Eastchester, NY, "after 18 years

Γ l B as administrator/CEO of Yon-^ ^ ^ kers General Hospital. Prior to

that, I had practiced internal medicine inYonkers for 21 years. Lee and I have sevenchildren (four mine; three hers), scatteredfrom Seattle and Segovia, WA and Oakland,CA, and south to Somerset, NJ and Atlanta,plus two grandchildren." (Somerset, NJ?South? I drive that way going northeast fromBucks County, PA to New York City!)

Dr. Clifford Cole: "How did full-timeretirement become such a full-time occupa-tion! Hardly time to correspond, travel, plana book, clear mountain trails, see old friends.For the first time in 51 years, Mary and Imet with an old Ithaca buddy; an invigorat-ing reunion with the spirited biology Pro-fessor Emeritus Jim Cope, BS Ag '47 andwife Helen (Adolph), '40-41 Grad. It wasas if time had stood still. Mary sagely ob-served, 'Good things stay the same.' " (FromSpinnerstown, my urologist would qualifythat: some good things.)

Having put down the scalpel early in1995, Dr. John Casale writes: "Retiredfrom 50 years of general surgery in NYC.Lots of golf these days: Vero Beach, FL;Easthampton, NY. Mrs. C. and I spend timewith our 18 grandchildren, from Maine toCalifornia. So far, we are blessed with goodhealth. Missed the Cornell-Dartmouth gamewith Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers thisyear, but next year is a must. New Zealand/Australia this winter." (Book: New Zealandand four.)

At a barn dance-barbecue-birthday par-ty for a 75-year-old mutual friend, this col-umnist spent a delightful time with the sar-donic (takes one to know one) Dr. CharlesHarris (no relation). A newspaper colum-nist himself in Toms River, NJ, he expressedconcern that from time to time, and more

often lately, some of us leave for that greatfrosh-camp-in-the-sky. He therefore volun-teered that if ever I had any good anecdotesbut no one to attribute them to, I could usehis name. No questions asked. The gooddoctor plans, it seems, to bury us all.

From his new winter quarters in GreenValley, AZ, Steve Hawley reminds us thatsince the entire 1943 Big Red polo team wasback for our 50th (himself, Bill Flint, BillDunn, Harry Specht, and Mead Stone),they must be tough old bastards. Well, cer-tainly old. Certainly . . . • S. Miller Har-ris, PO Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968.

A letter from Jean Hammersmith Wrightdated Sept. 4 '95 will "speak" for itself: "Iwas in Ithaca June 14-17 attending a per-sonally exciting event, the Escuela Agrico-la Panamerica in Honduras (known as Zamo-rano) Board of Trustees annual meetinghosted by Cornell U. International Agricul-ture of the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences. The connecting of these twoschools started with the establishment ofthe G. Burke Wright '42 Fund at Cornell,seeded by Commodities Corporation ofPrinceton in 1988 when my husband died.

"He had served on the boards of Com-modities Corp. and Zamorano for a numberof years, and the inspiration for connectingthe two agriculture schools came from myeldest daughter, Sharon, who incidentallywent to Cornell College of Iowa (not ourCornell as her brother Bill '76 and sisterAmy '74 had done). The hope was that along-term collaboration between Cornell andZamorano would strengthen student and fac-ulty knowledge and interaction.

"And it did play a key role when in 1994the College of Agriculture and Life Scien-ces received a University DevelopmentLinkages Project Grant from the US Agen-cy for International Development. By beingable to show concrete examples of how re-sources from the G. B. Wright Fund werealready working to strengthen Cornell andZamorano ties, the development of a mas-ter's of professional studies (MPS) in tropi-cal agriculture is now being supported forfive years by the $500,000 AID grant. I mustadmit I am reveling in the realization thatBurke's devotion and love for Cornell andZamorano was the catalyst.

"Burke's fund is still alive and grow-ing, and I want to add that both the Classesof '43 and '42 receive Cornell Fund credit.It was a delightful surprise when I foundthat Dean Francille Maloch Firebaugh,PhD '62 had»been elected to the Zamoranoboard earlier and was actively planning andhosting this event. Imagine, my college deanand the Zamorano board—a fabulous com-bination for any success story.

President Frank Rhodes addressed thegroup at its opening meeting and Dean Da-vid Call '54, PhD '60 of the Agriculturecollege joined the festivities just before theirrespective retirements. I wish all our friendscould have witnessed how hard these 30Zamorano board members from all over theworld worked with the more than 50 Cor-nell faculty members and students to planand establish, broaden, and strengthen thebenefits for both schools."

Write to me, everyone. Hear? • Hedy

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Neutze Alles, 15 Oak Ridge Dr., Haddon-field, NJ 08033.

J J While the South Africa touristsΛ Λ are on their way, you can read

/ • / I about the Western Mediterra-^Mέ ^Mέ nean jaunt of last October. The

I W group included Barbara Gans*> ^ Gallant; Russell Geib and To-

moko; Art and Dotty Kay Kesten; ErmaFuchs Packman and Martin; Walter '41 andEleanor Bloomfield Scholl and theirdaughter Sally Ann Johnson; Ted Thoren,retired Cornell baseball coach, and Jeanne;and Hal Wood and Ginny. They sailed fromRome to Valletta, Malta to Sardinia, Italy toMenorca, Spain to Marseille, France to Mon-te Carlo to Livorno, Italy to Naples, visitingPisa, Florence, and Pompeii en route. Dottyreports that this congenial group had a greattrip in perfect weather.

Dr. Richard Alexander writes fromRancho Mirage, CA that since retiring fromsurgical practice in 1990 he has been a con-sultant for hospital accreditation and medi-cal staff affairs. His "computer is workingovertime." Frederick Allen continues totraverse the country as consultant to cor-rections departments. HQ says our prisonsare in serious trouble. Fred really enjoyedthe 50th—found it was amazing to "meetpeople you hadn't seen in 50 years and pickup the conversation as if time had notpassed." Renee Wolf Steinberg wrote fromBoca Raton, FL: "Cornell created strongdeep roots. We take care of each other.Naomi Zion Schulman is helping my daugh-ter adjust to Stanford, in Palo Alto." A visitfrom Harry Robbins and his wife occa-sioned a gathering of Cornell friends atRenee's home. She does "I Have a Dream"tutoring to keep her mind working.

Some other volunteers for good causesare James and Phyllis Avery Olin '45. Heis helping the Concord Coalition raise pub-lic awareness of the need to balance the fed-eral budget and is also involved with aproject to preserve the beauty of the BlueRidge Parkway. Phyllis "concentrates onmusic and proper development of children."Alan Lederman describes serving for sixyears (three as president) on the board ofdirectors of the northern Virginia chapter ofthe Alzheimer's Assn. Because of the stressof the work, the national by-laws mandate amaximum of two three-year terms. Alan iscurrently a volunteer with the WashingtonOpera and Opera America—and for Demo-crats Abroad, supporting the interests of theparty among voters who happen to be outof the country. Bill Felver, in Scotland, stillplays the church organ on Sundays and fre-quently visits his Royal Opera singer daugh-ter in London. He has joined the CornellClub of London.

Thomas Dent reports the birth of afifth grandchild ("not grabber news," hesays). Dr. Herbert Eskwitt announces thearrival of a second grandchild, the secondboy, in June. Burl and Frances Ward Kim-ple claim a fourth-generation Cornellian ingranddaughter Claire Kimple '99 of Red-ding, CA, a freshman in the Hotel School.Her father, Jack Kimple '70, is a family-practice physician in Redding. She is thegreat-granddaughter of the late Albert A.

Ward '13 and Frances (Driscoll) ΊO.Kathleen Pierce Putnam and Phil

'37 spent a month in Australia with herdaughter Elizabeth Bonsteel Wiggans '69and husband George '68, PhD 77. George,a US Department of Agriculture genetic sci-entist, is doing research and analyses forAustralia's agriculture department. • Nan-cy Torlinski Rundell, 1800 Old MeadowRd., #305, McLean, VA 22102.

A ψ^ Relaxation time! Here's a reportΛ f^ on some classmates who really

/ • ψ^k know what to do when retire-^Λέ I ment time comes (unlike us

W I I dopey working stiffs); e.g., Lor-Ά> ^ ^ raine Hile Copeland, who's

moved to beautiful Beaufort, NC and is gar-dening, keeping busy as a docent at the NorthCarolina Maritime Museum, and enjoying herthree children and eight grands. How aboutCatherine "Kay" Verwoert Work (Tempe,AZ), who went sailing in the British VirginIslands with son Doug and his wife Sally,both United Airlines pilots, then flew off toKauai for another family visit and a checkupon their recovery from the hurricane.

Richard Sainburg (New Canaan, CT)reports working happily, but not hard,whereas Ruth Phelps Latimer (KendallPark, NJ) and husband Bob '39 attend El-derhostels thrice a year when not garden-ing. Marjehne Andrae Hoefer (AtlanticBeach, FL) enjoys seeing Janet Eagle Peel-er (Jacksonville, FL) and Cal English '41at the Hoefers' Fleet Landing retirementhome when not trucking off in their RV tovisit son Albert III '70 and others on cross-country trips with no suitcases to pack. JimMonroe (Covington, KY) is enjoying hisheart-attack recovery by visiting his widelyscattered four kids (and seven grand-ones).Arranging trips as far as Australia keeps himbusy, as is true for John Masters (Peter-borough, NH) who was too busy with hisfamily visits to attend Reunion.

James Carley (Livermore, CA) retiredfrom the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory,but edited a plastics dictionary, meanwhilestarting a factoring (aka loan-sharking) busi-ness. Another new business, dowsing, oc-cupies Walt Durniak (Schenectady, NY andTucson, AZ), who finds water free of chargeall over the world (as far as Kenya); hethought the idea was crazy 15 years ago,but has now given more than 100 lectureson how it works. If you are dry, call Walt!Hubert Gordon (Lajolla, CA) has a son-in-law Charles "Chip" Lovett, PhD '85, nowa full professor of biochemistry at WilliamsCollege, who might disagree, but recentAdult University (CAU) trips to the Galapa-gos and Mexico take Chip's mind off suchgravitational matters.

Meanwhile, Dr. John Updegrove(Easton, PA) is relaxing awaiting the arrivalof his second grandchild, courtesy of daugh-ter Anne Louise Updegrove "79. Roset-ta Deni Newton (Orchard Park, NY—where New York's only pro football teamplays), with husband Frank, '42-43 SpAg,round-trips to Green Valley, AZ severaltimes a year. Richard Stacy (Piqua, OH),a welcome Reunion attender, is spending histime golfing with brother Betas there, inMichigan, and at Hilton Head, SC.

Libraries andIncome for Life

MARGARET "PEG" TAYLORMACDONALD '45

"I love libraries. I support all

sorts of libraries and wanted to

support Cornell."

Margaret Macdonald '45

established a Pooled Life Income

Fund to benefit her lifelong

interest in the Cornell Library.

"My planned gift allowed me to

write the book and read it too!"

By making a gift to the

Balanced Pooled Life Income

Fund, Margaret will receive an

income for life.*

The Cayuga Society honors those

who have remembered Cornell in

their will or through a planned gift.

For more information contact the

Office of Planned Giving, Cornell

University. 800-481-1865

*The investment objective of the

Fund is to provide moderate

income with long term growth of

income and principal. The current

target yield is 6.0%.

THE CAYUGA SOCIETYy Over 2,000 members ,

MARCH 1996

George Irey (Ocala, FL) has been pre-paring his huge LP record collection for con-version to CDs so that he can auction offthe LPs. A stamp collector, he enjoys hisnearby granddaughter. What a life! As I writethis with a guilty conscience over how muchwork I should be doing, I guess Γm envi-ous. To all of our classmates celebratingtheir 50th wedding anniversaries: Congrats!• Prentice Cushing, Jr., 317 WarwickAve., Douglaston, NY 11363-1040.

M ^\ This is the year—ourΛ I 1 50th! How long to wait it

/ • l^k seemed in 1946 and nowLMέ I I we are there—a little old-

W I I er and hopefully a littleΆ ^ ^ wiser, but still as dedicat-

ed to Cornell. Come, bring your class- ^mates—help us break our previous COattendance record. Arlene Newton r™jHilton retired in June 1994 after 25 Cyears in the Brown U. library. She re- ί-3ceived a Brown chair at the February J ^ *award ceremony. She is active in the OGeneral Federation of Women's Clubs £jjjon a local, state, and national level.Gabrielle Landt Baumgartner is into build-ing—decks around the house, with lots ofplants to help alleviate the summer heat,and with a little theater group that is devel-oping its own barn theater. Her most ab-sorbing task is trying to raise money for thetheater group.

Seymour and Merle Plockie Levinecelebrated their 50th wedding anniversarywith a trip to the Grand Canyon. "I work asan adjunct professor in educational admin-istration at Hofstra U. and as part of the stafffor the Harvard Principals' Center SummerInst. Γm editor for our reformed synagoguenewsletter, volunteer at the Women's Re-source Center Retreat (for battered wom-en) and the local social service agency forwomen in need of counseling."

Helen Hertwig Thayer (who wintersin Brooksville, FL, summers in Remsen)wrote, "I sing in the chorus at BrookridgePark, belong to a craft group, garden club,and several women's clubs. Attended a mini-reunion at Carolyn Usher Franklin's in Ft.Myers, FL." • Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503Morris PL, Reading, PA 19607.

An amazing event is unfolding. Γm receiv-ing the news from the recent dues mailing,and the number of returns with news equalsthose without. Thanks for your response.This is evidence that the men of '46 are in-terested in Cornell and each other. Thanks.

Murray Sanders is a new correspon-dent. He mainly has a problem with ourrecords having had an incorrect address.We'll take care of this, Murray. He states,"Although Γm not active, Cornell was per-haps the best time of my life." Hope to seeyou at the 50th, Murray.

Joseph Andersen retired from ChandlerEvans Inc. in 1989. He now winters in Destin,FL after purchasing a fixer-upper beach housein 1992. Even though his house is 1/4 milefrom the beach, Hurricane Opal did'some dam-age. Joe said a pine cone was driven throughhis front window with 144-mile-per-hourwinds. Thanks for your news, Joe.

Jack Siebenthaler recently took a fas-

cinating walking tour of Kyoto, Japan. He isstill very involved in the landscape designand consulting business. He is looking for-ward to attending the 50th. I'm sure it's okayto report some items from a letter whichwas on a dues return to our Treasurer RuthCritchlow Blackman. Acker Young, BA'49 brought up some interesting points aboutthe fracture of the Classes of '45 and '46.Some of us don't know really where we be-long, so we tag on to a class. I think weshould talk about this at our Reunion. Sorryyou won't be with us, Acker.

Richard Sforzini worked for ThiokolChemical Corp. from 1958 to 1966. AfterThiokol, he was professor of aerospace en-gineering at Auburn U. until retiring as pro-fessor emeritus in 1985. He has sevengrandchildren, which doesn't come close tothe class record. Keep trying, Dick. All ofthe above-mentioned are new correspon-dents. Your responses are sincerely appre-ciated. • Bill Papsco, 3545 Clubheights Dr.,Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

M Jfm More on Sebela Wehe from#1 m former editor of this magazine

/• m J ° h n M a r c h a m ' 5 0 "T n e De-ίΛέ m witt Historical Society in Ithaca

W I is looking for help to produce a^ ™ cassette of renditions by the no-

table Ithaca songstress of our era, SebelaWehe . . . could use contributions to paystart-up cost." Project to cost the Society$231, a contribution both tax-exempt andvery much appreciated. Cassette copies $8each plus $3.50 for postage; $4.95 total post-age for orders up to $30. Write to John atthe DeWitt, 401 E. State St., Ithaca, NY14850.

We have in hand Adult University(CAU) coming May-August off-campus pro-grams. Classmates in quantity have showninterest in the past. If you want the list toreview, communicate with CAU, 626 Thur-ston Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850-2490; tel., (607)255-6260; fax, (607) 254-4482.

Co-chairs for our 50th Reunion, Marvand Hannah Haas Wedeen, have distrib-uted postcards advertising same as many ofus hit the publicity gears—snappy, sensible,timely, handy. So if one of these cards hitsyour mailbox, don't read and destroy, butsave and post as a visible reminder to signup! They also advise that Cornell will pro-vide postcards for mailings to affinity groupsas the 1997 Reunion draws nearer. Hey, thewarmup period is upon us, gang.

Sad financial story from back in Novem-ber: we were headed for the GraciousGreenbrier Resort in West Virginia. Four-day Rotary Zone Inst. meeting with 700 avid,firm believers. Hit the Roanoke airport andstretch limoed through the hills to TheWhite, as locals call the GGR. Eight hourslater the sinuses filled, the throat turned tolikes of an emery board, deep real thoroughcoughs soon developed, eyes wept, and webegan medicating in furry fury on king-sizedbed with six pillows, TV tuned to CNN forlack of appeal elsewhere. Food intake tooka dive, and the maid became confusedbecause we weren't eating our evening choc-olate patties. Forget the elaborate, memo-rable Institute schedule with notables. Even-tually, we packed the unused tux and other

stuff, headed for the door. The staggeringGGR bill was appropriate to normal five-starambiances there . . . but for lying in bed 84hours, a miserable, unfortunate reality.

Bruce Krysiak still at it in Russia in abig way, with supermarkets. First Giantgrand opening this month in Vladivostok,part of American-Russian joint venture. Un-der one roof, 100,000 square feet retailing,wholesaling, processing, packaging. GiantFood Systems is the brainchild of Bruce andhis son. Our Bruce chairs TPC Foods ofColumbus, OH, formed to participate in thejoint venture. He anticipates 25 Giants inRussia.

Betty Miller Francis is still guidinglocal zoo tours in Colorado Springs, CO andserves on its board and others. JeannePowell O'Donnell has closed her needle-work shop—new freedom realized! Elder-hostel system appealing to many, amongthem Georgia Franklin Olsson in AZ. Boband Paula Correll Bachman whizzed toVienna and then Ljubljana, Slovenia to seeson. Jim Hutchison thought Herb Brin-berg's renewal letter was great—we trustothers agree and keep on responding. Hey,we got no more room nohow. • BarlowWare, University Development, 55 BrownRd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266; e-mail,wbwl@cornell.edu.

% Charles E. Downey, Dans-I ville: "Retired CPA, but part-

^# time comptroller of farm ma-j chinery dealership having three

J locations. Plan tomorrow to*r continue learning more about

my computer. Two grandchildren startedcollege. Just returned from Colorado visitto oldest daughter." Al Eisenberg, Hewlett:"Retired president of Microtran. Sold busi-ness. Retired as consultant to new owner.Find that retirement needs no adjusting—it's great. Last week I fished and boated andtook courses at Hofstra U. Tried to get richat Atlantic City. Am now cruising the 'net.'Plan to spend summers on Long Island, win-ters in Hypoluxo, FL. Finally became per-sonal-computer literate. On the Internet Iam aeisenberg@pb.net. Have three childrenand five grandchildren in Wisconsin, Ohioand E. Rockaway, NY. Keep in touch by e-mail."

Lynn Ellis, Westport, CT: "Yourphone number, 1776, was not last good yearwe had: 1948 was a great year! I'm scholar-in-residence at U. of New Haven, which isa Russian-type job; I pretend to work, theypretend to pay me. Wife Eileen takes goodcare of me after all these years! Last weektried to find publisher for my book, calledTechnology and Innovation Management;Effectiveness Through Management.' Yes-terday heard from a 'maybe' publisher andtook several phone calls and a visit from stu-dent trying to finish her doctoral disserta-tion. Would rather be swimming in Florida.Have noted that Presidential campaignsstart earlier, as if the term was only twoyears. Eileen solves my most pressing prob-lems by ironing them." Richard Fletcher,Hartwick: "Γm a food operations consult-ant. I believe that Ίf pork barrel we object,a kosher Congress we elect!' "

Obituary—Allen Webster, born 1921,

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died Nov. 19, '95, Clinton Corners, NY.Allen Webster matriculated in 1940, was notsure of his calling, and enlisted in the USAir Force. On his 52nd mission as a B-17pilot flying out of Italy, his plane was shotdown, and he spent the next 2-1/2 years ina German stalag.

Liberated by advancing Allied troops, hecame home to Dutchess County, NY anddropped in to say thanks and make a dona-tion to the local Red Cross chapter in ap-preciation for the food that kept him alivein the POW camp. That's where he met JeanPerry, a Red Cross volunteer, with whomhe conducted a whirlwind six-month court-ship, marrying in December 1945.

Returning to Cornell, Webster becamecommodore of the Big Red crew and a mem-ber of Alpha Gamma Rho, Aleph Samach,Quill and Dagger, and Newman Club. Hewas a member emeritus of University Coun-cil, president of the Dutchess County Cor-nell Club, trustee of the Cornell RowingAssn., and for the Class of '48 was Reunionchair and class president.

His career was in personnel manage-ment for IBM in Poughkeepsie, where hecommuted from his nearly 300-acre many-generation family farm. Many cows got faton his farm, and many friends "cut theirown" Christmas trees every year, "any sizeyou want for $18."

Besides wife Jean, Al is survived bydaughter Susan Tierney of Lisbon Falls, NY,son Perry of Pomfret, CT, and six grand-children.

Al taught us all how to "keep smilingand have faith," and we will all miss hischeerful countenance. We are advised by hisrowing buddy Frank Collyer that gifts inAΓs memory can be made to Cornell Uni-versity Rowing Assn. • Bob Persons, 102Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050.

A ^ \ News and Dues time! Shake upΛ • I those who have strayed, and

/ • I I let's have the highest percent-^ J i ^ 4 age of duespayers ever in the

Γ i I n i s t o r v o f Cornell at the 50th inA W 1999. John R. Harris, Santa

Fe, NM, celebrated the "other 50th" thispast fall—his World War II outfit, the TenthMountain Division, held its reunion in SunValley, ID. John says Santa Fe, surroundedby snow-capped mountains, is sunny andspring-like in the winter. He enjoys uplandgame hunting, fly-fishing for trout, and gar-dening. It must be so, as Gordon R. Nes-bitt, Roswell, NM, is enjoying the winterunder blue skies and sunny weather in theLand of Enchantment (NM, of course) justnorth of the border. He adds, "Margaret(Derycke) '50 and I took a course, 'Ex-ploring Western Art,' taught by Jack Thom-as '38." Ernest P. "Bud" Quinby, Lansing,NY, can't claim warm and sunny winters,so spends a large chunk of winter on Sani-bel Island. He had lunch with Doug '48 andDoris Corbett Dillon '48 in Naples. Budis happily retired directly on the shore ofCayuga Lake and summers on one of theThousand Islands.

From Oceanside, CA Barbara "Stormy"Starkweather Brown writes: "Had a great45th. Bette McGrew Benedict was a room-mate at school and we hadn't seen each oth-

Joe Anderson

said a pine cone

was driven

through his front

window by 144-

mile-per-hour

winds.

—BILL PAPSCO '46

•

er for 45 years. We haven't aged a day—mentally, that is! Douglas and I have beenin California 37 years, so San Diego is homeand heavenly." Donald P. Feiman, Naples,FL, reports Herb Schwartz and wife Es-ther, Briarcliff Manor, NY, as promised atthe 45th, showed up last winter for golf, ten-nis, dinner, dancing, and memories! Herbwrote also—not sure where he found thetime! Claims he is reducing work-week atAremco Products as son Pete takes over.Busy with extended family, travel, water-color painting, tennis, and as a director andconsultant of a company in Pittsburgh. Trav-els extensively—Europe, St. Thomas,(where he stayed at Don Weiss's magnifi-cent villa), Texas, Florida, Alaska, and a de-sign show in Chicago. An interview withHerb and son Pete concerning a new prod-uct made the Sunday New York Times. Healso appeared on a radio show in New Ro-chelle about export opportunities, as a mem-ber of the board of governors of the WorldTrade Council of Westchester. He adds, "Iguess I'm not really ready for retirement."

Elaine "Toby" Tobkin Pelavin, SanFrancisco, CA, is on the move—business inthe Philippines with husband Al, conferencein Texas, and then to Italy. Sylvia Hirsch-haut Frank and husband Bob, Kensington,MD, also get around! International confer-ence in Montreal and a week in London.Enjoyed reunions with her former room-mates Babette "Babs" Stern Isaacson andMargery "Margy" Rubin Slavin, plusspouses. Bob finds patent work stimulat-ing—he's a senior partner with Spencer,Frank & Schneider in Washington, DC.They have four children (one is Jim Frank'73) and ten grandchildren. Sylvia officiallyretired as clinical social worker, but contin-ues in private practice.

Undoubtedly a first: Frederick S.Turk, Fullerton, CA and wife Maureen haveboth been lieutenant governor of Kiwanis,Fred in 1990-91 and Maureen in 1995. Bothare enjoying active retirement, as are JamesJ. "Jim" and Kay Melead, also in CA(Modesto). Son Tom is a principal of Com-plere Engineering Group Inc. in Modesto

and works with Gordon Lau '87, a Cornellengineer, whose sister Renee Lau Gibbins'77, another Cornell engineer, is married toComplere employee John Gibbins—! TheMelead daughters, Carol, Susan, and Nan-cy, visit from Kentucky, Illinois, and Mon-tana, respectively. William F. "Bill" Kams-ler, Littleton, CO, had a great time organiz-ing the Cornell Ski Day at Copper Mountainin 1995. Did you do it again this year, Bill?

Back East, John R. "Jack" Allen, Del-mar, DE is working in the family chickenbusiness. "Keep eating Allen Family FoodsChicken. Hope never to retire! Boating ismain hobby, with a very little golf." TheWilliam Dent Lawsons, Atglen, PA,bought a December-March small house inSun City, AZ. S. Robert "Bob" Curran,Williamsville, NY, still writing a column fourdays a week for the Buffalo News, attendeda Super Bowl XVII party at the home ofDick Schaap '55. Paul E. Gillette, PuntaGorda, FL, is editor of The Colony newspa-per. He finds it diplomatically challengingto turn down unusable material (poetry, au-tobiographies). No problem here, Paul! Hesays, "It's fun and keeps me out of the bars."Me, too! • Mary Heisler Allison, 470Chandlee Dr., Berwyn, PA 19312; tel., (610)640-1387.

Ψ^ ^\ Sorry I missed the inauguration| _ I I of President Hunter Rawlings inψ^k I I October 1995; however, we were

I I I w e U ~ r e P r e s e n t e d Led by Classl l I I Prexy Barrie Sommerfield,^ ^ ^ ^ Joan Noden Keegan, JackRose, Marge Leigh Hart, Ken '49 andSally Wallace Murray, Don Read, WaltBruska, Jim Hazzard, Nels Schaenen,Sally Stroup DeGroot, Pat Carry Stew-art, and Jack Richard.

I hope Cornell can position the leadamong major institutions of learning by stu-dents having some serious discussion of con-servative political ideas. I'm told many of thelarge introductory courses are far left of cen-ter socially, morally, and politically. One-sid-edness is hardly worthy of a world-class uni-versity. Your comments and point of vieware welcome!

John Friedman reports from beautifulSanibel Island, FL, where he has resided thelast five years with wife Judy. He finds re-tirement fulfilling. He produces classical andjazz concerts for the Barrier Island Group forthe Arts, importing top groups from aroundthe country. Sam Goetz, Stratford, CT, re-turned recently from 50th B-29 reunion inSlayton, OH with 315 Bomb Wing. Sam wasstationed at N.W. Field, Guam and got inten missions over Japan. He is now semi-retired and does some consulting, which in-cluded medieval restoration in the South ofFrance, 30 miles northwest of Aragon.

Dick Willner of Claremont, CA leftcardiology practice in 1990. He suspects heflunked retirement, so completed course fora master's degree in public health. He is inthe midst of starting a new preventive car-diology program and helping with trials ofnew medication. William "Atkay" Atkinsonreports from Weston, MA that he has re-turned from reaching the summit of Teewi-not (12,300 feet) and the Grand Teton(13,800 feet) for third time. He then did

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some "slot" canyon hiking in southern Utah.Sounds like a good summer workout for a fit21-year-old, not to mention at 60-something.

Audrey Roman Berman of Allentown,PA reports that she and husband Bernie at-tended Adult University (CAU) for the Glim-merglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown,NY and rate it high. Next year's opera festi-val will be in Santa Fe. Daughter Ann Ber-man '74 is associate dean of finance at Har-vard. They are justifiably proud. IncidentallyI continue to get positive reports on CAUfrom classmates in many venues.

Bill Brownlee, retired in Chevy Chase,MD, plays some golf, rows singles on thePotomac, studies Spanish on the side, andis proud of nine grandchildren. GeorgeCammann, Darien, CT, enjoys recreationas coxswain for Norwalk River Rowing ClubAncient and Honorable Four. Won medal at1995 Master's Nationals. I never cease tobe amazed at the accomplishments, bothmental and physical, of our classmates.

Glad to hear from fellow hotelie JackCarr, who planned to retire in March fromcountry club management, on the advent ofhis 70th birthday, in Pittsburgh, PA. Helunched recently with hotelies Lou Cappel-lo '51 and Pete Papanou '47, who are bothwell. His brother Charley Carr '49 visitedrecently from Ft. Pierce, FL.

John Chapin calls San Diego home, buttravel seems to be the hobby of choice. Hejust returned from his 21st trip abroad, thistime to Czech Republic with Prague as focalpoint. Pat Haller Harbach, living in Mel-bourne, FL, got flooded by Hurricane Erin.Nine inches all over the house. It encourag-es me to clean up more than ever before. Ican relate, as we have our share of highwater at the Jersey shore. Dr. Bill Gage,now retired in Rochester, enjoys traveling.

It is your job to keep me supplied withnews. Post me about your concerns fromwhichever side of the fence you stand. Ipromise equal space.

In closing, I would be remiss in notmentioning two great restaurants in thisarea—or anywhere—I've frequented. TheWashington Inn, Cape May, NJ, is owned andoperated by the Michael Craig '85 family;and Tuckahoe Inn, Beesley Point, nearOcean City, NJ is owned and operated byPete Harp '60. The food and spirits aretops. • Bob Fite, 310 Howard St., CapeMay, NJ 08204; tel., (609) 884-4323.

Early returns indicate thatour 45th Reunion will be arecord breaker. If youhaven't sent your registra-tion, don't delay; let JackOstrom, Reunion treasurer/

registrar, hear from you today. We'll ^swing and sway to the music of Johnny ^Russo and Fred Palmer in our tent ^behind Risley. Great food—great rjj jchance to revive old memories with JJ3good friends, sit in on a lecture or two h-Jin open classrooms, be taken on a tour φof the '51 Print Collection at the MJohnson Museum, and get tσ know •*"">^classmates you missed 45 years ago. See youin Ithaca, June 6-9!

From Brad Donahoe: "Life for all is aseries of phases. We have now moved into

Robert Waill says

his retirement is a

most rewarding

time to think about

really important

matters like quan-

tum theory, the

meaning of life, and

why his hair has

thinned out so

much.

— G E O R G E '52 AND GAYLERAYMOND KENNEDY '52

the grandchildren phase—four at this time.Not sure if they will be Cornellians, as theparents are Purdue and Indiana U, but per-haps Grandpa can exert some influence.Looking forward to our 45th Reunion." SamHochberger has retired from teaching civilengineering at Stevens Inst. of Technologyin Hoboken, NJ, but continues as a consul-tant and panelist for the American Arbitra-tion Assn. Sam has started to play seniortennis tournaments for USTA, and findshimself ranked 11th in the Eastern section.

David Kallen is serving as presidentof the Sociological Practice Assn., which isdedicated to teaching sociologists how theirknowledge may be useful in the real world.He lives near E. Lansing, MI, where he's aprofessor of pediatrics and human develop-ment at Michigan State U. Bob Ackerly,another professor emeritus playing lots oftennis, participates in several leagues andis "fairly successful at it, as I attempt to out-live my competition."

Alice Halsey Mix and husband Mau-rice '50 recently built a winter home inVenice, FL to go along with their perma-nent home in Brattleboro, VT. Sounds likethe best of both worlds.

An update from Frederick "Fritz"Thornton: "Have been living in Drexel Hill,PA for eight years. Bill Kay is one of thenearest classmates. I see Tom Gargan '50,and we dine along with our wives fairly reg-ularly. Am selling and leasing motor vehi-cles part-time. Full-time am involved in civicaffairs and what I call 'environmentalistwhacko' projects, a conservative conserva-tionist, trying to clean up rivers and streamsusing common sense. My sister PatriciaTat' Thornton Bradt '52, who is the eco-logical expert (PhD in ecology), suffers my

amateurish rantings and actions." • Bob andJoanne Bayles Brandt, 60 Viennawood Dr.,Rochester, NY 14618; tel. (716) 244-6522.

ψ^ ^ \ From the far end of Long Island,1 ^ I two notes: Jean Thompsonψ^k m Cooper says that's the ideal re-

I m tirement location—with a wrap-l m mi around porch and a large rock-V # mm ing chair. Actually, she and Pe-ter '53, JD '57 winter on St. Thomas, wheretheir condo survived both hurricanes lastfall with only minor damage. Edward Cal-lahan, Quogue, LI, has just retired fromhis vice presidency at Allied Signal Inc. He'llbe wintering at Jonathan's Landing in Jupi-ter, FL.

Many classmates are suggesting a classtrip to Hawaii or Alaska. Anyone want tovolunteer to organize that? I think the or-ganizer gets a free trip . . .

Charles Graham retired July 1 as pro-fessor of engineering at U. of Pennsylva-nia—but is now teaching a new course inbio-materials, plus supervising senior ma-terials engineering projects and advising thePenn Solar Car team. Wife Alison (Bliss)is busy with League of Women Voters andaffordable housing boards. Alison designedtheir retirement house at 124 Anton Rd.,Wynnewood, PA. The Rev. Stuart andKatherine Woodbury Haskins are in Lit-tleton, CO, where Stu is a part-time associ-ate conference minister for the Rocky Mt.Conference of the United Church of Christ.He recently participated in a wedding incentral Finland. They toured that countryand went on to St. Petersburg before re-turning to 3628 E. Easter Cir.

There must be quite a group of Cor-nellians on Sanibel Island each winter. AddStuart Merz to that list. Summers, he stillis home at 20775 Colby Rd., ShakerHeights, OH. Another Florida resident isPhilip Reilly, PO Box 1502, Ponte VedraBeach. Whitney Mitchell sells real estatein Stuart, FL in the winter and is seniorsurf-fishing guide on Nantucket Island insummer. In the fall he spent almost a monthin the south of Africa, visiting four coun-tries. Dr. Sidney Perlman lives at 19 Tim-rod Rd., W. Hartford, CT, and takes twoweeks off from his practice to enjoy theircondo on Cape Cod.

Our class seems to have many sailors.Hubert S. Smith of 1236 Center Ave., Es-sexville, MI, is the first to mention cruis-ing the Canadian North Channel. DonaldParmet, JD '55 just retired and spent thesummer cruising Long Island Sound and theNew Englarid coast. In October 1994 hesailed a chartered boat through the GreekIsles and on to Turkey. The Parmet daugh-ters, Deb Parmet-Sondock '83 and Nan-cy Parmet '85, presented Donald and wifeRhoda with a sailing trip to Bermuda with allthe family participating, including a grandson.

Robert Waill says his retirement is amost rewarding time to think about reallyimportant matters like quantum theory, themeaning of life, and why his hair has thinnedout so much. He lives at 651-A HeritageHill, Somers, NY. Eugene Wilkerson,1317 N. Brand Blvd., #12A, Glendale, CA,works as a substitute teacher. He also doesvolunteer church work and helps raise funds

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for the local classical music station. DianeSargent Wood is also involved in schoolwork as a part-time educational counselorin Boston. Home: 120 Fulton St.

Allow me a personal note. George andI returned to Minneapolis for six weeks inthe fall while doctors tried to lower his pulsefrom 140 beats per minute to the usual 60.First two procedures failed. The doctor wentto Uruguay for a cardiology conference andthere, with two other doctors, devised a newapproach to the problem. He came back tothe US and tried it on George with greatsuccess . . . just in time to return home torake leaves, put up storm windows, and nowshovel snow. Back on the tennis court, too.Amen. Send news! • George and GayleRaymond Kennedy, 9 Maple wood Pt, Ith-aca, NY 14850; e-mail: gmk3@cornell.edu.

Unsinkable and not very defati-gable Rose Carpenter Gernon(Glendora, CA) presses on. Shebroke a leg at Lake Atitlan, Gua-temala, in February 1994 butmade it to Portugal, Spain, Mo-

rocco, and Darmstadt, Germany, to see herdaughter last year, and is eyeing Russia,Australia, the Galapagos Islands, and Tibet.She's already trekked the Silk Road to Pak-istan and seen the Greek Isles and Aswan,Egypt. There were also New England andGrand Canyon Elderhostel trips. "Retire-ment! It's great!" says the former chemis-try and biology teacher.

Bill Eustis (Parachute, CO) is findinghis parachute golden, and was also glad tosee a helicopter which rescued him from aRocky Mountain hiking misadventure. He'sbuilding a new house and will keep on hik-ing, fishing, and skiing in the Rockies andvisiting "active" Elderhostels. "We enjoy thegood life," he says. It includes donating timeto tourism centers, literacy programs, andthe US Forest Service in Grand Teton Na-tional Parks.

Frank Bettucci, Don Dickason, andBill Welch went to a wrestlers' weekendin Ithaca in November. Frank lost a 3-2 de-cision to 158-pounder Scott Yewell '98 ofthis year's team in an exhibition match.

The Simon twins say Bill (Rancho San-ta Fe, CA) is out with his first book, Profitfrom Experience, about the astounding turn-around of National Semiconductor by GilAmelio, from $400 million losses to Fortune500-land. Bill is also doing a PBS documen-tary on cities, to be narrated by James EarlJones, and a multi-image show on 20th-cen-tury technology for the Smithsonian. Hesays he doesn't have time to retire. BrotherDavid continues as a dollar-a-year Los An-geles fraud detective. The twins are bothstill married to their first wives. David flies.Bill sails sloops and crews on square-riggers.

Bob Dunbar (Columbus, OH) sold hisconsulting geotechnical engineering practice,but is staying on for awhile. He says he's ingood health, feels well, "and can still passmy flying physical, so why not? Wanda andI may spend more time in Acapulco, how-ever," he adds. Gerald Fuller (Shelburne,VT) retired last July after 40 years in agri-cultural education. "I still row occasionallyon Lake Champlain." Barbara Green Bockand Dean '52 divide leisure years between

Lake Ontario (Chaumont, NY) and Saraso-ta, FL, checking the local Cornell Club andgiving time at the Mote Aquarium.

Dave Alles and Martha (Ladd), '56-57 Grad (Ithaca, NY) went to the CzechRepublic and Slovakia "for some vacationand a teaching assignment." Sybil Lang-baum Stokes (Princeton, NJ) had "a newtemporary career, filling in as assistant deanfor public affairs at Princeton's WoodrowWilson School of Public and InternationalAffairs [last] academic year." Paul Seidel(Great Neck, NY) is an early retiree fromUnisys after 40 years. He was director ofelectronic systems.

Joan Frimal Gindin writes: "I was for-tunate to be in the first class my husbandJim, PhD '54 taught at Cornell, in 1950.We met again in New York City when heworked at The New Yorker and I was at NBC.We were married in 1955 and spent a yearin England teaching for the Air Force. Jimreturned to university teaching in 1956, andwe've been in Ann Arbor, MI, except forseveral wonderful months in England, eversince. Jim died in his sleep in summer 1994,most unexpectedly. He loved reading andtalking about books, was always an extreme-ly popular professor, and led exactly the lifehe wanted. I'd enjoy hearing from friends."{See '58 column for news of a women'ssymposium.] ••• Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave.,NYC 10009.

ψ^ J Did any of you read the WallI Λ Street Journal article on Novem-ψ^k / • ber 21, '95 about our age group

I ^Λέ and computers? Being a bit of ai l W nerd, I loved it. More and moreV ^ A people of a certain age are us-ing and buying computers, so much so thatcomputer companies are now targeting us.Sales have indicated between 9 and 11 per-cent of seniors are buying and using themat this time, and the numbers are growing.One survey showed women to be half asinterested as men; I find that hard to be-lieve, as it runs counter to our classmateswith e-mail addresses. Seven out of eightpeople in our class that e-mail your corre-spondent are women. The potential for net-working grows greater each day; do you darebe left behind?

Found a note from Bill Blake in myelectronic mailbox asking me to forwardHerb Perry's article on his Model A trip.Twenty years ago Bill restored a 1929 Mod-el A, which he uses in the summer. Morerecently he has restored a 1936 Ford Phae-ton, the same model he used while he wascourting wife Nancy and managed to sneakon campus as a freshman. Bill said if Daveand Mary Gentry Call would guaranteegood weather—the Phaeton is an open tour-ing car—he could drive it to our next Re-union. Could present some great possibili-ties if Herb would drive his Model A to Ith-aca also.

David Albert didn't let a case of jetlag stop him from sending a short note alongwith his class dues. At the time of writing,he and Linda had just returned from a won-derful two-week trip to Egypt. David saidthat there are no words to express one'sfeelings when standing before a magnificentalabaster statue created 4,500 years ago.

Costa Rica was their February destination.David is busier than ever and still workingfull-time.

Allen L. Smith is now four years intoretirement after a career of 34 years withthe same bank in Watertown, NY. Duringthis time, he and wife Martha have takenthree-week trips to Hawaii and Alaska andbuilt a second home in the Adirondacks. Hepresently chairs the Jefferson County Indus-trial Development Agency Board and is atrustee of Jefferson Community College.Retirement allows him to pursue his hob-bies of fishing, hunting, camping, boating,and traveling. Can't argue with that list.Allen would like all of us to consider a va-cation in the Thousand Islands or the Ad-irondacks. It might well be a vacation wewould remember for the rest of our lives. Ifwe could get Robert Hellmann to be ourguide, I know it would be.

A bit of housekeeping, if I might. Whenyou write notes with your news, please sendalong all your "nick numbers," i.e., fax ande-mail. It makes your correspondent's jobeasier. Many times I wish to clarify infor-mation you have written: does the Dr. standfor MD or PhD; if you liked your trip, wouldyou recommend it; if you are performing, isthe public invited; if you are writing a news-letter, may we subscribe? There are manyquestions that come to mind when writingthat would fill out the column and make it abit more personal. With an electronic ad-dress they could be asked with minimum oftime and effort on everyone's part. Thanksfor writing! I know it takes time, but eachof us has a story to tell and something toshare. [See '58 column for news of a wom-en 's symposium. ] ••• Leslie Papenfus Reed,17 Hillside Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904; fax,(415) 925-9404; e-mail, ljreed@aol.com.

Speaking of supporting Cornell, aswe were last month, Nancy Sey-mour Hall is making a uniquecontribution. Having lived in Aus-tralia for 26 years, Nancy saysshe's too far away for Reunions—

but she gladly provides bed and breakfastfor Cornell students studying in Australiaas they pass through Alice Springs.

Volunteer activities report: Beth Bar-stow Calhoon is involved with the Appala-chia Service Project, which attracts thou-sands of volunteers from all over thecountry. Along with a group of teens fromher church, Beth traveled to sites in Vir-ginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky to provideemergency home repair for Appalachianfamilies. Peter Huntington, who lives inCooperstown, volunteers his time to sup-port 4-H programs in NY State. HarveyKnaster retired from Citicorp and nowworks with the New York City Dept. of Con-sumer Affairs, "assisting the public with anendless variety of problems, in an endlessvariety of businesses." He also prepares taxreturns for low-income persons. Fran DeSylva Blume, who came to Reunion all theway from Menlo Park, CA, chairs the envi-ronmental education program at Filoli Cen-ter, a property of the National Trust for His-toric Preservation.

Still punching the time clock: Tom Ri-ley is a civil engineer in Florham Park, NJ,

MARCH 1996

Where there'saW511

there's a way.

"John and I are delighted with

this opportunity. By planning

ahead and giving our paintings,

which were originally done for

my father (Robert E. Treman Ό9)

in Ithaca, we are able to partici-

pate in the campaign and ensure

that the paintings return home to

Ithaca and Cornell."

Through membership in the

Cayuga Society, Laura Treman

Almquist '56 and John Almquist

'54 found a meaningful way to

give back to Cornell.

The Cayuga Society honors those

who have remembered Cornell in

their will or through a planned gift.

For more information contact Tom

Foulkes '52, Dick Klotz, or Sara

DΆprix '80, Office of Planned

Giving, Cornell University.

800-481-1865 or e-mail:

planned_giving@cornell.edu

THE CAYUGA SOCIETY2,000 members and growing

and (small world!) Charles Koester is anengineer with the firm that renovated theRed Cross headquarters in White Plains,where I work. Bob Attiyeh joined Amgenout in Los Angeles as senior vice presidentof finance—"a great company and great fun."Martin Korn is working full-time as an or-thopedic surgeon, but has limited his Roch-ester, NY practice to problems of the kneejoint and related research on a surgical pro-cedure for knee arthritis. Wife Phyllis(Shames) '57 is director of Alternatives forBattered Women, also in Rochester.

Nancy Taft Whitman is still teachingat the U. of Nebraska, but looking forwardto retirement as a chance to travel more andspend time with the grandchildren (ten, atlast count!). Martha "Marty" Bliss Saffordsays she works for both her son and herhusband, partners in an investment counsel-ing firm; Marty researches the companiesthey follow. Sigrid Olafson Farwell writes,"While friends are retiring, Γm beginning anew venture—heading up the training for aworkshop on relationships." Sigrid will begiving the workshop around the country andteaching others as well. Another first for Sig-rid was delivering her grandson in the backseat of a car just before Christmas 1994!

Retired and on a roll: In the past year,Elwood Hacker skied two glaciers in Aus-tria, back-to-back, and welcomed his firstgrandson to the family. Woodie's three chil-dren all live within ten miles of their homein West Sand Lake, NY, so now that he'sretired from teaching, Woodie enjoys help-ing the kids with home improvements "andsharing the activities that keep me young—hunting, skiing, water-skiing, swimming, andgardening."

Also retired is Richard Peterson, whowent on a pilgrimage to Israel this past year,and reports that in his "new retired mode"he has actually slept past 6 a.m. on manyoccasions. Jeanne Rembert Bennett (re-tired after 38 years in education) concurs:"no early alarms, no set schedules, planningthe day as I wish." Ann Overbeck tookpartial early retirement to move to Waynes-ville, NC, but says she'll continue to teachone course and do advising on MSW andPhD research projects at the U. of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill. Phyllis BirnholtzMelnick has retired from the law profession,leaving her free to "volunteer, play a littlegolf, and travel as much as possible."

Nancy Martin Reichenbach and hus-band Alan '54 went back to campus for thegraduation of their oldest son, Brian '80,the same year as our 25th Reunion, and DonBiederman recalls going along to the 55thReunion of his dad, William '16. As for myfamily, although we were to miss my dad(Kirk Savage '25) doing the carving hon-ors for Thanksgiving, daughters SusanMorris '84, Joanna Morris '86, and KarenMorris '90 were expected for dinner, alongwith sister Mary Savage Webber '58 andher husband, Bill '54. The Webbers now livein Ithaca, where Bill, a retired plastic sur-geon, pursues his computer and musical in-terests, and Mary is the director of CRESPin Anabel Taylor Hall. Gotta love those dy-nasties! [See '58 column for news of a wom-en's symposium.] • Nancy Savage Morris,110A Weaver St., Greenwich, CT 06831.

ψ^ ^\ This column is being writ- II I * ten by both Phyllis Bos-ψ^k W\ worth and me, as there is

I l i a great deal of news to re-I I I I port. (Her column follows^ ^ ^ ^ this one.) The major event Iwas the establishment of the ErnestL. Stern library curatorship for Asiacollections, which was endowed byJon and Ginny MacDonald Lindsethand other members of our class. Tohonor Ernie, the Lindseths hosted adinner at the St. Regis Hotel in NewYork City, attended by classmates andother friends of Ernie's. Among thespeakers were President Emeritus FrankRhodes, Barbara Lang Stern, Dan Silver-berg, Ed Berkowitz, Stephen H. Weiss'57, and yours truly. It was truly one of themost memorable class events I have everexperienced.

Ernie passed along a very funny story,although it was not so funny when it oc-curred. Arno Niemand moved to the Berk-shires to escape the crime in NYC, but lastAugust Niemand, a former Cornell wrestler,faced a 28-year-old mugger in a downtownPittsfield parking garage. Niemand says: "Igrabbed him around the waist, and I kickedout his outside leg and knocked him downon the ground. I guess he wasn't expectingthat from an old guy like me." Niemandpinned the mugger and called for help. Themoney was safe, the mugger was jailed, andonce again a Cornell '56 hero was reborn. Ihope that Arno will come to Reunion in Juneto tell his story first-hand to all of us.

I always love to hear stories told bygood friend Ernest Stent, who lives inPrescott, AZ. He just took his two teenagesons on a rafting trip on the Salmon Riverin Idaho. Ernie had tears in his eyes as hesent oldest son Michael on to his freshmanyear at the U. of Illinois. Son Roderick is inhigh school. Ernie is an attorney in Pres-cott and lives a great life. If you want to drophim a line, he may be reached at 1157 W.Timber Ridge.

Virginia Poad Zechman retired fromclassroom teaching (second grade) in June1995, but continues to work as a consultant.She recently visited with Priscilla "Percy"Edwards Browning, who, by the way, hasmoved to Ithaca. The two "girls" wanderedaround the area reliving their youth on abeautiful, warm day. You may reach Virgin-ia at 1631 Albring Rd., Skaneateles, NY.

Leo Convery is still living the good lifeon Martha's Vineyard, where he is involvedin real estate and hotels. He is director ofthe Rotary Club and is married to Allison,his wife of over 35 years. They have fourgrandchildren and recently visited France.Leo's address is PO Box 1030, Edgartown,MA. Mary Ann "Polly" Whitaker Dolli-ver is a special education administrator forSpokane Public Schools and an adjunct pro-fessor at Gonzaga U. She makes her homeat 5502 S. Morrill St., Spokane, WA. She isthe grandmother of eight and loves to bewith them at their lake place on Coeur d'Alene Lake in Idaho. Polly expected to visitthe East for the first time in a long while,on a visit to her daughter and family in theWashington, DC area.

Dear friend and colleague Phyllis Bos-

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worth's column follows. [See following pagefor word of a classmate.] * Stephen Kitten-plan, 1165 Park Ave., NYC 10128.

Keith Johnson has been doing the nation-al book tour his way . . . not after he's writ-ten the book, but before! Keith's tour hasbeen to Chicago, Cleveland,* Washington,Philadelphia, New York City, and Califor-nia—to visit 1956ers at events hosted byDave Grumman, Peter Hearn, Al Read-ing, Jon Lindseth, Ed and Lois UllmanBerkowitz '59, David Hugle, Curt Reis,Mike Nadler, and, here in New York City,Co-Class Correspondent Stephen Kitten-plan and wife Gail, our honorary class mem-ber, were the hosts.

Keith's book will pick up more or lesswhere A History of Cornell by Morris Bish-op '14, PhD '26 leaves off, which is justabout the time we arrived on the Hill asfreshmen. He is looking at what has takenplace at Cornell over the past 45 or 50 yearsas a case study in how American universi-ties have been transformed—socially, po-litically, and academically—since World WarII. Keith reports that he finds the questionsand suggestions of classmates have beenreally helpful, especially in reminding himjust how many different Cornells there wereeven when we were undergraduates . . . andnow, he adds, there are a lot more.

In addition, the dinners have given mean opportunity to gather some news: DaveGrumman is running an engineering con-sulting firm. Alan Embree is fundraisingfor the U. of Chicago (he and Keith are fra-ternity brothers, and they hadn't seen eachother for 40 years). The Philadelphia get-together was held after the Cornell-Penngame, and former Big Red stars HarveySampson '51 and Paul "Rip" Haley '48,of the '40s championship years, came. BobDay, now retired from working with for-eign businesses for the US Dept. of Com-merce, is focusing on a most fascinatingproject close to home, teaching kids in theAnacostia (MD) schools who can't swim,how to row. New recruits for the Cornellcrew team, perhaps. George Pazianos andwife Joyce are both legislative lobbyists.

After a book tour, Keith will be back inresidence in Ithaca, furnishing a new home,and, of course, writing the book—when it'sfinished he will then "do" "Good MorningAmerica" and "The Today Show," the tra-ditional book tour. [See '58 column for newsof a women's symposium.] • Phyllis Bos-worth, 8 E. 83rd St., NYC 10028.

W^jfm Next time you're back on cam-I r i pus Qune 1997, or before?), beψ^k m sure and pay a visit to Cornell

I I Plantations (CP). Pick up a CPi I I Path Guidebook, which is filled^ ^ ™ with information about the Plan-tations and other natural areas at Cornell.Bob Cowie '55 and the Cowie childrenunderwrote the expense of the book as asurprise for Vanne (Shelley) on the occa-sion of her 60th birthday. How's that for afantastic gift!

Some classmates and spouses whowere on campus last summer to attendAdult University (CAU) were Helen Ku-ver Kramer, Bob '51 and Joanne Clark

Nelson, David '55 and Flo WeinsteinPerskie, Dori Goudsmit Albert, and theCowies. William '55 and Joyce EdgarSchickler were on the Alaskan CAU trip;Guy and Susan Hitz Magnuson experiencedthe summer theater getaway in Stratford,Ont., Canada; and Deborah LeCraw Gran-din enjoyed natural history in the CanadianRockies.

Mabel Klisch Deal was in Moscow lastfall, chaperoning a junior-high group fromthe Geneva school where she teaches. Herthree sons and a daughter have successfulcareers following college graduation, andMabel and husband Jerry have three grand-children. Rita Feldman Cohen is celebrat-ing her 30th year of teaching, preparing stu-dents for SAT, GRE, GMAT, etc. When notworking she enjoys being with her grand-children, whose mother is Dr. Susan Co-hen-Pannullo '83, MD '87, a resident in neu-rosurgery at New York Hospital—CornellMedical Center. Rita's son is in investmentbanking.

Sari Feldman Zukerman traveled toAustralia and New Zealand in January. Sari,a grandmother of two, served on the NewYork City Board of Education for 30 yearsand continues as an adjunct lecturer in edu-cation at the College of Staten Island.

Two people who are thoroughly enjoy-ing their retirement from teaching are Da-vid '56 and Jane Wedell Pyle. They splittheir time between homes in North Carolinaand Florida, but are on the road a lot visit-ing their children in New York, Rhode Island,and Seattle. Son Stuart '82 was married lastSeptember in Monroe, NY, and the Pyleshave two wonderful grandchildren. [See '58column for news of a women's symposium.]• Judith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave.,#1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

W* ^ \ From late 1995 comes someI I I March 1996 news. I hope all ofψ^k \f you received the fall class news-

• ϊ \ letter, read the Inaugural Cele-II I I bration write-up by Betty AnneV^ ^ # Steer Merritt, and long ago sentin your response to the Class of '58 Gift pro-posal question. It was good reading that ourclass was well-represented by a number ofour leaders and our three trustees. Andhere's a note of a get-together of '58 wom-en later this month:

Women of the Classes of '53-'63, savethe dates, Fri. eve. and Sat, March 29-30, fora multi-class symposium/reunion at the Cor-nell Club—New York, "Lifelines, Lives inProgress," covering health, financial security,common concerns. The keynote address willbe by Phyllis Moen, Ferris family professor oflife course study and director of the Bronfen-brenner Life Course Center. Contact AnitaPodell Miller, Miller Lucero and Associates,20 First Plaza, NW, Suite 411, Albuquerque,NM87102; tel, (505) 247-3836, fax, (505)247-3848 to get on the mailing list. Let's turn out!

We'll also watch for an update on ourclass gift voting.

I regret to inform the class that BobBlake died of cancer last June 27, the dateof the birth of Bob's youngest grandchild,McKenna Susan Blake. Carolyn (Carlson)'60, Bob's wife, wrote that she and Bob hadfond memories of our 35th Reunion, and that

Bob was most pleased to be an area vicepresident for the class. Our sympathies toyou, Carolyn, and the family.

Mary Savage Webber is the new di-rector for the Center for Religion, Ethics,and Social Policy (CRESP) at Cornell, andwould welcome a visit from any and all ather office in Anabel Taylor. Mary and hus-band Bill '54, MD '60 are members of thefirst resident group of Ecovillage at Ithacaand should move in next fall. Mary writesthat Linda Wilson Fujimoto was to visit forHomecoming last fall—she hadn't seen Lin-da for 35 years!

Dr. Tom Byers took early retirementfrom Ohio State U. last June, and is nowfull-time in biomedical research and enjoy-ing it immensely. Wife Sandy (Roberts)'59, continues as vice president of a health-care corporation working with Ohio Medi-care population, and just finished her firstbook. Dave L. Brown is also in healthcareafter 25 years, most as vice president of histrucking business, which just went under.

With lots of news now in hand, we'llforego mentioning those sending dues only,with thanks to all of them from the class.The Rev. Bob Beringer is still pastor ofhis First Presbyterian Church in Metuchen,NJ and just published his fourth book, enti-tled Turning Points. Bob and Margaret(Chamberlain) '59 spent last summer'ssabbatical in Italy.

Linda Ann Farnham continues as asocial worker in Monroe County, NY. Dr.Joel Gilbert is fully retired from his radiol-ogy practice. He and wife Charlene enjoyedthree weeks in Australia/New Zealand lastMarch and visited Alaska with Adult Uni-versity (CAU) and education ProfessorEmeritus Verne Rockcastle, PhD '55.Attorney David Goldstein, wife Rena, andson Brett, 6, planned to meet with SteveWeiss '57 and family in the West Indiesover the holidays in 1995.

Blair Perkins Grumman (Mrs. Da-vid '56) is director of a childcare center inEvanston, IL. Linda Hansman Hanson,molecular biologist at the U. of Colorado,has an updated address: 14925 E. Wagon-trail Dr., Aurora, CO 80015. Phil CoombeJr. is commissioner of the NY State Dept.of Corrections; he was one of only two com-missioners asked to stay on by New York'snew governor. He recently won the Dun-bar Award, which recognizes administrativeexcellence in corrections for the US andCanada. Congratulations, Phil! Phil and wifeCarolyn (Russell) '59 hope to get moreinvolved with Cornell activities when heretires. And more congratulations to AlPodell, for winning a gold medal at theCharleston International Film and VideoCompetition; his video Lift The Chorus wasselected best music video special of the year.(It's still available for $25 via E. C. "Chuck"Hunt, 85 Greenridge Ave., White Plains,NY 10605; all profits go to the university.)Glenn and Madelyn "Maddi" McAdamsDallas each sent an extra donation to theclass, which is greatly appreciated, and Mad-di is still feeling the thrill of having receivedthe Frank H. T. Rhodes Award last May.The Dallases hoped to visit the Middle Eastin February 1996 and to continue their trav-els here and abroad.

MARCH 1996

Hosting tlxoCarole Rapp Thompson '56

It was 8 a.m. on a mid-October morning,and Carole Rapp Thompson was alreadyin high gear: ordering breakfast from an

assistant, arranging her schedule for the day andtalking about her latest projects, all at the sametime. "I'm sort of wearing two hats right now," shesaid, and she wasn't kidding: in a little over a week,150 heads of state from all over the world were toconverge on New York City for the 50th anniversarycommemorative session of the United Nations, andThompson was pretty much in charge.

Her career started when the digital age was justbeginning, as a computer pro-grammer at the Bureau of LaborStatistics in Washington, "i toldthem, Ί want to program,'"Thompson said with a laugh, "andthey said, 'Good, because we justbought our first computer.'" Shemoved to New York City, and theU.N., in 1965.

Thompson's 30-year journeyfrom those early vacuum tubesand punch cards to her presentposition as director of supportservices for the U.N. is a saga ofhigh technology and boundlessenergy: she now oversees a worldwide telecommuni-cations network—so complex that it was possible tospeed-dial U.N. operations in Bosnia—as well assupervising the U.N.'s housekeepers, messengers,caterers, transportation, computer services, recordsmanagement and an international postal administra-tion that issues award-winning stamps in Geneva,Vienna and New York.

And that's only one hat.Beginning last May, Thompson also chaired the

Logistical Task Force for the Special Commemora-tive Session, a group of media representatives,conference coordinators, interpreters, documentpreparers, caterers, security personnel, protocolexperts—in short, all the people needed to welcome150 of the world's most important people to NewYork City for a weekend. "You name it, they're com-ing," Thompson said. "Kings, princes, presidents,prime ministers—they'll all be here."

By the time they arrived, a phenomenal numberof details had been dealt with, from what food toserve to who got to arrive first. "If you've got 140motorcades driving to the opening reception," shequizzed, "how early do you guess the first guest hasto arrive in order for things to start by 10 a.m.?"The answer was an eye-rubbing 7:30. Most of the

streets on Manhattan's East Side were closed off forthe occasion, and the level of protocol involved wasenough to make Miss Manners cringe.

A good example of the situations Thompson hadto deal with was what she jokingly called the "classpicture." It was the first time in history that thismany heads of state had been photographed as agroup, and nothing was being left to chance. "Aphotographer from Eastman Kodak took the picture,"she said, "and we did several run-throughs, com-plete with lighting and a scaffolding for the photog-rapher to stand on. We had to collect a couple-

hundred volunteers to stand inthe frame, just to make surethat he would be able to fitthat many people into the pic-ture and still give each faceequal billing."

Security was yet anothertangle of planning and etiquette.According to Thompson, staffrepresentatives from the dignitar-ies' entourages arrived early tomeet with the task force andplan the best way to keep theircharges safe. She estimated that95 percent of the nation's Se-

cret Service personnel would be in New York for theU.N. session. "It's the care and feeding of a lot of veryimportant people, and I'm up to my ears in it," shesaid in a voice composed of equal parts heavy respon-sibility and heady exhilaration.

With a schedule like this, it's not surprising thatThompson retired at the end of 1995; she waslooking forward to having more time to spend withher husband Paul and son Adam, a Cornell junior."I'm anticipating picking up my life where I left off,"she admitted cheerfully. "I want to have the time todo things—like taking up Chinese cooking again,doing some entertaining, and getting more exercisethan just the occasional game of tennis."

As she spoke, she seemed to look forward toabandoning the demanding 5a.m.-to-7p.m. schedulethat's kept her in the fast lane. Before long, though,Thompson confessed that a second career "involvingworld travel" was a distinct possibility. "There's a lotof interest on the part of certain firms in someonewith an inside knowledge of how the U.N. func-tions." As she sipped her coffee, getting ready tocharge into the remaining 11 hours of her dailyschedule, there was no doubt that she was thewoman for the job.

—Amanda L Wagenman '93

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We end with a few names of classmatesfor whom we have no current addresses; ifyou know the whereabouts of these 'mates,please let the class or the university know.Gail Westcott Snyder; Caroline DicksonPerkins; Capt. Thomas L. Hurd; John R.Dorner; and Joan Daly Becker.

And absolutely last, Carol BoeckleWelch writes of a great Homecoming lastfall; neat tailgate brunch and block seating,thanks to the efforts of Brad Corbitt; greatweather, Big Red Barn dinner, and many'mates back for the occasion. A good timehad by all. • Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr.,Fort Washington, PA 19034.

Let's have a resounding cheer forFlorida's Lakeland Prowlers, oneof the hottest teams in theSouthern Hockey League! Theproud owners of the team areLesley and Barbara Hirsch

Kaplan of Gladwyne, PA, and their childrenDoug Kaplan '88 and Emily Kaplan '91.Doug—manager of Cornell's hockey teamwhile he was on the Hill—is the team's pres-ident and general manager; Emily is vicepresident and director of marketing. "It'sbasically the kids' to run," says Barbara, butshe helps with marketing'insurance, hous-ing for the players, and rallies. The league,in its second season, has six teams and ex-pects to expand for next season. "We pickedLakeland because it had an arena; availablearenas are the hardest thing to find, becausehockey is so popular," says Barbara."Strange as it may seem, Florida has nineprofessional hockey teams—more than anyother state in the union." The Prowlers play60 games a season—30 home, 30 away. Teammembers hail from the US, Germany, Swe-den, and Canada—and the Kaplans are hop-ing to get a lot of recruits from Cornell.

A warm welcome to Peter Austin Read,born Sept. 7, '95 to Paul and ChristineRead. Because Peter wasn't due until later,Paul—who heads the department of horti-culture at the U. of Nebraska in Lincoln—had accepted an invitation to speak at asymposium in Hungary honoring GottliebHaberlandt, acknowledged as the "father oftissue culture." "The symposium went welland, serendipitously, I was fortunate to alsoparticipate in an event that touched my vo-cational/avocational interests in food andwine—the Fourth Hungarian Festival ofFood and Wine," writes Paul. But he didn'tget to tell Christine about the festival uponhis arrival back at the Omaha airport. In-stead, she greeted him with the news thatshe was in labor, and they sped to the hos-pital, where Peter was born three hours later.

Last summer, for the sixth time since1987, Eleanor Ross Levieux and her hus-band taught at the U. of Oregon summersession. The Paris-based couple taught avariety of courses in the French departmentto grads and undergrads, on subjects suchas literature, contemporary France, gram-mar, and translation. Rolf Barth, a patholo-gy professor and one of the world's expertsin neutron capture therapy, a promisingmethod of treating brain tumors, was nameda Distinguished Scholar by senior faculty atOhio State U., where he has taught since1979. He received a $3,000 honorarium and

a research grant of $20,000.After 25 years of running his own firm,

Paul Charles Limited, a food brokerage inthe New York City area, Paul Marcus ofIrvington, NY took on a new project: "I cul-tivated the Subway Sandwich Shops as a cli-ent for one of my packers of turkey andchicken products, Plantation Foods, and amnow coordinating sales throughout the US,Canada, and internationally. The travel andwork load has increased a great deal, andlife is totally hectic!" Paul and wife Paulaare the parents of Jacob, 9, and Lenni, 6, soin addition to work schedules there's timespent coordinating and attending LittleLeague baseball, Pop Warner football, Pee-wee hockey, ballet, religious school, and oth-er activities. "When I have a quiet momenton a plane and reflect, I wouldn't have it anyother way," says Paul. "The pace is that ofa 35-year-old, and it certainly keeps meyoung at heart, though a little out of breathat times!" [See '58 column for news of a wom-en's symposium.] • Jenny Tesar, 97AChestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel.,(203) 792-8237; e-mail, 102433.3653@compuserve.com.

An article (last fall) in the Bos-ton Globe features Elizabeth"Liz" Horowitz Lea. A formersystems engineer for IBM whonow runs an investment club andpublishes an investment news-

letter, Liz is known for her fine collection ofcontemporary American art, which she de-scribes as "my obsession" and which in-cludes works by Motherwell, Dine, Licht-enstein, and others. Reportedly Liz, an in-habitant of Boston's Back Bay, is also knownfor her dinner parties; those of us who readabout her party menus were very impressed.How about hosting a dinner for your Bostonclassmates, Liz? Great food and great artsounds like a terrific combination.

Sue Foote Browne came all the wayfrom Santa Barbara, CA to Ithaca to attendReunions in two successive years—the 35thfor husband Lawrence '59 in 1994, and herown in 1995. Sue reports being impressedwith the many new buildings and the Classof '60 garden project. Another West Coast-er is Janet Feuerstein Grove, who reportsfrom Hillsborough, CA that she is workinghard in her law partnership as a defense at-torney for medical device manufacturers andphysicians confronting civil lawsuits. Daugh-ter Amanda is also an attorney, and Janetnotes that despite the current challenges inthe field of health care, son Philip is com-pleting medical school at Georgetown.Daughter Allison Grove Gulbrandsen '84and husband Donald '83 took Janet's younggrandson to Ithaca for their 10th Reunion,when he further developed his walking andrunning skills on the Arts Quad.

Bob Lockard is still happily employedas a senior vice president at a communitybank in Towson, MD. Son Craig graduatedfrom Clemson and is working in the area asa commercial real estate appraiser in Wash-ington, DC.

James Matthews continues as a part-ner in the Chicago office of Coopers & Ly-brand. He and his wife live in Lake Forest,IL and have three grown daughters, two of

whom are married, and a grandchild. Unde-terred by the Chicago summers, which he de-scribes as the "best in the country" (a directquote), Jim enjoys his regular golf outings.

Ruth Berberian Hanessian also has afirst grandchild, Christopher. Ruth runs apet store, Animal Exchange, in the Wash-ington, DC area, and notes that the passageof the Wild Bird Conservation Act broughtmajor changes to the pet industry. Ruth hasbegun to encourage private avicultureamong her customers in order to maintainthe supply of several parrot species.

[See '58 column for news of a women'ssymposium.] Send news! • Judy BryantWittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton, MA02161.

Reunion! We hope you are Iplanning to attend! You mayhear directly from one ofmany classmates workingunder the leadership of Af-finity Chair Judy Rojas '

Bennett, who is encouraging as manyas possible to join in the fun come June6-9 in Ithaca. In the meantime, hereis some of the recent news. Careers:John Hardy, a lobbying specialistwith Featherstonheagh, Conway,Wiley, & Clyne in Albany, NY, repre-sents a broad spectrum of clients,including the Cornell Veterinary Col-lege, before the governor's office and thestate legislature. He continues involvementwith Cornell as a board member of the ZweigMemorial Fund for Equine Research. DonSpero is the principal in Spero Quality Stra-tegics, working with CEO-level businessstrategy and operations. A founding employ-ee of Prodigy, David Waks now is consult-ing in the "information superhighway" field.Harris Rosen notes he is building his sixthhotel, the Omni/Rosen, making his roomtotal 5,000.

Additional career news notes that, fol-lowing a seven-month sabbatical in Italy andHawaii with wife Meredith (Wood), Mar-co Einaudi is to become chief editor of Eco-nomic Geology, the leading international sci-entific journal in his field, in addition to hisStanford U. teaching. Fran Goldreich Raabis director of extramural programs for theAmerican College of Cardiology in theWashington/Bethesda area. After selling hisNew England Applebee's franchise back tothe franchisor, Burton Sack is working forApplebee's International for a few yearswhile spending some of his time on Long-boat Key, FL.

Iris Figarsky Litt-Vaughn is professorof pediatrics, director of the Inst. for Re-search on Women and Gender, and directorof adolescent medicine at Stanford. CarolBenjamin Epstein is assistant generalcounsel of the US Information Agency,which includes Voice of America and theFulbright exchange programs.

Volunteer commitments: during the taxseason, Marlene Alpert Tein serves as avolunteer for the IRS, specifically with agroup called VITA (Volunteer Income TaxAssistance) helping the elderly and disabledcomplete their tax forms. Santa Fe arts or-ganizations have enjoyed the involvementof Carole Beck Ely as a board member.

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New grandparents: Charlie Streeter,Frank "Fritz" Spitzmiller, and SaritaDaniels Berkenblit.

Allan Metcalf and I look forward tohearing from you and to seeing you in June.[See '58 column for news of a women'ssymposium,.] • Nancy Hislop McPeek,7405 Brushmore, NW, N. Canton, OH44720; tel., (216) 494-2572 (h); (216) 438-8375 (w).

First, some new addresses:Arthur Fetzer's new home is2053 Stonesthrow Rd., Bethle-hem, PA. Marianne MatucciEscaron can be reached at 8Cotswold Close, Kingston, Sur-

rey KT2 7JN, UK. She's moved from Lon-don. Next, an interesting tale from BobNewman, who met Fred Luper for lunchone day in New York City. Fred, about tobecome a first-time grandfather, opened theconversation by quickly saying "Not yet!Not yet!" By the time they met for lunch,Fred was checking on the situation by cel-lular phone. The newborn didn't make it intime for dessert, but Nathan Benjamin hadjoined the family by the time Fred arrivedhome in Columbus, OH to join new grand-mother Carol (Perlmuter) '64 thatevening.

Gerry Miller Jennings reports a grand-child born in 1994, a second in 1995. Sheand husband Chuck spent a month in Ugan-da doing medical work and were privilegedto see a family of mountain gorillas.

James "Narl" Davidson reports thelast of five children was off to school thisyear, just in time for him to become a first-time grandfather. Frederick Claus reportsone year to retirement—to enjoy his tengrandchildren and one great-grandchild.He's regional office supervisor for Ken-tucky's Environmental Protection Agency.He and his late wife, Anne, had nine chil-dren. Five grandchildren keep Sandra andLee J. Clark in touch. They have two sonsstill at home, married children from Utahto Florida, and one son on a mission in Par-aguay. Lee is active in Boy Scouting andplanned a 50-mile hike with the Scouts lastsummer. He directs the U. of Arizona Saf-ford Agricultural Research Center.

Already retired, Peter Cornacchio en-joys gardening in Hernando, FL. "Take themoney and run" was too good to resist forRichard Thurston, who retired from USCivil Service after 29 years. Robert Gloorof Fredonia retired in 1990 after 20 yearsas president of Foster Nursery. He's cur-rently pursuing a BA in theater at SUNY,Fredonia.

Apologies to Phil Mazzilli, whosename was misspelled in a prior column. WillAnderson, also a writer, is working on his14th book, Brewed in Maine, (Other best-sellers include New England Rumpside De-lights, Good Old Maine, and Was BaseballReally Invented in Maine?) Will hosts aweekly three-hour WXGL radio show on1950s rock and roll.

Classmate Jane Brody Engquist's sev-enth book, Jane Brody's Good Seafood Book,recently joined two previous cookbooks andher nutrition book on the shelves. Jane hasa continuing effort to allow Americans to

"Die young—as late in life as possible." Sheand husband Richard have twin sons, bothrecently married. Lorin is a tax attorney,Erik a journalist ["following in his mother'sfootsteps, but has his father's (a lyricist)flair"]. In April, Jane was pleased to meetCornell's new President Hunter Rawlingsand his wife, Elizabeth. "I predict they willfollow handsomely in Frank and RosaRhodes's dynamic footsteps."

Several classmates have taken advan-tage of automatic renewal payment of classdues. Taking the easy way are Chris Nap-jus, who lives in Annapolis, MD with wifeBarbara (Dohren) '63, and Rick Sommer.Rick and wife Ann moved to 1576 ThatchPalm Dr., Boca Raton, FL last fall. Rick willcontinue to operate his international com-pany search business (acquisitions and di-vestitures) from there. Corporate Develop-ment International has three US offices and12 in Europe. Harvey Kaufman, BArch '63is doing the renovation design for the Som-mers' Florida house. [See '58 column fornews of a women's symposium. ] ••• Jan Mc-Clayton Crites, 2779 Dellwood Dr., LakeOswego, OR 97034.

News comes from Bob Ulrichin Poughkeepsie, NY. He leftIBM after 26 years and is nowsenior account executive withSGS-Thomson MicroelectronicsCorp., one of the world's largest

electronic suppliers. He loves to ski andtraveled to Chamonix, France last winter.Daughter Corey '93 is working for J.P.Morgan on Wall Street. Another formerIBMer, Ed Slisky, is now a programmer atMRI Inc. in Larkspur, CA. Last spring's va-cation with his wife was on Nevis Island inthe West Indies.

Joan Draude Tierney writes fromRochester that she and Philip '62 have beenmarried for 32 years. They have a 3-year-old grandchild, Suzanne. For 15 years, Joanhas been with Rochester Inst. of Technolo-gy. Her current position in the developmentoffice is that of director of corporate andfoundation relations. She and Phil like totake their vacations on St. Bart's. SandraDorn Teitelbaum and husband Mark, MD'67 are busy in Baltimore. Sandra is an in-formation specialist working with patient da-tabases at the National Study Center forTrauma—a research institute at the U. ofMaryland. Mark is a psychiatrist at JohnsHopkins medical school. Daughter Jennifergraduated from Yale drama school with anMFA last May. Son Joshua is at Harvard lawschool.

Dr. Judith Hirsch Stoikov was on St.John last spring and had a good visit withMadeleine Leston Meehan, who lives onSt. Thomas. Dr. Jennifer Patai Schneideris busy in Tucson with her practice of inter-nal and addiction medicine. She does re-search in the area of sexual addiction andsexual exploitation of patients by profession-als. Husband Burt is a reservations agentwith American Airlines; thus, they travel alot. A late 1994 trip to visit relatives in Isra-el was a highlight. Son Ben "finally man-aged to graduate from Princeton," anddaughter Jessica, from Stanford.

Stephanie Tress De Pue and Anne

"Nancy" Skeels Kupersmith were at thelast show of Blood Brothers on Broadway lastyear. Stephanie is a court clerk in New YorkCity, and Nancy is still in the NYC schoolsystem. They are both finding the early re-tirement offers more appealing than theyonce were. Stephanie traveled to Wilming-ton, NC for her parents' anniversary, andthen to San Francisco last spring.

A few tidbits: Gerard Bourguignon isa professor at the Miami-Dade CommunityCollege's Medical Center Campus in Miami.Also in higher education administration atthe same college is Mardee Sue Green-field Jenrette. Pamela Gold Schreiber is apsychotherapist in Philadelphia. Leslie AnnVerdier Armentrout is a legal assistant withLegal Services in Midland, MI. Maria Fer-raro Chapin is an instructor in natural sci-ence at St. Petersburg Junior College inClearwater, FL.

A press clipping from the Daily Newsin February 1995 focused on Barbara AllenGuilfoyle, who is a leader of the Communi-ty Cancer Patient Support Group at CalvaryHospital in the Bronx. Barbara began hercareer as a freelance writer, then earned herMSW from Fordham U. She and husbandRoger moved to Ridgefield, CT after thecollege graduation of their son. They nowlive enfamille with three generations underone roof, plus cats and dogs. She and Rogerhave combined business with pleasure inSan Antonio and Minneapolis. Barbara keepsin touch with Sally Simpson Svenson,Heidi Gantner Kallfelz, and Ginny Hoff-man Morthland. [See '58 column for news ofa women's symposium.] *X* Nancy BierdsIcke, PO Box 167B—Eurocentre, Racine, WI53401-1675.

Tradition is part of Cornell.With that in mind, let's contin-u e a "tuit ion" started threemonths ago in this column byhighlighting news of classmateswe haven't heard from in some

time. Cynthia Fulton Edmondson is an of-fice manager, and relaxes by gardening,reading, and traveling. She and husbandCharles live at 4754 Hummingbird, Hous-ton, TX. Leonard Adams (223 HillcrestAve., Davenport, IA), single with a growndaughter, is an economic development spe-cialist with the City of Davenport. A pho-tographer, hiker, and runner, Leonard is alsoworking to establish a series of professionalchamber music concerts in the Illinois-Iowa"quad cities" area on the Mississippi.

Downriver from Leonard, John Mc-Clusky (721 Villa Capri Ct., St. Louis, MO)is director of the Nonprofit Management andLeadership Program at the U. of Missouri,St. Louis. John created the program threeyears ago, which provides graduate and un-dergraduate education in the field and na-tional consulting services to nonprofit organ-izations. Arthur Levitan is with NYNEXas technical director of research and devel-opment for proactive maintenance of thetelephone network. He and wife Judith, whohave two grown sons, live at 50 Moll BrookRd., Wilton, CT.

Heather Cole is a librarian with Har-vard's Lamont Library. She and husbandStratis Haviaras and their teenage daughter

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live at 19 Clinton St., Cambridge, MA. Near-by, Judith Mabel (50 Naples Rd.,Brookline, MA) is a science educator andrecently completed a biology project withclassmate Toby Kleban Levine, as well asa chemistry lab manual. Judy, an avid skier,has two teenage sons. Last summer, sheswitched her writing gears to take the AdultUniversity (CAU) course on fiction writing.

The career Mark Pachman chose in-volved switching one set of scales for an-other—specifically, those of music for thescales of justice. Once a professional pian-ist, he is now a partner in a W. PalmBeach, FL, law firm. Mark, wife Susan,and their son and daughter live at 2722Timbercreek Cir., Boca Raton, FL. SethLevine and wife Kathy are partners intheir own national manufacturers' repre-sentative concern: Levine & Levine, 6965El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA. As agentsfor an Italian line of luxury leather goodsand accessories, they travel about 80 per-cent of the time.

New empty-nesters are Michael"Tim" Graves and wife Suzanne, at 28Wincanton Dr., Fairport. A photographybuff, Tim teaches high school advancedplacement US history, government, andeconomics. Marjorie Rosen Harris andhusband John are also new empty-nest-ers. An audiologist at UCLA medicalschool, Marjorie—and John—enjoyedtravel in two directions last year: to Lon-don and to Hawaii.

Bruce Berger and wife Toni (LeRoy)'66 raised two Cornellians: Jill '91 and Da-vid '94. The Bergers hang their Big Redparaphernalia at 3224 Fallstaff Rd., Balti-more, MD. Bob and Alice DannettFriedenson (109 Bellevue Rd., Andover,MA) also raised two Cornellians: Eric '90,MPA '91 and Ted '99. The June 1994 wed-ding of their middle son became a mini-re-union, with Marvin '63 and Sheila Zoud-erer Strauss, Nancy Regal Klinger, andAlice's father, Herbert Dannett '32, in at-tendance.

An assistant professor at CommunityCollege of Philadelphia, Marcia Gold-schlager Epstein (126 Righters Mill Rd.,Gladwyne, PA) reports taking a CAUcourse in July 1994 in a group that includ-ed classmates Nancy Lore Einhorn andJody Hutchinson—and urges the rest ofus to also enroll in something that fits ourinterests.

Last summer Jody returned to Ithacafor another CAU course, as did other class-mates: Paul Kruger and wife Mary andArnold Andersen and wife Helen. NadineFelton as well as Henry '63, JD '66 andJudith Schwartz Kramer enjoyed two ofCAU's off-campus programs. In case youmissed the notice, congrats go to CarolBritton MacCorkle, who chairs the Presi-dent's Council of Cornell Women. Last Mayshe was one of two new at-large trusteeselected by the board.

Beverly Bailey Hastings (#4 Fair-ways, 195 Wescott Rd., S. Portland, ME)sends an appeal to anyone who knows thewhereabouts of her former roommate Eliz-abeth Ann Reich. Keep the News 'n' Duescoming. • Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chest-nut St., Deerfield, IL, 60015.

After a particularly early start towinter, those of us residing innorthern climes will be happy tos e e sP r^nS arrive. And those ofyou who would like to escape towarmer weather, might look up

Burr Vail. After running the Carbur Res-taurant in Burlington, VT for 21 years, heand wife Linda, a commercial interior design-er, moved to the small island of Vieques,just a few miles off the coast of Puerto Rico.They are renovating an old building into a16-room inn, the Hacienda Tamarindo, com-plete with a tamarind tree growing upthrough the center. Their new address atthe inn is Box 1569, Vieques, PR 00765. Alsothis year, their daughter Adrienne will begraduating from the U. of New Hampshire,where she was in the restaurant program.

I recently had the opportunity to chatwith Mary Anne Maccullum Perks. Sheis teaching human biology, anatomy fornursing, and several labs in comparativeanatomy at Elmira College. Her husband,William, continues with Corning Inc. andis manager of external business develop-ment. His involvement in acquisitions anddivestitures requires him to travel fre-quently to Europe, Asia, and Japan. MaryAnne had a brief visit this past fall fromNatalie Teich, who was visiting fromEngland.

Mary Anne also notes that the Class of'65 is well in control of the Town of Veter-an, NY, where she and Rodney Roe makeup half of the town council.

William Brothers writes that he con-tinues to keep close ties with Ithaca. Eventhough he and wife Sherry (Smith) '72,DVM '81 both live and work in Crestline,CA, William keeps his old wood-and-canvascanoe at a cottage on Cayuga Lake. UsingIthaca as a base, he canoes all over theNortheast and has recently purchased addi-tional land near Ithaca. Euripides "Evris"Coutroubis has left Moore Corp. Ltd. ofToronto and is now president and CEO ofBeta Steel Corp., a steel mini-mill in north-west Indiana.

Alan Harris retired more than a yearago after 26 years in the US Public HealthService, and is now working as a financialmanagement consultant. Carol Blau Jol-ly and husband William '64 both work forWashington State's government in natu-ral resources management. Carol is an en-vironmental policy analyst. Dr. ElaineSarkin Jaffe has been hopping the globethis past year as president of the Societyfor Hemopathology. Her work has takenher to Bologna, Berlin, Hong Kong, Lon-don, and Cologne. Joseph Schneider Jr.is assistant superintendent of schools forthe school district of the Chathams in NewJersey. Christopher Mabley resigned thislast year after 11 years as headmaster oftwo independent secondary schools to be-come a senior fellow with City Year, a na-tional youth service corps. Wife Janice(Langenmayr) has her own private psy-chotherapy practice, and is also a memberof a group practice in Worcester, MA.

Remember to send News with yourDues! • Dennis P. Norfleet, RR 5, Box20, Oswego, NY 13126; tel., (315) 342-0457.

66Three months to go, and |counting down quickly!The 30th Reunion is on its Iway, and I hope that Mary(Loosbrock) and I will beseeing you soon. Please '

give me one of the cards or a sheet of '""Spaper concerning just what you are Cΐdoing, so we can put together a dyna- j jjjmite Reunion column. I have been get- Kting lots of responses from classmates ί-3concerning what they are currently up JjjJ *to, and whether or not they will be Ocoming to Reunion. Deanne Gebell j""jbjGitner writes from 8 Arlene Ct, Short *•"•Hills, NJ that she is the immediate past pres-ident of the Cornell Club of Northern NewJersey, and is the metropolitan representa-tive to the Cornell Alumni Federation. Sheis also the communications coordinator forthe Milburn Township Schools. (I have totell you, guys, that she has wonderful writ-ing.) One son is Cornell '92 and Columbialaw school, the other, Rochester Inst. ofTechnology '95. Laura Bowman Gray, 8Windward Hill, Oakland Hills, CA, went toPortugal last summer, and "it was a para-dise!" She is vice president of Health Edu-cation Hospital Council of Northern andCentral California. Diane Stein Dobrow,769 Oneida Tr., Franklin Lakes, NJ notes,"I have moved from part-time to full-timeemployment—at my age, that should havebeen reversed!" She didn't say what she wasdoing—you will have to come to Reunionand ask her.

A note from John S. Reuther gives anaddress of 206 E. 51st St., NYC 10022; heis really living in Russia, chairing JSR Hold-ings Inc. Someone at the address above inNew York delivers his mail daily to Mos-cow. He has been doing office-complex realestate development in Moscow for sevenyears, now. Sounds complex to me. SandyShecket Korros is located at 7084 W. Ara-coma Dr., Cincinnati, OH, where she is anassociate professor of history at Xavier U.She has spent time in Moscow as an Inter-national Research Exchange Board scholar,working on a book on the state council ofthe Russian Empire.

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Martha Goell Lubell has founded herown TV production company, Gemini Pro-ductions, with a specialization in educationvideo, video news releases, and documen-taries. Her address is 426 Bolsover Rd.,Wynnewood, PA. James L. Greene has ason at Cornell and one in high school, and adaughter in ninth grade. He has just re-turned from Taiwan and Hong Kong on abuying trip ("incredible vitality in both ar-eas!"). His address is 205 3rd Av., 1G, NYC.Leonard Coburn, 2828 Albermarle St., NW,Washington, DC, plans to come to Reunion.He works for the US Dept. of Energy andhas gone scuba diving in the Caymans, bik-ing on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and onweekend jaunts to Cape May. (We all knowwhat that means!—hope you won!)

Please let us know what's new withyou. Hope to see you at Reunion! • JohnG. Miers, 5510 Huntington Pkwy., Bethes-da, MD 20814.

^\ 1^1 "I work in air and water pollu-• m tion control—still trying to savel ^ k m the planet after all these years,"I I I advises Jim Lopata, 1 E. Schil-I I I ler, #22A, Chicago, IL. Regard-^ ^ • ing his children, Chris, 25, isfinishing law school at Georgetown andShanon, 22, is graduating from Miami ofOhio. Nancy Keusch Mayers, 4503 E. Rap-id Springs Cove, Austin, TX, writes, "Stillcoordinate the high school library volun-teers, although my kids—Beth (Ithaca Col-lege '94); Aaron (Lehigh '95)—left thereyears ago. Spending more time on my poet-ry—concentrating on non-functional, sculp-tural work."

Roger W. Me Cauley, 10271 AntleOrchard Rd., Glouster, OH, is director ofdevelopment for CO AD (Corporation forOhio Appalachia Development). He's alsothe 1994 Alumnus of the Year of the Schoolof Political Science at Ohio U. Son Jared isa senior at Baldwin-Wallace. Robert K.Niles, 808 Morven Ct, Naperville, IL, waspromoted to president-international forHelene Curtis Inc. He travels primarily inEurope, Asia, and Japan.

"After too many civic activities over toomany years, I'm trying to stay at work andhome," writes Lee Fikes, Bonanza Oil Co.,3060 Lincoln Plaza, Dallas, TX. But, he adds,"In September I went to Nottingham, Eng-land with my wife Amy, a mystery bookstore owner, for the 26th annual Boucher-con—a convention of and for mystery bookwriters, booksellers, and fans. There I fi-nally met Judith Edelstein Kelman, whomΓd never met on the Hill (I know I wouldhave remembered!), but with whom Γd be-come pen pals a few years back. Amy andJudith shared professional secrets Qudith

having written about ten mysteries in thatmany years), and at other times Judith and Iwalked the streets of Nottingham, seeing itshistory and sharing our separate but similarlives with each other."

Cdr. Jon C. Vaughters, 800 GabrielCt., #414, Frederick, MD, is a 737 pilot forUS Air based in Baltimore. His two eldest,Darren, 21, and Michelle, 18, are at UCLA;Evan, 13, and Brian, 9, are at home. TobyTucker Hecht, 8412 Bradley Blvd., Bethes-da, MD, is a program director at the Nation-al Cancer Inst. involved in drug developmentin the area of biologicals. She met for din-ner last year with Joan Solomon Weiss,Phyllis Bell Jonas, and Fran Keller Fabi-an in New York City. Sons Spencer andJonathan are 18 and 13, respectively.

Dr. Neil J. Principe is senior vice pres-ident at Inphynet Medical Management Inc.,1200 S. Pine Island Rd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL.After noting that daughter Julia, a Columbiafreshman, "chose the Lion over the Bear,"he reports having seen Robert M. Lock-wood (48 Sutton Manor, New Rochelle, NY)"who will be starting a new magazine forcigar smokers this December [1995] calledSmoke."

Christian C. Day, 580 Roberts Ave.,Syracuse, NY, reports he's "still a professor oflaw at Syracuse U. and chairs the building com-mittee ($12.5-$14 million addition and renova-tion). I was married to Ann M. Kochan on July15, '95 at Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse U. Cor-nellians in attendance: Christine J. Day '75,my sister and director of development andalumni affairs for the College of Human Ecol-ogy at Cornell; Kenneth J. Burkhardt, Box420, Quakertown, NJ, founder of DialogicsCorp.; Lawrence F. Noble; Steven Wech-sler, professor of law at Syracuse; and a 'dis-tant relation of Cornell'—US Attorney Thom-as Maroney, who was a visiting scholar at theLaw school in 1974."

I owe James W. Crawford, 11480Bronzedale Dr., Oakton, VA, an apology.What he sent last year never made it in here.We do try to include anything written be-yond a bare name and address. I did findsomething he sent a while back; he'd spentthree days at Oktoberfest as part of a trip toHamburg, Bonn, Munich, Frankfurt, and Lux-embourg, observing: "It's a wild party; youhave to see it to believe it." Daughter Chris-tine had graduated from James Madison U. andson William was attending Nova U. • Rich-ard B. Hoffman, 2925 28th St., NW, Wash-ington, DC 20008; tel., (202) 667-6481.

Hope you're having a good win-ter! Ruth Mandel Pincus andhusband Roger live in Haver-ford, PA. Son Joshua '99 is afreshman in the Arts college,and David '96 is a senior histo-

ry major in the Arts. Tracy Suor Petersonlives in Seattle, WA and is chief financial of-ficer, Washington Dental Services in Seat-tle. Tracy's activities include bringing upchildren aged 19, 16, 10, and 8. She reports,"I feel like I'm on the home stretch!" Be-sides parenting, Tracy has done sea-kayak-ing in the Puget Sound area and British Co-lumbia. Tracy keeps in touch with MaryJane Ferguson. Yvonne Picard is a psy-chotherapist in Tiburon, CA. Her daughter

is graduating from the Boston U. School ofSocial Work, and son David, one year out ofHarvard, is working in New York City.

Mary Pasley lives in New York City. JeffParmet is a consultant with Price Waterhousein Bethesda, MD. Cathy Owen is a physi-cian in family practice with the Stanford Coast-side Medical Group in Half Moon Bay, CA.Her medical group was recently bought byStanford Health Services as part of its effortto expand primary care affiliations. The affilia-tion will enable Stanford to have access tomore patients for its specialists.

Perry Odak is a management consult-ant in Park City, UT—a great place to ski.Fred Ochsner lives in Coleman Falls, VA.Bob Oakley, Rockville, MD, is a lawyer-librarian at the Georgetown U. Law Cen-ter. Dr. David Yesner is a professor andarcheologist at the U. of Alaska in Anchor-age. David and wife Kristine are involved inarcheological and geological projects in Alas-ka and Argentina. He is now planning towork in the Russian Far East. They haveone child, born in 1994.

Jane Gleklen Wyeth is a private artdealer representing one artist: brother-in-law Jamie Wyeth. Jane works from home,so she is able to see a lot of her daughter.Richard Pozzuto has established an artgallery in Warwick, NY named WarwickGalleries. Richard, wife Anita, and family arerelocating to Manhattan. He reports contactwith classmate Jeff Burtch in connectionwith the art business, and says, "Jeffs sculp-tures deserve notice."

Ray Powers lives in San Jose, CA. RayReisler lives in Los Angeles and works forthe S. Mark Taper Foundation. CandiRosenberg Rosen and husband David livein New Rochelle, NY. David is president andCEO, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center inQueens and was recently elected to chairthe Greater New York Hospital Assn. Can-di works in Westchester County as a healtheducator for the American Red Cross.Daughter Caryn '95 was in ILR and anoth-er daughter is at the U. of Michigan. Rich-ard Schuler lives in Jupiter, FL.

Walt Schenker works in investmentswith Glickenhaus and Co. in NYC. Walt livesin Pine Brook, NJ. Norm Schickedanzlives in Elmhurst, NY. Jonathan Schwartzlives in Hopkinton, NH. Carol Selman-Schneider lives in W. Orange, NJ. BertieHarsha See lives in Grosse Pointe Farms,MI. Steve Tannen chairs the board and isCEO of Marietta Corp. in Cortland, NY.Gary Schwarz's son Scott '99 is in Engi-neering. Scott is also an avid tennis player,and captured the New Jersey State Cham-pionships after an 30-0 season. Larry Wind-sor lives in Redondo Beach, CA. GinnyRowan Smith lives in Moorestown, NJ andis vice president of corporate advertisingwith Inductotherm Industries. • Gordon H.Silver, Putnam Investments, 1 Post OfficeSquare, Boston, MA 02109.

69Thank goodness for those time-ly dues forms . . . I have enoughnews to get us through the nextfew issues! But, although manypay class dues, most of you donot take the time to let us know

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happening with you and your growing fam-ilies. If you've skipped the back of thedues form, write to me directly or call. Youcan even fax!

Pat Curran writes from Ithaca, whereshe is a biologist/lab coordinator at Cornellfor Bio 105-106. She married Nigel Dyson-Huson '81 under a Reunion tent in the Plan-tations, and they have a son Terence, 6. Sheis also returning to part-time student statusas a MS candidate in urban horticulture. Patwrites, "I would like to hear from old friendsI've lost touch with, such as Cathy Reedand Warren Galke. I can provide a placeto crash if people want to visit Ithaca. Giveme a month's notice to clean the house,though."

James Miller writes from Syracusethat daughter Bevan '99 is in the Ag col-lege. He also found one of our missing class-mates, Richard Lloyd, who with wife Janeand four children have relocated from Iowaback to Clinton, NY. Richard Oliver chairedthe recent University Council annual meet-ing and notes, "All you need is great weath-er and the inauguration of a new president,and everyone thinks you're a hero!"

Judy Braunstein Bailyn lives in BocaRaton, FL with sons Jay, 17, a National MeritScholar semi-finalist applying to college, andJonathan, 10, a fifth-grader. Judy is the CEOof a wholesale/retail carpet company andworks 70 hours a week. Steve and JoanWolfers Belkin were also in Ithaca forPresident Hunter Rawlings's inaugurationand visited daughter Julie '98, a sophomorein Hum Ec.

Cindy Goldin Bernstein is an Englishprofessor at Auburn U. She and husbandBob '65, PhD '70 won the North AmericanMixed Pair Bridge Championships this year.They lecture about bridge on cruise ships,and spent the summer in Greece and Tur-key. They're looking forward to sailingthrough the Panama Canal next.

Dan Brothers is a photographer/edi-tor with the Alabama Bureau of Tourism.His career began with The Cornell Daily Sunand Ithaca Journal, and while Dan tried oth-er fields for 13 years, he found his way backto photography. He, wife Fran, and four chil-dren live in Wetumpka, AL. Thomas andMary Anne Klein Chapman have twosons. The oldest, Andy, is at the U. of NewHampshire, while Justin '98 is a sophomorein Hum Ec. The Chapmans live in Concord,NH, but love having "the excuse to get backto campus a couple of times a year!"

James Chiafery has a new job as di-rector of investor relations for Kulick andSoffa Industries, a high-tech firm in Phila-delphia. Jim is close enough to Ithaca to havethe opportunity to see Cornell teams playfrequently. • Suzy Sacks Zeide, 561 Phil-lips Dr., Boca Raton, FL 33432; tel., (407)393-5322; fax, (407) 362-6135.

m ^ \ Winston Gayler has moved hisyi I engineering practice, Tioga

I I I Technical (electronics design), toI I I Cape Coral, FL (home/business:

I \ J 5624 Del Rio Ct ' 3 3 9 o 4 - 5 9 2 °)™ ^ ^ Last winter he enjoyed thawing

some visiting Cornell "snowbirds": his sis-ter and brother-in-law, Robert and JanetGayler Fallon, both '73, and James Alin-

sky. Winston is a Cornell Club of South-west Florida board member and was look-ing forward to the year's activities, especiallythe All-Ivy Party on the Beach (organized,of course, by the Cornell Club!).

Starting in mid-May 1995, JoanneBalmer Green and her mate Michael tooka three-month sabbatical trip to the Karolin-ska Inst. in Stockholm. Michael is a profes-sor in the nutrition department at Pennsyl-vania State U. and a current PhD candidate.He and Joanne will be doing a collaborativestudy with a Swedish colleague who workswith TCDO and vitamin A. Joanne's momaccompanied them so that son Michael, now6, would have the pleasure of his favoriteplaymate while they were at work. They re-gretted missing Reunion.

In mid-June 1995, Virginia "Ginger"Zakian, husband Bob Sandberg (Princeton'70), daughter Megan, now 17, son Eric, 11,and standard poodle Mischa, 7, moved toPrinceton, NJ. Ginger will be a professor inthe molecular biology department at Prince-ton U., and Bob will teach in the Englishdepartment and the theater program there.Their new address is 160 Bertrand Dr. Theyhad lived in Seattle for 18 years and will es-pecially miss the coffee, weather, friends,and scenery, but are enjoying being back onthe East Coast.

In 1993 Dr. Sandra Schorr, MD,FAAP, made a big life-change and movedfrom St. Louis to Vail, CO (PO Box 1198).She joined a private practice group (VailMountain Medical, PC). She says that, be-lieve it or not, Vail is a real town, not justa resort, and she enjoys the variety of pa-tients she sees and adores the outdooractivities. Sandy has traded in black dress-es and suits for jeans, waders, skis, andkayak equipment. Sons Matt, 14, andGage, 15, have asked her to sign a con-tract never to leave! Maryellen GaidusekMitchell visited in February 1995, andSandy came to our 25th with Maryellenand husband Bart '70.

To recap a bit on our marvelous 25thin June 1995: 219 classmates came (a 40percent increase from 1990) and our grandtotal was 410, with 312 adults and 98 kidsin attendance! Ann and Martin Tangcame the farthest, from Hong Kong, andCindy Whiteman Waters had the "new-est" baby, a then 3-year-old daughter.Under the very able leadership of FredSeegal and his team of fundraisers, ourclass raised $1,245 million for our 25thReunion "gift" to Cornell. Reunion activi-ties put on by both the Class of '70 and byCornell were well-received. Our dinner atthe Ivy Room was great fun, and the galadinner at Barton was topped off by ourhonored guests, then-President Frank andRosa Rhodes. Reunioners enjoyed Don-Ion's lounges (not quite so the dormrooms) and the souvenirs. Anyone inter-ested in buying a Class of '70 rugby shirt,sweater, or baseball cap can contact HankBrittingham at (302) 645-6757 for info.Thanks again to Hank and Christine"Buzzi" Brueckner McVay, our Reunionco-chairs, and all who worked so hard tomake our weekend a grand success. •Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James ThomasRd., Malvern, PA 19355.

1^1 ^ It is getting closer to Re-m I union time. It was 25 years

I I ago that we left Cornell!• I Can you imagine . . . and 29I I years since we started. In-• Ά . credible! The other day I

enjoyed a reconnection with my Cor- "nell past. The telephone rang . . . on CDthe other end was Linda Mink Cole ΓJjj]'72 in San Diego: "This is a voice from Cthe past. Remember about 25 years H*ago when . . . Well, now my daughter J ^ *is ready to go to college, and I see from OCornell Magazine that you are in At- M Llanta . . . and Emory U. . . ." Linda, I ^hope you and your daughter come this way.It was great of you to call. Old (really mean-ing young) friends are truly the best friends.On to the news.

Babson College, in Wellesley, MA, an-nounces that Richard P. Mandel was ap-pointed to chair the finance division. Rich-ard has been an associate professor of lawat Babson, an instructor at Clark U., an au-thor and private practitioner specializing inhigh technology and small business. Thereis also a media report that Pete Watzkawas inducted into Cornell's Athletics Hallof Fame during the Sepember 22 Cornell/Holy Cross football weekend. Pete, seniorvice president for Marriott Ownership Re-sorts in Orlando, FL, was a member of thebaseball All-America team in 1971, the yearin which he was also Cornell MVP, leadingthe Ivy League with a batting average of .419.

The Cornell media is also out there pro-moting. Adult University (CAU) reportsClass of '71 participants last summer includ-ed Sheila Fisher-Cohen, Edward E. Heit,Alan Mittman, Jay Neuman, Amy No-ble, Fred Rapaport, David Taussig, Su-zanne Moselle Allen, and Ellen Arfin.CAU has an interesting array of courses.

Summer College PR is equally efficientwith its release of the names of children of'71 parents who attended last summer: Kim-berly, daughter of David D. Thompson,and Chuck Tallent's son Joshua. Each par-ticipant took two college-level courses: cal-culus, communications, humanities, and/orPsych 101. (Query: did we call Psych 101"Nuts and Sluts," or was that Sociology 101or some similar such?)

Wait a minute . . . A CONTEST! Final-ly I have an idea which may revive somefond memories, as well as reinvigorate somenearly dead brain cells. Here it is: how manyCornell class alternative names can you list?(An example, Nuts and Sluts.) List the de-partment and the class number, the officialname of the class, and the alternative name.I will try another example or two for form,but I probably have at least the official namewrong, or some other glaring error that willbe easily picked up by the true aficionadowhose participation is needed: Geology 101,Introductory Geology, "Rocks for Jocks";Physics 101, Basic Physics, "Physics forPoets."

You have the idea. Send me your listsand I will publish the best ones and deter-mine a contest winner. There will be a prizeor prizes awarded. First prize may be an in-vitation for you and your spouse to joinKaren and me on our next visit to the Coted' Azur with accommodations at the mag-

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nificent Villa Murai. . . and then again, may-be it will be something else. Perhaps therun of our home for the 1996 Atlanta Sum-mer Olympic Games . . . or maybe not thateither. You never know if you do not enter.Send your entries to me at the address below.

From your News and Dues responses. . . our late classmate, Thomas C. Strecke-wald, the victim of a DUI driver, accordingto wife Catherine in Yardley, PA, has beenremembered with awards and memorials inhis name, including an Excellence in Educa-tion award, by Princeton Chamber of Com-merce, an Alumni Service Award, by Edi-son State College, as well as an endowment.

Received a fitting tribute to Rick Fur-bush's Reconnection '71 efforts from ChrisAger in Tampa: "Being a local 'Bay AreaNeighbor' of Rick Furbush, he has put on amajor push for membership and finally twist-ed my arm enough that I finally paid mydues. It took 24 years to get me to partici-pate, but Rick did it. Even my wife (of 23years), Martha, and daughter Jennifer, 17,have joined in for some of the events. "Atthe Ivy League Club Bucket Day 1995, Mar-tha helped Rick's better half with sign-in andregistration, and Jenny helped me in the'Sand Sculpture' contest (we mopped up therest of the Ivies with our bear). Hopefully,we will continue to participate—it's more funthan we had thought."

(Chris, thanks for the great report. Weare sending invoice for class dues for 1971-94. Just kidding. JYM) Correction: In theNovember 1995 issue we listed Marsha Ack-ermann incorrectly. She's married, but haskept her own name.

And, to conclude, a Reunion story in themaking. Caryn Furst promises to be at our25th. She and husband David Bromberg are"The proud parents to two little girls—Mo-randa, 1, and Shara, 6 months. Between rear-ing two babies and work, which I am doingdespite two maternity leaves in one year,our lives are, to say the least, hectic." Bothwill be at Reunion. • Joel Y. Moss, 110Barnard PL, Atlanta, GA 30328; tel., (404)255-2234; fax, (404) 255-0599.

I^t ^ \ Here's some news that was cutm I from earlier columns. Let us

m m know if you have newer news to• M report! Danelle Molphy JonesI g j and husband Steve '71 reside in• ^™ Calhoun, GA, a small town in the

Georgia mountains one hour north of At-lanta. Danelle is a computer consultant andtrainer. Steve is vice president, finance atCarriage Carpets. Son Brad is a senior atFlorida State U., majoring in hotel and res-taurant administration. Daughter Rebecca isa junior at Duke, majoring in public policyand communications. Danelle proudly re-ported that Rebecca was America's 1993Junior Miss. Also living in the state whichwill host the 1996 Olympic Games are Dr.Howard Schub and wife Susan (Brach-feld) '73. The Schubs live in Atlanta.

Dr. Alan Lisbon is an anesthesiologistat Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. DavidLong is a computer systems programmerfor Emerson Electric in Maysville, KY. Heis busy with what seems like constant up-grades to software and hardware. Davidplays French horn in the community band

Did we call Psych

101 'Nuts and

Sluts/ or was that

Sociology 101 or

some similar such?

— J O E L MOSS '71

and enjoys watching daughter Allison in thehigh school marching band. Allison, a soph-omore, plays clarinet and suffers through herfather's stories about playing tuba for theBig Red Marching Band. In the summer of1993, Allison spent several days in Jackson,IL filling sandbags during the severe flood-ing in the Mississippi Valley. David's sonOwen is in fifth grade. He reads, is in thebaseball and soccer leagues, and takes ten-nis lessons. David's wife, Barbara (Phil-lips) '73, juggles freelance work and sub-stitute teaching, along with community bandand church and social activities.

Dr. Elliott Lieberman is a urologistin Plainview. Larry Saret is a patent attor-ney in Chicago. Jerry Goldman is a CPAand heads the corporate tax practice at Ernstand Young in New York City. In addition,he keeps busy as president of the Larch-mont Mamaroneck Little League.

John Heaton, wife Pamela, and sonJohn, 10, moved to Vienna, Austria. It is hissecond international assignment in 17 yearswith Coca-Cola, after having been in Atlan-ta for eight years. They settled in well, buttheir German could be a lot better, he says.Gary Emerson and wife Silke visited Johnat Christmas 1994. The Emersons live inBrussels, where Gary is with Unilever. Dr.Steve Zimmerman is medical director forAetna Life and Casualty in Hartford, CT.

Robert Gray owns Star Trucking inPort Reading, NJ. He has been married toPatty for 18 years, and they have sons Chris,15, and Matt, 13. Bob recently purchased asummer home on New Jersey's Long BeachIsland. Bruce Hazen is preparing the re-search and business plan for what will be afirst in the US, a European-style hotel-bargethat will cruise over 70 miles of the mostpastoral river in America, the Willamette inOregon. Each cruise will feature art, music,gourmet dining, outdoor activity, and toursof the micro-brewery and wine industriesthat surround Portland. The European tra-dition comes to Oregon. Bruce reports thatthis is the "mother of all career transitions,"and he welcomes all comments, advice, help,and feedback possible from his Cornelliancolleagues. Contact Bruce at the followingCompuserve/Internet mailbox: 102003.104@compuserve.com.

Gail Schlesinger Zimmerman is a bud-

get analyst with OMB in Washington, DC.Susan Wingerd Webster is a school psy-chologist for the Town of Webb (NY) School.She and husband Mark '70 live in OldForge. Sue Rosenberg Thau is a lobbyistin our nation's capital. • Alex Barna, 1050Eagle Lane, Foster City, CA 94404.

J^m ^ \ This column was due at the Cor-M m nell Magazine office five days ago

I ^F . . . I sure hope they believe in• H giving extensions on the due dateI im . . . Maybe I should tell them the• ^ ^ dog ate my homework.

Since I resumed writing this column, Ihave had the pleasure of hearing from someold (oops, that's probably a bad choice ofadjectives) Cornell friends, as well as someclassmates living in Atlanta whom I havenot yet had the pleasure of meeting. LibbySt. John Weinstein '74 invited us to jumpaboard a Delta flight and visit her and hus-band Vic and three children in Charleston,SC; Libby, Ron and I hope to take you upon the offer.

Classmate Torin Togut was kindenough to offer assistance to our family inthe transition from the fast pace of life inthe Northeast to the slower and more gen-tle pace of life in Georgia.

Unfortunately, I am experiencing thecalm before the storm (when I will receiveall of the 1996 News and Dues forms), sothis column is lacking m e a t . . . I sure hopeI have more to report in the nextcolumn. • Lorraine Palmatier Skalko,4385 S. Landing Dr., Marietta, GA 30066.

}fm m Homecoming Weekend last fallm Λ brought several classmates back

m 1 1 t 0 frnaca Vicki Saporta was on• ^Λi campus from the Washington,I W DC area for ILR advisory coun-• ^ cil meetings. Last May Vicki

changed jobs; she is now executive directorof the National Abortion Federation, whereshe regularly collaborates with KathyrnKolbert at the Center for Reproductive Lawand Policy. Gary Bettman, commissionerof the National Hockey League, was one offour panelists speaking on collective bargain-ing and professional sports to an audienceof 200 students and alumni. Later on he,Shelley (Weiner) '75, and their three chil-dren enjoyed the football game as guests ofPresident and Mrs. Rawlings. CarolynGregg Will was up from Tennessee forAssn. of Class Officer (CACO) board meet-ings, the full round of tailgate parties, andthe game. In addition to helping with thefamily businesses, Carolyn is working full-time at watching her two teenagers.

News of last fall also includes the mar-riage of Andy Chang to Karen Leslie Chin'83 on September 2. Andy and Karen livein New York City. In the Boston area, Di-ane Kopelman VerSchure was instrumen-tal in organizing a dinner event September28 as a tribute to Cornell athletics over theyears. In attendance from the Class of '74were Kristen Rupert from Belmont, MA,Jim Trenz from Norell, MA, Rob Swan-son from Winchester, MA, Walt Ganglfrom N. Andover, MA, and Mary Berensfrom Ithaca. Jim is president of TerraneRemediation Inc. in Scituate, MA.

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Diane reports that children Tim, 17, andKeri, 13, both had surgery this fall, Tim fora ligament in his knee and Keri for a tendonin her leg. Keri is now back on the ice, plac-ing in the New England District of the ISIA(the recreational ice skating association)competition. Diane passed along word thatNick Smith and wife Maryann Lattin-Smith '75 are back in Houston from Bel-gium. Nick is with Exxon Chemical Co.

Catheryn Obern, PhD '87, Cornell'sinternational regional director, saw Sheila"Shelley" Cosgrove DeFord last Novemberin Singapore, where Shelley is on the steer-ing committee for club efforts. Shelley, hus-band Phil, and children Nicole, 9, and Casey,6, relocated about two years ago from HongKong to Singapore. Darlene Cox is execu-tive vice president and chief nursing officer atthe Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.Darlene lives in Old Tappan, NJ. PatriciaPierson Acker is technical programs manag-er at the National Inst. for Environmental Re-newal in Mayfield, PA. Patricia lives in Nichol-son, PA. The April 1995 Ag college alumniassociation newsletter brought word of sev-eral classmates living in Upstate NY. GeraldBertoldo, DVM 77 is a partner at the AtticaVeterinary Assn., a six-person dairy practice,in Attica, NY. He is also a partner in the TiogaCentral Railroad.

Gail Marshall of Swan Lake, NY is asenior sanitarian with the NY State Dept. ofHealth and an emergency medical servicesinstructor at Sullivan County CommunityCollege. Timothy Rogers lives in Avon,NY, where he is a professional musician andactive in community theater. Francis Fuku-yama's book, Trust: The Social Virtues andthe Creation of Prosperity, was recently re-viewed in the press. Like his previous book,The End of History and the Last Man, thisone tackles the topic of social capital. Fran-cis is a senior social scientist at Rand Corp.and lives in McLean, VA. [See page 66 forword of a classmate—Ed.]

Also mentioned in the press recentlywas Charlie Henry, in conjunction with hisnew position as hotel industry consultant toPrince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia. The Artsand Entertainment channel aired a full-hourbiography of Christopher Reeve last Oc-tober in their "Biography This Week" se-ries. The program included footage of Cor-nell. Dues forms without news came fromDavid Hirschland, who lives in W. Bloom-field, MI and is a consultant in Detroit; Stan-ley Selig from Norcross, GA; and Jon andBeth Johnston Tracosas from Fairfield,CT. • Betsy Beach, 4 Thoreau Dr., Chelms-ford, MA 01824; e-mail, bbeach@mod.com.

I^m W* Dr. Fran Rosenberg Cogen ism 1 ^ an assistant professor of clinical

m ψ^k pediatrics at the U. of Chicago'sI I Wyler Children's Hospital. Hus-I I I band Phil '72 is chief of pediat-• ^ ^ ric neurosurgery there. They

have son Jonathan, 10, who is in the fifthgrade. Mary Collins is a professor of soilscience at the U. of Florida. Laurie Clem-ente Milnor is currently doing consultingwork in a hotel-industry partnership withNancy Kiesendahl Bloch '71. Laurie livesin Alton, IL with children Ashley, 11, Evan,7, and Kendell Ann, 5.

Ralph Olivier was recently reappoint-ed to a second three-year term on the NewCastle County (DE) Historic Review Board.Marsha Pilat-Davis is an architect in Larch-mont, NY. Lillian Konowitz Calish is stillworking at Winthrop Printing in South Bos-ton as manager of quality control. Daugh-ters Zoe and Abigail are 6 and 4. Her QueenAnne Victorian home turned 100 this year,and they held a centennial celebration formore than 100 guests.

H. Uwe Christiansen is currently di-rector general and CEO of The AmericanTrade Center, Moscow, a mixed-use real-estate complex serving the business needsof international travelers as well as the lo-cal business community for Americom Inc.,a California-based business center operator.The Atcom, as the center is called, has be-come the leading public affairs forum inMoscow outside the Kremlin, he says. Uweis presently awaiting final approval as thevice president of the project to begin con-struction on a similar facility in another cityin Russia.

Fern Fleckman is a social worker andpsychoanalyst in New York City. Sue Ford,PhD is an associate professor at St. John'sU. College of Pharmacy and Allied HealthProfessions. Betty Warner Fileri is an ob-stetrician/gynecologist in Pittsford, NY.

Andrew Feigin was recently promot-ed to production stage manager at Radio CityMusic Hall, where they are, as I write, pre-senting the Christmas Spectacular show.Wife Mimi Apfel (U. of Southern California'79) is Andrew's fellow stage manager. Theyhave children Benjamin, 7, and Hannah, 3,and recently moved to Huntington Stationon Long Island. He is in touch with JanHoffman, currently Metropolitan Sectioneditor of The New York Times.

Naomi Siegel Duval is an internation-al documentation liaison at Multi-Tech Sys-tems in Mounds View, MN. Paul Dubowyis an associate professor at Texas A&M U.for the wildlife and fisheries sciences depart-ment. Michael Francis spent 1975-80 inthe US Navy visiting England, Germany,Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. He pres-ently is in Wichita, KS as a software engi-neer for Boeing, working on militaryprojects. He is married to Raquel PinPin,whom he met in the Philippines, and haschildren Apryl Noel PinPin Francis, 8,Marissa Michelle PinPin Francis, 7, and CarlDouglas PinPin Francis, 4-1/2.

Heidi Kargman Hirsh lives in Hernon,VA. Kathryn Mann Horlick is a parent anda lawyer in Washington, DC. Winsor Jen-kins is a human resource executive for Polkand Talbort Inc. in Portland, OR. Joan Mil-bauer Husserl is a dietitian in Bellmore, NY.Frederick Johnson Jr. works for ChiquitaBrands in Central Point, OR.

Joan Spielberg Katz is director of nu-trition services for the Christian Health CareCenter in Wycoff, NJ. Sol Vazquez writes,"after graduating from Cornell, I earned aJD degree from the U. of Pennsylvania lawschool." He had a private practice for sevenyears, then directed community based non-profit organizations in Philadelphia. For thelast five years, he has been an administra-tor in higher education institutions, currentlyserving as equity programs coordinator at

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the chancellor's office, State System of High-er Education, Harrisburg, PA. ••• Amy Co-hen Banker, 50 E. 89th St., Apt. 24-D, NYC10128.

)^ί ^ \ I hope that you are plan-' # 1 ; ning to attend our 20th

m l^k Reunion in June. One ofI I I the biggest draws for myI I I family is the great chil-• \J dren's programming. This

allows parents to do all those "nostal- £"Sgic" things without listening to their CDkids ask if they have to walk all the C jway up that hill, again! Frederick CFakharzadeh wrote that he is in pri- H*vate practice as a hand surgeon in ^ *northern New Jersey. For the past Wseveral years, he has sponsored a Cor- Jjjjjjnell student for the winter-break ex-tern program. This helps him to keep cur-rent with what is happening on campus. Heand wife Pat had their fourth child in Octo-ber 1994. They have two girls, two boys.

Presently occupied as "Mr. Mom," gen-eral contractor, chief laborer, Vernon El-linger took a year off from the career pathto move to Wellesley, MA from Los Ange-les. In May 1995, he wrote that renovatinga house, looking after two daughters andwife Deborah was too much work! Hethought a job would be easier. Deborahworks with Jeff Levitan at the Boston Con-sulting Group. Jeff and Carol Boyle areneighbors of the Ellingers and have threedaughters. Jeff and Vernon are severely out-numbered when the families get together.Elizabeth Browne Davidson is doing wellin her unpaid career as a Masters (over-40),runner. She ran in the 95th Boston Mara-thon and plans to run in the 100th, as well.Her best distances are five and ten kilome-ters. Elizabeth trains with former Olympianand coach Laszlo Tabori. She enjoys run-ning as her hobby, especially because of hermore sedentary career in insurance.

Suzanne Avena graduated from lawschool in June 1994 and passed the NY Statebar exam. She is working as an environmen-tal attorney for Sedwick James of New YorkCity, a world-wide insurance broker, em-ployee and financial consulting service firm.Named to the post of assistant general coun-sel to the NFL Management Council, Wil-liam Briggs has shifted sides. He workedpreviously on the player side with the NFLPlayers Assn. and also represented playersin their arbitration claims. William plans tomaintain his home in Ithaca, The 'Old StoneHeap," and will continue to teach at Cornelland Penn law schools. He spends as manyweekends as possible in Ithaca and is anx-ious to have visitors (1105 TrumansburgRd.) and in NYC (at the NFL and at 249 E.48th St., #12G).

Also in Ithaca, Paula Griffin Davis andhusband Keith bought a house in the Bell Sher-man area. Paula is publicity/publications coor-dinator for the Johnson Museum of Art, andKeith is a staff writer in Cornell's universitydevelopment communications department.

Coopers & Lybrand LLP, the interna-tional professional services firm, announcedthe advancement of Michael G. French topartner in the firm's financial advisory ser-vices—hospitality and gaming practice in

August 1995. David R. Smith, who is com-missioner of health for the State of Texas,was recently named as a member of theNational Vaccine Advisory Committee.

Howard Chang, Memphis, TN, will begetting his MD degree from the U. of Ten-nessee—about 16 years later than most ofhis doctor classmates. He says, better latethan never! Any advice, career or otherwise,to this soon-to-be-MD-PhD is welcome.Howard wrote that medical school has notbeen too difficult after 15 years as a researchscientist but wonders about life as an intern.

Similarly, Orin Council left engineer-ing and chasing submarines to enter medi-cal school, also at the U. of Tennessee. Re-locating his wife, Laura, and three childrenfrom Mississippi, he is currently doing clin-ical work. Although at Cornell he workedhard to avoid medicine, he thinks it is anexciting time to get involved in this from atechnical point of view. He is interested infamily practice and sees a need for it in therural South.

Continuing her career in high-tech mar-keting, Catherine Baldwin would love tohear from her old college buddies from PiBeta Phi, Human Ecology and the rest ofthe university.

Charles "Charlie" and Amy CamardoAndersen relocated to Kalamazoo, MI fromNorthbrook, IL with their two children.Charlie was named president of Aero-Mo-tive Co., a subsidiary of Woodhead Industries.

Still holding on in the craziness of theLong Island Hamptons, Christophe Bergenis managing the venerable Maidstone ArmsInn and Restaurant. Mark Bradley is di-rector of engineering for Adaptec's Enter-prise Computing Division. He's been mar-ried 16 years, with two children, 9 and 13,lives in Boulder, CO, and commutes to workin Milpitas, CA. He writes that you can drophim a line at mark@corp.adaptec.com.

A short note from John "Jack"Bramkamp says "Married Kathy, October1993, stepchildren—Amber, Megan." Ani-ta Light Cochran chairs the planetary sci-ences division, American Astronomical So-ciety (since October 1995). She had beenelected vice chair in 1994. ••• Lisa Diamant,31 Ingleside Rd., Lexington, MA 02173.

l ^ l l ^ l I received a long letter fromm a Cathy Marschean-Spivak de-

m m scribing a wonderful summer that• • was a bit out of the norm for a• I two-career couple with two™ • school-age children. Cathy and

John sent daughters Beth and Amanda tocamp in Huntsville, AL for six weeks withtheir cousin Jenna (the daughter of FranGiaccio-Spivak and husband Gus. Cathy andFran married identical twins, making themsisters-in-law in addition to sorority sisters.)While the girls were in camp, Cathy and Johngot to know each other again. They actuallywent to the movies, restaurants withouthamburgers on the menu, to a play in NewYork City, and even had a picnic on the Hud-son River. Cathy also got to take a two-weekvacation in Provence, France and in thesouth of Spain with her mother and sister.In Spain, they rented a 600-year-old houseclose to the Mediterranean, and in Provencethey stayed in a 12th-century chateau con-

verted into a bed and breakfast. Cathy de-scribes the countryside as breathtaking, andthe food and wine as wonderful. Among thehighlights of her trip were a Picasso exhibitin Avignon and the sanitarium where Vin-cent Van Gogh did his most famous work.

Even Cathy's work sounds interesting.She works for Nabisco and recently trav-eled to Boston for the American Inst. ofWine and Food convention. One of the con-vention events was a day trip to a cranber-ry bog, sponsored by Ocean Spray. Cathyalso met up with Drew Nieporent, who hadbeen at the convention to coordinate a pri-vate cocktail party for some sponsors at JuliaChild's home.

Speaking of summer vacations, a num-ber of classmates attended Adult Universi-ty (CAU) this past summer. Sheree Levit-sky attended an ornithology class, Charlieand Kim Peters attended classes in post-Cold War Europe (Charlie) and landscapedesign (Kim), Patti Psaris attended an In-ternet class, Maggie Freeze Atkins andhusband Neil learned about the FingerLakes Trail, and Jonathan and DeborahClark Davis '78 went to "Thrills in theWild" and landscape design classes, respec-tively. A number of classes are offered inthe spring and summer. If you have any in-terest, contact CAU Director Ralph Janis'66 at (607) 255-6260.

Children of our classmates also attend-ed Cornell this summer through the Sum-mer College program. Christopher Cotter,son of Richard and Judith MaukschCotter, took calculus and computer pro-gramming classes, and participated in theEngineering Exploration Seminar. More in-formation about the summer sessions canbe acquired by calling (607) 255-6203.

I recently attended a dinner party at anew friend's house, and one of the otherguests was Seth Zarny. Talk about a smallworld! In the nearly 20 years since I hadlast seen Seth, he's gotten his MBA (fromWharton in '82), married Ellen Radish, hada daughter, Rachel, and started his own com-puter consulting business. Seth lives in Sil-ver Spring, MD.

I also heard from George Cipperly '76,who was in the Washington area on busi-ness. George now is a physicist for Lock-heed-Martin, after having spent 16 years inthe Air Force. In another small-world expe-rience, George's first experience in the AirForce was that as he arrived on the base inLubbock, TX, the first person he saw wasNancy McCune Lovell '76 (Nancy's hus-band Jeff '75 was in the Air Force). George,wife Ariel, and their two sons live in a town-house in the midst of a bird sanctuary inValley Forge, PA. George also stays in touchwith Diane Nafis, who is living in Corval-lis, OR after many years in Hawaii, andGreg Garbinsky '76, who lives in Darnes-town, MD.

Bill Nye sent in a News and Dues formlisting his occupation as "writer." Well,those of us with children know him as the"Science Guy." Bill is located in Seattle,WA, where he produces a nationally syndi-cated television show, "Bill Nye the ScienceGuy." Bill says the show is going great, andthat he stays in touch with John Olsen. Healso says, "Engineering rules!"

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We also received a form from BrookeSchumm, another Engineering graduatedoing something else professionally. Brookeis an attorney with Daneker, Mclntire &Davis, PC in Baltimore, MD, a new firmwhich spun off from Semmes, Bowen andSemmes. He is doing patent law as bank-ruptcy work thins out. Brooke*has childrenEmily, 4, and Rebecca, 2. He and his familylive in an old, historic house which has re-quired a lot of work, most of which is justabout done.

Scott Jackson's comment on his Newsand Dues form last year was an unfortu-nate sign of our times. Scott is a chemicalengineer for DuPont in Wilmington, DE. Hesaid, "I haven't (yet) been laid off from Du-Pont." (Well, Scott, here's hoping that's stilltrue!) Scott is married to Elaine (Zajac)'78, and they live in Kennett Square, PA.We have news from one more engineer: JeffEarickson earned his PhD in civil engi-neering in August 1993 from the U. of Ala-bama, in Tuscaloosa. Last year he visitedAcacia brother Dan Merrill '83, who livesin Seattle, WA. ••• Lorrie Panzer Rudin,14833 Botany Way, N. Potomac, MD 20878.

I O ( ^ ^ Since we made our move toi l I Phoenix this past summer, it's

m \ # become a lot harder to run into• Γ \ fellow Cornellians than it was in• I I New Jersey. That, however, has• ^ ^ not stopped me from trying! If

you're out here, give me a call. And friends(you know who you are), please come visitus in the Valley of the Sun. Speaking of thegood life, Michael Merriman writes fromNapa, CA that he is corporate beverage man-ager for the 14-restaurant California Cafechain. He is currently working on a newconcept, a brewpub, to open in Indianapolisand invites his classmates to stop by.

Kathy Stuerzebecher Johnson ofMontgomery, AL is finishing up a year ofAir Command and Staff College with the AirForce. She was recently promoted to therank of commander, and her next assign-ment will be in the Office of Women's Poli-cy in Washington, DC. Also in the South isLillian Shoemaker, Lexington, KY, whoowns and manages two thoroughbred horsefarms. She is currently expanding into in-ternational markets, selling yearlings in Ire-land, England, and soon Australia.

Curtis and Lorraine Nicholas Anas-tasio have lived in Montreal since the sum-mer of 1992. Curtis works as vice presidentof supply and shipping for Ultramar Canada,a petroleum refining and marketing compa-ny. Lorraine is taking a break from practic-ing law to run the household and take careof Michael, 13, and twins Daniel and Jessi-ca, both 6. Curtis tells us that they still owna home in southern Connecticut and maysomeday get back to the New York City area.

Andrew Seiden happily reports that heleft his law partnership, trading in suits forjeans, last February to become vice presi-dent of business affairs and general counselfor a multimedia developer and publishercalled Big Top Productions. The company'snewest title for kids of all ages stars an oldfavorite, Felix the Cat. Paul Schmitt ofNarragansett, RI is a senior systems engi-neer working on command and control de-

Bill Nye lists his

occupation as

'writer.'Well,

those of us with

children know him

as the 'Science

Guy/

-LORRIE PANZER RUDIN '77

sign for a new attack submarine at Ameri-can Systems Corp. He has two stepchildren,and in his spare time is working on finishingoff the second floor of their house. PeggyFrischer Schwartz is president and ownerof Kelsy Group Inc., a manufacturer of betterchildren's apparel based in Manhattan. She ismarried and has daughter Erin, 10.

New to the Houston area is PaulaChandler Schlesinger, who just joinedKelsey Seybold Clinic as a pediatrician. Sheand husband Alan, a pediatric radiologist, havechildren Katie, 10, Jack, 8, and Madeline, 4.Brenda Stejskal Munch of Penfield, NY isone of what seems to be a significant num-ber of classmates who are "trying to see howmany jobs I can hold that I don't get paidfor." (She adds that the jobs, which rangefrom Girl Scout leader to Sunday schoolteacher, may not pay money but the bene-fits are immeasurable.) She and Bill '76 havebeen married for 17 years and are enjoyingElizabeth, 9, and James, 6. Donald Morris,who has lived in the Boston area since 1982,is a reconstructive plastic surgeon with BethIsrael Hospital. He and his wife Suzanne havechildren, ages 3, 5, and 7.

In other parts of the world, LeonardKaplan lives in Arad, a small town in south-ern Israel. He works in marketing for a com-pany which manufactures magnesia chemi-cals from the waters of the Dead Sea. Heand wife liana, a special education teacher,have sons 13 and 10, and a 1-1/2-year-olddaughter. Classmates in the area are invitedto get in touch!

On a concluding note, Damon Wei, E.Brunswick, NJ, is married with three chil-dren and tells us he has had the good for-tune to travel around the world severaltimes. He writes, "I have come to appreci-ate what both the USA and Cornell havedone for me. I'm sure I would not have hadthe same opportunities were I to be in an-other country or attend a different, 'lesser'institution of higher learning." • EileenBrill Wagner, 4649 W. Carla Vista Dr., Chan-dler, AZ 85226; Henry Farber, 6435 289thAve., SE, Issaquah, WA 98027; Pepi Leids,7021 Bootjack Rd., Bath, NY 14810; Sharon

Palatnik Simoncini, 310 Vesta Ct., Ridge-wood, NJ 07450. Lori Wasserman Karbel,20 Northfield Gate, Pittsford, NY 14534;Andre Martecchini, 110 Heritage Lane,Duxbury, MA 02332.

1^ί^\ Mary Wilensky Kahn is veryI I I active in the Cornell Club of

I β l Greater Philadelphia, interview-• ^Λ ing prospective students for theI I I Alumni Admissions Ambassador• V / Network (CAAAN). She would

love to get together with alumni moving tothe area or those already there. She andhusband Stuart just celebrated their 11thanniversary. They have daughters Marissa,9, and Jackie, 7, who are looking forward toattending Cornell someday. They took agreat trip in 1994 to Wyoming and Colorado,where they spent time at a dude ranch, trav-eled through the national parks, and white-water rafted on the Snake River.

Also living in Philadelphia are Barry Zir-ing, MD and wife Deborah, also an MD. Theyare the proud parents of Jeremy and DanielSteven, who was born on Sept. 22, '94.

Dr. Julie L. Jones is practicing familymedicine in Millersville, PA. She has beenthere for ten years, and is pleased to seesome of her babies now in the fourth grade.She is active in the Cornell Club of Lancas-ter, where she had plans to lead a group ona canoe trip down the Delaware River thissummer. She and husband Rick Zook havedaughter Katy, 7, and son Alex, 4. They vis-ited fellow Cornellians Judy Gelber andDale Feuer in Washington, DC, and stillfeel that old friends are the best friends.

Daniel E. Muser practices orthopedicsin eastern Pennsylvania and lives in LaurysStation. He is a dad to Kaila, 2, Justin, 5,and Kirsten, 7. He would love to hear fromGreg "Paisan" Payne. Susan Feigin Kirsh-ner writes that she enjoys her work as aphysical therapist at West Jersey Rehabili-tation in Voorhees, NJ. She and husbandSteve, an orthopedic surgeon, have childrenGabriel, 9, Rachel, 6, and a younger daughter,2-1/2. The children keep the family very busywith school and extra-curricular activities.

Living in Colts Neck, NJ is ShariWatchman-Kates and husband Eric '78,DVM '81. Shari practices matrimonial lawpart time and is mom to Alexander, 8, Mitch-ell, 5, and Jaclyn, 2. Her law partner, EdRosen '66, has a daughter, Rachel '96, inthe Hotel school. Shari's former roommateCindy Safier Lehrer is married to a lawyerwho practices in the same office as Shari.The Lehrers have a son, Joshua, 18 months.They all had a great time at a local Cornellpicnic for incoming freshmen whom they hadinterviewed, and it felt like one big Cornellfamily.

James P. Petri moved to Cazenovia,NY in 1994. He is a senior vice president inthe agricultural division for Key Bank inSyracuse. The Petris have children Hannah,16, Sam, 13, and Carolyn, 11. Leslie Lewitlives in Glen Oaks, NY with son Jacob, 3.She finds raising a child as a single parentis the toughest and most rewarding job she'sever had. She's also a Dale Carnegie instruc-tor, and has had fellow Cornellians as classmembers occasionally. She is still activelyinvolved in the design world and does con-

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suiting work for condo, home, and apartmentowners. She would love to stay in touch withold friends and meet new friends, and in-vites singles, moms and dads, to form a NewYork City play group by contacting her at264-17 73rd Ave., Glen Oaks, NY 11004.

Tim and Linda Minton live in NYC withdaughter Rachel, who was born on Hallow-een in 1992. David and Michele Krulee livein Elmwood, CT with Michael, 4, and a sec-ond child born in March 1995. David recentlycompleted a two-year fellowship in child andadolescent psychiatry at the Inst. of Livingin Hartford, and has accepted a position atElmerest Hospital.

Recently promoted to director of cre-ative services at Actmedia is Debora R.Yowell. Actmedia is an in-store advertisingcompany in Norwalk, CT. Debora has re-cently moved to 14 Chestnut Hill Rd., Stam-ford, CT.

Helene Sheinfeld Lindenfeld writesthat she is living in Venezuela, but still main-tains a New York home. She would love tohear from anyone visiting Venezuela at Ed-ificio Altozano 1-2A, Calle A con C, LasMesetas de Sta. Rosa de Lima, Caracas. Alsoliving abroad are Roger A. Kacou, MPS'79 and his family, which includes sonsSteeve-Olivier, Eric, Franck-Alcide, andHerve-Alberic. Roger is regional vice presi-dent of operations for West and Central Af-rica with Inter-Continental Hotels. He isbased in Abidjan, Cote DΊvoire, where healso lives. His work requires a lot of travel-ing, and he would love to meet alumni alongthe way. He also owns a house in La Ro-chelle, on the Atlantic coast of France, wherehe spends his yearly vacation with his fami-ly and has some time to play golf.• Kathleen Zappia Gould, 912 Mead-owcreek Dr., Richmond, VA 23236; CindyAhlgren Shea, Cattle Walk, PO Box 1413,E. Hampton, NY 11937.

Remember when you used to gohome from Cornell at Thanks-giving with a deadline on the fol-lowing Monday for a paper, andyou hadn't even thought aboutwhat you were going to do?

Well, deja vul This, like all class columns, iswritten several months in advance of publi-cation, and I find myself post-Turkey Daywith leftover turkey and leftover news.

A special welcome and invitation tomany of you reading this magazine and thiscolumn for the first time in a while. Thisissue is being sent to virtually all membersof the Class of '80, subscribers and non-sub-scribers alike. We invite you to become aduespaying, magazine-receiving member ofthe class. You will receive ten issues annu-ally of Cornell Magazine with its excellentarticles, along with school, sports, and newsupdates, and, the most widely-read sectionof the magazine, Class Notes. The length ofour column depends on two things: the num-ber of duespaying subscribers and news avail-able. So please, send in your News and Dues.

Lawrence M. Ockene recently soldhis business in Boston, moved to Seattle,and joined Microsoft in a group that is "de-fining the next generation multi-media en-vironment for PCs and set-top boxes." As Isit and type this on my dinosaur Macintosh,

I can only guess that he has something todo with Windows 95. I read that Lester B.Knight, formerly executive vice presidentat Baxter International, was selected to headBaxter's yet-to-be-named cost-managementbusiness.

A "howdy" from Theon C. Smith, whoconfesses, "I'm just now getting involvedwith Cornell again. It started with an im-promptu visit to the Hill last August. Thesights have changed somewhat, but the feel-ings, memories, and 'secret' walkways havenot." Welcome back, Theon! A more-planned visit to Ithaca came when TerriAnnLowenthal and her family converged on Ith-aca last May to see her dad, Mort Low-enthal '53, receive the first Frank H.T.Rhodes Alumni Award. After 14 years as acongressional staff member, most recentlyas chief of staff to Rep. Tom Sawyer of Ohio,TerriAnn is moving on to private practiceas a partner in a Washington, DC govern-ment relations firm. Her goal: spending moretime with daughter Joelle, 6.

Stephen E. Kohn is a senior vice presi-dent in a management consulting firm special-izing in human resources, and Judy E.Nathan is now the deputy general counsel offamily support administration at the NYC Hu-man Resources Commission. Previously shehad worked with Robin Price '81, MarilynTrautfield Sugarman '81, and Roy Esnard'86. Her neighbor and fellow Gold's Gymmember is Bob C. Epstein. Pump it up, Ep!

Elizabeth Higgs Newton reports thather next-door neighbor freshman year inDickson Hall (and later, housemate on Col-lege Ave.) Diana Dickason wed Tim Car-roll last June in Ithaca. And Elizabeth, her-self, was wed, to Joseph Clarke Newton inSeptember 1993. They reside in the BayArea. Diana's wedding presented Elizabetha great opportunity to show Joseph that"Cornell has not lost its magic!"

Happy spring! ••• Brian P. Myers, 2679Amesbury Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27103;Carolyn Louie, 606 Magnolia St., Winder-mere, FL 34786; Eric Meren, 50 Sutton PI.,S., NYC 10022; Jodie Diehl Nestle, 80 Ta-lamora Trail, Brockport, NY 14420.

^ \ <4 Winter is just about over as

I I I y° u rea<^ ^ s ' a nd it's time\ ^ I to think warm, happy| | I thoughts . . . like summerI I I in Ithaca! Our 15th Reunion\ # Ά is three months away, on

the weekend of June 6-9. Hope to see .Hjyou there. In the meantime, keep ^sending us your news. _*<

We have two Pepsi-Cola repre- P""1

sentatives in the class. First, James £ jDestefano is a vice president of h-Jmanufacturing in Clifton Park, NY. Jim φand wife Christine have children Lind- h j!sey, 9, Erin, 7, and Jim Jr., 4. Jim's broth- '""""̂er Pete is a Cornell varsity football assistantcoach. At Reunion, Jim would like to see analumni lacrosse game or ice hockey game. InBoca Raton, FL, Kenneth Dipietro is a vicepresident of human resources for Pepsi In-teramericana. Kenny and wife Rosann alsohave three children—Calla Adriana, 6, andtwins Nicholas and Evan, 4. With Pepsi, Ken-ny travels extensively throughout Mexico, theCaribbean, and Central and South America.

Nathan Comisar writes that all is wellwith him and his family in Terrace Park, OH.He now has four children, having addedChristopher in January 1995. Dr. SarahMurray White lives in Annapolis, MD withher family, including children Cameron, 6,and Margot Leigh, 1. Steven and ClaudiaPerry Schwartz '85 reside in Glencoe, ILwith their three children. Steve is now pres-ident of the Club Authority, which operates31 health clubs in 14 states. Steve writesthat he recently visited David Udell '82 inTokyo, where Dave is general manager ofthe Park Hyatt Tokyo.

In Plymouth, MA, Yun K. Ko is a soft-ware engineer in the simulator group at Bos-ton Edison. Yun is also studying at BostonU., pursuing a degree in computer science.He and his wife have a daughter Eva, 4.Mark Gilbert recently wrote us a nice let-ter saying that he had re-subscribed to Cor-nell Magazine. Having received an MBAfrom Yale, Mark now resides in Greenwich,CT and works in Stamford as a technologyconsultant with Gartner Group. Mark staysin touch with Aron Steck '87, BS ILR '88and Adam Dubroff '82.

Living in E. Meadow, NY, Duane Sa-dowski is a computer programmer for NewYork City's Criminal Justice Agency. Duaneearned his MS in computer science fromHofstra U. Also in NYC, Beth Portnoi Shawis busy with children Melanie, 4, and twinsJaclyn and Jonathan born in February 1995.Beth stays in touch with Karen Effros andSolange Cohen. Beth is thrilled that So-lange has moved back to NYC after spend-ing nine years in Chicago, and is working atSaks Fifth Avenue again. Robin Price, anassistant attorney general in the New YorkCity Litigation Bureau, recently marriedDonald Powell, director of the industrial rat-ings group at Fitch Investors Service Inc.Robin stays in touch with Sharon Ray-mond Haensly, Judy Nathan '80, SuzanneKalfus '80, and Bob Epstein '80.

In Rye, NY, Margaret Seiter liveswith husband Mark Alimena (a Columbiagrad) and daughters Stephanie, 3, andNicole, 1. A fellow of the Casualty ActuarialSociety, Peggy works as a vice presidentfor Atrium Corp., a reinsurance brokerowned by Swiss ReAmerica. Nanette Fon-das relocated to Cary, NC, having joined thefaculty at the Fuqua School of Business atDuke U. Nanette's husband accepted a po-sition as vice president of worldwide mar-keting at IBM's network hardware division.

That's all for now. See you in June!• Kathy Philbin LaShoto, 114 HarringtonRd., Waltham, MA 02154; Jennifer ReadCampbell, 14824 Hunting Path PL, Centre-ville, VA 22020; and Robin Rosenberg, 18Crescent Lane, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.

^ \ ^ | Cynthia Cooper Gorlick isI I I proud to report that husband An-\ # m drew is a founding partner ofII # Mysak, Gorlick, Kravitz & List-I I I j haus, a New York City law firm^ ^ β " specializing in labor law, ERISA,litigation, and general practice. RichardBerkowitz wrote that Phil Rosenberg par-ticipated in a case that received a successfulERISA ruling by the US Supreme Court.Craig Wheeler was elected vice president of

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the Boston Consulting Group; he is seniormember of the firm's health care practice.Ahni Margenau Kruger received a New Jer-sey Fellowship for printmaking from the NewJersey State Council on the Arts. Joe Alle-gro was promoted to deputy director of con-struction for the Central Artery TunnelProject in Boston. Congratulations to all.

Bob Hollands took a new job as di-rector of sales and marketing for the USoperations of a German company in thesemiconductor equipment industry and isnow in the Phoenix, AZ area. Eric Aron-son is looking for classmates in Maine; hejoined the clinical staff and faculty of theFamily Inst. of Maine in Portland, wherehe practices marital and family therapy andteaches and supervises beginning familytherapists. Importantly, he is helping to de-velop programs in domestic-violence inter-vention and for families affected by HIV.

Miriam Honore Akabas announcedthe birth of her son Eli Akabas Kaminsky,and the birth of nephew Reuben Issac Aka-bas, born to her brother Myles '77. Miri-am earned her MA in economics from NewYork U. and an MA in teaching mathemat-ics from Teachers College, Columbia U. Sheis department head of computer science atthe Chapin School, a private school for girlson Manhattan's East Side, where FranStillman '64 hired her and is her mentor.

Jill Schwartz and Gary Heiman arethrilled to announce the birth of CarliMarisa, born last March. Karen GochmanAbrahams reported that news, along withher own as "No major lifetime events—liv-ing in suburbia (New Jersey), have 2.2 kids(the extra .2 is their Norwegian au pair) andam looking forward to Reunion 1997!"More babies . . . Mike and Liz AksionoffSalshutz proudly announce the birth ofKaren Michelle, also born last March, join-ing sister Emily. Cathy Pentick Kempfsent news of the birth of Katharine WeaverKempf in August 1994, and Anand Jhaveriwrote from Bombay, India of the birth ofson Ishaan in September 1994. Dr. Chris-topher Steffes's latest news: John Chris-topher was born last June in Ann Arbor, MI.Christopher is an assistant professor at WayneState U. in the Department of Surgery.

Please remember to tell us about yourbaby news after the birth! • Nina M. Kon-do, 323 W. 82nd St., NYC 10024; and NeilFidelman Best, 207 Dellwood Rd., Metu-chen, NJ 08840.

After almost two years as a spe-cial assistant to US Secretary ofLabor Robert Reich, Seth Har-ris has been appointed to serveas the deputy assistant secretaryof labor for policy. He will con-

tinue to serve as a policy and legal advisorto Secretary Reich on a host of issues, in-cluding increasing the minimum wage, im-migration, and issues affecting organizedlabor. Seth works with several Cornellians,including Leslie Loble '78, StephanieSwirksy '76, and Joe Scantlebury '84.

Also working for the government, CariSherman Enav is a foreign service officerwith the US State Dept., assigned to TelAviv. She is married and has children Eli,3, and Gil, 16 months. Chuck Artymovich

sends news that he, wife Jody, and sonsNick, 8, and Alex, 5, still live in Weather-ford, TX, where Chuck works for Lockheed/Martin and flies simulators and supports in-ternational marketing efforts. MargaretDegidio Murphy writes that she and hus-band Ken have children Kevin, 3 1/2, Brian,2, and Meaghan, 4 months. Margaret hasbeen the women's ice hockey coach atBrown for the past six years. Lynn Sari-son reports from San Ramon, CA that sheis marketing manager for a computer com-pany in the Silicon Valley. She shares ahousehold with her husband, two lovelystep-daughters, and a cat named Sam.

Paula Whitney Skrotzki '84 writesfrom Lahaina, HI that she and husband Rein-hard had a son, Erich Heinz Peter Skrotzki,born in September 1995, weighing in at al-most eight pounds. Joy Gaylinn Reiden-berg and husband Bruce '81, MD '85 sendnews that daughter Ariella Gayle was bornin July 1994. Ariella joins sister Danielle andlives with her family in Montclair, NJ. BethLittman Josephson writes from Merrick,NY that her newest arrival, Leanne, joinsbrothers Zachary, 6, and Ian, 4. LeanneWeinberger Swallwood had a seconddaughter, Samantha, in May 1995. Rachelis 3-1/2. Leanne is now a stay-at-homemother in E. Windsor, NJ.

Michelle Wildi DaValle writes that shehas 10-month-old son Austin and lives in

Lake Forest, IL. Michelle shares news thatclassmate Karen Wright has been living inLondon the last several years, but is con-templating a move to Nairobi. Michelle at-tended the wedding of Jenifer Michelsonin Philadelphia, along with Paul March,Karen Carruthers, and Bill Henry '82.

Kim McCormick became a mother inOctober 1994 with the birth of Claire Mc-Cormick Bradham. Kim is finishing her sec-ond year as a science teaching specialist forthe Albemarle County, VA, school district.From Glen Ellyn, IL, Hans Williamson hasa new job with the Levy Restaurants as cor-porate director of purchasing. Hans is verybusy supporting the opening of the firm'ssecond DIVE! concept in Las Vegas.

Alyssa Quinn Feeney writes that sheand husband Paul love living in Vermontwith sons Connor, 3, and Kevin, 1. BothAlyssa and Paul work for IBM. Dina Wolf-man Baker accepted a position in Septem-ber 1994 as assistant director of communi-cations at CIGNA Corp. She reports that sheand husband Brad took a trip to Portugalthat November to celebrate their ten-yearanniversary. Dina and Brad enjoy life withtheir kids in Wyncote, PA. Dan Macklerand wife Cindy recently moved to Ft. Lau-derdale, FL with sons David, 7, and Mat-thew, 2-1/2. Dan is an attorney with Gun-ster Yoakley Valdes-Fauli & Stewart, P.A.Also in Florida, Sue Novak Morris writes

Class of 1981Join us for our

15th REUNIONJune 6-9,1996

Be part of it. . .

contact Reunion Co-ChairsLisa Niίsson Gabler at 310.943.0618

Heidi Fleishman at 718.515.4992

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PlannersWilliam C. Dietsche '84, BArch '85 and Gilbert A. Rosenthal '74, BArch '75

T en years separate Cornell architectsGilbert A. Rosenthal and William C."Chuck" Dietsche, but they have

one major trait in common: when they tackle aproject, people take notice.

Dietsche, below, who lives in Wilmington, NC,recently won a Southern Home Award for the workhe and partner John Stowe did on Flora's Bluff, acommunity on Bald Head Island, NC. SouthernLiving magazine, which sponsors the awards, saysthe development "blends regional heritage withinnovative featuresto create out-standing design."

The teamworked from theconcept of a1920s beachfrontretreat to createthe 26-dwellingvillage, which in-cludes boardwalksand an ocean viewfor every cottage."We tucked ourhouses into the dunes," says Dan Costa, a memberof Dietsche's design team. "We wanted to makeFlora's Bluff feel as if it had happened graduallyover time, instead of overnight." Dietsche runs hisown firm, Chuck Dietsche Consulting, in Wilmington.

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Rosenthal's firm, Wallace Roberts & Todd ofPhiladelphia, has also been in the headlines re-cently, garnering a citationin the 42nd P/A Awardssponsored by ProgressiveArchitecture magazine forexcellence in architectureand urban design. Theirredevelopment scheme forthe Richard Allen Homes inPhiladelphia involved con-verting 1,324 one- andtwo-bedroom apartmentsinto rowhouse units.

"They've realized theproblem is not just thehouse," says EmanuelKelly, a P/A juror. "You have to have a job, anddaycare so that people can get job training. They'relooking at what it is that enables you to becomemore of a contributing part of the community." TheDepartment of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) has recognized the design as a nationalmodel and has approved $50 million in funding forthe project.

The Richard Allen Homes were scheduled tobegin construction in the fall of 1995, and Flora'sBluff is already on the map. Dietsche andRosenthal, however, are both doing what they dobest: building the future.

—Amanda L. Wagenman '93

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from Orlando that she has worked andplayed for the last 6-1/2 years at Epcot, WaltDisney World, engineering plant-growingsystems at the Land Agricultural Pavilion.Sue has been happily married to husbandJeff, PhD '91 for five years.

Susan Spinola Sabins sends news fromSpring Lake Heights, NJ that she works asdirector of human resources for USLIFECorp. Susan and husband Tim have childrenColette, 3, and Hunter, 2. Patsy DanehyCatsos makes and sells pottery and givespottery lessons in Cape Elizabeth, ME. Pat-sy has children Christy, 7, Mike, 5, andLaura, 2. Husband Paul '82 practices lawwith Thompson & Bowie in Portland, ME.

Gary Bullis reports in from Beltsville,MD, where he owns and operates BullseyeEnterprise, a sole proprietorship/ad specialtydistributor specializing in custom imprintedand embroidered sportswear. Gary marriedwife Marisa in April 1992 and has been assist-

ing the local high-school wrestling team forthe past four years. Gary and Marisa cruisethe Chesapeake Bay aboard their 28-foot Carv-er whenever they can. Speaking of sailboats,Bob Bartosh is currently looking for a 40-foot sailboat. Bob lives in Attleboro, MA andin June 1995 celebrated 12 years of employ-ment with Texas Instruments, where heserves as an integrated business team leader.• Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 Elmcrest Cir.,Ithaca, NY 14850; also Matthew Tager,14055 Tahiti Way, #208, Marina del Rey, CA90292; fax, (310) 305-8877.

Pat Hindle's son Sean Patrickcelebrated his 1st birthday lastOctober. Sean is Pat's first child.Pat's been working at Massa-chusetts Inst. of Technology inthe Center for Space Research

for about a year and a half, using semicon-ductor processing to manufacture a X-ray

diffraction grating for a space telescope pro-gram. Pat reports that Henry Hendriksstill works at Raytheon, and they get togeth-er occasionally for golf or skiing. He has alsoheard from Dave Terris, who is on themedical staff at Stanford.

Rich Logan earned his PhD in phys-ics from Georgia Tech last September. Af-ter that, he went job-hunting in Atlanta.Capt. Cedric Leighton (US Air Force) isworking in San Angelo, TX and finishing uphis master's degree in international studies.

Christine Nitzsche, MBA '91 marriedTim Ruggles on Sept. 15, '95 in Seattle.(Tim has a Cornell connection: grandfatherArthur G. Ruggles '01!) The reception washeld two days later at the Cornell Club—New York. It was a very small wedding, butlots of Cornellians attended, including (inSeattle): Deirdre Boak, MBA '89; KarenNorth, MBA '90; Waqar Nasim, MBA'91; Dennis Kaill, MBA '91; John Mc-

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Dowell, MHA HE '91. In NYC, attendeeswere: Evelyn Manz '83; Mary Kubli '83;Noelle Krupin; Alea Fairchild '85; DelGovia Bisha '86; Bob J. Davis, PhD '91;Erica Barnes Bernard, MBA '90; CyrusCopeland, MBA '90; Scott Taylor, MBA'90; Tomoko Morinaga, MS Ag '91; andPatty A. Thomas, MBA '9*1. Tim andChristine honeymooned in Europe beforereturning home to Seattle.

Madeline Youmans married AdrianFeuchtwanger of Winchester, England inSept. 1993. The couple was married in LasVegas but didn't have a honeymoon until thispast summer, when they spent a month inCorsica and England. The Feuchtwangerslive in Long Beach, CA, where Madeline isa special faculty member at the U. of South-ern California Language Academy, andwhere she also teaches a graduate class onteaching English as a second language writ-ing to adults. She completed her PhD in ap-plied linguistics at USC in 1995.

Elizabeth Pagiotas Donovan lives inRavena, NY with her husband and son Bren-dan. Elizabeth is a social worker for the Vet-erans Administration. Nome and LindaPrach Cruz have a new addition to theirfamily. Alexander Prach Cruz was born onMay 30, '95, joining brother Sonny (now 4)as another potential Cornellian and GleeClubber. J. Keith Kefgen is working inNew York City as a hotel consultant. Keithformed a new subsidiary of HVS ExecutiveSearch, providing compensation surveys tothe hospitality industry, including interac-tive databases of competitive salaries.

Daniel Caloras and wife Sheila recent-ly moved from Pittsburgh to Springfield, VT,where both are general-practice physicians.Michelle Rossi and husband Stephen Con-well took a trip to China last year. Michellewrites that they saw all the usual sights, in-cluding the Great Wall, the Forbidden City,the Yangtze River gorges, and the terracot-ta warriors of Xiang. Although the Chinesefood was good, by the end of the tripMichelle longed for a good steak. BonnieGrambow Campbell is living in Cortland withhusband Scott. She recently completed a three-year residency in small-animal surgery at theU. of Wisconsin's veterinary medical teachinghospital. She is now back at Cornell, gettingher PhD at the Veterinary college. When notstudying, she can be found playing the trom-bone with the Ithaca Ageless Jazz Band, a20-piece "big band." [See also page 14, No-vember 1995 Cornell Magazine.—Ed. ]

Margaret Heidle Siderides and hus-band Elliot live in New Canaan, CT. Mar-garet works as an attorney for Elliot's de-sign/building firm. When they wrote lastyear, the Siderides had sons John, 6, and An-drew, 4. • Guy Donatiello, 321 N. IthanAve., Rosemont, PA 19010; e-mail,gdonatello@aol.com; also Karla SieversMcManus, 1465 Hooksett Rd., #299, Hook-sett, NH 03106; e-mail, klorax@aol.com.

Greetings! Let's get right to thelatest news of our classmates. AsI just purchased a home, realestate is near and dear to myheart. Thus, classmates tied intoreal estate, land, architecture,

etc. include real estate broker Jill Jarvis in

Rye, NH; architects Timothy "TJ." Cos-tello in New York City and Allan Shulmanin Miami Beach, FL; and landscape contrac-tor James Price in Naples, NY. Similarly,Charles Rosenzweig is into real estate in-vestment banking and finance in NYC.

Managers can be found in abundanceamong '85ers. In NY State, Suzanne Grayis a product manager with Graphic ControlsMedical Products in Buffalo and KennethEntenmann is an investment manager inSyracuse. In the Big Apple are portfoliomanagers Jill Shaffro McGovern and Tra-cy Uyehara, support manager Brian Hale,and Leslie Nydick, a facilities manager withRadio City Music Hall. Leslie writes thatshe manages numerous restoration and con-struction projects in the Music Hall. Perksof the job include being behind the scenesduring the MTV and ESPY award programs,and other Music Hall events. Fun!

Helene Schwartz Bubel is a sales sup-port/personnel manager with J.C. Penney.William Goldy is an international market-ing manager in Stamford, CT. In Virginia,Lynne Buchanan Cordary is a programmanager. In the Pacific Northwest we findmarketing manager Kimberly Emerson, inOregon; and product manager with Mi-crosoft Corp. Francine "Fran" Margolis,just outside of Seattle. Fran keeps in touchwith Kathleen Bailey, who just had a babyboy, Peter Andrew.

Close to my home are PatriciaBrowne, a regional manager with BaxterInternational in Englewood, CO, and JohnGabel Jr., a general manager of distribu-tion with Capstone Electronics in Aurora,CO. Jennifer Rossman is a training anddevelopment manager in San Francisco. Alsoin California are Franklyn Farace, an ac-count manager in Seal Beach, AndrewInkeles, an engineering manager in Hun-tington Beach, and Lt. Eric Stallworth, aterritory manager in Cerritos. In Sacramen-to, Deborah McKee Johnson is programmanager of an adolescent sex offender pro-gram, where she houses incarcerated juve-nile offenders in the California Youth Au-thority facility.

Directors of marketing include EugeneChen in Laguna Hills, CA and Tiscia Eich-er in Chicago. Timothy Petty is a directorof business development in New Jersey.Naomi Weinstein is an alumni directorwith Riverdale County Schools in the Bronx.And abroad we have John Monhardt, a dis-trict director of Radisson Hotels in Sweden.

Okay, it's time for marital news. Ortho-pedic surgeon Howard "Howie" Gelb mar-ried nurse Elice on April 1, '95. (Okay, howmuch harassment do you get for gettingmarried on April Fools' Day?) Howie cur-rently lives and practices in Florida. Man-agement consultant Maria Gallo marriedBradley Ashbrook on Oct. 8, '94 in SageChapel. In addition to the eight Cornelliansin Maria's immediate family, alumni in at-tendance were Michael '86 and MaggieMcNamara Jackson '86; Janet Elie '86;Charlie Lyons '86; Shelley Kaplan '86;John Nickles '86; and Sam Nam, in spir-it. Direct from the April 1995 New YorkTimes weddings lists comes news of themarriage of Maureen Sherry to StevenKlinsky.

Attorney Brynn Goldenberg Peltzwrites that she was a pregnant bridesmaidat the wedding of Lauren Cuthbert andDavid Robinson in January 1995. Also at-tending were Ann Vasile, Brian Quinn,and Anne Cook. Brynn goes on to tell usthat she missed our 10th Reunion becauseof the birth of daughter Stephanie on June9! No doubt Stephanie's a future Cornellian.

More birth announcements: StephenGarrison is proud to announce the birth ofhis second daughter, Kristy Lee. School psy-chologist Ron Handelman has a seconddaughter, Alyssa. Mark Sheraden reportsof the birth of daughter Alyssa Nicole. Thestork brought daughter Alexandra Jordan tosenior purchasing manager of Procter &Gamble Dawn Viapiano Bierschwal; sonJake, to Scott Taber; son James Christo-pher, to Sophia Yik Fong; and son Christo-pher Meecham, to John Darley. Timothy'84 and Carolyn Hargraves Cassidy areproud parents of new daughter Sarah Jen-nings and 3-year-old Timmy.

We would love to hear from you. Pleasesend your news our way. ••• Linda. M.Messinger, DVM, 2401S. Downing St., Den-ver, CO 80210-5811; also Lisa M. Blue-stein, PO Box 595, Croton Falls, NY 10519.

A few classmates who maynot want you to diet after ]the binges of the holidayseason are those who Iwork in, with, or aroundfood. At last word, Col-

leen Hurd was venturing into Teu- *tonic gastronomies with the German \(vPantry, a German restaurant, grocery, IΓ^deli, and gift shop she owns and oper- j Kates with a friend in Norfolk, VA. Ivan |h 3Matsunaga is making dough for Con- :J^ *nie's Pizza in the Chicago area, while | OJonathan Kent works at Clearwater rtCafe in Pasadena. Geriann GraveFisher is still a nutritionist at Winthrop U.Hospital on Long Island; she married Chris-topher, an environmental attorney, in Au-gust 1994 in the presence of Susan Stur-gess, Lisa Feidler, and Elyssa Katz Hurl-but. Finally, Brian Schwab works forFreshfields in Paris, France. This may notbe the same as Fresh Fields, the "good foryou foods" grocery chain, but in the logic ofthis column the company name qualifies himfor a listing with the other food groupies.

Amy Kates and Alissa Stern, room-mates for all four undergraduate years, lostweight quickly when they gave birth to theirsons, Malik Ben Saric and Marcus SternBoorstin, three weeks apart this past Au-gust and September, respectively. Amy, along-time city planner, is now a managementconsultant (and mom) in New York City,while Alissa is a lawyer-consultant (andmom) in the Washington, DC area. "Themothers," Alissa writes, "are already plan-ning their sons' Cornell graduation party."

Jack Kendall wrote to say that afterfive years at Andersen Consulting he gaveup accumulating US Air miles in favor ofspending time with wife Mary Ann in Vir-ginia Beach. Jack "now owns a ski boat(guests welcome), lives on a golf course, andis the financial planning manager for theVacation Store, which sells packaged vaca-

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tions and is owned by the same companythat owns the Weather and Travel Chan-nels." He invites everybody to "call 1 (800)887-9887 for the lowest travel prices, or justto say hello."

Toby Goldsmith wrote to say that inOctober 1994 she married Nathan "Andy"Shapira (an Emory man and Vanderbilt MD-PhD) at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville,where their first dance was a Tennesseetwo-step. After Toby completed her chiefresidency in psychiatry at Vanderbilt, thetwo moved to the greater Cincinnati area,where she has joined a small group psychi-atric practice just over the border in Ken-tucky. "Happily, we'll be living only 30 min-utes from my former roommate, AliciaFitscher, who works at Procter & Gamble"in Cincinnati, she added.

A bit farther north, in Columbus, OH,Mark Feinkopf owns a photographic stu-dio that is keeping him busy shooting por-traits, architecture, and doing corporate workin Toronto, New York, and elsewhere in theMidwest. Duanne Moeser—last known tobe living in Waterloo, Ont, Canada—sent aterse statement declaring that, as of Jan. 1,'95, "I am now a German citizen." What'sup, Duanne? Those who want to ask thequestion directly can reach the man himselfat Oblatterwallstrasse 44b, 86153 Augsburg,Germany. Michele Chandler, a former Ho-telie, is staying put in Toronto and workingfor The Pool Group. "We design commer-cial swimming pool systems for filtration andwater treatment," she e-mailed. "It's a fam-ily business, and I was the son my fathernever had. It's a far cry from the hotel in-dustry, but plumbing pays better." I'm sureBarry Duel, the unofficial Class of '86 urol-ogist, would agree.

Here's a quick fly-by on some WestCoast folks. Irene McKenna is working forHughes Aircraft in Los Angeles; CatherineAdams is looking for the elusive 32nd fla-vor at Baskin-Robbins in Burbank, CA;Rebecca Kenney is smiling for Grand Hyattin San Francisco; Benno Duenkelsbuehlerworks for Williams-Sonoma, also in SanFrancisco; and Angela Gitt Hemmen is sell-ing residential real estate in the Sacramentoarea. Angela had a daughter, Sarah Caitlyn, onher own 30th birthday—July 14, '94—andnow, Angela writes, "she keeps me verybusy with her speed-crawling."

Have you all set aside the June 6-9weekend for Reunion? You should. No mat-ter how you slice your years, this is our lastfirst-millennium, 20th-century class get-to-gether. Details about the weekend will ap-pear in upcoming columns and in mailings.This is no Top 40 countdown, and I'm noCasey Kasem, but if you write soon I'll in-clude special request invitations to long-dis-tance and long-lost friends in my nextcolumn.Michael Berkwits, 8707 ProspectAve., Philadelphia, PA 19118; e-mail,berkwits@mail.med.upenn.edu.

^\Π The May wedding of DebraIf # Klugherz to Lee Goldberg '88^ ^ m turned into a Cornell mini-re-• I I u m o n > a s m o s t Klugherz familyII I events probably do. In atten-^ ^ • dance were Peter '62 andJoyce Barnett Klugherz '63; Seth '94 and

Jolee Rosenau Klugherz '94; AlisonKlugherz '96; Brian '74 and Robin Bar-nett Shiffrin '74; Neil '66 and LauraKlugherz Seldman '67; Jessica Wang'88; Lisa Rugg '86; Marilyn Brue Kelly'88; A. B. "Ollie" MacMillen '89; Tim '89and Donna Teebagy Anderson '89; Mikeand Lauren Kidder McGarry '89; and Cor-nell employee Julie Paige. After the wed-ding, Lee and Debbie relocated to Newton,MA. Lee is working on a cardiology fellow-ship at Massachusetts General Hospital, andDebbie is teaching math at Norwood SeniorHigh School.

Patricia Baumann recently complet-ed an internship at Doctors Hospital in Co-lumbus, OH, where she also helped coachOhio State U.'s hockey team. Patricia be-gan her orthopedic surgery residency atDelaware Valley Medical Center in Lan-horne, PA. In Patricia's spare time (thereprobably is not very much), she plays phonetag with her prior co-captain of Cornell wom-en's ice hockey, Chris Neimeth. Chris isliving in New York City.

Elizabeth Rosen Ditanto is anothermedical professional, who recently finishedher residency in anesthesiology and will be-gin a fellowship in pain management in Buf-falo. She and husband Mike live in Buffalo,where he is a vice president at Sinere Inc.The newest addition to their family is Mol-ly, an adopted greyhound. Leslie KalickWolfe and husband Alan recently bought agreat old renovated house in a fun area ofAtlanta. Leslie is a self-employed physicaltherapist and is planning to start her ownorthotics business. She recently saw JoanneCappucci in NYC. Leslie reports thatJoanne is a "marketing wiz" for Chese-brough-Ponds. Leslie is looking forward tothe 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and all of the"international face-time!" Charlene Wil-liams celebrated her 30th birthday in style. . . in the Bahamas with classmate Onja-lique Clark. Charlene is moving back toNYC, after having previously moved fromNorth Carolina to New Jersey. She complet-ed the course work for a master's in indus-trial/organizational psychology from U. ofNorth Carolina, Charlotte. Charlene stillneeds to complete her thesis, but is in norush. She is currently loving her job at Wey-erhaeuser, where she is getting exposureto all areas of human resources.

Edward Whetstone has been in Japanfor three years, heading up the Japan sub-sidiary of a US electronics manufacturer. Hehas become very active in the Cornell Clubof Japan and the Alumni Admissions Ambas-sador Network (CAAAN), helping studentsabroad learn more about Cornell. Edward ismore active with the university now thanwhen he was there. He is waiting for some-one to start a Big Red sumo wrestling team.

Lucy Wall and husband Steve Reillyrecently bought a house in Lexington, MA.They took a road trip to Philadelphia withJanice Lopez to visit Renee Korus. Theywere met by Debbie Kranz Muller andStaci Pollack for the weekend.

Mark Spindel switched jobs fromSalomon Brothers in London to ABN-AMROBank to be director of the London-basedasset management company. JeffreySchwartz just finished his first murder case

and is on the road to joining the ranks ofthe rich and famous lawyers. Jeff recentlystarted practicing with a small Long Islandfirm after spending four years as an assis-tant district attorney at the Bronx CountyDistrict Attorney's Office. • Caryn Wein-berger, 1619 Third Ave., Apt. 9G E., NYC10128.

Many thanks to those whowrote to me. David Tsui was aNavy lieutenant last May whenhe returned from a six-monthoverseas deployment on theUSS Kinkaid. He was in the

Persian Gulf enforcing the United Nationseconomic sanctions against Iraq. He hasbeen to Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bah-rain, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Austra-lia, and Hawaii. He earned a Navy Achieve-ment Medal and, now back in San Diego, heis unemployed. Any leads? David wrote ofDr. Stephanie Grossman and LeonRosenshein. Stephanie finished her intern-ship in Long Beach, CA, and is now work-ing in Anaheim. Leon is a software program-mer working for Spectrum Holobyte inAlameda, CA. He's having fun programminga popular flight simulator/game for thehome-computer crowd.

Dr. Merih Dagli finished her familypractice residency as chief resident. Shelives in Morris Plains, NJ. Mildred CurleyDruyff completed her master's in agencycounseling last May, and is working towardher National Certification for Counselors.

Across the world in New Delhi, Indialives Olivia Yambi, PhD '88, who is a UNofficial for UNLCEF. She has seen MeeraShekar, PhD '90, Bruce Cogill, PhD'87, Marjatta Tolvanen, PhD '92, andSarita Devkota Neupane, PhD '91, thelatter two in Kathmandu.

Surely keeping busy is JuliannaGonen, director of industry research of theAmerican Managed Care and Review Assn.in Washinton, DC. She continues to playsoccer with Leslie Wagner. Hot on thefacetime scene is Kristin Hileman, a pros-ecuting attorney in Upper Marlboro, MD.She recently saw Bruce Young, EricSalthe, and Rick Rosenthal, all of whomvisited Kristin's friend/co-worker RobertLourie at various times. She was maid ofhonor at the June 1995 wedding of JonathanWorkman, BA '89 to Gina Coluzzi.

S. Scott Florence graduated from In-diana U. with an MBA last May, and movedwith wife Alexa (Coin) '87 to the Quad Cit-ies (Davenport/Bettendorf, IA, and Rock Is-land/Moline, IL). He is vice president atNancy's Pies, a small business that manu-factures "made without sugar" pies for dia-betics.

Ashton Stewart Dos Santos McFad-den wed Camilla Corballis (Rollins College)last August in Riverside, CT. Ashton is aconsulting associate at Johnson, Smith &Knisely Inc., an executive search firm inNYC. He is also a candidate for a master'sdegree in theology at the General Theolog-ical Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Dr.Karin Berger married Jonathan Sadow onSept. 3, '95. Karen is chief resident in pedi-atrics at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Congratulationsto Jeff Brandes and bride Kara Wolff, who

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were married Oct. 7, '95.Chris Crooker was a groomsman in

Eric Olson's wedding to Heidi Nelson inAtlanta on March 18, '94. Also in attendancewere Fran Murray, Dan Burke, RossBeckwith, and Dave Winston. ReneeJameson, an engineer for Fofd Motor Co.,wed Ronald Sears, May 11, '95.

Congratulations to proud parents Steveand Debbi Beroll Morin! Eve Bari (Classof 2017?) was born Aug. 25, '95 weighingfive pounds, five ounces. Debbi is enjoyingmotherhood, but she has returned to her jobat AMGRO Premium Finance Co. Debbi'sfirst love is teaching, and she has been teach-ing Hebrew at their temple, as well as be-ing bar/bat mitzvah tutor. Husband Steve hasfinally found the perfect job. The family hap-pily resides in Worcester, MA. Beth Mullerand husband Wayne "Stan" Kotzbach '89had a daughter, Connor Rose, last Sept. 21.Dr. Lynn Liu '89, Allison Seidman Rob-inson '89, and Laura Lee Blechner '89attended the baptism.

Please continue to send us your newsso we may keep these columns current.• Diane Weisbrot Wing, 727 Anita St., Re-dondo Beach, CA 90278; Alison Minton,333 E. 56th St., #11-B, NYC 10022; WendyMyers Cambor, 610 W. 110th St., #9-B,NYC 10025.

Hopefully, you're surviving thewinter—it's almost over. Luckily,most of us don't have to experi-ence the Ithaca winters any-more. Those of you who do—we give you credit for enduring.

Now on to the good stuff. But first, an im-portant reminder to please keep sending usyour news. If you do, we'll continue to pub-lish it!

Thanks, Karen Leshowitz for send-ing a letter with news. Karen is doing a ju-dicial clerkship at the appellate division ofthe Supreme Court of NY State. She reportsthat Rosemarie Riddell married EdwardBogdan III last May. Diane Little Sassano'88, Kathy Schmauch DiMaio, and Karenwere in the wedding party. Karen also at-tended the wedding of Darryl Lapidus andLaura Magid '88 in October. DianneNersesian spent the summer in Europe.She taught English in Czechoslavakia andstudied French in Paris. Thanks again,Karen!

Gayle Shomer also deserves a bigthank you for sending this information: af-ter Cornell, Gayle spent several years as aphotographer in and around the Boston area.Then, she moved to New Hampshire andworked for a local paper for almost threeyears before moving to Evansville, IN,where she is a photographer and pictureeditor at the local newspaper. Gayle hopesShari Jaffess Davidson and Beth Camp-bell Fine '88 will call her at (812) 473-3289—it'll be a Alpha Phi mini-reunion!Anyone else who is trying to track peopledown, send us your requests, and we'll helpreunite you.

The following information comes fromthe very important News & Dues forms.Gerald Yu was an engineer at ConneciwareATM Systems in Foster City, CA, thenmoved to Hong Kong last September, where

he is a sales rep for Sunnex Products Ltd.Also living abroad is Chin-Fei Tsai, who isin Taipei City. Chin-Fei is working for theDepartment of Urban Development ofTaipei's municipal government. She is re-sponsible for major urban design projects.

Jonathan Weinstein reports he is inhis third year as a pediatrics resident atChildren's Hospital in Washington, DC. Jonpassed on news about Andrew Corsello'swedding. Gina Marrero and Elaine Cheonalso attended. He also sent some sad news:the death in January 1995 of classmate TomWheatley. Tom was a pediatrics residentat Rainbow Babies Hospital in Cleveland, OH.

Debbie Schneider Toy is a socialworker at the Albany County (NY) Sub-stance Abuse Clinic. Alan Rolnick is a soft-ware engineer at ESP in Norcross, GA. WifeLaura (Graner) is a lawyer. The couplelives in Roswell, GA, a suburb of Atlanta.Ben Ram has his own computer consult-ing business, called Ram Innoventions, inBell Canyon, CA. Karen Macaulay Pais-ley is a teacher at the Toronto School ofBusiness. Giuseppe Pagano is a deriva-tives trader for Citicorp in Long Island City,NY. Alexander "Sasha" Lacey is the ex-ecutive steward in charge of banquets at theInter-Continental Hotel in Chicago.

Herbert Wright earned his MBA fromDarden Business School at the U. of Vir-ginia. After graduation he went to work asan associate at Morgan Stanley in NYC. Apress release announces that Lt. RichardThornton has reported for duty at NavalUnderwater Systems Center in Newport, RI.Lauren Flato Labovitz is a veterinarian atW. Orange (NJ) Animal Hospital.

More wedding news . . . Lisa Fried-lander married Daron Armoni in Israel. Iz-abella Rudzki married Andrew Povich atthe Water's Edge restaurant in Long IslandCity, Queens in October 1995. Izzy is a pro-ducer of the "Maury Povich Show," andAndrew is Maury's nephew. Siew WeiNgiam e-mailed us to say that she marriedSwee Chiew Tan '92 in Singapore this pastJune. Several Cornellians were in attendance,including classmate Hong Meng Wong.

Please keep sending us your news.Some personal news from me—I just boughta house on Long Island, so send your newsto my new address! • Stephanie BloomAvidon, 5 Glenwood Rd., Plainview, NY11803; Dan Gross, 490 E. 74th St., #3A,NYC 10021; Robyn Wesler Landow, 315E. 68th St., #15S, NYC 10021; Ann Czap-linski Treadwell, 352 Colchester Ave., Bur-lington, VT 05401.

No one ever said living in Ithacawouldn't bring its surprises. Lastweek we were greeted with atumultuous snowstorm that shutdown area schools, the week be-fore it was about 60 degrees out-

side. Ithaca's Ben Nichols '41, BEE '46,MEE '49 is no longer our mayor; Simeon'sRestaurant owner Alan Cohen '81, BS '86is now at the helm. We have one of the nic-est-looking little airports in rural UpstateNew York, now, and surrounding it is agrowing expanse of corporate-like officeswith perfect little trees evenly planted about.Some constants remain, though: Johnny's

Hot Truck and Louie's Lunch are still parkedunder their street lamps every night serv-ing high-fat, late-night, mayo-laden surpris-es wrapped in white paper to groping stu-dents on West and North Campus.

News from our classmates confirmthose constants that occur in life: grad schoolor new job, couples pledging their life-longlove for each other, families springing up. Afew classmates who dared to be different, atleast for the time being: James Kumpelcompleted a 'round the world trip last yearand saw a number of good Cornell friendsalong the way, including Glen Satell andKathy Lu in Atlanta in January; Bob Kiff-ney and wife Sara while Eurailing to Hun-gary and other countries, including Germa-ny, in April; and Jon Schaffel '89 and RayMurakami, while wine tasting in Sonomaand visiting San Francisco, also in April.James is currently working on his MBA inmanagement/finance at Duke's Fuqua Schoolof Business.

A few classmates who have chosen ar-eas of study a bit out of the norm: GeorgeFogg is at Washington U. medical school,working toward an MD/PhD. His PhD willbe in microbiology, studying "flesh-eatingbacteria." Sounds as if he's watched toomany re-runs of "The X-Files." StephenHawthorne has finished at Tulane lawschool, where he studied maritime trade law;he is currently in private practice. In answer

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to our question, "Who have you seen recent-ly?" Stephen writes, "Nobody! Where is ev-erybody?"

She may have been lacking a home fora while, but Julia Hertl managed to find anew apartment after her old apartment build-ing in Ithaca burned down. "The roof fell in!Luckily, nobody was hurt, but nobody couldmove back in due to extensive smoke andwater damage." Julia is at the Veterinarycollege. She said Jeannie Chiu, who isworking on her PhD at U. of California,Berkeley, visited last October, post-fire di-lemma, of course.

Michael Hong appears to be keepingquite busy . . . he graduated from The Amer-ican U. law school in May 1995 and has tak-en several exams for entry into the foreignservice. While waiting for that part of his lifeto take shape, he has been performing in sev-eral local Maryland community theater pro-ductions, such as Cabaret and Hello Dolly.He invites Cornellians in the area to see hisshows, but worries, "This kind of news neverseems to make it in the magazine. Oh well."And, here it is! Perhaps you'll get a few visitsfrom Cornellians at your future shows.

Carrie Gallup Friend is working forPizza Hut and also attending Wichita StateU., working toward an MBA. She said, "Notmuch news, sorry! But Kansas is growingon me . . . finally!"

Enjoy the new pleasures that comealong with springtime . . . soon! ••• ReginaDuffey, 82 Lois Lane, Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail, rmd5@cornell.edu .

^ \ -4 Three more months until our1 1 1 n v e~Y e a r Reunion . . . andI I I counting . . . can you believe^Λ I it's already been five years?til Anyway, as always, IV # Λ> thank all of you who tookthe time to write with news aboutyourselves and our other peers. Su- (*£san Sidner Carlebach, Munich, Ger- ^many, had "some great news to ;r"j.share." Susan married David Carle- ;£3bach at the end of May in Elm Creek, H"•*NE and several Cornellians took part : Qin her wedding. Megan McNealy was Mher maid of honor, and Shay Living- ^ston and Carla Johnson were bridesmaids.Chuck Evans '90, Cliff Bonner '90, andArthur Boland '90 all joined in the cele-bration. In addition, Susan's brother DanSidner '90 escorted her down the aisle "onthe big day." Susan is now a student at theU. of Munich.

Wayne Hickey sent news from Wash-ington, DC, where he lives with two otheralums, Jim Prendergast '93 and Bill Na-vas '90. After working as the legislative di-rector for Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) for a few years, Wayne took a job onthe Hill as senior legislative counsel forMWW Strategic Communications Inc., a pub-lic relations firm. A letter also came fromRobert Leung and Elaine Chiu, who want-ed to share "some happy news." After dat-ing each other for the entire four years atCornell, their friends have been anxiouslyawaiting their wedding day. Well, Robert andElaine finally married on June 24, '95 in NewYork City, and Cornellians in attendance"danced up a storm," they wrote. Brides-

maids included Judy Ng, Kathy Chan, andSusanna Chiu '92, while the groomsmenand ushers were Avinash Mehrotra, JohnTagle, and Wilson Leung '99. Guests in-cluded Helen Ong, Kitty Chan, Jeff Lee'90, Harry Chiu, Rona Mayor, SusannahSuh, Anjali Sadarangani, and Mitsu andMei Chan Nishiwaki, MBA '94. Rob grad-uated from Yale's law school and is a corpo-rate attorney with the big New York Cityfirm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Elaine gradu-ated from Columbia's law school and is anassistant district attorney in Manhattan.

Wedding bells also rang for CavarlyBerwick, who was married on July 17, '95by Mayor Giuliani of New York City. Peersin attendance were Jen Bland, Peter Tri-olo '90, Basil Demeroutis, Rob Lane '90,Susan Lyons, and Scott Rix, as well asCavarly's stepfather, Jack Veerman '52,and Paul Blanchard '52. Cavarly also sentnews about other classmate weddings. JoeKujawa married Patti Limbacher. MattHyatt was the best man, and Cavarly wrotethat there were "loads of Alpha Delts in at-tendance." Joe was the best man at Matt'swedding during the summer of 1994. Mattattended the Harvard Graduate School ofDesign, where he was studying architecture.

Therese Duane reported that she andhusband Jeffrey Tessier went to Italy andGreece for their delayed honeymoon. Theybegan their residencies in July, and Theresewill be doing general surgery in Virginia.Maureen Larson married Nick Tarantelloon August 6, '94 and is now living in Chica-go. She is consulting for Watson Wyatt, ahuman resources services firm, while shepursues her master's degree at Northwest-ern's Kellogg School of Business. Maureenalso reported that she traveled to Kenya inMarch 1995, where she and Maria Cleave-land bumped into Cornellians MichelleGilardi, Julie Matiba '92, Bob Gallicano,MPS HA '90, and Ray Matiba, MPS HA'90 and were "treated like royalty" at Bob'srestaurant, Gallo's.

On the academic front, Scott LaGrecais in Durham, NC, where he said he is "sur-viving the South" with his partner Matt. Heis pursuing his PhD in botany at Duke U.,while Doug Goldman is also pursuing aPhD in botany, but at the U. of Texas inAustin. Elise Bekele earned her master'sdegree in hydrology from the U. of NewHampshire in May 1994, and is continuingher education at the U. of Minnesota in aPhD program in geology. Sebastian Cian-cio graduated from the SUNΎ, Buffalo med-ical school and is completing his six-yearresidency in urologic surgery. Todd Tracyalso graduated from medical school, at theU. of Rochester. He is doing his internalmedicine residency at Strong Memorial Hos-pital in Rochester, NY.

Luisa Santiago wrote that she trav-eled a great deal through Europe and nowworks for the commanding general of the7th ARCOM in Heidelberg, Germany. InGermany Luisa has seen Allan Dean.Meanwhile, Wendy Milks reported that shespent a week in Colorado, ending with at-tendance at Julie Welch's wedding toChuck Alvarez in Winter Park. Wendy metup with classmates Tracey O'Connor, E.Allison Frank '92, and Emily Sikking '92.

Doug Pascale is living in Ann Arbor, MI,where he is working with Ford EFHD as aproduct engineer. Doug is also a member ofa popular area rock band called "X:dream,"with whom he plays keyboards, bass guitar,and sings background vocals.

Stay tuned and definitely keep June 6-9open on your calendar. Also, as I moved fromNYC to sunny Florida, please make a noteof my new mailing address. • MelanieBloom, 19380 Collins Ave., #PH-11, Mi-ami Beach, FL 33160.

I feel as if I've been waiting tow r ^ e about this forever! Chris-tine Waiters and David Stuhl-miller '92 were married Sept.2, '95 in Sellersville, PA. It wasa true Cornellian wedding. The

bridesmaids wore red dresses, the decora-tions were red and white, and the bride evenwore a red bow and red shoes for the re-ception. Of course, there were many Cor-nellians in attendance. Pia Napolitano '91was the maid of honor, and Mike Stuhlmil-ler '94 was best man. Lauren Bailyn, Sueden Outer '94, and Jeff "BJ" Anbinder '94were also in the wedding party. Tom La-Falce '94, Brian '92 and Christine Cor-nish Sagrestano, and Pat and LorraineDuffy Burns '94 participated in the cere-mony as readers. Also in attendance wereclassmates Greg Carlson, Bridget Fanch-er, and Jason Damsker, as well as TomCalupca '91, Ralph Ciotti '95, Marc Gold-man '90, Fred Archer III '94, Jen Cut-ler Cohodas '92 and husband Jon '91,Mark Anbinder '89, AJ Oliviero '90, DJLedina '91, Rob '85 and Mary HohenhausHardy '87, Stu Pergament '87, BethanyDavis '89, and Heidi Lane '85.

We know of two other Class of '93 wed-dings recently. Jennifer Bursky marriedJacob Eisenstat, a U. of Pennsylvania grad,on Sept. 17, '95 on Long Island. Jennifer isin med school, and her new husband is afinancial analyst. Andrew C. Hite marriedElizabeth Rizzi, Oct. 7, '95, in Bronxville,NY. Andrew is a securities trader at Donald-son, Lufkin, & Jenrette in NYC.

E-mail is proving to be the best way toget news these days. Thanks to all who arekeeping us updated this way. I heard fromJohn Lin, who is working for United Tech-nologies' Hamilton Standard Division inConnecticut. He ran into Atul Aggarwal atthe International Spirit of Zinck's Night inHartford. Atul is in his third year at U. ofConnecticut medical school. Brent Albert-son '92 is in Orlando working for an engi-neering firm, happily involved and the proudfather of a little girl. Alison Davis is work-ing in Chicago for a financial planning firm.Barbara Ditch is in the Washington, DCarea working for a real estate firm, and Eliz-abeth Hagglund Spoto is working for theDiscovery Channel.

I will use the following paragraph to il-lustrate why we need more subscribers.This news was cut from the last column be-cause we don't have enough space, so it isjust a little bit out of date. Ian Brown writesthat he is finishing up a master's in publicpolicy at Harvard. Jennifer Schwartz wasjust promoted in her job at the DepositoryTrust Co. Josh Bernstein is in Utah, work-

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ing at Boulder Outdoor Survival School andsetting up a photography business. He hasrecently had his photos exhibited in theHamptons and in California. Ilan Kedanmoved to Florida after graduating from thepublic health program at Columbia.

Last but not least, the news that hasaccompanied dues payments—a specialthanks from the class to everyone who con-tinues to subscribe. Joy Song married Pe-ter Nelson '94 last September. In Octoberthey hosted a dinner to celebrate with Jo-hanna Wang, Joyce Lee, Anita Wu '94and Sau Tarn '94. Doug Glorie is an envi-ronmental engineer in NYC. MandyWagenman helps us to get this news outto you at Cornell Magazine. Loren Moon-ey is also working there. Mandy writes thatLou Horn is in grad school at Berkeley,spending his free time working on hishouse, and Amy Conner '94 is preparingto move away from the snow in Aspen,CO. • Jennifer Evans, 305 Michelle Lane,Apt. 201, Groton, CT 06340; tel., (860) 445-1301; e-mail, jevans@gdeb.com.

^ \ A E-mail strikes again. Megan Mc-I I Λ Donald (mmcdonal@tcf.ua.edu)II / • sent me an update on her life^ 4 ^ J i not so long ago, noting, "It isi t Γ nice to make contact with Cor-^ ^ ^ nell across the 'Net." She re-

ports that after a year of living the simplelife at home with her parents in Oklahoma,she moved to Huntsville, AL to work at theUS Space and Rocket Center in their newAviation Challenge program. The programis similar to their Space Camp program. Nowshe is working on a master's degree in tele-communications and film at the U. of Ala-bama and loving it.

Starting in May, Megan will also beworking a co-op job at the Huntsville/Madi-son County Chamber of Commerce commu-nications office. She writes, "I am very ex-cited. Huntsville is a growing communitywith a number of large space-related corpo-rations, as the Marshall Space Center andRedstone Arsenal are also in Huntsville. ForArmy brats like myself, it is like going homebut better." Megan happily reports that shedoesn't need all those winter clothes sheused to bundle up in when she was in Ith-aca. Even without cold weather to remindher, Megan still has her mind on our almamater as one of the founding officers of theCornell Alumni Association of Alabama. Soif you are in Alabama, look her up!

A few of our classmates are moving up inthe world. After working only six months atNumetrix Inc. in Norwalk, CT, Bill Wood hasalready been promoted. His new job title is"consultant, operations research engineer."And Adam Hoy's new employers, the Gal-son Corp.'s Lozier Laboratories, are so proudto have him on staff that they sent us a pressrelease. Adam will be working as a samplecustodian at the Rochester, NY lab, which an-alyzes solid and hazardous waste, asbestos,water supplies, and wastewater and stormwa-ter, as well as performing air monitoring, in-dustrial hygiene, and soil gas surveys. Best ofluck to you in your new positions!

I am also happy to report the Oct. 7,'95 wedding of my own dear friend, Melis-sa Unemori, to Greg Hampe. The new Mrs.

Hampe met Greg while working in Wash-ington, DC as a legislative assistant for Con-gresswoman Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii. Thepair wed in Las Vegas, where the groom'sparents live, with more than 75 friends andfamily members in attendance.

Cornellians at the wedding includedmyself as maid of honor, Jennifer AllisonHertel as a bridesmaid, and former-room-mate Julia Gutreuter and sorority-sisterAmy Chizk '93. Jennifer is now workingas a computer software trainer for the Ball-ston Center for Computer Training in Ar-lington, VA, teaching government andcorporate clients how to use the latest officesoftware. Julia is working at the U. of Miami.

Since we are on the subject of wed-dings, I just wanted to remind you all of Cor-nell Magazine's guidelines on printing specialevent information. Wedding and childbirthinformation is welcome and encouraged, butremember that we are not allowed to printthe information until after the event has oc-curred. So in order to prevent your newsfrom being very out of date, pass it on assoon as possible to the class correspondentlisted at the bottom of the column. Informa-tion sent directly to the magazine will beforwarded to us, but that slows down theprocess. Remember also that you don't needa special occasion to let your classmatesknow what is going on in your life. Taking afew minutes to gossip to class correspon-dents will save you a bunch on phone bills!

I've moved (again), so please note mynew address. ••• Dineen M. Pashoukos,618 D Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002;tel., (202) 686-2543; e-mail, dineen.pashoukos@law.georgetown.edu.

^^k W^ As always, I find myself amazed• 1 1 at how time flies. Last year atI I ψ^k this time (late November), I was^ ^ I writing my first column for thisI l l I magazine . . . it's hard to believeV ^ V ^ that I've already written a year's

worth of columns! With that in mind, I want-ed to thank all of you for helping me out inmy job. You've heeded my impassioned pleasand the letters and e-mails keep coming in,which means I can write lots of good stuff... that's not just about the people I see inNew York City!

On that note, I received a letter fromNancy Rosen (who is in NYC, working asan assistant editor at Miller Freeman PSN),telling me about a gathering of Cornelliansin Washington, DC back in October. Shewrites that she went to visit Meredith"Merry" Bauer, who works in climatechange at the Environmental ProtectionAgency, and later met up with AndyHoofnagle, who is doing research at theNational Insts. of Health in Bethesda, MD,Amy Melville, who works in DC, JustinDimick, who is a med student at Johns Hop-kins, and Anisha Varma, a med student atthe U. of Maryland. They were also joinedin their drinking of "expensive beer" (com-pared to Ithaca's?) by the following displacedNew Yorkers, Columbia med student HaniRashid and Silas Martin, who works inprotocol at Cornell Medical College.

Also in DC, Dani Wolff is working atthe Kennedy Center for the Performing Artsas an editor in the Stagebill office. She lives

with Rachel Grover '93 and DanielleSveska, who works as a transportation en-gineer for Cosmis Corp. in Silver Spring,MD. In Delaware, Becky Turner is work-ing for First US.

Regarding weddings, I was informed byRachel de Haas, who works at Andersenin NYC, that back in October she attendedthe wedding of her freshman-year room-mate, Angela White, to Riley Freeland.The couple, who also met on their fresh-man floor (see? those things can work out,after all!) were married in Dallas, and theyare both pursuing PhDs in engineering atthe U. of Texas, Austin. Also in attendancewas Susan Minch, who works in Houstonfor Kellogg Consulting.

Down South, Jed Axelrod is in Atlan-ta looking for a job (although he may haveone by now) while applying to medicalschools, and Mike Tamber is at Tulanemedical school. In Mobile, AL, Hans Don-kersloot is putting in a lot of hours as amanager at Chili's Restaurant.

Finally, from across the globe, KateWoods and Jennifer Anderson are work-ing in the Peace Corps. Kate sent a post-card addressed to our old a capella group,saying she is in Mali, Africa, surviving with-out modern conveniences. Jen, in the mean-time, is teaching English as a foreign lan-guage in the Russian Far East. She writesin her letter, "I work in a school in a smallvillage called Mikhailovka, about 120 kilo-meters northwest of Vladivostok. I am thefirst American that these people have evermet—quite strange to have people come upand touch me as if I were a queen or some-thing! . . . I live in a one-room apartmentwith running—but not warm—water. Cook-ing is a curious enterprise, with the seriouslack of familiar products. The electricityworkers are on strike this month, so thereis no gas for my stove, either." Althoughshe loves it and is learning a lot, she writesthat it's "pretty lonely out here, halfwayacross the globe from my buddies and mymom!" and, that "until we meet again in(eek!) 2000 at our five-year Reunion . . .know that I love mail and I will reply." (Ihave her address, if anyone would like it).She ends by writing, "I would be thrilled tosee a little sentence about me in the nextissue of Cornell Magazine . . . my mothersends them to me once in a while." I hopethis is okay, Jen!

That's it for this month. I still have lotsof info on classmates for my next column.Thanks again for all your responses, andkeep those letters coming! • Alison M.Torrillo, 235 E. 95th St., Apt. 5M, NYC10128; e-mail, atorrillo@aol.com.

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Alumni Deaths'22 CE—Lawrence W. Hoyt of Placida,FL, formerly of Brookfield, CT, March 31,1995; president, Hoyt-Messenger Hat Cor-poration; active in community and religiousaffairs. Beta Theta Pi.

'22 B Chem—Gordon R. McCormick ofFountain Inn, SC, formerly of Seaford, DE,Aug. 22, 1995; retired engineer, E. I. du-Pont deNemours Company; active in com-munity affairs.

'24 BA—Mary Pedersen Powers (Mrs.Joseph P.) of New Milford, NY, formerly ofSeminole, FL, Aug. 25, 1995.

'24 BA—Miriam Bailey Williams (Mrs.George C.) of Sacramento, CA, Aug. 4,1995;active in community and religious affairs.

'26 CE—Daniel M. Coppin of Cincinnati,OH, July 24, 1995. Sigma Chi.

'27—Sherwood B. Sipprell of Hamburg,NY, Aug. 20, 1995; retired realtor; active inalumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'28 BS HE—A. Elizabeth Booth Miller(Mrs. J. Barrett) of Geneseo, NY, May 2,1995.

'29 BS Ag—Albert J. Rissman of Largo,FL, June 24, 1995.

'30—David A. Wahrburg of Great Neck,NY, Aug. 17, 1995; retired president, Unit-ed Employment Agency. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

'32 BA—Arthur L. Boschen of Denver,CO, formerly of Greenwich, CT, May 18,1995; retired director, Reinsurance Corpo-ration of New York.

'32, CE '35—Courtland V. Guerin ofToms River, NJ, Jan. 8, 1995.

'32 CE—Joel B. Justin of Philadelphia, PA,Aug. 10, 1995; independent consultant andformer president, Justin & Courtney; engi-neer who specialized in flood control, irri-gation, and hydroelectric dams.

'32 ME—John T. Manning of Watertown,NY, formerly of Rochester, March 10,1995;retired patent engineer, New York AirBrake Company, Rochester; active in reli-gious affairs.

'32 ME—Richard K. Painter of JensenBeach, FL, Oct. 31, 1994.

'32 ME, BS Ag '35—James J. Pellett IIIof Toms River, NJ, July 7, 1995; retiredpresident, J. J. Pellett Company, Inc. TauKappa Epsilon.

'32 BS Ag—Richard Pringle of DavaoCity, Philippines, July 4, 1995; retired em-

ployee of the Agency for International De-velopment in the Far East who had workedin Korea, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines,and South Vietnam; former county agricul-tural agent in New York State. Alpha Zeta.

'32 BS HE—Virginia Haviland Vreeland(Mrs. Albert) of Whiting, NJ, May 10, 1995.

'33 CE—Howard F. Kessler of Fair Ha-ven, NJ, June 19, 1995.

'33 BA—Ruth Bedford MacLaughlin (Mrs.Robert) of Auburndale, MA, June 24, 1995.

'34-36 Grad—Pauline Long Dunn (Mrs.Morris M.) of Columbus, MS, July 24, 1995;co-founder of Columbus TV Cable Corpora-tion; first woman elected to the NationalCable TV Board of Directors; active in com-munity, civic, and religious affairs.

'35 ME—Robert S. Bowie of Fort Collins,CO, June 11, 1995. Sigma Nu.

'35 BA—Gene vie ve Harman Davis (Mrs.Royal E.) of Green Cove Springs, FL, for-merly of Farmington, MI, Jan. 1, 1994; re-tired employee of American Cancer Society,Southfield, MI. Chi Omega.

'35—Julian R. Oishei of Buffalo, NY, Aug.14, 1995; former employee of Trico Prod-ucts Corporation, Buffalo; active in commu-nity affairs. Theta Delta Chi.

'36 BS Ag—Thomas E. Bennett of SanAntonio, TX, July 8, 1995. Pi Kappa Phi.

'36 BS Ag—Cornelius C. Du Mond ofUlster Park, NY, Aug. 2, 1995. Alpha Zeta.

'36—Abraham W. Geller of New YorkCity, Aug. 14, 1995; founder, Abraham W.Geller & Associates, NYC; noted architectwho espoused the principles of modernistdesign; recipient of the Medal of Honor ofthe NYC chapter of the American Instituteof Architects.

'36, CE '37—Carl Scheman Jr. of WestChester, PA, Aug. 15, 1995; retired salesrepresentative, Braeburn Steel Co., Jean-nette, PA; active in community affairs. Al-pha Chi Rho.

'36 BS Ag—J. Robert Van Allen of New-field, NY, Aug. 16, 1995; retired employeeof Agway Corporation, Ithaca; active in com-munity affairs. Wife, Lucille (Rumsey) '37.

'37 BChem, BChE '38—Rolf H. Hem-merich of Grand Junction, CO, formerly ofHouston, TX, July 18, 1995; retired owner/president, Pacesetter Travel Service, Hous-ton. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'38 BA, LLB '40—William W. Orr of Nia-

gara Falls, NY, Aug. 12, 1995; retired attor-ney and partner, The Orr Partnership; ac-tive in professional, community, and civicaffairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'38 DVM—Walter E. Relken of Ridge,NY, Jan. 24, 1995.

'38 CE—Clair H. Stevens of Horseheads,NY, May 26, 1995.

'39—James E. Boulware of Boise, ID, for-merly of Memphis, TN, March 24, 1995; re-tired manager, Crystal Oil Company, Mem-phis; active in civic affairs.

'39 JD—Thomas O. Broker of Roanoke,VA and Wellfleet, MA, June 6, 1995; retiredprofessor of business and transportation law,economics, and political science, VirginiaWestern Community College; former gen-eral counsel, Norfolk & Western Railroad;active in community and religious affairs.

'39 MD—Thomas J. Dring of San Diego,CA, June 23, 1995; retired physician in pri-vate practice; active in professional affairs.

'39—E. Brook Vickery of Pinehurst, NC,exact date of death unknown. Phi SigmaKappa.

'40, BCE '41—Earl D. Causey of Lincoln,VA, July 25, 1995; consultant, E.D. Causey,OBE, Sandton, South Africa; former presi-dent/chief executive officer, Fegles/PowerService Corporation, Minneapolis, MN.

'40—Helen M. Copley of Canton, MA,June 21, 1994.

'40 MS Ag—Ralph L. Williamson of Ith-aca, NY, Aug. 12, 1995; Methodist ministerand pastor in Countryside and South But-ler, NY; retired faculty member at GammonTheological Seminary and the Interdenomi-national Theological Center, both in Atlan-ta, GA; co-founder of Cornell's RuralChurch Institute; active in community andreligious affairs.

'41 MD—Louis V. Belott of Orange, NJ,March 2, 1995.

'41 BA—Ruth Szold Ginzberg (Mrs. Eli)of New York City, Aug. 22, 1995; retireddirector, Parkinson's Disease Foundation;active in community and religious affairs.Sigma Delta Tau.

'42 PhD—Franklin P. Batdorf of Nashua,NH, June 30, 1995; university benefactor.

'42 BA—Jean Brown Blodgett (Mrs. Wil-liam W.) of Wilton, CT, Aug. 24, 1995; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Alpha Phi.

'42 BS Ag—Nanette Alberman Eman-

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uel (Mrs. Robert) of Marblehead, MA, July26, 1995.

'44 BME—Charles F. Beck Jr. of La Con-ner, WA, formerly of Woodland Hills, CA,Dec. 7, 1994.

'44, BS Ag '46—Warren H.« Wilson ofWestfield, NY, May 9, 1995. Cayuga Lodge.

'45, MD '47—J. Dutney Hayes of Pitts-burgh, PA, March 21, 1995; physician. Sig-ma Alpha Epsilon.

'45 DVM—Ralph W. Lewis of Lockport,NY, Sept. 8, 1995; retired veterinarian; ac-tive in community, professional, religious,and civic affairs. Alpha Psi.

'45 BArch, MRP '48—Arthur E. PrackJr. of Boswell, PA, July 1, 1995; retired ar-chitect, Hayes Large Architects, Pittsburgh.Phi Kappa Psi.

'46, BME '49—Alan D. Davies of Rock-ville, MD, Aug. 14, 1995; retired engineerand research analyst, Federal Bureau ofStandards, Gaithersburg; active in religiousaffairs. Alpha Chi Rho.

'46 PhD—Edward J. Scott of Urbana, IL,June 29, 1995; professor emeritus of math-ematics, University of Illinois, Urbana; ac-tive in religious, professional, and commu-nity affairs.

'46 MS ILR—Donald A. Strauss of New-port Beach, CA, Aug. 30, 1995; vice presi-dent of administration, Beckman Instru-ments Inc.; former mayor of Newport Beach.

'48—Shirley Ogburn Gazaille (Mrs. Ar-mand G.) of Hadley, NY, Nov. 23,1994. Kap-pa Delta.

'49 BA—John R. B. Byers of OrchardPark, NY, Aug. 8, 1995; retired Episcopalpriest, St. John in the Wilderness Church,Copake Falls; former missionary, Lovelock,NV; active in civic affairs. Phi Gamma Del-ta. Wife, Mary Ann (Grammer) '46, BA '48.

'49 MS ILR, PhD '51—Robert Raimonof Ithaca, NY, Aug. 31,1995; professor emer-itus who formerly chaired the labor econom-ics department in Industrial and Labor Re-lations at Cornell; noted labor economistwho studied unemployment, union dynam-ics, and public policy.

'50 BS ILR—James V. Brown of Will-iamsburg, VA, Aug. 29, 1995; retired librar-ian, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

'50 BS ILR, MS '55—Riley A. Morrisonof Townsend, GA, Aug. 7, 1995; retired hu-man resource manager, Union Camp Cor-poration, Savannah; active in professionaland religious affairs.

'50 BA—Raymond E. Springer of Alba-ny, NY, May 8, 1995. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'51 BA, MS '53—Bernhard I. Deutch ofAarhus, Denmark, Sept. 7, 1994; administra-tor of Physics Institute, Aarhus University.

'51 PhD—Robert E. McGarrah of Amherst,MA, July 8, 1995; professor of management,University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

'51-52 SpILR—Heinz-Jorg F. E. Moritzof Bridel, Luxembourg, Feb. 16, 1995.

'51 BS Hotel—Arnold W. Strohkorb ofRiverside, CA, July 23, 1995; retired depu-ty director, GSG Computers, Orange Coun-ty; former head of housing and food servic-es, University of California, Riverside; ac-tive in community affairs.

'52 BA—Rocco J. Calvo of Bethlehem,PA, Aug. 12, 1995; head football coach,Moravian College. Psi Upsilon.

'53 M Ed—Harriet J. Nissen of Hollis,NH, April 16, 1995.

'53 EdD—Louis Vrettos of Topsή'eld, MA,formerly of Largo, FL, July 5, 1995.

'54 BA—Paul T. Matthews of Crozet, VA,May 8, 1995; computer analyst, Common-wealth Clinical Systems Inc., Charlottesville.

'54 BS Nurs—Marilyn Sawyer Regula(Mrs. Donald P.) of Schenectady, NY, Aug.15, 1995; realty agent, Realty USA, Rotter-dam; former registered nurse in privatepractice, Schenectady; active in communi-ty, professional, and religious affairs. Hus-band, Donald P. Regula '51.

'55, BS ILR '56—James E. Rosecrans ofStamford, CT, May 19,1995; founder and part-ner, First Connecticut Consulting Group, Nor-walk; active in professional and alumni affairs.

'56 BS Ag, MAT '66—Bruce T. Sher-wood of Portland, ME, formerly of Macon,GA, May 3, 1995; noted historic preserva-tionist and retired director, Victoria Soci-ety of Maine; former director of Hay House,Macon; active in professional affairs.

'57 MS—Judith Frias Ramirez (Mrs. Can-dido) of Rio Piedras, PR, June 5, 1995.

'57 MBA—Robert M. Wood of San Di-mas, CA, formerly of Claremont, CA, June23, 1995; distributor, Los Angeles Times;former vice president, Fab Steel, Anaheim;active in religious affairs.

'62 MD—Daphne Kean Hare (Mrs. PeterH.) of Buffalo, NY, Aug. 3, 1995; associatechief of staff for education, Veterans Hospi-tal, Buffalo; former director of Veteran'sAdministration Central Office's medical anddental division, Washington, DC; and formerprofessor of medicine and biophysical sci-ences, SUNΎ, Buffalo; active in communityand professional affairs.

'62 MS—John K. Ketcham of Concord,NH, June 26, 1995.

'64 PhD—George A. Borden of Bethes-da, MD, formerly of Wilmington, DE, Nov.13, 1994; was retired from the communica-tions department, University of Delaware.

'66 EE—Andrew A. Beck of Charlotte,

VA, March 19, 1994; former employee ofGeneral Electric Company, Burlington, VT.Delta Tau Delta.

'70 PhD—Jerald L. Bullis of Trumans-burg, NY, Aug. 12, 1995; published poet andformer literature professor; recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts Award.

'72 BS Ag, MS '74—Gary W. Bigger ofBasom, NY, Aug. 13, 1995; farm businessconsultant, Production Credit of WesternNew York, Pembroke; former employee ofCornell Cooperative Extension, Batavia; ac-tive in civic, community, and religious af-fairs. Alpha Zeta.

'72, BS Ag '74—Harry T. Nicolaides ofDelmar, CA, formerly of Baltimore, MD,June 26,1995; kitchen manager, Bully's Res-taurant, La Jolla, CA; formerly operated sev-eral restaurants in Ithaca and Denver, CO.Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'73 BA—Robert E. Gardner of Brooklyn,NY, June 28, 1995; employee of FordhamUniversity.

'73 BA—Joyce Turner Ketchum (Mrs.William E.) of Saginaw, MI, April 25, 1995;auditor, Michigan State Department of Pub-lic Health; former controller, Saginaw Coun-ty Community Action Committee; active inreligious and community affairs. Husband,William E. Ketchum 74 BA.

'74 BA—John A. Megna of Los Angeles, CA,Sept. 4,1995; high school teacher, LA UnifiedSchool Dist; former actor who starred in theBroadway production of All the Way Home andthe movie To Kill a Mockingbird.

'75, BS Ag '76—Richard P. Byers of Nov-elty, OH, July 13, 1995; assistant superin-tendent, Novelty Country Club; former co-owner, Canton Cold Storage Company; ac-tive in professional affairs. Kappa Sigma.

'75—Denise Cadoo Duncan (Mrs. CharlesT.) of Decatur, GA, July 22, 1995.

'75 PhD—Marilyn Sibley Fries (Mrs.Brant E.) of Ann Arbor, MI, Aug. 1, 1995;associate professor of Germanic languagesand women's studies, University of Michi-gan. Husband, Brant E. Fries, PhD 72.

'79 MILR—Bernard G. Veit of Gesham,OR, formerly of Livonia, MI, July 13, 1994.

'80—John A. Obrien of Metairie, LA, Nov.26, 1995.

'84 BS Ag—John P. Przybyszewski ofFloral Park, NY, Jan. 5, 1995; entomologistwho worked on locust control to preventfamine, Madagascar, Africa.

'87 BS Arch, MArch '89—Kristen E.Finnegan of Cambridge, MA, June 25,1995.

'90 BFA—Darcy M. Weiner of New YorkCity, Aug. 26, 1995.

'92, BArch '93—Glenn D. Weiner of NewYork City, Aug. 26, 1995.

MARCH 1996

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

On The Road AgainCornellAlumni

faculty will once agairAssociations near you

Ί be traveling to Cornell Clubs andthis winter and spring in conjunction

with the 1996 Faculty Speaker Program. Cooperatively sponsoredby the Office of Alumni Affairs, the Cornell Alumnihost Cornell Clubs or Alumni

Federation andAssociations, the program helps to

keep alumni connected to and involved with the university.

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Nearly 60 clubs and alumni associations throughout the UnitedStates will participate in this increasingly popular program thatintroduces faculty speakers to alumni. Speaking on a wide varietyof timely topics, faculty bring alumni up to date on new develop-ments in academic areas or discuss current issues important to usall. Many events are planned to includefaculty. Speakers have been selected by

receptions or dinner withthe deans of the various

university colleges and the Office of Alumni Affairs.Alumni living near a Cornell Club or Alumni Association will be

mailed an invitation to the program event in their area. For moreinformation about the program or the following events, please callthe Office of Alumni Affairs at (607) 255-3516.

1996 Faculty Speaker Program 1996

FacultyStephen CeciMichael ShulerStephen CeciStephen CeciStephen CeciMichael ShulerPamela SteppAmim MeyburgPeter NathanielszPeter NathanielszMartha HaynesDavid RobertshawPeter NathanielszDavid RobertshawJohn FitzpatrickMartha HaynesDavid RobertshawDan McCallMark DimunationBarbara LangDon BartelGiuseppe PezzottiGiuseppe PezzottiThomas GilovichThomas GilovichRisa LieberwitzRisa LieberwitzRisa LieberwitzDan McCallDon BartelFranklin LoewBarbara LangEdward McLaughlinCybele RaverJ. B. HeiserFranklin LoewDonald RakowDonald RakowPamela SteppDonald RakowEdward McLaughlinPamela SteppDan McCallMark DimunationAlain SeznecArleigh ReynoldsAmim MeyburgAmim MeyburgDavid RobertshawJohn KingsburyBarbara LangFYancille FirebaughJoan BrumbergJoan BrumbergArleigh ReynoldsGiuseppe Pezzotti

College/UnitHuman EcologyEngineeringHuman EcologyHuman EcologyHuman EcologyEngineeringALSEngineeringVeterinary MedicineVeterinary MedicineArts & SciencesVeterinary MedicineVeterinary MedicineVeterinary MedicineLab of OrnithologyArts & SciencesVeterinary MedicineArts & SciencesUniversity LibraryHotel AdministrationEngineeringHotel AdministrationHotel AdministrationArts & SciencesArts & SciencesILRILRILRArts & SciencesEngineeringVeterinary MedicineHotel AdministrationALSHuman EcologyALSVeterinary MedicineCornell PlantationsCornell PlantationsALSCornell PlantationsALSALSArts & SciencesUniversity LibraryUniversity LibraryVeterinary MedicineEngineeringEngineeringVeterinary MedicineALSHotel AdministrationHuman EcologyHuman EcologyHuman EcologyVeterinary Medicine1 (otel Administration

Club/Alumni AssociationCC of Arizona, Inc.CC of Southern ArizonaCC of Los AngelesCAA of Orange CountyCAA of Northern CaliforniaCC of ColoradoCC of Fairfield CountyCC of WashingtonCAA of Southwest FloridaCC of the SuncoastCC of Central FloridaCC of Greater Miami & the Fl. KeysCC of the Emerald CoastCC of Greater Jacksonville, Inc.Sarasota-Manatee CCCC of Eastern FloridaCAA of AtlantaCC of ChicagoCC of LouisvilleCC of BostonCape Cod ComelliansCC of MichiganCC of West MichiganCC of Mid AmericaCC of St. LouisCAA of the Blue Ridge MountainsCAA of CharlotteCentral Carolina CCCC of NebraskaCC of New Hampshire, Inc.

> CC of Northern New JerseyCC of the Greater Capital DistrictCWC of CortlandGenesee-Orleans CCCWC IthacaCC of Long IslandCC of New YorkCC of Monmouth/Ocean CountiesCAA of Rockland/Orange CountiesCAA Greater RochesterCAA of Central New YorkCAA of WestchesterCC of Northeastern OhioCAA Central OhioCC of OklahomaCC of OregonCC of LancasterCC of Greater PhiladelphiaCC of PittsburghCC of Puerto Rico, Inc.CC of Rl & Bristol County MACAA of Middle TennesseeCAA of North TexasCAA of Greater HoustonCC of Western WashingtonCC of Wisconsin

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Give MyRegards T o . . .

THESE CORNELLIANSIN THE NEWS

Jay Waks '68, JD '71, a partner inthe New York office of Kaye ScholerFierman Hays & Handler, who in 1995was included in New York Magazine'slist of New York's 100 "most effectiveattorneys, as judged by a jury of theirpeers."

Sheila Danko, professor of designand environmental analysis, who re-ceived the bronze prize from the Na-goya International Design competitionfor her innovative interior architecturalfinishes based on recycling and indus-trial ecological principles. Danko wasthe only woman and the only Ameri-can to place in the international com-petition of 375 entries from 41 coun-tries.

Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeri-tus and professor of geology, who wasawarded the Clark Kerr Award by theAcademic Senate of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, for individuals"considered to have made an extraor-dinary and distinguished contributionto the advancement of higher educa-tion."

Robert V. Milter '58, PhD '64 andAllen J. Bejda, MS '71 of the National Marine Fisheries Service, whoreceived awards from the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administra-tion. Miller, deputy director of theNational Marine Mammal Laboratory,was recognized for his work on themarine mammal project of the U.S.-Russia environmental protectionagreement. Bejda, a research fisher-ies biologist, was commended for hiscontribution to the design and con-struction of the James J. Howard Ma-rine Science Laboratory.

Kendal retirement is filled with every good thing you could possiblywant. Friends you delight in. Freedom from the burdens of caring fora home. Fine dining at your pleasure. The security of long-term healthcare on site. Plus Ithaca's flourishing environment of cultural events,continuing education, and outdoor recreation.Bloom at Kendal.

For information on New York's first life careretirement community, and the Try It program,call Karen Smith at 1-800-253-6325.

Kendalat Ithaca2230 N. Triphammer Rd.

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Summer atVrherever they

go to school or college, your

children can be Cornellians

this summer! By joining us for

the 1996 Cornell University

Summer Session, your

children or grandchildren

can experience the people,

the place, and the love of

learning that made Cornell

so important to you.

Call or write today for a

Summer Session catalog.

School of Continuing Educationand Summer SessionsCornell UniversityB20 Day HallIthaca, NY 14853-2801Telephone: (607) 255-4987Fax: (607) 255-9697E-mail: ss@sce.comell.edu

Summer programs are also offered for alumni, friends, and high school students.To learn more, contact us or visit our Web site at http://www.sce.cornell.edu/

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REAL ESTATEARIZONA—RESIDENTIAL SALES & RELOCATIONS.Commercial Sales & Investment Opportunities. Mar-tin Gershowitz 7 1 , Navajo Land and Realty, 4325 N.Wells Fargo, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. (602) 817-0113,(602)451-3866.

FLORIDA—PALM BEACH COUNTY. Relocation, resi-dential or commercial. Ask tor Robbie Johnson, Bro-ker/Manager, Boardwalk Realty, West Palm Beach.(407) 790-0500 or evenings, (407) 798-0824.

The Caribbean

ST. CROIX, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDSLUXURY RENTALS

Condominiums, Private homes, VillasMango scented breezesWaving banana frondsSunlight dappled ocean

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ST. JOHN, USVI—Fully equipped studios on water-front. One/two bdrm. luxury condos, walking dis-tance to beach, restaurants. Pools, A/C. Fabulouswater views. Rates from $95-239. Brochures.1-800-858-7989.

ST. BARTS, F.W.I.—The getaway you deserve!Luxurious villa. Pool. Maid. Privacy. Gardens. Nearbygreat beaches, restaurants, shops. (304) 598-3454.

ST. JOHN—2 bedrooms, pool, covered deck. Quietelegance. Spectacular view. (508) 668-2078.

ST. JOHN, USVI—Three separate hillside homes, withvarying accommodations, lovely ocean and Coral Bayviews, beautifully furnished and equipped. (520) 762-5946.

ST. JOHN, VIRGIN ISLANDS—6BR, 5-1/2 bath pri-vate villa. Near beach. Ocean views. 2-12 persons. Fur-nished. Pool. Spa. Jacuzzi. Fax. Conference room.Weekly: Summer $2,800/6-$3,605/12. Winter $4,550/6-$5,495/12. Video available. Phone/Fax (809) 774-7551.

EuropePARIS—LEFT BANK APARTMENT: Near DΌrsay, Lou-vre, Rodin. Sunny. Fireplaces. Antiques. Luxuriouslyfurnished. Memorable! (304) 598-3454.

LONDON, ENGLAND—Why a hotel? Consider our lux-ury self-catering Apartments in Mayfair. Competitiverates. British Breaks, Box 1176, Middleburg, VA 22117.Tel. (703) 687-6971. Fax (703) 687-6291.

FRANCE, DORDOGNE—Attractive 2BR house, gardenin medieval village. Special rates April, May. (513)221-1253.

PARIS: LEFT BANK—Charming apartment off Seinein 6th. Near Louvre, Notre Dame. (609) 924-4332.

FRANCE—if you can't spend a year in Provence, howabout 2 weeks? Tel., (90 11 44) 181 348 0193. Fax,(90 11 44)181 340 5001.

ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND—Fully furnished flat on2nd floor overlooking 18th green Old Course avail-able from June. Two bedrooms, large sitting room/dining room, kitchenette, bathroom. Minimum let 1week, £500 per week including all services. ContactGalloway. Telephone/Fax 011.44.1334.476627.

United StatesKAUAI, HAWAII COTTAGES—Peace. Palms. Paradise.Cozy Tropical Getaway. $80/day. (808) 822-2321.

BOCA GRANDE—Florida like it was years ago. Twobedroom, two bath condo on water. Tennis, pool, dock.Off-season rates. PO Box 876, Ithaca, NY 14851. (607)273-2952.

NANTUCKET—Award-winning, architect-designed, 3BR, 3 BA home in exclusive resort community, pooland tennis courts, walk to historic district, bike tobeaches, fully equipped, antique furnishings, $150-$290/day. Also available Christmas stroll, other holi-day weekends. (908) 730-9497.

VAIL—Two bedroom condo. On free bus route. TV,VCR, HίFi, fireplace. Deck over private pond. Reason-able. (800) 465-8184 or e-mail, josephas®aol.com.

SANTA FE—One bedroom guest house in mountains,10 miles from Plaza, with awesome views. $600 week-ly. Baileys'81. (201) 543-0743.

FLORIDA WEST COAST—Anna Maria Island lovelynew townhouse. 3 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, screenedporch, pool. One block from beautiful beach. Week,month and off-season rates. Call owner's agent (813)778-7244.

ADIRONDACKS—Remote lakefront cabins/lodge.Family reunions or workshops. (212) 595-5992.

EXCHANGE NAPLES, FLORIDA condominium withprivate beach club privileges for central Paris apart-ment. 2-4 weeks, dates flexible. Three-bedroom/2baths directly on golf course. Non-smokers only. Callor FAX (314) 367-1202 or (941) 592-7230.

BASEBALL memorabilia, cards, POLITICAL Pins, Rib-

bons, Banners, AUTOGRAPHS, STOCKS, BONDSwanted. High prices paid. Paul Longo, Box 5510-K,Magnolia, MA 01930.

MANUSCRIPTS WANTED—Subsidy publisher with75-year tradition. Call 1-800-695-9599.

FINANCIAL BACKERS WANTED to complete record-ing project with Cornell University student. Interestexpressed by major record labels and publishers. ArmsReach Management (401) 949-2004.

PERSONALS

IVY & SEVEN SISTERS GRADS & FACULTY—Datesomeone in your league. A civilized, affordable wayto meet fellow alumni and colleagues. The Right Stuff.1-800-988-5288.

TRAVELEDUCATIONAL/GOURMET

New Zealand

INTIMATE small group tours combining rainforests, gla-ciers, fiords, hiking, wildlife encounters, cozy lodges, finedining and more! Summer and winter departures avail-able. Black Sheep Touring. 1-800-206-8322.

FLORIDA KEYS, BIG PINE KEY—Fantastic open waterview, Key Deer Refuge, National Bird Sanctuary, stilthouse, 3/2, screened porches, fully furnished, stainedglass windows, swimming, diving, fishing, boat basin,non-smoking, starting at $1,700/week. (305) 665-3832.

DELUXE WALKING IN BRITAIN—Tours through idyllicvillages/countryside using charming, country hotels. En-joy heritage Britain with knowledgeable, local experts.Brochure: Greenscape, Croyde, Devon, England. Tel/Faxdial 01144-211-890677.

KIAWAH ISLAND—Only resort community with 10 milesof private Atlantic beach just 30 minutes to HistoricCharleston for shopping, dining and touring. The finestfamily vacations and prime real estate on the East Coast.Ravenel Associates. Discriminating Family Vacations, 1-800-845-3911, Ext. 534. Finest Properties For Sale, 1-800-763-7653, Ext. 534.

PARTY FAVORS/GIFTS

CROSSWORD^ PUZZLES, NEWSLETTERS custom-de-signed. Heart-shaped puzzles for weddings, marriage pro-posals, anniversaries. Irene Wrenner '86 (201) 670-0582.

SAIL BOAT CHARTER

45' Freedom "Silver Fox", Tortola, BVI. Bare or crew.Phone Sue at 1-800-999-2909 or Manley at (407) 659-1183.

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OLD YEARBOOKS—Peter A. Curtiss '56, now retiredat HCR 1 Box 15, Lake Simond Road, Tupper Lake,NY 12986 lists Cornellians currently available: '32,'33, '36, '37, '39-'42, '44, '46-'49, '52-'56, '58, '61,'63, '65-'67, '69, 70, 73, 75-78, '80, '81, 'δS-'δδ,'87-Ό1. Curtiss buys most after '40, especially thosenot listed.

CATALOGS

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ATLANTA1996 SUMMER GAMES

OLYMPIC FESTIVAL SPONSOR wants distributors.1-800-743-1568.

NEED A PLACE TO STAY?—Buckhead Brokers Real-tors can match you with one of thousands of condos/houses throughout Atlanta! Are you buying or sellinga home? I can match you with an experienced realtoranywhere in North America! For any real estate ser-vices, call: Lori (Penner) Hurwitz '82, (770) 594-2078(w); (770) 663-4159 (h).

ATHENS-ATLANTA area private homes, $200-$400/bedroom/night, Jennifer Wenner Realty, (706) 353-3157; Fax, (706) 549-2507; wejb52a@prodigy.com.

RENTAL—4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, 1-1/2 miles toMARTA Station. (404) 350-8489, ext. 119 (daytime).

ATLANTA OLYMPICS HOUSE RENTAL—Sleeps six(nursery), great location: (770) 972-1802.

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New York/OntarioMarch 16. Spring fling—details to beannounced. Call Mary Wright (716) 345-9422. CWC/Batavia.

March 16. Matinee at the Cornell Centerfor Theatre Arts and lunch at the Statler.Call Enid Cruse (607) 844-8926. CWC/Ithaca.

March 19. Speaker Sharon Stevans onlong-term care in Cortland, at the homeof Judy Riehlman, 6:30 p.m., E. LittleYork Rd., Homer, NY. Call KathleenPutnam (607) 836-6172. CWC/CortlandCounty.

March 3 1 . An afternoon with WilsonGreatbatch EE '50, inventor of the im-plantable pacemaker. Call Bob Belden(716) 839-2777. CC/Greater Buffalo andCornell Society of Engineers.

April 8. Cornell American Indian Programwith Prof. Jane Mt. Pleasant. Call EvelynMorrison (315) 469-4292. CWC/Syra-cuse.

April 11-13. Information Technology atCornell and Beyond, annual conference ofthe Cornell Society of Engineers. CallJeanne Subialka (607) 255-9920. AA/Johnson School of Management.

April 13. Volleyball at Hot Shots. Anafternoon of "pick-up" on the sandycourts. Call John DΆrpino (716) 352-7105, CAA/Greater Rochester.

NortheastMarch 29. Speaker Richard Shriver onefforts in Russia to develop business anddemocracy. Greenwich Hyatt, Greenwich,CT. Call Tanis Reid (203) 333-1027. CC/Fairfield County.

April 3. Luncheon—details to be an-nounced. Call Larry Persson (508) 771-1485. CC/Cape Cod.

Mid AtlanticApril 13. Cornell Plantations at LongwoodGardens in Kennett Square, PA. Full-dayprogram of tours and lectures by Cornellfaculty. Call Jane Waiter (302) 453-8551. CC/Delaware.

April 13. Mid-Atlantic Cornell Clubs willgather at Longwood Gardens for tours,lectures by Cornell faculty—details to beannounced. Call Shannon Gallivan (410)522-5029. CC/Maryland.

April 13. Cornell Plantations at LongwoodGardens—full day program of tours andlectures by Cornell faculty. Call SharonBader (610) 534-7000. CC/GreaterPhiladelphia.

April 13. Cornell Plantations at LongwoodGardens—full day program. Call SandraBricker (717) 399-9096 or Marcia Sutter(717) 393-9638. CC/Lancaster.

SoutheastMarch 24. Annual meeting/poolsidepicnic at Worthington Country Club. CallNeena Lurvey (941) 495-8576. CAA/Southwest Florida.

March 24. Cornell day at Royal PalmBeach polo. CC/Eastem Florida will joinus for a tailgate party beside the polofield. Call Bob Geisler (407) 395-2315. CC/Gold Coast.

March 24. Royal Palm Beach polo, co-sponsored with CC/Gold Coast. CallErnest Smith (407) 745-8915. CC/Eastern Florida.

April 3. Total lunar eclipse. Call NeenaLurvey (941) 495-8576. CAA/South-west Florida.

April 8. Cornell debate tournament, 6p.m., Jacksonville. Call Bob Mark (904)249-7667. CC/Greater Jacksonville.

April 8. Monthly luncheon, noon, at theEngineers Club, 10 E. Franklin St. CallStan Preston (804) 359-4446 no laterthan the first Thursday of the month.CC/Central Virginia.

April 11. Faculty speaker: JohnFitzpatrick, director, lab of ornithology,on conservation of the ecology ofFlorida. Call Dean Bock (941) 925-8441. CC/Sarasota-Manatee.

April 12. All-Ivy event with Cornell asthe host—details to be announced. CallNeena Lurvey (941) 495-8576. CAA/Southwest Florida

April 12. Bridge night—proceeds will goto scholarship fund. 12 person mini-mum. Call Bob Loewenthal (404) 892-6292. CAA/Atianta.

April 14. Cornell Day at the DreherPark Zoo. Call Esther Bondareff (407)793-6633. CC/Eastern Florida.

ChicagoApril 1 1 . Cornell debate at WesternIllinois University, Macomb, IL. Call GigiJones (312) 988-9416. CC/Chicago.

HoustonMarch 17. Romeo & Juliet at theHouston Ballet with dinner afterwards.Call Michael Greenberg (713) 513-2189. CAA/Greater Houston.

ArizonaMarch 17. A day at Turf Paradise racetrack, 1501 W. Bell Rd., Phoenix.Silent auction and buffet lunch. CallDouglas Wright (602) 274-5162. CC/Arizona.

For updated information on CornellClub Events, call the Office of AlumniAffairs at (607) 255-3517.

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AUTHORS

The Troubles inBelfast

In Departures (University of Pitts-burgh Press), Jennifer C. Cornell'sBelfast is a city of violence and pa-ralysis. Cornell, MFA '94, knows thepoverty, pride and sheer enduranceof Belfasters. Violence lurks in the

background of her stories, but more of-ten it's an offstage event. Her real con-cern is to portray the pivotal event in acharacter's life, the brink of illumination,the moment that deter-mines a fate.

In "The Start of theSeason" a mixed couple,Catholic and Protestant,holiday in Italy. Theydine with an Englishcouple who asks themincreasingly lurid ques-tions about life in Bel-fast. He calmly answersthe ignorant and preju-diced questions. Shegrows more irritated asthe meal progresses,contemptuous of the En-glish, yet angrier with her boyfriend forrevealing so much personal information.After the meal she asks him why he toldthem so much. He says, "My way, theygo home thinking at least some of usaren't terrorists. Your way—I don't un-derstand your way." He refuses to seethe discomfort he causes; she refuses tobudge even when she remembers ashared joke. The irony is that they arepeace workers but still feel the "tug ofunrealized conflicts."

The narrator of "Hydrophobic" re-members* an exercise at peace campcalled a trust fall, where one personstands inside a ring of people and truststhat they will catch him when he falls.One of the boys refused to participate."No one would do anything after that,and the rest of the week went trying toremember just how much each of us hadtold the others, . . . wondering if we'dgiven too much away." In "Outtake" aconversational slip turns fatal. A youngman finally meets a girl he can talk toeasily at the local pub. They seem to be

Jennifer C.Cornell

hitting it off when, as they're remember-ing childhood superstitions, he inno-cently calls rosary beads "rosemarybeads," revealing that he is Protestant,the enemy.

Many of Cornell's first-person nar-rators are girls or young women awak-ening to a sense of life's sadness. Theadult characters are, in the words of thepoet Stevie Smith, "waving, not drown-ing." Bleak years of unemployment andscraping by erode the will of the men,who eventually stop even looking forwork. In a reversal of roles, women keeptheir families economically afloat. Thecharming but ineffectual father in "Un-dertow" tells his daughter beautiful sto-ries, stories which a friend says couldearn him a fortune. Meanwhile, his wifesews trousers for the neighborhood andcreates a wedding gown for a woman whobelieves a fortune teller's prophecy ofmarriage. A chance job interview for thefather comes to naught, and the narratoroverhears her father's despair expressedin the same form as his stories. The re-peated appearance of paramilitary graf-fiti on the family's house gives a sinisterspin to the story. Returning from a sea-side excursion, they find the most elabo-rate painting yet. A golden youth leads acrowd of people carrying banners thatread, "Opportunity! Culture! Houses!Jobs! Education for All!"—an insistentreminder of the things this family lacks.

"Departures," the title story, dealswith two deaths and two householdmoves, and besides demonstratingCornell's apt choice of titles, is one ofthe subtlest stories in the collection. Atragicomedy that shows no good deedgoes unpunished, it recounts the after-math of a beloved wife's death and thefailed attempts of her husband to honorher wishes. For years, the wife had pe-titioned the housing authority for a placeout of the Shankill Road, but she dies dur-ing pregnancy. On the day before thefuneral word comes that there's an open-ing, and her husband seizes upon thetransfer as his wife's dying wish. Thefamily moves into the new flat, a dismal,smelly place. He decides to move thefamily into an abandoned house, and histroubles begin in earnest. Father is black-mailed into keeping an eye on Harry, thelocal octogenarian, by Harry's pettynephew. Father changes from beingquiet, almost anonymous, to beingknown as "Harry's keeper." He takes apart-time, unreported job—he's collect-ing unemployment—not only to bring inextra money but to get away from Harryonce in a while. Harry dies while the fam-

ily is vacationing at the sea, and thenephew not only blames Father for thedeath but plans to turn him in for a 50-pound reward. The narrator contrastsHarry's grim funeral with her mother'swake, which was "a final triumph of onetradition over another." She had imag-ined her mother watching the people atthe wake, and tried to tell this to herfather, hoping to assuage his grief. "ButI was young and inarticulate; when I toldhim I could see her he grasped me bythe arms as I stood before him and shookme, asking where, where."

Cornell is the third student fromCornell University's Master of Fine ArtsProgram in fiction writing in the last fouryears to win the prestigious Drue HeinzLiterature Prize for a collection of shortstories. The prize includes a $10,000cash award and publication by the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh Press. ElizabethGraver, MFA '91, PhD '94 won for hercollection, Have You Seen Me, andStewart O'Nan, MFA '92, won for his col-lection, In the Walled City (see October1994 Cornell Magazine).

This is a book of quiet detonations,muted epiphanies. Cornell portrays thegrayness that seeps into her characters'lives. To confuse that grayness with herprose would be a mistake, for she writeswith great intelligence. Her strongly con-trolled lyricism and penetrating psychol-ogy make Departures a fine collection.

—Chris Furst

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Florida Bird Species: An AnnotatedList by William B. Robertson Jr. andGien E. Woolfenden '53 (Florida Or-nithological Society). A list of andcommentary on the 461 verified spe-cies of birds to be found in Florida.

The Metaphysics of Free Will: AnEssay on Control by John MartinFischer, PhD '82 (Blackwell Publish-ers). A philosophical investigation intoquestions of regulative and guidancecontrol, God and free will.

The Fate of Eloquence in the Ageof Hume by Adam Potkay '82(Cornell University Press). An explo-ration of the fate of eloquence, usingHume's philosophy as a key to theliterature of the mid-18th century.

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