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16 Outstanding in Distant FieldsBY DANIEL GROSS

Toni Morrison and Robert Fogel bothwent to Cornell, both made momentouscontributions to their respective fieldsand both were awarded 1993 NobelPrizes. That's where the similaritiesend, and begin.

20 The IcemanBY KEVIN HAYNES

The cognoscenti say Gary Bettman, theNational Hockey League's commissioner,is crazy for trying to sell professionalhockey in America, where icing is some-thing that goes on a cake. But Bettmaninsists he can make hip checks hip.

26 Queen LearBY LISA BENNETT

A woman playing King Lear, men playing Regan,Cordelia and Goneril, Shakespeare's parable ofpower transformed to a tale of dying parents—onlythe Center for Theatre Art's David Feldshuhwould turn the Bard on his ear in such fashion.But did it work?

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2 NewsCampus administrators say politics are at play asCornell loses a particle accelerator bid to Stanford.

6 LettersEnough on Fred Marcham, already; kind words fromthe Judge; WW Π-era Cornellians correct us.

8 FacultyProfessor Isaac Kramnick wrote the book onsocialist Harold Laski.

10 ResearchAre scientists well-intentioned montsters? Redrobots.

12 StudentsThe first time freshman Barnaby Marsh entered aclassroom was when he enrolled at Cornell this fall.

14 SportsThe Ithaca Journal's Kenny Van Sickle has beenchronicling Red sports since Fanny was a girl's name.

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NEWS

Cornell loses Accelerator Bidto

U niversity administrators react-ed with disappointment anddismay to the announcementin October by President Clin-ton that United States Secre-

tary of Energy Hazel O'Leary hadrecommended the construction of ahigh energy physics facility knownas the B-factory at the StanfordLinear Accelerator Center in Cal-ifornia rather than at Cornell.

In a sharply worded state-ment, Cornell President FrankH.T. Rhodes said, "We have yetto see a full statement from Sec-retary O'Leary, but we will behard pressed to understand howin these difficult fiscal times thefederal government can justifyawarding the project to a facilitywhere it will cost $100 millionmore to accomplish the samescientific objectives than it wouldif built here at Cornell."

B-mesons are manufacturedwhen antimatter and matter col-lide in a high-energy accelerator.By studying the collision andresulting B-mesons scientistshope to learn more not only aboutthe prevalence of matter in theuniverse but about the origins ofthe universe itself.

Rhodes continued, "We'vebeen at a disadvantage on thisproject since early this year,when the Administration deter-mined to award the project toStanford without any semblanceof peer review of the competingproposals. We were successful atthat time in causing an indepen-dent review to be undertaken bya panel of distinguished scientists,although the Department of En-ergy insisted that the reviewpanel should neither undertakea direct comparison of the twoproposals nor make a recommen-

dation as to award. While the De-partment of Energy has continuouslyrefused to make public the paneΓsreport, it is our understanding thatit confirmed Cornell's position in allmajor respects: namely, that bothfacilities could accomplish the sci-entific objectives of the project, and

that Cornell's would be far less ex-pensive due to its substantial exist-ing B-meson research capacity. Wecontinue to call for the release ofthe full text of the review panel'sreport, so that all concerned will havethe benefit of this group's analysis."

The high energy physics accel-

makeseveryone climbthe wallssometimes,includingPresident FrankH, 7. Rhodes,who donnedclimbing gearto tackle theLindsethClimbing Wallduring a visit ofPresidentialCouncillors inOctober.

In othernews fromAlberding, theOutdoorEducationprogramrecently movedinto its new5,500-footheadquarters,the PhillipsOutdoorProgramCenter, whichfeatures aclassroom,offices, alibrary, trippreparationarea and a gearrental center.

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGOFebruary 11-22,1994

Join us for "Islands and the Sea: Natural Life inTrinidad and Tobago" led by CAU favorite JohnB. Heiser, Director of Cornell's Shoals MarineLaboratory and recipient of the Clark Award forDistinguished Teaching. We'll explore thebeautiful forests and highlands of Trinidad andthe gorgeous beaches, coves, and tropicalwoodlands of Tobago. The per person, doubleoccupancy program fee is $2685. Air fare fromNew York is an additional $490. (This programcurrently has a short waitlist.)

AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIAFebruary 11-28,1994

We've got room for six for CAU's thirdadventure "Down Under" with Jack and LouiseKingsbury. We'll spend time in and aroundSydney and Melbourne, take a two-day junketto an outback agricultural station, and explorethe pristine and memorable landscapes ofTasmania (we promise you will not want toleave Tasmania once you've been there!) Theper person, double occupancy land program feeis $3400; group air from the U.S. and withinAustralia is $1532.

NEW ORLEANS ANDTHE BAYOUSMarch 20-27,1994

If you've never sampled the pleasures of NewOrleans or voyaged throughout the vast andbeautiful Bayous lowlands of Louisiana, pleasegive us a call. Historian Dan Usner hasbecome a regular at CAU; he's a wonderfulteacher and companion for this foray into thehistory, culture, architecture, cuisine, andnatural environment of low-country Louisiana.The per person, double occupancy program feeis $1250.

HAWAII: MAUI ANDTHE BIG ISLANDMarch 19-27,1994

From their verdant, mid-Pacific platform, theHawaiian islands offer unforgettable testimonyto the processes creating heaven and earth.Join Yervant Terzian, chairman of Cornell'sdepartment of astronomy, recipient of theClark Award for Distinguished Teaching, andleader of many CAU seminars, for explorationsin astronomy and natural history along theKona coast and atop Mauna Kea on the BigIsland of Hawaii, and for examination ofHaleakala, Lahaina, and the coastal waters ofMaui. You'll enjoy ocean-front hotels on bothislands. The per person, double occupancyprogram fee is $2290. Airfare to and from themainland is extra.

THEATRE IN DUBLINAND LONDONMay 5-15,1994

When one thinks of great theatre, Londoncomes first to mind, which is why CAUers havebeen enjoying theatre expeditions there formany years with Professors Anthony Caputiand Alain Seznec. This year, we've decided, inaddition to enjoying London theatre, to alsotake advantage of the pleasures and variety oftheatre in Dublin, Ireland, the birthplace ofJames Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, andSamuel Beckett. Join us for exciting produc-tions, behind-the-scenes visits, and dailyseminars. The per person, double occupancyprogram fee is $2595, exclusive of air.

ECOLOGY WEEKEND AT CAPEMAY, NEW JERSEYMay 12—15,1994

Spaces are still available for CAU's "Ecology inthe Migration Season," a weekend seminar atCape May, New Jersey with Robert Budliger,Richard B. Fischer, Anne Galli, and RichardMcNeil. Join us for field trips inland and alongthe coast as we explore avian colonies andcoastal ecologies. As hundreds of pastparticipants know, this is a delightful way to getaway for the weekend with wonderful teachersand a warm, friendly group of nature lovers. Theper person, double occupancy program fee is$470.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'SWASHINGTONMay 18-22,1994

Join CAU favorite Joel Silbey, the PresidentWhite Professor of History and recipient of theClark Award for Distinguished Teaching, for aseminar at the Cornell-in-Washington centerand for daily field trips to key Civil War sites inand near Washington, D.C. Out-of-townparticipants will enjoy accommodations at theOmni Georgetown hotel; commuters arewelcome too. The per person, doubleoccupancy program fee is $860. A commuterrate (which varies with the number of mealsyou select) is available too.

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erator would have cost about $120million to build at Cornell, which hasbeen the leading researcher in thefield of B-mesons. The project willcost about $230 million to build atStanford, and when fully operation-al, will make Stanford the leader inthe field. The decision to build inCalifornia is seen by many to havemore to do with California's de-pressed economy and large numberof electoral college votes than withmatters of science.

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITYPresident Frank H.T. Rhodes pre-sented his annual State of the Uni-

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versity address to the UniversityFaculty and the Faculty Council ofRepresentitives October 6. Rhodessaid, "There is a lot of skepticism

Red's onTop Ten List

Cornell is Number Ten on a fist of thenation's best universities published inU.S. News & World Report's 1994 Col-lege Issue. Cornell was ranked ninth in1990, but had dropped to 12th in 1991.Cornell edged out Columbia, whichdropped to llth on the list, in partbecause only 17 percent of Columbia'sgraduates gave money to their almamater in the previous two years.Twenty-six percent of alumni sentmoney to Cornell in that same period.Harvard was ranked first.

The plight of American children and their families is desperate, accord-ing to a recent analysis by Urie Bronfenbrenner '38, the Jacob GouldSchurman professor emeritus of human development and family studies andof psychology. Using a variety of measures, ranging from the number ofchildren living in single-parent families to the number of teenage pregnanciesand percentage of children living in poverty, the analysis shows that Americanchildren and their families, when compared to the children of other devel-oped nations, rank among the lowest. Bronfenbrenner blames the Americanneglect of children and their families on excessive individualism, work stressand the frenzied pace of modern American life.

Bronfenbrenner says, "We have earned the dubious distinction of doingless for our families and children than any other industrialized nation. This isthe most serious domestic problem we have faced since the founding of theRepublic. We are depriving millions of children of their competence and moralcharacter."

Bronfenbrenner, founder of the national Head Start program, reportedsome of his findings in the 1992 book Child Care in Context: Cross CulturalPerspectives, Among the findings, which compared the United States, Japan,Canada and Western Europe:•Child care—the United States ranks in the bottom third.•Preschool—the United States is the only country with no federal preschoolprogram for children under the age of 3.•Health care—America is the only country that does not provide universalhealth care to all its children.•Family structure—Americans have the highest divorce rate in the world.•Economics—the United States has a high percentage of children living inpoverty (nearly 25 percent of children under the age of 6).•Teenage pregnancy and birth—America has the highest rate of teenagebirth and pregnancy (one of every ten girls aged 15 through 19).Tor years," Bronfenbrenner says, Ί have been warning that things will haveto get worse before they will get better. It looks like we may have made it. Itremains to be seen, however, whether ever more desolation in the quality ofthe next generation of Americans is required before our country will act."

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of the integrity of the university," andthat the cost of education was under-going "intense public scrutiny." But,he continued, "Students and facultyhave to speak up and tell it like it is,"have to encourage each other to be-come "more than the sum of our parts."

Rhodes went on to say that whilethe university's budget "finishedagain in balance," there was, none-theless, "a measure of belt-tighten-ing" recently. Rhodes concluded thatdespite the recent difficulties, "Wehaven't begun to tap the resourcesthat are Cornell."

EMERITUS PROFESSORKILLED

Emeritus Professor of NutritionDaphne A. Roe was killed Septem-ber 22 in the town of Covert, NewYork, when the car she was drivingcollided with a truck. Roe retired inJune after teaching nutrition at Cor-nell for 33 years, but had plannedto continue research and work withgraduate students in the Division ofNutritional Sciences. For the pastfew years, Roe had been pursuinga second career, taking classes at aRochester seminary, preparing toserve in the Episcopal ministry. Sheis survived by three children.

HISTORIC HANDSHAKEGovernment Prof. Shibley Telhami,a specialist in Middle East politics,attended September's White Housesigning of the mutual recognitionagreement between the PalestineLiberation Organization's head, Ya-sir Arafat, and Israeli Prime Minis-ter Yitzak Rabin.

"This is a stunning agreement,and you cannot underestimate its im-portance," Telhami says. "Resolv-ing the Palestinian conflict has al-ways been Israel's passport to therest of the Arab world. The gatesare now opening.

"Both sides took enormous risks.You must give credit to Arafat andRabin for making this historical com-promise. It is not entirely what ei-ther of them wants, but without ei-ther of them, this agreement wouldnot be taking place."

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ALUMNI WOUNDED INMoscow UNREST

Two recent grads, Otto Pohl '91 andJulie Brooks '93, were wounded bygunfire during the power struggle be-tween Russian President Boris Yeltsinand members of the Russian Parlia-ment. Pohl, a photographer for The NewYork Times, was shot in the chest, andBrooks, a paralegal in Moscow, wasshot in the hip and the back. Brookswas recovering at her family's homein Pennsylvania and Pohl was expect-ed to return to the United States inNovember.

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LETTERS

A Break MarchamwiseEditor: Please, can't we have at leastone issue of Cornell Magazine with-out a tribute to Frederick G. Mar-cham, a memorial to him or an es-say by him? I had Freddie Marchamas a lecturer in English history, andhe was by all odds the dullest lec-turer I ever encountered. For hisage, at least: I had one duller one,but he was doddering with age. Fred-die was young.

The problem may have been thesubject, but there was quite a bit ofdrama scattered through Englishhistory (I have since found out) andI don't recall any of it from the lec-tures. The problem might even havebeen this particular student, thoughI discount that possibility. Anyway,give us a break Marchamwise, okay?

Robert L. Bates '34Columbus, Ohio

CANOES AND COMPUTERSEditor: Writer Dana Nigro did a finejob of writing about the work I dowith my students using the Educa-tor's Software Package ("Is the Text-book Dead?" September). This is anexciting time to be teaching at thecollege level, and my students areresponding in such positiveways.

Readers may also beinterested in anotherunique course-related ac-tivity. Seven students inmy class, Natural Re-sources 404: Wildlife Popu-lations Ecology, and I re-cently took a five-day ca-noe trip into the roadlesswilderness area of Ontario'sAlgonquin Park. We looked at north-ern habitats of moose. Class timeduring the remainder of the semes-ter is devoted to computer model-ing of moose and wolf populations,using ESP software, of course.

Next year, we will bring a por-table computer into the field withus and do on-site data collection andanalyses. We will have text and im-

age files available for many of theplants and animals we encounter,thus giving the students academicinformation "on the spot" to supple-ment their field observations. Thisis yet another attempt on my partto introduce students to 21st cen-tury technology and information pro-cessing.

Prof. Aaron N. MoenDepartment of Natural Resources

Ithaca, New York

OLD SUNSEditor: In May, while travelingthrough the Mississippi Delta on ablues pilgrimage, my wife and I vis-ited the North Delta Museum in thehamlet of Friars Point. Amid thedusty collection of Civil War mem-orabilia, chain-gang leg irons, andcaptured World War II trophies, wewere astonished to find a pile of near-mint condition Cornell Daily Sunsfrom the 1889-90 academic year. Themuseum attendant had no idea howthey got there.

Some items gleaned from thepast:

•The Sun itself was a four-pagepaper selling for three cents a copy,

or $3 for an annual sub-scription. Over half thecolumn-inches were ad-vertising (one TheodoreZinck consistently adver-tised "the most popularstudent resort in the City.Everything clean andwholesome" at 8-10North Aurora Street);school sports and class

activities accounted for most of theremaining space.

•According to the President'sAnnual Report, enrollment was 1,229students, of which only 667 paid tu-ition averaging $70 per year. Lin-coln Hall had to be used as a dor-mitory, and new buildings for chem-istry, law and agriculture were pro-posed—a total of $255,000 in newconstruction.

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•The football team shut out fouropponents by scores of 20-0, 24-0,60-0 and an unbelievable 120-0, andwas defeated by Yale 70-0.

•Under the headline "An Ill-Ad-vised Prank," the Sun criticized stu-dents who stole the Rochester Pal-ace Laundry sign and placed it out-side a Unitarian Church. The Sunpontificated that "the sooner studentslearn to be gentlemen on all occa-sions, the sooner will the reputationof the University become what itought to be." Elsewhere,the Sun noted that "certainstudents seem to havetaken advantage of the lib-erality of the military de-partment to get excusedfrom drill in order to playfootball, and then neglectpractice."

•In a somewhat ambiguous col-umn, the Sun presented "the origi-nal version of our popular song 'AlmaMater'." This cannot have been thefirst time it appeared in print, since"it is widely known as one of thefinest college songs published." Thefirst verse consists of what we nowsing as the first and second verses,and the chorus is "Ever rolling, surg-ing onward/Glad her praises tell," etc.

If anyone can elucidate a late 19thcentury Delta/Cornell connection, orexplain the significance of this print-ing of the full "Alma Mater," I wouldbe very interested to hear from himor her.

Paul M. Cashman 73North Reading, Massachusetts

Readers with any insights to such aconnection can send them to CornellMagazine.

MALAISE PHASEEditor: Academia's malaise surfac-es in the article on Professor Sand-er Gilman ("Defender of the Acade-my," September), wherein he de-plores the dismal state of the jobmarket, the economic state of theacademy, (blaming President Reagan,under whose administration morejobs were created than ever beforein peacetime), and says he wantsmore diversity of courses, with moreminority students, so that multicul-turalism, the literacy canon, and po-

litical correctness will be served.No mention was made of improv-

ing the quality of teaching nor ofproducing graduates better preparedto succeed in the competitive envi-ronment of the real world. Instead,the professor wants his students toenjoy a free ride on the Internethighway, with others paying the tolls,and more student loans. In short,he is looking for more free hand-outs to be used to support his so-cialistic agenda.

While the cost of acollege education in-creases at four times therate of inflation, professorsteach less, leaving moreto their assistants whilethey write op-ed articles,and complain more, whileputting out a product less

able to produce and survive in thereal world. Policing students'thoughts to concur with the politi-cal correctness of multicultural di-versity, as Sheldon Hackney did atPennsylvania and as Gilman indi-cates he supports, is counter to whatthe true charter of academia has al-ways been, that of the free exchangeof ideas. Gilman, Hackney and theirilk are destroying the academy,rather than defending it.

Richard S. Reade, Jr. '51Setauket, NY

COURT COMPLIMENTEditor: Compliments to Daniel Grossfor the care he took in composingthe article on me in your Septem-ber issue.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg '53Washington, D.C.

POLE TALESEditor: I am a senior working onrestoring the totem pole that Pro-fessor Fernow brought to Cornellfrom Cape Fox, Alaska in 1899. Onceon campus, the pole first stood bythe Old Armory, and later may havebeen in McGraw Hall. In the 1930sit was erected at Arnot Forest. Ifany alumni have either black andwhite or color photographs of thepole, from any angle, I would verymuch appreciate copies; they wouldbe helpful to me in my work. Pleaseindicate the approximate date that

the photograph was taken. Othermemories or information of the polewould also be most welcome. Pleasesend care of Professor Peter Kuni-holm, B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

Rae Ostman '94Ithaca, NY

Correction: Several readers wrote totell us of errors in the article "TheV-12s Remember" in the Septemberissue. The primary error was theuse of V-12 as a generic term to de-scribe all the military personnel sentto Cornell during the war. As Her-bert Canter '47points out, therewere other categories of militarypeople here, among them V-5s (na-val aviators) and V-7s (officer can-didates). The V in each designationstood for volunteer, not victory, asJohn Alden '43 and others point outThose men who studied diesel engi-neering—V-7s—were officers. Thediesel school was in place before theV-12 program began on July 1,1943. We regret the errors.

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A life on the LeftH arold Laski was the most

talked-about socialist of histime. A professor of politicalscience at the London Schoolof Economics, author of 20

books and thousands of essays andchairman of the British Labour Partywhen it won election in 1945, Laskiwas a highly influential figure inBritish and American politics in the1920s, '30s and '40s.

"He was the last great public in-tellectual," says Isaac Kramnick, theRichard J. Schwartz professor of gov-ernment and coauthor, with BarrySheerman, of a new biography ofLaski, Harold Laski: A Life on theLeft. "We don't have people like himanymore, not on that scale and notthat are easily recognizable by ev-eryone," Kramnick says, noting thatLaski could write for many audi-ences. He was a scholar who alsocontributed regularly to The Nation,The New Republic and Harper's] healso wrote a weekly column for theDaily Herald, a British newspaper.

"Mostly academics write for theircolleagues, to see who can outdo theother with more theoretical insights,and their language is largely impen-etrable to ordinary readers," saysKramnick, who describes the diminu-tive Laski as a giant among publicintellectuals at a time when therewere many, including Walter Lipp-man, Max Lerner and George Ber-nard Shaw, who all wrote for masscirculation papers.

Kramnick and Sheerman's 592-page book is "a monument to an agethat is past," Kramnick says, an agenot only when political thought andpublic opinion were closely linked,but a time too when democratic so-cialism was a real alternative to ei-ther capitalism or Soviet commu-nism.

Harold Laski: A Life on the Leftwas published in London in June—Viking Penguin brought out theAmerican version last month—andwon praise from British reviewers."A thumping great biography... of

a half-forgotten Marxist academic andLabour Party activist. The book readslike a novel said The Independent."With steady scholarship, occasionalwit and a sense of balance the au-thors rehabilitate Laski without try-

him. They became fast friends andhave since led Cornell Adult Uni-versity (CAU) courses together;Sheerman has played host to theCornell Club of London's annual din-ner for visiting students.

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Kramnick's book on Laski has been praised as "A thumping greatbiography... that reads like a novel."

ing to beatify him," claimed The Ob-server.

The idea of writing a biographyof Laski came from Kramnick's co-author, Sheerman, a Labour mem-ber of Parliament. Before his elec-tion to the House of Commons in1979, Sheerman taught Americanstudies at the University of Swanseain Wales. The coauthors met in 1985in London, where Kramnick was onsabbatical leave from Cornell andSheerman happened to be supervis-ing Parliament's internship program,which included a few Cornell stu-dents. When Cornell's overseasstudy program asked Kramnick toteach a course in British politics, hesuggested Sheerman teach it with

Kramnick, a 55-year-old scholarof 18th century political culture andthe author of books on EdmundBurke and Lord Bolingbroke, knewlittle about Laski before he beganthe project, but as he started re-searching Laski's life he found him-self absorbed by the politician. "Idiscovered a kindred spirit," he says,"someone I could relate to, a Jew-ish intellectual and social democratconcerned with public life."

Laski was born into a prosper-ous family in Manchester. He was asickly child who as an adult was slightof build and a fastidious dresser.Before studying at Oxford, he elopedwith a woman eight years his se-nior. He chain-smoked cigarettes,

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wore a closely cropped moustacheand perfectly round eyeglasses.Some said he bore a passing resem-blance to Charlie Chaplin.

Anti-Semitism plagued himthroughout his life. He was de-nounced as a Jewish rattlesnake andemissary of Bolshevism and vilifiedin Congress as the sinister brainbehind Roosevelt's "Jew Deal." Formost of his life he was a secularassimilationist, but after Hitler'sHolocaust he became an advocateof Zionism.

Laski taught at McGill Univer-sity for a year, where he met fu-ture U.S. Supreme Court JusticeFelix Frankfurter and through himDorothy Payne Whitney and WillardD. Straight Όl, founders of The NewRepublic. Laski would enjoy a life-long professional and personal rela-tionship with the Straights.

A fter four years of teaching atHarvard University, where hegained public notoriety for sup-porting the Boston PoliceStrike of 1919, Laski returned

to England to take up what wouldbecome a 30-year career at the Lon-don School of Economics. Over theyears his students would includeCanadian Prime Minister PierreTrudeau, Indian Foreign MinisterKrishna Menon and John F. Kennedyand his brother Joseph Kennedy Jr.,whose father thought Laski was "anut and a crank" and "disagreed witheverything he wrote" but wanted hissons to know what the anti-capital-ist mind was like, Kramnick writes.

In the lecture hall, Laski wasan unparalleled perfomer. He lacedhis lectures with impersonations ofpublic figures, sending his studentsinto peals of laughter. With his eru-dition, wit and dedication, he elec-trified a generation of students. "Hewas an ebullient personality and it'sno wonder he was a favorite withstudents," Kramnick says. "He wasa charmer, a storyteller, a warm-hearted raconteur. Laski was alsoextremely generous, sometimes pay-ing his students' bills from his ownsalary."

Members of the British LabourParty found his tendency to run offat the mouth annoying and embar-rassing. Laski had a well-known ten-

dency to exaggerate or distort facts.He recognized the horrors of Stal-inism, for example, but still per-suaded himself that under Stalinthere was economic growth, indus-trial democracy and cultural freedom.

Laski could be vastly entertain-ing, but he was also boastful andshamelessly self-promoting. Hetended to exaggerate facts when itsuited his purposes, especially whenit came to matters of his own im-portance. Still, Kramnick discoveredthat Laski did in fact know many ofthe people whose names he seemedto drop compulsively, includingFranklin Roosevelt, who invited himto dine several times at the WhiteHouse.

Laski was either fascinating orexasperating, depending on yourpoint of view. To Kramnick, he wasboth, and a sympathetic character.Kramnick has hung a picture of Laskion the wall of his McGraw Hall of-fice. It is a momento of the project,and also a kind of reminder of whata scholar's life can be.

Better than William F. Buckleyor Irving Howe, Laski exemplifiesfor Kramnick the ideal of public in-tellectual, the scholar who was alsoa player in national politics.

Kramnick thinks of himself as"a public citizen of the university,"someone similar to Laski but on amuch smaller scale. He is currentlyserving as a faculty-elected mem-ber of the university's board of trust-ees. He served for three years asassociate dean of the College of Artsand Sciences. And he was an im-portant member of several univer-sity committees.

Kramnick is also a popularteacher known for his undergradu-ate class, Government 161, Intro-duction to Western Political Philoso-phy. And in 1978 he won a ClarkAward for distinguished teaching.

But unlike Laski, who wasknown for his generosity, Kramnickis not in the habit of having the uni-versity withhold his salary to payhis students' bursar bills, he said witha chuckle. And the rich and power-ful aren't exactly sending their chil-dren to him to study. But he hashad dinner at the White House. Manytimes. The A. D. White House.

—Carole Stone

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RESEARCH

Ώie Golem Are scientists imperfect monsterswith good intentions?

In a new book, The Golem: What Ev-eryone Should Know About Science(Cambridge University Press:1993),science and technology studies Pro-fessor Trevor Pinch and co-authorHarry Collins of Britain's University ofBath smash a few myths: scientistsare neither soulless technocrats norgods of rational virtue.

Pinch's and Collinss' meta-phor for science is the golem, a crea-ture of Jewish mythology. Craftedfrom clay by human hands, the golemis a bumbling beast, an imperfectmonster with good intentions. Thegolem has frightening strength, withpower for good works or destruc-tion. Pinch argues that science, likethe golem, is not evil, but "a littledaft."

The authors walk readersthrough seven episodes of "golemscience," case studies of unwashedscience-in-the-raw, from the famousto the obscure: the cold fusion con-troversy, experiments that "proved"Einstein's theory of relativity, thecase of the missing solar neutrinos,Louis Pasteur and the spontaneousgeneration of life, the chemical trans-fer of memory, the detection of grav-ity waves from space, and the sexlife of the whiptail lizard.

The icons of science fall one byone. Carefully conceived experi-ments prove nothing. Peer pressureseems to exert a greater influenceon the advancement of science thanthe logic of almighty scientific meth-od. Instead of scientific objectivity,Pinch and Collins describe boldclaims shamelessly pitched in searchof publicity and funding, and prom-ising careers gleefully squashed byjealous competitors.

Consider the sad story of coldfusion. In 1989, two University ofUtah chemists boasted that they hadharnessed the fusion power of thesun in a test tube. Their announce-ment was timed to beat a compet-ing research group to the press, andto secure coveted patent rights. TheUtah chemists were greeted by a

tidal wave of premature accolades,followed by an embarrassing se-quence of disputed attempts at ex-perimental replication. The plotthickened: physicists ganged up onchemists. Accusations of fraud, in-competence, and "unscientific behav-ior" were volleyed. Hardly a modelof gentlemanly behavior or scientificcertainty.

But don't call The Golem anti-science. "We think that's a misread-ing of the book," bristles Pinch,"we're fans of science; it excites us.If the public thinks that scientistsare gods, and that science is theparagon of rational knowledge, thenthey are going to be more and moredisillusioned when they see scien-tists arguing on their TV sets."

Pinch has a humble vision ofhealthy science. In his ideal world,scientists would be no less frail andquarrelsome than those describedin The Golem. The difference: pub-lic perceptions and expectations."Scientists aren't gods, but they'renot charlatans either. They're merelyexperts, people who have developedspecific expertise through specialtraining, just as lawyers are legalexperts and plumbers are plumbingexperts."

"Expertise is fallible; expertsdisagree all the time," Pinch con-tinues, "People wouldn't be surprisedor disappointed to hear real estateexperts argue and disagree aboutproperty values, and yet, society isnot beset by anti-realtors."

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If Pinch wants readers to comeaway with one important messagefrom the book, it's that there is nologic of scientific discovery. It's onlythe logic of everyday life.

Write the authors, "A golem can-not be blamed if it is doing its best.But we must not expect too much.A golem, powerful though it is, isthe creature of our art and our craft."

BIG RED ROBOTSThey're about two feet tall, move asfast as you can run and are strongenough to push a heavy couch acrossthe room. Meet Tommy and Lily, theCornell Robotics and Vision Labora-tory's autonomous mobile robots.

But what makes them special istheir ability to cooperate on com-plex physical tasks—all while mov-ing about freely, without tethers orcables. Watching them work togetheris a glimpse into the future of in-dustrial production.

They live on the third floor ofUpson Hall along with Camel, amobile robot cousin, two anthropo-morphic manipulator arms (Puma andZebra) and several robotic cameras.The founding fathers of this mechani-cal menagerie are computer scienceprofessors Bruce R. Donald andDaniel P. Huttenlocher. Their labgives postdocs, grad students andeven undergrade a chance to pro-gram some of the most advancedrobots in the world.

Tommy, made in 1989, andyounger sister Lily, made in 1991,are the stars of the lab. These aren'tthe arm-waving humanoid robots ofHollywood. If anything, Tommy andLily resemble cluttered fire hydrants.Both run for over three hours onpowerful rechargeable batterieshoused between their small wheels.

Tommy and Lily are loaded withsensory devices to help them per-ceive their environment. A ring of12 sonar sensors—ultrasonic rangefinders from Polaroid cameras—lo-cates distant obstacles. Twelvepaired infrared transmitters and re-ceivers have a dual purpose: detect-ing nearby objects and communicat-ing with a robot partner (in the wayremote controls communicate withTVs). Tactile sensors let Tommy andLily know when they are in direct

contact with an object, and if it's flat,the object's orientation. A device intheir wheel base measures powersent to the motors, allowing the ro-bots to distinguish between light andheavy objects. Huttenlocher has dev-eloped a sophisticated landmark-based visual navigation system. Re-searchers show the robots an im-age of an object. Remembering theobject's shape, they rotate until theyrecognize the object, then track itas they roll toward their goal.

Voice synthesizers mounted ontheir flat heads help researchersknow what the robots are thinking."I have hit something," croaksTommy. "It won't move. It must bea wall."

Open up Tommy and Lily andyou'll find up to a dozen separatecomputers, all connected by a cha-otic tangle of wires. The robots arebuilt to be modular. If one of Tom-my's microprocessors breaks down,the researchers simply plug in oneof Lily's. Researchers load programsby temporarily plugging the robotsinto computer work stations.

All of this algorithmic brain andmechanical brawn has allowedTommy and Lily to complete a de-manding fall semester. Their unprec-edented mission: to cooperate on anextremely complex physical task.Tommy and Lily entered a test room,located a couch, figured out the bestway to reorient it, and joined to pushit across the room and out the door.According to doctoral candidate JimJennings '88, Grad, Tommy's name-giver and primary designer, this wasthe first complete large-scalemanipulation by cooperating mobilerobots.

Tommy and Lily may be Adamand Eve to future generations ofhard-working autonomous mobilerobots. "Industrial automation todayis pretty primitive. Most robots onassembly lines are fixed, and theycan only accomplish one task," ex-plains Jennings. "We're building ro-bots that can move, work together,and adapt to different tasks."

"With a video camera, a computercan react to the world. But givingcomputers mobility and the abilityto cooperate allows them to changetheir world."

—HίllelJ. Hoffmann '85

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STUDENTS

The Home-Schooled FreshmanThe first time freshman Barnaby Marsh entered a classroom was at Cornell.

T he people in the College ofArts & Sciences admissionsoffice will not soon forget theapplication of Barnaby Marsh'97. "I sent in a packet about

this thick," recalls Marsh, holdinghis thumb and forefinger at least twoinches apart.

Already a recognized expert,accomplished lecturerand widely-publishedscholar in the field of or-nithology when he ap-plied to join Cornell'sfreshman class, Marshsubmitted an over-stuffed portfolio of hiswritings and research.But still, his applicationlacked two crucial com-ponents: high schooltranscripts and standard-ized test scores. Marshwas educated entirely athome and grew up with-out a day of formalschooling. His parentsfor a time had consid-ered sending him to pri-vate school, but decidedinstead "that they coulddo a better job," saysMarsh. So, his mother,an executive with a de-gree in fine arts, and hisfather, a business con-sultant, took matters—and chalk—into theirown hands.

"When I first got to Cornell, ev-eryone in the Arts & Sciences of-fice knew exactly who I was," saysMarsh with the knowing laugh ofcelebrity. "They had all been overmy application with a fine-toothedcomb."

A rake is probably more like it,as Marsh hardly lacked supportingmaterial to bolster his case. Sincethe age of 11, his ornithological re-search has helped government agen-cies and organizations such as the

National Audubon Society and theNational Wildlife Federation shapeconservation policy and public edu-cation programs. "My research waskind of primitive at first," says Marsh,citing as an example his work on theAlaskan grebe, a bird whose behav-ior had been completely undocu-mented up to that point. "I basically

Home-schooled Marsh: "They had been over myapplication with a fine-toothed comb."

made observations and collected dataon the bird's behavior."

Steady work for the SmithsonianInstitution soon followed, and as thedepth of his research grew, so toodid his status as a lecturer and sourceof avian knowledge. Then, two yearsago, he landed a summer job withthe Walt Disney Company. Whileother 17-year-old employees atDisney World more likely ripped tick-ets, dressed up like mice or flippedhamburgers, Marsh served the com-pany in a slightly more scientific

capacity. As an avian consultant, heoversaw wildlife- and bird-controlprojects, one of which gave him astaff and the use of a private air-plane to track vultures in the park.

"It wasn't very good PR forDisney when guests looked out theirhotel room windows to see vulturessitting there," says Marsh. "[Disney

officials] wanted us torid the park of vultures.We didn't do that, buttracking them was sig-nificant because it hadnever been done be-fore."

Soon after his stintin Orlando, Marshmade the leap to highereducation, but not toCornell. With the helpof the Moore Founda-tion, an organizationthat advises home-schooled students andhas ties to HarvardUniversity, Marsh wentto Cambridge to studyas a special, non-ma-triculated student.While earning 19 cred-its, he researched, lec-tured and even spokeweekly at local highschools. But after a

Λ Λyear there, he soughtgreater research oppor-tunities.

"Cornell was my first choice,"he says. "The strength of the orni-thology and natural resources depart-ments was a major factor. I also likedthe people I had gotten to know atCornell through my work with thembefore I got here."

Despite his glowing resume,Marsh admits that the admissionsoffice had ample reason to doubt hispreparation for college. Not onlywere transcripts and standardizedtest scores absent from his file, butso was any evidence of his home

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schooling. At home, Marsh hadgradually weaned himself from hisparents' direct tutelage, working hisway up to college-level texts in abroad range of subjects—with anemphasis on natural sciences—byage 14.

If during those years, however,someone had handed Marsh a com-puterized bubble test sheet, hewouldn't have known what to do withit. Not once did he take a test dur-ing his home schooling, and whilestate-administered exams designedto gauge the progress of home-schooled children exist in much ofthe U.S., they don't in Marsh's homestate of Alaska.

"Cornell's decision to accept mewas courageous," he says, notingthat of the estimated 1 million home-schoolers in the United States, fewattend college. "I know of no otherhome-schooler to be accepted here,so it's a progressive move and a stepin the right direction."

Now, almost two semesters af-ter enrolling last January, Marsh ispursuing a diverse academic agendaas a College Scholar, a major in whichthe only specific course requirementis physical education (Marsh nowtakes recreational golf, a game thathe claims to have mastered on thelinks in Florida). With the flexibilityto explore numerous areas of study,Marsh has excelled in history, gov-ernment, philosophy and archaeologycourses while maintaining a focus onhis field of interest.

Entering Cornell, he had a work-ing knowledge of French, Spanish

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and German, the primary languagesof international ornithology journals,and now he plans to study Latin andIndonesian, as well. On top of hisalready-ambitious course load, hemay still add an entire major, cityand regional planning, which hehopes will provide a solid founda-tion for his ultimate goal of manag-ing conservation areas.

In the meantime, Marsh is busymanaging the time constraints ofprelims and assignments. "I justdon't like that feeling of having adeadline," he says, unwittinglyspeaking on behalf of the rest of civi-lization. "But Γm learning to do mywork early and pace myself on ex-ams. Also, my professors have allbeen extremely helpful in going overmy work with me."

Marsh has few words of criti-cism for his new school. "Γm re-ally turned off by students who takeCornell for granted or have an infe-riority complex about being here,"he says. "Complaints like that aretotally unjustified. We have muchmore to offer than so many otherschools—a great education, manyresources, access to professors, abeautiful campus."

The atmosphere on campus,which the affable Marsh describesas "nurturing and friendly," also sitswell. "So far, the social environmenthas been the part of Cornell that Ilike most. In general, people herea very approachable. To fit in so-cially, you have to be friendly andcooperative. You can't help it."

Recently, Cornell gave Marshanother reason to crow when he waschosen to represent the universityat a major ornithological meeting inCanada. "That meant a lot to me,"he says. "Cornell is a recognizedleader in ornithology and it was agreat honor. Harvard opened a lotof doors for me, but Γm very proudof being a student at Cornell. I wantto be known for my work here."

On that note, Marsh politelyheads for North Campus so he cancheck his mail for, among otherthings, the proofed version of a pa-per he had previously submitted toan ornithological journal. Smiling, hesays, "It's my first published paperwith the name 'Cornell' on it."

—Brett Mendel '91

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DECEMBER 199313

SPORTS

A Fan's Notesenny VanSickle's firstK newspaperjob in Ithacawasn't partic-

ularly lucrative—even for the 1920s.As a "hawker" sell-ing The Ithaca Jour-nal for three centsper copy, Van Sick-le earned just three-quarters of a cent forevery sale. Soon, hegraduated to a $3-a-week paper route,but still his ambitionremained as limitedas his local universe."Back then," hesays, "I was just dreaming about get-ting a nickel for a hot dog."

Funny how fate plays out. At age77, Van Sickle still possesses, theunassuming demeanor of a small-town boy. He still makes his homein Tompkins County, and in a man-ner of speaking he still sells news-papers. But after more than six de-cades spent chronicling local athleticsfor The Ithaca Journal, Van Sickleis the most enduring voice of Ithaca-area athletics.

Even before the universitywrested control of organized athleticsfrom the alumni in 1935, he was theeyes and ears of Cornell sports forIthacans who couldn't make it to thegame. "There will never be anotherKenny Van Sickle," says Ted Tho-ren, who coached Big Red sports—football and baseball—from 1952until 1990. "Kenny is an institution."

How long has Kenny Van Sicklebeen covering sports? When he firstbegan stringing for the Journal in1932, the headlines of the day toutedthe likes of Lou Gehrig, Jack Demp-sey and Don Budge. Cornell's hockeyteam played on Beebe Lake, light-weight crew had yet to appear andthe two-handed set shot was the oneand only way to shoot a basketball.

Over the years, Van Sickle has

The Ithaca Journal's Van Sickle has seen more thanCornell football games.

filled out 49 Heisman Trophy bal-lots and has attended nearly 500Cornell football games. He has wit-nessed the reign of 11 head footballcoaches, from Gil Dobie to Jim Hof-her '79, and the exploits of hundredsupon hundreds of athletes, from BrudHolland '39 to Joe Holland '78, MA'79. Yet Van Sickle's most indeliblememory of Big Red football concernsthe game he didn't see.

"In 1940, the Journal decided thatCornell was having a lot of successand would beat up on Dartmouth.They could save some money by notsending a correspondent to Hanoverto the game," he says with a chuckle.That was the year Cornell wasawarded the victory over the Green,but conceded the game when filmsof the action showed the Red hadscored the winning points on an extradown. "The Fifth Down Game wasprobably the biggest [Cornell sports]story of the century."

But more often than not, VanSickle was on hand to relate thenews. His four-times-a-week col-umn, a collection of local sports newscalled the "The Sport Tower," hasappeared in the Journal more than8,000 times. Even today, six yearsafter his retirement from full-timeduty, Van Sickle's byline still can be

500

seen every Tuesday,and every year he ac-companies the BigRed baseball team onits annual springbreak training trip towarm weather, filingdaily accounts of thegames.

Says Cornellsports informationDirector Dave Wohl-hueter, who has beentraveling south withVan Sickle for nearlytwo decades, "I'vespent more time inmotel rooms withKenny Van Sicklethan with my wife."

B abe Ruth was still a pitcherwhen Van Sickle was born atKidders Ferry on the westshore of Cayuga Lake in 1916.With the exception of one year

in Toronto after his father's deathin 1921 and two years in the Navyduring World War II, Van Sickle hasnever lived anywhere but TompkinsCounty.

In 1923, Van Sickle moved to ahouse on North Geneva Street inIthaca. He attended Ithaca HighSchool, then located in what is nowDeWitt Mall, and it was there thathe caught the sports bug. He tookYMCA sports results to the Jour-nal, became acquainted with theeditors and soon snagged a job asthe newspaper's Ithaca High string-er. The man he succeeded for thejob was another eventual Cornell leg-end, Bob Kane '34.

At the time, the Journal had cor-respondents covering Ithaca High,Ithaca College and Cornell, but in1935 Van Sickle was given the full-time responsibility of covering allthree. "It was sort of a haphazardway of doing it," he remembers."You might not get to the game, butyou had to cover it the best youcould. There was a lot of legwork,

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but I got the feel of the whole op-eration pretty quickly."

Van Sickle inherited "The SportTower" from then-sports editor BillWaters '27 and made it very muchhis own. "Bill had been writing itfor several years," Van Sickle says."Then I took over, and they ran itwithout even a byline for a fewweeks. Finally, I guess they decidedthat I could handle it."

In 1940, Van Sickle married Gen-evieve Wood '33. They met in theeditorial department; she was theJournal's women's editor. When VanSickle returned from the Navy in1946, he and his wife moved intoher childhood home on Route 13 justnorth of Ithaca in Dryden to be withher father, who was sick. Genevievedied in 1960, but Van Sickle still livesthere with their two grown children.

After the war Van Sickle founda permanent home at the Journal,accepting the position of sports edi-tor, a role he played until his re-tirement in 1987. It is a tribute toVan Sickle that his retirement an-nouncement was front page news inthe very newspaper he used to sellfor three cents a copy.

That story noted that Van Sicklewas believed to have worked longercontinuously in sports at one news-paper than anyone in the UnitedStates. However, he actually oftenchronicled sporting events for sev-eral publications around the East—from the New York Herald-Tribuneand the Philadelphia Inquirer to theRochester Democrat and the SyracuseHerald.

"There would hardly be a gamecovered at Schoellkopf or at Bartonor someplace where I wasn't pound-ing out copy for several differentpapers, hoping there wasn't too muchrepetition," says Van Sickle, who wasinducted into the Cornell AthleticHall of Fame in 1982. (Van Sickle,Dick Schaap '55 and Allison Danzig'21 are the only print journalists tobe so honored.)

Van Sickle's style was, and is, a farcry from the cynicism and story-behind-the-story sensationalism that has in-vaded modern journalism. "You had con-fidence in Kenny. You could tell himsomething off the record, and it wouldstay off the record," says Wohlhueter."Kenny very rarely has said a bad word

ScoreboanOctober 3-October

Varsity FootballCornell 27, Harvard 0Cornell 48, Fordham 6Dartmouth 28, Cornell 27Cornell 21, Brown 3

Men's SoccerColumbia 6, Cornell 1Hartwick 3, Cornell 1Virginia 4, Cornell 0North Carolina 3, Cornell 1Dartmouth 1, Cornell 0Buffalo 3, Cornel! 1Brown 4, Cornell 0

Women's SoccerCornell 4, Princeton 1Cornell 3 f Columbia 0Massachusetts 3y Cornell 1Connecticut 1, Cornell 0Rutgers 2, Cornell 1Dartmouth 1, Cornel! 0Boston College 2, Cornell 0Cornell 1,. Brown 0Cornell 2, Providence 1

Men's Cross CountryNational Invitational 2ndReif Memorial 2ndHeptagonaίs 1st

Women's Cross CountryNational Invitational 3rdReif Memorial 2ndHeptagonals 1st

Men's GolfColgate Invitational (8th)ECAC Qualifier (12th)St. John's Invitational (14th)

Field HockeyCornell. 2 f Bucknell 1Kent State 1, Cornell 0Ursinus 1, Cornell 0Pennsylvania 2, Cornel! 0Cornell 7, Hofstra 0Cornell 2, Yale 0Dartmouth 1,Cornell 0Syracuse 2, Cornell 0Cornell 3, Brown 2Boston College 2, Cornell 0

Men's TennisYale 6, Cornell 1Cornell 6f Navy 1Cornell 6, Boston University 1

Women's TennisCornell 5, Seton Hall 3Wiliiam & Mary 8, Cornell 0Cornell 7, Colgate 2New York State Tournament 1stECAC Inivίduaίs 1st

Women's VolleyballBuffalo 3, Cornell 2Cornell 3, Brown 0Cornell 3, Yale 1Syracuse 3, Cornell 1Cornell 3, Harvard 1Cornell 3 f Dartmouth 1Cornell 3r Lafayette 0Villanova 3, Cornell 1Pennsylvania 3, Cornell 2Princeton 3, Cornell 1

about anything, and that doesn't meanjust Cornell athletics. He's always gotsomething good to say about someone,and if he doesn't he just shrugs hisshoulders."

The evolution from look-the-other-way journalism to today's ver-sion is a product, says Van Sickle,of television, radio and the con-sumer's changing needs. "They al-ready know what's happened, butthey want to know why it happened,"he explains. "Years ago, you cov-ered a football game, and as soonas the game was over you startedwriting. It didn't even occur to you

to go down and talk to somebody toget his opinion about what happened.Now you cover a ballgame, and youdon't even start working until thegame is over."

The game, it seems, may neverbe over for Van Sickle, who remainsto Ithaca residents a comforting con-stant amid a world of changingnames. He's not sure what broughthim to his position as Ithaca's sportsgrey beard, but he knows what kepthim there. "It wasn't a lack of am-bition," says Van Sickle. "It was justcomfortable. I felt at home."

—BradHerzog '90

DECEMBER 199315

by Daniel Gross

Toni Morrison and Robert Fogel both went to Cornell, both made

momentous contributions to their respective fields and both were awarded

1993 Nobel Prizes. That's where the similarities end, and begin.

lavery is America's national shame, a blemish on the soul of a

country that holds itself up as a beacon of hope and decency

unto others. While the "peculiar institution" was abolished 130

years ago, its legacies linger: segregation, bigotry and racial

tension are more or less permanent features in American life.

But the painful record of race relations has proved a wellspring

of creativity. It has given us the blues and jazz, an extraordinary black

literary tradition and painstaking scholarship that has reconstituted the

lives of heretofore ignored segments of the population. This year, two

Comedians who have devoted their professional lives to adding to our

knowledge of, and feel for, the black experience in America each re-

ceived Nobel Prizes. They come from vastly different backgrounds, and

have answered radically different callings: Robert Fogel '48, an econo-

mist and the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent 20 years compil-

ing and crunching data on slavery; Toni Morrison, MA '55, the daughter

of migrants from the segregated South, has spent 30 years weaving

fabulist tapestries of fiction about slaves, former slaves, their descen-

dants and their struggles to live and breathe.

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JBL or α f<or α few decades now, ToniMorrison has been leading a life offirsts: the first black woman authorchosen by the Book-of-the MonthClub (1977); the first black womanwriter featured on the cover of News-week (1981); the first black womanto head Princeton's Afro-Americanstudies program (1989).

In October, Morrison notched thebiggest first of them all, becomingthe first black American woman towin the Nobel Prize for Literature.For the 62-year old writer, the Nobelis the ultimate honor in a writingcareer that was late to take off butquick to soar.

Henry Louis Gates, the formerCornell professor who now headsHavard's African-American studiesprogram, proclaims the award "agreat day" for African-Americans inparticular, and for Americans in gen-eral. "Just two centuries ago, theAfrican-American literary traditionwas born in slave narratives," saysGates. "Now our greatest writer haswon the Nobel Prize."

The Nobel Committee dubbedMorrison "a literary artist of the firstrank," and said "She delves into thelanguage itself, a language she wantsto liberate from the fetters of race.And she addresses us with the lus-ter of poetry."

Morrison's first novel, The Blu-est Eye, appeared in 1970, when shewas 38. It tells the harrowing storyof Pecola Breedlove, a black girl whois raped by her father, bears a childthat dies and then retreats into mad-ness, believing her eyes are blue.Since then, Morrison has produceda novel every four or five years, eachone garnering more critical atten-tion than the last and each dealingin some way with similar subjectmatter: the tortured quest for blackidentity and self-realization. In herlong and varied career, she has pro-moted black authors as an editor and

has taught genera-tions of literature stu-dents at universitiesranging from Howardto Princeton, whereshe has been on the faculty since1989.

Morrison is both of and not ofthe American black literary tradition.Critics rarely compare her to blacknovelists like James Baldwin, Rich-ard Wright or Ralph Ellison. As JohnIrving wrote: "Toni Morrison's great-est accomplishment is that she hasraised her novel above the socialrealism that too many black novelsand women's novels are trapped in.She has succeeded in writing aboutrace and women symbolically."

Her stories have the rich gothicatmosphere, the fluid rhythms andtormented families of William Faulk-ner. Her prose, like that of GabrielGarcia Marquez, approaches the sur-real. A character in Beloved (1987),for example, appears as a "nakedwoman with fish for hair."

But Morrison defies such com-parisons. "I am not like ThomasHardy; I am not like Faulkner; I amnot like in that sense," she told aninterviewer. "My effort is to be likesomething that has probably beenfully expressed in [black] music.Writing novels is a way to encom-pass this—this something."

Critics often speak in musicalterms when discussing Morrison'swriting; her digressions become riffs,long paragraphs are arias. Her mostrecent book, aptly entitled Jazz, cap-tures the driving rhythms of 1920sHarlem. The novel begins in typi-cal Morrison fashion, with a violentact by a deranged black woman. Vio-let tears into a funeral home and triesto slash the dead body of herhusband's lover, whom he had shot.

In general terms, Morrison'sbooks deal with the search for self,with communities' attempts to deal

with madness, withpain and sufferingand violence, withendurance, survivaland dignity. Morris-

on has called her works "village lit-erature." But her villages are ex-otic worlds in which the everydayblack life of ordinary towns comesalive in folklore, magic, superstition,fable, poetry and song.

Violence is a constant presence.In Beloved, Sethe slits her babydaughter's throat with a handsawrather than see her returned to slav-ery. In Sula, Eva Peace gets her legcut off by a train to receive a $10,000insurance payment. She later setsher junkie son on fire.

Morrison was born Chloe An-thony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, in1931. Her maternal grandparents leftAlabama for Ohio in 1912; her fa-ther was born in Georgia and mi-grated north to find work. He workedas a shipwelder and held down twoother jobs.

Although Morrison's novels areon intimate terms with the work-ings of black communities in Harlemand small Midwestern towns,Morrison said she has "never livedin a black neighborhood." And theneed to create a community fuelsher imaginative work. In the 1960s,when her family tried to dissuadeher from moving to New York, say-ing: "You don't have anybody there."Morrison responded: "You take thevillage with you. There is no needfor the community if you have asense of it in mind."

She had been the only black inher first-grade class and the onlystudent who could read. As a teen-ager, she admired Jane Austen andthe great Russian novelists. "Thosebooks were not written for a littleblack girl in Lorain, Ohio," she says."But they were so magnificentlydone that I got them anyway—they

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spoke directly to me."Chloe Wofford took the name

Toni while a student at HowardUniversity in the 1950s. (Among herclassmates were future AtlantaMayor Andrew Young and LeRoiJones, the playwright who wouldlater change his name to AmiriBaraka.)

After graduating, she enrolled inCornell's master's program in En-glish. "She wasn't doing any creativewriting at Cornell," says Prof. Rob-ert Elias, who advised her for herthesis on Faulkner and VirginiaWoolf. "She was interested in get-ting a teaching job. She was a goodstudent, one of the two best in thecourse I ran on Faulkner."

Morrison landed a teaching jobat Texas Southern University andreturned to Howard in 1957 as a fac-ulty member. Her students includedStokely Carmichael and ClaudeBrown, who handed her an 800-pagemanuscript that became the mem-oir Manchild in the Promised Land.

At Howard, she met and mar-ried Howard Morrison, a Jamaicanarchitect. The couple had two sons,Harold and Slade, but were divorcedafter six years. She then took a jobwith Random House's textbook sub-sidiary in Syracuse, and started towrite. Morrison soon moved to NewYork City to work for RandomHouse's trade division, where shehelped publish such black authorsas Angela Davis and Gayl Jones.

The Bluest Eye was politely re-ceived. Her second book, Sula(1973), the tale of a long and pain-ful friendship between two blackwomen, was nominated for a NationalBook Award. Song of Solomon, whichnarrates Macon "Milkman" Dead'speripatetic search for his past, wasMorrison's breakthrough novel; itwon the National Book Critics CircleAward in 1977. "In a way, they'rebooks one hopes won't end, becausethere's such profound and complexunfolding of character and idea thatyou really want it to go on," saysProfessor Elias. "I first felt this withSong of Solomon."

Her works continued to grow instature. But when Beloved failed towin the National Book Award in1987, losing to Larry Heinemann'sPaco's Story, a group of black writ-ers and critics wrote a letter of pro-

test to the NewYork TimesBook Review. Be-loved was awarded the Pulitzer Prizefor fiction in 1988, causing somecritics to complain that the PulitzerCommittee caved in to a campaignon behalf of Morrison.

If there was a campaign, Morrisonhad nothing to do with it. She is pub-licly modest and guarded about herprivate life. "She's incredibly pen-sive," says Kenneth McClane, W.E.B.DuBois professor of literature atCornell. "She's by nature quiet. Butit's a quietness that belies a tremen-dous intellectual urgency."

Ironically, this black woman—anoutsider twice over who once said"I didn't exist in all the literature Ihad read"—has been in a sense can-onized. Most American literaturesurvey courses now include aMorrison novel. "I have taught Sulamany, many times, and I think it isone of the best novels ever writ-ten," says McClane. Students arepaying attention, too. Morrison,Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf havebeen the most popular subjects forundergraduate honors theses inCornell's English department in re-cent years.

When asked what distinguishesher fiction, Morrison responds, "Thelanguage, only the language."

But it's not just the language. It'sthe fantastical imagery, the unblink-ing eye for dark horrors and violence.It's the juxtaposition of dignity andmadness that makes readers cringeand exult on the same page. Herstories linger, the characters hoverlike ghosts. "I am very happy to hearthat my books haunt," she once said."That is what I work very hard for."

w.ere slaves a high-yieldinvestment?

That's not the kind of questionmost economists or historians thinkto pose, or want to answer. Especiallyif the answer turns out to be yes.

But Robert Fogel has not flinchedfrom answering this question, andother similarly loaded ones, in force-ful and blunt terms. Possessed ofwhat one critic called "almost reck-less intellectual courage," the 67-

year old professor relishes a knock-down argument. And for the last 30years, the University of Chicagoeconomist has more than held hisown in occasionally vicious academicdonnybrooks.

Fogel's provocative work earnedhim a share of the 1993 Nobel Prizefor Economics, along with DouglassNorth, a professor at WashingtonUniversity at St. Louis. The Nobelcommittee cited the men's pioneer-ing role in "the new economic his-tory," also known as cliometrics, inwhich scholars use contemporaryeconomic theory and methods toexplain historical developments suchas economic growth and decline.(Cliometrics is named after Clio, theGreek muse of history.)

Fogel didn't coin the term, butcliometrics was the name given tothe brand of economic history he hastaught to legions of graduate studentsat the University of Rochester,Harvard University and the Univer-sity of Chicago.

Economists who receive theNobel Prize are generally cited forwork on complex theories that areunintelligible to laypersons. But thisyear's winners have produced thor-oughly comprehensible work. TheNobel Committee praised Fogel forhis work on mainstream topics likerailroads, mortality and slavery. Hisbest-known and most controversialbook is Time on the Cross: The Eco-nomics of American Negro Slavery,(1974), which Fogel co-wrote withlong-time friend and collaboratorStanley Engerman. "No modernwork on slavery has aroused agreater storm of criticism or con-troversy," one reviewer appraised.

The fruit of a decade's research,Time on the Cross challenged manybasic assumptions about slavery—a historical problem with its own longhistory of ideology and politics. Thetwo economists immodestly offeredten corrections to the prevailing his-torical portrait of slavery, which hadbeen painstakingly built up by gen-erations of historians. Among theirconclusions: slaves were "highlyprofitable investments"; the slavesystem wasn't economically mori-bund on the eve of the Civil War;

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slave agriculture was more efficientthan free farms; and the materialconditions of slaves' lives comparedfavorably with those of free indus-trial workers.

To buttress these incendiaryarguments, Fogel and Engermanrolled out everything from chartsshowing the distribution of whippingson plantations to figures on life ex-pectancy, from comparisons of ca-loric intake of slaves and free work-ers to an "index of sanguinity" whichmeasured slaveholders' optimismabout the future. The book, writtenin a slightly breathless style, con-tained no footnotes and came withan accompanying volume that de-scribed their methodology.

Slavery was a historical tinder-

box, and Time on the Cross provedto be great kindling. "Some peoplewere offended by the notion thatslavery was a viable institution inpurely economic terms," says AlfredKahn, Julius Thorne professor ofeconomics emeritus at Cornell."They tended to assume that any-one who reached an outrageous con-clusion was defending slavery."

Reviews were sometimes morethan hostile. "Time on the Cross isinsidious," said the Black Scholar."It is insidious because Fogel andEngerman use data that they musthave known was faulty to paint apicture of slavery that is basicallymoonlight and mint juleps." Onecolleague, historian Herbert Gut-mann, feverishly composed a 200-page review of the book that waslater published as a book. And athree-day conference in Rochesterin 1974 drew about 100 scholars andjournalists to discuss the work."There were a lot of fireworksthere," says Ronald Jones, profes-sor of economics at Rochester."Fogel cherished this kind of con-troversy, and was well able to ab-sorb the criticism."

The two were branded by someas racists, which is rich with irony,given FogeΓs personal history. Hiswife, Enid, who retired in 1988 as

an associate dean atthe University ofChicago's businessschool, is African-American. And thededication of Time onThe Cross reads: "Tothe first daughter ofMary Elizabeth Mor-gan; who has alwaysknown that black is beautiful."

Fogel was born in New York in1926, the son of Russian immigrants.He first became conscious of raceand racism in New York City's pub-lic schools, where the curriculum"incorporate^ the anti-racist propo-sitions of modern anthropology," aspopularized by the anthropologistRuth Benedict, who wrote a famous

pamphlet en-titled The Racesof Mankind. AtCornell, Fogelwas an active andforceful memberof the Marxist

Study Group. Alfred Kahn recalls hav-ing Fogel in an advanced economicscourse. "I remember him as partici-pating actively and vigorously," Kahnsays. "He was extremely good."

(Robert wasn't the only Fogel tomake his mark on the Hill. His brotherEphim was a popular professor ofEnglish from 1948 until his retire-ment in 1990. He died in 1992.)

Fogel proved willing to buck pre-vailing social and intellectual windsas a young man. In the late 1940s,the Cold War was heating up andintellectuals' flirtations with Marx-ism had long passed from fashion.Still, Fogel returned to New YorkCity and worked as a CommunistParty organizer through the tempes-tuous McCarthy era. "I knew himback in 1950 when we were both inthe Communist Party," says EugeneGenovese, the Emory historian whowas a colleague of FogeΓs at theUniversity of Rochester.

Fogel broke with the Commu-nist Party in 1956, after the Sovietcrackdown in Hungary, and decidedto continue his study of economicsat Columbia; he earned his PhD inthat field at Johns Hopkins. Afterlanding a teaching job at the Uni-versity of Rochester, Fogel expandedhis PhD dissertation—which heldthat the Union Pacific Railroad was

an unnecessarily ex-pensive invest-ment—into his firstsignificant book:Railroads andAmerί-can Economic Growth:Essays in Economet-

| ric History (1964). At* the time, most eco-

nomic historians be-lieved major pieces of infrastructure,like the railroad, played vital rolesin economic development. But Fogelconstructed a counterfactual argu-ment, which claimed railroads' ef-fect on U.S. economic growth in the1800s was negligible. The work wasrevolutionary in that it used the tech-niques of modern economics to testa historical hypothesis. "The bookon slavery is the one that is remem-bered most now," says Peter Temins,a historian at MIT. "But I'd say thework on railroads was his most im-portant contribution."

While at Hopkins, Fogel hadcame across a 1958 article by twoHarvard historians that tantalizinglyasked whether slavery was profit-able. And in 1965, Fogel and StanleyEngerman, a friend from Hopkinsand then-colleague at Rochester,started conducting research on theeconomics of slavery.

Time on the Cross generated acottage industry of economic re-search on slavery. Over the next 15years, dozens of graduate studentsand co-workers continued to com-pile data on the economics of sla-very. And in 1989, Fogel publisheda reconsideration and restatementof his previous work. Without Con-sent or Contract: The Rise and Fallof American Slavery, which has threecompanion volumes on methodology,is restrained in tone and incorpo-rates much of the criticism madeagainst his earlier work. He alsoamended the conclusion to includea more explicit moral condemnationof slavery.

Fogel, a flamboyant personalityand mesmerizing lecturer, shows nosigns of slowing down. He carries afull teaching load, and is now at workon a major study of how changingmortality rates are related to changesin the standard of living. H

Daniel Gross '89 writes frequently forCornell Magazine

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Theby KevinHaynes

ary Bettman74 leads theway into his

spacious corner office 33floors above midtown Man-hattan and quickly sizes upthe room. "Notice any-thing unusual?" Bettmanasks, waving an armaround his sparsely ap-pointed quarters. Withoutanother word, the NationalHockey League's rookiecommissioner pops open acan of Diet Cherry Cokeand sinks into a sofa by thedoor.

The carpet's an oddshade of forest green,there's no Wall of Fame,and the view of Fifth Av-enue traffic is a bit toosteep and narrow to becalled breathtaking. But unusual?

Bettman looks up toward the white tiledceiling. "This office has no overhead light,"he points out. Sure enough, there are lampseverywhere—in the corners, among the wallunits and on the end tables that punctuate

The cognoscenti sayGary Bettman 74,

the National HockeyLeague's rookiecommissioner, is

crazy for trying to sellprofessional hockey

in America,where icing is

something that goeson a cake.

But Bettman insistshe can make hip

checks hip.

two sofas across theroom. There's even abanker's lamp on theoversized, clutter-freedesk by the window.

But there is no illumi-nation from above. Ofcourse, that's been thelongtime rap against theNHL. Sports Illustrated re-cently chided pro hockeyas "a sport that still hasone foot somewhere in the'70s, the other one in theair."

Yet, as Bettman ap-proaches his first anniver-sary on the job, he has al-ready established himselfas the NHL's man for the'90s, with both feet firmlyon the ground—or the ice.He took office last Feb-

ruary, after signing a five-year contract tobecome the NHL's sixth chief executiveand its first commissioner.

"The [NHL] constitution is beingamended to reflect that my powers aresimilar to the powers of the commission-

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ers of basketball and football," notesBettman, 40. "It was, in part, to makea statement that we're going to runthings a little differently aroundhere."

And how. Before the MontrealCanadiens skated off with the StanleyCup in June, Bettman had begun theunenviable task of carting the NHLout of the Dark Ages. To some, healready ranks as the best (skateless)thing to happen to hockey since theZamboni.

"He's as well-versed a sportsexecutive as there is in America,"says National Basketball AssociationCommissioner David Stern, whoplucked Bettman from a law office12 years ago and groomed his as-cent to general counsel, the NBA'sthird-highest post. "His energy, en-thusiasm and intellect are toppedonly by his sense of humor."

That good humor surfaced inSeptember in a most unlikely NHLsetting—London. The New YorkRangers and Toronto Maple Leafswere in town for the French's Chal-lenge, a two-game exhibition seriessponsored by the mustard company.Plans called for the weekend's mostvaluable player to receive a bottleof champagne. But Bettman nixedthe idea of rewarding an athlete withalcohol. At the last minute, he or-dered an NHL functionary to shopfor a more appropriate gift. Moststores in England are closed on Sun-day, so the official scoured a fleamarket near Wembley Arena andreturned with a prize more to Bett-man's liking—an old, ugly urn thatthe commissioner proudly presentedto Ranger forward Mike Gartner atcenter ice. Its retail value: £20.

Bettman's other moves haveproven much more valuable. He hasoverseen the league's expansion to26 teams this season with two high-profile entries, the BlockbusterVideo-owned Florida Panthers andthe only team in sports historynamed after a movie, Disney'sMighty Ducks of Anaheim. (TheMinnesota North Stars had an-nounced their relocation to Dallasbefore Bettman took office.)

Bettman also orchestrated a des-perately needed division realignment,forgoing the NHL's archaic homageto hockey royalty. (So long, Prince

of Wales). There's now a geographi-cally logical setup that parallels theNBA's format for determining 16playoff teams: the top eight teamsfrom each of the two conferencesqualify for post-season play.

If only it were as easy to fendoff the adversity that so often chillshockey. This summer, an Ottawanewspaper reported that the home-town Senators may have deliberatelylost their final game of the seasonto ensure a last-place finish, therebyearning the rights to the first draftpick. The team ultimately selectedcenter Alexandre Daigle, the mosthighly touted prospect since EricLindros.

The Senators denied any impro-priety. But in the ensuing uproar,Bettman said publicly that the NHLwould consider instituting a lotterysystem, which would defuse thetemptation to take a dive by putting ,the top draft choices up for grabsamong the league's worst teams.

Then, last spring, Bettman im-posed the toughest suspension inNHL history. He suspended—with-out pay—Washington Capitals cen-ter Dale Hunter for the first 21games of this season for coldcockingPierre Turgeon of the New YorkIslanders after Turgeon scored theseries-clinching goal against the Capsin the playoffs. The late hit, whichseparated Turgeon's right shoulder,cost Hunter $150,000 in lost wages.

John Hughes '70, who helped theBig Red win its first two NCAA titlesin 1967 and 1970, thinks Bettmanmissed a great opportunity to takea fresh approach to NHL justice. "Heshould have punished Hunter andcompensated the Islanders for los-ing Turgeon," says Hughes, a NewYork attorney, who has enjoyed afew amiable chats with the new com-missioner. "The Islanders lost theirbest player for the next series. TheCapitals weren't hurt at all since theywere already out of the playoffs."

Newsday, the Long Island dailythat often covers the Islanders likean overprotective parent, openlycampaigned for an even strongersentence. "Frankly," wrote one col-umnist, "there is but one [suspen-sion] that is acceptable —life, with-out parole."

Bettman shakes his head. He

thinks the Caps will be hurt plentyby Hunter's prolonged absence thisseason. As for Newsday, "I wouldsuggest they're reacting a little tooemotionally," he says.

Behind the scenes, Bettman hasquietly restructured and restaffed theleague's offices. "I think we're pro-ceeding in the right direction," hesays. "I'm pleased with the organi-zation we're putting in place. I don'thave things anywhere close to whereI want them, or where I expect themto be over time. There's a lot of workto do. But so far we're on the rightpath."

That route has already taken himon a whirlwind tour of the 26 NHLfranchises. If Bettman is sloucheda bit deeper in the sofa on this morn-ing, it's because he was in Miamithe previous night to help promotethe Panthers. His off-season agendaeven included a search for biggerNHL headquarters, presumably aplace with ceiling fixtures. "Oh, defi-nitely," says Bettman. "You've gotto have overhead light."

ettman's resume isshort but impressive.He graduated fromCornell in 1974, mar-ried his collegesweetheart, Michelle

Weiner '75, the following year, andfinished law school at New York Uni-versity in 1977. He then joined theNew York law firm Prqskauer RoseGoetz and Mendelsohn, where hemet Stern. A year later, Stern leftto become the NBA's first generalcounsel. In 1981, when Stern waspromoted to executive vice presi-dent—the league's number twospot—he needed to hire a younglawyer. He recruited Bettman. "Iknew he would work cheap," Sternjokes. Stern soon became NBA com-missioner, Bettman his generalcounsel.

On Stern's watch, professionalbasketball has evolved from a prob-lem-plagued winter sport overshad-owed by the mighty National Foot-ball League and Major League Base-ball into a financially robust enter-tainment venture with internationalexposure and lucrative licensing

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deals. Some sports observers arguethat the NBA now rivals the NationalFootball League as top dog of thesports world.

If that's true, much of the creditwould go to Bettman, who devel-oped the NBA's innovative salarycap. It has profited the entire leagueby keeping every team on equal foot-ing financially, at least when mak-ing payroll. "I think it's fair to saythat Gary was involved with everysubstantive area that the NBA wasinto, from broadcasting to NBA Prop-erties," says Stern, who experiencedmixed emotions when his protegepacked up after 12 years to take theNHL's top job. "I was very happyfor him and not quite as happy formyself."

Bettman, of course, is thrilled."If I didn't love the game, I wouldn'thave taken the job," he says evenly."You can't spend all your wakinghours worrying about something youdon't love."

Bettman learned about hockeywhile growing up in New York City,where he occasionally hopped on thesubway with friends to take in aRangers game at Madison SquareGarden. But the bug didn't really biteuntil the dawn of the '70s, when heattended Cornell. "Ed Marinaro 72was there my first year, but thereare only so many home footballgames," Bettman recalls. "Hockeywas the real focus. When I got upthere it was immediately after theKen Dryden '69 era, so you knewhockey was a big deal."

Like most of the faithful atLynah Rink, Bettman slept on linefor season tickets all four years. Heattended virtually every home game,and traveled to ECAC and NCAAtournaments. "I also played pick-uphockey," Bettman says, poking funat his on-ice ability. "Based on theskill level we were dealing with,positions weren't all that important.The equipment I had were hand-me-downs from Steve Bajinski 75. We'drent out Lynah in the middle of thenight or the Cass Park rink, down-town by the lake."

That passion has been revivedafter an extended fling with basket-ball. Bettman estimates he attendedmore than 40 NHL games duringhis first two-and-a-half months in

office, including at least one gamein every arena. During the StanleyCup playoffs last spring, he took inat least one contest in the home rinkof the four conference finalists. Hewas also on hand for every gameof the championship series be-tween the Montreal Canadiensand the Los Angeles Kings.When the Canadiens clinchedthe Cup at home in game six,Bettman stepped onto theMontreal Forum ice and ap-proached the microphone. Hethen read a brief statement—in French—congratulating thewinners.The crowd went nuts.

Throughout his first yearin office, Bettman has sat forscores of radio, print and TVinterviews before and aftergames as well as between pe-riods. "All I'm attempting todo is be accessible," he shrugs.He might even return to LynahRink this winter for his firstvisit since becoming NHL com-missioner. "At some point, I'dlike to do that," Bettman says."I would consider it a luxuryand my schedule hasn't per-mitted me many luxuries."Bettman's high visibility—stratospheric when comparedto his predecessors—helpsshed light on a league that, byhis own assessment, still ranksa distant fourth among the fourmajor-league sports in the UnitedStates. "With a good-sized gap be-tween three and four," he adds.

Bettman is diplomatic enough todeflect praise for his early accom-plishments. But he doesn't mindtaking on the NHL's many nay-say-ers, especially those who blame theleague's misfortunes on its past lead-ership.

Longtime president John Zieglerattracted more critics than theCannes Film Festival. A New YorkTimes Magazine cover story last yearon the Philadelphia Flyers' youngstar Eric Lindros described Ziegleras "a mysterious figure whose pri-mary functions eluded many observ-ers of the game."

This much is known: Ziegler oncedisappeared inexplicably during theNHL playoffs, negotiated an embar-rassing TV deal a few years ago with

a smalltime cable station and wasforced to resign after a players' strikealmost cancelled the 1992 StanleyCup playoffs.

Then came Gil Stein, the one-

"If I didn't lovethe game, I

wouldn't havetaken the job,"Bettman says.

Like most of thefaithful at LynahRink, he slept online for season

tickets allfour years.

time general counsel who bridged thebrief gap between the Ziegler andBettman administrations. Stein wasexcoriated throughout Canada anddenounced by Sports Illustrated lastspring as "a shameless self-pro-moter" after he reportedly rigged hisown election to the Hall of Fame.Bettman ordered an investigation,which eventually prompted Stein towithdraw his nomination.

Bettman wants no part of thecomparisons, even if he benefits fromthem. "I don't think it's fair," heclaims. "I want to look forward, Idon't want to look back." His mostpressing concern: a new collectivebargaining agreement with the play-ers' association, one that may or maynot include a variation of his fabledsalary cap. (Negotiations were un-derway at presstime.)

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broader than that," Bettman inter-jects. "I think it's more a questionthat I have a reputation for beingsomewhat knowledgeable aboutlabor relations in professionalsports. [He should be: Bettmanis a graduate of the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations.]I don't view it as my mandateto impose an NBA-style salarycap," he adds. "I think it's moreimportant that we come up witha system that works for thissport. It could be a system thathasn't even been invented yet."

There are other hot issuesfacing Bettman and the NHL:

•TV EXPOSURE. Until lastseason, NHL games were asscarce on tel-evision as insight-ful social commentary. Theleague is now entering the sec-ond year of a five-year deal withESPN, which will broadcastthree games a week to an es-timated 61 million homes. Lastseason, ABC (ESPN's parentnetwork) televised five playoffgames. Bettman hopes to even-tually land a major network deal.'One of the reasons the sportis underappreciated is becauseit's underexposed," he says.That's because the NHL wasset back by the four-year dealZiegler negotiated in the late1980s with Sports Channel Ameri-ca, a second-tier cable channel thatreached just 16 million homes. TheNew York Times called the paltry$5 million package "one of the worstbroadcast-rights agreements eversigned by a major-league sport."Bettman can only do better.

There are other issues facingBettman:

•OFFICIATING. "There's a coi.cern about consistency," Bettman ad-mits. So the league is exploring someinteresting options. Eight of thisyear's preseason games featured tworeferees. Another viable option isto give the two linesmen the sameright to call penalties as the refer-ee. Other possibilities: using moreoff-ice officials to call, say„ off-sidesor icing. "There may not be a bet-ter system," Bettman says. "Butwhatever we do will have to be but-

toned down in another setting be-fore we dare introduce it in theNHL."

—Jβl"There may not bea better system,"

Bettman says."But whatever

we do will haveto be buttoned down

in another settingbefore we dare

introduce itin the NHL."

•FIGHTING. Don't expect on-icefisticuffs to disappear in the Bett-man era. "You know, I think toomuch is made over the whole fight-ing issue," he says. "It gets an un-fair amount of attention." Fightingwas down 30 percent last season,Bettman points out, and there wasn'ta single bench-clearing brawl. "Youget them in other sports, but we have- .

ger issue."There are other ideas to improve

the game: a bigger ice surface, au-tomatic icing calls, abolishing thecenter red line. Some folks are eventoying with ways to make hockeymore appealing on television, perhapswith an electronically enhanced puck.

Bettman isn't convinced any ofthis is necessary. "I don't think thisis a game that needs radicalchanges," he says. "It's a game that

needs a little bit of care and feedingaround the edges. And I think itneeds some more exposure to turnpeople on to it. If you stick some-one in an NHL arena for an NHLgame, they will become a fan. If yougive the game a chance you will beturned on by it because it's that ex-citing."

T he ultimate key to theNHL's success may reston the league's ability tocast a bigger spotlight on

its stars. Wayne Gretzky may be theBabe Ruth of hockey, but even hisbiggest supporters confess his firstname is fast becoming Wane. Butthere are plenty of other stars onthe NHL's horizon, including Lin-dros, Mario Lemieux, Brett Hull,Brian Leetch, Pat LaFontaine andEuropean sensation Pavel Bure ofthe Vancouver Canucks.

Bettman says promoting the bignames is the fun part of his new job.His leg crossed above the right knee,Bettman dangles a black loafer fromhis toes without letting it fall to thefloor. He hesitates only slightly whenasked to cite the most rewardingaspect of his new job. "It's a chal-lenge," he answers, thoughtfully,looking up from his shoe.

And the toughest part? Bettmansmiles. "It's a challenge."

Which raises an interesting pos-sibility. It is suggested that thereis one Herculean task Bettman couldtackle as commissioner to sweetenthe sport. Given his roots and theclout of his office, he could raisehockey's popularity to new heightsin New York, the world's media capi-tal, simply by arranging for the Rang-ers to win the Stanley Cup, a featthe team has not accomplished onits own since 1940.' "Absolutely not,"Bettman says with a laugh, spring-ing to his feet. "That would beuncommissioner-like."

Both shoes are back on, of course.He is the only man who could fill themin an office where the lack of over-head light is no longer an issue. H

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t is the halfway point in rehearsals for the most ambitioustheater production to be staged at Cornell in recent years—agender-bent and updated version of Shakespeare's King Lear—and the theater doors are locked for privacy. Good thing.

• • ; >-* For behind the closed doors, the actors are forgetting theirlines, missing their cues and mispronouncing words. The men, who allseem six-feet-tall and muscle-bound (and are supposed to be playingwomen) are not looking at all like women, and the females (who areplaying men), who haven't yet gotten down the subtleties of a man'swalk, are bearing an uncanny resemblance to John Wayne.

The star, 44-year-old Sheriden Thomas, whose first attempt at dy-ing her hair white has transformed her into a cheap-looking blonde, is

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getting so distracted by the incongruity of it all thatshe is forgetting her lines and yelling "Line!" at thestage manager with such ferocity one might think itwas all his fault.

M eanwhile, David Feldshuh, artis-tic director at the Center for The-atre Arts, 1992 Pulitzer Prizenominee for his play Miss Evers'Boys and a practicing medical doc-tor, looks unfazed. In sneakers and

sweatpants, the director bounces from a seat in theback of the theater to a seat in the front, to the veryfoot of the stage, saying again and again, "Okay, good.Now can we try . . . " A perfectionist at the helm of acomplex show, Feldshuh stops the action and calls forchanges, sometimes at 60-second, 30-second, 15-sec-ond intervals.

This goes on for four hours until it's 11 p.m. andtime to wind down rehearsal for the night. Feldshuhcalls the entire cast on-stage, reviews what worked,what didn't and what they will work on the followingnight. Then he asks: "Any problems?" Thomas slapsher forehead and rolls her eyes to the ceiling. Is there,she seems to be saying, anything but problems?

Viewed from backstage, there seem to be threephases to the making of a college produc-tion. In the first, the anticipation phase,cast, crew and on-lookers imagine that theend will be gold: the acting brilliant, thedirection inspired, the set spectacular. Thesecond phase is like a painter's palette inthe midst of some frenzied, inspiredwork—or, to be more blunt, chaotic. Allideas are being put into action, none yetperfected. The final phase comes whenthe reality of imperfection mixes with theexcitement of performance. This is whencast and crew try not to think too muchabout that one actor who doesn't soundconvincing or the 13th-hour questionsabout whether the production is too am-bitious. They simply commit themselves to putting onthe show, with gusto.

While all this was evident in the staging of KingLear at the Center for Theatre Arts last spring, whatwas most remarkable was the extraordinary host ofchallenges Feldshuh took on in a college production. Ifstaging Shakespeare's most complex play was notenough, there were the obstacles of having the castswitch gender, updating the set to a contemporary ur-ban environment, mixing professional and student ac-tors and scheduling rehearsals for four hours a night

over seven weeks. In professional theater, that wouldbe considered insufficient time for a two-hour play, andLear ran three-and-a-half hours. Thomas, who was aprofessional actress before coming to teach at Cornell,constantly felt the time pressure. One week in she pre-dicted: "You'll see the curtain go down on closing nightand me say, 'Damn, now I've got it. Hey! Come backtomorrow. No? We can't do it tomorrow?' "

But to Feldshuh, challenges come like moths to aflame. A quick look around his Cornell office revealsthe scope of his interests. The plaque on the door reads,"Artistic Director," meaning he oversees all artisticprogramming at the Centre, while also teaching directing,and staging productions. One wall is filled with news-paper articles about Miss Evers' Boys, his play basedon the government study at Tuskegee of untreated syphi-lis in black men. A testament to his perfectionism, hewrote and rewrote the play 31 times. The play wonthe Geraldine Dodge Foundation New American PlayAward in 1989, became the second-most performed playin regional theater in 1991 and earned Feldshuh a PulitzerPrize nomination in 1992. What usually attracts themost curiosity about Feldshuh, though, is the licenseon the wall that certifies him as a medical doctor spe-cializing in emergency medicine, a profession he stillpractices one day a week at the Tompkins ConvenientCare Center.

Feldshuh graduated with a BA in philosophy fromDartmouth College in 1965, studied act-ing at the London Academy of Music andDramatic Arts, then joined the GuthrieTheatre in Minneapolis as an apprenticeactor. By the age of 27, he was associatedirector. Then, one day, he walked outof the rehearsals of a French farce andwas confronted with a news broadcast ofthe massacre of the Israeli athletes at the1972 Olympics in Munich. "It made mewonder, 'What am I doing here?'" he toldthe Los Angeles Times. "I realized therewere questions I wasn't really askingmyself. I was relatively successful at ayoung age, so I knew the 'dis-ease' wasn'trelated to a lack of achievement in my

career. I had to look elsewhere; I had to look withinmyself." He investigated Gestalt therapy, bioenerget-ics and other alternative therapies in San Franciscoand turned it into a dissertation entitled Seven Con-sciousness-Expanding Techniques and Their Relevanceto Creativity in Actor Training which earned him a PhDfrom the University of Minnesota in 1975. Then, drivenby a desire to have a "hands-on" effect on people'slives, he entered medical school.

Since then, Feldshuh has combined both interests,as evidenced by the themes of his productions. In Miss

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Evers'Boys, he examined the medical treatment of poorblacks; in King Lear, the treatment of aging parents."Where does this feeling for 'there but for the grace ofGod go Γ come from?" he asks. It was bred in thebone and in experience, he suggests, recalling the mem-ory of his grandmother, who died on a New York Citybus; thieves stole the rings off her fingers before emer-gency workers could remove her body.

Feldshuh's knowledge ofdeath without dignity, and hisfeeling for saving one from it,is reflected in his production ofKing Lear—not through a youngdoctor's naivete but through amature doctor's experience ofhis own limitations in protect-ing people from the ravages andnatural course of life. Said Feld-shuh: "This production oίKingLear is an expression of angerat my inability to stop my ownaging and the aging of people Icare about. It is about the in-evitability of death of so manypeople I have cared for in theemergency room. It is abouthaving to say to five familiesin a day that someone theycared for has died. It is aboutall that unexpressed resent-ment. It is about all the power-lessness of the doctor who isthought of as so powerful."

More personally, he says, itis about being on the edge of50, seeing his parents age andthinking about his two youngsons who may someday find themselves in that gen-eration of people who must support the huge baby boomgeneration—and may, under the pressure, revolt.

It was this line of thinking that prompted Feldshuhto update Shakespeare's nearly 400-year-old treatmentof the universal conflict between parents and children.Indeed, he argues, Shakespeare himself would haveupdated the play to make it work for today's audiences.As for the gender-bending, Feldshuh's explanation issuccinct: "I'm doing this because we have SheridenThomas, who is capable of doing it, and few are able—men or women."

King Lear begins with the 80-year-old king announc-ing that he will divide his kingdom among his threedaughters to "avoid future strife now" and "shake allcares and business from our age, conferring them onyounger strengths while we unburdened crawl towarddeath." In return, he asks his daughters to declare—

in effect, to compete in—their testament of love forhim, saying, "Which of you shall we say doth love usmost, that we our largest bounty may extend wherenature doth with merit challenge." Goneril, the eldestsays she loves him "more than word can wield thematter; dearer than eyesight, space and liberty." Regancounters with: "I find she names my very deed of love;only she comes too short, that I profess myself an en-

As for theFeldshuh's explanation is succinct:"I'm doing this because we have

Sheriden Thomas,who is

and few are able—

emy to all other joys." It is Cordelia, the king's young-est, who stuns him with honesty and a rejection of hismethods, saying, "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heavemy heart into my mouth." Crushed, Lear misreads herheart as unloving and banishes her, saying, "I lovedher most, and thought to set my rest on her kind nurs-ery."

In the action that follows, Lear goes to live withhis two eldest, in turn. Only, as they were calculatingin their declarations of love, they are, once granted hisproperty, selfish in their power over him. They chal-lenge his authority until he runs out on both, on theedge of madness.

Wandering homeless in a storm, Lear does go mad.But in his descent, he discovers compassion for oth-ers, for "poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are."He also recognizes his folly in banishing Cordelia. Stillmotivated by greed, meanwhile, the two eldest daugh-

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Her character confronted mortality,

Thomas goi a sinusinfection, gum problems, back

pains, a bum knee, a bad

heel and ^̂ ^̂ ^̂ ^̂ Fthat made people back

ters turn against each other, war breaks out and Learand Cordelia meet, finally, in prison. The king begsher forgiveness, she begs him not to beg it and theyimagine a happy future together, in prison. And, then,in a final act of brutality against the king by his eldestdaughters and their entourage, Cordelia is murdered.Lear, holding her body, breathes his last breath.

While this may be the darkest of Shakespeare's plays,Feldshuh said he thinks his direction may have madeit even darker, at least for a contemporary audience,by setting the action against a backdrop of Mondrianreplicas and industrial sounds to suggest the harsh im-personality of modern cities, dressing the charactersin modern dress and adding an ensemble of homelessmen and women.

It was appropriate, then, that rehearsals began ona cold, dark evening in March—and essential that sev-eral of the actors, especially Thomas, brought comicrelief with them. The actress has a habit of breakinginto a series of accents when rehearsals get too heated;this would clearly be needed. From the start, therewas a palpable tension in the air as the 23 studentsand professionals gathered in the Black Box, a base-ment rehearsal space. They examined the costumesketches on the walls, looked inside the set facsimileand waited for the first cue from Feldshuh.

Finally, the clock struck 7:00 and Feldshuh calledeveryone into a circle on the floor. Into the middle ofthe circle, he tossed a hubcap that looked like it hadbeen run over three or four times."! think Γve reducedthis play to one idea," he said. "This is it in essence:the taking of things that were once of use and whenthey are not, discarding them." Things, of course, wouldprove a metaphor for people: elderly people put out oftheir homes, into nursing homes or onto the street.

"My job in this process," he continued, "is going

to be to tell you what the actionis. Fll sketch relations and wherepeople move. Then it will be upto you to fill that out." In otherwords, rehearsal time would bespent sketching the staging, pro-nouncing the lines and discuss-ing the motives of the charac-ters. The actors would have touse their own time to becometheir parts.

For Thomas, this meant try-ing to create the character of theold king who is so complex hehas led a few actors, who didn'teven have the gender-switch todeal with, to say that the rolemust have been Shakespeare'srevenge on some hated thespian.

First she did the simpler things: Put herself on a dietto lose the hips that signal woman and lifted weightsto gain the muscle mass that signals man. "This isn'tgoing to be a drag act," she said, noting that the cos-tumes would be androgynous, but she did not want toundermine herself by her nature. Then she read andreread her lines, not bothering to read the other char-acters' lines, because trying to understand the wholeof the play can be an intellectual distraction for an ac-tor, she said. Her goal was to become Lear.

As this most difficult stage—the becoming—oc-curred, it manifested itself in her not only psychologi-cally but physically. While her character confrontedmortality, insanity and betrayal, Thomas got a sinusinfection, gum problems, back pains, a bum knee, abad heel and a dark mood that, she noticed, made peopleback away from her. This was partly the fears of per-forming made manifest, she suggested, and partly thecreative process of awakening to the life of a painedold man.

Another challenge particular to Shakespeare is thatof not getting too respectful to play his roles with heart,she said. In her acting class, Thomas tried to teachthis to her students by advising them to paraphrasehis words into their own and to remember in everyinstant, "What do you need? Why are you suddenlyconfronting this now?" But tricks could not save anactor from the messy, chaotic second stage of the re-hearsal process. "In rehearsals, you have to be foolishand incompetent in front of people," she said. "It's themost uncomfortable thing. But it's the process."

It is this phase of the process that makes the finalone—the performance—look comparatively simple. Forthen at least the actors know what they are supposedto say and where they are supposed to move. Beforethen, they can never be sure they ever will, especially

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when working with a director like Feldshuh, who isblessed with many ideas along the way. His seeminglyendless ideas are clearly respected yet wearing: it im-proves the staging for the audience but also stresses,exhausts and sometimes frustrates actors who want de-cisions finalized so they can develop the confidence theyneed to stand before an audience on opening night.

On the set of King Lear, this finally happened withwhat is called the first run-through, about ten days be-fore the opening. Walking toward an inconspicuous seatin the back of the theater, Feldshuh explained: "Thisis when the play no longer belongs to the director."For the first time, he let the actors play the play fromstart to finish without interruption, offering his critiquesin a whisper to Assistant Director Kelly Macmanus'93, who jots them down on notecards to distributelater to the actors.

At the end of this night, the few crew members inthe theater applauded and Feldshuh went on-stage tocongratulate the actors and formally relinquish control:"Tonight," he said, "the magic was starting. What hap-pened was you started owning the play. I will continueto give you notes but the play is now yours." Then,betraying the Feldshuh obsession, he asked a few ac-tors to stick around to rework a scene.

Five days before opening night, it was time for thefirst dress rehearsal, which in any play can bring aboutsome surprises. "I wasn't ready—the gender-switchthrew me," said Thomas. "I looked at Susan Matula[who played Poor Tom] and she had a wig on that madeher look like Tina Turner. I was wearing long under-wear that was supposed to make me look naked but Ifelt like the Pillsbury Dough Boy's sister."

The night before opening, a high school class wasinvited in as something of a trial audience. They watchedquietly and applauded politely, in the cautious way ofhigh school students being stared at by their teachers.It didn't satisfy the curiosity of Thomas and actressKathleen Mulligan. They came off the stage in theircostumes before the students could leave their seatsand asked them, Did they like it? Did it make sense?Oh, yes, they said, in that cautious tone that seemedbeyond cracking. The actors gave up. They would haveto wait for the verdict of the opening night audience—and then, as Feldshuh would recommend in his finalpep talk, ignore it.

"The winds of opinion will begin to wash over younow," he said in the Green Room. "I encourage you asartists to see this as an opportunity to sustain yourvision for yourselves and not give up that power, whichis what this whole play is about." As the actors left thetheater for the night, Thomas moved more slowly thanusual. A friend said she looked tired.

"I am. He is. We are," she said.Then it was opening night. Feldshuh took a seat in

the back of the theater that was filled with friends,family, faculty and many others. The lights went down.The music came up. Thomas hurried into place. Thenthe lights came back up, the action began, and sud-denly, the contrast to those messy mid-rehearsal nightswas stunning: Thomas' hair was white, not blonde. Shespoke in a voice that seemed deeper, sicker, older—and she missed no lines. Walking across the stage in asuit with suspenders, she could have been a man. Evenher forehead suggested the wrinkled, lived look of anold man. There was something about that transforma-tion, the extent of transformation possible in theater,that was amazing.

A fter the show, those winds of opin-ion blew into the lobby and coffeeshops and parking lot, and the ver-dicts were mixed. Many said theywere consistently impressed byThomas's performance. Others were

confused by the gender-bending of the entire cast. Somepraised Feldshuh's staging. Others disliked what ap-peared to be an intellectual instead of an emotionalemphasis. But among all the opinions, one seemeduniversal: respect for the effort made to pull off an ex-traordinarily ambitious production on a college stage.

Meanwhile, the actors, having been advised to ig-nore all opinions, slipped up the backstairs to the dres-sing room, where friends and family offered hugs, con-gratulations and flowers. Someone popped a champagnebottle, which sprayed all over. Then everyone changedinto street clothes, left the theater and headed for theChariot, a modest Collegetown hangout, to celebrateover pizza and beer. On the way, Feldshuh said, "Ithink Γm going to go into post-partum depression." Itwas a quip with an edge of seriousness because, forhim, this was the beginning of the end of a year-longobsession with one play, one production, one set ofperformances, in one small town.

And at the end of all big challenges, one is oftenleft feeling one part ecstatic, one part empty. In thetheater, this takes on a particular poignancy for thereis no preserving what's been done, and so much hasbeen done. As Thomas said in a quiet moment amonga crowd of well-wishers, "It's amazing, this train I'vetaken. Six months ago, I began to look at the text, totransfer myself into a man, to lift weights, to lose weight,to hit my friends in the face, metaphorically. Now Icreate a reality I can never see and, in seven perfor-mances, it's all over." H

Lisa Bennett is a researcher/writer for President FrankH.T. Rhodes. She writes often for Cornell Magazine.

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T• une 6, 10:00 a.m. Sunlight shim-

mers on Nevada Route 395 as I brake

• my rented van to a stop at an official

&r State of California inspection station.

You have to pass through customs before you

can cross the border—a requirement that bol-

sters the Golden State's reputation as a country

apart.

The inspector is tanned, young and wears

the national uniform: sandals, shorts and sun-

glasses. He slouches over to the van, glances

at his clipboard and asks in a bored voice

whether Γin carrying any contraband over the

state line—gypsy moths? medflies? other ag-

ricultural pests, ma'am?

He pushes his sunglasses up on his head

and, looking past me, asks, "What brings you

to California?"

"Γm learning how to record bird sounds/'

I admit.

The guy's eyebrows shoot up and his face,

which was flat with tedium, starts to crinkle

around the edges. Then he snickers. "Why

do you want to do that?" he asks.

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W hen I told friendsand relations backin Ithaca that I wasplanning to take thisCornell University

workshop on bird-sound recording,everyone asked that same question.It sounds strange: paying for theprivilege of getting up at 4:00 in themorning to chase tiny, evasive crea-tures while carrying lots of heavy,fragile, expensive equipment.

And it's hard to imagine whyanyone would want to collect birdsounds—everyone asks, wouldn'tphotographs be more useful?

So let me explain.{Φ

After the border crossing, I spota golden eagle feeding on a roadkill.As the van approaches the eagle flapsheavily to a fence post where itpreens uneasily. Our eyes meet fora moment as I drive past. The birdlooks as bored and disapproving asthe customs inspector did.

The road crosses the dusty Si-erra valley—much of it pasturelandfenced with barbed wire—thenclimbs in nauseating switchbacks upto Yuba Pass. Soon the air growscooler and the rich, butterscotchsmell of Jeffrey pines floats in throughthe window. At 6,000 feet the roadlevels out, and after a few miles Ispot a sign: Sierra Nevada Field Sta-tion.

I ease the van across a narrowbridge spanning the Yuba River, andthere's the rustic wooden lodge,nestled under towering spruce trees,looking like a glossy magazine ad forsummer camp. So far, so good.

*The Sierra Nevada Field Stationis operated by San Francisco StateUniversity, which lets other univer-sities—including Cornell—run sum-mer workshops there. The soundrecording workshop is an educationalprogram of the Cornell Laboratoryof Ornithology, an international cen-ter for bird study and conservation.

One of the lab's best-known re-sources is its Library of NaturalSounds (LNS)—the world's largestcollection of recorded natural soundsand, so goes the joke, Cornell's noisi-est library. Walking the corridors, youmight mistake the world-famousarchive for an offbeat zoo, as the re-

cording studios emit an assortmentof tweets, whistles, hoots and howls.Although it is part of the Labora-tory of Ornithology, LNS is by nomeans limited to sounds made bybirds. Its earliest recordings, and byfar its most numerous archive, how-ever, is made up of bird songs.

Scientists around the world con-sult the library, checking out soundsfor studies of animal communication,taxonomy and behavior. They can'tbrowse the stacks, though. Tapes

are stored in a climate-controlledroom in the archive, which occupiesone wing of the Cornell Laboratoryof Ornithology's headquarters inSapsucker Woods, about three milesfrom campus. Users call, write orfax their requests; LNS sends out acopy of the original recording on tapeor compact disc.

In the mid-1980s LNS staff no-ticed that they were fielding moreand more questions from research-ers who wanted to record, not bor-

Finback at 9:00: Range 25,000yards and closing...

"The whole North Atlantic is wiredfor sound/' says Christopher Clarkof Cornell's Bioacoustics Laboratoryas he runs his finger across a mapof the northern hemisphere—upfrom Bermuda to Greenland, overto England and down the coast ofSpain. He's charting a massive ar-ray of hydrophones—underwater mi-crophones placed in the ocean dur-ing the Cold War by the UnitedStates Navy to detect the move-ments of Soviet submarines. Now,as Clark explains, these same mi-crophones are used mainly for pick-ing up the sounds of whales—blues,finbacks and minkes—as they moveabout their aquatic habitat. Theserecordings will be used by Clark andhis colleagues to finally gain an ac-curate picture of how many whalesinhabit the oceans and, more im-portantly, why they are singing inthe first place.

From the Navy's point of view"Whales Ό3" is part of a larger ini-tiative to find alternative uses forits highly sensitive defense equip-ment. For Clark, this is a dreamcome true: based on earlier workin the Arctic on bowhead whales,he knows that accurate censusesneed to combine both open-water

visual sightings and underwateracoustics.

Whales make noises that carryhundreds of miles. An array of mi-crophones laid on the ocean floorat specific distances from each otherwill pick up that noise at differenttimes. Using simple geometry andthe knowledge of the speed of soundthrough water, technicians can pin-point the position of the whale. 'It'slike standing on the bottom of theocean," says Clark, "and you havethis enormous antenna, and youturn the antenna and say, There'sone, there's one, there's one.'" Everyspecies of whale has a general pat-tern of sound that translates intoa visual picture, called a sonograph,on a computer screen. Movementsof populations can be tracked overtime by watching for that patternas the whales pass by microphonearrays. And because each animalhas a distinct voiceprint, the samewhale can be followed for days.

Access to the Navy's equipment,technicians and tapes gives Clarkthe chance to fill in some gaps aboutwhale behavior. Although some re-searchers have assumed that whalessound off to communicate with eachother, there's no evidence to sup-

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row sounds. So they decided tolaunch a one-week, summer train-ing session for aspiring recordists.After soggy experiences in Maineand in Ithaca, LNS decided to movethe course to the more forgivingclimes of California. This field sta-tion, high in the Sierra Nevada Moun-tains above Yuba Pass, has hostedthe course for the past six years.

«<As Fm parking the van, I scanthe grounds and spot the trademark

plaid flannel shirt of Greg Budney,the LNS curator and the course'schief instructor. Greg's a fanaticalrecordist, always on the lookout fornew sounds to add to the LNS col-lection. He takes his superpoweredNagra recorder everywhere—evenon his honeymoon on MonheganIsland, off the coast of Maine, where,he says, he got a great recording ofa sharp-shinned hawk.

Greg helps me unload my dufflebag and shows me the sleeping quar-

port this. It doesn't make sense thatrepetitive sounds that carry hun-dreds—even thousands—of milesevolved as chit-chat with a familymember swimming just 100 feet away.

"I think they are sensing theirenvironment," suggests Clark."Whales have evolved sounds thatare very well designed for long-rangesignals. Why? They are basicallygenerating a three-dimen-sional image of their envi-ronment, using sound."Whales emit low-fre-quency sounds deep inthe ocean; thesesounds then travel atspeeds that are af-fected by water tem-perature. They mightbe sensing their habi-tat by sounding off, lis-tening to the result andheading for upwellings thatare warmer, oxygen rich and bet-ter food sources. As Clark asks rhe-torically, "Why wouldn't a large-brained animal that has had 35 mil-lion years of cruising around the At-lantic or the Pacific have evolvedthis ability?"

This could lead to insights intowhale social systems. It's possiblethat only one animal is soundingoff while others in the group listenin. If this is true, census figures willhave to be adjusted even higher toaccount for the more-silent groupmembers.

More accurate, and probablyhigher whale counts then becomea conservation conundrum; does itfollow that we should lift the hunt-ing ban on some species just be-cause the numbers are higher thanwe thought? "I have to admit," saysClark, "there are conservation im-plications to an accurate census.The point is, we are trying to find

the reality as opposed to be-ing politically correct about

whales. Killing whales isan ethical issue, not ascientific issue. Thereare thousands of minkewhales and plenty offinback whales, butsome of us just don't

think you should be kill-ing whales to sell com-

mercially. I think what weeventually learn—their so-

ciety, the way they commu-nicate, their natural history—is goingto be as powerful a message as'there may be more of them.'"

This odd marriage of whale bi-ologists and the military presentsa golden opportunity to listen in ona world vastly different from our own.For now, at least, we need to con-serve whales, if only to figure outwhy these mysterious behemothsfloat past our fancy equipment, call-ing out in the inky darkness to noth-ing in particular.

—Meredith F. Small

ters—two-person tents set on plat-forms behind the lodge. They'reroomy as tents go, and equipped withcots. Apparently they also come witha view of the local megafauna. "Don'tkeep any food in the tent," Gregwarns. "This path is a regular bearhighway at night"

Bears are my personal night-mare. I make a mental note to brushoff any stray crumbs after dinner.

tyGreg is proud of the many re-quests for recorded sounds fromLNS. He has worked hard to spreadthe message in the conservationcommunity that recorded sounds arean essential tool for bird censusesand surveys.

It works like this: Before you canargue that a place needs to be pro-tected, you have to know what'sthere to protect. But birds can behard to spot, especially in the dense,tangled canopies of tropical forests.When field workers broadcast re-corded sounds, though, birds fly closeto investigate because they thinkthey're hearing a challenger; thenthe birds are easy to count.

Biologists also use recordedsounds to prepare for field work, theway you might study Berlitz tapesbefore a trip to France. Recently,60-year-old LNS recordings of theivory-billed woodpecker helped Cu-ban researchers bone up for an ex-pedition on which they managed tolocate a few surviving members ofthis extremely rare species. With-out the tapes, they wouldn't haveknown what to listen for.

And the lab's recordings are of-ten used on the Cornell campus. Inthe psychology department, under-graduate Lauren Koch '94 and Pro-fessor Tim DeVoogd are using LNSrecordings to investigate how femalezebra finches choose a mate. Neu-robiology and behavior ProfessorStephen Emlen uses LNS record-ings in his field studies of mate choiceby male wattled jacanas. A naturalresources graduate student, LauraBrown, uses LNS sounds to attractbirds to her nets in Costa Rica, soshe can collect blood samples for apopulation genetics study. And labAssociate Steve Kress, a NationalAudubon Society researcher, is us-ing the raucous sounds of a breed-

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ing colony of common murres toattract the seabirds to a Maine is-land from which they've been ex-tirpated; he's already used the sametechniques with great success onAtlantic puffins.

*In the dining hall, spruce logssupport the ceiling and the tablessport red-checkered tablecloths. Themenu reads "Welcome to theRoadkill Cafe," but lunch is surpris-ingly gourmet: fusilli with gorgonzolaand herbs, sourdough bread, excel-lent coffee.

Over lunch I meet some of theother course participants. Many aregrad students who need to sharpentheir recording skills for their the-sis research; for example, DaveDelehanty, of the University of Ne-vada in Reno, is studying dialectsin mountain quail. Some birds haveregional accents, just as Bostoniansand Long Islanders do—Dave's plan-ning to record birds in different lo-cations and compare their vocaliza-tions.

*Kim Nelson is a tall, freckledwoman who acts as if bears out-side the tent will be no problem, Kimis a wildlife biologist at Oregon StateUniversity. She's studying themarbled murrelet, an endangeredseabird that nests in the old-growthforests of the Pacific Coast, and she'shere to develop a combination ofequipment and techniques for record-ing murrelets as they fly high overthe forest canopy.

But not everyone here is a birdbiologist. Kathleen Dudzinski isstudying dolphin communication atTexas A&M University. "I use ahydrophone, not a microphone," sheexplains, "but other than that therecording techniques are pretty simi-lar." Greg promises to find sometrout for her to practice on.

And not everyone is here withresearch plans. Dave and Linda Ferryare physicians and bird watchers witha special interest in hummingbirdvocalizations. "We've done bird-banding," Linda tells me over des-sert, "and now we want to try a newangle on our hobby. This coursewill let us test different tends ofequipment and see if we like record-ing." Frank Dorritie is an indepen-

dent record producer who wants toincorporate bird songs in some ofhis productions.

F rank's not alone; musicalgroups such as the PaulWinter Consort routinelyuse LNS sounds. So do filmproducers: the streamside

bird chorus in A River Runs ThroughIt, the tropical bird sounds in Hon-eymoon in Vegas and the chirpinghouse sparrows in Dead Poets' So-ciety all came from the LNS library;likewise the animal sounds on manytelevised nature programs.

Boston's Franklin Park Zoo rana wildly popular Valentine's Dayprogram about animal sex featuringmating calls from LNS. At Chicago'sField Museum (and many others)LNS sounds add natural ambianceto the exhibits. The educational re-cordings produced by LNS includethe classic Peterson Field Guide toBird Songs, (available in Eastern/Central and Western versions).

One way to use LNS sounds isto prepare for the Leonard WaxdeckBird Calling Contest, formerly anannual fixture on "The TonightShow." Students at a California highschool train for this oddball compe-tition, in which they strive to pro-duce realistic imitations of bird songs,with custom tapes produced by LNS.

» .After lunch, Greg introduces theother workshop instructors:Randy Little '62, an AT&T soundengineer and native Ithacan; DaveHerr, a wisecracking U.S. ForestService biologist from WashingtonState, Steve Pantle, an LNS techni-cian and Bob Grotke, the LNS soundengineer, whom we quickly nick-name "Mr. Wizard."

I get out my gear, borrowed fromLNS. The system includes a suit-case-sized reel-to-reel Nagra re-corder, a pair of headphones, and amicrophone nestled in a clear acrylicparabolic reflector that looks like agigantic salad bowl. Cables hang fromevery limb. When I strap the stuffon my body and stand up, Γm list-ing to starboard from the weight ofthe 22-pound Nagra—but I feel readyto document unknown birds for sci-ence.

Though Budney and staff some-times mount expeditions to seekout new sounds, most LNS record-ings have been donated—by re-searchers, wildlife managers, guidesand just plain hobbyists. (Ten per-cent of the entire collection camefrom Ted Parker, the ConservationInternational biologist who was re-cently killed in a plane crash. Parkerserved on the Laboratory ofOrnithology's board.) Gradually ac-cumulating contributions from far-flung recordists, LNS is now the larg-est collection of recorded naturalsounds in the world: this year, thestaff celebrated the acquisition oftheir 90,000th recording. (The nextlargest sound library in the UnitedStates, the Borror Acoustics Lab inOhio, has about 9,000 recordings.)

The growth of the collection andthe surge in inventive uses of soundrecordings would surely be gratify-ing to Arthur A. "Doc" Allen '07,Cornell's first professor of ornithol-ogy and founding director of theCornell Laboratory of Ornithology.In the 1930s Allen and a band of stu-dents pioneered the technology forrecording birds in the field. In thosedays recording equipment was sobulky and complicated, the lab useda panel truck to cart the systemaround. Doc would have thought myNagra a featherweight wonder.

As it wears a groove in my shoul-der, though, I think a truck seemslike a pretty good idea.

*To make recording easy on ourfirst day, sound engineer Bob Grotkehas thoughtfully tied a bird to anearby tree. Well, actually it's a taperecorder, broadcasting the sounds ofa very persistent chipping sparrow.We face the sound and listen throughour headsets as we move our mi-crophones to find the position thatbrings in the loudest and clearestsound. I wonder what an uninformedvisitor would make of this scene: arow of serious-faced people aimingsmall satellite dishes skyward andcarefully waving them in precisecruciform patterns. Initiates intosome bizarre cult? New Agers wait-ing for a signal from outer space?

Some of my classmates havesmaller, cassette recorders, andsome are using elongated "shotgun"

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microphones that are pointed gun-like at the sound, rather than a mi-crophone-dish combination. Wetrade equipment around, examiningthe advantages and disadvantages ofeach.

The smaller recorders use nar-rower tape, and they can't equal theNagra and other reel-to-reel record-ers for sound resolution. But tech-nique is what really counts, Gregtells us. A recordist with good tech-nique can make archive-quality re-cordings with an inexpensive re-corder, just as a professional pho-tographer can coax great-lookingimages out of a $50 camera.

*When the alarm goes off at 4:00the next morning, a hermit thrushis already spouting his sweet phrasesdown by the Yuba River. We graba quick cup of coffee in the dininghall, pile into the vans and bumpdown the mountainside. At an over-look, we stop to watch the sun washthe mist blanketing the valley witha golden glow. From a Jefferey pine,an olive-sided flycatcher sings itsunmistakable song: "quick, threebeers."

We're heading for an expanse ofmarsh intersected by sage-coveredrangeland. The site has everythingto make recording easy—flat terrain,easy access and relatively tame birds,such as horned larks and marshwrens, perched in plain sight onconspicuous fence posts.

»Γm after yellow-headed black-birds; the showy males are claim-ing their territories with mournfullyfunny gargling noises that sound likedeath by strangulation: squawk-waa-aa-a-agh! I soon run up against ev-ery complication in the book. Thebirds fly off as I approach. Or theystand their ground, but turn off theirsongs as I turn on the recorder. Ieventually get rolling on a singingbird, then notice that I haven'tswitched the Nagra from "test" to"record." When I finally start record-ing, I hear the whisper of a car's tireson the road across the valley. Thesound grows to an overwhelmingroar that drowns out the bird.

Human-generated noises makerecording difficult in all but the mostremote locations. Once, when plan-

ning a recording session in SapsuckerWoods, Andrea Priori of the user ser-vices office at LNS called the Ithacaairport for flight schedules so shecould record in between takeoffs.

Shy, hard-to-approach birds areanother problem. The closer youcan get to a bird, the better the re-cording will be, so recordists honetheir stalking skills. Randy Littletaught me the "sit-and-wait" ap-proach: find a comfortable tree stumpand see what birds come to you. Thistechnique works well with the heavyNagras.

Setting up a remote microphoneis another option. Birds will returnagain and again to a favorite "songperch," so you can set a microphoneclose to the perch, run a cable to aconvenient hiding place, and crouchwith a recorder. We also used thistechnique in California to record birdsnesting in hollow trees. In one re-cording, made at a red-breastedsapsucker's nest, you can clearly hearthe young birds' mutterings grow toan excited gabble as a parent hopsscratchily down the trunk, approach-ing the nest hole with a beak full ofants.

Greg sets the class a chal-lenge: the first one torecord five different spe-cies of flycatcher winsa milkshake at the gen-

eral store down the road. This isno trivial prize: the soda fountainserves shakes the old fashioned way,whirled to perfection in a 1930sHamilton-Beach Mixmaster andserved in tall, frosted metal cups.

To get us started Greg arrangesan extra-early (at 3:00 instead of 4:00a.m.) recording session at a nearbyranch where he knows we'll find grayflycatchers. This bird sings a spe-cial "pre-dawn" song—quite differ-ent from its usual morning routine—that has hardly ever been recorded.So we're motivated not only bymilkshakes, but by the chance to adda new sound to the LNS collection.

At the ranch, we stumble off intotal darkness, tripping over sage-brush and dodging somnolent cows.I hear a flycatcher sound off in a lowpine dead ahead and position myhands on the recorder's controls as

I ease closer. When I'm near enoughto record, I aim the parabola andstart. The whistled song soundssurreal through my headphones.

*As the light swells, shapes slowlymaterialize. I realize I'm notalone—this bird in this tree is com-pletely surrounded by recordists, likepaparazzi clustering around a moviestar. When the flycatcher finally fallssilent we stretch and grin at eachother.

*I never did see a bear, although Idid find some pretty fresh trackswhile I was stalking a lazuli buntingin a sunny meadow one morning. Ourgray flycatcher recordings are partof the LNS collection now; so is aclassmate's recording of red cross-bills, which Greg says is better thanany other crossbill recording in thecollection so far. Dave Ferry wonthe flycatcher challenge; KathleenDudzinski says mountain trout aremute.

Leaving California, we werewaved through the inspection sta-tion—they don't care if you trans-port any pests out of the state. Icaught sight of the inspector who'dlaughed at me, manning the boothin the in-bound lane. He was talk-ing to another driver and didn't seeme. I thought about making a U-turn.We'd pull up to his booth and play atape for him. I'd tell him how evenrank amateurs like me can make anenduring contribution to science.

But we kept going. H

Cynthia Berger is managing editor0/The Living Bird Quarterly, themagazine of the Cornell Laboratoryof Ornithology.

For more information aboutthe Library of NaturalSounds or the 1994 SoundRecording Workshop, con-tact LNS, Cornell Labora-tory of Ornithology, 159Sapsucker Woods Road,Ithaca, New York 14850,telephone, (607) 254-2404.

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The Twilight of a Century

Γ hen these freshmen Delta Gamma sisters entered Cornell in 1898, Wil-liam McKinley was President of the United States and Thomas Edison'smotion picture invention, the kinetoscope, was only 4 years old. By thetime their class graduated in 1902, Carrie Nation, the temperance activ-ist, was smashing saloons with a hatchet, McKinley was dead from an

assassin's bullet and the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk was still morethan a year away. The world was changing in ways none of them could haveanticipated.

They are, back row, left to right, Helen Brown and Katherine Buckley; middlerow, Ina Scott, Esther Swift and Ruth Bentley; front row, Grace Gibbs and ElsieSingmaster; and an unidentified woman, in shadow, lower right. Arrayed in their'Victorian finery, in the twilight of an old century, they could be figures from anovel by Henry James or Edith Wharton.

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Class NotesI ^% We're still sharing notes received

A § 1 by Irene S. Gibson and Mildred• \f Stevens Essick after MildredI M\ wrote to dassrnates last spring to111 encourage attendance at Reunion.

M. ^J Maxine Montgomery Messer'sletter, mailed from Bradenton, FL to Irene,stated, "It does not seem possible that thisis our 75th Reunion. I have given up goingNorth, anymore. I live here in BradentonManor and am very happy and active. I goout to play shuffleboard every morning at8:45 a.m., also do volunteer work, here. Wehave everything we might need and lifetimecare. It is a Presbyterian-sponsored home.There are five of these in Florida. We havea Cornell man as food director. All have agood time! My best to everyone."

Irene heard from a number of alumni atthe time she announced she would no long-er be writing this column. Among them wasFlorence Daly '24, who, wrote Irene, "re-minds me of the days in the 1950s when theCornell Women's Club of New York City hadits apartment at the Barbizon, shared withthe Bryn Mawr Club, and where we hungan exhibit of Flo Daly's watercolors for amonth one year, and I bought one, beingamong her 'first customers,' as she puts it. Idid publicity for the CWC one or two years.Fancy trying to get an article in The NewYork Times or Brooklyn Eagle! Now Florencehas her very own gallery, and still paints inher retirement place in Maine."

According to an article about our class-mate Judge Elbert P. Tuttle, LLB '23, pub-lished early last May in the Atlanta Journal/Atlantic Constitution, he was still putting ina five-hour workday as a senior judge on thellth US Circuit Court of Appeals. A head-line in the article states, "Tuttle's civil rightsrulings helped to reshape South." And he isquoted in the article as saying that his viewson race relations were formed when he wasa young boy, in the early 1900s. The article,written by the paper's staff writer BillRankin, continues, "He remembers sittingnext to his mother on the front porch of theirhouse one morning, watching bus after buspass by a black woman waiting at the curb.His mother walked down to the corner andstood with the woman until the next buscame by and stopped. The black woman goton, and his mother walked back to the porch.Ί've never forgotten what she did, and I nev-er will,' Tuttle said."

Last spring when he was interviewedfor the article, Judge Tuttle had plans for asummer family trip to Hawaii, where he grewup, to show his "old stomping grounds" towife Sara (Sutherland) '20 and their sonand daughter-in-law. We hope he'll let usknow if he did. In a sort of summing up, hesaid, "I'm very fortunate in saying that if Ihad the opportunity to go back and start overI wouldn't change a thing . . . There's neverbeen a dull moment."

Please send news and information for

this column. <* Class of '18, c/o Cornell Mag-azine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

I ^\ At this writing, October ap-Λ I I proaches with the cool and briskI I B days of autumn and foliage begin-1 ^rm ning to change colors here inI f f southern New England. My

JL ^J daughter Marcia and her husband,Peter, who fortunately live close by, are bothvery busy working for the Episcopal Dioceseof Connecticut and their daughter Vanessais back at Yale for her junior year. At 94(hopefully 95 in January 1994) I am still semi-active despite numerous ailments, the de-tails of which I won't continue to bore youwith. As usual, I've had little or no word fromclassmates over the past year, and with oursadly depleted roster very few remain on theclass mailing list. So I regretfully announcethis to be my last column. I took this oversome five years ago from Percy S. "Syd"Wilson when he entered a nursing home.Thanks to all my loyal predecessors as sec-retary/correspondent, we have maintainedcontinuity of this 1919 column in the formerAlumni News, now Cornell Magazine, eversince this idea of a regular class column wasinitiated by our first president, W. MorganKendall, in 1948, and when our class alsooriginated the Group Subscription Plan forclasses. For the past year or two, lackingitems of new interest, I have filled my col-umn with highlights of our glorious past asundergraduates (interrupted by World WarI); in the military service; and in the mani-fold accomplishments of our graduates in theworld of finance, law, politics, education, artand architecture, medicine, and industry.Also, the many '19 men and women whohave labored long and loyally for the CornellFund, the Centennial Campaign, on the Uni-versity Council and as trustees, and for ourclass. Three members were honored as pres-idential councilors, viz. Arthur H. Dean(who served 25 years as trustee, nine as chair-man), Alfred M. Saperston, and G. RuhlandRebmann, all three lawyers of distinction.

In 1967 I was elected class president tosucceed the late Rudy Deetjen. After thesudden death in May 1989 of H. E. "Doc"Shackelton, just before our 70th Reunionattended by six hardy souls (four since de-ceased) I took over the duties of treasurer.As we no longer collect class dues, and hadonly a small balance ($372.66) lying idle inour class account (and all other class offi-cers are deceased), I have turned this overto the Cornell Fund for allocation to the Uni-versity Library. We have also been receiv-ing some interest each July from a class en-dowment fund within the university's port-folio ($141 this year). This will also be cred-ited to the library in the future. So I havediscarded two of my "three hats." As presi-dent, I will continue to cherish fond memo-ries of, and love for, Cornell.

Seasons greetings and best wishes to

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all for a happy new year. *• C. F. Hendrie,67 Cannon Ridge Dr., Artillery Hill, Water-town, CT 06795.

^% ̂ % While our correspondent Ed-f 11 I ward "Ned" Giddings is mak-i I mβ full progress in his recovery,

f f he is still in the hospital in Syra-I J I 1 cuse, NY after his operation. We••• ™Λ hope his progress continues andthat he will be able to take over with newsfor the magazine again soon. We sure misshim. Irv Sherman was honored recently bybeing invited to Cornell in September for a"Campus Visit" for graduates of the Collegeof Arts & Sciences. We understand that theuniversity sent a plane to take a small groupfrom the New York Metropolitan Area toCornell for the occasion. Also, at least partof the group were to have dinner with Pres-ident and Mrs. Rhodes. While at Cornell,making the visit over the weekend, Irv wasinvited to that dinner.

Recently I talked with Mrs. Louise Con-ley, the daughter of Rollin McCarthy, ourformer class president. She tells me that"Mac" is still in a home in Chatham, NY andkeeps quite well. I am planning to see himbefore I leave for Florida and will report lateron my visit with him. We gave him a record-ing of messages from those who attendedour 70th Reunion in June 1992 and I under-stand that he gets enjoyment out of playingthat recording.

On a sad note, I regret to have to passon the information that Robert S. Acker-ly, MD '26 died this past June. He was asurgeon in New York City and on Long Isandfor nearly 40 years, and he served with dis-tinction in the US Army Medical Corps dur-ing World War II. As an undergraduate,known as "Ack" or "Bug," he was a stal-wart member and, as a senior, captain of thevarsity wrestling squad, while at the sametime serving as head cheerleader. We re-ceived this news and a loving tribute to Rob-ert from his son, Robert Jr. '51, and weextend our condolences to him and to hissister, Janet, and both of their families. Ψ C.R. "Keeze" Roberts, Acting Correspon-dent, 155 Park Ave., Leonia, NJ 07605.

^\^\ We still have news to share fromI II I News and Dues forms received

I J last spring. It's a trifle out of date,f ^ certainly, but there's plenty that's/ Λ I of interest. James B. "Burt"L JV/ Nichols, Wilmington, DE, pro-vided lots of information: after earning hisBChem degree at Cornell, he went to theU. of Wisconsin for his PhD and had twoyears at Uppsala U. in Sweden. His wife,Eleanor, who died in 1988, had been a notedsilver- and goldsmith and a museum instruc-tor. Burt, who is retired, has been treasurerof several social action organizations, hasworked for his church for about 50 years,and been involved in charitable and politicalactivities. He's been a member of the Cor-nell Club of Delaware for about 60 years andwas its treasurer for many years'. He's a rosegardener and enjoys the theater, and listsphotography and ice skating (at the SkatingClub of Wilmington for about 30 years) ashobbies. For travel, Burt listed a trip to Cal-ifornia to visit his son J. Randall Nichols

'53. He also has a daughter, named Court-land, six grandchildren, and, when he wrote,a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter.

Hazel L. Chichester's address is14536 NE 2nd Ct., N. Miami, FL. She wrotea letter last June in response to the invita-tion to attend Reunion. She sent regrets"that I cannot be with you," and also sent acopy of her book, Swords into Plowshares:or, It Might Have Been, which she copyright-ed and had printed in 1991. It's a book offiction, but, says the author, a number of"hard to believe" accounts are based on ac-tual events. It is set in the time betweenthe two World Wars, and relates many de-tails of life in Florida during the "Great De-pression." The book has been forwarded tothe University Library's Cornelliana Collec-tion, books by and/or about Cornellians.

When H. Ward Ackerson send hisNews and Dues last May, he reported hehad been "active in real estate business inSuffolk County (NY) from 1923 to date."That's 70 years! And, not too surprisingly,his hobbies are listed as "municipal zoningand planning." Ward has served on planningand development committees for the Townof Islip and Suffolk County, also on the coun-ty's water authority. Wife Eleanor is a formerschool teacher, and they have sons Bartlettand Richard, who are both alumni of St.Lawrence U.

Gertrude Shaskan Shuldiner (Mrs.Henry D.) sent dues last June from her homein New York City, but no news. We hopethis year she—and all the rest of you, aswell—will send us word of what interestsyou in this world that is so changed fromthat of the early 1900s. * Class of '23, c/oCornell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY14850-1266.

The response to our Augustnewsletter has been gratifying.^e have' h°wever> not heardfrom a number of you, and wehope you will send us your newsand dues by the end of the year.

That is when unrenewed subscriptions toCornell Magazine (for which part of the re-ceipts from dues goes) run out. Non-sub-scribers, of course, lose this almost-monthlycontact with classmates and the university.Surely you don't want this to happen to you.

This being the season for merriness, it'sa pleasure to quote this cheerful messagefrom Francis W. "Andy" Anderson: "As Iapproach the 50th anniversary of my 43rdbirthday, I continue to enjoy reasonable goodhealth—especially the life here at Meadow-brook Retirement Community," in Bloom-ington, IN.

Of similar tone, here's a report from O.Townsend MacMillan: "Like the rest ofyou, I'm not as mobile as I used to be, butaside from some minor disabilities, I am inpretty good shape. Swim a lot (indoor pool),play bridge four or five times a week. Some-times can't remember whether that 'keycard' is 'good.' Family scattered. Older sonMarsh MacMillan '56, MBA '57 is aboutto retire from IBM after 35 years at Endi-cott, NY. Younger son, Dartmouth '57, hasalso had long service with IBM, in Tucson,AZ. Grandchildren in San Diego, Denver,Grand Junction, CO, York, PA, and Endicott.

Paul Rapp '26 and Donald Robertson '32make up the small Cornell contingent ofwhich I am aware (among a host of Penngrads) in this retirement community at theheart of Pennsylvania's Main Line. Ofcourse, we continue to miss Al Rauch."

In sharp contrast to the above, this notefrom Dick Starr of Upperville, VA literallybrought tears to my eyes: "Last January myson was gunned down in front of this CIA officeby a madman with an assault rifle. Althoughnot one of those killed outright, he will remaina cripple the rest of his life. Yet the sense-less sale of arms continues!" Who ever thoughtthat a tragedy like this could befall the sonof one of our classmates? Let's hope thatthe current Attorney General Janet Reno'60 can and will do something to eradicatesuch horrible happenings. •*• Max Schmitt,RR 5, Box 2498, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Greetings, and a happy new year—1994. OurReunion year! Most of the News & Duessheets for 1993 have excellent material forour column. I'll let Florence "Flo" Daly tellher own story. "Have had a busy year—stillpainting watercolors. Was invited to a 90thbirthday party for Virginia "Sis" VanVrancken Woolley '25, but it was too farto go, so I wrote a story about the collegescarves which we produced back in the '40s.This led to getting material together abouta mural I painted for the school where Itaught in Haverstraw, NY. Have sent somememories to Fanny French Perrine'sdaughters, who are planning a celebrationof the 70th wedding anniversary of Fanny andDavid '22. Fanny's daughter Mary PerrineJohnson '51 and husband Robert, who livein Utah, stopped to see me this summer. Iwent on a bus trip to Boston with our localart association to see the Homer, Sargent,etc. watercolors at the Boston Museum, andnext week, I shall be attending a paintingworkshop at Port Clyde, ME. I do hope a goodgroup of us manage to get to Reunion in 1994."

Martha Signor Bier also says it well."I am happily situated in a life-care home.My health is excellent and I enjoy trips tomuseums, etc. We, who live in or near Wash-ington, DC, are blessed with so manyopportunities to visit art, scientific, and his-torical places. The Barnes collection of im-pressionistic paintings has been a wonderfulopportunity to view seldom-seen artworks.Also keep up with the changing political sideof Washington." •*• Gwendolen Miller Dodge,230 Shirley Dr., Charlestown, RI02813.

If you can stop deploring the an-tics of the present generation fora moment, you might considerone of the strange customs of ourown day which, I'm told, hasquite disappeared; that is, the

business of forming or joining organizationswhose principal, if not only, raison d'etre wasto provide another gilded object to be pinnedto the shirt or dangled from the watch-chain,another item for the graduate's list ofachievements in the Cornellian, and anotherlisting in the Cornellian of one's name as amember thereof. These were the organiza-tions described as "clubs," as distinguishedfrom "honorary societies," of which latterthere was such a specialized profusion as fi-

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nally to blur the distinction. As perhaps themost flagrant example of the clubs, I giveyou Ball and Chain, whose 15 members (in-cluding, I regret to admit, your reporter)were named (first, middle, and last) beneatha drawing of its pin (a representation of aball with a little chain attached, of course),at page 401 of the 1925 Cornellian—and fora year or two thereafter. The sole require-ment for membership, as I recall, was thatone be a male who came to Cornell fromwestern New York. I don't know how thevital area was formally defined, but its mem-bers came from Dansville and points westas far as Niagara Falls, with the notable ex-ception of Buffalo. The exception was prob-ably because there had been, and perhapsstill was, a club charmingly named Scalp andBlade, which last appeared in the 1923 Cor-nellian labeled "Buffalo Society." I recall at-tending just one meeting of B&C, where andwhy I've no idea. Apart from their area oforigin, which was quite large and diverse,the only thing in common among all its mem-bers was the probability that they used "ay-uh" to mean "yes;" that custom was not lim-ited to upstate points west of Dansville, how-ever, but extended to the East as far asMaine, I believe.

The names of some of the clubs sug-gested at least a particular common inter-est, though not, perhaps, the need for a club.These included the Officers, Boxing, andForesters Clubs (the Pistol and Revolver,Hill School, Lawrenceville, and Blair clubswere out after 1923). The women also hadtheir organizations, such as Dixie Club,Arete, LOV, and Dot and Circle (formerlytheir Rifle Club—no handgun fanciers). Way-side Aftermath had a pleasant sound, butwhat did it mean? Then there was some-thing called Frigga Fylgae, which didn't haveits own page in the Cornellian, but is listedamong the activities of a few girl graduatesin Agriculture. Limited research disclosesthat Frigga, in Norse mythology, was thewife of Odin and goddess of the sky; amongother activities, she presided over marriageand the home. Maybe Frigga Fylgae was acoveted honor in Home EC; but then therewas Omicron Nu, plainly labeled a HomeEconomics Society.

Maybe all this will incite some of youto set the record straight on these ancientmatters. If anyone has any news of thepresent, it hasn't reached your correspon-dent. * Walter Southworth, 744 LawtonSt., McLean, VA 22101.

^% ̂ \ Frances M. Jennings, Bing-\ MM * hamton, NY has presented Cor-/γ\ nell with a "whopping six-figure

I 1 gift of money to be used primari-I l\\ ly for scholarships in the CollegeImm ^J of Arts and Sciences. A very wel-come gift," according to Dorothy M. LampeHill, '26 women's treasurer. Dorothy alsoadded, "Am spending some time in GreenValley, AZ, near Nogales, Mexico. Have hadsome minor eye trouble, but found this placea great place to recoup, which I have. Whatmountains, what a view, and temperature is90-98 degrees days, 65-70, nights."

A letter from Robert L. Uhry, PoundRidge, paid special tribute to Judge RichardAronson, who died last August. Bob wrote,

Miller in Motion

NORMAN A. MILLER '26

A fter spending more than 30 years as an engineer, specializing inthe design of power plants with Sargent and Lundy of Chicago,Norman Miller "retired" in 1973, and seemed to become a kindof human generator of energy of his own. Well into his late 80s,

Miller sails his 26-foot wooden sloop, Comango, on Lake Michigan,which he has done for 56 years. He is pictured here aboard Comangowith grandson Eric Meyer some years ago. (Eric is now 20, and is theson of Barbara Miller Meyer '62.) Millersays, "We have sailed it in weather vary-ing from flat to 40-knot gales with six-foot seas."

Miller is also an avid skier. "My ski-ing career has been somewhat undistin-guished/' he says modestly. "It began withskijoring behind Mother's electric auto-mobile, which would achieve a speed of18 mils per hour on a full charge, throughthe streets of Kenilworth, Illinois."

"Skiing at Cornell was more ad-vanced," Miller says. "I recall the riflerange, where there was a fearsome jump, from which one could flyairborne for 25 feet or more, crash on one's face or pratt, crowfootback up the hill, and try again. But my favorite memory is skiing onthe golf course, on a moonlit night, with a lovely coed."

Norman Miller still skis at Wilmot Mountain, Wisconsin, not farfrom his Evanston, Illinois home, where, he says, "I've skied for 70years. There I join two or three antediluvian friends in February orMarch, and we make 30-odd runs—the equivalent of twice down VailMountain—and we have a ball!"

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

"I considered him one of the finest men Iever knew. The happiest part of our 65thReunion in Ithaca was the chance to see himagain, and have several long talks." Bob alsowrote that he wished more alumni, youngand old, took advantage of Adult University(CAU) classes in the summer and through-out the year. "They are wonderful, and of-fer affordable vacations as well, and aretaught by outstanding members of the fac-ulty. This year I took the class on StephenSondheim, the composer and lyricist, whilemy son Peter was outdoors studying the ar-chaeology of the Finger Lakes region. Mywife Helen and I have attended CAU class-es for 17 consecutive years, both in Ithacaand around the world, and enjoyed them all."

Judge Mariano H. Ramirez-Bages,San Juan, PR, continues as legal counsel forhis law firm in San Juan. Each year he andhis wife Alicia find time to travel extensive-ly—this year, after spending Mother's Daywith their stateside family in Boston, theyhave traveled throughout Europe, with a

cruise on the Adriatic and in the Dardanelles.Best holiday wishes to the reader(s) of

this column, as well as to the Cornell foot-ball team, whose players helped mark the100th Anniversary of the first Cornell-Penngame. <» Stew Beecher, 106 CollingwoodDr., Rochester, NY 14621.

f\ P f With the advent of the Class ofI f f / '97 last fall, our thoughts turn to

f i our own coming to Cornell 70f M years ago. In 1923 the AmericanI J I occupation forces in Germany fol-I ril 1 lowing the World War I were re-turning home, President Warren Harding haddied during the summer and had been suc-ceeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidgeas the 30th President of the United States,the British had recently imprisoned Gandhiin India, a devastating earthquake had lev-eled Tokyo in Japan, Mustafa Kemal had be-come President of the new Turkish Repub-lic with its capital at Angora, and France hadoccupied the Ruhr. Three years had elapsed

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since the 19th Amendment had been addedto the Constitution conferring the right tovote upon women in all federal and stateelections. The cry of one man, one vote, hadgiven way to the cry of one person, one vote;but equality of opportunity remained forwomen a long way down the road in the fu-ture. For example, in 1926 women were ad-mitted only to Arts and Sciences, Agricul-ture, Architecture, and Home Economics atCornell; with a membership of 41, there wasno woman on the Board of Trustees; of 226full professors, ten were women; of 17 edi-tors and managers on the Cornell Annuals,one was a woman; of 25 editors and manag-ers on the Daily Sun, and 25 editors, man-agers and art staff on The Widow, none wasa woman.

During our sophomore year, construc-tion was begun on Willard Straight Hall andit was completed in a year and a half; itsboard of governors consisted of 12 appoint-ed members of whom one was a woman, andits board of'managers, elected by the stu-dent body, consisted of 15 members of whomtwo were women. After deliberations wor-thy of the scholastics of the Middle Ages,the governing bodies determined that thewomen would have a separate lounge thatcould be entered only from the southernwing but would be barred from entering thenorthern wing or Memorial Hall; and in anoble gesture they authorized the admissionof women to browse in the library betweenthe wings and even to sit there upon theimplicit understanding (so it was said) thatthey would not cross their legs!

But time marches on; and the hopes ofWillard Straight '01 and his widow, Mrs.Leonard Elmhurst, that their generous giftsfor the construction and furnishing of the"Straight" would make Cornell a more liv-able place for all students, including but notlimited to those of masculine gender, havebeen fully realized without regard to wheth-er one is a soprano, a tenor, a contralto, or abass. As the appointment of Ruth BaderGinsburg '54 as justice of the SupremeCourt of the United States and Janet Reno'60 as attorney general attest, Cornell is alsomarching on, in lock-step with time. MerryChristmas! * C. L. Kades, PO Box 132,Heath, MA 01346.

Barbara Cone Berlinghof has joined thegreat-grandmother class; two "greats," todate. M. "Polly" Enders Copeland has a sec-ond great; a girl, this time. The 4-year oldcalls her by the "enchanting" name of GrandPolly. Sylvia Wells Hodgkinson has twoadorable greats. Last May a granddaughterreceived a doctorate. Ellen McPhersonBarnett has seven greats, all but one in theSeattle area. Her youngest grand, on the staffof Gettysburg College, was married in June.

Sadly, Erva Wright Smith and Marjo-rie E. Burr have suffered strokes; are re-covering in skilled-nursing homes. MetaUngerer Zimmerman and William, PhD'28 use Meals on Wheels, as Meta is con-fined to a wheelchair and walker. BarbWright Mahon returned to her "comfort-able life-care refuge" in Florida after a good,busy summer in Vermont. Betty WyckoffBalderston enjoyed a visit in June fromKatie Barton Brauner and sister. She re-

ports that Louise Griswold Dean's daughterBarbara Dean Stewart '62 was inducted intoCornell's Athletic Hall of Fame on October 15.Reuners at the 65th will remember how Bar-bara, despite her own 30th, saw to it that hermother, confined to a wheelchair, got to allevents. Holiday greetings! <* Sid HansonReeve, 1563 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

Final word on our Reunion indi-cates that we broke all recordsof attendance with 41 percent.Our class gifts totalled $550,871and our class lifetime givingstands at $5,165.05. There were

103 donors, including 18 Tower Club, 11Quadrangle Club, and five Charter Societymembers. H. Stan Krusen could not cometo the Reunion because he planned to attendhis granddaughter's graduation from Prince-ton. His granddaughter, Lauren, is a mem-ber of the US Womens' Olympic PentathlonTeam. She must train for three years in fivesports, including fencing, swimming, running,pistol shooting, and horseback riding, and shehas competed in world class competition inHungary, Italy, Germany, England, and the US.

J. Nash Williams traveled to Alaska forfly-fishing and caught rainbow trout to 22inches and silver salmon to seven pounds.He was able to escape the eruption of a vol-cano and the resulting ash, spraining his an-kle in the process. * Theodore Adler, 2Garden Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

Summer has gone and, by the time you readthis, so too the grand color of the leaves.Did you enjoy the colors, and the leaf rak-ing? In a way Γm sorry we are not allowedto burn them anymore. I still remember thesmell and the smoke each year.

Margaret Miracle Willets phoned mein July. She did get to Longwood Gardensbefore going back to Oregon. I'm glad shedid, for it is a special place—as some of youknow. My sister lived near there once so I sawit at different seasons. Margaret is a birdwatcherand has seen the rufus humming bird, a na-tive of that area. She had received snapshotsof Reunion and was delighted with them.

Now I'll tell you about Alyene FennerBrown's special trip. She and a daughter wentto England on the Queen Elizabeth II and wereto come back on the Concorde. I don't knowhow long they were gone; must have been fun.

Post-Reunion notes from Kathryn Alte-meier Yohn and Ruth Lyon report satisfac-tion with Reunion. Some say it was the bestever! It was high time we men and women gottogether. The men surely did their part to makethings run smoothly and deserve our thanks.Ruth visited her friend in Manchester, VT thispast summer, a respite from Florida's heat.

Now it is time for you to write me aboutyour plans for the winter. This column isdone almost three months ahead, so writeas soon as you can. <* Rachel A. Merritt,1306 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Well, after having next to no newsto report in last month's issue,the flood gates opened and packsof News and Dues forms beganpouring in. First, word came fromClass President Bob Dodge,

class stalwart, that Jerry Loewenberg's

wife, Pat, had informed him Jerry was re-covering from quadruple-bypass surgery(that was in mid-September). Jerry's ownNews and Dues form claims he and Pat havefive great great-grandkids! He admitted thatthe surgery he'd undergone is "Not recom-mended for classmates." And his suggestionfor class activities: "Attending our 65th Re-union in June 1994. Bob Dodge had medicalnews, too—that the ankle of his wife, Alice,"sprained" on Labor Day, turned out to havea broken bone. The Dodges had been plan-ning to attend the CU in Philadelphia eventsin November, but, he wrote in mid-Septem-ber, "Looks like we won't be attending thePenn game affair after all, dog gone it!"

Sidney W. Beyland lives in Peru, NYwith wife Lydia and more than one (no num-ber given) "cats—white." He says he keepsbusy: "Taking care of a 200-acre farm usesup all my spare time. A wonderful farmertakes care of 197 acres and my time is spenton a half-acre garden and three acres of lawnand shrubbery, flowers, and bushes. We nolonger take vacations—they took up toomuch of our time." On the other hand,Charles C. Eeles, writing from W. Ches-ter, PA, makes time for travel. He mentionsa trip to San Francisco, then by car up thecoast to Victoria, BC, Canada; another, bycar through New England to Nova Scotia.Chuck's wife, Lois, died in 1986. He is a re-tired vice president, marketing, ColumbiaGas System Service Corp. His civic activi-ties include eight years spent as townshipsupervisor, and he now volunteers in numer-ous activities and serves on the planningcommittee. His family activities: "householdchores." He reports that his daughter Sarahas a BA from U. of Wisconsin and degreesin divinity and theology and son David earnedboth the BA and MA from Ohio State U. AtCornell, Chuck was a member of Chi PhiFraternity, Tau Beta Pi, Red Key, and Atmos.

Aubrey Schenck, Murrieta, CA, saidhe didn't have much to report. In the Work/Retirement slot on the form he wrote, "Verydull—but I can't kick. It could be worse."Then he sent regards to all and expressed asentiment that we hope all of you will echo:"Looking forward to our 70th Reunion." Pleasesend recent news to Class of '29, c/o CornellMagazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266. * Albert W. Hostek, PO Box 2307,Hedgerows Farm, Setauket, LI, NY 11733.

The years go by much fasterthan we think! It is time to startthinking and planning for 1995—our 65th Reunion! Start planningNOW! A letter from Anna, thesister of our beloved classmate

Mary Cunningham (deceased June 6, '86)tells us that Mary was honored by the NYState Historical Assn. when they namedtheir awards as the Mary E. CunninghamAwards. In the Resolution, Mary is praisedfor her role in the conception and develop-ment of the Yorker Program and her life-time devotion to helping New York's youngpeople enjoy state and local history. TheYorkers are junior historian clubs, Annasays, which, in concert with NY State edu-cation department, Mary founded 50 yearsago in the schools of the state. Mary hassurely left a mark on New York education,

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and we are proud of her. A clipping from theOneonta Daily Star adds that Mary had alsoworked for the Dept. of Commerce duringHarriman's term as governor and for theFood and Drug Administration of the Dept.of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) dur-ing the Kennedy and Johnson years. A verybusy careerist was our Mary!

Here are the names of several class-mates who are living in retirement or nurs-ing homes: Edith Sharpe Stillman, EdnaSchoonover Kammerer and husbandGranget '28, Anna Nestmann, FlorenceCase Thompson, Ida Harrison Knack, AnnaMacKarainen Rault, Miriam Bloomer, andRuth Beadle. Do you know of any others?

When you read this, snow and the holi-days will be with us. I send my all-encom-passing love and best wishes for a cheeryholiday time. May you walk in peace andloveliness in the new year. •*• Joyce PorterLayton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

W. English Strunsky and wife Lucy arestill traveling . . . England some monthsago and a trip to Australia, the Great Barri-er Reef, Tasmania, and Papua, New Guinea,with plans last May to go to Dallas and SanFrancisco. Fred Short "says" (actually saidlast March) that his 60th wedding anniver-sary was coming up. He then gives us thisflashback, apparently to 60 years ago: "Whowas she?—Virginia Bullard. Where? In Mor-rill Hall office as a private secretary. Wherewas I? In Morrill Hall basement (buildingsand grounds) as a young designing (?) [sic]landscape architect." (Figuring this out gotme talking to myself, which ain't unusual.)

Here's a bit of non-ordinary class newssent in by Donald B. Saunders's wifeHelen (Nuffort) '31. Helen, who's the classcorrespondent for '31 women and knows theimportance of getting news, wrote that Don'sJune issue brought a note that the subscrip-tion was running out because class dues hadnot been paid. Helen checked the checkbookand found that payment was made in March,but then found that the bank, too, had notseen the check. Looking further she foundthe check—you guessed it—sitting on theNews and Dues sheet which hadn't beensent either because Don was to fill in somenews to accompany the check and "he real-ly couldn't think of any." I'm sure many ofus didn't remember to send a check morethan once, but let's not forget to rememberto send the check for the class dues and thusmiss the news of what classmates are notdoing any more.

Lowell G. Powers, still playing golfthree times a week with a 20 handicap nowproudly reminisces about his ten years ofattendance at the Cornell-Penn game atFranklin Field, 1922-32. He visits with BillHarder each year on Bill's stopovers in Cin-cinnati on his way to California. *• BenedictCottone, 1255 N. Gulfstream Ave., Saraso-ta, FL 34236.

f\ I Dr. John V. Waller (1130 Park* jA Ave., NYC 10128) sent in a veryJ I generous "additional contribution""\ I with his 1993-94 dues and reports

I I I that he is the proud grandfather of^J M. a boy, 12, and 1-year-old twin girls!(Does any classmate have a grandchild, let

If I decipher George

Furman's hand-

writing correctly,

the final word is

"Hallelujah!"—in

which "shout of

praise or thanksgiv-

ing," per Webster,

we can all join.

—WILLIAM M.VANNEMAN'31

alone twins, who is a candidate for Cornellbeyond the Class of 2014?). This column hascarried reports of John's distinguished med-ical career in the past, and now we hear ofanother signal honor. He says his "goodfriend," the late beloved Prof. Frederick G.Marcham, PhD '26, dedicated his last bookto John and his wife Anne. Congratulations!

George Furman (6 Rogers, Bellport,NY 11713) seems to be in the same leagueas that eternal optimist and indefatigable ten-nis enthusiast, Ed Mintz. He writes, "I liketo hear about Cornell activities as it bringsback so many great memories. I'm blessedwith good health and I work all day, every day,at my law practice." (If I decipher George'shandwriting correctly, the final word is"Hallelujah!"—in which "shout of praise orthanksgiving," per Webster, we can all join.)

A nice long note from Dr. A. J. "Mirk"Mirkin (100 SE 5th Ave., #406, Boca Ra-ton, FL 33432): "Another year gone, and thedecimation of our class continues! Oh well!We are the lucky ones. Have given up golf.Last time I played was in July 1992. My gamehad been deteriorating for two years. I final-ly accepted that fact. However, I am physi-cally and emotionally active and well. Swimfour to five times per week, walk almost ev-ery day. I attend weekly surgical oncologymeetings at three regional hospitals, and amin my llth year on the State of Florida Med-ical Advisory Board. My wife, Miriam 'Mim,'and I revel in our grandson" (who was to be4 in July) and they were planning to visithim in Toronto to help in the celebration."We take three 'trips' each summer, sincewe no longer have a home in Maryland or afarm in Pennsylvania ... Best to all '31ders!PS—Seeing Martin Riger and BernardΈunny' LeWitt in Florida." <* William M.Vanneman, Thirwood PL, #121, 237 N.Main St., S. Yarmouth, MA 02664-2075.

Gladys Dorman Raphael lost her husband

Benjamin in November 1992 and says thatafter almost 54 years of marriage it was adifficult adjustment. After months of sortingout papers she felt ready for a change. LastApril she joined the Adult University (CAU)London theater tour. It rained and rained,but she did see five of the eight plays. Sheadds, "The group was wonderful and I metinteresting people in the lobby. Back home,I swim every day, read English mysteries,try to keep in touch with family and friends."

From Missouri, Helen Lautrup Dur-nell writes, "I'm staying in my house withmy two cats, keep busy with gardening insummer and with activities at First Presby-terian Church of Kirkwood, also with Mealson Wheels." (A great organization, say we.)"My daughter, Eleanor Harris, is director ofcritical nursing care for St. Joseph Hospitalof Kirkwood; son George is supervisor ofreading services for the 18 branches of theSt. Louis County library system. We are allbusy and enjoy living in St. Louis."

Welcome to Clara Lubin Pye of Mid-dlebury, CT, a newcomer to this column. Shesays, "I used to see Bill Vanneman when Ilived in Greenwich, CT and I admire his ef-forts to elicit comments from classmates.Unfortunately, I don't think my activities areall that interesting. I am grateful for Cornellfor teaching me to cope with the difficultiesof life and to enjoy intensely the marvelousintricacy that life offers." Happy holidays,everybody! *> Helen Nuffort Saunders, 445Valley Forge Rd., Devon, PA 19333.

Marcel F. Tetaz died in July, andhis widow, Martha, sent us a gen-erous check, which she directedbe used for some purpose relat-ing to athletics at Cornell. Mar-eel spent all or most of his work-

ing life with Thomas & Betts Corp. ofBridgewater, NJ, from which he retired asvice president of finance. An accomplishedfencer in high school, at Cornell, and after-ward, he accumulated many medals in foilsand epee matches. I think (and I'm suresome reader will correct me if I'm wrong)that Marcel was the only member of ourclass to qualify for both the '36 Berlin Olym-pics and the '52 Helsinki games. He had toforego Berlin because he had recently start-ed working at Thomas & Betts, and by thetime Helsinki came around, he and Marthawere immersed in the business of raising afamily.

Until a few years ago, Marcel and Mar-tha loved to book passage on freighters, andthey managed to take seven such trips. Mar-cel once wrote me that ever since he took acourse in Greek archeology with Prof. Eu-gene P. Andrews 1895 in 1930 he hadwanted to visit the Temple of Poseidon atCape Sounion and to see where Lord Byronhad scratched his initials in the stone. About40 years later, a flying trip to Greece andthe Aegean Islands gave Marcel an opportu-nity to satisfy his wish. I remember this be-cause for a short time, the News & Duesforms went to Stan Hubbel, whose secre-tary would decipher the handwritten mes-sages and send me a typed version. Any-how, when I received this bit of news, "CapeSounion" had been metamorphosed to "CafeOnion." Lord Byron would have been amused.

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Received a note recently from StanleyJ. Mayer. He walks with the aid of a cane,but since his car is parked in the basementof his apartment (condo?) building, he man-ages enough mobility to get to his bridgegames. <* James W. Oppenheimer, 140Chapin Pkwy., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

Elisabeth Jones Berry and Maxwell'31are now living all year in Florida. Bettywrote: "Both Mac and I are 'hanging in' andcoping with various medical problems. Wenow have five of eight grandchildren mar-ried and four great-grands. Kim Berry MA'92, Grad is married to Mark Baker, a grad-uate of Stanford. Both are Fulbright schol-ars now based in India and .will receive theiranthropology PhDs soon—Kim's in women'sstudies and Mark's in forestry and water con-trol. Our other four married grandchildren'smates are of like professions, having met incollege: lawyers, Princeton; artists, U. of Geor-gia; religion, Brevard and Mars Hill; businessmanagement, North Carolina State U."

Kathryn Kammerer Belden writes,"I enjoyed Reunion in June. That sameweekend, Burt, PhD '31 was attending his65th reunion at Hamilton College, where hedid his undergraduate study. One of my re-actions to the Cornell campus is that the hillsare getting steeper than they were even tenyears ago. Or is it old age creeping up onme? I would add, re Reunion, that the onedisappointment of the weekend was the classpicture. It was hard to tell who was who.My granddaughter commented that it was agood thing she recognized the dress I waswearing. Other than that I have happy mem-ories of the weekend and look forward toour 65th and another stay at the Statler."

Greetings to all of you at the holidaysand may you begin the new year in goodhealth and good spirits. <* Martha TravisHouck, PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

This month's column will be mylast as your class correspondent.Marjorie Chapman Brown hasagreed to be your next corre-spondent and will welcome yourcurrent and interesting news.

Her address is PO Box 804, Old Town, FL.It has been a busy and interesting summerfor my wife Connie and me. We attendedCommencement on May 30 at Cornell fortwo granddaughters, Deborah Kump '93and Laurie Werner '91 (BS '93). Anothergranddaughter, Tracy Werner, graduatedfrom the Air Force Academy on June 2. Wethen returned to Cornell for my 60th Re-union. In August we attended the weddingof another granddaughter, Kathleen Wern-er, a graduate of Rice U., to Tom Scott inSan Francisco. The ceremony and receptionwere held on a 50-foot yacht that sailed toAngel Island. It was quite an event!

Edward H. Pember spent some timeon Cape Cod the summer of 1992, where heattended a surprise dinner party celebratingthe 50th wedding anniversary of his brotherand wife. Since Edward had been best manat the wedding he was called upon to talkand propose a toast.

Richard M. Roberts recovered from astroke he had in 1960 and continued his workas a physical chemist at home. Although no

One of myreactions to thecampus is that thehills are gettingsteeper than theywere even tenyears ago.—KATHRYN KAMMERER

BELDEN'32

longer able to play the flute or piano, he be-gan composing music. Now that his sight hasimproved after a cataract operation, he isworking on having all his pieces of musicrecorded. Dr. Waldo G. Smith, a formergovernment official—for much of his careerwith the US Geological Survey—was therecipient of a 40-year Civil Service Awardpin and scroll and a 42-year GovernmentService Award plaque.

Marge Volker Lunger (Mrs. John) isvery active with a women's club group andis in a literary group. She also has taken les-sons in portrait drawing. Her hobby is mak-ing collages which sometimes reach the statecompetitions. She stills plays the piano andorgan. Katherine Long Bobbitt (Mrs. Jo-seph) enjoyed a brief visit from her son whenhe attended a meeting -in Washington, DC.He lives in Minneapolis. She went to Flori-da last winter to visit an old friend.

Edward J. Vinnicombe, Jr. has beenthe owner-operator of the Oxford News, Ox-ford, MA, for over 20 years. His wife, TVname Sylvia Scott, spent 23 years on TV(CBS) fives days a week, 1:00-1:30 p.m., withthe program "The Women's Angle." Grant"Cappy" Captanian took his six-year-oldson with him when he went to Cornell forhis 50th Reunion. He drove his son all overthe campus and the boy fell in love with it.Cappy hopes his son will enroll at Cornell.

Dr. S. Richard Silverman, now livingin Gainesville, FL, does some editing andwriting for professional publications.

Laverne Haught Shay (Mrs. Carlton)spent two months last winter at the "village"in Dunedan, FL. She gets to Ithaca quite of-ten to see her son Michael, MBA '65, whois in business there.

Dorothy Pentecost Jones's oldestgranddaughter, Christine Jones, took her lawdegree from American U. and passed theMaryland Bar Exam in 1991. Dorothy con-tinues to be busy with her volunteer workwith AARP and her local church. She hopesto get back to Elderhostel sessions. CharlesG. Rowland and wife Helen celebrated their61st wedding anniversity on Nov. 26, '92. A

highlight of the year was a trip to New Jer-sey to visit Helen's sister and her childrenand grandchildren. *> Allan A. Cruickshank,48 Tanglewood Rd., Palmyra, VA 22963.

I had hoped by now to have somenews about our 60th Reunion inJune 1994.1 send this in early aswe are tripping to Paris nextweek with another couple. May-be such news will be here when

we return. Anyway, start planning to be atReunion. Alice Goulding Herrmann report-ed that 1992 was a year of four hospitaliza-tions. She had nothing good to report withanother hospitalization this year before shewas to be through. We hope it is all overnow and successfully ended. Margaret PfeifFrank moved at the end of last year to a newrental retirement home. Her new address is1371 S. Ocean Blvd., #705, Pompano Beach,FL. In 1992 she and Paul cruised the Carib-bean; in February they visited son Bob andfamily in New York, and cruised from Lon-don to Montreal in September, missing Hur-ricane Andrew. Luckily their home is northof the damage area.

Jean Barth Treiber and husband Johnreally like their villa on a golf course in Ad-vance, NC, especially since the trees havegrown bigger. They wish they were nearertheir kids and had less cold weather. Jeanhas a greenhouse for storing summer plantsand starting seedlings but misses gardeningoutdoors. They took a small ship in Alaska,had a great time, but find travel no longereasy. They have found one Cornellian, Classof '29, in their community. <* Lucy BelleBoldt Shuil, 3229 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd.,Sarasota, FL 34239.

Winnie Loeb Saltzman and Ed McCabe,co-chairs of our 60th Reunion, report thatall plans have been completed and that PaulVipond, Dick Hardy, and J. Burr Jenkinswill serve on the Reunion committee. Thenames of the women members of this com-mittee will be reported by the women's cor-respondent. So—now is the time for each ofyou to firm up your plans to be back on cam-pus come June 9-12, '94.

It was a travel year for Charles Bridg-es of Sun City Center, FL. In December1992, he and wife Florence visited sonCharles Jr. '74 in Tucson, AZ. In January1993, they flew to Los Angeles to visit theirdaughter, then drove northward for sightsee-ing and wine testing in Napa Valley and thena visit in San Francisco before returninghome. Edmund "Pat" Marion of Thorn-wood, NY is now fully retired with time toputter about his rose gardens, do a little land-scape painting in pastels and oil, and havefamily reunions with three new granddaugh-ters-in-law in the past two years. One otherhobby is trying to keep healthy.

Dr. Peter Miceli of Westbury, NY re-tired from practice six years ago and nowspends much of his time on his own healthproblems, including a recharge of his ener-gies by sunbathing on a beach in Ft. Lauder-dale each winter. His four teenage grand-daughters give him great joy. Bill Kaskelareports no news is good news, but we won-der how that third new career on handicap-ping race horses is working out.

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I regret to close this column on a sadnote. Eugene Hayden died on July 1 andDr. Ed Fleischmann, a vice president ofour class, died on August 30. Both were finemen and loyal Cornellians, and on behalf ofour class, I wish to convey our deepest sym-pathies to their respective widows, Genieand Kitty, and to their families. On an evensadder and more personal note, my wife,Harriet, died on August 22, a victim of a braintumor. * Hilton Jayne, Carter Point, POBox 29, Sedgwick, ME 04676.

Happy holidays; keep well. MaryRowe Ferguson was in Ithaca inJune to celebrate her grandson'shigh school graduation and to vis-it with "old friends," Ruth Hard-er Dugan and Eloise Ross

Mackesey '34. John W. Todd Jr. says"Both Polly and I are in good health and en-joying life—praise the Lord." Ruth Tach-na stays in her apartment in New York Cityfor three months to see the plays, family,and friends. She visited Cornell in Augustto see a cousin who has returned to completeher BA now that she has ten grandchildren.

John Leslie was back at the farm inNew Hampshire for the summer. They havetwo horses and still trail-ride for pleasure,no competition. Ann Sunstein Kheel '36wrote that husband Theodore is "publisherof the Earth Times, an independent news-paper that covers sustainable developmentaround the world including the activities of busi-ness and the United Nations." EleanorBergman Stiller continues to fill the cof-fers of her first great-grandchild's own "Cor-nell Fund."

Kenneth Coombs spends the sum-mer in Wakefield, RI, the rest in PalmHarbor, FL. He and wife Bertha are ac-tive in Highland Lakes Homeowners, theKiwanis, and the Kirk of Dunedin. Hementioned that they had lived inJamestown for 19 years, when he was thefirst 4-H agent in Chautauqua County andstarted the 4-H program there. As he said,"Lucille Ball's grandmother was living inJamestown then." Eleanor MiddletonKleinhans regrets that the name of Vir-ginia Van-Vrancken Woolley '25 wasomitted from the list of those attendingthe '35 NYC dinner on January 22. Elea-nor spent three weeks on an Elderhostelstudy tour of Greece and Turkey: "Called'Ancient Civilizations,' it included lecturesat three colleges and visits to archaeolog-ical sites and museums."

James F. Davis '67 wrote that his fa-ther, Francis H. Davis, "not enjoying thecorporate life, rented some land, bought ablind horse and a plow in 1940, and wentinto the business of his ancestors of the past300-plus years on Long Island—fanning. Helater farmed his parents' land, accumulated200 acres, and bought another farm in DixHills, where he is still active growing vege-tables at age 83." All three of his sons—James, Ralph J. '72, and Russell '79—graduated from the Ag college. Francis andMary, his wife of 51 years, live in Jericho,attend Cornell football games with their chil-dren and grandchildren, and frolic on peri-odic vacations in Florida. * Mary Didas, 80N. Lake Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127.

C. Sterling Tuthill, 16 MusketLane, Whiting, NJ, still lives atCrestwood Village RetirementCommunity, but since June 1990as a widower. He states that a fewof us, who stayed on as graduate

students, might remember his wife, LoisKendall, RN, (now deceased) as one of theCanadian nurses serving at the universityinfirmary: "That is where I met her when Iwas working on potato diseases. Most of mywork was done in western New York. MarieProle Mulcahy's father was one of my farm-er cooperators while I was based at Byron,NY. At the retirement home I serve as hor-ticultural chairman of the Crestwood Gar-den Club and am still active as a long-timemember of the Crestwood Farm committeehelping to supervise the gardening activitiesof numerous residents on land provided bythe developer of this 20,000-resident retire-ment community in Ocean County, NJ."Sterling still enjoys reading Cornell Maga-zine (formerly the Alumni News), enjoys itfrom cover to cover. His health prevents himfrom traveling so it keeps him informed ofcurrent activities of his classmates—at leastthose he remembers. He is proud to be alucky '36er and was 80 in June 1992. Keepup the good work and activities, Sterling; itshould keep you going for many a year.

John Clausen, 2851 Shasta Rd., Ber-keley, CA, taught a seminar at the U. of Cal-ifornia, Berkeley last year for the first timesince he became emeritus ten years ago. Hewas also finishing a book "on the lives ofseveral hundred Californians whom we havestudied—we being the UC Inst. of HumanDevelopment—for a full 60 years." He hadthe privilege of introducing Prof. EmeritusUrie Bronfenbrenner '38, who gave a lec-ture, a major memorial, in the largest lec-ture hall. John and wife Suzanne met Urieand his wife in Switzerland for some mar-velous walks in the Kandersteg area. Theywalked a lot and creaked a bit but they bothenjoyed chugging along. <* Col. Edmund R.MacVittie (AUS, ret.), 10130 Forrester Dr.,Sun City, AZ 85351.

Helen Belle Wright, writing from her year-'round residence in Zephyrhills, FL, men-tioned spending a very enjoyable day in Au-burn, NY with Olive Taylor Curvin whileshe was on a five-week trip north last sum-mer, visiting Ithaca for two days, FingerLakes country, and Ohio. As a volunteer forthe Zephyrhills Chamber of Commerce, shesays she sometimes meets an interestingperson. Doris Neiman Haft in New YorkCity is a senior investment broker of 28years with a New York Stock Exchange firm.Her husband, Harold, is an honorary lifemember of a private Westchester countryclub (golf). In Bethlehem, PA ("The Christ-mas City"), Helen Hausmann Thurberwrote that she expected to spend last Christ-mas there rather than flying out West, asshe had done for many consecutive years.

Katherine "Karen" Simmons Zelle,living in Albany, OR, has husband Jean liv-ing in a nursing home, but she helps out byreading many books to him. Last year in Julyshe traveled to E. Aurora, NY, where shehad grown up, to attend her 60th high schoolreunion and to see relatives who still live in

the area. I myself lived there for about 20years when I was the mother of five youngones. I have now spent a year taking care ofmy own husband at home. It was Septem-ber 4 when he died. All of our ten offspring(five plus five) have come to help me, forwhich a mother/stepmother can only beenormously grateful. *> Allegra Law Ire-land, 125 Grant Avenue Ext., Queensbury,NY 12804-2640.

^\1ΓΊ Circling the globe on a lengthy• I f / business trip, John and AnnJ i Hough visited Japan, Hong Kong,^ ft Australia, Singapore, India, Dubai,

I I I Bahrain, Egypt, South Africa, Bra-^̂ I zil, Argentina, and Chile. Alongthe way they took a cruise on the AmazonRiver and ended with a delightful visit to theGalapagos. As you read this, the Houghs willbe in the Far East again, revisiting some ofthose countries and adding India, Thailand,Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and, for the firsttime, Nepal. Home long enough "to washout a few things," John and Ann have an eyeon a cruise in the Indian Ocean to the Sey-chelles next month. In September, betweenoverseas travels, the Houghs enjoyed agrand week with Joe Cribb at RimrockRanch in western Wyoming, where Judge Joehas been going for years to ride in the moun-tains. At home in Canandaigua, Joe spendsmornings with his beloved Morgan horsesat the carriage house and afternoons in hislaw office—first things first! He's active inhis church and the YMCA as well as theGrainger Homestead Society.

Albert D. Miller writes that he and Dotare proud of their four university-graduategrandchildren. Al is a retired IBM engineerwho capped a 35-year career as manager ofprinter electronics.

The SOS Children's Village project inFt. Lauderdale, FL has come to fruition withJames G. Dodge working on its develop-ment for almost six months. Jim got to Es-ther Schiff Bondareff s Florida mini-reunionbut regrets missing the 55th Reunion be-fore he returned home to Austria. Duringthe summer of 1992 he spent several weeksin Istria, Croatia, a beautiful and quiet placefree of the war and destruction devastatingthat unhappy land. Later he worked in anSOS camp in Trento, Italy, with almost athousand children from all over Europe andfrom Lebanon. Working with children seemsto keep Jim young and energetic for his hob-bies of windsurfing, biking, and skiing.* Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd.,N., DeLand, FL 32720.

Your correspondent actually welcomed re-ceiving her dues bill for our class, for it gaveher hope that a lot of update news would beforthcoming as other classmates paid theirdues. Meanwhile, my apologies if some ofthis reporting goes back a while. WinifredDrake Sayer manages to stay extremelyactive with her interests in nature, books,photography, dancing, walking, and churchactivities. She retired as curator of specialcollections in the Jones Library in Amherst,MA. Windy has two grandchildren—LeahSayer Coldham, 12. and Anna Sayer Cold-ham, 14. Mary Ferguson Mills reportsgrandchildren Kristofer, Sarah, Micah, Chris-

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tian, and Harrison Mills. Fergie's travel lastyear took her to France for two weeks inthe Dordogne and two weeks in Normandyand Brittany. She chairs the historical soci-ety docents, serves on the library board, andis active in a garden club.

I had a sad phone call from SelmaBlock Green informing me of the death ofMae Zukerman Horuvitz. Augusta "Deb-bie" DeBare Greyson's daughter Nancy(Greyson) '64 and her husband, Dr. BarryBeckerman '61, have daughters Ellen(Princeton '91) and Sara (Brown '93). Au-gusta's son, Dr. Bruce Greyson '68, andhis wife, Jane (Syracuse '69), have teenag-ers Devon Lara and Eric Chapman Greyson.Debbie has been to Israel five times. She con-ducts interviews with local high school appli-cants to the university. *> Gertrude KaplanFitzpatrick, PO Box 228, Cortland, NY 13045.

^\ ^\ Jerry Pasto has another honor• 111 from Pennsylvania State U.,^ \f where he taught and had admin-/\ M\ istrative duties more than 30

I 11 1 years after having won a CornellV/ V/ PhD in 1950. Now he's an hon-orary Penn State "distinguished alumniaward" holder; previously he's been applaud-ed by having a farm-life museum he found-ed named after him. Jerry retired as a professorand agricultural sciences college's associatedean, and the citation applauds Jerry and wifeFrankie for "everything from cleaning up toenlarging the namesake museum."

Another '38er with a Cornell PhD, WaltMcCrone, and wife Lucy took advantage ofthe Cornell Campaign's "challenge" to com-plete funding for a professorship in chemis-try honoring a long-time Cornell microsco-py teacher under whom Walt had studied,Emile Chamot 1891. If you ύύnkyou're busy,Walt, who's formed a non-profit research cen-ter in Chicago where he teaches, as well asteaching at Cornell regularly, has a seven-day-a-week schedule of 3:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Herb Polk with a validated excuse fornot being able to get to the 55th, has hopesfor the 60th despite that a "bum knee" hasmade him a "bum" golfer after having beena "bum tennist for a good many years."Speaking of tennis, Dave Benjamin brokea hip while in that racket. And his sage ad-vice to classmates is "Play tennis carefully."

The Hardy Cooks had a tough timekeeping up with 1992 activity: Hardy wasinvited to deliver a professional paper to anAmerican Statistical Assn. confab; their PhDolder son gave the keynote speech to a con-ference of the Eastern Regional EnglishTeachers' annual conference; Hardy's wifeLib won a trophy as most improved bowlerin her hometown league and then a bronzemedal in her age class of bowlers at theMaryland Senior Olympics. * Fred Hille-gas, 7625 E. Camelback Rd., Maya Apts.#220-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251-2105.

Welcome news from Agnes Teske calledher first Elderhostel experience—at the FineArts Museum in Chicago—absolutely won-derful. She and her roommate, Adele Re-thorn Anderson '37, also joined a Canadiantour group and crossed Canada from Van-couver to Toronto, enjoying Lake Louise,Banff, and the beautiful countryside. It's sad

to report that Jewel Rost Paley lost herhusband last year, but she says she keepsbusy with golf, tennis, bridge, and visits withchildren and grandchildren. She too had a tripscheduled through the Rockies, and last fallenjoyed a theater stay in London.

Other travelers include Peg BrownCoryell and husband George '36, who vis-ited Alaska on the Explorer ship S.S. Uni-verse, a floating "college" affiliated with theU. of Pittsburgh. The Coryells, long-timeardent sailors, sold their boat some yearsago, but in January took a Windjammer cruiseon the tall ship Fαntome. Florida residentsduring the winter months, they were spend-ing this past summer in Blowing Rock,NC. * Helen Reichert Chadwick, 225 N.2nd St., Lewiston, NY 14092.

Merry Christmas! The year 1994is just around the corner! Thatmeans you need to mark yournew calendars for our big 55thReunion in June. Don't put itoff'til the "next one" . . . how

many of us will be around for our 60th? Thiscolumn will finish up all of 1993's "pink slips"from those classmates I call "goodies"—loyalwriters always: Marian Putnam Wentworthspends her summers in their Sodus Bay cot-tage on Lake Ontario; June Miller McNealstill feels that Savannah, GA, her home, hasgreat charm though she leaves it for SapphireValley, NC to escape the August humidity;Dorothea Shanks Rose has lived 40 yearsin her same house in Forestport, NY; DotBauer Fedor spends January to April in Flor-ida, but the other months in Summit, NJ,which puts you, Dot, close enough to be inIthaca for Reunion—right?

Evelyn Wilson Monroe had a good fam-ily reunion in Rochester for a 50th anniver-sary and a wedding; Barbara BabcockPayne has signed up for Kendal in Ithaca;Mona Brierley Carvajal birdied a par fiveat Vermont's Burlington Country Club bysinking a 75-yard approach shot! RuthSchroeder Teeter, in Newfield, NY, whoworks in Lansing, can't even dare to thinkof missing Reunion in Ithaca, right? GinnySturtevant Miller lives in Jones Island, SC(I visited there last year—a lovely spot, Gin-ny) but comes to the Adirondacks for thesummer. And Madeleine Weil Lowensloves being a grandmother again.

I very much regret reporting the deathsof two loyal classmates: Louise Myers Shenk(Mrs. Norman E.) and Marjorie VoorheesMilner (Mrs. Harold E.). And I ask again:Laura Mattoon Cordua, where are you?Write, please! <* Sally Steinman Harms, 22Brown's Grove, Scottsville, NY 14546.

Greetings to all! We hope you enjoyed a hap-py Thanksgiving. Do you know what BobDelpino of the Denver Broncos and JohnnyJohnson of the New York Jets have in com-mon? They both wear Number 39, and wearit well. Here's a trip that's hard to beat:Betty Luxford Webster and Bill '42 at-tended a reunion of his World War II Navyferry pilots this past October in Jacksonville,FL. Bill has kept up with his flying all theseyears. The pair rented a Cessna Skyhawkand flew down from Dunkirk, NY. Can youbeat that? And their motel room number was

39! As a lot of you know, Bill and his key-board accompany our songfests at Reunion.

Dr. Mark Crandall, DVM of Glovers-ville was honored last May at a ceremony inLake George as Rotarian of the Year for theEastern NY State District. Congratulations,"Doc!" Our members have been active inAdult University (CAU) again in 1993. FrankReese and Janice attended three programs(one a river-running expedition in Idaho), andWalter Baum and Barbara enjoyed theStratford Festival in Stratford, Ont, Canada.

Dr. Jerome Schneck, who with wifeShirley celebrated their 50th anniversary lastJuly, is proud of the fact that there are nowseven physicians in three generations of hisfamily! Two years ago, Bob Mann and Bettytoured the beautiful country of southern Ire-land. In summer 1992, they took a ten-daytrip on the Orient Express from London toVenice, then cruised around the boot of Ita-ly to Rome. Last spring it was a cruise onthe Sea Goddess to the Greek Isles and Istan-bul. Hubert Rhodes of Beaver Dams, NYplays guitar in a country band, calls for squaredances, and raises quarterhorses and Bel-gians. No—I don't know what he does in hisspare time! <» Henry L. "Bud" Huber, 152Conant Dr., Buffalo, NY 14223.

40Belated news of Bob Blazey—he and wife Jerry enjoy travel-ing all over the globe! They livein St. Petersburg, FL, wherethey play tennis and golf andswim "to beat Old Father Time."

Their close friends are Clarence Padghamand wife Rose (Brodbeck) '39 (see belowfor more on the Padghams) and Burt andGeorgiana Selzer Inglis, who visit themin Florida. They've had a sailing trip to NovaScotia and the New England coastline.Stopped in Marblehead looking for me. I'min Hartford, NY during the summer. Wassorry to have missed them.

Printing names of classmates not heardfrom in many years "pays off." Adele Po-lansky from the Bronx wrote that she hasbeen living and teaching first grade in thepleasant community of Metropolitan NewYork City called Riverdale. She retired in1986, then worked in the Hudson RiverMuseum for five years. She has enjoyedcourses at nearby Lehman College, concertsat NY Philharmonic, theater, and muse-ums—all that NYC has to offer.

Dr. Melvyn Johnson has spent the last25 years as psychiatric consultant to theRhode Island School for the Deaf. He is semi-retired, living in Tiverton, RL Grace Hoff-man Fingeroth (Mrs. Murray) retired afterteaching for 20 years, then worked in herhusband's orthodontist office. They are bothretired now and volunteer in nursing homesand in the Literacy Volunteer Program. Theytake courses, paint, travel, and find time tosee their children and five grandchildren.

Clarence Padgham's new address: 1010American Eagle Blvd., Freedom Plaza, #611,Sun City, FL. He and Rose lived nearby forten years. He writes: "No more vegetableand flower gardens, care of shrubs and fruittrees, and not much of Rose's gourmet cook-ing. The latter I'll miss." He hopes for a lotof golf on Freedom Plaza's new 18-hole ex-ecutive course.

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CLASS NOTES

Some nice things happen with sadness.Don Spittler, Lakeview, NY, writes of hisclose friendship with the late Nicholas Bod-nar. They were in the same LackawannaHigh School class and socialized often. JimVanArsdale '41 and Don attended the fu-neral. Their class awarded a scholarship inhis memory.

I have to apologize to Dr. Henry Ehres-man—called him Harry. I might be "dedi-cated" but must make many mistakes. Helet me know that he retired in June of 1989after 46 years as a physician. Keep writing!Hope Roy Dietrich's knees are still limberenough to play a good game of golf. Tryingfor a 90 score is the whole game. Roy livesat 786A Nyack Lane, Stratford, CT.

Russell Curtis Oakes lives in Rio Ran-cho, NM. He and Dorothy have been mar-ried 51 years and they had six children. Hergrowing of many plants and flowers is oftenhindered by gophers and drought. She is alsoan artist and poet. He has had an extensivecareer working with young children acrosscultural lines, studying their development oflogistical skills. Each year he spends sever-al months in a Native American Puebloschool studying the long-term, continuousgrowth of the operational logic of individualchildren, including work done in western NYState and in Switzerland. Reporting on thestudies resulted in a summertime trip to aconference in Holland. While there he wentto Denmark to visit their 1977-78 AmericanField Service "son" and his family. Curt alsosent some interesting details of theirfamily. •*• Carol Clark Petrie, 18 CalthropeRd., Marblehead, MA 01945.

W I I'm writing this in late August at

/I Λ ^e ^a^e> so ^at September can/ I I ke used for preparations and my^Ij I I trip to Rome and Paris and areas^P I in-between. Elsbeth Hartman

A m. Button and husband Tom celebrat-ed their 25th wedding anniversary with a tripto Alaska and report that, though they lovetheir life in Brookeville, FL, they enjoy ayearly return in July to the village of Ellicott-ville, NY, near Elsbeth's hometown of Sala-manca. Another Floridian, Audrey Berni-chon Speno Glacken, although retired fromteaching, keeps busy as a volunteer in thatfield as well as being active in public libraryaffairs and doing some public relations workin Boynton Beach. She feels fortunate tohave five grandchildren living nearby.

I don't believe it but Connie EberhardtCook (Mrs. Alfred P. '37) says she has re-tired and enjoys "just doing nothing." (Sheadmits to traveling and gardening, howev-er.) Fellow Ithacan Betty Turverey Cor-nish keeps busy with her profession as astockbroker and branch manager at the Ith-aca branch of A. G. Edwards and Sons Inc.She visited Elsie Schwemmer Ryan andhusband Norman, professor emeritus inchemical engineering at the U. of Utah, in SaltLake City last year. Elsie does volunteer workat the hospital there and world traveling withher husband. Betty's daughter Carol lives inIthaca and is married to Ken Reeves, broth-er of our classmate Ann Reeves Cope, afrequent visitor to Ithaca with husband Hal.A lot of Betty's traveling is on her appropri-ately named cruiser, Blue Chip, on beautiful

Joe Kandiko

(Appleton, WI)

showed the right

stuff as he placed

ninth in the 50-

meter backstroke

at the US Masters

Swim Champion-

ships in Minneap-

olis, MN.

—CAROLYN EVANSFINNERAN'42

Cayuga Lake. Sounds good to me!Congratulations to Dorothy Brayton

Bettinger on the arrival of her first great-grandchild in Frederick, MD this summer.We all hope that the health of HermaineKurtz Cohen has improved since her Maymessage that "travel between hospitals willnever take the place of going 'round theworld." We also regretfully note the passingof Elayne May Keane on March 5, '93.

I look forward to your holiday messag-es. Peace. * Shirley Richards Sargent, 15Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

Jack Weintraub is involved in a 177-apart-ment retirement residence in Sarasota, FL.It is a $244 million project, "A source of realsocial satisfaction." George Halloran trav-els during the winter—goes to Florida, Ari-zona, and Hawaii, where son John '75 teach-es at the U. of Hawaii. Stuart Cobb is stillcoordinating 55 Alive defensive-drivingcourses along NY State's Southern Tier. Heis also in an older citizen health experimentwith Ithaca College and Tompkins Commu-nity Hospital.

Last winter John and Sylvia Clarkcruised on the Brittania in the western Car-ibbean. Dave Altman writes, "Finally madeit—became a grandparent after 45 years ofmarriage and three children!" Bill Sorn stillskis near Sunday River and Alta, UT. In a fall,he was knocked unconscious. Nothing broken.

Sid Slocum: "Still selling Pontiacs. Ingolf, I break 80 once in a while. Shooting myage (73) may take several more years." TomShreve and wife Betty spent three weeksin Florida. They saw Dave and SallyKetchum and Jack and Dottie Sterling.

Paul Schoellkopf wrote: "In July 1992the Niagara Corp. was sold. I continue toserve on hospitality and charitable boards inBuffalo." Bob Hardenburg does volunteer

work in physical therapy in a Venice, FLhospital and edits the weekly Rotary "Bul-letin." * Ralph E. Antell, 9924 MaplesteadLane, Richmond, VA 23235.

W ^% The Big Game in Philly is histo-/• \ I ry as you read this. We'll review/I M it in the February issue. The^Ij f Good News is that Beryl^ j f t f 1 Present (Rochester), despite

JL L two total knee-joint replace-ments, accepted the challenge of serving as55th Anniversary chair. With the experi-enced backup of E. A. "Buck" Buxton(Mendham, NJ), Jim Kraker (New SmyrnaBeach, FL), and Jerry Asher (Boca Raton,FL), how can we go wrong? He got goodideas at a mini-reunion with Dick Wagner(Southbury, CT), Joe Friedman (Fairlawn,NJ), and Jerry.

Enjoying ten years of retirement areCharles Passmore (Newark, NJ) whoworked 25 years as U. of Delaware agricul-tural farm supervisor and Phil Permar whoretired from the DuPont Savannah Riverplant (nuclear materials) and moved to Aik-en, SC, where Dick Young (Louisville, KY)paid him a visit. Last year Phil and Doris touredthe Maritime Provinces of Canada with U. ofSouth Carolina alumni. Phil is in cardiac re-habilitation after a successful quadruple by-pass. His hobby is watercolor painting andparticipating in workshops and showings.

Another ten-year retiree, Gladys Mc-Keever Seebald (Wyomissing, PA), enjoysvisiting her new neighbor, former-roommateKatherine Fiske Weikel (Pottstown, PA).Gladys and husband Henry toured Lake Pow-ell in a houseboat with five other couplesand enjoyed an Elderhostel in Lexington, KY.They like The Highlands, a continuing-carecommunity. Katherine retired as district su-pervisor of food services for Pottstownschools in 1978 and volunteers with the Amer-ican Heart Assn. She also paints watercolorsand has toured Scandinavia and England.

Dick Quigg (Pueblo, CO) still sells in-surance. One son is an attorney and the oth-er an archaeologist. Dick Ryan (BatonRouge, LA) works in public relations for theLouisiana Secretary of State. He and wifeRobbie entertained their two grands for 25days, nine hours, and 36 minutes! Dickearned an MA in journalism from Stanfordand still enjoys writing, especially poetry. Hehopes to make our 55th, as a bad back kepthim from the 50th. Dick Slocum (Colum-bia, SC), after 35 years in urology, is nowvice president of medical affairs at the Bap-tist Medical Center. He and Nancy traveledto Scandinavia and St. Petersburg, Russia.His hobbies are ornithology, fishing, and golf.Seeing the Cornell crew at the Augusta Re-gatta brought back memories of his 150-pound crew days.

Joe Kandiko (Appleton, WI) showedthe right stuff as he placed ninth in the 50-meter backstroke at the US Masters SwimChampionships in Minneapolis, MN. Anoth-er sportsman, Fred Schaefer (Kailua, HI),volunteers at the Bishop and US Army mu-seums, the Boy Scouts, and with the dis-abled. He visited Horace Ketcham (Otis-ville) and often sees Bill Paty (Haleiwa, HI).Fred still runs and golfs and hikes throughEngland and Switzerland.

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Ruth Naitove Sherman (Lynbrook,NY) retired in 1986 as an Elmont MemorialHigh School English teacher. In 1992 shetook "The Primal Screen" summer courseon psychology and film at Adult University(CAU). Bill E. Smith (Sao Paulo, Brazil)enjoyed a visit from Clark Burton '41.Fellow South-sider Jim MacNair '50(Rhinebeck, NY) reads this column and rec-ommends the alumni Mississippi Rivercruise: 25 couples enjoyed visiting Civil Warsites and hearing the "Alma Mater" on a steamcalliope. * Carolyn Evans Finneran, 293376th SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040.

Susan Linz $heiner '75 tookpen in hand to describe the cele-bration of the 50th wedding an-niversary of her parents, Eliza-keth anc* M- "Mike" Linz, andhosted by their children Geane,

Bob, MBA '73, and the aforementioned Sue.Also in attendance were Babette Hof-heimer Sonneborn '42, Kalter "Kay" God-frey '42, and Sallie Atlas Hewett and hus-band Bob '42, Al and Marian WeinbergLurie, and M. D. "Mike" Cantor '35. Theysang, as you might have suspected, "GiveMy Regards to Davy."

Dr. Bertram J. Oppenheimer, admin-istrator and chief operating officer of Yon-kers General Hospital, was awarded by B'naiBrith its 1993 Distinguished AchievementAward in October. Perhaps you don't re-member, but back in 1967 Bert, togetherwith Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, founded thefirst methadone clinic outside of New YorkCity, which became the model for all otherclinics throughout NY State. He and Lea-tryce live in Eastchester and between themhave seven children and one granddaughter.

Timothy Mitchell reports the death ofhis father, Robert Mitchell, and notes thatBob was most proud of his association withCornell and would have been, if it were atall possible, on the Hill for our 50th. He wasa retired major, US Air Force, vice president,Union Planters National Bank, and active inBoy Scouts (awarded Silver Beaver). Alas.

Gene Saks, having experimented thispast summer at Williamstown Theater, MA,in short plays with Elaine May, tells me thatthey plan to bring a two-player comedy byAlan Ayckbourne to Broadway in the nearfuture. Since they are both directors as wellas actors, I asked who was directing. Genesaid, "Oh, we hired some kid, whose dutiesare mostly just watching us." I hope for theirsake that someone else also comes to watch.

From Larry Lowenstein, and his per-petual-motion tin cup: the news that we seta new 50th Reunion campaign record and anew Class of '43 record by raising, with thehelp of 453 of you, the sum of $2,150,623,which is a lot of money—even if you say itfast. * S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164, Spin-nerstown, PA 18968.

W JΓ Just received Art Kesten's fatΛ Λ envelope with info re plans for/I /• the many class doings plus a re-^Jj^jJ port on the Alaska Adventure,^ll^|i including names of the success-

JL. A ful golddiggers—Alison KingBarry and Marge Strachstein Miller. WithAndy Capi on piano the '44s led a singalong

in Skagway's Red Onion Saloon, which madethe 11 p.m. TV news there. Ruth CoslineRhynedance was given a surprise birthdaybash in Fairbanks; then Russ and EleanorKerby, a surprise giant carrot cake for theirAugust 26 anniversary. The 46 travelers hadsuch a great time most of them are ready tosign up for next year's Scandinavian cruise.

Mary Lee Stroud Laird and Jack '42celebrated their 51st anniversary in July. Shewrites that they have traveled the world play-ing in senior amateur golf tournaments in Scot-land, Brittany, Scandinavia, Morocco, South Af-rica, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Canada, and through-out the US. She doesn't say how many yearsthey spent covering so much territory, but sen-iors are over 55, I've been told. During ten win-ters in the Bahamas they cruised to Haiti, Do-minican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Vir-gin Islands in a 57-foot powerboat. They re-cently sold their Fair Haven, NJ home, rent atownhouse in nearby Little Silver. They have ason, daughter, two teenage grandchildren.

In February, Thomas McDonald andwife Midge can claim 51 years of weddedharmony. They visited a son in Baja Califor-nia and a daughter at Stevens Point, WI,where her colonel husband heads a univer-sity ROTC program. Tom writes of beingintroduced to propane balloon riding and ofkeeping busy following "all athletic con-tests—high school, college, and professional."

Charles Williams reports wife Bar-bara's good recovery from a heart attack inApril. He attributes this to excellent Scotts-dale, AZ medical facilities. They moved to theSouthwest desert more than a year ago andare "captivated by it—even the 114-degree hot-test day with 9-percent humidity." They'vebecome fans of the NBA's Phoenix Suns andfascinated watchers of Arizona politics.

Kenneth Kander revisited France withan Elderhostel group in August. He's stilldoing consultant work in fire protection en-gineering. Big fans of Elderhostel trips arePeter Miller and wife Nancy. They did atwo-week one in England titled "Antiquityto the Renaissance" which involved visitsto seven museums. Three months later theytried a Family Hostel to Switzerland withtheir eldest grandson. This one includes chil-dren 8 to 14. Pete reports his journalist son,Paul, and family have moved to Israel, whereLea will be the public affairs officer at theUS Consulate in E. Jerusalem. Paul will befree-lancing for American news programs.

Dr. George Gallagher of Media, PAhas enjoyed every minute of his nine yearsof retirement. He and Josephine traveledthrough the Canadian Rockies this summer.Dr. Forris Chick is a happy retiree from abusy medical practice. Living on the banksof the Intracoastal Waterway just south ofSarasota, he spends lots of time on his boatFowl Play. Wishing you merry holidays anda healthy happy 1994. * Nancy TorlinskiRundell, 1800 Old Meadow Rd., #305,McLean, VA 22102.

W pi Fifty years ago Coach Carlll I * Snavely put together an "oddball/I l^k football season" in which we won^Ij 1 all five home games but lost all

|̂1 I I away games except for the 30-0JL ^̂ shutout at Princeton, and about

which M. Dan Morris '44 wrote an article

for the then Cornell Alumni News (now Cor-nell Magazine} 30 years ago. Joe Schwalje'44 and eight classmates—the late A. M."X" Beebee and Joe Brozina (Clifton, NJ),Jim Fields (Arcadia, CA), Harry Furman(Marietta, GA), Hank Gordon (Birming-ham, AL), Gene Mikus (Quakertown, PA),Bill Rothfuss (Greenville^ SC), and yourreporter—were represented on that team,which held a 50th Reunion at the Columbiagame on November 12, which I was unableto attend but will review next issue.

Fiftieth Reunions are in vogue for usthese days, and our committee is workingdiligently to that end; Virginia Lowe Bak-er (Kiawah Island, SC) has signed on asmembership chair and we welcome her ef-forts to gain more duespaying classmates.Cornell Campaign kickoffs are timed well forour efforts; the one at the Waldorf-Astoriain New York City on September 27 was out-standing. I probably missed some '45ers butspotted Marjorie Marks Boas (Great Neck,NY), Jerry Haddad (Briarcliff Manor, NY),and Gerald Schiller (NYC).

Bill Glaeser (Columbus, OH), now atraveler and part-time consultant, observesthat the recent cutbacks at Ohio State andCalifornia underline the importance of alumnisupport to sustain our future—exactly thetheme President Rhodes used in his excel-lent talk. Bill Barley and wife Isabel (May-er) '47 (NYC), also at the Waldorf party, travelfrequently. They joined Gloria Marti (NYC),one of our favorite classmates, on an AdultUniversity (CAU) study trip to Gettysburg.

Fellow traveler Barbara "Bobbye"Gould Spevack (Huntington, NY) enjoyed atrip to Turkey, as did Tina Berliss Rubin-stein (Livingston, NJ) on an Adult Universi-ty (CAU) one. Bobbye grandmothers withher son's three, winters in Palm Beach, andfits in trips to Dallas to visit her daughterand two more.

George Judd (Woodville, OH) attend-ed a Seal & Serpent reunion with some oth-er classmates and cruised to Bermuda withhis freshman roommate. He didn't mentionnames, but in our time they certainly weren'tco-eds, so his wife/fellow partner in a newgolf course venture shouldn't worry. He'sretired from Martin-Marietta but still activein ASTM and consulting in transformingsewage sludge into useful products. J. E."Gene" McCarthy (charter member of anew tennis club in hometown Cambria, CA)also took time off from consulting to visitIreland, while Caroline Rattelman Esper-son and husband Dave '44 returned to E.Falmouth, MA after a freighter trip fromtheir winter Tortola, BVI digs via Grenadaand the Bahamas.

Hardy Mark Pendleton (Islesboro,ME) sticks it out Down East; his southernventure this fall was to Portland, where hehad open-heart surgery, which fortunatelyended well. He says he tires easily, but willno doubt do as well as Jim Monroe, whohad the same in 1991 and celebrated 1992by playing golf and tennis in California,then took his two 13-year-old granddaugh-ters to Bali, had a stimulating visit to Is-rael and went back to Palm Desert be-fore returning home to Cincinnati.<* Prentice Cushing, Jr., 317 WarwickAve., Douglaston, NY 11363-1040.

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46It is wonderful to be able to vis-it all '46ers twice a year in theirown homes. I only hope BillPapsco, Ruth CritchlowBlackman, and I hear from youin the near future. Jackie Dew-

ey Brett (Tequesta, FL, winter; RainbowLake, NY, summer) met Cynthia WhitfordCornwell at her church in Florida. Cynthiaand John just bought a condo nearby. Jackieand Cynthia are Delta Gammas and had notseen each other in 46 years. "Last Marchvisited Cliff and Nancy Allen Chamberlainand roommate Mary 'Meg' Geiling Mur-dock, also snowbirds. Meg bought a condoin Florida and injured her shoulder, so Iserved as a substitute right wing for twodays." Then Meg wrote that she is on theGulf Coast near Nancy and that both Mary"Polly" Weber Ruth and Jackie visited. Megwants a '46 mini-reunion down there so writeher at 6634 Sovereign Way, Spring Hill, FLif you are interested in organizing and at-tending. Barbara Green Morrell is anothersnowbird wintering in Long Key, FL andsummering in Exeter, NH. She is interest-ed in a Florida mini-reunion, too.

Janet Elwin Starr and husband Jim'44 wrote, "Finding life in retirement busyand happy with time for more family visit-ing, travel, volunteer work, and fun. Garden-ing remains a prime interest for both of us."Carolyn Steinholz Goldsmith and husbandJohn toured Southeast Asia with the formerdirector of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts."Eighteen of us visited Thailand, Burma,Cambodia, and Laos." Their daughter-in-lawis finishing her PhD in Russian history andis teaching at New York U. Gabby LandtBaumgartner wrote, "Saw my ideas and plansset back six months due to a broken armwhen the most constructive thing to do wasnothing." (Hope you got back to your Cor-nell paintings so we can see them at the nextReunion.) *> Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503Morris PL, Reading, PA 19607.

As the correspondent of the men's class col-umn it never occurred to me to insert somenews of the Papsco family. This is the 40thanniversary year of our marriage. Every fiveyears Carol and I plan a trip to celebrate, soit's been champagne in many different coun-tries. In two days, on October 5, we headfor Budapest, Prague, Salzburg, a visit to ourrelatives in western Austria, and then offwith them to a villa near Florence, Italy. Asa gourmet would view it, it spans sauerkrautto pasta and hopefully lots of good wine inthe middle.

Hooray, the class notes from the 1994dues request are arriving. If you are one ofthose who left the back page blank, howabout writing me a letter with your news.John Eckerson has a short but fact-filledreport. "Pinch-hit for four months as highschool assistant principal and now retired thesecond time; village and township historian;treasurer, cemetery association; restoring1917 Ford; still riding Harley Electraglide."Robert Bennett of Wantagh, NY is retiredand doing some part-time engineering con-sulting which, he says, will probably endsoon. He spent two weeks cruising the Bal-tic in July and visited nine places in eightcountries. He gives high praise for the cruise

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The Class of '48 concentrates onenhancements at the east end ofBeebe Lake, where the 50th Reuniongift of an overlook, depicted in thisartist's rendering, will skirt thegorge east of Sackett Bridge.

ship Renaissance. Thanks for the recommen-dation, Robert.

Edward "Ted" Shakespeare of Ard-more, PA is on the board of a "wonderful"Quaker secondary school for bright learning-disabled girls and boys, the Delaware ValleyFriends School in Bryn Mawr, PA. He statesit's very rewarding. This report will have tobe short. I have to pack. P&H. * Bill Pap-sco, 3545 Clubheights Dr., Colorado Springs,CO 80906.

W ^^ Hey, joyous things in this holi-jm J I day season! Wherever you are,/ I I we °^er a sa^ute an^ recognition^1^ I of the bonds that tie us together."•W Can't help looking at notes taken

A I during mid-October UniversityCouncil meeting on campus: public referenceto Jay Graber inviting two fraternity broth-ers not seen in 45 years to New York CityRegional Campaign kickoff at the Waldorf; awelcome aside advising that C. Stu LaDowhas remarried; classmates on UniversityCouncil Weekend attendance list includeEnid Levine Alpern, John and Helen All-muth Ayer, Don and Margi SchiavoneBerens, Isabel Mayer Berley, MurielWelch Brown, Frank Carney, Carl andConnie Foley Ferris, Ray and Vera Ha-kanson Fox, Scharlie Watson Handlan,Shirley "Sy" Yenoff Kingsly, MargaretNewell Mitchell, of Cayuga Society co-chairfame, and Barlow Ware. From Adult Uni-versity (CAU) office we learn of classmateswho have participated in programs offeredduring 1993: surely the winner is IsabelMayer Berley with five: a study tour of Lon-don theaters; tradition in Korea and Japan;the real and legendary Civil War; a programon Chekov; and a summer theater getawayto Stratford, Ont., Canada. Lucille HoldenSmith did birds and natural ecologies in Tex-as; Ruth Cohn Maltinsky, London theater,too, as well as a class on ancient Israel;Margaret Dyar Ashworth, PhD '47 hungaround Ithaca with birds and birding in theFinger Lakes plus nature in the FingerLakes. Bill Hale joined George and Nan-cy Wigsten Axinn for Next Exit Cazenovia:Life and Livelihoods of Finger Lakes Towns.Wonder if those three plus Pat ReinfeldHale '48 ran into the Ayerses on the street

or elsewhere. Finally, Joan Weisburg Schul-man attended a program on Oscar Wilde, andJoan Ettinger Pastor was with Isabel forthe Civil War program.

For years those of us who attended CUIn Philadelphia '93 will be telling other class-mates about the positives of having gonethere. Prep time for our 55th Reunion, noless. We definitely will report in this columnlater on. In advance, to the absentees, youmissed a goodie . . . well, like a very specialbrownie to a chocoholic.

Char Bullis Pickett told us, back inMay, yet, that she had the pleasure of beinga greens reporter at LPGA, Wycliff CC inLake Worth, FL. Naturally this was a 1992-93 winter exercise. "Fun thing to do," sheadmits, and we agree. Anyone else gettinginvolved with these highly visible profession-al broadcast tournaments for the ladies andgentlemen? Shirley Buck Rabeler contin-ues in retirement to volunteer in kindergar-ten activities, amidst her square dancing,Cornell Club, and church work. Lou Schi-moler retired? We thought he'd carry onwith us on active duty! Barbara Pond Shep-ard of Phoenix, AZ gave news a few monthsago of a visit from Tucson resident Lillian"Lee" Gorton Spiece—hadn't seen each oth-er in 40-plus years. Lastly, Lauraine SerraWarfield from Vergennes, VT is still busy,busy with a sheep farm; to wit, last spring56 ewes delivered 120 lambs, among them23 triplet sets, two sets of quads. Please keepin mind all those bottle babies. We are ex-hausted even in the writing, Lauraine, andcongratulate you on the sheer stamina. *> W.Barlow Ware, University Development, 55Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

The following news and com-ments from classmates were col-lected a year or so ago, before ourReunion. We hope those of youwho are receiving this issue, buthave not become duespayers for

the coming year, will join up and send usyour news, too. In case it isn't clear at firstglance, the following classmate commentswere made in response to questions aboutfamily events, past activities, recent obser-vations, etc.

On this page you'll find an artist's ren-dering of the project we've adopted for our50th Reunion gift. This area, says FrankCollyer, "will be developed in the Fall Creekgorge just east of Sacket Bridge and com-plements the 'overlook' we presented at our40th Reunion. We urge your support for thisfine project in the months ahead."

Charlie Elbert, Clifton, NJ: "Complet-ed fall [1992] vacation visiting Smithsonian,Monticello, and Biltmore estate in Asheville,NC. Very interesting historical items, archi-tecture, and beautiful foliage. Last week re-paired and painted and yesterday rewired ourhouse—a lifetime vocation. Would rather bevisiting some exotic place with bellydancersand cheap drinks. Have observed that Ana-tole Tolly' Browde's son, Dave '72, doesa good job of special subject coverage onNBC News in the New York/New Jerseyarea. Have learned that taxes and the priceof good liquor always go together—up! So-lution for today is two ounces of vodka fol-lowed by two more if needed." Gerry Rog-

DECEMBER 1993_ __

Sunken Treasure

JAMES W. To WART '50

S lowly, the dense mud of a Floridariver is yielding what may be thecountry's biggest, richest stash ofC i v i l War soldiers' personal

goods—shaving mugs, sewing kits, pho-tographs, pocket knives, combs andmusical instruments. For historian JimTowart, this is better than a gold mine.

For 130 years, this treasure lay un-touched below the St. Johns River near Jacksonville.A Union supply ship called the Maple Leaf was chug-ging north with the baggage and camping supplies of2,000 soldiers when it was sunk by a Confederate mine,April 1, 1864.

Recent excavations have brought up more thana ton of superbly preserved artifacts, giving CivilWar historians like Towart an intimate look at whatwas precious and essential to 19th-century soldiers.

Towart, an amateur historian with a life-long pas-sion for the Civil War, spent nearly two years research-ing the Maple Leaf, a paddlewheel steamer. He andhis two co-authors painstakingly deciphered thousandsof handwritten pages from the National Archives inWashington, DC and plowed through newspaper ar-

ticles and correspondence about the ship.Towart contributed three of the 12 chap-ters of The Maple Leaf: An Extraordi-nary American Civil War Shipwreck. Hisexperience as a construction engineer-now retired from Mobil Oil—came in

/l% /ί/^. handy. The book includes some of hisjj . detailed drawings of the Maple Leaf.

™ [Copies of the privately printed bookmay be obtained by calling St. Johns ArchaeologicalExpeditions Inc. (904) 387-2380.1

The Maple Leafs cargo is so valuable to histori-ans because it's been preserved in near-perfect state.The mud and silt that settled over most of the wreckprevented damage by light and air. The artifacts aretreated to withstand air and light and then eitherdisplayed locally or turned over to the U.S. Army forstudy.

Of all the objects that have been brought tothe surface, Towart's favorite is an inscribed dress swordowned by Lieutenant William H. Potter. "It's in suchbrilliant condition," he says. 'The men in his companyhad given it to him. It's kind of everyone's favorite."

—June Iλ Bell '87

ers Glover, Weston, CT: "Celebrated 41stanniversary in June [1992]. Husband Jack isKappa Alpha, Union. Last week visited rel-atives on Balding Head Island, NC. Stoppedin Annapolis to see oldest son, John. Yes-terday watched leaves blanket the lawn forthe third time. Would rather be on cruiseship going anywhere. Have learned thatthough the mind and spirit stay young, the bodyrefuses to rejuvenate! Solution—take a nap!"

Sylvia Kilbourne Hosie, Northport,NY: "Newest grandson last year makes itfive grandsons, five grandaughters. Last year[1991] was giving out Halloween candy, lastweek climbing a mountain in Maine.Couldn't make Reunion last June becausethat's the weekend they were restoring ourbeach which was severely damaged in theDecember 11-12 northeaster which isolat-ed us from the mainland for two days anddeprived us of electric power and telephonefor four and five days. Bill '49 and I finallyretired and are now busier than ever chas-ing kids and grandkids." Helen Levy Klein-berg—now married to Anthony Gunnell, toldus about the event in advance: "Recentlyengaged to marry Californian Anthony Gun-nell (second marriage for both of us) andhave become bi-coastal, splitting the yearbetween Escondido, CA and our home hereon Henry Hudson Pkwy. Daughter-in-lawSuiyin Tung Kleinberg, PhD '78 (electri-

cal engineering) is completing last year ofmedical residency at Los Angeles VA hospi-tal. After ten years in engineering she changedher career to medicine. She's wife of son Eric'76, MBA 78 and they have a daughter, 10.They live in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA."

Herb Podel, Westport, CT: "Recentlyattended reunion meeting of Beta Chapter,Phi Sigma Delta (now defunct) in New YorkCity. Forty-six attended, starting with Classof '26. Everyone aged but me!" Bill Pur-cell, Wallingford, PA: "Wife just completedthree-year term as president of Internation-al Federation of University Women. Son Wil-liam III, just re-elected majority leader,House of Representatives, Tennessee Leg-islature." * Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave.Port Washington, NY 11050.

49At a meeting for all upcomingReunion classes, we were re-ferred to as "the older classes."We take exception to this no-menclature. We prefer the eu-phemism: chronologically gifted.

After all, it is only our 45th in June 1994!So, we wish all you gifted classmates a veryhappy holiday season. Bette McGrewBenedict, Reunion chair, thanks you for yourresponse to first call . . . looks like a fulltent! Please consider allocating a portion ofyour Cornell Fund gift to the 1949 Class

Gifts Project: Miss Minns Garden and theMcGraw Tower and chimes renovation.Let's make it happen! Two other happen-ings. The 1994-95 News and Dues notice willbe mailed in January. The Reunion program,fee, and reservation mailing is scheduled forMarch 1 or earlier.

Art Delaney, Denver, CO: "Off onWorld War II memory trip to Alaska in theAleutians with nine other Tenth MountainDivision troops, plus two Japanese who oc-cupied the island in 1942, a medic, and amember of the Associated Press. Intend toland on Kiska Aug. 15, '93 ... 50 years afterour first landing. US Coast Guard will dropus off and, hopefully, pick us up later. Why?Was part of a small group that placed a mon-ument there a decade ago and want to see ifit is still there; besides, it is more excitingthan arranging tee times and cocktails on thepatio. After that, my wife, Nan (Persons)and I plan a Scandinavian Eurail trip." TonyTappin, Oak Brook, IL: "Co-chair of theCornell Campaign for Chicago area. Enjoyedseeing classmates at last year's UniversityCouncil meeting in Ithaca ... Jerry Alpern,Dick Brown, Sev Joyce, Dick Keegan,Jack Krieger, Jack Rupert, Jack Sheink-man, Art Wolcott, and S. F. "Tom" Weis-senborn. Didn't realize there are 28 '49erson the council."

Classmates Fred and Renee Wolf

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McKible, Ft. Lauderdale, FL: "Renee helpsraise granddaughter along with local activi-ties while our daughter works toward a lawdegree to add to her CPA. Fred helps out(no diaper changing) when he isn't playinggolf, tennis, etc. His favorite activity is nap-ping after tennis." Gerald Ward, New Bern,NC: "Rain spoiled my golf game or a trip tothe YMCA today. So wrote letters to con-gressmen explaining that the administra-tion's programs will be detrimental to theeconomy and increase the deficit!" LoydHahn, Amherst, NY: "Fundraising amongother activities. Chairing the board of direc-tors, Beechwood Blocher Foundation, andworking with the Greater Niagara FrontierCouncil of BSA."

Nancy Hewlett Kierstead, Storrs, CT:"Visited with Cornell roommates JoyceChismore Lewin '48 and Joyce MarrisonHarrel '48, who both live in Friday Harbor,San Juan Island, off Seattle. Previous get-together was 25 years ago in France. Work-ing on the Cornell Chimes advisory council. . . finally hope to tune those bells. Howabout '49 helping out?" We are trying, Nan-cy. You were first with the idea, followed bythe formidable lobby of '49ers Don Geery,E. J. "Ned" Trethaway, and others.

Correspondent's historical note: the firstofficial woman chimesmaster was PhyllisDittman McClelland '43, but a few yearslater Nancy received physical educationcredit for the rigorous workouts required toplay the clavier.

Helen Osborne Jenkins, Fairlawn,OH: "Husband Jerry '51, retired and con-sulting. I have been 'retired' since 1982, butbusy designing needlepoint for church kneel-ers at St. Paul's Episcopal Church and chair-ing the docents at Akron Art Museum—bless the Johnson Museum on campus! Hada grand Cornell-Northeast reunion with Sal-ly Wallace Murray '50 and husband Ken'49 at Lake George." Speaking of Ken Mur-ray, North River, NY, he writes: "Sally '50and I retired over a year ago. I left IBM andSally ceased teaching at the Pingry School.Summer at Lake George." We know! "Stillskiing. Bought a large RV and traveled toeverywhere. Sold New Jersey home of 20years. Now living a simpler life in a simplerplace at a simpler pace."

Anne Lanzoni Young, Temple Hills,MD: "Summer spent visiting Nova Scotia,Newfoundland, and Labrador—a return toold haunts for husband Art '50, who wasstationed at Gander and Goose Bay in WorldWar II."

As we try to report on as many '49ersas possible before Reunion, we keep star-ing at the pile of unpublished news. Grate-fully, but with trepidation. Therefore, wewill attempt a special newsletter in theNews and Dues mailing and be ready fora fresh onslaught of news from you. Asmuch as we love grandchildren, we mayhave to omit them from our columns. The'49 family trees are starting to buckle un-der the weight! But remember, there isnothing like having grandchildren to re-store your faith in heredity. Lastly, wewant you to come back for your 45th. "94is 4 '49!" * Dick Keegan, 179 N. MapleAve., Greenwich, CT 06830; telephone,(203) 661-8584.

Ralph "Cooly" Williams writes,"Having reached the inevitableadvanced age of 65, last Febru-ary, we scheduled what is calleda 'Festschrift' for me here in Flor-ida at the University Medical

Center and I had the chance to invite back alarge band of my former research fellows,students, and colleagues whom I had trainedduring the preceding 30 years since I beganat U. of Minnesota medical school in 1963.They all arrived here and spent three de-lightful days with us. Each was required topresent a scientific paper about current workand hand in a completed manuscript. Theseare all coming out in a special issue of a sci-entific journal that I currently edit. Thewhole gala was finalized by a big eveningbanquet and friendly ridicule chaired byDave 'Fish' Law '49, a long-term friend andcolleague of mine. What an ego trip and whatfun it was for Mary Tatch' (Adams) andme!" Philip Steinman, a recent widower,has retired but keeps active teaching water-color painting to retired school teachers. Hehas visited with Cornell friends Howard Lem-elson '49, Sidney Laibson '51, and How-ard Kallen. Philip lives on Staten Island.

Wallace McDougall is still active inconsulting, defending farm machinery prod-uct liability lawsuits as an engineer. Wallaceis living in Celina, OH. Frederick Mac-Gregor writes from Sarasota, FL that he isretired in a lovely area with three great golfcourses. Fred enjoys the contacts he has inthe Cornell-Manatee-Sarasota Cornell Club.Natalie Wendel Loeb enjoys the good lifein San Diego, also traveling abroad on a Med-iterranean cruise and renting a car and driv-ing through Spain and Portugal. Dr. JackRichard is still in New York City, continu-ing to practice endocrinology and internalmedicine with an affiliation with New YorkHospital—Cornell Medical Center. He isclinical professor of medicine. Jack has en-joyed Adult University (CAU) courses, es-pecially the one on James Joyce's Ulysses inJuly 1992. James C. Preston, Hector, NY,has retired from teaching and recommendsretirement highly. He is secretary of theClass of '50 and is also district director ofthe Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni as-sociation. He and wife Gretta had a greattwo-month trip to Alaska in their RV in 1992.

Another happy retiree is Alfred H.Trost, Essex, NY, who has retired from highschool and community college teachingthough he still enjoys teaching eveningcourses. Carl Ullrich, Bethlehem, PA, wasexecutive director, The Patriot League, re-tiring last spring. He is a member of Rotaryand does non-English tutoring and churchwork. Peg Thompson Zimmerman, Canan-daigua, NY, had a delightful September tripto Britain last year with 36 Canandaiguafriends. They traveled 3,000 miles by coachthrough England, Wales, and Scotland. Ro-land Masters has relocated from Bath, NYto Brooksville, FL. Roland also traveledthrough Great Britain and Ireland last yearand in Wales, Roland and wife Thelma visit-ed the village where Thelma's mother hadbeen born and from where she emigrated tothe US in 1904. William Yetter is living inLaHabra Heights, CA. Bill retired from IDMSecurities in 1992 due to the firm's electing

Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He writes that hisfuture plans are a bit indefinite. Bill, we hopeall will stabilize for you. Bill supports Cor-nell Club activities and serves on the boardof the Southern California Conference of theUnited Church of Christ. He is also the mod-erator of the Hillcrest CongregationalChurch. Jeanette Gordon Rosenberger hasa busy retirement, with church trusteeshipand choir along with involvement with theCornell Club of New Hampshire. She hastraveled to the Caribbean, the Panama Ca-nal, and to Alaska in August 1992.

This is old news to be sharing and I amawaiting your news to come with the newroll call forms accompanying your alumnisubscriptions. * Jocelyn Frost Sampson,1133 Race St., Apt. 6S, Denver, CO 80206; tele-phone (303) 331-9966 (H), (303) 770-3820 (W).

P"i I Jim Furbush lists himself as own-I >i er of Ironwood Golf & Country•̂ I Club, Baldwinsville, NY. Golfing

• I c^assmates from that area may be111 very interested in checking this^J JL out. The Society of American Val-ue Engineers (SAVE) has given its FallonValue-in-Life Award to Jim O'Brien andwife Rita. This is only the fourth time inSAVE's ten-year history that the award hasbeen given. SAVE describes the award as:"A prestigious distinction bestowed on thosepeople, preferably a couple, giving of them-selves unselfishly to improve the human val-ue ethic over many years. Their exampleshould generate our desire to make similardedications toward increasing the value inhuman living."

A large group of 'Slers has participatedin Adult University (CAU) programs this pastspring and summer. Among them: FranGoldberg Myers, Al and Louise SquireBishop, Dorothy Glover Grimball, Cathe-rine Welch Munn, Shelley Epstein Aka-bas, Charles Mund, Bob Nelson, ElliotOldman, Suzanne Gottsman Teich, andTed and Barbara Mertens Reifsteck.

Bob Vance writes: "Still officially work-ing (manufacturer's rep), but traveling a lot—Pat and I are up to 107 countries visited.South Africa in February was outstanding.There's a great variety to see and your dol-lar goes a long way. We also went to Zimbab-we for Victoria Falls. Up the Mississippi onthe Delta Queen in April and sailing the Med-iterranean coast of Turkey in May roundedout the first half of the year. Turkey offersmore to the tourist than any other countrywe've been to." Bob continues, "All of Eu-rope has discovered Turkey, but you hardlyever see an American. Go soon!"

Michael Chayes, MD, Amsterdam,Netherlands, writes that he is a medical spe-cialist in psychiatry. Another psychiatristamong our classmates is Richard Glavin,currently clinical director of both HudsonRiver Psych Center in Poughkeepsie andHarlem Valley Psych Center in Wingdale,NY, which makes for considerable commut-ing from his home in New Preston, CT. Hereports: "For vacation I've given in to thetime-share illusion and have a beautiful placeat Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, whereI spend two weeks in February. The fallbrings a trip to the heel of Italy and a beauti-ful city called Lecce. Ciao!"<*Bob and

DECEMBER 199351

Joanne Bayles Brandt, 60 ViennawoodDr., Rochester, NY 14618.

M ^X As I write, the leaves are red and1 1 1 yellow, but as you read, the snowl^k m will be flying. Remember the

• f quadrangle at night with newI If J snow? What a beautiful campus!^J^m Rabbi Ron Millstein may re-member, but he writes that the last time hewas on the Hill it was raining. Ron is tryingto avoid retirement, as he loves the satisfac-tion of working with his 500-family congre-gation. He did manage vacations in Cancunand an extended stay in Switzerland last year.Home is 80 Oxford Blvd., Great Neck, NY.

E. Whitney Mitchell seems to be run-ning his own mini-reunion headquarters at2090-B NE Ocean Blvd., Stuart, FL. Whilerecovering from his fourth knee operationand running his real estate business, he man-aged to see Cornellians W. Gerry Grady'53 and wife Sue, Peter Mitchell, Joe Eber-hardt Jr. '53, Bob and Ellie Hospodor Con-ti, Don Follett and wife Mibs (Martin) '51,Bob Vogel, John Smoots, Dean Bock, aswell as T. J. "Pete" Little '53 and Ed Co-ene '51. Whit summers in Nantucket, wherehe is the senior surf-fishing guide.

Stuart Merz says he will spend his re-tirement reading to grandchildren, golfing,gardening, and wintering on Sanibel Island,FL. His address: 20775 Colby Rd., ShakerHeights, OH. David Murray also loves thesun. His last vacation was on Tortola, Brit-ish Virgin Islands. He writes articles relatedto orthopedic surgery and plays golf and ten-nis in free time. Still working. Home is at 5Quaker Hill Rd., Syracuse, NY.

Among those getting geared up to re-tire is Robert Ostrander of 159 Stonemead-ow, S. Salem, NY. Robert plans some publicservice, some travel, and time to enjoy hishobby of coin collecting. Another golfer, Al-fred Pagano, 18 Mattei Lane, Newark, DE,took a recent holiday on Bermuda. He sayshe likes parlor sports—but no definition ofthe latter. Richard Peel lives in Northville,MI at 21137 E. Glen Haven Cir. He's busywith church work and home projects, andgoes to Charlevoix for vacations. SidneyPerlman, MD, 19 Timrod Rd., W. Hartford,CT, is practicing medicine, but he seems tohave many other interests, as he would liketo teach caligraphy and linguistics at the highschool level when he retires. He sails andjogs and recently vacationed in England.

Recent addresses: R. Kane Rufe, 1234Taylor St., Apt. 201, San Francisco. Alan P.Rose Sr., 713 Jansen St., Cayce, SC. GeorgeSalvino, 12 Valentin Lane, RD 1, Phoenix-ville, PA.

Richard Charles Smith has ten grand-children. He retired ten years ago, plays ten-nis, golf, power volley ball, goes white-wa-ter rafting, scuba dives, swims laps, gardens,does house and yard work, and loves to trav-el. Home: 109 Goldenrod Lane, Moore, SC.Patricia Lovejoy Stoddard, 209 Sunset HillRd., New Canaan, CT, plans to retire inNorth Carolina and build a small house onBlock Island. Joan Nesmith Tillotson stillpractices medicine at a university in Fargo,ND. She lives at 507 21st Ave., S., plays ten-nis and golf. Two grandchildren are in Min-neapolis.

We will be in Prescott, AZ for most ofthe winter with our trailer. Send news.<» George and Gayle Raymond Kennedy,18306 Shaver's Lake Dr., Deephaven, MN.55391; FAX (612) 473-6491.

While many of us have becomeladies and gentlemen of leisure,your kindly ex-treasurer, BobDailey, has found employmentas senior vice president of Wat-tel/Della Corte & Arkin Inc., an

international corporate communications andinvestor relations consulting firm. The con-tinuing globalization of the world's capitalmarkets keeps him busy advising. It's hisfirst job in the "Big City." At last he gets tocommute from New Canaan, CT and, by allreports, enjoys it, at least in the morning.

Dick Ragold sees it another way. Hesays he has more time for his home in Dan-by, VT, after selling his engineering firm afew years back. He keeps his hand in as adivision manager with Edwards & Kelcey inNew Jersey but is able to report with au-thority that skiing in Vermont was great lastyear. From biochemist Esther GreenbergBreslow: "Have been enjoying a fulfillingcombination of research, teaching, and fami-ly since 1953. Am now acting chair of thebiochemistry department at the CornellMedical College."

Reunion pulls many back to Ithaca. Sodoes Adult University (CAU). It can also takeyou halfway around the world. It got Rob-ert Green to Korea and Japan this year andElliott Stone and Bernard Wand, PhD '53to London for a theater tour. Jim Logsdonvisited Flagstaff, AZ and the Grand Canyonto study stars and rocks. Chuck Juran wentto Colorado, Rich Klein to Cooperstown (fora seminar on Germany today) and KateKrauss Lehmann to the Chesapeake Bay.Anne Wagman Walowitz reflected on vam-pires in Ithaca, Alan Gordon and MickieSymonds Eschweiler took an architecturecourse, and Jim Lansing signed on for theUS War of the Rebellion.

Mike Milmoe, producer of our occa-sional '53 newsletter, keeps busy with hisCanastota, NY publishing company and alsowith the Boxing Hall of Fame. He was in onit from the opening bell. It grew out of thetown's honoring of a local lad, former onionfarmer Carmen Basilio, of Friday night fightfame. The Hall of Fame was dedicated in1989 and started inducting giants of the gen-tlemanly art of pugilism in 1990. One of themany memorable moments for Mike: thetime Muhammad Ali was a breakfast guestchez Milmoe.

"Jane and I completed 29 years of livingin Brazil last May," says Dick Hayes. "Stilllots of changes ahead for 'the country of thefuture.' Ellen Bromfield Geld and husbandCarson '50 have been here 40 years nowand are still going strong." Sheep rancherJoan Otto Daunt still tends her flock in Ban-dera, TX. No details.

About a dozen classmates heard Presi-dent Frank Rhodes describe former Trus-tee Bob Engel, who passed away this pastAugust, as "passionate in his devotion toCornell" during a hugely moving celebrationof Bob's life at New York City's CathedralChurch of St. John the Divine in September.

It was rich in music, from Carmen to Star-dust. A group from the Glee Club sang theCornell "Evening Song." The term "smartjock" was used reverently. Dick Cliggottwas one of many who spoke warmly. Manywho were there saw each other again thefollowing day, kick-starting another footballseason at soggy Princeton.

May your days be merry and bright, andhere's a flagon to unflaggin' good health forall in 1994. * Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave.,NYC 10009.

Bob '53 and I joined some class-mates on the campus in Octo-ker and we were all impressednot only with the physical beau-ty that we remembered, but thecare that the buildings and

grounds receive. Add to that an inspiring fac-ulty and some innovative programs—itmakes one proud to be a Cornellian. Wespent some time with Louise "Polly" Hos-pital Flansburgh and husband Earl '53,piano-playing Bob and Suzan Benzinger,Jean and Betty Rowley Qean has retiredfrom Marine Midland in Buffalo and they arebuilding a house in Ithaca) and Mary Gen-try Call, who is retiring from the TompkinsCounty Board of Representatives after 12years of service. Is it possible that our 40thReunion is a full-time job?

Mary writes, "54-40 or fight! Of course,we mean the Class of '54 and its 40th Re-union, June 9-12, '94. Give us some latitudeand we'll plan a great one for you! The classwill be headquartered in Balch. Events in-clude a fancy dinner in the Statler and a bar-becue at the Plantations. We're planning anart show featuring works by class members,and a special lunch on Saturday that willhighlight our class project—the Center forthe Environment. We'll lure early arrivalswith a cocktail cruise on Cayuga Lake. Theuniversity has planned more events for allalumni than ever before, and there won't beany fight left in anybody by Sunday noon!Join us, please." Count me in!

Ken Lord writes that he and Marittaare living in the mountains of Jackson Hole,WY after selling his company back in Penn-sylvania in 1989. They are 12 miles from thenearest town, 6,700 feet above sea level, withmountains all around, and would love to hearfrom any classmates in the area. LucilleFein Saunders and husband Burt '51 havemoved to Nyack, NY and live right on theHudson with their leasing company officeswithin walking distance. Daughter Maureen'83 has taken over the veterinary practiceand has her own cat-care clinic. DaughterZena '79 runs the marketing end of the leas-ing business. Linda Stagg Mazet writes thatshe had a wonderful surprise visit fromDoriseve "Dodie" Karch Thaler last yearwhile Dodie was in Big Sur for her son'swedding. Roz Roth Treger and husband Al'52 live in Pittsburgh, where she teachesfreshman English at a local college and editsand writes publications for a local girls'school. Al is a cardiologist and their four chil-dren are scattered on both coasts. They seeJoan Boffa Gaul '52 frequently and AnneWagman Walowitz '53 and husband Larrycome from Philadelphia each year forThanksgiving.

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Mason and Pat Jerome Colby are inCincinnati where Mason has retired fromProcter & Gamble but is still going strongwith the Cincinnati Symphony May FestivalChorus. Pat has her master's in clinical so-cial work and had been working with home-bound elderly patients, as well as clinicalwork at Drake Center, a rehabilitation hos-pital for the severely disabled, until her re-tirement last January. Five grandchildren andtravel take up their time, now. Recently theyhave been to New Zealand and Australia andsailed the south coast of Turkey. ArthurZilversmit is a history professor at LakeForest College and was senior lecturer inAmerican studies at the University of Romein 1984. His latest book, Changing Schools:Progressive Education Theory and Practice,1930-1960, was published last spring. It is astudy of how the ideas of John Dewey wereapplied in American classrooms. His wife,Charlotte (Perlman) is a clinical socialworker in private practice and has publisheda number of articles on family therapy. SonMarc was note editor of the Stanford LawReview and is now a public defender in LosAngeles. Daughter Karen was Phi Beta Kap-pa at Clark U. and is special markets man-ager for South Western Publishing Co. inCincinnati. Sally Guthrie Whitman writesthat she and Gladstone are still travelingenthusiastically. Last year they were in NewZealand, Fiji, on a Renaissance cruise aroundItaly, enjoyed Octoberfest in Munich, thenvisited Salzburg and Vienna. "A highlight wasa quick trip to Budapest and two nights inUkraine visiting friends in Svalyava. Barbedwire remnants of the Iron Curtain still linethe riverbank. The border is 'open' but wewaited in line for four hours. Busloads ofpeople waited for days to cross into Hunga-ry—literally living in the fields next to theroad which was gridlocked for miles. Thevisual impressions are haunting—rusty lidson jars of tomato juice in the food store, thelace-draped icons in the reopened church,and cement pedestals with only a pair of feetto show where statues of communist lead-ers once stood. Yet everyone we met wasanxious to share his sweets and minute ra-tions of vodka with us!" I love hearing aboutyour trips, Sally—I hope you're going tomake one to Ithaca in June! <» LouiseSchaefer Dailey, 51 White Oak Shade Rd.,New Canaan, CT 06840.

New bridegroom David Mackreports he was married to theformer Jane Nirenberg in Marchof this year. They had dated inthe 1950s but met again in April1992 "and this time it worked!"

says Dave. Gary Ozaroff has moved fromWayne, PA to Pembroke Pines, FL. He'sresigned from QVC Network as executivevice president and plans to start a new busi-ness in Florida. J. Dave Schmidt and Joannhave been looking at retirement areas, andthey spent a week on Florida's west coastin Boca Grande, which they found to be"very nice but quite laid back." They've alsoscouted the Carolinas and were "surprisedat the steep mountains driving throughBrevard and Blowing Rock." Back home inClinton Corners, NY, the Schmidts hostedtheir 35th annual Derby Day party, which

David Mack mar-

ried the former Jan

Nirenberg in

March. They had

dated in the 1950s

but met again in

April 1992 'and this

time it worked!'

—NANCY SAVAGEMORRIS

included Ed Faber '54 and wife Linda, AlWebster '48 and wife Jean, and Pete Pog-gi, DVM '62 and wife Patricia (Kelly) '63.

"No changes to report," says LorraineSilverman Abrash. She's still teachingchemistry part time at a local communitycollege, and husband Jay's in real estate.Harvey Knaster came up with some guess-es about where some of the missing '55ersmight be: James Hardy "may be on the fac-ulty of Louisiana State U."; Joseph Levine"may be on the faculty of Syracuse U."; LeePreble "transferred to Columbia after fresh-man year"; Neil Poley "took a leave of ab-sence from Cornell and returned to receivehis degree in a later year"; and Juan Ser-ralles "probably living in Puerto Rico". Cananyone confirm or deny these reports?

Ed Fellman and wife Cary say they are"about 20 percent through our plan to tourthe US in our travel trailer." They take afew months at a time on the road, then headfor home (Shawano, WI) to wait for interestto accumulate on their investments, so theycan do their Charles Kuralt thing again."With current rates of return the interven-ing periods are lengthening, however," Edadds. The Fellmans saw G. Frank South'53 last spring, and they promise to be withus in June 1995. Ed also sent along address-es for Anne Sutherland Schaal (Green Bay,WI) and James Kendle (Itasca, IL). Ger-ald "Jack" Frost, who's retired and lives inNew Holland, PA, brought us up to date onHugh Cotcamp's address—Little River, SC.Another couple who've put Reunion on theircalendar: Herb and Pat McCormick Hoe-hing of Sylvania, OH. Herb is traveling, butit's work-related, he explains, and offers "lit-tle vacation value." Pat's a physical thera-pist in an arthritis care center at the ToledoHospital. They visited Jim Kildea and wifeJune (Hercek) '56 on their mountain inCharlottesville, VA—the Kildeas' "retreat"beats any relaxation tape, says Pat.

Hans "Swede" Dahl is retired and liv-ing in Sarasota for part of the year, just

blocks from Joe and Vera Steiner Simon.He's involved with barbershop quartet, chorus,and golf—"I seem to be very busy, but can'tseem to document what I do!" Having re-tired from IBM in July 1992, Roger Roth-bailer is doing a little teaching, and lives inNew Canaan, CT. Maybe we'll see you ata Fairfield County Cornell Club event oneday, Roger?

Donn Resnick and wife Jennifer arehappily living and working in Scottsdale, AZ.Donn's in advertising: his most recent cam-paign idea (for Camelback Inn): "There's onlyone mountain we won't move for you." Jen-nifer has a radio show, and Donn has thecommercials. "How's that for synergy?"Donn asks. Karl Wendt is still practicingarchitecture in Cortland, only 25 miles fromIthaca, and would like to hear from architec-ture classmates who are visiting Ithaca. Areyou with us for June 1995, Karl? *ί* NancySavage Morris, 110A Weaver St., Green-wich, CT 06831.

A note from Class PresidentErnest Stern: "Dear Class-mates: Our Class Correspon-dents Phyllis Bosworth andSteve Kittenplan have askedme to write a "guest column"

and, of course, I'm delighted to do so. I'll tryto bring you up to date on some general go-ings on. I'm afraid we'll have to wait for thenext regularly scheduled column for newsabout classmates.

"The Cornell faculty and staff have beenreally busy this early fall. Last week—as Iwrite in early October—almost 800 Cornel-Hans and friends were at the Waldorf Asto-ria for the kick-off of the Cornell Campaign'sregional program. There were lots of famil-iar faces from '56 and classes immediatelyaround ours. President Frank H. T. Rhodeshosted a multi-media spectacular thatbrought cheers and some tears to those gath-ered. Cornell's campaign to "re-endow" theuniversity by raising $1.25 billion is on trackand a little ahead of schedule. A key objec-tive of the campaign is to see and feel thesupport Cornell gets in these difficult times.

"Non-Cornellian friends of mine have of-ten been amazed and a little jealous of theloyalty of our alumni. The depth of our com-mitment to Cornell isn't really hard to ex-plain. We loved going there, we loved thefriendships we made there, we're proud ofthe place and its standards, and we feel asense of deep belonging, still. Pretty power-ful stuff—but I'll stop here.

"The Super Class of '56 has been busy,too. We had a meeting of class officers atthe Cornell Club-New York late in Septem-ber, and we've begun the planning cycle forour 40th Reunion. It may seem a long wayoff to you now, but time flies when you'rehaving fun . . . We'll keep you informed, ofcourse, but I can tell you already that BillCallnin and Harry Keller, our Reunion co-chairs, are planning something wonderful forall of us.

"By now you've received News & Duesletters and the class calendar. If you haven'tresponded already, I hope you'll do so now,with not only a check for the dues, but withnews of yourself and your family. Let's hearfrom you. Warm good wishes. Ernest L.

DECEMBER 199353 ~~~

Stern." * Phyllis Bosworth, 8 E. 83rd St.,#10C, NYC 10028; Stephen Kittenplan,1165 Park Ave., NYC 10128.

^̂ |WP So here's what I did on my sum-I j f I mer vacation! I loaded up my Sat-1̂ ^ i urn SL2 and headed west. First

I stops were with friends in Park-• II ersburg, WV and Lexington, KY^̂ I and the horse farms. Then it wason to Nashville for a few days. Oprylandturned out to be more interesting than I hadexpected but the main reason for heading toTennessee was to tour the Saturn plant atSpring Hill and see how my car was made.The assembly plant was enormous and theprocess was fascinating. Back on the roadagain and since I had to go by Memphis Idecided I might as well stop at Gracelandand see what all the fuss is about. Did youknow that Elvis also graduated from highschool in 1953? Crossed the Mississippi,traveled through Arkansas, and continued onInterstate 40 into Oklahoma. Then throughthe panhandle of Texas before moving on toNew Mexico. All that beef on the hoof whetmy appetite for a steak dinner and when Ispent the night in Las Vegas—the originalone—I found one . . . at the Landmark Grillin the historic Plaza Hotel. I headed northto Colorado and my destination—Grand Junc-tion, where they've got clear air and grandscenery, and I've got some good friends.When it was time to head back east my routewas determined for me by the flood condi-tions in the Midwest. Interstate 70 throughGlenwood Canyon in Colorado is spectacular andVail Pass, likewise. But while driving throughKansas I got my first glimpse of the swollenrivers in that area, and it was in Missouri that Icould see the full impact of nature's ways.The interstate crosses the Missouri Rivernot far from Columbia, and after seeing itover its banks I couldn't help but wonderhow Harriet Merchant Shipman and BevRobertson Murrell were faring. I made astop in St. Louis just long enough to visitthe arch and check the crest level on theMississippi River before continuing home viaIllinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—5,000 miles in all—and my Saturn neverfailed me! So what did you do lastsummer? * Judith Reusswig, 5401 West-bard Ave., #1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

Cy Benson has sent along news of himselfand family. Cy has retired (for the third time)even from what we all know is one of hisloves—coaching football. After 30-plus yearsin the educational field, it was a logical con-tinuation of a career dedicated to workingwith young people. His 1991 team was run-ner-up in the state championship, and his1992 team was the state champion. Of hisand Miriam's four sons, it's not surprisingthat two of them are in coaching, William ashead basketball coach at Bridgton Academyin Maine, and Robert as the youngest (28)head coach at the Division I level in his po-sition as head football coach at GeorgetownU. in Washington, DC. Cy and Miriam gottogether with Dominick and Debra Pas-quale at a Harvard football game this fall,where they spent some time with ArtBoland, who is the team doctor for bothHarvard and the New England Patriots. Cy

would be interested in a part-time, seasonalposition as a college recruiter in the North-east. I can't think of anyone better suited tothis type of situation.

A sad note concerning Dick Dreherwas received from his son Gary '86. Dickpassed away last December. Gary stressedDick's involvement in the growth of theAmerican Youth Soccer Organization, whichhe served so well in several capacities in-cluding national board membership. Dick re-ceived his MBA from San Jose State priorto a 16-year career with Varian Instruments,then developed his own marketing consult-ing company. * John Seiler, Starks Bldg.,Suite 563, 455 S. 4th Ave., Louisville, KY40202; telephone (502) 589-1151.

n f\ "CU in Philadelphia '93" will be[̂ II recent history when '58ers read|̂ k jf this column; at the time of writ-

X% ing, early October, that event isI VI I verY much in the final stages of\J \J preparation. I hope that manyfrom the class will be here; our get-togeth-er Saturday night, after all other events areover, should be fun. Meanwhile, the num-bers of our class supporting this (newlynamed) Cornell Magazine exceeds 400 (firsttime in years and achieving retired Presi-dent Dick Kay's goal for 1993), so we'reentitled to a longer column length and hencemore news. So here we go.

Churlene "Cindy" Rogers Heinbachcontinues work as director of a nurseryschool in upstate New Jersey. Her threegrown children are pursuing their careersaround the country, and she has three grand-children. Bob Dunn, after 28 years with hislaw firm, switched to become a partner inanother San Francisco firm (Cooper, Whiteand Cooper). Bob had to miss Reunion be-cause of his transition, but says he'll be therefor the 40th. D. Alan Hershey continuesas president of his energy systems firmin Pittsford, NY, serving industrial ener-gy installation needs in Upstate New York.Al writes that their son graduated with highhonors from U. of Rochester. Col. Ed Tay-lor Jr. continues in telecommunications inSan Antonio. He and Rose enjoyed morethan four years of association with TexasA&M U., now ending with the graduationof their youngest daughter there last De-cember. The Taylors also enjoyed first vis-its to San Francisco, Cancun, and Key Westlast year and wonder why they waited so longfor their visits.

Joel Van Wynen is a self-employedlawyer in Brooklyn. He visited Hawaii lastyear with his sister Martha Van WynenGoodfriend '61. Both Van Wynen children,Eugenie '94 and James '95, are doing well,Joel writes, and he keeps busy in the "sameold medical malpractice defense," while re-habbing an old brownstone in Brooklyn. (Andthanks for the extra contribution to the classtreasury, Joel.) Dr. Gerald Mandell recent-ly edited the section on biology of infectiousdisease for the 16th edition of The MerckManual of Diagnosis and Therapy. Gerald andwife Judith (Rensin) '61 reside in Charlot-tesville, VA. H. Vreeland "Whit" Whittallis still with Caterpillar Inc. in Lafayette, IN.The WhittalΓs have two new grandchildren,adding to two others. Both Whit and Nancy

are active in art circles in Lafayette.We have many names of 'mates who just

sent their dues, always welcome, but we'llalso look for news on their next round. Theyinclude: Dr. Ed Monahan; CynthiaTschorn Peterson (Mrs. Earle); LaurencePringle (continuing his free-lance writing);Margaret Busfield Rees (Mrs. Martin);James Rieflin; Sylvan Schefler; DonaldA. Schneider (from Penn Yan, NY); JohnC. Schneider (writing from W. Palm Beach,FL); Stu Schwartz, a physician from NewHartford (Utica, actually) where he lives withElaine (Smith) '60; Audrey WildnerSears; engineer Dan Seidel from San Fran-cisco; Dr. Richard Severance; Dick Stor-mont, in hotel services in Atlanta; JohnTallman, an engineer now in Houston;Paula Finkelstein Thier; John "Larry"Tracy, a contract manager in Honolulu;Eleanor L. Turn Suden, now retired in LaJolla, CA; Ed Vaughn, a landscape architectin Orange, CT; Jack Wade and Elizabeth(Will) '60 in Lenox, MA; Judy PhilipsonWarsh of Loudonville, NY; and Dr. H. Jayne"Vog" Vogan, professor in counseling edu-cation at SUNΎ College, Brockport. A longlist, yes, but these are some of our class fi-nancial supporters; news next time, OK?

Two of our ladies are "learning consult-ants." Ann Riemer Walker, across the riv-er in Lawrenceville, NJ, fills that role fromher home there, where she lives with Wil-liam '57. Out in Ohio, in the town of Beach-wood, lives Carolyn "Mindy" Mindel Her-man. Mindy is a learning disabilities teacherand husband Jim is an architect. Al Tessleris one of our merchant bankers and lawyersand lives with Frances (Goudsmit) out inJackson, WY. The Tesslers have three chil-dren, Cornellians from the 1980s: AndreaTessler Henderson '85, ChristopherTessler '87, and Karla Tessler '89. Fromthe biographical background accompanyingAΓs dues, one can see what a banker, mer-chant, lawyer, CEO Al has indeed been! AΓslatest venture includes the founding and nowchairing of International Financial Group Inc.,an international banking firm. Currently, Alis the co-chair of the Cornell Law SchoolCapital Campaign.

The class's three chimesmasters justhad a day together on campus. GeorgeUbogy, Frank Russell, and your correspon-dent met with others of the chimes advisorycouncil on October 1-2. You'll be hearing/reading more about the chimes and towerrenovation (after nearly a century of very lit-tle change there) . . . all for the better. Op-portunities will be coming your way to fur-ther improve the bells of Cornell. Watch formore info on this. For now, on to "Philly in'93." Hope to see many of you here. Cheers.* Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., Ft. Wash-ington, PA 19034.

Happy holidays! As you writeseasonal greetings to friends,share your news with us! Sendphotos of get-togethers with oth-er Cornellians—we'll displaythem on a bulletin board at Cas-

cadilla Dorm, our home during Reunion nextJune 9-12.

Urgently needed ASAP: material to in-corporate in the '59 edition of the wonderful

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video that Al Podell '58 created for his 35thReunion. Please let us borrow your moviesand photos of campus events from our dayson the Hill, plus any great films and pics tak-en during our Reunions. Send materials toNeil Janovic, 165 E. 66th St., Apt. 19A, NYC10021, no later than early January. For fur-ther information, contact Neil at (212) 772-7743 or (212) 861-2427.

Carol Sherman Knapp and husbandEd '57 of Breinigsville, PA report that theirdaughter Cathy is entering medical schoolat the U. of Arizona. Carol teaches environ-mental education at a nature center and atRodale Inst. Research Center—"I get paidto play outdoors!" she notes. She has keptin touch with Vickie Lane Kempe, who re-sides outside London but works at AlohaCamp in Vermont during the summer.Rancher Nick Karpis of Whitesboro, TXmoved his headquarters to Oklahoma in June,though he continues to ranch in Texas. Cat-tle aren't Nick's only business: he recentlystarted a new line in shiitake mushrooms!

In May, Mary Ella Harman Feinleibcompleted ("survived") her llth year as adean at Tufts U.—"Tufts appears to havesurvived, too," she writes, continuing: "Al-though my title makes me sound like a stu-dent dean, in fact I'm first-in-the-line-of-fire dean of faculty for about 25 depart-ments and programs in the liberal arts andsciences, comprising some 250 full-timeand 200 part-time faculty. I can assure you:I'm never bored! In the little time I havebeyond work, I eat out (too much!) and Itravel. Since our 30th Reunion, I've been—among other places—to Israel (exactly oneyear before the Gulf War), to the formerYugoslavia (exactly one year before it allfell apart), to the Everglades (six monthsbefore Hurricane Andrew), and to Kauai(exactly two weeks before Hurricane Ini-ki) . . . Are you sure you want me to cometo Ithaca next year?"

As a member of the board of directorsof MASBAC, Panasonic's newest batterycompany in the US, Barry Huret of Yard-ley, PA attended the firm's first shipmentceremonies in January. In April, he pre-sented a paper, "The Quest for PortableEnergy," at Electro, an electronics exhi-bition and symposium. And he's been re-elected to chair the Electronic IndustriesAssn.'s battery section, Consumer Elec-tronics Group. The section recently passedthe first replacement battery standard forcamcorder batteries and has other stan-dards under development.

New addresses: Wesley Marsh, a la-bor relations specialist with NY State, movedto 6888 E. River RdL, Rush, NY. RobertLiversidge, president of CommunityHealth Services, moved to 53 Beach St.,Kennebunk Beach, ME. * Jenny Tesar,97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801;(203) 792-8237.

Happy holidays! Do hope you'lltake a minute to drop a line tothis column, or better yet, returnyour class News and Dues formas you write your holiday greet-ings. Time flies in our busy lives,

but let's try to keep in touch. The 35th Re-union is fast approaching, and it's not too

Last year Mary

Lee Ling and

family raised

over $5,000 for

cancer research on

a 192-mile, two-day

bike trip from

Sturbridge to

Provincetown.

—NANCY HISLOPMcPEEK'61

soon to start contacting friends through thiscolumn. Ruth Berberian Hanessian makestime for interviewing prospective Cornel-Hans in the business schedule of her Rock-ville, MD, Pet Exchange, and the results arepaying off. "My employees, many of whomstart at age 14, watch the high school se-niors coming and going each year, get in-spired, and we now have our third Cornel-lian generated by the store staff! Derek evenlocated the Animal Exchange seat in theAlumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall and satin it for me!"

In France, Raoul Sudre opened a newhotel, "The Aspen Park Hotel," in 1992. Itis located in the Trois Vallees region of theSavoie, where the Olympics were held. Hewrites: "I finished a trip around the world,and visited Pat Terrail '64 in Los Angeles,Didier Peyron '70 in San Francisco, andHiroshi Kohda '64 in Osaka, Japan. Mydaughter Samantha graduated from theFrench Lycee. I am still unremarried, andwould like all our classmates to come andvisit me in ski-country France."

Marian Seiter Martin traveled to Alas-ka last year, and saw her older son, Chris,graduate from Caltech with honors in an ap-plied physics major. Younger son Scot is atRice U. in Houston. Marian works as a pro-grammer, and still enjoys traveling to bridgetournaments. Ron Obermeyer wrote thatall three children are now married and spreadout around the world—son Gary with two chil-dren in England, daughter DeeDee in Cali-fornia, and son Scott in Arizona.

Ken Wallace rode his bicycle last fallfrom Portland, ME to Orlando, FL andshared contact with Cornellians along theway. "Dave Atkinson and I shared lunchand I later had a FedEx letter from himcheering me on. And I received words ofencouragement from Barbara Cyrus Mar-tin and, of course, Dan '58, and a fax fromJohn Agor wondering if I had taken leave

of my senses. Peer Ghent was in Phoenixlast spring and spent the night with us. I haddinner in Las Vegas with E. J. "Ted" Quirkand his wife. My life continues to be enrichedby Cornell. My younger children are Megan,almost 7, and Glen, 3. Son Andrew, 33, is inCopenhagen on assignment to SAS developinga UNIX system. Aron, 32, is a pilot with Amer-ican, and Susanna, 27, is working on her mas-ter's thesis at California State U., Chico."

Bob Baime, with a crew of three, skip-pered his boat Moonfleet transatlantic in theAtlantic Rally for Cruisers sailboat race fromthe Canary Islands to St. Lucia, then sailedthe boat back in stages to Florida. They wereone of four American entries and finished inthe middle of the pack. His family continuesto divide its time between homes in Ches-ter, NJ and Duck Key, FL, "sailing whenev-er we can."

T. L. "Ted" Antos has spent this yearas vice chair, Community Bankers Assn. ofNY State, a trade association representing136 savings banks and savings and loansthroughout the state. He and Joan continueto travel and enjoy lots of golf. Karen Kurtzand Joel Bayer now have their first grand-child—"he is pure joy." Daughter JaniceBayer '88 (Engineering) is working in thespace program for a NASA contractor, in-volved in two missions planned for 1994.Daughter Leslie Bayer '92 (Arts) is in grad-uate school in microbiology at the U. of Ore-gon in Eugene. The Bayers hosted Los An-geles visitors Roberta Bushlow Tymon andher husband last November. Carolyn Carl-son Blake and Bob '58 now have threegrandchildren. Carolyn is working with anindependent-living program for men andwomen, ages 17-21, after two years as a cri-sis intervention counselor for juveniles andtheir families. Older daughter Joyce wasmarried in the summer of 1992; youngerdaughter Lynda graduated that May from theU. of Delaware.

Do answer Sue Phelps Day's call to theclass soon. We'd all enjoy hearing fromyou! * Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257 W. DeerPath, Lake Forest, IL 60045.

f\ I Updates: A May 1993 NY TimesI " Λ announcement of the election of 60y\ 1 new members to the Nationali l l Academy of Sciences included theI I I name of Malcolm R. Beasley,^/ JL Stanford professor of applied phys-ics and electrical engineering. The articlenoted that election to the academy is con-sidered one of the highest honors that canbe given to an American scientist or engi-neer. Another honored classmate is MichaelRoberts, a long-time member of the US gov-ernment's Senior Executive Service, whowas awarded the Presidential Rank Awardof Meritorious Executive Service for hiswork in facilitating the origination and de-velopment of a unique international ventureamong the US, Japan, Russia, and the Euro-pean Community Commission. The projectinvolves a fusion energy test device calledthe International Thermonuclear Experimen-tal Reactor (ITER). Attending the award cer-emony as president of the Senior ExecutivesAssn. was Carol Bonosaro.

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an agricultural high school and state farm andthe agricultural department at HousatonicValley High School in Falls Village, CT, Rob-ert Gambino had an opportunity to spendsome time in the Ukraine last summer. Da-vid Marks, a professor of civil and environ-mental engineering at MIT since 1969,writes that he has stepped down as head ofthe department to run a new program forenvironmental engineering education andresearch. He also was named to an endowedprofessorship: the James Mason Crafts chair.New degree holders among us include A.Irving Awerman, a law degree from StetsonU. in Florida; Lucienne Joncurs Taylor, a doc-torate in educational leadership from the U.of St. Thomas in Minnesota; and Anne KleinRothman, a PhD in counseling psychology.

More updates: Ken Blanchard has pub-lished a new book, Raving Fans: SatisfyingCustomers is Not Enough, which is "sellinglike hotcakes!" As a resident of Anchorage,Richard Lipinski reports that he isenjoying the fishing there. May Lee Lingand her family spend some time raising fundsfor cancer research each year, and, at thetime of her note, were making plans for their1993 fundraising activity. Last year theyraised over $5,000 on a 192-mile two-daybike trip from Sturbridge to Provincetown.

We would love to share your news withclassmates—please write! Thanks! <* NancyHislop McPeek, 7405 Brushmore, NW, N.Canton, OH 44720; telephone (216) 494-2572(H); (216) 438-8375 (W).

This column is written over Ith-aca, returning from a too-briefvisit with Myra Maloney Hartin Weston, MA. Even from theair, the trees are vivid—I had for-gotten the spectacular fall show

staged by New England's deciduous trees.Myra is a doctoral candidate researching en-trepreneurship at Harvard's business school.It would seem that ample data could comesoley from the Class of '62. We dined oneevening with Larrie Dockerill Rockwell(husband Don "Rocky" '60, an MIT alumwho also attended Cornell). Larrie is direc-tor of development and acquisitions for Im-aging & Surgery Centers of America in Bos-ton. It is truly amazing how the years meltaway and time flies when good friends gather.

While in Boston, I ran into Sam Flem-ing, who has recently moved his companyto an idyllic location in Waltham, MA. Samis chair and CEO of Decision Resources. Hereported that George Agle and family areback in Philadelphia after a Scott Paper as-signment in Mexico City. Sam co-chairs thecurrent Cornell Campaign in Boston.

Other classmates co-chairing campaigncommittees include Stephen Ashley inRochester, John Neuman in Westchester,Frank Quirk in Washington, DC, GeorgeSlocum in Houston, TX and C. Brad Ol-son in Orange County, CA.

Adult University (CAU) reports severalclassmates in attendance at recent programs.Linda Goldberg Bandler and Mike '59 wentto Flagstaff, AZ. Ruth Zimmerman Bleylerand husband Pete and Julie ChristensenPohlman and husband Mark rafted the Salm-on River. Summer participants in Ithaca in-cluded Judy Shapiro Greenblatt and Sam

'61; Don and Ann Stork Greenwald; BruceHerbert '61, B ChemE '62 and Joyce; Lor-na Lamb Herdt and Bob '61; Shelah Al-bert Scherl '61 and Burton '59; and Wil-la Radin Swiller and Hillel '61.

Bob Strahota is completing a one-yearassignment in Warsaw as a Securities andExchange Commission adviser to the Polishsecurities commission. Bob will return toChevy Chase, MD. Fellow Marylanders areNancy McConnell Davidian in Bethesdaand Robert K. Wood in Rockville.

Talbot Perkins Children's Services inNew York employs Judith Lichtman Elkinas administrator. Rochelle Shaw Slovin di-rects the American Museum of the MovingImage in Astoria and lives on Central ParkWest. In Kings Point, Peter Epstein is anexecutive with First Spice Mixing Co. TheSbarras, Dr. Jerry and Laura Dana (Star)'65, live in Shoreham. Jerry is a veterinari-an with Miller Place Animal Hospital. Rens-selaer is home to Allan J. Davis.

These retirees make it sound very at-tractive: Donald Sladkin retired from thegovernment and established a small compa-ny, Meridian Technologies, to help Russianscommercialize their defense technologies.He's also expanding time spent on hiking,biking, canoeing, and other avocations. Hewas canoeing in Maine with Dick Stern,Lee Michaels, and Bill Chipin—a four-daysojourn on the St. Croix River—and planneda hiking/biking trip to Japan. "In general, Iam enjoying the freedom and flexibility ofretirement." Don's wife Yumei owns an ori-ental furnishings retail shop in Rockville,MD. They have three Princtonian daughters.*Jan McClayton Crites, 2779 DellwoodDr., Lake Oswego, OR 97034.

With the holidays upon us, thinkof your class correspondent andsend me your newsy holiday let-ters-1 sti11 have lots of 1993 in-formation from dues mailings, soif yours hasn't been published—

please be patient! Dr. Lawrence Bartholfand wife Linda (Stein) '66 are proud of theirtwin daughters, Suzanne (attending Yale) andHolly '97. The girls were salutatorian andvaledictorian, respectively, at Ellenville,NY high school. Tom Nachod rejoinedKey Bank of New York in 1991 as seniorvice president after seven years in Arizo-na and four in Greenwich, CT. He, wife Gen-zi, sons Justin, 10, and Schuyler, 6, reside inSchenectady. John and Roz Needham livein Clarkston, MI, where John is human re-sources director for the aerospace and ma-rine defense division of Vickers. Three oftheir four children are out of college whileone is in her final year. Harvey Roths-child III and wife Robin (Vassar '63) arein Bellevue, WA but took a trip to see theirson, who is in school in Winston-Salem,NC. On the way they visited Marc Korn-feld and wife Jenny in Harrisburg, PA.Tom Shallcross IV was recently appoint-ed operations manager for CNY CentroInc., which is the public transportation buscompany in Syracuse, where it employs250 bus operators.

Gail Stern Grollman is busy workingas a curriculum manager at Marsh McLen-nan's professional development department

in New York City. Husband Bill is presidentof the Center for Video Education. Gail at-tended Reunion, also gets together for lunchin New York City with Cynthia Raymondand Judith Kross.

Gary "Coach" Smith is back in privatemedical practice in Batavia after having doneemergency room work for a few years. Garyand wife Patricia have children 7, 3, and 1. Healso has four older children. Gary and Patriciaare also independent distributors for RexallShowcase International. Gary is active assecretary of the local Cornell Club board ofdirectors. Russ Stevenson has just finishedhis tenure as class president. Thanks for ajob well done. Russ and wife Margie (Ax-tell) '66 live outside Washington, DC. Herecently joined the DC office of Ballard SpahrAndrews and Ingersoll, where he continues topractice corporate and securities law.

It was great to see Barbara HartungWade at Reunion. Since Allan '64 passedaway a few years ago, she had found it hardto come back to Cornell. Having heard fromher recently, I know she was glad she came.She still teaches Spanish, plays tennis, golf,and enjoys the beach. Patty Hoffman Ax-elrod writes from San Francisco about hercommercial real estate endeavors. She re-cently co-listed residential properties withEllen Grau Filler, who lives close by. Pattyhas a weekly lunch with Beth Davis Kar-ren and would love to have other Cornel-Hans join them. Patty and husband Alan haddinner with Bob Pritsker and wife Kimiko,who have moved to Mill Valley, CA. BusyPatty had lunch with Peter Nussbaum, whois an attorney in San Francisco. Patty'sdaughter Jill is a junior in high school whoplays golf on the northern California juniorgolf circuit. Gerry Bourguignon lives inMiami with wife Lilly and is a research pro-fessor at the U. of Miami medical school. Hisdaughter is Suzanne '97.

That's all I have room for this month.Happy holidays to you all! <* Nancy BierdsIcke, 5 Maplewood Ct., Racine, WI 53402;telephone, (414) 681-1598.

The end of the year means catch-ing up on things. So let's catchup with the latest doings of someof our classmates. For more thana year, Donald Bird, wife Al-pine, and their three children

have been renovating their new home at 2River Dr., Annapolis, MD—fulfilling hisdream to live at the water's edge (Chesa-peake Bay, in this case). He is still a patentlawyer with Cushman, Darby & Cushmanin Washington, DC.

Two years ago, after 11 years with Ry-der in Miami, Edwin W. Parker took a newjob as vice president, finance of Future Met-als, an international distributor of aerospacematerials in Ft. Lauderdale. He and wifeDonna (Coon) '66 are now at 20496 Sau-salito Dr., Boca Raton, FL. The youngest oftheir three children is a senior in college.Miles J. Haber also has a new job. Aftermore than 25 years of working for large con-tractors and developers, he started his ownbuilding and consulting business three yearsago. Miles (3409 Cummings Lane, ChevyChase, MD) spent three weeks in Poland inthe fall of 1992 advising on the newly-emerg-

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ing private housing industry.Dr. Gerald M. Lazar (4187 S. Neptune

Dr., Salt Lake City, UT) has been busy ontwo continents. At home, Jerry is presidentof the Utah Psychiatric Assn. and chairs thepsychiatric department at LDS Hospital, alsoserving as medical director of Wasatch Can-yons Hospital. This past September, Jerrytaught psychiatry for a week in Ukraine, andin a blending of the two cultures, Jerry, wifeElise, and their three children have a familyfrom that Ukrainian city living with them for2-1/2 years, a cardiologist, a thoracic surgeon,and their son. In the winter, the Lazars areavid skiers, switching to golf, tennis, and hik-ing when the snow melts.

Another continent, Africa, occupiedclassmate Alicia Vogt Linzey this past year.Alicia spent seven months last winter andtwo more last summer in Zimbabwe conduct-ing research under a Fulbright Fellowshipin the same remote field station thatKatharine Boynton Payne '59 [currentlya visiting fellow with the ornithology depart-ment, associated with the Laboratory of Or-nithology's Library of Natural Sounds (Seepage 32 this issue.)] has studied elephantbehavior. Alicia got her PhD in ecology in1981 and is a biology professor at Indiana U.of Pennsylvania, working in ecology and theconservation of mammals. She and husbandNeil As ting live at 420 Edge wood Ave., In-diana, PA.

On the honors front, Jane ShackAbrams, a real estate broker for 19 years,was inducted into the President's Club, a realestate award. Jane and husband Richard '63live at 922 Enchanted Way, Pacific Palisades,CA and enjoy snorkeling, biking, and snowskiing. Dr. William B. Freedman, a cardi-ologist, was elected to a fellowship in theAmerican College of Physicians in 1992. Heand wife Lindsay live at 1518 King Moun-tain Rd., Charlottesville, VA.

Last December, Carl "Kim" Ahlers,manager of engine development in the USfor Iveco (an Italian firm) in Troy, MI, gavethe ASAE Distinguished Lecture. With bothsons now past undergraduate days, Kim andwife Sandra are empty-nesters at 588 Stan-ley St., Birmingham, MI. In his spare time,he enjoys rowing (still!), sailing, cross-coun-try skiing, and traveling.

Shigeyuki Acki was honored by Ja-pan's minister of foreign affairs for his activ-ities as a director of the Japan-United StatesEducational Exchange Promotion Founda-tion, a Fulbright Foundation. A golfer andbridge player, he lives at 4-10 Hasekura-Cho,Sendai, Japan with wife Hiroko. And, on thesports honor scene, Richard Nemiroff (748Stonehouse Rd., Morrestown, NJ), associateprofessor of ob/gyn at U. of Pennsylvania,finished second in New Jersey's and fifth inthe Middle States' Masters male archerycompetition.

Ann Weiner Chait, a marketing con-sultant to nonprofit arts and crafts organiza-tions, was recognized at a ceremony for herwork in overseeing compliance with the Dis-abilities Act. Ann and husband Laurence'63, a vice president of Arthur D. Little, liveat 25 Fairlawn Lane, Lexington, "MA. Mar-keting manager Warren Bowman receivedthe DuPont Marketing Excellence Award. Aclassical music fan and a swimmer, Warren,

wife Arlene, and their younger son are stillat 2319 Lighthouse Lane, Wilmington, DE.

Dr. Lois J. Copeland has been appoint-ed to the board of the new medical actioncommittee on education, continues on theboard of the Assn. of American Physiciansand Surgeons, and was appointed to the Pres-ident's Council of Cornell Women. Her con-stitutional lawsuit succeeded, she's writtenfor Policy Review and The Wall Street Jour-nal, and was featured in a recent issue ofMedical Economics. Lois and husband Rich-ard A. Sperling, MD '70 live at 25 Spar-rowbush Rd., Upper Saddle River, NJ, andher practice is in Hillsdale.

Be sure to keep those News and Duescomin'. And start making plans for Reunionthis coming June. **» Bev Johns Lamont, 720Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015.

A very happy holiday season toall! Your response to our appealfor news has been a wonderfulgift. We thank you and ask youto keep those notes and messag-es coming throughout the new

year. Richard W. Most, a pediatric ophthal-mologist in Mt. Kisco, NY, wrote a newsyletter after reading about his roommateMichael Alch and freshman dormmateAnup Singh. Richard told us that wife Car-ol recently graduated from Pace U. lawschool; son Michael, a student at the U. ofRochester, competed at the US champion-ships in Topeka, KS with the NY AthleticClub in several sculling and sweep-oaredevents; and his daughter is in her senior yearat Horace Greeley High School. Richardwent on, "After spending four years with thevarsity light-weight crew at Cornell, I re-sumed my interest in rowing and introducedmy son to the sport at the tender age of 6."For the past five years Richard has chairedthe northern Westchester Alumni Admis-sions Ambassador Network (CAAAN).

From London, England, Natalie Teichinformed us that during 1993 she traveledto Rome, Heidelberg, and the Isle of Skye.She went on to advise us that she is activein the Cornell Club of London, where class-mate Susan Blair Jenny is president. "Clubevents in the past months included: (1) abook lunch with Isaac Kramnick, Richard J.Schwartz professor of government, from theHill, at the House of Commons, (2) a picnicin Regent Park with Cornell Abroad stu-dents, (3) a tour of the Elgin Marbles at theBritish Museum with Prof. Frank Robinson,director of the Johnson Museum of Art, and(4) a very special dinner at the Four Sea-sons Inn in the Park Hotel which featuredPresident Frank Rhodes as guest speakerand was a fundraising benefit for the club'sUK Scholarship Fund to send students toCornell." Natalie keeps in touch with Max-ine Linial by e-mail and asks other class-mates to contact her via "N-TEICH@OMEGA.LIF.ICNET.UK" or at 47 NealeClose, London N2 OLF, England.

There was word from Jane E. Musha-bac about two recent publications: (1) "ALetter from New York to Concerned Ger-mans," published in German in the Berlinjournal of arts and politics, Freibeuter, inMarch 1993; and (2) CD and cassette releaseof Mazal Bueno, A Portrait in Song of the

Spanish Jews, with a narrative written byJane Mushabac and narrated by Tovah Feld-shuh, and songs performed by The WesternWind. (The actress, Tovah Feldshuh, is thesister of Cornell's theater arts Prof. David Feld-shuh.)

NY State Supreme Court Judge Patri-cia A. Williams advises us that she recentlytraveled around the country teaching trialadvocacy. She was in San Francisco last May,in Seattle in June, and in Boulder, CO in July.Patricia, who enjoys playing tennis andhorseback riding, is a member of the presi-dent's committee on Cornell women and theadvisory network on careers for undergrad-uates. Clare Downey Graham is directorof career development at Vassar College inPoughkeepsie, NY. Her daughter, Elizabeth'95, spent last summer at Cornell's biologi-cal field station on Oneida Lake. Henra Sol-oman Briskin and Richard, LLB '66 arein Pittsford, NY, where Henra is a socialworker at the U. of Rochester Medical Cen-ter. They report that son Seth '91 is a stu-dent at Case Western Reserve law school,and son Craig, a senior at Harvard. TheBriskins celebrated their 25th wedding an-niversary in Israel. *** Florence DouglasBank, 6420 Goldleaf Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817.

Here's a wrap-up of some oldnews, then on to more recent in-formation. Thelma LevineHochberg continues as a socialworker at Montefiore MedicalCenter in the Bronx, working

with heart patients and leading a Heart Club,an educational support group. Thelma andhusband Sanford have teenaged children,Ellen and Evan. Gerry Sussman Marcus isin private practice as a speech-language pa-thologist in Miami, FL. Her husband, Aver-ill, M ILR '67, is a labor-relations attorney.Their son Jeff is at Yale and their daughterJennifer is at Palmetto High School. PaulGreen reports that daughters Kimberly '89and Kristen '92 are Cornell graduates.

More of us are dealing with college-ageor college-graduate children. Jane MontagEvans reports that son Charles is at the U.of Pennsylvania ('97) and received a Thom-as J. Watson Memorial Scholarship, amongother honors. Michael Rethy '96, son ofVicky Brown Rethy, is in the Arts collegeand loves it. Stefani Waldenberg Weisswrites that her son Jeremy '97 is enjoyingfreshman year in Engineering and is in theBig Red Band. Steffi's and husband Steve'solder son Jonathon graduated from MIT,where he is is now employed. Judy Shan-non Stickney and husband P. Blaine '61tell us their daughter Elizabeth (Wittenberg'92) is studying international law at the U.of Turin and son Mark is a music major atGettysburg College. Judy is director of mu-sic at St. George's Episcopal Church in New-port, RI and Blaine is a computer consultant.

Fred Keller has started a new compa-ny in Budapest, Hungary, making plasticparts for the automotive and consumer mar-ket. Carolyn Rider Chase writes that sheand her family have returned to New Hamp-shire after living in France for a few years.They are in the process of starting a manu-facturing business. Perry Convery Krako-ra and husband Herb have moved to Hong

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Kong for at least three years. Herb is withW. R. Grace and is vice president, Asia Pa-cific for Grace Container Products. Theyhave sold their house in Florida and havepurchased a home in Barnegat Light, NJ asa US base and eventual year-'round home.Their addresses: Magazine Heights, Apt 7-B, 17 Magazine Gap Rd, Hong Kong, andPO Box 729 Barnegat Light, NJ.

Francine Blau has been elected vicepresident of the American Economics Assn.She is a professor of economics at the U. ofIllinois, as is husband Larry Kahn. They havechildren Danny, 13, and Lisa, 11. JudithBurke Stephenson is a prosecutor in theMiddlesex County (MA) district attorney'soffice. Most of her cases deal with child sexabuse and drugs. She also works with groupswhose goals are preventing child abuse.Judy's husband is the attorney general ofMassachusetts, so they lead a rather publiclife. Judy has one daughter at Stanford, onea paralegal, and the third is in high school.

Beer drinkers take note: John Mac-Donough is now president and chief op-erating officer of Miller Brewing Co. John,wife Kathy, and son Steve, 10, have movedto Milwaukee from St. Louis. This alsomeans that the beer at our 30th will be Mill-er, Lite, and Molson! Their new address:5208 N. Brumder Rd, Chenequa, WI.* Susan Rockford Bittker, 424 Pea PondRd, Katonah NY 10536.

^\ |̂ ^ "Tom and I celebrate a weekendm * J I each summer with families ofm/\ I Algonquin Lodge alums," writes• I f Martha McGregor Dumas, 478I I I N.ye Rd > Cortland> NY "Gay^J m Simmons Doolittle visited uswith husband Joe, who taught four classesfor Cornell on health management organiza-tions. We also visited with Ellen LampilaStorch, husband David, and their childrenwhen our daughter Michelle attended SUNYCollege, Geneseo. For the past six years,Tom and I have been involved with Cornell'sforensics team through our son Jamey '91,who now helps coach the debate team, andthe team finished third in the national cross-examination debate association competitionlast year. The debaters and students involvedin individual speaking events devote manyhours to research, preparation, and partici-pation in tournaments across the country. Ifyou're looking for a worthwhile Cornell or-ganization to help, consider this group."

Davis L. Turner, 27615 Belmonte,Mission Viejo, CA, reports that he's busyestablishing Mitsubishi's elevator businessin the US. He was planning to come east toIthaca with wife Barbara to show Jennifer,15, and David, 13, that there's life on thatthar Hill. Which is something else from whatDr. Blanche A. Borzell, 801 N. Decatur St.,Watkins Glen, NY, deals with as chief coro-ner of Schuyler County. She's on the boardof the NY State Assn. of County Coronersand Medical Examiners. "I love Cornell," sheadds. "My niece, Chrissy Franzese '95 isa junior, pre-med Cornell Scholar." Dr. B, afamily physician, and husband James B.Robertson, PhD '70 have a daughter,Blanche, 14, and son James, 12.

"Just running the household (includingchildren Anthony, 21, Christina, 19, and John,

13) and teaching English once a week at thelocal adult education program keeps memore than busy," reports Sharon ArgusPaschos—current address, Heiduferweg 51,4600 Dortmund 50, Germany. "HusbandManny, PhD '67 was named distinguishedvisiting professor at Ohio State U. in Colum-bus for winter quarter 1993," she adds.James A. Brady, 6904 Kitty Hawk Dr.,Pensacola, FL, retired from the Navy twoyears ago and teaches anatomy and physiol-ogy, in both lecture and lab, as a biology in-structor at the U. of West Florida and Pensa-cola Junior College. He's also vice presidentof the Emerald Coast Cornell Club and co-ordinated the local International Spirit ofZinck's Night, you'll be delighted to hear.He and wife Barb have daughters Heather,23, and Brooke, 20. Ralph Blanchard, 525Putters Court Rivermont, Alpharetta, GA;Anne Nosworthy Fischer, 3381 River Rd.,Morganton, NC; and Melzar and Jane Mar-shall Richards '68, 89 East Lake Rd., Ith-aca, NY were all in attendance at one or an-other of the Adult University (CAU) pro-grams this summer.

By the time you read this, either thegrand Cornell spectacle in Philadelphia willhave occurred or you may feel like a Phila-delphia fighter, that is, one who left all ofhis fight in a locker in the 30th Street Sta-tion. Hope to have a full report of proceed-ings next time. How about you taking aminute to let me know where you've beenand who you've seen? <* Richard B. Hoffman,2925 28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Nancy Nystrom Frantz is ac-counts receivable manager withMonroe Systems in MorrisPlains, NJ where Nancy and herhusband Rolf '66 live. HerbFuller is an administrator at

Harvard U. Debbie Rowland, an RN spe-cializing in maternal/child health, is a publichealth nurse for the City of Boston and achildbirth educator and breastfeeding con-sultant. Debbie and her son, 10, live in Ja-maica Plain, MA, and she reports havingdone a lot of traveling to exotic locations.Debbie mentions seeing Susan KriegerAshkouri, who lives in Newton, MA and is abilingual elementary school teacher. She alsoreports having seen Rina Davis Okonkwoand Paul '67 in Nigeria in 1975. They havekept in touch by frequent letters and phone calls.

Dave Hughes lives in Lancaster, PA.His outside activities include service as atrustee of Lancaster County Day Schoolwhere his son John attended. Barbara Lich-ner Ingram lives in Running Springs, CA.Jim Gutman is a publisher of businessnewsletters in Laurel, MD. Tom Hadder-man is vice president, human resources forWorld Color Press, the country's largestprinter of consumer magazines, includingTime and Sports Illustrated. Tom reports thejob change required a family move to New-town, PA, which was a bit closer to theiroffice in New York. In the interim he tookup residence in the Cornell Club—New York,which he recommends to anyone wanting toescape the typical NYC hotel. Louise MayGruber is an editor living in NYC. GabrielKhawam is a hotel consultant and lives inQuebec, Canada. Alan Kneitel lives in San

Francisco. Paul Himmelman reports hav-ing successfully lost five pounds (after gain-ing 20) and is living in Oregon where heenjoys skiing, diving, and windsurfing. Paulcelebrated his 25th wedding anniversary thisyear and still remembers the beautiful Ith-aca weather on his wedding day.

Carol Fisher Ganz lives in Atlanta.Carol and her husband Charles have twoboys and a girl. Richard Garick is in therestaurant business in Bedford, NH. Man-uel Galdo is an engineer with the US de-partment of transportation in Washington.Paul Chiu works for Hewlett Packard inMountain View, CA. Bob Eliezer lives inNorwood, MA. Dr. Mark Kashen lives inRoslyn Heights, NY. Mark's wife Sharon isa special education teacher. Their daughterJulie attends the U. of Michigan, and theyhave a son David in high school. Mark isinvolved in the practice of radiology in Nas-sau. From time to time he sees Bob Swer-sky, a cardiovascular surgeon who acceler-ated Mark's heart rate by showing him howhis Mitsubishi sports car was faster than hisprevious Porsche.

Vivian Lerner is a law student at Ver-mont Law School and lives in S. Royalton, VT.Todd Kiplinger is in the asset managementbusiness in Washington, DC. Gary Klein isan attorney practicing in Washington, DC.Gary's wife is, of course, Lorraine (Gill)'69. Barry Kohn lives in Carmichael, CA

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with his wife Brina (Seminer) '70. LarryKrantz is a family practitioner in the Love-land, CO area and just purchased a 35-acre"gentleman's ranch." Larry and his wife Joycehave a 4-year-old son, and they love the Colo-rado outdoors. Joel Kurtzberg lives in NYC.Richard Latham is a personnel administra-tor for Cortland County in Cortland.

Hope you're having a good winter.That's all for now. I look forward to hearingfrom you. <* Gordon H. Silver, PutnamInvestments, 1 Post Office Square, Bos-ton, MA 02109.

English professor James Bui-man is currently serving as act-ing dean of Allegheny College inMeadville, PA. He specializes inShakespearean and Renaissancedrama and poetry, contemporary

British drama, and history of drama, and heis editor of a 36-volume series entitledShakespeare in Performance. Dr. RaymondJ. Goodman Jr. is a professor and depart-ment chair in hotel administration at the U.of New Hampshire. His book, RetirementFacilities: Planning, Design, and Marketing,was published by Whitney Library of Design,and he is currently working on "RetirementFacilities Operations and Management."

Classmate news from Bonnie Carroll:after 16 years she has reestablished contactwith former roommate Marsha RockerPonds and "found the same common ground"they had at Cornell. Marsha is "happily mar-ried and living in Texas." Kay Toivanen "isin New England, is an MD, and is happilymarried with one child." Bonnie also report-ed the recent remarriage of Barbara Lev-itz Lindheim. Bonnie has a growing busi-ness in information resources managementand spends a lot of time in Washington. Sheand husband Roy Cooper live in Oak Ridge, TN.

Mark B. Reiter (a physician in Arling-ton, VA) writes of a mini-reunion that tookplace last year with John Garnett (a den-tist in Goshen, NY), Scott Page (optome-trist in Philadelphia) and Peter Rosen. Inaddition, Mark and John met for the "war atthe shore" (i.e., titanic golf match) in Kiawah,SC in which Mark persevered. Rich Nale-vanko has resettled in Oakton, VA after spend-ing 2-1/2 years in Hong Kong with Mobil Oil.Before leaving the Orient, he and wife Joy"spent a week in Beijing and took in all thesights—Great Wall, Ming Tombs, ForbiddenCity, etc. Very interesting." Rich is nowmanager of the financial performance groupin Mobil's US marketing division. Three chil-dren are still at home, daughter Meg '95 ismajoring in biology, and AJ is at RPI major-ing in aeronautical engineering.

Don Verdiani remains in Toledo, butis now business manager for Sun Co.'s re-fineries in both Tulsa and Toledo. "Givescommuting a whole new meaning." In addi-tion, Don is building a plane and has startedto collect and restore old English motorcy-cles. James T. Smith moved to Fremont,MI in January 1991 after living in Europe forfour years. After 19-1/2 years with Procter& Gamble, he joined Gerber Products Co.and is currently its president. Jeffry R. Ole-sen, a Foreign Service officer at our consu-late in Lahore, Pakistan, writes of a ten-dayvan trip up the Karakoram highway from Is-

I am on the special

staff and respon-

sible for the health

of several thousand

Marines and sailors

in Somalia. I will

be there before

you get this news

brief, staying until

the Marines are

relieved.

—JOHN A. MITAS'69

lamabad to the Chinese border—an adven-ture replete with rock slides, rapid flowingsnow run-off and an earthquake. "Best partof the trip—we survived."

William E. Robinett continues as se-nior transportation planner for the city ofSpringfield, MO. Wife Judy is active with herown Girl Scout troop as well as with a cre-ative arts project at school. A recent vaca-tion took the Robinetts to northern NewMexico "with its mountains, art, and Indianculture. If anyone ever gets this way, pleasecall." Kenneth G. Parnapy (N. Bangor, NY)is teaching heavy equipment repair and op-eration at the North Franklin Education Cen-ter in Malone, NY, and wife Janet is a win-dow clerk with the US Postal Service. Theyhave son Jeff '92, who married Pam (Sea-cord) '92; daughter Lisa, who studiedcommercial illustration and graduated fromCazenovia College; and daughter Kelli, whograduated from Canton College and now at-tends SUNY College, Oswego, majoring inelementary education.

Harvey Leibin joined DuBose Associ-ates, a Hartford, CT architectural firm, as apartner in September 1990. "In spite of a dif-ficult local economy, the firm is busy with avariety of building projects, including a newscience center for Connecticut." His wifeFlorence recently resumed teaching, andthey have three "active" children. JamesChiafery (Andover, MA) changed jobs with-in Digital Equipment Corp., switching frombeing on the road and dealing with custom-ers to "a more home-based but equally ex-citing job in investor relations" dealing withshareholders, financial analysts, public rela-tions, product managers, and senior manage-ment. "Looking forward to spending winter inNew England with some good snow for skiing."

Late last December 1992, Dr. John A.

Mitas wrote that he had left his job as chair,internal medicine at the Naval Hospital, SanDiego. "It was a wonderful job but time fornew challenges. I am now group surgeon ofthe 1st Force Service Support Group atCamp Pendleton. We are a part of the 1stMarine Expeditionary Force and the combatservice support/logistics element of the 1stMarines. I am on the special staff and re-sponsible for the health of several thousandMarines and sailors in Somalia. I will be therebefore you get this news brief, staying untilthe Marines are relieved." John has threechildren. "They are a true joy. Christmas athome was a special gift for all of us." * JoanSullivan, 51 Skyhill Rd., #202, Alexandria,VA 22314.

W"Ί^\ University Council Weekend 1993f it I had several Class of 70 membersi l l an<^ tne^r guests in attendance.• I I Gene Resnick and son Matt,111 Lee Sharpe Chamberlin and hus-• \/ band Win, Kathy L. Cornell,

Murem Sakas Sharpe and husband H.Tom '69, and Martin Tang. Glenn Mey-er and I were also in Ithaca for the week-end, as was our very own Trustee EzraCornell. Ezra and wife Daphne welcomedtheir third child, and first son, to the familyin May 1993. And yes, they named him Ezra,but he is being called Colin, his middle name.Ezra's big sisters are Katy, 14, and Alie, 4.Congrats! I did not check the addendum listof attendees, but other '70 University Coun-cil members are Roger Berman, DavidCroll, Tom Downey, Frederic Seegal,and—both new this year—Ruthanne Kur-tyka and Paul Vizcarrondo.

John Boldt and Barbara Runser (hissignificant other) took a truly unbelievabletrip to Egypt while she was on sabbaticalfrom Octel Communications. Their purposewas to view the remaining evidence of ourancient cultural origins . The workmanshipand condition of the 2,500-5,000-year-oldstructures (made of stone with copper tools)and the color details on the walls were amaz-ing. They also took a trip to Boston due toJohn's winning a TOPS (Tandem Outstand-ing Performers) Award. They visited withhis former roommate Jim Klock, wife JoAnne, and their teenagers, Dan and Rebec-ca. Jim still works for Liberty Mutual aftermore than 20 years. Seems a long time to aCalifornian, but John realizes that 3.5 yearswith Tandem is the longest stint for himsince leaving Univac and the East Coastmore than 15 years ago.

After 19 years in the public accountingprofession and financial executiveship fortwo large companies, Jeffrey Altamari hasstarted his own company. The "SaratogaGroup" was recently formed to market cor-porate insurance products to small- and me-dium-sized businesses. The firm, composedof CPAs, financial planners, and insurancespecialists, will focus on business successionplanning, executive estate planning, and oth-er benefit programs. The company is basedin Saratoga Springs, NY and, of course, in-quiries are welcome from fellow alumni.

Attorney David Golomb announcesthat his second child, son Jesse, was bornJan. 3, '93. David has a trial practice in NewYork City, specializing in representing VIC-

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tims of professional and medical negligence,dangerous products, and sexual abuse. Hedoes a great deal of lecturing to other attor-neys in continuing legal education programson trial tactics and medical matters. LindaJackson has been promoted to full profes-sor of psychology at Michigan State U. in E.Lansing. Her husband, Mike Murray, is anattorney for the Michigan Supreme Court.They have children Christopher, 12, andLindsay, 7. * Connie Ferris Meyer, 16James Thomas Rd., Malvern, PA 19355.

^n I First some miscellaneous items:f IA Robert Beadle, vice president,

i I wholesale marketing, of Diamond• I Shamrock, living in Boerne, TX,I I toured Europe last summer withI M. his family. David Blumenthal is

a cardiologist in Scarsdale. Lawrence Boydin Shaker Heights, OH is the manager ofCleveland Advanced Manufacturing Pro-gram. Jed Callen, an attorney in New Bos-ton, NH, writes: "Last Labor Day I marriedmy senior-year girlfriend (she was at Roch-ester). We were re-united in 1990, 20 yearsafter meeting in college! . .. We see LewisDimm and his wife Risa Fineman '72 (seebelow for more on Lewis and Risa); also livein the next town from Sue Silkowitz andDavid Jonas. Saw some other Cornellfriends at the funeral of Robert Lewis,BArch '72 last year."

Jack Cassidy is an HP manager in SanDiego; Gary Cokins, a management con-sultant with EDS in Southfield, MI.Jonathan Collin is a physician in PortTownsend, WA, with a special interest andpractice in alternative medicine. He is thepublisher and editor-in-chief of "TownsendLetter for Doctors." Jeff Cramer is an or-thodontist in suburban Baltimore. GregoryCrown, in Richardson, TX is director of de-velopment for Hilton Gaming Corp. His re-sponsibilities include development efforts onriver boats and in Indian-owned casinos.

Lewis Dimm and wife Risa Finemanopened a wine and liquor store in Hudson,NY. They are having a great time and doingwell in this new venture. Janett A. Edel-berg writes: "Besides my full-time job asan associate director of consumer researchat Seagram, I have started a part-time busi-ness as an image consultant... the CornellClub—New York has been a great resourcefor me . . . I lecture there, as well as con-duct color classes . . . last year I received agold Achiever Award for my contribution toSeagram's . . . business."

Holly Person Flynn writes she is stillteaching at Goff Middle School in E. Green-bush, NY, the job she interviewed for oncampus in the spring of '71. She met hus-band Robert, also a teacher, in her first yearof teaching. They now have sons Rob andJim, who are in high school. Steven Fierceof Bryn Mawr, PA works for DrexelbrookEngineering Co. in Horsham, PA. Last springhe and wife Barbara spent a weekend withSusan and Fred Harrison, Pat and H. StewWheller, and Lori and Ed Yee. KathyMenton Flaxman still works as a volunteerand says she is eagerly looking forward to asuccessful 25th Reunion.

Nancy Seligman Goldmark is an RNand says she, husband Harry, MD '73, and

family "have been enjoying life in Westches-ter . . . really enjoyed Reunion . . . I did thealumni interviewing in town for my 12th year—and our high school had 11 acceptances!Let's hope the trend continues through myson's graduation year!"

Dr. Kenneth M. Green is an environ-mental scientist in Chevy Chase, MD andsays: "I would like to be part of the classcouncil, in particular to organize the Classof '71 Peace Corps Colombia Alumni—wewere 28 Cornellians who served two yearswith the Peace Corps." In Birmingham, MI,John Haynes is finance manager withVolkswagen of America. In Penfield, NY.Thomas Heiss is sales engineer with VLSITechnology. Charles Himmelblau is a met-allurgist with Lockheed in Mountain View,CA. * Joel Y. Moss, 110 Barnard PL, At-lanta, GA 30328.

1^Ί^\ Kay Burgunder Stevens retiredf / f I from cable TV enforcement work

i f at the local government level to• f take care of son Sam, 1. KayI I J thinks she may be the oldest newI L mother among us, and wonders

whether there will be a 72 co-ed at the 25thReunion with a younger child. Sam's father,Gary, is senior vice president of the J. E.Robert Co., which is buying and managingproperty from the Resolution Trust Corp.(the people who handle failed S&Ls). Betsy(Post) and Joe Falconi '70 spent the week-end with Kay and Gary in the Washington,DC area. Betsy is already cranking out ideasfor our 25th Reunion. How about a dinner-dance with a rock 'n' roll/soul oldies bandjust for our class? John Wheeler also visit-ed Gary and Kay this past spring. John is alitigator with the Denver law firm of Pryor,Carney, and Johnson. John's East Coast va-cation included seeing Paul Denton. Paulis a social worker, lives in Woods Hole, MAwith wife Wendy and two sons. Kay joinedKate Waits and Joan Lewis Bunning attheir 25th high school reunion in Washing-ton, DC. Kate teaches at Albany Law Schooland has two children. Joan, a computer soft-ware expert, was listed as lost from the classmailing list. She resides in Vienna, VA.

Bruce McGeoch is a vice president atQuantum, a Milpitas, CA computer compa-ny. He and spouse Cynthia totally renovat-ed their '60s ranch-style home by tearing itdown and converting it into a spacious two-story dwelling. They spent seven months inan apartment, but are back in their newhome. Daughter Lauren, 11, transferred toCastilleja School in Palo Alto, CA becausethe local public schools were not meetingher educational needs. Dr. Gary Alevy andwife traveled to Antarctica on the Abercrom-bie and Kent MS Explorer. On board theymet Dr. Arthur Klein '81. Although theydidn't have any trays from the Straight, theytobogganed down the slopes on their parkas.The group had a close encounter with aminke whale and 75-knot winds with 40-footseas in the Drake Passage. All in all, Garysays, it was the experience of a lifetime. Dr.Anthony Provenzano writes that the 20thReunion was an emotional, joyful experiencefor him and his family. Tony is still practic-ing oncology/hematology in Bronxville.Daughter Juliette and son Frank want desper-

ately to ride on Scott Thyng's motorcycle.Bob Tausek had such a great time at

the 20th Reunion that it inspired him to at-tend his high school 25th at De Witt ClintonHigh in the Bronx. Paul Berezny attendedthe Reunion also, but Martin List was a no-show. Bob lives in Abington, PA with wifeMarjie and daughter Allison. John Dough-erty and spouse Linda spent the last sevenyears living in the "tropical paradise" of Mar-co Island off Florida's southwest coast. "Doc"is a partner in a small hotel managementcompany headquartered out of the HiltonResort on Marco. If anyone travels to south-west Florida, drop by and say hello to John.Ginny Van Geem Donegan, husband Ken,and daughter Jennifer, 5, live on the Bay HillGolf Course in Orlando, FL. Ginny managesthe family-owned plastics manufacturingbusiness which makes plastic milk crates.Company headquarters moved from Erie, PAto Orlando three years ago, but the businessis still named Erie Crate. * Alex Barna,1050 Eagle Lane, Foster City, CA 94404-1441.

^^^\ Several of our classmates re-J f I I turned to Ithaca this past summer

i J to participate in Adult University• ^ (CAU): Lynne Dinzole, NormanI I I and Marilyn Goldstein, MarthaI ^̂ Burroughs Keagle, John andLinda Francis Scherruble, DianeSchwalb, Sharon Hymes Sweeney, andGail Cottet, SpAg '72-73 and Bob Walk-er '72 enjoyed themselves with a variety ofsubjects from Climbing Skills to Physics toLiving by Words.

Dr. Jerome Minkoff wrote from SantaRosa, CA requesting information on classmembership because "our 25th will be com-ing up in only five years." We were espe-cially glad to hear from him as he is one ofthe many "lost" classmates of whom theuniversity has lost track over the past 20years. Welcome back into the fold.

Kathy Platis Grace '74, BArch '75stopped by for a visit in Sept. after spendingthe summer in Lake Placid, NY working ona novel which draws on her memories ofpeople and experiences while at Cornell.She's now back in New York City continu-ing her career in architecture.

While waiting for "new" news from our1994 News & Dues forms, I'll share someold items from last year. Dr. Paula SmithAvioli is now assistant chair of the psychol-ogy dept. at Kean College of NJ. W. Don Hornreports a career change; since Aug. '91 he hasbeen cattle ranching in Wyoming with wifeEileen and their five children. They hoped,by now, to be able to take in some guests.

Alexis Beck is the owner of Nutritionand Diet Counseling Assoc., specializing inthe treatment of eating and diet-related dis-eases, in MA. She is also a columnist forThe Boston Globe as well as a syndicated col-umnist for The Los Angeles Times. Neil Ro-land is another journalist among our class-mates. He is now the Miami bureau chieffor Bloomberg Business News, and he haswon the Florida Press Club Award for re-porting on migrant workers.

Sheila Reiser Okun has switched fromselling insurance to "embark on a pursuit ofstudy without a clear goal." She's takingclasses at Fuller Theological Seminary in

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Orange County, CA in preparation for grad-uate classes in either Jewish studies or phil-osophy of religion. Sheila and husband Da-vid had a fabulous tour of eastern Europe inthe summer of 1992.

Six years ago Linda Fieldman Rob-bins traded her subscription for The Econo-mist for one for Ranger Rick as she resignedfrom her position as an engineering salesmanager for the more than full-time posi-tion of mother to her two children. Earlierthis year Linda was in the process of start-ing her own business, and she welcomes anyinput from fellow Cornell entrepreneurs!

J. Christopher Cassidy is still work-ing at Kodak, and his wife Sharon (Odrobi-na) '77 is still working at Xerox in Roches-ter, NY. Barbara Kayne Charlet waselected chair of the State of Tennessee In-formation Systems Managers Group and con-tinues to work as the systems administratorof the Tennessee Attorney General. InMarch 1993 Dennis Chevalier bought Lib-erty Engineering of Waltham, MA, where heis now president. He lives in Wellesley withhis wife and their three children.

Jeffrey and Wendy Heck Coffin '76and their two children live in a "very de-manding" 150-year-old home in Hartland,ME. He works for a full-service engineeringfirm for the hydroelectric industry. Bill Cow-dery, wife Lauren Tozek '72, and daugh-ter are living in Ithaca. Bill is an assistantprofessor of music at Cornell. Bernice "Bun-ny" Cramer is president of PAOS Boston,Inc., a management consulting company.Robert Douglas is a full-time labor arbitra-tor and mediator while he continues to teachcourses in employment law and sports lawat Hofstra law school.

I hope you all make the time to enjoythis holiday season and to look ahead to 1994with pleasant anticipation of the new year.And don't forget to send some news!* Lorraine Palmatier Skalko, 4586 Mc-Donald Rd., Syracuse, NY 13215; telephone(315) 475-0034.

^Γt Ίί Several of you have questionedJ j Λ the timeliness of news. The

i /• amount of news we can include• ULί correlates directly to the numberI ^jf\ of duespayers ... the more class-• A mates paying dues, the longer our

column. Denise Gilligan Valocchi has giv-en us up-dated information, about the birthon Dec. 4, '92 of her second child, Arianna,the family's six months in Denmark, wherehusband Albert '75 was on sabbatic leave.Bill Greene lives in Roslyn, NY; he's a hos-pital administrator at Cornell Medical Cen-ter in New York City.

Marcia Langwell Morris is a pantsmerchandiser at Big Yank in NYC. D. Rus-sell Kranich owns and runs Woodloch PinesResort in Hawley, PA, and he and businesspartner John Kiesendahl '69 invite Cor-nellians to their Poconos secret. Carol Wil-liams welcomed daughter Liberty to theworld. Carol is an attorney at the Dept. ofJustice in Washington, DC. Also an attorneyin DC is Fred Levy, who's with Sonnen-shein, Noth and Rosenthal practicing corpo-rate and financial law.

David Wickersham is a regional man-ager for Dupont Environmental Services and

reports he is (can we be that old already?)an "empty nester," with son Jon in the USMerchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.He adds that there is significant life left af-ter children ... that must be the light at theend of the tunnel we keep hearing about.

Jim Schoonmaker is director of oper-ations, advertising and marketing at TBS inAtlanta. I had a nice conversation with Nan-cy Newcomer Vick, who recently movedto San Francisco with husband Ed. Nancymisses the high life of advertising but en-joys taking care of children Charlie and Jane.

A long, well-written (and typed!) notefrom Ginnie Gardiner. She and husbandJonathan Phillips hosted an event for youngalumni at their loft in Chelsea. The pair heldan exhibit in Soho titled "Color as a Sub-ject" which featured their paintings, as wellas works by others with Cornell connections.They also have shown at Staempfli Galleryin NYC and the Flanders Contemporary ArtGallery in MSP, and spoke on campus to stu-dents giving their perspective of life as suc-cessful, practicing fine artists.

Family physician Sam Hunt survivedthe Midwest floods this summer in Mason City,IA with wife Deb and boys Ben and Billy. MikeHymanson is president of Pan AmericanInvestigations which provides security ser-vices in New York and Connecticut.

A short, cryptic note from Sam Hem-ingway tells us he is working on plans forthe '96 Olympics, and daughter Lauren wasborn last year . . . any connection there?

Patti Englander Henning is a circuitcourt judge in Ft. Lauderdale, and enjoys herwork with the President's council of Cornellwomen, and boasts that her mom will begraduating from the U. of Miami this year... ajust reward for having put six kids throughtheir college years.

Veterinarian Florence Higgins movedback to NY State from Pasadena last year.She practices in Rochester, where husbandJohn Lebens, PhD '88 is at Kodak. Theyrecently bought an 1897 farmhouse in Rush,NY, now home to son Gregory, two dogs, acat, and a horse.

Nancy Geiselmann Hamill is a districtjustice in Reinholds, PA. She keeps in touchwith Barbara Aponte Marino and family.Keith Ward is with Niagara Mohawk Pow-er in Syracuse and is married to DebraDavis '76. In Atlanta, Mindy Coffino Waits-man is a part-time attorney with the EPA and afull-time Mom to daughters Melissa and Lily.

Judy Valek temporarily abandoned herwork in the environmental field to return tolaw school at Syracuse U. She's a single parentwith an 11-year-old and relishes the challenge.

In San Francisco, Mark Schwartz ispresident of the South Park tenant board.He was a poet and is now retired, but en-joys walks through the Tenderloin and atFisherman's Wharf.

Eric Roth is a partner at Wachtell, Lip-ton, Rosen & Katz in NY. He and wife Lau-rie (Michael) '75 recently helped VickiHirsch Rosenthal '75 celebrate the birth ofson Scott. Others in attendance includedFloyd '73 and Paula Markowitz Wittlinand Marsha Miller '75.

Raymond Kase Jr. is a pension admin-istrator in Reading, PA and reports a greatsurprise party for his 40th birthday. Not bad

for the oldest guy in his rugby club. I canidentify . . . a summer of soccer in a prettycompetitive league in Hartford left me witha cracked rib and other assorted injuries.According to my wife, Sue St. Clair Raye,the real surprise is being surprised. (But,hey, we had a winning season.)

Looking forward to seeing you all atReunion in June. Mark your calendars!*> Steven Raye, 25 Litchfield Dr., Simsbury,CT 06070.

W^ f^ It's fall here in Florida, and theJ I I j thoughts of many have turned to

i l̂ k football. However, whether it's• 1 watching Number 1-ranked Flor-• I I ida State at Doak Campbell Sta-I ^̂ dium in Tallahassee, Number 3

Miami at the Orange Bowl, or Number 5Florida at Florida Field, somehow it's notthe same as sitting in sweaters and jacketsat Schoellkopf and having a "nip" or four.It's a choice many have made, living in theSouth and vacationing in the North, insteadof vice versa. When the leaves are chang-ing, for sure, this choice often comes to mind.

Mike Rosepiler, however, does get toenjoy the leaves changing in Oak Park, IL.Mike is assigned to the strategic planninggroup of Amoco Production Co. in Chicagoand is pursuing an MBA at the U. of Chica-go. In his spare time (which can't be much),he is remodeling an old English Tudor-stylehome. Don Sherman probably is alreadypast fall and into winter in Billings, MT. Heand wife Chris (Cosentini) '76 relocatedto Billings in November 1991. They bothwork for RETEC as environmental engi-neers. Their 2-year-old twins, Samantha andBen, "survived the move" and are growingrapidly. Don lists no less than 13 Cornel-Hans working in the company.

Louise Holzer Sullivan met withformer roommate Kathy Okuda Leventhalin October 1992, and each took her two chil-dren on the Disney cruise to the Bahamas.Louise also had a visit from Seymour New-man '76, his wife Rhonda, and children inBettendorf, LA this past summer. MarshaKusnitz Wallace is a hospital administra-tor at Montvale Animal Hospital in Montvale,NJ. Married to Lee '72, she sends congratsto Gary Bettman '74, the new commis-sioner of the National Hockey League. They,along with Gary's wife Shelli (Weiner) '75,spent a weekend at Olemo, VT with theircombined six kids.

Reinhard Werthner is general man-ager at the Marriott Hotel in Bremen, Ger-many. His travels in the past year are trulyto be envied. He has been to Helsinki andLapland, St. Petersburg (he says it is in dis-repair and depressing looking, but the mu-seums, palaces, and cathedrals are quite asight), a cruise down the Danube from Vi-enna to Budapest with stops in Bratislavaand additional cities in Hungary, and thenon to get a tan in Florida. By September 1992it was off again to northern Italy, and to Mos-cow in November, where he spent Thanks-giving roaming the streets in zero-degreeweather (the Kremlin and the performanceat the Bolshoi were definite highlights).

Sergio Kogan is president of InterleafAmerican in Waltham, MA. Sergio is spend-ing two weeks a month in Mexico City and

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would like to meet some Cornellians whilethere. He can be reached in Mexico City;telephone, 52-5-271-2421.

Thanks to all of the following (a partiallist) for sending their dues: StephanieBerger, Richard Berley, Eric Allen, San-dra Belsky Auerbach, Nancy Barrer, Lou-ise Belevich, Douglas Bell, Rebecca Lan-gan Fialk, Stephen Berman, SuzanneHeller Haber, Bernard MacCabe (Basel,Switzerland), Robert Weinberg, and Alex-ander Bertschy (Zofinger-Ag, Switzerland).

I've got a lot of dues but not a lot ofnews, so if you've got any, drop me a line. Ihave heard that the sport of gymnastics ison the ropes at Cornell, but potentially goneshould not be forgotten. It seems time forformer gymnast Brian Dawson to be lookedon favorably for enshrinement in the Hall ofFame. * Mitch Frank, 1258 Lake WillisaraCir., Orlando, FL 32806.

JΓΊ^\ Want to read some really oldJ I m " news? This news has been around

I tf* a while but since you took the• I trouble to send it in I thought it111 was worth reporting. Arthur• ^J Steinberg wrote that he is living

in W. Simsbury, CT with wife Jennifer anddaughters Briel and Rebecca. They seeBruce and Lisa Hirshkowitz Gould often,as they live close by. Bruce is medical di-rector at Mt. Sinai and associate professorat U. of Connecticut medical school. They havechildren Rachel, Taryn, and Zachary. In Febru-ary 1992 the Steinbergs and the Goulds wentto another Big Red, the Disney Big RedBoat, and they met up with Larry Bloomat Disney.

Once all of her four children were inschool all day, Diane Bingemann headedback to school, herself. Diane went back tofinish her elementary education teaching cre-dentials. She is still playing women's soccer(regular league and tournaments), riding herhorse, and transporting children Christopher,Eric, Jeff, and Suzanne from baseball, piano,tai kwon do, and Scouts.

Marjorie Faber has a position with theSoil Conservation Service (a USDA agency)as assistant state soil scientist in Windsor,CT. Enjoying life "on the farm" in NewHampshire, Michael Gerling is the chieffinancial officer of GDT, which is a digitalmapping company that specializes in address/location databases. Wife Barbara (Rackow)'77 is working in a cardiology position at theDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Jef-frey Hill wrote that he is an assistant pro-fessor of political science at Michigan StateU. in E. Lansing, MI and is the assistant di-rector of the master's program in public pol-icy and administration.

Living in Great Neck Estates, BarbaraHirsch, MD, is practicing endocrinology inthe community. Her husband, Steve Atlas,is an associate professor of medicine at Cor-nell Medical College. They have daughterLauren Simone Atlas. Francis "Fran" Over-moyer has teamed up with Richard Maus-er to start their own architecture firm calledFORM Associates, Architects. Fran and wifePatricia (Law) '77 have children Clarion,Ivan, and Anna Marie.

Writing to catch up on some news, KaySellars Pride wrote that she married Fred-

erick Pride on Sept. 27, '86, had son Chris-topher in March 1990, and in 1992 movedfrom Philadelphia to Willingboro, NJ. Kay andFrederick work for the same agency and bothhave MSW degrees from Temple U. JeffreySandier, MD is practicing ophthalmology inGreenwich, CT, and wife Roni Cohen-Sand-ier '77 practices clinical psychology. Theirchildren Laura and Jason frolic with theirgolden retriever Ezra.

Working in Denmark until December1993, Cdr. David Demming is on assign-ment on a NATO operations staff. He is busypreparing for the reorganization and down-sizing of the US presence in Europe. Davidand wife Debbie have enjoyed traveling andskiing in the Austrian Alps. Watch for morerecent news in the next column! * Lisa Dia-mant, 31 Ingleside Rd., Lexington, MA 02173.

^t^\ Happy holidays! The results fromf /§ 1 Reunion Weekend are still com-i \/ ing in as I write this in October,• y\ but our class should be proud. We• I I raised $212,999 from 592 class-• ^̂ mates in our 15th Reunion cam-

paign and also received an "Ezra" for rais-ing more than $1 million, overall. We alsoexceeded the average attendance for a 15thReunion. The strange news is that we donot have valid addresses for 33 percent ofour classmates; if you know (or are) some-one who has not been in touch recently,

please send us a new address.We have some news from classmates

that is a little old, but we can start catchingup this way. Jayne Alexander's daughteris almost 2, and Jayne is a physical therapistfor the Visiting Nurse Assn. of Staten Is-land. Lt. Cdr. Michael Bernard, US Navy,had settled down in Norfolk, VA for the lastthree years, but expects to return to our Cityof Perpetual Rain, Seattle, soon. On othermilitary matters, Robert Connery reportsthat Steven Gates and Jim Gentile havemade full commander in the Naval Reserve.Robert now lives in Signal Hill, CA and boastsof his view of the Pacific and Catalina Island.

Roger Cohen's consulting firm is do-ing well specializing in business developmentbetween US and Japanese firms and re-de-velopment of military suppliers for non-mil-itary markets. Lesley Gudehus wants allto know that she has moved to Memphis,where she is the editor of corporate com-munications for Sedgwick James Inc. Lesleyhas been to Graceland, but so far she hasrefused to read The Firm. Also moving wereLarry Lee and wife Lorraine Heffernan,to Hong Kong.

David Kaplan's writing continues tograce the pages of Newsweek, expounding onlaw and baseball. David's first child was bornin September 1992. Another scribe is Da-vid Bilmes, sports editor for the News-Times in Danby, CT. David has already

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Good FellowshipW. SCOTT GOULD'79

I n May, when President Clinton appointed 17 men and women tobe 1993-94 White House fellows, he said, "This is a group of peo-ple of exceptional abilities, strong motivation and a commitment toserve their country. I look forward to their service, and am confi-

dent they will join the successful ranks of such White House Fellow-ship alumni as General Colin Powell and [Housing and Urban Devel-opment] Secretary Henry Cisneros." W. Scott Gould was one of thechosen few.

White House fellows are a talented group of men and women whospend a year early in their careers serving aspaid assistants to the President, Vice Presi-dent, or cabinet-level officials. The new fel-lows began their fellowship-year in Septem-ber. They were selected by a commissionappointed in early May 1993 by the President.The commission was chaired by Nancy Bekavac,president of Scripps College.

For Gould, the fellowship is an interest-ing stop in what has already been a distinguishedand varied career. Gould attended Cornell ona Navy ROTC scholarship, and was a philoso-phy major on the Hill. He served eight years

with the Navy, was an assistant professor of naval science at the Uni-versity of Rochester, a management consultant in Boston and, mostrecently, Gould was appointed assistant receiver and director of op-erations for the bankrupt City of Chelsea, Massachusetts. (GovernorWilliam Weld had taken the unprecented step of suspending representitivegovernment in Chelsea because of the city's financial crises, corrup-tion, and gross mismanagement.)

Gould took a year off from work as a consultant to take care of hisfather, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Gould will be the ninth Cornellian to serve as a White House fellow.The first was William J. Kilberg '66 in 1969, and the most recent, asidefrom Gould, was Darlene L. Cox in 1991. If he follows the pattern ofmany previous fellows, he will go on to an even more brilliant career.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

taught son Elie, 4, to sing "Give My Regardsto Davy."

Charles Lombard! is now the chief ofpodiatric surgery at Flushing Hospital andMedical Center, and Barbara Bellina Gril-lo is the vice president of Southern MaineMedical Center. Barbara welcomes all Cor-nell visitors to the Kennebunk, ME area.

The news from farthest away comesfrom my old housemate, Doug Baumoel,who has extended his six months' assign-ment in Europe to four years in the Nether-lands. Doug travels throughout Europe, andhe recommends that we go to see the formerEast Bloc before McDonald's arrives in force.

Please keep sending us the news. We

wish you all the best for the holidays andnew year! <* Henry Farber, 6435 289thAve., Issaquah, WA 98027.

^T* \̂ Happy holidays to the Class of '79.J /m I Remember to keep the news roll-i I B ing in as the year draws to a close,• ^rm so we'll have new news to printI f f as we near our 15th Reunion.• \J Robert Williams writes that he

married Catherine Moyer in May 1992. Theylive in Philadelphia but are looking for ahouse outside the city. Robert has visitedTom McMillan in Wilmington, DE and TimWhetten in Ft. Collins, CO. Tom runs a petstore; Tim works for Hewlett-Packard in

research and development.Kenneth Wilson lives in Zelienopole,

PA, where he is a bridge engineer for Mi-chael Baker Corp. He recently co-authoreda bridge inspector training manual andhelped lead a voluntary team that designedand constructed a suspension bridge in themountains of Haiti. He and wife Mimi are theparents of Becca, 3, and Andrew, 20 months.

Working as a consultant in Westport,CT, Sarah Lumley Borrus also keeps busyin the community. She is the director of theConnecticut Zoological Society, which sup-ports the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport. Sheis also the state project co-chair for the Con-necticut Junior Woman's Club. She spendsmany evenings traveling the state, promot-ing the Woman's Club state project, whichis building a zoo lab at the Beardsley Zoo.She pursues her artistic interests at the Sil-vermine Art Guild in New Canaan and iscurrently working on a family portrait for abank vice president.

John Tillapaugh is pursuing his artis-tic interests as an actor in Atlanta, GA. Sincehe left his job in investment banking he hasshot six commercials and several industrialfilms. He has also appeared in numerous re-gional and national print ads and is audition-ing for film and television projects being shotin the Southeast. He has also started a newbusiness, Communication Dynamics Inc.The company provides programs utilizingfilm and theater techniques to make com-munication more effective in a business en-vironment. Keep your eyes open becauseyou might be seeing John in print or on filmsomewhere. Also running his own businessis Scott Zelov. He took over the family busi-ness in Philadelphia, PA in 1992. VIZ Mfg.Co. makes upper-air instruments and sys-tems used in weather forecasting.

Brenda Harvey Comolli writes thatshe is a special education teacher in Cort-land, NY. She and husband Rod enjoy trav-eling during school vacations. They havebeen able to travel to Utah, Idaho, Wyoming,Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Califor-nia, and Alaska in the summer. Recentlytransferred to the West are Allen Krammeand Robin (Weiss) '78. Allen has been pro-moted to regional director of operations forInterstate Hotels Corp. The promotion ne-cessitated a move from Minneapolis toScottsdale, AZ. He is responsible for all ho-tels west of the Mississippi and finds histraveling schedule a nice change of pace fromformer hotel life. He and Robin are contem-plating building a house in Scottsdale in an-ticipation of visitors to the sunny Southwest.

On the move in California are LeslieSelwitz and wife Yolanda. They moved inJune 1992 from Los Angeles to San Fran-cisco, where Leslie is senior tax counsel withBank of America. They live in Orinda, CAwith their growing family, which includesson Harrison, 3. Margaret Zentner is thechief of facilities development for the Cali-fornia Dept. of Health Services. Peggy isheading up an effort to fund and constructnew public and environmental health labs forthe state. She lives in Roseville with hus-band Jim Hall, who is a radio announcer Alsoin the Roseville area is Jeffrey Murphy,who is working for Hewlet Packard. Jeff re-ports that he recently interviewed a Cornell

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applicant as a new member of the AlumniAdmissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN).He is proud of son Neal, who turned 2 thispast July.

Robert Platt is a partner at the law firmof Manatt, Phelps, Phillips & Kantor in LosAngeles, CA. He also serves as generalcounsel for the Los Angeles Clippers bas-ketball team. Practicing law on the EastCoast is Jane Jacobs. She is a partner atSeham, Klein and Zelman, a labor law firmin New York City. She married Bill O'Neilon Oct. 25, '92. In attendance were BethRichie and Cathy Marcucci. Beth earneda PhD in sociology from Hunter College,where she is an assistant professor. Cathyis a resident in anesthesiology at Johns Hop-kins, and she married Dr. Neil Sandson inMay 1992.

Shelley Goldstein Weiss has openedher own law office with four other attorneysin Groton, CT. The firm, known as Bartinik,Gianacopolos, Nicholas, Grater and Weiss,allows Shelley to specialize in the areas ofpersonal injury, product liability, and medi-cal negligence. She is also the mother of sonsMichael, 5-3/4, and Joseph Gabriel, 2-1/2.Congratulations to Mark Nestle, who hasfinished his master's degree in industrial en-gineering from Cornell in May 1993. Markis probably more familiar with the campusthan most of us would be. Many of us arelooking forward to Reunion in 1994 to getreacquainted. *> Kathy Zappia Gould, 912Meadowcreek Dr, Richmond, VA 23236.

^\ I This column should have appeared§ 1 A in September—my apologies to all\f I of you who are mentioned here.y\ I The Postal Service is, I believe, to111 blame. Here's the news. Bill and^^ m Cheryl Adler Natbony have a newdaughter, Rachel Sarah, born on May 25. TheNatbonys live in Scarsdale, NY and also haveson Joshua, 3. Cheryl is a full-time mom.Fran Hoffinger and Harvey Fishbein alsohave a new daughter, Alice Elizabeth, bornMarch 24. They live in Manhattan, whereFran works part time as an attorney atHoffinger, Dobrish, Bernfeld and Stern. Al-ice joins sister Rebecca, 3-1/2.

My mailbox has been full! HerbertCanter '47 tattled on his son Neil, "whonever seems to send any info to CornellMagazine." Neil married Lisa Guyott on May12, '91 in New York City. They have daugh-ter Maia Elizabeth, born Sept. 2, '92. Neil isan executive vice president of Media Mar-keting Assessment in Westport, CT. His firmdoes marketing analyses for many majorcompanies. The Canters live in Weston, CT.Regina Rousso wrote to say that ChariSmith Diamant and Ira '79 had a girl,Kathryn Nettie, on Oct. 29, '92. FrannyOsman and Bill Freeman, MS '81 had an-other daughter, Madeline, on Oct. 30, '92.They and Rosalind, 3, live in Newton, MA.Regina attended the wedding of Janet Pen-nisi and David Jacobs in New Jersey on Nov.1, '92. Also present were Steve Wells '82,Jim Tulsky, Rich DiNardo, David Weiss'82, Debbi Geis '82, Lloyd Roberts '82,Kathy Moore '82, and Lucy Garbus Slackand David '80.

Congrats to Steve Fisher (yes, Steve,I remember you) who was appointed as di-

rector of corporate finance for Citicorp inBangkok, Thailand last January. He, wifeLucille, and daughter Kira, 5-1/2, are excit-ed about the opportunity to learn a new cul-ture and experience the great beaches, is-lands, and food of Thailand. When Steve getsto New York, he sees Ruth Lowenkron,David Barr '80, and Edward Hammer'82. Steve would love to hear from any Cor-nellians "floating" around Thailand. He canbe reached c/o Citibank N.A., 127 S. SathornRd., Bangkok 10120, Thailand.

Some tidbits from last February's Assn.of Class Officers (CACO) meeting. ClassPresident Mike Hoard and Treasurer FredCohen were appointed to the UniversityCouncil in recognition of their Cornell vol-unteer work. Mike was also appointed to theCACO board. Gretchen Knoell and CeliaRodee were appointed by President FrankRhodes to the Council of Cornell Women.Celia said that she ran into Steve Pozzi andDana Trottier in Chicago a year ago. FredDeWolf told me at the meeting that he andMargaret Gallo have been married for 11-1/2 years. They live on Cayuga Heights Rd.and both work for Cornell. Fred does sys-tems work for academic programs and cam-pus affairs. Margaret is associate director ofclass programs in the alumni affairs office.

Last winter I ran into Denise WilsonMenton, who lives with her husband and twodaughters in Greenwich Village. In June Isaw Ellen Hamburg Oster at a baby nam-ing. She and husband Mark live in New Ro-chelle, NY where Ellen is at home withdaughter Amy, 4. Guess what—we're at thehalfway point between Reunions. Season'sgreetings to everyone. * Robin Rosenberg,2600 Netherland Ave., Apt. 201, Riverdale,NY 10463; Kathy Philbin LaShoto, 114 Har-rington Rd., Waltham, MA 02154; and Jen-nifer Read Campbell, 103 Crescent Rd.,Glastonbury, CT 06033.

Holiday greetings and best wish-es for the new year to all! Ourclassmates have been on themove this year . .. Doctors Car-°1 Rinko Santoro and Ian andtheir children Austin and Colin

are settling in Little Rock, AR and wouldlike to know of Cornellians in the area. Theiraddress is 3 Orleans Ct. KatharineJohnson, MBA '84 and Christopher Ma-liarik, MBA '85 recently moved to the BayArea after living in Singapore for two years.Katharine was financial controller ofMcGraw-Hill Book Co., Singapore; Christo-pher was with IBM.

After a year's "sabbatical" in NewZealand, which they consider "as close toparadise as we've ever gotten," Nancy Ran-no Carlston and husband Gary are back inBoulder, CO, where Nancy is an acquisitionseditor with Westview Press. Bob Seipel iswith a US Army facility in England calledMenwith Hill Station and welcomes friendsto look him up in the city of Harrogate in N.Yorkshire—just north of the city of Brad-ford/Leeds. Until recently he was an instruc-tor at the Army school at Fort Huachuca, AZ.

Russ Jensen and Ana Madrigal, withMelissa, Michelle and Michael, moved backto Costa Rica after surviving Hurricane An-drew in Homestead, FL. Russ is the gener-

al manager of Toucan Flowers, an exporterof chrysanthemums and roses to the US andEurope. Robert Pratt is the new generalmanager of the Westin Hotel, Edmonton andreports that Michael Holy took over as gen-eral manager of the Westin Hotel, Winnipegin Manitoba, Canada.

Jonathan Smiga loves "being back inFlorida" and putting his recent "MBA (NewYork U '91) to work for The Olive GardenItalian Restaurants as director of sales de-velopment." Roger Riccardi '85 joined himfor "the big smoke"—a 2,000-person cigarevent in NYC—before Roger headed to thefresh air of the Napa Valley to head up theCulinary Inst. of America's Greystone Cel-lars Campus. Marshall Bur chard recentlyleft Schlumberger to start the MBA programat U. of Texas, Austin.

Congratulations to Earle Weaver, whowas appointed president of the Fusite divi-sion of Emerson Electric Co., where he wasmost recently vice president, planning. Thepromotion moved Earle from St. Louis, MOto Cincinnati, OH. Dina Miller is the new-ly appointed medical director of rehabilita-tion of IHS-Greenbriar in Miami, FL. AmyBochner Goldsmith is happy to report thebirth of second son Benjamin and that Bill'80 made partner at Mendes & Mount inNew York City.

Patrick Flanigan started the Interna-tional Bed & Breakfast Club, a central res-ervation service for more than 30,000 B&Bsin North America. Business is booming—call1-800-723-4-B-N-B! Martin Goldin's realestate management and investment businessis growing. After four years, he has addedhis first office employee.

And, finally, Faith Jacobs Pedowitzwrote, "After ten years of reading what ev-eryone is doing at work and never sendingin word of what I was doing, I am thrilled tosay that I just quit work to stay home withchildren Justin, 4, and Alison, 2.1 had spent mylast seven years in sales and marketing of eq-uity derivative products at Morgan Stanley."

WHEW . . . * Nina M. Kondo, 323 W.82nd St., NYC 10024; and Neil FidelmanBest, 207 Dellwood Rd., Metuchen, NJ 08840.

When we first came to campus,a frequently asked question was"What's your major?" After tenyears, it's fascinating to see howclassmates have developed ca-reers that go far beyond the

boundaries of "majors." Bonnie McFarlanewrites us that she is executive director ofthe Support Committee for Battered Wom-en, which serves women and childrenthroughout the Boston area. In New YorkCity, Lynn Leopold is an attorney recentlypromoted to chief of research with the NewYork City Housing Authority's Office of Mi-nority and Women Business Enterprise. JoeLeonetti and his wife Brenda own a resortmarketing company in Garden Grove, CAand are planning to open a second office thisfall. In the career transition of the year, AnneKillourhy has left her job as a communitynutritionist in inner-city NYC to become anassistant treasurer at Chase ManhattanBank. Another fine demonstration of howflexible that Cornell degree can be!

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ue with a fellowship in transplants and re-fractive surgery. Rachel Greengus Schultzis an anesthesiologist in Cincinnati, whereshe lives with husband William, son Joshua,and daughter Rebecca. She tells us that Su-san Cohen Panullo has "lost her mind" andis now doing a second residency, in neuro-surgery, (her first was in neurology) in NYC.Michael Gould writes that he began a fel-lowship in pulmonary and critical-care med-icine at Stanford U. this past summer.

Jamie Musiker Nemirov is a pediatri-cian and working in pediatric emergencymedicine at Children's Hospital of Los An-geles. Jamie may want to consider opening apediatric practice just for new parents in ourclass. Janet Young Rodgers had a baby girl,Helen, in October 1992. Janet lives in St.Louis and works in the investment divisionof Mark Twain Bank. David Mertz is thehappy father of son David, who was born inMarch 1993. David, wife Marjorie (Olt) '85,and family live in Northville, MI. SuzanneTownsend Cuccurullo had her first child,daughter Julia, in February 1993. Sue works inmarketing for Fidelity Investments in Boston.

For those of you who are convinced thatany news you might submit will never beprinted, think again. Matt Tager and I havereceived no news, nada, NONE! We mayhave to resort to more stories about our-selves, which would be sad, indeed. Write!FYI, it's Cornell Magazine policy that we onlyinclude events that have already taken place,when it comes to such important milestonesas weddings and births, so don't expect usto list engagements and expectations.<* Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 Elmcrest Cir.,Ithaca, NY 14850; Matthew Tager, 13909Old Harbor Lane, #202, Marina del Ray, CA90292 Fax (310) 823-1549.

Andy Inkeles writes: "KenPrice, who has had cystic fibro-sis from birth, became the fortu-nate recipient of a bilateral lungtransplant. The operation was agreat success and he is doing ex-

tremely well. If you want to reach Ken, he'sat 24826 SE 38th St., Issaqua, WA." Andyhas his own good news: he was selected tolead a design team from McDonnell Douglason the Space Station Freedom Project!

In other happy tidings, Jane Koestlerand husband Jim Karpinski are enjoyingthe holidays with new son Robert. Jim is asoftware engineer for Smith Corona and Janeteaches fourth grade in the Ithaca CitySchool District: "Still in Ithaca, eight yearsafter graduation!" Marjorie Olt and husbandDavid Mertz '83 are also proud parents ofa son, David Robert, born March 11, '93, asis Marc Gillman, whose son Griffin joinsolder brother, Brandon.

Not to be outdone, of course, are theparents of daughters, including TonianneMelodia McKeown, whose daughter Lau-ren was born Aug. 27, '92, and MarjorieSchein Weston, whose second daughter,Caroline Leigh, joins big sister ElizabethFrances. Margie writes, "Now I am a full-time mom—a whole new challenge."

Other classmates are adjusting to thenew challenge of being spouses. Dawn-marie Viapiano, a health care group man-ager at Procter & Gamble, wed Joe Bier-

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schwal; Evan Keough, vice president ofGCS Computers Inc., said "I do" to SigridArmstrong; Amy S. Goldman, an assistantmerchandiser at Brooks Brothers, ensuresthat her new spouse, Jonathan Cohen, isdressed for success; Mark Ansorge, assis-tant counsel at the Warner Music Group, ismaking beautiful music with spouse Debo-rah Landau, a PhD candidate at Brown; Da-vid Scharf, an investment banker at SmithBarney, married Felicia Goldstein (U. ofPennsylvania '85); and Michael Goodman,a New York U. MBA recipient, who worksfor Chemical Bank in leveraged finance, wedCathy Tischler, who shuffled from U. Buffa-lo down the aisle before friends Sam Ger-shenfeld, James Adelson, David Gerber,Michael Oringer, Adam and WendyAuerbach Slutsky, Will Richmond, Len-ny Berkowitz, David Goodman '84, Nan-cy Goodman '81, and Andrew and EllenEskenazi Shuster '88.

In Southern California, Carolyn CryerPerrier, director of marketing at Canon Com-puter Systems Inc., had a sparkling weddingwith UCLA grad Tom after getting her MBAfrom Pepperdine. David G. Bell, a scien-tist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center,reported that Eugene Chen, a UCLA MBA,tied the knot at a ceremony attended by ChrisMcKey, Tracy Clippinger, Brett Wood, andE. L. "Eldy" Dale. David also noted that at aNapa winetasting he saw Kevin Brynie andLynda Herskovits '88, newlyweds whomoved to Budapest this past summer!

Damon Miller wed Linda Dorsey andnow works in Osaka, Japan as a systems en-gineer for Nippon Motorola. Back in theUSA, Randy Rich, an internist at the NavalHospital in Portsmouth, VA, made JudithD'Ariano his bride. Randy reports, "My fum-bling, long-winded best man was SteveO'Brien. Also in attendance were Chi Phibrothers Paul Gillard, Jim Tacci, andJames Rosecrans."

Frank DeCosta, who completed hisPhD in electrical engineering and research-es "computer vision—teaching computers tofind tumors in brain scans," notes that hiswife, Donna, is a radiologist who is "afraidmy research will put her out of business."John Sheeley, a lawyer at the Washington,DC agriculture law firm McLeod, Watkinson& Miller, has no such worries. John, whoworked for Republican Representative Fred("Gopher on the Love Boat") Grandy, says,"Having a bipartisan marriage has paid off.My wife Cindy (Texas A&M '90) was a leg-islative assistant to Democrat Mike Espy,who is now Secretary of Agriculture, and sheis working as confidential assistant to thechief of staff at the Agriculture Department.Cindy was with Bill and Hillary at Christ-mas in Little Rock." Way to network, John!

Bonnie Reuben, director of corporatecommunications for Rock Resorts and BocaRaton Resort & Club, did a little network-ing of her own when she met husband, Of-fer Nissenbaum, general manager of DoralSaturnia Spa. As Bonnie tells it, "Thanks toDoral, we became acquainted as colleaguesand thanks to fate, I was given a golden op-portunity to work in Florida and then thefriendship just blossomed." Classmates inattendance at the August nuptials includedGinny Scarola Sidman, Tara Shuman

Gonzalez, Lisa Weltz, Andrea DΈloia,Joann Restivo Jensen '84, Allison Passer'87, and Leesa Storfer '86.

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The turn of year has broughtword of a few intimate events wehadn't heard about. When ChrisBrown proposed to DeniseAronoff '87 she was all ears; thetwo met as EARS counselors at

Cornell and have stayed together despitenumerous job and school changes, includinga stint for the groom in Dartmouth's busi-ness school. They wed last spring in thepresence of Steve Adler '87, LorraineArbour, Bruce Beeferman, Dave Boezi,and a host of other Cornellians at a Stow,MA ceremony and enjoyed a fortnight hon-eymoon in Portugal before Chris returnedto his job as a telecommunications consult-ant. The happy couple are now settled inBasking Ridge, NJ.

Elyse "Lee" Dannay wrote that sheand Wayne Hutchinson finally tied the knotin an October 1992 ceremony. "Our weddingwas a three-day party at a bed-and-break-fast, where we had a Cajun theme weddingcomplete with crawfish, gumbo, Mardi Grasbeads, and zydeco music," Lee reports. "Istill work at Epic records as director of art-ists and repertoire, and Wayne works forViacom Entertainment, but we're bothdreaming of moving to Hawaii, where we hadan amazing honeymoon."

Kevin Jim is also starstruck on Hawaii,but in a different way; he's a grad student inastronomy at the U. of Hawaii in Honolulu.Joining the crowd, Phil Turano was mar-ried to a woman named Jeanne in Hawaii lastyear, and then really took the plunge whenhe went bungee jumping on a New Zealandhoneymoon. Phil sends word that Edward"Ted" Pope bought a house with wife Je-mae (Breunissen) '87 in Seattle, wherethey'll try their hand at organic gardening.And Stuart Speckman, he says, has foundhis muse at Prudential writing investmentliterature and is spending the rest of his timelooking for a reasonably priced Volvo hubcap.

Moving on in the life cycle, Erik Cod-rington wrote to announce the birth ofdaughter Victoria in December 1992. "She'san exceptionally cheerful, bright, and largeyoung lady," he writes, "and was a tremen-dous blessing in a difficult time, as she wasdelivered prematurely because of the needfor emergency surgery on her mother,"Tracey (Reynolds) '85. Erik and Tracey(now recuperated) live in Millburn, NJ, andhe commutes daily to his NYC Swiss BankCorp. job. "I happen to work on the samefloor as Brian Schwinn," he adds, "and wesometimes reminisce about After Hours ofyears gone by as we stand in front of theBloomberg." I've always said: there's noth-ing like the Bloomberg to get you a little misty.

Erik sent word of several classmates.Verne Scazzero buys mortgage-backedbonds for Harvest Investments in Chicago,where he lives with his wife, a dog, and aparrot. John "Moose" Moscarella shuttles

between Washington, DC and Mexico City,where he combines his engineering degreewith family ties to assist investors in the in-dependent Latin American power industry.And Steve Nason, after finishing his MBAat Dartmouth, is an investment banker withFirst Boston and seems to be "in perpetualorbit," with business trips to Latin America,Australia, and Europe on a regular basis.

Cliff Hurley wrote with the update thathe completed his family medicine residencyin Buffalo and will be living and practicing inthe Rochester area. In May he attended theLong Island wedding of Amy Underberg tohubby David Applebaum. Amy received herMBA from New York U. and is an assistanttreasurer for Fuji Bank.

Peter Bell reports that within the past18 months he's: 1) graduated with an MBAfrom Northwestern; 2) become assistantproduct director for McNeil Consumer Prod-ucts, "makers of Tylenol," in Philadelphia;3) bought a suburban house with Elizabeth(Kallenbach) '87; and 4) filled it with a son,Tyler, born in January last year. "Other thanthat," he writes, "not much else is new."

Finally, Jamie Stevens might havesomething to offer Evan Schwartz, who'sa marketing director for Avery PublishingGroup in the New York City area. Best wish-es for a good new year to you all. Write tome at my new address. *> Michael Berkwits,2301 Delancey PI., #3, Philadelphia, PA, 19103.

^\ Π Wel1' folks' I did it!§ 1 f I columns about your weddings, I\f i took the plunge myself this past/\ I summer. On Sat. Aug. 14, '93, ai l l warm and sunny day in Ithaca, I^̂ I married Rebecca Smith at SageChapel. Rev. James Smith, my father-in-lawand a retired Methodist minister, walkedRebecca down the aisle and officiated at thewedding ceremony. My dear friend AlbertR. Chu served as my best man, while KevinJ. Heaney and Richard W. Hale, M AeroE '58 rounded out the groom's party. TheCornell Chimes played concerts before andafter the ceremony. We held a champagne-and-cake reception at the A. D. WhiteHouse, and our 140 guests mingled in thebeautiful flower garden in the back yard.Notable Cornell-related attendees includedEngineering college dean William B. Streett,David '59 and Peggy Flynn Dunlop '59,Lisa D. Rugg '86, Elaine Ballagh '91,Mayalen Fernandez-Llanio '92, and KaraGaetano '93. Rebecca and I spent our hon-eymoon in San Francisco (Chinatown wasgreat!), Maui, and Oahu. We relaxed in thesun and surf in Kihei, Maui, for a week be-fore we flew to Honolulu for a reunion withmy family and relatives who hadn't been ableto come to Ithaca for the wedding. My par-ents hosted another reception that includedLoy Kuo '93. By the way, you may noticethat my name looks different, becauseRebecca and I exchange our last names formiddle names.

More wedding announcements: Weheard from Yelena Baranova Cresciman-no that Gennedy Gazin '86, BS Eng '87married Rose Meshoyrer in Brooklyn onAug. 7, '93. Lisa M. Gangarosa reportedthat she "married Jim Harrison (DJ extraor-dinaire on Philadelphia Y100) on Aug. 8, '92.

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Classmates in attendance were Teresa Pas-iak (bridesmaid), Jacquelyn Baron Hasson,Karen Lootens and George Odden, Di-ana M. Kim," and many others. Alex T.Anderson wrote that he "married MaureenMurphy on June 19, '93 at her parents'home on Whidbey Island." Cornell guests in-cluded Ada Gonzalez, Amy Anderson,Lynn Potthast Canaan and Najib '86,Larry Cohen '86, Steven Case, CherylLittman, Ming Tschang, and other later-class friends. Alex is a graduate student atU. of Pennsylvania, while Maureen worksat Chiquita as a marketing manager. TheAndersons reside in Philadelphia.

In September I spent a week recruitingfor Cornell down on Long Island. There Iran into Susanne Kraszewski Wesnofske,who attended an Alumni Admission Ambas-sador Network (CAAAN) training meeting.In our conversation I discovered that Su-sanne and husband Richard operate a farmof 400-plus acres on Long Island. They havea son, Richard Jr., who was born on Jan. 16,'92. It turned out Susanne and I had somemutual friends, one of them being JenniferSullivan, who now resides in Summit, NJ.Although it seems premature, Susanne maywant to consider buying Karen C. Ander-son's new puzzle book, The Bones and Skel-eton Game Book, (Workman Publishing Co.).Karen wrote: "It is my fourth publishedbook, but the first that I'll get royalties on.So, I encourage anyone with 7- to 12-year-old nieces, nephews, or children (!) to checkit out. The book is full of activities and puz-zles on anatomy." And, from Hawaii, LeyanO. Fernandes informed us that she co-au-thored a book recently. Hers is titled Commu-nicating in Relationships: A Guide for Couplesand Professionals, available through ResearchPress. Hey, that sounds like a book I can use.

The correspondence of the month camefrom Robert A. Mendel, who was promot-ed to the rank of captain, US Army, in March1993. Robert and wife Susan now have twokids, Zachary and Wyatt. Robert is a mili-tary police officer and by the time this col-umn is published was to have begun a tourat Camp Humphreys, South Korea, that willlast through November 1994. Robert wroteof a much earlier post in Africa: "Somaliawas more of a 'peacemaking' rather than 'hu-manitarian' operation for MP soldiers. Dan-ger lurked everywhere in Mogadishu and thesoldiers I served with did exceptionally welldespite the harsh conditions and constantthreat of snipers. Proud to say all of my sol-diers came back in good health." That wasindeed good news.

I'll close this column with news fromThomas J. Ball. Tom and I were old friendsfrom our U Hall #5 days when we all start-ed as freshmen a decade ago at Cornell. Tomfinished his PhD at U. of Wisconsin, Madi-son and began working for AT&T Bell Labsin Naperville, IL. Tom and wife CatherineRamsey (a Yalie) are the proud parents ofDavid Ramsey Ball, born March 6, '93. Mycongratulations on the academic achieve-ments and the new baby to Tom and Cathe-rine! Lastly, on behalf of your Class of '87officers, I wish all classmates happy holidaysand a prosperous new year in 1994! <* TomSmith Tseng, c/o Engineering Admissions,Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853-

The Space of Opportunity

JAMIE L. STEVENS '86

A fter Jamie Stevens graduatedfrom the Hotel school, sheworked in the hospitality indus-try. While on the phone at work

one day, she says, "I picked the sta-ples out of the Time magazine on mydesk. As the sheets of paper fell outof the magazine, I realized that onesheet of paper was actually four pag-es. Landing on the floor, facing up,was a full-page ad that said, 'Subscribe to Time magazine' (their 'housead') I then contacted the publisher and (to put 18 months of negotia-tions into one sentence) reached an agreement to cover their costson their leftover pages (rather than having the magazine use a housead) in the regional editions. In a nutshell, what I would do was similarto what the airline industry does—selling off standby seats at halfprice, ten minutes before takeoff."

Page Four Media was born. Today Stevens's West Hartford-basedcompany works with small regional businesses that want to "adver-tise everything from oversized promotional products (five-foot-tall pen-cils) to cost-saving environmental products, and in addition to Time,they now buy space in Money, Road & Track, House Beautiful, Newsweek,Sports Illustrated and U.S. News & World Report. And that could be agood deal—for small businesses, big magazines and the resourcefulMs. Stevens.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

2201; Richard Friedman, 32 Whites Ave.,Apt 2205, Watertown, MA 02172; StaceyPineo Murdock, 428 Porter St., Manches-ter, CT 06040.

Ho, ho, ho! The holidays are uponus, and as Cornellians near andfar are busy trimming trees,wrapping gifts, and purposelystepping under the mistletoe (Iknow my classmates), this cor-

respondent is rejoicing that so many of youtook the time to send news, not just of your-selves, but of fellow '88ers. Thank you! Ourclass is well represented around the world.Christina Wort has been busy traveling andworking around the globe since graduation.A job with Club Med took her to Florida,Colorado, Morocco, and New York. Christi-na is now settled in Brussels, Belgium, work-ing for J. P. Morgan. Christina sent news ofother classmates: Jane Mold is living inWashington, DC; Lisa Lieberman is atStanford U. finishing up a PhD in econom-ics; Karen Casey is an attorney in NewYork City; and Anne-Lise Mogstad is atStanford earning a PhD in chemistry. Wash-ington, DC resident Neil Singer spent thesummer in Guatemala studying Spanish andfinalizing a thesis topic for completion of his

MA in international development at Ameri-can U. Another summer traveler, RichardBallew, was in Japan, both as a bond traderfor Merrill Lynch and to develop soccer sta-diums for Wembley Japan. Richard is in ajoint MA/MBA program at U. of Pennsylva-nia's Wharton School, where he sees DaveDase '89, Jim Perrello '86, and MarkGreene '89. Jorge Daniels and wife Jill(Simon) '89 are living in Barcelona, Spainwith daughter Leah, 1. Jorge is a projectmanager in construction, and Jill is studyingfor a MA in immunology at the U. of Barce-lona. Jorge supplied the following info: JohnMacPeek is working for Alcatel in Stuttgard,Germany; Ricardo Kohn '90 works for BellLabs in New Jersey and Boston; Elias Ma-tar works in NYC; Jay Goldman is at Har-vard getting his PhD in physics; andJonathan Kaye is at Penn getting his PhDin computer science. Jonathan visited theDanielses in Spain during the summer of 1992.

On this continent Chicago seems to bea popular town with '88ers. Kate Dellos-tritto is at the Kellogg Graduate School ofManagement majoring in health servicesmanagement and marketing. Kate and room-mate Suzanne Konstance, also at Kellogg,love the Cornellian-rich city. Native Chica-goan Brent Felitto returned home to the

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Windy City this summer to begin a career ininvestment banking with William Blair & Co.Brent graduated from Harvard BusinessSchool last June.

Susan Ellis is a museum curator in Wich-ita Falls, TX. She ran her first marathon inDecember 1992. Susan had lots of newsabout classmates: Mark Zimmerman is astate prosecuting attorney in Venice, FL; JulieSantiago is an attorney for NY State in Alba-ny; Kirsten Fowles Graham works in ad-vertising in Morristown, NJ; Gregg Capo-raso received his PhD from Cornell MedicalCollege/Rockefeller U. in December 1992and is finishing up his MD studies; and Per-ry Sutaria is a resident in urology in Denver.

Legal eagles in practice on the EastCoast include Kristin Hileman. Kristingraduated magna cum laude from AmericanU. law school in May 1991. (Way to go, Kris-tin!) She is currently an assistant state'sprosecuting attorney in Prince GeorgesCounty, MD. (Let's stay out of troublethere!) Heidi (Rubin) and Fredric Cohenlive in New Jersey where Heidi is now anassociate at the law firm of Morgan, Mel-huish, Monaghan, Arvidson, Abrutyn &Lisowski in Livingston, practicing environ-mental insurance defense law. Lisa GrossDayan and husband Peter, MD '89 movedto the Woodley Park area of Washington, DCin June so Pete could accept a fellowship inpediatric emergency care at DC Children'sHospital. Lisa is an attorney, formerly withSimpson, Thacher & Bartlett in NYC.

Wedding bells rang for Danielle(Spark) and David Bier on Nov. 3, '91.Danielle works at Mabon Securities, and wasrecently promoted to senior vice president.David is a government bond trader at Donald-son, Lufkin & Jennrette in NYC. The Bierslive in Short Hills, NJ. Lori Drucker mar-ried David Fein in June 1991 and moved intoa new townhouse in May of this year. Deb-ra Stark married David Kahn (Lafayette '88)on April 17, '93. Bridesmaids were PamChertok Caine, Jodi Holtz, Wendy Green-wald Halperin, and Hillary Brodsky. TheKahns live and work in NYC. Proud new par-ents Michael Sochaczevski and wifeKaren (Louis) '89 had a baby girl, DanielleJasmine, Feb. 23, '93. Michael is at the U. ofWestern Ontario pursuing both a JD and anMBA.

Finally, Eric Boham, Delia Park,Steve Aschettino, Marlene Fogarty, LisaCocchi '87, and Rose Cryan '87 were spot-ted gathered around a pool table in NYC byyours truly. I hope they were having as muchfun as I was. Happy holidays and a peaceful,joyful new year! * Alison Minton, 333 E.56th St., #11B, NYC 10022, (212) 759-2162;Wendy Myers, 610 W. 110th St., #9B, NYC10025; Diane Weisbrot, 3 Wadsworth St.,Allston, MA 02134.

You can run, but you cannot hide.Cornell is three years into ourhistory, and yet it is ever-present. As I write this column,several Cornell-connectionevents are about to occur: Home-

coming in November. Zinck's is" tomorrownight, and in Ithaca, the Cayuga's Waiterswill be our entertainment. Yesss. In Lincoln,NE they're serving mini Big Red burgers

(say what?). In Cincinnati, they're offeringdomestic beers for a buck. In Boston, they'llhave indoor miniature golf and wings, and inPortland, OR they're giving away a CornellPendelton blanket. In Osaka and Tokyo, Ja-pan, the cover charge is 3,000 yen for mem-bers of the Cornell Club. What happened atZinck's Night in your city?

Now, relax and read up on what someof your classmates are doing. [A note hereto all classmates who'd like to record theirengagements in this column: it is the maga-zine's long-standing policy to report marriag-es—and births—after they occur, but notbefore. Please send word once the happyevent(s) have taken place.] Phyllis ChungKwok wrote with news that she marriedKai in June 1992, and she included whatlooks to be the largest listing ever of Cor-nellians at a wedding. Space does not allowme to list them all, but to start, Pay-ru Wu'92 and Sin Kuen Ko '89 were bridesmaids;Kevin Ma, the groomsman; Alice Tarnsang, along with Tim Tien '88. Others inattendance included Linda Wong, DonnaNg, Vynnie Lam, and Mabel Gong. (Staytuned for future lists.) Phyllis is a fourth-year medical student at the U. of Texas, hop-ing to return to the NYC area for her resi-dency. Kai is earning his MBA/MEng at RiceU. and had worked at Goldman Sachs for twoyears. Phyllis's updates on our classmates:Myngoe Janne Huynh is in medical schoolat U. of California, Los Angeles, Mabel Gongis at SUNY, Buffalo medical school, and Lin-da Lee, also in medical school, is at JohnsHopkins. Linda married Tom Yau '89 in Au-gust 1992. Alice Tarn is a lawyer in the Man-hattan District Attorney's office. Kevin Maworks at Goldman Sachs in NYC, and EdChoi works for Schlumberger in Houston.

Ronnie Sussman Stoner wrote of hermarriage to Jeffrey. They had a house builtnear Orlando, FL. She is still working forthe Charles J. Givens Organization, a finan-cial education organization. Her brother An-drew Sussman '91 and Caroline Misciag-na were in the wedding party. Ji Young Lee'89 attended with Eric Brown '88.

As we trudge into the cold of winterhere, I think of Genevieve Abel, who spentlast winter in the Baltics without hot water.Lithuania, says Genny, one of the first re-publics to break away from the former Sovi-et Union, is a place where "the scars of thestruggle are still visible. They literally cutus off cold . . . because there was no moneyto pay the gas bill to Russia." If you're un-employed, take heed: Genny taught Englishfor $13 a month (in local "soft" currency)before she obtained her current position asoperational director for the StornowayGroup. One of her projects has been to in-stall the American Chamber of Commercein Lithuania. Her parents may think she's amasochist (her words), but I think what she'sdoing is great! (Genny, unfortunately I amnot the woman you rowed with on fresh-man crew. But keep in touch!) The happi-est of holidays to all of you. Stay warm.* Regina Duffey, 72 Lois Lane, Ithaca, NY14850; Kristyn Benzinger, 14013 CaptainsRow, #107, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; Jen-nifer McComb, 2808 Kinloch Dr., Orlando,FL 32817; Saman Zia-Zarifi, 31 MaplewoodRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

^\ I 'Tis the season to be busy . . .I 1 A tons of our classmates wrote inI I I with all kinds of interesting^rm I things. Darcy Andrew is backI m I from two years in Japan and trav-^J M. eling throughout Asia, and isstudying at MIT's Sloan School of Business.Andrea Retzky writes that she is workingin Washington, DC as the deputy press sec-retary for Rep. Joe Kennedy. Meanwhile,Stacey Burridge is working as an environ-mental engineer for Mobil Oil and trans-ferred to London for the next two to threeyears. She says she hopes to get in contactwith alumni peers in Europe.

Rachel Laiserin sent a whole bundleof news about classmates that she met upwith at Tina Hohn's and Scott Schissel'swedding in July. First of all, Rachel graduat-ed from Harvard's John F. Kennedy Schoolof Government and is now in New York Cityworking at the Dept. of Housing, Preserva-tion, and Development. Scott is studying forhis MD/PhD at Columbia College of Physi-cians and Surgeons. Tina works at Lifesav-ers Co. of RJR Nabisco, where she is put-ting her food science degree to work. LisaEpstein is studying for her master's in high-er education at New York U., while VarmanSamuel is studying medicine at New YorkU. medical school. Other guests at the wed-ding included Linda Keenan, who is a pro-ducer for the television show "BroadcastNew York"; Dave Tabenken, who worksfor a small architectural firm in Boston; andJoel Birnbaum, working in New Hampshirefor Chubb Insurance. Jennifer Gold is inmedical school at Washington U. in St. Lou-is, and Alex Temel finished his MBA atWashington U. and is currently in law schoolthere. Ashley Gravelle is working as atherapist for autistic children in Portland,ME, and Steve Schuller is director of foodand beverage at Windham Hotel in Atlanta,GA. Pete Crosby is studying at the U. ofChicago for his MBA. Rachel also includesnews from former roommate Lara Krup-ka, who received her master's in medicalscience from Harvard and is working forQuintiles, a biotech and pharmaceutical con-sulting firm in Cambridge, MA. Jason Saulalso graduated from the JFK School of Gov-ernment at Harvard and is now enrolled inlaw school at the U. of Virginia. Thanks somuch for the news, Rachel!

Further classmate reports: Stacey Ner-en is a promotion director for Vee Corp. inMinneapolis, MN. Stacey works on the mu-sical touring stage production of "SesameStreet Live" and travels all over the US andCanada. Jared Aragona is in "La-La Land"working as a development associate for thePreston Fischer Co. Be sure to look forJared's first feature film, White Fang II—Myth of the White World, in theaters near youaround the middle of next year.

Sara Weaver is a dietitian at Profes-sional Food Service Management in SanMarcos, TX. After Sara received her MS innutrition from Texas A&M U., she beganworking for this contract company that man-ages university and college food services.Also in the food industry is Kristen Trapp,who works as an account manager at KraftUSA in Amherst, NY. In Washington, DC,Deb Wengel is a program assistant at the

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Brookings Inst. and Victoria Stanley is anadministrative assistant for the director ofvisitor services at the six-month-old US Ho-locaust Memorial Museum.

Meanwhile, Kevin Covert is in Mos-cow working at the US Agency for Interna-tional Development on private-sector initia-tives. I received a letter from him recently,and he told me that right after graduation,he signed on with USAID/Washington. Hesays the work is exciting, and he explainedthat he helped to design a "new businessdevelopment" project to promote business-es with fewer than 500 employees.

Wedding bells were ringing for NicoleRose and Vincent Doria. Both are doctor-al candidates at Cornell, where Nicole isstudying molecular biology and Vincent, vet-erinary medicine. They were married in Ana-bel Taylor Chapel on campus.

More news about other classmatesthroughout the country follows: RichardHaynam works for the Limited Stores Inc.in Columbus, OH; Seth Kenvin is an in-vestment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co. inSan Francisco; Laura Kersting is a dieti-tian at Greenville Hospital System in Green-ville, SC; Rosemary Medina is a counse-lor at Prep for Prep in New York City;Patrick Farrell is a structural engineer atRiva, Klein & Timmons in Miami, FL; andKevin Lemanowicz is a meterologist atWTIC-TV in Hartford, CT. Kevin tells ushe will be on-air Friday, Saturday, and Sun-day every week at 10 p.m. Best wishes toyou all for a healthy and happy holidayseason! * Melanie Bloom, 401 E. 80th St.,Apt. #24D, NYC 10021.

I hope many of you were able togo back to campus for Homecom-ing—after all, it is, for many ofus, the fifth anniversary of beinga freshman! Don't you miss hik-ing up Libe Slope in the snow?

Going to fraternity parties on Saturdaynights? Trying to cram for the Chem 207final? Those days are over, but from thelooks of it, we've all managed to keep busywith our jobs and going back to school.

Mark Clauss, who graduated from theJohnson School in the combined five-yearMBA program last May, accepted a positionas a management consultant with McKinseyand Co. in Pittsburgh. He's looking forwardto a lot of travel with the job. Amy Matti-son spent last summer in Rochester work-ing as the coordinator of officials for theEmpire State Games, an amatuer athleticevent involving 7,000 athletes and hundredsof volunteers. Amy-wrote that Shaun Han-nah '94 also worked on the crew, and theygot together several times with Joe Genier.Amy is now at Temple working on her mas-ter's in sports management. Kristen Lind-quist was back in Ithaca for Reunion to helpher mother, Joan Buchsbaum Lindquist,Class of '68 Reunion chair. Supriya Madha-van and Catherine Kim also crashed theClass of '68 Reunion. Kristen is now back inlaw school at the U. of San Fransisco, afterhaving worked for a year in Los Angeles.

Karen Wilson was married to RodolfoDoulis, ME E '91 on May 22, '93. She iscurrently pursuing her MBA at Seton Hallon a full-time basis while working as a grad-

uate assistant in the business school. PaulWeisenfeld, who went back to campus forthe July Fourth weekend and plans to makeit an annual tradition, is a student at Ben-jamin N. Cardoza School of Law. Philip Sof-fer is now at U. of California, Berkeley inthe PhD program in history. This summerhe traveled in Europe for three months. Hestayed with Faith Wu in Paris and then metup with F. R. "Rick" Hauser (who hadspent a year in England on a landscape ar-chitecture fellowship and is now at Virginia)and Meghan DeGolyer in Rome for sixweeks of travel. Phil wrote that the "highpoint" of their voyage was an ascent up the3,000-meter Schίltorn in Switzerland.

Anthony Palattella spent ten days inColorado and was a groomsman in the mar-riage of Paul Freeman and Nora Comans'93. He said it was a beautiful wedding inBeaver Creek. The best man was RandallMrazik. While in Colorado, Anthony sawJoe Henderson, Grad and the Cornell JazzEnsemble. Anthony's now in medical school.

Melissa Rashbaum is in her secondyear at George Washington law school. Sherecently saw Elaine Friedman, who wasmoving to Florida to go back to school for amaster's in psychology. Pablo Rodriguezgave me the low-down on several class-mates. Pablo is a mechanical engineeringgrad student at Texas A & M. He reportsthat Gabe Foo is in med school at Pitts-burgh; and Jeff Park is in law school at St.Johns. Ging-Li Wang went back to Cornellfor an MEng degree, and Rick Pilotte movedback home to New Hampshire as an actuary.

As for other news, Edwin Valerianois a business manager for Taco Bell in north-ern New Jersey, and Marc Rosner is work-ing toward a PhD in animal nutrition at Rut-gers U. Robert Odell is a law student some-where in New York City (you failed to saywhich school, Robert!), and Kimberly Horiiis a med student at U. of California, Los An-geles. At U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hillis Kraig Marquis, who mentioned he hasbeen traveling around the country, makingstops in New Orleans, Houston, New Mexi-co, and Alabama. Karen Linenberg is mar-ried to Steven Kurtz '90. She's an artistfor the Ithaca Journal. Marine Leray is astudent at the Beaux Arts architectureschool in Paris. Sylvia Konze is a districtsupervisor for ALDI Foods Inc. in Chicagoand in Albany, Walter Hamm is a veteri-nary technician at Central Veterinary Hos-pital. A clinical research associate for Bur-roughs Wellcome Co., Tracie Giargiari isin Research Triangle Park, NC. ChristineFerro is a structural engineer in Connecticut.

Dana Aron moved to Chicago to begingraduate school at Northwestern in pursuitof a PhD in clinical psychology and to deter-mine if Chicago really is colder than Ithaca.(Let me know what you decide!) RobertCrespi expected to earn his master's inmechanical engineering this month. AdamRosenberg works in Washington, DC atKimberly Scott & Associates, a political con-sulting firm. He's raising money for congres-sional candidates and loving it.

Happy holidays from your class corre-spondents, Debbie Feinstein, Jade Chao,and me. Please jot me a note and let meknow what you are up to! <* Renee Hunt-

er, 1120 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

As we head into December, Ithink back to what it was like tohave a month off for winterbreak—and, boy, do I wish thatwas what my company did. Someof our classmates are still in

school and are getting that well-deservedbreak. Having survived gross anatomy areBrian Katz (Cornell Medical College), Sta-ci Mayer (U. of Pittsburgh), and CalinMoucha. In law school are Saul Stahl atColumbia U., Marci Rosenbaum at the U.of Miami, and Seema Shah. Jessica Grausis at the U. of Michigan in a master's pro-gram in health services management andpolicy, and Patrick Burns is still enjoyingIthaca winters, while getting his master's inengineering at Cornell.

Debra Alzner is getting ready to endher break to go to work for Andersen Con-sulting, having spent the past few monthstraveling around Europe. Hiromasa Moriis also working for Andersen, but his loca-tion is a little farther away—Tokyo. LisaNess is working as a research technician onHIV research at Rutgers U., and Robin Zi-man is doing medical research in Atlanta forthis year before she heads off to medicalschool. Having deferred a city and regionalplanning grad program at U. of Pennsylva-nia, Justin Schor is spending the year work-ing. Tony Cheng is working at ExxonChemical in Houston, Lisa Greenberg isworking for Merrill Lynch in their two-yearindividual investor intern program, EliseRosenberg is working for Lord, Abbett &Co., and Tonya Lowery is working in theNew York City Hilton Hotel. David Cohenis an information technology associate atCoopers & Lybrand and shares a Manhattanapartment with John Vibert, who is work-ing as a financial analyst for Salomon Broth-ers. David Morello works for Ford in thedesign center, as well as taking classes atU. of Michigan. Elliot Gabelnick is work-ing for E. I. DuPont and Co. in Montague,MI. Leah Peterson is getting ready to moveto Park City, UT, and Gideon Shulman isheaded to Israel to serve in the Israeli army.

Wedding bells have been ringing for someof our classmates. Christine Cornish marriedBrian Sagrestano '92 this past August, andthey are now living in Indiana, where Brian isin law school. Andrea Sarkany and GregRiskin '90 got married in Binghamton inSeptember. They're in Ithaca while Greg fin-ishes his final year at Vet college; Andrea isworking at a mental care facility and apply-ing to graduate programs in psychology.

Although I'm writing this before Home-coming, by the time you read it, Homecom-ing will have been a month ago. I hope youall enjoyed seeing old friends and relivingCornell memories. The best way to keep upwith everyone (and to keep everyone caughtup with you) is to send your class correspon-dents information. Let us know if you'vemoved, switched jobs, gotten into school, hada cup of coffee, cleaned your room, or doneanything even remotely interesting. We lookforward to hearing from you and helping ev-eryone keep in touch. Until next time.* Yael Berkowitz, 310 W. 95th St., Apt. 7A,NYC 10025; telephone, (212) 663-3412.

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AnnouncingTHE CAYUGA SOCIETY

which

honors

those

who

have

established

a will or planned gift

to Cornell.

Bequests have a wis-

dom of their own. They

are a direct legacy to

the strength of Cornell

in the 21st Century.

Include Cornell in

your will or estate

plans and be sure that

the University knows.

An invitation to join

the Cayuga Society will

follow.

€*For information or ques-

tions: Call Tom Foulkes '52

Office of Planned Giving

607-254-6174

Alumni Deaths'13 BS HE—Dora Earl Decker (Mrs. Ben-jamin S.) of Herkimer, NY, Aug. 31, 1993;retired educator; involved in developing theCooperative Extension program of Cornell'sCollege of Home Economics (now HumanEcology); was believed to have been Cor-nell's oldest living alumnus. [Seepage 5, No-vember issue.]

'17 ME—Winfield Eckley of Tell City, IN,1991.

'18 LLB—Jane M. G. Foster of Ports-mouth, OH, Aug. 27, 1993; retired lawyerand philanthropist; university benefactor andPresidential Councillor; Foster Hall, an ex-tension to the Law School's Myron TaylorHall is named in her honor.

'18 DVM—Edwin J. Frick of Manhattan,KS, Aug. 10, 1993; retired professor, veter-inary medicine, Kansas State U. Omega TauSigma.

'18 ME—Howard C. Young of Elkhart, IN,1989. Sigma Upsilon.

'21 ME, MME '24—E. Stanley Ault ofNorthport, MI, Aug. 6, 1993; professor emer-itus, School of Mechanical Engineering, Pur-due U.; co-author, Fundamentals of MachineDesign; active in professional affairs. Wife,Mary (Johnson) '24.

'21 ME—Leon Buehler Jr. of Wilmette,IL, April 27, 1993.

'21, CE '24—Murrill H. Forster of Buffa-lo, NY, June 9, 1993.

'21—Alan J. Gould of Vero Beach, FL, June21, 1993; retired executive editor, The As-sociated Press.

'21, BA '23—Agnes Meehan Hallinan(Mrs. Francis) of Peoria, AZ, July 22, 1993;retired teacher; active in community affairs.Alpha Xi Delta.

'21 BA—C. Ronald Mather of Manches-ter, England, November 1992.

'22 BA, MD '26—Robert S. Ackerly ofMayfield Heights, OH, June 22,1993; retiredsurgeon. Kappa Delta Rho.

'22 BA—Beatrice Kretschmer Fitzgerald(Mrs. Charles) of Lanham-Seabrook, MD,May 1992.

'22 BS Ag—Edwin A. Gordon of BowlingGreen, OH, May 11, 1993. Theta Chi.

'22 BA—Donald McAllister of New York,NY, July 22, 1993; former chair, AmericanBusiness Press; founder, Association of PaidCirculation Publishers; chair, executive com-mittee, Geyer-McAllister Publications Inc.;

university benefactor.

'22 ME—Warren D. Reinhard of Bridge-water, NJ, May 8, 1993.

'22 BA—Roberta Quick Wood of Welles-ley Hills, MA, March 4, 1993; high schoolFrench teacher; author, The French Club inHigh School. Delta Gamma.

'23 BS Ag, PhD '28—Irene DobrosckyVan de Water (Mrs. Carleton) of Renton,WA, Feb. 28, 1991; entomologist and educa-tor. Husband Carleton Van de Water '28.

'23 ME—R. Spotswood Pollard of Ken-nett Square, PA, June 1993.

'24—Lincoln Epworth of New York City,1982. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'24—Kenneth G. Ferguson of Lakeland,FL, Feb. 1, 1993.

'24 BS HE, MS Ed '36—Marion R. Sal-isbury of Detroit, MI, May 17, 1993.

'25 BS Ag—Rachmiel Forschmiedt ofSeattle, WA, June 4, 1993.

'25 BA—Katherine Livingston Parry(Mrs. Thayer L.) of Akron, OH, June 20,1993; active in church, community, and alum-ni affairs. Delta Gamma.

'25 BA—Imogen Noyes Stone (Mrs. Les-lie P.) of Oneida, NY, May 30, 1993.

'26 BA—Richard Aronson of Fayetteville,NY, Aug. 3, 1993; retired New York StateSupreme Court justice; was elected to Row-ing Hall of Fame, 1971; active in communityand alumni affairs.

'26 BA—Richard C. Field of Jamesburg,NJ, Mar. 22, 1993; active in alumni and uni-versity affairs. Phi Kappa Psi.

'26 BA, LLB '28—Theodore H. Kline ofHudson, NY, June 22, 1993; retired generalcounsel, New York State Thruway Authori-ty; active in religious and community activi-ties. Beta Kappa Rho.

'27 ME—Wallace S. Berry of Eloy, AZ,May 3, 1993.

'27 BS Ag, SpAg '28-30—Paul T. Erick-son of Hartford, CT, Sept. 29, 1992. AlphaGamma Rho.

'27 BA—Morton D. Gottlieb of West Or-ange, NJ, March 17, 1993.

'27—William W. Knight Jr. of Worcester,MA, Feb. 19, 1993.

'27 EE—Simon S. Nathan of Doylestown,

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PA, Aug. 21, 1993. Wife, Germaine(DΉeedene) '29.

'27 BA—Anne Pudiak of Binghamton, NY,1965.

'27—Louis Warncke of Stroudsburg, PA,June 13, 1993. Sigma Pi.

'27 BA—Gabriel Zuckerman of New YorkCity, Feb. 21, 1993.

'28—Linwood F. Hodge of Tonawanda,NY, Dec. 21, 1988. Theta Delta Chi.

'28 BS Ag—Shirley A. Miller of New YorkCity, June 15, 1993; active in alumni affairs.Alpha Xi Delta.

'28 BA, LLB '30—William E. Palmer ofElmira, NY, July 21, 1993; active in alumniaffairs. Theta Chi.

'28—Albert E. Seep of Englewood, CO,July 1993. Theta Chi.

'29, BA '30—John V. Anderson of Dela-van, NY, May 27,1993; physician. Alpha Sig-ma Phi.

'29 ME—Louis R. Chase of Park Ridge,IL, June 2, 1993.

'29 CE—John S. Custer of Bala Cynwyd,PA, June 11, 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'29 CE—John E. Elliott Jr. of Elmira, NY,April 13, 1993.

'29—Alice Wheat Estey (Mrs. Charles B.)of Owego, NY, June 19,1993; retired owner andoperator, Estey & Monroe Funeral Home; ac-tive in genealogical and community affairs.

'29—Harold W. Foss of East Aurora, NY,Nov. 19, 1990.

'29—Robert B. King of Livonia, MI, Nov.3, 1991.

'29 CE—Walter C. Knox of Cartersville,GA, April 23, 1993. Sigma Nu.

'29 DVM—George E. McConnell of St.Joseph, MI, actual date of death unknown.

'29 EE—James F. Solley Jr. of Atlanta,GA, Feb. 2, 1992. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'30 DVM—Frank Bloom of Hallandale, FL,formerly of Flushing, NY, July 9, 1993; ac-tive in alumni affairs.

'30 MA—T. Cecil Brown of Laurens, SC,April 9, 1989.

'30 B Chem—James W. Leonard ofLongwood, FL, formerly of New Jersey,July 27, 1993; retired plant manager, Du-Pont Chemical Co., Grasselli, NJ. LambdaChi Alpha.

'31 BS Ag—Margaret Noble Barnes (Mrs.Sidney W.) of Syracuse, NY, Aug. 25, 1993.

'31 B A—Josephine A. Beals of Garrett

Park, MD, Jan. 21, 1993.

'31 BA—Marx J. Block of Sierra Vista, AZ,May 25,1993; retired lieutenant colonel, USAir Force; former teacher, Kingston (NY)High School, also the Army IntelligenceSchool, Sierra Vista.

'31 BA—Eleanor Faulk Cone (Mrs. Mon-tie) of Falls Church, VA, July 8,1993; activein civic, genealogical, and religious affairs.Alpha Omicron Pi. Husband Montie Cone '30.

'31 EE—William P. Kocher of Scranton,PA, Aug. 3, 1993. Zodiac.

'31 BA—Robert A. Newburger of Bethes-da, MD, Aug. 29,1993; retired physcian andmedical professor; fellow, internal medicine,Yale, New York U., and Columbia; associateprofessor, internal medicine, Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine. Beta Sigma Rho.

'31 BA—Ralph B. Ryan of Menlo Park,CA, June 21, 1993. Theta Delta Chi.

'31 BA—Robert F. Spitzmiller of Buffalo,NY, July 20,1993; lawyer; active in commu-nity affairs. Kappa Alpha.

'31 SpArts—Kathryn M. Stenson ofCampbell, NY, June 12, 1993; retired schoolteacher.

'31-32 SpAg—John H. Stone of Water-town, NY, July 8, 1993; retired deputy com-missioner, New York State Dept. of Agri-culture and Markets; dairy farmer; active incommunity and religious affairs. Lambda ChiAlpha.

'32 Grad—Ruth L. Cohen of Cambridge,England, July 27, 1991.

'32 PhD—Harry C. Diener of Brookville,PA, actual date of death unknown.

'32-33 Grad—Rodger W. Loofbourow ofNovelty, OH, Nov. 9, 1983.

'32 BA—Irma Hencke Milligan (Mrs.Arthur L.) of Key Biscayne, FL, formerly ofBabylon, NY, May 31, 1993; active in alum-ni affairs. Alpha Xi Delta.

'33 PhD—Arnold J. Baur of Sycamore, IL,formerly of Ithaca, NY, March 18, 1992;former professor, soil technology, Cornell,and Northeast regional soil correlator for theUS Dept. of Agriculture's Soil ConservationService.

'33—Lois Lyon Christofferson (Mrs. H.Thomas) of Liverpool, NY, Aug. 29, 1993.

'33 BA—William B. Kuder of Mill Valley,CA, Nov. 1990.

'33, BArch '34—Garrett V. Ryerson Jr.of Wantagh, NY, July 7, 1993; active inalumni affairs.

'33—Louise Procita Shaw (Mrs. GeorgeJr.) of Ithaca, NY, 1992.

'33 BA—John F. Taylor of Louisville, KY,

June 4, 1992.

'33 BS HE—Portia Hopper Taylor (Mrs.John F.) of Louisville, KY, May 18, 1993.

'33—Munro Will of Rochester, NY, June 6,1993; active in alumni affairs. Sigma Phi.

'34 BS HE—Polly Keeney Alberga (Mrs.Ansell) of Round Top, NY, July 30, 1993.

'34—J. Lawrence Cooke of Omaha, NE,June 26, 1993.

'34 BA, MD '37—Edgar P. Fleischmannof Johns Island, SC, formerly of Huntington,NY, Aug. 30, 1993; retired physician; activein alumni affairs.

'34 BA—Vinson W. Grad of Haverhill, MA,July 23, 1993; lawyer; owner of women'sclothing stores; active in community and re-ligous affairs.

'34—Eugene R. Hayden Jr. of Sarasota,FL, formerly of Cuba, NY, July 1, 1993.

'34, BA '35—Walter M. Masters of NewYork City, 1990.

'34, BS Ag '35—Edward F. Murphy ofLittle Falls, NY, Aug. 18,1993; active in com-munity, religious, and alumni affairs;

'34—J. Gilbert Parker of Schenectady, NY,Aug. 7, 1993. Kappa Alpha.

'34 ME—Charles W. Spooner Jr. of RockyRiver, OH, Aug. 26, 1993; retired professorand marine engineer; active in professionalaffairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

'35 DVM—Samuel Hutt of Brooklyn, NY,June 25,1993; conducted a small-animal prac-tice in New York City and had served as chief,veterinary division, New York City Depart-ment of Health; active in professional, com-munity, and alumni affairs.

'35 BS Hotel—Frank J. Irving ofGrantham, NH, Aug. 19, 1993; former vicepresident, Treadway Inns; was vice president,Pan American Airways, hotel division and ofCanadian Pacific, hotel division; active inalumni affairs. Chi Phi.

'35 B Chem—John H. Van Campen ofRochester, NY, actual date of death unknown.Alpha Chi Sigma.

'36 BS Ag, PhD '40—Homer A. Jack ofSwarthmore, PA, Aug. 5, 1993; Unitarianminister; founder, United Nations Non-Gov-ernmental Committee on Disarmament andof the National Committee for a Sane Nucle-ar Policy; former secretary-general, WorldConference on Religion and Peace; also,founder, Congress on Racial Equality; author,The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi.

'36 DVM—Mark L. Morris of Topeka,KS, July 8, 1993; pioneer in animal health;developer of Prescription Diet and ScienceDiet pet foods; founder and lifelong trust-ee, Morris Animal Foundation; universitybenefactor.

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'36 BS Ag—William A. Parr of Bel Air,MD, Dec. 31, 1986; superintendant, Mary-land State Parks; active in alumni affairs.

'36 ME, MME '38—Leo C. Pigage of Cham-paign, IL, June 27,1993; retired professor, me-chanical engineering, University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'36—John H. Saulsman of Dallas, TX, ac-tual date of death unknown.

'37 BS Nurs—Muriel R. Carberry of PortJefferson Station, NY, Aug. 10,1993; profes-sor of nursing emeritus and former dean,Cornell University-New York HospitalSchool of Nursing and director of nursing,New York Hospital; active in alumni affairs.[Seepage 5, October 1993 issue.']

'37 BS Ag—Gladys Wolfe Deuel (Mrs.Douglas C.) of York, NY, June 28, 1993.

'37 BS Hotel—Arthur C. Hill of Auburn-dale, MA, July 11, 1993. Sigma Pi.

'37 BA, MD '41—Stanley D. Simon ofProvidence, RI, Aug. 1, 1993; orthopaedicsurgeon.

'37—M. Bernard Webber of Bedford, MA,April 16, 1993.

'37 BS Hotel—Edwin R. Webster of Na-ples, FL, formerly of Ithaca, NY, June 8,1993; active in alumni affairs. Wife Rhoda(Dunham) '41.

'38 EE—Charles E. Gruen of Indianapo-lis, IN, June 15, 1993; retired aviation man-ager, Shell Oil. Kappa Sigma.

'38 MS ED—Helen LeBaron Hilton (Mrs.James) of Ames, IA, Aug. 10, 1993; formerdean, Iowa State University's College ofHome Economics; first woman elected to theAmes City Council; appointed by PresidentEisenhower to the National Committee ofthe White House Conference on Childrenand Youth; appointed by President Kennedyto a national committee on vocational edu-cation; active in civic and community affairs.Alpha Xi Delta.

'38—John E. Perry of Ithaca, NY, Aug. 20,1993; retired staff member, University Li-braries, Cornell.

'39 BA, LLB '41—Ralph H. German ofGlenshaw, PA, actual date of death unknown.

'39—Kendall R. Jones of Binghamton, NY,Apr. 2, 1993.

'39 BA—Norman D. Levitt of Scottsdale,AZ, June 7, 1993.

'39, BLA '40—William Y. Ogden of NorthHaven, CT, July 24, 1993. Wife Mille(Brooks) '38.

'39 BS Ag—Kilian Schneider of Sun City,AZ, formerly of Galeton, PA, Aug. 2, 1993.

'40 BS AE C—Robert Chuckrow of Chap-paqua, NY, July 11, 1993; had worked with

Frank Lloyd Wright building the Usoniahomes in Pleasantville, NY; author, The LastDirt Road.

'40 BA—Elizabeth F. Crane of Mt. Kίs-co, NY, May 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'40 BS AE M—Pelayo V. Riera of St.Cezaire/Siagne, France, January 1993. PhiKappa Tau.

'40 CE—C. Merle Slack, Jr. of Elmira, NY,July 14, 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'40 MS Ed—G. Marlin Spaid of Lancast-er, PA, Feb. 8, 1993.

'41 BA—William J. Amerling of Buffalo,NY, date of death unknown.

'41—Jerome K. Ballin of White Plains, NY,August 27, 1993; past director and boardpresident, VISIONS/Services for the Blindand Visually Impaired.

'41 PhD—Fred A. Clarenbach of Madi-son, WI, May 28, 1993; active in alumni af-fairs. Wife Laura (McGaffey), '27 Grad.

'42 BS AE M—Norman M. Barrett ofMedford, OR, July 16, 1993. Wife, Caroline(Gould) '44.

'42 BS HE—Joan Plunkett Hurley (Mrs.Robert W.) of El Segundo, CA, July 20,1993.Delta Delta Delta.

'42—Beryl M. O. Present of Rochester,NY, Aug. 3,1993; co-founder and co-owner,Present Co. Beta Sigma Rho.

'43 BA—Strabo V. Claggett of Diamond-head, MS, July 24, 1993; stock broker; ac-tive in alumni affairs.

'43, BCE '47, MS '49—William B. Far-rington of Laguna Beach, CA, July 17,1993;active in alumni affairs. Delta Upsilon.

'43 BA—Walter J. Fitzpatrick Jr. of Hend-ersonville, NC, July 23,1993. Delta Tau Delta.

'43 MD—Guy R. Hopper of Stuart, FL,July 1, 1992.

'43 BS HE—Ethel Baer Poley (Mrs. John)of Narrowsburg, NY, April 1992.

'44—Richard C. Dempsey of Green Bay,WI, May 19, 1991; active in alumni affairs.

'44 BCE—Leo Diamant of Valley Stream,NY, July 21 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'44—Phyllis Chamberlain Kilbourne Mid-dlebrook (Mrs. John) of Barton, VT, April1990. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'44 BS Ag—Carol Wagner Solometo (Mrs.J. P.) of Lodi, NY, Aug. 3, 1993.

'44 BA—Virginia Wilson Weber (Mrs. RoyA.) of Foxfire Village, NC, June 16, 1992.Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'45, BS Hotel '47—William E. Allison of

St. Petersburg, FL, July, 1993.

'45, BEE '48—Julius Cohen of Cold SpringHarbor, NY, July 30,1993; active in religiousaffairs. Wife Hannah (Schwartz) '49.

'45 DVM—George A. Goode of Riverhead,NY, Aug. 21,1993; retired veterinarian; builtand operated Riverhead Animal Hospital; ac-tive in community affairs.

'46, ME '45—Bernard A. Baer of Miami,FL, June 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'46 MD—Robert G. Hicks of Greenwich,CT, June 10,1993; helped to develop "Code99," a system to respond to cardiac arrestand respiratory failure used worldwide.

'46 BS HE—Marjory Stenmetz Hutchin-son (Mrs. Thomas H.) of Simsbury, NY, June29, 1993; retired school teacher.

'46 BA—Doris Jamison Sowdon (Mrs.James D.) of Duxbury, MA, July 31, 1993.Husband, James D. Sowdon '43.

'46 BS HE—Caroline Bayne Ullrich ofGlendora, CA, June 16,1993; active in com-munity and religious affairs. Alpha Xi Delta.

'47, BME '46—Lawrence Aquardo ofChadds Ford, PA, July 11,1993; retired Du-Pont engineer; an outdoorsman involved inpreservation and enjoyment of the environment;active in alumni affairs, especially in regard tothe American Indian program on campus.

'47 BA, JD '50—Jean M. Cookingham ofIthaca, NY, July 27,1993; former lawyer withUS Dept. of Housing and Urban Develop-ment; active in civic and community affairs.

'47 BS Hotel—Constantine G. Spiliotopou-los of Montreal, PQ, Canada, May 10,1993.

'47 BS HE—Virginia Galliford Spong(Mrs. William B. Jr.) of Portsmouth, VA, May15,1993; active in community and civic affairs.

'48 PhD—Carl J. Anderwald of Delmar,NY, March 7, 1993.

'49 BS ILR—Robert B. Gustafson ofHobart, IN, actual date of death unknown.Alpha Chi Rho.

'49 BS Nurs—Gloria Simpson Riemen-schneider (Mrs. Henry E.) of Austin, TX,July 5, 1993.

'49 DVM—James R. Wheaton of Pinehurst,NC, formerly of Blauvelt, NY, July 29,1993.

'50 BS ILR—Charles J. Herman of Hart-ford, CT, 1985.

'50 BS ME—Clayton C. Wood Jr. of Bald-winsville, NY, July 24, 1993; active in com-munity, religious, and alumni affairs.

'50 BCE—Thomas D. Young of OakRidge, TN, May 8,1993; active in communi-ty and religious affairs. Phi Gamma Delta.

'51 MA—Beulah Friedman Rohrlich

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(Mrs. Fritz) of DeWitt, NY, Aug. 11, 1993;retired professor of speech communica-tion, Syracuse U.; active in community af-fairs.

'51 BS HE—Elizabeth Cornu Shipton(Mrs. James M.) of Hansville, WA, July 26,1993. Husband James M., '50-51 Grad.

'51 BA—Donal T. Smith of Centerport,NY, July 1993; active in alumni affairs.

'52 BS Ag—Peter C. Crolius of East Ma-chias, ME, July 2, 1993.

'52 BS ILR—Frederick Gerken Jr. ofHarsham, PA, Aug. 3, 1993.

'52 MS Ed—Loyd M. Trimmer of Tow-anda, PA, Sept. 4, 1978.

'52, BS Ag '55—David L. Thomas of Slat-erville Springs, NY, June 17,1993; librarian,Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell.

'52 JD—Clive L. Wright Jr. of Jamestown,NY, Feb. 26, 1992.

'53 BA—Robert G. Engel of Ho-Ho-Kus,NJ, Aug. 19, 1993; retired executive, J. P.Morgan & Co.; former Cornell trustee andUniversity Council member; active in alumniand religious affairs. Psi Upsilon. [See page5, November 1993 issue.}

'53 BS Hotel—Winthrop W. Grice of Be-thesda, MD, Aug. 20, 1993; vice president,Marriott; former president, Hotel Sales Man-agement Assn. International; recipient, Al-bert E. Koehl Award for lifetime achieve-ment in hotel advertising.

'53 BA—Mary E. Howard of Winter Park,FL, Aug. 31, 1993; librarian, University ofCentral Florida. Delta Gamma.

'54 BS ILR—John J. Griffin of Port Had-lock, WI, formerly of Chatsworth, CA, June14, 1993; had worked in labor relations andarbitration for 40 years with the FederalMediation and Conciliation Board.

'54 MS—Carlene R. Hillman of Levant,ME, April 20, 1993.

'54, B Chem E '55—Harry S Leonelli ofLake Harrington, IL, formerly of Olean, NY,Dec. 31,1992; was director of marketing, CFIndustries, with 25 years of service; formerpresident, Olean (NY) school board.

'54 MRP—Joseph M. Missavage of End-well, NY, July 11, 1993; former BroomeCounty, NY, planning commissioner; activein community affairs.

'54 PhD—Frederick K. Tom of Hilo, HI;June 17, 1993; professor emeritus, agricul-tural education, Cornell; first dean, Collegeof Agriculture, U. of Hawaii-Hilo; active ininternational development projects.

'54 BA—Lloyd R. Walters of Syracuse,NY, Aug. 28, 1993; retired after 24 years asprincipal, East Syracuse Middle School andPine Grove Elementary School.

'55 MA—Wade C. Stephens of Law-renceville, NJ; date of death unknown; di-rector of studies, the Lawrenceville School.

'56 PhD—Phyllis R. Snow of Logan, UT,July 1,1993; former dean, College of FamilyLife, Utah State U.; active in community andcivic affairs.

'57—Peter S. Brown of Cazenovia, NY,Aug. 22, 1993; restaurateur; active in com-munity affairs.

'57 BA—Beverly J. Martin of Ithaca, NY, July19,1993; nationally honored educator for whomIthaca's Central Elementary School was re-named; active in community and alumni affairs.

'57 BEE—John M. Van Horn of Norwich,VT, May 31, 1993.

'57 JD—Harry M. Weisberg of Miami, FL,Dec. 29, 1992.

'58, BEP '59—William J. Eadie of Ken-newich, WA, Aug. 5, 1993.

'59, BME '60—James O. Cermak of Gaith-ersburg, MD, July 1993; university benefactor.

'59 BA—Barbara Lebhar Levine (Mrs.Arnold J.) of New York, NY, July 8, 1992;active in alumni affairs. Husband, Arnold J. '59.

'59 BA—Alfred E. Nehring of Fort Lee,NJ, Feb. 19, 1993.

'59 BS Ag—Clare Pencil Ramage (Mrs.Edward D.) of Kansas City, MO, actual dateof death unknown.

'59—Frederic C. Stabler of Cortland, NY,Aug. 27, 1993; active in community affairs.

'60 BS Hotel—Marshall H. Brigham Jr.of Irving, TX, May 24, 1993.

'60 BA—Richard A. Brunswick of NewOrleans, LA, July 15, 1993; retired pediat-ric cardiovascular surgeon; president,Amtronics.

'60, BArch '61—Joseph N. Di lorio of La-guna Beach, CA, actual date of death unknown.

'60 MA—Elizabeth Sadler Earley (Mrs.Robert D.) of Salem, OH, Feb. 27, 1992.

'60 BA—Thorne B. Gray of Davis, CA,April 20, 1993; retired senior writer, TheSacramento Bee; author of books on Califor-nia history; involved in community affairs.

'61 BS Ag—Robert F. Horlock of St.Charles, IL, April 1993; high school biologyteacher; active in community affairs.

'61 BS Ag—John S. Mandel of Montclair,CA, Sept. 9, 1992.

'61 JD—Alan S. Marx of New Rochelle,NY, August 1993; lawyer; active in alumniaffairs. Wife Joanne (Trupin) '62.

'63 BS Ag—Alan W. Burg of Waban, MA,March 1992.

'63—Gershon Z. Lemberger of San Bruno,CA, May 25, 1989.

'64 BS Ag—Gary D. Zien of ColoradoSprings, CO, May 7, 1993.

'65 M Aero E—John W. Reece of Ithaca,NY. July 31, 1993; active in religious affairs.

'65-66 Grad—Shintaro Takahashi ofSetagayu-ku, Tokyo, Japan, actual date ofdeath unknown.

'68 BS, ME-M '70—Haren K. Mehta ofBombay, India, May 28, 1993.

'69 BA—John B. Winslow of St. Louis,MO, 1980.

'70 BS ILR—Daniel J. Carroll Jr. of Ab-ingdon, MD, actual date of death unknown.

'70 BA—T. Thorne Wϊggers of Washing-ton, DC, July 4,1993; active in alumni affairs.

'70 PhD—Lloyd Z. Wynroth of Ithaca,NY, Aug. 10, 1993; educator; developer,Wynroth Math Program, an internationallyknown program teaching math through the prin-ciple of learning through concrete materials.

'74 BFA—Arnold R. Fern of New YorkCity, July 27, 1993; restaurateur and artist.

'74 BS Ag—Judith E. Ford of Kerhonkson,NY, May 22, 1993; sportsman education co-ordinator for New York State Dept. of Envi-ronmental Conservation; 1991 recipient ofthe Darrell Holt Memorial National Sports-mans Education Award.

'74, BS Ag '73, MAT '74—Richard J. Wysz-kowski of Seneca Falls, NY, Aug. 10,1993.

'76—Kevin J. Sullivan of Central Square,NY, 1986.

'77 MS—Eugene P. Barton of Columbus,OH, May 2, 1989.

'81, BS Eng '82—Joji Williams of Oxnard,CA, February 199?.

'87—William C. Clark of Geneseo, NY,June 12, 1991.

'87—Donna M. Spaulding of Ithaca, NY,July 24, 1993.

'88 BA—Jeanne M. Messier of San Di-ego, CA, July 30, 1993; doctoral candidatein biology at University of California, SanDiego.

'88 BS Ag—Charles P. Wiecks of NewYork City, NY, Aug. 19, 1993.

'91 MS, Grad '91-93—Richard A. Huffof Ithaca, NY, August 1993; doctoral candi-date in computer science at Cornell.

'92 BS Ag—Jawaharlall Ramroop ofRichmond Hills, NY, March 7, 1993.

>94_Teresa Lazaro of Rio Piedras, PR,May 19,1993; undergraduate in Engineering.

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N early 30 Cornell clubs andalumni associations have beenrecognized by the CornellAlumni Federation for effortsto increase membership and

expand participation. Topping the listwere three clubs, recognized foroutstanding achievement: the Cor-nell Club of the Gold Coast (Flori-da) and the Cornell Club of LongIsland, for attaining the highest per-centage increases in membership,and the Cornell Club of SouthernArizona for earning the highest per-centage of involvement dur-ing the 1992-93 club year.Each of the three clubs re-ceived a cash award towardits scholarship fund.

The Cornell Club of theGold Coast, located in Ft.Lauderdale, took highesthonors, with an increase of358 percent, building itsmembership to 144 mem- NELSON

bers. The Gold Coast club receiveda cash award of $2,500 for its ef-forts. Long Island, which increasedits membership by 193 percent to atotal of 204 members, received$1,500. The Tucson-based SouthernArizona club, with 207 members anda nation-high membership rate of 67percent, earned the third award of$1,000. The cash prizes, presentedfor the second year in a row, weresupported by gifts from two anony-mous alumni.

In addition to showing substan-tial accomplishment in attractingmembers, clubs vying for the awardswere required to submit annual re-ports, lists of duespaying membersand other supporting documents.Clubs and alumni associations fail-ing to meet these criteria, or orga-nizations not established prior toJune 1, 1992, were ineligible for theawards.

Funds for the three award-win-ning clubs were deposited into uni-versity scholarship endowment ac-counts. These club-sponsored fundsassist qualified students from the

Honoredclub's community in attending Cor-nell and become part of the students'financial aid packages.

Other clubs and alumni associa-tions recognized for membershipdevelopment efforts, by region,were:•Metro-New York: Cornell Club ofMonmouth/Ocean Counties, The

Cornell Alumni As-sociation of West-chester and theCornell Club ofNorthern New Jer-sey.•NY-Ontario: CornellWomen's Club ofBatavia, Genesee-Orleans Cornell Club,Cornell Women's

Club of Cortland County and CornellMid-Hudson Alumni Association.• Northeast: Cornell Club of Great-er Hartford, Cape Cod Cornelliansand Cornell Club of Rhode Islandand Bristol County.•Mid-Atlantic: Cornell Club of Mary-land and Cornell Club of GreaterPennsylvania.•Southwest/Mountain: Cornell Al-umni Association of North Texas.•Southeast: Cornell Club of Cen-tral Florida, Sarasota-Manatee Cor-nell Club, Cornell Club of SouthwestFlorida, Cornell Alumni Associationof Atlanta, Cornell Club of Charlotteand Cornell Society of Charleston.•North Central: Cornell Club of Lou-isville and Cornell Club of Pittsburgh.•Midwest: Cornell Club of Chicagoand Cornell Club of St. Louis.•Western: Cornell Club of San Di-ego, Cornell Club of Santa Barbaraand Cornell Club of Oregon.

For more information about joiningyour local Cornell club or alumniassociation, contact the Office ofAlumni Affairs at (607) 255-3517.

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ARIZONA—RESIDENTIAL SALES & RELOCATIONS.Vacation homes. Martin Gershowitz 71, Arizona BestReal Estate, 8070 E. Morgan Trail, Suite 200, Scotts-dale, AZ 85258. (602) 948-4711,1-800-366-8064.

ITHACA, NY—2 bedroom, 1 bath home on large lotacross from Cornell campus. Phone David E. (708)677-7320.

CAYUGA LAKE and SENECA LAKE properties forsale. Selection of 50 cottages, homes, lots, farmswith waterfront. Senecayuga Properties, Mel Russo,Broker. (315)568-9404.

NAPLES, FLORIDA—Experience this winter paradise.Residential sales and seasonal rentals. Bruce Babcock'57. John R. Wood Inc. Realtors, 3255 Tamiami TrailN., Naples, FL 33940. (813) 261-6622 or FAX: (813)261-4746.

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LONDON, ENGLAND—Why a hotel? Consider ourluxury self-catering Mayfair Apartments. Competitiverates. British Breaks, Box 1176, Middleburg, VA.22117. Tel. (703) 687-6971. Fax (703) 687-6291.

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MAUI—4 bdrm/2 bath home and cottage on privatewhite sand cove; surfing, windsurfing. Hugh Starr '66.(808)572-8682.

FloridaBOCA 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.

Northwest USSUN VALLEY, IDAHO—Luxurious, spacious ski con-do at base of Mt. Baldy in Warm Springs. 3 bed-rooms, 3 baths, fireplace. Walk one block to lifts,restaurants, shops, apres ski. Contact Joanne Travers.(607) 257-7322.

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BASEBALL memorabilia, cards, POLITICAL Pins, Rib-bons, Banners, AUTOGRAPHS, STOCKS, BONDS want-ed. High prices paid. Paul Longo, Box 490-K, South Or-leans, MA 02662.

CORNELL BOOK STEIN—Mettlach No. 2001. John Ayer'47,89 Lincklaen St., Cazenovia, NY, 13035. Call collect,(315)655-3856.

location and Restoration Project. These beautiful birdshave such a hard time surviving on the open seas thatthey can now be found almost everywhere. No largeparking lot is safe! We plan to offer misplaced birdsfree airfare on domestic flights back to the ocean. Gullsmay apply for seats on a first-come, first-served basis.Call Jonathon Livingston at (607) 257-5133.

COMPUTERS AT LOW, WHOLESALE PRICES. Special dis-counts for Cornell alumni. (Code CU486MAX.) Call (212)972-5678, (718) 460-8785. Fax (212) 986-5856.

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WORLD GARDEN TOURS—Elegant Journeys to Beau-tiful Places. Gardens, museums, natural areas. Flori-da's Tropical Gardens, Longwood-Brandywine Valley,Canada, Caribbean, more. (607) 749-6012, Fax (607)749-6013, Box 59, Homer, NY 13077.

CLASS RINGS

IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!!—The Original Cornell A. D. \Ring is now on sale. Order your class ring by phone today!Call Student Agenices at (607) 272-2000.

PERSONALS

IVY & SEVEN SISTERS GRADS & FACULTY—Datesomeone in your league. A civilized, affordable way tomeet fellow alumni and colleagues. The Right Stuff. (800)

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

CALENDARDECEMBER December 4. Cornell men's hockey

at Princeton. Directions and detailsfor an after game gathering will bemailed later. Call Michael Ullmannat (609) 252-0878. CAA/Princetonarea.

ITHACA

December 1. A performance of "TheStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"at the Centre for Theater Arts. Call JaneLawrence at (607) 659-7720. CWC/Ithaca.

December 12. Caroling by candlelightwith the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra andindividual soloists and choruses. Bring thefamily. Call Mary Ellen Cummings at(607) 257-4812. CAA/Ithaca area.

NEW YORK/ONTARIODecember 1. Cornell/Syracuse basketballgame. Pre-game reception co-sponsoredwith District 15 CALSalumni. Call Shelly Emensat (315) 451-6500. CAA/Central New York.

December 3. Tour Young-Morse house on Route 9 inPough-keepsie to see sea-sonal decorations. Recep-tion and dinner in AmericanBounty Room. Call JoeSeigh at (914) 635-2284.CAA/Mid-Hudson.

December 5. Winter picnicand sleigh ride at SollecitoGarden Center with roasted chestnuts,hot chocolate and more. Call ShellyEmens at (315) 451-6500. CAA/CentralNew York.

December 13. Speaker Matthew Bullis—"Technology for the Visually Impaired."Call Judy Bennett at (315) 638-2125.CWC/Syracuse.

METRO NEW YORKDecember 3. Cornell men's hockey atYale. Party following the game. Detailsto be announced. Call Laura Fitzpatrickat (203) 655-0388. CC/Fairfield County.

December 3. Tour of Samuel Morse Man-sion in Poughkeepsie. Dinner followingat the Culinary Institute of America. CallJoe Seigh at (914) 635-2284. CAA/West-chester.

December 3. Cornell men's hockey atYale. Call Joe Guilia at (914) 725-2553.CAA/Westchester.

December 4. Cornell men's hockey atPrinceton. Call John Golden at (908) 922-9457. CC/Monmouth-Ocean Counties.

December 12. Holiday potluckbrunch at the home of Ronni Strellin West Orange. Call Rita Cohen at

(201) 992-0979. CC/Northern New Jersey.

NORTHEASTDecember 3. Cornell men's hockey at Yale.Call Peter Janus at (203) 727-8900. CC/Greater Hartford.

December 8. Ivy Plus holiday party. CallKaren Sehl (508) 744-2805. CC/Boston.

December 8. Holiday dinner-details in futuremailing. Call Glenn King at (508) 775-2233.CC/Cape Cod.

December 31. Ivy Plus NewYear's Eve Party. Call Karen Sehlat (508) 744-2805. CC/Boston.

MID ATLANTICDecember 4. Cornell men's hock-ey at Princeton. Limited to mem-bers and guests only. Call JimWilliams at (215) 688-2214. CC/Greater Philadelphia.

December 4. Chamber music con-cert at the Smithsonian Institutionfeaturing Cornell Prof. MalcolmBilson, world-renowned forte pi-

anist. Call Donna Eorsman at (703) 978-5705.CC/Washington.

December 5. Pot luck brunch at Jane Wart-er's house in Newark. Money raised willmake Christmas a wonderful time for lessfortunate families. Call Betty Dalton at (302)731-5560. CC/Delaware.

December 15. Private candlelight tour ofGeorge Washington's home followed by 8p.m. colonial-style dinner at the Mount Ver-non Inn. Call Donna Forsman at (703) 978-5705. CC/Washington.

SOUTHEASTDecember 2. Holiday cocktail party at the Gov-ernor's Club at the top of Phillips Point indowntown West Palm Beach. Call ColleneParker at (407) 840-1406. CC/Eastern Florida.

December 6. Cornell Fund phonathon. CallDuane Neil at (404) 252-0678. CAA/Atlanta.

December 7. Cornell Fund phonathon. Beour guest for dinner, then make phone callsfrom 7 to 9 p.m. Location to be announced.CAA/Southwest Florida. Call Christina Lum-vey at (813) 495-8576.

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December 11. "Me and My Girl" Mati-nee at Broadway Palm Dinner Theater.Reception before buffet and back of thehouse tour after the show. Call Christi-na Lurvey at (813) 495-8576. CAA/South-west Florida.

December 12. Tampa Bay Buccaneersvs. the Chicago Bears. Big Red tailgate;game at 1 PM. Space limited. Call EliseHamann at (813) 253-5432. CC/Suncoast.

December 12. Holiday party at JimAckles' home in Tampa. Bring a dessertand a friend. Call Jim Ackles at (813) 726-5656. CC/Sun-coast.

December 28. Holiday get-together atthe home of Virginia Van Geem Doneganin Bay Hill, Orlando. Meet high schoolstudents applying to Cornell. Call VirginiaVan Geem Don-egan at (407) 855-5934.CC/Central Florida.

NORTH CENTRAL

December 19. "The Nutcracker" at Mu-sic Hall in Cincinnati. Seating is limited.Call Kelly Smith at (513) 871-3858. CC/Southwestern Ohio.

MIDWEST

December 4. Pre-holiday wine tasting andappetizer extravaganza at the home ofMarty and Diέnne Lustig in Prairie Village,Kansas. Call Marty and Dianne Lustig at(913) 381-2717. CC/Mid-America.

December 4. Cornell vs. St. Louis Univer-sity basketball at the St. Louis Arena.Group tickets and a pre or post-game get-together are planned. Call Monte Morganat (314) 968-0345. CC/St. Louis.

WESTERN

December 1. South Coast Repertory'sannual production of "A Christmas Car-ol." Reception at the Center Club withhors d'oeuvres and no-host bar. Call ErieSteinmeyer at (714) 857-6101. CAA/Or-ange County.

December 2. Annual holiday party at theSan Diego Yacht Club, Staff CommodoreRoom with music by Cayuga's Waiters.Call Terry and Sally West at (619) 792-0750. CC/San Diego.

December 9. Tour Oregon Graduate Insti-tute's newly renovated facilities. Call DougSmith at (503) 359-9300. CC/Oregon.

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OVERNIGHT ROOMS, CONVIVIAL TAP AND GRILL, STATE-OF-

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IF YOU HAD GIVEN YOURSELF THE GIFT OF MEMBERSHIP

LAST YEAR, YOU WOULD HAVE ENJOYED:

• LISTENING TO BOTH DAVID DINKINS AND RUDOLPH

GIULIANI GIVE THEIR THOUGHTS ON MANAGING THE

MOST UNUSUAL CITY IN THE WORLD, OR DINING WITH

PROFESSOR SHIBLEY TELHAMI AND HEARING ABOUT THE

SIGNING OF THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE ACCORD

• FEASTING AT THE CLUB AT THANKSGIVING DINNER,

THE EASTER BRUNCH, MOTHER'S DAY BUFFET, AND

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

• VIEWING A SCREENING OF "LOVERS AND OTHER

STRANGERS" AND LISTENING TO SPECIAL GUESTS ANNE

JACKSON, ELI WALLACH AND PATRICIA NEAL TALK ABOUT

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• KEEPING FIT AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE HEALTH &

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Don V delay another minute . . .

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yourself (or someone else) the "perfect gift. "

Join by December 31 and The Club will

waive your initiation fee. We look

forward to having you as a part of

The Cornell Club family of members.