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1986 Award WinnerJohn Mariani, Jr. '54

Dear Alumni:

The Awards Committee of the 1987 Entrepreneur of the Year Program would like to invite youto nominate your candidate for the 1987 award. Nominations will be carefully reviewed andthe winner selected and announced in November 1986. Deadline for submitting nominationsis September 1. To participate, please complete the form below and mail it to Entrepreneur ofthe Year Program, 303 Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-0261.

Nominees should be Comedians:• whose contributions to the private-enterprise system are an inspiration to others• who have started and successfully managed their own business or businesses• who inherited or bought a business and whose leadership and vision brought about rapid

change and growth of that business• whose personal and business relationships are characterized by the highest integrity• whose creativity and business skills have enriched society.We look forward to hearing from you.

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Inly 1986Volume 89, Number 1

CoverA handsome animal frisks at the Equine Research Park, where Veterinarystaff study the nutrition, locomotion, and physiology of horses. A story inthis issue deals with a key illness that afflicts horses.

2 The UniversityThe final weeks of the academic year unfold gloriously.

8 Research and BooksWhy sun may be bad for your health. Study shows more about the value offarm cover crops. Books by Cornellians from Kahin to Lurie.

10 Headers WriteAbout Star Wars, fraternities, and "the real world" of politics andinvestment.

13 Attacking Equine FluBy William Steele '54. Dorothy Holmes '58 and colleagues close in onvaccine to deal with a costly illness.

18 Isaac DeliversBy Rachmiel Forschmiedt '25. Before dawn, the clink of bottles, a footstep,the stomp of a horse.

21 A Rousing ReunionBy Jeanette Knapp and others. The 1986 get-together of alumni cheers its speakers,takes a look at campus architecture, and hears from its best-known minute manager.

25 Notes of the Reunion Classes32 Notes of the Non-Reunion ClassesClass notes. Alumni deaths.

57 Alumni ActivitiesMaking waves in the Capital, by Richard Hoffman '67. '16 recalls its mentors.Awards honor alumni. Georgia pardons a lynching victim. The Cabbagetown cook inthe news. Other word of alumni and two colleges. A calendar of events.

62 NewsBeebe Lake to endure. The Alumni Assn. names its first woman presidentand makes other changes. Grant Whitney '86 leads spring athletes.

Commencement '86fills Schoellkopfand once againholds off the rain

Nothing is simple aboutcommencement at a schoolthe size of Cornell. Somany spectators now at-tend graduation that the

only place for the graduates is on foldingchairs on the football field.

On the Wednesday before graduation,more than 280 ushers, mainly staff andfaculty volunteers, gathered at Schoell-kopf stadium for final instructions. Onthe field a crew of nine workmen with atruck and a forklift were protecting theartificial turf with plastic sheeting andplywood, sheets and sheets of plywood.The ushers were reminded that Com-mencement is Cornell's biggest event.Their job was to welcome and do all theycould for the university's 25,000 guests.

Commencement Day, Sunday, June 1,began early with many departments plan-ning 8 a.m. breakfasts as final send-offsfor their graduates. Coffee and donuts bythe Dairy Store, juice and rolls on thelawn in front of Fernow Hall, eggs andsausage at Emerson, strawberries andpastries between Plant Science and MissMinns's garden. Families were introducedto professors, and they talked of the fourswift years suddenly behind them, andthe weather.

Already the day was sunny and hot,glorious for a lawn party, but the forecastwas ominous. Prof. Douglas Paine,agronomy, had planned to get up at 5:30to take a careful look at the radar and theother weather data that comes into themeteorology unit on the top floor ofBradfield Hall. However, thunder, light-

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Boisterous seniors pass the reviewing stand on Schoellkopf Field on their way to graduation.

ning, and torrential rain, exactly the "se-vere weather" conditions that wouldforce Commencement into double shiftsindoors at Barton Hall, kept him up mostof the night while much of the corn cropon his Trumansburg farm was washedaway.

There were storms to the north andsouth, but a good chance that the coldfront might wait until after the noon cere-mony. Hoping that President FrankRhodes's luck would hold, Paine calledfor an outdoor ceremony.

The day grew hotter. The stadium filledwith parents and grandparents, brothers,sisters, friends. For more than an hourthe procession of graduates marchedfrom the Arts Quad to Schoellkopf, rankon rank of laughing, talking young peo-ple holding roses, balloons, teddy bears,and bottles of champagne.

"It's not what it was forty years ago,"a spectator commented sourly, shakinghis head at the sandals and shorts and theempty bottles being chunked into thetrash.

The graduates may not have looked se-

date enough to suit some, but under thecheers and the jokes, they seemed to betaking the end of their academic educa-tion seriously enough. They were, afterall, there, some 4,300 of them, in blackmortarboards and black robes on a veryhot day. A senior who had broken hisfoot playing volleyball the day beforewaited on crutches at the gate so he couldat least hobble into the stadium with hisclass. "I wouldn't miss it," he said.

The University Wind Ensemble playedon. Engineering students were marchingin when musicians swung into Pomp andCircumstance again. "They're playingit," one student marvelled. "It's real."

Real enough. Preliminary figures indi-cate that between August 1985 and June1986 bachelor's degrees were conferredon 1,044 students in Arts and Sciences;927 in Agriculture and Life Sciences; 562in Engineering; 325 in Human Ecology;202 in Industrial and Labor Relations;184 in Hotel Administration; and 105 inArchitecture, Art and Planning. Sixstudents earned Master of Arts inTeaching degrees; 226 earned Master of

Business Administration degrees; and 615earned other master's degrees. The Doc-tor of Philosophy degree was conferredon 465; Doctor of Veterinary Medicine,186; Doctor of Law, 179; Doctor ofMedicine, 103; and Doctor of MusicalArts, 3.

Rhodes advised the assembled gradu-ates to commit themselves "to ends thatare true and good," saying that suchcommitment would "sustain you in timesof criticism, support you in times of fail-ure, and sober you in times of success."

The graduates laughed and cheeredand uncorked champagne as each collegegroup stood and its degrees were con-ferred en masse. And then it was over andthe hot sun still shone as families huggedand beamed and snapped pictures. Morereceptions awaited, in the courtyard ofILR, on the lawn beside the Vet college,apple cider and ice cream at the Ag col-lege, strawberries and champagne at Arts.

By the time the rain and the cold frontblew through that evening, graduation'86 was happily over.

—Jeanette Knapp

The Cornell Alumni Newsowned and published by theCornell Alumni Associationunder the direction of itsPublications Committee.

Publications CommitteeKeith R. Johnson '56, ChairmanDorothy Kay Kesten '44John A. Krieger '49Donald Christiansen '50Nicholas H. Niles '61Sarah Slater Brauns '73Dennis Williams '73Officers of the Alumni Association:Madόlyn McAdams Dallas '58,PresidentJames D. Hazzard '50,Secretary-TreasurerPresident, Association of Class Officers:C. Richard Jahn '53

EditorJohn Marcham '50Managing EditorElsie McMillan '55Associate EditorJeanette KnappContributorsWilliam Steele '54, Marcy Dubroff '84,Stephen Madden '86, Stefanie Lehman

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IllustrationsCover, by David M. Doody. Otherpages: 3, Matt Jones '80; 4, Jones; 6,Jones, Andrea Bauman '86; 8, Bauman;12, Sol Goldberg '46; 14-15, College ofVeterinary Medicine; 16, Marcy Dubroff'84; 19, from Rachmiel Forschmiedt '25;20, Jones; 21, Stefanie Lehman; 22,Charles Harrington, Dubroff; 23,Harrington; 25, Dubroff; 26,Harrington; 27, Lehman; 28,Harrington; 30, Dubroff; 57-58, JeanGwaltney; 60, JEB; and 64, Jon Crispin.

Class of 1986insists on onefinal outdoorbash before finals

This year's Springiest, an annual celebra-tion of the end of the academic year,could well be subtitled "Triumph of theWill." Students angered at relocation ofthe traditional Libe Slope concert andbeer bash to an alcohol-free Helen New-man Field, staged an unsanctioned "TakeBack the Slope" party which drew acrowd of more than 4,500 to the sun-drenched grass of Libe Slope on May 9,the last day of classes. The sanctionedSpringiest concert drew an estimated2,000 spectators.

The "Take Back the Slope" movementbegan in mid-April when an anonymousorganizer began placing classified ads inthe Daily Sun calling for seniors to cele-brate the last day of classes on the Slopein defiance of the administration's deci-sion to move Springiest from its tradi-tional Libe Slope location to the newNorth Campus site. The move is necessi-tated, officials say, by the new New YorkState alcohol purchase age and theuniversity's liability situation. (See theJune Alumni News, "The Party'sOver.")

As the semester draws to a close, moreads appear in the Sun supporting the ideaof recapturing the Slope. Someenthusiasts adopt another rallying cry,calling the event "Libe Aid" after lastsummer's rock concerts aiding Africanfamine victims. Soon the ads are signed,as people as prominent as the senior classpresident and the head of the CornellConcert Commission endorse the move.Fraternities and sororities also publiclysupport Libe Aid. Banners sprout on thetower of McFadden Hall demanding thatthe slope be reclaimed. And, of course,T-shirts appear with the "Take Back theSlope" legend.

This being Cornell, there is lengthypublic debate about different facets ofthe movement. Letters to the Sun ques-tion the appropriateness of the move-ment's name. "Take Back the Slope"trivializes women's issues, complain sup-porters of "Take Back the Night," an an-nual feminist rally and march that publi-cizes the need to prevent crimes againstwomen. One ad argues that Cornell'ssilent majority is hypocritical: "Youwon't support divestment but you willfight for your beer bash."

Early arrivals cavort at Springiest onLibe Slope.

Rumors swamp the campus the day be-fore classes end. One rumor claims thatPublic Safety has sworn in ten new depu-ties to arrest the revelers. "Let themcome," trumpets a Sun classified, "Howmany drunks can they arrest?" Otherssuggest that the administration, in its be-

nevolence, would turn a blind eye to allthe fun.

The latter rumor proves to be true. OnThursday afternoon, Dean of StudentsDavid Drinkwater meets with some sixty-five of what he calls "the grassroots Wad-ers" of the movement to inform themthat the university does not oppose thegathering on the slope. "It might haveseemed to some that the university wastrying to take away people's fun; that'snot true," he said. But he did warn thestudents of liability problems they mightface, especially if underaged drinkers getin any trouble.

And so on Friday, May 9, the last dayof classes of the spring 1986 semester,

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Sun shines down on a mass of seniorsand their friends on the Slope.

barefoot Slopebusters by the hundredsstart arriving at noon on the grassy, west-facing expanse behind Uris Library,armed with kegs of beer, frisbees, and, ofcourse, tape players and radios. There isnot a cloud in the sky—Mother Nature'sway of making up for so many sunlessNovember afternoons and freak Aprilsnowstorms. Music blares in cacophonyfrom ten West Campus fraternities. PhiKappa Psi fraternity, annual sponsors ofthe Phi Psi 500—canceled this year—fι:

nally gets to fly their 'Phi Psi 500' ban-ner.

"It was a lot of fun," says Jessica Mil-ler, a senior in Human Ecology. "Eventhough there was no band, it was just asgood as last year. The music from thefrats was more in the background, whichmade it easier to talk to people. Every-body was really happy."

Miller adds, "A lot of Cornell tradi-tions like the Phi Psi 500 and Springiestwere ruined by the new drinking age, andI thought it was really sort of sad, espe-cially for seniors who wouldn't be able toparty on the slope for one last time." Sheis impressed by the administration's deci-sion not to stop the party, saying "It waswise of them to give in. There weren'tmany problems because people were incontrol since the university didn't makethe whole thing a big deal."

Robin Carberry '87, an agriculturaleconomics major, says the party is "agreat time, even if there was no band."Carberry continues, "It was ridiculous tomove the concert because everybody wason the slope anyway."

Almost everybody. About 2,000 peopleeventually make their way to North Cam-pus, past the Public Safety officers at thegates of the three-foot-tall plastic fenceerected around the field for the occasion,and to the stage near Helen Newman Hallto hear Boston's Del Fuegos, a hard-nosed rock 'n' roll band recently featuredin a Miller Beer commercial. It's too badmore people don't make it up to the con-cert; the Del Fuegos put on a good show.Cornell Dining offers barbequed steaksandwiches and free Coca Cola in lieu ofbrew.

By 7 p.m., the action on North Cam-pus is starting to wind down and thingson the slope are almost over. Only thehard-core partyers linger, finishing thelast of their beer and fighting off a breezethat grows chiller as the sun passes behindWest Hill. By all accounts, "Take Backthe Slope" is a smashing success.

"People certainly seemed to have a

good time, and behavioral problems wereat a minimum," says Dean David Drink-water. As for next year, Drinkwater sayshe expects the university to review the en-tire Springiest phenomena to see whatmakes the best sense for all of the groupsinvolved.

Who says the party's over?—Stephen Madden '86

Seniors cementfriendshipsin a ^eek fullof saying goodbye

Senior Week, the seven days immediatelypreceding Commencement, is a lot likefreshman Orientation Week. Both areweek-long binges, gifts from someadministrator who figured that after (orbefore) all the work, and while the sun isout, the kids might as well have some fun.And so it seems that everybody is throw-ing a party or swimming in the gorge orgoing to a cookout. Smiles and laughterand sun tans are the order of the day.

But the similarities stop there. The ac-tivities scheduled for the two are topicallythe same, but the atmosphere at the par-ties and on the sun-drenched slabs ofgorge slate is radically different. Fresh-men are having a ball; they're busy andanxious, sure, but hell, they've got fouryears of fun ahead of them. Orientationdupes them into thinking that Cornell isalways going to be one big bash, despite

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the fact that upperclassmen are warningthem to the contrary. Freshmen spendtheir first week making new friends, find-ing their way around by getting lost in thelabyrinth of buildings, and maybe evenpatting themselves on the back for havinggained admission to such a university.

To the senior, though, that last week isone of quasi-desperation. It is the lastsanctioned bacchanalia, the last time thatsome higher authority will absolve one ofall responsibility and say, "Go For It."The last week is also spent with friends, insome cases the same friends made thefirst week of life at Cornell. It, too, is atime for self-congratulations. "We madeit through this place! We survived theprelims, the rain, the hill, the curves.We're done!"

But the prospect of four years of fundoesn't spread out in front of a senior thesame way it does for a freshman. Afterthis week, the party is over, and every-body knows it. A job may bring the fi-nancial reward we've dreamed of, and adiploma means we'll never have to writeanother term paper, but it also means anend to sleeping late if you don't feel likegoing to class, and in most cases, an endto being surrounded by 22-year-olds

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Part of Senior Week hay ride party,one of many events that sold out.

(which is a lot of fun if you're 22). It alsomeans saying goodbye to the people wehave come of age with, a task put off tothe last moment as if it were an Englishessay on a book only casually read.

The 1986 version of Senior Week seemsdesigned with these thoughts in mind.The week is packed with events whichepitomize the Cornell experience: massiveparties on the Arts Quad on Sunday af-ternoon and Wednesday night (partieswhich, like Cornell, are easy to feel lost atuntil you find the right people and start toenjoy yourself); picnics at the Plantationsand at Treman State Park bathed in sun-light, green grass, and a sea of styrofoamcoolers; a raucous night at the North For-ty disco, tours of area wineries, horse-back riding expeditions, hayrides, and acanoe trip on the Delaware River.

The week is a big hit. All of the eventsare sold out. Collegetown bars are packedat night, and Egan's grocery store on Col-lege Avenue does a brisk trade in cases ofbeer, charcoal, and ice. But permeatingthe fun at every turn is a sense of ...what? Doom? Fear? Foreboding? Hadn'twe worked toward this goal for the pastfour years? Isn't this what all thoseprelims and problem sets and review ses-sions and all-nighters were for? What iseverybody so worried about? We've pass-ed the test, it's time to move on to new

challenges and reap the rewards life haswaiting for us.

The problem, though, is that if you'vedone Cornell properly, you have a core ofvery good friends, people who helped youget by here. Graduation means leavingthem, or at least not living with them andeating dinner with them every night. Itmeans pulling up your roots and movingto places where you don't know anybody.Again, it's a lot like coming to Cornell asa freshman.

Senior Week, then, is a raving series ofcontradictions. It is a chance to partywith all the people who have helped tomake Cornell what it is and to reaffirmthose friendships, the same as any otherparty on any other night of our four-yearstay on the Hill. But if you stop to thinkabout it and let the specter of reality creepin, the sense of dread deepens with everyrealization that this is the last time youare going to swill beer on the Arts Quadfor a long while, this is the last time youwill sit on Libe Slope and watch thesunset, this is the last time you and thesefour guys will argue politics, baseball,and girls and eat pizza in the Chariot, thelast time you will sit on a wall in College-town and read the morning paper.

But of course, you try not to think ofthat stuff. We put off thoughts of sayinggoodby and focus on the tasks at hand.We have to pick up gowns and caps atPurcell Union, send directions to ourfolks coming to town for the big day,

start tearing posters off walls and packingour books for another move, and wemust start getting psyched for a new job,wherever and whenever it starts.

And we have to go to Convocation onthe day before Graduation. This is whenit really starts to sink in, when it becomesall too real that we are the ones that thespeeches are being directed at. Convoca-tion speaker Senator Daniel PatrickMόynihan exhorts us to seek the truthwherever we go, arid in so doing tells usthat the American Dream of spiralingeconomic growth is dead, and the soonerwe realize that the better. It's not the sortof speech a bunch of graduating seniorsexpect to hear, but the truth always hurts.It also doesn't mesh with PresidentRhodes's graduation promise thatBMWs, fresh pasta, and Club Med holi-days await us. I guess they don't use thesame speech writers.

The final contradiction of the weekcomes on Sunday, the day my par-ents—and ,8,600 other parents—havebeen waiting for. After all the times wetrudged around campus in mittens, hat,and scarf, our final promenade from theArts Quad to Schoellkόpf has us sweatingthrough our heavy black robes and quaff-ing champagne to beat the heat.

I suppose it is fitting that Ithaca andCornell give us such a sendoff. Warmsunshine carries a certain promise of goodthings to come; so does the knowledgethat no matter where we go, the last weekat Cornell has solidified friendships thatmay well last a lifetime. Confusion andcontradiction are part of any change as ir-reversible as college graduation. —SM

Research explainswoes of sunningExposure to too much sunshine may bebad for your health, says Prof. DaphneA. Roe, nutrition. Sunbathing and otherexposures to ultraviolet light can result in"highly significant reductions" of beta-carotene, an important nutrient that mayprotect the body against skin, lung, blad-der, arid other cancers.

Vitamin A is produced in the bodyfrom beta-carotene. * Our studies strong-ly suggest that sunlight can break downbeta-carotene in white and Oriental peo-ple who are repeatedly exposed to averagesummer sunshine," said Roe.

Roe and her colleagues found that ul-traviolet light rays reduced the levels ofcarotenoids in the blood of subjects after

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eleven exposures during a two-week per-iod, but did not significantly affect thelevels of the other nutrients studied.

These findings may be important notonly for sun-loving Americans, but alsofor people in sunny countries where vita-min A deficiencies cause blindness.

In the meantime, the findings supporttwo recommendations by doctors and sci-entists: protect yourself from the harshrays of the sun and eat plenty of foodshigh in beta-carotene, including spinach,broccoli, squash, carrots, sweet potatoes,pumpkin, peas, and cantaloupe.

Why a cover crop?Planting a cover crop Between growingseasons or growing a companion crop be-tween rows of existing crops can halt soilerosion and improve the soil, reportsProf. Thomas W. Scott, agronomy.

Cover crops protect a field from theelements with vegetation until the follow-ing growing season, while an intercropcan inhibit weeds. Scott has been study-ing cover crop and intercrop methodssince 1978 and his findings have shownthat these methods not only protect soil,but can improve soil conditions and pos-sibly reduce the need for certain fertilizersand herbicides.

Successful cover crops tested by Scottinclude winter wheat, winter rye, clover,and ryegrass. Common intercrop varietiesinclude buckwheat, rye, clover, alfalfa,ryegrass, and hairy vetch. Using covercrops, according to Scott's findings, caneven put cash back in a farmer's pocket ifthe cover crops and intercrops are har-vested or grazed before replanting withthe primary crop.

Cornellίan books:Kahin to LurieImagined Communities: The Origins andSpread of Nationalism by Prof. BenedictR. Anderson, government (Verso). Theessence of a nation is that all individualshave many things in common and thatthey have forgotten many things, particu-larly the nation's unpleasant historicevents.

Taking Advantage of Media by Laur-ene Krasny Brown '66 (Routledge & Ke-gan Paul). Children are profoundly influ-enced by stories, but it makes a differencewhether the story is told in person, overthe radio or television, or by computer,movie, or book. This book examines re-

cent research that may help parents,teachers, and librarians decide which isthe best method for various situationsand ages.

Cabbagetown Cafe Cookbook by JulieJordan '71 (Crossing Press). Recipesfrom Collegetown's best known vegetar-ian restaurant. (Story on page 60.)

Keeping Livestock Healthy: A Veterin-ary Guide by N. Bruce Haynes, DVM '52(Garden Way Publishing). In describingthis updated version of his book, Haynessays, "This is not a book on how to treatsick animals. Instead it attempts to ex-plain the nature of the disease processand outlines methods of preventing ill-nesses."

Intervention: How America BecameInvolved in Vietnam by George Kahin,the Binenkorb professor of internationalstudies (Knopf). A close study of the po-litical side of our intervention in Vietnamand how American presidents were servedby their advisers.

The War Between the Tates by Prof.Alison Lurie, English (Avon). Reprintedin paperback. A late '60s novel abouthow a department head at Corinth Col-lege and his wife deal with career insecuri-ties, infidelity, and rebellious children.

The Lines of Life: Theories of Biogra-phy, 1880-1979 by Prof. David Novarr,English (Purdue University Press). Acomparison of biography to the art ofnovel writing and how it is the "interpen-etration of one mind by another."

The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry'69 (Charles Scribner's Sons). In this no-vel, a hit man finds it easier to assassinatea senator than collect the payoff. He sud-denly becomes the hunted instead of thehunter.

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Star WarsEditor: This letter is in response to earlierletters on Star Wars [April '85, February'86]. Despite President Reagan's agree-ment on several occasions that nuclearwar is unwinnable, his Secretary of De-fense signed into Pentagon policy a pro-gram statement that this country must beable to fight and win a nuclear war. It isapparently as a part of this unpublίcizedpolicy that our government is:1. Amassing a large armada of first strikenuclear weapons (Cruise missile, PershingII, Trident, and others) that can be usedto destroy Soviet missiles in their silos,and Soviet command sites.2. Using our limited SDI defense shield todestroy 90 percent of the remaining Sovi-et missiles directed to the US after such afirst stike attack.

Both computer experts and scientistsseriously question our ability to produce atrue nuclear weapons shield. This goal isfar more complex and difficult than theinitial development of electricity, air-planes, or automobiles. It is like demand-ing that Edison invent, not just the elec-tric light, but the modern power station,transmission lines, and fluorescent lightsall in one process. This is the unrealisticdemand placed upon Star Wars, with thefurther restriction that we cannot test thissystem in all its computer complexity, butonly in small isolated units.

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Miriam McAllister Hall '24Easton, Maryland

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Fraternity alumniEditor: Now that several months havemellowed my reaction to John Sullivan'sletter "A Disgrace" in the FebruaryCAN, I shall attempt a reply. He mustvisit Cornell infrequently. Unfortunatelyhe chose a weekend. Students (and alum-ni) have been known to party on Fridayand Saturday nights, and clean up israther slow the next morning, both oncampus and in fraternity houses. Help isjust not what it was in the 1930's.

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in Ithaca, as if these alumni who boast of"experience in the real world" havelearned nothing from it.• The government of South Africa prac-tices racial slavery. The white minoritycompletely controls through politics andguns the black majority which, as a re-sult, lives in desperate poverty and fear.

The companies that do business in andwith South Africa support its policieswith money and recognition. What littleeconomic good they do for the handful oftheir black employees is far, far out-weighed by the damage done to the livesof millions of South African blacks.

The demonstrators were rowdy and un-mannerly, but they had the moral cour-age to speak out against injustice that thetrustees and the present Cornell adminis-tration lack. Freedom of speech is not theissue: the trustees and the administrationhave powerful forums for expressing theirviews and they have used them to supportterrible, immoral tyranny. Extreme at-titudes on their part have provoked ex-treme responses from their opponents.

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Editor: All of us deplore apartheid andall it stands for but under no cir-cumstances are we willing to let a groupof egotists from the Cornell Think Tank,who think they have a handle on thissituation, do our thinking for us. Thevery style of behavior that you are con-demning in South Africa is the one youare so intent on practicing at Cornell.

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Editor: I usually enjoy your Letters col-umn, and even contribute one of my ownfrom time to time. That letter fromThomasine and Richard Reade, in theMay issue, struck a new low however.Disagree, and you're a "criminal, racist,pro-comrrίunist radical.''

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Attacking Equine FluVet College's Holmes and colleaguesclose in on vaccine for a costly illness

By William Steele '54

A Cornell veterinarian's research break-through may save the horse industry mil-lions of dollars, while helping the horsesthemselves avoid the discomfort anddanger of influenza.

Yes, horses get the flu, just like people.In fact, the human and equine versions ofthe disease are so similar that researchersworking on human influenza are watch-ing the veterinary work closely.

A horse with the flu develops symp-toms similar to those seen in humans, in-cluding a runny nose and a dry, rackingcough that sounds almost like a bark. Itstemperature rises as high as 106 degrees F("normal" varies from one horse to an-other, and can be anywhere from 99.5 Fto 101 F). "They can't tell you how theyfeel," says Dorothy Nielsen Holmes,DVM '58, PhD '73, "but from the waythey walk you know they've got to acheall over." Some sick horses will lie downin their stalls and refuse to move, express-ing the equine equivalent of "Go awayand let me die in peace!"

Although horses seldom do die of theflu itself, complications like pneumoniaand secondary bacterial infections can befatal. Or a horse can be left with a chron-ic respiratory infection, or the fever cancause blood vessel damage in the feet thatleaves the animal permanently lame.Complications can be avoided, saysHolmes, "if you don't stress them, if youdon't do anything dumb."

Unfortunately, equine influenza is aptto strike just when life is most stressfulfor horses: when they congregate forsales, shows, and races. Horses are oftenexposed to the disease for the first timewhen they come to such events as year-lings after growing up in relative isolationon their home farms. "It's like kids goingto kindergarten without being immu-

nized," Holmes says. These times are alsostressful for owners, who may indeed dosomething dumb like forcing the horse torace or perform or stick to its trainingschedule.

Without complications, the fever lastsabout five days and all symptoms aregone in a week or two. While this is a nui-sance and perhaps an emotional traumafor the owner of a recreational horse, itcan be financially disastrous for a breederor the owner of a working horse. A horsewith the flu won't feel like racing or train-ing, and won't look like much to prospec-tive buyers.

If there aren't enough horses to fill arace, the race is cancelled, and the eco-nomic impact goes beyond owners to thetrack operators and to the state, whichloses its share of the parimutuel wagering.Because there is no formal system for re-porting cases of equine flu, there's noway to know exactly how much damage itdoes, but it probably costs the horse in-dustry millions of dollars each year inNew York State alone.

There is a vaccine available to protecthorses against the flu, but it has prob-lems. Holmes, a senior research associatein the College of Veterinary Medicine, istrying to develop a better one, workingwith co-investigators Prof. James Gilles-pie, VMD and William Higgins, DVM'72, and research technician LucindaLamb '75. At this writing it appears theymay be on the verge of success.

The influenza viruses that plaguehorses, humans, and other animals are allquite similar. Each microscopic virus par-ticle consists of a small bundle of ribonu-cleic acid (RNA) enclosed in a proteinshell. Some of the proteins on the shell letthe virus attach itself to the outside of aliving cell; others provide a "key" that

unlocks the cell membrane and allows thevirus to slip inside. It is these proteins,each specific to the type of cell the virusattacks, that mark the difference betweenviruses infecting various species.

The RNA inside the virus contains acomplete blueprint for the virus; it is simi-lar to the RNA the cell itself uses to guidethe manufacture of proteins. Once insidethe cell, the virus RNA commandeers thecell's protein-making machinery and usesit to make more viruses, until there are somany that they burst open the cell and goon to attack other cells. It's the destruc-tion of cells that irritates the respiratorytract and causes all the other ravages of avirus disease.

To defend against this attack, the vic-tim's immune system manufactures anti-bodies—molecules precisely shaped to fitonto the proteins on the outside of the vi-rus and deactivate it. We don't know forsure how this works, but the most likelyscenario is that the antibodies cover theproteins that let the virus attach itself to acell. Unfortunately, it takes a few days tomake the antibodies for an unfamiliarvirus, and during that time the body suf-fers all the ravages of the disease. Butafter that the immune system remembershow to make those particular antibodies,often for life.

A less drastic way to acquire immunityto a virus is to use a vaccine to trick theimmune system into making antibodies.A common way to make a vaccine is totreat the virus with chemicals that destroythe RNA but leave the protein coat; sucha virus can't reproduce, but it may stimu-late the body to make antibodies to itsproteins. Vaccines made this way are re-ferred to as "killed virus" vaccines, but"inactivated" is probably better, becausenot everyone thinks of viruses as alive.

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If you infect a cell culture with different viruses,the genes may mix in some cells, creating newvirus designs, 'reassortants,' which may create

some new varieties of flμ.

Unfortunately for human beings, thereare several strains of the human flu virus,each with different proteins on its shell,so having, say, the "swine flu" doesn'tprotect us from the "Hong Kong" varie-ty. Flu vaccines for humans protectagainst all the known varieties, but hu-man flu viruses seem to mutate frequent-ly, producing new strains.

Fortunately for horses, only twoequine influenza viruses, called Aj andA2, are known, and so far they haven'tchanged enough to affect immunity. Theequine viruses change less often than thehuman ones, researchers believe, becausehorses have a shorter lifespan, rarely liv-ing more than 20 to 25 years. Virusesprobably mutate all the time, but the mu-tations only become important when apopulation develops widespread immuni-ty to the old varieties. Among horses,there's always a new crop of yearlingsaround for good old Aj and A2 to infect,and fewer older animals, already immuneto the established varieties, to give newstrains a breeding ground.

There has been a "killed virus" vaccineagainst equine Al and A2 viruses on themarket for about twenty years, but itsprotection doesn't last as long as ownerswould like. In the early 1970s Leroy Cog-gins, DVM, PhD '62 and Mathias Ke-men, DVM '47, MS '68 tested horses atNew York State racetracks and foundthat animals that had been vaccinated aslittle as three months before no longerhad enough antibodies in their blood toprotect them against the flu.

A three-month vaccine just isn't practi-cal for working horses, because it doesn'tget used. After inoculation, a horse maybe mildly sick, and owners can't affordnot to have a horse at the peak of its abili-ty when it's working or training. If theirhorses go to a lot of shows or travel theracing circuit, owners often skip the ino-culations, even though these are thehorses most under stress and most likelyto be exposed to the disease.

Coggins, who was professor of veterin-ary virology at Cornell from 1968 to

1980, launched a search for a better vac-cine, with Holmes joining the effort in1975. Coggins is now chairman of the De-partment of Microbiology, Pathology,and Parasitology at North Carolina StateUniversity. Kemen is now the chief veter-inarian for the New York State Board ofRacing and Wagering.

Holmes is trying to redesign the "wild"equine flu virus into something tamer, us-ing a sort of genetic engineering capabili-ty already built into the flu virus.

The RNA in a flu virus consists of eightshort strands; each is one gene, codingfor the manufacture of one protein. Ifyou infect a cell culture with two differentviruses at the same time, the genes of thetwo kinds may get mixed up inside somecells, creating new virus designs known as"reassortants." This reassorting probab-ly occurs in nature, and may be responsi-ble for the creation of some new varietiesof flu.

By exposing flu viruses to radiation orchemicals that cause mutations, it's possi-ble to create new viruses with characteris-tics never seen in nature. These can thenbe reassorted with the "wild" virus in thelaboratory to refine the design. It's a lotlike crossbreeding plants.

Brian Murphy, MD and co-workers atthe National Institutes of Health havebeen using this technique for some timewith human flu viruses, and have pro-duced a virus that is "temperature sensi-tive" (is). Up to at least 34 degrees C (93F) this virus behaves normally, and willcause infection. But at body tempera-ture—in humans or horses—it can't mul-tiply.

An equine version of this virus couldwork as a vaccine, Holmes says. Al-though the bloodstream and lower respir-atory tract of a horse are at the "normal"body temperature of around 37 to 38 de-grees C, the nasal passages, constantlyventilated by outside air, are cooler. A tsversion of the equine flu virus might stim-ulate the production of antibodies in thenasal fluids but not spread through therest of the body to make the animal sick.

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Exposing flu viruses to radiation or chemicalsthat cause mutations creates new viruses,

which can be reasserted with a 'wild' virusin the lab to refine the design.

Holmes andtechnicianLucinda Lamb

• '75 collect anasal samplefor theirresearch.

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For five years, Holmes has worked in a small labin the Vet Research Tower trying to make a

temperature sensitive version of the flu virus.It's a slow, often frustrating process.

Holmes explains that the nasal area hasits own immune system, somewhat inde-pendent of the one that operates in thebloodstream. A horse with nasal immuni-ty still might not have antibodies to theflu virus in its bloodstream, but thatwouldn't matter if the disease never gotpast the nose, which is where it usuallystarts. In fact, Holmes says, nasal anti-bodies might be more valuable than thebloodstream antibodies produced by in-jected vaccine now in use: probably somebloodstream antibodies spill over into thenasal fluids, she says, but as immunity de-clines with time this spillover may not beenough to stop the disease before it getsestablished in an animal.

For about five years Holmes has beenworking in a small laboratory in the Vet-erinary Research Tower—usually withjust one assistant—trying to make ts ver-sions of equine flu viruses. It's a slow,complex, often frustrating process. First,a cell culture is infected with two differentviruses: a laboratory-made human ts vi-rus and a "wild" equine flu virus. If alleight genes are different in the two vi-ruses, up to 256 permutations are possi-ble; the trick is to sort out the one youwant.

The viruses are separated from the cellculture and treated with antibodies to thehuman virus, leaving only viruses thatwill infect horses. The mix is diluted tothe point that when it is spread over a cul-ture medium on a flat surface individualvirus particles will be separated. Eachparticle that survives will multiply into acolony of thousands, betraying its pres-ence after a few days by forming a tinydot of dead cells called a "plaque," vis-ible to the naked eye.

Each plaque must be removed andtested separately for ts characteristics:roughly, what you do is take two samplesfrom the colony and incubate one at 34degrees C and the other at 39 degrees C.When you find a sample that "dies" atthe higher temperature, you keep itscounterpart that grew at the lower tem-perature.

Animal isolation quarters near campus, used to house equine flu study horses.

With the help of NIH researchers,Holmes some time ago produced a ts ver-sion of the A equine flu virus, formallyknown as "A/Cornell/74 ts reassortantclone 8B1." It was first tested in ham-sters: what grows in cell culture in the lab-oratory might or might not survive in aliving creature.

Then it was ready for testing in horses.Actually, in ponies which the collegeraises for the purpose on Snyder Hill, amile south of the vet campus. Ponies aresusceptible to the same diseases as full-sized horses, but are cheaper to keep andeasier to work with. The college raises itsown because there is no way to insure thatanimals bought from outside sourceshave not already had the flu.

The tests on ponies are done in theEquine Isolation Facility on Snyder Hill.This half-million-dollar complex wasbuilt in 1967 by the State of New York forLeroy Coggins's earlier work on equineinfectious anemia, a devastating diseasetransmitted by insects. The state got itsmoney's worth: Coggins was able to de-velop a test for carriers which has allowedthe disease to be controlled wherever thetest is used. One of Holmes's other jobs isto serve as coordinator of the facility,which is used for a variety of researchprojects on horses and cattle..

The isolation facility looks like nothing

so much as a small motel sitting on a hilloverlooking the pony colony, squeezedbetween a number of other buildings de-voted to the study of other animal dis-eases. It consists of a service bμilding andtwo long, narrow buildings with evenlyspaced doors along each side. Each of thelast two buildings, which Holmes insistson calling "barns," houses nineteen easi-ly cleaned asphalt-floored stalls. Someare about 8 by 12 feet, suitable forponies; others are a full 12 by 12, forcows and full-sized horses.

Workers enter each stall through adouble-doored entry area. Before goingon into the stall proper, the worker closesthe outer door, puts on rubber gloves anda pair of coveralls, then opens the innerdoor and steps into a waiting pair of rub-ber boots. Departing, the worker leavesthe protective clothing jbehind. The ven-tilation system provides a separate airsupply to each stall and maintains a "pos-itive pressure;" that is, whenever youopen the door air moves out, preventingcontamination from coming in. Workerstend to the animals that have been morerecently infected and are more likely to be"shedding virus" last, and take showersbetween morning and afternoon visits.When an animal vacates a stall, the stall issterilized with high-pressure steam.

These are not the "Andromeda

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Holmes reports having found something that lookslike the long-awaited 'ts' reassortant of A2.

Isolation tests will begin soon with hope that fieldtrials could begin in the fall.

Strain" sort of precautions that would beused with really dangerous diseases; if abit of the equine flu escapes into the out-side world it won't add anything that isn'talready there. But the system has provenadequate to keep the animal in one stallfrom infecting the one in the next.

In vaccine tests, the ts virus is sprayedup the noses of ponies; after about fourweeks, they are exposed to the "wild" vi-rus, as are a group of control ponies thathaven't been vaccinated. The first short-term tests, started in 1979,"worked like clockwork," Holmes says.It would be nice, she adds, to keep someanimals in isolation for up to a year be-fore challenging them with the disease,but the research budget doesn't allow forrenting space in the isolation facility thatlong. "It's not like keeping a cage ofmice," she laments. Long-term tests mustbe done in the field.

Before field trials, further tests must bedone to make sure the vaccine is safe, andto determine the smallest dose that willwork. It's also important to make surethat the ts virus won't mutate back into afully infectious variety in the field.

There have been limited field trials ofthe A! vaccine, mostly with other horsesowned by the college, but extensive testswill have to wait for the development of a"bivalent" vaccine that protects againstboth A! and A2 strains. Until recently,Holmes had been unable to produce a tsversion of the A2 virus, and horse ownershave been understandably reluctant to al-low their animals to be vaccinated againstonly one of the two strains of flu, espe-cially since Aj is the less likely to strike: ithasn't been seen in the field for almost adecade. (The currently available commer-cial vaccines all contain both strains.)

At this writing, Holmes reports havingfound something that looks like the long-awaited ts reassortant of A2. Isolationtests will begin soon, with hope that fieldtrials of a dual-virus vaccine could beginin the fall, the time when owners ordinar-ily would begin vaccinating.

If a successful vaccine is developed, it

may eventually become a significantsource of income for the university, ac-cording to C. Walter Heaussler, whohandles patenting and marketing of in-ventions produced on campus throughthe Cornell Research Foundation (See"Patents," Cornell Alumni News, May1984). A recently developed vaccine forstrangles, another respiratory disease ofhorses, is about to go on the market andcould produce a "six-figure income,"some of which its inventor, Prof. JohnTimoney, will share, Heaussler says.Holmes dismisses the possibility of futureincome from her work as unimportant,adding that by the time it's shared be-tween the co-investigators she might haveenough left "to buy a nice bottle ofwine."

Just as veterinarians look to the Na-tional Institutes of Health for ideas, re-searchers trying to stamp out human dis-eases watch animal work closely. Becauseit's easier to get approval for field trials inanimals, reassortant flu vaccines are like-ly to be licensed for use in horses long be-fore they are widely used with humans.Successful animal tests may show the re-searchers working on human diseases thatthey are on the right track, and may helpin gaining approval for tests in humans.

Funding for the research, however,comes strictly from the horse industry,specifically from the Harry Zweig Mem-orial Fund, established in 1978 by theNew York State Legislature to supportequine research at the college. In 1986,ten projects will receive a total of$373,000 from the fund, which is derivedfrom the state's share of the money beton horse races.

Holmes has, she recalls, always wantedto be a veterinarian. "All little kids wanta horse," she says, "but some of us nevergrew up." Holmes grew up as DorothyNielsen on Staten Island, not the idealplace to get interested in horses. Her in-spiration and role model was PatriciaO'Connor '39, who was veterinarian forthe Staten Island Zoo and taught zoologyclasses for children on Saturday morn-

ings. After discovering O'Connor'sclasses at the age of 12, young Dorothyspent the next nine summers working ona farm.

She enrolled in the College of Agricul-ture in 1951, planning from the beginningto apply to the Veterinary College. Inthose days you could apply to the vetschool after as little as two years as an un-dergraduate in Ag. "Actually," she re-calls, "all the men got in after two years,but we women had to wait another year."Once admitted, she became one of threewomen students in a school of 200.(What seemed normal in the '50s is nolonger the rule, of course: at present morethan 60 per cent of students in the collegeare women.)

She married a classmate, WallaceHolmes, DVM '58, who happened to be a"townie," and they set up a mixed prac-tice—large and small animals—in Grot-on, northeast of Ithaca, where they alsokeep nine Morgan show horses. DorothyHolmes began to feel there wasn't reallyenough work in the practice for two peo-ple, so in 1964 she grabbed an opening toenter graduate school, doing research inanimal diseases.

Her work in the early years was withcats, and included advising researcherswho were using cats as models for humanleukemia but really knew nothing aboutfeline physiology. "But I was really inter-ested in horses," she says, "and whenthere was an opportunity to get my fingerin that pie I did." She began working un-der Coggins in 1975.

Although her PhD is based on work inmicrobiology, she still sees herself as aveterinarian. "We are working on a mi-croscopic level, but that's not the bestpart of it," she says. "The best part of itis trying out what you engineered on theanimals. If I had my druthers I'd go tothe molecular biologists and say, 'This iswhat we need; you get it engineered andthen we'll put it through the horse and seeif it works.' My stock statement is that Iget nervous when I lose sight of the wholeanimal."

IsaacDelivers

Before dawn, the clink of bottles,a footstep, the stomp of a horse

By Rachmiel Forschmiedt '25

Isaac helped me pay my way throughschool. That was sixty years ago. Forbright students there were scholarships. Iwashed dishes, milked cows, organized acrew of professional pallbearers.

During summer vacations I was a milk-man for Sheffield Farms Company inbeach resorts around New York Oity.That was how I met Isaac. He was myhorse when I drove a milk route in FarRockaway, Long Island.

I was the last driver taken on at the FarRockaway plant that summer. Ernie, thestableman, told me that Isaac was myhorse.

When I went to take Isaac out of hisstall, twenty-three other drivers and theplant superintendent stopped to watch.

I came up to Isaac. He turned his headslowly, looked at me. He let fly with hisright leg, missed. I waited, stepped for-ward. Again Isaac aimed, kicked. As hisleg landed back on the floor I was insidethe stall and at his head.

Isaac was not through. Isaac rolledback his lips, bared his teeth, snapped atmy hands. He grazed my left wrist. Ithurt. Isaac tried again. Before he couldsnap, I slipped the bit behind his teeth,and backed him out of his stall.

The other drivers said I should haveclouted Isaac to show him I was boss.That was not necessary. I never turnedmy back to Isaac.

Out on the route a milkman's horseneeded no driving. After a couple ofweeks the horse knew all the stops. Isaaclearned fast.

A milk route in a summer resort in the1920's covered much more ground thandid a route in the densely peopled city.Summer customers were scattered amonghundreds of cottages. In the dark all cot-

tages looked alike. Some customersbought from your rivals on the sameroute.

I would load m^ hand-carriers withmilk, butter, eggs, cheese for a half-doz-en customers. I left the horse and wagon,took short-cuts over hedges, aroundfences, across yards. I knew that myhorse would have brought the wagon for-ward to the next stop, waiting for me.

At some points along the route it wasbetter that the horse stay till he wascalled. I whistled, or softly said his name.Even though he had not seen me, whenhe heard my call, the horse would come.

The milkman's day began soon aftermidnight. In the warm stable the horseswould be stamping, kicking their stalls.They snorted. They were telling theirdrivers to move. The horses wanted to getout and go.

It took an hour to harness the horse,load the wagon, take plenty of ice to keepthings cold. The driver had to be sure hecarried enough extras.

As he went from customer to customerthe driver would find, sticking out ofempty bottles, notes asking for an extra<M/4 Ib. sweet butter," "a doz. eggs,brown," "2 more bottles grade A," "apackage pot cheese." In a summer resortguests came often. A good milkmanseldom was caught short, and brought lit-tle back at the end of his day.

To New Yorkers summering in thebeach resorts, the milkman was part ofthe vacation, like the sun, and the ocean,the sand, and the sea gulls.

As in a dream, in sleep, in the dark be-fore dawn, there may have been the clinkof bottles, a footstep, the stomp of ahorse, steel-tired wheels rolling, goodsounds.

The summer Isaac and I worked in FarRockaway I had a big route. Isaac pulled

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a heavy load. He took his time. He knewhis business. With a lighted kerosene lan-tern swinging outside on the tailgate Isaacand I seemed alone in a dark, quietworld.

When it rained a milkman got wet, of-ten soaked through. Waterproof clothingwas airtight, hot. Some mornings the raincame down in sheets. I would take off allmy clothes, put on swimming trunks,sneakers, work in comfort. The rainwashed my body like waves in a warmpool.

After morning deliveries the milkmengathered for breakfast at the only restau-rant in Far Rockaway that opened early.First we fed our horses. We traded gossipand news.

By the time we finished breakfast wehad put in a full day. We headed back tothe barn, a slow-moving line, relaxed, inno hurry.

Sometimes a horse, full of oats, feelingfrisky, would kick up his heels, and startmoving faster. Another would loosen up.Soon a half dozen horses, pulling clatter-ing wagons, drivers laughing, shouting,would be racing abreast. Hooves pound-ing, manes flying, milk boxes banging,horses and drivers loved it.

A half mile before we came to the barnwe slowed down to a walk to cool ourhorses. Company rules forbade racing.

If he thought we might have been run-ning the horses, Ernie, the stableman,would pull back each horse's lips as we

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drove into the loading yard. Foam in ahorse's mouth was proof of racing.

One August day the other drivers sug-gested we have some fun with Ernie.

All knew that Isaac liked onions. Luck-ily most of our deliveries were finishedbefore sunrise. If Isaac and I made callsin the daytime when the stores were open,I had troubles. Onions in a basket infront of a grocery store were a magnet toIsaac. He would walk up the sidewalk,hauling the wagon behind, and bury hishead in onions. Apples he scorned.

On the day chosen for Ernie's enlight-enment, the line of wagons stopped. Wewaited while Isaac masticated a fat onion.

A dozen drivers went ahead of me.Their horses passed lip muster. Isaac'smouth was a lather of foam. Ernie's faceturned red. He opened Isaac's mouth. Er-nie fell back, gasping. He was speechless,but only for a moment. Then everybodywithin hearing was treated to a passionatesearch of my family tree. Ernie uncoveredrelationships which I cherish to this day.

It was hard work, seven days a week.The horse was company. No boss stoodover a man. A summer milk route was agood way to earn money.

One night—the sun was not due for an-other three hours—Tony, the milkmanon the adjoining route, drove up. Hiswagon was empty.

"Quick! Take the stuff out of yourwagon. Stash it. Follow me. We'll beback in an hour."

"What's up?""You talk too much. Cover things

good so the ice won't melt. Want to makesome money? A rum runner is on thebeach. We gotta unload him before theFeds come. Get a move on."

Every milkman in Far Rockaway wasthere when Isaac and I arrived. It was along boat, narrow beam. The boat hadbeen spotted by the Coast Guard. Toavoid capture and a stretch in the pen, theskipper had run his boat onto the beach.

There was no moon that night. Cloudshid the stars. Men, some wearing whatlooked like brass-buttoned uniforms—you could not tell in the dark—clamberedaboard the boat, and passed cases overthe side.

We worked fast, spoke in whispers.Loaded into hand-carts, onto men'sshoulders, in men's arms, stowed inhorse-drawn wagons, quietly the boat'scargo melted into the night.

Within an hour, before the Federalagents could get ashore, there was not aman in sight. The boat was empty. Wheeltracks, footprints in the sand, revealednothing. The tide was coming in. Soonthe beach would be washed clean. No po-liceman had heard or seen a thing. Horsesdon't talk.

At the office that morning the phoneskept ringing. Customers called. Theirmilk was late. It had been deliveredwarm. The butter was soft. The officecould not explain it. The rest of that sum-

mer Ernie, our stableman, moved in ahaze of the finest Scotch.

For service beyond the call of duty Igave Isaac an extra big onion. He and Igrew closer. The stars shone overhead.

Tides rose higher. Runouts were long-er. The moon seemed larger and brighter.The iodine smell of seaweed and kelp wassharp. Each day the sun rose later. Thewind off the Atlantic had an edge. Asweater felt comfortable. Botflies, hotweather terror for a horse, had disap-peared. Isaac seemed happier.

Labor Day closed the beach resort sea-son. Mine was the last summer route tak-en off. Ernie the stableman went back tohis regular company job in Brooklyn.

Nobody complained when I gave Isaachis last onion. I put my arm around hishead, blew in his ear. What can you sayto a horse?

The author taught dairy science inPennsylvania and did graduate work inbacteriology at Yale. Then, "One Juneday in 19271 heard a mother robin in alilac bush outside the laboratorywindow say to her nestlings, 'Look atthat human hunched indoors on a daylike this!' I covered my microscope, puta pack on my back, and left to wanderover the United, States, south, north,west. En route I identified seventy-onedifferent birds."

On August 14, 1927 he landed inSeattle and has lived there ever since.

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A Rousing ReunionIt was a weekend for standing ovations atBailey Hall. Jehan Sadat brought 1,900alumni to their feet in sympathy and ad-miration for her no-nonsense response toa question about the conflicts in the Mid-dle East. The former first lady of Egyptspoke as a guest of the School of Man-agement. "Don't live your life inslogans," she advised a young Palestinianwoman. "You must sit with the Israelisand negotiate!"

Later that evening at the Savage Clubshow, R. Alexander (Andy) Anderson '16drew a standing ovation for his perfor-mance and his spirit. He played and sangthree of the many Hawaiian songs he haswritten, and he was good, but that wasonly half of it. He and six other membersof '16 were attending their 70th Reunion,and still going strong.

President Frank Rhodes drew twostanding ovations from the alumni at theannual meeting Saturday morning, mak-ing him a tough act to follow, but KenBlanchard '61 managed just fine. He toobrought his classmates and 1,000 otheralumni to their feet in warm response tohis message (see below).

The weekend's messages were all braveand upbeat. Prof. Kermit C. Parsons,MRP '53, city and regional planning, hadexpected to conduct an informal walkingtour of the campus with a few interestedalumni. Two hundred turned up eager tohear him. Any architect willing to con-front alumni who remember the campuswith elms and Boardman Hall and with-out Uris Hall, Olin Library, and theCampus Store is brave indeed, but Par-sons was equal to the task.

He pointed out that grumbling overcampus architecture is nothing new. Par-sons said that Andrew Dickson Whitewould go off to Europe and come backand complain about what they'd built inhis absence, but Cornell's first presidentwas philosophical about it, saying thatCornell University was here to stay. No

Early pictures call up memories.

matter how terrible the mistakes, we'lleventually get it right. "We're still work-ing on it," Parsons said.

White wanted formal, Gothic build-ings. Ezra Cornell wanted plain, practicalbuildings. So the university is both, Par-sons pointed out. Formal and informal,state and endowed. We have White's for-mal quadrangle, he said, but thebuildings are all different. They don'tquite line up, and the library and museumare not quite at the corners. "That's Cor-nell," Parsons /said. "Semi-formal. Thebest of both worlds."

"He's a real professor," said a listener."Once he starts talking, he can't stop."

Parsons pointed out the intricacies inthe ornamentation of Sage Chapel andexplained that White sent a raised stonewellhead from Venice to symbolize theWAisectarian nature of Cornell. "Whitewas not against God," said Parsons,"but advocated no particular idea ofGod." At the time Cornell was one of the

few colleges where chapel attendance wasnot required.

"I was never in there," said a '36 alum-nus.

The tour wound past Barnes Hall andthe Campus Store."Barnes was almosttorn down in '63," Parsons said, but thesmall theater is so fine for chamber musicthat the music faculty and students andart historians joined in to save it. "Wewere very gentle then," he said. "Wewrote a letter to the president."

Parsons advised the group to take aclose look at Day Hall on their way to theA. D. White house. "You'll notice," hesaid, "that Day Hall is a New York sky-scraper pounded into the ground."

With their newly raised architecturalconsciousness, the group arrived atWhite's house and immediately saw thesmall second floor balcony over the frontentrance. "Oh, look," said one, "a placeto stand and look important."

People change as much as architecturalstyles. The handsome Reunion buttonsworn by the Class of '36 included gradua-tion pictures taken fifty years before. Thecontrast between the person wearing thebutton and the picture was sobering, butone didn't have to be celebrating a 50thReunion to feel the effects of time. Ayoung alumnus pushing a child in a stroll-er said to his friend, "The days of thetwo-pitcher Saturday nights are longgone."

But maybe the most important messageof Reunion was that these were survivors,and proud of it. The Class of '61 gave asingles cocktail party that was well at-tended by people who were not handing

Alumni near Morrill Hall on an architectural tour of campus with Prof. Parsons.

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Reunion Run starts out along East Ave.

out business cards. The stock in trade wasmemories, not all pleasant. A former En-gineering student said, "I walked intoUpsoίi today for the first time in twenty-five years, and my stomach clenched justthe way it had when I found out that Γdflunked thermodynamics." He took itover in Summer Session and continuedon to graduation. "But 180 credithours," he said. "How could they havedone that to us?"

Women from the Class of '61 gatheredfor breakfast Saturday morning remem-bered early failures at Cornell. Freshmanpapers rejected because "You have adelightful way of saying absolutely noth-ing." Design projects that failed becausethey were personal favorites that did notsolve the problem.

"Cornell extracted the best from me,"said Carol Gitlin Franklin '61, who nowowns her own interior design firm. "I wasa risk taker," she added. "I was willing tofail and take the hard times."

Anne Fox Berk '61, vice president foradvertising at NBC and author bf FastForward, said the real surprise and plea-sure of passing 40 was to discover howmuch life still had in store for her. "Manymore things are possible than a lot of usrealize," she said. Once she became in-ner-directed, she said, she blossomed andsaw that she could become somebodynew, and continue on from one new lifeto another.

Perhaps the most satisfying effect ofthe morning's breakfast was on the Re-union clerks, young women who havejust graduated from Cornell, or will in ayear or two. Anyone who doubts the im-portance of role models should haveheard them saying, "That was so inspira-tional. They got Fs and survived. Theyclimbed the Slope just like us. They madeit, and we can too."

No one was willing to quit. Womenfrom the Class of '36 talked eagerly of

Dr. Eli Shuter '56 set to start on a 30-mile cycle he organized for his class.

their next Reunion. They were indifferentto offers of elevators and air conditioningin distant dorms, saying they likedRisley's large lounges where they could allget together and they liked being able towalk to campus events.

Four women from the Class of '31would have agreed. They skipped thebeer tents to join students at Uris Hallwatching Cornellian Christopher Reeve'74 in The Bostonians. The night waswarm, but it was a long midnight wait fora bus back to their North Campus dorm.A professor and his wife offered them aride. The women were grateful for theride, but their drivers were more gratefulfor a chance to meet people that age stillgame enough to be out enjoying late-night movies.

—Jeanette Knapp

The Blanchardslook at managingNot many people are able to endow achair in celebration of their 25th CornellReunion, but Ken Blanchard '61, PhD'67 could and did. Ken and his wife, Mar-jorie McKee Blanchard '62, MA '65 haveagreed to endow a professorship in theSchool of Hotel Administration where hewas teaching this spring and where theirson is a student, Class of '88. In May theExecutive Committee of the Board ofTrustees authorized establishment of thechair as the Kenneth and Marjorie Blan-chard Professor of Human ResourceManagement.

As the main speaker at the ReunionForum, Ken Blanchard asked his fellowalumni, "Why are we so good at techni-cal skills and so lousy at human skills?"He pointed to the different ways the twoare usually taught. Students are given

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knowledge about science in lectures andthen taught how to use that knowledge tosolve problems in the lab. In most coursesabout people, he said, students are onlygiven "knowledge about. We don't teachthem how to use that knowledge."

Ken and Marjorie Blanchard headBlanchard Training and DevelopmentInc., a California-based business special-izing in management training programs.They teach managers how to managepeople. "We're trying to make behavior-al science come alive so people can use itin their lives," he said. "The human ele-ment gets left out of most programs.Organizations, including educational in-stitutions, can be improved in incredibleways with the proper attitude and ap-proach to human relations."

Plenty of people must agree with himfor Blanchard first achieved nationalfame in 1982 when a book he wrote withSpencer Johnson hit the New York Timesbestseller list, and stayed there for a year.The One Minute Manager is a children'sbook for adults, one chapter long, withdetails of the three secrets for managingpeople—principles that accommodatehuman irrationality, Blanchard ex-plained. A new book written by Ken andMarjorie Blanchard and Dee Edington,The One Minute Manager Gets Fit, is alsodoing well.

"Good performance is a journey, not adestination," Blanchard told alumni."You can't wait for exactly right behav-ior. Try to catch people doing things ap-proximately right," and then praise themfor it, he added. He said he was pleasedto see how many in his class were stillmarried, celebrating 24th or 25th weddinganniversaries. He attributed such maritalsuccess to "the frequency with which youcatch each other doing things right."

Most revealing to his audience of par-

Ken Blanchard, left, David Kessler,Carmine Liotto, and Dianne Bail letMeakem recognize '61 classmates.

ents was his advice on how to use oneminute strategies to manage children. Inaddition to praise, he advocates a oneminute reprimand, right away. "Don't letthem get away with it," he said, and "thelonger you wait the more they want to ar-gue about the facts." Tell them whatthey're doing wrong and how you feelabout it—"but only thirty seconds forsharing feelings." Then, he says, shut upabout how you feel, take a deep breath,and reaffirm how good they are. "Praisethem," he says, "Say Ί know you arebetter than that.' " He advised goingeasy on the punishment, explaining,"You want them to feel badly about whatthey did, not what you did to them."

Blanchard is an engaging, energeticspeaker who could keep the most boredstudent or executive laughing and listen-ing. One classmate didn't remembermuch about him from back when, exceptthat he'd been a cheerleader. His Cornelltraining is certainly serving him well.

Ken Blanchard said nothing about thenewly endowed chair to the assembledalumni. In an earlier campus speech hesaid, "Our fantasy is that in five years ev-erybody in the country will say 'if youwant to see the best program in managingand motivating people, look at CornellUniversity. They are doing exciting thingsthere.' "

What does it cost to endow a Cornellchair these days? As of the first of July,the price tag is $ 1.5 million. —JK

Home EC at 60History held the spotlight on Fridaymorning, when 200 or so alumni, staff,and faculty members of the College ofHuman Ecology met for a breakfast cele-bration of the 60th anniversary of thefounding of the college's alumni associa-tion.

A contingent from the Class of '26 wasrecognized as part of the first class tograduate from Home Economics (as it

was then named) after the former depart-ment in the College of Agriculture achiev-ed the status of a separate college.

Eleanor Slack Randies '41 spoke of theearly days of the college, of Martha VanRensselaer and Flora Rose, co-directorsin 1926; Helen Bull Vandervort '26 re-called important and amusing details ofundergraduate life as the new collegecame into being.

Professors Mary E. Purchase, MS '49,and M. Vivian White, emeritus, bothnewly retired from the textiles and appar-el department, told of their early associa-tions with the college and its alumni in thelate 1940s. Reminiscences continued asCarroll McConnell Manning '53 pre-sented the Helen Vandervort AlumniAchievement Award to Alice SandersonRivoire '41, a life-long friend and rolemodel, said Manning, and, Rivoire notedin response, Manning's former babysit-ter.

—Elsie McMillan '55

Warm and musicalThe weather provided extremes reminis-cent of Ithaca weekends past. Thursday,June 12, glowered and brought a tornadowatch in the evening. Friday evolvedfrom overcast to sunny, and Saturdayand Sunday were simply glorious, sunnyand warm.

The massed Alumni Glee Club andAlumnae Chorus gave a rousing perfor-mance as part of Saturday's CornellianaNight, and some thirty of the songstersresumed singing in the atrium of GoldwinSmith Hall at 11:30 p.m. The group clos-ed the doors to the Main Quadrangle andthe music from the beer tents, and sangon until 1 a.m. Sunday, in a reverie oftheir own making.

The temperature was balmy Saturdayevening on a Main Quadrangle dottedwith tents that housed five lively bands.The most contemporary music drew thelargest crowd, performed by Uptown Re-vue, playing '50s and '60s soft rock.Peggy Haine '65 and her Lowdown Alli-gator Jass Band drew large crowds fortheir Dixieland and jazz; Grand Centralplayed big band music, the MuskratRamblers and Morgan Street Stompersconcentrated on Dixieland, and theChartbusters on the "Motown" sound.

—JohnMarcham '50

Emphasis on sportsAt 7:30 a.m. on Saturday about 100sports fans, coaches, and athletic depart-ment staff broke bagels together in theRobison Hall of Fame Room of Schoell-kopf Hall. Work in progress on renova-

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tion of the Crescent and a bit of the newconstruction for physical education andathletics were visible, looking souththrough the room's wall of windows.

Architect's models of a new fieldhouse, to be built east of Lynah Rink, oc-cupied a prominent place in the room,providing a focal point for the occasion.

John Meakem '58 reported a major re-cruiting effort under way among alumniand staff, an attempt, he said, to "identi-fy athletes, and get 'em.9' A fast-pacedfilm, Cornell Athletics: A Tradition toCheer About, drew applause. Alumnilistened intently as Laing E. Kennedy '63,director of athletics, recited outstandingrecords of Big Red men's and women'steams and of individual undergraduateathletes over the past year. It was a longlist.

Kennedy then brought things to a closeby offering each departing alumnus asouvenir to take home—a piece of Cor-nell athletic history—as he rolled in a sup-ply of six-inch slices of the discarded redbenches from the Crescent. —EM

Blacks join inThe Cornell Black Alumni Association(CBAA) held its reunion on campus dur-ing Reunion weekend for the first timethis year. CBAA's sixth reunion in tenyears attracted more than 110 alumnifrom the classes of 1957-86. Guest speak-er Tony Brown, producer and host of thePBS series, Tony Brown's Journal, spokeon black economic empowerment, tellingalumni that "the color of freedom isgreen."

CBAA honored Prof. James E. Turn-er, Africana studies, founding director ofthe Africana Studies and Research Cen-ter, who is stepping down after seventeenyears as director. He was cited for his"leadership and service to the Cornelland Ithaca black community."

Dennis Williams '73, a lecturer in theEnglish Department and one of thegroup's organizers, said CBAA has com-mitted itself to establishing an endowedscholarship fund to support black Cor-nellians. —JK

Books for cooksWhile Reunion '86 was a weekend ofcrowds—crowded schedules from earlybreakfasts to late songfests, crowded lec-tures and banquet halls—there was roomfor small pleasures, too. On Friday after-noon, six alumni, representing classesranging from the 1920s to the 1970s,

Joined Hotel school Librarian MargaretJ. Oaksford in the quiet of the climate-

controlled rare books room of her libraryin Statler Hall to see and hear about oldcookbooks and menus.

Oaksford passed around a few of thebest preserved old volumes in the collec-tion, among them Frugal Housewife;Dedicated to Those Who Are NotAshamed of Economy by Mrs. Child(1838) and a facsimile edition of The FirstAmerican Cookbook, by Amelia Sim-mons (1796). The catering book of thelate Oscar Tschirky, the famed "Oscar ofthe Waldorf," is a wonderful resource inthe social history of the early 1900s, shesaid.

Early menus—and here was a large onedating from 1725, for a gathering of theKnights of Bath—were actually diagrams,not lists, each circle representing a parti-cular dish. One alumnus, John C. (Jack)Bauernfeind '36 had brought along anold volume for Oaksford to see. The of-fer of an alumna's notes, taken in the1920s for a course at the Boston CookingSchool, was quickly accepted. —EM

South Africa IIAn issue that rent the campus a year agoand brought a large crowd to a sessionduring the 1985 Reunion, attracted manyfewer alumni and townspeople when dis-cussed at the 1986 Reunion. A panel oninvestment in firms that do business inSouth Africa started out with twenty-three persons in the audience, and hadonly twice as many by the time it ad-journed.

The decline of interest paralleled the in-tensity of discussion on campus duringthe school year 1985-86. During that yearthe Cornell Board of Trustees rejected ac-tivists' insistence that the university sellall $100 million-plus it holds in firms do-ing business in South Africa, and insteadvoted to continue a policy of selected in-vestment, primarily in firms adhering to aset of rules known as the Sullivan Princi-ples.

Three pro-divestment speakers, an ad-ministrator, and a trustee spoke. Fromthe floor came questions aild statementsfrom a black South African and a whitefrom Zimbabwe, both students; an alum-nus former faculty member; and severalother students and alumni. —JM

Fund records brokenBy Reunion weekend, alurrini had con-tributed $10.1 million to the university,more than a million dollars ahead of theyear before, aiming for a goal by June 30of $12 million. No fewer than seven

classes had already broken dollar recordsfor their Reunion anniversary, startingwith the 65th-year Class of '21 with$419,000, and including two classes bat-tling for all-time dollar supremacy, 1956and 1961, each of which had raised $3.2million by Reunion.

Other total-dollar records went to the60th-year class, '26, with $675,000; '36,with $766,000; '41, with $600,000; and'86, with $32,700. The Class of '81 brokethe fifth-year record for donors when 713classmates gave.

With two weeks remaining in the ef-fort, Reunion-year classes accounted for$9.1 million of the $10.1 million raisedduring the year. —JM

A weekendof 'bests'Superlatives were in use during Reunion,an occasion that pits class against classwhen measuring attendance, contribu-tions to the Cornell Fund, and recollec-tions of pranks undertaken in theirrespective undergraduate years.

President Rhodes stirred audienceswhenever he spoke, as he did most for-mally at the annual meeting of the Alum-ni Association on Saturday morning, andat Cornelliana Night. In his annual reportto alumni he expressed pride in the risingnumber of applications to the university,in awards received by faculty members,and singled out $200 million in funds cap-tured by professors for their research atCornell as a measure of the eminence ofthe faculty.

At the weekend's toting-up of figures,Cornelliana Night Saturday evening inBailey Hall, Reunion officials listed at-tendance at 2,285, close to the figure forthe last two years. To Charles J. (Bushy)Fox Ίl and Sadie Britton '13 went thehonors as the oldest alumni present. For-mer students traveled from as far away asAustralia, China, Belgium, Hawaii, In-dia, Italy, the Philippines, Portugal, andSwitzerland.

The record for attendees at a 10th anda 60th Reunion were broken by 1976 and1926, respectively, with 286 and 80 mem-bers on hand. The Class of '76 had themost members present, and 1936 thegreatest percentage, 19.

By class, the number and the percen-tage of living members represented were:Class of 1911, 1, 2%; '16, 7, 2%; '21, 17,5%; '26, 80, 14%; '31, 43, 6%; '36, 186,19%; '41, 131, 11%; '46, 50, 4%; '51,161, 9%; '56, 157, 9%; '61, 250, 12%;'66, 158, 7%; '71, 124, 4%; '76, 286, 8%;and'81, 205, 5%. —JM

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The Reunion ClassesSeventieth for '16It all started in September 1912 and now, inJune 1986, we are celebrating our 74 years ofassociation with Cornell. A record-breaking70th with nine classmates:Helen Taber Hood,Rochester; Lois Osborn, Cortland; IrmaReeve, Mattituck; Annetta Woldar, Teaneck,NJ; R. Alexander "Andy" Anderson, Hono-lulu, Hawaii; Stowell Armstrong, Cape Vin-cent; Ben Sovocool, Ithaca; Paul Young,Elyria, Ohio; and Felix Ferraris, Palm Beach,Fla.

We were lucky to stay at the Statler, with itsnon-stop enjoyable socializing in the TaylorRoom. Among the welcome visitors wereCharlie Fox '11, back for his 75th Reunion,and Prof. M. H. Abrams, emeritus, who forsome years held the 1916 endowed chair ofEnglish. The Statler dinners and the Bartonluncheons were added delights. It was truly

precision planning by our honorary member,W. Barlow Ware '47, and his devoted assistantDiane Nelson. Our special thanks also to clerksAnne Cowie '86, Mary Metcalfe '86, andDavid Gruen '87 for their never ending TenderLoving Care.

Another thriller event was the Friday-morn-ing reception in Statler's auditorium, whenMaster of Ceremonies Curt Reis '56 intro-duced President Frank Rhodes, who presentedus with a framed thank you certificate andlauded '16 for its contributions of $2.3 millionand years of Cornell loyalty.

So, we end our 70th, but the Class of '16 isnot liquidating! A class photo will be pub-lished in a later issue and our column will con-tinue with news of the living and cherishedmemories of our classmates and faculty of thepast. Felix Ferraris, 2850 S. Ocean Blvd.,Palm Beach, Fla. 33480.

Barton Hall lunch brings all classes andReunion groups together.

Sixty-filth lor '21Nine men of our class attended our 65th Re-union: Ward Evans, Harold Ford, Albert W.Laubengayer, James H. C. Martens, Albert R.Nolin, Leslie R. Severinghaus, A. WesleySmith, Norman Spindler, and Walter Werring.Walter was accompanied by his wife Irene;James Martens, by his son Mason. We werecomfortably situated in Statler.

Although there was no formal businessmeeting of the class, President Al Nolin indi-cated that he wished to have your present classcorrespondent continue in office and haveAlbert Laubengayer continue as treasurer, aslong as there is any need for receiving and pay-ing out money. Shortly before Reunion camethe sad news that Secretary Donald C. Fabelhad died in May, after a long illness. Until nearthe end he kept hoping that he might improveenough so that he could attend Reunion.

At dinner on Friday evening, Prof. Scott B.Elledge, PhD '41, English, emeritus, spokeabout E. B. White and quoted many ofWhite's short writings. Also, A. Wesley Smithplayed the piano for our entertainment.

President and Reunion Chairman Al Nolinis considerably improved in health, and is hop-ing, soon, to leave the nursing home where hehas been staying. He was greatly helped byAgnes Boncek '69, alumni affairs office, inmaking arrangements for our Reunion.

Leslie R. Severinghaus recently c'ompleted abook, Religion and History, published byVantage Press. It should be available in July.He is planning other writings.

On Saturday morning I visited Snee Hall, ofspecial interest to me because William E. Snee

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'24 had been a student in my mineralogy classwhen I was an instructor and graduate studentat Cornell. Later I saw him frequently while Iwas working on the West Virginia GeologicalSurvey in Morgantown and he was exploringfor natural gas nearby

On Sunday morning I attended the meetingof the Cornell Association of Class Officers.There has been some talk about this being thelast Reunion of our class, but when I saw sev-eral men and women of the Class of 1916 anda few of earlier classes, I was convinced thatsome of '21 could get back again five yearsfrom now. James H. C. Martens, 1417Sunken Rd., Fredericksburg, Va. 22401.

On Thursday, June 12,1986, a few of our classarrived in the afternoon ^ We gathered in theRathskeller at Statler. I had come earlier be-cause the Class of '21 was to be honored onFriday morning for our outstanding alumnigiving for the past year. The amount raisedour total alumni gift over the $3 million mark.

Friday noon the '21 women convened. Weelected Rosalie Ulrich Rosenberger president;Sara Speer Miller vice president; and MargaretRemsen Rude was reelected class correspon-dent, with Agnes Mehan Hallinan as alternate.It was voted to have dues of $10 sent to thealumni affairs office staff, who will takecharge of it.

Next we tape recorded everyone present,asking them to tell what they had been doingduring the past five years. We missed all ofthose who did not come, very much. Informa-tion from the tapes will be shared in future col-umns.

The Savage Club upheld their long record ofproviding a fine .evening's entertainment,"Salute to the Lady" (the Statue of Liberty).Saturday morning, President Rhodes spoke,and reported that only one university in theUS, Harvard, surpasses us in alumni giving. Inthe afternoon we were entertained by the"Hangovers." In the evening we enjoyed Cor-nelliana Night at Bailey Hall.

Our meals, except All-Alumni Luncheons atBarton Hall, were served at Statler. We hadwonderful service and outstanding meals.

Donna Calkins Williams, who was not pres-ent at Reunion, is in Kensington NursingHome, near her daugher Mrs. George Strat-ton, 1670 Carrol Wood, Sarasota, Fla. 33582.She would be glad to hear from anyone in theClass of '21. Margaret Remsen Rude, RD1, Waymart, Pa. 18472.

Sixtieth lor'26The Class of '26 turned out the most alumniever for a 60th Reunion: 83, of whom 34 werewomen, 49 were men. Many of them, nodoubt, share the sentiment of R. H. "Bob"Stίer of Key Biscayne, Fla., who said that ifhe'd known he would live so long he wouldhave taken better care of himself.

A special event of this Reunion was the dedi-cation of the Comstock Knoll seating area atCornell Plantations, a memorial gift from theClass of '26 and fittingly inscribed, "May allwho come here enjoy the beauty and serenityof this place." President Rhodes honored usby being present to accept the memorial.

This class broke all records, also, in dona-tions to the university, both as to number ofdonors—more than 200—and as to dollars^-over $3,800,000.

Len Richards and Geraldine TremaineWelch were re-elected to their respective rolesas presidents of the men and women alumni.And everybody joined in a special vote ofgratitude to Helen Bull Vandervort and herhusband John '23 for their flawless, detailedhandling of arrangements for our class. Helenand Walter "Stew" Beecher co-chaired Re-

Fiftieth-year classmates take a break at the Campus Store.

union, but Stew was in Rochester and Helen inIthaca—and she didn't dodge any of the bur-den.

Those who registered for this memorableevent were: Gordon Andrews, Richard Aron-son, Sara Rubin Baron, Isabel Macbain Bar-rett, Beatrice Boyer Beattie, Walter Beecher,Beatrice Bayuk Berg, Ruth Pratt Black, RuthBoak, David Bookstaver, John Breckenridge,Wendell Borad, Cutler Borwn, Travis Brown,Walter Buckley, Samuel Buckman, JohannaBuecking Buerger, Laura Buraette, GraceMorris Campbell, Howard Clark, UiribertCimildoro, David Colton, Dorothea Connell,Edward Elliott, Thomas Fennel!, ElmerFingar, Lee Fraser, Milton Friedman, Eliza-beth McAdam Griswold, Peter Ham, EdwinHarder, Laura Pedersen Henninger, GuidoHenry, Philip Higley, Dorothy Lampe Hill,Morrison Hosley, William Jones, WiUiam Kel-ly, Marguerite Kingsbury, Adelaide RomaineKinkele, Theodore Kline, Albert Kurdt, EthelCole Leffingwell, Eugene Lehr, MargueriteHicks Maher, Hugh Manchester, ArthurMarkewich, Donald McGinn, Norman Miller,

Walter Miller, Edson Moshier, MarieUnderbill Noll. Mildred Brucker Palmer,Esther Pearlman, Richard Pietsch, Frank Pod-boy, Mariano Ramirez, Paul Rapp, KathrynGehret Rea, May Eisemann Reed, LeonardRichards, Louise Russell, Edward Sanderson,Florence Burtis Scanlon, Harold Shackleton,Pauline Hall Sherwood, Rebe Biggs Smith,Virginia Case Stevens, Robert Stier, AlanStone, Louise Beaujoh Stone, Reginald Strat-ton, Virginia Smith Sullivan, Dorothy BurnettTownsend, Robert Tucker, Robert Uhry,Helen Bull Vandervort, Mordelo Vincent,Elizabeth Koetsch Vogt, Janet Nundy Ward,Geraldine Tremaine Welch, KennethWells. Peter Ham, 2 Rabbit Run, Wall-ingford, Pa. 19086; also Helen Bull Vander-vort, 45 Sheraton Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Fifty-fifth for'31Our 55th Reunion weekend whizzed by all toospeedily, leaving a rich kaleidoscope of mem-ories, some happy, some sad. Upon arrival welearned, to our intense regret, that Bruce

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Hackstaff had been hospitalized and would,for the first time ever, not be with us. If you'dlike to write, his address is 27 West Neck Rd.,Huntington 11743.

In his absence, Gert Goodwin ably presidedover the Saturday class meeting, relinquishingthe chair to our newly elected president, BillVanneman. The class voted unanimously tomake Bruce president, emeritus, an honor herichly deserves.

This is being written on Sunday morning be-fore departure from Ithaca to meet an inexor-able deadline. No time to fill in details. We canjust include the names of those women whoregistered at the dorm. They include MargaretEllis Blabey, Marion Bretsch Burbank, VidaWalker Button, Dorothy King Dillingham,Helen Lautrup Durnell, Elma Ward Fisher,Gert Goodwin, Katherine "Cottie" CoeGreen, Dorothea F. "Dee" Hall, Doris BrownHodge. Also, Lynne Daetsch Kearns, HelenaPerry Kelsey, Lillian McChesney Kemp, AvaWard Lindsay, and Olive "Addie" WordenMacNamee.

Also, Tina Olsen Millane, Marguerite KlineMiller, Ella Miller Moore, Gladys Dorman Ra-phael, Ethel Bache Schmitt, our invaluableperennial Reunion chairman (Bless her!), Ger-trude Andrews Small, Virginia Clark South-worth, Esther Weiner Swire, Ruth Laible Tall-madge, and Alda Wilhelms. Frances "Frank-ie" Young won a special accolade from Presi-dent Rhodes for her indefatigable work on theCornell Fund. Seen on campus: C. AltheaAust Andrews, Jane Blakeslee Smith, andClarissa Smith Barclay.

Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. in Ithaca isgiving a show of the paintings of Dorothy KingDillingham. The show opens July 18.

We must report, belatedly, the death ofclassmate Anna Martha Mumma, a retiredsocial worker, in February 1986 at her home inGwynedd, Pa. For many years she worked forthe Family and Children's Services of Lan-caster County. Helen Nuffort Saunders, 1Kensington Terr., Maplewood, NJ 07040.

At our Reunion dinner on Friday night, someof us talked of our debt to Bruce Hackstaff forhis unfailing service in writing Class Notes,year after year, so entertainingly and compe-tently. He has helped us to keep in mind ourclassmates and our Cornell memories. We be-lieve that we speak for the Class of 1931 in re-cording here our affectionate thanks to Bruce,and we look forward to many more of hischeerful columns. William M. Vanneman,Box 234, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870.

Fiftieth lor '36The enthusiasm of our classmates during thespring came to a culmination when 213 class-mates and 111 spouses came to Ithaca for the50th Reunion of our class. The very fine pro-gram, sponsored by the university and by ourcommittee, was enjoyed by all and is some-thing we will remember for "many a year."Those who had to miss it may have a regret intheir hearts; we hope they will attend the 55th.

In fundraising, under our Cornell Fund rep-resentatives Harry Bovay and Elizabeth Fes-senden Washburn, we made $2 Million Classstatus. Our thanks to all classmates whohelped in this great endeavor. On Friday, June13, we were honored by President Rhodes atthe recognition ceremony.

The class arts and crafts show was a hugesuccess and we were able to sell nearly all theitems, raising $1,200 for the class fund. Thechicken barbecue at the Game Farm was wellattended and President Rhodes was our guestof honor. He left us with many fine messages.Attendance, under a very pleasant sky, was314 classmates and spouses.

The welcoming committee met all the in-coming classmates on Thursday with a finebuffet and it was a gala evening. On Thursdayat the Country Club course—with a touch ofrain which did not dampen the '36"spirit"—eight golfers braved the stormyweather (heavy dew). Some of the shots werenot the kind one sees on pro courses.

Attendance at the final banquet, at Statler,was excellent and the speaker, Provost BobBarker, presented lots for us to think about.At the Sage Chapel memorial service on Sun-day morning, a Ms. Riina read the "Call toRemembrance" and the following quote willbe of benefit to us all: "When we have joys weyearn to share, we remember them. So long aswe live, they too shall live, for they are now apart of us, as we remember them."

Our 50th Reunion can be rated as a "10."Thanks for all the help and happiness you allgave us during the four days. Col. EdmundR. MacVittie (AUS, ret.), 10130 Forrester Dr.,Sun City, Ariz. 85351.

So much to tell and so little space, but "super"is the word for our 50th! The campus looksbeautiful, with the trees grown to real trees,now; the weather cleared on Friday; being inRisley was fun and really quite comfortable;we seemed more vigorous than might havebeen expected; there were almost too manychoices of things to do and see; and, whereverwe went, our costumes were outstanding andadmired. It was nice to have as class guests thewidows of some of our members: DorisSmallridge Dykes '37 (Mrs. Charles) anddaughter; Carol Forbes (Mrs. James) and sonBill '67; Alice Humphreys (Mrs. John), MaryLawrence (Mrs. George), and Mary Willers(Mrs. Diedrich).

Friday night at the Game Farm chicken bar-becue, President Rhodes delighted the womenby reminding us that we were the organizers ofthe Women's Athletic Association, and hadthe first woman editor of the Daily Sun, thefirst women Widow board members, and thefirst woman member of the Straight board,plus mentioning many other events of our(men's and women's) years at Cornell. LateSaturday afternoon, under bright blue skies,the women met in Risley Courtyard for thepresentation of our endowment to establish aChildren's Literature Fund. President Char-lotte Putnam Reppert handed over a five-foot

Dr. Henry Heimlich grasps his neck inexplaining the hugging maneuver he inventedthat saves choking victims.

check for $5,835 to Herbert Finch, assistantuniversity librarian, who explained that thepurpose of the fund is to assist students doingresearch in the field of children's literature. Healso acknowledged gifts of books receivedfrom classmates. The fund is open-ended andhas already grown another $1,000. Charlottethen conducted class business, which includedre-election of the present slate of officers, withthe addition of Jo Biddle McMeen as co-chairof our Cornell Fund campaign. Our wonderfulReunion Chair Marie Prole Mulcahey agreedto do it again in 1991! That night, at the con-clusion of the class banquet, Margaret Ed-wards Schoen presented Charlotte with a Steu-ben glass penguin as a symbol of our gratitudefor her 50 years of service as president.

There were penguins in all sizes and kinds inthe "Penguin Shop" in Risley foyer, plus avariety of other articles with appeal to all ages.Under the leadership of Eleanor Irvine Vo-lante, classmates and spouses contributed tomaking this project a success. More than$1,200 was raised for the class gift.

A few classmates, who indicated they werecoming, weren't able to, and, sadly, Olive Bi-shop Price, class benefactor extraordinaire,was one. Those not previously listed who didcome include: Margaret Weber Adams, LibbyRaynes Adelman, Frances Robb Boman, Isa-bel K. Boyd, Dorothy Burton Cramer, Han-nah Asai Culver, Marjorie Webb Edgerton,Virginia Day Fisher, Dorothy Phelps Husarek,Marian Etzold Kruger, Edith Lipton, MiriamKillips Longyear, Muriel Silber Nathan, MaryTillinghast Nigro, Margaret Gainey Smith,Sadie Goodman Walton, Helen B. Wright. Wemissed all of you who weren't there.

As President Rhodes said to us, "At our50th, we come out of love," and the warmglow of friendliness, the enthusiasm, and thecommitment to the wonders of Cornell willstill be part of us in the years ahead. MaryEmily Wilkins Lytle, 119 Bedford Ave., Buf-falo, NY 14216.

Forty-filth lor '41The campus looked wonderful (both in rain onFriday night and in glorious sunshine, the restof the time) and High Rise 5 lounge on the topfloor proved to be a great gathering place tocatch up with each other between events.Classmates went in all directions, enjoying lec-tures, forums, college breakfasts, sorority andfraternity open houses, etc. A high point wasJehan Sadat's lecture at Bailey Hall. What atreat it was to hear that gentle yet strong, intel-

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ligent and charming woman give us insight in-to her views on peacemaking. The Savage Clubshow was, as usual, a four-star event with R.A. "Andy" Anderson '16, playing a swingingukelele and showing us that, hopefully, wehave a long way to go. The dinner-dance was asmash—much happy chatter and clinking ofglasses. Our BIG band (14 pieces strong)—augmented by Ray Kruse on trombone andAlice "Dickie" Williams Hallanan's husbandGeorge on trumpet—was something else. An-other highlight was G. Emerson Cole, with astorehouse of big band era trivia. Philip"Buz" Kuehn and "Bart" Bartholomew keptspeeches to a minimum in giving certificates ofappreciation to class officers who have servedus well these past five years. Elections returnedBuz as president, Bart as secretary, and GilCobb as treasurer. New council members areBob Ohaus, Lou Boochever, and Harry Wet-zel. Betty Herrold turned over the women'sgavel to Jean Syyerson Lewis, Eleanor SlackRandies will continue as vice president, MaryNesslebush Stone as secretary, and Priscilla"Jane" Frier Joy as treasurer.

Chuck Lake, as Cornell Fund major giftschairman, and Bob Brunei and Eddie BurgessBartholomew, as Cornell Fund representa-tives, led us over the $3 million mark in cumu-lative giving—a new record for 45th Reunionclasses.

Ray Kruse and Allene Cushing Knibloe pro-vided a smooth and efficient operation for themore than 200 who returned; both have agreedto take on our big 50th in 1991. Better set earlyJune 1991 aside on your calendar of events!Our hunting/fishing/golf hats were a big hit.They will not be packed away. In fact, manyof us had cash offers from envious under-grads. Head counts at the dinner revealed thatmore than ten of us have made it to all nineReunions and an equal number were first-timers. See you in the September issue! We'llhave more news of Reunion, plus photos,then. Marge Huber Robinson, 11915 Long-leaf Lane, Houston, Texas 77024; John Dows-well, 7 Sequoyah, Colorado Springs, Colo.80906.

Fortieth for '46As Reunion Weekend closes, I feel sorrow thatour best Reunion ever is ending and sorrow forthose classmates who were unable to return tosee old friends.

There were friends like Dave Day and Mary,Dick and Priscilla Reed Goll, Al and JaneBoorstein, Gabe Pesce, Bill and Joy GullingBeale '47, Hank '45 and Ruth Whitney Welt-zien, Don and Marcia Taube Demarest, DickTurner and Autumn, Jim Johns tone, Art andDoris Ticknor Van Vleet, Ray and BarbaraHunicke, and Pete Schwarz '47 and Elaine.

There were "old" friends, whom I hadknown only through this column, people likehumorist/farmer/developer Pete Verna andAnne, Stu Snyder (I envied him when he movedhis office to Cape Cod), Ken Voeller and Gail,Gordon and Eve Freyer Spencer '47, andFranklyn Meyer and Katharine (and daughterJulia) who Γm sure had come in from some-where west of Honolulu, Hawaii, and who hadto leave before we could say "Hello."

More than 150 classmates attended our40th. President Mavis Gillette Sand did a su-perb job directing preparations and Reunion.

We owe special thanks to Whit Simmons,who directed our best fundraising effort, ever($122,000-plus, at latest tally); to Mary, whocontributed a great soprano voice to the sing-alongs; to Reunion Co-chairs Tom and SandyMadden who were responsible for, amongother things, our super crystal gifts and Pola-roid shots; to BUI and Carol Papsco; and toBarbara Schaeffer Colbert. Sam Miller and

The Reginald Ingrams take in a party at aquonset hut near the Vet school, whichrecalled early days of the I&LR school inquonset huts on campus.

Pat kept the finances flawless. Our three clerkswere on top of all details.

A special award should go to Bob Nist, whodemonstrated that he could still fit into his sea-man's whites. (Wife Ruth claims no seams hadbeen let out.) Special condolences to delightfulDottie Stieff, who had to tolerate husbandRodney's highly unrealistic, preposterous,ridiculous stories of his treacherous youth atCornell. More attendee news next time, whenspace permits. Paul L. Russell, 10 PickerelRd., Wellesley, Mass. 02181.

We were the graduates of 40 long years. Wewined and dined, and even drank beers. Manylong hours were spent reminiscing. We sleptvery little 'cause Cornell we've been missing.

If you missed this one, you missed the best!We participated in whirlwind activities—"waiting for the shuttle bus," eating continen-tal breakfasts, and living communally at LowRise 6 on North Campus, busing to the Planta-tions, listening to Jehan Sadat, drinkingcocktails at the Willard Straight rock garden,enjoying the Savage Club Show, samplingwine and cheese at the Straight for its 60th an-niversary, wall sitting at McGraw Tower,listening to "our" selections on the chimes, sit-ting on the Libe Slope to have our class picturetaken, eating Barton Hall lunches, being enter-tained by "Nothing But Treble" at our Satur-day banquet, even electing new officers; plustent hopping and video viewing (a new dimen-sion), and standing at attention at 2 a.m. onSunday as our pianist played the Alma Mater.

We broke several records: we raised our giv-ing to Cornell by 175 percent over last year,and were awarded a certificate at the Fridaymorning recognition party; 150 attended theSaturday banquet; and we completed all threeof our projects. Raise a cheer for PresidentMavis Gillette Sand, who had a successful fiveyears, "without vice," and to all of you formaking our successes possible.

Two couples celebrated anniversaries—Gor-don and Priscilla Alden Clement, their 40th onthe day of our banquet, and an llth for Pauland Kathy Russell.

Some class members returned for the firsttime, found many changes on campus, re-

newed old acquaintances, made new friends,and vowed to return in 1991. Elinor BaierKennedy, 503 Morris PL, Reading, Pa. 19607.

Thirty-fifth for '51We have had a lively and busy 35th Reunion,although we missed those of you who were notwith us. Dorrie Baird Norris and Tom Nuttledid a great job of putting the whole thing to-gether: we were well-housed in Balch II, well-fed in numerous places, and well-cared forthroughout. Thank you, Dorrie and Tom!Two hundred and eighty of us (a record?)showed up at one time or another for the mar-athon buffet at the Big Red Barn (formerlyPresident Andrew D. White's carriage house)on Thursday, the barbeque at the spectacularCornell Plantations site on Friday, and forSaturday dinner. Of course, there were tentparties on the Arts Quad, a lecture by JehanSadat, the Savage Club show, Ken Blanchard'61 "The One-Minute Manager," CornellianaNight, and formal and informal tours of thecampus. The campus is as beautiful as ever,but even larger, so the shuttle buses were ap-preciated, especially to Cornell Plantationsand to dinner at La Tourelle on South Hill.

I am writing this on the last day of Reunion:Dorrie tells me that there are 1,727 days to gountil our 40th, so start making plans. (JoanHartford Ferriera and Steve Rounds are co-chairs for Reunion in 1991.) The weather?Eventually, magnificent, though cold and sog-gy to begin with: we earned that beautiful Sat-urday. We have also elected new class officers,which explains why you are hearing from me,not from Delia Krause Thielen. Thanks,Dudie. You are going to be a hard act tofollow. Will all of you who read this please in-clude news of yourselves with your class dues,which will continue to go to Dave and AnitaVan Hassel Blauvelt, our treasurers. BettyHamilton continues as co-president with DougYoung; Pete Bolanis is vice-president; andConnie Pirnie, our recording secretary.

To date, the class has raised $642,004 from526 donors, including gifts from 61 TowerClub members. On Friday of Reunion Week,the Class of '51 was honored for achievementin the 35th Reunion Campaign and also forreaching the $2 million mark in total class giv-ing to the university.

In non-Reunion news, Janet ArmstrongHamber reports on her work with the Califor-

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nia condor: "1985 turned out to be a very de-pressing year. In the fall of 1984 there were 15wild condors, with five breeding pairs. Duringthe winter we lost six birds from the popula-tion and dropped to one breeding pair—theSanta Barbara pair that I have been watchingfor ten years. They nested three times thisspring. All the eggs were taken to San DiegoZoo, where two hatched. Three more birdswere trapped for captive breeding, leaving sixbirds in the wild. All are equipped with radio-transmitters, so I've spent time following themabout, using telemetry equipment." By mid-January she expected to be heading into theback country to start looking for the 1986nests. Janet mentioned the Turner TV pro-gram, "World of Audubon," scheduled forFebruary or March, and which she hopedwould be repeated on PBS in May or June.She appears, she says, in a "short funky scenewith the setting sun behind me, and I conversewith another field biologist."

My '51 mailbox is now empty. Did youknow that total column length of each class isdependent on the class's total number of sub-scribers? Winifred Bergin Hart, 115 N.Highland St., Arlington, Va. 22201.

Thirtieth for '56This is Stephen Kitten plan, beginning my 30thyear as one of your class correspondents. Be-fore I tell you about Reunion, I would like tothank outgoing class correspondent RitaRausch Moelis for her many years of service toour class and the university; she never missed acolumn. We will miss her, but I am pleasedthat Phyllis Bosworth has agreed to take onthe job as co-correspondent. Phyllis is very tal-

Rowing enthusiasts dedicate four-oared shellsnamed for Becky and Carl Ullrich '50. LaingKennedy '63, director of physical educationand athletics, left, speaks at the CollyerBoathouse on the Inlet.

ented and I look forward to working with her.We will write a joint column, with news ofboth men and women in a single format. Iknow you will enjoy the change.

What can I say? Those of you who have fol-lowed the news in this space remember howfabulous our 25th Reunion was. In fact, BillCallnin outdid himself with our 30th. Due tohis efforts, as well as those of Bob Herron andJim Quest, each event was perfect. The infor-mal gathering on Thursday night kicked offthe warm feeling of the weekend, as many newclassmates came to Ithaca, some for the firsttime since graduation.

The most explosive news came at the CornellFund meeting on Friday in Statler. Hosted byTrustee Curt Reis, this gathering heard Presi-dent Rhodes announce our record-breakinggift to the university of more than $3,100,000.This astonishing amount, coupled with an an-nouncement that the Class of '56 had, overall,given more than $6 million to Cornell, stunnedthe large gathering. Thank you for the supportthat put us in the Cornell history books. WhatJon Linseth started about seven years ago hascontinued with this remarkable achievement.

The skies cleared as we grouped at the BigRed Barn for a barbeque and Dixieland music.My eyes wandered over the few hundred peo-ple, and there they all were: Peter Hearn,whose wife Gail could not come because oneof their children had chickenpox; Ellie Schaf-fer, who is moving her teaching career fromParis to China, and was very excited about theprospect; E. Van Cunningham, Jr., sporting afine beard and looking very aristocratic, withwife Jean by his side; Ed and Lois Berkowitz,who hardly ever miss a Reunion, came upfrom Washington, DC, where he is an at-torney: Mary Fitzpatrick Morton, as ravishingas ever, was having a wonderful time seeingpeople she hadn't seen in many years; Mikeand Lori Nadler, who arrived from the WestCoast via Cape Cod, were loving every minute.

The afternoon ended too quickly. After re-

freshing ourselves at our headquarters in Shel-don Court, it was on to the Johnson Museumfor cocktails, and then the Statler Ballroom forour main dinner. It was Ernie Stern, handingout the awards—and receiving them—and,boy, was it fun! President Rhodes waspresented with two tremendous checks and he,once again, honored our "Super Class of1956." We were all pleased that L. Sanford '29and Jo Mills Reis '29, parents of Curt, wereelected to honorary membership in our class.As I looked around the tables, I spotted thatold Hotelie Harry Keller with wife Jean. Imust say, he looked great. (Harry was an ever-present figure at "Jim's Place"—now the"Chapter House"—which had been given itsold name for the weekend.)

To one and all, from Phyllis Bosworth: itwill be a privilege and honor to join Steve Kit-tenplan as a class correspondents team. Here'smore news from our 30th: The lobster-clam-bake was our Saturday big event. Great musicfrom our class favorites, Peggy Haine '65 andthe Lowdown Alligator Jass Band. Judy(Cohen) and George Lowry loved her so much,they bought her tape! At the clambake I had achance to talk with Sam Basch and heardabout his sports spectacular this past spring:Sam and his daughter Arielle, 15, came inthird, on April 4, at the giant slalom at Vail,Colo. That was third out of 37,000 contest-ants! It was a father-daughter event sponsoredby Met-Life, and Sam did it racing with abroken rib!

I also talked with Judy Cimildoro Jones, amember of the city council of Toledo, Ohio,who is running for state senate on the Republi-can ticket in November. Judy's Democraticopponent is also a woman, following a trendthis year of more women making politicalraces. Barbara Burns has a new job—as ex-ecutive vice president of GreyCom Interna-tional, a new division of Grey Advertising.And, the lobster-clambake was Werner Men-del's first appearance at our 30th: he and wife

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Stephanie arrived that morning, they had beenmarried less than a week earlier and are full ofenthusiasm for their newest venture, the NewAge Health Farm in Neversink. We are all in-vited as paying guests.

The clambake finale was the awarding ofgifts for winners of our Trivial Pursuit-typegame (personally created by Bob Herron forour Reunion). Jerry Larson was the big winnerof a trip to Norway. The team of JeremiahTarr and Steve Kittenplan made these awardsthe comedy event of the weekend.

One final personal note: this was the firstReunion during which I'd had a chance toshare the experience with former roommatesBarbara Barron Starr and Margot Lurie Zim-merman, and it was great. Their husbands,Bob Starr and Paul Zimmerman, get myaward for "good sports" of our 30th. Wemissed every one of you who couldn't makethe 30th, but let's hear from you for futureclass columns. Stephen Kittenplan, 1165Park Ave., NYC 10128; also Phyllis Bos-worth, 8 E 83rd St., NYC 10028.

Twenty-fifth for '61The calendar says it's over, but the memorieswill go on forever, we hope. From our first of-ficial function—Thursday night, at JohnsonArt Museum, where we saw many classmatesfor the first time in 25 years—to the climacticclass banquet, Saturday night, at Barton Hall,where Marshall and Roseanne RomanelliFrank's and Barbara Horowitz Slone's cleversong parodies reminded us of our lives backthen, and when the presentation by FrankCuzzi, Chuck Lee, Ken Blanchard, RogerWeiss, and President Diane Baillet Meakem ofa check for $3,200,000 to the university proved

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the dedication of our class today, it was the25th Reunion of a class that is truly, in Presi-dent Rhodes's words, "incredible." PerhapsFred Stahl and wife Karen said it best, with thefollowing narrative: "We were deeply movedby our 25th Reunion, Fred's first time back toCornell since graduation and Karen's first visitever. We are especially grateful to son Rick,17, who drove most of the 2,641 miles fromour home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. He gave usmany uninterrupted hours to enjoy EdGoldman's magnificent Reunion yearbook.

"Special moments at the Reunion included:(for Karen) the stimulating and personal shar-ing by the speakers at the women's breakfast;(for Fred) the chance meeting with Kwang-yohNieh, MCE '31, of the People's Republic ofChina, the oldest runner, at 77, in the ReunionRun, and learning of Nieh's life since gradua-tion; (for both) the extra-special culinarytouches to the banquets and buffets, Ken Blan-chard's talk (Just the inspiration we needed!),and the energy of the class.

"President Rhodes's charismatic speechesand his resounding call to us to continue in theCornell tradition of knowledge, service, andlove, heightened our realization of the joy andprivilege it is to be part of the Cornell commu-nity. To those who made the 1986 Reunionpossible-—our deepest thanks! We won't let 25years go by again before returning. We hope tobe back next year!"

New,' this year, the men's breakfast andsingles' cocktail party were well received. Ourclass clerks, led by Gordon Whiting '87, werefantastic! Sue Rand and friend Charlie Slilson,now living in Atlanta, Ga., introduced PeachNavels to a receptive group of damn Yankees.Sylvia Cottingham Smyth traveled for twodays from India, while Linda Fenty Nevinsdrove alone crosscountry from Malibu, Cal. Itwas all there—stimulating speakers, rangingfrom Mrs. Jehan Sadat to our One-MinuteManager Ken Blanchard; nostalgia at the Sa-vage Club show, Cornelliana Night, and a re-turn visit by the "Sherwoods"; delicious food,from subs to gourmet fare (Thanks, RoseannaRomanelli Frank!); thought-provoking discus-sions over a cup of coffee; and the just plainfun of the beer tents and jitterbugging inDonlon 'til 3 a.m. As I reluctantly bid goodbyeto classmates, I could only think it's time toleave: my spirit may endurethuforever, but mybody has had it!

Former-President Diane Meakem passedalong the following information of interest toclassmates: "The Class of '61 has had three"giving" projects during these past five years.(1) We gave a row of red oak trees, which areplanted along East Avenue between Tripham-mer Bridge and the Arts Quad; (2) we pur-chased a Class of '61 seat at the new Perform-ing Arts Center; ,(3) the class scholarship fundis alive and well and available to our own sonsand daughters who attend Cornell. Anyone in-terested in applying for help from it should ap-ply through the alumni affairs office orthrough Lee Robinson or Marshall Frank. Itwas a great Reunion! My thanks to all whohelped so much!"

Lee Robinson accepted the president's gavelfrom Diane for the next five years. While weall know Dee is a hard act to follow, Lee hasworked long and hard for our class in the pastand will be an effective and dedicated leader.Plus, he has such a neat wife! Let's all pledgeour support to him. Pat Laux Richards,RD #1, Box 165, Seven Valleys, Pa. 17360.

Having just returned from our 25th Reunion, Iremain impressed with the accomplishments ofclassmates, the stature of the university, thefun of seeing old friends and acquaintances,the beauty of the campus and surroundingarea, the enthusiasm of returning alumni, and

the dedication of those involved with the Re-union. More than 800 people representing theClass of '61 (including family members) camefrom near or from far, in cars or in planes, forfour days or for a few hours, and alone, withfamily, or with friends, to enjoy the presentand to remember the years 1957-61. It wasfun!

On behalf of those who were able to returnto Ithaca for the 25th, I thank our classmateswho were instrumental in making the weekendsuch a success. And to those who were unableto attend, I encourage you to do so for our30th. It is a most enjoyable experience.

At this point, to list names and activities ofthose whom I saw would only repeat informa-tion you received not too long ago in the formof the Reunion yearbook—a marvelous collec-tion of data and comments bringing us up toN

date on many members of our class. From thispoint on, however, Pat Laux Richards and Ilook forward to sharing your news throughthis column. Please let us hear fromyou! Nancy Hislop McPeek, 7405 Brush-more, NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720.

Twentieth lor '66Reunion was wonderful! Months of planningpaid off in a weekend of fun topped off by thenews that we broke two university records. Wehad the greatest number of classmates return-ing for a 20th Reunion and we made the largestCornell Fund donation for a 20th-Reunionclass.

A very special thank you to Alice Katz Ber-glas, Laurie Silverman Samburg, Jon Siegal,and Betsy Berds Scheakel. They made it allpossible and set a precedent for the 25th-yearcrew to follow. Thanks to Linda BernsteinMiller and Andy Potash for all the CornellFund work.

Leading the class for the next five years willbe Linda Bernstein Miller, as president, assis-ted by a council of vice presidents. A completelist will be in another column.

Thanks also to all the committee people whotook on jobs, encouraged so many classmatesto return, and helped the weekend run smooth-ly. Ralph Janis did a wonderful job of puttingtogether our Reunion forum, with ProfessorsGlenn Altschuler, PhD '76, history, and DarylBern, psychology. We learned about ourhistoric roots, the psychology of the times inwhich we grew up, the revolutions we werealmost in, and the one we are in now as morewomen return to work and more responsibili-ties are shared.

We laughed together, remembered together,made new friends, and renewed old friend-ships. Some of us brought our children toshow them the campus and to encourage themto make Cornell a part of their future. Fondmemories were evoked as the "Hangovers"serenaded us at the barbecue and a reuniongroup of the "Sherwoods" sang at the cocktailparty and the Sunday breakfast. PresidentRhodes thanked us for our personal and finan-cial contributions to Cornell. Harvey Mayshad us laughing as he again related a tale ofnative ingenuity.

We traveled here from Alaska, Hawaii, Ger-many, and even Ithaca. Bob Feldman gave uslovely concerts on the chimes and we wereawakened Sunday at 5 a.m. with a lengthy tollof the hour, the hour, the hour.

These were just some of the highlights ofthis wonderful weekend. Bill Blockton and Iwill continue as your correspondents and willlet you know just who attended in the next col-umn or two. We are sorry Betsy missed it, butsince her husband won a trip to London, goodthis week only, we certainly understand. We'llsee you next time. Susan Rockford Bittker,424 Pea Pond Rd., Katonah, NY 10536.

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Fifteenth for '71Our 15th Reunion brought about 150 class-mates, spouses, friends—and lots of kids—toIthaca's fine skies and Cornell's green lawns.John Con well, Reunion chair, and PaulaJacobs Dore, assistant Reunion chair, puttogether a fine old (but not too old!) time,complete with food, music, and campus tours.

The 15th Reunion Campaign fund commit-tee was pleased to report its successes to theclass at dinner on Saturday night in Risley. Anew '71 record was reached, with more than$112,000 raised for the Cornell Fund. Morethan 600 classmates contributed: of these, 7were at the Tower Club level; 14, at the Quad-rangle level; 17, Charter Society; and 174 inthe Leadership Gift category. In addition,many classmates were generous in designatingmoney for a class gift in addition to class dues,last spring. The class will finance the construc-tion of a high-tech lectern for the Johnson ArtMuseum, an item which had been on their"wish list" for some time.

The officers for 1986-91 are Marty Coul-trap, president; Barbara Alexander, Gary Co-kins, Steve Kirk, Lauren Procton Meyer, Lin-da Cushman Ruth, and Gayle Yeomans, vicepresidents; John Con well, treasurer; KathyMenton Flaxman, 20th Reunion chair; PaulaJacobs Dore, assistant Reunion chair; Elisa-beth Kaplan Boas, Cornell Fund representa-tive; Christine Sickles Merchant and JulieReisner Carter, assistant Cornell Fund repre-sentatives; and Joel Moss, Marsha Acker-mann, and Matt Silverman, class correspon-

(usually not too long before it was time to setup for breakfast)!

We had some typical Ithaca weather (rain)Thursday and Friday morning, but Saturdaywas a beautiful day for our Arts Quad picnic,cocktails outside the Johnson Museum, anddinner on the Chi Psi lawn. Johnny's "HotTruck" was a big success for Friday night din-ner (judging by the fact that many people hadtwo, three, or, yes, even four subs). Not sur-prisingly, much beer and soda was gleefullyconsumed.

The Class of '76 is proud of all of our class-mates who actually competed Saturday at 8a.m. in the Reunion Run. Top finishers for thefive-mile event were: Richard Murphy (whofinished 4th), Roy Stever (9th), Ira Thomsen(12th) for the men; and Mary Pykosz (123rd),Jeri S. Frank (145th), and Diane M. Laufman(155th) for the women. Spouses of '76ers DebStokes (Mrs. Wayne D.) and Sally Pantages(Mrs. James) came in 42nd and 109th, respec-tively, in the five-mile event. With 32 runnersof a total field of 234, the Class of '76 was wellrepresented. Top finishers in the two-mile racewere: James Redden (15th), Richard Sasson(24th), and Kurt Eichorn (25th), for the men;and Lori S. Segal (32nd)—who won the wom-en's 30-35 age group!—Ana Alvarez Murphy(37th), and Alice M. Mascette (42nd), for thewomen.

Many thanks to all classmates who madegifts to our Cornell Fund campaign in honorof our 10th Reunion. This support is vital toCornell. Special recognition goes to DeidraDain, Tony Incalcatera, Mike Gerling, Karen

Class of '66 renews acquaintances over cocktails next to the Library Tower.

dents. We look forward to five good years.Marsha Ackermann, 330 W. 56th St., 4F,NYC 10019.

Tenth lor '76Final figures are still being tabulated as thisgoes to the printer, but we're happy to report arecord-breaking crowd for our 10th Reunion—310-plus classmates and 125-plus spouses/guests! We had many more walk-in registra-tions than expected, so things were hectic. Abig thanks to all classmates who pitched in andhelped when they saw a need.

Reunion headquarters, the ever-glamorousU Hall 4, was busy from early morning break-fasts until the last late-night partiers gave up

Rupert Keating, and a very active fundraisingcommittee for heading up this effort! Morethan $157,572 in gifts came in from more than667 donors. WOW!

The new slate of officers was drawn fromthose people who were most actively involvedduring the last six months in organizing for ourReunion. We are looking for many more class-mates to get involved in leadership capacities,so don't hesitate to volunteer. More informa-tion on that will be coming to you this sum-mer. Here are the officers: Co-Presidents Ke-vin and Ellen Gobel Walsh; Vice PresidentLorraine Mohan; Secretary Tony Incalcatera;Treasurer Mike Gerling; Cornell Fund Repre-sentative Deidra Dain; Reunion Chair (for1991) Karen Rupert Keating; Class Correspon-

dents Ilise Zimmerman, Martha Plass Sheehe,Stephanie Swirsky, Suzy Schwarz Quiles.

To all those who attended our Reunion,thanks for making it a great weekend; get intouch with your friends who didn't make it, sothey'll be there in 1991 for our 15th. EllenGobel Walsh, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY14850.

Fifth for '81An unforgettable Reunion—our first . . . thebeautiful, bucolic setting of Ithaca in the sum-mer, combined with the return to campus ofhundreds of classmates, made Reunion, June12-15, an unforgettable event. Weather waspar for the course for days on which parents,alumni, or other prospective contributors visitthe campus, and housing in U Hall 5 added theinimitable imprimatur of West Campus livingto the weekend. It was also a treat to see loyalalumni from decades past walking aroundwearing carnelian red and white.

Unofficial figures show that 276 classmates,with 102 non-classmate guests, participated inthe pilgrimage. The official figures are ex-pected to be significantly higher—turnout wasso great that some people had to be housed inother West Campus dorms.

Attendees enjoyed such events as night-time"tent parties" with beer, bands, dancing, andthe "Hot Truck" on the Arts Quad; an out-door brunch, after which a class photo wastaken, near the Johnson Art Museum; a cock-tail party on top of the Campus Store; a chick-en dinner in the Ivy Room, complete with red-and-white tablecloths; Cornelliana Night inBailey Hall, and, last but not least, two after-hour parties in the U-Hall 5 main lounge,reminiscent of Orientation Week bashes nineyears ago.

The weekend was coordinated and plannedby Reunion Chairs Betsy Cahn and Sally Wil-son.

By the end of Reunion, the class had set aCornell record for most donors in a 5th-Re-union class. By noon, Sunday, June 15, 712classmates had made contributions or pledges.The previous record was 711. The 712 class-mates donated or pledged more than $42,000.Our class, as you may recall, also set a recordfor our senior-year Cornell Fund drive. TheCornell Fund representative for this year'sdrive was Wendy P. Rosenthal, who had alsoco-chaired the senior-year effort.

Also during Reunion, on June 15, the classelected officers for the next five years. Celia E.Rodee was elected president from a slate offour candidates. Elected vice presidents were:Alan J. Cohen, John T. Hartman, and BetsyS. Silverfine. The new treasurer is Fredric L.Cohen; and the new Cornell Fund representa-tives are Donald C. O'Connor (former presi-dent), Michael G. Hoard, and Mark R. Ne-chita. Elected class correspondents were JamesA. Hahn, Robin E. Rosenberg, and JonLandsman. 10th Reunion chairs will be BetsyCahn (former vice president), Roni KastenFishkin, and Heidi G. Fleischman.

Some of the officers' goals include increas-ing class activities, especially those outside theNew York City area, and beginning to makeplans by committee, this year, for the next Re-union, in 1991. Anyone interested in helpingon any class matter can contact any officer incare of the Alumni House, 626 Thurston Ave.,Ithaca 14850-2490.

Likewise, I encourage all who did or did notattend Reunion to write to any of us with newsof themselves and their Cornell frie'nds "fiveyears later." Jon Landsman, 811 AscanSt., N. Valley Stream, NY 11580; also, JimHahn, 154 Pinehurst Way, San Francisco,Cal. 94127; and Robin E. Rosenberg, 1122 W.72nd St., Apt. 4A, NYC 10023.

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Notes of theNon-Reunion ClassesNews of most classes celebrating Reunionsthis year may be found in a section of thisissue beginning on page 25.

Items that may be of interest toreaders of many classes are high-

^ i .-£ lighted by the small head of a bear.We forward clippings, press re-

leases, and other information about alumnito their class correspondents. Addresses inthe following columns are in New York Stateunless otherwise noted.

17 At Comstock KnollUnder the five-year plan for holding Reunionsthe time has now arrived for the Class of '17 tomake plans and program for celebrating its70th Reunion, June 11-14, 1987. It is a signifi-cant date. In point of time, from enrollment asstudents in 1913, to date, the Class of '17 hasbeen privileged to be a part of the university'sgrowth and development for more than 60 per-cent of its existence—beginning with the highhope of becoming an institution where anyperson without regard for sex, race, color, orcreed could receive instruction in any study, amost unique concept for the age and times.From a time when enrollment was by studentsdrawn largely from nearby areas, the universi-ty has become a worldwide leader in the aca-demic field. The highlight of the 70th is thededication of the Plantations project, " '17 atComstock Knoll—a Living Mernorial," lo-cated at the very top of the rejuvenated Com-stock Knoll. It is reached by a gently ascendingpathway of wide timbered steps, bounded byan attractive low flatstone wall. The open area,the focal point being a teakwood bench, is sur-rounded by certain existing trees and carefullyselected shrubs and late blooming ornamentalssuch as azaleas and rhododendrons taggedwith the names of plant, person memorialized,and donor. An existing large dogwood hasbeen tentatively selected for endowment by agift of- the late George Kephart (Ag) inmemory of his sister Barbara Kephart Bird '21(Mrs. Royal Ί6). In sum, the place so situatedprovides a downward panoramic view of thePlantations development from Beebe Lake tothe Plantations headquarters and environsalong Plantations Road, heading to theNewman Arboretum. The bench will be em-bossed by a bronze plaque bearing the legend,"The Class of 1917 invites you to rest and en-joy the beauty of this place."

Reunion plans and programs are proceedingnicely. Reservations for ten rooms have beenreceived, subject only to the vicissitudes of ageand health. If you have not already done so,please make a reservation, without delay, asrooms are limited.

As you read this, consider yourself an activemember of the Reunion committee, behoovedto furnish your best thoughts and suggestions

for insuring success and enjoyment of '17 at70. Your help is needed to deal with the imper-ative concern engendered by the inexorabledwindling of '17 membership, which unavoid-ably confers responsibility on survivors for thevitality of the class. Marvin R. Dye, 1570East Ave., #708, Rochester, NY 14610.

18 Spring Doings"Finish Cornell column" is at the top of myjob list for today. Do you make yourself a listfrom time to time? I do, for otherwise I'd for-get some jobs. (But not this column!) Afterthat item, the list goes on: Get pix framed. Tieclematis to trellis. (It's early May.) Have lawn-mower^ tuned . . . . If energy is missing, I lookfor the lightest job, like tying up that purpleclematis, a fifteen-minute job.

Classmate Dr. C. F. Ackerknecht has "re-tired from obstetrical practice in Schenectadyafter 50 years. I'm now enjoying my children,five grandchildren, and one great-grandson."Outside of "a few infirmities," he is still"dodging the grim reaper." We're glad to hearfrom him and glad he now can spend moretime with his family. He hears "from Paul andSara Speer Miller '21 several times a year."

President Frank H. T. Rhodes was to givethe commencement address at the Universityof Illinois on May 25. His speeches are alwaysto the point, and stimulating.

Perhaps some of you noted, this spring, theannouncement that the Gannett newspaperchain and the Knight-Ridder chain had agreedto "co-operate" in some cities, in ways such asusing one set of presses for two papers. Youremember that classmate John S. Knightstarted the Knight-Ridder chain. He wouldhave been pleased to learn the "Knight-Riddernewspapers picked up seven of fifteen newspa-per awards (Pulitzer prizes), a record for asingle chain," according to Time magazine.

Another classmate, Lynn H. Tripp, DVM,practiced at Fayetteville for many years. In the1960s he retired to Pompano Beach, Fla., butin 1981 he "returned to our native state." Hehad eye troubles, and when he could no longerdrive, he says, "due to poor vision, for meFlorida lost its charm."

Continuing the list of classmates who havedied recently, I shall add Austin R. Howard(Ag), of Candor, who died in March. Stacy G.Kircher of Minneapolis, Minn., died Feb. 10,1986. He was originally from Mt. Vernon. Hisson Robert W. Kircher, MD '48, lives in River-side, Cal. Florence Lumsden Duffies (HomeEC) died in October 1985; she had been livingin Falls Church, Va. As a student, she was aTri-Delt, played field hockey, was active inwomen's activities, in Frigga Fylgae, and theYankee Club. Alpheus R. Phelps (Law) alsodied in October 1985. He had been living in Ni-

agara Falls. We extend our sympathy to thefamilies of all these classmates.

Ruth Williams Snow died a year ago. Sheand husband Harold lived in Glendale, Cal.,for many years, with Ruth teaching Spanish,and heading the high school department. Ipaid them a visit there in the late 1930s andwas taken to see many of the sights of LosAngeles and Hollywood. But, when Haroldretired, they bought a small acreage of orangetrees near Porterville and lived a more rurallife. In our college years, Ruth was tall andathletic, playing center on our women'sbasketball squad, and shortstop oh ourbaseball team. She was manager one year, andclass treasurer, another. Coming fromDenison, Texas, it was natural for her to jointhe Dixie Club. In fact, with her height, shehad a certain "rawboned Texan look," as Ithink back. We were good friends. AfterHarold's death, Ruth suggested that I join upwith her, at least for several months a year.But just at that time my cataract problemsbecame acute, and I wasn't up to much travel.All of us will miss Ruth, who was alwaysdevoted to Ί8.

By April, our gifts to the Cornell Fund hadcome to $196,584, from 35 classmates. HappyFourth of July! Enjoy the Statue of Libertycelebrations! Irene M. Gibson, 119 S. MainSt., Holley, NY 14470.

19 More News NeededMany thanks to the 29 men and women whoresponded to Mike Hendrie's April letter bymailing the return postal—some withnews—and five including checks for 1985-86class dues. With 133 men and 59 women stillόri our mailing list, it would seem that manymore could take a moment to keep in touchwith us, and thus keep informed about class-mates through this column. More news,please!

Our distinguished landscape architect, Wil-bur H. Simonson, Bethesda, Md., reports heunderwent emergency surgery last December31, followed by two weeks in the hospital, butis recovering very well at home. Wilbur re-ceived more accolades in the Washington Postof November 1,1985, in a (detailed description,with maps,, of the Mount Vernon MemorialHighway, which he helped design some 55years ago. Every month Wilbur, 88, and Nor-ma, his wife of 67 years, drive along thishighway, the original stretch of the scenicGeorge Washington Parkway along thePotomac River, to enjoy the fruits of his work.

In May we mentioned several classmateswho will reach the age of 90 this year, and ne-glected to include P.S. Wilson, who will be 90in September. Syd mentions that a grand-daughter, Carol Eichling, a graduate of Mt.Holypke College, is an ordained minister,married to a minister, and they jointly serve asclergy to the Presbyterian Church in Cran-bury, NJ. The couple has a daughter, 1.

Franklyn P. "Obie" O'Brien, DelrayBeach, Fla., reports he and his wife took acruise to the West Indies last February, whichwas "very pleasant on everything except thepocketbook." Capt. Leland F. Noble, FallsChurch, Va., writes that "since retiring fromthe US Navy, then spending 25 years as a realestate broker, I am again retired to the old fire-side, where I can reminisce over the pleasuresof my years at Cornell and elsewhere duringmy span of 88-plus years." Joseph Blumen-thal, West Cornwall, Conn., has writtenanother book Robert Frost and His Printers,published by W. Thomas Taylor of Austin,Texas. Julius Livant, formerly of West PalmBeach, Fla., reports he and Rose have movedto a hotel residence in Maryland. Their newaddress is The Charter House, 1316 Fenwick

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Lane, Silver Spring. P. S. Wilson, 325Washington St., Glen Ridge, NJ 07028; guestcolumnist, C. F. Hendrie, 89 Baldwin St.,Glen Ridge, NJ 07028.

20 Fond MemoriesWe all enjoyed the "Shades of Ho Ballou" let-ter from our Presidents Agda Swenson Osbornand Ralph T. Reeve. I used to have luncheonwith Ho and Ted in the huge Clearwater Hotelduring the winter. What a loyal Cornellian Howas. Also saw Celia Warne Tower and Dorrice"Dick" Richards Marrow during Florida win-ters. How I miss them all. Still see Pamelia Ja-cobs Gibb, '33-34 Grad, at Cornell Club meet-ings in Sarasota.

A warm and loving letter from Grace Dime-low made my week a happy one. She has anapartment in a secluded spot on Siesta Key,Fla., in the winter. How many of you remem-ber the Hollis Dann chorus? What a gloriousexperience, singing the operas with the topvoices of that era as soloists: Schumann-Heϊnk, Caruso, Galli Curci, Louise Homer,McCormick. An especially handsomeTelluride member of the chorus was WalterWelti '24, who later directed the Salt Lake CityTabernacle Choir. Each Ithaca student got aliberal education in choral music with LauraBryant, a real taskmaster, but a consummateteacher. Good music has always added beautyto my life. The Cornell influence has beenalways present.

May God grant you good health, an activemind, and loving friends to share yourlife. Marion Shevalier Clark, 201 Fox LakeRd., #210, Angola, Ind. 46703.

As I was ready to write this with the bit ofnews on hand, Frank "Spuds" DuMond cameto my aid. He got his nickname in 1917 whenworking in a lumber camp, using a small toolcalled a spud. Graduating in '20, in forestry,he cruised timber in California, sleeping mostnights on a bed of boughs. He earned an MF(master's in forestry) in 1921 and another MFat Yale in 1922.

Steve Stevenson '19 wrote a great story cov-ering Spuds' activities, beginning in 1923,when he joined Kent Scientific Museum inGrand Rapids, Mich., as curator of education.Later he became director. An ardent lover ofboth flora and fauna, his aim at the museumwas to attract children to his lectures onvarious aspects of nature. Children flocked tohis talks, broadening their understandingthrough his photos and stories about outdoorexperiences. Folks in Grand Rapids are enthu-siastic about his accomplishments. He looksback on his life work with great pride. A fewyears ago he retired, and now lives in Kalama-zoo. I have visited him at the museum morethan once and can realize the value of his workover many years.

Ray Allen sent dues, then phoned me, to myenjoyment. While Ralph Reeve was in Arizonahe talked with Frank P. Knight Jr., who saidhe's well but beset with decreasing energy, acommon complaint these days. But, thosereading this seem to be holding up well.Among those of whom I've had such proof re-cently are Morton Woodward, Frank Griffin,Maurice Wilson, Stan Reich, Don Stevens, Al-den Perrine, Aaron Wallace, Dana Smith,Walter Hunt, Bob Stack, John Hammond,and Harold Florsheim. We're a heartybunch. Donald Hoagland, 1700 3rd Ave.,W., Bradenton, Fla. 33505.

22 Civic MindedEdna Krentz Koepchen raised delectable stormwith her activities in regard to making her votecount. S. Tommy Thompson Jr. '47 expresses

his admiration for her courage and tenacity.Another letter from Phedora Leete Shearerpraises Edna's political awareness. Phedora,herself, writes that she enjoys good health andsome activities. "I have two volunteer posts inthe city (Worcester, Mass.) and recently I hada guided tour of England and Scotland." Shealso visits her son, Richard '58, in'Denver,Colo., every year.

How gratifying it is, that our class has suchsocially conscious and civic-minded women!Can it be our early Cornell training ground, orwere we superior women to have chosen it inthe first place? Sylvia Bernstein Seaman,244 W. 74th St., NYC 10023; telephone (212)724-2261. (Collect calls welcome.)

Yesterday the News & Dues responses to theApril letter for fiscal year 1985-86 were openedat Alumni House. Three previously unre-ported deaths were learned of: Robert L. Mac-Cutcheon (Law) died June 6, 1985, in Kensing-ton, Md.; Roland W. Bartlett died Mar. 14,1986, in La Grange, 111.; and M. Gordon Nor-throp (EE), ME '25, died Feb. 5, 1986, inBombay (NY).

Bartlett received BS and MS degrees in Agri-culture, at Cornell, then went to Penn State forthe PhD. From 1928-68 he taught agriculturaleconomics and dairy marketing at the Univer-sity of Illinois, Urbana, where he publishedmore than 200 research papers and ten books.(His career paralleled that of our WilliamKrauss, of the University of Ohio, demonstrat-ing the impact of the College of Agriculturethroughout this country.) Northrop spent mostof his working years teaching engineering inSouthern technical schools.

Albert Verbyla's wife Helen reports Al is ina retirement home, close to their apartment inNorfolk, still troubled by the knee which kepthim away from the 60th Reunion. They aredisposing of their marine paint business(across the river in Portsmouth) which he hadoperated far beyond the usual retirement age.

The view from our memorial site adjacent tothe Floyd Newman memorial in the CornellPlantations is shown in the May issue on page21. Actually, one can see from there the west-ern hills beyond Cayuga.

Extension, by about 50 percent, of StatlerHotel is expected to start this fall. If so, it willnot be ready to house or feed us during Re-union in 1987. Tentatively, we are assigned tobe together in the Sheraton motel on Tripham-mer Road. Of the 68 who sent News & Duesletters, 28 indicated they want a Reunion. Wewill have to "talk it up" to get a showinganything like the 1982 affair. Start now if youexpect to team up with another classmate.Rollin H. McCarthy, 19B Strawberry Hill Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850.

23 Saying It With MusicBroder Lucas and wife—who live in Honolulu,Hawaii, most of the time and come back totheir New York State farm in time to catch avisit to friends and the campus at Reuniontime—wrote that they visited Great Britain andseveral European countries last August, andhope to be in Ithaca this June. George Abel-off, MD, reports he is now retired from prac-tice in Brooklyn. David "Pat" Pattersonplayed a brass instrument in the Big Red Bandin the early 1920s, led by George Coleman whoasked Pat to play a B-flat baritone. From play-ing a horn borrowed from ROTC, he went onto a rewarding career in music. Pat says, "I be-came a writer of songs, writing, among them,about the Hall of Chimes in the Library Tow-er." His musical hobby of composing, as apiano player, led him to a life membership inthe American Federation of Musicians, Local

#77, of the Philadelphia Society. Pat and Mar-garet have two children, who have expandedthe family to six grandchildren (all married),and five great-grandchildren. He says, "I keepfit bicycling on the boardwalk in Atlantic City,NJ, and enjoy the Jersey Shore with my wife,who keeps me happy and in good health at88." He reports a few Cornell Hotel Schoolgraduates are there in the hotel business. Hementions, in particular, John M. Gallaway'60, president and general manager of theTropicana Hotel and Casino, who was dinnerchairman for the sixth annual Brother-hood/Sisterhood Achiever awards dinner,June 28. Pat sent me the words to a song hewrote, 'On, on, on, to Ithaca," sung at a Cor-nell Reunion by the Savage Club quartet. Hewas a member of the Glee Club under Dr. Hol-lis Dann, and the University Orchestra underDave Mattern. With apologies to Pat, whose"bio" sheets got lost in the transfer shuffleduring the past few years.

Our duespayer roster numbers 87, so far,for the 1986 year. The news reservoir is nowfull, with 42 biographical news reports, thanksto the response to our appeal for personalnews to fuel our column. I will try to cover asmany items per issue as possible, with specialattention to duespayers who have not beencovered recently. As always, emphasis goes tothe supporters of our class column. Hopefully,the women will shun their modesty, and sendnews of themselves to Helen Northup for bal-anced news. The 1923 memorial grove in thePlantations will have by now become a reality,with the dedication in June. Trees planted inmemory of classmates include ones for ArthurBott Treman and George Holbrook, who havedone so much for bur class over the years.George A. West, 1030 E. Whitney Rd., Apt.10-E, Fairport, NY 14450; and Helen Nor-thup, 3001 Harvey St., Apt. C, Madison,Wise. 53705.

24 Fraternity Rebirth[As this issue went to press, word arrived ofthe death, May 22, of Alva Tompkins, long-time men's class correspondent and secretary.Allan F. Dodson, 41 Elm St., Morristown, NJ07960, is now class correspondent; FredWood, secretary-treasurer. —Editor]

In a picture from 1920, of a freshman frater-nity delegation which includes Sam Be mart,Jack Berry, Hank Godley, Norm Harvey, SiPickering, Walt Rebmann, Chick Stone, JackTodd, Luke Tribus, Al Tompkins, and DuneWilliams, you may identify a class president,eight members of a senior society, a couple ofathletes, a couple of managers, a bandmaster,some who worked on student publications, atleast one scholar, and three who have served asclass correspondent. There are ups and downsin family life, and in the life of any institution.Some will be pleased that this fraternity [PsiUpsilon] whose history is so interwoven withthat of Cornell, has survived a period of deeptrouble. It is alive and well on campus againwith 35 new members, and expects to be backin its chapter house this fall. Alva Tomp-kins, RD #2, Box 20A, Tunkhannock, Pa.18657.

Eleanor Bayuk Green still keeps very busy withher chemical for allergenic dust control, butshe still plays golf on weekends in Pennsylva-nia, "living like a princess at the countryclub." Martha Signor Bier writes, "I amblessed with excellent health and able to carryon as usual. We all wonder what will happennext, but don't worry: the sun will shine."

Our President Dorothea Johannsen Crookreports that many tests show her cancer isgone, and her husband keeps improving withhis new hip, and has no pain. She sends a long

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and varied book list, which I suggest you writeto her about. Not on the list, but highly recom-mended (if you are interested in Central Amer-ica—and who isn't?) is Inevitable Revolutions,by Walter F. LaFeber, professor of Americanhistory at Cornell. His sad comments onAmerican policies are well supported by fac-tual references.

Winifred Zimmerman Doudna and her hus-band Quincy V., who is president, emeritus,Eastern Illinois University, enjoy their usualactivities, and winter in Florida. ProfessorDoudna holds a number of degrees, includingthe LHD, PhD, and LLD. Alibeth McCartneyHolgate still enjoys the many activities of theTidewater, Va., region. She writes, "Mygranddaughter is just back home after a yearof teaching English in Okinawa." DorothyLamont, 133 W. Park St., Albion, NY 14411.

25 Full Circle"Call back yesterday: bid time return." Thusspake the Bard! We have come full circle toanother year and '25 faces it with mixed hopesand feelings. We have lost 21 of our men but agoodly core remain, to whom we look for thesame support given us in the past. Thanks toall who helped. We shall again appeal to all liv-ing classmates so we can keep our column fullof news and our exchequer full of dues.

Sad to relate, since last month news is re-ceived of the passing of Tom Hobble, the sub-ject of an item in last month's column. Tompersonified the best in medicine, compassion-ate, gentle, honorable. Another who departedthis life was Ronald Augustus Jones, anotherstaunch supporter of '25. We shall miss both.

Dan O'Shea, from faraway Tacoma,Wash., recalls his days on the bench as manag-er of football. Joe J. Jelley, rear adm., USNavy, flies his flag of rank in ColoradoSprings, Colo. What fleet is based there, Joe?Charley D. Richman suffers from total blind-ness, but his wife Marjorie writes that he"does rather well for an 83-year-old and stillhas a sense of humor."

From the Blue Grass Country, Joe Readsays he put up his scalpel eight years ago, leav-ing Atlanta, Ga., to be near his oldest daugh-ter. Joe has his Sphinx Head pin, yet. Joe wasalways the true epitome of the Southerngentleman in every way. Alton Raynor, a trueoptimist, anticipates the next Reunion in '90!Thata boy, Slim! He sells "financial security."(I didn't know you could buy that.) WaltSouth worth, from Virginia, reported the deathof his wife of 52 years, Jackie. George Maysent a newsy letter telling of his charming wifeMarion, who is recovering from a mild vascu-lar accident and for that we all give thanks.She was one of the most delightful ladies at the60th and we look forward to seeing her andGeorge in '90.

Robert H. Siegfried says his activities arelimited by his wife's illness but proudly reportsa growing family, with a great-grandkid. DickLand sends a modest curriculum vitae, whichshows that the scholastic honors he gainedbore good fruit in his professional career. Dickhas been in Florida since '63, enjoying his fam-ily while active in community affairs. Anothermember of Chi Epsilon (CE honorary), DavePunzelt—also Tau Bet—says he is living in alife-care facility: "one of only three Cor-nellians, buried among 20-30 Yalies." Justgoes to show that it takes seven Yalies to equalone Cornellian!

Charlie Maretzo enjoys retirement (inBrooklyn?) with travel and golf: "In excellenthealth." Keep it up 'til '90, Charlie, we needguys like you! Anton G. Nosek claims "notmuch to report; biggest event was reaching85th birthday." I'd say that's a helluvan ac-complishment. Tony says, "Life just moves

along slowly and surely." I agree with the lat-ter but not the former!

Don R. Lyons reports on a fascinating ca-reer. After leaving Cornell He got an MA atMiddlebury Spanish School in '29; a certificateof French studies from Grenoble in '31, andafter a spate of language teaching entered pre-med at Cornell, took his MD in '38 (AlbanyMedical School) and, from '39 to the present,has been a general practitioner in Middleburg.And this is not to mention the accomplish-ments of his four sons and one daughter. Withthat item I am proud to report this column hascarried every item of news received since wetook over last June, except for one that had noname or address. As we start a new year, Iagain appeal to all and sundry of '25 for con-tinued support.

For "Binny" Binenkorb, Tom Roberts, JoeNolin, and your scribe, I wish you all a goodsummer. Harold C. Rosenthal, MD, 71Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.

27 Looking To the 60thYesterday (May 8) I went to New York City tothe annual class luncheon. Among the 35 pres-ent were Ethyl Goldstein Alper, still active inher interior decorating business, Fran Hankin-son, Madge Hoyt Smith, Becky Martin Starr,looking forward to a visit from Mary BolgerCampbell coming North for the Tower Clubdinner, Barb Muller Curtis, and Grace Eglin-ton Vigurs. Judge Ray Reisler, men's presi-dent, did his usual fine job as master ofceremonies, presenting our speaker, JervisLangdon Jr., whose reminiscing and tales ofrailroading we all enjoyed. (See Don Hershey'scolumn for further details.) All spoke en-thusiastically of the 60th Reunion, June 12-14,1987. At the officers' meeting following lunch,it was decided to put all efforts on that event,and not to meet again for luncheon until thesecond Thursday in May 1988.

Muriel Drummond Platt and Nate, backfrom Florida, had hoped to come, but herbrother was very ill. Olga Cohen Feldman'shealth kept her and Arnold away, but they aredefinitely planning on the 60th Reunion. Soare Kay Demarest Myers, busy getting readyfor a trip to England to visit gardens, and Or-pha Spicer Zimmer and Jim '26, who have be-come Southamptonites and seldom come tothe city. Billie DeNyse Decker and "DD" Det-lefsen Otteson missed for health reasons, kayReilly McManus sent a telegram, wishing uswell. Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563 Dean St.,Schenectady, NY 12309.

Those attending the class luncheon, besides SidHanson Reeve's listing, were Jim and GinniArnold, Al Cowan and guest, Dr. Bill Casse-baum and guest, Walt Brunberg, Tom Ers-kine, Poe Fratt '54, Herb Goldstone, Col. GilLamb, Jerv Langdon, Harvey Mansfield, Rayand Harriet Reisler, Les and Sheila Robbins,Si Rosenzweig, Ed Sachs, Mai Stark, Gene andRuth Tonkonogy, Sol Tunick, Jess and JoanVan Law, Dill and Lorry Walsh, and GabeZuckerman.

Now it can be told: The "Five BewilderedFreshmen" letter to the Daily Sun was

authored anonymously by JervLangdon, then editor of the Sunand our class historian. "It was oneof the grandest philosophical dis-

cussions that Cornell ever had." "A master-piece," said Professor Carl Becker, Cornellhistorian. It made the New York Times. Pro-fessors and students alike joined hands tocomfort the bewildered Frosh. Theoretically,the upper classmen were, also! Becker claimedthat Jerv put his finger on the problem. The"Coming of the Machine Age" brought majorchanges in the natural sciences. No one knew

what it was all about, even as seniors. Webegan to ask all kinds of questions: Wherewere we going? What was life? We had doneour studying well, collecting bits of informa-tion about many things. Would it count aftergraduation, as we hit the road to realism? Wesoon found our worries were unfounded as werose to new heights and learned that our col-lege education was useful, fulfilling, and suc-cessful.

Al Cowan, secretary, said the meeting wasexciting with Jerv's accountings. It alsodrummed up high interest for our upcoming60th Reunion in 1987. Start preparing for it.Sid and I are, and will give you an accounting,from time to time. It will be a greatevent! Don C. Hershey, 5 S. Landing Rd.,Rochester, NY 14610.

28 Recent UpdatesGil Hart is still active in Handi-Dog programs.He spent last summer in Ithaca. Lou Gottliebsays he will retire in 1986. He visited Portugaland learned about their legal system. MaxWerner has settled in Florida; was just backfrom a trip to Israel.

Frederick Emmons supplemented his last re-port to let us know he was Belvedere, Califor-nia's Citizen of the Year for 1985. Lou Gott-lieb, in an update, mentioned he is a ScottishRite 32nd-degree Mason. And Gil Hart, also inan update, mentioned he is active in Masonry,among his other activities. Roger Jones, froma Cornell family—including his father and agrandson in the Class of '83—now has threegreat-grandchildren. Ed Langerfeld, who wasvillage engineer for Mamaroneck and, as such,had much to do with water and storm control,tells of contact with a young engineer whoquoted, as a supplement to the latest instruc-tion, from Professor Urquhart's CivilEngineering Handbook. Ed was one of Ur-quhart's students in 1928! Vice President BobLeng's oldest granddaughter married last yearand his middle granddaughter graduated fromCornell in 1985. Last January, Bob had a nicevisit with Bud and Nancy Mordock, discussedReunion in 1988, among other things.

Another Cornellian family coming along:Herbert Levine has a grandson in the Class of'87. That will make it three generations ofCornellians. (His son is a '58er.) In an update,John McKee says he is still ice skating, but lastNovember he fell and broke his arm. It is near-ly OK, now—enough for swimming seven oreight times a week. Julian Goble wrote a whileback that he is enjoying old age, still playinggolf and dancing and bowling. He is also stillworking on bowling events out of his town.Milt Firey's glad he is not in the obit column.His update some time ago tells about contin-ued interest in SCORE (Service Corps of Re-tired Executives). At the last report, Julian hada great-grandchild and Don Exner had two.One of these days I am going to take some ofmy spare time (which is growing in almost ex-act proportions with my energy decreases) andtally up the numbers of great-grandchildrenreported, which are growing. LouisFreidenberg, 200 E. 57th St., NYC 10022.

Wasn't the mini-reunion a grand occasion?Daisy's Garden and the 1928 Women's Mem-orial Bench, plus the excellent Reunion pro-gram and gourmet food, plus the bus tourswere sure to add to great enjoyment. Thebench and garden elicited some fond memor-ies. Kay Geyer and Victor Butterfield '27, herfiance, met Daisy Farrand working in hergarden when they went to invite her to theirwedding in Sage Chapel. Vic had been friendswith the Farrand sons in Deerfield Academyand had been entertained in the Farrands'home. Daisy attended the wedding and sat in

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the almost throne-like chair against the wall,where the Farrands usually sat. At a dress-upaffair in Sage College, given by the Class of1928, Daisy called Kay over to compliment heron the white taffeta dress with American beau-ty sash. Kay says it was a homemade dresshastily put together for the occasion. Do writeand tell me your fond memories.

We've already heard the story of the springflowers in buried soda bottles at the weddingof Elinor Irish Case. For a different season,who can recall ice skating from the JohnnyParsons Club and the Toboggan Slide onBeebe Lake?

Three classmates have passed on: MarionWilson in Florida, Berniece Brown Taylor, lateof Eden; and Laura Hough ton Bement, ofRipley. Condolences to the survivors (namesunknown). Dorothy Knapton Stebbins,94-30 59th Ave., Apt. 4-D, Elmhurst, NY11373.

29 Grands & GreatsRoland K. Blakeslee, in addition to his churchactivities, has been working for over 25 yearsfor the Massachusetts Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Children. Roland's hobby ismusic and his main interest, eight grandchil-dren 11/2-16. Son William W., MME '71, nowworks for Corning Glass Co. Louis S. Bock,before World War II, taught cost accountingfor three years in Administrative Engineering.He entered the US Army as a second lieuten-ant, stayed for 15 years, and retired as a ma-jor. Louis enjoys his present activity astreasurer of Scarsdale's Meals-On-Wheels.

Lawrence A. * 'Larry" Williams and wife El-sie have continued to live in Elbridge since Lar-ry's retirement from a large farmer coopera-tive. Elbridge is only about 45 miles fromIthaca and about 14 miles west of Syracuse onRte. 5. Larry and Elsie see nearly all the Cor-nell football, hockey, and lacrosse games andattend both spring and fall Homecomings.They will welcome any old friends who wouldlike to visit them. William H. Bell, retiredLakeport attorney, moved to Winterhaven,Fla., in 1981 and died there on Feb. 21, 1986.William had a distinguished career, which in-cluded outstanding service to the Boy Scouts,Kiwanis, Board of Education, Masons,Lakeport Council of Churches, as well as tothe Bar Associations of Lakeport and Buffalo.Our sympathy goes to William's family, name-ly, wife Ruth, daughters Beverly and Dana,son Charles, his eight grandchildren, and hisnephew.

Howard W. Beers, who had played inGeorge Coleman's University Orchestra, ispresently the only octogenarian violinist in the"Young At Heart" orchestra of older adults inLexington, Ky. Edward Keith Rhodes tells usthat he and wife Dorothy have too manygrandchildren and great-grandchildren for himto count. Bets are that Dorothy not onlyknows how many there are but also knows alltheir names. However, if you want to knowmore about Edward's family, radio hams cancall his sign WB2AOT.

Harry Sverdlik and wife Jean are both re-tired high school teachers. They enjoy hiking,classical music concerts, and wintering in Flor-ida. Their daughter, Dr. Elinor Kron, has adaughter Cindy; their son Daniel was Class of'62. John M. "Jack" Wright and wife Pollyhave just left their home of 36 years to live in aretirement community in Wilmington, Del.George W. Behrman now does his golfing andgardening in Lake Wales, Fla. George writesthat he was more exhausted clearing up afterHurricane "Gloria" than after rowing 4 mileson Cayuga when he was on the varsity crewsquad. Richard C. Flesch, 270 FoxMeadow Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

30 DeWittclintontians[Correction: Class Chairman Milton S. Gouldwas listed in the June issue with his formertitles of class vice president and Reunion co-chairman. We apologize for the error.—Editor]

O. E. "Duke" Schneider, Venice, Fla., in-vited classmates Ralph Castelli, Seymour Pike,Morton Tolleris, Morton Weill—all fellowclassmates at DeWitt Clinton High School inNYC—to join him in New York for their 60thDeWitt Clinton reunion in May. Dr. TheodoreMandelbaum, who retired from active practicein 1984, moved from Roosevelt to Tenafly,NJ, to be near one of his daughters and two ofhis grandchildren. Hobbies include visits to hislocal daughter and to his other daughter andher two children in Washington, DC, wood-working, making clocks and "unpacking 40years of accumulated junk from my formerhome."

After operating the Croydon Arms Hotel inMiami Beach, Fla., for 21 years, Joseph Libbyhas sold it and is "now enjoying retirement,doing absolutely nothing." In April, JohnCorwin, a retired lawyer, and wife Nadynemoved from New York City to La Jolla, Cal.Norman Scott, Falmouth, Mass., writes: "Tellall our classmates that Cape oysters are worth25 cents apiece, right out of the water. Theother day I raked out 50 and felt quite rich."Before retirement he owned and operated ahub and die business. A registered professionalengineer, he was a management consultant for30 years.

Monroe Babcock spends his winters inNaples, Fla., and his summers in CayugaHeights. In 1978, he sold Babcock Industries,Ithaca—more than 300 employees—which hefounded, to the A. C. Robins Co. Son Bruce'57 runs the business for Robins. GrandsonJames, son of daughter Carolyn Babcock VanLeer '59, is to be a 5th-generation Cornellian.

Charles Whitney, Schroon Lake, is father ofClarence '57, an architect in Rutland, Vt.,grandfather of Charles C. '87, in Engineering;and James C., a bio-engineer at Syracuse.Daniel Denenholz, 250 E. 65th St., NYC10021.

Our chief purveyor of information this monthhappens to be our President cum TreasurerJoyce Porter Layton. Who else? She's sendingthe newsletter with a new idea for our column.

Joan Post Baxter has been in the hospital inMarch and is "coming along nicely," accor-ding to her daughter-in-law. Joan's address is1212 Darlene Ct., Redlands, Cal. 92374.

Marion Whipple McClellan is busy helpingdistribute food and clothing at a church coop-erative, and is also corresponding secretary ofa local Church Women United. She lives nearenough to see her son for a chat once a week.She's living at 206 S. Galena, 3F, Freeport, 111.

We hope to hear from you. EleanorSmith Tomlinson, 231 SE 52nd Ave., Port-land, Ore. 97215.

32 Looking for NewsSince his retirement from the Bay State Sav-ings & Loan, of which he was a director, H.Chester Webster is occupied part time with ap-praisal work both for the bank and privately.His recreation includes seven months of golfand five months of curling. Chester is going totry to make our 55th Reunion. It has been along time since we had an item from NathanRothstein. Nick was a faithful and valuablecorrespondent until a few years ago, and Ihope he resumes our correspondence soon.

Frederick J. Roemer, MD, continues inpractice. He and Irene had a Caribbean cruiselast August with their Arthur Murray Dance

Studio Group. They stopped at Haiti, theDominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and St.Thomas. Joseph H. Budd reports a newgrandson. Information he sent earlier told ofbeing a consultant on chain saws and two-cycleengines, enjoying golf, fishing, gardening, thepreparation of jellies, jams, and sausage, and,he adds, "making a mess of Lillian's kitchen."

Marcel F. Tetaz continues to keep in touch,but he hasn't sent any reports of interestingfreighter travel lately. Henry W. Willard owessome news, too. Melvin C. Case says that dur-ing one of his and Helen's frequent trips to thecampus, they unexpectedly bumped intograndson Jonathan Haggard '88. Mel said itwas a nice surprise, "especially since he tookus to dinner." The Cases also visited the uni-versity archives and read the senior thesis ofMel's father, G. Harry Case '02 (ME).

Arthur W. Eustance, who once wrote usthat he had been in charge of constructionwhen the CCC built a since storm-destroyedbridge near Forest Home, says he is "stillhanging in." G. Carleton Fitz Simmons,whose wife of 47 years passed away in 1984,has married Eleanor Davis of Morrisville andSt. Cloud, Fla. Fitz was in the process of sell-ing houses in Morrisville and in Fla. and tryingto keep track of possessions when he wrote usin September. James W. Oppenheimer, 560Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202.

Marjory Darrow enjoyed several trips in theNortheast: a three-day visit at Swarthmore,Pa., with a day at Longwood Gardens; a three-day Champlain Canal cruise, with two nightsat the Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls; a five-day bus trip to Cape Cod, Mass., with a visitto Belcourt Castle, Newport, RI.

Hannah Blumenthal Brown had a lovely tripto Rome, Florence, and Venice, Italy. It hadbeen 50 years since she'd been to Venice andshe was surprised at how much she remem-bered about that city. She wrote: "It's good totravel, but wonderful to come home again."Mary Pierson Dickerson lives on Cape Cod,Mass., and has made many friends throughthree cottages they have for summer rentals.They have an orchard and a big garden, freez-ing produce for winter. The family, includingfour grandchildren, three step-grandchildren,joined them for Thanksgiving.

Jean Slocombe Baxter is still as a volunteerat the New England Wild Flower Society,where slide-show business is brisk. Her eldestgrandchild is writing her master's thesis; theyoungest dances with her in the kitchen; themiddle one breeds and trains Chesapeakeretrievers, gets As in math, plays lacrosse.

Peggy Wilkinson Smith Marshall spent Jan-uary in Hong Kong, where her daughter andhusband are living for two years. Other tripshave taken her to Arizona and California. Shesays her life is full with busy work—golf,bridge, church and club bazaars, etc. She lovesliving in Florida. Alice Hopkins Eyerman andBob proudly announce they are "Great-grandparents:" Blair Jean Adams, born July24, 1985, Martinez, Ga. Martha TravisHouck, PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

33 Vacation TimeThis is being written on a cold day in May. Is itstill winter? Well, at least it is not snowing!Now to our classmates' "doings."

Hilda Weber Huntting has been in the realestate business for 25 years and loves it. Lastsummer, however, she did find the ι time totravel. Her tours included all of Germany, theAlps in Switzerland, a Lake Lucerne boat ride,and the Rhine. May was to find Hilda going tovisit her son Tyler in San Francisco, Cal.

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her most gratifying activities is an after-schoolprogram in history for first and second grad-ers. It includes studies in reading and arithme-tic. Too, she is active in Hartford, Conn.'svery congenial Cornell Club.

Gladys Tapman Blum wrote that she is "stillaround" and plugging. She has just returnedfrom foμr weeks of downhill skiing in theSwiss and Italian Alps, with a vow to keep itup as long as possible. And Christine Brunetti,too, has been traveling. She enjoyed a trip toFrance, Germany, Austria, and Switzerlandlast fall, but terrorism has discouraged herfrom traveling abroad this year.

As each class is allotted, and rightly so, acertain amount of space, your correspondentcannot share more good news in one issue.However, no one will ever be left out; news onhand will appear in forthcoming issues.

Happy summer. Pauline Wallens Nar-ins, 40 Bridle Path, Williamsville, NY 14221.

Frank Brandstetter apologized for missing hisdues payment in 1985, adding, "Must havebeen too busy with grandchildren" and includ-ing a double payment. In January he and wifeHelen enjoyed a three-week trip to Egypt,complete with a camel ride.

Also in January, Betty and Ed Carson, Ruthand Jake Rosenzweig, Martha and DeaneDunloy, Ruth and Halsey Stevenson joined50-plus Cornellians and spouses on a week'scruise of the Grenadines and Orinoco Riveraboard the good ship Ocean Princess. Class of'33ers comprised the largest Cornell contingentand, as a result, each received a souvenir Cor-nell mug from Barbara and Ron Stone, direc-tor of corporate development, who repre-sented the university. All report an enjoyablecruise with good weather, great beaches, and,of course, too much delicious food.

Carl Richmond continues to enjoy retire-ment and is looking forward to his grandson'sgraduation from medical college next year.

Now for the interesting travel report, aspromised, from Floreine and Bert Saymon. InApril 1985 they visited friends stationed in theDominican Republic with the State Depart-ment, followed by a trip to Richmond, Va.;Washington, DC, and New England, to see anumber of Cornell friends, including Dr. Mar-cus Mason and Bert's sister Eleanor SaymonMoses '30. In September, it was off to theOrient for a month, covering Japan, China,Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore. Theyfound China most interesting and hope to re-turn. The homeward journey included a stop-over in California, for a visit with Bess EisnerHerman '34, and, finally, a return to normaldaily activities at home.

Vacation time has arrived: we'll be back inSeptember. Best wishes for a very pleasantsummer. Garrett V. S. Ryerson Jr., 1700Lehigh Rd., Wantagh, NY 11793.

34 Comet SightingsHelen Park Brown, 300 S. Waterway Dr.,#309, Lantana, Fla., varied last summer's rou-tine by not going to Chautauqua* and takingthree shorter trips from Florida. The Browns'first destination was Seattle, Wash., to visitson Bob; the second to Auburn, Ala., forElderhostel to study computers, catfish farm-ing, and growth and development of theSouth; the third to Minneapolis, Minn., to vis-it Helen's husband's sister and family and theannual Renaissance Festival held there. Helensuggests if you want to fly first class onUnited, mess up your ticket by forgetting toconfirm and a kindly man at the baggagecheck just might issue new tickets for you infirst class!

Florence Moulton Wagstaff, RFD 1, Box252, Winthrop, wrote telling us that Avis

Rowell Mills now lives at South KortwrightRest Home, S. Kortwright, as her husband nolonger can adequately care for her Parkinson'sdisease. Avis's 75th birthday was April 25, andunbirthday cards would be nice. Florence staysbusy with Methodist Church work, both local-ly and in Mission groups, studying "Say Yes,"and with Native Americans programs in Wash-ington, DC, New York City, and at ClarksonCollege. St. Regis Indian Reservation is 20miles from her home and is of special interestto her. She is clothing leader for a local 4-HClub, and also cares for "Little Allen," 4, ashis mother is a Social Services worker inPotsdam on weekdays. She is learning all the"Sesame Street" characters.

Millie Jayne Gould, 74 Vulcan Stairway,San Francisco, Cal., writes that her activitiesare a bit curtailed, but she still enjoys herhillside home, her husband's garden, weeklybridge and a few senior citizens activities. Hergranddaughter graduates with honors fromhigh school with a Hewlitt-Packard scholar-ship. Ernestine Snyder Rieser, 535 12th Ave.,NE, St. Petersburg, Fla., did see Halley'sComet, tail and all, from Montserrat, West In-dies, where they spend three months everywinter. They went on a comet cruise to SouthAmerica and saw it once, faintly, as a fuzzyball.

Jean Conner Whipple, 7 Salem Ct., Fair-port, joined her daughter and family vacation-ing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Shedrove alone and has made a reservation forthis year, so it sounds like a success. DorothyHyde Starzyk, 11 Ridge Rd., 1-G South,Ridgeway, NJ, writes of grandchildren in col-lege and a daughter studying theater arts atEmerson in Boston, Mass. Dorothy is busy inchurch activities and writes poetry. She hashad two poems accepted by the American Po-etry Association for their 1986 anthologies.Another poem appeared in JOY Coining oldwith young), an anthology published last Juneby Juanita Tobin, which resulted from a year'sassociation of senior poets with gifted eighth-graders from Oakland and Ramsey, NJ.

The public affairs office has notified methat Lucille M. Me Hugh died on Sept. 25,1985, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Lucy Belle BoldtShull, 3229 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota,Fla. 33579.

35 Travel LogsIn the heat of the summer, remember thosefascinating trips you took in 1985-86 and sharethem with us as many are doing. The WallaceWashbons "are alive and happy—a two-weektrip to England and Scotland in May, travelingby train, since those over 70 are denied theright to rent or drive cars. Ten days later weleave for Devil Lake in Eastern Ontario, Cana-da, for the summer, returning to Plant City,Fla., about September 20. Had an article onsaving prime farmlands published in theAmerican Land Forum last fall." Hope Pal-mer Foor, a seasoned traveler to the Cape ofGood Hope and the North Cape, the Andes inBolivia, Himalayas in Bhutan and Nepal, Fijiand Iceland, India, and Sri Lanka, reports,"But one of the most satisfying trips of all wasthat which I took after our Reunion lastJune—it was a three-day cruise on the Erie Ca-nal. It pleased me so much that I hope to takeanother—on the same boat—but on theChamplain Canal in the fall with the trees incolor."

Phillips Street noted, "After retirement asvice president of the First Boston Corp., joinedthe investment counsel firm of James M. Da-(

vidson & Co., Wayne, Pa. Took an ornitho-'logical tour of Argentina last December* mysecond visit there in two years." Frank Bird-sall's note said that he and Peg left on a zig-zag

route: Melbourne, Fla., to Orlando by bus, toMiami by plane, and then somehow reachedthe Royal Odyssey cruise ship for a tripthrough the Panama Canal with a stopover inMexico and four or five island stops. In Junethey headed North by auto to the mini-reunionand their place on the west shore of Canan-daigua Lake.

Catching up on some of the Mullanes' do-ings, Jim and Vi (Henry) attended the Intercol-legiate Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame dinnerin New Orleans, La., to applaud the inductionof Cornell Baseball Coach Ted Thoren, onlythe second Ivy Leaguer to be so honored. InFebruary they went to Hawaii and visitedseveral friends, among them Dick and MarianKatzenstein on Kauai. Theodore Woodruffand Beulah spent a month touring the Westand visiting his son and grandsons at InclineVillage, Nev.

Betty Williams Stavely visited sons in NewHampshire and Massachusetts in early sum-mer, then spent ten days in Ypsemite hiking inthe Sierras. Her next trek included Seattle,Wash., and Vancouver, Victoria, BC, Cana-da, the Olympic Peninsula, and whale andbear wajtching: "Fell in love with Victoria andthe wonderful Butchart Gardens." BettyStrong Diebold and Charles '30, PhD '37,took a month's trip to Australia, New Zea-land, and New Guinea. Betty writes, "My hus-band is still farming: raising specialty crops,including several kinds of grass seed plus twoor three native flower seeds."

Continuing the welcome Alaska saga, E. Al-len Robinson describes his latest adventure."Our picture is from the Brooks Range, look-ing south to the Continental Divide ... Six ofus were flown from the Village of Kaktovik onBarter Island to a small gravel strip near thestart of the Hula Hula River. (This was appar-ently named by an early whaling ship with anHawaiian crew.) We spent ten days in tworafts going down the scenic river with assortedwhite water." Allen and Liz took a second-se-mester course in German for their Cornell tourof Germany in May. "Those irregular verbsmake us tear our diminishing hair."

Do let us hear of your happy times at miniget-togethers and other leisurely amblings.• Mary Didas, 80 N. Lake Dr., OrchardPark, NY 14127.

37 Heading South?Elsie Koehler Fowler's Christmas card waspostmarked Port St. Lucie, Fla. Is this a per-manent change of address for her and Harry'35? Phyllis Weldin Corwin became a great-grandmother on May 6, 1985, when KatieLouis Rogers was born. Stephanie Czech Ra-der and William traveled to Taiwan, HongKong, and Hawaii. The Taiwanese Govern-ment honored the Hump Pilots Assn., ofwhich General Rader is a member, for theirhelp during World War II in fighting the Japa-nese.

On May 9,1 was to be off to Connecticut toattend a party in honor of my brother JohnWeimer '35 and his wife, who will celebratetheir 40th wedding anniversary on May 11. El-sie Grant Jones's husband Paul B. '30 diedFeb. 24, 1986. Their first grandchild, ChristineRyon, entered the University of California,Berkeley, last fall. The Joneses had enjoyedlast summer in Redfield, as usual, and missedHurricane "Kate" as it veered east.

Was also saddened to hear of the death ofMary Sternbergh Wilson, even though I knewshe was in poor health. "Sternie" was a great-great-granddaughter of Ezra Cornell. Hermother, K. Eleanor Cornell Sternbergh '13was a granddaughter of Ezra Cornell's sonAlonzo, one-time governor of New York. Oursympathy also is extended to Ruth McCurdyShaw and family on the death of husband and

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father Milton R. "Jack" Shaw '34. MaryM. Weimer, 200 E. Dewart St., Shamokin, Pa.17872.

A five-week trip to Japan, Singapore, Java,Bali, and Hong Kong in October 1985, wasMyron S. Silverman's reward to himself fol-lowing his fifth retirement. Now, unretiredagain, he's back, half time, in the office of re-search services at the University of North Car-olina, Chapel Hill, where his principal respon-sibility is to review grant proposals. Withbrother Sidney J. Silverman he is an enthusias-tic student at Adult University (CAU), both inIthaca and at the 1984 session in Japan. Sidneyhas retired after 30 years with the US ArmyBiological Laboratories and the NationalCancer Institute, plus nine years teachingbacteriology and immunology at Hood Col-lege. Sidney is busy researching the history ofHood to prepare for its 100th anniversary and,to keep fully occupied, audits courses in theliberal arts.

At the zenith of an impressive 50-year careerof teaching and research which began at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, AlbertWolfson is retiring as professor of ecology andevolutionary biology. Albert and Sylvia havefive children and three grandchildren. Dr. Jer-ome Samuel, an ophthalmologist, has foursons—one of whom, Arthur '75, is a professorat Yale—and two grandsons. Harold S. Gilles-pie, who was with Allied/Bendix AerospaceCorp. for 39 yeas as project engineer, retired atthe beginning of 1985. Harold and Marie livein Eatontown, NJ.

Former three-term mayor of Pleasantville,William A. Buckhout is now part-time chair-man of Fair-Chester Builders and trustee ofthe Northwest Hospital Center. He enjoys gar-dening at their homes on Sanibel Island, Fla.,and Katonah. Bill and Lee were on the alumnitour to the Grenadines and on the OrinocoRiver. Two sons have degrees in architectureand education; one daughter graduated in finearts and the other is an executive assistant atDun and Bradstreet. Dr. Lyndon M. Virklerretired from orthodontics in September 1984.He is past president of the Wellesley, Mass.,Kiwanis. Lindy and Regina, who enjoy CapeCod, traveling, and fishing, have four grand-children, a son and two daughters. RobertA. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd., N., DeLand,Fla. 32720.

38 Now Hear This![The following helpful hint to classmates andothers should have appeared in the May 1986issue. By mistake, news that had been on handfor some months took priority then, and in theJune issue, as well. —Editor]

A word to the wise of all classes—With all'38ers now approaching middle age, many, in

retirement, have winter/summerseasonal homes. Under currentnewish postal rules, magazines areforwarded only on order and at ad-

expense. But, to avoid that expenseon the Alumni News, a note with at least onemonth's advance notice to the Public AffairsRecords Office, 512 E. State St., Ithaca 14850,will get the magazine correctly addressed for aperiod of months; and a file is kept of when tochange back if that information is provided.

Andy Draper is "still enjoying gardening,golfing, dancing, and a new home to accom-modate our ten visiting grandchildren." FredHuntington and Barbie spent three weeks inEngland and the Channel Islands with sixgrandchildren, traveling from US with four ofthem. Home for a month and they decided tosurprise their daughter on her 40th birthday,so they dropped back to Isle of Jersey, thereaf-ter visiting in Oregon and California, including

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several days with Grant and Gretchen Ehrlichat Santa Barbara.

See John run—Clement, that is, who placed4th in a ten-kilometer race for 70 and over run-ners, sponsored by the Toledo Blade. UrieBronfenbrenner was awarded the G. StanleyHall medal, one of the top scientific honors indevelopmental psychology, at the annualmeeting in Los Angeles, Cal., of the AmericanPsychological Assn., and for the second time,was elected president of its division of develop-mental psychology.

Bill Davis, who died Jan. 11, 1986, in NewMexico, where his wife predeceased him bythree weeks, had donated to Cornell (about ayear before that) through efforts of Theta Xibrothers, his extensive naval history library.Fabe Kunzelmann fondly recalls ' 'great visit"in Ireland with John MacReery and family;Fabe has son Dixon, a Morgan Guaranty vicepresident in London, England, so also "does"The Jolly Ould, now and then, with a Frenchskiing and shooting side trip; Fabe's daughterSusan is at Syracuse University getting herPhD.

Lucky Walt King, on a trip to Greece andTurkey, was at Athens, Greece, airport, readyto board an airliner scheduled for takeoff rightafter—woops—a plane that was hijacked,which caused a ten-hour delay. Pres Weadon,retired from neurosurgical practice, says hedoes "some oils and watercolors to relieve theboredom." Ceylon Snider, retired from full-time farming, has a new address: RD#2, Box44, Fillmore, and enjoys being Allegany Coun-ty legislator "to help keep county costsdown."

Fred and Barb Huntington've moved to16654 Hidden Cove Dr., Jupiter, Fla., and saythat just before they did, Bob Bodholdt in-formed them he and new wife Madeline werepulling up Maine stakes for PO Box 11, Sol-vang, Cal. Bernie Gartlir's daughter Lois '68,after 12 years in the business world, got a de-gree from Cardozo Law School and's joinedBernie's New York City law firm; son Kenneth'72 (and Emory Law) is with US Comptroller'soffice in Atlanta, Ga.

John Albert antf Jane had an Alaska cruise;John spent a day with author James Michener,who's spending three years doing an Alaskanbook. John's on a new four-year term as peacejustice. Dave Misner and wife recently built anew home at 1417 Causey Ct., PO Box 1397,Sanibel Fla. They boat the inland waterwayfrom Massachusetts, where they return forsummers. Herb Polk is a grandfather, by sonBenjamin M., JD '76, a New York City at-torney. His second son (Hobart '77) is a SanFrancisco, Cal., sculptor. Third son, JonathanI., Grad, expected to get his JD this year. JoePendergast calls it "best of two worlds,"wintering in Florida, summering at Cobleskill,which he's done for four years now. ClintHeyd and Audrey were on a "great time"alumni Rhine River cruise. (We know whatyou mean!)

Jim Miller motorhomed it to Central Flori-da: "Still doing some flying"; grandchildren"cumulative total, five (from two of the fourkids)." Dick Zens sez, "47 years after gradua-tion, finally've achieved goal for which I'vebeen training—am now peddling BULL asfull-time sales representative for BULL,French co-producing multi-layer printed cir-cuits." Bill Arthur and Lois had a month inSwitzerland, visited daughter and grandchil-dren in Georgia. Bill's a twice-weekly tennis'player. Jack Kaspar(ian)'s retired from teach-ing; had 16-member (including six grandchil-dren) family reunion. Jack promises to attendthe 50th. Fred Hillegas, 7625 CamelbackRd., #220-A, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85251.

39 Travel & LeisureYour regular anchorman, John Brentlinger, isoff on a hot-air balloon safari with co-pilotCarol over African game lands, and I (BillLynch) am again your correspondent. Babeand I just returned from winter quarters onMaryland's Eastern Shore, where we visitedScotty Kirk and Nancy in their beautiful newhome in Chestertown. He ordered 5,200 nativebricks, will install the walkway himself!

Here are some recent itineraries: BernardLivingston, Yugoslavia, Northern Italy, andAustria; Fran Decator, Nova Scotia and CapeCod; Bill Kunsela, India, for the United Na-tions; Ev Randall, Amsterdam, Sorrento, Par-is, and London; Norm Stillman, Paris (mostexciting city in the world); Frank Tillotson,Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand for Mas-ters' swimming competition; Bill Mills, South-ern France and Portugal; Ed Godfrey, Eng-land, France, Switzerland, and Germany; BlairWeigel, Spain, Portugal, Madeira, and Lon-don; Bob Spence, Netherlands, Belgium, andLuxembourg; Bill Page, Europe twice in '85with Rotary Youth Exchange; Bob Nagel,Australia, to visit his daughter, and New Zea-land; Jerry Schneck, Bermuda; Bob Mann,Italy, Greek Islands, and Sicily; Harv Scudder,Mexico; Harvey McChesney, Great Britain;Bob Latimer, Italy and Sicily; Jim Austin,Spain and Egypt, then Alaska, this June.

Don Whiteman and Betty hosted a 12-daytour to Belgium, France, Switzerland, Ger-many, and Netherlands; Ev Sargent, Alaska,via the inland passage (Long way to go for abridge game?); Ed Pesnel, France, PuertoRico, and Cape Cod; John Hull, Denmark,Germany, Holland, France, and the US, wherehe spent Christmas in his future home inChautauqua; Ted Zouck, Switzerland, Bel-gium, and England; our treasurer and sportsstatistician Bill Fuerst toured France andSweden with the Big Red basketball team, thenwent on the road with the lacrosse team. Wishhis stats were more favorable!

Our free spirit, Harry Johns, who claims tobe the family patriarch since his father's recentdeath, spent three months bicycling Norway,Sweden, and Denmark. Charlie Scholz, justrecently retired from Florida real estate, hasfour sons and five grandchildren "scatteredfrom Oregon to Florida." Frank Seixas re-duced his doctoring to volunteer faculty atWestchester division, New York Hospital, andrelaxes on the croquet court. Norb Lashermaintains a steady hand painting porcelain.Norm Sawyer claims to be a "loafer, par excel-lence" and appreciated Secretary Bud Huber'sbirthday and anniversary greetings. Likewise,from Mose Goldbas, who told Bud he won'tretire until they bury him! In the meantime, heleaves the traveling to Ruth.

Sid Roth divides his time between Selma,fishing, and golf. Last year Sid Martin made itto Hawaii in February, Florida in March, andEurope in August, before arriving home toclean off the kitchen table, where he found hisdues notice. Monk Landmesser is still sculling;rowed in the Isles of Shoals eight-mile race forthe tenth successive year! Dan Kops took timeoff from his many civic activities to travel toBermuda with his entire family.

Dusty Rhodes, when not milking son Bill'scows, plays guitar and calls square dances. Healso cut 7,000 board feet of logs for Bill'shome! Ed Stewart is just holding down the fortwith all kids grown up and gone, but enjoysdividends of three grandchildren—two boysand a girl! Ned Gregg finally retired to Tide-water, Va., with lovely Lois. Herman Hegyi,who is being groomed to succeed Sean Con-nery as the next James Bond, has three lawyersin the family. He keeps busy caring for threegoats, five bantam hens, a dog, and four

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horses. Guest columnist, Bill Lynch, POBox 646, Buffalo, NY 14215.

Peg Schuman Green (Pawling): "Fall 1984,two weeks touring England with daughter Liz;June 1985, two weeks in Alaska with sonCharlie '71; August 1985, mini-reunion inPawling i with Betty Luxford Webster, MaryDodds Phillips, Sally Steinman Harms. I'mpresident, Garden Club; library trustee and li-brarian; volunteer Red Cross driver." DawnRochow Seymour (Naples): "In, 1985, Mortand I welcomed our two new grandsons, bornsix weeks apart to our twin daughters Mar-guerite and Elizabeth. Being a grandmother isjust wonderful! Am still board member of theWASP; have a meeting in Los Angeles, Cal.,in March; reunion in September in Sweet-water, Texas. Our new house overlookingCanandaigua Lake is a delight; Mort and Ihave many projects to complete."

Sylvia Dean Phillips (Median, Wash.): "Ju-ly 1985, had an 18-day study tour of Japan(through Henry Jackson School of Interna-tional Relations, University of Washington).Two weeks of lectures, pre-tour, and a day fol-low-up in September for reports, etc. This wasWORK, but fascinating, now, with trade im-balances." Ruth Gold Goodman (Ithaca):"Both daughters and sons-in-law are Cornel-lians. We enjoy music. Bernie '41 and onedaughter play. I teach English as a second lan-guage to foreign students and spouses at Cor-nell; Bernie does counseling and teaches howto think scientifically for the neurobiology andbehavior department. Have four grandchil-dren, enjoy hiking, doing things with them."

Ginny Campbell Thomas (Narberth, Pa.):"R. David '37 and I enjoy kayaking on UpperDelaware. Son Daniel '63 is a realtor, laborarbitrator, in Alaska; son Duncan, an epide-miologist, statistician, in California; daughterBetsy, a sheep breeder in Vermont. We havethree Siamese cats, a parrot, doves, and agolden retriever. I am administrator of Dol-phin program, ministry with lay visitors in nur-sing homes, with affiliate programs fromMaine to Colorado. Am on diocesan commit-tee on peacemaking." Hilda Morehouse Leet(Utica): "June 1985 in Switzerland, Dijon, andParis, France. Visited friends in Lucerne. Hadtwo weeks in Northern Michigan with daugh-ter Kathy's family and a week in Dallas,Texas, with son Bob. Retirement's great!"Binx Howland Keefe, 3659 Lott St., Endwell,NY 13760.

40 Keep in TouchTailgaters! Foliage followers! Get in touchwith Bob Schuyler (PO Box 240, Leverett,Mass. 01054) if you can make the Harvardgame in October; he is willing to help get it or-ganized. And, it would be good practice to-ward our 50th! For the best values in life, keepin touch with those old friends!

Elwyn "Bud" Seelye managed the produc-tion of a series of conservation-oriented filmsfor the local citizens' cable TV committee. Allservices for program production are on a vol-unteer basis to avoid "bracket creep." Budlives in Rosemont, Pa. Dr. George and HelenBrown Reader had a trip a year ago to Fin-land, Lapland, Latvia, and Estonia. Helen'scomfort, to say the least, was hampered by adevastating bout with amoebic dysentery.Hope she is OK, now. George was elected asenior member, Institute of Medicine, Nation-al Academy of Sciences. Send congratulationsto 155 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye.

From "Tri-Delta" news: Betty HuberKnudson has become affiliated with the statemaster gardener program, "in keeping with a

lifetime interest." She keeps in touch withHenrietta Baker Phillips and Ruth PetersenWimsatt. Betty's address: 3045 Garden Hwy.,Sacramento, Cal. As I travel back to "fresh"air (versus salt!), to care for my trees, I knowhow Estelle Wells Evans feels when she says,"There is a lot of farm blood in the veins yet.Long Island is unique in climate and good soiland it is being paved over. Oh my!" She livesin Riverhead but gets to Georgetown, visitswith Peg Catlin Leonard in Tully on the way.

Bill Swanson still enjoys wood-turning as ahobby and so is learning much about the exoticwoods of the world. He has recently been tothe "Land of the Midnight Sun," Iceland andNorthern Norway; found it very interestingand beautiful. He keeps in touch through theRochester Cornell Club. Jean Rayner Maseand husband Bob enjoyed a Tauck tour of theHawaiian lalands—his first return since WorldWar II, when there were only two hotels atWaikiki. They've also been to Florida and hada couple of visits with Patty Avery Andersonin New Smyrna Beach. I hope Patty can get toour 50th Reunion. I can't recall having seenher smiling face since 1940! Jean's most recentaddress: RR 1, West St., Charlestown, RI.

John Sigman, from West Chester, Pa.,toured Alaska, including a visit to the LoveBoat, last summer with a stop at Napa, Cal.He has now been in all 50 states—a feat manyclassmates hope to attain. He missed Reunionlast year as his daughter Barbara '66 was visit-ing from Kenya. John is retired from duPont.

Lyman Smith continues as chairman of NewYork's criminal jury instruction committee,serving now for ten years after retiring as a jus-tice of the New York Supreme Court in 1983.He also continues his interest in winemaking,having received a gold medal in 1981, and be-longing to the American Wine Society.

Martin Goland, president of the SouthwestResearch Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio,Texas, has received the 1985 national engineer-ing award from the American Association ofEngineering Societies. This award, for out-standing contributions to mankind, recognizesGoland's leadership in nonprofit institutionalresearch and development. Goland has beenpresident of SwRI since 1959, and, under hisdirection, SwRI has achieved internationalpreeminence in nondestructive evaluation ofnuclear reactors and conventional utilitypower plants; fire technology; and engines,fuels, and lubricants. Martin is currently chair-man of the National Research Council's boardon army science and technology. Martin livesat 306 Country Lane, San Antonio.

Keep in touch. Carol Clark Petrie; 62Front St., Marblehead, Mass. 01945.

42 Reunion PlanningNothing can take precedence over bulletinsfrom E. A. "Buck" Buxton regarding 45ingand Thriving. He's holding his big meeting ofthe year at Reunion. If you missed it and stillaren't on a committee, call or write: (201)366-2230/15 N. Salem Rd., Dover, NJ 07801.There are many interesting assignments for allwho want to be a part of making June 1987our biggest party yet.

Bob Lynch, of Lowville, and Johnny Par-son Club Tea & Cinnamon Toast nostalgia, isa 17-year veteran of the New York State Su-preme Court. He also sits on the appellate divi-sion in New York City by the Governor's ap-pointment. Jim O'Donnell (Herkimer) andGeorge Inglehart (Watertown) are also on theState Supreme Court, so if you must appearbefore a judge, that must be the place. Bob'ssix kids have 29 years of (non-Cornell) collegeeducation; George tours the Thousand Islandsin his antique boats and takes in the Virgin Is-lands (to improve his image, he says).

A Northwest neighbor, Ed Markham (Kent,Wash.) is a lucky tour leader. As internationalchairman for BPI, International GreenhouseGrowers Assn., he takes folks to NorthernEurope and Japan as he pursues his interests inthe environment as related to population andland use. He received the National Garden Bu-reau award for outstanding gardens. He hasrecently joined the Pacific Northwest (PNW)Cornell Club, but I did not see him at Long-acres Race Track meeting recently, where Iwon the fifth race exacta again, despite TedAyers not being along to assist me. AnotherPNW neighbor, Don Bliss (Port Townsend,Wash.) is sure to make Reunion because hemissed the 40th. He listens to the Port Town-send clocktower bells and whistles the EveningSong whenever the sky is crimson. Norm Bar-rett (Eagle Point, Ore.) and Carol are takingcourses in field geology at Southern OregonState, where he found that no one in the class,including the professor, was even born in 1942.

Will some coed out there write me abouthow she is getting paid for her advice and con-sultation after retirement? I find it really "bor-ing" how many guys leave a company after 35years or so and then get hired back or sent ontrips or some marvelous scheme—for instance,Dick Young (Louisville, Ky.), who secured aposition working two days a week (has a five-day weekend) advising Glenmore Distillers ontrade practice and international sales. I'm surewe can count on him to be at Reunion! Thenthere's- Bob Sailor (Los Altos, Cal.), wholeaves Ford Aerospace and CommunicationsCorp. (formerly Philco) after 39 years and be-comes a consultant. His son is getting his PhDin nuclear engineering. And how about FrancisGruen (Tonawanda): H & R Block uses his ser-vices during tax time, leaving him plenty oftime to work on rebuilding a Spanish cannon,captured at San Juan Hill, to be as completelyoperable and authentic, by original Spanishdata, as it was in 1862.

Honors this month go to Bob Curtis (SanFrancisco, Cal.) whose book Mind and Mood,on emotions, was published in April by Scrib-ners. He'll bring copies to Reunion in June1987.

Shirley Dixon Bedell (St. Michaels, Md.)went to Skaneateles for lunch—remember TheKrebs?—and also came out to Portland, Ore.Jean Brown Blodgett (Wilton, Conn.) visitedher son in Los Angeles, Cal. David and Lon-nell Raymond Hammers (Bethesda, Md.) arelazing about after 36 years at IBM and 13 yearsteaching, respectively. Ruth Naitove Sherman(Lynbrook) moved on from teaching highschool English and is proud of her son, whowill be a visiting professor at Miami UniversityLaw School next year, and her daughter, a bi-ology professor at Bennington.

Touring the Kennedy Space Center recentlywere Joe and Lee Bassette Pierce '43 (ElmiraHeights) and Paul and Marcia Nelson Robin-son (Chesire, Conn.). They also dropped in onFrank and Louise Crowley (Framingham,Mass.). All these folks will be at Reunion.

Erratum: how can I mix up Betty McCabe(Boston, Mass.) and Liz Schlamm (New YorkCity)? Not easy, but I managed to read a letterfrom the latter, thought it was the former say-ing she had become another Liz. Sorry aboutthat, Prez Betty. Liz, however, has had worsethings befall her as her planned trip to Madeiraand Portugal was cancelled due to the ΛchilleLauro incident, and then she went to Califor-nia, where it never rains, and saw only oneclear day. Perhaps she is now in Seattle, Wash.A sign saying "The worst winter I ever spentwas a summer in Seattle" couldn't be truer thisyear. We did have one nice day in March!

Make your reservations a year ahead andBE AT REUNION. Also, write to me: sendpictures, essays, ideas, and Rules of Life: (3) If

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you can't sleep at night, listen to LarryKing. Carolyn Evans Finneran, 2933 76th,SE, #13D, Mercer Island, Wash. 98040; tele-phone, (206) 236-1020.

43 In RetirementSemi-retired Ed Scholl is playing tennis, beach-combing, and publishing a guide called "Get-ting Married" for Eastern New England. Hesays he'll try to take the guide national, bymarkets. (Getting married is different in West-ern New England?) If not, he'll still be semi-retired. Totally retired are Roy Johnson andRichard Fish, DVM, who now boats on Sene-ca Lake. He visited also-retired Boynton A."Mike" '42 and Barbara Wulf Grover '44 notlong ago in Haverhill, Mass.

"Retired from Exxon Chemical, two yearsago," writes Dick Eustis. "Now raise horses,fox hunt, and fish from farm in Blue RidgeMountains overlooking Lynchburg." The re-tired Brit Stolzes plan to repeat last year'scanal-boat tour of England and then go over-land to Scotland. Meanwhile, he works withthe Secondary Schools Committee in Worces-ter, Mass.

By the time you read this Bill Hoff will haveretired and moved from Wisconsin to HotSprings Village, Ark. Highlight of his most re-cent 12 months was playing Bobby Riggs in thefirst round of the National 60s Clay CourtChampionship: "Never worked so hard for solittle." Seems like yesterday but it's actuallytwo years since Karlton Hickey retired afterfour decades with ARCO.

Semi-retired and still flying their own planeare Godfrey and Celey Malchoff. Three chil-dren: Sally (Ohio Wesleyan '70, Case Westernlibrary sciences '71) is a librarian, Green Val-ley, Nev.; Carl '72 (University of Rochester,MA, PhD) is in Hartford, Conn.; Kevin '74,MBA '75, is national sales manager, institu-tional and food service division, Rich Prod-ucts, Buffalo. There are seven grandchildren.Bill Howe, having tried and failed retirement,is now a publisher's representative.

"No thoughts of retirement, yet," says JackChance. "Too busy. Manage to take a week inFlorida every winter, a week in the mountainsof West Virginia every summer, and a tripabroad almost every year. Last year it wasthree weeks in Yugoslavia. First grandchild,Aubrey Shenan Chance, born at home inNewtown, Pa." Treasurer Shig Kondo can'tretire until our Reunion in '88 when fourthchild Mariko graduates from Wittenberg. SonPaul has just received his degree from Rutgers.

On Hazleton Pumps stationery, WalterHaentjens writes that he is in his 40th year ofslugging it out, perhaps because he has a sec-ond batch of children to put through college:Grete, 12, Gavin, 9, and Brendan, 4.

On a recent cruise through the Panama Ca-nal, the Bud Kastners met C. D. Sam and Bar-bara Prescott Arnold (who put on a great showone night for the ship's entertainment),Charles Nottingham '46, Jim Healy '46, andReggie and Pat Ingraham '72.

From Bella Vista, Ariz., Dick Fairbanks re-ports on a month-long stay in Florida, part ofit visiting Bob Roshirt, who promises to attendReunion in '88, and who also wrote WallyRogers: "You and Mel Robinson were the twofellows I remember from freshman camp. Hadnice visits with Jes Ball and Bob Steele when Iwas in New York last year." The Bob Deadysmet John Beecher and Mike Pastorelle andwives for a weekend on the Hill last fall. "En-joyed visiting what remains of the engineeringschool we once knew." Solon Kemon is feelingas old as the rest of us: first grandchild cele-brated first birthday.

"Read in yesterday's newspaper," writesBill Katzenstein, "that Beethoven is decom-

posing." This is news? S. Miller Harris,PO Box 164, Spinnerstown, Pa. 18968.

Tom and I found Wilson and Lucille JenksMcGown in good shape when they entertained

i us at lunch at their condo in Clearwater, Fla.,in February. I talked to Pauly NewcombStorer by phone; she invited us to visit theirhome in Lake Wales. They bought the homeof Edward Bok, who was editor of Ladies'Home Journal, and eventually became vicepresident, Curtis Publishing Co., inPhiladelphia, Pa. He built the famous SingingTower as a gift to the American people.

Marydith Van Cise DeGolyer journeyed toQuito, Ecuador, in February. Son Jim '65(Ag) is pastor at Verbo Church—an outreachof Gospel Outreach of Eureka, Cal., and In-ternational Love Lift, Guatemala. Marydith'sgranddaughter Megan, 16, child of Willard '69(Ag) accompanied her. David '86 graduated inJune.

Jack and Mary Osborne Singlaub continueto enjoy life in Colorado. Mary writes, "veryproud of the Conables—Barber is new presi-dent of World Bank. Great!" Well, Mary, Imissed THAT somewhere along the way, andam happy to know it and print it. Ten-four,and y'all write, right now. Heddy NeutzeAlles, 15 Oak Ridge Dr., Haddonfield, NJ08033.

44 The Eyes Have ItNo, that headline's not a misprint. A May 2,1986, headline in The Ithaca Journal read,"CU prof will dissect cow's eye at Sciencecen-ter." (Sciencecenter being an educationalcenter in downtown Ithaca.) The professorwas our Howard Evans, department chairmanand professor of anatomy in the VeterinaryCollege and just-retired as a faculty Trustee.That first May weekend brought several othersto campus. Howard Greene, Jerry Levitan,and your correspondent attended the meetingof the alumni executive council of theGraduate School of Management. Joe Flynnwas a panel member at the 40th anniversary ofthe Industrial and Labor Relations School.When we were together, on May 1, Joe andKay (Feeney) '48 were also celebrating his firstday of retirement from National Steel andShipbuilding Co. He had been vice president,industrial relations, for the West Coast's larg-est shipyard. The Flynns will stay in San Di-ego, Cal., but also spend time in Nantucket,Mass., where they were headed in May. Joe,whose oil painting was used on their 1985Christmas card, plans to enjoy some time inIthaca, painting campus scenes. All of us canlook forward to enjoying those works, judgingfrom the quality of the Christmas card.

Some classmates are changing directionrather than pace. Roe Wells was to leave hismedical practice at the end of June. Earlier, hehad started as chief executive officer at Brook-field Engineering Labs in Stoughton, Mass.Roe lives in Dedham, Mass. And Russ Geib,our BA from Binghamton who double-ma-jored in economics and Chinese language, andspent most of his post-graduation time in In-donesia and Hawaii, with a bit in China, isnow "engaged in setting up a mushroom pro-duction/marketing activity in Nigeria, WestAfrica. Russ and Tomoko continue to live inAiea, Hawaii.

Arthur King and Don Middleton took moreprosaic retirements: to Cape Cod, Brewster,and Orleans, Mass. But, non-prosaically, Dondoes most of his sailing on Lake George. Annereports that she and Don "enjoyed a fascina-ting and very exciting Adult University (CAU)trip to Baja California." Arthur King came toCape Cod after 35 years at the Hackley Schoolin Tarrytown, "where I was head of the

science department and assistant head of theupper school." The George J Kaelbers are"retired—too busy to work." They spentApril and May 1985, seeing Australia, NewZealand, and Tahiti by car. Then they enjoyedMaine and Canada during July and August.For a '44 couple, "Joe" and Jean (Zenner)should be able to schedule Cornell on severalof their travels. But, maybe not "Bud"Gushing from his Orlando, Fla., home. He's along way from his 1940s home in Eggertsvilleand pre-Florida home in Syracuse. Besides,retired Bud works for wife Meredith in herbusiness, National Track Service, in calibrat-ing and lining running tracks.

And, a final "no misprint": Bud's wife'sname is Meredith . . . as is his. Joe Driscoll,8-9 Wilde Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026; tele-phone (215) 259-1908.

45 Work & PlayYour correspondent is happily sorting out thegoodies packed into that mundane News &Dues form. Edward D. "Ed" Spear sent theSpears' 1985 Christmas letter. Ed's SACengineering program management sectiongrew from four to 12 people last year.Although this let Ed give up responsibility forone base, he is still responsible for design andconstruction at five West Coast bases. This re-quires a heavy travel schedule; however, thejob is the best one he has ever had, even if "themain reason for getting to work early is to beassured of a parking space within sight of theoffice." Wife Amy (Clark) '48 presented apaper to the Society of Women Engineers on"A New Approach to Continuing Educationfor Engineers." The approach grew out ofwork she has done on the IEEE long rangeplanning committee and the IEEE CentennialCongress. "Her MITRE project, 'TheStrategic Command, Control, and Communi-cations Experiment,' is entering the finalphase, with the demonstrations of the experi-ment's testbed scheduled for May-June." Ad-dress: 1611 Chaput Dr., Bellevue, Neb.

Last August, Jane Fowler Smith went toMonaco to visit her brother, who lives there.Back home again at 53 Porter Lake Dr., Long-meadow, Mass., she does bloodmobile workfor the American Red Cross, sings in the choir,volunteers for Open Pantry, and is active inthe Western Massachusetts Cornell Club. Inbetween, you'll find her golfing, bird-watch-ing, and cross-country skiing.

Edward T. "Ed" Strickland is in real estateat 1109 Asturia Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. Heand wife Terri have a son Edward attendingAuburn University, and a daughter Tracy at-tending Rollins College. Ed and Terri went toEurope last year, visiting Germany, Austria,and Switzerland. This year it's back again totake in England, Scotland, Belgium, andFrance. Ina Hundinger Wolf is a great Re-unioner. It's not clear why she missed our40th. We sure missed her. But here she isdrumming up a mini-reunion this fall in NewYork City or at local football games—Yale orPrinceton. Give her a call at (914) 834-3543; 56Rockland Ave., Larchmont.

Walter G. MacFarland III is a manufactur-er's representative. He and wife Jean (Gehr-ing) '49 live at 266 New Darlington Rd., Me-dia, Pa. They have four grandchildren, rang-ing in age from 8 to 1. They went to West Ger-many in 1984. Walter is rebuilding their house,but still finds time for hunting, fishing, andgardening. Under civic activities, he 'says hevotes and watches local government; for Cor-nell activities, he pays his dues—all of whichwe should do more of.

Sallye Joseph Esterson went golfing inSwitzerland last summer. Back at 7121 ParkHeights Ave., 408, Baltimore, Md., she is a

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real estate counselor. Husband Larry is astockbroker with Prudential Bache. They havegrandchildren Suzanne, 7, and Andrew, 4.

Eugene "Gene" Lessere has been elected tothe board of PIMA, National Professional In-surance Association. He and wife Casey have adaughter Katie, a fine arts major at Pratt In-stitute. Gene writes a humor column for thelocal newspaper (reverting to the days of put-ting out "Berry Patch" for the Daily Sun).They spent a month in Naples, Fla., wherethey recently acquired a big second home (withmortgage to match). Next item: a sailboat. Fora sample of his column or a look at his newhouse, contact him at 790 Farmington Ave.,Farmington, Conn.

Benjamin "Ben" Klein is senior vice presi-dent, sales, Del Monte Fresh Fruit Co. Benheads up a nationwide sales force responsiblefor selling and promoting all Del Monte fruits.He joined Del Monte in 1954. He lives at 7890Schoolhouse Rd., Miami, Fla. EleanorDickie Richardson, 1201 W. US Hwy. 20, La-Porte, Ind. 46350.

47 Updated DreamsAs undergraduates, and perhaps even after-ward, did you not also dream about howthings would turn out? News notes from class-mates reflect the broad spectrum of how mat-ters actually did evolve.

Little did Arlene VVinard Lungen, Post HillRd., Box L, Mountaindale, dream of having,one day, to semi-circle the globe to visit chil-dren and grandchildren. Older daughter Laur-ie is married with four children and lives on akibbutz in Israel. Younger daughter Judith isan artist and writer in Key West, Fla. Whennot traveling or teaching fourth grade in Ellen-ville, Arlene continues her late husband's realestate ventures.

Gus and Betty Davis Ruetenik of Zoar,Ohio (population 275) have invited us onceagain to tour their historic village, where Gusshares his time among their Christmas treefarm, the presidency of the Ohio ChristmasTree Association, and the volunteer fire de-partment; Betty is also active with the28-member Zoar Business Association. If youvisit in December, take along an ax.

Performing arduous inspections for clientsin New England is Thomas F. Kiley, 169 Brad-lee Ave., Swampscott, Mass. Site visits to han-dle legal matters in Camden (Maine, that is)and Tanglewood, Nantucket, and Cape Codreally sound tough! Annual trips to Salzburgand occasional lunches with E. T. Moore '48,Frank Carney, and John and Helen AllmuthAyer, round out Tom's news.

Joan Ettinger Pastor (Mrs. Nathaniel M.MA '48), 1200 Midland Ave., Bronxville, hada fine "ole" time at the recent '47 mini-re-union luncheon at the Barbizon Plaza, remi-niscing from 1947 right up to last year's Ha-waiian visit, which was most enjoyed on Molo-kai. Latest verses by Nathaniel, who writes ar-ticles and poems, appear in the anthologyLight Year '86. Joan is director of employeebenefits, Colt Industries.

Practicing internal medicine in Manhattan isDr. Helen B. Horowitz (Mrs. Herbert Pattin),4501 Delafϊeld Ave., Bronx. Reporting a sonand daughter possibly headed for graduateschool, she and her husband are not yet headedfor retirement. Past experiences include anidyllic month in Japan and tours to Englandand Italy, where natives appear to have beenoutnumbered by American tourists. Not truethis year!

Definitely retired, however, is Edward J.Gouvier, 2226 Talmadge Rd., Toledo, Ohio.A well-deserved change after a healthy 37years' service with standard Oil (Ohio). Alsojoining the ranks of recent retirees is Elizabeth

A. Brown. After a move from Albany to residewith her sister, Elizabeth's new address is 1211Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca.

Another class retiree is former Hotelie, Con-stantine Spiliotopoulos, 2443 Graham Blvd.,Montreal, PQ, Canada. Much volunteer timeis spent helping out with post-polio victims inthe Province of Quebec. Daughter Angela livesin Toronto, Ont., Canada, and works at thehead office of Burger King, Canada, as man-ager of human resources.

In closing out this column, let us remind youthat August is a vacation month for the Alum-ni News correspondents and overworked edi-tors. Thanks again to all of you for your news.Would you believe that with this column wefinally completed the class notes for 1985?We'll pick up 1986 items in the fall. Have agreat summer and enjoyable, safe vacations.

• Jay Milner, 1673 Limerick Lane, Dresher,Pa. 19025.

48 RestorationsFranklin Wright, Memphis, Tenn: "Howcome 159 of our classmates who receive thismagazine don't pay their Group SubscriptionPlan dues?" Franklin continues, "In London,England, last year, toured Henry VIII flagshipMary Rose at Portsmouth Naval Yard. It wasraised from harbor where it had capsized in1545 on its way out to engage French fleet offIsle of Wight. Now being restored. I can teachat Rhodes College here 'til I'm 70, but mightretire in December 1988 .while I'm still spryenough to go to sea." (Yours truly visited thefloating HMS Rose, a 125-foot, 20-gun,450-ton British frigate being restored at Cap-tain's Cove in Bridgeport, Conn. This sixth-rate ship was launched in England to fight inthe Seven Years War, 1756-1763, and laterwreaked havoc in the colonies up and downthe Hudson (1776), on the Penobscot, atCharleston, Va., and was scuttled by its Britishcaptain in Savannah, Ga., (1781) when the tide(of war) turned. It was later salvaged and putto sea by private owner, sailing under differentflags right up to the early 1970s, when it wasabandoned as rot set in. A foundation is re-storing it. Work is nearing completion, and itwill sail into New York Harbor this July forthe Statue of Liberty Centennial. There will beso many boats in the harbor you can walk outto it, hopping gunwales. This might be the old-est tall ship to sail into the harbor, ever.)

Bob McKinless, Alexandria, Va.: "Retired.Nancy and I spent six weeks with five Europe-an friends (from 1950) and hiked with our kidsin Bavaria, Switzerland, and US (Grand Can-yon, Yosemite). Am president, Cornell Clubof Washington, DC. Still bicycle, orienteer,and do genealogy in 'spare' time."

Tolita Irwin Christensen Logan, Weston,Conn.: "Reclamed, Jan. 12,1985, to HaroldLogan, vice chairman of W. R. Grace and Co.(Oklahoma State University graduate). Lastsummer we traveled to Peking, Tokyo, HongKong, and Hawaii."

Caroline Kramer Neu, Stamford, Conn.:"Bob '50 had his office moved from NewYork City to Connecticut and we moved toStamford two years ago, making it the fifthstate we've lived in, plus London, England,and Brussels, Belgium. I'm active in CornellClub, Fairfield County. Recently visited myCornell roomie, Eleanor Gaynor Steiger andhusband Leonard (Chem Eng) in Danville,Cal., just outside Frisco." Margaret ClarkSmith Brown, Lincoln, Neb.: "Have a daugh-ter back home after three years in the PeaceCorps. She's job-hunting. I'm busy volunteer-ing. Husband is very busy keeping track of 1^people he supervises. Life is busier than ever!"

Claude Stone, Morton, 111.: "After 33 yearsselling and marketing with Caterpillar Tractor

Co., I'm retired. Plan trip to Europe, then visitto son Tom in California, who works atHughes Aircraft, and daughter Karen in Tuc-son, Ariz., who is with Garrett Aerospace, andoldest daughter Sandy and grandchildren, herein Illinois. Then I'll probably get back intoconsulting, or who knows what. Hope to makeit to Cornell on a trip. If anyone gets to Mor-ton, call." Eric Carlson, Manhasset: "NumberOne son, Lee, finally got married at almost 31.Number Two son, Eric, a frosh in high school.Daughter Ellen, married and living in Bronx-ville. Still not a grandfather! Working with theSecondary Schools Committee, interviewinghigh schoolers."

Dr. Ralph Crabill, Silver Spring, Md.: "Re-tired from Smithsonian, entomology depart-ment. I was 27 years curator ofMyriapoda andΛrachnida and am published in the field ofChilopoda. I was named curator, emeritus.I'm retired only on paper, still active in re-search." Lynn Ellis, Westport, Conn.: "Un(de?)-retired again! Teaching business poli-cy/strategy/effectiveness at University of NewHaven. Eileen and I summered over top ofAlps via alumni tour, 'Glacier Express.' Doingwell are new grandson, Andy W (Awesome),by 'computer sales' son Lynn Jr. and Molly, togo with granddaughter Lindsay, and daughtersΉardhat' Maggie (Exxon) and 'Still Student'Kathy '83 at University of Minn Law School."

Dr. Harry Carpenter, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.:"No traveling this year, but spent three weeksin Ireland in the fall of 1985. I am currentlyworking on papers for aerospace medicine, aspecialty in which I am board certified." JeanLemmelman Meadow, Catskill: "Visited sonRichard '82 (Ag), MS Ag '84, daughter-in-lawJudith '82 (Ag), and granddaughter Kristen, 2,in Oslo, Norway, last summer. Richard wasdoing research at the Agricultural Institute ona Fulbright scholarship. I'm still with a localtravel agency. Cy won re-election for thirdterm as district attorney of Greene County."

Dick Rogers, Peekskill: "Appointed manag-er of retiree relations on IBM corporate staffin 1984. Granddaughter Jennifer (daughter ofson Richard L '78) born in August 1984." Jan-et Benham Daniels, Middletown, Conn.: "Stillworking as administrative aide to the mayor ofMiddletown and keeping very busy. Planninga trip to British Isles." Bob Persons, 102Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050.

49 Change of PaceIt's Reunion time, but somehow the news is ofretirements and other changes in lifestyle. It'sfitting, though, as it is the end of the academicyear and our fiscal year.

Barbara Corell Lawrence, Schenectady,writes that "we are enjoying the establishmentof the Lawrence Center-Independence House,which provides transitional housing and train-ing facilities for the severely handicapped, thefirst of its kind in New York State. Twelveyoung people are housed there for three to 24months to learn skills of living independentlyafter being severely injured. They are beingprepared to contribute to society and live ontheir own in the community."

Ted Peck of New York bought out his part-ner (Larry Werbel '50) in a publishing ventureand installed his wife Vivian (Eden) '50 aspresident; Werbel & Peck reprints populartextbooks. Bob O'Connell, Basking Ridge,NJ, following his retirement from the federalgovernment in 1983, spent most of a year en-joying his leisure. But various public relationscounseling assignments, then writing andediting assignments, plus real estate sales,writing a quarterly newsletter for Merck &Co., all add up to full-time responsibilities.

Here's a thought for the summer: Frank Da-vis of St. Thomas, VI, has opened the Danish

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Chalet Inn, "the best little bed-and-breakfastin the Virgin Islands!" Don Roberson ofNiagara Falls was to join the growing ranks of'49er retirees in April 1985. He grabbed theearly retirement opportunity from DuPontafter nearly 36 years with the company at theNiagara plant, a community that experiencedmore th^n its share of environmental prob-lems. Retirement is delightful, with traveling,tennis, birding, skiing, concerts, hiking: "thereain't enough hours in the day!"

Your class secretary writes, "It's over: 22years of obsessive preoccupation with the for-tunes and image of the Class of '49. It wasneither required nor asked of me. But I foundmyself becoming giddy with the sense of ouraccomplishments:

"1962, the class entered the Alumni NewsGroup Subscription Plan, enabling us to re-ceive a regular dose of independently writtencampus news, plus our own monthly class col-umn. We were then the largest class to attemptsuch an undertaking. The results were immedi-ate, as dues monies flowed in along with newsof classmates. The increase in alumni activityparticipation was apparent.

"1974, the constitution was redrafted, re-sulting in the men's and women's classes be-coming one. (Ah, we were never meant to beapart.)

"1975, Class of '49 award was initiatedfrom our class dues 'egg money.' We've re-paired the clock mechanism in the LibraryTower; donated two shells (one for women,one for men) to the crew; provided warm-upjackets to the lacrosse and football teams;funded a stand of oak trees just below theparking lot at Willard Straight; paid for plant-ings at the new undergraduate athletic field atJessup Road (North Campus); produced aclass directory; provided 'seed money' for the1984 Reunion; and pledged a chair for theCenter for Performing Arts.

"1978, began sending annual monthly pock-et reminders to all duespayers of the previousyear.

"1984, we became a Million Dollar Class (inCornell Fund contributions since graduation).

"1986, our 'egg money' has enabled us toenter the computer age with a program to as-sist with dues solicitation and Reunion activi-ty. We merely rent the program and the use ofthe computer. A blessing!

"I notified the class officers last Octoberthat I wished to step down as of June 30,1986.It is now mid-May and the jury is still out. I dohave the idea that I'm being replaced by acommittee of at least four classmates and acomputer. I'm flattered!

"The involvement has provided psychic in-come and pleasure. I've become acquaintedwith the class as real people with faces. Andover the years, it's been a constant source ofsatisfaction to have classmates volunteer theirservices: 'Don, what can I do to help?' Am Iproud to be a Forty-Niner? Yes, I am! and theuniversity applauds our accomplishments andcontributions to the benefit of Cornell."• Donald R. Geery, 321 E. 45th St., 8-B,NYC 10017.

50 Sing Out!We're dealing with a happy dilemma here: wehave more news than print to fit. We'd havemore column space allotted, however, if wecould encourage more '50 non-subscribers tojoin us. So carry a few back issues to this sum-mer's mini-reunions, and get us a chance tocatch up on a formidable backlog.

Quite a few folks are tuning in here for thefirst time, or after long silences, Henry Schnei-der being one such. Hank and Charlotte havesettled at 22 Harbor Terr., Rye, and Jamaica,Vt., since Hank's retirement from a globe-

spanning career in management consultingthat saw stints of 12 years in Europe and fourin the Far East. Daughter Katherine is a seniorPhi Beta Kappa at Smith, about to enroll inthe MD/PhD program at Cornell MedicalCollege. Hank is active with Rye PerformingArts, where we hope he's keeping that reso-nant bass rolling as it did when he was afounding member of Cayuga's Waiters, backin February 1950. Rodg Whitney and KenMerrill—we hear you out there humming.Kow, let's hear from you full voice. Robert"Bucky" Ellis has surfaced, too, but not atour 35th, as he and Mary Jean had hoped.Buck is vice president of Merkle Engineering,which entails a lot of traveling, but he invitesvisitors to Galena, 111., to take on the two chal-lenging golf courses he enjoys there. The El-lises have three daughters and three grandchil-dren, one of whom just may make possible aturn-of-the-century Ellis vs Bedenarak re-match, that is, if Penn can muster forces.

Naomi Knauss Labastille has been reap-pointed to a second five-year term as a NewJersey administrative law judge, a remarkablechange of role since we saw her in ProfessorDrummond's production of "Portrait of aMadonna," Tennessee Williams's one-actrough draft of Streetcar Named Desire. JessicaTandy, we know someone who was there first.

Anita Ades Goldin did indeed take us up onour "Tell us more." She writes that her lastjob, a government demonstration programcalled "Preventacare," which she set up anddirected, left her with too little time and energyfor increasing responsibility for a grandson, 8,and her hobby of some ten years, lap swim-ming. Currently she's resisting an internalpress to go back to "work," volunteering in-stead on a University of Louisville accredita-tion committee. Husband Alfred, cardiologistand assistant clinical professor of internalmedicine at that university's med school, haswritten a critically praised book for laymen,Your Guide to Care of the Heart. Of her ownwriting, Anita reports that University Archiveshas received some thousand letters she wrote asan undergraduate to her mother. Mom, inci-dentally, returned in kind.

John Maloney, 1781 Reading Blvd., Wyo-missing, Pa., is human resources director ofCressona Aluminum Co. He and Shirley (Mar-tin) '48 have three sons, two granddaughters.Congratulations are in order for Doug Manly,newly appointed president and chief executiveofficer of RHM Grocery Products, Fredonia.Vader Loomis, father of six and grandfatherof 22, writes that he is working on his fourthretirement: US Army in '59; Civil Service in'78; Social Security in '81; currently he'sWashington, DC, representative for a Dallas,Texas, consulting firm. Vader is helping up-date the publication of his family history, inthat he's of the tenth generation of JosephLoomis, whose original 1629 home still standson the Windsor, Conn., campus of the LoomisSchool.

Edwin Heller is a law partner with Fried andFrank, Sands Point. David Inkeles is a systemsanalyst and trustee of the Village of GreatNeck. Dave and Eve have three children: Shar-on '79 (BA), MD '83 (whose spouse is MarkGudesblatt, MD '81); Susan, 26; Andrew '85(BSE). Howard Rickenberg is a professor ofbiochemistry. Roland Masters, 4345 Mina Dr.,Brooksville, Fla., toured New England lastSeptember with wife Thelma on their HondaGold Wing motorcycle, traveling with the Re-treads.

Richard Stevens, 658 NW 7th Ave., BocaRaton, Fla., is senior vice president of saleswith Westinghouse Communities Inc; RonWilcox, PO Box 255567, Sacramento, Cal.',travels yearly to Beijing on a joint constructionventure with the People's Republic of China.

Stateside, Ron is president and owner of Bell-Acqua Inc., developers of water ski tourna-ment lakes. Carl Strub reports seven grandchil-dren, one the progeny of son Greg '79. Carlalso has an address differing from the 1984class directory: 1408 Estate Lane, Glenview,111. Ditto John Barry, now found at 1005Hughes Dr., Apt. 2, Hamilton Square, NJ.John is an investment advisor, providingmathematical models of the equity market tobanks and^ other institutions. His fourJcidshave alma maters of Northwestern, Rutgers,Vassar, and Smith, with careers jelled so far intheater and law. John, keep us posted.

Finally, a bulletin notice: Phil Steinmanwould appreciate information regarding cur-rent whereabouts of Michael "Mickey" Walk-er, believed to be a 1946 matriculant in Archi-tecture.

Have safe and healthy summers—and don'tsend in September dues until you're free ofpoison ivy. E.ChapinDavis,POBox2318,Duxbury, Mass. 02331; and Libby Severing-haus Warner, 36 Crosby Brown Rd., Glad-wyne, Pa. 19035.

53 Picnic in the ParkAnn Woolley Banks opened The Bookstore inGloucester, Mass., some ten years ago, andhas been named Retailer of the Month onCape Ann. The store maintains a number ofbooks and publications in such specializedareas as children's reading and development,fitness and health, boating, the sciences,crafts, and New England travel, along withcurrent best sellers and other popular works,and stresses books written by the many localauthors. Prior to opening the store, Ann hadspent fifteen years as a nursery school and kin-dergarten teacher and in an experimentalteacher's education program. Ann is the moth-er of three children, grandmother of two.And, in New York, Lynn Rosenthal Minton isa contributing editor and columnist on movies,books, and TV for Parade magazine, and re-views movies on "Rambling with Gambling"and on public radio.

Paul and Linda Makosky have relocated tothe frozen northland of Edmonton, Alta, Can-ada, where their address is c/o Esso ChemicalCanada, PO Box 28000. Daughter Martha isoff to Wellesley; son Luke, graduating fromRPI; and daughter Antonia, completing hersecond year with the Peace Corps in Zaire.Barbie Brothers Abizaid and Miguel '52 dividetheir time between Udine, Italy, and Boulder,Colo. Further afield, in a manner of speaking,is Erwin Geiger of Epaminonda St. 44 (&Stravonos), Glyfada, Greece 16674. Erwinretired from Mobil Oil after 25 years and manyyears of tropical service. He's now with Inter-national Consultants of the World Bank andDevelopment Program, and contributes toseveral Washington, DC, think tanks. He'sdeciding whether to relocate to the Mediterra-nean or Florida. Well, we all have problems.

Back home after eight-month sabbatic inStuttgart, Germany, and a three-week trip toJapan is Ruth Speirs Nickse. She and husbandBob Ballufi did research in their fields, and arenow back in the academic world at MIT andBoston University, respectively. Way downSouth in Brazil, Dick Hayes reports eldestdaughter Carolyn is graduating from Lewisand Clark in Portland, Ore. Dick and Janehad a trip to Austria, Hungary, and Czecho-slovakia, and plan to be in Patagonia and theUS this fall.

Out in Toledo, Ohio, Jerry Jakes heads aconsortium of firms specializing in business-to-business marketing in a wide variety of bus-inesses. Jerry spent 28 years with RelianceElectric, before founding the firm in the 1970sand turning it into a full-time operation in1982. His three children are grown.

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Attendance at the Second Annual Picnic inthe Park, in New York City, was up, reflectingthe good weather and good spirits of last year.Out-of-towners included Dottie Clark Freefrom California, John Murphy, with his twoNew York City resident sons in tow; ClancyFauntleroy; and Vinnie Giarusso and family,down from Swampscott, Mass. Among otherson the scene were Charlie Sutton, Mort andAnita Brown Bunis, '53-54 Grad, Bob andLou Schaefer Dailey '54, Pete and JeanThompson Cooper '52, Phil and Roz ZalutskyBaron, Bill and Jan Peifer Bellamy '54, Richand Gracie Jahn, Al and Marianne Russ Rees,Ira and Barbara Mester Schaeffer, Ro Berg,Larry Litchfield, Joyce Ross Haskel, Jim Han-chett, Nancy Webb Truscott and daughter Gay'84, Bob Olt, Nick and Jane Wood, and Poeand LuAnn Fratt. It was a great afternoon,and the Class of '81 picnic, to our immediateleft, added to the ambience. Join us next year.

We regret to report the death of classmatesCharles A. Lowery Jr., of Villa Park, 111., andTheodore Munson, of Boise, Idaho. Ted en-tered our class in Engineering, and returned toLaw School. We offer our condolences to theirfamilies. David M. Kopko, PO Box 569,Chatham, NJ 07928.

54 'Round the WorldFar away places beckon so many ofus—sometimes as permanent addresses, some-times as special assignments, sometimes forbusiness or pleasure. Judith Greifer Benjamincurrently resides in Cairo, Egypt, where herhusband is stationed as a US Foreign Serviceofficer. She works part time as writer/editorfor the A UC News, a quarterly publication ofthe American University in Cairo. The Ben-jamin children—Cynthia, 17, and Robert,13—attend Cairo American College. Thefamily's first Cairo tour ends in August, butthey have requested a one-year extension.After that they expect assignment to Washing-ton, DC, and return to their McLean, Va.,home. You can reach Judith through theAmerican Embassy, Box 10, IPO NY 09527.

A move to the Netherlands almost two yearsago resettled Donald McCobb, following aseven-year stint in Rome, Italy. He is control-ler of Exxon's new Benelux organization. Donreports he likes the people, but is taking longerto adjust to the weather change. His address isCelebesstraat 21, 2585 TC The Hague, TheNetherlands.

Paul Sternheimer and Teo Christian Valen-tiner both live in West Germany. In recentmonths Paul enjoyed visits from Bert Rosen,and Arlene Kirschenbaum Alpert '55 and herhusband. Paul's address is 34 Viktoria-Luisen-strasse; Saarlouis, West Germany, D6630. Teoand his family moved to their own new homelast fall, a smaller home since his two youngersons are away at school: Christian, 20, at theEuropean Business School; and Claus, 22, atGuilford College in North Carolina. Anyonepassing through Frankfurt is welcome to visitTeo at his office, located right in the FrankfurtSheraton Hotel, at the airport. With the hotelexpanding, Teo has his work cut out for thenext three years! Mail can reach Teo at Karl-Horn-Strasse 17, 6380 Bad Homburg v.d.H.,West Germany.

Following many years in Asia as a photo-journalist, Inger Abrahamsen Elliott foundedChina Seas Inc., a design and textile companywith national and international operations.Headquartered in New York, China Seas hasreceived numerous Roscoe awards for designexcellence. Husband Osborne Elliott is Deanof the Columbia University Graduate Schoolof Journalism. He is a former deputy mayor ofNew York City and editor of Newsweek. In-ger's large family includes two adopted chil-

dren, now grown, who live in Minnesota; threestep-daughters who work, respectively, as aclinical psychologist, a fundraiser, and a jour-nalist; her daughter Kari McCabe (Yale '84),an architect in New York; her son Alec Mc-Cabe (Johns Hopkins '85), pursuing a journal-ism career in New London, Conn.; and daugh-ter Molly McCabe, entering Columbia Univer-sity this year. Inger's mailing address is 10Gracie Sq., NYC.

Since February 1985, Jill Niederman Edel-son has been program director at the Hi-HelloChild Day Care Center in Freeport, Long Isl.,a position she finds both challenging andstress-filled. Husband Bob, in constructionwork, flies a company plane to facilitate hisjob schedule. Daughter Lynne, married to psy-chiatrist Daniel Levine, plays viola with theNational Symphony in Washington, DC, andwith her own string quartet. Son David com-pleted a three-year residency in internal medi-cine at Long Island Jewish Hospital, took hisboards last September, and recently returnedfrom a research assignment at Hadassah Hos-pital in Israel. He has been appointed chief res-ident of internal medicine at Long Island Jew-ish Hospital for 1987. You can reach Jill at 35E. Iroquois St., Massapequa. SorschaBrodsky Meyer, 517 Foxwood Dr., CliftonPark, NY 12065.

55 Travel's the ThingMore leisure time, now that the kids are out ofthe house, and the availability of more discre-tionary income has '55ers traveling these days.Their trips sound fabulous!

The Far East was the destination of Ernestand Joanne Tucker. They visited Hong Kong,China, and Japan. Fortunately, they beat therecent fall in the rate of the US dollar. I under-stand a glass of orange juice now costs a cool$15. Ernie is director of the Immunology Ref-erence Laboratory at Scribbs Clinic and Re-search Foundation in La Jolla, Cal. Joanne isa dietitian and director of food services at theFrossmont Hospital in La Mesa. Son ErnestIV received his BS from Yale in 1983 and iscurrently taking Near Eastern studies at theUniversity of Chicago. The Tuckers have agranddaughter Stephanie, 11, who is in thesixth grade. A future Cornellian, no doubt.The Tuckers' address: 4156 Couts St., San Di-ego, Cal.

Astrid "Toni" Pfeiffer adds Bangkok to thelist of Asian cities she will visit this year. Tonilives at 8895 Fountainbleau Blvd., Miami, Fla.She is a senior officer for corporate law of anelectric utility company and is active in theAmerican Bar Association. And, if any one iscounting, she has five children, two grand-children, and two Siamese cats—thus the tripto Thailand.

A search for ancestral roots took Marcia(Willeman) and Philip Sutter and three of theirsons to Germany and Switzerland. It was alsothe occasion to celebrate their 30th anniversaryand the graduation from Electrical Engineer-ing of son Carl '85. They visited with Phil'scousin Hugo, the mayor of a Swiss village. TheSutter's oldest son, Alan, 25, graduated fromFranklin and Marshall and is assistant directorof technical support for computers at the col-lege. Steven, 19, is a sophomore at Yale, andNeil, 14, is an 8th grader. Marcia describesherself as a chatelaine, which, according toWebster's Dictionary, means mistress of thecastle. She is also treasurer and on the Secon-dary Schools Committee of the LancasterCounty Cornell Club. Phil is chairman of thephysics department at Franklin and Marshall.The Sutters' address is: 203 Mackin Ave., Lan-caster, Pa.

Music festivals took Elizabeth RothermelHopwood to Europe this year. Liz, her moth-

er, and daughter Elizabeth Jean, 24, visitedVienna, Salzburg, Bregenz, Lucerne, andGlyndebourne with the Metropolitan OperaGuild. Husband Herbert's gynecology practicekept him at home (3539 N. 36th St., Arlington,Va.). When not traveling, Liz is director ofTour Guides for Washington Inc., a conven-tion and special events planning firm in the na-tion's capital. Their eldest son, Herb, 26, is inthe trust department of First American Bankin DC, and Matthew, 20, is a junior at Purdue.

Ithaca resident Don Farley, 711 Tripham-mer Rd., and wife Jennie (Towle) '54 took asabbatical year in Uppsala, Sweden. Don, pro-fessor of electrical engineering, says even thewinter has charm: "It's very pretty when thesun is up, and it's not much colder than Itha-ca, even above the Arctic Circle." Jennie is aprofessor in Industrial and Labor Relations(ILR).

Would you believe a vacation in southwestSiberia to collect botanical specimens? Thatwas one venue for the Shetlers' (Stan andElaine) travels. Stan is acting associate directorof the National Museum of Natural History atthe Smithsonian Institution, which explains hisexotic vacation travel. The Shetler children,Laura and Stephen, are both high school musi-cians. Address: 142 Meadowland Lane, E.,Sterling, Va.

Business takes Al Blomquist, 221 Green-ridge Rd., Franklin Lakes, NJ, on frequenttrips overseas. As president and chief executiveofficer of Olin Hunt Special Products Inc., hevisits Europe five times a year, Tokyo fourtimes, and Singapore once. Al intends to slowdown in 2005.

London, England, Paris, France, and thesurrounding countryside were the vacationspots of Lorrie (Pietryka) and Peter Plamon-don '54 with Carmen (Lovre) '57 and M.O."Bus" Ryan '54. Peter is head of PlamondonEnterprises, which operates restaurants inMaryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. SonPeter Jr. is in hotel sales with the J. W. Marri-ott Hotel in Washington, DC; Jim is a first-year law student at George Washington LawCenter; and daughter Anne McNamara is themother of the Plamondon's two grand-children, Elizabeth, 21/2, and newly bornKevin. The Plamondons are at home at 13317Beall Creek Ct., Potomac, Md.

It was the eighth annual Caribbean trip forWilliam Doerler and his gang of Cornelliansand wives (Hal Fountain '55, Dick Bulman'56, Phil Griffen '57). They traveled to Anti-gua, Monserrat, and St. Eustatius. Bill is headof Doerler Landscapes in Lawrenceville, NJ.Home address: 241 Cold Soil Rd., Princeton,NJ.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was the scene ofMort and Brad Kolko's 1986 vacation. Mort isvice president of the RMA/KOLKO Corp.Both their children have graduated from col-lege, Hanan '82 from ILR (University of Mi-chigan Law, '85) and Amy from Brandeis, thisyear. The Kolkos are at 238 Wilshire Rd.,Rochester. Anne Morrissy Merick, 5004Sangamore Rd., Bethesda, Md. 20816.

57 Believe It or NotTime marches on. After 30 years in the Army,Dennis Greene has retired. After serving as de-fense attache in Bogota, Colombia, his last as-signment was as advisor to the Colorado Na-tional Guard. Dennis received his MBA fromthe University of Colorado in June and is plan-ning a new career. The Greene family is repre-sented in the Army now by son Steve [ a cap-tain. Karen is an accountant in Chicago, 111.,and Rick took his spring semester in Madrid,Spain.

Howard Greenstein is a grandfather, thanksto daughter Lisa. Son Micah received his MA

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from the Kennedy School of Public Adminis-tration at Harvard in June. Having been ap-pointed to life tenure as senior rabbi of hisJacksonville congregation, Howard is prepar-ing for a spring 1987 sabbatical to Israel. Toround out the family activity, daughter Karenis pursuing a dancing career in New York City.

Roger Jones recently retired and (Wow, youwon't believe this!) also has a son Steve in theservice. But Roger retired from a judgeshipand Steve is a lieutenant in the Air Force. Mi-chael '83 is at Wharton; Roger Jr. is practicinglaw in Washington, DC; and Allison will be asenior this fall at Virginia Polytechnic Insti-tute. Rog recently went sailing and scuba div-ing in the British Virgin Islands with Phil Mc-Indoo, and also has a second career (with a lawfirm in Los Angeles, Cal.).

Tony Lopez has also made a career change;from senior vice president, Olin Chemical toexecutive vice president, Occidental Chemical.He and Loretta now live in Tampa, Fla.There's nothing retiring about Paul Miller.This spring he took his sons, 6 and 9, skiing atVail, Colo. He reports he kept up with them aslong as they were on the lift. Downhill was an-other matter.

Call Ripley; he won't believe this. RonRamsden has retired from the US Air Force,and he has a son in the same service stationedin Brussels, Belgium. Ron is remodeling hishome and will do some substitute teaching.Daughter Holly is in the jewelry business inSyracuse.

J. H. Keene wins the market niche awardfor the month. He is vice president and direc-tor of a company active in construction, min-ing, packaging, and insurance. He took thewhole family (Ruth and four kids, 8-17) on theQueen Elizabeth II to Europe. James IV by-passed Cornell (too remote) for Yale.

From the revolving door department comesword that Sam Waxman's son Spencer gradu-ated from Duke this spring and Scott startsCornell this fall. Sam is still professor at Mt.Sinai Medical School in New York City andheads the Chemotherapy Foundation Labora-tory at that institution. Hank Kammerer con-tinues at Bell Aerospace Textron in Buffaloand gets a^challenge out of teaching an 8:30a.m. materials science class at SUNY, Buffalo.

Al Hershon is director of administrationand personnel, New York State Assembly.Daughter Terri has been married for over ayear, and Al continues to do SecondarySchools Committee work in Schenectady.• John Seiler, 563 Starks Building,Louisville, Ky. 40202; telephone (502)589-1151.

News flows in and should be in print beforethe 30th Reunion, to which many of you planon coming or "hope to." Among the latter isPolly Atweed Wilson, whose son Andrew Foss'87 will graduate from Electrical Engineeringnext May. Rosamond Haire Van Deusen is an-other hopeful and has a son Tim '87 gradua-ting from Agriculture then, too. Graduatingthis December is Christopher Baker-Carr '86,son of Priscilla Kiefer "Johnnie" Parrish. Sheand husband Stephen are in London, England,until January 1987; Steve is on an NEH grantand a Guggenheim fellowship. He also serves .as an advisor to Cornell Abroad students inGreat Britain. Steve and Johnnie are alsomembers of the Cornell Club of London. Theysaw Adrienne McNair Caputi in Rome, Italy,last spring and Jackie Milligan McDonald, atChristmas time. For classmates who want toget in touch with the Parrishes they'll be at FlatC, 17 Frognal, London, NW3 6AR, until Sep-tember 15.

Judy Tischler is in China this summer, andwrites that she's getting lonely for the almamater. (The cure for those who also suffer is to

attend our 30th.) Judy lives in Winter Park,Fla., and is vice president for development ofthe Park Health Corp. She still keeps in touchwith Wendy Hayman Spencer.

Congratulations are in order for Sally Tut-hill Knapp, who was married last October andacquired eight grown children! Her husband isan English professor at Penn State and Sally'snew address is 484 Rock Rd., State College,Pa. She often gets together with Roxanne Ur-quhart Phillips, who lives nearby. Just the op-posite of Sally is Mary Neill Hanna, whowrites that she is single again and at the intern-ship stage of her PhD in counseling. She'sbeen published in professional journals, aswell as in Who's Who in American HealthProviders. Judith Reusswig, 5401 West-bard Ave., #1109, Bethesda, Md. 20816.

58 Back on the TrackLate news from mid-May as your News &Dues are rolling in. A good number of '58ersmet in New York City this month for a mini-reunion among '58, '59, and '60 classes, spear-headed largely by Barbara Hirsch Kaplan '59.Carol Boeckle Welch was in there with her, asabout 80 or more Reunion anticipators fromthe three classes enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, cock-tails, and early plans for the Reunions a fewyears ahead. Connie (Case) and I met the fol-lowing classmates and others: Audrey (Wild-ner) and Ray Sears '57, Carol Welch, tfatyNoonan '81, our Class Affairs staffer, ofwhom we'll be seeing much more, Elsie Dins-more Popkin (up from North Carolina, work-ing on her own show in the Johnson Museumduring our Reunion in 1988), Paula RivlinGlickman, Addie Sels (busy running her interi-or decorating firm in New York City), DanielArnow (whom we've not seen for many years,but who is already revving up for '88), LizFuchs Fillo and Steve '56 (congratulated on hisrecent election as Alumni Trustee), both in theprocess of moving to a large estate in thePrinceton, NJ, area, Bill Ainsworth, BettyAnne Merritt, Arlene Rosenwasser Wander-man, and Audrey Greenberg Landau. Othersmay also have been there, as well as at thefollowing Monday's meeting called by MikeGriffinger. Haven't heard anything about thelatter, but will watch for news of interest. Thenext time to really get people moving towardReunion will be the class officers' (CACO)meeting in New York City in late January.

How's the class doing, financially, you ask?Glad to tell you: about 200 are IN for thisyear, and will continue to receive their AlumniNews, etc. Our treasurer tells me that we paid$5,000 but are still about $4,000 behind inAlumni News payments for this current (al-most completed) academic year, and that weneed another 150 duespayers on board tobreak even. We see a few trickle in every fewdays. So far, more than 100 non-contributorshave been deleted and another 100 or more willbe cut by early June (deadline for next year).Don't let this deter those of you who will readthe Alumni News for an apparent "last time."It's never too late to sign on again. Just send inyour dues and we'll get you back on board.Those of you who really have meant to dothat, but haven't, DO IT NOW! Let's get outof the red and on our way to another super Re-union in two years. Now, to some classmatenews.

Jack McFadden writes that his son Dan isgoing to Cornell this fall as a national scholar,same as his dad. Jack moved to River Forest,111., at 7315 Holly Ct. Jewelle "Judy" CarlsonAllen is "thrilled to have another Cornellian inthe family": daughter Barbara, Grad, is in thetwo-year Hotel MPS program. The Aliens(John is Dartmouth '56) visited Ithaca for theDartmouth game and, while the Hotelies put

on "a snazzy pre-game picnic, the game leftmuch to be desired." Maybe this year, Judy.Millie Sanchez Arnold writes from her home inBolton, Conn. All three children are in their20s and enjoy ski racing. Millie got her MPAlast spring and continues teaching girls' tennisat Manchester High School. All the family isbuilding a home on Martha's Vineyard, whichshould have been finished this June.

Pete Blakely sends his support again andstill lives in Dallas, Texas. Pete planned to re-tire this past spring and hoped to settle "some-where between Dallas and Los Angeles, Cal.,and work on my golf handicap." All threechildren are married; two in Los Angeles; onein Dallas. Barry Grevatt enjoyed a week visit-ing friends in Grand Cayman Island last win-ter, escaping hometown Laconia, NH. It'sgood to have Neil T. Jones on the list afterthese many years. Neil lives at 2020 DoinLane, Florence, SC. John Guillemont andBarry Tharp—about as far away from one an-other in the lower 48 as possible, Boston,Mass., and Palo Alto, Cal., respectively—areboth on board for the next year, as is BillBalet. Another new one on the rolls is ArthurH. Denzler Jr. Art lives in Los Angeles, Cal.,at 5251 W. Imperial Hwy. Good to see RayEpstein with us, too. Ray is in New York Cityat 30 E. 71st St, Ed Fox has a new address:1535 28th St., NW, Washington, DC. I hopemany of you saw the article on corporate fi-nance about Ed in Business Week, March 3,1986. The article is headed: "Sallie Mae hasgraduated to high finance; it began as a hum-ble warehouse for student loans but nowprowls the global money markets." Below apicture of Ed sitting on the back of what ap-pears to be a sofa, is the capiton: "CEO Fox:luVmoneymen plan deals so complex theymake investment bankers blink." Keep it up,Ed, and in good health.

That's it for now. No Alumni News in Au-gust, so we'll be back in September. Mean-while, keep the News & Dues rollingin. Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., FortWashington, Pa. 19034.

59 Spring FrolicsMore than 100 people attended the May 9 par-ty for members of the Classes of '58, '59, and'60, held in New York City and organized byBarbara Hirsch Kaplan. A delightful evening!Lots of laughter, reminiscences, catching upwith old friends, making new friends. Con-gratulations, too, to Steve Fillo on his electionas Alumni Trustee; to Rick Cohen on his elec-tion as president of the NY State PsychologicalAssn.; to Sherry Walther Kaplan, who has justreceived her PhD.

Steve Fillo, plus Sue Rollins Fried and RuthRosen Abrams, were looking forward to theirupcoming trip to Ithaca to see their childrengraduate. John '58 and Sallie Whitesell Phil-lips also planned to be there—their son Andy'84 was to receive his MBA. John and Sallieare getting ready to become year-round"beach bums." They're selling their West Isliphouse and rebuilding their house on GilgoBeach, planning to move there permanentlybefore summer's end. Before then, they'll trav-el to Toronto, Ont., Canada, for trie interna-tional lacrosse games. John, who has longbeen involved with the sport, is team managerof the US team.

Al Nelson quit playing softball in 1975: "Ithought I had outgrown it," he said. But he re-turned to the sport two years ago, as enthusias-tic as ever, and is managing to hold his ownagainst all those guys in their 20s. Otherwise,reports the long-time Lynbrook resident,"things never change." Irv Anderson, whomanages Philadelphia, Pa.'s Warwick Hotel,described the great Cornell Club of Philadel-

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phia dinner held this spring, and told us thatAnton Gotsche, who formerly worked at Phil-ly's Franklin Plaza Hotel, now runs the entirehospitality complex for the US Army in Eur-ope as a civilian with the rank of a brigadiergeneral. {

Met Steve Fineman, who was attending hisvery first class event since graduation—and en-joying it greatly! Steve has his own manage-ment consulting firm in Bronxville, specializ-ing in the health care field. A new fad? GeorgeLadas, Harry Petchesky, and John Webster allsported yellow patterned ties. Lenny Rubin hasjust finished renovating his co-op on NewYork City's Central Park West—"lots ofspace, but no furniture." Barbara Kaplan hasbought a 100-year-old barn in Penn Valley,Pa., and plans to turn it into a very modernhouse. Ruth Abrams, just back from raceweek in Antigua, was getting ready to take herLSATs.

Other classmates enjoying the party in-cluded Peter and Carol Horowitz Schulhof,Lenny Edelstein, Marty Kroll, Harriet Ben-jamin, Judy Weber, Carol Li pis, Linda RogersCohen, Harvey Weissbard, and Bill Day.

Out of existence, but not out of mind: TauDelta Phi, a fraternity that closed its doors atCornell in 1969, held its first annual reunion inNew York City on April 18-19—the first timeTDP members of all classes got together as agroup. On the 18th, 175 TDPs, literally fromaround the world, gathered at the HarmonicClub for a members-only evening. Among'59ers attending were Arnold Beiles, Sid Boor-stein, Dave Esses, Steve Friedman, MortyClick man, Neil Janovic, Marty Lehman (whocut short a meeting in Amsterdam), BobMarkowitz, Harry Petchesky (organizer of theevent), Dick Seegcl, Bob Semel, and MonteSher. On the 19th there were three concurrentcocktail parties for TDP members, spouses,and guests. Harry Petchesky hosted a party athis West Side home for the Classes of '57through '62, with such guests as Bill Woods,Bob Furno, Barbara Benioff Friedman, andyours truly—all classmates who enjoyed thefraternity's "French 75" parties in the olddays. Time hasn't dimmed enthusiasm for par-tying, but the French 75s sure didn't disappearas rapidly as they did 30 (yipes!) years ago.

'The weekend came to a wondrous closewith a midnight supper at the 21 Club," re-ported Harry—who, despite getting to bed at 4a.m., was up early the next morning for a jogaround the Central Park reservoir with MartyLehman. Next on the agenda: The Boston con-tingent of TDP will host a party at the Cornell-Harvard football game this fall. JennyTesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel,Conn. 06801.

60 International VisitsPresident Sue Phelps Day and I met for a lei-surely lunch at OΉare Airport and caught uppersonally on this past year since Reunion. Iwish you all could have had the fun of sharingthe wonderful photo books of the Days' ad-venturesome trip in January to Beijing,Chengdu, Japan, and Hawaii. Theirs was trulya once-in-a-lifetime experience, including forSue a memorable day at a nursery school and aprimary school run by the Chengdu EngineFactory. Fifty nursery school children per-formed in native ethnic costumes and pre-sented gifts they had made, and 350 primaryschool children greeted Sue and a friend beforea dance performance by 25 girls. As Sue notedin a letter describing the experience: "I reallyfelt like Nancy Reagan and could hardly holdback tears. The Chinese had asked if there wassomething special we wanted to see. I had sug-gested a quick trip to a school, 'but please donot fuss.' I was flabbergasted to have so much

done for us with half a day's warning for theteachers."

Another recent visitor to China was GloriaEdis Schoenfeld, who on her second trip therein two and one-half years noted marked West-ernization in Beijing. Her trip followed theSilk Route through the Gobi Desert andNorthwestern China near the Soviet border."The primative conditions under which thenative population lives are unbelievable,"noted Gloria.

Ruth Bailey '54 forwarded news from theDes Moines, Iowa, Register about the work ofclassmate Tom Moutoux and wife MarianneBrindley '62 as full-time activists for BeyondWar, an educational movement organized inCalifornia in 1982. The Moutouxs sold theirCalifornia business and moved to Des Moinesto devote their energies and resources full timein working for the Beyond War program. Ac-cording to Ruth Bailey, working for this causehas not only shaped their own lifestyle, buttheir daughter's graduate education and careerplans as well.

Jay Harris has opened his own law firm at747 3rd Ave., New York City. Alan Garfinkel'59 has moved Garfinkel & Gerecke Consult-ing Engineers to Suffern. Wife Ellie (Ross) is alibrarian in the Yonkers public schools. JoePersivale is now heading the laboratory forbiomaterials testing for the Ethicon ResearchFoundation, while wife Genie continues as aclinical microbiologist. Their son Joe has at-tended Cornell soccer camp the last two sum-mers and has decided that he'd like to attendCornell after high school in 1990. DaughterLeigh, at 8, is into ballet and gymnastics. Dr.Stephan Fogelson has moved to 9 7th Ave.,Cherry Hill, NJ.

Evalyn Edwards Milman became curator ofart and collections at the Museum of Art, Sci-ence, and Industry in Bridgeport, Conn., inJuly 1985, after receiving her MA in art historyfrom Hunter College. Husband Steve '58,MBA '59, is with the money management firmof Neuberger and Berman. Son Douglas is ajunior at the University of Virginia; son An-drew is a freshman at New York Univesity.Bruce Veghte's three children have all been do-ing honors work—Andrew '86 at Cornell, Benat Columbia, and Laura at Shorecrest in St.Petersburg, Fla. Carol Sue Hai's daughter Jill'85 is a national traveling consultant for KappaAlpha Theta, while son Paul is a freshman atthe University of Houston's Hotel School.

Alan '59 and Margo Hicks Newhouse senttheir newsletter, which made most interestingreading. Both continue to be extremely activein musical activities in addition to pursuing de-manding jobs. One of the highlights of theiryear was a two-week singing vacation in Switz-erland. They went with the Maryland Chorusto rehearse in St. Moritz and then gave con-certs in Basel, Geneva, and Vaduz, Leichten-stein, under Antal Dorati, along with collegechoruses from Southern Mississippi, BelmontCollege, and Warren Wilson College. Theyalso traveled to Baden and Fislisbach to retracethe lives of some of Margo's ancestors, andAlan bought a treble viola da gamba in Basel.Son Billy has just finished his freshman year atGeorgia Tech in electrical engineering co-op,and son Jeff is about to start a career in land-scape architecture after being graduated fromVirginia Tech this spring.

John Charles Smith is in his 21st year as alandscape architect. He notes the enjoyment oflast fall's Delta Phi reunion at Jack Galloway'sTropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, adding:"I'm all for reunions now, more than ever."Jim Tsighis writes that his family is still ravingabout their visit to Cornell for our 25th. SaraWise Kane notes that she and Joel '58-59SpAg, enjoyed Reunion, but "missed somedear old friends who were 'no shows.' Please

start planning for our next Reunion." Sara re-cently received her CPA and a Master's inTaxation and was looking for a position.Daughter Gwen just completed her first year atthe University of Pennsylvania MedicalSchool, and son Jonathan was just graduatedfrom Brown. Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257 W.Deer Path, Lake Forest, 111. 60045.

62 Yearbook CallingThe co-editors of the 25th Reunion yearbook,Judy Prenske Rich and Elizabeth Belsky Stiel,along with Class Historian Peter Slater, wantto remind you, "The time has almost passedfor you to sit down and deal with the Reunionyearbook information. So, get to it. We wantit; we need it; you'll love reading what you andothers send us. Don't forget to send alongCornell memorabilia for our class history." Ifyou haven't received the request for yearbookinformation, contact Mike Duesing, 13 Bit-tersweet Rd., Weston, Conn. 06883.

"I'm not a maiden," noted piano playerMike Eisgrau in the spot on the form callingfor maiden name. Mike continues as senior re-porter/editor for WNEW-Metromedia radionews in New York City, where he lives at 444E. 82nd St., 26D, with "the lovely Elizabeth"and Mr. Simba and Mr. Bones, their cats.Elizabeth is international flight attendant andUS flight service manager for TWA; their re-cent weekend trips include London, Madrid,and Frankfurt.

Real estate syndicator and consultant Ed-ward A. Fagin also lives in New York City (135E. 62nd St., Suite #4B) with his two cats, Na-poleon and Josephine. Ed's older son Steven isa freshman at Williams. Dr. Paul E. Gouldpractices oral and maxillofacial surgery inNanuet. He is a member of the board of gov-ernors of the 9th District Dental Society ofNew York. Paul and Ellen live with their sons,14 and 11, at 1 Brookdale Ct., W. Nyack.

From John L. Neuman, 1 Clark Lane, Rye:"I accepted an offer last spring to return togeneral management consulting as a seniorpartner in Management Practice ConsultingPartners in New York City. My firm is astrategy-oriented, market-based consultingfirm that spun off from McKinsey & Co. some17 years ago. Having been in consulting for al-most 14 years with McKinsey, then three yearsin the legal business and two years in invest-ment banking, the return to consulting hasbeen very successful and very enjoyable."

"I miss Ithaca still, after 20-odd years!" ex-claimed Helen Chuckrow Tappert. She andChuck live on Beach Rd., Ossining, whereChuck is with IBM doing research on machinerecognition of handwriting. Their children areEric, 17, and Ann, 14. Helen enjoys astrology,martial arts, and kaballah. Her father, Abra-ham Chuckrow '15, "moved to Ossining twoand one-half years ago to be closer to me andmy brother. He lives in an apartment nearbyand is still going strong at 93."

Read this note from Lawrence E. O'Brien,Box 25, Old Chatham: "Founder of Chi WaWa Inc., a bottled Mexican watercompany—'the challenge of a Mexican vaca-tion in the privacy of your own home'—greatfor tour groups." In keeping with his inclina-tion, Larry proposes a Mexican tour as a classactivity. The next time your card is eaten by anautomatic teller machine, call Robert J. Frish-man. Bob is president of Interbank SystemsInc., manufacturer of cash dispensers forbanks and OEM customers like IBM, Bur-roughs, and Olivetti. He travels to Sweden,Finland, France, and the UK about five timesa year. Wife Jean sells real estate in Chappa-qua, where they live at 7 Hughes Lane.

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Christal Phillips. John has been director of ad-missions at Jefferson Community College inWatertown since 1964; Christal is instructor ofmedical laboratory technology there. Mailgoes to PO Box 157, Sackets Harbor. A100-acre farm in New Woodstock (PO Box290) keeps Robert, MEE '64, and Sara Ren-niger Chevako busy with "remodeling and re-building house, barn, fences, etc." With thisbackground experience, they bought a formerhigh school building and are renovating it forrentals and their own business, NWS Associ-ates Inc. Robert is an electrical engineer andconsultant to local industries and SyracuseUniversity. Sara is manager of compliance au-dits for Bristol Myers* industrial division andis responsible for multi-site good manufactur-ing practices compliance.

"After almost six years as director of parenteducation at New York Foundling Hospital, Iam starting a new job with SUNY, BuffaloChild Welfare Training Institute as ad-ministrator of a new New York City office,"relates Judith Lichtman Elkin. Judith is serv-ing her third term on the Human Ecologydean's advisory council. She and Michael liveat, 287 Waukena Ave., Oceanside. Theirdaughter Stephanie is a junior at SUNY, Buf-falo; Gail '88 is in Human Ecology. Two ofElizabeth and Wayne Kelder's three childrenare Cornellians: Chris '87 is in Agriculture, asis Debra '89. Brian, 8, is at home: Box 22, Ac-cord. Wayne is a dairy farmer and president ofthe local school board; Elizabeth is a schoolnurse.

Congratulations are in order to ChristopherB. Hemmeter, who was recognized as Gradu-ate School of Management Entrepreneur ofthe Year for 1985 for his work in developinghotels and shopping complexes. Chris and wifePatsy live at 2424 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu,Hawaii. Son Mark is at Boulder, Colo., Chris'86 has been in Arts, Katie's at Stanford, withKelley, 18, Shane, 17, Brendan, 15, Holly, 13,coming right along.

There's more coming, but have run out ofspace. We can use more now that duespayershave increased about 30 percent this year.Keep my mailbox full! Jan McClaytonCrites, 2779 Dellwood Dr., Lake Oswego,Ore. 97034.

63 Press ClipsHeadline in the April 22, 1985, Fairbanks(Alaska) Daily News-Miner: "UA scientistsunhurt as NASA plane burns." Tom Hallinan,associate professor of geophysics at the Uni-versity of Alaska, Fairbanks, and identified as"UAF's aurora scientist" in the accompanyingstory, escaped when "a four-engine plane, aNASA flying laboratory that served as a modelfor the space shuttle, caught fire while takingoff as part of a worldwide effort to observe aman-made comet, and was destroyed." Tomwas the principal investigator in one of χthe 15experiments the seven-member Challengercrew conducted on board Spacelab HI,launched April 29, 1985. Two crew memberstook black and white videotapes and35-millimeter color photos of an aurora, whichTom was to spend a year analyzing. The reportadded, "NASA has given Hallinan tentativeapproval for a 1991 space experiment that mayallow scientists to create an 'artificial aurora'for photographing from space Hallinan in1963 built an auroral space television camerafor the Cornell University physics department,and he's been studying the Northern Lightsever since."

Elected, promoted, etc.: William Tutt, pres-ident of the Broadmoor Management Co. andformer vice president, Broadmoor Hotel Inc.,was elected first vice president, US OlympicCommittee. Both Bill and wife Frankie

(Campbell) are involved with the committee.Frankie is on the board of directors and isNGB (?) coordinator for National Sports Fes-tival.

Barbara Hurley Nissley writes, "Recentlypromoted to doctor of quality assurance forthe psychiatry department at New York Hospi-tal"; R. Bruce Campbell was appointed to theboard of Greater Baltimore Medical Center.Dave Finnigan writes, "Look for the 'mag-num opus' entitled either The Complete Joy ofJuggling or The Complete Juggler, to bepublished by Random House in fall 1986."Dave travels the world teaching juggling andperforming "vaudeville nouveau" in theschools. Jan H. Suwinski was "recently ap-pointed general manager, telecommunicationsproducts division, and elected to vice presi-dent, Corning Glass Works." Peter Nussbaumwas elected to the executive committee of theninth circuit judicial conference. James J.Byrnes's new job in the International TreasuryDepartment will mean travel to London,Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Korea,Rough life! Guillerma Garrido-Lecca was ap-pointed Peru's finance vice minister in January1984, and, that December, economic andfinance minister.

"Just purchased a 75-acre dairy farm inNew Holland, Pa.," writes Keith M. Olin,large animal veterinarian (predominantlyamong the Amish and Mennonite communi-ties). Pandora Gerard McNatt has a new job aspublic information officer, 193rd InfantryBrigade (Fort Clayton, Republic of Panama).And, "Went to Panama for three weeks of Ar-my duty in June," writes Tom Stirling;"would never have guessed back in 1959, as anunwilling ROTC cadet, that Γd wind up alieutenant colonel some day."

James G. Mack, American Embassy, APOMiami, Fla., is a Foreign Service officer.Where? Ed '62 and Emily Doumaux Newell,of Sherman, operate an 800-acre dairy farm:"Busy life, especially challenging to be a suc-cessful farmer these days." Hard work. Thefamily has six harness horses, of which threeare racing at nearby tracks: "Greatest adven-ture since dairy-farming start in 1963! Loveit!" Carol Kwass Edelstein, MD, says "Run-ning a 'commuter marriage' takes a lot of en-ergy; weekends are spent playing with kids, 3and 7.1 am medical director of the Universityof California, Los Angeles, Eating DisordersClinic, specializing in anorexia and bulimia.Husband Robert is professor of finance,School of Business, University of California,Berkeley."

John E. Kennedy Jr., branch manager,IBM, Detroit, Mich., writes that his hobby is"producing and raising children. In August1985, all ten of us visited friends and relativesin Maryland. In May 1985 we were in Maui,Hawaii; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., in April. Kidsrange from 16 to 11Λ9 with five kids in fourdifferent schools." Another IBMer, W. H.Cornell Dawson, supports IBM's corporateprocurement of electronic components as theyrelate to electronic design automation systems.Cornell and Alice recently ihoved to a newhome, 14 Stoutenburgh Dr., Hyde Park.

Georgeanne Mitchell Rousseau has given upfull-time elementary teaching for volunteerwork in New York City schools. Louise Ber-man Wolitz writes, "Spent 1984-85 academicyear living in Jerusalem and traveling toEgypt, Greece, Turkey, and Italy with thefamily—all learned to speak Hebrew with flu-ency inversely related to age." Orlo H. "Rick"Clark, professor of surgery, University ofCalifornia Medical Center and Veterans' Ad-ministration Medical Center, San Francisco,spent a sabbatical in Sweden, England, Italy,and France, visiting medical centers in thosecountries. Fred and Beth Davis Karren safar-

ied in Kenya. Dee Abbott, 236 PuritanRd., Fairfield, Conn. 06430.

64 MoversLots of new addresses to report this month.For six of the ten, that is about all to report:Jon Roth made an in-town move to 10 N.Ridge Rd., Westport, Conn.; Stephen andNancy Lore Einhorn also made an in-townmove, to 8205 N. River Rd., Milwaukee,Wise.; Horace Stimson is now at 2422 Rey-nolda Rd., Winston-Salem, NC, but he iskeeping an apartment in New York City; TedLummis moved from Marietta, Ga., to 3750N. 55th Ave., Hollywood, Fla.; Christian andLesley Stuhr and their two children are settledin at 540 Hayes Dr., Swift Current, Saskat-chewan, Canada; and Morris and FeliceShriftman and their two daughters are now at8084 Pine Lake Rd., Jacksonville, Fla.

After five years in Chicago, 111., Bart andBernadette Schneider and their two sonsmoved to 2041 Green St., San Francisco, Cal.,in 1985, "and now must learn a whole lot ofnew things" about sailboat racing. Bart is get-ting help from Fred Glasser '65, who crews forhim out there on weekends. During the week,Bart commutes to Houston, Texas, where he isa vice president of American Management Sys-tems, in charge of the energy industry practice.Jim and Sue Reyelt and their three childrenmade an in-town move to 25 Byron Lane,Larchmont. He is still managing the Beach &Tennis Club in New Rochelle.

Peter and Susan Mansky and their two chil-dren are now at 33 Daniel St., Slingerlands. Heis professor of psychiatry and pharmacology atAlbany Medical College of Union University,and has a private practice of psychiatry andpsychopharmacology. Leisure activities forPeter and Susan include skiing, swimming,music (especially classical), and attendingSaratoga Performing Arts Center and Tangle-wood. Peter asks: "Has anyone heard fromEd 'Bunky' Woll, lately?"

Richard and Sharon Reed and their threedaughters made an in-town move to 502 Mul-berry Lane, Bellaire, Texas. His job as Mara-thon Oil's area geologist for Europe takes himto London, England, and Dublin and Cork,Ireland, "a lot." At home, he is still involvedin local politics and enjoys gardening, churchwork, fixing up old houses, and Celtic musicand culture.

Congrats are in order for eight classmates.Mike Strick was recently named vice president,administration and finance for AmericanSpring Wire Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. He andNancy and their three children are still at 118Clairhaven Dr., Hudson, Ohio. Thomas Nix-on is now president of Bakers Pride Oven Co.in New Rochelle. He and Barbara and theirtwo daughters are still at 34 Ground Pine Rd.,Wilton, Conn.

Stephen Gordon, 492 Holly Ave., St. Paul,Minn., has started a new law firm specializingin labor and employment law: Gordon, Miller& O'Brien. In his "spare time," Nate Isikoff(11201 Tara Rd., Potomac, Md.) started a newbusiness on Jan. 1, 1985: Lifesaviηg SystemsInc., which designs, installs, maintains, andmonitors residential fire sprinkler systems. Hesays it's "quite different than real estate [hisregular job is chairman of the board of CareyWinston, a real estate and mortgage bankingfirm], but the experience of starting a new bus-iness with a new technology has been very ex-citing."

Sylvia " Juni" Bowes has a new job: campuscoordinator at an all girls' Catholic highschool with 1,200 students. She sings in theNew Orleans, La., Concert Choir and still livesat 1204 Hesper Ave., Metairie, La. KennethWallston, 6726 Pennywell Dr., Nashville,

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Tenn., interim associate dean for research atVanderbilt University School of Nursing, andacting director of the Center for Nursing Re-search at Vanderbilt Medical Center, receiveda special recognition award from the Universi-ty of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing inMarch.

Stephen Crawford, assistant professor ofsociology at Bates College in Lewiston, Me.,received a summer stipend from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities. This monthand next, Steve will be in England and Franceconducting his research. And, last but notleast, congrats to Mike Smith on completingthe 210-mile Iditaski cross-country ski race,finishing 23rd out of 44 starters! He and Lindaand family are still at 6640 Round Tree Dr.,Anchorage, Alaska, and he is still consultingon several natural resource projects.

Al Jerome wrote that he and Michele recent-ly had a reunion in New York City with Ste-phen "Butch" and Ellen Fluhr Thomas '65 (2East End Ave., #4D, NYC) and Mickey andSuzanne Pollock. (I don't have an address forthem.) Al—still president of NBC TelevisionStations—Michele, and their three sons, stilllive at 16 Donnybrook Dr., Demarest, NJ.Emmett "Mac" and Carol Britton Mac-Corkle, 1060 Continental Dr., Menlo Park,Cal., and their two sons spent last Christmas inLondon and Paris, where they ran into JeffreyWeiss of Dallas, Texas, also vacationing there.

Many Cornell thanks go to Harvey Davis,who just completed his 11th year as SecondarySchools chairman for his area. His travel islimited to ski trips—"all else saved for retire-ment or old age, whichever comes first." Har-vey and Alice and their two children still live at2725 River Rd., Virginia Beach, Va.

Have a great summer! Bev Johns La-mont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, 111. 60015.

65 Cornell's RepSome of us have children in college, and manyhave teenagers starting to go through the selec-tion process. Shelly Brown Levine writes,"Still working as head of English department,Delbarton School, Morristown, NJ (a boys'prep school), but I have a hard time convinc-ing my students to apply to Cornell. They callit "the work horse of the Ivy League." Howcan we change this reputation?" Shelly'sstudents probably read Selective Guide to Col-leges, by Edward B. Fiske, whose descriptionof Cornell would deter anyone from consider-ing our alma materl Shelly lives at 17 JeffreyLane, Bridgewater, NJ, with husband Bert,Washington representative for Johnson &Johnson, Robin, 16, and Michael, 13.

Michael B. and Patricia Fast, 433 Huron-view, Ann Arbor, Mich., have three childrenin college: "Hard to believe," he says. Laura'88 is a third-generation Cornellian. Tara Ha-big '89 is the daughter of Bill and Carol Ham-mel Habig. Home for them is 20725 Bell BluffRd., Gaithersburg, Md.

Lou Ellyn and Gerry Laurens Griffin Jr.want to say hello to Jim and Margie Dempseyin Cincinnati, Ohio. The Griffins live in SanJose, Cal., at 1161 Culligan Blvd. Their oldestdaughter, Alice, 18, is a freshman at Universi-ty of California, Los Angeles. Page, 17, andGerald, 11, round out the family.

Congratulations to Marvin and Gloria Fos-ter. Marvin writes that "daughter Tina andhusband Rick presented us with first grand-child, Jan. 17, 1986." Marvin would like to seethe Denver, Colo., area Cornell Club becomeactive again. Their address: 2635 S. LaredoCt., Aurora, Colo. Debbie Winn, 575463rd, NE, Seattle, Wash. 98105.

Bob and Neena Martin Lurvey write to usfrom Framingham, Mass. Neena says, "Call

the Massachusetts League of Women Votersinformation phone-line and you may reachme! It's a great activity and an ongoing Gov-ernment 101 course! Other activities: as past-president of the Massachusetts Home Eco-μomics Association, I'm still trying to find ourHome Economics and Human Ecology gradsin the woodwork. Bob retires in two years andwe'll then be seeing more of Florida—CapeCoral, most likely. Twentieth Reunion wasgrand. Hope to see even more familiar faces infive years. But the most fun was seeing mygrade-school boyfriend from Minneapolis,Minn. He now works at Cornell. It was a reu-nion after 25 years!"

Stuart and Priscilla Ross send word thatthey are alive and well in Irvine, Cal. Stu is as-sistant director of the Sea Grant Program atUniversity of Southern California; Priscilla isa biochemist at University of California, Ir-vine. They visited the Cornell debate teamwhen it was there. Peter and Ann MothersheadBjorklund, of Los Altos Hills, Cal., have anew baby, Ashley (11 months) and a grandson,Joseph Gates (6 months). This aunt andnephew could become classmates! Their otherchildren are Jenni Gates, John, David, NhanNguyen, Sara, and Peter. Jenni and John canvote; Peter is 5. Ann has been on the board ofthe local League of Women Voters for fouryears. She sends greetings to Alpha Phi sisters,promises to be in touch.

Susan Bourque lives in Florence, Mass., andis a professor of government at Smith. She is adirector of the project on woman and socialchange. Her book, Women Living Change,was recently published by Temple UniversityPress. She notes, "I had the pleasure of seeingDaryl Goldgraben-Smith at the inaugurationof the new president of Pacific Oaks College.It was my pleasure to represent Cornell, andDaryl's to represent Scripps."

Thanks for your responses, news. Let's hearmore, from everyone. Scot Mac Ewan,2065 NW Flanders, Portland, Ore. 97209.

67 Last Call[Class Correspondent Richard Hoffman re-ports on the National Symposium on Scienceand Technology, held May 20, in Washington,DC, on page 57, this issue. —Editor]

He's not the first in the class to report theenrollment of issue at Cornell, but add ErikKamfjord, 8090 Keller Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio,to the still-brief roster for daughter Michelle'89, who's 18; and who knows. Kristen, 16,and Katrina, 13, may too be headed for theHill. Ruth Chitlik Coan, 5430 E. IdlewoodLane, NW, Atlanta, Ga., received her master'sin real estate last year and is now selling com-mercial real estate. Sons Brian, 12, and Seth,8, are involved in basketball, soccer, and com-puters.

Malcolm Teixeira, PO Box 79, Scarbornen,Tobago, WI, is house supervisor at AmocoLodge; children Mark, 16, Maurice, 15, andMelanie, 8, are in school there and in Chicago,111. Jeffrey A. Serfass, 500 E. St., NE, Wash-ington, DC, is a management consultant forcommercialization of new energy technologies,as well as a scoutmaster. (Son Patrick is 71/z,Julia, 3, and Andrew, 6 months.) He reportspartying with Hank Barre in Long Valley, NJ.

Sandra Ford Schenkar, 5115 Klahanie Ct.,NW, Olympia, Wash., received her MSWfrom New York University back in '69 and isin private practice in child therapy and a con-sultant for the local school district. HusbandDavid, MD '69, daughter Adrienne, 10, andson Alex, 8, joined her on a trip back East,where a Kappa Kappa Gamma mini-reunionoccurred last Thanksgiving in New York City,with Ellen Stromberg Lautz, Gwynne FowlerDavies, and Penny Bamberger Fishman. Jane

Capellupo, 106 Countess Dr., W. Henrietta,went to Janet Cameron Barbera's New Year'sEve party and was visited for a few days lastyear by Betsy Tyler Smith from England.

"After 12Ϊ/2 good years with Dresser Indus-tries in Dallas, Texas, Connecticut, Belgium,and Houston, Texas, I left and joined a goodfriend in commercial real estate," writesChristopher D. Williams, 14019 Calmont Dr.,Houston. "I'm now senior vice president ofcommercial brokerage (Brazos Brokerage) andexecutive vice president for Brazos Manage-ment Co." Rhoda Gaily Spindel, 14112 Alder-ton Rd., Silver Spring, Md., is enrolled atCatholic University School of Social Service tocomplete a master's in social work specializingin child therapy. (In case you were wondering,the theme of this column is combining childtherapy and commercial real estate in yourspare time.)

Richard M. Ornitz, 18 Meadowbank Rd.,Old Greenwich, Conn., is executive vice presi-dent, and general counsel for the US opera-tions of a West German firm and of counsel tothe New York City law firm of Hughes, Hub-bard & Reed. Daughter Alexandra is 13, Zach-ary, 6, and Darren, 6 months. Another mini-reunion, this one in Newport, RI, is reportedby Katrina Clark, 44 Hubiner St., New Haven,Conn., who got together with Caroline RigbyGraboys and Lynne Shavelson Joiner. Katrinadirects a New Haven community health centerand notes her "late start on the family—withJared, 8 months—but how fun and wonderfulit is."

Robert D. Bannister, 8917 Holly Leaf Lane,Bethesda, Md., is senior vice president of theNational Association of Homebuilders andserves as its government affairs director andlobbyist for the housing industry. He's built anew home for wife Leona and children Donna,18, Laura, 13, Heather, 10, and Rebecca, 2.Dr. Blanche A. Borzell, 801 N. Decatur St.,Watkins Glen, was organizing a performanceof Coppelia for the Watkins Glen Public Li-brary Building Fund as she wrote. DaughterBlanche is 7; son James, 5.

Richard Rothkopf, 1320 N. State Pkwy.,#12C, Chicago, 111., was one of several class-

mates to write about the re-emergence in the news of Dr. AlanBerkman, who was arrested lastMay in Philadelphia as an acces-

sory to the 1981 Brink's robbery near Nyack,where three were killed. The MiddletownTimes Herald-Record recalled a 1982 interviewwith Berkman, who then "said he jumpedfrom the frying pan into the fire in 1968 whenhe entered Columbia Medical School, a uni-versity on the brink of one of the most violentperiods of campus unrest in American history.

"Berkman said," the story added, "hespent much of his time giving first aid to in-jured demonstrators during the famed studenttakeover. After graduating in 1971, Berkmandid a year of internship at Columbia Presby-terian Hospital, but left without deciding on aspecialty. Shortly afterward, he made news bysmuggling medical supplies to the Indiansholding out against federal authorities atWounded Knee, SD.

"He spent the rest of the '70s treating thepoor in communities in Alabama and NewYork City. Then came the bloody events inNanuet and the news stories that eventuallylinked him to the Brink's radicals."

The Grapevine, an Ithaca weekly, in a re-port of the case, which is pending, quotesBerkman: "It's not a criminal case—it's an in-tensely political one. In part, because I'm in-tensely political, and my actions and decisionsover the years have been based in an effort tobuild a progressive political movement in thiscountry." Berkman faces a possible 71 years inprison. The story notes that he is suffering

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from Hodgkin's disease and that he declareshe is innocent. Richard B. Hoffman, 292528th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008.

68 Summer FunHope you are all haying a very pleasant sum-mer! A note from David A. Gorelick reportsthat he is assistant chief of the alcohol anddrug treatment program at the West Los Ange-les Veterans' Administration Medical Centerand also assistant professor of psychiatry atUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Schoolof Medicine. Dave's wife Naomi is an internistat Cigna Health Plan of California, and theGorelicks have four children, 10-2. Davereports that Byron "Bud" Wittlin was pro-moted last year to associate chief of psychiatryservice at the Veterans' AdministrationMedical Center in Los Angeles. Dave reportsthat Jerry Kreider recently left the large ar-chitecture firm where he was a partner andstarted his own firm, Kreider/MatsingerAssociates in Philadelphia, Pa.

Susan Norwood, who is assistant to theheadmaster and director of guidance at IsidoreNewman School in New Orleans, La., has re-cently been elected a trustee of College Board.The College Board is a non-profit educationalassociation serving students, schools, and col-leges with programs designed to expand educa-tional opportunity. Joel Kurtzberg lives inNew York City and is a district manager withAT&T Communications. Joel remains singleand is an avid traveler, sailor, and photogra-pher. He reports having seen Jay Berke.

Robert L. Oakley is law librarian at George-town University Law Center and is presentlyinvolved in designing a new library for theschool. He is obviously in fine physical shapeand reports having run the Marine CorpsMarathon in Washington, DC, last November.Elizabeth Deabler Corwin lives in Belmont,Mass., with her husband Rick and twochildren. She is involved in the computer con-sulting field and also active in Ipcal school ac-tivities.

Jeani Walton Haven lives in Potomac, Md.,and is a French teacher in the intermediateschool. Her husband is Miles '67 and they havetwo teenagers and a cat. Jeani reports havingseen Janice (Milkman) and Victor Berlin andJoy Kaufman Karol and husband Zach, andalso Jill Werdann Bauer.

Jeff French lives in Burke, Va., and is direc-tor of marketing at the Willard Inter-Conti-nental Hotel, which is part of a new$120-million-dollar hotel, office, and retailcomplex, tterb Scherzer lives in Farmington,Conn., and is pulmonary director of the NewBritain General Hospital and is involved inother medical and hospital activities. Herb andhis wife Deborah have two daughters. He re-cently participated in triathlon events involvingbicycling, running, swimming, and flat-watercanoeing and reports having been the winnerin a recent triathlon. Last year Herb and hiswife had dinner with Bob Kantor.

Jim Michaels (photo) is a rabbi and spiritualleader of the Whitestone Hebrew Centre andlives in Beechhurst. Jim is also Jewish chaplainat Bronx Psychiatric Center and reports thathis duties are "You name it, I do it!" Jim andhis wife Karen have five children, and his pri-mary hobby is running. He has completed fourmarathons. He reports having seen Mike Ker-stein (now known as Mike Lahav) in Jerusalemlast summer.

My wife Jennifer and I recently had a visitfrom Steve and Sharon Lawner Weinberg andtheir two lovely daughters, Allison and Caro-lyn. Steve practices corporate law in New Yorkwith the firm of Kronish, Lieb, Shainswit,Weiner & Hellman; Sharon is a professor ofstatistics at New York University and is also in-

Rabbi Jim Michaels '68, runner ofmarathons, signals his optimism.

volved in consulting and writing activities, in-cluding authorship of a nationally recognizedstatistics textbook. Steve is active in civic af-fairs in Scarsdale.

Alan Altschuler is senior vice president andhead of the corporate development divisionwith Prudential-Bache Securities. Alan and hiswife Donna live in New York City with a sonand daughter. He serves as chairman of theboard of a New York affiliate of the AmericanDiabetes Association.

Hope to hear from you all soon! How aboutsending in pictures from your summer vaca-tions. Gordon H. Silver, Choate, Hall &Stewart, Exchange PL, 53 State St., Boston,Mass. 02109.

69 Oops!We had an overlong column last month, sothis month.begins with some catch-up "news."

Donna S. Selnick has been promoted to pro-fessor of home economics at California StateUniversity, Sacramento. She also still has apart-time law practice emphasizing automobilewarranty litigation (now called lemon laws).Donna saw attorney Victor Stone '68 at herhigh school reunion. Sara Weisblat Schastok(Evanston, 111.) has just completed a year asvisiting assistant professor of South Asian artat University of California, Berkeley. JudyRawski Kleen (Columbus, Ohio) is fiscal andpersonnel officer for the College of Nursing atOhio State University. Her husband Leslie,MA '68, is now systems engineer at ChemicalAbstracts Service.

The public affairs office has reported thedeath in June 1985 of Robert J. Short, of Can-ajoharie.

At his 20th-year high school reunion, PaulEric Newman (Nashua, NH) discovered thatclassmate James Mott, was also a Cornellian.Raymond W. Randolph (Lafayette, La.) wrotethat he is continuing with oil and gas invest-ment opportunities in South Louisiana. He isalso pursuing a new franchisable restaurantconcept in the Spokane, Wash., area. Business

plans for 1986 included trips to China, Africa,Australia, and New Zealand.

From Atlanta, Ga., Peter F. Rosen wrotethat he now has twα daughters: Sarah, 6, andElissa, 2. William E. Robinett (Springfield,Mo.) has started a branch of his business inLittle Rock, Ark., to distribute Peachtree win-dows and doors. His wife Judy is busy raisingtheir two children and giving French lessons onthe side. Bill writes that he would like to seesome hockey games played in the Midwest.What about it, Cornell? Any chance?

Michael C. Rowland, MD, (Pinehurst, NC)was elected secretary-treasurer of the NorthCarolina chapter of the American College ofSurgeons, plus he was selected to represent thestate at the young surgeons meeting in Chica-go, 111., last year. Richard M. Stillman, MD,(Staten Island) has been elected to severalboards and committees involved with researchin surgical education. In addition he is directorof vascular surgery at Kings County Hospitalin Brooklyn and associate professor of surgeryat State University of New York.

Ingrid Vatsvog Wachtler has moved againand now lives in Gig Harbor, Wash. She saysshe has contracted her second custom homenow, plus husband Bill was promoted to mar-keting manager for Weyerhaeuser's WoodProducts Group. Forest Preston III (Manhat-tan Beach, Cal.) is director, international ac-counts marketing for Amdahl Communica-tions Systems Division.

Ernest F. Slocum Jr. has been living in Sing-apore since July 1984. fee writes:,"We haveenjoyed living in Singapore. We completed ourfirst around-the-world trip in 1985. Our favor-ite resort in Southeast Asia is Bali."

Dvora Rogachefsky married Jan StevenBrodie last October in Ithaca. The wedding re-ception was held at Statler Inn. Dvora, who al-so has her master's degrees from Cornell, hasbeen a director of information services. Herhusband is campaign director at the Memphis,Tenn., Jewish Federation. They now reside inMemphis.

Press releases: Timothy P. Neher has beenelected president and chief operating officer ofContinental Cablevision in Boston, Mass.Continental is the country's seventh largestcable television company with subscribers in 14states. Tim has been associated with Continen-tal since 1974. Tim, wife Molly, and twodaughters live in Wellesley.

Robert E. Yancey (Ashland, Ky.) has beenelected president of Ashίand Petroleum Co.He joined Ashland in 1969 and since 1981 hasserved as senior vice president with respon-sibility for manufacturing, crude oil supply,and supply and transportation.

Gail L. Harrison (Washington, DC), seniorvice president of the government relations firmof Wexler, Reynolds, Harrison and Schule,has been elected to the board of directors ofState Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America.Earlier she held a number of key positions onthe staff of US Senator Walter F. Mondaleand ultimately became responsible for domes-tic policy and international trade issues forMondale while he was vice president. Gail alsoserves on the Secondary Schools Committee.• Joan Sullivan, 70 W. Burton PL, #1901,Chicago, 111. 60610.

70 Brand New News!This will be all current news, from press re-leases, etc., and from our "limited subscrip-tion payment request" letter that went out inMarch. One exception—the following infor-mation is "old!" In Maryland, Dan and JillJayson Ladd '73 have a third child, son Mi-chael Jayson Ladd, born on November 19,1984. When Dan wrote in April 1985, theywere "between houses" and living with Jill's

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parents. Originally, they were to have been intheir new home in July 1984; the date waspushed back and back; they sold their home;rented it back for two months; finally movedout at Thanksgiving 1984, in hopes of movinginto the new home in four weeks, etc.; and, byApril 1985 they had survived the near bank-ruptcy of the builder and were still waiting tomove in! We assume that they are now (a yearlater) at their new address: 7918 Springer Rd.,Bethesda. Congrats, and enjoy!

Jay Beeton is now director of the news bur-eau at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.In late March 1986, Frederic Seegal marriedRobin Neimark in Purchase. Frederic is amanaging director of Shearson Lehman Broth-ers in New York. He received degrees fromboth the Harvard Law School and GraduateSchool of Business Administration. Robin is amarket specialist for Frederick Atkins, a NewYork fashion buying office. She is a graduateof Pine Manor College and studied architec-ture with the Sarah Lawrence^College programin Florence, Italy. The law firm of BerkmanRuslander Pohl Lieber and Engel, of 1 OxfordCentre, Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced a pro-gram to restructure the firm into specific prac-tice departments. Jacques M. Wood has beennamed to head such a new department.

Rochelle Korman has been admitted as apartner of the law firm Baer Marks & Upham.She received her law degree from the NewYork University Law School in 1973 and join-ed this firm in 1981. Rochelle specializes in therepresentation of tax-exempt organizationsand tax planning for individuals with respectto their charitable giving. She has served as ex-ecutive director of the Ms. Foundation forWomen, as a staff attorney with the juvenilerights division of the Legal Aid Society of NewYork, and as executive director of the ShalanFoundation. Rochelle is a frequent lecturer ontopics concerning tax aspects of charitable giv-ing and the structure and operation of non-profit organizations. Her published articles in-clude: "Maximizing the Charitable Contribu-tion Deduction: A Survey of Charitable GivingTechniques," and "Techniques for Avoidingthe Limitations on the Charitable Contribu-tion Deduction and Other-Disadvantages ofPrivate Foundations." She is a member of thecommittee on non-profit organizations of theAssociation of the Bar of the City of NewYork and serves on the board of directors of anumber of local and national non-profit or-ganizations.

If you are reading this column, you are a"subscriber" and you should have received aletter from us in late March. We asked you tosend us $11 to cover the cost of our 1985-86Alumni News payment. Our mailing was toabout 420 classmates and I have received 145responses to date (May 15). THANK YOU tothe 145. Some of you did NOT send the $11,but did send the $20 for dues for 1986-87.That's terrific, but we still need the $11 for lastyear. Please send us your "News and DUES";we need the money! I am waiting for 275 moreresponses. GO FOR IT!

News from our first respondent: Cheryl Fal-kinburg Newman, 459 Navesink River Rd.,Red Bank, NJ, reports that she and her horsesuccessfully completed their first 100-mile trailride after being least likely to compete! Thispast fall, she and husband Stagg, PhD '74,went on an "eating-our-way" through Franceweek of self-indulgence, going to several two-star Michelin restaurants and making up theremainder in one-star restaurants. They startedin Geneva, Switzerland, went through Pro-vence, down to the Mediterranean coast, toGascony and on to Paris via Bordeaux and theLoire Valley. They came home needing a vaca-tion to recover from vacation. Maxeen Biben,Rt. 8, Box 610, Winchester, Va., married Lin-

wood R. Williamson on October 8, 1985. InAugust 1985, Ronald Roth and his familymoved from New Jersey to Nashville, Tenn.(3809 Richland Ave.) where he is now the rab-bi of the West End Synagogue. Connie Fer-ris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd., Malvern,Pa. 19355.

72 Trick Question?To all you "Trivial Pursuit" buffs, we willstart this column with a sports trivia question.Which member of our class pitched on open-ing day of the 1986 major league baseball sea-son? (Answer at end of column.) The answerto the question is not Larry F. Baum, whovisited California with wife Trudy and sonsBrian and Ari. Larry attended a convention inFresno, then went on to a vacation in Hawaiibefore returning home to Ithaca. BruceMcGeoch hosted a barbecue for the Baums. Inattendance were Tom Paolucci '71, MikeMilley '71, George Hyman '73 and Rosemary(Phalan) '79, and the Alex Barna family.

Glen C. Mueller has returned to the Hill asuniversity auditor. Prior to accepting the posi-tion, Glen was a division vice president for in-formation systems with the Greenwich,Conn.-based Amax Inc. Glen had been withAmax since 1979 and has accumulated morethan ten years of experience in managing in-formation systems and computer-based auditsfor various Fortune 500 firms. Some of youwill remember Glen as an outstanding lacrosseand basketball player. Peter C. Yesawich wasnamed co-winner in the 1985 Article-of-the-Year awards program of the Cornell Hotel andRestaurant Administration Quarterly. Peterwon the award for his November 1984 article,"A Market-Base Approach to Forecasting."Named the best "how-to" piece by the awardsjudging panel, the article outlined a systematicapproach to developing a realistic forecast,based on competitive demand trends. Peter ispresident of the Orlando, Fla., based market-ing/advertising agency Robinson, Yesawichand Pepperdine, and serves as a visitingassociate professor at the Hotel School. He hasdeveloped marketing programs for numeroushotels, resorts, and national tourist offices andis a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Phillip L. Shaffer has joined the GeneralElectric Research and Development Center inSchenectady as an information scientist. Acomputer science and biology major, Phillipreceived his PhD in biology from the Universi-ty of South Carolina in 1979 and his MS incomputer science in 1985 from North CarolinaState, where he was also an instructor and re-searcher studying multi-processor systems.Alan D. Centofanti married Babette Caraccioin August 1985. Alan is a chemical engineerwho is associate director of process technologyfor the Clairol division of Bristol-Myers inStamford, Conn. His wife is a chief resident ofpsychiatry at New York University MedicalCenter. Bob Norman is owner/operator ofThe Portable Feast, a catering and delivery ser-vice in Ithaca. Bob had been a chef in variousUpstate restaurants for 12 years, among themTurback's in Ithaca and Seneca Lodge in Wat-kins Glen. Bob is quoted in the Ithaca Journalthat "it is the freshness of food and the carewith which it is prepared and delivered thatreally counts. Our objective is to provide thehighest quality and most creative food servicefor delivery in Ithaca." We hope Bob suc-ceeds. Tom Beadleston was recently promotedto the position of directing attorney for ad-vanced marketing services for Pacific MutualLife Insurance Co. in Newport Beach, Cal.Tom also bought a condo in Newport Beach toproperly enjoy the Southern California life-style.

Answer to trivia question: Hugh A. Cregg(Huey Lewis) threw out the ceremonial "firstball" for the Oakland As. Enjoy your sum-mer. Alex Barna, 3410 Branson Dr., SanMateo, Cal. 94403.

73 The Rest of the NewsWe're pleased to report the marriage last Aprilof a past class correspondent, Jim Kaye, toAnn Ellen luster (who is a psychotherapist) at"The Mansion" at Stouffer's Westchester Inn.Following their wedding, they spent three daysin Los Angeles, Cal., before a nine-day cruiseof Mexico. They will be residing in New York.Best wishes to them.

The alumni office updated us on a numberof classmates. Dennis Williams left Newsweeklast year to return to Cornell. He is a lecturerwith joint appointments in the Learning SkillsCenter and the Writing Workshop. WilliamTotten has joined the CPA firm of Kreischer,Miller & Co. as a staff accountant specializingin structured computer services. He also re-cently completed his MBA at Temple. FloydWittlin has become a partner in the law firm ofBaer Marks & Upham in New York. Floyd is amember of the corporate department, wherehe specializes in corporate finance, mergers,and acquisitions. Randall McCreight, a cap-tain in the Marine Corps, received his "goldenwings" as a parachutist. Sadly, the alumni of-fice also finally received word of the death ofRonald Pettway in 1974.

Marian S. Schindler sent us news of her ap-pointment as assistant controller for CandleCorp. in Los Angeles, Cal. Nancy SoperPeters writes that her and John's family is stillgrowing. John is presently working at Brook-haven National Labs and attending C. W. PostCollege. Christine Frost Contillo says she en-joys her work as a delivery-room nurse inHackensack, NJ. George Ragsdale writes asthe proud father of Sarah, 2. Dan and JaniceGorzynski Smith are also proud parents of twochildren: Megan, 3, and Erin, 7. Dan is anemergency physician in Springfield, Mass. Janreceived her PhD in chemistry from Harvardand just received tenure at Mt. Holyoke. Cur-rently she's on sabbatical at Brown.

Other news from east of the Mississippiconies from John Robinson. He is in privatepractice in neurology in Portsmouth, NH, do-ing major work locally in ethics and rehabilita-tion medicine. Mark Lester is also practicingneurology. He recently became a diplomate ofthe American Board of Neurological Surgery.He, wife Anita, and daughters Jacqueline andAndrea live in Macungie, Pa. Larry Dunhamjust moved to a new house in Pittsford, and isstill getting organized. (Amazing how longthose boxes stayed packed.) He still works forXerox. Stefan Cassella has changed jobs. Af-ter six years as a prosecutor for the State ofMaryland, he is now working as an attorneyfor the Department of Justice. He still lives inBaltimore with his wife and son, 2. Les andBertina Bleicher Norford visited from Prince-ton last year. Bertina works for EducationalTesting Systems and Les is doing a post-doc.

Joan Rabinor writes from Arlington, Va.,where she lives with husband Bob Bookmanand their new son Adam, born October 3,1985. Joan has a private practice in social workand is working on her doctorate from CatholicUniversity. Ronald Siegle lives in Columbus,Ohio, where he is an assistant professor ofmedicine in dermatology for Ohio State Uni-versity. His division director is classmateCharlie Camisa. Ronald and wife Ruth are en-joying life in Columbus with daughters Gabri-el, 6, and Hannah, 4. Laurence Bernstein, avoice from WVBR, lives in Toronto, Ont.,Canada. He recently joined the internationaladvertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi

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Compton Hayhurst as vice president, groupaccount director. Charlette Pudnos Hermansends greetings from Gush Etzion, Israel,where she lives with her three children, Sha-lom, Devora, and Efrat. She loves working inan old-age home. Anyone visiting Israel shouldgive her a call, as she lives only 20 minutesfrom Jerusalem.

News from west of the Mississippi starts .inWichita Falls, Texas, with Mike Felice receiv-ing Schlumberger's most prestigious award"Wildcatter." Mike found oil and gas in a wellthat had been deemed a "dry hole." Mike alsohas a new son, Austin, who joins older brotherBlake. David Ross writes from Bellevue,Wash., that singing can bring adventure. Fel-low glee-clubber Barry Rose '72, now directorof passenger programs for Holland-America,saw the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society'ssummer production of HMS Pinafore. Barryarranged for several members of the companyto do an abridged Mikado aboard the Rotter-dam, as it cruised from Honolulu, Hawaii, toKobe, Japan. David was cast as KoKo, LordHigh Executioner, for the production.

Since we've reached the end of our newswith and without dues, please send news toyour class correspondents. Phyllis HaightGrummon, 513 Elm St., #1, Ann Arbor,Mich. 48104; or Sandra Black, PO Box 195,Manhattanville Sta., NYC 10027-0195.

74 Moving AroundReceived a nice letter from Walter and MaryReady Grote. Walter was to be out of the Ar-my on June 30. He will open his own internalmedicine practice in Blairstown, NJ. They arebuilding a house in nearby Stillwater. Mary isthrilled with the Sussex/Warren County area.The rural mountainous area has plenty oftrout streams, which is really why they movedthere. Mary plans to continue being a full-timeMom to Luke, 6, and Mary Stewart, 4. Walterand Mary saw a number of friends at the Cor-nell sports dinner in New York City in Janu-ary. They sat with Scott Gilίin and his wifeBeth. They also saw Jay Gallagher and MarkClemente '73, as well as Mary F. Berens.

An article from the New York Times reportsthat Deepak Nirula and cousin Lalit Nirula '65are busy introducing American-style fast foodto India. Deepak, managing director responsi-ble for operations, claims the overwhelmingpopularity of their operations is due to theAmerican touch that appeals to the youngerIndians. However, they do not cater to anyone group or generation, with their businessincluding pastry shops, ice cream parlors, andpizza parlors. Marianne Stein Kah, inNovember, was planning a cross-country ski-ing and snowshoeing vacation in Yosemite.Let us know how it went.

Nancy Geiselmann Hamill was re-elected toa second six-year term as "District Justice" inher home area. Nancy is not quite sure whather next career goal is, but is happy to be em-ployed for awhile. Congratulations, Nancy!Danuta Smith Jurak is busy with Jurak HomesInc., her and husband Scott's premium cus-tom-home building company. Danuta has a BSand MSEng degree, an MBA from the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. Edward Miccinati mar-ried Carol A. Hydovitz in Pittsburgh, Pa.They are now living in New York City, whereEd is with Recester Knitwear Val Dor Inc.

Promotions: James L. Sawyer has accepteda position with I.M. Pei & Partners, Architectsand Planners, in New York City. Gardner,Carton and Douglas announced that our Presi-dent Roger Evans has joined their firm and isnow resident in their Dallas, Texas, office.Alan I. Goldberg was named a partner in thePhiladelphia, Pa., law firm of Wolf, Block,Schorr and Solis-Cohen. Alan, a member of

the corporate department, is a founder of thefirm's venture development practice, havingjoined the firm in 1978. Gary A. Dufel, PE,has recently been appointed vice president andmanager at Stearns & Wheeler, Civil and Sani-tary Engineers, Inc., located in Darien, Conn.Gary is a registered professional engineer inConnecticut and New York State, a diplomateof the American Academy of EnvironmentalEngineers, and is active in many professionalorganizations. Gary has been with Stearns &Wheeler for ten years.

And, from the ILR School, Jordan Jay Yu-dien, in September 1985, became associatedwith the law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson& Bridges in San Francisco, Cal., representingmanagement in all areas of labor and employ-ment law. Warren Schlesinger is teaching ac-counting at Ithaca College. Myra Rothfeld isthe management supervisor for American Ex-press platinum card, American Express con-sumer lending, and Shearson Lehman Broth-ers in New York City. Ed Reitkopp, formerlabor attorney with Lockheed Corp. in Bur-bank, Cal., is now a labor attorney with theNational Broadcasting Co. Inc., in Burbank.

Norma Meacham resumed duties, full time,in September 1985 as deputy director of em-ployee relations for the State of New York.Ralph Berger has gone into practice on his ownon a full-time basis as a labor arbitrator, afterserving as trial examiner for the office of col-lective bargaining. He also teaches two coursesfor ILR Extension in NYC. Robin ErnstoffO'Connor is a human resources recruiter forSearch Consultants Inc. in Paramus, NJ.

James Grossman has received a NationalEndowment for the Humanities fellowship forindependent study and research for 1985-86 tocomplete his book on the migration of blackSoutherners to Chicago, 111., during the early20th century. Arthur S. Leonard is the authorof Employment Discrimination Against Per-sons With AIDS. In 1984, he was elected firstpresident of the Bar Association for HumanRights of Greater New York.

Short notes: Deborah Dodenhoff Purcellhas a new job as fiction editor of Redbookmagazine. She was formerly an associateeditor of Young Miss magazine and lives inNew York City. Penny Ferryman is director ofthe Foster Grandparents Program in SuffolkCounty, NY. Kathleen Jones Murray has livedin Ithaca since 1983. She graduated from theGraduate School of Management in January1986 and is doing marketing for IBM in El-mira. Ellen Isaacs has a new job as an in-housecounsel for a real estate development com-pany, Shapell Industries Inc., in Beverly Hills,Cal. John M. Schroeder, after nearly 10 yearsliving in Singapore and Indonesia working forGray Tool, is now back in the US living withwife Noelle in Atlanta, Ga. Dave and GerryOwen Geller are living in Greeland, NH. He'sassistant superintendent for instrumentationand controls for the Public Service Companyof NH in Seabrook. Alfred Leonard lives inBoston, Mass., area with his wife. He is an en-gineer with GCA Corp. Mike Hobbs is inPhiladelphia, Pa., working for a hotel man-agement company, Horizon Hotels. He man-ages the hotel/inn at the University of Pennsyl-vania. Carolyn Gregg Will, 326 Cherry St.,Sevierville, Tenn. 37862.

News this month is somewhat dated, muchof it coming from your News & Dues letters oflast fall. In the Washington, DC, area are JeffBialos, a lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges,who was recently married to Leslie J. Kermah,also a lawyer; Ian M. Friedland, who worksfor thέ transportation research board, a divi-sion of the Natl. Academy of Sciences/Natl.Research Counsel, as a "project engineer; andSteven Snider, who recently became a partnerat Hale & Dorr, a Boston, Mass.,Γbased lawfirm. Steven Chen is a partner at a civil engi-neering, surveying, and land planning consult-ing firm in Great Falls, Va. Romano MascettiIII was recently married to Marlene Berdak,and lives in Maryland. Joan E. Sampson wasmarried in 1984 to Sam Weirich, with whomshe is in her fourth year of medical school atGeorge Washington University. Brenda Klineis a consultant registered dietitian in Frederick,Md., where she lives with her "husband, twochildren, one dog, and two rabbits."

I recently heard from Dan Mackesey, whommany of you will remember as Cornell's out-standing lacrosse goalie in 1977, when the uni-versity won the NCAA lacrosse championship.Dan and his wife Jennifer had their first childin November 1984, a son Brendon Patrick.Dan (a law school classmate of mine at theUniversity of Virginia) joined a Washington,DC, area developer, The Artery OrganizationInc., as vice president, senior counsel.

From the Northeast comes news of BruceSchafer, who lives in Hoboken, NJ, and is adirector of ADP Brokerage. Robert Mitchell,who lives in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, reportsthat Jeff Peterson and his wife Joanne(Saalfield) '79 recently had a baby boy. MarieSterbenz reports having finished her residencyat University Hospital, Stony Brook, ingeneral practice dentistry; she has started herown private practice in family dentistry inStony Brook, and also continues to work as aflight attendant for Pan American! StephenSanborne is the restaurant manager at TrumpCasino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, and lives inNorthfield. Also in New Jersey are BonnieBrief and Alan Pauska, who recently had theirsecond child, Danielle. Lawyering in NewYork City is Mark Underberg, who is an asso-ciate with Debevoise & Plimpton. Mark re-cently married Diane Englander, with lawyerJay Cohen attending as best man. Finally,back in Ithaca, Ralph Nash was recently swornin as Ithaca's new city attorney.

Many classmates are traveling and livingabroad. Sam Gamoran lives in Rehovot, Isra-el, where he works at the Weizmann Inst. ofScience. Robin Waite Steinwand and husbandBrian live in Zaire, surrounded by mountaingorillas, tropical rain forests, and the ZaireRiver. Capt. Jody Goldsmith lives with wifeAmira Goldsmith '76 and sons Jacob andAdam in a small West German town 35 milesfrom Frankfurt, where Jody is busy comman-ding a medical company in the Third ArmoredDivision. Closer to home, Leone Horn Rustedlives with husband Chris and two boys in Top-sale, Newfoundland, Canada.

A reminder: we are, delighted to hear ofweddings and births, but cannot report en-gagements and pregnancies here. I am sure youcan understand why. Keep well. GillesSion, 330 E. 39th St., #16F, NYC 10016.

77 Nine, Going on Ten 78 Eight Years LaterSummer is once again upon us and with itcome memories that are now nine years old,for most of us. Remember that in June of nextyear, we will once again converge on Ithaca,this time to celebrate our tenth reunion. Your1

class council is already planning for this event;we hope many of you will find it possible totake an active role in preparations.

Hard to believe that eight years have passedsince our departure from Ithaca. Warmweather brings memories of picnics at StewartPark, sun-bathing on Libe Slope, and Fridayhappy hours at the Haunt. Warm weather alsobrings news of weddings!

Cornellians tying the knot include ElyseCell man, who married William Greenberg on

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October 19, 1985. Elyse is the equal opportuni-ty employment counsel at Warner Lambert. Awinter wedding was enjoyed by Leah Mine-mier and Donald MacLeod '77, on Dec. 22,1985. Cornellians in attendance included Wil-liam Ward '80, Jeffrey Earickson '77, RobertMcCauley '67, Jennifer Grabow Brito '79.Leah teaches at Oswego High School; Don is aprogrammer/analyst at Syracuse University.

Joanne Wallenstein Fishman and Glen sentalong news of the birth of their son RobertBenjamin, on Mar. 31, 1986. Joanne and Glenrecently moved back to New York City fromBoston, Mass.; Glen will be doing his fellow-ship in cardiology at Columbia PresbyterianHospital. She also sent news that Lisa GollinEvans had a baby girl, named Sarah Anne, onMar. 26, 1986. Lisa is a lawyer for the En-vironmental Protection Agency.

Moving up the corporate ladder is Jeff Pet-ty, who was promoted to director, accountingand analysis at Cyclops Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.Daniel Lynn has recently become marketingdirector for Swanson Products at the Camp-bell Soup Co.

Finishing up residencies are MindySchwartz, who completed one in internal med-icine at the University of Michigan, and is nowpracticing in Chicago, 111.; and Dena Seifer,finishing hers in psychiatry at the Long IslandJewish Medical Center.

Sighted in exotic locales was Stephanie Mit-chell, working in Beijing (Peking) for the NewYork/Washington, DC, law firm of Kaye,Scholer. Stephen Nojeim is the program direc-tor for the Cornell Club of Southwest Ohio.Sarah Salter Levy has embarked on a new ca-reer in residential real estate. Sarah and hus-band Steve also keep busy with their twin sons,2!/2.

And, Bob Mateus—if you're out there—Sewall Hodges is trying to find you! Γm goingto try to find a cool place! Have a great sum-mer. Sharon M. Palatnik, 145 4th Ave.,#5N, NYC 10003; also Gary Smotrich, 72Bryon Rd., #5, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167;and Roger Anderson, 1 State St. Plaza, NYC10004.

79 Al FrescoSummer's here, and the time is right for pic-nics in the park. On May 4, Kathy Best planneda get-together in New York City's CentralPark for the Classes of '78, '79, and '80. (Seephoto.) Earning face time were Lauren HoviCarpenter, Lisa Preger, Carol Pincus, PattiEnggaard, Mary Schillinger, Debbie Heffter,Jeff Rothstein, Stacey Cahn, Howard Frisch,Stephen Kaminsky, Ginny Groton Goelz, RichOhlenberg, Rich and Sandra Friedman, AndyNathanson, Nancy Levine, Zena Saunders,Cindy Estis, Lloyd Goldstein, Michael Bor-kan, Dave Wilcox, Stephanie Jacqueney,Mona Mahlab, Lon and Lisa Barsanti Hoyt,Patti Garr, and Rhonda Perlstein-Fine. Pattiappeared long enough to organize a softballgame before returning to London, England, tocatch the latest hit musical. Rhonda gave usnews that she received a PhD in clinical psy-chology in June 1985, and her son Jonathanwas born in August 1985. They live inBrooklyn. My apologies to any classmatespresent whom I failed to mention.

Cindy Cairns Pompelia and her husband re-cently left the Boston, Mass., area for jobchanges. Their first child (a girl) was born onSeptember 27, 1985. Nancy Jackson Brandeisand her husband Gary are thrilled to tell usabout their daughter, Gina Lynn, born Sep-tember 12, 1985. Dr. Harris A. Lewin receiveda PhD in immunology from the University ofCalifornia, Davis, in 1984, and he is now anassistant professor of immunogenetics, animalsciences department, University of Illinois.

The sun shines on the Central Park picnic ofthe Classes of '78, '79, and '80. (See Class of'79 column for a report.)

Harris also reports the birth of daughter SaraBeth on June 18, 1985. Jeffrey Saunders mar-ried Debra Beth, who graduated from BostonUniversity School of Public Communicationin '80. He sends news of a beautiful baby girl,Stephanie.

Patrick Hansen and Sarah Young were mar-ried, November 30, 1985, in Milwaukee, Wis.They moved to St. Louis, Mo., in April; Pat isopening a central regional sales office for Rite-Hite Corp. Cynthia McGraw Moore and Bob'77 bought their first house, in Alexandria, Va.Both also recently started new jobs. Cynthia isan associate in a medium-sized Washington,DC, law firm; Bob is a consultant in McLean,Va. David McGuinness is now a specialist atthe Pacific Stock Exchange with Merrill LynchSpecialists Inc. David bought a house inBerkeley, Cal., three years ago, and writes thathe went to Europe last summer. He particular-ly enjoyed Munich and Salzburg.

In March 1985, Wayne Buder moved to SanFrancisco, Cal., to escape the Detroit, Mich.,winters, and to join Young and Rubicam ad-vertising agency. Wayne attended the weddingof Steve Bergh '78 in November 1985, when hesaw classmates Andy Kantor, Leo Timms,Kevin Kruse, Larry Barstow, Dave D'Orlan-do, and Larry Mad en nan. Joan Schrauthrecently relocated to Albany from Washing-ton, DC, to work for New York State Parks,Recreation, and Historical Preservation, in amicro-computer support role.

Gerald M. Raymond, MD, completed hisresidency in pediatrics in June at ColumbusChildren's Hospital. He will join a group pedi-atrics practice in Princeton, NJ, this month.Dr. Julie Jones also completed her residency inJune, and will join a family practice group inLancaster, Pa. She and husband Rick welcomehearing from classmates coming through thearea.

Larry Ledlow Jr. works for the US govern-ment in North Yorkshire, England, where he isassigned until late 1987. He is also enrolled inthe Boston University MS/MBA program.Following Cornell, Larry lived in the Washing-ton, DC, area, worked for the government,and studied applied physics at Johns Hopkins'graduate school. Larry would appreciate hear-ing from classmates. His address: Box 86,Menwith Hill Station, APO New York 09210.Doug and Jan Reiser Nafis just finished jobsin Alexandria, Egypt, and Aliaga, Turkey, andexpect to move to Yugoslavia and China in thenear future. Both work for UOP division of

Allied Signal. After two years of training inDes Plains, 111., Doug and Jan lived in Tulsa,Okla.; Baytown, Texas; and Louisiana. Theytook advantage of their recent assignments bytouring the Near East and Europe on longweekends. Classmates who reside outside ofthe US, please send us news of life in yourcountry.

The Class of 1979 alumni directory is in theworks! This fall the Harris Publishing Co.staff will be writing to you for your correcthome and business addresses. If you havemoved, or if you are planning a move, send thechanges to Dan Mansoor, 308 Malott Hall,Ithaca, 14853. The directory will be publishedin the spring of 1987, not in 1986, as wasmistakenly reported in the class newsletter.

The Upstate New York gathering planned toprecede the Syracuse vs. Cornell lacrosse gamewas snowed out—on April 12! However, inter-est in regional class activities is gatheringsteam. More classmates are coming forward tovolunteer, but it is critical for us all to stay intouch. To volunteer, call Mary Maxon Grain-ger at (607) 257-3268. Lisa Barsanti Hoyt,527 E. 83rd St., Apt. 3E, NYC 10028; also,Mary Maxon Grainger, 721 Hanshaw Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850; and Elizabeth Rakov Igle-heart, 4811 Mill Creek PL, Dallas, Texas75244.

80 Column ChaosWith three columnists trying to juggle writingduties, the system can go astray, from time totime. That's what I suspect happened in Maywhen Jill Abrams Klein and I shared space.Either Jill wrote short and I wrote too long;Jill wrote late; or I wrote too early. Or, I sent acolumn when it wasn't expected. In any event,you got all the news that fit.

I forgot how beautiful it can get in UpstateNew York. Brush away the snow and stash theumbrella, and it can be rather pleasant here. Iforgot how cool the nights can get, even after80-degree days. I was as surprised as you to seea mother's day photo of Lynda HersheySpaulding in the May issue. If she and Eric hadRobbie in November, why didn't we hearabout it at last summer's Reunion? Perhapsour class prez was too busy running the festivi-ties to boast to anyone but her closest friends.

Some guys have all the luck. Daniel Dubereports marrying a niece of Jackie O. Now he'sa junior executive of Fisher-Price toys, over-seeing production of "items like toot-toottrains." He expected to move to Lusitania, bynow.

Pam O'Brien reported moving to GrossPointe Woods, Mich., to work for corporate

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personnel at GM. Look up Dan Predmore. Ithink he took an engineering job with GM.

Laura Kwiatkowski married Roy StephenParmelee, Oct. 26, 1985, at St. Partick's Ro-man Catholic Church, Owego. She is a com-puter operator at Maines Paper & Food Ser-vice, Conklin, and lives with her husband inOwego. Karen English has joined the staff ofthe Tompkins County Coop. Extension 4-Hprogram. She has worked as an assistant pro-motion coordinator for C. M. Of fray & SonsInc., a manufacturer of ribbons and trims, andlater as the Cortland County Coop. Extension4-H home economist.

My frosh roommate Douglas E. Wentz isonce again in the news. You may recall his en-try into the Guinness Book of World Recordsfor making the longest political speech, severalyears ago. Well, this time, Doug has written anarticle that sounds just as long on words:"Monopoly Power in Completed and At-tempted Monopolization Litigation: The Con-vergence of Law and Economics." His articlewas published in the Dickinson Law Review inMarch. Just like me, Wentz obviously wants toprove his Chemistry 207 and calculus profswrong. As pre-meds, both he and I struggledthrough our first semester. Now, Wentz is amember of Drinker, Biddle and Reath in Phil-adelphia, Pa. He received his law degree fromGeorgetown in .1985 and that same year earneda master's from the University of Pennsylvan-ia's Wharton School. What next, Wentz?

Last August, Lizabeth Chabon McOsker ofNorth Brunswick, NJ, gave birth to a son, Mi-chael Fergus, and was selected to serve a four-year term on the University Council. NancyMaclntyre Hollinshead of Jersey City, NJ,was promoted to area controller of MHTsfacilities management group. She's looking for1990 Reunion ideas, along with co-Reunionchairpersons Celeste M. Sant'Angelo and PamSimons.

Also last August, Cynthia J. Cabral ofBethel, Pa., married Robert Donaldson, inwhat was described as a wonderful outdoorwedding. Many Cornellians attended, includ-ing Lynn Conway, Steve Guariglia, GeorgeDealy, Rick Gurney, Keith Pierce, Loren Lipp-man '81, Mary Bullion Virgil, Carolyn M.Young, Bruce Bauer, Leslie A. Connors '81,and '85 Vet College grad Susie Kerr '81.

Lucille Muccin Oricchio was last reportedliving in my old hometown of Pleasantville, af-ter a move from Ossining. She left GeneralFoods to work for Coca Cola in Greenwich,Conn. Jonathan N. Halpern was working asan associate with Patton, Boggs & Blow inWashington, DC, and attended the fall wed-ding of Betsy Martens and Ed Blodgett.

Jim and Jenny Wartik Carpenter movedfrom Ann Arbor, Mich., to Boston, Mass.,where Jim continued his residency training atHarvard in orthopedic surgery. Jenny plannedto continue work in health administration.Wendy Parish had moved to Baltimore, Md.,to do a dermatology residency at the Universi-ty of Maryland hospital. She said fellow UHall 4er Kevin Kovitz was there for internalmedicine. Wendy is in search of other Cornel-lians and alumni happenings in Baltimore.And, yet another doctor among our ranks:Gwen S. Korovin, E. 13th St., NYC, was anotolaryngology resident at New York Eye &Ear Infirmary after finishing a year of generalsurgery at Lennox Hill Hospital. Jon GibbsCraig, 213 Wellesley Rd., Syracuse, NY 13207;also Steve Rotterdam, 1755 York Ave., #28J,NYC 10128; and Jffl Abrams Klein, 12208Devilwood Dr., Potomac, Md. 20854.

82 Ready, Get SetReunions, Reunions! Ours is coming up next.Make plans now to attend our 5th-year Re-

union next June. For more information, or ifyou'd like to help, contact Brian Zimmermanat 4 Washington Sq. Village, NYC 10012; orTom Carbone at 25 Hannum St., Skaneateles,13152.

In military news, Marine First LieutenantPierre C. Garant earned the Navy Achieve-ment Medal for his outstanding job as aviationsupply division officer, Marine MediumHelicopter Squadron 261, aboard the USS IwoJima. From July 13 to December 7, 1985,Pierre controlled more than $15 million of avi-ation assets and maintained the highest supply-readiness level in the entire Sixth Fleet.

Robert '81 and Thana Connell Ross, bothUS Air Force lieutenants, send greetings fromBiloxi, Miss. Rob flies weather reconnaissanceWC-130s and Thana is teaching programming.A US Navy petty officer, second class, Doug-las A. Berry is stationed aboard the guidedmissile cruiser USS Truxton, homeported inSan Diego, Cal., with port calls in the Philip-pine Islands, Japan, Korea, and either Africaor Australia.

US Air Force First Lieutenant BarbaraHumm Kenny is s'tationed at Andrews AFB inMaryland. A civil engineering officer with the1776th Civil Engineering Squadron, Barbarawas previously assigned at Ellsworth AFB inSouth Dakota. Marine Second LieutenantChristopher F. Metz spent last spring stationedwith 1st Marine Brigade, Kaneone Bay, Ha-waii. Navy Ensign David B. JPaul completedthe officer indoctrination school at the NavalEducation and Training Center, Newport, RI,last fall.

Marshall Burchard, a senior field engineerwith Schlumberger Well Services, writes fromLafayette, La. Last summer he was planning asecond annual New Year's "Virgin Tour"cruise in the British Virgin Islands with BillEvans, Hanson Gifford, Tom Klodowski '81,John Frazer '83, Pete Melcher and CharlieYork. Well, fellows, you'll have to write andtell us all about it. Mark Ludwig is working atPDA Engineering in Santa Ana, Cal., with H.Harris Hunt '83 and Daron Libby, MS '79.Mark is developing a computer-aided engi-neering program called "PATRAN." RobertAdler writes from another sunny clime, PalmBeach Gardens, Fla., where he works for Pratt& Whitney Aircraft. Robert reports visits byJill Gayley, Bob Hollander, and Wendy Wai-lac h.

Leonard Wolfenstein spent two and one-half years teaching English in Bangkok, Thai-land. Now he is studying in the city and region-al planning department at the University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill. Kathryne Optonis teaching high school for hearing-impairedstudents in the Boston, Mass., area afterreceiving an MS Ed degree from the Universityof Rochester and National Technical Institutefor the Deaf joint educational specialist pro-gram. Chris Alexander teaches special educa-tion in the Ithaca schools.

On a sadder note, I received the report thatNancy L. Fabic (Ms. Nancy F. Wilcznski) ofPittsford died on June 18, 1985. The reporthas also come in that Kristen A. Delaney ofOklahoma City, Okla., died Jan. 6, 1985.

Send news. Susan M. Drange, 8130Ramsgate Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 90045.Nancy K. Rudgers (Boyle), 69 Main St.,Ridgefield, Conn. 06877.

83 Mid-Flight NewsAs I begin this, I'm somewhere over Ohio enroute to a weekend in Napa and Sonoma, Cal.During the past few months I've seen and beenin touch with quite a few Cornellians. JohnWilliams '82 is a Citicorp corporate banker inLos Angeles, Cal. Rajun Sigusa '81 is withSEEQ in Milpitas, Cal. Catherine Fallis is now

with the Helmsley Palace in New York City.She recently saw Bob Rice there. Harvard Lawgrad Yosiki Shimada '82 is now with Brownand Wood in New York City. Keith Zeno '81,wild as ever, is out on Long Island.

This year's National Spirit of Zinck's will beheld on Thursday, October 23, in more than 30cities. In New York, Sue Relihan is working onit with Joel Simon '82 and Robert Reed '80.Sue sells magazine ad space; Joel is an attor-ney; Robert owns "Let's Make a Daiquiri" onPier 17. Rick Patulski will organize the Syra-cuse Zinck's'; Hector Viera will help out inLos Angeles, Cal.

Recently I had drinks in New York with Ja-son Pozner, Mt. Sinai Med; Matt Tager, inter-ior designer; Aron Lender, marketer at Ameri-can Petrochemical; and Rich Sheinfeld '85,Carnegie-Mellon Business school, AT&T in-tern.

Steve Cooper finished grad school in Okla-homa and is now an engineer in Rochester. Iran into Lisa Colacurcio in Philadelphia, Pa.,while visiting Beth Brooks. Lisa works for aKorean trading company in New York; Beth isat Temple University.

Thanks to Cheryl Siegel Schneider, our fear-less president, for getting out the class newslet-ters. Thanks also to Bill Adler for helpingCheryl. Hearty applause for newly wed JayWysocki for processing hundreds of checksand letters. Best wishes to him in his new homeat 406 Hickory Circle, Canonsburg, Pa.

Congrats are also in order to Jay Murray,Bill Yuan, Nancy Kurzman, and Hank Zona'82 for great spring phonathon results in NewYork City. Thanks to Rachel Simon, StewartGlickman, M. Carolyn White, Nancy M.Fong, Katy Litwin Kronick, and Chris O'Neillfor phoning.

Other news: Will Chapman is an aide toGovernor Cuomo in Albany. Mike Bell super-vises pacemaker production at Cordis Corp.,in Miami, Fla. Janet Matthews '82, also in Mi-ami, Fla., consults independently. Karen Chinworks in New York for Car & Driver circula-tion department.

SAVE THE DATE: October 23, 1986, forthe National Spirit of Zinck's! By the way, I'mworking with Citibank's problem corporatecredits. By the time you read this, I'll havemoved within Citicorp. That's all fornow—I'm landing in California and need to

_get ready for a weekend of wines. Send futurenews to Suzanne. Steve Chernys, guest col-umnist; also Suzanne Karwoski, 26 Brinker-hoff Ave., Stamford, Conn. 06905.

84 Coming Home?I'm glad to see so many classmates have sent intheir dues for subscriptions to the AlumniNews and have sent along news of what theyare doing. It's always good to see everyone'scontinued interest in our class column. Itmakes writing the column well worth it. Someof the latest updates on classmates:

Bob Feinberg is assistant to the president atNational Patent Development Corp., and hasjust completed his second year at New YorkUniversity Law School. Bob will be taking athree-month leave from National Patent towork for White & Case this summer. Jon Kim-ball is now catering manager for the Hyatt Ho-tel on Union Square in San Francisco., Cal. InJanuary, Jon helped organize a Cornell jobfair at his hotel, and in April he played host toPresident Rhodes and a few alumni at a break-fast.

Sheila (Palmer) writes that she and MichaelButhe '83 were married in Sage Chapel on Au-gust 3, 1985. Sheila and Michael live in Bay-side. Michael is a financial analyst with Olym-pia and York and Sheila is a labor relationsspecialist with the Long Island Jewish Medical

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Center. Laura Lynn Islus Tanner and Dwightare enjoying life on their farm in Elmira.Laura says, "Yes, horses and cows do mix."An unidentified classmate—address, E. 52ndSt., NYC—sent a number of updates. AletaRicciardi received a scholarship to attend gradschool at Cornell. Lois Baskin is sorely missedby her friends and they hope Washington, DC,appreciates her. Caroline Sommers is still turn-ing Albany's head with her advertising finesse.Roz Bailis '83 landed a great new job withCosmopolitan personnel. And, Arlene Orens-tein will be headed to medical school in NewYork City this fall.

Thomas Obuck has just been accepted intoSyracuse University's advanced standingMSW program and will receive his MSW in 11short months. Elizabeth Suarez is still at Mc-Neil Consumer Product Co. and will be re-turning to night school in Philadelphia, Pa.,for her MBA. Michael Held has been workingfor the Cadillac Motor Car Division of GMand has just received a GM fellowship to beginstudy for his MBA at the University of Michi-gan; Marcia Stairman is in her second year atHarvard Law School, where she's studyingcorporate tax law and has a law and economicsresearch fellowship; Evelyn Taylor is hoping tofinish her thesis for a master's in chemicalengineering at the University of Minnesota.Evelyn recently accepted a position withAmoco Chemicals in Naperville, 111. JonathanOlick is finishing his second year at EmoryUniversity Law School and will be working atMudge Rose in New York City this summer.

Hope Kuniholm is at Potsdam College, pur-suing her master's in education degree and willbe teaching kindergarten-sixth grade whenshe's finished. She also passed on news ofother classmates: Chip Alliaume has a new jobworking for St. Martin's Press, and is living inJersey City, NJ. Bruce Calkins is still in Mary-land, taking classes and working. Ann Richardand Max Magliaro are in State College, Pa;Max is working for Singer and Ann is finishingher master's in animal science at Penn State;Jane Silcox is in chiropractic school in Califor-nia, and writes of sun and Jacuzzis; BethWaldorf is still in Georgetown (NY) workingfor Cooperative Extension. Hope was inBoston Garden with many of us, cheering thehockey team on to the EC AC championship.Band alumni included Hope, Heidi Lane '85and Betsy Malone '85, Ramsey Rifai, LindsayLiotta, Wendy Zeh '85, and myself. Manyother Cornellians were there—yelling until wewere hoarse—in the true hockey sprit. Goalie!Sieve! Goalie! Sieve!

Kathy Doherty says she's 100 percent careerwoman. Kathy is a departmental officer withOld Stone Bank in Rhode Island. Doug Beldenwrites that the Class of '84 is strong in NewYork City. Thursday nights at the Tumble Innare a regular happening and those normallypresent include: Mark Kristoff, Mike Hoff-man, John Phillips, Tom Post, Kevin Cook,Amy Brown, Gay Truscott, Liz Rhinesmith,Tim Cassidy, Katie Brown '85, and MicheleTanenbaum '85, to name a few. Dancing andcarrying on continues into the night. Dougsays anyone in the area should join them at theTumble Inn and stumble out.

Thank you, again, for all of the news. Ihope you're all having a terrific summer andwill keep us informed of what you're up to.Start gearing up for Homecoming; it's onlyfour months away: November 6-8, 1986.Terri Port, 107 Kinghill Rd., Hanover, Mass.02339; also, Marie Rieflin, 128 CrittendenWay, #2, Rochester, NY 14623.

85 Get-TogethersGreetings from midtown Manhattan! I'm soexcited to have been offered an opportunity to

act as our class scribe for this issue of theAlumni News. Although I've been workingdiligently as an underwriter for Chubb & SonInc. in their commercial marine (transporta-tion) division, I've been able to escape fromNew York City, occasionally, and visit orbump into '85ers all over the US.

This winter, Wendy Silverman invited me tovisit her in Southfield, Mich., where shehandles the labor relations for the Ford MotorCo. During our fun-tastic weekend, we droveto Ann Arbor, to tour the University of Michi-gan campus. We ran into Louis Solomon andGregg Gilman, who both claim to be workinghard at Law School there. We roamed aroundthe Business School, hoping to meet JohnSpeilberger, but to no avail. Wendy sees Johnon occasion, and notes that he has survived hisfirst year. We also missed Paul Hoop, whowrites that he's enjoying finishing his first yearof Business School and is looking forward toworking for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'sheadquarters in Akron, Ohio, this summer.Liz Dolinar later mentioned to me that JohnSheeley is in Law School there, and—as al-ways—he has immersed himself in projects, isrunning their version of the Alfalfa Room!

When in Chicago, 111., I missed Ron Prague,unfortunately. He's at Northwestern LawSchool. Yet, we did manage to catch up withone another at a party in March, at the apart-ment of David Kornfeld '84 in New York City.A few days after that, I bumped into WendySilvershein and Peter Goldstein on a gloriousday, walking around the Upper East Side.Wendy told me about the crazy hours sheworks for Abraham & Strauss, while Peterjoked about life at Einstein Medical School.Later that evening, I got ahold of Sue Levy, byluck, who notes that she's "set up residence"in the libraries of Emory Law School in Geor-gia. Sue will be "clerking" for a judge of thethird circuit in Pittsburgh, Pa., this summer.Her former roommate, Laura Hamilton, willbe a clerk in a firm called Kornblum, Kelly &Herlihy, in San Francisco, Cal., after she fin-ishes her first and enjoyable year at Universityof California's Hastings College Law School.

Also writing from the West Coast, Kari Dit-trich has settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, withher husband Steve Knudson, JD '84. Kari par-ticipates in the University of Utah's PhD pro-gram for biophysics and medicine. And, fromthe Midwest, Mary Jones writes that she'sbeen busy pursuing her PhD in molecularbiology at Washington University, yet she didfind time to interview prospective freshmen forCornell admissions. My rounds have not yettaken me to St. Louis, Mo., but '85ers whohave ventured there should look Mary up!

Many classmates are pursuing degrees inEast Coast cities. I spoke with Adam Slut-sky—who attends Columbia BusinessSchool—about a month ago, and he men-tioned that he would be leaving this summer towork in California for Columbia Pictures. An-other New Yorker, Lori Bauer, has relocatedto Boston, Mass., from Brooklyn; she attendsBoston University's Law School. (Please say"Hi" to "Beantown" for me!) Jolie Frieswrites that she's studying for her MPH inhospital administration, but managed to taketime off to travel to Acapulco, Mexico, inMarch with Karen Wolff and Nancy Parmet.Karen had mentioned the trip when we met fordinner after work one evening; the planssounded amazing! Karen also filled me in onDonna Better, studying hard at EinsteinMedical College, but finding time to take ad-vantage of New York City.

Early this spring, I spent a weekend in Phila-delphia, Pa., with Genny (Murphy) Nelsonand Bob '83. We went kite-flying in ValleyForge with Eleanor Stevens and Bob Fischer'83. What a great place! In that area, Sara

Kinsman has been studying relentlessly at theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Medical School;she sends hellos to Eve Golden and MariaHeidkamp '86, wherever they might be.

I had a great experience in April: when trav-eling outside of the US for the first time in mylife, the first people I bumped into were Cor-nellians! A mere five minutes after we arrivedat the hotel in Nassau, the Bahamas, Rob Ka-pel walked into the lobby with his crew fromCornell Medical College. Rob tried to convinceme of his rigorous load of courses at medicalschool, but who would believe that such amaster of windsurfing would find anythingchallenging about studying?

Back in New York City, I've seen or heardfrom lots of Cornellians who have tradedclassrooms for boardrooms. Bonnie Reubenlet me know that she was promoted to the postof public relations administrator for the Inter-Continental Hotels in Houston, Texas, whereshe has been since graduation. Congrats! Bon-nie says Barry Lewin is a sales representativefor the Hyatt Hotels in downtown Houston.Paul Cisneros, originally from Texas, writesthat he has been "exiled to work in Salt LakeCity, Utah, for the FDIC!"

Two new class correspondents will bring younews in future issues: Melinda Messick, 241Culver Rd., Apt. #1, Rochester, NY 14607; al-so, Wendy Silverman, 27500 Franklin Rd.,Apt. #505, Southfield, Mich. 48034.

If you happen to bop into New York, pleaselook me up! And, always, keep smiling andkeep having fun! Debbi Neyman, 295 ParkAve., S., #3C, NYC 10010.

86 Here We Go!Congratulations to the Class of '86! Now thatgraduation is over, many of us are realizingthat there is life after Cornell. But hopefully,we will also realize that whichever direction wechoose to head, Cornell will remain a part ofus. The purpose of this monthly column willbe to keep our class in touch with one another.So please let us know where you are and whatyou are doing!

There are several people to keep in mind af-ter graduation—the class officers and otherswho will be involved with keeping classmatesin contact with each other. Charlie Lyons, ourpresident, will continue to develop his politicalprowess as he springboards to the national po-litical scene. After traveling across the Ameri-can West, and then Ireland, this summer,Charlie will start working for "The Fund forAmerica" in Washington, DC. This is a politi-cal action committee, led by Vice PresidentGeorge Bush, to raise money for congressionaland senatorial candidates. (Don't be surprisedto see Charlie's name on a congressionalballot, one of these years.) Many of you mightremember that Charlie got his start at Cornellas a government major who was actively in-volved with the College Republicans. Charliewill remain actively involved with Class of '86activities and can be reached at 1200 18th St.,NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036, start-ing in September.

It seems many of our class officers have de-cided it's important to see the world beforechanging it. Vice President Kathryn O'Neill isplanning to travel through Europe visitingfriends during July and August. When she re-turns, the English major will carve out herplace among the world's great writers, as shelooks for a job as a free-lance writer or in thepublic relations field.

Amy Weissman, treasurer, will be continu-ing in her "workaholic tendencies" as shebegins working in management informationsystems for Morgan, Stanley & Co. in Manhat-tan. She, too, will experience Europe first-hand this summer, before beginning her

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12-hour work days in the Big Apple. Amy alsoearns a round of applause for her work asSenior Week committee chairperson. (It was aweek none of us will forget very soon!)

Our secretary, Holly Isdale, will look for hergolden opportunities in Boston, Mass. Hollywas a history major at Cornell and intends topursue a ςareer in writing or business, perhapsultimately through law or business school.

While most of us are exploring life after col-lege, Liz Heyman will be reminding us thatCornell is only a Reunion away. Liz will be incharge of planning our first class Reunion. Inthe meantime, she will be traveling cross coun-try with friends before looking for a positionin development for the performing arts in NewYork City. Liz, a Hotelie, got her start bymanaging "Nothing But Treble" at Cornell.

Donna-Lee Gargano will also be helping toplan our Reunion. Donna-Lee will start hergraduate life at the ultimate single's dream va-cation—Club Med in Martinique. She'll alsotravel the East Coast before settling down tobusiness at Rutgers Medical School in NewJersey.

Three diverse people will be the class corres-pondents for the next five years: Michael Berk-wits, Michael Davis, and me, Karen Dillon.We are the people you want to contact whenanything exciting happens in your life that youwish to share with other Cornellians (promo-tion, marriage, baby (gulp!), etc.).

Michael Xerxes Berkwits was a collegescholar at Cornell. After taking a leave of ab-sence to attend Duke University during hissophomore year, Mike returned to Cornellwith new respect for Ezra's "brainchild." Healso was a chimesmaster (one of those mysteri-ous people who bring us the daily concertsfrom McGraw Tower). Mike will be returningto his native Chicago, 111., next fall to attendUniversity of Illinois Medical School.

Michael Davis transferred to Cornell fromAmherst College during his junior year. Adouble major, city planning and government,Michael was weighing two job offers at thetime of this writing. He will be in Boston,Mass., or New York City after graduation.

I was an English major while at Cornell, al-though my friends say I have the heart of anAggie. I will be attending Northwestern Uni-versity to work on my'MS in magazine jour-nalism. Hopefully, you will be reading my by-line in Rolling Stone or Time in a few years! Ifyou've any news to share, please send it to theAlumni News office at Cornell, or to one ofyour three correspondents. Adresses givenbelow for both Michaels are home addresses;we'll print work and school addresses as soonas they are known. Please keep in touchKaren Dillon, Apt. #710-1, Engelhart Hall,1915 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111. 60201; also,Michael Davis, 7746 East End, Chicago, 111.60649; and Michael Berkwits, 2944 W.Rascher Ave., Chicago, 111. 60625.

Alumni DeathsΊO BA—Catharine Allen Sharp (Mrs. HarryL.) of Laurel, Md., formerly of Hamburg,NY, Dec. 24, 1985. Alpha Omicron Pi.

Ίl ME—William C. M. Butler of Conyng-ham, Pa., Feb. 7, 1986; retired president andgeneral manager, Central Pennsylvania Quar-ry Stripping & Construction Co., Hazleton,Pa., and president, Benjamin Iron & Steel Co.Alpha Chi Rho.

Ίl BChem—Charles Silver of Pikesville, Md.,April 1, 1976.

Ίl BArch—Vance W. Torbert of Bernards-

ville, NJ, Aug. 28, 1979; was an architect inNew York City for many years. Kappa Psi.

Ί2 BChem, PhD Ί5—Clifford C. Rose ofTampa, Fla., formerly of Kingston, NY, Feb.16, 1986; formerly owned and operated A. D.Rose Inc., a wholesale and retail food com-pany in Kingston; had taught for ten years atWebber College, Babson Park, Fla. Sigma Nu.

Ί2—Ralph C. Young of Phoenix, NY, Oct. 5,1985.

Ί4 ME—Carl L. Hoera of Ft. Worth, Texas,July 19, 1984; was president, Hoera-RosenthalCo. Theta Chi.

Ί4 BS HE—Edith H. MacArthur of LakeWorth, Fla., formerly of Ft. Ann, NY, March10, 1986; retired professor, home economics,who had taught over a 35-year span at Skid-more College, Keene (NH) State Teachers Col-lege, New York University, Oklahoma A&MCollege, and, 1926-30, at Cornell.

Ί5 BS Ag—Frederick W. Ohm of Oneida,NY, Feb. 1, 1986.

Ί5 MA—Louis H. Russell of Chicago, 111.,formerly of Washington, DC, Jan. 18, 1986;retired teacher, Dunbar High School, Wash-ington, DC.

Ί5 BA, Ί5-16 Grad—Allen M. Thurston ofChesterland, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1985.

Ί6—David M. Paulson of San Mateo, Cal.,June 19, 1985. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Ί6—George M. Peake of Union, NY, Feb.13, 1986.

Ί6—Sara Toll Romweber (Mrs. G. W.) ofFranklinville, NY, Sept. 13, 1985.

Ί6 BArch—Maurice H. Webster of Evanston,111., May 17, 1982.

Ί7 CE—John J. Fox (Jacob Fuchs) of Wood-bridge, Conn., March 4,1986; was owner, TheFox Steel Co., Orange, Conn.; former branchmanager, Truscon Steel Co., NYC.

Ί8—Austin R Howard of Candor, NY,March 2, 1986; retired farmer and schoolteacher.

Ί8 BS Ag—Stacy G. Kirchner of Minneapolis,Minn., formerly of Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 10,1986; retired teacher in Norwalk schools;former research chemist. Theta Chi.

Ί8-22 Grad—Irvin H. Vogel of Los Altos,Cal., formerly of Richland, Wash., June 25,1982.

Ί9, WA '21—George M. Abbott of St. Louis,Mo., Feb. 1, 1982. Delta Tau Delta.

Ί9—Perry E. Babcock of Savannah, Ga.,Oct. 23, 1985.

Ί9—Marie Clark Mason (Mrs. Scott B.) ofLong Boat Key, Fla., Nov. 4, 1985.

Ί9 ME—Torsten H. Parke of Hingham,Mass., formerly of Riverside, Conn., March13, 1986; was vice president, Scullin Steel Co.,NYC; formerly associated with steel com-panies in the Midwest. Phi Kappa Psi.

Ί9, BS Ag '20—William L. Twichell of Go-wanda, NY, 1984.

'21—Clifford V. K. Barker of Staatsburg, NY,Feb. 25, 1986. Alpha Tau Omega.

'21 MS—George W. Barr of Tucson, Ariz.,Jan. 2,1984; was associated with the Universi-ty of Arizona.

'21, BChem '22—Julius Bendet of Oceanside,NY, formerly of Long Beach, August 1982.

'21—Phelps Edward Bigelow Sr. of Lake Pla-cid, NY, Jan. 4, 1981.

'21 BA—Louis Caplan, MD, of Seattle,Wash., Jan. 6, 1986; physician.

'21, MJE '22—Lewis B. Gately of Stonington,Conn.l Sept. 6, 1981; was associated with theElectric Boat Co, Groton, Conn. Psi Upsilon.

'21, BA '23—Elizabeth Ballantine Gody (Mrs.E. Joseph) of Doylestown, Pa., Feb. 3, 1985.

'21—Joseph J. Greenlaw of Shady Side, Md.,1984.

'21, ME '23—George W. Turner of Pitts-burgh, Pa., Oct. 8, 1985. Beta Theta Pi.

'21 ME—Albert Zuidema of San Diego, Cal.,Feb. 8, 1986.

'22 BS HE—Mabel Bruckner Chomsland(Mrs. E. Martin) of La Mirada, Cal., formerlyof Maywood, NJ, Nov. 30, 1984; formerteacher of home economics.

'22, DVM '23, MS '26—Harold M. De Volt ofSouthern Pines, NC, formerly of CollegePark, Md., July 2, 1985; retired professor andchief of research, poultry pathology, Universi-ty of Maryland. Omega Tau Sigma.

'22 PhD—Francisco M. Fronda of Los Banos,the Philippines, Feb. 17, 1986; retired profes-sor of poultry husbandry and administrator,University of the Philippines; a widely knownanimal scientist, he had been named NationalScientist.

'22—Frederick "Dutch" Hinrichs of ChevyChase, Md., formerly of Milwaukee, Wise.,Dec. 12, 1985; was a principal and executiveofficer, Tri-Clover Co., Milwaukee, Wise.,manufacturer of fittings, valves, and pumps;formerly, an executive vice president, ArthurMeyerhoff & Co., an advertising firm in Chi-cago, 111. Theta Chi.

'22 EE, ME '25—M. Gordon Northrop ofBombay, NY, Feb. 5, 1986; retired professorand department head, electrical engineering,University of Louisville; formerly taught atUniversity of Tennessee and, 1922-42, at Cor-nell.

'22 BA—George W. Snibbe Jr. of LagunaHills, Cal., formerly of Los Angeles, Cal.,Oct. 3, 1985. Kappa Sigma.

'23 EE—Frederick W. Fix Jr. of Northbrook,111., Feb. 11, 1986; was president, Fix-Lipp-man Co., a Chicago, 111., wholesale plumbingand heating firm which he had founded in1931; amateur photographer whose workswere widely shown. Delta Upsilon.

'23 BS Ag— Bennett O. Hughes of St. Leon-ard, Md., Jan. 27, 1986; forest owner andmanager; retired forester, US Forest Service;for the Department of State, had served in Co-lombia, helping to estblish a forest service.Alpha Zeta.

'23 BArch—Albert R. Martin Jr. of North-

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brook, 111., March 3, 1986; retired architect;was active in alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

'23-32 SpAg, SpArts—Hester McCracken ofIthaca, NY, March 1, 1986; retired teacher,Central Elementary School.

'23—Lyman A. Page of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,formerly of Greene, NY, Jan. 9, 1985; formerofficer, The Page Seed Co., Greene.

'23 MA—James W. Plyler of Spartansburg,SC, March 26, 1985.

'23 BA—Paul F. Sherk of Wyomissing, Pa.,May 5, 1980; was a partner, Spang & SherkCo., Reading, Pa.; former district manager,Asam Brothers, wallpapers, Reading, Pa.

'24 MD—Ruth F. Crabtree of Newburgh, NY,Feb. 15, 1986; retired pediatrician and anesthe-siologist, was founder of pediatrics depart-ment, St. Luke's Hospital.

'24 BS HE—Lois Smith Potts (Mrs. ThomasJ.) of Westfield, NJ, March 1, 1986. OmicronNu.

'24 PhD—Carl L. Wilson of Hanover, NH,March 7, 1986; professor of botany, emeritus,Dartmouth College, where he had taught theintroductory course in botany for more than30 years; author; active in professional affairs.

'25 BS Ag—Thomas C. Hobbie, MD, of So-dus, NY, March 11, 1986; was a family physi-cian in Sodus for 52 years. Alpha Zeta.

'25 MA, '25-28 Grad—Hope Anderson John-son (Mrs. John R.) of Townshend, Vt., and N.Falmouth, Mass., formerly of Ithaca, NY,March 19, 1986; had taught at Keuka andWells Colleges in New York State.

'25 EE—August F. Jones of Louisville, Ky.,formerly of Summit, NJ, Jan. 23, 1986; retiredexecutive engineer, International Telephoneand Telegraph Corp., who had served thatcompany and its subsidiaries in the UnitedStates, Cuba, Spain, and Greece for more than30 years. Sigma Chi.

'26 BA—Dorothy Benton Demarais (Mrs. Er-nest A.) of Seaford, Del., formerly of LeRoy,NY, Dec. 20, 1985; retired librarian; formerteacher of Latin in several Upstate New Yorkschools. Chi Omega.

'26 BA—Alexander E. Ginsberg of Rochester,NY, formerly of Washington, DC, Feb. 14,1986; retired attorney.

'26, BA '27—Mildred Macdonough Kast(Mrs. Richard A.) of Hamburg, NY, March 9,1984. Husband, Richard A. Kast '25.

'26 BA—Blanche Lesser Miller (Mrs. NelsonJ.) of Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of NewYork City, 1980; former attorney.

'26 PhD—Fred R. Neumann of Durham,Cal., formerly of Chico, Cal., Oct. 11, 1983;was associated with the geology department,Chico State College.

'26 CE—Ernest G. Smith of San Jacinto, Cal.,March 26, 1985. Seal & Serpent.

'27 ME—Benjamin Garfinkel of Englishtown,NJ, formerly of New York City, March 5,1986.

'27—Reginald D. Slocum of Lakewood, NJ,Nov. 26, 1985; was in accounting and employ-ee relations with Western Union Telegraph

Co., NYC, for many years. Phi Kappa Sigma. Penfield, NY, Oct. 12, 1982; Catholic priest.

'28 BA, LLB '30—Arthur H. Bernstein ofKansas City, Mo., formerly of New York City,Oct. 5, 1985; retired co-owner, Curzart Greet-ing Cards Co., NYC; formerly practiced law.

'28 BS—Kenneth P. Gillette of Seminole, Fla.,formerly of Geneva and Elmira, NY, Jan. 3,1985; formerly owned Gillette Restaurant,Elmira.

'28 ME—Edward C. Howe of Lake Geneva,Wise., formerly of Winnetka, 111., March 18,1986; former vice chairman, Vaughn & Bush-nell Mfg. Co. of Hebron and Bushnell, 111.;was formerly a development engineer, WesternElectric Co., Chicago; was active in alumni af-fairs. Theta Delta Chi.

'28 PhD—Frank P. McWhorter of Carmel,Cal., Nov. 16, 1985; retired plant pathologist,formerly associated with Oregon State Col-

'28—Harold P. Seeger of Temple City, Cal.,Sept. 12, 1985.

'29 BA—William H. Bell of Winter Haven,Fla., formerly of Lockport, NY, Feb. 21,1986; retired attorney and former hearing offi-cer, NY State Social Services Department; wasactive in scouting and in community affairs.

'29 MS—Charles M. Hampson of WinterPark, Fla., formerly of Gainesville, Fla.,March 11, 1986; former Extension economist,University of Florida; author.

'29 BA—Gizella Wittman Shannon (Mrs.James M.) of Green Valley, Ariz., formerly ofPatton, Cal., April 15, 1985; physician, wasassistant superintendent, Patton State Hospi-tal, for a number of years.

'30, ME '31—Fred C. Fay of York, Pa., Feb.18, 1986; was president, North Metal & Chem-ical Co. Beta Theta Pi.

'30 BS Ag, MS '35—Paul B. Jones of Free-port, Fla., formerly of Babylon, NY, Feb. 24,1986. Alpha Zeta.

'30, BArch '31—William J. Lowery of Brad-ford, Pa., May 29, 1985; was vice president,Tuna Mfg. Co., Bradford. Sigma Phi Epsilon.

'30 BA—Eleanor Yost Moyer (Mrs. Charles)of Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 18, 1986. DeltaDelta Delta.

'31 BChem, Grad '31-35—Henry O. Boschenof Fedhaven, Fla., formerly of Toledo, Ohio,Jan. 29, 1986; retired chemist and chemical en-gineer; formerly associated with Barrett divi-sion, Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., and withthe Plaskon division, Libbey Owens FordGlass Co., Toledo. Alpha Chi Sigma.

'31 BA—Anna Martha Mumma of Gwynedd,Pa., formerly of Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 22,1986; retired social worker who had been asso-ciated with Family and Children's Service ofLancaster County.

'31 PhD—George A. Shipman of Freeland,Wash., April 15, 1982.

'32 MD—Charles J. Baker of Mesa, Ariz.,formerly of Fort Dodge, Iowa, March 11,1986; pediatrician; spent 13 years on the medi-cal staff, Arizona State University; active inprofessional affairs.

'32 MA—Ruth L. Miller of Ithaca, NY,March 13, 1986; retired teacher of French,Ithaca High School.

'32 ME—Erik B. J. Roos of Hamlin, Pa.,March 25, 1984.

'33 BA, LLB '35—Hale Anderson Jr. ofNorth Canton, Conn., Aug. 6, 1985;, retiredassociate general counsel, The Hartford Insur-ance Group; active in community affairs. Del-ta Tau Delta.

'33 BS HE—Janet Robinson Cantrell of Itha-ca, NY, Aug, 17, 1984; formerly employed atCornell and in several offices in Ithaca.

'33 BA—Karen Peterson Fennow (Mrs. SvendA.) of Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 10, 1986;was a free-lance translator and administrativeassistant, US Educational Foundation in Den-mark. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'33 BS Ag— Ovid G. Fry of Webster, NY,Sept. 20, 1985.

'33 MS—Howard F. Johnston of Parkers-burg, W.Va., formerly of Morgantown,W.Va., June 16, 1985.

'33 EE—Philip S. Joseph of Purdys, NY, June14, 1985.

'33, BS Ag '32—Clifford E. Lloyd of PineBush, NY, Jan. 15, 1986; professor of chemis-try and geology, emeritus, Orange CountyCommunity College, Middletown, NY, wherehe had taught for 20 years; active in profes-sional and community affairs.

'33 BA—Marshall R. Louis, MD, of HolmesBeach, Fla., formerly of Auburn, NY, Feb.11, 1986; retired pediatrician; former directorof student health, Wells College.

'33 PhD—Merrill F. Roff of Goleta, Cal.,Jan. 11, 1986.

'33 BS HE—Claire Lasher Tharp (Mrs. W.Hardy Jr.) of Memphis, Tenn., January 1986.Alpha Omicron Pi.

'34, BA'35—Alexander D. Falck Jr. of Elmi-ra, NY, March 9, 1986; was president, Rath-bone Corp., Elmira; former vice president,Mike Horse Mining Co., Helena, Mont. Kap-pa Alpha.

'34, CE '35—F. Crampton Frost of Sun City,Ariz., formerly of Morristown, NJ, March 11,1986; retired design engineer; former manager,standardization programs, and assistant secre-tary, American Standards Assn., and a consul-tant to numerous industries and institutions; arecognized authority on national and interna-tional industrial standards.

'34 PhD—Victor Heiman of Sequim, Wash.,June 1983.

'34 BA—Lucille M. McHugh of Pittsburgh,Pa., Sept. 25, 1985. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'35—Bernard A. Cummings of Ithaca, NY,March 13, 1986; retired electrical engineer, Ni-agara Mohawk Co. (An article about his col-lection of antique beer steins apeared in theApril 1976 Alumni News.)

'36 BA—Earl H. Coy of Battle Creek, Mich.,formerly of St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 3, 1985.

'32 PhD—The Rev. Maynard A. Connell of '36 MS Ed—Ray H. Martin of Liberty, Miss.,

JULY 1986

Nov. 5, 1972.

'36 BS Ag—Doris Murray Jebbett (Mrs. T.Stanley) of Cortland, NY, March 29, 1985.

'36, BS Hotel '37—Charles H. Shuff ofβronxville, NY, formerly of New York City,Feb. 22, 1986; was an executive with IBMWorld Trade Corp., N. Tarrytqwn, NY; for-merly a minister in the US Delegation-NATO,after three years as deputy assistant secretary,US Department of Defense; earlier had beenassociated with Westinghouse Electric Interna-tional, Eastern Airlines, and Pan AmericanAirways; active in alumni affairs. Beta ThetaPi.

'36—Nelson C. Wilson of Pittsburgh, Pa.,Jan. 12, 1973.

'37 BS Ag—Gerald R. Henderson of PennYan, NY, June 9, 1985.

'37 MS—Paul R. Matvey of Akron, Ohio,May 31, 1982.

'38 PhD—Charles G. Lincoln of Fayetteville,Ark., June 5,1983; was associated with the en-tomology department, University of Arkansas.

'38 MS Ed—Thomas M. Lotz of Sherburne,NY, Nov. 18, 1980; former teacher and schooladministrator.

'38 BS Ag—Max E. Tyler of Gainesville, Fla.,Aug. 31, 1985; retired professor and formerdepartment chairman, microbiology and cellsciences, University of Florida, where he hadtaught for nearly 30 years.

'39—William C. Arbuckle of Brewster, Mass.,Jan. 18, 1985. Phi Delta Theta.

'39, BA '40—Ernest H. Wiener Jr. of Larch-mont, NY, March 17,1986; was retired in 1971after 25 years with the US Information Agen-cy; had served as director of public relationsfor NATO in Europe during the Johnson ad-ministration; was formerly a reporter for theNew York Daily News and for Voice ofAmerica.

'40 PhD—Delbert J. Pugh of Seminole, Fla.,Oct. 9, 1981.

'40-42 SpAg—Worlock H. Shaver of Jenks-ville, NY, March 14, 1986; was a dairy farmerand had worked in retail milk production.

'40 BA, BEE '42—John B. Sullivan of Need-ham, Mass., Feb. 27, 1986. Seal & Serpent.

'41 MS Ed—James M. Farmer of Collins, NY,Oct. 22, 1985.

'41 MArch—Robert I. Hoyt of Santa Barbara,Cal., July 28, 1985; architect and urban plan-ner, who had practiced for 50 years; active incommunity affairs.

'41 BA—Helen Pease Long (Mrs. Edward W.)of S. Burlington, Vt., formerly of Keeseville,NY, March 14, 1986; former teacher of highschool English, Ausable Valley CentralSchool.

'41 BS Ag—Elizabeth Emery Underwood(Mrs. Arthur L. Jr.) of Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 8,1986. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'41 PhD—Archie Van Doren of Wenatchee,Wash., Jan. 8, 1986. Wife, Irene (Moran) '38.

'42, BS Ag '46—Roswell F. Elliott of Ft.Myers, Fla., formerly of Ithaca, NY, Mar. 10,

1986; former insurance salesman, Carey-McKInney Group, Ithaca. Wife, Emma Rose(Curtis) '37, MS '44.

'42, BChemE '43—La Roy B. Thompson ofRochester, NY, Oct. 23, 1985; was senior vicepresident in treasurer's office, University ofRochester, and former coordinator of spon-sored research there. Kappa Sigma. Wife, Ed-wina (Brown) '36.

'43 BS Ag—Ellen Simpson Hawley (Mrs. R.Stephen) of Batavia, NY, Jan. 28,1986. AlphaPhi. Husband, R. Stephen Hawley '43.

'43 BS Hotel—William T. Lesure of Rustburg,Va., Feb. 18, 1986.

'44 BS Nurs—Hilda Van Alstyne Hart (Mrs.Robert W.) of Floral City, Fla., formerly ofNorth Haven, Conn., Dec. 30, 1985. Hus-band, Robert W. Hart, MD '45.

'44 MS Eng—Heliodore A. Marcoux of Tuc-son, Ariz., Nov. 14, 1984; former professormechanical engineering, University ofArizona. Acacia.

'44 BChemE—Robert J. Spear of Tucson,Ariz., formerly of Salem, NJ, March 9, 1986;was a chemical engineer with E. I. duPontChambers Works, Deepwater, NJ.

'45, BME '47—Samuel I. Hyman of Rye, NY,March 7, 1986; was associated with BrooklynUnion Gas Co., NYC, for 37 years; active inalumni affairs.

'46 BA, MD '50—William C. Hollis Jr. ofGarden City, NY, Oct. 14, 1985.

'46—Bernard J. Swartz of Miami, Fla., Oct.22, 1982. Tau Delta Phi.

'47—Charles E. Drexler of Middlebury, Vt.,formerly of Setauket, NY, April 1981.

'47, BS Ag '49, MS '51—Alfred N. Schwartzof Vineland, NJ, Feb. 18, 1986. wife, Louise(Boorstein) '47.

'48 BS Hotel—John W. Colby of Asheville,NC, Jan. 30, 1986; busines manager, WesternNorth Carolina Anesthesiology, and co-own-er, Paper Things Etc., in Asheville; had been ahospital administrator in Washington, NewYork, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; active in com-munity affairs.

'48—Arthur L. Forster of Baltimore, Md.,formerly of Towson, Md., Feb. 15, 1986.

'48 LLB—Charles J. Phillips of Jamestown,NY, Feb. 14, 1986; attorney.

'48, BA '47—Patricia Coyle Schladt (Mrs.George J.) of Silver Spring, Md., July 1984.

'49 BA—Rochelle Levinson Berman (Mrs.Herbert) of Briarcliff Manor, NY, March1986.

>49_john Bilos Jr. of Endwell, NY, June 6,1968.

'49 PhD—Fred J. Nisbet of Tryon, NC, Jan.2, 1986; horticulturist. Wife, Shirley (John-son), MA '50.

'49 BS Ag—William E. Schumacher of Cat-skill, NY, May 1985.

'50 BS EE—Alan R. Honig of Westport,Conn., Sept. 7, 1985.

'50—George H. Rudman of Penfield, NY,May 21, 1983.

'51 MS Ag—George D. Young of Rocheport,Mo., May 28, 1984; former member, MissouriState House of Representatives.

'53 BEE—Charles A. Lowery Jr. of VillaPark, 111., May 11, 1985; director of engineer-ing services, Zenith Corp., Glenview, 111.

'54 PhD—Frank Baldanza Jr. of BowlingGreen, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1985; was professor ofEnglish, Bowling Green State University;author.

'54* BS Ag'55—Joan Churchill Burgher ofStanton, NJ, May 26, 1985.

'56 PhD—Edith Lentz Hamilton (Mrs. JamesA.) of S. Duxbury, Mass., February 1976.

'56—Marian Myers Menke (Mrs. Edward R.)of Pittsburgh, Pa., July 12, 1984. KappaAlpha Theta.

'56 BA—J. Eric Nordlander of ClevelandHgts., Ohio, March 20, 1986; research chem-ist, recently retired as dean, College of Artsand Sciences, and professor of chemistry,Cleveland State University; former professorof chemistry, Case Western Reserve Universi-ty; active in professional affairs.

'57 PhD—Vivian Goldstein Olum (Mrs. Paul)of Eugene, Ore., formerly of Ithaca, NY,March 20, 1986; psychologist and professor ofcounseling psychology, University of Oregon;formerly practiced psychology in Ithaca andwas adjunct associate professor of psychologyat Cornell; active in professional and commu-nity affairs.

'57 MEd, EdD '67—Andrew W. Pearl ofOrange, Cal., formerly of Utica, NY, March12, 1986; former provost of graduate studies,State University of New York, Utica-Rome;former superintendent of schools, West Gene-see Central School, Camillus; and former prin-cipal, Greene Central High School.

'57 MS—Olav Ronning of Moelv, Norway,Jan. 15, 1980; was associated with t^e StateHorticultural School in Moelv.

'61 PhD—Roman R. Romanowski of Lafay-ette, Ind., Sept. 20, 1981; had been associatedwith the horticulture department, Purdue Uni-versity.

'61 BS HE—Sharon Malamud Silverman ofScarsdale, NY, February 19136.

'62 PhD—James E. Ward of South Bend,Ind., July 15, 1978; was professor of history,Notre Dame University.

'66—John M. Schultz III of Richfield Springs,NY, June 18, 1982.

'67 PhD—Peter R. Savage of Dudley, Mass.,June 6, 1982.

'75 BS Ag—Dan M. Rodgers of Plainview,Texas, formerly of Manhattan, Kans., June13, 1985; agronomist, Pioneer Hi-Bred Inter-national Inc., Plainview; formerly on the fa-culty of Kansas State University, with a specialinterest in the breeding of grain sorghum.

'81—Nicholas J. Haven of Bronx, NY, May14, 1983.

'87—Paul J. Schreurs of Corning, NY, March15,1986; student in the College of Agriculture.

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni Activities

Making Wavesin the CapitalCan a major American research universityfrom a small town in upstate New York in-crease its visibility on the national scene? Thatwas the goal of the National Symposium onScience and Technology presented by the uni-versity on May 20 at the National Academy ofSciences in Washington, DC.

Three clearly special members of the facultychallenged an audience of more than 300alumni, government officials, foundationfunders, and high school science teachers (spe-cially invited because of the subject) in thethree savants' areas of expertise.

To address matters involving "Allocation,Ethics and Innovation in Research and PublicPolicy," the following stars in the Cornell fa-culty firmament joined University PresidentFrank H. T. Rhodes in the nation's capital:Dr. Robert Michels, the Henry professor in theMedical College and chairman of its psychiatrydepartment; Nobel laureate Kenneth G. Wil-son, the Weeks professor of physical science;and Alfred E. Kahn, the Thorne professor ofpolitical economy.

"Everything we are and hope to be dependson maintaining a level of competitivenessthrough research," President Rhodes declaredin opening the symposium, noting that $200million was raised to fund research on campuslast year. Prof. Dorothy W. Nelkin, sociology,a member of the university's Program on Sci-ence, Technology and Society, who moderatedthe discussion, then proceeded in fine style toopen things up a bit.

"Universities are by no means autonomousinstitutions," Professor Nelkin noted, addingthat research and technology were closelyshaped by "external concerns." Among thecasualties of too narrow a focus for researchand funding, Professor Nelkin indicated,could be the culture of openness in US society,underfunded humanities and social sciences,and activities that generate results only in thelong term.

She challenged the panelists and the audi-ence to define what was acceptable researchbehavior.

Studying DiseasesInstead of PatientsTwo "hard" scientists, Michels and Wilson,joined Kahn from the "dismal science" of eco-nomics in response, doing what formidablescholars, as all are, do best: summon up inci-dents from their experience while concentrat-ing on their own disciplines.

The first, Dr. Michels, came closest to zero-ing in on the thorny issues Professor Nelkinhad posed. "How much is enough?" was hisfirst question in addressing his subject: the pol-itics and ethics of allocating resources for re-search, using AIDS research as an example.Funding for AIDS research has grown rapidly,Michels stated, to become the No. 1 health pri-ority in the US.

This status, however, he quickly added, oc-curs at the expense of research for other dis-eases because "the No. 1 priority of the federal

Audience arrives May 20. Prof. Kenneth Wilson, right, answers questions.

government is cutting costs and reducingdeficits." Real-dollar support for biomedicalresearch has declined, Michels explained, andadded that flexibility in funding research alsodiminishes when available funds shrink.

Funding authorities prefer to encourage bio-logical rather than behavioral prevention of ill-ness. Michels averred, "We prefer the study ofdisease to the study of patients, health care, orsuffering." He said efforts to reduce the inci-dence of AIDS through education have beenminimal because decision-makers opted tostrive for biological solutions. ("One still doesnot hear of oral intercourse on television.")

Previous virus research has left "us well pre-pared for AIDS research," Michels said, andconcluded by stressing a "need to be equallywell prepared for future crises." He arguedthat all successful research is based on basic,untargeted research and urged funders torecognize this need.

Computers' Reach"We are at the beginning of the computer rev-

olution, even though it's been going on formore than forty years," declared ProfessorWilson in opening his talk on "The Supercom-puter and the New Renaissance." He directsCornell's Center for Theory and Simulation inScience and Engineering, sponsor of the na-tional supercomputing center at Ithaca, one offour recently selected for funding by the feder-al government.

Wilson tried to convey to the audience howmuch remains to be learned in his work, itselfseemingly on the leading edge of scientific in-quiry. Computers are poised in an equivalentplace to where printing stood in Gutenberg'sday, he observed. "The amount of data neededto describe a complex molecule vastly exceedsthe memory and processing power we nowhave."

Wilson described the potential opened up byresearch he had directed. Although he is surelyone of the better funded researchers in the na-tion, he catalogued shortcomings of the tools,especially computer languages and software,that he and other computer frontiersmen haveat their disposal. "The writing of supercompu-

ter programs should be done with a differentobjective, to explain to others what a computershould do, instead of telling a computer justwhat to do," he asserted.

The expansion in scientific opportunity thatcomputers have created requires a commensur-ate expansion in the number of PhDs, Wilsonsaid, and a new level of "PhD literacy" toconfront' supercomputers, which need to be100 times faster than any instruments now inexistence. Wilson carefully outlined how ad-vanced weather forecasting would requirelarge amounts of data that measure climateconditions over much shorter ranges than atpresent, ten rather than hundred-mile units, hesuggested.

Computers will have an overwhelming im-pact on all facets of life, he concluded, callingfor "training in science literacy" to be "re-quired for the bulk of the population, butespecially for people going into responsible po-sitions in society."

A Thousand CutsIf Wilson is CornelΓs newest and most brilliantsuperstar, the cleanup hitter on this programwas one of the university's all-time championsat holding an audience in the palm of his hand,Professor Kahn, now back in Ithaca after hisyears on the Washington scene as chairman ofthe White House Council on Wage and PriceStability, President Carter's inflation adviser,and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board.He also chaired the New ]York State PublicService Commission and surely some presentrecalled, as the printed program did not, thathe prepared for these mighty posts by serving aterm as dean of the College of Arts and Sci-ences.

Kahn's topic was "The Tyranny of SmallDecisions and the Perils of Big Ones." He be-gan by recalling that the first part of the titlewas the subject of an article he had writtenmore than twenty years before when rail ser-vice to Ithaca lapsed. He said that many indi-viduals, given the chance, might have contrib-uted a modest amount to maintain rail servicefor the community, but would not make theonly positive decision they were enabled tomake: buying tickets for particular trips. Thus,Kahn noted, a series of discrete decisions, eachrational, could add up to an irrational result.

He said his twenty years of further experi-ences have not convinced him that big deci-sions are likelier to prove more successful.Kahn remains a stalwart advocate of increasedcompetition and diminished regulation. Smalldecisions of individuals may tyrannize, he sug-gests, but big, regulatory decisions of govern-ments are even more likely to lead to disastrousresults.

Kahn then proceeded to defend two speciesof deregulation, one in which he was highly in-volved—airlines—and another in which he wasnot, at least not nationally—telecommunica-tions.

In the case of telephones and their ilk, heemphasized, past legal distinctions had becometechnologically meaningless: time had under-mined any claim to the continued existence ofa natural monopoly, even if costs to some con-sumers might rise when legal institutionscaught up with the reality of technology.

With air travel, Kahn strongly defended de-regulation by reporting that 85 percent of trav-elers traveled last year at reduced fares at anaverage 56 percent of standard fares. He add-ed that safety figures were equally good, not-ing in an aside that unsafe charter airlines re-cently involved in some spectacular accidentshad never been affected by regulation becausethey were not covered, even in the "good olddays" at the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Prompted perhaps by grumbles from those

Professors AlfredKahn andDorothy Nelkin,above; HowardEpstein '55, atleft, and Prof.Robert Michels.

President FrankRhodes, at left,speaks withalumni after thesymposium.

in attendance from the Ithaca campus, whohad to change planes en route because no di-rect Ithaca-Washington air service exists anymore, Kahn proudly reported the sizeablegrowth in number of flights nationally sincederegulation. There are even upwards of twen-ty more destinations a traveler can fly to fromIthaca, Kahn declared, pausing for emphasis,"even Ithaca!"

In responding to a question, Kahn statedthat "big, collective decisions" were needed"where they offer large payoffs, because theymay often turn out to be big mistakes." Hepointed to the once-popular proposal for a na-tional industrial policy as exemplifying a big,bad decision, which, he added, fortunately hadnot been launched.

Industrial policy deserved its oblivion, he ex-plained, because there was no evidence thegovernment was any good at it, its proposedmethod was "vote the rascals in," and its po-litically based decisions would confer favorsand protections from the vigor of competition.

The audience had many questions. Dr. Mi-chels was asked what policy was most impor-1

tant from his standpoint. He said, "We need asystem to get new resources [for research] inless than two years," in a way other than by

decreasing resources available for other things.Professor Wilson answered a request to dis-

tinguish his kind of supercomputer from the"ordinary" computer by likening the newmachine to a "racing car compared to a caryou take out on the road": "It's just soupedup," he suggested.

It is rare indeed, especially in the city of ver-biage that Washington often can be, that anaudience yearns for more after sitting and lis-tening for more than three hours. Too littletime was available for the panelists to respondto more than a handful of the pile of questionsthe listeners had written out during a singlestretch break.

Opportunity was provided, however, for allpresent to continue the discussion with thepanelists at a reception sponsored by the uni-versity at the National Academy of Sciencesbuilding, itself the very vision of a Renaissancepalazzo but definitely the old-fashioned, pre-supercomputer kind of Renaissance.

The panelists were further feted at the annu-al dinner of the Cornell Club of Washington,held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel that night. Allwere heartily received by more than 100 clubmembers and friends.

—Richard Hoffman '67

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writing—most recently about LaurenceHousman for Modern British Dramatists(1982), and Housman and G. B. Shaw forShaw Annual (1986).

'16 Recalls Its MentorsGive my regards to DaveyRemember me to Tee Fee Crane,Tell all the pikers on the hillThat Γll be back again.Tell them just how I bustedLapping up the high high ballWe'll all have drinksAt Theodore Zinck'sWhen I get back next fall.

This ballad was popular on the Cornell cam-pus when, as a member of the Class of 1916,1enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences inthe autumn of 1912. "Davey" referred to Da-vid Hoy, the registrar who gave out the stu-dents' grades, hence the most feared man onthe campus. He lived in a house across FallCreek Gorge, just at the end of the swingingbridge. On Sundays he had musical eveningsthere and passersby wondered at the dulcetsounds issuing from the castle of the ogre.

T. F. Crane was dean emeritus, a thin oldgentleman in a white wig. Rumor had it that heowned three wigs, one, hair just cut; two, theproper length; and three, time to see the bar-ber.

Jacob Gould Schurman was then president,but Andrew D. White, a legendary figure witha white beard, was living in a palatial house onthe edge of the campus, presided over by a but-ler, as legendary as the president.

In the freshman year most students took Bi-ology with Needham and English from manyinstructors. Faust was well-liked in German aswas "Bull" Durham in Latin, a dedicated clas-sicist, who sometimes paid homage to Bacchusand might be seen dashing out of the Dutch tocatch a streetcar up the Hill to meet his after-noon class. Years later 1916er Harry Caplantook over his domain.

The English Department had the largest fa-culty. Martin Sampson was its chairman butstudents were divided into Sampsonites andCooperites, for Prof. Lane Cooper had a for-midable following who looked to no other au-thority. Lane Cooper was a scholar of person-al integrity, who lived alone and frugally. Athis death it was discovered he had amassedhalf a million dollars which he left as a trustfund to help poor but promising students.

J. Q. Adams was the patron of Shake-speare, and Freddy Smith taught short storywriting. Essay writing was the prerogative ofProfessor [William] Strunk with the blinkingeyes and untidy brown hair. He prepared a setof guidelines for his students, known as "thelittle book." One of his students, the late E. B.White '21 of New Yorker fame, was so im-pressed with Professor Strunk's suggestionsthat he later transformed "the little book" in-to that best seller, The Elements of Style.

Professor Sampson's great interest was thedrama and members of his Dramatic Structureclass were expected to attend the plays thatcame to the theater downtown. This was rathercostly for the women until they learned to rushthe gallery along with the men. Sampson wrotea one-act play, The Soul of a Professor, whichthe Dramatic Club produced under the direc-tion of beloved Prof. Alex Drummond whocould walk only with the aid of two crutches.In rehearsal Drummond swung himself onto

the stage, leaned on his crutches, and suddenlythe whole scene came alive to the watchingplayers.

The Dramatic Club productions were excel-lent, but not always popular, for Drummondoften chose the plays of little known Europeanplaywrights. Romantic inyths circulated aboutthe cause of Drummond's lameness, but it waspolio.

Professors Henry Hull and George Burrwere the pillars of the History Department un-til the advent in 1915 of a disruptive influence,a big blond Dutchman, Hendrik Willem VanLoon '05, fresh from reporting the battlefieldsof Europe. Soon his course in Modern Euro-pean History was the talk of the campus. Noneed to take attendance. There was never anempty seat in the big slanted lecture room atthe south end of Gold win Smith. Faculty wivesstood waiting to slip into any vacancy.

As he talked, Van Loon would draw pic-tures or maps on a blackboard beside him, us-ing colored chalk. By the end of the hour hewas usually enveloped in a haze of rainbowdust. Van Loon's sartorial trademark was abright orange necktie. Once a coed asked himfor a piece of it and then divided with herfriends so orange snipets adorned several fe-male "stunt books."

Van Loon, his wife with her Back Bay ac-cent, and their two small sons lived out onCayuga Heights at the end of the "ToonervilleTrolley" which connected the Heights with theStewart Avenue line at Thurston Avenue. Hesometimes brought students home to dinnerwhere they watched him draw with a burnedoff matchstick, listened to him play the cello,and admired his etching by Rembrandt. VanLoon departed after a few years to the regretof the students but the relief of some faculty.

Edward Titchener of Psychology gave a Eu-ropean flavor to Goldwin Smith for he alwayscame to lecture in full academic regalia. Stu-dents smiled at the optimism of Prof. W. W.Rowlee who named his two daughters Patienceand Silence. Many more figures of interestshould appear in this catalogue, but today'sreader will especially note the lack of women.There was one, Mrs. Anna Botsford Corn-stock, who taught Nature Study. She had writ-ten a novel, Confessions to a Heathen Idol.Some colleagues wondered about the source ofher revelations, but her husband, Prof. JohnComstock, who taught Entomology, did notseem disturbed.

The men and women of 1916 judged theseteachers and others not named, as carrying onthe precepts of Ezra Cornell, and have en-dowed the Class of 1916 professorship in theirmemory.

—Katherine Lyon Mix Ί6

The author was class poet in 1916, "but neverpursued that calling further." She wrote shortstories for the New Yorker magazine and oth-ers and two books, A Study in Yellow (1960)and Max and America (1974). Katherine LyonMix also taught Victorian studies and creativewriting at the University of Kansas and BakerUniversity, and has written journal articles,and book reviews for the Kansas City Star. Shenow lives in Pomona, California, and is still

Consequences o!Science ft Technology,Humanitarian AwardsIn the rush to pass courses and publish re-search, it is easy for students and faculty aliketo lose sight of underlying values and long-term consequences. Two new programs, bothinvolving alumni, may help Cornellians takethat long view.

Friends of J. Eric Nordlander '56, who diedMarch 20, have established the NordlanderVisiting Scholar Program in Science and Tech-nology in his memory. The program is de-signed to stimulate thought about the socialconsequences of science and technology, espe-cially those involved in public policy determin-ation. There will be a Nordlander essay com-petition, and a visiting scholar who will meetwith undergraduates and present public semi-nars.

Nordlander was a professor of chemistry atCase Western University, from 1961-84, andthen dean of Arts and Sciences at ClevelandState University. He was also a professionaljazz pianist.

At his memorial service a friend noted, "Itwas typical of Eric to have his eye always onthe larger picture. I share Eric's hope that thisproject—his project—will help nudge us closertoward that kingdom of heaven on earth thathe envisioned as the proper goal of all humanaction."

The second new program concerned withunderlying values and consequences is the Hu-manitarian Achievement Award established byGerald Robinson '54 and Robert Appel '53.This annual award will go to undergraduateswho put humanitarian values into practice lo-cally. Appel and Robinson hope to increase

J. Eric Nordlander '56, in whose memoryfriends have set up a program on the conse-quences of science.

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the visibility of volunteers by recognizing thepractical importance of philanthropic work.

Eddy St. Onion SoupMίndy's Black BreadEve's TabouliIf you were lucky, you may have caught JulieJordan '71 on your local TV station talkingabout these dishes or demonstrating how tomake spinach lasagne. She has just returnedfrom a cross-country tour promoting her newbook, The Cabbagetown Cafe Cookbook(Crossing Press). In addition to being an au-thor (her first cookbook was Wings of Life)she is the owner of Cabbagetown Cafe, a pop-ular vegetarian restaurant just off campus onEddy Street.

Unlike many Ithaca food entrepreneurs, sheis not a Hotel school graduate. "I majored increative writing," she explains, "but when Igraduated the only work I could find was inrestaurants." But she has always been inter-ested in food. Her mother is Esther TorgersenJordan '46, a nutrition major who was schoollunch manager for the Trumansburg schools.Her father, William Jordan '45, is a professorof food science at Cornell.

While she was a graduate student in nutri-tion at Cornell, she began working at the Cab-bagetown Cafe. "My heart wasn't in school,in all the sitting and talking," she writes. "Iwas a young militant vegetarian and naturalfoods advocate. I wanted to change the eatinghabits of the world (by force if necessary)."She continues, "I gave lectures onvegetarianism, criticized the lab teachingassistants when they used only white flour inthe demonstrations, and generally was tooenergetic and excited to fit into an academic in-stitution."

Cooking and managing the restaurant be-came so interesting that she gave up graduateschool and bought the business. "By running arestaurant," she points out, "Γm really ingrassroots nutrition education." She says, "Ibelieve that whole grains, fruits, and vegeta-bles are very good for people," and she em-phasizes these in her restaurant and in hercookbook. All the favorite Cabbagetown re-cipes are included, carefully tested by novicecooks, she says, who found the directions easyto follow.

Although Cornellians are not noted vegetar-ians, she has observed that during Reunionweekend there is a great surge in demand forher trademark dish, cashew chili.

Georgia PardonsLynching VictimSeventy years after he was lynched by a Geor-gia mob, Leo Frank '06 was pardoned. In 1913Frank was charged with the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee at the NationalPencil Co. in Atlanta, where he was superin-tendent. The case drew national publicity andcreated a wave of anti-Semitism. The jurydeliberated, listening to mobs outside thecourtroom shouting, "Kill the Jew." Frankwas convicted and sentenced to hang.

The inconclusive nature of the evidence andthe violent atmosphere in which the trial wasconducted brought cries of outrage from manyJewish leaders and others. The Anti-Defama-tion League of B'nai B'rith was founded as aresult of the Frank case, which was appealedall the way to the Supreme Court. Over the

Julie Jordan '71 shapes a loaf in herCabbagetown Cafe in Collegetown.

vigorous dissents of Justices Holmes andHughes, the Supreme Court decided not to in-tervene.

President Jacob Gould Schurman and alum-ni groups from across the country appealed tothe governor of Georgia for clemency. In Juneof 1915 the governor commuted Frank's sen-tence to life imprisonment. He then had to callout the National Guard to protect his ownhome from an angry mob.

On August 17, 1915, vigilantes draggedFrank from prison, drove him 175 miles, andhung him from an oak tree outside of Mariet-ta, Georgia, Mary Phagan's hometown.

Frank's murderers were never prosecuted.Instead they founded the new Invisible Empireof the Ku Klux Klan, which led to a nationwideresurgence of the Klan.

The Frank case has resurfaced periodicallyin books and studies of lynching, mob psy-chology, anti-Semitism, and the law. And thenin 1982, a new witness came forward, an83-year-old man who had worked at the pencilfactory as a boy. He said he saw the janitorwho had accused Frank of the murder carryingthe girl's limp body. He had withheld this in-formation, he said, because the man threat-ened to kill him, but he now wanted to die witha clear conscience.

The Anti-Defamation League renewed itspetition for a pardon, which was again deniedby the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles.This spring the board reversed itself sayingthat while they could not rule on Frank's inno-cence, they were pardoning him because thestate had failed to protect him from lynching.

Top Science Awardto Rabi '19, at 87Isidor I. Rabi '19, one of the world's foremostphysicists, has been awarded the VannevarBush award by the National Science Founda-tion. Rabi is a professor emeritus at ColumbiaUniversity and the winner of the 1944 NobelPrize for Physics. Among the many contribu-

tions for which Rabi is being recognized are hisefforts in organizing the first internationalconference on the peaceful uses of atomic en-ergy in 1955, sponsored by the United Nations,and in establishing the International AtomicEnergy Agency.

Rabi was born in Austria, but grew up inBrooklyn and came to Cornell in 1916 withboth a state cash scholarship and a state tuitionscholarship. He was graduated with a bachel-or's degree in chemistry and went on to gradu-ate school at Columbia University. He joinedthe Columbia faculty in 1929. In the 1930s hetaught courses in quantum physics, the "new"physics just being developed in Europe, andbegan research on atomic nuclei.

In 1944 he was awarded the Nobel Prize forfundamental contributions that allowed themeasurement of the magnetic properties ofatomic nuclei to a very high precision. Not on-ly did this work lead to a deeper understandingof the properties of matter, but continues tofind applications in numerous fields rangingfrom space science and technology to the high-ly sophisticated medical diagnostic tool of nu-clear magnetic resonance.

During World War II Rabi worked on theManhattan project, and was in the desert nearAlamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945, towitness the first atomic blast. "Suddenly, therewas an enormous flash of light, the brightestlight that I have ever seen or that I think any-one has ever seen," he later recalled in hisbook, Science: The Center of Culture (1970)."One could foresee that nothing was immunefrom the tremendous powers of these newforces. My own concern was to join in any ef-fort to contain these dangers."

At 87, Rabi is still active at Columbia and isone of that university's most respected schol-ars. He is a familiar figure on campus, attend-ing seminars, meeting with students at lecturesand informal talks, and working in his officeat Pupin physics laboratories.

Vet Award RecallsPioneering AlumnusA new alumni award has been named in honorof Daniel Elmer Salmon 1872, DVM 1876, thefirst veterinary student to receive a DVM froman American university.

The first three Salmon Awards for Distin-guished Alumni Service of the College of Vet-erinary Medicine were awarded this spring.Prof. Arthur Gordon Danks '33, DVM, Veter-inary Medicine, emeritus, was cited for his en-thusiastic support of the college. FrederickOliver Wright '41, a Long Island veterinarian,was chairman of the college's first capital cam-paign, which raised $17.2 million from alumniand friends. Prof. Ellis P. Leonard/34, DVM,Veterinary Medicine, emeritus, is the author ofthe college's first history, A Cornell Heritage:Veterinary Medicine, 1868-1908 and In theJames Law Tradition, 1908-1948.

Daniel Elmer Salmon, who died in 1914,was an early believer in the germ theory of dis-ease and as early as 1883 was experimentingwith a method of inoculation to prevent conta-gious diseases in livestock. He was called toWashington to work in the Department of Ag-riculture and in 1884 became the first chief ofthe Bureau of Animal Industry, a position heheld until 1905.

Five other Cornellians joined him and theyformed the nucleus of the group investigatingTexas cattle fever. Their discovery in 1892 ofthe cause and method of transmission of thiswidespread plague was a medical classic, forthey were the first to prove that insects couldbe the carriers of the disease. Walter Reed pat-

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Portrait of Dr. D. E. Salmon 1872

terned his subsequent work on yellow fever af-ter their research.

Salmon's name is almost a household word,for he identified the infectious pathogen Sal-monella, which is named for him, along withthe human intestinal disease called salmonello-sis. A newly restored charcoal portrait ofSalmon now hangs in the Veterinary Library.

In his first book, Leonard notes that Salmonwas present at the opening of the university,October 8, 1868. Leonard writes, "MorrillHall (South University) stood alone upon thebrow of the hill with the skeleton of WhiteHall (North University) several yards north ofit, both in an open field with no street access.The grounds were rough and cattle still grazedwhere the sod had not been turned by con-struction. A spring slightly west of the presentsite of McGraw Hall furnished water for thelivestock.

"Among those attending the 'campus' cere-monies, in which veterinarians would have aparticular interest, were Dr. James Law, theprofessor of Veterinary Surgery and Breedingof Animals; Myron Kasson, of Springville,Pennsylvania, an advanced student; and Dan-iel Elmer Salmon, of Budd's Lake, New Jer-sey, a freshman. Little did two of those menrealize, as they stood in Cornell's cow pasturewith a brisk October wind tugging at their hatswhile they listened to the oratory of ErastusBrooks, Francis Finch, and Louis Agassiz andthe clear mellow tones of Jennie McGraw'snew chimes playing Old Hundred,' that theywere destined for immortality in the annals ofveterinary medicine."

Graduate AlumniWilliam H. Gass, PhD '54 won the NationalBook Critics Circle award for the most distin-guished work of criticism in 1985. The honoris for his collection of essays on such writersas Emerson, Plato, Joyce, and Shakespearein Habitations of the Word. He is currently aprofessor of humanities at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis and has also wonawards for fiction. The Book Critics Circle,which has presented this award for the pasteleven years, is made up of 500 book criticsand editors nationwide.

Susan Ross, MBA '81 and Felice Shapiro areplanning to start a publishing empire withNew York Family, a giveaway magazine and"survival guide." The magazine is for par-ents raising children in Manhattan, for busypeople who don't have time to find what's

available to help them in being parents, saidRoss. They started in April, distributing30,000 copies, mostly in day-care centers,private schools, and pediatricians' and den-tists' offices.

Thomas F. Kelly, PhD '77 has been ap-pointed dean of the School of Management atthe State University Center at Binghamton.He had been serving as acting dean since June1985. Among his goals for the coming yearare expansion of business research and in-ternship programs and stronger relationshipsbetween the school and its alumni and thebusiness community.

CollegesMore than 200 alumni of the School of Indus-trial and Labor Relations attended the school's40th anniversary celebration in May. JeromeAlpern '49 was chairman of the alumni plan-ning committee. The keynote speaker was Ste-phen Schlossberg, deputy undersecretary ofthe US Department of Labor. He noted thatless than 20 percent of undergraduate businessprograms require students to take courses inpersonnel or industrial relations, and that noAmerican graduate business schools requiresuch courses. "There are not enough Cornellsor ILR schools," he said. ("Changing Rolesfor ILR" in the April Alumni News dealt atlength with the history and anniversary of theschool.)

CalendarPortland, Oregon: Cornell Club annual picnic,July 26. Call Tom '69 and Marjorie AlainPeter '70 (206) 573-9072.

Westhampton: New York City young alumnibeach party, July 26. Call regional office (212)986-7202.

Ithaca: Herb Days at Plantations, July 26-27.Call (607) 255-3020.

Seattle, Washington: Cornell Club picnic, July27. Call Deborah Dickason Falk '78 (206)938-2721.

Ithaca: Lecture by Prof. Carl Sagan, astrono-my, "The Year of the Comet," July 30. CallSummer Sessions (607) 255-4987.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cornell Club picnicand applicant send-off, August 3. Call SteveHeller, PhD '77 (612) 476-1840.

Mesa Verde, Colorado: Adult University inColorado, August 3-9. Call CAU (607)255-6260.

New York City: Young alumni at Central Parkconcert, August 4. Call regional office (212)986-7202.

Ithaca: Freshman orientation, August 22-25;registration, August 26-27; Fall term begins,August 28.

Flushing: New York City Alumni Associationat US Open tennis tournament, August 28.Call regional office (212) 986-7202.

Appledore Island, Maine: Adult University atthe Shoals Marine Lab, August 25-30, Septem-ber 1-6, September 7-13. Call CAU (607)255-6260.

Hong Kong: Laboratory of Ornithology andPlantations tour of Borneo, Malaysia, Singa-pore, and Hong Kong, September 5-26. Call(607)257-3091.

Dingmans Ferry, Pa: New York City AlumniAssociation Delaware River canoe trip, Sep-tember 6. Call regional office (212) 986-7202.

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Beebe LivesBeebe Lake will be dredged this summeras part of a plan to improve the approachto campus near Triphammer Falls. A newcenter for admissions and alumni andfurther work around Beebe are other ele-ments in a $10-15 million "gateway" pro-posal announced at Reunion.

President Frank Rhodes said a groupof alumni and other friends of the univer-sity who wish to remain anonymous pro-vided $500,000 to start restoration andbeautification of Beebe. Work will even-tually include repair of the shoreline; na-ture, hiking, running, and cross countryski trails; plantings; and erosion controlupstream in Fall Creek.

Beebe Lake, just under ten acres insize, is only eight feet deep at its deepestpoint, near Triphammer Dam. Trees andtons of soil flush into the lake duringheavy runoffs.

Today much of the lake is silted in.University officials estimate 50,000 cubicyards of soil will have to be moved tobring the lake to a minimum depth offour feet. Robert Matyas '51, vice presi-dent for facilities and business opera-tions, said the university plans to set upan endowment for future dredging andmaintenance of the lake.

Silt removed this summer will be usedto fill along the southeast shore of thelake and to restore other portions of theshore. Consultant on the project is thefirm of Clarke & Rapuano. Its foundingmembers were the late Gilmore Clarke'13, dean of Architecture from 1938 to1950, and the late Michael Rapuano '27.

The lake supported swimming andboating in earlier years, with skating inthe winter.

A center for formerand future studentsA new alumni-admissions center is alsopart of the improved entrance to campus.Rhodes said that the anonymous BeebeLake donors are also willing to join oth-

ers in contributing toward the proposedalumni-admissions center.

"I have talked with a number of alum-ni and friends who have expressed greatinterest in the creation of this special cen-ter we envision at Beebe Lake," he add-ed. The center would be built on the siteof the current Alumni House, which isbetween Triphammer Bridge and NoyesLodge, overlooking Beebe Lake.

John J. Meakem Jr. '58, immediatepast president of the Alumni Association,said, "Our alumni have never actuallyhad a specially designated campus home,so the center would provide a superiorway to greet future Cornellians and wel-come home alumni." The building willalso provide a place for prospective stu-dents to meet admissions officers.

A fundraising effort is planned to payfor the center and for further work onBeebe.

Changes afootwith alumniWhile the university itself concluded a rel-atively placid year of steady progress, itsformal alumni programs broke newground on several fronts:

• In mid-May, the umbrella organiza-tion for alumni work, the Cornell AlumniAssociation, elected its first woman presi-dent, Madolyn McAdams Dallas '58 ofAlexandria, Virginia.

The new alumni president is executivedirector of the Alexandria RepublicanCity Committee, and a long-time toiler inthe Cornell vineyards. Among her jobs,past and present: VP of her alumni class,president of the St. Louis, Missouri, Cor-nell Club, general chairman of the DCalumni Secondary Schools Committee,chairman of the advisory committee ofthe university secondary school program,.VP of the fcornell Club of Washington,

and secretary of Federation of CornellClubs. Glenn Dallas '58 is her husbandand Jeffrey Dallas '83 their son.

Madolyn Dallas succeeds classmateJack Meakem and will serve two years.Other new officers are C. Evan Stewart'74, JD '77 and Barbara Hai Freed '51,both vice presidents. New members of theassociation board are Kevin Montgomery'75, Mort Lowenthal '53, and SusanPhelps Day'60, MEd'62.

• At Reunion last month, the associa-tion voted to remove from the generalmembership the power to amend its by-laws and to vest that power in its board.All former students of the university aremembers of the association. Its board ismade up of a number of at-large mem-bers and representatives of class, college,club, and other alumni organizations.

• Progress was reported in obtainingnew homes for organized alumni activityin New York City and in Ithaca (above).

Vice President Richard Ramin '51 toldthe association board in May that ad-ministrators believe they are nearing thedate when they can announce a newhome in Manhattan for the university'smetropolitan offices as well as for the re-gional alumni office and a resurrectedCornell Club of New York.

• Ramin also announced a steady im-provement in the giving of gifts to theuniversity by alumni and non-alumni.Cornell now ranks No. 4 in the gifts re-ceived from private sources, behind Har-vard, Stanford, and Columbia, and issecond only to Harvard in the amountfrom individuals.

• For the first time in more than a dec-ade, each undergraduate year—fromfreshman to senior—had a class organiza-tion, with officers and activities on cam-pus.

• The Office of Alumni Affairs spon-sored a first-ever fair for seniors to intro-duce them to the ways they can stay intouch with campus after graduation.Some 481 individuals attended.

Inn to closeStatler Inn will close August 17 for up totwo years to allow an expansion and ren-ovation of Statler Hall. Lodging and di-ning facilities will be affected. Classroomand administrative quarters elsewhere inthe building will continue in use.

Some of the slack in hotel room spacein Ithaca is being taken up by new bedand breakfast establishments. A BestWestern Hotel is planned for Cornellproperty at East Hill Plaza, southeast ofcampus.

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Protesters punishedThe first students tried under new rules ofcampus discipline were found guilty latein the spring semester, a fate not sufferedlast year by any of 1,400 who were ar-rested for campus divestment protests un-der the old rules.

After discipline rules could not be en-forced last year, the Board of Trusteesapproved a number of changes to makepeople charged during mass arrests easierto prosecute.

Twelve defendants this spring, elevenstudents and one employee, were givenwritten reprimands and required to do be-tween twenty-five and fifty hours of com-munity service each.

Fraternities disciplinedTwo fraternities were in trouble at theend of the spring semester.

Alumni of Pi Kappa Phi at Cornellvoted to suspend the chapter's charter.They had support from the university ad-ministrators and their national. A chargethat the house served alcohol to four Ith-aca High School students on March 1 wascited by a national officer as "the laststraw." Reorganization could be per-mitted at a later date.

Phi Kappa Psi was placed on full pro-bation for the coming year by an assistantdean of students and the InterfraternityCouncil's judicial administrator. The de-cision was based on sexual harassment ofa female student, stealing fire ex-tinguishers from dorms, and breaking thewindows of a neighboring fraternity. Animproved pledging program and com-munity service are among the conditionsset for the house.

People: 6 honoredfor teachingThe Clark Teaching award for excellencein undergraduate teaching has beenawarded to Prof. Bruce Ganen, chemis-try, and Prof. Walter Cohen, compara-tive literature. They were recognized fortheir outstanding classroom performanceand their general concern for the qualityof undergraduate education and the fur-therance of the individual student's in-tellectual maturing.

Four Engineering faculty members re-ceived Innovative Undergraduate Teach-ing Awards from the Justice Foundation,

which is made up of Cornell alumni ofthe Delta Upsilon fraternity. Prof. R.Tim Teitelbaum, computer science, wascited for designing a programmingdevelopment system for microcomputersused in introductory computer sciencecourses. Professors Terrill A. Cool andAaron Lewis, applied and engineeringphysics, were credited for designing andimplementing an undergraduate courseon construction and application of lasers.Prof. Richard H. Rand, theoretical andapplied mechanics, was cited for intro-ducing computer algebra and microcom-puters into engineering mathematics in-struction.

Prof. Lionel Weiss, operations re-search and industrial engineering, wonthe university's 1986 award for Excellencein Engineering Teaching. The award issponsored by the Cornell Society of Engi-neers, and the Cornell chapter of TauBeta Pi, and is based on student nomina-tions. Weiss is a specialist in statisticaldecision theory and nonparametricstatistics.

New rolesEli Manchester Jr. '52 is a new memberof the university's Board of Trustees,elected at the end-of-year meeting beforeCommencement. He is president andchief executive officer of Boston Insul-ated Wire Cable Systems and a formerpresident of the University Council.

The board also elected six of its mem-bers to new terms: Lilyan Affinito '53,Robert Engel '53, Samuel Johnson '50,Harvey Sampson '51, Jack Sheinkman'49, and Carol Tatkon '59. Three at-largetrustees retired: James Clark '44, JamesGibbs Jr. '52, and Charles Γ. Knight '58,MBA '59, as well as James Stocker '51,an alumni trustee; Prof. Howard Evans'44, Veterinary Anatomy; and KennethWilliams '85.

The three principal candidates for theDemocratic nomination to the US Senatein New York State are Cornellians, andthe connection of one is costing himvotes. The three are John S. Dyson '65,former chairman of the state's PowerAuthority and a trustee of the university;Mark Green '67, author and a former4'Nader raider;" and Webster Tarpley,Grad '67-70, a follower of LyndonLaRouche. Opponents vowed to make anissue of Dyson's vote for a modified planfor Cornell to divest from stock held infirms doing business in South Africarather than for total divestment.

Students drownAmong the four passengers lost at sea

when the schooner, The Pride of Balti-more, sank May 14 was Jeanette (Nina)Schack '87. She was a landscape architec-ture student on leave to sail on the ninety-foot replica of a 19th century schooner.The ship was caught in a sudden squalland sank about 280 miles north of PuertoRico. Eight people were rescued. NinaSchack was the daughter of Prof. MarioSchack, Architecture, who is currentlywith the Cornell-in-Washington pro-gram.

Sabartomo (Danny) Sastrowardoyo'88, a student in Industrial and Labor Re-lations from Brent wood, drowned in FallCreek May 30. He was swimming in apool under the Suspension Bridge, wherean undertow has claimed other victimsbefore. The area is posted against swim-ming.

Teams: Whitneyleads spring starsGrant Whitney '86 paced spring-seasonathletes as their schedules drew to a close.He won the 10,000-meter title at the trackand field Heptagonals and placed secondin the 5,000. A week later he finishedninth in the 1,500 at the IC4As. At theNCAAs he finished eighth in the finals at5,000 meters.

The men's track and field team hadhoped to repeat as outdoor Heps win-ners, but settled for third. Four other en-tries won gold medals: Todd Pressley '86in the 200-meter dash, Steve Kuntz '88 inthe high jump, Darren Roach '87 in thetriple jump, and the 1,600-meter relayteam of Lyndon Providence '88, PaulWashington '89, John Bayne '88, andPressley.

Other scorers were Curt Hampstead'86, second in the 110 high hurdles;Bayne third at 400, and Providence thirdin the 400 hurdles. The 400 relay teamfinished second.

At the IC4As, Kuntz was fifth in thehigh jump with a jump of 6 feet 103/4inches. Hampstead finished fifth in the110-meter high hurdles.

The women's team placed eighth at theHeptagonals championships. SuzanneJones '86 copped a fourth in the3,000-meter run and Carol Anderson '89a sixth. Mary Jo Krolewski '89 was fifthin the 10,000 and Sue Nossal '86 sixth;Kathy Borchelt '86 sixth in the 200-meterdash; and the 1,600- and 400-meter relayteams both finished fourth.

Terry Kent '86 is one of thirty-sevenUS athletes chosen for the OlympiaAward this spring, given annually to

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Olympic and college athletes on the basisof athletics, academics, and leadership.He was an Olympic kayaker in 1084,placing fourth in the 1,000-nieterdoubles, the best finish ever by an Ameri-can. He was also undefeated in sevenmatches as a wrestler for the Red at 190pounds. (Also see "A Senior in a Class byHimself," December 1985 AlumniNews.)

The 150-pound men's crews finishedtheir year at the Eastern Sprints. The var-sity placed fifth, the junior varsity fourth,and the frosh seventh.

The heavyweight men's crews didn'tfare quite as well. In the Easterns, thevarsity was tenth, the JVs fifth, and thefrosh ninth. In the Madiera Cup regattaon the Inlet, all three Cornell eights trailedPenn.

At the Intercollegiate regatta at Syra-cuse, the JV eight placed fifth, the varsityeight seventh, and the frosh eight eighth.A four-oared shell made up of veteran150-pound rowers finished second in theIRA four-without-coxswain event. Afour with cox and a freshman four withcox both placed seventh in their catego-ries, to give Cornell a sixth place overallin the regatta scoring for the Ten EyckMemorial trophy.

At the Easterns, the women's crewscompleted their year. The novice boatplaced fourth, the JVs sixth, and the var-sity seventh.

The baseball team concluded its seasonwith a record of 22 wins and 27 lossesagainst all opponents, 20-16 in the North-east, and 10-8 in the Eastern League, tiedfor third. Its final games included a 13-3win over West Chester and losses 3-6 and4-7 to the same school, a 2-1, 4-7 splitwith Ithaca College, and a 5-4, 5-2 sweepof Hobart.

Designated hitter Joe Catone '89 ledthe team in batting with a .342 average.Left-handed pitcher Rich DeSa '87 hadthe lowest earned run average, 3.60.Three pitchers won five games, LarryBrown '86 at 5-4, Gary DiGiuseppe '86 at5-3, and Chris Sheehan '86 at 5-8.

May marked the end of an amazing ca-reer for James (Bucky) Freeman, for thepast eighteen years an advisor to the base-ball team. He attended St. Bonaventurebefore World War I, played pro ball upto the International League level, finishedstudy at St. Bonaventure, and thenstarted coaching baseball and football atIthaca College. He prepared many play-ers for the pros as head baseball coach at1C for thirty-one years before retiringthere. Today he is 92.

Women's tennis finished with a 4-9 rec-ord, winless in the Ivy League.

Men's tennis came up without a win in

Distance star Grant Whitney '86 in actionat Schoellkopf.

the Eastern league, and had a 4-15 rec-ord, including wins over Albany, Bing-hamton, and Colgate, and a loss to Roch-ester.

Men's golf completed its play with afifth place finish in the Rochester Invita-tional.

A number of Cornellians were namedto All-Ivy teams in lacrosse. For the men,first-string honors went to attackman EdCook '86, midfielders Tom Gunderson'86 and Frank Kelly '86, and defensemanSteve Paletta '87. Goalie Paul Schimoler'89 was named rookie of the year and tothe second^team, along with defensemanTim Vivian '87. Aaron Jones '87 earnedhonorable mention on defense.

Meg Bantley '88, who broke the Cor-nell season goal-scoring record withthirty-nine, was named to the league'ssecond team, along with Karla Griffin'86, on defense. Mary-Beth Delaney '88earned honorable mention. Named to theNortheast Regional All-America teamwere Bantley, Griffin, Delaney, JennyGraap '89 and Kate Howard-Johnson'86.

The late Jack Moakley, Cornell's trackand cross country coach for the first fifty

years of this century, is one of twocoaches nominated to the National Trackand Field Hall of Fame in Indianapolisthis year.

Lance Nethery '79 returns to Davos,Switzerland to play ice hockey thismonth, a second season for him. He waswith Davos last year for the first time,finishing second in scoring in its league.He also played for the Hershey, Pennsyl-vania, Bears of the American League inthe US this winter, and wound up in theCalder Club championships with them.

Joe Niewendyk '88 and Doug DadsweU'88, Ail-Americans on the Cornell hockeyvarsity last winter, told reporters theyplan to play hockey another year on theHill despite contacts from the profession-al teams that hold their draft rights.

TV due for Big RedThe varsity football team will be on tele-vision at least twice next fall, according tothe Ivy Game-of-the^Week schedulemade known in late sppig. The scheduleis fixed for nine of the ten weekends^ andincludes Cornell at Harvard October 11and Brown at Cornell October 18. TheNovember 15 TV date is open, to bedecided after the Ivy games on thepreceding weekend.

Cornell's ^complete schedule opens athome against Princeton September 20,then at Colgate September 27, and con-tinues in October at Lafayette on October4; 11, at Harvard; 18, Brown; and 25* atDartmouth. November games includeBucknell, November 1; Homecoming,Yale, 8; at Columbia, 15; and Penn, 22.

We'll have a preview of the season inour September issue.

The NewsTwo months ago the penultimate para-graph in the Alumni News advised read-ers to look in the Class of 1938 columnfor directions on how to have their maga-zines sent to both summer and winter ad-dress. But the item itself was not pub-lished. This month it is, on page 37. Weapologize.

Richard Hoffman '67, who reports onthe alumni convocation in Washington,DC, in this issue, is a barrister in the Dis-trict of Columbia as well as correspon-dent for his alumni class.

Administrators have Devised their offi-cial Reunion attendance figure, reportedon page 24, to 2,456.

We do not publish in August. The nextAlumni News will appear in September.Have a good summer. —JM

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Office Supplies Business FurnitureJACK D. VAIL, JR., '54 PRESIDENT

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