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29 The Science of SuperconductorsBy William SteeleFaculty and students scour new materials to understand thewonders of resistance-free electrical transmission.

36 ROTC Retakes the HillBy Gordon SanderWhite House, media, and money bring glory days to cadets in Bar-ton Hall.

D E P A R T M E N T S6 From the Editors

Quiet between the terms.

12 LettersMore to Allan Bloom.

18 AuthorsGrossvogel on Ann Landers.

21 FacultyBones tell many stories.

24 SportsWinter teams to cheer about.

26 NewsQuarters proposed for studentsand for day care.

45 News of AlumniClass notes.

80 Alumni Deaths

84 Alumni ActivitiesNew staff to help volunteers.

87 Another ViewThe power behind the chime.

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To ErrProf. Gushing Strout's book, men-tioned on page 8 of the November1987 issue, is correctly The Vera-cious Imagination; veracious with an0, that is.

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Roger Segelken, who writes thepiece on Prof. Kenneth Kennedy inthe Faculty section in this issue, is ascience writer with the university'sNews Service.

More ServiceAdd thirteen years to the service wecredited to Elinor Baier Kennedy'46. In October 1987 we listed classcorrespondents who had servedmore than twenty-five years. Herclass reports Mrs. Kennedy began inJune 1948 and thus has nearly fortyyears on the job. Congratulations.

GenerationsIn a note explaining that he didn'twant to go on receiving the AlumniNews, Everett Oertel, PhD '28 ofBaton Rouge, Louisiana, wrote, "Ihave lost interest in Cornell. Toomany years plus loss of old friendshave made the change. Then too,those young protestors leave mecold. At their age I was in Francefighting the Germans in 1918. Afterone has taken a couple of machinegun nests, he grows up pretty fast."

Cadet TributeJohn E. Slater '43 writes timely ofour article in this issue on ROTC:

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More to BloomEditor: Your tripartite critique (No-vember 1987 Alumni News) of Prof.Allan Bloom's recent book, TheClosing of The American Mind, iswell taken: I suggest, however, thatif you study the volume in its entire-ty, and simply tear out all the pagesthat cast animadversions upon ouresteemed alma mater or contain du-bious allegations, there will still beenough provocative philosophy leftbetween its covers to account for thispublication's surprising popularityamong non-academic readers.

Granted that some of the profes-sor's arguments may indeed be ana-chronistic, personally biased, or fal-lacious in context, his thesis, never-theless, remains sound and well wor-thy of consideration by anyone in-terested in the viability of contem-porary American education.

Insofar as Cornell, itself, is con-cerned, institutions, as well as indi-viduals, may often stand to profitfrom past errors and omissions.

Michael Wolfe Sr.'33Northport, New York

Editor: I have bought Bloom's book,swelling still more his fabulous roy-alties, and so far have read the Intro-duction (more about Saul Bellowthan Bloom), the Preface, and thelast two chapters. I agree whole-heartedly with your review, and thatof Gushing Strout.

One minor point: You say thatCornell was still dismissingstudents, black and white, at thetime of the disorders and thereafter.I served on the Conduct Committeein the mid-'60s. No students wereexpelled, then or for some timethereafter, although a number weresuspended.

Although I am in general sympa-thy with Bloom, I am dismayed byhis cavalier treatment of the facts,and also by his failure to tell his read-ers (at least so far as I have read)what the issue was on which the Uni-versity Faculty voted in April 1969,not once but twice: the "nullifica-

tion' ' of a minor penalty duly imposedin accordance with established pro-cedures.

I am glad you put that word inquotation marks, because I have al-ways questioned whether such apenalty could be "nullified." I sup-pose Bloom would say the issue wasunimportant—any old issue wouldhave done. I would disagree. Havinghelped set up the campus disciplineprocedures, I was outraged to seethem denounced and then hysterical-ly set aside.

Robert S.Pasley,LLB'36Sarasota, Florida

The writer is the Ingersoll professoremeritus of Law at the university.

Editor: It is unfortunate that no stu-dent perspectives were includedalongside the reviews of The Closingof The American Mind presented inthe November Alumni News. Afterall, it is the student, and not Heideg-ger, Nietzsche, university adminis-tration, or Allan Bloom himself whois the true focus of this provocativebook. And as a recent graduate, Ibelieve Bloom deserves a robustdefense that he has not yet receivedon these pages.

As difficult as it is to admit aboutmyself and my peers, The Closing ofThe American Mind is, as a whole,an insightful and accurate account ofintellectual, philosophical, and morallife at America's major universities.

I enthusiastically read this booklast summer, and over the past fewmonths have enjoyed discussingBloom's main themes with my con-temporaries. For many, he has givencast and color to hazy grey notions ofdisappointment with our expensiveeducations.

Not once has anyone I've en-countered challenged Bloom's de-scription of my generation—that it isguided primarily by a shoulder-shrugging relativism, and can mus-ter little more than nonchalance to-wards truth, life, and career. Rather

than engage ourselves in passionatepursuits, we instead make choicesby default—settling on the leastundesirable alternative available.

In the November issue, muchwas written concerning the specificsof Bloom's methodology and his per-sonal recollections of local eventsand classical philosophy. However,it is revealing that no one dared lookhis conclusion straight in the eye.

Since those whom Bloom criti-cizes have dominated higher educa-tion for a generation, to fully refutehis arguments necessitates a stal-wart defense of today's students. Itis easy to swat at the gadfly, but farmore difficult to defend what the em-phasis on equality over excellencehas wrought. Who would argue thatwe are well educated? Who is proudof us?

During my senior year, I remem-ber noticing a Doonesbury comicstrip pinned to office doors in severalacademic buildings. Usually en-larged to several times original size,this strip lampooned the intellectualpassivity of modern students andended with a frustrated professorplacing his head on the podium andmuttering, "Teaching is dead." Ifeven our mentors are moved to suchpublic displays of despair, the mo-ment has indeed arrived for a soberre-evaluation of what students think.

As an institution, Cornell has putits full faith in what might be calledthe ideology of diversity—more is al-ways better. Both academically andsocially, diversity and communityare tradeoffs. Cornell has embracedthe age of specialization at every lev-el of university life. At what cost? Athoughtful reading of Allan Bloom'sbook raises serious questions con-cerning the wisdom of graduating5,000 students a year with little incommςm other than the coincidenceof geography and brunch at theStraight.

Yes, Bloom indulges in speciousgeneralizations. And yes, his bookhas a few other problems. But never-theless, we owe him a great debt forcalling attention to a crisis in confi-dence, that students, in silent testi-mony to its ironic result, do not evenknow exists.

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Editor: Just a couple of thoughts tobe added to those provided byMessrs. Eddy, Marcham, and Stroutin re Bloom's Closing. . .

In recounting the things thatCornell has done wrong of late, heforgot to mention the original, andcardinal sin in the Bloom theology,which dates all the way back to EzraCornell and his "I would found an in-stitution where any person can findinstruction in any study." This radi-cal idea struck a major and perhapsdecisive blow at the classical cur-riculum, which Bloom apparentlywould like to see restored.

No doubt the curriculum hasover-expanded at Cornell and else-where in the century and a quartersince Ezra exploded his bombshell,but Bloom's program of going backto the "basics" is an idle dream, andwhy half a million presumed readerswould spend $18.95 plus tax for sucha fantasy stretches the imagination.

In his infatuation with the "ba-sics" Bloom is lavish in his enthusi-asm for Plato's Republic, which hedescribes as the (his italics) book oneducation—a preposterous proposi-tion. No doubt a good case can bemade that the Republic should be re-quired reading in courses in philoso-phy and political science; but it hasno relevance whatever to the realproblems of education in this coun-try.

The Republic sets out in muchdetail a program of education for thephilosopher-kings of an Utopian aris-tocracy such as never existed nor ev-er will. Plato has nothing but con-tempt for democracy as a form ofgovernment and "the disregard sheshows of all the principles which wehave laid down ... a charming formof government, full of variety anddisorder, and dispensing a sort ofequality to equals and unequalsalike."

Plato's ideal state, which his ed-ucational scheme is designed toserve, censors all literature and mu-sic; women and children are com-mon property; women are trainedfor war in the same manner (in thenude) as men; the gods are wor-shipped in the accepted manner, andso on. These are, perhaps, interest-ing ideas for philosophical discus-sion, but as for having any realistic

relation to contemporary society inAmerica . . . they don't.

Harry L. Case'29Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The writer notes that he was a some-time professor of education at Michi-gan State University.

Wartime VerseEditor: Nancy Mynott Davis's No-vember story of "Co-ed on a War-time Campus" sent me digging formy scrapbooks. Fun! Among othertreasures I found a penciled copy of a1942 verse for the Song of theClasses:

Oh, we are the Sophomores traditionstill goes

The Freshmen took men from rightunder our nose.

The draft caught the rest of the boys ofour age

So now we sign up to date Ensigns atSage.

And some of our classmatesmarried them.

Eleanor Dickie RichardsonClass of '45 Song Leader

LaPorte, Indiana

And Podell, TooEditor: I read with interest the letterfrom Albert N. Podell '58 [Novem-ber News], and would generally haveto say that I agree with AΓs com-ments. I would hope that the AlumniNews might more adequately fulfillits mission with articles of commentsand content rather than short piecesof little intellectual value.

Roger B.Jacobs 73New York City

Editor: This letter is provoked by theletter from Albert N. Podell '58 inthe November issue.

While I don't agree with all theparticular criticisms that Mr. Podellmakes in his letter, I do agree thatthe Alumni News seems to haveveered away from some of the meatyarticles it used to present and seemsmore oriented toward lighter fea-


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tures. While some of this is mildlyentertaining, I also find that I amspending much less time with themagazine than I used to do.

(I even pay less attention thanpreviously to the class notes, sincean organized cabal of fraternity-sor-ority types took over the class col-umn for '74 at our Fifth Reunion andthe column rarely mentions anyone Iknow anymore.)

Although I don't subscribe toHarvard Magazine, as an alumnus ofthe Law School I receive three orfour free copies each year, and thatmagazine certainly has far more ofinterest to read than the AlumniNews.

Arthur S.Leonard "74New York City

The writer notes that he is an associ-ate professor of law at New YorkLaw School.

Editor: There are two small pointsregarding the November issue whichI would like to bring to your atten-tion.

On page 18, there is an adver-tisement for a Cornell watch: mayone inquire how much the watchcosts with hands?

On page 82, the preface to Mar-garet Mooney Milmoe's delightfulmemoir states that the piece waswritten in 1918. According to thefifth paragraph in the article, direct-ly alongside on the printed page, thecorrect date must be 1926.

Unlike A. N. Podell '58 I thinkthat your magazine is first class inevery respect. It certainly puts theMcGill Alumni News, which I alsoreceive, into the deepest shade.

Robert J. Bordius '64Montreal, Canada

In order, hands are included and thedates in the Milmoe article are cor-rect, 1918 and 1873, but they areforty-five years apart, not fifty-threeas mistakenly indicated.—Ed.

Frye IIEditor: I recently discovered that Imissed the story in your November1986 issue on the "Hugo N. Frye"

caper [in which the Daily Sun invitednational GOP leaders to honor a ficti-tious former U.S. vice president]. Ihave told the story many times, oftento disbelievers. I would like to havesome validating material on hand thenext time. [Copy sent.]

My insignificant role in the af-fair (addressing and helping themailing of invitations to Republicanmembers of Congress, etc.) was a re-sult of my being a compet for the jobof editing The Berry Patch a follow-ing year. I contributed items underthe pseudonym "Saul Peter." Whilean unsuccessful candidate for thatjob as editor, I still felt a part of theaction.

JoelL.Irwin'33Honolulu, Hawaii

The Berry Patch was a column ofhumor on the editorial page of theCornell Daily Sun in earlieryears—Ed.

Don't Tread...This letter refers to Prof. MarshallCohen, mathematics, who wrote one ofseveral letters that appeared in theCornell Daily Sun on the day beforeHomecoming, in support of the strik-ing university employees representedby the United Auto Workers union:

Editor: At the beginning of whatturned out to be. the usual greatHomecoming Weekend, I was star-tled by the anger of Prof. MarshallCohen. As a high school teacher,seemingly an "ordinary person" andthus on Cohen's acceptable list, per-haps my thoughts might have achance of reaching him.

Cohen's rantings about a''build-ing frenzy," in his view unfortunate-ly coiήbined with "tightfisted eco-nomics" in other areas, somehowhave pushed me to throw a small sal-vo back to Ithaca on my return toPoughkeepsie.

My reality is that I got an excel-lent education in the 1960s and thatthe undergraduate programs areeven stronger today. I spend somevolunteer time with a few of thethousands of alumni who raisemoney for, among other things,


scholarships and buildings. Vital on-going expansion of the university'sinfrastructure is in capable hands,and Cornell will be a better place forit in the 1990s.

Cornell's central administrationis the kind that can weather the neg-ativism of the Cohens of the world.But it might be useful to emphasizethat, from a variety of perspectives,Cornell's central administration isprobably the best in the country.

By the way, Professor Cohen,one advantage on which Cornell hasgained more of an edge in the lastfew years is its ability to offer thequality of its community at a costmuch less than its competitors facein, say, Cambridge and Princeton.Don't you have any colleagues who,after sifting through their offers, fig-ured that there was more chance ofraising the family and buying thehouse in Ithaca than in Evanston?

JonWechsler'66Poughkeepste, New York

One More LegacyEditor: In the April edition, the Lega-cies list omitted my son, Edward. Heentered in fall 1986 and is in the Divi-sion of Unclassified Students.

CarlF.Kowalski'59Summit, New Jersey

Another BurgerEditor: Your article on Cornell burg-ers brought back grease-laden mem-ories of countless early mornings atObie's, wolfing the aforementioned,washed down with butter-smearedapple turnovers.

Alas, the years pass, and somerecollections fade. Help me—whatthe devil was (and hopefully still) is a' Ύeagerburger "?

Robert J.Arnold'68New York City

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Ann AnalyzedDEAR ANN LANDERSContemporary Booksby David Grossvogel

hat did an esteemed profes-sor of letters glean fromfeeding thirty years of AnnLanders columns into acomputer? Answer: an

analysis of the changing social moresin America from the 1960s to pre-sent. Compiled into 240 pages, thebook is "an affectionate yet honestlook at the way we were, how weargued over the way others were,and the ways we have changed overthe last three decades," according tothe author. Grossvogel is theGoldwin Smith professor of compar-ative literature and Romance studiesat the university.

IMAGINING THE PENITENTIARYBy John Bender, PhD '67, profes-sor of English and comparative liter-ature, Stanford University. Interdis-ciplinary discussion of the relation ofboth the novel and reformist doc-trine to eighteenth-century theoriesabout the fictional construction of reality. (University of Chicago Press)

LAW AND BUSINESS OF THEENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIESBy Donald E. Biederman '55,Warner Brothers Music, along withRobert C. Berry, Edward P. Pierson,Martin E. Silfen, and Jeanne A.Glasser. A comprehensive volume toaid in contract negotiations in the en-tertainment industry. (AuburnHouse)

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MINDBy Allan Bloom, former Cornell fac-ulty member. A best seller that criti-cizes U.S. liberal education in thepast quarter century. Three articlesin the November A lumniNews dealtwith its references to Cornell.(Simon & Schuster)

POST-MORTEM EFFECTSBy Prof.Thomas Boyle '61, Eng-

A Dustjacket of Professor Gross-vogel's newest book.

lish, Brooklyn College. A mys-tery/thriller set amidst Brooklyn'ssociologically layered ethnicity.(Viking Penguin Inc.)

THE FANCIEST DIVEBy Christopher M. Byron. An un-kind look at the record failure of TV-Cable Week magazine, by an editorialmanager of the venture. Corporate,business, and MBA types fare poor-ly, circulation director Sarah SlaterBrauns '73 less poorly than most.(Norton)

THE GROUNDINGOF MODERN FEMINISMBy Prof. Nancy Falik Cott '67,American studies and history, andchair of women's studies, Yale Uni-versity. A history of American femi-nism bridging the gap between thepre-suffrage period and today. (YaleUniversity Press)

ASPECTS OF DIGESTIVEPHYSIOLOGY IN RUMINANTSBy Prof. Alan Dobson, veterinary

medicine, and Marjorie Dobson. Aninterdisciplinary survey of recent ad-vances in ruminant research, espe-cially on comparative aspects of thedigestive tract. (Cornell UniversityPress)

SENECA'S "HERCULES FURENS"By Prof. John G. Fitch, PhD '74,classics, University of Victoria, Brit-ish Columbia. A Latin text of Sene-ca's play, based on a collation of thechief manuscripts, including thenewly recognized Paris manuscriptT. (Cornell University Press)

SHAPING POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESSBy David Green '63, PhD '67, Cana-dian Jewish Congress. The evolutionof American political vocabularyfrom the late nineteenth century,showing how politicians uselanguage to serve their politicalends. (Cornell University Press)

JOURNEYS AMONG WOMENBy Judith Adler Hellman '67, YorkUniversity, Ontario. Tracing thedevelopment of feminism in fiveItalian cities, the book focuses onhow social and political traditionshave shaped the development of anew social movement. (OxfordUniversity Press)

INTERVENTION: HOW AMERICABECAME INVOLVED IN VIETNAMBy Prof. George McT. Kahin, inter-national studies. A work revealing a"darkening series of decisions" thatled to America's intervention inSoutheast Asia. (Anchor/Double-day)

BODY AND SOULBy Julie Kane '74, consultant ontechnical documentation in New Or-leans. A collection of poetry.(Pirogue Publishing)

THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS OF THEUNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPEEdited by Prof. Mary Fainsod Katz-enstein, government, and Carol Mc-Clurg Mueller, PhD '71, lecturer insocial studies at Harvard. Focusingon various movements in sevencountries, this collection of essaysseeks to gauge the power and direc-tion of today's feminist movement.(Temple University Press)


STATE CAPITALISM:PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN CANADABy Prof. Jeanne Kirk Laux '64, po-litical science, University of Ottawa,and Maureen Appel Molot . Theyargue that governmental involve-ment in public enterprise is a stream-lining of state capitalism, not a com-plete dismantling of the free enter-prise system. (Cornell UniversityPress)

WORD CULTURESBy Prof. Robin Rector Lydenberg,PhD '73, English, Boston College.A discussion of the radical theoryand practice in William S. Bur-roughs's fiction. (University of Illi-nois Press)

INVERTEBRATE-MICROBIAL INTERACTIONSBy Prof. Michael M. Martin '55, bi-ology, University of Michigan. Ar-thropods that eat wood, foliage, anddetritus have difficulty digesting thecellulose in their food. Martin, achemical ecologist, describes thediscovery that in eating fungal tis-sue, arthropods ingest enzymes thatallow them to exploit the nutritiveplant fiber. (Cornell UniversityPress)

UNFORGETTABLE THINGSPoems by So Chong-ju, translated byProf. David McCann, Asian litera-ture. Works by a retired professor ofKorean literature and Buddhism,considered Korea's leading candi-date for a Nobel Prize in literature.(Sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Seoul andNew York City)

PRISON WRITINGSBy Kim Dae Jung, translated byProf. David McCann, Asian litera-ture. A collection of letters written in1980-81 by the Korean political op-position leader. (University of Cali-fornia Press)

UP YOUR S.A.T. SCOREBy Larry Berger, Manek Mistry'90, and Paul Rossi '90. A Scholas-tic Aptitude Test review book writ-ten by students who have taken thecommon test for measuring collegeaptitude and gone on to the collegesof their choice. An article in theNovember Alumni News tells more.(New Chapter Press)

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BELOVED

By Toni Morrison, MA '55. A taleof an escaped slave from Kentuckystruggling to survive in post-CivilWar Ohio in a house haunted by theghost of her dead baby. (Alfred A.Knopf)

THE ROOTS OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYEdited by Prof. Thomas L. Pangle'66, political science, University ofToronto. Literal translations of tenSocratic dialogues previously con-demned as forgeries. In his introduc-tion, Prangle supports their authen-ticity. (Cornell University Press)

UNDERSTANDING VLADIMIR NABOKOVBy Prof. Stephen Jan Parker '60,PhD '69, Slavic languages and litera-tures, University of Kansas. A read-er's companion to the best novelswritten by one of this century's mostcelebrated writers. (University ofSouth Carolina Press)

RUNNING FROM NIGHT

Poetry by Karen Randlev '63, in aseries of new Alaskan poets.(Fireweed Press)

CHINESE SOCIETY IN THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURY

By Prof. Evelyn Sakakida Rawski'61, history, University of Pitts-burgh, and Susan Naquin. An over-view and reevaluation of the socialhistory of China in the eighteenthcentury and an exploration of theconsequences of the times on nine-teenth-century life. (Yale UniversityPress)

THE PATH TO VIETNAMBy Andrew J. Rotter '75, teacherof history, Colgate University. Thework uncovers and analyzes the sur-prisingly complex reasons for Amer-ica's fateful decision to provide eco-nomic and military aid to the nationsof Southeast Asia in 1950, (CornellUniversity Press)

HISTORY AND MAGICAL POWERIN A CHINESE COMMUNITY

By Prof. P. Steven Sangren, anthro-pology. A holistic view of Chineseculture derived from a case study an-alyzing the history and ritual of aparticular Taiwanese town. (Stan-ford University Press)

ART OF THE FANTASTIC:LATIN AMERICA 1920-1987

By Holliday T. Day and HollisterSturges '61, chief curator, Indiana-polis Museum of Art. A major cata-log of modern Latin American artwith essays and articles. (Indianapo-lis Museum of Art)

DOWN AND IN

By Richard Sukenick '55, teacherof creative writing at the Universityof Colorado. A collaborative cross-cultural history of the bohemian un-derground of 1948 and the "otherlife" of the middle class. (Beech TreeBooks/William Morrow & Co.)

EDWARD ALBEE: A BIBLIOGRAPHYBy Richard Tyce '69, A compre-hensive bibliography on Albee con-taining over 2,700 citations. (Scare-crow Press Inc.)

AN OTHERWISE PERFECT HISTORYA collection of poetry by Julia Wen-dell '77, her first full-length publica-tion. (The Greenfield Review Press)

ACID RAIN

Edited by Prof. James C. White'39, PhD '44, dairy industry andfood science, emeritus. Subtitled,"The relationship between sourcesand receptors." Authoritative view-points that link scientific and policy-related issues in the search for mea-sures to control acid rain. (ElsevierScience Publishing Co.)

THE GRAMMAR OF JUSTICEBy Prof. Elizabeth Hankins Wol-gast '50, MA '52, philosophy, Cali-fornia State University at Hayward.An argument that traditional liberaltheory, with its emphasis on individ-ual rights and self-defined interest,cannot by itself give an adequate pic-ture Qf community, morality, orjustice. (Cornell University Press)

IN SEARCH OF SOUTHEAST ASIAA revised edition of the standard his-tory of modern Southeast Asia, byseven authors, most with Cornellconnections, under the leadership ofProf. David K. Wyatt, PhD '66,Southeast Asian history. Others in-clude Robert H. Taylor, PhD '74,and John R. W. Smail, PhD '64.(University of Hawaii Press)


T H E F A C U L T Y

BY ROGER SEGELKEN

Bared BonesP

oliceman's heel, dog-walker'selbow, musher's knee, andgolfer's big toe describe tell-tale wear that shows up on ahuman skeleton because a per-

son's job or hobby required repeti-tive body movements.

Knowledge of which wear re-flects which activity is important incriminology and in anthropologicalscholarship. Prof. Kenneth A.R.Kennedy, ecological systems, is aforensic anthropologist who prac-tices both sciences.

He examines thousands of an-cient and modern skeletons, fromexcavations of 30,000-year-old Pa-leolithic sites in India to remainsbrought by police agencies to theuniversity's Human Biology Labora-tory.

The public will be able to read of140 markers of occupational stresscompiled by Kennedy in a chapter ina soon-to-be-published book, Recon-struction of Life from the Skeleton.Among the markers compiled fromhis work and those of others datingback to the last century:

• Milker's neck, a compressivefracture of the cervical spine causedwhen cows shift position and lean onthe milker's head.

• Osteoarthritis of the spine,afflicting Acapulco cliff divers whorepeatedly hit the water head first.

• Cowboy thumb, a fracture fromgripping the saddle horn while flyingoff the saddle in rodeos or while rid-ing mechanical bulls in barrooms.

• Dog-walker's elbow, from walk-ing a dog on a short leash when theanimal is not trained to heel.

• Hooker's elbow, the result ofice-fishing.

• Executive foot, from sitting at adesk with the heels off the floor andweight on the toes.

One source of information onoccupational stress markers is in thebones of a 3,000-year-old Egyptianmummy named Penpi. The mum-my, which was donated to the uni-versity in the late 1800s, is the re-

mains of a young man who workedas a scribe, Kennedy and graduatestudent Thomas Plummer deter-mined in 1983.

Years of clutching a stylus whilewriting in clay stressed a ligamentand left distinctive "lines of attach-ment" on bones of Penpi's right in-dex finger. Examination of Penpi'sskeleton also revealed that he re-peatedly sat cross-legged—asscribes were known to do—and thathe suffered toothaches and yaws, a

A Prof. KennethKennedy and theskulls he uses forforensic identifi-cation/in hisCorson Hall of-fice.

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tropical disease."When people think of occupa-

tional stress on the skeleton, theypicture bowlegged cowboys andlong-fanged vampires/' Kennedysays. "But markers of occupationalstress have scientific importance forindustrial and athletic medicine.Knowing how bones and teeth reactto stress helps paleontologists andpaleodemographers reconstruct life-ways of people who died thousandsof years ago and, for forensic anthro-pologists, of those who are more re-cently deceased/'

Not all the modern skeletonsbrought to Kennedy for forensic ex-amination are crime victims. Someare the remains of unidentified ormissing persons, and the anthropolo-gist's opinion has been asked on thebones of cattle, dogs, and even adonkey. Kennedy has helped todetermine whether a skeleton foundon a Pacific island belonged to themissing aviatrix Amelia Earhart (itdidn't) and which skull should bereunited with the rest of Swedishphilosopher Emanuel Swedenborg(one of two in England was his).

Markers of occupational stresstell a lot, but other information isnecessary, too, for a positive identifi-cation, Kennedy cautions. For in-stance, a nearly identical exostosis(bony surface elevation) is found onthe humerus of javelin-throwingNeolithic Saharans and of moderngolf players.

HonorsMary Ann Radzinowicz, the Schur-man professor of English literature,is the new Honored Milton Scholarof the Year, so named by the MiltonSociety of America in December.She is best known for Toward "Sam-son Agonistes": The Growth of Mil-ton 's Mind.

Thomas Dyckman, the Olinprofessor of accounting in the Schoolof Management, has been named theOutstanding Accounting Educatorby the American Accounting Associ-ation, made up of professors in thefield in business schools across thecountry, and certified public accoun-tants.

DeathsProf. John Macklin Rathmell, mar-keting, emeritus, Johnson GraduateSchool of Management, died Octo-ber 9,1987, in Ithaca at the age of 76.A former sales analyst, ProfessorRathmell joined the faculty in 1952and taught until retirement in 1976.

Prof. Mary K. Bloetjes, PhD'53, nutrition, emeritus, diedNovember 21,1987, in Ithaca at age82. A recognized pioneer in her field,she chaired the Department of Insti-tutional Management in the Collegeof Home Economics, 1955-69.

Prof. Walter H. Stainton '19,PhD '27, speech and drama,emeritus, died December 9,1987, inIthaca at age 90. Known locally forhis extensive knowledge of earlysilent moviemaking, he was assis-tant and director of the UniversityTheater, 1928-52, and founded thetheater's art cinema division.

Prof. Gerald B. Kelley, linguist-ics and Asian studies, died Decem-ber 7,1987, in Ithaca at the age of 59.He was a member of the facultysince 1963, chairman of the Depart-ment of Modern Languages andLinguistics from 1971-75.

A Separate Viewof Catholicism

Cornell University has never had adepartment devoted to religiousteachings, certainly not one of Cath-olic studies. Enter the Rev. CharlesCurran, former professor of theolo-gy at Catholic University. His effortsto treat the religion with an open per-spective—to make traditional Ca-tholicism more conscious of today'ssociological viewpoints—led him todissent from some official Catholicteachings. In response, the Vaticanrevoked his right to teach theology.

At Cornell, Curran is the Kanebvisiting professor of Catholic stud-ies, teaching Catholic history andmoral theology in the Society for theHumanities.

His dissenting views, which in-clude issues of contraception, di-


vorce, homosexuality, and the role ofwomen in the church, were publiclycriticized. These issues are the focusof a movement of * 'revisionist"Catholic moral theologians,«foundespecially in the United States andWestern Europe, who are trying toopen the religion to accommodatescience, history, and social change inits teachings.

On abortion: * 'Truly human life.begins at the time of individuation,which occurs between the four-teenth and the twenty-first day afterconception. One can be justified intaking truly individual life only forthe sake of the life of the mother orfor a value commensurate with lifeitself."

He is far from alone in his be-

« The Rev.Charles Curranamong Cornell'sivy.

"The church should move for-ward," Curran told a Daily Sun re-porter. "The role of the theologian isto be critical. The greatest misun-derstanding is that the Catholicchurch is a static monolith that neverchanges."

Without intending to, Curranhas come to speak for Catholics whobelieve the time has come forchange. For conservative Catholics,he has come to represent trouble,someone breaching divine authority.Pope John Paul II appears to seeCurran in this light; he has takenstrong stands against divorce, homo-sexuality, birth control, and abortionduring his reign. Curran's revisionistviews argue that in some cases,these are not absolutely wrong.

For instance, Curran has writ-ten, "I propose that for an irreversi-ble, constitutional, or genuine homo-sexual, homosexual acts in the con-text of a loving relationship strivingfor permanence can in a certainsense be morally acceptable."

liefs. Catholics today face these is-sues daily, he said, and they areforced, without theological backing,to make up their own minds. "Theseare problems everyone has dealtwith. Everybody's family has had todeal with issues like divorce, contra-ception, and such. We have to look atchurch teaching in light of thesechanges."

At Cornell, Curran is not teach-ing sexual ethics. He taught twocourses in the fall—The Renewal ofRoman Catholicism at the SecondVatican Council and FundamentalMoral Theology—and will teachCatholic Social Teachings in thespring, as well as giving public lec-tures.

The final ruling determiningwhether Curran will be allowed toreturn to his post at Catholic Univer-sity has yet to be made. His contin-ued belief in basic church values isstrong. That he believes one can dis-agree and still be a loyal Catholic is,in part, what led to his dismissal.

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S P O R T S

Teams to Cheer

inter teams were givingtheir coaches and fans moreto cheer about than ex-pected, starting strongly inbasketball and hockey and

showing promise in a variety of othersports.

Both men's hockey andwomen's basketball were rebuild-ing, and both started particularlywell.

First-year coach Brian McCut-cheon '71 got stellar play out of new-comers on attack and in goal inmen's hockey. The early record in-cluded three losses, but each was to a

team ranked Number Four in thecountry at the time, and each a closecontest: 3-5 to St. Lawrence, 1-3 toHarvard, and 4-5 to Colgate.

Corrie D'Alessio '91 emerged asthe starting goaltender. Trent Andi-son '91 was the team's second lead-ing scorer after seven matches. Oth-er leading producers were CaseyJones '90, Chris Grenier '89, DougDerraugh '91, Stewart Smith '89, allon attack, and defenseman ChrisNorton '88.

The team beat Clarkson 4-2 andU.S. International 5-1 before theChristmas break, then won the NewHaven Classic tournament by beat-ing Michigan 6-3 and New Hamp-shire 5-2. D'Alessio was namedMVP and Norton also made the all-tourney team. The Red's recordstood at 6-3.

Women's basketball opened4-1 with victories over Brooklyn79-29, Hartwick 57-50, Brockport79-52, and Long Island U. 55-47, be-fore losing to Bucknell 82-95. Theteam is mostly underclass in make-up, after losing three key starters tograduation last May.

Among the early leaders in scor-ing were Karen Walker '91, Mere-dith Metzger '91, and Co-captainPatti Froehlich '89.

On a midwinter swing to PuertoRico, the team lost to the Universityof Puerto Rico 71-86, beat the Uni-versity of Mayaguez 85-29, then lostto the Puerto Rican National Team71-86.

Men's basketball set about re-placing scoring machine John Bajusz'87. Returning players spreadaround the points in each game,heading into the holidays with a win-ning record after beating CastletonState 81-53, Canisius 94-89, and St.Bonaventure 61-57, and absorbing aphysical and point beating at Syra-cuse 59-95.

Guard Sam Jacobs '88 was theleading scorer, backed by centerGreg Gilda '88 and forward Wolf-gang Florin '88. Other early contrib-

^ Coach LindaLerch exhortsher basketballcharges from thesideline.


utors included guard Josh Wexler'89 and forward Mike Millane '88.

The Red took second in theMusic City Invitational at Nashville,beating Miami of Ohio 77-71 and los-ing to Vanderbilt 79-95. Tfie teamlost to North Carolina State 72-95 onthe road and beat Army 72-65 in Bar-ton Hall for a 5-3 record.

Women's polo continued towin, topping Skidmore 11-7 in De-cember. Men's polo had a 7-3 recordagainst all competition, includingwins over Yale 17-10 and Skidmore26-8, and a loss to Virginia 14-17.

Men's squash took third at theWilliams Tournament, posting a 5-2record in the process.

The only gymnastics meet ofthe first semester was a loss, by themen to Army, 206-229. Brad Baker'89 took a second each in the floorexercise and all-around scoring, andMark Sonnenfeld '90 placed third inthe all-around.

The wrestling team won its owninvitational tournament, then lost itsonly dual meet of the early winter, toLehigh, 16-25. Against powerhouseLehigh, Red winners were EricKaufman '91 at 118 pounds, Pat Wa-ters '90 at 158, and a forfeit at heavy-weight. Jerry Graziano '89 at 126and Jack Macko '89 at 134 earnedties. Graziano, Waters at 150, andJoe Guciardo '90 at 158 were cham-pions at the invitational.

Women's hockey lost toGuelph 0-1, St. Lawrence 1-2 inovertime, and Providence 0-8, andbeat Colgate 12-0 twice before NewYear's. Men's swimming lost meetsto Penn 76-135, Army 89-123, andColumbia 99-114, and women'sswimming lost to Penn 114-154 andColumbia 123-145 and beat Army154-109.

Men's fencing placed fourth inthe Cornell Open; women's fencing,seventh. The two track teams openedtheir years with the Syracuse and theCornell relay meets. Individual win-ners at Syracuse were Mike Saun-ders '89 in thαvtriple jump, Bob King'89 in the 5,000-meter run, and MikeEaly '91 in the 55-meter dash; and atCornell, Erik Lukens '89 in the3,000, Frantz Saintelien '88 in thelong jump, Ealy in the dash, LyndonProvidence '88 in the 55-meterhurdles, Steve Kuntz '88 in the pen-

tathlon, and Kris Kick '89 in thewomen's triple jump.

Post-SeasonErik Lukens '89 placed 110th in theNCAA cross country finals.

Stephanie Maxwell '86 is a can-didate for the U.S. Olympicwomen's rowing team.

The Cornell men's varsity crewfinished seventeenth out of forty-oneboats in the Head of the Charles lastfall, won one race and lost anotherafter suffering a broken seat at thePittsburgh Regatta.

Five varsity men made the All-Ivy Football first team, offensivetackle Lee Reherman '88, defensivetackle Gary Rinkus '88, cornerbackMike Raich '88, safety JeffDeLamielleure '88, and wide receiv-er Sam Brickley '89. LinebackerMike McGrann '89 and widereceiver Shaun Hawkins '88 werenamed second string.

Four alumni are playing in theNational Hockey League this sea-son, three with division-leadingteams. Doug Dadswell '88 was lead-ing the Calgary Flames in goal andJoe Nieuwendyk '88 had scoredtwenty goals for the Flames by mid-December, including two four-goalnights. Brian Hayward '82 sharedgoalie chores with Guy Roy for theMontreal Canadiens. The Flamesand Canadiens were atop their divi-sions at the time. Darren Eliot '83was a backup goalie for the DetroitRed Wings.

Five members of the 150-pound football team made the All-Eastern league first team, quarter-back Dave Zittel '88, running backEric Boham '88, defensive end Da-vid Winston '88, linebacker JohnDattero '88, and defensive backWalt O'Shea '88. Ed Drimak '88,Drew Reese '89, Nick Whitcombe'88, and Mark Tamis '88 were namedsecond team.

Mary-Beth DeLaney '89 earnedsecond-team All-Ivy honors in fieldhockey, with Beth Paciello '89,Ellen Graap '89, and Nadia Glucks-berg '89 honorable mentions.

John Bayne '88 was named sec-ond-team All-Ivy in soccer.

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day care center, governmen-tal restrictions, and possibleadded housing for studentsare part of the newest plansfor construction by and at the

university.• A new community day care cen-

ter will be built northeast of campuson land leased from the university,using a mortgage provided by Cor-nell, and with $600,000 in subsidyover the next five years.

The building will house the Itha-ca Childcare Center, which is losingits home this year, and the CornellCommunity Infant Care Center onTriphammer Road. Nearly all the124 children served by the existingcenters have parents who work atthe university.

• Administrators have gone to theBoard of Trustees with plans tohouse 400 graduate students in theold Cornell Quarters area of East Ith-aca and 600 more undergraduates inthe North Campus area. Financing isthought to be in hand for the $5 mil-lion in rooms for single graduate stu-dents but has yet to be worked outfor the $22 million needed for theNorth Campus project.

• In Collegetown, developer JasonFane received a building permit toconstruct a six-story apartmentbuilding to house 312 tenants southof Dryden Road, across from thenew Eddygate Apartment tower.

• Trustees were due to hear lastmonth of the cost and adequacy ofplans for a new Engineering collegebuilding to accommodate the super-computer Theory Center. Ithaca res-idents and officials objected to earli-er plans to build on the edge of Cas-cadilla Gorge near Hoy Field. Thelatest plans call for razing GrummanHall and building on its site, backfrom the edge of the gorge.

• City officials moved to restrictuniversity use of the area north ofcampus by seeking National Regis-ter of Historic Places designation forall of Cornell Heights. Cornellcountered with a report from thefirm of Clarke & Rapuano which saidmost of the neighborhood's 166buildings are of "indifferent value/'and opposed what it referred to as' 'the attempt to arrest the life and de-velopment of a large area by mum-mifying it into a historic district, par-ticularly adjacent to a dynamic uni-versity ..."

The city earlier blocked univer-sity efforts to use a building that itowns in Cornell Heights for academ-ic offices. Cornell sued and a courtruled that the city could regulateuniversity use of land throughspecial permits. The university hasnot since reapplied to convert thebuilding to academic use.

"Rather than indulging in thesecostly court battles," wrote the Itha-ca Journal, "the university and the ci-ty ought to be negotiating an agree-ment over their long-range goals."

• In the meantime, the bridgefrom Collegetown to campus re-opened during the fall, as did BartonHall, with a new $1 million syntheticrubber floor.

Johnson SchoolPlans Changes

The Johnson Graduate School ofManagement is gearing up for thetwenty-first century. Curricular ex-pansion to achieve broader under-standing of business in today's glo-bal marketplace tops the list.

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In the new curriculum, facultyfrom other university departmentswill share with MBA candidatestheir expertise in engineering, sci-ence, law, and international studiesto provide a general knowledge andflexibility predicted to be necessaryfor future business leaders.

For instance, students will learnabout the growing problems of prod-uct liability from law professors likeJames Henderson, expert in the sub-ject, and the effects of toxic chemicalhazards on business with professorsof environmental engineering. Prof.Alfred E. Kahn, economics, who de-regulated the airline industry whilechairman of the Civil AeronauticsBoard, is called on to speak.

International studies will be giv-en a high profile because of the in-

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Other factors in the transition in-clude increasing the number of pro-fessors from thirty-eight to forty-five, and decreasing enrollment by10 percent. According to the dean,"smaller classes permit competitionin educationally productive ways."

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THE SCIENCE OFSUPERCONDUCTORS

BY WILLIAM STEELE 4 Prof. RobertBuhrman peersat a sample ofnew supercon-ductor in ClarkHall. Compoundof yttrium,barium, and cop-per oxide be-comes a super-conductor at 90degrees Kelvin.

It was January andall their graduatestudents had gonehome for the holidays, so Professors Robert Buhrman,PhD 73, applied engineering physics, and Albert Sie-vers, physics, went down to the basement of Clark Halland got their hands dirty. In a paper by K. Alex Muellerand J. Georg Bednorz of IBM's laboratory in Rueschli-kon, Switzerland, they had found something so revolu-tionary they had to try it out at once. Following sketchyinstructions in the paper they mixed powdered me-tals—copper, barium, and lanthanum—pressed the mix-ture into small pellets and heated the pellets in a furnaceat 900 degrees Celsius for twenty-four hours.

"We didn't know what we were doing," Sievers re-calls. "The initial papers [didn't say] what temperature,or should you cool the furnace rapidly or slowly. We putit in for twenty-four hours and yanked it out into the air,but that turned out to be the right way to do it."

The pellets, about the size and shape of three stackedpennies, came out black and cinderlike. The physicistsconnected wires to one of them and passed an electric

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A Prof. Albert Sievers adjusts a Cornell-made optical instrument used to study the reflecting behavior of newer super-conductors. Materials appear black as coal to the eye but shiny as a mirror to infrared rays. o

current through it, then cooled itwith liquid helium. When thetemperature fell to around 34K (34degrees above absolute zero or about-238 degrees C) all resistance to thecurrent disappeared. The materialhad become a '"superconductor."

The discovery of the new mater-ial's superconductivity by the Swissteam set off a flurry of research ac-tivity, not to mention headlines, allover the world. Sievers, Buhrman,and other scientists at Cornell soonjoined in that activity, but their ap-proach has mostly not been the sortthat generates headlines. A look atsuperconductor research on the Hilltoday shows that the way a universi-ty responds to such a breakthroughis very different from the way anindustrial laboratory does.

The new superconductor madeheadlines because it represented a

scientific breakthrough that mighteventually change our lives as muchas the discovery of the transistor. Ina superconductor, the metals arecooled to temperatures approachingabsolute zero, equivalent to -460 de-grees F or -273 degrees C. Thistemperature represents a total ab-sence of heat; it is the coldest tem-perature conceivable. At this tem-perature, electric current flows withno resistance; none of the electricalenergy is wasted as heat.

Motors and generators madewith superconductors can be moreefficient. Superconducting transmis-sion lines could carry power fromgenerators to users with no losses,saving energy and allowing the gen-erating stations to be located farfrom populated areas. Supercon-ducting magnets use less energy andcan be far more powerful than any

ordinary magnet, allowing suchwonders as magnetically levitated300 mph trains. At the smaller end ofthe scale, superconducting wires inmicrochips will move more data inless time, making today's supercom-puters look like pocket calculators.

Superconductors have beenknown to science for a long time (see"Seventy-Six Years," page 35), buttheir uses were limited because theywould work only when cooled totemperatures near absolute zero byimmersion in liquid helium, which isscarce, expensive, and difficult tohandle. Helium-cooled supercon-ducting magnets are used today inmagnetic resonance imaging devicesin hospitals and in particle accelera-tors in high-energy physics research,and that's about it. Or was.

The new material discovered bythe Swiss physicists Bednorz and


Mueller still needed liquid helium asa coolant, but unlike previouslyknown superconductors the materialwas not a metaΓor an alloy but a me-tal oxide; it opened a whole new classof superconductors, and there washope that somewhere else in thatclass might be another material thatwould work at higher temperatures,less difficult to maintain than thosenear absolute zero.

That hope was realized only amonth after Cornellians Sievers andBuhrman marveled at their tiny sam-ple. Ching-Wu Chu (also known asPaul Chu) of the University of Hous-ton found another oxide semicon-ductor made of copper, barium, andyttrium, which became supercon-ducting at the relatively toasty " crit-ical temperature'' of 93K (-180 de-grees C). Since then there have beenreports of materials that work ateven higher temperatures, thoughnone has been confirmed at this writ-ing.

(For this work scientists use theKelvin scale, which measures tem-peratures up from absolute zero inCelsius-sized degrees. Kelvin tem-peratures are usually referred towithout the word "degrees," so ascientist will say that helium boils at"four kelvins," rather than "minus269 degrees Celsius.")

Chu's material can be cooledwith cheap, plentiful liquid nitrogen,which boils at 77K, and this makeswidespread use of superconductorseconomically feasible. Bednorz andMueller won the 1987 Nobel prize inphysics for their discovery, and nowscientists all over the world aresearching for new materials that willbecome superconducting at stillhigher temperatures, hoping even tofind the holy grail of a room-temper-ature superconductor.

While Cornell with its strengthsin the physical and materials sci-ences and in engineering may be oneof the best-equipped institutions inthe nation for such a search, the uni-versity's scientists are not jumpinginto its most publicized aspects.Some are trying instead to developpractical ways to use materials thathave already been discovered, and atleast one is looking for new super-conductors in unlikely places. Andmost are more excited about the sci-

entific puzzles the new materialspresent than about possible immedi-ate applications. The new materialswork in some new way, not explain-able by theories that worked withlow-temperature superconductors."There may be some new propertiesin solids that we've missed," Profes-sor Sievers speculates.

HOW MATERIALS CONDUCT CURRENT

Alittle physics is necessary tounderstand superconductivi-ty: Most of us learned in highschool or college science thatmetals conduct electricity be-

cause there are electrons on theouter edges of their atoms that arefree to come loose and move along awire to carry current. It turns out tobe true, but not the whole story. Con-ductivity also depends on the factthat the atoms in a solid conductorare arranged in an orderly patterncalled a "crystal lattice."

From an electron's point ofview, the inside of a wire looks sortof like a tremendously long junglegym made of atoms and the forcesthat bind them to one another. Theatoms are at the corners where the"pipes" join, and the pipes are theforces between them. This analogyis a little weak because the atoms are

free to move around a bit; in place ofpipes we might visualize coil springs,and invisible ones at that. (See illus-tration on page 32.)

More precisely, the nuclei of at-oms, containing positively chargedprotons, are at the corners. Some ofthe negatively charged electronsthat usually orbit the nucleus of eachatom are drawn away by the positivecharges of other nuclei and arespread out like wispy clouds ofcharge between the atoms.

Something about this" arrange-ment of charged particles, repeatingitself endlessly down the wire, cre-ates a channel through which theconducting electrons can slide easilywhen they are drawn by a battery orsome other device that puts a bigpositive charge at one end of thewire. In fact, they slide so easily thatany metal would be a superconduc-tor if not for two things: first, it's im-possible to get a perfectly pure metaland atoms of impurities interrupt theorderly pattern; second, the atomsare vibrating in their places in the lat-tice, generally getting in the way.Prof. Frank DiSalvo, chemistry,likens all this to a motorcyclist zip-ping between stalled cars on a free-way: potholes get in the way, and im-agine what it would be like if the cars

T 'Postdoc' Robin Ziebarth makes quartz tubes to hold solids being combinedat 1,200 degrees C to make new superconductors.

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were swaying from side to side.When a metal is cooled below its

superconducting critical tempera-ture a lot of the lattice vibration isgone. (Temperature is just a mea-sure of the vibration of atoms andmolecules.) This not only clears thepath but also does something specialto'the arrangement of charges. Now

when a conducting electron comesalong, it attracts the positive nucleiand repels the negative electronclouds, moving them just a little bitout of place. It turns out that thisnew arrangement of charges is suchthat the next electron to come alongis pushed toward the first electron,so the two electrons act as if they

were attracted to one another.For reasons that can only be ex-

plained in the complex language ofquantum mechanics the creation ofmany such pairs of electrons causesall the electrons traveling throughthe conductor to move in lockstep, sothat when one of them runs into anobstacle it doesn't get scattered offto the side but is pulled along withthe rest.

Theoretical physicists have thisall spelled out in mathematical for-mulas which show just how a currentwill behave in a particular conduc-tor, based on the kinds of atoms theconductor contains and how they'rearranged in the crystal lattice. Butthose formulas don't work for thenew superconducting materials. Forexample, the old formulas give a cer-tain strength for the force pushingpairs of electrons together. As thetemperature goes up the vibration ofatoms in the conductor becomesmore vigorous, and that suggeststhat the electron pairs must bebound together more strongly tokeep from being knocked apart.According to the old formulas, thebinding force isn't strong enough tohold the electron pairs together attemperatures as high as 93K.

LOOKING AT THENEW SUPERCONDUCTORS

Professor Sievers has examinedthe way current travels in thenew materials by bouncing in-frared light off them, some-thing he did years ago to study

low-temperature superconductors.Infrared of just the right wavelengthis absorbed and then re-radiated bythe conducting electrons, so thistechnique tells him something abouthow those electrons are behaving.

"If you just measure the directcurrent resistance [in the new mater-ials] it looks just like other supercon-ductors," he reports, "but with this[infrared] probe it looks very differ-ent. It doesn't look like any metal orsemiconductor I've seeη before."

Apparently the electrons are notbehaving the way they do in the ear-lier low-temperature superconduc-tors. There is evidence from otherwork that the electrons are stillpaired off, but according to Prof.Neil Ashcroft, physics, one of many


theoretical physicists working on theproblem, the paired electrons aremuch closer together, and the mech-anism that makes them pair is prob-ably different from what it, was inearlier materials.

There are dozens of theoriesaround to explain the pairing. Unfor-tunately, Ashcroft says, while manyof the theories do a good job of ex-plaining the effects that have beenseen so far, none of them predictanything new, so there is no way totest the theories to find out which, ifany, is right.

There's also no theory that pre-dicts what the crystal structure of anew material will be, DiSalvo pointsout. After you've made a new mater-ial, he says, you can bounce X-raysoff it and determine its crystal struc-ture—how the nuclei of atoms are ar-ranged in the lattice—and from thatyou can calculate where the elec-trons will be. But you can't, he la-ments, calculate what the crystalstructure of a new material will bejust from knowing what elementswill be mixed to make it. This meansthat even if scientists had a theorythat predicted what kind of crystalstructure would produce high-tem-perature superconductivity there'dbe no way to know what to do tomake that crystal structure.

"SHAKE AND BAKE" EXPERIMENTATION

The best scientists can do rightnow is to use a trial and errorapproach with a little intuitionthrown in. (According to Di-Salvo, it's often the quality of

their intuition that makes the differ-ence between success and failure.)The formula found by Mueller andBednorz contained lanthanum, oneof the seventeen "rare earth" ele-ments (so called not because they arescarce but because they are so chem-ically similar they're hard to separ-ate). Chu's formula substituted yt-trium, another rare earth, for the lan-thanum. Now chemists all over theworld are trying one rare earth afteranother, along with various cookingtimes and temperatures, leadingsome scientists to refer to the field as"The Julia Child Method," or"Shake and Bake."

DiSalvo is bypassing the obviouscompounds, largely because he

A 'The DiSalvo Group' and some of their new materials, from left, first row,Paul Ranch, Prof. DiSalvo, andAbby Wizansky; and back row, Mίng-YauChern, John Vassiliou, Robin Ziebarth, Marc Hornbostel, and RobertMariani.

knows hundreds of other scientistsare already working on them. Hecame to Cornell just a year ago fromBell Laboratories (taking a pay cut inthe process but happy to be in ateaching situation and living in thecountry) and says he knows his oldemployers have at least a dozenchemists cranking out compoundsand testing them for superconduc-tivity. "They've told me that since[last] January they've made about4,000 compounds," he says. "With afew graduate students it's unlikelyI'll compete with that."

Instead, he's looking at otherkinds of oxides and at nitrides—com-pounds that are something like thesuperconducting oxides but whichhave nitrogen atoms where the oxy-gen atoms would be. "It's veryrisky," he says. "If you're just look-ing for superconductivity you'd havea much better chance with small var-iations on what's already been done.But even if we don't find supercon-ductivity I think we're going to dosome interesting chemistry. It willbe good work for students, and willleave them in a very marketableplace when they graduate." He ex-plains that the chemistry of the rareearth oxides of copper has alreadybeen studied extensively, partly be-

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cause many of the materials have po-tential as catalysts.

THE NEEDS OFGRADUATE STUDENTS

he grad students here aresmart and motivated andwant to do novel chem-istry," DiSalvo says, notingthat very few nitrides have

been made or studied. In addition tolooking for superconductivity, hisstudents will test the new materialsthey make for other electrical, mag-netic, and thermal properties. "Evenif we don't find high-temperature su-perconductors," he says, "there's anopportunity for discovery there."

Buhrman also considers theneeds of his students. "There aresome [university] research groupsputting twenty or twenty-five stu-dents on this. That's fine if you'rerunning a research factory, but not ifyou're trying to train the next gener-ation of good scientists," he says."One of the things you do in a PhDprogram is set up a problem andwork on it for a year or two or fourand then you publish it and get somerecognition for solving it.

"If there are people publishingyour problem every month with a so-lution, it is not the kind of thing that

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trains students and brings them rec-ognition. If you put seventeen stu-dents mixing up chemicals and onefinds something, who gets credit?"

Buhrman has ten students andpost-doctoral researchers in hisgroup in Clark Hall and of these, hesays, three have moved into work onhigh-temperature superconductors."What we were doing before was im-portant/' he points out. "Our atti-tude is that Cornell is one, perhapsthe, top university in materials re-search. The impact of raising criticaltemperature to 90K or even roomtemperature is not enough to justifyjettisoning everything and rushinginto this field."

PUTTING DISCOVERIES TO WORK

Buhrman's group is working onways to use the new supercon-ductors in integrated circuits,which requires preparing athin film of the material, then

etching parts of the film away toleave narrow "wires." In the pastthe films have been made by a pro-cess paralleling the one used to makesmall pellets: first, a vapor of copper,barium, and yttrium is allowed tosettle on a surface, then the film isbaked at 900 degrees C in an oxygenatmosphere. Unfortunately the su-perconductor doesn't work on thesilicon base usually used for micro-chips, and the baking process de-stroys other circuit components.

Two of Buhrman's students,Daniel Lathrop, MS-EP '87 and Ste-phen Russek, MS '86, have foundthat the baking can be bypassed bydepositing the film in a high-pres-sure oxygen atmosphere. Otherworkers had assumed that the appa-ratus that vaporizes the metal wouldburn up in oxygen, but the students"had the nerve to try it," as Buhr-man puts it, and it worked. Thegroup also found that circuits couldbe built on a base of zirconium oxide,the infamous "cubic zirconia" usedto make the fake diamonds that areadvertised on late-night TV.

So far the group has producedonly the simplest of circuits—a cou-ple of wires on a chip. One of thechips they made was used by work-ers at the University of Rochester todemonstrate that the high-tempera-ture superconductor could carry

"Cornell peoplefeel more at easepassing infor-mation around.All believe theyare doing 'goodscience' and willachieve longtermbreakthroughs."

pulses of current just 10 trillionths ofa second long. In an ordinary con-ductor, electrical resistance distortsa pulse, so that what enters the wireas short and sharp comes out theother end elongated and fuzzy; thismeans that a stream of pulses carry-ing, say, computer data must bespaced far enough apart to keepthem from blurring together.

With no resistance the distortiondisappears. The experiment indi-cates that superconducting wirescould carry 100 times as much infor-mation as optical fibers—enough totransmit the entire 25 million booksin the Library of Congress in twominutes, according to the Rochesterworkers.

That is, provided the brittle newmaterial can be made into wires.Prof. Rishi Raj, materials science en-gineering, is trying to make wiresand other odd-shaped devices out ofthe stuff. It is not well-suited to suchwork; when oxygen combines withthe mix of metals they cease to be-have like metals, but become a ce-ramic. If you try to cast the materialin a mold, it shrinks. It is so hard thatdiamond tools are needed to mach-ine it. Raj is an old hand at this, how-ever, having worked with other ce-ramics for the past ten years. He isusing a technique called "sinter forg-ing," in which the sample is pressed

into shape very slowly while it is be-ing fired.

USES FOR THE FUTURE

Raj also plans to work on whathe calls "rapid processing" ofthin films—that is, to makefilms like Buhrman's, but' 'miles of it." In thin film form,

he says, the usually brittle materialcan be made strong and flexible. Heenvisions unconventional powertransmission lines made of layers ofthin films, and perhaps strips of filmwound into magnets.

There are hints of other futurepossibilities in the laboratory ofProf. Francis Moon, PhD '67, theo-retical and applied mechanics. Rajhas made for Moon some special su-perconductor samples that have asemicircular shape. These now sitpoking up out of a bath of liquid ni-trogen—a colorless liquid that mightbe water but for the mist risingaround it—with small cylindricalmagnets suspended in the air abovethem.

If you bring a magnet near a su-perconductor the magnetic field gen-erates a current in the superconduc-tor, and the current in turn producesa magnetic field equal and oppositeto the one approaching, with the re-sult that the magnet is repelled. Thisis the effect that may eventually giveus magnetically levitated trains andmaybe even magnetic skating rinks.Moon hopes to use it to make super-conducting bearings in which a sus-pended shaft would spin with nowear, and in a vacuum with almostno friction. A possible application,he says, might be in the gyroscopesused in aircraft and spacecraftinstruments.

Right now the work is at a crudelevel; Moon's students are using sen-sitive instruments to find out whatforces are exerted on a magnet bythe semicircular superconductors. Inthe process they have discovered apeculiar effect: If you suspend adisk-shaped magnet above the prim-itive bearing, it sits still for a while,then begins to turn back and fortharound its own axis. Each time itswings a little higher until, like a car-nival ride that has reached the top ofits arc, it passes through the top andstarts turning continuously; from


then on it will keep spinning as longas you keep the superconductor cool.Moon has started a contest to seewhich of his students can first comeup with the explanation of the phe-nomenon; he suspects it has some-thing to do with the fact that temper-ature increases as you move up fromthe surface of the liquid nitrogen.

PASSING INFORMATIONAROUND THE HILL

As is typical at Cornell all theseresearchers take an interdis-ciplinary approach. Chemists,theoretical physicists, experi-mental physicists, materials

scientists, and electrical engineerscooperate with casual disregard fordepartmental boundaries. Theymeet every Wednesday to exchangeideas in a seminar organized by Prof.John Wilkins, physics. "We are bet-ter at that than other universities,"Sievers says. "People feel more atease passing information around. Ithink it may have something to dowith being out in the country."

(Despite intense competition,scientists worldwide are also ex-changing at least some of their infor-mation at a furious rate. Impatientwith the slow publication of scienti-fic journals, most crank out pre-prints of their papers and send themaround to colleagues. In just a yearthe physics library in Clark Hall hasaccumulated some ten volumes ofthese.)

Whether or not they come upwith a breakthrough of their own,the university's researchers all be-lieve they're doing "good science,"and following a strategy that may inthe long term lead to new break-throughs.

"I think in the long run if we areas good as we think we are we'll havea very good program in the physicsand materials development of thisstuff," Buhrman says. Significantproblems will develop, he adds,"once the easy stuff is gone.""[Solving key problems] is more of-ten done by small groups of peoplethinking carefully."

'The driving force for doinggood science," says DiSalvo, "is thatit may lead to technological ad-vances when we really understandwhat we're doing."

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Money, media, and White House support swell the cadet ranks

BY GORDON SANDER Two tall, ruggedly good lookingCornell Air Force ROTC ca-dets stand in front of WillardStraight Hall on a crisp fallmorning after returning from

their weekly drill in Barton Hall,neatly turned out in their dressblues; their conversation is animatedand punctuated with guffaws.

A decade or so ago, it occurs toan observer, the cadets' presence atsuch a conspicuous spot on campus,at least in uniform—no less their stu-diously cool demeanor—would havebeen unthinkable, a certain invita-tion to brickbats from passing rad-libbers, perhaps worse. But today, asthe Straight plaza crowd ebbs andflows, no one seems to take much no-tice of the junior airmen, except for afew peripherally flirtatious fe-males—To^ Gun fans, no doubt(come to think of it, one of the cadetsdoes look a little like Tom Cruise).

Of a sudden, the men stiffen, in

the way all enlisted men do whenthey sense an officer is in the vicini-ty. It's their commander, Col.Robert Sample, professor of aero-space studies and commander of AirForce ROTC Detachment 520; he'sjust appeared on the grassy knollover the Campus Store, and he'sheaded their way. The men salutesmartly as Sample zooms by, quicklyreturning their salute, a grinning,steely blur.

' 'Awesome man,'' mutters a stu-dent watching the ritualistic ex-change from nearby, without appar-ent irony.

Frank Barton 1891—the firstCornell ROTC command-er—would have been proud. So,no doubt, would AndrewDickson White. After atrophy-

ing to the point of near-extinctionduring the Vietnam War, when any-thing related to the military was de-

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Retakesthe

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A Navy ROTC midshipmen paradeproudly on Schoellkopf Field.

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rided in the groves of academe—andthe commanders of Cornell's threeROTC detachments had to scrambleto prevent their withered programsfrom being abolished outright—themilitary sciences are flourishingonce again on the Hill.

Last spring, the three units—Ar-my Reserve Officer Training Corps(AROTC), Air Force ROTC(AFROTC), and Naval ROTC(NROTC)-boasted a combinedenrollment of 537 cadets and mid-shipmen, including approximately100 students from other area cam-puses. That number, which grewslightly this year, was the highest intwenty years, and more than doublethe modern-day low figure of 254that was reached in 1974, shortly

before this writer first reported onthe then-troubled state of CornellROTC for this magazine ("TheUniversity Soldier," November1975).

In contrast to the Corregidor-like gloom that then pervaded Bar-ton Hall, which has served as theheadquarters for the military sci-ences at Cornell for almost three-quarters of a century, ROTC moraleis also sky-high. One can see it on thevarious units' bulletin boards, burst-ing with Polaroids of Cornell's gung-ho male and female troopers in ac-tion—and obviously loving it—atsummer camp, or on summer cruise.

One can hear it in the jaunty, fra-ternal greetings that resoundthrough the narrow passageways of

the separate services' headquarters,as well as in the respectful, almostmonastic silence found in ROTCclasses. One can feel it in the almostpalpable elan that radiates from afull-dress ROTC drill on the floor ofthe cavernous hall.

Pass the word: ROTC is back.

Many people who are con-nected with the currentROTC program at Cornellwell remember the Vietnamperiod and the black eye it

gave the military. Although bruisedconsiderably by local anti-war acti-vists, Cornell was the only IvyLeague institution not to evictROTC. And so it remains today. Onewho is fully aware of this case-his-

A Cadets march into place in Barton Hall for an August convocation for new students and their parents.


tory is Col. Robert Sample.To be sure, when Sample, a ca-

reer jet transport pilot, was asked totake over the reins of CornellAFROTC, he recently recalled, hebegged off, telling his Air Force su-periors that he "wasn't interested inbecoming a martyr." Sample's re-luctance stemmed from the twoyears he spent pursuing graduatestudies at the then-militant campusof the University of Rochester in theearly 1970s. Unhappily, that tour ofduty, which followed two years inVietnam, coincided with the horrorof Kent State, where anti-war pro-testers were shot by NationalGuardsmen.

"I remember the day after KentState," Sample, a soft-spokenSoutherner, said recently in hismodel plane-filled Barton Hall of-fice. "Friends of mine said, Ύou bet-ter take off that uniform, Bob, wedon't want to lose you.' "

Clearly, a part of Colonel Sam-ple was still conditioned for that kindof response when he touched downat Cornell in 1986—especially inlight of Cornell's reputation at timesas the "Berkeley of the East."Hence his surprise—one shared bymany newly assigned ROTC officersof the Vietnam era—when the firsttime he walked across campus in hisdress blues he was met not withcurses, but with welcoming smilesand interested looks.

Why the sudden hospitality?Sample and others point to a

number of factors which they believehave put a fresh face on ROTC: anupsurge in national pride; the returnto a conservative, "each to his own"mood on campus; and, at leastamong students, a certain naivetevis-a-vis Vietnam that is the productboth of their youth and the passing oftime. For the average 18-year-old,Vietnam is a long time ago.

Sample: "You've got to remem-ber, most of these kids were only 2 or3 when I was in Vietnam. When Iteach that time period in my Historyof Air Power course, I find that it'soften their initial substantive expo-sure to it."

"These kids don't remember Vi-etnam," says Lt. Col. Clarence"Bucky" Buchwald '66, comman-dant of Cornell Army ROTC.

A Lt. Col. C.R. Buchwald '66 holdssaber of former ROTC commanderFrank Barton 1891 from the F.R.Newman '12 collection of World WarI memorabilia, in the Col. H.F. Wor-tham '14 Museum. HIGHTOWER

"Well," Buchwald retorts, defiant-ly, "I don't remember Korea."

For Colonel Buchwald, a gradu-ate of the Engineering collegewho was particularly torn bythe domestic campus unrest heread about while stationed in

Germany during the late 1960s andearly 1970s, returning to theHill—no less, wearing FrankBarton's old hat—is sweet revengeindeed. The burly, mustachioed ar-tilleryman still winces at the pain hesays he felt upon seeing a photo ofthe president of Cornell sharing acan of soda with the campus radicalleader in 1969 after the takeover ofWillard Straight Hall. He says thepicture in The Stars and Stripescaused him to renounce his belovedalma mater. "I didn't want to hearanything about Cornell after that."

However, today, Buchwaldchortles, "I wouldn't want to be sta-tioned anywhere else." Buchwald isenough of a Cornell history buff andROTC archivist that his office is filledwith a large, mixed collection of Cor-nelliana (including Major Barton'soriginal commissioning letter), and

ancient Japanese relics (souvenirs ofa stint near Tokyo).

It's his opinion the attitude ofthe Cornell community towardROTC has shifted, in a relativelyshort period, from one of benign ne-glect to active support. As proof,Buchwald cited a ROTC-sponsoredblood drive in Willard Straight Hallfrom which he had just returned thatafternoon.

' Ύou wouldn't believe how manypeople came up to m$ and asked meabout my uniform," the colonel said,with a smile. " Ήey, what's thatmedal?' they'd ask. 'What's that in-signia?' They really wereinterested."

In the Navy's corner of BartonHall all was full speed ahead aswell. "Thank God we finally putVietnam behind us," boomedCapt. Richard Colbert, command-

er of the Naval ROTC detachment.The ruddy-faced, Boston-bredsailor, a veteran of twenty-sevenyears in the Navy, has his ruefulmemories of the period, too,although the Navy was probably theservice that was least scarred by theunpopular war, a function of itsdistance from the carnage ashore.

"I remember going on a joint na-val exercise with the Swedes in theBaltic Sea," said Colbert. "And aSwedish naval officer said to me atone point, Ύou know, you'll neverput Vietnam behind you.' It worriedme. But as you can see," continuedthe captain as several of his 240 mid-shipmen marched smartly past hisdoor, "we have."

Colbert, a reservist himself (heis a graduate of the Navy's extinctReserve Officer Corps), is a ferventbeliever in the concept of the stu-dent-soldier. He recalled his firstshipboard encounter with a ROTCofficer, a Dartmouth-trained man,during the Korean War and the hu-manizing influence the collegianultimately exerted on the mostlyAnnapolis-trained officers on board.

"It was healthy to have a manlike that in the wardroom," he said."It leavened the bread." "In thesame way," he declared, extendingthe analogy to Cornell, "ROTC leav-ens Cornell's bread. The kids can seethat the military isn't something out

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A Cadets under-go leadershiptraining at FortBragg,N.C.

there, that we don't walk around withbayonets in our mouth."

Interestingly, the only imageproblem Colbert seems to have hadto deal with at Cornell has been theresidual embarrassment caused toNaval ROTC by the accidental sink-ing, at dockside, of the Cornell unit's

training sloop—an incident which hisAir Force and Army hallmates razzhim no end about.

Hollywood and the media, thepurveyors of a new militarychic, have contributed to theROTC resurgence, Colbertand others note. While the Ar-

my is less than happy with the recentspate of neo-realistic films about theground war in Vietnam, like Platoonand Hamburger. Hill—films whichhave reportedly reduced someAROTC cadets to tears, but do notseem to have hurt the unit's enroll-ment—the Navy is enthusiasticabout the help it has received fromtwo contemporary films about navalaviation, An Officer and a Gentlemanand, more recently, Top Gun. Cap-tain Colbert also cites the beneficialimage given the Navy's submarinebranch in The Hunt for Red October,the recent bestselling book about anunderseas battle of nerves betweenan American and a Soviet sub-marine.

4'There was a whole bunch ofkids in here right after Top Guncame out, saying Ί want to be likeyou,' " said Lt. Steven Ledger, whodoubles as the NROTC unit's resi-dent naval aviator and its staff infor-mation officer, in his cramped cubi-cle of an office in the congestedNROTC headquarters. "Of course,once I explained to them how muchwork was involved, most of themshied away, but it was nice to seethem."

Favorable attention from theWhite House and the mediahelps explain why the militaryis holding its head high today.However, except for a few

praise-the-Lor d-and-pass-the-ammunition types (who have alwaysbeen acound), that doesn't really ex-plain why hundreds of Cornelliansare suddenly showing up at BartonHall in the fall—as they did, onceagain, last year—inquiring aboutROTC. The destigmatization of themilitary may make them less reluc-tant to show up than they might havebeen a decade ago, however theirprincipal interest in ROTC, at leastinitially, has more to do with eco-nomics.


The fact is, in a day when a four-year education at Cornell may costupwards of $80,000—while manytraditional sources of financing col-lege have dried up—more aμd moreyoung men and women are lookingat the deal that the three services areoffering to full scholarship cadetsand midshipmen and liking whatthey see.

The deal: a ROTC cadet or mid-shipman who qualifies for a fullscholarship receives full funding fortuition and university fees for fouryears, plus a $100 per month tax-freesubsistence allowance; there's alsoan allowance for required textbooks.In return, in addition to military sci-ence classes and weekly drills, he orshe agrees to complete thebachelor's degree within a specified

amount of time, and to accept an offi-cer's commission—as a second lieu-tenant in the Army or Air Force, alieutenant junior grade in the Na-vy—usually for four years, and addi-tional service in the Reserves, if re-quired.

All in all, not a bad deal. Indeed,given the dearth of other forms of fi-nancial aid, a ROTC full scholarshipcan often be the only way of payingone's way through school. It is no ac-cident that, nationwide, ArmyROTC enjoyed its greatest recentenrollment increase in 1982, afterthe Reagan Administration cut backdrastically on most other forms offederal-funded financial assistance.

Nationwide, approximately oneout of four ROTC enlistees is on fullscholarship. At Cornell, which, like

other top campuses, has been be-stowed with a large number of schol-arships to distribute amongst thethree services, a much greater pro-portion of ROTC trainees—81 per-cent of Cornell AROTC andAFROTC, 95 percent ofNROTC-are having Uncle Sampick up their undergraduate tabs.

These and other students are al-so initially attracted to ROTCbecause of the promise of ac-quiring valuable managementexperience—as well as the

prospect of immediate, secure, well-paid, and hopefully noncombatantemployment in the military follow-ing graduation.

"Most of the kids who come inhere are looking for a way to pay for

T Cadets Steven Bratt '89 and Angela Thompson '88 chat just before a Military Science course exam in Barton.

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their college educations and/or a de-cent paying job/' said Army CaptainSteven Barrows 76, MS 78. Thir-teen years ago, Barrows was one ofthe ten diehard juniors remaining inCornell's AROTC installation thenon the verge of being disbandedbecause of underenrollment. Todayhe is back—as the unit's doughtyrecruiting officer.

"I don't knock them," says Cap-tain Barrows. "I know that the mainreason that I signed on way backwhen was that $100 a month." Littledid Barrows know that he wouldeventually decide to make the Armya career, no less that he would be re-turning to Barton Hall, an assign-ment that he—like his fellow Cornel-lian and artilleryman, Colonel Buch-wald—clearly relishes.

Barrows personifies anotherreason for the surprising ROTC re-surgence: high-powered recruit-ment. Barrows's pitch, delivered inhis Class A uniform of camouflagefatigues and paratrooper boots,rings faintly of those slick, MadisonAvenue-produced "Be all that youcan be in the Army" advertisementswhich the Army has been running ontelevision over the last few years.

"I can give you time manage-ment skills," the captain roundly de-

clares, trying out his oft-successfulspiel on the writer (who agreed topretend that he was a high school se-nior on his first visit to Cornell). "Ican help you prioritize your time . . .But above and beyond that here atROTC I can offer you a sense of be-longing, a sense of unity—and conti-nuity."

The only thing the captain leftout, it seemed, was "Pledge withus!"

"Yeah! I guess you could saythat this is a fraternity," Cadet Regi-na Mayer, who was sitting nearby,laughingly agreed. Mayer, a seniorfrom Honolulu, seems to epitomizethe various reasons why both menand women are increasingly drawnto ROTC. She readily concedes thatthe principal reason why she en-rolled was the scholarship. "There'sjust no way that I could have comehere without the scholarship," shesaid.

Once enrolled, however, Mayerfound the camaraderie of the corpsinfectious. And, somewhat to her-surprise, she also found herself parti-cipating in optional ROTC activities,like the Ranger program, theArmy's elite Special Forces-typeunit, of which she speaks in evangeli-cal terms.

V Recruiting bulletin board in Barton includes a Cornell announcement.

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"Cadets enter by increments,"said Major James Graham, a Univer-sity of Massachusetts ROTC gradu-ate who doubles as CornellAROTC's medical officer and infor-mation officer. "Initially they maycome in for the money. However, bythe end of four years their commit-ment is total."

Impressive statistical evidence ofthe ROTC resurgence at Cornellcan be found in the extensive1986 white paper on ROTC com-piled by the University ROTC Re-

lations Committee (URRC), whichhad members from the administra-tion, faculty, and general studentbody, as well as the Department ofMilitary Science.

Ironically, the report, which theuniversity administration released in1986, was the result of an investiga-tion into the state and nature of Cor-nell ROTC that had been triggeredby the irate parent of a Naval ROTCcadet. The parent claimed that allthe homework required for ROTCwas making it difficult for his son tohold his own academically. Was it?How did most ROTC cadets feelabout their ROTC experiences?How did they feel they were viewedby their teachers and fellowstudents? The URRC wanted toknow, and it commissioned a majorsurvey of all ROTC students at theuniversity in order to find out. Theresults were heartening, particularlyto ROTC commanders—and DayHall.

Among other things, the URRCsurvey, to which more than half of allROTC cadets and midshipmen re-sponded, found that:

• ROTC students were holdingtheir own, in spite of the time-inten-sive nature of some ROTC activitiessuch as the Navy's exhausting Prin-ciples of Navigation course, or theArmy's optional Ranger program.Indeed, they were more than holdingtheir own: as a group, they had gradepoint averages slightly higher thanthose of non-ROTC students in simi-lar academic programs.

• More than 98 percent of ROTCstudents were satisfied with theirROTC experiences and would re-commend the program to others.

• Close to 60 percent of ROTC


A Austere approach to the office ofMaj. Paul Decker, executive officer of the Air Force ROTC unit on the Hill.

students felt that they were viewedeither favorably or very favorably bytheir peers. Only 5 percent thoughtthat they were viewed unfavorablyby fellow Cornellians—and 15 per-cent by their teachers.

As a result, the URRC waspleased to issue Cornell ROTC aclean bill of health. The URRC sur-vey did find that' 'the Navy demandsmore time from underclassmen thando the other services."

"On the other hand," the reportconcluded, "the Navy appears to de-vote more staff time to the monitor-ing of underclassmen than do theother services"—something the ri-valry-conscious Army and Air Force

vehemently deny. Undeniable, how-ever, were the midshipmen's gradepoint averages, which were the high-est among the three branches.

hat is the outlook for ROTC,both at Cornell and in gener-al? Of immediate concern toROTC personnel and sup-porters are Defense depart-

ment budget cuts—like the one for10 percent recently mandated by theGramm-Rudman spending law—which may reduce scholarshipmoney and possibly trim the numberof active duty berths awarded aftergraduation.

Captain Barrows of the Army,

for one, believes that he has turnedthe latter potential negative into aplus by telling would-be ROTC re-cruits that there is less chance thatthey will have to serve active duty af-ter graduation. After all, not everyprospect wants to be in the activeservices. Some recruits are de-lighted at the idea of serving in theReserves instead.

And for those who want activeduty? Well, according to Barrows,who noted that he was visited by arecord number of Army ROTC pros-pects in the fall of 1987, they'll justhave to compete a little harder forthe fewer remaining berths. Andwhat could be wrong with that?

February 1988

A Snow blankets Schoellkopf Cres-cent at the turn of the year.


C L A S S N O T E S

HIGHTOWER

^ •• Having read the report of our" ~M 70th Reunion in the July 1987 is-• M sue, I wish to add my bit. The Fri-• M day night dinner at the Sheraton• m was especially nice for the few of• m us who returned and our escorts.

The Cornell spirit prevailed, as it always doeswhen CornelUans get together. We joined theClass of '22 for our final dinner, Saturdaynight, which was a most delightful and long-to-be-remembered event, with an informaland thought-provoking talk by Joseph B.Bugliari, dean of the faculty^ Cornelliana nightat Bailey Hall brought back a flood of wonder-ful memories. It truly was a treat and a splen-did farewell. (See photo on following page.)

Now I shall go back to September 1913when we as freshmen entered this great insti

, tution. Classes started later in September, andit was a rainy week—the equinoctial rains. Re-member? Risley was open for the first time.The seniors and sophomore girls were the firstto live in that beautiful dormitory. Freshmenand juniors were in Sage. We freshmen weremet by the juniors, who were our guides. Theywere a blessing! They showed us around thecampus and went with us to register and, afterthat, to some of the classrooms. They also hadorganized parties to help us get acquainted,and a dance in the Sage gymnasium. Remem-ber the ''Castle walk," the rage at that time?

A few notes of current interest. Oiir loyalclassmate Ruth Davis has moved to a retire-ment home in Rochester. Helen KirkendallMiller, now lives in Danby with her son Jim-my '46.

I am enjoying Ithaca. I have 12 grand-children; seven are Cornellians, and five havedegrees from other fine institutions. All areout in the world making their marks. Thereare 17 great-grandchildren—not quite oldenough for me to make any prediction, but nodoubt they will be active in the 21st century.Best wishes to all. D Alda Deibler Slack, 11Sheraton Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Happy 1988! May this new yeark6 one y°u eni°y Shall we see youin Ithaca, June 9-12? By Novem-ber, we had " declarations of in-tent" from several: LouisFreedman— "I expect to re-

turn with wife Audrey, and with my grandson,Michael Weisburger and wife Jean, so I willneed reservations for two couples." Louiswrote just before they departed "for our an-nual trek to Florida." Dagmar SchmidtWright phoned her plans. She expects agranddaughter to bring her, and looks forwardto seeing Paul Bradford, the FreedmansJoe Lay, Paul Wanser, the E. P. Tut-tles, Mildred Stevens Essick, and myself,at least.

Decisions as to whether the Class of '18will have an official Reunion, or just an unoffi-cial get-together, concentrated on Friday andSaturday, were to be made in January. Youwill get a letter, we expect, during February,giving specifics and allowing you to send inreservations for a central spot (probably theSheraton, just off campus). Judge Tuttle haswritten that if there is any get-together, he andSara will come.

The "box" about me in the November is-sue has brought congratulations, including aletter from Robert F. Smith '36 who was

the first' 'full-time 4-H agent in Orleans Coun-ty, in 1938." He and his wife "loved our briefstay in Orleans County" and would like to getcopies of "what you have written." He thinks"Carl Carmer needs a successor as historianfor such a beautiful and historic area." WorldWar II interrupted Robert's career; later heworked "in the Hudson Valley and in Pitts-field, Mass." and now lives in Florida.

How many of you Ag graduates served inExtension for at least a few years?

The review of my life in November wastoo condensed to allow mention of my 1942-46service as one of the first Wacs. I enlisted asan "auxiliary," and rose to "leader" (sergeant)by July 1943. Then Congress changed our"auxiliary" rating and let us adopt regular Ar-my language. For about two years I remainedat that level, most of the time at Gunter Field,Ala., teaching navigation in French to Frenchcadets, who were getting flying training insquadrons—the same training as Americancadets—at several Southern fields. I wound upin 1945 as 2nd Lt. Irene M. Gibson, Frenchliaison officer, at Self ridge Field, Mich. Mythree-and-a-half years in the Women's ArmyCorps, assigned to the Air Force, gave mesome "firsts" (such as first Wac liaison offi-cer), as well as many out-of-the-ordinary war-time memories.

As for Reunion, do come if you can makeit; let Paul Wanser or Mildred Stevens Essick(addresses in December issue) hear from you,by phone or postcard. Even a two-day get-to-gether will be rewarding. We can join othersin the Van Cleef dinner and have our owntable for luncheon Friday and Saturday in Bar-ton Hall. How about it? Can we count onyou? D Irene M. Gibson, 119 S. Main St.,Holley, NY 14470.

Class dues for 1987-88 were duelast September, and some of the64, who paid last year have over-looked sending the $18 for1987-88, although they are still re-ceiving the Alumni News. To

avoid having your name removed from theGroup Subscription Plan and missing futureissues, please send your check, made out toClass of 1919, to Class Affairs, Alumni House,626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850-2490.And, include news of yourself!

Aaron Kaufman of Palm Beach, Fla.,and wife Carry returned last fall from their an-nual trip to Europe. Aaron reached the age of90 on Nov. 28, '87. George E. Gillespie, ofHighland Beach, Fla., writes that he and wifeVi celebrated their 60th wedding anniversaryon July 2, '87. Their address is still 3224 S.Ocean Blvd., 216B, but with a new zip code:33487. Franklin P. "Obie" O'Brien of1171 N. Ocean Blvd., Gulf Stream, Fla. alsoreports a new zip code: 33483.

Welcome to new duespayer Carroll L.Homan of Lynbrook, NY. He retired fromAT&T in 1961, and reports his activities arerestricted due to health. We believe he andwife Ruth hold the class record for most pro-geny: four children, 20 grandchildren, and 19great-grands, for 43 total, as reported in ourNovember 1984 column. Any more sincethen, Carroll? Two Cornell sons are David F.Homan '52, BME '53, and Robert L. Ho-man '54. Another new duespayer is WalterE. Wiebenson of Bellingham, Wash. Walter

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A Back on the Hill for their 70th Reunion are, from left, Warren Hollenback,Alda Deibler Slack, Marvin R. Dye, Frank D. Boynton, Mazie MontgomeryRowland, and Ernest R. Acker. Helen Kirkendall Miller attended the Re-union, but missed the photograph.

left Cornell to serve in World War I, in the83rd division, infantry. Then, he attendedBabson College, built homes in Cleveland forseven years, was a branch manager for UnionCarbide, and president, Pacific Lumber Agen-cy. He received a plaque for chairing the RedCross blood program in Portland, Ore. Morein our next column. Keep those news itemscoming. D C. F. Hendrie, 89 Baldwin St.,Glen Ridge, NJ 07028.

It's getting harder to write aboutdoings of classmates, but Kirk^e*^ sure came to my aid. Likemany °f us> ne an<^ w^e Olivetravel no longer. Instead, theydeliver Meals on Wheels to local

shut-ins, visit people who are ill or crippled,assist in recycling programs, and take part inchurch affairs. Lyman Stansky recalledthat on May 7,1920 he and the late WilliamH. Farnham (later, professor of law anddean of faculty) were two of six finalists in theWoodford Prize Contest on Oratory. Reidspoke first; Farnham, last. Farnham won.

At 92, Cort Donaldson is active andgolfs twice a week. Of six grandchildren,three are in college, one will be married in Jan-uary, and the other two will enter college intwo years. His wife Virginia is active in golf,bridge, and social affairs. He still leads the"Alma Mater" at meetings of the Sarasota-Manatee Cornell Club.

Bob Dewey wrote about their trip inSeptember to Montreal and Quebec, wherehis ability in French came in handy. Thechurches and cathedrals greatly impressedthem. Vernon Wagner still drives his '62Olds. Son Peter now is retired in Florida anddaughter Wilma '46 lives near them. He andhis wife like to quote Ho Ballou's poemabout "feeling good for the shape Γm in." SiSimon is a member of the Continuous Re-union Club (CRC) and has attended every Re-union since 1982, enjoying them greatly. Dud

Nostrand said it's a long time since he's seena classmate. Maurice Wilson died lastMarch.

As I write this on November 20, we'vepassed the 50 percent mark for dues, buthaven't received enough to pay the AlumniNews for the rest of those classmates listed inthe Group Subscription Plan. Your classneeds your dues, so please send them now.And, here's best wishes for a good and enjoy-able 1988 and MORE. D Donald Hoag-land, 1700 3rd Ave., W. #821, Bradenton,Fla. 34205.

Λ Margaret Arronet Corbin, whoB came to Cornell from Russia inI 1917, has lived in America ever

I since and is now retired in goodI health in Evanston, 111. Wilma

Judd Sanborn has been in awheelchair for the last five years in Chapman,Kansas.

Irma Greenawalt lives a leisurely lifein Denver, Colo. She still paints occasionally.Blanche Brown Hallock lives quietly inRaleigh, NC. D Agnes Meehan Hallinan,10578 Oakmont Dr., Sun City, Ariz. 85351.

John M. Moore and his wife spent part ofthe past summer in Italy with their son, whohas a steel business in Togo, West Africa.They celebrated their 55th wedding anniver-sary and John's 88th birthday. In late Novem-ber they were to drive from Virginia to Floridato spend the winter there.

Dr. Donaldson W. Kingsley Sr. is re-tired and living with his son Robert in Hast-ings, Neb., near another son, Dr. DonaldsonW. Kingsley Jr. '52, MD '56, who is asurgeon. Walter W. Werring and his wifeIrene spent January, February, and March1987 in Hawaii. They planned to go on aChristmas-New Year cruise on the Queen Eliz-abeth II sailing out of New York.

Last October 11, Al Nolin celebrated his

90th birthday with a party attended by his twosons, their wives, a brother, and somefriends. D James H. C. Martens, 1417Sunken Rd., Fredericksburg, Va. 22401.

W a class correspondent weretold on March 8 about a fine va-cation place and wanted to passthe word to his friends by use ofthe Class Notes in the AlumniNews, how long would it take to

get the word back to the inquirer that such aplace is available? Since the deadline date formost items in Class Notes is usually at leasttwo months ahead of the date of issue, this isnot always the best place to answer questions.For example, our deadline for the May issue isMarch 9.

A recent news item concerns our speakerafter luncheon at Reunion, on the sixth floor ofthe H. F. "Hib" Johnson Museum: Prof.Donald P. Greenberg '55, son of HankGreenberg and computer graphics special-ist, has been selected to receive the Steven N.Coons award for developing creative and sci-entific principles needed to produce realisticimages with computers.

Should you be driving to Ithaca, have alook at the vastly improved appearance of theerstwhile shabby north end of College Ave-nue, where it meets Oak Avenue near the newPerforming Arts Center and a widened Casca-dilla Bridge. Not far away, after the first lightsnowfalls, state troopers reported deer-autocollisions, three of them within 20 minutes at6:30 a.m. Many deer whistles are being in-stalled, two per car.

The photograph of most classmates at-tending Reunion has been distributed to thosewho were there. Because so many had wantedto come, but could not because of health, dis-tance, family situations, and because many ofthose were not subscribers, we made a dealwith the Alumni News to send all a copy of theDecember issue, including the picture takenin the rain at Plantations. (The commemora-tive bench is just around the corner, to theright.) Dave Dattlebaum had just pre-sented our $10,000 check for the site andbench to Dr. Bob Cook.

Joseph Morrison, (at right, front row,in the photo mentioned above) a graduatefrom the Agricultural College and formermember of the varsity crosscountry squad,died last November 20, in Tompkins Commu-nity Hospital. He is survived by wife Rena. Intheir freshman year, he and classmate Mal-com McConnell, also a crosscountry run-ner, ran a lunchroom on College Ave. JoeVaswell known in Ithaca for the several restau-rants he operated on the Elmira Road. DRollin McCarthy, 19-B Strawberry HillRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Reunion 1988 can't WAIT forour 65th. It's almost here! Haveyou survivors of this span of 65years since graduation realizedthat it represents two-thirds of acentury? Does it bring back good

memories that you can share with classmates?Our last official organized Reunion is sched-uled for June 9-12 in Ithaca, "far above Cayu-ga's waters."

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fleet on the men and women of '23 who havesustained this column over the years. In thepast seven years they have included Al Con-radis, Ros Van Sickle, John Vander-vort, and other classmates who assisted in re-porting news. Also, the dedicated assistanceof the Alumni News staff helped to pilot usthrough month after month as deadlines ap-proached. And, let's not forget the contribu-tions to our class column of Gertrude Math-ewson Nolin, Helen Northup, and Flor-ence Foster Durkee, who did yeomen ser-vice by keeping lines open for women's news.I salute this group for their contributions to

our class history.John and Helen Bull Vandervort '26,

our Ithaca Reunion team, have done a superbjob of keeping our class together. They nowawait the expected registration by all survi-vors who are intending to, planning to, or arephysically, emotionally, and financially able tomake this milestone event in June. If you can,be there. Van will have much to tell you tospread the Reunion news of "What Ho, on theRialto," to quote an early column salutation.

So, a New Year's resolution is this: goodhealth, clear skies, and smooth sailing, 'til wesee you in June. I'll be there! D George A.

W. ChapinCondit,23

tt A lot of young people have nevereven heard of the Franklin car.

"Chape" Condit '23 is a man in love with automobiles—Franklins, tobe exact. "A lot of the younger people in Syracuse [New York] don'tknow the Franklin was made here/' he told a reporter for the SyracuseHerald-Journal. "A lot of them haven't even heard of Franklin."

Although Condit was employed by the H. H. Franklin Manufactur-ing Co.—down on Geddes Street—for only three years, working therehad quite an effect on his life. With a desk in the Experimental Room,he got a "feel for the engine that's hard to get any other way. I got itfrom hard work."

Condit left the company in 1929 to work for Standard Oil, but henever lost his love for Franklins. He's active in the H. H. Franklin Cluband stores the official club car in his garage, where he spends hourstinkering. And what better place for it than in his handbuilt mechanic'shaven, fully equipped, that proudly displays a well-preserved welcome:"Franklins Served Here."

West, 3156 East Ave., Room 280, Roches-ter, NY 14618; John Vandervort, 45Chateau Claire, Sheraton Dr., Ithaca, NY14850; Florence Foster Durkee, 8 N. MainSt., Homer, NY 13077.

MNews about the upcoming hep-tagonals evokes pleasant memo-ries of the track stars of ourdays. Of course there was FredLovejoy, captain of the varsitytrack team, the "winningest" of

sprinters, who came to Cornell from Flushing,NY. After many years in the world of busi-ness, Fred went for a second career in teach-ing. (Mathematics, wasn't it, Fred?) He is nowin Granville, Ohio.

Alfred Rauch, great half-miler, was al-so on the cross-country squad. Al directed hismany talents to the investment business. Hehas been with Kidder, Peabody in Philadel-phia since 1934, living in Bryn Mawr for some50 years. Do you remember Otto Jaeger,champion high and low hurdler? Ot graduatedfrom the Law School in 1925, joined severalfellow-alumni to practice law in his hometown, White Plains, NY, and topped off hislegal career as surrogate judge, WestchesterCounty. Since retirement, Ot has been livingin the beautiful Tidewater area of Virginia.

Another crack hurdler was Henry Nor-ton Stone, who also lives in Virginia. Stoniecame to Cornell from Roanoke, turned his en-ergies to bridge-building after graduation andnow spends his time enjoying the spectacularBlue Ridge scenery, raising some of thesweetest corn you ever tasted, and playinggolf. Laurence Corbett, another on the var-sity track squad, came from Washington, DC,stayed at Cornell for his master's degree, andsince then has been an integral part of the gar-den-seed business. Larry joined Northrup,King of Minneapolis in 1932 and still makeshis home there.

George Ball and Frank Smith of ourvarsity cross-country team devoted their livesto teaching. George, who lives in Savannah,Ga., is a frequent participant in Adult Univer-sity (CAU) sessions. He and fellow-GeorgianPaul Flynn, of St. Simon Island, attendedMini No. 3. Smitty, who hailed from Brooklynand now resides in Wantagh, NY, also spentthe years imparting knowledge to members ofthe younger generations. It was a pleasure tosee him, his wife Julia, and son Frank at MiniNo. 5.

Reminder! Mini No. 12. March 2. OceanVillage Inn on Hutchinson Island, Ft. Pierce,Fla. For reservations phone Max Schmitt at(904) 427-3814. D.Max Schmitt, 4647 VanKleeck Dr., New Smyrna Beach, Fla. 32069.

As we face a New Year, let us look back to seewhat we accomplished during 1987. RuthOviatt reports that in March she attended anElderhostel, a week in Scotland, another inWales, a third in Windsor. In summer, shespent two weeks at Montana State U. and vis-ited friends in Michigan in August. She stillhas time and energy to be a guide at two artgalleries.

Lillian Rabe McNeill spends much ofher time traveling to attend graduations of hergrandchildren and family reunions. Good luckto you, Lillian, in your battle to preserve yourfarm from encroaching developers. Marjorie

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Willis Young maintains her interest in educa-tion through her volunteer work in helpingstudents find college scholarships and givingadvice on types of study. She keeps up to date,reading the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, andFortune. She is creating education trusts forher two grandchildren.

Mary Yinger tells of varied activities.She attended the class officers' (CACO) meet-ing in January 1987, traveled to Bermuda,Philadelphia (for the Bicentennial of the Sign-ing of the Constitution), and Baltimore. Sheserves as hostess at library affairs and church,and was appointed Trustee-for-Life of theMontclair Dramatic Club. D GwendolenMiller Dodge, Shady Harbor, RR#1,Charlestown, RI 02813.

Our affairs are thriving. Themailbag is o'erflowing and thetreasury, unlike the nationalbudget, is well filled with themany contributions we have re-ceived. Thanks go to all who

have been so supportive of '25. The status of'25 is reflected in the puckish Celtic smile ofJim Duffy, happy and comfortable. Jimwrites that he's "just living quietly."

I made it to Homecoming last fall and sawCornell beat Harvard in a game that had themost phlegmatic spectators screaming as theBig Red pulled it out at the last minute withunbelievable histrionics. Last time I saw themdo that was in 1926, when Em Carey '27kicked a field goal to beat Dartmouth in thefinal seconds. A great display of college foot-ball, so much more emotional than the cold,mechanical type we get from the pros and thefootball factories of institutes of "lower"learning. Sad to say, the Yale game didn'tmeasure up to the same standard, largely forone play that Cornell worked to perfection fivetimes: our quarterback threw the ball to a Yal-ie, which gained ground for Yale but lost it andthe ball for Cornell. However, I noticed thatthe sun rose in the east and set in the west thenext day.

The decade of the '20s was sparsely rep-resented at Homecoming, I being the sole oneof '25. Present was Charlie Fox '11, 102,one of the oldest living alumni. Had a great let-ter from Walt Rollo '23, who along withBill Dodge '22 held down the tackle posi-tions on that juggernaut of 1921 that swept ev-erything in its path. Walt wrote to FrankHenderson, and then to me.

I vividly recall the great line play of Waltand Bill that made possible the famous off-tackle sweeps of George Pfann '24, E. L.Kaw '23, and G. W. Ramsay '24 thatwere the hall-mark of Gil Dobie's success inthose years. For reasons that escape me, Waltand Bill have not been accorded Athletic Hallof Fame honors, although many others of thatteam have been so honored. I have submittedtheir names, along with that of our own JoeLazarus, who was an Olympic boxer, andnearly walked off with a gold medal. I know ofno other Cornell boxer who did that, not evenMoe Goldbass '39, who did win an Inter-collegiate title. But that little disturbance inEurope in 1940 wiped out the Olympics.

Joe was to have fought for the world titleagainst Fidel Labarba in his first pro fight, butit never came off. Joe and Bob Morris wereroommates and inseparable. Two great guys,

now gone from our ranks.Tom Roberts called to report the pass-

ing of his lovely Daisy, a lady of charm and vi-vacity, with whom Martta and I spent manyhours at Reunions in '75 and '85. It was a priv-ilege to have known her so long and shebrightened the life of all with whom she camein contact. All our sympathy goes to Tom andhis daughters.

Henry Palm returned from a week ofsailing and had enough left to send dues and acontribution. Old Reliable! Joe Sorett hadenough left after paying his malpractice pre-mium to do the same. Lt. Col. Brad Cooper,another contributor, published the genealogyof the Cooper family and attended a seminar atEngland's College of Ripon. "Howdy"Burden says he is burdened by the blight ofold age—medical bills—but will keep in touchvia the Alumni News. A loyal '25er, hedeserves it. D Harold C. Rosenthal, MD,71 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.

Dorothy Lampe Hill sendsmany thanks to all our loyalcontributors to the Cornell Fund,as our class has once morecovered itself with glory. Dododid a lot of traveling in

1987—London, Budapest, Vienna, parts ofSwitzerland, Scandinavia—and celebrated herbirthday in Copenhagen at the Tivoli Gardens.Louise Russell toured Southern Englandwith her sister Helen Russell '32.

Lois White Whitaker and husbandRandall '23, PhD '27 vacationed in Ger-many and the Bavarian Alps. Kathryn Ha-kins Sturges spent last winter and spring inKona, Hawaii, with her daughter. Kay is recu-perating from cataract surgery. May Eise-mann Reed spent a most interesting monthin the British Isles, via the Elderhostel pro-

> James Duffy'25: "Just livingquietly."

Billie Burtis Scanlan, Wood River Village,M 202, Bensalem, Pa. 19020.

David B. Kriser, New York City, hasshown how much he cares for the welfare ofhis fellow man. The David B. Kriser LungCancer Center has been established at Beth Is-rael Medical Center, to prevent and cure lungcancer, where possible, and to extend life andgive hope to those who suffer from the dis-ease. Also, in recognition of a $4 million gift,the NYU Dental Center will be renamed theDavid B. Kriser Dental Center. The gift willsupport student aid, faculty development, andresearch.

Several deaths must be noted with deepregret and sympathy. Fred L. Miner, Ven-ice, Fla., died last October. His daughter Bev-erlie Miner Langieu '62 writes that one ofhis greatest pleasures was reminiscing of Itha-ca days, and he diligently kept in touch withmany of his classmates: "Even though he hadlost his eyesight, he looked forward to hisAlumni News and had me read every bit of hisclass news to him." Ruth B. Farr died inOctober of last year. She was the wife of Mor-ris D., of Pensacola, Fla., and was an activesupporter of Cornell as a member of the Presi-dent's Circle of the Tower Club, as is Morris.Edwin L. Harder, Pittsburgh, Pa., haswritten that his wife Esther died last May. Shehad attended the 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, and60th Reunions with her husband and hadformed warm friendships with many Cornel-Hans, including President Rhodes and RosaRhodes on the Caribbean Sea Cloud AdultUniversity (CAU) trip and with others on theAegean CAU adventure. Further trips hadtaken them abroad more than 20 times.

Dr. John E. Crawford, BoyntonBeach, Fla., spent eight weeks in Californiavisiting eight grandchildren and four great-

gram, one week each at Bath, England, Dun-dee, Scotland, and Kings Lynn, England.Then a coach tour of Ireland.

Ruth Boak, MD was a member of amedical group of exchange professors thatmet in China last August, sponsored by Chinaand the US. Ruth's specialty was teachingabout AIDS. We all salute you, Ruth, and areindeed proud of your accomplishments! D

grandchildren: "Just dawned on me that I'mgetting old." Jacques Coleman, Newbury,NH: "Have been living on Lake Sunapeesince my retirement in 1970. Two years ago,Dorothy and I thought the winters were get-ting too rugged at the lake so we bought a con-do in New London, NH, only six miles away,where we spend the winter. Am having myfirst cataract operation, with implant—other-


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wise, we're well."C. Travis Brown and wife have moved

to Walnut Creek, Cal., after 39 years in Larch-mont, NY. "We are enjoying our apartmentwith patio, the delightful climate, and are nearour youngest daughter and family." Now, asDavey Hoy used to say to '26ers, "Please bemy Valentine." D Stew Beecher, 106 Col-lingwood Dr., Rochester, NY 14621.

^Mfe •• You will be reading this (written11Ί before Thanksgiving) as Fran

m M Hankinson and I are attend-M m ing the mid-winter meeting of

f m class officers (CACO) in New• I York City. Jo Conlon Ernsteinis hoping by that time the politically chaoticsituation in Haiti will have subsided, allowingher to visit the school to which she has de-voted the past 20 years. She writes, "Whenyou think of the 200 presidential candidates,you wonder if a benevolent dictatorshipwouldn't be better."

Sylvia Harris Monaghan's visit to NewMexico in August, where she enjoyed four op-eras in six nights, got her away from a hotWashington, DC. Maybelle Dalton Camp-bell, who lives in California and has not flownfor several years, plans a trip to her hometown of Washington. She is still active in aqua-kinetics. "DD" Detlefsen Otteson sum-mered in the Poconos with her family andkeeps busy with senior citizens' groups.

Irene Moffat Longwell, who had to fore-go Reunion plans, says that Palo Alto is a year-around vacation spot. Hildegarde Whita-ker Tanno writes, "At 83 am still on a spree,local jaunts, family visiting, chamber musicand symphony, and bowling." Toini PastoStanat and Art '28 still keep their Washing-ton, DC open-house for family—which in-cludes seven grands—and friends, whichkeeps them immensely busy andhappy. D Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563 DeanSt., Schenectady, NY 12309.

We were saddened to learn from LouiseBrown of StilwelΓs death on Nov. 6, 1987,just four days before his 82nd birthday. I stillremember Brownie's clever trick—in thoseHugh Troy days of pranks—to relievestress. We students of architecture held forthon the fourth floor of White Hall. The firstfloor was the university's math department.One professor of math always kept a pair ofrubbers beside his entrance to math class, soas to be prepared for those Ithaca afternoonshowers. Brownie acquired a matching pair ofrubbers. Then, with Hugh, they painted real-istic toes on them with rain-proof paint. Thefirst day a rain storm was forecast, Brownieswapped rubbers. When the professor left forhome he kicked on his rubbers without look-ing down. He noticed passersby giggling andlaughing, and when he reached home, his wifesaid, "Virgil, you forgot your rubbers!" Helooked down in horror: "I sure did!"

The next day in class, he asked, "Whowas the culprit. Who. did it?" Brownie was ab-sent, thus giving the professor proof-positive.The next day the professor posed the samequestion: pure silence! Later, the professorasked Brownie to see him after class. After afew laughs and good talk they became fastfriends. Stilwell also thanked Mrs. Snyder forsupplying the extra pair of Virgil's rubbers.

44 He wound up the twin-engine Piper and flewdown for two great hours of reminiscing.

H. StanleyKrusen728JervisLangdon Jr.'27

One day in September 1986, H. Stanley Krusen no-ticed a New York Times letter to the editor on prob-lems of commercial aviation and airport controls. Itwas signed by Jervis Langdon Jr. of Gibson Island,Maryland. It had been almost sixty years since thetwo former Daily Sun editors-in-chief had seen eachother, but Krusen dashed off a letter to Langdon,inviting him to "wind up the Grumman II and flydown" during Krusen's stay at the Tides Inn inIrvington, Virginia. Langdon called, a date was set,and the 82-year-old pilot—who now flies a twin-engine Piper—arrived on schedule. The two enjoyed"two hours of great reminiscences about our familiesand respective careers, and our work on the Sun,"reports Krusen.

Dill Walsh and Lorry attended the Yalefootball game and were much disappointedwith Cornell's loss. However, as usual, Dillpulled out his happy-hour box and made his'Perfects' to cheer up Prexy Judge Ray Reis-ler and help a few other anxious friends gohome happier. Cheers. D Don C. Hershey,5 S. Landing Rd., Rochester, NY 14610.

Quaker State Oil Co., where LeeForker is a past CEO, had anice tribute paid to it. The his-tory of the company was the sub-ject of an address last year at ameeting of the Newcomen Soc.

A very interesting history, and important tothe development of the oil industry in the US.If you do not use Quaker State Oil, try it.

Arthur Kurzweil retired in February1986 from Airesearch Mfg. Co., where he wasa consultant. He spends his time square danc-ing, gardening, and traveling. There are foursons and a daughter (my count might bewrong) and ten grandchildren: five of each.

Dr. Morton Lepler is "semi-retired" since1985 and the only activity listed is the "stockmarket." Enough to keep you busy, thesedays. A short note from Theodore Thomp-son just says he retired from DuPont in 1964.

Dr. Myron Rosenbaum, an orthopedicsurgeon, is not retired. Besides, he plays ten-nis three times a week, goes to symphony con-certs, and gardens. Wife, daughter, son, sixgrandchildren are all well. Donald Malloryretired in 1968 from Brookhaven NationalLab.and spends his time being retired!

F. Wendell Huntington says he is lim-iting himself to investing; too much osteoarth-ritis for anything else. There are two great-grandchildren, with more on the way. MiltFirey has two consulting jobs, one throughSCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)and the other with the Maryland board of mal-productive practice (at least, that is how I readMilt's handwriting). Daniel Shamoy enjoysretirement: duplicate bridge, classical music,TV game shows, and "anything sedentary innature." He will be at Reunion, "if I can find

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my cane"! F. Henry Bauldauf walks hisdog and enjoys just plain breathing.

A. J. "Gus" Podboy, after retiring (just)in 1985 from the practice of ophthalmology,spends his time reading music, being on theboard of the Colonial Rehabilitation Center foraddicts, and visiting family out West. DLouis Freidenberg, 200 E. 57th St., NYC10022.

Wasn't that a splendid class letter? RachelMerritt and Alyene Fenner Brown did anexcellent job, and that's only the half of it. Weawait the second half with great interest. Nodoubt you have noticed the wonderful commu-nity services '28 women have performed.Let's hope they will put their minds on gettingto our Splendid 60th Reunion, June 9-12. Re-member, there are excellent rooms and park-ing at Hurlburt House.

The program of Reunion activities is fullof interesting events, easy to get to by thecampus bus, augmented by our own '28 buses.The tours of campus, Sapsucker Woods, andthe synchrotron are all escorted by lecturingguides. Food! The men's and women's com-mittees have chosen delectable dinners andpicnics to supplement the gourmet lunches inBarton Hall.

Plan now to attend. Write to roomies orsorority sisters to set travel plans. Let Racheland Alyene know for reservations. Priority:send your generous Cornell Fund gift toIthaca, marked for credit to 1928 Women. Ourclass figures will be read at Cornelliana Nightin Bailey Hall during Reunion.

A sad note. Achsah Brill Taylor diedJuly 14 after a long illness. She had loving carefrom her sister. Ruth Lyon was fortunate tosee her last June, returning from the mini-re-union. Our deepest sympathy. D DorothyKnapton Stebbins, 94-30 59th Ave., Elm-hurst, NY 11373.

Richard C. Flesch, who tookover the men's column in April1986 following the death ofHerb Marples, died Oct. 31,1987. Albert Hostek hastaken on the job, beginning with

the next issue. The following news items werewritten during the summer and fall of 1987 byDick Flesch:

Edwin C. "Ted" Raedel and wife Eliz-abeth, residing in Lancaster, Ohio, traveled in1986 to Florida and New England. Ted takestime off from golf to serve as a hospital volun-teer, Heritage Association treasurer, and ac-tive member of Rotary. Grandchildren Ben,Katey, and Steve have graced the campusesof Miami (Ohio), South Carolina, and OhioState. Granddaughter Beth had yet to choosewhere she would study.

Herman M. Seldin, sojourning onJohn's Island, SC, claims that this newest hob-by is a great-granddaughter. Our guess is thatwife Moya shares this hobby. Walter W."Bud" Stillman Sr. writes from Alpine, NJthat he still keeps very busy but practiceswhat he preaches to his grandchildren: "En-joy life as you go along."

Charles Cooper "Chuck" Eeles claimshis principal activity of 1987 was learning tocook, make beds, and take care of the beauti-ful flower garden wife Lois grew before herdeath in December 1986. Chuck is a supervi-

sor of his Birmingham (Pa.) township whichhas been completing a new office building,paving roads, and trying to keep within thebudget. All of which keeps Chuck busy and(he alleges) out of mischief.

Louis R. "Dick" Chase writes that al-though retired he chairs the Park Ridge (111.)Civil Service Commission. Benjamin Cole-man Blackburn, who died suddenly on July7, 1987, is survived by brothers William andGeorge, both of Medina, NY. Ben's distin-guished career included teaching plant mater-ials at Rutgers, serving as a captain in WorldWar II, acting as adjunct professor in botanyat Drew, 1949-72, writing several notedbotanical textbooks, and giving popular talkson the Mutual Broadcasting Network. In 1985Ben received the Medal of Honor from theGarden Club of America and, in 1987, an hon-orary doctorate in science from St. LawrenceU. D Albert W. Hostek, HedgerowsFarm, Box 2307, Setauket, NY 11733.

One of our most active '29ers, Bella Smith,has joined the list of those who died in 1987.We miss her company and remember withgratitude her successful work for years as ourCornell Fund representative. Cornelia Da-vis writes that she is now happily off the insul-in she had been on for two years, but is on astrict diet and "must not gain even onepound." She still drives her 1965 Dodge,reads, keeps house, and supports worthycauses.

Dottie Reed Corbett says, "Mostly,nowadays, I am writing 50th wedding anni-versary congratulations or 80th birthdaygreetings." She has completely recoveredfrom her mild heart attack of a year ago andhas spent a couple of "beautiful" weeks in Ha-waii. Daughter Joan celebrated her 50th birth-day with a large celebration at Hot Springs, at-tended by all three of Dottie's children.

Flo Davis Delaney (Mrs. W. W.) has anew address: 5951 W. Rafter Cir., Tucson,Ariz. They sold their house in Maryland lastyear. They have nine grandchildren spreadacross the country. One spent a year in Franceand another is completing work toward a PhDin physics. Flo continues her interest in birds,golf, and making patchwork quilts. D EthelCorwin Ritter, 4532 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota,Fla. 34242.

M Samuel Levering, recoveredfrom heart by-pass surgery in1986, represented Peace ChurchPublishers at the Moscow Inter-national Book Fair last Septem-ber. Sam operates a fruit farm

(apples, peaches, cherries) in Ararat, Va. Overthe years he's been active with United Nationsrelated public-interest organizations: USCommittee for the Oceans (1972-82); US Ad-visory Committee to National Security Coun-cil on Law of the Sea (1973-1980). He and wifeMiriam (Lindsay) '34 have six children.Among them are three PhDs; four authors ofnon-fiction books; four college teachers; onemovie producer and book reviewer.

As a break from Ithaca winters, RobertTerwillegar, who chaired our 1985 Reun-ion, and wife Dolly spend a couple of monthseach winter with daughter, Elizabeth '50and son-in-law Albert Dendo '49 in San Di-ego, Cal. Because of illness in 1985, Bob had

to resign as treasurer of the PaleontologicalResearch Institution, and the Ithaca SalvationArmy advisory board. Robert Booth,though still active in the management of thefamily business, The Union Sand and SupplyCorp., in Painesville, Ohio, leaves the day-to-day problems to his two sons, allowing himand his wife "to take interesting trips fromtime to time."

Benjamin Wolf, Tarrytown, a labor ar-bitrator, is "still working, although at a reducedrate." Clients include the City and State ofNew York, and the State of New Jersey. Formore than 30 years he was an extension teach-er for Cornell's ILR School. He spends hisleisure time writing his memoirs, playing golfand the piano, and caring for his invalidedwife. Older daughter, Vicki Cobb, writes chil-dren's science books; younger daughter Elea-nor Zabb, is head of the mathematics depart-ment, Ethical Culture School in NYC.

Matt Roman and wife Charlotte contin-ue their traveling ways. This past spring sawthem in Australia and New Zealand with aneight-day stopover in Hawaii. On a Florida vis-it last winter they saw George Emeny in Te-questa, Esther Schiff Bondareff '37 in W.Palm Beach, Harold Zang '25 in Welling-ton. D Daniel Denenholz, 250 E. 65th St.,NYC 10021.

News is still as scarce as hen's teeth. Γm gladto report that we heard from Bea FosterWhanger that she is much better after herbout with illness last spring, and she is ableand willing to resume her office as CornellFund representative for our class. Γm sorry Ireported the earlier news, and so happy thatshe is able to continue in this very importantjob. Thanks, Bea.

We had a most interesting letter fromJoyce Porter Layton. She and Don '29spent the summer in Seattle with daughterJune, and enjoyed many interesting side tripsand great meals with June and her friends.

We are sad to report that a recent letterfrom Jean Klocko, daughter of DorothyChamplain Klocko told that Dorothy haddied peacefully in a nursing home, where she .had been for some months after suffering astroke. It's a loss to her family and Cornellclassmates. You can write Jean at 614 Roose-velt Ave., Dunkirk, NY 14048.

Γm at a loss to explain our lack of yournews, but the holidays will help remedythis. D Eleanor Smith Tomlinson, 231 SE52nd Ave., Portland, Ore. 97215.

l Belatedly word has reached us ofΛ the death of Emma Jean Eish-

er Hawes in Ft. Worth, Texas,last July. Those of you who re-

I member Emma Jean when she ar-I1 rived on campus from Paducah,

Ky., will recall her keen wit and vibrant per-sonality, but did you know that she graduatedfrom Cornell at the age of 18? Puts the rest ofus to shame, doesn't it?

An obit in the New York Times tells of herspectacular rise in the bridge world to becomea grand master and multiple North Americanand world champion, during which play EmmaJean "radiated charm and good manners asshe clobbered her opponents." Her bridge-playing career lasted more than 30 years. Sur-viving her are her husband David '30, a


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daughter Evalie Hawes Horner, and a grand-daughter, and to them we send our sinceresympathy.

Frederica "Fritzie" Dorner Davis hasbeen absent from this column for far too long.Indirectly, we hear that she is living content-edly in Southern Pines, NC, with oue of herchildren not too far away in Asheville, and therest in close touch. She, in turn, hears fromJean McKinlay and Audrey Stiebel Gott-schalk. Good friendships grow dearer as theyears speed by.

"Last Reunion," writes Virginia ClarkSouthworth, "I was so thrilled to be asked tosing four jazz numbers over a microphonewith one of the six-piece bands in a tent on theQuadrangle—quite a giddy experience for a77-year-old grandmother." D Helen Nuf-fort Saunders, 1 Kensington Terr., Maple-wood, NJ 07040; (201) 762-4120.

The telephone bell has tolled again. On Nov.24,1987, it was a call from our vice president,Len Gordon, 1371 Broadway, Hewlett, NY11557. Len's beloved Lucille succumbed No-vember 20 to the heart ailment she had foughtfor so many years, so courageously and soquietly that many of us did not even know ofher earlier by-pass surgery.

Lucille was the archetypical class officer'swife, a non-Cornellian who was more enthusi-astic about Cornell than most graduates. Sheregularly attended our Reunions, our classdinners, and other class functions with Len.Just last month she and Len participated inanother of the series of Adult University(CAU) sessions which they have been enjoy-ing for several years.

The Class of '31 was honorably repre-sented at her services on November 22 byRabbi Harold Saperstein, who conductedthem. In response to that trite, futile, helplessquestion, "Is there anything we can do?", Lendid suggest that a memorial gift to CAU in hermemory would be most appropriate, and verymuch appreciated.

Len closed our conversation with a cheery"See you at the mid-winter meeting of classofficers." It will be nice to see him, but we willmiss Lucille. D Bill Vanneman, 174 ShoreRd., Box 234, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06670.

Sorry about the omission of ouroffering from the October issue.It was mailed in July but nevergot to Ithaca. Blame the PostalService. The Wall Street Journalcarried a story about the remark-

able economic recovery of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.The city had suffered from loss of industry forsome time before the great flood of the 1970salmost put it permanently on its back. One ofthe prime movers in the miracle was BobEyerman who, at an age when many of usslow down, put his architectural skills to work.The result has been a thriving municipality.

Samuel L. McCarthy writes from Cin-cinnati that in April he and Betty intend to flyto Munich and drive to Vienna. When the Mc-Carthys return, we'd like to learn more aboutthe trip. Pete Matthew says: "Very reward-ing trip back to Ithaca for the 55th . . . thingshaven't really changed all that much on theHill—like the empty beer keg in the Quill &Dagger Tower entryway. But co-eds youngerand Library Slope steeper." Pete told me that

during the lean days immediately followinggraduation he played a few games of profes-sional lacrosse, but decided that his businesscareer (when he found a job) would probablyadvance more rapidly if he didn't get hisbrains scrambled. And that's just what hap-pened.

Elmer S. Phillips says he and Pat soldtheir Avion trailer and have been homebodiesever since. Flip sees Larry Fridley eachsummer when Larry and Evelyn come northfrom Clearwater Beach, Fla. The Fridleys hada 50th wedding anniversary last October.Doug and Kathryn Halstead also cele-brated their 50th in 1987. Daughter Wendyand her husband gave them a surprise partyattended by Charlie Ward and HarryWelty, and Allan S. Cruickshank '34.All are retired engineers.

Pete McManus reports that as he ap-proaches his 87th birthday his health is goodalthough he finds it prudent to use a canewhen he walks outside his home. He and Eliz-abeth are proud that grandson Michael P.Mack '89 is a third-generation Cornellian.Art and Shirley Boschen live quietly in Den-ver, having diminished their activity and elim-inated their trips to Florida, where they usedto have good times with Reed McJunkin.The Mcjunkins apparently divide their timebetween Cortland and Vero Beach. TheWashington Committee for Civil Rights Un-der the Law presented its first DistinguishedService Award to Albert E. Arent in No-vember. Al and Frances spend about sevenmonths in Boca Raton, Fla. D James W.Oppenheimer, 560 Delaware Ave., Buffalo,NY 14202.

Barbara Rogers Tichy still works hard as adesigner, but now out of her home. She is rais-ing her teen-aged grandson—very rewardingbut, for the present, limits her desire for trav-el. In the meantime, she enjoys reading aboutthe activities of our classmates. MargaretSanf ord Hughes and Donald '37 last yearbecame great-grandparents for the third time.This latest arrival is the granddaughter ofdaughter Patricia Hughes Dayton '59.

Velva Lamb Rose was unable to be atReunion as she was attending a granddaugh-ter's graduation from Dartmouth. In Novem-ber she attended the Iowa-Northwestern foot-ball game, as a grandson is a sophomore atNorthwestern and her son, Dr. Gerald Rose, isa professor in management science at the U.of Iowa. Rose Gruber, who lives in NewYork City, is enjoying the "New School." Sheis one of the retired professionals there, takingcourses and doing volunteer committee work.She also enjoys a lot of theater.

Louise Wulff retired from teaching in1967. Since then she has maintained a homeand supervised the nursing care of her sister, asufferer from rheumatoipl arthritis. Until 1979they were able to spend summers in Madison,Conn. She says she has had a good and re-warding life. It is good to be needed.

Ruth Gordon Brauner, over the last 13years, has visited 54 countries on expeditionsfor architecture and wildlife .'Her last trip wasthe entire navigable length of the AmazonRiver, and, a month later, around Cape Hopefrom Santiago, Chile, to Rio de Janeiro.

Are you enjoying our new directory?Those of you who requested geographical, in

addition to alphabetical listings should be es-pecially pleased. Let us know if you have in-formation about any of the "unknowns." DMartha Travis Houck, PO Box 178, Bed-minster, NJ 07921.

Very special Reunion greetingsas we begin another year of classnews reports with a reminder tokeep your June calendar in avery accessible spot. Since Janu-ary 1975, Donald Russell has

been enjoying retirement and a lot of golf. Healso reports a great recovery from heart sur-gery, including a hole-in-one at the Sable PalmGolf Club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., shortly af-ter the operation. He's now looking forward toReunion in June.

During the past year, Adult University(CAU) programs were enjoyed by Erna(Kley) '36 and Russell Pettibone—"Lon-don Study Tour" in April, plus "Vienna,1880-1914" in July-and by Joseph McWil-liams—"Natural Life in the Finger Lakes" inJuly.

Cooper Lansing reports he and Pegvisited Guatemala, where everything was ex-cellent including the scenery, people, and ac-commodations. They found the Mayan tem-ples and other architecture at Tikal especiallyinteresting.

After retirement, Bernice and GriffJones moved from Maryland to Florida andnow feel almost like natives in their newhome. After a trip it's always great to returnhome—a very good sign! This past summer,on a "Castles of Britain" tour with their twoteenage granddaughters, they visited parts ofEngland, Wales, and Scotland, seeing thesecountries in a new light—from teenagers'viewpoints—and found it very exciting. Evenvisits to the Hard Rock Cafe in London andthe Rock Bottom Cafe in Edinburgh were in-cluded. Griff added, "Truly a trip to be re-membered."

Last year was an exciting period inPoughkeepsie, NY, and Bea (Anton) andHerb Saltford were actively involved:Herb, as city historian, and Bea, as a newmember of the Cunneen-Hackett CulturalCenter board. It was a year-long celebration ofPoughkeepsie's Tricentennial, plus planningto commemorate, in 1988, the Bicentennial ofNY State's ratification of the US Constitutionwhen Poughkeepsie was the state capital.D Garrett V. S. Ryerson Jr., 1700 LehighRd., Wantagh, NY 11793.

M Eleanor Clarkson, 2 Pheas-ant Lane, Box 132,, Sandwich,Mass. 02563, assures me that Isoon will be receiving 1987-88news from you girls. In the sameletter she told of Sandwich's

350th anniversary, "A two-hour parade withfloats and marching bands enough to satisfyanyone. What got the most attention was acake 350 feet long, set out under an awning onthe athletic field and baked by a local baker.They sold advertising on it by the foot andcleared some $10,000 toward the cost of thecelebration. They had it notarized and some-one from the Guinness Book of World Recordswas present. It was baked in sections oversome two weeks and stored in the schoolfreezer. It took 20 people to transport and as-

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semble it and a lot of youngsters to put thecandles on."

Edna Botsford Hollis, 610 S. AftonWay, 11B, Denver, Colo., kindly cleared upmy confusion about her news. She had had an-other 50th—this time at the Andover NewtonTheological School in Newton Center,Mass.—a wonderful weekend in May 1987with her three daughters. Her son was unableto come. Two weeks after graduating in May1936, she married her husband, whom she hadmet there, and joined him in his ministry atChelsea, Mass. It would have been Edna andHarvey's 50th wedding anniversary, had helived. She said going to this second 50th cele-bration was worth all the effort it cost;graduates came from all over the country.

Flash! Had a letter yesterday from RuthBlake Wright, 11117 Hohokam Dr., Sun City,Ariz., telling about their busy life—August inUtah, where they hiked, visited Salt Lake Cityto pursue Julian's genealogy (Ruth said shehad done her Blake genealogy back to 1285and that was back far enough) and escapedSun City's heat. Then, they sailed The SeaPrincess to Alaska, with stops at Victoria, BC,Juneau, and Sitka. It rained, but they sawglorious glaciers for two days. They will visitson Paul's family for Christmas, along withson Buddy's family.

Ruth also gave some sad news: M. Car-oline Patterson Scholes has been in aPhoenix neurological hospital since July 2 be-cause of a brain aneurysm. Husband JohnPhD '40, sees some improvement, but shehas been gravely ill. John hopes to move herback to Sun City, as driving to Phoenix daily ishard on him, at 80. He has finished their moveto Royal Oaks Lifecare Center, 9915 RoyalOak Rd., Sun City, Ariz., in Garden Home#1061. This move was pending when Carolinewas stricken. The lifecare center has an in-firmary, and she can get the therapy she willneed at the Sun City hospital.

Ruth Buckland Hoffman, 195 Cres-cent Ave., Buffalo, NY, writes of selling thefamily home (since 1822) in Penn., "disposingof furniture, glassware, and clothing wasquick and easy, but the personal items likebooks by the ton, scrapbooks, journals, let-ters, pictures, and manuscripts are a differentmatter! What to do? My house and mind are sofull. I'm in another century when I'm readingthem and come back with a jolt when it beginsto get dark, my feet are cold, and it's time tomake supper." Ruth, I lived at 325 CrescentAve. with my aunt when I taught school inBuffalo, 1934-37. Π Lucy Belle BoldtShull, 3229 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota,Fla. 34239.

Rawson "Bud" Atwood of Lake Wales,Fla., wrote, "Daughter Joan lives in London,England, with her husband Dixon and theirtwo children. Dixon is the son of FabianKunzelmann '38. We visit over thereevery year to see them and occasionally have avisit from them to our house in Florida. SonJohn, JD '71, lives in Damariscotta, Me.,with his wife and three children. Until recent-ly, John was district attorney for four countiesin Maine. Last January the new governor ofMaine appointed him commissioner of publicsafety for the state. As for me," Bud contin-ued, "now retired, in good health, trying toplay reasonably acceptable golf, and putting

together the family genealogy."Willis "Bill" Beach and his wife Sue of

Cape Coral, Fla., wrote the news of their sons:Jim, who attended U. of Michigan, graduatingas an EE, and then U. of Va., where he receivedhis PhD in bio-medical engineering, has con-tinued there as a bio-medical researcher. SonTom attended Wheaton College and U. ofMichigan Medical School and is now medicalofficer at USAFMC 52nd USAF Clinic,Spangdahlem, Germany. Bill is still busy withhis music, but more teaching than performing,now.

Hugh Westfall, Sarasota, Fla., reportshe has an interesting half-time position as"treasurer and investment officer" of the"Hotel-Motel Self Insurer Fund." Robert D.Tyler, Hilton Head, SC, traveled for threeweeks to Northern England and Scotland,where he found the weather was a "very cooland relaxing change from South Carolina'ssummer." D John H. Little, Apt. H-21,275 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010.

As this column is written in No-vember, there's no news yetabout the class dinner in NewYork City—something later onthat, but here's a lot about us.Howard Ordman says, "I

have partially—and I really mean only partial-ly—retired and I find myself working morethan ever. Sophie and I journeyed throughChina last spring, visiting Shanghai, Nanking,Beijing, Xian, and many other places. A fabu-lous trip—there's almost as much to say aboutit as there are Chinese people."

Gen Harman Davis took her fourth Ca-ribbean cruise last year. Returning, she spenttime in Louisville, with her son Terry and fam-ily, and in Pleasanton, Cal., where the hus-band of her daughter Nancy is plant managerof Ford Tractor Dist. Parts Center. Gen is re-cuperating fine from cataract surgery. DorisStruss Huster missed the Cornell-Penngame because she was in England and Scot-land.

Irving Gilmore and Edna cover the USand Canada in their travels: Jensen Beach,Fla.; Austin, Texas, to see son Bill '70; RioVerde, Ariz., to golf; Nova Scotia, Quebec,Montreal, and Stowe, Vt, for more golf. "Liv-ing in Terre Haute is great: only an hour to In-diana U. (Big Red, also) for their games. I loveto hear them play their Alma Mater, same as"Far Above Cayuga's Waters."

Daniel L. Garland (Goldberg) andPaula have five sons and five grandchildren.Dan retired in 1981 but has done consultingwork off and on. His professional life has beenwith Wright Aeronautical Div., Curtiss-Wright Corp. (head, spectrographic and radio-graphic labs and assistant section head, mate-rials lab.) and the metals processing division(materials lab director, extrusion plant mana-ger, quality control manager); Bettis AtomicPower Lab., Westinghouse Electric Co. (assis-tant to manager, nuclear core department,quality control manager) and plant apparatusdivision (quality control manager); and West-inghouse Hanford (manager, nuclear QA pro-gram office). In his spare time he is active inthe Symphony Society, the Washington StateJewish Communities, and the Hanford Fami-ly.

Jean Farnsworth Pinson and Ernest

(maj. gen. USAF, ret.) celebrated their 50thlast August at the Air Force Village, San An-tonio, Texas, where there were several otherCornellians—Katharine Cook Powell '49,Jerry Loewenberg '29, JD '31 and Pat(who celebrated their 50th in May), and BillJennings '31, DVM and Inge. Jean's fourchildren are scattered—Judith, a teacher inLivermore, Cal.; Joan, an RN in research atUniversity Hospital, San Diego; Ernest Jr., AUnited Airlines pilot home based in Denver;and Charles, a surgeon at Boston DeaconessHospital doing liver transplants.

Eleanor Bernhard Laubensteinwrote, "Almost 30 years in Scarsdale andthree and one-half years since my classmatehusband "Oz" died. I sold my house last Mayand moved to beautiful Santa Barbara to benear my daughter and her family. My new ad-dress is 22 W. Constance, Apt. 2F, Santa Bar-bara, Cal. 93105. I'd like to hear from any Cor-nellians in the area." Π Mary Didas, 80North Lake Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127.

Walter Grimes, 7317 BradSt., Falls Church, Va., has soldhis brokerage business to HelenDwight Reid Educational Foun-dation, but it is now being run byhis son Larry. Despite Walter's

retirement, he can't find time to do everythingthat interests him. He now has four grandchil-dren—2 boys and 2 girls—the oldest, 3.

Franklin F. Karn (Ag), RR3,110 ClarkLane, Spearfish, S. Dak., is now retired afterteaching vocational agriculture for 30 years inhigh schools of NY State. He retired in 1969

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and is now a part-time farmer raising regis-tered Hampshire sheep. He has two children,Patricia Doncaage, John. Franklin is also a di-rector of a new science museum. He has nowdisposed of his farm property in New Yorkand is enjoying living in the beautiful BlackHills of South Dakota. After the death of hisfirst wife, Evelyn, he married Lois Sipla ofSpearfish. They have traveled on many tripsto Africa, Russia, South America, Australia,New Zealand, and Spain, as well as the Orient.It is most interesting and enjoyable to see howpeople live and work in the rest of the world.

Paul M. Mattice (BA), Box 180-B, RD#1, Freehold, NY, tells us that he and Marthaleft in December 1985 for East Africa the dayafter Christmas and that they ' 'could not pos-sibly describe the Kenyan experience—the cli-mate, the dazzling capital, the natural scen-ery, the magnificent animals, Mt. Kilimanjaroby the light of the full moon, sunrise over Ken-ya, the strikingly handsome people—all madeus very reluctant to leave." Then they flewfrom Nairobi to Rome, where they lived for aweek in a charming little hotel just off the ViaNationale. The weather was cold and nasty,but that could not dampen the pleasures ofRome. Since returning they have been verybusy and enjoyed a trip on the Delta Queen foreight days, St. Louis to Nashville, and return.

E. Larry Smith (EE), 3584 LakeviewBlvd., Delray Beach, Fla., went with LincolnElectric after graduation and held various po-sitions in. engineering, research and develop-ment, sales, and management. In 1941 hemarried Kathleen Mehl, a graduate of Syra-cuse (BS and MS) and Junior beauty queen.They have four children—all very satisfactoryand successful—Philip, MIT engineering andHarvard MBA; David, BA Principia Collegeand Wharton MBA; James, Lehigh engineer-ing; and Kathy, U. of Pennsylvania, BS andMS. After retiring in 1973 they moved toFlorida and are very happy and busy.

Robert G. Smith (BS), 2921 NE 28thSt., Apt. 202, Lighthouse Point, Fla., tried toreach Jack Blount in Orinda, Cal. in April1987 while he was on a trip to the West Coastand found that Jack had traveled to Florida atthat time, so there might have been a mixed-up notice of travelers. Esther and Bob had anice 9,000-mile cross-country trip, their firstsince the 1940s.

Richard D. Culver (BS), 210 MelroseAve., Kenilworth, 111., was recovering from acancer of the mouth operation he had in De-cember 1986. The doctors told him he wascoming along fine, but he wished the recoverycould be a lot faster. After six weeks of radia-tion treatment Richard was getting ready forspeech therapy. D Col. Edmund R. Mac-Vittie (AUS, ret.), 10130 Forrester Dr., SunCity, Ariz. 85351.

Mostly travel news this month—all who areable, trying to pack it in while we can! ErnaKley Pettibone and Russell '33 partici-pated in two alumni tours this past summer,the "London Study Tour" and Adult Univer-sity (CAU) summer, "Vienna, 1880-1914."Both sounded very tempting! Just back fromher second trip to China when she wrote inJune, Elizabeth Fessenden Washburnfound some changes from her previous tripfour years ago—more cars and trucks, but stillmany bicycles. An inveterate climber, this

time she tried a different section of the GreatWall, as well as a 5,000-foot mountain climb.Then she rode up a 6,000-foot mountain on abus and cable car in order to climb down it, aquite difficult undertaking, as these moun-tains are a "series of upside down ice-creamcones."

Still hard at work is Constance LebairPercy, who continues with her research andstudy at the National Cancer Inst. She wasabout to participate in a World Health Organi-zation meeting in Leningrad, where she wouldserve as an expert on classification and no-menclature of neoplasms. Both she and Ruth

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A Arthur H. Dean *19, LLB*23

Stuart Flexner, Grad '49-50, iseditor of the second edition of theRandom House Dictionary of theEnglish Language, published latelast year. It is 2,500 pages long,weighs twelve pounds, and sellsfor just under $80.

The Malaysian governmentarrested Mohamed Nasir BinHashim, PhD '78, last fall in asweep of opposition leaders. He isa professor and deputy dean ofadministration at the MedicalSchool of the Universiti Kebang-saan.

A pro-Iranian group in Leban-on threatened the lives on Decem-ber 18 of four hostages takenJanuary 24, 1986, including Rob-ert Polhill '56, a lecturer in ac-counting at Beirut University Col-lege. The group made public aphoto that showed Polhill withweapons held to his head.

Arthur H. Dean '19, LLB'23, chairman of the universityBoard of Trustees from 1959-68and a renowned international law-yer, died November 30, 1987, in

Glen Cove, New York, at the ageof 89. He was senior partner ofthe New York law firm of Sulli-van & Cromwell and representedthe U.S. in peace, test ban, anddisarmament negotiations for fourpresidents.

He served the university as atrustee for thirty years, was adonor with particular interest inthe Libraries and Law School, andin early 1950 was reported tohave turned down an offer of thepresidency of the university.

Two alumni died in the crashof a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetnorth of Los Angeles December 7,1987, Thomas Rabin '85 andJames Sylla '55. Sylla, a chemi-cal engineer, was president ofChevron USA and an officer ofthe parent Chevron Corp. Rabinwas a law student at UCLA.

Robert Costello, PhD '51 isnominee to be undersecretary foracquisition in the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense. He has been anexecutive with Delco Electronicsand General Motors.

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Hill Lane wrote again how great our 50thwas! Ruth was planning a visit to daughterBetsey Lane Rixford '61 and husbandJerry, MA '60, and family in Portland, Ore.,last spring to see what it was like at that timeof year. Always before she'd gone in the fall.She had spent last February in Ft. MyersBeach, Fla.

Charlie Reppert '34 has made a verygenerous donation to our Children's Litera-ture Fund in memory of our sorely missedCharlotte (Putnam). D Mary EmilyWilkins Lytle, 119 Bedford Ave., Buffalo,NY 14216.

f ••• Tom Boon-Long writes fromI m Chantaburi, Thailand, that he is

£ m still a fruit grower after retiring_^fc m from government service 12II m years ago. Besides familiar avo-^^ ™ cados, his crops the include moreexotic mangosteen, durian, rambutan, andlansian. Tom and Angoon have three sonswho were scholarship students at Cornell,Yanyong '67; Preeda '75; and Piyawat'73, and a daughter—two engineers, abotanist, and a teacher. He hopes the ever-rising cost of university education won't standin the way of continuing the tradition of Boon-Longs at Cornell when grandchildren reachcollege age. Although a fall two years ago hasslowed him down a bit, Tom and his wife arefeeling the lure of the North and hope to take atrip to Alaska one of these days.

Retirement may be the name of the gamefor lots of '37ers, but some classmates dog-gedly hang in there professionally. Alvin E.Moskowitz, still actively practicing law, andhis wife Vivian, who is bookkeeper for thefirm, took a winter vacation in Tucson, Ariz,and Palm Springs and San Francisco, Cal.They have two daughters. Max Paul Good-fried maintains his practice as an orthopedicsurgeon in Dallas, Texas. It was good to hearfrom Dr. Sam Stieber, a veterinarian inRoseland, NJ. Sam and Helen have a daughterwho graduated from Syracuse U., and a son, aU. of New Hampshire alumnus and graduateof New Jersey Medical School.

Past president of the New York Soc. ofClinical Hypnosis, Dr. Selig Finkelsteinstill practices dentistry full time. In addition,he teaches hypnosis for the Soc. of Clinicaland Experimental Hypnosis and is consultanton hypnosis for the neoplastic disease divisionof the New York Medical College. A memberof the executive board of the American Soc. ofClinical Hypnosis, he is the author of thechapter in Clinical Hypnosis: A Multidisciplin-ary Approach. His wife Irene runs his office;one daughter is an assistant professor atAlbert Einstein Medical School while anotheris president of a funding group for commercialbuilding.

When Dr. Norman H. Johnson, justout of Cornell, started his first job with theAmerican Soc. for the Prevention of Crueltyto Animals hospital in New York, he couldn'thave foreseen his later fame as veterinarian tothe rich and famous. Starting with house callsafter hospital duties at the fourth-busiest ani-mal hospital in the country, his clientele grewto include the cats and dogs of ordinary folk aswell as celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe,Vladimir Horowitz, Yul Brynner, Joan Craw-ford, Kate Smith, and others. One intriguing

hospital patient suffering from the earlystages of pneumonia was an intelligent chim-panzee who was soon to co-star with RonaldReagan in "Bedtime for Bonzo." Still an ac-tive veterinarian at the Henry Bergh Memori-al Animal Hospital after a half-century withthe ASPCA, Norman has passed on his skillsand sensitivity to animals to generations ofveterinarian interns. He has written twobooks: one on puppies, one on kittens. And aprolonged series of visits to treat a special catcalled George led to Norman's marriage some20 years ago to George's mistress Marion. Weunderstand the lucky patient lived to a happyripe old age. D Robert A. Rosevear, 2714Saratoga Rd., N., DeLand, Fla. 32720.

Fran White McMartin advises that the '37women's picnic at Siesta Key, Fla., will beginat 11:30 a.m. on Thurs., Feb. 25, 1988. Shesays to come early to be sure of a parkingplace and if more information is needed, callClaire Kelly Gilbert, (813) 349-1881 or Fran,(813) 349-6604. Claire also suggests that weall attend Harry Kuck's "Wild HogBarbecue" on Tues., Feb. 23, at Lyke'sFisheating Camp Ground, Palmdale, Fla.Both events should provide congeniality andfun.

Classmates who recently attended AdultUniversity (CAU) are Marian BellamyWedow, on a London Theater Tour; MarySchuster Jaffe, on The Art of Seeing: Land-scape into Art; Louise F. Davis, AncientCivilizations of the Americas. Louise says thatafter Reunion, "which was great," she spentanother week on campus with CAU, studyingthe Mayas and other ancient Americans, thenspent several weeks as an Earth Watch volun-teer at Miami U. of Ohio's EnvironmentalResearch Center. Mae Zukerman Horuvitzhad two weeks in London, taking in theaterand, more recently, was in Santa Fe, NM,where she went on an art tour sponsored byVassar College with her daughter.

Windy Drake Sayer visited Fran Mc-Martin this past summer at Willoughby Lake,Vt, where Fran has a cottage with a gorgeousview. In the fall she went to Pocasset on CapeCod, where she visited Ruth MarquardSawyer and Louise McLean Dunn, neitherof whom made it to Reunion. Ruth, whom Ihave never known to miss past Reunions, didso this year for good reason. She and Dick at-tended his 50th at Dartmouth. Louise also hadgood reason: she had fractured her arm inMay. D Mary M. Weimer, 200 E. DewartSt., Shamokin, Pa. 17872.

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ways." But, he does report some betterment,"except when I skull them out of bunkers."

Reunion will have to include many mid-night "seminars" on travel: Like Perry andKit Reynolds describing Bahamas, Canadi-an summer camp, Los Angeles, and Texasbeaches; Dudley Buck, Norway-Denmark-Sweden and Brazilian river cruise; HenryBeutell, New England, visiting children inCalifornia and Illinois; Cars and Jane Corn-brooks "with children scattered in Balti-more, Vermont and Hong Kong (and, Carsadds, "Do I miss working? Not one bit!");Adult University (CAU) enrollees Ellis andBarbara Ross (New Orleans jazz trip) andHowie and Adelaide Briggs, John H. Da-vis, and Ed and Priscilla Buchholz Fris-bee '39 (cruise of Maritimes and Quebec).

Ray Pearson's got a daughter who's anurse in New Orleans; another, a Citicorp"veep" in New York; a son who's an assistantprofessor at U. of Virginia; also, three grand-daughters. Dave Hammond calls Arizona"a magnificent place for those terriblemonths" of an Auburn, NY, winter. One ofours on the scene in Ithaca, Bob Wilkinson,says Cornell growth's so big, along with thecity's and suburbs', that "one has to keep thewindows closed at times or it's ear-shatter-ing." Meaning plenty of the new to see at Re-union, folks.

A dauntless Homecoming group was re-warded with an exciting grid victory: Ed andKay Anderson Pfeifer '40, Carol ThroRichardson and daughter, Bill and ElsieHarrington Doolittle, Roy and LindaBlack, Bill and Mim Stroud, Gil Rose,and Gerry (Miller) and Ted Gallagher.Priscilla (Stevens) and Dick Stringham'37 joined the dinner crowd. Be sure to be atReunion to see Lubitsch Doolittle's historicvideotape of '38 Homecoming and Reunionactivities.

Fred Tuthill is the supervising coordin-ator for, and in his 10th year as a volunteer forthe AARP's program in the Elmira area, giv-ing free advice to seniors and others who needhelp with tax returns. Irwin Stein's recentlyretired, after a business career that was fol-lowed by getting back to a campus as CorningCommunity College library's director, but hecontinues a TV interview show in its 14th yearand plans Elderhosteling overseas to add toprevious travel in Europe, Japan, and China.

Now that, this spring, every classmatewhose address is known is getting the AlumniNews, it's a great time to re-emphasize a cou-ple of vital organizational points: so many of ushave winter/summer address changes; and it'scostly to have magazines forwarded, so notifythe Alumni News at least six weeks before youmake each seasonal move and give specificdates. And a conscientious but tedious cam-paign by '38 officers led by our fearless PrezHarry Martien has resulted in dozens offindings of "lost" classmates. So, keep theclass and Alumni House advised of yourwhereabouts. So diligent has been the searchthat address changes and deaths of as long agoas 1960 have been unearthed. D Fred Hille-gas, 7625 E. Camelback Rd., #220A, Scotts-dale, Ariz. 85251.

The Cutlers—Roberta (Sumner) andJohn—celebrated John's 55th Harvard re-union in Rome, where the group was enter-

tained by the American ambassador. Closer tohome the Harry Martiens and the RobertBrodts (Betty Jokl) crossed paths in theBrandywine Valley while on a plantationstour. Recently Fran Otto Cooper and Jimvisited 12 of our national parks, covering3,000 miles, and Fran's assessment is "awe-inspiring." Hope Stevenson Peet watchedlast spring arrive in Louisiana and Tennessee,and in August enjoyed a tour of the CanadianRideau Canal.

Jane Stoutenburg is an ardent golferwho summers in Ithaca and winters in Te-questa, Fla. She met other Cornellians duringa June Kenyan safari; and, with her sisterElizabeth '35, visited Switzerland in Sep-tember. Elizabeth Jennings Perry's itiner-ary took her to the many islands of the InnerHebrides, and she found Jersey and Guernseyparticularly intriguing. While there, shevisited the home of Victor Hugo, so atten-dance at the New York production of LesMiserables was doubly interesting, later on.Norma Jones Cummings has been making agood recovery following a heart attack, and ispursuing her volunteer work at the NationalZoo along with her lacemaking demonstra-tions.

Priscilla Stevens Stringham (Mrs.Richard '37) has also succumbed to the lureof bobbin lace, which she says is quite achallenge, as is her golf game, but she enjoysboth. Two Stringham grandchildren are nowin college: Richard III at Riverside, Cal., andZoe at Hampshire College in Amherst. MaryNardi Pullen's son Richard was married inSeptember, an opportunity for a family reu-nion. It was nice to hear from Amelia Lip-ton Quinn, who has retired from medicalpractice and leads "a quiet life" in spite ofseven grandchildren!

Marjorie Hardenburg Edwards andher husband have been hunting for a home inIthaca, and hope to be living there permanent-ly when he retires from Wayne State U. inJune 1988. Ethel Turner Ewald reports thebirth of a great-grandson, Travis RichardClark, whose parents are back in the US afterseveral years in Saudi Arabia.

I was sorry to learn just recently of thedeath of Joseph Klein '30, the husband ofMuriel (Axelrad), following a lengthy ill-ness, and extend our sympathy to her and toEileen Mandl Goodwin, who also lost herhusband Robert in 1986. Eileen is still locatedin Laguna Hills, Cal., and would enjoy hearingfrom classmates in the area. D Helen Rei-chert Chadwick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston,NY 14092.

Mary Dodds Phillips (Pitts-burgh): "Retirement is the great-est Deliver for Meals onWheels, do women's club work,take friends to doctor and hospi-tal. Whole family vacationed in

1986 at Ocean City, Md. Am president ofNorth Borough Women's Club, active inchurch. Visited Betty Luxford Webster,June 1986, with Peg Schuman Green andSally Steinman Harms." Jean LinklaterPayne (Ithaca): "Daughter's husband died ofheart attack, October 1986. Our granddaugh-ter, 17, is aiming for the Hotel school. Havebeen preoccupied with mother-in-law's failinghealth." I always found her charming, Jean:

What has transpired?The Class of '38 has invited '39ers to

share their 50th Reunion, June 9-12. For de-tails, write to Gerry Miller Gallagher '38(Mrs. Edw. S.), 239 Anchorage Ct., Annapo-lis, Md. 21401. Late notification of honor ac-corded Priscilla Buchholz Frisbee (Stuy-vesant Falls, NY) last March: She was one oftwo people named Citizens of the Year by theKinderhook Elks Lodge. She's been townhistorian since 1974, has authored two booksabout the area, was 4-H leader for 30 years,president of the garden club, director of theColumbia County Historical Soc. until 1977,and is now a guide there. She also worked onestablishment of a town park near the Stuyve-sant Falls bridge, with a view of the Falls. Hernomination praised her "leadership which hasinterested others in community activities . . .the Town of Stuyvesant is proud and ap-preciative." D Binx Rowland Keefe, 3659Lott St., Endwell, NY 13760.

It's mid-November at this writing and the nipof colder weather is in the air. Summer wentfast, autumn is going even faster. Classmatesattending the later football games includedJohn Ogden, Dick Wheeler, Ben Dean,Lew Fancourt, G. "Bud" Gridley,George Peck, and Jack Hemingway.Now it's time for ice hockey, basketball, etc.Come on up and see us. It's nice here in thewinter—cold, but nice!

Have recently learned of some honorsgarnered by classmates: The Kingsport DailyFreeman has a nice write-up on Art Moak,reporting he had $2 million in sales,and list-ings last year and received the Century 21 dis-trict award for top listing in March 1987. Thecitation notes: "Bringing almost 50 years ofbusiness experience to real estate, he serveson the board of directors of the YMCA, is amember of the Chamber of Commerce, andbelongs to the Wiltwyck Golf Course." Wayto go, Art!

Another honors-recipient is Bernard Di-dinsky, named 1987 Sammy Award winnerby the 100-member NY State Beer Wholesal-ers Assn. The award is presented annually toa legislator, a brewer or importer, and awholesaler who work for the betterment ofbusiness and the beer wholesaling industry inNY State. Bernard has been successfully en-gaged in the beverage business in Sullivan,Ulster, and Delaware counties since 1946 forMiller Brewing Co. He has served as a direc-tor of the Beer Wholesalers Assn. since 1958and chairs its law committee. Congratula-tions! We'll drop in for a "Lite" next time wego fishing in the Beaverkill.

Jim White just got back from a whirl-wind touζ of Switzerland, Austria, and Ger-many collecting information for a journal onozone depletion. He then took off for his win-ter residence in Fort Myers, Fla. Jim's firstbook has been published: it's entitled AddRain- The Relationship Between Sources and Re-ceptors. He says it's must reading. EdwardZouck says retirement couldn't be better,and wife Jeanne manages a house, two acres,travel, and social activities, but does not ne-cessarily provide lunch. (You've got to bringsomething to the party, Ed.) They just re-turned from a six-week vacation to the WestCoast, Australia, and New Zealand, with astopover in Honolulu on the way home. He


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recommends it highly. Also, he saw JohnNevius at a concert in Boca Raton last Febru-ary and says that John says he " lives on thebeach."

Robert Wilson is a former NY Statelandscape architect who practiced for 30years, then retired to Eustis, Fla., t2 yearsago. Address: 1103 Country Club Rd. Bob re-ports that every day is a vacation in LakeCounty, Fla., with its 1,400 lakes. He is activein the men's garden club efforts to beautify lo-cal communities. Gladys is also living the re-tired life, after 45 years of marriage enrichedby three grown children and seven grandchil-dren spread around upper NY State. The Flor-ida Lake Cornellians will hold their annual pic-nic on March 19, 1988 at Sunset Island, if youcan make it. D J. M. Brentlinger Jr., 217Berkshire Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Today's column brings news ofsome people from whom we'venot heard in a long time. FredSinon graduated in 1941 butstarted with us, so is officially'40 and we welcome him as a

new reader, I think, of this column. He is a re-tired engineer from J. Wiss and Sons in New-ark, NJ. He and his wife, no children, live onContentment Rd., Darien, Conn. Soundsgreat,, eh? But they have recently bought acondo in Falmouth, Mass. Fred spends a lot oftime in his own machine shop building scalemodel steam engines, and travels each Christ-mas to England for a model engines show.Also, he has made a trans-Atlantic trip in a77-foot sailboat—accomplished in 1975.

As we all await news of agreements withRussia, Walt Zittel tells of a trip to Russiafor ten days last spring which he found mostinteresting: "No bad times, the people are fas-cinated with Americans, go out of their way tobe pleasant and helpful in any way they can."Dr. Richard Drooz received his medicaldegree at Albany Medical College, trained asa psychiatrist, and has completed 34 years onthe executive faculty, SUNY, DownstateMedical Center as associate professor ofpsychiatry. He now chairs the psychiatry sec-tion, Continuing Medical EducationAssembly, Medical Society of NY State. Hisaddress: 201 E. 66th St., NYC.

Another not heard from in a while-Ernest Jacoby and his wife Lucy(Schempp) '35. They live in Brooksville,Fla. They have four children and six grand-children, ages 21 to 4. After receiving hismaster's at Michigan State U., Ernie has beenin products engineering, gun manufacturing,flexible hose manufacturing and technicalsales, before teaching grades 5-8, then was ad-ministrator in public schools for seven yearsbefore retirement in 1981. He continues his in-terest in water sports; has his own shell androws sporatically. His and Lucy's grand-children live in Michigan and Florida, andthey keep a cottage on Cayuga Lake for sum-mers. One son has an ad agency in Ft. Lauder-dale; another is with IBM in Pompano/Boca,Fla. A daughter is a legal secretary at AmwayCorp. and another a computer secretary inpublic school. They are a Cornell family:Lucy's sister Beatrice '37, brothersGeorge '38 and John, as well as parentsBeatrice George Schempp '14 andGeorge '12 were all Cornellians.

Another fellow who enjoys lakes in Cen-tral NY—Francis Shaw who has lived onKeuka Lake, in Penn Yan, since 1960. Before,retiring in 1978, he was a consulting engineerin Rochester.

Haven't heard from Dr. Cedric Jimer-son in ten years, according to my records. Hehas had a career in surgery following gradua-tion from the Medical College. For 35 years hechaired the Department of Surgery, Commu-nity General Hospital, Reading, Pa. Also, he'sa past president, Berks County Medical Soci-ety; also past-president, Eastern chapter ofthe American College of Surgeons. He retiredfrom practicing surgery on Feb. 28,1986, stillmisses the work, but says he is enjoying retire-ment with his wife Julie. They have threesons: David, in psychiatry, has recently joinedthe faculty at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospi-tal; Robert studied medicine at Yale; andDouglas '73 is in investments. Cedric's ad-dress: Box 364, RD #5, Sinking Spring, Pa.

Thank you, Susie Cook Cobb, for thenews sheets which keep this column up todate. D Carol Clark Petrie, 62 Front St.,Marblehead, Mass. 01945.

J ^ Last summer, when Bart Bar-MM ^ tholomew was doing the May

MM I and June columns, he was too^^L I prolific. A couple of items were^^p I cut. I received them long after the

I I fact, but anyhow, here they are:The first came by way of Fred Munsch-auer, who advises that Paul Schoellkopfwas elected to chair Marine Midland Bank'swestern senior advisory board. He continuesto chair the Niagara Share Corp. and has beena Midland director for more than 40 years.And Bart says we should contact our repre-sentatives and senators about the inequity inthe Social Security system which affects all ofus born in the years 1917-21. Known as the"notch" babies, we have been "notched" toreceive 10 to 15 percent lower Social Securitypayments. Apparently this wasn't the intentof Congress, but that's the way it worked out.There is a bill in the works to remedy the prob-lem, according to a recent article I read, so thiswould be a good time to make that contact.

The Ithαcα Journal reported that BenNichols was running for the Ithaca CommonCouncil unopposed last fall. You'd think thatwould make him happy but, said Ben, "I reallywould rather have a campaign. That way if Iwas elected, I could say people knew mystance and I won on the issues." Ben is a mem-ber of the board of public works, and duringhis long career at Cornell, where he's now as-sociate director of Electrical Engineering, hehas served on many community boards.

J. Russell Mudge reports he and Dor-othy (Grant) '42 continue to enjoy retire-ment in Naples, Fla., with golf, fishing, gar-dening, and boating. Russ, who retired in1980 from GE as vice president and generalmanager of their Far East and Africa opera-tions, had many years of corporate trav-el—like, about 90 times around the world—sohe and Dorothy are quite content to stick pret-ty close to home. Russ adds that while henever pursued a career in hotel administra-tion, he surely spent a lot of the time checkingout hotel facilities all over the world.

Robert M. Lowe, who left Buffalo over25 years ago for Hawaii, has never regretted it

for a moment. He says that practically everyafternoon he swims in the ocean and occasion-ally sells a condo in Waikiki or DiamondHead. Bob says he and his wife Jackie lovethat life! Robert G. Fowler had a visit fromR. W. "Duke" Treadway and wife Patty ayear or so ago at their place in Ocean Reef,Key Largo, Fla. The Treadways were movingfrom Naples to San Diego, Cal.

Paul J. Blasko and J. W. "Swifty"Borhman finally, after 46 years, got togeth-er in Boca Raton, Fla., for their prepschool'sget-together. Paul says Swifty looked andsounded as if he could still run with theball. D John Dowswell, 7 Sequoyah Rd.,Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906.

Ruth Walsh Martinez wrote enthusiastical-ly about her granddaughter, Sonya Martinez,who attended Cornell's Summer College foroutstanding high school juniors and seniorslast summer. The students were from 42states and 49 countries and were admitted onthe basis of high school record, application es-says, recommendations, and College Boardscores. She loved her courses, the campus,and Ithaca, so maybe Cornell will entice an-other "California girl" to its doors! Ruth andher husband still live in Sonoma, Cal., and en-joy travel and many pleasures that retirementmakes possible.

In a phone conversation with Anne Kel-ly Lane, I learned of a brand new, seventhgrandchild. Anne's seven children are all do-ing interesting things and live in Birmingham,Raleigh, Phoenix, and greater Baltimore.Now that Anne is retired, she spends muchtime at the St. Vincent's Home for AbusedChildren. Also, she is in the Baltimore Sym-phony Auxiliary and works on the MarylandState External High School Diploma program.She had a ball attending an Elderhostel pro-gram at the U. of Montevallo in Alabama lastspring and took courses in writing a family his-tory and Indian culture in Alabama. She'llagain spend February and March in OrmondBeach, Fla.

Felicia Rog Pfeiffer was ecstatic to re-port that they were finished with college billsat last (began in 1964)! Their seven childrenhave degrees from everywhere, but the lastone graduated from the U. of Texas in May.Felicia and Len had a wonderful trip to Italyrecently. They even had an audience andshook hands with the Pope! They took a Pe-trillo tour of southern Italy, then traveled ontheir own for two weeks.

Florence Crabb Backus was on PublicTV and a radio show interview on ''GreatGrads" recently. She continues to study oiland pastel painting and has had a few commis-sions and a local one-woman show. She hastwo married sons, one an inventor, the otherwith Xerox. She also enjoys a 7-year-oldgranddaughter. D Marge Huber Robinson,11915 Longleaf Lane, Houston, Texas 77024;(713) 781-2378.

Ed Buxton asked us to includeone more memo about our 45thReunion: "The very fine wineserved at our dinner was gra-ciously donated by DickBrown '49. It was 'Centine

Rosso Di Montalino' by Banfi Vineyards. Thisand other fine Banfi wines can be procured at

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your favorite wine store, Γm sure."Old age has been getting a bad press,

largely because we have allowed all kinds ofdisinformation without refuting it. For in-stance, only 5 percent of those over 65 live innursing homes, while 80 percent live indepen-dently, and 82 percent of those are in at leastmoderately good health. These years after 65are often the most fulfilling, for powers longdormant come to the fore and find their fullestexpression.

Many pictures in the Louvre were paintedby artists over 65. Titian painted Battle ofLe-panto when he was 98. Verdi was 80 when hecomposed Falstaffanά wrote Ave Maήa at 85.Alfred Lord Tennyson penned Crossing theBar at 83, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmeswas still writing brilliant judicial decisionswhen he was in his 90s.

And, in case you think it is men who excelin later years, don't forget that Clara Bartonwas 61 when she founded the American RedCross. She was its president until she was 83;then she established the National First AidAssn. and was its active leader until she was91. And, we all know about Grandma Moses.

David Starr Jordan, MS Ag, 1872,first president of Stanford, said the years bet-ween 60 and 70 were the most productive ofhis life. And so it is with many of us; for in-stance, Peggy Fish Tackabury, Greely,Colo., now working as a medical secretary atNorth Colorado Med. Center and doingstatistics on the progressive care center, arehabilitation unit. Her five children and 11grandchildren are spread from the East Coastto the Pacific Northwest. She enjoyed Reu-nion.

Dick Thomas, Meadville, Pa., recov-ered from back problems that kept him off thegolf course for six weeks. His court schedulesare more hectic than ever and he, too, had agreat time at the 45th. Mario Cuniberti,Columbus, Ohio, rowed at Lake Placid Na-tional Masters regatta with Al Bishop '51.They were stroke and three-oar in a "four"with an age average in the 52-60 race. Theycame in sixth and, as Mario mused, 'Oh thewild delight of knowing . . . there wereyounger guys doing the rowing."

Conrad Englehardt, Bermuda, plannedto host his Cornell Bermuda rendezvous as us-ual, Feb. 7-15 and expected Class of '35ers tobe joining us. Call him at (800) 221-1294. Howabout Richard R. Ryan, Baton Rouge, La.,still working for the secretary of state of Loui-siana. He thinks this one has a good chance ofbecoming governor, which would be nice forhim and possibly make him famous. WifeRobbie works for Louisiana's labor depart-ment. He promises to be at the next Reunion.

Frank Burgess, Geneva, 111., helps thecommunity by serving on the health systemboard and the affiliated hospital board. He hasrecently joined the board of Campbell Centerfor Historic Preservation Studies in Mt. Car-roll, 111. He and Robin continue to make a suc-cess of Robin's Bookshop Ltd. They'll be atthe 50th.

Jane Smiley Hart, Washington, DC,makes the following suggestions re the 50th:hold a half-hour interfaith memorial service tohonor classmates gone; substitute dinner anda theater performance at the Performing ArtsCenter for the dance; have a picnic on theStraight terrace. All good ideas, that will be

considered by the Reunion committee. I mustsay that I loved the dance, so would hope^wecould have the Big Band one night as well.

Beryl Present, Rochester, went to Itha-ca to cut the ribbon on his newest (21st) cata-log showroom on Triphammer Rd. Retired, hesays he misses the vacations. He will spendthe winter on his boat, the "QueeNan" atBahia Mar in Ft. Lauderdale, named for wifeNan. He had a wonderful time at Reunion andvolunteers for the committee.

Douglas H. Ginsburg '70 almost rep-resented Cornell on the Supreme Court, but itwas not to be. I guess we shall be satisfiedwith Sam Pierce '47 representing us inWashington, DC. Looking forward to yourChristmas news and letters sent by the hun-dreds. D Carolyn Evans Finneran, 293376th, SE, #13D, Mercer Island, Wash. 98040.

Wally Rogers, having fullyretired, has been honored by theuniversity with the title "direc-tor-emeritus, general services."Γm not sure that, even with themonicker, he is allowed to pur-

chase so much as a paper clip. "Still doing a lotof surgery," writes Sam Hunter, "but onlyon the left (assisting) side of the table. Theyoung Turks appreciate a cool gray-headedold bastard around some times. Play golf al-most daily in the summer—handicap 8—andexpect to play the Country Club of North Car-olina for the USSGA Tournament, along withC. D. "Sam" Arnold. See you in 1988 for the45th." Frank Roberto reports that his firstgrandsons have by now celebrated their 3rdand 1st birthdays, in that order.

From here on I suggest that, if you elect togo on reading, you have an atlas at the ready: Icame across a now-yellowing note from Syl-vester O'Connor about the most beautifultour he ever took—to the Vancouver World'sFair, the Olympic Peninsula (Washington)famous for its rain forest, Glacier NationalPark, Yosemite, Tetons, and Yellowstone;3,000 miles, 21 days; "breathtaking."

"Since retiring it has been great to traveland ski in Europe and do more extended cruis-ing without deadlines. There is more thanenough to keep busy with local projects and asix-year job as flag officer of the Noroton(Conn.) Yacht Club, where I am now commo-dore. Skied Madonna di Campiglio and touredSicily and then sailed the British Virgin Is-lands in 1987." Almost forgot to tell you; thewriter is Ed Clarke.

This year-old news is from Brit Stolz."With travel plans made and paid for, Janeand I decided to spend a week on the narrowcanal boats down the Stratford Canal. Thenthree weeks with Glenton Tours to England'shistorical cities—York, Stratford, Chester,Bath and Shaftsbury—then two weeks in Ire-land, a week in London, and a weekend in Par-is. Still with ASSC, reuned with 303rd bombwing in Tucson in February 1987, and lookforward to ours in 1988."

Rex and Judy Malmberg retired fromFlorida veterinary practice to the mountainsof North Carolina: "After much gardening,several adult ed. classes, and learning to relaxfrom so many wonderful but busy years ofpractice and child-rearing, we are spending afew years traveling in a Holiday motorhome.Trips to date have included seven weeks to

Mexico, and, last spring, photographing theArizona desert where both our daughters live.Went to Tallahassee to see son, a stop home,and then on to the Outer Banks of North Caro-lina and points north—New England, PrinceEdward Island, and Nova Scotia. Have agranddaughter in college and two grandsons,6 and 11."

From Alfred Sait: "Back to Englandagain this summer." (He refers to 1986. So Iain't neat.) "Got real familiar with the pubs.Visited countless castles, beautiful gardens,Brighton Pavilion, and the remains of theMary Rose at Portsmouth Harbour. Surprisedanything was left after 440 years at the bottomof the channel." Alfred, listen to me. Stay outof the pubs and you'll be able to count thecastles. D S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164,Spinnerstown, Pa. 18968.

Think back to November "21, 1987. Bittercold, biting wind, snow flurries on a day whenthe Big Red looked blue in losing to Princetonat Palmer Stadium. Yet, dear friends, hardybodies sat in the glacier-like chill. Your corre-spondent was one, and I chatted with JohnMachemer '37, Civil Engineering, whocame in from Long Beach, NY. Neither of us,nor the several hundred others, should havebothered. After our lone touchdown, I headedfor warmth and coziness at daughter's apart-ment in Plainsboro to watch an exciting PermState victory over Notre Dame.

Edy Newman Weinberger sent a cardfrom Australia in October, after which she andJoe '42 were headed to Mauna Kea, Hawaii,for R&R. Caroline Norfleet Church wel-comed Barbara Babcock Payne '39 in Oc-tober. Barbara was visiting her granddaugh-ter at Williams College in Massachusetts.

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Best of everything for 1988 to all whoread this column. All '43ers, of course, willmeet on campus in June. But you knew that,didn't you? D Hedy Neutze Alles, 15 OakRidge Dr., Haddonfield, NJ 08033.

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Mm Mm Soc. of Hotelmen, writes thatfmMm^mL Anderson House, a hotel in Wa-^^f ^^m basha, is the oldest operating

• hotel in Minnesota. Founded byher great-grandmother in 1856, it is managedby her nephew. But the hotel is different foranother reason: "It is probably the only inn inthe world where guests can reserve one of tenfurry felines for a night of companionship atthe same time they book a bed." The attentionof guests makes for fat cats, some weighingmore than 30 pounds. Most requested is Mor-ris, a 35-pound mixed breed. The story wasfirst reported in the Chicago Tribune in Au-gust 1985, and followed on ABC, CBS, and inthe Wall Street Journal and many others. In-cluding, of course, the National Enquirer. . .probably with an appropriate headline.

Maggie, who retired as director of house-keeping at The Greenbrier, continues in thehospitality industry. She has served as a con-sultant in nine states, Ireland, and the Britishand American Virgin Islands. She spendseach summer on the management staff of theGrand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich. Butshe probably hadn't consulted for any of thehotels that hosted R. T. "Tom" and LillianCochran last spring. They spent five weeksin Japan, China, and Tibet; wrote of no moun-tain lions or spotted leopards as roommates.H. E. "Eppie" and Erica Evans didn't reportany, either; and no lions. Eppie spent twoweeks as external examiner for veterinaryanatomy at the University of Zimbabwe inHarare. Continuing retirement on a profes-sional plane, he finished a revision of Miller'sGuide to Dissection of the Dog, with Alexan-der de Lahunta '58, DVM.

Barbara "Bobby" Cans Gallant has aproposition . . . er, proposal. Whatever. Lastyear she traded her beach condominium in St.Augustine, Fla., for the holidays with a friendin Wilmington, Vt. "All my family had greatskiing. Is there a Cornellian who would like totrade? My condo is on Crescent Beach, withtennis, racquetball, and golf nearby. I wouldenjoy knowing someone in New York Citywho would like to use my condo for a month orso anytime from December through March,and in exchange, let me use his or her apart-ment in New York, or ski house, somewhere.As I get close to real retirement, I would liketo do the NYC switch several times a year, so Icould see my kids and grandkids comfortablyand see some good theater and art. (I was aNew Yorker for 35 years.)" Bobby's address

is 1620 NW 19th Circle, Gainesville, Fla.32605. She is state legislative chairman of theFlorida School Boards Assn.

Elaine (Smith) and Elliott Feiden'45 probably would be interested in Bobby'scondo, but only if it were in St. Augustine,Kenya. Their son Peter '75 is with AID, andlives in Nairobi. They make semi-annual tripsto Europe and/or Kenya from their home inMamaroneck. Elaine is a therapist at the Men-tal Health Assn. of Eastchester, and operatesa rare book business. She received the MSWfrom Columbia in 1951, and has been with theMental Health Assn. for 20 years. Elliott hasbeen a consulting engineer with his own firmfor more than 30 years. Ed Fitchett writesthat he has retired^ But that may be subject toquestion. He and Bernie (Henry) '43 haveseven grandchildren. Recently, they moved toa new home . . . next to three grandchildren.Retirement? Sons Gary and Wayne are '72and '73, respectively.

Cal DeGolyer writes of retirement andfamily Cornellians. (I believe his wife Bunnywrote a while ago that Cal still gets up with thechickens. However, on their Table RockFarm in Castile, it's probably "up with thecows.") The major stockholder in the familyfarm is Willard DeGolyer '69, named forhis uncle, Willard '40, who was the firstCornellian to die in World War II, killed in Al-abama while training English flying cadets.

Larry Lowenstein '43 has thrown achallenge at the Class of '44. He told those at-tending the Cornell Fund breakfast duringUniversity Council weekend that '43 wouldmake a larger 45th Reunion campaign gift toCornell than '44. I accepted that challenge.Their goal is $1,500,000. So, where do we gofrom here? Up, up, and up! The only advan-tage that they have is that S. Miller Harris'43 would have done more with the lead itemin this column! D Joe Driscoll, 8-9 WildeAve., Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026; (215) 259-1908.

Did you read the Novemberissue's "Co-ed on a WartimeCampus" by Nancy MynottDavis '46? That brought it allback. We're still using 1986 let-ters—all great news, just par-

don the age. Judith Loeb Wander writes ofthree sons; two are Martin '72 (BArch) andCraig '76 (BS Ag). Judy and Jerry live at 29Park Hill, #4, Menands, NY. K. Scott Ed-wards "chucked it in two years ago, butnothing has changed as I'm busier than everbefore writing a book. Still in sunny ElPaso—more than 300 days of sun a year." Ad-dress: 730 Linda, El Paso, Texas.

Margaret "Peg" Hύlbert Rangatorehas five daughters, three sons-in-law, fivegrandsons, and a granddaughter. While shewas in Las Vegas last year she failed to find away to beat the one-armed bandits. She's stillworking at VA Medical Center in North Chi-cago. She hopes to retire this year and dosome traveling. Address: 4174 BrentwoodLane, Waukegan, 111. William "Bill" Mona-ghan Jr., 49 Diamond Bridge Ave., Haw-thorne, NJ, has three children, all lawyers, andfive grandchildren. He is still a NY TelephoneCo. building engineer and district manager.He had no plans for retirement. He receivedinstrument rating on his private pilot's licensein April 1986—700 hours total flight time. He

moved up from a Cessna 152 (two-seater) to aCessna 172 (four). Bill's still running. He com-pleted the 1985 New York City Marathon inthree hours, 30 minutes (tenth place in his agegroup, 60-69). He enjoys watercolor painting.He and his wife Eleanor are active in the localEpiscopal church.

Walter G. MacFarland III, 266 NewDarlington Rd., Media, Pa., is one of the manywho has no idea of what his Cornell identifica-tion number is. Check it out on the label ofyour next Alumni News. He paid his classdues twice in 1986, which is some kind of rec-ord. With 1988 fast approaching, he has prob-ably forked out again! OK, folks, let's every-body check to see if we have sent in our duesfor 1987-88.1 just checked and I hadn't!

William R. "Bill" Ebersole writesfrom 29187 Franklin Hills Dr., #212, South-field, Mich., that he has two daughters: M.Leigh is teaching disadvantaged youngstersand Andrea is a graduate student at UC, SanDiego. Bill, retired general manager of thePark Lane Hotel in NYC, recently traveled toMackinac Island, Antigua, and Curacao. Bill,you know how to pick them.

Nancy Godfrey Van de Visse and Mar-tin have four children, five grandchildren, andsix step-grandchildren. Nancy is sewing, knit-ting, weaving on her own loom, and enjoyingtheir tropical fish. She is a sales associate at aDenver department store. Martin is vice presi-dent of the Community College of Denver.They went to Epcot Center in Florida in 1986,and live at 364 S. Ironton, #425, Aurora, Colo.Mary R. Wright, 268 Archer Rd., Church-ville, NY, attended the Council for Hotel, Res-taurant, and Institutional Education annualconference last year in "beloved Boston,"where she had wonderful three-hour luncheongab sessions with Hugh Gordon '45 andAlison King Barry '47. Mary enjoysteaching hotel operations in the School ofFood, Hotel, and Tourism at Rochester Inst.of Technology. Good to hear from all ofyou. D Eleanor Dickie Richardson, 1201W. US Hwy. 20, LaPorte, Ind. 46350.

One of the most rewarding as-pects of being half of the class

! correspondent team is receiving! from classmates a note for somespecial reason, although itdoesn't occur nearly as often as

I'd like. It's a real pleasure to get a card fromthe Matterhorn, from Bill Sklarz; or a letteron a Taiwanese hotel's stationery, fromFranklin Meyer, written in Hong Kong andmailed in Singapore (or something like that);or an informative note from Ray Hunicke;and one from Dave Nimick, in western Pa.;or even one from western NY (from personswho wish to remain aloof from the fame thatalways follows having their names mentionedin this column)! I've been lucky enough to getmore than one humorous note from RodStieff; and R. Fitz Randolph, who wasvery missed at last Reunion, was kind enoughto scribe a small personal note to me on hisclass dues information sheet.

But, this week, I received one of the mostheartwarming letters ever from Brown U.'sProf. Ed T. Kornhauser. Ed sent me a pic-ture of his son E. T. Jr., who'll be 1 year oldwhen you read this. Ed reminded me of a con-versation several years ago in which I had told


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him of the joys of fathering a second family.(His E. T. is almost exactly ten years youngerthan my Lindsay.) As you can imagine, E. T.is, to quote Ed, "a total joy ... and at times italmost seems as though he arrived from outerspace." For all his truly remarkable brilliance,I've never known Ed to display pride; evennow, fatherly pride seems to be submersed bythe warmth and joy expressed in his letter. Weall share this joy, Ed, and are very happy foryou. Oh yes, I almost forgot E. T. Jr.'s mother,who's also a writer, publishing under hermaiden name, Jincy Willett. Her latest book isJenny and the Jaws of Life, and Ed says it's re-ceived good reviews. I think we should rushout and buy a copy or two; the Kornhausersare going to need the money! D Paul L.Russell, 10 Pickerel Rd., Wellesley, Mass.02181.

Lester and Arlene Newton Hilton live inCumberland, RI. She has been at the library atBrown U. for more than 18 years as a biblio-graphic searcher. Les is an insurance broker.Caroline Steinmetz Goldsmith is a seniorvice president at Rudder Finn and Rotman,and executive secretary at the Art Table inNew York City. In 1986 she was busy with 14trips on business and pleasure all over the USand Europe.

Edward and Joan Fulton Davis call Cal-ifornia home. Joan has been president of thelocal Toastmasters Club and won second prizein a table topics speech contest for her district,which includes 105 clubs. Congrats, Joan.Steve and Mary Jane Vandewater DΆrri-go wrote that two children graduated fromOhio U. and four from Wittenberg. Quite anachievement!

Herman and Rhoda Nayor Krawitztraveled to Greece this past year. She is a psy-choanalyst in private practice; he is active inopera, theater, and TV as a record producer.Their two sons graduated from Ivy Leagueschools. The Tuddenhams—Dr. Bill andPhyllis (Stapley)—moved to 2311 One In-dependence PL, Philadelphia. Last year theyspent three weeks motoring through Switzer-land and France, and a week at their ''time-share" in London. D Elinor Baier Kenne-dy, 503 Morris PI., Reading, Pa. 19607.

J •• Better late than never to adviseM\ M readers that Renee Brozanit U Goldsmith's art gallery,'The£J| m 5G Collection" is now located in^^Γ m larger quarters at 4502 Inver-

• β rary Blvd., Lauderhill, Fla. Cor-nellians in the family include husband Don'42 and daughter Cathy '71, last reportedto be executive art director at Random House.Daughter Maralyn is a therapist; son Stevenan attorney.

Congratulations to W. Barlow Ware,who is now back in circulation after a lengthyabsence due to injuries in an auto accident.Known as the voice of Cornell football andhockey, Barlow has the distinction of havinghad a section of the new press box at Schoell-kopf Stadium named in his honor. Barlow hasalso been active with Rotary International, inaddition to duties with the Ithaca Rotary Club,not to mention his full-time task as the univer-sity development office's director of specialprojects.

Patiently keeping an eye on the Alumni

News has been loyal correspondent SawyerThompson Jr., who consistently sendsalong news of his doings. Associated withPratt and Whitney, Sawyer also serves as aprofessional consultant to the aerospace in-dustry, and as adjunct professor of manage-ment at Florida Atlantic U. When wife Ginny,an RN, isn't teaching Lamaze childbirthclasses, she and Sawyer are into square dan-cing. It keeps one young.

Quilting classes are what Lauraine Ser-ra Warfield holds, with really young (teen)parents. Her daughter Cheryl works withabusive parents. On the lighter side, a familyreunion at son Richard's wedding and recenttravel to the Orient, where she and George,PhD '50, also have relatives.

James Gillin announced his retirementas president of MSD AGVET division of Merck& Co. last summer, after serving the firm inmany key positions since 1949. A holder ofseveral chemical process patents, he will rep-resent MSD AGVET as chairman of the Ani-mal Health Inst, an association of manufac-turers of animal health products. Retirement?

Taking advantage of Adult University(CAU) during 1987, in diverse geographicalareas, were a number of '47ers. Looking into"A Thousand Years of Russia" in the USSRlast spring were Isabel Mayer Berley andhusband William '50, along with MarjorieMontrose Ault. 'The New Orleans JazzTradition" was observed, on location, byAlice Newman Wenzel and husband John.Back on campus, and definitely "Beyond theGreat Wall: China and the World Outside"were Shirley Yenoff Kingsly and BruceLowell, whose wife Ann did "The Decora-tive Arts in America" and "The BotanicalWorld" activities.

Responding to the call for Reunionphotos, to be enshrined in our class scrapbook,Howard M. Brown sent in some neat shots,as did Shirley M. Renard, with whomyours truly is co-correspondent. You can seeboth photos and correspondents at our 45th.

Bill Davies promised to make it to the1992 Reunion when, it is hoped, there won'tbe a family wedding to interfere. But, in 1987he and wife "Spud" did observe a micro-re-union with fellow electrical engineer La-verne "Andy" Anderson and wife Peggy inArizona. Both guys are now retired. Billvolunteers his services with SCORE (ServiceCorps of Retired Executives) counseling smallbusinesses and with RSVP (Retired SeniorVolunteer Program) working with youngstudents on readin' and 'ritin'. On the flip sideof the language coin, he has been spendingtime in Mexico trying to master Spanish.

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Frank Collyer, our Reunion co-chair,advises that 140 classmates positively will re-turn in June, and 120 are "maybes." Youshould be seeing a list of them about this time.Bob Cook, director of Plantations, will be aspeaker at our Reunion. By last Thanksgiv-ing, our class gift fund was up to $15,000.

John Ross, Phoenix, Ariz.: "Retiredfrom Goodyear Aerospace. Doing some realestate sales out of summer place in Pine wood,near Flagstaff." Gerry Miller Franklin, La-Jolla, Cal.: "Aug. 5,1985, we were cruising toAlaska on the Sun Princess. Last week wewere cruising to Alaska on the Royal Princess.We've discovered Alaska and just returnedfrom our third cruise there!" The Rev. Shir-ley Ogren Pabo, Hilton, NY: "August 1985,I was an archeological dig volunteer at TelDor in Israel. Had a good swim in the Mediter-ranean after work. Last week, my husbandand I visited our daughter in Washington, DC,and saw the archeological exhibit Έlba toDamascus' at the Smithsonian. I've just fin-ished a two-year interim pastorate at a smallrural church near Rochester."

Claire Cameron Raynor, Rochester:"On Aug. 5,1985, we were visiting our daugh-ter Ellen '79 in Cincinnati." RichardFletcher, Hartwick, NY: "In 1985,1 helpeda friend restore a house in Wiscasset, Maine.Last week, helped organize a senior profes-sional 54-hole golf tournament. Beside run-ning our antique furniture business, I servedon the boards of two homes: the Wartburg, aLutheran home in Mt. Vernon; and PathfinderVillage, a school and home for Down's syn-drome people in Edmeston. Golf fills in idlemoments." William E. Carroll, Reston,Va.: "On Aug. 5, 1985,1 was working for theVoice of America. Emma Jane and I recentlyreturned from a month-long trip to Borneo,Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali, and the Philip-pines—diverse cultures, ranging from theprimitive to the posh."

Charles R. Hoffman Jr., Somerdale,NJ: "Retired in March 1987 after 39 yearswith Exxon, 38 years of it in Venezuela. Wasdecorated by the Venezuelan governmentwith the Order 'Francisco de Miranda' formeritorious service to the nation."

Bill Rogers, Clarence, NY: "Can't re-member what I was doing on Aug. 5, 1985,but last week I had five one-putt greens!"D Robert W. Persons, 102 Reid Ave.,Port Washington, NY 11050.

Robert S. "Bob" Curran hascompleted 20 scrappy years ascolumnist for the Buffalo News.In that time Bob has completedthree more books, won the As-sociated Press Award for the

best column in NY State, the Freedoms Foun-dation Principal Award for the best column,

USA, and 12 Page One awards. He has stillnot exhausted his opinions on a multitude ofvexatious issues. It is not all verbal bombthrowing, though. Bob has made use of his ex-tensive experience at Cornell house partiesand other peerless occasions, such as intellec-tual evenings at Zinck's, to collect funny stor-ies with which he enlivens his books. Bobhelpfully points out that these books may notbe available at your local bookstore, since theyare devoid of sex. You will have to get themout of the town library. In order to appeal to to-day's reader Bob is now completing a novelwhich is earthier than his non-fiction andshould be available in book stores. Bob mar-ried Mary Sullivan of Boston and their son,Mark Sullivan Curran, has been sports infor-mation director at Yale for the past severalseasons. So they attend the Cornell-Yalegames, which must be a muted pleasure.

After raising five handsome Farrells,Vera (Johnston) is deep in a full-time careeras a library media specialist. This includesteaching children's literature to area teachersand supervising a program for gifted and tal-ented children. Computer operation and edu-cation is part of the job, and Vera's proficiencywith compu-speak is intimidating. Jim '50continues in his career as real estate tycoonand prominent socialite in Sullivan County.His counseling of Klaus von Bulow is rigor-ously limited to real estate and fly-fishingalong the Delaware River. Vera anςl Jim haddinner with Jim and Dorothy RasinskyGregory in Newport Beach, Cal., last spring.Dottie conducts seminars and lectures at Vet-erans Administration facilities around thecountry.

Donald P. Go wing is retired but fullyoccupied as a volunteer with the Bishop Mu-seum in Honolulu, in the botany department.This is a change of direction from a career intropical, agricultural research, but no less en-joyable and interesting. Harvey N. Roehlplayed his calliope at the Campus Store duringlast year's Reunion weekend. Harvey is hav-ing a good time, as well as deserved success,with his book Cornell and Ithaca in Postcards.Dr. Norman L. Avnet is enjoying retire-ment and also putting it to good use: he wasvisiting professor of radiology at the U. ofSouth Carolina in Charleston last fall.

Some lawyers seem to arrange things bet-ter. Martin Heller visited the People's Re-public of China last year, when he negotiatedan agreement with the Government of Chinaon behalf of Bruce Ho, a prominent New Yorkrestaurateur, for the importation of Chineseshrimp. This was a slight deviation fromentertainment law, which is Martin's special-ty. A follow-up from Marcella "Marcie"Schlansky Livingston. Son Michael '77(Yale Law '81) was married in June 1987 andhas started teaching tax law at Rutgers LawSchool. Marian Rubin Cohen attended thewedding.

American Home Products has combinedits Boyle Midway International Div. withWhitehall International and has named San-ford S. Mazarin as president of bothgroups. Sanford's company now marketsPharmaceuticals and household products inmore than 37 profit centers in the world. In ad-dition to his many business responsibilities,Sanford is an avid collector of Charles Dick-ens' works, specifically first editions. He

would be interested in comparing notes withother collectors. Sanford's wife Yulin has de-veloped a beauty business which has grown toencompass customers from New York as wellas southern Connecticut. Matt, the youngestson, has joined Young and Rubicam as a juniorcopywriter. Jackwelyn Cherie, their oldestdaughter, is very much involved in Seattlechurch activities and is now writing special in-terest books for publication. Son Scott hasmoved up to art director at William Esty, NewYork. Daughter Jade is learning to swim anddraw better rainbows.

Edward H. Koenig is known as the"Trash Man" in the Bethesda area. He buysburned-out or otherwise damaged propertiesand restores them. It's both fun and satisfyingand Ed says he will keep at it for at least 25more years. Arthur F. Young '50 is keep-ing us informed about wife Anne (Lanzoni),while also paying her class dues. Anne was inBooneville, Cal., visiting daughter Arlana.Otherwise Anne was very busy organizing aprofessional association of home and hospitalteachers and preparing for the statewidemeeting in Maryland. Art adds that all six oftheir children are doing just fine. D ThomasJ. Kane, 315 E. 72nd St., NYC 10021.

MWe've passed the halfway markin that five-year span betweenReunion, folks, and some of usare already making long-rangeplans. Tom Scaglione missedour 35th due to surgery, but has

high hopes that retirement and less distanttravel to see family will make it easier toschedule that trip to the Hill in 1990. Lastsummer the family gathered to celebrate Tomand Yolanda's 41st anniversary with a day offishing off Seward, Alaska, home base forelder daughter Donna and her Air Force hus-band. Younger daughter Amy made the tripfrom North Carolina and her lab at BurroughsWellcome, developers of the AIDS-battlingdrug AZT.

Trekking from the southeastern states toAlaska is a yearly ritual for Bill Cheney andRhea. They take 30 to 40 days each spring andfall to drive the 7,000 miles between theirhomes in Bradenton, Fla., and Homer, Alas-ka, where Bill owns the salmon seiner F/VRhea. Their winter address is 9912 RoyalPalm, Bradenton. Florida is home for BillAugust, who has a new address: 4000 S.Ocean Blvd. #403, Palm Beach. Bill is a semi-retired bridge professional, and has played inthe European tournaments recently. Jim Mc-Millan is director of production plans for Hi-mont Inc., Wilmington, Del, and travels fre-quently to Europe, especially Milan. Pleasuretook him to Russia last summer on an alumnitour. He,* Carol, and their four kids enjoy abeach house on the South Jersey shore.

Our octogenarian Jo McConnell Sikeswrites that she has been somewhat restrictedin activity by a walking problem since her lastvisit back to the campus in June 1986. She'sbeen spending much of her time since work-ing on a family genealogy. Her advice toothers considering such an undertaking:"Think at least twice before starting. It is timeconsuming, mind boggling, and dream in-vading."

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44 Goals, dreams, they make life interesting;I can't imagine not working toward something.

Robert F.Clark'51

Thirty years ago Bob Clark pulled an oar for Cornell.Now the 60-year-old architect has taken up rowingagain, but this time he's pulling two oars. His singlescull is "Cornell red"; so are his oar tips, shorts, andheadband; his socks are red and white. Last year hewas undefeated in Masters Division F single scullsand won a gold medal in his age group in the1,000-meter singles at the Royal Canadian HenleyRegatta in St. Catherine's, Ontario.

To coach himself and train on the Barge Canal,Clark says he relies heavily on his previous trainingunder Coach "Stork" Sanford: "That experience andtraining, it seems you never forget." Clark's goal isto win a world championship in his age group."Goals, dreams, they make life more interesting," hetold a Rochester Times-Union reporter. "I can't im-agine someone not trying to accomplish something inhis life."

vardian sons are now graduate students; Benis at Stanford, David at UC, Berkeley, work-ing in artificial intelligence and neurobiology,respectively. Joe Fisher retired last July as alabor relations officer for the state of Dela-ware. Larry Hall is regional manager forAEG Semiconductors. Walter Kahabkawrites that he is retired but does agriculturalconsultation part time. He and Shirley, who isalso retired, traveled recently by train throughthe Canadian Rockies. Emerson Carltonretired in August 1984 for reasons of health af-ter 20 years in administrative positions withNY State and local governments. Emerson isactive with the Association for RetardedChildren, and is past president of the Geneseeand Orleans County Cornell Club. Bob Fitewrites that they have just sold their 60-year-old successful family business, Colonial HotelCo. Bob is still looking after a few small prop-

erties that are less confining. He and Betsyspent the month of October in Europe, hopingto recognize the geography and people of post-war Army days.

Howard Cogan continues as assistantprofessor of advertising and public relations,Ithaca College, in addition to executive posi-tions in his several firms. Howie is on the Itha-ca Centennial Committee (this is the year!),and boasts the distinction, shared with sonMichael '80, of being the only father andson to receive concurrent degrees from Cor-nell—in May 1980. Lowell Buckner has re-tired after 36 years with Mobil Research andDevelopment Corp. He and Jo go annually tothe Carribbean, have traveled recently toAlaska, and are planning a trip to Africa. DanChabot also retired last April, as executivevice president of Wilson Learning Corp. andJohn Wiley and Sons. Dan currently chairs the

board of the Freshwater Foundation. JeanMichelini Partisch writes: *'General Realtyin Sarasota, Fla., has a super referral networkfor anyone moving from anyplace to anyplace.Give me a call."

Dave Dingle, '50's VIP (Virtuosic Im-provisatory Pianist), sends news that he is liv-ing in Manhattan and works as a residentialmortgage broker—helping Cornellians andothers finance their nests. On Friday nights,7-11 p.m., he plays the ivories at the RavelledSleave, 3rd Ave. at 79th St. Classmates andother Cornellians are especially welcome.Dave has two sons at Cornell, Chris '88 andMark '89, who are in Engineering. We'dlike to think that some of their classmateshave come to recognize a natural resourcewhen they hear one. Our gratitude now goesto the Ravelled Sleave.

Our gratitude, too, to the technology thatlets us tune in again to other Golden Era mu-sic—the tape we've touted in previous issuesof Cornell band, chimes, and Glee Club re-cordings that bring together in one 90-minuteindulgence some of our fondest memories ofthe Hill. Give a listen. D E. Chapin Davis,PO Box 2318, Duxbury, Mass. 02331; LibbySeveringhaus Warner, 36 Crosby BrownRd., Gladwyne, Pa. 19035.

HNews rolls in, and with morefrom New York City councilgatherings, we should be cur-rent and chin-up for the newyear! When planning the rest of1988 consider Adult University

(CAU). Rudolph G. Kraft Jr., CarolWinter Mund, John Ferris, and LoisMeitzel Debrock were all participants lastyear. Seminars and study tours are set now.Call CAU's Ralph Janis '66, director, forearliest information, and let us know, too.

Trustee Jim L. Gibbs Jr., quoted lastJune in the San Francisco Chronicle on his jour-ney to present deanship of undergraduatestudies at Stanford, commented that, "As rolemodels in the black community, professorsdon't get much play... but one reason I cameinto teaching is that I believe you can helpchange the world by helping people under-stand African culture better—though I am notjust an African nut. I teach other courses aswell." His present post followed high school inIthaca, Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge Univer-sity, Liberian Ford Foundation study, andteaching at U. of Minnesota and at Stanford.He was being described by a recent doctoralstudent at Stanford, now an assistant profes-sor at Rutgers, as the mentor who enabled herto progress through difficult years of academia.

Along with faculty, the mentors who oftencame along in the workplace also made a realdifference. One of those Stuart O. H. Merzmentions was the late Frank Heath '35.Stu and his daughter Wendy, Grad, mayhave a better idea by now of some of Kenyafrom a mid-winter trip there. Stu's firm, Jones,Day, Reavis and Pogue, is in new, high-techoffices within the distance of an extended longpass from the Cleveland quarterback in theBrowns' lakefront stadium. He specializes inlabor law in the firm, which has a strong inter-national litigation practice and dates back tothe early work of the late Jack Reavis, JD '21.

In recognition of Jean Reeve Oppen-heim, who died Aug. 24, 1987, Irwin B.

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Margiloff describes her as a "brilliant teach-er, a professional leader, a valued counselor ofstudents and colleagues, an outstanding ex-ample of principled living, and the warmestand most loving friend." She had received adoctorate from Columbia in May, having turnedfrom chemistry in college to mathematics,heading the department at Friends Seminaryin New York. Her note to the 1967 class letterwas one of perception and spoke of eagernessto serve. She was the mother of Naomi Op-penheim Stern '82 and of Charles Op-penheim '84, and was a''passionately loyalCornellian."

From Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park,Cal., came an announcement that TheodoreW. J. Wong, BEP '53 was named presi-dent of the missile systems group of that com-pany, a unit of GM Hughes Electronics. Hehas served for 34 years with Hughes, most re-cently as group vice president for business de-velopment. Wong was from Hawaii when heentered Cornell.

Returning in November to Elmont, NY,from a Hawaiian trip was Bill R. Schneid-er, saying that John and Marilyn Cum-mings of Kennebunk, Maine, were alsoalong. The Tauck Tour they were with washosted for dinner one evening by Peter '51and Bobbie Fythian. Bill said their home andwhat we call Aloha Spirit were memorable.

Lake Erie gave us a double rainbow inmid-November with snow on the ground, asclose to Hawaii as 1987 will see. Let's''Cheer'til the sound wakes the blue hills around,"and go to high-school 40th reunions this year.Meanwhile vacation beaches and/or bemuf-flered postal carriers bringing garden catalogsshould see some of us through thewinter. Π E. Terry and Dori CrozierWarren, 1046 Locust Dr., Ashtabula, Ohio44004.

Spent the fall following the BigRed team around the circuit, andfound a whole lot of classmatesout there. At Homecoming (and

, there was a game), Nancy Vanf Cott Jones attended with sons

David '80 (with Apple Computer in Califor-nia) and Carey '88 in Ag, on the Hill. Alsothere were Bill and Jan Peifer Bellamy'54 with daughter Laurie '83, a productmanager with Lever Bros., and her husbandSteven Fitzpatrick '83, who divides histime between Morgan Stanley and Columbiabusiness school.

At the Brown game I saw Peter andJean Thompson Cooper '52 with daugh-ter Susan '84, who's with a landscape de-sign firm in Providence. At Council Weekend,I met Cork Hardinge and son Hal, an honorstudent at Franklin & Marshall. On a visit toLexington, Va., Cork ran into Naomi LeithSmith, in the tourist information office there.He also reports that Harry Butler is plan-ning to join the class at Reunion in June. Alsoat the council meeting were PeggyBinenkorb Scherr and Larry '50, Bruceand Judy Johnson, Bill Gratz, Rich andGracie Jahn, Dottie Clark Free, Mort andEllie Lowenthal, Tony and JolineDiGiacomo, Ray and Scharlie WatsonHandlan '47.

At Yale, Ned and Ann Nolan, downfrom Buffalo, along with Dean '52 and Bar-

bara Green Bock, Jim and Hat Han-chett, Dick '52 and Joan Dinkel Crews'54, Nick and Jane Wood, Elliot Cat-tarulla, Phil and Rosalyn Zalutsky Baronwere among the enthusiasts.

At Princeton, Sybil Langbaum Stokesand husband Don hosted pre-game tailgatingand post-game warming up at their house onthe Princeton campus. Sybil is director of theoffice of grants in the New Jersey Dept. of Hu-man Services, and Don is dean of the Wood-row Wilson School of Public and InternationalAffairs at Princeton. Among the celebrantswas Marti Hopf Huber from nearby Locust.Marti's with the Monmouth ConservationFoundation. And so ends another footballseason. On to hockey and lacrosse!

Dana Furth Castle, associate professorof law at U. of Akron, is one of the first partici-pants in a new faculty exchange program Ak-ron has established with the Polytechnic, acomparable institution in Wolverhampton,England. Dana has been on the Akron facultysince 1974.

Dick Holmes has fled New York Cityand purchased a veterinary practice in Hud-son, NY, where it all started in 1959. Andfellow veterinarian Frank Simpson prac-tices in Port Jervis, NY. Frank's daughterLisa '89 is in Hum EC. Up in Webster, NY,Henry Kujawa retired after teaching highschool science for 20 years. He's in his fourthterm as Webster town councilman.

It's February, and your Reunion registra-tion form is even now on its way to yourmailbox. Let us hear from you early! DDavid M. Kopko, 41-B Parkway Village,Cranford, NJ 07016.

Good news from Carole RappThompson who has been pro-moted to the highest ranking wo-man staff member of the UnitedNations—she is now director incharge of all data processing for

the UN. Congratulations, Carole. She also re-ported to me that Ellen Levine Brown ofRochester, NY, celebrated the opening of hernewly relocated art gallery, the ShoestringGallery, now in its 20th season. The new ad-dress is Brighton Commons and Twelve Cor-ners in Rochester. Seen at the opening partyby Carole were classmates David Brown(Ellen's husband), Jim Biben, who is Ellen'slandlord, Lil Heicklin Gordon and RickyGibiner Chapman. When you are next in Ro-chester be sure to stop by.

Dr. Sam Basch plans to be in East andWest Africa this summer developing innocu-lation projects and planning the constructionof medical facilities as part of his volunteerwork with such groups as Crossroads Africa.Sam and his wife Linda spent two years inNigeria and Kenya in the mid-'60s workingtogether on medical projects. Sam is with thepsychiatric department of Mount SinaiHospital in New York City, as well as inprivate practice.

Ernie Stern, president of our class,hosted class officers at a dinner in Novemberto begin plans for our 35th Reunion in 1991.Plans are in the formulative stage for the bestever '56 Reunion. We hope to have some pre-liminary announcements to make in the spring.Please send all your ideas, reactions, and com-ments for the Reunion to Steve Kittenplan

or myself, or directly to Ernie Stern. DPhyllis Bosworth, 8 E. 83rd St., NYC10028; (212) 734-5009.

••••I Must be a full moon. Elvin• J "AT Powell is on sabbatical|A m from his biology teaching job~ m working on the effect of admin-J J m istration of vitamin E on mitigat-^F m ing the effects of dietary ironoverload on natural liver microsomal function.I may have missed a few of the words, but youget the idea. His hobby is gardening.

Two retirements to report; one simpleand you decide on the other one. Ike Eising-er merely states that he is ''retired." Lastspring he spent six weeks in Australia. SamLeadley's case is a little more complicated.Currently president of the Genesee/OrleansCornell Club, he retired from Penn State asprofessor of rural sociology to become a herds-man on a dairy farm.

Bob Neimeth, apologizing for making itsound like an unpaid ad, asks the hauntingquestion, "Anyone have a good eventer orjumper (open) or young horse with dressagepotential for sale at a special price for a class-mate?" Seems his 18-hand warm blood is get-ting old.

Neither retired nor trying to recycle hiswarm blood is Colin Campbell, our gift toacademia (president of Wesleyan). He andNancy travel extensively for the school, re-cently visiting universities in China and Eur-ope. Several corporate and foundation direc-torships keep him busy, too. One child isteaching, one is with Save the Children, one isworking in New York City and the fourth isstill in school. Art Gensler (grandfather) alsohas one of his four children in school (noticethe flow), and he also has been traveling quitea bit: last spring to the opening of the Collegeof Architecture's Center in Rome in additionto several other stops in Europe; then again toScandinavia in the fall on a Chamber of Com-merce trip. Bob Martin has both childrenout of college as of last spring, Ken graduatingfrom USC and Beth from Colorado State. Bobis also traveling heavily, in conjunction withthe expansion of his CPA firm.

Quick notes: government employees in-clude Bob Rosenstock, legal advisor to theUS mission to the UN; Bob Francis, head ofecological sciences and planning staff at theUS Dept. of Agriculture's Chester, Pa., office(visited Russia, Poland, and Germany forUSDA last year); Bill Eckert, who had anostalgic visit in the region of Spain where theAir Force let him spend some time 27 yearsago; and Duane Heineman, who continuesas regional director of NY State Dept. ofTransportation (Region 6). Recent appoint-ments: Jim Drennan is professor of pediat-ric orthopaedics at U. of New Mexico schoolof medicine; Dick Brandenburg is dean ofdivision of engineering, mathematics and bus-iness administration, U. of Vermont, where hehas also been appointed a professor; PaulMiller has changed head-hunting firms inChicago (to Lamalie Associates after sevenyears at Korn/Ferry), shortening his dailycommute by one floor. D John Seller, 563Starks Bldg., Louisville, Ky. 40202; (502)589-1151.

Last November Cindy Cavenaugh Jones


'59 organized a mini-reunion for the classesof '57, '58, '59, and '60 at the George Wash-ington University Club. Jerry NeumanHeld was there and passed along the newsthat Rachel Hecht graduated from theGeorge Washington law school last June,passed the bar and is now in practice in theWashington area. Jerry was in New York Citylast fall and visited with Eva SperlingCockroft, an artist in the city. Carolyn Fil-lius Ginnings was also at the gathering. Caro-lyn's daughter graduated from U. of Virginia,and her son is now a junior on that historiccampus. The Ginningses live in McLean, Va.Driving up from his home in Virginia Beachfor the get-together was Mike Linehan.Mike has his own business in Virginia Beachand keeps in touch with some classmates fromhis Kappa Alpha fraternity days.

Joining the club of' 'young grandparents"are Carol Elis Kurzman and Bob, JD'57. Their son Marc '80 presented themwith their first in November. Nancy '83 iswith Manufacturer's Hanover Trust, andAmy '91 makes this a complete Cornell fam-ily. Charles '56 and Connie KellyFletcher became grandparents last May andwere "over-scheduled" so missed our 30th.Willa Greenbaum Laderman was unable tomake it to Reunion last June, but reports fromher Phoenix, Ariz., home that she, too, is agrandmother. Willa is a part-time publichealth nutritionist.

In addition to this being the time whenmany classmates are becoming grandparentsit also is a time for some to celebrate the lon-gevity of marriage. Grace Wohlner Wein-stein and Stephen '55 celebrated their30th last February. Grace is an author in the fi-nancial field and was featured in the Authorscolumn of the July 1987 Alumni News. David'55 and Flora Weinstein Perskie alsohad a 30th anniversary last year. Flo is a mem-ber of the executive committee and governingcouncil of the American Jewish Congress.The Perskies have three daughters, all out of

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college now, and live in Tenafly, NJ. DJudith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave.,#1109, Bethesda, Md. 20816.

Now that a new year is upon us, Ihope all of you will mark yourcalendars for our glorious 30thReunion on June 9-12, Thursdaythrough Sunday or any partthereof. Much has changed on

campus and much has remained the same,giving way to our wonderful nostalgic feel-ings. The weekend will be filled with activi-ties, and our own Dinny Dinsmore Popkinwill have an exclusive exhibit at the JohnsonArt Museum. Headquarters will be CascadillaHall (all beautifully redone). Keep your eyesopen for your Reunion mailings. Let's have arecord turnout!

Evelynn Clark Gioiella was presentedwith the NY Hospital-Cornell Medical'sSchool of Nursing distinguished alumnusaward. This was the second honor she receivedfrom Cornell this year. In April she was pre-sented with the 1987 Distinguished ServiceAward in nursing. Evelynn is dean and profes-sor of nursing at the Hunter-Bellevue Schoolof Nursing, Hunter College, City University ofNew York. Patricia Malcolm Wengel is aself-employed accountant working (belatedly)toward her CPA. She collects and sells an-tique toys and has three children—daughterDebbie is Class of '91. Norma Edsall livesin Austerlitz, NY, and is vice president of Nor-star Bank of Upstate NY. She sees Bill andGinny Woodruff Crabtree occasionally,and had a visit recently from Beth and FredGutz '56.

Maddie McAdams Dallas is busy asever and doing great things for Cornell aspresident of the Cornell Alumni Associationand secretary of the Federation of CornellClubs. Glenn is, among other things, on theboard of the Ag college's alumni association.They spent two weeks last spring in Englandwith Peg Doolittle '53 and Bill Vickroy

'52. She said she received her annual birth-day card from Joyce Palmer Loughlin withnews of her family (three daughters: one agrad of Kenyon, one at Notre Dame, and onestill in high school). Glenn and Maddie will beback for Reunion and their son, Jeff '83, willbe with them for his 5th!

Judith Welling Baker was named oneof 70 bookwomen nationally by the Women'sNational Book Assn. The award is given towomen who have contributed to the world ofbooks. Pete Wood Jr. lives in Northfield, 111.where he is a financial planner. He has twosons and enjoys tennis and European vaca-tions. Robert Johnson is the technical man-ager of manufacturing, Instant/Evap Div.,Carnation Co. He lives in Oconomowoc,Wise., and enjoyed a trip to Sweden last June.

Peter Bloom, MD, was promoted toclinical associate professor of psychiatry atthe School of Medicine, U. of Pennsylvania. InFebruary 1987, he was also visiting professorof psychiatry at U. of Melbourne in Australia.

David Bills is a benefits counselor atEastman Kodak. Sidney Heller has been atShearson Lehman Bros, as a security analystsince 1975. Michael Isaacs is an attorney.

Wilbur Sutherland Jr. is a vice presi-dent at E. F. Hutton. He has hosted the Cor-nell phonethon for the last three years, hasraised money for Cornell for the last 25 years,and is now eagerly looking forward to seeingeveryone at the 30th!

Anita Podell Miller is a partner in a lawfirm in Albuquerque, NM, but travels all overthe US. Roberta Erde Epstein is a seniorsystems advisor for Online Software Intl. andis working on her fourth textbook. She andhusband Mark won the Irish Cup (bridge) lastJune. They also visited Jerry and EileenPuncheon Linsner (our fabulous Reunionchair) in W. Seneca, NY, and had a wonderfulmini-reunion with Eileen and Flo ClarkMcClelland.

Millie Sanchez Arnold is looking for-ward to Reunion, too. She enjoyed seeing and

G, T. "Buck'SmithMPA'60

Buck Smith likes to get things together. Whether itbe people's enthusiasm or money, he has a history ofbeing able to gather it and put it to good use.

Chapman College, a small church-related collegein Orange, California, which in the mid-1970s was onthe verge of bankruptcy, has seen what Smith cando. In 1975, after fifteen years helping raise funds forthe College of Wooster, Smith came to Chapman.Two years later he became Chapman's president.Under Smith's leadership Chapman has not only sur-vived, it has prospered. A $54 million capital cam-paign came to a close last year, $2 million over thegoal.

Instrumental in raising Chapman's spirit as wellas its endowment, Smith has spent much of his timeas president working directly with the college'strustees and others, pursuading them to "get in-volved" in the life of the college. An article in theChronicle of Higher Education last spring explainedSmith's secret: rather than asking for donations, "thetrick is to make involvement so personally rewardingfor trustees that they ask what they can do to help."

44 The trick is to getpeople involved.

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talking with a lot of classmates at Lew Fut-terman's fabulous party. She says, " NYC isnot that big—the following weekend I ran intoLew playing a hot game of volleyball in Cen-tral Park!" Millie helps her husband withbookkeeping in the fall and winter, but in thespring, she coaches the girls tennis team atManchester High School. The team won itsfourth consecutive division title this past sea-son! Skiing also takes a lot of her spare time inwinter. Most weekends are spent inVermont. Π Janet Arps Jarvie, 6524 ValleyBrook Dr., Dallas, Texas 75240.

Let the good times roll! That'sthe uPbeat theme chosen for ourReunion in 1989. More Reunionnews, plus news on three greatclass parties held this past fall, inMarch. Meanwhile, my last col-

umn ran too long, so here's Part II:Wedding bells are ringing! Best wishes to

three classmates who recently married.Stephanie Greene and retired Naval officerJohn Mattson married last July in California.They have moved to 202 Sombrio Dr., SantaFe, NM. Stephanie is teaching music at SantaFe Community College, is writing music, andis directing community theater productions.Sally Wheaton and Howard Gillan, whomarried Memorial Day weekend, are living at24 Brandywine Lane, Fairport, NY. Sallywrites that she's "looking for new ideas for aflexible career." Jay Scott Hooker andBarbara Perkins of Oakland, Cal., marriedMay 4, 1986, and are fixing up a newly pur-chased house.

Congratulations to Bob Wegryn ofWestfield, NJ, who recently became a grand-father. Bob, a surgeon, is president of theCounty Medical Soc. and medical director of ahospice. His avocation is photography, a skillhe's undoubtedly putting to frequent usewhenever he's around young Kelly MarieWegryn, Class of ?

Building up airline mileage is W. HardyEshbaugh of Oxford, Ohio, professor andchair of botany at Miami U. and current presi-dent of the Botanical Soc. of America. Hewrites that he spent part of April in Bolivia col-lecting plant germ plasm for the Intl. Board ofPlant Genetic Resources. In May he taught,for the ninth time, a course in the Bahamas ontropical biology. In July he made a visit to Cor-nell to evaluate the Plantations. Then he wasoff to Berlin to give a paper at the Intl. Botani-cal Congress. Finally, he took two weeks of R& R in Norway with wife Barbara and youn-gest child Jeff.

You never know when you'll run into aclassmate! (Subtitle: It's a Small World.)Marian Montgomery Randall of FortWayne, Ind., a third-grade teacher at Canter-bury School, writes that she and her familywere lunching in a small New York restaurantwhen they met Tanya MacLennan Whiteand her family, enroute from Canada to Penn-sylvania. Marian and her family spent fiveweeks in the British Isles this past summer,including a two-week study program at Dur-ham. The trip was to celebrate her husband's25th anniversary of ordination as an Episcopalpriest.

In the East: Matthew Abruzzo ofBellerose, NY, writes that Harborview Com-munications Corp., of which he is controller, is

now a subsidiary of Sorg Inc. Paul Donohieof Pittsford, NY is executive vice president ofRendoll Paper Co. in Rochester, which pro-duces and markets paperboard packaging forthe ice cream industry. Nancy HewittHoller of Auburn, Maine, is a customer ser-vice rep and team leader at L. L. Bean. Herdaughter Barbara '90 transferred to Cornellthis fall. Carl Muskat of Upper Montclair,NJ, a partner with HLW Architects Engineers& Planners, is in charge of their BaskingRidge, NJ, office. He writes that sonTimothy '82 is working on a PhD in Englishat Cornell and serving as a graduate assistantin the English department. Dave Fram ofReston, Va., is medical director of adult drugabuse programs at the Psychiatric Inst. ofWashington, DC, and chairs the MetropolitanPsychiatric Group. He's also first vice chair ofthe Washington Area Council on Alcoholism& Drug Abuse.

In the Central States: Arthur "Tim"Malkin of Memphis, Tenn., an affiliate bro-ker with Makowsky and Ringel, is a memberof the board of overseers of Hebrew UnionCollege—Jewish Inst. of Religion in Cincinna-ti, and senior vice president of Temple Israelin Memphis. Jeralyn Meyer Pinsky ofGrand Rapids, Mich., has become associatedirector of the Grand Rapids Civic Theater.Nprma Smokier Barron of Birmingham,Mich., has bought an apartment at 400 E. 56thSt., NYC, and "hopes to see fellow Cornel-Hans more frequently."

Out West: Stuart and Ruth BiermanLinnick have moved to 169 Greenfield Ave.,Los Angeles. Dave Austin of Larkspur,Cal., owner of a refrigeration constructionfirm specializing in industrial work, writesthat son Eric has graduated from UCLA witha BS in microbiology and that daughter Janiceis a senior in civil engineering at UC,Berkeley. Don Puschin of Honolulu isclubhouse manager of Waialae CountryClub—home of the Hawaiian Open Golf Tour-nament. Wife Linda and son Aka are bothjuniors at U. of Hawaii. Π Jenny Tesar,97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, Conn.06801.

Trustee-Council Weekend in Oc-tober was a mini class reunion.Les Stern chairs the Councilthis year, and 19 other class-mates are members. Amongthose on campus for a stimulat-

ing weekend focusing on the qualities ofleadership were: Lee Asseo, PaulAuchter, Ken Iscol, Al Kaneb, RichardMeade, Margaret Osmer-McQuade,Steve Russell, Alan Siegel, Liz Chap-man Staley, Len Stark, Don Strang, andyour correspondent. President Sue PhelpsDay joined Bill '59, also a member of theCouncil. Daughter Carolyn '89 joined sev-eral of us at the Friday banquet.

Sue wrote recently that she later saw LesStern, Tom Hunter, John Klinge, Phyl-lis Yellin Schondorf, Louise MohrSchreiber, and Barbara Esdorn Riss-meyer at the Yale game, where they joinedabout 250 Cornellians from the '60s decade.

Sue also noted recent results of our 25thReunion gift to the Cornell Libraries. AlainSeznec, Carl A Kroch University Librarian,wrote that the Class of 1960 endowment was

used this past year to have Aquarius in Lon-don bind the rare first edition ofMontesquieu's Lettres Persanes and Cornell'scopy of the Cambridge Gratulatio of 1748.This latter work is a collection of original po-ems by Cambridge University faculty and stu-dents presented to King George II to mark thetreaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The class endow-ment is reserved to fund the binding and resto-ration of important books that are outside thescope of the libraries' normal binding projects.

Jim and I enjoyed two Cornell weekendsthis October. After the Council meeting we re-turned together for a fascinating weekendview of the university's cutting-edge technolo-gy in the supercomputer and computer graph-ics areas planned for the Theory Center. Afterstepping briefly into the 21st century, westepped back to the 19th century in sharingthe warm hospitality of Mary Quick andDave Flinn's Bay Horse Bed & Breakfast inLansing. Their 1860s inn is charming and it issituated in a peaceful setting overlooking thespectacular Cayuga Lake valley. Dave was onan extended trip to Europe and South Africawith Rotarians when we visited.

We saw Carol Epstein Hai at the Buck-nell game on our second weekend in Ithaca.June 12 she was honored as the 1987 recipientof the Helen Bull Vandervort '26 AlumniAchievement award. The award is made an-nually to a College of Human Ecology gradu-ate who represents outstanding professionalachievement, community commitment, andservice to the college and Cornell.

Ken Iscol is part of a group of classmatesworking to establish a scholarship fund inmemory of Linda Schwartz Miller, wife ofDr. Marty Miller. For information, or ifwishing to make a contribution, write to Ken:Lyndel Rd., Pound Ridge, NY. Ken has beenworking this past year to establish the Person-al Enterprise and Small Business Manage-ment program at Cornell. The program nowencompasses several courses and summer jobinternships and reflects Ken's effort to exposestudents to the rewards of a career in one'sown business, such as his Tel-Star Communi-cations. This past year he has been establish-ing Cellular One in west Texas, after beingawarded the cellular telephone franchise forAmarillo. His family had a great summer,starting in the south of France and ending attheir new home on Martha's Vineyard. Zach,9, Kiva, 7, and wife Jill are all in school. Jill isstudying for her doctorate in sociology atYale. D Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257 W. DeerPath, Lake Forest, 111. 60045.

Though Jack Richards '60 andI got "weathered-in" for the Cor-nell-Princeton game, we did get toPhiladelphia in September to wit-ness Cornell's win over Penn and

I gather some news. Pat Dyer hadjust returned with her family from Paris andits environs where niece Sarah Pedraza'80 was married—to a Frenchman, of course.Al McCrea drove up from Richmond, Va.,where he owns McCrea Automations, design-ers of computerized control systems. Al hadan enjoyable cross-country train trip last sum-mer with his sons, 8 and 11. Bob Miller leftthe restoration of his 18th century Federalhouse in Newberry, Conn., long enough to en-joy the day and relate he's enjoying his golden

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parachute as a result of a leverage buyout.Bob's son Greg '90 is in Arts, and daughterMeredith is a senior at Phillips-Exeter.

"Phi Gam lives again!" exclaimedChuck Lee as he noted several brothers inattendance at the game: Jack Neafsey, Ro-ger Garrett '58, Don Frisch '58, TomAtkins '58, and Jack Richards. Chuck andwife Ilda see a lot of John and Mimi Stofkoin Scarsdale. Representing New Jersey wereDorcas McDonald from Princeton, BillSweeney from Chatham, and Mark Good-man from Cranbury.

Two sad notes to report: Peggy Tho-mas Goldstein's husband Dick '60 waskilled in an automobile accident in September.Peggy and daughter Beth, a junior in commu-nications at Penn State, hope to remain attheir home in New Hope, Pa. Peg is dispersingtheir racehorses to free herself and resume acareer, hopefully in advertising copywriting,which she did at J. Walter Thompson in NewYork following graduation. Address: 1601Pineville Rd., New Hope. Donna Master-son Hall's husband Frank died in November,and she, too, is busy tending to family detailsand preparing to re-enter the work force. Don-na has a married son, Roger Hackett, and twodaughters, Maggie and Terri Hackett. Class-mates can write to her new address: 141 RiverOaks Dr., Woodstock, Ga.

William Berkowitz was recently ap-pointed visiting professor of psychology at U.of Lowell in Massachusetts. Bill received hisdoctorate from Stanford and has served aschief psychologist at Solomon Mental HealthCenter in Lowell since 1973. John F.Fleischauer is the new dean of liberal arts atEdinboro U. in Pennsylvania. He has a mas-ter's and PhD from Ohio State and most re-cently served as dean of Mount Union Col-lege, in Alliance, Ohio.

Vincent J. Tortorelli has been pro-moted to senior vice president in the media de-partment of McCann-Erickson and lives inWyckoff, NJ, with his wife and son. John H.Foster is the new vice president of marketingat Polymers Inc. in Middlebury, Vt.

Peter W. Martin, dean of the CornellLaw School since July 1980, is returning toteaching. Peter plans to conduct research onthe interface among legal education, compu-ters, and the practice of law when he rejoinsthe faculty next year.

> Brigadier Gen-eral John F.Sobke '61 andfamily.

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Dick '62 and Lucy Gale Gaven haveenjoyed visiting son Philip '90 on campusand "doing some of the things we never did, aswell as reseeing things we liked." The Gavensrecommend Boldt and Cascadilla Halls andTaughannock Falls in its frozen state as start-ers. Lucy sent a funny '58 vintage picture ofour Notables singing group which also in-cludes Barbara Cain Parker, Gail Win-gate Moulton and Marcia Allen Cole.

It's official. John F. Sobke is now Brig-adier General Sobke, effective Oct. 5, 1987,and witnessed by my husband Jack. John re-ceived his MCE from Princeton and amaster's of political science from Auburn, inaddition to military schooling. He holds nu-merous awards and decorations and presentlyserves as engineer, Forces Command, Ft.McPherson, Ga., where he lives with wifeMarilyn, daughter Allison, and son, Kyle. DPat Laux Richards, Spring Meadow, Box165-RD #1, Seven Valleys, Pa. 17360; (717)792-0822.

As previously noted, we'll omitsome addresses while the Re-union yearbook is current inorder to include more news.Vuko Tashkovich was activeon the major gifts committee last

spring and is serving his fourth year as repre-sentative on the committee on alumni trusteenominations from the College of Architecture,Art, and Planning. He has just been appointedto the advisory council for that college for1987-92. Vuko and Stephanie have sons Gli-gor '87 and Mark '89.

Capt. George Telesh, MC USN, waspresented the Distinguished American ofNorth Jersey award last May by the NationalFootball Hall of Fame for "carrying the les-sons learned on the football field into a life ofservice to the community." George is still sta-tioned in Orlando, Fla. What a delightful hometown for four children aged 16-4V2.

Great news from Donald P. Shaffer:Son Don '91 is on the Hill, studying in Arts.He has a younger brother Andy, 17. Don ispresident of the International Div. of J. P. Ste-vens and his wife Susan is with the US TennisAssn. in Princeton. They live in Skillman, NJ.

The Anbinders are truly a Cornell fami-ly: Helen (Rabinowitz) and Paul '60 haveMark '89 and Jeff '91. "We enjoyed our

first-ever Reunion," wrote Helen, "and werehappy to see long-lost friends. Although we'vebeen back to campus many times, this time itwas really Ours' again! Thanks again to Kel-ly Gould Behan and all who worked so hardto make it so good." Many others wrote to ex-press the same sentiments; I won't be redun-dant and quote everyone, but the consensus iskudos to Kelly!

Barbara Liebowitz traveled to 3 BroshSt., Omer, Israel, to deliver a Reunion reportto Joel Bernstein. Joel noted, "We're a lit-tle off the normal tourist attractions in Israel,but are only an hour from Jerusalem or TelAviv (near Beersheva) and we'd be happy tohost anyone who can get down this way."

In Ithaca, Don Burgett is coordinator ofstudent services/Ag college, and wife Joan issecretary in President Rhodes's office. Kath-erine graduated from Geneva College, Russellis at Fashion Inst. of Technology, and Shawnis 1. Brian and Midge Eachus Cooper'63 are in Burlington, Ont., where Brian ishospitality director for George Brown Collegein Toronto. They opened a new hospitalitycampus this fall. Brian was elected Canada'sHospitality Man of the Year. Midge is assis-tant ski director at Glen Eden Ski Center.Their daughter Lynne '88 is in Hum EC. AsLynne Cooper is finishing, Holly Geigerplans to be entering. Holly, Russ's daughter,comes from Coconut Grove, Fla.

More next month. Do keep my mailboxfull and happy! D Jan McClayton Crites,2779 Dellwood Dr., Lake Oswego, Ore.97034.

Dick Lynham is chairing our25th Reunion Campaign and askedto have some space to encouragethose of you who have not madea Tower Club gift to do so rightaway. His message follows: "As

I write this in mid-November, our campaign isswinging into its initial-solicitation phase. Wehave spent several years getting the programready for this time, and feel well-prepared toachieve an exciting result for the class andCornell. We have 60 volunteers ready to callpersonally over 600 of our classmates whohave been identified as having Tower Club po-tential ($2,500 or more)> and our major giftscommittee of Bill Kidd, Jules Kroll, andJim Fusco has a special effort underway toreach those classmates who have the potentialto make donations of $25,000 or more.

"By the time this appears, we hope wehave realized our primary goal of 300 Class of1963 Tower Club members. We decided to fo-cus on Tower Club membership because theuniversity will receive a $25 million gift from agroup of anonymous alumni if total club mem-bership reaches 3,000 by June 1988; it was2,350 in 1987. That gift is a celebration of the25th anniversary of the club's founding, andas it coincides with our Reunion, we thought ita fitting contribution to Cornell that the classaccount for a significant fraction of the re-quired number. Since the record number ofTower Club members in any class is 114 (theClass of 1961 in 1986), we have our work cutout for us. With the great team we have as-sembled, though, it's going to be a piece ofcake.

"A memento of our success will be a beau-tiful Lenox china "Serenade" bowl, embla-

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A Homecoming tailgate, Class of '63 style. From left: Matt Filo, Marty De-Santo, Tony DeSanto, Vivian Grilli DeSanto '63, Bobbie Billings, Nancy Wil-liams Clark '62, Megan Clark, Jay Billings, J. Thomas Clark '63, ChrisPlumb, James R. Billings '63, Joseph A. Stregack '63, C. Richard Lynham'63, Sarah Wilcox '88, Russell Oeste, Paula Trested LaHolt '63, MeredithClark '91, Laura Williams '91.

zoned with a class logo specially designed forthe occasion. One will be sent to the first 300Tower Club donors from '63, so if you havenot yet made your pledge for $2,500 or more,please send it in to guarantee yours.

"I hope to see all of you at Reunion, with arecord of giving by the class that reflects ourgratitude for an outstanding education, andour recognition of the obligation we have tokeep the Cornell experience available to fu-ture generations."

Reunion planning gathered '63 officersaround the roundtable of Mark and CarolynPress Landis '65 before adjourning to theCornell-Princeton game and on to Carolyn'sMexican restaurant, Mania's. President JimBillings is working on the class gift, whileTreasurer Barbara Markovits is trying tocollect and save enough of our treasury to payfor one. Keep those News & Dues letters andchecks coming. The class fund is under DickLynham with the help of James Fusco,William Kidd, and Robert Shaw Jr., whojoined us at Princeton with wife AnneMeads '64 from Potomac, Md.

Suellen Weissman Raiff says, "Youcan still order a 25th Reunion Yearbook! Sendyour check for $33 to: Cornell U. ReunionYearbook, Editorial Office '63, 6015 TravisLane, PO Box 10, Shawnee Mission, Kansas66210. Now!" Nancy Cooke McAfee, 2711Emerson Dr., Pepper Pike, Ohio, writes,"Last call! Exhibit will hang in the Herbert F.Johnson Museum during Reunion Week.Prestige! Visibility! All visual media consi-dered. Please submit slides for the Reunionart exhibit entitled "'63 Creates: Visions ofthe Interior."

Many classmates are planning to attendour 25th, including Mari Bingham Wescheof Ottawa, Ont. "Am somewhat overwhelmedby the number of friends turning 50 and al-most being there myself!" writes Mari, direc-tor of Centre for Second Language Learningat U. of Ottawa. Katherine DeVanna Ev-

ans, city planner for the City of Ithaca, "vis-ited Karen Kraengel Evenden in Seattlethis summer, Ginny Hoffman Morthland inPortland, and Joanne Rog Kahn in Buffalo.All are planning to return to Ithaca for Reu-nion." As are Ira D. Levine, MD, generalsurgeon, director of surgical education, MercyHospital, and member of Secondary SchoolsCommittee (SSC) of San Diego, and RichardGibson of Hingham, Mass.

Dr. Francine Siegal Zieverink of Port-land, Ore., will be there. She "spent a monthin Asia visiting Nepal, Burma, and Bali. Itsure has changed since we lived there!"Anne Skeels Kupersmith of Elmsford, NY,has attended two reunions. Let's make itthree. "In February 1987, I became anitinerant special ed guidance counselor atBronx High School of Science and WaltonHigh School," writes Anne. MargaretMusgrave Bennett writes, "Still enjoyingoccasional Cornell Club of Alaska gatherings.Although main activities center in Anchorage,we gather here in Fairbanks several times ayear. Last spring we were especially thrilledto have Prof. Karel Husa, music, from Cornellwith us—he was here visiting and workingwith our Fairbanks Youth Symphony." Con-gratulations on the Bennetts' 25th weddinganniversary.

Gene Samburg of McLean, Va., is pres-ident of Kastle System and involved with theCornell Club of Washington. While Gene andLorrie (Silverman) '66 were at parents'weekend at U. of Colorado, they crashed aCornell alumni meeting and saw about 50 Cor-nellians. Heidi Friederich Payment of Hon-eoye Falls, NY, chairs the SSC in her area, asdo Gloria Fuss Kurzrok of Great Neck, NY,and Naomi Kalos of Deer Park, NY, whoalso chairs fine arts in Bellrnore-Merrickschool district. Cleon and Jane LoomisDunham '64 are involved with the CornellClub of Houston and SSC. Cleon is an engi-neer with Shell Oil, while Jane is foreign stu-

dent advisor at Rice U. Elizabeth CardLynham chairs Project: LEARN, an adultliteracy program, and is president of herchurch.

Another SSC member is Marion Trav-alini Rodd of Canoga Park, Cal., a health edu-cation representative for Churchill Film, pro-ducer and distributor of educational films andvideos. Ann Feuerstein Ostrofsky is run-ning a pre-school program for children withsevere language development and speechproblems and was busy supporting and follow-ing Lakeland, Fla., high school to state cham-pionships in football. "Took a lot of yellingand cheering on our part!"

I'm out of space—lots more next month.Meanwhile mark your calendar for Reunion,June 9-12, order your yearbook, and get outyour checkbook so we can meet the 25th Re-union challenge. D Dee Abbott Youngs,236 Puritan Rd., Fairfield, Conn. 06430; (203)259-1268.

MThere are less than two moremonths left of winter! You cansupply your own intonation andemphasis. For those of you inthe East who dread the meltingof the snow, keep in mind that

Sharon Kellermann (PO Box 291, War-ren, Vt.) is still a real estate broker selling va-cation condos at Sugarbush ski resort.

Since I last passed on HelenSchwartz's news in October 1986, she hasmoved from Rochester, Mich., to be a DanaFoundation Fellow in the English departmentat Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. This May-July, she's planning to go to Twente Universi-ty of Technology in Enschede, Netherlands;and in September, if all goes on schedule, Hel-en becomes professor of English at IndianaU.-Purdue in Indianapolis. Whew! I'll reporther address when she settles down.

Another Schwartz has made an interest-ing career switch. Alice Schwartz Chabora,who got her PhD in genetics from Cornell in1967, is now an orthodontist in Bayside, NY.Alice, who lists her hobbies as tennis and realestate (?!), lives at 28-19 214th St., Baysidewith husband Peter and their two daughters.They sure travel to interesting places: Greecein 1985, Alaska in 1986, Australia this pastsummer, and the Galapagos in November.

Congrats are in order for two more class-mates. James Hirsch was appointed direc-tor of personnel in Cyanamid's agricultural di-vision, a company he has held various person-nel and labor relations positions with since1967. He, wife Debbie, and their two daugh-ters live at 248 Brookside Ave., Wyckoff, NJ.In June Leonard Schwartz was named pro-fessor of,mathematicas at U. of Lowell, inMassachusetts He, wife, and two childrenhave moved there from New Jersey, where hewas a visiting professor at Rutgers, but as yetI have no address to report.

Also in Massachusetts, Heather Cole islibrarian of two undergraduate libraries: Har-vard and Radcliffe. From home at 19 ClintonSt., Cambridge, she, Stratis Haviaras, anddaughter make frequent trips to Greece. Andback in New Jersey, John Kaufman is alawyer and sculptor. He, wife Alba, and twodaughters still live at 20 Franklin Place,Maplewood.

Over in Connecticut, Robert Mauceri

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is a lawyer, too—specializing in tax law withMauceri & Holder in New Haven. Right inYale's backyard, he interviews prospectiveCornellians for the Secondary Schools Com-mittee; with wife Palma and two teenage chil-dren, he lives at 19 Mountain Brook Rd.,North Haven.

A junior high school math teacher, San-dy Scheiner Kransdorf (24 Honey Lane, E.Northport, NY, with husband Jerry and threechildren) recently vacationed in Israel. Physi-cian Carol Livoti and Richard Topp are stillat 266 E. 78th St., NYC, with their daughter.

Bob Turrell still plays basketball in twoleagues weekly, but admits having troublekeeping up with the kids who are 20 yearsyounger. That and his annual fly fishing trip toMontana with Garry King keep him in goodshape. With wife Janice, Bob owns and oper-ates the Furniture Outlet, a retail store in theirhometown of Oneonta. They and their twochildren can be reached via RD #3, Box 70.

Out in Colorado, Betty Bond Snyder(6980 Sweetwater Court, Boulder) beganworking in residential real estate sales forLegacy Inc. in Boulder a year and a halfago—"love it," she says. Husband Dave '63is vice president, finance, for MicroDecision-ware and writes business plans for start-upcompanies. Near Denver, Susan GoodmanHellman reports she, husband Lenny, and twodaughters spent several weeks in Alaska lastyear. Back home (7330 W. Fairview Dr., Lit-tleton, Colo.), she enjoys photography and ka-rate.

Dues but no news came from four class-mates never before mentioned in this column:Gary Allen, 965 Knollwood Rd., WhitePlains, NY; Barry Horn, 2063 OaklandAve., Piedmont, Cal.; Steven Kolt, 3111Castle St., Honolulu, Hawaii; and FredericPaschkes, 18 Twixt Hills Rd., St. James,NY.

As we are beginning 1988, Thorn Chir-urg's note of last spring, written at his home(2115 Bush, San Francisco), should be of in-terest: "Since selling my investment manage-ment company to Prudential Corp. PLC in theUnited Kingdom, I have been able to takemore advantage of invitations to participate inall sorts of conferences self-servingly de-signed to solve the world's financial problems.

'One of the benefits is that they are usual-ly held in posh surroundings. Among themduring 1986 were such syntactical classics asThe International Parliamentary WorkingRound on Exchange Rates and Coordination'in Zurich (great views of the lake from the Dol-der Hotel), and 'International Capital Marketsand Financial Stability' in Oxford, England."

For any classmates planning to ski in As-pen the last week of this month, call Jim andme at the Mountain Chalet. And all of you cankeep my mailbox full and warm by sendingyour dues and news. D Bev Johns Lamont,720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, 111. 60015.

You've all recently received aNews & Dues letter. Please re-turn it with current informationabout your activities. If you haveClass of '65 friends who haven'tbeen receiving this magazine,

encourage them to respond. The more class-mates who pay their dues, the longer our col-umn can be!

Once again it's time to spread the wordabout the terrific seminars and study tours of-fered by Adult University (CAU). Before thesummer, you can be engrossed in The Natural

World of Sapelo Island, Ga. (March 21-25 orMarch 28-April 1); The New Orleans JazzTradition (April 27-May 1); The Desert andthe Skies, Tanque Verde Ranch, Tucson,

44 His vision was to get at the root causes ofworld hunger. Now we can make a difference.

Harry Chapin'64

Five years before songwriter/filmmaker Harry Cha-pin was killed in an automobile accident on the LongIsland Expressway, he had organized World HungerYear in 1975. The hungry of the world lost one oftheir most zealous advocates in that accident, butfound in Chapin's widow Sandy, shown here withthree of their five children (from left, Jenny, Jason,and Josh) a deepened commitment to carry on thecause that was so dear to their husband and father.

Chapin's vision was to get at the root causes ofworld hunger. "We can make a difference," said San-dy, who chairs Long Island Cares, "but we have todo more than just distribute food. That only creates adependency."

In October 1986 the Chapins were given onemeans to fund their efforts to ease world hungerwhen a Brooklyn Federal Court jury awarded thefamily a $7.2 million settlement after determiningnegligence on the part of Supermarkets General,whose company vehicle collided with Chapin's car.Then, on December 7, 1987, the date on which Cha-pin would have celebrated his 45th birthday, his wid-ow, brothers, children, and peers sang in hishonor—and in recognition of his posthumouslyawarded Congressional Gold Medal—at a benefit con-cert in Carnegie Hall. Harry Belafonte was host;Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar, Pete Seeger, andKenny Rogers were among the stars participating.Chapin's brother Tom, himself a performer, said,"We want to celebrate Harry's life and raise con-sciousness. He had a full life with his family, friends,and music, and also as a humanitarian."

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Ariz. (May 14-19); Ancient Civilizations of theNew World (April 16-28); China: The FarWest and the Silk Road (May 15-June 6).

Last year, Tore Hasselriis Abrams,with Stephen and family, attended Art andRevolution from Mozart to Mao; DonnaGoodman Albin and Richard '63 learnedabout The Botanical World; and PhyllisWeiss Haserot, with Robert, JD '67 andchildren, benefited from The Art and Craft ofBetter Speaking. In August and Septemberyou can study in Utah, Maine, or Prague.

Take advantage of a uniquely edifying vaca-tion.

From his home in Boston, Gary Ash fre-quently travels to Cornell on business. He sees"lots of people in Phillips Hall. They are stillthere after 25 years!" Gary is sales managerfor Instruments SA Inc., which supplies exot-ic research equipment for semiconductorphysics. Erin, Gary's older daughter, attendsAmherst.

Although he lives in New Jersey, DavidAnsel, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon, is on

the board of trustees of the PhiladelphiaYouth Orchestra, where both his daughtersare members. Another physician, BerniePaladino, runs a volunteer ' 'store-front"psychiatric office for the poor in Ocean Beach,Cal. He also edits the magazine Political IssuesIn Psychiatry. A creative family, his wife MaryBeth writes children's books, daughter Elysiais a professional dancer, Elizabeth does TVcommercials, Elana does artwork, and Berna-dette, 2, wets diapers!

Keep the news coming. D Debbie Dash

Turback's goes up in flames.Will they rebuild?

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Turback's restaurant, ownedand operated since 1968 byHotel school graduate Mi-chael Turback '66, went upin flames after closing last

October 13. The Victorian-gothiclandmark south of Ithaca near Tre-man State Park had been a restau-rant since the mid-1960s. RecentlyTurback had concentrated on serv-ing and promoting local New YorkState foods and wines.

Earlier, as a residence, theplace served as the heart of theworking farm and showcase of ag-ricultural enterprise owned byHoward E. Babcock, a long-timeuniversity trustee who chaired theboard 1940-47.

After surveying the charred re-

mains of the historic house inwhich he had grown up, Babcock'syoungest child, John B. '45 wrote:"The saga of the farm called Sun-nygables was spun out for decadesthrough Howard E. Babcock's reg-ular page 'Kernals, Screenings, &Chaff in the American Agricultur-ist, in which he anticipated andguided the modernization of North-east agriculture. But the name Sun-nygables that identified the farmwas really the name of the farmhousehold, that distinctiveeleven-(not seven-) gabled whitewoodframe house that looked downon massive barns to the east. Whenhe moved there in 1922, H. E. Έd'Babcock realized the dream of hav-ing his own dairy farm and it be-

came a headquarters for his effortsto improve life for the Americanfarmer. From Sunnygables helaunched the G.L.F. farm coopera-tive (now Agway) and developedand promoted such new farm prac-tices as the installation of rubbertires on farm implements, the useof conventional and trench silos,milking parlors instead of stan-chions, and pasture managementmethods that are still in use today.

Ίhe nineteen rooms at Sun-nygables comfortably ac-commodated Babcock'sfamily—wife Hilda andthree children—with plenty

of room left over for hired helperswho, as time went on, were almostindistinguishable from family mem-bers, so closely did everyone liveand work together. A long paradeof teamsters, herdsmen, foremen,builders, and part-and full-timehands shared in that life.

"The husbandry of livestock,from cows to cats, engenders a spe-cial sense of family and responsibil-ity. Sunnygables surely provided aunique environment for nurturingvalues and relationships that haveproved to be invaluable for the chil-dren of H. E. and Hilda Babcock.And that spirit survives even theruthless flames."

As news spread that the statelybuilding, built in 1851, had suc-cumbeji to fire, shock and sadnesswere widespread among Ithacansof all ages, and everyone seemed toask, "Will they rebuild?" Turback,touched by an outpouring of con-cern from former patrons and asso-ciates, soon announced plans to goahead, at an estimated cost of $1million, and to duplicate the com-plex architecture and "ginger-bread" detail. By mid-Novemberwork had begun on a new roof.


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Winn, 5754 63rd Ave. NE, Seattle, Wash.98105.

Charles and Julianna Ricci Haendiges liveat 454 Ashland Ave., Buffalo. Julie sends usthis resolution: "I'm still teaching English inthe inner city, and still hoping to write theGreat American Novel someday, or perhaps areally good book for children. Maybe I'll havethis done by the 25th Reunion?" She sends re-gards to Wesley Baumgardner andAmanda McMahon.

Joe and Kathy Schneider write to usfrom Basking Ridge, NJ. Joe is the assistantsuperintendent of schools for Chatham Town-ship; Kathy is the pharmacy manager for Bax-ter-Travenol Labs. Their son Joe has com-pleted his first year in electrical engineering atLehigh. Daughter Julie competed this sum-mer at the YMCA national gymnastics cham-pionships in California. Joe is a past presidentof his civic assn., a Boy Scout leader, and lec-tor at his church. Travel for this family: HongKong, China, and the Dominican Republic.

Alan and Gayle Fridkin send newsfrom Westfield, Mass. Al is a litigation coun-sel for Mass Mutual Life: "Wherever we getsued, I go!" (Well I'm certainly glad to hear itisn't the other way around!) In addition, he is acommander in the Naval Reserve and hastaken part in naval exercises in Holland. Hewas able to work in a month's vacation inSwitzerland. Gayle is an employee benefitsspecialist with Westvaco. Joe also wrote, "I'llhelp with the 25th Reunion," and drew a redcircle around this note. Way to go, Alan!

Jim Walzer, as always, has a boat andloves it. (On the Hill, he kept an oil-portrait ofhis boat over his desk. I imagine the boat hasgrown, but a portrait hangs there still!) He andPenny live in Florida. Jim is the president ofComputer Repair and Service Centers ofAmerica, with offices in New York and Flori-da. Three daughters: Susan, an education ma-jor at Syracuse; Meredith, a cheerleader andhigh-school class treasurer; and Jennifer, a re-gional and national winner in dancing andsinging.

Susan and Stephen R. Schwartz livein Mt. Kisco, NY. Stephen is the president ofIntl. Research Services Inc., which performsconsumer research for drug and cosmetic cli-ents to support claims made in advertising.They have children James, Stephanie, andKaroline.

I'm very grateful for all your news andsupport. It is hard to work everyone into thecolumn, but please keep those cards and let-ters, coming. Here's to a great 1988 for every-one! D Scot MacEwan, 2065 NW Flan-ders, Portland Ore. 97209.

Oregon has been home to Fred'64 and Linda Cascio Eng-strom since 1973. They livewith their sons, 15 and 18, on 12acres of land near Portland. Twoacres are planted in Pinot gris

grapes. The whole family skis and hikes in themountains. Linda, formerly a room designerfor Armstrong Cork Co. in Pennsylvania, hasa freelance design business, designing interiorroomsets for advertising purposes. She alsohas a degree in landscape design and main-tains her own display gardens and arboretum.Fred is a manager for avionics displays with

Tektronix. Although Portland has an activealumni association, Linda says she hasn't seenany classmates in years, but do come visit. Itreally doesn't rain every day, and the weatheris much better than the Ithaca winters.

Stuart Peterfreund is interested in anarts program, perhaps "The ContemporaryArts Festival—25 years later," as part of our25th Reunion. Your reaction, suggestions,pledges of support, etc., are desired. Pleasecontact Stuart at 127 W. Main St., Ayer,Mass., or call (617) 437-3967, days.

There is family news from many of you,especially as your children approach or are incollege. Sara Grossman Kotler writes thather son David '90 is in the ILR school.Daughter Jayme is a junior in high school.Aaron and Ether Strauss Lehmann's oldestdaughter Shanna spent a year in Israel beforeentering Barnard in 1986. Bonnie LazarusWallace reports that her daughter Jennifer,now a high school senior, attended CornellSummer College last year. Tom '64 andDiane Goodman Mann's daughter Julie isat Stanford, son David is at the MiddlesexSchool in Concord, Mass., and Bill, theiryoungest, was recently bar mitsvahed. Mar-ty '63, DVM '66, and Debra KirschnerWolf have a son Jeff who is a sophomore atDartmouth. Daughter Michelle is a senior inhigh school. Debra returned to teaching fouryears ago. She teaches second grade at P.S.76 in New York and "loves every minute ofit." This also expresses the sentiments ofJoan Ratner Leiken who has returned toschool for a master's in interior design at thePratt Institute.

I must end on a sad note. The universityhas reported the death of Ellen Bressler inMarch 1987. Π Susan Rockford Bittker,424 Pea Pond Rd., Katonah, NY 10536.

On Sunday, July 26, 1987, the New YorkTimes real estate section featured an article onhandling disputes involving contract depositsin real estate transactions. The article washighlighted by the legal points of Bruce J.Bergman, Esq., a noted expert in the field ofreal estate and foreclosure law. Mr. Bergman,a member of the Garden City law firm ofRoach & Bergman, is the author of the text-book Mortgages and Mortgage Foreclosure inNew York.

Brian Meltzer, a partner with the Chi-cago firm of Schwartz & Freeman, has recent-ly co-authored the "Condominium and PUDDevelopment Unit Loans and the SecondaryMortgage Market" chapter for the 1987 edi-tion of Advising Illinois Financial Institutions,to be published by the Illinois Inst. for Contin-uing Legal Education (IICLE). Meltzer re-ceived his JD from Harvard, and has lecturedfor IICLE and Chicago Bar Assn. seminarsand has written articles for the Chicago BarRecord and IICLE handbooks. D WilliamH. Blockton, 259 E. 10th St., NYC 10014.

"If you want to invest in a pieceof Ithaca, call us. (Buy your oldapartment?!) A very stable com-munity, as you know," writesLinda Olshina Lavine, 719Ringwood Rd., Ithaca, who's

starting a real estate business there with hus-band Buzz when she's not busy teaching psy-chology at SUNY, Cortland. Linda adds that

she's "surviving two careers and two youngchildren (Ari, 7, and Jennie, 3) at 40!"

David Darwin, 1901 Camelback Dr.,Lawrence, Kans., is professor of civil engi-neering a U. of Kansas; he's been promoted tolieutenant colonel in the Army reserve andreceived a distinguished service award fromthe American Concrete Inst. Son Sam, 16,plays varsity soccer, and daughter Lorraine,14, plays on her ninth grade basketball team.

Sherry Carr, 504 Bethan Rd., ElkinsPark, Pa., reports that she's lived only tenmiles away from Candy Baldwin Kurz, 251W. Montgomery Ave., Haverford, Pa., for thelast three years and didn't know it. MatthewKalman, 4115 Sunset Blvd., St. Louis Park,Minn., is vice-chairman of the department ofradiology at Abbott Northwestern Hospital,Minneapolis.

Courtesy of the Cornell Daily Sun, we areinformed that Nancy Falik Cott, professorof history at Yale and chair of the women'sstudies program there, lectured at Cornell onthe history of feminism, asserting that it beganin the early 20th century, rather than with thesuffrage movement of the previous century.Her book on the subject is due out shortly.

Cornell Adult University (CAU) reportsthat the following attended courses recently:Emily Keast Donahue, RR #2 Box 445, CliffSt., Norwich, Vt; Marsha Beirach Eisen,458 Colonial Terr., Hackensack, NJ; RobertJD '67 and Phyllis Weiss Haserot '65,MRP '67, 60 Sutton Place S., NYC; andGeorge Mendelson, 4612 Sunflower Dr.,Rockville, Md. CAU keeps telling us aboutclassmates who attend their programs; we'dlove to hear more about your experiencesfrom you directly.

Jeffrey A. Chesky, 700 S. Durkin#359, Springfield, 111., writes: "Perhaps it'sunusual for a biologist, but I am now the co-chair of the humanities and arts committee ofthe Gerontological Society of America and amplanning to organize a symposium on ethicalissues in ageing research—the biological sci-entist's view—for our meeting this year." Heteaches at Sangamon State U.

Les Click, 13509 Esworthy Rd., Ger-mantown, Md., practices law with Duncan,Allen & Mitchell, Washington DC, specializ-ing in international trade and business and in-tellectual property law. Cathy Spatz Wid-om, 415 S. Ballantine Rd., Bloomington, Ind.,is professor of criminal justice at Indiana U.She spent a sabbatical last spring with Har-vard's department of psychology and socialrelations.

Harry St. C. Carman, 221 E. ChestnutSt., Lancaster, Pa., is a partner in the law firmof Hartman Underbill & Brubaker there andadds—in addition to reporting that his childrenare Victoria, 13, and Byron, 11, and that he'splayed golf in Scotland—that the last '67er hesaw was Rick Fricke,''crawling out of a barin E. Kankakee, 111."

Sylvia Lewis, 2122 W. LeMoyne St.,Chicago, was promoted to associate publisherof Planning, the magazine of the AmericanPlanning Assn. She reports having seen Da-vid Hamburger, 7315 Woodrow WilsonDr., Los Angeles, who's working as a film di-rector, and Jim Cohen, a physician living inSaratoga, Cal. Matthew Kluger, 2542 EschAve., Ann Arbor, Mich., advises that he trav-eled to Southern California last New Year's to

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watch Michigan, where he's a professor ofphysiology, lose in the Rose Bowl. ("No sur-prise," he adds.) He and wife Susan have twochildren, Sharon, 16, and Hilary, 14, and allspent the first half of 1987 in Palo Alto duringa sabbatical at Cetus Corp.

"After living 15 years on Capitol Hill,Washington, DC," writes Carolyn CrouseWillard, 9250 Clyo Rd., Spring Valley, Ohio,"Bob decided to work for the private sector,so we moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he's nowat Mead Data Central. I decided to work onthe home front with Kate, 14, Chris, 11, andMatt, 7, rather than as a medical librarian andI love staying home! I do lots of volunteerwork with schools, Planned Parenthood BookLoft, and the New Neighbors League. We liveout in the country and it's taken a year to getused to it: two of three children have decidedthat country living is better. The boys and Ihave taken up tae kwon do and we haveamassed quite a lot of kindling from all theboards we break with our bare feet. Contraryto my pacifist beliefs, I have learned to sparand it's good for concentration, balance, andkeeping two steps ahead of your kids!" DRichard B. Hoffman, 2925 28th St. NW,Washington, DC 20008.

I hope you are all having a verypleasant winter. Starting off witha marriage announcement, Pe-ter B. Orthwein married theformer Beverly Miller last May.Peter is presently vice chair of

Thor Industries, a maker of trailers, motorhomes, and accessories. Robert B. Eliezerhas been appointed general manager of Bry-ant Electric, a division of Westinghouse Elec-tric Corp. He has been with the company sincegraduation.

Herb Scherzer lives in Farmington,Conn., and is a physician involved in pulmon-ary and critical care medicine. He also servesas an associate professor at the U. of Connecti-cut medical school. Herb's other activities in-clude coaching his daughter's soccer team andcompeting in triathlons. Neil Rivchin is apartner with the law firm O'Connell and Aron-owitz in Albany, NY. Neil practices in the areaof commercial and corporate transactions,litigation, cable television, and real estate.Neil and wife Pam have two daughters. Neilreports having seen Tim Vinceguerra.

Anne Casper Camner is an attorney inpractice in Florida. Anne and her husband Al-fred have four children ranging from 1 to 17.She reports having seen Nancy Lipson inWashington. Randy H. Allen lives in Bask-ing Ridge, NJ, and is a management consul-tant and chairs the International Retail Con-sulting group at Touche, Ross. Randy enjoysplaying golf and is also active as a trustee ofthe NJ Institute of Technology. Bill Falik isan attorney in Berkeley, Cal., and is also in-volved with a real estate development firm.Bill and his wife Diana have three children.Bill reports having seen John Ellman, whois his golfing partner, and Marian Penn.

Another class marriage that I am pleasedto report is that of Corinne Ertel to KennethSachar, an MIT graduate. Corinne is apediatrician in Weston, Mass. Her weddingtook place in September 1986, and classmatespresent included Jan Friedlander Gerard,Joan Gottesman Wexler, Ruth Mandel

Pincus, and Liz Guether Armstrong.Robert Cantor lives in Wyncote, Pa.,

and is chief operating officer of InsingerMachine Co. Insinger is a manufacturer ofcommercial dishwashing equipment for thefood service industry. Bob and wife JoyceMoye '67 have two children. His outside ac-tivities include membership in the Philadel-phia Chapter of the Young President's Organi-zation and other trade association work.James H. Philip is an anesthesiologist anddirector of bioengineering in anesthesia atBrigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Healso teaches at Harvard Medical School. As aclinician, Jim teaches doctors how to applyengineerng principles and practices tomedicine. As a researcher, he is active in thedevelopment of new techniques and devicesfor patient monitoring and therapy. Jim's wifeBeverly is also an anesthesiologist at the samehospital and the Philips have two sons. Jimand Beverly are on the ski patrol at MagicMountain and are often seen with their twosmall experts trailing closely behind. Rich-ard D. Schuler is an attorney with Schulerand Wilkerson, and Rich and his wife Annelive in N. Palm Beach, Fla.

That's all for now. I look forward to hear-ing from you. Please note my newaddress. D Gordon H. Silver, The PutnamCompanies, 1 Post Office Square, Boston,Mass. 02109.

I'm finally getting organizednere in Washington. We havegood news—the class has signedon enough subscribers to awardus two columns in the AlumniNews; now I need even more of

your news to fill them. James C. Bulman,associate professor of English at AlleghenyCollege has been named American generaleditor of a 36-volume series of Shakespeare inPerformance to be published by ManchesterUniversity Press. He is also the author of TheHeroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy and co-editor of Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan:Change and Continuity in the English andEuropean Dramatic Tradition, a collection ofessays.

Beth Cousins Sloan (Potomac, Md.) hasbeen vice president for administration of theJewish Community Center of greater Wash-ington. Beth's husband Leonard is an attorneywith Friedlander, Misler, Friedlander, Sloanand Herz. They have three children. CraigTufts, wife Cynthia Ross '71 and theirtwo sons moved to a new home in Sterling, Va.Craig directs the Nongame/Urban Wildlifeprograms for the National Wildlife Federation(publishers of Ranger Rick and Your BigBackyard). He also writes a newspaper column'The Backyard Naturalist" which appears in300 publications in 48 states.

A bundle of news from Charlotte Brus-ka Gardner (Colchester, Vt.) who is very ac-tive in class alumni activities, and whose threechildren are keeping her quite busy. NancyAlthouse and Richard Heath moved toAlbuquerque, NM, where Dick is the head-master at a prep school. In October 1986Leslie Abramson, an attorney in NewYork, visited Vermont with her attorney hus-band Bob Conason and their daughter, 4.Their visit was followed by one from Leslie'sCornell roommate, Patricia Stahl Mor-

rison, with husband Chet and their 1-year-oldson. Patty counsels agoraphobics, and Chet isa professional photographer. The month wasmade perfect for Charlotte by a Cornell vic-tory over Dartmouth. (That was 1986, not1987!) Karen Bittermann Kitzmiller, hus-band Warren, and their two daughters met allof the Gardner family in Hanover for thegame.

I'll be up to full speed next month. DJoan Sullivan, 1812 N. Quinn St. #627, Ar-lington, Va. 22209; (703) 528-3889.

^^ jp^ Richard and Sharon Elef antM Oberfield, 1235 Park Ave.,

Mil NYC, enjoy activities galoreMil with children GabrH 10» andm I J Nora, 8, and are planning a fami-m ^^ ly nostalgia (at least for thegrown-ups) trip to Cornell in August. Sharonis busy working as a full-time attending pedi-atric endocrinologist at St. Luke's-RooseveltMedical Center. Rich continues in child-fami-ly psychiatry at NYU Medical Center. Also inNew York City, Mark Greenwald, an ar-chitect and city planner, and his wife and part-ner, Carrie Maher, have their own garden de-sign firm, Maher and Greenwald, 241W. 97thSt., PH2. They have designed and installedmany public gardens and spaces in the Metroarea, including restoration of the Loeb Boat-house in Central Park, Cathedral of St. Johnthe Divine, Great Hall at Snug Harbor Cultur-al Center (Staten Island), rooftop shade andperennial gardens, etc. Mark is active in NYCpolitics and policymaking on regional openspace issues. He is also engaged in researchand development in urban agriculture and useof rooftops, and is an occasional ski instructor.

Marya Dalrymple and husbandCharles Boyce live at 40 W. 24th St., 3W,NYC. She is currently editor-in-chief of a newTime-Life Book series called "AmericanCountry." Marya asks if any classmates havehomes decorated in the "country"style—whether it's rustic English, chintz, Ear-ly American, or eclectic—and if they wouldsend her snapshots. She may be able to photo-graph the house for one of the books in theseries. Send any photos to her at Rebus Inc.,632 Broadway, NYC 10012. Chuck is writinga dictionary of Shakespeare for Facts on File.They have no children, but they lead a busylife seeing art, going to concerts, and watchingthe Mets. Marya is also director for the AgCollege alumni association for Manhattan andthe Bronx. Interested Ag alumni should con-tact her for information.

Marya reports that Claire Garrett nowlives in Miami, Fla., where she is pursuing acareer as a sculptor. Claire left the plant busi-ness in Salem, Mass., over a year ago and sheis an avid sailor. Another Miamian, ClaudiaKramer Springer, 6650 SW 133rd St. (asof last July), writes that husband Jeff '69 waspromoted to senior vice president develop-ment for the Continental Companies. Afterten years as in-house counsel for Piper.Air-craft, Bob Scurfield went into private legalpractice in September 1986. He lives in VeroBeach, Fla., at 125 12th Place SE. Back inNew York State, Susan Simon Lotierzo, 24Dexter Parkway, Baldwinsville, is in her 17thyear as a .counselor at Liverpool High Schoolwhere husband Gerald is also a counselor.They met in graduate school at Penn State,


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celebrated their 15th anniversary last July,and have two children. They enjoy spendingpart of their summers at their lakeside cabinand the Adirondacks.

Cathy Schaff er Donnelly, 195 PershingDr., Rochester, has just completed the finalpassage for a career change from dietitics tohealth care management. She has her MBAfrom U. of Rochester and received her nursinghome administrator's license at the end of1987. Cathy has been doing independent man-agement consulting and chairs the board inher children's day care center. She has twochildren, Jill, 5, and Michael, 2. Cathy keepsin touch with Ellen Stephenson Veazy andDenise Pagliaro Smith, and would love tohear from Suzy Fararr, Pam Haines, andJane Pease.

Heading west, Sarah Bush Collinslives with husband Reg and son Michael, 12,at 1 Woodcliff Rd., Pittsburgh. She left Bankof America in November 1986 to become sen-ior vice president and controller of MellonBank Corp. Sarah chairs the AmericanBankers Assn.'s accounting committee. Thefamily spends as much time as they can divingoff the coast of Belize and skiing whereverthey can find snow. Marge Mietus Sanikand Paul '69 live in Galena, Ohio, at 3721Pine Ridge Dr., with sons Brian, 1V2, andKevin, 3. Paul was in Europe with Owens-Corning Fiberglas for three weeks duringtheir move. Their home is custom-built oftheir own ' 'functional" design which suits theneeds of a professional couple and preschoolboys. Marge is an associate professor in fami-ly resource management at Ohio State.

Carol Mangeng, 430 Grand CanyonDr., Los Alamos, NM, has been living in NewMexico for 14 years and loves the Southwest.She works at the Los Alamos National Labor-atory doing systems analysis. Carolyn and herhusband, Dale Spall, enjoy skiing, hiking, andbackpacking, and they plan to introduce chil-dren Brian 3¥2, and Andy, 2, to some wildmountain trails this summer. Another back-packer, Jack Kimple, Box 35, Shasta, Cal.,recently went on his second annual trip to Tri-nity Alps in California with Tom Samuels,BArch '71 and Peter Carlstrom '71.They managed to get snowed in this year!

I wish all of you well in 1988 and extendmany thanks to all of you who have volun-teered to help with our Class Council. We'll bein touch! D Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 JamesThomas Rd., Malvern, Pa., 19355.

B ^ We three each hope everyone hadm ^B a happy holiday season and is

m I enjoying a healthy and prosper-m I ous 1988. Springtime will soon beM I upon us, earlier for those of us inM the South than for others of us upNorth, but it will arrive nevertheless. I wouldlike to spring news of some of our classmatesin this our first column of the new year.

Diane Adkin from Eden Prairie, Minn.,writes that she is a traveling salesperson, a re-gional sales manager for Rubbermaid. Shetravels 13 north-central states. Husband Bob,formerly a pilot for Braniff before bankruptcy,is now an air traffic controller. They golf andice dance and get "roller blades" so they canskate outside when it is too nice to be inside. Anote to Diane: Maybe it is not quite time forspring in Minnesota.

From Richmond, Va., William J. An-derson writes that he is deputy commission-er, Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control of theCommonwealth of Virginia. He and wife Mar-garet have two children, ages 2 and 4V2. Bill ispresident of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen,Virginia chapter. He inquires, appropriately Iwould add, whether we can get better accom-modations for the 1991 Reunion. The U-Hallsare a bummer. Bill, they may be a bummer, in-deed, but they are still fun and nostalgic, espe-cially when we think of ourselves 20 yearsearlier in those same dorms.

Victor Curran from Watertown, Mass.,has two children, Andrew, 3, and Marcelia, 10months. He is a book designer at D. C. Heath.From Ardmore, Pa., Peter Deierlein ownsand operates a commercial photography stu-dio, and wife Loretta is a part-time grad stu-dent at Drexel U. Peter, a golfer, would like tohear from Lynn Hawbaker, Art Nevins,Joe Mirro, Bill Durbin, and Jack Stein-buhler.

Katherine Menton Flaxman and hus-band David live in S. Orange, NJ, where theyhave two children. Katherine runs after thetwo small people, Robert, 4V2, and Marian, 8months. David is a computer systems mana-ger in a major stock brokerage firm. Theywould like to see John Longeway '67, BA71 and Devra Braun '72.

Caryn Furst is a group vice presi-dent/consumer marketing for the world's lar-gest and, she adds, best, public relations agen-cy. Caryn is a gardener, a tennis player, andenjoys going to the theater. She reports recentcontact with classmates Amy PastarnackHughes and husband John '69; LeslieKirpich Brill; and Diane Brenner Ker-mani. Caryn resides in mid-town Manhattan.

Thomas Nally in Brookline, Mass., isdeputy director of a special unit of capitalplanning in Massachusetts. He is also makingcapital improvements on his new house. JeffPunin in Seal Beach, Cal., is an endocrinolo-gist, and his wife Donna is a tax attorney.Besides being professionally involved, theyplay tennis and live on the beach. They recent-ly visited roommates Howie Cohen andHowie Peiser.

Sandra Huffman from Chevy Chase,Md., writes that she is on leave from JohnsHopkins and now directs a non-profit organi-zation, The Center for Prevention of ChildMalnutrition. D Joel Y. Moss, 110 BarnardPlace NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30328; MarshaAckermann, 330 W. 56th St., Apt. 4-F,NYC 10019; Matt Silverman, 356 SmithRd., Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.

1987 was a big year for new ba-kies among our classmates.Ginny Van Geem and hus-band Ken Donegan had a littlegirl, Jennifer Camille, on August28. Ginny is running the Florida

branch of her family business and is presidentof the Central Florida Cornell Club. Address:6517 Hidden Beach Circle, Orlando, Fla. Myfreshman roommate, Julia KosowGrosbergand her husband Harvey had Michelle Anneon July 3. Julia is a school psychologist andHarvey is an attorney. Address: 22 CrossRidge Rd., Chappaqua, NY.

Lynn Little and her husband MatthewMendenhall had daughter Sara in December

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1986. Lynn is an economic analyst for San Di-ego Gas and Electric and can be contacted at4664 Mr. Frissell Dr., San Diego. SandraHatch Macdonell and her husband Chuckhad daughter Caroline on Jan. 25, 1987. Shejoins brother Scott, 4. Sandra writes that theyhave completed renovations on a summer ca-bin on the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wise.Mimi Sheiner Nierenberg's daughterAmelia Louise was born on September 14.

Cheryl Spinweber's second son, Greg-ory Alan, was born on July 31. Sean Michael isnow 3. Cheryl continues to do sleep researchand see sleep disorder patients as head of thesleep lab at Naval Hospital, San Diego. DavidWinn and his wife Carolyn Spico had sonJeremy in May. They also have a daughterAllison. David has joined the Fairfield U.physics department as an associate professorand the research faculty at Yale. Carolyn is afaculty member at Yale medical school and isin private practice. Address: 6 Wilton Acres,Wilton, Conn. Laurel Brandt and husbandArt Leavens had their third child, Justin, onApril 30. Their other children are Sydney, 8,and Harrison, 5. Justin is named in memory ofhis great-uncle, Justin Brandt '42. Grand-parents include Norman '44 and BarbaraBookstein Brandt '48.

Craig Lowery and wife Joanne have anew daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, born October7, who joins son Justin Thomas, 2. Address:530 Old Troy Rd., R.D. 2, Rensselaer, NY.Terry Nadler Abel and her husband Brucewrite that their newest son, Zachary Ryan,joined sister Alissa, 4, and brother Matthew,16 months, on August 11. Peggy Clark andhusband John O'Meara had their thirdchild, Ian, last year. Peggy opened a law prac-tice in her home after six years as an associatein a general practice firm. John has a wood-working company in Bedford Hills, NY.Lauren Tozek Cowdery and Bill '73 hadElizabeth Mary on September 26 at Tomp-kins Community Hospital. Lauren, who justreceived her tenure in English at Keuka Col-lege, will be taking the year off. Bill is a gradstudent in music at Cornell and is assistant or-ganist. David Reed's wife Paula gave birthto second daughter, Abigail, on September 14.Big sister Jessica is 3. Address: 1911Overland Ct, Allison Park, Pa. StephanieStern's first child Sebastian was born on Jan.15, 1987. Stephanie, who is back in her laseroptics business, can be reached at RFD 1,Crow Hill Path, Mt. Kisco, NY.

Larry, Danny, and I have moved to a newhome. Please send your news to our new ad-dress. D Susan Rosenberg Thau, 621729th St. NW, Washington, DC 20015.

The year has flown swift-ly—even for your class corre-spondents. Although this col-umn appears in the February is-sue, it was written in Novemberfollowing the Greater New York

City Area Phon-a-Thon. As usual, this eventpresented the enjoyable challenge of speakingto alumni about class affairs—the Class of1973 Scholarship Fund in honor of our 15thReunion, June 9-12. (This fund will help Cor-nell enroll the best students regardless of theirfinancial situation.) In case some of you inter-ested alumni haven't heard, the university hasapproved a piloted four-year period for the

Cornell Alumni Mentor Program (CAMP). Aworkshop was held December 5 in NYC tohelp "mentors" reacquaint themselves withCornell, the colleges, course selections, sup-port and special programs, among otherthings. If anyone is interested in furthering theprimary goal of providing leadership role mod-els to matriculating minority students fromNYC, write Blonde Grayson Hall '79,815N. Mt. Pleasant Rd., Philadelphia, Pa. 19119.

Jeffrey L. Braff was recently namedpartner in the Philadelphia-based law firm ofWolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. He joinedthe full-service firm in 1982 as a member of itslabor law and employee relations department.Prior to that, Jeffrey was assistant general la-bor counsel for Consolidated Rail Corp. He is amember of the Industrial Relations ResearchAssn., Phi Kappa Phi, and attended Penn law.

Jon Shure wrote to us last fall, and after12 years as a newspaper reporter for the Ber-gen Record of New Jersey, including 2Vz yearsin its Washington bureau, he's decided to get alook at politics "from the other side." Jon isnow press secretary to Congressman JamesFlorio, Democrat of New Jersey. But Jon'sgood news did not stop there—he and wifeJanice Conklin became the proud parents offirst-born Joseph Conklin Shure last August.Although based in Washington, DC, Jon andhis family still reside in Rockville, Md.

News from the Medical Front: Jan BairByrne graduated from the U. of Texas South-western Medical School last May. She re-ceived the Dallas-Fort Worth Ob/Gyn SocietyAward for most outstanding senior medicalstudent and was also elected to the medicalhonor society of Alpha Omega Alpha. Jan hasmoved with husband Jerry Byrne to Salt LakeCity for her residency in the specialty at U. ofUtah. Christopher J. Huyck is currentlyassistant clinical professor of medicine at Co-lumbia, attending rheumatologist at the MaryImogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown,NY, and at the Walton Medical Center, Wal-ton, NY. Christopher is rounding out his acti-vities as a Cub Scout leader and local schoolboard member. Some things never change:he's still crazy about Debussy, Jack Danielsbourbon, Cornell hockey, and the Detroit Ti-gers (in that order?).

Legal Eagles Alert: Mona Deutsch Mil-ler is continuing to do business litigation atMcKenna, Conner & Cuneo, which she joinedafter graduation from Stanford law in 1977.Her firm moved its Los Angeles office down-town to the "LA Law" building last Septem-ber. She writes that of all the many foreignstudents she befriended in Ithaca, she stillkeeps in touch with Amir Ali '72 who is anarchitect at Welton Becket Associates in San-ta Monica. Amir lives in Granada Hills withwife Shakorr and sons Imraan and Yassir.Mona and husband Steve hosted their ownmini-reunion last May when they held a fancydinner party for dear friends Helen Bendix,John Kronstadt, Joan Fabry '75, andher husband Michael Klein. Joan and Mich-ael, who live in Washington, DC, are the par-ents of Nicholas, 4. Helen and John have twochildren, Jessica and Erik. Danielle Lom-bardo Trostorff is a partner and chair of thehealth law section at Broadhurst, Brook,Mangham & Hardy in New Orleans.

Our successive columns should be full ofmore up-to-date items, but only if you send in

your news and dues for 1988! Π SandraBlack, PO Box 195, Manhattanville Station,NY 10027-0195; Phyllis Haight Grummon,314 Kedzie St., E. Lansing, Mich. 48823.

• J Once again we're a little low on£ MM news. As of the writing of thismm I column (November '87), you still

m ^mί haye not received the News &m ^^f Dues solicitation for this aca-M I demic year. When it arrives,please take the time to jot down a few linesabout yourself and return it quickly. Yourclassmates are interested in how your life isprogressing.

News from campus: Lisa SeegmillerTurner is busy making quilts, by commissiononly. She was chosen to make the 75th birth-day, 55th Reunion, 10th anniversary of NorthCampus Union (Robert Purcell Union), com-memorative quilt for Robert Purcell '32last year. For those of you who have toyedwith the idea of attending Adult University(CAU) programs, you may contact SharonRush for a first-hand assessment. She at-tended last summer's "The Enduring Con-stitution: Conflict and Controversy,1787-1987," presented by Profs. GlennAltschuler, Isaac Kramnick, and Joel H.Silbey. The CAU programs provide a uniqueopportunity to revisit Cornell campus life andonce again benefit from the outstanding facul-ty. Consider them.

Hall & Evans of Denver announces thatAndrew N. Bernstein, PC, with a practicein corporate and securities law has becomecounsel in their firm. Andrew is married toEvan Zuckerman and they have two chil-dren.

Mark Goldstein has been appointed ex-ecutive director of the Franklin Park Zoo andthe Stoneham Zoo in Boston. He is a veterinar-ian on the staff of Angell Memorial AnimalHospital, a consultant for the Museum of Sci-ence and the Boston Zoological Society, in ad-dition to being an assistant professor at TuftsSchool of Veterinary Medicine. In his new job,Mark will supervise about $700,000 in repairsat the two zoos, oversee animal care, and fillwhat nearly all perceive as a leadership void atthe zoos. There is legislation pending toestablish an independent zoo corporation thatwould remove the zoos from the auspices ofthe Metropolitan District Commission and theBoston Zoological Society. If it passes, Markwill be in charge of the transition.

Eric Colbert, AIA, writes from Wash-ington, DC, where he now has his own designfirm specializing in hotels, office buildings,restaurants, and industrial projects. The new-ly opened Comfort Inn Downtown, located at500 H Street NW, is one of three hotels hisfirm haέ designed that have been completedthis year. The 200-room hotel is the first new,moderately-priced hotel in the Washington,DC, Convention Center District. It features a150-seat restaurant and two levels of under-ground parking. The design recalls theshapes, detailing, and materials of the manynearby historic landmark buildings. Eric isgrateful for the fine education he received atCornell and credits his success to it.

Betsy Moore sent a brief update fromthe Northwest. She had a chance to visitGretchen Dorfner Frank, husband Mat-thew, and their three children in Sun Valley,


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Gregg Dietrich's love of boats and boating scuds along under full sail.Dietrich majored in painting and graphics and was a varsity sailor atCornell, and got his start selling yachts and boating equipment. Now hedeals in vessels that never go near the water: a director of the SanFrancisco Ship Model Gallery, in New York City, he commissions,buys, and sells scale models of all types of boats and ships as works ofart for interior designers, private individuals, and corporations.

Dietrich, who coached U.S. Olympic sailors (in the 470 Class) in1983-84, still keeps his hand in with national and international sailinggroups and sits on the executive committee of the U.S. Olympic Yacht-ing Committee. Last November he brought his interests together ashost of a dinner and auction of ship models at the New York YachtClub that raised more than $25,000 for the U.S. Olympic sailing teamthat will take to the water this summer.

Idaho, where she enjoyed their beautifulhome, hiking, sightseeing, and most of all,their company. In Portland, Ore., she hadbreakfast with Mort Bishop and enjoyedmeeting his wife and daughter. They werelooking forward to visits from Mary EllenSmith and family and from Brian Begun.Then she met Debbie Dodenhoff Purcell inPortland where Debbie, fiction editor for Red-book, was a guest speaker at a writer's con-ference. They were to travel together to Mon-tana, Yellowstone, Washington, British Co-lumbia, and back to Boulder, Colo. Betsy, fillus in on that trip as soon as you can!

Diane Veris Puls '76 sent a brief notefrom Texas where she and her husband havereturned after four years in the Chicago area.They have two sons, 3¥2 and 1, and Diane isfinding full-time motherhood wonderful andexhausting.

Thank you to all who sent news. The restof you, please write! D Jodi SielschottStechschulte, 1200 Brittany Lane, Columbus,Ohio 43220.

•i •• Greetings! Our news this monthm m is once again sparse—please do

m m write me or Mark Petracca asm m you hear of people, places, orU U events that might be of interest• to your classmates. Jeff andDiane Becker Lehman '79 are now set-tled with children Becky and Jacob in Ann Ar-bor, Mich., where Jeff teaches tax law at U. ofMichigan. Helen Avila Torino and hus-band Ken '75 have moved back to the Bur-lington, Vt, area after spending six months inConnecticut while Ken was on temporary as-signment at IBM's Westchester office. Helenis raising children Sean and Aaron, whileworking part time as a lawyer in Fairfax Coun-ty. Also practicing law is Margaret S. Dai-ley, who recently joined the Washington of-fice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Russell Elliot has been named seniorengineer/manager of MIL-370 applicationsengineering for IBM's Federal Systems Div.facility in Owego, NY, and David Perry hasjoined Nutter Engineering in Tulsa, Okla., as

manager of engineering. In New York City,Joellin Comerford, MBA '77, has beennamed a consulting partner with Arthur An-dersen & Co. In Reno, Nev., Carlton Greeris vice president of food and beverage at thePeppermill Hotel & Casino. The PeppermilΓsFrench continental restaurant was recentlyawarded the "Best of the Award of Excel-lence" by the Wine Spectator for its extensivewine list—an award which Carlton should bejustly proud of, since it signifies that its winelist, in the view of the Wine Spectator, is one ofthe top one hundred lists in the world. Finally,we learn that Richard S. Datz has been pro-moted to assistant vice president and commer-cial loan officer at Commonwealth NationalBank for the Cumberland Valley, Pa., region.

Apologies are due to Rebecca Smith-Mendelson, who, we reported in an earlier col-umn, is married to Ed Smith. In fact, Rebeccais married to Keith Mendelson; Ed Smith isher father. Sorry for the mix-up! _

Hope your winter isn't too frigid! DGilles Sion, 515 E. 79th St., Apt. 22E, NYC10021.

Believe it or not, Reunion is onlyfour months away: June 9-12!For over a year, the Reunionstaff has been working very hardto assure that our 10th is terrific.If you haven't already made

plans to do so, please consider coming back toIthaca that weekend. We're expecting about400 people—a great opportunity to see oldfriends and make some new ones. If you needadditional information, contact Mary Bow-ler Jones, 907-A Lovering Ave., Wilmington,Del. 19806; (302) 658-4379.

News from the Boston area: DebbieMessuri Wilson and husband Mark '79hosted a mini-reunion last spring which wasattended by quite a few '78ers. Pete andKathy Riedman Griswold came withdaughter Katie, 2, from Brandford, Conn.,where Kathy is with Southern ConnecticutBell. Laurie Paravati Phillips and hus-band Duane drove in from Rochester, NYwith son Gregory, 2¥2. Vanessa Tassoneand Mindy Cutcher dropped by, along withFrank Muehleman, who's now in his sec-ond year at Harvard business school. Su-zanne Bishop Romairi and husband Johnshowed up with twins Sarah and Jack, 4. Con-gratulations are in order for Suzie and John onthe birth of their third child, Jessica Barrett,on Nov. 20, 1987.

Speaking of new babies, Steve '77 andAnnie Fasano Capper became proud par-ents of Rosemary Lee, born Nov. 8, 1987.Gabrielle Kaufman Shanin wrote to saythat she and husband Don had first child Dan-iel James last July 12.

Polly Kreisman had a tough assign-ment last spring: two months in Australia cov-ering the America's Cup. Currently, Pollylives and works in Washington, DC, whereshe's with Westinghouse TV's Newsfeed Net-work, covering the Capitol for 70 TV stationscoast to coast. Patty Garr '79 reported onthe wedding bash of Jeff Hornung and brideCynthia McCulley, which took place in San Jo-se, Cal., over the Labor Day weekend. Almostlike a reunion in itself, other Cornellians pre-sent included: Tim Houck, Jeff Alchin,Curt Anderson, John Handlery, Katie

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Lankford Morgan, Frank Muehleman(Frank did a lot of traveling last year!) JimWeisenstein '77, Marty Dymek, andLinda Sallee '80. According to Patty, agreat time was had by all.

Patricia Reilly married William Goers(Texas A&M 78) on Oct. 12, 1986 and alsohad a large Cornell contingent in attendance:Melinda Dower, Rivki Beer, LindaBruckner, Athena Jamesspn, DebbieDownes, Dave Millman, Bill Huston,Saul Fishman, Hank Steinberg, SueShiebler MacDowell '79, and Bruce Bur-ger '80.

Lawyer briefs: Pam Poulin is an attor-ney in St. Petersburg, Fla., and bumps intoneighbor Andy Peters often. Andy is an an-esthesiologist at Largo Medical Center. Pammentioned that Lenore Diamond marriedStephan Robbins in May 1985. Pam andAnne Lincoff were bridesmaids. MarieLouise Hagan is a lawyer with the Wash-ington firm of Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills.Rich Berger is counsel at the McCroryCorp. in New York City. In W. Hartford,Conn., Valerie Selling is an attorney withWiggin and Dana. Valerie and husband MarkGerber have son Daniel Scott, born Jan. 26,1987. Daniel Lynn is the senior director ofmarketing for Mrs. Paul's Kitchens in Phila-delphia. He says he'd love to hear from the oldgang at ILR, even though he's not a lawyer!

That's it for now! I'll be back inMay. D Sharon Palatnik, 145 4th Ave.5N, NYC 10003; Roger Anderson, 1 StateSt. Plaza, NYC 10004; and Gary Smotrich,29 Highwood Dr., Louisville, Ky. 40206.

Happy New Year! Continued^rowt^ is apparent for our class-mates—both in families and car-eers. Lots of future Cornellians?Rick and Linda Merrill Elyhad their first child on Septem-

ber 28, Bridget Catherine; Don and PamRappleyea Vredenburgh had second son,Zachary, on September 4, and Pam is now onleave from her position as a psychiatric socialworker until April. Tim and Laura HittMcCann had their second daughter in May.Laura is working as a consultant three days aweek and often lunches with Andrea Holtzman Drucker, who is also a "three-day-a-week professional." Husband and father, Todis back at DuPont after a brief hiatus to finishhis MBA at Wharton. Lisa DeRenzo andhusband Mark Rosenblum became the par-ents of Carrie Ellen on October 5; Dr. Rhon-da Pearlstein-Fein gave birth to a sonCasey Ian on May 10; and Jim Schίllawskiand wife Beth are the proud parents of Mich-ael James, born October 6.

But wait! There's more! Linda Rust-Kuehn wrote to say that three of her fourroommates at Cornell have become parents,all within one month of each other: Abbey(Perr) and Tom Baher have a baby boy, Jos-eph Stanley, born Jan. 24, 1987; Linda andTom have Erika Rust born February 5; Sally(Evers) and Karel DeVries have baby girlElise-Margarita, born February 12. Nextmonth Linda will begin writing these class col-umns with me. Lisa Barsanti Hoyt is goingto share vice president duties with MaryMaxon Grainger. They've got lots plannedfor activities before Reunion '89!

Robert Kimball and Beth Linder-man have their second child, KatharineElaine, born in June. Katie (Lankford) '78and Steve Morgan are the proud parents ofStephanie Kathleen, born July 3. LindaGlaubitz Schymik and husband Bill an-nounced the arrival of Alison Marie on July 9.As if Alison weren't enough, Linda writes thatshe has started as a pathologist at Mercy Hos-pital in Charlotte, NC, passed her specialtyboards in anatomic and clinical pathology, andshe and husband Bill have bought their firsthouse!

Robert and Nancy Zisk have son Ben,who was born Nov. 1, 1986. Donna HallMiller and Dave '78 have a 10-month-oldson, Caleb. Chris and Kathy Conner have anew baby girl, Lauren Kelly, born August 6;Chris is still working for a Harrisburg, Pa.,law firm, specializing in civil litigation from adefense perspective. Peter and BarbaraWood Rackow are the proud parents of firstchild, Andrew Thomas, born September6—destined to be fourth generation Cor-nellian! Shari Watchman-Kates celebratedthree years of marriage with the birth of herfirst child, Alexander Justin, born May 30.Janet (Goldin) and Alan Rubin proudly an-nounced the birth of Daniel Seth on April 26.Michael Accardo and wife Jina had sonAdam Taiji arrive 22 days early, on May 20.By September, Adam was already visitingCornell when daddy Michael was represent-ing Metropolitan Life at a career fair. And Dr.Harris Lewin announced the birth of hisson, Adam Avery, born February 8. Harris isan assistant professor of immunogenetΐcs atU. of Illinois. In the past year, he presented in-vited papers at the XX meeting of the Intl. So-ciety for Animal Blood Group Research inHelsinki, Finland, and at the Intl. Laboratoryfor Research on Animal Diseases in Nairobi,Kenya.

That brings us up to date on our class'scontribution to the population (and the futuresupport of the Social Security system). Con-gratulations to everyone and lots of luck! Nextmonth we'll cover the career news we have inour files. D Elizabeth Rakov Igleheart,4811 Mill Creek Place, Dallas, Texas 75244;Mary Maxon Grainger, 12 Highgate Circle,Ithaca, NY 14850; Linda Rust-Kuehn, 4Williams Woods, Mahtomedi, Minn. 55115.

"Around the World with Debbieand Joey" was the name of amakeshift brochure I receivedfrom Chris Spear following theSept. 7, 1987, wedding of JoeyGreen and Debbie White. They

left on a year-long honeymoon around theworld. This month, they were slated to meetup with Debbie's parents in Nairobi, Kenya.Next month, they expect to take the TanZamexpress train through Zambia. And in Aprilthey plan to have moved on to Jerusalem for amonth of work on a Kibbutz. If you write byMarch 10, you can contact Joey by sendingmail c/o Halmac Travel, American Expressrepresentative, Wetherby House, 55 BakerAve., FOB 270, Harare, Zimbabwe. At thewedding ceremony were Karen Peltz Rein-stein '81, Adam Castro '82, my old Stew-art Ave. apartment-mate Mike Frawley,Jeremy Wolff, Miles Latham, BruceHandy, and Stephanie Laidman '82.

Chris, who attended also, said Joey and Deb-bie donned their safari clothing, hopped a cabto LaGuardia and flew to Caracas, Venezuela.

Every month I complain about the lack ofnews and this month I got socked with it fromnearly 90 classmates. Plenty to get methrough the typically cold, hard winter in Syr-acuse. Our class officers must be doing a goodjob hounding you guys for dues... most of thenews arrived on "second notices." That re-minds me, I still have to send my dues in!

Ellen Relkin wrote from 200 GrantAve., Jersey City, NJ, to say she and husbandAlan Rojer had a baby girl September 19:Rebecca Relkin Rojer. Ellen took a three-month maternity leave with Triple R but isstill working as a lawyer with Porzio, Brom-berg, Newman and Baumeister in Manhattanon such specialties as toxic torts, productliability, and environmental law. Alan is com-pleting his PhD in computer science at theCourant Institute of NYU. They said they arein frequent touch with Gil '78 and Lisa Co-hen Karson. Lisa is an associate at Webster& Sheffield in NYC, and Gil practices enter-tainment law. Also, Dr. Stuart Mendelsonwas a resident in neurology at Mount SinaiHospital.

Shauna Sullivan joined the law firm ofWillkie, Fair & Gallagher in NYC as an asso-ciate attorney. She received her law degreefrom Penn last year and her master's fromUC, Santa Barbara in 1982. Shauna lives inthe Bronx.

At the chapel of St. George's school inNewport, RI, Carol Hains Johnson wasmarried in September to Thomas A. Turpin. Carol received her MBA from Harvardand is an associate in corporate finance withthe First Boston Corn, in New York.

Back in Ithaca, Gary Wayne '78, B.SM&AE '80 was featured in a September arti-cle in the Ithaca Journal with fellow vice presi-dents and company partners Carl Bass '78,BA'83 and Garry Wiegand. The trio originallyincorporated Flying Moose Graphics Sys-tems, but are now known as Ithaca SoftwareInc. "It was difficult to get middle managersof large companies to write checks tosomething called Flying Moose," Gary wasquoted as saying. ISI was projecting $200,000worth of sales in its first year.

Kevin and Kathleen Koerner Calla-nan reported the birth of daughter CourtneyAlice on Feb. 26, 1987. That was the exactsame day my first, also a daughter, was born!Kevin, the precise engineer that he is,reported her weight as 3,536 grams. They areliving in Mumford, NY. Diana Dickason ofKilsyth Terrace, Brookline, Mass., said shefinished her master's in public and privatemanagement at Yale. She was last a businessmanager for mutual funds with WellingtonManagement Co., investment advisors, inBoston. Diana said she looked forward to asmall family reunion last September when herDad, Don Dickason '53 was inducted intothe Athletic Hall of Fame.

John Michael and Deborah Ros-baugh Delaney are living at 505 S. 10th St.,Emmaus, Pa., with their three children. Johnis a senior cost engineer with Air Products &Chemicals, having completed his master's atLehigh in 1986. Deborah was working on ateacher's certificate at Kutztown U. to teachhigh school social studies.


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Pam Hartnett Kirby is selling man-sions on Chicago's North Shore suburbs andliving at 515 Elmwood Ave., Wilmette, 111.She and husband Bill have two children, 3and 2. The Kirbys reported that Allen Mur-phy was on a one-year trip around the worldand was last heard from in Tibet. O JonGibbs Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd., Syracuse,NY 13207; also, Steve Rotterdam, 1755York Ave., NYC 10128; and Jill AbramsKlein, 12208 Devilwood Dr., Potomac, Md.20854.

Λ The Class of 1981 has been hon-ored with a special accolade

I known only in the annals of Cor-|l nelliana. No, a U-Hall has not

\ been named after us. No, a roomhas not been dedicated in our hon-

or. Nor has a bench or even a library bookbeen inscribed with our class's name. Thehonor: A laudatory editorial in the Cornell Dai-ly Sun, written by the whippersnappers of theClass of '88. But first, a little nostalgia.

Remember the West Campus Riots ofNov. 6-7 and 14-15, 1977? Late on the night ofNovember 6, hundreds of freshmen class-mates marched around West Campus and"went berserk," in the words of a couple ofcub Sun reporters. "Some who remained inthe U-Halls tossed fruit, waterballoons, buck-ets of water, and rolls of toilet paper," theywrote. "Two males streaked across the Dust-bowl." A week later, hundreds of studentsagain congregated on West Campus late in thenight and marched around campus— and intoDay Hall— shouting, "We will stay and freezeour asses, until Frank Rhodes cancelsclasses" (Sun, Nov. 15, 1977).

Our efforts to amend the academic calen-dar to lengthen Thanksgiving break have notbeen forgotten. In an editorial this pastNovember, entitled, "Birth of a Break," theSun recalled our class's actions, and wrotethat while administrators "refused to budge,. . . Nov. 14, 1977 still deserves to beremembered and revered, because it broughtabout an entirely new vacation— Fall Break."

You read it here first.Now back to the present. Marie C.

Vayo, an elementary science teacher, is tak-ing a sabbatical to embark on a solo triparound the world and do research on elemen-tary science. Donald C. O'Connor, assis-tant vice president of corporate finance forUBS Securities is in NYC after a year at theLondon office.

Ann Laase Bailey is consumer healthcare manager for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals inNebraska, and her husband, Wilbur S. Bai-ley IV, is a professor of marketing and adver-tising at Doane College. The couple hasdaughter Jasmine Jamie, 6. Laura F.Woods teaches biology and physical scienceat Broughton High School near Raleigh, NC.She received an MAT in science education atUNC, Chapel Hill last sumer. Carol J. Roerden prepares materials for . undergraduatemicrobiology, anatomy, and physiologyclasses as a lab assistant at Nassau Communi-ty College, and is working on her master's inmicrobiology at C. W. Post.

Renee Miller-Mizia and her husbandJohn are the proud parents of Alyse ColetteMizia, born Oct. 20, 1987. Renee works as amarket development manager for General

Electric. The couple, married for five years,lives in Lenox, Mass., in the Berkshires. Mi-chael F. Forward sends news of two wed-dings. He married Donna Wheatley on Aug.23, 1986, with A. L. Baner III as best manand William A. Lukaczyk and Gabriel L.Diaz-Saavedra in attendance. William mar-ried Laura Sedlar in May 1987 in Milwaukee,and the couple lives in Virginia. Michael alsowrites that Larry Baner received his MS infood packaging from Michigan State, began aPhD program in engineering there, and is atthe University of Munich for a year as an ex-change student.

Martha Obler Kohn has been pro-moted to director of human resources in thePrinceton, NJ, office of A.D.P., while husbandJeffrey is in his third year practicing laborlaw with O'Melveny & Myers in NYC. Jeff al-so teaches at New York Law School. Also inNYC are Diane J. Wishengrad Wilsonand husband Robert S. '82. Diane is direc-tor of incentive sales for Hilton Hotels, whileRobert is a senior consultant for Deloitte, Has-kins& Sells.

E. F. Hutton is the workplace for Mi-chael Strauss, who works as a vice presi-dent in government trading and sales. Mi-chael's wife Debra (Wilson) '83,graduated from Yale law school and clerks forthe chief judge of the US District Court inManhattan.

Last but not least, Damon W. Chu,''tired of the corporate rat race," is pursuing acareer as a gardener and landscape consul-tant. Keep those cards and letters coming!D Jon Landsman, 811 Ascan St., N. ValleyStream, NY 11580; also, Jim Hahn, 3501Fillmore St., Apt. 102, San Francisco, Cal.94123; and Robin Rosenberg, 211 W. 88thSt., Apt. 1A, NYC 10024.

Thanks for all of your letters! It'sbeen great catching up with somany of you. I'm writing this col-umn in November so if you don'tsee your news for a while, it's be-cause there is such a time lag. . .

Exciting news—Steve and Lisa MummeryCrump had a baby girl, Lindsey Caitlin, onSeptember 16. They bought a home in Graf-ton, Mass., with Andy Bjork and his wife Car-olyn (who happens to be Steve's sister). Steveworks for Genetics Institute in Cambridge,and Lisa has her own veterinary practice.(Nice plug for old roommates.) DeborahWeisbard Tiedrich and her husband Allanare proud parents of Allison Leigh, born June15, 1987. They live in Edison, NJ. Kirk andMaureen Gallagher Boothroyd announcedthe arrival of a potential engineer for the Classof 2009, Thomas, born October 19. He joinssister Kathryn, 4. Mark A., PhD '87 andJoanne Israel Thomson are parents ofJustin Mark Robert born November 1985. Jo-anne writes that she is an indentured servant,i.e., household administrator, while Mark is aresearch scientist at Avon Products. They areliving in Oradell, NJ, and would love to hearfrom other Cornellians in the area. Chris '81and Barbara Humm Kenny are both stu-dying at U. of Texas in Austin. Son PatrickWilliam was born in November 1985. Barbaraand Chris are wondering where Ed Bleich is.

Bill Card writes from Cambridge,Mass., after being in Pittsburgh for a year. He

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says he's not married yet, and as for babies,"first things first." Speaking of weddings ...Mike Marrero married his Cornell sweet-heart, Cathy Caliguire '84, on May 25 andnow resides in Chicago where he is a radiologyresident at Illinois Medical Center. Cathyworks as a fashion designer for "Uniforms toYou." Cornellians in their wedding party in-cluded Rich Castillo, Andrew Greene,Tim Heald, and Gina Marrero '89; alsoon hand, Katie Hartneff and Jim Carr.

Mike Weinblatt writes that DanDwyer married Debbie Robertson, MS'85 in September. Cornellians in attendanceincluded Joanne Chu, Lisa Lexa, GailBelonsky, and Jan Perry. Dan and Debbiehave settled in Ithaca. Bruce Barlow andKathy Thorne '84 were married in Au-gust. Cornellians in attendance includedJohn '74 and Eva Hailparn Barlow '75,Pat ConneU '84, Sal Sassano, Mike Gu-tierrez, Michael and Suzanne TownsendCucurullo '83, Mark Bentlage, RossKeesler '79, Blake and Christina Sellers,Jamie and Joelle Frahn Zimmerman,Mike Mankowich '83, Sue Fiero '84,Maria Mainelli '84, David Grayson'84, and Debbie Kottick '84. Bruce andKathy reside in Falls Church, Va.

And for all single people who have news,too, David Weis is an account executive atDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in Boston. Hemade the change to DLJ over a year ago.Peter Mayers is a money market trader atBank Julius Baer & Co. in New York City do-ing repurchase agreements and asset/liabilitymanagement (thanks for the Wall Streetlingo). Amy Cohen is working as a staff at-torney at the criminal appeals bureau of theLegal Aid Society in NYC doing criminal ap-peals for the indigent.

Pete Sanborn writes that Geoff Mor-ris has been spreading false rumors . . .enough said. D Nina M. Kondo, 274 W.71st St., NYC 10023; and Nancy K. Rudgers(Boyle), 20 Bryon Ave., Ridgefield, Conn.06877.

Another new year is uponus—1989 and our 5th Reunionare only a year away! Before themonthly update on " weddingbells," I want to clear my file of

I some previously received newsitems. Earlene Clarisse McMichael at-tends Columbia Graduate School of Jour-nalism; Linda Kane is at Purdue in the vet-erinary program and describes living in In-diana as a 'real culture shock' when comparedto New York and her Brooklyn home; JackG. Gallagher lives in Raleigh, NC, and ex-pects to be a member of North Carolina Stateveterinary school's class of 1990. Jack prefersRaleigh's weather over Ithaca's (surprise?).Betsy Loytty also lives in Raleigh andworks as project manager for Carolina Ser-vices, a hotel development company. AdeleTurzillo left Boston in 1986 to return to theHill and attend grad school and work in thephysiology department; and Randy Browngraduated from Cornell in June 1986 withBS/MEng/MBA degrees from the six-yearprogram and began work in investment trad-ing at Salomon Brothers in New York City.

After serving as a chapter consultant forDelta Tau Delta fraternity for one year, Dun-

can G. Perry returned to Cornell in the fall of1986 to attend business school. Bob Plun-kett joined Duncan in MBA classes after liv-ing in the Boston area near Dan Huck andSteve and Pam Schoman Colwell.Robert Geise finished an MBA in financefrom U. of Wisconsin, Madison, in May 1986and is employed at Peterson and Co., a con-sulting firm in Chicago.

Other classmates in the fabulous_ WindyCity include: Lori J. Allen, sales managerfor the Chicago national sales office of theFour Seasons Hotels; David Sangree, assis-tant manager at the Westin Hotel in down-town Chicago; Virginia A. Greene, em-ployed by the architect Helmut Jahn; AricLasher, architect at Hammond, Beeby &Babka; and Raul Sobrero '82 and MelissaWeese both work at S.O.M. in Chicago.

ϊn September 1 received a newsy letterfrom John Sanders. He lived in Washing-ton, DC, after graduation working for aFlorida senator and then as a staff member fora Pennsylvania congressman. After federalbudget cuts in 1986, John returned to Boston,his hometown, to work in Tuft U.'s capitaldevelopment office and expand his fundrais-ing experiences. To pursue his politicalaspirations, John started graduate school thispast fall in the two-year MA public policy pro-gram at U. of Chicago. He intends to concen-trate in international political economy as thenext step toward a profession in internationalaffairs. His new address is: 5050 S. LakeShore Dr., #2912-S, Chicago. John has chal-lenged me with a question I can't answer, soI'll look to you for the response. Why do sofew of the classmates John knows ever sendanything in for our class column?

It sounds like David Kim hosted a wildparty! The "Fourth Annual Cape Cod Gastro-nomic Vacation Extravaganza" and anythίng-but-lazy week of biking, beaching, and cook-ing was enjoyed by Paul Bauer, BevGuiry, Rana Kayal, John Sanders, AmyBrooks, and Andy Woo prior to Dave's re-turn to Penn medical school.

Be sure to update us with your latestnews! D Marie Rieflin, 231 Barrington St.,Rochester, NY 14507-2903; and Terri Port,32 Bartemus Trail, Nashua, NH 03063.

Hello, again! This month's col-umn begins with a return to thatwidely-hailed series, Classmateof tne Month. February's hon-oree is ... drumroll please . . .Debra Neyman. Debra, in ad-

dition to serving as acting class president dur-ing Jon Teplitz's London stint for MorganStanley, recently served as national chairper-son of Spirit of Zinck's Night. Many of you nodoubt fondly recall Zinck's from your carous-ing senior days. National Zinck's is like all ofthat senior hoopla compressed into a singleevening of nostalgia and decadence at hotspots all across the country. Under Debra'sleadership, this year's National Zinck's brokeall former attendance and participation re-cords with reunion and revelry in 42 citiesacross the US! Congratulations, Deb, andthanks for doing our class proud!

Speaking of Zinck's, Susan Goldsteinwrites that their imbibing fiesta in Hartford,Conn., was a roaring success. Susan, secre-tary/treasurer of the Cornell Club of Greater

Hartford," says that she spied classmatesDave Biederman, Glenda Dings, Ste-phen Jones, Brian Mangines, and An-drew Zepp tossing back a few.

I also got a letter from David Scharf, in-forming me that he, Dave Schechner, RobBougelot, and David Stark are all "tryingto keep (their) heads above water" at HarvardBusiness School. Other classmates similarlybraving the rigors of B-school and the traumasof a psychotic stock market are BarryGreenblatt and Alicia Ready at the Kel-logg Graduate School of Management (North-western), Margaret Smith and KaraKerker at Cornell, Wendy Silverman atColumbia, Scott McGregor at U. of Chica-go, and Erika Riebel at Baruch College.Meanwhile, Deborah Grossman, in a nov-el twist on the B-school idea, is studying busi-ness and economics at Japan's University ofNagoya under a Japanese government Mon-busho scholarship. Congrats, Deborah!

Two classmates already through the busi-ness school ordeal are Ann Nazareth andSusan Gellert. Ann graduated from Penn'sWharton School of Business and now worksfor Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Susan got herMBA from our dear old Cornell and is now atLehn and Fink, a division of Sterling Drug, inNew York City.

Laura Mikalchus bypassed the formalbusiness education route in favor of an entre-preneurial effort. Laura founded One-StopBusiness Services, a business for "wordpro-cessing, graphic design, printing coordina-tion, and mailing services" in Litchfield,Conn. One-Stop isn't the only new venturethat's got Laura's attention, though; this pastSeptember she and Brian Stroehlen '84became newlyweds!

Lest you get the idea that everyone in ourclass is hotly in pursuit of The Big Bucks, letme assure you that we do have a few class-mates who have foresaken the world of highfinance for the pleasures of The Arts. For ex-ample, I recently ran into Ed Dugger, in hissecond year at Columbia's School of Film. Edstudied filmmaking at Cornell under the tute'lage of Prof. Marilyn Rivkin and his work wasexhibited at IFMAC shows at Cornell. Ed saysthat now he aspires to write, produce, and di-rect full length feature films. Move over Ste-ven Spielberg. Ed is also in the good companyof Nicolas Nicastro, former Cornell DailySun film critic and now a film student at NYU,and Jill Graham, who cryptically writes thatshe is "living in NYC and working in the filmindustry."

Going from the Silver Screen to the BigStage, kudos are in order for classmate Rich-ard Ortega, one of eight students selectedfrom over 100 applicants to U. of San Die-go/Old Olobe Theater's master's of fine artsprogram. Richard received a full tuition fel-lowship to this two year program in acting anddramatic literature!

Moving from the fine arts to the art of hos-pitality, Brian Hale writes that he managesthe Chicago Ritz-Carlton's GreenhouseLounge and Bar. Classmates in the Windy Ci-ty should drop by The Greenhouse to thawover Brian's wondrous potables.

From balmier climates, fellow hoteliePhil Borkowski sent word of his recent pro-motion to food and beverage manager at theDC Marriott's "Three Hummer Eve" restau-


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rant, while hotelie Bonnie Reuben notesthat she was just promoted to regional directorof public relations for Inter-Continental Hotelsin Houston and San Antonio, Texas. Bravo,Phil and Bonnie!

On a final hotelie note, I recently ran intohigh school and Cornell classmate AmandaAiken, who told me that she was finishing arun as an instructor at the Culinary Institute ofAmerica and was now trying to make thetough choice between grad school in Switzer-land and the assistant managership of Dallas'stop five star hotel. It just goes to show you thatour classmate hotelies are still roughing it outthere.

Well, that about does it for this month.Until next month, stay warm and happy ski-ing! D Risa Mish, 208 S. Baker, W. Cam-pus, Cornell, Ithaca, NY 14853-5104.

Hope the holidays rang in noth-ing but good cheer and promis-ing new year's resolutions forthe Class of '86! The '86 Big Redspirit is making its way into thenational athletic scene. Stuart

Mitchell, who played varsity football, re-cently began his career as a pro quarterbackfor the Denver Dynamite, an arena footballteam. Another Big Red football star, JohnTagliaferri, had a brush with greatnessplaying for the Miami Dolphins for threeweeks during the National Football Leaguestrike. Prior to that, he played for a year withan Italian pro football team. And Olympic fansbe sure to watch up close and personal forTerry Kent, who will be attempting to earna spot on the '88 Olympic kayaking team. Youmay remember that Terry, who is currentlyenrolled in graduate school at Stanford, racedto a fourth place finish in his event at the 1984Olympics.

Our classmates are going to the chapel ata steady pace. This summer I was the maid ofhonor for Kelly Greig as she married JohnTen Hagen, a Sigma Nu alum. The late-summer day in Niagara Falls was perfect forthe hoards of Cornellians who attended. Su-san Merritt was a bridesmaid. BobbyJacobson, who is in the management train-ing program at Chase Manhattan in New YorkCity; Dave Bell '85, MME '86; and VanHarissis, MBA '86 (John's new brother-in-law) were among the ushers. John's brotherPeter Ten Hagen '88, was best man. Johncomes from a long line of Cornellians, in-cluding his dad, John Dirck Ten Hagen'49 and his uncle Henry Ten Hagen '50.Other Cornellians at the wedding include:Laurie Rosseau, Lorrie Cummings,Craig Beving '85, Marnie Kula, PeterGlassey, Pat Leonhardt, Rich Snyder,Bill and Debbie Spampinato Wickham'85, Darrell Foster, Shail Mangla, EricPowers, Jay Goldstein, MarkVanacore '84, and Lincoln Belford. Thegroom is a personal banking officer at Wells-Fargo in Palo Alto, Cal., and the bride is work-ing on her PhD in molecular biology at Stan-ford.

Lisa Gannon married Lou Bering'82 in NYC last fall. Among the guests wereclass treasurer Amy Weissman, KyleBrandon, Steve Levine, Steve Turner,Warren Goldblatt, Matt Tobin, andDave Nagar.

Melinda Jeanne Maggiore marriedLawrence Herzog recently. Melinda is work-ing as a wildlife technician at NY State Dept.of Environmental Conservation. They are liv-ing in East Kingston, NY. Donna Snyderand Steven Strub tied the knot and are liv-ing in Clifton Springs, NY. Donna is workingat U. of Rochester and Steve is a herdsman onStrub Farms.

Philip McCarthy recently transferredto Duke law school after "opting out" ofWashington & Lee law school where he wasinvited to join the Law Review. He spent lastsummer as a clerk for a judge in New Jersey.

Mark Stolke is working for Connie'sPizza—a rising Midwest chain, he says—withfellow Cornellians Ivan Matsunaga andCraig Alberstat. They also live with DeltaUpsilon alum John Conti and frequently seeRobin Arnheim, Laurie Miller, and BobBorroff.

Arun Bedi began a new job with Spicer& Oppenheim, a worldwide management con-sulting team in Asia and Europe. He'll bebased in London, but plans to escape to HongKong at every opportunity. He plans to beback at Cornell in the fall for a second year atthe B-school. Cornellians in Hong Kong are in-vited to contact him at Apt. 7A, 31 Tai TarnRd., Hong Kong.

In parting, I want to apologize to class-mates who write with news of engagements.The official policy is not to print engagements,just in case the situation changes, I suppose.But I like to hear the news anyway! As for me,I'm f inal ly settled—I think. Pleasewrite! D Karen Dillon, 226 Court St.,Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Is it possible? Could I have cho-sen a graduate school where theweather is as dismal as Ithaca's?(But wait, Rich, aren't meteorol-ogists supposed to like snow,sleet, and rain?) In truth, the

skies over State College, Pa.—home of PennState—are one shade of gray lighter than theskies over Ithaca. But, enough talk about theweather.

I have oodles (the unit of measurement fornews) of information to share. A big thank youto everyone who has sent news—keep it com-ing! Rest assured that your news will make thecolumns as soon as possible. Debbie Stein,who is working for Security Capital Corp., areal estate investment firm in New York City,informed me of the whereabouts of many ofour classmates. Andi Dobin, Gayle Siegel,Allison Greenhut, Sharon Pohoryles,and Padmavati Ghanta are at Penn law. AtAmerican University law school, one may findLisa Bresky, Bonnie Deutsch, and An-drea Rothman. Finally, Jeff Schwartz,Bryna Beckler, Elana Jacobson, BrettNussbaum, and Annmarie McHugh arehitting the books at Hofstra. From law schoolto life insurance . . . Amy Comstock isworking for Equitable Life Ins. and DebbieGarkawe is working for NY Life Ins. andAnnuity Corp.

Freshman year roommates Randi Fuhrand Kim Diamond are attending Columbia.Randi is in the College of Physicians and Sur-geons and Kim is working on her MBA. Alsoat Columbia are Jay Sabin, Maya Crone,and Terry Sanabria. Jay is in law school,

Cornell ClassifiedRentals

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For SaleFOR SALE-Cornell Wedgwood plates, cups,saucers, etc. Write 64 Springwood Lane, EastHampton, NY 11937. Call: (212) 689-3991.

SOMETHINGTO SELL?Classified advertisements are an ef-fective way to sell. With rates aslow as 90Φ per word for insertion in5 issues, $1.00 for 3 issues, or$1.10 per word in a single issue,classifieds are also economical.

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and Maya and Terry are working on theirmaster's degrees in public affairs. Terrywrites, "Although Maya and I did not knoweach other at Cornell, the knowledge that weboth went there brought us together. It almostseems as though the 'Cornell experience' istranscendental—we went from completestrangers to very close classmates."

Lest you think that Cornellians don't ven-ture west of New York, four are continuingtheir education at U. of Wisconsin, Madison:Richard Bojko, Julie Ericson, Eliza-beth Troutt, and Pat Wong. Richard isstudying material sciences, and Julie is in medschool. Elizabeth, in natural resource econom-ics, writes that she and Pat, who were fresh-man roommates, are now housemates in Mad-ison. Pat is studying chemistry. A few hourssouth, in Chicago, John Mitchell and PaulWeinberg are keeping busy. John is study-ing chemistry at the U, of Chicago, and Paul isattending Northwestern's school of journal-ism.

Westward we travel into the great state ofCalifornia. At Stanford, Rosann Tung isconducting research in molecular biology. Abig congratulations goes out to Amy Marks,one of your devoted class correspondents,who is now circulation assistant at PCWCommunications Inc. (publisher of PC World,Mac World, and Publish! magazines). KimBaenisch writes that she is employed at alandscape architecture firm in Sausalito andenjoys biking across the Golden Gate Bridgeand taking advantage of the many festivalsand exhibits in the San Francisco area. Ac-cording to Kim, Glen Dake lives in San Di-ego and is also working for a landscape archi-tecture firm.

In the Los Angeles area, David Jaffe isbartending and Mike Elliott works in theCBS Management Associates Program. Mikereports that he "mingles with the stars at Tel-evision City in Hollywood." Mike, it's nice toknow that someone out there is having a roughtime of it!

Jennifer Chan is an MBA student atBerkeley and reports that Caroline Fried-man and Dan Rudd have also moved out toCalifornia. All three are loving it and visitorsare welcome any time.

Heading back East, we find Irene Hege-man, Doug Rutzen, Peter Hickmott,and Ed Blumenthal at Yale. Irene is a medschool student, Peter and Ed are in neurosci-ence, and Doug is studying law.

Now it's time for our Cross Country Gour-met tour. Thomas Yermack is managingHoulihan's Old Place in Hackensack, NJ, andbeckons all hotelies to stop by and say hello.Jill Thatcher, who majored in English, isnow managing the Broker Restaurant on Cap-itol Hill.

Finally, the diversity (pronounced with aFrank Rhodes accent) award goes to SheilaGreen, who is a zookeeper at the Greenville,SC, zoo. Congrats, Sheila, and remember—it'sa jungle out there.

Thanks again for keeping us on our toes.To everyone that can see a pile of dirty snowwithin 100 feet, take heart because spring iscoming! D Rich Friedman, 1501C NittanyApts., 600 E. Pollock Rd., State College, Pa.16801; Amy Marks, 30 Corwin St. Apt. 11,San Francisco, Cal. 94114; Stacey Pineo,45 Mt. Sumner Dr., Bolton, Conn. 06043.

A L U M N I D E A T H S

'07, CE '08—George R. Ogier of St.Petersburg, Fla., formerly of Denver, Colo.,Nov. 10,1979; retired executive, Denver Sew-er Pipe and Clay Co. Kappa Sigma.

Ό9 BS Ag—Kenneth C. Livermore ofHoneoye Falls, NY, Sept. 20,1987; was own-er and manager, Quaker Hill Farm (seeds andchemicals); formerly taught farm manage-ment in the Ag College. Alpha Zeta. (See alsopage 9, November 1987 issue.)

'09 PhD—Orin Tugman of Orlando, Fla.,June 1987.

' 10 ME—Frank R. Gates of Westerly, RI,formerly of W. Stockbridge, Mass., S. Salem,NY, Bucks, England, and Los Angeles, Cal.,Sept. 23, 1987; retired executive engineer,American Sugar Refining Co., New York City;former vice president, Technicolor Corp., inits early years in the United States and Eng-land; active in alumni affairs. Phi Kappa Sig-ma.

'10-11 Grad—Benjamin H. Thurmanof Orange, Va., formerly of Cheraw, SC, Sept.28,1987; former consultant and chemical en-gineer.

'11 CE—Robert W. Gastmeyer of W.Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa.,Oct. 17,1984; was for many years the manag-er, general sales, floor and deck department,H. H. Robertson Co., Pittsburgh.

'12 BA, MA '13—Joseph C. Buttery ofBridgewater, NJ, 1985; retired assistant sec-retary, Guaranty Trust Co. of NY.

'12-13 Grad—Frank Dickinson of Auro-ra, Colo., formerly of Denver, December1969; retired professor of philosophy and de-partment head, U. of Denver, where he hadtaught for many years.

'12—John F. Lynn of Wilmington, Del.,Feb. 24, 1975.

'13-14 SpAg—Jesse H. Clark Jr. ofClearwater, Fla., May 1982; farmer.

'13-15 Grad—A. Morley Darby of Pen-sacola, Fla., Mar. 20,1963.

'13-14 Grad—Myron S. Morton of Al-mond, NY, 1952.

'14 BS Ag—J. Sellman Woollen of Hol-lywood, Md., formerly of Ithaca, NY, Sept.23, 1987; retired employee of Mann Library,who for 30 years was active in community andcivic affairs in Ithaca; had farmed in Marylandbefore moving back to Ithaca in 1952.

'15—Edward L. Semple of Miami, Fla.,February 1967; former lawyer and city attor-ney, Coral Gables. Kappa Sigma.

'15 ME—John C. Smaltz of Palm Beach,Fla., formerly of New York City, June 17,1987; retired engineer; was vice president,McKierman Terry Corp. Delta Phi.

'16 BA—Helen Taber Hood (Mrs. ArthurS.) of Amherst, NY, formerly of Buffalo, NY,

July 30,1987; former teacher of Latin in Dans-ville and Buffalo high schools. Delta Gamma.

'16 ME—Ira J. Stone of ClearwaterBeach, Fla., formerly of New York City, June17,1987.

' 16 BA—Marjorie A. Sweeting of Brook-lyn, NY, Aug. 6, 1987; retired director of thescience department, Packer Collegiate Inst,where she taught for over 40 years and wasactive in the life of the school.

'17—Morell G. Barnes of Visalia, Cal.,May 24,1987. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'17 ME—William C. Bellis of Summit,NJ, Sept. 17, 1987; former sales representa-tive, W. C. Bellis Equipment Co.

'17, CE '18—Carl A. Maxeiner ofOneida, NY, formerly of DeWitt, tfY, July 9,1987; was a civil engineer with O'Brien &Gere, following his retirement after 40 yearswith New York Central Railroad.

'18, WA '21—Lester H. Fackiner ofMillington, NJ, Feb. 7,1987; was a construc-tion engineer, associated with Franklin Con-tracting Co., Newark, NJ, for many years.

'18 ME—Edwin L. Paris of New Fairfield,Conn., Dec. 25,1982.

'18 BS Ag, MD '21—Lewis J. Silvers(Louis Silverstein) of Ardmore, Pa., for-merly of New York City, Jan. 15,1987; retiredphysician.

'19—T. Caffey Robertson of Memphis,Tenn., 1979; was president, Caffey RobinsonSmith Inc. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'19 BChem—Andrews C. Wintring-ham of Stanfordville, NY, Feb. 2, 1987; for-mer chief chemist, Calco Chemical division,American Cyanamid Co., Bound Brook, NJ.Sigma Pi.

'20, BS Ag '21—John B. Bennett ofNewton, Kans., formerly of Washington, DC,May 1987; was associated with the Depart-ment of the Interior.

'20, CE '21—Allerton Eddy of Canaan,Conn., May 1,1987; engineer, former manag-er, North Canaan Water Co. Zodiac.

'20—Carroll D. Fearon of PompanoBeach, Fla., formerly of Scarsdale, NY, Aug.18,1987; former personnel director, Frank G.Shattuch Co. ("Schraffts"), New York City,where he had worked for over 30 years. ThetaDelta Chi.

'20, CE '21—Maurice E. Gillett of Niag-ara Falls, NY, March 6, 1987; former presi-dent and secretary, Snyder and Gillett RealtyCo., Niagara Falls. Alpha Tau Omega.

'20—George B. Healey of Cedar Rapids,Iowa, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, May 15,1987.

'21-22 Grad—Staton T. Allison of Es-sex, Conn., June 13, 1985; former chief of


medical service, US Veterans' Hospital, Rut-land Heights, Mass.

'21, CE '22—William M. Cooper ofOrange, NJ, July 9,1987; retired engineeringsupervisor, Western Electric Co. Inc., NewYork City. Sigma Chi.

'21 BA—Louise Tarbell Hospital (Mrs.Ralph) of Ithaca, NY, Sept. 11, 1987; was as-sociated with the architectural firm of Bryantand Fleming, Ithaca; former teacher, Rippo-wan School, Bedford; she was the widow ofBrig. Gen. Ralph Hospital, who served threetours of duty on the ROTC staff at Cornell andwas commanding officer from 1946 until heretired in 1951. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'21—Frank Stave of Verona, NJ, formerlyof Patterson, September 1987; former stockbroker.

'21 MD—Hyla S. Waiters of TupperLake, NY, Aug. 3, 1987; physician, TupperLake; former Methodist missionary surgeon,in Liberia, W. Africa, 1950-61; in China1924-48.

'22, EE '23—J. Antonio Artigas-Es-candon of Mexico City, Mexico, June 1987;former manager, Elevadoras de Mexico.

'22 BA, MA '23, '25-26 Grad—Wil-liam T. Emery of Johnson City, Tenn.,Sept. 13, 1987; retired professor of German,Franklin and Marshall College, where hetaught for 20 years; formerly taught Germanat Phillips Andover Academy.

'22 BA—Mildred Eaton Perry of NewYork City, June 26, 1987.

'23-25 Grad—Fred L. Anderson of Ak-ron, Ohio, March 26, 1984.

'23—Charles W. Dean of Rocky River,Ohio, Aug. 24,1987; former district manager,Crocker-Wheeler Electric Manufacturing Co.Alpha Tau Omega.

'23 BS Ag—Herman P. Everts of Atlan-tic Beach, Fla., May 1987. Alpha Zeta.

'23 BA, PhD '37—Wilbur E. Oilman ofFlushing, NY, Sept. 22,1987; professor emer-itus of English, Queens College, Flushing; ac-tive in professional affairs.

'23 PhD—Benjamin C. Holtzclaw Jr. ofRichmond, Va., Nov. 26,1986; former profes-sor of philosophy and dean of graduate school,U. of Richmond; formerly taught at Mercer,New York, and Cornell universities.

'23—George Reynolds Jr. of Alexandria,Va., Sept. 6, 1987; retired chief of propertymanagement, Veterans Administration,Washington, DC, where he had worked formore than 20 years.

'23 BS Ag—George A. WilkW ofRochester, NY, Aug. 28, 1987; formerlyassociated with Eastman Kodak Co.,Rochester. Seal & Serpent.

'24-25 SpLaw—Laurence C. Allen of

Sanford, Me., June 10,1987; former attorney.

'24 Grad—Lindsey O. Armstrong ofRaleigh, NC, Sept. 20,1987; retired professorof education, North Carolina State U.

'24—Claudia Palmer Carley (Mrs. Ray-mond W.) of Hialeah, Fla., June 1, 1978.

'24, MD '30—Benjamn V. di lorio ofUtica, NY, Aug. 13, 1986; physician and sur-geon; former anesthetist, Faxton Hospital,Utica; active in professional affairs. Phi Kap-pa Psi.

'24 Grad—Laura E. Lanier of W. PalmBeach, Fla., Sept. 27, 1982.

'24 Grad—Frieda Ash McConnell (Mrs.Ernest) of St. Petersburg, Fla., June 17,1971.

'24 BA—Mildred Robinson Thomas(Mrs. Jay C.) of Glenwood, 111., formerly ofHarvey, 111., Aug. 14, 1987.

'24—Margaret Schlecht of Buffalo, NY,Feb. 28, 1984.

'24 BS Ag, LLB '28—Robert H. Wendtof W. Henrietta, NY, May 3, 1987; self-em-ployed attorney and farmer. Alpha GammaRho.

'25—Michael M. Coon of Guilderland,NY, formerly of Merrick, Feb. 16, 1987; at-torney; active in alumni affairs.

'25 MA—Ruth St. John Cutler (Mrs. Nor-man L.) of Landenburg, Pa., May 11, 1983;former teacher. Husband, Norman L. Cutler,MS '26.

'25, BArch '26—J. Cabell Johnson ofMilwaukee, Wise., Aug. 5, 1987; former sec-retary-treasurer, Nunn-Bush Shoe Co., wherehe had worked for more than 20 years. DeltaTau Delta.

'25 BA, LLB '27—Samuel Mezan (Me-zansky) of Stamford, Conn., July 30, 1987;was a partner in the law firm of Berg, Mezanand Dorf, New York City, who specialized inlabor law and antitrust cases.

'25, CE '26—George S. Rawlins of Char-lotte, NC, Sept. 16, 1987; worked for J. N.Pease Associates since 1940 as executive vicepresident, president, and vice chairman of theboard of directors; active in professional af-fairs.

'25 ME—Lewis Turner (Trounstine) ofNew York City, Sept. 1, 1987; former presi-dent, National Board of Review of Motion Pic-tures; long active in civic and community af-fairs.

'25 EE—Alexander Whitney of Balti-more, Md., July 4, 1987; retired engineer,formerly associated with Westinghouse Elec-tric & Mfg. Co., Baltimore.

'25—Reginald F. Winans of Wilmington,Del., Dec. 1, 1984; formerly associated withE. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., as an elec-trical engineer. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'26-27 Grad—Andrew N. Anderson ofRockville, Md., Jan. 17, 1946.

'26 BA, PhD '32—Robert F. Brand ofStatesboro, Ga., July 23, 1986; professoremeritus of foreign languages, The Citadel,Charleston, SC, where he taught for 22 years;also professor and chairman of foreign lan-guage dept, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Ga.

'26—Robert N. Chamberlin of Rich-mond, Va., May 9,1987. Sigma Pi.

'26 ME—G. Douglas Cluscas of Teques-ta, Fla., formerly of Buffalo, NY, Aug. 15,1987; retired owner, Cluscas Plumbing Corp.,Buffalo, which he had operated for 50 years.

'26—Beryl Emery Everts (Mrs. HermanP.) of Atlantic Beach, Fla., October 1986.

'26 BA—Townsend B. Hood of Alamo-gordo, NM, June 2,1987; was associated withRuidoso State Bank, Ruidoso, NM; formerpartner, Russell, Bacon and Hood PetroleumCo., Roswell, NM. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'26 BS Ag—Marden R. Nystrom of Riv-er Edge, NJ, April 13, 1986.

'26 EE—John E. Shultz of Dundee, NY,formerly of Jamaica, NY, Sept. 5, 1987.

'27 BA, PhD '37—Donald C. Bryant ofIowa City, Iowa, April 28, 1987; former pro-fessor of English and speech, Washington U.,St. Louis, Mo.

'27 BArch—Edward P. Lockart III ofToledo, Ohio, July 3, 1987; retired vice presi-dent, Kimball Glass Division of Owens-Illi-nois, and designer of its glass block; active incommunity affairs.

'27, CE '28—Herman Palestine of W.Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of New York City,Jan. 18, 1987; retired engineer, New YorkCity; formerly associated with NYC Board ofWater Supply.

'28 BS Ag—Adelbert H. Blencoe of Coo-perstown, NY, July 2,198,7; poultry and dairyfarmer. Alpha Zeta.

'28-30 Grad—Francis R. Dreibelbis ofCoshocton, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1980; retired soilscientist, Soil Conservation Service ResearchStation, Coshocton.

'28, BS HE '29—Marion Holway Heck-roth of Quitman, Ga., Aug. 12, 1987; retireddietitian, Vareen Memorial Hospital, Moul-trie.

'28 BA, PhD '34—Bernard W. Hewittof Urbana, 111., April 1,1987; was professor ofspeech and drama, U. of Illinois; formerlytaught at U. of Colorado, Brooklyn College,and Montana State. Kappa Sigma.

'28—Margaret Anderson McClintock(Mrs. H. W.) of St. Petersburg, Fla., formerlyof Easton, Pa., March 1987.

'28 BA—Walter L. Mejo of Malverne,NY, June 12, 1987; was retired, after a long

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career with New York Telephone Co. in NewYork City. Pi Kappa Phi.

'28 PhD—Ivan F. Phipps of Toorak, Australia, Aug. 27,1987; was long associated withImperial Chemical Industries of Australia andNew Zealand, Melbourne, Australia.

'28 BS HE—Gertrude Lueder Spraker(Mrs. Rowan D.) of Belleair Bluf, Fla., former-ly of Cooperstown, NY, Nov. 9, 1986.

'29 ME—Henry H. Lawton of Rome, NY,Sept. 20,1987; was a supervisor for more than20 years, General Cable Corp., Rome. SigmaPi.

'29 BA—Dorothy Peets of San Luis Obis-po, Cal., Aug. 28, 1987.

'29 BA, PhD '37—Royal A. Sullivan ofAtlanta, Ga., formerly of Binghamton, NY,Aug. 28,1987; longtime researcher, NationalDairy Products Corp.; former chemist, KraftFood Co. Kappa Delta Rho.

'29 MD—Henry A. Wahn of PelhamManor, NY, Sept. 26, 1987; physician; for-merly associated with Westchester SquareMedical Center.

'30 BA—Janet S. Jennings of Bingham-ton, NY, Sept. 5, 1987; was director of pro-cessing, Binghamton Public Library for morethan 40 years.

'31 MCE—George D. Champlin of Port-land, Me., June 14,1987; engineering consul-tant; retired engineer; former vice presidentand secretary, Portland Pipeline Corp.; activein community and professional affairs.

'31 ME—Sidney V. Haas Jr. of W.Orange, NJ, June 20,1987; engineer; formerlyassociated with Beaunot Mills Inc., New YorkCity.

'32-34 Grad—William M. Allen of Chapel Hill, NC, formerly of Durham, Sept. 21,1981; formerly employed by North CarolinaMutual, following retirement as a teacher ofhigh school chemistry and physics in Durhamand New Orleans, La.

'32 BA—Bessie Minuskin Charney ofPassaic, NJ, formerly of Paterson, May 8,1987.

'32—John P. Hall of Bridgton, Me., May8, 1987; formerly associated with HolmesPacking Co., Rocίdand.

'32-33 Grad—Tom R. Johnson of Spring-field, Ore., June 17,1986; was a commander,US Navy, who served as public works officerat a number of naval stations.

'32 BS Ag—Norman C. Kidder of Voor-heesville, NY, July 14, 1987; retired Exten-sion agricultural agent, Albany County; hadbeen involved in Extension work for almost 20years; active in community affairs. Sigma Pi.

'32—Walker Voris of Los Angeles, Cal.,1980.

'33-36 Grad—Edwin L. Anderson ofSan Jose, Cal., Jan. 24, 1979.

'33 BS Ag—Ronald R. Babcock ofCherry Creek, NY, Oct. 17,1986. Sigma Upsi-lon.

'33 BS Hotel—Elmer A. C. Hellman ofPhiladelphia, Pa., April 22,1987.

'33 BS HE—Ruth Huffcut Fleischhauer(Mrs. Arthur) of Venice, Fla., formerly of Ber-wyn, Pa., Aug. 23, 1987.

'33-38 SpAg—Stephen F. Puff of ForkedRiver, NJ, Oct. 20,1980.

'34, DVM '35—Karl E. Putnam of VeroBeach, Fla., formerly of Prattsburg, NY, July20, 1987; retired veterinarian. Alpha Psi.

'34 BA—John W. Roehl of Myrtle Beach,SC, Aug. 29,1987; retired geologist, Soil Con-servation Service of the US Department ofAgriculture. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'34, ME '35—John B. Verrier Jr. ofGreenwich, Conn., Sept. 5,1987; retired, after20 years of association with the American So-ciety for Metals and its publication, MetalsProgress.

'34 Grad—Mildred Ives Willett (Mrs. Al-bert V.) of Kennett Square, Pa., March 30,1986.

'35 BA—Donald C. dayman of Rich-mond, Va., Aug. 6, 1987; retired brigadiergeneral, U.S. Army.

'35 BS AEM—H. Davis Daboll of Lakeville, Conn., formerly of Syracuse, NY, Aug.26, 1987; retired engineer, Columbian RopeCo., Auburn, NY.

'35-36 SpAg—Carl M. Moot of VeroBeach, Fla., Aug. 9,1985; former engineeringrepresentative, Ford Motor Co.

'35 BS Ag—Ralph H. Smith of St. Peters-burg, Fla., June 1987.

'35 PhD—Thomas E. Wannamaker ofOrangeburg, SC, May 26, 1987; was presi-dent, Wannamaker Chemical Co. Inc.

'35, BArch '37—Henry B. Weigel ofScarborough-on-Hudson, NY, Sept. 27,1987;architect; vice president, Urbahn Associates;as partner, Damez & Weigel, developedmaster plan and designed buildings at SUNY,Stony Brook; was design coordinator, UnitedNations Headquarters, New York City.

'37 ME—James E. Buxton of SouthernPines, NC, formerly of Elmira, NY, Sept. 1,1987; retired director of engineering at Ben-dix Motor Components, Elmira, where he hadworked for 38 years; had developed in excessof 50 starter drive patents.

'37-38 Grad—Giichi Fujimoto of Hono-lulu, Hawaii, Oct. 6,1986.

'37 MS Ed—Harold F. McGraw of Ken-

more, NY, 1957.

'37 MD—George R. Meneely of Shreve-port, La., Sept. 6,1987; a founder and retiredhead of the physiology and biophysics dept.,Louisiana State.

'37 BA, JD '39—Howard W. Robisonof Rehoboth Beach, Del., formerly of Owego,NY, Sept. 26,1987; former US Congressman(Rep., 27th, then 33rd District), 1957-74, andconsultant, largely for railroads, in Washing-ton, DC; was active in community and alumniaffairs. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'37—Margaret Tiffany Thornton (Mrs.William H. Jr.) of Wolfeboro, NH, formerly ofSharon, Mass., Sept. 8, 1987.

'37 MS Ag—Hollis E. Throckmorton ofMilton, W. Va., June 10, 1979.

'38 BArch—Roger H. Ayala of Asuncion,Paraguay, South America, July 21, 1987; ar-chitect; formerly associated with Co-ordinatorof Inter-American Affairs, Paraguay.

'38 BA—James O. Clark of Dalton, Pa.,April 14, 1980. Alpha Chi Sigma.

'38—Philip A. Fontanetta of Albertson,NY, June 14, 1985. Alpha Phi Delta.

'38—Rosemary Lally Griffith (Mrs. Had-ley W.) of Utica, NY, formerly of Longmea-dow, Mass., Nov. 11, 1981. Alpha OmicronPi.

'38 BA, MA '39—Robert M. Mathesonof Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 11,1987; retired fromRCA Development Division, Lancaster; waswith RCA Laboratories, Princeton, NJ, for 34years. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'38 MA—Henry W. Nace of Berkly,Mich., Sept. 2, 1987.

'38 MS—Henderika J. Rynbergen ofPhiladelphia, Pa., formerly of New York City,Dec. 17,1985; had retired as professor of sci-ence, Cornell's School of Nursing, after 27years; was considered a pioneer in publichealth nutrition and nutritional guidancethrough out-patient clinics.

'39 BS Ag—Adam P. Kieda of Phelps,NY, June 2, 1987.

'39 BA—Beryl Salsbery Miller (Mrs. Wil-liam H. Jr.) of Silver Spring, Md., Sept. 4,1987; retired Anne Arundel County publicschool teacher. Husband, William H. MillerJr. '38.

'39 BA—Anne Beers Sampson (Mrs. Mar-tin W. Jr.) of Ithaca, NY, Sept. 27, 1987; ac-tive in community affairs. Kappa Alpha The-ta. Husband, Martin W. Sampson Jr. '39.

'40 BChem—John M. Crom Jr. of In-cline Village, Nev., Jan. 2, 1987; president,Crom Prestressing Inc. and Precomp TanksInc.; inventor, who held patents related to thefield of wire-wound prestressed tanks. AlphaChi Sigma.


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'40 BA—Grace Kite Dudley (Mrs. WilliamF.) of Chappaqua, NY, Dec. 5, 1986.

'40 ME—William T. Fine of Silver Spring,Md., Aug. 28,1987; retired lieutenant colonel,US Army, was a safety engineer, US Depart-ment of Health and Human Services; active inprofessional affairs.

'40 DVM—Harris H. Groten of Fishkill,NY, Dec. 31, 1986; veterinarian; owner andoperator, Hempstead Hospital for Animals,Hempstead.

'40 BS Ag—Warren W. Hawley HI ofBatavia, NY, Oct. 27, 1986; fanner; formerpoultry manager, Hawley Poultry and StockFarms. Acacia.

'40—Mildred Gebhart Holt (Mrs. Sher-wood) of Ithaca, NY, Sept. 3, 1987; active incommunity affairs.

'40 BS HE—Mary Jones Stelljes (Mrs.Charles R.) of Cazenovia, NY, formerly ofFayetteville, NY, and Florida, Sept. 5, 1987.Husband, Charles R. Stelljes '40.

'41—Warren Ackerman Jr. of NewYork City, exact date unknown.

'41 BS Ag—Gene F. Amorelli of Albany,NY, September 1986. Alpha Phi Omega.

'41-42 SpAg—Gertrude R. Andersonof Loudville, Maine, June 2, 1980.

'41 MA—Rita Scott Griffith (Mrs. LewisJ.) of Mendenhall, Pa., July 7, 1987.

'41 BA—Jerome H. Nathan of Hamburg,NY, formerly of Buffalo, Aug. 25, 1987; aspresident, Festival East Concerts Inc., he wasa promoter of rock concerts in the 1960s and1970s who also conducted seminars for con-cert producers and promoters. Phi Epsilon Pi.

'41—Lucy Nye Patterson (Mrs. Stuart B.)of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Ithaca, NY,June 26,1987; former operator of several innsand restaurants in New York State.

'42 BS Ag—Wayne E. Flatt of Middleport, NY, Oct. 12, 1984; former teacher.

'42 BA—Stanley B. Greenfield of Eu-gene, Ore., July 30,1987; was associated withU. of Oregon; formerly associated with U. ofWisconsin, and Queens College in New YorkCity. Tau Epsilon Phi.

'42 BA—Allan Guttman of Alberta, Can-ada, formerly of Scarsdale, NY, Aug. 20,1987. Phi Sigma Delta. Wife, Jean Lewinson'43.

'42 BS Ag—Robert Q. Smith of Fillmore,NY, Aug. 15, 1987; farmer; active in alumniaffairs.

'42 LLB—Edward L. Webster Jr. ofKendall Park, NJ, Sept. 14, 1987; attorney.

'43 DVM—Maurice M. Jastremski ofCooperstown, NY, March 9,1987; veterinari-

an; active in community affairs. Wife, Frieda(Mann) '40.

'44 BS Hotel—J. Joseph McDonough ofWoodside, Cal., Sept. 23, 1987; was chief ofdining service, United Air Lines.

'44, BA '47, LLB '49—Henderson G.Riggs of Albany, NY, Sept. 5, 1987; lawyerand former assistant attorney general for NewYork State. Alpha Delta Phi.

'44, BS Ag'46—William B. Sterling ofCutchogue, NY, Aug. 7, 1985.

'44, BS Hotel '47—Donald E. Weightof New York City, July 29, 1986.

'45 BA, MD '48—Carlos E. Bertran ofSanturce, Puerto Rico, July 8, 1987;associated with Ashford Medical Center, SanJuan, PR.

'45—Dorsey T. Mahin of Richmond, Va.,Sept. 29, 1979. Kappa Sigma.

'45-46 SpAg—Iris Woolcock of Venice,Flav formerly of Putney, Vt., July 21, 1979.

'47—Walter E. Lehman of Newton,Kans., formerly of Castorland, NY, Jan. 26,1987.

'47, BS ME '48—Percy S. Lyon Jr. ofWindermere, Fla., June 26,1986; formerly as-sociated with Atlantic Refining Co., Philadel-phia. Sigma Nu.

'48, BArch '50—A. Sinclair "Bisher"Burlingham of Annapolis, Md., July 19,1987; architect.

'48 JD—Russell A. Gair Jr. of ColoradoSprings, Colo., May 7, 1987; retired from In-ternational Paper Co.

'49 JD—Alexander Goldf arb of Middle-town, Conn., April 3, 1987.

'49 BS Hotel—Donald S. Grant of LongBeach, Cal., 1977.

'49 BS Hotel—Charles C. Wallace ofFitzwilliam, NH, Aug. 24, 1987; was owner,Fitzwilliam Inn.

'50 BS Ag—David M. Barnes of Binghamton, NY, Aug. 17,1987; was editor, State4H News; was a 4H Club agent for 32 years;life member and former president, NY StateAssociation of Cooperative Extension 4HAgents.

'50—Frances Karmiol Frost (Mrs. Theo-dore) of Westport, Conn., July 23, 1987. Sig-ma Delta Tau. Husband, Theodore Frost '52.

'50 BCE—David M. Thorsen of Chappaqua, NY, May 28, 1987.

'50—Charles L. Werntz Jr. of Philadel-phia, Pa., Jan. 24, 1987.

'52 BS Hotel—Duane C. Arnold of Ft.Wayne, Ind., Aug. 14, 1987.

'53, BA '54—Richard G. Mellor of Al-den, NY, April 1982; formerly associated withAlden Central School, Alden.

'54—Peter Polansky of Dolgeville, NY,October 1971.

'56 BS HE—Nancy-Elizabeth GillenDill (Mrs. Franklin G.) of Jacksonville, NC,Sept. 28, 1987; was active in community andalumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Hus-band, Dr. Frank G. Dill '55.

'60 BA—Richard C. Goldstein of NewHope, Pa., Sept. 6, 1987; vice president ofmarketing, CBS Sports, where he had workedfor more than 20 years.

'62 MEd—Robert K. KirkendaU of Spring-ville, NY, July 1980.

'65—Gerald D. lushewitz of OverlookPark, Pa., formerly of New York City, Aug.11, 1987; vice president, Office and Profes-sional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC; was president of Local 14, Phila-delphia; organizer and representative of Local153 in NYC.

'66—T. Bradley Donahue Jr. of Newton,Mass., formerly of Ithaca, NY, Aug. 18,1987;pilot for Sea Queen Fishing Inc. Wife, Sarah(Clark) 75.

'66 LLB—Robert M. Rails of San Francisco, CaL, June 23,1987; telephone companygeneral counsel.

'67 PhD—Akira Nagazumi of Tokyo, Ja-pan, July 10, 1987; professor of the history ofSoutheast Asian countries, Tokyo U.

'68, BS Ag '69, DVM '73—Michael J.Zagraniski of Tucker, Ga., July 17, 1986.

'69 BA, MA '74—Joseph J. Savago ofNew York City, Sept. 27,1987; executive edi-tor, Book-of-the-Month Club.

'70 PhD—Odd T. Grande of Oslo, Nor-way, Sept. 1, 1987; was a professor ofsociology, Agricultural State College ofNorway.

'71 BS Nurs—Paula Glenn Hunt (Mrs. D.Daniel) of Seattle, Wash., July 21,1987; prac-ticing attorney. Husband, D. Daniel Hunt,MD 73.

'74 MBA—Paul A. Thomas of Portland,Ore., formerly of Modesto, Cal., Dec. 17,1986.

'76, BS HE '77—Nanette R. Gordon ofOgdensburg, NY, Aug. 19, 1985.

'80 BA—Margaret A. Forrence ofWashington, DC, Sept. 21,1987; accounts ex-ecutive, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & SmithInc., Washington, DC.

'84 BA—Alexander L. Singer of Israel,formerly of Chevy Chase, Md., Sept. 15,1987;lieutenant, Israeli Defense Forces. (See alsopage 53, December 1987 issue.)

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A L U M N I A C T I V I T I E S

A A perspectivemap of the cam-pus stands readyto help visitors,alumni and oth-erwise, find theirway around theHill. This, one often at various lo-cations, is infront of DayHall.

Newest Namesin Alumni Work

Several posts have been filledrecently in the network of peo-ple who work with alumni onbehalf of the university. Newappointees in Public Affairs,

including regional and college of-fices, Development, and Alumni Af-fairs:

Patricia M. Newman '81, assis-tant director, Western Regional Of-fice in Solana Beach, California, is aHuman Ecology graduate. She joinedthe office from her position as re-gional director of Jeffery R. Shy As-sociates Inc., a software provider toinstitutions of higher education.

Sarah L. Stoessel, director,Northeast Regional Office in Welles-ley, Massachusetts, is a graduate of

Boston University. She was assis-tant director of Cornell's WesternRegional Office, and was assistantdirector of admissions at BostonUniversity.

Catheryn C. Obern, PhD '87,director, International Public Af-fairs, holds her doctorate n develop-mental sociology. Before taking overthe foreign alumni job, she lived andworked in Brazil, Malaysia, HongKong, Taiwan, The Netherlands,and Great Britain.

Gregory J. Stahl, director/coor-dinator, College and Unit Public Af-fairs in Ithaca, received his under-graduate degree from the Universityof San Diego and his PhD fromGeorgetown, where he was director


of main campus development.Robert C. Schuler, director,

Public Affairs Regional offices, joinedthe Cornell staff in 1979 as assistantdirector of the National Area Cam-paign and was assistant director,Public Affairs Regional offices, from1982-87.

Michael M. Messitt, director,Public Affairs/Development for theDivision of Campus Life in Ithaca,had served as the executive directorof the Tompkins County HumanServices Coalition for the past threeyears, and before that in a number ofservice agencies.

Rebecca Smith, assistant direc-tor, Major Gifts Office of UniversityDevelopment, received her master'sin theology from Boston University.She had worked before with Carne-gie Mellon and, even earlier, in thesame post she now fills at Cornell.

Paula Clark '83, MA '87, devel-opment assistant, Cornell Fund Of-fice in Ithaca, was production assis-tant to Prof. James Maas, psycholo-gy, and has also worked for NewYork magazine and Montgomery Se-curities.

Jane Somers '84, assistant di-rector, Club Affairs, in the Office ofAlumni Affairs, received her degreefrom the College of Agriculture andLife Sciences. Earlier, she was exec-utive staff assistant for facilities andbusiness operations in Day Hall.

UK ActiveThe Cornell Club of London's thirdannual Thanksgiving dinner for stu-dents abroad was the most success-ful yet with 110 guests, 53 of themstudents. The students came fromuniversities all over the United King-dom including Bristol, Cambridge,Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford,Reading, and the University of Lon-don. Other guests included Profes-sors Barry Adams, English; Frank-lin Becker, design and environmen-tal analysis; and Stuart Blumin,American history. One specialguest, Frederick H. Antil '55, assis-tant dean of the Hotel school, madethe journey all the way from Ithaca.

John Suchet, ITN's internation-al anchor man who was the emcee

again this year by popular demand,encouraged the students to giveamusing accounts of their first fewmonths in a foreign country. Theyranged from one student who wassurprised and delighted at how littlework he had to do, to another whohad suffered unrepeatable practicaljokes at the hands of his Englishgirlfriend.

The Cornell Club of Londonwhich has 200 members has justelected new officials. Bruce Rothen-berg, MBA '84 is taking over aspresident.

Ready for RidersDedication ceremonies for the newCornell Equestrian Center on PineTree Road are set for February 20.Several hundred alumni are ex-pected for the dedication, which co-incides with the Eastern RegionalPolo Championships, hosted thisyear by Cornell. Information aboutthe dedication is available fromDiane O'Shaughnessy (607) 255-1064.

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She Tendsthe Chiming Bells

BY SAM SEGAL

fr Judy Ogden'71 works leversto play the chimein the tower ofUris Library.

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> Her paper-work includestranscribingscore for thetower's nineteenbells.

It wasn't until her senior year thatJudy Ogden 71, JD 77 discov-ered the nineteen huge bells thathang in McGraw Tower. She nev-er went back to Missouri.

Ogden is the chimes advisor andone of seven chimesmasters, the peo-ple who play the bells in twenty-oneweekly concerts, day in, day out.Through sixteen years of studying,raising three children, practicing law,and part-time lecturing in human ser-vice studies at the university, shenever stopped climbing the 161 towersteps that lead to the chimes. Sheclimbs them at least twice a week tosustain the bell playing tradition thatbegan 120 years ago.

At campuses across the country,that tradition is dying, as automaticsystems replace human hands andfeet. But at Cornell, which has theoldest and largest chime on any U.S.campus, the tradition persists.

"I've lost some hearing over theyears, but I love it up here," she said.' 'The view, the combination of phys-ical and mental work—it's a realhigh."

As chimes advisor, she is re-sponsible for caretaking, trouble-shooting, and working with would-be benefactors. "But there's no wayI'd do this," she said, lifting a pile ofpaper work, "if I didn't do this." Andshe made a sweeping gesture to takein the chime console beside her andthe world that spread below her150-foot perch.

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