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December 1980Volume 83, Number 5

CoverThe ascension of Mary into heaven is portrayed inside an ornate letter "G."from the Lombard Gradual, a 15th century choirbook, the most preciousvolume in the university's illuminated manuscript collection, described in thisissue. Reproduced at almost full size.

2 The UniversityGood news and bad. People. Research. They say. The teams.

10 CommunicationsLetters to the editor. Footnotes.

12 The Words oi GodBy John Schroeder '74. Illumination enriches a collection in the UniversityLibraries.

22 Little ExtravagancesThree early Cornellians made the key acquisitions of rare books.

24 The Welsh Are Like ThatBy Emmanuel Winters '32. In which a man of Wales gets his comeuppance.

26 The Chemistry Is RightBy Barbara Burke. Prof. Roald Hoffmann, theoretician in a not completelyaccurate science.

39 News of AlumniClass notes. Alumni deaths.

66 Alumni ActivitiesAdult University in China. Fund over the top. With the colleges. Alumni inthe news. Graduate alumni. Calendar.

72 AlsoLate news of the campus and athletic fields.

Cornellians who follow newsof the university closelyfound themselves on an emo-tional roller coaster duringthe autumn. A succession of

statements, law suits, and other eventsthat involved Cornell unfolded in anorder that seemed tailor-made to thecomedians' line, "I've got some goodnews and some bad news."

October 9: The Board of Zoning Ap-peals of the City of Ithaca denies a re-quest by the university to allow it to con-vert two faculty homes for use by Cor-nell's Office of Publications and itsModern Indonesia Program. Thehomes, owned by the university and sit-uated just north of Fall Creek gorge in asection of the city that has been home tofaculty for decades, is zoned for res-idential use. The administration con-tends the university is exempt from cityzoning codes. The vote of the city ap-peals board, which is chaired by aprofessor of Law, is unanimous.

October 10: The athletic departmentholds what for Ithaca is a big press con-ference, attracting television crews fromSyracuse and Binghamton. The purposeis to explain a visit the following week bya team from the US Department of Edu-cation that will review university com-pliance with federal rules barring dis-crimination by gender in collegesports—Title IX of the 1972 EducationAmendments.

Cornell is one of eight schools acrossthe country chosen to represent a varietyof institutions for the initial review; thefederal department says the first schoolschosen should not be considered the"worst cases."

Athletic Director Richard Schultz sayshe welcomes the visit as a chance to layto rest charges made locally that thedepartment discriminates againstwomen. He says Cornell knew of onecomplaint, filed by a graduate student in

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1978, claiming discrimination in accessto facilities and coaches salaries, whichhe says has been dismissed. When thegovernment announced its compliancevisit, he said he learned of a second com-plaint, having to do with club sports forwomen. A few days later, a reporterlearns that the first charge had been di-vided into two parts; the accessibilitypart was dismissed earlier but the sala-ries part is still pending.

The reporter, from the Ithaca Jour-nal, later criticizes the university for notposting notices of the federal visit inwomen's locker rooms.

Schultz and Associate Director Mar-tha Arnett have told the press con-ference on October 10 they are proud ofthe pioneering nature of Cornell's spon-sorship of sixteen women's teams, andthey handed out a list of thirty-seven im-provements in the programs in the lastfive years.

October 17: President Rhodes andTrustee Chairman Jansen Noyes Jr. '39announce the Cornell Campaign hasgone over its goal of $230 million in giftsand pledges, well ahead of the cam-paign's December 31 deadline. Thereport buoys spirits at the annualtrustee-University Council weekend inIthaca. (See Alumni Activities formore.)

October 18: The varsity football teamloses its fourth game in a row, onSchoellkopf Field, before a trustee-council crowd.

October 25: The same team confoundsthe experts by handing Dartmouth itsfirst Ivy League loss of the year atHomecoming, in a driving rain, andbefore a regional ABC television au-dience.

October 29: An Employee OrganizingCommittee announces it is filing inBuffalo later in the day a petition for a

union representation election for 1,100Cornell service and maintenance work-ers on the Ithaca campus and certainother remote locations. The move is by aUnited Auto Workers group that hasbeen at work for nine months seeking torepresent 4,000 non-professional em-ployees.

The UAW says it has a "solid majori-ty" of the 1,100 signed up, and will soon

petition to represent other employes, in-cluding clerical, technical, and serviceworkers. A university spokesman says hethinks the size of the proposed bargain-ing unit shows a lack of support amongthe others.

Employees at the Ag Experiment Sta-tion in Geneva vote against unionizationa day later, the second such vote in fourmonths.

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Publications CommitteeTruman W. Eustis III '51, ChairmanJohn E. Slater '43Arthur H. Kesten '44Donald R. Geery '49Marion Steinmann Joiner '50Keith R. Johnson '56Officers of the Alumni Association:Leslie Stern '60, PresidentFrank R. Clifford '50,Secretary-TreasurerPresident, Association of Class Officers:Frank E. Cuzzi '61

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IllustrationsCover, from Robert Calkins. Otherpages* 3, Jack Sherman; 16-23, photosfrom Calkins except 23 top, UniversityArchives, initial letters by John Schroe-der '74; 25, Sherman; 27-28, drawingsfrom Roald Hoffmann, photo by RussHamilton; 30, Archives; 32, Bill Hay-ward Studios, Steve A. Hendrickson; 38,Hamilton; 52, Bruce Crispell; 62, 63, G.Michael McHugh '50; 64, Visual Ser-vices by John McCoy, PhD '66, andThe American of London.

October 29: Later in the day, the highflying varsity men's soccer team suffersonly its second defeat of the season, toperennial power Hart wick. The losscomes in double overtime but puts a chillon hopes the team can qualify for post-season tournament competition.

October 30: The administration an-nounces it will appeal in state SupremeCourt the denial by a city board October9 of its request to convert two homes tooffice use. The announcement acknowl-edges problems neighbors report havingwith other university-owned property inthe Cornell Heights section: "We havealready moved to resolve many of theproblems." Poor maintenance, yardupkeep, and parking, and noise prob-lems are among those cited by residents.

October 31: Five women, former assis-tant professors in different departments,sue the university in federal court inUtica, seeking reinstatement and backpay. They also launch a class action suiton behalf of all women teachers on theHill since 1972, for back pay and for apackage of changes in the way the uni-versity does academic business.

The five are Donna Zahorik, psychol-ogy, on faculty 1971-80; Judith Long-Laws, sociology, 1971-77; JacquelineLivingston, photography, in Architec-ture, 1975-78; Antonia Glasse, Russianliterature, 1964-76; and Charlotte Farris,community service education, 1974-79.

The five are among women who twoyears ago dubbed themselves the Cornell11, after they had brought separatecharges of discrimination against theuniversity, with several state and federalagencies. For some of the other six, thedeadline for suing Cornell had expired.The five bringing suit today do so underthe 1964 Civil Right Act. Their suitcharges Cornell with discriminating inhiring, promotion, reappointment, ten-ure, access to tenure, and pay. Zahorik,Long-Laws, and Farris seek tenure, andLivingston and Glasse seek jobs that willmake them eligible for tenure later.

The class action suit is on behalf oftwo hundred women who have served aslecturers or in professorial ranks, andasks pay equal to what men of compar-able ability would receive. Reforms be-ing sought include: new affirmative ac-tion plans for Cornell; * Objective'' andmore precise standards for recruiting,hiring, promoting, and job-related ap-peals; women on all groups that makeemployment decisions; requiring writtenreasons for personnel decisions; educa-tion of a l l—part icular ly whitemale—persons involved in hiring; and a

fund to award back pay to any womenwho have been discriminated againstand future pay on an equal basis.

One of the attorneys for the women isJ. Anthony Gaenslen, LLB '67. Pro-longed litigation is predicted.

November 1: The football team suffers afurther reversal of fortunes, losing toBucknell, but the soccer team reverses inthe opposite direction, beating Syracuse,to earn a third-place ranking in NewYork State. Now the team's fans looktwo weeks forward to a match againstColumbia, ranked No. 2 in the state,that will likely decide the Big Red's post-season fate. (See Also, page 68, for anylater developments on these stories andThe Teams, in this section, for moresports news.)

PeopleA If red E. Kahn, the Thome professor ofeconomics, will return to teaching on theHill next fall. He's been on extendedleave serving in state and federal govern-ment, most recently as President Car-ter's adviser on inflation. As early asApril he said he would return to the uni-versity whether Carter was reelected ornot. He made it official in early fall. Hisfrankness and efforts to reform bureau-cratic language made him a favorite withthe press and with audiences.

Fifty scientists from a dozen countriesgathered in Ithaca in early October tocelebrate the 60th birthday of ThomasGold, the Wetherill professor of astro-nomy and director of the Center forRadiophysics and Space Research. Asymposium for both the public andscientific communities marked the occa-sion. Gold, an internationally-knownastronomist and cosmologist, joined thefaculty in 1959 and established the Cen-ter for Radiophysics. For the first tenyears of its operation, he had overall re-sponsibility for the university's AreciboRadio Observatory, the world's largestradio antenna and a major instrument inthe development of radio astronomy,planetary radar, the discovery of qua-sars, and the analysis of pulsars. Duringhis career, Gold has been responsible forsome of the most controversial theoriesin his field.

Prof. Susan Jean Riha, agronomy,has been elected the Charles LathropPack research professor of forest soils.Riha, the fourth faculty member to holdthe Pack professorship, has taught atSmith College, Hampshire College, theUniversity of Massachusetts, and Wash-

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FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL ELEVENP.O. Box 67 Lansing, N.Y. 14882

A partial list of supporters of the "Friends of the Cornell Eleven" (institutions listed for identification purposes only)

Barbara R. BergmannProfessor, EconomicsUniversity of MarylandCornell B. A. 1948

Marjorie Bell ChambersFormer national President,American Association ofUniversity Women

Frances T. FarentholdFormer President,Wells College

Arlene Kaplan DanielsProfessor, SociologyNorthwestern University

Cynthia Fuchs EpsteinProfessor, SociologyQueens College & Graduate CenterCity University of New York

Charlotte Williams ConableWomen's Studies Program & Policy CenterGeorge Washington UniversityCornell B.S. 1951Former Member, Cornell Board of Trustees

Nancy HenleyProfessor, PsychologyDirector, Women's StudiesU.C.L.A.

Florence HoweProfessor, American StudiesS.U.N.Y. College, Old Westbury

Louise LamphereAssociate ProfessorAnthropologyBrown University

Gerda LernerProfessor, HistorySarah Lawrence CollegePresident-elect, Organization ofAmerican Historians

Lucy R. LippardArt CriticNew York City

Shelley RiceArt/Photo Critic, Art Form

Dear Cornell Alumnae and Alumni:Since 1976, at least twenty-two women have filed grievances alleging sex discrimination at Cornell.Let's examine Cornell's record in 1980:

In the tenured, permanent positions:4% (34) of the 766 full professors are women.

12% (45) of the 388 Associate Professors are women.In the non-tenured, probationary positions:

80% (72) of the 356 Assistant Professors are women.What's more, the percentage of tenured women has increased less than 1 % since 1971. Decisionsabout appointments and promotions are made "by tenured professors—a group which is 93% male.The Friends of the Cornell Eleven are deeply concerned about this problem. We want the universityto be an institution which provides the best atmosphere for scholarship for women and men.Among those who have filed legal complaints against the university is a group known as the CornellEleven. They are faculty women who have spent up to four years exhausting Cornell's internalappeals procedure/They are now bringing a class action suit charging sex discrimination in recruit-ment, hiring, contract renewal, access to tenure track jobs, and granting of tenure and promotion.Many of these allegations have been corroborated through independent investigations undertakenby several faculty committees at Cornell, as well as the American Association of UniversityProfessors, the Hew York State Division of Human Rights, and the United States Departmentof Labor.Members of the Cornell Eleven are developing programs to educate the community about sexdiscrimination in cooperation with such groups as the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Status ofWomen at Cornell, Graduate Women in Science, the Ithaca branch of the American Association ofUniversity Women (AATJW), and the Extension Division of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations.Because we find Cornell's record so appalling, and because the prospects for internal settlement andchange remain so dim, we have decided to support the educational aims and legal goals of the CornellEleven. We also need your help. Please send your check payable to Friends of the Cornell Elevento either of us, in care of Friends of the Cornell Eleven, P.O. Box 67, Lansing, New York 14888.

Mary Beth NortonAssociate Professor, History

Alice H. CookProfessor EmeritaIndustrial & Labor Relations

95.Co-chairs, Friends of the Cornell Eleven

A NATIONAL WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION CHOSE CORNELL FOR ITS 1979 "SILVER SNAIL" AWARDFOR "SPECTACULARLY SLUGGISH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!'

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Christopher J. Nichols '81 was recent-ly named the "Student AgriculturalEngineer of the Year" by the AmericanSociety of Agricultural Engineers, thefirst Cornell student to win the title in itseleven year history. Selection was basedon scholarship, character and personaldevelopment, participation in schoolactivities, leadership qualities, creativity,initiative, and responsibility. Com-petitors were also required to submit apaper titled "My Goals in the Agricul-tural Engineering Profession." Nichols,who lives in Ashland, Oregon, is in theAg college.

The world premiere of Kenningar{Symphony No. 4) by Prof. StephenStucky, DMA '78, music, was held onSeptember 25 at the ContemporaryMusic Festival at Indiana State Univer-sity. In addition to composing works forchamber groups, chorus and orchestra,Stucky has been active as a conductorand lecturer. He is a regular contributorto the quarterly journal Notes, and theauthor of Witold Lutoslawski and HisMusic, published by Cambridge Univer-sity Press.

The film Until I Get Caught, made bypsychology professor James Maas, PhD'66 and university filmmaker DavidGluck has been shown over 13,000 timessince its premier on Public BroadcastingService television last fall. The movie,which deals with the problem of drunk-en driving, has been provided with post-production grants from General MotorsCorp. and Exxon Corp. making possiblea free loan program. Four hundredcopies of the film are in circulation,available to educational and public serv-ice groups. Maas and Gluck have re-ceived several awards for their work, in-cluding the Gold Award in "corporatesocial responsibility" from the Informa-tion Film Producers of America, firstplace in the "drugs and society" cate-gory of the John Muir Film Festival, acreative excellence award at the US In-dustrial Film Festival, and a certificateof merit at the Chicago InternationalFilm Festival. More important than theawards, however, Maas believes, is thatUntil I Get Caught was influential in thepassage of a new drunk driving law bythe New York State legislature. Maassaid, "New York now has three of thetoughest drunk driving laws in the coun-try."

Prof. Bernard V. Travis, entomology,emeritus, died October 12 in Ithaca atthe age of 73. He joined the faculty in1949 as a specialist in the control of in-

sects that affect human health and wel-fare. He served from 1969 until retire-ment in 1972 as department chairman.

Harold E. Moore Jr., the Bailey pro-fessor of botany, died October 17 inSayre, Pennsylvania at the age of 63. Hejoined the faculty in 1948, serving nineyears as director of the Bailey Hortor-ium. He was considered the world'sforemost authority on palm trees.

Robert H. Whittaker, the Alexanderprofessor of biology, died October 20 inIthaca at the age of 59. He joined thefaculty in 1968, was a member the Sec-tion on Ecology and Systematics of theDivision of Biological Sciences, presi-dent of the American Naturalist, andeditor of Vegetatio.

James Hutton '24, PhD '27, the Kap-pa Alpha professor of classics, emeritus,died October 29 in Ithaca at the age of77. He had been a member of the facultysince 1927, an authority on Greek, Lat-in, and Renaissance literature, author ofThe Greek Anthology in Italy, TheGreek Anthology in France, and twobooks due to be published in 1981 and'82.

ResearchProf. Gene E. Likens, ecology, and YaleUniversity professor F. Herbert Bor-mann have been awarded a $250,000grant from the Andrew W. MellonFoundation for their research on the ef-fects of acid precipitation onecosystems. Acid rain, the result of thecombustion of fossil fuels, is believed toreduce the soil's ability to holdnutrients, hindering plant growth. Theproblem first came to public attention inthe Northeast in 1972, when Likens pre-dicted that air pollution might cause anincrease in the acidity of rainfall. Re-search since then has shown acid rain tobe one of the nation's most importantenvironmental problems. Using the re-cent grant, Likens and Bormann willcontinue their work at the HubbardBrook Experimental Forest in the WhiteMountains of New Hampshire, wherethey have been studying ecosystem dy-namics for seventeen years.

In the bird rehabilitation program atthe Vet College, Prof. Douglas M. Mac-Coy, surgery, is developing new tech-niques for the surgical treatment of bothmid and domestic birds. "Most of ourpatients are birds of prey," MacCoysaid. "They're usually young birds,learning that they're not supposed todive-bomb through trees. It's nature'sway of weeding out the dummies." With

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his collection of spare bird bones, Mac-Coy repairs even some of the mostserious injuries. "Setting fractures inbirds requires the same techniques weuse for any small animal," he said. "Thedifference is in the size of the equipmentand the brittleness of their bones."

After ten years, the work of ornitho-logists involved in the university'speregrine falcon program is being re-warded with the beginning of natural re-population of the birds throughout theeastern US. The current total of sixmating pairs of peregrines establishedeast of the Rocky Mountains is far fromthe 300 to 400 that existed before thebirds succumbed to the cumulative ef-fects of pesticides in the 1950s. But re-searchers hope their method of releasingbirds in selected areas after hatchingthem in captivity will be successfulenough to build a sizable population.This year, the Cornell group placed 69peregrines in sites from Virginia to NewHampshire, including four in midtownManhattan. Fifty-eight were released inwestern states from Cornell's falcon fa-cility in Colorado. Since the start of theprogram in 1970, 687 peregrines havebeen hatched in captivity; 590 havelived, and 461 have been released to thewild. Two pairs of falcons releasedseveral years ago in the coastal marshesof New Jersey hatched eggs and raisedtheir young without human interventionduring 1980. The techniques used for theperegrines are also being applied to oth-er birds of prey, including the baldeagle. "Given enough interest, under-standing, and dedication," said pro-gram leader Prof. Tom Cade, zoology,"there is little doubt that most species ofraptors (birds of prey) can be bred incaptivity, a conclusion that practicallyno one would have been prepared to ac-cept ten years ago." He added, "Thepreservation of biological varietythrough husbandry is now a reality forbirds of prey." —RL

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his major. Bearing, manner, and expres-sion are what I watch for—and assert-iveness. You could say I look for polish,but not polish on ordinary stuff. Silvermust show through. If what comethrough are the ability to do difficultmental work, an open mind with intel-lectual and cultural interest and curi-osity, and a mature attitude, then I havefound the type of student employers arescouring the country to find," he said.

Munschauer compared today's societyto a play, and said, "Coming on stage totake their places are college grad-uates—some trained in professionalschools to play a specific part, othersfrom liberal arts colleges where they con-centrated on understanding the plot andfinding meaning in the drama. Butwhether the actors are professionals withready-made roles or liberal artsgraduates who learn their parts on stage,conditions have changed and old scriptswill no longer fit. The actors will have tocreate the script, and the play will nolonger be just a play—it will become anadventure. The best way to train for ad-venture is to be adventuresome."

The director's remarks were publishedin the Chronicle of Higher Education.

"It would be difficult to be interested inscience fiction if one knew nothingabout science and cared even less," saidMark Hillegas, a former English in-structor at Cornell, now on the facultyof Southern Illinois University. One wayto interest non-scientists in science fic-tion, he suggests, is to call it Utopian andanti-utopian literature. Hillegas is credit-ed with starting a trend toward the ac-ceptance of science fiction as literaturewhen he began his course on science fic-tion at Cornell in 1962. Since then, anincreasing number of colleges have of-fered courses on the subject.

"The key to job access is access to train-ing, which is a special concern to womensince they come into the labor force at alater age," explained Prof. Alice H.Cook, industrial and labor relations,emeritus, about the problems faced bywomen in the work force. "Womencoming in at mature ages are confined tojobs for which they are over qualified,and have access to little training," shesaid. Women's roles in the economy areunclear, Cook continued. "In the '30s itwas quite clear that only single womenshould work, and this tradition is not sofar behind us." Improvements in thecondition of working women, she said,will come only with changes in the "tra-ditional attitudes of the country and can

never solely be done in the law or theworkplace."

"Graduate study in chemical engineer-ing in this country is in serious straits,generally, with fewer and fewer BS grad-uates interested in further study," re-ports Prof. Julian Smith Jr. '41, directorof chemical engineering. "At Cornell weused to expect 50 to 60 per cent to goon," he said. "But in recent years thenumber has declined to 25 per cent orless. (Could the [high] beginning salariesfor BS graduates have anything to dowith this?) The decline has serious impli-cations for the teaching of chemical en-gineers in the future. The number ofdoctorates in chemical engineeringawarded nationwide last year was only309, and of these, half were not US citi-zens. Yet undergraduate enrollmentscontinue to climb and new teaching posi-tions need to be filled. In 120 chemicalengineering departments throughout thecountry, there are currently 172 unfilledfaculty positions. It's hard to see howstandards can be maintained in the faceof larger classes and heavier teachingloads. At Cornell, we feel very lucky tohave no faculty vacancies and an under-graduate population that has levelledoff."

In an interview for the Cornell DailySun's centennial edition, Donald B. VailΊ7, a retired lawyer and former Suneditor-in-chief, said, "I literally livedand breathed the Sun. There was an aw-ful difference between the top and bot-tom (staffers) on the Sun—editorshipsmeant everything." During his tenure onthe paper, no women were on the staff."It never occurred to them to join.Women were feminine in those days andwe put them on a pedestal. I know theperception today is women were mis-treated then, but I don't think that wasso. Those were the days of chivalry—Idon't think we exploited them like to-day." Vail said he thought today'syouth has "completely deteriorated.Back then we worked hard at everythingWQ did." He said, "Today, they take ad-vantage of every impulse."

The centennial issue also contained aneditorial reprinted from a spring 1920 is-sue. "Some few freshmen seek to venti-late their heated pates by cutting theirlittle grey caps into shreds and wearingthem on campus in a badly mangled con-dition," the writer observed. "Perhapsthese freshmen think this is a clever wayto announce that they expect soon tobreak their bondage; or perhaps theythink it is funny," he said. "The rest ofthe university does not think so, and the

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rest of the university should make it apoint to discourage the practice. Remainloyal to the little cap until its last threadhas vanished with the smoke of the an-nual bonfire."

An article from the December 2, 1969,issue of the Sun, reprinted in the centen-nial edition, described students' reac-tions to the draft lottery held that day."Waiting for the selection of their birth-day capsule and their military fate, boysin long hair and army jackets, in crewcuts and sport jackets, smoked cigar-ettes, chewed their nails and joked cyni-cally," the news story read. "As the firstdates were announced some cursed andstomped out. Others breathed a tenta-tive sigh of relief. * Somebody buy me adrink! Somebody buy me a drink!' IraSalzman '71 pleaded when he walked in-to the room and discovered he was No.3. * First time I ever won anything,' saidStuart Kendall '70. Both he and his bro-ther, 3 years older, are No. 1. 'It seemsto be dividing us up,' complained FredEisen '70, as each person found outwhether he was in the certain to bedrafted, uncertain, or safe groups. 'It'sa technique of the ruling class to divideand conquer,' Eisen said.

" 'It's a really healthy developmentto see everything out in the open, so peo-ple can see how sick the system really is,'said Jeffrey Punim '71, who didn'tknow his number because he 'didn'twant to face it.' 'It's a tragic comment-ary on the American scene that studentsmust gather around the television set tosee who's selected to die,' said RickOrloski, Law 77." —RL

The TeamsSoccer, 150-pound and freshman foot-ball, and women's tennis were providingbright spots among fall sports, withthree weekends remaining in the season.(See page 68 for final results.)

The soccer team extended its record to9 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie with wins overBrown 1-0, Dartmouth 2-1, and Syra-cuse 3-2, and a loss to Hartwick 1-2 in0:57 of a second overtime period. JackWriter's club had a 3-1 record in the IvyLeague.

Format of post-season NCAA tourna-ment play changed this year from a four-team elimination to determine a NewYork State entry in the Northeast finals,to selection of just two teams from thestate. Hartwick and Columbia rankedahead of Cornell with three weeks ofplay remaining.

The Red lost at least three starters in a

rough second half against Syracuse, Da-vid Levy '81 with broken ribs and a kid-ney injury, Eric Thornburg '82 with abroken nose, and Jong Hahn '83 with acut ankle.

The lightweight footballers finishedsecond to Army in their league, with a2-1-2 record, closing the season withwins over Penn 24-0 and Navy 17-6, anda 9-10 loss to Army. The team hadopened with scoreless ties against Rut-gers and Princeton.

Henry Reed '81 scored the Red touch-down after Army built up a ten-pointlead, going in on a 73-yard scamper. Aconversion and safety completed thescoring. Cornell was on the cadets' 17 atgame's end.

The freshman football team ran itsrecord to 4-1 after losing to Princeton15-24, by topping first Dartmouth 27-15and then Army 20-0. Tailback MarkMiller and fullback Derek Harmon wererushing leaders in the wins.

Women's tennis closed a 4-2 seasonwith a 5-2 win over St. Lawrence, andthen placed fifth in the state tourna-ment. Janice Gold '83 won the consola-tion tournament after reaching the quar-terfinal championship round in singles.

Bob Blackman's fourth season ashead coach of football was proving arugged one. His team had a 2-5 record,2-2 in Ivy competition and winless out-side the league, with three games re-maining.

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Brown pushed the Red aroundSchoellkopf on its way to a 32-25 victoryover the too-willing hosts. Three touch-downs in the last five minutes of the firsthalf proved fatal. Quarterback MikeRyan '81 had suffered a mild concussionin the first half, and his sub gave up twointerceptions and a fumble which led toBrown scores. Ryan rallied the team inthe second half, but could not overcomethe 26-10 half time lead.

Cold, wind, and driving rain took itstoll on the Homecoming crowd the fol-lowing weekend, but the Red scored ear-ly and its secondary held off the passingof vaunted Dartmouth quarterback JeffKemp in the late going to capture a sog-gy 7-3 win. ABC televized the game re-gionally. Ryan fired the winning score toAlva Taylor '82.

Bucknell beat Cornell 33-16 with thenation's leading college running back,Ken Jenkins, who gained 158 yards andscored three touchdowns. A poor punt,a dropped punt snap, and an intercep-tion of the Red all contributed to theloss.

Women's cross country finished sec-ond in the Bucknell Invitational, fourthin the Ivy meet, and eleventh in the East-erns. Ann Miller '82 was sixth at Buck-nell, seventh in the Ivies, and thirty-sixthin the Easterns, best finish ever in theevent for a Cornell woman.

Men's cross country finished sixteenthin the IC4As and sixth in the Heptagon-als. Mitch Dick '81 led the Redmen byplacing 50th in the IC4As and 18th in theHeps.

Women's field hockey closed out a3-9-2 year, with an 0-4-2 record in Ivycompetition. The volleyball team tiedfor third in the Ivy tournament and hada 15-13 record in previous play.

The men's rugby team won the Up-state title and stretched its record to 7-0.The women ruggers split four matches inan Upstate tourney.

The men's ultimate frisbee team ranits record to twenty-eight wins in a rowin the fall, including defeat of last year'snational champions, Glassboro State,then won the state eliminations on itsway to regional competition last month.

The men's lightweight crew placedthird in the annual Head of the CharlesRegatta in Boston.

Lance Nethery '79 moved up to theNew York Rangers of the NationalHockey League last month as a centerand scored in his first game.

Junior varsity baseball has beendropped as a sport, both for economyreasons and because the team was notfeeding players to the varsity.

John (Jay) Gallagher '74, a captain

and All-Ivy defenseman, is the new as-sistant coach of lacrosse. He comes fromRutgers and replaces Mike Waldvogel,new head coach at Yale.

Cornell's team had the best showingat the first All-Ivy Horse Show, held atPrinceton, taking seven firsts and twen-ty-seven ribbons in all.

Communications

The Sun RecalledEditor: I found your article, "My Pa-per, the Sun," in the [October] issue ofthe Cornell Alumni News both nostalgicand very interesting.

No doubt reaching back thirty yearsyou felt like an old-timer, but I can dou-ble you!

I entered Cornell in the fall of 1920,sixty years ago as compared with yourretrospective span of thirty years. Hav-ing whetted my appetite for journalismthrough service on a high school annual,I was eager to go out for the Sun.Though some of my friends tried to dis-suade me on the grounds that no one ofJewish faith had ever been taken on theeditorial staff, I, nevertheless, became acompetitor.

Naturally, I was both pleased and sur-prised when, at the end of the semesterin February 1921, another competitor,Jerome Thompson, and I were chosen. Ithoroughly enjoyed my year-and-a-halfas his associate editor of the Sun, andyour references to climbing up the hillafter midnight really brought forthpleasant memories. In my time, no onehad a private automobile.

I left Cornell at the end of my sopho-more year because I wanted to get mar-ried, and in those old-fashioned days be-lieved that one had to go to work first.Looking back, my activities on the Sunwere the most delightful experiences ofmy two years at Cornell. I congratulateall concerned on the Sun's 100th anni-versary.

Joseph L. Block '24Chicago

Bob Kane's Article

Editor: Congratulations to the AlumniNews for the October article, "OlympicStain." It is about time someone spokeout about the 1980 Olympics. This arti-cle confirrns facts which many believedand suspected.

Hopefully this article could be reprint-ed across our country in all alumni pub-

lications. My wife has made 200 copieswhich will be enclosed with our Christ-mas cards this year.

Robert J. Harley '41Weems, Va.

Saving the News

Editor: When is the Alumni News goingto offer binders for people who findeach issue a keepsake?

Every issue gets better than the onebefore!

Carol Sue Epstein Hai '60Rochester

A Year Lost

Editor: The recent news from Ithacaabout our latest gift to Cornell [Novem-ber News] has stirred a couple of myclass officers who want to know why I"divorced" myself from '25 after allthese years.

I had to take two leaves of absence asan undergrad, getting my AB in seventerms in February 1926. Up until Janua-ry 1925 I was at school with my class. Soplease restore me to the Class of '25.

Also, two of my three daughters areCornellians, Fay '50 and Peggy '53. Sal-ly is Smith '56. Both of Fay's childrengraduated from Cornell, Tony Suchman'75, MD '79 and Nancy '79.

PS: Your article about the Sun failedto mention another "first." I believeFay was the first woman's business man-ager, followed by Peggy in '53.

A.L. Binenkorb '25Jamesburg, NJ

To Promote Football

Editor: I would like to offer a suggestionthat might increase attendance at ourfootball games. I would like to see theschedule (times, dates, places) of gamesincluded on either the inside front orrear cover of August, September, andOctober Alumni News. People oftensave this magazine rather than the regu-

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lar ticket form. Even if attendance didnot go up, we would be more aware ofwhere the games were and who we wereplaying.

Donald E. Henn '52Hun ting ton

The News publishes the opponent, date,and place of each varsity football gameeach July in its news columns. The ath-letic department advertised the hour,price, and other ticket sales informationin earlier years, but discontinued usingthe News several years ago. Mr. Henn'sletter has been forwarded to the athleticdepartment. —Ed.

More Information

Editor: It is unfortunate that the story ofthe family of Helen (Shuie) Huie Kweiwas buried in the '20 class notes (Sep-tember News) where it would have a lim-ited readership, at best.

To think that from one alumna couldspring such fruits! My curiosity is piquedas to who her husband and parents were,to complete the picture.

Glenn H. Alberga '26Venice, Fla.

Helen Kwei '20 told her story in theApril 1979 News article '"Fifty-sevenYears in China." In that story she in-cluded information about her Americanmother; Chinese father, who was pastorof the University Place PresbyterianChurch in New York City; and her hus-band, Paul Kwei, MS '20. He taughtuniversity physics in China and followedan academic career. He died in1961.—Ed.

A Long-Time Reader

Editor: . . . We have been taking theNews for most of our sixty-two years ofmarriage—same address, same farm,two Cornell sons, six grandchildren, andthree greats.

Many years of teaching—local histo-ry. Nothing to brag about—but a goodlife!

Clara Koepka Trump '14Westfield

Mrs. Trump's husband is Leonard J.Trump, SpAg Ί3- '15, and their sons areFrederick L. Trump '49 and Roger B.Trump '51.—Ed.

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We had met in an English class earlyin September, and an immediate mu-tuality of interests emerged. Carlos in-vited me to his room in Professor HughC. Troy's house on Oak Avenue andproudly exhibited his morning coat,frock coat, and two sets of dueling pis-tols to my awed inspection.

Since Carlos lived in Peru and sinceneither he nor I had any other closefriends left in Ithaca over the Thanksgiv-ing holiday, we went to Johnny's onDryden Road for dinner, then walkedback across campus to the Phi Psihouse, where Carlos was a pledge.

As we sat before the fire, Carlos re-marked that it would be nice to have aglass of wine to lend enjoyment to theevening. I had visited Orestes' Villa onthe lake road and remarked that drinkscould be had there—but it was reachableonly by car. To my surprise, Carlos saidthat Harry Welty had left the keys to hiscar with him when Harry left for the hol-iday.

I had a driver's license, so we got intoHarry's green Dodge sedan and droveout to Orestes'. There we each had aglass (or two) of red Chianti and leftaround midnight.

About a mile from Orestes', theDodge ran out of gas. At the bottom ofthe hill, though, we could see a gas sta-tion, so we coasted right up to the pump.But, the station was closed. There wasnothing to do but stay in the car untilmorning, when the station would, pre-sumably, reopen. We dozed off.

Suddenly the doors on both sides ofthe car were thrown open, flashlightsblinded us, and we were loudly andharshly ordered to "come out with yourhands up." A car with the word "Sher-iff" painted on it blocked the Dodge.Three men pushed us toward thesheriff's car, applied handcuffs, anddragged us inside. We were driven to theIthaca jail just off State Street and wereimmediately put into a single steel cellwith one bunk.

Soon a movie-stereotype detective,complete with derby and cigar, strodeinto the cell and began asking rapid-firequestions. "Where did you pick up thecar?" "Where were you going?""Whose car is it?"

Carlos pleaded with me to tell himwhat the man was saying, repeating overand over, "George, we are in prison! Yono lo creo." (I don't believe it.)

Around 3 or 4 in the morning, I per-

suaded the detective to call ProfessorTroy. An hour later the grinning faces ofHugh and Frannie Troy appearedthrough the narrow slot in the steeldoor. We were led out, informed thatProfessor Troy had furnished $5,000bail, and told that we were to appear incourt before a Judge Crawford at 9:30that morning to answer a charge ofgrand larceny—theft of an automobile.

The Troys, still grinning, took us totheir house, where we washed, had cof-fee and toast, and sat around until 8:30,when we all went back downtown. Atthe courthouse another detective tookme aside and asked what I knew about astolen green Dodge. I was bewildered.

About 9:30 the district attorney askedus to "step into Judge Crawford'schambers." There, the judge stated thatthe crime had been solved, another miss-ing green Dodge recovered, and that ifwe would sign some "release papers"the charges against us would be dis-missed. We would be free to go.

We promptly signed the printedforms. The judge and the DA shook ourhands, said they were very sorry for theinconvenience and wished us well.

Carlos and I remained good friendsfor the next four years (each constantlyimproving in the other's language), andcorresponded occasionally thereafter.The last time I saw him was at GrandCentral Station some twenty years ago.The Troys and I remained friends untilHugh's death several years ago.

I went on to Law School and graduat-ed in 1934. I have often wondered, ifCarlos and I had not signed that release,but had sued for false arrest, could wehave had the City of Ithaca pay for theensuing four or more years of our educa-tion?

George A. Dickinson '32, LLB '34Dobbs Ferry

Correction

Mrs. Pauline Corson Coad of Savan-nah, Georgia writes to report that sheerred in a letter in the July issue whenshe said Margaret Titchener was marriedto Prof. Charles E. Bennett. They werenever married. Bennett married Marga-ret Gayle Hitchcock in 1886. MargaretTitchener, who was born in 1895, mar-ried Timothy Brown of Madison, Wis-consin.—Ed.

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FootnotesArthur S. Adams was a member of theadministrative staff at Cornell from1940, when he became assistant dean ofengineering, to 1948, when he resignedas provost to become president of theUniversity of New Hampshire. Forroughly half that time he was on leave asan officer in the Bureau of Naval Per-sonnel during World War II. I was assis-tant to the dean of Engineering when hearrived in Ithaca, followed him to theBureau of Naval Personnel, and re-turned to Cornell as assistant to the vicepresident for development.

We were especially close during 1943and 1944, when he was officer-in-chargeand I was his assistant in the CollegeTraining Unit (later Section) of the bu-reau. He was acknowledged, both in theNavy and among civilian educators, tobe the central figure in planning and ad-ministrating the Navy V-12 Program,which produced 150,000 officers duringits three years of operation.

But in 1945, with the rank of captain,he became director of the Administra-tion Division of Training, dealing withall naval training programs, and our as-sociation became less close. One of hismajor activities became his membershipon the Hollo way Board, which was plan-ning the Navy's postwar officer trainingprogram. Captain Adams had been urg-ing the appointment of such a board formany months.

I was not very clear about the mem-bership on the board, which was chairedby Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., al-though I knew there were civilian as wellas Navy representatives. Nor did I learnmuch about its procedure, although attimes I secured specific information thatCaptain Adams needed. I had no way ofestimating the importance of his contri-bution to the board's work.

Now the whole story has been told byAdmiral Holloway himself (with the as-sistance of a collaborator) in a first-per-son article, called, "A Gentlemen'sAgreement," in the September issue ofthe Naval Institute Proceedings. He liststhe members of the board and tells how,after studying several alternatives, theyagreed to recommend that the NavalROTC be enlarged and reorganized toproduce junior officers, in the numbersneeded, for the Regular Navy as well asfor the Naval Reserve—supplementing,of course, the output of the Naval Acad-emy. He relates the translation of theboard's report into legislation, the pas-sage of the bill by Congress, and its sign-ing by President Truman in the summer

of 1946. That legislation has been thebasic authority for the Navy's officertraining program for thirty-four years.

Then Admiral Holloway writes, "Thekey man in working this out was myclassmate Beanie Adams. He'd had agreat deal of experience in the V-7 andV-12 officer training programs early inthe war, and he was the one who devel-oped the techniques that were involvedin the NROTC Program. Then, after theplan was approved, he was in charge ofits implementation. He selected theschools, and his office evolved the meth-

od and organized the system of selectingand screening the candidates, who hadto be accepted by both the Navy and theschool. Beanie Adams was the real arch-itect of the Holloway Plan. It just had tohave a flag officer's name on it to makeit Navy."

(Note: Dr. Adams is known as "Bea-nie" in the Navy because of his academ-ic achievements at Annapolis.)

All Cornellians can take pride in thistribute to an officer of the universitywho was on leave for wartime service.

—Ray Howes '24

THE CORNELL WIDOWHundredth Anniversary Anthology

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That the Cornell Widow has not yet reached her one hundredth anniversary calls for explanation. OnOctober 4, 1894, The Widow appeared as the campus humor magazine, publishing from twelve to eightissues a year, and leaving behind an illustrious 70 year history steeped in tradition. Professor WilliamStrunk, who would write the book E.B. White later revised as The Elements of Style, proposed "TheWidow" as the humor magazine's name. He alluded to what was then known as the college widow or thegirl who bowled over class after class of freshmen without really landing one. The Little Lady became themagazine's guardian angel and its staff members referred to themselves as her suitors. She was drawn as afashionably dressed Gibson girl who graced the cover of many issues, appeared among its pages, and madeeditorial comments throughout the years. While The Widow told her readers in the first editorial "her onlydesire is that the meeting may afford them as much pleasure as she, herself, derives from it," there was onetask that brought her to campus in 1894 and which always seemed unfinished-to make The Cornell DailySun a readable newspaper.

Although The Widow stopped publishing in 1962, and subsequent resurrections were shortlived, TheCornell Daily Sun's hundredth anniversary celebration has beckoned The Widow to return to campus tomake sure a century of journalistic blunders aren't swept under the carpet. Because The Sun threatens topublish a historical centennial book, The Widow's successor, the Cornell Lunatic, has kept the Little I -"^Λ,not'for'profit corporation alive so she may assail The Sun's forthcoming publication with her own 22'. r_0_

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The Cornell Widow Hundredth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Joey Green, reprints cartoons,humorous pieces, and parodies in a historical collection of literary and artistic curiosities with reprintedmaterial by Willard Straight, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Harold Shreve, Andre Smith, Rym Berry, George JeanNathan, Kenneth Roberts, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dana Burnet, E.B. White, Morris Bishop, CharlesBaskerville, Hugh Troy, B.H. Friedman, Whitney Balliet, and C. Michael Curtis. Several celebrity issuesfeatured material furnished especially for The Widow by distinguished professionals including Rube Gold'berg, George Montgomery Flagg, Jefferson Machamer, George McManus, Bud Fisher, Otto Soglow, andWalt Kelly. Widow alumni have graciously authored recollective pieces and suggested inclusions for thebook. The anthology also includes selections from The Widow's full'scale magazine parodies of theAmerican Magazine, H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, judge, Police Gazette, The Cornell Alumni T^ews,The J^ew Ύor^er, Time, Seventeen, Loo\, Punch, and Playboy, as well as the first collection of Cornell DailySun parodies. And the S1/: x 11 inch softback is designed to preserve the original format of The Widow witha comprehensive and entertaining history of her stay at Cornell.

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Fowr illuminated texts from the University Libraries:Above, facing pages from a French prayerbook of the early15th century, painted by different artists. In a quiet, elegantstyle, the first page portrays the angel Gabriel telling Maryshe mil bear Jesus. The second page, in-a busier, more elab-orate style, features the Christian trinity in the letter 'D' andborder angels. The illustration is about four-fifths full size.At right, from the Lombard Gradual of the mid-15th centu-ry, an opulent *B* opens the song for the Feast of the Arch-angel Michael. One-fifth full size.Opposite page, left, from the Homilies of the VenerableBede of the late llth century, an early decorative initial let-ter. About two-thirds full size.Opposite page, right, from a French prayerbook of the mid-15 th century painted by Flemish artists, shepards dressed asnorthern Europeans in their own countryside learn of thebirth of Jesus. This is a part of a full page that also includeselaborate border foliage. Two-thirds size.

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aude amus ! * *chanted a choir ofmonks in theirchapel among thehills of Lombardyon an August morn-ing in the mid-15thcentury. It was theides of the month,

the feast day of the Ascension of Maryinto heaven, and the monks' song calledupon all to rejoice.

In front of the singers on a sturdybookstand lay a huge new choirbook, orgradual. The leather binding, tooled indecorative patterns, was armored withstamped brass plates bristling withspikes and hubs to protect the book andexpress the power of God. The gradual's

Three scholars who scoured Europe in the 1880sacquired for the University Libraries

vivid examples of the Renaissance art of illuminating

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massive dimensions—almost two feettall and more than three feet broad whenspread open for use—ensured that eachchanter could easily read its large Gothicscript and black notes on red staffs.Nearly every aspect of the volume wasawesomely large.

But the monks' gaze also encounteredsomething of a different spirit—rich andimaginative, delicate and light-hearted—although its splendor could only be fullyappreciated by those closest to the page.The first letter of "Gaudeamus" wasnearly seven inches square and fashion-ed of frothy, swirling billows of cheerfulpinks and blues; and it was surroundedby a beaming host of yellow-green an-gels, all displayed on a background ofglinting gold leaf.

Within the letter, in illustration of thelyrics, a bevy of golden cherubim wereseen lifting Mary heavenward. Behindher floated more winged angels, playingmelodies on pipe organ, flute and tri-angle, lute and violin; their plump faces

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and tiny mouths were sweetly aristo-cratic. But it was upon the image ofMary that the artist had lavished hismost precious pigments and metals. Herpearl-edged, brocaded robe was paintedwith a lapis lazuli hue of blue, importedfrom the Orient; her inner garment wasbrushed with fine silver; and her crownand halo shone with burnished gold.

Some four hundred years later, thisvolume—one of the very few of its kindand quality that have survived the cen-turies in almost perfect condition—is thecrown jewel of a distinguished Cornellcollection of fifty-four illuminatedmedieval and Renaissance manuscripts.Preserved in the Noyes Rare BookRoom of Olin Library, the collectionspans five hundred years of WesternEuropean manuscript production, andranges from liturgical books used in therites of the medieval Church to editionsof the philosophical writings of Ciceroglossed by humanistic scholars.

Prof. Robert G. Calkins, an historian

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of medieval art who specializes in manu-scripts, has provided an excellent defini-tion of illumination in his introductionto the illustrated catalogue of the Cor-nell collection (now out of print)."Strictly speaking," he writes, "an illu-minated manuscript is a handwrittenbook, usually on vellum, in which gold,silver, or bright colors are used to pro-vide added brilliance to decorative ini-tials, painted miniatures, or border dec-oration."

Besides the monks* massive tome,known as the Lombard Gradual, theuniversity's illuminated manuscripts col-lection includes two other volumes ofthe highest quality. One, an elegantFrench prayerbook, or Book of Hours,of the early 15th century, contains someforty full-page, half-page, or marginalillustrations, and sparkles with borderfoliage painted in pigment and gold onalmost every page. The other, a compila-tion of Petrarch's sonnets and songs,was made in Florence, the center of theearly Renaissance, and reflects that age'ssearch for a new clarity in script and art.

Appropriately enough, each of thesethree superlative books was purchasedby a different member of the trio whoassembled the bulk of the collection inthe late 19th century—the LombardGradual by George Lincoln Burr, 1881,an historian and long-time curator of theAndrew Dickson White Library; theFrench Book of Hours by White him-self, the university's first president, whocould not resist its border grotesques;and the Petrarch Trionfi by D. WillardFiske, the university's first librarian andan energetic gatherer of rare Italian andIcelandic books.

The remainder of Cornell's manu-scripts reflects, to a greater or lesser de-gree, the ordinary standards of book il-lumination of their time and place. Afew of these are fragments of once com-plete books; others are whole books onlyminimally decorated with a lavish fron-tispiece or a few ornamented initials.Some fifteen, though, are full volumeswith splendid programs of illumination.

"Cornell has a relatively small collec-tion, compared to some other major uni-versities," remarks Calkins. "Yet,beyond the three special books, the restof the collection is important because itgives a good cross-section of averagemanuscript production and decoration,particularly in France and Italy duringthe 15th century." A knowledge of such"typical" manuscripts is vital for dis-covering relationships between variousschools of book ornamentation and forunderstanding how workshops of artistsand scribes operated in the Middle Ages.

The Olin manuscripts are a boon tograduate students of Calkins and Prof.James J. John of the history depart-ment, who teaches paleography, thestudy of formal handwriting through theages. "I think that one of the majorstrengths of the collection is that manyof the manuscripts are average—andtherefore more accessible for the use ofqualified students," concludes Calkins."Students are rarely allowed to go nearcollections of the highest order."

Prof. Creighton Gilbert, a scholar ofRenaissance art, mentions another nota-ble aspect of the collection: its history."The manner in which the Cornellmanuscripts were collected," he ex-plains, "is one of those special, progres-sive things about Cornell that has gottenswallowed up by the passing of time—like coeducation and non-sectarianism."

For one thing, says Gilbert, most ofthe books have been together under thesame roof for the better part of a cen-tury, an unusual stretch of continuityfor an American manuscript library.More important, White, Fiske, and Burrshowed a precocious respect for the in-tegrity of parchment books from coverto cover, anticipating the principles ofcodicology, the modern science of bookstructure.

Gilbert emphasizes that each mansought to buy whole volumes wheneverhe could, not merely the mutilated cut-tings and clippings of paintings or ini-tials commonly sold to art hoarders dur-ing the 19th century. This was quite anenlightened attitude for the 1870s, wheneven the most vocal champion of theMiddle Ages could note in his diary—asdid the otherwise sensitive English arthistorian John Ruskin—that he had"spent the day cutting up an illuminatedMissal: hard work."

he Assumption ofMary is by nomeans the LombardGradual ' s onlypainting: it containseleven comparableminiatures depictingevents like the Birthof John the Baptist

and the Imprisonment of St. Peter, aswell as fifteen smaller portraits of saints.Each is painted inside the initial letter ofone of the chants that open the major

feasts of the Church year. Often, thedecoration of the letter itself is ascreatively flamboyant as the illumina-tion within.

When the metal-laden front cover islifted to reveal the first leaf, for in-stance, one's gaze alights upon a six-inch-tall lacework "D" glowing in richred and green and filled with twining,flowering plants. Inside, Jesus stands onshore calling his first two apostles, thefishermen Peter and Andrew: "Followme," he has just said, "and I will makeyou fishers of men." Andrew places hishand over his heart but remains in thefishing boat, while Peter—though stillclinging to a fishnet—strides forcefullythrough the swirling green water towardJesus. Behind the figures is a jewel-likelandscape of spires and tiny cities risingon mountains under a cloud-filled sky.

Other initials throughout the bookhave been transformed into dreamlikearchitecture. The structure of one opu-lent "B," for instance, consists of a bal-conied turret and red-roofed buildingsfrom which children wave pennants andblow trumpets in praise of God. Inside,surrounded by his seraphim, God sitsenthroned on a flaming sunburst.

Nor are the ordinary pages—thosewithout miniatures—much less impres-sive, with their thick music staffs andinch-tall lines of lyrics. Some contain ini-tials with painted foliage and manyboast smaller inked capitals alive withpen flourishes. Close inspection of theseflourishes might reveal the comical pro-file of a bulbous-nosed fool or a snarlinglion's head. With their music, lyrics, ru-brics, and initials, these "common"pages are powerful abstract designs inred and black.

Merely watching as the choirbook'spages are turned excites admiration for atime when any book was quite valuablein its own right, and ineffably more pre-cious as the physical repository of God'sWord. But admiration turns to awewhen the intensely and exclusivelyhuman process of creating a medievalmanuscript is understood—and traces ofthis process are evident throughout theLombard Gradual.

The hides of scores of slaughteredcalves provided the vellum for the Grad-ual's leaves. Only a calf was largeenough to yield the two-by-three-footrectangles of skin needed for the double-page bifolios which, when gathered andfolded, formed the book's body (sheepor goat hide might have sufficed for asmaller book). Each calfskin had to besoaked in lime water to loosen its hairsand absorb its oils. Each was then rins-ed, stretched, scraped, and allowed to

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dry on a frame. Even today, the hair fol-licles of 15th century cattle are clearlyvisible on leaves throughout the Grad-ual.

After the dry bifolios were trimmed tosize, the scribe ruled each leaf with softgray lines—also easily seen today—toguide his placement of music and text.He inked tiny letters ("ai, aii, aiii, aiiij")in the lower corner of each sheet to indi-cate to the binder how each group offour bifolios should be stacked into afolded gathering, and wrote catchwordson the last leaf of each of the twenty-four gatherings to show the proper se-quence for binding the whole volume.These signatures and catchwords canstill be seen. Finally, the scribe began thegrueling labor of inscribing words andmusic on each of 386 pages, perhapswith the assistance of an apprentice.

Only when the scribe had finishedcould the artists begin painting the illus-trations—called miniatures, not becauseof their diminutive size, but because ofmanuscript illuminators' frequent use ofthe red pigment known as minium. Theartistic program of the book, however,had been decided—whether by the mas-ter artist or by his patron—well beforethe scribe began his work, because theletterer had to know where to leave emp-ty blocks of creamy vellum for futurepaintings. Because the Gradual's minia-tures were all to be inside initials, thescribe, who knew his Latin well, hadpenned key letters off in the margins—many of which still exist—to guide theartists, whose linguistic abilities mightpale beside his own. The artist, depend-ing on his skill and temperament, reliedon varying proportions of traditionaland original ideas while sketching in hisscenes with a lead stylus.

Then the painting began. But it is al-most impossible for a modern viewer toimagine the extraordinary toil requiredto prepare the pigments and adhesivesfor just one miniature—say, the Martyr-dom of St. Lawrence on the back of thebook's fifty-first leaf.

Consider the rich blue sky behind thetorturers who use prongs to flip over St.Lawrence as he roasts on a grill. Thestone yielding this color had to be im-ported from Persia, ground for hours ina bronze bowl, and the resulting grayishpowder kneaded in with a goo of resin,wax, and gum. Three days later, lye waspoured over this glob, drained off, andallowed to dry until the precious bluepowder remained. Only the wealthiestclients could afford this ultramarine("from over the sea") blue. And howabout the brilliant scarlet of the fountainbefore the arcade and below the pea-

cock? This pigment—if it is vermilion—was the result of medieval alchemy, inwhich sulphur and mercury were heatedin a retort until deposits formed on theglass above. Though black, this sub-stance, when thoroughly ground, yield-ed a fine red. And so on for the otherdozen or more pigments used in thepainting.

Nor was this all, for the preparationof suitable adhesives to bind the rawpigments to the vellum cost more longhours, with different colors requiringdifferent adhesives. Blues might workbest with a gelatin formed by boilingparchment scraps in spring water;deeper colors might stick better with thegum from cherry or plum trees; delicateshades might be enhanced by usingbeaten egg whites mixed with a dab ofwax from the artist's own ear to breakup the frothy bubbles; reds might bemade richer by adding egg yolks. Somepainters even resorted to spreading theirpigments with white wine or stale beer.And, of course, the artist had to makehis own brush.

The application of gold was anotherlaborious task, involving the mixing of asticky amalgam of adhesives, soapy redearth called bole, plaster of Paris, andbee's honey. This thick pinkish sub-stance was brushed over the portions ofthe miniature to be gilded. Extremelythin gold leaf was then laid upon it, andburnished for hours with an animaltooth. Here and there in the St. Law-rence illumination, some of this gold hasflaked off over the centuries, revealingthe original pink bole.

A fine medieval book represents thepursuit of perfection in every aspect ofits creation.

urning through thefirst few leaves, orfolios, of the secondfinest book in theCornell collection—the French prayer-book of the early15th cen tu ry—opens up a new

world of elegance. Here, everything istiny, delicate, refined. The little pages,less than eight inches tall and six incheswide, shimmer with graceful loops ofpainted ivy vines rooted in gilded staves.The lines of formal Gothic script alter-nate in rich reds, blues, and browns.

But what can be the purpose of thegrotesques sporting and prancing to theleft of these calendar pages, which aresupposed to set forth the dates of reli-gious holidays? Why does an eagle-foot-ed archer dressed in white aim an arrowat the sky? Or a musician pound hisdrum while sitting astride a half-humanbeast?

And there, on the right-hand pages:how did these tiny vignettes of everydaylife find their way into a book of devo-tion? Framed in a golden roundel, anobleman carries a falcon on his armand rides a steed decked in green. On an-other page, a peasant threshes grain in atattered white garment whose rips barehis stomach. Elsewhere, a man in a tubtramples purple grapes into wine, andanother shakes acorns from oaks to feedwild boars.

These peculiarities and other contrastsbetween this French Book of Hours andthe Lombard Gradual are easily explain-ed by the functions of the two books.True, both were religious volumes sanc-tioned by the medieval Church. But theGradual was a communal, ceremonialmanuscript. Massiveness was a desirablequality for a choirbook valued chiefly asan impressive contribution to the ser-vices of the Church.

However, a Book of Hours—sonamed after devotions to be spoken byits owner at the eight canonical hours ofthe day—was a personal possession. Itssmall size and delicacy befitted the inti-mate role it played in the owner's privatespiritual life. At the same time, lavishembellishment made it a precious mate-rial object gratifying the possessor'spride and sense of beauty.

Thus, much of the decoration of Cor-nell's fine Book of Hours was intendedto appeal to the taste of its originalworldly owner, who was delighted—justas President White was when he boughtthe book in 1889—by the four hundredor so grotesques inhabiting its leaves. Itwas entertaining to discover such sur-prisingly satiric portrayals as a struttingbird wearing the scarlet garb of a Churchcardinal. Moreover, the inclusion ofscenes of everyday living on the calendarpages effectively related the saints' daysto the seasonal rhythms of life: the grainthreshing of August, for instance, or thewine pressing of October.

For all this, Books of Hours were seri-ous prayerbooks and sincerely used assuch, and all fifteen major miniatures ofthis French manuscript depict Christianimages. Perhaps the finest of theseshows the angel Gabriel announcing toMary that she will bear Jesus. This An-nunciation painting, like every other ma-

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Martyrdon of St. Lawrence, from theLombard Gradual. Three-fourths size.

jor miniature, serves to introduce a prin-cipal division of the text—in this case,not only the Hours of the Virgin, butalso its first subdivision, correspondingto the hour of "matins." Other largeminiatures—all illustrating milestones inthe life of Mary such as the Nativity ofJesus and the Flight into Egypt—opendevotions to be said at the remainingseven hours.

It is clear even to the casual observerthat at least two and perhaps three dif-ferent artists created these miniatures. Inthe Annunciation, for example, the em-phasis is on the full figures of Mary andGabriel. Mary, in particular, is supreme-ly sophisticated, her gold-edged bluerobe falling in graceful curves; her coun-tenance serene, confident, and queenly;her fingers long and fastidiously parted.Clearly, this artist is principally in-trigued by human personality and form.

But in the Nativity miniature, whichopens the hour of "prime" of the Hoursof the Virgin, a second artist delightschiefly in bright colors. Mary lies on ablazing red-orange mattress wearing astarkly contrasting royal blue garment;even the woven reed floor mat below islined with a rich maroon. Mary andJoseph, rather than being full-bodied

and emotionally complex, are flat andcaricatural.

Distinguishing between the artists re-sponsible for a manuscript is one of themost fascinating problems of medievalscholarship. When studying an era inwhich most works of art were madeanonymously, how does an art historianascertain who painted important bookssuch as the Lombard Gradual and theFrench Book of Hours? Often the ques-tion is unanswerable. But with surprisingfrequency, the riddle can be solved,sometimes through years of diligent re-search, and sometimes with the suddenlight of a moment's discovery. Theformer was the case with the Gradual,and the latter for one artist of the Bookof Hours.

When Professor Calkins began orga-nizing an exhibition of medieval art forthe former Andrew Dickson White Mu-seum of Art in 1968, the Lombard Grad-ual was all but unknown, and had col-lected dust on rare book room shelvesfor decades. "It was dismissed by every-one," recalls Calkins, "and shown onlyas a fine example of 15th-century tooledbookbinding."

One look at the unusual miniatures in-side, however, convinced him that thebook was special. He soon realized thatthe manuscript was "a major example of

the International Gothic art style aspracticed in Milan about 1440 or so."

Milan was then the capital of the Vis-conti dukes, who had close relationswith the court of France and thus withcurrent European art styles. The Inter-national Gothic style was halfway be-tween the spiritualized art of the earlyMiddle Ages and the realism of the Re-naissance, and it emphasized courtlysplendor and opulent display. These lat-ter qualities were richly cultivated by theVisconti dukes.

By the time Calkins's museum exhibi-tion appeared that October, the profes-sor had discerned some relationships be-tween the graduaPs miniaturist andother contemporary Milanese artists.But it was not until several months laterthat the decisive revelation came.

"I remember being in my office about11 o'clock one night and shoutingΈureka!' " says Calkins, recalling witha smile the instant when he first realizedthat the graduaPs artist had painted de-tails on his initials—an odd, beardedpraying figure, for instance, and a schol-ar reading in a wobbly stilted niche-nearly identical to details painted by oneBelbello da Pavia in a famous Book ofHours produced for the Visconti dukes.However, other stylistic particularsmade it plain that the gradual was not il-luminated by Belbello.

About this time Calkins became in-creasingly curious about an anonymousLombard artist known to art scholarshipas the "Master of the Franciscan Bre-viary," who displayed an affinity withthe style of Belbello. Supported by agrant, he spent much of the summer of1969 searching through the museums ofItaly for clues. Seeing original manu-scripts by the Master convinced Calkinsthat "the Lombard Gradual was not on-ly painted by the Master of the Fran-ciscan Breviary, but the best survivingwork known to be by his hand." The re-lationship between the Master and Bel-bello was close, indeed: Calkins suspectsthat they collaborated in the same work-shop.

By contrast, attribution of border il-luminations in the French Hours to theartist Petrus Gilbert!, who worked inParis around 1408 to 1418, was remark-ably simple. Several scholars had thor-oughly examined the book, but it wasnot until 1975—when graduate studentAllen Farber, PhD '80 was lookingthrough the book over the shoulder ofanother student he was helping—thatanyone noticed a tiny "PG" monogram,in white on an ornament at the begin-ning of the Hours of the Virgin.

The initials struck a bell in Farber's

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mind, and he was instantly convincedthey must be Gilbert!'s. During a 1977seminar, Farber found other Ps and Gsin two ornamented capitals. And thenstudent Susan Straight '70 found thekey: hidden on a little pink, blue, andgold bar on the back of folio 196 waswhite filigree lettering that read "PetrusGilberti me fecit/' meaning, "PetrusGilbert! made me." "It was written inthe same white zig-zags that were on theregular ornaments, so if you weren'tlooking for it, you probably wouldn'tnotice it," recalls Straight.

About six or seven extant manuscriptscontain Gilberti's signature, includingBibles in London and Brussels. "Gil-berti seems to have specialized in suchsecondary decoration as initials andborders, and seems not to have paintedminiatures," explains Farber. "Thepoint worth making," summarizes Cal-kins, "is that there is so much minutedetail in a medieval book that it is easyto miss something exciting like this, sim-ply because one is looking at largerthings, like the miniatures."

Ithough it was anage of a single faith,medieval Europeproduced an aston-ishing wealth andvariety of books.True, most were re-ligious. In the Cor-nell collection

alone, fully thirty-seven of the fifty-oddmanuscripts are wholly or principallyChristian. But these span a wide spec-trum of liturgical and devotional andscholarly intentions—and every medie-val manuscript is, after all, unique, sim-ply because of its individual creation byhuman hands.

Consider the books a single cathedralmight possess for its services: sacramen-taries and missals setting forth the rite ofthe mass for celebrant and congregation;evangelisteries and epistolaries excerpt-ing the gospels and the letters of St.Paul; graduals for the choir; and bene-dictionals and pontificals for the priestand bishop—not to mention Bibles andgospelbooks. Then, for the nearby mon-astery, manuscripts containing the se-quence of devotions to be said throughthe week: psalters, breviaries, antiph-onals—and, for the laity, Books ofHours.

A brief excursion through a few repre-sentative Cornell manuscripts will notonly hint at the breadth of medievalbook production, but illustrate severaltrends of history and art:

• Three detached leaves from theHomilies of Venerable Bede, one of onlytwo Cornell manuscripts dating perhapsfrom the late llth century, hints at theoriginal idea which sparked medieval il-lumination and set it apart from themanuscript art of the Romans and Egyp-tians.

In classical times, a painted miniaturefunctioned much as a photograph doesin a modern textbook: it depicted eventsliterally described in the text and occu-pied a distinct position on the page. Butthe ascetic Irish and Anglo-Saxonmonks of the 7th and 8th centuries creat-ed a wholly new concept of illumination.First, they sought to illustrate not picto-rial events, but—through intricately in-terlaced letters and wondrously complexornaments—the energy of God himself,as embodied in the words of his scrip-ture. Second, they tried to brfog every el-ement of the page, from individual let-ters to minute decorations, together intoaesthetic unity. And finally, unlike theRomans, they painted books not tocreate worldly splendor, but to glorifyGod.

The monks' swirling designs—pre-served for us in such monuments ofworld art as the Book of Kells—are likewound springs charged with heavenlyelectricity. The initials of Cornell'swrinkled leaves of Bede are embellishedwith interlace patterns reflecting overthe centuries the innovations of themonks of the British Isles.

• A new, youthful Gothic spirit dwellsin a thick copy of Gervaise of Tilbury'sMarvels of the World, a medieval na-tural history of the earth describing fara-way places and peoples through fables,fancy—and, occasionally, fact.

This manuscript, dating from about1300, is delightful testimony to the slowawakening of the medieval mind to thesights of the earth. Though its"official" decoration included only oneformal frontispiece picture, a standardportrait of Gervaise presenting his workto the German emperor Otto IV, a laterscholar has added a wonderfully livelyseries of pen drawings accompanying ex-planatory notes in the book's margins.

In addition to sketching little handswith curving fingers "pointing out" im-portant passages, this scholar—whosigned himself Johanni Marcelio—has il-lustrated everything from the rivers ofParadise to Mount Olympus. On onepage, a burning phoenix rises above a

"pyre" of marginal notes; on another, apygmy arrayed in the armor of a Frenchknight points a tournament lance at alarge tropical bird. The rare bookroom's Bill Johnson translatesGervaise's nearby text: "In the moun-tains of India there are pygmies of twocubits in height . . ."

• Such border drolleries were ances-tors to the grotesques, fools, and lions'heads inhabiting Cornell's fine Frenchprayerbook and the Lombard Gradual,both produced a century or more laterduring the early 15th century—the ageof the courtly International Gothic artstyle. Now, illuminators gave increasingprominence to miniatures recreating theappearance of the physical world and tosumptuous borders which would appealto wealthy patrons. The advancing real-ism and secular content of such paint-ings began to undermine the careful aes-thetic and spiritual unity of miniature,decoration, and text which had charac-terized medieval illumination ever sincethe days of the Irish monks.

The concept of the ornamented Wordof God was being gradually forgotten;extravagantly wrought books were in-creasingly regarded as personal objectsof art, or "jewels," as one French dukecalled them.

• A small Dutch Book of Hours of thelate 1400s exemplifies the trend to pri-vate worship and book ownership. Evenas manuscripts were now being deco-rated by urban workshops instead ofcloisters and even as sales to individualswere outstripping commissions bychurch or royal patrons, so quiet, per-sonal devotion was gaining at the ex-pense of public worship.

In this book, personal touches are su-preme. It is written in Dutch, the every-day language of its owners, and the peo-ple in its paintings resemble little Dutchchildren with blond hair and smiling redlips. Its border decorations includenative strawberries and red oak leaves.Birth and death records of the van derDungen family added to its final pagesattest to a long history of intimate use.

In a sense, though, this Dutch bookechoes a death knell. Its text follows atranslation composed a century earlierby the reformer Geert Groote, whopreached in Holland against the sins ofChurch and society alike. It was theschools of his Brothers of the CommonLife that nurtured the Protestant re-formers of the early 16th century. Thedual advent of the printing press andProtestant theology, which forbade theintrusion of worldly extravagance intoreligion, signaled the end of the Age ofIllumination.

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LittleExtravagancesThe stories of the discovery and pur-chase of the Noyes Rare Book Room'stwo finest illuminated books—the 15thcentury French Hours and the LombardGradual—offer colorful insights into thelives of the three men who built Cor-nell's collection: Andrew DicksonWhite, Daniel Willard Fiske, and Prof.George Lincoln Burr. Their instinctivelove for books and boundless joy in col-lecting them brought all but a dozen ofthe university's embellished manuscriptsto Ithaca.

In spring 1885 the 28-year-old Burrwas in Europe studying, sightseeing,choosing books for White's personallibrary, and perusing witchcraft manu-scripts for his thesis. Burr was White'sprotege—the president had hired him asa sophomore to grade the papers ofjuniors and seniors. In later years, hewould be a history professor and curatorof the White Library, where he wouldassemble a distinguished witchcraft col-lection.

Burr arrived in Florence on May 2 fora ten-day stay with Fiske, Cornell's firstlibrarian and the widower of JennieMcGraw, donor of the Tower chimes.Fiske, always the romanticist—hishoneymoon with Jennie featured a pri-vate journey down the Nile in a Persian-carpeted boat with a staff of twenty-four—lived in a Renaissance palazzoadorned with chandeliers, vaulted ceil-ings, and three-hundred-year-old fres-coes. "Prof. Fiske lives like a prince. Hisbooks! His Italian patriotism!" wrote anastonished Burr in his diary.

Fiske had resigned his librarianshipand moved to Italy in 1883 after the firstrumblings of the Great Will Case—acri-monious litigation spanning a decadeconcerning a million dollars given Cor-nell in Jennie's will. With Fiske went hisfamous Icelandic and Petrarchan bookcollections, both to be l^queathed to theuniversity at his death in 1904. The giftincluded five illuminated manuscripts,one now the third most valuable ownedby Cornell.

Burr was making the πtost-of his Ital-ian sojourn. He had already climbedMount Vesuvius and bought orangesand lemons fresh from the trees. Flor-

ence was no exception: he explored thecathedral and museums, probed Mi-chaelangelo's fortifications, and touredthe flower-decked rural villa of theMedici, which Fiske was urging White tobuy (the president wasn't interested).

But Burr chiefly delighted in scroung-ing through the second-hand bookstoresof each city he visited, at a time when a1632 first edition of Galileo could bebought for $5. "Oh, the joys of thoseWanderjahrel" recalled Burr in 1902."What precious scraps may lurk amongthe coins and armor of the antiquary'sden! What rare old parchment may notbe rescued from the rag-dealer before heweighs it out by the ounce to the gold-beaters! Yes, and the private-hoards, therummage of castle-chests and peasant-garrets, the hermit-lairs of the art-misers, the cabinets of canny schoolmas-ters!"

May 8 was a cloudy and gusty day.Burr and Fiske's friend Horace Kephartlunched at a garden cafe and strolled in-to the bookstore of Luigi Gonnelli, whoshowed them four illuminated manu-scripts he was trying to dispose of. Andthere they were: the Lombard Gradual;another gradual with huge flourish in-itials in red, blue, orange, and gold-flecked pigment; and a smaller brilliant-ly painted antiphonal. These three wereall from Milan, and a fourth 14th-cen-tury church manual filled with "a vastmass of miniatures, initials, and orna-ments" came from Ferrara. Burr poredover these "wonderful old manuscripts"until dusk.

The next day Burr began a long letterto White, who was in Ithaca and had en-gaged him to probe Fiske's feelingsabout the will case. Burr's report wasmixed: "Though extremely bitter to-ward Mr. Sage and Judge Boardman,and contemptuous as regards their man-agement of things at Ithaca, he alwaysspeaks kindly of the university itself."

Then Burr described in great detail hismarvelous discoveries at Gonnelli's,dwelling especially on the LombardGradual. "But the richest of my dis-coveries," wrote Burr, "is a choirbook,as handsome in every way as those ofSiena or San Marco. It is in superb pres-ervation, the binding being . . . richlystamped calf, with brass bosses on sidesand edges. . . . It contains fifty minia-tures, as fine in workmanship as any-thing of the sort I ever saw; the initialsare, of course, countless."

But the decision to buy rested withWhite, so Burr composed a long list of

trans-Atlantic telegraph codes:"Forms for Telegram . . . 1. Buy fin-

est choirbook at 2000 francs = Tiske,Florence: Buy.' 2. Buy second choir-book at 700 francs = Tiske, Florence:Kaufe.' 3. Buy third choirbook at 300francs = Tiske, Florence: Achetez.'[and so on, in various permutations,concluding with] 13. Buy Ptolemy andall the others = Tiske, Florence:Tutti.' "

White received Burr's letter on May25, and immediately telegraphed, "FiskeFlorence Italy Tutti White." And theLombard Gradual was his, and soonCornell's.

That same day, White wrote a letter toFiske explaining, half apologetically,that "hard as the times are, I do not feelthat I ought to let such things go"—andquickly adding that in a pinch, Gonnel-li's price of 3,000 lire for the best bookshould be met. White's language con-cealed his eagerness to receive the manu-scripts: almost every White letter to Burrover the next three months mentions hishope they will soon arrive.

After White wired money, Kephartbought the gradual and its three com-panions on the morning of July 2 for3,400 lire—about $820 in 1885 currency.Burr, in the meantime, had hiked acrossthe Alps on his way to Trier, where hewould soon bring to light a 16th-centurywitchcraft manuscript that had been lostto scholarship for three centuries.

White always frankly admitted hislove for finely crafted and illustratedbooks. Indeed, when the gradual arrivedin Ithaca he prominently displayed it ona carved French bookstand in his study.Yet his public writings betray hints of aneed to justify his most precious acquisi-tions. Describing his 40,000 volume li-brary in his Autobiography, Whiteproudly mentions his medieval manu-scripts amassed over four decades, hisoriginal editions of the works of MartinLuther and Erasmus, and his FrenchRevolutionary assignats, documents,and broadsides.

But he is quick to emphasize that "myreason for securing such original mate-rial was not the desire to possess raritiesand curiosities. I found that passages ac-tually read from important originalsduring my lectures gave a reality and viv-idness to my instruction which were oth-erwise unattainable. . . . No rhetoriccould impress on a class the real spiritand strength of the Middle Ages as couldone of my illuminated Psalters or Mis-sals."

White's ideal of teaching history

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President White in his library. Book-stand at left holds the LombardyGradual, also shown in the inset.

through living documents was sincere,and a progressive concept. But his pri-vate letters and diaries reveal the otherside of the coin: his almost childlike de-light in the discovery and purchase ofbibliographic treasures culled from thedusty bookshelves of European book-handlers. It was White's susceptibilitywhen face-to-face with an unusuallybeautiful hand-painted manuscript thatbrought Cornell the elegant FrenchBook of Hours of c. 1410.

One of White's favorite bookstoreswas owned by the German dealer JosephBaer, and located—very appropriately-near the Johannes Gutenberg monumentin Frankfurt-am-Main. White wouldtravel far out of his way simply tobrowse through Baer's store, frequentlydining with the owner after makingthousands of dollars worth of pur-chases. White's camaraderie with Baerirked Burr, who claimed that Baer hadonce tried to sting him with a fake "pro-vincial French catalogue" of revolution-ary tracts at exorbitant prices.

On September, 12, 1889, while rum-maging through the German's "wonder-ful stock," White came across theFrench book with its glittering ivy leafborders and miniatures stylistically re-lated to books made for the Valois royalcourt. He could not resist the little vol-ume, though its price of 1,700 marks wasmore than he could immediately afford.He resorted to a 19th century anticipa-tion of the installment plan. "Thiscloses, I trust, my bibliographical ex-travagances," he scribbled that eveningin his diary.

Seven days later White confided toBurr, with underlined words, that hehad just bought "an exquisite Missal

with very quaint grotesque borders un-like any other I ever saw, of about1400." Sensitive to his commitment tobuy hundreds of printed books for theUniversity Library, White hastened toassure Burr that "this is my own little ex-travagance, and you are not to let ittrouble you. It will not hinder the pur-chase of any other books." Later in thesame letter, White returned to the sametheme: "Baer will take back anything,even the manuscript if you don't likeit."

Burr did like it, as White well knew hewould, and the splendidly decoratedmanuscript has remained with Cornellever since, first in the private readingroom of the Andrew Dickson Whitemansion, then in the treasure vault do-nated to the old University Library byAndrew Carnegie, and now in a speciallyconstructed protective case on theshelves of the Noyes Rare Book Room.

It is largely because of the "little ex-travagances" that White felt compelledto apologize for and the book buyingacumen of the reticent Burr and the ro-mantic Fiske that Cornell scholars cangaze upon actual chapters from the lifeand thought of the Middle Ages. —JS

DECEMBER 1980

The Welsh Are Like ThatBy Emmanuel Winters '32

For eleven months of the year my fatherwas just as meek and mild a miner asanyone could wish for in this beautifuland unbelievable world. For those elev-en months he was also an ideal husbandand a perfect father. But on the twelfthmonth of every year my father weιχtcompletely triad. He became so en-thralled with music to the exclusion ofeverything else that his gentleness turnedsour, his tongue rattled boastfully, andhis meekness became pride raving like atiger.

My father had the sweetest tenor voicein or out of any mine in the state ofPennsylvania. That was the wonderfulpart.

He had been winning the local eistedd-fod prize for ten years straight withoutanyone to compete with him. That wasthe boastful part. The possibility that hemight lose his crown was the pride-rav-ing-like-a-tiger part. The combinationfor a month each year was something tobehold.

My mother was a remarkable womanof great courage, determination, andmysterious religious depths. There werethings about her nobody knew, not evenmy father. Although she was generallygentle and merry, whenever her familywelfare was involved she could be asruthless, and even as cruel as a she-bear.She understood everything about my fa-ther. She realized that a Welshman witha sweet tenor voice found it hard, if notimpossible, to act any other way when-ever the eisteddfod came around.

Consequently, for ten years she suf-fered in silence.

But one year my mother decided thatthe time had come to change all this. Asmight be expected, it all had to do withme.

"I'm thinking," my mother remarkedthat lovely year as she was clearing the

The writer, who uses the penname Em-manuel Winters, is Emmanuel Horowitz'32, JD '34, whose story appeared origi-nally in Collier's, Story Digest Maga-zine, and three anthologies, Good TimesThrough Literature, Our Reading Heri-tage: Exploring Life, and Creative Liv-ing.

supper table, "that it's time for Davy tostudy voice, like every good Welsh lad of9."

"What?" my father said."Davy's voice," my mother said.

"It's time to train it."My father pushed his chair away from

the table. "Let me get this straight. Youmean with a singing teacher?"

"Naturally.""One you pay?""Well, of course."My father made a horrible voice. "I'll

not have it," he shouted."Why, Emlyn, what are you shouting

for?" my mother said."I'm not shouting," he shouted.

"But no son of mine will disgrace theWelsh by carrying coals to Newcastle."

My mother sank into a chair andstared at my father with recognition."So the eisteddfod's only a monthaway," she said sadly.

"What has the eisteddfod to do withit?" my father said.

"It must have everything to do withit," my mother said. "You know howunreasonable you get one whole blessedmonth before the eisteddfod."

My father starting pacing the kitchen."Well, reasonable or unreasonable,"

he said, "the matter is closed and fin-ished."

"Now wait a minute," my mothersaid with a strange, stubborn light in hereyes. "The boy has a voice, hasn't he?"

"Isn't he my son?" my father de-manded.

"It's a Welsh voice, isn't it?""Of course, it's a Welsh voice.""Then, by all the saints, it shall be

trained."My father came over and pounded the

table. "A Welsh voice don't need train-ing," he said. "A Welsh voice don'tneed anything except an eisteddfod nowand then to bring forth its finer points.That's all it needs."

"And I say it needs training," mymother said.

"Now see here," my father said. Hetapped my mother's shoulder. "Haven'tI won every eisteddfod in ten years?"

"You don't need to be telling me stale

news," my mother said.My father drew himself up trium-

phantly. "Did you ever see me takinglessons for my voice?"

"I never did, unfortunately," mymother said.

"Well, then, let people who knownothing about music say no more on thesubject," he said. "Let foolish talkcease. Let there be no further words onand-Welsh questions.''

My mother was grim. "Emlyn," shesaid.

"What?""The time has come to call a halt to

boasting, devilishness, and pride.""Do be telling me," my father

scoffed."I do be telling you," she said. "For

ten years we've suffered in silence youreisteddfod madness. But now the boy'sfuture is at stake. I'm a Welsh motherand I shall call a halt."

My father set his jaw. "And how, mylovely, would you be calling a halt?"

"Only one way," my mother said."The time has come at last for you to belosing the eisteddfod."

A terrible silence fell over the house."Me lose the eisteddfod?" my father

said. "You mean it?""I mean nothing more.""I'll be a stick of dynamite," my fa-

ther said."What's more," my mother went on,

"I'm the one who'll see to it that youdo."

"I'll be a double stick," my fathersaid. "I suppose you'll find some greatcanary in this region to outsing me?"

"I shall.""You would be willing to make a little

wager, of course.""I would."My father gloated. "I'm listening,

lovely."My mother was as hard as a rock.

"Then listen well, for if you lose theprize this year, Davy gets his teacher,and you'll never sing in an eisteddfodfor the rest of your life."

"The Lord preserve us!" my fathersaid. "You're a strange and terrible•woman, Sara."

"I'm waiting for my answer," mymother said.

"Well, by heaven, you've got it!" myfather shouted. "I'll take that wager andshow you, once and for all, who's mas-ter in this house."

"That," my mother said, "is justwhat you will show."

Well, at that moment I was madly inlove with my fourth-grade teacher and,regardless of what my mother and fatherfelt about singing, the chief problem of

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my mind was how I could make her real-ize my superiority to every other pupil inthe public-school system. Of course, be-ing Welsh, I knew that I could outsinganyone, anytime, with or without train-ing. But that was beside the point. I waswondering whether I ought to prove mymanhood by getting a job in the breakerright away, or wait a decent time untilafter the eighth grade.

However, when in the course of a dayor two I mentioned that upon the out-come of a wager I might soon be takingvoice lessons, my teacher solved the*problem. She herself started paying spe-cial attention to me and never stopped.Her name was Miss Myfawnwy Jones.She sang contralto. She said, "You real-ize, of course, the rarity and historicalimportance of a trained Welsh voice."

"Yes, ma'am," I said."You also realize, of course, that

there are no limits to the number ofduets a natural-born contralto and atrained boy soprano can sing."

"No, ma'am.""As soon as you've taken a few les-

sons, we'll start right in.""You and me, ma'am?" I said."You and /, Davy. You and /.""Yes, ma'am, that's what I said,

ma'am," I said. "You and me, you andme."

This was a wholly unexpected turn ofevents. It caused me to take a profoundinterest in my parents' wager, after all,although, by this time, taking an interestwasn't hard, even without the matter ofMiss Jones. For three weeks my motherleft the house every afternoon, disap-pearing for hours at a time. Every eve-ning she returned, looking tired, butgrim and unextinguishable.

My father had never expected hersearch for a singer to be so thorough."Why don't you give up this foolish-ness?" he said. "You'll never find any-one to beat me."

"Indeed?" my mother said. That waspractically all she said for three weeks.

When the day of the competition finallyarrived, my father, my mother, and my-self found ourselves in the great hall to-gether with hundreds of other contes-tants and spectators. My father and Iwere as close to nervous wrecks as anytwo Welshmen have a right to be. Mymother had still not told us if she'dfound anyone.

We listened carefully to every contes-tant and by the time the adjudicatorcame to my father's name on the list, noone's singing had even come close towhat he could do.

"Emlyn Williams, champion of ten

eisteddfods," the adjudicator an-nounced. "Kindly come forward andsing."

My father walked down the aisle,climbed up on the stage, and sang. Itwas Open the Gates of the Temple. Youcould hear them opening. Ladies wept,and men listened with bowed heads.

"I'm afraid that there singing will bemighty hard to beat, Ma," I said.

"Just wait till the real competitionstarts, Davy," she said.

When he'd finished singing, my fathercame back and sat down. He grinned tri-umphantly at my mother.

"Well, where is your high and mightycanary?" he asked. My mother didn'tpay attention. She was watching the ad-judicator.

"E. Amardyce," the adjudicator an-nounced. "Next on the program is E.Amardyce, who will sing the samesong."

My mother stood up."What in the name of time are you

doing, Sara?" my father protested."I'm going to sing," my mother said."Are you daft?" my father whis-

pered. "You've never sung a note inyour life."

"No, Emlyn lad?" my mother said."But they ' re call ing an E.

Amardyce," he protested.My mother smiled grimly. "That, my

lovely, is the name I gave."She went up to the stage. She signalled

the accompanist. She clasped her handsto her breast. She sang. Sweeter singingwas never heard before or after on eitherside of the Atlantic Ocean. It was clearerthan a bell and twice as lovely as a thrushand a canary put together.

"God in heaven!" my father said. Hedidn't stop saying it. He was still sayingit when the judges awarded my motherthe championship. He came in second.

At supper that night, my father was themeekest man alive. He didn't knowwhich way to turn because my mother'ssmile was waiting for him everywhere.

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Around dessert he took himself in hand.4'Well, don't you think it's time to be

explaining?" he said.1'Explain what?" my mother said in-

nocently."Everything," my father said. "How

did you learn to sing like Lily Pons inthree weeks?"

"I was only rehearsing with my ac-companist those three weeks," mymother said.

"Well, how, where, and when did youlearn?"

My mother smiled. "Did you everhear of a man named Wencil Davies?"she said.

"The champion baritone of the na-tional eisteddfod in Wales?"

"He was my great-grandfather," mymother said.

"Holy Saints!" my father said."Did you ever hear of Dorothy Llewl-

lyn?" my mother went on."The soprano champion?""She was my grandmother.""What else?" my father said, in a

small voice. "What other surprises doyou have in store after fifteen years ofmarried life?"

"Well, there was me too," my mothersaid.

"What about you?""Before I came to America and mar-

ried you, I was on the way to being thenational soprano champion. Anotheryear or two would have done it."

My father was red as a beet. "Youcould have given me a hint," he said.

"There's a good reason, Emlyn lad. Itwas my father and brother."

"What about your father and broth-er?"

"They were trapped in the pits in theGreat Disaster. My mother and I—shewas contralto champion—went tochurch and got down on her knees. Allnight I prayed God to spare them. Ivowed if they came out alive, I'd give upthe thing most dear to me—my singing. Ivowed it would be a forgotten thing withme. I'd never even boast about it."

"They got them out alive!" my fathersaid.

"Yes, they got them out alive," mymother said.

My father thought for a long time."But you did sing, finally," he said.

My mother came around the table andruffled my father's hair. "I know," shesaid. Her smile was very merry. It wasalso very tender. "It was either that, orbreaking up this family and your stub-born head—and God knows a goodWelsh husband and the sanctity of thehome are the one thing worth more thana vow, I'm thinking."

The Chemistry Is RightBy Barbara Burke

The man leading the recitation section inChemistry 103 looked older than mostgraduate students. In fact, he was noneother than Prof. Roald Hoffmann,whose research has won him some ofchemistry's highest honors. The follow-ing year he was to teach the course whichis designed for nonscientists, and, ac-cording to Stanley Marcus, director ofundergraduate laboratories, Hoffmann"was so interested in doing a good jobthat he taught a recitation section like agraduate student, so he could get closeto the students."

When Hoffmann taught the course,"He took enough interest in it to relate itto their world," Marcus added. "Heanalyzed a complex fertilizer, for exam-ple, for the benefit of the many Agricul-ture students in the class. And he didn'tcome across as a superstar." Indeed, atthe end of the course one student wroteon his evaluation form that "it wouldhave been nice to have someone famousas a guest lecturer, rather than Dr. Hoff-mann all the time."

"He got a good laugh out of that,"Marcus recalled.

The story says a lot about Hoff-mann's dedication to teaching, and hisfriendliness and accessibility. "He's avery popular person to work with—he's personally appealing, friendly, anda marvelous teacher, " said Prof. Ben-

jamin Widom, chairman of the depart-ment.

His willingness to consider the otherperson's point of view is also an impor-tant element in his success as a research-er. Although Hoffmann is a theoreticalchemist, he chooses to work on prob-lems that interest his experimentalist col-leagues. The relationship has been fruit-ful for both sides.

"By and large, the work of theoreticalchemists is ignored by the overwhelmingmajority of chemists, the experimental-ists," his colleague Prof. Melvin Gold-stein said. "Only very few theoreticianshave immediately won acclaim from ex-perimentalists. Roald Hoffmann is one.The only other one I can think of isLinus Pauling.

"Most theoreticians aren't braveenough to make predictions. He hasmade explicit predictions, and most ofthe time they have turned out to be cor-rect."

Part of Hoffmann's secret, colleaguessay, is his geometric intuition. A visitorto his Baker Laboratory office may findhim playing with colored sticks and ballsthat look suspiciously like children'sTinker Toys—props he uses to help himvisualize the shape of molecules.

"We're really dealing with problemsof geometry," Hoffmann says.

Consider, for example, hemoglobin,

D4h

A representation of a hypothetical mol-ecule and two possible ways in whichthe molecule could transform itself byinternal bonding of unpaired electrons.

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which carries oxygen from the lungs tothe tissues. A big molecule, hemoglobinis made of four identical parts, each withan iron atom—where, as Hoffmannsays, "the action takes place." Curious-ly, once one iron atom has taken up ox-ygen, it becomes easier for the remainingthree to bind oxygen as well. No one un-derstands yet why this is so, "but theremust be some geometrical distortion—an iron atom may be pulled out of aplane somehow, by a Rube Goldbergtype of device," Hoffmann says.

And while it may not take an expert inmolecular geometry to tell dimethylether from the alcohol in wine, only dif-ferences in molecular geometry distin-guish the two—they have the sameatoms, arranged differently.

While a molecule's shape determinesits behavior, its electrons determine itsshape. Minute compared to the nucleusof the atom, they are the tail that wagsthe dog.

"Ultimately, the source of geometricdeformations lies in what the electrons'want' to do," Hoffmann says.

But studying them is tricky. Picturedin old high school texts as satellites neat-ly orbiting a nucleus, electrons are ac-tually far more elusive. In a sense theyact like particles, but in another they actlike waves. Because of this ambivalentbehavior, it is literally impossible to pin-point an electron's position. Chemistsand physicists are reduced to talkingabout the probabilities that an electronis in a particular place.

Yet these elusive electrons have a trait

Roald Hoffmann, the Nelson professorof physical science, recent recipient ofsix awards in chemistry and honorarydegrees from Yale and Sweden.

Three-dimensional representation ofthe hypothetical molecule

Circles at the corners of the cubes re-present the unpaired electrons in theproposed molecule. At any time, sever-al different charge distributions arepossible; shaded circles indicate centersof negative charge, and open circles in-dicate positive charge. All drawings arefrom a paper written by Hoffmannand two co-authors, recently publishedin Proceedings of the National Aca-demy of Sciences. Drawings from atextbook, on the following pages, showmore conventional ball-and-stickmodels.

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that gives them away to a molecular de-tective: they are lazy. They like, Hoff-mann says, to do things the way thattakes the least energy.

This laziness is translated by physicistsinto some fancy equations from quan-tum mechanics , notably theSchroedinger equation. "That equationis easy to write down," Hoffmann says,and it can even be solved—"with an in-finite amount of effort."

Lacking infinity, Hoffmann insteadexerts his ingenuity to arrive at approxi-mate solutions. A computer helps withthe computations, of course, but skill atasking the computer the right questionscan reduce an impossibly expensive andelaborate calculation to manageableproportions. Besides, he says, "It'smore interesting that way. It's as if youwere picking a lock. Surely it's more in-teresting to listen for a little click than togo through a thousand combinations atrandom."

Problems rapidly become so complexthat "chemists are in no danger of find-ing themselves with time on theirhands," he added. Even how a candleburns is complicated, and the debateover what fluorocarbons from aerosolcans do to ozone in the atmosphere "isan example of our relative lack of under-standing of a complicated sequence ofsimple reactions."

Forty years ago, the chances thatHoffmann would live to work on theseproblems must have looked slim. In1941, when he was 4 years old, the Nazisinvaded his hometown of Zloczow inPoland. Of the 12,000 Jews who lived inZloczow, "eighty survived the war," hesaid. "Three children survived, and Iwas one of those children."

From a ghetto Hoffmann and his pa-

rents were sent to a forced labor camp.In 1943 they escaped, and a Ukrainianhid the family in the false attic of aschoolhouse. The only light was the sun-light that penetrated a hole where a sin-gle brick had been removed; by thatfaint light, his schoolteacher mothertaught him to read.

After the war, the family wanderedabout Europe for several years. Then in1949 they left for New York City, whereat the age of 11 Hoffmann began tolearn English, his sixth language.

His ambitions first centered on medi-cal research—"probably a compromisebetween my wanting to be a scientist andthe pressure of a middle-class Jewishfamily to become a doctor or some otherself-employed professional." Summerresearch jobs, and the discovery thatmost medical researchers at the NationalInstitutes of Health had PhDs, notMDs, changed that, and he majored inchemistry at Columbia College, thenproceeded to Harvard for graduatework.

On Hoffmann's first trip back toEurope, at a summer school for theoreti-cal chemists near Stockholm, he met hisfuture wife, Eva Borjesson. Back in theUnited States, he proposed by mail, andthe two married in 1960, when he was22.

"It's an intercultural marriage thatblends many traditions," he said. Theirtwo children speak Swedish, as doesHoffmann, although they speak Englishat home. "We go to Sweden almostevery year," he said. "We budgeted forit even when we couldn't afford it."

Mrs. Hoffmann, who is working on amaster's in urban planning, designedtheir house on Sugarbush Lane. "Wehad an agreement—she could have the

house she wanted as long as I didn't losea day from work," he recalled. Yet he isnot the narrow workaholic that mightsuggest.

Hoffmann's interests are wide-ranging. He collects minerals andstamps, writes poetry occasionally, pur-sues an interest in Soviet and EasternEuropean culture and science, reads ("inbursts—the latest being Southern writ-ers"), and "jogs like anyone else."

Teaching is important to him as well.Hoffmann has taught freshman chem-istry almost every year he has been atCornell, and when the COSEP programfor minority students began, he ar-ranged extra help for them. "One thingthat impressed me was that they workedmuch harder than the average whitechemistry student," he said.

Prints on his office walls testify toHoffmann's interest in art. In fact, hislast year at Columbia he nearly aban-doned chemistry for art history. Amonghis prints is a portrait of the late RobertWoodward, the Nobel laureate chemist.Hoffmann's collaboration with the old-er scientist, begun at Harvard in 1964and continued after Hoffmann came toCornell in 1965, resulted in what Hoff-mann calls his "most important work,and also the most well known."

The two found that certain reactionsin organic chemistry occur in a differentway if induced by heat than if inducedby light. A long paper they published onthe subject in 1969, giving rules for pre-dicting the course of many reactions, be-came, he said, "perhaps one of the mostcited articles in chemistry of all time."

The collaboration also set the toneand direction of Hoffmann's futurework. It taught him how to interactfruitfully with experimentalists and to

Ball-and-stick models of, from left, tet-rahedral methane, ethane, and pro-pane. The dark balls represent carbonatoms and the light hydrogen atoms.

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insist on explanations. "Before that Iwould do calculations but I was less in-terested in extracting explanations fromthe calculations."

Explaining why molecules behave asthey do is now central to Hoffmann'swork. And the test of understanding, hesaid, is being able to make predictions,extrapolating something you knowabout one molecule to another, differentmolecule: "If you really understandsomething you should be able to grasp atrend."

To Hoffmann this does not mean thattheories must be totally accurate. "Γm afirm believer that understanding hasdifferent meanings in different disci-plines." In mathematics a single coun-terexample will demolish an entire theo-ry. Chemistry, Hoffmann said, doesn'twork that way. "You don't throw awaya theory because a fact disagrees withit," he said, any more than Freud is dis-missed as a charlatan "because you findone instance where his theory doesn'twork."

"I think it takes a certain type ofpsychology to work with this kind ofthing, if you know that 15 per cent of thetime you're going to be wrong," he add-ed. "Some people like their theories niceand clean. They work or they don'twork. Period. I'm basically not goodenough in physics or math to be thatkind of theoretician. On the pure side oftheory I don't think I'm very good."

But he has turned that weakness into astrength. Because he doesn't wait for aperfect theory, and because he can sensethe problems that trouble experimental-ists, he is able to make predictions thatserve as guidelines for experimentalists.In turn, experimentalists are useful tohim because they can test his predictions

and provide him with new puzzles tosolve.

"I look for predictions that are verifi-able or useful to experimentalists withina relatively short range," he said."There's an art to making verifiable pre-dictions."

There is also an art to making predic-tions that people will read and under-stand, and Hoffmann is well versed inthat art as well. "I collaborated with himon one major paper, and I was absolute-ly astounded by the way that man canformulate complete sentences in hismind. The words just come so easily tohim, all lined up logically," Goldsteinsaid.

Clarity is not a luxury when Hoff-mann's work depends so heavily oninteracting with experimentalists, someof whom he may never meet. A paperpublished in a foreign journal, for ex-ample, may start him wondering whichof several possible shapes a moleculemight assume. He then writes a paper,making a prediction, giving reasons forit, and extending his rationale to similarand not-so-similar molecules. His paperin turn stimulates further experiments,beginning a chain of interaction betweentheory and experiment.

"Our work is very general, althoughits origins are extremely specific," Hoff-mann said. Chemistry, he added, has nograndiose problems. "It's an interme-diate science, dealing with intermediate-sized things. From time to time theAmerican Chemical Society has said wecould get more money for chemistry ifwe could work on some great problem.The problems aren't global somehow—which doesn't make them any less inter-esting or important." And they are im-portant to the man on the street as well

as to the chemist. Just consider color, hesaid: without chemical dyes, "the worldwould look very drab, and colors wouldbe accessible only to the very rich."

His symbiotic relationship with exper-imentalists has led him to work in areasthat have important practical applica-tions. For the past five or six years, forexample, he has worked in organometal-lic chemistry, which focuses on mole-cules with a metal atom surrounded byorganic groups of atoms. Hemoglobin isone example, as are many enzymesessential to our well-being. The class alsoincludes most modern industrialcatalysts, such as those used to makesynthetic fuel.

"The field has already had incredibleapplications," Goldstein said, "butthey've been entirely blind and empiri-cal." Hoffmann's work, he said, willgive experimentalists guidelines in theirsearch for better catalysts.

Yet the challenge of building a bettermolecule for a specific job doesn't excitehim. "I'm interested, of course, but I'llleave the applications to others," hesaid. "I choose an area basically becauseI find the molecules interesting or theproblems interesting."

He uses words like "beautiful" or"elegant," not "useful," to describe theobjects of his study. A beautiful theory,he says, is "direct, simple and far-reaching—something that you can'tthink of, and that thousands of peoplecan't think of, but the moment some-body says it, it's obvious." A beautifulmolecule may be "the simplest, most un-adorned representative of its class, or itmay be striking just because it is so atyp-ical."

And an ugly molecule? "There is nougly molecule," he said.

Models of the normal, left, and iso-butane isomers, C4//κ

DECEMBER 1980 29

News of Alumni

Glass NotesAddresses in the following columns are inNew York State unless otherwise noted.

14MEN and WOMEN: Mead W Stone, 138 Ar-thur St, Garden City, NY 11530; BerniceSpencer Young, 187 Marson Ave, Scotia, NY12302

A letter came from Roger Stuart Brown,who said he was very happy with his newwife. He always was a happy fellow. Heswims regularly, weather permitting, but hashad to stop his hospital volunteer work as itwas too much for him. A postal from ProfYuen Ren Chao indicated he was traveling tothe East.

Murray Death '67, his lovely wife Jane,and their 3 children visited me as house guestsin Aug. They were the most enjoyable guestsI ever had and I hope they will come againnext summer. Murray (in case you do notrecognize the name) is with the Cornell Fund.

Abe Weinberger is very active with the CCof London. He resides on Ballencrieff Rd,Sunnydale, Berks SL5 9RA, England.

I talked to Carl Ward the other day and amsorry to report that he is experiencing seriouseye trouble. Carl is in a position to know a lotof things and is very pessimistic about thepossibility of a general war in the oil coun-tries as a result of the fighting between Iranand Iraq.

Had a fine time with Harriet Munns on thephone. She reports that Jim is pretty muchthe same and needs someone in attendance allof the time. Both Jim and Harriet enjoy let-ters, so do write once in a while.

15MEN and WOMEN: Arthur W Wilson, 4703Junonia, Shell Point Village, Ft Myers, Fla33908

Reports from three of our "regulars," whohave been mentioned in earlier editions this yrfollow: Christopher Maggee, Venice, Fla,writes, "My health is excellent. My only jobis as president of the board of the VeniceHospital Blood Bank . . . not a time-consuming job. My wife died 10 yrs ago. Ilive alone. Three daughters, 1 son, 12 grand-children, 7 great-grandchildren. Hobbies:pottery, which I make, and gardening."

Paul W Wing, Little Falls, writes, "Iwould like to welcome any of the old gang.We are on the NY Thruway, and Rte 5 and 20

The snow-caped statue of Andrew DicksonWhite sits in front of Goldwin Smith Hallin this posterized version of an Archivesphotograph taken during an earlier -winter.

(almost), at 10 William St. I was a "campusbrat," and remember Margaret Trevor Ford,her brother Karl Trevor, "Skeet" Jenks, and"Pump" Schurman '17, who was PrexySchurman's son."

From Akron, Ohio, Sherman M Grantstates, "My health is fairly good. Not muchpep. Sleep a lot. Drive my car around town."Sherm was wounded in the Argonne duringWorld War I. He has been active in theAmerican Legion, CC, bowling league,historical society, men's garden club, andseveral other organizations. His wife died inSept 1979. He has 3 children, 6 grand-children, and 1 great-grandchild.

Mildred Watt Haff, Bradenton, Fla, toldme Regina Kerby had written to say that the65th Reunion was the best organized of anyshe had attended. Mildred also reported thatLloyd Moore was recovering from an opera-tion, and had been able to go to dinner in themain dining room of Asbury Tower that day.You may recall that Lloyd married Helen(Irish) '16, and both regularly have attendedmeetings of the classes.

Reunion chairman Jerry Healy received anice letter, although a sad one, from Mrs.Lillian Markam. She had attended the Re-union with husband Wolfe. After Reunion,Wolfe was apparently in good health. On themorning of July 15 he had a massive cerebralhemorrhage, and passed away July 17.Lillian's address is 104 Greenwood PI,Syracuse.

John M Heath's wife Helen sent the photoand wrote for him, explaining, "His handsare arthritic—but his health is very good. Weare still in our home here (650 S Park Dr,NW, Albuquerque, NM). We have one son(an electronics engineer) and 2 grandsons liv-ing in Denver, Colo. We go to all the musicevents in town, play bridge, and take walksdaily." Helen is a Denver U alumna and ac-tive in alumni affairs. She continues, "Johnwas retired from the Home Insurance Co in1956 and we moved here, where he workedfor 14 yrs for the Lou Gerding InsuranceAgcy. Yes, Cornell Class of '15 was awonderful class . . . . We send greetings toyou and all the others of the class."

Many thanks for the nice comments receiv-ed from various members of the class aboutthe fine job the officers have done. I give mythanks to those who have helped me so oftenduring the past 15 yrs. It has been mypleasure to have served as class secretary.

16MEN: Allan W Carpenter, 8301-323 MissionGorge Rd, Santee, Cal 92071

Thank you, Sam Newman, for your letterto help keep our column going. Glad to learn

John M Heath Ί5

your hobby of collecting antiques is still giv-ing you great pleasure. Sam wrote, in Sept,"Though I have been in close contact withmy congressional representatives, advisingthem how to 'run our government,' the latter,unfortunately, is in an awful mess. Here'shoping the Reagan administration will bringimprovement." (As I write this in Oct, Irealize that by the time you read it we willknow if Sam's prediction about Reagan wascorrect.) Sam is in good health, full of vitali-ty, and sends best wishes to all Ί6ers. His ad-dress is 2800 N Palm Aire Dr, PompanoBeach, Fla.

Murray Shelton phoned in Sept to inquireabout my wife Frances, who had had surgeryfor diverticulitis. I was happy to report shewas better and thanked him for the beautifulflowers. Murray keeps in touch with sports,particularly football. As he lives alone, I ask-ed him about cooking. He makes casserolesand beef stew quite often and said, shouldyou be in Columbia, Mo, stop in and let himdemonstrate his ability. We discussed our65th Reunion. Grant Schleicher is doing afine job as chairman. Murray urges you to at-tend and help '16 break a 65th record. Thiswill be our last organized Reunion, so don'tmiss it! Murray sends his very best to all "In-credible Ί6ers."

By Oct 6, Karl Fernow and Willis Hender-son had agreed to serve on the men's Reunioncommittee and Pres Annetta Woldar had ap-pointed Lois Osborn chairwoman for thegirls of '16.

DECEMBER 1980

The cat doctor of '16

This photo of Lou Camuti appears also onthe jacket of his new book, All My PatientsAre Under the Bed. Grant Schleicher mailedme an article about Lou from the Ariz DailyStar that tells how Lou developed a specialliking for cats—so much so, that he treats on-ly cats and does so only in their homes. Hischief assistant is Alexandra, his wife of 60yrs, whose job it is to sit in the car bearing"CAT" license plates and charm away sum-mons-minded police. The mark of a vehicularvet in the city is enough bravado to parkbrazenly by fire hydrants. Physicians don'tmake house calls in New York today, Lousays, because they're too busy and they can'tfind a place to park. Lou has treated cats ofthe famous—including those of JamesMason, Imogene Coca, and Tallulah Bank-head. He once drove to Phila, Pa, every dayfor a week to treat Olivia de Havilland's ail-ing cat, and has flown to Canada, Fla, andBoston, Mass, at the beckoning of relocatedclients.

Lou was born in Parma, Italy, the son ofCount Gaspare Camuti and Corinna(Pomarelli). The family emigrated to the USin Mar 1902 and settled in NYC. Thepopularity of Lou's book, Park Avenue Vet,led to 21 radio and TV appearances. Hislatest book was published in Aug. I recom-mend both. Lou's column in the Feline Prac-tice magazine for veterinarians is a favoritewith its readers. Lou and Sandra greet allΊ6ers with a happy "cat's meow!"

Thanks, Knibs Royce, for the photos I re-quested. One of them will appear in the nextcolumn (Feb issue). Thanks to Ed Carmanfor his card and invitation to visit, should Igo East. Yes, Ed, our final Reunion will beheld next June. Hope you will be there.Please send news. Please!

17MEN and WOMEN: Marvin R Dye, 206Edgemere Dr, Rochester, NY 14612; GeorgeA Newbury, 1080 Peppertree Lane, Apt 807,Siesta Key, Sarasota, Fla 33581, guest colum-nist

It becomes my sad duty to report the death,on Sept 23, of our faithful and devoted classsecretary-treasurer, Donald L Mallory. Don

had not been well for some time, but hisdeath came unexpectedly of a heart attack.He was busy on our class affairs to the endand had prepared the material for the Novissue of the Alumni News, which you willhave read.

Don was an enthusiastic Cornellian all hislife. His older brother Phil '04 had seen to itthat Don was thoroughly innoculated withCornell in his early years. As an under-graduate, Don was assistant manager of fenc-ing, assistant manager and manager in hissenior year of association football, a memberof the Mandolin Club (4 yrs), and a memberof Delta Tau Delta fraternity. For more than60 yrs, he was an active and enthusiasticmember of the Class of '17, regularly attend-ing our Reunions and other activities in themetropolitan NYC area. He will be sorelymissed by all of us.

Don is survived by his wife of more than 50yrs, "Bunny;" a son George Cornell Mallory'54; and a daughter Barbara Peterson (Mrs CE); and 7 grandchildren—all of whom haveour deepest sympathy.

On the brighter side, it is a privilege toreport that one of our most distinguishedclassmates, the Honorable Marvin "Marv" RDye, a retired associate justice of the NYSCourt of Appeals, has consented to serve asour secretary-treasurer, and with the concur-rence of our class officers, has been so ap-pointed. We could have no better assurancethat our class affairs will be efficiently at-tended to as we look forward to our 65th andsubsequent Reunions. Drop him a line tothank him and tell him something aboutyourself. We still are more than 300 strong,with a world of Cornell memories goingback, back, back to 1913 when we firstbecame members of that famous Class of1917. Marv's address is given above.

18Irene M Gibson, 119 S Main, Holley, NY14470

Happy holidays to all! Earlier we mention-ed Gertrude Fisher Moir's paintings. She hashad exhibits of her work and, during 1979,she says, "had a project" of publishing "abook on Hawaiian flowers," specificallythose growing in the Moirs' own garden. Thebook is described in a review by the assistanteditor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin of Nov13, 1979. He speaks about Gertrude's mar-riage to John '16 and that she now lives atPohai Nani, Windward, Oahu. The book,Hawaii's Flowers, is described as "an86-page portfolio of her paintings, mostly offlowers found at her old family home,Kaupaupili, Lahaina . . . . Her colors are lush. . . . Her garden contained many decorativeflowers but also the useful banana."

About this tree, Gertrude is quoted as say-ing, "I thought the trees had such beauty thatI planted a few here to be seen as friendswalked to the guest cottage . . . . We usedbananas raw, fried, baked, frozen, in bread,cakes, pancakes, ice cream, and healthdrinks." In her letter, Gertrude adds that herbook is "featured in displays on all theislands, and—on Oahu—at the Bishop Muse-um, the Academy of Arts, and at bookstores. Now Gertrude is working on paintingsof hulas for an album to be published in NYCnext yr. The title will be "Ancient HawaiianHulas," with "interpretations, ukelele aridpiano chords, and a painting representing thetheme of each hula."

The photo shows classmate Dr Walter VPrice, professor, emeritus, at the U of Wise,receiving the Miles International HonoraryAward in Cheese Technology in Sept '79.

Walter and his wife, Naomi (Jones) '20, nowlive at 6209 Mineral Point Rd, Apt 1501,Madison, Wise. This is a "retirement homeapt" at Oak wood Village.

Walter mentions reading "RecollectionsExtracurricular," by Philip Stone '29, in theJuly issue of the Alumni News. Writes Walt,"He loved to walk and he remembered, as Ido, the beauty of the glens and waterfalls inthe area." Then Walt mentions "Stone's lovefor the chimes. Music was so much a part ofmy own life at Cornell that this part of his ar-ticle was especially enjoyable. I had climbedthe Tower with earlier chimes masters and en-dured the clang of those big bells at closehand." Walt and Naomi still keep "our homein Fla, and will migrate as long as we can . . .I still have my desk and records in the univand try to keep abreast of research."

Cheese man Walter V Price '18

We have lost a number of classmates in1980: John W Campbell of Tulsa, Okla, whodied May 18; Henry A M Faber, of Hacken-sack, NJ, who died June 30; Allen L McGill,of Glendale, Cal, who died June 30 also.Calista Hoffman Warne, of Port Hueneme,Cal, died June 13. John Campbell's sonThomas wrote that his father "always en-joyed talking about how beautiful Cornellwas. He had greatly enjoyed cross-countryand track under Coach Jack Moakley."

Calista Hoffman Warne and her husbandClyde had 3 children: Dorothy Warne Rich,with whom Calista was living; Charles AWarne, and Harriet Warne McLoughlin.They had 7 grandchildren.

We have also lost Maurice Baldwin, archi-tectural engineer, of the "Spruce Corps,"which we described in the July issue.

The Class of '18 was Number One in thenon-Reunion classes in gifts to the 1980 Cor-nell Fund, a total of $570,665. There were105 of us who contributed. Let's think nowof the current Fund drive. We learn that JohnS Knight has made another gift ($250,000) tothe good-writing program in Arts. We allknow that Jack headed the Knight-Ridderchain of newspapers and radio stations for 40yrs, starting out in 1920 as a reporter with theAkron Beacon-Journal, all of 60 yrs ago. Heis a Trustee, emeritus, and a PresidentialCouncillor, and has won many awards injournalism. This Arts College program at-tempts to upgrade the writing skills of allundergraduates, "some 6,000 each yr." Itprovides a basic program, plus workshops"for students with special problems, and aseries of courses for the ... gifted." In anearlier column we told about a dinner honor-ing Jack in Miami last Feb.

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19MEN: PS Wilson, 325 Washington St, GlenRidge, NJ 07028

Our new treasurer, "Perc" Dunn, hasopened a new account in an Ithaca bank, andeagerly awaits your class dues for '80-81, of$15 per person, to augment our depletedtreasury, and permit paying the bill for thisyr's Alumni News under the Group Subscrip-tion Plan. As previously explained, $9 of thedues pays for the 10 issues (none published inAug and Jan), a bargain rate for a top-notchalumni publication. In the past, we have sentthe News to over 50 per cent of the class, in-cluding many who seldom, if ever, paid classdues, but we cannot continue this practice.So, get on the band-wagon and mail yourcheck promptly to Percy L Dunn, 221 S Gen-eva St, Ithaca, NY 14850. Also include latestnews of yourself and family, as we have runout of interesting items for the column. Newsfrom the '19 women will be passed along toMargaret Kίnzinger.

Did you know that our talented vice presi-dent Johnny Ross of Bedford, is also an in-ventor? Having reached his limit of exaspera-tion from garbage spilled by nocturnal visi-tors, mostly raccoons, he devised the LIDLOG, a heavily zinc-plated spring and chainwith hooks at both ends, which, whenstretched over the lid and hooked to the canhandles defies entry by any prying animals.The product was offered by Tools for Livingin an ad in the March '80 issue of the News."Mike" Hendrie reports great success withthis gadget. (See photo of, from left, JohnnyRoss, Essie Hendrie and Mike, taken at the60th Reunion.) Mike reports, also, that a let-ter received from Johnny last Sept 4, fromThe Cavalry and Guards Club, Piccadilly,reported that he and Alice were "on a com-bination LID LOC and pleasure trip, hopingto establish some distribution of LID LOC inEngland. Unfortunately, they don't have anyraccoons in England." Johnny and Alice ex-pected to be in Ithaca for Homecomingweekend, Oct 23-25.

Mike Hendrie reports he and Essie cele-brated their 49th wedding anniversary Sept12, during a glorious 10-day visit with friendsin Bermuda; also spent a few days in Oct atthe Skytop Club, Skytop, Pa, when the au-tumn foliage was gorgeous.

Wil Simonson of Bethesda, Md, tells us ofa recent accident which, fortunately, he andhis wife survived with only minor injuries. Aspeeding car going the wrong way in a one-way street struck their car and "spun thementirely around in a flash." A witness calledthe police and they had a ride to the hospital.Three weeks later they are "only now gettingover the after-shock," while their car is stillin the shop.

20MEN: Orville G Daily, 1440 Sheridan Rd,Wilmette, 111 60091

Dr Ralph Reeve, founder of the Chair ofFree Enterprise at The School of the Ozarks,recently visited the campus at Point Lookout,Mo, as a guest of college president DrGraham Clark. Ralph had received the hon-orary degree of doctor of laws from theschool when he delivered the commencementaddress in '79. The Chair of Free Enterprisewas established to explore the history andphilosophy of the American free enterprisesystem in a positive approach to counterbal-

ance the current strong anti-business moodthat exists. Ralph provided the original mon-ey to establish the chair with other businessesand corporations across the country contri-buting to the ongoing free enterprise trainingat The School of the Ozarks. Ralph alsoserves on the school's board of trustees.

Kirk Reid of Madison, Ohio, is an amazingoctogenarian who continues his winning waysas a tennis champion. In Sept, Kirk won boththe singles and the doubles titles in the80-and-over age division of the NationalGrass Courts Tennis Championships at theAgawam Park Club in Providence, RI. Insingles, Kirk defeated Albert Leitch of EssexFells, NJ. In doubles he teamed with Leitchto defeat DeWitt Redgrave of Atlanta, Ga,and Gordon Steele of Lexington, Mass. Thetwo titles bring to 14 the number of nationaltennis championships that Kirk has won. Wemissed Kirk at Reunion and now we knowwhy.

Abe Coan's son James '60 and his familyspent 9 wks in China last summer travelingextensively. James also donated and installeda computer system in the Medical College ofHangzhow. Helga and Randall Purdy ofCape Coral, Fla, with 2 other couples, havejust returned from an enjoyable Caribbeancruise.

Lyman Stansky and wife spent parts ofJuly and Aug in London, where he celebratedhis 80th birthday at a House of Lords dinner,courtesy of his son-in-law. They also enjoyeda dinner at the Garrick Club given by son Pe-ter and daughter Marina with all the familypresent. They had pleasure attending sundryseminars, art exhibitions, and museums. Af-ter being nearly flattened by the astronomicalprices in London, at several times those of theUSA, it seemed good to get back to the so-called inflation of our economy in NYC.

Prof of History Harold King, emeritus, ofU of Miami is waiting for a cornea transplantoperation on his eye but must be patient untila live cornea is donated. This is not the 1stserious operation Harold has been throughand he has our best thoughts and good wishesfor the success of this adventure.

Lest we forget—Merry Christmas and hap-py holidays.

WOMEN: Marion Shevalier Clark, RR 1,Box 14, Angola, Ind 46703

Already, a mini-reunion in '82 is being sug-gested for classmates. How does the ideastrike you? Helen Lason Wehrle has a lovelyroom with Ellen and Bill in San Gabriel. Pauland Ruth live a few blocks away. Elevengrandchildren and 3 great-granddaughtersare within call when needed. Her constantcompanion is an Aztec dog, black satinskinned and hairless with a body temperatureof more than 100 degrees. These dogs lived1300 yrs before Christ in the land below Mex-ico where people worshipped them as gods.Helen says, "One of my great-granddaugh-ters is so like me that I am sure she will fill myplace very well indeed."

Lois Webster Utter and her husband How-ard live on the old Webster homestead nearGeneva, where they delight in entertainingfamily members in the "gathering of theclan." Louise Roux Jones and her husbandRalph are celebrating their 60th anniversarythis month. They have a son, a daughter, 8grands, and 8 great-grands, most of them liv-ing near by. Alice Erskine writes, "No newsis good news. That is my situation. Life goesalong pleasantly, actively, and sometimesfruitfully. I enjoy Shevy's column no end andAgda Swenson Osborn's Reunion report wasnext best thing to being there. All 3—Shevy,Mildred Lamont Pierce, and Agda—are still

Johnny Ross '19, at left, with Essie andMike Hendrie Ί9, at the 60th

'doers' and 'movers,' bless them." (Thankyou, Alice. I needed that!)

Recently, Loraine VanWagenen Foster andher sister Margaret VanWagenen '34 spent afew days with Hetty DeBow Ball in Bloom-ingdale, NJ. One day, Eva Top kins Brodkinjoined them for lunch, with much reminis-cing. Grace Dimelow was sorry to miss Re-union and enjoyed the reports. Perhaps shecould come in '82. Happy holidays to each ofyou. May God grant you good health, analert mind, shared love and contentment in1981!

21MEN: James H C Martens, 123 S AdelaideAve, Apt ID, Highland Park, NJ 08904

Gustav A Fingado and his wife Ruth arestill enjoying the operation of their antiqueshop near Bloomsburg, Pa. During the sum-mer they toured New England, buying an-tiques. On the trip they visited 4 of their 9children. They have 19 grandchildren.

Class treasurer Albert W Laubengayer, atthe middle of Oct, was in the midst of hiswinemaking. He said that the wine grapes ofthe Finger Lakes region were of very goodquality this yr. He will send dues notices inDec. Your news editor hopes most of you willsend news items along with your dues.

Class secretary J Alan Schade reports thathis neighbor William H Rometisch has spentthe summer in the Poconos. Walter W Wer-ring, his wife Irene, and their 1939 Packardwere the subject of an article in the SundayNews magazine section in July of this yr.They still use the car for most of their travels,except when they go to Hawaii for the winter.

Warren M Sperry keeps busy in a workshop in his home. He has recently made somefancy stools for his grandchildren and somebookcases for his son.

22MEN: Forrest B Wright, 4739 Rembert Dr,Raleigh, NC 27612

"Bill" Williams represented our class atCornell on June 13 to receive a plaque inrecognition of '22's having reached the $2million mark in the Cornell Fund drive. I amtold that only the Class of '14 has previouslyreached that goal. The photo (next page) willshow you how happy Bill was to receive the

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plaque from President Rhodes. Bill suggeststhe plaque be hung in the Class of '22 Dorm.Thanks, Bill, for all the work you did aschairman of our Cornell Fund committee inurging our class to attain our goal. Bill andhis wife have traveled extensively this yr, in-cluding 2 trips to Cal, one to Ithaca, and oneto Antigua to visit their son Mark, who hasbeen managing a beach club there. Mark andwife are returning to the States soon and willlive near his parents at Darian, Conn.

Victor Williams and wife celebrated their55th wedding anniversary on July 8.Abraham Josefson is now a great-grandfather. He and his wife plan to visit thebaby, Joshua, in Fountain, Colo. GeorgeNaylor, our president, got out the summerissue of our class letter and did a splendidjob. George worked hard on that letter. Ifyou liked it, tell him so. The John Maloneyshave moved from their farm near Groton toEastwood Commons, near the campus.

Alfred Morris and wife Pearl will go toMiami Beach in Dec for 4 months in the sun."Chape" Condit's son William '63, PhD '67,is working in atomic plasma, fusion, etc, atGaithersburg, Md. Granddaughters Kathyand Wendy could be at Cornell in the '90sBob Ackerly and wife Polly live in Sarasota,Fla, and continue to enjoy visits by theirchildren and grandchildren from Cal andOhio. This yr, Bob has become a '22 lifemember. Russell Reichart has deserted the"Hot, Hot and very Hot" land of threeseasons and gone back to his native Conn,which he calls, "The land of beautiful fallfoliage and icy roads." Russell has been awidower for about a yr, and after 50 yrs ofhappy married life, he doesn't enjoy the role.

Rollin McCarthy and wife Clara (Cheney),MA '22, spent the month of Mar on the Nand S Islands of New Zealand. They lived infarm homes and Rollin helped the farmersdoctor and cull the sheep, while Clara learnedthe secrets of the excellent New Zealandcooking.

WOMEN: Evelyn Davis Fincher, 44 SheratonDr, Ithaca, NY 14850

Did any of you see the picture of SylviaBernstein Seaman with her daughter-in-lawBarbara and her granddaughter Elana in theMon, Aug 25, '80, style section of the NYTimes! They were about to march down 5thAve to celebrate both the Women's Strike forEquality in 1970 and the 50th anniversary ofWomen's Suffrage in Aug 1920. The articlesays that when in college, Sylvia caused a stirat Cornell by wearing knickers in public. Be-side writing books, she is a staunch activistfor women's rights. How many of my class-mates can even remember that women got theright to vote in 1920?

Edna Krentz Koepchen has yet another ad-dress. Beginning Nov 1, '80, it is 920 CollierCt, Apt A4, LeClub Caxambas, Marco Isl,Fla. Bertha Funnell had a pleasant Oct tripthrough New England with 2 upstate NYfriends in their camper. From Bar Harborthey sailed off to Nova Scotia for a few days.On their way back to the Rochester area,where Bertha took a plane to DC, theystopped in Ithaca for an hour. She reportedthat the New England fall colors were per-fect.

A clipping from the Glens Falls paper, tell-ing of the death of Martha Parrott Starche ofLake George on Oct 2, was thoughtfully sentto me by Margaret Gilcrist Dudley '31 ofLyons, a long-time friend of Martha's. Fol-lowing graduation, Martha taught school atSt Helena's Isl, SC, and then at The Ameri-can Farm School in Salonika, Greece, return-ing to Lake George in '39. There, she servedas village librarian and historian. She is sur-

Proud William Williams '22 represents hisTwo Million Dollar Class.

vived by her husband Christo Starche, 3daughters (one is Elene Starche Dudley '57,of Albion) and a son; 11 grandchildren; 3greats; 6 sisters (one is Edith Parrott Leonard'23 of Barrington, NH) and a brother. Polly,as we called her, was my freshman yearroommate and long-time friend.

23MEN and WOMEN: George West, 106-BBrebeuf Dr, Penfield, NY 14526; Helen FNorthup, 3001 Harvey St, Madison, Wise53705[The following column was written by AlbertConradis shortly before his death on Sept 24.George West, address above, has agreed towrite the column in future issues—Ed]

Zip Morrow and Lydia still live in Cokes-bury Village, Hockessin, Del. They have 9grandchildren; 2 boys are currently at Cor-nell. Alec Morgan (Cler, to us old timers) andJean are in Atlanta, Ga. Cler made his annualjaunt to goose territory (Md's Eastern Shore)chaperoned by Jean, who used to hunt duckswith him in their younger days. Cler says shewas a good shot, too. He is engaged in com-mercial industrial real estate sales. Dr DaveMerksamer and Dorothy (Joslovitz) '24 livein NYC. He's engaged in phonathon fundraising. He has been a member of the boardof governors of the CAA of NYC since its in-ception.

Lindley Peel (Orange Peel, to us old tim-ers) and Dorothy live 6 months in Fla and 6months in Lakewood, NJ. He reports he isplaying at golf and enjoying life generally.Abbott Nile and Winona are living in Walt-ham, Mass. Ab is still interested in family his-tory and genealogy. He says he is looking for-ward to our 60th Reunion in 1983! John Nes-bett and Bess are in Vero Beach, Fla, andJohn is still in the securities business. TheAlumni News has Art Treman's and Mur'saddress as being in Vero Beach, Fla, too.Thanks for the reminder, John.

Albert Muller lives in Gainesville, Fla,where his retirement work is consulting in ageducation. In Honduras, on Dec 1, '79, Bertreceived a plaque honoring him as director,emeritus, of the Panamerican School of Ag.Wilbur Gilman still lives in Flushing. He is onthe pension commitee of Queens College,CCNY Retirees' Assn and, as a member ofthe Secondary Schools Committee, interviewshigh school seniors seeking admission to Cor-

nell. Ed Lawless, Harrisburg, Pa, is secretaryof Pa Egg Marketing Assn and the Pa Pro-cessors Assn, and is on the board of directorsof Pa Poultry Assn Egg Council.

Nels Schaenen and Rose live in DelrayBeach, Fla. Nels retired 3 yrs ago as chairmanof the BRA Advisory Council.

Ken Spear and Vee (Dobert) '24 live inVero Beach, Fla. Ken reports he is slowingdown, but is still mobile. He and Vee stillspend their summers in Vt, but travel is get-ting more difficult. For hobbies, Vee doeshospital volunteer work and Ken does BoyScouts and Rotary Club work.

Phil Wakely and Chris (Carlson) live inIthaca. Phil says he has outgrown all hobbiesexcept extra reading. Cultivating your mindand not your body, Phil? Phil retired in 1964after 43 yrs at Southern Forest ExperimentalStation, US Forest Service. He is now secreta-ry of the board of trustees of the Paleontolo-gical Research Inst, Ithaca. As an annual cus-tom, Phil has luncheon every Christmas Evewith John B Hartnett.

Former president of '23, Ernest D Leet,Jamestown, sent me copy of a letter, datedAug 5, 1980, that he sent to the Alumni Newsfor the "Cornellian Books" or "GraduateActivities" column. Ernie has written a His-tory ofChautauqua County, 1938-1978, pub-lished by Chautauqua County Historical Soc,Westfield, copyrighted 1980, and dedicatedto the late Hon Robert H Jackson, a memberof the US Supreme Court, as ChautauquaCounty's most distinguished citizen duringthis period of 1938-78. Ernie also sent me aclipping from the Aug 1 issue of the Post-Journal of Jamestown. You have done a tre-mendous job, Ernie, with the help of inter-ested citizens from Chautauqua County and'23 compliments and congratulates you.

24MEN: Alva Tompkins, RD 2, Box 2,Tunkhannock, Pa 18657

Dick Yates is back in Denver, Colo, after along and unique trip which included many

lands from Mexico to theMiddle East. This photoof our crew manager wasnot taken in 1980 but welike it, and this will helpyou identify Dick 55 yrsafter his crews have ceas-ed cutting the waters ofLake Cayuga. He andBetty are quite mobile:they manage to get to Re-unions, even those in Fla,

where they sometimes win the prize for hav-ing come the farthest. Betty first became anasset of our class when she was Mrs HarneyBassett. Harney was a well known engineer-ing student who was on the football squad allof his years at Cornell; then he and Betty»were part of a sizable Cornell community inChicago. Dick and Betty come from Colo,but others will come from Mass, Pa, Me, andCal to the '24 mini-reunion, Feb 22-23, at theOld Port Cove Yacht Club in N Palm Beach."Mini" may sound small but this is the big-gest '24 event in 1981—and the way to thankMax and Peg Schmitt for their efforts is to bethere. It is more than priceless; it is not onlyfor our class; and it will be a high point inyour yr.

Driving 100 miles to Ithaca last Sunday, tothe memorial service for Marion ReeseWilliams, widow of Herb Williams '25, wasin fact driving through a fall foliagewonderland. And when we arrived, the cam-pus had never looked better, nor the students,alumni, faculty, and members of the ad-

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ministration who came to remember Marion.After the well attended service in Sage, whichincluded sons Tim '50 and Herb Jr '52, aswell as President Emeritus Dale Corson, BobKane '34, Hunt Bradley '26, and manyfriends and neighbors, refreshments wereserved in the Herb Williams MemorialLibrary at the Psi U house by theundergraduates. Bryan Bernart '50, son ofour Sam, was among those present. Hereports that his parents now live at The Her-mitage, Onancock, Va.

On Oct 14, I had lunch at the CC of NYCwith Al Dodson, Harv Gerry, Bill Hearne,Dick Jewett, Si Pickering, Al Silverman, andFred Wood: 8 of us from 4 states. Pres FredWood reported on the search for funds tohelp classmate Louis J T Yen send his grand-daughter to Cornell, when it is impossible tosend money out of China. He discovered thatthere is presently $45,000 in the Tom Hen-nings Memorial Fund, which was started tohelp descendants of '24 men who attend Cor-nell. Many of us had forgotten about thismemorial to our distinguished classmate. Wecan still keep alive Tom's name, and help fu-ture Cornellians in the process.

After the class luncheon I went to theKraushaar Galleries to see 26 pictures paintedby Johnnie Hartell. Verlaine Boyd—more ar-ticulate about art than this CE grad—saysabout him, "One of the inherent goals of artis to trap timeless experiences, to condensethem into sizable packages, and make themmore accessible. These musings . . . lead youto John Hartell, prof emeritus at Cornell,who taught in Architecture and was chairmanof the art dept for 20 yrs, and who still paintsevery day."

WOMEN: Dorothea Johannsen Crook, 84Woods Ave, Somerville, Mass 02144

Max Schmitt announces that plans forMini-Reunion #6, Feb 22-23, at the Old PortCove Yacht Club, are under way. He is par-ticularly hopeful that more women will at-tend. He says, "I know the women would liketo see one another; the men would like to seethe women, too!" And a note from HortenseBlack Pratt (Mrs Schuyler B '25) confirms thefun of this festivity, so those of you who livein Fla, spend the winter there, or are battingaround the country in Feb, plan to attendwhat promises to be another gala affair.

A check alone may satisfy our worthytreasurer, but a blank sheet isn't enough forme. Evelyn Muntz's sheet was blank, but anote added, "No interesting experiences andactivities, but I find life busy, interesting, andexciting." Come on, Evelyn, let us knowwhy. Alice McCartney Holgate (Mrs Robert)says, "Still living in the same place, still do-ing the same things; very fortunate—stillbreathing and in very good health." Bully foryou, Alice!

Marjorie Rudell Goetz (Mrs M) says herdaughter-in-law, Clara Freedman Goetz, aJuilliard garduate, made her NY debut(piano) in June '78 and then produced agranddaughter for Marjorie in July '79. Aproductive year! Florence Daly is still paint-ing, exhibiting, and growing sunflowers inthe backyard. (Do you manage to save anyseeds for the winter birds, Flo?) The list oforganizations for which she writes the news-letter, does publicity, acts as gallery sitter, isthe secretary, etc, boggles one's (my!) mind.She is good evidence that if you want to getsomething done, ask a busy person.

We are very happy that another classmatehas been very generous to Cornell. AaronBinenkorb and his wife Marion, of Ross-moor, NJ, have given $150,000 for a new ad-missions office for the Arts College. The newoffice, to be known as The Binenkorb Cen-ter, will be located in the renovated Gold winSmith Hall Lecture Room C and will cost$180,000. Our thanks and congratulations goto the Binenkorbs (photo).

I recently received from Johnny Brigden,our faithful retired secretary/class correspon-dent, a copy of a letter to Paul V Horsley, 104Catherine St, Ithaca. Paul was anxious toknow about Hay den Evans (Kappa Alpha).

Johnny's letter advised Paul that Haydenhad died of a heart attack on Nov 23, 1974, at92 S Quincy St, Green Bay, Wise. John Brig-den also enclosed his copy of the directorywhich was published on the occasion of our50th Reunion. Johnny has tried to recordtherein the dates of death of our classmates,as well as a few changes of addresses. I willtry to continue Johnny's good work.

Jim Duffy of Boca Raton, Fla, sends bestwishes. Dr Frank French, of Glendale, WVa,says that Stu Richardson has a sense of hum-or. (Stu will have to explain this to us.) MichCannon of Charlotte, NC, writes that heplanned to attend our 55th, with Larry Kolband George Hall. George Hall (lacrosse cap-tain) died shortly before Reunion, so he andLarry called it off. He hopes he can make the60th. (Mich, I suggest you make the 60th,because who knows about the 65th! Beside,somebody said that the 60th is the last officialReunion. I hope that is an error, becausesome of us think we can keep going on andon.)

Tom Hobbie (of the famous Hobbie twins)says he still practices medicine at Sodus. Hisoldest grandson enters Cornell this fall as a4th-generation Cornellian. How about that!His father, 2 uncles, his twin brother, 3 of his6 daughters, his son-in-law, and 2nd cousinsare Cornellians. HOW ABOUT THAT! Younote he says he is still practicing medicine. Asa lawyer, I say—after 50 years—I am stillpracticing. We should be able to do some-thing without practicing it. Johnny Berean ofBuffalo, says he is sorry he couldn't be at the55th Reunion, and he missed seeing all of us.

I have been listing the town or city whereour classmates live. If you want to write anyof them, contact me, I can probably give youthe street address. I just received the newdeadlines for this column. There is no issue inJan, and the deadline for Feb is Dec 3 (early,because of the holidays). Dec 3 is my dead-line—yours should be a few days earlier. Re-gards to all.

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25MEN: William McKinley, 24 Ridgeway Cir-cle, White Plains NY 10605

MEN and WOMEN: Hunt Bradley, 1 LodgeWay, Ithaca, NY 14850

Attending the Oct 9 class luncheon at theCC of NYC were Bob and Hattie Gilman, thePhiladelphia contingent of Walt Buckley, BillJones, Bill Loeb, Hank Russell and BettyBayuk Berg, Art Markewich, Al Fingar, TomFennell, Dave Solinger, Dorothy Lampe Hill,Sara Bass Miller, Rose Levine Schwab, DanKathan '70, of the development office, andyour scribe. Preliminary reports on the classfund program to become a $2 Million Classby Reunion time and a general outline of Re-union plans were the order of business. Thenext luncheon was set for Thurs, May 14.

Luncheon reply notes: Mark Follmer,"Sorry, leave Oct 10 for the Orient. Hope toattend 55th." Ted Sanderson, "Just backfrom Europe. Saw the Passion Play in Ober-ammergau, other parts of Germany, Austria,

Aaron '25 and Mrs Binenkorb

Switzerland." Dan Coppin, "Will be in Por-tugal and Spain." Stu Massey, "Had arthri-tic knee replaced in June, back on golf courseAug 1. Other knee to be replaced nextspring." Lee Fraser, "Best to all. Expect tobe at our 55th in June." Al Kurdt, "Lu and Iwill be in Bermuda that wk. Glad to help onReunion." Herb Runsdorf, "Our son is towed in Alexandria that weekend." Phil Baker(Shreveport), "Wish I lived a little closer.Best regards." Bernie Tolces, "I'm enjoyingmy retirement: printmaking." Ramy Rami-rez, "Just back home in Santurce from ex-tended tour of US, Canadian Northwest, andAlaska."

Steve Macdonald reports, "Jean and I hadan interesting trip to England this summerwith a 10-day cruise from South Hampton toAmsterdam, then to the Fjords of Norway,over to the Shetlands, down to Dublin, andthen back to Southampton, where we hired acar and driver for an 8-day tour of Englandand Scotland. This would have been great if ithadn't rained and stayed cold for the 8 daysand also if I hadn't caught pneumonia. Westruggled home in time for me to be thrown inthe hospital for 8 days because the pneu-monia didn't sit well with my emphysema.However, I am now recovered and feelingfine!" From Dick Pietsch, "Ginny and Imotored north to New England, attending awedding on Nantucket Isl, our 1st visit there,and then continued on to Maine before re-turning to our Crozet, Va, home. Am lookingforward to our 55th!"

Hearty congratulations go to IsabelSchnapper Zucker for receiving the highesthonor of the International Lilac Society at itsannual meeting last May—the Achievementsand Honors plaque—bringing her total wonto 5, plus many printed awards from variousgroups for her horticultural writings. WritesIsabel, "Our 2 family-owned companies keepus busy. This yr's vacation was spent in Eng-land, walking gardens as usual, plus a quickieto Frankfort on business, and a wk in Ma-deira. We have seen so many countries thatwe are now picking up islands."

From Ruth Reynolds Hawthorn's hus-band, Leslie '24, "As you will recall, Ruthhas been legally blind for several yrs. She can-not read the Alumni News, so I read to herany item in which she would be interested."Betty Bayuk Berg pens, "Still working for theHuman Relations Commission on an advi-sory council, with an annual vacation to Mex-ico during the winter." Eleanor Hulings Gat-ling writes, "Am well, enjoying my garden,doing a little traveling, and looking forwardto my 47th anniversary this Apr." RachaelChildrey Gross advises, "I have joined theAAUW group here in Roseville, Cal, which isinterested in art and nature. Most of my time

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beyond house and garden keeping, andgrandmothering, is spent in work for the Sac-ramento Friends Meeting, to which webelong."

Catherine Whitehill Fischer notes, "En-joyed the visit of Dean Seznec (Arts College)to the area and the luncheon for him and MrsSeznec in San Francisco's Chinatown. InMay '79 we went to China on a LindbladTour." From Helen Bull Vandervort, "I metwith Geri Tremaine Welch in Detroit in Septto work on plans for our Reunion. Was visit-ing our daughter, Phebe '52 while she tookher daughter Carolyn to Brown and her hus-band, Dr Sidney Goldstein '52 was attendinga meeting in Puerto Rico. Their 11-yr-oldson, Grandfather Goldstein, and a pet goatmade life interesting for us."

Think 55th and happy holidays!

27MEN: Don Hershey, 5 S Landing Rd, Ro-chester, NY 14610

We salute Art Nash, our fine treasurer (atleft in photo). Prexy Ray Reisler (at right)was complimenting him for an outstandingjob then Ray Fingado took the picture. Art,having been in the banking business 50 yrs,the last 7 as consultant for Bank of TokyoTrust Co, does the job as an old pro. In re-tirement he finds being treasurer is, "a ratherlarger job than one would think." EmeritusTreasurer Jess Van Law can attest to that.Art paints in all media, golfs (handicap 12),with hope to match his age with a 75 for 18holes at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club StAndrews, Scotland, where he retains mem-bership. He does lecturing for senior citizensand hospital patient groups about the 12countries they visited in Europe and Asia, us-ing slides from their collection of 3,000. Eachweek he spends 2 days at Chappaqua Hospi-tal doing odd jobs and talking with patients,which is "exhilarating and rewarding," hesays.

Prexy Ray appointed Ray Fingado com-mittee chairman for a special gift to com-memorate our 55th. Send your suggestions.We want all to participate. Herb Singerstates, "All 3 of our children are Cornellians.One grandchild attends Dartmouth, anotheris at Brown. Oh, well, we have 2 youngergranddaughters who may choose Cornell."Herb is active in Grand Lodge of Masonry(33rd degree) and a member of the NatlCouncil, Boy Scouts of America. He's servedas commissioner for 51 yrs.

Ed Hanselman retired as vice president,Ithaca Savings Bank, in '69. Son David '57,MS '58, father of the 3 grandsons, is prof ofenvironmental science and forestry, SyracuseU. Walt Brunberg, Ebasco Services retired tohis Maine farm for 12 yrs then returned tocity life, in Woodside, where, together withwife Helen, he gardens, plays chess, writes,and reads. Dr Bill Wenzel enjoys retirementdoing church work in West Hartford, Conn.

Ed Devlin and Winifred reside at SunsetPkway, Waterport. They have 3 grandchild-ren by daughter Martha. Tony Swartz andwife Jane (Kauffman) '33 have 2 daughters,Amy '63 and Eleanor (Harvard '70). Jane ispresident of Rockville, Md, Civic Assn. Tonycontinues as chemistry consultant. Dean Ben-nett and wife Catherine (Weller) are fans oftheir 3 grandchildren, who play tennis andbaseball. Dean is a director of Palm Harbor,Fla, Village Assn.

With sadness we report the demise of ourvery good friend, Sally, dear wife of DillWalsh. Our deep condolences to this finefamily. To all: May Christmas be merry, andthe new year, most rewarding.

Officers of '27 confer. (See column.)

WOMEN: Helen Paine Hoefer, 139 Cod-dington Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

Estelle Uptcher Hearnden and Georgewrite that they again spent a fortnight onbeautiful, peaceful, sunny Guernsey Isl.George, fully retired early at 60, says, "Ishould have done this 10 yrs ago. Find it greatwith more time to care for Estelle. We're notfully organized yet, but working hard at it."

Josephine Conlon Ernstein left for Haiti inmid-Sept, where she will spend a semesterworking with the staff and students of a ruralschool where she taught for several yrs afterretirement from teaching at Ithaca High.Hopefully, she will send some interestingnews about her experiences there and the pro-gress made. Grace Schenk Steinhilber re-ports, "On Dec 15, the Salvation Army Se-nior Citizens have arranged a bus trip toNYC. Since I have not seen the 'Big Apple'since returning from World War II days in1946, it will be an eye opener. Hope the city iscleaner than it was then."

Lucile West Thomson and husband areforegoing Fla this winter. They put in a newfurnace and will brave the snows. She writes,"Just returned from our annual visit to Dor-set and Manchester, Vt. John painted; I rest-ed. Life goes on at a slower pace with moreproblems in health and inflation."

"In 1978,1 completed the work for makingthe center of Williamsburg an Historic Dis-trict. This Sept the official acceptance camethrough," writes Gertrude Godfrey Ronk."One learns a lot of local history in this kindof research." The Ronks moved—same townof Williamsburg, Mass—from Village HillRd to 7 Old Goshen Rd. Dot Sharpe Treftsand Bud returned to Punta Gorda, Fla, forthe winter after a summer at Lake Chautau-qua, where they enjoyed a great season ofconcerts, plays, operas, and lectures. On theway South, they stopped in Ithaca for a visitwith Betty Wyckoff Balderston.

28MEN: Louis Freidenberg, 200 E 57th St,NYC 10022

Edwin Howard Jr recently retired from thearchitectural firm of Burt, Hill, Kosar, Rittel-mann Associates, formerly Howard, Burtand Hill, which Ed founded in 1936. He isserving his 4th term on the American Instituteof Architects' national committee on historicresources. Ed is a life member of CommunityTheatre, a life member of the executive com-mittee of the American Red Cross, and on theboard of directors of the Butler IndustrialMuseum, as well as being involved in othercommunity activities. His firm has won na-tional awards for school design, and is cur-rently specializing in solar energy design, withoffices in Pittsburgh, Pa; Wash, DC; FtMyers, Fla; and Butler, Pa. In 1978, Edestablished the G Edwin Howard 1893 Class

of '28 Foundation in memory of his father.He has 4 children and 5 grandchildren.

Roger Jones retired from the US Office ofManagement and Budget in '75. Now servesas a senior fellow at Princeton U. He wasdeputy director, Bureau of Budget (US),chairman of US Civil Service Commission,deputy undersecretary of state for ad-ministration, and assistant director, US Of-fice of Management and Budget. Now he is amember of, and consultant to the NationalAcademy of Public Administration, and isactive in the New Hartford, Conn, historicalsociety. He and Dorothy (Heyl) '29 have 3children and 10 grandchildren. Son Roger '57is married to Cynthia (Cavenaugh) '59; theyhave a son Michael '83 in Engineering—a4th-generation Cornellian.

John Moor wrote he could not attend classdinner last May 13 in NYC; he was going tobe in China! Walter Klein is senior partner ofKlein, Cohen, and Schwartzenberg attorneys,but has been semi-retired since '72. As a hob-by, he has experimented with enzymes. Hehas given seminars on enzymes at Cornell,and has attended dozens of other seminars.He owned race horses, but has gotten rid ofall of them. Has a 2nd home in Fla. He andwife Judith have a son Michael A '69 and ayoung granddaughter, who should be aboutClass of 2000—Walt is already worried abouttuition.

Arthur Quencer retired in '69 as director oflabs and research at Dairylea. He and wifeIsabell have a son Robert M '59, an MD.Seward Salisbury and his wife Ruth spend agood part of their retirement time keeping upwith scattered children and grandchildren.This involves several trips a yr. He is also do-ing research for a paper in social history,"Farming and Farm Living in NY State in theHorse and Buggy Era." This focuses on1890-1900, just before electric power and gasengines revolutionized farming. Sources haveincluded state and federal data, local andregional newspapers, oral histories, and fami-ly documents and artifacts. Both sets ofSeward's grandparents farmed in NY, andconversations with them, as retired farmersfrom the 1920s, produced a great deal of in-formation. This paper should be great for theSalisbury grandchildren, and for manyothers. The data is being shared with variousservice clubs and historical societies inUpstate NY.

Abraham Sands is a practicing ophthal-mologist; formerly chief of service at 3hospitals, now a consultant. He is on theboard of directors of the NYS PhysiciansHome. His wife Edith is professor of financeat Long Isl U, and son John is professor oflaw at Albany.

WOMEN: Dorothy Knapton Stebbins, 94-3059 Ave, Elmhurst, NY 11373

Ruth Lyon reports 28 responses with duesand more to come from the class letter lastAug. Here are some excerpts from the letters:Esther Weightman Bower, still in Conn, re-tired from public school teaching in '69 and ishappy she has reached her 80th birthday. EvaHunt in Sanford, Fla, is busy with work forher church, the Audubon Society and SeniorCitizens activities. She and her sister took agood Senior Citizens' Greyhound bus trip tothe Southwest for 3 wks. The 80 persons in 2buses covered a lot of ground easily. Theyplanned another bus trip this Sept and Oct toNova Scotia, the Gaspe, and Prince EdwardIsl. She enjoys the annual dinner meeting ofthe CC in Orlando.

Ruth Pederson Powers says all is well withher daughters and their families. Five of thegrandchildren are all grown up. They and therest of the schoolchildren send letters and VIS-

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it Ruth—all of these a joy, even though thevisits entail much more cooking than is usualwith her. She enjoyed a spring-time visit toSanta Barbara and Sonoma, Cal, for 2months. She has become a California enthu-siast. Dot Searles Munchmeyer and husbandwere in Manchester, Vt, in May. MargaretMiracle Willets is happy in her new home inTillamook, where she can visit her daughterSylvia and children. She lives in the countryin the woods. Kay Geyer Butterfield sayskeep your Cornell Fund donations coming in,which will save her much letter writing. Herdear daughter Margot was with her in Julyand Aug. Daughters: a wonderful invention.

Clara Hires is still exhibiting her books,Spores—Ferns—Microscopic Illusions*Analyzed, Ko// (1965) and Ko/77(1976). At83 she no longer leaves home. She made agenerous gift, though she tangled with theIRS over her splendid books.

29MEN: HF Marples, 40-24 68th St, Woodside,NY 11377

At yr-end our wish for all classmates is:may the joyous spirit of Christmas brightenyour way throughout the coming yr. MikeBender sends the following letter from aclassmate in China: "It is certainly very kindof you giving me your letter of July 29. I amvery thankful reading your considerate note.

"President FHT Rhodes and his associatesof provosts, deans, professors visited Chinain July. Cornellians of Shanghai joinedguests from Alma Mater in a warm reunionand we were much excited on learning somuch about our campus. Last Mondayanother 35 Cornellians came to Shanghai andagain we had a grand time.

"My career before '48 was quoted in Dec'48 issue of Cornell Engineer. Since May '49,I was appointed to do planning work for EastChina water conservancy. After '53 I taughthydraulical engineering in Tung Chi U,Shanghai, and Chekiang U, Hangzhou. I re-tired in '75 but still do some consultant work.

"I am certainly very grateful to you foryour sympathy toward my wife's death. Sheshared collegiate life with me and her depar-ture influenced my life considerably. Withbest regards, I am Yours sincerely, Fu ChuanKuan." We rejoice to learn that memories ofthe Hill remain vivid half a world and half acentury away.

An exchange of letters with Walt Knoxdown in Ga brings a map of the campaignthat Sherman waged against Johnston fromChattanooga to Atlanta in 1864. Walt livesright on the route of that campaign, so he cantrace out each engagement on the actual ter-rain. He says he is taking up the productionof wine from native grapes. Here's wishingmore power to Walt and to his product.

Phil Stone's admirable article in the July is-sue sheds light on some things I had alwaystaken for granted, such at the universitychimes. How many musical undergraduateslost heart at the sight of the 138 steps theywould have to climb to reach the console?The faculty advisor of the chimes, Dean AWSmith 1878, emeritus, had a strong influenceamong faculty and students in Sibley in mytime. As to travel, one thing stands out—when vacation time came, students fromNYC had a much easier and faster trip thanstudents from other places at an equal dis-tance. The Lehigh and the Lackawanna werehot competitors for student traffic at thattime; the Lackawanna had the shorter routeand I usually took it to see how much timethat would save on a tight schedule. I wouldlike to hear from the Upstate contingent,

students from Albany, Utica, Watertown,and such places. How did you travel to andfrom Ithaca? If gasoline prices go much high-er, some students will have to seek such pub-lic transit as still exists.

New Year's Eve marks the end of the Cor-nell Campaign for $230 million. The finishline is in sight, but as I write, we haven't quitereached it yet. If you have contributed, youhave my leave to celebrate. If you haven't,there is still time to send in your check—itmay be the one that puts us over the top. On-ly after you have contributed can you thinkabout that New Year's Eve party.

Do you think you have it hard? Just con-sider the lot of the man who has to set typefor a newspaper in Chinese and you'll feelbetter at once.

WOMEN: Edith Stenberg Smith, 155 BeechSt, Floral Park, NY 11001

Tibbie Goldstein Levy writes: "We just re-turned from abroad—London, Zurich, and,finally, Africa. A friend of ours has built abeautiful villa in Tangier and we were house-guests. We had a place there yrs ago and fellin love with a totally different world. Ourstay coincided with Ramadan, the holiestmonth-long religious observance. Seeing andhearing this, from a hilltop overlooking asmall village was very different from being inthe Minyah Hotel." After 20 yrs Tibbie gaveup her law practice and became a profession-al painter. She has paintings in the permanentcollections of 37 museums. She adds: "I al-ways painted. I was reported by a maid toMiss Nye as having porno pictures in myroom. They were studies I did as a student inParis at the Grande Chaumiere school of art.I had to take them down—they were nudes.One of my paintings was acquired by Cornellfor its museum many yrs ago." As ProfessorGuerlac would have said: Λutres temps,autres moeurs.

In Oct I was one of the fortunate guests atthe annual apple picking party hosted by Sam'27 and Gerry D'Heedene Nathan at theirfarm in Kintnersville, Pa. Their lovely oldhome on top of a hill with magnificent viewsfrom all sides, the orchard, its trees overflow-ing with apples of all colors, the gracioushospitality of Gerry and Sam, a glorious sun-ny day, and classmates gathering from farand near—how can one describe such a beau-tiful day? Cameras clicked as we drank, ate,picked apples, and chatted. Enjoying theday's activities were: Sally Cole, Ola (Coop-er) and Ford Brandon, Agnes (Gainey) andHH "Bill" Williams, PhD '33, "Charley"Gristede and John Corish, Mary Groff, Car-olyn (Getty) and Gene Lutz, Lizette Hand, JoMills Reis, Tib Kelly Saunders, Anna andGeorge Schmidt, Marian (Walbancke) andWally Smith, Anor Whiting Van Winkle.

30MEN: Daniel Denenholz, 250 E 65th St,NYC 10021

Donald A Armstrong of Sayre, Pa, retiredin Aug '76 after 43 yrs with Tioga Mills Inc,in Waverly, where he was sales manager andcorporate secretary. In 1967, son Terr, 20, amember of US Army Band, was killed in abus accident. Don has 2 daughters and 8grandchildren: one, an Alfred U grad, andanother at U of Chicago. William D Forgengwas a senior research fellow, head of the me-tal properties group, at Union Carbide Corp,when he retired in '73. He's an honorarymember of American Society for Testing andMaterials. He has a son, a daughter, and 4grandchildren.

John H Barrett, a veterinarian, continuesin active practice in Westerly, RI. LeonardTyler, Pulteney, also a DVM, retired fromprivate practice in '60 when he joined theNYS Dept of Ag and Markets, where he re-mained until '75. Daughter Bette '55 is wifeof Dr Ronald Davidsen '59. He has 2 otherdaughters and a son. Janis Mullen '83 is oneof his 11 grandchildren. Another veterinar-ian, Lincoln Field, an Ithacan, retired fromthe Vet College, where he had spent 10 yrsfollowing a 30-yr career in general vet prac-tice in Middleburgh. He's past-president ofthe Vet College Alumni Assn and for 5 yrshas been its secretary.

George I Finley Jr, Pittsburgh, Pa, is in his10th yr of retirement after a career of 41 yrswith PPG Industries, primarily in industrialengineering. Theodore H Eaton Jr, retired inJune '77 from the U of Kansas where he wasprofessor of zoology and a research zoolo-gist. He's published 115 papers and 2 books.In '65-66 he was a Fulbright professor atSaigon U and Hue U in Vietnam. He nowlives in Pacific Grove, Cal. He has a son, 2daughters, and 6 grandchildren.

David B Hawes, Ft Worth, Texas, is par-tially retired. He's been involved in buildingconstruction, oil investments, and as a lum-ber merchant. Wife Emma (Fisher) '31 is abridge Master who has represented the US ininternational competition. Morris R Nichols,Salisbury, Md, was a district conservationistwith the Soil Conservation Service when heretired in '64. For the next 10 yrs he main-tained a hostel in Ocean City, Md, for work-ing boys and girls. Now, he says, he's "tryingto stay well enough to write, walk, read, eat,and pay bills."

WOMEN: Eleanor Tomlinson, 231 SE 52ndAve, Portland, Ore 97215

No recent news from classmates. Mt StHelens has erupted again, but we are surviv-ing; dust fallout is light. Bob Terwilligerdeserves a great deal of credit for the successof our 50th, writes Joyce Porter Layton. Wedo want to express our appreciation to him.Peg Fintel Keese wanted to come to Reunion,but her husband was unwell. Remember, shesent her "Memory Book" of our Cornell yrs,including many pictures, enjoyed by all.Doris Vanderhoef Osborne had to change herplans for Reunion at the last minute. Fortun-ately, she doesn't live near the flooded areasnear Phoenix, Ariz, as she is 300 miles SW,and 4,000 ft higher. She adds that Ariz hasevery zone of weather except rain forest.

Eleanor Reed Page of nearby Seneca Fallsdid not feel quite well enough to come to Re-union, but sent her best wishes to all. EdithSharpe Stillman had conflicting dates (afriend's golden wedding anniversary). Shecongratulated Helen Floreck on her superbwork on the directory, and was pleased tocatch up on classmates.

Minnie Edminster Webb had hoped tocome, but had grandchildren graduating. Sheis happy in a senior citizens' apt (in NJ) whichhas many activities, crafts, parties, trips. Shewas about to go on a trip to Atlantic City fordinner and a show when she wrote Joyce. PegGamble in Boston had many happy memoriesof our 40th. We do remember her.

By the way, we hope many of you are en-joying Cosmos on public television, featuringProf Carl Sagan of Cornell. It's fascinating.My grandson, 15, is intrigued. Enjoy the holi-days, and don't forget to write!

31MEN: Bruce W Hackstaff, 27 West Neck Rd,Huntington, NY 11743

DECEMBER 1980

Samuel Gorlick, city attorney of Burbank,Cal, has been elected to chair the AmericanBar Assn's section of urban, state, and localgovernment law. He has been affiliated withthe ABA since '61. In the past, he has beenpresident of the National Inst of MunicipalLaw Officers, the Cal City Attorneys, and theBurbank Bar Assn. He was chairperson ofthe Los Angeles County Bar Assn's govern-ment section and was a board member of theLeague of California Cities of 2 yrs. Present-ly, he is a board member of the United Wayfor Los Angeles County, the Anti-Defama-tion League, Pacific Southwest Region, andthe Burbank Family Service Agency. He is apast board member of the Burbank KiwanisClub and the American Red Cross. The Dis-tinguished Service Award of the National Instof Municipal Law Officers was conferred onhim in '78. He was admitted to the NY Bar in'35 and the Cal Bar in '47. During WorldWar II, he received the Bronze Medal. Heand his wife Genevieve reside in Burbank,Cal. They have 2 children, Bruce and Susan.

Prof Edward A Reed wrote that he had"just returned from a 3-month teaching pro-ject at The Korea Advanced Inst of Science inSeoul. The subject of my project was TheTechniques of Press-working Sheet Metal.' "This project was sponsored by the Interna-tional Executive Service Corps, NY. He andhis wife found Korea very interesting and sheassisted 2 Koreans who were learning to readEnglish.

Shigeo Hirata wrote that George "Casey"Castleman, Richard Brown, and JohnWickham, all class of '30, were classmates ofhis at the Silver Bay School on Lake Georgemany yrs ago. He met Dick Brown when heattended the Architecture Assembly reunionseveral yrs ago. He sends his best wishes to allin the class.

Martin Riger retired some 3 yrs ago as pro-fessor, emeritus, Georgetown U Law Center.Kept semi-active as visiting lecturer at the Uof Conn Law School, Martin is eagerly look-ing forward to our 50th for 2 reasons. Hisown Reunion, and that of his older daughterAndrea and her husband Andrew Potash,both of the Class of '66, who will attend their15th.

As we approach our 50th Reunion somenostalgic memories return to us. Kevin EHoward reflects this in a short verse he sentrecently:

The winters are longer,The drinks shorter,And the memories, ah the memories,Softer and Softer.

May we suggest we all relive the memoriesnext June. Plan now!

WOMEN: Helen Nuffort Saunders, 1 Ken-sington Terr, Maplewood, NJ 07040

Nothing brightens the day of a class corres-pondent more than a nice newsy note arrivingjust before deadline. Rosemary Hunt Toddwrites, "Stan and I are at Martha's Vineyard,where our daughters have summer homes, fora little post-season relaxation. It's a beautifultime of the yr to be here. Brought the AlumniNews along to catch up and noted a dearth ofnews from the feminine section of our classso thought I'd send a little along.

"A high spot in our yr was a trip to ThePeople's Republic of China—a fascinatingexposure to those intriguing people—millionsof them—all dedicated to building a betterChina. We visited Kwangchou (Canton),Hongchow, Peking, Shanghai, and Tienstsin.Each had unique qualities. Peking, of course,has much to offer with the Ming Tombs,Imperial (Forbidden City) and Summer Pala-ces and their treasures, the Great Wall, closeby. We climbed on a bright clear day. But

Shanghai was my favorite city. Through itssumptuous buildings along the waterfront,known as the 'Bund,' one can still picturehow it might have been during colonial times.It resembles a typical European or Britishcity. Its teeming harbor has every imaginabletype of vessel—junks, ferries, barges, freight-ers, et al. In spite of the wonder of the experi-ence, one comes away feeling it is but amicrocosm in exploring and understandingsuch a vast country.

"Stopped briefly in Summit (NJ) and sawMary Schields Emert. It sounds as though allyou active people have things well under wayfor our BIG occasion in June."

Indeed, our class officers have been work-ing diligently behind the scenes to enhanceyour pleasure in attending our golden 50thReunion. For well over a yr now, they've hadtheir eyes on the ball, their ears to the groundfor suggestions, their shoulders to the wheel.Uncomfortable, what? But come and enjoythe results in June! By mid-Oct, FrankieYoung had already assembled a group of ourIthaca faithfuls (What would we do withoutthem?) to alert all of us to the invaluable as-sistance provided by our unrestricted gifts toCornell through the Cornell Fund. Our spe-cial class gift, the campus beautification pro-ject, should appeal to all who remember thelift it gives the spirit, walking the paths ofthat lovely campus on the Hill.

32MEN: James W Oppenheimer, 560 DelawareAve, Buffalo NY 14202

Dr Raymond Preefer and Dotty recentlyvisited England and Ireland. Ray, an activelypracticing ophthalmologist, lists family ac-tivities as swimming, baseball, and tennis.The Preefers live at 2601 North Flagler Dr, WPalm Beach, Fla. They have 2 grandchildrenwho attend the Palm Beach Day School. Artand Shirley Boschen, 908 A, HeritageVillage, Conn, wintered in Vero Beach Fla,this yr from Jan to May and also made shorttrips to Denver, Col; Old Bennington, Vt;Maine; and Cape Cod. Art says he spent aquiet summer because he had cataract surgeryon one eye and was "pretty close to home forabout 6 wks."

Basic Resources International SA (Luxem-bourg) has announced that Robert W Purcellhas resigned as board chairman but remains adirector. Basic Resources is an oil-field ownerand pipeline operator. Bob maintains officesat 300 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Althoughhe sent in only his address, I see Robert ENewman from time to time, as we both live inBuffalo. Bob continues to practice law andlives at 33 Rand Ave.

One runs into Cornelliana all over theworld. Last spring Betty and I visitedAgrigento, Sicily, and spent a pleasant hourin the Casa Natale di Luigi Pirandello. Themodest residence has been made into a smallmuseum in which are displayed artifacts hav-ing to do with the great playwright. Amongthem was a playbill or program of the CornellU Summer Theatre, dated 1930. The play wasSix Characters in Search of an Author andonly the cover was visible. I should have likedto peek inside to see if Prof Drummonddirected it and to learn who among our con-temporaries was in the cast.

Robert L Riedel, 367 NW 42nd St, BocaRaton, Fla, who enjoys bowling and garden-ing, says that grandchildren come in bunches.To illustrate his point, he lists Cathy andDavid, 13 and 11, respectively, and 4 morewho, at the time he wrote, were all 2 yrs oldor younger. Bob and Dottie cruised theCaribbean a while back and spent the sum-

mer in the Northeast. We may have a '32grandchild in the 1984 Olympics, accordingto H Chester Webster. He says his youngestgrandchild, Suzanne, is a great gymnast andhopes to make the team. Chet responded toour "Why Cornell?" inquiry but his replysomehow got lost in the shuffle. He appliedto Cornell and to Washington and Lee, wasaccepted at both, and, largely because hisbrother Louis '26 was a Cornellian, elected tomatriculate in Ithaca. The Websters' addressis 52 Denton Dr, Wellesley, Mass.

WOMEN: Hildegard Schloh Feick, 225 Ger-monds Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994

Harriet Stone Calkins (Mrs Delos S '31,MEE '32), 8480 W 147th St, Miami, Fla, isstill a bundle of energy. Her hobbies aremusic and swimming. She belongs to and waspresident of The Organ Belles, a group of 30who play organs in each other's homes. She isalso a member of the Amateur OrganistsAssn International. Harriet is secretary of theCC in Miami and assisted in the Cornell Fundnational phonathon. In her spare time, Har-riet sells real estate. She is waiting for herhusband to retire "again" before taking anymore trips. Son Cdr Deίos S. Calkins Jrretired from the Navy, Jan 1, 1980, and diedMar 22. Grandson John D Calkins lives inFairfax, Va. Daughter Harriet (Suzy) andhusband Paul Willams live in Coral Gables,Fla. Their son David, 16, is active in sports.As to the 13-yr-old twins, Christopher is in-terested in outer space and Mathew was at-tending the U of Miami Summer School inArchitecture.

Marian C Jones, 9717 Santa Maria Ct,Brandenton, Fla, is retired but volunteers hertime working at the State Theater and deliver-ing meals. Her hobbies are swimming,bridge, and traveling. She has been to Italy,Greece, Mexico, the islands along the EastCoast, our West, the Caribbean and SPacific, including the Panama Canal,Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, etc. Shehas run out of places to see. Marian, come toour 50th and see your friends.

Mildred Currier Skinner, 297 8th Ave,Seacliff, stays pretty close to home doingnecessary errands for her 94-yr-old mother.Her husband John continues to work and hasbeen busy, but they sneak off to Maine for afew days when possible, especially during thespring for the lobster bake at Colby.

A merry Christmas to all, and may youhave a healthy, happy new year.

33MEN: Edward W Carson, Box 61, EaglesMere, Pa 17731

Interesting note from Ronald C Brown,still enjoying retirement, after 8 yrs, follow-ing 38 yrs with IBM, states he was lookingforward to being a grandfather this past Aug.Amy Carter is learning to play the violin fromhis daughter. Also, he was looking forwardto our 1983 Reunion. Certainly hope that istrue for all of us.

One excellent example of how classmatesstick together is the trio of Wilbur Le Page,Lou Otto, and Herm Dreyer. They met asplanned at the '78 Quill and Daggerbreakfast. Wilbur was suffering from ar-thritis, having had an artificial knee installed.They planned to attend the '79 breakfast.Herm called Wilbur about a month beforethe June breakfast only to learn that Wilburhad slipped on a throw rug and broken hiship. Herm went to the breakfast, then visitedWilbur. Wilbur had a rough time; his hip didnot heal until Dec, when he had a new hingeput into his knee—a new model. On calling

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prior to the '80 breakfast, Herm learned thatWilbur's wife Ev was about to have a cataractremoved. Attending the breakfast dependedon her condition. Herm planned to attend thebreakfast, then go on to visit Wilbur if he wasnot there. Wilbur is deeply involved with theSyracuse U computer; he talks to it on Sun-days; he doesn't want to leave the Snow Beltbecause of it. His devotion to it equals thatfor his classmates. We hope his arthritic con-dition is much improved.

Nick Veeder, who retired in '75 as chair-man of the board of Granite City Steel, wasnamed chairman of the EpiscopalPresbyterian Foundation for the Aging in St.Louis, Mo. Nick, who continues to serveothers, had been secretary of the board forthe past 2 yrs. Another of our well knownclassmates, Henry S Reuss (D—Wise), under-went open-heart surgery in early Sept inMilwaukee. It is hoped he has returned toWash, DC, by this time.

Charlie and Mary Mellowes paid a fast visitto Spaff and Beryl Frink, with dinner atMoby's Dock on the pier of Santa Monica,Cal. Keeping up with Charlie is quite a job,with 2 wks of bird shooting in Oct in Alberta,Canada, followed by a planned appearance atHomecoming in Ithaca on the 25th.

WOMEN: Pauline Wallens Narins, 40 BridlePath, Williamsville, NY 14221

When we in Buffalo heard the familiar,once-a-yr "Let's have the envelope, please,"last spring at the Oscar awards ceremony,and then the exciting, "The winner for bestsong, David Shire," the chimes in our ownhearts rang out. I mention chimes, forDavid's father is Irving Shire '31, who, dur-ing his student yrs was the chimes-master, parexcellence, and who is still the Lester Laninof Buffalo. David adapted the music forSaturday Night Fever, for which he won 2Grammys, and it was Shire music as well, inAll the President's Men. David, at present, isworking on a new musical, together with hisYale classmate, lyricist Richard Maltby. Thewinning Oscar song was "It Goes Like ItGoes," from Norma Rae.

In other fields, Tom and Clare Brewer Kel-ly's daughter Larin, as of last yr, is a practic-ing attorney. Son Brian completed hismaster's in library science in Aug. Clarewrote that there are no grandchildren, at pre-sent, much to her chagrin; otherwise, she andTom are basking in their retirement.

Hilda Weber Huntting, now widowed,runs her own real estate business. Mary AnnaEdelman Smith '32, a close friend, who, too,has lost her husband, helps Hilda in the of-fice. She also mentioned that they saw OttoSchoenfeld '32 recently in East Hampton.Lenore Loeser Kulberg had a nice reunionwith 2 of her classmates—Loretta AntellYohalem, in Conn, and Lillian Chait Singer,in NY.

It's a beautiful Indian summer day, but oh,dear, the door bell just rang—a slinger an-nouncing the rates for snow plowing. Any-how, when you read this, it will probably be awhite holiday; so merry Christmas and happyHanukah, everybody.

34MEN: John H Little, H-21, 275 Bryn MawrAve, Bryn Mawr, Pa 19010

James "Jim" W Allen of Alpine, is theproud grandfather of twins. His son James WAllen Jr '69 and Carol (Scribente) '68 are theparents. We wonder what will be the class ofthe twins, Peter James and Mary Clair?

EKG Berjesson and his wife Judith live inAsuncion, Paraguay. They were in the US

over Christmas and New Year's and thenwent to Sweden to visit relatives for a fewdays, thence to Florence, Italy, EKG's favo-rite city. It sounds as if his wife's position, ashead of the English department at YasyrethAmerican School, and EKG's position, asconsultant on 2 Paraguay hydroelectric pro-jects, are really interesting.

Saul Cohen reports he is bored but healthy.He also reports how proud he is of hisdaughter Deborah J '69, as she has been ap-pointed director of communications at MIT.Can't say we blame you. Girl watching is oneof 3 hobbies Harold "Hal" De Wolf Jr,LaMesa, Cal. The other 2 are reading andtraveling. A yr ago in May, he went toEurope by Concorde and, in Nov, took a tourof the 5 main islands of Hawaii.

The writer couldn't help but notice with en-vy that golf, fishing, and boating were listedby Nathanial B Elkins as his hobbies, hisfamily activities, and his spouse's work. Howdo you manage this, Nat? Have you everdreamed of "A Castle in Spain"? Well, John"Jack" H Gardner and his wife Chris haveone. It is one in which they lived prior to re-tirement and have returned to each of the last2 summers. Nathan "Nate" Goldberg and hiswife Rita traveled to People's Republic ofChina in July '79.

Merrill "Jock" D Gross is president ofMark Gross Inc, which manufactures anddistributes jewelry in Cleveland, Ohio. Heand his wife Martha have 2 sons who are law-yers—John is in NY and was recently in-volved in the Carter peanut warehouse invest-igation, while Bob is heading the legal assist-ance in NH.

In computing a dog's life span compared toa human's, I think you multiply it by 7. Howdo you figure it for a cat? Dick Hermann andhis wife Bess have a Siamese cat which is 15yrs old. That, times 7, is 105. There must beanother system for cats.

Your next yr's News & Dues form is due,and the writer would like to point out howimportant it is to him that you do a good jobof it. If you don't return one he has nothingto put in the column. You expect to have agood column to read every month, so sendyour news, please. We'll recap what you didlast yr: Of approximately 180 duespayers lastyr, 81 sent just their names. Coffee wasspilled on several, but that doesn't count; andone came with no name at all (this happenedto be from a former roommate, RB "Dick"Oviatt, so I recognized the writing).

WOMEN: Isabel White West, Box 1414,Vineyard Haven, Mass 02568

Classmates are traveling, or at least a yrago that's what some of them were doing.Elizabeth Bell Powell went to Oberammegau;Mildred Holman Williams had a fantastictrip through the Canadian Rockies and theisland passage of Alaska; Emily Ritter Hobbshad 3 wks in Yugoslavia with her sisterFrederica Ritter Lockhart '32 and husband;Ruth Levy was in San Miguel, Mexico, andYucatan; Ruth Broderick Harris went to EastAfrica to see the animals; Edna BotsfordHollis had a marvelous canoe trip in Canada.At this point (Oct), we're panting for news ofyou that will bring us up to date.

'Tis the season to be jolly, and we shouldbe writing about Lois Purdey Shafer'sChristmas trees instead of Frances EldridgeGuest's tulips. But Fran was here on theVineyard and we were intrigued to hear abouttheir place in Slingerlands, near Albany. Sheand her husband have a bulb show that couldrival anything you might see in Holland. Carspassing at tulip time slow down, causing nearaccidents, as people peer in disbelief at thethousands of red tulips waving at them from

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the Guests' property. It must be quite a sight.To celebrate the coming of the bloom, theGuests have a gigantic party every yr."Where will it end?" wails Fran as the bulbsand the guests keep multiplying! AdelaideOppenheim came to the party last spring—she lives nearby in Schenectady. Fran wasmuch impressed by Adelaide's professionalstatus and accomplishments in the businessworld of GE.

A card from Mina Bellinger Hewitt bringsa corrected address: the new one is 3223 NLockwood Ridge Rd, Lot 192, Sarasota, Fla.It's nice to have messages from you out there.Another Floridian (in winter) is CharlotteCrane Stilwell. She and her husband Andrew'33, have purchased a condo at 3300 N GulfShore Blvd, in Naples. She says "It's a greatplace for people to come and visit"—surely,a rash statement! Sally Miller Cunninghamwas with them for Thanksgiving.

Remember the Boneheads? Tilli (Mathilde)Hockmeister tells us that their little gangmanages to get together for lunch from timeto time and although none of them made it toReunion, they plan to try harder when the50th rolls around. We're holding you toit—Rose Gaynor Veras, Esther Leibowitz,Eleanor Shapiro Rappaport, Dorothy WilsonBaschuk.

Here's to peace in '81—it has to be! Happynew year.

35MEN and WOMEN: Mary D Didas, 80 NLake Dr, 3B, Orchard Park, NY 14127

This column is being written in mid-Octwhen the trees in Western NY are flauntingtheir reds and oranges and yellows, a trulyspectacular gift. Now, as you read this inDec, let us wish you a joyous season and anew year filled with many mini-reunions andclass jaunts. Why not make the 1st one theclass dinner on Jan 23 at the CC of NYC?

Dan Bondareff is looking for more sugges-tions for a mini-reunion in late Feb or earlyMar. Suggested, so far, are the West Coastand the East Coast of Fla and SC (HiltonHead or John's Isl). As you know from hisclass letter, other locations have been propos-ed: Phoenix, Ariz, Chicago, 111, San Diego,Cal, and Alaska. So let Dan know your pref-erence.

Margaret Sturm Conner, 14 82nd St,Ocean City, Md, has 2 granddaughters, Jack-ie '82 and Carol Eaton '84 in the HotelSchool. Dan Lind, 2510 Torrey Pines Rd, LaJolla, Cal, writes he had a fine time at our45th—So did we all. Son Richard '70, now

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with Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, and his wifeKaren (Greenspan) '70 are grooming theirbaby Elizabeth for the Class of 2000. CarrollConnely McDonald, 2165 Westrivers Rd,Charleston, SC, is taking advantage of freetuition to senior citizens at the College ofCharleston and enjoying a drawing course.

William S Mudge, 105 Club House Dr,Naples, Fla, now retired, keeps busy playinggolf, working as a hospital volunteer, and do-ing some consulting work. His brother Russ'42 lives in the same area, with his wife Dottie(Grant) '43. W Kennedy Dayton, 41 NChapel St, Gowanda, supplements retirementwith real estate brokerage. Their 4 childrentake their families to visit him and Virginiaseveral times a yr to make a "happy standardlife of grandparents." H Davis "Dave"Daboll, Box 307, Lakeville, Conn, is involvedin travel, garden and yard, and genealogy,beside the library, historical society, andchoir. George Rothfuss, 4366 Messerschmidt,Madison, Wise, has converted a Winnebagointo a mobile nursing home and, with hiswife, La Nore, gravitates between Madisonand Mesa, Ariz.

Eugene Murphy, 511 E 20th St, NYC,missed Reunion because of the InternationalConference on Rehability Engineering. Cur-rently he has arranged and moderated acourse, Pressure on People, and a paneldiscussion on science and technology aidingthe handicapped in connection with the an-nual Conference on Engineering in Medicineand Biology. He continues to represent theAmerican Society for Testing and Materialson the council of the Alliance for Engineeringin Medicine and Biology, a group of 20 engi-neering and medical societies, and to edit theVA's Bulletin of Prosthetics Research. Don'ttalk of retirement to Gene.

And don't talk of retirement to HopePalmer Poor (2566 Trapp Ave, CoconutGrove, Fla), either. Though she and her hus-band Floyd have closed their own travel agen-cy, they are working as outside salespersonsfor another agency and so can sandwich inexciting trips. One of their joys is presentingshow and tell programs on their trips:Iceland, Nepal, Bhutan, Cuzco and MachuPicchu, Lima and Iquitos, Egypt, Panama,Japan, Taiwan. Their next travel dream isTibet.

Not to be outdone, Treasurer Bill Ein-wechter and Ginny are enthusiastic patronsof the alumni tours. Last yr they took thetrips to Egypt and to the Far East (People'sRepublic of China, Hong Kong, and Japan).This fall they delighted in Greece and theIslands. Anyone in the vicinity of 90 E BellsMill Rd, Phila, Pa, can drop in and twistBill's arm to show you their fascinating slidespunctuated by pitchy phrases in the patoispicked up.

Have a marvelous holiday.

36MEN: Col Edmund R Mac Vittie, Ret AUS,10130 Forrester Dr, Sun City, Ariz 85351

Happiness is being considerate with thefeelings of others—it will be appreciated.

F Donald Hart (ME), Farmington RD 8,Franklin, Tenn, has been retired from theAmerican Gas Assn since May '80, and isnow at his farm. He will continue as consul-tant, representing several companies, and willalso remain on several US and Canadiancompany boards. Paul Mattice (BA), RD 1,Box 180 B, Freehold, was elected chairman ofthe board of American Mutual Insurance Coafter many yrs as president. He visited Arizand Cal last yr, and also went to Prague andVienna in Aug '80 with his wife Martha

(Rogers) '39 (BA; Kappa Alpha Theta). Paulis Phi Gamma Delta. We are looking forwardto seeing you both at the 45th.

Arthur E Glasser (CE), 135 N OaklandAve, Pasadena, Cal, retired in July '80 asdean of the world mission of FullerTheological Seminary. He will continue as asenior professor, with a full and challengingteaching load. He was in Australia, Korea,and Japan last summer, then went to Ger-many and Rome—all in connection with hiswork related to the worldwide task of thechurch.

Warren L. Kern (BChem), 1720 FairmountAve, La Canada, Cal, sent us a short note.He and his wife had a nice trip to Fiji, NewCaledonia, Australia, and Papua. How aboutgiving us your impressions of the areas, War-ren? Albert Koenig (BA), 580 Arastradero Rd#405, Palo Alto, Cal, (his new address), is en-joying this beautiful area and great climate.Al keeps busy doing volunteer work withforeign students, researchers, and visitors atStanford U. He is also working with seriouslyafflicted children in the children's hospital atStanford, and through Interplast, anorganization that sends plastic surgeons toThird World countries to do free correctivesurgery on deformed, injured, and crippledchildren. Keep up the good work, Al!

Henry Untermeyer (BA), 1630 (1-D) LaReina Way, Palm Springs, Cal, was 65 in Jan'80, and has decided not to retire; he feels wewho have vision of 20/20/20—20 percentgolfing, 20 percent eating, 20 percentboredom, and the rest resting—are missing agreat deal in life. See all about A Koenig,Henry, in this column, and you will note theabsence of boredom. Henry is expanding hisbusiness and has opened a showroom forhydro pools and bathtubs, saunas, steamunits, and deluxe shower valves. Hisshowroom is in Cathedral City, Cal, and hewill give free coffee to classmates even if theydon't buy. In June '80, he took on the PostalService about their new 9-digit ZIP Codesystem. He stated that the concept of usingthe ZIP code to pinpoint areas more closely isa sound one; they are just going about it inthe wrong way. Although critical of the ZIPcode expansion, he says the "Postal Service isdoing a simply wonderful job." Hope yourideas will go over, Henry; we will be pullingfor you. Also, retirement can be very helpfulto others, and is more than 20/20/20 formany of us. Come on out to the 45th, and sayhello again.

Richard R Reynolds (BS Ag), Haki Ct,Northport, Fla, is enjoying the change as aFla resident. Dick was up for the meeting ofthe 45 Reunion committee in June '80, andwe are looking forward to his and Lois'sreturn for the June '81 meeting and Reunion.

WOMEN: Allegra Law Elrod, 1225 MidlandAve, Bronxville, NY 10708

Reunion '81 Chairs Katrina Tanzer Chub-buck and Jean Sherwood Williams, PresidentCharlotte Putnam Reppert, Cornell FundRep Ginny Howe Fernalld and the '36 menplanners have slated many goodies for June,among them a new, better class directory, apicnic at the Willers' lakeshore home—manythanks to Mary Willers (Mrs Diedrich K),chicken barbecue at the Richard E ReynoldsGame Farm, photo exhibit by BarrettGallagher and cocktail party in the JohnsonMuseum, banquet in Willard Straight, andliving quarters in Risley, away from latenoise. Let's make it a record in attendanceand make our mark as a Million Dollar Class!

Charlotte's great project, the CornellUniversity Press book of selected MorrisBishop '14 poems, The Best of Bishop, editedby and with an introduction by Charlotte,

will be ready in Nov. I've already ordered mycopy—and expect it to be autographed whenit comes! Charlotte has other publications:five installments of a piece in the Milford,Conn, paper and an article in the Nov issue ofCruising World—more coming too. She'salso painting in oils: "Masterpieces todecorate the walls of the furnace room," byher estimate.

Olive Bishop Price, Dolphin House, Delan-cey—a member of the Univ Council—wasunable to attend the '36 planning session inOct, but sends word she retired in '79 as ex-ecutive secretary of a foundation, but is stillsecretary, an honorary title. She traveled toCuernavaca to visit old friends in '79 andkeeps busy with gardening, needlepoint, andreading.

37MEN: Robert A Rosevear, 2714 SaratogaRd, N, DeLand, Fla 32720

James R Ware's family is pure Ivy League.Son Jim '65, PhD '78, is assistant professorat Harvard Business School; daughterPriscilla (Mt Holyoke '67) is a pediatrician atRoosevelt Hospital in NYC; son Don (Yale'71 and Harvard Law) is with a Boston legalfirm; and son John (Williams '76) is informa-tion officer for the Japanese consulate inChicago. Jim Sr and his wife Betty enjoyedbeautiful fall weather on a trip to Japan in'77, when they visited John in Kyoto—he wasstudying Japanese and teaching English.Retired after 40 yrs with General Motors, Jimwas engaged in engineering design anddevelopment of diesel engines and gas tur-bines for locomotive, power, and marine use.He sees Jim Meaden in hometown Hinsdale,111, and John Rockwood during summersnear Traverse City, Mich.

His 18th yr at Rimrock Ranch, Cody,Wyo, wasn't all peacefull days on the trail forJoseph W Crib. He had some unwanted ex-citement when his horse stepped in a swarmof yellow jackets, reacted predictably andviolently, and sent the Surrogate Judge ofOntario County flying—result, 3 broken ribs(Joe's). To add further insult, Joe was kickedon the ankle by another horse shortly beforecoming home to Canandaigua. On the plusside was a long pack trip with his son Ed-mund and a 10-day hunt that bagged a7-point elk. At home, Joe is president of theGranger Homestead Society, which he form-ed in '46; trustee of the Ontario CountyHistorical Society; secretary of the OntarioCounty Children's Home; and active in theMethodist Church.

Full-time travel agent and co-owner, withhis wife Ursula, of a travel agency inHouston, Texas, since retiring from Shell in'71, Rolf H Hemmerich sampled his wares ona 10-day Doric cruise to South America inApr. He takes an occasional familiarizationtrip as respite from the long hours andresponsibilities of the business. Four marriedsons are distributed over NY, Ore, Colo, andCal, and there are 8 grandchildren—5 girls, 3boys. Rolf's photography hobby produced acover photo and article for Shell News, anemploye magazine. He sees Walter Hardyfrequently and Bert Sowerwine stopped bylast yr en route to Fla.

Following retirement as chief executive of-ficer and chairman of the Continental Group,Robert S Hatfield will assume the post ofpresident and chief executive officer of theNY Hospital on Jan 1. Bob was with Con-tinental for more than 44 yrs. NY Hospital,2nd oldest in the nation, was founded in 1771and is affiliated with the Medical College toform one of the major health care complexes

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in the country.Your correspondent has been appointed

visiting instructor in French horn and con-ductor of the university brass choir at StetsonU, returning to teaching following the suddenpassing of the brass professor at the school ofmusic. It's exciting to be working with youngmusicians again after a 2-yr hiatus followingretirement.

WOMEN: Mary M Weimer, 200 E DewartSt, Shamokin, Pa 17872

I have spent an entire morning going overnotes that go back as far as 30 yrs that relateto the comings and goings of classmates, andfind that the varied experiences of MadgeJopson Graae Wellsmake fascinatingreading. She lived in Denmark with her hus-band, Soren Graae, and 2 sons during theGerman occupation, at which time her hus-band was a member of the DanishUnderground. In Dec '44 he was sent to aconcentration camp and remained there untilliberated by Montgomery's troops. TheGraaes came to this country after the war andsettled in Conn. A 3rd son was born and Mr.Graae died in 1963. After 10 yrs ofwidowhood, Madge married Col James BWells, USA Ret. Their life on their one-acreisland, Contentment Island, sounds idyllic.They are surrounded by many wild birds, arekept busy tending their terraced garden, and,when not doing this, are sailing in The Duet.Colonel Wells had his 1st novel, Episode onZamboanga, published by Ashley Books in'77. Son Steffen, a criminal defender inWash, DC, has published Annotations toCriminal Law, a handbook for criminallawyers, as well.

Another classmate who has joined theranks of the retirees is Clara J Swan. C J,who had obtained her MSS from Smith Col-lege, was with the Child Welfare League ofAmerica.

Recently, when returning from a trip toMaine, my sister, niece, and I had planned tospend 2 days in Boston before spending theweekend in Conn with brother, John '35 andwife. We got so helplessly lost in the mostdevastated area of the city that we opted to goon to Cape Cod. Needless to say, we foundthe scenery there far more beautiful. It seemsto me that there must be some solution to thehardcore problems that permeate ourmetropolitan cities, but no one seems to havecome up with a satisfactory answer yet.

38MEN: Stephen de Baun, 220 W RittenhouseSq, Phila, Pa 19107; Fred Hillegas, 7625 ECamelback Rd, #220-A, Scottsdale, Ariz85251

Fred forwards: Our sympathies to thefamily of R Douglas Rogers Jr, who died ofcancer in Houston, Texas, Aug 2. Doug hadbeen administrative vice president of an ex-ploration and production subsidiary of thePennzoil Co, with which he'd been associatedfor 39 yrs, also in Parkersburg, W Va, andPittsburgh and Bradford, Pa.

A '38er long listed in class directories as"unlocated" has been found. Our own WillieMazar Satina, attending a Phoenix, Ariz,meeting preparatory to leaving with her hus-band on a trip to China, was understandablyastounded to find one member of a smallgroup of Chinese businessmen touring USconstruction sites, who had been invited tothe. meeting, was a classmate. So, now, on p44 of your directory, list Chen Chin-Cheng'saddress as Nan Lee Sheh Rd, Beijing, China.This was his 1st time back to America fromhis homeland, where he's consulting engineer

of the Beijing pre-fabricated components fac-tory of building materials.

Joe Lasher says he's busier now than whenpaid for it—from July to after Labor Daytraveling to some old stamping grounds northof home, Pompano Beach, Fla, where he'spresident of the Fort Lauderdale CountryClub in throes of building a new clubhouse,hiring a new pro, and redoing 1 course. Alsoplaying golf 4 days a wk.

On The Road With '38: Jack and Muriel"Cookie" Cook Thomas (not lost, after all)postcarded from Sonora, Mexico, there withHarry and Barb Martien, following a Tuc-son, Ariz, visit with Jack and Marg Kittle.Coley Asinof spring-skied in Park City,Utah, and conventioned at Lake Geneva,Wise. Coley, taking up jogging, runs 4.6miles daily, and says he may muster courageto enter a race. Norm and Mary Andersonpostcarded from a Singapore floatingrestaurant after having visited Taiwan.

Louis (back at Ithaca High some class-mates called him "Cootie") Knudson con-sults occasionally for Simmonds PrecisionProducts, which a few yrs ago bought theNorwich Co (manufactured aircraft ignitionunits for jet engines) for which he'd beenR&D director for many yrs. Lou has a farm:Black Angus cattle and Morgan horses.

Len Roberts is busy in his ob-gyn practice,but when together with classmates like JackSiegel enjoys recalling the days of being All-Americans—wearing old uniforms datingback to the days of Eddie Kaw '23, whoscrimmaged the Varsity. Plenty of reminisc-ing, too, when classmates Harold Segall andMarty Beck get together, plus Marty's ex-plaining occasional lapses in his golf game ata course, Long IsΓs Inwood, where the Con-cordes and 707s dip to touch down at Ken-nedy—what a handy, indisputable alibi!

Bill Rockwell was overcome by puzzlementwhen his prep school (Exeter) and a '38 co-editor queried him for news. Bill says itmight've been his recent 40th wedding an-niversary; his discovery his golf handicap'snot really 13 but 15; or his 2nd annual people-to-people golf trip to Europe. But he hadn'trecently retired—that was 10 yrs ago. Norhad he moved in almost 15 yrs. Nor hissailboat sunk, won any races, or fallen apart.So he decided it was just curiosity whether hewas still around, wherewith he reports, "Yes,alive and kicking." Bill, it's just yourmagnetic charm that did it. Another MenloPark-er, Wils Foster, sees Bill occasionally;and a while back Bill Arnold broke breadwith the Rockwells.

WOMEN: Helen Reichert Chadwick, 225 N2nd St, Lewiston, NY 14092

Much time has elapsed since I last put acolumn in my typewriter, so my notes maynot show much continuity with those ofpreceding issues, but I am sure you all receiv-ed the Sept class letter about George More'suntimely death. However you may not knowthat the Women of '38, through their of-ficers, have sent a gift of $1000 to theCourtney-Stanford Fund in George'smemory, a most fitting tribute to a man whoworked untiringly through the yrs to helpCornell and Cornellians, and especially thisclass. We shall miss him, and our hearts goout to Libby in her loss.

George was particularly zealous in relayingto me news items especially interesting to thewomen of the class, and it will take much ex-tra effort on all our parts to maintain areadable column, so please bear in mind thatI need assistance from all of you—and often!

A recent letter from Dottie Pulver Goodellmentioned an Aug visit from Gerry Millerand Ted Gallagher, who had vacationed on

Cape Cod, Mass. The Goodells were sched-uled for a Fla stay in their new condo imme-diately following Homecoming. My ownsummer schedule included a lengthy stay insouthern England, with the marvelous oppor-tunity to live in the country and walk thelanes and South Downs, as well as London.Though Europe suffered through a cold andrainy summer, weather improved greatly inAug and Sept, and on trips to Wales andScotland we were greeted with brilliant sun-shine and magnificent scenery. At last I havehad my fill of pipers, with a performance ofthe Edinburgh Tattoo and the competitionafter it!

39MEN: John M Brentlinger, 217 BerkshireRd, Ithaca, NY 14850

Unless my thermometer leaks, it was 22degrees on the balcony this morning, and it'sonly Oct! Better look at a few wooly caterpil-lar coats. It's a beautiful day—the sun isbright, and leaves are nearing their peak.Squirrels aren't too active yet; they're stillcringing in trees, shell-shocked. We golfedlast week with Ginny (Buell) '41 and LeoWuori, DVM '42, and while I won't say I waswild, a pileated woodpecker packed up andleft, wondering what species could be biggerthan he. Score? I'll never tell!

Sept 28, the Binghamton Sunday Press rana feature article on George Ainslie and "theCastle." He has been the proud owner of abaronial mansion at 11 Stratford PI, Bing-hamton, for 16 yrs. It's 88 ft long, and de-scribed as a "stately French-design farm-house." George also remarried last yr, toSandi Scott. Congratulations! Carol and Iwill be over to see you with an apple, if youprovide the boar.

Brud Holland made the national newsagain when he won the "Distinguished Serv-ice to Higher Education" award from theCouncil for the Advancement and Support ofHigher Education (CASE) at their annual as-sembly in Detroit, Mich, in July. Austin Kip-linger made the introductory remarks forBrud, and the CASE membership admired"the closeness of one key Cornellian toanother."

G Edward Stewart is an architect with Sun-master Corp in Corning, designing solar in-stallations. Ed stays happy tending 16 coun-try acres at 509 Breesport Rd, Breesport. Inaddition to gardening, he is a ham radio oper-ator—call letters WB2GAH. Two girls and aboy are married and gone, but 3 sons are stillhome to keep him company. He'd be disap-pointed if we didn't mention 1-yr-old grand-son Nathan M Bernardi.

Lyndon Stevens is the new class vice presi-dent, western region, replacing Jim Rutledge.Lyn lives at 1000 S Orange Grove Blvd, Pasa-dena, Cal, 2 blocks from Dick Teachout. Lynsays he has a great view of the Rose Paradefrom his balcony, and invites any '39ers whoare there to watch from his home on NewYear's Day. Lyn remarried 3 yrs ago, andsays the 2nd time around is the greatest. Theywent to Honolulu, Hawaii, last June forEthel's 35th reunion at Punahau, then on toMauna Kea and Molokai, where he says theyhave great beaches and golf courses. (Anytrees?) They also hike each yr in the HighSierras.

Monk Landmesser retired in Jan 1979; soldhis home in Loudonville last summer, andcan be reached at Box 688, Lake George. Bewarned Moak, Heckel, Furman, et all Monkis keeping in shape for the next Reunion byrowing his Alden ocean shell on Lake Georgeand Penobscott Bay. Not only that, but in

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competition with members of the AldenOcean Shell Assn and National Assn of Ama-teur Oarsmen in various regattas. Monk,you're doing better than I. When I suited upfor the annual lightweight alumni footballgame last month, the referee nearly penalizedus 15 yards for my being too old! Had troublewith the new type equipment, too. Don't darewrite what I thought was a nose guard!

WOMEN: Binx Rowland Keefe, 3659 LottSt, Endwell, NY 13760

Wonderful letter from Elvira Falco Bass,retired, living in home she built in SPenobscot, Me. "Place has been marveloussuccess; vineyard gave enough grapes this yrfor jelly. Vegetable garden overwhelming:broccoli, beets, cauliflower, fennel, herbs,squash, pumpkins, corn. Have brought in 50bushels of tomatoes and still they come. Alsocantaloupe, apples, flowers, trees—every-thing grows in wild profusion. Man putting indock, which will enable me to have smallsailboat; then everything is complete."

Gert Cantor Hofheimer visited Israel lastNov; in summer '80, was at summer home atSaranac Lake, visited by children and grand-children. ("No new grandchildren; still only6.") Gert works in adult education and withsenior citizens in Scarsdale (chairman, SeniorCitizens Advisory Committee); plans pro-grams, attends meetings, gives bridge lessons,etc. Barbara Gay Ringholm says, "We'vebought wooded property across road frompresent home, hope to build log cabin there.Goal is minimum maintenance; we welcomeadvice from anyone who has had expe-rience."

Mary Kate Gilliams Fitzpatrick, living inCal, toured Canadian Rockies last fall, thenattended 45th high school reunion in NJMona Brierley Carvajal and husband Fernan-do moved from Puerto Rico to Boca Raton,Fla, when Nando retired; have been visitingdaughters: "Kathleen, working on businessdegree at U Mass, employed there in studenthousing; she and family live West Hat field,Mass—beautiful spot in woods, completewith dogs, cats, horse, Shetland pony. SawNancy '64 and family in Burlington, Vt; hus-band Richard Lang, LLB '64 took us boatingon Lake Champlain. Drove to Ottawa to seecapital of my native land. I lost my motherlast Nov and still miss her; we were veryclose." Nando keeps busy with house andgarden; golf and bridge; and "Boca hasbeautiful beach for swimming."

40MEN and WOMEN: Bob and Carol Petrie,62 Front St, Marblehead, Mass 01945

Still writing from Reunion notes for thecolumn, and we have the class picture to helpthe memories. Although she was not at Re-union, we can send news of Lu ShowmakerGlover. She fell and broke her shoulder 5 yrsago—had the 3rd operation to remedy thetrouble recently. Lu's late husband Jim was alaw partner of the Secretary of State, EdMuskie, LLB '39 in Waterville, Me—al-though on opposite side of politics.

Some of the news gathered during the busydays of a Reunion are very often sketchy tosay the least, but we will send it along, hopingit reaches welcome ears. Hanon Berger owns6 nursing homes in central NY—Vestal, Cort-land, Oneonta, Rome, Wellsville, andRochester. He works with a group of in-vestors organizing, supervising, and admin-istrating all of their holdings. Says Hanon,"I'd love to sell 'em."

Fred Boucher drove up from his familyfarm on Long Isl. His wife stayed with

relatives along the way. Fred and his wifehave 3 sons. One is a lawyer, having studiedat Harvard and William and Mary; anotherwent to Cornell and has been in Bogota, Col-ombia, for 3 yrs, is married, and has a babydaughter. Their 3rd son studied at U of Vien-na, and taught English there. He is cominghome to study for the Presbyterian ministry.

Reuben Close came to Ithaca and stayedwith Alexander and Marty Atwood Cheneyfor the weekend. Reuben is a friend of MartyCheney's sister, who lives in Pa. CarolinMedl Schwarz and husband Roy own theHollabird Kennels in Randolph, NJ, wherethey raise German shepherds. They boardfrom 30 to 70 dogs. Their children havegrown up and gone—the daughter to NYC,and their son in Ohio State working on hisPhD in pharmacology research. Carolin stillenjoys painting and exhibiting her water col-ors and oils. Bradley Borst told Bob of his2nd marriage late last yr. He took on a wholenew big family of 5 children and 10 grand-children. Alice came to Ithaca with Brad.This was his 1st Reunion since the 25th.

While at Reunion, George Mueden spoketo us about our News & Dues form letters.His ideas sounded good to us, so you may seea different form to fill out for us next time. Ifyou like the change, thank George! Morenext time—we've just finished a very tiringtrip to our Christmas trees.

41MEN: Robert L Bartholomew, 875 SW 4thCourt, #6B, Boca Raton, Fla 33432

Frederic W West Jr (photo), Suite 310, 437Main St, Bethlehem, Pa, retired from Bethle-hem Steel Corp on June30, after 39 yrs with thecompany. Followinggraduation, he joinedtheir management train-ing program and was sub-sequently assigned to thesales department. Overthe yrs, he moved frommanager of sales inChicago, 111, to presidentin 1974, and in Jan 1977was promoted to vice chairman of BethlehemSteel, the nation's 2nd largest steel company.

During 1975, Fred was elected by theUniversity Board of Trustees to membershipon the University Council, and also serves onthe BPA Advisory Council. In addition, hewas presented the Penn Charter AlumniAward of Merit in 1976, "for achievementsin his chosen profession and for service to hisfellow man which has brought honor to hisalma mater." Fred is married to the formerRuth Virginia Landers of Chicago. They have4 children: Frederic W III, Barbara Connally(Mrs Ronald), John, and William. The Westsenjoy their winter house at Johns Isl, justnorth of Vero Beach, Fla. Fred writes, "I amlooking forward to attending our 40th nextJune in Ithaca, and in the meantime I sendmy best personal regards to all."

Charles E Ostrander, 142 West Haven Rd,Ithaca, professor and project leader for Ex-tension in poultry and avian sciences at Cor-nell, is the 1980 recipient of the NationalPoultry Extension Award. Presented annual-ly by the national Poultry Science Assn toacknowledge outstanding work in Extensionprograms, the award is sponsored by thePfizer Co Inc, and carries a prize of $1,000.Charlie is known for his research in wastemanagement and ventilation, and controlledlighting for poultry. A pioneer in these areas,he has been active in the National Symposiumon Poultry Management since its inception in

'63. He has made significant contributions toresearch promoting the use of less intensivelighting for laying hens, an effort which hashelped prevent cannibalism, and resulted inless hysteria in flocks, thereby saving the in-dustry hundreds of thousands of dollars.Also recognized for his work on density re-quirements in cages, he has advocated the im-portance of environmental control in poultryhousing, particularly improved insulationand ventilation.

After receiving his BS in '41, Charlie earn-ed his MS in poultry management at MichState U. He has served on the NYSGovernor's Commission for the Preservationof Agricultural Land, and has been a memberof the Council of Agricultural Advisors to thestate's Department of Environmental Con-servation. In addition, he has acted as a con-sultant to the Canadian government. Thispast summer Charlie wrote, "Returned froma wonderful sabbatical leave at the NationalInstitute of Agricultural Engineering atSilsoe, England. Spent a wk in Belgium andbeautiful 'Bruges' on return with my wifeGracia (Byrne) '43."

Joy to the world at this season of rejoicing.A merry Christmas to all!

WOMEN: Eddie Burgess Bartholomew, 875SW 4th Court, #6B, Boca Raton, Fla 33432

Class President Betty Herrold and Reunionchairman Jean "Syvie" Syverson Lewis andher husband Len, assistant Reunion chair-man for '41 men, attended a reuning classesmeeting on Sept 25 at the CC of NYC. Bettyreports that many great ideas were forthcom-ing, and much enthusiasm generated as webegin the long process of making plans forReunion of June 1981.

Remember to save the dates June 11-14 soyou can take part in the great Class of 1941 's40th Reunion celebration. In the meantime,here are warmest wishes for a wonderfulChristmas and a very happy 1981.

44MEN and WOMEN: Joe Driscoll, 8-7 WildeAve, Drexel Hill, Pa 19026

Council Weekend brought Randy Ather-ton, Jim Clark, Dotty (Kay) and Art Kesten,Hilda Milton, Bud Richley, and your cor-respondent to Ithaca in mid-Oct. CharlieWilliams was there, and Bob Ready and Hen-dy Riggs enjoyed (?) the football. Randyremarked that the game was his 1st in Ithacasince the '42 Penn State game. That game wasplayed in a many-hour downpour. Bothteams had the same plan: run twice; if no 1stdown, punt. Classmate Charlie Robinsonaveraged 40 yards that day. And there werefew 1st downs, so there was a bunch of punts.Final score (if you don't remember) was 0-0.

Randy is a leader in alumni affairs inSouthern Cal. Naomi Deutsch Simons is alsoactive. She worked on Octoberfest, a CC par-ty at the Santa Monica Playhouse on Oct 18.Hopefully, Randy was excused. He traveledall the way from Laguna Beach for the Coun-cil meeting. Returning for the theater partywould have been a tough commute. MarionFear Moon apparently was not a candidatefor that commute, either. From Tavernier,Fla, she writes, "Same as last yr. No moreCal politics, no more hassles—just peace andquiet on the Fla Keys (barring hurricanes, ofcourse). If Sy Reiman worries about hur-ricanes, we're all in trouble. The Reimans livein Briarcliff Manor. Sy is president of WilbarPhotoengraving, with offices in NY andChicago, 111. Carol is chairman of dance,health, and physical education, ElizabethSeton College, Yonkers.

46 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Jack and Jean (Carnell) Conner '46 are stillon the farm—Rapidan River Farm, thatis—with 125 Morgan horses. Son is John Jr'72; daughter Margaret, Grad is in the 2nd yrof a PhD program in veterinarymicrobiology; Michael received his MA at theU of Va in June. The Conners live in Lignum,Va. Jerry Barad reports one Cornell-ian—Richard '74. David is in his 3rd year ofresidency at Columbia-PresbyterianHospital; Dorothy is doing photography inSan Francisco; and Bob, Columbia '80, wasplanning to join the Peace Corps when Jerrywrote in Aug. Richard is in his 3rd yr residen-cy in Madison, Wise. It seems that Jerry andBea could vacation in Madison, San Fran-cisco, W Africa, or even NYC, and be withtpart of the family. But, Flemington, NJ, toNYC?

Thayer Sanderson is executive vicepresident-trust, Shawmut Bank of Boston,Mass. He is the only Cornellian in his family,except for brother Fred '43, PhD '53. WifeJulie was Vassar. Katherine, Smith andBoston Law; Terry, Conn College; George,Princeton '81. Non-Cornell vintage. Bernie(and Betsy!) report "5 children, one grand-son (new)." Nothing else. With a new grand-son to spoil, there's no time to reportanything else! Leo Diamant, our perennialearly arriver at Reunions, does havesomething to report. His book, ConstructionSuperintendent Job Guide, has been publish-ed by John Wiley & Son.

Divergent family interests, as reported byTom Eschweiler: "Liesel graduated fromNorthwestern, and now is serving withDeutsche Bank in Frankfort. Andrea is atWashington U in St Louis, Mo, and is in-terested in sky-diving." Tom also commentsthat Bob Findlay was one of the best things tohappen to the '44 Reunion. Your correspon-dent hasn't checked with Bob, but is sure thathe agrees with Tom's declaration. BobbyCans Gallant wrote in May that she was retir-ing from teaching but was enteringpolitics—running for the school board. Shehasn't sent any later information, so we can'tgive you any election returns. Bobby lives inGainesville, Fla. She attended CAU for 3 wksin 1979. Deborah Gellman '75, daughter ofMaurie and Naomi (Colvin) '45 is followingin the footsteps of Maurie. She has enteredBPA.

Your correspondent retires early this time.The local cliff-hanger wins today over KansasCity and the Dallas Cowboys leave him ex-hausted. (Unfortunately, not the Browngame of yesterday, but there will be betterdays. The Cornell football team may be likethe Phillies. Again, they may not be.) Willstudy Kurt Vonnegut's "How to Write WithStyle," (Newsweek September 15, 1980)before writing the next column. Apart fromclass provincialism, some might suggest ProfWilliam Strunk Jr, PhD '96 and EB White'20, The Elements of Style. Probably neitherwill suggest antidotes for over-excitement andfatigue.

45COMBINED: Col William A Beddoe, USARet, 1109 Mint Springs Dr, Fairborn, Ohio45324

My humble plea in the Oct issue has al-ready been answered by 2 loyal members ofthe great class of 1945. Your classmates willbe forever in your debt, and I am most appre-ciative for your response. I expect the trickleto turn into a torrent. I promised you fameand fortune, so here goes.

Al Silverman in Roslyn was honored dur-ing Sept by the Long Isl chapter of Phi Delta

Kappa, the international honorary profes-sional education fraternity. He is a memberof the Roslyn School Board, and was recog-nized for his outstanding contributions to ed-ucation by a non-educator. The prestigiousaward is "Layman of the Year," and Al wasthe initial recipient of this newly establishedaward. Cornell and the class of '45 salutes AlSilverman for his energies, dedication, andhard work, which I know is involved in beinga working member of a productive schoolboard. With primary education under the gunthese days, Roslyn, is fortunate to have aman like Al. Our congratulations and maythe fruits of your labors continue to be recog-nized by those who benefit from your selflesscontributions.

Henrietta Burgott Gehshan from South-ampton, Pa, came through with a newsy let-ter, and she is going to find out it was the best15-cent investment she has made recently.Here we go Henrietta! In Bucks County, Pa,there is a home economics teacher in the mid-dle school who had a marvelous cruisingvacation last summer. She took a cruise,which included the whole 9 yards, to Alaskaand points north on the luxury liner Prinsen-dam (same liner that caught fire, burned andsank in Oct). We are grateful that youmanaged an earlier schedule. She was accom-panied by Lois Georgia Humphrey (where isyour letter, Lois?), cousin Jan CarltonWinters '59 and his wife Jeanne. Henriettareports that the food and service were superb,along with all the other niceties included insuch a fabulous cruise.

Later investigation disclosed that the man-ager responsible had been exposed to the Ho-tel School in his formative yrs. Being a DeanMeek and Bob Beck product myself, I canreadily appreciate Henrietta's good fortune.We envy you Henrietta!

Of equal or greater importance was themarriage of Henrietta's daughter Virginia '74to Gary Lowe of Reading, Pa. Sister Shelly'76 flew in from Austin, Texas, to help steadybig sister's nerves. The big event took place atSt James Episcopal in Maiden, Mass, on Oct4, '80. The rector is a son-in-law, JurgenLuas, Amherst '69, husband of Gloria, Smith'69. Also in attendance was Gail GehshanKolakowski, Smith '69, and her husbandPaul, Georgetown '71, of Sewickley, Pa. Itlooks to me like a meeting of the clan, andHenrietta had all the participants under hercontrol and influence. It was a grand familyreunion, and we wish them well.

Can you imagine Henrietta going to ateachers' workshop on Homecoming week-end rather than attending the festivities inIthaca? Shame on you Henrietta! Only kid-ding—we understand.

By the time you read this the fall BaseballClassic will be history, and we will all knowthat the American League K C Royals werevictorious. (Who says?)

I was delighted with the letters and all yournewsy news, Al and Henrietta, and I hope Itold your story in such a way that you willhonor your correspondent again soon.Thanks! This column will reach you all inDec, the month of Christmas, so permit meto wish you all a glorious holiday period anda prosperous and successful 1981. Your cor-respondent will return in Feb with more newsproviding you keep it coming. Rememberyour New Year's resolution: "I will write tothe Class of '45 correspondent during 1981."Happy holidays!

46MEN: Paul L Russell, 10 Pickerel Rd, Wel-lesley, Mass 02181

Franklyn W Meyer writes us from a placemost of us would like to be writing from—Hawaii (17 Moloaa St, Honolulu). He relo-cated to Hawaii in Aug '79, when he becamegeneral manager, Asia Pacific development,General Foods Corp, and the HQ of theAsia/Pacific Division was moved to Honolu-lu at the same time. That's great planning!He spends about 50 per cent of his timetraveling in South East Asia on business.Frank and his wife Katharine have 2 child-ren—Julia Anne, 14, and Eric, 11. Frankspent 50 yrs in the NY area, and it has takensome getting used to for him. (I'd like to tryit, Frank.) He adds the rhetorical, "Must Iadd that family is enjoying Hawaiian life?"

Bob Bennet (3475 Hawthorne Dr N, Wan-tagh) and wife Irma traveled to Egypt withother Cornellians recently. He's with Long IslLighting Co, and is responsible for all gassupply. Bob and Irma are very active in theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers;Bob is national treasurer; Irma is president ofthe ASME Auxiliary Inc.

J Joseph Brown (R2 Box 666A, Clinton)reports no changes, but he's busier—toomany volunteer activities, he says! Takingearly retirement from Control Data in Junewas Jim Johnstone. Starting as president ofCompudraft in June was Jim Johnstone. Jimand wife Betsy live in Wynnewood, Pa, at 305Hamilton Rd. Daughter Elizabeth graduatedfrom Princeton U and is now an IBM systemsengineer. Sounds as if computers run in thefamily—whatever that means!

Seth and Dorothy Heartfield Jr are expect-ing—ie, one of their 2 Abyssinian cats is ex-pecting—pedigreed kittens. They better bepedigreed! Seth is vice president-treasurerand co-owner of Harvey's Restaurants. Theyrecently opened a 2nd Harvey's in Rockville,Md. Dorothy was an executive secretary, butis currently retired.

Dues but no news from Dick Turner fromhis old hometown of Jamestown; MJ Lynch,Lawrenceville, NJ; Peter Murphy, Ham-mond, Ind; and Orrie Stevens, Avon, Conn.

Reversing the usual directions of things,Ken Voeller bought a vacation home in Lon-donderry, Vt. That's how he and his wifeGail get in their winter skiing. Ken, Gail, andPenny, 24, live in San Juan, Puerto Rico (POBox 10793, Caparra Hgts). That seems like along trek to ski—certainly much farther thangoing the reverse direction to swim and sun-bathe. Ken's now working as export managerfor Hemisphere Trading Co Ltd. Two yrs agohe also formed his own company, KCF Voel-ler Inc, specializing in the export sales of pro-ducts manufactured in PR. He reports thebusiness is going well. Gail owns a travelagency. All 3 Voellers (exclusive of their 2*'Puerto Rican Labrador retrievers") com-bined a business and pleasure trip last yr toSpain and England. Ken and Gail look for-ward to our 35th, and plan to be there.

Paul M Grimes (30 W 72nd St, Apt B,NYC) should be our nominee for the nextwriter of this column, although slightly ovef-qualified. Paul is writer of the syndicatedweekly column "The Practical Traveler" forthe NY Times. He's also assistant businessand financial editor of the Times. He has tokeep busy, though, with son Robert recentlygraduated from Penn State, Seth at Wesley-an, and Josh at George Washington U. Pauland wife Mimi have an unusual hobby con-sidering his work—travel! Mimi is a behav-ioral researcher for the Phila, Pa, GeriatricCenter, and is also a freelance travel writer.

WOMEN: Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503 MorrisPI, Reading, Pa 19607

Our treasurer Ruth Critchlow Blackmanfaithfully sends your news to me and rarely

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includes news about herself, so I wasdelighted when she enclosed the followingnote about the Danube alumni cruise she andBill took. "The trip was a combination withFordham and the U of Buffalo. We wereprobably one of the youngest couplesaboard! The trip was most unusual and welldone. We went off quite often on our ownand saw the Balkans from Turkey toAustria."

Stuart and Bev Smith Whitehead reportedthat their beautiful farmhouse in Pa whichwas to be their retirement home burneddown, so their main project will be building anew house. William and Barbara SimpsonRobertson are both doctors at the U of Washin Seattle. They have 5 children—Kathy,Lynn, Kerry, Douglas, and Andrew. Karl '47and Marianne Michaelis Goldsmith wrotethat they planned on attending CAU with FloBronsky Kaganowich and Bob '48, andFrances O'Connell. She's also planning onattending Reunion in '81.

Our family increased in May—our oldestson Wayne, 31, married at long last. Deb is asurgical technician at St Joseph's Hospital inLancaster, Pa. Wayne teaches 6th grade inLancaster County, Pa. They live in a newhome about one hour's drive from us.

Have been thinking "Ain't We Got Fun in'81" should be our Reunion theme, and wewill have it if you all join us for our 35th.

47COMBINED: Peter D Schwarz, 12 GlenEllyn Way, Rochester, NY 14618

Must begin with an apology to A BurtonWhite and daughter Liane, who was mistak-enly referred to as "Claire" in the Oct col-umn. Sorry about that. And also in the apol-ogy department, somehow a note from last yrgot down to the bottom of some pile betweenRochester and Chicago, 111, and we never gotthe chance to tell classmates about GladysBalbus Lipkin of Bay side, who has been con-tinuing her active practice as a nurse psycho-therapist and childbirth (Lamaze) instructor.She has had another 2 books published thisyr, both co-authored with Roberta Cohen:The Therapeutic Groups for Health Profes-sional and Effective Approaches to Patients'Behavior (2nd ed). Gladys also reports thather oldest daughter Harriet is director andcommission attorney for Human RightsCommission in Bloomington, Ind. Son Alangraduated from medical school at Columbia,and has been accepted to the otolaryngologysurgical training program at Baylor U inHouston, Texas. Youngest daughter is in herlast yr at Brown, having spent a semester inLondon, England. "With the money leftfrom the tuitions," she says, "spent 2 wkstouring Italy, 5 days in London, and 4 days inEdinburgh with my husband."

Claude and Mary Lawrence Cornett '48 ofHouston, Texas, have been in Texas on tem-porary assignment since Sept '79. They saythey really are enjoying the lovely coast andthe great Texas hospitality. Robert R andPaula Correll Bachman, also of Houston, an-nounce a 2nd grandson born in Buenos Aires,Argentina, to son Jon and his wife Bonnie.Daughter Cheta Cusson and husband Scottare living in Conn. Youngest, Sue, in San An-tonio working for a communications com-pany. Both Bob and Paula have taken up ten-nis and love it.

Ed Atherton of Atlanta, Ga, is still withI-T-E, but now it is called Gould-Brown Bo-veri. He is vice president of the southern re-gion. Ed says the last of his 4 children gradu-ated from high school this yr, so he will pro-bably be doing more traveling. Other children

all live in Atlanta area—2 married and 3grandchildren. Pat Sinnott Coles of Colum-bus, Ohio, is chairperson, literature group,Ohio State U Women's Club '80-81. She is al-so active in OSU's Mothers' Club, as well asbusy collecting for 8 neighborhood fundssuch as March of Dimes. Her eldest son Chrisis a sophomore at Ohio State, and Carl, at thetime her note was written, had not decidedbetween OSU or Wittenberg. Her husband isteaching at U of Durham, England, for the'80-81 school yr, and Pat will spend part ofher time with him, traveling through the UK,and part of the time in the states keepinghome base for her boys. She would like toknow if anyone has heard from Zella SmithWayland or Jean Raymond lately.

Barlow Ware is currently president of theUnited Way of Tompkins County. CR Cox isclosing out a 5-yr chairmanship of GreaterPittsburgh Committee for Cornell CapitalGifts program. His comment: "Thank good-ness." Samuel Lewis of 3741 S Mission HillsDr, Northbrook, 111, sadly reports that he losthis wife Laurel suddenly on Mar 10.

48COMBINED: Robert W Persons Jr, 102 ReidAve, Port Washington, NY 11050

Madeleine Miller Bennett traveled to Egyptlast May with daughter Bonnie, and husbandJay, and boated up the Nile River. Bob Case,Portland, Oregon, buys, renovates, and rentsinner city housing, doing most of his ownwork. With his wife and son Warren, a seniorat Iowa State, he rafted down the Hell's Can-yon of Snake River, capsizing in the WildSheep Rapids (all are OK). He is helping toraise funds for the Oregon ShakespeareanFestival Assn in Ashland, and establishing afamily memorial fund to endow a director ortechnician in the theater. Pete Lovisa, Pel-ham, has finished work on the sewage plantsand is now rehabilitating prisons while notcruising on Long Isl Sound. Roger JAmorosi, who recently founded RJAAssociates, a testing organization, in Alexan-dria, Va, has merged this function withDetroit Testing Laboratories, and was recent-ly named president and chief operating of-ficer of DTL by the chairman of the board.

Jack Cullen, Reading, Pa, reports that 3are still in college (U of Hartford, U of Md,and Gettysburg); 3 are in high school, one isstill in elementary school. Wife Hope hasstarted teaching in special education in theHead Start program. Bob McKinless is stillchief, construction contracts, for the GeneralServices Administration in Wash, DC. Nancyand he had a month-long trip to England,Scotland, and N Ireland via bicycles andyouth hostels, looking up McKinless cousins.Fred "Bud" Seymour, Winnetka, 111, startedhis own management consulting company inApr, specializing in service to printers andpublishers. William E Carroll, deputy asso-ciate secretary of the Navy, writes that he andhis wife just returned from a fascinating 3-wkexpedition in the upcountry of Papua, NewGuinea. Lynn Ellis, vice president, engineer-ing, at Bristol-Babcock in Waterbury, Conn,took the alumni tour to Munich, Prague, andVienna this summer, and comments," Wunderbar." He is at Fairfield U GraduateSchool teaching a course titled Communica-tions Technology for Non-technical Studentsof Human Communications. Tom Rymer,Owings, Md, is an attorney and a member ofthe House of Delegates.

Eileen Kane McNamara is president of theNW Bergen, NJ, board of realtors. PegMooney Wittbold is a real estate broker in thefastest-grQwing county in Fla, Palm Beach,

and writes that son Tod '78 received his mas-ter's from Dartmouth last June. EstherFincher Hays is professor of medicine atUCLA School of Med. Mathilda NorfleetYoung is librarian at the Hampton InstituteSchool of Nursing, Va. Russ and Doris-AnnWolfe Schultz spent most of the summer sail-ing between Long Isl and Boston, Mass, withall stops in between.

Kathy Holm writes that husband Bart isstilΓ with computer systems at DuPont (Wil-mington, Del) and runs (more slowly) any-thing from 10,000 meters to marathons, whileshe stays active in golf and hospital volunteerwork. Daughter Janet is married and living inAnnapolis, Md, and daughter Paula, unmar-ried, flies with TWA out of Boston, Mass.Son Craig '76, MBA '78 is married and onthe staff of Clifton Springs hospital and, fol-lowing in Dad's footsteps, ran in the Olympictrials marathon in Buffalo last May. Peg Wil-(Wilharm) and Ray Tuttle announce that Rayis now with Bacon Industries, manufacturersof epoxy resins in Watertown, Mass.

49COMBINED: Donald R. Geery, 321 E 45thSt, Apt 8-B, NYC 10017

As Mae West once remarked: "Too muchof a good thing is wonderful!" A testamentto that is the most treasured possession of theClass of 1949: the Million Dollar Awardplaque. The inscription reads: "This award ispresented in recognition of more than $1million in unrestricted support which thisclass has given to Cornell." (signed) Presi-dent Frank Rhodes, June 1980. The CornellFund campaign rolls on, and we're countingon your continued support this year.

The Sept issue of Cornell Reports carriedan article about Don Sutherland, SouthSpring Valley Rd, Wilmington, Del, who ac-cepted the chairmanship of the Cornell'sAdult University advisory board. Most of usthink of CAU as "Alumni University," thatmarvelous euphoric experience that can beenjoyed anytime during July and Aug eachsummer on campus. Well, CAU is still CAU,but its name was changed slightly to accom-modate the many non-Cornellians who'vediscovered its pleasures. Mike McHugh '50,director of CAU says of our classmate, "Donis an extremely bright and articulate guy. Hehas good perceptions and insights into whatCAU needs." Imagine all that praise for oneof us'n coming from the Class of 1950! CAUallows Don to carry on his responsibility asdirector of the clinical systems division of theDuPont Co, where he's been involved for thepast 30-plus yrs. And, over the yrs, the resultshave been quite spectacular.

With this issue, we announce the formationof the Grandparents Club. (God!) It doesn'tsuggest any recent personal activity (such asjogging, participation in Outward Bound,white water rafting, or scuba diving), but itsmembership certainly is a distinction thatyour class secretary will never achieve. Thenews follows: Larry Bayern, Bozeman,Mont, a granddaughter, Mar 1980; DorothyRasinski Gregory, Arlington, Va, a grand-daughter, Jan 1980; Barbara CorellLawrence, Schenectady, a granddaughter,Aug 1980; Quentin Davison, Wyckoff, NJ, agranddaughter, Feb 1980; and another grand-daughter, Apr 1980. More, later.

Lois Meehan Darley reports from Noel Rd,Dallas Texas, that the weekly alumni lunchesat the Bagatelle Restaurant are good fun. JayHerman, E 49th St, NYC, has dropped out ofthe financial world after many yrs as a com-modities floor trader, and now spends lots oftime at his beach home. Dave Nagel,

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Chatham Terr, Clifton NJ, president of theEastern Mutural Life Insurance Co, anddevoted fund raiser for the Ag College justreturned from England where he attended amemorial dedication sponsored by his former8th Air Force bomb group. Ah, who couldforget those long spring evenings in EAnglia?

Art Heidrick, W 157 St, Lawndale, Cal, at-tended a reunion of the 1st Infantry Division(Big Red One) at Fort Riley, Kans, in Augwearing his brand new Class of '49 blazer. Doyou have yours? Write to Walt Peek, 111Wilmot Rd, New Rochelle. We have your sizeavailable for just $60! To see it is to buy it.And, the Class still covers the expenses onthis item. Back to Art, who owns andoperates the Rainbow Gold Mine, located inthe desert not too far away. "Temperaturesat the mine have cooled down to 100 degreesrecently, while the price of gold has been go-ing up" ($655/oz at this Oct writing). ArtHeidrick at this moment may be our classasset—that is, if he's agreeable to sharing thewealth. But, he needs help digging!

In keeping with the season, Your Gang ofFour and the Class Council wish you all thebest for 1981!

soMEN: Manley H Thaler, PO Box 5206,Lighthouse Point, Fla 33064

I spent a delightful 3 days in the Albanyand NYC areas during the early part of Oct.While in NY, I had occasion to meet withBob Nagler, who indicated he was making anapplication to be considered for nominationas a Trustee. Bob is presently partner in Op-penheimer & Co Investment Bankers in NY,is a director and co-founder of Summit Bank-ing Corp in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, and is a di-rector of several other businesses in this coun-try and in Europe. Γm sure that Bob wouldwelcome any expression of support frommembers of our class. Letters may be senteither to Bob or to the Trustee's nominatingcommittee, Day Hall, Cornell U, Ithaca.

Barrie Sommerfield is president and chiefoperating officer of Tennis Lady, a rapidlyexpanding women's and men's tennis wearchain. John Laibe has deserted us here in SFla, and has returned to the NYC area to be-come vice president of the Elastomers Divi-sion of Exxon. We received a news releasefrom S Dakota State U that Tom Beattie hasbeen appointed acting head of the Depart-ment of Nutrition and Food Science.

I neglected to report that last summer atReunion I spent some time with Jack Rose, aurologist with the Geisinger Med Center inDanville, Pa. Jack stays in shape playing awicked tennis game. Bill Hannel reports fromWatervliet, across the Hudson River fromTroy, that he is active in a wholesale pottedplant production business. Horst Von Op-penfeld has been working for the World Bankfor several yrs, and is now acting as a generaladvisor for that organization. He was sched-uled to go to Afghanistan until the Russiansmoved in and caused a change in his plans.

Phil Steinman lives on Staten Isl, and musthave a beautiful view of the NY skyline atnight. Phil is vice president and secretary ofStaten Isl Plate Glass Co. Norm Smith is avegetable production specialist with RutgersU, and reports that he is working hard onprojects to increase food production so thatpeople of the world will have enough to liveon 20 yrs from now.

Neil Fitzsimons is a consulting forensic en-gineer investigating structural failures. Neillives in Kensington, Md, and I am sure, hav-ing been a trial lawyer myself for over 20 yrs,

that he is engaged in a very interesting occu-pation. Finally, Henry Cohen of Long BoatKey, Fla, has started a new business calledTotal Environments Inc, which is engaged inbuilding and selling residential and commer-cial properties in the Long Boat Key area.The building industry is one of the most ac-tive industries presently in S Fla, and I'm sureHenry is enjoying his new business.

I usually try to provide some news in thiscolumn about activities on campus. Earlier inthe fall the university announced an anony-mous gift of $1 million for the new perform-ing arts center, which probably will be con-structed somewhere in the collegetown area.(See "Alumni Activities," this issue.) Winterarrived early in Ithaca, with snow flurries onOct 14. The weather warmed up shortlythereafter. A university meteorologist haspredicted that the winter of '80-81 will be oneof the coldest in 200 yrs. It's nice to read suchinformation when I sit in my office in S Fla,where the temperature varies between 60 and84 degrees.

I hope all of you will have a pleasant holi-day season, and will each sit down and sendme a Christmas present—a short note lettingme know what activities you are engaged in,or whatever else you would like me to incor-porate in the class column.

WOMEN: Kitty Carey Donnelly, 4036 LaJolla Village Drive, La Jolla, Cal 92037

Maria landolo New has been appointedpediatrician-in-chief at the NY Hospital, andchairwoman of the department of pediatricsat the Medical College. Maria is the 1st chair-woman of a medical school pediatrics depart-ment in NY, and the 7th woman in the nationto have achieved this rank. She is the 1stwoman in the history of NYH to head aclinical department at the hospital; she is alsothe 1st woman since the founding of CUMCto chair a department in the college. Maria,an internationally recognized pediatric en-docrinologist was the 1st Harold and PercyUris professor of pediatric endocrinology andmetabolism at CUMC. The author or co-author of more than 100 published papers inthe field of pediatric endocrinology, she hasdelivered presentations before the world'smost prestigious scientific societies, mostrecently in Stockholm, Sweden, andBergamo, Italy. Maria is married to Ber-trand, a child psychiatrist, director of childand adolescent psychiatry, WestchesterCounty Med Center, and associate professorof clinical psychiatry, NY Medical College.The News' children include Daniel '80, andErica '79.

A further CUMC appointment is that ofAnn Sullivan Peterson, MD '54 as associatedean for planning and admissions. Ann is aformer Markle Scholar. She has had exten-sive experience in medical school administra-tion and academic planning, and most recent-ly served as associate dean for student affairsat the College of Physicians and Surgeons ofColumbia U. During the past yr she earned aMS at the Sloan School of Management.

51MEN: Bill Eustis, 102 Park Ave, Greenwich,Conn 06830

Old wine is this column's offering. This fallI visited the St Hilary's Vineyard in NorthGrosvenordale, Conn (really!); tried a 2-wk-old Rougon and bought a yr-old "nouveau"bottle of same, which was obviously far bet-ter. I now bring you items aged at least ayear. (If one or more has soured, forgive.)

Laurance Browning (26 Portland Dr, StLouis, Mo) and spouse are active in Opera

Theatre of St L, the symphony, and the artmuseum, supported by Larry's being an exec-utive vice president with Emerson Electric.Their daughter Kate graduated in '79. JamesH Gallup (815 Center St, E Aurora) is guid-ance counselor, and spouse is reading teacherin the local schools; Jim has been president ofKiwanis and is a Presbyterian elder. Not toofar away is Martin L Kasbohm (149 Fleet-wood Terr, Williamsville), who is also activein the Presbyterian church when not directingR & D of Linde Division of Union Carbide.The Ks' holiday by travel in France andcanoeing. (On the Burgundian canals?)

I am with Elliott J Siff (15 Broadview Rd,Westport, Conn), whose only news is his sonBradford '83 is in Engineering. Sometimes Ifeel my son is my only "news"—but itdoesn't help when writing an alumni column.Another such is Dick Teel (74 Herring RunDr, Centerville, Mass), whose bit of news is"son Dick is '80." On the other hand, I havea lot of news—mostly illegible—from BillReynolds (1 Lyons PI, Larchmont), who is"Iusvtitm*d & Zopnole Deretulnerl" at theHerd. Spouse and he come through clearly(and admirably) at Hospice of WestchesterCounty and County Mental Health; Bill atUnited Way and lay minister.

Now, here I raise a cheer to Robert G Lan-don (66 Glen Dr, Worthington, Ohio), whowas named prez of Grumman Flexible Corp,manufacturer of city transit buses. They'rebeautiful—sleek, dark, speeding throughTimes Square with their signs zipping acrossthe front: "12th Ave—42nd St—Have aGood Day—Out-of-Service—No Passen-gers." Beats canoes. Herbert R Hern (105James PI, Lafayette, Cal) continues as laborrelations to management, avid golfer, aadtraveler—2 yrs ago through most of Europe.Robert P Michaels (26822 Belleza, MissionViejo, Cal) is vice president and generalmanager of EC Young Co; spouse is directorof nursing at a geriatric facility; son Peter '81is in Arts. Carolyn and Don Armington (10Dove Circle, Avon, Conn) defer to their off-spring, the twins, Karen '79, now marriedand teaching in Remsen, and Keith '79, withEastman Kodak.

Brad Donahoe (58463 Oak wood Ct, Elk-hart, Ind) is vice president, marketing,Chore-Time Equipment. Leonard L Steiner(Woodlands Rd, Harrison) succinctly reportshe's in "real estate;" spouse is "fashion rep-resentative," and their charity is "EinsteinCollege of Med." My sources say that is bare-bones reporting—and how is his tennis game?Russell Ross (4811 NE 42nd St, Seattle,Wash) resigned as associate dean of School ofMed of U of Wash to return to full-time re-search in cardiovascular disease; wife's anartist. W Howard Arnold (826 AmbersonAve, Pittsburgh, Pa) is prez, WestinghouseNuclear International; son Ed '78 follows asgraduate student in chemistry.

Why can't we hear more from the PR de-partment of those public companies whosepresidents, vice presidents, etc, are class-mates? Better, why can't they who have risento the "top of the tree" scribble what they aredoing, or how they did it, or, maybe, whythey did it? Please!

WOMEN: Susy Brown Entenman, 2350 Mid-dleton Rd, Hudson, Ohio 44236

Countdown . . . only 6 more months tilJune 11-14, 1981. REUNION 30. Imaginethat.

The CC in Cleveland, Ohio, had a nice din-ner last spring to honor Arts Dean AlainSeznec. It was fun to see some old familiarfaces—Sue Woodward Spence '50, JinnyAnderson Eisenbrown '49, and Jane MassonJackson '49. We naturally did a bit of

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reminiscing; I hadn't seen them for some timebecause we've been attending the Akron CCinstead.

Jane's old roommate Eunice TorlinskiO'Rourke '49, who now goes by her middlename "Ames," lives right here in Hudsonwith her hubby Bob '45, who graduated in'50. He tells the story of having been chair-man of his 5th Reunion dinner, held the nightbefore his graduation. Who can top that?Bob is currently taking a leave of absencefrom his engineering consulting firm, and iswriting a spy novel set in the Middle East. Heand several other authors have founded theWestern Reserve Writer's guild, and werekind enough to invite me to join them. Watchout world, here we come!

Jinny's Dick '49 is a brother of our PhoebeEsienbrown Berner, wife of Clarence '50,who live in Camp Hill, Pa. Clarence'sbrother was our family doctor here in Hud-son for many yrs, until he got the urge toremove himself and his practice to the moun-tains out West. It was lovely knowing himwhile it lasted though.

Hey folks, write soon!

reuners" ready for presentation at our 30th?On your honor now, classmates, let me knowif you have never missed. We can't check—Idoubt all the books are still around. But, Iwager, the list would be impressive.

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52MEN and WOMEN: Jean ThompsonCooper, 55 Crescent Rd, Port Washington,NY 11050

Warner Amex Cable Communications Inchas formed 2 new divisions and named FrankH Nowaczek, 203 Preston Rd, Flourtown,Pa, senior vice president of the eastern divi-sion. Leon Hirsch assumed the post of deanof the school of business at Quinnipiac Col-lege on Sept 1. Harold Tanner, a member ofthe corporate finance department at SalomonBrothers, was named a general partner of thefirm on Oct 1.

George Dower was married in Nov '78 andtheir new address is 15 Allen Dr, Allentown,NJ. Sue (Holtzman) and Dick Forbes, 350Beresford Rd, Rochester, write with reliefthat only 1 child is still in college, and withpride that they have 2 grandchildren. Sue iscommissioner of community development forthe city, and Dick a chemical engineer atEastman Kodak. A producer for CBSRecords, Arnold Goland, 7755 Orion Ave,Van Nuys, Cal, also collects Corvairs, whichis a record in itself. Dick Matthews, 1504Rock wood, Alamogordo, NM, retired fromthe Air Force in '75, and started teachingphysics and calculus in the senior high school."In Sept '77, I had an 8-lb spleen removed,caused by hairy cell leukemia. After a 5-wkstay in the hospital, and a 3-month recupera-tion, including a bout with hepatitis, wentback to work. Have regained full health, withleukemia in complete remission."

I don't know what the following means,but I print it verbatim: Lewis Ress, 1850 NE193 St, N Miami, Fla, writes 'Our son Andywill be attending Cornell, Arts and Sciences,Class of '84. After watching his father prac-tice law for 25 yrs, he is definitely pre-med."(?)

As I remember, it was very close, but AlRose did not win the prize for the father ofthe "youngest" child at our 25th Reunion.However, Kevin is now 3, and it is time for anupdate of the situation: "Kevin is matricu-lating with 2 aging parents that hope theymake it through all PTA meetings, LittleLeague, etc, for another 15 yrs. I am still veryactive in motel management in Cayce, SC,and too many civic activities to admit. I alsohave never missed a Reunion." Al, you havegiven me an idea. How many others havenever missed a Reunion? Wouldn't it be agreat idea to have an "honor roll of reliable

COMBINED: Bernard West, 411 E 53rd St,NYC 10022

Some Brown game, some Yale game. Haveyou seen Prof Carl Sagan's Cosmos show onPublic Television? What we have here is thebad and the beautiful.

Tigerhood has overtaken Bob Neff. Sea-board World Airline's best vice president hasbeen acquired by Flying Tiger Line. Inciden-tally, so has Seaboard World. President ofthe CC of Seattle, Wash, is Cork Hardinge.From Joan Schultz Petroska one hears thatShelly Scott Frisch recently visited from Oslo,Norway. Rolf '52 is in the Norwegian AirForce. Meanwhile, Shelly is a new grand-mother, and Joan's daughter has recentlywed.

Bill Egan's son Geoff '84 is in Engineering.The Egans recently were at the Cloisters, SeaIsl, Ga. Bala Cynwyd, Pa, is home. WilliamSimon extends a welcome from Rancho LaCosta, Cal; drop in when in the vicinity. Billis writing documentaries and some featuresfor Universal Pictures. A flash from GerryGrady—Chuck Berlinghof has remarried andreturned to RI from Chicago, 111.

I just discovered a letter from Sheila OlsenChidester of Madison, NJ. Married; 2 child-ren; 3 stepchildren; parttime teacher; much,much reading, and sewing, and communityactivities, for which she finds so little time.She writes, "'Sorry, but someone alwaysseems to need something from the laundryload (not done yet), or we need somethingfrom the grocery store (mostly more gallonsof milk with a 17-yr-old son in the house!),when I think I can look through my mail andanswer some. We lead a life very much likemost people. My husband runs a small busi-ness, and I teach kindergarten half time herein town, and sing with my church choir . . . .Our children—my husband's 3 and my2—are growing up and out of home very fast.Needless to say, we hold our breaths and praya lot about the current world situations, with3 sons and 2 sons-in-law who'd be most di-rectly affected by outright hostilities. I thankall of you officers for your willingness to giveenergy and time to class organization." Onbehalf of the officers, I thank you. A well-written note.

Bob Stuckelman created Emp-U-Med Inc,a medical systems company, which has be-come quite successful and is now growing ra-pidly. CUers are both customers and invest-ors. Dick Klein writes, twice, that he is on theadvisory board of Cornell's Adult University.He's traveled extensively, vicariously toGreece and China, courtesy of CAU. Every-one should give it a try.

I hope all of us have a peaceful and healthynew year.

54MEN: William J Field II, 1321 Country ClubDr, Bloomfield Hills, Mich 48013

Best wishes for a merry Christmas and theupcoming new year. Don't know whether it'sjust me, but this year seems to have virtuallyflown by. It was, however, an eventful onefor many of our classmates. Franklin R Win-nert, following a 10-yr stint with Certain-teedCorp, where he rose to president and chiefoperating officer, moved to the presidency of

Safeguard Business Systems Inc. He is a pastpresident of the Alumni Assn. Jack Vail ispresident of Cahill Office Products Inc inBinghamton. He purchased the company inJuly 1979. Spouse Tracy manages their retailstores (Tracy's Hallmark Shops) in Ithaca,Fayetteville, and Camillus. Daughter Karen'84 is in ILR. Saul Kramer's daughter Eileen'84 is in Arts and Sciences.

David Narins continues to fly forAmerican Airlines, and reports that daughterPamela is a sophomore at the U of Chicago.Martin Zeluck is a physician (ob-gyn) andlives in Haddonfield, NJ. Son Greg is afreshman at Princeton. Ken Pollock is inAlexandria, Va, and is a manufacturer'sagent selling oceanographic equipment. AlMusso is involved in building an alcoholdistillery for a large rum maker in Venezuela.Wife Alicia manages a typing services com-pany.

Alex Neuwirth is in NYC, where he is amerchant banker. He travels abroad fre-quently, and has recently visited Mexico,Guatemala, Hong Kong, and Japan. PeteKeplinger is vice president and treasurer ofStructural Stoneware in Ohio. Hobbies in-clude old cars (he has a '48 Packard converti-ble), and wine-making for personal consump-tion. Says he has a lifetime supply. Bill Pat-tison sent a flier advertising the BarringtonInn in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Guess he islooking for customers. Dale Jackson wrotefrom Savannah, (NY) to advise that his oc-cupation is farming and his wife Shirley isteaching. John Eisele is in Davis, Cal, and heis still raving about our 25th Reunion. He'sgetting ready for '84.

Teo Valentiner continues as "consultant tothe Frankfurt Airport as well as to a numberof national and international companies."The 5 younger Valentiners, ranging in agefrom 14 to 25, are all leading active, in-teresting lives. Norman Lynn is president ofhis own company and spouse Judith workswith him,. Bill LaLonde is involved in manycivic activities in Kansas City. His wife Sue isan interior designer and spends time with"some KC Metro teen groups." NormanPotash became senior vice president and con-troller of Seligman & Latz Inc in Mar '80.Wife Carla (Lefkowitz) '55 is an ad-ministrative assistant with the Cystic FibrosisFoundation of Westchester. The youngermembers of the family, Jonathan and Daniel,attend Vassar and Skidmore, respectively.

Phil Eastman is director of pupil personnelservices and special education at New Hart-ford Central School. He and Betty spend agood deal of their time at their summer homeon Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. Son Phil Jr'80 has a degree in engineering, and daughterBarbara '84 is in Human Ecology. LeftyLevinson is still very much in the parachutebusiness in San Leandro, Cal, and has a catwith 26 toes. Maria is doing freelance writingin the beauty and fashion fields.

Keep the news coming, and enjoy theholidays!

WOMEN: Sorscha Brodsky Meyer, Hamp-ton House, Apt 1105, 204 E Joppa Rd, Tow-son, Md 21204

June marked a major move for BarbaraSchickler Hankins and family. They crossedcountry to settle in Austin, Texas, after livingin Mass for 25 yrs. The Hankins' new addressis 3501 Scenic Hills Dr. Barbara served as the1st woman selectman for the town of Win-chester, Mass, for 5 yrs. Now she is account-ant for husband Philip '52 at his computerservices business. Phil, president and founderof Commercial Information Corp, moved thecompany headquarters to Austin, thus thefamily transfer and a new way of life! The

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Four presidents have led Cornell since theClass of '56 enrolled: from left, Frank H TRhodes, Dale R Corson, James A Perkins,and Deane W Malott.

Hankins have 3 daughters—Susan, 20, andStanford junior; Patty, 18, a Duke freshman;and Evelyn, 12, a junior high student.

Nancy Bird Prawl, husband Warren, MS'62, and their 3 sons live at 1901 Blue HillsRd, Manhattan, Kans. Nancy owns the LittleApple travel agency. Warren is professor atKansas State U. Doug, 21, works; Greg, 18,attends KSU; Brian, 16, is in high school. ThePrawls enjoyed the 1979 fall months seeingEurope, while Warren spent a sabbatic leaveat Reading U, England.

Writing from Pittsburgh, Pa, Roslyn RothTreger mentions the many Cornell people allaround that area. Roz teaches English part-time at Point Park College, Pittsburgh, andserves as president of the local League of Wo-men Voters. Husband Al '52 is a cardiologist.He also has a special interest in Oriental rugs,and participates in the Pittsburgh Rug Socie-ty. The Treger children include Flora, 22, aTufts graduate; Marian, 20, an Oberlin soph-omore; Jesse, 18; and Dan, 16. Home for theTregers is 1500 Beechwood Blvd, Pittsburgh.

Best wishes to all for a happy holidayseason!

55WOMEN: Ginny Wallace Panzer, 3 Moun-tainview Rd, Millburn, NJ 07041

We received a happy letter from JoanTowey Mitchell announcing the publicationin Jan of her 1st novel, a mystery—The Cam-pus Killings, written under the pseudonym ofJessica Martin. The setting is a Southern Calcampus during "the tumultuous '60s;" theheroine is a young professor. (If it's a suc-cess, as we are sure it will be, will there be asequel about the "flabby '50s," set in anEastern school in a lake region?) In additionto her writing, Joan teaches, as does husbandHal, at the U of Cal in Santa Barbara. Thechildren, Tom and Maura, attend U of Cal,Berkeley and Riverside, respectively.

Jeanne Rembert Bennett has been a teacherand counselor at Terra Linda High School inSan Rafael for the past 20 yrs. Hobbies in-clude doing wall stitcheries and trips to LakeTahoe, Nev. There she alternates between en-joying the beauty of the scenery and bemoan-ing the beastliness of the tables!

Pat Nowack Hunsicker Smith is one of agroup of plaintiffs who settled a class actionlaw suit on sex discrimination against aformer employer. (I find it most interesting tonote that the lives of our classmates are a truemicrocosm of today's society.) She wasemployed for a while after that as a technical

editor and writer at the Jet Propulsion Labsin Pasadena, Cal. We just received a most im-pressive press release from the Department ofPublic Works, Los Angeles, announcing theirappointment of Pat as public informationdirector. She has been a newspaper colum-nist, public relations consultant, and editor,and teaches writing and public relations parttime at USC and Cal State U. She alsodirected a national consumer relations pro-gram for a large insurance company. She isactive in community affairs and is the motherof 6 grown children—Gail, Debbie, Kurt,Lori, Nancy, and Joanna. She and her hus-band Kenneth Owler Smith live in Pasadena.

Breaking away from the cleverly devised"California classmates" theme, we are proudto report that Joan Steiner Stone, formerpresident and still active board member of theCC of NJ (following in the footsteps of hus-band Lew '54), graduated from Kean Col-lege, NJ, in June, receiving a master's degreein guidance and counseling. Her training wasgeared toward work with adults. She waselected to Phi Kappa Phi honorary societywhile at Kean. Joan is field director for theGirl Scouts of America. The Stones' sons areLarry '79 with N&W Railway, Sandusky,Ohio; and Doug '82 in ILR.

56MEN: Stephen Kittenplan, 1165 Park Ave,NYC 10028

Congratulations to Dan and GailSilverberg on the birth of a daughter. Thoseof us who feel close to the Silverbergs arethrilled and cannot wait to meet the newestCornellian at Reunion.

As this article is written, I have just re-turned from Council Weekend. Ernie Stern,Sandy Rosenberg, and honorary '56er ProfDon Greenberg '55, Architecture, were a-mong those attending. Almost as exciting asthe appearance of Prof Carl Sagan, astrono-my, was the interest in certain Council circlesabout our Reunion fundraising drive. Withour class well over the half million mark, thehard work is just beginning. In the next fewwks, you will be contacted by a classmate.Please dig deeply. I could not help but feelpride in Cornell after spending the weekendin Ithaca. You will experience the same ex-citement at Reunion. We look forward tomeeting you there! By the way, please send inyour questionnaire and class biography. Timeis passing; let it not be your biography that isomitted from our Reunion book.

Bill Greenawalt and Jane (Plunkett) arewell and happy at Stevens Place in Hartsdale.When not litigating for Rogers & Wells, Billis into theater, as well as many other ac-tivities. We hope to see the Greenawalt familyon June 11! William J Hudson is the father of

3 sons, and lives at 410 Laurel Dr in Hershey,Pa, where he is general manager of AMP Inc,concerned with fibre optics. At this writing, Iknow at least one son attends Cornell.

WOMEN: Rita Rausch Moelis, 996 Water-edge PI, Hewlett Harbor, Long Island, NY11557

Nice speaking to some of you this summerconcerning Reunion '81. You should all behearing from a classmate soon. Start plan-ning to return to Cornell next June and forthat "Once In a Lifetime" contribution!

Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" (Jennings) andDick Rutledge '55 live in Wilmette, 111, at 826Forest Ave. Betsy is a homemaker, Girl Scoutleader, and mother of 3—Dwίght, 22, John18, Kim, 10 (and their 15-yr-old poodle).Dick is a realtor; president of Quinlan &Tyson Inc. The family enjoys boating, swim-ming, and skiing. Congratulations to NancyVan Valkenburg Sunshine Seroff on the mar-riage of her daughter Winnie to Douglas Hillon July 5. Winnie finished school at the Fash-ion Institute in Cal. Son Chris, 19, now hashis own apartment in Cal. Nancy maintainsher private psychotherapy practice. She andhusband Richard, an accountant, thoroughlyenjoy their 2-yr-old Barry. The Seroffs live inRego Park at 61-41 Saunders St.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Parker Bartz and Hal'54, a technical editor and writer for IBM,live in Newark Valley, RD 1, Box 44. Betsyedits the Tioga County Extension magazine,Country Living, and is a county Extensionhorse specialist. She enjoys riding, raisinghorses, writing, drawing, flute, singing,leather craft, and reading. Daughter Meg, 18,graduated from NVHS last yr, loves danc-ing—jazz, ballet, and tap—and is presentlyworking in a department store. The familyenjoys singing in the church choir, cuttingfirewood, being 4-H leaders, and part-timefarming. Betsy keeps in touch with BarbaraFraser Czsvinsky (730 Union St, Apt 8A,Bangor, Me), Linda Gray Smith, ClaudiaGabel Anderson, Alayne Czurles Werner.

57MEN: John Seiler, PO Box 1319, Louisville,Ky 40201

Foreign travel seems to be the order of theday. Allan Freiman ("yes, I'll be at Re-union"), who travels in Europe each yr, wentto southern France and the Italian Rivieralast yr; this Sept back to the Riviera to collectrecipes for his wife Jane's 2nd cookbook.Her 1st was The Art of Food ProcessorCooking. Don Kane ("yes") spent the last 2summers in the UK, exchanging a house thissummer with a family in Essex. Jerome Gins-berg ("?"), whose offspring Robin was highschool valedictorian, traveled through Chinarecently, noting the poor accomodations andfood—no heat in southern China, overcoatson all the time. They only answer the ques-tions they want to (like my old professors),and only let you go where they want you to go(like my wife).

Bob George ("maybe") Apriled in Hawaii,and is actively looking for a new restaurantventure in Vancouver, Canada. Jim Taylor("?") recently spent time in Brazil, Argen-tina, and Mexico. The price was right, com-pliments of his employer, Inter-American De-velopment Bank. Dave Grant ("sorry, will bein Germany") and wife Heidi took a long-planned Rhine cruise. Also living in Europe,serving as deputy executive to the SupremeAllied Commander, is Bob Watts, who vaca-tioned in the States, seeing Cornell for the 1sttime since flipping his tassel. He calls thebuildings built in the last 23 yrs "progress?"

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He and Linda will be moving back to theStates next summer and are a "yes" for the25th. In the forgive and forget department,Ferrer Gonzalo ("yes") is a board member ofthe Penn-Cornell Club of Puerto Rico. Ferrerand his family recently sailed through the USand British Virgin Isls.

We seem to be on both sides of the genera-tion gap. From Clifton, Va, comes word ofthe retirement of Don Ackerman ("maybe"),who will fade away to his farm in W Va andsell a little real estate when the spirit moveshim. Jerry Fitz-Patrick ("too early to plan")is a grandfather, thanks to daughter Kimber-ly. He and wife Judith also traveled this sum-mer, spending 2 wks in Bermuda. While allthis was going on, Don and Debby MacKay("yes") were in Bermuda on a 2nd honey-moon. Not only is Don not retired, he teachesjudo at the YMCA. To further confusethings, Eph and Jane McLean became pa-rents for the 3rd time. Eph was also elected aboard member of the S Cal Alumni Assn.

Always good to hear from former lacrossegreat Bob Shirley ("?"). Bob has a daughterat Lake Erie College, and a son at U of Md.From "That's Incredible" comes word thatRoger Middlekauff ("yes") painted the livingand dining room of a new house in Sumner,Md, where he is extremely active in NationalBoy Scout activities.

Make your commitment to join us at the25th. These classmates have said "yes":Chuck Stanton, Bob Neimeth, Greg Jones,John Mai lay, Bill Brown, and Murdy Blau-stein.

WOMEN: Judy Reusswig, 5401 WestbardAve, #1109, Wash, DC 20016

A pat on the back to all those Cornell Fundcontributors who helped to make the Class of'57 the 3rd highest givers among non-Reunion classes! Jim and John ReinbergMacmillan report from Tallahassee, Fla, thattheir eldest girl was off to college this fall.Joan's sidelines include singing with a groupcalled the Sweet Adelines, and working withthe Fla legislature during its sessions. Mean-while, Jim continues to enjoy sailing, andcrewed in the MORC national regatta.

Barbara Kaufman Smith writes that she'dlike to return for our 25th, but as with mostof you, she'll be collecting kids from collegeat about the time Reunion falls, so lists her-self as a "maybe." Barbara works at thePresbyterian church in Frankfort, Ky, andfinds the historical department fascinating.She also makes tapes for the blind and handi-capped, as well as being an active member ofthe Secondary Schools Committee.

Barbara Parker Shephard and her husbandWilliam were far afield from their SouthBend, Ind, home last yr when they attended aphysics conference in India. "This was our1st trip to Asia and it was a tremendous cul-ture shock," Barbara wrote. "You simplycannot believe the conditions under whichpeople live until you see them for yourself.We spent a week in Bombay and surroundingarea before the conference, which was held ata beautiful resort hotel on the Arabian Sea inGoa, the old Portuguese enclave. After theconference we spent another 8 days traveling,with stops at the ancient Ellora and Ajantacaves near Aurangabad, Udiapur, Jaipur,Agra and the Taj Mahal, and Delhi. It was atruly magnificent trip!"

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the World Series fate of the Phillies is known.We lead with several new addresses, startingwith Phil Marriott and family, now living inNew Zealand. Phil has been doing muchtraveling in recent yrs as a managing directorfor Mobil, now establishing a large syn-fuelscompany down under. Phil, Linda, and 2kids can be reached in Wellington, at 8Puketiro Ave. Tom Hurd continues pilotingfor Pan Am out of Los Angeles, Cal, but nowhe commutes from Salt Lake City, Utah!Tom, Paula, and 2 senior teens (both in Flaschools) recently moved to Park City, Utah(PO Box 1384), and enjoy the winter skiingand their 300-acre summer farm in Ontario.The Hurds see Richard Hoffer in Park City,formerly from the Vet College and a pro-fessor at Cornell.

The Dallases, Glenn, Maddi (McAdams)and 2 teens, have left St Louis, Mo, after 7yrs (the longest time they've been"anywhere"), and now reside in Alexandria,Va (509 N Quaker Lane). Glenn is generalmanager of his company's Wash, DC,district; Maddi writes that they all hope to en-joy being back East with improved chances toget back to campus, perhaps even to see sonJeff '83 in Hotel play football for CU.

Dave and Nancy Tobin and 4 childrenrecently moved to East Williston, (to theirdream house on the north shore of Long Isl at39 Robbins Dr). Dave is vice president ofMemorex-NY, and also active with CAU as aboard member; 2 daughters are Cornellians,Donna '82, and Jackie in summer advancedplacement program, and 2 younger ones arecoming up. Another new address and youngfamily member heading to the Hill comefrom the Ted Hochs, now living on CortlandManor Rd in Katonah; eldest son is Mark'84. Veterinarian Ted moved his small animalpractice from Long Isl to N WestchesterCounty, after 22 yrs, and has joined A Remson in the Yorktown Animal Hospital.

Toni Dingledy Barker, husband Bob, and 2young ones sent in an address: 99 ProspectTerr, Tenafly, NJ. Phyllis Levine Orseck and3 teens write from N Miami Beach, Fla(20141 NE 21 Ave). Phyllis is internal com-munications coordinator at JacksonMemorial Hospital, Miami, the teachinghospital of U of Miami Med School. Her latehusband was Robert '56, LLB '58. ShirleeForman Ruggie, Alexander '56, and 4children live at 6030 Liberty Rd, Solon, Ohio.Two children are in college, and 2 are athome, where Shirlee bases her special educa-tion and tutoring activities.

We're glad to have a dues note and letterfrom Howard and Grace Abel. The Abelshave been living in sunny Fort Lauderdale,Fla, since '69, when Howard took up solopractice in hematology and oncology. TheAbels added a boy and a girl to their familywithin the last 4 yrs, and also find time formuch tennis, sailing, and travel, almost mak-ing it to CAU last summer; they live at 2895NE 29th St, Ft Lauderdale, Fla.

Ronald Buchanan and Margaret (Giles)write from 14220 N Gate Dr, Silver Spring,Md, saying not much is new with them, buttheir oldest daughter was married last Julyand life is hectic. Jonathan Ostrow continuespractice in internal med, pulmonary diseases,in Seattle, Wash (3500 E Huron St). He findstime for hiking and backpacking with histeenagers, making it over the Chilcoot Pass inBC, down Grand Canyon, and into DeathValley. Holiday greetings to all!

MEN and WOMEN: Dick Haggard, 1207Nash Dr, Fort Washington, Pa 19034

It's a little hard to believe that this is thelast column for the yr, albeit written before

59COMBINED: Jenny Tesar, 97A ChestnutHill Village, Bethel, Conn 06801

Notes from Cal: Sanford "Sandy" Krinskiwrites and produces TV shows "of thecomedy-variety ilk." He did last year's Don-ny and Marie Christmas special, and recentlycompleted a CBS pilot, "The Trouble withCelia." Sandy and his wife live at 674 ViaSanta Ynez, Pacific Palisades. They also havean avocado ranch in Ramona. "That meansmost weekends I can be found cutting weeds,reparing irrigation lines, and stepping onants," writes Sandy.

Elizabeth Guthrie Rowan got an MBAfrom UCLA in 1975, and now teaches fi-nance. She and Keith '56 live at 800 S BeverlyGlen Blvd, Los Angeles. Dale Rogers Mar-shall, a professor of political science at U ofCal, Davis, was recently appointed facultyassistant to the vice chancellor of academicaffairs. Dale's address: 31 King, Piedmont,Cal.

Ann Schmeltz Bowers is a managementconsultant in personnel relations. She special-izes in high technology firms. Among herhobbies: growing fruits and vegetables, flyingher plane, and "spending as much time inAspen as possible." Ann and her family-spouse Robert Noyce and 4 stepchildren—live at 690 Loyola, Los Altos. Peter Mac-Roberts, general manager of Plaza Inter-national Hotel, lives at 10808 Wagon WheelDr, Spring Valley.

Notes from Germany: Remember thosesexy T-birds of our college years? If you see arestored '57 model on the German autobahn,it probably belongs to Bernard I Lewis, whois senior vice commander, VFW Post 9781,Worms, W Germany. Bud's mailing address:HQ 5th Signal CMD, DESEI, APO, NY. It'sbeen almost 14 yrs since Deloyce (Timmons)and Klaus Conrad, MS '60 built their houseat Friedinger Str 6, 8031 Seefeld, W Ger-many. Deloyce paints and draws, and hasbeen showing regularly in group exhibits inthe Seefeld area for the past 5 yrs. Her mainhobby is showing Bernese Mountain dogs."It was the dogs that kept me from our 20thReunion—but that's a long story," shewrites. Let's hear that story at our 25th Reu-nion, Deloyce!

Moved: Robert Allison, to Apt 404, 202 WOlympic PI, Seattle, Wash. Bob is generalmanager of Interstate United, and on theboard of directors of several theater groupsand food and wine organizations. ThomasO'Malley, a senior vice president of BurgerKing, has moved to 7820 SW 180th Terr,Miami, Fla. Tom is chairman of the board ofthe Private Industry Council of Dade Coun-ty, and active in ILR's alumni assn.

Bob and Margann Frantzen Dodge havemoved to 8358 Alvord St, McLean, Va. Bobis director of Urban Rehabilitation at HUD.Margann sells real estate in northern Va, andhas a summer store, Batik Walla, in Martha'sVineyard. Judy Cook Gordon now lives at 3Cherokee Dr, Trenton, NJ. Judy coordinatesWestern Electric's management training pro-gram in Princeton. Carol Miller Leal hasmoved to 616 Oakwood Terr, Mt Juliet,Tenn. Carol is an RN at the VA hospital inLouisville, Ky.

At Cornell: Doug Innes, who lives in Pana-ma, returned to campus in Aug for a yr ofgraduate work in BPA. He's the US Army lo-gistics resources'manager for Central andSouth America. Bob Dodge IV '84 is in Engi-neering. He's a 4th generation Cornellian,following in the footsteps of Bob and Marg-ann, Robert I Dodge Jr '29, and Robert IDodge Όl. Judy Gordon's daughter Eve '84is also in Engineering. Bill and Susan Mat-tison Eraser's son John '83 is in Arts.

Helping Cornell: Here are some more'59ers who are on the Secondary SchoolsCommittee: Ann Bowers in Cal, Carolyn Hill

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Rogers in Conn, and Mary Jo Sigler Tennantin Va.

60MEN and WOMEN: Gail Taylor Hodges,1257 W Deerpath Rd, Lake Forest, 111 60045

It's hard to believe, as we bask in a beauti-ful Midwestern Indian summer, that it will beChristmas when you read this. Here's hopingthat you and yours have the happiest of holi-days and the very best kind of new year!

News from far-away places tops thismonth's column. Bobbie Marshall Mathewswrote of her family's life in Australia, wherethey have now been for many yrs (40 HarrowRd, Somerton, S Australia 5044). She notes:"I shall make a real effort to make our 25thReunion! My eldest daughter, Lisa, 18, fi-nished high school last Dec, and got her uni-versity acceptance (only about 10\per cent areselected for university in Australia—it is likethe British system). In Jan, she embarked ona yr in Anglholm, Sweden, as a Rotary ex-change student. She returns in Jan '81 andbegins university in early Mar. Leslie is 16and finishing up year 11. She hopes to pursuea career in industrial design by doing a degreecourse (4 yrs) at one of our Colleges of Edu-cation. This summer she got experience byworking in an advertising agency—forfree—for a few wks. Christopher has justturned 10, and is finishing up grade 5. He issitting for a bursary at one of the Anglicangrammar schools in Sept. He has a goodchance. As well as being my brightest, he is akeen sportsman. He plays cricket (his 1stlove) in the summer, and football and basket-ball (for the church where he is a choirboy) inthe winter. His dream, like all boys, is to playfor Australia. I am still teaching science andEric, PhD '60 is a senior curator of insects atthe S Australia museum. Life in Australia isconservative, but peaceful. Regards to all."

Mike Marks, who traveled so far to our20th Reunion, was recently promoted to vicepresident and general counsel for Alexander& Baldwin Inc. The firm is engaged in ship-ping (the Matson Navigation Co, sugarplantations, resort, residential and commer-cial property development, and investments.Mike can be reached at 3056 Kalakaua Ave,Honolulu, Hawaii. Judy Wetzel Schwartz hasbeen elected an assistant vice president of theCentral National Bank of Cleveland in thepersonnel department. She has served as sala-ry administrator since joining the bank in1978."Previously she was assistant personneldirector and administrator at Lake CountyNational Bank in Painsville, and a personnelassistant with Progressive Casualty InsuranceCo. She holds an MA in business and publicadministration from George Washington U,and is a member of the American Society forPersonnel Administration and AmericanCompensation Assn, as well as being active inthe Alumni Assn of N Ohio.

Dave Ahl (Box 789-M, Morristown, NJ) iseditor of the recently published book, Com-puters in Mathematics: A Source Book ofIdeas. Dave is now into his 6th yr of publish-ing Creative Computing magazine, which hebegan issuing as a hobby in 1974, when hewas education marketing manager forAT&T. He has run the magazine fulltimesince '78. Today the monthly magazine has acirculation of 80,000, has spawned a com-puter software business, and has doubled itsbusiness every yr, bringing in $2.2 million in'79. Recently Dave acquired another maga-zine, S-100 Microsystems, aimed at the sub-segment of the personal and small businesscomputing field. The Creative Computingcompany itself has 5 divisions, and employs

more than 60 people in magazine publishing,book publishing, software development andpublishing, consulting, and book service.

Woody N Klose has expanded his RedHook law firm of Klose & Melley with abranch office in Rhinebeck. He has served asa deputy public defender of Dutchess Countysince '73 and for 2 yrs was assistant counselto the NY State Senate Standing Committeeon Banks. Van C Campbell has been named asenior vice president of Corning GlassWorks.

Joseph R Degenfelder has joined CatalyticInc as general manager, polymer technology.David Morrow, DVM, PhD '67, was recentlyselected by the American Veterinary Assn toreceive the Borden Award. This nationalaward was presented in appreciation of hisoutstanding research contributions to dairycattle disease control. He is a member of thefaculty of the College of Veterinary Medicineat Mich State U, where he is currently in-volved in research, clinical teaching, and Ex-tension programs designed to improve repro-duction in cattle.

62SIXTY-SECONDS: Jan McClayton Crites,2779 SW Dellwood Dr, Lake Oswego, Ore97034

Lo and Linda Altshuler Lee are back inGlens Falls (9 Orchard Dr) after 15 yrs in Cal.They'd like to renew acquaintances with oth-ers in the area. Jane Barrows Tatibouet hasalso relocated from Hawaii to 835 MuseumDr, Charlotte, NC. "Very happily settled!"notes Jane. "Carder, 9, enjoys soccer, bas-ketball, and the snow. Cecily, 8, is very intoGerman and French in 2nd grade. This sum-mer was spent in Europe, children too, visi-ting friends in England and on the continent.Our favorite thing here is camping in the BlueRidge Mts—fabulous! Busy with JuniorLeague, as hotel management consultant fora major hotel project here, and as a buyer foran antiques/accessories shop with items fromall over Asia."

A family trip to the Maritimes was thehighlight of the summer for Gary and Mari-lyn Schur Hellinger '63. Their children areLisa, 16, Tracy, 14, Wendy, 11, and Richard,7. Also along was the Bob Schur '65 family.They especially enjoyed Prince Edward Island hiking at Cape Breton. Home for theHellingers in Cherry Valley Rd, Greenwich,Conn. Also in Conn are Diane and BurtonDavis. Burton is national sales manager offoundry products for Reichhold Chemical inWhite Plains. He commutes from 32 Linden-crest Dr, Danbury.

From Richard J Levine: "After more than14 yrs as a correspondent in Wash, DC, forthe Wall St Journal, including the last 5 aschief economic writer and "Outlook" colum-nist, I've been moved to Princeton, NJ. I'vebeen named editorial director of the com-pany's new information services group, re-sponsible for developing news and informa-tion products for electronics delivery directlyinto offices and homes. Bought a lovely co-lonial home at 108 Parkside Dr, just minutesfrom the Institute for Advanced Studieswhere Neil Ann (Stuckey) '63 will be work-ing. Boys Jon, 11, and Russ, 8, are lookingforward to hockey season in new area."

After a yr in Ft Collins, Hildegarde Swan-son Morgan has become a confirmed Colo-radan. Her husband is associate dean of thecollege of home economics at Colo State, andshe is in the master's program in animalbreeding and genetics. Hildegarde works parttime in radiation biology. Home for the Mor-gans is 2919 Tumblewood Lane. Larrie Dock-

erill Teich, 107 Locke Rd, Hampton, NH,completed her MBA at U of NH, and is asso-ciated with Bourgeois Fils, private investmentbankers, in Exeter, NH.

Alexander B Vollmer writes from 185 SanMarino Dr, San Rafael, Cal, "Northern Calliving is great!" It's quite a change for theVollmers after 21A yrs in Nigeria. They enjoyseeing Carol and Mac MacCorkle and AlanGoldenberg at the CC of N Cal events. Don'toverlook Alex's invitation, "Be glad to hearfrom classmates passing through the BayArea. We can accommodate an overnightguest or couple, if visiting relatives haven'tbooked the extra room."

64PEOPLE: Bev Johns Lamont, 720 ChestnutSt, Deerfield, 111 60015

Quite a few of our classmates live in Wash,DC, and suburbs. In addition to the news oftheir neighbors that you've read in this col-umn comes news from 5 more. Don Bird,partner in the patent law firm Cushman, Dar-by and Cushman, wife Alpine and their 2girls live at 638 E Capitol St NE, Wash, DC.Don's hobby, a good one for a Capitol Hillresident, is renovating houses. Vicki GreeneGolden and Michael '62 are also attorneys.Vicki is doing consumer-oriented litigationfor the antitrust division in the Departmentof Justice. They are also part owners of achildren's summer camp (Chateaugay) in theAdirondacks. You can reach them and their 2children at 3334 Stuyvesant PI NW, Wash,DC. Our class Mid-Atlantic regional vicepresident Nancy Nelson also lives in the city,at 3400 39th St NW.

To the northwest in suburban Md are Milesand Ronnie Haber and their 2 boys (3507Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, Md) and Johnand Marjorie Ferine (7209 Grubby ThicketWay, Bethesda, Md). John writes that theytraveled to El Salvador in '77, and to Peru in'79 to adopt their son and daughter. Acrossthe Potomac are Bob and Carolyn Heuserand their 2 sons (5220 N llth St, Arlington,Va). Bob produces national data on births forthe Natality Statistics Branch, National Cen-ter for Health Statistics, and is a Cub Scoutmaster. Nearby, congratulations to Arthurand Rebecca Berkeley (15 Pickburn Ct,Cockeysville, Md) of the birth of their 1stchild, in Oct '79. Arthur says she already hasa Cornell sweatshirt (Class of 2000, nodoubt).

Our Fund chairperson Ted Weinreich ispurchasing manager of Polycast Tech-nologies Corp in Stanford and holds severaloffices at his synagogue. He, wife Nora, whoruns a catering business, and their 3 childrenlive at 5 Lake Dr, Riverside, Conn. Tedwrites that with each scuba diving vacationthey take (eg, Bonaire, Netherlands Antillesin Feb '79), he collects shells and coral to addto his collection of fossils and geodes—"theshelf space in our living room is fast disap-pearing."

Gerry Ford is head of customer systemsplanning department at Bell Labs, and is ac-tive on the Secondary Schools Committee.He, wife Mary, and their 2 athletic daughterslive at 33 Heather Hill Way, Holmdel, NJ.Up in Ithaca, Juni Bowes (1031/2 HappyLane) is a junior high school guidance coun-selor and enjoys jogging.

Farther south, and near Disneyworld, JohnDrewes is assistant principal for business andcurriculum at Osceola high school, and is amember of the local CC. He, wife Doris, andtheir 3 sons live at 3 S Flag Dr, Kissimmee,Fla. In his spare time, John is involved incommunity theater productions, and was

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contemplating running for superintendent ofschools.

News from 809 W Randol Mill, D, Arling-ton, Texas: Clifton Daniel is associate patho-logist at Arlington Memorial Hospital, andpast-president of the local American CancerSociety branch. He too went scuba diving atBonaire. Clifton and wife Myrtle are proudof their 2 sons' tennis; both hold state rank-ings, and the older is ranked in the top 10 na-tionally.

And news from 4 more physician class-mates: Bill Freedman is a cardiologist and ispresident, American Heart Assn of VenturaCounty. He and wife Lindsay live at 1871Terrace Dr, Ventura, Cal. Working east-ward, Lois Weyman Dow (at 5408 Sycamore,Grove Ln, Memphis, Tenn, with her child-ren) finds her work with leukemia at St JudeChildren's Research Hospital "rewarding,busy, fascinating, and at times exhausting."She has also made many professional trips tomany of our major cities. Lois Copeland andhusband Richard Sperling share an office:she in internal medicine and he in plastic/hand surgery. They and their 2 children liveat 25 Sparrowbush Rd, Upper Saddle River,NJ, where Lois serves on the SecondarySchools Committee. Up in Needham, Mass,Donne (Erving) and Frank Holden '62 areboth physicians: she in private practice in ob-stetrics and gynecology, and he as director ofresearch and planning for District I of the VaHospital system. They and their 4 childrencan be reached at 989 South St.

Short notes: E Wesley Parry, DVM '68writes that he changed his type of practicefrom all equine to general, and is enjoyingraising and showing livestock from his newfarm. He, wife Ruth, and their 3 children getmail at Box 161, Hickory, Pa. James Baer, atrader and member of the Chicago Board ofTrade, and wife Lynn live at 150 Indian TreeRd, Highland Park, 111. Fred Marks, a man-agement consultant with Arthur Young &Co, wife Marcia, and their 3 children can bereached at 2303 W Oklahoma St, Tulsa,Okla. And Dennis Carlson, regional super-visor for Hilton Inns Inc, wife Veronica, andtheir 2 children live at 1000 Montreal Rd,25C, Clarkston, Ga.

Hope you all have a happy and safe holi-day season. And please send News & Dues.

65COMBINED: Joan Hens Pickard, 22 Stone-ridge Ct, Baltimore, Md 21239

Finally, the class notes of '65 get back ontrack this month! Through a series of com-puter errors and mixed-up communications,the change-over to your new class cor-respondents has been an experiment infrustration. From now on, things should runsmoothly, and I welcome your cor-respondence so we may share news with eachother. I must submit the column 7 wks aheadof publication, so please keep that lead timein mind if you have news to relate about localor regional class activities.

Available news to pass along this monthcenters on a review of our Reunion weekend.It was a weekend of sun, fun, and laughter,as we gathered from around the country toenjoy being at Cornell again. Stephanie Schusand Jim Venetos did a fantastic job in co-chairing the events. Through their dedicatedefforts, almost 100 classmates and spousesmade it to Ithaca. Thank you, again, Steffiand Jim! Thurs night we caught up withfamiliar faces at the beer tents. Fri evening'sclass buffet found us greeting more oldfriends. The Big Red Barn was the site ofbarbecue and beer at noon on Sat.

In the afternoon, some folks attended lec-tures, others heard the Hangovers concert atthe Plantations, and a large number of peopledecided to munch-out. We gathered togetheragain for the class banquet at Statler and saidthanks to outgoing officers Lynn KordaKroll, president; Charlie Both, treasurer;Howard Rakov, class correspondent. Lynnhas been' especially busy taking care ofNicolas, 2, Jeremy, 9, Dana, 7, Vanessa, 4,along with class responsibilities!

Elected for the next 5 yrs were BryanKnapp, president; Scott Me E wen, vice presi-dent and class correspondent; Kathie GeerBell, treasurer; Joan Hens Pickard, secretaryand class correspondent; Tom O'Conner,manager of the class gift investment fund;Ivor Moskowitz, humorist. By overwhelmingdemand and acclamation, Stephanie Schusand Jim Venetos have agreed to co-chair the20th Reunion.

Banquet formality dissolved into rompingand stomping at the Chi Phi house, where wedanced the night away to tapes of songspopular in '61-65. Jim Venetos and friendsdid a superb job putting the tapes together.Sun morning, orange juice, donuts and fondfarewells concluded the weekend—a reallysuper time that we can especially rememberwhen donning the class of '65 T-shirt, ourReunion gift.

Trading stories and reminiscing were (non-Cornell and non-'65 spouses are not listed)Tove Hasselriis Abrams, Stephen Appell,George and Judy Arangio, G Gordon Behn,Kathie Geer Bell, Carol Greenwood Bender,Carole Beck Bienstock, Katharine BookhoutBiggerstaff, Warren G Biller, Charlie Both,Barbara Brizdle, Lloyd Bush, Murf Butler,Mr and Mrs A M Center, Bruce Cohen, Den-nis Ditch, E Z DuBose Jr, Faye Duchin, Johnand Joyce Crego Dwyer, Bruce Allyn Eissner,Mary Ann Taub Emsig, David Franklin,Manny Garcia, Peggy Haine, Torrey Harder,David Hamman, Maurice and Courtney KlugHoag, John Hubbard, Patricia Asessa Irish,Jim Jacobs, Bonnie Tavlin Kay, JohnKiechle, Fred Kewley, Edward Kelman,Gerald Kestenbaum, Robert J Kheel, BryanKnapp, Heiti Kotkas, Johnathan Kramer.Also, Lynn Korda Kroll, Karen JernstedtKuiper, Jodi Lowens, Bob and ChristinaMartin Lurvey, Alvon Macauley Jr, RobertMcCabe, Scott McEwen, Stephen A Mintz,Jamie Moffatt, Pete Mortimer, IvorMoskowitz, George Norman, Tom O'Con-ner, Bernard Paladino, Daniel Pickard, JoanHens Pickard, Nancy Seelig Podewils, SusanSamuels Potters, Carolyn Petrie Quigley,Howard Rakov, Arnold Rabinor, AllenReed, Isabelle Richmond.

And Ed Rittenhausen, Joan ElsteinRogow, John and Rena Miller Rothschild,Joe Ryan, Christy Reppert Sacks, Virginia ESchein, Stephanie Schus, Terry KohleriterSchwartz, Ed Schwarz, John Scullin, PaulSiegel, Juliana Ricci Shanchuk, BruceSmoller, Leslie Steinau, John Striker, Jaxonand Arlene Helfrich Teck, Tom Troy, JimVenetos, William Waylett, Gray HodgesWexelblat, Andrea Shulman Williams, Deb-bie Dash Winn, Robert R Winter, Anthonyand Sandy Passman Zavadil.

Fulfilling a dream is Jon Canas, who said,"when I went to the Cornell School of HotelAdministration, I went for the purpose ofbecoming president of a small or medium-sized company." He has been named presi-dent of the Dunfey Hotels Corp. Congratula-tions, Jon. Daniel J. Palm joins the profes-sional staff of Normandeau Associates Inc,in Bedford, NH. Allen Reed III has beennamed vice president of sales and marketingfor the Anthony Industrial Group, with head-quarters in Columbia, SC.

I'm currently working as marketing homeeconomist for McCormick & Co Inc inBaltimore. We're right across the street fromthe fabulous new Harbor Place. Come say hiif you're in the area. Meanwhile, take aminute and drop me a line. Send postcards,pictures, mailgrams! Write!

66WOMEN: Susan Rockford Bittker, 424 PeaPond Rd, Katonah, NY 10536

Pamela Troutman Kessler writes fromBodenacher Str 12, 8121 Benglen, Switzer-land, where husband Jurg is director of theHotel Ascot. Family activities with Beth, 7 l/2,and Mark, 5, include swimming, skiing, andhiking. Pam is president of the Europeanchapter of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen.She also reports that Barbara McConnel visi-ted in Mar '79.

News of another far off area comes to usfrom Judith Harvey, SR 70389, Fairbanks,Alaska. Judy and husband Karl Monetti,both veterinarians, and daughter JennyElena, 21/2, are on a 2-yr "sabbatical," livingin the cabin in the woods which they built,with a workshop, sauna, and generatorcabin. They concentrate on raising Jenny and40 sled dogs. Judy is chairperson of the NorthPole champion dog sled race.

Merideth Bradford, 1791 Ardita Dr, Plea-sant Hill, Cal, graduated from the John FKennedy School of Law in June '80. She hasbeen handling law school, a job, and raisingher children, Liberty, 9, Stormy, 7, and Mar-ian, 6. Janet Simons is a senior research spe-cialist for the Children's Defense Fund inWash, DC. She lives at 819 W Glebe Rd,Alexandria, Va, and is active with the Sec-ondary Schools Committee of the CC ofWash.

A recent business venture has led to a dif-ferent lifestyle for Ed and Judith Kurtz Pol-cer and their children Sam, 21/2, and Ben,1 ί/2. The Polcers have become partners in aManhattan jazz night club, Eddie Condon's,where Judith does bookkeeping and assists inmanaging, and Ed is the house cornetist.With both parents working at night, thechildren are with them during the day, andthen Judith and Ed go to work at the child-ren's bedtime. The Polcers live at 560-4 MainSt, Apt D450, Roosevelt Isl.

Alice Katz Berglas, 1520 York Ave, NYC,reports that she, Peter, and Nancy, 6Vi,spend summers in Amaganset, where they seemany Cornellians, including Marjorie Green-baum Smith '67, Billy '65 and Judy Silver-man Kaufman '67, and Madeline and LesStern '60. Alice is most willing to help withReunion plans. It is her father's 50th Reunionthis yr.

Note: For those of you who have not at-tended a previous Reunion, one of the plea-sures is meeting and partying with Sy Katz.He is a unique person who thoroughly enjoysbeing a Cornellian and celebrating it. I hopeyou will have the opportunity this June!

67SIGHTINGS: Richard B Hoffman, 292528th St, NW, Wash, DC 20008

Earl F Spencer, RD 1, Palatine Bridge, is adairy farmer who's "active in freelancewriting" and writes columns for 2 farmmagazines while contributing to others. Nowthat's the first optimistic sign for this col-umn's continuity in many an outing. Writeon!

Every class needs one operative at theMorgan bank. Ours is W John Zygmunt, 505

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E 79th St, #19A, NYC, who's vice president,mergers and acquisitions, Morgan GuarantyTrust Co. Also heard on the Street can beNancy Havens, who, when not working as anarbitrageur at Bear, Stearns, sings Gilbertand Sullivan with the Blue Hill Troupe. Nan-cy lives at 444 E 86th St, #32J, and is captainof the Harvard Club squash team.

"Beside taking care of Katie, 7, Chris, 5,Matthew, 1 !/2, and a large, dirty house, 75,1have taken a job as patient librarian atChildren's Hospital, Natl Med Center,"writes Carolyn Grouse Willard, 1300 ECapitol St, NE, Wash, DC. "I run a largelibrary used by in-patients and students at thehospital:" Carolyn adds that Linda Me-Cracken Leopold is back in NYC asmarketing manager for Elsevier North-Holland Inc and that Ann Martin was pro-moted to 2nd vice president at a Chicagobank and dispatched to run the Manilabranch for a month.

And then there's Dr Richard Holstein, 5Cherrybrook Dr, RD #5, Princeton, NJ,who's opened a 2nd office in Hillsborough,NJ, is chairman of dentistry at the MedCenter at Princeton, and, with the architec-tural help of Stan Aronson '65, is building inPrinceton a 64,000-sq-ft passive solar profes-sional building.

Ronald Moses, 1003 Barbie Ct, CastleRock, Colo, is area manager of chain salesfor Philip Morris. He bought a house in May'79, married Kathleen Sumner in Aug, andtraveled to the Bahamas and Mexico. In thatorder. Joan Klein Cohen, 163 Plymouth Rd,Newton Highlands, Mass, finished work onher MBA last Jan after 5 yrs of part-timing itat NYU. She's working as a marketing rep incomputer products for Hewlett-Packard afterhandling the marketing effort of a small labequipment company out of her home. Hus-band Bruce '65 is a regional manager withDatapoint. Children Seth, 9, and Heidi, 6,have refused to switch from Yankees to RedSox. And well they should.

John W McManus, Av des Petrels #9,1640Rhode-St-Genese, Belgium, was recentlytransferred by Proctor & Gamble to its Euro-pean technical center at Brussels. KatrinaClark, 44 Hubinger St, New Haven, Conn, isdirector of Fair Haven Community HealthClinic, an inner-city community health cen-ter.

James S Cooper, 214 W Springfield St,Boston, Mass, after nearly 5 yrs as chairmanof the Mass Labor Relations Commission,has become special counsel to the receiver ofthe Boston Housing Authority, recently putinto receivership (the Authority, not Jim)"for its failure to meet the minimum codestandards at many of its housing projects."Jim will be handling labor problems for thereceiver. He mentions seeing Bob and SueSelton Benjamin '68, who, I gather, have a"permanent vacation home" in Los Almos,NM.

"We've been living in Dortmund, W Ger-many, since Aug '78," writes Sharon ArgusPaschos, "where my husband, Emmanuel,PhD '64, is a prof in the physics dept. Our3rd child, John, was born on May 14. Sinceliving in Europe, we've traveled extensivelyand the whole family has learned to speakGerman. We're waiting to see the effect onthe baby of living in a bilingual environmentfrom the start. We'd also like to hear fromother Cornellians in the vicinity, ie, Europe!"Address: Dahmsfeldstrasse 775, 46 Dort-mund 50, W Germany.

In honor of the recently-completed WorldSeries, a few words for the Hoy polloi andothers from Jim Scullen, 9166 EdmonstonRd, Greenbelt, Md, who does security workin Va suburbs, joined 3 health clubs, proof-

read a friend's novel ("publishable, in myopinion"), and "acquired a taste forbaseball, hot dogs, and a few other things."In case this is the only feature of thismagazine you read, be advised that the Cor-nell baseball team tied for 1st place last springin the EIBL, ' 'a handful of games away frombig-time competition." Coach Ted Thoren,Jim adds, suggests that all Hoy Field needs to"be the finest college facility in the North-east" are permanent cinder block or brickdugouts, since there now is a permanentchain-link fence. "I hope you will catch theenthusiasm of this proposal and pass theword to fellow classmates," Jim concludes.

For those of you intent on New Year'srevelling, note the words of Howard Reiter,1-A Sheraton La, #10, Norwich, Conn:"They ought to make the signs on the high-way a little bigger; it's hard to read themfrom a distance."

68PEOPLE: Corinne Dopslaff Smith, 8 FlynnTerr, W Orange, NJ 07052

Happy Holiday Season!Bill Falik (573 Grizzly Peak Blvd, Berke-

ley, Cal) is partner in the San Francisco lawfirm of Lundeίs, Ripley & Diamind. A coupleof yrs back, Bill managed to convince thefirm that his services wouldn't be missed for 6months or so while he traveled around theworld, "focusing on some of the remote par-adises, particularly Bali, Nepal, and the Sey-chelles," When at home, Bill keeps in touchwith David '67 and Laurie Klinger Brandt'70. He also recently encountered John Loeb(1840 Cordilleras Rd, Redwood City, Cal).

Randy Hallstead Allen (999 Hidden LakeDr, Apt 19J, N Brunswick, NJ) is a manage-ment consultant for Touche Ross. SusanHarrison Berger, on the other hand, reportsthat being at home with 3 kids is occupationenough for her. The Bergers, including Sue'shusband Sam, and children Debbie, 7, Sarah,3, and Alex, 1, live at 4228 45th St NW,Wash, DC.

At last report, Gary R Fisher, a captain inthe Air Force, was assigned to the 20th Tacti-cal Fighter Wing, located at RAF Upper Hey-furd, England. Gary must be back in theStates as he, his wife Janet, and their sonBrandon (almost 3) can now be reached at391 Harvey Hill Rd, Trumansburg. Unless hehas also moved, Jerome Fox (21746 Collings-worth St, Cupertino, Cal) is a computer pro-grammer for IBM at their Santa Teresa Lab.He's designing new data base products andapplications. Jerry took 2 trips within Cal lastwinter—one to the north in the snow-coveredSierras, and one to the south to Death Valley.He found it hard to believe there could besuch contrast within one state!

Herb Fuller's latest duesletter brings us up-to-date on his activities since he was gradu-ated with the Class of '69. Discharged fromthe service in '71, he moved to Boston, Mass,where he married the former Martha Mac-Leish in '73. Herb's stepson Andrew is now10, and his son Levi is 3. Herb reports thatSima Chaikin Maitland '69 met her husbandat a party at the Fuller home (54 Preston Rd,Somerville, Mass), and that he ran acrossRose Ariitt '69 in the dining car of the "LakeShore Limited."

Susan Frankel Hunter is general managerof Atlanta Contemporary Dance Co, a pro-fessional modern dance touring company,and executive director of Dance Atlanta, aregional service organization. Susan's hus-band Howard (Yale '68) is associate dean ofEmory Law School. The Hunters have adaughter Emily, and live at 2143 Ponce De

Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, Ga. Business in Ar-gentina brought Eric C Johnson to BuenosAires and the provincial capital Tucamon lastwinter. With his wife Nancy and their 2 sons,Eric lives at 211 Edgewood Ave, Pleasant-ville. He is lab manager at General Foods'sTechnical Center. Thomas M Krop practicesdermatology at Virginia Beach, Va, where helives with his wife and 2 children at 2553 Tor-rey PI. Tom writes that C Bruce Greyson hastaken a job in psychiatry at the U of Mich.Bruce lives at 224 Mason Ave, Ann Arbor.

Joel Kurtzberg (301 E 75th St, NYC) worksfor AT&T as district supervisor in the tariffsand costs department. In his last letter, hewrote of plans for a Kenyan photographic sa-fari. (How did it go, Joel?) He also reportedthat R James Stroker is a judge in Orlando,Fla. (Jimmy lives at 1171 Willowbrook Tr,Maitland, Fla.); and that Joel's freshmanroommate Bruce Mesches is living in Merrill-ville, Ind (1846 W 59 PI).

Michael Lahav (formerly Michael Kerstein)is a systems analyst. He lives in Jerusalem,Israel (3 Mitle Pass, Ramat Eshkol) with hiswife and 2 sons, Uri, 8, and Lior, 4. Michaelspent the academic yr of 1977-78 at the Whar-ton School in Phila, Pa. After 7 yrs in DC,Nancy Libson has moved to Columbus,Ohio, where she is vice president of develop-ment for the Bernstein Group, an owner,manager, builder, and syndicator of apart-ment complexes in small cities and rural com-munities. Nancy lives at 5095 ChuckleberryLane, Westerville, Ohio.

Last yr, Jack Lyons wrote of a new job (heis an orthopedic surgeon with the BerkshireOrthopedic Associates in Pittsfield, Mass), anew house (on Lenox Mountain Rd, Rich-mond, Mass), and new (?) kids (Julie, 5, andKatie, 2). Jack is married to the former AnneMarkell (Wells '68). Joseph J and Jane Pater-son Marlin '69 live in NE Pa on a 10-acre"gentleman's farm," complete with horses,apples, and springfed ponds. (The address isRD 1, Box 202, Wyalusing, Pa.) The Marlinshave 3 sons, ages 12, 10, and 3. Joseph isplant engineer with the Masonite Corp, wherehe is responsible for all engineering, mainten-ance, and utility operations at their Towandaplant. He has been in contact with John CSimonds, who lives at 341 W 87th St, NYC,with his wife Niko. John works for the phonecompany; Niko is an airline stewardess.

69MEN and WOMEN: Deborah HuffmanSchenk, 219 Kane St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

I'll start with a request: In cleaning up lastyear's News & Dues notes, I have a letterwritten to Steve Kussin from Jim B—. Youdrove a cab, lived in Seattle, Wash, went to UDenver Law School, and you have raced bi-cycles. But you can't write your name legibly.Who are you? Let me know and I'll printyour news.

Additions to the family include; Judy(Braunstein) and Richard Bailyn '67 have ason Jay Bennett, born in 1978. They have anew home in Boca Raton, Fla, where Richardis in private practice as a neurologist. Judy isfounder and president of a window treatmentand decoration company. Arda Coyle Bouch-er has a baby girl, Erin, born in Apr 1979.She lives in Amherst, NH. Steven Marx has a1st child and a 2nd home. His son JeffreyLoren was born in May 1979. They have justcompleted a vacation home on Cape Cod,Mass, which Steve designed. They previouslyremodeled their home in Worcester.

Jane Algmin Howard's 1st child was bornin Jan 1979. Dorothy is now in day care andJane is back to work in transportation plan-

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ning with the Boston Redevelopment Author-ity. Richard Felder '68 and Deborah(Slater)'s 2nd son was born in Dec 1979. Jef-frey Daniel joins Jonathan Edward, who isalmost 3. Richard is deputy director of the of-fice of proceedings at the Interstate Com-merce Commission. Elissa Feldman had agirl, Danielle, in Aug 1979. Elissa is workingfor the assistant administrator for researchand development at the Environmental Pro-tection Agency in DC.

Michael D Scherer has 3 sons. KevinMichael was born in May 1979 and he joinsMickey, 8, and Kelly, 4. Mike is in charge ofthe ichthyoplankton section of Marine Re-search Inc, and was recently named a directorof the company. The Scherers recently builttheir 1st home in Teaticket, Mass.

Alastair Longley-Cook and Jane (Blauvelt)have 2 daughters, Hester Alise, 7, and Vanes-sa Julian, 3. Alastair was recently promotedto associate actuary of Aetna Life and Casu-alty. They are living in Bloomfield, Conn.Tom Jahncke has a 1st son, according to"see enclosed" of which there was none. Heis living in Whitmore Lake, Mich, where hehas been working on, and fixing up, a 40-yr-old home for the past 2 yrs, with the end insight. John Frankenberg reports that, like atrue Cornellian, he picked up Cornell pantiesfor his new daughter at Reunion. CatherineMary was born Nov '79.

Steve Belkin and Joan (Wolfers) have a2nd daughter, Amy Jill, born in May 1979.Chris Davidson (to quote directly): "Otherthan wives, 1st addition to the family, AnnaCatalina, in Mar 1979. Third overseas assign-ment (with the diplomatic corps), this timeCaracas, Venezuela, via Lima, Peru. Newbusiness? Gold futures, one of the few wholost their shirt in the last 6 months! Promo-tion? Getting close!" Carol Flanders Robin-son gave birth to twins in Dec 1979—JohnDavid and Catherine Carol.

Those still in school include Patricia Stahl,who is finishing up a master's in social workin Texas. Michael W Lederman is "pushingalong in veterinary postgrad studies." He stilllives in Italy for 8 months a yr, where he is in-volved in preparing Porsche automobiles inParma.

Ildi Czmor DeFrancesco is now in themaster's of social welfare program at U Wise,Milwaukee. She and husband Tom anddaughter Sara are busy working on an oldhome they bought in a preservation district.Also, she wants to know who from her olddorm called her mother in the summer of1979. (Write to 1420 Park Ave, Racine,Wise.)

Those who couldn't leave the academic lifeinclude Jean Ispa, who is now an assistantprofessor in the department of child and fam-ily development at the U of Mo. Herdaughter Simone is 3, and she reports that herhusband Boris Landa is trying to make it intothe art world. Alfred A Hagedorn III hasbeen teaching and doing research since 1976in the chemistry department at Rutgers. JohnRice is an assistant professor of mathematicsin psychiatry at the Washington U School ofMed. He, wife Nancy, and children Ian, 6,and Amanda, 3, live in St Louis, Mo.

Donna Selnick is teaching law at Cal StateU in Sacramento. In addition, she handles alimited number of cases, mostly in the areasof consumer and family law. I guess I fall inthis academic category, too. I was recentlypromoted to a professor at Brooklyn LawSchool, where I teach taxation and legal pro-cess. My specialties are simplification and thelow income taxpayer, and I testified twice lastyr before the House Ways and Means Com-mittee on those subjects. I'm also actively in-volved with an NYC group that handles tax

cases and returns gratuitously for low incometaxpayers. My husband Proctor, my 3-yr-olddaughter Elizabeth, and I live in our finally-finished 120-yr-old Brooklyn brownstone andsummer in Pa.

70MEN and WOMEN: Connie Ferris Meyer, 16James Thomas Rd, Malvern, Pa 19355

Some months ago I met Bonnie Levy Shu-man and her daughter, Rachel, now 2!/2, in alocal toy store. Before moving to 641 Brook-wood Rd, Wayne, Pa, Bonnie and her hus-band Henry '66, PhD '70 had lived in Phoe-nix, Ariz, where she had taught and workedon curriculum for Head Start. Bonnie is nowa real estate lawyer with the law firm ofDrinker, Biddle, and Reath in Phila. Henryteaches at the U of Pa Med School, and isassociated with the Pa Muscle Institute. Bon-nie is enjoying raising their daughter, andfeels this is the greatest thing she could dowith her life. When I called to check on thisinfo, Bonnie related that she had big news.Their son David had just been born very pre-maturely on Oct 15, 1980! He weighed 3 Ib,15 oz at birth and is still hospitalized (as ofthis writing) and doing well. Bonnie said Lor-raine Flori has been a psychiatric socialworker at the Harvard Mental Center and herhusband Joel Smith (Duke U) is a TV andmotion picture producer. They are in the pro-cess of moving across country to Los Angel-es, Cal. Also, Bonnie reports that PhyllisKohn has been a teacher in Phila, and thatEllen Schatz Levine is a lawyer.

In Mar, I received a "1st contribution tothe Alumni News in honor of our 10th Reu-nion" letter from Pamela Zave. Pamela at-tended the U of Wise immediately after Cor-nell, and received her PhD in computer sci-ence in '75. While in Madison, an out-of-doors oriented city, she developed an interestin backpacking, bicycling, and serious tennis.Since '75, Pamela has been an assistant prof-essor of computer science at the U of Md(4330 Hartwick Rd, #506, College Park,Md). As she enjoys writing research papers inthis field, she recommends a BA in English asa background for science. As a flashback, sherecalled that in Apr '75 she came face-to-faceon a corner in Madison with Sue Mineka.After finishing up her PhD at Penn, Suemoved to Madison to be a psych professor atWise, and had lived across the street fromPamela for 7 months before they met.

In Feb 1980, Ben Bishop was named pro-duct specialist, rod and wire sales, for Bethle-hem Steel Corp. Before this, Ben had been asalesman in the Greensboro, NC, sales office,Baltimore sales district. He got his MBA inmarketing from BPA in 1972, and then wentto Bethlehem in that yr's loop managementtraining program in sales. Ben, who is a na-tive of Bethlehem, Pa, went to Greensboro asa salesman in '73. He and his wife Anna hadlived in Greensboro until they relocated to143 Moreland Ave, Bethlehem, Pa. Ben isour new class secretary-treasurer.

Here's some old (Sept '79) news from SidLevinson, who lives at 1402 Wildwood Ave,Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife Lauren andtheir children Adam, 10, and Dory, 6Vi. In'74, he graduated from the Medical College.He is in the practice of medicine and gastro-enterology in Chapel Hill, where he is on thefaculty of the U of NC, and where Lauren re-ceived her degree in '79. Bob and Roz Chana-nau Beck and daughter Sara visited theLevinsons, and the Levinsons have visitedBob and Gail Jaspen and their sons Andy andElliott.

Nestor and Susan Norek Guzman '71 live

at 7521 E Beryl Ave, Scottsdale, Ariz, withtheir daughter Jennifer, 4. Susan reports thatthey moved there in Oct '79 and never plan toleave. Nestor is the general manager of theWindmill Dinner Theater and is enjoying allthe public relations work; he has been in-terviewed by radio, TV, and newspapers. TheScottsdale Daily Progress weekend sectionfor Mar 7, 1980, had a feature article aboutNestor (it was sent in by Fred Hillegas '38). Itdetails Nestor's life before the Windmill Din-ner Theater, including his yrs at Cornell. Heis concentrating on menu and decor changes.Anyone going through the Scottsdale areashould stop by the Windmill; it sounds great!In Apr '80, Richard Mellen, an Ithacarealtor, opened a new office at 116 The Com-mons to concentrate on commercial realestate and residential development. He has anadditional office in his home at 112 ParkerSt. Richard has been in Ithaca since gradua-tion, is on the board of directors and is thetreasurer of the Ithaca Board of Realtors.

Congressman Thomas Downey (D-NY)was the 1st speaker in the new Clark FellowsProgram, on Apr 8, 1980, on campus. Theprogram, which is endowed by the late JohnClark '29, will bring prominent figures frombusiness, government, or labor to speak toundergraduates for a day. Tom's main topicfor his lecture was Congress in the '80s. He ison the House Select Committee on Aging, theCommittee on Science and Technology, andthe House Armed Services Committee.

Have a happy, peaceful, blessed, and funholiday season, and a great 1981!

71ALL: Elisabeth Kaplan Boas, 233 E 69th St,NYC 10021; Elliot Mandel, 44 E 82nd St,NYC 10028; Lauren Procton, 41 W 96th St,NYC 10025

Top billing this month goes to Richard andElisabeth Kaplan Boas on the birth of their 9Ib, 12 oz daughter—"as yet unnamed—bornat NY Hospital-CUMC."

In anticipation of our 10th Reunion, trynot to think about how many yrs have goneby—just come and have fun. Offers to helpout in any way should go to Reunion co-chairmen Fred Harrison and John Con-well—see last month's column.

Other timely tidings: Wedding bells forMatthew Silverman in Sept. Ara Salzman,Sam Kay man, Elliot Mandel, Bruce Wagner'64, and the bride's sister, Carol Safran '82,were among the guests. Last Oct, Dave andTina Beale were married. Dave is a partnerwith the NY law firm of Friend Perles &Dor fman, commuting in from N Tarry town,near Tina's job in social services. Matt juststarted at Peat Marwick's management con-sulting division.

And nursery news continues: Joe and JudyScott Cardillo's son Jordan joined Jason, 5,and Jessica, 3, in June '79. In Aug, Georgeand Lucille Henschel announced Sarah Ann;and Sasha and Alice Stone Nakhimovsky,PhD '76 announced Isaac. Henschels live inSpringfield, Va, near his job as assistantcounsel, OSHA of the Department of Labor.Isaac's parents are both assistant profes-sors—mom in Russian at Colgate; dad in lin-guistics at Cornell. They would love to hearfrom Gail Schwartz, Gary Wolfe, and JohnHouston. Douglas and Mary Ann Stone wel-comed Meredith Ann in Sept '79. Stone is stilla cost engineer with Kodak in Windsor, Colo.

Brian Berman joined his 2-yr-old brotherand parents Dennis and Robin, in Nov '79.The Bermans live in Laurel, Md, where dad isa builder/developer and racquetball clubowner, and mom is a physician. Early this yr,

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Jennifer Lynn was born to Michael and JanetLynn Cornfeld '72. Mike is still a vice presi-dent with Heritage Investors, and Janet is apsychologist at U of Md Counseling Center.And in Apr, Bonnie and Gordon Harris'sHallie arrived in Dayton, Ohio. Dr Harris hasa private psychology practice as well as a clin-ical assistant professorship at Wright State U.Our class has many modest members—dues-payers, all, but not prone to sending news.Lest we forget their much appreciated sup-port, they are listed here. Write to me if youneed addresses for them.

Duespayers are: Marsha Ackermann,James J Adams, Abraham Anolik, SandieFeinman Antar, Avron Barr, Andrea Berg-strom, Bennett Blecher, Rist Bonnefond,David and Chris Gula Boyce, Kenneth Brink,David Bradt Jr, Susan LaBarre Brittingham,Jed Callen, Marilyn Blumberg Cane, DavidClark, Diane G Clarke, Arthur Cobb, GaryCokins, Robert Colbert Jr, Eugene Cole,John Burnap, Richard Coleates, Barbara Co-vey, Russel Davies. And Susan Groves Dean,A David Do well, Ellen B Doft, Frank Elia Jr,Mark Ellyne, Michael Emen, W Benford Far-rington Jr, Bruce Fischer, Marcia Flicker,George Gleason, Dave Glenwick, Joan LGoldberg, Jonathan Golovin, Pamela Grif-fin, Richard Halpern, John Henrehan, AnneHilleary, Janice Pigula Hoff, ThomasHughes, Larry Hutchinson, Cara Nashlason.

And Robert Illick Jr, Martin Irwin, PaulaGreenberg Jarnicki, Vίcki Jenkins, StephenA Joseph, J Squire Junger, Sonja HaerterJurzysta, Jay Kaplan, Maura Kilroy, WaltKing Jr, Doniel Kitt, Carol Lee, RichardMandel, Philip and Linda Watson Man-go nes, Scott McKee, Stephen Totoyer* Ar-thur Mint/, Merry Morris, Joshua GF Nagin,Thomas Nally, John Niahijima. And MartinNugent Jr, Toni Pardi, Barbara Olson Patch-en, Patrick Paul, Howard Peyser, MarthaLong Pokras, Ron Porter, Sandra L Raub,David Reynolds, Carol Schechter, RobertSchreiber, Mark Schulte, John Schunak, GScott Siler, Jeffrey Silverman, Michael PSmith, William J Spindler, Frank W Stewart,Paul R Swanson Jr, Mark Thaisz, Harry Tip-per, Alan Troncillito.

Also: David A Trost, Deborah TenenbaumVine, Michael Vnucak, Thomas and EvaHeath Weber, Susan King Weeks, EdwardWilson, Thomas Wisniewski, Louise Wolfe,Benjamin Wood, Mildred Zein, and HowardZibel.

72PEOPLE: Linda Johanson Beal, 2 ClarksGap Ct, Medford, NJ 07055

Brief Notes: Joe Taber has been promotedto senior vice president at Citizens SavingsBank in Ithaca. Bruce McGeoch is working asa staff consultant in the electronics systemssection of Arthur D Little Inc. Jeff Wolos isdoing cancer research in Phila, Pa, after re-ceiving his PhD. Jonathan Ross is director ofthe outpatient department at St Vincent'sMed Center in Toledo, Ohio, as well as anMPH student at the U of Mich; Paula (Davis)is pursuing her MBA at the U of Toledo.They are the parents of Johanna, 4, and Oli-via, 1.

Christopher Hale is serving exchange dutywith the Royal Australian Navy. He is pre-sently stationed on the HMAS Melbourneheading for the Far East ports of Perth, Sing-apore, Jakarta, India, and Sri Lanka (Cey-lon). Andy and Leslie Topus are living in theWash, DC, suburbs where Andy is regionalsales manager for Vienna Beef Manufactur-ing Co. They recently visited with Bob All-

stadt at his home (a geodesic dome) in theShenendoah Valley. Albert Goetze has beenpromoted to purchasing manager, raw mate-rials, for the grocery products division ofMcCormick & Co Inc.

Anna Marie Howell was married in July toWilliam Alford '69. Anna is with the firm ofChloethiel Woodard Smith & Associates,architects in Wash, DC, and obtained hermaster's degree from the Yale School ofArchitecture. William, a graduate of HarvardLaw School, is an attorney with a Wash, DC,firm and a member of the adjunct faculty ofGeorge Washington Law Center. Amy Swei-gard and Allen Krizek were married June 14,1980. Allen has a master's degree in horticul-ture from Mich State U.

75FRIENDS: Christine "Ting" Magill Kamon,907 Copeland School Rd, West Chester, Pa19380

Seasons greetings from yet another newclass correspondent! I'm looking forward tohearing from you so I can relay your news tothe rest of the class.

Nancy Hargrave has returned to Ithaca asan associate director of Admissions. Herprimary responsibility is to coordinate admis-sion activities in the Midwest. Nancy has justcompleted 3 yrs on the admissions staff atWorchester Polytechnic Institute in Mass,and is looking forward to putting her exper-tise to work for Cornell. She would ap-preciate hearing from any alumni in theMidwest.

Rodney A Brooks, business editor of theΛsheville Citizen-Times in Asheville, NC,was one of 20 journalists selected in a nation-wide competition to participate in the Ad-vanced Study in Economics for Journalistsprogram at the Brookings Institute. Rodneyis married to Aubra Love, a bank loan officerin Asheville; they have 2 children.

Also in the line of journalism, Jan Hoff-man has been appointed an associate editorof the Village Voice. Jan will edit the art andphoto sections, as well as various sup-plements. Since graduation, Jan has workedfor the New Yorker, the Herald-News inPassaic, NJ, and has been featured in the NYDaily News, Ms, and the Ithaca New Times.

George Schurman has become the co-owner of a retail business on the Ithaca Com-mons. George and his partner both worked atthe Walter Dyer Is Leather store before pur-chasing the business. They have doubled theirinventory of garments, footwear and ac-cessories, and have added a leather repair ser-vice and a custom leather crafting service.

Douglas G Pollack has joined the profes-sional staff of Edgar, Dunn & Conover Inc,which is a general management consultingfirm with headquarters in San Francisco, Cal.Douglas has also received his MBA fromStanford U. Upon graduation in '75, MichaelJ Motes joined the Marines. He is now a cap-tain, stationed with the 2nd Force ServiceSupport Group at Camp Lejeune, NC.

Mark and I are in the process of packingfor a camping trip to Disney World with our2-year-old son. We hope to stop inGainesville, Fla, to see James F Thul, who isworking with the state wildlife commission,and in Charleston, SC, to see Cindy JohnsonGiambastiani (Mrs Edward), her husband,and their 2 children. Over Labor Day, wewere visited by Carl "Buzz" Berasi and SteveAdams, both living in Columbus, Ohio. Buzzis doing his 1st yr residency in orthopedicsurgery at Doctors' Hospital. Bill and Beth

Johnson Hoffman '76 also stopped in withtheir sons. Other guests that weekend includ-ed Bill Totten '73, John Magill '73, GeorgeFastuca '74, Don Sussman '76, Karen Krin-sky '76, Dan '76 and Kathy Jones Brammel'77 and John Halloran.

Please write to me if you would like toshare your news -with the rest of us. I'd cer-tainly hate to resort to making up tall talesabout some of you for lack of any bona fideinformation!

76CLASSMATES: Susan Male Smith, 157Congress St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Please note my new address for any newsyou may have. Bob and I moved here in July.He is a marketing director for American Ex-press, and I am pursuing a master's in nutri-tion at NYU.

Marriages seem to dominate the news thismonth. Neil Halvey, MD'80 and Louise Platt(who will keep her maiden name) were mar-ried in May. Louise is working for a law firmin Manhattan; Neil, is an intern at RooseveltHospital. Harry Frisbie married Susan Hilliaron June 14. He is employed as a productioncontrol coordinator at National CashRegister in Ithaca. On June 15, PamelaMonroe married the Reverend Josiah YoungIII, a United Methodist minister. Pam, whograduated from NYU Law School, is a lawyerfor the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

Robert Dorer and Sarah Harper were alsomarried in June. Robert is a general engineerwith the Department of Transportation'sSystem Center. Sarah received a master's inspecial education from the Bank StreetSchool, and is now teaching at Shady HillSchool in Cambridge, Mass.

More graduate degrees to announce—Ab-bie Sterngass is finishing her MS in nutritionat Columbia, while employed as a renal dieti-tian at Albert Einstein Medical Center. Bon-nie Reichman received her Doctor ofMedicine from St Louis U last May.

Michele Landis Morisy and Lee invitefellow Cornellians to visit them in their newabode—a "residential resort" in Rocky Hill,Conn (5B Robinson Rd). Michele is workingfor CH Dexter, a specialty paper maker, as afinancial analyst. Lee recently finished up atChicago Med School, winning the Dean'sAward upon graduation. He's now in the 1styr of a 5-yr surgical residency at HartfordHospital.

Happy holidays and a happy new year toeveryone!

77FRIENDS: Jonathan E Samuels, 9 DogwoodLane, Lawrence, NY 11559

A hearty congratulations to Michael Fish-elson and Karen Herrmann, who were mar-ried in Riverdale last June. The happy couplewill be living out on Cold Spring Harbor,Long I si. Ralph Zingaro writes that he owns anursery business called White MountainNursery in Oyster Bay. They do landscapingand retail business. Mario Aguilar is attend-ing law school at the U of Texas at Austin,and working as a research associate with theResource Development Institute. David RWood of Newport, RI, writes, "working inthe local Agway store keeps me busy and in-volved in the agriculture industry."

Robin Waite, after a 3-yr work stint in theCaribbean, recently started a master's of in-ternational health at Johns Hopkins U. Aftermoving back East from Detroit, Mich, ToddStone is a sales coordinator for Alfa-Laval

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Inc of Fort Lee, NJ. Todd writes that SteveSandborne was recently promoted to food/beverage comptroller at Bally Inc, of AtlanticCity, NJ, and that Steve Brown marriedMicah Kramer over the Memorial Day week-end. Lynn Mandelbaum Steinberg recentlycompleted her MSW at UCLA and is current-ly employed as a clinical social worker at achild guidance center in Orange County, Cal.

Stephen Smith has entered his 2nd yr as aresident technician for Eastern AI Corp, inthe Millerton unit. Christine Scala is the assis-tant controller at the Olympic Hotel in Seat-tle, Wash. Bob Risley is studying toward anMS in computer science at SUNY, Bingham-ton. Kathey Ponkey is conference coordina-tor at the Kings Isl Inn, Kings Isl, Ohio. BillNye is employed by MARCO of Seattle,Wash, working on oil-water separators for oilfields. Bill is also captain of the OlympicWindjammers "Untimate Frisbee" team,and works as a semiprofessional comedian atThe Komedy Store in Seattle.

Evan Skillman is an astronomy graduatestudent at the U of Wash. Len and Cara Lebowitz Kagan recently became the proud pa-rents of Michelle Alexandra (8 Ibs, 8 oz); thefamily is located in their new house in DixHills. Michael C Nolan has been marketingoffice products for IBM in Wash, DC, for thepast 3 yrs, and is now pursuing an MBA atColumbia U. Mike Steiner is in his 4th yr atCornell Medical College, and in Jan will be-gin a 2-month assignment at the InternationalRescue Committee refugee camp in Aranye-prathet, Thailand, caring for displaced Cam-bodians. Anne Mayer was to be married inAug to Dan Tagatac, MS Eng '80, and was tostart her MA in food service administrationat NYU in Sept.

Romano Mascetti III is a project supervis-or for the Veterans Administration's office ofconstruction in Wash, DC. Gail Levey is anutritionist for the Coronary Detection andIntervention Center at the 92nd St YM-YWHA in NYC, nutrition editor of Vege-tarian Times magazine, as well as in privatepractice. Steven Klein accepted a position asassistant dean of students at the U of Va. BillBen is in his 2nd yr of graduate work in NearEastern studies at Princeton U. Eric Key re-ceived his MA in mathematics from Cornellin May, and is still in Ithaca, in "hot pursuit"of a thesis topic.

78FRIENDS: Sharon Palatnik, 445 E 77th St,#3K, NYC 10021

As Santa Claus would say, "Ho, ho, ho!"and "Hi" to all my friends in the Class of'78. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving,and is looking forward to a fun holiday sea-son. I wanted to personally thank those ofyou who took the time to write me with news.If you haven't seen your name yet, I haven'tforgotten about you—it's just that the vol-ume of mail has been enormous. Keep check-ing for your name in '81, though.

Laura Day has been keeping tabs on thosestill in Ithaca, and reports that Maureen Cud-dy is working on her master's in food science.Kathy Rich, presently teaching home ec inTrumansburg, is living with Laura and Mau-reen. Ann Warner and Neil Saslow are grind-ing their way through the Vet College, andScott Pickens is still eating Big Beckys in theIvy Room, which Laura says helped to pullhim through his 2nd yr of Law School. (May-be I should have tried that, Scott!)

Peter Schacknow, ex of WVBR fame, iscurrently working in the news department ofUPI Audio in NYC. Other ex-VBRers em-ployed in the radio biz are Glenn Corneliess,

a news director at WRNL in Richmond, Va,and Joel Meltzer, news director at WLOI inLaPorte, Ind. Those of you living in the NYCarea may have heard sportscaster Keith Ober-mann '79 over the WNEW-FM airwaves.Robert Weissenstein is a stockbroker withMerrill Lynch in Houston, Texas, living, ashe says, the life of an urban cowboy. In thebeautiful climate of San Diego, Cal, is Geoff-rey Boon, working as a food service managerat DO Mills Restaurant. Have any problemswith your telephone? Get in touch with Min-dy Catcher, project manager for Ma Bell inBoston, Mass. Also at Bell Telephone isSarah Thole Fischell, an engineer at theirLabs in Holmdell, NJ. Sarah and husbandDavid recently bought a new house.

Roland Foulkes is pursuing a career in in-ternational public health policy, medicineand law, and is currently in an 11-month in-ternship at the World Health Organization inGeneva, Switzerland. If you need someone toshovel your driveway this winter, call AndyGabriel, who is a financial analyst for Har-rahs Hotels in Reno, Nev. Andy finished hisMBA at UCLA in June, and says he likedLA, but misses shoveling snow.

Those still school-bound include LorraineHeffernan, attending U of Chicago BusinessSchool; Larry Scokzylas, 3rd yr student at Uof Mich Dental School; Lisa Rubin, off toHarvard for her MBA; and Sherri Miller, inyear 2 of Georgetown Law School. After 2yrs at Air Products in Allentown, Pa, GaryHolcomb, the man who manages our class'smoney so well, has finally moved on to Har-vard Business School. Also in B-school isSusan Orzech, at Wharton, and Carl Popolo,who by day is a development engineer for Na-tional Steel, and by night is an MBA studentat Mich.

Those of you waiting for the wedding an-nouncements, don't panic! Here goes. JaneTanner was married to David Couillion inApr and they are making their home in Up-state NY. Jonathan Clemente and Judy Davis'80 exchanged vows on Oct 11. Jon is in his3rd yr at Seton Hall Law School, and Judy isin the management training program at Mid-land Bank in NJ. Boston has 2 more "newly-weds": Gaby Kaufman and Don Shanin,married last Aug. Gaby is attending HarvardBusiness School, and Don is a 3rd yr studentat BU Law School. Jim Miller and PamHartz were recently married in Ithaca. Jimwill be receiving an MBA from Cornell inJune. Jim Stewart, after earning his MBA atU of Mich, married Kate Gavin, on June 21.Jim and Kate honeymooned in Ireland, whereJim reports they drank plenty of Guiness.Lorri Lofvers and George Bradley '76 said "Ido's" and currently reside in Cambridge,Mass. Working as a nutritionist for the DairyCouncil of NY is Karen Wilk Rubin, whomarried Ira on June 8.

Well, that's all the news that's fit to printfor now. My next column (Feb '81) starts my3rd yr of reporting the news to you, and Ihope you've enjoyed the reading as much asI've enjoyed the writing. Have a happy andhealthy holiday season (don't drink too manyhot toddys), and I'll see you next year!

79CLASSMATES: Elizabeth R Rakov, 185-ASalmon Brook Dr, Glastonbury, Conn 06033

Hi! Long time no see! Haven't had any re-cent news, but decided that old news was bet-ter than no news, so here is a column filledwith all the back-logged scoop!

Steve Manas is enjoying Texas Instrument

in Dallas. How was your National OutdoorLeadership School, Steve? Robin Schwarzhas continued her pursuit of the footlights byworking at American Talent International, abooking agency, which handles Dire Straits,Joni Mitchell, Todd Rundgren, etc. Jay Luft,Roberta Moloff, John Froelich, and DaveBahler are in medical school at U ofRochester. Jeff Berg is still in good oΓIthaca, with plans to work at Xerox thisspring semester. Then there's Jim Guckmanat Boston U Law School. He says to call him,(617) 353-6551. And my old friend LennyBorkan is at U of Chicago in the MBA pro-gram.

Now, Marsha Mortkowitz has been wed-ding-hopping, in between law classes in NJ.She reports being at the wedding of AliceFreyer and Matt Bonner, and was at MaryAnderson's, Mark Ochs's, and MaryMaxon's. Clarence H Reed III actually said"thanks anyway" to the Vet College. Hemoved to Columbus, Ohio, and is involvedwith animal products of Elanco. Lynne ESorensen is now a staff RN at Mass Generalin Boston. Paul Vancollas is at Princeton Uin the graduate biology program. CatherineReilly is pursuing a master's in health ad-ministration at U Mass, Amherst. EdwardStadtmauer writes that he is in U Penn MedSchool, along with Betsy Smith and RubinHersh.

Sure sounds as though Cornellians havetaken every possible region in the USA—andjof course, Myra Chow is covering the Philip-pines for us! But the East still holds a stronglure for all of us who managed to retain someenjoyment of cold weather, even after 4 yrs atCornell.

Eileen Leone is at George Washington ULaw School. Anne Updegrove retained herlove of the cold, as well as her fabulous senseof humor. She writes that while she is sellingpretzels on the corner of Arlington andBeacon in Boston, Mass, roomie FranBloksberg is taste testing mustard! RobertNioras is living a more conventional ex-istence, working for ITT-Continental BakingCo, doing research and development in Rye.(Any taste testing opportunities for Fran?)

Seth Agata has 3 more yrs at Cornell Law.(Look at it this way, Seth: the pizza in Ithacasure beats Hartford pizza, so enjoy!) KeithWamsley is getting his graduate degree inEnglish at Brown U. Jordan Lambert andAnita Schell were married Aug 18; they bothhyphenated their name, and are now Jordanand Anita Schell-Lambert. A call for visitorscomes from Will Pistalozzi, who works forTurner Construction in Phila, Pa. His homephone is (609) 783-3650; office, (215)567-7971.

Sherri Kapel is living in suburban Valhalla,attending medical school at NY Med.Marguerite Johnson enjoys Cornell's NYhospital. She's in the pediatrics department,and spends her free time walking along theAtlantic seashore and composing poetry.(Thanks for the sample.) Those of us who en-joy fine wines and spirits wish FrederickFrank good luck in the marketing career withthe House of Banfi. Just hope the "buyAmerican" trend doesn't have an impact onthe wine imports! Why not support Banfiproducts while listening to Andy and LeslieZwerling, who are singing in Manhattan.(Read about them in the Sept issue of NYRocker.)

Bill Orbe is at U of Va Law School. Bill,any update on the news you passed alongearlier? (How is Mary Ann Sanger, SUNY'79?) Terry Altobelli is in Schenectady work-ing for GE in the manufacturing managementprogram—manufacturing management, ormanaging manufacturing?

DECEMBER 1980

80CLASSMATES: Jon G Craig, 806 15th St,NW, Washington, DC 20005

I'll be here in DC for part of my graduatejournalism program until mid-Mar, when Ireturn to 1303 Judson Ave, Evanston, 111. Iwent to a Chicago Cubs game with RhondaBrauer '81, who's running things as presidentof Watermargin Coop. WatermarginiteGloria Lee of 33-12 89th St, Jackson Heights,traveled to the Far East this fall.

Janis Ettinger of 250 E 87th St, NYC, isgoing to Brooklyn Law School. Cliff Cook of6921 Ayr Lane, Bethesda, Md, traveled crosscountry with Paul Rutigliano. SusanGteenberg of 2305 Bay Area Blvd, Houston,Texas, is working for Lockheed at NASA.Coach Dick Bertrand wrote to tell me that theBig Red hockey team—which returns manyveterans from last year's national con-tender—was anxious to get onto the ice thisfall.

Bunny Jo Fulmer married David McCunein Aug. She is working toward her master'sdegree in social work at Syracuse U. KathrynM Christ of 504 Seward Sq, Wash, DC, isworking as an energy legislation analyst atBaker and Botts. Charles H Stuart of 100Fairview Sq, Ithaca, was aboard the con-tender for the America's Cup, but lost toFreedom in the finals.

A number of classmates said they missIthaca's hills, gorges, sunsets, and ice cream.

Gail L Kretzer of 93 Adams Lane, New Ca-naan, Conn, was working as a sales traineefor the Marriot Corp. She heard from SallyDoolittle, who is working at the CarltonHotel in Johannesburg, S Africa. Andre vanHall of 50 W 34th St, NYC, is director ofquality at the NY Sheraton Centre.

Brian Curtis and Jill A Lonati spent 3 wkstraveling around England. Brian of 8122 S ELake Road, Portland, Ore, is attending lawschool. Jill, of 45 E Lexington, Phoenix,Ariz, has begun a management training pro-gram for Hyatt. L Scott Foreman of 8205-CNormandy Trace Dr, Normandy, Mo, is anelectrical engineer with Emerson Electric ofSt Louis.

Holly Jander of 4601 E 18th St, Van-couver, Wash, is a production engineer withHewlett-Packard. Olev Tammer is also out inVancouver. Matthew P Moeller of 2455George Washington Way, Richland, Wash, isa scientist with Battelle Pacific NorthwestLabs. Jeffrey W Bennett of 63 Adams St,Binghamton, is an engineer with GeneralElectric. Joseph Schussler of PO Box 404,Plains, Kans, is a management trainee withDekalb. He saw Bill Hairston in Ala.

Jay A Butan is attending Tufts U School ofVeterinary Medicine. Stephen Lane is begin-ning graduate work at UCLA next month,while Donna Fremed is studying industrialrelations at U of Minn in Minneapolis. Sta-tioned in San Antonio, Texas, at Kelly AirForce Base, Jim Dake is working in opera-tions research. Daniel Dube is attending sur-face warfare officer school at San DiegoNaval Base, and then will be heading forPearl Harbor. After a field artillery officerbasic course at Ft Sill, Okla, Michael Cumm-ings is bound for S Korea; Eileen Crowley isat Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino,Cal.

Among the aspiring lawyers at GeorgetownU are Beth Sterenfield, John LoBosco, JoeSimons and Steve Hobbs; at Emory are SusanKalus and Rhonda Margolin; at Case-Western Reserve are Mike Axel, James Gossand Martin Elson. At Washington U is StacyWest; at Chicago is Gary Stern; at BU isThomas Schwab; at Stanford is Diana

Rivera; and at Mich is Thomas C Judge.Many Cornellians have begun medical

school. At SUNY, Upstate, is Gwen Korovin;at Md is Elaine Otani; at Johns Hopkins isPeter Innis; at Penn State U is Jeffrey L Et-tinger; at Rochester is Michael Totta. At NJis Michael Connolly; and at SUNY, Buffalo,are Carol Weinstein and Douglas Bates.

In Penn's chemistry department is DonnaHuryn. Susan Walter is at Wash U for socialwork. Studying plant pathology at Wise isDavid Fox, and at 111, Gail Czarnecki is con-tinuing her studies in animal science. JaneCassi is at Alfred U doing work in psych-ology; James K Firestone is studyingmeteorology at Penn State U, Robert Bartyn-ski is studying physics at U of Pa. Margaret AParker is doing graduate work in biology at Uof Mo, Columbia.

Wayne D Peterson is at business school atU of Chicago, and Nancy Koch is at lawschool there. As a recipient of a special grant,Lynne Hewitt is studying Hindi at theAmerican Institute for Indian Studies at NewDelhi.

Alumni DeathsΊO, BA Ίl—G Kennedy Imbrie of Cresskill,NJ, Aug 18, 1980. Psi Upsilon.

'12 ME—Jerome C Bishop of Muscatine,Iowa, Sept 8, 1980; retired president, IowaPearl Button Co. Seal & Serpent.

'12 ME—Ralph P Johnson of Silver Bay,NY, June 24, 1980; retired engineer. PhiGamma Delta.

'12—Willard E Wheelock of Rockville Cen-tre, NY, Aug 10, 1980; was physician.

'15 ME—William C Collyer of Palo Alto,Cal, Sept 18, 1980; retired vice president,Ingersoll-Rand Co. Zeta Psi.

'15 BS Ag, PhD '25—Stuart W Frost of LakePlacid, Fla, Jan 21, 1980.

'15 BS Ag—Benjamin R Leach of Yarley, Pa,Feb 22, 1980.

'15 BS Ag—Charles F Stansbury of Buffalo,NY, June 24, 1980.

'16 LLB—Alexander M Hamburg of BalHarbour, Fla, Sept 3, 1980; retired lawyer;was lecturer, NYU and New School for SocialResearch.

'16 DVM—Harry G Hodges of Scottsdale,Ariz, Aug 9, 1980; retired supervising vet-erinarian, Cornell Vet College Mastitis Con-trol Program, 1946-61; was consultant, De-laval Separator Co. Omega Tau Sigma.

'16 BS Ag—Henry L Morris of Ovid, NY,Sept 16, 1980; retired farmer.

'17-18 Grad—Edgar B Brossard of Salt LakeCity, Utah, Aug 23, 1980; retired chairman,US Tariff Commission; active in religious af-fairs. Alpha Zeta.

'17-18 SpAg—Laura Cowley Brossard (MrsEdgar B) of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976. Hus-band, Edgar B Brossard, Grad '17-18.

'17—Lawrence W Franzheim of Wheeling,W Va, Jan 4, 1980; was vice president anddirector, Wheeling Steel Corp. Alpha DeltaPhi.

'17 BA—Donald L Mallory of Lakeville,Conn, Sept 21, 1980; retired agent, EquitableLife Assurance Society; active in alumni af-fairs. Delta Tau Delta. (See Class of '17 col-umn.)

>18—William H Ball of Indianapolis, Ind,Sept 5, 1980; retired vice president and direc-tor, Ball Corp; former chairman, Haag DrugCo. Delta Tau Delta.

'18 BA—Henry A M Faber of Hackensack,NJ, June 30, 1980; was associated with theHanover Bank. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'18 BS Ag—Frank W Mar of Bronx, NY,July 1, 1980.

'18, BS Ag '20—Henry C Smith of Brooklyn,NY, Sept 17, 1980; founder and director,Warren St Community Center.

'19 MD—Howard R Craig of Sharon, Conn,Sept 8, 1980; physician, specializing in pedi-atrics.

'19 BA—Josephine Wicker Geddes of NYC,Aug 15, 1980; active in volunteer civic andcultural organizations.

'19 BS Ag—Samuel S Goldberg of Hollan-dale, Fla, Aug 3, 1980. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

'19—Dwight B Hendryx of Pittsburgh, Pa,May 25, 1980; chairman of the board, Hen-dryx Engineers Inc.

'20 LLB—Francis L Harris of Chicago, 111,Oct 13, 1980; was attorney, associated withBobb, Spoerri, Harris & Nagel.

'20 ME—Claude M Weinheimer of Frank-fort, Mich, Feb 17, 1980; was engineer.

'21—Albert R Gaus of Vero Beach, Fla, Jan22, 1980. Phi Sigma Kappa.

'21 CE—John B Hawley Jr of Minneapolis,Minn, June 29, 1980; president and generalmanager, Northern Ordnance Co; inventor.Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'22—Theodore B Coulter of Chico, Cal, June17, 1979.

Harry B Couse of North East, Pa, Apr 14,1980; attorney.

'22, DVM '23—William H Dohm of Roslyn,NY, Feb 1, 1980; veterinarian.

'22 BChem—Arthur E Remick of Detroit,Mich, Sept 7, 1980; professor of chemistry,emeritus, Wayne State U. Kappa Phi.

'22—Charles J Wahl of Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept12, 1980; was associated with Mellon Nation-al Bank and Trust Co.

'23 BA—Albert E Conradis of LongboatKey, Fla, formerly of Washington, DC, Sept24, 1980; retired chief of legal review staff,Federal Home Loan Bank Board; was law-yer; active in alumni affairs. Kappa DeltaRho.

'23, ME '24—Kenneth L Fitts of Plainfield,NJ, June 13, 1980; was associated with MackMotor Truck Co. Sigma Nu.

'24 BA—Katherine O'Brien Embser (MrsWalter) of Wellsville, NY, July 29, 1980.

'24 MA—Frieda B Knoepfle of Chicago, 111,May 8, 1980.

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'24 ME—Carlman M Rinck of Lawrence-ville, NJ, Jan 13, 1980; was chief engineer,Trenton Potteries Co. Theta Chi.

'25 ME—Lester F Bourgarde of York, Pa,July 16, 1980; was chief engineer, York IceMachinery Corp. Wife, Bess (Strine) '25.

'25 SpAg—Elmer J Woodams of Trumans-burg, NY, Sept 15, 1980; retired high schoolindustrial arts teacher.

'26 ME—Edward W Friend of Orchard Park,NY, Aug 22, 1980. Wife, Katherine (Serio)'24.

'26—Samuel V Gilbert of Pleasanton, Cal,Aug 25, 1980; was market analyst.

'26 BA—Richard C Wadsworth of Bangor,Me, Sept 8, 1980; physician; retired director,Eastern Maine General Hospital laboratories;was professor, Tufts Medical School. KappaSigma.

'27 CE—Benjamin C Fowlkes of Salisbury,Md, 1979; was colonel, US Army.

'27, CE '28—Harold E Kunsch of Baltimore,Md, July 22, 1980; structural engineer,Walter Kidde Co.

'27 MD—Anna R Schults of Bricktown, NJ,May 26, 1980; physician; was cancer re-searcher, Princeton U.

'27 MA, PhD '31—John V Shankweiler ofAllentown, Pa, May 25, 1980; professor ofbiology, emeritus, Muhlenberg College.

'27, BLA '29—George Siebenthaler of Day-ton, Ohio, Aug 7, 1980; director and retiredvice president, Siebenthaler Co nurseries.

'27 BA—Sara Johnson Springer (Mrs Nor-man A) of Upland, Cal, May 18, 1980. AlphaOmicron Pi.

'28, ME '29—Lewis R Gardner of Norfolk,Va, Aug 22, 1980. Sigma Phi Sigma.

'28 MD—I Dorothea Lemcke of Summit,NJ, May 29, 1980; physician.

'28, BChem '29—James M Veeder of Pitts-burgh, Pa, Apr 7, 1980; was chemicalengineer, Koppers Co. Kappa Alpha.

'28 MD—Isidore C Zuckerman of Brooklyn,NY, Aug 16, 1980; physician.

'29 BA—R Sylvia Bamberger Feldman (MrsSam) of NYC, Sept 7, 1980; was case worker,NYC Department of Child Welfare.

'29 BS Ag—Bernard E Harkness of Geneva,NY, Sept 18, 1980; retired plant taxonomist,Monroe County Department of Parks andRecreation. Alpha Zeta.

'29 BA—Leon Zussman of NYC, Sept 6,1980; physician, specializing in ob-gyn andsexology, Mt Sinai Hospital; was co-director,Human Sexuality Center, Long Isl Jewish-Hillside Medical Center. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'30 BS Ag—Blinn S Cushman Jr of Sarasota,Fla, Sept 19, 1980; retired general personnelsupervisor, NY Telephone Co. Alpha TauOmega.

'30—Thad Minninger of Longboat Key, Fla,Sept 26, 1980; was president, Aviation Ser-vices Insurance Inc.

'30, BS Ag '31—Morris R Nichols ofSalisbury, Md, Sept 4, 1980; retired soil con-servationist, US Department of Ag. AlphaSigma Phi.

'31 BS Ag—George J Dinsmore of Auburn,NY, July 4, 1980; was vocational agricultureteacher. Alpha Gamma Rho.

'31 CE—Edward J Kreusser of Brooklyn,NY, Aug 21, 1980; physician, specializing inob-gyn. Sigma Pi.

'32 BS Ag—James E Rose of Waverly, Ohio,Oct 8, 1980; was manager, Wisconsin Coop-erative Farm Supply Co; was supervisor,GLF Farm Supplies Warehousing. AlphaZeta. Wife, Velva (Lamb) '32.

'33 BA—Helen Booth DeLill (Mrs Earl R) ofMesa, Ariz, Sept 12, 1980; active in alumniaffairs.

'33 PhD—Eugene Wainer of Shaker Heights,Ohio, Apr 27, 1980; founder, chairman ofthe board, and corporate director, HorizonsResearch Inc; discoverer of process for in-dustrial use of non-silver film.

'35 PhD—Flemmie P Kittrell of Gloucester,Va, Oct 1, 1980; professor of home econom-ics, emeritus, Howard U; former dean ofwomen, director of home economics, Hamp-ton Inst, Va. Omicron Nu.

'35 BS Ag—Edward G Ratkoski of Ithaca,NY, Sept 25, 1980; retired assistant trackcoach, Cornell U.

'36 CE—John F McManus of Ithaca, NY,Oct 3, 1980; associate dean, Engineering,Cornell U.

'37 BChem—Gerald H Weierbach of Lan-caster, Pa, Apr 12, 1975; was corporate presi-dent, Best Made Silk Hosiery Co. Zeta Psi.

'39 PhD—Barney Korchin of Elkins Park,Pa, Sept 21, 1980; was psychiatric researcher.

'42—Frederick E Hawkins of Ambler, Pa,July 28, 1980; was chemical engineer, Cer-tainTeed Corp.

'42 DVM—Richard Saunders of Canan-daigua, NY, Aug 21, 1980.

'43—Leslie Nesson DeLynn of NYC, Sept 10,1980.

'44, DVM '43—John I Vail of Bristol, Conn,Sept 7, 1980; veterinarian.

'45, BA '49—Leon M Chacona of Ithaca,NY, Aug 29, 1980; retired junior high schoolsocial studies teacher. Wife, Amanda(Eslaimen) '48.

'46 PhD—Ottilie R Inman of Galesburg, 111,July 24, 1980.

'48 BS HE—Janet G Reas of AltamonteSprings, Fla, Sept 19, 1980; was dietitian.

'49 BA—William R Root Jr of Saranac Lake,NY, Feb 29, 1980.

'50 BS ILR—Hugh D Leenhouts of Albu-querque, NM, May 21, 1980.

'51 BS HE—Therese Geherin Requardt ofBaltimore, Md, Sept 13, 1980; former alumnisecretary, Office of Alumni Affairs, Cornell.Pi Beta Phi. (See "Also," Nov issue.)

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'52, BChem '53—Clifford H Dunn of De-troit, Mich, Jan 14, 1979; was chemical engi-neer, Procter & Gamble Co. Sigma Chi.

'54 BA—William C Bates Jr of Sag Harbor,NY, Aug 21, 1980; attorney. Lambda ChiAlpha.

'54—Jo Ann Posner Berrol (Mrs Monroe) ofNew Rochelle, NY, Feb 13, 1973.

'55 BS Hotel—Dwight J Adams of Gaithers-burg, Md, July 24, 1980; manager, BrettonWoods Recreation Center; was assistantadministrator, New Rochelle, NY, MedicalCenter; retired lieutenant commander, USNaval Medical Service Corps.

'56 MD—William H Austin of Bangor, Me,May 26, 1979.

'57 BA—Gerald L Weiss of Hewlett BayPark, NY, Aug 12, 1980; physician, specializ-ing in urology, Peninsula Hospital Center.

'61 BA, JD '71, MBA '72—David F Craverof Alexandria, Va, Aug 4, 1980; major, USArmy.

'65 BS Ag—Glenn F Litchfield of GreatNeck, NY, Aug 14, 1980; was lieutenant, USMarine Corps. Airplane accident.

'71 BS Ag, DVM '77—Steven C Loiocano ofFredonia, NY, July 9, 1980; veterinarian.

'72 BA—John H Horton of Mechanicsburg,Pa, June 21, 1980. Chi Phi.

'77 MBA—Stanley J Braun of NYC, Jan 30,1980.

'77 BS HE—Rochelle M Rosenberg ofBoston, Mass, June 25, 1980.

'78 BS Hotel—Gerald J Donaldson of End-well, NY, Sept 13, 1980.

'80 Grad—Kersasp R Anjirbag of Bombay,India, Sept 7, 1980; student in Engineering.

'81—Michael J Caruso of Waterford, NY,Aug 15, 1980; student in Division of Unclass-ified Students.

'81—James F Soha of Plymouth, Pa, Sept21, 1980; student in Arts. Phi Kappa Tau.

'82—Barry A Davis of Brooklyn, NY, Sept 6,1980; student in Arts. Acacia. Automobileaccident.

'84—Dania B S Bulkind of Tel Aviv, Israel,Sept 21, 1980; student in Ag.

DECEMBER 1980

Alumni Activities

Reunited in ChinaWhen Americans stroll the streets in Chinatoday, native Chinese stare. They recognizethe westerners immediately as the "big-nosed, white devils"—the "imperialists" ofthe days before Communists took over thegovernment of China in 1949, the "capitalistenemies" of the harsh Cultural Revolutionthat swept China in the late 1960s.

Today, however, Chinese stare and smile.Any who speak English, which many havelearned over the radio, also introduce them-selves. Americans are no longer the enemy;they are now newfound friends.

The thirty-five members of the first CornellAdult University study tour in China thissummer became part of this growing rapport.They renewed ties with some of the thousandsof Chinese who have attended Cornell duringthis century.

Louis Yen '24 and an American soldier,Lee Hill '49, met originally in a stamp shop inShanghai in the fall of 1945. Both collectedstamps and both loved Cornell; they becameclose friends. After Hill returned home fromthe service later that year, the two corre-sponded. Then the Cultural Revolution inter-rupted their communications for years. At abanquet in Tientsin this summer, Lee Hilland Louis Yen met for the first time since thewar.

The tale of these two friends reflects thepath of Chinese-American relations. Duringthe Cultural Revolution, says Yen, "I wasafraid to write to anyone." "No one told menot to write; they didn't have to," he saysslowly, cautiously. Yen is not loquacious; in-deed, in China, few live to age 83 by speakingtoo freely.

He sat at the banquet, the center of atten-tion. His close cropped hair and loosely fit-ting Mao suit tell of the Taoist flexibility thathas permitted him to survive through the tu-multuous' fits and starts of Chinese life since1949.

During the Cultural Revolution, the youngRed Guard broke into his house and drovehim away. They accused him of three offen-ses—being educated at Cornell, being presi-dent of the Tientsin Rotary Club, and joiningthe Free Mason Lodge. He was guilty of allthree.

Yen had already retired, but he lost hishouse, and the young revolutionaries confis-cated all his possessions—his Cornell year-book, his extensive stamp collection, his fam-ily chops (seals), his picture album.

For years he was afraid to write, but when,after Mao's death, the government returnedsome of his stamps, he sensed a new wind. Intime he wrote to the Cornell Alumni Associa-tion in Ithaca. Coincidentally, Lee Hill wasplanning to join Adult University's first tourto China to find his old friend.

Yen came to the banquet with his grand-daughter, who hopes to attend Cornell nextyear. He brought a gift of Chinese craftworkfor each member in the touring group andspoke of his feelings: The patriarch said ofHill, "This is my firs^t American friend tocome to visit me in China; I am happy." Hesmiled, looked around, and added,"Now Ihave many American friends. Maybe one ofyou will come back to visit me."

The prospect of more visits from AmericanCornellians during the next few years wouldbe great even without the Adult Universitytour. Since 1900, about 3,500 Chinese havebeen graduated from Cornell, most beforeWorld War II. China received early fruitsfrom its Cornell connections: Hu Shih '14was leader in development of the modernChinese language. Cornell conducted the firstagricultural Plant Improvement Program inChina from 1924 to 1931, at the University ofNanking.

Cornell has also long benefited from itslarge Chinese constituency and contactswhich have nourished one of the leading Far

Adult University group visits the ImperialPalace in Peking during CA U's first studytour to China, above, and Hsing Wang,PhD '40 leads a CA U group in tai chi exer-cise at 6 a.m. outside its hotel in Shanghai.Identifiable are, in the first row, from left,Myles Akabas '77, Tom Simmons '56, andLee Hill '49; and second row, George Bal-lentine, MD '34, Miriam Akabas '82, andDr. Sidney Tamarin '30.

Eastern Studies departments in the US. Eachyear some 1,000 students study in the morethan 100 courses offered by the department.Cornell has pioneered with its full-year inten-sive Chinese language program. FALCON—the Full-Year Asian Language Concentra-tion—has grown to support itself financially,a rarity in the academic world. One of theprogram's founders, Prof. John McCoy,PhD '66, was a leader of last summer's Chinatour.

The Adult University tour culminated ayear in which Cornell and China reestab-lished their old ties. The Hotel school reachedout to provide training in the US for Chinesewho are to lead a rebirth of their country'stourist business. The Agriculture college re-newed ties with what is now Nanjing Agricul-tural College. In early summer, PresidentFrank Rhodes and a delegation of Cornell ad-ministrators and faculty toured China andreached agreements for educational and re-search exchanges with mainland institutions.

By the time the Cornellians on the AdultUniversity tour arrived, Chinese alumni inthe country's major cities had arranged a var-iety of receptions.

In Peking a group of Chinese Cornelliansheld a banquet for the traveling Americans.After the feast, half the group left for thePeople's Opera, while the other half stayed tomeet the deputy minister of agriculture, YangHsien Tong, PhD '37, a graduate of the Agri-culture college.

The deputy minister, a short energetic manin his 70s, burst into the room and launcheda round of enthusiastic handshaking. "Hewalked in," said Sharon Freedman, one ofthe Americans, "saw all the people, and said,

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'we must go to my house.' " Later, theopera-goers were disappointed to learn of thereception they missed.

Yang lives comfortably compared to mostChinese, who live with a family unit in aroom ten feet square without private bath orkitchen. The deputy minister lives with hiswife, his daughter and her husband and child,in an apartment with a large living room, twobedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

In fact most of the Chinese Cornell alumni,despite setbacks during the Cultural Revolu-tion, have done well in China. They occupyprofessional positions, and most have man-aged to send their children and grandchildrento college in a country where less than 1 percent of the population reaches that level ofeducation.

After a traditional Chinese tea, Yang'sdaughter, a concert pianist, played for thegroup. Her performance turned into a song-fest, which ended in the whole party singingthe Alma Mater. ''Everybody sang with thishypnotic look," recalls Ms. Freedman."They all knew the words, and you could seethose memories passing in their eyes."

In Shanghai, alumni of that city sponsoreda banquet in one of the major downtown ho-tels, on its fourteenth floor, one of the high-est points around. In a lounge surrounded onthree sides by glass, tourists and residentsgathered for cocktails, watched the sun setover the sprawling city, and talked Cornell.

The Chinese wanted news of their oldschool, and in exchange patiently answeredendless questions from Americans whose cu-riosity about this faraway place turned theminto gradeschoolers at their first geographylesson.

The Americans' hopes of hearing personalaccounts of recent Chinese history were ful-filled: The alumni present had experiencedthe wide swings in public policy since theCommunist ascension in 1949. One, WilliamK.S. Hu, who was graduated from Cornell in1937 with a degree in civil engineering,returned to China and prospered as an archi-tect. After 1949 he continued to design build-ings, but differently. "No one received creditfor any of the work," he said. "It was what

Reunited: American and Chinese alumnigather at a banquet in Shanghai around thecity deputy mayor, Chao Tsu Kang, Grad'30, at center in the dark suit.

was called 'mass-work,' the product of all thepeople."

During the Cultural Revolution, Commu-nist ideologues decided that even mass-workin design was too generous for someoneeducated in the United States. Hu spent theyears during the Cultural Revolution cleaningpublic latrines.

"With all they had been through," com-mented one American, "I guess the mostamazing thing about the Chinese Cornellianswas that they preserved their fondness forCornell without any bitterness at the hardshipit had caused them."

The official Chinese policy now encouragesChinese graduates of American schools to re-sume their old contacts. The governmenthopes these connections will foster China'sacquisition of technology. Because of Cor-nell's past connections with China, it becamea prime target of the new campaign to win thehearts of American academics. (On PresidentRhodes's trip earlier in the summer, he signedan exchange agreement with the ChineseAcademy of Sciences—the first such agree-ment between an American university and theacademy.)

The Shanghai banquet for alumni reflectedthe new policy. Chao Tsu Kang, Grad '30,deputy mayor of the city, presided. He meteach person in the group and offered a for-mal toast from the head table. He extendedgreetings, and concluded with a salute to "allpresent and prosperous days of our AlmaMater, Cornell."

Between the greeting and salute, however,he spoke of business: "Since the [1949Communist] liberation our country has madegreat progress in industry, trade, interna-tional trade, science and technology, publicaffairs, and public works, and yet we have agreat way to go." He went on to say he hopedthe gathering would promote mutualunderstanding between the peoples of Chinaand America.

The feast was lavish, with attention paid todetail. At each place a cotton napkin hadbeen folded in the shape of a bird or a flower.In the center of each table lay a peacock,sculpted from fresh cut vegetables, carvedsquash, and molded wheat gluten.

Dinner started with a serving from the pea-cock platter, which disappeared with a flashof chopsticks. They were followed by a suc-cession of other dishes from indefatigable

Chinese chefs. At meal's end the chefs ap-peared and were greeted with a prolongedstanding ovation.

The visiting alumni found themselves of-fering similar ovations later on the tour; atevery turn some new Chinese group over-whelmed them with its enthusiastic welcome.Good will spread among hosts and visitors.Henrietta Hillman '47, another Americanparticipant, suggested the good cheer "wentbeyond the Cornell connection just becauseof the way Chinese feel about Americansnow."

Americans convey a feeling of opennessthat pleases Chinese people, particularlythose who remember the somber cynicism ofthe Russians, who dominated the foreign in-tercourse until 1958. "They were so serious,"recalled Louis Yen, "I didn't have much todo with them. No, I kept away. All China'speople hate the Russians."

While individual Chinese and Americansare making friends, the Chinese governmenthas also taken a role in the changing attitudetoward Americans. It has stopped callingthem the capitalist enemy. It has startedteaching English over the radio. In SeptemberChina signed its first comprehensive tradeagreement with the US, and it is looking in-creasingly toward the capitalist world for newtechnology and financing. It is even rumoredthat the Chinese are negotiating to bringMcDonalds into the Communist market.

The Americans next visited Nanking Uni-versity. Tour leaders from the university ap-parently asked for volunteers to guide the vis-itors around the school. They worried aboutnot having enough guides because the schoolwas not in session, but volunteers came inflocks, two for each American. They wantedto practice their English, hear about theWest, and make their guests feel welcome. Afew brought their American charges to theirdormitory rooms, small quarters crammedwith eight bunk beds, to share fruit or tea.

Another group of Chinese who made thevisiting alumni feel particularly welcome werethe graduates of special programs run forChinese recently at the Cornell Hotel school.These graduates were in nearly every majortourist city in China, and opened their hotelsand restaurants to the touring Cornellians.

Part of China's plan to acquire foreign cur-rency, with which to pay for its new technolo-gy and capital plant, includes beefing up its

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tourist industry. Tourist facilities in Chinabulge with Americans and Japanese duringthe summer. Work brigades are constructingnew hotels in the main cities of China, manyof which will be managed by the people newlytrained at Cornell.

In Kweilin, the artistic center of the hazymountains so often portrayed in Easternpainting, the manager of the largest hotel hadjust returned from Cornell, and he put on abanquet for the Cornell tour. The meal beganwith fresh cut vegetables topped with astrange sauce. Then came fried string beansand pork hamburgers, midway in size andshape between a Whopper and a meatball.

None of the restaurants in the trip beforethen had served any dishes like these, and anuneasy expectancy hung over the group aboutwhat would emerge from the kitchen next.French fried potatoes. Stella Lau Fessler, aChinese linguistics professor at Cornell wholed the group with her husband John McCoyand CAU's G Michael McHugh '50, ex-plained that the hosts were trying very hard tofeed the Americans what Americans quaAmericans were supposed to want.

Sponge cake topped with an inch of buttercream icing seemed to end the meal, but din-ers got a final lift from platters of steamy hot,fresh baked bread. Having come 12,000 milesto learn about Chinese customs of dining andetiquette, the group instead look a lesson inChinese beliefs about American customs ofdining and etiquette. A standing ovation wasdelivered to the smiling chef.

A most impressive expression of friendshipfollowed the Shanghai banquet; one of theChinese alumni offered to lead the ath-letically inclined tourists in tai chi exercises.Tai chi is a mix of dance and martial arts thatserves as a therapy for arthritis and heartdisease and as a standard exercise for themasses. Six o'clock the next morning was theonly time to fit the routine into the busyschedule, so just after dawn, Hsing Wang,PhD '40 was waiting at the gates of the hotel.For half an hour the 69-year-old engineer ledtwenty Americans through paces that left thefittest of them stiff, but now very wideawake.

The following day a whole delegation ofthe Shanghai alumni waited at the gate from5:30 to 6:30 a.m. to be certain not to miss thedeparture and attendant goodbyes.

At left, President Rhodes on the Great Wallof China during his trip this summer, andbelow, with members of the Cornell Clubof London when he visited them later in histrip abroad. From left are Michael Kreisky'67, Gary Busch '61, William Hall '33,President Rhodes, Club President GeorgeBryon '30, Jeremy Hunt '56, and WilliamWesson '51.

That early morning farewell was on touringalumna Hillman's mind when she remarkedon the evident enthusiasm of the host alumni:"I never even felt about Cornell the way theyfelt about the school."

—Seth Akabas

The writer made the trip with his parents,Aaron and Sheila Epstein Akabas '51,brother Myles '77, and sister Miriam '82.

Fund Over the TopWith more than a little fanfare, the Office ofUniversity Development announced that theCornell Campaign exceeded its goal of $230million, two and a half months ahead ofschedule. On October 17, before the annualjoint meeting of the Board of Trustees andthe University Council, Jansen Noyes Jr '39,campaign chairman and chairman of theboard, reported the Campaign total reached$231.2 million. Describing the progress of the5-year fundraising effort, Noyes said 1977was the turning point, after a disappointingstart. As of the end of 1977, the Campaignstood at $82.4 million; close to $149 millionwas raised in the following 34 months.

Austin H Kiplinger '39, chairman of theboard's development advisory committee,urged campaign efforts to continue. He saidhe expects "momentum will carry us to evengreater heights by year-end," the official con-clusion of the Campaign. University presi-dent Frank HT Rhodes thanked all whoworked for the success of the fundraisingproject, and said he would refrain from an-nouncing a "supergoal." But, he added, hefelt a total of $250 million by the end of theyear would provide a certain "symmetry."

The money raised during the Campaignwill be or has been used for new endowedprofessorships, program enrichment, andnew facilities, including biological sciencebuildings, a new building for submicron re-search, renovation of several buildings in theArts College, enlargement of Gannett Clinic,new artificial turf on Schoellkopf Field, andan addition to Uris Library.

Several record-breaking contributions fromthe class campaigns helped the Cornell Cam-paign on its way toward its goal. In 1980, theClass of 1922 became the second Two MillionDollar Class, and the Class of 1950 becamethe third. Million Dollar Class status wasreached by the Classes of 1925, 1930, 1941,1949, and 1953.

Dudley N Schoales '29 has made a bequest ofmore than $2.5 million to the university forthe establishment of a fund to provide "seedmoney" for Engineering College projects.The fund, called the Schoales-de Lesseps Pro-jects Initiation Fund, in honor of Schoalesand his wife Tauni (de Lesseps), will be usedto sponsor new research and teaching activi-ties in Engineering which might otherwise bedelayed for lack of funding.

A former managing partner and now anadvisory director at the investment firm ofMorgan Stanley, Schoales is a specialist inAustralian gas and oil exploration. QueenElizabeth II recognized his service to Aus-tralia with the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977and the Order of Australia in 1980. Schoalesserved as a university trustee from 1966-71,was executive vice chairman of the $73.2million Centennial Campaign, and has been amember of the Engineering Advisory Councilsince 1968.

An anonymous gift of $1 million received inlate September marked the first major steptoward construction of a new performing artscenter for the university, to cost an estimated$10 million. Theater arts department chair-man Richard C Shank said the department is"ecstatic" about the gift. "Students and fac-ulty work under horrendous circumstances,"he said. "We are almost the only major the-ater department in the country without itsown performing space. And visitors to the de-partment have said our facilities are probablythe most dilapidated in the country. We arewaiting for the day when Cornell will have adecent theater," he said. An advisory com-mittee of alumni and friends, led by AustinKiplinger, is coordinating the work of plan-ning and raising funds for the center. Com-mittee vice chairman is Gordon Davidson'55, artistic director of the Mark TaperForum in Los Angeles, Cal, and director ofBroadway's Children of a Lesser God.

Kiplinger said every possible site is beingexamined. "We were originally looking at ex-panding existing facilities such as the WillardStraight theater, but that doesn't expandteaching and rehearsal space," Kiplinger ex-plained. The most promising site seems to beuniversity property at the northern tip of Col-legetown, near Cascadilla Hall. The newbuilding will probably occupy 74,000 squarefeet, and will include a central theater for 600to 800 people, and an experimental theaterfor 200 to 300. It will also contain facilitiesfor dance, cinema, and music departments,with dance and drama studios, film teachinglaboratories, and administrative office space.The performing arts center would be used forall Cornell productions, as well as travelingtheater, music, and dance companies, "en-hancing the cultural scene for the entire com-munity," Shank said.

The Continental Group Foundation of Stam-ford, Conn, has made a $500,000 pledge tothe university in honor of Continental'schairman and former chief executive officerRobert S Hatfield '37. The gift will endow the

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Hatfield Fund for Economic Education,which will support the Cornell CorporateForum and faculty projects in economic in-struction and research. The corporate forum,scheduled to start in April 1981, is expectedto become a major annual event, at which anational business leader will meet with stu-dents and faculty to promote exchange ofideas between academic and corporate com-munities.

Hatfield, a member of the university Boardof Trustees, joined Continental Can as a salestrainee after graduation. Since 1960, he hasbeen an officer of the Continental Group,and a director of the company since/1967.Under his leadership, Continental expandedits business to include forest products/insur-ance, and energy resources, as well as its tra-ditional packaging business. Hatfield said heexpects to retire from his major responsibili-ties at Continental by the end of the year, butwill remain an active supporter of the univer-sity. He has served with Robert Engel '53 asco-chairman of the National Corporate GiftsCommittee of the Cornell Campaign, and re-cently was elected president and chief execu-tive officer of the Board of Governors of NYHospital/Cornell Medical Center.

The China-Japan program, directed by ProfTJ Pempel, government, has received a giftof approximately $150,000 in stocks from theStarr Foundation of NYC to endow a schol-arship fund. Proceeds from 2,000 shares ofAmerican International Group Stock will beawarded annually to undergraduate and firstyear graduate students majoring in the pro-gram's areas of study. The China-Japan pro-gram includes 24 professors and a supportingstaff of librarians and language instructors;more than 100 courses with about 1,000 en-rollments are offered in language, history,philosophy, literature, art, and society.

In the News"When I went to my local priest at Cornelland to the bishop to declare my intentions,women couldn't be ordained 'legally,' so Iasked to enter the seminary on faith," saidthe Rev Pamela Cottrell Shier '74 about herdecision to enter religious service. "I hadbeen attracted to the ministry—or at leastsome kind of service vocation—ever since Iwas 6 or 7 years old. Those first stirringscame when we were members of St Luke's(Episcopal) Church at Marietta, Ohio. But itstayed dormant for a long while," until "the'flash of light' came" when she was a seniorin college. Shier attended the Episcopal Di-vinity School at Cambridge, Mass, and hasrecently assumed a position as chaplain atWest Virginia U Hospital. "I work closelywith nurses and doctors as part of the healthcare team and get positive feedback fromthem." she explained. "Sometimes I've beencalled in, in place of a psychiatrist, to findout why a patient is acting in a particularway. Community worship with a congrega-tion is important, but the fulltime parish min-istry is something I've never been called to.Mine is more a one-on-one health care type ofministry, a crisis ministry."

Irving Westheimer '01, founder of the inter-national Big Brother organization, celebratedhis 101st birthday on September 20 at hishome in Cincinnati, Ohio. He said he feels"just the same as if I were 81. I haven't anache or pain. Snow is on my head, but sun-shine and children are in my heart."

Gert HW Schmidt '38, vice president of the

Harte-Hanks Television Group and chairmanof the board of WTLV (TV), Jacksonville,Fla, was the subject of a recent profile inBroadcasting magazine. The article tells ofSchmidt's unplanned entrance into thebroadcasting business, after becoming astockholder in one of the corporations thatbought a television station in Jacksonville.Schmidt was active as an investor, and initiat-ed and won several law suits against the Fed-eral Communications Commission. Heplayed a key role in the successful merger ofseveral local television stations into theHarte-Hanks Group. Schmidt also is a trusteeof the National Association of Broadcasters'Television and Radio Political ActionCommittee.

"I don't have the clients I used to have, but Ihave all I can handle," said Gardner Bullis,LLB '08, in an interview in the San Jose, Cal,Mercury. At 93, Bullis is one of the oldestpracticing lawyers in California, working 40hours a week at his Los Altos office. "It'ssatisfying to have this place to come to and Ican pretend I'm busy," he said. "If I just satat home, I don't know what would happen tome." From 1909-14, Bullis practiced law inwestern NY State. After moving to Californiain 1914, he ran a natural gas distributioncompany for several years, then in 1947, setup his present practice. Bullis was city attor-ney for both Los Altos and Los Altos Hills inthe 1950s; a local school was named for him,honoring his community service. He attri-butes his longevity to remaining active, anddrinking "one ounce, and no more than oneounce, of bourbon and water a day."

Academic Delegates

Prof Jennie Towle Farley '54, industrial andlabor relations, at the inauguration of thepresident of Wells College, Oct 4.

Ernest L Stern '56, at the inauguration of thepresident of Hunter College, Oct 8.

James B Smith '31, at the inauguration of thepresident of the U of NH, Oct 20.

Gregory Sethness '68, at the convocation ofthe Incarnate Word College, San Antonio,Texas, Oct 23.

Willard Van Hazel Jr '55, LLB '61, at the in-auguration of the president of Bemidji StateU, Oct 31.

Stephen A Ras '63, at the inauguration of thepresident of Schenectady County CommunityCollege, Nov 1.

G Ruhland Rebmann Jr '19, at the convoca-tion, Immaculata College, Immaculata, Pa,Nov 9.

With the CollegesLester B Knight '29, chairman and presidentof Knight & Associates, a Chicago-based in-ternational management consulting and arch-itecture/engineering/planning firm was hon-ored with the Engineering Award for his con-tributions to the advancement of engineeringstudies. The award, given for outstandingservice to the university, was presented byEngineering Dean Thomas E Everhart.Knight helped develop a combined 6-year en-gineering and management curriculum lead-ing to a master's in both engineering and bus-iness administration. Three years ago, he es-

tablished a $1 million fund to provide schol-arships to 10 new students each year.

Peter Cusack '56, vice president, personnel,for the American Broadcasting Co, has beenpresented with Industrial and Labor Rela-tion's most prestigious alumni award. TheJudge William B Groat award is given an-nually to an alumnus who has distinguishedhimself in the field of industrial and labor re-lations. Since 1974, Cusack has worked forABC, where he has corporate-wide responsi-bility for all personnel functions. Before that,he was staff vice president for Pan AmericanWorld Airlines, corporate director of person-nel for Ciba-Geigy Corp, and held variouspositions in labor relations and personnelwith Borden Inc.

Graduate AlumniProf Laurence H MacDaniels, PhD '17, flori-culture and ornamental horticulture, emeri-tus, has been awarded the Lyttel Lily Cup for1980 from the Royal Horticultural Society ofLondon, England. The award, given to onlytwo US scientists before now, honors re-searchers who have contributed significantlyto the advancement of knowledge on breed-ing and cultivation of garden lilies. Mac-Daniels, an internationally known horticul-turalist, retired in 1956, after 44 years at theuniversity. He served as head of Floricultureand Ornamental Horticulture in Ag collegefor 16 years.

Madeline Frink Coutant, MS '35 was one offour people honored with the Elmira CollegeDistinguished Achievement Award for 1980.She recently was named advisory commis-sioner on the Education Commission of theStates, and has represented the American As-sociation for Gifted Children at the commis-sion for several years, organizing efforts ofthe states to increase opportunities of thegifted and talented youth.

Alan Schneider, MA '41, who was to direct anew Broadway play, To Grandmother'sHouse We Go, starring Eva LeGallienne andKim Hunter, was forced to withdraw fromthe production in September because of ill-ness.

K Roald Bergethon, PhD '45, has been elec-ted vice chairman of the Economic Develop-ment Council of NYC. He served as presidentof Lafayette College from 1958-78; duringthe past year he was interim chief executiveand consultant at Bloomfield College. Berge-thon taught at Brown U for 12 years beforeassuming the presidency of Lafayette, andhas been a member of the board of AmericanHome Products Corp since 1974.

Mohammad Afzal, PhD '67 is adviser to thepresident of Pakistan on higher education,and is chairman of the university grants com-mission at Islamabad.

Joseph Holland, MA '75 has been awarded aFulbright Fellowship to teach English as asecond language in Chalon-Sur-Saone,France, for the 1980-81 year. His grant issponsored by the Teacher Exchange Divisionof the US Department of Education. Hollandhas been teaching French in the RancocasValley Regional High School District inMount Holley, NJ, since 1976.

The US Air Force has named Brig GenGeorge W Frimpter, MD '52 mobilization as-sistant to the deputy surgeon general. Frimp-

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Morgan Guaranty Trust Co has appointedCarl E Hathaway, MBA '59 vice chairman ofthe trust and investment committee.

At the annual meeting of the American Soci-ety of Animal Science held on campus in Ju-ly, Jerome H Maner, PhD '61, was presentedwith the 1980 Award in International AnimalAgriculture. Maner, a specialist in tropicalswine production, has been director of theRockefeller Foundation program at the Fed-eral U of Bahia in El Salvador.

Roger Sayers, PhD '64 has been named act-ing vice president for academic affairs at theU of Alabama. He joined the faculty in 1963as a professor of biology, and served as direc-tor of the university Arboretum, acting headof the biology department, assistant dean inthe College of Arts and Sciences, dean of aca-demic development, and acting dean of theSchool of Communication.

Robert W Shively, PhD '72, professor at theBabcock Graduate School of Management atWake Forest U, NC, has been named directorof the U of Puget Sound School of Businessand Public Administration.

The Lehman Fund, a philanthropic organiza-tion which supports black students, has pub-lished a booklet called "Releasing Their Tal-ents," which spotlights many of the recipi-ents of Lehman grants. An article about EarlJ Blanks, MBA '74, reads in part, 'The sev-enth child in a family of ten, Earl wrote whilestill in college: 'My father worked as a com-mon laborer at the Cotton Belt RailwayShops in Pine Bluff, Ark. He was also a parttime carpenter. Every Saturday my brotherand I, along with my father, would collectgarbage and do other jobs to bring in extraincome. Almost all of the food we ate wasraised on the land we lived on. I have had realparents. My father's and mother's educationstopped in eighth grade. But my father hasstressed education and work for as long as Ican remember. All my older brothers and sis-ters have had the opportunity and push to getan education or some kind of vocationalskill.' " Blanks is now product manager forPrell Shampoo, at Procter & Gamble, withresponsibility for packaging, advertising, anddistribution.

John C Seal, MPA '74 has been appointeddeputy assistant secretary for evaluation andprogram management in the new US Depart-ment of Education's Office of Management.He will be responsible for program evalua-tion, management analysis, quality assur-ance, organizational development, informa-tion collection management, and other pro-gram-related administrative activities. Hewas a program analyst with the university Of-fice of Scholarships and Financial Aid from1973-74.

Profs Frederick Davies, PhD '78, and AlanLasko, pomology and viticulture at the NYState Agricultural Experiment Station, Gene-

va, were presented with the Gourley Awardfor 1980 from the American Society for Hor-ticultural Science. The award is for the bestresearch paper in the field of pomology. Thework for the paper, "Water Stress Responsesof Apple Trees," was part of Davies's doc-toral studies, supervised by Lasko.

Paul C Berg, PhD '53, professor in the Col-lege of Education at the U of South Carolina,was named the Swearingen professor of edu-cation. He held the Gambrell chair in the col-lege, 1968-73.

Prof John I Miller, PhD '36, animal science,emeritus was elected a fellow of the AmericanSociety of Animal Science, at the society'sannual meeting in July on campus. Millerserved as president of the society in 1955, andhas held several other key positions in the or-ganization.

CalendarEvents listed in earlier issue are notrepeated unless plans have been changed.

Ithaca, NY: Robert Smithson sculptureretrospective at the Johnson Museum,through Dec 21. Call museum office (607)256-6464.

Sarasota, Fla: Prof David Ahlers, BPA,will address Sarasota-Manatee CC, Dec 11.Call Donald S MacDonald '26 (813)349-8772.

Southwest Fla: Prof David Ahlers, BPA,will address CC, Dec 12. Call Paul N Hor-ton '42(813)995-8951.

St Louis, Mo: Football coach Bob Black-man will address CC, Dec 14. Call PegDoolittle Vickroy '53 (314) 434-3662.

Northville, Mich: Football coach BobBlackman will address CC, Dec 14. CallDick Brown '65 (313) 568-3619.

St Louis, Mo: CC will hold student recep-tion, Dec 26. Call Peg Doolittle Vickroy '53(314)434-3662.

Phila, Pa: CC will hold Mummers Dayparty for students and recent graduates, Jan1. Call Phyllis Stapley Tuddeήham '46 (215)625-9736.

Wilmington, Del: CC will hold student-alumni luncheon, Jan 6. Call Catherine An-derson Pfeifer '40 (215) 347-2344.

Boston, Mass: CC will hold party afterhockey game (vs Harvard), Jan 9. CallElizabeth McCabe '42 (617) 536-5108.

Hanover, NH: CC will hold supper partybefore hockey game (vs Dartmouth), Jan10. Call William Robertson '34 (603)847-3411.

Rochester, NY: Prof Irving Younger, Law,will address CC Founder's Day luncheon,Jan 10. Call Kenneth Payment, Grad '66(716) 624-2742.

Syracuse, NY: Mary Cowans '74 will ad-dress CWC, Jan 12. Call Josephine KingGerwitz '44(315)458-2213.

Boston, Mass: CC will hold pre-game din-ner and post-game party at hockey game (vs

Boston College), Jan 16. Call Elizabeth Mc-Cabe '42 (617) 536-5108.

Charlotte, NC: Piedmont Alumni Club willhold cocktail and dinner party, Jan 17. CallPeter Verna '46 (704) 376-8729.

Cortland, NY: CWC will hold dinner, Jan20. Call Esther Forbes Twentyman '45 (607)749-2743.

Hartford, Conn: Lacrosse coach RichieMoran will address CC, Jan 20. Call SandySears Prindle '74 (203) 643-5087.

Western Mass: Football coach Bob Black-man will address CC banquet, Jan 20. CallJames Mullane '35 (413) 567-5079.

Albany, NY: Football coach Bob Blackmanwill address Capital District CC, Jan 21.Call Herb Roes '60 (518) 664-8943.

Central NY: Daniel Greenburgh will addressCC dinner, Jan 21. Call Carl Borning '67(315) 682-2203.

Long Island, NY: Prof Richard Rivlin,CUMC, will address CC, Jan 25. Call JaneBinder Dubin '55 (516) 791-2691.

Ithaca, NY: Alvar Aalto exhibition at theJohnson Museum, Jan 26-Mar 1. Call mu-seum office (607) 256-6464.

Mid-Hudson NY: Richard Schultz, directorof athletics, will address CC dinner, Jan 29.Call Al Webster '48 (914) 266-3084.

Saratoga, NY: John Marcham '50 will ad-dress Cornellians at luncheon, Jan 30. CallJean Pirnie Clements '50 (518) 584-7974.

Albany, NY: John Marcham '50 will ad-dress Capital District CC at Founder's Daydinner, Jan 30. Call Herb Roes '60 (518)664-8943.

New Haven, Conn: CC will hold party afterhockey game (vs Yale), Jan 30. Call JackWerblow '58 (203) 453-3879.

Essex County, NJ: CC will hold tour ofNewark Museum, Feb 1. Call Robert Kulka'60 (201) 994-0179.

Ithaca, NY: "Frederick Sommers at 75" ex-hibition at the Johnson Museum, Feb3-Mar 15. Call museum office (607)256-6464.

Ithaca, NY: "Wayang" (Javanese puppets)exhibition at the Johnson Museum, Feb3-Mar 22. Call museum office (607)256-6464.

Washington, DC: Prof Donald Price, agengineering, will address CC, Feb 3. CallMario Schak (202) 462-1712.

Wilmington, Del: CC and CWC will attendTwo by Two at Ardentown Theater, Feb 6.Call Catherine Anderson Pfeifer '40 (215)347-2344.

Miami, Fla: CC of Greater Miami will holdgourmet group, Feb 7. Call Bernard A Baer'46 (305) 666-6808.

Washington, DC: Glee Club and Chorusperform Mahler's Das klagende Lied withthe Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra underthe direction of Julius Rudel, Feb 7. CallGlee Club office (607) 256-3396.

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AlsoThe ups and downs of campus news re-ferred to on page 2 continued right tothe Thanksgiving recess, with the foot-ball team, the veterinary college, the soc-cer team, and campus investmentsamong the later contributors.

The College of Veterinary Medicine isoff probation after four years in that sta-tus of accreditation by the Council onEducation of the American VeterinaryMedicine Association. The college, gen-erally ranked among the best half dozenin the country, was put on probation bythe council in 1976 for inadequate facili-ties and a teacher-student ratio of 7.6:1when the council aimed for 4:1. Some $6million in construction, and the additionof fifteen to twenty professional staffhave helped the college win its way backto full accreditation. Had the college notcomplied by next year, it might have lostaccreditation altogether. The collegeasked reinspection last spring, a yearahead of schedule, and learned lastmonth of the reinstatement. If not ac-credited, its graduates would not be eli-gible to be licensed as practicing veteri-narians.

The Investment Committee of theBoard of Trustees in October voted45,000 shares of university stock in favorof a stockholder resolution that asked aUS firm to inform its South Africanworkers of their unionization rights andbargain with any African worker organi-zation chosen by the employes. The res-olution was first proposed by the Cor-nell Corporate Responsibility Project, acampus group, and dealt with Interna-tionals Minerals and Chemicals Corp.The resolution ultimately drew 3.25 percent support from IMC shareholders.

The university and United AutoWorkers union have agreed on February24 as the date for a vote by 970 Cornellservice and maintenance employes onwhether they want to form a bargainingunit and be represented by the UAW.More than 100 employes were removedfrom an earlier list of 1,100 filed with theNational Labor Relations Board by theunion.

Franklin Hall, named for BenjaminFranklin and long the home of ElectricalEngineering, has been renamed TjadenHall by the trustees, in honor of OliveTjaden VanSickle '24, a prominent arch-itect, working first on Long Island andsince 1945 in Florida. She is vice presi-dent of the Architecture alumni associa-tion. In recent years the building has

been home to Architecture's Depart-ment of Art.

Asked at a press conference whetherother campus buildings might be re-named, President Rhodes and trusteeleaders said a building named for alum-ni, other Cornellians, or other donorswould likely not be renamed. They saidthey thought a building such as Lincoln,named for the US president under whomthe Morrill Land-Grant Act was passed,might be renamed if there were a reason.

People: Prof. Raymond M. Cantwell'52, MS '76, Hotel Administration, diedNovember 11 in hospital in Rochester atthe age of 53. He had taught about thebusiness side of the hospitality industrysince 1973, and been a leader in advisingthe government on the needs of smallbusinesses.

Lowell T. George, proctor of the uni-versity during the 1950s and '60s, died inIthaca on November 16 at the age of 69.He was a former FBI agent and policechief of Hornell, New York, proctor onthe Hill from 1952-68, then successivelysupervisor and director of safety beforeretiring in 1974.

Late sports: The football team provideda rousing close to the fall sports seasonwith a string of wins over Ivy League op-ponents that left Bob Blackman's club insecond place in the Ancient Eight, aftera disappointing start. Biggest upset wasa win over Yale, 24-6, on a weekendwhen the Eli could have clinched theleague title. Cornell tied up the vauntedpassing and running attacks of Yale, anditself moved well behind quarterbackMike Ryan '81, who left with an injury,and Andy Schroer '81, playing his firstvarsity game.

The next week the Red shut out theleague doormat, Columbia, 24-0, on thesecond straight week of strong runningby a brace of backs headed by Steve Va-go '81. The Red intercepted four Colum-bia quarterbacks a total of six times,three of the steals by Dave Kimichik '82setting a school record.

Yale won the league with a 6-1 record,with Cornell second at 5-2. The Red fin-ished the season 5-5 overall, losing out-side the Ivy to Colgate, Rutgers, andBucknell. In the final game of the sea-son, the Red beat Penn, 31-9, with Kimi-chik making his seventh interception ofthe season.

The soccer team earned a place in theNCAA post-season tournament for thefirst time in three years but missed itsgoal of winning the Ivy League titlewhen it proved able to score only onegoal in its last three games in the regular

season. The Red had a 0-0 tie in doubleovertime with Yale, a 1-1 tie in doubleovertime with Columbia, and lost 0-1 toPenn in the finale. This left the Red inthird in Ivy competition with 9-3-3 over-all record and 3-2-2 in the league.

Kurt Bettger '81 led the team's stingydefense, with goalie David Weed '82 al-lowing just under one goal a match.Scoring leaders are two Ithacans, mid-fielder Jim Talman '83 and forward BillSummers '82.

The team was ranked No. 2 in NewYork State behind Columbia for NCAAtourney purposes, and was to face No. 3Hartwick, which had earned a nationalat-large berth, in the opening round.

Freshman football concluded a 5-1season with a 41-12 romp over the Cort-land JVs. Standouts included Hugh(Sugarbear) Smith and Eric Wetzel onthe offensive line, and linebackers PaulRoyer and Mike Scully on defense.

The men's ultimate frisbee team fin-ished second in the Northeast Region,losing to a Boston club, after compilinga 38-2 record earlier in the year. Wom-en's rugby stood at 8-5-1, women's vol-leyball finished with 20-20-1, and men'scross country placed 15th in a field of 24teams in a district NCAA qualifier.Kevin Callanan '81 placed 67th.

Men's hockey, the defending Easternchampions, opened with 3-1 and 9-2wins over US International College ofSan Diego.

In the News: Barbara Burke is a writernew to this magazine this month. She isa graduate of Radcliffe, a mother, anewspaperwoman in Rochester and nowin Ithaca, and a former member of theMIT News Bureau. Her husband is JohnHubbard, an associate professor ofmathematics at the university.

Our next issue, in February, will fea-ture a second report on the marine re-search and other adventures of twoalumni aboard their two ships, the Ser-enity and the legendary Varua. The pairare Frederic Martini, PhD '74 and Rus-sell Nilson '73. Alumni and others canjoin them aboard early next year forstudy of the humpback whale aroundHawaii under Prof. Louis Herman ofthe University of Hawaii. This can be ar-ranged through Earth watch, a nationalgroup that supports field research andmakes it possible for members of thepublic to share the cost of research onexpeditions. Further information on thehumpback whale sessions, two weeksapiece from January 19 through April11, can be obtained from Earthwatch atBox 127, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178.

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