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February 1981Volume 83, Number 6

Cover 1The research vessel Varua sails off Hawaii in early 1979, close to the end of anearly complete reconstruction of the famed ship by two alumni. Their storyappears in this issue.

Cover 2 The UniversityThe college press story. Cornellian books. Harry Caplan '16. People. Research. Theysay. The teams. Clothing design.

12 CommunicationsLetters to the editor. Footnotes.

16 Coming of Age in Pago PagoBy Lee Mitchell Nilson '48. Chapter II in the saga of two Cornellianspursuing an academic life afloat.

25 Metaphysical FitnessBy Anthony Serafini '65. In which a professor of philosophy explains therelationship of body to soul.

28 In Our LeagueBy Jerrold Footlick. A senior editor of Newsweek takes a look at the IvyGroup after a quarter century and concludes it is carrying out the wish of thepresidents of the Ancient Eight that intercollegiate athletics be keptin their place.

37 News of AlumniClass notes. Alumni deaths.

64 Alumni ActivitiesWhite water rafting. With the colleges. From the Fund. Alumni in the news.Graduate alumni. Calendar.

68 AlsoLate news of the campus and athletic fields.

For all the videotape devicesand computers introducedonto college campuses in re-cent years to assist in thework of teaching and re-

search, books remain the key tools usedby students and professors to acquireand transmit scholarly knowledge.

Today the supply of these books isnewly threatened by two forces, a recentSupreme Court decision that is expectedto make it unprofitable for commercialpublishers to retain unsold books, andinflation, which is rapidly pricing booksout of the reach of both individuals andlibraries.

Two sources supply the academicworld with books—commercial publish-ers and university presses. Commercialpublishers make their living sellingpopular titles to the general public andthe most widely used textbooks toschools and colleges. It remains for thepresses of some seventy-five colleges anduniversities to publish the less popularbut academically necessary titles bywhich scholarly ideas are disseminated.

Commercial publishers have alwaysbeen eager to publish the work of suchacademics as Carl Sagan or MiltonFriedman—recognized authorities intheir fields with synthesized views oftheir disciplines, capable of appealing toa broad range of readers. Their booksoften move to the top of the New YorkTimes nonfiction bestseller list soon af-ter publication, as have Sagan's Cosmosand Milton and Rose Friedman's Free toChoose.

But commercial publishers have beenless interested in publishing, manuscriptsby younger academics—the sort of bookthat may simply add to the body of re-search in a particular field. Fortunately,university presses, with lower overheadthan commercial publishers and in somecases with subsidies and grants, havebeen able to publish many importantbooks that might have sales of as few asa thousand copies. Traditionally,

university presses have underwrittenmany of these books by publishing a fewstudies with wider appeal and a few"trade" titles—books intended fordistribution to the general publicthrough bookstores.

All this may change. The recentSupreme Court ruling on inventories,known as the Thor ruling, would, in thewords of Publisher's Weekly, "stoppublishers and other manufacturersfrom claiming depreciation on inventor-ies when calculating their taxes. Somepublishers have started culling theirbacklists and are selling many morebooks than usual to remainder houses.Others are thinking of shipping thebooks off to paper mills to be pulped sothey can claim losses against theirtaxes."

The implications for commercial pub-lishing houses are obvious—and omi-nous—but university presses should notbe negatively affected by this ruling, onewould think, because they are not-for-profit organizations and, therefore, nottaxed. In fact, one of the major appealsthat university presses have always had isthat they could keep an author's book inprint longer than a commercial housewould—especially if the book turnedout, contrary to all the author's expecta-tions, not to be a best-seller.

University presses are, however, besetby that other large economic factor thataffects everyone — inflation. Inflationhas driven up the price of scholarlybooks to the point that readers are balk-ing at paying the price. In defense, moreand more readers are looking to librariesto supply the books they need. In turn,many university libraries are caught inthe economic crunch. Enrollments aredown, budgets are being cut, andlibraries are depending on suchtechnological advances as interlibrarycomputer cataloging in combinationwith interlibrary loans to fulfill theirobligations to provide the researchresources that scholars require. These

developments all point to fewer sales forscholarly books.

So how could all this affect thescholarly writer? If the Thor rulingstands, commercial publishers maybecome even more conservative aboutaccepting the sort of book they considermarginally profitable. The universitypresses may then be swamped withmanuscripts and have to reject many

more that, although worthy, mightstrain their limited ability to support un-profitable books.

Although university presses have anelaborate review process to ensure thatimportant scholarly work does getpublished, it is up to the press to decidefinally what to publish. Every pressbases its decision on the scholarly valueof the book in combination with itsprobable sales potential. Out of some1,200 manuscripts submitted annually,

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The Cornell Alumni News(USPS 132-580)owned and published by theCornell Alumni Associationunder the direction of itsPublications Committee.

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

EditorJohn Marcham '50Associate EditorElsie Peterson '55Assistant EditorRuth Levine '81DesignJack Sherman

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IllustrationsCover, by Susan Mott Nilson '75. Otherpages: 1, Jack Sherman; 6, RussellHamilton; 11, David Boraks '81; 16-17,MER and Sherman; 18, 19, MER; 20-21© 1970-71 by G.B. Trudeau, reprintedwith permission of University PressSyndicate. All rights reserved. 23, LeeMitchell Nilson '48. 25, 26, JimHarrison; 28-29, Arnold Roth; 54,Hamilton; 68, Sol Goldberg '46.

Cornell University Press publishes abouteighty books — so competition isalready intense. (Because of Cornell'sprestige, those figures may be high foruniversity presses overall, but the ratio iscomparable at other major universitypresses.)

The scholarly presses are already con-sidering their options and respon-sibilities. At a meeting of the Northeastuniversity presses held in Syracuse lastfall, a panel discussing the effects of in-flation on university presses noted thefailure of several university presses in thepast few years. William Sisler,humanities editor at the Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, argued that "a press'sfirst business is to stay in business." Hesaid he felt the time had passed whenuniversity presses could be expected topublish the very narrowly focussedscholarly work, and suggested thateditors should more effectively weed outthe sort of book that amounted to "abloated [scholarly] journal article." Hereported on a questionnaire sent toacademics, which found three out of fivescholars "were willing to accept anunedited photocopy of a scholar'soriginal manuscript for a 30 per centreduction in price."

Marlie Wasserman, senior editor atthe smaller Rutgers University Press,suggested several ways a press could savemoney in acquiring books — amongthem, that university presses should notoffer authors royalties on very narrowlyfocussed books, but should boldly andfrankly "plead poverty."

Nor should university presses pursuethe best-seller as a means of floating therest of the list, warned Barbara Burn-ham, an editor at Cornell UniversityPress. She was seconded by Dohn Bar-ham, assistant director at the LouisianaState University Press, which had a best-seller last year, A Confederacy ofDunces, by John Kennedy Toole. Bar-ham felt that the unexpected success ofthis novel, the third in LSU Press's newnovel series, had drained attention awayfrom the rest of its list and sapped thefunds available for publicizing otherworthwhile books.

In discussion that followed, membersof other university presses shared ideasabout reducing costs to keep book pricesdown. Suggestions ranged from printingwith ragged margins on cheaper paper topublishing "on demand" — photocopy-ing a typescript of a book when an ordercomes in. In fields that regularly employunusual typography or special symbols— linguistics and math, for instance —typewriter composition is becomingmore and more accepted. It has the great

advantage of being fast, and getting theresearch into print as quickly as possibleis still an important factor for mostresearchers.

Not everyone embraced the "quick isbeautiful" concept of publishing,however. Herbert S. Bailey Jr., thedirector of the Princeton UniversityPress, stood up stoutly for themaintenance of high standards inuniversity publishing. Presses owed it tolibraries to use good durable paper andto provide tough bindings, he said. Healso pointed out that presses were underno obligation to consider the narrow re-quirements of faculty promotion com-mittees when making decisions on whichbooks to publish.

The impression I gained from themeeting was that many presses, especial-ly the smaller ones and those in lesssound financial shape, would be tryingthe new approaches in the near future.The more established presses willperhaps put more weight on the trade(popular bookstore) portion of theirlists, attempting to pay for a smallernumber of scholarly books with thelarger income from the general-interestbooks.

The squeeze on university presses willclearly have an important effect on thefaculty promotion aspect of academiclife. "Publish or perish" is still the ruleon major college campuses. Professorsmust prove their worth by adding to thescholarship in their areas of specializa-tion. Promotions and tenure often de-pend on the number of publications pro-fessors have to their credit.

Articles in scholarly journals will dofor a time, but after a few years, a bookis required. Yet the first book of anacademic, dealing with a fairly narrowsubject, is precisely the sort of manu-script both commercial and universitypublishers are now turning away in in-creasing numbers.

If publish-or-perish is to continue therule on university campuses, promotioncommittees may well have to face thereality of today's book market. Theywill either have to judge a scholar's abili-ty on the actual content of his writingand not its publishability, or look forcandidates who produce syntheses ofacademic work that appeal to broad,commercially attractive audiences. Sucha change could prove troublesome toprofessors serving on promotion com-mittees, to their candidates, and toscholars searching library shelves for thenewest ideas from the academic world.

On the other hand, it will lift from thebacks of the panels that reviewmanuscripts for university presses some

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of the job of being shadow promotioncommittees for distant institutions, andcoincidentally may increase the supplyof well-researched general reading farefor the rest of us in the reading public.

To sample the impact of the present-day university presses on the bookmarket, I stopped recently at abookstore in a shopping mall and askedthe manager if I might see the new fallcatalog from a giant of the industry, theUniversity of California Press. He stop-ped arranging a display of paperbackgothic romances just long enough to saythat he had discarded it. Grabbinganother handful of Screams in theNighty he explained that "Universitypress books are just too specialized forour clientele." I took a look around andthought that he was, perhaps, right.

University press books are not intend-ed for the light reading of the massmarket. On the other hand, the Califor-nia press did publish 224 titles last year,and occasionally has an enormous best-seller, such as Carlos Castaneda's TheTeachings of Don Juan. In fact, an in-creasing proportion of the books frommajor university presses is directedtoward the large general audience ofeducated readers. These books are com-parable to the so-called trade books ofcommercial houses.

Featured at the front of most universi-ty press seasonal catalogs are books thattry to explain the current internationalcrisis (whatever it happens to be), impor-tant biographies and historical studies,art books that are something more thancoffee table clutter, and even novels andprize-winning poetry. They also makemany of these titles available inreasonably priced paperback editions.

Several things set the typical universitypress book apart from its mass-marketcompetition, however. The book from,say, the Harvard, Cornell, or Washing-ton press is always informed by the latestscholarship on the subject. Routinely, ithas had far more review than the com-mercial press's book, which may havebeen pushed into publication by an en-thusiastic editor with a quick eye forwhat the market will bear. It is rigorous-ly edited, and it is often better designedand more durable than the commercialproduct. No university press has as itsmotto, Caveat emptor.

The review process at Cornell Univer-sity Press is typical. The Cornell presshas four editors, each with areas ofspecialty, to solicit and evaluate manu-scripts for publication. A promisingmanuscript is sent to two anonymousreaders in the appropriate field forevaluation and comment. If the readers

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respond favorably, the press usuallysends the manuscript with the readers'comments to its four-member facultyadvisory committee for approval. Thecommittee is charged with judging thework on whether it represents a con-tribution to scholarship in the field; if itdoes, the committee recommends publi-cation.

Once past that hurdle, the manuscriptis then carefully edited with an attentionto grammar and style that many com-mercial publishing houses seem nolonger able to afford. All along, thewriter, the reviewers, and the editorshave paid attention to getting the factsright, so the finished product has a bet-ter chance for accuracy.

University presses also take extrapride in the design and quality ofmaterials used. Their books, conse-quently, often look better, even feel bet-ter in the hand as they are being read.Librarians know they will withstandmany years of hard use. In short, this isthe sort of book that might be advertis-ed, "Found in better bookstoreseverywhere."

"Everywhere" may be a slight exag-geration, but readers will find the newuniversity press books in the goodbookstores of every city and certainly atcampus bookstores across the country.Two of the best stores for scholarlybooks are University Press Books/Berkeley in California and the CornellCampus Bookstore. For insights on thenew lists from university presses, I talk-ed with Sheila Levine, manager ofUniversity Press Books, and Bea Vedell,manager of the trade book departmentof the Cornell bookstore.

University Press Books/Berkeley isunique in that it stocks all the new titlesfrom every university press in the coun-try. I asked Ms. Levine if she had notic-ed any trends. "Of course, the FrenchStructuralists are very strong again thisyear," she said. "And two books incultural history are doing particularlywell here: The Cheese and the Worms byCarlo Ginzburg (Johns Hopkins), astudy of everyday life and attitudes inthe 16th century as seen through the eyesof a miller; and John BoswelPs Chris-tianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosex-uality (Chicago), which has really takenoff after a very favorable review in theNew York Times. The Chicago andCalifornia lists are both really appealingthis year."

For its part, the Cornell CampusBookstore offers a broad selection ofboth scholarly and trade titles from allthe major university presses. Displaycases just outside the book department

are filled with volumes from Harvard,MIT, Cornell, and Yale. Inside, there isa separate section for the new titles, andscattered throughout the store in thespecial-interest sections are about two-thirds of the new titles from the largescholarly presses.

Such favored treatment is unusual,even for campus bookstores. Bea Vedellknows from years of experience at largebookstores on three different collegecampuses that these books are importantto the academic community. "Andbesides," she told me, "I love universitypress books."

A canny buyer, Ms. Vedell caters tothe reading habits of the store'sclientele. Where Cornell has a strongprogram — ornithology, architecture,Asian studies — the selection excels; buteven in other subject areas, the selectionis very good. Noticing the University ofTexas Press's Folklore by the Fireside byAlessandro Falassi, I asked Ms. Vedell ifCornell had a department of folklorestudies. "No," she said. " I also buybooks in those areas where I think thereought to be an interest." This attitudemakes the Campus Bookstore abrowser's paradise.

What follows is a sampling of newuniversity press books garnered from thefall and winter catalogs and from hoursof browsing in the Cornell CampusBookstore. This list may explain betterthan any generalizations just how thesepresses are meeting the changing marketin scholarly books:

A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm byAlexander F. Skutch (California). Anautobiographical account of the greatnaturalist's experiences in CentralAmerica.

How to Limit Government Spendingby Aaron Wildavsky (California). Aplan to limit government spending byfixing it at a specified percentage of thegross national product.

The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustra-tion by Jack Hillier (California). Abeautifully produced work on the greatJapanese artist's woodcut illustrations.

Observations of Wildlife by PeterScott (Cornell). The painter andpioneering ecologist describes his lifeand work in a richly illustrated, elegantvolume.

The Best of Bishop by Morris Bishop'14 (Cornell). A selection of some of thefunniest light verse ever.

From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 by Jacob Katz(Harvard). A re-evaluation of the rootsof the Holocaust

Notable American Women: TheModern Period edited by Barbara

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Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Har-vard). Capsule biographies of 442women who have helped shapeAmerican life.

The Age of Birds by Alan Feduccia(Harvard). A comprehensive discussionof the evolution of birds.

On Becoming a Rock Musician by H.Stith Bennett (Massachusetts). Asociologist observes the interaction ofyoung musicians.

The Book of Shaker Furniture byJohn Kassay (Massachusetts). A historyand photographic record of Shakercabinetmaking.

The Rainmakers: American"Pluviculture" to World War II byClark C. Spence (Nebraska). A historyof the phenomenon.

The Politics of Mexican Oil by GeorgeW. Grayson (Pittsburgh). Analysis ofthe politics of managing a nationalresource.

Bertolt Brecht in America by JamesK. Lyon (Princeton). New light on thepoet and playwright's American years.

The Human Condition: An Ecologicaland Historical View by William H.McNeill (Princeton). A synthesis of themedical and social histories of thespecies.

The Maniac in the Cellar: SensationNovels of the 1860s by Winifred Hughes(Princeton). The development of agenre.

Domestic Intelligence: MonitoringDissent in America by Richard E.Morgan (Texas). A temperate look at acontroversial topic.

In the Land of the Olmec by MichaelD. Coe and Richard A. Diehl (Texas). Aclose look at the primary site of the an-cient Mexican civilization.

A World Like Our Own: Man andNature in Madagascar by Alison BishopJolly '58 (Yale). A wide-ranging discus-sion of the impact of European cultureon the island by an expert on its uniqueand endangered mammals.

Criticism in the Wilderness: TheStudy of Literature Today by GeoffreyH. Hartman (Yale). A guide through the"wilderness" of competing schools ofcriticism.

The Madwoman in the Attic: TheWoman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by SandraM. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Yale). Alook at the female imagination of thegreat English women novelists.

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Cornellian BooksBoys by Paul N. Boughton '19(Boughton Books). A guidebook foryouths, based on Christianity.

Working Women in Japan: Discrim-ination, Resistance, and Reform byProf. Alice H. Cook, ILR, emeritus,and Hiroko Hayashi (ILR Publications).A study of recent court challenges byJapanese women to practices in theworkplace.

The Regulatory Process and LaborEconomics by Prof. Ronald G.Ehrenberg, economics and laboreconomics (Academic Press). On therelationship between government regula-

tion of industry and wage determina-tion; recently chosen as one of the topbooks in the field in the last decade.

A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rain-bow by Douglas Fowler '62, PhD '72(Ardis, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Literarycriticism of the book by Thomas Pyn-chon '59.

Winning With Your Lawyer byGerald Goldfarb '60 and Burton Marks(McGraw-Hill). Attorneys on the legalprofession.

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John R. Mott ['88], 1865-1955: ABiography by C. Howard Hopkins(Eerdmans Publishing Co.). The storyof the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The New Life Hotel by EdwardHower '63 (Avon). A novel set inmodern Africa.

A World Like Our Own; Man andNature in Madagascar by Alison BishopJolly '58 (Yale University Press). An ex-amination of the life of the island, inwords and pictures; photographs byRuss Kinne.

The Wine Log, originated by IreneKleinsinger '60 (UK International). Aspecially designed book for listing labelinformation and personal commentsabout wines.

The Symphony 1720-1840 (Vol.A-VIII) by Rey M. Longyear, PhD '57(Garland Press). One of a series, con-taining selected symphonies by StanislaoMattei and Niccolo Zingarelli.

Southern Evangelicals and the SocialOrder, 1800-1860 by Anne C. Loveland,MA '63 (Louisiana State UniversityPress). A study of Baptist, Methodist,and Presbyterian clergymen in the OldSouth.

The Nation's Families: 1960-1990 byGeorge Masnick '64 and Mary Jo Bane(Auburn House Publishing Co.). AnOutlook Report from the Joint Centerfor Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard,focusing on changes in family structureover three decades.

Madam Prime Minister: MargaretThatcher and Her Rise to Power byAllan J. Mayer '71 (Newsweek). A pro-file of the British leader.

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Pedigrees by Ann Shively '45 (Lippin-cott & Crowell). A novel about thefamilies of Philadelphia's Main Line.

More Wandering Thoughts byThomas Smyth, PhD '25 (ExpositionPress). Poetry inspired by woodlandsand wildlife.

General Surgery: Review and Assess-ment by Richard M. Stillman '69(Appleton-Century-Crofts). A medicaltext.

Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut '44and Ivan Cermayeff (Harper & Row).According to Vonnegut, "an experiment

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Petrarch's Poetics and LiteraryHistory by Marguerite R. Waller '69(University of Massachusetts Press).Critical evaluation of Petrarch's Can-zoniere and Trionfi.

Foxfire (Vol. 6) edited by Eliot Wig-ginton '65 (Doubleday/Anchor). A col-lection of Appalachian folklore andfolkways.

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Harry Caplan, the Goldwin Smithprofessor, emeritus

"Loyalty to Harry Caplan is acharacteristic that has been shared byseveral thousand Cornell undergrad-uates since April 1919 when he firstbegan his teaching career." Thus wroteC. Michael Curtis '56 in these pagesnearly two decades ago, and the themewas echoed many times during amemorial service in Sage Chapel late lastyear for Harry Caplan '16, the GoldwinSmith professor of the classical lan-guages and literature, emeritus, whodied November 29, 1980 at the age of 84in Seattle, where he was visiting hisbrother, Dr. Louis Caplan '21.

The series of speakers at the servicereflected the eminence and wide follow-ing of Harry Caplan: Cornell presidentspast and present, professors of classics,rabbis, former students, non-academicemployees of the university.

Cornell had been his home since he ar-rived from Albany in 1912 on a statescholarship. He concentrated on theclassics, in language and literature, earn-ing election to Phi Beta Kappa his junioryear, a master's in 1917, and a doctorate

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in 1921, broken only by a short period inthe Army during World War I.

He began teaching public speaking in1919, was later pulled away to give theintroductory course, "Baby Greek,"and then in 1925 appointed an assistantprofessor of classics. From 1929-46 hechaired the department, in 1941 wasnamed to the endowed Goldwin Smithchair, and throughout his career trans-lated, published, and served as a visitingprofessor on other campuses. Harry waselected to the Medieval Academy ofAmerica in 1962, cited as "one of theforemost students of medieval rhetoricand oratory. His thorough knowledge ofthe classical tradition of rhetoric has en-abled him to make acute analysis ofmedieval theory and practice in preach-ing. His lists of medieval artes pra-dicandi are known throughout the worldand are an essential part of every schol-arly library."

Prof. Helen North '42, chairman ofclassics at Swarthmore, told how Caplanraised academic sights, as he had herswhile she did graduate work. Manystudents owed much to the advice, en-couragement, and challenge he gavethem in his cluttered office in GoldwinSmith, she said, with its smell of tobac-co, leather bindings, old masters' theses,and dust.

His reputation carried far in theacademic world, as did word of hisloyalty to former students, she said. Ofhis recommendations for the granting ofresearch awards, "he has the welldeserved record of never losing a Gug-genheim."

Jewish students and colleagues foundspecial comfort in his friendship, and hewas not reticent to go to bat with univer-sity and alumni officials on their behalf,particularly to recall the prejudice thesestudents had met in earlier years on theHill.

Caplan was an avid fan of Cornellathletics and a loyal member of his ownalumni class, the wealthy and generousClass of 1916. Alumni returned to cam-pus always sought him out, and formerstudents invariably asked travelling Cor-nellians for word of their old mentorand friend.

His brother asked that his address begiven for condolences: Louis Caplan,1804 E. Hamlin St., Seattle, Washington98112. And the university has establish-ed a fund for gifts in his memory: TheHarry Caplan Memorial Fund, 726University Ave., Ithaca, New York14850. —JM

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Philip Ross, the New York Stateindustrial commissioner for more thanfour years, has announced plans to re-turn to a faculty post with the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations.

M.H. Λbrams, the 1916 professor ofEnglish, has been chosen for a two-yearterm as one of twenty-three members ofthe Library of Congress's new Councilof Scholars. The council is responsiblefor examining the state of knowledge invarious disciplines and exploring the ex-tent to which the library's collections ef-fectively support active research on these

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Harold Feldman has been elected pro-fessor emeritus of human developmentand family studies. He joined the HomeEconomics faculty in 1948, where he hasconcentrated his research on the abilityof individuals to deal with disadvan-tages, including children from one-parent homes and inner-city children, aswell as married couples with good rela-tionships.

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A professorship in the biologicalsciences has been established in the nameof William T. Keeton, PhD '58, whodied last August. He was the Bailey pro-fessor of biology, an internationallyknown authority on bird orientation andmigration, and the author of a widelyused biology textbook.

An article in a November issue of theNew Yorker described the developmentof Brasilia, the modern, pre-plannedcapital of Brazil, and the role played byProf. Donald J. Belcher, civil and en-vironmental engineering, emeritus. In1951, the Brazilian government commis-sioned Belcher & Associates of Ithaca, afirm specializing in the interpretation ofaerial photographs, to evaluate severalpossible sites for the new city. His firm'sreport, delivered in early 1955, com-pared the qualities of the sites with re-spect to a wide range of criteria, and re-commended the one on which Brasiliawas later built.

ResearchProf. Arthur F. Kuckes, applied engi-neering physics, has developed a methodfor capping off runaway oil wells that hebelieves might have prevented the June1978 blowout in the Gulf of Mexicofrom becoming the worst oil spill inhistory. The technique is based on anelectrical guidance system which allows arelief well to intersect a blown-out wellcasing, thousands of feet below theearth's surface. Concrete can then be in-jected to seal off the blowout. Thetechnique, Kuckes said, "not onlymitigates the hazards of runaway wells,but also may make a contribution tofinding productive oil well sites.

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Several Cornell researchers were involv-ed closely with the recent mission of theVoyager 1 interplanetary spacecraft,which brought back the clearest views ofSaturn ever. Prof. Joseph Veverka,astronomy, and Carl Sagan, the Duncanprofessor of astronomy and spacesciences, were part of the team responsi-ble for Voyager's television broadcastsshowing the ringed planet; Prof. Peter J.Gierasch, astronomy, was involved withthe ship's infrared spectrometer, an in-strument designed to sense variations inthe temperatures on the planet and in itsatmosphere. Gierasch said one of theprobe's most important findings is "thetremendous amount of structure inSaturn's ring systems. Voyager 1 hasshown the planet has a huge number ofvery thin rings. There are perhaps ninetydifferent thin components."

Information about the atmospheresurrounding Titan, Saturn's largestmoon, was gathered through infraredphotography, and, Gierasch said, "aswe approach Titan, we will have enoughimages to make up a kind of movie se-quence," to draw conclusions about pat-terns of movement near the planet.Voyager carried a set of messages—devised in part by Sagan—to inform theuniverse of the existence of Earth and itslife, should the spacecraft be interceptedby intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Selenium, a trace chemical element, hasbeen confirmed as an essential nutrientthrough work done by Prof. Gerald F.Combs Jr., animal nutrition and poultryscience. Combs reports that the elementis needed in the body for the conversionof one amino acid, methionine, toanother, cysteine. This marks the firsttime scientists have linked selenium tothis biological process, proving its im-portance as an essential trace mineral.Combs believes selenium might be a keycomponent of an enzyme involved in theamino acid conversion, and said, "If wecan identify such a selenium-containingenzyme, this would be a tremendousbreakthrough."

The possibilities of using a pigmentsimilar to one found in the retina of theeye for solar energy conversion and theproduction of hydrogen from water arebeing investigated by Prof. AaronLewis, applied and engineering physics.The pigment, a protein called bacterio-rhodopsin, acts as an electrochemicalpump when exposed to light energy, andmay be capable of generating an elec-trical potential large enough to elec-trolyze water and produce hydrogen gas.The photoreceptive substance also is

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"Salary increases at Cornell have notmatched the average increases in the IvyLeague," according to a reportpresented by the Committee on the Pro-fessional and Economic Status of theFaculty. In comparison with other IvyLeague schools, and universities rankedhighly throughout the country, "withthe exception of perhaps the statutoryunit assistant professors, Cornell facultyare losing ground to all of the averagesexamined," the report stated. "Thismust also lead to a loss of position in theabsolute salary rankings unless presenttrends are reversed. Salary levels have asubstantial effect on our ability torecruit and retain faculty." The statuscommittee is working with the FacultyCommittee on the Budget to determinewhat action should be taken to improvethe university's ranking.

Speaking about American explorationof space, Carl Sagan, the Duncan pro-fessor of astronomy and space sciences,said, "This amazing accomplishment isindeed in jeopardy. In the decade of the'70s only one major mission was plan-ned." Titan, Saturn's largest moon, isthe "target of the greatest significancefor future exploration," he said.Though he would like to see continua-tion of unmanned space exploration,Sagan said he is "holding back from say-ing we should have a big manned ex-ploration of the universe." Hecharacterized space technology as being"at the cutting edge of machine in-telligence and robotry. It is at the cuttingedge of the highest technology in theworld."

An article in New York magazine claimsninety-seven "superdoctors" practice inthe city, twenty-eight of whom are af-filiated with the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Among thosephysicians called the best in the world,

the publication named Murray Dworetz-ky, clinical professor of medicine andphysician-in-charge of the Allergy Clinicat NY Hospital; John H. Laragh '46,MD '48, master professor of medicine,head of the Division of Cardiology anddirector of the Cardiovascular andHypertension Center; Paul Sherlock,MD '54, professor of medicine at theMedical College and chairman of the de-partment of medicine at MemorialSloan-Kettering Cancer Center; andothers at Cornell Med.

A group of students in ILR have revivedthe Society for the Advancement ofNeutrals' Education (SANE), a clubwhose members are neither pro-labornor pro-union. According to Tracy S.Dolgin '81, president of SANE, otherclubs in ILR cater to labor forces or tomanagement forces. "These organiza-tions are useful," he said, "but whenyou have only organizations of eitherside of the spectrum, the middle is notrepresented. We fill in where they aren'tadequate." SANE was founded twoyears ago, but was unsuccessful, andfolded after the graduation of membersof its executive board. With more thantwenty members, the group now hopesto create a course catalogue for studentsinterested in arbitration, as well as bringspeakers to the university. Dolgin add-ed, "We are interested in the neutralfield as it pertains to all areas of life, notjust labor-management disputes."

"Before 1977 Social Security politicswere simple: more was better, less incon-ceivable. Today that is not the case,"stated Law School Dean Peter W. Mar-tin in the Cornell Law Review. TheSocial Security program, he said, "wasdesigned to function into the indefinitefuture, and its specific provisions rest onpredictions as to expected economic con-ditions which must inevitably prove lessthan wholly accurate, and on judgmentsand preferences as to the proper alloca-tion of the nation's resources whichevolving economic and social conditionswill of necessity in some degreemodify." Recent amendments passed byCongress will lead to possible reductionsin benefits, he said. "Retirement plan-ners and future beneficiaries must besensitive to the possibility that the ben-efit system may be altered when consid-ering the impact of Social Security pay-ments on a comprehensive retirementplan. Abrupt and dramatic change is notlikely, but . . . change is possible."

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The TeamsMen's soccer closed out the fall sportsseason when it lost to Hartwick in thefirst round of the NCAA eliminations,2-3, in overtime. Bill Summers '82 tiedthe match in regulation time and PatMurphy '84 put the Red ahead, butHartwick scored again and won in over-time. Hartwick topped Columbia to winthe New York State bracket of thetourney, and in the Northeast, beforelosing in the national semifinals. CoachJack Writer's Redmen finished with 9wins, 4 losses, and 3 ties.

Back Kurt Bettger '81 made the all-state first team for the third year, andforward Peter Pakeman was named firststring as a freshman. Bettger went on tocapture second-string All-Americahonors.

Three varsity football seniors earnedAll-American honorable mention fromthe Associated Press, linebacker JimDeStefano, center John Kilcoyne, andsafety Todd Florey. All three were alsonamed honorable mention All-East andfirst-team All-Ivy. On the Ivy secondteam were fullback Ben Tenuta '81 anddefensive tackle Dave Chalk '81. Ivyhonorable mentions went to offensiveguard Mark Chenevey '81, placekickerRon Rejda '81, defensive halfback DaveKimichik '82, and center Tom Rohlfing'81. Rejda was also named to the ECACfirst team as a kicker.

Named to the Eastern LightweightFootball League all-star team were, onthe first string, Tri-Captains Henry Reed'81, Guy Conces '81, and Todd Dewey'81, Ron Space '81, and Kirk Minckler'82. On the second team were Jim Ricot-ta '81, Ralph Stellmacher '82, BradPhillips '83, John Tombari '81, ChuckRuebling '83, and John Ross '83.

See page 68 for the first results of thewinter sports season.

Design by Function

Ever wondered who designs the uni-forms worn by firemen, hockey players,and outdoors people? A design courseoffered by the College of Human Ecolo-gy requires students to work with prob-lems like these every day. In FunctionalClothing Design, one of only aboutthree such programs in the country,"We try to introduce the students to thefunctional aspects of clothing ratherthan just fashion," says Prof. Susan M.Wat kins, who started the program in1972. "People automatically think of

Mary E. Kieronski '81 explains her de-sign for supportive and protectiveequipment for video tape cameramen.The system spreads the weight of acamera over the entire shoulders andback while providing easy access tolenses, camera attachments, and electri-cal cords.

fashion when they think of appareldesign, but we emphasize function."

Watkins is quick to point out that theclass is a design rather than a sewingclass, though some sewing is involved.Students are expected to find a clothingproblem and then, through research,come up with a creative design as a solu-tion to that problem.

Research may include everything frominterviews with prospective users of thenew article of clothing, to studyingphysiology and physics to determine thestress a garment will receive in use. Thenthe students select the materials and sewa prototype model. In most cases, a stu-dent works for a client who will be theeventual user of the clothing.

For example, during the fall of 1979,three members of the class worked withthe Ithaca Fire Department to help de-sign an all-weather uniform for an emer-gency medical technician (EMT). Thethree—Patti Weidman '81, Carla Israel'80, and Shirley Hymon, Grad—workedclosely with the EMTs and came up witha prototype for a uniform which is re-flective, allows freedom of movement,and provides warmth. Several pocketson the jacket and legs are included in thedesign to hold instruments used by theEMTs such as scissors, penlight, andstethoscope.

Another project, completed last fallby Karen Stanton '80, was an improveddesign for women's hockey protectivepadding. Hard and soft plastic shock-absorbing padding, along with a new de-sign, provided increased protection fromimpact for the athletes.

Leola Falk, Grad found that theweight of fruit baskets on the poorly-de-

Eileen Fox '81 points out a feature ofa beach worker's uniform she de-signed. Fox's uniform is made of light-weight, breathable materials and haspockets for the different items carriedby a beach worker. She also designedthe logo on the back of the shirt.

signed shoulder harness worn by UpstateNew York fruit pickers caused excessivestrain on the shoulders and back. So shestudied the problem, talked to fruit pick-ers, and came up with a harness made oflightweight materials which distributesthe weight evenly across a picker's backand shoulders.

"We try to take a look at the physicalprinciples behind clothing," says Wat-kins. "We stress a knowledge of physiol-ogy, textile materials, and, in somecases, hard materials such as plastics forprotective equipment." The creation ofclothing for occupations such as fire-fighting or contact sports in the past has

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not involved considerations of eithercreativity or functional requirements ofeach piece of clothing. In fact, much ofthe design in these areas has been doneby people with backgrounds in engineer-ing rather than design.

But Watkins predicts that clothing de-signers will become increasingly impor-tant in this field. "A clothing designer,given a knowledge of the functional re-quirements of a piece of clothing, can goout and solve problems in a way peoplewill like."

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Affirmative InactionEditor: I am very angry to learn that, de-spite the existence of equal opportunitylaws, Cornell continues to discriminateagainst women faculty. When I was anundergraduate twenty years ago, womenfaculty members (except in the thenHome Ec school) were practically non-existent. Judging from reports of federalagencies and the ad placed in the AlumniNews by the "Cornell Eleven," Cornellhas responded to anti-discriminationlaws by hiring some women at junior lev-els, but refusing to promote them or givethem tenure. Thus, after about ten yearsof "affirmative action" the percentageof female faculty members has increasednegligibly. As an academic, I am awarethat Cornell is lagging well behind otheruniversities.

Since my undergraduate days, Cor-nell's policies toward female studentshave changed considerably: the universi-ty has realized that women studentsdon't require curfews, that wearingpants is OK (!) and that women can par-ticipate in athletic programs, even inter-scholastic competition. Bravo! Yes,women students have come a long way.However, it seems that policies towardfaculty women have not yet moved inthe direction of equality. Do they reallythink that women professors are inferiorto men??? Perhaps equal treatment inthis area requires more of a financialcommitment.

Speaking of financial commitment, Ihave recently been asked to make my an-nual contribution to the Cornell Fund.Rather than continue to support this dis-criminatory system, I shall send thismoney to the "Friends of the CornellEleven."

Judith Shulman Weis '62Newark, NJ

The writer signs herself a professor ofzoology at the Newark College of Artsand Sciences of Rutgers University.

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Editor: Several years ago when the title"Ms" appeared in our society you veryproperly began using it as standard prac-tice. I have not liked the term personal-ly, but am always pleased to see youreditors keeping up to date, and keeping

your readers abreast of events in ourchanging times. However, the "Ms" ti-tle seems to be an innovation which hasnot caught public approval, an ideawhich "didn't fly."

From the Virginia Slims AmericanWomen's Option Poll we get, "Ameri-can women say you can call them 'Mrs.'or you can call them 'Miss' but youdon't have to call them 'Ms.' " Thereport suggests, "An overwhelming ma-jority of women prefer the traditionaldesignations 'Miss' or 'Mrs.' " Eighty-one per cent of married women prefer"Mrs." Single women prefer "Miss" by62 per cent. So now, to be in step withthe times, you may wish to use "Mrs."and "Miss" unless an individual isknown to prefer "Ms." Such a policyseemingly would please most women.

And while you're at it, why not returnto the pleasant courtesy title (as opposedto no title) when referring to a womanby her last name? Is it disgraceful for awoman to receive courtesies not accord-ed to men?

Robert H. Shaw '62Dover, Del.

Time Flies

Editor: I am very surprised that no onehas commented on the date given in theSeptember issue for the photo of thecampus on the cover.

If the photo was taken during thesummer of 1979, then some buildings aredoing a good job disguising themselvesas trees and a parking lot: the apart-ments next to Alpha Delta Phi, the addi-tion to Malott, and the Boyce Thomp-son Institute.

I would guess that the photo was tak-en a few years earlier.

William F. O'Keefe Jr. '76Yardley, Pa.

Indeed! The picture was taken in 1975,and somewhere along the line we dated itincorrectly. Our apologies.—Ed.

Where We Learn

Editor: "A lot of academic educationgoes on outside the classroom." So saidProf. [James] Gibbs '52 in the October

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Alumni News. I recall the words of DeanLiberty Hyde Bailey in a speech to thefreshmen in the fall of 1912: "Don't letyour studies interfere with your educa-tion. "

Dean Bailey also stressed the need fora full four-year residence on the campus.He did not approve of accelerated pro-grams leading to a degree in less time.

Great man, that Dean Bailey, but I donot recall any Alumni News story on hislife and contributions to Cornell.

Felix Ferraris '16Palm Beach, Fla.

The last article devoted entirely to Baileywas "Unbelievable Bailey" by GouldCo I man '51 in the June 1963 issue. Sev-eral pages of "Setting the Pattern" inthe September 1974 issue on the historyof the university were devoted to theBailey administration and its relation-ship to the university under PresidentJacob Gould Schurman.—Ed.

Seriously

Editor: I would suggest to Prof. [Rob-ert] Kraut [June 1980 News, in which hesaid, "Nobody takes Senator P.roxmireseriously" about his Golden FleeceAward for supposedly frivolous govern-ment-sponsored research] that he checkhis sources.

A number of people take SenatorProxmire seriously and furthermorethink his Golden Fleece Award is one ofthe few good ideas to come out of Con-gress in the past decade!

Franklyn Meyer '46Honolulu

What of Sports?

Editor: It is becoming increasingly diffi-cult to find the "sports section" in theAlumni News, which is most unfortu-nate for those of us who do not regularlyread the New York Times. Is it the per-ception of the editors of the News thatthe alumni, or, perhaps, most of thealumni no longer care what happens tothe Cornell teams?

I used to look forward with consider-able relish to reading the News, becausethere was such good sports coverage.Now, although the News has been muchimproved in many other ways, the poorCornell sport follower has to be satisfiedwith a few paragraphs on the last page.If the teams won more, would the Newsimprove the coverage and position?

John H. Gardner '30Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

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with the November issue each year. Thedeadline for that issue is such that onlyone or two fall sports events have takenplace before we go to press and into themails, and that is all we have to report.

During the ten issues February-De-cember 1980, we carried 203 column-in-ches of team news, in the Teams and Al-so news sections of the magazine, and390 inches of features and pictures onsports, including the May cover and 70inches of words and pictures on themen's hockey team that won the Easternchampionship.

We report the record of every varsityteam every month in its season, thescores of all major team events male andfemale, outstanding individual perfor-mances, league standings, and the high-lights of key contests, including all varsi-ty football, some hockey, track, base-ball, rowing, and lacrosse, and as manyother items as are newsworthy and time-

ly-No reader-supported alumni maga-

zine has the resources of the weekly newsand sports magazines, nor of course ofdaily newspapers. We published a sportsletter for readers two years, but discon-tinued it when subscribers were unwill-ing to pay its expenses. The athletic de-partment now publishes the Big Red Re-port for $12 a year, 11 issues each fall, 4in the winter, and 2 in the spring.

We are aware we could do more, but amonthly schedule with a fairly long lead-time between final writing and deliveryto readers causes us to concentrate thecoverage as we now do. We welcomesuggestions and criticisms, and will re-spond as best we can to ideas of how wecan improve.—Ed.

Kane Seconded

Editor: The sentiments expressed by BobKane (CAN, October 1980) are resound-ingly seconded. Why must the Olympicscontinue to be misused as the soundingboard for warped nationalism? Whenwill all the sports elitists in the US recog-nize the fact that the InternationalOlympics, as orchestrated, has outlivedits role as the management tool for inter-national sports' competition and hascompletely contorted its raison d'etre?

Was not the purported purpose to beinternational competition among indi-viduals—not nations? Why should it benecessary to acclaim the superiority ofone nation over another, rather than toapplaud the physical prowess of the win-ning competitor? Berlin, Moscow—willour turn come to make political mockeryof what should be healthy, individualcompetition?

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Let's urge Bob Kane to assume a lead-ership role, in his capacity as presidentof the US Olympic Committee, to turnthe Olympics around to the type of com-petition it was set up to be originally. Letus honor and give credit to the indivi-dual athletes as they compete and gaintheir victories. That is the way it wasmeant to be!

Maurie Semel '49Calverton

The Candy Man

Editor: In the [November 1980] issue ofthe News you published a picture of anelderly gentleman selling Saturday Even-ing Posts on Cascadilla bridge and youwondered about the year.

I transferred from Syracuse to Cornellat the beginning of my junior year, arriv-ing in Ithaca in September of 1911. Thegentleman in the picture was at that spotthe first Thursday that I was on campusand I became a regular customer. As Iremember he never talked.

If my memory is correct he was notthere in the spring of my senior year. Myguess is that the picture was taken in thewinter of either 1911 or 1912. Or prior.

George W. Lamb '13Hamilton

Editor: Regarding the picture of thesalesman on page 38 of the NovemberNews:

I was a student from 1914-1917 andthis same picture is in my "stunt book."Part of the inscription has been cut offexcept for Candy Man, but the rest of itreads, "A familiar figure . . . Jack Teed. . . Sat'd'y Evenin' Post." Photo-graphed by O.D. von Engeln '08.

I well remember the old man standingthere through heat or cold every Thurs-day morning with his sad call, "Sat'd'yEvenin' Post."

I get great pleasure from reading theNews, as did my late husband, CharlesJ. Rowland '17.

Mazie M. Rowland '17State College, Pa.

FootnotesThis is a report on a story that got away.It concerns William A. Hilton '99, who Imet soon after I joined the administra-tive staff of the Claremont GraduateSchool and University Center in 1966. Iused to eat lunch most of the time at theFaculty Club of the Claremont Colleges.There, at the long faculty table, I soonfound myself in conversation with an

alert elderly professor who almost imme-diately identified himself as a Cornell-ian. We exchanged anecdotes aboutCornell day after day for many months,despite the knowledge that we wereprobably boring our colleagues nearly totears.

Professor Hilton, I learned, had re-tired in 1944 after thirty-two years aschairman of the Zoology Department ofPomona College. He had entered Cor-nell as a junior in 1897, and after takinghis BS degree had stayed three moreyears for a PhD in zoology. He was alsoa member of the Cornell faculty from1908 to 1911. At his funeral in 1970,President Emeritus E. Wilson Lyon ofPomona said that "at Cornell he foundthe congenial intellectual home whichclaimed his respect and affectionthroughout his life."

Recently I learned through PresidentLyon that Professor Hilton had left asubstantial amount of autobiographicalmaterial in manuscript. I made arrange-ments to go to Claremont to see it, in thehope of finding in writing some of thefascinating stories he used to tell atlunch. I hoped for enough anecdotesand descriptions of his Cornell experi-ences for a full-length article. But his pa-pers were a complete disappointment.

Not that they were insufficient inquantity. I went through much of thecontents of a fairly large box. But he hadkept a day-to-day diary of everythingthat happened. He wrote of having acold in the head, of receiving a letterfrom home, of meeting a new girl, oflosing his footing in Cascadilla gorgeand soiling his clothes. He did mentionmeeting David Starr Jordan—just thatand practically nothing more. There washardly a hint to explain why he foundCornell to be a congenial intellectualhome.

I think I know why Professor Hiltonnever wrote the autobiography he onceplanned to base on those notes. He hadprepared so thoroughly, and collectedsuch a mass of trivia, that when the ma-terial was before him he couldn't decidewhat was significant.

He did much better when he was en-gaged in casual conversation. Theremust be a lesson here somewhere. Per-haps one's life can be adequately de-scribed only from a distance in time. Theresult for me is that I have no articleabout Professor Hilton for the AlumniNews.

—Ray Howes '24

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Coming of AgeIn Pago Pago

By Lee Mitchell Nilson '48

This is the second chapter in the ad-ventures of two Cornellians who met inthe early 1970s at the university'sShoals Marine Lab in New Englandand found they shared a dream ofmaking their life at sea. They boughtan ocean-going ketch, the Serenity, andin 1975 headed into the Pacific withthe hope they could attract enough re-search grants to provide a living afloat.

The alumni are Russell Mitchell Nil-son '73, a graduate in Engineering, andFrederic Martini, PhD '74, who earned

When Ric Martini and I [Russ Nilson]sailed into Papeete in April 1976 after solong on the boundless sea, it was a shockto find Gaughin's exotic paradise a bust-ling modern jetport. Through doldrumsand storms and mountainous waves, ourthirty-seven foot ketch, Serenity, haddelivered us safe and sound to the shoresof Tahiti.

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The legendary research vessel Varua beingreplanked in Pago Pago in 1978. Above,Samoan fire and sword dancers take part in

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the Bicentennial celebration that greetedtwo alumni sailors in 1976. Below, keystopping points in their Pacific adventure.

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his degree in biology. The first chapterin their story was told in the September1976 Alumni News and carried theirproject through the spring of 1976, bywhich time they had made their way toTahiti.

This article was written by Lee Mit-chell Nilson '48, a director of thefoundation under which the two menwork, and mother of Nilson. Shewrites it in Nilson's voice, based onletters, conversations, and her ownobservations in the Pacific.

On our seemingly endless passagefrom the Galapagos we'd been intriguedwith the tales of a fabled, world-rovingsailor, William Albert Robinson. Be-cause Tahiti was his home, we hoped tomeet him there. We did not know Rob-inson lay seriously ill.

Upon arrival, we were swamped withproblems of our own. We plowed

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through the paperwork and provisioningto ready Serenity for the next long haul.Sturdy and reliable she was, but toosmall for our grandiose plans. We werebeginning to see that we would need alarger vessel some day when we could af-ford to expand our dreams. New Cale-donia was still very far away, and it wasthe starting point for our government-sponsored research on the rare and en-dangered sea mammal, the dugong.

Meanwhile, Robinson, felled by astroke while at work on his beloved ship,Varua, lay in the hospital at Papeete re-viewing some dreams of his own. In 1928he had made a solo circumnavigation ofthe globe in his thirty-two-foot ketch,Svaap. He returned to a hero's welcomeand received the coveted Blue WaterMedal in 1931.

A few years later, Robinson wasstruck by acute appendicitis during apenguin-filming expedition on the Gala-pagos islands, and he made headlinesagain. President Franklin Roosevelt sent

the destroyer Hale to his rescue, alongwith two amphibious Navy bombers, thefirst planes to land in the Galapagos. Af-ter a successful operation aboard Hale,followed by recuperation in Panama,Robinson headed for Tahiti. He built ahomestead there, incorporating manyearly ecological concepts. He also devel-oped a strong rapport with the islanders.

Later in the 1930s Robinson bought aNew England shipyard. Fitting voyagesto the Orient in with his shipbuilding, heturned out handsome schooners for theGloucester fishing fleet and beautifulsailing yachts for the wealthy. In collab-oration with friends W. Starling Bur-gess, designer of the America's Cup win-ner Ranger, and L. Francis Herreshoff,the dean of modern yacht design, Robin-son created his own dream ship, theVarua. Construction was under way onthe seventy-three-foot brigantine whenWorld War II erupted. He lived aboardthe unfinished ship, but turned his atten-tion to the production of minesweepers

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and subchasers—work that earned hisshipyard four years of the Navy " E " forexcellence.

In 1945, with Admiral Nimitz's per-mission, the Varua set sail on her maidenvoyage to the South Pacific. Making Pa-peete, Tahiti, her home port, she genera-ted legends from Bangkok to Patagonia.

Robinson wrote several popularbooks recounting the Varua9s voyages.In the 1950s she served as a roving sealaboratory in Robinson's campaign tocombat the dreaded disease, filariasis,which produces the grotesque human de-formations of elephantiasis. As this ex-pedition collected blood samples fromthe tribes of all their known lands, ithelped trace the origins of the Polyne-sian people.

Now, some twenty years later, Robin-son pondered the fate of his lovely sealady, who lay idle in a harbor nearby.When Ric Martini and I wrote for ameeting, we told him of our dreams tocarry on marine field research and edu-cation. He must have wondered whetherwe might be ones who could breathe lifeagain into his venerable but ailingVarua.

Apparently so. In conversation at hisbedside on the day before our scheduleddeparture, Robinson astonished us byoffering the Varua as a gift. His onlystipulation was that she be converted in-to a modern research vessel. Had we an-ticipated the repercussions ofRobinson's generosity, we might havedecided otherwise and still be at sea onSerenity. And the Varua might havebeen no more.

We delayed leaving Tahiti to deal withour amazing new burden. Thirty-fouryears in the harsh tropical climate takesits toll on a wooden ship. Our time andmoney were, as usual, tight. Temporary

measures were all we could afford to f , „ , . , „ , . . , . . . , „provision and ready this second vessel. Preparing the new hull of the Varna R,c Martini at right. Russ Nilson;ΈΓ x , , , :. . . are Erupt, above, master caulker, and upper right, works a radio transmitter.We patched her sails, renewed runningrigging, made her as watertight as wecould with some planking and paint.Hard work, hope, and thinly stretchedcredit had become our way of life.

To handle our expanded operations,we needed a support organization. Withpiles of paperwork, Ric and I establishedMarine Environmental Research, Inc.(MER), a tax exempt, nonprofit founda-tion dedicated to the marine sciences.

Next came queries for crew and for amarine yard where the Varua could behauled out for replanking while we wereoff chasing dugongs. Responding to ourcall for crew, came our old friend fromthe Shoals lab days, Ron Harelstad. (Henow serves as engineer for Cornell's Islesof Shoals Marine Laboratory.) He ar-

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Below, a traditional Samoan villagecanoe on Bicentennial Day.

rived in the midst of our frantic flurry oftyping, painting, and patching. So didan offer from the lieutenant governor ofAmerican Samoa to use the marine rail-way in Pago Pago when it came time tohaul Varua out of the water for repairs.Samoa was in the right general direction,and we assumed the natives were friend-ly. Thus, our course was set.

In May we sailed for American Sa-moa. I was at the helm of the agedVarua, while Ric skippered the stout lit-tle Serenity, who was just half the size ofher travelling companion. The Varua'sold engine was soon put to the test whenalmost all the sails were blown out in thefirst good wind. But the engine, too, hadsuffered the corrosive effects of time inthe tropics and proceeded to conk outevery hour or so. That meant frustratingsessions in an oil-soaked engine roomfor Ron and me, as the Varua sloshedaround on the rolling sea. Cleaning andreplacing the injectors became thequeasy, grimy game required to coax theconsumptive Varua on toward PagoPago, still many days away. With thisagonizing courtship—during which Ilost twenty pounds—I began a love af-fair with this grand old girl that con-sumes me still today.

Early in June 1976, groaning with re-

lief and gratitude, we brought our shipsinto the beautiful enclosed volcanic cra-ter bay of Pago Pago on the island ofTutuila in the American Samoas.Michener's paradise came to mind. Rel-ishing thoughts of bright-eyed Pol-ynesians with flashing smiles rowing outto greet us in outriggers piled with conchshells and cocoanuts and frangipani leis,we anchored mid-harbor with great ex-pectations. The scenery was right as werowed ashore—blue-green water insidethe endless breakers on the fringing reef,steep mountains, lush and green, tower-ing above ribbons of sandy beach, color-ful buildings with thatched roofs dottingthe hillside, ships' masts and palm treespunctuating the strand like a series of ex-clamation marks.

Then the idyll came to an end. A rau-cous din assailed our ears, and thestench of tuna canneries reached out togreet us. Halfway around the world, af-ter seven months at sea, we had lost allsense of seasons or dates. We had landedwithout a clue in the middle of a caca-phonic comedy of red, white, and blue.It was spring 1976. Bicentennial prepara-tions were in full swing in Pago Pago.Neither Maugham nor Mead had pre-pared us for this—nor for that matter,for almost anything that was to follow.

Our first lesson was in adjusting ourpace to the Polynesian time scale. Wefound a palagi (white) shipwright anx-ious to work on our famous ship. But headvised us to relax. There was no way tohustle in Samoa. We would have to waituntil American liberty had been properlycelebrated before we could get any helpin hauling the Varua into drydock. Sinceour continuing research must contendwith schedules, itineraries, and the hur-ricane season, we decided Ric shouldmove Serenity on to Fiji. I would staybehind to supervise the haul out, thenjoin him there for the next leg to NewCaledonia, leaving the shipwright to re-plank the Varua. With this settled, Ronand I bid tofa (goodbye) to Ric and gotdown to the serious business of soakingup some Samoan culture.

Pago Pago, we soon discovered, is nota tourist town, despite its exotic setting;There are no charming boutiques, fewpicturesque bars, no haute cuisine, norplaces to play. The hottest souveniritem, besides tapa cloth and baskets(made by Tongans), is the T-shirtprinted with WHERE THE HELL ISPAGO PAGO? The gecko lizards ticklemore than your fancy, and the cock-roaches are big enough to ride.

To catch the colonial-era atmosphereof Samoa, Herb and Sia's restaurant isthe best thing going. Seated in high-

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backed peacock chairs, picking at mor-sels of raw fish and squid wrapped inpandanus leaves, we watched Roseydance and cavort with amazing grace tothe tunes of the family band. Rosey,glistening in cocoanut oil, sporting aflower behind an ear, is a fa'a fafi-m—that is to say, a 300-pound malewith fluttering eyes and twinkling toes.(Since female children do the domesticwork in the family, when there are toomany sons the boys are trained in girls'roles—voΐla, a 300-pound graceful boy.)

Ron and I were chewing that overwhile strolling through town the nextday. Suddenly I was hurtling throughspace, hit by one of the few cars in Sa-moa. What irony for me to have sur-vived hurricanes off Hatteras, drug run-ners in the Caribbean, poisonous jelly-fish stings while filming whales under-water, revolutions in the Galapagos, aswell as the normal hazards of reefs andsharks and being run down in shippinglanes, only to meet my Maker at thehands of a wild Samoan in a beat-upChevrolet. But no lasting damage wasdone.

And I received my first lesson in thelaw of the islands. Law resides in eachvillage chief, whose power comes in turnfrom the size of his aiga (extended fami-ly). The runaway driver was the cause ofmuch mirth. So was I, as I lay dazed in aheap. Samoans giggle at everything. Afierce village chief, huge in his lavalava(wrap-around skirt) and headpiece offeathers and mirrors, shooed the crowdwith the symbol of authority, his walk-ing stick. Chomping on a cigar, hebopped a few heads for added merri-ment.

While recovering from my lumps andmy bruised ego, I brushed up on fa'a Sa-moa (the Samoan way). The first obser-vations I read were from 1904 by twoCornellians, David Starr Jordan 1872and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Grad'91-92. Their accounts remained amaz-ingly accurate on almost every aspect ofSamoan life until 1962. But PresidentKennedy brought that way of life to anend when he appointed H. Rex Lee gov-ernor, directing him to bring Samoa intothe 20th century. Lee did it with theboob tube.

Television ended the Samoans' isola-tion and spawned appetites that are aliento their nature. Huge and handsome, theSamoans had taken pride in their beliefthat they were the true Polynesians. Ac-cording to anthropologists, competitionand commercial enterprise were not theirway of doing things. Living communallyunder the strict authority of their tat-tooed tribal chiefs, they were content to

fill their days with close-knit village life,a little fishing and farming, and languor-ous indifference to the white man's hus-tle. Even the whole-hearted conversionto Christianity in the 1830s didn't greatlychange their way of life, other than tocause a building boom in churches andto awake a passion for singing hymns.

The confusion about the old ways andvalues came with the advent of that Pan-dora's box, the TV. The old folks rued,the young ones migrated. The rest in-dulged in intermittent mayhem, or com-muted to Honolulu for weekend bingesof Kentucky Fried and pastries. Spoiled

fale (hut), we relaxed and awaited theFourth of July.

The tacky little town was dolled up forthe occasion. Paint had been slapped onall that didn't move, including thepalms. Drums, chants, and disco compe-ted loudly. Kava, Coke, and duty-freewhisky flowed freely. Jabbering throngsmunched on roast pig and taro, burgersand fries. Kids and dogs, piglets andchickens skittered through the marchingbands. An elaborate float parade depict-ing events in American history carriedbare-chested astronauts on their papier-mache spacecraft; pretty brown fafines

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by pre-packaged, throw-away, instantAmericanization, the Samoans retalia-ted with gleeful pranks and nasty habitspicked up from a daily dose of All-StarWrestling and Charlie's Angels augmen-ted by a sewer of X-rated flicks.

Where the two Cornellians left offdescribing Samoa, Nicholas von Hoff-man and Garry Trudeau, the creator ofthe comic strip Doonesbury, took over.In their Tales from the Margaret MeadTaproom, von Hoffman and Trudeaucaptured the essence of contemporarySamoa. Stranded in Doonesburyland,we let its Uncle Duke and MacArthur beour guides. It became a matter of mind-ing the taboos and joining in the fun.

Having arrived at that conclusion,Ron and I got down to the business athand. We removed the Varua's mastsand all the fine hardware that had oncebeen on the America's Cup contenderVanity. With these stored away in our

(girls) in Betsy Ross garb adorned an hi-biscus-strewn liberty bell. The profusionof crepe paper, flowers, and exuberantgood fun brought back memories ofCornell Spring Days.

The town was a blur of color and ac-tion: fire and knife dancers in a frenzyof feathers; cricket and karate withenormous men in lavalavas; greased poleclimbs and wild pig chases. Even the se-date competitions of basket weaving,fire making, and copra cutting elicitedoohs and ahs.

In the excitement of the occasion, aMrs. Fagota gave birth to triplets, laternamed Red, White, and Blue. Suchnames are not extraordinary in a placewhere odd ones abound. Many a middle-aged Samoan is called Chicago, Tulsa,or Kalamazoo, names gleaned from theyears when Samoa was a US naval base.

The game-loving Samoans competedfiercely in the prestigious grand finale tothis mind-blowing, four-day celebra-tion, the fautasi race which offered aprize of $10,000 to the winning village.The fautasi is a seventy-foot canoe with

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twenty-three pairs of stationary seats,manned by the largest of the large—straining to the beat of the man on thebiscuit tin and going all out for the prize.It was an exhausting and hilarious con-clusion to this American holiday so pas-sionately embraced by the Samoans.

The next day the dusty town lay still inits patriotic tatters. A weary crew of Sa-moans hauled out the dilapidated Varuafor my discouraging inspection. It wastime for me to join Ric in Fiji. We had acontract to fulfill, debts to pay off, arti-cles to write, and now it seemed we hadbecome chained to a magnificent white

beginning of our odyssey by exposure topolitical machinations, the FBI clear-ances, and government strictures. Whenwe came through a proliferation of pa-pers in Panama, our humor was on thewane. These indignities were child's playwe learned while coping with the redtape that exhausted our cash and our pa-tience in the Galapagos.

By the time we reached our next stop,the Marquesas, we discovered how vul-nerable we were. All our correspon-dence—checks, bills, requests, gifts, andslides from our two months in the Gala-pagos had been gobbled up by the Ecua-

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Fiji, and a pall settled over my reunionwith Ric and Serenity. The large founda-tion support we'd been led to expect hadbeen wiped out by a change in the board.Still reeling from this news we read a let-ter from Washington informing us thatour contract would be curtailed in lengthand scope because of crises in Africa andthe Middle East. For now, these areaswere off-limits to research vessels. Downthe drain went our well-laid plans for atwo-year circumnavigation, our interna-tional passports, and our coveted collec-tion of visas. No matter that we hadsailed halfway around the world on ourown to pick up this grant. Never mindthat this population survey on the en-dangered dugong had smaller grants, ar-ticles, and photographic work contin-gent on the government grant. We werefeeling rather down in the mouth to havecome so far, through so much, with solittle, and now to have our economic se-curity blanket yanked from under us.

We had been naively amused at the

dorian postal system. We had to tradecassette tapes, clothes, and trinkets forfood and fuel in the lovely but remoteMarquesas before we could sail again.Once in Tahiti, Ric chained himself to atypewriter, trying to reconstruct oureconomic past and future.

Now in Fiji, sadder but wiser—andhardly subdued—we took stock. Wewere in a classic bind—a commitmentpast the point of no return. Ric, whohad signed the contract as the marinebiologist, would complete the curtaileddugong study, we decided, while I wouldreturn to Samoa to get the Varua readyfor sea. We now pinned our hopes onthe larger ship. Several field scientistsand museums had expressed interest inplacing people aboard a roving sea lab-oratory. The Serenity could not ac-comodate them.

We realized we might be forced to sellthe faithful Serenity to pay off our debtsafter her Australian expedition. Sincethere is little market for a wooden boatin the tropics, we put that painful decis-ion out of our minds for the time being.

What was really urgent was to findlumber for replanking Varua. We werelucky to find a stockpile of Kauri, prizedby the early whalers and merchant fleets.I arranged for the shipping, then saw Ricoff for New Caledonia. I returned aloneto lavalava land, hoping I could strugglethrough the next few months.

While waiting for the lumber to ar-rive, I submerged myself in a horrorshow. Well aware that dry rot had set inthroughout her planking and decks, Icontinued stripping the Varua. But I wasshocked to find as well that most of theship's fastenings no longer functioned.Each hard, hot day brought furtherwoes. All the keel bolts had rusted away.Carpenter ants were working their waythrough the interior. The final blow, af-ter weeks of removing layer by layer,was the discovery that a third of theVarua's steel frames were rustedthrough, as well. How, I wondered, hadthe 30,000 pounds of lead in her keelstayed in place during the difficult pas-sage from Tahiti? Had the caulkingalone kept her from disassembling enroute? When there was little left of Var-ua but her skeleton and her soul, I satdazed and dejected.

Surely she must be saved, but how? Icould hear Robinson saying that he hadnamed her Varua, Tahitian for "spirit"or "soul," to express the essence of theethereal beauty of a sailing ship. Thissame ship of which Eric Hiscock hadsaid, "Even at anchor the sight of herraised the hair on the back of my neck."Either she would be scrapped, or totalrestoration was unavoidable. With nocash assets, tenuous credit, thousands ofmiles from home, and saddled with alarge ship that lay in pieces in a busyboatyard, I began to believe I'd reachedthe bottom. It was at this juncture, nodoubt, that the rumor was circulated inthe yachting world that the Varua wasno more. Our shipwright departed, leav-ing a "Dear John" letter in his wake.The dockside skeptics gathered tomourn her fate with varying degrees ofreverence, ridicule, and regret.

Call it Yankee doggedness or my pas-sion for impossible projects, but I wasdetermined the Varua would sail again.What we needed most was help—peoplewho would be intrigued with the project,be willing to support it with volunteer ef-fort or with financial contributions. Tothose left at home deluged with worthycauses, our requests for assistance to re-store a seventy-three-foot brigantine inPago Pago must surely have seemed ab-surd.

The old adage of spending money tomake money was put to the test. Ric

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joined me for a bargain trip back to theStates to plead our cause. As uncomfort-able in this quest for funds as we were inour new pin-stripes and tight shoes, wecourted friends and foundations with anew brochure and illustrated lectures.Then we hired a shipwright and sailmak-er and returned to our appointed taskson separate islands.

Ric met Ron Harlestad, who wouldnow crew for him, in the New Hebridesto pick up Serenity and continue on toAustralia. I flew back to the speck in theSouth Pacific where our tragicomedywas soon to get into full swing. I was re-welding or replacing Varua's framesduring that lean and lonely time. Maud-lin sentiments overwhelmed me as I satalone in a bar on my 25th birthday. Ad-venturing may sound romantic to peoplewho are restless or bored at home, butit's essentially just plain hard work—with lots of worry and loneliness to off-set any glamor or excitement. My mem-ories of this period of waiting for sup-plies and signs of support are of sweat-ing in unbearable heat, of hunger, freetuna fish handouts, aching muscles, andan empty mailbox.

With the arrival of our long-missinglumber, things did begin to look up inFebruary 1977. Ron was back by then.Ric had returned to the States to hustleup faculty and students for a summerreef study program our MER founda-tion had coming up. The Serenity wasleft for an overhaul in Australia. Theshipwright and some volunteers for thereplanking of the Varua were on the wayto Samoa. And some cash donations forMER were beginning to trickle in.

One of the volunteers to respond tothe call of the tropics was Jim Brumsted,who brought welcome tales from Ithacaand Cornell. Another was Susan Mott'75, my friend from our early days atCornell. Volunteers offered invaluableassistance in the form of more than50,000 hours of labor over the next sev-eral months, all in aid of a dream. Hardwork with very little pay was exchangedfor some experience and adventure in anexotic setting.

Ric sailed Serenity back to Pago Pagoin June. Directing MER's six-week sum-mer session, he alternated three days onthe reef and three in the lab doing tran-seGt studies on the island, and projectson the behavior and distribution of someof the unusual marine animals aroundSamoa. With the shipwright supervisingthe replanking, the Varua'?, hull was tak-ing shape. With students and volunteerwork crew to feed and care for, I felt likea palagi chief with my own aiga, my ownextended family.

To help cope, Ron and I took jobs

with a construction firm building a roadover Rainmaker Mountain. I was em-ployed as the field engineer, bossing anall-Samoan, non-English speaking, ta-tooed bush crew. With the help of thetext on concrete design written by my fa-ther, Arthur Nilson '48, chairman ofCornell's structural engineering depart-ment, and some fancy sign language andSamoan cussing, we got along very well.

The satisfaction of keeping MER'scompound in groceries and the Varuaproject moving forward was dampenedas the months wore on. Driving a nativecrew twelve hours a day for seven days aweek under the tropical sun, throughtorrential downpours, landslides, andearthquakes—not to mention ordersfrom higher up to get the job done anyold way before the rainy season becauseit would all wash out anyhow—left onlythe fleeting magic of the paycheck,which was immediately consumed.

As the summer of 1977 wore on, how-ever, we did squeeze in some fun. TheSamoans aren't much for swimming, sothe beaches are rather trashed out, butwe found some glorious spots for diving,swimming, and snorkeling. The harborafforded its own delights—new boats,fresh gossip, and interesting sights. TheWoods Hole research ship Knorr was atreat to see, and the ships of the US Na-vy were somewhat comforting. I alsohad the rare pleasure of being a guestaboard the royal yacht Britannia, but Inever laid eyes on the Queen. The TerraNova, immortalized in James Taylor'sballads, became a familiar haven atcocktail time when the sunsets offeredsplendor free of charge. For thrills, thelurching tramway—which had beenknown to fail—spun out 1,610 feet overPago Bay on its mile-long ascent up Mt.Alava. It was not for the faint of heart,but it offered a magnificent view.

These diversions were heavily weight-ed with grinding labor, endless bills andproblems, bouts of fever and assorteddebilitating gut bugs, and relentless bat-tles with cockroaches, corrosion, andmildew—all of which pointed to the pal-agi's basic inability to withstand longperiods in the tropics.

Adjusting to the local customs was anever-ending strain. Samoans are enthu-siastic rock throwers, and stoning hasbeen the traditional rebuke for trans-gressions, large and small. On their listof taboos, which trip up many a visitor,are habits such as these: better hadn'tstand up when speaking in a Samoanfale (hut); stretch your legs straight outin front of you (better tuck in or coverwith a fine mat); expose much femaleleg; carry an umbrella or a load on your

back while passing a fale with older Sa-moans conversing inside; drive a car pastthem; forget to spill a few drops of kavaand hold the cup out in front of youbefore starting to drink; do manuallabor, fish, or swim on Sunday; wear aflower in church; create a din duringvesper hours; forget to observe sa(prayer time, when you must go intoyour home, stop driving a car and getout of it and sit until the third bell isrung); and so on. Needless to say, we allhad to dodge rocks occasionally, andweren't always quite sure why.

Cocoanuts are the other dangerousmissiles that fly through the air unexpec-tedly. They're skull-crushers, and theycontribute to the high mortality rate—along with suicide, murder, and car col-lisions.

By fall 1977, Ric had joined the roadgang, after MER's students and facultyhad returned home. The heat and workwere getting to us all, but we had to keepthe wolf from the door. Gloom and ex-haustion prevailed.

Politics was the catalyst that set theDoonesbury aspect of our lives in mo-tion again. Congress decreed that for thefirst time Samoans could elect to thegovernorship one of their own. MER'slocal image improved considerably asthe contenders, seeing on which sidetheir breadfruit was buttered, heartilyendorsed our programs in science andeducation. They began to vie for our fa-vor, which improved our diet andyanked us out of our blue funk.

We had been pushing for developmentof commercial fishing, mariculture, andenvironmental impact studies of thebeautiful bay that received all the efflu-ent from the tuna canneries. Washing-ton was interested, but the Samoanscouldn't have cared less. Why shouldthey worry about the bay? Swimmingand yachting are of no interest to them,and they prefer pisupi (cannedcorned beef) to fresh fish. Besides, to-morrow never comes in Samoa. As longas container ships in a constant paradekeep disgorging their cargoes of goodiesfrom Uncle Sam, what's to worry?

With the governorship as prize, how-ever, the lethargic Polynesians bestirredthemselves. Samoans can be galvanizedinto action by sports and celebrations,and the game of politics seemed to playon both these enthusiasms. The cam-paign's absurdities and foul play wereexposed in Trudeau's Doonesbury car-toon strip back in the States, which inturn caused a few local heads to roll inSamoa.

I was drawn into the political scene byone of the candidates, who gave me

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The rebuilt brignatine Varua lies off whatever that was worth. He was a for- In December the rains came. TheMaui island, Hawaii, last year, ready midable contender—a village chief, work force and shipwright had complet-again for marine research, fifth-degree Black Belt, an all-around ed the Varua's replanking, and with Ron

jolly good fellow. His extended family returned to their various homes forwas not large enough to pull it off, how- Christmas. The road work ended in the

friendship and protection in some of my ever, or our Samoan stay might have deluge. Relief and regret were mixed,lean and lonely periods. I became his ended more happily. Another candidate Ric and I slogged on alone now throughpalagi advisor and speech writer, for won. the post-election chaos. All the bright

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promises of politics had dissolved in therain. We continued getting our shipready for sea, while trying to drum upwork for MER.

When the rains let up, we tackled therestoration again with the endless hoursof sweat and sawdust, cold showers andbeer, pores and lungs clogged from pain-ful days of sanding when the air was stilland the electricity was working.

Our spirits got an occasional boost.We received a letter from William Rob-inson, who was on the mend in Honolu-lu. It was full of good advice and unwav-ering faith and interest in our restorationof the Varua.

Things were humming along byspring. Erupi, a Tokelau Islander,joined Ric and me for the monumentalchore of caulking the Varua's hull.When she ghosted into Pago Pago athousand aches ago, he let it be knownthat he would like to work on the lovelyold ship. Erupi had been a schoonermanwho sailed the copra trade routes beforesettling in Samoa. He had been retired ashead caulker for the local marine yard.With Ric and me breathing hard to keepup, this 68-year-old caulked more thantwo miles of seams in the old handcraft-ed fashion.

He was later to serve as my crew onthe Varua; wise in the ways of the sea, heshared his native ability to whistle up thewind, to make baggy-wrinkle to preventthe sails from chafing, to catch marlin,and to offer his good-natured zest forliving.

Ric and I continued to juggle our dualroles between the sweaty, grueling laborson Varua, and the patient piloting ofMER's fortunes through the breakers ofisland politics. After scraping tar andpaint, we would spruce up for luncheswith the new governor and other highmuck-a-mucks. We were thoroughly in-doctrinated by this time in the con-voluted affairs of these islands, andfound ourselves tenaciously intent onsucceeding in Samoa.

It was perverse, but true to form, thata pretty but poisonous starfish was re-sponsible for improving MER's pros-pects in Polynesia. The Crown ofThorns starfish feeds on the living coralpolyps, leaving a weakened skeleton thatcannot withstand wave action. An unex-plained population explosion of this de-structive starfish in recent years hasjeopardized the island communities thatdepend on the barrier reefs for their sur-vival.

Knowing the Samoans wouldn't care,but that maybe Uncle Sam would, MERsubmitted a grant proposal for monitor-ing this marine invasion. While waiting

for the official word on this grant, welaunched a vigorous diving and bountyproject to combat this ecological disas-ter.

What we didn't realize was that wehad been drawn into a wicked game. Forus, the stakes were high. It appeared thatMER had the first $100,000, part of a to-tal $250,000 contract approved by theUS Congress after review by the Smith-sonian. This contract was to be chan-neled through the new Samoan govern-ment. And this was the rub. We neverdreamed our paltry grant would exciteany interest in a land with only 35,000people being pampered by an annualfederal expenditure of $50 million. Be-sides, it was our grant proposal, and wewere the only organization in the areaqualified to do the work. But apparentlysome players, better left unnamed, con-sidered our grant up for grabs. Wefound ourselves suddenly in the midst ofa confusing and very rough game of is-land politics.

Ric's father, Fred, arrived to join ourteam. He had been hard at work in theStates, juggling the creditors and lobby-ing for MER's survival while the fledg-ling organization was trying to get offthe ground. In a society where the eldersrun the show, Fred lent dignity to ourcause. With his glasses and gray hair, helacked only the traditional waist-to-kneetattoo to put him on a par with the vil-lage chiefs. He was given his own "talk-ing chief," who accompanied him aboutthe island trying to alert the disinterestednatives about the starfish danger to theirreefs. Fred was a popular palagi, and wemanaged to get sone constructive workdone. MER produced five educationaldocumentaries for TV (two of them inSamoan).

At one point in the teasing, appeasingups and downs, we were given a newheadquarters for MER. The govern-ment-surplus ocean-going salvage tugTalitiga became our office in the middleof Pago Bay. She was to house the sum-mer program students MER expectedagain, as well as my sister and mother,who were to arrive soon.

By the time MER's 1978 summer ses-sion began, pressure was taking its toll.The starfish grant had become part of agame in which the players and the rulesseemed to change daily. Ric and I feltcompelled by the nature of this crazysoap opera to get the Varua safelylaunched. We set a heart-breaking,mind-straining pace to accomplish thisgoal. We were hampered by the whim-sies of both man and nature—withheldfunds, accidents, theft, violent storms,and the usual "nothing works in

Samoa" syndrome with power and wa-ter failures. Anxiety was high and tem-pers were short.

In the midst of this tragicomedy, mysister Carol arrived with a research grantfrom Harvard to work on the Crown ofThorns starfish program, the projectthat was in the process of being sand-bagged by politics. Until things settleddown, Fred and his "talking chief" ar-ranged for her to see the islands as fewpalagis are privileged to do. The chieftook her to remote villages in the back ofbeyond, reached only by four-wheel-drive jeep or by boat. She was taken intothe open-sided fates, where she sat silentwith her legs tucked under her, waitingfor the chief to speak to her.

When she'd eaten with the women af-ter the men were finished, they'd allhuddle around the old RCA and watchUS professional football until it wastime to curl up on their palm-frond matsside by side with the whole aiga. She roseto Maxwell House and cornflakesdoused in Australian tinned milk, whilethey all watched Godzilla cartoons. Herhikes through the rainforest and downthe long stretches of beach were consid-ered somewhat odd. But their trek to theclinic to get penicillin for a sick baby,followed by a stop at the local bush doc-tor's for acupressure was not. A curiousplace of contrast and contradiction, Sa-moa.

When Carol was not working on herreport, she was pressed into the final,frantic sprint to get Varua into the wa-ter. Ship carpenter's skills were added toher academic credentials.

By summer's end, my mother, LeeMitchell Nilson '48, arrived as well. Weenlisted her, as a member of MER'sboard, to observe and record the con-tinuing struggle for our grant. A carrot-and-stick game had exhausted our pa-tience; we took a determined stand. In-creasing the pressure as diplomatically aspossible, we tried to pry loose from thelocals our federal grant money that hadbeen written into the Samoan budget.The payments were several months in ar-rears, while our creditors were champingat the bit.

After months of maneuvering, thingsbegan happening fast. I hustled my fam-ily on their way south so Ric and I couldoperate unhampered. And just in thenick of time. After a series of moves bythe locals, Uncle Sam finally stepped into see that we received our due. We wereoffered some tardy protection, but toolate to save much of our distress.

Now that our differences were out inthe open, I flew to Honolulu to arrangefor the Varua's new engine. We

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launched her bare hull in November,with sighs of relief and much jubilation.She would still require a couple ofmonths more work to ready her for thepassage to Honolulu, where we had de-cided to complete her interior, awayfrom the madness of Samoa.

On my 27th birthday I went home tocollect a ship's radio and to marry SusanMott. She had decided to continue toshare my life aboard the Varua.

On my return to Samoa, the rainscame, flooding out any effective work inthe open. The starfish project came to ahalt, strangled as much by the hopelessmagnitude of the natural disaster as bycontinuing power plays.

Our two ships left Pago Pago on Jan-uary 23, 1979, as they had arrived twoand a half years before. Susan and Iwere at the helm of the reborn Varua,and Ric sailed the faithful Serenity. Webid tofa to Maugham's island, "Lovelyand lost and half the world away," andto the friends who had supported usthrough the good and not so good times.Thus ended the second chapter in ourquest for a life at sea.

Sequel: We reestablished our Pacificbase in Honolulu. In late 1979, restora-tion of the Varua was completed. Wil-liam Albert Robinson was on hand tosee his dream fulfilled. The Varua wasfederally registered as an oceonographicresearch vessel and off on her first mis-sion to Fanning Island in December.

The next month MER allied itself withhumpback whale research being carriedout in the Hawaiian Islands. Researchteams under the guidance of RogerPayne, PhD '62 spent time aboard theVarua filming whales to identify themand to record their amazing songs. Laterin 1980, the ship had a homecoming re-union with Robinson in Tahiti while do-ing research work around the Mar-quesas, Tuamotus, and Tahiti.

Plans for 1981 began with a series ofprograms for the voluntary research-support organization Earthwatch, doingfurther study on the humpbacks underProf. Louis Herman of the University ofHawaii. The investigations will continuein Glacier Bay, Alaska in the summer ifenough support develops. Also beingconsidered is a voyage back to New Eng-land later in the year.

Readers wanting more informationabout Earthwatch can write to Box 127,Belmont, Massachusetts 02178, andabout Marine Environmental Research(MER), c/o R. Mitchell Nilson, direc-tor, Box 88023, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815or Lee Mitchell Nilson, 211 W. Reming-ton Road, Ithaca, New York 14850.

Metaphysical FitnessBy Anthony Serafini '65

The writer, an associate professor ofphilosophy at Boston State College. Heplans to include this article in aforthcoming book of his to be broughtout by Λrco Publishing.

I am not Arnold Schwarzenegger, thenoted bodybuilder. I am Anthony Sera-fini. There are differences between us.The "Austrian Oak" has a twenty-two-inch biceps and a fifty-two-inch chest; Idon't. On the other hand, he has neverstudied the later works of Johns ScotusErigena, and he has been pumping ironlonger than I have.

There are, of course, similarities. Wehave the same initials. He even plays theviolin, although with considerably lessvirtuosity than Joseph Silverstein, Pin-chas Zukerman, or even I can muster.Sadly, however, my biceps is still wellunder the twenty-two-inch mark. Butthere is hope. Every bench press crushesthe life out of another muscle cell, whichwill rise like Lazarus from the dead—in-deed, be restored in Olympian propor-tions. At least that's the theory.

The arena in which I perform thismetamorphosis is Mike's Gym. Mike's isnot just any gym, you understand, but aworld-renowned, hard-core bodybuild-ing enterprise: noisy, sweaty, and super-saturated with muscle and iron. Like allgreat gyms—Gold's in California, say,

and Mid-City in Manhattan—its appear-ance is mercilessly utilitarian. Seriousgyms are to be carefully distinguishedfrom "spas," "health clubs," and thelike. You can't build muscle in such"pretty" gyms. Beautiful in their ownway, bodybuilding gyms are also verymoral—unlike many of the so-calledspas. There are no overweight business-men, no Disco Body Shapers, and no at-tendants with lily-white uniforms andear-to-ear smiles pressuring you to joinfor life.

Mike's is in Cambridge, Massachu-setts, on the top floor of a factory build-ing. Getting in is no mean task. Youmust first pass through a printing shopand run the gauntlet of diminutive Medi-terranean typesetters who scowl menac-ingly as you thread your way through alabyrinth of machines and around pud-dles of ominous-looking liquids. Onceon the gym floor, you feel like TomThumb among the big guys. In the farcorner stands a massive Vietnam vetplaying with a 475-pound barbell. Hedoesn't think about formal bodybuild-ing contests because he's doing it "justto keep in shape." In the center an arm-wrestling champion is doing lat-machinepulldowns with all the iron the machinewill hold. Off to the right a team ofpowerlifters do alternating quarter-squats with a thousand pounds.

But the most impressive and terrifyingaspect of Mike's Gym is the machinery.In the center stands an enormous con-traption that looks like the offspring ofan unholy union between an industrialforklift and an electric chair. This unbe-lievable machine is the Nautilus, a sub-ject of controversy among bodybuilders.The general idea is to strap yourself in(which prevents your spine from snap-ping), to load up the platform with asmuch weight as you can handle, and tobegin hauling it up as far off the floor aspossible. This exercise developes the la-tissimus ("lat") muscles and the upperpectorals. Over by the wall is a machinefeared by even the mighty—the triceps-extension machine. The idea is to devel-op the triceps by locking your arms be-hind two padded, weighted plates andextending them full-length above yourhead. Should you get stuck in the down

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Prof. Serafini works out at Mike's.

position, you have two options: to stayforever frozen in the pose of Luis Tiantwinding up to throw a knuckle ball, orto brace your legs against the wall, walkup until you can hook your feet over thelamp overhead, and then do a sort of legpull-up till you're out. All you have todo then is get off the lamp.

Once pried out of the machines, onegoes over to the bodybuilder's maincourse, the barbells. No one, not eventhe most devoted Nautilus enthusiast,would try to develop his physique with-out them. The chief argument for the

machines is their supposed safety com-pared with barbells. But Griff, the gymsupervisor at Mike's, is careful to thepoint of paranoia about lifting safelyand with correct form. Occasionally, anover-enthusiastic barbell lifter may at-tempt an overhead lift beyond what hecan do. Balancing the bar then becomesa real problem. Should one arm begin tosag, the weights can very quickly slideoff that end, and the bar tilt back, fol-lowed immediately by the weights fallingfrom the other end. In short order, theroom becomes an artillery range for five-and ten-pound projectiles. A barrage ofsuch, whizzing every which way, can

turn the most macho of bodybuilders tojelly. This has never happened atMike's.

For the casual onlooker, one of themost curious aspects of Mike's is themirrors placed at strategic places aroundthe floor. This might strike the untu-tored as narcissistic. It is not. The body-builder considers himself an artist shap-ing his flesh with as much thought andsensitivity as Polyclitus used in carvingmarble. Just as the sculptor must con-stantly check the statue in order to refineit, so the bodybuilder uses mirrors to obΓ

serve his body, to carve and refresh it.Frank Zane, currently Mr. Olympia and

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one of the world's most symmetricalbodybuilders, achieved his goal by pay-ing constant attention to the equal de-velopment of all three heads of the tri-ceps and to the proper proportion offorearms to upper arms. This wouldhave been virtually impossible withoutmirrors. But for the fledgling bodybuild-er like me, mirrors do not have top pri-ority as training equipment. A roughoutline of my body is enough. Specificswill come later.

Contrary to popular opinion, thewhole process of bodybuilding is veryscientific. The aspirant first follows adiet designed to increase his muscularbody weight as much as possible, a pro-cess known as "bulking." Then he goeson a high-protein, low-carbohydrate dietto tear away all vestiges of body fat,leaving nothing but muscle. Each muscleshould be clearly set off from the othersto achieve definition. In addition, thebest bodybuilders have an elusive qualitycalled "symmetry." A symmetricalbodybuilder has every part of his bodyin proportion to every other. Few peoplecan build true symmetry, because almosteveryone has some structural deficiencyor other that even exercise cannot cor-rect.

A bodybuilder workout has been lik-ened to work; clearly, it is nothing of thekind. Schwarzenegger compared thefeeling of a good "pump" (filling themuscles with oxygenated blood) to sex-ual release, and some people consider ita mystical experience; but these are onlyincomplete analogies. It is simultaneous-ly satisfying, invigorating, transcendent,and an overpowering fantasy trip.

Not to say that weightlifting does nothave its ludicrous moments. For devel-oping the legs, many prefer the Jeffer-son lift, a singularly unaesthetic exercise.The weightlifter straddles a heavy barand, grasping it tightly, bobs up anddown like Falstaff pulling up an ill-fit-ting pair of pants. Joe, the Marine veter-an, once asked me to jump on his backso he could do another leg exercise calleda "donkey calf-raise." I had never heardof it, but I agreed, fearing the conse-quences of refusing. Someone later toldme Schwarzenegger regularly does theexercise with three guys sitting on hisback.

But away from the gym in the aca-demic milieu is where I find it difficultbeing a musclehead. At cocktail par-ties—and especially philosophy depart-ment functions, where the only musclesare in the cream sauce—I must deal withthe conventional prejudices of the ignor-ant.

"What is your area of specializa-

tion?" asks a Harvard graduate assis-tant.

"Well, Γm a musclehead and Γmworking on my triceps right now," I an-swer laconically.

"Oh, well, ah . . . I see . . .isn't thatinteresting! Is it true that bodybuildingmakes you muscle-bound?"

"Well, yes. Definitely, definitely. Infact I've been noticing that my octavesand double-stops in the first movementof the Mendelssohn violin concertodon't seem to be going as smoothly late-ly. On the other hand the flying staccatiand two-octave chromatic runs in Paga-nini's Caprice No. 5 seem a bit easier,mostly because I added an extra set ofdumbbell curls to my workouts. So thereare pros and cons."

Next question: "These musclemen,are they, well. . . smart?" Detecting theimplication that I must be some strangeanamoly in the muscle world, I respond:"Well, probably not, since the nationaljunior weightlifting champion I knew atCornell never made it to Harvard Med—finally had to settle for Stanford, poorfellow. But wait till I tell you about whathappened to the rest of the weightliftingteam!"

Strangely, they're not interested.Of course, the hard questions inevita-

bly come. "Why do you do this to your-self? Do you consider it an art or asport?" I have no easy answer. To besure, the bodybuilder has a colossal ego,but his body is his life, his anima. Thesethings are the same in any field. The Ar-nold Schwarzenegger of the posing daisis the Itzhak Perlman of SymphonyHall, the Bobby Fischer of Reykjavik—any master of a craft. The motiva-tions, the rewards, and the frustrations,they too are the same. Louis Ferrigno,TV's "Incredible Hulk," would havefound a kindred spirit in Boris Spassky.

As to whether bodybuilding is a sportor an art, the question was answered in adifferent context by the great chessmas-ter Emanuel Lasker. In an interview inSt. Petersburg in 1914, just before hisfamous victory over Capablanca, Laskerremarked that chess is neither wholly artnor wholly sport, but a struggle. Likechess, bodybuilding is a struggle to real-ize the concept of perfection—in thecase of bodybuilding, to conquer mat-ter. To unite form and substance is thegoal of the bodybuilder. We bodybuild-ers dare to think that bodybuilding tran-scends mere mimesis; that Schwarze-negger transcends Michelangelo, doingin flesh what the master managed on themuch easier medium of stone. In a cer-tain sense, the difference betweenSchwarzenegger's body and Michel-

angelo's statue of David reflects the dif-ference between Aristotle's philosophyand Plato's: the difference between theabstract universal and the concrete par-ticular. Charles Gaines in Pumping Ironstates it simply: "The bodybuilder is anidea made fact."

Granting the psychological and aes-thetic motivation of the bodybuilder, arewe right to argue that the body can be agenuine object of art? Or are bodybuild-ers freakish monstrosities, as the com-mon wisdom has it?

It is a teleological question. The hu-man body is, after all, a functioninggoal-oriented entity with muscles de-signed to work, to accomplish tasks. Ac-cording to Aristotle's Metaphysics, allthings in nature are designed for, or aimat, some end. Striving, growing, change:these are the essence of all that is. Just asthe acorn is predetermined to strive forits destined end, so all human naturestrives toward some ultimate ideal. Thedetermination of what the "end" of allthings and processes is, is a matter of ob-servation. In his Nichomachean EthicsAristotle further insists that what peopleought to strive for is simply what they dostrive for; what the acorn should becomeis simply what it does become. There isno dichotomy between the facts and val-ues in Aristotle. The bodybuilder istherefore, at least subliminally, an Aris-totelian. He insists that this is how thebody should look, because this is howthe body does look when pushed towardits end. The purpose of muscle is work—pushing and pulling against resistance.It does not require extraordinary powersof deduction to conclude that if spend-ing several years pumping iron causesthe muscles to look like ArnoldSchwarzenegger's, then that is how theyought to look. Aesthetic preference forthe superhuman physique is thereforenot simply a matter of taste, but a mat-ter of logic. The person who finds Ar-nold Schwarzenegger "overdeveloped"is not merely displaying bad taste butbad logic and an ignorance of the pro-cess-oriented nature of the physical uni-verse.

Sadly, even the most sagacious argu-ments are lost on many, especially at ac-ademic functions. In the last resort, onecan always cite more practical applica-tions on the craft. My favorite ploy is toroll up my sleeves every time studentsask for extensions on term papers.(Their grandmothers are sick; theirgrandmothers are always sick.) The sightof all that rippling bulk makes themcringe with terror. Thus do I halt thelong deterioration in American highereducation.

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In Our LeagueBy Jerrold Footlick

Until the 1950s, the term Ivy Leaguehad more precise meaning for sportswriters and social arbiters than for theeight Ivy colleges and universitiesthemselves. But in that decade thepresidents of the eight schools enteredinto a formal agreement to regulatetheir participation in intercollegiatesports and established what they called"The Ivy Group."

Last fall a number of Ivy alumnimagazines asked a veteran observer ofhigher education to assess how the Ivyagreement has worked. He is JerroldFootlick, a graduate of the College ofWooster and Harvard Law School, andnews editor of the National Observerbefore joining Newsweek in 1970 as itseducation editor. Since then he haswon prizes for articles on the law andeducation, written two books andedited two others, and beenpromoted to oversee all of Newsweek's"back of the book** departments.

This article is a joint venture of thealumni magazines of Brown,Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,Princeton, and Yale.

In Dallas, every October, men and wom-en from all over Oklahoma, mothersand fathers, grandmothers and grandfa-thers, wearing scarlet blazers and caps,and people just like them from all overTexas, wearing orange, begin with pre-game cocktail parties about 4 o'clock onFriday afternoon, start their seriouspartying about 10 in the evening, andsomehow manage to pick their waythrough the State Fairgrounds to theCotton Bowl the next afternoon to yellthemselves hoarse for their state univer-sity football teams. In Ann Arbor,Michigan, the local university has at-tracted more than 100,000 paying cus-tomers to thirty-five consecutive homefootball games. In Alabama, thousandsof people spend money for paintingsthat depict the state university's footballcoach walking on water.

They once took their football serious-ly, too, in the East, like the not-so-long-ago year when Cornell decorated an un-beaten season by crushing Ohio State atColumbus to lay claim to the nationalchampionship, or the year Columbiastunned Stanford in the soggy Rose

Bowl, or the afternoon Yale's coach,Tad Jones, told his players, "Gentle-men, you are about to play a game offootball against Harvard. Never again inyour lives will you do anything as im-portant."

These days, Yale football players seemto think that a lot of things are more im-portant, and so, certainly, do their fel-low students, and the faculty, and thepresident, and even the Old Blues. Thisis the Ivy League. The Ivy League . . .the quintessential symbol of academicexcellence in the United States. Yet,ironically, it exists in a formal sense onlyas an athletic conference. It is composedof eight universities that have spent aquarter-century pioneering a conceptquaint in modern intercollegiate athlet-ics: athletes should be students.

The presidents of Brown, Columbia,Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsyl-vania, Princeton, and Yale, designatingthemselves the "Ivy Group," set forththeir credo in an agreement signed in1954: "The Group affirm their convic-tion that under proper conditions, inter-collegiate competition in organized ath-letics offers desirable development andrecreation for players and a healthy fo-cus of collegiate loyalty. These condi-tions require that the players shall betruly representative of the student bodyand not composed of a group of special-ly recruited athletes . . . In the total lifeof the campus, emphasis upon intercol-legiate competition must be kept in har-mony with the essential educational pur-poses of the institution."

The presidents signed this documentbecause they believed that intercollegiateathletics was getting out of hand. TheNational Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) had adopted new rules to gov-ern recuiting and financial aid; it wasknown as the "sanity code"—the merename suggests desperation—but it wassoon dropped as unworkable. Gamblingscandals had shattered college basket-ball. Major universities, facing chal-lenges for the entertainment dollar fromrapidly growing professional sports,were building bigger stadiums, tuning uptheir bands, and raising the level of com-petition.

Only the Ivy League could have done

what it did. Unlike the Oklahomas andthe Nebraskas, these were not state uni-versities whose winning football teamsprovided pride and recognition for theirconstituents. And they were so notableacademically that they did not need na-tional sports championships to attractattention.

Still, it was not easy. Some alumniwere mortified; a few threatened to cutoff contributions. Fans and sports writ-ers jeered. Serious academic administra-tors insisted it couldn't work.

But the Ivy presidents' fears haveproven valid. Big-time college athleticshas become bigger. Many authorities be-lieve that the scandals disclosed in recentyears—forged high-school transcripts toadmit unqualified students, footballplayers taking non-existent courses to re-main eligible—will soon seem tame. Yetthe Ivy League has survived and pros-pered.

Now, there are those who hear dishar-mony. In a speech to Yale alumni lastspring, President A. Bartlett Giamattisuggested that the Group was "driftingaway" from its principles. Coaches were

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recruiting, especially off-campus, hesaid; the seasons were too long; toomuch attention was focused on post-sea-son competition instead of the leaguechampionships.

Some people around the leaguethought that Giamatti, only a year in hisjob, was overreacting—or just being aspoilsport. Still, the speech attractedmore attention than any utterance aboutIvy League athletics in years.

One problem, it seems, is that someIvy League teams are too successful. Itdidn't bother anyone much when BillBradley led Princeton to the NCAA bas-'

hibits only its football teams from post-season competition, a ban that most ob-servers find redundant. Some find suchsuccesses incompatible with living by therules.)

—Arnold Roth

ketball finals in 1965—after all, that wasBill Bradley and it was obviously a one-season fluke—but two years ago, whenPenn reached the same Final Four, ledby youngsters from urban high schools,people got a little nervous. Not one buttwo Ivy League teams, Dartmouth andCornell, reached the national finals inice hockey last year, and in 1976-77,Cornell captured back-to-back nationaltitles in lacrosse. (The Ivy League pro-

Perhaps worse, the future seems a bitominous. Until last year, Ivy Leaguefootball teams regularly played ninegames, seven against league opponents,even when other major schools werescheduling eleven, then the Ivies added atenth game. The extra game was a step initself, but the caliber of opposition ap-pears to be increasing. For example, lastseason Yale played successive gamesagainst two recognized big-time football

schools, Air Force and Boston College.More threatening, Brown scheduled a1983 game against Penn State, and thatcontest, against a regular contender forthe national championships, somehowbecame symbolic.

"People in the league were really sur-prised," says a high official of one Ivyuniversity. "The thinking was, 'Brownobviously doesn't want to be humiliatedor beaten up by Penn State. So theymust be doing something to preparethemselves. And if they're preparing forPenn State, what are they going to do tous?' "

Brown officials are more amused thandismayed by the anxiety. Not only hasthe university only once even tied for theleague football championship, but in thepast half-dozen years or so, during whatmight be called a resurgence in its foot-ball program, Brown has become one ofthe most academically desirable universi-ties in the nation for the most academi-cally gifted high-school graduates.

Inherent in the scheduling question,however, are the fundamental issues thatseparate the Ivy League from other ma-jor universities: the special recruiting ofathletes and its supplement, athleticscholarships. At many universities, theathletes are intensively sought for theirphysical abilities and given a financial"free ride" through school; they eat,sleep, drink, party, and study only bythemselves; they are idolized on Satur-day afternoons and often sneered at orignored the rest of the year. It is the car-dinal principle of the Ivy League thatathletes must be legitimately qualifiedstudents—and, more, that they must bean integral part of the student body.

But college admissions and financial-aid decisions are not coldly objective,and standards can be bent. To maintainhonor requires a considerable amount ofeffort—and mutual trust.

The ultimate responsibility for up-

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holding standards lies with the leaders ofthe universities, who for this purpose areknown as the Council of Ivy GroupPresidents. Below the council, the leagueoperates through a series of committees.There is a committee on admissions,composed of the eight deans or directorsof admissions; a committee on financialaid, composed of the eight financial-aiddirectors; a committee on administra-tion, composed of the eight athletic di-rectors. Between these three and thepresidents is the policy committee, theproblem solver, with eleven members, adean from each institution and a repre-sentative from the other three commit-tees.

Day-to-day administration lies withwhat the Ivy League calls its executivedirector (the Southeastern Conferencecalls him a commissioner). The currentdirector is a Yale graduate and Prince-ton economist, James Litvack, whoworks in classic Ivy League surround-ings, a book-strewn office which heshares with his part-time secretary, in ahouse on the Princeton campus (the BigTen Commissioner's office in Chicagohas a staff of twelve).

Because the eight universities have noother formal reason for meeting, the IvyGroup provides a convenient forum todiscuss a variety of matters of mutual in-terest. At their semi-annual meeting inDecember, the presidents concentrate onsports; in the summer they spend threedays with a broader agenda. (The chan-cellor of the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology joins the summer session—a certain indication that athletics is notthe center of attention.)

The committees serve multiple pur-poses as well. The financial-aid commit-tee, for instance, deals with the assis-tance offered every student, athlete ornot. As a matter of policy, the IvyGroup institutions do not want a studentto choose among them on the basis ofmoney. If a student were admitted toHarvard and offered a $4,000 scholar-ship, and to Yale with a $2,000 scholar-ship, he might well choose Harvard. Sothe financial-aid officers, in a gruellingsession every winter, go down the com-plete list. Each university arranges its fi-nancial-aid package of scholarship,loan, and job in its own way, and thereare, of course, differences in living costs,but the bottom-line figure for everyfreshman should be about the same.

Besides offering a chance for IvyLeague officials to exchange experiencesand good ideas, the system also, ob-viously, allows them to check on eachother. Litvack, who sees all the print-outs, will know when any institution is

veering from the central goals. If hefinds a "variance," he says, he can al-most always solve the problem quicklyby presenting his information to the per-tinent officials. "It's not necessary topolice the institutions," Litvack says."That's not what I'm here for. If some-one were trying to violate the rules, wewouldn't have a league." But the IvyLeague is plainly undertaking a processof serious self-evaluation.

The scheduling issue, as exemplifiedby opponents such as Air Force and Bos-ton College, has assumed major impor-tance. Since the league cannot tell an in-stitution who or who not to play, offi-cials are quietly working toward whatone calls a "philosophy of sched-uling"—in effect, the types of worthyopponents. The opposition, ideally,should be respected and famous, but nottoo good. You can play Bucknell andMaine only so often. So who should itbe? One candidate is William & Mary,which met Harvard last fall and will faceone Ivy team in each of the next six ses-sions. William & Mary is a state universi-ty in Virginia, but it sounds private, andit is, after all, older than every college inthe country save one.

The general alternative is to play whatamounts to an Ail-American IvyLeague, major private universities whonow compete in tough conferencesagainst state universities and can't keepup. Rice, for instance, a fine school inHouston, has endured seventeen straightlosing seasons in the Southwest Confer-ence. "We have a lot of alumni outthere," says one Ivy university official."It would be a good game."

Everybody wants to play Northwest-ern, the only private university in the BigTen, a team that has not won a confer-ence game in three years. The Ivies havealumni in Chicago too. Other possibili-ties in the same category would be Van-derbilt, Duke, Tulane, and Stanford, al-though they may be too good. "Thetrouble with Stanford," worries one ath-letic director, "is they run a one-schoolIvy League on the West Coast."

A variety of other issues occupies theleague's attention. If regular-seasonschedules become longer, and post-sea-son play more common, will the ath-letes' academic work suffer pointlessly?Money problems are becoming increas-ingly serious. Revenue from football andbasketball supports the entire intercol-legiate athletic program at universitiessuch as Ohio State and Michigan; IvyLeague institutions must use hundredsof thousands of dollars from generalrevenue.

And what place must women's athlet-

ics have under new equal opportunityrules? Here, at least, the Ivy Leagueseems better positioned. Since men'ssports are not so all-consuming, thewomen cannot be accused of tearingdown a critical structure. And creatingan intercollegiate athletic program forwomen is an especially obvious step if auniversity is attempting to become tru-ly coeducational.

Finally, though, it comes down to thefundamental issue—what might almostbe called the purity test: how does theIvy League get its athletes and are theylegitimate students? Or, as the presi-dents put it in 1954: ". . . the playersshall be truly representative of the stu-dent body and not composed of a groupof specially recruited athletes . . ." If theappropriate standards are met on this is-sue, all else should follow and a rationalprogram of intercollegiate competitionwill be "kept in harmony with the essen-tial educational purposes."

One matter must be set straight atonce—that of "athletic scholarships."State it simply: Other universities com-peting at the major level give athleticscholarships, legally, and the Ivy Leaguedoes not. NCAA rules allow a set num-ber of these scholarships for each sport,for example, ninety-five in football; theinstitution can grant free tuition, fees,room and board, and token "laundry"money. In the Ivy League, athletes, likemusicians and mathematicians, receivescholarship aid on the basis of need.(Michigan State's former footballcoach, Duffy Daugherty, once remarkedthat he gave only "need" scholarships."I always ask," said Daugherty, "howmuch do we need him?")

It probably says something about thestate of mind among the leaders of big-time intercollegiate athletics that manyjust cannot believe that the Ivy Leagueprohibits athletic scholarships. On a na-tionally televised program last fall, BudWilkinson, the former football coach atthe University of Oklahoma, asserted,with an insinuating smile, that the IvyLeague gave some athletes more finan-cial help than state universities could.

Technically, he could have been cor-rect; given the difference in costs, Dart-mouth might well provide more aid to aprospect than Oklahoma. Wilkinson notonly ignored that fact, but also the criti-cal point that the student must establishneed to receive any help from an IvyLeague institution. The doubts arise inthe minds of people like Wilkinson whena fine athlete, who is black, from a poorfamily, and a graduate of an .inner-cityhigh school, has the nerve to chooseYale over Auburn.

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Finding and persuading athletes—those with Ivy League academic creden-tials—is complicated. At the big-timeathletic schools, the large coaching staffsspend much of their off-season recruit-ing, and almost any student who cangraduate from high school can be admit-ted, even without doctored transcripts.Ivy League coaches recuit, too—that isone of the things Yale's Giamatti wouldlike to curtail—but they rely more heavi-ly than most institutions on alumni. Ivyalumni are scattered across the country,are well-connected, are fans, and lovethe idea of serving as matchmakers be-tween deserving youngsters and their al-ma mater. As informal recuiters, theymake hundreds of contacts every year.

The ideal Ivy League prospect, espe-cially in the major sports, fits into aspecial framework. He should be good,but not so good he wants to use collegecompetition as a preparation for a pro-fessional sports career. He should be agood enough student that he fits into thelarge pool of qualified applicants, evenif he is not a potential Phi Beta Kappa.He should be a youngster who under-stands college means studying and real-izes what an Ivy League education mightmean to him in the future. The recordsshow that there are enough of these.Only about 40 per cent of the playersnow in the National Football Leaguegraduated from college. Ivy League ath-letes graduate at about a 95 per centrate, the same rate as the student bodygenerally.

At heart, the admissions process is, asit should be, the same for athletes as forany other applicants. Some clearly quali-fy; others do not; the process becomescomplicated in the squeeze toward themiddle. The typical Ivy pattern amountsto trade-offs between the coaches andthe admissions officers. The admissionsoffice will rank the candidates accordingto academic and other standards; thecoaching staff will rank them accordingto their athletic skills. The closer thesestandards mesh, the easier the decision.

But sometimes, long hours of discus-sion, even argument result. Here is howone admissions officer describes it:"The coach comes to us, and says, 'wereally want that kid.' With some ofthem, we say, 'no chance.' But if it'sthat important to the coach, we try."

It is indisputable that some students,men and women, have been admitted toIvy universities because of their footballor tennis or swimming ability. No oneneed be ashamed of that. At an institu-tion of quality, the applicant pool maycontain hundreds of youngsters who arequalified but cannot be admitted. So ad-

missions officers look for various waysto make their selections. The chosenmay be children of alumni or of poten-tial contributors; where they live cancount or how well they play the piano.Athletics is one more way to make thedistinction.

The Ivy League universities oncemade this point in another context. Inthe 1978 Bakke case, which approvedthe principle of affirmative action in ed-ucation, they filed a brief amicus curiaebefore the Supreme Court, arguing thatspecial attention be paid to the needs ofminority students. Choosing to describethe Harvard admissions plan, the briefstated: "[In the past] diversity meantstudents from California, New York,and Massachusetts; city dwellers andfarm boys; violinists, painters, and foot-ball players; biologists, historians, andclassicists; potential stockbrokers, aca-demics, and politicians . . . A farm boyfrom Idaho can bring something to Har-vard College that a Bostonian cannot of-fer. Similarly, a black student can usual-ly bring something that a white personcannot offer . . . "

(Harvard law professor ArchibaldCox argued the Bakke case, successfully,on behalf of the University of CaliforniaBoard of Regents. During the oral argu-ment, Justice Harry Blackmun askedCox if affirmative action could be com-pared to athletic recruiting since "mostinstitutions seek athletic prowess." Cox:"Well, I come from Harvard, sir. [inter-rupted by laughter] I don't know wheth-er it's our aim, but we don't do verywell." Blackmun: "But I can remembera time when . . .Mr. Cox, I can remem-ber a time when you did . . . " Cox:"Yes. Yes. You're quite right.")

The rule of thumb is common sense.A university cannot admit too many po-tential athletes who fall far below themedian of the applicant pool; if it doesnot, neither its associated schools noranyone else will have reason to quibble.One university or another has skirted theedge of this rule at one time or another,but corrections have always quietly beenmade. The record is not perfect, but it isdifficult to contend that Ivy League uni-versities have violated their principles toadmit athletes.

By what standards should we judgewhether the Ivy League succeeds athlet-ically? One assumes that it is not the goalof the league to produce national cham-pions. Rather, the goal seems to be toencourage competition that is wide-ranging and lively and that fits into aca-demic structure. On all counts, the evi-dence is positive.

First, there is breadth of competi-

tion—seventeen sports for men, fromfootball to fencing, swimming tosquash, and twelve sports for women,from field hockey to ice hockey, tennisto lacrosse.

Second, competition within the leagueis remarkably even. The compositestandings, that is, all eight institutions inall sports, reflect balanced performancesover the years. In football last fall, forexample, five of the eight teams went in-to their final games with a chance to tiefor the championships.

The third point can be stated very sim-ply. Over the past quarter-century, neverhas anyone seriously suggested that ath-letics was endangering the academicstandards of the universities.

Some would say that the Ivy Leaguepays a price for its attitude toward ath-letics. For all the excesses at many uni-versities, sports adds a special dimen-sion—a thrill—to college life. Bonfire-lighted pep rallies that arouse youngstersto genuine enthusiasm about theirschool, well-drilled marching bands, theroar of 80,000 partisans on sunny Satur-day afternoons in autumn offer charmsand memories that an Ivy League stu-dent may never feel. And Easterners areprovincials who don't know what a tail-gate party is really like unless they havebeen to one in Tuscaloosa, Alabama orOxford, Mississippi. If most IvyLeaguers answer that is a small price topay, then we have another confirmationthat the league is accomplishing what itset out to do.

The Ivy League is plainly different. Itcould do what it has done because the in-stitutions are so respected, but they donot operate in a vacuum. They are mea-sured as American universities, and theymust inevitably respond to a worldaround them that they cannot control.No matter how pure at heart they mayclaim to be, they must follow recruitingrules laid down by the NCAA; no matterhow distracting post-season competitionmight be, it will always be there to temptgood athletes.

It is a narrow and difficult line totread—the ideal that a university cansupport competitive athletic teams with-out tainting academic standards. Thereis evidence that Ivy League institutionshave occasionally slipped off that line,which should not be surprising; it is per-haps more surprising how seldom thishas occurred—less often than outsidersmay suspect. Ivy League athletics maybe a little like Sam Johnson's famousdog who walked on two legs: it is awk-ward at times, but wonder of wonders, itworks.

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Class Notes

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

Cornell and the partial loss of sight was agreat blow to him. But, the operation is clear-ing this up.

11MEN and WOMEN: Melita H Skillen, StMartins-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, CanadaEOG 2Z0; Charles Fox, 11 W Washington,Ellicottville, NY 14731

Your reporters are hard put to it toprepare, in Nov, notes for you to read in Feb.However, we are helped greatly by a notefrom Herb Ashton which tells us that he isplanning definitely to be back in June, deovolente. We're all thinking more about d vthan we used to!

Can't some more of you begin now to planon June and tell us so? Of course, we're allrealizing that we plan everything with lessassurance than we once felt; but it's prettyimportant to keep looking ahead, and it'swonderful to look ahead together. Thank youHerb.

We're sorry to report to you that LuluSmith Howard is less well than when we lastheard. She is living at Valley View NursingHome, Pittsfield Rd, Lenox, Mass 01240.She'd enjoy hearing from you.

Both your reporters are planning on June'81 with the same kind of reservations thatHerb Ashton suggests. Do plan with us andlet us know.

14MEN and WOMEN: Mead W Stone, 138 Ar-thur St, Garden City, NY 11530; BerniceSpencer Young, 107 Marson Ave, Scotia, NY12302

I [Mead] am pleased the follow-up letterssent to classmates who had overlooked pay-ing their class dues had excellent results.Thank you all for the response.

You will remember Larry Eddy, who wasbow on the varsity crew in our day. I receiveda nice letter from his daughter, Mrs George TBrigham. She said that toward the end, Larryamused his wife and himself by singing theold Cornell songs. Larry was a most loyalclassmate and Cornellian. Nothing new toreport on Jimmy Munns, who continues tolive but in a world of his own.

This is Thanksgiving and I have just talkedto Carl Ward on the telephone. He has justcome through a very serious eye operationwhich was successful, I am happy to report.Carl, as you all know, is a great worker for

15MEN and WOMEN: Arthur W Wilson, E4703 Junonia, Shell Point Village, FortMyers, Fla 33908

Roy W Jones sent an autobiography,which is condensed here, and the 2 photostaken 65 yrs apart. "Born and raised in a steelplant town, Johnstown, Pa," he was helpedand encouraged by Chief Engineer EdgarClarke '05 and Head Design Engineer PhilipHasbrouck 1896 to aim for Cornell and gainvaluable experience during summer vacationsin jobs in various shops, later in the draftingroom. After 5 yrs of mechanical engineeringwork, Jones filled an opening in the metal-lurgical engineering dept and eventually be-gan teaching evening courses in metallurgy.After 15 yrs in metallurgical engineeringwork, Jones joined the faculty of VenturaCollege, in Cal, and helped develop a Navyprogram called Student Engineering Develop-ment (SED) in which top students wouldstudy engineering at Ventura half time andobtain naval training half time.

Jones lists the following "GuidingPhilosophies:" (1) Keep a happy attitude—asmile begets one in return, and sometimesturns away wrath. (2) Give full credit wheredue—using ideas of others without credit isstealing. (3) Be a good listener—your col-league may have a better idea than you. Ofcourse, give him praise and credit, be coop-erative and helpful. It makes him your goodally. (4) Cope with jealousy or even maliciousintrigue aimed at you by avoiding con-frontation . . . ignore it. It takes two to makea fight . . . . (5) Keep calm during stress—ithelps your clear thinking. Under stress iswhen it is needed.

The hobbies Jones lists include campertravel, criss crossing the US and Europe; tak-ing 3D photographs and projecting them withtape recorded comments as travelogs; devel-oping and enjoying a library of musical tapes;and, as he says, "My greatest joy is my fami-ly. My dear wife, my successful son, his won-derful wife, 4 grandchildren. They all fill mycup of joy to overflowing."

From William A Schnedeker comes word,"Am living in a retirement complex known asCarolina Village in Hendersonville, NC.Total population of the Village is approx.325; average a^e well up in the 70s; sexpredominantly female. The complex has a50-bed medical center staffed with nurses anda visiting doctor who makes contact withone's private doctor. Have not played golf todate this yr because of the heat and the death

Roy W Jones Ί5 in 1915, and in 1980

of my wife after 62 yrs of marriage and 73 yrssince our 1st meeting on entering high school.Most people put my age at about 10 yrs belowactual, which makes them believe I can per-form beyond my capabilities. My health isgood for my age; my weight is close to that of1915; I can stand straight although about 5/8inch shorter, due probably to wearing of theconnecting bones; and my doctors' bills arelargely for the purpose of keeping me thatway. Much of this I can attribute to the oldGym and walking up and down the Hill fromthe BAR to the campus. However, my physi-cian, although refusing to estimate my pro-bable life, does guarantee that I will not livebeyond 100.

" I retired from the Dupont Co at age 61,feeling I had had enough of the rat race,building a home in Tryon, NC, in which mywife and I lived in from 1954-74, coming herea little over 6 yrs ago. My jobs in Duponttook me pretty well over the US and Canadaand a broad knowledge of industry.

"This complex consists of apartmentsfrom one room to cottages of about 1300 sqft plus 2-car carports and separate utilityrooms and storage. I have one of thelargest—2 bedrooms, 2 baths, a kitchen, alarge living room, and a small room which Iuse as an office, which my wife had let memess up to my heart's content. When I goaway, I simply tell the office. If the roofshould leak that would become their worry.All in all, a very nice life with much to do ifso inclined amd most friendly co-residentsalways willing to help."

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

I just received a letter from Abraham"Abe" Covell, saying, "If all is well, MrsCovell and I hope to attend the 65th Reunion.We will also attend the graduation of ourgranddaughter. We are looking forward withpleasure to both." As of Nov 23, 17 class-

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mates will return for a record-breaking 65thReunion. They are Alexander Anderson,Louis Camuti, Edward Carman, AbrahamCo veil, Karl Fernow, Felix Ferrari o, HarloweHardinge, Willis Henderson, Lois Osborn,Grant Schleicher, Murray She!ton, BenjaminSavocool, Henry Sutton, John Van Horson,Constance Wait Ward, Annetta Woldar,Paul Young.

David "Pollie" Paulson now lives with hisson Robert in San Mateo, Cal. He enjoysreading about classmates in our column andlooks forward to future issues of the AlumniNews. "Pollie" would love to see you at 157South Blvd. Ralph Davis sent welcome newsfor our column, and here it is: "From1916-17, I was an industrial engineer withWinchester Arms Co. In 1917-19, World WarI, I was in charge of hydrophore at League IslNavy Yard. During 1919-23, I held variousindustrial engineering jobs at the GleasonWorks in Rochester and served the ClevelandChamber of Commerce. Then, 1923-65,1 wasprofessor of management science at OhioState U. I participated in the activities ofvarious management societies, wrote 5 bookson management that had both European andAsiatic editions. In World War II, I was a Itcol in the Air Material Command. Since1965, retirement, and I have been working onit. Please give my best wishes to my '16friends." What a fine interesting life youhave had, Ralph, and thanks for your letter.

Sylvia and Paul R Young: "In Feb '77 wesold our home and moved into The ElyriaHome, a residential facility for retired per-sons with nursing care available. I retired asgarden writer for the Cleveland Press after 44yrs of garden writing for Cleveland papers.Sylvia had a hip replacement in '77 and herParkinsonism is well controlled, so she is ableto be up and about. The Home has a rosegarden with over 250 plants and many flowerbeds which are my responsibility. Have at-tended all of our 5-yr Reunions and plan togo back for our 65th. Best to all Ί6ers!"

We send 16 cheers for Mandy and HarloweHardinge—the Sept '80 bride and groom!

Harlowe is not only amember of the oldest ac-tive golf foursome in thenation today but is abusiness executive,benefactor, artist and col-lege trustee. Last Oct, hisgolf buddies threw a partyfor Mandy and Harloweat the York, Pa, CountryClub. Harlowe has been atrustee of York College

of Pa since '49 and has helped guide YCPfrom a non-existent campus on a golf courseto the vibrant institution it is today.Harlowe's paintings were exhibited in YorkCollege's art gallery last Nov. Harlowe ischairman of the board of Hardinge Co Inc, amember of the Cornell Council, and a direc-tor of the Pa Chamber of Commerce. He is amember of many social and service organiza-tions, and has been listed in Who's Who inAmerica. Mandy and Harlowe spend theirwinters in Carmel, Cal. They will see you atour 65th. Thanks to those who sent letters!Others, please do likewise—also photos!

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

Happy 1981! May it be a good year foryou! My own New Year's resolution is tocelebrate your doings—for every one of us—in this column.

Knibs Royce '16 and daughter, 50 years ago

The Cornell Campaign for $230 million hasbeen completed, 2 months ahead of time.Many '18 names are on the lists of majordonors sent in Oct. We've mentioned somealready in these columns. For annual giving(Tower Club, Quadrangle Club, CharterSociety) we find the names of James WBassett; Bernard F Burgunder; Joseph LEastwick; Les Fisher; Jane M G Foster; JohnS Knight; Harry E Mattin; Peter Paul Miller;Charles G Muller; Stanley M Norwood; Clif-ford S Bailey; William V Carver; Louise CBentley; Gertrude Fisher Moir; Edward BNickles; Garret F Meyer; and L AllenOsborne. Have we missed any? Of course lotsof us contribute smaller sums faithfully everyyear (less than $500), and these gifts are noless precious to your representatives and tothe univ.

The Class of '22 is aiming at our record50th Reunion gift—the largest single amountfor any class. But the legendary Class of' 18 isnot upset by such a challenge. We've set plen-ty of records.

Our classmate Mary C Blodgett retiredsome yrs ago from her job as supervisor ofHome Ec work in the State of Conn. She hassince been active in her community, Rush-ville. She helped plan and build a new struc-ture when her church burned. She visitedshut-ins. She took care of her sister Mabel foryrs and, on her death, founded a communitylibrary as a memorial to her. The MabelBlodgett Memorial Library is a beautiful ad-dition to Rushville's Main St; with its tie-in tothe Southern Tier Library System a readercan obtain almost any book desired. Mary isnow in Thompson Memorial Hospital, Can-andaigua (zip, 14424), and is glad to hearfrom classmates and other friends. As it isdifficult for her to write, you might enclosean addressed postcard on which she can writea few lines.

Our Class of '18 picnic at Harry Mattin'swas enjoyed by several: Charlie Muller; AnneSelkirk Brown and her husband; Harry Col-lins, Lou Freedman, Paul Miller, PaulWanser, and Harry Handwerger, with theirwives. Also Marcia Wanser, daughter of Pauland Eloise, and George N Emory, a freshmanwith us in 1914-15, came with the Wansers.Charlie, now fairly well recovered from hisstroke, enjoyed the picnic "as always," andwas "grateful to be able to attend . . . the her-ring were delicious." Anne Selkirk Brownthought the day "another plus for happy

memories and good fellowship. Anyone whohas enjoyed one of [these] picnics alwayswants a return trip."

Marian Selden Graves is in the Rome Nurs-ing Facility following a stroke. We hope tohear better news from her next time.

We regret to report the deaths of someclassmates: James L Rothwell of Victor, onFeb 18, 1980; Marion L Lewis of IndianRocks Beach, Fla, on Aug 7,1980; William HBall of Indianapolis, on Sept 5, 1980.William Ball was a vice president of the BallCorp, makers of canning jars and supplies.His father was one of 5 brothers who startedthe concern. In World War II Ball workedwith the Central Intelligence Agency.

Recent dues, but no news from FannieMoses, in NYC; Allen Osborne of Sarasota;William F Dohrman of Cincinnati; EarlLeRoy Wood of Newark, NJ; R C Van Hornof Bedford, Quebec; S M Norwood of GlenHead, LI; George Olson of Algonquin, 111;William H Farnham of Ithaca; and Andrew JReynolds of West Chester, Pa.

Some of us have traveled abroad during1980: Alice Vernette Boyd Murphy to Egyptand the Holy Land; Maxine MontgomeryMusser to London, Munich, and Oberam-mergau (seeing the Passion Play), and toVienna and Rome. Others of us are like LeahEnglish, who spends "2 or 3 months in winterin Fla." So her travel "consists of my goingto and from Fla!" Leah lives in Ithaca.

Charles Hendrie '19 thinks he may be thecoxswain in that photo of a 4-oared gig in ourNov column. He was "the cox of the '19frosh crew." That crew, in 1916, lost to Har-vard, but won over Yale and Princeton onCayuga and won at Poughkeepsie. "Onorders from the Old Man' (Pop Courtney), Imade several trips to Beebe Lake to coach the'bloomer girls'... and enjoyed doing so," hesays.

19MEN: P S Wilson, 325 Washington St, GlenRidge, NJ 07028

As previously reported, among the 99 per-sons attending our great 60th Reunion inJune '79 was the grand family of Donald MRobinson and wife Ruth of Boulder, Colo,who brought along their daughter Donnawith husband Dick Meckley, also of Boulder;granddaughter Dianna Meckley Powell withhusband from NYC; and grandson JamesMeckley from Chicago. Sad to say, RuthRobinson died suddenly in Feb '80; Don'sdeath followed in Apr. Last Nov, after somecorrespondence concerning the CampusBeautification Program between Donna andDick Meckley and W Barlow Ware '47 of thedevelopment office, the latter received a giftof $1,000 from the Meckleys, "for a plantingin the Engineering Quad, as a memorial toDonald Many Robinson, Class of '19, and hiswife Ruth Schilling Robinson." The plantingnςar Hollister Hall, or at Donor Site #4 of thenew Submicron Facility, is particularly ap-propriate, as Don was a prominent CEgraduate. Many thanks, Donna and Dick, forthus honoring our classmate, while helping tomaintain the beauty of our campus!

In a recent note to "Mike" Hendrie fromRichard H Brown, our distinguished attorneyof Valley Stream, he reports that he's just"trying to hang on, with no spicy news aboutmyself." Dick, we're always glad to hearfrom you, as one of our loyal Ί9ers, eventhough you have no earth-shaking news forus! Dick says he is at the age where no news isgood news.

Horace Shackelton speaks for all of us insaying, "How fortunate we are to have Perc

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Dunn take over as our treasurer after MaiBeakes's faithful 15 yrs in that post. Wesalute both of them." Horace goes on to saythat Perc Dunn, Art Mas term an, GeneDurham and he are all Rotarians in Ithaca,which keeps them in contact with each other.Gene, he says, is frequently called upon topreach funeral sermons for persons ofvarious faiths who have been benefited byGene's outstanding and unselfish services as aretired minister.

Gene Durham, himself, adds to the abovesaying that much of his time is spent callingon the sick and shut-in and working with theTompkins County Senior Citizens. He of-ficiated, he says, at 51 funerals in '79.

Jack Gebhard says that he and his wife(and classmate) Jean (Hall) "Continue to live,under our little rock. Our hearers, see-ers,rememberers, etc, are not what we would likethem to be, but we are OK for the shape weare in."

Dan Heller, writing from Bradenton, Fla,says, "No activity except picking orangesfrom our one orange tree." They have justcelebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary.

WOMEN: Margaret A Kinzinger, 316Dayton St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450

The Ί9er who probably will take thelongest Christmas journey is Gladys GilkeyCalkins, who will go from Alexandria, Va, toHonolulu, Hawaii, to visit her eldest daugh-ter, a professor in the university there, andher fascinating Samoan husband. Gladys has3 daughters, 13 "grands" and 4 "greats,"scattered far and wide, except for one grand-daughter in college in Pa. Time passes quick-ly at Goodwin House, where Gladys lives,with classes taught by faculty of a communitycollege, all sorts of hobbies including her fa-vorite water-color painting, and nearbyWashington for concerts, museums, andshopping.

Louise Hamburger Plass has added a newinterest to keep herself busy—historian ofJacksonville Regency House, where she lives.She is compiling a scrapbook covering theperiod from the organization of the house in1972 to the present time. Among new resi-dents are Cornellian John Bangs '21 and hiswife Clara.

Florence Coupe Meagher still lives inPoughkeepsie. Her daughter Jeanne (Welles-ley '44) is married to a supreme court justicein the appellate division. One son is aWilliams '50 grad; the other, Raymond EMeagher Jr '57. Both are officers in amechanical construction organization.

By the time you read this, we will be wellinto the new year, and those who spentChristmas away from home will be resumingtheir usual activities. All of your officers joinme in wishing you a 1981 better in every waythan 1980—even if you thought 1980 was agood yr!

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

It's a brand new year with a lot of promiseto look forward to in 1981. Hopefully, OldHat Groundhog was brave enough to chargeforth and scare Old Man Winter into meltingdown to a puddle. We admit that's justhopeful thinking.

We're still hearing from many old friendsas to why they were unable to join us lastJune for our joyous 60th. Horace Shermanhad to remain quiet in Pompano Beach aftersuffering a heart attack from which he isrecovering nicely. Ralph Quackenbush in DesMoines was disappointed to report that he

has been "house bound" with a bad back. Hewas glad to hear the Reunion was so well at-tended.

Jack Israel was "grounded" in Buffalo dueto a fractured pelvis but is now coming alongfine. Allerton Eddy in Canaan, Conn, wouldhave joined us at Reunion but his 50th wed-ding anniversary had the inside track and hehad other fish to fry. Sam Paul's wife wasseriously ill and he couldn't leave her (natur-ally). They remained in Philadelphia for thesummer instead of making their usual trip toCape Cod.

Aurora Galves writes from Valley Cottagethat a few days before their annual trip toNM, Murray fell and fractured his right hip.The next 7 wks were spent in Nyack Hospitalsuffering through 3 operations from which heis now recovering. We hope they are now en-joying the healing rays of the southern sun.

Vincent Lamoureux writes from McLean,Va, "Sorry to have missed the 60th Reunion.Beyond the shock of losing my wife of nearly54 yrs, I was involved in the bureaucracy ofdeath, wills, probates, estate records, and theneed to be available when the lawyer calls. Istay reasonably healthy and living alonekeeps me well occupied. I have been to Hat-teras Island and withstood the heat, humidi-ty, and the winds. I am now leaving for 2 wksat my daughter's ranch near Salida. So, I ambeginning to travel a bit and look forward tomore this winter to get a respite from the colddamp weather.

Walter Marx of East Orange, NJ, our 1920crew coxswain, has just sold his familybusiness, Max Marx Color & Chem Co to aBritish company, Johnson-Mattbey. Walter'snephew remains as president and Walter is re-tained as consultant.

Col (ret) Walter C Roberts lives peacefullyin White Stone, Va, on the RappahannockRiver and finds it so pleasant he never wantsto travel. He leaves that up to his grandson,who just returned from the music festival inAustria. Another grandson recently enlistedin the Army for helicopter training.

Gretchen and Herb Grigson are winteringas usual on St Simons Isl, Ga. In case youwant to communicate, their address is 730Deer Run Villa.

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

Feb, the month of Cupid, is a good time tosend my affection to each one of my '20classmates. The older I get, the more I realizehow important love, friendship, and compan-ionship are to happiness and contentment.Remembering Reunion still brings a warmglow of shared pleasures. For me, one of thehighlights was being seated in front of Bar-bara Way Hunter '49 as she was introducedas a new Trustee. Her parents, Hilda "Billy"(Greenawalt) '19 and Dr W D "Den" Way'17, were our best couple friends for yrs inEssex County. The happiest times of ouryoung married lives were shared there whileDen was county veterinarian and my husbandRobert "Champ" Clark '22 was county agentand farmer. How proud the Ways must be tohave had 2 daughters, Barbara and Jean WaySchoonover '41, serve as Cornell Trustees.

Thera Emerson Kahler enjoyed everyminute of Reunion. She says "5 yrs is toolong to wait, so I hope some of us can gettogether in Ithaca next yr." I hope to seeThera in Silver Spring, Md, when I am in Vaat Christmas. She has been an appreciatedfriend since 1915.

Lois Webster Utter has a newly numberedaddress: 1862 Rt 5 & 20, Stanley. MarionIrish Hodgkiss has a new winter address in aretirement complex: 2050 S W 10th Ct, Apt111, Delray Beach, Fla. Our outdoor gal

Ruth Ratelle, on her mountainside, has takento walking with a cane, so her walks areslower and shorter but still delightful. Ruthloved Regene Freund Cohane's prayer at ourluncheon and is daring to look forward to amini-reunion in '81.

Anyone attending Bradenton-SarasotaCornell Club activities in winter '81, look forHarry and Eva Topkins Brodkin. They livepractically next door to the Holiday Innwhere meetings are held. Eva attended 4meetings last yr without recognizing any'20ers and I know several attended the Febmeeting. Look for the bluebirds and the firstsigns of spring! How fortunate we are to havewelcomed so many springs.

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

Luther S West continues to contributescientific articles to the Northern News-Re-view, published by Northern Mich U. Someof his recent writings have been about insectsand ticks which transmit diseases to humanbeings.

Miles R Jacobs of Oakland, Cal, has agood view from his apartment, which is con-veniently situated with respect to transporta-tion to San Francisco. He recalls that as anundergraduate he spent much of his timeworking in the Library. Between 1924 and1965 he made 16 trips to Europe. On one ofthese, in 1937, he spent 6 wks as one of asmall group of teachers of Latin at theAmerican Academy in Rome.

Carl Livingston recently wrote, " I amchairman of the board of a women's retailspecialty store and we have 12 stores in theSan Francisco Bay area. Our store is the onlyremaining family-owned and operated retailstore in San Francisco and 2 of my grand-sons, who are the 4th generation, are workingin the store. I am married, live in San Fran-cisco, and am enjoying life. My one objectionis that the sports pages in San Francisco onSundays practically never list Cornell footballgame scores!"

Gardner T Barker continues in reasonablygood health at age 84. He enjoys watchingsports on TV, and almost daily takes his oldersister for a ride in the car, usually betweenCroton-on-Hudson and Yorktown.

Julius Bendet retired in 1964 after many yrsas a teacher of chemistry aηd physics in NYChigh schools. A widower for 3 yrs, he haskept a heart ailment under control by wearinga pacemaker for 11 yrs. He is spending thewinter in Fla.

Allison Danzig has sucessfully recoveredfrom recent surgery. After 10 yrs of work hehas completed the manuscript of his book oncourt tennis. He still hopes to do some revi-sion of it before publication.

WOMEN: Gertrude C Hazzard, #296 WesleyHgts, Shelton, Conn 06484

News time again! Don't forget to write toAgnes Hall Moffat so she may update our do-ings between '76 and '81. These 5 yrs are go-ing fast, right?

Dorothy Stewart Rowland writes fromRo way ton, Conn, that she has a son Duncanand 2 teen-aged grandchildren. Do wewonder why she taught only from '55 to '69?She enjoys the garden club, which is involvedin conservation, also the CC of FairfieldCounty.

Another country heard from—MargaretRemsen Rude lives in Waymont, Pa. She has14 grandchildren. One son is a DVM and heryoungest granddaughter is at Hershey MedSchool. Her hobbies: music and oil painting.

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Let us all concentrate on staying healthyfor our 60th Reunion.

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

Class President George Naylor and thiscorrespondent are revising our stationary andthe Class Directory for new printings. Thelast printing was in '78, so you can expectquite a few changes.

Arthur Remick died on Sept 7, after a fallat home. He taught organic chemistry atWayne State U for 37 yrs. His text book, In-terpretations of Organic Chemistry, is beingused around the World. The Ed Mootscelebrated their 57th wedding anniversary inAug. All of their 4-generation family were inattendance. The family gave them tickets tothe Yankee-Mariner game in YankeeStadium. Ed is beginning his 3rd yr as colum-nist for the Cobleskill Times Journal. He hasalso had 14 articles published in nationalmagazines. He got his start in writing underthe tutelage of Profs Bristow Adams and M VAtwood at Cornell.

On Oct 16, this correspondent and wife"Billie" (Deisler) '24 attended a Cornell par-ty at the home of Arthur Peterson, MS '34 inChapel Hill, NC. The party was in honor offormer-President and Mrs Deane W Malott.Quite a few other Cornellians were there, in-cluding Emeritus Prof Phillip Johnson, PhD'33; Berry Credle '30, MEE '31, and PhD'39. Also, H M Landsberger, PhD '51,Elizabeth Scoville McLellan '36, and PaulWright '53. It was a gay party, with manyreminiscences.

Walter Dann has his 1st great-grandchild, agirl named Jennifer Dann. Ben Mesick's wifeEvelyn died on Oct 4, after a long illness.Paul Ostrander sends this terse summary;"Doing very well, golf 6 days a week (92); 3children; 7 grandchildren; 4 great-grand-children; visited Walt Lee in Santa Monica,Cal. Found him in good spirits and a goodcook."

Hamilton Pretat also sends an interestingsummary of his activities. "First 3 yrs out ofcollege spent in learning brass business withthe Scoville Co. Transferred to the sales of-fice in Boston in '26. Covered 5 states.Transferred to Chicago Office in '38. Mar-ried in '29. In '43, started an agency formarketing lighting products, radio, TV, elec-tronics, and radar. Had offices in Dayton,Ohio; Ft Wayne, Ind; and Chicago. Covered11 states. Retired in '71 to Cape Cod. Winterin Fla."

Wilfred Rothschild and wife Janet spentseveral wks last summer traveling in People'sRepublic of China. They found the Chinesepeople friendly and curiously interested inforeign travelers. Tours were regimented, butentertainment was lavish with lots of foodand drinks. English words most used bynatives were "friendship" and 'bottoms up."Janet amused the Chinese by walkingbackwards up and down hills on the GreatWall. She found walking easier that way.

Bill Lathrop has been in a nursing home, Ipresume in Rathdrum, Idaho, for a yr. Hehas Parkinson's disease. Nathan Talmageand wife Adele took the alumni tour to cen-tral Europe last summer. They saw the Pas-sion Play at Oberammergau. Nathan con-tinues to operate his farm at Riverhead.Associated with him on the farm are his sonsJohn '52 and Nate Jr '54, 2 grandsons, Bill'78 and Bruce '80. All are graduates of the AgCollege. Chief field crops are potatoes andcauliflower. A specialty is geraniums, grownin greenhouses.

Chape Condit attended the football game(vs Dartmouth) last fall in Ithaca. Cornellwon, 7-3, but heavy rain almost ruined thegame—and the spectators. Chape is anxiousfor a good attendance at our 60th Reunion,so make plans early. Dutch Hinrick continuesin the stainless steel business. Spare time andvacations are spent golfing, hunting, fishing.

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

As I write this in early Dec, Ithaca is quitespringlike. We have had one good snowstormand a 2nd is reported to be on its way. Sameold Ithaca weather—a bit of everything. Ruth(St John) and Harrup Freeman '29 are off tothe Virgin Islands for a month. Grace (Mor-ris) and Hubert Race have made the move toLifecare Retirement Home near Phila, Pa.Their new address is Rydal Park, Apt 251,Rydal, Pa. They will be only 5 miles fromtheir daughter Peg Thistle and family. Theystill plan to spend their summers at theircamp on Galway Lake.

Mary Porter Durham is pleased that hergranddaughter, Karen Spiegel Tashjian '76,who has her BS from Hum Ec, is getting adegree in Arch this Dec, majoring in design.Her husband Joseph J '76 (Ag) is now afreshman in the Vet College. The couple metplaying polo. Folks just don't leave Cornell.

Edna Krench Koepechen is delighted withher move to Marco Isl, Fla. She is with herdaughter and husband. She reports that it is"just wonderful."

23MEN and WOMEN: George A West, 106-BBrebeuf Dr, Penfield, NY 14526; Helen FNorthrup, 3001 Harvey St, Madison Wise53705

"What ho on the Rialto," as time marcheson into 1981. The new class correspondent onthe masthead is due to the untimely death ofAl Conradis, who passed away Sept 24 in Fla.The class lost a loyal and dedicated Cor-nellian who served his class well and produc-ed this column in an interesting and informa-tive way. When approached for this assign-ment, I hesitated, but knowing that trustyGeorge Calvert was near at hand by phoneand only 5 miles away, I weakened andagreed to see how it goes.

With so little time to get my bearings andassimilate the secretarial accumulations sentto me from APs wife, Winnie, I sifted filesfor material to meet the deadline of Dec 3 forthis issue. I finally ran across APs News &Dues form sent to George Calvert, treasurer,with 1980 dues plus this comment: "I don'tknow why I should fill this out, since un-doubtedly you will return it to me anyway."

I am glad he did. Al, with typical modesty,seemed to cover everybody who sent in classnotes but himself. Our condolences go to APswife Winnie, their 3 children, and grand-children. They were the subjects of his ownclass news to Calvert last Jan, but never in-cluded in the '23 column, as far as I know. Alreported that he and Winnie took the alumniCaribbean cruise, adding a few words abouttheir children for George's edification:"Jocelyn Conradis Tully's husband, JamesHunt Tully, was a programmer at CapeCanaveral for a number of yrs. Just beforeChristmas '79 he was offered a similar job ina Dutch Company in Holland, which he ac-cepted. The Tullys are living in Holland for atleast 2 yrs. They are enjoying it. Their 2 littlegirls—Elaine, 8, and Susan, 5—are enrolledin a Dutch public school, which was a verywise decision.

"John C F, our oldest son, was in the Ar-

my for 3 yrs as an enlistee and served in Viet-nam in military intelligence for a yr and cameback safely. He is now in the State Depart-ment, loaned out to the Department of In-terior. He left Calcutta, under orders, justbefore all the unpleasantness in Calcutta andelsewhere in the Far East. He had beenpreviously stationed in Abu Dhabi and otherArabian emirates. Ask him to converse inArabic! Phew!

"Gilbert E was also in the Army for 3 yrsas an enlistee, and served in Vietnam for a yr.He was a paratrooper in the 173rd AirborneBrigade in Sept '79 while in Vietnam. He hadmany close calls, but came back safely, forwhich Winnie and I will be eternally grateful.He earned the bronze star and other decora-tions for bravery. Gilbert is now in Orlando(Fla) working for the Sentinel Star in the artsdisplay section of the advertising departmentand loves his work. Best Regards, QED, Al."

"Merce" Seaman Wrede suffered a seriousheart attack July 10 while walking on thestreet in Santa Monica. Medical aid arrivedpromptly. The next 5 wks were spent in StJohn's Hospital. She reports, "I get strongereach day, but take it easy." Unfortunately,her husband Fred died Jan 1, 1980, after astroke—was in a nursing home for only 5wks. Merce wrote in Oct '80, "At the mo-ment I am tops for my age and condition."Merce's address: 1223 16th St, Apt A, SantaMonica, Cal.

Helen Northup reports she attended a 3-wkseminar in drama and music in the BritishIsles in Aug, Dublin and London for a wk, awk at the Edinburgh Festival, with lectures bydelightful British scholars mornings, andplays at night, all sponsored by adult educa-tion groups as hosts.

Ruth Rice McMillan has made an incredi-ble recovery from a broken hip in just a fewmonths; no cane, no walker, and still remainsher cheerful self. At-a-girl, Ruth, as you nowbelong to the prestigious Octogenarian Club,enjoy it, and tell your classmates to write.

24MEN: Alva Tompkins, RD 2, Box 2, Tunk-hannock Pa 18657

All classmates should know this man: MaxSchmitt. He is chairman of the '24 mini-reu-

nion at North Palm Beachon Feb 23. He was presi-dent of '24 between thetwo "Chicks:" after thelegendary Chick Stone(Mr Colorado Springs)and before the fabulousChick Norris (Cornell'sAl Jolson). Max has beena lifetime Cornell activist,both as a volunteer and asa professional. He was in

charge of the Southeastern Regional Officeuntil he retired. Both he and his delightfulwife Peg have gone way beyond the line of•duty in organizing and promoting great mini-reunions in Fla every yr since '75. These aremore than class events. The Schmitts haveearned the undying gratitude of everyclassmate, but all the thanks they covet isyour presence in N Palm on Feb 23.

This month the column wrote itself, asthoughtful classmates imparted news, bothgood and bad. Ed Clynes sent this: "HarryCaplan '16 . . . is in Ore with his brother, whois a physician in the Veteran's Bureau."[Harry Caplan died, Nov 29, 1980. See p 6,this issue.—Ed] About 8 yrs older than we, hecontinued to look as we remember him whenhe taught public speaking. We made him anhonorary member of our class, just because

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we liked him, and he accepted, without hav-ing any illusions about our prospects ofbecoming classical scholars. He became in-creasingly precious with every Reunion, andalways had a part in the ecumenical memorialservice in Sage Chapel. He continued to workin his Rockefeller Hall office.

At our last class luncheon in NYC, CharlieSalzman called our attention to the referencesto Roger Egeberg in William Manchester'sbook, American Caesar. Look in the index ofthis biography of Douglas MacArthur andsee all the references there are to Roger, andhow close he was to "Caesar." Here is fullconfirmation that Roger was personal physi-cian to one of America's greatest soldiers, en-during great dangers in the process. The finalstatement, made when MacArthur was jnfailing health at 84, is that "Dr Egebergbelieves that he might have survived for yrshad he sought medical attention earlier."Verbum sapientibus classmates.

Bernie Kovner sent a front page of the Ken-nebec Journal for Nov 12, with a big pictureof "Augusta Artist Florence Daly." Thepaper gives her a headline on her memories ofthe 1st Armistice Day, which include some ofthe things we all remember. Sometime latershe witnessed, "General Pershing ride up 5thAve on his big black horse." Flo studied artat Cornell and has stayed with it. Her water-colors of the campus are among the best everpainted. We know, because they were on ex-hibition at Willard Straight at our 55th. Someof her pictures are in the homes of class-mates, for she has contributed originals forprizes at our Reunions.

Bernie Kovner also deserves thanks for hisperseverance in finding support for our almamater; The Cornell Campaign goal of $230million looked wistful before it was raisedfrom 50,000 gifts. If any of you slipped up onyour contribution, it is still welcome andPresident Rhodes suggests that 250 is aneasier number to remember than 230.

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

A last reminder to travelers and Floridians:The mini-reunion is Feb 22-23. Have awonderful time!

Loretta Coffey Persky (Mrs Arthur M)writes that only the youngest of 5 grand-children has applied to and been accepted atCornell. Loretta's Number One activity isvolunteer work at the Brooklyn Hospital,although she also works for the Red Crossand the Visiting Nurse Assn.

Marcella Rebholz Meyer (Mrs Bernard £)has moved from Fla to Texas to be near herson and his family. How about going backfor the mini-reunion? Anita Goltz Harwood(Mrs R Elton) reports working on theresidence paper and in its snack bar and mail-room. She plays cards and reads: "Nothingtoo exciting, just enjoying a leisurely life."

Thelma Chapin Easterbrooks (MrsPreseton B) is treasurer of a hospital aux-iliary, but collecting is the primary family ac-tivity. She says one of their paintings, TheCaptain's Walk, by Henry Tarvis Pack is cur-rently on loan to the Brandywine RiverMuseum for an exhibit on "Howard Pyle—ATeacher and his Students." That must havebeen interesting. Do you all remember withaffection a book of fairy tales which Pyle il-lustrated? I do.

Ruth Oviatt is still docent at 2 of theSmithsonian art museums. She is also activein the Northern Va chapter of Amnesty Inter-national. And she is still going to school—inthe summer of '79, a course at St Andrew'sUniv (Scotland); and in '80, one at FortLewis College (Colo). Her sister shared bothenterprises.

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

Myron Zucker, of Bloomfield Hills, Mo,and wife, Isabel (Schnapper) '26 are still car-rying on their company business in theenergy-conservation and environmentalfields. Isabel's latest publication was in theAmerican Horticulturist, an article onflowering bulbs. The article was enthusiasti-cally received by famous Donald Wyman,PhD '35 (editorial adviser to the magazine)because of her material and style of writing.

Ernie Brackett, Wash, DC, writes he en-joyed the 55th Reunion. Al Mills, OrangeCity, Fla, thanks Jim Norris and all whohelped make our 55th a great Reunion. FrankHenderson, and his wife Isabelle, were totake a European trip this past summer toGreenland, Copenhagen, Switzerland,Amsterdam, Scotland, Wales, and England.Walt Southworth, McLean, Va, was to visitPeking, Shanghai, Soochow, and—for con-trast—3 Alaskan ports. Whitney Trowsdale,Rome, Pa, took a trip to Europe and wentback to Cambridge where he had been a stu-dent 51 yrs ago. How about that?

Harold Pattrow suffered a stroke on Aug15, 1976, and retired to Tucson, Ariz, in Dec'77. He had a mild stroke in Aug '79, but sayshe is enjoying the Southwest very much, andhas almost fully recovered. Keep up the goodwork, Hal.

We are sorry to report that Charles"Chuck" Wieters, Eastchester, died on Nov16, 1980. Chuck was a regular attendant atthe CAA of Westchester County monthlyluncheons, and we shall miss him. We extendour sympathy to the members of his family.

Al Severance, MD, of San Antonio, Texas,writes he is still alive and kicking, and he of-ficially retired July 1, 1980. Howard Burdenof Homer is working with the Northern NutGrowers Assn. He says he is one of the nuts.He tried to work on running autos withhydrogen. He says it is impossible and hasturned it back to the senior engineers atGeneral Motors. Phiio Atwood, Wilmington,Del, says receipt of his dues check confirmsthat he is still "hanging in there." He is sorryhe has not made many Reunions, but wisheswell to all.

Howard Searles, Geneva (NY) enjoyed theReunion with brother Theta Alphans BySpence, Alec Whitney, Ken Van Wynen. Hesays it was good to see many classmates onceagain and he will see us in 1985. Johnny Cot-ton, Albuquerque, NM, writes that theirneighbors, the Apaches, want Bill McKinleyto come teach them how to play lacrosse. AlLaird, Try on, NC, writes to Stu Richardsonthat he couldn't make the Reunion because offamily illness. He says he will see us in '85, hehopes. Alexander Whitney, Baltimore, Md,writes it was good to get together again atReunion and commiserate privately aboutvarious aches, but at the same time to keep upthe pace with our classmates so as not to missany of the fun and camaraderie. We thinkthat is a very well worded summary of a Reu-nion.

Frank Fletcher, Minneapolis, Minn, sayshe is still alive but close to 80. Most of us arein the same boat. John Carncross, Manas-quan, NJ, writes it was a good Reunion andMany thanks to Stu Richardson and the com-mittee; and, he appreciated the class picture.

26MEN and WOMEN: Hunt Bradley, 1 LodgeWay, Ithaca, NY 14850

WAVE THE BANNER HIGH FOR OURFIFTY—FIFTH! Information and detailscoming to you in Reunion letters!

Gleanings from the boys: GeorgeDimon—"We have moved permanently to8421 Forest Hills Dr, Coral Springs, Fla."Bob Gilman—"We feel close to Cornell withgrandson Tom '81 and daughter Joan '57, aregular visitor." John Zehner—"Enjoyedsinging with Yankee Male Chorus in Vt lastAug." Tige Tarbell—"Sally and I expect tospend the winter months at Sawgrass, PonteVerda Beach, Fla." Bill Loeb—"I urge allclassmates to be generous and give to our55th Cornell Fund special effort. Nancy and Ihad a good summer in Maine, she caught thebass and catfish and I, only a perch!" HarryMorris—"Am looking forward to our 55th!"Coley Williams—"After a lifetime here atSaugatuck, Conn, we're moving to Wellfleet,Cape Cod, as soon as we sell our home.Building on a lot owned by our daughter."

John Tracey—"Hole in one, May 8th, 6thhole (176 yds) east course, Drumlins GolfClub, Syracuse!" Bernard Tolces—"My wifeis busy practicing law and myself with print-making." Chauncey Grant—"We are spend-ing the winter at 1069 Hillsboro Beach, Pom-pano Beach, Fla. Have watched Cosmosseries of Prof Carl Sagan with greatinterest." John Wieman—"Sorry, have nonews about myself but my best wishes go toall of you who have so much pep." Ted Bard-well—"Our 2 sons put on quite a party for usto celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary atthe Elliot Alumni Center of the U of NH. On-ly 2 of the original wedding party couldn't at-tend." Ed Adey—"Now retired 12 yrs. Don'tknow where I found 8-10 hours/day to go towork in NYC for Johns-Manville Corp."

Al Boyce—"Retired June '78 from U ofCal, Riverside, after 41 yrs on faculty, as profof entomology, assoc director of the CitrusResearch Center and Ag Exp Station and DaySchool of Ag Sciences. Served 1965-71 asconsultant, The Rockefeller Foundation.Subsequently, enjoy looking after our smallsubtropical plant farm, cacti and other suc-culents, and general floricultural projects."Orv Brindell—"Still traveling, CentralAmerica and Mexico being our last trip. Havea feeling for the fund raisers for Cornell, as Iam new chairman for raising $9 million forchurch restoration. All gifts gratefully receiv-ed!" Frank Podboy—"I was on the alumnitour to New Zealand and Australia, with aside trip to Hawaii early last yr. Look for-ward to our Reunion."

Notes from the girls: Geri TremaineWelch—"I'm enjoying pleasant life in Fla.Went north for Aug and Sept. Had fineReunion-planning confab while in Buffaloarea with Tommy Koetsch Voight, Billie Bur-tis Scanlan, and Ruth Burns McMahon. InDetroit, had enjoyable afternoon with HelenBull Vandervort, there visiting herdaughter." Beatrice Boyer Beattie—"I'mlooking forward to our 55th." Billy Scan-lan—"A busy summer—2 wks in Cal, a de-lightful cruise on Long Isl Sound with stopsat Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, andNewport, and to Buffalo for Reunion-plan-ning session with class officers." Laura JaneBurnett—"No special news, just surviving90-degree temp here in Galveston; do nothave air conditioning. Perhaps may make1981 Reunion." Alice Hanlan Tallman—"We spend winters in New Smyrna Beach,Fla. Would love to see friends at Erroll By

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The Sea." Mildred Brucker Palmer—"Myhusband and I enjoyed the Passion Play atOberammergau last July. The bus tourthrough southern Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland, and meeting a distant cousin inHeidelberg were especially pleasant."

Kathryn Hakins Sturges—"Retired fromState of Cal Employment Development Dept.Active in Luthern Church affairs; 4 great-grandchildren; travel in USA frequently,especially Hawaii (4 times) visiting, not astourist. Music still my chief interest; attendmany concer ts ." Helen ChappellWoolson—"Can't wait for our 55th! Mygrandson Matthew Woolson '81 will be in thegraduating class. A Mediterranean cruise lastfall and a trip to Europe including the Pas-sion Play in July were the highlights of mytravels last yr." Hazel Merrill Brane—"InDec we took our 2nd trip on the Nantome inthe Bahamas. Then on to the Rogue, a littlefreighter that sails the Caribbean. Expect toattend Reunion on our way to visit the 11thgrandchild due in Rome (NY)." DorothyBenton Demarais—"I belong to the CWC ofDel. Last yr's program had several meetingswith the men's group. I am walking with 2canes so I regret I won't be back for our Reu-nion." Theresa Herman Trynin—"Still invery good health and going to Israel thiswinter to visit grandson who is studyingthere. Will try to attend Reunion if it doesn'tconflict with other grandchild's graduationfrom Brown in June."

27MEN: Don Hershey, 5 S Landing Rd, Roch-ester 14610

Gene Tonkonogy's answer to keepingyouthful is golfing, playing tennis, swim-ming, snorkeling, dancing, and clowning.The photo shows him with dancing partner,part of 1,400-member Macy's tap dancingteam which performed to the tune of Give MyRegards to Broadway at Macy's BroadwayStore. Gene was perennial clown in Macy's'80 parade.

Gus Craig, in his '80 British Columbiamountain-climbing venture was treated to aspine-tingling experience when a family ofhowling, singing, barking wolves serenadedhim. He's filming some magnificent views ofthat wonderland of fishing, hunting, and hik-ing, for our 55th. Ulric Moore suggests a '2755th gift fund for The Plantations to pro-pagate an elm grove for replacement of theonce stately elms on campus.

Geo Trefts' new hobby is holes in one! Lastyr at Chautauqua, on three golf courses, hegot one each. Carl ton Rowand reached 50 yrsof law practice. He with wife Marg (Luck-ings) '18 have 3 children, their spouses, 10grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren.Pete Petermann and Huldah enjoyed thealumni Caribbean tour, and Alaska cruise.Three of their 4 children are Cornellians.There are 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Dick Murdock and Marian venture in realestate, landscaping, vegetable gardening, an-tiques, and 2 venturous grandchildren. Ar-chitect Burt Bugbee, designer of fascinatingcountry houses, is doing one in Karawizwa,Japan, and another on water, 60 miles northof Charleston, SC. He enjoyed lunch with ar-chitects Madge Hoyt Smith and David Davisat Brookfield, Conn, Cornell Club meeting.Joe Martinez attends regularly the fine Cor-nell Club meetings de Mexico, DF.

Howie and Helen Ware celebrated their49th in Verona, NJ, in Sept '80. Bob and KayWood celebrated their 50th in MelbourneBeach, Fla, in Dec '80. Stan Clark and Alice

Tapdancer Gene Tonkonogy '27, at right,helps try for a world record. (See column.)

toured Bermuda, Canary Islands, Alaska,and Colombia, South America, in '80. FrankToman and Kathryn have visited all 50 statesand 90 countries. How about a story? Normand Dolly Davidson said, "Remarkable BobHobbie made their Fla visit a happy one."

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

I am writing this on a cold, blusteringwinter day, and I expect that when you read itmany of you will be basking in the sunshineof Fla, Ariz, or some other warm spot—ormaybe you'll be enjoying the ski slopes.

There seems to be a dearth of personalnews this month, so I'll use the space to tellyou about the complete reorganization of theCornell Women's Club of Ithaca, which hasnot been active in recent yrs. Linda PearceKabelac '69, who works in the developmentoffice is the new president. The new executivecommittee recognizes that the CWC of Ithacais a unique alumni club because of our prox-imity to Cornell, and has planned a programthat takes this into consideration.

The first meeting of the CWC, Dec 2, wasWomen's Federation scholarship evening.The recipients of the Federation scholarshipsfor 1980-81, of which there are more than 60,were invited for coffee and dessert. AgdaSwenson Osborn '20 spoke briefly about theformation of the scholarship program, andGeorgia McGowan MacNeil, MS '49, chair-man of the selection committee also spokeabout the selection process.

I was proud that the Class of '27 hadestablished 4 scholarships, one of which is theFasoldt Scholarship which Emilie FasoldtGrams and Lillian Fasoldt Schumacherestablished in memory of their parents. Tworecipients of the scholarship sought outEmilie to express their appreciation.

The women's athletic program needs morespectators and audience support. Recogniz-ing this, the CWC plams to attend thewomen's hockey game, Feb 13, at LynahRink, Cornell vs Providence (Providence israted 1st in the US) to cheer the Cornell teamto victory.

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

George Schofield retired in '77 as a partnerof Schofield & Colgan, Architects. He is stillworking part time as a consultant. During hisactive career, his company designed, amongother buildings, the executive headquarters of

American Cynamid, Pace Law School inWhite Plains, and Columbia's Geo ScienceLab. George is a past chairman of TappanZee National Bank (now part of ChemicalBank); president and chairman of RocklandCounty YMCA, and member of the Y's na-tional council. He is presently a trustee ofCathedral of St John the Divine in NYC anddirector of the Tolstoy Foundation. He andwife Annette (Pye) '29 have 2 children and 6grandchildren—lots of Ivy Leaguers but noCornellians.

I am getting to the end of last yr's news so,if you have news for this column, pleasewrite. If you have never written before, bringus up to date. Are you retired? If not, whynot? What are you doing with yourself? Howabout grandchildren at Cornell, or else-where? Your correspondent goes along muchthe same. Handling the financial and ad-ministrative details for a charity, Vacationsand Community Services for the Blind; lotsof Secondary Schools interviews for the ad-missions office and some fund raising forCornell. Also, I am a director of a corpora-tion for the business game at Long Isl U. Inbetween, 2 trips a yr to San Francisco, where2 young grandchildren are—and usually atrip to Switzerland. Let that be a format foryour reply!

Harold A Carter retired in '62 from the USFish and Wildlife Service and says he spendsmost of his time with house and yardmaintenance and repair. Frederick £ Em-mons is a retired architect. He was a partnerin Jones and Emmons of Los Angeles. Theydesigned buildings at 5 campuses of the U ofCal, as well as at U of Hawaii, Cal Tech, etc.He received AIA's architectural firm awardin '69. Fred is a fellow of the ALA and authorof 3 books on ocean liners. He is chairman ofthe Belvedere Planning Commission. He andhis wife Cynthia (Clark) have a daughterCarolyn Jones (U of Ariz) and 2 grand-children, Trevor, 15, and Lindsay, 13.

Walter Gurney retired in '67 and says oneof his career highlights was "Wes ThomasBand." Also, he was in the ETO in WW IIand now mentions "gladiolus." He and wifeArmine have a son Benedict R and a grand-daughter, a CE. Andrew McGowin writes heretired in '71 from Bethlehem Steel, where hewas superintendent of Wl press forge and #10machine shop. They moved to Naples, Fla, in'72 and, during the winter months, he spendshis time mostly playing golf at the RoyalPoinsiana Golf Club. In the summer they goto Highlands, NC, with golf at the WildcatCliff Golf Club. (No scores or handicapsgiven.) Last Feb, he and wife Thelma were onthe Viking Star for a cruise from San Fran-cisco to Fort Lauderdale; met Walter Buckley'26 and his wife Alicia. Andy says they had agreat time, a great ship, and fine weather.

While we are on the Andys, Andrew Mc-Connell retired from General Electric in '67.He was a senior engineer. About his progeny,Nancy McConnell Davidian '62 went to U ofNC for a PhD and Barbara McConnell Miller'66, has her MS, also from U of NC.

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

Dorothy Dann Bullock has many happymemories of past Reunions and plans to con-tinue. She moved from Pa in Sept to 439 WStocker Ave, Apt 109, Glendale, Cal, to benear her family. She has had a distinguishedcareer in many fields of music, nationally andinternationally, the Chautauqua Inst (retiredin '79), concerts, education, opera. Her 3doctorates and many citations and salutes ofappreciation plus distinguished serviceawards attest to her abilities and hard work.Betty Clark Irving plays golf during the wk

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and does volunteer stints at the hospital. Shesaves weekends to visit her sons. Donald '52and his wife Joan Irving Crandall '53 tooktheir youngest daughter, 18, to DC to begincollege at American U. Her twin David is atthe Air Force Acad in Colo Springs, so all oftheir children are now "out of the nest." Bet-ty is hoping to see some of the Ithacaclassmates.

Dot Searles Munchmeyer and husbandLudwig, Whiting, NJ, were touring NewEngland in May. They say on their next tripthey hope to say hello to Ruth Lyon andHazel Mercer in Manchester, Vt.

Reminder I—Ruth is looking for yourdues, in case you had forgotten. ReminderII—gifts to Cornell go directly to the CornellFund in Ithaca, with '28 women designated1

for credit. Kay Geyer Butter field has an ex-cellent report on the generosity of our class.

Eleanor Bretsch Burden, Homer, was sad-dened to hear of the death of her roommateand dear friend Margaret Stansfield North inSebring, Fla, on Oct 11. Margaret had taughtFrench and Latin in Andes and Bainbridgefor 2 years before marrying the late GeorgeNorth, (B Chem). They lived in Baltimore,Md, and Arlington, Va, before retiring toSebring. She was active in church work andcommunity affairs. She leaves an adopteddaughter, a grandson, a sister, and a brother.Our deepest sympathy to them.

29MEN: H F Marples, 40-24 68th St, Wood-side, NY 11377

A nice fat letter comes from Vice PresidentBob Dodge, in Wash, DC, between summertrips to New England and winter trips to Fla.Along with such activities as tennis, golf, andham radio, Bob hopes to put together thesaga of his family, starting with Thomas RDodge, farming on Long Isl in Revolutionarydays: being carpenter and shipwright as well,he went to Skeensboro on Lake Champlain,where he helped build Benedict Arnold'sflotilla to keep British ships off the lake.Then comes a diary kept by Bob's great-uncleAlonzo P Dodge, at sea with the US Navyblockade in the North Atlantic from Aug1862 to May 1865. Coming forward to Cor-nell, Bob will tell of his father's career on theHill, taking the BArch degree in '01 asclassmate and fraternity brother of WillardStraight, also playing lacrosse and coachingthe team on which Bob's uncle Walter SFinlay '04 played.

During World War II Bob served on GenWedemeyer's staff deep in the heart of Chinain the exciting days when we were rollingback the invading Japanese toward their sup-posedly impregnable homeland. We hopesecrecy has been relaxed to the point where hecan tell us facts about that part of the world,in place of the brief stories and rumors thatcame out of the area. I often said to myself,"Vas you dere, Sharlee?" to some of thosestories which were particularly implausible.

For current news, Bob sends word of 2grandsons: Douglas Harrison Malone '82,Hum Ec, son of Bob's daughter Alison andBill Malone; the other, the 4th Robert IDodge in the line of Cornellians, son ofRobert I III and Margann (Frantzen), both'59, who is Class of '84. Bob also reports thebirth of his 9th grandchild, William FoljambeDodge, on Apr 7, '80. At the rate both familyand history increase, he'll wear out more than2 typewriter ribbons getting it all down onpaper.

A study of all the '29 men listed in the '67alumni directory shows that 55 per cent tooktheir bachelor's degrees in course (4 yrs for all

colleges except Architecture, which takes 5),10 per cent took their degrees a yr late, and 3per cent, more than a yr late. That leaves 32per cent who did not take a degree. Not all ofthem were bustonians: in some cases themoney ran out, and in other cases the studentmight reckon that Cornell had taught himenough to go out and earn a living, which hedid forthwith, not waiting for the degree.Some students were so busy competing forplaces on teams, managerships, or publica-tions they couldn't carry a full scholastic pro-gram. I'd like to hear from them whether theexecutive training they received made up forthe extra time it took them to graduate.

A few days ago, feeling the need of purerEnglish in my writing and speaking, I boughta paperback Oxford Student's Dictionary ofCurrent English and found it absorbingreading. It is written for students learning theBritish version of the English language, andwhen spelling or usage varies across theAtlantic, it appends the American versionafter the initials "US." Definitions are keptsimple as an aid to the student, which poses achallenge for such words as "rope" and"knot." Few definitions are as short as thepidgin-English definition of "envelope" as"letter his pants."

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

Agnes (Gainey) and Professor H H "Bill"Williams, PhD '33, take their golf seriouslyand make almost routine drives from Ithacato Wash, DC, Cal, and Colo, to visit their 3daughters: Pat '59 is with the Power andWater Resources group; Margaret '61 andMerle have 3 sons; and Kathleen '64 andRob, a daughter. Last fall the Williamsesbroke their pattern with a drive to NovaScotia and Prince Edward Isl. Agnes has col-laborated on Bill's The History of the First 50Years of the American Inst of Nutrition andis now helping him edit the autobiography ofthe famous scientist, and Bill's first boss, DrIcie Macy-Hoobler.

Dot (English) and Ira Degenhardt '28 join-ed the NYC group for luncheon in Oct. Dotcame bearing a book full of congratulatorymessages and newspaper clippings relating tothe 100th birthday of her remarkable mother.Mrs English was a school teacher and, amongher many pioneering accomplishments, wasthe 1st woman to receive a driver's license inNJ. Although now blind, she is well, enjoystravel, and participates in the very activeDegenhardt daily life.

Carolyn (Getty) and Gene Lutz gave abrunch to celebrate their 45th wedding an-niversary. It was a pleasure to meet 2 of their3 children, a daughter-in-law, and 2 beautifulgrandchildren. The NYC group, never miss-ing a good party, were well represented.Marian (Kommel) Brandriss writes: "Justreturned from spending 4 glorious months inour lakeside cottage in Maine. Prior to thatwe had cycled with the League of AmericanWheelmen over the Memorial Day weekend.Ed '28 (Arts), LLB '30, is semi-retired, but Iam fully retired and enjoying every minute ofan active life. Our daughter Adrienne '69,(NYU Med School '73) is practicing in Cal,while Marjorie '71, (PhD MIT '76) is aresearch fellow at MIT."

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

As outgoing Cornell Fund rep, new ClassPres Lowell Powers reports: "We can lookback now at becoming a Million Dollar Class,breaking the men's 50th Reunion class giving

record, bringing in 30 previous non-donors,achieving a 94.5 per cent class participation,including 20 Tower Club (over $2,000), 10Quadrangle Club ($1,000-$ 1,999), and 22Charter Society ($500-$999) members." Aspreviously reported, total class contribution(men and women) was over $285,000. Lowelland his committee have given George Emeny,the new Cornell Fund rep, something toshoot at.

George Bryon, who's been living in Lon-don since '60, was largely responsible for thereactivation of the Cornell Club of London in'79. The club, with a membership of morethan 100, was host to Pres Frank H T Rhodeson his way home from China last yr. George,a financial planner for American executivesin Europe, is married, has a daughter, 2 sons,and 8 grandchildren.

Steve Dunn writes: "Sorry I missed our50th. It was the only time I could arrange afamily reunion in Cal, which included bothdaughters, and some in-laws, as well as all 5grandchildren." Steve, listed in Who's Whoin the World, is a retired lawyer, associationexecutive (National Assn of Mfrs, NationalCoal Assn), US delegate to international con-ferences, and author of Management Rightsin Labor Relations, published in '46 by theMatthew Bender Publishing Co.

When he's not fishing for Atlantic salmonor hunting grouse, woodcock, and pheasant,former Class Pres Carl Hoffman—retiredsince '73 as a director of McKinsey & Co,management consultants—spends his timemaking fine reproductions of antique furni-ture. He's married; has a son, a daughter,and 3 grandchildren; is a resident of New Ips-wich, NH, and maintains a 2nd home in Liv-ingston Manor.

John McKinney, whose career has includedhigh school teaching, govt service (U S Deptof Ag), 26 yrs as a magazine editor and pho-tographer for Progressive Farmer, 2 yrs as aPeace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, is an ad-junct professor at Texas Tech U in Lubbock,where he teaches photography. He's alsowritten 2 books: The Livestock Book, TheSheep Book; traveled in each of the 50 statesplus 40 foreign countries on 5 continents; has3 sons, 2 daughters, 10 grandchildren; andlives in Lubbock.

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

Osea Calciolari Noss continues her volun-teer work with Recording for the Blind, aswell as preparing books for the readers. Shealso has been editing and styling papers forYale Peabody Museum of Natural HistoryPublications. Printed under the name Postil-la, its topic for full study was the Victoriannovel, with 10 lectures by a fine Yale pro-fessor. Incidentally, last summer I enjoyedmeeting Osea's sister-in-law, Lucy Calciolari,who lives at the Culpepper Garden, where mybrother lives in retirement. The Nosses will betraveling in S India in Jan.

Lunetta Churchill McMore is still workingwith her church study group. Glad the elec-tion is over, having tried "to reform theworld," she was on every candidate's mailinglist, also the parties and causes. Her hugemail reminds me of mine. She works as edu-cation consultant for AAUW, her church ed-ucation group, and is involved with a litera-ture group of AAUW. Hazel Reed and MarySly were planning a holiday cruise throughthe Caribbean, leaving Dec 19. Hazel was tospend a couple of wks with Mary in Sun CityCenter, Fla, on her return.

Edith Cuervo Zeissig didn't attend our50th Reunion perse last June, as Myra Emer-son Ryan was visiting, so Edith joined Myra,Peg Saxe Nicholson, and Dot Dietzen White-

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head in a mini-reunion. Myra had a cataractoperation recently, and is doing well. She andher husband, Walter, PhD '37, were in Egyptlast yr, and had a wonderful time. Accordingto Edith, Myra is a famous artist who haswon many prizes, blue ribbons, etc, for herpastels in the Wash, DC, area. Edith has 5children, 12 grandchildren, 1 great-grand-child, 1 dog, and 1 cat. She is giving Englishlessons to a Vietnamese family, and keeps thehome fires burning. Thanks, all of you, forsending me your news!

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

We received this morning our dues letter,which was much delayed. Our fault, ofcourse. We hope you will read it carefully andrespond to it as best you can in all areas,including news of yourself and of classmateswhom you have met.

Bill Vanneman, our perennial source ofnews, sent us 2 clippings on classmates in thelast month. The 1st was that James BarkerSmith and his wife had sold their hotel,Wentworth-by-the-Sea, in Portsmouth, NH,for an undisclosed amount to a Swiss com-bine. Jim had told us, and we had reported inan earlier column, that the operational costswere closing in on him. We hope now thatJim and his wife will have some relaxationand will be free to attend the 50th Reunion.

Bill's other news item was a series of news-paper clippings which in reality were eulogiesfor Charles A Pirro Jr, who passed away onOct 20 last. He was editor of the Greenwich(Conn) Time at his retirement in '78; and hadbeen with the paper for 42 yrs. While not tooactive in Cornell affairs, Charles, says Bill,won his "C" in Greenwich.

Last June, we received a check from Elea-nor and Bill Brainard for support in the pub-lishing of a class directory. The detailed di-rectory was found to be impossible to pub-lish, as response to questionnaires was sparsein earlier days. There will be a class directory,but it will include only names and addresses.We still have the check, but if Eleanor andBill agree, we will send it in as part of the 50thReunion class gift.

Giff Hoag, a regular contributor to thesecolumns, sent us a short letter and a press re-lease. Giff, now a senior associate with theNational Inst on Cooperatives, was awardedthe Ellerbe merit award in recognition of hislifelong service to cooperatives and coopera-tive education, which included 41 yrs with theFarm Credit Administration. His specialtywas in the areas of policy making, publica-tions, and planning. He is author of thebook, Farm Credit System—A Financial His-tory of Self-Help. The Hoags' older son Peteris detailed for a yr to the Chief of NavalOperations office in the Pentagon fromNaval research at Dohlgren, Va. He is acivilian. Their other son John is owner-operator of a Mexican restaurant and lodgeat Red River, NM, a ski and summer resort inthe mountains.

As a final note, on the Smiths of the class,James M Smith wrote that he and wife Dibbywere looking forward to becoming great-grandparents.

WOMEN: Helen Nuffort Saunders, 1Kensington Terr, Maplewood, NJ 07040

Every year ending in a " 1 " has promised amomentous June celebration in Ithaca forour class and here we are, rapidly approach-ing our Golden 50th. It's not to be missed.Circle the 2nd weekend in June on your newcalendar, now. Renew old friendships, make

new ones, expand your mental horizons atfaculty forums, refresh yourself once againwith the beauty of hill and lake.

Our special class project, the beautificationof the approach to campus from Balch Hallsover Fall Creek Gorge should appeal to all ofus who trod Triphammer Bridge daily. Pleasegive all you can, along with your class dues,but not at the expense of your annual contri-bution to the Cornell Fund, which is thealumni lifeline to our alma mater. Fifty yearsout. . .let's stretch a bit in our giving this yr!

Also, please send news of yourself. Whyelse do people read this column? At thiswriting in Dec we are delighted to receivecards from 3 earlybirds, who reply to duesletters with dispatch, Ella Miller Moorewrites that she and Donald sold the businessto the Benedict family who have been work-ing at Miller's for yrs. "None of our boyswere interested," she adds. "We are now em-ployees and enjoy it even more without theresponsibility. We have retained the building.Our Cornellian son Allen '61, may also showfor the Reunion."

A brief note from Emily C Gorman tells ofa travel year: China, "truly an adventure,"Malta, and England. We look forward tohearing more in June. "Have just finished aone-man painting show at Upstairs Gallery inIthaca and one in Santa Fe," says DorothyKing Hoyt-Dillingham. "At present I haveone at Eisenhower College—paintings com-bined with part of the primitive art Howardand I have collected. Makes a marvelouscombination."

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

William L Chapel Jr broke a long silence totell us that Winnie (Barrett) '34 gets a copy ofthe Alumni News and suggests we economizeby mailing only one to their household. Ihope it works. Magazines are as hard to stopas the rising waters in the Sorcerer's Appren-tice. Bill and Winnie, who live at 320 LeisureWorld, Mesa, Ariz, have 3 children and 5grandchildren. Winnie is Ariz state regent ofthe DAR; the Chapels travel a lot visitingchapters.

Others from whom we had not heard in awhile were: Emmanuel Horowitz, 182 Frank-lin St, Wilkes-Barre, Pa; Francis N Hargrave,306 E Yates St, Ithaca; Charles E Robertson,21763 Ambar Dr, Woodland Hills, Cal.Chuck was the only one who included newswith his reply. He is capt, USN ret, is marriedto Eleanor Hatcher, has a daughter Darrin,recently took an Alaskan cruise, and likes toplay golf.

We have learned that Herbert A Heerwa-gen has remarried. Mrs Heerwagen, the for-mer Margaret Knoll Anderson, has 3 childrenand Herb has 4. The Heerwagen's address is133 Parker Ave, Maplewood, NJ. Albert EArent, chairman of the Law School AdvisoryBoard and an Alumni Trustee, like Herb,continues actively in the practice of law. Helives at 2510 Virginia Ave, NW, Wash, DC.For the 2nd consecutive yr, Elmer S Phillipswas the 1st member of the class to respondwith his dues. Flip's living in Ithaca (131 PineTree Rd) could give him a slight edge over therest of us, but the fact remains, Flip isNumber One.

John C. Howes, 401 Sport Hill Rd, Eas-ton, Conn, lists an impressive group of Cor-nell activities: Univ Council, Law School Ad-visory Council, Tower Club and, he adds,"etc." According to Joseph E. Comtois, he ismuch stimulated by being one of 10 retiredpersons invited to enroll in Philosophy 108 at

Duke U, the other 25 students being sopho-mores and juniors. Joe says much of thecourse material is pretty heady stuff in viewof the intellectual rust one accumulates over50 yrs. To quote Joe, he finds himself "longon years—short on wisdom. But it's a ball!"

Fred J Finkenauer Jr and Margaret (But-ton) '33 live at 1220 Glenhurst Dr, Birm-ingham, Mich. Robert S Jonas, 39 RockhillRd, Rochester, does consulting work on landuse and is executive secretary-treasurer of NYLand Improvement Contractors as well as amember of the county water quality commit-tee. Bob and Alice have 3 children and 2grandchildren. Dr Herbert Kalmanoff is apsychoanalyst, his wife Cathy, a former Eng-lish teacher. Herb lists tennis as his hobbyand built a villa 10 yrs ago in Jamaica whichhe describes as "one of the most beautifulspots in the world." From his note, it appearsthat the villa is at or near the Tryon Golf andBeach Club. The Kalmanoffs' address: 177 E75th St, NYC.

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

Elizabeth Entriken Walbroel, RD 1, Black-wood, NJ, says she is constantly distressed tofind it takes her longer to do less. She is notalone. Estis and her sister have gone on sev-eral alumni trips as well as going to Europeand elsewhere on their own. We sure have atraveling class.

Because of the humidity in Fla, AliceStamps Sullivan Girvin planned to return toCal last Aug, hopefully to Rossmoor in Wal-nut Creek. Sorry, I don't have her new ad-dress. Alice finds it a lonely world since los-ing her 2nd husband in '78. She has no chil-dren but lots of step-grandchildren.

Virginia Barthel Seipt, 41 Maywood Rd,Darien, Conn, lunched with Virginia Havi-land Vreeland, Anna Lamouree Fox, andElsa Krusa Hetterly '31 and found ajl in goodhealth except for the telltale arthritic aches.At the time, Ginny Vreeland was en route toher summer home on the Jersey shore andAnna was preparing a crossword puzzle forthe NY Times. Most of us can't even com-plete them. Jinny and Dick Seipt enjoyedtheir trip through the Panama Canal despitethe fog and rough weather. Before the trou-ble began, their oldest daughter Ginny Seipt'60 was in Moscow in preparation for theOlympics. Daughter Barbara earned specialmention from Jim McKay for her work at theLake Placid Olympics. Daughter Irene andhubby Bob are reproducing an old salt box,using beams, stones, etc, from 3 old houses.Bob directs the Farm & Nature Center of theStamford Museum. Son Dick's Salem Inn inSalem, NH, is very successful. And, ofcourse, Christopher, 4, is the joy of thefamily—the only grandchild.

Our condolences to the family and friendsof Viola Goerner Freeman and Dorothy Rol-lins Yeomans. Our special sympathies to ourclassmates: Mabel Rollins, who lost a sisterand dear friend; Beryl Polhemus Haas (MrsEdwin K) and Kay Rogers Hodges (Mrs Al-bert R), whose husbands were Class of '32.

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

The NY County Medical Society's publicrelations committee, chaired by Dr ShepardG Aronson, invited a group of prominentwomen, long angered by the lordly airs theysay male doctors put on, to meet in what was"an extremely frank encounter session." Theresult was surprising, with most of the doc-tors favorable and the women really giving

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the doctors plenty to consider. Hard to keepup with C B Martin, as his last note says,"Still working—now a tool designer atMcDonnell-Douglas—on F-15 and F-18fighter aircraft. One of these days I'll reallystay retired!" Alfred W Bennett and wifeNatalie had a most interesting trip to Israel,Greece, and its islands. The long flights anddonkey ride were more than "compensatedfor by the splendors of beauty to be exper-ienced."

John T Andrews continues to be involvedin his local hospital, its regional planningorganization, the local bank, and other civicand social activities, but he and his wife enjoy3 months in Fla each yr. Jake and Ruth Ro-senzweig's hobby of gardening rivals theirpleasure to see their grandchildren from timeto time. Jake hasn't any intention of retiring.Our congrats to Jack Norden Jr on his selec-tion as Reunion chairman for the '35 class ofthe Law School. Interesting note from BillPentecost tells about the scholastic successesof his 2 daughters, of whom he is justlyproud, and the negative reaction that Cornelltook to their matriculation. It would be betterif Cornell gave children of alumni the chanceto make it, rather than graduate cum laudefrom another good college.

Congratulations on behalf of the Class of'33 to Ed Bleckwell, Gar Ferguson, CharlieMellowes, and all the others who accom-plished such great goals for our class and forthe Cornell Fund. Glad to report that EdBleckwell is recovering nicely from his heartattack of several months ago.

And now a word from those fellows, with-out any news, and just glad to hang in there:Johnnie Battle, Art Buzzini, Buck Garsch,and Ray Vidinghoff. For a little more news,your correspondent and wife Betty really en-joyed a trip last fall to Austria, Germany, thePassion Play, and Switzerland. The play wassuperb; we hope it will be given in '84, 350thanniversary of its original presentation.

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

Once a yr the Cornell Phonothon becomesastir. We meet for dinner and then on to thephones, all imbued with the moral sensibilitythat an alma mater is deserving of such sup-port. Cornell surely merits gratitude from itsformer students. Was not your college re-sponsible for a successful career, life-longfriends, and other et ceteras for a good life?Think about it, classmates, and give, give,give to the Cornell Fund. Your alma materneeds you now.

Kathryn Hawkes Fischer, although livingin far away Canary Islands, writes and sendsher class dues yearly. She described the sum-mer fiestas, parades, concerts, and fireworksthat abound on the islands. She goes on tosay that noisy rockets snoot from the top ofthe church at all hours, and since they liveclose by the church they get the full benefit ofthe noise. They expected a visit from youngerdaughter Hope, who lives in Ind.

Sophie Marshak Appel hopes to make it toour 50th Reunion without hitching a ride withTed Tracy and his daughter. Sophie has re-tired from teaching and now moves aroundthe country quite a bit. She has spent the lasttwo winters in Mexico and plans to returnthere this winter, as well.

Helen Belding Smith is busier than ever inWashington: many volunteer jobs and a stim-ulating social life. The Smiths traveled to Eu-rope with a group of former members ofCongress and met with North Atlantic As-sembly members, European parliamentariansand European community members. On Pri-mary Day in Washington, Helen corraledKatherine Hawes Gunion and husband John

into helping to "cover" the voting informa-tion stand outside the polling booth. Our galin the Capitol has talked via phone withTrinkie Long Bobbitt and Adele LangstonRogers—all are well and busy.

And to end this on a sad note, Helen BoothDe Lill passed away, Sept 12, 1980, in Ariz,after a long and valiant bout with cancer. Shewas past-president of Cornell Clubs in Ithacaand Mesa, Ariz—also past-president of theMesa Writers Club.

34MEN: John H Little, 275 Bryn Mawr Ave,Bryn Mawr, Pa 19010

Several months ago in this column thewriter told you that he had heard PaulVipond had some news for us. The writerguessed what it was but didn't dare print ituntil he received the right dope from Paulhimself. Welcome to the fold, Judy—theywere married in Jan 1980. She is a painter,too.

Can you imagine how thrilling it would beto catch a fish which took you 1 Vi hours toland. Well, Glenn "Barb" Barber did justthat in catching a 22Vi-Vo carp on light tackleat a cottage up in Wise.

How many of you went to hear the SavageClub show when you were back at Reunion?The writer did and really enjoyed it. He prob-ably heard a classmate: Willis "Bill" Beachreturns to Cornell each year to perform forthe returning alumni.

Roger "Rog" Butts says he was retired,but couldn't tolerate it, so now he is secre-tary-treasurer of his golf and country club.That's the way to do it, Rog!

The writer thought he was in tough luckjust because he is partially paralyzed on hisright side from a stroke. Wait until you hearwhat happened to Marcus "Marc" Connelly.About 2 yrs ago, he had his aorta plasticized.The operation was a success but circulatoryproblems arose in both his legs, resulting inamputation of both. All he reports is hedoesn't get around so much anymore. Thewriter thinks he deserves to hear from youpeople out there.

Nathan "Nate" Goldberg reports his wifeRita is a Drexel graduate and a registered di-etition working in private practice on weightreduction. The writer just bought a gadgetshe might be interested in. You place it inyour refrigerator and every time you open thedoor it starts to play a record "Not youagain, Fatty. Close the door as you don'tneed anything to eat," etc.

Merrill D Gross of Cleveland, Ohio, re-ceived what he called, "A significant honorrecently—a Golden Ivy award in mixed dou-bles (tennis)." It's worded, "To the best sup-porting player of the 1980 season." Gals—here is the guy you like to play with the most.Not bad at 68.

It is with regret that we report the passingon of 3 classmates last fall: Franklin B Davis,Tavares, Fla, Sept 16; Charles W Jones, Rte2, Box 6-B, Denton, Md, Sept 23; and MilesC Shorey Jr, Rte 1, Oriental, NC, Oct. 17.We send our sympathies to the family ofeach.

Keep those checks and reports of your ac-tivities coming in. Those of you who haven't,yet, how about writing me a letter at theabove address—and include a check.

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

My editorial cup runneth over as class-mates' questionnaires return with fresh newsof their doings, their comings and goings.Reading between the lines written by Clara

Savage O'Connell we sense a joie de vivre.Her 8 children and 15 grandchildren werescattered from Mass to Hawaii. Last summershe spent 3 wks on the island of Maui and be-lieves she could enjoy living there were it notfor the fact that she and her husband are stillpotato farmers, have a roadside vegetablestand, and keep heifers as a hedge against in-flation. "We sure are active," says Clara.Address RD#1, Rt 38, Locke.

Eloise Ross Mackesey is taking a course inBonzai which she finds extremely interesting,not that she needs more plants, says she. Heryoungest, Dan '77 is now a lawyer in Wash,DC. During Dan's lacrosse days at Cornell,Eloise was in there rooting and the memorylingers on. Her retinue of Cornell lacrosserscall her "Mama Mack" and keep in touch.

It's good to hear from you, Eleanor MirskyBloom, rather than about you. She is still in-volved with the Brooklyn Botanic Gardensand is chairing a committee hoping to find acoordinator of volunteers. Until they do, youcan just guess who is doing it! Travel plansinclude a trip to Paris in Dec to see son Pauldance, accompanied by her 9-yr-old grand-daughter. Upon her return she will spendsome time with her father in Fla.

Hazel Smith Bloomer is in Dade City, Fla,at Air stream Recreation Park, Traveler'sRest. She writes about get-togethers with sev-eral Cornell couples in the Brewster area andkeeps in touch with Cornell that way. Marga-ret Pedersen Alford says she married "theoriginal nature boy" and holds him responsi-ble when she says she is doing the same oldthing, "working with kids on nature study."Lucky kids. Address: 4387 Aliens Hill Rd,Honeoye.

Henrietta Deubler attended the CornellCouncil meeting in mid-Oct when the fall col-oring was perfect and the weather just right.Carl Sagan showed Number Five from hisCosmos series and, at a spectacular banquetin Barton Hall, a group of classmates sat to-gether—Deubie surrounded by the strongersex. She was pleased to see Hilton Jayneamong them. She also had a short visit withMay Bjornsson Neel. When Deubie is home(not too much, methinks) she is presiding aspresident of the Penn Valley Women's Club.By now she and her sister Emily will havebeen to Cal and back. Thoughtful as usual,she sent me Charlotte Putnam Reppert'sbook (she is '36), entitled The Best of Bishop.It's great.

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

Happiness is preparing your schedule forJune '81 Reunion week and our 45th.

Charles C Simpson (CE), Box 331, LocustValley, is now a life member of ASCE, and isstill active in engineering. He is also active invarious religious and human relations worksalong with his other activities. Sorry I missedyou at the June '80 Reunion, Charles, but amlooking forward to the 45th. Their daughtersPaulette '67 and Hester (Carnegie Mellon'71) visited with them in the Caribbean lastsummer. H W Buell (BChem), 9118 River-shore Dr, Niagara Falls, has finally retired,after 40 yrs in the harness. He goes to MexicoCity for the winters, returns to the Falls forsummers. His major effort will be expendedtoward getting his bowling score up, and hisgolfing score down. He is looking forward tothe June '81 meeting in Ithaca and with hisclassmates.

Robert Secor (BChem), 5325 Ben Adler St,Whittier, Cal, states that "It, (the AlumniNews) costs about the same as a tankful of

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gasoline, but I get much more mileage fromthe Alumni News.** Thanks, Bob. AlexanderC Wall (EE), 705 Bayshore Rd, Nokomis,Fla, and his wife Betty are enjoying the Flalife style. She is continuing to publish chil-dren's books which deal with computer liter-acy. Alexander is developing new productsand doing some free lance consulting. Theyare both too busy to retire, but their work isso satisfactory that it seems they are retired.

Robert "Gus" C Winans (EE), 8375 La-goon Rd, Ft Meyers, Fla, is enjoying south-west Fla and has been the administrative of-ficer of the San Carlos Bay Power Squadronfor the past yr. Gus has taken various cruisesin their 17-ft sailboat, Lyra, with wife Julia(Bockee) '37 (BS Ag) sharing all the trips. Shewas president of First Mates, an auxiliary ofthe Squadron, for the past yr, also.

David S Amsler (ME, MME), 117 OakhillRd, Pittsburgh, Pa, retired in May '79 andhas been having a ball ever since, doing thingshe did not have time to do previously. He hasbeen doing some extensive traveling—to Aus-tralia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and theWest. Dave is doing a great deal of readingand the traveling into fiction assists him dur-ing his off season.

Stephen G Burritt (BS Ag), Rte 3, Box 35,Fontana, Wise, became chairman of Chro-malloy Farm and Industrial Equipment Co,an operating company of Chromalloy Ameri-can Corp, and was to retire in Dec '80. Hetook a trip around the World and visited withhis sister, Helen Burritt Latif '33 (HE) in Del-hra Dunn, India, where she is head-mistressof Welham Girls School.

Thomas E Dixon (BS Ag), 1930 State Rd,17 So Avon Park, Fla is living the lazy exis-tence of a retired citizen in the Sunny South,playing golf, raising citrus trees—neither tooproductive, however it does keep the old legslimber. Daniel R Embody (BS Ag), 5025Edgewood Rd, College Park, Md, still worksand enjoys it. He runs 3 miles a day and isglad to be alive and healthy. Keep it up, Dan,and be sure to run up to Ithaca in June '81.

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

The "Why Cornell?" number ran monthsago, but contributions came too late forinclusion—and, as might be expected, bothwere from loyal correspondents.

Marian Potter Kitts, 1505 Cleveland Ave,N, St Paul, Minn, said, "For me there neverwas any other college even considered. Dadwas a Cornellian; of course his childrenwould be. Besides, residents of our town ofTruxton were eligible for cash scholarships."Marian flies back to NYS often to see daugh-ter Jean '62 and her husband Dr Bill Cad-wallader '62, who live in Homer, and son Da-vid '60 and his wife Joan, who have a farmoutside Cortland. "When our family gets to-gether, it's a mini Cornell reunion . . . 17 or18 among my own and my 3 brothers' fami-lies." Marian still counsels residents of FarmHouse Fraternity.

June Sanford Dona (Mrs Ralph J '50),Route 2, Sherwood Forest, Hartwell, Ga,would appreciate names of Cornellians in thenortheast corner of Ga. Unfortunately, thereseem to be no '36 women there. Son Robert'66 transferred in '79 to Kansas City as direc-tor of research for the Environmental Protec-tion Agency. June and Ralph are busy withgolf and landscaping their new home. "No-body told us retirement was so much fun,"

she says. "About choosing Cornell, most ofus who grew up in Forest Home never con-sidered anything other than Cornell. Fromthe time we started in the 2-room school-house, now the Plantations headquarters, wewere pointed in that direction . . . We at-tended things at Cornell almost as soon as wecould walk—from Farm and Home Week tolectures on Greek and Roman art in the base-ment of Goldwin-Smith . . . our introductionto the nude human body. We enjoyed themso boisterously that the sponsors finally ruledthat we could not attend unless accompaniedby an adult."

37MEN: Robert A Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga RdN, DeLand, Fla 32720

Taking Eastern Airlines' enticing offer,Wilbur H Peter Jr crisscrossed the continentand dipped into the Caribbean on a 21-day"fly anywhere" offer—NYC, Bermuda,Wash, DC, Vancouver, BC, Washington,Mexico City, Santo Domingo, San Juan, PR,Guatemala, and back home to Sarasota, Fla.Last summer he visited Ray and Kathy Stur-gis in beautiful Ephraim, Wise—another of aseries of reunions for Ray and Bill, who wereroommates during 4 yrs on the Hill. Bill isSecondary Schools Committee chairman ofthe Manatee CC and finds lots of opportuni-ties for sailing, tennis, photography, and en-joying the Fla Gulf Coast region. After 13 yrsof "2/3 retirement" he's fully retired as ofJan '80. He and his wife Dori, an active andtalented artist, have 6 grandsons.

Jacob B Perkins and his wife Jeanne built aretirement home in Bermuda 13 yrs ago andmoved there in Dec '79—address, CoralRidge, Devonshire 4-18, Bermuda. They willalso spend some time in Aspen, Colo, forwinter skiing and summer fly fishing. Tim re-tired officially at the beginning of 1980 aftera 39-yr career with a single employer, HillAcme Co, the last 4 as chairman of theboard, following 20 yrs as president. The Per-kinses have 4 daughters, 2 granddaughters,and 6 grandsons.

Imagine having a 25-million-yr-old Mio-cene fossil porpoise carrying your name!That's the awesome distinction Howard WHruschka bears thanks to the designationrhabdosteus hruschkai bestowed by a formerSmithsonian Inst staff researcher recently.The honor is partially in appreciation ofHowie's ongoing hobby of collecting and do-nating fossil marine specimens to the muse-um. He reports, concerning his namesake,that "I don't see any family resemblance."His career spans 40 yrs of research with theUS Dept of Ag that produced some 125papers published in scientific journals. Hiswife Eudora (Henderson) '39 has made, hesays, "enough quilts in her volunteer reliefwork to cover the campus." In a spectacularmetamorphosis, Howie went from a relative-ly svelt 165 graduation weight to a prodigious330 in '73, then went on a 20-month diet andis back to 165 and "holding well." "Nothingpathological," he writes, "just wanted to seeif an efficient feeder could, with the help of aCornell Home Ec grad (Eudora), count calo-ries, lose weight, and stay happy. Answer—yes." Howie and your scribe were fellowhorn players in ROTC Band, Univ Orchestra,Instrumental Club, and such in Ithaca days,so he happily reports daughter Violet andsons Bill and Peter turned out to be musicalin a variety of media and 6 grandsons seem tobe following the muse too. Howie, it must berecorded, created that memorable contrap-tion combining the valve mechanism from adisembowelled alto horn and appropriate

lengths of garden hose—plus a good sized kit-chen funnel—called the "hosanna!"

Last spring Arthur K Harris and his wifeJeanne combined a visit to son Elliot in Den-ver and son Robert, his wife Cinda, and 2grandchildren in Santa Fe with "some greatbirding" in southeastern Ariz. From theirRumson home base they see their NJ grand-children often.

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

Latest address for Clara J Swan is AptF-105, Pennswood Village, Newtown, Pa.Stephanie Czech Rader and husband BrigGen William S Rader, ret, took off on theirown around-the-world tour in Mar 1980.Their 1st stop was the Fiji Islands, where theymet Rollin H '21 and Clara Cheney Me Car-thy '22. They toured New Zealand and Aus-tralia in a rented car. In India, they visitedJaipur, New Delhi, and Agra (Taj Mahal).They spent 4 days in Katmandu, Nepal. Theyflew on to Cairo, Egypt, for a boat trip up theNile and then on to London to visit Britishfriends. From there they flew on to Irelandwhich they toured by car. The entire trip took2 months and 2 days. Since their return theyhave been to Fort Myers Beach, Fla, and theirplace in Wyo. In Fla they saw Julie (Bockee)and Bob Winans '36.

The Winans took an American CruiseLines trip to the New England islands. SonRobert is on a grant at Smithsonian Inst fromWayne State; William is a teaching assistantand student at Annenberg School of Commu-nications, Penn State U. The entire familyplans a Christmas reunion in Fla.

In June, classmates Esther DillenbeckPrudden, Mary Chaney Carson, Carol Cline,Helena Palmer Sprague, Kay Skehan Carroll,Helen Fry, Windy Drake Sayer, and MarySchuster Jaffe had a get-together in Vt at thehome of Frances White Me Martin and, I amtold, a good time was had by all. Palmie hasnow joined the ranks of the retired. MaryCarson must have won the prize for havingtraveled the farthest from her home in Minn.Mary Jaffe continues as a chemist at GeneralElectric Research Lab.

I appreciate getting the news from thosequestionnaires. Thank you.

38MEN: Stephen DeBaun, 220 W RittenhouseSq, Phila, Pa 19103; Fred Hillegas, 7625 ECamelback Rd, #220-A, Scottsdale, Ariz85251

Fred reports: News snippets and nuggetsabout Homecoming furnished by 2 eyewit-nesses, Gerry Miller Gallagher and EdPfeifer. Despite typical Ithaca Oct weather-wind and heavy rain—some stout-hearted'38ers made the trek and survived, principallythrough potions and medications and the var-sity's 7-3 win over Dartmouth. Besides theaforementioned and their spouses (spices?),others noted included Bob Wilkinson, Royand Linda Black (accompanied by son anddaughter-in-law and Roy's brother and wife),Norm and Bertha Agor, Mary (Warren) andJohn Swan '43, Jean (Burr) and Ken Joy'35-37 SpAg, Mason and Jane Ridge wayLawrence, Bill and Mim Stroud, Buzz Hines,Carol Thro Richardson and daughter. To thedelight of all these and many others, also infor the weekend was Libby More, who hadbrought along assorted class ledgers, files anddocuments of George's, including (get this)one showing the final '78 Reunion accountbalance as $38.38! Many of the '38 delegationhad to abandon ship at halftime and watchthe rest of the game on regional TV, with

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dried exteriors and wetting interiors. Onespecial weekend mission to the boathouseshowed the George Y More shipshape.

"Fantastic," he says, and it must've been—Joe Antrim's trip, much of it backpacking,with his 15-yr-old son, in Indo-China. Theyvisited Bangkok, and areas in the north ofThailand, then went to Rangoon and by railto Mandalay; stayed mostly at YMCA hos-tels. The finale—back south by rail throughThailand to Penang, Malaysia, and Singa-pore, and ending in Bali.

Thought for the day from Spooky Spin-nenwebber: "in our day" Cornell/Ithaca ledthe nation; "today, there's talk of Watergate,Koreagate, and Billygate, but 40 yrs agothose of us who lived at Cascadilla Hall dormcould look right out at Eddygate!" (Spooksays anyone who doesn't get this will be filledin during the re-orientation seminar at Frimidnight of the '83 Reunion.)

Seen on Nantucket Sound one fine sum-mer's day: Bob Scott and Tom Newman '36,crewing Roy Black's sailboat. Perhaps an an-nual sail regatta on Cayuga (or Beebe) may beon its way. Bob, not incidentally, was recent-ly re-elected treasurer of the Cape Cod CC,on which '38's treasurer, Roy, serves asboard chairman, after 2 yrs as prez. What is itabout sailors that makes them such sterlingprospects as treasurers? The '38 flotilla onthe Cape welcomes any seafarers, and has awatch out for Dick Co wen, who promised ashout ashore if he luffed up from Larchmont.

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

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

Our treasurers love to see those checks rollin, but it's the news I love, so keep thosenotes coming, please! Reports continue to saythat the Oct Homecoming was great (thegame, and not the weather!), and amongthose present were honorary class memberLibby More (Mrs George), Gerry MillerGallagher, Carol Thro Richardson with herdaughter, and others. Carol has transferredfrom the Los Angeles, Cal, office of theAmerican Red Cross to NY, where she is nownot only director of services to the ArmedForces Veterans and their families, but alsodirector of the Suffolk County Disaster Unitand regional administrator of the HuntingtonRed Cross office. Her new home is in StonyBrook, at 65 Hollow Rd, and she's lookingforward—as are we—to renewing her con-tacts here after 7 yrs on the West Coast.

Fran Otto Cooper missed that big week-end, as Jim unfortunately needed major sur-gery with a lengthy convalesence to follow.Our best wishes for a good recovery, Jim!Other absentees were Elaine ApfelbaumKeats, enjoying Cal's sunshine instead; andDottie Pulver Goodell, seeking sun and betterhealth in Fla.

Barbara Ives Weeks and Charles visitedvarious family members in Wash and Cal thispast autumn. Carolyn Mazur Hopkins writesshe is back on the West Coast for the wintermonths after a busy summer on her Auburnfarm. A foliage trip through New Englandand the Adirondacks convinced her thatmany people are back to basics with woodstoves and ample woodpiles. Grace Ballard

Lotspeich's husband Gar is another ax artist,as the Lotspeiches also use wood as a primarysource of heat in their Walloon Lake, Mich,home, though they enjoy 2 winter months onSanibel Isl, Fla. Grace says the past summerwas not one of their best; Gar suffered an eyeinjury, and she now has an artificial knee togo with her artificial hips. Let's hope for abetter yr ahead!

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

Saturday we closed out the football seasonagainst Penn and opened the hockey seasonagainst USI, both wins. Saw Bud Gridley,Dale Brown, and Jack Hemingway at thefootball game. Jack looked just great afterhis recent operation. Bud Gildersleeve spentthe weekend with us, and saw both gamesbefore heading back to Milford, Conn. Gildytold us all about his tent at the Yale game,which was quite a success in spite of the facthe couldn't get the Big Red Band to turnaround and play to his crowd of 400 insteadof to empty spaces. At Homecoming, we hadBabe and Bill Lynch, Doris and Lew Fan-court, and Vel and Mort Durland. It pouredrain so we tailgated in our living room andwatched the team beat Dartmouth on TV.Yes, we're getting older.

Several news releases on classmates: ChetFreeman, retired professor and chairman ofcommunication arts at Cornell, has beenawarded the title professor emeritus by theBoard of Trustees; Scott King retired astreasurer, the Rand Corp, Santa Monica,Cal, after being with Rand since incorpor-ation in 1948; and Prof Milton Esman,government, was a member of the Cornelldelegation which visited China in July asguests of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Many classmates have retired and started2nd careers: Bob Young has been in the in-surance business in Lexington, Ky, for thepast 10 yrs after 25 yrs raising thoroughbredhorses. He said, "It was time to stay home,"which is 430 Kingsway Dr. Bob, did you trainSoup and Fish in 1946? Never forget him; hemust still be in the gate at Delaware Park.Two dollars to watch a horse stand! EWarden Phillips retired in '74 as president,Hart/Con-Way Co, advertising, in Roches-ter, and 3 yrs later organized Western Caro-lina Productions, which produces tradeshows and public expositions in the Caro-linas, Ga, and Tenn. If you want a tradeshow in that area, write Ward at Rt 2, Box188A, Arden, NC.

Owen Klepper retired from RCA corporatestaff in '77, and is a sales promotion consul-tant to companies in various industries. Heand Jean live at 181 Riverbank Dr, Stamford,Conn. Walter Gregg retired from Eaton Corpin '74, and is a manufacturers representativeas Gregg and Associates, in industrial drives.Ned and Lois live at "Gregg Landing,"Wicomico Church, Va. Harvey Scudderretired in June '80 as professor of microbio-logy at Cal State U, Hay ward, Cal, and isconsulting in the field of environmental andhealth sciences. He and Florence, who paintsland- and sea-scapes, live at 7409 Hensen Dr,Dublin, Cal.

Some of us retire without a 2nd career butstill stay very busy, like Fran DeCator, whoretired from IBM in '75 and counts genealo-gy, photography, woodworking, and garden-ing as hobbies, but still finds time to be chair-man of the Property Maintenance Board inOwego; on the genealogy committee of TiogaCounty Historical Society; and Owego SeniorCitizens treasurer. He and Betty Jean make

home at 508 Fifth Ave, Owego. Ever see BenDean over there, Fran? Another is LeekLepori, who retired from Avon Products af-ter 34 yrs and has been a trustee, mayor (16yrs), and county legislator (4 yrs), in Whiting,NJ. And finally, yours truly, who will signoff and retire for the evening since I just ranout of space.

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

Alice Jane Chism Frazer had an Aug picnicat her Lake Tahoe home for alums in herarea, from '39 to '78. Love to hear moreabout that, Chisy! She's on the board of di-rectors of Nev Self-Help Foundation, a non-profit group that believes "all Nevada's phys-ically disabled young adults have the right toa residential setting consonant with their de-sires and potential for independence;" is es-tablishing group home for mentally alertyoung adults, 18-35; and planned a Dec tripthrough the Panama Canal.

Dotty Kelly Sennett writes, "Enjoy retire-ment, continue volunteer work at public li-brary, and hobby of furniture refinishing anddecoupage." Husband Marty and she golf,plan to travel, and visit "our 5 scattered chil-dren and 1 wonderful grandson. Life is goodto us." Marty was retiring last month. EdnaSchmidt Akre is still teaching, but husband is"semi-retired, having rented most of hisfarmland. We are active in local AudubonSociety and Minn Ornithologists' Union."

Jane Davison Fast and husband Charles'37 celebrated their 40th wedding anniversarylast June with all their family together atson's home in San Antonio. "We all stayed inthe pool during Texas heat wave." Jane re-tired last Oct as secretary to superintendentof schools in Downers Grove, 111; she andCharles are now in Lawtoή, Mich, neardaughter Penny (and granddaughter), andson Mike and his family in Kalamazoo."Have half-finished house we'll be workingon for a year or two." New address: Rt 3,Box 3V, Ewing Rd.

Evelyn Wilson Monroe's husband Elmerstill travels for DuPont; had 2nd trip abroadin '79, to Brussels, where they were able tovisit daughter Melody and husband in Ger-many. "Dashed to Ohio to help daughterCynthia with care of 4-month-old Joseph;flew from there to SC to 5-month-old grand-daughter's baptism." Ah, grandparents! " Istill collect newspaper clippings about Cor-nell to send on to Alumni Affairs Office."

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

This is a wonderful time of yr! We are inthe middle of Thanksgiving plans—trying topin down family members for certain, and atthe same time making sure friends and ac-quaintances aren't alone for the day. As soonas Thanksgiving is over we start our annualharvest of Scotch pines for Christmas trees.There will not be as many this yr, because ourinitial planting has run out, and then weskipped a yr. It's a good family project andour "customers" keep us at it.

Richard B Drooz sent a short note that heis now in his 31st continuous yr of teachingpsychiatry at SUNY, College of Med, Down-state Med Center. In addition, he is engagedin private practice. His wife Miriam (IthacaCollege '41) is a high school teacher of Eng-lish. Their address: 201 E 66th St, NYC.

Arthur W Galston, 307 Manley Hgts,Orange, Conn, received an honorary LLDfrom Iona College this past yr. He took hissabbatical from Yale to go to Israel early in

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the yr, preceded by a holiday tour of Greece.He also had a summer trip to China, his 3rd.Art says his son William '67 was one of JohnAnderson's chief speech writers during thecampaign. His daughter Beth '70 is workingon her master's degree in visual studies(sculpture) at MIT.

Philip Smith and Jane live a 412 PinecrestRd, Vestal, where he is in the real estatebrokerage business, now franchised as RealtyWorld. They are planning to spend Christmaswith John A Hageman. in Nashville, Tenn,and will be visiting Hubie Heilman '39 inBoca Raton when in Fla later on. Chas HMonroe has retired from the Food and DrugAdministration this past yr, and is still aliveand happy after 3 hip operations, 2 of whichinvolved total hip replacements. He nowleads a life of ease watching fishermen catchbream and bass in the pond behind theirapartment. He and Florence live at 515 Spin-drift Lane, Columbia, SC. Charlie has a sug-gestion for the class officers: "Retire!" Doesthat mean from our positions as class of-ficers, Charlie?

Wallace J Borker is still active as counsel toMorgan, Lewis and Buckius, but he did makeit to the status of paid retiree of the NavalReserve, and is now captain, USNR (Ret). Hehas been chairman and part owner of SoundCommunications Corp, which since '74 hasowned WEST (AM) and WLEV (FM) inEaston, Pa. He and his wife Bettie (Harper)'45 live at 15 Stonehouse Rd, Scarsdale. Theonly information from Chuck Stewart, ouruniversity trustee, is that his home address is135 East 71st St, NYC, and he is trying to getmost of his mail directed there.

It is with extreme sadness that I report thedeath of my brother Coleman A Petrie '39,Oct 29, '80. He had been recovering nicelyfrom a major heart attack in Fla last Jan, andhad been able to visit his 2 sons and hisdaughter over the summer. He was still livingin the old home town of Lyndonville, but noton the farm. We had hoped to visit him afterour Reunion trip, but he had chosen thatsame time to visit his son in Newport, RI, tobe present when his daughter-in-law became aUS citizen. He had been a county agent inOrleans County before taking a job with theFarmers Home Administration, from whichhe retired 4 yrs ago. In addition, he hadoperated the family farm, starting in '56when my father retired until he sold the farmjust before retirement. He leaves his wifeDoris, and 2 sons and a daughter.

We are also very sorry to report anotherdeath—that of Chas Peller, 59, husband ofDoris "Dee" (Van Alstyne). Dee has 2 sons,Chas Jr and James, and a daughter Char-lotte. Charles was a Valparaiso U engineeringprofessor, president of a Valparaiso archi-tectural firm, and former city engineer. Hejoined the VU faculty in '49, and had beenchairman of the civil engineering department,which he organized, for 26 yrs. He taught en-gineering at Illinois Institute of Tech, his al-ma mater. Write Dee at 221 Lincoln Hills Dr,Valparaiso, Ind.

In the Sept issue we started the list ofnames of those attending Reunion. Here aremore, as promised: Ruth Davis, Live Oak,Fla; Francis Everts, Winnsboro, SC; BillFine, Arlington, Va; Jim Frank, Pittsburgh,Pa; Marvin Freedman, Ithaca; George Friou,Newport Beach, Cal; Angelo Frosolone, MtView, Cal; Dotty Angell Glass, Monte Rio,Cal; Otto Glasser, McLean, Va; Walter Grif-fin, Magnolia Springs, Ala; Nixon Griff is,NYC; Albert Hall, Stamford; FrancesHalsey, Westhampton; Marion DingmanHarris, Kensington, Conn; John Hutchinson,Naperville, 111; Donald Jacobs, Seaford, Del;Henry and Margaret Richardson Jewett, New

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Canaan, Conn; Melvyn Johnson, Newport,RI and Dewitt Killigas, Wyckoff, NJ; MarySavage Kyle, Northfield, Vt; Jean TittertonLewis, E Lansing, Mich. More next time.

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

If you have not yet received a letter an-nouncing our 40th Reunion from Ray Kruseand Len Lewis, co-chairman of the big Juneevent, you certainly will find it in yourmailbox soon. One goal is to bring the largestnumbers of classmates—and that means you—back to the Hill. We will have bands, enter-tainment, tours, campus walks, our '41 tent,and refreshments, but, most of all, friends.Just drop a line to Ray at Gilson Rd, Jaffrey,NH 03452; or Len at 818 Schaefer Ave,Oradell, NJ 07649, and say 'T i l be there."

Arthur E Patterson, 1999 Brookshire Rd,Akron, Ohio: "Am retiring next month (Dec1980), Banked vacation will take me to 40 yrswith Goodyear—the past 5 yrs as marketingmanager, tire division. We plan to maintainour home here in Akron with travel as weplease, particularly to Longmont, Colo,where our son and daughter and their fami-lies both reside."

William E Van Atta, 7 Edgecomb Rd,Binghamton, telephoned your correspondentfrom nearby Quail Ridge, Delray Beach, Fla,during a brief visit with his sister. Billreported that his wife Jean (Scully) had diedsuddenly on Aug 1, 1980, which was quite ablow to him and his family. Bill has adaughter Carolyn Pappas (Mrs Peter), and ason Nelson, who is his partner at Van AttaBuick, now housed in a new building on Rte434, which, among other places, leads toIthaca! Bill happens to be one of the leadersof a growing institution—Grandfathers of'41—with 8 grandchildren so far.

Paul W Staby, Rte 129, Walpole, Me: " Iretired from the Northwestern Mutual onApr 1, 1979, after 30 yrs of commuting fromConn to the 'Big Apple,' NYC. Now live in SBristol, Me (Walpole Post Office), on theDamariscotta River. To keep busy, with thehelp of son Bill, I started a sawmill (S&GSawmill Inc), specializing in custom sawingof native hardwoods. Still married to thesame gal (Billie). Two daughters and 6 grand-children round out the family." As you cansee, Paul is also a member in good standingof Grandfathers of '41!

This also in from the land of theAroostook potatoes from Wellington L"Duke" Ramsey, RD 2, Jersey Ave, NewSharon, Me: "Back in harness (not farmingthis yr) with the Office of Energy Resources,supervisor of planning and resource develop-ment, ie comprehensive energy plan for The

State of Maine. It's a real challenge and I'meating it up! My son Tony, with some helpfrom me, is taking care of the veggies for usand some for sale. Looking forward to our40th in June."

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

From Betty Herrold at Thanksgiving timecame the news, "Jane Frier Joy says money iscoming in pretty well for our class treasury."As you read this column in Feb, and if youhave not yet sent in your class dues, I hopeyou will do it now. Our class owes the AlumniNews several hundred dollars for our sub-scriptions, and it is important that we bringourselves up-to-date by our 40th Reunion.

Martha (Lawson) and Norman Morse'sson Bob '67 and his wife Mimi, who traveledaround the world in their 32-ft yacht (see Sept'78 column), were the subject of a story, "WeSailed Around the World," in the Feb '80issue of Family Circle. Their dream voyage,which lasted 2 yrs, took them through thePanama Canal, to the Galapagos Isls, theMarquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, and Townsville,Australia, where, one yr out, Mimi gave birthto Richard "Rickey" Edward, an event notincluded in the original plan for their trip. Onthe return journey they visited Guam, Bali,where 2 Vi -month-old blonde Rickey was abig attraction; then Egmont Atoll, theSeychelles Isls, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal,and Gibraltar. On the 4th of July '79, they ar-rived at N Palm Beach, Fla. Bob now teachesphysics in Middleton, Mass, and Mimi gavebirth to twins, a girl and a boy, in May of thisyr. This brings to 6 the number of grandchil-dren for Martha and Norman.

Jean Mackie Furgol, 50/56 BroadlawnPark, Apt 221, Chestnut Hill, Mass, writes,"We sold our house over 3 yrs ago andmoved to an apartment. Our son is going intohis 4th and final yr as a doctoral candidate ofmodern European history at Oxford U, Eng-land. He has been living in Edinburgh, Scot-land, and will be there this yr also. We visitedhim at Oxford in the spring of '79 and inEdinburgh this past Mar."

42COMBINED: Elizabeth Schlamm Eddy, 247W 101st St, NYC 10025

Did anyone notice there was no '42 columnin the last issue? There wasn't any news. If,by chance, any of you missed having a classcolumn, please help provide news for the nextissue by sending word of your doings. JohnStone, class president, is making it easy:there's space to fill in your latest activities onthe dues notice you send in with your check.

Our irrepressible Reunion chairman startsus off this month. Bob Findlay sends wordthat he and Betty are leaving their abode(Hatch Lake, RFD #1, Eaton) for anotherwipter in Europe. Their plans called for sail-ing Nov 24 from Brooklyn on a small freight-er of the Hellenic Lines bound for Piraeus.They hope to spend Christmas in Rethym-non, Crete. Bob says the itinerary will bevague and somewhat complicated; friendswill take them in during their wanderingsthereby making the whole adventure possible,says Bob. Sounds wonderful to us, and welook forward to more news about the Find-lays travels either during their trip or afterthey return next May.

In Oct, we attended the Cornell Council'sannual meeting in Ithaca, and had the plea-sure of seeing several classmates. At the din-ner Fri evening, our executive vice presidentBetty McCabe hailed us and we joined herand other Council members at the table host-

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ed by Margaret Rogalsky Horn and husbandBob '40, who was serving as host because heis an officer (treasurer, vice president, andchief investment officer) of the university.Betty, vivacious as always, was the belle ofthe ball, dancing up a storm with partner af-ter partner and winning the enthusiastic ad-miration of one of the undergraduates at ourtable who, I guess, never thought he'd findsuch a great dancer or have such a good timewith a group of alums!

Betty, who lives at 476 Beacon St, Boston,Mass, reported seeing Madge Palmer Harperin Wellesley when Madge accompanied herhusband to a meeting of private school headsthere. Bud is head of Country Day BoysSchool in Albuquerque, NM, where thePalmers make their home. Another visitor toBoston in late summer was Bob Harris, whohad been sailing with Cal Fleming in the Car-ibbean, and came through Boston on his wayhome, if I read my notes aright. Betty en-joyed a dinner with Bob, his brother, andbrother's wife. Betty, incidentally, is direc-tor, public education, National Medical CareInc. Thanks, Betty, for all that news.

The Class of '42 is well represented on theCouncil. Although we did not see them thatweekend, other members include NormChristensen, who is retired; Thomas M Flan-agan, chief of urology, Chenango MemorialHospital, and associate professor of urology,Upstate Med Center, Syracuse; John T Jack-son, director and officer/chairman executivecommittee, IU International, Phila, Pa; JohnW Kruse, principal, Kruse, architect, AIA,CSI, Redwood, Cal; Gustavo J Vollmer,president, Central El Palmar, SA, Caracas,Venezuela; and BJ Walker, executive vicepresident, American Sterilizer Co, Erie, Pa.If any names were omitted, let us know.

Another in Ithaca that Oct weekend wasAnn Godfrey O'Brien who came up fromMeriden, Conn, with husband Frank, a high-ranking member of the state judiciary inConn, to attend the Brown-Cornell gamewith friends on the faculty who had gone toFordham with Frank. Ann heard it wasCouncil weekend, ascertained that we werethere, and left a note for us as they went offto the game. We got the note, left one forthem suggesting a drink after the game. Alas!they got it after we had flown off to NY.

Another note came in the mail—this onefrom Prudence Sumner Gamard, 150 MauchChunk Rd, Whitehall, Pa, who had read ofour attending the Eddy family 350th anniver-sary. Seems Deedie's family, like my hus-band's, is descended from William Eddy, oneof the 2 brothers who landed at Plymouth inthe Handmaid all those centuries ago.

43MEN: S Miller Harris, PO Box 164,Spinnerstown, Pa 18968; Wallace Rogers,161 Day Hall, Cornell U, Ithaca, NY 14853,guest columnist

Joe Langbart retired from service with theUS government after 35 yrs, most recently asan administrative law judge with the Depart-ment of Labor. Joe will continue to reside inAlexandria,Va, still within sight of Wash,DC. Bob Larson has stepped " u p " to chair-man of the board of his mortgage company,which now enables him and spouse Fran tosee the world. Republic of China, Kenya, andPoland have been recent stops. At Warsaw hearranged financing for a new hotel, which wecould probably use for our next Reunion.Bob proudly reports that 30 per cent of his 10children will probably get Cornell degrees.Conrad "Red" Breiby and wife Allie com-mute daily to Wash, DC, from Annapolis,

Md. "Red" does design work for the Officeof Architecture, facilities engineering, to jus-tify expense of commuting.

Bob Burger in less than a yr has become a"Texas citizen." His recent textbook CoolingTower Technology is selling well. Next Apr,Bob will chair conferences on heat transferand cooling water at the Houston Astro-dome. Drop in if you're in the territory. SonEric (MIT) is a computer wiz. Ed Walkosounds like a touring golf pro out of LakeJackson, Texas. This summer managed to getinvites to member-guest events in OrchardPark (NY), and Carmel Valley, Cal. Didn'tmake expenses but had fun. Clyde Long-bridge holds the distinction of being only'43er to visit this writer at his Day Hall officethis fall. Clyde was in Ithaca evaluating our'81 crop of graduating seniors.

Ed and Meg Von Paulsen Mabbs sent in"our" dues ($40) from their Pittsburgh, Pa,address. I'm sure they're doing somethingthat's newsworthy, but will have to hearabout it from someone else. Charles "Bud"Colbert claims only .22 per cent of total pa-per box national sales. Can't believe some ofyou don't need some from his Chicago-basedfirm. Apr of '80 was when Ken Stofer becamea grandfather. Chuck Morrison building achalet in the Adirondacks, while wife Anneholds the ladder. Chuck works on remote testsystems for Bell Labs at Holmdel, NJ.

Paul Weber has been bitten by the westernsquare dancing craze, which will help pass thetime til he and wife take off on Hawaiian va-cation in early '81. "Rich" Mitchell still pro-gressing well, according to Louise. They bothsummered in New Berlin, and avoid the win-ters at their place at Hilton Head, SC. BobWanner, PhD '55 retired from the Vet Col-lege last Apr 1, after 25 yrs; Rita still toils inAg. John Alden still working and travelingfor the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology. Visits the campus occasion-ally to check up on son Lawrence '82 in Ag.

Milt and Connie Coe are aging "like vin-tage wine," which is just abut the wayChamp and Peg Clark Salisbury '44 describetheir status. Doug and Siddy Foote sufferedthrough the Harvard football game with PaulPinkham '45 while Sallie (Atlas) and BobHewett '42, accompanied by Dan '42 andRuth Schwartzkopf had the opposite feelingwatching CU win big in the Yale Bowl.

Bob Whitman just elected treasurer ofAdams County, Pa, United Way while stillcompleting 2-yr term as president of So-Cen-tral Region Board of Pa Assn of FarmCoops. Only about 2 more yrs to retirementfrom Agway, Bob's employer since mid-'43.

WOMEN: Helen Neutze Alles, 15 Oak RidgeDr, Haddonfield, NJ 08033

Not much "dirt" came in, so I'll saythanks to Mary Close Bean, Elizabeth CallKingsley, and Mary Lib Rockwell. They willknow what I mean.

Wally Rogers is so kind to "keep me inline." He and Helen visited Staten Isl; Rich-mond, Va; and Pinehurst, NC, eyeballingcertain relatives. Hedy is just taking day tripsto the Jersey shore. Humidity has been abeauty in these parts—this written during thesummer of '80.

Wish I heard from Lucille Jenks McGownmore often. They still maintain a condo inClearwater, Fla, and an apartment in Coop-er stown. Mary Alice Dietrich Evans of FortCollins, Colo, and husband spent a yr in Aus-tralia, where Howard, PhD '49, had a re-search fellowship at U of Queensland in thedepartment of entomology. MA collecteddragonflies and curated the collection at sameuniversity. They are writing a book on Aus-tralian natural history for which MA had a

fellowship from the AAUW.Alice-Marie Hadley Eldridge plans on be-

ing in Fla at turkey time for swimming andsun. Jean Saunders Davis sells real estate inCasper, Wyo. She recently purchased a con-do at Racquet Club, Jackson Hole, which shesays is available for rental. Her last trip wasto the Orient. Daughter and son-in-law arePhDs—she teaches at Chaffee College inCucamonga, Cal, and he at Pasadena Poly.

Mary Osborne Singlaub writes from Colothat daughter Lis is teaching "Amencan" atU of Regensburg, Germany. Daughter MaryAnn has received her MS in foreign servicefrom Georgetown U and is working in Wash,DC. My daughter Nancy is sales manager atthe Hyatt Regency Dallas. Son Tom Jr is anartist—a good one, you bet. Come on, gang,I don't mention them too often, do I? Yourfault; you don't write me nothin'!

44COMBINED: Joe Driscoll, 8-7 Wilde Ave,Drexel Hill, Pa 19026

Rumor has it your correspondent will bepaid by football coach Bob Blackman anddirector of athletics Dick Schultz not to at-tend future Cornell games in Yale Bowl. AMajorca vacation kept me away 9 yrs ago;business was the villain this time. Those werethe only victories in the Bowl in many yrs.

Dotty Kay Kesten reports that enjoying thegame with her and Art were Bob Dillon,Hugh Aronson, Peg Pearce Addicks, DickSheresky, Dick Schwartz, Bob Ready, HerbEskwitt, Tom McDonald, Charlie Weiss,Maury Gel 1 man, and Bill Falkenstein. Falkycouldn't believe your correspondent missedthe game; he had come to the CC after theColumbia game to register his disbelief . . .and to celebrate another Cornell win. Alsoenjoying that game were the Kestens, LeeDiamant, Bernie Smith, Dick Sheresky, DanMorris, Hendy Riggs, Bob Dillon, Bob andAnn Grady Ready '45, and regular '44 reu-nioners Marcia (Noyes) '46 and Doug Ar-chibald '45, and Jean (Knight) '47 and StanJohnson '45. Pete Miller was there, helpingPeter Paul Sr '18 celebrate a birthday.

Leah Patiky Rubin '45 wrote that she andJerry moved to Dallas, Texas, in July '79. Heopened a veterinary practice limited to inter-nal medicine and cardiology. Jerry formerlywas on the faculty at Okla State U Vet Col-lege. In '77, he spent 3 months in Israel, help-ing to open a modern veterinary facility, theIsan Center for Comparative Medicine, atBen Gurion U. The Rubin children arewidespread, both geographically and in fieldsof interest. Daughter Marion graduated fromHofstra, and received MS and DVM degreesfrom OSU. Elizabeth received a BA fromKirkland and an MArch from OSU. She is anindustrial engineer with IBM in San Jose,Cal. Michael was a senior in electricalengineering at the U of NH, and Gabe asenior anthropology major at Stanford whenLeah wrote last Feb. The Rubins' address is7176 Lyre Lane, Dallas.

Another Texan is Glenn Russell, professorof anatomy, U of Texas Medical Branch,Galveston. Glenn was "all Cornell," at leastuntil '51—AB '48, MA '49, PhD '51. In Octhe was elected the SW regional director ofSigma Xi, one of the oldest and largest scien-tific societies in the world. He also holds aposition on the national governing board.Glenn was chairman of the building commit-tee for the Galveston Boys Club; he reportedat one point that nearly $1 million had beenraised for "a new home." He is a yachtingenthusiast and was rear commodore for theGalveston Yacht Club. He is treasurer of the

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Texas Yachting Assn. Glenn and Joyce(Hillborn) '45 live at Ft Crockett Apts, B-12,Galveston.

The family of Bert Peterson, LLB '49 andJean (Ripton), LLB '49 includes a lawyer, amechanical engineer, a civil engineer, a doc-torate in English, a stock broker, 3 collegeundergraduates, and one in high school. Re-cent travel included Ireland in '80, andSweden, Norway and Denmark in '79. Bert isconsul to Sweden in Buffalo. Both he andJean practice law. They live in Hamburg.

Tom and Margaret Nied have 8 children.Tom lists 4 institutions of higher education heis supporting or has supported through tui-tion payments: Park College, Pace U, StFrancis, and St Michaels College. And manypayments yet to come! Hopefully, Tomwon't do anything to stimulate business—heis a funeral director. The Nieds' address is307 Maple Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Harry Parker retired from AID in '75. Hereturned to Indonesia, 1978-80, as coor-dinator of the U of Mass Non-Formal Educa-tion Team, residing in Jakarta. Harry shouldbe reestablished at Singing Brook Farm,Hawley, Mass, now. Bob Miller doesn't havean Asian address—still Ithaca—but daughterJanet does. She is teaching at U Zhongabau(unsure of spelling—Bob writes as though hetrained in medical school), Guangzhou,China. Bob is in commercial real estate.Listing Chatham, NJ, addresses are ShermBurling, Bill Darrow, and Bill Ekegren.Sherm is president of Burling Instrument Co;Bill Darrow is a veterinarian; Bill Ekegrenjust pays his class dues without comment, soJim Purdy and Thayer Sanderson will have towait for another column at another time to bebrought up to date. But the NY Times keepsus current on Don McKoπe, recently namedchairman of Libbey-Owens-Ford; he hadbeen president. Don remains chief executiveofficer. And Walt and Clara Ellen Gerould(Wellesley '43) remain as our leading alumnitour-goers. Their record now must be about10. In '78 there were trips to Paris andIreland. In '79 it was the Stockholm andBaltic cruise. Reports? "Great!" A great wayto end the column.

45COMBINED: Col William A Beddoe, 1109Mint Springs Dr, Fairborn, Ohio 45324

In Nov, I received a postcard from amember of the Class of '24 with the sad newsof the passing of Alphonse J Fazio on Nov 1.Our sincere sympathy to AΓs family.

You should know Dick Dixon is class cor-respondent for the Cornell Society ofHotelmen Bulletin, published quarterly. Dickis asking me for input, while I am asking himfor the same. Confusing to say the least! Heis one of the hospitality kings in the MardiGras city of New Orleans, La. When you gothere be sure and avail yourself of hishospitality, and use your Class of '45 in-fluence. I am sure he has keys to the city.

You know now that my football prognosiswas correct, and I sat in the rain to be sure Iwas right. I was flanked on the 50-yd line byEric "Red" Jensen '51, and Dick Clark '51,fraternity brothers (Sigma Pi), both Big Redtackles from the good teams of '48-51. Theywere hollering instructions to the currentlinemen on how the positions should beplayed. These sizeable bodyguards permittedme to holler at the coaches to let them knowwe cared. Each of us had a Thermos filled inthe best Cornell tradition to keep us comfor-table, and hence we thoroughly enjoyed theday. Joe Hartnett '50 and Helen were presentto add to the occasion.

Post-game festivities at Statler were well at-tended and much fun was had by all. Manynear classmates were bubbling with merri-ment, but no one else from '45 was inevidence. "Mr Cornell," Joe Driscoll '44,was in the middle of the throng, and with hisred blazer he was easy to spot. The Jensens,Hartnetts, and your correspondent and Bettyenjoyed fine eating at the Cattlemens and theCayuga Inn. Hotelman Bill Holtcamp wasour gracious host at the Cayuga Inn, and weenjoyed a wonderful evening in spite of therain and wind.

Now the country has turned the rascals outand decided on a new beginning, I wish all ofyou would turn over a new leaf and let mehear from you. The year ahead holds new op-portunities for each of us. Be sure you takeadvantage of the opportunity to get in theclass column—it can only be as interesting asyou make it. Happy writing!

46MEN: Paul L Russell, 10 Pickerel Rd,Wellesley, Mass 02181

Another of our classmates doing geriatricsresearch is Howard Hermann (34 ProspectPark, Newtonville, Mass), associate deputydirector, Geriatric Research and Education,Bedford (Mass) VA Hospital. I'm not surewhat you're all researching but I wish you'dhurry—I'm going to need the results of yourresearch awfully soon! Howard's eldest sonEric is on a Fulbright Fellowship in Abidjan,Ivory Coast, and is a graduate of the FletcherSchool of Law and Diplomacy. Peter's at Ox-ford U in England; Andrew is a para-legal inNYC; and twins Rachel and Katie are in highschool. Howard and wife Deborah are in-volved in SERVAS, and have foreignstudents living with them.

Dues but no news from: AJ Van Vleet,James B Moore, Donald Phelps (Rochester),and William Sklarz (Edison, NJ). I know Jimis now a lawyer in Chicago. (Imagine givingup ChemE for law!) We accidentally met inChicago in '74, and had dinner together. Ittakes a lot of courage to leave a successfulcareer for another at that stage. I'd like tohear if it was worth it, Jim. By now youshould have a good handle on that question.

Bill Sklarz played the principal role inanother accidental meeting yrs ago, when,after a long climb up Mt Mansfield nearStowe, Vt, he welcomed me with a snow-cooled can of beer, the best I've ever had.The fact that I was using seal-skin climberson my skis (and even that I was climbing)should give a clue as to how long ago that for-tunate meeting occurred.

Bernie Baer's reports from sunny Miami,Fla (7177 SW 114th St), indicate he can'thave much time for Merrill Lynch at CoralGables, where he's senior account executive;all his time must go to alumni activities. Hewas president of the CC of Miami, '77-80,which has a membership of 850. He also par-ticipates in the Cornell phonathons and theSecondary Schools Committee activities. InFeb, he co-chaired a testimonial dinner tohonor John S Knight '18 of the Knight Rid-der newspaper chain. The dinner was attend-ed by Frank and Rosa Rhodes, Jansen '39and Dotty Noyes, Austin Kiplinger '39, DickRamin '51, Frank Clifford '50, and about250 other alumni. Wife Gloria is a jewelryand antique dealer. The Baers have 3children—Michele Genet, Andrew Lee, andEdmund Brooks—all in their 20s.

One member of our class who must eat wellis Paul Levine (72 Spring Glen Terr, Ham-den, Conn)—wife Lois is the mother of manycookbooks, restaurant guides, and camp

referral services. Paul is chairman of NewHaven Comfort Products, manufacturingcomforters, energy socks, pillows, andbedroom accessories. He's active in the UJAand Federation, United Way, CommonCause, Israel Bonds, CC of New Haven, andphonathons. They went to the Bach festivalin Madeira last spring. Son Andy graduatedfrom Brown and Columbia; daughter Betsy isa junior at U of Cal, Santa Cruz.

Reunion time is fast approaching—plan tobe there!

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

Dec 1—a lovely crisp day and I'm dream-ing of becoming a grandma for the 1st time, awhite Christmas, and a well-attended 35thReunion next June, where I'll get to see all ofyou. If you haven't reserved June 11-13,1981, do so now; we need your support tomake this the best Reunion to date. If youfind you can't possibly make it, please sendsome news so we can share it with yourfriends at Reunion.

Betty Towe Mellors of Saddle River, NJ, isdirector of special services for the board ofeducation in Waldwick. She enjoys pilotingher boat and fishing out of Chatham andNantucket. She highly recommends the tripsplanned for Cornellians; she was on the oneto Russia in '79.

Maj-Britt Karlsson Gabel now has 3 grand-children, the youngest was 1 yr on Dec 22,and the oldest attended our Reunion last timewhen she was 2. Miki is very active in profes-sional societies—president of Rho Chapter,Sigma Delta Epsilon (graduate women in sci-ence), and vice chairman of several commit-tees of the American Society of LubricationEngineers. She's also financial secretary ofthe ladies' auxiliary of the local fire depart-ment and council member of the Lutheranchurch. In Oct '79 she visited friends inHawaii, and in June '80 she attended atechnical conference at Colby-Sawyer CollegeinNH.

Hank '45 and Leah Smith Drexler wrotethat they will be moving; they sold their dairyfarm Dec '79, and Leah was retiring ascoordinator, Cooperative Extension ofChenango County, effective in Aug. (I don'thave their new address as yet.) Hank is stillworking as an auctioneer. They also have 3grandchildren, plus 3 Cornellian children anda Cornellian daughter-in-law. How many ofyou can match that record?

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

Received a letter from Dick Johnson, dated11/18/80, which says, "I went to the Class of'47 Reunion in '77, and really enjoyed itdespite the fact that approximately nobodyfrom our EE class was there. Herb Askew '46Suggested that I don't know when Igraduated. (Feb '46, so there!) Of those whomatriculated in July 1943 in the V-12 pro-gram, many (like you and me) are payingdues to the Class of 1947 and many (like HerbAskew and Bill Papsco '46) to '46. I suggestwe all sign up with Bill Papsco, '81 Reunionco-chairman for '46, go up to Cornell onJune 11-14, have a few beers and discuss theproblem." Anyone interested in Dick's sug-gestion should contact Dick, 1336 Cowper St,Palo Alto, Cal; or William G Papsco, 145Willowbrook Dr, Portola Valley, Cal.

As for your correspondent, I went to the'46 5th, did not see my classmates; then wentto the '47 5th and did not see any there either,but I continued my relationship with '47.

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Having never missed a Reunion since, I feelquite at home with '47 now. However I wouldbe glad to go to both Reunions.

Norma Isaacson Remes, 101 LandscapeAve, Yonkers, is a full-time student at BarkSt College of Education, and expects to com-plete an MA in '81 with certification inspecial education and supervision and ad-ministration. She made 2 trips to Israel lastspring—one to visit her son Bernard who is astudent at Jerusalem Technical College, andthe other to investigate job opportunities andliving conditions in anticipation of movingthere next yr.

AJ Earnest, 3900 Orloff Ave, Kingsbridge,is still teaching junior high school bilingualscience; also a little tax preparation, in-surance, and real estate on the side with JerrySenter '47. He has 4 boys in NY: one each atColumbia, CCNY, and McGill. Onedaughter and one granddaughter, born inJune '79, in Santiago, Chile.

Shirley "Sy" Yenoff Kingsly of 17 JoannaWay, Short Hills, NJ, keeps busy with theirown real estate management business. Nowplanning spring '81 Cornell convocation forNJ, with Prof Urie Bronfenbrenner '38,human development and family studies, andwith luck President Rhodes as speakers on"Changes in the '80s in Education andChanges in the Family Unit."

Beatrice Strauss Reiss of 846 VillageGreen, Westfield, NJ, writes that, "Sandyhas been elected president of the medical staffof Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ, an af-filiate of Columbia U College of Physiciansand Surgeons. He is in the practice of internalmedicine and gastroenterology with 2 othermen in Westfield. He also has an appoint-ment as instructor in medicine at Columbia."Bea is back in hospital nursing part-time,now that the children are out of the house,after taking an intensive refresher course.Their 4 children are all busy pursuingcareers—Monica '74 receiving a master's inpublic health education from Columbia, cur-rently employed by the National GeneticsFoundation and Columbia and workingtoward a doctorate; Franci, a partner in ashop in NYC specializing in crafts, specimenplants and exotic flowers. She graduatedfrom GWU in '75 and received her master'sfrom Brandeis. Son David, RISD, was '80editor of his yearbook, majoring in graphicsand photography. Daughter Ruth is a soph-omore at Tufts. Bea concludes, "We haveloyalties (and tuitions) to many schools, butobviously Cornell is by far our favorite."

Betty Rosenthal Newman, 50 BrooksideRd, W Orange, NJ, is a humanities teacher atNewark Academy, Livingston, NJ, teachingAmerican experience and AP US history. SonJohn '73 is a lawyer practicing in Hacken-sack. Scott (Yale '77) is engaged to WendyGavin '77. She is enrolled in a graduate pro-gram in nutrition at Columbia PresbyterianHospital. Betty's husband Dick '41 is presi-dent of Valtronics Corp, Hanover, NJ.

Keep the news coming for bigger and bettercolumns!

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

Stanley Glasser, director of graduatestudies, Baylor College of Medicine and afellow in the International Union AgainstCancer and the Weizmann Institute for Re-search, has a book coming out this monthtitled Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Im-plantations (Plenum Press). Paul Kennedy,Nor walk, Conn, announces he is retired fromNY Telephone Co. Gerald Sallus, Culver

City, Cal, is marketing manager for advancedradar programs with Hughes Aircraft Co,and also practices law as a hobby. JohnWalsh is manufacturing engineer withHughes Helicopters, also in Culver City.

Dorothy See Minville, Southboro, Mass,writes that son Joe just graduated Phi BetaKappa from Clark's School of Geography,and that she is now a mother-in-law. AnneRoark Karl, Scotia, reports daughter Elsa '80graduated from Human Ecology; son Ericgraduated from Hamilton in '75 and is nowat Albany Law School.

Bob Harris, Baltimore, Md, is transporta-tion planner with National Capitol PlanningCommission and just became a father againlast Apr, wanting to know if any '48er cantop that. Tom Latimer, Ridgefield, Conn,announces that wife Judy took the CAU tripto China last yr finding it a fantastic ex-perience. Bob Nelson, Princeton, NJ, heavesa sigh of relief from tuition bills as his 4thdaughter just completed college. They wentto Colby, Boston College, Hamilton, andColgate.

Carmel Along Fischer, Cinnaminson, NJ,expresses the same relief as her 3rd and lasthas completed school. Audrey Pietsch Smith,Greenbelt, Md, is a chemist with the Foodand Drug Administration. Abby NoselesonFriedman works as a school volunteer inSpanish Harlem, Manhattan. Some of her ex-periences are presented in an article whichwill appear in Parents' Magazine. Early thisyr, husband B H "Bob" Friedman's 6thnovel, The Polygamist will be published byAtlantic/Little, Brown. Anne Prendergast,Wash, DC, writes that she is still a clerk-typist, and uses her Spanish once in a while.

Fred Hickling, Binghamton, is assistant tovice president, operations, for NY State Elec-tric and Gas. Ernest P "Bud" Quimby isassistant to vice chairman, Phillip Morris Inc,and still roosts in Chappaqua. He writes itwas worth getting soaked to the bone towatch Cornell beat Dartmouth. LeonardHarris, Pittsford, is president of QualityPackaging Supply Corp in Rochester. Patric-ia Hayes O'Brien is a volunteer at the WSeneca Developmental Center for the mental-ly retarded and husband Bill is associateradiological health specialist with the NYState Health Department.

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

Unfortunately, our photograph of our Mil-lion Dollar Class Award plaque was too darkfor proper reproduction in this column lastDec. Pity. You'll just have to take our wordfor it—the award plaque exists.

By now, you've received your 2nd Classdues notice for our fiscal year, July '80-June'81. Some of you paid your dues promptlyupon receipt of our 1st dues letter last fall.Many of you have not. It's one of the few re-quests that the class asks of you. Your ownGang of Four take care of all the other classobligations. Help a little.

One of the members of our class silent ser-vice is Jerry Alpern, our able, astute andmost cooperative treasurer. It's a thanklesstask—accounting for someone else's money.Most of us can't balance our books. But Jer-ry performs the chore of rendering our de-posits with the university with aplomb. He's agem! Jerry also runs the investment foun-dation of Alpern & Alpern from a Park Aveoffice. In addition, he assists the CornellFund as a NJ area chairman, and participatesin the CC of NY, the Tower Club, the Ath-

letic Assn, and the University Council. Oneof his personal interests is foreign travel. In-deed, your Class Council always rests easierwhen he returns. Wife Enid (Levine) '47 ac-companies him on those jaunts when she'snot home tending the fires on Audubon Rd,Englewood, NJ.

Ed Fleisher, Manchester, NH, is notcomplaining that 4 family members are incollege (one at Cornell). The 4th familymember is wife Hilda in her last yr atFranklin Puice Law Center, Concord, NH.Betty-Jean Wright Law, New Britain, Conn,considers it special that young Nancy '85entered Hum Re in Jan.

Fred Board, Hicksville, former directorJOB (Just One Break), an organization forthe placement of the disabled, is just recover-ing from an extended illness. Although re-tired under disability benefits, he is antici-pating returning to normal circulation. BobNafis, Greenlawn, finds that 3 kids graduatedmeans 3 kids in master's degree programs.Marcie Shlansky Livingston, Lido Beach,hosted former roommate Ellie SchatzkinMulter down from Orrs Isl, Me, for a fewdays. Ed Slusarczyk, Remsen, general mana-ger of 35 Ag Radio Network stations, broad-cast the annual FFA Convention from Kan-sas City last Nov. Don Roberson, NiagaraFalls, still making slow progress with en-vironmental problems, found time to enjoythe Winter Olympics and finds that our classjackets are great! (Do you have yours? Con-tact Walt Peek, 111 Wilmot Rd, New Ro-chelle, NY 10804.) Henry Bannister, Phoe-nix, has just completed a descriptive bib-liography of Irish-American author DonnByrne, published Garland Publishing Co.

Frank Codella, Holmdel, NJ, is numberedamong the silent suffering with daughter inHotel School and son in electrical engineer-ing. Marty Coler Risch, Ridgewood, NJ, wasmother of the bride at Thanksgiving time.She reports that her father Carl Coler '11, isgoing strong at 91! Steve Profilet, CampSprings, Md, traveled to Jordan last summerto consult with the kingdom officials on mat-ters of water supply for his government agen-cy, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commis-sion. Finley Hunt, Wash, DC, surfaced re-cently as an independent film producer andTV writer. Recent assignments included theReagan-Bush campaign commercials andbrand new grandfather last Sept. Awright,let's hear it for Fin!

Wally Ainsworth, Roanoke, Ind, now presof Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Co assumedthe additional title of chief executive officerfor the division last summer. Result: not somuch skiing time! Sue Sheary Bieter, Edina,Minn, moved into their own townhouse lastmonth and is excited about the market inter-est in these living units. Sue says, "It's a livescene!"

Arnold Seamon, La Costa Spa, Carlsbad,Cal, as managing director will tell you that"it ain't cheap, but the facilities are superb."Calorie counters will find their nirvana. Her-man Harrow, Palo Alto, Cal, "after 30 yrs ofcorporate life . . . decided to enter personnelconsulting, play tennis 3 times weekly." Aprogram we all should consider!

Ted Sprague, Corning, enjoyed a Julyweekend at the marine biology laboratory onthe Isles of Shoals off Portsmouth, Me. Thisoperation is conducted with the U of NH andCornell. CAU helps promote the program.The Spragues found a lot to learn aboutsharks, snails, whales, gulls, not to mentionbeing up at 5 am each day to observe the birdlife. If you enjoy the water and the water life(around the edges), consider a weekend oreven a week with the Shoals Marine Lab(Appledore Isl).

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

I hope you have all survived the changingof the guard in Wash, DC. Speaking of theelection, I spent a delightful election eve withDavid Weatherby and is wife Betty in Ithaca,at an election eve party at their lovely home.David is head of a general agency selling acci-dent and health insurance throughout theNortheast.

Late last fall we were visited by Stan Rod-win of Rochester. Stan runs his own packageengineering business and was here in Fla for aconference. He and I spent a delightful after-noon sailing off the coast of Fla near FortLauderdale. Word reaches me that John SMacNeill of Homer has expanded his firm toinclude Leslie Warfield Wright '51, who ismarried to Eugene. Gene is president of theEastern Milk Producers local and boardchairman of the Cortland County Soil andWater Conservation District.

Since I have had little news from any of ourclassmates in some time, I have dug back intomy files and the news which follows may be alittle out of date but I hope of interest to you.Jim Luther now lives in Villanova, Pa. DonRichter was recently named general managerof corporate development for Armco. Hisprimary responsibility will be in the acquisi-tion strategy field. From what I read in the fi-nancial newspapers, Don must be a very busyperson, since Armco is very active in acquisi-tions of other companies.

Another interesting corporate occupationis being pursued by Richard M Rabkin, whois patent counsel for the Ideal Toy Corp.Dick lives in Westfield, NJ. Ken Thomas re-ports from St Paul, Minn, that he is anExtension economist with the U of Minn,specializing in financial management and es-tate planning. I hope Ken is surviving thiscold winter weather we are having. WilliamBuckbee of Pound Ridge, is Eastern salesmanager for Cuneo Press, and although heapparently frequents the CC of NY, barelysees any of our class there.

Finally, on the corporate front, we haveheard from Herb Nehrling Jr of Wilmington,Del, that he continues to serve as assistanttreasurer of the DuPont Co, handling em-ploye compensation and benefits.

I'll end this column as I usually do with alittle news from Ithaca. Borg Warner Corphas announced construction of a $50 millionmanufacturing plant near the TompkinsCounty airport. The university has indicatedthat they will expend considerable sums in thecollege town area remodeling the old SheldonCourt and Military Hall to accommodatemore student housing. The university is in lit-igation with the City of Ithaca in its efforts toconvert some of its older houses and frater-nity houses in the Thurston Ave-CornellHeights area to office use. Apparently theuniversity is critically short of office space.

I hope all of you have a prosperous newyear, and that the new administration inWash, DC, will be able to stabilize our coun-try's economic and political situation.

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

Nancy (Hubbard) and Jim Brandt wereamong those at Reunion last June. Nancyreceived her master's degree in city planning,and started out working for a municipalfinance consultant. Since Sept, she commuteswith the hordes, newspaper in hand, to hernew job in the public finance division at Con-tinental Bank of Chicago, doing somemunicipal consulting on bond issues and

covering many other areas as well.Mary Rita Saxton Crittenden writes from

San Francisco, Cal, where she is seniorpsychologist, child study unit, U of Cal, andassistant clinical professor, pediatrics depart-ment. She and Rodney have 3 children: John,studying law at UCLA; Anne, in pre-vet medat UC, Davis; and Jean in high school. MaryRita was president of the Psychological Assnof San Francisco in '79 and is a resource con-sultant to the advisory board of the SF Assnfor Gifted Children.

Another classmate in the Bay Area isElizabeth Hankins Wolgast of Berkeley. Bet-sy is professor of philosophy, Cal State U,Hay ward, and her 2nd book, Equality andthe Rights of Women, was published by Cor-nell U Press last spring. Her 1st book,Paradoxes of Knowledge, was also put out byCU Press. Son Stephen '79 has a BA andBSEng. Husband Dick is still at the radiationlab, UC, Berkeley.

siMEN: Bill Eustis, 102 Park Ave, Greenwich,Conn 06830

Let's see, 1st column in 1981, which, if yousubtract our year, equals—under newmath—30 yrs. So it's another Reunion com-ing up. We're taking a shot at hitting a totalof $1 million for Cornell during our time out,not just in 1 yr like some of the older—andperilously closer—classes do. So, with a littleeffort it shouldn't hurt too much.

What sort of Christmas presents did someof us get throughout this past yr? Bob Mc-Combs (RD 5 Box 443, Lehighton, Pa)chosen for the Handicapped Pennsylvanianof 1980 Award given by the governor. Boband Jane (Johnson) '47 traveled to Houston,Texas, to visit their 1st grandson and to the75th anniversary convention of Rotary Inter-national. He also passed on that Jacey Hut-ton had formed his own agricultural consult-ing business, and was advising Sadat onEgypt's agricultural problems. Martin L Kas-bohm (149 Fleetwood Terr, Williamsville)was named a fellow of the American Instituteof Chemical Engineers for his work in indus-trial gas production and distribution. Martyis director of r&d with Linde Division ofUnion Carbide, and is on industrial advisoryboards at NJ Institute of Technology andSUNY, Buffalo.

I have an impressive document from theDC Court of Appeals appointing BrigadierGeneral Reginald Ingram (3901 LivingstonSt, NW, Wash, DC) as non-lawyer memberof the Committee on Unauthorized Practiceof Law. Reggie is now a director in the Officeof Unemployment Compensation in DC,after 12 yrs overseas with State, AID, PeaceCorps, and USAF. I hear great reports aboutReggie Jr '71, Cornell's Mid-Atlantic region-al director. Wife Doris is active in the Assnfor the Study of Afro-American Life andHistory, and the Wash, DC, chapter ofAFRICARE, and is national volunteer coor-dinator for Black Women's Agenda.

Edith Martin Dodd spent her 50th birthdayin the hospital where she learned she wasgravely ill. Nevertheless, she remains activeteaching English at Nassau Comm College.Her address: 71 2nd St, Garden City 11530.

Robert Williams was appointed head of themarketing department at Mich U, Ypsilanti,Mich. He is on the graduate council and thefaculty council, and is an active marketingconsultant with memberships in the Ameri-can Marketing Assn, Midwest Business Ad-ministration Assn, and Southern MarketingAssn. He is also active in the Mich Air NatlGuard, and won its Legion of Merit.

Onward and upward with Bill Field (256Edgerstowne Rd, Princeton, NJ), who waspromoted a while back to senior vice presi-dent, Prudential, to head the asset manage-ment department, in charge of all publicly-traded fixed income securities portfolio andthe "asset mix of pension clients who havedelegated full investment discretion to hiscompany." How can Pru go wrong with a 17per cent prime rate?

Back to Reunion: I think we should includea memorial of some sort to Terry Geherin Re-quardt and her late honorary '51er Gus '09.Suggestions?

52COMBINED: Jean Thompson Cooper, 55Crescent Rd, Port Washington, NY 11050

I report the death, on Nov 11, of Ray Cant-well following open heart surgery at StrongMemorial Hospital in Rochester. Mary Johas asked that memorial donations be madeto the Raymond Cantwell Scholarship Fundat the Hotel School. How typical of the Cant-wells! Even in death, he is still caring for thestudents he worked so hard for and dearlyloved. What a marvelous human being. Ishall miss him enormously.

Joel Lehrer reports that he is living in En-glewood, NJ, and practicing medicine in Tea-neck and Ridgewood. His address is 315 Ce-dar Lane, Teaneck. From Long Beach, Cal,Martin Simon, 5381 El Prado Ave, reports heis an executive vice president with EdgingtonOil Co. His son Ira is at Cal Tech; hisdaughter Helane is at Cal State; and Janet isin high school. With her 2 older children mar-ried, and the youngest a freshman at the ColoSchool of Mines, Janet Rudolph To wartworks as an assistant to the director of theBedford Hills Free Library. Her address is 16Monroe Dr, Bedford Hills. Edward Wilkens,20 Innes Rd, E Brunswick, NJ, tells me hisdaughter Katherine '82 will leave GoldwinSmith and spend her junior yr at the LondonSchool of Economics. Meanwhile, Constance'84 is in Engineering. B Johnson sends in anew address: 300 Main Plaza Bldg, San An-tonio, Texas.

Richard An tell, 3402 Santa Clara Ct, Flint,Mich, is in a rut: His hobbies are "raising 7children;" his family activities are"survival;" his spouse's work is "raising 7children;" and sometimes he does somedoctoring in internal medicine in Flint."With an eye to returning to the laborforce," Nancy Radick Lynk, 70 Mosher Rd,Delmar, spent "this past legislative season asan intern in the NY State Senate." Just aquick note from Dalton Gray to say he livesat 230 Monee Rd, Park Forest, 111, andteaches horticulture. Another addresschange: Lynn Hollingshead Lucas has moveddown the road to 105 Lake Otis Rd, Winter-haven, Fla, and "I work part time in a neatstore which semi-sponsers a ski trip of whichI am the tour director." Pretty neat is right,for a Fla resident!

In Aug, Helen Icken Safa was named direc-tor of the Center for Latin American Studiesat the U of Fla in Gainesville. Her new ad-dress is 2021 NW 15th Ave, Gainesville. Andour favorite Cornell bear announces he has"moved from Boca Raton to Stuart, Fla, ac-tively pursuing my real estate, fishing and thegood life." Whit Mitchell lives at 1550 NEOcean Blvd, Apt #B205. Best to you, Whit.

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

FEBRUARY 1981

Our Frederic Hobbs was the featured artistat the San Francisco Museum of Modern Artfor the past 2 months. The exhibition is of anew mass art form called Art Eco, and coin-cided with the publication of his new book,Eat Your House: Art Eco Guide to Self-Suf-ficiency (Mayfield Pub Co). From the pressrelease I received: "A pioneering work ofpost-modernist audience art, the mixed mediaArt Eco exhibit combines a new functional el-egance and refinement with practical alterna-tives in technology and 'voluntary simplicity'life style.

"Presenting 7 monumental Art Eco icons,Hobbs forms a new juxtaposition of organic-figurative imagery relating to themes of eco-logy-humanity with the more precise, tech-nological energy-sculpture that provides uswith a greater understanding of how to sur-vive for the future. Seven color drawings pre-sent systems for new concepts for environ-mental restoration and solar-wind-botanicliving environments.

" 'Art Eco,' says the artist, Ms art thatworks and technology that is beautiful. Thesolution exists side by side with the ecologicalproblem, and the statement is both.'

"As mass-art, the Hobbs show allows thepublic a 'hands on,' educational, participa-tory experience to learn about color, formand composition, while recycling tract-homerooftop forms into solar-energy sculptures,and to understand the artist's vision of self-sufficiency and survival as artform. Con-tinues artist Hobbs, 'Politics is obsolete.There is no longer any line between nutritionand politics, politics and architecture, or be-tween architecture and sculpture. If peoplecan be motivated to use their own visionaryand creative energies to transcend tract-home, high-rise slavery, they can give life thequality of an artform.'"

Many class questionnaires sent by BobNeff with the last dues mailer have gone as-tray or to the Class of '56. But, if you did re-ceive one, please fill it out and send it to me.

Barbara Gross (Sands Point) says daughterElizabeth graduated from Tufts, and is work-ing in the field of nutrition in Boston; sonDouglas is a Columbia Law School grad('80); and daughter Susan is in 1st yr atBrown. Heard from Bob Corrie (Garden Ci-ty). He is with the National Bank of NAmerica as vice president and director of pro-fit planning. His daughter Susan is atBucknell. Third generation at Cornell isSarah Pradt '84. So says proud dad Louis(Wausau, Wise).

Lester Simon reports that his daughter Ra-chel '83 is in Arts. His son Henry was prepar-ing to go to college (Lester wrote in May1980); and son Jason, 13, is thinking of theHotel School. Wife Elaine has the distinctionof being one of the very rare women furriersin the NY-NJ area (Red Bank, NJ).

To break the monotony, Helen TeschnerGreene (Great Neck) writes she has been stu-dying ice dancing, and has passed herpreliminary dance steps test and is now study-ing for her "bronze" dances. Ice skaters willknow what that means. The ice dancing is inaddition to her fabric designing business. Shealso paints and sells blouses and T-shirts—abusy person

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Two children of '56, on the ready at theirparents' 15th Reunion. Ten years later, theyand others are invited to the 25th Reunionof the Class of '56.

continues in her manager position. HusbandHobby died in Dec '77. Jane keeps busy withher job, her sons (Carl, 21, Jim, 20, Don, 17),and singles group activities at her church. Heraddress is 16526 Spruce St, Fountain Valley,Cal. Catherine Ryan Nelson, a 5th gradeteacher, lives at 12431 W Nicolet Dr, NewBerlin, Wise. Husband Bill works in sales.The Nelsons enjoy boating, fishing, garden-ing, bridge, and the Caribbean.

You can address Box 326, Lowville toreach M Cynthia Ross Rice (Mrs Arleigh D).Cynthia's children are Sara '77, married inMay of that yr to James Cronin '74, bothworking and living in the Rochester area;Paul, in partnership on the farm with his par-ents; John, a sophomore at Oswego; Deanand Andrew, both in high school and garner-ing wrestling honors.

Downstate in Poughkeepsie, Jane BarberWood Smith teaches corrective reading in theArlington school district. She is also enrolledin a special education master's program atSUC, New Paltz. Husband Duane is an asso-ciate professor in behavioral science atDutchess Community College. They have 6daughters—Carrie Smith (SUC Plattsburgh'82), Barbara Wood '82, Elizabeth Wood(Hunter '81), Catherine Smith (SUC Pots-dam graduate), Jennifer Wood (Bennett Col-lege graduate, married last May), and JeanSmith (high school senior). When not vaca-tioning with the family at "camp" on LongLake in the Adirondacks, Jane is home at 101Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie.

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

We're 2 months into another year, andthere is still much news to catch up with inour limited space! Jane Foster Hobkirk, withWorld Book Encyclopedia for almost 15 yrs,

MEN: Stephen Kittenplan, 1165 Park Ave,NYC 10028

This column is being written as we enter thenew year—the year of our 25th Reunion. Asof the latest count at press time, we have nowreached the $650,000 figure toward our goalof $1 million. What does this all mean? Thetotal thus far has been reached withoutcontributions from the majority of our class-mates. Thus, if you think your gift does notcount, think 3 times. Now is the time we real-ly need your gift. If you have any questions,call Curt Reis on the West Coast, Jon Lind-seth in the Midwest, and Ernie Stern, BertSeigel, or me on the East Coast. We don'thave all the answers about Reunion and your

Reunion gift, but we can try!Speaking of Curt Reis, he is very happy in

his new Cal home with his lovely wife Pam-ela. Gail and I will be able to report in thenext column as by the time you read this wewill have visited him in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Kenneth J Kwit, president of SonomaVineyards in Cal, has announced that hiscompany has purchased Pacific Freight Sup-ply Co, a mail-order marketer of industrialhand and machine tools. Paul C James of Sil-ver Lake, Ohio, was traveling to Ithaca forhomecoming weekend on Oct 25 with his sonEric, a high school sophomore, when theyhad an automobile accident in Wat kins Glen.Paul was in intensive care but, thank good-ness, is now mending and hopefully home bythe time you read this. His son was releasedawhile ago. Paul is president of Tire Techni-cal for BF Goodrich in Akron, and is thenephew of former coach Lefty James.

From nearby Binghamton comes wordfrom 4604 Deerfield PI that John Hudanich isan attorney while his wife Susan is a nurseteacher. Henry Hubbard III now makes hishome in Lake Forest, 111. Hank is vice presi-dent/merchandise manager of women's ap-parel for Marshall Field. He is married toMarianne (Smith) '59; would someone pleasesend him his '56 tote bag from the last Reu-nion, so we can make sure he attends thisone?

William G Horton of 13810 SE 44th St,Bellevue, Wash, is a partner in the MasonClinic in Seattle, and is a professor at the Uof Wash. His wife Marlene is a nursing super-visor at University Hospital, and they are theparents of 3. When last heard from, StephenSchwirck was making his home at 210 Rte 206South, Somerville, NJ.

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

Charity Ketzer Leng's new, but temporary,address is 5800 NE 22 Way, Apt 507, FtLauderdale, Fla, where she and her daughterstay with her mother. Charity's con-dominium there is for sale; she would alsoconsider a swap for something in the NYarea. Diana, 20, is a phys ed major and juniorat Tulane U, New Orleans, La. She graduatedfrom Ft Lauderdale high school where shewas on the swimming team, and for the past 2

. summers has been teaching swimming anddiving in the town recreation program at thatschool. Judith '84 graduated from Hun-tington High School in June, and enteredArts and Sciences in Sept. She lives at BalchHall and is a 3rd generation Cornellian!Elizabeth, 15, lived with Charity in Fla for 8yrs, where the weather was better for herhealth than in the North. However, this pastyr, she lived in Huntington with her fatherJarvis '55, who is in the research departmentof Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage. Charityfeels she has lived Kramer vs Kramer 3 timesherself—and it hasn't been easy! She is con-»sidering moving to the North, and possiblytaking a paralegal course at Adelphi U."Hello and God bless to all my Cornellfriends!" See you at Reunion, Charity;thanks for writing.

Nancy Elizabeth Harper Morris lives inHonolulu, Hawaii, at 903 Waiholo St. She isa real estate agent and office manager for herhusband Jack '55, who practices internalmedicine with a sub-specialty in gastro-enterology. Brenda, 21, started law schoolthis fall; Karen, 20, will be a senior at the Uof Hawaii, where Lisa, 19, and John, 18, arealso students. Susan (Pia), 16, is a senior atPanahou Academy. Kimo is the family's"super" wire-haired terrier. Nancy loves ten-nis, golf, aerobic dancing, and swimming.

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57MEN: John Seiler, PO Box 1319, Louisville,Ky 40201

Another retirement—John Bradbury hasleft the Air Force. He unretired quickly, how-ever, and is affiliated with the world head-quarters of the International Civil AviationOrganization in Montreal. Also changingcareers slightly is Bill Zeif, who, after 16 yrsof studying and practicing pathology, hasstarted a 3-yr residency in internal medicineat Mercy Med Center in Darby, Pa. He com-mutes to his Lewes, Del, home on weekends.

Phil Manaker also lives in an academicenvironment, at the Air Force Academy,where he evaluates physical qualifications ofapplicants for the academy and all AFROTCprograms. He and Rosemary have a 3-yr-olddaughter. Jack White, recently promoted tocolonel, has been assigned to the Joint Chiefsof Staff to work on "international logistics."Makes a fella proud to be a taxpayer.

Speaking of international, Ron Ramsdenspent some time in S Korea with the Air Forcerecently while wife Joyce has been to Englandand Ireland. Daughter Holly is a senior at Uof Okla. Dick Dreher has been to Hawaii (an-nual soccer meeting), and Australia. JackBrewer ran into Jack McCormick on a Lon-don street; Sam and Marion Waxman spentsome time in southern Spain; Sam and Con-nie Bookbinder stayed at the curtain bluff ofHoward Hulford '44 in Antigua; and EdStaats continues the good life in St Croix,occasionally coming back to the old countryto see the Red Sox perform their annual swandive.

From Detroit, Mich, comes word of 2classmates: Brad Howes is with Allen-Brad-ley Co as sales engineer, while former la-crosse great Tony Tewes reports that daugh-ter Jennifer uses her inherited athletic abilityon the Mich State tennis team (#5 singles and#2 doubles as a freshman).

Several have signed on for the 25th, includ-ing Don Singer, Ted Raab, Tom Keating,Dick Cosgrove and Ron Dunbar.

WOMEN: Judy Reusswig, 5401 WestbardAve, #1109, Wash, DC 20016

Whenever you're in Ithaca, Priscilla KieferParrish would enjoy seeing you. "Johnnie"is publicity chairman for the UpstairsGallery, and also does a weekly TV show,Focus on Art, in which she interviews artistsand shows their work. Her son and daughterhave graduated from high school and arepostponing college until after a stint in theworking world. New addresses: BarbaraGodwin Wilms has moved to 923 Ridge Dr,McLean, Va.

Judith Golub Halpern is living at 11309Hawhill End, Potomac, Md, and is directorof social work at Springwood in Leesburg,Va. One son is at Reed College, and her otherson is a senior systems analyst in Min-neapolis, Minn. Susan Hitz Magnuson ismoving back to the States after a longresidence in the Far East, where she was ableto take advantage of many travel oppor-tunities to almost every country in the area.Guy is still with IBM-World Trade, but willbe working out of Tarry town; the Magnusonsare planning to settle in Westchester or Conn.

Dori Goudsmit Albert is an active alumniin Orchard Park. She belongs to the CWC inBuffalo and attended CAU in '79. Two of her3 children are at the U of Rochester, and theyoungest is still in high school. Connie KellyFletcher manages trip to the US several timesa yr from her home in Highton, Victoria,Australia. She would like to know where inAustralia Phil Kneen and family are living.

Classmates recently seen by Connie are DeeHeasley Van Dyke and Sally Hamilton Rice.Marilyn Hester Ridgley is planning to visitDee in Hawaii on her way back from a trip tothe Philippines. In addition, Mimi has visitedSue Westin Pew and Judy Lund Biggs, andshe writes that Nicky Nitzburgh is now livingon the Ore coast and selling real estate. TheRidgleys are a busy family—Marilyn is work-ing on her master's; Greg, recipient of Har-vard National and Merit scholarships, is afreshman at Harvard; and Derek is starting asa page in the Senate this fall.

58MEN and WOMEN: Janet Arps Jarvie, 6524Valleybrook Dr, Dallas, Texas 75240

Had a nice long note and vitae from DickHampton, 210 Westgate Village, Frazer, Pa.He says, "It's been too many newsy yrs to fitinto our class column, but some of the moreinteresting items are that I am married to EvaMaria (Knebel) and was in Germany for 2 yrswith a Fulbright Fellowship. I now have myPhD in physics (NYU '77), and am teachingmath at Villanova U with a research grant."

Ted Thelander writes that his major civicactivity in 1980 was ridding Cleveland ofKucinich! Sports officiating is a hobby whichhe pursues when not working at consultingand running seminars in food service man-agement. Ted can be reached at 2910 BridgeAve, Cleveland, Ohio.

Herb Whittall, GPO Box 3069, HongKong, is a much traveled man. He is managerof service engineering for Caterpillar FarEast, covering all countries south of Korea,east of Pakistan, and north of Australia. Hislast trip home was a round-the-world trip viaEgypt, Israel, Switzerland, and Japan. Whennot traveling, he keeps busy with sailing,squash, bowling, and tennis. He has 2children—Laura, 20, and Paul, 19.

Joan Bleckwell McHugh is back in schoolthese days at U of Kans, working on amaster's degree in social work. She has 3children—Kevin, Stacey '82, and Julie. Joanand Mick live at 6455 Overbrook Rd,Shawnee Mission, Kans. Almeda "AC"Church Dake and Bill, 90 Bryan St, SaratogaSprings, have 4 children. The oldest, Laura'81, is in Arts. AC is very active on the boardof the Saratoga County YMCA, and is also amember of the National Council of the YM-CA. She was recently (Nov '79) elected one of2 supervisors from Saratoga. She finds it veryinteresting, ranging from public health mat-ters to a county reevaluation project.

Philip Getter is president of Generics Corp,America Corp, a generic drug firm listed onthe American Stock Exchange. He has justproduced Broadway's newest smash musicalcomedy, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in theUkraine, nominated for 9 Tony awards, in-cluding Best Musical. He sees a lot of hisformer roommates—Lee Sterling, Al Tessler,and Don Gleklen. Phil lives at 310 E 46th St,NYC. Don, 212 Jeffrey Lane, Newtown Sq,Pa, was recently elected executive vice presi-dent of the Industrial Valley Bank. He andhis wife have 3 children.

Brian Curtis, 35 Boxwood Dr, Greenwich,RI, is president of Kenyon Piece Dyeworks,commission synthetic dyes and finishes offabric. His company is the largest finisher ofsailcloth in the world. He would like foranyone coming to Newport for Olympic trialsor cup races to give him a call. He enjoys ski-ing, sailing, and hot air ballooning. He has 4children; the oldest, Sandy '80, graduatedfrom Ag.

Philip Gellert, Hillsdale, is in the egg andfood distribution business. He has a son

William '83 in Ag, and 4 other children, theyoungest of which is 4. He keeps active withjogging, the Lions Club and is on the boardof the Alumni Assn. Esther Puram Jansingwrites that she is "indescribably busy" with 3teenagers. As for family activities, she writes,"You're kidding—I think we were last to-gether at dinner 2 wks ago!" Esther is mar-ried to a surgeon, and spends time oil paint-ing, playing tennis, and learning to play thepiano. She is chairwoman of her area Secon-dary Schools Committee, and can be reachedat 2303 Agile Ct, Owensboro, Ky.

Henry Friedman, a physician, lives at 33Butler St, Kingston, Pa. He has 3 childrenand a hobby of "old cars." Thomas Brogan,12243 S Richard Ave, Palos Heights, 111, is avice president of Bulk Terminals Co inChicago.

Have 3 addresses to end this column:Laura Monk Talbott, R #4, Atchison, Kans;Ellen Hering Rediske, 10625 N Ivy Ct, Me-quon, Wise; and John Miniutti, 50 Green BayRd, Lake Bluff, 111.

59COMBINED: Jenny Tesar, 97A ChestnutHill Village, Bethel, Conn 06801

Marjorie Holeton Weaver, 843 Kiehl Dr,Lemoyne, Pa, is chairwoman of the AvonFutures Tennis Tournament in Hershey, Pa,Jan 26-Feb 8. The Weavers have 3 children.The oldest, Earle '82, is in Engineering andon the varsity lacrosse team. Mary Jo SiglerTennant, 5015 Stone Haven Dr, Annandale,Va, is teaching 3rd grade in that town's StMichael's School. J Roland Lieber is a land-scape architect with offices at 621 S FederalHighway, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He and hiswife Pamela share their home with amenagerie that includes a yellow nape Ama-zon parrot, a quakker parakeet, a capuchinmonkey, and a "lovable but somtimes dumbAmerican shorthair tiger cat."

Lee D Powar, who lives at 22300 ShakerBlvd, Shaker Hghts, Ohio, recently retired aspresident of the Cleveland chapter of theAmerican Jewish Committee. At the commit-tee's national executive council meeting inOct he spoke with Ellen Cohen, wife of LyonD Cohen. The Cohens have moved fromMontreal to Houston, Texas, where Lyon isan accountant. Their address: 5731 BraesValley Dr, Houston.

George H Pash Jr, since '70 a partner inthe Binghamton architectural firm Cum-mings & Pash, lives at 1115 Saluda St,Binghamton. Among his firm's recent pro-jects are that city's new city hall, the state of-fice building, and a $7.5 million addition tothe headquarters of Security Mutual Life In-surance Co of NY. George is in charge ofproduction while his partner, John B Cum-mings '44, takes care of fiscal matters.

Lawyer Harvey Weissbard, 6 ColonialTerr, Maplewood, NJ, is a partner in Isles,Newman & Weissbard in W Orange, NJ. Hespecializes in criminal defense and personalinjury cases. Ira C Wolpert is an attorneywith a general practice. His address: 11033Rosemont Dr, Rockville, Md. In his sparetime Ira plays racquetball and collects signsand antique advertising. Joseph "Buck"Penrose now lives at 300 E 75 St, NYC. He isvice president in charge of corporate develop-ment with the De Lorean Motor Co. His hob-by: building a collection of early Ford con-vertibles. Dentist Carlton R Resnick and hisfamily live at 6739 N St Louis, Lincolnwood,111. His hobbies: scuba diving and underwaterphotography.

Carolyn Hill Rogers, 18 Grist Mill Rd,Glastonbury, Conn, works part-time at Aet-

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na in Hartford, Her hobbies include rughooking and herb gardening. William FBarstow's company, Barstow Machinery Coin Dallas, Texas, has passed its 5th birthday.It is a distributor for US and foreign machinetools. Bill, who lives at 1610 Alamo,Rockwall, Texas, sings barbershop. He's amember of the 100-plus male chorus, VocalMajority, which has twice won internationalbarbershop contests. Art Hemker, 9108 GlenSprings Dr, Dallas, Texas, is executive vicepresident and general manager of a largespecialty chemical wholesaler. His hobbies:golf, hunting, and boating. He has a golf villaat Horseshoe Bay Resort on LBJ Reservoirnear Austin.

Recent appointments: James M Newman isan assistant professor of decision sciencesand computers at Rider College in Lawrence-ville, NJ. A computer systems analyst forGFDL of Princeton for the past 4 yrs, Jimpreviously taught at Baruch College (CUNY)and at Fla Atlantic U. In Worchester, Mass,Jessica Reynolds Jenner has joined the ClarkU faculty as assistant professor of manage-ment. A specialist in organization develop-ment, she has been a consultant to manyprofit- and nonprofit-making organizations.William L Babcock, 52 E 5th St, Corning,has been appointed marketing manager,resistors, electrical and electronic division,Corning Glass Works. Diane Divers Blair,1011 Tanglebriar, Fayetteville, Ark, was ap-pointed to the board that directs the ArkEducational TV Network.

60MEN and WOMEN: Gail Taylor Hodges,1257 W Deerpath Rd, Lake Forest, 111 60045

Many thanks to treasurer Dave Flinn forsending on multitudes of News & Dues notes,and to all of you for writing and contribu-ting. Although I don't have a current tally, itwould seem response to the establishment ofa Class of 1960 25th Reunion fund for therestoration of rare books in the University Li-braries has been excellent to date. Contribu-tions, both small and large, will help the fundgrow over the next 4 yrs to meet our goal of atleast $25,000 by '85. Keep in mind contribu-tions are tax deductible gifts, and thereforeare also eligible for corporate gift matchingwhere available. If your employer matchescontributions to educational institutions, besure to send the appropriate company formto Dave Flinn when you make your contribu-tion (866 Ridge Rd, Lansing).

Logan Cheek continues to travel interna-tionally for business consulting. Europe, Ja-maica, and Venezuela were on the agenda re-cently for management seminars, as was atrip to Argentina to assist in the reorganiza-tion and planning of the national govern-ment. Domestically, he is involved in a num-ber of energy development ventures—in fuelethanol (made from corn), and in setting up anew plant to manufacture coking coal in WVa. Dave Flinn and his wife Mary (Quick)spent 3 wks in England and Scotland in Sept,attending the World Carriage Driving Cham-pionships in Windsor while there. Their sonDale *84 is in Engineering and lives in Risley;and son Glenn is a senior at Gould Academyin Maine, where he is captain of a winningsoccer team. Mary is active in the TompkinsCounty Human Services Coalition and on theFirst Congregational Church board of trust-ees. Dave is a YMCA director and serves onthe Boy Scout executive board.

Gail Krantz Glickman and husband Cy cel-ebrated their 20th anniversary with a "beauti-ful 'honeymoon' in Hawaii." Gail is officeand personnel manager for the NY office of

Alexander Grant & Co, 9th largest CPA firmin the world. Cy is involved with food conces-sions and vending in various schools and in-stitutions. Their son Robert started last fall atSUNY, Albany. Son Steven attends ForestHills High School. Jane Thomson Hickok iscurrently a part-time graduate student in thedepartment of preventive, rehabilitation, andfamily medicine at the U of Rochester MedCenter, working towards a master's degree incommunity health. She and Bill '58 have 2children—Bill, 11, and Sarah, 10.

Edgar King is a dairy farmer and deputycommissioner, NYS Department of Ag andMarkets. He and his wife Carolyn have 4 chil-dren—David, 17, Lawrence, 15, Jan, 12, andJeffrey, 9. Robert Tatelbaum is chief ofob/gyn, the Genesee Hospital, and professorat the U of Rochester Med Center. He andwife Ann have 2 children—Lynne, 16, andMark, 13. Ann is involved with local Republi-can politics, and Robert with numerous civicactivities.

Dave Feeney is a tax and corporate lawyeras a partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham &Taft, 1 Wall St. He and wife Betsy are avidfollowers of their children's sports. DaughterShawn '83, a Kappa, has ridden for 9 yrs inthe " A " Circuit. Shari and David attendRumson-Fair Haven High School in NJ, andare active in field hockey, swimming, foot-ball, and baseball, respectively. Darryl, a 6thgrader, plays football.

In NJ, Eliot Krause is assistant professorof biology at Seaton Hall U, and graduatebiology advisor. Wife Judy is a dental hygien-ist. They have 3 children—Steven, 20, Ira, 17,and Shari Rachel, 11. Eliot is chairman of thehigh division of the Academy of Jewish Stud-ies in S Orange, and financial secretary of theEssex-Eureka Lodge, Knights of Pythias.Marcia Stone Midler received the PhD degreefrom Rutgers U in May '80.

Sandy Wolf Jones is a computer program-mer with Dataline Corp, Wilton, Conn. Herhusband Bruce died in May 1980, after a longillness. She, Pamela, 11, Cynthia, 8, andBruce, 6, would very much enjoy seeing orhearing from alumni in the area. They can bereached at 7 Victoria Lane, Westport, Conn.Nora Heller Freund works for H&R Block inToronto, Canada, where her husband John isa government auditor. Their daughter Ellystarted at Queen's U in Kingston last fall.Daughters Alice, 14, and Carole, 17, are inhigh school.

Donald Gerhart is the owner of CFH Inc, aJohn Deere agricultural dealership in Cecil-ton, Md, with his brother Warren '48. WifeLinda is bookkeeper for the business, as wellas mother to Amber, 3, and Alana, 1. Don isactive in the Jaycees, Lions Club, and the lo-cal Vocational Education Advisory Council.Dick Venezy writes that his wife Karen(Gauz) '64, is president of the Artwork Enter-prises Inc, a graphic arts and advertisingagency. The couple make an annual fishingtrip north of Kenora, Ontario, each yr, anddid very well this yr with walleyes and north-erns. Their children are Dina, 9, and Elie, 8.Fred Bloom, wife Heike, and son Ted, 13, areliving in Lancaster, Pa. Recent travel includ-ed attending an excellent session on China atCornell Adult U in Aug '80.

Other recent contributors to the class pro-ject will be listed in a later issue.

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tended Len's Class of '60 Reunion last yrwith our children Josh, 11, Karen, 13, andLynne, 15. They loved their 1st visit to Cor-nell and the terrific kids' activities. Reunionwas a renewing experience for me, and at thisage, I need all the renewing I can get. I al-ready have my airline tickets for the trekfrom Las Vegas to Ithaca this June. Howabout you? Also at '60's 20th Reunion andhoping to return were Jan Powell Bid well,Ginney Buchanan Clark, Pauline SutterDegenfelder, and Margie Farrell Ewing.

Up-to-date NEWS from '61 women has fi-nally caught up with me. In keeping with na-tional trends, many report recent employ-ment or advances, as well as the founding ofcompanies. Nancy Hislop McPeek is admin-istrative manager of Greenwald UnderwritingAssociates Inc. Combining a career with anactive volunteer role, she is serving as a mem-ber of the board of directors of the Assn ofJunior Leagues for 1980-81. She was presi-dent of the Canton Junior League, a memberof the Area II council and is area councilchairman this yr.

Lola Cohen Green, 11 Pine Lane, GlenCove, is president and founder of ProgramInnovators, a consulting firm specializing inprograms for success in personal and profes-sional growth. She travels throughout thecountry as a consultant and professionalspeaker and has written, Build A Better You. . . Starting Now, Success Secrets, and GreatPlaces by the Sea. By the time you read this,Lola, her husband Walter, and twin sons Ja-son and Jonathan, 13, will be living in PaloAlto, Cal.

Janet Ballantyne-Murphy and husbandRobert work with the US Agency for Interna-tional Development in Lima, Peru. She ischief of the office of health, education, andnutrition. Their son John Ernest, 4, wasadopted in Cuzco, Peru, in '79. She writes,"There are a surprising number of alumni inLima (4 alone at USAID) and expect to findsome 20-25 alumni here." Their address isUSAID/Lima, APO, Miami, Fla 34031.Emily Tall has been promoted to associateprofessor of Russian, with tenure, at SUNY,Buffalo.

Marcia Stofman Swanson, 1093 TidewaterDr, Bethel Park, Pa, started a flying school ata local airport and is also working as secre-tary-treasurer of Swanson Analysis Systems.As a hobby, she is taking helicopter lessons.Last Reunion, she was one who flew her ownplane to Ithaca.

Betsy Little Bodman, 22 Longfellow Rd,Wellesly Hills, Mass, was in the tennis retailbusiness for 6 yrs but writes that she gave thatup to search for a business without inventory!She also is a trustee of Babson College, whereshe received her MBA in '76. Husband Sam ischairman of Fidelity Ventures Assoc andpresident of Fidelity Management ResearchCo. Betsy reports that daughter Beth, 17, is afreshman at Princeton; Andrew, 15, and Sar-ah, 12, attend Milton Academy.

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WOMEN: Roberta Singer Gang, 3235 EOquendo Rd, Las Vegas, Nev 89120

Get ready for our 20th Reunion! How timeflies. Before we know, it will be here. Markyour calendars now for June 11 14th. I at-

SIXTY-SECONDS: Jan McClayton Crites,2779 SW Dellwood Dr, Lake Oswego, Ore97034

The Jan issue of Soccer Corner magazinepublished Carolyn Johns Mullins's article,"Soccer Advice: Effective Fund Raising."Her "Midwestern Youth Soccer Gets a LatinBeat" will appear this month. Carolyn, whosays her 5-person family is "into soccer withall 10 feet," is presently finishing work on abook on organizing youth soccer: Coaches;Cleats and Corner Kids. When not playingsoccer, the Mullins family resides at 2(X)6 Sus-

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sex Dr, Bloomington, Ind.Peter C Johnson is now serving as a group

vice president with O'Brien & Gere Engineersin Phila, Pa. He also supervises offices in StLouis and Dover. He and Diane have 2 chil-dren—Jennifer, 12, and Peter Scott, 9. Theyreturned to campus for the Rutgers gamefrom 1512 N Beecham Dr, Ambler, Pa.

From Mary Davis Deignan comes newsthat Paul was elected regional director of theAmerican Society of Hospital Food ServiceAdministrators. He's also the president of theMinn chaper of the Cornell Society of Hotel-men this yr. They are both active with theSecondary Schools Committee in the twincities. Home is 8705 Isle Ct, Cottage Grove,Minn. Mary enjoyed a visit with her formerroommate Ellie Bacigalupi Russell in SanFrancisco, Cal, last summer. The Deignansalso exchanged visits with Joel Heine and hisfamily in Palatine, 111. Joel would like to hearfrom his freshman yr track teammates.

Bryon McCalmon and family (Cathy Shull'64, Meg, 13, and Evan, 11) enjoyed a"great" camping trip last summer, fromBoulder, Colo (126 Timber Lane) throughnorthern Cal, British Columbia, Alberta,down through Mont, and Wyo. "Cathy and Iplay tennis regularly with Liz and Jon Hine-bauch, but they are getting 'too easy' for us. Iwill be spending a few days with Mike Dues-ing and wife Joan in their new home in Connwhile back East on a recruiting trip to NewEngland schools for the U of Colo."

New address for Carl B Werner is 1109Sherbrooke Dr, W Chester, Pa, where theymoved when Carl joined the trust departmentof Del Trust Co in Wilmington. Carolyn Gor-thy Schrock is finishing her master's in theorgan department at the Eastman School inRochester, where she has been studying underDavid Craighead. She is an organist at ThirdPresbyterian Church. The Schrock family—Bob, MD '64, 2 teenage children, and 2 kit-tens—lives at 8 Stonegate Lane, Pittsford.

CF Robertson returned from Germany toour old stomping grounds, Birmingham,Mich (560 N Glengarry Rd). He noted that"moving overseas is becoming a way of life,"but expects to remain in Mich for the nextseveral yrs.

To close with the entire message from JoanHarrison Friedman, 252 W Trail, Stamford,Conn: "Γd love to hear some news—ourclass seems to have little to say!"

64PEOPLE: Bev Johns Lamont, 720 ChestnutSt, Deerfield, 111 60015

Willaim "Mac" MacMillan, 2421 SmileyWay, Jackson, Mich, wrote that he is a utilityengineer, working mainly at buying and sell-ing power among utilities, and his hobby isstagecraft. Mac and Gudrun (Rule) are bothvery active in their local Christian communi-ty. Their most recent trips (with 2 children?)include a visit to Gudrun's grandmother inSweden (summer of '78), and a tour of Colo(summer of '79).

Down in Wichita, Kans, Robert Ross (1301Parkwood) received his PhD in business ad-ministration in '79, and is currently teachingat Wichita State, and doing marketing con-sulting. Al Jerome, formerly station managerof Chicago's NBC affiliate, WMAQ, hasmove to NYC to take a higher-up positionwith parent NBC. No word of his new ad-dress yet. He visited NYC last June for a reu-nion of former roommates, organized byButch Thomas. Al said Mickey Pollock, CarlRavin, Paul Goldstein also planned to attend.

Other new moves: Barbara (Brase) andKarl Klankowski and their 2 girls moved

about a yr ago to 2829 Limestone Blvd,Charleston, SC. Phil and Audi Fox and their3 girls are now at 644 Dussell Dr, Maumee,Ohio. Phil joined a firm called The Ander-sons, populated by a bunch of Cornellians:Tom Copanas MBA '71, Tom Bartlett '72,and Duncan Russell '71. The Fox familyspent the summers of '78 and '79 on thebeach at the resort town of S Haven, Mich.

Received a delightfully funny note fromSusi Schifter Labarthe (106 Peabody Dr, Ox-ford, Ohio), assistant professor of nursing atMiami U and active member of League ofWomen Voters. She and Bob '63, administra-tive manager of food service at Miami U,keep alert because their 2 boys are "con-tinually engaged in trying to outsmart theirparents." (Sound familiar?) Susi reports thatfamily activities include reading and trying tofigure out (1) where all the overdue booksare, and (2) when the library's open.

Adding to the Nov column's news aboutclassmates in Hawaii, Ken Kupchak (704Ululani St, Kailua) writes that in addition tohis law practice (corporate, construction, andreal estate), he is a member of Hawaii CoastalZone Management Commission and is activeon the Secondary Schools Committee. Kenand Patty (Geer) '67 enjoy volleyball and,with their 2 sons, hiking. Ken is also outingsdirector for the local Sierra Club.

Jack Foote (469 Ena Rd, #3406, Honolulu)manages the Atani Kaimana Beach Hotel onWaikiki and went to the PATA conference inManila last June. Last spring, Jack workedwith Tom Cullen, Dean Ho, "Buck" Laird,Hans Weishaupt, Chuck Feeney '56, PeterFithian '51, Bob Rinker '52, and MalcolmTom '69 as general chairman for an endea-vour to bring 35 tourism executives of thePeople's Republic of China to Hawaii andIthaca for a 7-wk workshop sponsored by theHotel School. Hans also sent news abouthimself, Renda, MS '61, and their 2 children.He is the general manager of Kahala Hilton,on the board of directors of Hawaii HotelAssn, and is chapter vice president of CornellSociety of Hotelmen; she is a docent atBishop Museum. Hans enjoyed last yr's vaca-tion back home in Switzerland.

Back on the East Coast, a little over a yrago Barbara Stiefler Schlein began a newcompany called Delicious Designs, whichcreates sculptured personalized cakes.Business must have been good; she spent overa week at a tennis ranch in Scottsdale, Ariz,in Mar. Barbara, husband Jeffrey, and their2 children still live at 23 Sleepy Hollow Rd,Port Chester. Upstate, William Tomlinson isvice president in charge of property manage-ment at CMS Inc, in Webster. He andChristina (Rasch) '69, a teacher at TrinityMontessori School in Pittsford, live at 26Rockhurst Dr, Penfield. And over in Fayet-teville, Sherry Northrup Tyler teaches art andsings in her church choir. From 401 MapleDr, Sherry, David and their 2 children gocross-country skiing, hiking and swimming.

In the Big Apple, Richard Berman (230 E73rd St) is vice president and general managerof Warner Amex Cable Communications(cable TV). Nearby are Stephen "Butch" andEllen Fluhr Thomas '65, at 2 East End Ave.And west of the Delaware River, Herman andMaddie Bierman Axelrod and their 2 sons liveat 9 North view Dr, North Hills, Pa.

From Brookline, Mass, comes news from 2neighbors. Nina Tolkoff Rubin, a nephrolo-gist, is juggling teaching at Harvard MedSchool, doing clinical research, being medicaldirector of hemodialysis and transplant unitat Mass General Hospital, and keeping herfamily healthy and happy ("being liberated isexhausting!"). Nina, husband Robert (also aphysician), and their daughter can be reached

at 78 Clinton Rd. Over at 61 Columbia St,David Marion, director of Lawrence AreaPsychiatric Inpatient Unit, was appointed tothe faculty of Boston Institute forPsychotherapies last yr. In fall '79, he andwife Tovah purchased a summer house on thewater in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and discoveredthat Stanford and Phyllis Rivkin Goldman(145 Winding La, Avon, Conn) have a houseone over from theirs. (Small world!)

65COMBINED: Joan H Pickard, 22 StoneridgeCt, Baltimore, Md 21239

A "thank you" to those who've paid theirclass dues, and a "please do it now" to thosewho need to mail their checks to Kathie GeerBell (Mrs J T Robb II).

Barbara Wallston Strudler, 8200 Wiscon-sin Ave, Apt 206, Bethesda, Md, sends wordshe is on sabbatical from Vanderbilt U inNashville, Tenn. She's spending the yr in Mdworking as a visiting associate professor atthe department of psychology, U of Md, andthe department of medical psychology, Uni-formed Services U of the Health Sciences.Congratulations on your appointment asboard member on the Council on HumanSexuality in Nashville.

Wedding bells for Patricia Peters and JohnCollin. Patricia is a vice president of MorganGuaranty Trust Co and her husband is a fi-nancial consultant. Let us know your ad-dress, Pat! Mary Hays, lawyer and directorof operations for the Theatre DevelopmentFund Inc has been appointed by NY Gover-nor Carey as executive director of the StateCouncil on the Arts.

On the move at Standard Oil is Owen Wav-rinek, 105S256 Meadow Lane, Naperville, 111.Owen is now managing editor of marketingpublications for the company. Tom Mc-Mahon was back at Cornell this past fallreading from his published works in fiction,McKay's Bees and Principles of AmericanNuclear Chemistry: A Novel. Tom soundslike modern Renaissance man, with a BS inaeronautical engineering combined withstudy in medicine, he's a professor of appliedmechanics and biology at Harvard. He hasdesigned a new indoor track for Harvard, re-portedly the fastest in the world.

We in the East await the arrival of Coorsbeer. Jeff Coors as senior vice president ofthe brewery put together a strategic growthplan that calls for invasion of the Easternmarket. Jeff headed development of CoorsLight. Good luck in your march eastward.

Happy Valentine's Day. Deadline for theMay issue is Mar 11. News of spring activitiesmust reach me by Mar 1. What's doing inyour area? Drop a quick line today.

66WOMEN: Susan Rockford Bittker, 424 PeaPond Rd, Katonah, NY 10536

Tom and Jeanne Brown Sander and daugh-ters Amy 5, and Kristin, 2ιΛ, moved to Stutt-gart, Germany, in July '80. Tom, a US Armymajor, completed the course at Commandand General Staff College, Ft Leavenworth,in June '80. Jeanne edited the class newsletterand Tom was social chairman. The Sanderscan be reached at Box 366, HQ-USEUCOM,APO NY. Carol Shuler Abrams, Tom andDavid, 13, Gretchen, 9, Glenn, 2, are at 6760Wright Rd, NE, Atlanta, Ga.

Don '64 and Sandy Chervinsky Levenson,Stacy, 10, and Marc, 6!/2, live at 1758 Tea-rose La, Cherry Hill, NJ. Sandy sells real es-tate and Don is a lawyer. They are active in

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local politics. Lawrence and Susan GrosserNelson, Lisa, 7, and Steven, 3, live at 4312Ben Gunn Rd, Virginia Beach, Va, whereLawrence is executive officer, US Navy SealTeam. Marian Wood Meyer and husbandSidney are living in a 19th century brown-stone in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn:169 Bergen St. Marian is an administrator ata state-funded alcoholism rehabilitationcenter in Brooklyn.

Dave Miller sends news from Ohio U,where he is an assistant Southeast Asian li-brarian for the Southeast Asia Collection,and is now the Latin American bibliogapheras well. Daughter Jennifer is in 1st grade.Dave sees Janet O'Connor, Lian The-Mulli-ner (former employe in Olin Library), andRoger McCauley '67. Dave is looking for-ward to attending Reunion in June.

Rutgers U reports that Katherine Newman,58 Martins La, Berkeley Heights, NJ, re-ceived her EdM, May 25, 1980. Peggy Ota,associate professor of electrical engineeringat Lehigh, has been promoted to theprovost's staff as affirmative action andequal opportunity advisor to the provost.Among other duties, she will monitor proce-dures followed in recruitment, reappointmentand promotion of faculty.

Think Reunion. Please write and let meknow if you are planning to attend. You justmight encourage others.

67RETURNS: Richard B Hoffman, 2925 28thSt NW, Wash, DC 20008

Feb is an appropriately cold time to chroni-cle '67 doings in the much-maligned publicsector, so here's a rundown on recent reportsof classmates involved in some way or otherwith a public outfit of some kind. If the '80sprove to be as private-sector-oriented as somepredict, this column may be an artifact worthpreserving.

Ruth Dritch Salinger, 5801 Ridgefield Rd,Bethesda, Md, writes, " I ' m going on 10 yrswith the US Office of Personnel Managementin Wash, DC (formerly the Civil ServiceCommission), and am now doing research onhow to improve productivity in the federalgovernment (yes, I know it's a big job). Myhusband Pete '66, BPA '68 works for theAgency for International Development. Wehave plenty of room for anyone stopping inthe area."

"My husband Samuel and I both work forthe new Federal Department of Health andHuman Services (used to be HEW)," reportsClaudia Sack Adams, 1500 Red Oak Dr, Sil-ver Spring, Md. "He's in public health and Iwork in civil rights." Their 1st child Christyis almost 1 Vi. Larry Snowhite, 2501 Red Clo-ver Ct, Reston, Va, has been assistant direc-tor for congressional relations in the US En-vironmental Protection Agency, Wash, DC,and was "totally preoccupied with enactmentof 'Superfund' legislation to clean up aban-doned waste dump sites" pending as the Con-gress's closing and this column's deadlineneared. Son Andrew is 5 and Robert, 4.

Robert L Thompson, 2849 HendersonAve, W Lafayette, Ind, is back at the Purdueag economics department after serving as avisiting professor in the International Eco-nomics Division of ESCS/USDA in Wash.Lowell F Martin, 7 Owens Ct, Rockville, Md,is associate director of the national marinepollution program office of the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration,and made dean's list in completing his 2nd (of4) yr at Georgetown U law school at night.

Matthew Kalman, 5804 Bradley Blvd,Bethesda, Md, is a radiologist at the National

Institutes of Health in Bethesda, where TobyTucker Hecht, 14221 Northwyn Dr, SilverSpring, Md, conducts research in viral immu-nology. Sandy Berger, 4228 45th St, NW,Wash, DC, recently resigned as deputy direc-tor of the policy planning staff, US State De-partment to return to law practice with Ho-gan & Hartson, DC.

Moving up to NY, Jack M Schwartz, 3005Shore Rd, Bellmore, is manager, operationsystems department, at the Federal ReserveBank of NY. He was previously chief of theaccounting and payment systems division.Bruce M Havsy, 3535 Kings College PI,Bronx, is "still working for Social SecurityAdministration. Would like to meet a fellowCornellian or other who would offer a job inthe $25,000-30,000 range in NYC area." Headds that daughter Jane, 5, is in a programfor the exceptionally gifted.

Two reports from men in uniform: JamesD Johnston, 4607 Sreamboat Cir, RapidCity, SD, is deputy staff judge advocate ofEllsworth Air Force Base, and teaches in thegraduate degree program concerning criminaljustice at the U of SD: " I t fills my nights."He's now moving to Vandenburg Air ForceBase in Cal, where he'll be staff judge advo-cate and a major. Lieutenant commander Da-vid P Sargent Jr, 657 Lynn Shores Dr, Virgin-ia Beach, Va, is executive officer on the USSSpruance (DD-963).

R Stevan Jonas, 126 Stratford St, Syra-cuse, is resource teacher at Blodgett MiddleSchool there, and was inducted into Phi DeltaKappa, educational honorary fraternity andis 2nd vice president of the Syracuse TeachersAssn. Julia Blank Bentley, Stark Rd RD #2,Newfield, is senior caseworker with theTompkins County Department of Social Ser-vices in Ithaca. John A Gaines IV resigned hispost as director of the Tompkins CountyYouth Bureau to become executive directorof Goodhope Youth Home Inc, " a non-se-cure detention program serving four countiesin central NY." He lives at 866 Cobb St, WGroton.

And then there's John Bleiweis, 10002Minburn St, Great Falls, Va, who's managerof the control electronics department, MCEDivision, of the Communications SatelliteCorp, Rockville, Md, a half public-half pri-vate concern. Nancy Jean Chesser, 2516 Oak-enshield Dr, Rockville, Md, is principal scien-tist at B-K Dynamics, "doing technical con-sulting for the Navy."

68PEOPLE: Corinne Dopslaff Smith, 8 FlynnTerr, W Orange, NJ 07052

Elizabeth Reed Mansfield, an assistantprofessor of English at Middlebury College,has completed an edition of DH Lawrence'sThe Trespasser, published by Cambridge UPress. In addition to co-editing Vol IV of theLawrence letters for the same house, Liz isadministrative assistant at the Bread LoafWriters' Conference. She and her husbandDavid '67 (who still plays a lot of polo) aregodparents to Michael, the son of Fred Mos-ser '67. The Mansfields live at Sperry Rd,RD#2, Middlebury, Vt.

As the owner of one, Susan Bard Mac-Carthy has become a true believer in passivesolar homes. Susan, a junior high school ecteacher in Steamboat Springs, can be reachedthrough Box 471, Oak Creek, Colo. H Rus-sell Martin (Box 428, Gate City, Va), an Ex-tension agent, was presented a 10-yr serviceaward at a recognition banquet at VPI andSU in Blacksburg, Va. Helen Nash May (28Country Ridge Circle, Port Chester) writesthat in between caring for her husband

Thomas and their daughters Kimberly, 7, andAmanda, 5, she runs a small interior designbusiness. Helen also teaches a course in thatsubject.

Richard N McCarthy (101 E 75th St, NYC)is a vice president with Manufacturers Han-over Trust Co. Before joining the bank in'76, Richard earned his MBA at the U of Chi-cago and worked for the FBI for 6 yrs. Cath-erine Saul McNeill is happy to be back East,where she cares for her husband Blair andtheir 3 sons (ages 6, 8, and 11) at 517 Arbor-dale Rd, Wayne, Pa. Cathy stays involved assecretary of the League of Women Voters,and participated in a state tax study.

Kathleen M Meagher lives with her hus-band Harvey Sohnen at 6452 B Benvenue,Oakland, Cal. She received a law degree fromBerkeley in '76, and taught legal research andwriting there for a yr before becoming coun-sel to Ronald Ruiz, a member of the Cal Agr-icultural Labor Relations Board. BernardoMendez offers his assistance to any Cor-nellians traveling to Costa Rica. He/can bereached through Box 1419, San Jose.

Kathleen Latham Meyer is proud of heroccupation as homemaker for her husbandJames and their children J Brendan, 11 andEmily, 7. Kathy is completing a 3-yr term onthe local board of education and reports thatit was a most worthwhile, though at times try-ing, experience. The Meyers live at 1912 Sto-ny Brook Circle, Scotch Plains, NJ. MichaelR Mueller is assistant to the president andchief of staff of Howard Research & De-velopment Corp. His firm is the developer ofthe city of Columbia, Md, where Michaellives at 10075-6 Windstream Dr.

Many people gravitate to New Orleans, La,during Mardi Gras; Susan Clark Norwoodand her husband Colvin did the opposite 2 yrsback: they escaped from 6031 Perrier St tothe peace and quiet of Grand Cayman Isl. Su-san, whose son Benjamin is now 6, is directorof guidance at an independent school in NewOrleans. She stays in touch with James Mon-tanari, our upcoming-Reunion chairman.Jim (410 3rd St SE, Wash, DC) is executiveassistant to the Comptroller of the Currency.

Back in the states now at 206 S Jackson St,Arlington, Va. Ronald J Pisciotta spent sometime in Kobe, Japan, where he taught Eng-lish. Ron also taught for 2 yrs on St Kitts inthe West Indies. Gerald K Power is a dairyfarmer (RD #2, Cortland). He has 4 children:Jennifer, 8, Michael, 6, Leslie, 4, and Di-anna, 20 months. This past Sept's column er-roneously labeled Wesley N Pollock '68 (807Hopkins Rd, Haddonfield, NJ) as a '69er.While he may have graduated with our juniorbrethren, Wes is a news-sendin', dues-payin'member of the Class of '68. He runs his ownKosher catering firm in the S Jersey/Phίlaarea under the name of "Syl Snyder andC o . " John R Rezelman (703 N McLean St,Bloomington, 111) teaches economics at 111State U. His wife Betsy (Cogge) '69 spent the1978-79 academic yr in England doing re-search for her PhD in art history.

Donald L Robinson reports a change of ad-dress: 460 Glen Haven Rd, RD #1, Homer.David and Candi Rosenberg Rosen live at 115Winding Brook Rd, New Rochelle. David isexecutive director of Jamaica Hospital, whileCandi is "car pool ace" for Caryn, 8, andDanielle, 5. Stanley Rosenfeld (11 GreentreeDr, Scarsdale) has a private practice in radio-logy in Manhattan. Todd A Robinson of 419The North Chace, Atlanta, Ga, is generalmanager/operations of the housing division,Boise Cascade. At last report, Sachem, the"Cornell dog" of David C and Karla MorkelRoth, was alive and well and sharing 17602Van Aken Blvd, Shaker Heights, Ohio, withChris, 8, Jason, 5, and Freddy, 3. Hope he is

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still doing fine. Dave is an attorney with thefirm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. TheRoths write that Carolyn Kingsolver Purvis(4507 Weymouth Rd, Medina, Ohio) and herhusband Bob have a 2-yr-old daughter, Kelly.

69MEN and WOMEN: Deborah HuffmanSchenk, 219 Kane St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

About this time of yr you will be receivingnotices for class dues and for the CornellFund. Paying your class dues entitles you toreceive the Alumni News and supports ourclass activities. When you send in your dues,please include news. Every yr I note (but peo-ple seem to forget) that there is a long leadtime for news. It is several months before thesecretary sends me the news. There are 6 wksbetween the time I mail the column and thetime it appears. And finally there is a lot ofnews. So for some of you there is as much asa yr's lead time. We do the best we can—weare all volunteers, so please be patient. Ourclass did well in the 1980 annual Fund giving.Jack Smyth writes to point out that our classwas #1 in the number of donors for non-Reunion classes—612. That's certainly an ac-complishment we can be proud. Can we re-peat in '81?

I recently got a letter from John Laut thatreflects an oft-heard complaint: " I must ad-mit Γm sick and tired of hearing about all the'success' stories of our 'rich' doctor/lawyerclassmates. (That's probably because I'm en-vious.) How about hearing from just medi-ocre classmates who have sunk into oblivion,nevertheless proud to be Cornellians?" Well,John, I don't know any mediocre '69ers, butI do know lots of non-doctors, etc, who aredoing well, are happy, just surviving, andtheir stories are just as interesting (if onlythey would mail them in). As example No. 1,I offer John Laut. He's a furloughed airlinepilot who fears having to go back to flying adesk. John notes that fortunately he has anengineering background which he hopes willhelp out. He finishes, "If you know anyonewho needs a pilot (charter or otherwise), giveme a buzz—no dope runs please." Buzz himat F23 Easthampton, Mt Holly, NJ.

Doug and Nancy Weiss Rich are theparents of a daughter, Jennifer Linsay, bornin Dec '79. Doug is now a partner in the lawfirm of Gordon, Hurwitz, and Nancy is withthe legal department of Harper & Row. Theyare living in Scarsdale. Also new parents areFlorence and Harvey Leibin. Bradford Abra-hams arrived last June. Harvey is an architectwith Russell, Gibson, vonDohlen in Farming-ton, Conn. They live in Avon, Conn. GailMerel is now an attorney with Cleary, Gott-lieb in NYC, after being an assistant profes-sor in the poly sci department at Case West-ern Reserve. She got her JD at Harvard in'77. She also is the author of an article on the1st amendment in the summer of '78 issue ofthe U Chicago Law Review.

John T Barbie was recently promoted towestern regional sales manager for the mold-ing and extrusion compounds group ofCY/RO Industries. He and his wife Dorisand their 2 children are now in Chicago, 111,James G Miller Jr is the father of RyanThomas, born in Mar. Barbara Kamler Sant-myers is living in Australia, where she is a lec-turer at Riviera College of Advanced Educa-tion. Last spring she was on sabbatical study-ing writing process and research at the U ofNH. She has a son Shawn, 4. Also a new par-ent is Peter Fried. He and wife Wendy (Zis-fein) '71, and children David and Lisa, re-cently welcomed Stephen Ernest. ThomasSmith and Jean (Myers) '70 have a daughter

Jennifer, born in Oct '79. They are living inBaltimore, Md.

Charles Antinori is practicing cardiovascu-lar surgery at Cooper Med Center in CamdenNJ, which is affiliated with Rutgers. DeborahBrown Tifft is head teacher of CazenoviaCollege's Nursery School. Debbie got herMA from Wheelock College, and then taughtschool in Shaker Hgts, Ohio, Rochester, andSkaneateles. She also has published severalpapers on early childhood education meth-ods. Keith Fairbank recently moved to SiouxCity, where he is marketing services managerfor Iowa Beef Processors. He and his wifeJean (Myers) '71 have a daughter, Catherine,4. Jim Wormer was promoted to regionalsales rep in DC, for Koret of Cal, sportswearmanufacturers. He recently moved to a newtownhouse in Bethesda, Md.

70MEN and WOMEN: Connie Ferris Meyer, 16James Thomas Rd, Malvern, Pa 19355

Jeff Clemente writes from Tokyo, Japan,where he has lived with his wife Judy sinceSept '79. On Oct 4, 1979, Adrian Scott andChristopher Jun, their twin boys, were born.Jeff says they are healthy and growing rapid-ly, and take all of their parents' time! After 3yrs of academic wandering and 3 Vi yrs in theArmy, Jeff is an attorney and works for thelaw firm of Anderson, Mori and Rabinowitz(Central PO Box 1195, Tokyo, 100-91Japan), doing international commercialwork. Jeff encourages anyone who expects tobe in Japan in the next few yrs to get in touchwith him. His US address is c/o 364 Ridge-wood Ave, Glen Ridge, NJ.

On June 21, 1980, Mary Anne Johnstonmarried Thomas F Murphy Jr (Holy CrossCollege '70, Boston College Law School '76)at the US Coast Guard Academy in New Lon-don, Conn. Sharyn LaHaise '69 and EileenBrogan '71 were in the wedding party. Othersin attendance included Bart and Mary EllenGaidusek Mitchell, Jean Moore, BarbaraAlexander '71, and Sharon Craig '72. MaryAnne is general manager of real estate opera-tions with Prudential Insurance Co in Bos-ton, Mass, and she is retaining her maidenname for professional purposes. Tom is anattorney for the Coast Guard in Boston. Theylive at 114 Evans Rd, #5, Brookline, Mass,and Mary Anne reports that they have reno-vated an historic house in Mystic, Conn,where they hope to do a lot of sailing.

As of July 1, 1980, Kenneth Fause joinedFilmways Audio Group as president of Film-ways Audio Services, one of 4 companies inthe audio group. Ken had been owner andprincipal consultant of Fause and Associates,consultants in performance and presentationtechnology. Ken, who will be based in the SanFernando Valley, reports that his first projectwith FAS was to design and superviseconstruction of the broadcast pool audiosystem furnished to TV for both the Republi-can and Democratic national conventions.

In July 1980, Jo Ann Ferdinand wasappointed deputy commissioner of trials ofthe NYC Department of Sanitation. She willbe the hearing officer who presides over allemploye disciplinary proceedings. Jo Ann isthe 1st woman to hold such rank in the de-partment's history! This yr, she can antici-pate more than 1200 disciplinary cases, rang-ing from loafing on the job to fraudulentabuse of sick leave. Jjo Ann has been with theDepartment of Sanitation since Aug '78. Shehas a JD degree from the NYU Law School,has served as senior trial attorney with thecriminal defense division of the Legal Aid So-ciety and was hearing officer with the Nation-

al Labor Relations Board. She is married toPeter Sherman, a NY attorney, and lives at 66Orange St, Brooklyn.

Paul E Miller lives with his wife Becky andtheir son Kenneth, 9, at 2804 University Blvd,Houston, Texas. In June, he was with Cini-Grisson Associates, a food service and hospi-tality consultant company. As of late Oct '80,Paul reported he had recently established thefood service, design and management con-sulting firm of Paul E Miller Associates!Pauline Layton lives in Ithaca and was atReunion. NYers Pearl and Arvin Chin wereat Reunion with their children Julie, 3!/2, andDerrek, 2, and Arvin's dog Spats, 13 (it wasSpat's 1st trip back since graduation!). Pearldoes weaving and Arvin is an anethesiologistand is going to law school. Art '68 andNatalie Pulver Tenner and son Jeffery, Wi,live at 64 Dean Rd, Mendham, NJ. They havemoved several times, and were last in BatonRouge, La. Art works for Exxon, andNatalie, who had been a computer program-mer for a couple of yrs, enjoys tennis.

This month, there is some new news fromSid Levinson. He and his wife Lauren lovedReunion and had good times with Bob andRozi Chananau Beck, Larry and Bernice Els-wit, Roger and Linda Smith, Bob and JillJaspen, Michael and Phyllis Plaine Steinberg'72, Marc and Debbie Wagner Fisher, Artand Rita Lustgarten, and Larry '69 and SusieNeiberg Terkel. They're showing off theirCornell sweatshirts (so folks will know thatthe Big Red is not NC State), and they singour Alma Mater whenever UNC strikes upthe band to sing theirs.

I received a long letter from Scott Brushlast summer. His more recent news is his mar-riage to Anne Taylor on Aug 30, 1980, inPreston, England. They now live at Apt B-25,7701 N Kendall Dr, Miami, Fla. Scott worksfor Harris, Kerr, Forster and Co, a consult-ing firm. His last 10 yrs have been busy withjobs and travel. From '70-72 he worked forRamada Inns Inc as a traveling general mana-ger and front office specialist specializing inopening new properties. He opened units in14 cities in Ariz, Okla, La, Texas, NC, Ga,Ala, and Md! In the years "72-74 he was a civ-ilian with the US Navy as a personalized ser-vices specialist in the Navy Resale System Of-fice, working mostly with "Navy Lodges."Next he went to Durham U, Durham,England, from '74-76 to get an MS inmanagement studies. Next he was back toRamada Inns from '76-78, spending a yr inColo Springs and one at the San FranciscoAirport unit. Scott plans to stay in Miami forawhile! Happy 1981!

71ALL: Elisabeth Kaplan Boas, 233 E 69th St,NYC 10021; Lauren Procton Meyer, 41 W96th St, NYC 10025; Elliot Mandel, 444 E81st St, NYC 10028

Class officers continue to steal 1st para-graph: A highlight of the Oct wedding inManhattan of Lauren Procton to Peter EMeyer '66 was singing of the Alma Mater bybest man Michael Meyer '62, Roberta BauerMeyer '66, Bruce Wagner '65, Leroy Doris'66, Al Jablowski '66, Anita Harris '70,Doree Barton, Daniel Bernstein, MarthaCoultrap, and Rick Boas, MD '75. (Rickjoined the fete immediately after taking wifeElizabeth (Kaplan), and daughter KatherineFox (Class of 2001) home from Cornell's Ly-ing-in Hospital!)

As of Apr 1, Arthur Spitzer has been legaldirector of the American Civil LibertiesUnion of the National Capital area in Wash,DC. Did you see him on the Donahue show

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with Archibald Cox? John Henrehan spentthe last 3 yrs being a reporter-anchorman fora Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station, and is nowin Wash, DC, as a network radio anchor forMutual Broadcasting. Michael Emen hasbeen promoted to assistant vice president andspecial counsel with the compliance divisionof the American Stock Exchange Inc. Mikeand Gayle, project director of NYC Head-start, live on Staten Isl.

Phillis Knebel Rogoff is a designer in NY.She's married to Jay '69, DVM '73, who hashis own veterinary practice in RockawayPark. Jim Russell is an attorney with Gibson,Dunn, and Crutcher in Los Angeles, Cal. Hehas a son Seth; his wife Cathy is a freelancewriter. He enjoys his skiing and the manybusiness trips to Hawaii. David Schiff is asenior associate with Raymond, Parish, Riceand Weiner, of Tarrytown, a planning andcommunity development consultant. He'smarried to Alice (Garr) '73, an administratorat Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx.

Heinz Schύltz received his MBA at U ofColo. He's a hotelier in Marietta, Ga, wherehe lives with his wife Sybille, Samantha, 8,and Patrick, 4. Heinz is active in the AtlantaLions Club, and is vice president of the At-lanta Cornell Society of Hotelmen.

Matt Silverman married Wendy Ellen Sa-fran on July 27 in Port Chester. After thehoneymoon, Matt started a new job at Peat,Mar wick, Mitchell & Co in the consulting de-partment, working in the commercial servicesand health care areas. Wendy is a legal assis-tant at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloyEsqs. In attendance at the wedding wereBruce Wagner '64, Ira Salzman, Sam Kay-man, Carol Safran '82, as well as Matt'slongtime roommate, class correspondent El-liot Mandel.

Ignatios Hadjiloukas is export manager forAir Products and Chemicals in Bethlehem,Pa, working oh his MBA. He is married toSusan, a musician in a working band. Theyhave bought an 1890 Victorian house andrun, part-time, a farm products company.For work, Ignatios visited every country in SAmerica in July '79. Fred Harrison, that bonvivant who is preparing to make our 10th Re-union a true hit, is a consultant in the chemi-cal and metallurgical engineering section ofArthur D Little Inc; a captain in the RI AirNational Guard; and married to Susan Trues-dell, PhD, a microbiologist for Pfizer Inc.

Thomas Flether Cochran is an accountexecutive on the Dawn dishwashing liquid ac-count at Benton and Bowles advertising agen-cy, as is Patricia, his wife. Susan L Stauffer isa corporate planning analyst for the Toro Coin Minneapolis, Minn, putting to use herMBA from the Wharton School.

Sharon Rae Schatz is a nutrition specialistfor renal and diabetic patients at Cedars-Si-nai Med Center in Los Angeles, Cal, puttingto good use a recent MS in health science edu-cation from SUNY, Buffalo. She's been inLA since Dec '79, and would like to hearfrom others in the area. Also on the WestCoast is Dave Himmelblau, director of ad-vanced structural materials for LockheedMissiles and Space Co. Dave lives in MenloPark, Cal. Donald Reinertsen is a manage-ment consultant with the LA office of Mc-Kinsey & Co. He's running in 10-kilometerraces, enjoying his sailing, and is a lieutenantcommander in the Navy Reserve. Brick E Mc-Intosh, an attorney in San Jose, Cal, is intosailing and other sports. He is active in theCC of N Cal.

Alan J Kopolow is a commercial loan offi-cer of Crocker National Bank in Culver City,Cal. After completing a master's in finance atSUNY, Binghamton, he married Lois(SUNY, Binghamton '76), a computer pro-

graming manager of the Vivitar Corp. Kath-leen Sefcik Tice works as a nurse consultantwith the developmentally disabled at the Lan-terman Regional Center in LA. Since herCornell days, she received a master's in nurs-ing from UCLA.

James Michaels lives in Pleasant Valley.Attached to his questionnaire was a stickerreading, "Farmers Feed you 3 Times a Day."We guess that expresses his occupation andsentiments fully!

72PEOPLE: Linda Johanson Beal, 2 ClarksGap Ct, Medford, NJ 08055

Stephanie Stern is "sculpting" in NYCwhere she resides in a loft near the HollandTunnel. She also works in the field of "laser-type" optics and keeps in touch with PamErickson Light '70, Julia Kosow, and IrisPortney. David Reed is now on the attendingstaff for emergency medicine at AlleghenyGeneral Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. SheilaMoy Saul lives in Marietta, Ga, at 2011Trophy Dr, with husband George, an Armycaptain.

Thomas Giordano and wife Gail Fiteni '73have purchased a home in Scarsdale, NY.Thomas is currently a business analyst in cor-porate planning for Stauffer Chemicals. Gailcontinues with Servomation (food service) atSUNY, Purchase. Tom Bartlett has becomemarketing manager for the Andersons Cobdivision. The Andersons, a diversified agri-business, is based in Maumee, Ohio, whereTom and his wife reside. David Herskovitshas been promoted to manager at ToucheRoss and Co, Atlanta. David is chairman ofthe Secondary Schools Committee in the At-lanta area.

Robert Lyon has joined Lummus' HeatTransfer division as manager of marketing.Sana Shtasel has been appointed civil libertiescoordinator with the US Dept of Justice.Larry Baum, president of the ComputingCenter, operates his business out of his homein Ithaca catering to small firms in need ofprogramming and word processing. Ed Mari-naro is "actively" pursuing an "acting" ca-reer in Los Angeles, where he has appearedon episodes of Eischied, a since-cancelleddetective series, Laverne and Shirley, wherehe played an Italian cousin, and an NBC pi-lot, "Three Eyes," that didn't sell as a series.Look for him in '81 as a regular on Laverneand Shirley, where he will play Sonny St Jac-ques, a stunt man by trade and the girls' next-store neighbor when they move fromMilwaukee to Cal. Gary Hamed recentlypresented a paper to the national meeting ofthe Rubber division of the American Chemi-cal Society. Dr Hamed is with the U of Ak-ron, Dept of Polymer Science. LawrenceKenswil received his JD from Georgetown Uin May '80.

A reminder to those of you who have writ-ten of forthcoming marriages and births—it is the Alumni News's policy not to coverthese events until after the fact. So, pleasewrite again after the happening. Thanks!

74PEOPLE: Kristen Rupert, 37 Worcester St,Belmont, Mass 02178

Hope you all had a happy holiday season!By now you should have received at least oneletter from class president Mary Berens ask-ing that you renew your Alumni Newssubscription. Class dues are $20, and promptpayment insures continued receipt of themagazine and notices of regional '74 events.

Please send any and all news to Perry Jacobs,Mark Schwartz, or me (Kris).

Homecoming 1980 saw a fair turnout of'74 classmates. Seen in the crowds on thatvery soggy day were Danny O'Connell, whorecently moved from Baltimore, Md, toIthaca, where he's a psychiatric social workerat Willard State Hospital; and Bob Cheney,who has returned from Cal to his home stateof NH with his wife. He has just passed theBar exam and is going through job inter-views. Mary "Mi" O'Connell is assistant per-sonnel manager at the A&P manfacturingplant in Horseheads. It's been a big yr for herfamily: grandfather John W MacDonald '25,LLB '26, professor emeritus, was honored bythe Law School, which renamed the MootCourt Room for him; and grandfatherWalter O'Connell '11, university wrestlingcoach from 1908-48, was elected to theAthletic Hall of Fame.

From the international news bag, IgnacioOberto has relocated to Caracas, Venezuela.Cleveland Jones has recently moved toSalvador, Bahia, Brazil, after traveling therefrequently from NYC. He is in the talc min-ing business. David Black has moved fromSao Paulo, Brazil, to Honolulu, Hawaii,where his is working for Peat, Mar wick andMitchell in the management consulting area.Jack Cutler returned this summer to RI aftera 9-yr trip around the world. He writes thathe most enjoyed Nepal, where he saw MtEverest and climbed 18,600 ft to the top ofnearby Kula Pottar. He also enjoyed NewZealand; did a lot of hiking on the MilfordTrack and "miraculously had almost norain—amazing for a place that gets over 300inches a yr and often gets 6 inches in a day."

As might be expected in the current era,several classmates are working in the field ofenergy. Harriet Anagnostis writes from An-chorage, Alaska, that she's been there sinceFeb '76 and now works as a graphics designerfor an oilfield service company. "Energy isbig business up here, and I want to hear fromCornell people on Alaska's possible contribu-tions to US energy," she says. Ken Brownrecently began a new job with Science Ap-plications, an energy consulting firm locatedin Golden, Colo; he deals with solar energy,oil shale, etc.

Class engineers: Robert Haber, PhD '80was appointed assistant professor of civilengineering at U of Ill/Urbana-Champaign.Jackie Dolat is operations engineer for asmall firm in Los Angeles, Cal—she's sentout to the field to oversee the installation ofcontrol systems for chemical plants. ChrisStocke and wife Donna moved from StLouis, Mo, to Houston, Texas—he's still anengineer for Skidmore, Owens and Merrill.

Allen '73 and Lorrie Penfield MacNeill areliving in Ithaca, where he is a lecturer inbiology and she is a lecturer in chemistry.They have a 2-yr-old daughter Heather, andwelcome calls and visits from old friends.This fall Lorrie will start at Albany Med Col-lege. Another classmate in the medical field isAnn Shedd Meess, who graduated in Junefrom Johns Hopkins and began an intern-ship/residency in obstetrics and gynecologyat U of Pittsburgh. Mark is in an internalmedicine residency there, too. Bill Baker hasworked for the past yr in administration atMass General Hospital in Boston. He spent 2yrs at Oxford U, but home now is in Essex,Mass, 30 miles north of Boston. He andLouise welcome "wandering Cornellians."

Bill Stevenson and Molly Cannon weremarried in Sept '78 and live in Greensburg,Pa. Bill is with Duffy and Austin, where hespecializes in family law; he also plays a lot ofgolf and tennis. Molly graduated fromCarnegie-Mellon, is working on an MA in art

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history, is associate director of development,St Vincent College.

75FRIENDS: Joanne Leary, 316 Highland Rd,C-103, Ithaca, NY 14850

Thanks to you, there is a wealth of newsthis month. And insofar as we celebrate Val-entine's Day in Feb, let us begin with recentmarriages and births. Deborah Whipple De-gan and husband Mike '70 now have a son,James Robert, born in May '80. The Degansare living in Wilton, NH, and enjoying ittremendously. Hollis Torem married HenryRosenthal on Sept 13, 1980. She is productsales manager for FMC Corp in Phila, Pa,and is currently involved in promoting aproduct used as an ingredient in food. In Cal,Amy Sampson Lins and her husband Dougtell of the early arrival of their daughter AliceMarie, born in Aug. Ronald Huslander andhis wife Sue now have 3 children—Edward,Paul and Jeff. In addition to the animal clinicwhich he owns and operates, Ronald and Suehave opened a Christian bookstore and giftshop in Watkins Glen. Edward Barbieri andhis wife Diane are enjoying their babydaughter Kimberley, 1-yr-old at this writing.The family is now residing in WhitehouseStation, NJ. A baby girl, Catherine Anne,was born to Ed and Cindy Johnson Giambas-tiani last July. This makes them a family of 4,their son Peter being the elder child. Cindyreports they are still in Charleston, SC,enjoying the southern climate. Glenn Peter-son and Barbara Allen were married last Augwith a host of Cornell friends in attendance.Barbara is an actuary for Equitable LifeInsurance, and Glenn is Controller ofCitibank Securities Administration in NYC.And finally, Robert Finkelstein was marriedthis past Sept to Meryl Augenbuck, a '79graduate of Penn State.

The next time you pour a golden ooze ofsyrup over your morning waffle, think ofLynn Rosenbluth Saltz, who is now thepromotion manager for Log Cabin Syrups inConn. Lynn also reports she is married toRichard '73, MBA '74. Lieutenant StevenLozier is currently serving on a combat storesship as stock control officer. His plans in-clude a return to Cornell in Sept '82 to pursuea master's in hospital administration. RobinMichael writes that she received her PhD inclinical psychology at the U of Rochester in'79, and is now an assistant professor of psy-chiatry at the U of Texas Med School inHouston. Her husband Scott Koenig '73,PhD '79 is also there completing his final yrof medical school. Karen Lauterbach andhusband Mark Powers are in Hillsborough,NC, where Karen is a science writer at Re-search Triangle Institute. Mark is an emer-gency room physician in Burlington. Heplans to return to UNC-Chapel Hill in Julyfor a 2-yr fellowship in pulmonary medicine.

Andrew D Weinberg is finishing his 3rd yrof residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,Minn. He has been elected president of theFellows Assn, one of the largest resident or-ganizations in the US, and plans on lookingfor clinical positions in endocrinology backEast after he completes his residency. BruceVan Duzen has been working as an associateat the lawfirm of Hawkins, Delafield &Wood in NYC, and his wife Susan (Whiting)'75 is employed with Marine Midland, cor-porate banking division.

Physics is phun phor Harry Levinson, whorecently earned his PhD from the U of Pa. Heis now at the U of Cal at Berkeley, phulphill-ing his phondest wishes. Linda Pester Skirvinsummarized life since graduation: working

for the Defense Department in Brazil, shemet her husband Tim. They have purchased ahome in Burke, Va, where she is the Wash-ington field sales manager for Busch Gar-dens, Anheuser-Busch. Robert Friedman ofGladwyne, Pa, says he is starting with a lawfirm in Phil, having recently completed a ju-dicial clerkship with Hon SJ Roberts of thePa Supreme Court.

Daniel Stimson plans to attend Loyola Col-lege in Md for his MBA degree, while contin-uing his position as area manager for JohnDeere. Dan and his wife Jo Anne have a10-yr-old son Christopher. Janet Rosen Zaro-witz is now an account executive with Bur-sun-Marsteller, a public relations/advertisingfirm in NYC. Her husband Bill '74 is a 3-yrresident at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.Also at Montefiore is Beth Michaels, who isworking in the cytology department. DennisSpicher is a Union Carbide sales repre-sentative in Memphis, Teήn, and his wife Jo-Ann (Kline) '76 is employed with Boyle Mor-tgage Co, also in Memphis. And finally,Robin Wolaner is general manager of MotherJones magazine. If any of you are passingthrough San Francisco, give Robin a call, shewould like to hear from old friends.

And now a word about Cornell. In the re-cent rush of building renovations on the Artsquad, I was saddened to note that the day-glow orange "Who Is Ted Isseks ['68]?"bumper stickers had been scraped from thewindows they had adorned since the early'60s. But a disintegrating Hurlothrumbosticker is still pasted to the spot it has alwaysoccupied above an entrance to White Hall.

Dignum et justum est.

76PEOPLE: Peter Susser, 2110 N Adams St,#510, Arlington, VA 22201

A thought to help battle the Feb chill: Juneis only 4 months away, and with it, our 1stReunion (Yes, it's been 5 yrs since our gradu-ation!) Plan ahead . . . June 11-14 are thedates for our 1st post-graduation get-togeth-er. Watch these pages and your mailbox forfurther information about reservation detailsand scheduled activities.

Wedding news abounds this month: JeffCrist and Joy Dressel '80 were married lastJuly in New Paltz. The pair honeymooned inLake George, and returned to Walden, whereJeff is employed by Crist Brothers. SageChapel was the setting for Dan Damon'swedding to Pat Pollak '77 in June. Pat is em-ployed by the university's Department ofPublic Safety, while Dan attends BPA. Rob-ert Chrien was married in Aug to ElisabethFotte in NJ. Robert, who has received a mas-ter's degree from Princeton, is working theretowards a PhD in astrophysical sciences.Alan Eskew married Kelly LaRue in Mid-dletown on July 5; Alan owns and operatesSQ Greenhouses. Lance Davis (son of True'41) was married to Lynn Hearnes in Sept inClayton, Mo. Lance graduated from CalSchool of Law in San Diego in '78, and serv-ed as law clerk to the chief federal judge in StLouis.

A Nov wedding of 2 classmates in West-field produced several updates reported byPam Coulter (rather appropriate, consideringPam's professional status at WTOP-AM,Wash's all-news CBS affiliate). Lilla John-son, who works in marketing for GeneralFoods in White Plains (pushing Dream Whip,in particular), married Brian Behm, whoworks for GE in the NY area. Attending wereAl Schrader, wrapping up business school atUVa, and Mike Meller, in B-school across thestate in Williamsburg at William and Mary.

Reunion June 11-14, 198l

Sally Nelson Stebbins is living and working inNH (for Digital Equipment Corp). In healthfields are Karen Roche, who received herMD, and is currently an intern at NorwalkHospital. Peggy Myers, who graduated fromLoyola of Chicago's Dental School, is prac-ticing in Phoenix, Ariz. And Mary Ellen Con-roy is completing a doctorate in pharmocolo-gy at the U of Buffalo.

Larry Bloom is a practicing divorce lawyerin NY, while Art Steinberg is employed at JCPenney's corporate headquarters in Manhat-tan. Doug Kay, MS '79 is doing computergraphics work for a Hollywood filmmakingconcern, and former co-worker George Job-love, MS '79 does similar work for the JohnDeere Corp in Moline, 111. News concerningvet school grads include the fact that MichaelKay opened an animal hospital in Goshen, af-ter practicing in Spring Valley for 4 yrs; Wil-liam Allen is a partner and co-director of 3Rochester area veterinary hospitals. Othersinvolved with William in those Upstate NYconcerns are Jack Bloch '60, Richard Fagan'74, and Brenda Knowlton '78.

In military updates, Randy McGory recent-ly completed a 4-yr tour of duty aboard theamphibious transport dock USS Nashville.Now a lieutenant, he is currently assigned tothe special weapons department at the York-town, Va, weapons station. David Demming,a lieutenant, jg, is serving with PatrolSquadron 46, patrolling the waters of the NAtlantic from the Keflavik, Iceland, NATObase. A different climate is in store for KeithFrair, also a Navy lieutenant—he recently re-ported for duty with Patrol Squadron 22 atthe Navel Air Station in Hawaii.

77FRIENDS: Faye Lee, 201 E 25th St, #5H,NYC 10010

Hi everyone!John Blasius is a research engineer for US

Gypsum Co's new product developmentdepartment in Des Plains, 111. He writes thatTimothy Richley is in England on a scholar-ship given by the Garden Club of America tostudy landscape architecture. Tim completedhis master's in landscape arch at Iowa State Ulast June. Debra Demske is working forHewlett-Packard in Palo Alta, Cal, as pro-duct publicity coordinator after completing amaster's in science journalism at Boston U.She had occasion to return to campus to in-terview a client of HP. Needless to say shewasn't wearing a sweatshirt and jeans, herformer Ithaca attire.

Allen Gabelman tells us that Mike Hart-stein is also working for Hewlett-Packard asa computer scientist, and represents the com-pany as a visiting lecturer at the U of Cal atDavis. Alan is a chemical engineer for Stauf-fer Chemical Co in San Jose. The US govern-ment is employing Jim Phillips as amechanical engineer at their Ames ResearchCenter, and R Stanley Shultz is one ofGeneral Electric's materials engineer in On-tario, Cal.

John Gilbert is NY State assemblymanStanley Fink's legislative coordinator forresources and development. He finds the joba big challenge and enjoys every minute. Hewrites that Pete Kozura is head of sales for

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Chicago Stings, a professional soccer team,and Mark Black is a sales rep for RaichleTyrolia, and Alison Locke is working forMcGraw-Hill as their sales rep. Mark had thedistinction of tightening the bindings for the1980 gold medalist Australian skier at theWinter Olympic games at Lake Placid.

Frederick Heuser and Duane Christopherhave gone into a landscape contracting anddesign partnership in SC. Living in the BigApple has its good and bad. Ellen Field iscoping with city life while working at GreyAdvertising in media planning. Stephen Fitz-maurice is an energy analyst for HelmseySpear Inc. He can't understand how he endedup here after knocking down city living foryrs. Another Cityite, Jeffrey Koch, is havinga great time. Jeff is working for Inhilco Inc atthe World Trade Center. Patricia Grace-Farf aglia is a clinical dietician at West HavenVA Med Center. Her husband Charley '76 isemployed as a personnel manager forTelidyne Hydrapower. They recently attend-ed the wedding of Mary Burghardt to JosephGilcrist.

Celebrating their 1st anniversary are NoraBurke Klippstein and Rick '78. Nora is a per-sonnel rep with Zurich Insurance Co. RandallKubota has returned from the Honduras andS America and has settled down in Houston,Texas, where he's still messing around withthat filthy black stuff (oil), only as a drillingmanager. His hands probably don't eventouch the stuff. Steve Foley finished his JDfrom the U of Mich and spent the summer inNYC as a clerk for Federal District JudgeMcMahon. His friend, Jeff "Mud" Lehmansent in that tidbit with no news of his owncarrying ons.

The food pictured on the Swanson TV din-ners is made by none other than CatherineMarschean-Spivak. She is employed byCampbell's Soup as a home economist andactually gets paid to cook. The rest of us haveto do it for free. Dan Mackesey is now anassociate with Glassie, Pewett, Beebe &Shanks in Wash, DC, after graduating fromthe U of Va School of Law. While there, heattended many a lacrosse and soccer game(Cornell vs U Va), rooting for both sides.

John Molinda, a test engineer forWestinghouse Nuclear Energy Systems is in-volved in a program to establish a dialogueon nuclear power for students at various cam-puses nationwide called "Campus America."He has lured fellow classmates Ken Koenig,Mike Pope and James Weisenstein out to theWest Coast. All 3 work for Intel Corp. MaryPaul is working somewhere in the ranks ofthe family fishsticks company after returningfrom Europe. She writes that things are goingreally well. Randall Peterson was marriedearlier this year to Margaret Orndorff. He isthe assistant controller for Corning Glass attheir W Va plant.

78CLASSMATES: Ken Mogil, 123-33 83 Ave,Apt 202, Kew Gardens, NY 11415

Happy new year! I wish you all a very hap-py and healthy one.

I recently moved to NYC and am workingas a consultant for Laventhol and Horwath at919 3rd Ave. Our office is full of Cor-nellians—Art Adler, Mike Mellor '79, BradSmith '80, Don Peskin '76, Greg Bohan '76,and our leader Bjorn Hanson HX I ran intoKaren Levine '79 recently outside of theErotic Baker on 51st St (our hangout). Karenis employed by Gray Advertising and living inNYC. Also ran into Lauren Rosenberg '76who is working for a well-known interiordesigner in Manhattan.

To start the new year off, some matrimon-ial news. Congrats to Darlene Anne Lachmanand Roger J Yerdon '79 who were marriedback on Aug 9 in Sage Chapel. Also, congratsto Gabrielle Kaufman and Donald Shanin,who were also married back in Aug. Don andGaby were married at the Rye Town Hilton inPort Chester.

Recent news releases: Lisa Rafkin has join-ed the National Advertising staff as an adver-tising review specialist in nutrition. AnthonyD Pinson recently participated in exercise"Sandgroper 80" off the SW Australiancoast. His ship participated in the one wk ex-ercise with Australian and New Zealandnaval and air forces. During the exercise, theunits participated anti-ship, anti-war, andanti-submarine warfare tactics.

Rita T Vermeulen writes that aftergraduating, she went on to Tufts U inBoston, Mass, to pursue a dietetic internshipand master's in education. She is now work-ing at Duke U in Durham, NC, in thepediatric cardiology department. She is work-ing as a nutritionist with obese and hyperten-sive children. Other news from Rita—KathyMontanaro was married recently and is nowworking in Rochester as a hospital dietitianand nutrition education specialist. ManetteMallon is working for Maidenform in NJ.

Further belated congrats to Denise JeanHeath and Warren Frankel '79, married lastJune in Anabel Taylor Hall. SteveKesselman, now a 3rd-yr student at the LawSchool, argued last spring before SupremeCourt Justice Byron White in the finals of theMoot Court competition. What was the out-come, Steve?

Ithaca College has a new wrestlingcoach—John Murray, a former wrestler forthe Big Red. John wrestled in theheavyweight, 190-lb and 167-lb classes whileat Cornell. John has now become one of theyoungest wrestling coaches in the country.Mike Greenfield writes that he is now work-ing for the Digital Equipment Corp ofMaynard, Mass, as a mechanical engineer.He is working on the development ofCAD/CAM systems. David Liberatore is inBoston as a full-time master's candidate atWheelock College. Rick Rado writes that heis working hard for the Rado Corp. KathleenRaynor is up in Boston along with Carl Brad-shaw and Mark Regan. All 3 are with thePolaroid Corp. Alan Reed is at home inAdams Center, in partnership with his 2brothers on a 500-acre dairy farm.

Back to academics: Dena Seifer is in her3rd yr at U of Chicago Pritzker School ofMedicine. Dave Smith received his MS infood science last Jan, and is now workingtoward his PhD at Rutgers U.

Recent news on some of our class of-ficers—Gary Holcomb is hard at work atHarvard U Business School; Mary Bowler isrunning around the country interviewing withlaw firms; and Lori Wasserman is at AlbanyBusiness School.

Until Apr, keep those letters coming in. Wedo need some recent news. A lot of the newsthat we have at this point is outdated and wewould appreciate anything you could send tous. I really enjoy hearing from y'all.

79CLASSMATES: Elizabeth R Rakov, 185-ASalmon Brook Dr, Glastonbury, Conn 06033

Oh, my goodness! Beth Spinner, now atGeorgetown U Law School, writes that shehas half of Cornell studying with her! Well,almost! Joannie Bozek, Joe Brenner, KeithFischler, Amy Ghory, Dave Halberstadter,Andy Kantor, and Susan Portnoy.

Deborah Klein says she's with NationalSecurity Agency and is in contact with JudySturtz, who is at Emory Law, and DouglasKallen '77, who is finishing at Colo Law.But, before we leave the East Coast con-tingent, let's report that Ken Greenberg is at-tending Boston U Law School; Dave Mogul isliving in Greenwich Village and working forAmerican District Telephone (when he isn'tgazing out his window of the World TradeCenter). Debbie Sentochnik is at JohnsHopkins Med School, and Dave Clegg isfinishing his master's in animal science atCornell.

Moving West, we find Lynnette Walsh atIowa State U studying animal nutrition.Janet Goldin is attending journalism schoolat the Medill School of Journalism, North-western U. Donna Brown is in a doctoral pro-gram in psychology at Duke U. WendySchwartz writes with great enthusiasm aboutMinn, and the trials and tribulations as adesign engineer for Medtronic. She's livingwith Julia Hafftka, who is with design con-sortium.

John Curne and Alison Colby were mar-ried June 23, and at that time, wrote that theywere working for Phillips Petroleum inOklahoma City, Okla. Robert Rockower hasheaded for the sun—attending the U of Fla.He's being funded by the Fla State Sea Grantto develop new sea food products forrestaurants and grocery stores. (Better watchthe menu folks—this could lead to big eatinginnovations. Keep us informed, Bob!) Andmaybe Ken Rubin will be willing to taste test.He's started law school at the U of Fla inGainesville.

Another Mid westerner, Dick Vogel is withDow Chemical in Midland, Mich. Dick, andLarry Barstow, and all you other Michresidents should be ready for the new MichEssential Insurance Law. I'm actively involv-ed in Aetna's automobile insurance now, andhope the men with Mich auto insurance ap-preciate the windfall profit they are about toreceive. Now men and women pay the samerate for auto insurance, which, fair or not, isgoing to be a shock to the females, and apleasant surprise for the guys.

Anyway, how is Mary Kendall enjoying herposition as quarterback for the football teamat U of Mo? (Intramurals, of course.) PeggyGoldenhersh is another surprise success in thesame position. Any chance the Mo team willtravel to Columbus, Ohio? Don't miss thechance to call Joe Szombathy, who says he'sstill spending his hours looking for "thatelusive, non-existent (?) #1." (When he isn'tworking hard at Procter & Gamble, ofcourse!)

Now—attention old ILC residents! PeggyCaldwell has put out the welcome mat for anyILCers traveling to Phoenix, Ariz. Tom VanLeeuwen is working at Procter and Gamble inCincinnati, Ohio, in logistics and analysis.

Liz Perl is involved in a 5-yr clinical psychgraduate program at U of Mich. If you get abreak, Liz, travel west and visit some of thefollowing: Simon Radford, in Seattle, Wash;Gary DeLong at U Cal, Santa Barbara (he'sreceived 2 fellowships, and is also a teachingassistant). Heading to the glorious South?Call Beatrice Kanders at Tulane U, majoringin clinical nutrition.

And, Emily Heebner, glad to see you arenot putting aside your fantastic talent. Emilyis an acting student at the American Conser-vatory Theatre in San Francisco, Cal. Goodluck. Oh, I almost forgot! Got a letter fromDebbie Solomon. She's working as a reporterfor the Miami, Fla, Herald.

Tim Miller is still letting the Navy send himto distant lands (seas?). But he sent me a mapin his last letter, so I can at least promise all

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of you that he is still on the face of the earth.I went sailing with Carl Bradshaw recently.He's still with Polaroid, and sailing everyweekend. When I went to the wedding ofAngela Gracia and John Sullivan, MBA '79,I met Cliff Dick man, MBA '79, and his wife,Yvonne. When my friend Bill Igleheart and Iwere at the Hartford Stage shortly thereafter,we ran into Cliff and Yvonne. Since the 4 ofus are living in Glastonbury now, we spentmany fun times partying and playing tennistogether. And we invite Angela and JohnSullivan to visit, soon!

Final notes: April Newbauer has startedNYU Law School; Jeanne Buettner is now arepresentative (titled) at ManufacturersHanover; Gerrie McManus '78 has taken upthe fine art of bicycling in NYC; and SheriFrumer '80 is enjoying life on the fast lane atHarvard Law.

Take care, sports fans! Write soon!

Alumni Deaths'09 BS Ag—Stephen F Willard of Canton,Mass, Aug 30, 1980; was associated with Fot-tler Fiske Rawson Co. Alpha Zeta.

ΊO ME—Theodore F Pimper of Burlingame,Cal, Feb 6, 1979.

Ί l ME—Arthur W Wakeley of Kenilworth,111, Oct 14, 1980; founding partner, Paul HDavis & Co, investment firm; former direc-tor, National-Standard Co, Dixie Cup Corp,Doehler-Jarvis Corp, and others. Nayati.

'14-15 SpAg—Lotte Rugg Baker (Mrs N Ben-son) of Victor, NY, Aug 11, 1980.

'14-15 SpAg—N Benson Baker of Victor,NY, Oct 8, 1973. Wife, Lotte (Rugg), SpAg'14-15.

'14 BS HE—Laura Fish Mordoff of BatonRouge, La, Oct 16, 1980. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'15 BA—Ethel M Clark of Lockport, NY,Apr 10, 1980. Delta Delta Delta.

'17, ME '18—George A Worn of San Jose,Cal, Aug 16, 1980; was associated with Lum-mus Construction Co.

'18 CE—Juan M Bertran of San Juan, Puer-to Rico, Mar 21, 1979; retired civil engineer.

'19, WA '21—Earl S deWitt of Charlotte,NC, Dec 26, 1978.

'20 BA—Samuel M Coombs Jr of Summit,NJ, Nov 4, 1980; was attorney. Theta Chi.

'20 ME—Arthur S Whittemore of New Lon-don, Conn, Oct 11, 1980; retired NY Tele-phone executive. Scorpion.

'21, BS Ag '22—Frank Patterson of Larch-mont, NY, Oct 22, 1980; was partner, Quin-lan & Patterson, mortgage loan specialists.

'22 BA, MA '37—Edward V Cushman ofPrattsville, NY, May 31, 1980.

'24 MD—Benjamin I Ashe of NYC, Oct 16,1980; physician.

'24, BChemE '46—Leonard J Edwards ofLas Vegas, Nev, Oct 10, 1980.

'24, BS Ag '29—Herbert G Foote of Pomp-ton Plains, NJ, July 29, 1980.

'24 EE—Charles J Hibbard Jr of Bethel, Me,Sept 2, 1980; was engineer, NY Telephone.Wife, Christine (Frellick) '25.

'24 BA, MA '25, PhD '27—James Hutton ofIthaca, NY, Oct 29, 1980; professor of clas-sics, emeritus, Cornell U; author.

'24 BA—Edward T Miller of Phoenicia, NY,Aug 2, 1980; was associated with NY Tele-phone. Sigma Upsilon.

'24-33 SpAg—Alice Read Pridham of Ithaca,NY, Aug 28, 1980.

'25 BA—Hoffman R Hays of E Hampton,NY, Oct 17, 1980; poet, novelist, playwright,dramatic and literary critic; was televisionwriter.

'26, BChem '30—Daniel D Ritson of Nas-hua, NH, Oct 27, 1980; was chemist, NashuaGummed & Coated Paper Co. Phi DeltaTheta.

'27—Harrison C Bloomer of Newark, NY,Feb 16, 1979.

'27, BS HE '28—Katherine Beal Dawson ofElyria, Ohio, Oct 9, 1980; was home ec teach-er. Alpha Xi Delta.

'27, BA '28, LLB '29—Fred W Dieffenbachof Paramus, NJ, Oct 24, 1980; attorney, withDieffenbach, Witt & Birchby. Beta Theta Pi;Phi Delta Phi.

'27 BA—William E Foltz of W Milford, NJ,Oct 28, 1978; retired vice president, Bell Tele-phone Co. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'27—Martin L Levy of NYC, Quogue, NY,and Montego Bay, Jamaica, Oct 25, 1980;former partner, Lehman Brothers Kuhn LoebInc, banking and brokerage firm. Pi LambdaPhi.

'28 BA, MD '33—Mario S Cioffari of De-troit, Mich, 1980; physician, specializing inpediatrics.

'28 BA—Margaret Stansfield North (MrsGeorge J) of Sebring, Fla, Oct 11, 1980; re-tired teacher. Husband, George J North '28.

'29 Grad—Edith W White of NormandyBeach, NJ, Aug 13, 1980.

'30 MA—Dorothy Smith Dugdale (Mrs AJ)of Palm Desert, Cal, Feb 11, 1979; wasschool district psychologist, Coachilla, Cal.

'30—Manuel C Llop of Buffalo, NY, Oct 17,1980; chairman and chief executive officer,Chisholm-Ryder Inc.

'30 BS Ag—Raymond F Mapes of SmyrnaBeach, Fla, Sept 21, 1980; was engineer, NYTelephone. Eleusis.

'31, CE '32—John L DeLee of Slidell, La,May 2, 1980; was consulting engineer. Scor-pion.

'31-33 SpAg—Sophie Oldach Horn of Phila-delphia, Pa, Nov 4, 1980; was social studiesteacher, Ithaca schools.

'31, BS Ag '32—Jesse F Moulton of Avon,NY, July 25, 1979; was associated with Gene-see Brewing Co Inc. Alpha Tau Omega.

'31 BA—Charles A Pirro Jr of Riverside,Conn, Oct 20, 1980; retired editor, Green-

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'32 MD—Charles K Bogoshian of Manchest-er, Conn, Oct 14, 1980; consulting physician,St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

'32, BS '33—George T Booth of Dunkirk,NY, May 20, 1980. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'32 BA, MD '35—William T Medl of NYC;Sept 26, 1980; physician, NY Infirmary,Beekman Downtown Hospital.

'32 BS Ag—Herman W Paulus of Mayville,NY, Mar 17, 1980.

'32—Carmelita Stevens Sakr of Ithaca, NY,Oct 18, 1980; retired librarian, Cornell U.Chi Omega.

'32 BS Eng—Theodore E Weissinger of Wil-mington, Del, Aug 20, 1980; sculptor; retiredspecial assistant to the treasurer, DuPont Co.

'33—Henry R Hinckley of Mount Desert,Me, June 6, 1980; founder and owner,Hinckley & Co, builders of production-modelcruising boats.

'33—William I Rokeach of West End, NJ,Nov 3, 1980; was chemist.

'34 ME—Charles W Jones of Denton, Md,Sept 23, 1980; retired mechanical engineer,Vitro Laboratories. Kappa Sigma. Wife,Ruth(Gibbs) '31.

'35, BA '36—Ralph H Cottis of Sunnyvale,Cal, Feb 24, 1970; was attorney. Chi Psi.

'35 DVM—Michael J Donahue of Hudson,NY, Oct 5, 1980; veterinarian. Omega TauSigma.

'35 LLB—George H Winner of Elmira, NY,Oct 11, 1980; attorney; active in civic affairs.Phi Delta Theta.

'36 ME—Albert L Haggas of Pittsford, NY,Sept 20, 1980; retired director, paper servicedivision, Eastman Kodak Co. Phi DeltaTheta.

'36 PhD—Alden O Weber of Osawatomie,Kans, Oct 24, 1980; was vice president,American State Bank.

'38 Grad—Lillian Rushmeyer Descoe (MrsHollis L) of Scarsdale, NY, Oct 2, 1980.

'38—Thomas P Edwards of Lexington, Ky,Aug 11, 1980.

'38, BME '42—Chester M Nitchie of Bethle-

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'38—Walter D Smith of Sinclairville, NY,Apr 1975.

'39 BA—Howard P Huyck of Paducah, Ky,Sept 15, 1980. Zeta Psi.

'39 ME—J Michael McLellan of Cincinnati,Ohio, and Venus, Fla, Oct 16, 1980; was en-gineer associated with Procter & Gamble.Kappa Sigma. Wife, Margaret (Gist) '39.

'43—Murray I Cooper of Willow Grove, Pa,Aug 8, 1980. Wife, Mera (Flamberg) '45.

'45—Richard A Mordoff Jr of Columbus,Ohio, Aug 1965.

'47 BS Ag—Paul Schneible of Greenwich,NY, Apr 2, 1980.

'48 LLB—George W Seager of Syracuse, NY,Apr 1980.

'49 PhD—Lawrence M Bartlett of Amherst,Mass, Oct 28, 1980; professor of zoology,emeritus, U of Mass.

'49 BS Hotel—John T Nicholson of London,Ontario, Canada, July 19, 1980; was associ-ated with U of W Ontario.

'50 BS ILR—John M Graney of Wyckoff,NJ, 1975; was labor relations consultant.

'51 MS—Emma F Meyer of Milwaukee,Wise, July 1, 1980.

'52 LLB—Howard B Dutton of Potomac,Md, Aug 28, 1980; attorney; vice president,Airtronics Inc.

'53 LLB—John R Benedict of ElmiraHeights, NY, Fβb 14, 1980.

'54, BME '55—Thomas H Arnott of Hockes-sin, Del, Sept 27, 1980.

'54 BA—William Jefferson Field II ofBloomfield Hills, Mich, Nov 1, 1980; was as-sociated with Ingersoll-Rand Corp and AlliedChemical Corp. Phi Kappa Psi.

'54 BA—Donald N Ruby of NYC, Sept 28,1980; attorney with Wolf, Popper, Ross,Wolf and Jones; former asst US attorney.

'56 BS Nurs—Ann K Hood of Anderson, SC,July 25, 1980; nursing administrator, Green-ville Hospital System.

'57 MS—George T Daniel of Port of Spain,Trinidad, WI, Apr 15, 1975; was associatedwith Ministry of External Affairs ofTrinidad.

'60, BME '61—Burt K Filer III of New Hope,Pa, Sept 12, 1980. Automobile accident.

'63 MA, PhD '70—Richard Bernabei ofKingston, Ontario, Canada, Aug 26, 1979;associated with the department of classics,Queen's U.

'67 MS—David W Morton of Middleton,Wise, Mar 17, 1980; doctoral student, U ofWise.

'70 BS Ag—Kenneth R Boise of Marion, NY,Sept 11, 1980.

'71 BS Ag—Gary J DiBella of Houston, Tex-as, Dec 23, 1978.

Alumni ActivitiesJay Schurman and I both dropped out of col-lege in the middle of our sophomore year. Wehad grown tired of the university's cloisteredself importance, tired of the lazy security thatclung to the students who all seemed oblivi-ous to what we considered mainstream reali-ty—front page disasters, unemployment,poverty, unhappiness. At our reunion at reg-istration two years later we compared noteson our time away from school. I had learnedthat poverty and unemployment come easily.Jay had learned about rafting.

Rafting? As he told me of the scintillatingthrills of his new found passion I had visionsof Jay poling down a river at night on a rackof logs bound with heavy twine, or lying in aheap at the bottom of some wild rapid withhis femur run through his jaw. Jay assuredme it was nothing like that. During the nextyear I saw him maintain his balance and per-spective with memories and anecdotes aboutthe river. Calming eddies of thought, theyhelped him in defense against the onslaughtof pressure, papers, and peanut butter andjelly that college had become.

That next summer Jay and I drove west tothe Rogue River in Oregon where Jay had ap-plied for a job as a raft guide. We picked uphis sister Mary on the way, she being as af-fected by Jay's enthusiasm for rafting, asanxious to try it out as I was. Jay's prospec-tive employer lent us a " raf t" of his own de-sign to take down the river. It was only oncompletion of the trip that he offered Jay thejob, saying that anyone who could managethat raft could guide just about anything.

The raft was made of three pontoons, 1958Army surplus black neoprene glued togetherat the sides. Two of the pontoons were 12 feetlong, while the middle pontoon was 6 feet inlength. It had originally been 12 feet long, butwas cut in half and glued back together afterbeing dragged 40 miles on a dirt road on ashuttle ride back from a rafting trip. Jay de-

A rafting expedition of Jay Schurman '80in Maine.

cided to lash two 2-by-4s across the top forstability and to this we tied a waterproof bagwhich held the food, clothes, and equipmentfor the four day trip. We each had a life jack-et and a paddle.

After a year of buildup, rafting proved tobe even more enjoyable than I had anticipa-ted. The days were cloudless. Water rolledoff the pontoons which instantly became dryand hot in the sun. We straddled the pon-toons, letting our feet trail in the water. Thecurrent was swift and we paddled easilythrough the smoother stretches, watching theriver coil through beach and cliff.

The places where the river dropped or nar-rowed were the challenges of which Jay hadspoken. Boulders, holes, hydraulics wherethe river flipped back on itself, rooster tails,standing waves slapped and bent our make-shift raft which we clung to like to a buckingbronc. The river would drench us with sprayand spin us around while we screamed withecstasy and struck at the water with our pad-dles, Jay all the while shouting at Mary andme, the lazy paddlers in the front, too excitedto make work of it. Our meals were sparsebut luxuriant: deer wandered within feet ofour campsite, we made fires of driftwood, thestars gleamed through the night like the shim-mer of sun on the water.

During those four days I had a glimpse atthe sort of tranquility that rafting can instill.The river flows through a virtually inaccessi-ble wilderness area and rafting is a comforta-ble, exciting way to touch that wildernesswithout threat or ruin. There's a sense of per-manence and resilient dignity in the river thatis a comfort after attempting to manage thefrenzied flow of modern life. I left that tripfeeling less cut off from the natural world.

Our final semester at Cornell Jay startedhis own rafting company—Unicorn RaftingExpeditions. It was run from another virtual-ly inaccessible wilderness area, our livingroom. The irony of the situation was that toshow people the natural habitat that was theirheritage and influence them about the impor-

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tance of preserving it, Jay had to immersehimself in the turmoil of fledgling business.That meant calling insurance companies atlunch time so they would have to call himback and pay for the call. It meant slideshows, brochures, and obnoxious answeringmachines. One of our friends, disgruntled atencountering our ridiculous recording, book-ed a rafting trip to Cuba, saying in a heavySpanish accent, "the rafts will be empty go-ing, but very full coming back."

Unicorn Rafting Expeditions is today asmall company that conducts wilderness tripson three of the East's most exciting rivers, theUpper Hudson Gorge in New York and thePenobscot and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.Each trip has at most 3 rafts, those flattenedoctagon rigs much like the rafts that frogmenuse. Each carries up to 10 people and has itsown guide.

Trips last one day and include a barbequelunch, giving everyone time to explore the de-lightful riverbanks. But like my first trip theexcitement and vigor of the river is a persua-sive and enlightening force.

The Hudson River is incredible, a 4-hourdrive from New York City and Boston it is asunkempt and incorrigible as an 18th centuryminuteman. The Penobscot and Kennebecare new to white water rafting. Located innorthern Maine, they were until 5 years agoused exclusively for logging. As primitive andisolated as Thoreau found them a centuryago, they offer a breathtaking experience foreveryone.

Jay runs his business out of West Forks,Maine during the summer.

—Geoff Chasin '80

In the ClubsThe CC of Mexico City, Mexico, recently an-nounced new officers: Antonio Artigas '23,president; Cesar Wong, MS '68, vice presi-dent; and Victor Dominguez '78, secretary.

From the FundThe senior class gift for the Class of '81 willgo toward construction of the proposed uni-versity performing arts center and a book en-dowment. The committee raised $20,703 infour days of telephone solicitation, surpass-ing its goal of $19,810, and last year's total of$12,000. Twenty-three seniors pledged $250or more to qualify for a matching gift fromuniversity trustee Austin Kίplinger '39, whichwill bring those donations to $2,000 andqualify the students for membership in theTower Club. Kiplinger has also promised tomatch gifts of $19.81 to $250, as part of a$50,000 challenge to this year's senior class.An independent campaign is being formed tocollect donations from seniors for the " Cor-nell 11," professors and coaches who arebringing sex discrimination suits against theuniversity.

The Andrew D Mellon Foundation has madea grant of $1.25 million, to be called the"1980s Fund," to the university, intended tostrengthen the programs and faculty in thehumanities. The grant is to be used over thenext 7 to 10 years for three purposes withinthe humanities or within interdisciplinaryprograms drawing heavily on the humanities.The goals include: appointing or promotingjunior or intermediate-level faculty membersin anticipation of future retirement of seniorfaculty; encouraging early or partial retire-ments; and providing postdoctoral fellow-

'The Turtleman' is what residents of CaseyKey, Fla, call Maurice (Mo) Woolverton '31for his efforts trying to save the endangeredloggerhead turtle, which is threatened byencroachment of people on its breedinggrounds. Authorized by the state, Woolver-ton patrols Florida beaches looking forloggerhead nests during the summer layingseason. He marks nests, then watches forthe nighttime emergence of the babies.Night is a dangerous time for the littleloggerheads because of predation by crabsand racoons, so Woolverton catches theturtles and releases them during the day,directing them toward safe water.

ships or dissertation support to students tomaintain a sufficient flow of new scholarsfrom graduate schools to faculties.

After 13 years, construction plans for an ex-panded arboretum for Cornell Plantations inForest Home have been authorized by theBoard of Trustees. When the idea of expan-ding the arboretum—a collection of trees andshrubs—came up in 1967, F R Newman '12was intrigued with the project and made twogifts totaling $120,000 for the development ofa comprehensive master plan for the project.Over the next years, the plan and projectawaited both space and funding to becomeavailable. The cost rose from $1.5 million in1967 to $3 million in 1980, and an additional$1 million was also needed for maintenanceendowment.

Newman led the way by providing $2 mil-lion for the project in his will. Eventually,other donors joined him in support of the ar-boretum expansion and, with the fundingpromised, the project has been set in motion.The plan calls for development of about 60acres of pasture land. It will be an outdoorlaboratory for horticultural and ecologicalstudies. The arboretum expansion area alsowill be an example of plant and tree group-ings in a harmonious landscape.

The Hotel School has received a grant of$200,000 from Villa Banfi wine importer tounderwrite 14 annual scholarships andfellowships. Earnings from the endowmentwill provide funds for five $2,000 annual

scholarships for either graduate orundergraduate studies, three $2,000 scholar-ships for European hoteliers and restau-rateurs attending the school's Center for Pro-fessional Development, and six $1,000 fel-lowships.

In the NewsRalph N Kleps *37, LLB '39, first administra-tive director of the California Courts, wasawarded the American Judicature Society'sHerbert Harley Award for his contributionsto judicial administration in a special cere-mony in San Francisco, Cal, in early Nov.University president Frank H T Rhodes pre-sented the award, given to the individual whohas made the greatest contribution to the im-provement of the administration of justice inhis or her state.

Kleps was admitted to the California bar in1939, and practiced in the San Francisco areafor four years. In 1943, he became director ofthe Judicial Council's survey of administra-tive procedure in California, and was instru-mental in drafting and presenting the 1945Administrative Procedure Act. From '45-50,Kleps served as the first director of the Cali-fornia Office of Administrative Procedure,and from '50-61 was legislative counsel ofCalifornia, acting as a legal adviser to thestate legislature. He is still active as a consul-tant on court management and writes amonthly column on court reform for the LosAngeles Daily Journal.

At the annual lacrosse team banquet held inIthaca in Oct, William Fuerst '39, MS '61 washonored by players and coaches for his con-tributions to Big Red sports. Fuerst, wholives in Ithaca, serves as the full-time volun-teer office manager for the 150-lb footballteam, and donates both time and money toother Athletic Department activities. Accord-ing to head football coach Bob Blackman,"though 150-pound is his first interest, he al-so helps with varsity football, and managesthe new Hall of Fame room. It's much morethan just a full-time job to him. His contribu-tion to sports at Cornell has been great."

The last place finisher in the 1980 NY Mara-thon was Barry Weisberg '72, a New YorkCity prosecutor, who made the 26.2-mile runin a little over IVi hours, dressed in a SantaClaus hat and a T-shirt inscribed, "Last placeor bust again." Running to finish last "isvery difficult," said Weisberg, "because1,500 don't finish the race. You never knowwhen there's somebody out there ploddingalong. You have a lot more competition. It'snot lonely at the bottom. It's a lot tougher."

He said he runs just for fun, and hopes hislast place finish makes people a little less seri-ous about the sport. Explaining his strategy,Weisberg said, "You look for someone whois really slow and make sure they don't fallbehind you." After the race, Weisberg wasdeluged with offers to lend his name to prod-ucts ranging from a long wearing runningshoe to the American Express card.

The NY Daily News reports that Paul Robe-son Jr '48 has edited documents on his father,and compiled them into a book, With MaliceToward One, to be published this year. Thedocuments, obtained from the FBI and CIA,are said to contain racist and politically sensi-tive statements.

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Rosenfelt '48, LLB '50, is preparing to bringhis company back as a strong force in theproduction and distribution of motion pic-tures, according to an article in BusinessWeek. In 1973, MGM traded many of its in-vestments in Hollywood for new ones in thefast-growing casino and gambling business.But record profits in 1978—$38.9 million, a46 per cent increase over the previous year—from the successes of The Goodbye Girl andComa showed MGM management that theycould still make money in the movie industry.Last May, MGM Film was freed from the ho-tel operations. With the reinvestment of thefirm's capital in the movie business, MGM'screative force David Begelman has been ableto sign stars Bo Derek, Robert De Niro, andLuciano Pavorotti, and director Bill Wilderfor future pictures.

Simon Malley '53, editor of a leftist magazinepublished in Paris, was deported to the USfrom France early last October for what wasofficially described as a "lack of discretion."Malley's bimonthly magazine, Afrique-Asie,deals with African and Middle Easterntopics, and has strongly backed leftist revolu-tionary movements, condemned moderateAfrican and Middle Eastern leadership, anddenounced Israel. The French governmentgave little explanation for Malley's expulsion,saying only that he had "not observed thediscretion expected of a foreign resident."Criticism of the action came immediatelyfrom political figures whose sentiments rangefrom Communist to centrist, and from theFrench journalism establishment. At the timeof his deportation, Malley was living in Pariswith his wife, Barbara (Silverstein) '53, andtheir youngest son.

"It seems to use a different lobe of my brainthan writing," explained novelist Kurt Von-negut Jr '44, about his new-found interest in"felt-tip calligraphs"—semi-abstract draw-ings of faces. Newsweek reported that Von-negut had his first exhibit at a Manhattan gal-lery, with drawings selling for up to $1,000.He said artist Saul Steinberg and designs ofstained-glass windows interested him in thenew technique, and during the summer he al-ternated drawing with work on a nonfictioncollection, Palm Sunday, and Katmandu, anovel in progress. "Drawing is sort of malemenopausal," he said. "A striking out in newdirections."

If the South Won Gettysburg, a recently pub-lished book by Mark Nesbitt, based on a con-cept by Paul Witt '73, contains an historicallyaccurate account of the beginning of the CivilWar, and then proposes a change in thecourse of history. At Gettysburg, Con-federate General Robert E Lee improves hisbattle plan, and leads his army to victory.From there, the reader follows the sectioningof the country into the United States, theConfederate States, the Republic of Texas,the Rocky Mountain States, and the Republicof California;, then through the events ofmost of the century following the Civil War.The book is being marketed by Witt'sReliance Publishing Co. in Gettysburg, Pa.

Academic Delegates

Daniel P Malone '75, at the inauguration ofthe president of Cranbrook EducationalCommunity, Nov 21, 1980.

Kenneth C Brown '74, at the inauguration ofthe president of the U of Colo, Dec 2.

Graduate Alumni"We've had energy-efficient products foryears, but they usually had a higher cost andpeople were not willing to pay that cost. Nowthey're listening when we say the real cost isthe life-cycle cost," said Arthur M Bueche,PhD '48, chief scientist and senior vice presi-dent of General Electric, speaking about thenew energy saving lightbulb which carries apricetag of $10. In an interview in the NYTimes, Bueche said, "You didn't have to be agenius to see that the price of oil was going upafter the early '70s and that began to show upin our strategic planning documents." Hesaid various operating groups at GE starteddeveloping and marketing more energy-effi-cient products. Though, like the new light-bulb, the products require a higher initial in-vestment, Bueche feels they are economical inthe long run, because of their reduced energyconsumption and longer life span.

Julianne Heller Prager, PhD '53, a 28-yearveteran of 3M, has been appointed the com-pany's executive director of technical infor-mation and technology analysis. She held sev-eral research positions in 3M's Central Re-search Labs until 1973, when she was nameddirector of the corporate technical planningand coordination department. She and herhusband Steven, PhD '51, a professor ofchemistry at the U of Minnesota, live in Ar-den Hills, Minn.

Frank J Adrian, PhD '55, supervisor of theMicrowave Physics Group at the AppliedPhysics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins U, re-ceived the Catholic U of American 1980alumni achievement award in the field ofscholarship and research. Adrian, who is as-sociate editor of the Journal of ChemicalPhysics, has been with the Applied PhysicsLab since 1955. He is best known for hiswork in chemically-induced dynamic nuclearpolarization.

Leslie W Dunbar, PhD '48, long-time direc-tor of the Field Foundation, has resignedfrom that position because of discord withinthe organization. He joined the philanthropicfoundation in 1965 from the Southern Re-gional Council, where he had become widely-known for civil rights activism. Under Dun-bar's leadership, the Field Foundation con-centrated its support in civil rights and anti-poverty programs, and in research to uncoverabuses of government power in the US andabroad. He said disagreements with boardmembers over certain issues arose.

Harry W Albright Jr, LLB '52, president ofthe Dime Savings Bank of NY, and a formerNY State superintendent of banking, wasnamed to the additional post of chief execu-tive officer in August. Albright was asso-ciated with the Albany law firm of DeGraff,Foy, Conway and Hot-Harris from 1952-67,when he became deputy secretary to Gov Nel-son Rockefeller. Later, he served as bankingsuperintendent, and became special counselto Rockefeller, then vice president, in 1974.Albright came to the Dime as president in '75and became chief operating officer last year.

Chase Manhattan Bank recently namedWolfgang Schoellkopf, Grad '57 executiveresponsible for the bank's global treasuryoperations. Schoellkopf also was electedtreasurer of the Chase Manhattan Corp.

Flemmie Kittrell, PhD '36, professor of homeeconomics, emeritus, at Howard U, and aninternationally recognized expert in teaching

and research in the field of human ecology,died on Oct 1, 1980 at age 76. She was thefirst black woman awarded a doctorate byHuman Ecology, then Home Economics, andwas a long-time member of the college'sAdvisory Council and the University Coun-cil. In 1968, she was named one of 7distinguished alumni of the college, and was apost-doctoral research fellow, 1975-76.

During her career, Kittrell served as headof home economics at Howard U, and deanof women and director of the division ofhome economics at Hampton Institute. Shedirected a State Department nutrition surveyin Liberia and United Nations nutritional sur-veys in India and Thailand. She also had aFulbright award to help organize the Collegeof Home Economics at Baroda U, India.

CalendarBoca Raton, Fla: CC of the Gold Coast willhold lunch and expedition to polo matches,Feb 8. Call Roy Flack '61 (305) 941-7675.

Syracuse, NY: CWC will hold local historymeeting with David Rowe, Feb 9. Call Nan-cy Stephenson Bond '45 (315) 655-8547.

Wilmington, Del: Carolyn Fasnaugh, CPA,will address CC luncheon, Feb 11. CallCatherine Anderson Pfeifer '40(215) 347-2344.

Charlotte, NC: Piedmont Alumni Club willhold luncheon meeting, Feb 13. Call Peter JVerna Jr '46 (704) 376-8729.

Princeton, NJ: CC of Central NJ will meetat hockey game (vs Princeton), Feb 14. CallRafael H Sharon '76 (609) 695-7510.

Cortland, NY: CWC will hold monthly din-ner, Feb 17. Call Esther Forbes Twentyman'45 (607) 749-2743.

Columbus, Ohio: Prof James Maas, PhD'66, psychology, will address CC of CentralOhio, Feb 18. Call J Jeffrey McNealey '66(614) 252-8575.

Boca Raton, Fla: Prof James Maas will ad-dress CC of the Gold Coast dinner, Feb 24.Call Roy Flack '61 (305) 941-7675.

Rochester, NY: CC will hold couples roundrobin tennis tournament, Feb 26. Call Ken-neth A Payment, Grad '66 (716) 624-2742.

Albany, NY: Ronald Pedersen '61 will ad-dress CC of the Capital District, luncheon,Feb 27. Call Herb Roes '60 (518) 664-8943.

Pittsburgh, Pa: Prof Karen Brazell, Asianstudies, will address CC at annual dinner,Feb 27. Call Anne Forde Lamb '51(412) 364-0578.

Buffalo, NY: CWC will hold spring lun-cheon, Feb 28. Call Marjory Tauscher Bald'52 (716) 634-9326.

Miami, Fla: Robert Kane '34 will addressCC, Mar 2. Call Bernard A Baer '46(305)666-6808.

Charlotte, NC: Piedmont Alumni Club willhold wine tasting social, Mar 7. Call Peter JVerna Jr '46 (704) 376-8729.

Providence, RI: CC will sponsor night atthe opera, Mar 7. Call Mike DiCesaro '73(401) 847-4327.

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AlsoThe university community was takingpride at the start of the new year in thenomination of one of its own to the Rea-gan cabinet. He's Samuel R. Pierce Jr.'44, LLB '49, a New York City lawyerand trustee of Cornell, selected to be sec-retary of housing and urban develop-ment.

Pierce was known first on campus as arunning back on the frosh team of 1940and the varsity of 1941. He served incriminal investigation in World War II,earned Phi Beta Kappa election after hereturned to the Hill, and was graduatedfrom the Law School. He served as anassistant DA in Manhattan, then in gov-ernment posts under the Eisenhower andNixon administrations, and practicedlaw in New York City. He was ap-pointed a judge of general sessions inNew York City, and served recently onmany corporate boards, including GE,Prudential, and International Paper. Asa Cornell trustee he chaired a committeethat made recommendations on athleticsin 1975.

People: Word has been received of thedeath of two retired professors and aformer provost of the university.

Arthur S. Adams, provost from1946-48, died November 18, 1980, inDurham, New Hampshire at the age of84. He became assistant dean of Engi-neering in 1940, and was key figure inthe Navy's V-12 college training pro-gram during World War II. After hissecond service at Cornell he was presi-dent of the University of New Hamp-shire for two decades, during which healso served a decade as president of theAmerican Council on Education. (Alsosee Footnotes, in the December 1980News.)

Prof. Walter H. French '19, PhD '24,English, emeritus, died November 20,1980 in Clemson, South Carolina at theage of 83. He taught English literatureand language from 1920 until his retire-ment in 1965.

Prof. John I. Miller, PhD '36, animalscience, emeritus, died on December 8,1980 in Ithaca at the age of 69. Beforeretirement in 1976 he helped establishthe New York State Beef Cattleman'sAssociation and the Empire LivestockMarketing Cooperative and developedthe first classification system for beefcattle.

A writer new to these pages with this

Secretary-designate Sam Pierce '44

issue is Lee Mitchell Nilson '48, who wasa teaching associate in the history of artat the university at one stage in hercareer, held other positions in Ithaca be-fore moving away, and is now much in-volved in the ventures of the ship Varuaabout which she writes this month. Shealso reports she is writing a book on thesame subject. The wife of her son, men-tioned in the article, the former SusanMott '75, is a double Cornellian, beingthe daughter of Stuart Hirschberg, LLB'51 and Marguerite Mott '51.

My apologies: Roald Hoffmann, sub-ject of an article in the December issue,is the John A. Newman '43 professor ofphysical science. The endowed chair wasmisidentified.

Late sports: Men's hockey improved itsoverall record to 7-3 during intersession,winning the Broadmoor Classic tourneyin Colorado, but breaking even in East-ern play. The basketball team facedtough competition on the road, losingfive games against strong teams beforereturning to New York State and bring-ing its record back to 3-8.

The hockey team followed two earlieropening wins with losses to New Hamp-shire 2-8 and Maine 2-7, then won overSt. Lawrence 5-1 and Boston University6-2 before heading for Colorado.

In the Broadmoor Classic, Roy Ker-ling '82 returned from injury to score ahat trick in an 8-0 victory over AirForce, and Jeff Baikie '83 scored fourgoals in the title victory over ColoradoCollege, 7-3. Baikie had another hattrick against Harvard in an 8-5 win, thenthe team lost 4-5 in overtime to Dart-mouth.

Coach Tom Miller had a lean start to

his career as men's basketball coach. Atthe Iptay tourney in South Carolina, theRed lost to host Clemson 64-82 and toRice 51-69. A week later the scores were48-63 at Northwestern and 47-61 atBowling Green.

His club nearly upset Eastern powerSt. Joseph's of Philadelphia at Barton,39-42, then had its first win, at home,63-61 over Hofstra. The win was follow-ed by losses to Southern Methodist,coached by Dave Bliss '65, 42-67 > Niag-ara 66-72, and Colgate 72-74, and winsover Canisius 55-53 and Rochester64-56.

The wrestling team split its firstmatches, winning over Cortland 35-8and Clarkson 27-20, tying Army 18-18,and losing to Syracuse 6-48 and PennState 14-33. Gene Nighman '81 scoredthe only points against Syracuse at 150pounds. Kevin Troche '84 at 158 andChris Rugg '81 at 177 were other winnersagainst Penn State.

Women's ice hockey started 1-1, on awin over Potsdam 5-4 and a 3-7 loss toNortheastern. Women's swimming was2-0 on an 85-35 win over Oneonta and a97-42 victory over Brockport. Co-Capt.Carolyn Burney '82 was top point-getter. Women's fencing topped Yale11-5. Women's basketball stood at 1-3on losses to Oneonta 56-74, Siena 52-80,and St. John Fisher 54-74, and a winover RPI 62-54.

The women gymnasts won their owninvitational meet a fifth year in a row,beating out Clarion. Ellen Mayer '84was second all-around and Holly Gross'81 fourth.

Men's fencing opened with losses, toSt. John's and Yale, both by 11-16.Men's swimming started off with a lossto Colgate 44-69 and 63-50 win over Ar-my. Men's gymnastics opened 1-2, top-ping Oneonta and losing to Cortlandand Navy. Women's bowling was 2-0,on wins over Elmira and Binghamton.

The track teams were dominant in theCornell Relays before Christmas. LouMontgomery '81 won the 55-meter dashand tied for the hurdles title, RichOldrieve '81 won the 5,000, Jim Hertzog'81 the 3,000, and Rob Jones '81 thehigh jump, Dave Smith '82 the shot put,and Scot Martin '81 the weight throw.Women winners were Anne Farley '82 inthe 3,000, Sue Elliott '83 in the highjump, and the distance medley, 1,600,and 3,200 relay teams. The men alsowon their 1,600 and 3,200-meter relayevents.

A week later Steve Putscher '83 brokethe team indoor record at pole vault witha leap of 14 feet 6VΛ . —JM

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