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SPECIAL REPORT2 Cornell's New President BY DAN GROSS

The University of Iowa's Hunter Rawlings III will suc-ceed Frank Rhodes as Cornell's next president.

20 Ten AmazingStudentsBY BRAD HERZOGANDGEORGE BULLIS

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4 LettersOn our readers' minds: a poor tribute to Prof.Williams, boring campus landscaping and HaroldBloom's canon.

8 FacultyProf. Povinelli's peripatetic search for meaningand connections.

12 Letter from IthacaIt's -24° in Ithaca and we're wondering—whatwere we thinking?

15 StudentsThe new Latino Living Center is a high-profilesymbol of the campus debate on multiculturalism.

17 SportsThe Big Red football team won its first sixgames and lost its last four; other fallsports results.

43 News of Alumni

81 Alumni Deaths

84 Alumni ActivitiesFaculty speakers hit the road to bring theirexpertise to a Cornell Club near you.

88 CornellianaThorstein Veblen, one of the world's great socialcritics, honed his craft at Cornell.

68 Cornell Hosts

72 Professional Directory

83 Cornell Classifieds

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OUR NEW PRESIDENT

on Saturday, December 10, achill, charmless Ithaca day, the

Board of Trustees tapped a 49-year-oldclassicist to lead Cornell into the nextmillenium.

Hunter R. Rawlings III, the president of the Uni-versity of Iowa, will succeed President Frank H.T.Rhodes on July 1,1995 as the university's tenth presi-dent.

In a press conference Rawlings pledged to main-tain "Cornell's unusual combination of commitmentto the highest academic quality and a total commit-ment to service."

Members of the search committee said they weredrawn to Rawlings in part because the University ofIowa resembles Cornell. Like Cornell, it is a largeland grant university (27,000 students) and a majorresearch institution with graduate schools of business,law and medicine. "He's had exactly the relevant ex-perience we're looking for," said Faculty TrusteeJoseph M. Calvo, the William T. Keeton, PhD '58 pro-fessor of biology and a member of the 20-person searchcommittee that located Rawlings. "He's had to dealwith lots of different constituencies."

A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Rawlings graduatedfrom Haverford College in 1966 and earned his PhDin classics at Princeton in 1970. He then taught at theUniversity of Colorado, where he became vice presi-dent for academic affairs and research, and dean ofthe graduate school in 1984. In 1988, he was appointedpresident at Iowa.

The six-foot, seven-inch Rawlings has huge shoesto fill. Frank Rhodes has been an exceedingly popular

CORNELL'S PRESIDENT-ELECT HUNTER R. RAWLINGS 111

(LEFT) LISTENS AS PRESIDENT FRANK RHODES INTRO-DUCES HIM TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DECEMBER 1O.

president, who in the words of one trustee "restored theuniversity's faith in itself." His tenure—18 years whenhe retires—ranks behind only those of Andrew DicksonWhite (20 years) and Jacob Gould Schurman (28 years).But university leaders have sought to shield Rawlingsfrom comparisons to Rhodes. "I don't think we shouldtry to duplicate Frank Rhodes," said Stephen H. Weiss'57, who chairs the Board of Trustees.

Rhodes, who has known Rawlings for six years, calledhis successor "the perfect match for Cornell," praisinghim for "taking a principled position on issues rangingfrom inter-collegiate athletics to academic freedom."

In 1989, Rawlings got into hot water when he calledupon the University of Iowa to ban freshmen from com-peting in intercollegiate athletics. Iowa Governor TerryBranstad immediately rebuked Rawlings. When askedhis opinion of the Ivy League's decidedly un-Big Tenapproach to sports, Rawlings, who played basketball and

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baseball at Haverford, said, "I think the Ivy League doesit right, that it's responsible both academically and ath-letically."

Rawlings will havemore serious issuesthan sports to take upwith New York Gover-nor-Elect George Pa-taki. Cornell's statu-tory units rely uponAlbany for $129 millionin funding annually.During last fall's elec-tion campaign, Patakipromised to make upfor a 25 percent cut instate income taxes withbudget cuts. Moreover,Pataki will face a $4billion budget deficit in1995. But Rawlings'strack record has reas-sured Cornellians."He's been very effec-tive in bringing the in-terests of the univer-sity before the state,"said Professor Calvo.

University of Iowafaculty members de-scribe Rawlings's ten-ure as "peaceful" andgenerally free of up-heaval. In October1993, the university'sBoard of Regents

adopted a policy forcing professors to warn studentsabout sexually explicit materials that were to be used inclasses. Rawlings bucked the Regents, calling the policy"a serious mistake." Last January, with Rawlings's co-operation, the faculty drew up a compromise policy. "Ithought Hunter Rawlings did a fine job of articulatingthe interest of the university in a free speech issue,"said University of Iowa law professor David Vernon.

Although Rawlings's other main achievement wasreconfiguring the university's health-related operations,he is not merely a bureaucrat—he has taught an under-graduate course every semester he has been at Iowa."He realized that in order to really understand collegestudents, he had towith them in their territory," saidStudent Trustee Julie Crotty '85 (BA '87), a currentstudent in the Law school. At Iowa, he was known towander around campus and show up at student dormi-

tories unannounced.Rawlings is also a distinguished scholar. He was

editor of the Classical Journal from 1977 to 1983and is the author of several articles and a book, TheStructure of Thucydides' History (Princeton Univer-sity Press, 1981). Upon his appointment, he will begiven tenure in Cornell's classics department.

The search for Rhodes's successor was a gar-gantuan undertaking. Last March, the trustees as-sembled a search committee composed of trustees,faculty, staff and a student. Chaired by Paul Tre-gurtha '57, the committee sent out 150,000 lettersto alumni and friends of the university asking fornominations and advice. The process produced about450 nominees, which the committee quickly whittleddown to 25 before conducting interviews. "As wevisited other universities and asked their adviceabout Cornell, Hunter Rawlings's name came upmany, many times," said Tregurtha.

In mid-November, Weiss, Tregurtha andTrustee Patricia Carry Stewart '50 flew to Iowa Cityto meet with Rawlings. In early December, Rawlingsspent an entire day with the search committee inNew York City. Soon after, Tregurtha and Weissmet with Rawlings in Chicago.

On Saturday morning, Rawlings met with ad-ministrators, faculty, staff and students. The Boardof Trustees met at 11 a.m. and unanimously ap-proved his nomination. Rhodes formally introducedRawlings to Cornellians at a luncheon in the Statler,which was attended by former Presidents Dale R.Corson and Deane W. Malott and Rawlings's wife,Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, a French expert whocoordinates translations for the University of Iowa'sInternational Writing Program.

The committee set very high standards beforeembarking on its search. "We came up with a com-posite picture of what we were looking for," saidTregurtha. "And it looked pretty much like God."

If that's the case, God is lean and patrician look-ing, with carefully combed gray hair. At the luncheonfor trustees, the president-elect was remarkablyhuman, apologizing for his need to leave Ithaca"early" to visit his ailing father, who never com-pleted college. His voice cracked slightly as hedescribed the pride he would take in telling his fa-ther about the new job.

Said Rhodes: "The university will be in good andcaring hands."

—Daniel Gross '89

Look for an in-depth interview with Hunter Rawl-ings in the March issue of Cornell Magazine.


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Nobody Better. Period.No Exceptions.

Editor: As a Cornell graduate and theson of a Cornell graduate, I take greatpride in Cornell, and great interest inyour worthy and informative maga-zine. But I protest the shoddy articleby Daniel Gross '89 regarding theretirement of Professor L. Pearce Wil-liams '49, PhD '52 ("The Not Shy ButRetiring Prof. Williams," October).

First, the article is cheaply sen-sationalistic. It begins with informa-tion that at one brief time ProfessorWilliams carried a pistol on campus.Are you aware that there werecranks who threatened him, and thathe was the utter champion of all whowanted really free speech, and wasthus anathema to the farthest rightand farthest left?

Your article makes him look likea bit of an extreme conservative. Iwas a Vietnam veteran when I tookseveral courses from him, and Iwrote withering anti-Nixon analyses,especially about Nixon's incursioninto Cambodia. What did ProfessorWilliams do? He liked the essay somuch, in terms of its logic, that hepersonally forwarded it to the Presi-dent himself, and gave me an A+.Hardly a conservative, or far right,posture, I must say.

Second, the article seems to bewritten by someone who watches abit too much television. Gross thinksthat if he merely puts in equal unitsof praise and criticism it is balanced.And it is, if the person under reviewis bland in the middle spectrum ofachievement. But what do you do ifthe man is inspired and first-rate? Letme tell you one thing about Williams:I have four advanced degrees, allfrom Ivy League schools, and Wil-liams is the best college professor Ihave met.

Third: the article is not too com-petent, either. The writer makes areference to the fact that Williamswrote a biography of Faraday. Does

he bother to find out whether it isconsidered the definitive biography?Just reach for your New ColumbiaEncyclopedia and you will find thatthere are only two major biographiesof Faraday cited. It recommends anancient one by Thomas Martin—andone by Professor Williams.

I was rather proud to have theability to get grades in the A rangefor my master's degrees, my MPhiland my PhD, but I was always farmore proud of my single A in myWestern Civilization course, becauseProfessor Williams was my teacherin my discussion section for thatcourse.

My grand-uncle, who went toCornell, and my mother, who wasgraduated in 1933, and I would allhave expected a little better. Wenever saw anyone better than Wil-liams. Period. No exceptions.

Will Brownell '66, BA 7 1Medina, New York

STANFORD HOUSE FIRST

Editor: In reading the latest CornellMagazine, I noticed a mistake ("Na-tive American Alumni AssociationBegins," Cornell Magazine, October).The article's subhead, "Cornell hasthe only university program housefor Native Americans in the coun-try . . . " is incorrect. Before I cameto graduate school at Cornell, I wasan undergraduate at Stanford Univer-sity and lived in the Native Ameri-can "theme house" (as we called thevarious dormitories dedicated tospecific cultures). At that time (1984-86) and for years before then,Stanford's Native American housewas Roble Hall (which also housedstudents not affiliated with the Na-tive American program). The NativeAmerican residence program wasmoved to another house the yearafter I left Roble. I don't know the

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T H E CANON BLOOMED

Editor: Your article on Harold Bloomand his new book ("The Roar ofHarold Bloom's Canon," October)was very interesting. He considers26 writers "essential to his canon."It is interesting, however, that hedoes not include Homer, Pindar, theAthenian playwrights, Virgil, Ovid,Racine and others too numerous tomention upon whose works ourwhole civilization is based. Neverthe-less, his critical writing (as printedin your magazine) is very pertinent.It is true as he states "that intellec-tual rigor is on the decline." Non-rhyming compositions are called

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Although I was first repelled byhis attitude, he does seem to be a verytalented teacher, if not a genius. Heis a man not swayed by the opinionsof the moment, who has definite criti-cal standards to which he adheres.Cornell must be proud of him.

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BORING CRABAPPLES

Editor: If Central Avenue was oncelined with elm trees, I can't imaginea worse choice than a planting ofsycamores and pear trees to replacethem ("News," October). Did anyonethink about the constant litter pro-duced by the sycamores? Did any-one consider the tendency of flow-ering pears to break apart in snowand ice storms? Did anyone thinkabout the fact that pear trees areterribly overused? Doesn't anyonetalk to the floriculture and ornamen-tal horticulture department?

I returned to campus for the firsttime in nine years last summer andwas dismayed with the landscaping.For having such a great Ag college,Cornell's plant palette is limited anddull. The pathway from Tower Roadonto the Ag quad is barren; manytrees all over campus are sufferingdamage caused by construction. Thefew new plantings I saw were un-imaginative: the area outside thelarge glass window of Trillium wouldhave been ideal for a witchhazel col-lection, but we are stuck with threeboring crabapples.

At my Commencement, Presi-dent Rhodes promised to beautifycampus. Well, I hope he's going tobe busy planting in his last fewmonths, because Cornell needs a lotof work. Ithaca may be "gorges," butcampus is not.

Liz Dolinar '85Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

FRIGHTENING RESULT

Editor: Re: the story on the facultysurvey on priorities for the nextuniversity president ("News," No-

vember). What a frightening result!The fact that the primary mis-

sions of the university, i.e., under-graduate and graduate education,come out as no better than third inimportance for the university presi-dent in the view of the faculty showsjust how far Cornell seems to havestrayed from old Ezra's views, soclearly and proudly enunciated on theuniversity seal.

While it is useful to have facultyat the cutting edge of their fields inorder to provide the best educationto the students (and research activ-ity is one means of promoting that),research in and of itself is not theprimary product of the school. Edu-cated graduates and post-graduatesare. The faculty and the support staff,including the president, should beprimarily directed at advancing theschool's educational mission.

I believe that there is a place forthe pure researcher at the universityas a research associate, but theseshould not be designated as "faculty."Remember the concept of truth inadvertising.Martin H. Wohl '56, B Chem E '57

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Editor: I have enjoyed your recentseries "Cornell Across America"highlighting the Cornell "locations"in various states. Of special interest,of course, was Part II, concerningCornell, Wisconsin and Ezra's landpurchase in the west-central area ofthe state which led to a major endow-ment for the university ("Cornell-iana," October).

For the record, Wisconsin alsoclaims an Ithaca—in Richland County.

Richard R. Myers '50, MBA '51Janesville, Wisconsin

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With neither contacts nor intro-ductions to the Belyuen, she campedalone on the beach. Eventually, alocal schoolteacher asked her if shecould write grants for the tribe forearly childhood education. Knowingnothing about anthropology or child-hood education—and little about ab-origines—Povinelli went to the li-braries of Sydney. Within days shewas back, writing grants and work-ing for a Belyuen woman namedMarjorie, who later adopted Povinellias part of the tribe.

"I went to them, and they askedme, 'What do you want?' I said, Ίdon't know, what do you want?'" sheremembers. As an employee of theaborigines, and as someone whodidn't claim to know everythingabout them, she was accepted. Shemoved into Marjorie's house, one ina compound of 50 cinder blockhouses constructed by governmentcontractors. The three-bedroomresidences the Belyuen use as their

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The childhood games of huntingand gathering with siblings servedPovinelli well. "I got so bored in campthat I started going with the olderwomen to collect crabs," she says. "Icouldn't catch very many, but thenat the end of the day I'd trade bagswith one of the women and she'dcarry my small bag while I carried herlarge one." Today, as a white womanwho knows the bush, Povinelli helpsother white women—including in-spectors from the Australian depart-ments of welfare and education—togather information from the Belyuen.

Meeting the members of the Bel-yuen tribe in Australia was a turningpoint in Povinelli's life. When she re-turned to the United States, she wentto Yale, where she earned her PhD inanthropology. The fieldwork she hadbegun with the Belyuen carried overinto her thesis, which was publishedas Labor's Lot (The University of Chi-cago Press: 1993). After a post-doctoralyear at Emory University, Povinellicame to Cornell in 1992.

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On her last trip home, Povinelli'sadopted mother Marjorie told her, "Amonth and a half is too short. We'renot tired of you yet. Why not tellyourboss to let you come for a year? Thenwe'll be tired of you and you can goback." Her Australian family isn'timpressed with her academic creden-tials. "They'd much prefer to hearabout my family here in the UnitedStates than they would about mywork," she says. "My one [aborigi-nal] aunt always says, 'What is thatyou are? P. . . P . . . ' 'Professor,' I say.They see it as a big headache. That'swhy you're so skinny,' they tell me.They laugh and laugh at me. Theyalways say, 'Beth, when you camehere, you were a real mess.'"

Sitting on the beach one day withMarjorie and her family duringher first year in Australia,Povinelli began to cry. Whenthey asked her why, she told

them, "It reminds me of where I grewup. It doesn't exist anymore. It's areminder of the way environmentsare destroyed." It has also promptedher to serve as an expert witness inland dispute cases for the Belyuen.

Where finally does the professorbelong? As the blond, blue-eyedPovinelli tells her Belyuen family, "I'mnot black." They reply, "You're notwhite." For Povinelli, the contradic-tions demonstrate perfectly the inher-ent problems with identity and labels."They're too simplistic and dichoto-mous," she says. "Identities are lim-ited by the words available. I guess I'didentify myself as a hunter-gatherer."She shares memories of going into thewoods as a child and cutting the barbedwire fences installed by developers,in an attempt to thwart their work. "Iidentify with that, but there are nowords for it. I guess you could call me

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a kind of environmental terrorist, butthat isn't a label that's particularlyuseful either."

In the Belyuen culture, shepoints out, no one wants to act likethey're smarter than others. Show-offs are called "big-noses." But it isimportant in that culture to be use-ful. Members of the tribe exchangemoney and other goods. Povinelli'scontribution to Belyuen life lies in herrole as an expert witness in land dis-pute claims.

She is no less involved in her com-munity in Ithaca. Povinelli serves as amember of the Women's StudiesSteering & Executive Committee inthe Arts college, as well as the Les-bian, Gay and Bisexual Studies/Gradu-ate Studies Steering Committee forArts. She has also worked with under-graduate admissions. She is faculty co-ordinator of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender Alliance (LGBT).

Jess Cattelino '96, a coworker inthe alliance says, "Beth manages toincorporate her academic and politi-cal work as part of a broad commit-ment to her students and their needs.Her zeal for political activism and herenthusiasm for academic pursuitshave inspired countless students dur-ing her brief time at Cornell."

From New York, to Louisiana, toNew Mexico, Connecticut and Geor-gia, to Australia, and most recently,Ithaca, it seems Povinelli would behard-pressed to call any one placehome. "Home is not Ithaca," she says."I know the Belyuen in a richer waythan I know anyone. I have denserand more meaningful interactionswith them than with my birth family.We have a shared history of huntingand gathering, and a network of kin-ship which holds us together. I amclose with many members of my bio-logical family, but the interactions Ihave with my Belyuen family aremore intense and structured. I'm notjust a community member or familymember. With the Belyuen, it's allinterconnected." But despite herlove of Australia and her Belyuenfamily, Australia is not home either."Why don't I just stay there? BecauseI like writing, I like teaching. I reallylove my job. But I love what I dothere, too. I wouldn't love being justthere or just here. It's a nice fit."

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Passage and the North Pole, TheArctic Grail by Pierre Berton, andhow group after group of men setoff in frail wooden boats in search ofa route through the waters ofGreenland and northern Canada inthe 19th century. The accounts ofships frozen in place during longArctic winters, where there was nodaylight and little food, make for har-rowing reading. Men would go in-sane, hearing the huge mounds ofice groaning in the darkness.

Sometimes the vast silencewould push them beyond reason.

On the expedition of Sir JohnFranklin in 1845, nothing was heardof Franklin's two ships, Erebus andTerror, for three years. When expe-ditions went out in search ofFranklin, they began to uncoverrelics from the Franklin party thatled to a story of colossal tragedy. Ofthe 129 men in the Franklin expedi-tion, none were known to survive.

Pierre Berton quotes from thejournal of one explorer, Dr. IsaacHayes, who wrote in January 1861of the "endless and fathomlessquiet," of the Arctic. "Silence hadceased to be negative. I seem to hear

and see and feel it. It stands forth asa frightful specter, filling the mindwith the overpowering conscious-ness of universal death. Its presenceis unendurable."

In 1905, Ross G. Marvin Ό5 wenton the first of his two expeditionswith Commander Robert E. Peary tothe North Pole. Marvin would be shotand killed on the second expedition,230 miles from the Pole, in 1909. Butin January 1907, a writer for thismagazine said, "Mr. Marvin enteredCornell with the Class of 1903, butlost two years on account of ill health.He said that the year and a half whichhe spent in the frozen north was thehealthiest period of his life, and hefound the climate superior to that ofIthaca."

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. A car goes slowly by, heading inthe direction of downtown Ithaca.Except for its front and back win-dows, the car is covered by snow, andlooks like some kind of moon vehicleor a boat under the sea. The carseems like a vision of life trying toexist in an utterly hostile environ-ment, and at 4:00 a.m. the visionmight be something from a dream.

Back in bed the sheets haveturned icy, and your teeth actuallychatter as you curl into a fetal balland wait for your body to generatesome heat under the blankets.

Outside, the wind sighs andmoans, and moment by moment, thecovers grow less cold. In six monthsthe windows will be open at night,and the wind will move softly throughthe leaves on the trees, making arustling sound that will be almost awhisper. Libe Slope will be green,water will move easily throughCascadilla and Fall Creek gorgesonce again, and sunlight will reflecton the surface of the water like adance of light. Sunsets will lingerafter 9:00 p.m.

But for now it's the heart of theheart of winter, and the dead of night.The house feels stuck in snow andice, like some wooden boat in a placewhere it was never meant to go.

Outside, it's 15 below, and as youslide seamlessly into sleep, you feelwarm and protected. You feel almostpatient about the long wait for spring.

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STUDENTS

Life at the New Latino Living Centerhey're laughing at GoneWith the Wind. For abrief moment the ar-chaic racial stereotypesare a hilarious trip backin American history.

"Miss Scarlet, Idon't know nothin' 'bout birthin' nobabies," one student squeals.

But the mood quickly changes.Once most of the 35 students wholive at the university's new LatinoLiving Center on West Campus havecrowded into a student lounge for ameeting, the TV is shut off and theissues of race and culture take on aponderous seriousness. There's agood reason for this: many of thesestudents risked arrest to establishthe center during a three-day occu-pation of Day Hall in November 1993.Now they feel its survival hinges ontheir vigilance.

"We have been under a micro-scope from day one," says TaniaOrtiz '96.

The Latino Living Center, whichoccupies several floors in the Classof '22 Hall, is physically inconspicu-ous. But since it opened at the be-ginning of the fall semester it hasemerged as a high-profile symbol ofthe debate over culture on campus.For the university's undergraduateLatino population of about 730 (lessthan 6 percent of undergraduateenrollment) it is a highly cherishedfoothold, rallying point and informa-tion center on the predominatelywhite campus.

For the administration, though, itraises some potentially worrisomequestions. During the past severalyears, concerns have arisen about thecampus evolving into a Balkanizedexpanse of defensive enclaves. Muchof Cornell's minority population hasmigrated to North Campus. West Cam-pus, by contrast, remains overwhelm-ingly white, despite the recent estab-lishment of the Latino center there.

"Is this unique to Cornell?" asksSusan Murphy 73, PhD '94, vicepresident of academic programs and

Can separatehousing actually

make things moreequal?

student affairs. "I don't think so."But it is still not the kinder, gen-

tler campus of cultural mixing andsharing some administrators envi-sioned and have tried in vain to cre-ate. As a result, the Latino LivingCenter was the last special residencehall the administration approvedbefore it decided to circle its policywagons and reexamine the issue ofstudent housing. A proposal for a gay,lesbian and bisexual living center hassince been put on hold until housingpolicy is more clearly formulated.

Says Murphy, "We need to ad-dress basic philosophy and policyinstead of all these individual pieces."

Several years ago, the universityattempted to create more interactionamong cultures by proposing thatfreshmen be spread around campusin a plan that came to be known as"random housing." But many minor-ity students saw this as an attemptto dilute their cultural identity andpolitical power on campus.

What's more, this melting potphilosophy is outdated on today'smulticultural campus. The modelnow is a cultural gumbo: somethingof a stew where all the elements mix,but retain their origin's flavor. It wasno surprise then that the randomhousing proposal was met with ve-hement opposition and promptlyshelved, leaving administrators won-dering how involved they should bein determining where students live.

It's an issue that has apparentlyfound concerned parties off campusas well. Benjamin Chavis, the formerdirector of the NAACP, made a spe-cial point of defending the idea ofcultural residence halls during a re-cent campus visit. Chavis echoed the

arguments of many minority stu-dents who maintain these residencehalls are no different than theuniversity's numerous fraternities orsororities, many of which are essen-tially cultural houses for white menand women.

"Originally all the student houseshere were white houses," Chavissaid. "Now that other groups wantto have special houses, there is all ofa sudden a problem."

There is certainly nothing newabout the concept behind the Latinocenter at Cornell. The university hashalf a dozen other houses that cel-ebrate different cultures as well asemphasize various academic and ar-tistic pursuits. The Ujamaa Residen-tial College, which promotes Africanissues, is more than 20 years old andhas a national reputation in the Afri-can-American community.

Latino students also claim theircenter's image in the eyes of someas a cultural fortress on campus isgrossly exaggerated.

"This is not necessarily a politicalplace, but a place of learning wherepeople can come to find out more aboutus as people," says resident RafaelAndrade '96. "That's one of the rea-sons people came here."

The center and its events areopen to all students; residents saythey'd like to see more people of allethnic backgrounds turn out at theiractivities.

"Anyone can come celebratewith us," a woman resident said at arecent meeting. "Anyone can comedance with us."

Despite the name, there is noth-ing exclusively Latino about the livingcenter. Residents include a variety ofraces and cultural backgrounds: Latino,African, Asian and white. Some comefrom as far away as San Diego whileothers hail from Ithaca.

Perhaps one of the reasons someadministrators regard the living cen-ter with a bit of cautious skepticismis because it was born of the samekind of ethnic drama that shook

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Cornell in the late 1960s. It beganunder gray flannel skies one Fridayafternoon in November of 1993 andended 72 hours later when students,exhausted and many in tears, left DayHall after a highly-publicized occu-pation of the building.

The sit-in was touched off byvandalism done to a piece of Latinoartwork displayed on the Arts Quad.The work, a series of eight-foot-highbarricades painted in black tar called"The Castle is Burning," had beendefaced with a swastika and thewords "Get the Hell Out."

Latino students saw the graffitias an attack on their culture and werefurious.

Their anger first manifested it-self as a gathering on the Arts Quadwhere students locked arms andblocked others from passing near thedefaced artwork. From there, theyfollowed a well-worn path to DayHall. Like so many other demonstra-tors before them, they entered, madetheir way to the president's office andissued their demands.

"We're students like everyoneelse," said Andrade. "We have radi-cals like everyone else."

T he first request was a meetingwith top administrators. Butmost of them were in Philadel-phia celebrating the centennialof the Cornell-Pennsylvania

football rivalry.Feeling stonewalled, the stu-

dents set up camp in Day Hall, wherethey would live for 72 hours on po-tato chips, bagels, coffee and cat naps.

From the start of the upheaval, thestudents displayed a knack for publicrelations and media leveraging. Theyknew the last thing administratorswanted was news coverage of minor-ity students being carried out of DayHall, or worse yet, wrestled out inhandcuffs. So it became vital to holdthe media's attention.

Shortly after the occupation be-gan, phones to Day Hall were cut off,so walkie-talkies were used to getinformation to newspapers and radioand television stations. Statementsof support from students at otheruniversities were read aloud from thewindows of Day Hall. Students atSyracuse and Columbia universitiesheld supportive rallies.

Supporters who lingered outsidethe building joined the demonstra-tors in periodic chanting sessionsthat often evoked the 1969 armedoccupation of Willard Straight Hall byAfrican-American students.

The occupation finally endedwhen student leader Eduardo Pe-ήalver '94, now a Rhodes scholar atCambridge University [see p. 20,Cornell Magazine, March 1994],agreed to meetings with administra-tors. Those talks eventually pro-duced the Latino Living Center.

Residents there are intenselyproud of their mission to promoteLatino culture on campus and pro-tective of their new home. Inherentlysuspicious of the media, they tightlycontrol all information. Interviews inthe living center, including thisreporter's visit, are conducted onlyafter approval of the entire group.Unpopular lines of inquiry are dis-couraged.

There are no immediate threatsto the living center, but the univer-sity has yet to work out any sort oflasting housing policy. With Presi-dent Frank H.T. Rhodes on his wayto retirement after the spring semes-ter, administrators want his replace-ment's ideas to figure prominentlyin any new housing policies so therewon't be any changes anytime soon.

But as administrators set aboutthe task of defining the Cornell ex-perience and implementing it fromthe top down, groups of studentsclearly are already creating their ownCornells from the bottom up. Andfrankly, they don't understand theadministration's concerns about this.

"If the administration has a prob-lem with that, then they need to re-assess what Cornell is, and who theywant to include here," says XiomaraPadamsee '96, program coordinatorat the center.

Latino and other minority cam-pus groups claim they just want alittle space where they can let downtheir guard and be themselves. Whilesome administrators see this as adisturbing trend toward campus in-sularity, proponents maintain the endresult is just the opposite. The waythey see it, nothing promotes togeth-erness on campus like a little sepa-ration.

—John Yaukey

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SPORTS

Chad Levitt '97

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I t had all the makings of a magicBig Red football season—at leastthrough 60 percent of it. CoachJim Hofher's squad started outthe year with a 31-16 Homecom-

ing victory over Princeton and thenfollowed with five more heart-stop-ping victories in a row.

At Fordham, the Red defenseforced a fumble at the Cornell one-yard line with 49 seconds remainingto hold onto a 13-6 triumph. AgainstLehigh, the defense grabbed fiveturnovers, including a last-minuteinterception, in a 21-17 victory.Tailback Chad Levitt '97 rushed for227 yards, including a one-yardtouchdown dive with 1:06 remaining,as Cornell beat Harvard 18-13.

Trailing Bucknell 28-19 with justover five minutes remaining in thegame, the Red came back to win 29-28 on a 41-yard field goal by JohnRodin '97 with 11 seconds left.Against Dartmouth, the Red pulledout another cardiac comeback—PerLarson '95 hit Aaron Berryman '95with a 14-yard touchdown pass in thegame's final minute. The 17-14 vic-tory put Cornell squarely atop the IvyLeague standings at 3-0,6-0 overall;the team was off to its best start since1971.

Then the magic was gone.By closing out the season with

four straight losses—to Brown (16-3), Yale (24-14), Columbia (38-33)

and Penn (18-14)—the Red finished6-4 overall and tied for fourth (3-4)in the league. Cornell actually ledundefeated Penn 14-0 early in thefinal game, but this time the Red wasa comeback victim.

Levitt starred throughout theseason, rushing for 1,319 yards, thefifth-highest total in school history.Only Ed Marinaro '72 ever carriedthe ball more times in a season thanLevitt's 275 rushes in 1994. Theperformance of backup tailback TerrySmith '98 was nearly as impressive.Smith rushed 118 times for 671yards, a Cornell freshman record.

Larson completed 76 of 154passes for 1,092 yards, while backupSteve Joyce '96 connected on 38 of68 attempts for 414 yards. Berrymanwas their favorite target with 36 re-ceptions and 565 receiving yards.Linebacker Bryan Draga '95 ledCornell with 125 tackles, followed byJohn Vitullo '95 (118) and GarrettGardi '95 (110). Safety Chris Hanson'95 recorded a team-high 12 tacklesfor a loss and eight interceptions,which tied a school record.

Levitt, Berryman and Hansonwere named to the All-Ivy first team,while Draga, defensive end DickEmmet '95, defensive tackle SethPayne '97, offensive tackle JeffGilkinson '95 and offensive guardMike McKean '95 received second-team honors.

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Here's what happened in otherfall sports action:

Lightweight football. Were it notfor the military academies, the BigRed (2-4 overall, 1-3 Eastern Light-weight Football League) might haveconsidered it a successful season.Two victories over Penn (17-13 and29-25) and a narrow loss to Princeton(19-14) were accompanied by lossesto Army and Navy by a total of 132-14. Jon Roth '96 led the team with502 rushing yards. Quarterback PaulO'Connor '96 completed 53 of 113passes for 688 yards, many to JoshHamilton '95, who led the team with21 receptions.

Women's soccer. After recordinga 9-7 regular season record (4-3 IvyLeague), the women booters savedtheir best for last, making it to theECAC finals before suffering a heart-breaking 3-2 defeat to Monmouth inthe championship game. Lori Penny'96 recorded a team-best 10 goals,followed by Tasha Fleury '95 andAmy Duesing '95, who had fiveapiece.

Men's soccer. With victoriesagainst only Army and Oneonta, themen booters struggled to a 2-10-3mark (0-5-2 Ivy League). AdamoNotarantonio '96 and Eric Kusseluk'97 paced the team with three goalsand one assist apiece.

Volleyball. For the first time since1990, the Red volleyball team failedto capture the Ivy League crown,being eliminated by Yale in the IvyTournament. Cornell, 12-8 last year,dropped to 8-17 and 3-4 in the league.Outside hitters Janelle Kenny '96 andVicky Schmidt '95 led the team with266 and 240 kills, respectively.Kenny also recorded a team-best 242digs. Carol DeZwarte '98 was theteam's defensive star, with 66 blocks,while setter Adrienne Greve '96contributed 752 assists.

Field hockey. It was a streaky roadto .500 (7-7-1,3-3 Ivy League) for thefield hockey team. The Red went 3-0-1 in its first four games, lost thenext five, won four in a row, then lostits final two. Freshman Cari Hills '98led the squad with 20 points on sixgoals and eight assists. She was fol-lowed by Jeannette Viggiano '97 (5-4-14) and Tara Lamb '95 (6-0-12).Goaltender Stacey Scavo '95 re-corded an .866 save percentage and

four shutouts.Cross-country. The women harri-

ers placed third out of nine teams atthe Heptagonals in October and theneighth out of 35 squads at the ECACChampionships. Laura Woeller '95repeated as individual Heps cham-pion, turning in a time of 18:14 over3.1 miles. Woeller placed 12th at theECAC Championships, recording apersonal best (17:32). She also placedfirst in the Red's first meet at theRobert Trent Jones Golf Course, asthe women harriers outran Syracuseand Army in their only dual compe-tition of the season. The Big Redtopped 16 other teams at the Ford-ham Invitational, led by first-placefinisher Kate Walker '97, and finishedeighth out of 14 teams at the NationalInvitational at Penn State. The menwere fourth at the Heptagonals, ledby Carl Anstrom '95, who placedthird by covering the five miles in25:07. Anstrom placed 29th at theIC4A Championships two weekslater, as the Big Red (2-1 in dualcompetition) finished 14th out of 35teams.

Tennis. The women's tennis teamwon the New York State Tourna-ment, but failed to defend its title(placing fifth) at the ECAC Champi-onships. Olga Itskhoki '96 (see page31) was a semifinalist at the PennState Invitational and lost in the fi-nals of the No. 1 singles bracket atthe ECAC Championships. She madeit to the round of 16 at the Rolex/Intercollegiate Tennis AssociationChampionships. On the men's side,No. 1 singles player Tom Brownlie'98 went 1-2 in dual competition and5-3 in tournament play. Brownlie andNo. 1 doubles partner Hans Nichols'97 won 10 of 15 matches. The menplaced ninth at the ECAC Champi-onships.

Golf. The Big Red golf teamplaced eighth at the Cornell-ColgateInvitational and second of 11 teamsat the St. Bonaventure Invitational,led by Dave Zinkland '97, who shota 74 and placed second overall. Thatwas followed by a third-place finishat the Lehigh Invitational. The teamfinished 17th out of 23 squads at theECAC Qualifier at Colgate, led byChris Simms '97, who carded a 79and placed 35th.

—Brad Herzog '90

Men's Cross Country(2-1) cumulative record

IC4A Championships 14th

Women's Cross Country (2-0)ECAC Championships 8th

Football (6-4)Yate 24, Cornell 14Columbia 38, Cornell 33Penn 18, Cornell 14

Men's Soccer (2-10-3)Yale 3, Cornell 2Cornell 2, Penn 2

Women's Soccer (9-7-2)Cornell 2, Yale 1Cornell 3, UMBC 0Cornell 2T Colgate 0Monmouth 3, Cornell 2

Women's Volleyball (8-17)Cornell 3, Canisius 0Cornell 3, Lafayette 0Cornell 3, Harvard 0Princeton 3, Cornell 0Yale 3, Cornell 0

Men's Basketball (0-1)Lehigh 105, Cornell 89

Women's Basketball (1-1)Hofstra 50, Cornell 46Cornell 70, UMBC 47

Men's Hockey (2-3-1)Cornell 5, Dartmouth 5Cornell 3, Vermont 2Harvard 4, Cornell 2Brown 4, Cornell 2Toronto 3, Cornell 2Cornell 6, York 3

Women's Hockey (1-4-0)Cornell 3, Boston College 2New Hampshire 10, Cornell 1Harvard 4, Cornell 2Brown 10, Cornell 3Providence 8, Cornell 3

Men's Squash (0-2)Pennsylvania 9, Cornell 0Princeton 9, Cornell 0

Men's Swimming (2-1)Cornell 138, Pennsylvania 103Yale 136, Cornell 102Cornell 129, Army 114

Women's Swimming (1-1)Pennsylvania 136, Cornell 102Cornell 157, Yale 104

Wrestling (2-1)Cornell 57, Wagner 0Cornell 27, Bloomsburg 6Brown 26, Cornell 9

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ATTENTION:Cornell Alumni & Friends of Athletics

Did you know? The following actions canrender a student-athlete ineligible for intercollegiatecompetition:

• Speaking or writing to a prospective stu-dent-athlete (9th grade or above), theirparents, or coach, about Cornell Universityand its athletics program.

• Providing an "extra benefit" (e.g. meals,transportation, lodging, tickets, gifts, etc.)to a current or prospective student-athlete.

• Forwarding game films or transcripts ofprospective student-athletes to a memberof the Cornell coaching staff.

Play it SafeThe National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)prohibits alumni, donors, and other "representatives ofan institution's athletic interests" from participating inthe recruiting process, or providing benefits to enrolledstudent-athletes. Before you jeopardize the eligibilityof a student-athlete, and risk sanctions against CornellUniversity, please contact the Department of Athleticsto find out what is permissible within NCAA guide-lines.

The NCAA has extended a limited exception to insti-tutions that have traditionally utilized alumni in therecruitment of all students. Therefore, members of theCornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN) may be assigned to interview prospectivestudents who are also athletes, but may contact themonly within the normal context of their committeework. CAAAN representatives must treat prospectivestudent-athletes in the same manner as all other pro-

spective students, but maynever provide a prospective stu-dent-athlete with an "extra ben-efit"(see above definition).IVY

^LEAGUE

How can I help?

• The most constructive way you can supportCornell Athletics is to become involved ina team's "Friends" group. This way, youwill get the inside story on what is happeningat Cornell, and have an opportunity tocontribute to the overall success of CornellAthletics.

• If you know of an outstanding student-athlete that Cornell might be interested in,contact the appropriate coaching staffmember at Cornell. You can provide thecoaching staff with newspaper clippings orrelevant statistics. Let the coaching stafftake it from there, because you may notcontact the prospective student athlete.

• Remember, Cornell University is first andforemost an institution of higher educa-tion. One of the best educational experi-ences for our student-athletes is a summerinternship or job. If you know of a jobopportunity, please contact the athletic de-partment to provide us with the details andwe will notify you of students that areinterested.

For questions regarding NCAA regulations,you can be involved in Cornell Athletics,contact:

Virginia AugustaAssistant Athletic Director

Compliance and Student ServicesCornell Department of Athletics

Campus Road, Teagle HallIthaca, NY 14853-6501

(607) 255-8874

or howplease

If you

think today's

Cornell

under-

graduates

aren't like

they used

to be,

you're

right-

they

just

keep

getting

better and

better.

Meet ten

of them

and you'll

find out why.

20,076 applications . 3,104 freshmen 461 transfers . . . 54 percent male• 46 percent female 28 percent from outside the Northeast... 10 percentlegacies . . . 28 percent African-, Asian-, Hispanic- or Native American . . .S percent international . . . 83 percent from the top tenth of their highschool classes 87 percent scoring above 600 on the math SAT etcetera. . . etcetera . . . etcetera.

S o goes a synopsis of a Cornell Magazine article describing the newest classto enter the university—in the fall of 1994—telling how impressive the groupis, as strong or perhaps stronger than any that preceded it.It's reassuring to know that we continue to fulfill the

university's goal of an undergraduate student body of high quality anddiversity. But for the 16 years I served in admissions at Cornell and

especially the past nine as dean of admissions and financialaid, I've had a love-hate relationship with such information.

Despite how impressive these figures are, they simply don't do justice tothe character of the entering class, nor do they convey the reality of theadmissions review process that selects each new class. Simply describing thenew students by quantifiable data reduces their accomplishments to a very

limited set of numbers and restricts the sense of who they are. It also conveys an im-pression that the selection process only considers such limited factors and eschewssuch things as character, leadership, contribu- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ tion to communityand ability to work with others. It could give the impression that

we choose students who only perform well on standardized tests andearn high grades. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Not only have the students excelled in high school, but they'vealso contributed significantly to their communities.It's no surprise, then, to those of us who have the pleasure of workingwith them on a daily basis, that they have had an even greater influenceon the world here at Cornell.

Yet just how does one convey the breadth of this involvement or thedepth of their commitment? Earlier this year, someone at the office

asked me to give a few examples of the "typical Cornellian." I knew from the very

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question itself that it was a new staff member asldng it. If ever there was an oxymoron, "typicalCornellian" is it. The range of our students' intellectual interests, the multiplicity of their

extracurricular activities and their backgrounds preclude the possibility of cap-turing the character of Cornell undergraduates in any simple way. Yet as soonas I explained how hard it was to answer such a question, I knew I was reducingthe ability of that staff member—or anyone else—to understand the nature of ourstudents.

The extent of a Cornell undergraduate's involvement, both intellectual andpersonal, can seem unreal. When one graduating biology and society majorfinished recounting her many activities (sorority president, research assis-tant with a faculty member, president of pre-professional society, CornellTradition fellow, to name a few) to a group of alumni, one alumna askedin disbelief just how all of that activity could be scheduled into agiven week. The young woman, who was graduating a semesterearly, proceeded to provide a lesson in time management and the use of daily plannersthat would have made ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ an executive proud.

The ten students profiled on the pages that follow are simply anexample of the talent, vigor and commitment that fill Cornell's classesand organizations. Not every undergraduate has reached the level of ac-complishment or involvement achieved by these particular students, andwe all know there are days, weeks or sometimes even months wheneven the most capable just can't seem to get it together. But from Cornell's 13,439

undergraduates we could easily have selected another ten, or another,or another, and the stories would be every bit as engaging and inspir-ing. I hope these profiles give you a sense of just who our currentstudents are, so you can see beyond the numbers. Mostly, I hope theyinspire you to return to campus to meet the students and to get involved withthe many ways alumni and current students can connect.

If ever you needed hope for the future—of Cornell and the larger world—read on. And resteasy. -Susan Murphy 73, PhD V4

The former dean of admissions and financial aid, Susan Murphy is the university's vice pres-ident for student and academic services.

A special

section

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1995

21

The AU-Eveiything

Jennifer Evans '9

Meet Jennifer Evans,

All—Ivy rower, A-student

and proof that a body

in motion tends to

stay in motion.

BY BRAD 11 l iί/.Oί.

There are more than 600 muscles in the hu-

man body, and it seems that Jennifer Evans

'95 is trying to work each and every one of

them. It is not yet 9:00 on this March morn-

ing in which the calendar's rumor ofspήng-

time is belied by snow, and Evans has es-

caped the chilled climate by working up a sweat in the

Teagle Hall Olympic weight room.

Bench presses, military presses, leg extensions, leg

curls, front and back lat pull-downs. Biceps, triceps, back

extensions, seated back rows. Dead lifts, sit-ups, push-

ups. All this after having already spent nearly two early-

morning hours studying for a quiz in Animal Science 300:

Animal Reproduction and Development.

Before most Cornellians have managed to shift their

minds and bodies into gear, Evans has put both into over-

drive.

Some 300 years have passed since English philoso-

pher John Locke published Some Thoughts Concerning

Education in which he wrote, "A sound mind in a sound

body is a short but full description of a happy state in this

world." Today, Locke's ideal manifests itself in the form

of the student-athlete.

As an A-minus pre-veterinary student at an Ivy League

university and perhaps the most experienced member of

a national-championship-caliber women's crew7, Evans is

exactly what Locke had in mind.

She and Cornell's other student-athletes are a par-

ticularly pure form of the breed. Cornellians face impos-

ing academic hurdles, and the athletic fields become a

means to supplement rather than sidestep the classroom.

It is not only Evans's academic and athletic success

that sets her apart, but her motives and methods as well.

The 21-year-old doesn't drink or smoke, doesn't miss a

lecture or a reading assignment, doesn't shy away from

educational challenges or volunteer work and doesn't take

her Cornell experience for granted. In short, she is one of

only a handful of Americans who could run five miles,

write an essay on organogenesis and then (possibly) ease

through a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Says Evans, one often Cornellians selected to the 1993

Spring Academic All-Ivy team, "I just want to succeed.

I'm not happy sitting around. Γm very unhappy getting

B's and C's and not doing the best I can all the time."

Much of that motivation is rooted in her upbringing.

Raised in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, an affluent town

on the north shore of Long Island, Evans's house was just

barely inside the borders for Cold Spring's school district.

"My family didn't have the money that the majority of the

people did," she says. "Even though I felt excluded a lot

of the time, and I wasn't able to go with the jet set, it was

good because it gave me a lot of independence from the

group. It made me more self-reliant and self-assured."

Her father, Bob, was manager of corporate market

research and analysis at Grumman Data Systems, but he

was forced to retire after undergoing major heart and colon

surgery. Her mother, Barbara, works as a secretary to make

ends meet. Her brother, Robert, is attempting to start his

own landscaping business.

"They think it's fun that they're going to have a 'pro-

fessional' in the family," says Evans.

The lecture room in Olin Hall is almost full by the time

Evans walks in and takes her place in the second row. Her

animal reproduction quiz went well, but the trip from

Morrison Hall down Tower Road to Olin for the oceanog-

raphy class was a bit more challenging. Evans pedals her

bike from destination to destination, regardless of the

weather, to save time, and today she has been dodging

snowβakes the size of Buicks.

Evans takes copious notes for three-quarters of an

hour on a lecture about flagellates, diatoms andphytoplank-

ton. As the lecture draws to a close, the lights are dimmed

and a brief film is shown. Evans can't help but crack a

smile. The film, starring a selection of small shήmp, is called

Dressed to Krill.

There were 159 people aboard Avianca Airlines Flight

52 on January 25, 1990, the night Evans decided what

she wanted to do with her education. The Boeing 707

prepared to land at New York's Kennedy International

Airport in dense fog, after circling in a holding pattern for

nearly 90 minutes. It was perilously low on fuel.

The flight, thousands of miles from its point of origin

in Colombia, was only 15 miles from its destination when

all four engines suddenly died. The jet descended through

the fog, then crashed through trees and broke apart on a

hillside in Cove Neck, just a short distance from Cold

Spring Harbor.

A volunteer emergency medical technician, Robert

Evans was called to the scene. Jennifer Evans and her

mother followed him, avoiding police blockades by sneak-

ing through backyards and woods. The image Evans saw

when she arrived will remain with her forever. Bodies

were stacked on top of bodies amid the twisted metal;

dazed survivors stumbled away from the wreckage; those

still trapped inside screamed for help.

"It was a lot worse than we could have ever imag-


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Says Evans about the dog

ined," Evans remembers. "I wanted to help immediately

because there were so many victims and so few ambu-

lance workers. They were just starting to drag bodies out

and get things set up. My mom told me to stay away, but

this one woman was screaming, and I knew a little bit of

Spanish."

Evans ran to the wreckage and held the woman's hand.

As the night progressed, she found herself holding IV bags,

asking victims where they hurt, helping move them to the

triage area and onto helicopters. She was handed colored

tags to place on the crash victims. Green meant put a

blanket over them and worry about them later; yellow

meant injuries requiring more urgent attention; red meant

high priority cases that needed to be dealt with immedi-

ately.

There were far too many red tags and far too many

victims beyond help. In all, 73 people died in the crash.

More than 50 others were critically injured. Yet Evans

turned the experience into a personal mission, transform-

ing a tragedy into a passion for knowledge. "The two main

things I remember from that night," she says, "are that I

wanted to learn more Spanish and I wanted to be able to

help. I just want to know how to fix something when it's

gone really wrong, fix something that's alive."

When she arrived at Cornell, Evans decided to merge

her newfound medical passion with her love of animals

and so became an animal science major. She finished all

of her undergraduate and pre-veterinary requirements in

three years instead of four and applied to Cornell's Col-

lege of Veterinary Medicine one year early. This year, she

is both a first-year vet student and a senior undergraduate

student.

It should now come as no surprise that in the spring

semester of 1994—while taking courses in reproduction,

oceanography, physics and plant pathology; while acting

as a teacher's assistant in a genetics class; while filling out

loan applications as an expression of financial self-reli-

ance; while participating in a grueling intercollegiate sport

requiring year-round dedication-Evans also has made time

to volunteer once a week to assist veterinary clinical sci-

ence Prof. Arleigh Reynolds '83, DVM '86, PhD '92 in a

study examining the nutritional requirements of sled dogs.

(See Research, September.)

Says Evans about the dogs, "It's amazing how much

energy they have."

After weaving through the lunchtίme crowd at the

Trillium dining hall on theAg Quad, Evans takes her typical

noon meal of pasta and an apple to Morrison Hall, where

she eats while studying for another animal reproduction

quiz. After the exam, the class views a short film demon-

strating the proper way to artificially inseminate cows and

then walks to the Teaching and Research Barns to make

use of that knowledge.

The barns smell, well, like barns. The one cow there

has drawn the unfortunate role of serving as a practice

bovine for a few dozen students. Evans, despite her love of

animals, is a bit reluctant. She is not a big fan of cows.

Dogs, yes. Cats, sure. But not cows. And especially not this

end of cows.

But practice makes perfect, a notion Evans has discov-

ered again and again.

About 100 would-be rowers usually appear at the first

women's crew meeting of the year, and immediately Coach

John Dunn '73 can tell that about two-thirds of them

shouldn't even be there. "But we don't discourage them,"

says Dunn. "Slowly, the work level increases, so the

majority of people stop coming. Some who keep coming

aren't really gifted as athletes. Others are pretty good."

Only occasionally is Dunn greeted by a freshman who

has rowed previously, and though experience is hardly a

prerequisite—Dunn calls crew "the one sport in which you

can come to Cornell with no experience and perform at

a national level"—it is certainly an advantage. Much of the

novice year, after all, consists of merely learning how to

row.Evans already knew how to row when she arrived on

the Hill in 1991, having competed with her hometown's

Sagamore Rowing Club since she was 15. But Evans was

first and foremost a soccer player. She had played the

game since age 6 and had captained a three-time state

champion squad at Cold Spring Harbor High School. Yet

when it came time to choose a sport at Cornell, she chose

crew. Her knees had been bothering her, she wasn't quite

prepared to take on a full athletic schedule in the fall, and

besides, she explains, "I knew that if I rowed I'd see Jer-

emy more."

Jeremy is Jeremy Rawlinson '92, a research assistant

in the College of Engineering who rowed on Cornell's 1992

national champion lightweight crew. They have known

each other for nearly eight years and plan to be married

this July 2. For Evans, constantly improving herself in

various arenas, the relationship has come as a welcome

constant needing no improvement. "In a way, it's taken a

lot of pressure off me just knowing that I'm going to be

with someone I really love," she says. "It's given me extra

confidence and made me a little more bold in some ar-

eas.It also provided Evans with another set of eyes to cri-

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"It's amazing how much energy they have."

tique her rowing technique and another will to push her

through the training regimen. The result? Evans became

the only freshman in Dunn's 14-year tenure to row with

the varsity in the national championships. Evans and the

rest of the boat earned silver medals at the meet.

Much of the squad's success can be attributed to the

athletes' willingness to spend hundreds of hours practic-

ing for only minutes of actual competition. Indeed, be-

tween perfecting technique and staying in excellent physi-

cal condition, rowing offers an imposing test of stamina.

With a handful of 2.5-mile "head" races in the fall, the

grueling practices in the winter and about a half-dozen

2,000-meter sprints in the spring, there is no off-season.

"You have to keep really high intensity all year," says Evans.

"You never get a break. You never get time off."

vans has met the challenge despite an ap-

parent size disadvantage. Cornell provides

heavyweight and lightweight crew at the

men's level, but there is no Big Red light-

weight women's program. At just over five-

foot-seven and about 145 pounds, Evans is

essentially a lightweight rower in a big person's sport. Says

Dunn, "In order to compete on an equal level with people

bigger than she is, she just has to be better."

Evans is sitting in the first seat of the first boat in Teagle

HalΓs rowing tanks. Her attention is focused entirely on the

task at hand, on the rhythm and technical precision of her

movements. In reality, the tanks aren't moving anywhere.

In her mind, she is cruising.

The goal of this afternoon's practice session, according

to Dunn, is "100 minutes of work, keeping the heart rate

steady at about 150 or 160." This translates to 30 minutes

running the stairs of Barton Hall's towers and two relent-

less 20-minute sessions in Teagle Hall's rowing tanks,

followed by a 30-minute exercise circuit to keep the heart

pumping and work any muscles that may have escaped the

day's exercise barrage.

Evans finishes the workout and explains how she's

managed to overcome another mini-obstacle—a moderate

case of asthma. "Ifind it's actually better when Γm doing

this," she says, pointing to a collection of teammates in

various states of cardiovascular exertion, "than when Γm

just lying around."

The thing Evans points to first to explain her love of

rowing turns out to be unexpected from a woman who

oozes individual accomplishment. "It's the teamwork," she

explains, "the way you all have to be in the boat together.

I mean, some people are better than others, but you can't

be a star. Your boat is only as strong as its weakest link."

A championship crew steers through as many intan-

gibles as currents. Rowing is as much a test of psychologi-

cal tolerance as physical endurance. "Crew is very men-

tally challenging because you have to learn how to deal

with pain and you have to push yourself through things

you're not sure you'd ever want to push yourself through,"

says Evans.

"When I first started rowing varsity races, I honestly

thought I was going to die. It hurt so bad. I couldn't breathe

at all. But you learn that you're not going to die, and you

change your thinking. You push yourself until you know

you can't go any further. You learn how to pace yourself

up to that point, and that point should be the end of the

race.In her desire to push herself further, mind and body

are even more than complementary. Each relies on the

other for support. Just as crew is a physically demanding

sport with important cerebral foundations, veterinary

medicine is an intellectual pursuit bearing many physical

requirements.

"Rowing makes it so much easier to handle the ani-

mals," she explains. "Being strong gives me a lot of con-

fidence, and I think sometimes the confidence gets picked

up by animals. They're more relaxed around you because

they know you're in control."

The same can be said of Dunn's willingness to con-

sider Evans for the stroke position in the shell this year.

The rower closest to the coxswain, the stroke guides the

boat's rhythm throughout the race. The stroke rate (strokes

per minute) within a boat will change as a race progresses,

and the cadence starts at the stroke seat and works its way

through to the back of the boat. It is the stroke's respon-

sibility to set the pace for the rest of the crew.

All of this bike-riding, weight-lifting, quiz-taking, film-

watching, cow-prodding, stair-climbing and pace-setting has

made Evans hungry. So she pulls dinner from her back-

pack—a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She has a 7:30

p.m. oceanography lab to prepare for. There is no time for

a sit-down meal.

Evans slings the backpack over her shoulder and heads

off into the night. Her pace is quick. Wasted time, after all,

is wasted talent. H

Brad Herzog VO is writing a book about the 100 most

influential people in the history of American sports. It

will be published later this year by Macmίllan.


25

The following nine

profiles were wήtten

by George Bullίs '94,

a Teach for

America worker in

Los Angeles. Erin

Harty V5 provided

research assistance.

The Wίsh-Granter

T iffany Bangs '95 was 11 years old when doc-

tors told her she had aplastic anemia, a ter-

minal bone-marrow disorder. Ten years later,

Bangs is using the lessons she's learned liv-

ing with the disease to help children who

face similar life-threatening sicknesses.

Bangs's illness went into remission; she and her par-

ents thought the battle was over. Three years later, when

she was a high school freshman, her symptoms returned.

She was rushed back to the hospital.

At a time when her spirits were the dimmest, the Make-

A-Wish Foundation changed her life. The foundation,

which helps to fulfill the dreams of terminally ill children

as well as kids with life-threatening diseases, offered Bangs

the opportunity to make a fantasy come true. She didn't

need to think long to come up with her

wish: to meet and dance with Michael

Jackson. Soon she was on a plane to a

Chicago concert. The singer called her

up on stage to dance with him. "It didn't

create a lasting friendship, but it really

gave me the boost I needed," Bangs says.

"It made a really big impact."

Her spirits improved; the disease went

back into remission. Bangs became a vol-

unteer for the organization in her native

Seattle. In the summer of 1993 she de-

cided to contact the group's central New

York chapter with her idea to form a

Cornell student branch to support the

program. She named the group "Student

Wishmakers" and held a membership

drive that attracted 50 members. Their

first fundraiser netted $1,000.

She recently helped grant wishes to

two sick children. "That's when my ex-

perience with Make-A-Wish came full

circle," she says. "It was special for me to

see the same look in their eyes that the

wish-granter had seen in my eyes." But she can't escape

the reality that not all the children may survive, she says.

"I'm a rarity. There are very few wish children who are as

healthy as I am. A lot of them lose their battles."

Bangs says she's learned that "if you can create a

positive attitude, anything is possible." It's a philosophy

that helps her in her role as president of Pi Beta Phi

sorority; it also shows in her plans to become a medical

anthropologist, studying the interaction between the hos-

pital environment and doctor-patient relationships.

Although her disease is still in remission, Bangs says

she never forgets that it could return at any time. "I have

plans and I believe that I can fulfill them," she says. "But

I recognize that I may not get there. That's why I work

every day to make as much of a difference as I can."

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w hen her chemistry professor asks students to take out their calcu-lators and solve a problem, Mari Morimoto '96 yells out the answerbefore her classmates can unzip their backpacks. A whiz with aJapanese abacus, Morimoto has learned to do math in her head andspit out the answers faster than seems possible.

"I can go to the supermarket, get 15 items, add them up andfigure the tax, all in my head," says the 20-year-old from Manhattan. "For mostsimple stuff, I'm faster than a calculator. It's a great party trick."

A student in Arts and Sciences, Morimoto is a prototypical participant inthe College Scholar Program, which frees as many as 40 Arts students per classfrom distribution and major requirements. While studying anthropology andpreparing to go to veterinary school (Morimoto has already been accepted intothe Vet college's Class of 2000), she's involved with more than a dozen studentgroups and activities. She's run for student-elected trustee, and is a collegeambassador, a supervisory orientation counselor and a member of the CornellJapanese Animation Society, among others. She's also a professional translatorof Japanese comic books. Her friends say Morimoto's varied classes and unusualgroup of hobbies makes her sort of a Renaissance woman. Eventually, she wouldlike to travel the world working with animals from endangered species.

Morimoto was born in Japan andcame to the United States with her par-ents before her 1st birthday. "I'm quitean Americanized woman," Morimotosays. "But I like to represent Asian is-sues on campus." She speaks Japanesewith her family, and her homeland's cul-ture is an important part of her life. She'san active member of the Japan-U.S. As-sociation and likes to help break stereo-types that Americans hold about theJapanese. "A lot of people today thinkof businessmen in suits who work them-selves to death," Morimoto says. "That'snot always true. Japanese people do havelives."

Morimoto averages only about 4.5hours of sleep each night, but she saysshe can handle the deprivation. Some-times, when she has a lot of exams orpapers due she gets frustrated with allof her activities, but she can't imaginegiving up any of them. "I think it's be-cause I do all of them that I'm me," shesays. "I treasure everything I do."

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Ήie Old Guy

Coasting up to Statler Hall on his Yamaha mo-

torcycle, 30-year-old John Hardesty '95 looks

more like a professor than a senior in the

School of Hotel Administration. As an older,

non-traditional student, the slightly balding

Hardesty often serves up advice to his younger

classmates. "I tend to end up the leader of any group

project Γm involved in," he says.

Hardesty wasn't always the scholar he is now. When

he graduated from Ithaca High School in 1982, continu-

ing his education was the last thing on his mind. He worked

as a chef in area restaurants, then attended the Culinary

Institute of America (CIA) to hone his cooldng sldlls. It

was there that he decided to move beyond the kitchen

and began to consider studying at Cornell.

Although he had done well at CIA, Cornell

admissions counselors expressed concern with

Hardesty's less-than-stellar high school record,

and initially denied his application. But he took

some extramural Hotel courses and got straight

A's. He was accepted as a full-time student, and

now approaches his education as if it were a

full-time job, something that requires his com-

plete attention each day.

But Hardesty is no grind. In the spring of

1993, he was on a team of Cornell students that

won the first-ever Wine Challenge, the College

Bowl of viniculture in which contestants answer

obscure questions about the history, geography

and culture of wines. "I got to be kind of a wine

geek while I was at CIA," Hardesty says. "It's

amazing how many different areas of academia

are combined into wine knowledge."

Hardesty also enjoys helping to show oth-

ers the pleasure wine can bring. For the past

two years, he's been a teaching assistant for the

introductory wine class in which some 850 un-

dergraduates enroll each semester. "I don't know if there's

anyone who comes out of there without at least an appre-

ciation of wines," says Hardesty, who plans to design res-

taurants after graduating.

He's also involved as a leader in the Mature Under-

graduate Hoteliers Association, a support group of about

75 older students. "What I want to get out of Cornell may

be very different than what a 17- or 18-year-old freshman

wants," he explains.

When Hardesty's not on the Hill, he likes to drive

around town on his motorcycle or cruise Cayuga Lake on

friends' sailboats. While he likes to have fun, he tries not

to overdo it. "I like to enjoy things as they happen,"

Hardesty says. "Fresh herbs and a great bottle of wine that

costs less than $10 are enough to make me happy."

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Coming from the streets of Brooklyn to bucolic Cornell was a bigchange for Tonya White '96. But after more than two years on theHill, White, 20, has found a home. "This is where I belong now,"she says.

As a black student, White has focused much of her energy onhelping other minority students. "When I came to Cornell, I was

showered with a lot of support from minority organizations," White says. "That'swhy it's important for me to be involved in minority organizations now." Shechairs the Third World Student Programming Board, an organization that helpssponsor events dealing with all minority groups; she's also vice president of theMinority ILR Student Organization. But despite her involvement and friend-ships, she says sometimes it's still difficult to be black at Cornell. "I've beenin classes where I'm the only minority student, and I've felt like I had to defendmy whole race," she says. "And that's not fun."

Her activity in minority issues drew her to participate in last fall's 60-hourtakeover of Day Hall by students demanding a Latino living center and im-

provements to the Hispanic AmericanStudies Program, as well as last spring'scommemoration of the 25th anniver-sary of the Straight takeover. White saysshe thinks it's unfortunate that thingshaven't changed more radically on cam-pus. "I think it's sad that 25 years later wehad to take over Day Hall to demand thesame thing for another minority group,"she says.

White's life isn't all work and noplay. Every Saturday night she kicksback as a disc jockey for WVBR's ur-ban music "Street Beat" program,which features rap and rhythm andblues. "I like the personality that comesout on the air," she says.

Although she's focusing her stud-ies on human resource managementand labor law, White's not sure whereher future will lead her.

Wherever life takes her, White isconfident she'll be successful: "I'm go-ing to leave here a lot stronger, and Ididn't come in as a weakling. I can't waitto see the woman who leaves Cornell."

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The Innovator

ast May, on the morning of a solar eclipse,most students stopped what they were do-ing and tried to view the spectacle from vari-

» ous vantage points around campus, most ofi them on the quads. Engineering student

Catherine Charlton '95 had a different plan.With a small group of friends, Charlton climbed to the topof McGraw Tower to get a better view of the celestial ac-tivity.

Her effort to get just a little bit closer to the event thanother students characterizes Charlton's approach to hereducation, too. The 20-year-old from Charlottesville,Virginia is in Engineering's College Program, where shewas able to combine her love of both music and engineer-ing to create her own major: acoustics. "I had developed

such a passion for my music and I really wantedto tie together my interests and get a Cornelldegree out of it," Charlton says. "It just comesdown to Ezra Cornell's vision of studying any-thing you want."

Charlton enjoys playing the piano but doesn'twrite down her compositions, keeping themtucked away in her head so that each time sheplays one it changes just a little. "It's my vent forall my emotions. I just sit down and pour out allof my feelings," she says. "When I don't get toplay, I just feel empty." Last spring, Charltonpresented a concert of her original work en-titled "A Celebration of Orange." She dressedin orange for a week to entice friends to cometo the performance. It did the trick: 50 showedup to hear her.

Charlton's no one-note acoustics major, how-ever. Her other interests include synchronizedswimming and playing in with the Gamelan En-semble, a campus group that plays Javanesemusic. Last summer she worked as an intern forProcter & Gamble in Cincinnati. She also stud-ied in Germany sophomore year.

Charlton's accomplishments haven't gone unnoticed.Last semester, Glamour magazine named her a winner ofits 1994 Top Ten College Women competition. She got a$1,000 prize from the magazine and was featured in itsOctober issue. Perhaps more prestigious, however, washer being named a Tau Beta Pi Laureate, sort of a PhiBeta Kappa for engineers. The award honors engineeringstudents who demonstrate exemplary scholarship andcharacter.

Although she's in her senior year, Charlton hasn't yetset a specific plan for the future. She says she realizes thather interests change quickly, but loves learning and find-ing fresh adventures. "I think that I'll always be tryingnew things," she says. "If my life gets too static, I know I'llget bored."

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Olga Itskhoki '96 has come a long way since her first night oncampus. Having arrived one day before the start of her transferstudent orientation, she carried her heavy suitcase to the StatlerHotel, where she stayed alone and dreamt about how her lifewould unfold in this strange place. The 20-year-old had justmade the long journey from her hometown: Moscow.

"I was not at all comfortable with myself when I came here," Itskhokirecalls. "I was lost and hopeless. I felt all alone." But a little more than a yearafter her arrival, Itsldioki says she's become accustomed to American life andthe rigors of Cornell. "I just feel like I can do whatever I want to do now," saysItskhoki in perfect English. As a child, the agricultural economics major at-tended a school that focused on teaching English.

While keeping up with their studies is exhausting for most transfer stu-dents, Itskhoki wanted to play tennis as well. Because she wasn't recruited,

Itskhoki remembers that CoachLinda Myers was a bit skepticalabout her abilities when she in-troduced herself. "When I first mether, she was in sunglasses andlooked pretty imposing," Itsldiokirecalls. "She gave me such a look,but finally told me about try outs."

The coach's skepticism wouldsoon dissolve as Itskhoki becamethe team's number one singlesplayer—last season she posted a29-8 record, was undefeated in IvyLeague play and was 72nd in theNCAA rankings—and coach andathlete began to joke about theirfirst meeting. 'Once she sets hermind on something, she's verydetermined," Myers says.

Itskhoki spends much of hertime answering questions abouther hometown and trying to breaksome of the stereotypes Americansstill have about Russians. Onesuch myth is that the entire formerSoviet Union is a frigid place."Most people think of a Russiawhere we have winter nine monthsout of the year, where people al-

ways wear fur hats and warm themselves with vodka," Itskhoki says, smiling."But Ithaca is usually colder than Moscow."

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The Real Person

Debbie James '95 learned a valuable lessonabout Cornell—and life—early in her stayon the Hill. "No matter how much you haveto do, you need to take time for yourselfand do the things you like," says James,noting that there are lessons to be learned

in places besides libraries and lecture halls. In that sense,then, James is studying hard: she's a cellist, pianist andsinger, rides horses and skis, and also devotes time to hersorority, Alpha Phi. "I can't see the point of just comingup here to study and lock yourself away in the library,"James says, criticizing her more studious classmates. "Youreally learn so much outside the classroom."

Although she has a wide range of interests,her favorite diversion has always been music,she says. She started playing the cello at age 9and soon was playing the piano and singing, too.She's a member of the University Chorus andthe Nothing But Treble female a cappella group.She recalls many times when she's shut the doorbehind her in a practice room before a stressfultest and let her music shut off the rest of theworld. "Music has always been my first love,"she says. "It's like an emotional outlet."

"I think I decided to come to Cornell whenI was about 4," jokes James. Her dad, the lateChuck James '57, might have had something todo with the decision. Debbie remembers beingdressed for first grade in Big Red T-shirts, and

detouring to Ithaca on drives from her Short Hills, NewJersey home to her grandparents' house in Rochester.

James plans to go to medical school. A College Scholarin Arts and Sciences, she's been able to combine herinterests and study the psychology of music. "Combiningtwo of my interests is really fulfilling," she says. "It's beena real education to see that two such different things canfit together the way they do."

Next up for James: applying to medical schools. Itdoesn't look as if James should worry about her future,though. She's well-covered in what she says is one of themost important things med schools are looking for. SaysJames: "They want to see that you're a real person."

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Ask Jordan Berman '95 about one of his great Cornell momentsand the self-described class clown talks about the time he triedto sell President Frank H.T. Rhodes a pair of shoes. "That's thething about shoes," Berman says." They're the great equalizer.Everybody wears them. Even Frank."

He didn't make the sale, but it's one of the few the ILRsenior has missed. Berman, 21, has been an ace salesman at Fontana's Shoesin Collegetown for three years. He landed the job after selling owner SteveFontana '79 on his reKability and initiative. At first skeptical about hiring astudent, Fontana soon realized that Berman was the right guy for the job."Jordan has a lot of irons in the fire, but he's been able to juggle his lifesuccessfully," says Fontana.

Berman, from West Nyack, New York, is a Cornell Tradition scholar, aprogram which repays loans after students work a minimum of 250 hours anddo 75 hours of community service during the academic year, while holding uptheir grades. He chairs the group's student advisory council. He is also thesecretary/treasurer of the ILR student government association. Though Berman

enrolled at Cornell intending to goto law school, he now thinks hewants to work in human resourcemanagement or business before de-ciding if he wants to study law.

Things have changed dramati-cally since Berman was a studiousfreshman. Last year, he decided toform a band—Solar Potpie—withfriends. They cut a demo tape andplayed at The Nines in Collegetown.

Berman remembers using thenegotiating skills he learned in hisILR classes to deal with his neigh-bors' complaints about noise. Themoment he returned from winterbreak, he shoveled the house's stair-way. "I told them they didn't haveto break their necks on the stairs,and by the way, I got a drum set,"Berman laughs.

Berman has one more goal toaccomplish before graduating inMay: "Before I leave Cornell, I wantto sell shoes to Carl Sagan. I wantto explain what Gore-Tex is."

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The Bridge Builder

"Whengoofingwalkedme."

hen Ed Tori '95, a white student from Phila-delphia, walked by Ujamaa Residential Col-lege as a freshman, he decided he wanted tounderstand why some people reacted strangelywhen they walked by the African-Americantheme house. So he moved into the building,

we were coming back from parties laughing andaround, everyone would get quiet when they

by Ujamaa," Tori says. "That just really bothered

As one of only two white students living in the dorm,Tori says he became a representative of the black stu-dents to his white friends, a position for which he wasn't

quite ready. "I would walk by with a group ofmy friends from Ujamaa and people would locktheir car doors," Tori says. "I found out who mytrue friends were. There were some white stu-dents who wouldn't come to visit me."

Tori says he enjoyed being able to break thestereotypes that some of his friends had formed,but didn't want to become a preacher. "I don'tlike to force my view on people," he says. Histime in Ujamaa taught him to consider all as-pects of situations and developed his critical-thinking skills. Although he started out atCornell as a chemistry major, he soon changedhis major to Africana studies.

Tori is one of 600 Cornell Tradition fellowsand a leader in the program. He says the Tra-dition is one of the reasons he can afford toattend Cornell. On campus, he chairs the CornellTradition's student service committee and is vicechair of the student advisory council and worksbetween 10 and 25 hours weekly in theorganization's office.

When he's at home during the summer andon breaks, he works two and sometimes three

jobs to support his education. His parents divorced whenhe was 12, and since then he and his mother have had towork as a team to make ends meet, he says. "Through alot of trials and tribulations, it was just me and my mother,"Tori admits.

While it has sometimes been difficult to support him-self through college, Tori, who's a member of the Quill &Dagger senior honor society, says it's worth it: "It makesCornell more rewarding for me." Tori plans to enter medi-cal school and become an inner-city doctor in either Phila-delphia or New York. "Every time I walk by the clocktower, I get choked up that I'm here. I would really ratherbe no other place on earth." H

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cer chemo-

therapy. To

find them, it's

estimated that drug companies syn-

thesized 5 million compounds and

tested about 300,000 of those. Usu-

ally they started with some natural

product—an extract from a rain-forest

plant, perhaps—then made com-

pounds with similar chemical structure,

trying every possible variation—an extra carbon here, a phosphate group there, and so on.

Today, the search is on for drugs to treat AIDS, and nothing much has changed. One recent project screened some

30,000 rain-forest plant extracts and found one possible drug candidate. Chemists will synthesize and test thousands

of variations of that one compound in the hope of finding a cure for the disease.

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The Laboratory for Structure-BasedDrug Design brings scientists togetherfrom disparate parts of the university

to search for new drugs.

But a group of Cornell scientists

believes there might be a better way

to find new drugs.

The old way, to oversimplify, was

to pour a drug on a cell culture and

watch what happened. The cell was a

black box, and we didn't know or care

much about what happened inside,

or how the drug did its work, as long

as it affected the cell in the desired

way.

The new way grows out of the

new bioscience, our new understand-

ing of how the molecules of life, such

as enzymes, hormones and cell re-

ceptors, do their jobs. We now know

that most drugs are chemicals shaped

to lock onto key sites on those huge,

complex molecules, either interfering

with their work or enhancing it. And

we can make three-dimensional pic-

tures of the molecules and see how

and where drugs attach to them.

Knowing the shapes of the "binding

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sites," we might deliberately engi-neer new compounds to fit. This newapproach is called "structure-based"drug design. It isn't a totally new idea.According to Prof. Steven Ealick,who has joint appointments in bio-chemistry and molecular and cellbiology, almost every pharmaceuti-cal company uses it to some extent.

Ealick is a specialist in X-raycrystallography, a way of makingthose pictures of molecules. Whenhe arrived at Cornell three years agohe realized that the university offeredunique resources for drug-designresearch.

One was the Cornell High-En-ergy Synchrotron Source (CHESS),which could produce extremely"bright" X-rays, making some kindsof crystallography relatively easy andfast. Ealick, in fact, is director ofMacCHESS, a facility for crystallog-raphers working on large molecules.(The "Mac" in MacCHESS stands formacromolecular.)

Another was the Theory Center,where supercomputers could ana-lyze the incredible amount of datacrystallographers generate and cre-ate three-dimensional computer-graphic images of the results.

The most important resourcewas what Ealick calls a "constella-tion" of people with the right skillsand interests. He found two othercrystallographers working on largemolecules: Prof. Andy Karplus, whohas joint appointments in biochem-istry and molecular and cell biology,and Jon Clardy, the Horace Whiteprofessor of chemistry. Such a con-centration is unusual: there are onlyabout 100 large-molecule crystallog-raphers in the world.

Ealick also met Bruce Ganem,the Franz and Elizabeth Koesslerprofessor of chemistry, who special-izes in synthesizing organic mol-ecules and has an interest in drugdesign. [See "Elvis Lives and Other(Near) Scientific Truths, "April 1993Cornell MagazineJ

Finally, Ealick pulled in DavidShalloway, the Greater Philadelphia

professor of biologi-cal science. Shallo-way is a theoreticalphysicist "convert-ed" to the life sci-ences; his contribu-tion would be to ana-lyze the way organic molecules be-have based on the electrostatic forcesbetween atoms.

It was, Ealick says, an incrediblylucky combination of people and fa-cilities. He notes that there are onlytwo other X-ray sources equivalentto CHESS in the country: atCalifornia's Stanford Linear Accel-erator, which is far removed from theStanford campus, and at BrookhavenNational Laboratory on Long Island."This is the only place in the worldwhere you have the synchrotron andthe supercomputers together in anacademic environment," he says."And we have the BiotechnologyCenter."

With the support and encourage-ment of Peter Bruns, director of theDivision of Biological Sciences,Ealick formalized the group as theLaboratory for Structure-Based DrugDesign, a part of the Program in Mo-lecular Structure in the BiologicalSciences division.

T he laboratory has launchedseveral formal projects instructure-based drug de-sign, including a search forAIDS drugs and compoundsto attack the parasites thatcause malaria and sleeping

sickness. It is one of seven groups inthe country receiving special fund-ing from the National Institutes ofHealth for a structure-based ap-proach to AIDS research. (Clardy isnot officially involved in these par-ticular projects. "I was on a lot of thegrant proposals that weren't funded,"he says wryly. His own research in-cludes trying to learn how immune-suppression drugs work.)

The target of most drug-designwork is enzymes, and like most in-

When you insertthe key, the lockchanges shape,and maybe the

key changesshape, too.

teresting moleculesin living things, en-zymes are proteins.Proteins begin theirexistence as chainsof small moleculescalled amino acids,

strung together according to a codedsequence in a cell's DNA. After achain of amino acids is formed it foldsinto a complex shape, something likea piece of string knotting into a wadas you twist the ends in opposite di-rections. Sometimes other atoms areadded later; for example, the iron thatgives hemoglobin its ability to holdand transport oxygen through thebloodstream. Sometimes water mol-ecules become part of the structure.

Just how the folding processworks is still one of the great re-search questions, but the result is alarge molecule consisting of thou-sands or even hundreds of thousandsof atoms. In a computer-graphicsdisplay showing the atoms con-nected by symbolic sticks, it looks alittle like a bent version of one ofBuckminster Fuller's geodesic con-structions with the inside filled in.

A scientific dictionary will tellyou that enzymes are "catalysts," aword chemists use to describe some-thing that makes a chemical reactiongo faster without being changed it-self. But in microbiology, it might bebetter to think of them as machinesthe moving parts of which are atoms.

Somewhere on the surface of thebig, lumpy enzyme molecule is asmall region, maybe only a hundredor so atoms, that does the actualwork; all the rest of the huge mol-ecule is there mostly to hold thatsmall region in its proper shape. The"binding site" is shaped so that acertain other molecule or moleculeswill fit into it. For decades, scien-tists—or at least science writers—have been describing this fit as be-ing "like a key into a lock." But if itwere really like that, structure-baseddrug design would be a snap.

"When you insert the key,"Ealick explains, "the lock changes

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shape, and maybe the key changesshape, too."

Biochemists call whatever fitsinto the binding site a "ligand." Asthe ligand docks, charges push andpull. Atoms in the binding site moveout of the way. The enzyme may bepushed into moving to admit theligand like a clam opening its shell.Atoms in the ligand slide around untilthe ligand finds its best fit. At the endof the process, the shape of every-thing may be very different.

One of the Laboratory for Struc-ture-Based Drug Design's targets isan enzyme called purine nucleosidephosphorylase, which occurs natu-rally in human cells. Normally thisenzyme does a housekeeping job,recycling purine, one of the compo-nents of the DNA chain. Unfortu-nately, the new AIDS drug dide-oxyinosine (ddl) looks a lot like theenzyme's usual target, so the en-zyme takes ddl apart before it can doits job. The "half-life" of ddl in apatient is about 18 minutes. But if itwere given along with a purinenucleoside phosphorylase "inhibitor"it might stay around long enough tobe effective.

The first step in building an in-hibitor is to get the three-dimen-sional structure of the enzyme, usu-ally through X-ray crystallography.When a protein is crystalized (a dif-ficult chemical trick in itself), manyprotein molecules are lined up inperfect order, equally spaced, all fac-ing the same way. Shining a beam ofX-rays through the crystal producesa sort of abstract design called a "dif-fraction pattern" from which a com-puter can draw a picture represent-ing a single plane through the crys-tal. Rotating the crystal gives a dif-fraction pattern on a different plane.From a series of such pictures, thestructure of the protein can be re-constructed, and a computer cangenerate a picture on a special ste-reoscopic video display. The three-dimensional images can also be pro-jected on a large screen in a theaterin the Biotechnology Building. Drug

Drug designers (clockwise from upper left) Karplus, Shalloway, Ealick andGanem view one of their molecular creations through the special gogglesthat allow images to be seen.

design is still more a hands-on artthan a science, and the theater is apowerful teaching tool.

Images of the enzyme and acandidate drug are both displayed onthe screen. By turning a few knobs,a viewer can move them around, turnor tilt them. Researchers can "dock"the drug on the enzyme's binding siteto see how well it fits. Then, theycan have the computer make changesin the drug's structure, trying tomake it fit better.

Ganem and Ealick did this withpurine nucleoside phosphorylase."Steve showed me an inhibitor thatwas the best one known until now,"Ganem recalls. "We docked it in theactive site and spent about a day try-ing to improve it. You could see thatcertain parts of the drug were reach-ing into certain corners, but some

were too short. Say it needs anotherinch on the screen—that would beabout half an angstrom in the realmolecule. Maybe we can get that byinserting an extra carbon."

The pair then set Marcus Bou-tellier, a post-doctoral researcher inGanem's lab, to work on synthesiz-ing the new molecule they had de-signed, a job that may take severalmonths. What he makes may or maynot bind to the enzyme in the waythe computer predicted. To find outfor sure, Ealick will do new crystal-lography runs on the enzyme withthe drug molecule bound to it. Thisis, it turns out, much simpler thanfinding a new structure from scratch;once the structure of the enzyme it-self is known, the structure of theenzyme with a drug bound to it canbe found in about a week.


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The process re-peats in a loop. "Wemake, they crystallize,we propose, we makethe next generation,they crystallize,"Ganem sums up.

Andy Karplus is using a similarapproach to develop drugs to kill thesingle-celled parasites that causedevastating tropical diseases likemalaria, Leishmaniasis and Chagasdisease. Like human cells, theseparasites can be damaged by oxygen,and like human cells they have amechanism that converts oxygen towater and disposes of it, using mol-ecules called anti-oxidants. The para-sites seem to depend on an anti-oxi-dant called trypanothione. After amolecule of trypanothione detoxifiesan oxygen molecule, an enzymecalled trypanothione reductase pre-pares it to do the job again. If thisenzyme were put out of action thetrypanothione would quickly be tiedup, leading to the death of the para-site due to oxygen damage.

Human cells use similar mol-ecules called glutathione and glu-tathione reductase. They are justdifferent enough that Karplus be-lieves he can design a drug that willinhibit typanothione reductase in theparasite without affecting its humanhost. The ability to look at the struc-ture of the molecules, he says, makesit easier to draw this fine design dis-tinction. If it were that simple, ofcourse, everyone would be doing it.

One of the problems is that thecomputer simulations are far fromperfect. The stick figures on thescreen are rigid. In the real worldeverything is changing shape as at-oms push and pull at one another."Sometimes you look at a moleculeand think it will bind like this," saysKarplus, pushing a fist into an openhand. "And it actually goes in likethis." He turns the fist 90 degrees.

Worse, atoms themselves neverstand still, but vibrate constantly; youshould think of a molecule as atomsconnected not by Tinkertoy sticks,

not by Tinkertoysticks, but ratherby Slinky springs.

but rather by Slinkysprings, with thewhole thing shaking.And in the real worlddocking takes place inwater. Some watermolecules just have to

get out of the way; others are looselybound to the surfaces of the mol-ecules. Some may stay and becomepart of the final complex.

This is where David Shalloway,'53-55 Grad, comes in. Shalloway'soriginal training was in theoreticalphysics, but he has harbored a life-time ambition to be part of medicalresearch, a result of his having beencured of "incurable" cancer at the ageof 6. He started in physics doing post-doctoral work at Cornell under NobelLaureate Kenneth Wilson [theformer James A. Weeks professor ofphysical science and director of theTheory Center—who left Cornell in1988]. But Shalloway eventuallyfound his niche in the application ofcomputer simulations to life-scienceproblems. "In those days," he ex-plains, "there were few biologistswho knew what a computer was. Thepeople who worked on it with themwere all converted physicists."

In theory, a computer should beable to simulate the binding processby calculating the movements of at-oms based on the physical forcesbetween them. But with the motionscaused by these atomic forces allhappening at once, the problem is fartoo complicated for even today'ssupercomputers.

To get an answer in less thanthree months per problem, program-mers use approximations, probablythe worst of which is assuming thateverything stays rigid. Shalloway istrying new kinds of approximationsthat take the "looseness" of atomsinto account.

"If I push on one end of a mol-ecule, the impulse is transmittedthrough to the other," he says. "WhatI'm really interested in is the timefrom when I push to when it comesout the other side. There are a thou-

sand steps in between and the onlything people know how to do right nowis simulate all those thousand steps."

Instead, he looks at a larger "sizescale." To illustrate, he pushes histhumb into a cushion. "If you triedto explain this at the atomic level itwould be very complicated, but I candescribe it [mathematically] by treat-ing the cushion as a uniform elasticsubstance," he says.

Shalloway hopes to get a computerdisplay in which the user could movetwo molecules together and "theywould deform before your eyes."

F or now, all this depends onhaving something to de-form—a candidate drug thatsort of fits. The ultimategoal, everyone agrees,would be to have the com-puter design the drug mol-

ecule from scratch. This would re-quire not only figuring out the rightshape, but also deducing what chainof amino acids would fold into thatshape. The folding problem is oneKarplus and Shalloway are alsoworking on, as are researchers allover the globe. So far, no one haseven a clear understanding of howknown chains fold into knownshapes, let alone how to work back-ward from shape to chain.

"We can only dream about that,"Shalloway says.

While the possibility of curingdeadly diseases is exciting, everyonein the group plays it down. If theyfind useful drugs, they say, that willbe icing on the cake, but their realjob as basic researchers is to pioneerand improve the techniques of struc-ture-based drug design. "We are nota pharmaceutical company," Ganemsays. "[We've chosen] these targetsbecause they're just great targets.We hope to find new chemistry alongthe way, and demonstrate the powerof the team approach." H

William Steele '54 is a freelancewriter who lives in Ithaca.

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Class Notes^\ Λ As we begin the 71st year after

I Λ we received our sheepskins,m 11 your c l a s s officers hope it will be

m i ^ M a good one for all of you. Tog j W those of you who responded to* • ^ the annual News and Dues let-ter, we give added thanks. To those fromwhom we have not yet heard, we hope thatwe will hear from you soon. Otherwise, wewill reluctantly have to discontinue sendingyou Cornell Magazine. We don't believe youwant this to happen, so please take a fewminutes to send your check for dues to yourclass treasurer at the address shown at theend of this column.

Here's more on the career of DavidTraub: Upon the establishment of NATO,he became the first United States logisticsand materiel planner for its Standing Group(US, Great Britain, and France). His nextassignment was logistician of the KoreanCommunication Zone, where he was in-volved in negotiations with the North Ko-reans and the Chinese at Panmunjom.

In 1954 David was promoted to briga-dier general and assigned to Tokyo as chiefof civil affairs and military government forthe East Command—the principal areas ofsupervision being labor relations with Japan,economic aid to Korea, and social problemsin Okinawa. He then became commandinggeneral of the Fourth Armored DivisionArtillery at Fort Hood, TX, and a year laterwas promoted to major general and assignedto the Pentagon as director of the ArmyBudget. In 1960 he became Comptroller ofthe Army, with rank of lieutenant general—a position he held until he retired at age 60(a regulatory requirement) in 1962. In thenext issue we'll have an excerpt from Rog-er Egeberg's book, The General. The bookis a report of his World War II experiencesas General Douglas MacArthur's personalphysician and aide-de-camp. • Max Schmitt,RR 5, Box 2498, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Katherine "Monty" Montgomery Cook,who, because her husband had been in theArmy Medical Corps, found she was eligi-ble to live at the Air Force Village in SanAntonio, TX, has moved there. She is clos-er to both her daughters, one of whom livesin Santa Fe, NM and the other at Stanford,CA. They take turns visiting her and usual-ly rent a car while there and drive her about.Monty and Ernestine Marksbury Baker'25 took a couple of Caribbean cruises to-gether and when Monty first moved to SanAntonio she took over the job of arrangingtrips to the San Antonio Symphony and wasvery active until she reached 92, when, shesays, her damaged bones all developed ar-thritis and she had to give up driving—whichshe finds very frustrating.

Martha Signor Bier, who is happily sit-uated in the independent-living section of asenior citizen's home in Silver Spring, MD,writes that they have activities there, includ-

ing lectures on comparative religions andanthropology, given by retired college pro-fessors. They also have slide lectures onpainting and as they are in the Washington,Baltimore area, with its wealth of museums,they are able to visit museums at least oncea month. I have heard from Ruth Oviatt,Esther Goodman Hersham, and LorettaCoffey Persky with their class dues, but nonews. Please, please do let me know whatyou are doing, thinking, planning. I will soonneed more material or there will be no '24women's column! • Flo Daly, 91 Old Win-throp Rd., Augusta, ME 04330.

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You probably read theinvitations, in theSeptember and Octo-ber issues of thismagazine, to send inyour e-mail address

for the directory of university and alumni e-mail addresses which the magazine expectsto make available by June 1995. Class cor-respondents also received a memo askingwhether they wished to be listed in the"alumni" section of the directory as well asthe "correspondents" section; it seems thatsome correspondents are including their e-mail addresses as part of their column by-lines. Of course a progressive class like oursmust not lag behind the rest of the world,so your reporter has made the necessaryarrangements to permit our constituents tosubmit their fast-breaking news directly viathis new medium. You'll find a brand newe-mail address below, following my ancientpost-office address—which still works, beassured. In fact, unless you have one ofthose techie grandchildren between 10 and20 years of age, you'll doubtless find it agreat deal easier to stick with the old ball-point and US Mail. But if you want to staywith the trend, and especially if you have aneligible grandchild available to assist withthe mysteries, you can bring us the latestnews from Houston, Helsinki, or Hong Kongin minutes, and save from 29-50 cents post-age. All you need is a computer, a reason-ably up-to-date word-processing program,and some communications software. At thispoint I may as well confess that, as an in-corrigible gadgeteer, I've had a computer ofone kind or another for a dozen years,though I long ago stopped trying to keep upwith the ever-increasing complexities of thebeasts; and the e-mail business provided avalid excuse to try the alleged wonders ofthe so-called Information Superhighway. Solet's see how it works.

Meanwhile, my copy of the good oldNews and Dues letter—and presumablyyours—arrived about two weeks ago, justtoo late to percolate down to this depart-ment for the current deadline. We shouldbe in business for the next issue, however.And don't forget the direct options alwaysopen, including the new electronic marvel.


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The old electronic marvel still operates, too.Should you be in town to celebrate the elec-tion or anything, you'll find us in the North-ern Virginia book, toll free. • Walter South-worth, 744 Lawton St., McLean, VA 22101;e-mail, [email protected].

^ j | ^ | Happy 1995; may you all have aI I good year. Elizabeth "Ginny"

m m Lawson Churchman continuesm I her extensive traveling. She en-g J I joyed a trip to Mexico early last^•" ™ year and a visit with her hus-band's English cousin in Mexico City. Thiswas followed by an Elderhostel program inHelena, MT and a tour of Mt. Rushmore,Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and SaltLake City. A fall and a cracked ankle bonedo not deter her; she plans an Elderhostelprogram at Endicott College near Boston inFebruary.

Mary "Polly" Enders Copeland had agreat trip to Portland, OR, in July, "a newterritory for me; beautiful country; the for-ests are gorgeous." Ruth "Bonnie" BohnetJenkins again enjoyed a summer at LakeGeorge. Her granddaughter, Laura Miller'91 was married to an engineer from Port-land, where they now live. Her grandson grad-uated from Boston U. in May and now worksin Aspen, CO. Laura's mother is Bonnie'sdaughter, Dr. Jean Keller Miller '55.

Doris "DD" Detlefsen Otteson enjoyedlong weekends in the Poconos with her fami-ly in their summer home, which has belongedto her family since 1910. Much more in theJanuary Newsletter. • Sid Hanson Reeve,1563 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

Robert Frost once wrote that "Writing freeverse is like playing tennis with the netdown." Gene Tonkonogy, still an indefati-gable tennis player, always plays with thenet up and, abstaining from free verse,writes in rhyme as follows: "I crest on theedge of 90/And tote up my various aches/ I'llbe 89 years and chock full of fears/I'm ap-proaching the end for gosh sakes/Still—I hita smart ball at tennis/Tho' my golf scorescannot stand a boast/I dance just a bit andmy wife has a fit/Whenever we must playthe host/There's not much time left to pon-der/And habit is just a big bore/At the end ofthe pike it's not what I like/But the numer-ous things I abhor/Since I'm near the lastday I'd just like to say/It has been a gloriousride/As I look back and see what life did forme/While I wait for the outgoing tide."

Among those who sent generous con-tributions in addition to class dues were ourpoet, Gene, Sherwood Sipprell, StevePartridge, Jerv Langdon, Gilbert Lamb,John Hoy, Ray Fingado, Herb Colton,Fred Behlers, Thomas Erskine, Dr.Harold Beaty, Stu Knauss, Art Nash,Louis Seaman, Charles Wagner, Ken-neth Weaver, E. H. "Cal" Callahan,Andy Schroder, Joe Ayers, Al Cowan,Bill Kimball, Ed Sachs, and, of course,Charlie Werly, who writes: "I'm still hang-ing in there! Visitors are welcome!" (Anyomission in the foregoing roll call of dues-payers-plus is as innocent as a new-laid egg,so let me know before I'm in hen's way orhenned in!) • C. L. Kades, PO Box 132,Heath, MA 01346.

Γm still hanging in

there! Visitors

welcome!

—CHARLIE WEKLY '27

^ \ ^ ^ Howard Levie is being honoredI I I by the Naval War College, which

m \£ is establishing the Howard S.# m\ Levie military chair of operation-mi I I al law. Howie practiced law in™ W New York City from 1930 to1942, when he entered the Army as a pri-vate and retired as a colonel in the JudgeAdvocate General's Corp. in 1963. He wasthe draftsman of the Korean ArmisticeAgreement. Howie taught at Saint Louis U.'slaw school until 1977, when he became pro-fessor emeritus. Since then he has writtenseveral books and delivered many lectures.

E. E. "Manny" Raices attended theAdult University (CAU) culinary workshopand H. Stan Krusen attended the CAU pro-gram in Wyoming, viewing the Grand Tetonsand Yellowstone.

Nelson Smith lost his first wife after63 years and remarried in 1991. He has ninegrandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.He is active in community affairs and en-joys gardening and travel. Lee Forker, re-tired chief executive officer of Quaker StateCorp., is featured in a video interview to beshown at the fourth annual Oil Heritage Con-ference in Emlenton, PA. The conference isdesigned to promote knowledge of "TheRegion That Changed the World: Penn-sylvania Oil Region." • Theodore Adler, 2Garden Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

Letters from classmates arepouring in at last. I heard fromC. S. "Buck" Caldwell, whohas "no complaints" since hecan still play golf after surgery.Most of us are like Frank Bey-

er, who is plenty active in spite of a bro-ken bone or two. He says he lives on theOlympic Peninsula, where he enjoys hishobby of photography. Bill Rowand writesfrom Sedona, AZ, where camera buffs arealso rampant.

Art Wiesenberger is president of hisretirement village (Casa del Mar) in BocaRaton, but has dropped most of his formercivic activities. Leonard Spelman, too, isslowing down after years of travel and alum-ni tours, as well as community duties.Bruce Bailey has enjoyed Adult Universi-ty (CAU) summer courses.

Morris Glushien is a quiet man but anactive arbitrator of labor relations, and hassmart progeny. Bruce Shear is proud ofgranddaughter Stephanie Mennen '96 andof David, in Tokyo with the US Embassy.

More next time. It's a pleasure to hearfrom you all, so keep those letters com-ing. • Don Layton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ith-aca, NY 14850.

One of the fun things about being a corre-spondent is that you get letters from yourclassmates. When I received a note fromFlo Davis De Laney it reminded me of thecurfew rules in the dorms. As freshmen wewere to be back by 9 p.m.; as sophomores,10 p.m. Of course, we didn't go to sleepthen, so we had a peripatetic bridge gamegoing every evening. Flo was one of theplayers and she still enjoys bridge. Althoughshe lives in Tucson, she spends a lot of timevisiting her children in Colorado, Vermont,and Delaware. Unfortunately she fell andthen was on a walker for three months. Herhusband has been dead for four years. She'sactive in the Tucson alumni group andclaims to be its oldest member. Aren't weall? She has talked to Helen Miner Hop-per, who lives in Green Valley, AZ, about20 miles away, but they haven't gotten to-gether. She also hears from Evelyn MayLevitt, another of our bridge players. Flomay be old but she is still athletic; swim-ming every day and playing golf. Her mostrecent hobby is quilting and she is now busyon a crazy-quilt wall hanging.

On October 12, I attended a luncheonfor English tutors of foreign students givenby the International Center of Princeton andthere I met Jerry Finch '31, a retired pro-fessor of English literature and now also atutor. The world is small!

Linnea "Pete" Peterson Ceilly had toleave school with typhoid fever but cameback to become a nurse. She married a sur-geon and has three boys. Because of thefamily interest in medicine she became in-volved in many health organizations andbecame a "professional club president." Sheis still in touch with sorority sisters and oth-er '29ers . . . "The Cornell years were pre-cious."

We and Cornell have lost touch withmany of our classmates; mail has been re-turned. If any of you know anything aboutany of these "missing" women would youplease drop me a note? I'll include a fewnames every month: Annie Bainbridge,Dr. Hazel Keily Baker, Eunice BarkerBarkee, Mary Harris Brandt.

Please send your News and Duesforms. • Grace Carlin Wile, 184 ShadyBrook Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.

^ \ ^ \ G o o d n e w s ! E l i s a "• I I bethTowneSchaef-

I I I recovery from her1 1 I I hip replacement op-^ ^ ^ ^ eration, and so isDorothy Wertz Tyler, whosurprised us by walking from the car, upthe steps into our house, without even acane! No pain, she says, but she does haveto keep on doing therapeutic exercises.

Leah Eber Kaplan became a widowin 1993, was left a legacy of 60 years ofhappy memories and three devoted sons.She is trying to occupy her time in ser-vice, which is a therapeutic and helpfuldistraction. As she says, that is life! A let-

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ter from daughter Susan York '62 reportsthat Lucia Condon York broke her necklast year, but has almost fully recovered.After recuperating with her daughter inMissoula, MT, she has returned to herformer residence at 43300-55 Airport Rd.,Little River, CA, with her son. She en-joys reading and attending church in near-by Mendocino. I'm sure letters from class-mates would be welcome.

Gertrude Steiert Payne, also recent-ly widowed, tells us of happier days. She mether husband while studying at U. of Califor-nia, Berkeley, enjoyed tremendously herjunior year at Cornell, with its snow and win-ter sports. She taught in high schools andjunior colleges for a few years, but her hus-band's work for Shell Oil kept them on themove, seeing much of the world. DuringWorld War II, she served in QuartermasterOrdinance, and then happily back in SanFrancisco did substitute teaching and RedCross work. Alone now, she correspondswith many friends she has made along theway and with relatives in Switzerland. Whata busy, productive life, Gertrude.

A Reunion planning meeting was heldat Alumni House last Oct. 19, attended byhonorary classmate Kay Heasley (Mrs.Walter), Jim and Adelaide Rice, Sidney"Syd" Tamarin, Bob Terwillegar and me,as co-chairs, and our alumni office "guard-ian," who really does most of the work in-volved. Planning goes nicely. Now it is upto YOU. Please read and answer our com-munications. We're hoping to see you all—June 8-11—on campus.

Reine Grace Bobrowe Blakesleehopes someone driving up to Reunion 1995could bring along a package of books shewishes to send to the university. Her ad-dress is PO Box 63005, Bronx, NY 10463.

You'll be reading this in the new year!May this be a restful, peaceful time foryou. • Joyce Porter Layton, 1029 DanbyRd., Ithaca, NY 14859.

Dr. Rowland H. Ross reports cheerfullythat he is very active and staying alive atage 85 after three serious operations, thelast being one that he "almost didn't sur-vive." His doctor found the cause to bestress from "too much dating." (He addsthat he is a widower which, of course,makes dating at age 85, quite proper.)

He has retired as vice president of Ca-sualty Insurance Co., and as director. He isa lieutenant commander, US Navy Re-serves, with "no pension" and is a real es-tate broker who has thrice won the Realtorof the Year award "primarily for politicalaction." He hopes that a 16-year-old son willbe a Cornellian. v Benedict P. Cottone,Bay Plaza 802, 1255 Gulfstream Ave., Sar-asota, FL 34236; (813) 366-2989.

^ ^ ^ Gleaned from the Cornell Assn. ofI I Class Officers (CACO) Statistics

^ I Report for the Class of 1931, as of^ I August 1994: Matriculants—1,129;

l i I Mailable Living—384; Bad Ad-^ ^ Ά dresses—106; Being traced orasked to be dropped—54; Duespayers—175(46 percent); Reunion Attendance 55th—104,or 29 percent (average 55th attendance for ear-lier classes is 86), 60th—91, or 25 percent

(average 60th attendance for earlier classes is71). All very good figures—except for our lostclassmates.

Charles K. "Chuck" Graydon (14396Gracie Rd., Nevada City, CA 95959), alongwith dues and an "additional contribution,"sent the following: "Moved from Hawaiiin 1977 to this small town in the SierraNevada near Donner Pass. Spent the lastsix years mapping the Trail of the FirstWagons over the Sierra Nevada, which isnow a book of that title in its third edi-tion. Started the Nordic Skiers of NevadaCounty, now the largest ski club of its kindin northern California. However, becauseof old age gave up skiing and mountainclimbing last year. My children are scat-tered in New York City, Norfolk, VA, SanJose, CA, Santa Cruz, CA, Bellingham,WA, Kailua Kona, HI, Scottsdale, AZ,"(and an eighth is also in Hawaii. With allthat, it sounds as if Chuck has earned arest—old age or not!)

Bill Jennings, DVM '31, (6107 Ban-nocks Dr., San Antonio, TX 78239) sentin a fascinating article about a Smithson-ian cruise and study tour through the low-er Caribbean which included a flight intothe interior of Venezuela to Angel Falls,the highest in the world. His article wouldfill our quota in this column for over twomonths, so if you want to learn about thisexciting adventure, let me know, and I willsend you a copy. However, a couple of"asides" he dropped are worth reporting.His and Inge's interest in Angel Falls wasthe result of an assignment with the WorldHealth Organization in Venezuela in theearly 1970s, and the closing sentence inthe letter of transmittal from this TowerClub and Cayuga Society member: "Cor-nell has meant more to me than words canexpress." Actions speak louder thanwords, Bill!

A. Has Forman is aiming his ubiquitous"Cyclops" (VCR) from another point. A changeof address card indicates that like many of ushe has moved from his long-time Baltimorehome to a "retirement community." He's at1055 W. Joppa Rd., Apt. 526, Towson, MD21204. • William M. Vanneman, ThirwoodPL, #121, 237 N. Main St., S. Yarmouth, MA02664-2075; (508) 760-4121.

Happy new year, friends. Do you realize thatwe'll be celebrating the 59th year of our de-parture from campus? Wow! From ChevyChase, MD, Emily Gorman is tackling anew project. "For years I've held the con-viction that the hope for the future is edu-cation, and also that it does no good to ful-minate in the privacy of one's own boudoir.So—I have become an InnerCity tutor. Wego to an inner city high school after classesare over and work one-on-one with select-ed students. I realize our school system isonly one of the culprits in our turning outilliterates, academically and morally.

"Too many high school students havenever had anyone's undivided attention. Toomany 11th grade students have read onlyone book! When I stress the need for edu-cation, I speak not only of the academics,but of the pluses of education: understand-ing, tolerance, dignity, decency, requiredadherence to standards. The students needto be helped to read, read, read until read-ing becomes a joy." And she signs off,"Enough preaching, Emily."

We know that some of you are similar-ly engaged. Won't you write and tell us aboutit? • Helen Nuffort Saunders, 445 ValleyForge Rd., Devon, PA 19333.

^%^% W. E. "Whitey" Mullestein1 I went to Ithaca in October to at-

^ m tend Trustee/Council and Plan-^ m tations meetings. That visit pro-

i m f j vided him with an opportunity toV ^ mm meet and have dinner with Jac-queline Martinez '98, the current Classof '32 Memorial scholar. Jacqueline is a bi-ology and society major in the science andtechnology studies department in HumanEcology, comes from Hialeah, FL, and, Whit-ey says, is a dedicated and charming youngwoman and a great Cornell enthusiast.

Virginia Shuford '98, also a studentin the College of Human Ecology, and thegranddaughter of Whitey and Louise, joinedWhitey and Jacqueline at dinner. While inIthaca, our class president also attended theTrustee/Council student aid reception host-ed by Dick Ramin '51.

About a year ago I noted that WilliamR. Bagby of Lexington, KY has the sort ofmind which, when exposed to appropriatestimuli, recalls all sorts of interesting anec-dotes. Most recently an item in the "Alum-ni Deaths" section of this magazine notedthe death of L. Keever Stringham '33.That triggered the recollection of a case Billhad handled when he was an IRS attorneyin Cleveland in the late 1940s and early1950s. It seems that Keever Stringham had a5-year-old daughter who suffered from a res-piratory illness, so he sent the child and hermother off to Tucson, AZ, where the winterclimate is more salubrious than in Cleveland.The IRS challenged his deduction of the ex-pense involved for travel and maintaining thelittle girl in a school in Tucson.

The question before the Tax Court waswhether the commissioner was right in dis-allowing these costs as medical expense.The majority opinion of the court allowedthe deduction for travel, food, and lodging.But, taxpayers being alert to loopholes, apattern of behavior known as "resort medi-cal abuse" developed. As a result, in the


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1954 code Congress eliminated the abuseby providing that only transportation to theplace of medical treatment is allowable. This,I'm sure, forced a lot of snowbirds to as-sume the full costs of their sojourns in sun-ny places. • James W. Oppenheimer, 140Chapin Pkwy., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

During late July and early August, MarieFroehlich Lavallard participated in AdultUniversity (CAU) in the Mediterranean andAegean. This was a study tour and cruiseaboard the MS Stella Marts. The leaderswere classics Prof. Frederick Ahl, NearEastern studies Prof. David I. Owen, direc-tor of Jewish studies, and President FrankH. T. Rhodes.

Although you will be reading this in1995,1 am writing in October 1994. To date,I have received no 1995 News and Duesforms telling me of your interests and ac-tivities. So, I will write about some of mine.Last spring I asked for a meeting with theteacher of seventh and eighth grade socialstudies. I gave him a list of topics I coulddiscuss along with brief resumes of what Iwould cover. It was decided that for the twoseventh grades I would tell stories from myfamily history beginning in 1713 and goingthrough the Civil War. For the eighth gradesI told of my memories of World War I andthe time between the wars. Fortunately, myforebears were savers of papers and smallitems once in common use. So for bothgroups I could hand out copies of documents(one as early as 1815) and letters of thesame period. The students couldn't imag-ine the use for one item—a button hook.But one clever boy suggested it could havebeen used for weaving. I am looking for-ward to doing this again in this academicyear. Also, I have been in touch with thelibrarian and school nurse to meet withsome of their classes. These conversationswith the young people have given me greatpleasure. • Martha Travis Houck, PO Box178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

Adele Langston Rogers, JD'36attended the September meetingof the 30-member advisory bodyof Presidential Councilors at Cor-nell. Her husband, William P.Rogers, JD '37, secretary of

state for Richard Nixon, 1969-73, was un-able to accompany her due to illness. Shevolunteers at Washington, DC elementaryschools with Spanish-speaking children.While at their New York City apartment,she works with elementary school dyslexicchildren. She keeps in touch with CarleenMaley Hutchins, who founded the Cat-GutAssn.—makers and players of violins. Adeleand Helen Burritt Latif visited Carleen'sexhibit of violins at the NY MetropolitanMuseum on Helen's recent visit from herhome in India. C. S. "Ted" Tracy, classsecretary-treasurer, with his bride Cynthia,spent a week in Seattle getting acquaintedwith her seven grandchildren, ages 2-1/2 to10-1/2. His grandchildren now total 14. Byrail and rented car, they went down thecoast to Los Angeles, stopping at San Fran-cisco, Big Sur, Hearst Castle, Napa Valley,and Santa Barbara. His new phone is (315)475-5280.

« Stephen Tolins

continues his stint

as the doctor for

the first aid stati

at Belmont and

Aqueduct race

tracks two or three

times each month.

-HILTON JAYNE '34

News of recent deaths: Asa D. Rum-sey, Ithaca (survivor, daughter Estir Grif-fin, Ithaca); Augusta Pecker Greenblatt(survivor, son Laurence Greenblatt, MBA'74, Los Angeles, CA); Richard M. Rob-erts, Berkeley, CA (survivor, brother Ed-ward Roberts, Flushing, NY).

Since our News and Dues forms are abit later this year, I am short of news forthis column. My phone number is (904) 498-3099. Please feel free to call me. I will behappy to include your news, even if only tohave your name, showing you are still aliveand, to quote our Vice-President Nat Ap-ter, "breathing in and out." To fill in space,I will note that my teaching experience of23 years covered eight years in all grades,K-12, in five counties, including managingthree cafeterias, three years of teaching de-lightful first-graders at Lewiston HeightsElementary, while getting a MEd degree atSUNY College, Brockport. From 1960-73,1taught home economics in two NY State re-formatories, Albion and Bedford Hills Cor-rectional Inst., testing every entrant. Everyjob was a learning experience.

Dorrie Pentecost Jones finds living inArlington, Va., suburb of the nation's capi-tal, exciting, near the Smithsonian Inst. Herson, an attorney, lives in Fort Worth, TX.Of her grandchildren she writes that Chris-sie is an attorney in Washington, DC, Alexis doing environmental work in New Jersey,Sarah is at U. of Vermont after a semesterin Spain, and Bradford, the youngest, 10, isat home. H. Griffin Jones Jr. writes thathe and wife Bernice saw one moose whenthey were traveling in Alaska last summer.

Dave Andrews and wife Hannah(Wray) '34 were all set to attend his 60thReunion in 1993 when his MD decreed no airtravel. Third grandson, then a senior and inthe Big Red Band, had planned to show themaround Ithaca. Fourth grandson is at Rice.Dave's and Hannah's family now adds up to25, which includes 12 grandchildren and Han-nah, 2, first great-grandchild. L. Stanley

Green took his grandson back to Canada atthe end of that young man's freshman year asa criminal justice major at East TennesseeState U. They ended up touring the Al-CanHighway in Alaska, 11,000 miles in five weeks.Stan's main hobby is duplicate bridge. He playslocally and in tournaments in the South-east. • Marjorie Chapman Brown, PO Box804, Old Town, FL 32680.

^ \ A The Ezra Award our class re-m Λ ceived at our 60th Reunion for

m 11 the most Cayuga Society mem-ΐ f t J d bers prompts the query, are

l β W there other members of our^ ^ ^ class who have not yet finalizedtheir estate planning? If you are one of thosewho have not, you may wish to contactThomas S. Foulkes '52, director, Officeof Planned Giving, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850-1266; telephone (607) 254-6180.You will find Tom a very pleasant andknowledgeable person with a basketful ofinteresting estate plans which could bene-fit both you and Cornell. Give Tom a call.

Dr. Lester Friedman retired from thepractice of internal medicine in 1985. Heand wife May spend their summers in Yon-kers, where he works as examiner for qual-ity care at a Yonkers hospital. They spendtheir winters in W. Palm Beach, FL, where,as a resident at Century Village, Les is amember of the Retired Physicians Club. Thegroup meets monthly for its members to ex-change news and information on medicalmatters to help them keep up-to-date ontheir medical specialties. Les sends greet-ings and best wishes for good health to allhis classmates.

George Gray and wife Grace are nowyear-'round residents of St. Petersburg, FLand they were very sorry to have missedour 60th Reunion. Dr. Stephen Tolins ofFairfield, CT is also retired but continueshis stint as the doctor for the first aid sta-tion at Belmont and Aqueduct race trackstwo or three times each month. Steve keepsbusy with Sherlockiana and, as an investedmember of the Baker Street Irregulars, hehas written several articles, including oneon Dr. Watson's use of brandy as a medi-cine and another on Dr. Watson's descrip-tion of brain fever.

The word from Albert Fleischer isthat he and wife Stella are living quietly inHollywood, FL, enjoying an occasionalcruise and participating in their condo ac-tivities. Randy Agor of Mayfield, NY at-tended the ceremony last March at the U.of Texas in El Paso when his son, WestonH. Agor, was recognized by that universityand received an award from Burlington In-dustries for his launching of a world-widenetwork related to intuitive management.• Hilton Jayne, 8202 River Crescent Dr.,Annapolis, MD 21401; (410) 573-5950.

^ \ f ^ Good health in• • 1995! Jim and-Vio-

^ r V la Henry Mullane^ I had a reception and

l l l l dinner and a fare-^ ^ ^ ^ well breakfast onHomecoming Weekend for the '35ers whoattended: Charles and Marge Ashe, Billand Carolyn Barden, Sam and Clara Black-

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man, Cal and Janet Hobbie, Frances Lau-man, Ed, JD '39 and Virginia SturdevantMiller '39, and Hank and BerniceWeishoff. Jules Meisel, Gus Gants, andHank Weishoff have been working hard onthe January 27 class dinner in New YorkCity. Jim reports that, so far, 60 classmateshave indicated they'll attend our 60th Re-union, June 8-11, '95.

Jerome Hurd writes, "The lady I metat Cornell during the summer of 1936 keepspushing me on planes to travel to distantplaces such as Thailand, Polynesia, and Mal-ta, since my son has succeeded me as pres-ident of M.G. Hurd and Sons Inc. If shekeeps pushing, I'll return for our 60th."Eleanor Bergman Stiller reports that allthree generations are well and thriving andthat she plans to attend our 60th. VictorAnderson is still happy at work creating 3-D pictures, the latest images developedfrom computer design.

Catherine Pennock Predmore, be-sides visits to the West Coast to see sonsin California and Washington State and toher brother in Puerto Rico, went to Madrid,Spain, in September for a month to visit ason who is on sabbatical. This was her firstvisit to Spain since 1984 when her late hus-band finished his stint as resident directorof the International Inst. Her Spanish is stillserviceable!

Bill Barden and Carolyn took a cruiseto Bermuda in July and went to Homecom-ing in September to affirm his recovery from"a second colon cancer operation in Sep-tember 1992, open-heart surgery that in-volved aortic valve replacement and a sin-gle bypass in October 1993, followed bysurgery for abdominal hernia in April 1994."Hope to see them in June!

Frank Wolfsheimer expects to be atour 60th with a very good friend, IrwinWeill '25, who's going to his 70th Reunion.He and Frank meet each other every yearin St. Croix at the Buccaneer. They've beendoing so for 17 or 18 years, meeting in Feb-ruary. "We leave the coordination to ourwives, who do a great job."

Lillian Bassen Moss sent the sadnews of the death of her husband, MorrisH. Moss '31 on May 7, '94. She wrote,"Morris was a great friend and supporter ofCornell and we attended his 50th and 60threunions." She hopes to have friends visither in Hampton Bays. We send our sympa-thy to Lillian and her family. •> Mary Di-das, 80 N. Lake Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127.

Retired Air Force Col. FrankSchroeck, San Antonia, TX, vis-ited Jack Wurst in Albany, NYrecently. They had known eachother at Cornell in the NY StateSchool of Forestry, which Cor-

nell had then. They were both in the ROTCand after graduation Frank entered theArmy Air Force and Jack entered the Army,but they were first sent to the Civilian Con-servation Corps, established by PresidentRoosevelt with the Thompson Act. Theyboth retired later, Frank as an Air Forcecolonel, and Jack as a lieutenant colonel inthe Army.

Jack Senesy has just "started a newlife with a new wife," Peg Walters, a gradu-

ate of Duke U. The couple went on a GorenBridge Cruise on the Viking Sun for 17 days.Jack hopes to become a better duplicate play-er with Peg's help. They spend winters inPunta Gorda, FL and summers in W. Ches-ter, PA. Jack has two daughters involved inprofessional careers, and four grandchildren.Jack was appointed to the water and sewerauthority of Punta Gorda and serves as itsvice chairman. Marian Etzold Kruger, inCorfu, NY, and husband Laverne are latelyinvolved with cemeteries, since Laverne issuperintendent of the Corfu cemetery. Theyhave two sons and a daughter, seven grandsand one great-grand. They have a home inWinter Haven, FL and spend time therefrom December to April, when they returnto Corfu.

Dr. Benjamin Pasamanick, Schenec-tady, NY was stirred by an article in an is-sue of this magazine about the destructionof a classroom in Stimson Hall, remindinghim of his advisor, J. B. Sumner, a Nobelist.Dr. Pasamanick has had a dazzling career,teaching in over a dozen fields at many col-leges, among them Yale, Harvard, Cornell,and Columbia. He was president of the NYState School of Psychiatry in New York Cityand published many books and papers.

Dr. Allan Phillips, in Nuevo Leon,Mexico, mentioned a book he had pub-lished—Part II of Known Birds of North andMiddle America. He says he is busy and "bat-tling all kinds of government crooks and li-ars, allergic to truth and honesty." I have toassume he is referring to the governmentpeople in Mexico!

Mary Tillinghast Nigro wrote of thebirth of her and Lou's first great-grandchild,a girl, who was named Allegria, a namewhich she said was "sort of made up," but Ifind that is an Italian word meaning "joy."Good name, Mary! Alice Bailey Eisenbergwrites that she is involved with much vol-unteer work "to keep me out of trouble."Alice lives in Skaneateles, NY. • AllegraLaw Ireland, 125 Grant Ave. Ext., Queens-bury, NY 12804-2640.

^ ^ I O [ Six Seal and Serpent brothers ofI I '37 and their wives gathered for

^L m a great mini-reunion at the^ • summer home of Dan and Lee

l l I MacBeth on Owasco Lake near^ ^ ™ Auburn, NY last summer. Thesextet, Clayton Axtell, Dr. Edward Clos-son, Douglas King, Jack Schadler, JackSerrell, and host Dan, have kept in touchthrough the passing years and often visiteach other in their travels. The MacBethsspend most of the year in New SmyrnaBeach, FL.

Norman C. Healy's 80th birthday gen-erated two parties. Retired for the secondtime, there's more freedom for "frequenttravel in the good old USA." Norman andJune have seven children and among theirseven grandchildren is a pair of identicaltwins. Frederick and Margaret Morrisspend winters in Cameron County, TX, nearthe Mexican border. He writes about therapidly expanding activity on the US-Mexi-can border, especially since NAFTA hasstimulated things. Fred has built four hous-es in retirement, one to live in. The Mor-rises have two sons, both in business, and

two daughters, a registered nurse and ateacher, plus 12 very busy grandchildren.Always loyal to his own profession, he wish-es more rural youth would enter Cornell,especially in Agriculture.

Three of our inveterate Adult Univer-sity (CAU) "students" are still at it. PeteCantline returned to the campus to studyArchitecture in the Modern Age, JamesAndrews cruised in the Mediterranean andAegean seas to learn about Nature and Civ-ilization in the Ancient World, and MyronSilverman reveled in Opera in the GreatSouthwest at Santa Fe, NM. Incidentally,Myron declares that this is his final year yearas assistant to the dean of graduate studiesat the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Thatremains to be seen for this serial retiree,but Myron does write, "Then I'm finally,definitely, and completely retiring!" • Rob-ert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd., N.,DeLand, FL 32720.

Ellen "Nell" Carnell Seaburg is very ac-tive in her church, enjoys reading, cross-word puzzles, and her flower garden (a but-terfly garden). Son William Seaburg '70,a graduate of the Hotel school, is the fatherof her grandson Chad, who is involved inmusic, karate, and track. Her last vacationwas her first trip westward to Pike's Peak,Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone,etc. Husband Roy and her son and his fami-ly traveled with her. Nell finds retirementwonderful. Among her civic activities are hersupport of Turning Point, abused women,the West End Center, for disadvantaged chil-dren, and a Rescue Mission.

Esther Schiff Bondareff s hobby is vol-unteering. Her recent travel included a tripto Cuba twice (cultural exchange) accompa-nied by her granddaughter with fiance. Shewas going to Costa Rica in January with hergranddaughter with husband, one and thesame. As can be expected, Esther's Cornellconnection involves Cornell Club activitiesand fundraising. Josephine SloughterCoggshall is proud, I am sure, to report thatgrandchild Paul Daniel Coggshall '98 en-tered the Arts college last fall. ElizabethHaas Conrad has nine grandchildren, ages16-25. Four are out of college, three are inhigh school, and two are in grade school.She spent two weeks last July at EmeraldIsle, NC, with five of her grandchildren, andshe is still volunteering in a hospital thriftshop. • Gertrude Kaplan Fitzpatrick, POBox 228, Cortland, NY 13045.

^ \ ^ \ All '38ers already have or soonI I I should have a copy of Our Be-

^ \f loved Leader's latest newsletter,I f I including thrilling details of the

l l I I Sept. 13-15, '95, "mini-reunion,"^ ^ ^ ^ a truly "class" production bynonpareil Reunion Meisters Elsie Har-rington and Bill Doolittle, who're actual-ly and literally doing one-heckuva-lot for ourclass: i.e., a barge canal cruise from Syra-cuse to Albany, then back by bus. Question-naires at our 55th produced comments thatwe desired a "mini" with maximum time tochat and renew acquaintances, some on-holdfor 50-plus years. So—read the cruise in-formation carefully and, importantly, re-member that the canal boat has limited


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Ctueen of €lam§Carol Thro Richardson '38

BILL BENSON '72

^ ^ ^ or most of the past eight years Carol ThroRichardson has worked for the New York State

, , JB ™ Environmental Conservation Department as a"shellfish monitor."

According to The New York Times, Richardson is a part of theShellfish Transplant Program under which clams harvested in pol-luted waters are first moved to clean water for at least 21 daysbefore being allowed to go to market. This process allows the clamsto eliminate impurities that can make people ill.

Richardson works five days a week, rain or shine, April-October,getting up at 4:30 in the morning and reaching the dock by 7:00.Rarely missing a day of work, in June 1993 she requested four daysoff—the most she has ever taken—so she could attend her 55thReunion. She told the Times: "I think I was the only one in myclass, male or female, still employed."

—David Corrigan '87

capacity, 44. Them as hesitates may be lefton shore.

Another country club flight golf title forHarold Segall, who modestly shares hon-ors: in the December column he related howhe and our Lenny Roberts's wife, Gloria,won a tourney mixed-pair prize; now he andhis own wife, Edith, copped husband-wifedoubles fondly dubbed "the Divorce Open,"wherewith Harold gallantly opines, "Evi-dently, the ladies bring out the best in me."

New Yorker magazine readers will rec-ognize the "Our Man reports" style in semi-cryptic correspondence from '38er BobWilkinson, such as his description of thestirrings of a new fall-semester beginningon the Hill: "Campus bustling, Collegetownjumping, parking again at a premium, cashregisters ringing, Budweiser (adv.?) salessouring through the roof—the annual trans-formation—and love every minute of it;walking through the gates of Schoellkopf orsitting front-center at old Bailey makes avisit all worthwhile. More anon."

Dick Zens was "happy to report econ-

omy improvement indicated in automatiequipment sales after last year's lull. Aja year and a half s falling down and bemedically checked from toenails to inears, Lahey Clinic throws in the spongemy balance problems; besides medical expees, am losing my shirt at golf; daughter 150, eldest is 53. Guess Γm just getting oΊ~.• Fred Hillegas, 7625 E. Camelback Rd.,Maya Apts., #220-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

Helene "Lynne" (Irish) and Carl Johnstonhave glowing memories of our 55th and arelooking forward to the proposed "mini" thisyear. Their son C. Barry '64 and daughterMissy (Ohio State U. '67) and their familieslive in the Carmel, CA area, which makesfrequent visits easy for the Johnstons.Granddaughter Alicia spent a semester inSpain last year, before her graduation fromOxford IL, in Miami, OH; grandson Ryan isa student at Washington and Lee. TheJohnstons' other daughter, Sherry, and herhusband and children are South Carolinaresidents.

Mary Nardi Pullen enjoyed a visit withher family back in Ithaca while also attend-ing her 60th high school reunion; she livesin Orono, ME. A note from Marion Hen-derson Prescott says she remains active inchurch and civic organizations and growsAfrican violets in her spare time. ElizabethJennings Perry's name was included in alist of participants in the Adult University(CAU) tour of Sicily.

Ted and Gerry Miller Gallagher wereforced to cancel a planned cruise last winter(due to a broken arm for Ted), but anticipatebetter luck in 1995; they'll sail for Acapulcovia the Panama Canal. A trip last autumn in-cluded Homecoming, a football game, and avisit with Carol Ann Worden Ridley atOwasco Lake. • Helen Reichert Chad-wick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston, NY 14092.

Bob Nagel reports from Knox-ville that he is serving on sev-eral non-profit organizationboards. In August, Bob was re-married. "Getting old but enjoy-ing it" is the word from Bob

Foote, a University Council member emer-itus. He spends his time boating, fishing, hunt-ing, gardening, and woodworking. A recenthighlight was a trout-fishing expedition toMontana with his 11-year-old grandson.

John MacDonald still does income taxreturns in season. Out of season he foundtime to take a tour of New Brunswick,Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Hesends his thanks for a Great 55th! BobMann, in addition to Rotary activities, ison the board of coalition for Christian out-reach and serves on numerous other churchcommittees. A trip to Russia capped it offthis past August.

Community service is the keynote inthe life of Don Whiteman and wife Betty:SCORE, Lions Club, the Agricultural Mu-seum, income tax counseling for the elder-ly and low-income taxpayers, church work,and visiting the elderly.

Dr. Bill Brown recently took timefrom tutoring reading to disabled individu-als in Wellesley, MA to take a bicycling tripin Italy. In semi-retirement is Dr. JeromeSchneck, who continues to write articleson medical and psychiatric history.

Recent participants in Adult Universi-ty (CAU) were Frank Reese and Janice to"Abraham Lincoln's Washington" and Aus-tin Kipplinger in "The Mediterranean andAegean."

From the late Bud Huber's list of un-used tidbits: "If you find a path with no ob-stacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."Thanks, Bud. • Russ Martin, 65 Wood-crest Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Happy new year to all! Resolve to keep inbetter touch with classmates. Did you seethe picture of Sarah "Sally" SteinmanHarms in the Spring 1994 Human EcologyNews? She was invited to go back to col-lege for a three-day stay as part of the Alum-ni-in-Residence Program (after 50 years).

Dorothy Hickey Waring missed Re-union because of a stroke paralyzing her leftside. She gets around in a wheelchair, andher speech has improved. Write to her at 1Highmead Trail, Glastonbury, CT 06033.

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Jane Davison Fast's vision is failing,but she types on the computer and uses au-dio tapes. Her husband's car accident forcedhim (Charles '37) to slow down. They vis-ited son Peter '64 in North Carolina andJane's brother (Jim Davison '43) in WestVirginia. Charlotte Lehr Solberg still col-lects wooden thread spools. She now has2,250—all displayed and catalogued. Shewelcomes spools from classmates (I sent hera few). She is docent at the Carpinteria Mu-seum and dispatcher for HELP Inc.

Charlotte "Char" Armstrong Lewis isnow in a convalescent home. Write to herat San Juan Manor, 806 W. Maple, Rm.407B, Farmington, NM 87401.

I am sad to report three more deaths:Helen McTighe Allen, wife of Dr. Robert'37, DVM '38; Helen Wilcox Fiske; andJane Mann Pettit. We shall miss them.• Ella Thompson Wright, 7212 MasonvilleDr., Annandale, VA 22003-1630.

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J ^ \ Adult University/ I I I (C A U> has attract"/ • I I ed many of us:

LMέm I Jean RodgerΓ 1 m Condon from Port

A W Ludlow, WA, Rob-ert Fuerst from Oldsmar, FL, and Robertand Mary Sproull from Pittsford, NY at-tended the Aegean tour. Harriette TabakSimons writes that she is mostly occupiedwith study at New York U. and travel. "Lasttrip was CAU's incredible journey to Viet-nam and Cambodia in January 1994, whichincluded visits to Hanoi, Da Nang, 'ChinaBeach,' Saigon, and up the Mekong Riverto Phnom Penh. I added a few days in Sin-gapore to sample Malaysian food (not asdelicate as Vietnamese). A highlight wasdinner with the Cornell Club of Hong Kong,when President Frank Rhodes was thespeaker, with slides of current campus life.Hong Kong probably has one of the mostdedicated, enthusiastic of Cornell Clubs.Great Chinese banquet was laid out.

"Happy to add to 'good news' section:I've spent nostalgic and quality time withthe following Cornellians during the pastyear and am delighted to report some arenot yet retired and all are enjoying goodhealth and grandchildren. Florabelle andGeorge H. Hildebrand, PhD '42; JudgeAnnette Shapiro Elstein, still on the fed-eral bench; Fran Tolins Waldman retiredCol. David R. Longacre '41 (busy writinghis military memoirs and swimming 35 lapsa day); Dr. John Mason, epidemiologist stillwith the US Dept. of Agriculture. EdnaKolberk Stark '38 and Janet WassermanKarz '39 remain close friends, although weare separated geographically. Our next get-together will be at Janet's, Rochester, NY,end of May. She's a professional potter withher own studio and kiln.

"Future travel? Taking three grandchil-dren, ages 11,15, and 18 to Paris for BastilleDay celebration. Wish me luck."

In her own words, Mary BarbourStewart enjoys the "best of both worlds":Arizona in winter; Colorado during summer.A family reunion last June was held in S.Wellfleet on Cape Cod and attended by 20people—sons, brothers, and grandchil-dren—women, too! She did not mention the

friends she visited in Connecticut after thegathering, but if she gets back to our 55thshe will see many more, with lots of timeto visit!

Some of our engineers may remembergrad student Sidney Lee MChE '40. Hehas been voted Favorite Business Personand Community Activist in St. Croix, VI.The new community auditorium and play-house has been named the "Sidney Lee Artsand Education Building."

Had a delightful experience last summer,myself. I was asked to speak on remembranc-es of 4-H Club work in Washington County aspart of a celebration of 50 years of continual4-H Club activity by the "Laboring Lassies"of Adamsville, led by Louise Dansforth. Sheis the mother of Les Nichols '38, who hasmade a career in 4-H Club work, starting asclub agent in Montgomery and Orange coun-ties under the state leadership of Al Hoefer'16. Les retired after serving in a leadershiprole in the International Farm Youth Ex-change. Our classmate Esther Smith and Leswere married in 1942. They have four sonsand live in Riverdale, MD. • Carol Clark Pe-trie, 18 Calthrope Rd., Marblehead, MA 01945.

A ^ Many of us have received the at-Λ I tractive brochures from Kendal at

# I I I t : ^ a c a ' t h e tife-care center under^Λέ I construction. Jane Webb Acton

W I and husband Chuck '40 haveΆ A signed up to move into a cottage

when it opens in the spring of 1996. Theywill be busy until then condensing the con-tents of their nine-room house in Doyles-town, PA into a two-bedroom, den, living/dining room and kitchen unit. Let me knowif others of you are thinking of settling nearour alma mater.

Elnora Thomas Skelton writes thatone of her main pleasures is following thecareer of her granddaughter, Debi Thomas,the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, who isnow attending medical school at Northwest-ern U. Elnora lives in Wichita, KS. Anotherproud grandmother is Dorothy Papish,whose granddaughter Elizabeth Papish'97 is in Arts and Sciences.

Charlotte Adelman Kotzen leads avery busy life in Long Boat Key, FL (Sara-sota) since being widowed in the late 1980s.She enjoys her volunteer work with the Vis-iting Nurse Assn. and is active with theBrandeis U. national women's committee.In 1993 she spent a week in Aspen, CO atthe annual music festival and this year tooka six-week Senior Summer School programin Santa Barbara, CA.

Our deepest sympathy goes to HelenDisbrow Hequembourg, whose husband,Frederick, died suddenly in January 1994.She feels fortunate to have a daughter andson nearby (as do I) and is blessed with eightgrandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

I am sad to report that classmate MaryEmerson Bragg died unexpectedly at herhome in Sunset, SC, March 31, '94. Our con-dolences go to her family. • Shirley RichardsSargent, 15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

Happy and healthy 1995! One year to go tohelp Radford Severance plan the celebra-tion of our 55th Reunion. Bob Brunei, hard-working class fundraising chairman, leads by

example. He recently established a$60,000—with matching gift —Engineeringscholarship. Bob also wrote a letter request-ing donations for the McMullen Fund inMechanical Engineering. Realized over$30,000. Other '41ers active in McMullenFund include Fred Amsler, Shurly Irish,Al Kelley, Ray Kruse, Chuck Lake, andWellington Ramsey.

It's a small world. While waiting in anairport, we had a conversation with a charm-ing lady. When Ithaca was mentioned, shesaid, "I went to Cornell, Class of '41." Hermarried name is Libby Sprague Love.When I said I was in '41 Hotel, she asked,"Do you know my cousin, Bob Bartholo-mew? (That's classmate Robert L. Barthol-omew of Delray Beach, FL.)

Wellington "Duke" Ramsey writes,"Ready to really retire. Working on sellingour business—Wellspring Herbal GourmetProducts." Duke, Jim Bennett, and the lateKen Jolly were '41 mainstays on the BigRed basketball team.

Bob Simon and Herb Cogan were1994 travelers with Adult University (CAU).Bob is an enthusiastic repeat participant. Dr.Ed Brady received Golden Merit Awardfrom Medical Society of New Jersey for 50years as a practicing physician.

As a final tribute to John "Swifty"Borhman, we hoped to show a photo ofSwifty catching a pass in Ohio State's endzone during epic Cornell defeat of OSU in1939. Picture showed only three players, aleaping Swifty with ball, an OSU player atten-yard line, and a frustrated OSU guy inprone state. Unfortunately, the photo is toodark to copy. • Ralph E. Antell, 9924Maplestead Lane, Richmond, VA 23235.

A ^% N e w P r e z p D i c k ThomasΛ I keeps us informed on class

/ • m projects. The College of Agricul-^Λέ m ture and Life Sciences is pleased

Γ f j t n e James B. Sumner Lecture^ ^ " fund has doubled since its incep-

tion, indicating a healthy past and a promis-ing future. The October lecture featured Dr.Thomas Czech, U. of Colorado, speaking onenzymatic activity in RNA—the topic thatwon him the Nobel Prize. Prudence Sum-ner Gamard (Whitehall, PA) works in a li-brary part time and helps out with nursinghome residents. She visits her children inSan Francisco and takes courses at the lo-cal Cedar Crest College.

Dick's judging eight to ten days a monthand spending the rest of his time at suchdull spots as The Cloister, Sea Island, GA,Niagara, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans for aWorld War II Army reunion, and Columbus,OH and Ithaca for football games. He statesthe fact that with 325 subscribers we areclose to the magic 400 number which ratesan extra half-column in Cornell Magazine.Encourage non-duespaying class membersto try it; they'll like it.

Jim and Dottie Dodds Kraker are inNew Smyrna Beach, FL after a summer ofcompany in Gouverneur, NY. Many enjoyedAdult University (CAU) travels: MaryWells Leonard (Reno, NV), John and Al-ice Sanderson Rivoire '41 (New YorkCity), and Leonard and Harriet Schley(Chestnut Hill, MA) took the Aegean and


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Mediterranean study tour. Attending sum-mer courses were Estelle Mulwitz Barrett(Osprey, FL), This Land is Mine; Berle Neu-wirth Geronemus (Hollywood, FL), Gor-geous Gorges; and Shirley Schatz Wisham,who learned about the Republican Party.Proving it's never too late, there's a 92-year-old coed (not Cornell) who graduated fromcollege and was accepted into law school!

Joe Kandiko (Appleton, WI) enjoys be-ing a guide for school groups on field trips,visiting 103-year-old mom and friends in Ari-zona and Utah. He hunts for rattlesnakes witha pistol, enters his jam in the Outagamie Coun-ty Fair, fishes for salmon, and has placed ninthin the 50-meter backstroke in the US Nation-al Senior Swim Championships.

Also enjoying life is Melva Wiede-mann Ribe (Austin, TX), who volunteersin the hospital auxiliary and local ServiceLeague. She toured with an alumni groupto St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. Sheplays bridge, sews, knits, judges flowershows, plays lots of tennis, and visits twingranddaughters. Eleanor (Bloomfield) '44and Walter Scholl '41 cruised through thePanama Canal, from Costa Rica to San Fran-cisco. Pop continues to do well, healthwise.

I'm off on a Big Band cruise (I hopethere're some Lindy dancers) and send a"Happy New Year" wish to everyone.• Carolyn Evans Finneran, 2933 76th,SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206)232-3092.

J ^ \ Robert R. Clement writes:Λ m "This is our first report to you

/ • ^ in almost 50 years. We missed^ A j B the 50th, sad to say, but we're

Γ l l doing fine—13 grandchildren~> ^f and one great-grandchild. Our

five children and families are in Texas, Ohio,Michigan, and Virginia. Janet (Sutherland)'46 and I travel some in the US to visit fam-ily and I am still doing some electrical engi-neering consulting work with electric utili-ties. Retired from GE in 1984 after 39years—14 at Syracuse Electronics and 25here in Blue Ridge, VA. Janet, who had 13years with Virginia Polytechnic Inst. as anextension agent, and I celebrated our 50thin January. Resolved: the best is yet to be."Hear, hear, and Amen.

"I'm still on my farm and enjoying itmore every day," writes George Black-burn. "We had two beef calves this year,the first in 50 years. Some change from theusual black and white. Had a great seasonwith my bluebird nest-boxes, more younghatched every year. Thanks for a great 50th.Here's a ditty I sing while driving my tractor:

We are the class of forty and threeWe're back on the Hill to look and to seeWe've worked like a TurkAnd we've been through some hellSo we're happy to be back here at Cor-

nell."

Next time you're in New Mexico, per-haps visiting Jim Lorie, you might considerlooking up Robert S. Noyes at his restau-rant, Maria's Sante Fe.

Back in November 1993 The CornellDaily Sun carried an excellent (naturally)feature on William E. Leuchtenburg, whowas at that time Newman visiting professor

of American civilization. Bill, as you mighthave read, had recently been honored at aconvocation of scholars at Cambridge Uni-versity on the occasion of the 30th anniver-sary of the publication of his book, FranklinD. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-40. Theclimactic session was entitled, "In the Shad-ow of Leuchtenburg," a play on the title ofanother of his books, published that monthby Cornell University Press, In the Shadowof FDR; From Harry Truman to Bill Clin-ton, which grew out of the Becker Lecturesdelivered on the Hill in 1980.1 was familiar,as I hope most of you are, with Bill's illus-trious career as historian, writer, teacher atSmith, Harvard, North Carolina, but Ilearned from Megan Davis '94 that he hadraised the final $100 needed to get to Cor-nell in one day by hawking Good Humor;that he was a 16-year-old frosh; dreamed ofbecoming a foreign correspondent and triedout for the Sun but couldn't hack the com-mute down to Atwater's; that although hestudied European and Chinese history andgraduated in three years, he never took acourse in American history while on the Hill;that while listening to the radio broadcastof the 1940 Dartmouth game he had count-ed the downs and knew it was five. Red Friz-zel, wherever you are, are you listening?• S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164, Spinner-stown, PA 18968.

Hugh Brown, with wife Mary, spent aweek with the birds and crickets in S. Truroon Cape Cod, MA. They visited Province-town and lapped up lobster dinners. Kath-arine Aichele, granddaughter of S. S. Tan-ner, attended Cornell Summer College lastsummer. Her courses were Communication191—History of Television, Philosophy 145—Contemporary Moral Issues, and she partici-pated in the Communications Seminar.

Grace Reinhardt McQuillan was inCape May, NJ, looking at the birdies thissummer as part of Adult University (CAU).Betty Donner Heiberger took a publicspeaking course, also part of CAU.

Sad to report the death of G. JeanGustafson this past June.

Girls, why don't you write me? It's yourcolumn. ••• Helene "Hedy" Neutze Alles,15 Oak Ridge Dr., Haddonfield, NJ 08033.

J A Accolades for the 50th (produc-Λ Λ ers and directors, Art and

/ • # 1 P^ty Kay Kesten) keep roll-^Λi Lm4 ing m with the News and Dues.

I W All of the following people~ ^ called it a great reunion. M.

Pete Bellis returned to Texas via Wash-ington, DC, where his Foreign Service sonlives. Another son is associate professor ofEnglish at the U. of Miami; and his daugh-ter publicizes recording companies in LosAngeles. Wife Gloria has "returned to pi-ano lessons" (giving or taking?) after a 40-year absence, while Peter frequents the Yto keep fit. Barbara "Bobby" Gans Gal-lant still lobbies for a Florida county schoolboard, October to March, and recommendsthe movie Just Cause. She says she's in theopening scene, if you can spot her amongthe 800 people watching a debate betweenSean Connery and George Plimpton on cap-ital punishment. Allen Albright says he's

too busy operating his small fruit farm andkeeping up with Masonic and OES activi-ties. Robert Garmezy took his two daugh-ters to Reunion, while wife Alice was home-bound with seven fractured vertebrae. Shehas now recovered and they have signed onfor the Canal cruise.

Jean Abbott Ault spent the rest of thesummer playing golf and visiting in Colorado,Omaha, Chicago, and cruising Alaska's wa-terways. Bud and Frances Ward Kimpledecided some of us looked "less distin-guished and more extinguished." NOTMANY! They celebrated their 50th weddinganniversary with a big bash hosted by theirseven children and ten grands. Alice Gal-lup Stout is already gearing up for the 55th,Maggie McCaffrey Kappa, too. She stillspends summers managing Mackinac Is-land's Grand Hotel and had a consulting stintat Nemacolin Woodlands in Farmington, PA,a unique resort complex. Robert F. Milleradvises a graduate research professor inpoultry science at the U. of Florida a coupleof hours each day and edits manuscripts. Healso plays a lot a golf—six days a week! InezJohnston Murdoch and Alan have a vaca-tion condo in Mammoth Lakes, CA, nearYosemite National Park. A. Louise EadieWilliams and husband Evan '43, LLB '47of Troy, PA, after a week of tennis and golfschool in St. George, UT, spent a week withthe Murdochs—much fun reminiscing.

And there were those who regretfullymissed the Big 50th. George and Jean Zen-ner Kaelber decided that since they weremarried on Bastille Day, July 14,1944, theyshould celebrate their golden anniversary inFrance—three weeks in Provence and onein Paris. The real bash was on Maui withfriends and family. Arthur "A. J." Widmerwas celebrating his 50th with family in Wis-consin at Reunion time. They are travel-ers—Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, theCaribbean, Norway, Switzerland, Germany,England, the Orient, Spain, Portugal, andMorocco—-best of all, the contiguous 48United States. Grace Davis Lewis of Lock-port, NY was busy with 12 grandchildren allliving nearby. Marie Buenning PloetzCramer and husband were visiting their fam-ilies. They now have 26 grands.

Rose Matt's long-ailing mother died aweek before Reunion. Carol Perrine Stan-ford was in Houston recovering from a hipreplacement. Forris B. Chick had to can-cel at the last minute because of dental sur-gery, but he and Lynn visited the Bob Bal-lards in Ithaca in July. They collected thestraw hats ("handy in Florida sun") with redblinkers ("great fun for pre-dawn walks")and enjoyed all the pictures Bob hadtaken. • Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 1800Old Meadow Rd., #305, McLean, VA 22102.

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/ • ψ^k FL) spends sum-ίΛέ I mers in Verona

I i f Beach, NY (no, theΆ ^ ^ states aren't inter-

changed) on Oneida Lake, where he wasnearly flooded out last spring. Far aboveCayuga's waters will look good in June, butif he needs rescuing he can get an amateurradio operator to summon help via N2SIR,

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the call letters of "ham" Muriel "Woody"Wood Lawrence (Roselle Park, NJ). Woodyand husband Joe (my prep school classmate),KE2MP, are working on a world-wide com-puter network. Fellow Jerseyite Edgar Ped-ersen (Flemington) retired from the HunSchool in 1988 but is busy with pro-bonowork at the county office on aging, counsel-ing seniors like us on health insurance prob-lems; Hillary, take notice.

Ann Ward Gibb (Darien, CT): "50thReunion? Surely you jest—it cannot be 50years! A lot of water under the bridge—some of it, over! Three wonderful adoptedchildren, no grandchildren—zero populationgrowth (environmentally correct). Wintersin Connecticut—husband plays paddle ten-nis while I hibernate with occasional foraysto warmer climates. Summers in 'Sconsetgolfing, gardening, gazing at the ocean. Sum-mation: Je peint, done je suisΓ Well, Ann,it's true, but better than the alternative andreuning isn't all that bad, as Robert Camp-bell (Short Hills, NJ), Betty Warner Mc-Murtrie (Fairfield Glade, TN) and DorisKlein Lelchook (Newton Centre, MA) havediscovered. Bob joined George Bailey(Lake Toxaway, TN) on an alumni trip 1,000miles up the Yangtze River, which he calls"the greatest" and highly recommends.Meanwhile, on a Norwegian North Capecruise, Betty and husband Bob '46 had ajoyful coincidental reunion with D. Wayneand Maralyn Winsor Fleming (Ithaca)aboard the MS Narvik. Back in Massachu-setts, Doris caught up with Phyllis DakinPaquette (Worcester, MA), Elizabeth"Betsy" Cornwall (Hingham, MA) andJeannette Menides Curuby (Swampscot,MA) after their earlier planned lunchtimereunion last winter was spoiled by the recordNortheast snowfall.

Ann's zero-population growth planshould please entomology Prof. David, PhD'51 and Marcia Hutchins Pimentel, MS'50 (Ithaca). She is a retired senior lecturerin the Department of Nutritional Sciences.They are trying to update the nearly 200-year-old Malthusian theorem (see CornellMagazine, June 1994). Woe be to our grand-children! Welcome notes were receivedfrom two old buddies planning to attend thebig 50th: Roy Hughes (Dallas, TX), gladhe's not in the snow belt and close enoughto visit with William and Mary ElizabethMershon Hoffmann (Hawkins, TX); andBurt Nichols (Fairhope, AL), who left NewEngland after 35 years with MIT's LincolnLaboratory. Burt hopes to see WilliamPackard (Fairlawn, NJ), William Duboc(Gibsonia, PA), Burton Smith (Lexington,MA), and George Fitzpatrick (McLean,VA) there. So do we! • Prentice CushingJr., 317 Warwick Ave., Douglaston, NY11363-1040.

J ^ \ I had to read the local Sept. 25,Λ • 1 1994 Reading, PA paper for

/ • W\ news of classmate Martha^Mέ I I Morgan MacGuffie. "She has

W I I established a volunteer group^ ^* to help fight disease and death

in Africa, run a research laboratory, and trav-eled the third world with relief organiza-tions—while maintaining a thriving medi-cal practice. Recently she developed a line

of skin care products to help prevent skincancer. Her practice is in reconstructive andplastic surgery and she has raised eight chil-dren." SHARE is the non-profit group Mar-tha set up to help bring medical equipment,treatment, and medical training to easternKenya. Most recently she helped convert anorphanage in Rwanda into a hospital forUNICEF.

Joyce Manley Forney sent us news lastJune stating that she'd had a visit from Dougand Barbara VanSlyke Anderson '44, whowere visiting their daughter in Tucson. "Amstate president of the League of Women Vot-ers, working hard to help universal health carehappen, especially preventive care which isgoing to keep costs down" Joyce writes. "Inbetween, Ross '52 and I pack light and takehis Honda Pacific Coast cycle to some distantplace, like we did in summer 1993 when werode the Oregon coastline, stopping to seeGordon '44 and Priscilla Alden Clement atSanta Rosa, CA."

Dr. Grace Gales Herman wrote that shewas remarried in August 1993, to Dr. Marv-in Bergman, a retired orthodontist. She alsovisited Ireland for the first time ("with Trave-learn"). She published her first book of poemsin 1992, Set Against Darkness, which was re-viewed in Cornell's Arts and Sciences News-letter in June 1993. • Elinor Baier Kennedy,503 Morris PL, Reading, PA 19607.

It's always a pleasure to hear from crewmates. A. Bill Beale celebrated and wifeJoy (Gulling) '47 took their four childrenand their families, including five grandchil-dren, to Cape Cod this summer for a weekof sun, swimming, and good chow. Bill andJoy said they will join us at the 50th.

Here's a trip I'd like to take. RobertMcMurtrie had a great trip to Scotland,England, and Norway (here's the clincher)which included a trip on a coastal steamerfrom Bergen to Kirkenes. It's good to hearfrom John Eckerson again. His duties astown and village historian and with the ge-nealogy group keep him busy. This sum-mer he toured Alaska with Holland Ameri-ca Line and highly recommends it to us.

I can't believe this. Burton Sachssent his blank News and Dues form withold 3- and 4-cent stamps on the envelope.The Postal Service was so impressed theydidn't cancel them. Thanks, Burton, I'llput them in our collection. EdwardShakespeare is looking forward to a re-union with the 95th Infantry Division withhis comrades to celebrate the liberationof Metz in the Lorraine campaign. He saysthat this time, as aging civilians, they'llbe greeted by city officials.

I've got to write this. Here are L. K.Muller's answers to our President LouiseGreene Richards's quiz "Nostalia Non-sense." ASTP = A Slightly Typsy Profes-sor; BUST = What a coed has on her chest;BUST OUT = A coed in a real tight sweat-er; DOMECON = unintellegent accountant;PRELIM = First date; PRO = One whomakes it on his first date; RAT-RACE =Lousy first date; USMAP = USual MAscu-line Plan; WSGA = What She Gets After-ward. Is this what you expected, Louise?P&H. • Bill Papsco, 3545 Clubheights Dr.,Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

Class of'45

Your 50thComes

Only Onceina

Lifetime!So plan to be at Cornellfrom June 8 to June n*1995 to celebrate ourGolden Reunion in grandstyle. YouΊl renew oldfriendships, relive someof your fondest memories;and rejuvenate yourselfwith stimulating lecturesand thought-provokingprograms.

Watch your mailbox in thecoming weeks for moredetails about our 50thReunion. Make your ar-rangements to attendnow—and make our 50than unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience!

For information call:716-688-7835


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J JΠ[ Hard to believe! In 1943 neverΛ m suspected this day would ar-

MM m rive. Did you read the ad inLMά I Cornell Magazine—page 37,

I I October issue—encouraging^ ™ alumni who have access to e-

mail to list themselves in the forthcoming"cornell.e-maiΓ directory? Your corre-spondent has OKed all possible listings forself. We'll do anything to draw news from'47ers, and togetherness relieves loneli-ness. Forewarning: your correspondentWBW is anticipating a European trip inJune/July of a month or so to France forthe Rotary International Convention inNice, then on to visit friends in Vienna,Bratislava, Prague, Zurich, Neuchatel, Fri-bourg, Geneva.

Some tough news many months agofrom Delia Dale Paget, 20932 NE 77thSt., Redmond, WA 98053-7750, reportingthat husband Albert had entered a homefor Alzheimer's patients. Al rememberedattending Cornell, but that's about all. Weregret that we don't have an update, butextend collective words of sympathy toDelia.

Arlene Winard Lungen respondedwith very positive Adult University (CAU)experience and added, "When possible Iwould certainly sign up for another . . ." F.Bruce Krysiak remains, since 1990, heavilyengaged in Russian/American joint venturessuch as supermarkets, food distribution, in-tegrated food systems, especially focused onthe Pacific Rim. Wish we had news of suchbusiness in view of ruble rumble. His wife,Margaret (Dragon) '48, is president ofVermont Originals and in ski hat businessfor lo 20 years. More, daughter Jane Kry-siak Kirchner '77 is a senior executive ofAmerican/Russian Investors.

Eastern Airlines' Durand Fisher re-tired back in 1984, moved from Miami toSebring, FL, where he's president of 62-unithousing development. Durand understate-ment: Sebring has "slower pace" than Mi-ami. Charles R. Fisher Jr. moved from WestVirginia to Mission Viejo, CA and is continu-ing work with Rapid Transit Systems, newlight rail lines; he's just zipping along , en-joying the LA life even with earthquakes.

Slip now to two-year-retired FrankCarney and Carolyn, who snared a snow-bird winter condo at Worthington Coun-try Club in Bonita Springs, FL; come thewarmer months and they trundle up tohome in Maine. Last May a newsy pagefrom Jean Hough Wierum came, identi-fying a wild schedule of US travel withThorn. They didn't get back to campus ashad hoped last summer, but ran into Chi-cago's John Gnaedinger at an Aspen-in-Chicago Seminar on Thomas Jefferson.Jean added that she'd investigate a verygood program that John's now involvedwith, but her hand-curlicue was such thatwe still can't decipher the nature of John'sprogram. At least Jean added that it'snewsworthy. By the way, your correspon-dent is back from a week's holiday trip tofamily home in Staunton, VA now stampedas historically important, bless us. Taxrelief! The bell rang—we're out of here.• Barlow Ware, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850-1266.

^ Please bear in mind that theseI "news" items bear a fine patina

)M of age, having been written upM in April 1994. Roger Amoro-• si, Detroit: "Oldest brother,

^ Gilbert '32, passed away Sep-tember 1993. That leaves me and two oth-er Cornell engineer brothers, Alfred '34 andNorman '37. Sorry we missed Reunion and100th Anniversary Cornell-Penn footballgame." Hal Andrews, Arlington, VA: "Nomatter what the problem, turn Newt Ging-rich loose on it. (We've lived in the area toolong!) Last year was enjoying week in ourΈig Easy' time-share. Last week spent in'mid-east' Pennsylvania, including shoppingReading Outlet Malls. Attended banquet inWillard Straight to celebrate 80th birthdayof W. R. "Bill" Sears, farmer and foundinghead of Graduate School of AeronauticalEngineering.

Helen Levy Kleinberg, NYC: "Retiredas university director of career counselingand placement. Last year returned frommonth's visit to many parts of South Africa,where anxiety was everywhere. Tried totalk to people of all ages. College studentsseem most hopeful about future, but theirparents seemed fearful. Violence was esca-lating amid leaders' calls for peace." TolitaIrwin Logan and Harold, Stuart, FL: "Lastyear ate and drank our way through Bur-gundy, Bordeaux, Avignon, Saint Smilionand back to Calais and England. Last weekcelebrated my birthday with family at TheLeopard in New York City. Would rather beknitting, needlepointing, or golfing than fill-ing out this form." Winnie McGowan Mc-Carthy, Suffield, CT: "Youngest, Maryellen,married childhood playmate from Westportin 1993. She's an attorney in Woodbridge,VA. I'm still planning aide to Zoning andPlanning Commission and working everyday in my office five minutes from home.Would rather be in Kennebunkport or Long-boat Key, my two favorite vacation spots.

Keep in touch with Jeanne LivingtonSchaufert, my Cornell roommate, and alsowith John "Tex" Bratten '47. Glad to seeLowell Weicker didn't run again. There's toomany problems in the world to find a solu-tion. Perhaps it would help if we all mindedour own business."

Eileen Kane McNamara, Ridgewood,NJ: "All kids married. Enjoying grandchil-dren. Still active in real estate. We're off toSpain!" Harriet Morel Oxman, Sarasota,FL: "Went up the Amazon River. Walked inthe rainforest and swung on a few vines.Even did some race-walking on an island wevisited. I give talks on my travels to peopleat retirement and nursing homes." HelenAdams Pierce, Fishers, IN: "Retired as as-sistant principal in NYC. Son Dwayne mar-ried. Built new home in Fishers, IN. Dwayneand wife Denise occupy my old home in Tea-neck, NJ. Just joined bridge group and amreviewing rules, not having played in 20years. Have learned to relax at the organ.Perfected an album of PurcelΓs trumpettunes. Best relaxation, however, was fabu-lous trip on Regent Sun to Maritime prov-inces. I suggest using former military basesto provide home and care for the homelessand to take criminals off the streets to im-prove the quality of life."

Kurt Richards, N. Olmstead, OH:"Visited two sons in Colorado where thirdcame from San Diego. Sunny and dry, noasthma or arthritis. Last year was hopingmy memory would return. Last week paint-ed new porch at Chautauqua, closed it up,came home and rested arthritic back. On tripout West met buffalo at "Jellystone," sawGeorge through fog at Rushmore, and hadsteak at Zietz's Buckhorn Exchange in Den-ver. Don't go to Zietz's place without fatwallet and tolerant attitude. Solution for to-day is to do away with junk mail." ••• BobPersons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington,NY 11050.

A ^ \ Happy new year! Just knowΛ I I your numero uno resolution will

# 1 I I be to pay your class dues andL X M send news. Thanks for both and

Γ l l your patience—columns are^ ^ ^ written two months ahead and

news spread out over ten issues. Updatesalways appreciated.

Are you wintering in Florida again,Jack? John J. Gilbert, Hamburg, NY,basked in the Florida sunshine during Feb-ruary and March 1994 when not visiting fel-low '49ers Bill Ohaus, Dan Emerson, andWendel Kent.

Bette McGrew Benedict, Lambert-ville, NJ, produced and appeared as HeddaHopper and Bette Davis in a local commu-nity association play, Fractured Hollywood,a musical comedy revue which spoofs mov-ies and stars from 1951 to 1994. Her bestrole, however, was as our 45th Reunionchair! Now she's serving as our class sec-retary. Richard J. "Dick" Keegan, Green-wich, CT, our president, dutifully answeredhis own questions on the dues notice: "1)Now writing the July/August '94 class col-umn (Aha, must be May); 2) Rather be ski-ing; 3&4) Best and worst Cornell memo-ry—7:15 a.m. Monday morning meetingswith Dr. Day, followed by mentally danger-

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ous walks over Suspension Bridge." BrettCrowley Capshaw, ex-typist, present classvice president, also saw fit to answer thosemind-boggling News and Dues queries: "1)Now writing checks, obviously; 2) rather beon the open road with the top down (What?);3) Best Cornell memory—comments byProf. Clinton Rossiter '39 in class aboutmy FDR paper. No bad mem'ries!"

Philip C. McMaster, King of Prussia,PA, says, "Am finally retired from riding theroller coaster of the machine tool business.Busy with church, other organizations andhope to travel." Joseph R. Stein, Mt. Kis-co, NY, retired from insurance agency. Nowwill visit grandchildren and travel the world.Also retired and doing lots of traveling isSidney J. Rosen, Princeton, NJ.

Eleanor Flemings Munch, Gaithers-burg, MD, organized Christmas InternationalHouse (CIH) in 1979 through the Gaithers-burg Presbyterian Church. CIH is a 28-year-old program matching foreign students withfamilies over winter break. She writes: "Re-tired, ringing handbells, chair CIH (15 years),bicycle and walk, travel, into genealogy, Eld-erhostels, and keeping up with husband Neil'48, four children, and seven grandchildren."

Gordon R. Nesbitt, Groton, NY:"Semi-retired to a grain- and hay-producingfarm, just 12 miles from the beautiful Cor-nell campus. Spend winters in sunny NewMexico, travel coast-to-coast yearly with mywife, Margaret (DeRycke) '50, to visitNew Jersey daughter and son and daughterin California." Stanley M. Anderson, GlensFalls, NY, also has two children on the WestCoast. "Took a drive along the Oregon coastto view some spectacular shoreline. Live inGod's country—Lake George area."

Lewis J. "Lou" Malamut, Margate, NJ:"Semi-retired, but involved in a conventiondecorating, management, production company,primarily in southern New Jersey and south-eastern Florida. Officially moved to Boca Ra-ton." While others retire or semi do so, Dr.Donald H. Singer, Evanston, IL, writes: "Ihave just gone into private practice."

Some of us have changed addresses inthe past year or so. Melvin F. Bennett Jr.and Bobbie moved to Ashland City, TN, lastyear, after U-Hauling their possessions fromMoberly, MO with the help of three husky,healthy sons. Had spent two months in Beth-el, NY, time in Nashville, three weeks inAustria, Slovakia, and Germany, back toGallatin, TX, all before move! Then 15 dayshelping with a new granddaughter in Hous-ton, TX just after the move. Now diggin' in—exciting time!" Martha "Marty" PancoastGrafton moved to Miami, FL, "near sons,daughters-in-law, and four marvelous grand-children. President, Paperweight CollectorsAssn., Florida chapter for three years. Hi toHelen Hoffman Casey, Sarah "Sally" Har-wood Norris, Barbie, Eddie, Sylvia . . . !"

Don't know how many mini-reunionstook place before the BIG ONE, but do knowDorothea "Dottie" Dashefsky Fast, Liv-ingston, NJ, had one, as Peter E. Demnitzand wife T. "Teddy" (Chirico) '48 happilyattended, as they also had in 1989. Almostten years of retirement for Ed and AnnSeguin Hill, Kenilworth, NJ. Busy with trav-el, family, and community activities. Everytwo years they have a family reunion at

Canandaigua Lake.Albert E. Ferraro, W. Palm Beach, FL,

had a mini-reunion with Howard Carlsonand Ben Amsden. Marylou Dorward Erd-man, Scotia, NY, sees Laura "Lolly" FerresFitts, Barbara Corell Lawrence, and FaithWinne Nix quite often. "Marylou and Donhave a son on either coast. Have had somelovely trips, including driving across thecountry twice." Barbara (Corell) and AlLawrence '50, with two daughters and onegranddaughter, went to Lillihammer for thelast week of the Winter Olympics, wherethey joined Chuck Reynolds and Sis."Beautiful, sunny and COLD."

Stay warm! ••• Mary Heisler Allison,470 Chandlee Dr., Berwyn, PA 19312; (610)640-1387.

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ψ^ ^\ Our classmates[̂ I I have been enjoyingψ^k I I several of the offer-

I I I ings of Adult Uni-

\J\J v e r s i ty (C A U) yV^ \ ^ Binenkorb Kraw-chick took part in both The Republicans,conducted by Joel Silbey, President Whiteprofessor of history, and Family Matters,with Prof. Glenn Altschuler, PhD '76,dean of continuing education and summersession, and psychology Prof. Daryl Bern incharge. Edward and Janice Gravel Hoe-nicke '53 and J. William and Faye Keith-an went to Dublin for The Play's the Thinglast May, led by English and comparativeLiterature Prof. Emeritus Anthony Capu-ti, PhD '56 and Carl Kroch University Li-brarian Alain Seznec. Marjorie Leigh Hartand Richard Tucker, with respectivespouses, enjoyed the Sicily tour last Juneled by Architecture Dean William McMinnwith Jeffrey Blanchard. Francis A. Wood,MD '50 and wife Mary went on the SantaFe tour, enjoying the Santa Fe Opera as itsfocal point. The Wyoming tour attractedMarc, JD '50 and Judy Goldstone Josephand Shirley Stewart McGrath. RichardPhelan, MME '50 and Nels Schaenen andtheir wives sailed the Mediterranean andAegean in August aboard the MS StellaMarts. The tour was conducted by ClassicsProf. Frederick M. Ahl, David I. Owen, pro-fessor of Near Eastern studies, and Presi-dent Frank Rhodes.

We received a wonderful letter fromCarson Geld from Brazil. He writes: "Thefamily, outside of us—Carson and wife,Ellen Bromfield '53—has four Cornell-ians—Stephen Geld '74, Robin '76, Ken-neth '81 and his wife, Sarah "Sally" (Sto-ry) '81. Trying to organize Zinck's Nightand pass on Brazil Cornell Club presidencyto younger generation. We hope to have atleast 50 Cornellians attending—to sing Cor-nell songs accompanied by Clavicord playerPedro Persone, who is in the process of ap-plying for doctorate admission to music de-partment on the Hill. Also have oldestgrandson, Esra, applying for undergraduateadmission in September 1995. That wouldmake fourth generation, beginning with hisgreat-grandfather, Pulitzer Prize winnerLouis Bromfield '18. Spent two weeks inUS attending a barn-raising ceremony atEllen's old home, Malabar Farm, near Mans-

field, OH. The farm is now a state park . . .receiving more than 150,000 visitors a year.The old barn burned down and 200 volun-teer members of the Frame Builders Guildof America put a complete replica of the oldbarn up over Labor Day Weekend. Ellen'sbuddy from Cornell, Linda Mitchell Davis'53, flew in for the ceremonies. Linda wasrecently elected Cattleman of the Year bythe New Mexico Cattle Assn. Get that! Af-ter that we went on to Montana to checkthe fires in the national parks to see if theywere any worse than the burning of theAmazon rain forest—they were! Then onto New York City to stay with Amy Hus-ten '78, budget director of the GuggenheimMuseum. So you can see we keep up withCornell and Cornellians." Thanks for suchan interesting contribution to the column,Carson.

Another interesting offering came fromSam Johnson, who has done so much forour class and spurs us all on to do the bestwe can in support of Cornell. His biograph-ical sketch included too much for our limit-ed space, but I hope you will find these high-lights as impressive as I did. Sam is thefourth-generation member of the Johnsonfamily to serve as chairman of S.C. Johnson& Son Inc. (S.C. Johnson Wax). Some of thecompanies for whom he serves as a direc-tor include Mobil Corp., Deere and Co. andH.J. Heinz Co. His awards and honors in-clude Order of the Sacred Treasure, by hisMajesty the Emperor of Japan, the LifetimeEnvironmental Award from the United Na-tions Environment Programme in recogni-tion of environmental leadership, Philanthro-pist of the Year, by the National Society ofFund Raising Executives, for dedication toprivate philanthropy. Sam has been award-ed seven honorary doctorate degrees includ-ing ones from the U. of Surrey (England)and Nijenrode U. (The Netherlands). Samhas a number of publications to his name,including "How to Organize for New Prod-ucts," Harvard Business Review, and TheEssence of a Family Enterprise, (The CurtisPublishing Co. Inc., 1988.) With all of thisactivity and achievement, Sam has the timealso for hobbies. He is a serious nature pho-tographer, a jet, seaplane, and glider pilot, afisherman, and a scuba diver. What a won-derful example of achievement and servicebeyond self, Sam.

I will include more from a larger num-ber of Cornellians of our class as soon as Iget this fall's "Roll Call" sheets. • JocelynFrost Sampson, 10983 Twin Cubs Trail,Littleton, CO 80125; (303) 770-3820 (W),(303) 978-0798 (H).

Γ ^ ^ Ann Penney Ross is operating£ ^ I Hedgerow Bed and Breakfast inr \ I Kingston, RI and would welcome

I I the opportunity to welcome anyI f I class members to the lovely Ocean^ ^ ^ State. Lawrence L. Smith is stillvery actively involved in his architecturalpractice—primarily educational and muni-cipal buildings, with an occasional residencefor a "change of pace." For the past severalyears he's spent several weeks in SouthernFrance and hopes to make it a tradition. Histwo Cornell children are both involved inmedicine, one finishing up a residency and


the other just entering medical school.Edgar Abram retired from teaching in

1983, has remarried, following the death ofhis wife Natalie, and travels around the Eastand South as "The Airborne Music Man,"doing one-man shows at World War II re-unions. Robert Wagner is features editorfor the Buffalo News and lists his extracur-ricular activities as hiking, bird watching,and community theater.

Sue Gottesman Teich, a reference li-brarian in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, is re-joicing over the birth of a first grandchild.

William Coley and his wife havemoved into a senior living residence in BocaRaton, FL, and say it's proved to be a greatmove—three meals a day and all the facili-ties. They're wondering why they didn't doit sooner.

Jane Shevlin Clement has retired fromthe Los Angeles County Department ofChildren's Services. She spends most of theyear at her home in Surfside, CA and sum-mers at a Puget Island cottage on the Co-lumbia River in Washington. Henry, JD '52and Phyllis Fein Bobrow have moved intoa condo in White Plains and don't miss theirformer house at all, particularly after lastwinter when snow was such a concern. TheBobrows remain close to numerous Cornell-ians and have four grandchildren.

John Brancaccio, Dix Hills, NY, re-tired some years ago from AT&T corporatestaff and now gets to hone his skills as atennis player and skier. Theodora "Todi"Frizzell Frick, a teacher/RN at Carolina'sMedical Center, Charlotte, has a daughterworking in Oyster Bay, NY, and as she ex-pects to visit NY State, would like to hearfrom any classmates in that area.

Dorothy Bartmann Karcher lists her-self as a volunteer, now that she's retired,and tells of a wonderful trip last year on theMississippi Queen from St. Louis, MO to St.Paul, MN. ••• Bob and Joanne BaylesBrandt, 60 Viennawood Dr., Rochester, NY14618; (716) 244-6522.

f ^ ^ \ Received a letter from the Third^ ^ I Secretary of the American Em-Ψ^k m bassy in Bishkek, Kyrgzstan,

I m Shawn Dorman '87. She wrote\j I i t n a t n e r boss is Ambassador Ed-\ # mm ward Hurwitz, of our class.They have formed a two-member 'alumniclub' and are carrying on the Cornell inter-est in ornithology by birdwatching in thatfar-off land. The count so far includes pere-grine falcons, bearded vultures, golden ea-gles, Guldenstadt's redstart, dippers, red-billed chough, rough-legged hawks, hoodedcrows, carion crows, rooks, and magpies.

M. Clare Pfeiffer Vanderploeg '44sent a whole page from a Hastings, MI,newspaper, telling of an award for outstand-ing citizenship presented by the BarryCounty Bar Assn. to Richard and EthelDenton Groos '54 for working to makeHastings a nicer place to live. Dick chairsthe board at Viking-Tyden. Together Etheland Dick participated in millage campaigns,developed fiction and non-fiction readinglists for the middle school, and are develop-ing a program for placing works of art inthe new probate courtroom. They servedon the library board and helped convert an

old post office into the present library. Theyhave been on the United Way board since1956, spent 12 years on the school board and34 years on the hospital board. Hastings mustcontain a fountain of youth, as both Grooseslook just as they did as undergraduates.

The year 1993-94 was Robert Conti'sthird of teaching operations management atBryant College. Bob and wife Eleanor(Hospodor) spend the school year in Cum-berland, RI and their summers in Cam-bridge, England. From even farther away,Luis E. Montero-Pinillos wrote from Ha-cienda Caucato in Pisco, Peru to say that hestill works part time with his farm, and parttime in finances. Your correspondent hasfond memories of Pisco after a drive fromLima to Nazca, but remembering the aridsoil and lack of rainfall, I wonder what Luisgrows. Perhaps grapes to be made into thatgift from the wine god—pisco sours. Luis isan avid equestrian and at the time of his notehe had just returned from threemonths'vacation in Russia, US, Spain, Italy, England,France, etc.

Helen Pellman Marsh has retired fromMiddlebury College, but is BUSY doing vol-unteer work for hospice and a natural foodsco-op. She also audits college courses inAmerican history and poetry, travels (NewMexico and Virginia topped the list), skis,sails, canoes, does yoga, cooks, lifts weights,and does aerobics. No time to clean thehouse, but she's trying. Helen's booklist in-cluded Cider House Rules and Winter inTaos, both new titles to me. John W. Hy-man is still busy inspecting buildings as aconstruction consultant who works on be-half of lending institutions. His most recentinteresting assignment has been the month-ly monitoring of progress of the new UnitedCenter Arena in Chicago, the new home ofthe Bulls and Blackhawks. He vacations inFlorida, but in good weather can be seenbicycling along the Chicago lakefront.

Another bicycler is Joan Hockert Don-nelly, an attorney in New York City. Joanworks in legal services and "travels everychance I can." Most recent reported trip wasto Norway and the Arctic Circle. She re-members Professor Nabokov saying that agood book is like a symphony, and says thatProfessor Milton Konvitz, PhD '33 gaveher a firm foundation for American idealsand her recent entry into law.

John and Libby Hunsberger Craverare still in Lancaster, PA, where she doeshandicapped horseback riding instructionand substitute teaching while Jack is in ho-tel management. He remembers ProfessorTom Silk '38, MS '47 of the Hotel school,who chaired the student conduct commit-tee—during and after the WVBR takeover.Robert Harvey Jeffreys just ended a 36-year career with National City Bank inCleveland, where he was vice president andsenior trust officer. Lots of golf and an im-proved tennis game on the agenda, as wellas driving trips across the US.

After 33 years with Hughes AircraftCo., Paul H. Kennard is also concentrat-ing on golf. He is back into private flying andhas become a "committee junkie." He recentlysaw Eugene Schutt '51 at the golf club,where he was playing as a guest of his son.Paul's travels included a visit to the Baltic

and a Scandinavian cruise. The sons of Regi-nald and Sallie Capron Marchant '54 aretaking over the business, giving Reginaldand Sallie much more time to spend winter-ing in Florida and traveling. Home in theNorth is still Chagrin Falls, OH. Let us hearfrom you in Ithaca, where we can be reachedby fax or phone at (607) 272-3786. • Georgeand Gayle Raymond Kennedy, 9 Maple-wood Point, Ithaca, NY 14850.

Remember creeping socialism?We now face creeping leisure.But 1953 is hardly idle. RuthBurns Cowan is president of theboard of directors of Pro Mujer,a program to educate indigenous

Bolivian women to participate in their coun-try's economic development. And she's help-ing plan September's UN InternationalMeeting on Women in Beijing.

"Will and I have been enjoying friendsand family in Boca Raton, FL, which we nowcall home (permanent)," writes JudyKarkus Allen. "Our beach house in Barne-gat Light, NJ, is still a delight, but withdaughters and grandchildren in Massachu-setts and Vermont, we're usually on the go."Daughter Cindy Allen '78 and husband ped-dle pizza at Pie-in-the-Sky, Stowe, VT. Momrecommends. Another daughter "is workingher way up the corporate ladder in Boston."Elliott and Paula Solomon have closed theirmatrimonial law practice in New York andmoved (permanently) to "our Borders Re-sort Shangri-la in Carefree, AZ" (aka Scotts-dale). They still do family law arbitration,mediation, and marriage counseling. HarryButler (Carmichael, CA) says he was sobusy traveling (Clinton inauguration, Re-union, Montreal, Quebec City, Panama Ca-nal, Acapulco, Costa Rica, Jamaica, the GrandCaymans, Disney World, Japan, Korea, Slo-venia, England, Germany, and Italy in oneyear) that he had to finesse the retirementretreat hunt.

Chandler "Pete" Cudlipp (Grand Rap-ids, MI) sold the business and became vicepresident of sales for the buyer (SchupanAluminum). Pete and Jane (Heitkamp) aregrandfolks via son and wife, who are pursu-ing opera careers in Zurich. Stan Landau(Hewlett Harbor, NY) has "given up sailingfor golf and my computer has become mymistress." He counts five grandkids andsays, "Am working as a urologist a little lessand playing a little more." Klaus Buxbaumhas "no plans to quit" gastroenterologizingin Whittier, CA. His oldest son is of collegeage. "Ran marathons 'til this year," saysKlaus. "Hip problems have stopped me fornow." Retired citrus grove broker ChuckJuran's son David, Grad (UCLA '81) is adoctoral fellow in the Johnson School ofManagement. "Another Cornellian, at last,"says Chuck, and "we are at peace with theworld in Prescott, AZ." Leon Knickerbock-er, retired from GE (Syracuse) for threeyears, summers in Skaneateles and wintersin Fort Myers, FL. Caroline MulfordOwens (Westport, CT) is the ConnecticutPress Club's 1994-95 Communicator ofAchievement.

President Frank H. T. Rhodes guidedWalt and Agnes Foley, Jane Little Hardy,Al Harris, and Mort and Ele Lowenthal

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on an Aegean odyssey with Adult University(CAU) last summer. Ed '50 and Janice Grav-el Hoenicke and Frank, PhD '53 and Char-lene Miller theater-hopped in Dublin and Lon-don; Bill Gratz studied Abe Lincoln in Wash-ington, DC; Frank and Mary RowleyForthoffer '52 tasted Alaska; and M. Paul-ine Symonds Eschweiler and Peter '55 sawSicily. Ithaca drew Sheila Olsen Chidester,Claire Engle, Burt Fine, Jim Lansing, Johnand Lea Paxton Nixon, Charles Pope, Mar-gery Schmidt Van Court and BernardWand, PhD '53, who partook of selected sa-vories from the CAU menu. • Jim Hanchett,300 1st Ave., NYC 10009.

Ψ^ A The October issue of CornellL . Λ Magazine had not reached myψ^k / I mail box before Karen Wylie

I ^ J i Pry or pinged me her e-mailI I I message from N. Bend, WA.V # JL. Karen and husband Jon Lind-bergh have started a publishing companyand video production outfit, concentratingon books and videos about behavior modifi-cation and positive reinforcement. Theyhave two markets: college psychology class-rooms—and dog trainers. The dog trainersare more fun. They also have a cranberryfarming project in southern Chile which theyvisit three times a year. Between them theyhave nine children—all but one married—and nine grandchildren, mostly in the NewYork area, so that means many trips East,as well. Karen, thanks for accepting the chal-lenge to go online.

The accolades for our 40th Reunionkeep coming. Betty Wagler Striso wrote amarvelous long letter commenting on thefeeling of ease and friendliness that flowedthrough the weekend. One of the highlightsfor Betty was having the time to reminiscewith Ellie Schroeder Price, with whom shehad been friends since second grade. AfterCornell their paths had separated but the40 years vanished in June. In August, Bettyand Clem held a Tri-Delt mini-reunion attheir vacation home in Vermont. In atten-dance were Ralph "Snuffy" and AnnadeleFerguson Jackson, Dick and Nancy "Lisa"Rink Kelly, Phil '52 and Barbara JohnsonGottling, and Jane (Gregory) and husbandH. Lynn Wilson. Two of our stalwartswere missing in June, but have sent in prop-er regrets. Bill Waters missed his secondReunion due to an overseas trip for Merrill,Lynch, where he still runs their internation-al private banking group. He was in Ithacaa few weeks earlier, however, to see sonTony '90, BA '94 graduate. He and Tonyare sure to be back in 1999 for their 5thand 45th Reunions.

Duane Neil lost his perfect attendancerecord for Reunion, deciding instead to takea first-time-ever trip to southern Europe. Ithink Neil has the better excuse. Planningto attend, but reported among the missingwas John Fodor. From the sounds of John'sCornell resume, I think he was taking a rest.Having completed his second term on Uni-versity Council last June, John was appoint-ed to the athletic advisory council for a four-year term. He is also serving on campaigncommittees for Metro New York/FairfieldCounty, Architecture, Art, and Planning, andathletics. All this while interviewing for

Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN).

In June 1993 Ann Maxwell Barnardtook time off from her position as a photoresearcher and assistant professor in fine artat Bridgewater State College to study tradi-tional Chinese painting and woodblock print-ing at the Guangzhou Academy of Art inChina. While there she visited Xi'an, Beijing,and Shanghai. Mary Racelis, back in thePhilippines after nine years in Africa, isheading up the Ford Foundation office inManila. Her work brings her together withboth private and governmental sectors, as-sisting in efforts to aid the rural and urbanpoor. Mary reports more than 100 membersof the local Cornell Club met recently fordinner to honor fellow Cornellian Emil Q.Javier, PhD '69 as the new president ofthe U. of the Philippines.

Although many of the class are retiredand trekking about the globe, several amongus are tending to their chosen professions:Robert Patterson and John Hyde, as vet-erinarians, are still asked to advise on thecare of animals; Jean Lanigan Lenehan andJan Braden Cave are helping the travelingpublic plan new adventures; John Burris willstill design a building for you in Philadelphia;and investment counseling at Smith Barneykeeps Robert Ceisler commuting to theWorld Trade Center. As the birthdays go by,you might keep W. "Dinnee" Clair Schen-kel's and Mary Ann Hakenjos McCon-aughy's names in your filofax. Dinnee is apsychotherapist/gerontologist in Lynchburg,VA and Mary Ann a planner in HarfordCounty's Office on Aging in Bel Air, MD.

Ed McDowell and Joyce (Dudley) '57were neighbors of mine in Palos Verdes inthe late 1950s. I have followed their travelsfor years with great interest and from thesounds of Ed's letter the saga continues.Perhaps they'd consider a handbook critiqu-ing their adventures. When not watching thebirds, dolphins, wind, and waves from theirbeach house or campaigning their SantaCruz-70, they're . . . off to Europe, Tanza-nia, the Indian Ocean, Hawaii, or plottingtrips to India, Nepal, Panama, Costa Rica,and New Zealand. Ed states that after sixyears of retirement he is busier than ever.Farther up the coast in Big Sur, LindaStagg Mazet continues to "enjoy the wildlife—animal and human." Real estate laysclaim to much of her time, but with heryoungest daughter and two grandchildrenmoving back home to fill up an empty nest,priorities could shift. Sounds like the girlsare back. Keep those e-mail messages com-ing; they are great fun. ••• Leslie PapenfusReed, 17 Hillside Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904;fax, (415) 925-9404; e-mail, [email protected].

ψ* T* Don and Jennie• I Towle Farley '54ψ^k Γ i are both teaching at

I I Cornell (EE andi f i f ILR, respectively).^ ^ ^ ^ Don still runs "pret-ty seriously" (ten kilometers in 38:25, lastspring). The Farleys have three Cornellianchildren, and three grandchildren in Arizo-na and Iowa. Donna Jean Avery Darlingjoined the American People Ambassadorprogram, which will take her to Hong Kong

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and China to study the Chinese educationalsystem. J. Dave Schmidt traveled from hishome in Clinton, NY, to Kenya last Augustto fulfill a lifelong dream of going on safari.Please bring a few of those 1,000 slides toReunion, Dave!

Caryl Salomon Bernstein "retired" asgeneral counsel of Fannie Mae in June 1993and started as senior counsel at Shaw, Pitt-man, a Washington law firm, three monthslater. As reported in the Wall Street Journal,Bob Attiyeh has been named chief finan-cial officer of Amgen, a major publicly-heldbiotech company in California. Nancy TaftWhitman, associate professor of music at theU. of Nebraska, chaperoned that universi-ty's choir on a tour of southern Germany,Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Congratula-tions to Nancy on her election as presidentof the west-central division of the MusicTeachers National Assn.

Sally (Zautner) and Jim Vanicekrented an apartment in Klosters, Switzer-land, for five weeks last winter, and had a30-day ski pass. To make it even better,their daughter and her family, who live inGermany, came too. The Vaniceks reluctant-ly came back home to Middletown, RI, toface the challenges of their nursery busi-ness, "battling with Mother Nature and try-ing to start digging and shipping after ourrecord Northeast winter."

Best wishes to Alice Heft Saligman onher recent remarriage to Klaus Brinkmann'53. This adventuresome pair were marriedin the 1950s, divorced and went on to sepa-rate lives. Then, as Alice tells it, "circum-stances brought us back together in the1990s, so here we go again!" You can sendyour congratulations to 74 E. 79th St., NYC.Also starting over, in another sense, L. J."Jim" Tranka is revisiting parenthood, hav-ing been named legal guardian of his 16-year-old godson, who lives with him. "Hekeeps me young and up on all the new thingsenjoyed by teenagers: Nintendo, rap music,skateboarding, odd-looking clothes, and cra-zy haircuts!"

Jim Freeman started a brand new Cor-nell Club in the western Carolinas, which"went from zero to almost 100 members."The club's first major event was a concertby the Glee Club—"a sold-out house in spiteof the worst winter storm of the year!" TheFreemans live in Tryon, NC—"a great placeto live—I recommend it highly to Cornell-ians who aren't already here." Bill Forbesis equally enthusiastic about Colorado,where he's chosen to settle—"I've beenhere a little over two years, looking for anew job."

"Memories are Made of This" Depart-ment: Shirley Sanford Dudley remembersher "best moment" at Cornell as "receivinga vote of confidence from the Mortar Boardseniors. Because my average at the time ofselection was a few tenths of a point belowwhat was required, they received specialpermission and included me anyway." Andafterward? "I made Dean's List every se-mester!" Ralph Greenlee remembers thatfinal push in White Hall to complete his un-dergrad architectural thesis. "Beyond thepersonal exhaustion, what I remember is thehelp and support of friends. At that time,the top floor of White Hall was one big stu-

dio space, occupied by four classes—sopho-more through fifth year. An exhilarating ex-perience!" Rona Kass Schneider recalls, "Inthe 1950s it was a big deal to prove that agirl could have intelligence if she was also asocial creature. I spent four years proving Icould 'do it' in class as well as the boyscould, so my biggest kick was getting elect-ed to Phi Beta Kappa and surprising a lot ofpeople." A great memory from DickMathewson: "Louis Armstrong concert atBailey Hall—full house—snow in the air—bus with the band is two hours late—theyarrive just as audience is about to leave.Louis comes on stage with hat and coat stillon, snow-covered and horn case in tow. Theconcert starts, and the audience gets a once-in-a lifetime show. Έaby, It's Cold Outside'brings down the house!"

It's great to see the Reunion forms com-ing in and to know that many of you havealready noted those key dates (June 8-11)on your calendar—in ink! Think of what weshared, so many years ago, and the won-derful new and renewed friendships that areours to enjoy now. All indications are point-ing to a wonderful 40th Reunion for usall. • Nancy Savage Morris, 110A WeaverSt. Greenwich, CT 06831.

This column is being writtenright after last fall's Trustee/Council Weekend. A large num-k e r °f '56ers attended this mean-ingful and moving event. Thehighlight was the tribute to Pres-

ident Rhodes, who will always be remem-bered by us for his naming of "The Super-class of 1956." Headed by our leader, Ern-ie Stern, a brief meeting of classmates onhand that weekend reviewed the progressthat has been made toward plans for our40th Reunion in 1996. This event promisesto be more fantastic than any of the others.I cannot reveal the plans, but mark yourlong-term calendar for June 1996.

A list of attendees at the above gather-ing includes Barbara Allen Grambow,Priscilla "Percy" Edwards Browning,Judy Cohen Lowry, Phyllis Bosworth,Curt Reis, L. "Lolly" Treman Almquist,Mike Nadler, Jon Lindseth, RichardKennedy, Keith Johnson, and me. Speak-ing of Keith, he was in Ithaca for the fallsemester, hard at work on his book aboutthe more recent history of Cornell. He iseager to hear from '56ers and other alumniwith reminiscences about student life fromthe 1950s onward. Says Keith: I'm almostpast the initial stage of total panic over thesize of the task. As a Fortune colleague likesto say, "It takes as long as it takes." Hispermanent address is still 329 W. 19th St.,NYC 10011; fax, (212) 741-2158.

Gordon Davidson was one of the recip-ients of the Distinguished Artists Award pre-sented in his home city of Los Angeles, wherehe is an outstanding theater director.

Edward vK. "Van" Cunningham Jr.writes about his bank, Fishkill National Bankand Trust Co. merging and becoming FirstNational Bank of the Hudson Valley, of whichhe will be vice chairman. Van, who is a verybusy person, is also a cracker-jack lawyer.Susanne Kalter DeWitt of 144 Fairlawn Dr.,Berkeley, CA is employed at Xoma Corp. in

immunology and assay development.I am sorry to report the passing of Dr.

Gerald M. Gusoff, who lived at 70 Wood-mere Blvd., S., Woodmere, NY.

Thanks to Jose S. Abizaid, PO Box 895,Larnaca, IMS 406, Cyprus, for sending his bestto all of his classmates. He looks forward tothis magazine, which brings him a little sun-shine in his troubled part of the world.

Robert P. Boger is a professor of familyand child ecology at Michigan State U. He maybe reached at 960 Rosewood, E. Lansing, MI.Judith Jabloner, MD is still at StudentHealth, U. of Pennsylvania. I can't believe it:she says the freshmen are younger than heryoungest child. You can write her at 221 Mor-lyn Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA.

Dixie Davis Curtice is a real estatebroker at J.T. Boyer in Princeton, NJ, whilehusband Walter '57, PhD '62 is the founderof W.R. Curtice Consulting and a fellow anddistinguished lecturer of IEEE. The Cur-tices' address is 5 Berkshire Dr., PrincetonJunction, NJ. Marlene"Pete" Jensen Eld-ridge of 33 Phillips Lane, Darien, CT hasworked in the high school library for the past11 years while husband Bill, MBA '55, isretired but still doing consulting. Three ofher four daughters are married and the Eld-ridges finally have their first grandchild.

Patricia Marlowe Epstein's daughter,Sharon Epstein '82, got married last yearin Darien, CT. She is a writer for "AnotherWorld," while her husband is a musician.Patricia resides at 60 Northwood Lane,Stamford.

Dr. Elliot Goldstein, 6412 Jefferson,Kansas City, MO is director of infectiousdiseases, Kansas U. Medical Center. Heloves the local Cornell Club and within thepast year has lectured in the Far East andother places around the globe.

Another physician, W. P. "Tad" John-son, is happily retired at his home at 2604Hollingworth Hills, Lakeland, FL. He andwife Shirley (Wagoner) '57 have threechildren, all finished with college and in var-ious careers.

Please keep those letters coming. Hopeyou are all well and enjoying the early "gold-en years." • Stephen Kittenplan, 1165Park Ave., NYC 10128.

P ^ l ^ l I'm always grateful to those re-I m spondents who write some newsw^k m on the back of the News and

I • Dues forms, especially when theyII I include news of other classmates,^ ^ • too. Georgeina "Gina" TurnbullChristie, Syosset, NY, writes that since herhusband's retirement she has become thevice president in charge of planning and lo-gistics for wilderness camping trips in sum-mer and ski weeks in winter. Last summerGina spent a week at the Berkshire Festi-val with David and Jane Wedell Pyle,when they sang Handel's Judas Maccabae-us with the Springfield Symphony Orches-tra . . . to rave reviews. The Christies alsosee Shirley Calloway Lindsay and Bob'52 often. Shirley is involved with the OldForge Arts Center, having chaired a suc-cessful auction to raise funds for the con-tinuation of its many interesting shows. Ginaalso writes that her late aunt, ClaraHoward Turnbull '14—who was the niece

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of David F. "Davy" Hoy 1891, MS 1893,university registrar of story and song—andwho was responsible for organizing the firstalumni directory, died one day after her101st birthday.

Proving that it's never too late for a newcareer, Ann Stevens, Northport, NY, has"returned to the stage." An accomplishedpianist, Ann has been working with tenorDavid Wilson (a fellow graduate of North-port High) and the duo debuted last Octo-ber at The Metropolitan in Glen Cove. Theyhave packaged their act for charity organi-zations and foundations, for the concertstage, as well as an afternoon musicale forfans of Broadway musicals.

Last January, Adele Petrillo Smart andBurt '55 cruised on the Queen Elizabeth IIas part of the Lafayette, LA's Acadiana Sym-phony fundraiser. Their final destination wasLos Angeles, which they left the day beforethe earthquake! Last summer they traveledto Glacier National Park and the CanadianRockies with about 40 other Cornellians onan Alumni Federation trip.

Mary Parker Dennis, a faithful con-tributor of news to this column, died lastAugust. Our condolences to her husband,Gordon R. Dennis '53, MBA '57 and theirsix children, including Linda '91, BS'92. •> Judith Reusswig, 5401 WestbardAve., #1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

Ed Vant called to inform me of the deathof Jim Stansfield. Ed and wife AdelaideRussell had visited with Jim and his wife,Linda Wellman, a month before Jim'sdeath. A fund has been established to pre-serve and enhance the stone walls andbridges in Mountain Lakes, NJ (JamesStansfield Memorial Fund, PO Box 132,Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046).

For those not totally familiar with AdultUniversity (CAU), a number of our classmateshave availed themselves of this program re-cently: Jim Keene, with Ruth and children,area of study—the Aegean; Bernhard Noe,Botany; Larry Farer, Popes and Kings; RonKramer, MBA '57, the Aegean; Jerry Dorf,Wyoming; David Hirsch, with Ellen, the goodold Aegean; Jim and Betty Jane Mitscher,ditto; Don and Barbara Spanton, Wyoming.If you want to bring yourself up to speed onwhat has been an enjoyable experience formany, contact CAU at 626 Thurston Ave., Ith-aca 14850-2490.

Debra and Dominick Pasquale host-ed a mini-reunion in late October for Rodand Liz Beckwith, C. Dick and ConnieTevebaugh, and your reporter (with hisson, daughter, and mother) at their homein Farmington, CT. Dominick continues hismedical practice specializing in blood disor-ders. Rod is in the midst of a quasi wind-down in his consulting business (he and Lizare months away from breaking ground inCharlottesville, VA on a permanent home)and Dick is still active in the chemical busi-ness with Rhone-Poulenc in Shelton, CT.

It seems we have a large amountIn '57's bank account.We need to ponder, but with little pause,To settle on a worthy cause.

We need no practice, no rehearsal,For this solution's universal;

Last year JonHowell took hisfather skiing inColorado for his91st birthday.—JAN ARPS JARVIE '58

It's settled then (and Levy's agreein'),We'll send your reporter to the good old

Aegean.

• John Seiler, 563 Starks Bldg., Louisville,KY 40202; (502) 589-1151.

As I sit down to type this col-umn, I realize how little news Ihave, but at least I will clear upall the old news. As you arereading this in the long wintermonths, how about sending off a

note to me. Graeme Mackenzie is stillowner/host of the Sandpiper Inn At TheBeach in Carmel, CA. He had many extend-ed trips last year, including cruising throughthe West Indies, hiking in Zermatt, Switzer-land, Bermuda, Yosemite, Arizona, and acruise to the Greek and Turkish islands.Needless to say, he says business is up, andhe has made many improvements to the fa-cilities, as usual. "Living in Carmel is greatand the climate superb almost year 'round."He recently took up golf, which now rivalshis tennis, and composting for his garden!

Art Edelstein spent all last fall goingto Cornell football games, as daughter Ker-ry '97 is in the Big Red Marching Band. Hehas been very active with Alumni Admis-sions Ambassador Network (CAAAN), es-pecially with student athletes. He thoroughlyenjoys it—looking for another Mitch Lee'90! Since his days on the University Coun-cil, he has kept up with his work on the cam-pus life committee. "Fascinating to see theactivities on campus up close!"

Last year Jon Howell took his fatherskiing in Colorado for his 91st birthday. NBCin Denver taped it. What a kick! Jon mustbe quite an avid skier, as he also spent twoweeks traveling and skiing in New Zealandand, in early spring, went helicopter skiingin Canada's Monashees!

Barbara "Dale" Reis Johnson is verypleased with the Reis Tennis Center whichwas dedicated in the spring of 1994. Her par-ents were the major benefactors. Last year,she went to Bermuda with brother Curt Reis'56 and his wife, and parents Jo (Mills) andL. San Reis '29, as well as with husband Dick'57. Dick is semi-retired and they enjoy play-ing lots of golf, some tennis, and being involvedwith volunteer activities. A. Jerry Keysersays his is a perfect example of a "boomer-

ang" family—both sons have moved backhome! Jerry and wife Marcia very much enjoytheir Lake Tahoe vacation home and they havealso been to Europe several times. Jerry isworking on the real estate economics of theconversion of the Presidio of San Franciscofrom army base to national park and the clo-sure of Fort Ord in Monterey County.

C. "Cindy" Rogers Heinbach is direc-tor of the Wesley Hall Nursery School inWestfield, NJ. She has been there for 22years. Carol Ostergren Orts just attendeda wonderful 40th reunion for our high schoolclass in Manhasset, NY. Also attending wasBev Feuss Heineman, and a good time washad by all! • Jan Arps Jarvie, 6524 ValleyBrook, Dallas, TX 75240.

Mid-September: I was on the lanaiof my hotel room, gazing at thewaters off Waikiki, when thephone started ringing. "One ofyour classmates has stirred upWall Street!" my brother informed

me. "Hey, don't you know Steve Fried-man?" asked a friend. Both the Wall StreetJournal and The New York Times gave big cov-erage that morning to Steve's unexpected an-nouncement that he would retire as chairmanof Goldman, Sachs & Co. The demands of abrutal schedule had much to do with Steve'sdecision. The Times quoted him saying, "Onlyon Wall Street do people think it bizarre thatI don't want to spend half my day on the tele-phone and the other half on an airplane." Alsoretired is Gerry Chayt, a mathematician whohad worked at the Naval Research Laborato-ry in Washington, DC, for 34 years. But Ger-ry's new status may be temporary: "I lookforward, hopefully, to a new job and, possibly,to a new career."

Steve Douglas, director of the clinicalimmunology laboratory at Children's Hos-pital of Philadelphia and professor ofpediatrics and microbiology at U. of Penn-sylvania's medical school, is the foundingeditor-in-chief of Clinical and DiagnosticLaboratory Immunology, an American Soci-ety for Microbiology journal that com-menced publication in January 1994. LarryKelts, associate professor of biology atMerrimack College in N. Andover, MA, hasbeen doing a lot of traveling—to SoutheastAsia and the former Soviet Union with thePeople to People Program in the context ofenvironmental concerns, and to Belize andGuatemala, where he conducted a tropicalecology course for Merrimack students.

A Miami U. of Ohio botany professor,W. Hardy Eshbaugh has been elected tothe board of directors of the National Au-dubon Society for a three-year term. As ofJan. 1, '95, he is also president of the Amer-ican Inst. of Biological Sciences. JackEvans, professor of operations managementand quantitative methods at the U. of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill, was appointed to anine-judge panel for the Malcolm BaldridgeNational Quality Award. Jack's wife, Pat(Johnson), was elected to the Chapel HillTown Council. Barry Huret was appoint-ed as senior counselor to Matsushita Stor-age Battery Co. of America, and was re-elected to chair the battery standards sec-tion of the Electronics Industries Assn.

Traveling with Adult University (CAU):


Nancy lams Walsh joined the trip led byProfessor Emeritus Verne Rockcastle,PhD '55 (education), Landscapes of theLast Frontiers: Alaska from Glacier Bay toFairbanks. Harry Petchesky and wife Jillsailed aboard the MS Stella Marts with Pres-ident Frank Rhodes for Nature and Civili-zation in the Ancient World. Robert Greerattended the on-campus course, The 12Longest Years: Literature in the Hitler Era.

Paula Millenthal Cantor attended theSigma Delta Tau reunion at the CornellClub—New York last spring: "Saw lots of oldMends and acquaintances, all still dynamic andinvolved women," she writes. Paula contin-ues to be very involved in Jewish communitywork as vice president of the YM-YWHA ofBergen County, NJ Dave Warner has movedto Vy de ΓEtraz, CH-1261 Gingins, Switzer-land. His sons are Derek '95, a senior in theArts college, and Daniel L., Grad, at theJohnson School of Management. • JennyTesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT06801-2643; (203) 792-8237.

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REUNIONHere's a re-remind-er about our up-coming Reunion,for which plans arefirming up nicely.Mark your new cal-

endars and save June 8-11 for a visit to theHill and get-together with classmates. This

QUIZWhich one docs not belong?1. Enter a cage of starving wol-

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is the time to be urging others to join us.And, be sure to answer affirmatively andpromptly when the Reunion mailing comesyour way. We will be headquartered in Ris-ley, with overflow rooms in Balch, justacross the way. There are plenty of activ-ities planned for all weekend, but therewill be time, too, for individual visits toremembered special spots on campus andoff, and quiet conversations with oldfriends and new.

Class events will occur in the Big RedBarn (recently renovated), Risley Dining Hall,on Libe Slope, and at Stewart Park, down bythe lake. These are in addition to many uni-versity-sponsored activities—athletic, esthet-ic, and academic—and we will also be part ofthe events honoring Frank H. T. Rhodes atthe end of his tenure as Cornell's president.Don't miss it. If yoou have questions, call Re-union Chairman Ken Ackley, (716) 248-2262.Now, here is some news.

Jill Weber recently joined the CoxeGroup, a management consulting organiza-tion that specializes in serving the designprofessions. A resident of the Boston sub-urb of Brookline, Jill reports that her chil-dren are geographically dispersed; daughterJennifer is now married and living in SanFrancisco and son James works for MerrillLynch in Chicago.

Another sort of professional move wasrecently made by Geoffrey Bullard, whorelocated the newly expanded offices of hisfirm Bullard, McLeod to 30 Watervliet Ave.in Albany. Bullard, McLeod is a provider offinancial planning and investment manage-ment services. Geoffs daughter Thessaly'95 is majoring in biogenetics, and son Dex-ter is in flight training with the Air Force inPensacola, Fla. Geoff notes that Vic Sicher-le, still in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has just addeda new business, specialty foods, to his manyother enterprises, which include growingherbs and raising jumping horses for Olym-pic competitors. Vic's son Camillo, LLM'92 recently spent time on the Hill.

Peter Ten Eyck is another classmate inthe Albany, NY area, where he runs IndianLadder Farms—which specializes in ap-ples—and serves as the head of the FruitGrowers of NY State. Peter also serves as auniversity trustee. Elliot Seley is in New YorkCity, where his company, American Marineand Rail, arranges financing for fleets of barg-es and railroad cars. Also in eastern New Yorkis Janis Mitchelhill Leas, who raises quar-ter horses in Stone Ridge.

Recently sighted by your correspondentduring a visit to Cape Cod were MichaelinReamy-Stephenson and Barbara CyrusMartin. Michaelin is a psychotherapist inprivate practice with husband Richard in At-lanta, where she also works as a color anddesign analyst. Three of four children are inAtlanta: James, an attorney with Troutmanand Sanders, specializes in real estate lawand his wife is also an attorney; Jennifer isan actress; and Laura is an artist and themother of Michaelin's grandson Julien. SonDavid, a recent graduate of Davidson, is anelementary school teacher in San Diego.Barbara teaches English at The AlternativeSchool of Scarsdale High; husband Dan '58is chief executive officer of E-Z-M, whichmanufactures barium products for the med-

ical profession. The Martins' sons are in theNortheast: Dan works for General Foods inWhite Plains; Alex '89 is in his second yearof business school at Harvard; and ChrisA. '91 is also in Boston, where he works ina laboratory at Massachusetts General Hos-pital and is completing preparations for med-ical school.

Mary "Dixie" Palmer Peaslee, apainter, divides her time these days betweenNew York City, where she has had a studiofor many years, and Seattle, where her workis shown in local galleries. Seattle is also thehome of Dixie's son Richard, a musician andthe father of Dixie's grandson, born in Sep-tember. Dixie's husband, Dick, is a compos-er of music for the theater and has a showscheduled to open soon in London. Daugh-ter Jessica is in New York City, where sheis a teacher and administrator in a familyliteracy program. Gretch Zahm Babarovicis also in NYC, working as executive aideto Peter Jennings at ABC; her daughter Tinais also with ABC, as a producer for "WorldNews Tonight" in Washington.

Some of you reading this issue who arenot currently duespaying subscribers maywant to sign up by paying dues. We hopeyou will—and we especially hope you'll joinus back on the Hill this June for Reunion.The more, the merrier, on bothcounts. • Judy Bryant Wittenberg, 146 Al-lerton Rd., Newton, MA 02161; e-mail,jwittenberg @vmsvax.simmons.edu.

^ \ 4 Philip Bereano, professor ofl ^ I technical communication in thel ^ k I College of Engineering at the U.I l l of Washington, speaks: "I believeI I I there's a major contradiction in\ ^ JL our society today. The growth ofpower and a technological elite is in contra-diction with the democratic ethos that weshare. In our technical degree programs wedo not require or provide exposure of stu-dents to the social and ethical issues sur-rounding the work they will do." He con-tinues in this vein and concludes: "I wantto insist that idealism is intensely practical.This has been the lesson in our own livesof the civil-rights movement, the environ-mental movement, the women's movement,the gay and lesbian movement and the AIDSactivist movement. These movements haveformed my life and I've tried to direct mywork into these kinds of patterns. I realizethat this award that you have given me to-day testifies to the worthiness of that work.And for this, I am very thankful." Award?Yes, our classmate (who spent 12 years atCornell, lingering for the anti-war move-ment) received the U. of Washington's 1994Outstanding Public Service Award last June9. The university president said: "He ex-presses views that are not necessarily pop-ular and he does so in a manner designedto broaden the debate and heighten aware-ness of complex issues." His departmentchair said: "By helping the public to demys-tify technologies and their associated insti-tutional and personal ramifications, Phil hashelped to further both a democratic ethosand practice." A decade ago, for example,he helped found the Council for Responsi-ble Genetics, which informs the public aboutsocial and environmental implications of ge-

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netic technology. Following on the univer-sity award, the Metropolitan King CountyCouncil issued a proclamation in his honor.

In other news—a year and a half agoTamara Greenberg Goell and husbandJames moved from California to Harrisburg,PA, where she became assistant director ofthe early childhood department of the Har-risburg Jewish Community Center. Back inCalifornia, Jon Greenleaf is senior vicepresident of Jon Douglas Co., largest realestate broker in Los Angeles County."Things couldn't be better," he writes. Histwo daughters are out of the house and gain-fully employed.

Let me now tell you about two terrificminimalist textbooks on writing, both just pub-lished by Harcourt Brace. One is Essentials ofWriting to the Point, the other is Research tothe Point. They focus on essential principlesand procedures rather than dissipating dispro-portionate attention on trivia. And they'repriced right! Ask for them at your nearest uni-versity bookstore; demand them in the fresh-man classes your children or grandchildrentake. Both are by a most experienced and re-liable author, none other than your very owncorrespondent, Allan Metcalf, new addressbelow. (If you'd like less advertising andmore news next time, send yours to yourstruly or to our co-correspondent.) • AllanMetcalf, 1188 W. College Ave., Jacksonville,IL 62650; e-mail [email protected]; also Nan-cy Hislop McPeek, 7405 Brushmore, NW,N. Canton, OH 44720; (216) 494-2572 (H),(216) 438-8375 (W).

^ \ ^ \ Learning to speak Italian is a cur-M* I rent focus for Pat Yoder Arney,B^k m "but with the erratic work hoursI 1 / of newspaper reporting, I keepII [ j missing classes." She contributes^ ^ ^ " to a monthly Philadelphia-basedpaper, II Pasquino, in addition to full timereporting responsibilities with the AtlanticCity Press.

Also in publishing is Hamlin M."Sandy" Gilbert Jr. Sandy recently leftTime to join Smithsonian magazine as adsales manager. "After 25 years at Time Inc.,it's a big change to work with an arm of theUS government. Have taken up scuba div-ing and it has opened up a whole new world.Lots to do and see under those waves I havebeen sailing over all these years." Sandy hasrecently run into Bob Miller, an attorney.

Dania Moss Gamble reports "the thrillof last year: a fox den with four pups underour kitchen deck. We learned about themall year." Dania's seventh grader is still athome; she has a grandson, 2, and waspresent for his home birth. Dania's den isin Woodside, CA.

Major activities of last year for Dr.Ronald Apfelbaum were "1) got marriedat top of Snowbird on skis in formal attire—then skied down with the whole weddingparty; 2) built a new home close to work atU. of Utah Medical Center for both Kathy(Murray) and me; 3) son Jonathan graduat-ed from medical school and is in Utah plan-ning a career in emergency medicine. It'sbeen a very good year: working in a greatenvironment and department, skiing, biking,and a little flying when time permits." He'sin Salt Lake City.

"I would encourage all classmates to re-order a class ring!" wrote George Agle,recently named president and CEO of L. G.Balfour in Attleboro, MA. George moves tothe Boston area from Philadelphia, wherehe held a number of senior management po-sitions with Scott Paper, including a tour inMexico City. George spent the weekend ofthe Cornell-Harvard game with Sam andNancy Fleming.

You may remember that the class elect-ed President Frank Rhodes an honorary mem-ber at our 25th Reunion. Neil Schilke, co-chair of the Cornell Campaign in Detroit,introduced President Rhodes as a classmatewhen he spoke to the kickoff meeting. TheCornell video shown at the program is mod-erated by our own Margie McKee Blanchard.

It was a perfect fall day in Wheaton, IL,for the wedding of Laurie Fuller, daughterof H. L. "Larry" '60 and Nancy LawrenceFuller. The wedding was perfect, the bride(and her mother!) beautiful, and the cele-bration memorable. Cornellians enjoying thefestivities included Willis '60 and GinnyBuchanan Clark '61, Judy Miner Steen-berg, Sam Bodman '60, Don '61 andJoann Nantz Heppes, and husband BobCrites '59 and me. It was wonderful!

The Judge William B. Groat AlumniAward, the ILR school's highest honor, hasbeen presented to Stephen Ploscowe.Steve is a senior partner in the Roseland,NJ law firm of Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman.He has been actively engaged in the prac-tice of labor relations and employment lawon behalf of management since receiving hislaw degree from Cornell in 1965. Stephenand Wendie (Malkin) '65 have son Jon anddaughter Lauren '92.

Lea Hale, who practices ophthalmologyin Fort Walton Beach, FL, has been electedpresident of the Florida Society of Ophthal-mology. Lea earned his MD from Tulane afterearning his BME in 1963 from Cornell.

From Nancy Terrell Weight: "Still rais-ing money for Santa Catalina School inMonterey, CA, as development director. WhenI leave paradise, it's usually to visit either mymountain children in Evergreen and Dillon,CO, or my city child in Chicago."

Other Californians include BertrandWeidberg, an attorney in Irvine, CA. PhilYoung is a venture capitalist with US Ven-ture Partners, based in Menlo Park. He andwife Nancy (Halsey) have a beautiful homein Portola Valley.

In Saratoga, Ellie Bacigalupi Russellis systems analyst with West Valley Mis-sion College District. Ellie lives in Cuperti-no, CA. Also in the Bay Area is Dr. IrvingOlender, an ob/gyn in San Jose. Myra Hof-fenberg Strober is with the School of Edu-cation at Stanford. Look for Lois MayerTukman in Kentfield, CA.

"Still running the outpatient medicalclinics at San Francisco General Hospital,"writes Dr. Richard Fine, MD '66. He andwife Kathleen, a lawyer in federal court,have twin girls, 11, at home.

Virginia Hamrick is in Oakland, CA; D.Bruce Mack is in Novato. You'll find Michael'59 and Linda Goldberg Bandler in Dan-ville. Jean Bottcher is still in Sacra-mento. • Jan McClayton Crites, 2779 Dell-wood Dr., Lake Oswego, OR 97034.

Happy new year to all! JohnNichols writes that since receiv-i ng his PhD from Cornell in1 9 6 9 > h e a n d w i f e C a r o 1 h a v e

been in College Station, TX,where John is on the faculty of

Texas A&M, and Carol is a public schoolteacher. Two of their children are out ofcollege; one is still in high school. John hasdone research, developed and presentedconferences on agricultural policy, market-ing, and business management in Kazan,Russia and hoped to at St. Petersburg StateU. Derek Sun, son of Peter B. Sun, at-tended Cornell Summer College last year,taking English 215-English for Later Bilin-guals, Computer Science 099-FundamentalProgramming, and participated in the Engi-neering Seminar.

Fred Parkin reports from San Fran-cisco that he and his partners sold their suc-cessful Mexican restaurant chain, CHEVY'S,to Pepsico last year. He is staying on to helpmake a "great little company" into a "greatbig company." Jeanette Wohlers Roberts,widowed in 1987, married widower KarlRiesterer a few years ago and together theyoperate a family-owned three-generationbakery in W. Hempstead, NY. They spendweekends in Southold, where they have ahouse on Peconic Bay.

No news, just job information: FrancisOda is chairman and CEO of Group 70 Inter-national in Honolulu; Robert Pritsker is di-rector of Ferrari of San Francisco in MillValley, CA; Michael Ratner is a contractorwith Richter and Ratner Contracting Corp. inMaspeth, NY; and Richard Muchnick is anophthalmologist in New York City.

Judy Fischer Reinach is living in KeyBiscayne, FL and traveled recently to Chi-na and to visit daughter Jill in Israel.Stephen Rogow is an orthodontist andlives in Flemington, NJ with wife Joan (El-stein) '65. David Rood is professor of lin-guistics at the U. of Colorado, Boulder.

Bedford, MA has been the home for 17years of Ira Ross and wife Pamela Young.He is engineering manager in communica-tions for the MITRE Corp. and she is li-brarian at Middlesex School in Concord. SonColin is sophomore at Furman U. in Green-ville, SC and plays football. Daughter Alex-andra is a high school senior. Dorothy HallRoss is a teacher and free-lance editor atthe U. of Delaware. Husband Seth is anengineer at DuPont in Deepwater, NJ. PatRead Russell is professor of English anddepartment chair at Stephen Austin StateU. in Nacogdoches, TX.

Paul Scharf retired in June 1993 after30 years with the military. He opened hisown company in Guatemala (InternationalConsulting & Marketing). Helene Braver-man Sacks is executive director of Tem-ple Shalom in Chevy Chase, MD and hus-band Stephen is an attorney with Arnold& Porter in Washington, DC. Another Sachsin our class—Joel Sachs—is an attorneywith Keane and Beane in White Plains, NY.David H. Smith writes from his home inVernouillet, France that life is great sincequadruple coronary by-pass surgery. He isa consulting engineer. Richard Thacka-berry writes from Fairfield, CT that he wentto Italy last fall with Frank '62 and Betty


Quirk and had a great time. That's all forthis month. • Nancy Bierds Icke, PO Box1675, Racine, WI 53401.

^\ M Happy new year! And to get iti_ Λ off right, here's something elseW^m 11 " n e w ' " ^ n e latest news aboutI I LΛέ your classmates. John LindellII I (910 General Wayne Dr., W.^ ^ Chester, PA) recently ended

one career only to start a new one. He re-tired from DuPont, " . . . after many years,"then went to nearby Cabot Corp. in Boyer-town, PA, as director of operations. John isactive in church, and otherwise enjoys golf,tennis, skiing.

From a press release we learn thatHarold Evensky, a partner in a Coral Ga-bles investment advisory firm, was reap-pointed to the 17-member investmentmanagement advisory board of Schwab In-stitutional, a division of Charles Schwab& Co. He is a certified financial planner(CFP), chairs the CFP Board of Examin-ers, and is a member of the InternationalAssn. for Financial Planning, the Inst. ofCertified Financial Planners, and the Assn.for Investment Management and Re-search. Harold, reachable at Evensky,Brown & Katz (241 Sevilla Ave., CoralGables, FL), was recently named by Mon-ey magazine as one of the 200 Best Fi-nancial Planners in America.

Another certified financial planner, P.Alan Loss (160 N. Pointe Blvd., Lancaster,PA, is his office), advises small businessowners. In his spare time, he concentrateson basketball and golf.

We've a lot of news of classmates' off-spring (offsprings? offsprung?) who arenouveaux Cornellians. Glenn Danas '98is the son of Joseph (311 E. 72nd St.,NYC), who is an attorney, primarily inmatrimonial law. Mary Mullestein Shu-ford's first daughter, Rebecca Shuford'94, graduated last May. Then daughterVirginia '98 entered Human Ecology inAugust. Mary still writes checks to Cor-nell from 373 Sterling PI., Brooklyn.

When it comes to a Cornell tradition,few can top the lineage of the family of Ja-son Gettinger (118 E. 91st St., NYC). Ja-son's daughter Diana '98 is a fourth-gen-eration Gettinger to be a Cornellian, datingback to Jason's grandfather, Joseph H. '03,an MD, and father, Raymond, MD '32. AndJason remarks on the line in our News andDues form re "Your work/spouse's work"—"Love to find one!" Job or spouse, Jason?Please clarify. Bob Herwick (41 Meadow-hill Dr., Tiburon, CA) said son Mark '98"provided the necessary impetus for us tomake the long trip from San Francisco" fora first homecoming since graduating. The"us" included Bob Baker and Bill Ram-sey. Was glad to hear him report that "to-day's Cornell students are as bright, friend-ly and genuinely congenial as ever."

Richard Rivitz lists son Marc '95.Richard is a lawyer who enjoys tennis,golf, and fitness activities. He and his wifestill live at 17719 Fernway Rd., ShakerHeights, OH. The Rev. Alec Wendell(with wife Laura Lynn at 24 Virginia Ave.,Manasquan, NJ) has two of four childrenwho are Cornellians: Heather Wendell

Jennings '93 and Alexander Wendell'95. Thomas Bielicki (100 Golf ClubLane, Kenwood Station, NY), presidentand CEO of the State Bank of Chittenan-go, has son Scott in the Class of '94 (ahappy coincidence for Reunion purposes).Don Whitehead (21 Overlook Dr.,Southampton, NY) also had a child in theClass of '94 —Julianne—and has anoth-er in the Class of '96—Melissa. Thus,Don's trip to Reunion last June was hissecond to Ithaca in a month's time.

Other classmates have become Cornellstudents again—by attending Adult Univer-sity (CAU) programs. In Ithaca, Nancy LoreEinhorn (8205 N. River Rd., Milwaukee,WI), Marcia Goldschlager Epstein (126Righters Mill Rd., Gladwyne, PA), and M.Jody Hutchinson (PO Box 56, Rockland,DE) attended the same program. Also in Ith-aca, but in different classes were LucyGuerlac Battersby (82 Washington St.,Nyack, NY), Paul Kruger (431 Harris Dr.,Watertown, NY), and Janet UnderwoodWilhelm (Tahanto Trail, Harvard, MA). Vet-erinarian M. Christine Sidler, DVM '64traveled to Cape May, NJ, for her class, andThomas Nixon (34 Ground Pine Rd., Wil-ton, CT) went all the way to Alaska with CAU.[See also page 66 for news about another class-mate.]

Now that the holiday season is over andyou're organized again, please send yournews to pass along in future columns.• Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St.,Deerfield, IL 60015.

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Λ f* PLAN NOW to join| ^ ' I your classmatesl ^ r ^ and to meet newI I I an(* °^ friends atI 1 1 I our 30th Reunion,W V # June 8-11, '95 onthe Hill! Regular Reunion attenders will tellyou this is an event you should never miss!Relive old memories, show the campus toyour family, see the sights, make newfriends, choose from a wide selection of ac-tivities! Registration opens at noon onThurs., June 8; tents on the Arts Quad openthat evening; we expect a visit from themusical Hangovers. Group reunions, lec-tures and symposiums, veterans' events,and a lobster bake are among the eventsplanned for Friday. Saturday will feature aState of the University Report and a fare-well for President and Mrs. Rhodes on theArts Quad. Music and dancing are plannedfor the evening. A farewell brunch is sched-uled for Sunday morning. For information,questions, and SUGGESTIONS, call Pen-ny Skitol Haitkin at (212) 986-7202, week-days; (201) 825-7587, weekends.

Specific Reunion information and reg-istration will be mailed in February; watchfor our mailer. To ensure that you receivefuture mailings, be sure your class dues arecurrent. Duespayers receive a special Re-union discount.

If you have taken up shell rowing orcrew in your home town and if you are in-terested in rowing once in a real shell onthe Cornell course with your classmates,please contact me, address below, or at(503) 771-9142. We hope to put together a"New Crew" at Reunion. If interest is suffi-

cient and we receive inquiries early enough,we will investigate this as a possible event.Men and women rowers are encouraged. Acertain level of skill is required.

Now, some news of classmates: Wil-liam C. Brothers is with Animal CareEquipment and Services Inc., of Crestline,CA. He founded and owns this company,with activities including sales, teaching, andconsulting worldwide. Here are his winterof 1964 memories: "That winter, six of us,including John Cobey '66, Arch Mac-Kenzie, and Tom Gale, were living in adrafty old farmhouse on 80 acres out N.Triphammer Rd.. We took turns shovelingcoal into the furnace. Rent was $30 a month,$5 per person. We had goats, sheep, a pig,and several horses. Life was challenging butfun." William notes that he still owns a farmnear Ithaca and gets back there frequently.He has bequeathed this farm to the Onon-daga nation, "to redress, in a small way, theEuropean invasion and land grab of centu-ries past."

A very nice note from Mark and RuthChitlik Coan '67 of Atlanta. Mark writes,"We've been in Atlanta since 1975—andthey are still working on the same roadsand highways. We raised the family herevery happily and are now 'empty nesters'—it is time for a sabbatical." Mark is a vascu-lar surgeon; Ruth is a commercial real es-tate broker and developer. For memories,Mark writes, "I was living off campus. Iwould start my car, walk back to the apart-ment, and shower, and have breakfast—andby then, the car would be adequately de-frosted to move "up the Hill." For a classproject, Mark suggests: "Let's have aBeaux-Arts Ball (can we find a condemnedhotel?)" and "Bring back the Tetra-Pack!"

Best regards to all, and may good for-tune keep you until we are all together againon the Hill. • Scot MacEwan, 2777 SEBybee Blvd., Portland, OR 97202-8733.

66I hope that all of you had a de-lightful holiday season! I havejust received a group of Newsand Dues forms, and there is alot of information for you. Butfirst, I have also received a note

from Ralph Janis asking me to correct hisaddress which was in the October 1994 col-umn: his correct address is 119 E. UplandRoad, Ithaca, NY. He is busy at work plan-ning Adult University (CAU) for this year. . . you will probably hear from him soon,with this year's offerings.

Mary D. Nichols has been appointedassistant administrator of the Environmen-tal Protection Agency. She and husband JohnDaum are now living at 2137 R St., NW, Wash-ington, DC. Son Nick Daum '96 is in Artsand daughter Margaret is in tenth grade atPhillips Exeter. Stephanie Lane Rakofskywrites from 77 Arvida Pkwy., Coral Gables,FL that her son David graduated from Syra-cuse as all-university class marshall. Bar-bara McConnell Miller is in Charlotte, NC;600 Boyce Rd., to be exact. She notes thatthings are "same old, same old." Perry Con-very Krakora is living in Hong Kong, as hus-band Herb is now stationed there in his po-sition with the W.R. Grace Co.; "What anexciting city," she says. She has a US mail-

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ing address c/o Grace, 1 Town Center Rd.,Boca Raton, FL. They spend the summer atBarnegat Light, NJ.

Sandra Smith Comsudi is working atIBM in AIX software defect support. She islocated at 12 Rob Roy Rd., Austin, TX . Herson is a high school junior, and her daugh-ter is a college junior. A note from LindaLomazoff Roitman, who is located at 119Mews Ct., Cherry Hill, NJ, reports that sheand David J. '65 have a Cornell family: sonsBrian '90, Mitchell '92, and now Ari '98!Ari was selected one of B'nai Brith's schol-ar-athletes in Philadelphia. Peter B. T.Haughton has been director of universityhealth services, SUNY College, New Paltzsince January 1977. He was in Ithaca forCommencement last May, and notes that itwas almost as hard to leave Ithaca then asit had been in June 1966! His address is 59N. Chestnut St., New Paltz, NY.

Hugh and Erin Fleming Starr are liv-ing at 523F Olinda Rd., Makawao, Maui, HI.Hugh sold his restaurant and is concentrat-ing on his real estate agency. Erin openedan office called "The Meditation Place." TheStarrs have four children; one is Forest '93.Another pair of '66ers is Eric, MD '70 andMarsha Erickson Thompson, who live at76 Pearl St., Noank, CT. "All is well; noth-ing new—except turning the corner from 49to 50 years." Nancy Emerson Lombardowrites from 64 Seminole Rd., Acton, MA (anew address for her), where she has onechild in Brown, and one considering Cor-nell. Her job continues to go well; she helda very successful national conference on"Mental Health Care in Nursing Homes,"in Washington, DC in 1993.

Phil Comeau is located at 10904 Wood-land Falls Dr., Great Falls, VA (also a newaddress). He is working for Freddie Mac asvice president, asset management, multi-family. His daughter graduated from Brown;his son is a freshman at Union College. Wil-liam L. Wilson has retired from IBM after27 years. After "enjoying life for sixmonths," he joined Data General in West-borough, MA as corporate vice president andgeneral manager of the storage and PC busi-ness units.

By the way, people, as I read throughall of these News and Dues forms, I wasvery impressed with the high ratio of peo-ple who made contributions to the '66 ClassFund. We do have a Reunion coming in1996, our 30th; I hope you are planning tobe there! •> John G. Miers, 5510 Hunting-ton Pkwy., Bethesda, MD 20814.

"As vice president of the CornellClub of Southwest Florida, I at-tended a huge all-Ivy function^ a s t s P r m S>" r e P ° r t s KathiaSloughter Miller, 520 MurexDr., Naples, FL, "wearing a Cor-

nell name tag and a Brown name tag (formy grad school). An elderly Dartmouth man,noticing my tags, leaned across the table andsaid, obviously in all seriousness, Ίs one ofthose your husband's and one your son's?'The Cornellians at the table howled withlaughter."

Kathia adds that she "competed with150 applicants from around the US for thefirst full-time English professorship open-

ing in 19 years at my Edison CommunityCollege's Collier campus, and won."

Edward H. Lanzner, 222 N. BelmontSt., Glendale, CA, is senior investment ser-vices officer with Home Savings of Americaand reports seeing C. "Chip" Marshall inSeattle and Saul Candib (179 Sycamore St.,Albany, NY) in Los Angeles. We could usea good address for the peripatetic Chip. "Imanage organizations, attempting to devel-op commercial markets for fuel cells, pho-tovoltaics, biomass power, and hydrogen-related technologies," notes Jeffrey A.Serfass, 500 E St., NE, Washington, DC.

Judith Edelstein Kelman, 80 Thorn-wood Rd., Stamford, CT "Toured in the UK,Australia, and New Zealand for my Britishpublisher last summer, also studying Ital-ian. My new novel, One Last Kiss, was Ban-tam's super-release (i.e., top title) for lastNovember. Only good thoughts about Cor-nell, now the home-away-from-home of ourolder son, Matt '93, who is now in the Lawschool, working to become JD '97."

"What happened to that idealism?" asksDr. Allan A. Hauer, 3060 Arizona Ave.,Los Alamos, NM. "Has everyone become aLimbaugh cynic? I just spent an enjoyablethree weeks in Scotland lecturing in phys-ics at the Scottish Universities SummerSchool. Even managed a round of golf onthe Old Course at St. Andrews: I was sonervous on the first tee (there are alwayscrowds) I thought I would whiff but I didmanage to settle down and play a respect-able round."

Karen Kritz Demetriou, 3360 FossDr., Saginaw, MI, reports seeing BobBluestein (6000 Wing Lake Rd., BloomfieldHills, MI) and his wife Susie frequently, and,in New York, saw Diane Haas Kramer (360E. 72 St., NYC) and Sharon Cohen Bahr(205 Third Ave., NYC). Karen and husbandTom have ILR sons Adam '93 and MichaelDemetriou '97.

"For the past five years I've been heavi-ly involved with volunteers for outdoor Col-orado on trail-building and related projects,"advises Dave DeBell, 395 Golden EagleDr., Broomfield, CO. Last July, "having be-gun the process in 1990,1 completed climb-ing all of Colorado's Ί4ers' (mountains over14,000 feet in elevation)." Since June 1993,Dave's been director, human resources, forWestern Gas Resources.

"Would like to hear from classmatesand others who worked on the Cornell-EastHarlem Project in the summer of 1965,"writes Bruce M. Havsy, 103 WinchesterRd., Yonkers, NY. "Both myself and [wife]Suellen were there. Would like to knowwhere you all are now." Bruce adds thatdaughter Jane is a junior at U. of Pennsyl-vania, a published author, and one of twowomen covering sports for the Daily Penn-sylvanian.

John D. Anderson, 4126 Neosho Ave.,Los Angeles, CA, is an NBC cameraman,"currently shooting 'Mad About You.' " Hiswife is Rose Ann Weinstein '68. HowardS. Morris, 732 John Barry Dr., Bryn Mawr,PA, is involved in shopping center develop-ment and management, describing himselfas a "reformed lawyer." Karen KaufmanPolansky, 3008 Marlynn St., Carmichael,CA, was recently elected to the President's

Council of Cornell Women and serves on theUniversity Council. • Richard B. Hoff-man, 2925 28th St., NW, Washington, DC20008; (202) 667-6481.

I was delighted to receive a let-ter from Cliff Orloff. Cliff livesin Berkeley, CA and teachespart time at the Haas School ofBusiness at the U. of California.He spends most of his time as

president of QuickATM Corp., a companyhe founded four years ago to commercial-ize an air-travel-related computer kioskproduct he developed. Cliff and his wife havethree children and their oldest, Adam '97,is a computer science major on the Hill. Cliffsees a number of Cornellians regularly, in-cluding Mel Kronick, who lives in PaloAlto, Harvey Baumel, who lives in Wash-ington, DC, Jack Hartog, from Miami, andDennis Miller, who lives in New York City.

At a Halloween masquerade party I sawAlan Brush, who came dressed as thePhantom of the Opera and looked terrific.Alan and his wife live in Weston, MA, notfar from me. Coincidentally, my daughterrecently received a chain letter from Alan's8 year old. It's a small world! Alan askedfor information about the whereabouts ofJimmy Greenberg, David Borker, andPaul Rosenzweig. He would also like tohear from Harvey Baumel. I urge these

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four people to write.The children of several members of our

class attended Cornell's Summer Collegelast year: David, son of Ida Sue BaronStarke; Asha, daughter of Prem Bhanda-ri; Scott, son of Gary Schwarz; Shaw, sonof Mark Vrana; and Matthew, son of JoanGottesman Wexler. They took a variety ofcourses, including theater, writing, math,government, etc.

Les Abramson lives in Louisville, KY.Mary Zahrt Adams is assistant director ofhealth services at a community action asso-ciation in Levelland, TX. William Ahearnlives in Phoenix. Lois Uellendahl Alex-ander lives in Sherborn, MA. Dr. LindaHamilton Archer lives in Nairobi, Kenya,and I urge her to write and share some ofher experiences.

Bill Besgen is executive vice presidentand chief operating officer of Hitachi CreditAmerica Corp. in Greenwich, CT. Bill has adaughter who is teaching fifth grade in Stam-ford, a son who recently graduated from col-lege and two others in school. Richard Bir-chall is a tax attorney in Suffield, CT. San-dra Parise Bissell is an interior designerin N. Andover, MA, where she lives. San-dra was recently awarded a national firstplace award by the American Society of In-terior Designers for design of a library/me-dia room. She also won another award fordesign excellence in 1993. Her husband, Joe,is a pilot with Delta and they have twodaughters. Steve Bloomer lives in Brook-lyn, NY. Peter Bos is a real estate devel-oper with Legendary Inc. in Destin, FL. ArtBernstein is in Boca Raton, FL. Art issomeone I would like to hear from. I be-lieve he was in the investment businesswhen he last wrote in.

Lynn Crissey Barnes lives in Jupiter,FL, where she is a social studies teacherand chairs that department at Jupiter HighSchool. Lynne Holliday Beller lives in Sny-der, NY. Albert Bensley lives in HoneoyeFalls, NY. It was great to hear from SueHarrison Berger, who lives in Washing-ton, DC and sells residential real estate withEvers & Co. Her husband, Samuel "Sandy"'67 is in the Clinton administration in a se-nior policy position. The Bergers' three chil-dren are involved in interesting activitiesin Washington and elsewhere.

That's all for now. I look forward tohearing from you. ••• Gordon H. Silver,Putnam Investments, 1 Post Office Square,Boston, MA 02109.

69The new year brings word of newbeginnings. Joan Sullivan "tiedthe knot" on Sept. 10, '94 withCharles Ganthe in Paris, VA.Leonard Krouner married lastMay on a Lake George steam

boat. The theme of the wedding was PreciousMoments in Time. He and wife Maureen livein Albany, where Len is an attorney specializ-ing in appeals and litigation. Bruce Taffel,wife Sheila, and children Alison and Jared livein Atlanta, GA, where he is a physician spe-cializing in ob/gyn and medical director of At-lanta Women's Specialists. Kris Krack Tay-lor also lives in Atlanta, where she is a mar-keting manager for MCI. Her oldest daugh-ter, Kathleen M. Taylor '94, graduated from

Arts last May.Dick Hagelberg is CEO of Olympic Rec-

reation. He started the company that manu-factures playground equipment ten years agoand is currently looking for overseas agentsfor the Mid- and Far East. If you have anysuggestions, write Dick at 5811 E. DunesHwy., Gary, IN 46403. Marion Bartlett Ho-sey is a teacher coordinator for social studiesat Bowie (MD) High School. Dr. D. PeterHarvey is a lawyer in San Francisco special-izing in trademark and copyright litigation. Helives in Piedmont with wife Susan and theirthree sons and extends a welcome for "visitsfrom old Cornell friends!"

From Seattle, WA, we hear that DavidMarshall married in March 1993. He andwife Jo Ann say "that two never-married42-year-olds are more likely to have blinddates with Mideast terrorists than to marryeach other," so they guess they're lucky.David is a criminal defense attorney, as wellas handling an occasional civil lawsuit.

Tad Sweet is president of PMC an in-surance agency in Portland, OR. He and wifeCarroll have bought a log cabin in Montana topursue their love of fishing. Sticking with theWestern states, Mario Vecchi is vice presi-dent of Network Engineering with TimeWarner Cable in Aurora, CO. He and wifeFrances Kosikowski '68 relocated there af-ter many years in New Jersey. Also in Den-ver since 1991 is Larry Kerecman, who isan automation engineer with Comtel Tech-nology. He writes that he found a house bigenough for his four pianos and four organs,though "the pipe organ is still in storage."

From California, Carol Hudson does re-search for the US Dept. of Agriculture in Rich-mond, where she has been since graduation.Spare time is spent singing with the OaklandSymphony Chorus and training Belgian sheep-dogs. Working our way south, John Melackis a professor at the U. of California, SantaBarbara and continues his ecological studiesin the Amazon basin of Brazil. M. MoniqueDe Varennes lives in Hollywood with herscreenwriter husband, Tom Cook, and chil-dren Katie and Chris, and is president of theboard of trustees of her children's school.

Internationally, Barbara Kamler is anassociate professor at Deakin U. in Victoria,Australia. She and son Shaun have visited theUS to scope out colleges for next fall. FromLagos, Nigeria, Judy Burdin Asuni is stillworking part time for Price Waterhouse as anintercultural consultant. Two of her three chil-dren are in school in Nigeria, while the oldestis in Ithaca preparing to enter pre-med at anAmerican university. Katrin Helms Luetjenswrites from Germany that she works as a sec-retary in an eye clinic. Lee Twentyman isthe Cambodian representative of the US Agen-cy for International Development, and lists hisaddress as Bangkok. • Suzy Sacks Zeide,100 SE 5th Ave., Apt. 304, Boca Raton, FL33432; (407) 393-5322.

Π ^ \ Just over four months ^^cT^f / • I and counting: 25th R E U N , O N

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the first (BIG) Reunion mailing in Febru-ary. Read it through and JUST SAY YES!

Send in your registration, ASAP. HankBrittingham, Christina BruecknerMcVay, and Susan Linden Friedlander arepreparing an exciting weekend for all of us,but the most important ingredient is YOU!President Frank Rhodes and wife Rosa willbe our very special guests at our gala Satur-day night dinner celebration. The Class of'70 will be giving a special 25th ReunionCornell Fund gift to the university.

Our fund committee is doing a spectac-ular job. Again, join with our classmates tocontribute to a record 25th gift. See you inJune in Ithaca!

Sharon Sauerbrunn Doyle (aka Sauer/Sharonbrunn) continues her screenwriting.She was nominated for a Cable Ace awardfor Stolen Babies on Lifetime TV. She hasbeen working on a movie for CBS calledDays of Reckoning, which was adapted fromthe novel by John Katzenbach. Her husbandis a lawyer with Brobeck, Phlegert, Harri-son. They have had a "salon" at their houseon the third Friday of each month for thelast three years. Topics have ranged fromdeath (an update) to the world's most over-rated artists. Her children are Andrew, 13,who is at Webb Prep School; Nick, 11, whois catcher for his Little League team; andFelicity, 8, who is full of 43-year-old opin-ions and plays the flute. Sharon has reportson many of our classmates: Laura DingleAvery has opened a bagel and espresso shopin Fullerton, CA called Great Good Place.She makes her own bagels and they aregreat! Laura's three children are prosper-ing. Larry Jackson is running AndrewDavis's (The Fugitive) production company.He, wife Judith, and their two children livein Santa Barbara, CA. Phyllis Rabineau ison the design team for the last museum tobe built on the Mall in Washington, DC. Itwill be devoted to the Native American Cul-ture. Her son, Issac, plays hockey and herhusband, John Alderson, is a photographerin Chicago. Michael Nash chairs the the-ater department at Emerson in Boston.Thanks for all the news, Sharon.

Bill Caruso continues to own and op-erate William Caruso and Associates Inc., amanagement consulting firm specializing infood facilities planning and design. They haveoffices in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, and Den-ver. He, wife Lynn, and daughters Kristin'98 (Hotel) and Tara have lived in Denverfor almost 13 years and enjoy the Westernlifestyle! Bill sees Jeff Baer and Dick Wil-liams (both Hotelies) periodically. They livein the Denver area and are both doing quitewell in their respective businesses. Bill willbe at our 25th and looks forward to seeingmany old friends! • Connie Ferris Meyer, 16James Thomas Rd., Malvern, PA 19355.

1 ^ 1 ^ Here are a few of the more de-

# I t a i l ed r e P ° r t s .First from S t e l l a

m I Mayhew Ardire, a registered1 I nurse in Glendale, AZ: "I've livedI I in the Phoenix area since 1987. I'm1 1 an RN, BSW, and have worked

with several nurses' registries (staff reliefon a per diem basis) for the past two years.I have cared for a little boy (now 4 yearsold) in his home, three 12-hour shifts perweek and a day or two a week of staff reliefin hospitals, extended care centers, rehab

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centers, and in part-time psychiatric facili-ties. My daughter, Meredith Poggi (her fa-ther is James Poggi), is a hostess at aneighborhood restaurant. Γm a member ofthe Cornell Club of Arizona. My mom, BetteLimpert Mayhew '40, and I attend functionswhen my work schedule permits. I corre-spond at Christmas time to Annabelle Web-er Keene '70, BS '71, who is also a nurseand teaches nursing at a university in Ne-braska. She lives there with her husband,Chuck '69, and their two daughters."

Next, word from Michel Stouppe Kelly,a case supervisor with Child Professional Ser-vices in Ithaca: "My husband, Jim, and I be-came first-time grandparents, June 13, '93, withthe birth of Alyssa Marie Flynn. Son Jim is acook at Tompkins Community Hospital.Youngest son, Daryl, 20, is a cook at Pondero-sa Steak House and is looking for a more ful-filling job. I've just celebrated(?) 15 years ofemployment at Tompkins County Dept. ofSocial Services. My present position is super-visor of child protective services. For the lastfour years I've had the pleasure to be a fieldsupervisor for social work interns from theCollege of Human Ecology. I'm presently amember of the group of field supervisors as-sisting in the reaccreditation process for thesocial work program. In my spare time, I en-joy pleasure reading, sewing, and gardening.In the last few years, I've become a fitnessenthusiast and work out on an almost dailybasis trying to hold my own against gravityand the march of time! Re Reunion—howabout having 'a la carte' registrations for Re-union events for those of us who live in theIthaca area but aren't able to attend or inter-ested in attending all Reunion activities."

Finally, Kristin Vanderberg Whitfield(Mrs. William P.), sales director of Mary KayCosmetics of E. Orleans, MA, writes: "Hus-band Bill retired two years ago and we'vebeen on Cape Cod since then—love the sea,salt air, laid-back lifestyle. We bicycle, playtennis, boat, and of course do lots of walk-ing along beautiful Narragansett Beach,which is a half mile from our home. I'm stillinvolved full time with Mary Kay—enjoyingbuilding my business in this new area. Nopink Cadillac yet, but close! Spare time ismy time spent playing the piano, tap danc-ing, lots of community involvement in sucha small town—Rotary, Chamber of Com-merce, and Business and Professional Wom-en (president-elect). Bill is very involved inthe establishment of one of 15 Massachu-setts Charter Schools out here on the Cape.Daughter Emily, almost 15, is a highly mo-tivated young lady—hopes to be valedicto-rian and go on to study radiology. Son Colin,16, is the true artist in the family. He is offto North Carolina School of the Arts this fall.He just illustrated a booklet on dinosaurs fora professor at Indiana State U.—Purdue U.Indiana (IUPUI). He's looking at a career infilm." • Joel Y. Moss, 110 Barnard PL, At-lanta, GA 30328; (404) 255-2234.

1 ^ 1 ^ ^ Judges normally keep their feetm I planted firmly on the ground, but

m m Russell Judge is the exception• m that proves the rule. Russell is aI Mt pilot for American Airlines, flying• Λ " Boeing 767 jets to such locations

as Europe, the Caribbean, and South Amer-

ica. Before joining American Airlines in1987, he learned the Wright stuff in the USAir Force and also worked for Southern AirTransport and People Express. After leav-ing the Air Force in 1980, Russell became amember of the Air Force Reserves and par-ticipated in Operation Desert Storm.

Thomas Nevins is a Tokyo-based la-bor and personnel policy consultant, whoadvises American companies and others do-ing business in Japan on executive search-es, corporate downsizing, marketing andsales techniques, and other management is-sues. He is a member of the board of gover-nors of the American Chamber of Commercein Japan, and has written and lectured ex-tensively on personnel management in Ja-pan. Cornellians doing business in Japan canfind him at Technics in Management Trans-fer Inc. (TMT). Sons Tom, 16, and John, 13,attend boarding school in the US. DavidReiner is a computer scientist at KendallSquare Research and lives in Lexington, MA.He is now writing his fourth violin instruc-tion book and recently spent a week attend-ing fiddle camp near Nashville. CliffordHendry is a sales representative at SmithKline Beecham in Pittsburgh, having sur-vived five mergers and acquisitions in a 20-year career at the company. Clifford and wifeJeanie have children Heather, 19, Jenna, 14,and Todd, 8. Joyce Jaffe Reynolds is an or-ganization development specialist at Kaiser

Permanente Medical Center in Santa Clara,CA. She and husband Eddie live in Palo Altowith sons Joshua, 11, Eli, 8, and Jonathan, 5.Alvin Yee is a market development managerfor Union Carbide Corp. in Danbury, CT.

Dr. Kenneth Light is an orthopedicsurgeon in San Francisco, practicing spinalsurgery in a private firm and also serving asmedical director of the San Francisco SpineCenter and as assistant clinical professor oforthopedic surgery at the U. of California.Ken and wife Liz (Perry) '74 (BS Nurs)have children Matt, 11, Allison, 10, Hilary,5, and Ian, 2. Dr. Nancy Kollisch is a phy-sician specializing in infectious diseases, andhas lived in San Diego since 1981. Dr. GlennFord started an ophthalmology private prac-tice in Gardenia, CA last year.

Dr. Cheryl Casselberry Munday is aclinical psychologist and director of psychol-ogy at the Detroit Psychiatric Inst., and isin private practice in Farmington Hills, MI.She also serves as co-principal investigatorfor a series of studies sponsored by the U.of Michigan concerning the impact of raceand ethnicity on clinical decision-making.Carol Jaffe Woodside is a nutritionist forKellogg Co. in Battle Creek, MI. Dr. CathyStika is an obstetrician-gynecologist at theNorthwestern Medical Faculty Foundationin Chicago.

Dr. Jay Stein is an anesthesiologist liv-ing in Merrick, NY with wife Lois (Moss)

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Sandy Vogelgesang '64

dopting two tod-dlers at age 50

- may, according tofriends, give whole new meaning to"mid-life crisis." My husband [JeffWolfe] and I have been Foreign Ser-vice officers with the Department ofState, and we cheerfully counter withwhat may be a nobler motivation.

Whoever is right, the fact is thatwe did decide, at the half-centurymark, to start our family through adop-tion and to do so in a part of the worldwhere we had focused much of ourcareers—the former Soviet Union. Weamazed family and friends by flying tocentral Siberia in mid-December 1991,at the height of the crisis in Moscowand with no clear prospect of returningwith the children tentatively assigned to us by ourWashington based adoption agency.

The two weeks we spent in Russia, mostly in theAutonomous Republic of Tuva, not far fromMongolia, tested our diplomatic aplomb. The firstnews we received after flying through 11 time zonesand landing in Tuva was that the assignment ofchildren had fallen through. The Russianapparatchiks could not believe that American diplo-mats would really want to adopt Asians. TheTuvinians, who are of mostly Asian descent, fearedwe would not respect their culture. We assuredthem that America really is a melting pot and thatAsian-Americans constitute one of the true successstories in our neighborhood.

But our statements were to no avail in this landwhere the legend of Genghis Khan still lives. Wehad to plead our case before the prime minister ofthe Republic and the Supreme Soviet. (Myhusband's fluent Russian helped save the day.) Weagreed to travel into the countryside to partake ofthe local culture. We drove with the Tuvinianpeople's deputy through yak and reindeer herds,stopping at mountain passes to toast the spiritswith vodka, to the nomadic tent of his grandmother.We were feted with a ceremonial lamb slaughter,performances by Tuva's exotic throat singers andgawked at by Mongolian horsemen who had gottenwind of the Amerikanskis.

We were objects of amazement, partly becausewe were among the first Americans admitted to thispreviously off-limits military zone and because wewere a full foot taller than most people we met. Butby the end of the two weeks the authorities hadconcluded that we were serious about providing aloving home to Tuvinian children, and that we were

willing to help find medical help in America for themany needy children in the town orphanage.

So on Christmas Day 1991, we adopted a littlegirl left by her impoverished mother at the townorphanage and a little boy found abandoned on thestreets by the police. Completing the paperworkrequired the friendly intervention of the KGB, sincethey had the only working Xerox machine in townand had the authority to open offices closed be-cause of the low temperatures (minus-50 degrees).

Armed with the requisite documents and totingtwo baffled babies, we flew eight hours back to Mos-cow. As we drove, exhausted, to the apartment ofour Russian escort, we learned that the world hadchanged in more ways than one—for all of us—during our stay in Tuva. Gorbachev had just an-nounced his resignation and the flag that flew overthe Kremlin was Russian.

Since that Christmas Day, young Christopher andCarolyn have mastered VCRs, malls and their newparents. And the photos and medical records ofother orphans that we brought back from Tuva havehelped create other happy endings for families in theWashington area with new ties to Tuva.

Christmas Day—for us and an entire country—brought amazing gifts and remarkable challenges.

—Sandy Vogelesang '64

[Vogelgesang was named United States ambassadorto Nepal in early 1994; her nomination was con-firmed by the Senate February 10. "The kidlets willbe heading to a country where lots of the people (ofTibetan origin) will look just like them. They arepleased with what they consider the critical news—namely, that they will be met at the Kathmanduairport by elephants," Vogelgesang reported then.]

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'75 and children Eric, 15, Shari, 13, and Jer-emy, 8. Marge Borgida Moss is a schoolsocial worker in Toms River, NJ. KarenMaisel Blumenthal is a social worker atFamily Service of Westchester in WhitePlains, NY. Marcia Strauss Owens is anurse educator at the Westchester Divisionof New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Cen-ter in White Plains, NY, and also teaches areview course for the nursing state boards.Virginia McNamara Lester is a registerednurse at St. Luke's Lutheran Hospital in SanAntonio, TX. Anne Cook Pressman is aspeech therapist at Children's MemorialHospital in Chicago.

Martin Cohn is the president of At-lantic Furniture Corp., an Amityville, NYconcern with five retail stores specializingin formica bedrooms. Marty and wife Lor-raine have sons David, 5, Samuel, 3, andJoshua, 1, and are founding members of anew conservative synagogue in Woodbury,NY. Bruce Mosby has moved to Atlantaand works there as vice president for oper-ations at Long John Silver's Restaurants.Margaret Loomis Burke is a homemakerin Vienna, VA. Victor Eiser lives in Bea-consή'eld, PQ, Canada and is vice presidentof E.D. Foods Ltd., a food manufacturingcompany. June Daulton Haskell is an op-erations manager for Digital EquipmentCorp. in Marlborough, MA. Lin Tang Stew-art is a certified public accountant living inPenfield, NY.

Elaine Leass owns a Denver publish-ing company and graphic design firm calledMountaintop Publishing Inc. Marie Gold-en Kerr is a software publisher at Sham-rock Systems Corp. in Crofton, MD. Ken-neth Gartlir is an attorney working for theComptroller of the Currency in Atlanta.Bruce Taylor lives in Woodbridge, VA andis a statistician with the US Bureau of Jus-tice Statistics in Washington, DC. WilliamEsson lives in Nashua, NH and is an auditmanager for the Bank of Boston.

Bernard Nathan died on April 2, '94,according to the university's alumni records.• Gary L. Rubin, 512 Lenox Ave., West-field, NJ 07090; (908) 232-8468 (H), (212)686-7700 (W).

1^1 A The Reunion proved to be a re-m Λ laxing one for Craig Esposito,

m 11 w^° k a ( * r u n ^ e e a r l * e r ones. He• ^Λέ was happy to be there and notI W have to work! This was the 16th™ ^ Reunion he had been part of.

Craig, who formerly oversaw Reunions forall classes while on the alumni affairs officestaff, is currently director of planned givingat Connecticut College.

Thomas Digan and wife Gayle Stamphave just moved to Vienna, VA from Ha-waii. Tom is a commander in the US Navy,working for the director of nuclear propul-sion in Washington, DC. He has spent thepast 20 years in the submarine service andhas been all over the world, underwater.Gayle writes that being a Navy wife is herlife, along with children, part-time jobs, andmany many wonderful friends. They havefour children. Andy Bernstein has his ownlaw firm in Denver, where he also refereessoccer games. Another lawyer is BrianBeglin, who with wife Cynthia and two kids

lives in New York City. Brian is involved inCornell fundraising.

Molly "McBee" Miller Ettenger is di-rector of employee health at Blair MemorialHospital in Central Pennsylvania and a cli-nician for a tuberculosis clinic. She and hus-band Allen have two children. Cheryl Ald-rich-Backus is with the Bronx Health Planas a physician. She resides in Queens, NYwith her family.

On the move is Shelley Cosgrove. Sheand husband Philip DeFord are moving toSingapore from Hong Kong. She keeps busythese days being a driver to her kids and do-ing benefit work. Essayist Jessica Bram hasbeen published in various magazines and TheNew York Times. She has returned to herlove of writing after a journey through a va-riety of careers. Jessica lives in Westches-ter County outside of New York City withher husband and three kids.

Mira Tetkowski Berkley is withJamestown Community College in Fredonia,NY. Mira teaches courses in human servic-es and early childhood education. She hasbeen active at the state and local levels ofthe National Assn. for the Education ofYoung Children. Fellow class correspondentBetsy Beach is with Advanced ModularSolutions, a computer start-up company inChelmsford, MA. She is active in the Cor-nell Club of Boston. Christine DePaoloBaumbach teaches art history and is a deco-rative painter (muralist) in Oak Park, IL.Lake Geneva is her family's retreat.

In private practice, cardiologist CathyLisa Glick is in Michigan. While practicinglaw, Beth Saltzman Aaronson also findstime to be an instrumentalist and vocalistwith the Jewish musical band, "The MusicalMavens." Beth resides in Lynnfield, MAwith husband Michael '73 and their threesons. From Yarmouth, ME, Ann GollonGlennon writes that she is working withUNVM Life Insurance Co. She is in themidst of restructuring an entire division(without firing anyone!).

Shell Oil Co. has Rodger Engebreth-son as engineering department manager. Heand wife Sally are raising their children inBenian, CA. Volunteering with the Alzheim-er's Assn. in Chicago is Bonni SchulmanDutcher. She chairs the education commit-tee. Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceutical Inc. isher employer. Out in sunny Beverly Hills,CA is Edwin Colon, an industrial relationsconsultant.

Deborah Rassol Friedman, MA '79lives in Walnut Creek, CA. She works at theU. of California, Berkeley, as a coordinatorin the student services office of the educa-tion school. Debbie Rumble Flanagan iswith Blue Cross of Massachusetts as man-ager of provider contract administration.Debbie Lyon Fister is a grad student atSUNY College, Brockport, studying to be-come a therapist. Along with studying is fam-ily life with husband Dave and four boys.Debbie also manages to volunteer as a cri-sis pregnancy counselor.

J. Scott Gillin is a physician in Sum-mit, NJ. Laurence Gavin is in Philadelphia,PA with Presbyterian Medical Center. Busywith sports, kids, and volunteer work is law-yer Philip Genetos. He lives in Indianapo-lis, IN with wife Dorothea and their two

kids. • Linda Meyers Geyer, PO Box 4556,Mission Viejo, CA 92692.

Happy new year! It'shard to believe that1995 dawns as theyear of our 20th Re-union! It seems likeonly yesterday that I

walked up Libe Slope through Januarysnows for another 8:00 a.m. design studio.While the Reunion committee readies theirfinal plans for the festivities, we have newsfrom many of our classmates who've beenactive in Cornell activities. Kathleen Cat-tieu and Carol Carnes Rakowski partici-pated in Adult University (CAU) duringsummer 1994, widening their horizons ontopics ranging from Tin Pan Alley music toJurassic Park dinosaurs.

Suzy Nagin Klass returned to campuslast fall for meetings. Now a social workerin East Hills, NY, Suzy and her children (El-liot, 10, Nathan, 6, and Sarah, 5) enjoyed thebeauty of the campus (not appreciated dur-ing school years because her head had beenin her books!) and reveled in their visit tothe top of McGraw Tower to meet thechimesmaster. Who had time for such greatactivities during our four years on campus?

Dr. Deborah Mosca Steinberg spon-sored a Cornell extern student at AmericanCyanamid Co., where she's a group leader.As a mentor, Deborah set up interviews withher colleagues so this member of the "nextgeneration of scientists" could explore a fullrange of scientific disciplines. Husband Jayand son Joshua, 6, live in Pomona, NY, whereshe also organized a high school course aboutthe discovery of natural products for medi-cal and agricultural applications.

And speaking of the medical field, manyof you write that you are in practice after somany years of hard work. Dr. David Breid-bart and wife Joan Leibowitz '78 live inSyosset, NY and David practices in nearbyNew Hyde Park. Dr. Richard Stein writesfrom Monticello, NY that he "only" puts inten hours a day at work, has little time totravel, and that the "gray is turning blonde."Lucky guy! He's also been honored with thePresidential Citation of Merit and serves aspresident of NYSCEE.

Janet Rivkin Zuckerman is current-ly in a post-doctoral program in psychother-apy and psychoanalysis at New York U.Husband Joseph '74 was named to chairthe Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery at the Hos-pital for Joint Diseases in New York Citylast year. Dr. Fran Rosenberg Cogen hasrecently assumed the position of assistantprofessor of clinical pediatrics at the U. ofChicago, where husband Philip '72 is thenew chief of pediatric neurosurgery at thatuniversity's Wyler Children's Hospital. Asif one job doesn't keep her busy enough,Fran is also an attending physician in theChicago Children's Diabetes Center at LaRabida Children's Hospital. And we thinkour own lives are hectic! Fran, Philip, andson Jonathan live in nearby Hyde Park, hav-ing moved from San Francisco last year.

Other doctors sharing news are Dr.Steven Werns, a cardiologist in Ann Ar-bor, MI. Dr. James Dugal, an emergencyphysician in Duluth, GA, Dr. Jeffrey Crav-


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er, a pathologist at DePaul Health Centerin Bridgeton, MO, near St. Louis, and Dr.Ellen Wetter, a radiologist at MaimonidesRadiology Associates in Brooklyn. As a de-velopment board member of Gilda's Clubin Manhattan, Andrea Brown Levande alsoworks closely with the medical field. Initiatedby Gene Wilder in memory of his wife, GildaRadner, the club offers gratis support servic-es for cancer patients and their families.

Keep in touch and plan on Reunion,June 8-11. •Joan A. Pease, 6335 HillaryCt, Alexandria, VA 22315.

l ^ i ^ \ Life has gotten busier for me asI I I have returned to teaching once

m B^k again. I am working with fifth-• I I Sraclers i n t n e Lexington PublicI I I Schools. Every night I read the™ ^ ^ math curriculum to try to stay

one step ahead of the kids. My son Sam saysnow I can help him with his homework andget the right answers! Jon Abrams wrotethat he has had a busy year, also. Both Jonand wife Deborah work in the Brown U.development office. They put lots of timeand energy into helping Brown raise $450million for its Campaign for the Rising Gen-eration. They are proud parents of LeahChloe, born June 27, '93.

Last year David Demming was onNATO assignment in Denmark. He had avisit from classmate John "Johnny B."Bender in August 1993. They touredCopenhagen and parts of the Danish JutlandPeninsula. David traveled to Norfolk, VA inNovember 1993 and got together with Cdr.Dan Struble and his family. They enjoyedreminiscing about the 'good old days' backin Ithaca and about their Navy careers.

Christine Adam Puntoni wrote thatshe is spending a lot of time with childrenRJ, Matthew, and Rebecca and is constant-ly on the run. She has not been able to at-tend any Cornell Club of Boston events.Christine did run into Kate Gavin Stewart'78 in the grocery store while she was tot-ing her three children.

In fall 1993, Maureen McCormickstarted a PhD program in clinical psycholo-gy at the U. of Rhode Island. This was amajor career change from her position inthe computer industry. She visited Fairfax,VA, where she stayed with Jonina Goren-stein Schonfield, husband Jonathan, andsons Gabriel and Noah. Maureen saw Paul

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Teetor, wife Anna Speicher, and their sonNathan. Michael M. Jackson began a newcareer at 'the turn of the decade.' He is amedical science liaison with Ortho BiotechInc., responsible for the development andimplementation of clinical studies. SinceFebruary 1992, he has taken on new respon-sibilities as a national accounts manager. Hisduties include contract negotiations, as wellas executing the sales of biotech healthcareproducts to managed healthcare establish-ments in the Southwest. Michael is livingin Houston, TX.

S. Scott Keenum and wife Christy aretrying to keep up with sons Chad, Matt, andChristian. Chad is an accomplished eques-trian and owner of a thoroughbred. Mattenjoys whatever sport is in season andChristian loves to entertain anyone who willlisten. Scott was promoted to district man-ager for Margarettem and Co., a nationalmortgage company. He is responsible for thecompany's operations in Anne ArundelCounty and all of Maryland's Eastern Shore.Carol Farkas continues to volunteer herservices to the psychiatry service at Memo-rial Sloan Kettering, as part of the HomeCare Program. She began this service 14years ago. Now they have a paid nurse co-ordinator, so Carol is able to work part-timeand travel for pleasure. She has five grand-children. Carol and husband Robin take theolder three on at least one educational va-cation a year without their parents. Twoclassmates attended Adult University (CAU)Summer in Ithaca in 1994. Betsy Bonsi-gnore took Landscape Design. JudyHughes Childers, DVM '76 participated inNatural Life of the Finger Lakes. • Lisa Dia-mant, 31 Ingleside Rd., Lexington, MA 02173.

J^w }fm Our mailbag is full, with news ofm m weddings, travel, children, jobs,

m m new businesses, and other ac-• • complishments. Emily BreslerI I Kuhny writes that she was mar-• ™ ried in August 1993 to husband

Thomas. They spent "a glorious month hon-eymooning in Tahiti and Bora Bora." Emilyis practicing law in Santa Monica, CA. Rob-ert D. Edwards was married in June 1992,and he and wife Melissa spent their honey-moon on Antigua. After 15 years in Califor-nia, he was transferred to Pascagoula, MS,where he is an operations specialist forChevron.

Sheryl Checkman writes that sinceshe started her own graphic design businesstwo years ago, she finally managed to takesome real vacations. She fit in a visit to theGrand Canyon, Sedona, and Club Med So-nora Bay before traveling to London! Shewrote her letter from her office at 8:30 p.m.,dreaming of when and where she'll be ableto take off to next! Richard Grazi, directorof reproductive medicine at MaimonidesMedical Center in Brooklyn, has just pub-lished a book entitled, Be Fruitful and Mul-tiply: Fertility Therapy and the Jewish Tradi-tion. He writes, "I practice what I preach—wife Leslie (Weiss) '78 and I are expect-ing our sixth child in March 1995." Anotherclassmate, Steve Yale-Loehr, JD '81 has co-authored the leading 12-volume immigrationlaw treatise with fellow Cornellian StanleyMailman '50, JD '52. Steve also teaches

immigration law at Cornell Law School, andpractices immigration law in Ithaca.

Patricia Boyce Lopez writes that hergas station business is doing well and hasexpanded with a used car lot. DaughterJennifer, 15, hopes to visit Cornell with an eyetoward future admission. Brenda PetermanKline's children, Jennifer and Jimmy, are alsoin high school and are starting to look atcolleges. Brenda is actively involved withstate and local lobbying for reimbursementfor medical nutrition therapy and says, "Inever thought I'd be involved with politics!"

Linda Adams Chateauneuf would loveto hear from her old roomie Amy Frey Bri-zel. Linda reports that her three kids—9, 7,and 4—are all athletically inclined ("NOTfrom their mom"), and that she is now self-employed as a skin-care consultant for MaryKay Cosmetics after 14 years of finance inhigh tech. She sees Dave DuPont '80 andCarole Newman Allen '67 fairly regularly.Annette Mulee doesn't usually run intoother.Cornellians, but did see Mary NozziDel Balzo '82 last year. Annette lives inPortland, OR, where she is a partner in alaw firm which focuses on high tech compa-nies. She writes that she is interested in thenumber of Cornellians who have ended upin high tech. She also tried academia lastspring, teaching a seminar at Lewis andClark law school in Portland: "It was fun,but hectic!"

You may have caught a glimpse of GaryBuerman on CBS's show, "48 Hours,"when it profiled the closing of the MillerBrewing facility in Fulton, NY. Writes Gary,"I had my 15 seconds of fame . . . if youlooked close you could see me walking outof the building after the closing was an-nounced." Gary continues, "at the presenttime there does not seem to be a great de-mand for unemployed brewing chemists."

Keep the news coming! • ElaineMead Alexander, 403 Wyckoff Ave., Ithaca,NY 14850.

^ \ ^ \ These late fall days, with a coldm\m chill m the New Jersey air, it's

m \ £ hard not to dread a repeat of lastI I I w m t e r s performance. One smallI I I consolation—it's bound to be™ ^ ^ colder in Ithaca! Classmate Ellen

Baer continues to call Ithaca home, work-ing as the volunteer coordinator for Civitas,a program of Cornell's Public Service Cen-ter. She's also the mother of sons Jesse, 4,and Jacob, 8. Donna Perine Spinella is di-rector of alumni relations for the JohnsonGraduate School of Management on the Hill,where she received her MBA in 1986. Af-ter working in consumer goods marketing1986-93, she was looking for a change of life-style and, now living in Ithaca, she is theenvy of all her urban classmates.

Donna writes that she stays in touchwith Don "Woody" Salkin, who has hadassignments in Belize, Sedona, AZ, and An-guilla in the past year. She notes that he'sone of few classmates who have had to post-pone starting a new job because of beinginjured by a stingray. She also hears fromSara Maltz Foell, who lives with her hus-band and three kids in northern Germany.

From Fair Haven, NJ, Sarah TholeFischell writes that she is enjoying daugh-


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ters Erin, 6, and Jennifer, 3, home, husbandDavid '75, and work. She was recently ap-pointed division manager at AT&T BusinessServices for strategic technology applica-tions. This means, she points out, that "af-ter years of neglecting my hard-core EEdegree, I need to remember how leaves ontrees absorb radio waves!"

It looks like a number of classmates areusing their entrepreneurial skills to buildsuccessful companies. Terry Edelman ispresident of The Edelman Group, a Man-hattan-based marketing and advertisingagency that she founded. Roger Cohen, ofCranford, NJ, says that his international con-sulting business, Cohen International, iskeeping him on the move to places like Ja-pan and Hong Kong. Cohen International'sworld headquarters is the third floor of hishome, an old Dutch colonial built in 1917.

James Hoffman lives in Seattle by thebeach. His food sales and marketing busi-ness is now five years old. From Washing-ton, DC, we have received word that Les-lie Loble has been working as deputy as-sistant secretary of labor for policy. She hasbeen working at the Labor Department since1993.

Patricia Volz Clarke is living in Cen-treville, VA. She has sons Taylor Clarke, 1,Jeremy, 9, and Travis, 4 Patricia is manag-ing the wellness division of Electronic DataSystems, where she has worked for the pastnine years.

An enthusiastic "Everything's terrific!"comes from Michael Reiner and EricaFeld in Tenafly, NJ. They have "beautifuland getting-bigger-every-day" daughtersSarah, 10, and Leah, 8. Michael is presidentof the Elfa Corp., in Lodi, NJ.

On a sad note, I just returned from amemorial service in Washington, DC forclassmate Scott Ballotin, who died on Sep-tember 25, '94. It was a solemn reunion fora group of us from U-Hall 2, including RaeNelson, Alexandra Buchanan, MichaelValentini, and Kent Sheng. Anyone whoknew Scott appreciated his well-honed witand gifted talents as a writer. He will bemissed. •> Eileen Brill Wagner, 8 Arling-ton PL, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410; Henry Far-ber, 6435 289th Ave., SE, Issaquah, WA98027; Pepi Leids, 7021 Boot Jack Rd.,Bath, NY 14810; Sharon Palatnik Simon-cini, 145 4th Ave., 6A, NYC 10003; LoriWasserman Karbel, 20 Northfield Gate,Pittsford, NY 14534; Andre Martecchini,110 Heritage Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332.

l ^ l ^ \ Happy new year to all of you outII I there. We hope you have remem-

m I I bered to pay your dues and send• ^*m us news of your latest adven-I Vj tures. Even if you don't think you• ^ ^ have much to say there is a class-

mate out there who is wondering where youare and what you are doing.

Monika Robke Cohen writes that sheis practicing medicine in Buffalo Grove, IL.She and husband Louis '78 have sons Zach-ry, 5 and Jeremy, 7. They enjoy skiing andplaying tennis together as a family in North-brook, IL. Also practicing medicine, PaulNancollas recently became a diplomat of theAmerican Board of Ophthalmology. Paul,who practices ophthalmology in Lewiston,

PA, is a fellow of the American College ofSurgeons. Wife Lisa is an RN and is plan-ning to attend graduate school while oper-ating a customized candy business.

Jay and Roberta Moloff Luft live inHockessin, DE, where they both practicemedicine. They have sons David, 2, and Ian,4-1/2. They enjoy visiting with Bill Grey,who lives in Philadelphia. Having returnedto graduate school in 1993, MeredithSchnieder Rocca is pursuing a PhD in re-productive physiology at the U. of Marylandmedical school. She lives in Severna Parkwith husband Robert.

Richard Stearns writes from SantaMonica, CA that he attended the wedding ofJohn Dowd '80 in San Diego. Among thosein attendance were Russ Bernard, LennyRemo, Andy Kessler, Bill Niedrach—allClass of '80—John Tombari '81, and class-mate Rand Siegfried. The event was non-stop fun and exhaustion for all.

Last year Daniel Cheung had the op-portunity to row in the Head of the CharlesRegatta in Cambridge, MA. He and class-mate George Licht got together to reliveold times during this event. Dan and wifeMichelle live in Skokie, IL, where Dan is asecurities accountant with Northern TrustCo. in Chicago. Kathryn Spitzer Kim andhusband Peter live in Lexington, MA withsons Michael, 4, and Jeremy, 2. Kathryn isan assistant professor in the new geneticcounseling program at Brandeis U. Peter isan associate professor of biology at theWhitehead Inst. of MIT, where he wasnamed recipient of the National Academyof Sciences Award in molecular biology andof the Eli Lily Award. David Mogul is alsoworking in academia at Northwestern U. inEvanston, IL. He is an assistant professorof biomedical engineering. He, wife Karen,and children Alexandra, 5 and Eli, 3, live inWinnetka, IL.

Recently ordained a Jesuit priest,George Schultze is working on a doctor-ate in social ethics at the U. of SouthernCalifornia. He lives in Culver City and en-joys working in a vineyard there. David T.Johnston will be spending a few more yearsin Hawaii, where he is a lieutenant com-mander in the US Navy. He is the new op-erations officer in the Office of the Deputyfor POW/MIA Affairs. He returned to Ha-waii after two deployments to the ArabianGulf. Wife Lynn is also a lieutenant com-mander and was selected to serve as an ex-ecutive officer. They enjoy hiking in thetropical paradise and trips to see the volca-noes and resorts of Hawaii.

Susan Hyman and husband DavidEastzer '75 live in New York City, whereSusan is an urban planner at Chemical Bank.She makes loans to developers of affordablehousing and commercial projects in low- andmoderate-income neighborhoods. She iswondering about the whereabouts of JoeBates, PhD '79 (computer science).

Also working in NYC is Alfred Lyons,a vice president at Electronic Systems As-sociates. Current projects that he is involvedin include the design of the information man-agement and technology infrastructure forthe Pentagon and for Rockfeller Center. Heand wife Barbara live in Port Washingtonwith daughters Emily, 7, Claire, 5 and Abi-

gail, 3. They have been active in attemptingto get the school administration to allow par-ent volunteers.

Ellin Kavanagh writes that she hasradically changed her career direction, leav-ing clinical research at a pharmaceuticalcompany and entering film school at the U.of Southern California, where she taught his-tology to senior biology students in lieu ofpaying tuition. After completing film schooland several films, she was named a Fulbrightscholar and lived in western Ireland for ayear making a film featuring Kate O'Toole,the daughter of Peter O'Toole. She has re-turned to California and would like to knowabout other Cornellians working in the filmindustry. Please get in touch with Ellin whenyou can. • Kathy Zappia Gould, 912 Mead-owcreek Dr., Richmond, VA 23236, CindyAhlgren Shea, PO Box 1413, Cattle Walk, E.Hampton, NY 11937.

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I stumbled on thisbit of news on Hal-loween. What atreat. Joey Green,14812 Dickens St.,Sherman Oaks, CA,

sent his dues sheet with the occupationreading "CIA Assassin" and business ad-dress as "Classified." Next to his homephone number, Joey wrote, "But don't callfor money; unless you need it laundered."

His letter began: "How's tricks? I sawmy name on the missing classmates list andsuddenly found myself. Debbie and I, andour (now) 4-year-old daughter, Ashley,moved to Los Angeles in 1991 just in timefor the riots, fires, floods, and earthquake.We basically live at ground zero. We're realmovers and shakers."

Joey mentioned his books, which havegotten publicity in Cornell Magazine, andthat classmate Jeremy Wolff—who doesphotocollage, did the Einstein cover of arecent Newsweek.

Joey said Chris Spear and wife Laurahad a son, Tyler, last April.

Mike Frawley (an old roommate ofmine) was bartending, selling real estate,and still fixing his '66 Mustang. Frawls, isit still cherry red? Alan Corcoran (anoth-er roomie) and his wife, Theresa, had justcelebrated their daughter Karen's 10thbirthday, which made Joey "feel really old—for two minutes."

Charles Boncelet of Faith Cir., New-ark, DE, is interim chair of the electricalengineering department at the U. of Dela-ware. His wife, Carol Gossett, is an ana-lyst with Delmarva Power. They have kidsMatthew, 5, and Amy, 2. Amy Hudspeth,Kilsyth Rd., Medford, MA, has been appoint-ed assistant attorney general, consumer pro-tection and antitrust, with the Office of theAttorney General in Massachusetts. Shewas awarded a commission with the Foodand Drug Administration. In her assistantattorney general role, she was focusing onhealth care issues, particularly hospitalmergers and health insurance fraud.

Laura Friend Shulman, a certifiedpublic accountant from 1448 Tuscany Way,Germantown, TN, and husband Lee '79,MD '83 are helping organize a Cornell Clubof Memphis. "Yes, there are Cornellians in

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What tlie Dead iayMargaret Caldwell-Ott '79

he case was a particularly grislyone for forensic anthropologistPeggy Caldwell-Ott. The badly

decomposed remains of a young woman were foundin a refrigerator in anabandoned Harlem build-ing, a cord around herneck.

For Caldwell, whohas been New YorkCity's first forensic an-thropologist since 1983,the case became sensa-tional, partly because ofhow she helped identifythe remains.

Caldwell is also ascience teacher at St.Bernard's School inManhattan, and a doc-toral candidate andanthropology instructorat Rutgers. But her jobwith New York City's Medical Examiner's Office is theone most likely to keep her awake nights.

Caldwell came up with a description of the youngwoman based on the remains found in the refrigera-tor. A policeman then tracked down a photo of themissing woman who fit the description. Caldwellsuperimposed the photo with an image of the skullusing video cameras.

"The matchup, especially with the teeth, wasdefinite," Caldwell says. "The police were then ableto find some of the woman's associates and arrest

someone who is awaiting trial. Cases like that arevery gratifying."

For Peggy Caldwell, the daughter of a retiredForeign Service officer, an interest in forensic anthro-

pology started on theHill. "When I got toCornell, I decided totake some anthropology,though I was deter-mined to be a historymajor. I soon realizedthat there was notmuch I could do with ahistory degree, while myprofessor of anthropol-ogy, Dr. Kenneth A.R.Kennedy [still onCornell's faculty, butnow in ecology andsystematics], very as-tutely realizing my dis-satisfaction with therather esoteric nature of

anthropology as a whole, introduced me to forensics.I don't think he ever intended for me to get as far asI have, but he is still supportive. In fact, he's on mydissertation committee for my PhD at Rutgers."

CaldwelΓs grandfather and father (the lateWallace E. Ί O and Robert W. '40) graduated fromCornell, as did brothers Wallace F. '70 and GeorgeM. '73 and many other relatives.

Through CaldwelΓs work, the dead are alwaystrying to speak.


Memphis," Laura wrote. Kathy HartleyTse, an engineer from 18 Van Mater Terr.,Hazlet, NJ, said she'd love to get e-mail fromany Cornell friends. Ship your news andgreetings to: [email protected].

And Brian Myers, a pharmaceuticalsalesman with Roche Labs in Winston-Sa-lem, NC, wondered why we didn't have anyclass columns in January/February, April, orMay 1994 issues. Hey, Brian, Γm trying mybest to keep this ship from sinking. Startplanning for our 15th Reunion, June 8-11.And if any of you have a burning desire towrite for Cornell Magazine, that's the placeto express an interest. Be patient if youhaven't seen YOUR news yet. I'll get it allin by June. • Jon Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd.,Syracuse, NY 13207.

^ \ ^ Good tidings for the new year! II I I hope all of you are honoring your\Z I resolutions, especially the oneI I I afr°u t keeping your class corre-I I I spondents informed! Several^ ^ ^ classmates have made it into thenews this past year. Henry DePippo wasprofiled in The New York Times, Newsday,and other newspapers for his role as one offour federal prosecutors in the World TradeCenter bombing trial in US District Courtin Manhattan. Henry received his law de-gree from Georgetown U. in 1984, afterwhich he spent four years with the Wash-ington, DC law firm of Howrey and Simon.In 1988, Henry joined the US District At-torney's office under the now-mayor of NewYork City, Rudolph Giuliani.

Congratulations to Joyce MarcleyNelsen, who received the Recognized YoungDietitian of the Year award from the NYState Dietetic Assn. in May 1994. Joyce ischief clinical dietitian at Northern DutchessHospital in Dutchess County, where shespecializes in diabetes, is a certified instruc-tor, and chairs the hospital's diabetes edu-cation and support group. Joyce holds a mas-ter's degree in biology and clinical nutritionfrom the U. of Bridgeport and lives in King-ston, NY. We received word of a promotionfor Grace Chiang '80, BS Arch '81 to prin-cipal and vice president of Hoffman, O'Brien,Look, Taube and Chiang, PC, architects,planners, and interior designers in Ithaca,NY. Grace has been with HOLT for tenyears, heading up projects in higher educa-


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nouncement of the marriage of MichaelGaylin to Alison Sloane in April 1994 inTarrytown, NY. Michael received a master'sdegree in film from the U. of Southern Cali-fornia and is a screenwriter. Last year heco-wrote the screenplay No Escape.

Barb Sherbon Wood, MBA '84 andhusband Mike announced the arrival of theirsecond child, Leah Karina, on July 24, '94.Leah joined sister Chelsea, 8, in the newhome the Woods built last year in Loveland,OH. Kathleen Flynn Fay and husbandFord '82 were pleased to announce the ar-rival of daughter Cassie Flynn on Aug. 12,'94. She joins brothers Ryan, 6, and Sean, 3,in Rochester, NY. Kathleen confessed thatCassie was "small" at nine pounds, sevenounces, but that was only compared to herbrothers, whose birthweights were over tenpounds!

I was delighted recently to have a visitfrom former-roommate Gail Merriam, whowas in the Washington, DC area for a publichealth conference. She works for the Mas-sachusetts Department of Public Health,obtaining and managing grants for immuni-zation programs across the state. She's sin-gle, loves being in the Boston area, andwould love to hear from other Cornellians.

I received word from fellow-VirginianJim Kent that he wasn't the only onethrilled to see Disney withdraw plans for ahistorical theme park in northern Virginia.(It was to have been only 15 miles from myhouse!) He reports moving from Manassasto Round Hill, VA, where he built a newhome. He's still at Mobile Oil headquartersin Fairfax, VA in the supply and trading di-vision and manages crude oil for two domes-tic refineries. He and wife Dena (U. of Vir-ginia '81) had their second child, EleanorGrace, in June 1994. Jim has a crazy com-mute to Fairfax from the Shenandoah Val-ley, but loves country living. He was curiousto know if any classmates live out his way!

Roger Sampson writes that, sincegraduating from Cornell, he has worked inthe oil industry exploring for oil and gasworldwide. He received his law degree fromU. of California, Berkeley in 1992 and worksfor the law firm Luce, Forward, Hamiltonand Scripps in San Francisco. Roger is mar-ried to Regina Hartmann, has children Cam-eron, 8, and Grace, 6, and enjoys northernCalifornia's skiing, hiking, and tide-pooling.

On a more somber note, I received wordfrom Jim Carolan '82, who entered Cor-nell with the Class of '81. He attended thememorial service for Fran Tomasic '80,whose death was reported in the July/Au-gust 1994 issue of Cornell Magazine. Jim iscoordinating an effort on behalf of Fran'sfriends to make a gift to Cornell in Fran'smemory. Interested people may contact Jimat PO Box 208255, New Haven, CT 06520.Jim writes that he and wife Mary Ann "arethe deliriously proud parents" of Maria, 4,and Anna, 2. Both are residential fellows atYale, where Mary Ann teaches Italian andJim serves in the general counsel's office,advising on investments. They enjoy thearea, the intangible benefits Yale has to of-fer, and have managed to retain some sem-blance of fluency in Italian. All for now—

ciaol • Jennifer Read Campbell, 14824Hunting Path PL, Centreville, VA 22020;Robin Rosenberg, 2600 Netherland Ave.,Apt. 201, Riverdale, NY 10463; KathleenPhilbin LaShoto, 114 Harrington Rd., Wal-tham, MA 02154.

^ \ ^ \ We're now exactly halfway be-I I I tween our 10th Reunion and our\£ m 15th, and it's never too soon toI I / begin planning for babysitters,I I f j vacation time, and travel arrange-^ ^ ^ " ments, so get to it! Speaking oftravel arrangements, Chris Gardner mar-ried Patsy Williams in St. Andrew's, Scot-land, Sept. 30, '94. Rick Eno was on handfor the festivities and reports that the groomwore a kilt. Rick flew home in time to gomountain-biking down Mount Snow in Ver-mont with Craig Wheeler. Randall Smithgot a new job in California's Silicon Valleyas sales manager for Silicon Architects,where he is at work on developing new IC(chip) technology.

In the documentary film, Frosh: NineMonths in a Freshman Dorm, Daniel Gellerand partner Dayna Goldfine look at the livesof a group of Stanford students during the1990-91 academic year. The film, which wasreleased last spring, received a positive no-tice in the Los Angeles Times, which said ithas a "nostalgic pull." The filmmakers areworking on a sequel tied to the class's grad-uation last spring.

Baby alert: Kathryn Elmer Frohlichand husband Bert '81 added TheodoreThomas to the family last winter. Theodorewas born on the same day Bert and Kath-ryn went to the inspection for the housethey bought in Lexington, MA. They wel-come classmates in the area to give them acall at (617) 860-0068. Tina Marie Silves-tri DeFeo and husband Joe welcomed theirsecond daughter, Amie Leigh, last Sept. 10.Tina works part time as a freelance medicalwriter, analyzing pharmacokinetic data (wedon't know what that is, but it's fun to say)and writing final study reports for pharma-ceutical companies.

Keep those cards and letters coming, andplease don't leave the news section blankwhen mailing in your class dues forms. Youmake us cranky and frustrated when you dothat, and there's nothing worse than a cranky,frustrated class correspondent.

Our condolences to the family of StevenChaney, who passed away in September1994. • Neil Fidelman Best, 207 DellwoodRd., Metuchen, NJ 08840; Nina M. Kondo,323 W. 82nd St., Apt. 4-A, NYC 10024.

The job of writing this columnis getting to report my ownnews. For one thing I told Mick-ey Mouse to take a hike and nowI'm a project designer of hotelsand resorts at a local firm. I'm

also thrilled to announce the birth of neph-ew Jacob Alexander on Oct. 17, '94. I nowhave 18 years to convince my brotherHoward (Yale '87) to send him to Cornell.In other baby news, Jody Kasten becamethe proud mom of Rachel last Feb. 5. Also,Pedro Roldan and wife Eli are celebratingthe 1st birthday of first child Pedro Aris-tides Roldan-Castro. They are all loving the


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sunny climate of Puerto Rico and don't missthe Ithaca snow at all. (Me neither!)

Rose Reyes is quite busy these daysin Connecticut. Aside from working parttime at a book store and nurturing 1-1/2-year-old Ava Rose, she does communitywork and is a working member of two foodco-ops. My old friend Caryn ZimmermanZoffer joined the Federal Election Commis-sion last spring and enforces campaign fi-nance laws. She keeps in touch with myformer neighbor, Jody Kresch Silverman,who, with husband Ross, welcomed a sec-ond son, Sammy, into their lives last April2. Tom Roerden decided to give corporatelaw the old heave ho and has started a gen-eral-practice law firm specializing in realestate. Anyone in the Syracuse area is wel-come to become a client. Tom keeps intouch with John Rinko and Eric Lee. Alsoentering the entrepreneurial arena is JohnWeir. He has started his own electronic man-ufacturing company, Nimbus Technologies, inHigh Point, NC. Spouse Iris Sunshine isan assistant district attorney in Winston-Sa-lem. Heather Robbins had the honor ofbeing awarded a full scholarship to pursueher master's degree in music at U. of NewHampshire. She hopes her study habits forher curriculum in voice, music history, andchoral conducting will be greatly improvedover her undergraduates days. MichaelVernick has traveled around the worldtwice with classmate Carlos Santiago andTodd Shigekane '85. He is studying forhis PhD in computer science at SUNY, StonyBrook and just celebrated his first anniver-sary with Audrey Glassman '86.

Lots of news from Barbara Mclntoshand David Webb. Barbara is a gardeningand woodworking book copy editor forRodale Press and David is up for tenure re-view as assistant professor of anthropologyat Kutztown U. in Pennsyvania. Togetherthey have the accomplishments of babyEmily Allison, born last May 15, and daugh-ter Jenny, 2-1/2. Neal Weinfield proves thatthere is life after law school. Not only hashe made partner at his Chicago law firm,but he had a sculpture exhibited at the Rock-ford Art Museum. John West was marriedthis past July to Allochka Lyandres, a Rus-sian interpreter for the US State Depart-ment. They met while on a classified project.John is a systems engineer for System Plan-ning Corp. in Arlington, VA. In other inter-esting career news, Lori Bruckheim isdirector of education at Parrot Jungle andGardens in Florida. One of her most reward-ing experiences is working with an abusedhorse and watching his progress.

In short: Lonny Levin is on staff atJohns Hopkins School of Medicine in Balti-more; Pamela Antisdel Nemlich is direc-tor of human resources for Vermont Coun-try Store and lives with husband Keith inManchester Center; Susan Schnabel worksin investment banking in Los Angeles (comein and say hi at Cuisine Sur la Mer on Sat-urdays); Linda Goldstein Blade works atConsumer Reports magazine in Yonkers, NY;Jonathan Eder is president of In-PlaceMachining in Milwaukee.

Hey kids, what did you do on your sum-mer vacations? We've got lots of space now,but Γm already running out of news. Where

are all of you new subscribers? News caninclude anything from careers, children,weddings, and trips, to any kind of milestoneor accomplishment in your life. (Nobel priz-es are good.) And please remind me if yousent earlier information that was never print-ed. I'll be happy to correct the oversight.• Matthew Tager, 14055 Tahiti Way, Ma-rina del Rey, CA 90292; FAX (310) 305-8877; Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 ElmcrestCir., Ithaca, NY 14850.

We have quite a few classmatesliving in New York City. Dr.Dennis A. Mitchell-Lewis, adentist here, writes that he iscurrently enrolled at ColumbiaU. in the Executive MPH Pro-

gram in Health and Policy Management.Caroline Sommers is a television produc-er whose career is thriving. She has beentraveling extensively throughout the US andEurope, chasing down news stories. In NewYork City she saw Lois Baskin, DavidLessen '81, ME AE '83, MBA '92, Dr. Ar-lene Orenstein Sussman, MD '90 andhusband Billy '80, and her (Caroline's)mother, Miriam Chuckrow Sommers '57.

Leah Levy Soltas is also in NYC,working in public relations. In 1993, shegave birth to a beautiful boy, Evan JosephSoltas, who is the spitting image of his dad,Scott. Leah and Scott celebrated their thirdanniversary last April and revisited St.Bart's, the site of their wedding. MariaBazar and Tom Quinones '81 visited theSoltases' newborn son.

Joanne P. Kennedy is an accountmanager with Warner-Jenkinson in Chest-nut Ridge, NY. She saw Cynthia SchuylerLeavesley, who is on assignment in Kobe,Japan, when Cynthia was visiting her par-ents in New Jersey. Cynthia's husband, Ian,works for Procter & Gamble in Japan.

Michelle McKechnie Cryan is a con-sultant in Tarrytown, NY. She and her hus-band Christopher '83 have twin boys,Bradley and Kevin, born in May 1993, short-ly before their daughter Ashley turned 3—1993 was a very busy year! Elizabeth K.Bond-Stewart was laid off from VictoryMarkets in January 1993 and is now happilya stay-at-home mom to Emily Dury Stew-art, who was born on Aug. 23, '93. She trav-eled to the Canary Islands for her brother'swedding that October, with Emily only 7weeks old!

Maria Gallo-Meagher accepted a po-sition as an assistant professor in the agron-omy and plant genetics department at theU. of Minnesota. She is working on themolecular genetics of wheat and barley. Rab-bi Micah D. Greenstein is serving as arabbi at the Temple Israel in Memphis. Heand wife Sheril have a 2-year-old daughter.They went to a mini-reunion in Upstate NY,at the home of Clay Lifflander, who wasjust appointed by Mayor Giuliani to be pres-ident of the Economic Development Corp.of NYC. They also saw Jay Lindy, DavieHome, and Andrew Kramer, all of whomare now lawyers.

Catherine Caliguire Marrero andhusband Mike '82 had their second son,Trevor Thomas, on July 6, '93. Mike hasjoined a new group of radiologists in Ex-

eter, NH. Catherine is using her design tal-ents to sew coordinating outfits for her kidsand decorate their house. Last year, theyvacationed in Florida and Arizona.

Dr. Lawrence G. Lazar got marriedon Sept. 12, '93. Attending the weddingwere Dr. Jim Mandell, Lee Bender, Dr.Felise Milan, Doug Masters '85, andMarc Honig '86. Lawrence is an assistantprofessor of foot and ankle surgery at theOhio College of Podiatric Medicine. Miri-am Schwartz Zodikoff and husband Da-vid '86 have a beautiful 19-month-olddaughter, Katie. They live in Norwalk, CT.Kersten Lanes and husband Richard Jogol-ta had a son, Richard III, in December 1993.They are enjoying renovating a historichome in Salem, MA.

Norman J. Ramos sells lots of fish asmarketing supervisor at Red Lobster (Gen-eral Mills Restaurants Inc.). He has beentraveling to Oklahoma City, Memphis, BayCity, MI, Rome, and Barcelona, where hesaw weeds, ribs, rust, wine, and paella, re-spectively. Recently, he ran into Iain Doug-las and Gary Clarke.

Robert J. Altman is a resident physi-cian, living in Oakland, CA. Wife YvonneBrouard '83 is finishing her pediatrics chiefresident year at San Francisco General andbeginning in private practice in Alameda,CA. Kathy Hsiao is finishing her ob/gynresidency at the U. of California, San Fran-cisco and beginning a fellowship in familyplanning there. Steven Katz '85, MD '89is a reproductive endocrinology fellow at theU. of California, San Francisco.

Anne Ricciuti earned her PhD in de-velopmental psychology from the U. of Vir-ginia. Now she's doing research in child de-velopment and education at ABT Associatesin Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Wayne R. Waz recently joined thestaff of the Children's Hospital of Buffalo asa pediatric nephrologist. His wife, Mary JanePetrozzi, works as a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at the Roswell Park Cancer Inst.

Hope this winter is better than last!• Karla Sievers McManus, 1465 Hook-sett Rd., #299, Hooksett, NH 03106; GuyDonatiello, 321 N. Ithan Ave., Rosemont,PA 19010.

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A full mailbox wasmy reward for solic-iting your goodnews. Congratula-tions are due Melis-sa Frank Schwarz,

who became a Fellow of the Society of Actu-aries; Julie Frost, who received an EagleAward for being "Number two in the coun-try in sales at Nabisco;" Lynn BuchananCordary, program manager at Sprint Inter-national, and winner of the Quarterly Qual-ity Champions Award; and Brenda Dow,director of public relations at Utica College,who was named Toastmaster of the Year.

Some of you wrote to report that you'dcompleted graduate degrees. Linda Ryanis an Indiana U. MBA, now with BaxterHealthcare in Chicago; Angela Antonellihas a Princeton MPA and works as a health-care consultant for Lewin-VHI in Fairfax,VA; and Brett Green followed his MBAfrom U. of North Carolina, Charlotte with a

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post as director of information services forFamily Dollar Stores.

Among those whose stellar job perfor-mance earned them promotions and the grat-itude of their admiring bosses, David R.Bloom was made a partner in Beach Physi-cians & Surgeons Medical Group in Hunt-ington Beach, CA; Kelley Noonan Jensenis now director of human resources of Pep-siCo's Pizza Hut Division in Atlanta (whereshe reports to Joe Bosch '83); Robin Allenwas named senior editor at Nation's Restau-rant News; Katia Facchetti was promotedto category manager for Log Cabin Syrupand Good Seasons Salad Dressing (she's alsotaken up sculling and wants to know if any-one out there needs a crew member); Ray-mond Hill was made a principal at A.T.Kearney management consulting firm; TimHargarten is now senior vice president atEDS, "Ross Perot's old company," wherehe is "responsible for sales, operations, andresearch and development for the healthcare delivery division;" Tiscia Eicher wasnamed director of restaurant and entertain-ment marketing at American Express; andDeborah L. Friedman received a promo-tion to director of field services at the Com-mittee of Interns and Residents.

Speaking of weddings, I got lots of thathappy news, too. Mark Sheraden, MBA'92, MEI '92, an Ernst & Young consultant,wrote that he married Christine Craig in aTowson, MD ceremony at which AllenWong '87 was best man, Scott Sumner'84 played the organ, and Mark McCarthy'86 sang. Well-wishers at the Sheraden/Craig nuptials included Sylvia Rodee, MBA'92, Tom Mitchell '93, Ken Bjorkelo,MBA '92, Gene LeCouteur, MBA '92,Steve Shapiro '86, Irene Hendricks Eno'86, Robin Siegel '86, Henry Sanders '86,and Himanshu Goodluck '89 (smart invite!).

Maryellen Fisher Magee, a PC analystfor the National Research Council, also sentword of her March 1994 wedding attended byKaren Magri, Jill Beckenstein Lerner,Joyce Zelkowitz, Eric '84 and Cindy Cow-en Bowman, and Debbie Eisenstat. Like-wise, John Clahane noted that he had mar-ried Lisa Dawes and honeymooned in Aruba,and Joseph Kulakofsky wrote that he "wentto Japan and fell in love with Ryuko Itoh. Theblending of the best of the Orient and the Oc-cident occurred on Aug. 28, '94 at a synagoguein Palo Alto."

In news that (surprise!) has nothing todo with work, weddings, or babies, MikeKalfopoulos wrote that he is "still playingsemi-pro baseball" and would "love to hearfrom my old baseball buddies, especiallyLew Kibling." Runner Sheri Wilenskysent word of her own athletic prowess; shesuccessfully completed the New York Mar-athon, finishing in 4:12 to the cheers ofRonee Trosterman Cowen, Abbey Huret,Dale Bornstein, and Ron Prague.

Ron Wharton, a physician at Mon-tefiore Medical Center, also heard cheerswhen he was the featured soloist with theorchestra of the Albert Einstein College ofMusic in a performance of Beethoven's Pi-ano Concerto No. 1. (Ron also plays in aquartet at the 92nd St. Y in New York Cityand can be heard there twice yearly.)

In new-homeowner news, T. J. Costel-

lo, a project architect with the NY TransitAuthority who has a "thriving freelance ad-ditions and renovations business," is puttinghis talents to use on his own Manhassetthome that he and wife Andrea Chmil '84are renovating, while Robin Secord, mar-keting and admissions director for Bromp-ton Heights Retirement Residence, boughta condo and says she has a "mortgage tocall my own." Robin, who moved back toher hometown, also notes, "I can yell outmy window and be heard at my high schoolalma mater, so it brings back memories."

If you want to help bring back memo-ries of your college alma mater, please sendyour Class of '85 news. • Risa Mish, 269Broadway, #2D, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.

The award for the most impres-sive business card goes to Wil-liam E. Why man, whose cardarrived in my mailbox, courte-sy of Alumni House, withoutany explanation but complete

with gold embossed seal and listing the ad-dress as simply "The White House, Wash-ington, DC." Bill is the director for inter-national economics, National Security Coun-cil and National Economic Council. Alwaysnice to see classmates in high places. Alsoholding an impressive position in Washing-ton is Claudia Levy Grandjean, who spentthe past year working on economic policy

issues (specifically, export controls and ex-port promotion) for the House Foreign Af-fairs Committee, as part of the Congression-al Fellow Program. The program is run bythe Brookings Inst., and Claudia was spon-sored by her employer, AT&T. She intend-ed to return to AT&T when the fellowshipended in December 1994.

Notes from all over this month—Vale-rie Lloyd wrote from Europe, where shewas sailing a rented sailboat around theMediterranean. She was expecting to spendabout six months at sea and expected to behome in Ashville, NY, by the time this hitsthe press. Lt. Caroline Myers Nielson isstationed at the US Naval Facility, Brawdy,UK. Margot Tohn, our fearless Reunionchair, is still living in Australia and study-ing at AGSM, at the U. of New South Wales,a two-year business school. In the summerof 1993, Margot, having obtained her resi-dency, left her job and struck out for theoutback where, after Whitewater rafting, rainforest expeditions, sailing, scuba diving, andgeneral eating and drinking, she headed offto work as a "Jillaroo," doing everythingfrom gardening to cooking to cleaning tocattle work at Delny Station—3,000 head ofcattle on 300,000 acres. Yes, it's a vividthought—Margot as a cowgirl, but I saw herat the Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) meet-ing in January 1994 and she looked fantastic.

Stephanie Crowe Pidgeon has been

Rhodes address old friends new friends

Reunion• I

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Watch your mailbox in the coming

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living in Alaska for the last two years whereshe met and married husband Stephen.Stephanie is in nursing school, Stephen isin law school, and somehow they find timeto raise and care for Stephen's children, 11and 7. Stephanie (who says she refused tohyphenate her name to Crowe-Pidgeon)writes that Diane Composti Schafer had ababy in October 1993, Kelly Soukup O'Neal'85 had a baby in July 1993, and that CathyFindlen Gajewski finished veterinary school.

Stephen Letai is working for Mobil Oiland lives in Alexandria, VA, after two yearsin London. I also received a delightful notefrom Leslie D. Stutzman-Solitario, whowas living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as of May1994. Leslie married Maj. Thomas John Sol-itario, the military defense attache with theUS Consulate in Sao Paulo, in August 1992.Leslie is currently working for an interna-tional landscape architecture firm on minereclamation, eco-tourism, urban and resortdesign. Leslie and her husband have beenhaving a ball exploring Brazil, learning Por-tuguese, and trying to keep up with infla-tion (which topped 47 percent the monthshe wrote). C. D. "Cahssey" Groos Augen-stein introduced Leslie to husband Thomas.

My old roommate, Cathy Raymond,has pulled up stakes again and left Miami totake Washington, DC by storm. She wassupposed to be consulting on educationalissues for the Peace Corps. After arrivingin DC, this will-o-the-wisp promptly got afour-month assignment for the Peace Corpsin Tonga and is now sunning herself on atropical island somewhere in the centralPacific. Once her brief sojourn there ends,she is to be back in the US for all of threeweeks before heading to Tanzania for twoyears as the chief educational officer for thePeace Corps in Tanzania.

Lisa Maier was in Tanzania for threemonths in early 1994 as part of the Duke U.medical school's international health pro-gram. After her program ended, Lisa andhusband Shawn Zimmer traveled to theSerengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mt. Kil-imanjaro and followed up that trek by mov-ing to Colorado, where Lisa will begin a fel-lowship in pulmonology and Shawn will bein a postdoctoral position. They were mar-ried in August 1993; Denise Mitchell, AmyWeiss, and Gayle Reichler attended thenuptials.

Renee M. Fondacaro, a human re-sources manager with Microsoft Corp., wasconsulted as a panel member for Sex, Laws,& Stereotypes, a recently published book onsexual harassment in the work place. Su-san Kaye Rosenbach attended Dana Lee'swedding to Bill Evans and saw, among oth-er Cornellians, Dina Lewisohn. Susan is abusy mom with daughter Nicole and sonJoshua. Eric Steinberg has completed hisresidency in internal medicine at Emory U.and is currently completing his fellowshipin gastroenterology at U. of South Carolina.Eric and wife Hyun Mi Cho (Duke U. andEmory U. medical school) are chasing afterRebecca, born Nov. 9, '92. I am eminentlyreachable on the internet (see below). Forthose conventional types, please feel freeto send a line via the Postal Service. • M.Holly Isdale, 240 Nassau Ave., Manhas-set, NY 11030; e-mail, [email protected].

^ \ I^ί Trust me, when I wrote this col-I I M umn I was enjoying the beauti-\M m ful fall foliage, busy traveling onΓ \ I admission recruiting trips, andI I I running into classmates at the^ ^ ™ Trustee/Council dinner. In earlyOctober I spent a week in the Washington,DC, area conducting admission volunteerstraining. Lisa Rathmann Stewart, as a com-mittee chair, was on hand to help at the Vir-ginia meeting. Lisa works for the NationalCouncil for Aging, in retirement planning.At the same session, I saw Anthony San-telli, who quit engineering and has beenstudying for a doctoral degree in economicsat George Mason U. New Class Correspon-dent Gail Stoller Baer invited me to herhouse in DC for dinner, where she and hus-band Michael '88, MBA '89 treated me toa nice homecooked meal (something thistraveler always appreciates a great deal). Isaw their son David for the first time, andwe had a wonderful time catching up withone another. The following week in Phila-delphia I ran into Debra Klugherz, who hasrelocated to that city after finishing gradu-ate school. W. P. "BilΓ'Johnson also movedto Philadelphia recently, having found a newjob as director of development for a jazz ra-dio station. Bill is extremely happy to be ableto combine his love for jazz and his years offundraising work for Cornell to embark on anew career. We'll miss seeing him at Kayu-ga Japanese Restaurant.

At the Trustee/Council dinner, I wassurprised to find that Sondra ΛVuDumr hadrecently left Hong Kong and returned toNew York City. She's waiting for a new as-signment from Dow Jones. I asked Sondraif she had entertained the idea of writingabout her experiences in Asia, as her sisterSheryl WuDunn '80 just released her newbook, China Wakes. Sondra replied that per-haps there will be one in the future. Chi K.Tsang '90 also came back to campus forthe weekend activities, which included anAsian alumni brunch at the Big Red Barn.

Is it me, or is it O. J. Simpson? I seemto have a bunch of news for this column,lately, from classmates in the legal profes-sion. Shannon Carney received her JDfrom New York Law School this past sum-mer. She graduated cum laude and was aneditor for the school's Journal of HumanRights. Teresa S. Pasiak is a paralegal andoffice manager for a law office in Alexan-dria, VA. My EE 230 lab partner, EileenNapolitano, graduated from Seton Hall lawschool and started a new job as a patent at-torney for a New Jersey-based intellectualproperty law firm. Emad Khalil left his "oldfirm in September 1993, and joined Afridi,Angill & Baker as a partner. We are a lawfirm with a boutique Middle East practice.In fact, I've spent two months in Dubai, AbuDhabi, Kuwait, and Cairo." Karen L. Davisearned her law degree in May 1993 fromthe U. of Colorado. She works for the AirForce as an attorney and is based at thePeterson AFB in Colorado. Another class-mate in Colorado is Thomas P. Barone,who moved from San Francisco. Thomas isinvolved in sales and marketing for GE. Hereported frequent sightings of John C.Hastings, who resides in Denver.

Nanci H. Klein reported from Wash-

ington, DC, that she "left NYC in February1994 to move there and become a law firmmarketer . . . explored Australia and NewZealand (and most importantly, dove theGreat Barrier Reef) before moving." Nanciand Donna Lee McMaster were on hand ayear ago, on Jan. 29, '94, to celebrate SusanCutler Meholic's marriage to husband Steve.Daisy Dhabhar Layman was maid of hon-or. Susan ran into Kim Thompson in St.Lucia while honeymooning there.

Now, turning our attention to a regularfeature of my column: Internet Facetime.Debra Howard Stern, our esteemed formerclass president, has moved to Manhattan andis now associate director of residential lifeat Barnard College. Debra would like to en-courage all class officers to attend the Assn.of Class Officers (CACO) mid-winter meet-ing this month. Her e-mail address is:"[email protected]." At lastyear's Reunion, I spotted this woman withdistinctive red hair from across Barton Hall.Believe it or not, it was Heidi Claus Per-ry, who had accompanied husband Duncan'84, MBA '88 for his 10th Reunion. She wasstill with IBM in Binghamton and trying tofinish her master's degree through NationalTechnical U. You can reach Heidi at"[email protected]."

Finally, a personal update: Some of youhave heard "rumors" that I was leaving Cor-nell. While I did consider a job offer off cam-pus at one point, my wife and I have chosento stay in Ithaca. Recently I left admissionsto become assistant director for the interna-tional public affairs office. As you read thiscolumn, I should be accompanying my newboss, Catheryn Obern, PhD '87 and Pres-ident Frank H. T. Rhodes on a trip to Asia.Write or send your postcard. • Tom S.Tseng c/o 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850;Richard Friedman, 245 Whites Ave., Apt2205, Watertown, MA 02172; Gail StollerBaer, 3215 Tennyson St., NW, Washington,DC 20015.

Happy new year! David A.Trachtenberg and JenniferBrooks '89 were married onSept. 18, '94 at the Harbor Clubof Huntington, NY. Cornelliansat the wedding included Allison

Goldberg, Mark Podgainy, RobynWesler Landow '89, Ilene Agisim '89, andJames Turecki '89. David earned his MDfrom Albany College and is currently a res-ident in psychiatry at New York U.—Belle-vue Hospital Center. Jennifer is currently aresident in pediatrics at the Mount SinaiMedical Center, New York City, where shealso earned her MD.

Diane Weisbrot married Phillip Wingat a lakeside wedding on Long Island on Oct.2, '94. The bridesmaids included KellyLawson '90 and Karen Haass '87. Guestsat the wedding included Charles '86 andLisa Reisacher Astor, Anne Chow,Michele Fried '89, Jake White, JanetBartels, Jonathan Wells, and Diane Kop-elman Ver Schure '74. A California recep-tion was attended by N. "Rose" Tanasu-garn '90.

Pamela Stein Marshall and husbandJoseph proudly announce the birth of theirsecond son, Brett James, on April 8, '94.

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Their son Scott was born Aug. 22, '92. Pamwrites, "Needless to say, I have been up tomy elbows in diapers!"

Tomo Nakawatase writes with newsfrom the West Coast, where she is a resi-dent physician at Harbor-UCLA. Tomo seesJim T. Cox '86, who is a chief resident atHarbor-UCLA. She has also been in touchwith Paul Kitsutani, a pediatric residentat the U. of Hawaii, and Gina Hayashi '89,who is a PhD candidate at the U. of Massa-chusetts. Jim DeVito was to have finishedmedical school at Tulane by now, and JesseHo, Deborah Liu, and Homer Cheng, areall working in Hong Kong. Tomo's hometown of Northridge, where her family cur-rently lives, suffered a "5.3 aftershock lastMarch" and now attracts some unexpectedvisitors. "Tourists come to look at that apart-ment complex that collapsed—only five min-utes from my house, [that is] now being con-demned."

Elizabeth Altman is spending a yearon a US/Japan Manufacturing TechnologyFellowship in Okazaki, Japan. She works forMotorola in the US, but she is spending theyear at one of Sony's camcorder factories.She reports that it has been great, so far,"Definitely overwhelming at first, since I'mthe only Westerner in a factory of about2,000, but now I am loving it."

Amy Crawford graduated from theMedical College of Pennsylvania (MCP). Sheis deferring residency in family practice tostay at home with daughter Justine and topursue medical editing and writing on a part-time basis. Amy's husband, Gus Faucher,is pursuing a PhD in economics at the U. ofPennsylvania and has accepted a visiting pro-fessorship at the U. of Illinois. Jason Gas-coyne and Renee Schloupt are anothercouple in Champaign, IL. Renee earned herPhD in horticulture from the U. of Illinois.

Susan Ellis is a curator at the WichitaCounty Heritage Society in Wichita Falls,TX. She writes that she was named to theboard of directors (membership chair) of theWichita Falls Runners' Club and was alsonominated to the City Landmarks Commis-sion. David W. Virtue, an architect at Hoff-man O'Brien Look Taube & Chiang, PC inIthaca has passed the licensing examinationto become a registered architect in NY State.He has been employed by HOLT Architectssince 1992 and was awarded first place inthe York Memorial Design Competition andhonorable mention in the Seipp MemorialDesign Competition.

Chubb LifeAmerica in Concord, NH in-forms us of the following alumni promotions.Gary Goffin is now corporate meetings andtravel officer at Chubb Life's Concord, NHheadquarters. Gary is a resident of Chest-nut Hill, MA. Thomas C. Kelly '87, BA'88 was promoted to marketing officer atChubb Life's Parsippany, NJ office and is aresident of Tarrytown, NY.

From the Fleet Home Town News Cen-ter, we learn the following news of "men inthe fleet." Navy Lt. Steven S. Dunipacereturned from a six-month MediterraneanSea deployment with Fighter Squadron 103,'Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach,VA, embarked aboard the aircraft carrierUSS Saratoga. Steve's squadron operated insupport of United Nations and NATO oper-

ations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In mid-March,the squadron sailed from the Adriatic to theeastern Mediterranean for a series of exer-cises. Steve visited Trieste and Naples, Ita-ly and Palma de Mallorca, and Valencia,Spain. • Wendy Myers Cambor, 610 W.110th St., Apt. 9B, NYC 10025;([email protected]); Alison Min-ton, 333 E. 56th St., Apt. 11B, NYC 10022;Diane Weisbrot Wing, 1111 Opal St., #11,Redondo Beach, CA 90277.

Happy new year! I'm happy tobe one of your new class corre-spondents. I don't live on theUpper East Side like the othercorrespondents, but AlumniHouse will forward your news to

Burlington, VT, where I live with husbandJohn Treadwell and our 9-month-olddaughter, Charlotte (or you can send newsdirectly to the address below). There aren'ttoo many Cornellians up here, but I'm sureI'll see a few next month when the hockeyteam comes to town to play U. of Vermont.I did run into classmate Donna VanVoolenRaymond last summer at a baby play group,of all places! Donna and husband Owen livein Essex, VT with kids Colin, 2-1/2, andAnnelise, 7 months. Owen is in his final yearof the MBA program at UVM. Another stu-dent-parent from our class is Jill Simon,who's getting her master's in immunologyat the U. of Barcelona (Spain). Jill and hus-band Jorge Daniels '88 live in St. Cugat deValles, Spain, with children Leah, 3, andKevin, 1-1/2 .

Also studying abroad is Susan Hug El-lingboe, who's in Canberra, Australia. She andher husband are earning their doctorates atAustralian National U. And, several membersof our class have settled in Canada. KeithDonovan is an executive account manager forAT&T Global Information Solutions in Toron-to. Kimberly Thompson directs the Down-town Cambridge (Ontario) Business Assn. andrecently, with her mother, opened a bed andbreakfast on Lake Huron.

Back in this country, Scott Best andhis wife just bought their first house, inSunnyvale, CA. Scott is a design engineerat Cypress Semiconductor in San Jose. Oldbuddies with e-mail can reach him [email protected]. Fellow U-Hall-2er LisaWisser is working in San Jose, as well, asan industrial hygienist for an environmentalhealth and safety consulting firm. A bit far-ther up on the West Coast is Richard Hig-gins, who sends a new address of Healy,AK. Also counting moose in Alaska is Tif-fany Markey. (Would you believe 17 moosein a 1-1/2-hour bike ride with classmate Car-olyn Kaplan near Tiffany's house in An-chorage!) Tiffany is based at the U. of Alas-ka, Anchorage and most recently has beendirecting a small business center in Ma-gadan, Russia.

Lots of news on the academic front:Stacey Lowery Bretz, PhD '94 and hus-band Richard, PhD '94 both finished theirPhDs at Cornell last summer and moved toAlbany, CA. Stacey is a post-doc in the U. ofCalifornia, Berkeley, chemistry department,working on improving college chemistryteaching. Med school graduates from ourclass include John B. Dunn, who is a pedi-

atrics resident at the U. of Chicago Hospi-tals, and Earl Wang, who's doing his resi-dency in anesthesiology at the M.S. HersheyMedical Center in Hershey, PA. Classmatesstill in school include Bruce Block in thematerial science and engineering depart-ment at Northwestern, Flora Che, work-ing towards an MPPM at the Yale School ofManagement, Gregory Poulos, at Los Ala-mos National Laboratory working toward adoctorate in atmospheric science from Col-orado State, and Amy Susman at the U. ofMinnesota's Inst. of Child Development.

The year 1994 saw a number of '89marriages. Lisa Hamburg married CraigPearson on May 22 in Maryland. The Pear-sons live in Northville, MI, where Craigworks as a design engineer for GeneralMotors and Lisa is a social worker. On thesame day, Rachel Blech married MichaelRiceland. Rachel is a tax attorney in NewYork City and is studying part time for amaster's in taxation. Guests at TaraBrosenne Estes's June wedding includedChristiane Childs-Payton, Carlo and JenAliski Barton. Betsy Call and James Ri-ner were married on July 2 and were plan-ning to move to Denver this winter.

Back in July 1993, Amy Stoller mar-ried Patrick Pergola. Karla Sangrey,Karen Walder, and Fran Stoller '90 werein the bridal party and attendees from ourclass included Mei-Mei Ma, Linda Maier

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ean McDuffy is a gifted cartoonist aswell as a successful businessman.Since he graduated with a degree in

fine arts, in 1991, McDuffy has co-founded Jolly PenoProducts, a salsa manufacturing company which quicklyexpanded its sales of gourmet salsa to a nationwidelevel. After selling the company in 1992, McDuffy and apartner founded Green Earth Gourmet Specialties inIthaca. They make gourmet salsas, pasta sauces andchilis. McDuffy, who lives in Collegetown, also pursues acareer in cartooning, and recently sold a drawing toMarvel Comics. He plans to return to school to work fora graduate degree in business, and has no plans to giveup his artwork. McDuffy will, no doubt, continue to provethat art and commerce can go together.


and Joanie Numssen Santos.News from the City—those New York-

ers continue to keep things interesting!Peter Chase is a partner in and managerof a new restaurant, Campagna. AntoinetteLaVecchia is a professional actress. AndMichele Trester was actually able to fill inthe "Have you invented anything?" blankon the News and Dues form, having invent-ed and copyrighted gay-themed snowdomes!Her company, Domophile Arts, makes wa-ter-and-glitter-filled domes with pink and/or black triangles and rainbows.

Finally, from Vernon Hills, IL, AlanHirzel writes, "Whatever happened toMeggen Shepherd?" Meggen? Anyone?Keep the news coming! ••• Anne Czaplin-ski Treadwell, 352 Colchester Ave., Bur-lington, VT 05401; Stephanie Bloom Avi-don, 401 E. 80th St., Apt. 32D, NYC 10021;Dan Gross, 490 E. 74th St., Apt. 3A, NYC10021; Robyn Wesler Landow, 315 E. 68thSt., Apt. 15S, NYC 10021.

5THREUNION

Ellen Braitman,The Daily Sun' s ed-itor-in-chief our sen-ior year, and now awriter for SmartMoney magazine, in-

terrupted our conversation regarding taxshelters and the best rates for leasing a carand told me that she was not ready for ourimpending Reunion. Could it be that Ellen,the veteran of network and local televisionappearances, was daunted by the prospectof gazing into the funhouse mirror of our5th Reunion?

Heck, yeah. Who wouldn't be? WouldTania Potts—that's Dr. Potts to you—feela tinge of apprehension about reappearingin Ithaca with thousands of classmates shenever knew? Maybe. But if she doesn'tshow up at Reunion, it is more likely to bebecause she is too busy in her first year ofresidency in pediatrics at Los Angeles' Chil-dren's Hospital.

Others in our class will likely have noqualms about facing the past. For instance,Christopher Hageman has been in train-ing for just such an event, what with his jobat Johns Hopkins in the development andalumni relations office. As if that sort ofschmoozing boot camp weren't enough,Christopher tells me that he has been spend-ing his off hours managing a theater troupeand preparing for a performance of MaxFrisch's The Firebugs.

And yet—can any work of art match thepathos and melodrama sure to surround thecoming together of friends and enemiespast? In the friends and lovers department,we'll ask Nathaniel Wasserstein, a peren-nial favorite in this space (because he writes,people! Get the hint?). Nat reports that helives on the Yupper East Side of Manhattanwith his wonderful new bride, Dr. MelissaPittel '88. As expected, a number of ourclassmates attended the wedding, includingMatthew Gold, Michael Karangelen, JeffBershad, Liza Landsman, and Rod andStacy Weiss Agona. Watch out, "MelrosePlace," they're living reruns of "DrydenRoad" back in New York.

Others might actually view Reunion asa chance to renew ties to Cornell. MatthewPynn graduated from the U. of Minneapolislaw school and reports that no one fromCornell lives in Minnesota. Matthew wasplanning to put up a shingle in Lockport, NY,and had this to say to his classmates: "Any-time you think you want to go to law school,count to ten and, hopefully, the urge willpass." Last we heard, he was studying forthe New York Bar exam—in his words, "Pa-thetic, but true."

Only slightly peppier is Allan Rous-selle, another favorite correspondent whosemissives (this time from Billerica, MA)should be accompanied by the strains of Nir-vana and other insoucient Seattle grungebands. Unlike Matthew, Allan does see someclassmates. What do they do together? "Eatdinner, see a movie. Have sex. The usual."And Allan, what is the most positive thing thathas happened to you, we innocently ask?"Ever?" he responds, "Or in the past year?"Ooof. I guess reality does bite. Come to Re-union, Allan. We promise more of the usual.

We also promise (hope? wish?) to seeWilliam Muecke, now back from Japan. Atlast writing (September 1993), he was look-ing for gainful employment in New YorkCity, but man was he positive. He was hap-py about returning home, and he soundedhappy to report that P. Tarim Chung waspreparing at Harvard for a teaching positionat Groton. He also reported that he seesStephen E. Paul and Frances Nelson inCambridge. Still, he took the time to con-gratulate D. Max Harvey on his taking theplunge into marriage. All good news, all joy.Yes—that's the kind of positive reuning I liketo hear about, and I hope to see at Reunion.

It's not that scary, is it? Actually, it'skind of fun to dish the dirt and spread thejoy. So, Ellen Braitman, no excuses. See youback in Ithaca.

PS: Being twentysomething and all,your intrepid class correspondent nowmakes it easier to give classmates the news:you can e-mail me at the addressbelow. • Saman Zia-Zarifi, 225 S. Olive

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St., #910, Los Angeles, CA 90012; e-mail,[email protected].

^ ^ ^ Welcome to this month's column.I l l I am finally beginning to sortI I I through the mass of News and^*m I Dues forms which grace my desk,i W I but I am pleased to begin with in-^ ^ ^ formation contained in a letter

from Kirsten Etka Hallstrom. Kirsten andhusband Brian '90 are in Boston, whereshe is working as a physical therapist atChildren's Hospital and he is in his final yearof medical school at Boston U. Brian alsosculls at the Union Boat Club with GregDarrah, who is working for Andersen Con-sulting. Kirsten organized a mini-reunion offormer housemates over Labor Day week-end. Kate Lawler and Ayda Haddad areroommates in Washington, DC, where Aydais in her last year at Georgetown law schooland Kate is preparing to leave for a year inEl Salvador as a Fulbright Scholarship re-cipient. Elizabeth Alley, Julie Nielsen,and Merritt Clapp all live in North Caroli-na. Betsy earned her MA in classical arche-ology from the U. of North Carolina last Mayand spent the summer working at Cornell'sdig with the Etruscan Foundation in Italy.Julie just earned her master's degree in the-ology from Duke. Merritt and husband CraigSmith, an MIT alum, just moved to ChapelHill, where Merritt is beginning work onher master's degree in urban and regionalplanning. Other attendees at the mini-re-union included Susie Curtis, who is work-ing for the Atlanta Business Chronicle,Heather Dykstra, who is working for theOffice of Medicaid Policy and Planning inIndianapolis after earning her master's de-gree in public affairs from Indiana U., andKristin Huffman, who is completing hermaster's degree in art history at FloridaState U. Gerry Autler, working for a re-search group in Washington, DC, and SteveKalik, who is job hunting, also were in at-tendance. Thanks for the letter, Kirsten!

Another letter with a bit farther to trav-el came from Annike Hoysater, who isplanning to travel in South America andRussia for six months after leaving her jobas a PR consultant in Oslo, Norway. Whilein Russia, Annike hopes to see Otto Pohland Steve Levy, who were photographersfor the Daily Sun while on the Hill. Afterher trip, she hopes to pursue a master'sdegree. Annike has had a couple of visitorsfrom the States in the past year. CristosGoodrow, who is back in school after work-ing for Andersen Consulting, visited herduring the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer,and Lynn Schechter visited for the sec-ond straight summer. Lynn is pursuing herPhD at Columbia U. Elleke Monster alsolives overseas. She moved to London fromAmsterdam and is working for an English ho-tel company. And although Rod Braun is nowliving in Florida, he had some internationalexperiences of his own a little while ago. Af-ter visiting Matt Guest in Ecuador, Rod wenton a global surfing trip that took him to Tahi-ti, Fiji, Australia, Indonesia, and France.

Back in the US, Mindy Blitzer is fin-ishing her master's degree in physical ther-apy at the U. of Miami. Paul Kotula is alsostill a student, working toward his PhD in

materials science at the U. of Minnesota,where he holds an IBM Graduate Fellow-ship. Saurabh Pat el returned to school lastyear, leaving his position at Andersen Con-sulting to study biomedical engineering atJohns Hopkins. Susie Skoglund has just lefther engineering job to attend the U. of Wash-ington's business school.

Among our employed classmates is RobLong, a computer systems specialist withthe Prudential Insurance Co. in Pennsylva-nia. Rob writes that he had changed jobswithin the company, from underwriting in-surance to his current position. Rob alsomentioned that he has gotten involved withhis local Alumni Admissions AmbassadorNetwork (CAAAN) committee and enjoysattracting potential students to Cornell.CAAAN is an organization that goes to col-lege fairs, interviews prospective students,and otherwise promotes Cornell to poten-tial applicants. There are committees acrossthe country, and this is a great way for any-one who is interested in helping the univer-sity to get involved.

Nina Rosen is working as a transpor-tation planner for Vollmer Associates, a plan-ning, engineering, and architecture firm inNew York City. Edward and Cindy AnnGinty recently moved from Smyrna, GA, toAtlanta, where they are closer to Edward'sjob as a manufacturing engineer at Interna-tional Paper. On the other side of the coun-

try, Francine Simon is now a market re-search analyst at Kaiser Permanente in Oak-land. She had been working for a small mar-ket research firm in San Francisco after re-ceiving her master's degree in sociologyfrom Stanford in 1992. Victoria Scotto justgraduated from New York U. law school withroommate Joann Longo. She also writesthat Keara Bergin graduated from Fordhamlaw school, and that all three started at NYClaw firms this past fall. • Howard Stein,600 Warren Rd., #3-2D, Ithaca, NY 14850;(607) 257-3922.

Well, this is your class vice pres-ident here, pinch-hitting as classcorrespondent in this issue, sobear with a novice. It was greatto see so many faces at Home-coming. We, the class officers

and your Homecoming committee, hope youenjoyed the bagel breakfast we had at thetailgates Saturday morning. We were so gladmany of you had a chance to stop by and letus know what you are doing. For those ofyou who weren't able to make it to Home-coming, here's a recap.

Yes, it rained. Homecoming wouldn't bethe same without it, but it was warm andtons of people turned out to see us beatPrinceton. But the main action was at thetailgates, where the Classes of '93 and '94provided donuts, juice, and bagels galore for

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our classmates. With a prime location by thetennis bubble, we were a popular stop alongthe way.

And many people stopped by. Specialthanks go to Alison Winter and Sarah Gib-son, who helped set up and clean up. Thetwo went above and beyond their roles asco-chairs of the Homecoming committee andwe can't thank them enough. Alison is work-ing in New York City for John Wiley & Sons,publishing. Sarah is in Washington, DCteaching for the Close Up Foundation, whichprovides week-long seminars for high schoolstudents nationwide.

Alyssa Frantz stopped by, just weeksbefore she was to head to Boston to workfor the Massachusetts Water ResourcesAuthority as a budget analyst. In an updatesince then, Alyssa says she loves the cityand, of course, is excited to finally be earn-ing some money. Alyssa finished her mas-ter's in regional planning last May, so thisis her first jaunt into the real world. Also inBoston, Heather Lentz is working on amaster's degree at Boston U., in education.She wants to teach biology at the high schoollevel when she gets out. A couple of milesaway in Cambridge is E. I. "Beth" Heller.Beth is in her first semester of a PhD pro-gram in biochemistry at Harvard. She saysit's fun, but a lot of work (she's not sur-prised) and she likes being back in schoolafter working in a lab at Cornell last year.Wandering around Cambridge Beth mightrun into Sarah Lawrence, who's workingfor the Dept. of Transportation there. DaveLevitt is also at Harvard; he's in the lawschool. Sources say he's been interviewingin Chicago and New York for next summerand would love any information fellow alum-ni in Chicago could give him about the city.Alyssa caught up with George Conti, who'sover in Burlington, MA, at InternationalSpirit of Zinck's Night. He is working forAramark Food Services.

Heading south, way south, we hearfrom Alyssa that Justin Bates '94 and MattBohlin are still in Pensacola, FL at NavyFlight School.

Moving back up the coastline to NewYork City, it seems the Big Apple is still thereigning champ when it comes to Cornell-ians per square inch. Sharon Hartnett '94is living in Hoboken and working in NYCwith Yarmouth Group, doing real estateanalysis. She says Steve Winnert is near-by at CS First Boston, doing mortgage prod-ucts financial engineering. Now, that's a title.

Across the river, Michelle Catanzarois working for American Home Food Prod-ucts in the consumer affairs departmentwhile getting an MBA at Fairleigh Dickin-son U. Lauren Bailyn is also in New Jer-sey working in a management training pro-

for sa,

gram for Grand Union, a supermarket chain.Sheri Rabiner, Matt Kleiner, and

Rob Fromberg are still loving New YorkU. law school and are in search of that much-coveted second summer firm job. Jen Loydhas a year left in her master's (public af-fairs)—also at NYU—and, having spent thesummer in Eastern Europe, is looking toreturn to the Continent for the spring se-mester.

Also in Europe last summer was NoraBensahel, who spent ten weeks in Mos-cow working for the National DemocraticInst. I visited her at the end of August asshe was about to head home and I can vouchthat it is a tough place to spend a week, letalone ten. She, like I, thought it was a fasci-nating place, but she's happy to be back atStanford, where she's in her second year ofwork on a PhD in political science.

Well, that's what the wind's blowingthis way. Please keep in touch—we love tohear from you. And finally, one last plea foryour help. We want to be an amazing class,with programming you all love. We all makeup the Class of '93, but we, the class offi-cers, can't do anything without your help.Your $10 class dues means we can keep youup-to-date on class activities and run eventsto keep the class together. I feel like SallyStruthers, but I am sincerely asking for yourhelp. Thanks in advance. • Pippa Loen-gard, Rains #9E, 704 Campus Dr., Stan-ford, CA 94305.

^ \ A As I write this in late October,I I Λ New York City alums have justII MM come off a successful Interna-^ 4 f a l 4 tional Spirit of Zinck's Night atI I W South Street Seaport. Members^ ^ ^ of the Class of '94 were well-represented in the throng of corporate uni-forms and after-work clothes. Among thosetoting daiquiris at the event were SarahOng, an equity research assistant at Leh-man Brothers, Hemda Mizrahi, a humanresources assistant at Investment DealersDigest, and Romy Bakhru, an analyst atChemical Bank. Larisa Alonso and I re-cently had the heady privilege of visitingHemda's office on the 18th floor of theWorld Trade Center, where we were veryimpressed with the view. Currently takinga year off, Larisa is leaving the familiarityof the Northeast to relocate to Texas.

Yes, you finally realize you're out ofcollege when your peers start circulatingtheir business cards. More news of the re-cently-hired: Scarlet Fu is a managementtrainee for General Electric in Hong Kong,Louise Lap-Yin Chu is a production coor-dinator for J. Crew in NYC, and Jenna Said-el is an assistant front office manager at theWestin Hotel in Waltham, MA. Jason Sa-culles is a management trainee for Enter-prise Rent-A-Car in Boston, and would liketo stress that he is not the clerk who handsyou the keys for your borrowed Ford. Alsoin the Boston area is Michael Healy, whoworks in development for Harvard's medi-cal school.

Moving into the realm of the creepy-crawlies, we have Brian Penney, whospends his days at the Insect Chemical Ecol-ogy Lab for the US Dept. of Agriculture Re-search Service in Beltsville, MD. This past

summer, Brian's work in California entailedtwo cross-country road trips. Avoidinglengthy road trips is Sharlene Yang, whodecided to stay in Ithaca after graduation.At Homecoming, Sharlene flashed her newCornell ID, which looked familiar, exceptthat it said . . . employee! Shar is now aresearch support specialist in nutritional sci-ences at our alma mater. Another classmatewho just can't get away is Jarrid JamesWhitney, who works as a financial aid coun-selor. He writes, "If any '94ers are in Ith-aca, stop by and say hello in Day Hall and Ipromise no long lines to see me. That's theBursar's Office, remember?"

Cornell always produces a few altruis-tic souls, ready to devote themselves tohelping others. Elizabeth Gonzalez is par-ticipating in the Teach For America pro-gram, where she educates second- and third-graders at Claremont Community School inthe South Bronx. Also working with chil-dren is Praveena Nallainathan, who wasplanning to become a cottage parent at theQueen Louise Home for Children in St.Croix at the end of January. Alice Choi is amember of the Lutheran Volunteer Corpsin Washington, DC, where she works at ahomeless shelter for substance abusers.

A refreshing e-mail message comes tome from a part of the country under-repre-sented in the class column. Mark Birthawrites that he is "really enjoying the Man-agement Associates Program at the MirageResort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Af-ter temperatures consistently in excess of110 degrees, it's great to enjoy the pros-pect of a winter of warm days and sunnyskies—unlike the Ithaca winters of 1992-94." If only Northeasterners could anticipatethe same type of winter season.

I am writing from the starkness of myNYC apartment, where boxes serve as furni-ture and futons rule the landscape. Battlingthe postgraduate blues, I moved here in Sep-tember with my roommate, Jessica O'Toole.Shunning job monogamy, Jess is both an edi-torial assistant at Manhattan File magazine(founded by Cornellian Cristina Greeven '92)and a publishing intern at Modern Bride maga-zine. Between the two of us, free glossies aregetting easier to come by. I work as an edito-rial intern at New Woman magazine, and amhoping to go back to school within the nexttwo years. The one thing that is keeping mefrom leaping into grad school immediately isthe stress factor. Proof of this condition comesin the form of Jeanette Yee, who routinelydeals with little kids as part of her master's inschool psychology at the Teacher's College ofColumbia U. Her roommate, Julie Kim, isearning a master's in social work at Columbia.Other brave scholars are Kirstyn Cassa-vechia, who is studying for her master's ineducation and English at Colgate, and SteveSmith, who is earning his master's in opticalengineering at the U. of Rochester.

You may have noticed that this columnis undemocratically representive of theNortheast. Furthermore, the list reads likea who's who of my freshman U-Hall. In oth-er words, I can't print updates unless I hearof them. Strangers, classmates, countrymen,send me your news. •> Dika Lam, 108 E.38th St., Apt. 611, NYC 10016; [email protected].

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Alumni Deaths'15—John Scott B. Pratt of Friday Har-bor, WA, formerly of Honolulu, HI, May 21,1990; retired foreman and manager, KohalaSugar Co., Hawi, HI; active in civic and com-munity affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha.

'22 BS HE—Cornelia Lerch Brown (Mrs.Robert N.) of Deerfield Beach, FL, Aug. 25,1994; active in alumni affairs.

'23, EE '24—William G. Broughton ofSchenectady, NY, July 30,1994; retired, wasfor many years an engineer with GeneralElectric; active in alumni affairs; universitybenefactor. Theta Delta Chi.

'23, BS Ag '24—Marvin A. Clark of RedBank, NJ, Aug. 16, 1994; retired senior coun-ty agricultural agent, Monmouth County; ac-tive in community, agricultural, professional,religious, and alumni affairs. Pi Kappa Phi.

'27—Emmons W. Collins of Naples, FL,Dec. 22, 1993; retired; active in alumni af-fairs. Theta Delta Chi.

'27 ME—George W. Herkner of Stock-ton, NJ, Aug. 21,1994; retired executive vicepresident, director, and general manager ofmachine tool group at Warner & Swasey Co.,Cleveland, OH; active in community and re-ligious affairs. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'27 BA—Elizabeth Rose of New YorkCity, Sept. 2, 1994; retired employee ofSeward Park High School.

'28 BA—Robert M. Leng of Staten Island,NY, Aug. 15, 1994; certified public accoun-tant; retired accountant and partner, Coo-pers & Lybrand, Manhattan; active in com-munity, professional, and alumni affairs. Sig-ma Phi Epsilon.

'30 CE—Walter C. Benedict Jr. of Del-mar, NY, exact date of death unknown; ac-tive in alumni affairs. [See also listing forWinifred Lansing Benedict, MA '33, below.]

'30 BA—Lucille Harden Bruns (Mrs. Har-ry G.) of New Canaan, CT, May 23, 1994;homemaker; active in alumni affairs. KappaKappa Gamma.

'30 BA—Janet Dalton Mann (Mrs. Will-iam L. Jr.) of Catonsville, MD, formerly ofSt. Michaels, MD, July 16, 1994; activein religious and alumni affairs. Pi Beta Phi.[See also listing for William L. Mann Jr. '30,below.]

'30 BME—William L. Mann Jr. of Catons-ville, MD, formerly of St. Michaels, MD, July27, 1994; retired manager of environmentalhealth, NL Industries in New Jersey; corpo-rate consultant on environmental concerns;active in community, religious, and profes-sional affairs. Seal and Serpent. [See also list-

ing for Janet Dalton Mann '30, above.]

'31 BA—Miriam Prytherch Crandall (Mrs.Horace) of Cupertino, CA, formerly of Boyn-ton Beach, FL and Binghamton, NY, Aug.18,1994; former teacher of French and Lat-in, Johnson City (NY) High School.

'31 PhD—Giles E. Dawson of Washing-ton, DC, Aug. 26,1994; book and manuscriptcurator, Folger Shakespeare Library; profes-sor emeritus of English, Catholic Universi-ty; rare-book librarian, Washington Nation-al Cathedral; author of several books; activein professional and religious affairs.

'31 MD—Benjamin Esterman of Law-rence, NY, Aug. 14, 1994; eye surgeon; pri-vate practice; helped found the specializedglaucoma clinic, Manhattan Eye, Ear, andThroat Hospital; served as director of eyesurgery, Peninsula Hospital Center andLong Island Jewish Medical Center; workedat New York Hospital—Cornell MedicalCenter; active in alumni affairs.

'31 BLArch—Dorothy Butler Graves(Mrs. Porter) of Charlotte, NC, April 18,1993; retired landscape architect.

'32 MCE—Warren E. Wilson of RapidCity, SD, April 12, 1994.

'33 BA—John A. Bealor of Remington,VA, Aug. 14, 1994. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'33 MA—Winifred Lansing Benedict(Mrs. Walter C. Jr.) of Delmar, NY, Dec. 20,1993; retired laboratory technician, AlbanyMedical Center. [See also listing for WalterC. Benedict Jr. '30, above.]

'33 MD—Nils W. Bolduan of Santa Bar-bara, CA, Oct. 10, 1993; retired physician/psychiatrist; was associated with the Uni-versity of California, Santa Barbara.

'33 BS Ag—Bert L. Cook of Endwell, NY,July 30, 1994. Alpha Zeta.

'33 BA, LLB '35—Percy Ingerman ofNorthport, NY, Aug. 17, 1994; retired attor-ney and founding partner, Ingerman SmithGreenberg & Gross, Northport; retired jus-tice, Huntington, NY; active in community,professional, and alumni affairs. Tau DeltaPhi.

'34— Earl H. Dickinson of Cocoa Beach,FL, formerly of Watertown, NY, July 18,1994; retired sales associate, Niagara Mo-hawk Power Corp; active in community af-fairs. Phi Kappa Tau.

'34 BS Ag—Asa D. Rumsey of Ithaca,NY, Aug. 18, 1994; retired from TexacoInc.; active in community, religious, andalumni affairs.

'34 BS Ag—Everett L. Stiles of Syracuse,NY, June 8, 1994; retired vice president ofpersonnel and labor relations, P&C FoodsInc., Syracuse, NY; active in civic and reli-gious affairs. Theta Kappa Nu.

'35 BA—Milton Binkov of Bay Pines, FL,formerly of S. Pasadena, Aug. 26, 1992; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Alpha Epsilon Pi.

'35 PhD—James W. Neely of Florence,SC, formerly of Hartsville, SC, Aug. 17,1994; retired director of plant breeding andresearch, Coker's Pedigreed Seed Co.,Hartsville, SC; pioneered research combin-ing the principles of genetics with crop de-velopment, primarily with cotton and soy-beans; active in community, professional,and religious affairs.

'36 BS HE—Doris Hendee Jones (Mrs.Lloyd H.) of Boynton Beach, FL, formerlyof Buffalo, NY, Oct. 16, 1993; retired book-keeper for catering service, Lloyd's SalesOffice, Buffalo, NY; active in alumni affairs.Kappa Alpha Theta.

'37 BS HE—Louise Matthies Bellows(Mrs. B. Chandler Jr.) of Kennett Square,PA, Aug. 27, 1994; active in alumni affairs.Delta Gamma. Husband, B. Chandler Bel-lows Jr. '36.

'37—Beatrice Griffing Schuyler (Mrs.Howard E.) of Harrisburg, PA, Nov. 2, 1992.Kappa Delta.

'38 BS HE—Eleanor Sichel May (Mrs.William) of New York City, June 7, 1994.Alpha Epsilon Phi.

'39 BA—Helen McTighe Allen (Mrs. Rob-ert O.) of Binghamton, NY, Aug. 19, 1994.Kappa Kappa Gamma. Husband, Robert O.Allen '37.

'39 BArch—Acton R. Davies of EastGreenbush, NY, July 3, 1994; architecturaldraftsman, W. Parker Dodge Associates, Al-bany, NY and Dodge Chamberlin & Luzine,Rensselaer, NY.

'39 BS Ag—John R. Merritt of Severn,MD, formerly of Wallkill, NY, Aug. 29,1994;retired superintendent, Naval AcademyDairy, Gambrills, MD; former superinten-dent, SUNY, Albany's farming operationsand dairy farmer in Upstate New York. Al-pha Zeta.

'39 EE—E. Hamilton Swazey of FortWorth, TX, Feb. 5, 1994; retired engineer,General Dynamics Corp. Delta KappaEpsilon.

'39 BS HE—Eileen Ford Wood (Mrs. Al-exander J.) of Victoria, BC, Canada, July 23,1994; active in alumni affairs.


ALUMNI DEATHS

'40 BS Ag—Eric M. Van Patten of Mont-gomery, TX, February 13,1990. Alpha Gam-ma Rho.

'41 PhD—James N. Roney of Phoenix, AZ,Aug. 7,1994; retired extension entomologist,University of Arizona; active in civic, commu-nity, religious, and professional affairs.

'42 BS CE—Sigurd Hallager Jr. of Lin-coln, NH, Feb. 19, 1993. Phi Kappa Sigma.

'42 BS, PhD '54—Frank H. Nearing ofKansas City, MO, Feb. 13,1993; retired in-dustrial engineer, Kansas City IRS ServiceCenter. Alpha Zeta. Wife, Anna (Dueser)'48-49 Grad.

'44—Lloyd J. Klein of Anchorage, AK, Oct.3, 1992.

'46—Grace Friedman Unger (Mrs. RoyB.) of Barrington, IL, June 28, 1994; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Husband, Roy B.Unger '43.

>48 BA—John E. Knight of Honolulu, HI,Aug. 13, 1994; retired dentist. Sigma PhiEpsilon. Wife, Nancy (Allen) Knight '49.

'48 PhD—Richard C. Snyder of Seat-tle, WA, Aug. 30, 1994; professor emeri-tus of zoology, University of Washington;also taught at the University of Arizonaand at Cornell; instrumental in planningthe Burke Museum and Hitchcock Labo-ratory at the University of Washington;active in professional affairs.

'49 MS—Mary E. Border of Manhattan,KS, May 25, 1994.

'49 BCE, MBA '51—John H. Kunz ofNorth Swanzey, NH, formerly of LocustValley, NY, Aug. 5, 1994; retired president,JHK Consulting, Locust Valley.

'49—Patricia Johnson Potter (Mrs. Rich-ard E.) of Glen Head, NY, Jan. 3, 1994.

'50 BS HE—Beverly Paris Dox (Mrs.James G.) of Wheaton, IL, March 7, 1994;active in alumni affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

'50 BS HE—Eleanor MarchigianiShopiro (Mrs. Donald E.) of Fayetteville,NY, Aug. 26, 1994; former general man-ager and director of development, Syra-cuse Symphony; was charter president,Landmark Theatre; active in community,professional, religious, and alumni affairs.

'50—Victor M. Smith of Homer, NY, Aug.24,1994; dairy farmer; active in profession-al affairs.

'51—Donald J. Geniesse of West Ches-ter, PA, Aug. 23,1994; retired engineer, waswith Sun Oil Company for 36 years, mostrecently in 1987 with the research and de-velopment department; held three patentsfor instrumentation technology; had servedas an instructor, Delaware Technical Com-munity College, Wilmington, DE.

'51 MA—Lawrence R. Rumley of Seat-

tle, WA, April 21, 1994; newspaper editor,Seattle Times.

'54 BS AGR—Charles R. Foley of Au-burn, NY, formerly of Union Springs, July 5,1994; retired federal administrator; active inreligious and alumni affairs.

'54 BA—Helen Hosey Keister (Mrs. Dou-glas C.) of Houston, TX, Aug. 20, 1994; ac-tive in alumni affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.Husband, Douglas C. Keister '54.

'55, BEE '56—Paul R. Karmel of Hast-ings on Hudson, NY, Aug. 15, 1994; activein alumni affairs.

'55 BS Hotel—Rex E. Montague of LosAngeles, CA, Nov. 20, 1993.

'55 BS Ag—Philip J. Taylor of Lawtons,NY, Aug. 11, 1994; farmer and breeder ofAberdeen Angus cattle; active in communi-ty, professional, and religious affairs. Cayu-ga Lodge.

'57 BS HE—Mary Balluff Fanning (Mrs.Delvin S.) of Berwyn Heights, MD, Aug. 24,1994; president, Prince Georges County(MD) Family and Community Education andsecretary of the local genealogical society;co-author, with her husband, Soil: Morphol-ogy, Genesis and Classification; active inalumni affairs. Husband, Delvin S. Fanning'54, MS '59.

'62 BA Hotel—Howard H. Becker ofRochester, NY, July 2, 1993.

'62 MS—Pauline Labouliere Crowley(Mrs. John P.) of Mendon, VT, July 24,1994;teacher, Rutland (VT) High School.

'62 B Arch—Ronald W. Gascoyne of Lou-isville, KY, Aug. 14, 1994; architect, Nolan& Nolan, Inc., Louisville, KY; led renova-tion of 1860 water tower in Louisville; pastdirector of Louisville Design Center; activein religious, community, and professionalaffairs.

'64 EE, ME E '70—John R. Hanson IIof Winter Springs, FL, Aug. 25, 1994; quali-ty assurance manager, F.W. Bell Inc., Or-lando, FL; formerly worked at Ithaco Inc.,Ithaca, NY.

'64 MS—Timothy R. Hart of Maplewood,NJ, March 30, 1994; professor of physics andengineering physics, Stevens Institute of Tech-nology; authority on lasers and solid-statephysics; active in professional affairs.

'70 BA, PhD '73—Jonathan I. Katz ofSt. Louis, MO, May 16, 1994; WashingtonUniversity physics department; formerteacher of astonomy, UCLA,fairs. Chi Psi.

'81 BS Ag, DVM '85—Steven P. Cattanoof Oakland, CA, formerly of Freeport, NY,June 19, 1994; veterinarian associated withBerkeley Dog & Cat Hospital.

'82—Steven W. Chaney of Ithaca, NY,Sept. 1, 1994.

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

Knowledge Knows No Walls

C ornell classrooms will be on the road againand coming to Cornell Clubs and Alumni As-sociations near you this winter and spring.Nearly 70 organizations will participate in aprogram that introduces faculty speakers to

alumni. Faculty members will talk about projectsand programs of importance in their disciplines,bringing alumni up to date on new developmentsin academic areas and current campus activitiesand issues. Topics for this year's series range fromnutrition and low-fat eating to Italian Renaissancegardens to the future of transportation to how fe-tuses signal that it's time to be born.

Receptions or dinners are organized aroundfaculty presentations by the host organizations.Cooperatively sponsored by the Office of Alumni

Affairs, the Cornell AlumniFederation and the hostCornell Club or Alumni As-sociation, the faculty speakerprogram keeps alumni con-nected to and involved withthe university. Speakershave been selected by the deans of the variousuniversity colleges and the Office of Alumni Af-fairs.

Alumni living near a Cornell Club or AlumniAssociation will be mailed an invitation to thefaculty speaker program event in their area. Formore information about the faculty speaker pro-gram, check this list or call the Office of AlumniAffairs at (607) 255-3516.

Faculty Speaker Program 1995

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PensacolaNaplesSarasotaTampa/St. PeteWest Palm BeachAtlantaHonoluluChicagoLouisvilleBostonCape CodBaltimoreDetroitGrand RapidsKansas CitySt. LouisAshevilleCharlotteRaleigh/DurhamOmahaManchesterLincroft

Faculty NameMartha HaynesJames MaasJames MaasTom GilovichDan McCallDan McCallTom GilovichDan McCallJames MaasKen McClaneDavid LewisMark DimunationMark DimunationRobert BakerRobert BakerRobert BakerPeter Bruns

Don BartelRobert BakerDon BartelDon BartelClaudia LazzaroPeter BrunsTom GilovichJudith BernstockCharles WalcottDavid LewisDavid LewisDavid LevitskyDavid RobertshawDavid RobertshawYervant TerzianYervant TerzianRobert BakerNick SalvatoreClaudia LazzaroCharles WalcottPeter NathanielszFrank Robinson

College/UnitArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesAAPUniversity LibraryUniversity LibraryALSALSALSArts & Sciences

EngineeringALSEngineeringEngineeringArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesArts & SciencesLab of OrnithologyAAPAAPALSVeterinary MedicineVeterinary MedicineArts & SciencesArts & SciencesALSILRArts & SciencesLab of OrnithologyVeterinary MedicineHF Johnson Museum

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Saturday, March 18Monday, February 6Thursday, March 16Friday, March 17Friday, April 28Thursday, March 23Tuesday, February 28Sunday, April 24Friday, March 10Tuesday, May 16Wednesday, May 17Friday, April 7Saturday, April 29Friday, April 28Friday, March 10Thursday, March 9Sunday, February 12Thursday, April 6Saturday, April 29Saturday, March 11Saturday, April 29Friday, March 10

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Faculty Speaker Program 1995 cont'd.

Ken McClaneArnim MeyburgYervant TerzianMilton ZaitlinDavid LewisJennifer GernerBarbara LangFrank RobinsonKen McClaneBruce GanemCharles WalcottKen McClaneYervant TerzianDavid RobertshawMartha HaynesMark DimunationDavid LevitskyCharles WalcottPeter BrunsPeter NathanielszClaudia LazzaroNick SalvatoreNick SalvatoreBarbara LangBarbara LangPeter NathanielszMartha HaynesJudith Bernstock

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Thursday, June 1Tuesday, April 11Wednesday, April 26Wednesday, April 27Tuesday, April 25Saturday, January 14Thursday, June 1Thursday, March 9Friday, June 2Thursday, May 18Friday, April 28Wednesday, May 3 1Saturday, March 11Thursday, April 27Thursday, March 16Friday, April 28Thursday, April 6Thursday, March 9Saturday, March 25Thursday, April 27Thursday, April 27Saturday, April 8Friday, April 7Saturday, March 25Friday, March 24Friday, April 28Friday, March 17Friday, April 23

TRUSTEE CANDIDATES

The Office of Alumni Affairs announced thatthe Alumni Federation's Committee onAlumni Trustee Nominations has endorsedand nominated four candidates to run forelection in 1995 for two seats as alumnitrustees. They are: Diana M. Daniels '71of Washington, DC; George G. Gellert '60,MBA '62, LLB '63 of Elizabeth, NJ; Dale S.Rosenthal '78 of Bethesda, MD; John P.White '59 of Cambridge, MA.

Because the Office of Alumni Affairshad not received nominating petitions forcandidates who might wish to run withoutendorsement, only the above four alumninames will appear on this year's ballot.

Campaigning on the part and/or be-half of candidates is strictly prohibited. Abrochure, which includes candidates' pho-tos, statements and biographies, will besent with the ballot in January to all mail-able alumni. If any constituency group,e.g., college, class, club, affinity organiza-tion, etc., wishes to announce candida-cies in any newsletter, publication, etc., itmust announce the candidacies of all four.If photographs are used, photographs ofall four must be published. Descriptive textson candidates' qualifications or their par-ticipation in any Cornell activities are notto be used.

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February 13. AH week—Big Redblood drive at the Red Cross BloodCenter. Call Vickί Bullis at (315)458-4730, CWC/Syracuse.

February 2 1 . Christine Place f74discusses "India First Hand" atChristine's home on Ptnecrest Drivein Cortiand. Call Connie Feissner at(607) 753-7365. CWC/CortlandCounty.

March 13. Lucinda A. Noble '54,assistant to the vice president forCommunity Outreach, discusses "AChanging Perspective: Cornell andthe Community" at the CooperativeExtension in Syracuse, Call MaryiynJenkins at (315) 635-7661. CWC/Syracuse.

ϊ Metro New YorkJanuary 28. Lunar New YearBanquet at the Peking Park Res-taurant in Manhattan. Guestspeaker, Trustee Martin Y. Tang'70. Call Barbara Eng at (718)898-6590 or Alicia Torrey (607)255-4173. Cornell Asian Alumni

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January 29. Super Bowl party. CallRolf Frantz at (201) 539-9787.CC/Northern New Jersey.

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February 24. Cornell/Princetonhockey. Call Lou Nίsίvoccia at (201)361-2966. CC/Northern New Jersey.

March 14. Community service—cookand serve dinner at the Morris CountyShelter. Call Maddi Dallas at (201)267-4004. CC/Northern New Jersey.

NortheastJanuary 28. Connecticut Forum lec-ture—"The Legal System on Trial." CallAnne Walker at (203) 241-2662. CC/Greater Hartford.

February 4. Cornell/Dartmouth men'shockey at 7 p.m. Reception andsupper, then on to Thompson Rink.Call Chan Burpee (603) 497-2059.CC/New Hampshire.

February 5. Paul Seίlew f80, owner of"Earth Grow," presents "Compostingand Recycling Waste Streams"—theSmith House, Trinity College, 2:00p.m. Call Annette Herrick at (203)673-2185. CC/Greaΐer Hartford.

February 9. Luncheon—details to beannounced. Call Larry Persson at(508) 771-1485, CC/Cape Cod.

February 25, Comell/Yaie men'shockey. Pre-game party—-details tobe announced. Call Edward Zerdy at(203) 378-3437. CC/Fairfield County.

February 25. Cornell/Yale men'shockey. Block seating, pre-gamenourishment Call Bill Day at (203)673-5958. CC/Greater Hartford.

March 3. Cornell/Harvard basketball.Call Don Peck at (617) 863-8968.CC/Boston.

March 5. Cornell/Dartmouth basket-ball. Call Chan Burpee at (603) 497-2059. CC/New Hampshire.

March 9. Donate a bag of clothing orlinens to those in need. Call JulieKallfelz at .(401) 423-3295. CC/RhodeIsland and Bristol County.

March 9. Annual potluck supper atBrett Capshaw's, Newington. Discus-sion of "The War Between the Tates."Call Sue Day at (203) 673-5958. CC/Greater Hartford.

March 1 1 . New England Spring FlowerShow. Join an expert tour. Call DonPeck at (617) 863-8968. CC/Boston.

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Mid-AtlanticFebruary 10. Cornell/Perm basketball.Call Jeff Estabrook at (610} 644-5856. CC/Greater Philadelphia.

February 1 1 . Cornell/Princeton bas-ketball. Call Theresa Wrobel at (609)883-7225. CAA/Princeton,

February 24. Cornell/Princeton hockeywith post-game celebration. Calf ArtTaft at (908) 874-7190. CAA/Princeton.

February 24, Cornell/Princetonhockey. Call Christine Miller at (610)652-0067. CC/Greater Philadelphia.

March 4. Performance at the Balti-more Symphony, featuring discussionswith the conductor and artists, fol-lowed by dancing to a live band. CallRΓUΓP Oalkinς at (4.10} 9Q0-7QλQ CC/

Maryland.

SouthMarch 10. Clambake and annualmeeting at the home of Joan andMarty Steiner, 6010 Innes Trace Rd.Date is tentative. Call Charles Kemperat (502) 499-1445, CC/Loutsviile.

Southeast

January 16. Cornell Surprise withfaculty and local alumni. Call ChristinaLurvey at (813) 495-8576. CAA/Southwest Florida.

January 2 1 . Ivy League Ball hosted bythe University of Pennsylvania at theWestin-Cypress Creek. $65 per per-son. Call Nancy Dreier at (305) 389-5786. CC/Gold Coast.

January 26. The Hot Truck returns toSatisfaction in Durham from 5-8 p.m,Specials include $2 domestic beerand a 20% discount on pizza. CallKhuan Ng at (919) 732-2900. CC/Central Carolina.

January 27, The Terrace at the Palm.Watch the dogs run and enjoy dinner.Contact Karen Kirk at (407) 744-5086 (h) or (407) 744-5089. CC/Eastern Florida.

February 24. Cornell Campaigncomes to Miami. Call Cat Landau at(305) 893-7283. CC/Greater Miamiand the Florida Keys.

MidwestMarch 10, The Full Moon Ball—a newevent to support a scholarship for aneedy Chicago-area student. Calί CarolDorge at (312) 269-8963, CC/Chi-cago.

WesternFebruary 11. Recent grads will hikethe Cornell Trail. Sandwiches provided;bring your own drinks and chips, CallRussell Mann at (602) 252-4500. CC/Arizona.

February 1 1 . Chinese New Yeardinner to celebrate the Year of theBoar. Call Larry and MarianneMenahan at (206) 227-2423. CC/Western Washington,

February 25. Copper Mountain skiday. Meet at B-Lift Pub for fun dayof skiing and a pre-sks party withcash bar and free appetizers at 4p.m. Call Bill Kamsler (303) 979-4425. CC/Coforado.

March 5. Sifent auction and buffettunch at the Directors Booth, TurfParadise Race Track, 1501 WestBel! Road, Phoenix. Call Doug Wrightat (602) 274-5162. CC/Aπzona.

MusicON THE HILL

Members of the faculty ofCornell's music departmentwill continue their series ofoff-campus lectures and per-

formances. The following is aschedule for the series fromJanuary 16 to March 15.

February 13Steven Stucky, Composer: Per-formance Son et Lumiere, RoyalConcertgebouw OrchestraAmsterdam, Netherlands

February 22Steven Stucky, Composer: WorldPremiere Arias and Fanfares,University of Colorado WindEnsembleBoulder, Colorado

February 23-26Steven Stucky, Composer: WorldPremiere Concerto for TwoFlutes and Orchestra,Los Angeles Philharmonic (livebroadcast over European Broad-cast Union)Los Angeles, California

March 3-5James Webster: Lecture series(Haydn), Amherst College,Amherst, Massachusetts

March 5Malcolm Bilson, Performance:Concert, Eastman School ofMusic, Rochester, New York

March 10-11Steven Stucky, Composer: WorldPremiere Fanfare for Cincinnati,Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraCincinnati, Ohio

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CORNELLIANA

The Man Who Hated Capitalism

T he American economist and socialcritic Thorstein Veblen, Grad 1891-92, wrote a seminal critique ofmoney and class, The Theory of theLeisure Class, and coined the term

"conspicuous consumption." He was bril-liant, painfully shy and, for most of hislife, morbidly unhappy. He went from hisboyhood home on an isolated farm in Wis-consin to study at Carleton College inMinnesota and followed that with gradu-ate work at Johns Hopkins, Princeton andYale. And during one crucial year, follow-ing a seven-year withdrawal fromacademia spent miserably on a farm,Veblen came to Cornell as a first stepback into university life.

"In 1891, at the age of 34, he turnedup at Cornell University," according tothe Dictionary of American Biography,"rustic, anemic, strange-looking in hiscorduroys and coonskin cap. J. LaurenceLaughlin, who was worlds apart fromVeblen and yet saw some of his quality,managed to obtain a special fellowship forhim. Veblen's first essay, 'Some Ne-glected Points in the Theory of Social-ism/ contained many of the germs of hislater theories. He seemed to spring intosudden maturity."

In 1892 Laughlin, a Cornell professorof political economy and finance, left theHill to chair the economics department atthe newly-formed University of Chicago;he took Veblen with him. By the end ofthe decade, Veblen would publish TheTheory of the Leisure Class and almostovernight become internationally famous.

He went on to teach at Stanford, theUniversity of Missouri and the NewSchool for Social Research. He also wroteThe Theory of Business Enterprise and TheHigher Learning in America, among otherbooks. But it was a supreme irony that fora single crucial year, Thorstein Veblen,one of the most savagely funny, penetrat-ing and harsh critics of capitalism, soughtand was given refuge at the universityfounded by that consummate capitalist,Ezra Cornell.


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