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JULY / AUGUST 1995 VOLUME 98 NUMBER 1

18 ff/ HAT ARE YOU READING THIS SUMMER?Recommended summer reading from Cornell faculty members.

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2 Up FrontMany hands make abetter cover.

3 NewsNew provost and Ag deannamed; VP Ramin dies;meningitis on the Hill;this year's Commence-ment.

6 LettersOur April cover photo;student housing;cheating.

8 FacultyHis students remember Prof. Stan Warren, the Agcollege's gem.

12 Letter From IthacaAre you talkin' to me? Ithaca's own taxidrivers.

14 SportsSpring 1995 was kinder to Big Red teams thanwas Spring 1994.

16 StudentsNeigh, neigh, the horsey life is not just for theelite: students own horses, too.

36 News of Alumni

28 Bethe and the BombBY BRIAN HALL

In 1942, the bestand the brightestcame together on ahigh mesa in theNew Mexicodesert. Their cre-ation endedWorld War II andchanged theworld—utterly.

Alumni Profiles41 Gladys Tapman Blum '33, CE '3448 A. Tawab Assifi '54, BCE '5556 Winston Lo, MS '67 and Bill Phillips '5169 Mary Cockram '89, MPS '93

72 Alumni Deaths

75 Alumni ActivitiesSing along with Peter Yarrow '59.

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77 AuthorsA life writing about the theater: The Pleasure ofTheir Company, by Howard Taubman '29.

80 CornellianaBesides four years at Cornell, what else will$90,000 get you?

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58 Cornell Hosts

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T itles on a magazine's masthead get a littlefuzzy at a publication the size of Cornell Maga-zine. People tend to wear a variety of hats andpitch in wherever needed, regardless of job

descriptions.The photo illustration on this month's cover is a per-

fect example of how the editorial staff helped with a vis-ual aspect of the magazine. Art Director Stefanie Greencame up with the idea for a book-laden beachgoer asthe way to illustrate our summer reading issue. Her col-leagues, not one of them shy in matters of self-expres-sion, embroidered her original concept—hence the picnicbasket, sandpail, umbrella and flip-flops you see. Pho-tographer Jon Reis and his assistants carried 700pounds of sand up three flights of stairs to his studio onthe Ithaca Commons; Intern Loren Mooney graciouslypainted her toenails a primary red and posed for Reis;Associate Editor Paul Cody donated some of the booksand attended the shoot to make sure they were wellcared for; Managing Editor Elsie McMillan brought in thechair on which Mooney reclines; page designer CarolTerrizzi digitally added the glow of light illuminating thebooks and the sky.

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NEWS

MARGUERITE NICOSIA/ ITHACA JOURNAL

Arts and Sciences DeanNamed Provost

D on M. Randel, dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, hasbeen named as the successorto Provost Maiden Nesheim,PhD '59, who retired in June.

The naming of Randel as Provost isthe first major appointment forHunter R. Rawlings III, who suc-ceeds Frank H.T. Rhodes as presi-dent. Rawlings recommended theappointment of Randel to the uni-versity's number-two job in May; hisrecommendation required approvalby the Board of Trustees executivecommittee, which was scheduled tomeet after presstime.

"I am deeply honored by Presi-dent Rawlings's invitation to serveas provost," Randel said. "Cornell

has been my intellectual home sinceI first arrived almost 27 years ago.My life as a member of the faculty ofthis wonderful institution makes mefeel all the more privileged to serveit and President Rawlings in this newcapacity."

Randel has been dean of the Artscollege since 1991. Prior to becom-ing dean, Randel was the college'sassociate dean, vice provost and chairof the music department.

"This is without a doubt the mostimportant appointment of my admin-istration, and I am thrilled DonRandel has agreed to accept thisresponsibility," Rawlings said. "Hewill be my clear second-in-com-mand."

Red FarewellFor President

Rhodes

More than 3,000 Cornelliansparticipated in a good-bye bashMay 9 for President Frank H. T.Rhodes. He and wife Rosa weretransported to Barton Hall by ahorse-drawn carriage, followedby a boisterous parade madeup of members of the Cornellcommunity. Inside Barton Hall,Rhodes was surrounded by redand white balloons, heard trib-utes and received gifts fromfaculty, staff and students."This is something we won'tforget," Rhodes said. "It's reallya special day in our lives."

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More than6,000graduatesreceiveddegrees atthis year'sCommence-ment. Theweather wasfine until justafter theceremony,when theheavensopened.

TUFTS DEAN TO HEADVET COLLEGE

Franklin M. Loew '61, DVM '65,dean of the Tufts University Schoolof Veterinary Medicine since 1982,has been nominated as the eighthdean of Cornell's New York StateCollege of Veterinary Medicine. Pro-vost Maiden Nesheim recommendedLoew's appointment to the Execu-tive Committee of the Board ofTrustees May 26. Loew is expectedto assume his duties in September.He succeeds Robert D. Phemister,DVM '60, who will return to teach-ing and research after serving as deansince 1985.

"I look forward to being part ofthe team that President-elect HunterRawlings and Provost-designate DonM. Randel are assembling, and to

returning to my alma mater," Loewsaid. "Veterinary medicine at Cornellis a premier program nationally andinternationally."

CU STUDENT DIES OFMENINGITIS

The Cornell community was sad-dened this spring by the sudden deathof a 19-year-old freshman. Jeffrey D.Stenstrom '98, of Lake Forest, Cali-fornia, died in Ithaca April 24 of men-ingococcal meningitis, according toofficials at Tompkins CommunityHospital.

Stenstrom was majoring in agri-cultural economics. He was a mem-ber of the Big Red football team,where he played linebacker and re-ceived a letter during the Fall 1994semester.

"The tragic death of JeffStenstrom is a great loss for every-one associated with our football pro-gram," said Jim Hofher 79, Cornellfootball coach. "Words cannot ex-press the grief that we feel, and oursupport and condolences will alwaysbe with the Stenstrom family. Jeffepitomized the virtues of being anoutstanding person and scholar-ath-lete."

Stenstrom was the first of twoIthaca-area college students to diefrom a meningitis-related ailmentduring the spring of 1995. In earlyMay, Ithaca College student CraigSherbinski of Fairport, New York,died of a bloodstream infectioncaused by a bacterium that can causemeningitis.

About 200 people at Cornell and300 people at Ithaca College receivedoral antibiotics after the deaths. Atpresstime, a state laboratory in Al-bany was trying to determine if theStenstrom and Sherbinski deathswere caused by the same strain ofbacteria.

ARTS FACULTY APPROVESNEW CONCENTRATION

The faculty of the College of Arts andSciences has approved a new concen-tration in Lesbian, Gay and BisexualStudies. The concentration will notadd new classes to the college's cur-riculum; it will be composed ofclasses that are already offered inseveral disciplines, including anthro-pology, history, government, psy-chology and others. In order to com-plete the concentration, studentsmust complete four classes in thearea.

College faculty members over-whelmingly approved the new con-centration of courses that are alreadyproving very popular with Cornellstudents.

—Joe Schwartz

Correction: An article in the May"News" section of Cornell Magazineincorrectly stated that Cornell hadrefused to increase the size of itspayments to the City of Ithaca forfire protection services. In fact, theuniversity has said it is willing tonegotiate the size of such increases.We regret the error.

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Richard ERamin

Richard M. Ramin '51, Cornell'svice president for public affairs andas such the university's chieffundraiser, died May 27 of a lungailment. He was 65 and had workedfor Cornell since 1954. TrusteeEmeritus Austin Kiplinger '39 re-members Ramin:

D ick Ramin spent 41 years of hislife working for Cornell. In hisown quiet and personable way,he bound together generationsof Cornellians. He actually

taught us how to turn our love of theuniversity into tangible support, andin this sense I think he was as mucha teacher as he was a persuader anda facilitator. He was a giant in theprofession of support to higher edu-cation.

Never flamboyant, Dick wentabout his mission with an underly-ing dedication that made him a mas-ter of his trade. He was a model forcolleagues and admirers every-where.

When you traveled with Dick, asI did for many years in the cause ofCornell, you knew that you wouldalways be welcome. Whether inTulsa or Taipei or the hundreds ofother places around the world whereCornellians live and work, you wouldbe warmly received. No one knewmore Cornellians or more aboutthem than Dick.

If you had a breakfast appoint-ment with Dick, you would find thathe had already:

1. Made three telephone calls;2. Had a haircut and a shoeshine;3. Sent an updated fax back to

Ithaca;4. Rearranged the day's schedule;5. Examined the map for the itin-

erary of tomorrow's travel.At his own deliberate pace, he

was indefatigable.Dick graduated from the College

of Arts and Sciences in 1951. As anundergraduate he had been co-cap-

tain of the freshman football team anda varsity football player for the nextthree years, an offensive lineman onBig Red teams coached by LeftyJames that went 23-4. After hegraduated, he served in the Army asa first lieutenant and then worked forthe Holland-American SteamshipLines. In 1954 he became Cornell'salumni field secretary. It was a laborof love for him and during these yearshe began to accumulate the coterieof friends that became his mentalcard file of Cornellians. If anyonecould be described as the uni-versity's institutional memory of liv-ing alumni, it was Dick Ramin.

He served as assistant directorof admissions for three years, from1956 to 1959. After a stint as associ-ate director of development, from1959 to 1964, he became director ofdevelopment and served in that po-sition for six years, during whichtime the university mounted itsrecord-setting Centennial Fund cam-paign. Although that drive waslaunched during a period when theeconomy was soft, that fact made nodent in the thoroughness of thepreparations, and true to Dick's in-stincts, he pushed all of us—staff andvolunteers—by his example and hisunflagging attention to detail. Heknew, and he imparted to the rest ofus, that Cornellians would comethrough by doing what they reallywanted to do for their university.

In 1970, Dick became assistantvice president for public affairs, and

in 1971, vice president for public af-fairs with responsibilities encom-passing fundraising, publications andalumni liaison of the highest order.During all this time he masterminded(quietly, behind the scenes) the ad-vance of hundreds of alumni throughthe ranks of the University Council,the various college advisory councilsand even the Board of Trustees. Notthat there was anything deviousabout this, but seldom did anyoneundertake to fill a volunteer vacancyfor Cornell without consulting Dickfor his wisdom and his great store-house of information.

For the 24 years that Dick Raminserved as vice president for publicaffairs, Cornell was headed by twopresidents, Dale Corson and FrankRhodes. It is significant that both ofthese talented educators and admin-istrators leaned heavily on Dick'sjudgment. As President Rhodes saidof Dick at this year's Commence-ment: "Cornell never had a moredevoted son, nor I a more faithfulfriend."

It was also during these years thatCornell faced the aftermath of the1960s, and all the emotional debrisleft over from those turbulent times.But through it all, Dick's calm pres-ence and perseverance kept Cornell-ians focused on the continuing needfor support.

No account of Dick Ramin andCornell would be complete, however,without the recognition of his re-markable partnership with his wife,Frances "Fran" Anthony, MA '52,whom he met while she was earningher master's degree and working atWillard Straight. In fact, for those ofus who have cherished the best ofCornell, it is almost second nature torefer to Dick and Fran Ramin. I thinkthat inclusive sense of family speaksalso to the pervasive spirit of thefamily of Cornellians and to DickRamin, who served it so well.

—Austin Kiplinger '39

JULY/AUGUST 1995

LETTERS

Stunning Photo;Infamous Incident; Shame

Editor: Louis Hine's stunning pho-tograph, "Mechanic at Work, 1925"was a fine choice for the cover of your"Are Unions Dead?" issue (April,1995).

Understandably, the process ofconverting a photograph to cover artrequires cropping and the addition oftype and other graphic elements.These, however, diminish the powerof the original image. A further dis-traction: the mailing service slappedmy address label across the face ofthe worker.

I was grateful for the smaller pic-ture on the contents page. It gave abetter, but still limited view.

Those of you on the Hill in theearly 1950s may recall my avid in-terest in photography. As you cansee, that interest continues even 40years later.

Ross Wagner '55Summit, New Jersey

DISINGENUOUS DEFENSEEditor. In 1948 Cornell was in thevanguard of American universities inits recognition of the importance ofracial integration as a significant partof college education. The Water-margin co-op was the first fully inte-grated Ivy League residence house.Cornell had consistently—goingback to the turn of the century—beenexceptional in its inclusion of racialand religious minorities in its studentbody.

In what now must be recognizedas an overreaction to the infamous1969 Willard Straight incident,Cornell currently finds itself subjectto nationwide criticism for its segre-gated campus ("State EducationDepartment Questions UniversityHousing Policy," June "News"). I donot accept President Rhodes's dis-ingenuous defense of the currentstatus in his letter to the New York

Times in which he observes that only1.4 percent of Cornell undergradu-ates live in the racially-designed"program" houses. Any casual visi-tor to campus can see the generalrule is that minority students live onthe North Campus and whites liveon the West Campus. The operativequestion is: how many students live,eat and socialize in units which re-flect the 28 percent minority repre-sentation of the whole campus?

This deplorable situation calls forprompt consideration by the newadministration. At one time collegestudents were assigned their livingquarters; a university education wasnot perceived as an attempt to rep-licate the conditions of your highschool life, but as an opportunity toexplore new horizons. Why can'tCornell now insist that its incompa-rably mixed student population beintegrated beyond the classrooms,through a random assignment of resi-dential space?

Pierre Tonachel '52New York, New York

THE USE OF SHAMEEditor: Cornell should routinely pub-lish the names of all those who vio-late academic integrity ("Your Cheat-ing Heart," May "Students"). Onlyin this way will students, faculty andstaff become fully aware that cheat-ing has consequences. Secrecy andrumor simply don't suffice, especiallyin an institution committed to thesearch for truth.

All should be warned in advancethat upon a finding of guilt, theirnames will become public, togetherwith a summary of the charges, thefindings, the sanctions and any re-sponse from those deemed guilty.They may be contrite, defiant, citeextenuating circumstances, affirmtheir innocence or remain silent.

Stanford University followed thispractice in more than a dozen facultydisciplinary cases in the 1960s, '70sand early '80s, with salutary results.The institution, and the individualsinvolved, usually took one hard shotin the headlines and then moved onwith their lives.

Then campus lawyers—and de-fense attorneys—decided to say onlythat professors had been "disci-plined." That's left the grapevine freeto strangle individual reputations incases ranging from plagiarism tosexual harassment.

Far better to be up front andpublic. Knowing that rule breakerswill be publicly identified provides anincentive for students to learn moreabout the campus judicial system. Itmay even deter some misbehavior.In some cases, publicity alone maysuffice as discipline. (Shame works!)

In an increasing number of highprofile cases—gubernatorial andpresidential aspirants, for example—there is a strong public interest inknowing whether or not an individualwas guilty of misconduct on campus.

Only recently have physiciansand other professionals begun to seethe public interest in protection fromthose found guilty of malpractice.Academic institutions clearly have aright to know whether prospectivestudents, faculty or staff have everbeen found guilty of plagiarism orother academic offenses—but theyhave no official way of finding out.

Until Cornell strips away theshroud of secrecy surrounding cam-pus judicial sanctions, cheaters willcontinue to cast a cloud—howeverslight—over the reputations of therest of us.

Bob Beyers '53Palo Alto, California

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What Stan ffara Taught MeEverything you needed to know about farming and—maybe—life.

Editor's Note: Stanley W.Warren '27, PhD '31, pro-

fessor emeritus of farmmanagement, died last yearat the age of 86. [WarrenHall was named for his fa-ther, George F. Warren '03,who also taught farm man-agement at Cornell] StanWarren was devoted to edu-cation, and during his 40-year career in the classroomhe touched the lives of morethan 9,000 students, withwhom he had a legendaryrapport. These students—many of whom have gone onto successful careers in farmmanagement and relatedfields thanks to ProfessorWarren's knowledge, witand caring—remember himhere in their own words, ascompiled by John D. Turrel'43. Their reminiscences ofoccasions both serious andhumorous, in and out of theclassroom, show us thateven after more than twodecades Professor Warren'seducational legacy has notbeen forgotten.

Stan believed in the teach-ing value of field trips.One day he and some ofus students stopped atan abandoned farm. The

barn had fallen in. He hadbrought along a 50-foot tape,and he had us measure theframe members, length andwidth and height, and thencalculate the hay capacity based onthe volume required per ton. He usedthis method to show us that this smallfarm could grow only enough hay tosupport a small number of cows thatcouldn't give their owner ^a decentliving. The collapsed barn, sitting onan abandoned hilly place, was dra-matic and incontrovertible evidence.

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Sometime during my first full year outof Cornell, my wife and I drove fromwestern New York to Ithaca onesnowy Sunday to seek ProfessorWarren's advice about adding my fa-ther-in-law's potato farm to the dairyand poultry partnership that I had withmy father. He gave us his thoughts,

Warren on a farm,talking farming.

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and then invited us to stay for sup-per. At the table, I remember that hemade sure to include all of his chil-dren in our conversation throughquestions and comments directedtoward each one of them.

•My home farm had more woodlandthan cropland, and I felt the need tolearn more about forestry. So whenI took my junior year schedule in forStan's approval I had two forestrycourses from the same professor."One will be enough," he advised."You can learn all he can give you inthe one course."

•Once I rode with Stan and a fellowstudent to another county to observean auction; during the drive our talkturned to extracurricular activities.Both of us students were looking forsomeone to spend our lives with. Theother student lamented that he hadbeen active in campus dramatics, buthadn't turned up any likely candi-dates for matrimony. I said I had beenattending the campus 4-H Clubmeetings, and I thought the prospect-ing there was pretty good. Stan ap-proved; eventually the other studentmet a woman with a 4-H backgroundand they've been happily married for50 years.

•"Beware of a wealthy owner whenlooking for a farm manager's job,"Stan Warren said. "He'll be moreinterested in having you paint thefence than in managing the place fora profit." The occasion was a fieldtrip, during which he had arrangedto take us past a farm that had beenbought by a well-heeled universityadministrator. Sure enough, theplace had a nice white fence, anamenity that apparently had beenprovided, Warren implied, at theexpense of some other more practi-cal activity.

•Lest we students become obsessedwith whether or not we got electedto one of the honor societies open toAg students in the early 1940s, Stanallowed as how the reason we hadtwo such groups was simply because"one year somebody didn't getelected to the first one."

teaching value of aphorisms. Somewere his own, others were borrowed.One he quoted from Cornell's firstAg college Dean, I. P. Roberts:"Nothing is so disadvantageous as tocultivate the land to the highest styleof perfection." This is an agricul-turist's restatement of the Law ofDiminishing Returns.

Another had to do with properfarm layout: "Keep the barn and thehouse far enough apart so that thesmells of the stable and the kitchendon't mix." Still another was one hedidn't endorse, cited to reinforce hiscontention that you couldn't make it

Nothing is so disadvanta-geous as to cultivate theland to the highest style ofperfection." This is anagriculturist's restatementof the Law of DiminishingReturns.

if your farm was too small. From abook called Five Acres and Indepen-dence, a title Stan considered an oxy-moron, he quoted: "Little farm, well-tilled; little barn, well-filled; littlewife, well-willed."

•During a lecture on the costs of trans-porting various farm commodities tomarket, Professor Warren asked fora volunteer to carry a pound of butterfrom the upper campus down to theLehigh Valley railroad station, wherethe Ithaca bus station now stands. Heoffered a dollar for the job. Severalvolunteered (remember, this was1940, when a dollar would buy at leastfive gallons* of gas). Then he askedfor a volunteer to transport the whole-milk equivalent (roughly 3 V2 gallons)to the same point. He offered thesame reward. No one came forward.He had succeeded in getting acrossthe principle that a concentratedcommodity could be transported atless cost than in its original bulkyform.

Stan Warren also believed in the One of Dr. Warren's favorite exam

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questions was: "Study this bar chartof the annual rainfall at Dodge City,Kansas, for the several years shown.The chart shows that a dry year isfollowed by: (a) a dry year; (b) a wetyear; (c) another year."

According to those'who got jobsas paper graders during senior year(Warren's course was typically takenby juniors), half of each class pickedthe wrong answer. The point of thequestion, according to former agri-cultural economics Prof. Bob Smith,is that the weather is one factor farm-ers cannot count on. A dry year isindeed followed by another year.

•

Former Agriculture Dean David L.Call '54, PhD '60 recounts that oneof the toughest decisions of his ten-ure was what to do with the originalAg college buildings: Roberts, EastRoberts and Stone halls. They hadoutlived their usefulness, occupiedprime land at the front corner of theupper campus and no doubt had firesafety problems.

But wait, said some indignantalumni. These buildings have an his-toric value. We took orientation inRoberts, studied in Stone's base-ment. They can't be torn down.

What could Call do? One day thedean ran into Stan Warren, who wasaware of the dilemma. "Tell me,"Warren asked the dean. "How manytimes have you been in Bailey Hall?"

Call said he didn't know."Tell me some of the things you

learned in Bailey Hall," Warren said.Call couldn't."Do you think those who stud-

ied at the feet of Liberty Hyde Baileycould remember anything theylearned from him?" Sure, Call said.

"Then it's obvious that the per-son doing the teaching is far moreimportant than the name on the build-ing in which the learning takesplace," Warren said, and Call saw thesituation in a whole new light.

•Such is the influence of Stan War-ren, on campus and on farms and inthe hearts of the 9,000 students whocan't forget the man or his teachings.

John Turrel '43 continues to collectStan Warren reminiscences atRoute 2, Box 238, Mt. Vernon, IL62864.

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D| was heading up Buffalo• Street in the rain at 30 miles• an hour, trying to get an En-| gineering professor from the• bus station to his class on• time. I rounded the corner

onto Eddy Street and a yellow cabwith "12" stencilled on it came intoview at the bottom of Dryden Road.I reached for my mike, but it was toolate; the radio's speaker crackled, anda voice said, "Bang! You're dead,Eleven." It was a game we cabbiesplayed. He'd spotted and shot mebefore I'd even seen him. Γd get himnext time.

At one point during my three-year leave of absence from Cornell,I drove taxicabs in Ithaca for a living.As cab drivers go, I was probablyadequate. I tried to be prompt andcourteous and to drive safely. But Γdbe the first to admit that I had thewrong attitude for the job. It was atemporary situation. But at the time,it was my livelihood and I didn't takeit that seriously. I quit in March 1993.

Until a few weeks ago, I hadn'tgiven much thought to my time as acab driver, but I found myself gettingdefensive when an otherwise ration-al fellow alumnus complained aboutthe dishonesty of cab drivers in Ithaca.He thought drivers charged whateverthey wanted, and were greedy whenthey charged each person the wholefare to the airport instead of lettinggroups split the cost. I set the recordstraight for him, but Γm sure otherpeople feel the same way.

The men and women who drivetaxis in Ithaca work hard for their

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driverliving. A typical shift is 12 hours,sometimes starting at 5:00 a.m., anda full-time driver does four or five,sometimes six, shifts a week. Theyhave to pay extra for a higher-classNew York State driver's license andthey must buy their city license,which has to be renewed each year.There's no hourly wage; each driverearns a certain percentage of fares,plus tips. If it's a slow night, driverslose.

But drivers don't decide what tocharge; the City and Town of Ithacaset the rates. The city itself is parti-tioned into six zones, divided by twonorth-south lines (Meadow Streetand Stewart Avenue) and one east-west line (Buffalo Street/DrydenRoad) on a map. A fare depends onhow many boundary lines the drivercrosses in a straight line from theorigin to destination. So driverscouldn't boost their fares by taking alonger route, even if they wanted to.If a driver leaves the confines of thecity, that basic fare becomes a baserate, on top of which mileage past thecity limits determines the total. If atrip starts and ends outside of thecity, the fare is determined by howfar the driver had to travel out of thecity at the trip's farthest point, so atrip from one end of your drivewayto the other could cost $8 if a cus-

tomer lived, say, in Lansing.When a fare is more than one

person, starting at the same place andgoing to the same destination, thecost usually goes up by 50 cents ora dollar, depending on the time of day.But trips to the bus terminal and theairport are exceptions, because thecab is providing transportation toanother means of transportation;each person in the car pays full fare,even if they all got in at the sameplace. A driver,will certainly makegood money for a $35 run to the air-port, but those runs usually happenat the beginning of a university holi-day, and those all-too-brief bursts ofincome are rare enough that theybarely compensate for the drop inbusiness while students are away.

The city also permits drivers tocharge extra for luggage, skis, gro-ceries and stops along the way, but inmy experience both as a driver andpassenger, most drivers don't chooseto take advantage of that. In fact, mostwill carry bags for a customer, if thefare lets them. I used to wonder why,until I figured out that an extra dollar'stip for obvious effort is better than 40percent of 50 cents per bag.

Tips aren't too consistent, either.My best tip was $15 on a $35 fare toCortland; probably the most well-deserved tip I got was $10 from acouple who could barely wait to gethome before they mauled each other.Most drivers have stories about bigtippers, like the guy who always paid$20 for a weekly $6 ride to the hos-pital; and there are the tall tales aboutcustomers who gave "alternative"

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tips because they hadno cash. But those areexceptions, and possi-bly untrue.

Most Ithaca resi-dents tip decently, butthere's no 15 percentstandard as there is inbigger cities. Studentson the whole don'tseem to tip much at all,particularly those fromrural or suburban ar-eas where they mighthave had no experi-ence with taking cabs.Ithaca College alum-nus Chris Katz runsBlue Light Cabs, anddrove for Tower Taxibefore it became Ca-yuga Taxi. He says that in his expe-rience, gay men are the best tippersand the best conversationalists, andthe worst tippers are those who sim-ply can't afford it. Cayuga Taxi skip-per Steve Clapp '88 says that peoplewho work in other tip-dependentjobs—waiters and waitresses, for ex-ample—are among the best tippers,as are people who need rides homefrom bars.

Running a cab company in Ithacacomes with its own unique set ofproblems as well. Cab companiescan't purchase automobile insuranceindividually; they have to purchaseit as part of a pool, and the rates aredetermined by the overall risk poolfor every taxi in New York State—which includes New York City, whichhas to be among the most dangerousplaces in the world to drive a cab. Soinsurance rates have gone up about250 percent in the last five years,workmen's compensation fees havegone up 50 percent, allegedly be-cause of rampant fraud, and the profitmargins for running a cab companyare plummeting. Both Blue Light andCayuga Taxi are in discussions withthe City of Ithaca to get the ratesraised for the first time in four years,but that comes with consequencesas well. People who can only mar-ginally afford cabs now will likely stoptaking them, and that will at leastpartially offset the benefits of beingable to charge higher rates.

As for the competition betweenthe two companies, it's not particu-

I found myselfgetting defensivewhen an otherwiserational fellowalumnus com-plained ahout thedishonesty of cabdrivers in Ithaca.

larly fierce rightnow. Both Clappand Katz agreethat Cayuga andBlue Light havesome overlappinginterests, but ba-sically cater todifferent con-s t i t u e n c i e s —Blue Light moreto Cornell stu-dents and the out-lying towns, andCayuga to IthacaCollege anddowntown.

When BlueLight came on thescene in 1992,though, Tower

Taxi and Tomco Taxi were bothowned by the same person (Clapp'sfather), and the general sentimentthese days about Tower and Tomcois that they were far too aware oftheir monopoly. Clapp is one of thefirst to admit, in fact, that BlueLight's presence in town has helpedbring standards of service to a muchhigher level, and each company fre-quently refers fares to the otherwhen business is too heavy.

The perceived animosity be-tween the drivers is also a lot lowerin recent years. I recall trading sto-ries over a cup of coffee with a Towerdriver one slow, snowy night inCollegetown: the six women fromWest Campus who piled into his caband ran him all over town for twohours looking for a party, any party;the drunk fare who claimed to be apimp and offered the services of aprostitute instead of money; the wid-ows and widowers who looked for-ward to a cab ride because theywould have someone to talk to.

Drivers for both companies alsoget plenty of "When I was here" sto-ries from Cornell alumni on Reunionand Homecoming weekends. Andthe taxi owners and drivers are grati-fied to know that so many alumni arepleasantly surprised by the currentquality of service. They do ask,though, that customers be respect-ful of the driver's sensitivity, and thatcouples wait until they get to theirhotels.

—Jef frey Anbinder '94

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SPORTS

A Pretty Good SpringJ L Cί

Spring was a seasonof rejuvenation forseveral Big Redathletic teams.Men's lacrosse

had its first postseasonappearance in six years.The women's lacrosseand men's baseballsquads each produced awinning season. Andthe women's outdoortrack team went fromsecond to first at theHeptagonals. After amild winter in Ithaca itwas one of the sunniestspring pictures inyears.

Men's lacrosse. Fol-lowing a dismal 1-10season in 1994, coachRichie Moran's teamrebounded. After drop-ping three of its firstfour contests, the BigRed won six of seven, including threevictories in a row over top 20teams—No. 17 Dartmouth (17-12),No. 13 Hobart (14-7) and No. 5Princeton (9-8). Though Cornell splitits final two encounters, losing to No.9 Brown (15-12) and beating Michi-gan State (14-6), the season endingstreak was enough to catapult theRed into the NCAA Tournament forthe first time since 1989. Moran'ssquad (8-5 overall and 3-3 in IvyLeague play during the regular sea-son) met Brown once again in thefirst round of the postseason tourna-ment and lost 17-9. Anthony Pavone'95 led the Big Red with 80 points(34 goals and 46 assists). ChrisDanler '95 recorded 49 goals and 21

A rejuvenated Red lacrosse team rebounded from a dis-mal '94 season by making this year's NCAA tournament.

assists for 70 points. Pavone andDanler were followed by Matt Wise'98 (29-4-33), John Sullivan '96 (17-7-24) and Chris Langdale '96 (12-11-23). Michael LaRocco '96 mannedgoal, recording 217 saves, a 12.78goals against average and a .564 savepercentage.

Women's lacrosse. The womenrecorded a 7-6 overall mark and a 2-4 record in Ivy League competition.The total included victories over tworanked opponents—Brown and La-fayette—as well as a four-game winstreak to start the season. The BigRed boasted a balanced scoring at-tack, with six players recording atleast 19 points. Cari Hills '98 led theway with 20 goals and six assists for

26 points. She was followedby Stephanie Murray '96(15-10-25), Jen Bass'95(24-0-24), Lauren Feinstein '97(17-5-22), Tara Lamb '95(11-10-21) and Abby Fried-land '98 (9-10-19). Net-minder Liz Graham '95 re-corded an 8.91 goals againstaverage.

Baseball. A three-runhome run by shortstop BillWalkenbach '98 in the top ofthe ninth inning in Cornell'sfinal game of the season gavethe Big Red a 10-8 victoryover Ithaca College and itsfirst winning season since1991. Cornell went 20-19this spring, including a 10-10 mark in Ivy League play.The streaky diamondmenlost their first four games,won nine of 12, lost eight ina row and then finishedstrong with 11 victories in

their final 15 contests. Walkenbachled the Red with a .363 batting aver-age, 38 runs and 13 doubles. Firstbaseman Eric Kirby '96 slugged 11homers, knocked in 35 runs and bat-ted .346, while centerfielder JohnTelford '95 contributed a .320 aver-age, 17 extra-base hits, 30 runs, 33RBI and 12 steals in 12 attempts.Alan Toppen '98 paced the pitchingstaff with a 3.58 earned run average.

Softball. The Big Red softballteam started its second season everin remarkable fashion, outscoringCoppin State 69-4 in a doubleheadersweep on March 19. The Red scored43 runs in the opener, just five runsshy of an NCAA record. Cornell alsoconcluded its season with two more

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victories against Central Connecti-cut. In between, however, the Redstruggled to a 2-35-1 mark, includ-ing a 25-game losing streak. Overall,Cornell went 6-35-1 and 2-10 in theIvy League. Second Baseman JuliePlatt '97 paced the team with a .358batting average in 22 games, whilethird baseman Amy Zura '95 batted.338. Lisa Napoli '97 proved to be theteam's best pitcher, going 2-5 with a4.94 earned run average in 24 appear-ances.

Men's outdoor track. With 38points at the 61st annual HeptagonalOutdoor Track and Field Champion-ships in Annapolis, the Big Redplaced seventh, 113 points behindchampion Penn. Four Cornelliansplaced third in individual events:Trenton Bullock '96 completed the110-meter hurdles in 14.89 seconds;Rodney Wiltshire '96 recorded atriple jump of 47-11; Chad Hunter '97ran a 22.17 in the 200-meter dash;and Don Vibbert '95 set a schoolrecord with a 16-4 3/4 in the polevault. Cornell was 2-1-1 in dual com-petition this spring.

Women's outdoor track. After fin-ishing second two years in a row, theBig Red women's track team coastedto the 1995 Outdoor Heps title in An-napolis. With 1411/3 points, Cornelleasily outscored Dartmouth (113),Brown (95) and the rest of the com-petition. Jennifer Watkins '95 person-ally accounted for 34 points (morethan the total of Yale and Columbiacombined) en route to being namedthe women's Most Outstanding Per-former. Watkins placed first in thejavelin throw with a school recordtoss of 149-8 and in the discus throwwith a 148-5. She was also an ECACqualifier in two more events—theshot put (45-0 1/2) and the hammerthrow (154-0).

Tina Rankin '95 set a Cornellrecord with a hammer throw of 171-10. Other first place finishers in-cluded Anita Jakelic '97 (18-4 1/2 inthe long jump) and the 4x800 relayteam of Kate Walker '97, KristinDavis '96, Aruna Boppana '97 andBecky Dennison '97, which recordeda time of 9:03.66.

Men's crew. The men's varsityheavyweight crew, composed primar-ily of sophomores, completed the dualmeet portion of its spring season with

a 3-3 mark, including victoriesover Rutgers, Syracuse andStanford. The crew lost to Yale,Navy and Princeton by a com-bined 11.4 seconds. The heavy-weights also placed first in thepetite finals of the San DiegoCrew Classic with a time of6:07.45.

Women's crew. The wom-en's varsity crew opened itsseason with a third-place finishin the grand final of the SanDiego Crew Classic. Cornell'stime of 7:03.61 was bested onlyby Washington and WashingtonState. Heading into the EasternSprints, the crew had posted a5-3 mark with victories overSyracuse, Radcliffe, Rutgers,Penn and Dartmouth.

Men's tennis. The Big Redfinished the season with a 6-12overall record and a 1-8 markin the Eastern IntercollegiateTennis Association. After winningfive of its first seven dual encounters,Cornell lost 10 of its final 11. The onlyEITA victory was a 5-2 triumph overNavy on April 21. Jonathan Rapkin'96 recorded a 9-11 overall record atNo. 1 singles, while Tom Brownlie'97 was 13-8 at No. 2 singles.

Women's tennis. After becomingthe first Cornellian to have an unde-feated Ivy League season in 1994,No. 1 player Olga Itskhoki '96 re-peated the feat in 1995 with a 7-0conference record. Itskhoki, a Mos-cow native, was 16-2 overall, includ-ing a triumph over teammate JigishaPathakji '96 in the finals of theCornell Invitational. The Big Red was10-8 overall and tied for second placein the league with a 5-2 record. MoBertsch '97 was 10-8 as the No. 2singles player.

Golf. After being rained out in Or-lando on March 17, the Big Redlinksters finished last in each of theirnext three tournaments. Cornell'steam score of 1,035 placed themeighth at the Ivy League Golf Cham-pionship on April 14-15, 93 shotsbehind first-place Princeton. The BigRed also placed 22nd out of 22 teamsat the Princeton Invitational on April21-22 and ninth out of nine teams atthe St. Bonaventure Invitational onApril 24. For the second year in arow, Chris Simms '97 competed in

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Men's Baseball (20-19)(cumulative record)

Bucknell 7, Cornell 1Cornell 5, Bucknell 4Cornell 10, Ithaca 8

Men's Lacrosse (8-5)Cornell 14, Michigan State 6

Women's Softball (6-35-1)Central Connecticut 4, Cornell 1Central Connecticut 9, Cornell 1Cornell 7, Central Connecticut 5Cornell 3, Central Connecticut 2

the Eastern Championships and shota 163 in the two-day event.

SPORTING AROUND• Since Lou Duesing took over

as head coach of the Big Red trackteam five years ago, Cornell has fin-ished no worse than second at theOutdoor Heptagonal Games (includ-ing three team championships) andno worse than third at the IndoorHeps (including two championships).The Red had never won a Heps titleuntil Duesing arrived.

• The Big Red softball teamscored 69 runs in its first two gamesthis season and then managed only66 runs in its next 24 games. Thenadir may have occurred on April 9when Princeton's Alyssa Smithtossed a no-hitter in a 14-0 shutoutof the Red. Strangely, Cornelloutscored its opponents 45-29 in thefifth inning while being outscored308-145 in every other inning.

• Eric Kirby's 11 home runs forthe Big Red baseball team includedsix homers in the final 10 games andbested the old school mark of eighthomers held by three players. Mean-while, Chris Hanson '95 set a pair ofsomewhat dubious records by strik-ing out 39 times and being hit by apitch 14 times.

—Brad Herzog '90

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STUDENTS

Having a horse atschool is almost a

full-time job.

BRUCE WANG/CORNELL

K athy Druckman '90, MAT '92and Trillium Brack are gettingtheir exercise in early.They're inside today becauseof a light rain, circling in the

cavernous arena where each hoof-beat echoes in a reassuring cadence.For once, Druckman's not thinkingabout the communication classesshe's teaching later today, bills, gro-cery shopping or any other thoughtsof daily life. She's focused on herhorse, absorbed in a conversation noone else can hear.

It's not quite 10 a.m. when sheslows Brack to a walk and pushes herriding helmet back. They take a fewlaps to cool down before Druckmanstops and slides from the saddle tothe packed dirt floor, giving her horsea pat on the neck before leading himaway. She has an hour before her firstclass.

In nine years at Cornell—four asan undergraduate, two as a graduatestudent and the rest as a lecturer incommunications—Druckman hasbecome a time-management expert.She has ridden throughout her Cor-nell career, and bought her ownhorse just before starting graduateschool. It's not so hard when it'ssomething you love, she says. Hersentiments reflect those of a smallbut dedicated group of Cornellians.

The group encompasses riders

with a wide range of talents and am-bitions. Some are satisfied with a rib-bon from the occasional horse show,while a few travel to a different com-petition every weekend, eyes set onthe Olympic equestrian team. Themore numerous riders come from thelegions of newly horse-crazy kids.

Eventually, interest and numbersdwindle. For many, high schoolgraduation marks the crossroads—to commit to a career with horses, asan instructor or professional trainer,perhaps, or to lead a normal exis-tence, without a horse. The "ForSale—owner off to college" postersat August horse shows tell thestory.

But because of determination,stubbornness or even naivete, a fewequestrians decide that riding is sim-ply something too good to give up,even temporarily. They just buy acollege sticker for the horse trailerand bring their buddy and hobby, theirteammate and passion along.

At Cornell, students can chooseamong several privately-ownedboarding stables in Ithaca, or theuniversity's own Equestrian Center.Just off campus near East Hill Plaza,the Cornell complex boasts twobarns, a heated indoor riding ring, twooutdoor rings, pastures, trails andjumps. Ring time is shared among thepolo and equestrian teams, physical

education riding program and a dozenor so boarders.

Most stables provide basic care:feeding, watering, cleaning stalls,changing blankets and providing ba-sic care in the owner's absence. Thehorse's exercise, grooming, shoeing,veterinary care and overall health andwell-being are up to the owner.

On a college campus, where timeis the most valuable commodity, thatcommitment of hours is especiallydifficult. "I made a conscious effortnot to spend too much time at thebarn because I wanted to take advan-tage of the whole college experi-ence," Druckman said of her firstyears at Cornell. "But every year Idid a little more with horses." Afterworking at the barn, trying the eques-trian team, teaching lessons andtraining horses, Druckman finallybought her own horse. She and Brackare together four years later, al-though Druckman leases the horsepart-time to a student who rides himtwo days a week. "The first coupleof years I spent a lot of time with him.Now I'm back to a kind of balance,"she says. "It goes back to what mymom told me: 'Don't become one ofthose crazy horse people. Don't missout on other things.'"

Emily Kennedy '97 exercisedDruckman's horse during her fresh-man year, then brought her own

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horse to Cornell. Benjamin is stabledat Asbury Hill Farm in Freeville, a20-mimιte drive from campus. "Γdbe a nut job without my horse, butyou've got to be sort of insane" tokeep a horse at college, she sayscandidly. "Especially at Cornell,where everyone works so hard. Youend up doing two things really in-tensely." Putting riding on the backburner in order to do well academi-cally is often frustrating, especiallyfor students who have previouslymanaged both. When surviving atCornell demands so much time andenergy, riders wonder, how muchwill be left for a horse?

Susan Cordes '95 keeps herhorse Vienna at If Only Farm in Free-ville. She says, "In the past, I spentthe majority of my free time at thestable. Now it's more of a hobby. ButI try to go out at least four days aweek, at least two hours each day."Unlike other sports, riding involvesa commitment to a living creaturethat suffers when papers and prelimsmake it impossible for riders tosqueeze in a trip to the barn. "If youplay soccer, the ball can sit there fora week," Cordes explains. "A horsehas to exercise."

"Riding your own horse involvesthe same dedication as playing avarsity sport," says Erica Chapman'95, who sold her horse before com-ing to Cornell and now plays varsitypolo. "But just because there's nocoach or practice doesn't mean theindependent riders aren't living upto the standards they set for them-selves. If I added up all the hours Ispend at practice and at games andcompared them to the time that dedi-cated riders spend with their ownhorses, they'd probably be exactlythe same."

Spending time with a horse isn'ta student rider's only concern;spending money is a considerableworry. "It's financial hell," Druck-man says. Collegiate horseownersstart with the typical student budgetand add the horse-related costs ofboard, shoeing, vet bills and entryfees for competitions, plus the costof purchasing a saddle, bridle, win-ter blankets and other one-time ex-penses. "Most days it's worth it,"Druckman adds. "But the minuteyou buy a horse, he could twist some-

thing and you're out of luck."Druckman speaks from experi-

ence; when Brack developed a se-vere lameness, she realized howquickly luck can change. "I spent aday at the Vet college with him whilethey tried to figure out what waswrong," she says. "I felt as if it wasmy kid in the hospital."

That responsibility is felt keenlyby student riders, who some-times feel like single parents."It's a cross between a pet, achild and a project," Druckman

says. Taking on such an obligationwhen classmates are reveling in theirfreedom is a sacrifice. But the ben-efits are worth it, according to Druck-man. Riding is a wonderful outlet thatoffers a chance to escape into a dif-ferent world, she says. When some-thing goes wrong, though, "what wasonce a stress reliever becomes amuch bigger stress than you couldever imagine."

Even as Druckman hurries to

finish up at the barn and get to class,it's obvious that today the scale istipped toward "stress reliever."Brack waits as Druckman brushesaway dull, dried sweat to reveal theshiny mahogany coat beneath. Sheworks quickly and quietly, her longswooshing brush strokes the onlysound in the barn beside the chew-ing of hay.

Once Brack has been brushedfrom head to tail, Druckman standsand surveys her work with ateacher's critical eye. Satisfied, shegives Brack's gleaming shoulder apat and leads him down the longstable aisle to his outside paddock.After sliding the halter off over hisears and sending him trottingthrough the gate with a slap on therump, Druckman lingers to watch asBrack lowers himself into the near-est mud puddle for a good roll. Shewatches, then trudges back throughthe mud toward the barn. She has halfan hour before class.

—Erin Harty '95

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W H A T ARE You READING THIS

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F K O A I C O K N K L L F A Γ Γ L T Y M K M B K K S

DESPITE THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION exploding around

us, the basis for much of learning remains the same

as it was at the Library of Alexandria—reading words

on paper.

Whether you're sitting at a desk, in an armchair or under a

tree, one of the most effective ways to participate in the life and

vision of another person—especially a person you'll never be able

to meet in the flesh—is to read what he or she has written. And

reading books—especially in the summer—is something nearly

all of us promise ourselves we'll do more of.

Cornell Magazine asked various members of the Cornell com-

munity, most of them faculty members, to name a few books out-

side their disciplines that they thought might be interesting, use-

ful or instructive for others to read.

Their responses ranged from books on history to linguistics to

fiction to science, and showed how deep a need there seems to be

for humans to share the experience of other humans—while sit-

ting in a hammock, at the side of a lake, under the covers with a

flashlight, on the front porch of a house or on a balcony overlooking

a steamy city street.

Good reading to you.

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JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERGHuman Development and Family Studies

"Birkert raisesall kinds of

questions aboutour rush toadapt new

technologies.Along the way

he explains whyreading isso special"

H ere are three books that I would take on vacation. CanYou Forgive Her, by Anthony Trollope (Oxford Univer-sity Press 1982). Trollope tells a great story, and the text

is rich with information about domesticity, gender and class in19th-century Britain. This is the first of the Palliser series. Whenyou read one, you have to read them all.

For inspiration, read Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot's I've KnownRivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation (Addison-Wesley 1994).Lightfoot's rich ethnography shows us the brilliance, creativityand humanity of African-Americans. Lightfoot has an interestingCornell connection: her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence'36, was the first African-American trained in child psychiatryand psychoanalysis. When Dr. Lawrence attended Cornell, therewere few black women here, and she endured an uninviting—ifnot hostile—social climate. Margaret Lawrence's time in Ithacais the subject of a chapter in Lightfoot's earlier book, Balm InGίlead: Journey of A Healer.

For provocation, try Sven Birkert's The Gutenberg Elegies:The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age (Faber and Faber 1994).It is the best book I have read on the transition from reading andbooks to electronic books, hypertext, etc. Birkert raises all kindsof questions about our rush to adapt new technologies. Along theway he explains why reading is so special. I am not a technologybasher, and neither is Birkert, but he raises some hard questionsthat are not being answered by the proponents of the electroniclibrary.

PAUL T. KEYSER

I suggest Nikolai Berdiaev's The Origin of Russian Commu-nism (Scribner's 1937). It explores Leninism and shows howit is, in effect, a by-product of late Christianity, specifically

the Russian strain. Despite the subject (political science), thewriting is, in fact, clear and even gripping.

Jared M. Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution andFuture of the Human Animal (HarperCollins 1992) is anthropol-ogy made exciting; better than a detective novel because it's trueand important. People who read it sometimes report a "satori-like" experience of human understanding. Diamond writes well,has read broadly and his work is solidly founded.

Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psy-chotherapy (HarperCollins 1989) contains stories from his prac-tice, written with grace, compassion and clarity. It provides in-sights similar to those recommended by the Oracle of Delphi:Know thyself.

David Brin's The Postman (Bantam 1985) is a novel about apost-holocaust Pacific Northwest. It sounds grim—but one man,at first masquerading as a postman, then in fact functioning as

one, brings hope and revival to the area. It suggests the power ofan idea, in this case a good one.

Robertson Davies's What's Bred in the Bone (Penguin 1985)is a book by the best living Canadian novelist (who even lookslike God)—an unexcelled chronicler of character; thought-pro-voking; memorable. In a way, it is "about" the 20th century com-ing of age in Canada.

WAYXE HAUBERTlinguistic

I recommend the following work, an excellently written intro-duction to the rich mystery of the human capacity for lan-guage: Steven Tinker's The Language Instinct: How the Hu-

man Mind Creates Language (Morrow 1994).

LAURENCE MOOREHistory

A nyone who has not read William Gaddis's A Frolic of HisOwn (Poseidon 1994) is in for a treat. Gaddis is a dazzlingstylist whose hilarious send-up of the law is the Bleak

House of American fiction. Also, the Cairo Trilogy (Doubleday1992) by Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz is a mesmer-izing set of novels about Islamic culture in contact with Englishimperialism. It is a family saga of the highest order. Finally, tryRoberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Knopf1993). This beautifully crafted retelling of Greek mythology de-served the praise it won when the English translation (from Ital-ian) appeared in 1993.

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T. C. CAMPBELL, PπD '62Nutritional Sciences

I would recommend a provocative yet scholarly and well-writ-ten book by Jim Mason, An Unnatural Order: Uncovering theRoots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other (Simon

and Schuster 1993).

DAN McCALLEnglish

uDr. Nulandwrites with such

grace,intelligence

and compassionthat the storieshe tells are fullof drama and

revelation."

T he best book Γve read in the past year is Sherwin B.Nuland's How We Die (Knopf 1994). Professor Nulandteaches surgery and the history of medicine at Yale. When

I have recommended the book to friends, many of them havesaid, "Oh, that sounds too morbίdl" But it's full of life and hopeand humanity. The subjects of the chapters are often grim in-deed—AIDS, cancer, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's—but Dr.Nuland writes with such clarity, grace, intelligence and compas-sion that the stories he tells are full of drama and revelation. Dr.Nuland's work is decidedly nonfiction, but it provides all the thrillsand satisfactions of an imaginative work of art. And I must say it'sthe best written book I've read in a very long time.

ROBERT L. JOHNSONCornell United Religious Work

H ere are some books I've enjoyed of late that you mightwant to consider:

Arthur Ashe's and Arnold Rampersad's Days of Grace(Knopf 1993), a touching memoir of Ashe's life in tennis and fac-ing death from AIDS.

Robertson Davies's The Cunning Man (Viking 1994), a mar-velous mystery full of Davies's seasoned wisdom and reflectionson life in Toronto.

Sherwin B. Nuland's How We Die, a sobering exploration ofthe process of dying from a Yale physician who relieves us of theideal of a "good death" and suggests ways we might resacralizedeath.

Finally, government Prof. Isaac Kramnick's brilliant biogra-phy Harold Laski: A Life on the Left (Penguin 1993) is one of themore remarkable political histories I have ever read. The researchfor this book is phenomenal.

DAVE MANKIX

"It's pleasing

to learn that

one of our

heroes was

more human,

yet also more

noble, than

we thought."

I 'd suggest James Jones's From Here to Eternity (Scribner's1951). In my opinion, this is "the great American novel." It'sabout the "American experience" as embodied in the char-

acters and tribulations of four soldiers and two civilian womenliving in Hawaii at the time of Pearl Harbor.

My favorite fiction is horror fiction, and H. P. Lovecraft's TheDunwich Horror and Other Stories (Arkham 1963) is the best thereis. No matter how many times I read these stories, they alwaysterrify me.

John Mack Faragher's Daniel Boone: the Life and Legend of anAmerican Pioneer (Holt 1992) is very readable, but also an excel-lent piece of scholarship. It's pleasing to learn that one of ourheroes was more human, yet also more noble, than we thought.

BRUCE LEVITTTheater Artί

T he book I would recommend is Frames of Mind by HowardGardner (Basic Books 1983). Gardner's book creates anew model of multiple intelligences, identifying seven dif-

ferent kinds of learners. We have constructed an education sys-tem around only two: the linguistic and the logical-mathematical.The other intelligences include spatial, body-kinesthetic, inter-personal, musical and intrapersonal. As schools move away fromtest scores, Gardner's theories become more and more impor-tant. Gardner is an award-winning psychologist on the faculty atHarvard.

JIM HOUCK, PπD '67Astronomy

I recommend Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Hel-ena Norberg-Hodge (Sierra Club 1991). Life is difficult in themountains of northern India. Ladakh, which roughly trans-

lates as the "land of the high passes," is a near-desert situatedat altitudes ranging from 10,000 to 22,000 feet above sea level.For most of the year, melting snow in the high peaks is the onlysource of water. Ancient Futures is a description of the largelyBuddhist social life that has endured for centuries in Ladakh, anddiscusses the changes brought about by the westernization ofthe region by tourism.

The Snow Leopard (Viking 1978) by Peter Matthiessen is thestunning account of Matthiessen's spiritual trek to the inner Dolporegion of Nepal in 1973. He traveled with George Schaller, a natu-ralist who hoped to observe the behavior of the snow leopard, the

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largest carnivore in the Himalayas. Schaller's target was elusivebut Matthiessen's was even more so.

The Panda's Thumb (Norton 1980) by Steven Jay Gould is acollection of essays as well as a discussion of evolution: what itis and what it is not.

DAPHNE JAMESONHotel Administration

The 1,000thand final lineof the poem

was notcompleted

because thepoet, in thenovel, wasmurdered."

R ead Milorad Pa vie's Dictionary of the Khazars: A LexiconNovel (Knopf 1988), which purports to be a rediscovered16th-century dictionary concerning an 8th-century Euro-

pean event, the Khazar polemic. The three-section dictionary,which is color coded and cross-referenced, presents the Hebrew,Islamic and Christian sources on the event. Views differ not onlyby religion but also by gender. The two editions of the novel—male and female—have only one crucial paragraph changed. Tryfinding that paragraph!

I also suggest Pale Fire (Putnam 1962) by Vladimir Nabakov,a novel written in part as a 999-line poem in heroic couplets, witha foreword, a line-by-line commentary and an index. The 1,000thand final line of the poem was not completed because the poet,in the novel, was murdered. The setting alludes to Ithaca, Cornell,(Wordsmith University) and the Finger Lakes (Omega, Ozeroand Zero).

Also,Foucault 's Pendulum (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989)by Umberto Eco. Trying to solve a problem in interpretation ofan ancient text, aided by a computer, the characters enter a webof connections with the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, theGathers, the Cabalists and other figures in history, philosophyand legend.

L. PEARCE WILLIAMS '48, PπD '62History

D avid McCullough's Truman (Simon and Schuster 1992)should be required reading for all Americans. McCulloughhas reminded Americans of a time when character and

integrity were fundamental. In the White House, Truman steereda straight path from which he rarely deviated. His vision was aclear one based on common sense and a sense of decency tem-pered, of course, by political realities.

The murder mysteries of Ellis Peters, featuring BrotherCadfael as a most genial companion, have a medieval cast to them,and the solutions are always clever and humane. These books area welcome relief from the carnage that is to be found in mostother areas of entertainment. [The Brother Cadfael series includesConfession of Brother Halvin, 1989; Flight of a Witch, 1991; andThe Heretic's Apprentice, 1990, all published by Mysterious Press.]

Sharon Penman's books, of whichHere be Dragons (Holt 1985)

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"These booksare a welcomerelief from thecarnage that

is to be foundin most other

areas ofentertainment.'5

is the first, are a fictional history of Wales and England in the 13thcentury. The focus is on Wales, with the English playing the partof villains. Ms. Penman both writes beautifully and is a most ca-pable historian. She is attracted to lost causes. The hero of herfirst book is Llewellyn the Great who first unified Wales in theearly part of the century; her last, so far, deals with Edward IVand, more centrally, with Richard III who differs radically fromthe picture painted by that Tudor propagandist, WilliamShakespeare.

STEPHANIE VAUGHNEnglish

T he Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engi-neering (Princeton University Press 1983) by David P.Billington, formerly an A. D. White professor at large, is

an exhilarating, informative analysis of the major engineeringstructures of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is a grace-fully written, cogent argument for perceiving bridges and otherstructures as sculptural art forms.

Structures Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Da Capo Press1978) by J. E. Gordon explains compression and tension in a waythat even the unmathematically inclined can understand; its nar-ratives of engineering successes and disasters make reading itas suspenseful and gratifying as reading a good poem or novel.

David Livingstone's The Geographical Tradition (BlackwellPress 1992) illuminates the way the study of geography and theart of cartography are never objective, morally neutral enter-prises.

"Its narrativesof engineeringsuccesses anddisasters makereading it as

suspenseful andgratifying as

reading a goodo o

poem or novel."

MEREDITH SMALLAnthropology

L enin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (RandomHouse 1993) by David Remnick is no dry history book.Remnick was a journalist in Moscow from 1988 to 1992

and the book is framed by his interviews with 253 people duringthose turbulent years. Lenin's Tomb gets its vitality from thewords of the Soviet people as they watch their economic andsocial system come apart. Remnick's insights color the book witha distinct personality, and will help you understand the rise andfall of Gorbachev, and why Russians always look so glum.

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time byJonathan Weiner (Knopf 1994) charts the ongoing research oftwo Princeton biologists who have studied Galapagos Islandfinches for the past 30 years. On the cover, a black line drawingof a finch head pokes toward the title, and six different species,in color, decorate the spine. Inside, Weiner does a fine job ofexplaining evolution by comparing what Darwin wrote over 100years ago with real data on finch body size, beak shape and en-

" ΈuniceParchmankilled theCoverdale

family becauseshe could notread or write."

Have tokeep reading.don't you?"

vironmental changes. As Darwin suggested, the finches speciate,that is, they evolve under the pressures of natural selection. Thisis one of the best science-for-the-non-scientist books I have readin years.

Ruth RendelΓs A Judgement in Stone (Doubleday 1978) be-gins with one of the most compelling lines in mystery writing:"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she couldnot read or write." Have to keep reading, don't you? I won't giveaway the plot (you know the end anyway), and I need not explainto other mystery lovers about the writing skills of Ruth Rendell,but I do suggest that if you can't find the edition with the bloodybed on the cover, choose any Ruth Rendell book and you'll be setfor a relaxing afternoon at the beach.

FRANCILLE M. FIREBAUGH, PπD 562

Dean, Human Ecology

F ormer Smith College President Jill Ker Conway's TrueNorth: A Memoir (Knopf 1994) and The Road from Coorain(Knopf 1989) is a two-part memoir that vividly portrays

changes in the roles and opportunities for women and includeswonderfully written personal and cultural circumstances. I foundThe Road from Coorain richer in content and the more reflectiveof the two, but both books are insightful and interest me becauseof her roles in higher education.

Mary Catherine Bateson's Composing a Life (Atlantic Monthly1989) provides one framework for reading the Conway mem-oirs. Ms. Bateson, daughter of Margaret Mead and GregoryBateson, topically examines her life and the lives of four othervery talented women by their partnerships, their multiple livesand their commitments.

Also, I'd suggest The Impossible Country: A Journey Throughthe Last Days of Yugoslavia (Godine 1994) by Brian Hall [a CornellMagazine contributor and author of this month's story on HansBethe]. Hall, a novelist and travel writer, relates the stories ofindividuals and small groups in the former Yugoslavia with in-sightful historical commentary. The conversations with friendsand their connections bring alive the devastating effects of theethnic conflicts. The book is one step to take in further under-standing the complexities of the crisis.

JAMES E LASSOIE

Environment

R ead Ansel Adams: An Autobiography with Mary StreetAlinder (Little, Brown 1985). Ansel Adams was able tofinish his autobiography just before he died in 1984, and

readers for all time will be able to enjoy a personal narrative of

" The humancondition ispart of the

world'sstructure, and

a balancedapproach to

the environmentand its

significance tohumanity isessential.' "

his 82 years as a musician, environmentalist and, of course, pho-tographer. He shares his life's story through a mix of reflectiveaccounts of people, places and events; personal letters; and nu-merous photographs. Most of the 277 black and white photos arehis and many are "snapshots" of his friends and associates, whotogether established photography as a fine art form—people likeAlfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Edward Weston,Imogen Cunningham, George Eastman and Edwin Land.

Adams wrote: "The human condition is part of the world'sstructure, and a balanced approach to the environment and itssignificance to humanity is essential. I did not then, and do notnow, believe in big stick tactics; our reason for being is not todestroy civilization but to assist in guiding it to constructive at-titudes."

This could easily serve today as a mission statement forCornell's Center for the Environment.

KEN McCLANE '73,MFA '76English

D aughters (Addison Wesley 1994) by Gerald Early is a mar-velous book about fatherhood, the joy and trepidation ofhaving two adolescent daughters and the reality that race

still defines much of life in this country. Yet the book is not theusual dreary, doom-tainted tale. Daughters, more centrally, in-volves two parents who love their children, a father who is oneof our best cultural critics and two children who delightfully tellus, "We're just going to make sure that you tell the right storiesabout us, not those that you and Mommy are always bringing up."In one terrifying vignette, Professor Early—a recent winner ofthe National Book Critics Award—is placed under arrest for"suspicion" as he awaits his wife who is shopping in a wealthy St.Louis suburb. Daughters is a beautiful, poetic book: rich with loveand rage.

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The HomeFront in World War II (Simon and Schuster 1994) by Doris KearnsGoodwin is a lively biography of two of this century's most inter-esting personalities. I can't vouch for its relative merit as a workof history, but I do know that it makes me understand why somany people admired Eleanor Roosevelt and why, more person-ally, both my parents thought that she was a gift from God. NoOrdinary Time also discusses President Roosevelt and the ex-traordinary period of the Second World War, but it is Eleanor—at least to this reader—who remains so captivating.

Johnny's Cosmology by John York (Hummingbird Press 1994)proves that the lyric poem is alive and well. In these times whenpoetry is often the provender of the diminished and the diminish-ing, John York writes as if the heart's music mattered. Readingthis, one will remember why we need poetry.

Romare Bearden: His Life and Art by Myron Schwartzman(Abrams 1990) is an extensive sampling of the brilliant, irrepres-sible, jazz-influenced paintings of one of America's best artists.The text is informative; the artwork, stunning. Bearden is to artwhat Monk is to the piano. H

" Bearden isto art whatMonk is tothe piano."

In 1942, the best and the brightestcame together on a high mesa in the

New Mexico desert. Their creation endedWorld War II and changed the world—utterly.BETH

A N D T H E

BOMBBY BRIAN HALL

July 14,1945. Two days before the scheduled test of the

world's first atomic bomb on a remote range in the New

Mexico desert, a test code-named Trinity, disastrous news

came from Los Alamos, the secret scientific compound

200 miles north of the test site: a full-size replica of the

bomb, minus the plutonium, had just been exploded, and

measurements of the implosion shock wave had indicated

that in the real bomb the wave would fail to uniformly

compress the hollow plutonium sphere into a supercritical

ball, but would instead tear it apart. The real bomb would

be a dud.

Anxiety had been gathering inexorably over the com-

munity as the test, with all its unknowns, approached.

Was this collection of the best nuclear physicists in the

world going to resoundingly demonstrate on July 16 that,

in their country's time of desperate need, they had just

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wasted more than $2 billion dollars of pub-lic money and the labors of well over100,000 people? An uneasy parody ofEmerson called the "Los Alamos Blues"had been circulating among the scientists:

From this crude lab thatspawned the dud,

Their necks to Truman'saxe uncurled,

Lo, the embattled savantsstood

And fired the flop heard 'roundthe world.

With the news of the bomb replica fail-ure, the unease turned to panic. J. RobertOppenheimer, the project director, lookedphysically ill. Generals and Nobel laureateswere turning up for the Trinity test, whichcouldn't be delayed because Truman waswaiting for news of the results at the BigThree conference in Potsdam. Everyonerounded on the explosives expert, GeorgeKistiakowsky, who later wrote, "All hadmuch to say about that incompetent wretchwho forever after would be known to theworld as the cause of the tragic failure ofthe Manhattan Project."

Hans Bethe, head of theTheoretical Physics Divi-sion at Los Alamos, nei-ther panicked nor blamedKistiakowsky. Instead, hestayed up all night plow-ing through calculations.The following morning he

announced that "the instrumental designwas such that even a perfect implosioncould not have produced oscilloscoperecords different from what was observed."In other words, the alarming results weremeaningless. Oppenheimer fell on Bethe'scalculations with relief; the panic lifted; thecountdown continued.

In this 50th anniversary year of thedawn of the Atomic Age, this anecdotedisplays the characteristic strengths ofHans Bethe, the John Wendell Andersonprofessor emeritus of physics: a steadiness,which often served as an anchor for oth-ers; a thoroughness in his approach to aproblem and a stamina that few couldmatch; and a quite justified faith in his ownprodigious mathematical abilities. Thestory is often told that Bethe works by

sitting for hours at a table with a stack ofblank sheets of paper on one side of himand a stack of finished sheets on the other,with one sheet in between which he issteadily filling, writing in pen without cor-rections. Years after Los Alamos, thephysicist Richard Feynman [see "Genius,"December, 1992], himself famous for hisability to perform calculations in his head,would say that he learned it from Bethe,who was "absolutely topnotch. He wasnearly always able to get the answer toany problem within a percent."

One thinks of a Mozart of mathemat-ics. And like Mozart, Bethe has alwaysdisplayed a certain insouciant lack of mod-esty about his abilities. Once, when afriend, physicist Victor Weisskopf, askedhim how long a certain calculation wouldtake, Bethe answered cheerfully, "It wouldtake three days for me and it will take threeweeks for you!" This was not boasting,merely clear-sightedness. (Weisskopf re-ports that the calculation, indeed, took himthree weeks.)

The same dedication to clear-sightedness makes Bethe wary of theflights of fancy, the soaring philosophicalrhetoric, in which some physicists indulge.Because of this, he doesn't "give goodquote," like Oppenheimer, FreemanDyson, '47-'48 Grad, or Stephen Hawk-ing, and in accounts of the ManhattanProject one is struck by how little is writ-ten about him, given the importance of hisposition.

Bethe was born in 1906 in Strassburg(then part of Germany) and raised mainlyin Frankfurt. As he told an interviewer in1968, he was a "tender" child, who re-treated from loneliness into fairy tales andnumbers. He loved the latter so much thathe compulsively memorized train sched-ules and shipping lists. As a teenager, hewavered between mathematics and phys-ics but eventually chose the latter because,as he has said, "mathematics seemed toprove things that were obvious." He stud-ied at the University of Munich underArnold Sommerfeld, one of the most in-fluential professors of theoretical physicsin the world, and later took temporary po-sitions at various universities in Germany,England and Italy.

Bethe told his biographer, JeremyBernstein, "The English had a muchhealthier attitude toward life than the Ger-mans. The mystical element in the life phi-

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losophy of many Germans had always re-pelled me, and still does. In England, ev-erything was clear and simple. I washappy." His appreciation of Enrico Fermi,with whom he worked in Rome, struck asimilar note: "Fermi seemed to me at thetime like the bright Italian sunshine. Clar-ity appeared wherever his mind tookhold."

Meanwhile, back in Germany, the fogsof mystical longing were growing thicker.People were not only talking about "Jew-ish art" but "Jewish physics." AlbertEinstein was advised to make no publicappearences for his own safety. In 1931,Arnold Sommerfeld cranked up a black-board during class to find that someonehad scrawled "DAMNED JEWS!" acrossit, and Bethe found himself in 1932 teach-ing students wearing swastikas. Shortlyafter Hitler came to power in 1933, a lawwas passed forbidding employment in thecivil service—which included the facultiesof the state-run universities—to anyonewith a Jewish parent or grandparent. Bethehad never considered himself Jewish, buthis mother was a Jew, and he lost hisposition immediately. He took temporaryrefuge with Sommerfeld in Munich butfinally left the country for England, even-tually taking a position at Cornell in Feb-

ruary 1935.Within four

There was no years Bethe had es-such address as tablished himself as a

towering figure in hisfield, partly through

of the community writing three monu-mental review ar-officially lived at ddes Qn nudear

physics known for-ever after as the"Bethe Bible," andpartly through me-

thodically uncovering, via reams of patientcalculations, the precise fusion reactionsthat power stars. (This work won him theNobel Prize in 1967.) He married RoseEwald in 1939, the daughter of his formerprofessor at the Technical College ofStuttgart.

On the eve of World War II, two re-searchers in Berlin discovered that neu-trons bombarding uranium could cause thenuclei to fission, and subsequent experi-ments showed that this fissioning pro-duced more neutrons. Nuclear physicistsimmediately saw that two things were

Los Alamos. Most

P.O. Box 1663

in Santa Fe.

theoretically possible: the production ofatomic energy and the production of atomicbombs. But Bethe at first didn't believe itwould be practically possible to build abomb during the war. He saw enormousdifficulties involved in separating the morefissionable uranium-235 isotope from the

Los Alamos, 1944. Fermi is standing at left, Betheis next to him.

more common U-238. (He was not wrongabout the difficulties. No physicist in thetable-top days of physics in 1939, when thescope and equipment of physics was rela-tively simple, could foresee that within fiveyears there would be 100,000 people work-ing in a complex that included the largestbuilding on earth, at Oak Ridge, Tennes-see, on the inelegant, brute-force solutionto this problem.)

It was only when Bethe saw Fermi'suranium-graphite reactor pile in a squashcourt at the University of Chicago in 1942,and learned from Edward Teller that sucha reactor could produce fissionable pluto-nium, that he began to see that some sortof bomb was probably workable. Oppen-heimer wanted him to join the secret Man-hattan Project then being set up, but Bethefirst had a long talk about the morality of itall with his wife. As he told his biographer,"[Rose] asked me to consider carefullywhether I really wanted to continue to workon this. Finally, I decided to do it. The fis-sion bomb had to be done, because the Ger-mans were presumably doing it." As hesays now, "The main reason was, I felt inthis way I could make the greatest contri-bution to the war effort. After all, nuclearphysics was my field."

The Los Alamos that the Bethes ar-rived at in April 1943 was one of the oddestcommunities the world has ever seen. Up

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on a pine-clad mesa skirted by steep can-yons, where once there had been atoughen-up ranch for the delicate scionsof wealthy Eastern families, the ArmyCorps of Engineers was throwing up labsthat looked like elongated barracks andlittle houses in a stark style called Hurry-Up Military. Scientists and their familieswere pouring in. On the perimeter a secu-rity fence went up which, according toEnrico Fermi's Jewish wife, made someof the Europeans unhappy because it "re-minded them of concentration camps."

Up on "the Hill," as it came to be called,no one talked about a bomb, lest the con-struction crews overhear. From the begin-ning, it was "the Gadget." Uranium 235was called "25" and plutonium 239 was"49." The initiator, which would providethe initial spray of neutrons, was the "Ur-chin."

There was no such address as LosAlamos. Most of the community officiallylived at P.O. Box 1663 in Santa Fe, whichcaused one mail-order company eventu-ally to write, "Sir: We don't know whatyou are doing to our catalogues. We havesent more than 100 catalogues to thisaddress and will send no more." The sci-entists' driver's licenses carried no names,only numbers. People in Santa Fe couldhear the frequent explosions in the can-yons, and rumors circulated about gas war-fare, jet propulsion, death rays and evenatomic bombs.

Would anyone have guessed that in oneof the labs there was a 40-pound doorstopof solid gold, courtesy of Fort Knox? (Goldhad been tried as a "tamper"—a neutron-reflecting shield around the core—andfound wanting.) Also lying around, dis-carded, was the largest piece of platinumin the world. The scientists had asked forosmium, too, but were informed that theirorder exceeded the world's known sup-ply. Then there was Dick Feynman, go-ing around cracking all the safes, to showhis colleagues that their secrets weren'tsecure. And there was Feynman's goodfriend, Klaus Fuchs, who turned out laterto be a Russian spy, and who insinuatedhimself so successfully into the myriadactivities of the lab that he didn't have tocrack any safes. At the end of the projectFuchs edited the secret 24-volume ency-clopedia that summed up all the work thathad been accomplished.

The average age at Los Alamos was 29.

to lie down, but

Teller's words, "We

The mountain air was exhilarating, thework was exciting and the communardsstarted to produce an astonishing numberof babies (whose birth certificates re-corded the place of birth as P.O. Box1663). General Leslie R. Groves, the mili-tary head of the site, told Oppenheimer, intrue militaryfashion, to dos o m e t h i n g They had been toldabout this. Op-penheimer re-fused and fa- none did. In Edwardthered a childhimself. RoseBethe bore were determinedtwo and wash- to |ook the beasted their dia-pers in melted ' the eVe

snow flecked Bethe passed around

suntan lotion, and in

of coal-burning the cool dark many ofstoves that the men so|emnlys o m e t i m e sthrew a black smeared it on.pall over thewhole town.

Groves called the scientists "chil-dren," and they, like many who hadknown Groves before, called him a son ofa bitch, and much else besides. He was atough, can-do bulldozer who had pickedOppenheimer to be director because theexotic, cultured and slightly preciousphysicist was his idea of everything agenius was supposed to be. The unlikelychoice—Oppenheimer had no administra-tive experience—turned out to be per-fect. Oppenheimer inspired everyonewith his broad knowledge of physics, hisimmense education, his Delphic utter-ances, his riding horses, his rare steaksand strong martinis and black coffee, andwith the self-torturing dedication thatcaused him to chain-smoke, attend meet-ings while close to collapse with chickenpox and waste away to a ghastly 116pounds.

But Oppenheimer also had a Commu-nist past, so the director of the country'smost secret and vital military project hadhis telephone tapped and his roomsbugged. All of the others had to put upwith their mail being opened. A friend ofRose's wanted a relative to send a knit-ting needle, and when she poked holes inthe letter to indicate the size she needed,

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the letter came back: "No codes, please."Some of the wives had absolutely no ideawhat their husbands were doing. Crowdedbehind the fence, reading their censoredmail, raising the children, not even flinch-ing anymore at the explosions, they couldnot avoid seeing each other every day atthe PX or the square dances, but accord-ing to Rose, they "never, never, nevertalked about what was going on/'

Oppenheimer had appointed Bethehead of the Theoretical Physics Division,arguably Los Alamos's most importantpost, since theory dominated the work bynecessity: many of the experiments theydesigned could not be carried out. Astheory chief, Bethe had to oversee and co-ordinate the work of the various theorygroups, who had plenty to work on. Theyhad to come up with a model for the im-mensely complicated problem of how neu-trons diffuse through a critical mass. Theyhad to calculate the effects of differentkinds of tampers on neutron reflection andabsorption. They had to figure out how tocalculate the efficiency of nuclear explo-sions. They had to determine criticalmasses and—perhaps more importantly—the limits of subcritical ones. They had tounderstand how liquids and gases behavedin fractions of micro-seconds, under pres-sures and temperatures greater than at thecenter of the sun. They had to design aninitiator. They had to determine the be-havior of plutonium when they had hardlyany plutonium to work with. And on andon.

Bethe was well-suited to this Her-culean task. His abilities were so broad thata colleague recently said at a symposiumon the Cornell campus that he was con-vinced of a conspiracy among several sci-entists to all publish under the name "HansBethe." He was approachable andunhierarchical. At his suggestion,Oppenheimer instituted the Colloquium,in which everyone at the lab, regardlessof rank, could come together regularly toexchange ideas. Freeman Dyson's descrip-tion of Bethe as head of Cornell's nuclearphysics program is probably a good de-scription of his strengths earlier at LosAlamos: "He had an amazing ability tochoose good problems, not too hard andnot too easy, for students of widely vary-ing skills and interests. He had eight orten students doing research problems andnever seemed to find it a strain to keep us

busy and happy."Bethe's imperturbability in the face of

daunting challenges earned him the name"the Battleship." (Feynman, meanwhile,became the "Mosquito Boat," and otherphysicists enjoyed hearing, from down thehall, Feynman's cries of "No, you'rewrong!" and "That's crazy!" piping overthe cantus firmus of Bethe's slow deepvoice explaining that, no, he was not crazy,and he would explain why.) And most ofall, there was his steadiness, his mysteri-ously inexhaustible equanimity. WhileOppenheimer smoked and turned into ascarecrow, Bethe ate two lunches. Every-one knew whenever he was in the movietheater, or talking with Feynman, becausethey could hear his booming laugh. OnSundays he walked in the mountains, andhis friend Victor Weisskopf has pointed outthe similarities between his work meth-ods and his walks: "He has the steadyswinging stride of a Swiss guide. The pacelooks slow, but is deceiving and usuallyputs him ahead of anyone not a quarter ofa century his junior." He would sit in thesun on the summits and talk physics.

At some point during theprevious eight years,Bethe had become anAmerican both legallyand mentally. The Ger-man mystical bent thatso repelled him musthave seemed far away in

can-do, sunny, forgetful America. When in1943 he saw a drawing of a rod-studdedpile that Werner Heisenberg, still work-ing for Germany, had given to Niels Bohralong with some cryptic comments aboutthe German bomb, he thought, "TheseGermans are totally crazy! Do they wantto throw a reactor down on London?" Heinsists that the phrase "these Germans arecrazy" came to him without a trace of irony.

On the day before Trinity, with theworld's first atomic bomb assembled in itsshot tower, the boss of the assembly crewadvised his men to look for rabbits' feetand four-leaf clovers. The physicists hadorganized a betting pool on the size of theblast, and some of them engaged in theirown wood-knocking by picking numberswell below what their calculations toldthem. Bethe picked a reasonable eight ki-lotons of TNT (the actual yield was 18.6

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kilotons) and in his final talk to the Theo-retical Division spoke matter-of-factly:"Human calculation indicates that the ex-periment must succeed. But will natureact in conformity with our calculations?"

The physicists not directly connectedwith the administration of the test stood

Presentation of the Fermi Award to Bethe,December 1961.

on a hilltop before dawn on July 16, 20miles from ground zero. They had beentold to lie down, but none did. In EdwardTeller's words, "We were determined tolook the beast in the eye/' He and Bethepassed around suntan lotion, and in the cooldark many of the men solemnly smearedit on. The flash came at 5:29:45 a.m. Moun-tain War Time.

Accounts always quote the initialthoughts and comments of the Trinity ob-servers, according them the weight usu-ally given to the last words of the dying. I.I. Rabi wrote, "Suddenly, there was anenormous flash of light, the brightest lightI have ever seen or that I think anyone hasever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it boredits way right through you. It was a visionwhich was seen with more than the eye."Phillip Morrison said, "The thing that gotme was not the flash but the blinding heatof a bright day on your face in the colddesert morning. It was like opening a hotoven with the sun coming out like a sun-rise."

Trinity Director Kenneth Bainbridgesaid, "No one who saw it could forget it, afoul and awesome display." His first wordsto Oppenheimer were, "Now we are allsons of bitches." (The pressure that manyof them felt to rise to the occasion is clearlyreflected in Bainbridge's later proud state-ment that Oppenheimer had called his

sons-of-bitches line "the best thing any-one said after the test.") Oppenheimerhimself characteristically outdid everyonein portentousness, producing the most-quoted line of all, a verse from theBhagavad Gίta: "Now I am become Death,the destroyer of worlds."

In virtually all the written accounts,Bethe's reaction is never mentioned, ex-cept for one line in Richard Rhodes's book,The Making of the Atomic Bomb: "It lookedlike a giant magnesium flare which kepton for what seemed a whole minute butwas actually one or two seconds." Nolarger thoughts? "No," he says now. Heexplains unapologetically: "I am not a phi-losopher." But surely he felt some emo-tion? "My main worry had been that thepart of the bomb which I had specificallydesigned, at least partly, that that partmight not function. But it did, and that wasfine."

In fact, one suspects that many of theothers, in the first few seconds, also feltmainly numb relief. There was cheeringand backslapping on the Hill. The gadgethad worked! Feynman, dancing aroundhappily, remembered only one moper:Robert R. Wilson, now professor emeri-tus of nuclear studies at Cornell, surprisedhim by blurting out, "It's a terrible thingthat we made."

The others soon began to sober up, too.Victor Weisskopf perhaps put it best: "Ourfirst feeling was one of elation, then werealized we were tired, and then we wereworried." Rabi thought about his woodenhouse in Cambridge, and what a blast likethat would do to it. Feynman later scribbledthis eloquent cri de coeur in his notebook:"We scientists are clever—too clever-are you not satisfied? Is four square milesin one bomb not enough? Men are stillthinking. Just tell us how big you want it!"

Oppenheimer, in a 1948 Time inter-view, said, "In some sort of crude sense,which no vulgarity, no humor, no over-statement can quite extinguish, the physi-cists have known sin." Freeman Dyson'sdefense of this statement, which angeredmany of the Los Alamos people, was: "Tohave built the bomb, when their countrywas engaged in a desperate war againstHitler's Germany, was morally justifiable.But they did not just build the bomb. Theyenjoyed building it. They had the best timeof their lives while building it."

That has been the source of the en-

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during ambivalence felt by the people whoworked on the Manhattan Project. LosAlamos was ^paradise: an unprecedentedcollection of the best physicists in theworld working together intensely andcommunally toward a common, crucialgoal and hiking in the shimmering air andmaking babies while doing it. Bethe hassaid of the time, "I have never worked sohard or so purposefully since." And yet itended in Hiroshima and a nuclear armsrace. People who felt that their work atLos Alamos had thrust a heavy responsi-bility on them formed the Association ofLos Alamos Scientists, which carries theprovocative acronym, ALAS.

Bethe has felt this ambivalence, too.In 1968 he told an interviewer, "Every-thing starts with Los Alamos—with theA-bomb. All the tragedies and all the mis-takes that haunt us now begin there. I con-cluded I should [work on the bomb be-cause] the Germans might get the bombfirst. But we were all wrong. Heisenbergwas working on nuclear power, but not onthe bomb." He says now, "I like the state-ment by Niels Bohr, right at the end of thewar: Ίt is a peril and a hope/ A peril [be-cause] if they were used, it would end civi-lization, and the hope that people wouldbe intelligent enough to see that theremust not be wars between the major pow-ers." If there could not be a war to end allwars, perhaps there could be a weapon toend all wars. At the time, the two visionswere either of Armageddon or of a Mil-lennium achieved through some strong in-ternational body controlling nuclear tech-nology for the good of all. No one foresawthe half-baked, half-mad reality that actu-ally transpired: peace, yes, but throughmutually assured destruction.

Today Bethe is ambivalent, but not tor-mented. He is too steady for that. He haschanneled his sense of responsibility intoeffective public advocacy for arms controland a test ban treaty, and determined op-position to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Sys-tem (ABM) proposal of the 1960s and theStar Wars of the 1980s, both of which heperceived to be destabilizing. He thinksthe development of the atomic bomb bysomebody, at some time, was inevitableonce the science was known, and he leavesit at that. He believes that the use of thebomb against Japan was the right decision:"The Japanese—as a whole, not Hiro-shima—had the least painful exit from the

war due to the bomb." He points out thatin a single conventional firebombing raidon Tokyo as many people were killed as atNagasaki, and these raids would have goneon for weeks or months more in the ab-sence of the bomb.

But the vast power of physics todaydoes trouble him. "It troubles me that thepublic sees physics only as the mother oftechnology," he says. "No one any longerpays attention to—if I may call it—thespirit of physics, the idea of discovery, theidea of understanding. I think it's difficultto make clear to the non-physicist thebeauty of how it fits together, of how youcan build a world picture, and the beautythat the laws of physics are immutable."Or as a physicist more comfortable withsounding like a philosopher might say, asAlbert Einstein did, "The eternal mysteryof the world is its comprehensibility."

In his 60 years at Cornell, Bethe hasbeen happy, turning down numerous of-fers to go elsewhere. He consciouslystrove to recreate the idyllic collegiality ofLos Alamos, and by all accounts, he hassucceeded. He kept out the engineers andthe chemists, and turned eagerly back tothe pure science of nuclear processes, to"the spirit of physics." As he says in hiscluttered office in Newman Lab, with anair of deep satisfaction, "I think we havethe best of Los Alamos here, without hav-ing to make a bomb." a

Brian Hall is an Ithaca-based freelance writerwhose work has appeared in the New YorkTimes Magazine and Travel Holiday. Hismost recent book, The Impossible Country: AJourney Through the Last Days of Yugosla-via (see page 26), will be out in paperbackfrom Penguin this fall

For further reading . .

on Hans Bethe and the making of the atomic bomb, see:

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, Simonand Schuster, 1987.Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy by Jeremy Bernstein, BasicBooks, 1980.Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson, Harper and Row,1979.The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Buildan Atomic Bomb by Robert Serber, University of CaliforniaPress, 1992.Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb byThomas Powers, Knopf, 1993.Hiroshima by John Hersey, Knopf, 1946.Standing By and Making Do by Jane Wilson, Los AlamosHistorical Society, 1988.

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Class NotesMany readers of class columns inthis magazine from the mid-1960sthrough early 1990s often turnedto Irene M. Gibson's column inthis space for her well-written, of-ten thought-provoking, but never

sentimental contributions. Her fans were ofvarious ages, many much younger than her-self, and she delighted in hearing from them.She also wrote articles for the magazine,then known as the Cornell Alumni News, andher feature article in the December 1990issue on war memorials, "In Memory of Ser-vice Past," involved much research as wellas her own experience as a World War IIWAC veteran and one who was on campusas a student as World War I broke out.

June Gibson Pendleton '53 recentlyinformed us of her aunt's death Nov. 17, '94.Four days earlier she had suffered a mas-sive stroke, writes Pendleton, but "Up tothat time she was unusually healthy, alert,and active. On November 11 she participat-ed in an awards ceremony for the Orleans(NY) chapter of the DAR . . . She is missedby all."

Irene Gibson was born in May 1898.She lived the last years of her life in Holley,NY, her childhood home. She had studiedmodern languages, particularly French andSpanish, and earned an MA from Ohio StateU. in 1924. She worked as an editor for about30 years, for 12 of them on the staff of theUnited Nations, and taught French and Span-ish at the college and, later, high school lev-els. Gibson's interest in history led her towrite extensively on local Orleans Countyplaces and people, and she was active in hercommunity and in alumni clubs. She wasnamed Orleans County Senior Citizen of theYear in 1987. At that time, her nearby friendand fellow alumnus Dorothy Lament '24wrote of her, "Irene is a capable, energetic,and independent lady; a role model for to-day's young women."

^\ A Earlier this year, we heard fromI Λ Fred Wood's daughter, Mer-i 11 edith Wood Einaudi '61, wife/ J L of Marco Einaudi '61: "If j Γ thought of you all last June atJ Λ. your 70th Reunion and remem-bered how much Dad loved being at Reunionin 1989. If 'Mar' and I hadn't been in Japanthen, Γd have been tempted to join you all."With her letter came a copy of the leaflettelling about The Frederic Conger WoodFellowship for Research in Europe. The fel-lowship was established in 1993 with a gen-erous bequest from Fred's estate. It stipu-lated that the fund be used for awards todeserving graduate and/or undergraduatestudents; that it be held as a fund in con-nection with the Luigi Einaudi professorshipin European and international studies; andthat it be identified as the Frederic CongerWood Endowment Fund in recognition ofthe tie between the Wood and Einaudi fam-

ilies. As you will recall, Fred's will includeda most generous bequest to the Class of 1924Memorial Scholarship Fund. Together, theseprovisions indicate how strongly he support-ed the idea of giving money to enable oth-ers to enjoy the Cornell opportunities whichhad contributed so much to his life.

Do you remember the "Starry Tree"featured in our Holiday Newsletter, designedby Natalie "Nan" (Fairbanks) '32, the latewife of John Wood (not related to Fred)?John writes that he and Nan created theirown Christmas cards from 1937 through1988, using her original art. "The first oneswere linoleum blocks, which Nan cut and Ihelped print," John says, "and I have a fileof all 51 cards."

The first-ever Cornell music video, ti-tled Lift the Chorus, consisting of 28 songs,illustrated with some 1,500 still and movingimages of Cornell history, and highlightingour all-time 70th Reunion attendancerecord—produced by Albert Podell '58—is now procurable. If you are interested,please let me know and I will see that youget further particulars. *> Max Schmitt,RR5, Box 2498, Brunswick, ME 04011-9632.

Mary Yinger says that she has been doingtoo much and must take things easy for awhile. However, she has accomplished allthe things that she MUST do! So on a springSunday, she went out to "brunch" with someyoung friends and had "a GREAT time."Ruth Oviatt, who lives in Alexandria, VA,has resigned from her work as a docent fortwo of the Washington, DC museums. Shesays the museums were training classes ofyoung people for this work and she decidedthat it was time to let the young folks takeover. Ruth still has her own apartment, whichshe formerly shared with her sister. Her sis-ter has died and she has thought about aretirement home, but still enjoys her ownplace. Eleanor Bayuk Green continues tosend me clippings from The New York Times.That is wonderful, and I do appreciate it.

Some of you must remember the Classof '18 women's column that Irene Gibsonwrote for many years. It was always veryinteresting, so when Irene gave up the job,I wrote her a letter. Recently I came acrossher answer, which I had saved. She told meabout meeting A. E. "Betty" Neely '19(now deceased) in Geneva, Switzerland,where she (Irene) was working for the Unit-ed Nations. She was soon transferred toParis. Later, back home and after our class-mate Dot Laniont retired in nearby Albi-on, NY, Irene saw her often. Irene wrotethat the doctors discovered an inoperablebrain tumor was the cause of Dot's failingeyesight, and the cause of her death in 1993.While Dot was an active member of ourclass she gave generously to the CornellFund, and left a bequest to Cornell whenshe died. [It was learned this spring thatIrene, herself, had died on Nov. 17, '94.—

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Ed.] * Florence "Flo" Daly, 91 Old Win-throp Rd., Augusta, ME 04330.

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I quote from an ar-tide which our faith-ful Class Notes edi-tor, Elsie McMill-an '55, discoveredin the Alumni News

of April 9, '25: "Four Cornell students . . .are among the 12 members of two inter-university orchestras which will entertaintourists this summer, under the directionof George L. Coleman 1895, aboard thesteamship Tuscanίa on a Mediterraneancruise under the auspices of Thomas Cook& Son." The four Cornellians were listedas Ludwig F. Audrieth, PhD '26, C.Everett Howes '25, Harold L. Ruland'27, and your correspondent. (Howard T."Jeff" Searles was also supposed to go, butthought he had to grab an offered job.)

Other universities represented wereColgate, Yale, Pennsylvania, Amherst, Roch-ester, and Lafayette; Eastman School ofMusic and the Hill School also provided tal-ent. The article proceeds: "The party sailsfrom New York July 4 as guests of the man-agement [i.e., no pay] and will provide cham-ber music, standard orchestra music, clas-sical selections, jazz, vocal, vaudeville skits,banjo turns, clog dances, and almost everyother form of musical entertainment . . . Theship is expected to return September 3."The group, few of whom had ever met be-fore, reported to the S.S. Tuscania shortlybefore the sailing date, to find that the ship'sregular orchestra (and its union) didn't in-tend to surrender any of its regular func-tions. Hence the scope of our activities,which had seemed to exclude only the ma-jor symphonies and grand opera, was fortu-nately less than advertised. At the other endof the scale, the clog dances and "banjoturns" never did materialize, and the vaude-ville skits could wait.

We put together a pretty good danceband, however, thanks to a few jazz artistslike Lou Audrieth and Chuck Smith '26. Iwas just a general-purpose operator — amusic-reading violinist to accompany skitsand what-not, "doubling in brass" (actuallyon saxophone) in the dance band. Thosewere the days when folks really danced ondeck beneath the stars, with whole days andnights between ports, and a cruise ship wasprimarily a ship rather than a gussied-upferry running between airports. From thisdistance, our home-made music sounded agreat deal better than the prerecorded, syn-thesized, over-amplified racket produced(along with excessive air-conditioning)aboard the floating pleasure-domes of today.But to get to the cruise: we actually visitedplaces which, however commonplace theyseem today, were quite rare at the time,except among the idle rich. Seven days toMadeira; a couple more to Gilbraltar, thenon to Malaga, Monte Carlo, Rome, Naples,Venice, Athens, Constantinople, Beirut,Cairo, Jerusalem, and home via the Naplesarea (Pompeii, Amalfi, Capri, Vesuvius) andGibraltar. Two or three days, not hours, inmost places. It was a time of peace betweenthe wars, and many years before anyonethought of taking off a year or so after col-

lege to see the world and find out who hereally was. Thanks to George Coleman fora great experience, and thanks for remind-ing me, Elsie. * Walter Southworth, 744Lawton St., McLean, VA 22101; [email protected].

^^Kj Norma Ross Winfree and TomI i are in residence at their Lake

m m Ontario summer home, LeRoyf I Island, RD #3, Wolcott, NY, in-| j tent on selling it as the care ofβ " two residences and the travelback and forth from Arizona has become tooburdensome. They will settle for air condi-tioning in their Arizona home. Eleanor"Hedgie" Wright Decker has now been sixyears in her retirement home near herdaughter in Keene, NH and loves it there.

Zaida Hanford Pierce, who had to missthe 65th Reunion, is hoping her brother-in-law will drive her to our 70th, only two yearsaway, as it coincides with his. Have a goodsummer and remember to send me news ofit as requested in our May Newsletter, which"emptied the cupboard!" * Sid HansonReeve, 1563 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

Herb Edelstein, who lives alone in an adultretirement community in Florida, describesin detail the daily doings and happenings!"We have complete kitchens so I preparemy own breakfast and lunch. There is a laun-dry room on each floor (included in the rent)so I do my own laundry, and free weeklyhousekeeping service is also provided.There are many clubs, such as bridge, lan-guage, and "roundtable," in which I partici-pate. The grounds are beautifully landscapedwith an excellent swimming pool outside,and inside there is a comfortable loungewhere drinks (non-alcoholic, except on Fri-days) are served from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. anddinner is served from 4:00 to 6:40 p.m. En-tertainment is provided on-site four nightsand the other three nights there is bingo;transportation is provided to off-propertyestablishments offering amusements, as wellas to restaurants, but residents pay the oth-er expenses. In every apartment there arekeys to security building doors and emer-gency cords to which, when pulled, some-one responds—after an interval. Of the res-idents, 90 percent are women, who mostlyplay bridge, and 10 percent are men (myselfincluded), who mostly play shuffleboard. (Iam usually the only male at bridge games.)Anyone under 80 years is considered a mereyoungster; one of the men is over 100! Insome ways living this life is like being inminimum security detention, but without anyprescribed regimen."

Phil Lyon writes that he is still play-ing golf, although down to nine holes andthat it is "still fun, even when I miss thosethree-footers!" * C. L. Kades, PO Box 132,Heath, MA 10346.

Sidney Kingsley, our famousplaywright, died recently. Hisbest known works were Men inWhite and Dead End, whichbrought him a Pulitzer Prize. Hewas married to a beautiful ac-

tress, Madge Evans, who predeceased him.David Goldin and his wife, Ethel, celebrat-

ed their 60th wedding anniversary in Julyat Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, LosAngeles. They also attended the weddingsof grandson Jean and granddaughter Beth.

Paul Gillett became friendly with oneof the assigned students who served as classclerk at the 65th Reunion. Her name is Say-aka Karitani '95, expected to graduate thispast May, and Paul has lost contact with her.

Sam Pollock is a life fellow of theAmerican Psychiatric Assn. and a memberof the New Jersey Psychiatric Inst. He andhis wife enjoy old friends at Sea Island, GA.

Max Werner has acquired a "signifi-cant other" and enjoys summers at RaquetteLake, NY. * Theodore Adler, 2 GardenRd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

Λ ̂ \ Silas "Si" Wild and I were bothIII involved in Boy Scouts for many

m II years, though he attended moreM ^*m camps, jamborees, etc. Ed Whit-| j i M ing lives near campus, surround-^™ ^̂ ed by the remains of a big or-chard which is beautiful in apple-blossomtime. He gets to visit children in the FarWest about once a year. Jack Coleman,who was into music in our day, recentlymarched to the beat of Mendelsohn withJulia Gilliam. They will live in Dayton, OH.Jerry Loewenberg lives in an Air Forceenclave in San Antonio (where saluting ismandatory?). He's done a lot of world trav-eling in his time, and still gets to Ithaca forReunion as a Continuous Reunion Club(CRC) member every June.

John Benson came up to Ithaca fromTexas to surprise his mother, Louisa(Tyler), and father, Horace "Benny" Ben-son. Relatives who showed up at Louisa'sbirthday party included George '28 andDorothy Wertz Tyler '30. Many happyreturns! * Don Layton, 1029 Danby Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850.

Unfortunately, by the time I receive thenews and it gets published, most of the com-ing events are already in the past; howev-er, I am going to continue to try to fill youin on what you missed. I wish I could sendeach of you a copy of Ruth Uetz Nobel'sChristmas letter, because it was so excit-ing. This is the, 15th year she has beenteaching creative movement at CuyahogaCommunity College. She has given perfor-mances for the Solon Library, the 20th an-niversary of the Assn. of Gerontologists inHigher Education, and the Conference ofPhysical Therapists.

Son Dod drove Ruth to Reunion, wherewe all enjoyed our time together. Later shevisited her grandchildren at Scipio, whereher grandson, who is a network administra-tor at Cornell, lives. During August she wasat Chautauqua, going to ballets, lectures,concerts, and doing ballroom dancing. SonPark Nobel '60 had his seventh book, Re-markable Agaves and Cacti, published byOxford University Press. Son Dod publishedWhite Tail Hunter Education, which, amongmuch other information, contains recipes forusing venison.

Ruth also has a yearly tradition of anOpen House to which all classmates arewelcome. Check the date with Ruth. Thereis also a James Dodman Nobel Award in

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human relations at Cleveland State U. Thissounds like a worthwhile idea to encourage.

Jo Mills Reis wrote that Isabel Salo-man Gichner visited her recently, whileIsabel was at her daughter's house on Long-boat Key. Before Hank's death they werealready living in a retirement community at8100 Connecticut Ave., Apt. 701, ChevyChase, MD 20813.

Tulips, daffodils, flowering quince, andweeping cherry are all in full bloom, so Ithink that spring is now here to stay. It'shard to be sad when the world is so beauti-ful, so I hope that you are all feeling youngand peppy. Now that my income tax has beenpaid and all my papers put away, I am readyfor another year.

Recently my granddaughter and herhusband came to visit and did minor repairsall around my house. In September mydaughter, Karen Wright, editor of ModernPainters magazine, and her husband and twodaughters are coming to visit me from theirhome in England. My other daughter, Dr.Lenore May, is currently working on aproject for the New York Botanical Gardens.

Please send me your news. I'm surethat you have wonderful children and grand-children, too. *• Grace Carlin Wile, 184Shady Brook Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.

30Here's one lastword on the pagecreated by OliveHoberg Godwinfor the scrapbookpresented to Pres-

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ident Rhodes by the Assn. of Class Officers(CACO). Olive, our artist, and I both have re-ceived charming letters of appreciation fromPresident Rhodes, as well as pleasant thank-you notes from the CACO people.

There was not space earlier to finishtelling about Frankie Culpepper Goerges'sinteresting life. Starting out wisely, she ac-quired secretarial training before college soshe could work her way, and then began atU. of Michigan before transferring to Cor-nell in 1928. Classes in nature study andeducation, as well as her work, broughther into contact with Professors E. Lau-rence Palmer, PhD '11, Arthur A. Allen,PhD '08, and Peter P. Kellogg '29. Whenshe graduated, Professor Palmer referredher to Newark Museum in New Jersey,where for 15 years she worked on all phas-es of exhibits, did field work and collecting,and led children's groups. In 1934 she mar-ried Martin; they had a foster child for awhile, but had to give him up when theyleft the state, moving to California. At looseends, she attended the Academy of Sciencein Golden Gate Park and became a volun-teer there, as she always enjoyed being withyoung people, and still corresponds withsome she knew along the way. Her hus-band had yearned to visit his German home-land, but died in 1990, his wish unfulfilled.Frankie herself carried out his pilgrimage,visiting his home area in Dresden, sittingin the church he had attended with hismother. Frankie's address is C.C. YoungMemorial Home, 4829 W. Lowther St., Dal-las, TX, and she would love to hear fromold friends. Please WRITE ME, any day,anytime. Best wishes to all. <» Joyce Porter

In some waysliving this life is likebeing in minimumsecurity detention,but without anyprescribed regimen.

Layton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

News of our Reunion will appear in the Sep-tember issue. The name Howard O. "Ike"Aigeltinger is familiar to most, if not all, ofyou as that of one of our class stalwarts. Itis sad that his death on Dec. 14, '94 is theoccasion for mentioning it in these notes.Kay Heasley, honorary member of our classand wife of the late Walt, another class stal-wart, wrote about Ike. For years, togetherwith Walt, Kay opened the celebrations ofall our Reunions with a grand function attheir beautiful estate, and she has contin-ued the tradition since Walt's passing, in-cluding the one scheduled for June 7, '95.Her letter was transmitted to me by BillVanneman '31, class correspondent for themen of his class, who noted, "The Class of'31 would be honored to have Ike Aigelting-er among its members, but . . . though hemay not have officially graduated until 1931,. . . he was never affiliated with our class."Bill, Ike's "shellmate" on the jayvee crew,wrote, "Before he went on to the varsity, Irowed with Ike . .. and a more enthusiastic,fiery oarsman never rowed for Cornell." Asmany of you must know, Ike was a pilot inthe Army Air Corps until 1934 and for East-ern Airlines, 1936-67. Ike's jovial presenceat many of our past Reunions and the per-sonality which made him so likable to class-mates fully justify Bill Vanneman's assess-ment of him as "Besides, he was a greatguy." The sympathy of the Class of '30 isextended to Margaret, Ike's widow, sonEdward H. '63, BS Eng '64, and daughterAnn (Mrs. Hugh J. Mazza). <» Benedict P.Cottone, Bay Plaza 802, 1255 GulfstreamAve., Sarasota, FL 34236; phone (813) 366-2989; fax (813) 366-2989.

r ^ I That day has finally arrived! ClassJP I Notes deadline and no notes! All^ I the remaining 1994-95 News and

M I Dues responses were used up inl I the 1995-96 News and Dues let-^^ ̂ ter, except for one letter which ison my desk on Cape Cod, while I'm now inWashington, DC. I'm here because eventhough I went to church on Easter Sundayin New York City, it didn't earn me wings,

or persuade the angels to bear me up as Ipaused on the steps on the way out to takea picture of my son Reeve Vanneman '67and his wife Jane (Wallace) '68 greetingtheir former Washington rector, now thenew rector of St. Bartholomew's on ParkAvenue. To get a better "frame" I steppedback, but there was no step there. At ourage the penalty for such carelessness shouldbe at least a broken hip, but it was only aten-stitch cut over my left eye (repaired at—where else?—NY Hospital-Cornell MedicalCenter). Incidentally, if you've never seen"St. Bart's," make it a stop on your nexttrip to NYC. Magnificent!

The letter I left behind is from BenHertzberg (The Pierre, 1207, 795 FifthAve., NYC 10021). He and Lilian are on oneof their frequent trips to London, Paris, andVenice, with a side trip to Israel for Lilianto keep up her fine work with the Weiz-mann Inst. As he has so kindly in past years,Ben sent me clippings on the Oxford-Cam-bridge Boat Race. The Brits make quite abig deal of this race—like the New Yorkpapers used to do with the PoughkeepsieRegatta in our day. This time lots of croco-dile tears over the fact that both boats werefull of champion oarsmen from other coun-tries. Dark hints of "recruiting" and "pro-fessionalism." So what else is new? Itshouldn't take much extra inducement topersuade a talented oarsman who wants tocontinue to row after graduation to do hispost-graduate work at an institution thatsponsors a crew in the most prestigiouseight-oared boat race left on this planet!

PS: Please start planning for our 65thReunion, next spring! *• Bill Vanneman,Thirwood PL, Apt. 250, 237 N. Main St., S.Yarmouth, MA 02664.

In late April, as this is being written, dis-tressing news has just reached us of the sud-den death of Jane Blakeslee Smith in anauto accident. We know that her husband,Howard '30, PhD '37, a retired Cornell pro-fessor of electrical engineering, died sever-al years ago. Our warm sympathy goes outto her daughters who survive her. As an Ith-acan, Jane was always a great help at Re-unions, ready to pitch in where needed. Mypersonal memories of Jane go back to ourhard-fought freshman field hockey games onCascadilla field.

We heard that Frankie Young has justmoved from her long-time apartment onDryden Rd. to a senior residence. Sorry, noaddress available yet.

No word from any of you for the pasttwo months. Depressing! Won't you pleasehelp to keep this column going? *»* HelenNuffort Saunders, 445 Valley Forge Rd.,Devon, PA 19333; telephone (610) 989-9849.

Whitey Mullestein, always in-volved with worthwhile projects,is treasurer of Kendal at Ithaca.This piqued my curiosity, so Iasked a few questions andlearned that with four existing

retirement communities sited near collegesor universities (Hanover, NH, Oberlin, OH,etc. of which Ithaca will be the fifth), Ken-dal provides either cottages or apartmentsfor folks who want proximity to stimulating

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people and, in the case of Ithaca, opportu-nity to walk the gorges and enjoy the Plan-tations and the cultural offerings of Cornelland Ithaca College.

I was interested to learn that of the 141units sold at this writing, all but seven havebeen purchased by people with Cornell con-nections. John Munschauer '40 is a found-er of Kendal at Ithaca, a fact of special im-portance because he grew up as my neigh-bor in Buffalo. Leave it to Whitey to busyhimself with a meritorious enterprise.

William M. Anderson Jr. wrote thefollowing in the space on the News andDues form asking for phone numbers:"None—lived too long in the desert, wherewe send up smoke signals." Since so few ofus smoke these days, I suggest that if youneed to communicate with Bill, you writeto him at 1001 Mayflower Rd., #79, SouthBend, IN. Robert S. Jonas is a travelin'man. He and his wife went on four Elder-hostels in 1994. The destinations were Ha-waii in January, Rock Island, IL in June, andtwo back-to-back to Alaska in August.

Charles A. "Bud" Storke's grandfa-ther, who graduated in 1870, and for whomBud is named, was the first student to en-roll at Cornell [as a transfer student fromKalamazoo College]. He attended his 60thReunion when we were undergraduates. Ifany of you need to be reminded that we aregetting old, that snippet of informationshould do it. * James W. Oppenheimer,140 Chapin Pkwy., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

Although listed in our class directory asClara Smith Burdan, she works under hermaiden name, Clara S. Smith. Yes, she isstill working as a social work consultant ina nursing home. When (if?) she decides toretire, Clara may decide to move to north-west Pennsylvania , where she owns morethan 70 acres of woodland. In the meantimeshe still travels, remains active in churchwork, serves on three boards of directorsin the community, and is a member of a cou-ple of clubs.

Shirley Fuchs Milton is now a victim of"post-polio syndrome" which bothers her verymuch and restricts travel. Her oldest grand-son, now at college at Memphis, has chal-lenged her to write about their family. Sheagrees it is an important project, but can'tseem to develop a "form" for it. Can you sendShirley some suggestions? Her address is: 140West End Ave., #12J, NYC 10023.

Kenneth and Jacqueline DarrieuNichols went to Wilkes Barre, PA in thesummer of 1994 to help celebrate AliceHopkins Eyerman's 85th birthday. All ofthe Eyerman children and grandchildrenwere also there, and there were two fulldays of tall tales, laughter, and talk of grand-children. Jackie and Alice were in each oth-er's wedding party. They have kept in closetouch since college days. Alice wrote, too,adding that on the morning Jackie and K.D. left they all had breakfast together to cel-ebrate Jackie's 84th birthday. The sale ofAlice's former home was completed in Au-gust 1994. She lives in Heritage House, acontinuing-care community, and is very hap-py there. She would enjoy seeing any "oldclassmates" traveling in the Wilkes Barrearea. •> Martha Travis Houck, PO Box

178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

Helen (Belding) and husbandHenry P. Smith III'36 movedfrom their home of 27 years toan apartment in Washington,DC. Fifteen years ago theybought a house in Vieques, PR,

where they spent six winter weeks eachyear. Recently they took the cruise fromIstanbul to Vienna. She is impressed by thesize of the Cornell Tradition Fund and theViviano Scholarship Fund. Dr. Philip "Hen-ry" Winslow hunts and fishes a lot fromhis Henrietta summer home and winterabode in Islamorada, FL. His seven cardiacbypasses are holding up well.

Betty, the widow of Edward Carson,sent his posthumous dues and says she en-joyed our 60th Reunion and Charles "Ted"Tracy's birthday cake as much as he did.Eugenia Gould Huntoon writes, "The Cor-nell Club of Michigan put on a wonderfuldinner when President Rhodes and wifeRosa came to town. President Rhodes spokeso well, how can we let him go? Largescreen pictures of attendees were shown,which hopefully and effectively stirred in-terest in contributing to the campaign."

Col. Deane Dunloy, after being fittedwith a pacemaker, went to Normandy inva-sion ceremonies and visited London andParis. The Royal Marines gave him and hisbuddies a fine dinner at Portsmouth, andboth Brits and Frenchies were most hospi-table. A cruise to Oslo, Stockholm, andCopenhagen with wife Martha ended theEuropean visit. Costa Rica was scheduledfor November.

Beatrice Alexander Weingart in De-cember had visited ethnic minority groupsabove the Arctic Circle and in Vietnam, andtook a train trip in Norway and Sweden witha friend. She planned to celebrate NewYear's in the Sydney, Australia Opera Houseand was looking forward to a "dig" in Israel.Son Jerry is still the "Indiana Jones for theUnited Nations, taking renewable energy forpurifying water and lights and heat to vil-lages in West Africa. Daughter Gail is attor-ney for the City Council of Los Angeles.Eastern friends saw her on television whileBea was in Borneo.

Dr. Hyman Engelberg, in goodhealth, is doing medical research, writingarticles on prevention of atherosclerosisand heart disease, since retiring from pri-vate practice. Elmer B. Isaak and wifeElla maintain membership at CornellClub—New York since moving to LongIsland, sometimes staying overnight. InMay 1993 they visited Dr. Adrian Rubinand Chester Lange, DVM '32 in Greens-boro, NC. Sadly, Dr. Lange died suddenlyin September 1994 after having been inpractice for over 30 years following hisreturn from World War II. These deathnotices were sent to me, with no survi-vors known: Aug. 17, '92, Cooper N. Lan-sing (Architecture), Petaluma, CA; Jan. 22,'92, Willard R. Hover (Agriculture),Binghamton, NY; Sept. 4, '93, Sister MaryAnne (Alice Ryan) (Arts), Mt. Angel, OR;July 30, '94, Bert Cook (Agriculture),Endwell, NY, Mrs. Diana DoBell report-ing; With survivors, Aug. 5, '94, Beatrice

Greene O'Rourk (Arts), New Canaan,CT, son Jerry O'Rourke survives; Aug. 14,'94, Dr. John A. Bealor (Arts), Reming-ton, VA, son Benjamin Bealor survives;Nov. 8, '94, Robert H. Mehnert (Arts),Oceanside, CA, wife Elizabeth survives.These were just recently received by meand may or may not have appeared in the"Alumni Deaths" column. *$» MarjorieChapman Brown, PO Box 804, Old Town,FL 32680.

^\ A Among the classmates whom Λ have relocated, Dorothy Hyde

m / I Starzyk now liyes in an e^ °fj LΛέ the home of her daughter Carol

I B I and husband Bill Emerson in^̂ ^ Action, MA, where she keepsup with "senior activities (tai chi, reading),visiting shut-ins, and correspondence withfamily and friends." Janice Buckley Lynchhas moved from the Watertown, NY snow-belt to Greenwich, NY, near a son and fam-ily, where she finds pleasure in studyinggenealogy and the history of the nearby Sar-atoga battlefield.

Margaret White Wilke found analumni trip to the Canadian Rockies to be"perfect" for "Cornellians and spouseswho are fun to be with." Ruth FieldenJacobs and husband Thomas, PhD '35are "looking forward to more trips and lessquakes" after finally finishing home re-pairs last November from the January1994 earthquake. Mary Terry Goff writesof travels with a group she belongs to—through the Panama Canal, four times tothe Caribbean, train and bus trips to Sac-ramento and Las Vegas.

Margaret Pfeif Frank reports a RoyalViking Sun cruise, taken last summer withhusband Paul, from London to Bergen, Scot-land, France, and Portugal, which they en-joyed, especially an evening at the Edinbor-ough Tatoo. My offer to help find misplacedaddresses for classmates still stands; let'skeep in touch. * Cleo Angell Hill, 4270Ridge Rd., Elba, NY 14058, telephone (716)757-2907 until Nov. 1, '95.

According to Laura Toy of Athletics PublicAffairs, there has been an increase in themomentum to raise funds for the Bob KaneMemorial Track, and many hurdles involvedin getting the project started have beencrossed. Charlie Moore '51 was an in-volved volunteer before he became Cornell'snew athletic director, and our class officersplan to be a part of the campaign when it isfinalized.

Bill Kaskela still resides in Whites-boro, NY year around and reports goodhealth with no aches or pains. He is en-joying his retirement to the fullest. Hav-ing sold the Christmas tree farms to theirchildren and their old homestead, BobBoehlecke and wife Olive (Griffin), MS'47 have moved to a new apartment at 170Wygant Rd., Horseheads, NY. Both arewell and enjoy visiting their eight grand-children scattered from San Diego, CA toNew York City.

Dr. Duane Gibson recalls that in theearly 1930s, a voice frequently called downin the late afternoon in the area of themen's dorms, the cry, "Yea, Lovejoy!" If

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tinGladys Tapman Blum '33, CE '34

In an article in 1940, Tfte Λ/ew York Timeswrote, "Among the hundred or more engi-neers and draftsmen turning out designs

for details of the East RiverDrive, Miss Gladys Tapman wasconspicuously the only womanwhen she began her work lastfall in the bureau of design inthe Office of the Borough Presi-dent of Manhattan. But in thesix years since she received herdegree of civil engineering shehas become accustomed tosurprising fellow-workers, andto meeting, and even overcom-ing, discouragement."

Έven before then," thearticle continued, "a conversa-tion she had with the dean ofthe College of Engineering atCornell University was typical.He pointed out the difficultiesin the way of a woman engi-neer. In reply, she quoted themotto on the university shieldwhich promised instruction in any subject. She was,she found, the only woman in the class, but math-ematics, physics and chemistry held much greaterinterest for her than the courses she had been study-ing." So Tapman finished the engineering program in

3-1/2 years, graduated, and her career flourished.She became Gladys Blum when she was married

in 1940, and went on to have two children. But shenever stopped working. Sheworked on the design of lend-lease power plants and on thedesign of aluminum pontoonbridges used in World War II. Afterthe war, she says, "We landed inRoslyn, on Long Island, where Iwas offered the job of superinten-dent of public works, completewith a gold badge." She was alsoa consulting engineer on high risebuildings in New York City.

"My husband was the ownerof a large furniture factory andinvited me to join the firm. So,for 13 years, until the businesswas sold, I learned a lot aboutthe design and construction offurniture. We made the newcarrels for Olin Library. When Iwent to Ithaca for the installationit was a thrilling experience."

Blum lives today in La Jolla, California. Sheadds, "My mother must have been a prematurefeminist. She always exhorted me never to be de-pendent on a man."

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

any members of our class know who Love-joy was or why he was being cheered,please write Duane at 2467 ArrowheadRd., Okemos, MI 48864. Sid Leopold isstill enjoying retirement in Lake Worth,FL, where horseback riding, swimming,and gardening are his major interests.

Max Dercum and wife Edna contin-ued their winning ways in the 1994 worldskiing competitions. In the Internationals,at Park City, UT, class 80-years-plus, Maxscored two second-place finishes in the gi-ant slalom against Austrian and Japaneseskiers. In the US Nationals at Big Sky,MT, Max scored firsts in the 80-plus classin the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, andthe combined, as did Edna in her class.Both Max and Edna were named to the1994 US National Masters Ski Team. InJuly 1994, Max attended INTERFOREST1994 (the International Forestry Con-gress) held in Munich, Germany. *> HiltonJayne, Carter Point, PO Box 29, Sedg-wick, ME 04676; telephone 207-359-8562.

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During these hot,humid days the re-freshing breezescome from AllenRobinson and hislegendary treks.

He went again with the Retired Rangers tothe Mountaineers' Snoqualmie Pass SkiLodge (in Washington), their headquartersfor hikes to adjacent Kendall Peak and themany lakes and small mountaintops. HisChristmas 1994 photo shows Red Mountainlooking like a "giant's skateboard" from thePacific Crest Trail. Allen is able to see hisfamily more often now, Katie and family inAnacortes and Tom and family on MercerIsland where they grew up. Allen is activeas president of his condo group and the ho-meowners' association and chairs hischurch's finance committee.

Florence Groiss Van Landingham iswell but "terribly slowed down in gettingaround." Her listed activities indicate shehasn't slowed down much: she drives a car,

goes to the office and church, plays bridge,and is researching the fourth Van Landing-ham genealogy booklet. She was at the Classof '35 table of ten when President and Mrs.Rhodes were honored in Palm Beach, FL.Florence keeps in touch with Louise Kreu-zer Montgomery's daughter Nancy M.Beebe, who is secretary of the board of di-rectors, Friendship House and Faith House,Portland, ME, established by Louise for thehomeless and generously aided through theyears by your help.

Richard and Marian Katzenstein cel-ebrated their 50th anniversary on the M/VRoyal Viking Queen, leaving Fort Lauder-dale, FL on April 22, '94. They stopped inBermuda to visit friends, then went on tothe Azores. In Gibraltar they found their1990 spot for picture-taking and repeated theshot. They disembarked in Monte Carlo andflew back home. After attending the USSLong Beach deactivation in July, they bookedpassage on the M/V Vistafjord for a trip toGreenland and Iceland in August with stops

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in the British Isles. In October they board-ed the M/V Sagafjord to sail along the coastof South America to Brazil to get on thecenterline of the moon's shadow so theycould view the November total eclipsewhich lasted four minutes. Dick and Mari-an have traveled the world to see eclipses,11 of them, so far. Otherwise, they're ac-tive in Cornell Clubs, American NuclearSociety, and Naval Architects.

With this writing I'm adding an EX tomy title of class correspondent. It has beena satisfying score of years, mostly becauseall you '35ers have been so faithful in send-ing your news and sparking the column. So,many thanks and keep well. <* Mary Didas,80 N. Lake Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127.

Ann Sunstein Kheel and hus-band Theodore '35, LLB '37,and many of their family re-turned in the fal1 of !?94 ft"0™the Dominican Republic, whereTheodore was awarded the He-

raldic Order of Christopher Columbus byPresident Balaguar for encouraging tourismthere. Carol Forbes, widow of our class-mate James, wrote from Ohio about thedeath of Stephen Hiltebrant in March.Two of the sons of Carol and James areCornellians, and she still keeps in touch withDavid Amsler and his wife in the summerin Skaneateles.

Charles Scott, in Tuscaloosa, AL,wrote that since the 55th Reunion he andwife Addie have visited Nova Scotia andNarashino, Japan as representatives of Tus-caloosa in a sister-city visitation. They haveboth spent some time in a hospital and aretirement home for a year. They are wellnow and look forward to the 60th Reunion.They have visited with Virginia PhillipsGodley and husband Grandin severaltimes. Charles wrote, "Gran has taught ourSunday school class, and he has in the pastflown us over parts of Alabama." Charles'slatest co-authored book, Small BusinessManagement, came out in 1993.

Helen Wright lives in Zephyrhills, FL,but came up North for 1-1/2 months lastsummer, spending a week in Ithaca and aday with Olive Taylor Curvin in Auburn.

Leanora Schwartz Gruber, New YorkCity, returned to Cornell in October 1994with husband Irving, a '36 grad of City Col-lege of New York. It was her first visit toCornell in almost 20 years. They were in-vited to attend the symposium in honor ofProf. Carl Sagan's 60th birthday. The trib-ute was a very moving one, she said, as Dr.Sagan was lauded by his many friends andcolleagues all over the world. Leanora andher husband are still practicing law in NYC.They make frequent short visits to Berke-ley, CA to see daughter Judy Gruber '71and her husband, Joseph Houska, and twograndchildren.

Everyone seems to be celebrating, orhas celebrated, an 80th birthday. Dr. HaroldWright wrote of his 80th celebration on theentire Columbus Day weekend of.1994, withall members of the family participating. TheWrights live in "beautiful Cape Porpoise"(part of Kennebunkport, ME) near son Char-lie. They took a trip to Alaska, also.

Harold Deckinger, in Pompano

Bob Boldholdt

hikes three miles

daily and jogs, to

shape up for a

season of skiing,

free for over-70s at

Alpine Meadows.

—FRED HILLEGAS '38

Beach, FL, had his 80th in January. Haroldand wife Norma spent April 1994 in Austra-lia and New Zealand (in the area from WorldWar II). There was to be a big party withfamily and friends for his 80th.

Robert Saunders, in Jacksonville, IL,hit 80 in 1993 and entered the Illinois Se-nior Olympics for the first time, winning agold medal for the mile walk, a bronze med-al for miniature golf, and a fourth-place rib-bon for bowling. As he said, "Almost as muchof a thrill as when I won my varsity 'C forboxing in 1936." He also had great satisfac-tion to represent Cornell at the inaugura-tion of a new president of Illinois College inOctober. * Allegra Law Ireland, 125 GrantAve. Ext., Queensbury, NY 12804-2640.

^ l̂̂ | For over a half-century since hism i play Home of the Brave opened

^ί m on Broadway, Arthur M. (Le-^ vine) Laurents has been an in-

l l I fluence in the American theater^̂ as writer and director. The booksfor West Side Story and Gypsy have beencalled "signature works of Broadway's finalgolden era" in the 1950s. Yet his latest work,Jolson Sings Again, premiered not in NewYork City, but at the Seattle Repertory The-ater. Art is deeply committed, together withold friend and collaborator Stephen Sond-heim, to making the New York theater dis-trict "safe again for 'the new American play.'" A lead New York Times column in Febru-ary focuses on Art's efforts to bring theaterowners, union leaders, and others togetherto deal with mounting costs and productionproblems which have already driven evenmainstream writers to appear off-Broadway.Art, no stranger to controversy and himselfblacklisted during the McCarthy era, appar-ently isn't above using "delicate blackmail"to further the cause. A late-May open fo-rum meeting promised to be very interesting!

Joseph M. Mandel concluded a 39-year association with the Bayshore FederalSavings Bank following a merger last fall.He had served as a director, chaired the ex-ecutive committee, and chaired the board.He and Rosalind enjoy traveling—Turkey in1993, Mexico and Italy last year, and Great

Britain recently. Enthusiastic about the 55threunion of his Law school class, where he"swapped tall tales" with classmates, includ-ing Al Moscowitz, Alex Gossin, Bert Ziff,Manny Rosenheck, and Eleanor RaynorBurns, he's already planning for the 60th in1999. Don't forget our '37 60th in 1997,Joe! <* Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 SaratogaRd., N., DeLand, FL 32720.

Marion Bean Parnell has 14 grandchildrenand one great-grandson, five of whom arebeyond college, while four currently attendWellesley, U. of Michigan, WashingtonState, and Washington U. Bridge is her hob-by, and she joins the large number of our class-mates who volunteer for a variety of things.

Jeanne Bredbenner Hull is an art do-cent at the U. of Arizona Museum of Art.She takes groups of children and adultsthrough the museum, explaining the worksof art and aiming for participation. She findsthis work particularly exciting, as she is re-minded of the wonderful art history lecturesof fine arts Prof. Donald L. Finlayson at Cor-nell so many years ago. She and husbandRobert, PhD '45 keep in touch with Cor-nell through the Tucson and Southern Ari-zona Cornell Clubs.

Shirley DeVoe Corney reports threechildren (Mary, George, and Ann) and threegrandchildren (Elizabeth, Raymond, andDaniel). Her travel in 1994 included Kan-sas, Florida, Cape May, and Canada. Shirleyis a volunteer at Stages, a program sponsoredby NY State and Park Ridge Mental Health.She works and plays with 9-to-11-year-oldsfrom dysfunctional homes who are at riskfor addictions. Emma Curtis Elliott'sdaughter Essie is married to Peter Hum-phrey, DVM '76. The Humphreys have sonDavid and daughter Kate. Emma went to anElderhostel on Seabrook Island, SC last Sep-tember and took a trip to Branson, MO, andnearby Arkansas, which she found ratherunique. It made Ithaca seem flat and level. Shefinds retirement as busy as one's working life-time. Don't we all? <* Gertrude Kaplan Fitz-patrick, PO Box 228, Cortland, NY 13045.

Ray Palmer's ramblings've in-eluded Branson, MO, and hereports that, though not a coun-try-music fan, he found it enjoy-able and the "fantastic develop-ment there a real eye-opener";

a daughter and granddaughter are Cornel-lians. Len Roberts is still working with"tolerant partners" but "lower back toler-ates only weekend golf." Maynard Boycefinds one advantage of snow-country living:if you have a July hip-replacement, you don'tneed to mow the lawn and the white flakeswill mask it soon enough to let you have awhole winter to recover fully.

Even at this late date, if you've put offsigning on for the '38 "mini's" luxury cruisein September, an inquiry to Bill and ElsieHarrington Doolittle might disclose a va-cancy. (Sometimes, you know, "older folks"do have sudden illness or for other reasonsare forced to cancel out.)

Bob Shaw continues to bike and spendtime in the Adirondacks, but "most effort isspent trying to keep up the old homestead,which shows the ravages of time and grand-

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children (seven)!"Take a hike? Swap yarns with Bob

Bodholdt, who tramps the Tahoe area; also,a four-day reunion at Las Vegas with otherretired pilots; Bob prefers hometown Reno;hiking three miles daily and jogging to shapeup for a season of skiing, free for over-70sat Alpine Meadows.

Phil Wolff enjoyed Reunion 1994 oncampus with wife Elsie (Hughes) '39.Howard Simons's wife of 55 years, Pat,died in August 1994. Julian Silverman'sbeen on the route of a granddaughter's U.of Virginia graduation and a grandson's Flor-ida high school diploma-getting; and thenthere was travel to the Caribbean and Ven-ezuela. Dave Serby puts it succinctly,"Nothing new." Another Dave, Russell, ismore loquacious, i.e., "No news is good news."

Steve Roberts has a new (Augustl993)wife, Ruth, at whose Bath home there's apasture, and—guess what—they have twohorses, wherewith Steve adds, "Still play alittle polo!" * Fred Hillegas, 7625 E. Cam-elback Rd., Maya Apts. #220-A, Scottsdale,AZ 85251.

Ferdinand "Ferdy," MCE '38 and BettyLadd Tate report their children are basedall over the US, but get "home for frequentvisits with their parents, as health problemslimit the Tates' own travels. They now havetheir first great-grandchild. Trudy JohnsonThomas and Everard celebrated their 50thanniversary with their four children and off-spring in attendance.

An Elderhostel took Pat Prescott Hokto Russia for three weeks. Other recent ac-tivities included a week in Ireland, partici-pation in a recorder workshop, and a big fam-ily reunion on Tomales Bay. Wilhelmina"Willie" Mazar Satina and Al fill their busydays with musical activities: the Phoenix-Scottsdale orchestras, teaching (Al), the ArtMuseum, Costume League, and writers andtoastmasters clubs (Willie). Last year theyvisited many arts and crafts museums in theEast, along with the Metropolitan and theCorning Glass museums, finishing with aflourish at the Binghamton Balloon Festival!

Carol Young Whitehill made a goodrecovery from cataract and knee surgery,and continues to enjoy her watercolor paint-ing. She and Dick '39, Vero Beach resi-dents, divide their time between Florida andthe North. Another watercolorist is GraceJohnson Crosby, who winters in Hawaii,with home base in Northville, MI. One ofher paintings appears in a recently publishedbook, The Artistic Touch, by Chris Unwen,featuring the works of 65 nationally-knownartists. Contact me if you'd like moredetails. * Helen Reichert Chadwick, 225N. 2nd St., Lewiston, NY 14092.

April is lovely here in Virginiaas ^ PreP3re this column, whichwill reach you when Cornell hasa new President, Hunter R.Rawlings III. Frank H. T. Rhodessteps down after 18 years.

Many of you mention gardening as afavorite hobby, bringing to mind our Re-membrance Garden at Cornell Plantations.Chairing the project, Madeleine Weil Lo-wens thanks all of you who supported it in

1994-95. Madeleine is also membership co-chair for the Cornell Club of Long Island.She keeps busy with two houses to main-tain (in Point Lookout and Woodmere), aswell as her "wonderful little grandson," age2, who keeps her "feeling younger."

Alice Scheldt Henry and husbandHarold, '35-37 SpAg, are still at the fami-ly farm and greenhouse operated by sonsBill '73 and Mark '76. Alice is a 25-yearmember of the local Federated Women'sClub, now celebrating its 100th anniversa-ry. They all enjoy sing-alongs at the homeof Betty "Luxie" Luxford Webster and thepiano playing of Luxie's husband, Bill '42.(Do you remember the 55th Reunion sing-alongs?) Alice's oldest son teaches music,and the youngest daughter-in-law is a Cor-nell graduate and comes from a family ofCornellians. A daughter and her husband"travel the world for IBM." The Websterskeep fit playing tennis year-round. They tookan Adirondack canoe trip last August, wentto Las Vegas for a World War II fliers' re-union, visited Washington, DC, attended anElderhostel in Kentucky. *> Ella ThompsonWright, 7212 Masonville Dr., Annandale, VA22003-1630; (703) 573-5403.

How about 53 years of perfect Rotary at-tendance! This is the record set by Clar-ence "Benny" Bent. He still finds time forbowling and golfing, assisting less fortunatefriends and relatives, and doing lots ofchurch work. Ben Dean still practices lawin Owego, NY and continues his voluminouswriting, including one volume detailing fouryears of politics in the Cornell boathouseworld. Ned Gregg is still consulting in thehigh-tech distributor field, but is careful notto let business interfere with pleasure, asevidenced by a trip to the Bahamas on aneighbor's boat. Lots of volunteer workkeeps him off the streets.

Retirement hobbies for HarveyScudder include work in paleontology,sanitary engineering, marine science, cog-nitive sciences, mosquito control, environ-mental management, and computers. Hisfax machine and computers make his homeoffice quite a place. Jim White reports a12-day yacht trip in Greece. Your corre-spondent also knows he has been doing alot of writing.

This year marks the 80th birthday and50th wedding anniversary for Lawrence"Phil" Young Sr. He's back in the north-west corner of Arkansas, where wife Wyo-ma was raised. Thinking about retirement,but still going strong as a consulting engi-neer, is Ivan Bogert. Three of his sixgrandchildren are in college, two of whomaccompanied him and Jane on a recent tripto Spain and Morocco.

Managing the family hotel in BemusPoint, NY still keeps John Johnston busyduring the summer. Retired as chief psy-chologist at the Boston Veterans Clinic,Frank Boring divides his time betweensailing in Maine and playing bridge with his108-year-old mother, Lucy Day Boring,PhD '12.

Tidbit: The person who first said"spend" your vacation never knew how righthe was. •*• Russ Martin, 65 Woodcrest Ave.,Ithaca, NY 14850; (607) 273-0188.

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/• I I tiful chimes weΛΛΛ I heard all through

WIM our Cornell days^ ̂ ^ will be interested

in this "pitch" by Albert Podell '58. Hehas produced a video called "Lift the Cho-rus," the first-ever Cornell music video.Seems it also included a group photo takenat one of our Reunions, plus 28 great Cor-nell songs and more than 1,600 other imag-es (still and moving) of Cornell's historyfrom founding to today. It is on sale in theIthaca area and can be ordered from Far AboveFilms, c/o Chuck Hunt, 85 Greenridge Rd.,White Plains, NY, 10605. What is so goodabout this effort is that proceeds from thesale of "Lift the Chorus" are being donated toCornell—to the chimes, the music depart-ment, and the university archives. Call (212)730-1369 weekdays, after 11 a.m., with anyquestions.

A few new addresses: William Mill-er, in Brazil, has a new retirement (?)home—1028 Cove Cir., Anderson, SC. Also,Lt. Cdr. Angelo Frosolone, retired, 10 Min-gay Ct, Jenny Lind, 6897 Harding Rd., Val-ley Springs, CA.

A belated note from J.W. and BarbaraWarner Brown ("Wink" and "Bobby.")They have a second great-grandchild. Winkplays golf, and I've seen the beautiful gar-den work Bobby did around their home inArvada, CO. My second great one is namedTyler, but definitely not after my cat!

Carrie Hunt Knack from VirginiaBeach, VA, "Spent three weeks attendingan Elderhostel in Spain last May and greet-ed my third great-grandchild, a little girl."Not any greats yet, but Muriel Glick Brillfrom Scarsdale reports six grandchildren.The latest one was named Kenneth for herdeceased son, Kenneth '70. The baby's fa-ther is Jonathan '78. Brills want all six tobe Cornellians!

Edward Griffin Jr., from Peoria, IL,was widowed in January 1994. He stays wellplaying tennis year round, plays bridge, andgoes to Kiwanis meetings. He manages toget in a few cruises, too! He has five grand-children. Leigh Grimes Colver, Woods-town, NJ, loves the Pacific Islands, especiallyMaui. She spent February and March 1994there and hoped for the same in 1995.

Dr. Allan Vogel writes from Goshen,MA: "After selling my practice in 1975 Ihave had several years at work with theState Health Service, five years at U. ofMassachusetts, and now I am at Smith Col-lege as director of the animal care facility.There was world travel between jobs."Thanks for writing. Carolin Medl Schwarzwrites that her interest in fine arts contin-ues. She no longer teaches, but is active inthe National Assn. of Arts and Letters aswell as her local art associations, where sheoften has her own watercolors and acrylicson display. Husband Roy spent 40 years breed-ing and showing dogs and is now retired.They are enjoying a lot of travel together.

Haven't heard from Leroy Flesherbefore this. He is a widower living in Edin-burg, NY at 87 Lakeside Ave. He retired fromAlco Engine Division of the White Motor Corp.as manager of marketing and application en-

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gineering. Thanks for the note.Please send me a note on your News

and Dues form—and get your name in print.News always makes me happy! *> CarolClark Petrie, 18 Calthrope Rd.f Marblehead,MA 01945.

A ̂ Thanks to Christmas letters fromΛ I Barbara Benson Mansell and

11 I Marjorie Lee Treadwell, I canJ M I first report that Barbara is now

W I an officer in the Military Order of^ Ά- the World Wars and went to the

national convention in Tacoma, WA last July.She was stationed in Seattle during WorldWar II but reports after seeing it again thatnothing looks familiar. Other travels in 1994included a three-week trip to the South Pa-cific with daughters Kitty and Pat and otherfamily members, starting in Hong Kong andending in Bangkok; and a Witte MuseumCamel Corps trip to Turkey, starting at An-kara and ending at Istanbul. Barbara, whosays she is rushing to do her traveling be-fore body and money give out, plans jauntsto San Diego, Panama, and Louisville thisyear. In between trips she still practices lawin Texas. I am happy to report that all sixfelines are doing well.

The Treadwells, Marjorie and Don, di-vide their year between Naples, FL andGrosse He, MI, with travels in 1994 involv-ing a cruise along the coasts of Belize andGuatemala, a trip to the Galapagos Islands,and a fascinating trip with British friends ontheir "narrow boat" through 40 locks toOxford on the Thames and back. That real-ly sounds like fun!

Enjoy the summer. <* Shirley RichardsSargent, 15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

Radford "Sev" Severance is forming astrong 55th Reunion committee. VeteranRay Kruse is in charge of dining and en-tertainment. Bill Webber, who lives innearby Rochester, will handle housing andselect class sweater or jacket. Old reliableLou Conti will account for finances. Doyour part by making your plans to attend.Good news for '41 football players and fans:all old films have been copied on videotape.Credit Howard Schuck for doing the workand visualizing the need to save films. ChuckLake has been notified by new Athletic Di-rector Charles Moore '51 that the fifth-down game film is being sent by Dartmouth.

Classmate Ben Nichols must have acase of mixed emotions. As mayor of Ith-aca, he is seeking $2.6 million. Cornell istax-exempt but contibutes to the city.Nichols claims Cornell should give more.In June 1995 Bill Webber was to attend theClass of '40 Reunion to check the facilitiesand procedures.

Irv Drantch keeps good company.When President Frank Rhodes visited SanFrancisco in 1994 , Irv and wife Lily sat atthe head table. Irv is in his 40th year at Pa-cific View Produce and says, "I could nothave done it without Cornell Ag."

Received a welcome letter torn TomShreve. He makes sense by recommend-ing that we "soft pedal" the discussion on"The Great Class." I agree. Each of us hasan opinion and there is no need to causehard feelings this late in our lives. The class

officers have named Ray Kruse "ChairmanEmeritus for Life" for all Class of '41 Re-unions. Ray writes that Debbie and he plana May canal barge trip in France. Pleasekeep our 55th Reunion in mind. <* Ralph E.Antell, 9924 Maplestead La., Richmond, VA23235.

m ^\ We have just added cruises toΛ I the banquets, parties, and balls/• i with President P. R. "Dick"

ImM f Thomas's letter suggesting thef I 1 SS Norway Big Band Cruise,^ Λ Nov. 25-Dec. 2, as a class project.

The response in just the first four days hasbeen terrific. Hal Hazen (Ft. Myers, FL)and his wife made reservations. Hal will takealong four friends, as well as his clarinet toplay on board. When Hal retired from therestaurant business he became a musicianfull-time, playing at circuses and concerts.He is at this moment performing in Czech-oslovakia, celebrating the 50th anniversaryof the end of World War II. Hal remindedme he was in that wonderful swing band thatplayed at our 50th Reunion.

Ruth Naitove Sherman (Lynbrook,NY) and Treasurer Liz Schlamm Eddy alsojoined me in signing up. Did I mention thefine swing dance hosts? Dick Wagner andJerry Asher from Boca Raton, FL are in-terested. Call me—or Reini Jenken at (415)892-2933—if you have not as yet made areservation.

Roy Hughes '45 says that when hereported to Frosh Camp in 1941 he was in-fluenced by '42ers including Fred Guter-man (New York City), coxswain of the crew,Gus Vollmer (Butler, NJ), and Bill Paty(Haleiwa, HI). He remembers you all warmlyand would like to hear from you: 5229 DelRoy Dr., Dallas, TX 75229. Roy served on acarrier in World War II before graduatingfrom Harvard business school.

Robert and Lois Slater Cassel '44(Weston, CT), who are both MDs, have trav-eled to the Dominican Republic, Greece, andKenya. Bob dropped falconry and has takenup writing poetry and African art as hobbies.Lois retired as chief of outpatient depart-ment at her hospital, but Bob, unable tostand his retirement, now works part-timein a community health center as an inter-nist/rheumatologist, describing his work as"absolutely delightful."

Paul Barden (Ripley, NY) retired andnow volunteers as Chatauqua County direc-tor of AAA. He chairs the Board of Reviewfor Assessments-Zoning Board of Appealsand is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.He and Virginia have five children, includ-ing Wally '66, a retired pilot. They travelfor weddings and sports activities of their11 grandchildren, notably Cody, a PGA golf-er and head golf coach at Pepperdine U. Paulcollects antique silver and served as presi-dent of the county historical society.

Energetic Dorothy Clark Hulst(Modesto, CA) leads a busy life volunteer-ing for the United Church of Christ andLeague of Women Voters activities. Sum-mers she enjoys restoring her family's homein the Adirondacks and visiting her 19 grand-children. She also paints watercolors, makesquilts, and participates in water exercises.

Edith Sheffield Lesure (Altamonte

Springs, FL) is into the information age.Their eight children and eight grands arebusy putting all family files, recipes, andphotos on discs. It does seem everything nowis destined to be preserved unto eternity.

But for the present, I look forward tojust hearing from you. Get on board!* Carolyn Evans Finneran, 2933 76th SE,#13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040; telephone(206) 232-3092.

J ^\ Joseph Hickey resides nowa-Λ I days with his Ithacan wife of 51/I ^ years in Falmouth, ME, where

LΛέ ^ he mini-reunes from time toI i m time with Allan Drake of Lake

A> \J Placid, NY. According to myCornellian, some of Joe's days on the Hillwere spent as pomologist and boxer, whichI can take to mean pugilist and Aggie. Notsome mind-bending position crating apples.

Having sold his company, ArmstrongPharmaceuticals, to a British firm, MedevaPLC, Herman Shepherd took the moneyand ran to found the Albert Sabin VaccineFoundation, a non-profit organization dedi-cated to the development and delivery ofvaccines here and abroad. His hope and mis-sion—with the help of his team of scien-tists, pharmaceutical executives, physicians,and public policy analysts—is to reach aninformed consensus on worldwide medicalneeds and to advance Dr. Sabin's vision ofpreventing illness and death due to infec-tious diseases through the development anduse of vaccines. He done noble.

Dr. Richard Fish, DVM '43 writesthat last June found the Fishes in Attica,NY to attend the 50th wedding anniversaryof Flora and Richard Parmelee, DVM '43,who retired from federal meat and poultryinspection in 1986 and much earlier fromveterinary practice in Slippery Rock, PA. Allthose animals breaking bones because of thepoor footing.

This from N. Miami Beach and FredMeyer: "Have been flyfishing on Cape Codand Florida Keys with eldest son, Donald, aMassachusetts psychiatrist with two daugh-ters. Younger son Steven is doctor of clini-cal psychology at Ohio State. Daughter Mar-jorie, having received her MBA, is back inschool studying to get her RN. Sold EagleIndustries Inc. almost four years ago andwork full-time as consultant and technicalexpert in the courts. Have a newly devel-oped product moving successfully on QVC.Developed new process in Germany for re-generation of plastic scrap and direct re-ex-trusion for industrial use. Have two plantsin Bombay and one in Miami with furtherexpansion on the drawing board." Otherthan that, Fred, how do you keepoff-streetoutoftrouble?

"After working as a metallurgical engi-neer for DuPont since 1943," writes PhilipPermar, "corrosion tests, evaluation of firsttitanium metal, development of metallic fueland target elements for the Savannah RiverReactors to produce tritium and plutoniumfor Uncle Sam, and acting as a promoter/salesman for the neutron-producing radio-isotope Californium-252, I retired in 1982to Aiken, SC. Since then I have produced anumber of tolerable watercolors, done sometraveling in Alaska and the entire Mediter-

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ranean, and shoveled very little snow. Dorisand our three daughters agree that my ca-reer and retirement have been great. A spe-cial treat was our 50th Reunion and seeingonce again all my fellow chemical engi-neers." * S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164,Spinnerstown, PA 18968.

It boggles my mind that many of you sendin your dues—but no news. It is disheart-ening. Thank you to those who write of theirdoings. Nelson and Bobette RosenauLeidner and Nelson went to Portugal lastMay on an alumni trip. She was the young-est alum. Says something for seniors! Agranddaughter of Rosemary Williams Wil-son and Phil, Carol Wilhelm '98, is in Artsand Sciences. She continues a family tradi-tion, being a fourth-generation Cornellian.Two of her great-grandparents, two grand-parents, and both parents are Cornellians.[She was listed incorrectly as a third-genera-tion Cornellian in the "Legacies" section ofthe June issue. A correction will be printed ina later issue.—Ed.}

Jean Hammersmith Wright writes,"It saddens me to have to accept the realityof the loss of Frank Rhodes as president ofour university. I will deeply miss him andhis marvelous ability to spin a tale. I amproud to have known him and Rosa."

Barbara Hesse Emerson last yearspent a couple of weeks in Cancun check-ing out Mayan archeology; touched down inFlorida, where a Bade County Quaker groupis working to revive a low-income commu-nity devastated by Hurricane Andrew; tookin spectacle of "sheets of bluebonnets ev-erywhere" on a quick trip to Texas. Barbsings in the 85-member Chapel Hill Com-munity Chorus and works nearly full-timeas a volunteer librarian/horticulturist inNorth Carolina Botanical Garden's library.Busy woman!

Dottie Lou Brown Murphy writes,"Bob was killed in November 1993 from afall from his bicycle. He was in the Collegeof Engineering and worked as an engineerat Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, Allied Chem-ical before entering Princeton TheologicalSeminary and the ministry. He servedchurches at Larsons Corner, NJ, Titusville,NJ, and Pluckemin, NJ before retiring to ourhome on Canandaigua Lake (NY)." Dottiehas four children and nine grands, four ofwhom are in college. Brother Dick Brown,from Denver, spent Christmas holidays withher. She and Bob had celebrated their 50thwedding anniversary and 50th Cornell Re-union in the year he died. <* Helene "Hedy"Neutze Alles, 15 Oak Ridge Dr., Haddon-field, NJ 08033.

J J Praise and appreciation for theΛ Λ 50th Reunion keep coming. Fif-/• /• ty-one years have now passed

A liteH since our graduation; WorldT Γ War II slowed the start of ourΆ ^ careers, yet many classmates

are still working. Max Stierstorfer, MDpractices medicine 70 hours a week in Allen-town, PA. Bill Wood of Bornego Springs,CA writes that he is "back in harness withthe company that bought me out ten yearsago—the beat goes on." Ed Johnson, fin-ishing a four-year term as mayor of Bayhead,

Γll keep traveling

as long as the cos-

metics take more

room in the suit-

case than the pills.

—MARY SHEARY '45

NJ, says "Business is still too much fun toretire." He's happy with his second year ofa second marriage involving a combined fam-ily of ten children.

Part-timers include Kenneth Kander,who practices fire protection engineering inIssaquah, WA. He and Jo went on a "fantas-tic" alumni-sponsored Alaska trip (WorldDiscoverer} last summer. Elaine SmithFeiden has operated an antiquarian bookbusiness for 20 years in Mamaroneck, NY.Since her husband became a part-time em-ployee at his old firm in New York City, sheruns the business from her home, by ap-pointment. They travel, especially to visitsix grandchildren. Robert Simpson callshimself "semi-busy," doing free-lance edit-ing of crossword puzzles (a lifetime addic-tion) for Random House. "It helps to keepthe brain from turning to mush in thesegolden years."

And then there are volunteers. FrankReynolds retired in 1982 from NationalTeen Challenge Office and currently servesas president, Citizens Advisory Board forProbation and Parole Southwest, MO; boardpresident, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowshipat the Southwest (MO) State U.; and mem-ber of the Springfield advisory board forcommunity development. Don Crandallretired also in 1982 from FMC R&D in Mid-dleport, NY after 22 years with the compa-ny. He is now active in Medina, NY in VFW,American Legion, Lions Club, and Method-ist Church, where he serves on the admin-istrative board and sings in the choir. JimMcTague soon completes six years as aboard trustee for Catholic Charities, USAwhich has 1,400 agencies (the largest pri-vate charity in the US). His work involvedtrips to Virginia, California, Wisconsin, Min-nesota, etc. Carl Hayssen served on theBoard of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithol-ogy for 32 years, 27 of them as secretary.He claims 25 years of perfect attendance asan active Rotariari. Skiing and tennis are hishobbies. His daughter was recently marriedin England. After an educational cruise toGreece and Crete, Bill Wheeler and Jospent a week in England visiting their sonand his wife and three children.

M. Dan Morris was honored by the So-ciety for Technical Communication, whichelected him an associate fellow for 30 years of

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contributing to the profession. Son Gregory'87, marketing editor for Chemical Week Mag-azine, was named Journalist of the Year by theUK Chemical Trades Assn. Ruth CaplanBrunton was elected to the Arizona Hall ofFame by the Arizona Home Economics Assn.and has been presenting her book ParentingPlus at various conferences. She and Bob claimsecond-term Washington State SenatorDwight Pelz, as son-in-law, and a Minnesota-born great-granddaughter.

Adult University (CAU), reports Joeland Henrietta Pantel Hillman '47 tookthe Mediterranean and Aegean cruise, alsoDublin and London theater with Betsy Kal-nay Fennelly and Donald. Fred Law attend-ed Abraham Lincoln's Washington and AlexHutchinson studied Maine's naturalhistory. * Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 1800Old Meadow Rd., #305, McLean, VA 22102.

J 9* What a Golden Re-Λ 1^ union it was! No/• f^ time to print de-

ίΛέ I tails now, but nextW I B issue will update^ ^̂ the unfortunates

on what they missed. Sylvia Epstein Blatt(Pymble, NSW, Australia) offered a goodexcuse for her absence by having a mini-reunion with our hard-working class direc-tory publisher, Ed Cohen (Binghamton,NY). Poorer defenses were offered byFrank Swingle (Boynton Beach, FL), who"stupidly arranged a trip to Alaska withgrandchildren," and Nancy Godfrey VandeVisse (Aurora, CO), also in Alaska (Pe-tersburgh) with her grandson. If an Alaskanreunion is better than an Ithaca one, we'llexpect a full report from Nancy and Frank.

Mary Sheary (Largo, FL) is also head-ing for Alaska in August, after a Europeangrand tour. She says she'll keep going "aslong as the cosmetics take more room inthe suitcase than the pills." Not quite so for-tunate is Edwin Whiting (Bethlehem, PA),whose travel is quite limited owing to a re-cent quintuple coronary bypass. Ed, whoretired five years ago from J. T. Baker Inc.,sends his best to the classmates with whomhe's lost touch, as does Dr. Saul B. Ap-pel, who's had to leave his El Paso, TXhome for the UCLA Medical Center atEncino, CA, for aggressive treatment ofesophageal cancer. "Lawson" was sorry tomiss our blast, but is looking forward to re-suming his medical practice soon. We missedboth of them and send best wishes!

Sorry to report that Philipp W. Bin-zel (Cary, IL), who had signed up early toattend Reunion, passed away in March.

Other tidbits culled from recent repliesreveal regular roaming as well as increas-ing numbers of 50th wedding anniversarycelebrations. Our aforementioned absentee,Nancy Godfrey, took eight weeks on hers,touring Australia and New Zealand beforecruising to Los Angeles via eight South SeaIslands. Elayne Sercus Friedman (RyeBrook, NY and Delray Beach, FL) did hersat the Club Med (Carribbean) in a group 16strong, including nine grandchildren. She'splanning a trip to India next. JacquelineFrost Knapp (Iowa City) has strapped onher traveling shoes after many years of car-ing for aged parents. Jackie and L. W.

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"Pete" '51 are heading for Germany andPoland for time out from maintenance ontheir 1860 house, which is "aging faster thanwe are."

George Karp (Mamaroneck, NY), onthe other hand, took on a second home inPalm Beach Gardens, FL, which he can en-joy when not journeying around the worldwith his travel-agent wife.

Robert Anfanger (Birmingham, AL),another inveterate wanderer, found amonth's tour of Hong Kong and China themost interesting ever. He reports that inall nine cities the hotels were outstanding,with superior service, but that Chinese foodis unlike that found here and sub-par. Alex-ander Dann (Memphis, TN) is still litigat-ing, representing heavy construction firmsin disputes with governmental agencies. Hereports "enjoying every minute of it, toogood to retire." Wife Mimi has a fine na-tional reputation as a ceramics teacher andartist, with works displayed in numerousmuseums and galleries. Nevertheless they,too, headed for Italy just before Reunion andenjoy visiting their four children. *>Prentice Gushing Jr., 317 Warwick Ave.,Douglaston, NY 11363-1040.

m ^ Λ We'd like to extend a fond fare-H LJ well to Frank H. T. Rhodes, the/1 l̂ k ninth President of Cornell, who

ίΛέ I I served 18 years (only AndrewI U Dickson White and Jacob Gould^ ^̂ Schurman served longer). One-

half of Cornell's living undergraduate alum-ni don't remember a Cornell without him—89,000 graduated during the Rhodes era. Wealums remember him with affection for be-ing down-to-earth, and our respect has beentranslated into generous financial support forCornell. May you and Rosa have a healthyretirement and may Cornell always share apart of your hearts.

At the same time, we'd like to welcomeour new President, Hunter Rawlings III.Frank Rhodes has known him for more thansix years and calls him "the perfect matchfor Cornell." We hope he will serve as longand be as loved as Frank Rhodes. Do all ofyou realize that at age 49, he is youngenough to be our son, and that at six foot,seven inches, we will all have to look up tohim? If you don't get to meet him in thecoming year, attend Reunion, June 6-9, '96,when he will probably greet our class per-sonally on our 50th anniversary. *> ElinorBaier Kennedy, 503 Morris PL, Reading, PA19607.

I recently entered the world of cyberspaceand signed on with America Online. For any-one who wishes to correspond with me onInternet, my address is (now, don't laugh)[email protected]. I look forward to your e-mail. Our alum from Paradise, Honolulu, HI,Franklyn Meyer writes about the big tsu-nami scare they had on Oct. 4, '94. Frank-lyn said schools and most businesses closedand there was no traffic on the roads, await-ing the "big" wave after an 8.2 Richter quakein Japan. Nothing of consequence material-ized, and the wave was a mere 18 incheshigh. Franklyn's disappointment was that helost a day in Paradise. That couldn't havebeen related to the Kobe, Japan quake, which

occurred in January.Another reunion booster from Donald

Ironside—"I hope to see all the EEs andother friends at the Reunion." LuciusJohnson Jr. reports the sad news that helost his wife of 43 years and the good newsthat his youngest daughter is engaged to bemarried around June 1995. We hope to seeyou at Reunion, Lucius, when you can giveme the low-down about our old neighborhoodin Portola Valley. Sholom Shefferman be-came a fellow of the American Society ofHeating, Refrigeration, and Air Condition-ing Engineers in 1994. He is still an avidgolfer, tennis, and tournament bridge player.

Sam Miller retired at the end of 1993and continues as a part-time consultant. Patand Sam are contemplating a permanentmove to Marco Island, FL. Sam says "It'stime to put our toe in the water and decidewhether we want to move here (Marco Is-land) for most of the year." Here's a chal-lenge for Jack Rasch. The Millers are ex-pecting three grandchildren at once. TRIP-LETS. I think that's a first.

As I write this, the tragedy in Oklaho-ma City, which happened only a few daysago, is on my mind. It gives me pause to bethankful for what we have and for our Cor-nell alumni friends. <* Bill Papsco, 3545Clubheights Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

A l̂ ί Well, this is a rest period for/I / WBW Deadline for this column/1 m is tomorrow and I ain't got noth-

LΛέ ing about you all in front of me.f Sorry about that. Class column

Ά> ™ content feeds on material gath-ered from or submitted by members, evenother folks; not a peep said or sent in re-cent times.

If schedules hold I will have returnedfrom some three weeks of European Rotarybusiness on July 1, and needless to saywould appreciate having class column dutythrust upon me. Will you be one who com-municates? •** Barlow Ware, 55 Brown Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

^ This column begins with theI last of our year-old news and

^f starts with the items sent in^ with this year's dues. From Art• Hiltbold, PhD '55, Auburn, AL:^ "Retired professor, agronomy

and soils. Discovered another branch of Hilt-bolds in Illinois and found a cousin notknown since childhood. Built deck on backof house. Replaced old asphalt driveway withconcrete. Got car to shop with broken tierod. Would rather be completing tax form.Have observed sun here in Auburn at 81degrees June 21, 35 degrees Dec. 21, whichexplains summer and winter. One summermeasured 71 degrees on June 21 at northside of Lake Erie, explaining curvature ofearth. This was all figured out by Era-tosthenese more than 1,000 years ago." C.A. "Art" Rosenberger Jr., BS AE '49, Ash-land, NH: "Retired 1983 from FMC Corp.—Materials Handling System Division. Threemarried daughters, seven grandsons and onegrandgirl! Past five years traveled to Spain,Portugal, Morocco, Carribean, Panama Ca-nal, New Zealand, Australia, Canadian Rock-ies, Alaska, Scotland, Ireland, Canadian Mar-

itimes—more pending. Between trips I hi-bernate and displace snow. Have been wad-ing through income tax returns with assis-tance of TURBOTAX. Government shouldcut spending, lower taxes, and stop makingidle threats to foreign political factions."

Jane Bowers Bliss, Contoocook, NH:"Real estate broker. Took 3-1/2-week tripto Southwest with Ted '46 and houseboat-ed on Lake Powell for a week. Highly rec-ommended!" Roberta "Bobbie" CavernoRoberts, West Chester, PA: "Spend timetaking care of horses and riding in an in-door ring next door. Son Tom (MD) nowpresident of Western Montana Clinic in Mis-soula. Very busy seeing patients. Visitedhim and wife (MD, ob/gyn) and two grand-children last Christmas. Also had a greattime renewing old friendships at 45th Re-union. Daughter Christine "75 remarried inAlameda, CA. Had lovely time celebrating agreat new addition to our family. Keep learn-ing and listening."

Now for the newer news, with muchmore to come in future columns: ShirleyRingholm Longstreet, Jupiter, FL: "Bill andI and 16 children/grandchildren cruised Alas-ka Inland Passage on Windward of the Nor-wegian Cruise Lines. Great fun. Attended athree-day high school 50th reunion at NewTrier High School in Winnetka, IL." BobLohse, Pasadena, CA: "Do volunteer workfor SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Ex-ecutives) sponsored by SBA and at Centerfor Health Care Rights (California HICAPProgram) helping senior citizens with theirMedicare problems. I chair the board of di-rectors for the agency. Clinton's reform pro-gram was too complex and bureaucratic. Anextension of Medicare ("c") would take careof many of the uninsured."

Prof. Emeritus Jack Lillich, W. Lafay-ette, IN: "Interim director of affirmative ac-tion, Purdue U." Charlie Lewis, Columbus,OH: "Have seven children, only one grand-child—please advise. I was president ofFeather River State Bank in Yuba City, CA,but moved here in 1993 and am vice presi-dent of 'Farmer Mac.' Plan to drive down-town tomorrow and watch the people." Dr.Ed Lanigan, N. Babylon, NY: "Summer1994 to be remembered. Had four childrenand spouses and grandchildren, five in dia-pers, feeding five to 16 for various lengthsof time. Still recovering."

Bill Jeffreys, Danville, PA: "Don't gobarefoot in the basement. Wasps sting!" *Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Wash-ington, NY 11050.

m ^ M ^re a^ y°u β°^ers navmβ mn?Λ I Jerry '51 and Helen Osborne

/111 Jenkins, Akron, OH, visited St.LMέ ^m Simon's Island, GA in April with

Γ l § golfing buddies to prepare for^ ̂ ^ the great Akron golf season. Did

you see Rodney G. "Rod" Miller on thecourse? Helen is still a docent at the AkronArt Museum. Jerry is consulting for BartellMachinery Corp. in Rome, NY, after retire-ment from National Standard Co. in Febru-ary found the Jenkinses in beautiful Hawaii.

John M. Gale, Middlebury, VT, is lo-cal coordinator for AARP Income Tax As-sistance, membership chair for Friends ofIlsley Library, active with the Red Cross

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blood program, in church choir, etc. He hasthree grandchildren—all girls. Betty RichSheldon, Bergen, NY, has 16 grandchildren(I won't ask!) and is interested in genealo-gy, especially descendants of cousin Lau-rence Woodcock of Maine.

Still working full-time and planning tocontinue ad ίnfinitum is Robert W. "Bob"Blumenthal, Charlotte, NC. Can't use the"R" word here! His spouse passed away inOctober 1990, but as of January 1994 hadno plans for remarriage. All his Cornellmemories are good ones and he hopes toreturn—it's been 43 years.

Lawrence S. Smith retired in 1984from a career in wildlife management withthe US Fish and Wildlife Service. Now isSouthwest representative and secretary forthe National Wildlife Refuge Assn. As his-torian for the Ninth Bomb Group, he wasworking on a history for their 50th Anniver-sary. In 1945 the Ninth Bomb Group wasbased on Tinian and flew 73 missions inB29s against Japan.

Quite a few '49ers are into second ca-reers. Elaine Tobkin "Toby" Pelavin has abookstore, after having consulted for the SanFrancisco Unified School District for 25years. Toby and Al own "a rustico in Italythat remains a delight, retreat, a place of joyand tranquility, with time to discover partsof Tuscany both secret and magical. We con-tinue to go there for a total of six weeks ayear for renewal, feasting, and visits with agrowing group of Italian friends."

Dr. Albert G. "Al" Moat, Glenside,PA, retired after completing 16 years as headof the microbiology department at MarshallU. medical school in Huntington, WV."Picked up sticks and moved back to subur-ban Philadelphia, nearer children and grand-children. Only ties to the science scene area third edition of a textbook on microbialphysiology due to be published this May.Had our bouts with ill health, but now okayand looking forward to the 50th. Best re-gards to everyone!"

The wife of John S. "Jack" Lawrencewrites that Jack is in a nursing facility attheir Life Care Retirement Community inColumbia, MD. She reads Cornell Magazineto him, which he enjoys—of course! TheRev. Walter G. Hillis finally officially re-tired July 1994, 42 years after his ordina-tion and following 30 years as minister ofthe Bridgewater, NY church. He is living inthe old family home in Davenport, NY.

Last year was a big one for Ken M. Gell-haus and Mary, who became empty nesterswith the graduation from SUNY, Binghamtonof their youngest son; they celebrated their35th anniversary with a trip to France—Nor-mandy, Loire Valley, and Paris. Did a quickbrush-up on 45-plus-year-old French.

The Schmecks, Harold "Harry" '48and Lois (Gallo) said they planned to moveand they did—last December, to Chatham,MA. A week before the move RockefellerU. had a book party for The Hostage Brain,written by Harry with a researcher. Target-ed audience—any literate adult or student.We all qualify! Next project, an addition onthe house to get everything out of storage.

A note came from Robert R. Johns tosay he had received word that John Paul"Jack" Wollam had died. Jack had been the

Have seven chil-

dren, only one

grandchild—please

advise.

—CHARLIE LEWIS '48

best man at Robert's wedding in 1951 andwill be missed.

Betsy Dunker Becker says Fran re-tired from the bench Dec. 31, '94. Two moregrandchildren since Reunion—now have 15!Dorothy "Dee" Mulhoffer Solow movedfrom San Diego to the East. She's been trip-ping to Florida and New York this spring.The Lloyds, Clara Ann (Newell) and JohnW. "Bill," Fairport, NY, thought Reunionwas great. Sign them up for the 50th. Theycruised through the Panama Canal in earlyMarch. Constance M. "Connie" Williams,Horseheads, NY, says "Retired and enjoy-ing life!"

Hope you are having a super sum-mer !<» Mary Heisler Allison, 470 ChandleeDr., Berwyn, PA 19312; telephone (610)640-1387.

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Class Reunions of-fer a wonderful op-Portumty to catchup with class-mates, a more in-depth exchange of

news than a class letter. However for thoseunable to attend Reunion, here's news fromthe best and brightest of our class. MartinHarrison writes from Hacienda Heights,CA that he is still enjoying great health anda great retirement. Tennis helps to keep himfit. Martin volunteers one day a week incuratorial care at a local small museum. Hefinally joined the ranks of grandparenthoodlast June 13. Martin enjoys ceramics as avery absorbing activity.

Dr. Jack Richard reports that he isnow working half-time for NY State Dept.of Health while continuing in the privatepractice of endocrinology. His Cornell ac-tivities include membership on the AdultUniversity (CAU) advisory board. He servedon the Medical College liaison committeeto the search committee for the new uni-versity president. He connects with manyclassmates at University Council meetings,including Nels Schaenen, Jim Hazzard,and Dick Silver. Jack made a trip to Tur-key in 1994 with Morty and Margo Can-ton Berger and Max '49 and Lois Kraus.

Marion Steinmann is involved in anew book project with doctors at Children'sHospital of Philadelphia, U. of Pennsylva-nia. This book is on infectious diseases: whatto do when your child has chicken pox; when

to call your doctor, even in the middle ofthe night, etc. Richard Gordon lives in E.Northport, NY, buying a house there afterhaving rented for 18 years. Richard enjoyssailing, house projects, listening to music,reading and writing essays. For more fun,Richard cruised in Narragansett Bay in his33-ft. sailboat along with ten other boats ina cruising group.

Edward Magee Jr. and wife Karenalso enjoy the water, and paddled a rubberraft down the Colorado River. A fabulousexperience, he reports. John MacNeill, Jr.is working as a consulting civil-sanitary en-gineer. He is active in Rotary Student Ex-change and the Cortland County Chamberof Commerce. Son Allen '74 teaches biolo-gy at Cornell. In January of this year, Johnand wife Betty spent three weeks in SouthAfrica.

David Inkeles of Middle Island, NY isenjoying retirement in a condo on a nine-hole golf course. Stan '48 and Joan CohenHalpern '51 live in the same development.David and wife Eve spent two weeks in Ita-ly last July and in August sailed to BlockIsland and Mystic Seaport with the Halp-erns. David is treasurer of the SetawketYacht Club in Port Jefferson, NY.

William Dryden writes from Salem,OR that he has sold his business and workspart-time eight to ten weeks a year. He metwith Reginald Hartwell '49 and his wifeLynn when they came through Salem in thesummer of 1994. William enjoys Reno twoor three times a year and has nine grand-kids to keep up with. Jonathan Ayers iscurrently singing in two barbershop quar-tets and one chorus. He is president of theInternational Nonsuch Assn. (sailing), andpresident and treasurer of the local home-owners association. He is also a trustee andpolice commissioner and deputy mayor ofthe Village of Huntington Bay. Jonathan andwife Cynthia (Smith) '52 had a short visitwith Pat Dexter Clark_'52 on their cruiseon Buzzards Bay; "Also saw Pete '53 andJean Thompson Cooper '52 while singingat a Strawberry Festival for the Lions Clublast June. Wife Cynthia is a travel agent andwon't quit!"

Lawrence Greenapple is still practic-ing law in New York City and also does probono legal work. He and wife Emily havepurchased a vacation home in Pittsfield, MAand enjoy mountain walking. <* JocelynFrost Sampson, 10983 Twin Cubs Trail, Lit-tleton, CO 80125; telephone (303) 978-0798.

Sabra Baker Staley sent along acopy of the Staley Standard, De-cember 1994 issue outlining heractivities, which are varied and in-elude lots of volunteer work. Lastsummer she volunteered for a two-

week slot as a camp grandma at CampBrethren Woods near Harrisonburg, VA, thejob to be interpreted pretty much as shepleased. Obviously she pleased, and at camp'send was presented with the distinguishedCool Grandma Award! Sabra's GREAT-grandmother status has been assured by thebirth of two great-granddaughters.

Burton Saunders and wife Lucille(Fein) '54 fly around the country in theirBeech Baron. They experienced some real

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FoliticaJLA. Tawab Assifi '54, BCE '55

Λ fter graduating from Cornell with a degree in civil engi-LΛ neering in 1955, A. Tawab Assifi returned to his native

-X. J Ah_ Afghanistan to work with The Helmand and ArghandabValley Authority (HAVA). In 1973 he was appointed governor of HeratProvince and finally became Afghanistan's minister of mines and in-dustries. Then the communists staged a coup d'etat in 1978, and A.Tawab Assifi went to jail.

"The communists," saysAssifi, "executed thousandsof innocent people and im-prisoned many more. Theirfirst target was western-educated people. About62,000 prisoners were listedas executed in the Kabul Cityprisons. Within the first threeyears of communist rule,close to a million peoplewere killed throughout thecountry, including those killedin the villages from Sovietbombardment."

Even after the Sovietinvasion of Afghanistan inlate 1979, the Afghan rebelsfought a fierce war of resis-tance. The Soviets eventuallywithdrew in 1988. Assifi wasreleased from prison after 22months and says, "I came out alive, smuggled my family, and thenmyself, out of communist-controlled Afghanistan in 1980. In Septem-ber of 1981, we were fortunate to be able to take refuge in America."

Today Assifi is principal engineer for the Irvine Ranch Water Dis-trict in Southern California and lives with his wife in Orange County."We enjoy the freedom, excitement and experience of living in theUnited States." He knows Orange County, California is a long, longway from an Afghan prison cell. He adds, "We consider ourselvesfortunate."

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

excitement on a trip to Ithaca in June forReunion. From Burt: "After landing atTompkins County Airport, we saw smokecoming out of the right engine. Thankfully,we were safely on the ground, but we hadn'trealized that a bird had built a nest in therear area of the engine compartment. Theheat of the engine ignited the nest, but whilein the air the force of the wind kept blowingthe fire out. When the propeller stopped

turning, the nest ignited, the fire flared,caused a lot of smoke and caused a littleexcitement, to say the least. The fire wasput out with a hand-held extinguisher andthe damage was minimal. The rest of theweekend was somewhat anti-climactic, butvery enjoyable."

Howard Smith wrote concerning hisrecent activities. "Spent a month in Alaskalast year. Traveled by plane, train, boat, and

rental car visiting the towns along the In-side Passage, plus towns inland from Bar-row to Homer. Saw plenty of mountains andtrees, plus a lot of snow and ice. Receivedthe Jack Franklin Award from the US Row-ing Assn. for lifetime achievement as a ref-eree." Steve Rounds has been asked byhis company, Eastman Chemical, to "stayon until we find a replacement." In antici-pation of retirement, Steve has taken uprowing with the Carnegie Lake RowingAssn. and uses Princeton U.'s facilities. Hesees the above-mentioned Howie Smith atregattas.

Joan Hartford Ferreira writes, "Hopeall our classmates who have not sent in theirNews and Dues to date will get them in themail soon. Thanks to all those who have re-sponded. Looking ahead to our 45th Re-union, Reunion Co-Chairs Margaret 'Pep-per' Butcher Fluke and Bill Reynoldsplanned to attend Reunion this June asguests of the Class of '50.

"Class council members will meet inIthaca on Sat., October 14 at the Statler fora luncheon meeting before the Cornell-Bucknell football game. Hope all UpstateNew York council members will attend.

"Bill Phillips has made reservationsfor a pre-Reunion reception and dinner forSat., Jan. 27, '96 following the annual Assn.of Class Officers (CACO) midwinter meet-ing in New York City. Invitations will besent to classmates in the metropolitan NewYork area in the fall.

"Last October, Peg Healy McNulty,my husband Mannie '53, MBA '54, and Ispent a wonderful weekend with BarbBurke Whitman and husband Bill Mac-Donald—a Dartmouth alum—at their homein W. Lebanon, NH. Barb and Bill are veryactive in their community and travelextensively." <• Bob and Joanne BaylesBrandt, 60 Viennawood Dr., Rochester, NY14618; telephone (716) 244-6522.

P^^Έ Third-generation news: ClassI I President Sidney's and PhebeP^ m Vandervort Goldstein's daugh-

• f ter Carolyn, who has been a vis-V f j iting professor at Cornell, was^̂ Λ the subject of a feature article inthe Cornell Chronicle in March. She hasbeen doing a study of the history of homeeconomics and nutrition. A most appropriatesubject for one whose maternal grandmoth-er was the late Helen Bull Vandervort'26 (Mrs. John '23), one of the college'smost active alumnae. Carolyn will becomecurator of the National Building Museumin Washington, DC when she finishes herwork at Cornell.

Mary Rowley Forthoffer and hus-band Frank attended two sessions of AdultUniversity (CAU) in 1994 (New Orleans andAlaska/British Columbia), and went to Aus-tralia and New Zealand last summer toattend the International Comanche Conven-tion (a pilot organization). That's a whiz-bang year. They winter in St. Petersburg,FL. I wonder what they're doing in 1995 totop those travels.

How about meeting classmates in Syr-acuse to attend a basketball game at theDome? That's a suggestion from Albert J.Beard Jr., who lives in Milford, NY but re-

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cently purchased a future-use winter retire-ment home in Calabash, NC. Mark H.Stratton, Wyckhoff, NJ, is chairman andCEO of Stratton Travel. Perhaps he'd liketo help set up that trip (or some other des-tination) for classmates. Suggestions?

Robert L. Bull is on my most-favoritelist because his handwriting is completelylegible. He is a market development con-sultant who spends much of his own timeon child injury prevention, "fighting the ep-idemic of childhood injuries that are easilypreventable, but which have become thenumber one killer of kids." This work wasinspired by critical burn injuries suffered byhis youngest son. Bob also puts on schoolprograms about our cultural heritage fromNative Americans. He lives in Temple, MEand recently took his 12- and 14-year-olddaughter and son to South Africa on a com-bined business/vacation trip.

Dr. Roger and Joan Ganders Glas-sey are staying on in Berkeley, CA, as Rog-er is retired but still teaching and consult-ing. He's "busier than ever." (Sounds famil-iar.) Last year they spent a week on GrandCayman with son Colin and his family, andthen a week sailing with Roger's siblings inthe San Juan Islands of Washington. Joan stillplays the cello and is active on the tenniscourt. They were happy to'see Anne Bald-win Tenney when she was in Berkeley towelcome a new granddaughter.

A cruise through the Panama Canal wasthe latest vacation of Frederick W. FuessIII. He has turned his hobby of refinishingantique furniture into a part-time job. If youare ever near Normal, IL and like antiques,look him up. Antiques of a special type werethe full-time hobby of Irwin Sitkin. He hada collection of handmade wooden tools. Af-ter retiring as vice president of corporateadministration at Aetna Life and Casualtyin Middletown, CT, Irwin and his wife de-cided to divide their time between Cape Codand Florida. The tools, all 600-plus of them,were made in Connecticut, and Irwin decid-ed to donate the entire collection to the Hallof Connecticut Industry in Middleton.

If any of you are in Ithaca during thesummer, drop in on your class correspon-dents! <* George and Gayle RaymondKennedy, 9 Maplewood Point, Ithaca, NY14850; telephone (607) 272-3786.

Now that the last child has beenmarried off, Webster David(Wilmington, DE) finds that thehouse that was too small for 34years is now the best size for acouple with two cats. In retire-

ment, Webb finds more time for volunteerwork with the Hagley Museum and its op-erating 1870s machine shop in a restora-tion of the DuPont black powder works."Shades of Rand Hall," says he.

Al Quinby (Sarasota, FL) has joinedClarke Advertising and Public Relations asa senior advisor which, he says, "is sort oflike of counsel." It makes him more avail-able for tennis and sailing with, for instance,old roomie Will White '50. Retiring den-tist Dick Angeloni (Oradell, NJ) looks for-ward to travel, computer courses, skiing,and visiting grandkids. Orthodontist JoeGryson (San Rafael, CA), musing on retire-

ment, speaks proudly of the careers ofdaughter Karen '86 and son David. Regis-tered nurse Joan Osborne Lautenberger(Lafayette, CA) reports hospital census downand free time up. So, she says, more fun andgames: politics. Family. Community activi-ties. Trips to the Right Coast and to theAmerican Nurses Assn. in San Antonio as adelegate. Their children threw Joan andWalt '54 a 40th anniversary party whichincluded a treasure hunt (for parking spots inSan Francisco).

Robert Stafford (Colorado Springs),still practicing internal medicine, is kindlingthoughts of retirement. He counts fivegrandchildren. Landscape architect/consult-ant Joe Alfredo and Joann (Rye, NY) havefive sons and a daughter after 36 years ofmarriage. Joe's thinking the unmarried sonsought to get hitched pretty soon: "They livetoo good a life at our Ponderosa." Retiredsince 1986, Mel Atwater (Olympia, WA)reports lots of travel and an eye on a SouthPacific cruise. Mel keeps busy helping withvoter registration "as needed" and five near-by grandchildren, needed or not. NeighborCharlie Ackerman, a retired stockbroker,has the best of two worlds, he says. He andBarbara, his wife of six years, divide theirtime between Olympia and Boca Raton, FL.Besides travel (to New England and Alas-ka), he does some teaching of investmentsin a local college.

Retired teacher Dorothy Palmer(Newington, CT) travels but also savors thesand and sea at her Rhode Island beachhouse. She tells of visits with Tri-Delt so-rors Joie Hubbert, Gayle Hodge Smith,Fay Bissell Hession, Elizabeth Ramsey'54, and Margy Horsfall Schadler.

Psychiatrist Arthur Liebeskind (NewYork City) is putting more time into privatepractice after leaving the directorship of theMICA (Mentally 111 Chemically Abusing) pro-gram at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.He hopes to do more reading and writing,he says. John Allen (Avon Park, FL) looksback on more than a quarter-century as aMichigan State U. food marketing teacher.John and Linda (Cone) '58 get to seeFrance, South Africa, and Hungary and areexporting citrus products to Japan. "Toobusy, too leveraged, too entrepreneurial toeven contemplate retirement," says John,"But for certain we'll evolve in new direc-tions as the world spins."

Community volunteer Nancy Van CottJones has been running outdoor concerts athome in Unadilla, NY and has sung Bach'sB-Minor Mass in Canterbury and Roches-ter, England with the Berkshire Choral Inst.She's planning to take up residence at Ken-dal at Ithaca (after 2000).

See you at Clark and Claire MoranFord's pool in Westport, CT, July 15? Howabout Homecoming, Sept. 23? <* Jim Han-chett, 300 1st Ave., NYC 10009.

Tired of the constant rains, I

British Virgin Islands, where Ispent nine sun-filled days sail-ing with Bob '53 and LouSchaefer Dailey, Max and Ro-

samond Peterson Bassett, Bill Bellamy'53, Phillip Harvey '55, Charles "Chick"

Trayford, and a few others from Penn andGeorgetown. The trip was pure relaxation,filled with great discussions and good fel-lowship. The weather perfect, seas a bitcalm, water crystal-clear, the colorful fishgreat fun to swim among, and most impor-tantly, no rain. A great idea for mini-re-unions away from any semblance of orga-nized time.

Harold Eaton and wife Mary-Lou areboth retired, which enables them to headsouth to their new condo in Naples, FL. Alsoresidents of Naples, at least when it's coldin Ohio, are Reg '52 and Sallie CapronMarchant. Sallie wrote that she and Reg,along with Don '53 and Eloise Mix Unbe-kant, joined the Adult University (CAU)"Beauty of Italia" trip last September, andwere dazzled by the country and the mag-nificence of the antiquities. It was truly anoverwhelming cultural experience.

Stanley Worton of Miami Beach leftFlorida last fall for three weeks of touringAustralia and New Zealand, and in Januarytook off for the slopes of Aspen and Vail.Traveling south to Central America, Anti-gua, Brazil, and Argentina were Charlotteand Daniel Sherman. The Shermans havecreated a new business named Chardan's.They plan to publish a newsletter, includ-ing items relating to investments and trav-el, topics many of us can relate to at this age.

Robert and Susan Morrison were offfor a week of sailing around Tonga in Maywith Peter and M. "Sharlle" Howze Eis-ing '55 and Peter Downey '53. Includedin their South Seas itinerary were visits toFiji and Samoa. Steven Baran is doing vol-unteer work with VOCA through the US-AID. He spent two months during the win-ter of 1993 in Volgograd, Russia, where hediscussed with bankers and agricultural lead-ers the possibility of privatization along withthe potential growth of their wine industry.He traveled to Egypt after our Reunion toconsult with grape growers and extensionpeople regarding improvement of their cul-tural practices and the quality of their fruitproduction.

Ivan La Fave sent along a delightfulcommunique. It was partly news of his ac-tivities and partly that of the antics of theurban wildlife a lot, of us find in our neigh-borhoods. Ivan has "retired," but still feelsthere is not enough time to do, see, read,explore all that is available. Amen. In the"do and see" mode, he is doing very selec-tive consulting in such places as Sumatra,Indonesia, Montreal, and, presently, main-land China.

Correction department: In my April col-umn I wrote that Bob Friedman was elect-ed president of the International Society ofInterferon and Cytopine Research—thatshould have read Cytokine Research. Hekindly wrote and said that for all he knows,cytopines may be beautiful trees, but cyto-kines are regulatory factors for immune re-sponse and cell growth. Cytokines are find-ing ever-increasing use in the treatment ofa wide variety of diseases. So, by misread-ing some of your handwritten notes I re-ceive more kind notes and an education.Thanks, Bob. * Leslie Papenfus Reed, 17Hillside Av., Kentfield, CA 94904; fax (415)925-9404; e-mail [email protected].

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This can be regard-ed as a column inlimbo: written sixweeks before Re-union, to be read byyou at least six

weeks after the festivities are over. What Ican say from this vantage point is that it'sshaping up to be a spectacular 40th Reunion,and from the list of those who've signed upso far, it looks as if we'll have a great turn-out. The post-Reunion report will reach youin the September issue.

Thanks for your response to the latestrequest for News & Dues. Without your in-put I'd have no source material for the col-umn, and I really appreciate those who takethe time to write. Howard '52 and JoanEpstein Maisel traveled to New Zealandand Tahiti with Judy Winter Burger '52 andher husband, Robert. "It was an exciting trip,even though we did not bungee jump!" Joanadds. Bob Malatesta, still doing his doctorthing at Newark Beth Israel Medical Cen-ter, says he spends as much time as possi-ble at Schroon Lake, NY; skiing at GoreMountain in winter; and boating in summer.I like that well-balanced life. Jerry Glick,another physician on our '55 staff, is pleasedto report that his older son is completinghis surgical residency at Barnes Hospital inSt. Louis. The younger son is in law schoolat the U. of Chicago; one daughter is in theUS Foreign Service, the other is an officerin the Israeli Army. Two of Jerry's four areCornellians.

Joan Groskin Promin rode the famouswhite horses of the Camargue in southwest-ern France last year, and earned two ARCobedience titles with her Cairn terrier.Joanie also imported the first South AfricanBoerboel dog to the United States. Havingwritten us that his "single best moment" atCornell was "acing" an organic exam, AlBlomquist has now confessed that not evenhis mother believed he would consider thathis best achievement. In a more truthfulvein, Al said his "best moment" was eitherwrestling Lenny Oniskey, chasing two co-eds home after leaving Obie's Diner (onewas Anne Morrissy Merick), or throwingMary Martin Van Buren '56 into Len La-din's shower.

I believe I saw Roger Burggraf s nameon the list of those expected at Reunion. Ifso, he came a long way—from Fairbanks,AK, where he is still in the mining business.The winter before last, they operated anunderground drift mining operation, whichnecessitated drilling and blasting frozengravel and hauling out the pay dirt for pro-cessing in the summer. "Have found lots ofnice gold nuggets in the process, and we areanxious to wash our ore pile to determinethe extent of our clean-up."

When Malcolm Whyte and his wifearrived in Sydney, Australia after a 15-hourflight from San Francisco, they were met byGill Boehringer, bearing flowers! Gill isdean of the law school at McQuarie U. inNew South Wales, and was able to give theWhytes a tour of the Sydney area and manytips for visiting Tasmania, where they "sawthose little devils!"

Lorens Persson is doing well after sur-gery for prostate cancer, which was discov-

We ate and drankour way across thecountryside likeSherman marchingthrough Georgia . .

—MARTIN WOHL '56

ered early, and he urges all men over 50 tohave a yearly PSA test. "Meeting and mar-rying my wife, Virginia (Johnston)," wasLarry's single best moment. The Perssonsare now enjoying making new friends at theCornell Club of Cape Cod and traveling: lastfall to England, to rent a house in theCotswolds. Ron Bush has what he calls "asmall museum"—he collects antique trucks,tractors, sleighs, buggies, and garden imple-ments. Ron's spent the last 32 years in com-mercial, residential and industrial real es-tate in Patchogue, L.I. The newsletter fromthe International Executive Service Corps,based in Stamford, CT, mentions that TomReed will be assigned to the Inst. for LowTemperature Physics in Ukraine. DickShriver was also affiliated with IESC, if Iremember correctly.

Ken Sanderson reported several "bestmoments" from his years in Ithaca: "an hon-ors banquet of Pi Alpha Xi held at Taugh-hannock Falls; a football game delayed by a14-inch snowfall; an ag engineering field tripto Seneca Pump (where men really workedand only lived to be 55); and the pranks ofEd O'Rourke, PhD '55." Stan Shetlerrecalls his pride in being named first mar-shall of the Ag college Class of '55, and go-ing to the platform to accept the diplomafrom President Deane Malott. A final noteto contemplate: Gordon White's descrip-tion of himself these days is "over the hill andpicking up speed!" <» Nancy Savage Morris,110A Weaver St., Greenwich, CT 06831.

Class members who attendedAdult University (CAU) courses:William Abramson and Made-line, "The Play's The Thing:Theatre in Dublin and London";Jack Wootton, "Family Mat-

ters"; Carlyn Wagner Johnson with Daniel,Carol Pearson Whalen went to the CapeMay weekend; Joseph Libretti and wifeBeverly were in Alaska; and, finally, TomParks and Eileen went with CAU to Sicily.

Class writers: Syrell Rogovin Leahy,writing as Lee Harris, had a recent readingof her newest murder mystery, The Christ-mas Night Murder. Syrell's detective isChristine Bennett. The publisher is Fawcett.Dr. David Ellison is still teaching at Rens-selaer Polytechnic Inst. and has published

another book, Healing Tuberculosis in theWoods: Medicine and Science at the End ofthe 19th Century, publisher: GreenwoodPress. Allan Bean, in Tolland, CT since1984, is self-employed as an industrial ad-vertising copywriter; plans to keep doingthat for another year.

Newly-wed Herbert Bernhardt, Bal-timore, MD, on Sept. 2, '94, to KarenPearce—with many congratulations.

Alan Butterfield, living in Brazil, writesthat he bought a new plane . . . does lots offlying . .. and his recent hobby is ikebana.

Annette Spittal Huene, Fresno, CA,active in her local medical society teaching(creatively) abstinence for teenagers. Dr.James Larrimore, Vienna, with the Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency, did anoth-er round-the-worlder for his BIG SIX-OH.

Phyllis Miller Lee, Manchester, VT, isa painter—small scale narratives—and is cur-rently involved in a study program called Oneon One with Robert Reed at Yale University.

Milton Lendl, Delmont, PA, retired in1992 from Agway Petroleum Corp. He isactive with the Christmas-in-Salem-Cross-roads Program, featuring a trip throughBethlehem with live vignettes and a cast ofhundreds of people plus animals . . . a laBethlehem at the time of Christ's birth. Hishobby at his farm in Upstate New York iscollecting and restoring old tractors. Miltonnow has six in perfect working order. He'salso restoring a 1950 Ford two-ton truck.Sounds like fun for transporting us aroundcampus at our next Reunion.

From Martin Wohl, St. Louis, MO:"Since I accepted a 'golden handshake' fromMonsanto last year and joined the ranks ofthe happily retired, Sue and I have done ourlevel best to keep TWA solvent. Our fre-quent-flyer account continues to grow (atmy expense now, rather than Monsanto's)as we continue our world-perambulations.Last fall we rented a villa in a small hill townoutside of Florence and spent a month ex-ploring Tuscany and Umbria. We ate anddrank our way across the countryside likeSherman marching through Georgia . . . thisspring we spent a month traveling in north-western France. We stayed at a Renaissancechateau in the Touraine and a seaside re-sort in Brittany . . . we are currently in theprocess of organizing a five-week tour ofNew Zealand and Australia." Martin con-cludes with this: "Had I known that retire-ment was this much fun, I would have doneit much sooner."

James Sterling, Hermosa Beach, CA,regional director—metro traffic control, pro-viding traffic, information to more than 1,100radio and television stations in the US andUK. * Phyllis Bosworth, 8 E. 83rd St.,Apt. IOC, NYC 10028.

Betty Quinn Lewis had a visitwith Carol Gehrke Overton awhile back. Carol flew in fromCalifornia to see her son, who isdoing graduate work at Dart-mouth, and she and Betty attend-

ed a tennis camp at Killington, VT. Bettyhas been volunteering full-time for a RonaldMcDonald House in Portland, ME whichopened last spring. It was a year ago thatBarbara Flynn Shively toured Ireland with

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the Morris Choral Society, but the memo-ries are more recent as the trip was video-taped. When she's not singing (or writinglimericks), Barbara is a technical editor andwriter in Convent Station, NJ. John '56and Roberta "Bert" Grunert De Vries arebuilding a new house in Ocean City, NJ andexpecting visits from Cornell' friends. Bertis on the board of the Philadelphia Zoo, andalso serves as secretary of the national boardof AZAD (Assn. of Zoological and AquariumDocents). Bill Konstant '74 and TomDolan '48 are also active with the Philadel-phia Zoo. Ruby Tomberg Senie has beeninvolved with the President's Council ofCornell Women and helped to plan the Cel-ebration of Cornell Women that was to beheld on campus last April. There is also go-ing to be a weekend seminar for all womengraduates of classes in the '50s on Novem-ber 4 in New York City. There will be moreinformation in upcoming issues of CornellMagazine. Ruby is an epidemiologist doingresearch in the field of breast cancer. Morespecifically, she studies the factors thatrelate to the risk of developing the cancer,as well as the factors that influence survivalamong breast cancer patients.

In the grandchildren department,Elaine Meisnere Bass has five, with moreon the way. She and her husband visitedChina and Japan last fall and are spendingthe summer at their place in Great Bar-rington, MA. Sue Breslow Dillon's daugh-ter, Eleanor Dillon Petigrow '87, present-ed Sue with a granddaughter last year. WhenSue is not busy teaching sixth grade, sheserves as "first lady" to husband Marty'spresidency of the Kiwanis Club in Merrick.

News notes are almost gone, so dropme a line directly with your updates.* Judith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave.,#1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

From the back of the alphabetcomes a group of duespayersfrom late 1994' includin§ the

Rev. Jack Walters, continuingpsycho-spiritual renewals formany at IAM, Jack's and col-

leagues' counseling and retreat center nearNew Albany, PA. Jack is re-editing his book,Healing the Fractured Self, heading towardrepublishing, while also going through thedemanding process of becoming a fellow inthe American Assn. of Pastoral Counselors.He's had a busy winter.

Other duespayers include: Hank Wall-fesh at Whale Communications in Stamford,CT; Dr. H. Jayne Vogan; Paula Finkel-stein Thier; Allan Tessler, executive, nowfrom a new address in Wyoming (1100 PineSiskin, Jackson, WY); Robert Task; JohnTallman, a manager with Dresser-Rand inHouston; Russ Taft, still engineering withRockwell in Hawaii; Robert Purcell; RalphPrescott Jr.; Barbara Kummer Or-phanides (Mrs. Christos), still in retail withher Cookery Ware Shop in Peddlers Village,Lahaska, PA; and Thomas, DVM '58 andCarolyn King Nytch in Vestal, NY. We'llhope to see news from these folks (withdues, too, hopefully) in 1995-96.

Lois Cohen Tucker has completedeight years as counselor/program coordina-tor for formerly battered women and chil-

dren in the Rochester area. Lois writes alsothat both daughters have returned to gradschools; Amy at Stanford and Belinda atHarvard. The Tuckers planned to attend theArizona Adult University (CAU) program inMay 1995 and then to continue to enjoy theirsummer home in Sandwich on Cape Cod.

Some 'mates deserve extra thanks foradditional class contributions in their dues:Don Gleklen, a corporation officer forMediq Inc. in Pennsauken, NJ; Hugh Gun-nison from Crown Point, NY; and Chuckand Janet Arps Jarvie—thanks for the ex-tra help.

And a nod to microbiologist LindaHansman Hanson, writing from LouisianaState U. in New Orleans, for her annualdues, triggered by a recent Cornell Maga-zine cover. Linda and husband Bill '55 stillreside in Pearl River, LA.

Paul Tilly is self-employed these past15 years in the P. F. Tilly Agency in Lima,NY and has become a partnership this year(with his daughter, particularly). The agen-cy has grown every year, and Paul's enjoy-ing it greatly. Fred Sharp III continues asa business executive in human resourceswith Western Union in upstate New Jersey,as wife Linda keeps busy in WestchesterCounty housing sales, and four grown chil-dren ranging from 18 to 32 make their nich-es in the world. The two younger boys areat Syracuse U. and Kent School, respective-ly. Fred has an interesting summer projecton one of the islands of North Carolina, con-serving loggerhead turtle breeding grounds.Carmon "Beaster" Molino continues teach-ing school (did his students give him thatnickname? or does that go 'way back?) inGroton (NY) Central School. Last summer,daughter Terri-Lynn Molino Lauchle '90was married in Ithaca.

Jack Weaver has a new job as researchdirector for the American Inst. of ChemicalEngineers. Jack has responsibility for sixtechnical centers dealing especially withpollution prevention and chemical processsafety. Jack and Linda still live in Meadow-brook, PA, but also have an apartment inManhattan near the UN and would like torenew acquaintances with Cornellians inNew York City. They would like to catch upparticularly with Len Harlan (who last re-ported from Princeton, NJ), who may nowbe in the NYC area, at least part-time. Anold note from Lois Bates Walnut reports,with her dues, that she and husband Tho-mas enjoyed trips to Ithaca from Syracuseto visit both children when they overlappedon the Hill. Susan '93, the elder, was con-sidering grad school in history last fall (atwhere else?), and Stephen '97 is in Archi-tecture. Robert Flynn is still in Southfield,MI, but has moved to a new residence at26000 W. 12 Mile Rd.

More old duespaying names emergedfrom somewhere, and these good folks alsoshould be acknowledged—next time withsome news, maybe: realtor Hugh Hartz-berg, with offices in the Buffalo suburbs;finance executive Dick Hanson, still withMerrill Lynch Business in Princeton, NJ;Dick Haines, from Stockton, CA; Dr. Wil-liam Herbold III; Dave Hoffman;Howard Holtz, an engineer with The Aero-space Corp. in El Segundo, CA; Mike Hor-

ner, another Californian; Jack Ingley, pro-gram manager with the government in Vir-ginia; and Linda Schneelock Jones fromGreenwich, CT. Joel Justin reports fromDevon, PA that he is now retired, so we'lllook for travel news from Joel and Nancy(Easton) '59 soon. Richard Felner nowlives in NYC at 200 E. 57th St., having comein from the New Jersey 'burbs of Mamaron-eck in late 1994. Kathy (now Katie) DavisFishman is a writer, self-employed, inBrooklyn as her two grown daughters con-tinue advanced studies, one in anthropolo-gy at New York U. and the other in law atYale. The Fishmans enjoyed a trip to Mo-rocco last year, celebrating Linda's havingfinished the first draft of a new book aboutchild psychotherapy. It was to be publishedabout now, so, therapists, watch for it in yourlocal bookstores under the title Behind theOne-way Mirror. Enough for now; enjoy yoursummer, 'mates. <* Dick Haggard, 1207Nash Dr., Fort Washington, PA 19034.

Great news: thanks to an in-creased number of duespayers,we have been allotted morespace—up to 1-1/2 columns—for class news. Not-so-greatnews: classmates are not pro-

viding enough material to regularly fill thisspace. Please write or telephone me withinformation on travels, jobs, avocations,homes, and families.

Natalie Shulman Cohen and husbandDon are on leaves of absence from theirjobs—she, as assistant professor of molec-ular pharmacology and toxicology at the U.of Southern California School of Pharmacy,and he, as professor of applied math atCaltech. They're living in Santa Fe untilmid-September, where they have a house"with a fabulous view of Santa Fe and theski basin." Natalie has been writing papersand proposals and Don is a consultant at LosAlamos National Laboratory, where last yearhe served as director of the Center for Non-linear Studies. Natalie writes that she keepsin touch with John and Martha Wenner-berg Kiessling, who have recently retiredand moved to Palm Coast, FL, wherethey've built a home.

The Grandparents Club: Ed Tavlinand wife Beth (Streisfeld) '62 becamegrandparents last August when theirdaughter gave birth to a red-haired, blue-eyed daughter named Lauren. Ed, astockbroker with Fahnestock and Co.,continues to draw a second salary—themunificent sum of $1.00 per annum—asmayor of Bay Harbor Islands, FL. Fred'57 and Joan Ellis Jones welcomed theirfirst grandchild, Sarah, on Feb. 26, '95.Joan is nutrition site manager and volun-teer executive director of the Senior Ac-tivity Building in Ithaca, MI, a new facilityfinanced by private donations and profitsrealized from several group activities.

The latest book from Ruth Chima-coff Macklin of Riverdale, NY is Surro-gates and Other Mothers (Temple Univer-sity Press, 1994). For the past year, Ruthhas been serving as a member of Presi-dent Clinton's Advisory Committee onHuman Radiation Experiments. The com-mittee's report is scheduled to be pub-

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lished later in 1995. Sam Schoninger ofColorado Springs, CO has been phasingout his law practice and is devoting hisenergies to repositioning shopping cen-ters. He missed last year's Reunion be-cause he and his wife were cruising theBaltic Sea countries. After the cruise, theyheaded to Scotland, then went to Oxfordfor a course in English mystery writers.

Gladys Kessler, US district judge forthe District of Columbia, traveled to Isra-el under the aegis of the New Israel Fundto study the status of women. She writes:"The problems are very substantial interms of violence against women, unequalemployment opportunity,(especially in themilitary), and grave discrimination againstwomen in the granting of divorces andproperty settlements by the religiouscourts. However, I was deeply moved bythe visit, the beauty of the country, thedynamism of the people, the complexityof all issues and their relationship to his-torical experience, and the ideals of socialjustice which still seem to motivate mostIsraelis."

Paul and Dotty Isaacs Winick of Hol-lywood, FL "very much enjoyed" an alum-ni trip to Montana and western Canada lastsummer. "As has been our experience inthe past, the trip and the people on it weregreat!" writes Dotty. George and CynthiaVernardakis of Murfreesboro, TN fell inlove with Sydney—"the most beautiful cityin the world"—during a trip to Australiaand Tahiti. The highlights of a cross-coun-try trip taken by Andy '61 and Sallie AnnSook Joachim of Delmar, NY includedvisiting friends, such as Joan GerringWarriner '57 in Charlottesville, VA, andFaith Jackson Crittenden '60 and hus-band Jack Kelman in Los Angeles. Attend-ees at the summer 1994 wedding of Dan'56 and Patricia Lasky Rathmann's sonincluded Nancy lams Walsh, Ann Sun-dermeyer Hill, Gary Kirby '56, RayRissler '50, and George F. Hays '60,BME '61. Attending the wedding ofHarold Kaiser's son Hal were Ron Butzand Dennis Yakobson '58.

John Hitzel of Edgewater, MD hasdeveloped a home-office sideline: account-ing, tax preparation, and payroll prepara-tion and reporting. "I have 2.5 more yearsworking for the US Congress before Un-cle will pay me not to work. Then I mayexpand my sideline,'' he says. Addresschanges and corrections: Fred Harwood,206 Doe Trail, Morganville, NJ; RobertRich, P.O. Box 6099, Cherry Creek Sta-tion, Denver; Col. Ross Schmoll, (USAF,Ret.), 1137 Player Way, Herndon, VA;John White, 105 Marlborough St., Bos-ton, MA 02116.

Jim '54 and Marge Holeton Weav-er now divide their time between 1605-ASpoonbill Lane, Naples, FL (Oct.-April)and 613 W. Chesapeake Ave., Towson,MD. Jim retired from Merrill Lynchafter 30 years, giving him more time fortennis and golf. Marge works part-timefor a travel agency and is doing lots oftravel, including five cruises in the pasttwo years. *• Jenny Tesar, 97A ChestnutHill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; (203) 792-8237.

By the time you ^^~^^~read this column in _f J["mid-summer, the35th Reunion willbe part of MorrisBishop's "union of

memories " that "help make us all Cornellians. . . " That's hard to believe when writingthis column during one of the Midwest'sspectacular spring thunderstorms! The Sep-tember column will include a full account ofthe Class of '60 at Reunion 1995.

Lenna Davis Kennedy enjoys sharingspecial times with her grown children.Daughter Linda was just admitted to theMaryland Bar, and son Liam is educationaldirector of the Maryland Science Center. SonSean and his wife live on the Eastern Shore.Marianna Giacalone Goodheart and hus-band Bill live about 15 miles north of SanFrancisco and thoroughly enjoy a beautifulnatural area and having their two sons liv-ing nearby. She teaches classes in chalk pas-tels at the College of Marin and Fort MasonArt Center. She also works in fabricatedsteel, and recently joined two other sculp-tors in a warehouse studio to expand theirwork. Her works have been in seven exhi-bitions this past year, "one with a title my fam-ily felt was very amusing, 'Women of Steel.' "

Bob Aldinger, retired two years agofrom the Navy, teaches seventh-grade mathin Alea, HI. Bob Tapert has a new address:28363 Forestbrook Dr., Farmington Hills,MI. He "helped downsize local government"by retiring from his city planning job inMarch 1994. Lee Soule reports that sonJonathan '94 began post-graduate studiesat the U. of Illinois-Champaign in September.

John Lincoln, an Ontario County (NY)dairy farmer, was elected president of the25,000 member New York Farm Bureau lastDecember. He is the first Western NY farm-er to head the state's leading farm and ruraladvocacy group in over a quarter of a centu-ry. Fred Wehran reports from Mahwah, NJthat he started Wehran Engineering in 1968and built it into an international environmen-tal engineering firm employing 325 and spe-cializing in solid and industrial waste man-agement. The firm merged with Emcon, apublicly traded company, in 1994, and Fredis currently seeking new business opportu-nities. Henry Bienen, president of North-western U., was elected to the Northwest-ern Memorial Corp. board of directors in Jan-uary.

Carol Roberts Blodgett's "full-timejob" since moving to Cincinnati four yearsago has been the building of a timber framehouse. The Blodgetts have rented six homesin the course of the project, and currentlyrent a floor in the home of Kennett Rich-ardson '62—"It's like a return to the com-munal living of college days." Carol workspart time as an Outside Sales travel agentand may resume counseling once the build-ing project is completed. She will be in Ber-muda in October and plans to join EricPeniston and family for dinner while there.Her son Clifton Edwards '85 works incomputer graphics as a product manager fora science bureau in Portland, ME. MarciMartindale Braden and family are still liv-ing in London. Youngest daughter JeniBraden '98 "reminds [them] that there are

a few changes on the Hill since the oldendays. How nice that Class Notes and Cor-nell Magazine find us eventually and keepus updated on some of these changes!"

Sue Avery Wood Brewer joined Don'59 for Reunion 1994, dividing her time be-tween '59er events and those of her father,John Wood '24. "I talked with JudyThompson Hamer at the '24 events, whereher father also was celebrating his 70th Re-union. Reunion was followed by a brief visitin Binghamton with Tom '59 and SueLaubengayer Cowing, who were prepar-ing to move to Australia for a sabbatical year.

More news to follow in September's35th Reunion column! * Gail Taylor Hodg-es, 1257 W. Deer Path, Lake Forest, IL 60045.

We have received notice of theApril publication of Ed Oches-ter's Allegheny, a book of poemsdescribed as follows: "These doz-en poems are very wry and in-sightful. The language is direct,

loose, and most of all, real. The edition islimited to 350 copies, letterpress printed inhand-set Goudy Oldstyle on Mohawk Let-terpress Text, wrapped in Americana andhand sewn." Place your order with AdastraPress, 101 Strong St., Easthampton, MA01027.

That does it for news—PLEASEWRITE! Both Alan Metcalf and I look for-ward to hearing from you. * Nancy His-lop McPeek, 7405 Brushmore, NW, N. Can-ton, OH 44720; telephone (216) 494-2572(H); (216) 438-8375 (W).

^\ ̂ \ Welcome to those of you whoB ^ I don't-regularly see this maga-W\ m zine. We hope you'll return! Re-I I I cent duespayers include Priscilla\m f j Snow Algava, Alton Atkinson," *• Jeremy Banta, Margaret San-delin Benson, Bill Brozowski, JohnBurke, James Gantor, William Chand-ler, Nancy Williams Clark, Alan Cohenand Robert Dedrick. Also Stephen Et-tinger, Judith Leach Evans, Judy Slos-tad Franz, Hamlin Gilbert, Gary Grunau,David Hill, Tom Holland, Neil Irving,Linda Gilinsky Klineman, Dr. Martin Kol-sky, Paul Manowitz, Linda ZucchelliMartinelli, Joanne Trupin Marx, JosephMiller, David Palmer, Gabe Paul, ChrisProtos, John Pruitt, Ken Richardson,Charles Slutsky, Bruce Steele, ArthurSteffen, Mary Thomas Strickler, WillaRadin Swiller, Vuko Tashkovich, NancyTerrell Weight, and David C. Wright.

New address for Duke and Pat Padg-itt Wellington is 686-B Midway Dr., Sil-ver Springs Shores, Ocala, FL. The Well-ingtons plan to divide their year betweenOcala and their summer home in Claryville,NY. Pat hears from Karen Palmer Ander-son, who just stepped down as mayor ofSaratoga, GA. Karen's and Einar's two sonswere both married last year.

Other new addresses include GaryGrunau's: PO Box 479, Milwaukee, WI.Gary is president and CEO of the GruconCorp., a contractor-developer. His project,Schlitz Park, received awards from boththe Council of Urban Economic Develop-ment and the Urban Land Inst. Endodon-

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tist Dr. Gary Gross has moved to 17927S. Dick Dr., Oregon City, OR. GeorgeCohen is an engineer with Scott Paper,and resides at 8217 Cadwalader Ave., El-kins Park, PA.

"It's a boy!" crackled over the phoneline from Migori, Kenya, where our firstgrandchild made his entrance. Son Larry andhis wife are doing volunteer work in a clinicon the shore of Lake Victoria. Larry's twinsister Valerie heads for Thessaloniki, Greecethis summer, where she'll be public affairsofficer at the US Consulate. Her previousforeign service assignment took her to sev-eral cities in China. Their parents' motto:"Have passport, will travel." Bob '59 and Ienjoy having Will, our youngest, a PortlandCPA, closer to home.

Jane E. Brody Engquist's latest "baby"isJaneBrody's Good Seafood Book, publishedlast fall. It's a complete guide to seafood se-lection and cookery, including 230 low-fatrecipes. Their son Lorin was married lastfall in Pasadena. His twin brother, Erik, waswed in May at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Austin Corporate Properties ofWestchester was featured in an article inReal Estate Weekly. Carl Austin's firm, cel-ebrating 25 years in the commercial realestate field in Westchester, has a small,hands-on practice with focus on office bro-kerage, hotel, golf course and retail devel-opment. Carl notes that his firm has grownalong with the county and has handled manyof the major transactions tϋere. It's an im-pressive resume!

There's been no harvest report yet onthe winter wheat crop planted on 20 acresof George Slocum's "Cayuga Lake Farm"by Mike Duesing. Mike is director of en-gineering corporate relations at the Col-lege of Engineering. His office facilitatesnetworking between companies and thecollege. Both Duesing daughters are intosoccer, Wendy as assistant coach at Col-gate, Amy '95, All-Ivy and most valuableplayer.

Also in Ithaca are John and Lynne Sny-der Abel. John is professor of civil engineer-ing at Cornell. Dr. Donald Burgett isdirector of student services, Ag and Life Sci-ences.

Geoff Nunn is president of CaliforniaDomestic Water Co. in Whittier. He andPatti live in LaHabra. Stu Rosenwasser isalso a Californian, in Rancho Sante Fe.

The varied occupations of our class-mates run the gamut of experiences: DickBornstein is president of the HuntingtonTwp. (NY) Chamber of Commerce. BobAdamowski is CEO of Pietro's Corp. (piz-za) in Bothell, WA. He and Joni live in Belle-vue. In Fort Lauderdale, FL, Michael Eganis CEO/chairman of Alamo Rent-a-Car.Chris Berry is a market researcher withAccuData in Memphis, TN. Your FedEx mis-sives may be piloted to their destinationsby Tom Tasar, who's in Belle Mead, NJ,when on the ground.

Larry Gilliland is treasurer of Sum-mit County, CO, and lives in Silverthorne.Helen Zesch Ward is an interior design-er. She and John '60 live in Owings Mills,MD. Hotelier Ramesh Khanna is withthe Holiday Inn in Bombay. David Har-rald manages environmental affairs for

Calaveras Cement Co. in Walnut Creek,CA. At Goddard Space Flight Center, Da-vid Mengers is instrument manager forNASA. Carol Cooper Keil (Mrs. Otto'59) is a wholesale florist in Huntington,NY. Miriam Littman Ciochon managesthe library for the Federal Reserve Bankof San Francisco.

You'll be receiving an easy-to-returnnews postcard soon. Please just do it. <* JanMcClayton Crites, 2779 Dellwood Dr., LakeOswego, OR 97035.

^\ ^\. With summer upon us, I hope• I all of you are taking advantage•̂ J of these beautiful months, wher-I I ^k ever you are. Dick Lynham• I I I writes from N. Canton, OH that\^ \J he is pleased with the progress

of the foundry he bought several years agoafter many years with big business. He feelssmall business is the real world. Wife Betty(Card) is leading a successful effort to re-store a magnificent pipe organ in the localCongregational Church. Dick also wants us

Closest Thing to Being There

T he Ivy Room, catching rays

in the gorge, the Campus

Store — above ground, the

Arts Quad. What we wouldn't give

for those days back at Cornell. Ah,

but you can return to Cornell. Be-

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receive your subscription to Cornell

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on the Hill, news of classmates and

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1962, to Cornell Class of 1962, P.O.

Box 6582, Ithaca, NY 14851-6582. Or

call (607) 255-3021 to charge your class

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you to all classmates who have al-

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to note how well-represented the Class of'63 is in Cornell affairs—five classmates onthe board of trustees, with Jules KrolΓsrecent election. For those of you who didn'tknow, our own Laing Kennedy resignedas Cornell's director of athletics and physi-cal education. He had accomplished a lot in11 years. The renovation of Barton Hall andSchoellkopf Field, expansion of the Grum-man Squash Courts, construction of the newEquestrian Center were funded through theRobison Fund Committee, on which he hasbeen a volunteer for 20 years. Good luckwith your future career choice, Laing.

Dick "Gibby" Gibson and wife Caro-line are in Hingham, MA, where Dick is dis-trict manager for Kimble/Kontes Glass.Doris Grayson Kitson writes that RobertFilner won re-election to the US House ofRepresentatives from San Diego. Doris at-tended a Manhattan fundraiser for him lastfall. Dick '61 and Sara Hart Olson havemoved to Upper Montclair, NJ, where Dickis now working for Schering-Plough in Lib-erty Corner. Son Dan '96 is in ILR. Daugh-ter Liz will be a sophomore at Earlham Col-lege, Richmond, IN.

Margaret Pitkin is a busy person withadopted children John, 5-1/2, and Elizabeth,4, and two cats and two dogs. She is finish-ing an MPA in accounting at Georgia StateU. and plans to embark on a second career.She received the John W. Cook Scholarshipat GSU in 1993. She schedules annual sum-mer getaways with Terry '61 and VickiScoble Oldberg and Helen Perry. Dr.Thomas Newman has been a urologist inthe Tucson area for 20 years. He is on theboard of directors of Carondolet Health CareCorp., Health Horizons IPA, and Jewish Fed-eration of Southern Arizona. He sends hisbest to his freshman-year roommate, ClassPresident Craig Peterson.

John Remmer is senior editor of 1CMaster in Garden City, NY. DaughterSharon '95 spent her junior spring semes-ter at York U. in England. Judy BrantonWilkins is a volunteer with "Music in theMountains" in Grass Valley, CA. HusbandPaul is a mediator with American Arbitra-tion Assn. in northern California. PamelaGold Schreiber is a psychotherapist in pri-vate practice in Philadelphia. In the summerof 1994, her husband was keynote speakerat an international conference on immunol-ogy in Japan, which also took them to Thai-land. Their older daughter is at U. of Penn-sylvania's medical school, and the youngerdaughter has graduated from GermantownFriends School.

Cornell sent word of the death of ourclassmate, Harold Sallada. Condolences tohis family. News from Dr. Gary Smithwould take up a whole column—he has anexpanded family including wife Patricia andeight children, ranging in age from 27down to 2 months. Patricia works in Gary'soffice; they are distributors for Rexall Show-case International, a company which produc-es health/wellness products. Gary is ac-tive with the local Cornell Club, hospicechapter, and Right to Life Party. He sawJ. B. and Carolyn McArdle at the CornellClub—New York. * Nancy Bierds Icke,PO Box 1675—Eurocentre, Racine, WI53401-1675.

Congrats to Robert

Strudler, president

of US Home Corp.

on being named

the 1994 National

Builder of the Year

by Professional

Builder magazine.

—BEV JOHNS LAMONT '64

A big thanks and whew! to youa^' as y°ur latest news has ar-r*ved with your dues in time forthis column and several subse-quent. Keep it coming! Now,let's start off with new marriage

news: congrats to Jane Fennelly (4326Park Paloma, Calabasas, CA) who was mar-ried in January 1994 to Dr. Jay Allen Brent(new address coming, Jane?). Jane is an at-torney, a partner in the law firm of Bron-son, Bronson & McKinnon. Both Jane andher husband enjoy golf and skiing.

Similar congrats to P. Alan Loss (2645Stagecoach La., Lancaster, PA) who, namenotwithstanding, gained a bride (name,please, Alan?) last April. The couple thenhoneymooned in Hawaii (and only fiveweeks previous, he was in Israel). The movemay or may not have been prompted by hisattending the wedding of Barrett "Buddy"and Carolyn Rosen's daughter in Nashvillelast August. Alan is a certified financial plan-ner to closely-held business owners, spe-cializing in planned-giving strategies.

The foregoing Cupid-esque nuptialsmay or may not have been influenced byDr. Richard Nemiroff, who with daughterRachael participated in the National TargetArchery Championship. Congrats are alsoen route to Dick, as he received the Life-time Achievement Award in Teaching Ob-stetrics and Gynecology for his career asan associate professor of ob/gyn at U. ofPennsylvania's medical school. Dick livesat 748 Stonehouse Rd., Moorestown, NJ.Congrats also to Robert Strudler, presi-dent of US Home Corp., on being namedthe 1994 National Builder of the Year byProfessional Builder magazine. He and wifeRuth live in the Houston area, and have re-cently built another home in TarponSprings, FL.

News from Pat Hammond Pearson isin this column for the very first time. A reg-istered nurse in psychiatry, Pat is a con-tributing author to Nursing Diagnosis Ref-erence Manual Her activities include ten-nis and teaching Sunday school. Pat and

husband Nils live with their teenage son anddaughter at 5301 Wesbard Cr., Bethesda, MD.

William Sibal reports a new address:1243 Wellesley Ave., #6, Los Angeles, CA.Nathan Isikoff, wife Susan, and their fami-ly have also moved to Georgetown, 3230Volta PL, NW, Washington, DC. Youngestchild Alissa '98 (ILR) followed Andy '91(Arts) to Cornell. Nathan chairs the boardof Carey Winston Co. of Chevy Chase, MD,a real estate firm.

Physician Robert Zager and wife Bar-bara have moved, as well, in-town to 40 KentDr., Roseland, NJ—a townhome, as bothsons are now on their own. Their interestsinclude boating and traveling.

Michael '61 and Alice Fried Bakersent the address of the home they built: 5Nesting Way, E. Sandwich, MA. Alice is aninstructor at nearby Bristol Community Col-lege. She visted sister Lucy Fried Koster'62 in Santa Monica, CA in January to helpher celebrate her birthday, and was ". . . intime for the January rains."

Gary Kurz, who with wife Nancy ownsRosy Tomorrows Restaurant in Danbury,CT, recently opened a new eatery: MaggieMcFly's Restaurant in Middlebury, CT,which he describes as "great food, antiqueand fun decor, friendly staff and clientele."Son Dan '94, the eldest of their four chil-dren, became the third generation of his fam-ily to graduate from Cornell. The Kurzes'home address is Box 196, Candlewood Isle,New Fairfield, CT.

Elizabeth Gibbs O'Donnell would haveliked to attend Reunion last year, except:(a) she has a new job, as assistant to theexecutive director of the Abnaki (ME) GirlScout Council; (b) the June graduation fromNortheastern U. in Boston of one daughter;(c) the September marriage in Dallas of herother daughter. Liz says, "Needless to say,there were neither vacation time nor dol-lars for Reunion." When Liz does get home,it's to 80 Baldwin Dr., Bangor, ME.

Dr. William Lacy returned to Cornelllast August for the first time in 30 years—as an associate dean of Agriculture and di-rector of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Heand wife Laura (Robinson) '65 now live at528 Warren Rd., Ithaca. Their son is on hisown, and their daughter leaves for college soon.

Jill Waxman Polymeropoulos (65Donaldson St., Highland Park, NJ) has leftAT&T for a new job: vice president, tele-communications and advertising research,Response Analysis Corp. of Princeton.

Finally, a correction: My April columncontained an item about Mitchell and Jes-sica Waldbaum Bender. The referencedclassmate should have been Carl Bender.Classmate Mitchell died in 1990. My apolo-gies to the Benders.

Let's keep that news coming! * BevJohns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield,IL, 60015.

65With our 30th Re-union still fresh inour memories, weespecially want tothank all thosewhose hard work

30τHREUNION

and dedication made it so successful. Whilethe Reunion column will appear next month,

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there were several pre-Reunion gatheringsthroughout the country which deserve men-tion. On January 25, in Boston, Torrenceand Rosemarie Harder hosted an eveningfor Gary and Jane Ash, Fay Thomas Bak-hru, Arthur and Judith Russell Davidson,Dr. Bruce and Judith Eissner, ElizabethFowler, Dr. Walter and Linda Gadkow-ski, Phillip '62 and Madeline Gell Hand-ler and son Michael, Joan Hens Johnson,Christopher and Janice LangenmayrMabley, Andrew Newman, Dr. Kennethand Rosemarie Peelle, Stephen and Ann"Christy" Reppert Sacks.

On February 23, in San Francisco, CA,Bob and Judy Huret hosted another gath-ering; attendees included Alan Harris, Les-lie Doran Katz, Tom and Elizabeth Wil-liams Moffett, Marshall Salzman, Pauland Sherri Siegel, and Donald and Marga-ret Sullivan.

Barry and Marika Cutler were hostson April 1, in Washington, DC; guests at-tending were Richard '63, JD '66 and Flo-rence Douglas Bank, David Brockway,Lelia Foa Dyer, David Jacobsohn, CarolGreenwald Bender Kessler, Karen Jern-stedt Kuiper, Diane Reitman Levine,Stanley '64 and Grace Hershberg Mor-genstein, and Nancy Gibbs Pannier. Pleaselet us know if there were other such eventsand faithfully promise to continue to sendus your news from now until our next Re-union!

It gives me great pleasure to continuethis first post-Reunion column with a per-sonal announcement I've waited 30 years tomake: one of my sons will continue theDouglas/Bank tradition as a third-generationCornellian. Brian (Middlebury '91) is to en-ter the Johnson Graduate School of Manage-ment this August, and Richard and I areproud and delighted.

To go on to more news, we have re-ceived word that James R. Y. Rawson hasjoined the General Electric Research andDevelopment Center as a biochemist. Priorto joining the R&D Center, Rawson was aprofessor at the U. of Georgia in Athens,1972-84, and a senior research associatewith British Petroleum in Cleveland, OH,1984-93. He is a member of the AmericanChemical Society, American Society of Mi-crobiology, and the American Society forBiochemistry and Molecular Biology. He andwife Judy have sons Don and Dave, and livein Clifton Park, NY. News comes to us fromLehigh U. that John Paul has been promot-ed to the rank of professor. John, who spe-cializes in auditing and management ac-counting, joined the Lehigh faculty in 1974as an instructor. He was promoted to assis-tant professor in 1978 and to associate pro-fessor in 1984. He was the first recipient ofLehigh's Touche Ross Accounting ResearchFellowship, and has published numerousarticles in auditing and accounting journals.He and wife Revelly reside in Bethlehem, PA.

From California, Paul J. Siegel writes,"I continue to love living in San Francisco—such a civilized lifestyle. All of my tripletsare beginning to think about college—start-ing in 1996. Hopefully at least one will be-come a Cornellian, Class of 2000!" Paul con-tinues that wife Sheri works with him asvice president/administrator in their Hedge

Fund-Hollis Capital Partners Management.Triplets Lauryn, Ross, and Lyndsay are 17.A member of the cultural endeavors com-mittee for the university, Paul is also activelyinvolved with the San Francisco Museum ofModern Art and with Jewish Family and Chil-dren's Services. In 1994, he took an 18-daysafari to East Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Judy Alpern Intraub, the science coor-dinator for School District 26 in Queens,NYC, and husband Saul, an electrical engi-neer for the NYC Transit Authority, residein Bayside with children Sandi and Daniel.With interests in environmental education,birdwatching, and hiking, Judy serves on theboard of directors of the Elementary SchoolScience Assn., Alley Pond EnvironmentalCenter, and Temple Israel of Jamaica (RabbiRonald Millstein '52). She had a reunionwith former roommate Barbara EpsteinGordon and her daughter Jenny last year inKillington, VT. »»» Florence Douglas Bank,6420 Goldleaf Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817.

66Here's some news held from anearlier issue. For all of you whohead South for part of the year,Barbara Ann Lawrencewrites that she bought a town-house near the beach at 1401

NE 9th St., Unit #3, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Sheworks for a marine generator manufacturerand is now membership chair of the CornellClub of the Goldcoast. Congratulations toyou on your new home. Judith (Solomon)and Gary Baum write from Hewlett, NYthat they recently had a short family reunion.Seventh-grader Lawrence, who is now Kingof the Hill at home, saw brother Lee, whoflew in from the Midwest, where he was tograduate from U. of Illinois law school in1995. Brother Eric drove up from his teach-ing job in Winston-Salem (a year off betweenAmherst College and medical school), andbrother Josh '98 came home from Cornell,where he was a freshman in Ag. Imaginehaving three in school at the same time.

Dotty Hoffman Fine writes from Bos-ton that she took second in her age groupat the Dartmouth relays, with a time of 5:50for 1,500 meters, and won a Dartmouth beermug. She took her rehabilitation nursingexam and is now certified, still working inhome health care in Dorchester, MA. Hus-band Bill '65 was with her at Homecominglast year; they stayed at Seal & Serpent.

George Kingsley writes from Win-chester, VA that he moved from Riyadh,Saudi Arabia in August 1987, but did take aquick trip back for the Gulf War. He is nowthe division trial attorney for the US ArmyCorps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division.

Mrs. John Roberts Jr. (Helen Martin-dale), lives in Wynnewood, PA and wishedall of us a happy year!

Recently received a copy of Ira Sad-off's last book, Uncoupling, which I enjoyedvery much. This is Ira's fourth book, afterSettling Down, Palm Reading in Winter, andA Northern Calendar. The book jacket tellsus that Ira's short stories have appeared innumerous magazines and in the O. HenryPrize volume of 1976. Ira, keep in touch.Send us your new address; I'd love to dropyou a line.

News from busy attorney Bruce Berg-

man, who chairs the foreclosure departmentat Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, is thathe has been named to the faculty of theSchool of Mortgage Banking, MortgageBankers Assn. of America. Bruce frequent-ly lectures and writes on the subject of fore-closure issues, and we congratulate him onhis new appointment. Sally Nolin writesfrom 76A Lakeside Dr., Millburn, NJ thatshe recently moved to the suburbs andwould love to hear from Cornellians in thearea. Her new home number is (201) 912-8797. To James B. VanHouten, Orange-burg, NY, we offer our congratulations. Heand his wife received a wonderful Christ-mas present last year from their son anddaughter-in-law, a book on grandparenting.Sounds like their first.

Walter Pronsky wrote from Potts-town, PA that he and wife Zaneta(Deutsch) '70 had celebrated their 25thwedding anniversary. We wish them manymore. John Richert, MD is a professor ofneurology at Georgetown U. medical school,and was listed in the 1994-95 edition of BestDoctors in America. Congratulations, John.

Gary Schoener wrote that he co-au-thored a new book, Assisting Impaired Psy-chologists, and continues to lecture in Eng-land, Canada, etc. He read recently thatGeorge Alexis, JD '65, a law student whommany of us knew, had passed away. Garyhas many fond memories of spending timewith George.

John Monroe wrotes from Palo Alto,CA that he has had a busy year with twoseniors; one at Princeton and one at PaloAlto High School. The younger was consid-ering Cornell; in fact, they visited in thespring of 1994 and enjoyed snow, rain, andsun all on the same day. That's the typicalweather we all remember. One of the high-lights of their trip was a visit to Prof. Rich-ard Warkentin, PhD '89 and the HybridElectric Vehicle Project. John writes that hewas very busy last fall playing with the Red-wood Symphony and San Jose Wind Sym-phony. He was proud to be playing with sonChuck in the California Youth Symphonyconcert in November. On the career front,HP's computer business is booming in asuper-competitive market, and his quality-management job keeps him hopping. He vis-ited Japan, Thailand, and China in the springof 1994 to survey Asian manufacturers. Johnwrites that wife Margaret (Warne), MS'68 continues to plan for the City of Burlin-game, her Dad, and the rest of the family, andis as busy as he is. *> Bill Blockton, 18 Leath-erstocking Lane, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

^\ l^t James E. Munger, 5171 WayneI 1 r j St., PO Box 355, Mexico, NY,V\ i visited Cornell last summer: "ItI I I was refr"esnmβ—visited the\J I Johnson Art Museum. Recently^̂ thought I should have been aCornell bus mechanic (lotto winner)." Mean-while, James's teaching science and life sci-ence to the seventh grade at Mexico MiddleSchool and sings in the Oswego FestivalChorus. He and wife Mary Jean have chil-dren: Keith, 22, and Maureen, 18.

G. Edward DeSeve, 2204 Decatur PL,NW, Washington, DC, has moved on from apost as chief financial officer at the US Dept.

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Iast fall, more than 150 delegates from 26 coun-A tries convened in Hong Kong at Outward Bound's

Fifth International Conference. The theme was "Di-versity—Our Strength," and Chris Patten, the governor general ofHong Kong, opened the five-day conference. During the proceed-ings, Winston Lo, MS '67, who chairs the executive committee ofHong Kong Outward Bound, and Bill Phillips '51, who serves on theInternational Advisory Board of Outward Bound, realized that bothhad gone to the same school on the same hill in Ithaca, more thanhalfway around the world. Phillips (center) and Lo (right) are pic-tured with Governor General Patten.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)to serving as controller of the Office of Man-agement and Budget, OMB to inside-the-Beltwayites. As Ed puts it, he'll be able tosay he was "CFO of America." Lunch at thebig house with him enabled me to run intodeparting Deputy Domestic Policy AdvisorBill Galston, who's returning to the U. ofMaryland. Wrapping up the White Housenews front, Kristl Bogue Hathaway adds:"In addition to hearing about Samuel"Sandy" Berger, I see Henry Kelly hasshown up as White House chair of a scienceand technology committee."

C. Bruce Tarter, PhD '67, who sharedour time on the Hill, has been appointeddeputy director of the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory by the regents of theU. of California, which manage the laborato-ry for the US Department of Energy. Previ-ously, he had been the associate director forphysics, and joined the laboratory way backin 1967.

Larkin Douglass Watson IV, 5 HopeAve., Waltham, MA, married Lyndsey Hop-kins in January. He's a counselor in the ad-diction treatment program at Waltham/Weston Hospital and a leader of NativeAmerican Medicine Ceremonies. The Bos-ton Globe reported that the couple will re-side in Watertown, MA.

Ann Sommers Tucker, 365 HeathemLa., Key Biscayne, FL, is the architectproject manager at Miami International Air-

port. Son Tristan is 15. Carol Farber Wolf,2920 Buchanan St., #6, San Francisco, CA,says she "moved from Nyack, NY and loveit! Who else from our class is in the Bayarea?" Carol's director of marketing, schooldivision, Addison Wesley Publishing Co. Shereports having seen Meryl Chodosh-Weissin New York City, Delba Winthrop Mans-field in Cambridge, MA, and Myron Lon-don, Sonoma CA.

Class President Margie GreenbergSmith, 42 Oxford Blvd., Great Neck, NY, isback working full-time as women's divisioncoordinator at the Children's Medical Fundof NY, raising funds for Schneider Children'sHospital at the Long Island Jewish MedicalCenter. Margie is also working full-time atfinding some of you to work on the 30thReunion which is only two years away: callher at (516) 482-5178.

Panayiotis C. Anoussis, 140 E. 63 St.,NYC, manages the Hotel Barbizon and re-ports having seen Eugene Ference, 262Lyons Plain Rd., Weston, CT. AlexandraKaufman Raine, 248 Treetop La., Rye Brook,NY, was promoted to vice president and ac-count manager at Amen & Associates, thecorporate/investor relations subsidiary ofKetchum Public Relations, Greenwich, CT.

I regret to report the deaths of Jona-thon Ehrenreich, late of Long Beach, NY,last November 28; Charles J. StrohmeyerJr., of Garden City, NY, on Oct. 9, '93; andof Dr. John M. Funt, Nashua, NH, on Nov.

16, '93. * Richard B. Hoffman, 2925 28thSt., NW, Washington, DC 20008; telephone(202) 667-6481.

This is the season for Cornell'saward-winning Adult Universi-ty (CAU) programs, and a num-ber of our classmates have at-tended in the past. Among themare Richard Cross, Lauren

Kingman, Diane Schneiderman, TomWeiss, Marianne Moschel Wiedemer,Merry Runsdorf Mendelson with husbandGeorge '67, and Scott Reines with wifePatricia (Beck) '69.

John Stambaugh lives in El Toro, CA.Marilyn Gubin Smallman lives in VillaPark, CA, Richard Smith lives in Bow, NH,Linn Jensen Smyth lives in Dallas, JimMontanari continues to work with Cush-man & Wakefield in NYC. Robert Canelives in St. Augustine, FL, Andrew Droit-cour lives in Warwick, RI, Judy GichnerKauffman lives in N. Bethesda, MD. TracySuor Peterson is vice president for busi-ness development and chief financial officer,Washington Dental Service in Seattle, WA.

Richard Johnson lives in Darien, CTand is in the consulting business. My col-lege roommate, Paul Joskow, lives inBrookline, MA. Paul chairs the economicsdepartment at MIT. I hear wonderful thingsabout his outstanding contributions to eco-nomic scholarship and advice to corporateboards. Gail Karlitz owns a nanny place-ment agency called Blue Ribbon Nannies,based in Stamford, CT. Howie Kaufmanis an attorney in Washington, DC.

Ed Kemp i§ a veterinarian and realtorin Falmouth, MA. Todd Kiplinger is in-volved in asset management activities. Hisoffice is at Kiplinger Publications in Wash-ington, DC. Mike Kirschen is an attorneywith the NY State Court of Claims in Roch-ester. Laurie Koerber lives in Simi Val-ley, CA, while Dr. Barry Kohn lives inCarmichael, CA.

Charlie Kohn is head of a companycalled Semi Test Inc. in Billerica, MA. Da-vid Weisbrod is head of the credit auditgroup at Chase Manhattan Bank, responsi-ble for assuring quality of the bank's creditrisk exposure. This involves internationaltravel. David, wife Margaret (Simon) '66,and family live in Greenwich, CT. ElliottMeisel is an attorney with Brill & Meiselin NYC, having started the firm about 15years ago. Elliott is now serving withMichael Sillerman on the NYC Bar Assn.committee on land use, planning, and zon-ing. "Michael" Sillerman is actually my oldfriend Tracy Sillerman, who was a govern-ment major and 150-pound football player.Elliott Meisel worked with Frank Robinson,director of the Johnson Museum, to exploreopportunities to dedicate a memorial therein the name of Elliott's mother, GraceMoak Meisel '41. His father Sidney '37,his cousin Roger Moak '69, and otherfriends and relatives have already helpedwith contributions.

We had a delightful brunch two weeksago with Steve Weinberg and wife Sharon(Lawner). Steve is an attorney with theKronish, Lieb firm in NYC, and Sharon is aprofessor of statistics at New York U., who

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has received international recognition forher writing and research in the field. TheWeinbergs' daughter Allison, my goddaugh-ter, is entering her senior year at Harvard,and sister Carolyn will be a freshman there inSeptember. Doug Wallace lives in Atlanta,GA. Dan Weinberg is a freelance writer inAnn Arbor, ML Julia Ho Wang lives in Con-cord, MA.

That's all for now. I took forward tohearing from you. <* Gordon H. Silver, Put-nam Investments, 1 Post Office Sq., Bos-ton, MA 02109.

69Whether you're enjoying thelazy, hazy days of summer orracing from one warm-weathervacation activity to another, Ihope you're having a terrifictime. Please take a moment, if

you haven't already done so, to completeyour dues forms with news of your lives.Lots of it! Ellen Isaacson Goldman is ateacher, businesswoman, and novelist look-ing for an agent or publisher. Her novel "IsIt Summer Yet" has been compared withUp The Down Staircase. If any classmatesare interested, e-mail Karen Randlev Don-nelly Smith '63 at [email protected]. Sheis the book's co-writer. EHen's son BrentGoldman '98 is in Arts. The Goldmans livein Greenbrae, CA. She, Ellen Press Mur-doch, Kathy Teetor Bowen, and LindaJones Docherty hold a mini-reunion everysummer at various locations around the US.

Diane King is a medical technologistin Syracuse. Judith Lehr and husbandRusty Russell live in Riverside, CA, whereshe is a research office director at the U. ofCalifornia. Judy spent an incredible week-end with Emily Miller Budick, where theynot only caught up on their lives, but "evenbetter," reflected on their time at Cornell.Ken Rubin lives in Bethesda, MD and re-turns to Cornell several times a year to at-tend advisory committee meetings for theCenter for the Environment or to lecture atthe Johnson School of Management.

Joseph Miller is a consultant for Ox-ford Health Plans and lives in Needham,MA. Son Charlie attends the U. of Wiscon-sin and plays saxophone, and second sonAaron is in high school and plays trumpet.Ruth Nellett Pearce is a consultant foodtechnologist in San Jose, CA, where sheenjoys the flexible schedule her work allowsso she can help in her 10-year-old son'sschool. Charles Pearson is an engineerwith the Ford Motor Co., responsible forinsuring the quality of air conditioner and heat-er systems on F-Series pickup trucks andBroncos. He lives in Dearborn Heights, MI.

James Miller is a global studies teach-er at Corcoran High School in Syracuse,where he chairs the local Alumni Admis-sions Ambassador Network (CAAAN) com-mittee which interviews more than 200 ap-plicants each year. He is in touch with EdWilson, Dick Lloyd, Doug Soat, and JimHider'71.

Sima Chaikin Maitland (an old friendfrom my freshman corridor in Balch) is anelementary school teacher in Acton, MA.The renovation of her 1710 house was re-cently featured on the television show "ThisOld House." Sima has three children, ages

12 through 7. William Marston is an ar-chitect in Philadelphia, where he lives withwife Emily (Barry), MA '72, who teachesand is curriculum director at The Philadel-phia School. They have two teenage chil-dren. Bill is very active with the AmericanInst. of Architects. Stewart Cramer livesin Pittsford, NY with his wife of 25 years,"Cornell Sweetheart" Sue "Sunshine"(Golden). Daughter Jen '97 is in Ag. EarlArmstrong is a physician specializing inpulmonary and critical care in Washington,DC, where he lives with wife Patricia andtheir, three children. <* Suzy Sacks Zeide,100 SE 5th Ave., #304, Boca Raton, FL33432; (407) 393-5322.

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John Komarisky currently chairs theboard of the Fire Commissioner of the Sen-nett (NY) Fire District. The district recentlycompleted a new million-dollar fire stationand community center outside of Auburn.John has also held the elected position ofTown of Sennett assessor for eight years.

In May, Neil Murray (CSI LI-67A,SUNY, Albany, Albany, NY 12222) present-ed a paper in St. Goar, Germany at theFourth Workshop on Theorem Proving withAnalytic Tableaux and Related Methods. Healso presented in June at the Great West-ern International Conference on AI in SanFrancisco.

Murem Sakas Sharpe and husbandTim '69 planned to be at Reunion withEmily, 13, and Eric, 10. After 18 years inStamford, CT, they were to move to Michi-gan shortly after their trip to Ithaca. Muremhas a new position as vice president — KellyManagement Services for Kelly Services,the international staffing company. She feelsit is a great opportunity to head the compa-ny's initiative in the emerging, high-growthoutsourcing industry. Tom will continue infinancial management, especially in the tech-nology application area. In September, Emilywill be in eighth grade and Eric in fifth atCranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. Other Re-union attendees expected were Carol Pea-cock and husband Thomas Gagen (Harvard'68), who joyfully announce the addition totheir family of daughter Katherine Lin. Tomtraveled to Wuhan, China in January 1995to adopt her. She joins Jonathan, 12, andElizabeth, 2-1/2. The family is completed bya golden retriever pup and two cats. Carolcontinues in part-time private psychothera-py practice and Tom still writes with theeditorial board of the Boston Globe.

Richard "Moon" Barron recentlychanged jobs and is now head of advertisingat Prudential Insurance. He says that JohnMacionis, author of several best-selling so-ciology textbooks, and Steve Di Fabion,who lives with his wife and son in Mantua,

OH, have agreed to meet him at our 25th(this is written in April so I hope they allwere with us in Ithaca!). Robert Jacksoncontinues to conduct research related tonutritional anemias and has published sev-eral articles detailing these studies. In thepast year, he has traveled to several Afri-can countries, including Ghana, Guinea, Cam-eroon, and Egypt. <* Connie Ferris Meyer,16 James Thomas Rd., Malvern, PA 19355.

ί^t ̂ \ The weather in northern Califor-i I nia this winter and spring has re-t M minded me of Ithaca: rain, rain,• I and more rain. Robert Mauro is• f j managing partner at the law firm• ^ of Meyer, Unkovic and Scott in

Pittsburgh, PA. Bob's practice focuses pri-marily on commercial real estate and cor-porate lending, real estate acquisition anddevelopment, debt restructuring, and com-mercial leasing. Bob was selected to the"Best Lawyers in America" list. Some of youmight remember him as quarterback of thelightweight football team. Dr. Nancy Rois-tacher is a cardiologist on the staff at Me-morial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center withan academic appointment at Cornell Medi-cal College. Husband Wayne Merkelson'73, JD 75 is an attorney with the SandozCorp. The family lives in Manhattan withsons Randy, 16, and Jeremy, 15.

Poet Gilbert Allen was featured on aspecial radio series on South Carolina Edu-cational Radio. He appeared on a segment,"Appalachian Life." Gilbert's poems haveappeared in more than 20 journals, and heis the author of In Everything, a volume ofpoetry. His work is also included in 45/96:The Ninety-Six Sampler of South CarolinaPoetry. Gilbert is a member of the faculty atFurman U. in Greenville, SC. Gary Truh-lar is director of human resources informa-tion management at U. of Pennsylvania. Heco-presented a session on emerging tech-nology at the CUPA Eastern Region Acade-my for Human Resource Excellence withLyman Flahive, who is director of humanresource information systems at Cornell.Cornell links are evident in Gary's work lifeat Penn. He was responsible for staff rela-tions and worked closely with Kathy Rick'69, Don M. Jacobs '55, director of hospi-tality services, and Dan Updegrove '70,associate vice provost for computing.

My wife, Judy, attended the bar mitz-vah of Brian Baum in Ithaca in April. Brianis the son of Trudy and Larry Baum. Alsoattending were Brian's brother Ari; BruceMcGeoch, spouse Cynthia, and daughter Lau-ren, 13; and Mike Milley '71 and wife Cathy.

Mary Towner resides in San Diego. Ireceived a phone call recently from TomBeadleston. Tom is a tax attorney in New-port Beach, CA. While visiting Upstate NYrecently, Tom talked with Peter Borzilleri'71, who lives in Fredonia. Steve Ash isvice president and chief financial officer, LIRInc., which is the US operation of a Frenchcosmetic packing company, in Melville, LongIsland. Business takes him to France sev-eral times a year, plus working on an acqui-sition in Mexico. Wife Beth received hermaster's in reading education at C.W. Postand is teaching reading and language arts tosixth-graders at the East Meadow School

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District on Long Island. Son Jason, 16, is ahigh-school sophomore, playing on the soc-cer and lacrosse teams. Daughter Courtney,13, recently celebrated her bat mitzvah.

Barbara Besser Kay works full-timein the real estate industry in Madison, WI,after many years of working as an adminis-trator for the state. She and husband Rob-ert have son Joshua, 17. The Kays love totravel and recently visited the Middle East,Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Barbarawould love to hear from any former class-mates visiting Madison. Dr. Mark Windtis a physician in Hampton, NH. David Hirdis an attorney and a partner at Weil, Got-shal and Manges, where he practices envi-ronmental law. David is married and has adaughter, Allison, 5. Danelle Molphy Jonesand husband Steve '71 reside in Calhoun,GA, a small town in the Georgia mountainsone hour north of Atlanta. Danelle is a com-puter consultant and trainer. Steve is vicepresident of finance at Carriage Carpets. SonBrad is a senior at Florida State U. major-ing in hotel and restaurant administration.Daughter Rebecca is a junior at Duke, ma-joring in public policy and communications.Danelle proudly reported that Rebecca wasAmerica's 1993 Junior Miss. Also in the statewhich will host the 1996 Olympic Games areDr. Howard Schub and wife Susan(Brachfeld) '73. The Schubs live in Atlanta.

Dr. Alan Lisbon is an anesthesiologistat Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. DavidLong is a computer systems programmerfor Emerson Electric in Maysville, KY. Heis busy with what seem to be constant up-grades to software and hardware. Davidplays French horn in the community bandand enjoys watching daughter Allison in thehigh school marching band. Allison, a soph-omore, plays clarinet and suffers through herfather's stories about playing tuba for theBig Red Marching Band. In the summer of1993, Allison spent several days in Jackson,IL filling sandbags during the severe flood-ing in the Mississippi Valley. Son Owen isin the fifth grade. He reads, is in the base-ball and soccer leagues, and takes tennis les-sons. Wife Barbara (Phillips) '73 jugglesfreelance work and substitute teaching,along with community band and church andsocial activities.

Dr. Elliott Lieberman is a urologistin Plainview, NY. Larry Saret is a patentattorney in Chicago. Jerry Goldman is aCPA and heads the corporate tax practiceat Ernst and Young in NYC; he also keepsbusy as president of the Larchmont LittleLeague. Send news! »> Alex Barna, 1050Eagle Lane, Foster City, CA 94404.

1̂ 1 ̂ \ C. Charlita Galanthay '72i I sends us the sad news that her

m ^f former roommate, Sarah "Sally"• ^ Elfrieda Ruetenik Osborn lostI I I her battle with cancer on March• ^J 31, '95. Sally double-majored in

electrical and mechanical engineering atCornell. She knew languages and loved bi-cycling and sewing. She left husband DavidLanick and daughter Betsy behind to mournher. The alumni office also notified me thatJohn Thomas (Hotel), Cedar Run, NJ, diedin February 1992.

Douglas Aspros, DVM 75 writes that

he and wife Dee are enjoying life with chil-dren Matt and Emily in Pound Ridge, NY.Stef and Kathy Cassella stopped by theAspros house last summer on their way tocamping in Maine. Douglas admires theirenthusiasm for tenting with small and me-dium-sized children.

Sheldon Austin is now the press at-tache at the American Embassy in Brussels,Belgium. He has contacted the CornellAlumni Association there and spoke at theirbi-monthly meeting last December. He ex-pects to be active in the group. (Cornelliansare everywhere.) He sends news of Chris-tina Kallas, who recently opened a law of-fice with a colleague in New York City.

Marc Berk writes from Gaithersburg,MD that he and Helene have celebratedtheir 21st wedding anniversary. They havechildren Rachel, 15, and Joe, 6. Marc is vicepresident at Project Hope, where he directsthe Project Hope Center for Health Affairs.Marc would like to hear from the guys at301 Eddy St. Richard and JacquelinePreziose Bower sent news from Danville,CA. Rich changed jobs earlier this year andis now director of technical and productionservices at 21st Century Foods. Oldestdaughter Carrie was applying to the Ag col-lege. Jacqui is still technical director at Mi-cro Filtration Systems. She recently joinedthe Beach Watch volunteer program withGulf of the Farralones—NOAA. She surveysbeaches in Northern California every fourweeks with the program. Rich saw fellowKappa Delta Rho brother Jon Kaplan at theCornell informational meeting they went towith Carrie.

Bernice "Bunny" Cramer is active inCornell work from her home in Newton,MA. She is currently serving as co-chair ofthe alumnae leadership committee of thePresident's Council of Cornell Women(PCCW). She also chaired the US-JapanWomen's Summit in Boston last October.Laurence Dunham also helps out withalumni affairs. He is the treasurer of theAlumni Association of Greater Rochester,where he also interviews applicants. TonyDelgenio let us know about life in W. Baby-lon, NY. Wife Nancy received a NΎHESCFellowship for graduate study in speech pa-thology at Adelphi U. this year. Tony wasalso honored with the first teaching prizeawarded by graduate students at the Colum-bia U. geological sciences department. JeanBuist Earle writes from Summit, NJ thatshe and husband Terry '72 had anotherdaughter, Abigail, in March 1994. Abigailjoins Morgan, 5, and Casey, 15. Jean andTerry saw Tom '72 and Jan WagenhalsHarvey of Portland, OR and Sharon Brookof San Jose, CA last year.

Daniel Eastman of Wellesley Hills,MA was promoted to vice president andmanager of the Daiwa Bank, Ltd., Bostonbranch. He is responsible for developmentof commercial loan business throughoutNew England for the bank. Cheryl CoveyEvans sends news from Rochester, NY,where her life is "amazingly stable, we'reall a year older, but basically the same." Shedid, however, have a brief visit from Gretch-en Lornell Precey, who began with theClass of '73 but moved to England and grad-uated from Leeds U. Gretchen is still in

England with her husband and three daugh-ters, where she works in social services withabused children and their families.

Doug Farrow writes from Plymouth,MN that son Tony was joined by a sister,Ellie, last year. Doug was named corporateintellectual property counsel for Graco Inc.,a major manufacturer of fluid-handling equip-ment. Last year Doug saw Eric Ebner, whohas a medical practice in Marshall, MI. Sendyour news to me and see your name inprint! **» Phyllis Haight Grummon, 1531Woodside Dr., E. Lansing, MI 48823.

1̂ 1 J Our industrious class officers arem Λ already looking ahead to our 25th

m /• Reunion. One idea is to produce• UM and distribute a short video thatI Γ would get classmates "pumped™ JL up" about attending Reunion. At

this point, we are asking for ideas and peo-ple who have expertise in video production.Please contact me at the address below. Ireceived a note that Andrew Peck has beenappointed a magistrate judge for the US Dis-trict Court for the Southern District of NewYork. Prior to this appointment, Andrew wasa lawyer at a New York City firm, specializ-ing in entertainment and commercial litiga-tion. He lives in NYC with wife Karen andson David, 7. Mary Berens received aChristmas note from Alison Dreizen inMoscow, where Alison is a partner in theNYC-based law firm of White & Case. Atthat time she was heading to Pakistan tovisit a friend. She anticipated a return tothe States "at the start of baseball season."The Ithaca Journal recently visited the sixth-grade Home and Career Skills class of DebYelverton Stokes. Deb also coaches trackat Boynton Middle School. She has 11 yearsof experience in working with adolescents,including teaching stints at schools for trou-bled teens. Deb lives in Ithaca with her 4-year-old son.

Patti Englander Henning was on cam-pus last April to participate in a panel dis-cussion, Ethics and the Law. The seminarwas in conjuction with the meeting of thePresident's Council of Cornell Women. Pat-ti is a circuit court judge in Fort Lauder-dale, FL. Mary "Mi" O'Connell is return-ing from Minneapolis to her home town ofIthaca in May. Mi will be director of humanresources for a division of BMC located inCortland, NY. Welcome home, Mi! Also onthe move is John Foote, who has movedto San Diego, where he is managing Syn-tonic Inc. Previously he was dividing histime between Philadelphia and Australia.

Ilene Greenberg and Alice Brownbumped into each other while on family skivacations in Alta, UT last winter. Ilene wasthere with husband Michael Maynard andchildren Lauren and Jamie. Alice was therewith husband Peter Brest and children Mat-thew, Phillip, and Eric. Believe it or not,some classmates are seeing their childrenenter the hallowed halls of Cornell. LaurieMusik Wright's daughter Jamie and Kim-berly Christy Gordon's daughter Susannaexpect to enter as freshmen this fall. Theyjoin Chris Allen '98, son of Mark andWendy Zurn Allen.

Here are some snippets gleamed fromDues (without News) forms: Diane Behar

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lives in NYC and is a marketing profession-al with the NYC Economic Policy and Mar-keting Group. Cheryl Aldrich is a physi-cian with The Bronx Health Plan in theBronx, and Domenico Mignone is a physi-cian in White Plains, NY. Melinda Babcockis a lexicographer with the OxfordUniversity Press in Oxford, England. Char-lene Fisher Baxter is teaching at the U. ofNew Hampshire and lives in New London.Kathi Weiner Bruce is a health adminis-trator with Concord Family Practice in Clay-ton, CA. She lives in Concord, CA. CraigChampion is a real estate developer withC. Brewer Homes in Honolulu, HI. Craig ismarried to Barbara (Peterson) '75. Deb-ra (Goodman) is an attorney in Irvine, CA.Debra is married to Amihai Glazer. Rob-ert Hoff is in marketing with Smiths In-dustries in Grand Rapids, ML Andrew Levyworks for Corometrics Medical Systems inWallingford, CT, where he is a senior prod-uct manager for obstetrical systems. JohnTyler lectures in the electrical engineeringdepartment at Texas A&M in College Sta-tion, TX. John is married to Barbara (Pet-rini) '75. Dave Wolfthal is a veterinarianin Lakeville, MA and lives in Randolph withwife Susan (Franklin) '76.

Two new addresses (as of approximate-ly a year ago): Ken Brown's latest knownaddress is c/o General Electric of Mexico,SA DE EV Blvd Manuel Avle Camacho,11510 DF Mexico, Mexico. Ken is CEO ofGeneral Electric of Mexico. Ignacio Ober-to's change of address was Oberto, Sosa,Vazquez & Asociados, Av. Francisco DeMiranda, Edificio Menegrande II, Piso 2,Oficina 22, Urb. Los Palos Grandes, Cara-cas, Venezuela.

We regret the passing of Fred Boschof Devon, PA last April. Our sympathies ex-tend to Gina (Setzer) and their threechildren. Φ Betsy Beach, 4 Thoreau Dr.,Chelmsford, MA 01824; e-mail, [email protected].

20THREUNION

No column thistime, but be sure tocheck this space inthe next (Septem-ber) issue for a fullreport of our 20th

Reunion. Along with a description of all thefestivities enjoyed by classmates back on theHill, the names of new and continuing classofficers will be announced, including classcorrespondents to whom you can send yourlate-breaking news. In the meantime, sendnews to the Class of 75, c/o Cornell Maga-zine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

^f\^^ I received a phone call from Sey-imf^ mour "Skip" Newman recent-

m m[\ ly He was wondering if I hadI I I g°tten ms letter an^ photo whichI \f was sent a while back. Having• ^̂ found both pieces, we talked

about the time lag due to publication dead-lines, space allotted for the column, and theamount of news that we get from the Newsand Dues forms, the publication of whichmust be spread out over an entire year.

Skip wrote that brothers from the Sig-ma Epsilon Class of '76, with wives, 13 kids,and lots of "stuff" in tow, vacationed together

for a week last summer on the Outer Banksof North Carolina. They rented three hous-es in the resort community of Corolla Light.Great weather, plenty of water and landsports, and an endless supply of cold brew-skis kept them occupied the entire time.Mitch and Lucy Stern, Nate and RobinTreat Peck '77, Tim and Nancy Cox, Jimand Jan Ricciuti, John and Robin GrebePhillips '76, and Skip and wife Rhondalooked very happy in the picture Skip sent.

A news release from Sedgwick Jamesof New York Inc. and Sedgwick Environmen-tal Services (Nashville) reported that Su-zanne Avena Darby was appointed as anenvironmental risk consultant. She will beresponsible for environmental services inthe New York Metropolitan Region and willserve as a resource to the firm's environ-mental unit on a national level.

The alumni office finally got StaceySavin's address right (9 Jumper Rd., Bloom-field, CT), and she wrote with her first newssince graduation. Stacey graduated fromGeorgetown U. Law Center in 1976, mar-ried fellow law graduate Robert Chatigny,practiced law in California and Connecticut,and started a business called Fax-Pax USA.They distribute educational picture cards tomuseums and historic bookstores. Son Pe-ter Robert was born in 1988. Susan MostArmstrong attended Stacey's 40th birthdaycelebration. It was a great day also becauseStacey's husband, Bob, had just been nomi-nated by US Senators Dodd and Liebermanto be a US district judge for the District ofConnecticut.

Neil and Carolyn Levine Coplan andfamily were at another Big Red—the BigRed Disney Boat—and went to the Baha-mas and Disneyworld. They had a greattime. Daughter Stephanie attends school atEagle Hill, Greenwich, CT. Ali started atThe Chapin School. The Coplans went to GilGleim's wedding in January 1994.

Writing from her home in the Shenan-doah Valley, Deidra "Deedee" Dain saysthat her family is enjoying the quiet andbeauty of the outdoors. Commuting 70 milesevery day to Washington, DC to work in or-ganizational development and managementconsulting has left-her trying to create somenew solutions to work so that she can be athome more. She has two boys, Scott andDaniel. Husband Michael has a more flexi-ble schedule as a contractor, and has beencontributing immensely to the family's de-velopment by staying home while she works.

Janet Kruszona Monroe Daloz is in-terested in hearing from old friends—shelives in Peterborough, NH and has room forguests. She works as an RN at PheasantWood Nursing Home and as a school RN atSt. Patrick School. Jan has sons William andJoel and is divorced, but is co-parenting withCharles Daloz, PhD '87. Charles is a hor-ticultural science and natural resourcesteacher at Conant High School, also in NewHampshire. He is a certified organic plantgrower, and grows organic vegetables andflowers in the summer and lives in Hancock.

Elizabeth "Liz" Browne Davidson has,in the throes of a mid-life crisis, taken uplong-distance running. In 1993, she ran inthe Los Angeles Marathon and runs racesin distances five kilometers to marathons.

She was training with former Olympian La-selo Tabori at the San Fernando Track Clubwith hopes of qualifying for the 1995 Bos-ton Marathon. Husband Mark is a professorof journalism at California State U. Althoughnot a runner, he is at the finish line with astop watch and Gatorade. After 14 years atCBS, Lawrence Epstein left to becomevice president and chief financial officer ofPrimestar Partners, a joint venture of someof the country's largest cable companies inthe direct-broadcast satellite business. Heis at the company's Philadelphia headquar-ters. Wife Karen (Hasby) '77 continues herjournalism career as the medical correspon-dent for WPIX-TV, NYC. They have chil-dren Michael and Katie.

Jeri Frank has been teaching adult ba-sic education. She and husband Sherwood"Woody" Lane, PhD '84 love living in thetrees in rural Douglas County, OR and gocontra dancing in Eugene, Corvallis, Port-land, and Ashland. Thomas Garr is a vicepresident in the institutional equity salesdivision of Salomon Brothers. He and wifeDarlene have son Bradley and live in thenorthern suburbs of Chicago.

Steven Gillman and wife Gillian Sie-gel were joined by Mikela Nicole, born inJanuary 1994. Steve practices labor and em-ployment law in Chicago. * Lisa Diamant,31 Ingleside Rd., Lexington, MA 02173.

1̂ 11̂ 1 I was pleased to hear from Lau-i i rie Anne Robinson, who an-

m m nounced that she is now married• to Douglas J. Green, a Congre-I gational minister and family ther-• ™ apist. Her family now includes

her children Jonathan, 15, and Amanda, 11,and Doug's children Rebecca, 17, and Mat-thew, 14. Laurie works for Cornell as direc-tor of volunteer and staff training develop-ment for the public affairs division. Laurieasked that we inform classmates who knewPeggy Newcomer Pollack that two Cor-nell funds have been established in Peggy'smemory. Peggy was a dedicated Cornellianwho was involved in Sage Chapel Choir,where she was elected president her fresh-man year, a member of the Kappa Psi so-rority, and a member of the women's fieldhockey team. Following graduation, in addi-tion to a successful career in publishing,Peggy maintained her ties to Cornell as amember of the President's Council of Cor-nell Women. In remembrance of Peggy'scommitment to education and love of Cor-nell, the family asked that any donations bemade to two Cornell funds established inPeggy's name: the first, the Peggy Newcom-er Pollack Memorial Oak Tree Fund, wasestablished to plant a tree next to SageChapel as part of the Garden Avenue reno-vation project, with a funding objective of$5,000 and plans are to dedicate the treeduring our 20th Reunion; and second, thePeggy Newcomer Pollack Scholarship Fund.Anyone wishing to contribute to either fundcan send checks made out to Cornell Uni-versity to Laurie Anne Robinson, c/o Uni-versity Development, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850. You can also designate part ofyour regular Cornell giving to either of thesefunds.

Sad to say, I,have been asked to an-

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nounce the establishment of another fund,this one in memory of Emily Read Wood.Emily died unexpectedly from a coronaryartery dissection while driving from Massa-chusetts to visit her sister, Jennifer ReadCambell '81, in Virginia. She was alone inthe car with children Jessica, 8, David, 6,and Allison, 3. Fortunately, sfce was able topull off the road and the children are okay,at least physically. Friends have set up theEmily Read Wood Children's Trust Fund,and donations can be sent c/o Safety FundNational Bank, 21 E. Main St., Westboro,MA 01581. Jennifer is also putting togeth-er a scrapbook for Emily's children and asksthat anyone who might have pictures, letters,or stories of Emily to send them to her atthe above address.

On a happier note, Diane P. Freed-man wrote to announce the publication ofher new book, a collection of essays on EdnaSt. Vincent-Millay published by Southern Il-linois University Press, Millay at 100: ACritical Reappraisal Diane has been backand forth from Ithaca for years, getting amaster's degree several years after gradua-tion and returning to Ithaca again years lat-er as an administrator in the Freshman Writ-ing Program. Diane is now at the U. of NewHampshire. Over the winter, she attendedthe annual Modern Language Assn. conven-tion in San Diego and met up with class-mates Michael Levine and Sharon Dolin.Michael teaches at Yale and has a new bookout from Johns Hopkins University Press,Writing Through Repression: Literature,Censorship, and Psychoanalysis. Sharon is atCooper Union and has a book of poetryforthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press.

Recent dues forms brought news fromother classmates in academia. Jeffrey Leh-man is a dean at the U. of Michigan lawschool and Michael Livingston is a law pro-fessor at Rutgers. Michael writes that sonBenjamin, 4 is already a regular at IvyLeague football games. Michael recently sawEric Kober, who is married to Laurie andhas a baby daughter Hannah. They live inQueens, NY, where Eric is an official withthe NYC Planning Department.

Up in the Finger Lakes region isStephen Billings, who with wife Joanne anddaughter Ashley operates the Blue StoneBed and Breakfast on the east shore ofConesus Lake. I live in Washington, DC,where the summers are hot and muggy, andthe brochure from the Victorian B & Bmakes me wistful for Upstate New York.Steve is also employed in the LivingstonCounty Extension Office as a 4-H agent andrecently received his ten-year pin from Cor-nell Cooperative Extension.

Marie Sterbenz Lindell left her careeras a dentist in 1988 to pursue a flying ca-reer. In order to meet her ultimate goal ofbeing a commercial pilot, she worked as aflight attendant, taught flying, and flew as aco-pilot on a commuter airline, Sunaire Ex-press, in St. Croix, USVI. She is pleased toannounce that she is now a pilot at UnitedAirlines! While at Sunaire Express, she methusband Andy, who was the first captain sheflew with. They were married Feb. 20, '94in NYC and in attendance were Millie andTom Legenhausen '76, Brad Hoak, GaryLoesch '74, and Mike DiMattia '75. They

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As I write this, the News andDues forms for 1995 are arrivingin your homes. This means thatmost of the news I have now isold. Γm sorry if any of theseitems are outdated—consider it

a challenge to update us this year. The firstitem is not so old. At the start of this year,Nina Silfen became a partner in the 25-attorney firm of Brauner Baron, Rosenzweig& Klein in Manhattan. Nina practices es-tate planning and trusts and estates, so thinkof her as you accumulate wealth.

Brian Ochs and wife Joan welcomedsecond son Matthew Jay in April 1994. Mat-thew has brother Randall, 4. Brian and Joanare both attorneys in Washington, DC. Near-by in Arlington, VA, Jody Katz Gibbs israising sons David and Michael. Capturingthe mood of most parents, Jody wrote,"Sometimes they are fabulous, and some-times I am not!" Perhaps Brian and Jodyrun into Dale Rosenthal, who lives in Be-thesda, MD, but develops affordable multi-family housing in the Washington area.Dale's first child, Sarah Rosenthal Cutler,was born in February 1994.

Moving north, Brian Blauvelt becamedirector of sales and marketing for EdlonProducts Inc., a chemical process equipmentmanufacturer, after ten years at Exxon.Brian lives in Avondale in southeasternPennsylvania. Bruce Schneider has re-mained with Citibank in NYC since gradua-tion. He has been responsible for imple-menting a general ledger for all of domesticCiticorp. Having encountered Citibank inSeattle, I know that must be a massive job.Jeanne Arnold Schwetje and husband Johnare both teachers on Long Island, and takestudents to Europe each year. They havealready convinced daughter KatherineJeanne, 11, to study at Cornell. MichelleBerke Hatch is a buyer for Fire-LiteAlarms, a manufacturer of electronic firealarm systems. Michelle, husband Alan, andkids Rebecca, 9, and Joshua, 3, all live inNorthford, CT. Stewart Morrison is chiefinvestment officer of Keyport Life InsuranceCo. in Boston.

Heading south and west, RogerStrauch is president and chief executiveofficer of Teknekron Communications Sys-tems in Berkeley, CA. And farthest awaythis month: after years with Campbell's inthe Northeast, Danny Lynn is now the di-rector of marketing for Campbell's de Mex-ico. "Ummm, Ummm, Bueno!"

We're looking forward to your 1995news! * Henry Farber, 6435 289th Ave.,SE, Issaquah, WA 98027.

1̂ 1̂ ^ Liz Harriman and Gary Mer-1' i I I cer still live in Wilmington, MAI \m with children Nathan, 6, and• ^Λ Lindsay, 2. Gary is a water-re-I i M sources engineer with Camp• ^J Dresser and McKee in Cam-

bridge, and Liz is doing research at the Tox-ics Use Reduction Inst. at U. of Massachu-setts, Lowell. Liz visited with Sally WeirFundakowski and her family in Atherton, CArecently. Sally and husband Dave have chil-dren Jeanne, 7, and Terri, 4. Sally is in mar-keting at Intel. Liz also writes that BethSilverman is hard at work organizing theSociety of Women Engineers' annual con-ference, which will be held in Boston thissummer.

Jeff Rothstein, wife Monica (Rogers)'80, and sons Jeremy, 7, and Ethan, 3,moved to Westport, CT last summer. Therethey discovered Nancy Ilberman Gold '76across the street; Dave Kauffrnan and Jodi(Wiener) '81 with daughter Melanie, 2-1/2,in their backyard; and Joyce Blum Mort-ner '81 nearby. Jeff works for AIG TradingGroup in Greenwich. They stay in touch withDr. Joanne Reisch Bach in Stamford, DianeLurensky Alpern '80 in Northampton, MA,and Dr. Julie Gould LeClair in Ithaca.

Jane Kornfeld Bessin is spending mostof her time at home with children Julie lia-na, 5, and David Andrew, 1-1/2. She is tak-ing time off from consulting to volunteer ather daughter's nursery school and for Cor-nell. Jane attended a Cornell fund-raisingevent in San Francisco and sat with WayneBuder, Janice Garvey, and Glenn Aaron-son. Jane plans to return to consulting thisyear after a trip to Cancun with husbandBob. Terry Mady-Grove writes that she andher husband have children Eddie, 2-1/2, and

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Charlotte Lea, born Nov. 21, '94. Terry isbusy with her children and practicing at alaw firm located in Jericho, NY on Long Is-land. Robert M. Kruger lives in Rockville,MD with wife Sue and children James, 4,and Madeline, 2. Robert is director of litiga-tion for the North American Anti-PiracyCampaign for the Business Software Alliancein Washington, DC.

Cindy Greenberger Osofsky writes,"Finally I have the California dream: bigPasadena house; beautiful pool and gardens;plus my husband Chuck and I adopted a lit-tle girl, Emily Irina, who turned 2 on Aug.9, '94. We traveled to the Arctic Circle inApril 1994 to get her, where she had livedin a Russian orphanage for the first 20months of her life. It was the most reward-ing experience of our lives, and she is won-derful. I highly recommend it!" Emily joinsbig sister Amanda Caitlyn, 6-1/2. Cindy isvice president and manager of corporatebanking for PNC Bank, a Pittsburgh, PA-based bank. Cindy often sees Tom and AbbyPerr Baker, who live in Pasadena and areraising sons Philip, Joey, and Jacob. WendyWeisbard Gottlieb and David '78 continueto live in Gaithersburg, MD with childrenJason, 12, and Cheryl, 10. Cindy also writesthat Ken Furry is an attorney in NYC andLynne Ripple Peterson '78 lives in Dallasand has recently stopped working to spendtime with children Christine, 5, and Micha-el, 3-1/2.

We also have some news that has been"gathering a little dust," but we want toshare it and hope that it is still reasonablyaccurate. Louis Zambello and wife Lind-sey (Rustad) '80 are in Maine with daugh-ters Erika, 5, and Mary, 3. Louis is a vicepresident for L. L. Bean, which means hecan practice his favorite hobby, flyfishing,and can always be up-to-date on the bestfishing spots. Lindsey finished her doctor-ate in bio-geo-chemistry six years ago andis consulting and working as a part-time re-search professor affiliated with the U. ofMaine. Bill Minnock is the father of chil-dren ages 10, 9, 7, 5, and 2. Bill has beendoing cross-training at Marriott and is generalmanager of the Bethesda Marriott Hotel. Heis also president of the Washington, DC chap-ter of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen. Billsaw Michael Doyle and his family whenthey visited Washington 18 months ago.

Dwight Bush is working in Washing-ton, DC, where he is vice president of busi-ness development for SallieMae. Previous-ly, he was manager of Chase ManhattanBank's Washington, DC Global Power andProject Group Finance Office. Seth Klar-man is an investment advisor working inCambridge, MA. He and his wife have chil-dren liana, 9-1/2, Aleeza, 6, and Jeremiah,2-1/2. Michael Kokola is a commercialbanker at Chemical Bank in Atlantic Coun-ty, NJ and is working toward an MBA de-gree at Temple U. Chris Felden and wifeVicky are practicing law together in sunnyNaples, FL. They have children Megan, 7,and Kimberly, 3-1/2.

In closing, I am sad to report the deathsof three classmates. John Lanson, who wasin Arts and Sciences, died on Jan. 25, '94.We have also received word that JeffreyCudlipp of the Engineering college has

passed away. Lastly, classmate Frank San-tamaria, who worked for PNC Bank inPittsburgh, was one of the victims of theUSAir crash in September 1994. Frank wasmarried and had two young daughters. Weextend our condolences to the familes andfriends of these three classmates. <* CindyAhlgren Shea, PO Box 1413, E. Hampton,NY 11937 and Kathy Zappia Gould, 924Meadowcreek Way, Richmond, VA 23236.

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Just when I triedto ease out of thecolumn-writingbusiness, my per-sistent and tire-less "Class Notes"

editor, Elsie McMillan '55, telephoned(two weeks in a row, mind you) looking fornews. Well, for the first time in 15 years,my well had run completely dry. One call tothe alumni affairs office, and Elsie stirred up afresh batch of news from Robin Preston ofthe Membership Solicitation Program.

There are two other reasons I thoughtlast month's column was my last. Γm hop-ing new classmates step forward to writethis column and put a different spin on thenews, quoting different people than I fallback on in a jam. And, unfortunately, Iwasn't at the June Reunion. Coincidentally,I was invited to speak during the same fourdays at a national conference of investiga-tive reporters and editors in Miami. Nowhow could I pass that up? In Miami, they'llpay. In Ithaca, I'd foot the tab. Do you blameme? I am disappointed, though, that Icouldn't follow up on my invitation to ball-room-dance with Sophie Farago. I'll haveto catch her and Tina Ogden in New YorkCity the next time I head south.

And now to the latest news: Robert S.Miller got a new job in January workingwith Oracle Systems, consulting in the Chi-cago area. He had just returned home froma Florida vacation. He wrote, "The four kidskeep us busy, only to return home to getsome rest after vacation." Their children areTaylor, 5, Brynne, 4, Connor, 3, and Hunt-er, 1. Last fall, Robert traveled to Paris, theFrench Alps, and Indonesia, all work-relat-ed, "but a nice change from the usual."

Dorothy Fearn Houlihan says she andhusband Kevin moved to the Chicago areain late 1991. She is now at home full-timewith adopted children Joseph Thaddeus, 3in July, and Alice Rose, 2 in June. They areabout to adopt their third child. MarjorieWerner Stein is the mother of boys ages 3and 5. She's a radiologist, and her husbandis a urologist. Hey Marjorie, do you remem-ber me from Chem 207 lab? I was the strug-gling writer who actually thought he couldbecome a doctor.

Robert W. Reardon of Clifton Springs,NY and his wife had a girl, Rose Caroline,in March 1994. "She is driving her 5-year-old brother, Dexter, crazy," Robert writes."He is rather possessive of his Power Rang-er toys, and Rose would much rather playwith them than her dolls. Rose also followsDexter everywhere, so he can't even playon the computer in peace." The Reardonsstill have a pick-your-own strawberry oper-ation, but the time demands of family andwork are making it difficult to grow straw-

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berries properly, he says. Robert says he'sa glutton for punishment, having decided torun for the school board in Phelps-CliftonSprings. He also received an MBA in financeaccounting in June 1993 at the Simon Schoolof Business, U. of Rochester.

Karen Benz Merns of Park Ave., NYCis working as a clinical psychologist in anoutpatient mental health clinic. She has chil-dren Julian, 12, Daniel, 10, and Olivia, 7.June Hori Yamasaki has been sending newsevery time with her dues, but says it's nev-er been printed. "Let's hear it! Let's seeit!" she writes. June is the full-time motherof Laura, nearly 6, and Karen, approaching2. "I love being at home, and have neverbeen so busy in my life," she says. "I'd verymuch like to hear from old classmates, es-pecially any who were with me in the Inter-national Living Center, 1977-80." June livesat 1413 W. Granville Ave., Chicago, IL60660. June, if this item doesn't get in in itsentirety, you can blame Elsie and others onthe Hill.

Diane Cini married Rob Dowling onLabor Day weekend, 1994. They first metin 1987, when both were working at Har-rah's Casino in Reno, NY. Diane's been atCini-Little International for six years, work-ing for her father. Robert B. Holzer is pres-ident of Chick Master Incubator Co., a man-ufacturer of large incubators for the poultryindustry. He and wife Viviana have daugh-ter Gabriela, 2.

Robert Gaut moved to Ardmore, OKin January 1994 with two dogs and a 6-month-old son. He's still working for Mich-elin, but at one of the Uniroyal/Goodrichplants Michelin bought a couple of years ago.Robert says he's disappointed his planscouldn't include our 15th Reunion. Instead,they planned to attend his parents' 40thwedding anniversary, his dad's and father-in-law's 65th birthdays, and his sister-in-law's wedding. Yeah, I don't think youcould've wriggled out of those invites, Bob.Robert hopes Niel Golightly and Tony J.(I'm guessing he means Anthony Johnson)participated in the Reunion Row. *«• Jon Craig,213 Wellesley Rd., Syracuse, NY 13207.

^\4 It's summer and life somehowI I I seems more relaxed this time of\f I year. Our family is looking forwardf\ I to spending a fun week on CapeII I Cod—an opportunity to get away\J JL from meetings, faxes, phones, e-mail, and deadlines! This summer columnserves to update you on your classmates'careers. Classmates are doing wonderfulthings all across the nation. We have threeveterinarians to report on: Dr. Lisa Diet-rich, at the Nassau Veterinary Clinic in Nas-sau, NY; Dr. Lora Miller, at the AnimalHospital of Berlin in Kensington, CT; andDr. Joseph Parisi, at St. Francis AnimalHospital in Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Edward Hellman is an orthopedicsurgeon in Carmel, IN, while Dr. Paul Dalealso practices orthopedics at Alexandria Or-thopedic Associates in Alexandria, MN. Inhealth care administration, Paul Gleichaufworks at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newbury-port, MA; in Durham, NC, J. Erik Engbergmanages Northwood Manor, a nursing facility.

Among classmate physicians are Marc

Greenwald, a surgeon at North Shore Sur-gical Specialists in Great Neck, NY; Dr.Steven Goldenberg, a gastroenterologistin Lake Success, NY; Donald Figliola Jr.in Tampa, FL; Julie Henry, a dermatolo-gist in Burke, VA; and Charles "Chip"Swersky, in Merrick, NY. Chip and wifeBetsy have children Alyssa, 7, Heather, 3,and Adam Greg, 1-1/2.

Forecasting the weather across thecountry are meteorologists Kevin Williamsat WROC in Rochester, NY and SylviaReeves Dake in Minneapolis, MN. Fore-casting the state of the economy and finan-cial markets are: Patricia Yeh, a businessmanager for Salomon Brothers in NYC;Timothy Rogan, at New York Life in Dal-las, TX; Michael Strauss, chief economistof Yamaichi International America Inc., inNYC; Matthew Grady, a commercial bank-er at First Union National Bank of NorthCarolina in Raleigh; Li-Lin Sung, financialdirector of Oceanic Industries in the IvoryCoast, West Africa; Christopher Sorrenti-no, a financial analyst for Silgan Containersin Woodland Hills, CA; Vivien Fung Lim,an investment manager for Greenwich Man-agement in Alpharetta, GA; and AndrewRitwo, director of revenue operations atOncor Communications in Bethesda, MD.

Many of us are human resource man-agers, including: Michele Chape Hanss atthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts per-sonnel administration department; RichardLustig at SONY in Park Ridge, NJ; JudithOrland Lorenz at ELS Educational Servic-es in Culver City, CA; and Pamela Star-sky Kogan at Candle Corp. in Santa Moni-ca, CA. Two architects who have venturedinto their own practices in NYC are Alison"Bonnie" Spear and Natan Bibliowicz.Having worked for Skidmore, 0wings &Merrill for 12 years, Natan now focuses oncorporate clients, but also does retail andresidential projects. Meanwhile, PatriciaMurray-Keetz is a fiber artist in Sche-nectady, NY.

In engineering, Susan Boyd is a sen-ior systems engineer for GE Medical Sys-tems in Milwaukee; Steven Goldsteinworks for DeSimone, Chaplin & Dobry inCoral Gables, FL; Melissa Storne Mainais a validation engineer for Dupont MerckPharmaceutical in Billerica, MA; PeterSnell is a scheduling consultant in S. Sa-lem, NY; and Lawrence Hall is a consult-ant at Aeronomics Inc. in Atlanta, GA.

In the hospitality industry, Mary "Mel"Hagen is director of catering and conven-tion services at the Stouffer Harbor PlaceHotel in Baltimore, MD. Sandra WaringHolloway is a caterer at Tasteful Connec-tions in Rochester, NY.

Dawn Debuvitz is a coordinator of stu-dent employment at Mohawk Valley Com-munity College in Utica, NY. At the U. ofColorado at Boulder, Wayne Citrin is a pro-fessor of engineering. Carol Schaffer is anassistant dean at the Parsons School of De-sign in NYC. Sally Lawrence is a teacherat the Special Children's Center in Candor,NY. In Smithtown, NY, Thomas Rodgersis a supervisor for the Guide Dog Founda-tion for the Blind, while Barbara WhiteApseloff is a social worker in Arlington, VA.

In the marketing and advertising world,

we have the following professionals: Ricar-do McKay at Posadas USA in Dallas, TX;Douglas Perlman at Colgate Palmolive inNYC; Deborah Matthews Loveland at IBMin Endicott, NY; Esther Lee at Deutsch Inc.in NYC; Michael Hoard, our class presi-dent, at American National Can in Norwalk,CT; Grace Jenkins at Motorola Inc. in Ar-lington Heights, IL; and Miriam Rogers atJohnson & Johnson Consumer Products Inc.in Skillman, NJ.

Please take a few moments out of yourbusy life to send us all your news. Enjoythe rest of the summer! <* Kathleen Phil-bin LaShoto, 114 Harrington Rd., Waltham,MA 02154; Jennifer Read Campbell, 14824Hunting Path PL, Centreville, VA 22020;Robin Rosenberg, 2600 Netherland Ave.,Apt. 201, Riverdale, NY 10463.

^\Λ Howard S. Lee, PhD '89 andI I I wife Suzanne Usiskin '84 have\t i settled in Santa Clara, CA afterf J f an eventful few years. TheyI I i έ spent three years in New Jersey,WJW Howard at the US Army Re-search Labs, Suzanne at AT&T Bell Labs.Then they moved to France, where Howardearned his MBA in 1994 and son Ryan Yi-Fan Lee was born on August 30 in Paris.Now the family is in northern California,where Howard is product manager in thephysical vapor deposition division at AppliedMaterials Inc.

Donna DeSilva, who had been seniorattorney in the chief counsel's office, Officeof Thrift Supervision, now is an assistantbar counsel for the board on professionalresponsibility, District of Columbia Court ofAppeals. Jobs iϊi Washington, DC seem tohave longer titles than most.

Sorry, that's it. The letter bag is emp-ty. In the absence of more news, we willdonate the rest of our space in this issue toother classes and hope our mailboxes fill upagain soon. * Neil F. Best, 207 DellwoodRd., Metuchen, NJ 08840; also Nina M.Kondo, 323 W. 82nd St., Apt. 4A, NYC 10024.

Mark Terry sends news fromBoulder, CO that DouglasBraunstein had his first child, sonZachary Steven, in August 1994.Jennifer Pullano is currentlychief resident in family medicine

at the Medical U. of South Carolina. Jennifercompleted her four-year stint in the US Navy,including two years on board the USS Hol-land as the general medical officer, and nowlives in Charleston with her husband of fiveyears, Karl Kibler, and two beagles.

Elizabeth Kim writes from . . . Ith-aca! She's here finishing her thesis for anMFA from Cornell. She currently teachesEnglish 280 (Creative Writing) and Writingfrom Experience. Those course namesshould bring back memories for more thana few of us. Also in Ithaca, David Raimonwrites that he married Lillian Demko andwelcomed daughter Maxine in July 1992.Eric Hanson and his wife Gwen (Sharyl)'82 have three daughters, ages 4, 3, and 6months. Eric is an assistant professor at theU. of Florida and Gwen recently completedher residency in family practice medicine.The Hansons live in Gainesville, FL. Adam

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Metz writes from Glencoe, IL that he andwife Martha had their third child, Emma, inSeptember 1994. Emma joins brothers Sam,3, and Harry, 18 months.

Scott Cole recently completed his mas-ter's in public administration at the U. ofMaine. He is currently employed as town man-ager in Standish, ME. Barry Horowitz andwife Nancy welcomed their second son, Ben-jamin, in December 1994. Benjamin joinsbrother Maxwell. The Horowitz family livesin Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where Barryis in private practice as an endocrinologist

Jeff Dallas works in New York Cityfor Kenneth Leventhal & Co. as a real es-tate consultant. Jeff is in touch with PaulMarch, who is working for CB Commer-cial. Jeff returns to campus periodically torecruit at the Hotel school and at theJohnson school. Kathleen Orr Pomerenkis living in Washington, DC and recentlyreceived her professional certification des-ignation of CAE (certified association exec-utive). Kathleen and her husband visitedSue Hurban Amberg and husband Larrylast summer in Manhattan Beach, CA. Sueand Larry had just begun the process ofbuilding a new home—we can only hope thatit is now complete! Peter Nicholson livesin Morgantown, WV, where he is an emer-gency room physician. He plans to begin hisresidency in radiology later this year.

Michael Schonberg writes from Luth-erville, MD that he and wife Shelley wel-comed their first child, Alison Michelle, inFebruary 1994. In June 1994, Joe Sarachekand his wife welcomed son Jake. The proudfather writes, "He's tall and strong and can'twait to go to Cornell!" That would makeJake a member of the Class of '16—we canonly guess what tuition will be by then!More baby news—Daniel Kaplan and wifeAmy announce the birth of daughter Sophiain January 1994. Daniel, Amy, and Sophialive in Glen Ridge, NJ.

Layne Lieberman Anapol is a nutri-tion consultant to a 47-store grocery chain,who frequently appears on local TV and innews articles. She also consults with chefsto develop heart-healthy menu marketing.She lives with husband Jonathan, sons Ben-jamin, 4, and Alexander, 2, in the Hamptonson Long Island. Ruth Coomber Matt wel-comed her first child, Peter, in June 1994.Ruth lives in Portland, ME and works as aninvestment consultant for a newly-formedlocal bank, Atlantic Bank, formerly Citibank.

Ron Muzii is a senior vice presi-dent for Construction Inc., a French realestate developer in Miami, FL. Ron had theopportunity to work with world-famous ar-chitect Michael Graves on his newest proj-ect—a luxury condo and retail center inSouth Beach, FL. J. "Ralph" Russek wasrecently promoted to municipal division chiefat G. Edwin Pidcock Co. in Allentown, PA.He also was promoted to lieutenant com-mander, USNR(R). Ralph is clearly a BigRed football fan, as he writes that he, hiswife and two children—Erin, 5, and Erik,2—attended last season's victory againstLehigh and hearbreaking loss to Penn.

Benjy Goldman is currently an ob/gynworking at North Shore Hospital, and is as-sistant professor at Cornell Medical College.Benjy and wife Sara welcomed their second

child, daughter Jessie, in July 1994. Jessiejoins brother Daniel, 3. Benjy writes thatChris Lofaso and his wife recently wel-comed a baby girl. The Lofasos reside inUpstate NY. Barry also informs us that BobBollinger graduated from law school and isa partner in a law firm in Florida.

Melanie Krebs Baran writes that shemarried husband Philip in October 1993.They live in Whiting, IN, with daughterKathleen. Melanie currently works forMethodist Hospitals in northwest Indiana.

*»* Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 Elmcrest Cir.,Ithaca, NY 14850; also Matthew Tager,14055 Tahiti Way, #208, Marina del Rey,CA 90292, fax (310) 305-8877.

Leo V. Redmond was promot-ed to managing associate atCSC/Index, an engineering con-sulting company in San Fran-cisco. He has seen fellow alum-ni Rob Moon '85, with whom

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at a wine tasting in Napa Valley. Herb Ri-band and Janine (Thomas) have a 1-year-old daughter. They live in Madrid, Spain!Anne Sharbaugh Sherrill married class-mate Jim on New Year's Eve 1993. LynahSherrill '58, Trish Kaneb, JenniferSheehy, and Hanna and Nick Groos as-sisted with the bride's dress and festivities.What a great way to ring in a new year!Beth Corliss Silvestri was married in Oc-tober 1992, lives in San Francisco, and hadher first child in September 1994. She hasseen Patricia "PK" Keller, Karen Metz,Darci Jorgenson, Trish Kaneb, and Jen-ny Schiff Berg.

Catherine Wagner quit her job withGodwins, Booke & Dickenson and has re-turned to school to become a chiropractor.Tomas Alvarez is a senior designer withKohn Pederson Fox Associates in New YorkCity, where he has been working as an ar-chitect for nine years. He has been travel-ing to London, Atlanta, Ga, and BuenosAires. Carol Kuntz was married last Julyto an old friend from graduate school, RodFabrycky. She is still working for the USDept. of Defense, most recently on a projectinvolving NATO.

Linda Bell is working for Xerox Busi-ness Services as managing editor of employ-ee publications and communications, basedin Rochester, NY. Her job provides muchopportunity to travel around the US and Eu-rope. Judith Brant is still working as alighting/sound technician for Celebrant Sing-ers. She did a mini-concert for Mother Ter-esa and the sisters at the Mother House inCalcutta! Laura Sheffield just finished herseventh year teaching English at BrooklineHigh School in Massachusetts. She is alsopainting and exhibiting her work at a localcooperative gallery. After Abel Hughes re-ceived his MBA from Harvard, he marrieda "lovely Brazilian architect" and took a jobwith Eli Lilly in their international division.He and wife Diana Girardi Karnas are now inSao Paulo and invite everyone to come visit!

Nancy Sutley is special assistant to USEnvironmental Protection Agency Adminis-trator Carol Browner. Nancy is the programand policy advisor for air and radiation is-sues. Lisa Rosen Sonek is working as abusiness partner sales manager for LotusDevelopment. She and her husband havedaughter Rebecca, almost 2. Lisa reportsthat Andrea Pohl-Gordon lives in Bostonand has an 18-month-old boy. Stephen Sil-verman married Emily Bromberg '86 in1991 and works at the White House as spe-cial assistant to the President for cabinetaffairs and the deputy cabinet secretary. Hesaw many Cornellians at Matt Schneider'swedding, including Billy Schiff and RobinAbrams '86 with their son Craig; GlennKerner; Jeff Pine; Kurt Abrahamson'83; and Peter Storck '82.

Scott Kominkiewicz and wife Teresahave children Scott, Corinne, and Con-stance. Scott works at UPS's informationservices division in Mahwah, NJ and is in-vestigating the field of politics. Dr. Jeff Ger-shenwald married Donna (Jacobson) '86last summer after their having dated at Cor-nell, lost touch, and then being reunited byJeffs sister Tami Gershenwald '89. ManyCornellians were part of the celebration, in-

No babies, nohusband, no pro-motion, no move!Just life as a strug-gling actress in theBig Apple.

—CHRISTINE WEISS '87

eluding Bill and Wendy Thomas Taussig(both'86), Nadine Berg Fialkow '86, Neiland Beth Goldstein Weissman '85, RisaBernstein '86, Page Ward Seville '86, JimRitchey '85, Steve Schwartz '85, andReuben Rosof '97.

Martha Hover Schwingel had secondchild Anna Nicole in December 1993, andwrites that her career is on hold for now.Husband Bill '82 is doing a post-doc at theKennedy Space Center. Amy WeingartRothman had son Evan in July 1993. AnneGumkowski Pierce earned her MBA fromthe Wharton School and was married in April1994 to Glen, a fellow Wharton School grad-uate. Anne has been working for GeminiConsulting since 1990. Tom "Bo" Codellamarried Lisa LaRoss in September 1993.Cornellians in attendance were FrankCodella '49; Sam Codella '53; ChrisCodella, PhD '84; Leo and Louise Codel-la Shanley, both '83; Colin Rehkugler'81; Bob '83 and Rosalie Clary Hawley,MBA '87; Steve Putscher '83; Al Lock-er; Jack Ebel; Rob Edwards '85; andPete Blauvelt '85. Bo and Lisa had sonSpenser on July 4, '94; Al and Elise Lockerhad son Alexander IV on June 6, '94.* Karla Sievers McManus, 1465 HooksettRd., #299, Hooksett, NH 03106([email protected]); also Guy Donatiello,321 N. Ithan Ave., Rosemont, PA 19010([email protected]).

Kimberly Wagnerhas faithfully sentme mail over theyears saying, "Stillin graduate school.I'll finish some-

day!" Well, folks, that someday is here. Kim-berly "brought the bound and boxed copy of[her] thesis, along with the requisite paper-work, to the [Harvard] Registrar the Fridaybefore Labor Day," in 1994 and she is nowthe proud owner of a PhD in biochemistryand a job with the Boston Consulting Group.Kimberly says she is enjoying the changefrom student life to "the real world."

Jill Gaydosh, senior vice president ofsales at Arbour Financial Corp., underwenther own metamorphosis from fiancee to

bride when she wed Michael Kafka in a NewYork City ceremony attended by Ann Gins-burg, Dana Andreas, and Betsy Daniels("all the way from Tokyo!"). Congratula-tions, Jill!

Congratulations are also due to Geof-frey Koester, who celebrated his fourthanniversary with wife Meg, "a U. of Roch-ester grad who comes from a long line ofCornellians dating back to Howard A.Stevenson '19, former editor of the Cor-nell Alumni News," and to Laura GibaldiPise, who celebrated not only her tenth an-niversary with James '84 but also the birthof second child Julia Marie, who is "adoredby brother Daniel Joseph, age 3."

Like Laura, Stephanie Weill Greenhas also added to her brood: daughter JulianErin joins big brothers Matthew, 6, and Ben-jamin, 3. Stephanie notes that her family"spends a lot of time with Bobby and Phyl-lis Simon Gusick and their two adorablekids, Alison and Douglas."

Antoinette Robbins, senior specialcounsel with the NY Stock Exchange,spends a lot of her time on Cornell activi-ties. When not practicing law or pursuingher LLM in corporate law at New York U.,Antoinette serves as president of the Cor-nell Black Alumni Assn., and as a memberof the President's Council for Cornell Wom-en, University Council, and the Alumni Fed-eration. (Antoinette, when do you sleep?)

Kathleen Dillon evidently sleeps a lotbetter now that she has moved to Connect-icut to join Marketing Corp. of America, aconsulting firm in Westport. She writes, "Ilove the change of pace—it's a relaxed com-pany, and we can wear jeans or casualclothes every day!" Other classmates inmarketing (though perhaps not dressed injeans) include: Susan Rosenbaum, whosays she works in "marketing research;"Kulsoom Klavon, in the American Airlinesmarketing department; Melissa Josephson,in marketing and business development withCamp Dresser & McKee Int'l. Inc.; EugeneChen, director of marketing at Applied Med-ical Resources in Laguna Hills, CA; andDawn Viapiano Bierschwal at Procter &Gamble.

Though not in marketing, other class-mates are also working in consulting, hav-ing a great time getting paid to tell otherpeople how to run their businesses. Theyinclude: David Friedman and Craig Stan-ley (who lives in Larchmont, NY with wifeCecilia Schulze-Stanley '87) at AndersenConsulting; Katherine Byrne and Gerard"Sam" Kamel, with McKinsey & Co.;Michael Jones, with Booz Allen & Hamil-ton; Davicf Bonalle, a "management con-sultant in Atlanta;" and Robert Wads-worth, business strategy consultant withthe Blue Cross Blue Shield Assn., who re-cently wed Linda Allen, MBA '90.

Always one to facilitate networking op-portunities through the class column, Ishould note that if the marketing and con-sulting folks listed above are interested inclient development, they may wish to con-tact some of our '85er management and/orcorporate communications executives, in-cluding: Michael Liess, Western region di-rector of Oce'USA, a Dutch office equipmentmanufacturer; Kate McManus, distributor

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manager of the Cryovac division of W.R.Grace; Laurie Love, sales manager of Well-fleet Communications; James Good III,vice president of corporate communicationsfor the California Water Service Co., "thelargest investor-owned water utility in theGolden State;" John Gabel, general man-ager of distribution and value-added opera-tions for Capstone Electronics, who has "re-sponsibility for all of our company's physi-cal operations and facilities in Denver andKansas City;" Jessica Stein Diamond, incorporate communications with First Em-pire State Corp., a publicly traded bank hold-ing company; Thomas Bowden, processoperations manager of the James RiverCorp.; James Hank, senior vice presidentof Montgomery Elevator Co.; Jim Ritchey,district manager of Instron Corp. in Dallas(where he says he is "still two-steppin' andenjoying the folks and the weather"); Kath-leen Rowe, assistant director of media re-lations at MIT; Linda Glassberg Fears,senior editor, Ladies Home Journal; KirstenCoffen, chief of community planning forHartford County, MD; Barbara Moore,president of the Henahan Restaurant Group;and Mitchell Sacks, chief financial officerof Tri-State Radio Co.

Best of luck to all of you movers andshakers, brides and grooms, and new moth-ers and fathers, and many sincere thanksfor sending your happy news my way.* Risa Mish, 611 Briarcliff Dr., S., Ossin-ing, NY 10562.

It's a dark day for the Class of'86 when I have to rely on oth-er classes for news to fill ourcolumn. Mike OΉara '88wrote via e-mail that AnneCowie had left Planned Parent-

hood to assume the position of associatedirector in the development office at DanaFarber Cancer Inst. He also reports thatKaren Hurlbut has been promoted to as-sistant director in leadership gifts for ouralma mater. Her duties include being pri-mary coordinator for the regional campaignevents with (1) good oΓ Frank H. T. "HotTruck" Rhodes, (2) former Cornell Trust-ee Chair (and still a "macher") Austin Kip-linger '39, and (3) "other dignitaries aroundthe country."

In other Ithaca-related news, An-drew J. Wallenstein and wife Karen(Purcell) '87 had daughter Beverly Annein February 1994. Andy is the associatepublisher of Cornell Magazine, whichmeans he is responsible for the maga-zine's business affairs and still gets toenjoy Johnny's Hot Truck cuisine. He en-courages classmates to buy and make useof the e-mail directory (being publishedthis summer) when getting in touch withuniversity staff and faculty, class officers,and other alumni.

It seems as if most of what news I doreceive from classmates pertains to wed-dings and births. What a trend. Donna Ja-cobson Gershenwald writes that in June1994 she married Jeff '84, MD '90, aformer acquaintance at Cornell to whomDonna was reintroduced by her buddy(and maid of honor) Tami Gershenwald'89. Bridesmaids were Alexandra

"Wendy" Thomas Taussig and NadineBerg Fialkow, and attendees included BillTaussig, Risa Bernstein, Page WardSeville, Jim Ritchey '85, SteveSchwartz '85, Beth Goldstein Weissman'85 and Reuben Rosof '97. After honey-mooning in Corsica and Paris, the coupleresumed their lives in New York City,where Donna works for American Expressand Jeff is a resident in surgery at the Cor-nell Medical Center.

Dana R. Lindquist kept her maidenname when she married high-school sweet-heart Chris Peterson on Jan. 1, '94. Hopeyou didn't rush things, Dana. They now livein NYC. Also in the Big Apple, Kai BloomDe Hernandez, who had a son in the fall of1992. She visited Risley with Oona Stern,and reports that their former room in Ris-ley still had the glow-in-the-dark stars theyhad put on the ceiling—meaning the roomhadn't been painted since 1983. Emily Cit-rin and Mark Glasberg are proud parents ofdaughter Hana Brittany Glasberg, born Sept.12, '93.

Finally, Mary Rinko Oefelein is an in-ternist in Chicago. And that's all I've gotunless and until y'all send some news. Weare still looking for someone to serve asReunion chair for our Tenth Reunion nextJune. If you or anyone you know is interest-ed, call Class President Steve Brinkmanat (516) 767-1370. * Jeffrey W. Cowan,1114 6th St., Suite 10, Santa Monica, CA90403.

^\ J f m It is with reluctance that I informII m you that this will be my last col-j£ t umn as class correspondent.I I I More than eight years haveII I passed and nearly 30 columns^̂ ™ have been written since I excit-edly accepted the position, to become theCornell equivalent of Rona Barrett. I havereally enjoyed my stint, but it is time tomove on, as other priorities in my life aretaking center stage. In January, I started myMBA part time at Babson College in Welles-ley, MA. I love the program, but hate hav-ing to put down my expected year of gradu-ation: sometime between the years 2000 and2002. Anyway, life has turned into a balanc-ing act, and I need one less thing to bal-ance. As outgoing correspondent, I leave youin the able hands of Caryn and Risa Wein-berger, who will finish out my term. Carynand Risa, thanks for stepping up to the plate!

It was great to hear from all the physi-cians (and other practitioners) out there. Ithink they finally had time to fill out theirNews and Dues forms. After a "long, longjourney of studying," writes lona Malinow-Maceo, "I will start a real job as a pediatri-cian in Brockport, NY." We heard fromMary Ellen Boname, a doctor of optome-try, who is an associate at Hillsborough andGreen Brook Vision Centers in New Jersey.Debra Eisenberger is still doing her ob/gyn residency at Medical College of Penn-sylvania. She keeps in touch with KarenAlter and Sharon Pohoryles.

Not to exclude doctors who prefer theirpatients to be on the furry side, Karen Clif-ford Gendron is a veterinarian at the Mud-dy Creek Animal Care Center, a successfulanimal hospital/kennel in Rowley, MA. In my

continuing attempt to vicariously live the lifeof a doctor without having to pay back med-ical school loans, I shadowed Avery Katzwhile he did his neurology rounds at Mon-tefiore Hospital in the Bronx. It was quitean experience! Avery has one year left inhis neurology residency at Albert Einstein.This was my third time participating in the"hang out with your friend who's a doctor"program. On previous occasions, I havetagged along with a GI (classmate DavidKalman) and an ob/gyn. If you are a doctorand would like to host me for a day, pleaselet me know.

Congratulations to Ken Romley, whorecently sold Burl Software, the companyhe co-founded with Dave Babson, MS '88,for $13.5 million. Ken, has Cornell contact-ed you yet about the new building theywould like to construct on the Engineeringquad? In other entrepreneurial news, BrianSaltz left the law firm of Kreitzman, Mor-tensen and Simon to start a solo labor andemployment law practice. Good luck, Brian!

The Class Stork was busy in 1994, par-ticularly in the month of December. Su-sanne Kraszewski Wesnofske writes thatson Richard Jr. has a new playmate: sisterEmily Elizabeth, who was born on Decem-ber 15. Congratulations to Melissa WeissBausano on the birth of Gabrielle Florenceon December 22. Adam Klein reports thathe and wife Melanie Smith, MS Ag '90welcomed their first child, Jordan Samuel,on May 5. On a professional note, Adam hasbecome active in the tobacco control move-ment, and currently represents disabled in-dividuals subjected to tobacco smoke in theworkplace.

Psychiatrist Karen Miller also joinedthe ranks of parenthood, as she gave birthto Jessica Anne just over a year ago Qune2, '94). And, this news just in ... Class Cor-respondent Gail Stoller Baer and husbandMichael '88, MBA '89 welcomed their sec-ond child, daughter Rachel Caryn, on April8, '95. Mother, father, and baby are doingjust fine in Washington, DC!

"No babies, no husband, no promotion,no move! Just life as a struggling actress inthe Big Apple," writes Christine Weiss.She has been appearing in some productionsat the Off-Broadway Ridiculous TheatricalCompany in NYC. *> Richard Friedman,32 Whites Ave., #2205, Watertown, MA02172; Tom S. Tseng, c/o InternationalPublic Affairs, 55 Brown Road, Ste. 220, Ith-aca, NY 14850-1266; Gail Stoller Baer, 3215Tennyson St., NW, Washington, DC 20015.

Ah, summer! I sure miss longsummer vacations when re-sponsibilities, though seeming-ly important, really were min-imal. Now take a look at us!Navy Lt. T.V. Wallace report-

ed for duty with Training Squadron 28 atthe Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi,TX, last November. Currently serving atthe US Embassy in Managua (Nicaragua)is Bonnie Glick. She married fellow dip-lomat Paul Foldi in July 1992 in Addis Aba-ba, Ethiopia. Bonnie previously worked inEthiopia and at the United Nations. Shewrites, "It is an exciting place to be, withpolitical and economic reforms struggling

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on a daily basis. Overall: fun, hot, dusty,third-world."

Lisa Pasquale Semmes is assistantproduct manager for A.H. Robins. She andhusband Ben recently moved back to the"cold and snowy Northeast" from Virgin-ia; they bought a house in Upper Mont-clair, NJ. Attending their housewarming:Rob and Pat Cook Rosenberg '89, RodRecker '87, Ellen Levin, Janet Bartels,Jake White, and Judy Burton Gaines.Judy and husband Greg '89 moved fromNew Jersey to Nashua, NH. She is work-ing toward her New Hampshire certifica-tion for both elementary and early child-hood education.

Heather McKelvey writes from Bos-ton that she has completed her first yearon Boston U.'s master's of social workprogram. She spent the last six years onLong Island. And yes, Boston does have aSpirit of Zinck's night! Audrey Berg ismarketing manager for Citibank in Wash-ington, DC. She misses hanging out andseeing friends "all the time." Mike Shihis a litigation attorney at New York Citylaw firm Kaye and Scholer. Mike sendsnews of many Cornellians: other gradu-ates at his firm include David Soskin '90,Maria De Gaetano '90, and Kelly Law-son '90. Linda Gadsby is an attorney atAllied Signal in New Jersey. Steve Rob-inson is at UCLA law school, and DaleFuchs is an "ace" reporter at the PalmBeach Post. Robert Hano married KarlaBeatty last October, and they live in Bos-ton (although they may move to Chicago).Steve Katz '89 is an attorney at Deloitteand Touche in NYC, and Charles Yee isin the PhD program at U. of Michigan. Andthat's all, according to Mike!

Hollie Bowles married Sean Redding-ton on Oct. 29, '94. Both received their MBAdegrees from Columbia. Hollie is an assis-tant treasurer at Credit Lyonnais, a Frenchbank. Traci Nagle, a project editor at W.W.Norton & Co. (book publishing), marriedSumit Ganguly last October. Sumit is a po-litical science professor at Hunter Collegeand at City U. of New York's graduate school.

Mike Texido is an investment bankerfor Merrill Lynch at the World Trade Cen-ter. He has seen Mike Troiano and ChrisHahn. Any tips for your fellow classmates,Mike? Andy Wallenstein '86 forwardedover the internet news that ReneeSchloupt completed her PhD in horticul-ture at the U. of Illinois in June 1994. She isnow an assistant professor of sustainable ag-riculture at Delaware Valley College inDoylestown, PA.

As for me, husband Phil Wing and Ihave purchased a beautiful house in south-ern California. So far no earthquakes, nonasty landlords, and the beach is withinwalking distance. However, I do miss "real"seasons, Ivy football (or at least the tailgat-ing!), and the Cornell campus. So pleasekeep the news coming, I have been usingoutdated News and Dues forms—from April1994—for the information provided. Happysummer! * Diane WeisbrotWing, 727 An-ita St., Redondo Beach, CA 90278; WendyMyers Cambor, 610 W. 110 St., #9B, NYC10025; Alison Minton, 333 E. 56th St.,#11B, NYC 10022.

STHREUNION

Last month pre-sented you all withthe opportunity tore-kindle old friend-ships and re-tell oldstories from your

Cornell years half a decade ago. I hope youwere able to find those friends and class-mates who have patterned memories intoyour hearts and souls for the long run. Andfor those memories that you'd rather forgetabout, I trust no '90 alums went rolling downLibe Slope in a retaliatory spin. I'm sure itwas a good time! A report of Reunion willappear in the September issue.

Upon seeing your classmates, news oftheir whereabouts and whatabouts may beold news. But for those who don't know,Carole Moran married her high-schoolsweetheart, David Krus, a NASA rocket sci-entist (literally!). Alisa Gilhooley was abridesmaid. Carole is in a PhD program inmacromolecular polymer science and engi-neering (whoa, that's a mouthful) at CaseWestern Reserve U. Other weddings areflooding my Class of '90 in-basket. JohnPohja married Mary Agro last Septemberand they honeymooned on Cape Cod. Su-san Portman and Robert Price marriedin November 1993. Elizabeth Gelfand,now an attorney in Atlanta, married JamesRankin. Christopher Depuy, ME C '90married Catherine Blednick and headed tothe US Virgin Islands to celebrate. Christo-pher is an engineer with Hill Environmen-tal Inc. Amy Leventhal was married toTodd Stern. Since leaving the Hill, Amy hasreceived a master's from the U. of Penn-sylvania and is a doctoral candidate at U. ofMassachusetts, Boston. And Dr. SandraLithgow, a resident in internal medicine atColumbia Presbyterian Medical Center,married Dr. Pedro Ramirez. They both re-ceived their MD degrees from Albert Ein-stein medical college.

Classmates who are completing servicein the military include Jon Rodgers, a Navylieutenant assigned as a recruiter for the Na-vy's officer programs. Robert Beaumont isalso a Navy lieutenant and has served aboardthe ballistic missile submarine USS Ohio.Mary Hoke is a Navy lieutenant in theNaval Education and Training Center, andNavy Ens. Douglas Lareau completed theOfficer Indoctrination School there.

Sharon Bender said so-long to theskyline of NYC after a year and a half andhas been working at an NBC affiliate inPlattsburgh, NY, which is way, way upstate.She's the producer of the 6 and 11 p.m.newscasts, which cover all the news that'sfit to talk about in Upstate NY and acrossLake Champlain in Burlington, VT. "Life'sa lot different up here," she says. Fartherdownstate, Audra Gerty of Gardiner, NYwas named to the board of directors of Gate-way Industries.

New England Cornellians include Lau-rie Logan, who earned her JD degree fromBoston College law school in 1993 and iswith the law firm of Peabody & Brown asan associate. Kirsten Spille is pursuing amaster of education degree with a concen-tration in Waldorf education at Antioch NewEngland Graduate School in Keene, NH. Pri-or to grad school, Kirsten worked at the Hur-

ricane Island Outward Bound School in Maine.Right about now I could use an Out-

ward Bound trip. Is anyone else out thereburned out? After five years, is your calen-dar getting more action than you'd like? I'ma bit tired of having every hour of every daypenciled in with anti-leisure activites. Mel-issa Vera seems to have her priorities right,however. She writes, "Tricia McNamaracomes down to the Jersey Shore to partywith me, Cyrene Awan, Bethlam Forsa,and Terri Lombardi. Southern Jersey isbeautiful, [and it's] very nice by the beach."Melissa has been trying to become a tennispro. That's it. I've got to re-prioritize. It'ssummer!

Everyone have a beautiful and relaxingsummer! <* Regina Duffey 82 Lois Lane,Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail, [email protected].

In keeping with the theme of sum-mer and for lack of a better wayto begin this month's column, I'mgoing to dive right into the news.Julie Pearlman wrote with anupdate. She graduated from The

American U. in May 1994 and is now work-ing as an attorney at a labor law firm inWashington, DC. Then in September 1994she married her "Freshman-year sweet-heart," Matthew Schatz '90. MindyBlitzer was a bridesmaid. Cornellians alsoin attendance were Mike and Joan KochanSchade, Sally Mason, Julian Luther '90,Will Dow, Rich Kowalczyk, Anne West'89, and former Associate Dean of the Agcollege Ken Wing '58 and his wife, Sharon(Sperry Hall Faculty-in-Residence). After ahoneymoon cruise to Alaska, Julie and Mat-thew moved to Silver Spring, MD.

Lisa Epstein also sent me a ton ofnews about other classmates. First and fore-most, Lisa was married on Dec. 31, '94.Rachel Laiserin and Tina Hohn Schisselwere bridesmaids. Now Lisa is working atNew York U. as an academic advisor. OtherCornellians who attended her wedding wereAlex Temel and Jennifer Gold. Both arein St. Louis, MO, where Alex is finishing uplaw school at Washington U. and Jennifer isin medical school. Steve Schuller is work-ing in Dallas for Windham Hotels. NareshPatel will be completing his residency atMt. Sinai in neurosurgery. Rita Landmanis staying in NYC after finishing at NYUmedical school for her residency at CornellMedical Center. Varman Samuel will bein Chicago for his residency after finishingup med school at NYU. Ashley Gravelle isat Johnson State in Vermont getting hermaster's degree in special education. Tam-my Kahn is in her final year at Albany lawschool. Linda Keenan is working in NYCfor Bloomberg TV.

In other news, John House is in Cy-prus, Greece, where he is a lecturer at anintercollege. John said the Cornell Societyof Hotelmen Reunion of the European Chap-ter in March 1993 in Cyprus was an abso-lute success. In another part of the world,Liv Gussing is working at Dusit Hotels andResorts in Bangkok, Thailand. She said shewas recently joined at the same property byclassmate Will Thompson.

Meanwhile, Kevin Yam is an interfaceanalyst at Apache Medical Systems Inc. in

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Virginia. Jacob Swiller is a fundraiser forthe Democratic National Committee inWashington, DC. Megan McNealy is self-employed as a tutor and co-owns a privateeducational tutoring business called Custom-Crafted Tutoring in Del Mar, CA. VictoriaMacheski is a retail kitchen manager at HayDay Inc. in Westport, CT. Chrig Casieri isa program coordinator in economics at theMacArthur Federation in Chicago, IL.

Jane Gibson is an account executiveat Edmondson/Quest in Austin, TX. Shemoved from Baltimore, MD to Austin,where she had grown up and still has fami-ly. Jane says she enjoyed exploring otherregions of the country, but "there's no placelike home/' Mark Hiddessen is an assis-tant manager at Quality Inn in Woodbury, LongIsland. He says that last summer he went toCalifornia to attend the wedding of BryanAnderson '89. While he was there, he alsosaw peers Jim Zaun and Jon Shraga.

Kristen Trapp is in sales at Astra USAin Westborough, MA. Deborah Herendeenis a membership system administrator atThe Society of the Plastics Industry inWashington, DC. Debbi shares her dreamof someday opening up her own restaurantand studies restaurant management in or-der to prepare herself. Robert Hill is a dis-trict supervisor at ACDI Foods in Valparai-so, IN, while Kay Lillibridge is a seniorbookseller at Waldenbooks in SaratogaSprings, NY.

Carolyn Barnes Lawson gives newsabout the birth of her baby girl, KathrynElizabeth on Oct. 2, '93. Congratulations!Carolyn adds that she received her master'sdegree in education from Nazareth Collegeof Rochester in May 1993. Meanwhile, An-gela Shope Stiefbold is a city planner forthe City of Allentown (PA). Jean Signorel-li is a group sales manager at The Bon TonStores Inc. at Pyramid Mall in Ithaca.

Of those peers pursuing advanced de-grees, Cristos Goodrow left his consult-ant position at Andersen Consulting in SanFrancisco to attend Lehigh U. as a PhD can-didate in mathematics. Jenna Goldsteinwas in investment banking before enteringU. of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.Meanwhile, Lori Giuffre says she is"still" a vet student at Iowa State U. andplans to graduate in May 1996. DavidBrown is a grad student in the physicsdepartment at SUNY, Stony Brook, andDouglas Fambrough is in the grad pro-gram at U. of California, Berkeley.

Well, one more year till the 1996 Sum-mer Olympics in Atlanta, but the Class of'91 always continues to "go for the gold."Keep sending news so I can boast about ourclassmates. And please note, once again, mynew address in Manhattan. *> MelanieBloom, 315 E. 85th St., #2C, NYC 10028.

As I write this column I am in themiddle of law school exams, butas you read it, I hope to be sittingby the pool! I hope everyone ishaving an enjoyable summer. Con-gratulations to those newly grad-

uated from graduate schools around the coun-try. Please keep us posted on your futureplans. (This invitation, of course, extends toeveryone.) Speaking of recent graduates,

HcrvrYour Golden.Mary Cockram '89, MRS '93

ary Cockram's garden grew high up in the air, asit turned out, and far, far away in St. Petersburg,in Russia.

From April until October of 1993, Cockram was in Russia underthe sponsorship of the Center for Citizen Initiatives, a private organiza-tion that seeks to foster understanding and cooperation between theUnited States and the former Soviet Union. She built a garden on theflat roof of the Lengiprovodkhoz Institute of Soil Amelioration andDrainage, to introduce the potential of roof gardens to urban Russia.Using a space of just over 150 square feet, Cockram raised 30 differ-ent kinds of flowers and vegetables, including lettuce, beets, cucum-bers and beans.

And in a country beset by political turmoil and occasional foodshortages, the idea of Cockram's roof garden received wide coveragein Russian newspapers and television. It was a green spot of hope in acountry happy to welcome new energy and ideas.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

Nicole Cunitz writes that she, MarielaMarkelis, and Vivek Chopra graduated inMay from Georgetown law school. She alsonoted that Eric Elbogen will be attendingthe law and psychology PhD program at theU. of Nebraska at Lincoln starting this fall, andthat Michele Bent on is still working forSmith Kline Beecham and has recentlymoved from Poland to England. Carol Mac-Donald wrote from Saipan, which she notesis "a small island about the size of Nantuck-et," where she has been for the last twoyears. She is moving this summer to Viet-nam to help open a restaurant in Ho ChiMinh City (formerly Saigon), where she willbecome the food and beverage director. Shewould love to hear from any visitors who arein her "part of the world."

Another recent law school graduate, AmyAdams, e-mailed me from American U. lawschool, where she and Robert Leni receivedtheir JDs. She also notes that David "Chuck"Manson graduated from U. of North Caroli-na, Chapel Hill law school, and that David

Wenzel, who received his MA in communi-cation last year, is now at the U. of Iowa inthe Writer's Workshop, working toward hismaster of fine arts in poetry. Amy also writesthat she, along with classmates Leigh Chand-ler, Kim Huang, Melanie Bleyler, andWendy Landman, attended Milla Kamin-sky's wedding last September. (Milla is nowMilla Krasnopolsky). Leigh works in Bostonfor a company that does continuing legal edu-cation, Wendy is attending New York medicalschool, and Melanie lives and works in DC.Thanks for the info, Amy!

Some more wedding congratulationsare in order. Dana Aron writes that shewas married to Michael Weiner on June 10.Dana and Michael will be living in Chicagowhere Dana will continue in NorthwesternU. medical school's doctoral program in clin-ical psychology. Jennifer Cutler writes thatshe and Jon Cohodas '91 were marriedNov. 26, '94. Jennifer and Jon live in Blacks-burg, VA, where Jennifer teaches highschool English full-time while finishing her

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masters in education. Jennifer also adds thatBrian Sagrestano graduated from NotreDame law school this year. Geoffrey Hilland Allison Satter '93 were married inNew Hampshire in March. Geoffrey is thedirector of sales and marketing at the Har-vey Hotel Co. Heather Gallagher and JeffNagel '91 were married in NYC on May28, '94 and currently live in San Diego, butare planning to return to NYC this summer.Congratulations to all the newly weds! LisaChin writes that she, Cheryl Knopp, An-drea DelDuca, Danielle DeMaio, andLisa Slow recently visited Cornell. Lisanotes that they went back to 'Visit Joe's,the Hot Truck, and Kenny Potash, who isattending Cornell Law school." Lisa isworking for Nabisco Inc. as a market devel-opment manager in New Jersey while at-tending Stern Business School part-time.Cheryl graduated from Brooklyn law schoolthis spring, and Danielle is working for PriceWaterhouse in NYC, having just returnedfrom an overseas assignment in Amsterdam.Andrea is in her second year at Fordhamlaw school, and Lisa is working as a produc-tion assistant in NΎC.

More on the job front . . . MichaelRhee writes that he was appointed by theUS Senate last year to the subcommitteeon oversight of government management asa Jacob Javits fellow. Michael writes that he"plunged into the work by organizing a con-tract mismanagement hearing on the Mili-tary Sealift Command." John DeKorte is aresearch associate for Easton Consultantsin Stamford, CT, Eva "Alii" Frank is anassistant account executive with AndersonLembke in San Francisco, and David Kreinworks for Merril Lynch in NΎC as a seniorprogrammer/analyst for financial systems.Steven Thomas Ringkob is a specialevents coordinator for the Peppermill Ho-tel Casino in Reno, NV, Elena Razza is anactuarial analyst for Kwasha Lipton in FortLee, NJ, and Alex Nussbaum is a staff writerfor the Pottsυille Republican in Pottsville, PA.

Joshua Wang writes that since gradu-ation he has worked a year overseas in HongKong, and is currently living in Ann Arbor,MI and working for General Motors Power-train in Ypsilanti, MI. Brian Nowicki isworking as a mechanical engineer in Bos-ton, and Eileen Rappaport is working forCapezio Handbags in NYC as an accountexecutive handling the Southeast. Eileenreports that she is constantly travelingsouth, and hanging out with fellow Cornel-lians in NΎC between trips.

Congratuations again to those bridesand grooms and graduates. Please keep usup to date on your busy lives. Remember,e-mail is a great way to stay in touch. Enjoyyour summers. <* Debbie Feinstein, 126021st St., NW, #109, Washington, DC 20036;telephone (202) 785-5176; e-mail, [email protected].

I'm going to jump right in with aplea for News (and Dues). If younoticed that our column seemsshorter lately, .you're right.There are two reasons for this:one is that we have fewer sub-

scribers now; the other is that we (your classcorrespondents) don't have much news to

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report. So write to us! Send in dues! En-courage your friends to subscribe! Manythanks to Gregg Paradise and Susie Cur-tis for most of the news you see here. Gregghas just finished his second year at Fordhamlaw. He is spending the summer working forKenyon & Kenyon, a patent law firm in NewYork City. He occasionally gets together withother Cornellians in NΎC, including RichGorrio, an associate editor at Phillips Pub-lishing, and Erica Fishlin, who has a newjob in strategic planning at Ogilvy andMather. Allison Weiss also got a new jobin marketing at Time. Jay Drezner enjoysworking for DMB&B Advertising. He is shar-ing an apartment with Rebecca Chapa, whoworks at Montrachet, a "trendy downtownrestaurant." Rebecca reports that CindyRushmore runs her own firm doing environ-mental consulting for hotels. Gregg also heardfrom Alicia Alonzo, who recently visited DebKunip in Hawaii. Deb is a biology teacher andAlicia is working on a PhD at Cal Tech.

Susie reports that Jan Merrick is fin-ishing a graduate degree in plant pathologyat Michigan State U., while Adam Byrneis bird-watching in the Upper Peninsula.Kathy Wells works at the zoo in Lincoln,NE. Susan Winkhart and Jose Soliva '94are in Minnesota. Su is a grad student inpublic health at U. of Minnesota and Joseworks with an architectural firm in Minne-apolis. Kate DeBruin finished her MEngat Cornell and is now working on a PhD inbiomechanics at Duke.

I heard from Todd Rethemeier, whowas finishing the six-year BS/MBA/MEngprogram at Cornell. He was looking forwardto a job as an associate at Booz Allen &Hamilton in NΎC. Rosa Kim wrote fromsouthern California, where she is workingfor Hughes after completing an MS at U. ofSouthern California. John Allred was re-cently commissioned a second lieutenant inthe Marines while serving at Officer Candi-date School, Quantico, VA.

Allison Satter married Geoffrey Hill'92 in New Hampshire. Allison is manager

of corporate accounts at Corporate LodgingConsultants in Wichita. Her new husband isa director of sales and marketing at the Har-vey Hotel Co.

Enjoy your summer! I look forward toseeing everyone at Homecoming in thefall. * Jennifer Evans, 305 Michelle Lane,Apt. 201, Groton, CT 06340; telephone,(203) 445-1301; e-mail, [email protected].

At the time of this writing,many °f our classmates werebreathing a sigh of relief thatfirst-year grad school finalswere over. Writes TandyO'Donoghue, "Right now I am

looking forward to a summer trip to Europe,which will include a two-week excursion toItaly with one of my favorite members ofthe Class of '94, Jennifer Avitabile. Thenit is off to Greece and Ireland for summerschool." From her perch at Tulane lawschool, Tandy also provided the inside scoopon Mardi Gras festivities back in February.She had several Cornellians stay with her,and adds, "We ran into lots of Cornelliansat the parties and parades."

It's good to hear that the Class of '94sticks together. Lance Casler, now a busi-ness analyst for Toys-R-Us, reports that heis sharing an apartment with two classmatesin Weehawken, NJ. Roommate AndyAbramowitz is working for Branin Invest-ments, a small Wall Street investment bank,while roommate Pete Shephard makes thedaily commute to Chemical Bank in Man-hattan. The trio often meets up with MikeLaurenti, who works in the labor planningdepartment at Toys-R-Us. Lance reports thatthe toy company recently sent Mike to Parisfor a month. Do you guys get free toys, too?

Trish Wesley is putting her undergrad-uate concentrations in plant science andcommunication to work as an editorial in-tern and advertising assistant for Horticul-ture magazine. "I'm going to be publishedfor real!" she enthusiastically wrote. "Myfirst official article will appear in Horticul-ture sometime in February or April 1995,complete with illustrations and everything.(Of course, I haven't been paid yet for it.)"

Several of our classmates in the armedservices recently completed their initialtraining and are off, as Erin Iverson put it,"keeping our country safe." As of Febru-ary, she was off to her first duty assignmentas an Army second lieutenant in Orlando,FL. She reports that Kurt Henninger,same rank, is stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood,MO. Anne Keith signed up for the Navyas a surface warfare officer in January, andby now is floating on the high seas. StevenConlon also recently completed training atthe Surface Warfare Officers School Com-mand, according to a Navy press release.After doing some work as a political con-sultant in Upstate New York, Brian Wil-liams is serving as an intelligence officer atGoodfellow Air Force Base. Marine 2nd Lt.Michael Boorstein has completed trainingat the Marine Corps Combat DevelopmentCommand in Quantico, VA. Navy Ens.Keith Barton graduated from the PortHueneme, CA Basic Civil Engineer CorpsOfficers School in December, and has start-ed a three-year tour at the public works de-

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partment of the Naval Postgraduate Schoolin Monterey, CA. He reports that BrandonBigelow is in Yokosuka, Japan, serving onthe USS Curts, and Adam Burks is in Mis-awa, Japan with the Naval Security Group.

Geoff Raynak took a break from work-ing toward a PhD at the U. of WashingtonCenter for Bioengineering to send me an e-mail with a long list of happenings amongsthis widely-scattered friends. At Princeton,Geoff Cowles is "showing the world how todo fluid dynamics," working toward a PhD. Onthe opposite coast, Matt Podolsky is work-ing on a doctorate in electrical engineering atU. of California, Berkeley. Working folks in-clude Pete Cirino, "working as a productmanager at Amp Technologies," and Abhi-nov Singh, who is working for ParaetricTechnologies in Boston. Mark Younghouseis "traveling the world" on behalf of Motoro-la, having already visited Austin, Chicago, andEngland in the line of duty. Geoff also writesthat he and Joe Wong ("catching some raysin San Diego while working for Hewlett-Pack-ard") and Kris Bolte ("busy working on herPhD in biomechanics at the U. of Iowa") areplanning to converge upon the home of TimSimpson ("studying manufacturing at Geor-gia Tech") in Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics.He adds that he is quite happy in Seattle:"sailing in Puget Sound, skiing in the Cas-cades, hiking on the Olympic Peninsula, andthe occasional concert pretty much fill up my'free' time."

After a year of working, several of ushave decided to head back to the ivory tow-er of graduate school. Glenna Berman isfinishing up her time as a sales analyst atMaidenform in New York City, and shouldbe starting business school full-time at Co-lumbia U. Elizabeth Klose is hoping to startgraduate school for social work. And I, my-self, fit this category, starting at George-town Law Center in the fall. Your lettersand e-mail would be a welcome break fromthe grind of studying! *»» Dineen Pashou-kos, 5012 45th St., NW, Washington, DC20016; e-mail, [email protected].

Here it is, summer already, andby now many of us have settledinto our new jobs or have beenhaving as much fun as possiblebefore grad/med/law schoolstarts. Amazingly enough, I final-

ly have a job in a management program withCharles River Computers and am living inNew York City. So, for all you alums livingin the Big Apple—please give me a call orstop by and visit! I'd love to see more fa-miliar faces in this enormous town!

Of course, many of you have al-ready told me that you're in (or will soonbe in) NYC—the group includes those work-ing, those trying to find work, and thosecontinuing their educations. Like myself,Jess Shevitz is working for a computerconsulting firm, Galaxy Systems, whereshe is involved in human resources. Har-ry Surden is similarly employed, andwondering just what a government majoris doing working with computers, anyway.Claudia Trujillo, Beth Camesano, ScottKlein, and Brad Pulver all work forAndersen Consulting, and Heather Zelleris working as an assistant to the vice presi-

dent of Atlantic Records.Then there are those Cornellians

who said they'd planned on coming to NYC,and since I haven't heard from them sinceMay, I figured I'd mention them in hopesthat they will get in touch and let me knowwhether their plans worked out. MichaelBergelson wrote several months ago thathe was planning to go to NYC to find work,saying he hoped that "all the Chis in NYCare ready for a couple more." Also, Caro-line Kim and Sandra Digilio said they werelooking for jobs or internships in Manhat-tan, Holly Plummer said she planned towork for one of the "Big 6," John Cokinossaid he planned to work on Wall Street,Mindy Goodman had hoped to work as aconsultant or financial analyst, Amy Leit-ner wanted to work here for two years be-fore going back to school for her MBA, andLisa Perlman last wrote that she was go-ing to "move to NYC and suffer." So whathappened, guys? Are you here?

I also know there are a lot of youattending medical school here in the city,for example, Melissa Held at Cornell Med-ical College. But I'm sure there're manymore I didn't know about when I wrote thiscolumn in April! So, again, fill me in.

Looking to the other side of the US,Eric Frew is at Stanford, Blythe West-brook is working in technical marketingsomewhere on the West Coast (although shenever said where, exactly), Teresa Gonza-lez planned to work as an engineer in herhometown of San Diego, Ara Weiss want-ed to get a job with a Hollywood studio, and,last I heard, Erik Berkule was still seek-ing his fortune out there.

In Oregon is Daphne Christopher,who moved there with husband Filemon "FiΓGemil '94 shortly after their wedding at thePlantations in April. Mandy Wagenman '93wrote to tell me about this, saying that thecouple spent their "honeymoon" packing box-es for their big move. She also wrote that itwas great to see old friends again, includingDan Gabay and Vicki Tromanhauser.

Finally, I wanted to share a story Iwas sent that has nothing whatsoever to dowith jobs or where members of the Class of'95 now live, but does carry a message sim-ilar to Mandy's. It's a Senior Year SpringBreak story from Erika Frey, who joined13 other Cornell students on a trip spon-sored by a group called Community Unity.She writes, "We had a 12-hour drive to asmall town called Pocahontas, situated in thehills of Southwest Virginia. Two other se-niors were on the trip—Betsy Shea andShana Silverstein. We worked hard allweek restoring the historical landmarks ofPocahontas, which used to be a bustling cen-ter for coal-mining. We left Ithaca as strang-ers and came back as great friends!"

I hope that those of us who may stillbe strangers, but who are trying to make iton our own in the same city, will soon meeteach other and carry on our connection tothe Cornell Class of 1995.1 wish the best ofluck to all of you in your new lives, whetheryou've just started your job, you're gettingmarried, or you're about to enter anotheryear or two (or more!) of the next level ofschooling. Keep me posted! * Alison Tor-rillo, 54 Gannet Dr., Commack, NY 11725.

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Alumni Deaths'15—Merrill A. Fairbank of Syracuse, NY,Dec. 16, 1994; retired excavating contrac-tor; active in religious affairs.

'18 BA—Irene M. Gibson of Holley, NY,Nov. 17, 1994; retired editor and formerteacher of Spanish and French; served inthe WAC during World War II; active incommunity and alumni affairs. [See also page37, this issue.—Ed.]

'18—Lynn M. Ripley of Owasco, NY, Dec.17, 1994; retired salesman, Hoffman SeedCompany, Skaneateles, NY; former sales-man, Skaneateles Realty; co-founder andhonorary chief, Owasco No. 2 Fire Depart-ment; active in community, civic, and reli-gious affairs.

'21—Winslow Foster of Henniker, NH,Dec. 22, 1994; retired employee of Jeffrey& Foster, NYC.

'21-22 Grad—Alfred R. Patthey of WestHartford, CT, Nov. 26, 1994. Alpha Psi.

'21—Abraham Toplitt of North Holly-wood, CA, July 31, 1994. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'23—Jay T. Brooks of Ithaca, NY, Jan. 8,1995; retired employee of GLF (now Ag-way), Ithaca; active in religious and commu-nity affairs.

'23 MCE—Norman A. Eager of Hamil-ton, Ont., Canada, Nov. 22, 1994; retiredpresident, Burlington Steel Company,Hamilton; former employee of ShawiniganWater & Power Company, Montreal; activein civic and community affairs.

'24—Francis H. Ludington of PelhamManor, NY, Nov. 26,1994; retired chairmanand chief executive officer, Chase Bag Com-pany, New York City. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'24 CE—Mead Montgomery of Tucson,AZ, Dec. 16, 1994; former employee ofQuaker Oats Company; active in alumni af-fairs. Zeta Psi.

'26 BS HE—Beatrice Boyer Beattie (Mrs.Charles) of Johnson City, NY, formerly ofScarsdale, NY, Dec. 1, 1994; active in alum-ni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'26, BA '27—Rachael Childrey Gross(Mrs. Richard D.) of Roseville, CA, former-ly of Huntingdon Valley, PA, Dec. 16, 1994;retired social worker; active in community andreligious affairs; benefactor of the university.

'26-32 SpAg—Myra Emerson Ryan (Mrs.Walter F.) of St. Augustine, FL, formerly ofSilver Spring, MD, Jan. 4, 1995. Husband,Walter F. Ryan, PhD '37.

'26 BS Ag, PhD '33—Arthur J. Pratt of

Ithaca, NY, Dec. 14, 1994; professor emer-itus in Department of Vegetable Crops,College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; re-searcher who developed new varieties ofpotatoes and specialized growing methodsfor peppers; former owner/operator of Per-ry City Farms; author, Gardening MadeEasy (1955); recipient of many awards,among them the State Honorary EmpireDegree from the Future Farmers of Ameri-ca and the Outstanding Professor Award; co-founder of National Junior Vegetable Grow-ers Association; was active in communityand professional affairs. Wife, Terrace (Mor-gan) '31.

'27 BA, JD '29—Warren M. Caro of En-glewood, NJ, formerly of Norwalk, CT, Jan.1, 1995; retired executive, The ShubertOrganization, NYC; former executive di-rector, Theatre Guild-American TheatreSociety; a founder New York chapter,Academy of Television Arts & Sciences;was advisor to the National Cultural Cen-ter (now Kennedy Center for the Perform-ing Arts), Washington, DC; and formerlychaired the American Academy of Dramat-ic Arts; recipient of two Tony awards forservice to the theatrical industry; activein professional and alumni affairs. Pi Lamb-da Phi.

'27 BA, MD '31—William H. Cassebaumof Englewood, NJ and Nantucket, MA, Nov.19, 1994; retired physician, former medicaldirector of Rockefeller Center Inc., NewYork City, former trustee and director ofsurgery, New York Polyclinic Hospital; ac-tive in community, professional, and alumniaffairs.

'27 BA—Howard V. Conkey of Teques-ta, FL, December 11,1994. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'27, BS Ag '38—Edward S. Hancock, Jr.of Sanitaria Springs, NY, Nov. 12, 1994.

'28, BA '29—Foster J. Datri of Osprey,FL, formerly of Bridge water, NJ, Nov. 27,1994.

'28 BS Ag—Claude E. Heit of Geneva,NY, Nov. 19, 1994; retired seed technolo-gist at Cornell's Geneva Agricultural Exper-iment Station; author or co-author of 160publications on seed testing and propagation;active in community, religious, and profes-sional affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'29 ME—Henry Gichner of Chevy Chase,MD, formerly of Washington, DC, Dec. 29,1994; retired president, F. S. Gichner IronWorks, Inc., Beltsville, MD; founding mem-ber and former chair, Greater WashingtonIndustrial Council; former chair, DC Recre-ation Board; active in civic, religious, com-munity, and alumni affairs; benefactor of theuniversity. Beta Sigma Rho. Wife, Isabelle

(Saloman) '29.

'29 BS HE—Constance E. LaBagh ofVenice, FL, Nov. 27,1994; retired social work-er, Middletown Hospital, Middletown, NΎ.

'30, BA '31—Howard O. Aigeltinger ofTyler, TX, Dec. 14,1994; retired pilot, East-ern Airlines; active in alumni affairs. Chi Phi.[See also page 39, this issue.—Ed.]

'30 EE—Robert E. Conrath of San Fran-cisco, CA, Dec. 30, 1994; retired vice pres-ident of sales, AT&T; former president,United Nations Association; active in reli-gious and community affairs; benefactor ofthe university. Lambda Chi Alpha. Wife,Dora (Wagner) '30.

'30 PhD—Max H. Fisch of Los Angeles,CA, formerly of Indianapolis, IN, Jan. 6,1995; retired professor of philosophy, Indi-ana University/Purdue University at India-napolis; editor and author of several books,including Pragmatism: Essays by Max H.Fisch and The Autobiography of Giambattis-ta Vico, which he translated from the Italian.

'31 BA—Katherine Reed Ganzenmullerof New York City, Dec. 29, 1994.

'31 MA—J. Theodore Hughes of Rhine-beck, NY, Dec. 18, 1994; retired education-al consultant for the State of Iowa; formeradministrator and faculty member, Parson'sCollege, Fairfield, IA; former dean, Wyo-ming Seminary, Kingston, PA; active incommunity, professional, and religious affairs.

'31 MD—Alfred Lilienfeld of New YorkCity, Jan. 7, 1995; psychiatrist in privatepractice; former associate clinical professorin psychiatry, New York University Medi-cal Center.

'31, BS Ag '32—John D. Warner of SunCity Center, FL, Aug. 28, 1994. Delta Kap-pa Epsilon.

'32 CE—Arthur W. Eustance of PineBush, NY, Dec. 10,1994; professional engi-neer and land surveyor; charter member andpast president, Circleville Fire Company;active in religious, community, and profes-sional affairs.

'32-41 Grad—William A. Higinbothamof Gainesville, GA, formerly of Bellport, NY,Nov. 10, 1994; senior physicist and con-sultant, Brookhaven National Laboratory,Long Island, NY; former group leader inelectronics for the Manhattan Project, LosAlamos, NM; leading advocate for the con-trol of nuclear weapons who helped foundthe Federation of American Scientists, anarms-control organization; inventor credit-ed with more than 20 patents on electroniccircuits.

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'32 MS—Robert B. Whittredge of Naples,FL, Sept. 5, 1994.

'33 BA—Francis M. Kegel of Flushing,NY, Dec. 22, 1994; retired teacher of Eng-lish and department chair, Forest Hills HighSchool, Flushing; former examiner, Boardof Education.

'33—Elizabeth Lockhart Engdahl of MillValley, CA, formerly of Washington, DC,Dec. 16, 1994; retired head of field opera-tions division of visa office, US State De-partment; former Foreign Service officerwho served in Shanghai, Teheran, Paris, andVienna; active in professional affairs.

'33 BS Ag—Daniel A. Paddock of Get-tysburg, PA, Nov. 8, 1994; retired farmerand county supervisor, Farmers Home Ad-ministration.

'33-34 SpAg—Katherine Wicks Bagen-sie (Mrs. Frank) of Malverne, PA, Jan. 3,1995; active in community affairs.

'34 BA—Jerome Brock of Buffalo, NY,Dec. 23, 1994; retired businessman andowner, Max Brock Co. Inc. and Buffalo Bale,Tie, & Wire Co., Buffalo; active in commu-nity and religious affairs.

'34 BA, LLB '37—John R. Carver of BigFlats, NY, Nov. 15,1994; former senior vicepresident, Allegheny Airlines; benefactor ofthe university. Psi Upsilon.

>34—Charles B. Knowles of Cleveland,OH, Nov. 4, 1994. Delta Tau Delta.

'34, BS Ag '36—Elmer L. Olsen of Ed-monds, WA, Dec. 29, 1994; active in com-munity affairs.

'35 BA—Mildred Evans Jeffery (Mrs.Earle F.) of Utica, NY, Dec. 4,1994; formermathematics teacher, Whitesboro CentralSchool District; active in religious, commu-nity, and alumni affairs.

'35, BArch '36—Roscoe W. Marshall of SeaIsland, GA, Jan. 15,1995; retired architect.

'35 BA—Frances Weil Reid (Mrs. EdwardN.) of New Hartford, NY, Nov. 6, 1994; re-tired schoolteacher, Depew and Williams-ville, NY school districts; active in religious,community, and alumni affairs.

'35 BS Hotel—M. Mack Weiner of Liv-ingston Manor, NY, Sept. 18, 1994; owner,Monticello Travel Service, Monticello, NY.Alpha Epsilon Pi. ___..

'36 BA, MD '40—Alvin M. Cahan ofBrookline, MA, Nov. 25,1994; physician andinventor who held several patents.

'37 BS Ag, MS '48—Hollis R. Davis ofMelbourne, FL, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Jan.13, 1995; professor emeritus in agriculturalengineering at Cornell; active in civic, pro-fessional, and alumni affairs. Wife, Marga-ret (Sullivan) '38.

'37 BS Ag, PhD '53—Clifton W. Loomis

of Ithaca, NY, Dec. 2,1994; professor emer-itus of farm management in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell,where he retired in 1975; active in alumniaffairs.

'38, BA '39—Roberta Sumner Cutler(Mrs. John H.) of Duxbury, MA, Jan. 11,1995; editor, the Duxbury Clipper; active inalumni affairs. Alpha Phi.

'39 EE, MEE '49—Nelson H. Bryant ofIthaca, NY, Dec. 22, 1994; professor emeri-tus of electrical engineering at Cornell; con-sultant with Powers ManufacturingCompany, Elmira and Ironies Inc., Ithaca; co-author of the popular text Electrical Engi-neering: Theory and Practice', active in com-munity and alumni affairs.

'39 MD—Frederick J. Knocke of Troy,MI, Nov. 13, 1994; retired president, chiefexecutive officer, and orthopedic director,Hunterdon Medical Center; former presi-dent, New Jersey Orthopedic Society; co-author of Orthopedic Nursing (1951); activein professional and community affairs.

'39 BS HE—Helen Doughty Lamb (Mrs.William H.) of Lafayette, NY, formerly ofGreene, NY, Nov. 7, 1994.

'39 BA—William H. North of ShakerHeights, OH, Nov. 15, 1994; retired presi-dent, Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company,Cleveland, OH; active in professional, civic,and community affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'39-40 SpAg—Harry Petersen ofJohnstown, NY, Dec. 8, 1994.

'40 BS Ag—Charles H. Byrne of BluffPoint, NY, Dec. 28, 1994; retired employeeof General Foods Company, Tarrytown, NY;holder of several patents on frozen food pro-cesses; active in religious, community, andcivic affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'40 BA—Robert W. Caldwell of ChapelHill, NC, formerly of Falls Church, VA, Dec.20, 1994; retired administrator, US ForeignService, Washington, DC; active in alumniaffairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

'40—J. Kraft Vorreuter of Auburn, NY,Nov. 24, 1994; president, Julius Kraft Com-pany Inc., Auburn; active in civic, commu-nity, and professional affairs.

'41 BS Hotel—George H. Becker, Jr. ofFayetteville, NY, Jan. 14, 1995; retired ac-countant and partner, Peat Marwick Mitch-ell, Syracuse, NY; active in religious, civic,community, and alumni affairs. Phi KappaTau. Wife, Harriet (Howell) '41.

'41 BA—Joseph S. Hubert of West Hart-ford, CT, Jan. 4, 1995; retired teacher ofLatin and French, Weaver and Hartfordschool systems; former coordinator of for-eign languages, Hartford High School; ac-tive in professional, religious, community,and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'41 PhD—Earl G. Planty of Boca Raton,FL, Dec. 19, 1994; founder and director,

Senior Seminars in General Management,Bloomington, IL; former dean, College ofBusiness Administration, Haile Salassie IUniversity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; profes-sor emeritus of commerce and businessadministration, University of Illinois; authorof books and articles on training and man-agement; active in professional affairs. Wife,Marjorie (Shaver) '35.

'42 BA—Glenn M. Hedrick of San Anto-nio, TX, Dec. 12, 1994; retired supervisor,Braniff Airlines; assisted in opening airlinebureaus in Cuba, Panama, and Bolivia.

'43 BS Ag—George M. Holliday of NorthSpringfield, PA, Jan. 14, 1995; owner andmanager, Hollidays' Crooked Creek Farm,North Springfield; active in community af-fairs. Wife, Sigrid (Henley) '44.

'43 MA—Z. Eleanor Horn of Rydal, PA,formerly of Plainfield, NJ, Dec. 14,1994; re-tired teacher, Plainfield High School; activein religious affairs.

'43 BS HE—Mary Lou McCutcheon Mil-burn (Mrs. Richard W.) of Middletown, NY,Dec. 22,1994; retired dietary director, Hor-ton Memorial Hospital, Middletown; activein religious, civic, and community affairs.

'43 DVM—Donald C. McKown of Unadil-la, NY and Winter Haven, FL, Jan. 6, 1995;practicing veterinarian, Unadilla; formertown supervisor, Town of Sidney, NY;named Man of the Year in 1989 by Dela-ware County Chamber of Commerce; activein professional, religious, and civic affairs.Alpha Psi.

'44, BEE '43—Richard L. Best of Way-land, MA, Nov. 9, 1994; retired chief engi-neer, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard,MA; active in community and alumni affairs.Phi Kappa Tau.

'44 PhD—William Montagna of Beaver-ton, OR, Nov. 16,1994; retired director, Or-egon Regional Primate Research Center,Hillsboro; author of more than 30 books ontopics ranging from the biology of skin tothe study of primates; winner of several sci-ence and humanitarian awards; active incommunity affairs.

'45, '44 BA—Eugene Lessere of Farm-ington, CT, Nov. 28, 1994; president of Eu-gene Lessere Company Inc., Farmington.

'46 BA, MD '51—Donn R. Quinn of Allen-town, PA, formerly of Easton, PA, Jan. 16,1995; physician in private practice, Caston,PA. Wife, Kathryn (Hiscox) '47.

'47, BS HE '46—Patricia Allen Mac-donald (Mrs. James F.) of East Falmouth,MA, Dec. 15, 1994; retired schoolteacher,Norwell. Delta Delta Delta.

'46, BA '47, MS '53—James M. Hart-shorne of Ithaca, NY, Dec. 17,1994; founderof Finger Lakes Runners' Club and FingerLakes Cycling Club; major promoter of mas-ters track and field competition in the North-east; organizer of many local sporting

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events, such as the Ithaca to MarathonRun, the Cayuga Lake Bicycle Tour, and theMasters' Mile (now called the HartshorneMile in his honor) held every winter in Bar-ton Hall.

'47 BArch—Walter P. McQuade Jr. ofGreat Neck, Long Island, Dec. 26, 1994; ed-itor and writer, Fortune magazine; formerstaff member, The Architectural Forum]former member of New York City PlanningCommission; author of several books, includ-ing A City Fit To Live In (1971) and Archi-tecture In the Real World (1985); awarded thegold medal for architecture criticism by theAmerican Institute of Architects. Wife, Ann(Aikman) '49.

'47 BA—Mary E. Noonan of Stow, OH,Dec. 24, 1994; retired employee of Good-year Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, OH; activein religious and community affairs.

'48 PhD—Charles O. Fitzwater of ChevyChase, MD, Nov. 21, 1994; retired branchchief, US Office of Education, Washington, DC.

'48 B ChemE—Ransom Hammond ofOgdensburg, NY, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Jan.15, 1995; retired pastor, First CongregationalChurch UCC, Ogdensburg; former pastor,First Congregational Church of Ithaca. Al-pha Sigma Phi.

'48—Pierre K. Plantinga of Longmont,CO, March 9, 1994; computer programmer,IBM Corporation, Boulder, CO. Delta Phi.

'48 MD—David E. Rogers of Princeton,NJ, Dec. 5, 1994; Walsh McDermott univer-sity professor of medicine, Cornell MedicalCollege; vice chairman, National Commis-sion on AIDS; senior advisor, New YorkAcademy of Medicine; former president,Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; leadingadvocate for AIDS research and programsto benefit the disadvantaged and improve thedelivery of health care; recipient of theGreater New York Hospital Association'sLifetime Achievement Award.

'49 BS Ag—Charles L. Bernstein ofWoodridge, NY, Dec. 7, 1994.

'49 MA, PhD '53—Dorothy E. Grosserof Ithaca, NY, Dec. 9, 1994; retired head ofRomance Language catalog section, CornellUniversity Libraries; former librarian, Co-lumbia University.

'50 BS Ag—Richard C. Corwith of WaterMill, NY, Jan. 8, 1995; owner and manager,Corwith Farms Inc. Wife, Marilyn (Palmer)'52.

'50 BCE—William G. LePard of WestChester, PA, formerly of Ardmore, PA, Sept.13, 1994.

'51 BS Ag—Wesley Engst of Aurora, NY,Nov. 23, 1994; owner and operator, Frog-more Dairy Farm; active in professional andcommunity affairs.

'52 MNS—Carl Monder of Teaneck, NJ,Jan. 5, 1995; senior researcher, Population

Council Center for Biomedical Research,Manhattan; adjunct professor in pediatricbiochemistry, Cornell Medical College; ac-tive in professional affairs.

'52 BS—Harold E. Singer of North Syra-cuse, NY, Nov. 27, 1994; retired manager,NY State Job Service, Oswego; former per-sonnel manager, Continental Can Company;active in community and religious affairs.

'53 BA—Frank W. Conti of Glenside, PA,Jan. 10, 1995; director of food service, WoodCompany and Twining Village RetirementCommunity, Holland, PA; former owner andmanager of several Philadelphia restaurants;active in civic and religious affairs. Sigma Pi.

'53 BS Eng—Henry Robinson of CoralGables, FL, formerly of Akron, OH, Jan. 2,1995; self-employed certified public accoun-tant, Miami, FL; former vice president anddirector, Robinson Clay Product Company,Akron. Chi Phi.

'54 BA—A. James Hall Jr. of Kensing-ton, MD, formerly of Wyandotte, OK, Nov.25, 1994; retired executive with King PressCorporation, Joplin, MO; formerly employedby Web Press Corporation, Seattle, WA.

'54 BS Ag—Lewis J. Jansen of Trumans-burg, NY, Dec. 31, 1994; retired employee,Cornell Steam Plant Facility; active in civicaffairs.

'55 DVM—Frederick M. Holmes of Caz-enovia, NY, Dec. 5, 1994; veterinarian andowner, Cazenovia Animal Hospital; servedon board of examiners of the VeterinaryCollege at Cornell; active in professional andcommunity affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'57 JD—Robert R. Hrabchak of Water-town, NY, Jan. 13, 1995; partner, Hrabchak& Gebo, Watertown; former partner, Quim-by Gosier & Hrabchak.

'58 PhD—Dana C. Goodrich, Jr. of Mel-bourne, FL, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Dec. 10,1994; professor emeritus of marketing, Ag-riculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.

'59 BA, MBA '65—Robert D. Stub-blebine of Concord, MA, Nov. 21, 1994;president, Stubblebine Company, Concord;founder of Real Estate Collaborative, Welles-ley; active in community, religious, andalumni affairs. Alpha Delta Phi.

'60 BA—Kathleen Walls Horelick (Mrs.Brindell) of Baltimore, MD, Nov. 12, 1994.

'62 MRP—George A. Ferguson of Ft.Myers, FL, Oct. 5, 1994.

'64—Dena B. Rapoport of West Buxton,ME, formerly of Chittenango, NY, Jan. 13,1995; paralegal, Portland, ME; active in re-ligious affairs.

'68—Larry B. Davis of Hector, NY, Feb.15, 1995; officer, Cornell University Depart-ment of Public Safety.

'69 BS Ag—Gregory G. Pogson of Ith-

aca, NY, Jan. 3, 1995; schoolteacher, IthacaCity School District; self-employed accoun-tant; former vice president, Cortland LineCompany; active in community affairs. PiKappa Alpha.

'71 JD—Gordon L. Rashman Jr. of Buf-falo, NY, Nov. 15, 1994; former president,L. L. Berger Inc., Buffalo; member of boardof directors, Planned Parenthood of Buffaloand Erie County; active in community andprofessional affairs.

'74 BA—Nathaniel Blandon of Danville,VA, Dec. 30, 1994; pharmacy technician,Children's Hospital, Washington, DC; activein professional and community affairs.

'74 BA—Garrick L. Kwok of Cupertino,CA, formerly of San Jose, Dec. 7, 1994; mar-keting manager, Lanquest Group, San Jose;former manager, Software Connections, Inc.,Santa Clara, CA.

'74 PhD—Dennis E. Peacock of Kirks-ville, MO, formerly of Chicago, IL, Dec. 22,1994; director of assessment and testing,Northwest Missouri State University, Kirks-ville; former dean of Graduate College anddirector of institutional research, ColumbiaCollege, Chicago; active in professional af-fairs.

'77 BA, MA '80—Elizabeth M. Rose(Mrs. James K. McKnight) of King Ferry,NY, Dec. 25, 1994; owner and operator,Backbone Hill Farm, King Ferry; active incommunity affairs. Husband, James K. Mc-Knight 77.

'81—Jane Rickman Wright of Dryden,NY, Dec. 8, 1994; self-employed computerconsultant; active in community affairs.

'86 BS Ag—Susan Samson Marash (Mrs.Kenneth T.) of Ithaca, NY, Dec. 14, 1994;assistant to director of women's programsin Engineering at Cornell; co-founder ofGhostwriters Inc., Ithaca; former public in-formation specialist, New York State Inte-grated Pest Management Program; pub-lished writer and poet. Husband, KennethT. Marash 72.

'87 BS Ag—Moira C. O'Neill of Warsaw,NY, Dec. 24,1994; staff writer, Western NewYorker, Warsaw; active in community andreligious affairs.

'87 BS, BA '90—Pamela A. Richardsonof Nashville, TN, formerly of Ithaca, NY,Nov. 19, Ϊ994; graduate student, VanderbiltUniversity's nursing school. Kappa KappaGamma.

'90 PhD—Deborah J. Robertson of Vir-ginia Beach, VA, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Dec.19, 1994; owner and president, RobertsonSensor Technologies Inc., Ithaca.

'93 BS Eng—David H. Liu of San Jose,CA, formerly of Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 13,1994; product designer, Studio Red, Red-wood City, CA; graduate student in engi-neering product design, on leave from Stan-ford University.

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The Hope ofTomorrow

I n late April the trees were com-ing into leaf in New York City'sCentral Park, and in the loft apart-ment of Peter Yarrow '59, nearthe west side of the park, hope

was in full flower. More than 100alumni and friends of the universitygathered in the folksinger's home fora Tuesday evening of supper andsong to benefit the New York CityHOPE Scholarship, which stands forHelp and Opportunity in Public Edu-cation. The scholarship endowmentprovides assistance to Cornell stu-dents who are graduates of New YorkCity public schools and whose fami-lies are struggling financially.

"In a world of violence and ha-tred," Yarrow told the gathering,"this is one of those times when wecan, in the words of the song, 'Weavethe hope of a new tomorrow out ofthe falling rain/"

Alice Katz Berglas '66, scholar-ship chair of the Cornell Club-NewYork, co-sponsor of the event, toldof arriving at Cornell in a time whenthere were still curfews for womenstudents and leaving four years laterin blue jeans. "It was a time of greatchange," Berglas said. She noted thatone of the biggest changes at theuniversity in recent decades has beenthe more diverse spectrum of stu-dents able to attend Cornell, regard-less of their financial need.

Vice President for Student andAcademic Services Susan H. Murphy'73, PhD '94 told the gathering a storyabout Paul Brenner, a trustee of theLouis Calder Foundation. While vis-iting Ithaca with his son, who wasapplying to Cornell, Brenner wasstruck by a newspaper account of the

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Peter Yarrow '59 in his New York City apartment.

Cornell Trustees' reaffirmation of itsneed-blind admissions policy.Brenner got in touch with Murphy,and the Calder Foundation has sincepledged $1 for every $2 the univer-sity raises for the HOPE scholarship.Thus far, the Calder Foundation hasprovided more than $500,000 inscholarship money to Cornell.

Richard Marin '75 established anendowed scholarship in his parents'names, Ludmilla (Uher) '37 and Ir-ving Jenkins '37, and another schol-arship will be named in honor ofYarrow's mother, Vera, who was apublic school teacher in New YorkCity for 30 years. In all, donations andticket sales for the evening of Sup-per and Song raised $125,000 for theHOPE scholarship.

"A few years ago," says KatyNoonan '81, the university's direc-tor of student aid development andstewardship, "we realized we hadsome 1,300 New York City studentsenroll at Cornell each year, and wediscovered that about 200 of thosestudents, kids who were accepted tothe university because of their greatpromise, might not be able to attendbecause their families had a very lowincome. To go from, say, a New YorkCity public housing project to a placelike Cornell was a great leap. And theHOPE scholarship makes that jour-

ney possible."After a buffet dinner, Peter Yar-

row stood on a chair in front of hisliving room fireplace, and for morethan an hour, regaled his audiencewith songs. Yarrow, who is celebrat-ing his 35th year with the folk trioPeter, Paul & Mary, sang "Puff theMagic Dragon," which he recalledwriting, in part, while still an under-graduate in Ithaca. "I waited on tablesto help get through college, and sangin Goldwin Smith," Yarrow remem-bered. "And I'm honored to be againwith so many Cornellians tonight."

Many of his guests had gray hairand looked like they would be moreat home on Wall Street than a Green-wich Village coffeehouse, but thesound of Yarrow's voice and guitarrose and filled his apartment, andmost people in the room sang andseemed to know all the words—to"Blowin' in the Wind" and "If I Hada Hammer," to a medley of spirit-uals and, finally, to "We Shall Over-come."

"My mother," Yarrow said, "wasa progressive with a capital P. Shebelieved deeply in the possibility ofa more just society. She died fouryears ago, at the age of 89, but I knowthat she would have enjoyed a nightlike this."

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

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New EnglandJuly 30. Sixth annual summeoff for the Class of 1999 at BearBrook State Park, Allenstown, NH,2-5 p.m. Call Chandler Burpee (603)497-2059 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/New Hampshire.

July 30. Send-off picnic for alumni,entering freshmen, current studentsand their families. Details to beannounced. Call Rik Clark (508) 428-5262 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Cape Cod.

August 5. Summer send-off picnic1-3 p.m. at Sheiburne Farms,Shelburne, VT. Rain space in theCoach Barn. Tentative evening plansinclude a Mozart festival concert afterthe picnic. Call Kevin O'Donnell (802)985-8498 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Vermont.

FloridaAugust 19. The King and I Saturdaymatinee at Broadway Palm dinnertheatre. Call Christina Lurvey (813)495-8576 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CAA/Southwest Florida.

IllinoisJuly 22. The annual splash—a casualpicnic for alumni, family and friendsto send off entering freshmen. CallSteve Kane (708) 984-2124 orKathy Nelsen (607) 255-3516. CC/Chicago.

ColoradoJuly 29. Travel to Central City, Colo-rado on a charter bus, gamble whileyou are there. Call Jeff Baer (303)794-6727 or Tracey Brant (607)255-3516. CC/Colorado.

Washington StateJuly 23. Annual midsummer picnic atMercer Island with fellow Cornellians.Call Casey Ellis (206) 344-6558 orSally Gushing (607) 255-3516. CC/Western Washington.

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Six reasons why wedese r ve a in (> u n t a i n.

Reunion '95Coverage of this year'sevents, inc luding a vis i tby Taiwanese presidentLee Teng-hui, PhD "68.

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AUTHORS

Critic TaubmanHorowitz handling hamburgers; Fontanne

hemming hankies

H Howard Taubman '29 has giventhe university a cache of raremusic scores gathered from hisyears as a music and theater

• critic for the New York Times.Some of the encounters and adventureswhich produced such memorabilia, anda rich gallery of impressions, are sharedin his recent book, The Pleasure of TheirCompany (Amadeus Press). Discardinghis critic's mantle, the now-retired jour-nalist remembers the people who remainvivid from his 42 years as a critic.

Among them are people few haveheard of, for example music editor WillChase, the unassuming eccentric whowas Taubman's first mentor at theTimes. The career which took a youngCornellian to every great mu-sic center of the world as theear of the Times had its begin-nings under the tutelage of thisNew Hampshire gentlemanfarmer. Chase, an old-stylenewspaperman who knew theMetropolitan Opera ushers aswell as he knew its impresa-rios, kept his heart in theWhite Mountains. His familyproperty there was a haven tomany artists and refugees from big-citynoise and stress.

Taubman's book, however, is any-thing but an "I Was There" autobiogra-phy. Even in recording the years of WorldWar II, which Taubman experienced asa draftee, the focus remains on relation-ships and personalities: the Hindu lion-tamer in his training group, small-mindedofficers and large-minded generals, theirrepressible Mama Mia in the kitchenof a Naples billet. He draws word por-traits which lodge in the memory.

At Cornell, Taubman studied En-glish, not music. But growing up in NewYork City he knew the way to the 25-cent seats for New York Philharmonicconcerts at Lewisohn Stadium, and washardly a musical illiterate when Will

Chase took him on. There were CarnegieHall debuts to cover, and seasons at theold Metropolitan Opera. There were artsfeatures to write for the Times SundayMagazine and other periodicals. Over theyears his beat expanded to more greatcities: Bayreuth, Belgium's FestivalMondiale, Salzburg—all of them feedinghis appetite and sharpening his criticismas artists came and went.

Reminiscence permits what report-ing must exclude: the periphery of a visit,the color of hospitality, the infinite vari-ety of human response. To be sure, thepleasure, the fun, of people's companywas not necessarily a constant—and al-ways there was the unexpected.

To read him on Casals and MarianAnderson is to be clear that themusic world is Taubman's firstlove, though his years as the-ater critic produced their shareof memories. He identified thegreats and the not-so-greats onstage, but kept the journalisti-cally-necessary distance fromhis subjects. The reminis-cences finally are more con-cerned with developmentsthan with accomplishments. If

his reviews either built or damaged stagecareers, the evidence is not here. Possi-bly his greatest contribution to the areaof theater arts was as adviser to Exxonin bringing "Great Performances" to thevast audiences of the television screen.

Hardly a chronological account,these reminiscences are like a long chatshared, as names emerge from theauthor's memory. The worlds of theorchestra maestro and the theater direc-tor are similar, but as different as thepersonalities which inhabit them. Whileit's true that a representative of the NewYork Times approaches any assignmentwith an advantage, it takes a specialwriter to emerge with anecdotes of theracetrack, of Horowitz handling a ham-burger at Shea Stadium, of Lynn Fon-

tanne hemming handkerchiefs.From Richard Burton to Laurence

Olivier, from Heifetz to Toscanini, Taub-man's The Pleasure of Their Companymoves effortlessly among some of thegreat performers and performances ofnearly half a century. The language maybe that of a journalist, but the portraitsare those of an unusually gifted and gen-erous observer.

—Beatrice MacLeod

Recently

The Way of Strategy by William A. Levin-son, MS '81, ME Ch '82 (ASQC QualityPress). Strategies for applying military prin-ciples to business management,

Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of theBirmingham District: An Industrial Epicby W. David Lewis, PhD '61 (University ofAlabama Press). A history of the steel in-dustry in Birmingham, Alabama, and itseffect on the lives of the city's workers andresidents.

Low-Fat Living for Real People by LindaRosenwaid Levy '63 and Francine Gra-bowski (Lake Isle Press). An easy-to-useguide to low-fat eating.

Clinical Manual of Psychiatric Diagno-sis and Treatment: A BίopsychosocialApproach by Ronald W. Pies '74, MD{American Psychiatric Press, Inc.). Ad-dresses the major issues psychiatrists en-counter in clinical practice.

!

Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods:Medicine and Science at the End of theNineteenth Century by David L. Ellison'56, BA '57 {Greenwood Publishing Group).Using the career of Edward LivingstonTrudeau, a leader in the American crusadeagainst tuberculosis, Ellison examines thedevelopment of medical science as a hu-man process.

Environmental Law for United StatesArmy Reserve Commanders by WilliamF. Rϊdlon '75 {United States Army ReserveCommand Publishers). A review of environ-mental law for U.S. Army Reserve officers.

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John P. White '59, who was recom-mended to President Clinton for theposition of deputy defense secretary bydefense secretary William Perry. Whitewas director of the Center for Businessand Government at Harvard's KennedySchool of Government.

A.R. Ammons, the Goldwin Smith Pro-fessor of Poetry, who won the 1995 RuthLilly Poetry Prize. The prize is sponsoredannually by Poetry Magazine and comeswith a $75,000 award to "honor a UnitedStates poet whose accomplishmentswarrant extraordinary recognition."

Gilbert A. Rosenthal '77, an architectwith Wallace Roberts & Todd, whosedesign project, a master plan for theredevelopment of the Richard AllenHomes public housing development inNorth Philadelphia won a citation in Pro-gressive Architecture magazine's 42ndannual design competition.

Stefan Goedecker, a post-doctoralassociate and researcher at Cornell'sTheory Center, who was awarded the1994 Gordon Bell Prize in large-scalescientific computing from the Interna-tional Electronics and Electrical Engi-neers Computer society. The prize rec-ognizes achievements in the applicationof supercomputers to scientific and en-gineering problems.

Stephen B. Sίlverman '84, who wasnamed deputy assistant to the presi-dent for cabinet affairs by PresidentClinton's chief of staff, Leon Panetta.

Elaine S. Povich '75, Capitol Hill cor-respondent for the Chicago Tribune, whowon the $5,000 Everett McKinleyDirksen award for distinguished report-ing of Congress, given by the DirksenCongressional Center. Povich's winningarticles focused on congressional actionin health care reform.

Paul F. Cole, University Trustee, whowas named by President Clinton to thenational skills standards board. Cole isthe secretary-treasurer of the 2.3-mil-lion member AFL-CIO.

Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the Irving M. IvesProfessor of Industrial and Labor Rela-

Give My Regards To...THESE CORNELLIANS IN THE NEWS

tions, who was named acting vice presi-dent for academic programs and planningby Provost Maiden C. Nesheim, PhD '59.

Brian Finch '97, who won the top prizeof $500 in Hum EC'S annual Elsie VanBuren Rice public speaking contest.

Chris Zingo '94, who signed a contractto play with the Shreveport Pirates in theCanadian Football League. A linebacker,Zingo holds the Cornell career record of512 tackles.

The Cornell Asian Alumni Association(CAAA), which raised $7,500 at its an-nual Lunar New Year Banquet for theBenson P. Lee Tradition Fellowship. Lee'63 is a university trustee.

Jeffrey Marcus '95, who is a recipientof a Winston Churchill Foundation schol-arship to Cambridge University. Marcuswill pursue a master of philosophy de-gree in genetics.

Steven Segaloff '92, the coxswain inthe men's heavyweight crew which wona gold medal at the Pan American Gamesin Argentina in March.

M. Arthur Gensler Jr. '58, who wasnamed Cornell's 1995 Entrepreneur ofthe Year. In 1965 Gensler founded asmall design firm that has grown intoGensler and Associates, in San Francisco,which employs 650 people.

Former President Frank H.T. Rhodes, forwhom the Andrew W. Mellon Foundationestablished the Frank H.T. Rhodes pro-fessorship in environmental science in theArts college. As president, Rhodes over-saw a number of initiatives directed atfurthering and strengthening the study ofenvironmental science at Cornell, includ-ing the establishment in 1991 of theCornell Center for the Environment.

Prof. Norman T. Uphoff, director ofCornell's International Institute for Food,Agriculture and Development, who wasawarded the 1994 Founder's Prize by theSociety for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Uphoff was recognized for in-tegrating "work in the natural scienceswith that in the social sciences," accord-ing to the prize committee.

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1824 INN—12 miles to Ithaca. 24-room familyhome on one acre. Newly restored into 4 apts.(owner 11 rooms, 3 rentals). Fall Creek crosseshuge lawn. Park 7 cars. $165,000. Bill '49 andMargaret Wagner '50, owners. 5 School St., POBox 307, McLean, NY 13102. (607) 838-3655,(209)295-3103.

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liereJul That Dough Could Goost of the members of theClass of '95 have given Cornellabout $90,000 in exchange forfour years of education (that'stuition, room and board and abit of expense money). Whatelse could have been done with

all that cash? Here's a sampling of what $90,000 couldpay for—if it were still yours to spend:

•45,000 "Ithaca is Gorges" bumper stickers.

•2,500 dozen long-stem roses (that's 30,000 roses).

• 13,333 tickets to the movies at Pyramid Mall; 6,068 if you get a large popcornand soda each time.

•3,220 copies of Stephen King's Insomnia from a local independent bookstore.

•Postage for 281,250 letters or 450,000 postcards.

•264.7 years of membership at the Ithaca Fitness Center.

•69,767 one-pound packages of frozen peas from Wegman's.

•1,500,000 copies at Kinko's.

•6 Plymouth Neon sport coupes.

•Rental fees for all nine Friday the 13th movies every night for 8-1/2 years.

•67,669 condoms, or 33,792 Reality female condoms.

•257 sterling silver Batman belt buckles from Warner Bros, studio stores.

• 12,875 square yards of linoleum tiling.

•36,437 McDonald's Cheeseburger Happy Meals.

•9,000 pairs of Victoria's Secret Second Skin Satin scoop front bikini panties.

•About four seconds of television advertising time during the1995 Academy Awards broadcast.

•8,219 Party Packs from Rogan's on the Danby Road in Ithaca(with Student-Savers coupons).

•0.6 percent of Bruce Willis's paycheck for his role inDie Hard 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance.

•4,500 Cornell parking tickets for "proper permit not displayed" violations.

•A one-month vacation in Maui—if you do it right.

•1,800 lifetime subscriptions to the Cornell Alumni News—in 1929.

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Glimmerglass OperaAugust 4-7, 1995Arthur GroosA weekend of Handel, Mozart, and Britten andthe pleasures of Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, andthe Hotel Otesaga.

Sag Harbor EcologySeptember 14-17, 1995Robert Budliger and Richard B. FischerBeaches, dunes, and autumn migrations alongLong Island's unspoiled eastern shores.

Study Tour to Medieval SpainOctober 6-15, 1995Ross BrannWorlds and landscapes of Andalusia and Castile:Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo. Currentlywaitlisted, but late openings do occur. Call us ifyou're interested.

Rising Sun and Falling Star?American-Japanese RelationsOtesaga Hotel, Cooperstown, New YorkOctober 20-22, 1995Karen Brazell, Walter LaFeber, Robert SmithIs the sun rising and the star falling? Or viceversa? A weekend of analysis and discussionwith three of Cornell's leading teachers andscholars.

Charleston, South CarolinaOctober 28-November 1, 1995Stuart BluminAntebellum society, and the long road to theCivil War, with visits to low-country homes andplantations, Fort Sumter, and the Citadel.

Natural History and Habitats ofSouth AfricaJanuary 5-20, 1996Howard Evans and Frank RhodesJohannesburg, Pretoria, the Blue Train, CapeTown, the Garden Coast, and Kruger NationalPark, with an optional extension to Madagascar.Currently waitlisted but late openings do occur.Call us if you're interested.

Natural Landscapes of NewZealandJanuary 7-20, 1996Richard McNeilNorth and South Islands, including Rotorua,Napier, Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula, TeAnau, Milford Sound, homestays in Wanaka,and Mt. Cook.

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Headwaters of the AmazonJanuary 30-February 11, 1996John B. HeiserAn expedition to the sources of the Amazon,deep in the rainforests of the Ecuadorian Andes.

Hemingway in Key WestMarch 5-10, 1996Dan McCallIn-depth readings and discussion of ErnestHemingway's life and work, with day trips andfree time to enjoy the pleasures of Key West andthe Florida Keys.

Puerto Rico and ArecίboMarch 16-23, 1996John Kingsbury, Louise Kingsbury,and Yervant TerzianThe cosmic, marine, and botanical landscapesof the Caribbean, from El Yunque NationalForest and the beaches at Palmas del Mar tothe mountaintop facilities of Arecibo NationalObservatory.

Big Bend, TexasApril 13-18, 1996Richard B. FischerMarvelous birding and incomparable settingsabove the Rio Grande and at sites throughoutBig Bend National Park.

Race MattersSkytop, PennsylvaniaApril 26-28, 1996William Cross, Susan Murphy, and NickSalvatoreThe "American Dilemma" continues unabated inthe 1990s; we'll consider issues from the stateof integration to the future of affirmative action.

London TheaterMay 4-12, 1996Anthony Caputi and Alain Sezn^cNew quarters at the Radisson 'Mountbatten, anew slate of the best plays of the season, andtime for analysis,-discussion, and individualexplorations in London.

The Czech Republic andSlovakiaMay 11-25, 1996George GibianExplorations in Prague and the Czech Republictowns and countrysides of Bohemia andMoravia, and a journey to the easternmosttowns of Slovakia.

Architectural Heritage of SicilyMay 28-June 11, 1996Jeffrey Blanchard and William McMinnA marvelous journey through Sicily, fromSiracusa and Taormina to Palermo, with a focuson this island's incredibίe treasury of ancient,medieval, and Baroquelemples, churches,fortresses, and towns.

Great Valleys of CaliforniaJune 1-10, 1996Verne RockcastleNatural history and human impact in threeremarkable, and absorbingly different, valleys:the San Joaquin, Yosemite, and (remember 20-mule team Borax?) Death Valley.

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