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22HARD CHOICES

MICAH FINK & BETH SAULNIER

Ezra Cornell founded an institution where anyone could find in­struction in any study. But he didn't live in the 1990s. With reducedgoverment funding and ever-increasing cos s he u '1l xsity i taking ahard look at how it does business-and how a' 0 to .g t beadapted to the economics of a new age.

32THE LEGEND OF 5-8-77

BRAD HERZOG

On a snowy day in May, the Grateful Dea came 0 Barton an andplayed what many fans call their best show ever. In a military sciencebuilding. On Mother's Day. In the middle ofthe disco era. What gives?

38EYES ON THE UNIVERSE

BETH SAULNIER

The Arecibo radio telescope is getting a new lease on life with a $30million upgrade. A visit to the university's tropical outpost, where astron­omers explore the cosmos as they dodge the occasional vampire.

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2 LETTERS

6 CURRENTSFor a few brie£ shining moments, Ithaca

is for Ithacans. Plus, Greg Grafun: "paleo­

punkologist, '.' honest fish stories, Aurora

uncovered, and our man on "jeopardy."

18 FROM THE HILLBig Red leers win the ECACs (again).

Plus, Greek system overhaul, a johnson

dean, and Peter Kahn remembered.

46 MARKETPLACEClassifieds & Cornellians In Business

50 SPORTSDon't call it "ultimate Frisbee."

55 AUTHORSEdwardj. Epstein on Armand Hammer

56 CLASS NOTES

81 ALMA MATIERSNewsletter of the

Alumni Federation

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112 CORNELLIANA

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LETTERS

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

wife and I decided we no longerneeded the kind of money I hadearned to enjoy a satisfactory lifestyle.

I am now on tenure track at thecommunity college and still adjunct atRutgers. We earn a decent living-notas good as we once did, but the freetime, extended vacations, and lack ofstress more than make up for the loss inincome. Frankly, if someone offeredme three times what I used to earn, todo what I used to do, I wouldn't ac­cept. We were lucky. I found some­thing I really enjoy and have tradedincome for lifestyle.

Richard 1. Klein )63Edison) NewJersey

SAGE ADVICE"THE BUILDING THAT WOULD NOT

Die" (March/April 1997) broughtback fond memories of my sopho­more year (1956-57) living in whatwas then a women's dorm. I foundthe description ofthe current contro­versy interesting, but wondered whythe author did not interview the ar­chitect of the renovation. His viewsmight enlighten readers at least asmuch as those voiced by proponentsand opponents of the renovation.Luckily, I will not be kept in thedark-the architect is my brother.

Ruth ChimacoffMacklin )59Riverdale) New York

ON THE SHELVES"SEX IN THE ARCHIVES" (MARCHIAPRIL

1997) mentions the Cornell UniversityGay and Lesbian Alumni Association(CUGALA) and its efforts to build anendowment to buy gay and lesbianbooks for Cornell libraries, but doesn'tcomplete the story. When CUGALAfirst approached the library about settingup a book fund (in response to a sugges­tion from the on-campus lesbian/gaystudent group, which had done a studydocumenting the lack ofpertinent hold­ings in the library), we were rebuffed.Persistent efforts produced a meeting inNew York City between then Universi­ty Librarian Louis Martin and CUGALAboard members, at which an agreementwas reached.

Under the terms of the agreement,donations would be sent to a designated

vival, are also embarrassed in unemploy­ment offices, being interrogated aboutintimate details of their lives or asked tofill in forms they have no opportunity tounderstand.

Might the spread of downsizing tothe Ivy League become an opportunityfor all the unemployed, whatever theireducational background, to stand to­gether?

Diana Skelton Faujour )86ew York) New York

"OUT OF WORK" REALLY STRUCK

home. After fifteen years in engineeringand a stint in marketing, I became a se­curity analyst/portfolio manager at Pru­dential. Then, in 1990 I lost my job. Fortwo years I vainly tried to find a similarposition, but being fifty when WallStreet was dumping 90,000 people wasnot a good time to look. To fill time andearn a few dollars I taught math at ourlocal county college and at Rutgers Uni­versity. I felt I was doing something use­ful for the first time in many years. My

WHEN I WAS NINE YEARS OLD, I TOOK A

shortcut through a professor's yard on my way

home. A woman was taking photographs of

the flower garden and she asked me to

sit on the wall. She took my

photo, then asked me to get

behind the large camera, and

when she indicated, snap a

picture of her sitting in the

same position. Thus, I took

the picture that appears on

page 34 of the January maga­

zine ("The Soft-Focus School").

My father, the late Louis C.

Boochever '12, for many years

Cornell's director of public

relations, had befriended Mar­

garet Bourke-White. When

she found out that I was his

son, she sent copies of my pic­

ture to us.

Robert Boochever '39, JD '41Pasadena, California

WORK DETAILYOUR ARTICLE ABOUT "DOWNSIZED"

Cornellians ("Out ofWork," January/February 1997) helped destigmatize apainful experience. However, the tonesaddened me: "After decades ofprofes­sional perks, you find yourselfwaiting inlong, painfully democratic lines [... ]Managers are seen as a reducible cost ofdoing business-just like unskilled labor[and] office chairs." Perhaps uninten­tionally, this implies that unemploymentis even more unfair when it befalls IvyLeaguers. Is it somehow normal to rele­gate unskilled laborers to the office-chaircategory?

Having studied at Cornell, we cannever lose our knowledge, nor the prideearned in learning. Don't we owe thatmuch more solidarity to those who mayhave never had the pride of learning toread, earning a salary, or even seeingtheir parents employed? Families whereno one has been employed for genera­tions, but where all have worked hard

. every day to ensure their children's sur-

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MAG A Z I N E

Carolyn Campbell, PhD'86Professor Michael Latham

Savage Hall, Cornell University

'26.-Ed.

Ted Heine'54Waverly, Iowa

heinet@forbin. com

DUE CREDITThe that accompanied ((The.... n" ......""-,'I< School,))January'sfeature articleabout Margaret Bourke- White, should haveincluded the following credits: ((Baker Dor­mitories" and ((Lake Cayugafrom111/"'/Irl,""1 )) gift ofMargaret Bourke- Whiteand Life ((Sun Dial," ofMelita Taddiken '28; and ((A Misty View

Andrew Dickson White Statue" and((The North Door of Baker

o.IRachael Childrey Gross

WE ARE REVIEWING SUBMISSIONS OF

photographs taken by Cornell alumni toappear in a large format, full-color bookabout Cornell, Ithaca, and TompkinsCounty. Our publication goal is fall1997. Though the book will include pri­marily color photos, we are also interest­ed in black-and-white submissions.Alumni whose photos are selected willreceive a byline stating their name, de­gree, and graduation year; and a compli­mentary copy of the finished book. Ifyou have photos frolll your years atCornell which the Cornell communitywould enjoy, please contact us for infor­mation.

PATRICIA HOAGLAND BLOODGOOD '47,

Ted Heine '54, jim Rather '61, MarkSmith '74, and I met in cyberspace afterwe had been diagnosed with LouGehrig's Disease, formally known asamyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Onlylater did we become aware of theCornell connection. This terminal,untreatable disease has already claimedthe lives of Pat in October 1994 andMark in November 1994. jim is wheel­chair-bound and his respiration is sup­ported by nlechanical ventilation but hestill engages in the practice oflaw. I amreasonably mobile but recently quitteaching because it is physically exhaust-

I anl now into my second clinicaltrial seeking a drug that is effective

ALS. I would like to know ifthere are more Cornellians sufferingfrom this disease.

ences.

Arthur S. Leonard' 74New New York

account, and once a $5,000 balance wasreached the annual interest could bespent on library concernInglesbian and gay issues. The bal­ance was achieved few years ago andthe fund became Anyonemay contribute to the principal of thefund, which increases the amount ofin­terest for acquisitions each year, by send­ing donations earmarked "CUGALABook Fund" to the Human SexualityArchivist, Brenda 2b60 KrochLibrary.

A NICE TOUCHI ENJ(JYED "THE EZRA COLLECTION" IN

the December it was a nice touchTo those who were offended

lighten up! It oneit was Cornell-oriented, and there

are other people served the magazinewho enjoy some humor once in a while.Not everyone abandons ofirreverent fun when

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Sue Ford '75New York

OUTSIDE READING"WHAT I LEARNED IN SCHOOL TODAY"

(january/February Brad Her­zog was most interesting and enjoyable. Iwould recommend to Brad that he read(if he has not done so) GreatBooks David also ajournalist, undertook a similar but farmore extensive project at Columbia.

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PHD PUNKER • AURORA-CHASING IN THE ARCTIC

A BOSTONIAN'S ITHACA • EMPTY NETS • ANIMAL ACUPUNCTURE

THE GREAT STUDENT EXODUS • OUR MAN ON 'JEOPARDY'

spell ofcivility, but you can keep it.Themore warm bodies during this bleakstretch the better, and it's the one time Iwish students would stick around.Collegetown on the holidays is just plaincreepy and the Cornell campus morebrooding than tranquil. Stranded inter­national students can be seen makingbrief forays to lay in provisions only todisappear as if during a siege. TheMcGraw Tower bells toll and I think ofdead relatives and other skull-and­crossbones things.

So I seek those sudden, stunninggreen days following the Great StudentExodus, that endless vehicular conga­line of high-end refugees returninghome. Tremors of witness-glee rippleover the flood plain and an enormousrelief settles overTinyTown-nothinglike the Allied Liberation of Paris, Isuppose, but the pressure is off andeverybody feels it. Once the exhaustfumes dissipate, the temptation to getcocky is strong. But seasoned towniesknow they are just lucky: one, they sur­vived winter, and two, THE STUDENTS

ARE GONE! The town is ours again at thebest time ofthe year.

Pride of ownership returns and thecampus is a lovely place to visit.Touringthe empty Arts Quad I can still conjure asweet vicarious gut pang that says,"School's out, summer's coming," as ifI too just ran a gauntlet offinals to free­dom.

I head toward the piano rooms inLincoln Hall to celebrate. This is a realtreat. In the Time ofStudents, it is a ca­cophonous beehive that would giveCharles Ives a skin rash. In summer, it iseerily quiet. I empty my bag of alientownie tunes, fumigating the academicnoosphere of those basement practice

the time.Even so, there is a short heady period

that follows graduation, punctuated byReunionWeekend, when townies parkcars at will, find empty bar stools andopen pool tables, and rekindle lost rela­tions with proprietors ofvarious estab­lishments they've been squeezed out ofsince the year before.

Christmas break offers another short

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TALK OF THE TOWNIE

t's said there are two seasons in Ithaca: winter and what­

ever you want to call the other three months. Here's an­

other spin: there is the Time of No Students and the

Time ofStudents.TheTime of No Students is a short

season occurring between graduation and the arrival of the

summer-school bunnies. It used to be a longer interval, but in-

creased summer sessions have ruined ev­erything.The townjust doesn't clear outlike it used to.

Students, of which there are morethan ever, are pretty much a year-roundpresence now, their ubiquity commensu­rate with an unparalleled surge in hardyall-season rhinoviruses.With the loss ofour summer break from student-borneailments, townies are pretty much sick all

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- Beth Saulnier

PALEO-PUNKOLOGIST

IT'S A MID-SEPTEMBER NIGHT

at Syracuse's Lost Horizondance club. The rain outsidemakes the humidity nearly un­

bearable, but that doesn't stop severalhundred fans from moshing to punkrock band Bad Religion. Stabbingthe air with his fist, lead singer GregGraffin delivers the lyrics over thegroup's jackhammer rhythms. Callme threat to your children) call me sociallyunglued) call me master ofinsanity.

The mostly teenage crowd isjammed against the stage, shirtlessboys crowd-surfing, band and audi­ence soaked in sweat. "Next stop,Ithaca," Graffin wails at the end ofthe hour-long set, and the fans gowild.There's no encore.

Over the next few months, BadReligion plays in Boston, Seattle,Japan, Australia. Graffin does even­tually come to Ithaca-not to per­form, but to pick up the reins ofhis other life. On top of being one ofthe premier punk icons of his gener-

Creek, to slip through the Eight Items orLess check-out line in under five minutes.

You think you can't handle anotherinvasion, that living in a college townlong after adulthood has set in must be asign of serious dysfunction, a negativefeedback loop ofself-defeating behaviorthat only Prozac and a ticket south canderail. But suddenly, the adaptive towniesshift into another gear, grow expansive. Inreality, we know the score, know that weform the periphery, the bulwarks of thegreater Cornell community: servants, in

other words.We shed our petty this­is-our-turf attitudes. We pitch in,give directions, recommend sceniclandmarks, and offer savvy advice ondining out-just like little hospitali­ty vassals.

"How do I get to Cornell?" I'masked again and again during thatfrenetic time, usually by bright-eyed,well-fed folks in late-model cars go­ing opposite our One Way signs."Well, that will take a little planningand a lot of money, an application,and a competitive SAT score," I say.

Always glad to help, you see.- Franklin Crawford

to experience "False Autumn"-thetime when the first U-Haul and Hertz­Penske scholar-ships lumber into town,laying the groundwork for the cominginflux. Most of us have grown used togoing crosstown on our own terms bythis time, and interruption oftraffic flowis a rude reminder of our true place inthe scheme ofthings.

Just shy ofzero hour, "False Autumn"marks the final phase of the Time ofN0

Students. One last chance to rage on thebaby grands, to sit undisturbed by Fall

IT WAS EVERY "JEOPARDY" PLAYER'S FANTASY, LI

er getting a question on the Civil War. The categor

question (or, in the game show's par-

lance, the answer): "In The De­

mon-Haunted World, this as­

tronomer examines the evi­

dence for unexplainable phe­

nomena." The contestant

was a Cornellian, Mark Mir­

oner '89. And the correct

response, of cou rse, was Cor­

nell's very own Carl Sagan.

Mironer rang in first, and

cleaned up $300.

The engineer from Waltham, Massachusetts, made a thoroughly re­

spectable showing on the brainiac game show, which was taped in Novem­

ber and aired in late February. "It was fun," he says, "because I had all this

useless knowledge for years and years, and I finally ended up on 'jeopardy.'"

Despite losing $1,000 on a daily double in the first round, Mironer and his

hair-trigger thumb were leading at half-time with a cool $2,600. In Double

jeopardy, he picked up $1,000 for knowing that President Martin Van Buren

was unseated by William Henry Harrison-then lost it, ironically enough,

for mixing up cosmology and astrophysics. Mironer had $5,000 when the

sartorially splendid Alex Trebek read the Final jeopardy question in the cat­

egory of Famous Authors: "Queen Victoria called his death 'a very great

loss. He had the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes.'"

Mironer knew the answer was Charles Dickens. Unfortunately, so did

the returning champion, a pediatric oncologist from Grand Rapids, Michi­

gan. The Cornellian finished second with $8,000, beating out a stamp deal­

er from Rhode Island. But only the winner keeps the cash, so Mironer

didn't actually pocket the eight grand. He did, however, get a four-night golf

vacation in Florida, electronic versions of the "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of

Fortune" home games, eye drops, Easy-Off kitchen cleaner, a bottle of

Geritol, and $25 worth of eggs. But although Mironer is still waiting for the

eggs to show up, he went home satisfied. "My biggest goal," he says, "was

not to make an idiot of myself."

AND THE ANSWER IS •••

rooms with strange noise, exorcising thefurrowed-browed ghosts ofstressed-outstudents past as my fingers cast a littlelevity over the keyboards, unleashing thepent-up dogs ofstifled expression in theabused Hamiltons and Steinways.

Though I whine about the summersession, there are far fewer students thanin the fall. This is actually a favorabletime for town-gown relations, this fleet­ing period when both are matchedabout one-to-one. By August, summersession is wrapping up and townies start

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Off-Campus Seminarsand StudyToursPaleobiology in the Canadian RockiesAugust 6 - 13, 1997. John Chiment

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ested.

Theatre in Stratford, OntarioAugust 11 - 15, 1997. Anthony Caputi, Alain Seznec, with

Glenn Altschuler

Join three CAU favorites for a week of wonderful theatre in a

delightful setting. Plays to be seen and discussed include

Oedipus Rex, Coriolanus, Juno and the Paycock, and Death

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Astronomy at Green Bank, West Virginia, and theGreenbrier HotelSeptember 18 - 21, 1997. Martha Haynes and

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Currently waitlisted, but late openings occur. Call if you're in­

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Summer 1997On CampusWeek of July 6Success and Survival in Contemporary India Alaka Basu and Mary Katzenstein· TheSearch for Life in the Universe Yervant Terzian • Chemistry of Emotion David Levitsky

• Painting/Drawing Studio Kay WalkingStick • Travelers' Tales: A Writing Work­shop Lydia Fakundiny. Antiques and Antiquing Nancy Green. Field OrnithologyCharles Smith. Outdoor Thrills and Skills David Moriah and Cornell Outdoor Education

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Christianity and Judaism Gary Rendsburg and Steve Saraydar. The Modern Ameri­

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GRAFFIN: PROFESSORS ARELIKE PUNK ROCKERS

largely teenage audience that has adopt­ed many ofthe genre's symbols, from tat­toos and colored hair to drug habits.While Bad Religion hasn't achievedmassive commercial success, it's neverbeen more popular.The band's music issquarely in the punk tradition, thoughGraffin's polysyllabic lyrics have led somewags to dub it "thesaurus rock." There's aWebsite devoted to explaining arcanechoices like "moiety" and "inharmonic,"and one of the band's higher-profileadmirers is MIT linguist Noam Chom­sky. "This genre is a long way from dead,"Graffin says. "There's always going to beebbs and flows, but it's established itselfamong the youth ofAmerica."

During his first four years at Cornell,Graffin pursued biology and music si­multaneously, working with the bandduring school breaks. By 1993, Bad

Religion had released ten albums onits own Epitaph label.The fol­

lowing year, it scored a ma­jor deal with Atlantic

Records and released"Stranger Than

Fiction," whichsold more than800,000 copies

worldwide. (Theband's newest CD,"Tested," hits storesthis spring.) A re­lentless touringschedule has forcedGraffin to put hisstudies on hold;however, he vows

to get his doctorate bythe end of the century.

"I really want tofinish, but let's face it,

Bad Religion is a career and has been fora long time," he says. "I found ways earlyto balance that career with academia, butwhen we started a family five years ago[he and his wife, Greta, have two chil­dren, Graham, five, and Ella, three] thosethree huge elements in my life started toweigh on my ability to do any of them.I'm emotionally attached to my researchand I know I can contribute to the sci­ence, but I have to maintain my sanity."

Before coming to Cornell, Graffinearned an undergraduate degree in phys­ical anthropology and a master's in geol­ogy from UCLA. "In high school, Ibecame interested in the origin of

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ation, Graffin is a Cornell PhD candidatein evolutionary biology.

With his earnest gaze, deliberatespeech, and gray creeping in at the tem­ples, Graffin is no one's idea of SidVi­cious. He drives a Chevy Suburban andshops at the mall. He dresses insweatshirts and jeans, looking for all theworld like the grad student he sometimesis. But Graffin, who's on leave fromCornell, sees little irony in the juxtaposi­tion of his two worlds. "A professor is notthat much different from a punk rocksinger-at least, my model of a punksinger," he says. "What do professors do?They entertain students and provokethem to think. It's the same thing I dowith Bad Religion, except I do itin different cities and fromdifferent podia.The people Ientertain by and large arejust as eager to learn andare just as provoked bywhat I have to say."

What's a thirty-two­year-old Ivy League gradstudent doing in a punkband? Actually, it'snot that odd; doctoralcandidates are mem­bers of at least twoother successful acts,the Offspring and the De­scendants. But Graffinstands out because he'sbeen dedicated to bothpunk and academia for solong-since 1980, whenhe helped found BadReligion as a high schoolsophomore in Los Ange­les's San FernandoValley.

Graffin had moved toL.A. fromWisconsin after his parents' di­vorce, a young teen dropped from theheartland into southern California's pot­tinged country-rock scene. He was a kidlooking for an identity, and punk gave itto him. Rock's scruffy stepchild hademerged from the clubs of Manhattanand London in the mid-1970s. Rarelyheard on the radio, punk was populatedby Johnny Rotten and other spiky­haired characters. For many bands, musi­cianship came a distant second to self­expression; the result was gloriouslysloppy.

But in the Nineties, punk is big busi­ness. Bands sell millions of albums to a

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human civilization, probably because Ineeded some kind of a calling," he says. "Inever was religious, but I felt the desire topursue some of the deeper questions ofexistence."

In keeping with his other life inacademia, one of Graffin's most popularsongwriting themes is man's struggleagainst evolutionary inevitability. For in­stance, "10 in 2010" addresses Earth'sbooming population, which may reach10 billion in thirteen years: "Parchedcracked mouths, empty swollen guts/Sun-baked pavement encroaches on us/Haves and have-nots together at last/Brutally engaged in mortal combat."

Graffin's post-Cornell plans are un­certain. He hopes to establish a researchfoundation, but he has no intention ofgiving up music. "Even if I'm not withinacademia, I'm still going to be makingcontributions to it," he says. Under hisadvisor, Ecology and Systematics profes­sor Amy McCune, Graffin is writing hisdissertation on the genetic comparisonsbetween acellular bone of modern fishand samples found in 480-million-year­old fragments. "Just to show that there islinearity in my life to what I do, I choseto research a topic that very few peoplework on," he says. "In fact, it's somewhatscoffed at by people who are in the estab­lishment, so it's a good punk topic."

- Jim Catalano

CHASING AURORA

AT FORTY DEGREES BELOW

zero, the air is so cold itburns.At fifty below, thingsfall apart. Car tires freeze

overnight, fan belts snap, door handlesbreak off in your hands. And at sixty be­low,just going outside can be dangerous.

Electrical engineering professor PaulKintner can tell the difference betweenthirty and forty below just by the soundof the snow beneath his boots. It's a par­ticularly handy talent when you're 100miles south of the Arctic Circle, studyingthe elusive phenomenon known as theAurora Borealis. "When you're chasingthe Aurora, you have to have everythingready at just the right moment," Kintnersays. "You're not sure when that momentis going to come, and when it does, youhave to act very quickly, because youonly get one chance."

Kintner is in his office in RhodesHall, shaking offa case ofpost-Alaskanjet lag and sifting through the first of375,000 pages of data. His partners,post­doc John Bonnell, PhD '97, grad studentJason Franz '94, and senior project engi-neer Steve Powell '82, are sitting aroundthe conference table, glad to be backhome, to be going to sleep at night, andwaking up again in the morning.

For the past three weeks they've beenin central Alaska, waiting for the rightmoment to fire a rocket through themiddle of the Aurora Borealis.When thatmoment came, they shot off their six­ton, two-million dollar experiment, andtracked it from the ground with a seriesof receivers.The flight lasted about eigh­teen minutes, passing through three arcsand sending back reams of data that willtake the next few months to analyze. Sofar, they've barely had enough time toscan the paperwork for what Kintnercalls "something so obvious, it tells meI've got the answer to my problem." If it'sin there, they'll be able to explain themysteries of the Aurora, the blue-greencurtains of light that appear in the sky athigh latitudes.

They already know the source of theAurora.The sun's thermonuclear fusioncauses electrons to break away from thesurface and stream through space on ahigh-speed solar wind.When they hit theEarth's magnetic field, the electrons rap­idly decelerate, releasing energy into theatmosphere, which we see as the North­ern Lights. Kintner compares the Aurorato a television set: both are vacuumswhere electrons are suddenly accelerated,and the results visible in brightly coloredlight. But the analogy only goes so far.Kintner knows exactly what's excitingthe phosphor on a television screen-it'san electron gun that's built into the backof the set. Up in space, he's not so sure, sohe keeps searching for "the electron gunupstairs."

It's a riddle Kintner has been tryingto solve for the last twenty-seven years,looking for an answer that could ulti­mately increase the lifespans of thecommunications satellites that link ourever-shrinking global village.Along withscientists in a dozen countries, Kintnerand Roger Arnoldy of the University ofNew Hampshire have tackled the prob­lem by coming up with increasingly pre­cise ways to measure radio waves in the

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ionosphere. Launching a rocket fromAlaska in 1992, they discovered electricaltornadoes in the upper atmosphere;launching from Norway in 1995, theydiscovered canyons bored through theionosphere by the Aurora's super­heated electrons.

"How do things suddenly getheated up by a factor of ten to thefourth-a 10,OOO-degree increasein temperature?" Kintner asks. "It'sa tough problem, and it's an inter­esting one, because it says a lotabout how the universe operates. Idon't expect to make a better ovenout ofthis process, but I do expectto understand how the sun works.By understanding these processesin our backyard, we can extrapo­late to other phenomena, to placeswhere we can't put these toys."

Built by NASA, the Cornell rocket isequipped with instruments to measurechanging electromagnetic fields as itpasses through the Aurora, and feed backmillisecond-by-rnillisecond data to engi­neers working on the ground. They

launch from Alaska because the condi­tions are perfect for watching the Auro­ra-long nights, clear, moonless skies,and calm, frigid weather.

Arriving in mid-January, Bonnell and

Powell began work by unpacking therocket, reassembling it to its full sixty-six­foot height, and testing their equipment.Kintner and Franz arrived at the begin­ning of February, and the team shifted toa nighttime schedule, going to sleep at

four a.m. and waking up at noon.Theirlaunch window was only two weekslong, starting every night at eight andending with the first hints ofdaylight.

After a few days, they fell into a rou­tine: waking up, grabbing a mealat a Fairbanks diner, then drivingthirty miles to the rocket range,

~~ where they checked their instru-~~ ments-and waited.There was an~ Aurora almost every other day,i but most were less than perfect:~ they were too unpredictable, or

too small, or too far north orsouth; the days were too warm,the winds too strong, the skiestoo cloudy. By the time they firedthe rocket on February 9, all sys­tems were go. They'd just comeback from dinner, and acrossCanada the magnetometers were

tracking a powerful, fast-moving Auro­ra.At five minutes before liftoff, Franzcould see the Aurora brightening inthe east, and could read the data thatwas pouring in: the Earth's magneticfield was being stretched out like a

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'CHARMEDWITH THE PLACE ITSELF'

TO MISS MABEL LOWELL, June 14, 1869

I have just got back from Ithaca-a little surprised at the

ten years' persistency of Ulysses in trying to get back thith­

er, and yet charmed with the place itself, which is one of the

prettiest I have ever seen. The town lies on the broad level

deposited by the main feeders of Cayuga Lake, at its head

and embosomed in trees. All around it lie hills rounded like

those we see across the marshes at Brighton, but higher

than they, chequered to the top with alternate fields of

young wheat or pasture and patches of woodland, the whole

as boisterously green as anything you will see in England. If

you climb one of these, you see the same landscape wallow­

ing away to the horizon. This great stretch of verdure is

based on endless depths of c1ayslate, now lying in sheets

well-nigh as thin as paper, now in harder layers from three

inches to as many feet in thickness. The soil, a tough clay,

slippery as soap after a rain, hoards all the moisture, which

gathers itself into rills, then brooks, and at last large streams

in every hollow, eating their way to the lake as the rock will

let them by a succession of waterfalls through ravines as

lovely as I ever saw. The nature of the rock gives to these

gorges a look of architecture in ruins. Here you see a crum­

bling buttress, there the half of a broken arch, and some­

times you fancy feudal towers along the edge of a cliff above

you. These ravines, where you are high enough for a wide

view, you see run

crinkling from the

lake like the

cracks in a pane

of glass round a

pistol-shot,

crooked streaks

darkened with ev­

ergreen. The wa­

terfalls are of all

heights, sizes, and

characters. There

are several of

more than a hundred feet, and one falls sheer two hundred and

twenty-five. They tumble now this way, now that, now leaping

clear, now covering a sloping semicircle of black rock with a

wavering lace-work of thinnest water-snow, according to the

whim of the stone as that is more or less collusive with the

feminine wiles of the stream and yields to or resists its fluent

persistence. At Enfield, the prettiest fall I saw, the last leap of

the water crumbling from ledge to ledge, with endless change

of fancy, for about a hundred feet, had hollowed a kind of

amphitheatre, round which were cliffs of fifty fathom, their

fringe of birches and hemlocks leaning over between us and the

sky and seeming to cling with roots all clutching desperately

backward as they looked down and listened ...

- James Russell Lowell

rubber band, and was about to snap."It was getting very bright up on the

northern slope, the conditions were justperfect," says Franz. "I remember seeingthe Aurora right before we launched; itlooks like little fingers coming down, andthey dance around, back and forth.They're mostly greens, blue-greens, butat the bottom of the arcs you can see ared tint.They just go crazy sometimes."

- Kenny Berkowitz )81

NET LOSS

ONRUSSELLBROWN'SLAST

business trip, the seasrolled by in undulatinggray caps. The February

winds cut a frothy path across his ship'sbow, biting through the fishermen's par­kas. Some days were so foul that the crewofthe 187-foot Albatross IVhad to retreatto their bunks. "The winter cruises arenot very fun," says Brown, a federal fish­eries biologist who graduated fromCornell with a natural resources maj or in

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1986. "It's rough, it's cold, and you justget them over with." Winter voyages maybe far from pleasant, but they are crucialto determining the health of the NorthAtlantic's once-great schools of fish.Brown is at work on the front lines of acoastal crisis.

From the northern reaches ofNew­foundland to the southern New Englandshore, vast schools of coldwater fish aregone, run down to scarcity by a commer­cial fishing binge.The collapse has led tosweeping changes in traditional coastallife and forced governments to enact aspate ofnew fishery regulations. Biolo­gists like Brown are now gathering andanalyzing the data needed to shepherd arecovery.

In a series of twelve-day surveys, theAlbatross IVand its thirty-seven-membercrew offishermen and scientists ply thewaters from Nova Scotia to CapeHatteras, sampling fish populations witha wide net.The vessel's catch data is com­bined with an array ofother fishery in­formation, including reports from ob-

servers aboard fishing boats, landing sta­tistics from fish dealers, and the work ofother scientists, including Brown's coun­terparts in the Canadian Department ofFisheries. All of this is compared to apool ofdata the federal government hasamassed since its first survey, which be­gan in 1963.The latest results are not en­couraging. "There's a huge difference inabundance between what the surveysshow from 1963 and what we see now,"Brown says. "There's just very much lessfish, especially cod and haddock."

How this came to pass is a story ofanenvironmental blunder on par with thedestruction ofthe Amazon. Offthe east­ern shores ofNew England and Canadasit what were once the richest fishinggrounds the world had ever known. Herea fortuitous collision ofcurrents swirl theshallow ecosystem into a soup oflife, andat the top of the resulting food web sitthe cod and its commercial cousins: had­dock, flounder, pollock, halibut, and red­fish. For centuries these banks werethought to be inexhaustible. Indeed, the

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coastal residents of New England, NovaScotia, and Newfoundland timed theirlives to seasonal rhythms of the sea.Then,during the late 1980s, fishermen's netsbegan to come up empty.The fish weregone. But Brown sees a human failure."There's really an unfortunate historyhere," he says.

The details of that history are all toofamiliar to the Atlantic's latest generationof fishing families. In 1976 both the u.s.and Canada enacted what were thoughtto be tough new fishery restrictions.Thelaws were supposed to push foreign ves­sels away from our coasts and place thenations' prime fishing banks under localstewardship. Half the plan worked. For­eign fleets were more closely regulated.But a massive expansion of commercialfishing began along the North Americancoast, undermining the gains of keepingthe foreign boats away. More and biggerU.S. and Canadian boats were built, regu­lations remained lax, and in less than tenyears the schools were all but wiped out.Remember stuffed sole? Inexpensivescrod? These were the fish of choice inthe 1980s. Now they can be hard to find,having been replaced in the u.s. byhatchery-raised salmon and catfish-andin rural Canada, where families fished forsubsistence, by welfare checks.

The social costs have been staggering.More than 39,000 fishery jobs have van­ished in Canada, where the governmentshut down fishing and earmarked $1.9billion for coastal aid and job retraining.Similar troubles have fallen on New Eng­land; a 1992 study found the region haslost 14,000 jobs and $350 million in an­nual income. In response to the decline,last year the New England Fishery Man­agement Council enacted the toughestfishery laws in the region's history. Thenew rules slashed the days fishermen areallowed at sea, and cut daily catch limits.They expanded on 1994 rules that setaside protected areas, where vessels are nolonger allowed to drag their nets.

"Newfoundlanders have lived off thesea for hundreds of years. It's who weare," laments idled fisherman JackTroake,skipper of a fifty-three-foot family fish­ing boat that sailed from iceberg-clut­tered Twillingate, Newfoundland. "Thecod used to come right into these coves.Now the sea is empty.You go out there,and you don't find a damned thing."

- C.] Chivers )88

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LIKE A FAITH HEALER, DR.

Karen Gellman can't explainexactly what's going on physi­ologically as she lays her hands

on Dee's lame right shoulder. But the1,300-pound mare melts under Gell­man's gentle touch, dropping her headand blinking slowly. Sighing and chew­ing, she drools on owner Ginny Schret­er's hand. "I call it zapping, for lack of amore professional term," Gellman says ofthe brief touch therapy, which she com­bines with more extensive acupunctureand chiropractic adjustment to treat theailing horse.

With nearly a dozen needles protrud­ing from her legs, shoulders, and back,Dee could pass as the world's largest pincushion.The acupuncture treatment in­cludes Chinese incense and small doses ofliquid vitamin B-12. After she removesthe needles, the five-foot-four Gellmanhops atop a hay bale stacked on a plasticcrate and manipulates Dee's massivespine. "I may not be bigger than a horsebut I'm bigger than a single joint," saysGellman, thrusting down on the mare'spelvis. "We rely on the basics ofphysics."

While some still think ofalternativemedicine as quackery that has yet to bebacked up with hard evidence, more vet­erinarians are turning to acupuncture,chiropractic, massage, and even homeop­athy and herbs as healing tools. "This iscomplementary to what we do in tradi­tional medicine," says Gellman '79, DVM'95, who is certified by the AmericanVet­erinary Chiropractic Association.

About 600 vets belong to the Ameri­can HolisticVeterinary Medical Associa­tion, and 375 are certified by the Interna­tionalVeterinaryAcupuncture Society. AtCornell, Gellman and two other veteri­narians use acupuncture, an ancient Chi­nese method ofrelieving pain and treat­ing a variety ofdiseases by inserting nee­dles into specific places on the body.

Alternative medicine isn't part oftheCornell curriculum yet, but a facultycommittee is examining it. And since1995, holistic animal health guru AllenM. Schoen, DVM '78, has taught a mini­course on acupuncture at Cornell.Thisyear the class drew nearly 100 students,interns, residents, and local veterinarians.Schoen, who practices in Connecticut

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body's channels can help restore balanceand allow the body to heal. Cosmic forc­es aside, conventional research has shownthat the treatments can increase produc­tion ofnatural painkillers called endor­phins, and stimulate the nervous, im­mune, and endocrine systems.

ManyWesterners remain skeptical ofacupuncture and other alternative treat­ments because research is limited or de­batable. Chinese doctors, for instance,have studied acupuncture extensively, buttheir research has rarely met Westerndouble-blind testing standards. Still, theAmericanVeterinary Medical Associa­tion, which in 1988 discouraged acu­puncture, last fall approved new, more in­clusive guidelines on alternative medi­cine.The AVMA recommended furtherresearch on such treatments as chiroprac­

tic, homeopathy, andbotanical medicine,and acknowledgedthat acupuncture is"now considered anintegral part ofveter­inary medicine."

Veterinarianswho use alternativemedicine say theyexperiment with itbecause conventionaltreatments sometimesdon't work, especiallyin cases of chronicpain, allergies, or ar­thritis. For example,

no drugs exist to treatWaldo's problem,Looney says. Schoen remembers seeingcase after case ofanimals who had to besent home in pain or put to sleep becausehe could do little for them. "I didn't feel Iwas fulfilling my highest purpose as aveterinarian," he says.

Dee, an eleven-year-old Trakehner­Thoroughbred mix that competes indressage events, was limping so badly thatSchreter, a manager at Cornell's Eques­trian Center, could no longer ride her.For more than two months she wouldn'tgallop. She got better for a few weeks, butwhen the symptoms recurred, her ownersought out Gellman. After only twotreatments, Dee was feeling so well thatSchreter could ride her again. "I didn'tthink that it could cure every problem,"says Schreter, "but I thought it couldhelp."

and conducts holistic health clinics acrossthe country, believes veterinary medicineis at a crossroads; doctors have to decidewhether to embrace or ignore alternativetreatments. "Conventional medicine isreally excellent for acute emergencies,but often we lack good answers forchronic problems like arthritis and aller­gies," Schoen says. "No one form ofmedicine has all the answers. The futureis to take the best from ail the differenttherapies and integrate them into a newapproach to animal health care."

The few vets at Cornell who haveused acupuncture swear by it. Dr. AndreaLooney, DVM '89, a resident in anesthe­siology, is currently treating a JackRussell terrier namedWaldo for an un­usual congenital digestive problemknown as megasophagus.Waldo's esoph-

agus never developed normally, makingit almost impossible for the dog to holddown meals. Through acupunctureLooney tries to tap into the dog's chan­nels ofenergy, in the hope ofcontrollingsome of his vomiting. She has used thetechnique on cats, turtles, lizards, even abald eagle recovering from a brokenwing and leg. But how acupuncture ac­tually works remains a mystery to manywho use it. "There's a lot ofdoubt behindwhy it should work," she says. "And that'sone of the biggest problems in my ex­plaining it to people who are skeptical."

Traditional Chinese medicine holdsthat cosmic forces of yin and yang areconstantly at work on the body, as is a lifeforce known as qi that flows throughfourteen bodily channels. An imbalancebetween these forces causes disease andpain; acupuncturists believe that insert­ing fine needles at points along the

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FROM THE HILL

'To the Cotning tnan & wotnan'

AFTER 124 YEARS, A LETTER UNEARTHED

O LIVE TJADEN, A PI­

oneering architectand namesake of

Tjaden Hall onthe Arts Quad,died March 15at ninety-two.Tjaden was fif­teen when shecame to study architecture atCornell, graduating in 1925.She went on to design morethan 400 homes in GardenCity, Long Island, includingmany ofthe city's mansions.

Tjaden was the widow ofRoswell Van Sickle '23.Tjaden Hall houses part oftheCollege ofArchitecture, Art,and Planning and was namedin her honor in 1981.

OLIVE TJADEN, 92

JOHNSON DEAN

AFORMER ACCOUNT­

ing professor at Yale,Stanford, and Cornell

has been named dean of theJohnson School of Man­agement. Rob-ert Swieringasucceeds AlanMerten, wholeft in 1996 tobecome presi­dent of George Mason Uni­versity. "Robert Swieringa'sdiverse background, whichranges from running a family­owned business to a respectedcareer as an educator andscholar ... makes him espe­cially well suited to lead theJohnson School," says Presi­dent Rawlings.

Swieringa, who takes of­fice in July, has an MBAfrom the University ofDen­ver and a PhD in accountingfrom the University of Illi­noise He taught at the John­son School from 1974 to1985. With an annual budgetof $21 million, the schoolhas 530 students and forty­five full-time faculty.

March trustee meeting-bearsthe date of Sage College'sdedication: May 15, 1873. Inaddition to Ezra's words, thetime capsule contained photosofMr. and Mrs. Henry Sage,

copies ofthe universitylaws and course regis­ter, a weekly CornellEra, and three newspa­pers: the IthacaJournal)the now-defunct IthacaDaily Democrat) andthe New York Times.The newspapers, datedthe day before thededication, are aswhite as if they'drolled off the pressesthis morning.

While the univer­sity hadn't planned tounearth the box dur­ing the Sage renova­tions, the temptationto know Ezra's long-buried thoughts prov­

ed too great. The box and itscontents will be on display inone ofthe university libraries,and the Sage cornerstone hasbeen refilled with currentmemorabilia. "I have alwaysseen the Ezra Cornell papers asa tremendous resource forlearning about nineteenth­century American history,"says University Archivist ElaineEngst. "He was an incredibleman, and his views at the timewere extremely radical. "

and entire freedom from sec­tarian or political preferences isthe only proper and safe wayfor providing an education thatshall meet the wants of thefuture and carry out thefounders' idea ofan Institutionwhere 'any person can findinstruction in any study.' Iherewith commit this greattrust to your care."

The letter-read by fifth­generation descendant EzraCornell '70, BS Ag '71, at a

all creeds must find free andeasy access, and a hearty andequal welcome, to the educa­tional facilities possessed by theCornell University.

"Coeducation ofthe sexes

FOR MORE THAN A

century, Ezra Cor­nell's letter waited inthe dark. Sealed in the

cornerstone ofSage Hall, theHill's first women's dorm, themissive contained thefounder's musings onthe future ofco-edu­cation-or so histori­ans thought. Mter fivegenerations in a heavylead box, Ezra's letterhas emerged. As itturns out, the elegant­1y scripted page con­centrates on the im­portance ofremainingfree from religious andpolitical bias.

"To the Comingman & woman," Cor­nell writes. "On theoccasion of layingthe corner stone ofthe Sage College forwomen of CornellUniversity, I desire to say thatthe principle [sic] danger, and Isay almost the only danger I seein the future to be encounteredby the friends ofeducation, andby all lovers of true liberty isthat which may arise from sec­tarian strife.

"From these halls, sectari­anism must be forever exclud­ed, all students must be left freeto worship God, as theirconcience [sic] shall dictate,and all persons ofany creed or

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STRATEGIC PLAN TACKLES PROBLEMS, PERCEPTIONS

William R. Sears, founder ofCornell's Graduate School ofAeronautical Engineering and theCenter for Applied Mathematics,who won the Guggenheim medalfor work in aviation.

Bruce N. Ames '50, professor ofbiochemistry and molecular biologyat the University ofCalifomia, Berke­ley, co-winner ofthe 1997Japan prize,created by The Science and Tech­nology Foundation ofJapan, for hisresearch on the causes ofcancer.

Robert E. Kushell '50, founder andpresident ofKushell Associates Inc. andwinner ofthe International FranchiseAssociation's 1996 Free EnterpriseAward, andJames W. McLamore,47, posthumously inducted into theassociation's Hall of Fame.

Rob Dyson, MBA '74, Cornell trus­tee, owner ofDyson, Kissner, MoranCorporation ofNew York City, andwinner or the Wodd Sports Car class ofthe 24 Hours of Daytona.

Mary Musgrave '76, BA '77, ofthe Louisiana Agricultural ExperimentStation, selected by NASA to collabo­rate with Ukrainian cosmonauts re­searching plant reproduction in space.

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Leslie Ann Lum, JD '96, ofHono­lulu, named Miss Hawaii. When thereigning Miss Hawaii was crownedMiss America, Lum, first runner-up toMiss Hawaii, took on the title.

John '51 andJanet Morand Mar­quesee '52, publishers of a 1978biography of Steven Biko by DonaldWoods. Woods was the first to namethe murderers of the South Africananti-apartheid leader. Last February,five of the named suspects finallyconfessed-nineteen years later­corroborating Woods's allegations.

and we will eventually destroy ourselves."In a comprehensive effort to grapple

with the system's ills while capitalizing onits assets, the university has formulated astrategic plan. Developed by a group ofabout 350 undergraduates, alumni, andfaculty, the plan spells out requirements forCornell's sixty-four fraternities and sorori­ties in areas ranging from self-governanceto facilities management to social responsi­bility. The "perceptions" section of theplan, for instance, requires one article amonth be sent to the IthacaJournal and Dai­ly Sun "in an effort to improve and sustainthe public image ofthe Greek system."

Under the new plan, each house willbe reviewed every three years, and organi­zations that fail to comply with the stan­dards could lose their recognition. "TheGreek system has played such a vital part inthe undergraduate experience here,"Stevens says. "It would be really foolish todismiss it and let it die on the vine."

FRATERNITY PLEDGE

ONE MORE AND IT'S A HAT TRICK

FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES

have long been beset by stereo­types. Early on, Greek organiza­

tions were seen as bastions ofclass-con­sciousness, where the creme de la crememingled in luxurious living rooms. Latercame the Animal House years, when fratsbecame synonymous with Bacchanalianexcess and broken furniture.

Randy Stevens would like the truthto be somewhere in the middle. The as­sociate dean of students lauds modernGreek houses for their inclusiveness, butlaments a certain lack ofcivility and phil­anthropic spirit. And while fraternitiesand sororities can be an immensely posi­tive experience for the students who par­ticipate-3,800 did last year-the spec­ters ofdrinking, drugs, hazing, eating dis­orders, and deteriorating houses must bedealt with, says Stevens, MPA '95. "I amworried," he says, "that unless we addressour shortcomings, the system will weaken

IT WAS LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN. FIRST THE CORNELL MEN'S HOCKEY

team finished at the top ofthe Ivy League for the second year in a row. Then the BigRed repeated its 1995-96 ECAC championship win-thanks to a 2-1 nailbiter in

Lake Placid. And once again, tournament MVP honors went to goalieJason Elliott '98.It was another banner season for second-year coach Mike Schafer '86. After de­

feating Clarkson in the ECAC finals, ending the Golden Knights' eleven-gamewinning streak, the Red went on to the NCAA West Regional in Michigan, wherethe team upset Miami of0 hio in the first round. Advancing to the quarterfinals forthe first time since 1972, Cornell lost to North Dakota, the number-two seed andeventual national champion, and finished the season with a 21-9-5 record.

MAY/JUNE 1997 19

COMPUTING LOSS

W HENOFFICIALSAT

Cornell's TheoryCenter learned in

March that they had lostmore than $10 million a yearin government funding, theyweren't surprised. Monthsearlier, the National ScienceFoundation had warnedthem the university wouldlikely lose its designation as anational supercomputingcenter. But while officialswere prepared for the news,they had no idea it wouldcome with so much melo­drama.

Cornell had been told that

the National Science Boardwould decide the issue at itsMarch meeting. But when thevote was postponed, TheoryCenter Director Malvin Kaloscanceled his trip to Washing­ton-only to learn the nextday that the matter had beensettled. At the Clinton admin­istration's behest, the NSBexecutive board voted 4-0 todrop the Ithaca and Pittsburghsupercomputing sites, and re­new funding for centers in SanDiego and Illinois. "The pro­cedure was like nothing I'veheard of before," Kalos says."I don't quite understand theneed for that kind ofhaste. "

The decision leaves the

center, which pioneered thefield of parallel processing,scrambling for funding. Kalossays he'll look to the energyand defense depart­ments to help make upthe gap in the center's$25 million annualbudget. In the mean­time, decisions about aplanned tripling of itscomputing power havebeen put on hold.Since the NSF willcontribute only $3 million intransitional funding, says cen­ter spokeswoman Linda Cal­lahan '73, employees havealready been told that a thirdof them will be laid off in

September, and more cutsmight follow. Cornell's des­ignation as a national centerends in April 1998.

BRUCE WANG / UP

"The university is stillinterested in having a high­performance computing re­source," Callahan says. "We'llmost likely continue to exist,but we'll be much smaller."

'A VIVIFYING PRESENCE'

IN AN AGE OF SPECIALISTS, PETER

Kahn did it all. He was a renownedartist, cook, musician, farmer, film­

maker, amateur mushroom hunter. Aprofessor of fine arts and art history atCornell for more than thirty-five years,Kahn died February 16 at seventy-five.

As many noted in remembering theimmensely popular professor, Kahn diedas he lived. A Trumansburg volunteerfirefighter for twenty years, Kahn suffereda heart attack while directing traffic at thescene ofan accident. Sixty fire and policevehicles made up his funeral procession,and his memorial service overflowed theAnabel Taylor Hall auditorium. "He wasan accomplished artist, and a deeply andwidely learned man," says a colleague, artProfessor Emeritus Stan O'Connor '51."He had a vivifying presence."

Hans Peter Kahn was born in Leipzig

2 0 CORNELL MAGAZINE

in 1921, and emigrated to New York Cityin 1937. He served in the u.S. Army dur­ing W orld War II, working as a translatorduring the Nuremberg trials-and receiv­ing a field promotion after painting twostars on General George Patton's tank. Heearned a master's in philosophy from NewYork University in 1951, coming toCornell in 1957. Although he retired in1985, he continued to teach typography,watercolor, and printmaking. He was a fa­vorite among Cornell Adult Universitysummer students and conducted two arthistory tours of Europe.

Kahn is survived by his wife of fiftyyears, Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn, sevendaughters, and eight grandchildren. Abook fund in his memory has been estab­lished through the University Library,Cornell University, Gift Records, 55Brown Road, Ithaca, New York, 14850.

GINSENG POWER

C HINESE HEALERS HAVE BEEN

using ginseng as an herbal medi­cine for 4,000 years. Today, the

wonder root is mixed into everythingfrom health teas to sports drinks -and it'sbig business. That could be a boon tolandowners in New York, where anAmerican version ofthe plant grows wild.

With a three-year, $45,000 grantfrom the u.S. Department ofAgricul­ture, Cornell researchers are trying tofind the best ways to optimize ginseng'sbenefits and protect it from the fungaldiseases that decimated the plants earlythis century. "Essentially, it's forestfarming," says Louise Buck, Grad '89­'90, a senior extension associate in theDepartment of Natural Resources.

Artificially cultivated ginseng costsabout $25 a pound. But grown in thewild, the gnarly roots can gamer as muchas $450. The main attraction ofwild plantsover their bed-planted cousins is cosmetic:aficionados prize the dark, man-shapedroots ofnaturally occurring ginseng. Somefans also claim that the wild version ismore potent-and that New York's cli­mate makes for some ofthe best ginseng inNorth America. Cornell researchers willstudy the plants' levels of the complexcarbohydrates, called ginsenocides, thatare reputed to aid the central nervous sys­tem, balance metabolism, decrease bloodsugar, and maintain hormone levels.

FROM THE HILL

BUT ANABEL TAYLOR EXPANSION STILL VIABLE

HAPPY TRAIL

HILLEL DONOR BACKS OUT

an architect. Granoff claims Cornell al­ways knew he wanted to hire FredBabcock, a Salt Lake City architect whohad designed several other Hillel centers.But university officials say no particular ar­chitect can be made a stipulation ofa giftand that selection is done through a na­tional search. And though Granoff callsthe fifteen months ofplanning excessive,Murphy says it's standard procedure.

Hillel, devoted to promoting]ewishstudent life, is presently housed in about1,000 square feet of space in AnabelTaylor Hall. "The program has grown,and Anabel Taylor is getting crowded,"says Rabbi Larry Edwards, director ofCornell's Hillel program. The newfacility, a roughly 16,000-foot additionto Anabel Taylor, is planned to cost$8-10 million. With new facilities un­der construction at Columbia and Dart­mouth, Edwards says, Cornell will soonbe the only Ivy League school without adedicated Hillel center. There are about3,000 ] ewish students at Cornell, 20percent of the student body.

LAST AUGUST, CORNELL PLANTA- much damage we can repair with the fundstions Director Don Rakow, PhD that have been made available," he says.'87, took State Assemblyman Mar- Rising 400 feet over a third of a

tin Luster and u.S. Representative mile, the Cascadilla Gorge Path is aMaurice Hinchey on a tour ofCascadilIa popular commuter route from campusGorge. Though the day was sunny, the to downtown. It's so popular that effortshour-long hike was more to close off the trail, whichthan a pleasure walk. Cornell campus officials call unsafe,had asked its representatives have been soundly rebuffed.for help obtaining funds to Chain-link fences wererepair flood damage to the ripped down the day aftergorge trail, and the sneakered they were installed, and thelegislators were there to in- university has taken to put-spect the glen firsthand. ting up a low barrier and

Seven months later, the praying no one gets hurt.money came through-at least Rakow says he's trying tosome of it. In March, the New CHARLES HARRINGTON/UP determine if there are anyYork State Emergency Management Office other funds available on campus to aid theand the Federal Emergency Management repairs. At this point, he says, it looks asAgency offered $63,000 to help repair dam- though the work may not be finishedaged stone pathways, steps, and bridges dat- until fall; the trail may be officially "re-ing back to the Civilian Conservation Corps. opened" only to be shut for the winterRakow says he's grateful, but notes repair shortly thereafter. "We're hoping," hecosts have been estimated at $150,000 to says, "there will be a few shards of sun-$200,000. "We're trying to determine how light-between opening and closing."

P LANS FOR A NEW HILLEL CENTER

on campus suffered a setback inFebruary when the project's major

donor withdrew his $2 million contribu­tion. Martin Grano~ a New York-basedapparel manufacturer, backed out oftheproject, claiming the university was drag­ging its feet. "Basically, they didn't wantit," Granoffsays. "They didn't have thegood sense to tell me months ago."

But Susan Murphy, vice president forstudent and academic services, says Cor­nell is committed to the proj ect and islooking for other donors. "Why wouldwe waste the energy if we didn't wantit?" says Murphy '73, PhD '94. "It's im­portant not to have people believe that theproject is dead, because it's not."

Grano~ who helped fund a Hillel fa­cility at Tufts, had planned to endowCornell's project in memory of DarcyWeiner '90 and Glenn Weiner '93, cous­ins who died in a 1995 plane crash.Granoffwalked away from the project af­ter more than a year ofplanning, partiallydue to a disagreement over the selection of

MAY/JUNE 1997 21

UNIVERSITIES ARE NOTORIOUSI

BUT IN THE NINETIES, SAl

CORNELL MUST ~

BY MICAH FINK &BETH SAULNIER

ON AN UNSEASONABLY HOT DAY IN OCTOBER 1995,

amid the pomp and circumstance of an Ivy League

inauguration, Hunter Rawlings III became Cor­

nell's tenth and tallest president. Wearing a red

gown with Qlack trim, Rawlings was invested with

the great seal of the university, a brass medallion

with Ezra Cornell's famous phrase rising from its

surface: I wouldfound an institution where any person

can find instruction in any study. Sharing the Barton

Hall stage with four of his predecessors, the new

president accepted the seal from trustee Chairman

Stephen Weiss '57."May these words," -Weiss said,

"be kept forever in your heart."

As every Cornellian knows, Ezra's founding motto

has served as the university's guidepost for the past

LOW TO CHANGE.

RESIDENT RAWLINGS,

UICK, LEA , A D AGILE.

129 years-imprinted on the mind of each incoming

freshman, as well as on countless T-shirts, backpacks,

and spiral notebooks. But in accepting the badges of

his office-seal, mace, and university charter­

Rawlings was taking up the reins of an institution in

the throes of change.The glory days of ever-increas­

ing federal and state funding were gone, and financial

realities were forcing a painful reexamination of

Cornell's academic mission. Of the five presidents

on the dais that inauguration day, Rawlings would

be the first to tackle the unsettling proposition that

Ezra's vision might not survive in the economic

climate of the 1990s. "The old strategy of growing

our way to excellence is no longer viable," Rawlings

told the trustees in October 1996."We must become

SOURCE: OFFICE OF FINANCIAL PLANNING AND BUDGET MANAGEMENT

od that will not have growth?"The problems must be resolved soon.

There is a $4.5 rnillion gap in the en-dowed budget for the 1997-98school has been offset by an in-

President Rawlings stresses that theL·<::liiilJ<::li<;;;'.li didn't make Cornell

rich. If it weren't for the campaign, hesays, "Cornell would be in big trouble."About $1 billion of the new nl0neywent into the endowment,which can't be used for operating ex­penses-except in the form of interest,which is paid out at a rate of about 4.5percent each year. Another portion ofthe money is committed to0'Y'lrl"''XY1'Y'1rr particular academic chairs orbuilding new buildings, and also can't beused for operating expenses. But runningthe is expensive; Cornell'sannual budget is nearly $1.4 billion, andcosts are faster than income.

"This is a tough period for the uni-Rogers says. "We are not broke,

but we have to have a balanced budget,and we'll have to cut some things to getit." A gap first appeared for theendowed colleges in 1993-94, and eachdean was asked to economize. But whatwas believed to be a temporary incon­venience was actually a chronic prob­lem. "The 1980s was a period of

In the 1990s, the questionwas how to deal with a te111pOrary re-duction in " Rogers says. "Now,the how do we adopt a setof that will succeed in a peri-

Sources of operating revenue, 1911-1992

has gotten used to theDidn't the uni­

raise $1.5 billion? Isn't Cor­nell still putting up newWhere does all that tuition nl0ney

problerns.inevitable

percentof totaloperatingrevenue

EXPENSES ARE RISING,

INCOME IS NOT

NUTS & BOLTS

1J.L"'_J~i~'--.world rank,and renown the coins of therealnl. "We have to nlake actual choices,"says MichaelWhalen Cornell's direc­tor of financial planning. "It is like work-ing in an orchard.We to im-prove growth by even if that ispainful to the limbs that lopped off."

Like so nlany and universi-ties sinlilar Cornell is aninstitution unaccustomed-and in manyways opposed-to academicprograrns by financial standards such asprofit, loss, and nlarketeducation is, UJ.l.J.J.J.JldU~J. y., d

bottonl line, and like across.L ~.I..L"~,L .I.~u., Cornell is forced to takea hard look at the way it operates.

FItED RC)GERS, UNIVEI~-

chief financial has aset of charts and that he'seager to show to anyone

to listen.The two-dirnensional il-lustrate why Cornell is rnoney

quick, lean, and and discard ways ofdoing things that are now obsolete ...Weare probing many of our time-testedways of doing It nlakes for whatone might call 'interest-

times.' "The phrase, with its roots in the an­

cient Chinese is an apt descrip­tion for an era in which the isfacing the unpleasant business of cuttingfaculty positions, laying off clerical work­ers' and closing departnlents. A uni-

of Cornell's stature-one of thewealthiest and rnost in theworld-now finds itself in a serious bind.

"Ezra Cornell sort of put a curse onthe university," says Ron Ehrenberg, vicepresident for acadernic progranls, plan-

and "He's been takendon't have the resources

to do as rnany as \ve do.We need to look at what businesses wecan get out of."

Today, in an era of revenues,the has to cutback to renlaintrulanCraJly sound. This means makinghard decisions about what r1D..-.A·... i- ..~..... D. ...... i-C'

and progranls it will continue to support,and which ones it will elinlinate.Butwhen Cornell decides to close an aca­demic department it l1leanS somethingmore than GE or AT&T spinning off anunprofitable division; it's often perceivedas a larger statement about what it nleansto be educated in Anlerica. So when thedean of the Arts college rnoved in Febru­ary to close the five-l1lenlber Depart­nlent of Russian Literature, no less thanthe son of Vladimir N abokov .... yo .. rrl-, orl

in with a protest directed "to all thosewho are concerned with Cornell's sur­vival as an institution of the first rank."

"I am stunned what IDnlitri Nabokov wrote in a letter print-ed in the Cornell Sun. "Can'tCornell economize on else tokeep fronl under?"

While few on canlpus believe the" ...... , .. Yt:>.VC'1t-"Y is under," Nabokov's

question-what stays and whatat the heart of the dilernnla.This is a tinle for the insti-tution. and administrators haveto evaluate academic progranls not fortheir intrinsic worth-who would saythat is less thanDiderot, or nuclear less ofstudy than nanotechnology?-but ratherfor their overall value in the academic

24 CORNELL jVll1'-J.'\.L..ll

AT ARTS & SCIENCES,THE BUDGET GAP COULD REACH $20.3 MILLION BY 2000-01

crease in the payout from the endow­ment-essentiallya one-time gift fromthe trustees after a bull year on the stockmarket.Without extensive cuts, this gapwill grow to 20.3 million in 2000-01.

"There is only one source of fundingthat is up-private donations.All the restare flat or down," Rawlings says."Studentaid-down. Federal aid-down. Stateaid-down. Grants-flat. State sup­port-down.Tuition-flat."These finan­cial realities are having profound effectson the way the university does business.Cornell prides itself on its needs-blindadmissions policy, which guarantees aidto all students who need it. But reducedstate and federal support means the uni­versity has to come up with more moneyitself-which means a greater drain onits resources. "We have been making upin student charges what the governmentdidn't provide," says Rogers. "However,the days of tuition increases outpacinginflation are gone." For each of the lasttwo years, Cornell has increased tuition4.5 percent, the lowest hikes since 1965­66. But next year, tuition in the endowedcolleges will cost $21,840-already be­yond the reach of many middle-classfamilies. Raising tuition only creates a vi­cious circle: each time the cost of aCornell education increases, the demandfor financial aid goes up as well.

Financial aid is just one of the univer­sity's ever-expanding expenses; there'salso the cost of faculty. If a university is abusiness, then people are its human capi­tal-and its fastest-growing expense. Sal­aries and benefits must keep pace withCornell's competitors, or faculty will belured away. But faculty wages at the statu­tory colleges are set by NewYork Stateand have been frozen for four of the lastsix years.The real value of these salarieshas actually dropped 5 percent since1969-70, according to a report publishedlast January by Cornell's Office of Finan­cial Planning and Budget Management.Salaries for faculty in the endowed col­leges have also stalled, and are decreasingrelative to imilar institutions around thecountry. "Salaries at the endowed colleg­es used to rank thirteenth in the list oftwenty-seven research universities thatare our peers," says Ron Ehrenberg, re­citing the numbers from memory. "Nowwe are number twenty-two or twenty­three.This definitely affects our ability toattract and retain the best faculty."

CLASSSTRUGGLES

WHEN DO CUTS AFFECT QUALITY?

EVEN AT GOLDWIN SMITH

Hall, where the ivy growsthickest at the heart of theArts college, there are chang­

es afoot. Dramatic changes, if you askGavriel Shapiro, chairman of the De­partment of Russian Literature, whooccupies an office on the same floorwhere his idol, Vladimir Nabokov,

dreamed up a girl named Lolita.In mid-February, Shapiro met with

Phil Lewis, the dean of the College ofArts and Sciences, who told him that histwo graduate fellowships for incomingstudents were being canceled. Citing thebudgetary shortfall and declining enroll­ments in the department, Lewis suggest­ed that three of its five faculty n'lembersshould retire, and that the remaining two,including Shapiro, be reassigned to theDepartment of Comparative Literature."The Russian literature department willbe eliminated if they are allowed to carryout their plans," say Shapiro." It's veryshortsighted. Russia has one of the rich­est cultures in European history. If we are

reduced to a program with only two fac­ulty, we will dwindle to nothing. Cuttingour literature department because of de­clining enrollments is treating Cornelllike some third-rate factory."

The debate that erupted in the Artscollege over the following weeks, andwhich continues today, offers a glimpseinto the practical difficulties of makingchoices about academic priorities.Shapiro, fearing that his department wasdoomed, sent a panicked e-mail to col­leagues around the country and de­nounced Cornell's administration formaking decisions without consulting

the faculty. He struck a nerve.Within days, Lewis was inundated

with letters and e-mail protesting a deci­sion that he denies he ever made.The let­ter from Dmitri Nabokov is just the latestsymptom of what Lewis says is a misun­derstanding. "We're not abolishing any­thing," says Lewis, who is no stranger tofaculty concerns, having taught Frenchliterature for twenty-one years beforebeing named associate dean in 1989."Wesimply made a proposal that they consid­er a merger. We will continue teachingRussian literature."

But a fire had been lit under the fac­ulty. An ad hoc committee of twelve aca­demics arrived at the next Arts faculty

MAY IJUNE 1997 25

there is a department or not.ButWalter Cohen, dean of the Grad-

uate there are hidden coststo small departnlents-particu-

the effect on faculty morale. "Youcan't run a top research university effec­

by running roughshod over thehe says. "Perhaps in sonle future

era you will be able to do it, and reducethenl to cringing but notnow. Your main resource is your faculty's

We have only one product,and it is produced by the faculty."

It-h''11rrh Lewis pledges to the

extra nlile" to involve faculty in any reor­~a.l,LlL,c:1l-J.'JJ.J.. sonle academics feel

been cut out of the loop.is run in a pretty secretive

says Rabkin '74, a professorin the governnIent departnlent. "This isall done behind closed doors, and wehear about it afterwards. I understandthat has got to happen, but itbothers nle that it's being done in an al-nlost V\JJlLJ",,·LLUI..-\J.1,LUL

Some also fear that decisionsare not nlade for good academicreasons, but rather because they presentthe of least resistance. "I think

on the people theythink will cause thenl the least grief,"says Peter Kunihohn, a professor of ar­rh,,",,,,,,,''''.,,,,,,r "The people at the Inercy of

the deans are in the humanities and so­cial sciences, and runningscared." For Kuniholm, Cornell's aca­delnic power structure wassunl1ned up in an offhand conl1nent byone of the leading scientists."If tried to cut nlY department,"the scientist "I'd pick up and Inovethe whole thing to Princeton."

Lewis occupies the difficult positionof a lnan in the nliddle-between theadnlinistration, which is calling for re-

and the which isdefensive of any encroachment

on its acadelnic turf. Hard choices willhave to be he says, because theArts can no longer afford soInany autonomous departlnents."It is clear we will have to do SOlne fair­ly 'downsizing,' to use thatinfelicitous ternl," Lewis says. "You haveto be deluded not to acceptthe when you look at the budget

"Hard choices" has been the orderof the at the College of Engineer-

The bottonl to lin-Professor Browne, is

that a good needs a Depart-ment of Russian Literature. "Thereought to be a group of oncanIpus who can tell you about War andPeace and Pushkin, he On theother hand, counters governnlent Pro­fessor Isaac "Ezra Cornellnever said he would found an institu­tion where any student could find in-struction in any in its OUJ11 sepa-rate " As classes arestill being taught in Russian -t.-t.,"'Ov"-L",""""'-'.

he argues, it doesn't matter if

State appropriationsfor statutory college

operations

Tuition and median family income

60% ...-- ----,

40%

30%'70-71 '75-76 '80-81 '85-86 '90-91 '95-96

50%

200%

percentof total

petition demand­ing that "no progranls or depart­ments ... be abolished, or al-tered" unless the had a chance tovote on the Most of the ,"'1("'"111'_

ries were nIenIbers of snIall progranls ordepartments, like Ronlance stud-

and Asian who feel threat-ened the fiscal climate on calnpus.Danuta Shanzer, director of the Inedievalstudies that theRussian literature thestart of a slow slide into YY>c,rh,,,r1', .. hr

Shanzer:"A lot of us are very concernedabout Cornell's as a 1lr\'HTPrc1t,:T

26 CORNELL

RAWLINGS WITH RANDEL,WHOSE TENURE VETO "CAUGHT EVERYONE'S ATTENTION"

ing, where DeanJohn Hopcroft has re­duced the number of faculty by morethan 10 percent, from 230 to 205. "Wetook our cuts three years ago," Hopcroftsays. "I didn't want to hang on when itwas obvious that sooner or later wewould have to make the decisions."Those decisions included closing nu­clear engineering, a small departmentwith five faculty members. "We realizedwe would never be world-class in thatarea, so we decided it would be betterto put these resources into strengthen­ing the other departments," he says.Thecollege has decided to concentrate onthree areas: information technology,advanced materials, and biotechnology."We made a conscious decision to gofor a smaller faculty and go for excel­lence. Of course, we will put some re­sources into other areas, but this is whatwe feel is going to be most important inthe future."

Identifying academic priorities wasjust Hopcroft's first step in streamliningthe college. "I've also let the depart­ments decide how best to allocate theirresources," he says. "Decentralization iswhere our strength comes from. Ourdepartment chairs are very bright. Giv­en the chance, they will optimize thesystem. And faculty, left on their own,will do what's right."

LOUD & CLEAR

NEW SIGNALS FROM DAY HALL

BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S

desk on the third floor ofDay Hall, large windowslook out on the shell ofSage

Hall, in the midst of a total renovation.From the first time Rawlings took in theview from his new office, he was seeing alandscape that was overdue for change.His predecessor, Frank Rhodes, had beenin office for eighteen years, one of thelongest runs in Cornell history. But to­ward the end of his tenure he'd spentmuch ofhis time off campus, personallyspearheading one of the most successfulfundraising campaigns higher educationhad ever seen. Rhodes brought in $1.5billion, nearly doubling the university'sendowment, and drawing thousands ofnew alumni into the giving networks.This outward-looking focus, however,had a downside: it deflected attentionfrom the university's internal difficultiesat a time when the public and privatecolleges were entering periods of re­trenchment.

Like Rhodes, Rawlings is a charis­matic figure. A lanky fifty-two-year-oldclassicist with a crest ofsilver hair, Rawl­ings arrived at Cornell inJuly 1995 with

a reputation for forcefulness, openness,and experience dealing with hard times.His last job was a seven-year stint as pres­ident of the University of Iowa, a land­grant institution with graduate schools ofbusiness, law, and medicine. During histenure, Rawlings managed to makefriends in the statehouse and steer theuniversity through a devastating farmcrisis that had reduced enrollments andcut state support.

The new president had risen rapidlythrough the academic ranks.Mter gradu­ating from Haverford College in 1966,he earned his PhD from Princeton in1970 and joined the classics faculty at theUniversity of Colorado. An authorityon the Greek historian Thucydides,Rawlings became a full professor in 1980and later served as a vice president anddean of the graduate school. In 1988,eight years after he became active in aca­demic politics, Iowa tapped him for itspresidency. "I still find it surprising thatI've ended up a president," he says, re­flecting on the fact that his father nevercompleted college. "When I began mygraduate studies, I almost felt like I wasundertaking a vow ofpoverty. But eachtime I took on some new responsibilityas a faculty member, I learned more andwanted to broaden my knowledge fur­ther-one thing led to another without aplan. Some people know exactly wherethey are going, but that was never thecase with me."

Rawlings, in making the move fronlIowa to Ithaca, was taking on a wholenew level of institutional challenges.Cornell is infamous as a decentralizedbehemoth, a sprawling combination ofpublic and private colleges with a partic­ularly strong history of academic inde­pendence. On the Hill, as in so manygroves ofacademe, the faculty often per­ceive the central administration as eithera joke or a threat. "Centralization is ascare word in academia," says LawrenceWilliams, a professor in the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations. "I'm oldenough to remember Hans Bethe stand­ing up in a faculty meeting in the Sixtiesor early Seventies, shaking his fist, andsaying in his thick accent, 'I will not bemanaged.'"

Several months into Rawlings'spresidency, the faculty was jolted by arumor around campus. The provost, itwas said, had turned back a request for

MAY IJUNE 1997 27

ONTHE UPPER CAMPUS.THE HITS HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY HARD

tenure that had been approved by thefaculty. In fact, Don Randel had turnedback two requests, and outright rejecteda third. "It was definitely seen as an at­tack," says Williams. It was the first timein nearly a decade that a tenure decisionhad been stopped by Day Hall, and thefirst time in living memory that it wasdone semi-publicly.

There were several reasons the rej ec­tion was done "loudly," according toEhrenberg. Day Hall wanted to counterwhat it considered a decline in tenurestandards. "The percentage of assistantprofessors getting tenure had risen fromhalf to around two-thirds over the pre­ceding five to ten years," he says, addingthat faculty are remaining longer since a1984 anti-discrimination law bannedage-mandatory retirement.

"Hunter made no bones about it thatwe will have the highest standards," says

Daryl Lund, dean ofthe College ofAgri­culture and Life Sciences. "When theprovost turned back the request for ten­ure, the message was clear: 'Your stan­dards aren't high enough,' he was saying.It certainly caught everyone's attention."

But the most important factor, Ehren­berg says, is that tight budgets had greatlyreduced the number of new faculty."There have been tremendous cuts in thestatutory and private colleges," Ehrenbergsays. "Less hiring is going on overall.

28 COR ELL MAGAZI E

Therefore each appointment is more im­portant and a longer time commitment."By denying the request for tenure, he says,"we intended to make an announcementthat we will be looking at these thingsmore carefully from now on."

ALTEREDSTATE

ALBANY'S CUTS JUST KEEP COMING

PROFESSOR LAWRENCE WIL­

liams is sixty-seven years oldand he just learned how totype. He had no choice. His

department has lost three ofits five secre­taries, a consequence of the state budgetcuts that have struck the statutory colleg­es over the past eight years. Williams,

director ofgraduate studies for the ILRschool, occupies a corner office in IvesHall, where he keeps a maxim tacked upbehind his desk: When sheer stupidity is areasonable explanation) do not seek additionalcauses. Morale is down around campus, hesays. "You can see it in the faces of thepeople you pass in the hallways. It's beenvery difficult watching staffdisappear."

They've disappeared by the hundreds.Cornell's statutory colleges have under­gone eighteen unilateral budget cuts

since 1988, as Governor George Patakiand his predecessor have steadily whit­tled away public funds for higher educa­tion. In real dollars, the cuts have costCornell $24.3 million this year alone­20 percent of its state appropriation of$120.4 million for 1996-97.

The effect has been significant.Thestatutory colleges were forced to cut 103faculty positions, a 15 percent reductionover the past eight years. Over the sameperiod, 203 clerical workers and supportstaffwere eliminated, a cut ofnearly 20percent. "This has had an impact on aca­demic programs," says Nathan Fawcett,director ofstatutory affairs. "We have cutback on the number ofspecialized cours­es, and class sections are larger. But wecan only do this for so long; then you runinto problems of quality, which we aretrying to avoid."

Each time Albany cuts the budgetfor higher education the statutory col­leges must scramble to cut expenses.Currently, the state contributes 34.4percent of the statutory colleges' totalbudget of$350 million, a steep declinefrom the 44 percent it provided in1988-89. The reductions are being feltsharply on the upper campus. "Moreand more students are well into theirjunior year before they get into a classwhere they get to know their profes­sors," says Williams. "Class sizes have in­creased because we have not reducedthe number of students. That changesthe character of the place. Most of uscompare ourselves to our past, and thatis a painful comparison for us to make."

The College ofAgriculture and LifeSciences, the largest of the four statutorycolleges, has been particularly hard hit.Some of its strongest programs wereweakened in the first years of the reduc­tions, says Dean Daryl Lund, because"losses were absorbed haphazardly." Lundtook charge of the college in August1995, seven weeks after Rawlings movedinto Day Hall. The situation, he recalls,was "more severe than I had expected."

"The reductions were not pro­grammatically justified," Lund says.Although one department, poultryscience, was closed in 1991, clear prior­ities were not established. Departmentswith older faculty fared the worst. "Itwas just happenstance that certain peo­ple reached an age and retired," he says."They didn't correspond to areas that

WITHOUT TENURE OR CONTRACTS, MID-LEVEL STAFFERS ARE MOST VULNERABLE

we would want to downsize."Lund is an experienced hand at

downsizing. For five years he was dean ofthe Cook College of Agriculture atRutgers University, a land-grant collegewith a history similar to Cornell's Agschool.The college was downsized by 35percent during his tenure. "The best yearI had," he notes with a certain ironicpride, "was a flat budget." At Cornell,Lund centralized control of faculty linesat the college level and began rebuildingprograms. But resources are scarce, andfaculty hiring remains severely limited.Only twelve new faculty were broughtin by all four of the statutory colleges in1996-97, less than a quarter of the fifty­eight faculty members hired in 1988-89,the year the reductions began.

"We have had to make very hardchoices to correct the imbalances thatoccurred," says Lund. "We are asking thefaculty to characterize what they do andhow well they do it, using concrete mea­sures of productivity and demand. We arenot going to make the kinds of savingsthat we need by simply restructuring theorganization.We are making some hardchoices about what businesses we willbe in as we continue to downsize."

JOB SECURITY

AT WATERCOOLERS,

AN ANXIOUS MOOD

HILE TENURED FACUL­

ty may fear for their de­partments, their jobs areprotected. Similarly, em­

ployees at the opposite end of the univer­sity's economic scale, like dining hallworkers and custodians-although theyhave been contemplating a strike overwhat they call 'poverty-level' wages­are protected by union contracts.

It's the employees in the middle, thesecretaries, clerks, and computer techni­cians, who are most vulnerable. PresidentRawlings, unlike a corporate CEO, can'tdirectly order cuts in academic opera­tions. He doesn't have the authority totell the deans how to spend their money;he can only make strong suggestions. Hedoes, however, have the authority to cutback on administrative and technicalstaff. Sheltered by neither tenure nor

contracts, they are the first to go-andthey know it.

While professors might complainthe loudest, Cornell's 5,700 clerical,technical, and administrative workersplay an equally important role in settingthe mood on campus. Lately, that moodhas been anxious, and last year's layoffs atthe development office were a hot topicaround watercoolers and photocopymachines. In early 1996, developmenthad a party to celebrate the conclusionofthe $1.5 billion capital campaign. Butkudos and commemorative pens werefollowed by a universal pink slip. Devel­opment gave notice to its entire staff,then reorganized and told employeesthey could reapply for their old jobs-ifthey still existed. "We figured we wereall fired," says one longtime employee."It didn't seem like a very nice thing todo to us." About 85 percent were even-

tually re~ired, but the way it was han­dled continues to weigh on some re­maining staff. "I think a lot of people arelooking to move on," the employeeadds. "People are still resentful."

The fire-rehire approach isn't likelyto be used again on campus, says ProvostRandel. "When the development de­partment was scaled up seven years ago, itwas planned that the extra staff would bereleased when the capital campaign wasover," he says. "But the way it was carried

out, unfortunately, created bad feelings.A lot of people were made nervous whoneedn't have been."

While development was being cutback, Cornell InformationTechnologiesalso reduced its workforce.According toCIT Administrator Judy Hart '73, fifteenemployees were laid off in a reorganiza­tion in which departments were stream­lined. But anxiety was heightenedaround campus by reports that someworkers were fired at noon on Fridayand escorted to the door with their com­puter passwords changed. "They calledme in, they told me I was through, andtwenty minutes later I was out," says oneformer analyst-programmer. "I workedthere thirty-one years. It wasn't whatyou'd call a class act."

While Hart says the short notice wasnecessary because of the workers' high­level access to the university computer

system, she acknowledges its unsettlingeffect on employee morale. "Some peo­ple might take exception with the deci­sion we made, but you have to thinkabout how much risk you're willing totake," Hart says. "We did it as thoughtful­ly, carefully, and respectfully as we could."

Many campus workers fear that thelayoffs are just beginning, and theirconcerns are not entirely unjustified.According to Ron Ehrenberg, the ad­ministration is looking at all non-aca-

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HKNITTING TOGETHER" THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

demic expenses, and asking if they'reworth the money. "The Cornell Uni­versity Press is a good example," he says."The provost is a firm believer in theimportance of it. But it loses money ev­ery year,just like every other academicpress.We have to ask, does it warrant thesize of the subsidy we are giving it? If itneeds an extra 60,000, do we give it tothe press, or do we use that money tohire a new linguist or a new professor instatistics? It's really a question of theuniversity's overall priorities."

In March 1996, amid much fanfare,the university announced a comprehen­sive overhaul of its computerand administrative systems de­signed to save 20 million a yearby 2001.The 50 million initia­tive, called Project 2000, willrewire the campus with the aimof cutting paperwork at an insti­tution known for its glacialbureaucracy. "Truth be told,there are a lot of people in theadministrative sector doing fairlytedious, repetitive tasks," saysRogers. "It's not clear that wecan pay people to do the samething more than once."

While Project 2000 may beneeded to bring Cornell fullyinto the information age, someemployees see it as a way to sug­arcoat a bitter pill. Al Davidoff'80, the former head of Cornell'sservice and maintenance unionwho now serves as NewYork state direc­tor for theAFL-CIO, says it's just a fancyname for business as usual. "It's all veryDilbertesque," Davidoff says, "to comeup with these springs and hooks forwhat's fundamental corporate behaviorthat's been going on forever."

From his perspective, the adminis­tration's attempt to draw employeesinto the process through informationalmeetings is just a ploy to beg sympathyfrom the people whose lives are goingto be most severely affected. "When it'stime for belt-tightening, it's muchmore difficult for a secretary making

20,000 or a food service worker mak­ing $14,000," Davidoff says. "For them,there's not a lot of belt left to be tight­ened. When they look up at the ivorytower and see administrators making$200,000 a year, they don't have a lotof sympathy."

COMMONGOALS

LOOKINGTOTHE NEXT CENTURY

CORNELL'S DILEMMAS ARE

not unique. Universitiesaround the country arestruggling with reduced

government funding, and other Ivies,like Yale, Brown, and Penn, are alsobeing downsized. Yale, in a "restructur­ing exercise" that began in 1992, closed

its Department of Operations Re­search and reduced its arts and.sciencesfaculty by 7 percent. The result, saysDeputy Provost Charles Long, is thatafter five years of deficits,Yale expectsto balance its budget by next year.

As Cornell deals with its immediateproblems, it's also looking ahead to thelong term.The university is about to un­dertake the first-ever comprehensive re­view of its academic programs, a processthat will take place over the next sevenyears. "We will look at every department,every center and graduate field," saysPeter Stein, dean of the faculty and chair­man of the committee overseeing thereview. "There are about 100 academicprograms at Cornell.Two-thirds of theseprograms are reviewed on a regular basis,but the remaining third have never beenreviewed before."

The process will begin with each

department reviewing itself before out­side experts examine those reports andmake suggestions. In the final stage ofthe process, academic programs will begrouped according to subject. The re­view of the physical sciences, for exam­ple, will explore possible relationshipsamong departments in different colleg­es, ranging from materials science tochemical engineering and astronomy."The university's weaknesses are theother side of its strengths," says Rawl­ings. "We have a great many programsthat cross a broad spectrum of fields anddisciplines.The great variety is wonder­

ful, but the other side is a cer­tain amount of overlap-and acertain diffusion of strength."

The first tangible result ofthis consolidation is a new"virtual department" of statis­tics, based in the College of Ag­riculture and Life Sciences. Setto open on July 1, it was formedby combining four smallergroups of statisticians from de­partments around the university."The real benefits will accrueto students," says Ehrenberg,who led negotiations to unitethe departments. "Having a sin­gle department means that allthe courses will be listed in oneplace, and they'll be inter­changeable in terms of meetingcollege requirements."

By concentrating on itsstrengths, Rawlings says, the universitywill do more than survive in difficultfinancial times-it will thrive. Andwhile some on the Hill say the restruc­turing process is at odds with thefounder's motto, others say that Ezrahimself-a man with an inventive spir­it and a flinty eye on the next centu­ry-would be the first to roll up hissleeves and get the job done. "Knittingtogether the university is a good meta­phor," says Rawlings. "We are lookingfor greater coordination and a greatersense that we are an academic commu­nity all involved in a common enter­prise. We want to build an awarenessthat the whole is greater than the sumof the parts."

MICAH FINK '90 is afrequent contributor toCornell Magazine. BETH SAULNIER is themagazine~ associate editor.

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with and top it with dose of LSD.Let it of and then uncover it.What's left the of 5-8-77.

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in 1973. Over the years, they played with musicians as dispa­rate as Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, and the BluesBrothers. In all, they performed about a hundred shows a yearfor nearly thirty years.

Most of the shows were quickly forgotten, but not May 8,1977. There are Deadheads out there who think Ezra Cornellis a breakfast cereal and Libe Slope is a rapper. But they thinkBarton Hall is magic.

OBSESSION CAN BE A SLIPPERY SLOPE. THAT CRAZY UNCLE

who goes to Green Bay Packers games with a block of cheeseon his head has made that abundantly clear. But Deadheadshave a lot in common with other subcultures blurring theline between fan and fanatic-Packerbackers, Airstreamers,Trekkies, Dungeons and Dragons players, Tupperwarepartygoers, Harley owners, that friend who saw Star Wars sixtytimes and has all the action figures. In fact, some ofthe subcultures even overlap. Consider the fol­lowing offering from one of thousands ofDeadhead websites on the Internet:

Kirk: "Mr. Spock, I notice that youhave applied for shore leave on Terrain a few weeks."

Spock: "Affirmative, Captain.There are certain human activities Iwish to observe."

Kirk: "What?"Spock: "I believe the traditional

procedure is to don brightly colored garb,ingest various psychoactive substances andthen move rhythmically to the frequency andamplitude modulated acoustic vibrationscreated by at least six well-known musi­cal personages ..."

Didn't know your favorite Vulcanwas a Deadhead? They're every­where. The Dead may be an ac­quired taste, but they have acquired amassive following. There are Dead­head doctors, Deadhead accountants,Deadheads who drive BMWs, Dead­heads who wouldn't know Maryjanefrom Mary Hartman. Chicago Bullscoach Phil Jackson is a Deadhead. The gov­ernor of Massachusetts is a Deadhead. TipperGore is a Deadhead.

The headiest of Deadheads are quite scholarly, thoughthey may have too much time on their hands. They have timeto submit historical analyses of the word Deadhead-datingback to at least the sixteenth century, it was originally an al­chemy term for a worthless substance-and to offer detailedexplanations of the hidden meanings in Dead lyrics. They alsoapparently have time to produce a manual, called Deadbase,which provides extensive set lists, statistics, and reviews of ev­ery recorded concert the Dead has ever played.

And therein lies the key to the Barton Hall legend.Youknow you're a Deadhead, according to a widely-circulated bitof Deadhumor, when you spend more money on blank tapesthan you do on rent. Live shows may have brought fame and

fortune to the Grateful Dead, but recorded shows are theband's gateway to immortality. The Dead were the first bandto allow their fans to tape concerts and, beginning in 1984,the first to actually endorse it, roping off a special section fortapers just behind the soundboard.

With as many as 100 titles at their fingertips, the bandnever played the same songs in the same order, and neverplayed them the same way. "The shows are never the same,ever," Garcia once said. "And when we're done with it, theycan have it."

Once a concert was recorded, it entered the collaborative,harmonious world of tape traders. Originals spawned copies,and copies of copies. There's another giveaway that you're aDeadhead: none of your tapes has a name on it, just a date.That show at the Carousel Ballroom on Valentine's Day?That's 2-14-68. That monster New Year's Eve concert at

Winterland? That's 12-31-78. The Madison SquareGarden performance where they played "Dark

Star"? 9-20-90.With the ability to pick and choose

recorded Dead performances comes theinclination to evaluate them. Deadbaseasked its thousands of readers to dojust that and then compiled a Top Tenlist from the responses. There, at thetop of the list, just ahead of 2-13-70 at

Fillmore East and 8-27-72 in Veneta, Or­egon, is 5-8-77 at Barton Hall.Adam Riback, a twenty-eight-year-old

personal injury lawyer and practicing Deadheadin Chicago, is as familiar with the band as he

is with the law. "You'll always hear peoplesaying, 'Man, if I was there ... " " he saysof the Barton sho~"Everybody wants toclimb into a time machine and go backto Ithaca in 1977 on Mother's Day."

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carterhad just finished the first hundreddays of his presidency. Annie Hall had

just won the Oscar. Cincinnati's BigRed Machine had taken two straight

World Series. Everybody was talkingabout Darth Vader, Seattle Slew, Kunta

Kinte, Debby Boone, the Fonz. Everybodylooked like Dorothy Hamill or Doctor J.

On the first day of the second week of May, GeorgeWallace was in the news, officially declaring his candidacy forthe u.S. Senate. One of the nation's largest birth-control de­vice manufacturers had announced a recall of 86,000 dia­phragms (possible holes in them, they said). And the U. S.Navy announced it was leaning toward returning to the sail­or's traditional uniform of"bell-bottom trousers,jumpers, andlittle white hats."

The Ithaca area was teeming with possibilities that week­end. There was the Ringling Brothers circus in Binghamton.There was a piano recital at Barnes Hall. For a real walk onthe wild side, there was the Wool Day event hosted by theBlack Sheep Handspinners Guild at Stewart Park. Or onecould simply combine it all-the circus, the music, possibly a

MAY/JUNE 1997 35

I mean, when I think about my favorite major league baseball(l"rllt'T"lp'__'lrl£l I've been to hundreds-I think back to the firsttime that I walked into the Polo Grounds," he says."It was quitean event, but I had no way to realize that, twenty years later, itwas to be one ofthe most talked-about concerts that the

Dead have ever done."Nice, but not quite the breathless en­

dorsement befitting a legend. Perhaps thefreshman collected more vivid memo­ries. LauranJacoby '80 was attending herfirst Grateful Dead show that night in1977 during her first spring on the Hill.Like Briggs, she would experience sever­al dozen lllore Dead concerts over thenext decade. But again, like Briggs, itwasn't so much the show that capturedher imagination as the setting.

"For me, it was more of an excitingevent because a lot ofmy friends came toIthaca to attend this thing. There was abig festival atmosphere. It was like ourhome court," saysJacoby, now a labor re­lations specialist in human resources atCornell. "I have since listened to the tapeof that Cornell show and realized, afterbecoming familiar with the band, whata great show it was. But I couldn't ap­preciate it at the time."

Strike two. Maybe it's because theywere Grateful Dead rookies back then;perhaps they hadn't yet honed theirmusic appreciation skills.Time to turnto the senior, a Dead veteran even be­fore the band came to Ithaca, a womanso inspired by them that she eventuallycarved out a career in the music industry.

Jayne Lipman '78 wrote the concertof 5-8-77 for the Cornell Daily

Sun, the first lines ofwhich read,"I have aconfession to make. I am an extremeGrateful Dead loyalist, I have traveled tnanyhours, lllany times to see them perform,and will continue to do so as long as theydo." Surely Lipman will reveal what it waslike to be there the night planets aligned inBarton Hall, the night a swea~ old gym inupstate NewYork became the setting forlllusical history:

"Hmmm, let me think ... that was along time ago," she says. "All I can re­member is that it snowed ..."

The magic, then, lllust be in the record­ing, not the recall. After all, it's not theconcert itself that has earned royal statusin the Deadhead kingdolll, it's the tape

of the concert. Besides, Barton is no Carnegie Hall. Great forstoring airplanes, maybe, but not for acoustics.The best soundthat night went not to the ears of the 9,000 fans crowdedinto the building but to the soundboard, and thus to the tapes.because it was 111y first Dead show.was"In my

sheep or two-and attend a Grateful Dead concert.it wasn't uncomlll0n for a rock 'n'

naut to visit Cornell in the mid-Seventies. Bruce ...... ~'1'"'1n'rrC'1t-""O,Y\did. So did Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Billy Joel, ArethaFranklin, the Beach Boys, and the Doobie Brothers. But a Deadshow-once described asSixties road show of gypsy hippies"­was a different anilllal altogether. It was ascene, in the lllost wondrous, confound-

and otherworldly sense ofthe word.The lllind's eye pictures a parking lot

resembling aVW bus convention and animprovised tent city serving as a virtualhead shop outlet.There are skeleton decalsand wizard candles for dancing-bearT-shirts and woven bracelets, rolling papersand burgers. There is a bug-eyedvendor in a buckskin coat selling dog-earedpaperbacks. Next to him is a sleepy couplesitting behind a hibachi, offering bratwurstand acid.While a ofsorority sisters instore-bought exallline bumperstickers on DRINK ANDSEEJERRY-a old hippie in a star-spangled top hat twirls feverishly to thetunes in his head. The sweet, druggy airblurs it all into an incongruous collectionofcolors and sounds-bings and bangs andespecially bongs-suggesting that perhaps,amid the accoutrenlents ofthe scene, themusic almost an afterthought.

On the 49th of spring inIl"'VV~·V,"Jl_ it was snowing. Pouring rainhad turned to rainbecallle flurries. Two inches of snowwould fall through the night,just short ofthe local record for May. The wintryweather llleant no tent city, no vendors,no outdoor sensory explosion. It meantthe music in the concert hall was every­thing, which is what the legend is aboutin the first

If the legend is to be thepeople who were there-the Cornell­ians who served as a backdrop to Grate­ful Dead history-should remember itlike it was .,;y""('t-",,,..r1,,-.y

the alumnus. An in-housefor the National Football

League who teaches a sports law classat the Cornell Law School each spring,Buck Briggs '76 drove in from Wash­ington, D. C., to catch the show his firstyear out He would becomea certifiable Deadhead as a result, hit­ting one or two concerts a year for the next eighteen yearsand even purchasing a three-CD European-made bootleg ofthe 5-8-77 show.

36 CORNELL

sampled what the fuss is all about, we can wonder ifthe last line of"Morning Dew" is to tell us something.

it doesn't matter anyway. So a very good band puton a great show at a old armory. So what?

We can wonder, too: Does fate have a sense ofhumor? Aband in the Lakes.Anti-establishment icons in

the buttoned-down shock of snow in May. Aconceived as a tribute to

mothers.And Barton Hall, science building, all disci-pn~CHaOln--ttJle antithesis ofa Grateful Dead show.

it was, in a happy coincidence of time andv,l,(A, ....... ...., •.L ,I,,I,'J"""SOO.,I,,I, they were San Dead had

developed a audiences, es-crowds. And though it was the

ofthe disco era, consideredto be among the Dead's two or three bestyears. The East Coast tour ofApril-May1977 is especially storied-in particular, theweekend the band sand­wiched the Barton Hall concert betweenshows in Boston and Buffalo. So here

were, at arena in the playingsome oftheir best and playing them well,

the peak weekend ofthe tour of the year of their nearly three

decades ..."rr.a.........::.....

And Cornell may have had J'-'~.L~,""...~~~~.L~

to do with it."The Dead played offthe energy of the crowd. When theywere at their they were tocreate some sort ofmagic. And it was atwo-way transaction for the band,says Andy Denemark '78, then theDeadhead program director ofWVBR and now the Deadhead

program director of United StationsNetworks in New York. "The

Cornell crowd was probably in a frame ofmind that was very for the band to

playoffof, and it affected their performance."So it's all academic-the ofthe sub-

culture, the history ofthe band, the of thethe ofthe concert-and that matters.

the words ofthe first song in the famed second set thatwere

doesn't matter that last bitonds. At this Cornell it was as thoughcouldn't stop, and it went on for minutes. It was stunning, a

np1~+r.'t"rYl·'"Inf'p rr.rl1,~'"III~T different from any other they

and

DeadDead Dennis "/lr'I'I'lll'l:T

classic song to end a Dead concertpv-r'1"'1r11rt' In Deadhead

it at the end ofa show.At the endthe song, there's passage where extreme tension is released

strulllS final tonic chord and '1 guess it

ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE CONSIDERED A-LIST f)EAD SONGS,

but it's the band's final entry the encore, "One Morethat is, to "a relll.Q:H)US

n.pr1p.,nr.p__rprl"'"I11',I'l:T one of the finest moments in Grateful

... .L.Lv .................... , a friend ofa friend pulls the tape of the concert'sfirst set from his cluttered retrieves the second setfrom his car, and says, take it," that much ofthe of 5-8-77 derives from its '"IrE'p",('l h1I1t''l:T

Barton show ... 1r.'"I"'1y\rt'

bulk section of Holy Grails atmanyit is inSam's Club.

Twelve songs and some minutes after theinto the as the band the first halfofthe

concert with an extended cover of"Dancin' in the " thereview in Deadbase appears on song is sol-

that are "Butthe second

SU1JP()Sea to be the main course.It with a request the band

for the crowd to move back. "Take astep says rhythm guitarist andvocalist BobWeir. "Now take anotherstep back." Drum "rim shots" ring outwith each request, Garcia ..................v.'-J'.L....L Y

eX~Lggeratln:g,"All thesehr.1rr1lf-o\hT smashed

here. standard and yet Dead-calls it, without a trace

the finest 'Take A Back'" the review "the Dead

get down to business. The rest of theis a lesson in Grateful Dead mu-

sical freedonl. for theband would merge two songs seam-

with one which itdoes with the first two of the set,"Scarlet and "Fire on theMountain," the latter three-and-a-halfminutes in its studioversion but fifteen at Barton Hall. Oc­caSlOllalJly too, if the mood struckthe Dead would merge one song into anoth-er and then go back to the as do with"St. into Buddy Holly's "Not Fadethen back

But where to find a copy of5-8-77? Onecret hidden behind an r.'l:T.pr.)'rr'\,~xTt'h

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astronomers gazed at a speck in the southern sky. It must be

Fomalhaut, they thought, the star that makes up the mouth of the

constellation Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish. "No," said a third

voice."It's Canopis." And with a pajama-clad arm pointed at the brightest star in

the Ship's Keel, two-year-old Pia Salter-Ghosh toddled off to bed. Her babysitters

both have PhDs in astronomy. But they were still pretty impressed.

get it done very quickly."Times have changed-and costs have

skyrocketed.The recent replacement ofone ofthe platform suspension wires, forexample, cost $800,000. IfArecibo weredestroyed tomorrow, it would cost morethan $100 million to replace."TheAreciboventure," says transmitter engineer RobertZimmerman,"was a bargain ofthe SpaceAge." With a 10 million annual budget,

Arecibo1 open

to SCI­

entistsaround the world, who apply for telescopetime through a rigorous peer-review pro­cess.The facility, funded by NASA and theNSF; employs 140 people.And all ofthem,from the resident astronomers to the elec­tronics technicians to the guards at thegate, are Cornell employee ."They don'thave to pay parking fees," Goldsmith says."That's just about the only difference."

From the air, the telescope looks like asolid bowl sitting directly on the ground.It's not.The dish is actually suspended twostories in the air by pillars underneath, andits eighteen-acre surface is a huge, surpris­ingly fragile screen. During the firstArecibo upgrade in 1975, the originalwire mesh, whose half-inch holes were in­terfering with the telescope's resolution,were replaced by nearly 40,000 panelsmade ofperforated aluminum. Since thetelescope has to be precisely located andbalanced, erosion would be a disaster, sothe dish was designed to allow enoughsunlight through to support vegetation.The shade and humidity added up to anenormous fairy-tale fern garden dottedwith wild orchids and begonias; all that'smissing is the gnomes. "The terrainaround here is as wild as anything you seein the world," says Zimmerman, an avidham radio buff whom everybody callsZimmo."It has to be seen to be compre­hended. I'm from Illinois, where things areflat. Ifyou stand on the hood of the car,

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you can see Chicago. But when you lookat the telescope, you can't even see thewhole thing at one time. Photos neverreally reflect the grandeur."

IfArecibo looks like something out ofa movie, that's probably because it is.Thelatest James Bond film, GoldenEye) wasshot here, with the telescope passing as thesecret headquarters for a high-tech weap­on. (Hollywood took liberal dramaticlicense: in real life, the dish is neitherhidden underwater nor powered by what

the astronomers deride as "a big bicyclechain.") In February, scenes were filmedhere for the upcoming film version ofCarlSagan's 1985 bestseller Contact, starringJodie Foster as an intrepid astronomer whodetects a message from outer space.

Chemists talk about running reactions.Physicists smash atoms. But the operativeverb in"observatory" i "observe."Astron­omers, in large part, till just watch.Andthey're a very patient breed."What actual­ly rotates the dish is the movement oftheearth,"Velez says. "It might be sometimesa couple ofyears before you can study aparticular object." That patience has beentried by the upgrading process, which wassupposed to be finished last year but haslingered on well into 1997. "It wa frus­trating for a while," says Altschuler, "be­cause it seemed progress was always slowerthan what we expected." Last year, theproject's Texas-based contractor sued theNAIC for an additional 7 million, claim­ing the upgrade wa a bigger job than itbargained for. Although the suit is stillpending, construction work continues.

So does research, at least on a limitedbasis.The telescope' original antenna-aninety-six-foot dino aur tail called the"line feed"-has been operationalthroughout mo t of the upgrade. Andeven when construction has hobbled thepositioning system, researchers have beenusing the dish through a scientific methodknown as "wherever the contractor left it."Says Goldsmith:"You can look at whatev-

er's going by-and that's a perfectly goodway to work.The blind search still has apretty big role in astronomy."

With Puerto Rico's flat-roofed archi­tecture and dominant Spanish, it can bejarring to remember that you're actually inthe United States. Similarly, it's rather sur­real to thin~ that the observatory, with itslush greenery and outdoor swimmingpool,is an outpost ofthe Cornell campus.To get from the scientific offices to thevisitors' quarters, you walk down a gravel

path beneath thick vines. In the depths ofFebruary, while most Cornellians areswaddled in wool and polar fleece, folks atArecibo are eating lunch outdoors. Still,there are some similarities. Both places geta lot ofrain-although inArecibo the sunactually comes out afterward-and hikingup Libe Slope is fine training for the ob­servatory's nearly vertical hills.

The night is alive here, and it's loud.The tree frogs are called COqUlS, for thesound they make-and they make it allnight long. It's a good thing that radio as­tronomy doesn't actually involve listeningto anything, or UFO hunters would bewriting about the invasion of theBudweiser mascots.And unlike the con­ventional peek-through-a-telescope ap­proach, radio astronomy doesn't involvelooking at anything either.Think back toPhysics 101.Visible light is only one kindofelectromagnetic radiation.There's alsoinfrared, ultraviolet, X-rays-and radiowaves. The same kind of energy thatbring you Garrison Keillor and HowardStern allows scientists to study galaxies far,faraway.

Radio astronomy was born in 1931,when Karl Jansky, a researcher for BellLabs, was trying to reduce interference intransatlantic phone calls, then transmittedby radio. After building an aerial the sizeand shape ofa merry-go-round, he dis­covered that the interference was comingnot from Earth but from the center ofourgalaxy; it was the radio waves naturally

emitted by astronomical objects. Scientistshad always studied the skies with opticaltelescopes, which pick up the same lightwaves as human eyes. Now, astronomerscould use radio waves as well. It was likethe addition ofa celestial sixth sense.

Jansky's serendipity led to an im­mensely powerful astronomical tool.Youcan only use an optical telescope on a clearnight. But radio astronomers can surveythe cosmos all day, every day-and searchmuch farther than their relatively myopic

astronomers can learn about the history ofthe universe, get glimpses back to the BigBang."Ifsomething is really far away fromyou, it's really far back in time," Xilouri says,"and it's close to the original explosion."

Xilouri, a native of Crete who livesforty-six seconds outside the observatorygate with her faithful German shepherd,has spent the past two years at Arecibostudying pulsars.The superdense neutronstars are so named because as they spin,they emit a radio signal whose pulse is so

JosephTaylor used the Arecibo telescopeto discover the first binary pulsar. Thework, which provided evidence to supportEinstein's theory of General Relativity,earned the pair the 1993 Nobel Prize inPhysics. Other notable Arecibo accom­plishments in radio astronomy include thediscovery, in 1992, of the first extra-solarplanetary system, orbiting a pulsar 1,400light years away. But though the observato­ry has had its share offirsts, its focus is theless glamorous bread and butter ofbasic re-

Far from a major city, Arecibo is an intense place that gets a lot of rain and is surrounded by near-vertical hills. Sound familiar?

cousins."With optical telescopes," says re­arch associate Kiriaki Xilouri, "you can

only see up to a certain distance, up to acertain age ofthe universe."

When astronomers talk about lookingback in time, they're not being metaphorical.Keep in mind that when you're looking at astar that's 100,000 light years away, you'rereally seeing light that left the star 100,000years ago. So by studying far-away galaxies,

regular it's even more accurate than anatomic clock. "Imagine something biggerthan the city of Ithaca, that rotates fasterthan your kitchen blender-much faster,"says Xilouri."The conditions there are ex­traordinary. No other physical laboratory,no matter how much money you spendon it, could replicate these conditions forscientists to study."

In 1974, physicists Russell Hulse and

search."Not all the research that people dohere leads to great discoverie ,"Altschulersays. "Most ofit isjust one tiny bit ofinfor­mation about one field."

Xilouri has been able to continue herpulsar studies during the upgrade using thetelescope's original line-feed antenna.Once the contractor is finished for the day,she leans over a cobalt-blue computerscreen with the heading "VERTEX

MAY I]UNE 1997 41

Hector Arce '95, a visiting astronomy student, on his way down from the platform via the catwalk, left.

ANTENNENTECHNIK"-a German firmdesigned the software-and notes wherethe antenna is pointed; in case she comesacross a pulsar, she has to know where tofind it again. "What's happening is the skyis drifting by, and we're just taking data,"she says. "I'm just letting the sky driftthrough my beam."

Once the upgrade is completed, radioastronomers will be able to study the uni­verse at a far wider range offrequencies,essentially being able to tune into manymore stations on the cosmic dial. "We'renot limited anymore," says research associ­ateJoAnn Eder."We can look at every fre­quency the receiver is able to get withequal sensitivity." The most dramaticchange to the Arecibo landscape was theinstallation of two subreflectors inside a100-foot-wide aerodynamic shield, calledthe Gregorian dome.The structure, whichresembles the golf-balI-shaped sphere atDisney's Epcot Center, both reduces inter­ference and protects the secondary andtertiary dishes from the brutal winds ofPuerto Rico's hurricane season.

Eder will use the upgraded equipmentto study "these li~tle itty bitty galaxies youcan barely even see," learning a galaxy'sweight, velocity, and size in a five-minute

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glimpse. Like Xilouri, she is taking a far­away peek at our own past."We're lookingat galaxies like ours, only a long time ago,"she says. "It's just like geologists looking atlayers of soil." Astronomy before radiotelescopes, she says,"was like an ant tryingto describe the world."

"In the past twenty years, science hasjust boomed, blossomed," Eder says, "be­cause we can study the same things, but inso many other ways." Eder first came toArecibo to attend its highly selective sum­mer student program, while she was earn­ing her astronomy PhD from Yale afterraising a family. "I was really starry-eyed,"she says ofcoming to the observatory. "Itwas the most exciting thing that ever hap­pened to me."

Radio astronomy is consummatelypassive; researchers just aim their telescopesat the sky Radar astronomy; by contrast, is akind ofcosmic yodeling in which scien­tists bounce radio waves offobjects in oursolar system and analyze the faint echoes.Using this technique,Arecibo astronomersstudied the moon's surface to help theApollo astronauts figure out where topark.They established the rotation rate ofMercury and helped confirm the presenceofice at the fiery planet's poles. Radio as-

tronomers have peered throughVenus'sdense cloud cover to study its peaks andvalleys, measured the moons ofJupiter,and toured the ancient lake basins ofMars.

The upgrade will not only doubleArecibo's radar power to one million watts,but make the equipment between threeand twenty times as sensitive, dependingon what you're using it for. The new"S-band" transmitter is scheduled to be upand running this summer, and astronomersare licking their chops."The radar gets thebiggest improvement," says senior researchassociateJohn Harmon."It was already themost powerful radar in the world. In termsofsensitivity, it will be an order ofmagni­tude stronger, and we'll be able to go abouttwice as far as we used to."

So what do astronomers expect tofind? What will they get for all the timeand money that went into the Arecibo up­grade? In fine astronomical tradition, theyhave no idea; the field has a long and glori­ous history of serendipitous discovery.There are a few obvious advantages,though. For instance, one ofArecibo 's no­table accomplishments has been the intri­cate mapping of asteroids.With the oldsystem, researchers only came across a newasteroid about once a year; with the im-

Platform construction, center, and "Darth Vader's helmet," right, the secondary dish inside the Gregorian dome.

proved radar, they might see one everyweek. But for the most part, predicting theconcrete benefits ofthe upgrade is a jobfor an astrologer, not an astronomer. "Thethings you can describe are things you al­ready know about," Goldsmith says."We've essentially extended our reach intothe universe, and when your view oftheuniverse expands, you almost always findnew things.The universe is stranger thanwe can imagine."

he aliens, ofcourse, have beenhere. The dish is a perfectlanding pad for their flyingsaucers-when it's not beingused as a beam-down point for

the chupacabras) the drooling vampires whoroam the night, sucking the blood out ofhapless goats and the occasional chicken.And by the way, the telescope is really a se­cret military installation where the gov­ernment... But ifwe told you that, we'dhave to kill you.

Such are the myths that crop up whenyou build something so enormous-sovisually stunning, so simple yet so hard toactually understand----smack in the Huddleofnowhere.Altschuler is occasionally but­tonholed by tabloid journalists and con-

spiracy buffs, essentially seeking confirma­tion that the observatory is, in fact, LukeSkywalker's cell phone. Denying it doeshim about as much good as waving a copyoftheWarren Report. "They say, 'I told youhe would say that,'" Altschuler sighs. "Youcan't win." And though the facility washanded over to the NSF back in 1969, itsearly connection to the defense depart­ment still dogs it; rumors persist that theobservatory is up to something much moresinister than watching the sky. "That's amisconception that we work very hard atdebunking,"Altschuler says, "because wedon't want to be seen as being involvedwith nlllitary work."

While Arecibo has yet to pick up sig­nals from other worlds, it does have an earto the skies as part ofthe Search for Extra­terrestrial Intelligence, or SETI.Althoughthe search for life on other planets is farfrom the telescope's main purpose, it's cer­tainly its most glamorous-after all, no oneis making movies about millisecond pul­sars-and when most people think ofArecibo, they think ofSETI.

SETI's modern age began in 1959,when Cornell physicists Giuseppe Cocconiand Philip Morrison published an article inNature about using nlicrowave radio for in-

terstellar communication.About seventysuch projects have been undertaken since,scanning the skies for such signs ofintelli­gent life as repeating signals or transmis­sions using a very narrow band width."The biggest misconception is that it'seasy," says senior research associate MichaelDavis."But we don't know the frequency,and we don't know where to look."

Contrary to rumor, Arecibo has sent amessage to the stars only once. In N ovem­ber 1974, a greeting including a simplepicture ofour solar system, the structure ofDNA, and the shape ofa human being wasbeamed toward a star cluster about 25,000light years away. "It was supposed to be amessage that any civilization with thetechnology to receive the radio transmis­sion could figure out," Goldsmith says."That message has been traveling along fortwenty-three years, and it's almost certainthat no one has picked it up yet."

In the effort to make the public under­stand what really goes on atArecibo-notto mention what does not go on here-theobservatory recently opened a $2.6 mil­lion education center. It was inauguratedat a gala ceremony in March, attended bylunlinaries like President Emeritus FrankRhodes and Charles Rodriguez '76,

MAY/JUNE 1997 43

majority leader of the Puerto Rican sen­ate. "By making people understand whatwe do atArecibo observatory, we're alsohelping ourselves,"Altschuler says."We'renot just aloof scientists. We owe it tothe public to tell the world what we reallydo." The new facility is expected to drawupwards of80,000 visitors a year. Andthough that might sound ambitious forsuch a remote locale, consider that 40,000

people~ year

we r eshow­

ing up when there was nothing to see butthe dish. "Before, they came in, theylooked, they watched a homemade tape,and they went home,"Altschuler says. "Itreally was a shame for a national researchfacility which had visitors from aroundthe world."

Now, astronomy buffs can roam 3,500square feet ofexhibition space in a sleek,modern building.Visitors are greeted bystatues ofJansky and atmospheric sciencefounder Sydney Chapman, who chat inEnglish or Spanish at the push ofa button."I like the idea that they're here, reincar­nated," says Altschuler, a Douglas Adamsfan who came up with the exhibit's name,"The Cafe at the End of the Universe."Behind the Jansky-Chapman kaffeklatchis a mock-up offamous scientists hangingout together in an imaginary bistro, whereMadame Curie is nursing a 7-Up, Galileoa Snapple, and Isaac Newton a Mott's ap­ple juice. (A beverage company was one ofthe center's major sponsors.)

In addition to a fantastic view of thedish, the center offers dozens ofinteractiveexhibits, from a cloud machine to a modelof the radio telescope platform you canmove with a joystick. It's all fairly prosaicstufffor audiences jaded on gee-whiz at­tractions like the Boston Museum ofSci­ence or San Francisco's Exploratorium.But this is Puerto Rico's first and only sci­ence center, slated to be a magnet for

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school field trips and teacher enrichmentcourses, and most ofthe neatly uniformedmasses who'll come here have never seenanything like it. "We're setting an exampleofwhat a national research center can andshould do in terms of educational out­reach,"Altschuler says."Ifwe touch one ina thousand kids, and they decide on a ca­reer in science, that's progress."

In fact, one ofAltschuler's proteges­Salgado, the University of Michigangraduate student-grew up in Sanjuan

and first saw Arecibo as a twelve-year-oldon a school trip. "I wa definitely im­pressed," he remember ."To learn that thisbig instrument was on your little islandwas really amazing." He's been an astrono­my fanatic since the third grade, when hegot his hands on a gas station giveawaybook on the lunar landing. In high school,Salgado worked in various mall stores­bookstore, surfshop-to earn the moneyfor a 900, 100-pound telescope, which hegotjust in time to watch Halley's Comet."Iwould take it up to the roo£,'he says,"and in­vite my neighbors and explain the skies."

Salgado started working atArecibo as astudent at the University ofPuerto Ricoat Rio Piedras, where Altschuler was hisadvisor. The courtly Salgado has comeback periodically ever since, finishing thedata-crunching he started as an under­graduate and doing some ofhis own re­search. "Although you're only a grad stu­dent working on your thesis, they treat youlike a researcher," he say ofthe 0 bservato­ry's resident scientists. "They show con­cern and interest in what you're doing.You're a researcher just like them, eventhough you don't have your degree yet."He's also maintained a relationship withAltschuler that's so close, Salgado thinks ofhim as a second father. Up in Michigan,Salgado likes to go by his formal name,Jose Francisco. Here, everybody still callshim Paquito. "Basically, they're seeing megrow," he says. "Every time I come back,they make me feel like I really belong."

The observatory itself is an intense,isolated place, an hour and a half awayfrom SanJuan.To get there, you first takethe autopista) which is rather like the Gar­den State Parkway in its predilection fortoll booths every ten or twenty yards. Offthe highway, you drive past tiny sherbet­colored houses on a windy mountain roadthat's two-way mostly due to the doggeddetermination oflocal drivers. Outsidethe Arecibo gate, a ramshackle building of­fers a taste of faraway Collegetown. It's

called the Cornell Bar-and it's the sumtotal ofnearby nightlife. "There's no stu­dent union, no cafes," says Salgado. "It's adifferent atmosphere. It definitely forcesyou to be focused.At night, you work untilyou get tired.Then you go to bed and thecycle begins again."

Renting a movie means driving downto the town ofArecibo; getting there andback takes almost as long as the film itself.And this is no place for couch potatoes.The home of the world's largest radiotelescope lost its satelliteTV dish in a light­ning storm, and with all energies focusedon the upgrade and the visitor centeropening, no one has gotten around to fix­ing it. "I was expecting a big campus, col­lege-like place," says David Goldbrenner, aformer Cornell physics student who trans­ferred to Harvard his sophomore year,earning an engineering degree in Decem­ber."Here, it feels very removed, partly be­cause ofthe climate and the landscape, andpartly beca~se it's so remote. It's a goodforty minutes just to get to the mall."

Goldbrenner returned to Arecibo inFebruary to finish the work he'd begunas a summer student the previous year,creating a back-up system for the atomicclock that serves as the observatory's of­ficial timekeeper. "It was like summercamp, except you had to do work," hegrins. "It sort of combined a lot of myinterest -engineering, astronomy,Puerto Rico. But I wouldn't like to behere for more than a few weeks, because

I'm used to the city. I'd get bored."But thoughArecibo is no Cambridge,

the observatory has an appeal all its own.Like Ithaca, it's somewhere that just happensto be located in the middle ofnowhere."Being here and seeing the dish and thework that goes on is very inspiring,"Goldbrenner says. "It's very tangible sci­ence.You get a sense of what's cuttingedge in exploring the universe." The senseof isolation has been particularly acuteduring construction, when much of the

In this land ofbalmy nights and naturalvistas, stargazing remains a favorite pastime.Jogging is also popular, with distance mea­sured not in miles but in laps around thedish.And astronomy is hardly a nine-to-five,leave-it-at-the-office job. "I think ofit askind ofa royal endeavor," Zimmerman says."It's a noble endeavor to look at the stars."Zimmo is showing offa newly built hamradio transmitter, gleaming white and nes­tled in the back ofhis car like a toddler, thathe'll use to bounce messages offthe moon.

tronomy, it turns out, can be hard on anyrelationship, since astronomers have to gowhere the telescopes are. Chris Salter andTapasi Ghosh-parents ofPia, the youngstargazer-met when they were both do­ing research in India. Eventually, she wentto work in Europe, he in the U.S. "Whenwe got married," Salter says, "we had theAtlantic Ocean between us."

Findingjobs in the same place is diffi­cult for any academic couple; for a pair ofastronomers, the odds are, well, astronomi-

Beneath the dish, shade and humidity have nurtured one of the world's biggest fern gardens, complete with wild orchids and begonias.

equipment has been off-line and therehave been few visitors; that will changeonce the upgrade is completed. "What'sreally exciting is all the scientists comingthrough, getting to talk to them abouttheir research," says Eder. "You're in themiddle ofall this breaking science. Andyou canjustjump into this marvelous cul­ture of Puerto Rico. Every weekend,there are fiestas somewhere."

"We reach out and touch the moon," hesays,"so we're lunatics."

Hobbies aside, though, Arecibo is atough place to be single."Sometimes it canget on your nerves," says Xilouri,"but youcan feel equally isolated in a big city."Xilouri recently became engaged to anIthaca-based engineer after a lengthye-mail courtship; they haven't yet figuredout how they'll handle the 10gistics.As-

cal. So Salter and Ghosh were thrilled toget positions atArecibo, where Pia has be­come the observatory's child as much astheir own. Now three, she spends everyWednesday morning in her mother's of­fice, hanging out on a toy-laden blanket.And every night she goes through herbedtime ritual. "We bathe her, put her inher pajamas," her father says,"and she goesout to say good night to the stars."

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SPORTS

Just Say (Ultimate)

the other team picks up the disc where itlands and works to score in the other di­rection. The game is fa t paced and re­quires endurance becau e players can't subin until a point is cored. "It's soccer, bas­ketball, and football all rolled into one,"says Dave Brown, who is launching thefirst international ultimate magazine.

100,000 Americans play. "I never remem­ber coming away from a basketball gamefeeling that the refs got things right," saysJason Haas '89. At the most competitivelevels, observers help settle disputes.

Ultimate was invented by a group ofNewJersey high school students in 1968.Five years later, one ofthose students, JonCohn '76, introduced it to Ithaca.Cornellians have been playing eversince-the university also has a successfulwomen's team, called the Roses-andIthaca has become a mecca for the sport.Only Princeton and Rutgers have oldersquads, but both have had gaps in fieldinga team, making Cornell's the oldest con­tinuous program in the country.

"It's never been more than a year ortwo that we haven't been toward the topof the national rankings," says PaulBrenner '78, associate director for corpo­rate relations at Cornell and adviser to the

Buds. "It's been an incubator fordeveloping good ultimate play­ers. And it's amazing becausethere isn't really anything insti­tutional here."

Gaining respect has neverbeen easy, though. The sport isplagued by a slacker image, rein­forced last year when ESPN

showed highlights ofa nationalclub game-not for the action,but because one of the teamsplayed in women's lingerie. Still,the Buds attract great athletes:the current team includes anOlympic kayaker and a former

pro soccer player. And they haven't beencompletely obscure. President FrankRhodes was quoted in a 1978 Time article assaying Cornell might not have a great foot­ball team, but its ultimate team was doingwell. Brenner used that to leverage morefunding for their trip to the national finals.

The team's most famous alumnus isBill Nye '77, better known as The ScienceGuy. "We used to call him Bill Nye,Rambling Guy," says Brenner. EveryThursday, alums scrimmage with the club,which has helped the team stay strong.This year, with five freshmen, they'll needall the experience the alumni can provide."I'm already looking forward to my senioryear when all five ofus will have playedtogether for a while," says freshman IanStephenson. "I spend more time on ulti­mate than on anyone ofmy classes."

-Jay Tokasz

NLlKE THOSE SPORTS,

however, ultimate is offici­ated by the players. No refs,no whistles. Player call

their own fouls, trusting each other underan honor code that no self-respectingFrisbee fan would break. That gentle­men's agreement may be one reason thegame, although popular among manyjocks, still sits on the fringes ofthe Ameri-can win-at-all-costs sports world. Yet italso helps explain why an estimated

Atwenty-mile-per-hour wind off Cayuga Lake greets the men's

ultimate Frisbee team as it begins its first outdoor practice of

the season at Cass Park. It's an afternoon in late March, but

the calendar could just as well read mid-December. An all-day rain, only

a few degrees from snow, has soaked the field and the sun can't

puncture the stony clouds. Until now, other on a field seventy yards long by fortythe team practiced inside Barton Hall, yards wide. The team on offense tries toand their faces are tanned from a spring score by advancing a Fri bee the length ofbreak trip to a North Carolina tourna- the field without dropping it. The playerment. Yet there are no complaints about holding the disc can't run with it and mustthe cold. The practice is crisp and pur- get rid of it within ten seconds. Mean-poseful, although several throws get while, the defense aims to keep the disccaught up in the chilly gusts and the out ofits end zone, but can't intentionallyFrisbees smack hard against numb hands. make contact with the offensive player. If

"I always think we're like the Green the offense drops the Fri bee, catches itBay Packers, because whenever somebody out of bounds, or fails to complete a pass,comes to play us in this weather,we're used to it," says SamMcHugh, a sophomore on theclub squad that calls itself theBuds. Sanjay Arwade, a graduatestudent in civil engineering,makes the highlight catch ofthescrimmage, snagging a forty­five-yard bomb while nearlyplanting his face into the soggyturf. It's the kind ofgrab that'sbecome commonplace, butArwade hears mocking shouts of"gratuitous" from his team­mates, who know a reporter andphotographer are watching.

The Buds rarely get such attention, de­spite their distinction as the university'smo t consistently uccessful athletic squadover the past twenty years. They've earneda berth in the national collegiate tourna­ment ten times since 1977, a feat unparal­leled by any Cornell varsity team. Lastyear, the Buds-one of 200 college teamsaround the country-made the nationalsemi-finals for the seventh time. And al­though they've never been national cham­pions, they were runners-up in 1978 and1992. Still, ifyou ask five undergraduatesabout the Buds, two would say they didn'tknow Cornell had a team, and the otherthree would ask, "What's ultimate?"

The short answer: it's a game you playwith a Frisbee-although calling it "ulti­mate Frisbee," rather than "ultimate," isconsidered gauche. In the game, sevenplayers on a side square off against each

50 CORNELL MAGAZINE

NEW HOOPS COACH HAS A WINNINGSEASON, AND ICERS GO ALL THE WAY

WINTER WRAP-UPor first-year coach Scott Thompsonand his Cornell men's basketballteam, it's the beginning of a win­ning tradition. For seniors John Mc­

Cord and Alex Compton, it was how theywanted to end their careers. Their 15-11performance, only the second winning sea­son in the last nine, was a warm welcomefor Thompson. l'l'm determined to build anoutstanding program here at Cornell that canbe competitive year after year," Thompsonsays. llWe are in the process of building afoundation and it may take a few years, butI'm confident."

Compton and McCord played a large rolein laying that foundation. McCord, a 6-foot­6-inch forward, led the team in scoring (18.1points per game) and rebounding (9.0 pergame) while earning first-team All-Ivy hon­ors. Compton, a 5-11 guard, averaged 11.9points per game and hit 85 percent fromthe free-throw line while earning honorablemention All-Ivy.

Throw in senior point guard Michael Rob­erts (4.7 assists per game) and the Big Redhas some holes to fill next season. But Mc­Cord is optimistic. llThey'lI have a year withCoach Thompson under their belts," he says.

llEveryone will know what to expect fromeach other." The Big Red opened the sea­son with three straight wins and stood at 7­3 before Ivy play began in January. llEvery­one was on the same page from the begin­ning," McCord says. llCoach Thompsonmade it easier because everything he askedof us was reasonable. We knew he wantedto start a winning tradition and we wantedto be a part of that and leave our mark."

They did that and more. Cornell finished

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fourth in the Ivy League and posted its firstwin over Penn since 1991, beating theQuakers 61-53. Cornell also did well on theroad, notching its first Ivy weekend roadsweep in four years.

The Big Red will have several experi­enced players coming back next season, ledby DeShawn Standard '98, Bo Buettenback'98, Jeffrion Aubry '99, and Brent Fisher'98. "We had a good first step this sea­son," Thompson says. "Hopefully we canadd another chapter to this program."

O ne coach who understands the chal­lenge of topping an outstanding rook­

ie season is Mike Schafer '86. His icershad a tough act to follow after the story­book 1995-96 season producing the firstECAC title in ten years and a trip to theNCAA Tournament. But top it they did, withIvy and ECAC championships and a winninggame in the NCAA Tournament.

llA lot of programs would have becomecomplacent after winning a conference ti­tle," Schafer says. llBut these guys wouldn'tallow that to happen." When the Big Redbeat Miami (Ohio) 4-2 in the NCAA first

40 YEARS AGO-IN 1957­THE BIG RED HEAVYWEIGHTCREW, COACHED BY R.HARRISON "STORK"SANFORD, WINS THEINTERCOLLEGIATE ROWINGASSOCIATION REGAITA FORTHE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR.CORNELL WILL WIN IT AGAIIN 1958, TYING THE RECOI1OF FOUR STRAIGHTCHAMPIONSHIPS HELD BY­

" WHO ELSE?-THE CORNELLCREWS OF 1909-1912.

he wrestling team completedan 11-5 season by finishing

fourth at the Eastern IntercollegiateWrestling Association champion­ships. Senior Carl Keske became

Beckwith says. "The attitude has been fan­tastic and everyone has worked as hard asthey can."

The Big Red bettered their overall scor­ing record four times and set new teamrecords in every event. "We have a lot ofnew personnel this year, and having greaternumbers has made a big difference," Beck­with says. Freshman Jen Little was one ofthe strongest additions. The first Big Redgymnast to win the Ivy League all-aroundtitle since 1982, she posted a 37.50 totalfor the four events-vault, bars, beam, andfloor exercise. Kristin Guenther '00 matchedthe school's floor exercise record with 9.5in the Best Western/Big Red Invitational.

Beckwith hopes to bring in another cropof freshmen next year as the team contin­ues to raise it sights. "I'd like to see usscoring in the mid-180s which means a 9.2-

9.3 average," Beckwith says."We should be able to do thatnext year."

Even with that improve­ment, the Big Red may stillsee its record fall with an

upgraded schedule nextyear. Among the addi­tions will be a trip toLos Angeles whereCornell will compete

against NCAA power­houses UCLA, Stanford,

and Michigan. "It will be a fantas­tic experience," Beckwith says."It's not every day a Cornell teamgets invited to compete at UCLA."

60 YEARS AGO-IN 1937­THE CORNELL POLO TEAMOF C. C. COMBS, DVM '39,THOMAS LAWRENCE '38,AND S. J. nDOC" ROBERTS'38 WINS THE INTERCOLLE­GIATE TITLE BY BEATING ATEAM FROM WEST POINT.ARMY HAD GONE UNDEFEAT­ED IN THIRTY-TWO STRAIGHTGAMES OVER THREE YEARSAND HAD WON TWOSTRAIGHT INTERCOLLEGIATECHAMPIONSHIPS.

gether and we hit our shots."That confidence carried the Big Red

through a seven-game losing streak, whichdidn't snap until the win over Penn. The loss­es had followed on the heels of a six-gamewinning streak which saw the Big Red upits record to 10-7.

"They could have easily rolled overagainst Penn," Dacko says. "But the greatteams come back and they showed thatcharacter and will to win."

English was certainly one of the drivingforces behind the Big Red's desire, averag­ing 9.7 points, 5.4 assists, and 5.0 re­bounds per game while playing nearly everyminute of every game. A second team AII­Ivy pick, English leaves withthe school's assist records fora single game (11) and sea­son (140). "She did it all forus," Dacko says. "I think she'sthe best point guard in the IvyLeague and one of the best inthe nation. I'd love to have herhere for three more years."

But English will begone next season,along with fellowseniors CheranCordell and Julie Lin­coln. Strong returning players include sec­ond-team all-Ivy selection Kim Ruck '98,who led the team in scoring (17.2 pointsper game) and Kelly Jackson '98, who ledthe team in rebounding (5.6 per game). Addin Sarah Maggi '98, Carolyn Janiak '99, andJen Froelich '98, and Dacko has plenty towork with in 1997-98.

Iso continually improving, the women'sgymnastics team broke almost every

team mark while posting nine wins and sev­en losses, a tremendous improvement overlast year's 1-15 season. "You can'task for more than that," coach Paul

round, it marked Cornell's first NCAA playoffwin since 1991 and the first time a Cornellteam advanced past the first round sincethe 1972 team reached the championshipgame. "We brought Cornell hockey back tobeing one of the top programs in the coun­

try," says captain MattCooney'97.

To reach theNCAAs again, the BigRed (21-9-5) won itssecond-straight ECACtitle, downing regularseason winner Clark­son 2-1 in the cham­pionship game. GoalieJason Elliott '98 made

thirty-one saves in the title game, earningthe tournament's Most Valuable Playeraward for the second straight season. Theonly other player to earn back-to-back ECACMVP honors was goalie Ken Dryden '69.Even a 6-2 loss to North Dakota in the NCAAquarterfinals couldn't take the shine off an­other outstanding season. "Hopefully nextyear we can make that final step and get tothe Final Four," Schafer says.

A nother coach coming off a successfuldebut was Marnie Dacko, the 1995­

96 Ivy League women's basketball Coach ofthe Year, who led the Big Red to a second12-14 season this winter. The record movedthem into the upper half of the Ivy League,finishing fourth with a 7-7 league mark-andthey did it in dramatic style.

The Big Red won its final two games bya total of three points, rallying from a sev­en-point deficit with just over a minute leftto beat Penn 65-63 before sealing fourthwith a 58-57 win over Princeton. "CoachDacko told us it comes down to heart andpride," senior guard Kacee English says."Even though we were down by seven, weknew we could win. Everyone just pulled to-

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ProfileJOE LUCIA

Big

Favorite aspect of my job: Interactionand relationships with athletes, andfreedom.

Favorite movies: The Man Who Would BeKing and Once Upon a Time in the West

My coaching style: Honest, caring,and fun

If I could go back in time, I'd visit: thedinosaurs or Woodstock.

Secret talent: I play great air guitar.

Favorite books: Confederacy of Dunces,American Tabloid, and Lonesome Dove.

If I headed theOlympics, I would:.conduct random andfrequent drug testing onevery potential athletetwo years prior tocompetition and continueuntil the Olympic Games.

Athletes I most admire:Pablo Morales, ArnoldPalmer

Biggest sports thrill:Mets winning it all in '69;Pablo taking the gold inBarcelona

Best coaching advice ever received:Be yourself. Listen.

Time at Cornell: Ten years

Total years coaching: Twenty-three

College attended: SUNY Cortland

Undergrad sports: Football, lacrosse

Position: Men's swim team head coach

25 YEARS AGO-IN 1972­HOCKEY STANDOUT DAVEELENBAAS '73 IS DRAFTEDBY THE MONTREALCANADIENS IN THE FOURTHROUND (62ND OVERALL) OFTHE NHL DRAFT, BECOMINGTHE FIRST CORNELLIAN EVERDRAFTED. GEORGE KUZMICZ'74 WILL GO IN THE NINTHROUND (138TH), AND MORETHAN TWO DOZEN BIG REDPLAYERS WILL BE DRAFTEDOVER THE NEXT QUARTER­CENTURY.

Jessica Shaw '99, and Kate Walker '97 fin­ished fourth at the NCAA Division I IndoorChampionships, earning All-America honorswhile setting a school record with a time of11:15.76. Marc Duquella '97 earned AII­America honors at the same meet, finish­ing tenth in the 35-pound weight throw witha distance of 63 feet, 1 inch.

W omen's swimming posted a sea­son-high 208 points in an opening

win over Penn, closing with a 6-5 record;the men's team finished with a 5-5 mark.

Women's fencing, coached by AI Pe­ters, enjoyed its first season in the

new state of the art Stifel Fencing Salle. Theyposted a 6-8 record, tying Princeton 16-16on bouts, but lost on touches. Nancy Allen'99 was named to the second team All-Ivy,the first fencer to garner All-Ivy status sincethe 1992-93 season. Capping off the sea­son, the women hosted the NCAA NortheastRegional Championship in Newman Arena,with fifteen schools participating in front ofa sold-out crowd.

The squash teams, under coach RichardMillman, considered the best squash

coach in the country, had outstanding sea-sons. Enjoyingtheir first year of varsity stat­us, the women won the C Division at theHowe Cup National Championships. MaryBeth Horn '98 earned a spot on theUSWISRA scholar athlete award team witha GPA of 3.71. Not to be outdone, themen's team posted its first winning seasonsince 1991-92, with a 14-12 record. Theyalso won their first Ivy League match sincethe 1990-91 season, with a 5-4 victory overBrown. Andreas Lofquist '99 was named tothe first team All-Ivy and second team AIl­American squads. Brian Colton '97 will bea member of the Academic All-Americanteam, with a 3.51 GPA.

ig Red track also en­joyed its share of suc­

cess. The distance medleyrelay team of Becky Denni­son '97, Kristy Shreve '99,

W omen's hockey also demonstratedcontinued improvement, putting a

scare into perennial power Providence Col­lege before losing to the Friars 3-1 in theECAC quarterfinals. The Big Red tied for sec­ond in the Ivy League in defense of their1995-96 title, posting an 11-10-1 ECACrecord and earning the seventh seed in the

tournament.The Big Red positioned

itself for a playoff spot withan 8-1-1 stretch throughmost of January and Febru­ary. Alanna Hayes '99 wasin the nets for all of the wins,allowing just eight goals ineight games. Plenty of youthreturns next season, includ­ing leading scorer Dana Antil'99 (21 goals, 12 assists).

the first Cornell wrestler since 1994 to earnAll-America honors, taking seventh place at134 pounds in the NCAA tournament. Keskealso won the 134-pound title at the EasternIntercollegiate Wrestling Association champi­onships and won nineteen straight bouts be­fore losing in the second round of the NCAAtournament. He posted a season record of38-4 and leaves Cornell as the Big Red'sfifth in career wins with an 87-22 record.

Joel Holman '98 and Aaron Taylor '00also posted podium finishes at the EIWAtournament with third places. Monty Cheff'97 was fourth, earning an alternate spot inthe NCAA tournament as a wild card. TheBig Red claimed the New York State titleand went 3-2 in the Ivy League, including a19-0 blanking of Princeton.

30 YEARS AGO-IN 1967­DAN WALKER '68 SETS ASCHOOL RECORD WHICHSTILL STANDS BY RETURN­ING A PUNT 90 YARDS FORA TOUCHDOWN AGAINSTPENN. THE BIG RED BEATTHE QUAKERS 33-14 TOCAP OFF A 6-2-1 SEASON.

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"It's interesting thatafter forty years those

feelings of warmaffection and respect

stand out when wethink of those teams."

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their own stories. Varsity athletes, members of the fitness staff,Cornell Outdoor Education personnel, and players in the Big RedBand will contribute their ideas, opinions, and accomplishments.Alumni and parents will share their views, on both the past and the

present. We'll draw on the great traditionsof Cornell and the people who've createdthem. We'll focus on the future, and thestudents who will set new records and stan­dards that will make us all proud to be Cor­nellians. We're counting on "letters to theeditor" to keep us in line; alumni news tokeep us informed; and pictures to keep ushonest. We're creating a new mouthpiecefor Cornell sports-one we make our­selves-with a new staff, a new focus, anda new SPIRIT!!!

I, personally, have had many Cornellmentors and even more Cornell heroes. Ihave only to turn to Romeyn Berry's Behind

the Ivy, Morris Bishop's A History of Cornell,

and Bob Kane's Good Sports, or to the en­couraging remarks of our past and presentpresidents to find inspiration and encour­agement. Kane's compendium of what Cor­nell athletics has already accomplished getsme through losing competitions, other frus­trations, and Ithaca's gray winters.

I would like to think that our new SPIR­IT!!! will start a new chronicle of CornellSports for all constituents.

his is the last in our series of "Big Red Sports Updates" inCornell Magazine. We're moving on to a more comprehen­sive coverage of physical and outdoor education, fitness,wellness, and athletics in our new SPIRIT!!! publication.

As athletic director at Cornell, I love mydaily contact with student athletes, coach­es, staff, and administrators. Still, it's notenough. There is so much more to our sto­ry. . . so much more to tell and so manypeople we want to tell it to.

The idea of an all-sports publication isnot new. What is new is the vastly reor­dered profile of the Department of PhysicalEducation and Athletics at Cornell. Further,we are excited about the renewed studentinterest in wellness and physical fitness, inlifetime sports ability, and in a shared en­thusiasm for an increased school spirit. Cor­nell students, led by the Student Assembly,the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, theRed Key Society, and others, have set thestage for a new ground swell. . . The Spirit

of the Red! Our job is to let the story betold.

Starting this fall, SPIRIT!!! will be sentto all qualifying members of The Spirit ofthe Red!, our new program to recognize an­nual gifts to Cornell athletics. Recognitionlevels range from $350 to $5,000 with spe­cial lower rates for young alumni and cur­rent Cornell students.

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knew Armand Hammer as amodel citizen: billionaire in­dustrialist, patriot, patron ofthe

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pher Edward JayEpstein '57 uncov­ers the real Ham­mer-philanderer,money launderer,junk art dealer,business tyrant, andRussian agent. Di­agnosed with ter­

minal cancer in 1990 and given onlyweeks to live, the ninety-two-year-oldHammer scrambled to protect his image."Nothing focuses the mind like a deathsentence," Epstein writes.

Dossier documents Hammer's finalcover-ups, from disinheriting an illegiti­mate daughter and putting three formermistresses on his company payroll to try­ing to destroy records linking him withcommunist Russia. Upon his death,however, it came apart. "Within a year,"

Epstein says, "one hun­dred charities, museums,family members, and oth­er individuals would makeclaims [against his estate].These reflected the bitterlegacy of Armand Ham­mer's life."

Much of Hammer'sstory could be told onlyafter his death and the fallof the Soviet Union.Epstein examined thou­sands ofpages of govern­ment reports, family dia­ries and letters, divorceproceedings, and Ham­mer's papers. "I could seehow he had carefully constructed a fic­tion for himself," says Epstein, whospent six months with Hammer for a1981 New York Times Magazine story."What he didn't anticipate was that itwould all come unraveled with the Sovi­et documents."

The book is Epstein's twelfth. Nostranger to investigative reporting, hewrote his 1966 Cornell master's thesis,

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Inquest, on the inner workings of theWarren Commission. Since then, he'swritten extensively on the JFK assassi­nation, the drug war, and the subter­fuges of the CIA and KGB. "Dossierreally taught me how to write a biog­raphy," Epstein says, "You construct aperson, and when you've done that,you've done the job."

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(1897-1900) to defend Captain Dreyfus.

TAKE YOUR PET ALONG: 1001 PLACES TO STAY WITH YOUR PET

by Heather MacLean Walters '81 (MCE). A guidebook covering the

U.S. and Canada which lists major lodging sites that understand

when you just can't leave home without your pet.

EXPERT INVESTING ON THE NET: MAKING MORE MONEY ONLINE

and MUTUAL FUNDS ON THE NET by Paul B. Farrell, MRP '64,

(Wiley). Step-by-step lessons for online investing.

THE EXOTIC ANIMAL DRUG COMPENDIUM: AN INTERNATIONAL

FORMULARY by Keath Marx and Margaret A. Roston '75, BS Nurs

'78 01eterinary Learning Systems). Information about drug therapy

for hundreds ofexotic animals.

THE LANDSCAPE OF BELIEF: ENCOUNTERING THE HOLY LAND IN

NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE byJohn

Davis '83 (Princeton University Press). An examination ofthe Amer­

ican artists who looked to Ottoman Palestine as a source of their

national identity.

MANAGING THE REINVENTED WORKPLACE by Cornell professors

William Sims and Franklin Becker, with MichaelJoroff '60 (Interna­

tional Development Research Council). Suggestions for successful

office practices from more than twenty-five innovative companies.

MAY/JUNE 1997 55

CLASS NOTES

lameness, I check very well."DorotheaJohannsen Crook, a resident

of the Collington Retirement Community inMitchellville, MD, recount some interestingbits of Maryland hi tory: "Last year, PrinceGeorge's County celebrated its 300th anniver­sary as a county, and Collington participated inmany of the variou celebration. Perhaps themo t important for us wa our joining thePrince George Communi College in ho t­ing an Elderhostel-the firs time a retirementcommunity has done so. The emphasis was onthree areas in which the county is notable: ar­chitecture (many fine historical mansions); avi-

"ENTHUSIASM FOR REUNI N IS HIGH. REMEMBER ITI

Mter graduation and two year at CornellLaw, George went on to Oxford as a RhodeScholar, where he introduced the forwardpass. During W orId War II he served as ecre­taiy of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Seventhand Third Armies, and was thrice decorated.Back in America, George was one of theyoungest alumni (up to his time) to be elected'a university tru te .

Ithaca Journal sport colulnni t Ken VanSickle told this tory about George, who waal 0 a sub titute on Cornell' champion ba ­ketb~ll team of 1923-24: "One night, whenCoach Howie Ortner '19 called him to gointo the game, George jumped up, steppedinto a water bucket, and fell full-length ontothe floor." Had this been on the football field,I'm ure Captain George would have man­aged to crawl another ten yards-perhap for at.ouchdown.

As this is being written, our peripateticJohn P. Wood is back in Thoma ville, GA,but he will soon be on' the way to Acton, MA.Since last summer, John ha been ble ed witha great-grandson, and two ofhi grandsonhave been married. He writes: "Enjoyed yourhandsome CIa s of 24 Christmas card. Tellme, do you have a pull with the local PO thatthey will actually hand-cancel your pile ofmail instead of ending the bundle to Portlandfor central-processing? ' No, John, we justhave a lot ofnice people in Maine.

Ott Jaeger, pending his first full winterin Vermont, make thi cogent comment: "Ican't believe that here it is mid-December andthe thennometer on n1Y open porch reads 60degrees!" Well, a the natives would ay, "Justwait a bit, Mr. Jaeger; it'll change." On anoth­er tack, Ott continues: "The other day I awacar with the initials AXP on the licen e plate. Iasked the owner ifhe belonged to Alpha ChiRho. He said: 'No, the license bureauju t sentthe plate that way.' Do you think I can get aninjunction for n1Y fraternity against the licensebureau?" Sorry, Ott, I had only one tern1 oflaw!

Now for the di taff segment of the '24family! Lillian Rabe McNeill keep in touchwith Don Wickham and me with occa ionaltelephone calls. Like other ofour cla s, he hasto contend with a fe phy ical ailment, but ias ardent and loyal a 24ite as ever. Her bignew is the recent birth of her fir t great­grandchild-a boy, and a potential men1ber ofthe Class of '17. Katherine Serio Friend ofOrchard Park, NY, (where the Buffalo Billshold forth) tells u succinctly, "Except for n1Y

Cornell and the Class of '24have lost a notable alumnusand one of the university'sgreatest football stars: George

Pfann. As recorded in college athletic annal ,Captain George and his '24 teammates EliasBuckley, Charles Cassidy, Floyd Rarns~y,

Richard Raymond, Frank Sundstrom(and other '24 letter-men, plus son1e tellarplayers from '25 and '26) compiled the amaz­ing record of 24 ucce sive victorie without asingle loss, by decisive scores, many againstsome very stiffcompetition. In our senior yearalone, these totaled an amazing 320 points toour opponents' 33.

Grace H. Smith wa readyto celebrate her 100th birth­day-on April 21, '97­when her nephew wrote with

her news in March. She lives alone, he reports,"and has her helpers read the Cornell-Magazineto her. Her memory and con1prehension arevery sharp. Other than her eye ight, he i inremarkably good health." Letter hould bea.ddressed to her at 34 Wa hington St.,Conway, NH 03818-0292; telephone, (603)447-5806.

Please end news of other uch celebra­tions for publication in this column. •:. Classof '21, c/o Cornell Maga ine, 55 Brown Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850-1247.

A number ofcIa sn1ates havemailed in clas dues for thisyear, but only one, Maj. Gen.Albert Pierson, of Washing­

ton, DC, included news as well. He reportedhaving celebrated his 97th birthday, but sayshis traveling days are behind him as he is con­fined to a wheelchair. His wife passed away, hewrites, but hi daughter, Sallie P. Cauchon,lives nearby. Pierson report a" core forgrandchildren and great-grandchildren ofis-no Cornellian , however." He retired asthe in pector general of the Army af~er 40year of active duty.

Duespayers from whom we would wel­come new include Joseph E. Doan Jr.,Lansdowne, PA, Morton P. Woodward,Cincinnati, OH, Maurice F. Smith, Naples,FL, and, for the women of '20, Ruth B.Abbott of New York City and Lois Web­ster Utter of Stanley, NY.

Please send news for this column. •:. Cla sof '20, c/o Cornell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850-1247.

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CHRIS HILDRETH / UP

J JUNE? CALL YOUR FORMER ROOMMATES AND THE PERSON WHO SAT NEXT TO YOU IN ENGLISH 101." - GEORGE & GAYLE RAYMOND KENNEDY '52

ation (the first, and still functional, commercialairport); agriculture (the basis ofearly wealthand the U. of Maryland-originally solely anagricultural institution). The Elderhostelers,who came from as far west as Colorado, ap­proved of Collington and its amenities-espe­cially our food. "

Mary Johnson Ault, who now lives inEngadine, MI, close to one of her sons andhis cattle farm, is "not as busy as she wouldlike to be," but she was very good aboutkeeping in touch with her college room­mate Flo Daly, in whose memory she hasjust made a generous contribution to the

Class of '24 Scholarship Fund.Eleanor Bayuk Green has a very good

friend in Abington, PA-a personableyoung woman, and a good student-who jsinterested in going to Cornell and Ellie istrying to help pave the way for her. She isalso an avid reader of The New York Times',and sent us a page from a recent issue featur­ing Charles Feeney '56 and DavidDuffield '62-both ofwhom have had fab­ulous business careers and have shared theirtremendous wealth generously with Cor­nell. .:. Max Schmitt, RR 5, Box 2498,Brunswick, ME 04011-9632.

Things being how they ~re,

the response to last Decem-·ber's News and Dues letter("First Notice") was very

good. Our first two items perhaps includerecords of one kind or another. Ruth H.Kennedy wrote from Red Bank, NJ: "At­tended two Elderhostels in summer of 1996­in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. Cele­brated 97th birthday in November with twodays in aNew York City hotel to attend Met­ropolitan Opera performance ofCarmen." No,that birthday number is not a misprint; Ruthwas older than most of us, according to the

MAY IJUNE 1997 57

colunln.55

The annual news and dues fonns have arrivedthe Class of been

Laura Pedersen "1 am liv-retirement honle not too far

for 50 years here in Seattle,bank, church, and stores, and

oalOle:SI ' ,

house calls, or

tells-all 1925 Cornellian, and still butnow she around rnore than

tnost of us do. Then I)r. Walter Eellsof Walton, NY, who wrote: "Retired in1993, six weeks before I 63

IJLClv l,J,l,Jv'JJvJ. Have birth ro,,'t-1+1Ir,,1ro

135 babies!" In this part of theworld, GPs to after 35 or so,and for it, \vonder

-WALTER EELLS '25

Helen Bettis Higley and Phil '26brated their 68th wedding with

in ()mlond Beach, FL,which cele-the 90th Phil's brother

Ralph Higley '30. Helen Phil continueto do volunteer work in their hospital auxiliary

Fort Walton Beach, FL. William Louch-heim continues his habit tinlefor lunch at the -7\ /--Vr'rl r ._\ )111 J

tion for which no\v consultant; hisgralndsOl1, Mark S. Louchheim '77, is now

ofthe outfit, conunerciallne:: OPl~ratlon has 60- fold

got into it. isn't

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My thankspenterme"We that the '28 col-

umn was a bit short in IJecenlber, so dadand I want to send you a little My

both from Cornell inMother, Helen (Worden) loved

Cornell and dear friends made there. My fa­ther, Alvin Carpenter, MD '31, lives onsnlalllake NY, tnost of the

He visits us in northern Minnesota dur-winter to cold weather.

as he 90, heVv •. VL./oLlCt',i.'-ij;;;"" He survived a brutal

Inc:lull111g an all-time low for thestate of Minnesota below-and that was

ter][lPt~ra1:une. not wind chill! our lake59

His son, Charlie Carpenter '59, MDwindjarll1ner cruise out

Alvin wasthe governors

in the next issue.Please to the tol10\iVllll2'address. •:. Class of'27 Men, c/o '"-'VIlle ...·.. .L".LVI:.~:14

55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1247.

r- ....a.~h"Ta 'n:1'J"1lr1~,rr ~r rl',a senior center, and

is the bun-c/o Cornell 55

..&-1.'-'-"'.'-'.""'''4.. Ithaca, NY 14850-1247.

the

We've had news from ofInen of and but no news from

Not all of those who their

Lake on starlitAline Jordan Jenkins anlused her

great-grands with of our oldenriding the bleacher train that followedshells and from which

Isabelin her Florhamlived since son .LLoLoL.\.-oLoL"-JoLoL Y

farnl 35 miles from Ithaca. Sad fronlBeatrice Bayuk who writes that hus-band Max, U. died ofParkinson's "Wehad wonderful years

Margot Hicks Maher, in Scarsdale, NY,rrrVlrlnr -';'XT,th the of a walker.

IhanJKS~~lV]lng and Christlnaswith'43 leads to

+~~h1~,~+ato suched nieces T\vo years ago wewent to France for two weeks." Sara RubinBaron also sends news of fanlliy and resides stillin New York Louise Russell writes that

1996 she "continued

MAY/JUNE 1 59

to sunlnl0n toto eat there the birdseedNed thern

I suspect that conlnlent willit's no deal to protect bird feedersthere no bears, on Cod

\vhere Ned lives, but it's to pro-thenl where bears as in New

Harnr)sh:LrewtJlen~c.'"-' ...."........... A...L ,. ,"-,u • • :. Benedict P.Cottone, Plaza #802,1255 N. Gu1±StrearnAve., Sarasota, FL 34236; tel., 366-2989.

was no news frOlnof inclusion

WilliamJ. Sullivan

hear ofthe sudden ofHazel Reed, whohad had less than a month

Kendal at Ithaca.

waysnlatters.

Panlela Sullivan, of theyoung ones who enlivened Reunion 1995 forus, writes that her father, Dr. William Sul-livan, MD died, horne vvith his head-set on, to Goodman, on De-cenlber 30. \vould have died withhis boots on!" it to Ben Cottone totell you Inore

Now, re News and I)ues. There has beena very response to letter, but stillso manybecause you sentexcuse you fronlnlust be sonle littlethese rnany years. Severalscribed Interest1l1g InCJldents,to you in future colunlns.

Helen Lipschitz C;lick tellsWt~ddlllH! arlnlvel:-sarv In

waterbirds-blueducks, etc. own son and livewithin sound dinner bell here on SouthHill and often with theup. •:. Don Layton, Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850.

..... ""r'>'T r" "n.-.r"" ofthem, pct",pr11'111',r It

any of the plays tennis three tinlesvveek as San still does. •:. Ethel Corwin Ritter,4532 Ocean Blvd., Sarasota, FL 34242.

Judith Glassman Simon sends lrre:ennlrSto those who renlember her. I'nl sure nlanydo. As her doctors" she is n TV'" ", 11,,,1-

fine with

As I write this onIthaca issnow of this 111t-..rL,pl'",:r

winter, aboutit will soon melt in the sun.

Sad news first, this tinle ... It vvas a shock to

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smllln:2.' ,

Treasurer Charles S. Tracy and Wil-liam N. Hall were ahead of the rest ofus. Bill his dues October 5frorn France and Ted sent his October 29.Paul N. Lazarus's of 1996 washis 60th with Ellie(Tolins) '32, to Bernludahot'1p'un1lor\n site but in much betterOn return to New York,

I'll beMartha TravisJ:jn(lQe'Natt~r.NJ 08807.

In December 1996, BeaAlexander Weingart (BSwas to leaveBurma. son was

...... r"'.... 17',1"\rr at the United Nations, herrl/\11rrr.t-o~·r{r,"'l"c<~lel)ra1tlnl2:V\;Tlth her husband the

Weaal.llQ. BettyLarry

enlIOVln~~ tllleu' ret1n~ment home, Cov­Plantatlo:n, FL, with entertain­

ment, and delicious meals. HelenKilquist wrote on the occasion of the firstsnowfall in Hartford, CT, after helping atHartford Christlnas plant

Our President Marion FordFraser (Hum and husband David, JD'37, to make their first Floridavisit this David was in

visited Geneva, Switzerland, andVice President Nathaniel Apter and

Valerie location in New Lon-don, NH, to #55 Seasons, still with POBox 907. William Norton Hall

frotn a Bristol, ..I-ILLFo,-'-U,LL..... , ne'WS1DatJerwas in Nice, France-a I01"\rrt-h ... r ",..... ,1-

of Bruce Boyce, BA '34.Bruce when he was in London

he recruited by Sir Thomas Arm-

Her a Burmese cat wholoves to sit Cornell director's onher patio. Jane out that the name ofJohn Delmar VanGeem '31, EE '32, is notlisted in our current I checked my

Cornellian and his nanle bio are there."Del" was an active tnember ofour class, espe­

in track events. He also lived in Erie.Norma Phillips Putnam wrote that hus-

band Charles died from a heart attack28, '96. "64

and have two sons, a dalJgllter,

-JAMES W. OPPENHEIMER '32

"

As you all know, it's aln10st time for our 65thl~eunion realizethat you will be ablecolulun for the infonnation youall so to you.

Jane Finney Herbert n1arried aState nlan, and lives in Erie, PA, her chil-

dren two also Pennother

details, the book. •:. James W. Oppen­heimer, 140 Pkwy., Buffalo, NY14209-1104.

UN ION

I~ 6~: Reunion;

we'll be

MAY IJUNE 1997 61

11111'{rp'1"<:'1hr 1pJr()t.e~~s,')..r). Also intoca. 1539 in the

L/ .... ,t. ....LLULLL on the Irish Sea.Dr. Karl V. Krombein, McLean, VA,

enltouLl0Jlog:lst, was honored by thepubl1<:atlon of a Festschrift entitled "Contribu­

HV'm(~nc)ptleraand Associated InsectsUc~dlcat:ed to V. Kronrnein" that

as N urnber 17 of the Memoirs ofof Washington and

contained 25 contributions. His for thisyear call for field research of three l1lonths inSri Lanka and three weeks in India. This willbe his 14th trip to Sri Lanka in three decades.

A pleasant sumnler to all. .:. Karl F.Schmidt, 4780 Mount Rose Roseville,CA 95747-8279.

Retirernent comnlunities arecalling all seniors! Dr. Wil­liam C. Haynes, PhD'46,and wife n10ved in

IJecernber 1996 to Riverview at E. IL,and send best wishes to classnlates who"going through that " HelenBerdick Freedn1an (Mrs.of Walnut Creek, CA, and

moved into the "Charlestown"

four- orKr,n."ITI,.:r11 Botanic Gar-

for being well towork.•:. Eleanor

Mirsky 463 77th St., JjrC)OkJlyn,11209; tel., (718) 836-6344.

Winnie Loeb Saltzlllan didn't say so, butI'm betting she'sElsie Starks Shreeve and Isame town on Island so COlne

back when she writes! Mary JewellWlllo11Q"tLbv now lives in a retirement hOl1le inlVl~lSScLCnUS(~tts but still owns and runs her £lrn­

farl1l in Kansas. I aSSUl1le computers havesornethlrLg to do with that.

Ralph Wilkes andtoured Jordan and Israelspring. He writes that it was"an er~oyablelearning

ence." Julian and Ruth Blake Wright,AZ, are into a honle

rro.·nc1""~1/~1""1f'Y\\ in new retirel1lent conlmuni-ty. Both are active volunteers in andchurch and stay fit h'{r'{"V1ILr,I11C"""

pro~rrarns.Ben Bradley andCA, have

1"P.,"".r1",r.. "1' retirement fa-alumnus,

schools.now livehad de-

than 25 varietiesleaves Wow!

Ed Marion reports that wife Marie hadbeen called to Class men1bers

He writes,rnoods for

,,,,,,.P.t-,'11r..c ofthe

ofwhich he is charterto resume attendance at the

Lome~U111nc;heions along \vithJohn L. Murray,43. He also contacts with roomInateJohn "Rick" Hazen.

Herb Baum, tonlaintain his Since thehis beautiful wife in 1980 he has beenmaintain both house and woods all alone, not as

U'~"L"-""""I .."J trying.beware. Frank DeBeers,

11r,1+'r',.11r,'j-",rl in a "Goren"

cnlise Mediterranean inber oflast year. Max Dercum,Dillon,teanlInate on the ski team, and wife Edna

ret:lrI112alr'eatClY!' ,

first great-grandson and now have a secondin San Francisco. Paul teaches as the local"Mr. at the U. ofCalifornia, Berke-

to leave them he'sworkload.

he wonders why balls don't stay up inair so now. but

not losing so MargaretSchillke she holds

-THOMAS G. MEACHEM '35

the record in our class for the most great­grandchildren-11. She also drove solofrom Englewood, FL, to Buffalo, NY, lastsummer, and back. In Phoenixville, PA, shespent time with son Robert o. Safford'56, in Ithaca and Buffalo with relatives andfriends, and in VA, with herdaughter and had an "'11,I",.r"hll",

journey. Dues and no news came from Ed­ward W. Proctor Jr., 40 Creston Ave.,Tenafly, NJ 07670.

Bruce was born Sept. 2, '10 inLondon, Ont., grew up in V~~""JLHJL,

NE; and died 15, '96 at age 85. His wife,Joy Edgerton, hinl. Thereno children. Anlerica entered WorldWar II, and was td Brit-ain. He that war consisted ofsitting a roofnear Marble Arch ,{"7"ld"rl"1~r..

bOl1lbs and a pipe. Afterwar returned to London. He nladehis name with the New London Opera Co.with whom he dashing Don Giovanni atthe between 1946 and1948. Tall was ideal forthe role. In 1952 he was by ConventGarden to Count Alnlaviva in Le

under the baton ofErich Kleiber. HisImpOSIng personalIty and firm tone

por"tra'yal. He the ofin "St. Mat-

Passion" and title part in Mendel-" After Cornell, he studied

interpretation in withrenowned Reinhold von Wahrlich. In thearea ofGemlan lieder, was renowned forSchubert's "Winterreise" and ofSchu-l1lann, Brahms, and His nlosttelling moods were and emotional ar-dor. Among his were tenors GrahamClark, Phillip and BonaventuraBottone, all ofwhom successful careers

He retired in to Provence afterappearance to a house at

Wigl1lore Hall in 1974. In 1992, he set uphome in Bishop Auckland, Durhan1.He left a ti-tle part inKrips, and the solo in "SeaDelius. Both reveal his of toneInt:eHlge~nceas an interpreter. .:. MarjorieChapmanBrown, HC 03, Box 420, OldTown, FL 32680-9685.

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"'-J"'''''''U''-''-''', NC.Husbandwonderful

nloved toand

and she

MacGregor Cladel\vrote about her four grand­

C. Patrick Scholesof the

l:rn~en'Nlctl, C:T.Frederick G. Miller, of

his

andThetas

MabelCharles E.children,'94

63

their on nlid-vvinter FloridaPalrn Desert, CA, and Denver, CC),Dave Benjamin's civic endeavors in-

c"T~Y\",h"""""TtUIldl~aI~;rng: travel includedseeing Wes Franklin in and

the John Alberts celebrate their In()ur Nation's which is, you

astnngtc)n, DC-:. Kent Brown's report ongrandc:hIJdren: "All all good

fevv yet to go to "John Sly'sreport on descendants: "We were blessed with

second wonders never

years Incounty continues othervolunteer duties \vith Habitat for Hll'n'lfJ'nlt-u

his and elder andclinlbed four trail-less Adirondack rnountains.Bill Walter his news-letter'll be than 1996's.

We're the end1995 notes, so the best vve do is ac-lT~""""'7Iprl(.... p that Hank BeuttellMaine sunlnler \veeks, S. Harry Monsonendured a illness that seized his wife,Irv Lanzner an Alaskan cruise in his

continues volunteer \vork with localcrinle and there are other

rr.-'''L''f- ...."''' ...l' to all fronl C. Orvis Sowerwine,\vho's still into \vith other nlusicians in

andJohn Hooley, whoInc:lu(jIng Alaska and Chi-

that Erie " .:. FredHillegas, Canlelback Rd., Maya

#220-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

this pastyears

, the group TrudyJohnson Martha Sweet Webb '40,Eunice Munger '40, and JeanRodger C:ondon '40. and husband Ev-erard Phoenix,AZ, residents. MaryFrances Kearns '96 is the ofJane Ridgway Lawrence and Mason. An-other granddaughter, Elizabeth J. Kearns'99, is in Hunlan Ecology. Billand Elsie Harrington Doolittle

and travel in C;reece last and in\vith other nleillbers, cruised the

Northern Channel Lake Huron in twoCl1;lrt<~redsailboats. France \vas the destinationfor Carol Thro Richardson's annual Christnlasvisit with who lives in Paris.

Peg Brown Coryell and Chet '36 arefull-tirne Florida residents, but have dalJgl1tersscattered from totA-r.,.'1')--Crr'PfJ1- nlfJr,'''c to visit! One gra,nO(lalJgtl-

School class of'34'sit's Cornell '38

the nearest tobeen held-the

Sixtieth!When the Ithaca

reunIon cOJrnrnIttee

include sons Peter C.grano~;onPeter C. Jr. '86, well as

,CHI-llfl-I:I\A! Steven La Rocca '69.James D. Andrews AdultUni-

tour last

"rnini" itse1f~

Jane Ridgway Peg Sullivan I)avis,Marion Howe, George Schempp, W. Ma­son Lawrence, andJack Stewart.

Coley Asinof is one of Vennont's nlostrnobile He Marion in the

and

64

CLASS NOT S

-JOHN SLY '38

LEONARD PARKER '42

Green Giants

I want to thank Bill Hagar,Bill Shoemaker, and JimFree for sending news itemswithout waiting for dues bill­

ing. At this time it is hard to fill our'41 column.Bill Hagar lost his wife, Helen, in Septem­

ber 1996. They enjoyed 55 years of a happymarriage. He winters at 7300 20th St., VeroBeach, FL 32966. Bill asks ifanyone remembersTed Smith's lake inn from our days on campus.

Bill Shoemaker sent a card featuring himas a proud grandfather of Elizabeth BurkeFraca. Bill winters in Port Richey, FL.

Jim Free joined A&P after World War II.In 1. 966 he was transferred to a new processingplant in Horseheads, NY. He retired in 1. 982and remains in the area he loves. He is an activeMa on. I look forward to meetingJim inJunewhen in Elmira for my high school 60th re­union. Sixty is a lot ofyears. Don't feel that old!

Changing values. A classmate who hasbeen married more than 50 years writes, "Weare thankful our three children are all remar­ried." Howard Schuck kindly reminded methat my story of hi peed skating lacks factualaccuracy. His two-page correction will be in­cluded in a '41. extra. Steve Close would wel­come classmates to visit him in Bel Air, MD.We were wrong in placing Bel Air in Florida.Sorry! .:. Ralph Antell, 9924 MaplesteadLane, Richmond, VA 23235-2240.

A delightful two-page letter arrived fron1Martha Perkins Melfi. Martha is anotherFinger Laker touting the advantages of her re­tirement condominium-thi one in Liver­pool, NY, north of Syracuse and, " ... al­though I feel my age, when I bicycle on thenearby trail along Onondaga Lake, my youthreturns. I remember bicycling to Syracuse(from Ithaca) in the summer between highschool graduation and college. Starting atdawn-it was chilly, mi ty, and beautiful. Irode up all hills." She familiarized herselfwithall the routes to her grandfather's cottage onthe far shore of Oneida Lake, "stopping atfarm houses for a drink ofwell water and achat. Those were before the years of tractor­trailers ... " (and ten- peed bikes). Martha hasbeen active in the Syracuse Cornell WOlnen'sClub for n1any years, serving as president forseveral tern1S, and also participating in theCornell Club ofCentral New York.

From those ofus who are still hitting thebooks: Barbara Schnapp Ei en and RuthKessel Butterly returned to Ithaca last summerfor the second week of Adult University(CAU). Bobbie took an art appreciationcourse, and I trust "the feet held out while ex­ploring the old haunt." Ruth immersed her-

DPM in Santa Rosa, CA. They have givenher eight grandchildren. Argate married againin December 1989, gaining two more childrenand their two children, so she has a big family.She does not mention her present surname buttells of trips vi iting those "spread out children,"cruising, Elderho tels, gol£ bridge, etc. Shelives summers near Killington, VT, using POBox #2210, RR 1.•:. Carol Clark Petrie, 18Calthrope Rd., Marblehead,MA 01945.

en's International League for Peace and Free­dom. With church activities she is busy. Car­rie Hunt Knack keep her home in VirginiaBeach, VA. She report a new great-grand­child, the fourth. She and a daughter-in-lawtoured Iceland lastJuly and Carrie also flew toFt. Riley, KS, to pend Thanksgiving with heryounge t son, Lt. David Knack.

Larry Gardner and his wife have passedtheir 50th wedding anniversary. They havefive grandchildren, including twin grand­daughter. They do a lot of "do-it-yourself'project but took time out for a tour of NewMexico. Clarice "Billie' Burke Meijer, writ­ing from Kendal at Ithaca, ends news of amutual friend, Betty Holdredge Smith. I be­lieve all three ofu lived and worked at Risleythe same year. Betty still has her home onTully Lake, but a he has everal children liv­ing in Florida, she may ettle there. Another"Home Ec" girl just heard from i MarianBaillie Eyerly, who is still active in the travelagency she and her daughter operate. Theyhave been involved in fundraising for Save theChildren' NY Opera Guild, also DanburyHospital and similar diver ified organization.Marian has been back to Ithaca often as agranddaughter earned her master's at Cornell,and is still there working on her doctorate. Shewrites, "My, how it has grown."

Grace Hoffman Fingeroth has recentlylost her husband. Send notes to her at 83Baraud Rd., Scar dale, NY. Argate PolmerHollander end a note this tin1e. Her hu ­band, Gerard '39, died in May 1965. She hasthree sons: Bruce '65, an attorney in Florida;Todd, DMD in Allentown, PA; andJohn,

W hen Leonard Parker n1.ethis future wife at abeach party, it was love

at first sight. It took longer to con­vince her father that the CornellAgri­culture student and ardent plant loverwould earn enough to support Bea­trice as well as the dentist she'd beendating could.

As it turns out, Bea's father hadnothing to worry about.The youngcouple opened a small greenhousein their home, expanding to pioneer the sale ofcut flowers and potted plantsin supermarkets. Halfa century later, the business they once ran via homingpigeon to save on phone bills is one ofthe world's largest interior landscap­ing firms. NewJersey-based Parker Interior Plantscape has designed indoorgreenery for NewYork's Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum ofArt,and numerou hotels. "Interior landscaping is about bringing the outdoorsin," Leonard ays. "It's about bringing warmth to the cold hard edge of theconcrete jungle."

peake to New England when W. Dean andHop Wallace joined them for a week. Grifffound that Dean is a good sailor, "consideringhow he likes to putt-putt around Lake George!"Weather and time prevented them from visitingCurt Alliaume on the Cape.

Finally, a note from Dr. Francis S.Greenspan, living at 350 Parnas us Ave., Ste.609, San Francisco, CA. He is chiefof thyroidclinic at U. of Northern California, San Fran­cisco Medical Center, and in practice of en­docrinology. In 1994 he was the clinical pro­fessor of medicine and radiology at U. of Cal­ifornia, San Francisco. He has warm memo­ries of wonderful days in Ithaca. It will be 60years ince those day for all us. Please come toreunion in 2000!

Don Nesbitt has spent years in invest­ment con ulting work, largely among NYState farmers. He phoned me to spread theword that he is reaching out now to youngpeople who want to "get into the market."Don has a new program for young people in­terested in investing even small amounts.Many youngsters have taken advantage of hishelp. He is busy, but likes it that way. Anyoneinterested, contact him by phone at (716)589-4542 or write him at 3196 Transit Rd.,Albion, NY.

Mrs. Edwin Semler has let n1e knowfrom Dansville, NY, that her husband hasbeen in a nur ing home over five years andknows not himselfnor his surroundings. Sorryto hear this, but thank you for your note. JuliaSwenningsen Judson still lives in FortCollins, CO, with husband Lowell, '37-39SpAg. She ha a continuing interest in Wom-

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about "Cornell the Creator"

ArlllY. He golfwith Fred Schaefer,surfs and Europe. A. James Coch-rane (Ripley, NY) still works on his farlll, atthe COlllillUnity Food Pantry, and for the Pres­byterian Church. He and Dorothy (O'Meal),43 have 15 grands and see many Alpha Galll­Ina Rhos. Son isJack '69, DVM '74.

Natalie Schulze Shapiro (Anderson, SC)reports that her lllarriage to Bill Winchester,40 ended when he away in 1971. Sheraised their four and later marriedBernard Shapiro, son Charles Shapiro'74 attended the Ag Julia PapezWood (Olllaha, NE) writes that her dad, thelate Cornell Prof]ames Papez, taught anato-

neurology from 1921-50. He was cu­rator of the Burt G. Wilder Brain Collection.

married Harold H. Wood, PhD '50W orId War II. They boast nine chil-

dren and 25 that a record or what!Two have attended Cornell.

Newly retired John and Mary LeeStroud Laird'44 (Little Silver, NJ) andJoeand Barbara Littleton (Hanunondsport, NY).Joe in hobby known to

Inc:lU(:llng a superb dog and severalFrench horns. He attended the InternationalHom Society Symposium and went to Labra­dor for salnlon fishing. Dick and Ann BoonePendleton '43, (Ithaca, NY) wrote that Dickis on the board ofdirectors and auxiliary board

Medical Center, volunteering atthe satellite. They help at Cornell'sShoals Marine Lab, in the Gulf of Maine.Raymond and Ruth Dague (Muskego,WI). Ray is retired vice president, Allis-Chal­lllers. In DC, they attended the

before the US Su-Court oftwo attorney sons. Ray

computers and claillls his ne1w r)aOemak(~r

enables hinl to jump tall buildings, go sailing,and nn"r\"1:T t-1C'!h1ncr

a trip to China in May, RaphaelTing (Richmond, CA) expects to presentCornell a well-known Taiwanese artist's

in celebration of the centennial offirst student's entrance to Cornell.

Ruth Gregory Gregg (Alton, NY) will tell usabout her second hole-in-one." Receivedword from Carolee (Anderson) and ClaytonRohrbach (Palm Beach, FL) that she is Sal­vation volunteer and visitedGuatemala and Italy. Fronl Sun CityFL, we hear from Harry Hoose and ChrisHaller. Harry retired from the NationalWeather Service inJuneau, AK. He lllarried aJuneau Clara, and travel the AlaskanJ-t1fTh1:XT'1,1:T every year. volunteers with

alnbulanc:e as EMT on the SCC Elller­He golfS, bikes, and swims.

Frank Eldredge (USNR, ofAuburn, NY, is of CountyBoy Scouts and trustee of the First Presbyteri­an Church. He received the Silver BeaverScout Award, and enjoys fishing, swilllming,and on Owasco Lake. Flora Mullin

NY) drove to Florida lastyear and plays bridge with Cora ThomasParsons'43. Martha Perkins Melfi'41 is

tivist Dick has received awards from theW orId Poultry Science Assn., is life lllelllberof the International Federation,and chairs Preserve the Commit-tee. Elaine Seeger Osborn (M.oolre~;town

N]) works with her local women's club andreunes often withJulie Snell Wood, RuthDillenbeck Melva WiedemannRibe, and Phyllis Stevenson Uyeno.

Love of Ithaca brings back Louis Fish­man (Hightstown, N]). A volunteer teacher atthe R WS med school, he received the GoldenMerit Award for 50 service to the New

State He's still search-to ski, and at-

opera,jazz, and concerts. Ed andMarjorie Millison Ryder (Chathalll, MA)are active in their church. Ed works part-timeat jewelry and for the Council onAging. They reune yearly in Bermuda withJohnConroy (Arlington, VA) and Ed Holub

PA) and their wives. Ed attends llleet-ings ofthe Cod Cornellians as does EdCallis MA) who traveled to NovaScotia and to a big Callis reunion.

John T.Jackson FL), still acOlllpany director, in the local civ-ic association and track of Zeta Psi's ac-tive and elder Ed and YoshikoMarkham Ed's into horticulture

activities as a free-lance writer andphotographer ongreenhouse conventions,Charles and Alice Thompson Matten '43\.L/'~.l.l\,'-J.l.l. TX) visited the Bahamas and Virgin

andJean Pardee Cole (Green-wich, who spent last theirhome and lnoving to a Burt andRuth Witte whoa great trip to GlenLondon, Vienna, Hamburg, visitingfriends and relatives, will also attend. And,Henry and Audrey Jones Smithers '44

FL), who volunteer with Habitat forHumanity and a barge trip in Francefrolll to Dijon. Henry's hobby is build-

houses. Another barge (Bruge to1\lllste~rd~lm) isJ oe Weinberger (L<3lrCJlm.ont,NY), who still to the officewhen not inHe and Edith (Newman) '43 a fourth­generation Cornell grandson-Class of'OO.] oe seesJoe Hofheimer '44 and Lawrence"Terry" Lowenstein '43.

We'll see DeeDee Sumner Gamard(Whitehall, PA), who helps out, andMadge Palmer Harper NM).AlsoJim and Myrtie Bean PA)who keep 15 one aCornellian. Now from US Dept. of

works on the local hl'lnn1lnfT

and target '>.L.l'-.>''-J''.l.L.l~.

Bob SnyderNY) at the Newark

Club at tundralslng tc)r HIeArt Center, St. Michael

volunteers with the public schools.We heard from Bill and

the Haleiwa, HI. Bill's aand vice chair of PacificCouncil, and civilian aide to ,p,~rpt''lr",T

Have you for our55th Reunion,]une 5-8? It'snow or never. Big Band au-

a'-/.L ~L""V.L.L'-""C"'" at Ithaca

thf1 1r 'vP::1lrl,]' nf'YXT<;:lpttpr and continue to sayf-hC":T "1:"1:T='~= soon to be ancient

wonders frolll a cruise on the Nile.President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes andN ear Eastern studies Prof Rendsburg

to conduct theEleanor Slack our alumni class

pn~slc1enlt, Bill Webber, senior vice hr,:J.C'1rinnf-

and I had thefor the Inid-winterC:lass Officerswas ournew editor, David Gibson, and Assistant Edi­tor Sharon Tregaskis '95, and also comrnis-

other class correspondents. JeanSyverson Lewis, our fonner co-president,

us from across the river. "Syvie" re-Inarked on issue of Cor-nell Margaret Bourke-White on the cover. She recalled what athrill it was in her more than 30 years at Time-

1I1'_r-IJlr1111"lP offices when Bourke-White canlein to deliver her work.•:. Dorothy Papish,192 Lancaster St., NY 12210-1941.REUNION

for all alulnni'30s, '40s, and'50s. And that's only part of the fun! Jim andDotty Dodds Kraker won't be satisfied un-less conIes. Don't resist this chance tovisit don't want anyone mad atyou, be there.

Thanks to the for assuring usthey'll be on hand. Donald '41 and ThelmaDrake Robinson NY). Thelllla hasretired froln home boasteight two atBob L. Harris,]I) '47, (Denver, CO)tered for both reunions. Richard andHanson Environmental

selfin science and said, "it was a greatweek. She also continues her work as vol-unteer at the New York 42nd Street Li-

which was fromretirement ten years ago as personnel directorof a Her presentment involves whichfrom 1860. "The foodsand cost frolll 1900 till is mind-bog-

She adds, "Yes, I do still find NYC an.1'"n."i- ",1,,/-= to live.

1996 we received memo fromCAU Mildred Phillips Ramsdell andBen attended weekend ofstudy intown, NY. Mildredthat "indeed in October 1995;had for aother Cornellians, manyness connections The weather was

and Coopersto\vn was charnling."Alice (Sanderson) andJohn Rivoire

'42, MBA '48 have come to telnpo-between two CAD Last sumnler

on the North Sea Cruise; arert:>,'r\1:;rt:>Y1ncr from their reaction to the

sculp-

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twice, once touring iJa.J..,~J..J..J..J..a.a.J..J..'U- J..J..,a. v J.J..J..~

dience with the Pope in Rome, taken aboard course with trips toislands, lnade a stay in Nova Scotia, and1"'11Irn,p"\T?r1 to Switzerland, and SaudiArabia. S. HarveyJanowitz after he re-tired at the end of 1995 he toteach Inath and substitute wherever needed inthe NJ, school system. AlfredRichley, a retiree, helps son Tim Richley '77with his landscape business one a week.

William Calvert ofClinton, retiredbut has been local and

school boards involving special ed andiii'-~il,i'~Uil,UJ..,UJ.. magnet Alan Leder-

busy lvoluntet~nIlg 'wlt:h the Wash­America, a trade

sociation andHe

five weeks in plus a tourgos Islands. Don Crandall, a widower since1972, is a very active retiree. In Medina, NY,he's nluch involved in the work of the UnitedMethodist Church, American Veter-ans Lions Club. He has threesons, four and one grand~;on

and says sofor the new car, cordless phone,TV, home computer, etc., no one has tinle tovisit ... lnonthly phone bill averages $125."His sister Helen has sons Grant Perry '65 andAllen Perry '67. John B. Cummings reads,

bridge, and serves as secretary of thel:Slrlgh,aln1ton Rotary Club.

Helen Couch

ered.•:. Helene "Hedy" Neutze Alles, 15Oak Dr., Haddonfield, NJ 08033.

InOdessa, NY. In she skis at Greek Peakwith a group of seniorsSome are and allhave fun. King and Alan inwinter, sail in sunllner. Alison reports "SaIne

The Class of '44 was wellrp't"'\rpCPl1t-Pri at the Assn. of

Officers (CACO) lneet-New York onJan-

uary 25. Seventeen classnlates sevencame to the Crown Plaza Hotel for

dlSCUS;SlOlns, su~~ge:st1C)11S, and lunch-Marga­ret Pearce Hubert Aronson and

Alison King Barry, Virginia Mac­Arthur Claggett, Louis andJanet BuhsenDaukas '46, Olga Senuk Dian10nd, JosephFile and Dorothy, Hugo Gelardin,JeromeHoffman and Joan, Sigmund and SerenaGinsberg Hoffman '47, Art and DottyKay Kesten,Jerome Levitan, MBA '48,and Helen, Hilda Lozner Milton, M. DanMorris, Robert Schmidt, andJames andJanet Elwin Starr '46. Only two nlissed the

class dinner at Hurley's restaurant. "Awas had by all," Dotty.

Recent retiren1.ents areI)r. A. Louis Shor retired as a COltlSULltll1.gveterinarian to nlanufacturers ofanimalAnne Bishop McKusick retired in 199639 in Hus-

full-time, appar­been to

table in our new SunIn December, T7ze StreetJournal car-

ried an op-ed article H. R. Shepherd en­titled "Still AIDS Vaccine."Former chairnlan and CEOPham1aceuticals and a WC)rlCl-n::CC)gnJze~d

pert on aerosollnedications,as and chairman B.

Vaccine Foundation, dedicated to pre-deadly diseases advances in

vaccine development and He andwife Carol Ruth (Shapiro) '44 fourchildren, four grandchildren.

Shigeo Kondo writes: "Oldest ~a.'-~~LLl,'-'J..,

Linda (Rhode Island Schooland husbandJohn n1ade usparents Second dallgl1ter,'82, was inO'Connor '81. Soncornputer business in IV1;aole\i\10()d.after with AT&T.

Even the spot in Willard where wefirst met was closed for the sumrner. Mean­while we spend our time lawn nn',WllnV--ll K"f'

Mary Close Bean "beats" Trevor Wright inthe grandchildren-twins!,

Margo Sturgess Dietshetour of Israel-"dry"-and

Novernber. Sallie At-Hewett broke both during

as a result of accidents."recovering.

Joe '42 andEdy Newman Weinbergerhave grandson Michael Tofias '00 (on Tofiasand Newman chatted up RoyUnger last fall. He in Kendal at Ithaca;Nobel winners are his Sheand Roy exchanged stories.

Barbara Styles Hagan lost Bill'47 tocardiac arrest in March 1996. She lives inLitchfield, CT.

Mary Crowley Rivin fell andshoulder and dan1aged nerves

corltrc)lllrlg the hand. She is rpr''''XT,Prll1lT (cl"'XXThT

She with ofWomen Voters inSanta Fe, NM.

Phil and Rosemary Williams Wilsonspent their seventh sunlmer at Oxford withOxford on an art and architecture

1430-1530. celebratedXXTI'::.r1rilncT anniversary on 4,

Gr~lnddallgl1lter Carol Wilhelm '98them up to date on

Dottie Brownhear from Cornell friends

She sumlners in LanaJnu;ugua,and winters in Venice, FL.

Many classmates dues but, hey, whatabout news? It's colun1n. To those who

gr3lndsOl1S have fully recov-

Elected a trustee of Forbes Li­brary in Northampton, MA,John Detmold is helpingraise $2 million to for the

renovation "after more a centu-writes, "of hard use." Even the carrels

theAnd

Hotel Schoolthanks to anEstes:bered mention ofmy In-volvenlent in the trial war crinlinalNazis. This topped offmy five-year tour in Office ofStra-

Services. David Estes served with meat OSS, and in school and head-

in Washington, DC. weand supervised accommoda-

and food service for all andvisitors at the trial, except for the de1ten.dantsand the jail. Dave reports that he andnow that their three sons own andLandfall restaurant he built SOlne years go,live in Stuart, FL, next door to Doug Black­burn '39, onetinle editor ofTIze Cornellian.

Peggy (Clark) '44 and George"Champ" Salisbury celebrated their 50th an­nlXTPr'C'l""T last August. "Visited sonle of our

haunts in the Ithaca area. Most ofthen1are now parking lots or COIlde:n1.IleU UU,LlLlJlLL~.').

(December 1996 I was sur-prised so many things came Far Above.However, they didn't Inention bittersweet icecream, a fabulous creation. Oh, those deliciousfive-cent dishes at the Straight between classes.It's still my favorite flavor and I'dhate to live without.

E-mail £rOIn George "Bud" Orr(Youngstown, NY) alerted me that he andBill Templeton (Oceanside, CA) were pic-tured in the Illustrated Swin1.suit Issue of1994. They were melnbers of the 1938 De­Veaux High School basketball teanl that in­cluded the winningest basketball coachup to that time. He'll relate more at reunion.

See you inJune. Renlember, we can'twrite about you don't first write tous.•:. Carolyn Evans Finneran, 2933 76thSE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040; tel.,(206) 232-3092; e-mail.ceehnIlcm;aOl.com.

to be pub-US Naval Inst. It's a bi­

Edward Ellsberg, fa­lnous sunken subnlarine S-51 in1925. He went on to raise scuttled ships and

r1rt:rr1",rlTc in World War II and wrotepxt-pnslvplv about and during

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Received news fronl myoIdCharles Correll whorn Ihaven't seen since was comrnodore of theMilford Yacht Club 20-some yearsChuck renlarried; he and

Colvin Gellnlan

More 50th l<--eunion COlll­ments: Reunion Co-ChairMavis Gillette Sand Au­

"It wasfor of

rnany too. Natalie W.Sand '76 is hOlne for three months froIll Gha­na, Africa, where she is

intoTranslators. She

New T estal11ent soonofwork." Meg Geiling Grashof

wrote, and I had a time at reunion.class nlelnbers in Florida or are

snc)wl)lnls want to get I will beto Address: 6374 Plantation Dr.,Spring Hill, FL 34606; tel., 688-4863."

Kay Smith Mancini Coast,"Wonderful time at reunion. a lottiIllewith Gamma roommateJane Purdy I aln still active in realtate. Visit me; I offI-95, Exit 91C."Jane writes, "I the re-union withthe attend-

were five Galllnlas and sev-Tri Delts. I anl in other Florida

Comellians: Evelyn Knowlton Lal11bert '45,Dorothy Iler Sanders and CarolCleveland both '46, andJeanJephson Schild '47." note: sorry about

members frOl11 the reunionthe paper at the

.l..l. UeeLL Y '-JcLcLv else wasIllagnLtler, too-we

photo and not

should be at the 55th. A welcome note frol11Dan Hartley NJ) travelswore me out; New Zealand, Australia, St.Maarten, French Riviera, Monte Carlo, Cali-fonlia, and 25 VT,where he and have a second hOllle. Inhis spare ti1l1e Dan is of the ExxonFinancial Club and a nlember of theAlliance COlnmittee in Sununit. Hrtko is a go­go, but he was! .:. Prentice CushingJr., 713 Fleet Dr., VA 23454-7321; (757)

its mergerSarasota's

of "I would like to thank ... ""I thank ..."; to this durnb

sounds if are us thatwould like to thank you but I won't"-cer-

don't it that

, 'Wlllllal11 '::J.

with Massachusetts Mutualwith Connecticut Mutual,

retirenlent oasis.Also still away, despite her

fessor emeritus title, Ruth Halpern

-NANCY TORLINSKI RUNDELL '44

at HebrewU.theses

our 50th Reunion marvelous inevery way. So does Anna Huttar MacDonald

Verde Beach, who feels soto our comnlittee that vol­unteers to be on the next one. Hut-Hut's son

MacDonald, a fonller residentwith Cornell's theater has

in Ithaca by her granddaughterniece, Amanda MacDonald '99.

Not to outdone, Phyllis Avery Olin andJames'44 sold Cornell totheir Marc Olin '99, who was onthe crew and is in band.

On the of these nlernbers of thecentury end's received anfrom Bruce Choi '98 from Aurora,

one of our class Cornell Tradition fel­lows. Since his letter ofthanks two years ago,Bruce has been 18 credit hours in En­

thecenter and tutoring a

School student. He's also an ori­entation counselor and host of the Red

and menlber of PhiSurnmers find hinlutility plumber. Another fellow, EmilyLoriso '97 NY), entereducational but tohurnan studies in the

(nee Horne Eco-on to school.

host, advisor to~C!101arSJnlpfellows,

and historian of Chi Thethird report comes frolllJennifer Testut '97

NY), an econonlics in her firsta fellow. She has t\VOmoved into our

new and '.... 1"1"1 r1 "1111:7

beconle Rebels, instead

arer'\1'"1'"t:>r1-'r'\1'-" Bob Ballard's wife is Rena-

not Roberta Woody Ballard '61 wasin theJanuary/February '97 colulnn.

mistake editors) alas.-Ed.] .:. NancyTorlinski 20540 FalconsCir. #4404, VA 20165.

husband, house, sarneHelen Knapp ofRochester, NY, is

sailor. In October she received theNathaniel G. Herreshoff the US's

pn~st1gl()USaward for outstan(11nlgl,LLLJ~ll,1~111~ to the

much of hereducation,

Helen is known RobertGarmezy's sport is table tennis. He's "still

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wrote that she "loved" our 50th. Her childrenincludeJon Gellman '70 (New York U. law'77); Rachel Gellman '72; Deborah Gell­man '75, MBA '82, plus David (SUNY, Al­bany, MBA '79). Nancy Hubbard Perryman(Webster, NY) could only attend on Saturdayso missed our picture-taking, but "enjoyedbeing with Rayma Carter Wilson and Car­olyn Usher Franklin. Even met MargaretMonteith Edelman, one of my former room­mates, on a bus." .:. Elinor Baier Kennedy,503 Morris PI., Reading, PA 19607.

Alumni House forwarded me two interestingpieces. The first was the reflections ofJan R~s

,49 on Cornell's 1946 football squad. Heclaims, "The 1946 Cornell football team wasprobably the most unusual team in the school'shistory. The war was over, and veterans werereturning to school along with the usual num­ber ofentering freshman." Jan, a member ofthat squad, tells of Coach Ed McKeever's per­sonal obsession with avenging a 59-0 shellack­ing by Army that his 1944 Notre Dame teamabsorbed. He prepared by recruiting some ofthe most talented players capable ofmaking itthrough the admissions office from manysources, including such top military base teamsas Iowa Pre-Flight, Maxwell Field, etc.

Jan writes, "Fron1 the first day of springpractic~ there was one message Coach Mc­Keever emphasized-October 5 was the dateCornell would play Anny at West Point. As it

June 5-8, 199750th Reunion

It's NotToo Latell

To register, callHannah Wedeen411·141·6011

< http://www.alumnLcornell.edu/orgs/c1asses/ 1947/reunion.html>

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turned out, Cornell was the first team to scorea touchdown on a sustained drive against thelegendary Army team, although we lost thegame 21-46. Army went on to become theNumber-One ranked team again in 1946."

Jan lists many of the Cornell squad mem­bers and many of their war experiences: WaltBoychuck '49, Bernie Babula '50, FrankStoviak '49, George Cronin '49, and L. P."Pete" Dorset '50, JD '53. He mentionssome of the football field exploits of FrankWydo '50, Lou Daukas '44, Walter Kretz'48, Fred Westphal '48,Joe Distasio '48,Joe F. Quinn '49, Frank Pastuck '41, andCornell Hall of Fame inductees HillaryChollet '49, Norm Dawson, Bob T. Dean'49, Pete Dorset, andJohn B. "Jack" Rogersill '45, MBA '50. Some of the storied athletesthey opposed were Army's Glen Davis andArnold Tucker, Penn's Chuck Bednarik, andColumbia's Bill Swiacki.

John E. Lowe, DVM '59, of Ithaca, sentin an article by Sara Cavanagh in theJanuary/February 1997 edition of The Horse cifDelawareValley about Dr. Robert C. Rost, DVM'46.Cavanagh writes, "An all-around horsemanwhose input has influenced virtually every as­pect of the sport of horse showing was hon­ored with the Jimmy Williams Award duringthe American Horse Shows Assn. annual con­vention, Jan. 16-19, in San Diego, CA.

She continues, " ... Doc has been an ex­hibitor, trainer,judge, steward, course design­er, horse show manager, veterinarian, anddrug tester ... " She gives examples of his ex­ploits and his very human qualities, as well asquoting tributes from some of his prominentcolleagues.

Ifyou'd like a copy of either article fromwhich I've excerpted, please write me at theaddress below. When you do, send a blurbabout yourself that I can pass along in this col­umn.

See you on the Hill for our 55th-2001,An Ithacan Odyssey! Please send news.•:.Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos,CA 94070; tel., (415) 592-7189; Fax, (415)593-2572; e-n1ail, [email protected]

EDIfyou, dear reader, have not

~ committed to being on cam­pus for our 50th Class Re­union inJune, please hit the

positive button in your head NOWand get intouch with Co-Chairs Marv or HannahHaas Wedeen, RD4 Thawmont Rd.,Sewickley, PA 15143, with telephone (412)741-6012. Or, ifthey are unavailable for someodd reason, you can buzz Alumni House andreach Margaret Gallo '81 at (607) 255-7085;she and other staffers have been energetic dy­namos in getting so many details in order forus. The Wedeens have announced via Febru­ary mailing a most attractive program withoodles to do for folks of all persuasions at mostreasonable prices. What more can one do?Fantasize--the class officers on line doing theMacarena!

Turning to other issues before we get diz­zy with body movement thoughts, how aboutMelba Levine Silver taking an Adult Univer-

sity (CAU) trip to Egypt? Did our vivaciousMelba cause those tombs and ancient wall fig­ures to shake? Other CAU ers were Murrayand Enid Rosenblatt at Mohonk MountainHouse with Bill '45 and Isabel Mayer Ber­ley. Writing in those latter two, I think per­haps CAU campus office should plaque themfor all the trips they have taken; must be a longlist, bless 'em. Oh, the Berleys CAUed to Syr­ia, as well. Malcolm Steinberg, a 40-yearveteran with Texas Dept. of Transportation,has been reinstalled as a director of the Ameri­can Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)­the ceremony was held at ASCE's annual con­vention in Washington, DC. His professionalaccomplishments and roles leading upwardsare impressive. SteveJeckovich, BME, andwife Millie spent fall 1996 in Poland as Civil­ian Democracy Corps volunteers. Manage­ment consulting, advising on transition fromcommunism to market economy, lecturing onmanagement issues in Katowice. They add, "...got a very good insight into social, political, re­ligious, and economic matters."

Marjorie Helgans Hughes indicates thatsomehow she failed to pay class dues promptly,indeed odd for her, but she'll be here for re­union! A neatJanuary note from Norm Kan­tor-right after our graduation he hooked upwith his father in NewJersey plumbing busi­ness, where Norm remains today. Norm'sDutch wife, Margareta Smulders, and he havetwo married children. A son left familyplumbing business and has opened "TheScreening Room" in Tribeca section of Man­hattan-a restaurant with movie theater plus"I" (for interactive) rooms, these for privatedining and viewing. New York Magazine haspublicized advantageously, as well as The NewYork Times and Variety. Meanwhile, Norm aschairman and CEO keeps the 85-year-oldplumbing business going. Says we write with apleasing insouciance that reminds him of ayoung fellow with whom he was briefly ac­quainted in seventh and eighth terms namedBarlow Ware. Hey, we're pleased Norm ishis own rock-solid self

Hotel managerJim Healy has a son whoowns a floating home Hlade famous in SleeplessIn Seattle. Jim and Kay have slept there. WatchforJim Hutchinson at reunion; he carries onas president ofsales association of the paper in­dustry. Tom Kiley, andJerry and BarbaraBayer Silver have been doing promo workfor our 50th in the Northeast. Big-time effortlast fall for Harvard-Cornell football game.Way back in May, Carl Ferris wrote a notewhile at campus Statler. Carl and Constance(Foley) have granddaughter Robyn Meyer'97 graduating from the Ag college this May.Ooh, two close visits to Ithaca, we guess. DareCarl and Connie miss reunion?

Floridians Durand Fisher and wife withfanlliy are still in nearby Spencer; good reasonto see those people in June. Jean HoughWierum and Betty Miller Francis get togeth­er occasionally; we're feeling that a local gettogether will occur within the month. Karland Marianne Michaelis Goldsmith'46 stillhave Cayuga Lake cottage, where they spendsummers with children, many grandchildren,

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can allhave 1S-room [)e'~l-~jlllL]L­

Chalet Inn" on St. Thornas,£Y"r.o1"I,r"r--.11T1Y\rr the beautiful Charlotte Amalieharbor. For lllore details contact them at POBox 4319, St. Thomas, USVI 00803.

Now lnore news-nl0re pn)mln(~nt

cIassnlates! at Marshall U.School of Medicine, in WV, re-

honored Dr. Albert G. Moat,the l1l1c=rOblO~lO~~ rnnmUn()lO~~

Mary Lou Seeley Reeves and StanleyJ. '48 headquarter in Syracuse, SUl1ltner on the

Lakes, and spend inClearwater, FL. They enjoy bridge,activities, Elaine "Toby" TobkinPelavin and Al to their home awayfronl hOllIe in and re-

for three times a year. Lastvisited Dr. Mollie Snlart and her

~L'''','s::-.'''''''''''',Dr. Ellen Srnart, deathof Dr. Russell Smart, ofchildde'velopm(~nt and "Russ••",,'.... "" .L'-'"<.L",,", were my friends and rnentors, bril­

CAdll1UJIC:'> ot JhUJmanltv cornbined withdlstlnctlon-lthe best

this col­familiar

or do you read aboutall your so be

in-the-know our 50th? Unlnml?HOlnes-Barbara Way Hunter, NYC,

and is 20-room 1812

dall1gjhtc~r ISnlate reunion.

nrrlPr\c--nn wonder weKarl holds to

errLDl()v(~ebenefitsOthers anticipated Lois Irene

Haigh Mann, Elizabeth BretzSawyer Thompson, Lucille HoldenDan Belknap. Sign line here. •:. BarlowWare, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1247.

MAY/JUNEl 71

those who attended.note fronl Allan Mitchell, Seneca FalIs,

that Carson Geld was featuredin Fanning, March 1996, with\vife Ellen (Bromfield) '53. Those who wishto know nl0re about their Bronlfield ofBrazil

check it out. Allan andto Alaska and the Inside

in sunlrner Allan says he isto be retired but still helps out on

ofson George '73. The chairhasn't up with hinl yet. He isforvvard to 50th Reunion.

It appears thatreunIons your

nIates.Jean Michelinitraveled to W ;lshln~;;t:o,n

tJa-l."-I.~Jl.tJ<",,~,-.In

dass­Sarasota, FL,

High School inNY. to Alaska last

sunmIer, she is back home, where she is activein the Sarasota-Manatee Cornell Club and

anyone who is in the towas

now in HerDan Chabot, PaInl FL, also at-

the reunion. Dan livesHarbor he is outnumberedDartlnouth but Bob E. Vogel '52and Margery Schmid Wilson '63

Donald W., MD '65) him cheerC:onlell.

Aileen Enright Moore, Heniet, CA,1f__ 11lr..-.."'"TI"'/; sea to shining sea the

school reunion in Kennlore,NY, where Betty Parsons .-I..""-..-I..1'-'1.L.L-I.'~.L

Aileen and husband Harry'49 visitedAileen's fornler roonlmate Pat Gleason Ker­wick, and Marty (Galvin) and Gordon

Inskip and their son Mike Inskip '76.visited Florida for the first titne, indud-

of an awesotne IJL""c'LLL LLLLL'-

IV1(;lb~ou]~neBeach.Another classnlate, James

Tregurtha, San CA, writes thatsaw ofthe after 34 years in the

so too took tour oftheHe went first to and then to

New York on AUltrak train, then to New.L...JL"jo'-,L.ALL'.... , where he visited Dick Marble in'" ",,"LLL/"'-L"L"'-LL, MA, brother Paul Tregurtha'57 Connecticut, a sister in andthen went to Florida. He horneair, all

W. Peter Metz,Mountainside,his business in 1986 and retired instarted Habitat for I-I"'-'"'"I" ..-.,t-"

Plainfield, NJ, which has ninehouses since 1990. He and wife Ruth travel,sail, and Robert Swanson,

us he is fully retired forthat this still allows

you to enjoy the fruits I:tobert.David Inkeles, Middle Island, NY, and hiswife sailed to Martha's \vith Stan'48 andJoan Cohen Halpern '51 on their31-foot sailboat in the sunlnler of1995, fol-

a failed attempt the year before.Roger and Myra Weber Wolcott '51

have Elderhosteled to Israel and a nlonthRoswell. NM,

Pr?c>ch1Tt.::'r1'lln church.

plus corporateHow tnany farniliar did you find?

Are your dues and ne\vs sent in? .:. MaryHeisler Allison, 470 C:handlee Dr.,PA 19312; tel., (610) 640-1387.

be

union MorePaul T. Carver, W. Hartford, CT, skis

with like-new is a doublenIode1 railroader, and

environrnental field. Hernental and vice pn:sKlt~rJ'taL JLVlC~~U,i-L'-'

Inc, AlE water and waterassurance

Yoursuccessful

We about theInternet and how Cornell uses

it to \vith alunlni. ofour dasstnates and wonder-ful dinner at the Yorkwith Dave Dingle with his pi-ano He touch. BarrieSommerfield, to thegroup that 549 this

and so far 130 IteunionWe're all the news

"""'-"1-1.'-')l. '-''-'- fronl Hazzardin Ithaca. was considered but

since He spent several KeyWest, FL, with Ralph Mary"Patch" Adams Williams, were alsowith us for dinner and the Assn. ofClass Offi-cers meeting in New York

Ken '49 and Sally Wallace Murrayenloyrn~:bldelrhclstelulg. Bob Fite is stilI tout-

May, and invites allto visit. Marion SteinmannJoiner andhusband Philadelphia, PA, toweekend at NYC, while MargeLeigh Hart and husband leave NYC to week­end in C;reenvvich, CT. Maria Iandolo Newis very andwas elected toofSciences. '--'''-/lL);;i aL\.-lJla\.Jl"-,,lL..'Maria. Wecolades, Patricia Fritz Bowers waselected to chair the econonlics ri"""-,,,,r-t-..-.-.,,,,,·-.t-

teach-and McLellan Rose '54,Jules

Mary Holcomb Haberman, Class ViceKessel Gabriel '49 and

Louise Passerman Rosenfeld, also

pre:sIdenc:y of local COlnnlUlllItylealdeTslllp of Area

andprogranls in nine counties. Albert "AI" C.Condo Jr., Nevvtown PA, hasvived his 11 th year ofretirernent fronlAtlanticI~ichfield, but is no\v in tenth on therh,=-l-.'lCt-l'-"T ripl"'\',rhIT1P,nt-t'lr'l1lt,T at Villanova U.

vvith son of theMountain Div. (World War II)

Robert "Bob" Dean, Ithaca, soldDEANCO in 1994 and Bob IJean Inc.1995 and is Inore tinle in ParkUT, orPark City areas.

Stephen "Steve" B. Profilet,Hills, MD, says, to his retirenlent as

on your way South at theCOlnmission's

Glass Tovver on 1-95 in MD-hisis cast in bronze! Stanley "Stan" M. Anderson,Glens Falls, NY, after 16 years ofretirelnentand across the United Stateswouldn't trade for beautiful Lake

l\dlIrclndlac!( n~gI()n! LawrenceS. Smith retired in 1984 from the US

Service and novv rl",nt',. t-.-,P

a volunteer!('prrpt-')l'""\T for National

and 1995 ofCrane Conservation Assn. , and

Bonlber He andhave traveled to Korea, New

-'-'L.Ljo'-,LCLLL'-L, South Africa, and China.Short rnoved to Winter

after 32 years withlocal '--/ ,LL-I. V '--I.J-I."

and twoall?" Also in

Club, vvhich has volun­teers at Cancer Care Center, and is active intPIScop;al Church. three

Onlicron basenlentnot-so-fond rnenlories

tables ...... "" ..-.,"'... ","'" ...the coal furnace oil

and the \vaited on their own tables!News ofAlbert G. Morra carne fronl his

Albert retired1989 as prC)dlLCtlOn LLL"'-LL"'-~;..,'-·L ..•

Ur~ltolttU:L1atelyhis nIenIory has dedined witha,Ll'~ '-"U'll\'~~'-' ,Lll.'~, etc., lia', '-' J,a\.A.'~\.A.a"ay.

Winifred "Winnie" Parker -1.'-1'-'11':1-1.'-1,.,_N. Olnlstead, C)H, says husband cat-sat

for her four spoiled felines while sheGaspe last sunlmer. Elaine

"Lainie" Rosenfeld C:ines, Colurnbus,vvent on Elderhostel to Arizonawest renliniscent ofcourse nlany nloons ago; also cruised theMediterranean. Mildred "Chris" Christo­pher Bradshaw, Baldvvinsville, NY, visitedSavannah, GA, after reading a fascinating best­seller set in that city. Marilyn Faith (Olsen)

Walter Baurle '48, NY,tired and and NewZealand Alaska, Hawaii,and the Islands, and Bavaria."Grateful to be able! to dassrnates-

you in 1999!"Paul E. Gillette, Punta Gorda, FL, nUlst

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4)1th It(eIJnl~On.''

"

-JACK AND BETTY MENG HOWELL '51

.:. Ruth DowneyVA

'60, hadroonlnlates and

George and Bev CollinsAdams, Fran Duncan Stowe,]ack '49 andKatherine Rusack Adams,Ellen Forbes and husband Garth.Ollie Myslichuk McNanlara, AZ,

that in 1988 hascelebrated ofbusiness with

73

bird. Kinda.Retired David Deppen

MA) does interitllin New Canaan, CT, and San

de Allende, Mexico. I"tetired frOnl theistration of North Carolina State U., MichaelRulison relnains prez of the NorthC:arolina Consulllers Council, is boardnlenlber with a local Web site, and does folkand contra like Bernard Koser

has returned to

our Picnic in the Park, onSun., May 18. Fifties class Inelnbers willtneet

at the feet ofthe statue ofAlexan-Hatnilton, Co1unlbia 1798, behind the

IVletr"OrlOlltan MuseUlll of Art, near 83rdNo reservations necessary.

guests \-·.l\.IJ\-\.,l-\-\~l.

Then COllles reunion, June 5-8. It is saidfew of us fall by every year. The

annual party at the pool of Clark and PrezClaire Moran Ford in CT, is on

19. That should get us all wamled26-28 in Ithaca.

from '52, '54,and '55, is tor Leonardo's What'sYour Beefrestaurant There's added rea-son to hOlllecolne this other than to wit-

the for the consecutive Honle-Colgate, this

salute Dottie Clark,-,,.,'an.t-'Y1,rr her Frank H. T.

Rhodes award fronl theAlunlni Federation. Dottie relllains on call tovolunteer for Cornell activities on the LeftCoast continues as docent for the SanFrancisco Fine Arts Museunl. In the three

the a\vard has been 18 have beenL.J.'JJIL'-/L~·'-', Three of them (Rich Jahn andMort Lowenthal won the first have

,53 classnlates. to allofthe above.

Architect Earl Flansburghfinish ofPhase Two ofhis Bostonschool and expa11Slon

co:mt:>let:ed in I)eceln-'+:J.\1\J\ I'-SUI uare·-Il.)UL c1assroonl

There'sahead to hiln \vell after the nlillen­niunl. Murray and Enid SpangenbergerMiles, hOITIe frolll Snlithsonian to

still think "Paris is the Inost L''-·('I~''JlL.~L

in world, but love our \Jl/ 'lch1nrr_

ton, I)C, too." Barry Merrillretiring frotn aerobaticsfabulous Gernlan

~L('ILL"".IL"L'-''', and travel ("now thaton the East the

Park is aroundleast for New

or those whoor those \vho

their way to attendinclined to

North Alnerica." Hesales into

sales His son Nicholas '84is president of intenlational Op(~ra1C10I1S

Thomas '78 has assulnedchaimlan of the board and C:EO

A sad note froln Lillian (Schneider). Herhusband, Hupert A. Gerstman'44, died inMarch 1996 fionl A chain

and her tobroadcast the death.Lillian

sheErie Lo,nlIl1unltyCottonwood Dr., NY.

E. Terry and Dori Crozier Warrenhonle fron) and Cornwall last

October in tinle to to rural woods at1436 Hidden Helnlock OH.They I~t.

driving PA, andRaymond F. Gallagher retired in1996, but on hand to help his son, who tookover their snlall business selling fruits andvors to the in the Midwest.I '-.'.1 V J '''fJlI'''~ and a toeastern Mediterranean \vith alunlni grouplast Dr. Patricia Thornton Bradt wasapt)ornted to the and Davidtes:sor'Stnp in environlnental

Allentown, PA. Pat isU. to return to full-tinle

environnlentallVllUhJlenberg. Husband

hunlan

Richard T. Groos has retired fronltive managelnent of the~. ~a""~~L~", MI. When took over

science progranlJack continues to directdepartlllent of ['\j ()rtJhhalrlptontinle ofwelfare reforrnhis \vork is a

It is known that the twosailor theit is sold. Afterboat fronl NewJersey the Bahalnas, Stan­ley P. and Phyllis Berger Corwin sold theboat. N o\v land around theUS in 34-foot nlotor honle. not trav-

hOlne is 40 Roberts Cir.,NJ . Visitors to

Braz Katninow and25 in interior Louise nowa at the MuseUlll of Anlerican Folk Artin New York also does vol-unteer work, visits with sixchildren, to lead theShe touch \vith IrwinBraverman Broida.

Send our last co1unln . •:.and Gayle Raymond Kennedy, 9

/\lIr:lnl,O\\lnnrl Point, Ithaca, NY 14850; fax,272-3786.

Enthusiasnl for our 45th Re-unIon IShave not yet Inadetions, call Paul Blanchard at

323-2060. Renlenlber how beautifulIthaca is Call fornler rOOlnmates andthe person who sat next to 101(Redding Rufe!) and let's

Three senunars have to the listof activities. Dr. Moen of thenlent of H unlan andStudies will lead discussionbreakfast on on theCourse Issues & N e\vM. Carr Ferguson and Goldstein willhold a selninar entitled "Health in theyear 2000, Who andJim Gibbs has

entitled "P..__ace Relationsfronl the 950s to the Present." This will be

the Class of' 52 and theAssn. and will be

tinle she was to sell her house socould Inove to Fortreunion, 23 states were re~)re:seIJlte(1at

but no87 NY State; 25

19; Massachusetts,Connecticut, 16 Floridaeach; North Carolina and

We alnlost out ofne\vs.any news of yourselves or other class­nlates. •:. Jack and Betty Meng Howell,Ashford Ave., Tona\vanda, NY 14150-8563;

Elev­"to

return to an old love-tap stillEdward Wilkens, \vho

been with the US Food and Drug Adnlinistra-tion for the 39 and Alan Sokolski,who is still at the CIA total35 with the US Governlnent. Alan and

Carol (Stitt) '54 celebrated their 40than:nl\rersarv with their at Greenbrier,WV,

There another way to \vork for theemnlent. Marylou Bussing Morrow

with the National Park Service at1\ssatlea~~ue Island National and is

coordinator for the Alternatives to Vio­at Eastern Correctional Inst. in

Westover, MD. For those tor an in-ch~lllelngIng,and lne'xplenSlve

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CLASS NOTES

National Treasures

On Oct. 19, '96, Hurricane Lili blastedthrough Exuma, Bahamas, with a 15-footsurge and 120-miles-per-hour winds doingextensive damage to Bailey Smith's houseand property. The recovery is slow but steady.Bailey wonders why he has seen few Cornellsailors passing by. We are fair weather sailors,Bailey, that's why. Freelancing last Novemberin Italy, where he had lived for two years, Ivan"Larry" LaFave said he was glad to be back tothe wines, breads, and fontina cheese that heenjoys so much.

Writing for the first time in 40 years G.Michael "Mike" Hostage shares the follow­ing. "This week (December 1996) Dorothy(Noll) and I go to Ithaca to watch one ofourkids receive her BS Ag degree. Our youngest,Beth '97, will graduate from the Ag collegewith a communication degree; she is our tenthcollege graduate. Over the past 26 years, we'vesent checks to 13 different colleges and univer­sities; the last 12 years to Cornell. Feelings thisweek are happy and sad. Happy that I won'thave to deal with those bills anymore. Sad thatit's the end ofan era. And yet, in a way we be­gan a new era this fall because our oldestgrandchild became a freshman at Boston Col­lege. With 21 grandchildren (as ofyesterday,anyway) this era will probably last at least aslong as the last one. Hope it's as much fun.

"On another note, in October we joinedwith six other Cornell couples for an annual'mini-reunion' golf outing. We (Lee andMary Fitzgerald Morton '56, Peter andLorraine 'Lorrie' Pietryka Plamondon '55,Joanne and Frank Dellecave, Marvin 'Marv'and Patricia 'Pat' Wehman Anderson, Gig

(JEREMIAH) '53 AND

PETE JACKSON '54DOT

R.

A fter retiring in 1993,Dotand Pete Jackson startednew careers as seasonal

rangers in the National Park Service.For the past three summers, they'vebeen rangers atYellowstone Nation­al Park, in northwest Wyoming,Montana, and Idaho.

Two million acres ofback coun­try crisscrossed with 1,200 miles ofhiking trails make up their backyard.There they lead walks through the Grand Canyon and discuss wildlife and pres­ervation.

In their first careers, theJacksons were university administrators at Cornelland the University of Pennsylvania, as well as inTexas, Colorado, and England.As rangers they live in park quarters-minusTV and with only limited radioreception."Often we end the guided walks in view of a geyser:' Dot says."Thechildren are just thrilled.They call it water fireworks, and clap at the end, asthough the geyser were a show put onjust for them."

Pryor. For years Karen has written about andbeen involved with animals and their behav­ior. I think you'll find her discussion on clickertraining fascinating. I suspect many of youhave used the method with your own dogs. Itwas new to me and I downloaded all the infopossible. Karen has written several books,many ofwhich you will find listed.

Mary Ann Smith Bliek is a supervisorfor the town of Williamson and for WayneCounty, work she has more time for now thatshe and Ralph have turned over much of thefarm work to sonJeff Mary Ann says a coupleof farmers' markets in the summer and her po­sition on the Agricultural Farmland ProtectionBoard keeps her hand in the soil. Mary Ann,Amanda "Mandy" Goldsmith Farrell,]ac­quelyn "Jackie" Leather Mallery, and AvisPope Payne manage to meet a couple oftimes a year, hopefully with some discussion ofreuning in 1999.

Nancy Moskowitz Wachs is doing a vi­tal job for Cornell as a member ofAlumni Ad­missions Ambassador Network (CAAAN) inthe Rochester area, along with working part­time for the Rochester AlA, doing a bit ofcruising on Lake Ontario, and overseeing theconstruction ofnew guest quarters. This pastyear she visited the Women's Rights NationalHistorical Park in Seneca Falls, site of the firstwomen's rights convention of1848, as well asSusan B. Anthony House, in Rochester, ashostess to an actress from Seattle who playsSusan B. in an original play.

From Houston, Tyler Todd sends wordhe is not retiring but is assuming the presiden­cy ofthe Greater Houston Builders Assn.

There are times I feel I shouldpay to have this job. I am begin­ning to receive your messagesvia e-mail from all around the

globe. Just the other day a message fromLorraine "Lorrie" Niedeck Gardner, Vic­toria, Australia, was on the screen. Lorrie hasbeen back to the US only twice in the 38 yearsshe has lived"down under" but is planning tovisit this September. Ithaca being on her list, Ihave proposed she attend Homecoming, Sep­tember 27 for the Cornell vs. Colgate game.Now ifall ofyou planning to attend will e-mail,fax, or write me I can let Lorrie know who willbe at the mini-reunion. Lorrie has been a pup­peteer for the past 30 years and ifyou wouldlike to see her and some of her friends justbrowse her web site at www.infoweb.com.au/gpt/. You'lllove the dinosaur.

Another site I have visited is www.dontshootthedog.com by Karen Wylie

now. I have the time." And after four years'work, he has wrapped up a children's story forhis grandchildren.

Retired dentist Richard Angeloni(Beach Haven Park, NJ) says he spends mostof his time commuting betweenJersey, Ver­mont, and Montana and speaks highly ofYellowstone in the snow. There are grand­lings in Vermontana (both states). AnnMurnane Kelly, retired librarian of Utica's St.Elizabeth nursing school has been a busy vol­unteer for the locallibe and Red Cross besideskeeping her garden green in the summer."Our three kids are on their own," she says.Sheep rancherJoan Otto Daunt (Bandera,TX) checks in with "lots ofgrandchildren."She's senior warden and active with the vestryand choir as well as doing duties as Eucharisticlay minister at the local Episcopal church.She's a gardener, too, but has had time for tripsto the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.

Victor Wintriss (San Diego, CA) isheading for the green with the virtual realitygolfsimulators his Wintriss Engineering Corp.purveys. Dean Mergenthaler, director oftheintensive care unit at Jupiter (FL) MedicalCenter, contributed to last year's "FrontlineTreatment of COPD." Retired as AlbanyCounty (NY) agricultural extension agent, J0­

seph Huth carries on, selling seed and sup­plies to veggie growers and greenhouse opera­tors around Voorheesville. He keeps in touchwith operators of farms in Tula, Russia, aftervisits there and seminars in Moscow. Dougand Marlene N oden are retired, but just keeprollin' along. They've moved their R V camp­er from East to West and South to North andback, seeing national parks, historic sites, LasVegas, and, ofcourse, grandkids, over the lastfour years. They're not sure whether they'refinished yet, with R V-ing or accumulatingscions and scionesses. Dave Gatti (Hunting­ton, NY) "doesn't want to retire, ever." Hehopes to keep his hand in, designing and let­tering book covers with pen and pencil "aslong as hand and eye have the acumen." But,he asks, "is that dread computer acumen in?"

Okay. Thirteen months to the 45th..:. Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., NYC 10009.

MAY IJUNE 1997 75

aWe to Dr. W. Eugene Sand-

ers Jr. for his letters over the Ifhe will me another line from his atTI004 Woodcliff, RR2, Fremont, NE,will it post haste.

Ray SanfordJr. (1410 Leone Lane,Lake, is part of his stock rnarket

...cd..·, ..... ov,"" ~.... --- .."'.... Cowen and Co. afterHe he

and is stillnClIt-"-ITI-( HIt-" He

union for his submarine crew the USSDiahlo, on which he served over 44 yearsHe has eight grandchildren.

Barbara Palange Schudellives in Rich­nlond, VA, (2 S. 25th St., #2(0) and is head ofThe Governor's School for lio,veJrnrnerltInternational Studies (a

~.l.ljl.lU.l. ~.lJJ • Three gradu~ltes

at Cornell and rnore

Gail and I returnedfrom our trip to Ha-waii. We were pleased to bewith Caren and Roger Weiss

,61, JD '64, for the second week. Roger wonthe Pro-Arn tournament at the Senior SkinsGame at the Mauna Lani on the island.N ow that I anI rested, can with alot ofnews.

Charles L. Coulson has retired as execu-tive director of the Harvard Club inBoston at Harvard. (Henlana~red the Harvard Club.) He

to hear frolll classrnates at 115 Ab-erdeen Ave., MA . Dr. GeraldEdelstein,15509 SE, Mill Creek,W A, is his retirelllent. Hetook a Sea cruise and thereaftervisited campus. He was sorry not to been

reunIon.Marlene "Pete" Jensen Eldridge and

husband Bill, MBA '55, are also muchretired. Bill just had a hip rep,laoementstill nlanage to todat:lglTters and the~lr (!rarldc:hlJdre:n

You reach them at 33 PhillipsLane, Darien, CT. Diane Newman Fried\vrites from 516 Lane in New Wind-sor, NY, that she reunion andrecently went to China Hong Kong.

Eleanor Kamholz Levine is a teacher atold alnla mater, the Fox Meadow School

.)CI.fS<lalie, NY. She has been there for 23and is also in a doctoral progralll at Co­

She and husband Robert '54 are re-gr~lnc1p2lrentsand have also taken sonle

Their address is 3 BrentwoodAve., Plains. Another teacher isJoanHoyland Phaneuf: who lives at RR2, Box174 Lake Rd., Clinton Corners, NY.She her husband, also a teacher,

retire their love17th S., '-J .....L ......... 'f.. .,.

Barbara Grove Purtee cannot unaer'stanohow she had tilne to be f'nllnl(~Vf'rl

Between birdvolurlte,en:ng, and church activities,

Add to that twos(elJ-CnlH:ue:n, 12 grandc:hl1dren,

l"-,1.,... J.J.\.--J.J.'>. ... \.--J.J. You, too, would

DUBUC '55

in Sedalia, MI. "Best ofall, Laura adds, "I dis­covered relatives on recent visitthere. Donn Resnick reports that ~... .,....... '-' '-<l"-,......

he's in Scottsdale, AZ, not toretired. "I'm still creative ad-

'1'0 ..+ ........... ,..,.+"'... clients," and ""~'I,,"n1~{'''' t-hlo

ny "whornIure out." Donn's also goneWide Web with a Peggy Black-burn Robinson and Dwight '53now have 12 grandchilden. Their VOlln~~est

Uct.~L~1J.lL.l.,Holly Robinsonlllarried at the Rose outside Ithaca,with her sisters, Laurie Robinson '77 andHeidi Robinson '85, in attendance.Laurie's husband, the Rev. Dr. Green,

cer,ernon'v, is minister at thein Ithaca.

Year-round Codders Lorens andVirginia Johnston Persson, ofW. Yar­mouth, MA, are involved in town govern-lllent and as officers of the CodCornellians. also landed astriped bass, was for celebr'atllon.Carl and Mary Lynne Waller Young"back horne after four abroad livingSri Lanka, Ireland, Ukraine." Carl's em-

Flight International in Miarni,the are time for the

"hands-on restoration" in CoralGables. (It was so rnuch fun up withyou guys at ... "" ............."', ....... /

Deborah Golub Leibowitz, who listsher hobbies, said that

"" ,,"" J!:l~~r· ,..,...... 0+ 1' , O~ her mother wasDeborah enclosed

cessful"thanks to the rernal~kable

partrnent atMedical Center.better than ever, "but

to the pel~0(10rlt1st.

a year ago on a Seabourn cruise toRio, where rnet with Estavao 'Steve'Kranz life has beenroutine, '1[T~"I"t-t:"TO'1'" t-h",t- ,n-.o,,~('

And what's new in classruates?.:. Nancy Savage Morris, 110AWeaver St.,Greenwich, CT 06831; tel., 532-0287.

-CARROLL "DUKE"

and Tom Fischer, Pam andJohn Mariani)met at the Mission Inn Golf Resort near Or­lando. some good golf and great

I ov,,," ",y,f-h Carmen Louvre '57and M. O. Ryan, Sue and William'Bill' Tull '55, Clarence and Bar-bara Gavin Fauntleroy '55, gets

We remark, time,the of the that old friends

the best friends. Mike, don'twait another 40

Ann Maxwell Barnard continues toexhibit, and teach both studio art and art

"

1"~o"h~..... ,,~ at U. ot fVla~~sac:husett:s.

all for helping Bill Blake withthe class And keep those Web siteand e-lllail addresses

better when youwith .:. Leslie Papenfus Reed,17 Hillside Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904;

925-9404; tel., (415) 925-0727; e-mail,

vvas very dISaplJ01,ntled--t)utthat I am sut)st~ultlallyn~CClVf'rf'(1.

duced his lltlgatlo11Scounsel to"roll I)ubuc

town tuned!"Laura Weese, who lives in Seattle, finds

that substituteup with whatsince there are no grandchJlldr'en

yet. ToLaura took

76 CORNELL

CLASS NOTES

lot of newsGuess

aPl)rOiaclllng or have

the "-'"v·1. ....1.1.1.LlJlQ,

also enjoy golfand tennis.Bobbie Erde has nloved to Las

I.J1.\JIJJ.. 1.\..'L-V1.01.1..LIJ aerospace""h·trC'1.Alr,~"{r COJ:lS1Lltlng UU:)~l~\"';~~. He llloved

to Tucson, but still has cabin inthe Cascade Mountains which he will visitduring the Arizona sunlrners.

R. Scott Wetstone has retired fronl theofanesthesia and a tllonth tour-Irene Lazarus has retired as

teacher, but finds herselfbusier than Shelives FL, and is editor ofthePalnl Isles III newsletter, video editor of thetelevision channel, with the Palm Isle

and the local choir, and, in herspare tillle, takes lessons. W. DonTipton now describes his occuoaltl0n"fun." He drove 6,500 miles ....1..1. JLJ ....JLV~'.....

,.,.,""t-' .... r .. ,no,,,,, 0 countries. He has nine granochll-dren enjoys gol£:

Bob Endries EmilyLee Pennell '62 and relocated to Newtown,PA. children. Hecontinues into his

as counsel toceutical manutaclturlnglen was _r<~'r<~"ITTr<.,·.~ .."r<

Intelihealth,Healthcare, infomlationto conSutllers. He owns three racehorses withlllixed results, has tlluch better results asture capital investor! A. Cal Allen and wifeMarsha (O'Kane) '59 now live in Sisters,OR, and the fantastic scenery andoutdoor life.

tion for the NY State of Labor.He continues to represent corporate clientsadnlinistrative labor hearings on days.

new are Charlie Feledyelectronics in CA,

as vice president, and dls1tnt>utJlon),and Mike De Nicola computercornO~lnv also in Charlie attendedthe reunion back this year.

At the sallle old stand is P. Beach Kuhl,who has his firm grow from 177 to 250

in his 35 years, and who is one of thein California not to have

sented J. This column is oe(11cate:oGerald Coyne,who is l.\..l.U1.1.1.1.LI.~

ever Cornell reunion. LJ"-f"-f.L,.JLI. ... ;;;;". "'''-fJL VV '-'-"'''-1.

Gerald and everybodyI to visitJack McCormick re-

has had boutwith diseasefor some time, but is on the road back. If

a Inno tillle. The Anton Tewesfour new in 1996.

had to beat last.:. John Seiler, 221 St. Mcltthews1\ve..

Louisville, KY 40207; tel.,

AdriennePhD '56, retired

deal of 1996 rr,,"'{rAI1'Y\~

leads an Adult... hr''''''r,... ...,,,,,,. r-+ London U.L.L"... .LU,,,,, .I. "..La)'

able to visit the reconstnlcted1 hrol12JlOllt the year Adrienne visited

with friends, alllong them CarolAnderson Brown, who is an artist inNew York City.

Sue Nash Malone won't be t- ... r>-rToh..-.rr

frolll her San Rafael, CA, home to reunionthis year. She used her vacation tillle last Oc-tober to visit and China with her sons,Scott '89 Sue is "'''.L.L''' .1.'-" V ..L.L.LCC JL"'~.L

ad director for Acoustic Guitar, r>lrt",~,·.rrh

her co-workers seern to get youngereach year, an observation no doubt

by those of us still in the work force..:. Judith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave.,#813, Bethesda, MD 20816.

deacon in Greenwich, CT, and frolllOctober titne at her home in '- f Ul' '~LL~.

NY, her interest inshe and in her vel2"etabJle

to at reunion is Ellen DerowSalovitz, whose son was married last

In and her husbandand now she's back run-

achievementsin this column. LOingratulatl0ns!

next month. •:. Stephen Kitten-plan, Park Ave., 2A, NYC 10128.

C. Russell Wagner, 543 Lakeshore Dr.,"'--JUJL.L.L"-'.L"-', MS, retired last 38 yearswith the US He has a

in New Orleans real estateand He has a sutnmercottage Canada. Francis F.Welsh Jr. money at Merrill

In He commutes fromhOllle Avenida de la Herrdura,

Pacific Palisades, CA.Martin H. Wohl, 14185 Cross Trails

Dr., St. Louis, MO, into art mu-activities, and the. "",-,",",:» LJ"-'Y..L.L.L.L.LJ'F­

Inst. sponsoredWadsworthJr. ,

Award, the

State, andThanks to Eli "Mink" Shuter, MD, of

6240 McPherson Ave., St. Louis, forthe article on Roy Curtis III, who

named Inventor of the Year by the Bar Assn.IVlC~trc)ool1tan St. Louis. has 40

HeaShlln~2:ton U. His

1957/Class57.htlll. Yes, our classthanks to Bob Watts.

Neuman Held will be upW clsh:Ln~:tOJ:l, DC, vvhere she continues

and leisure tinleher sons,

lives inled group from Cornell

Club a technical rehearsal ofTraviata last March-a fundraiser for C:or­

nell scholarshlps.Our Reunion Co-Chair Audrey

Jones Cauchois has been retired fronl GeneralFoods for almost ten years and has found

to her She an active

REUNIONI."" tion fo:a;::~ti:di~'~ not too~ late the tnore than 200

cla:ssrrLatc~s, some with spouses,sonle on their own, will share in our lastreunion of the 20th And wantto know who's and on theInternet check out our Home

77

ficersManhattan in lateSteve and Ruth Conn

for the Class of '60 at their

in 1964.,...,.-"v-",r'''''f\i~= financial pla.nnJn~2:;

USA; vice treasurer of()il Ltd., Exxon's affiliate in Canada;

nlost senior vice ofExxon, USA. She is a nlernber ofthe executive committee and vice chairman ofthe Board of Trustees; she alsoserves as a trustee of the U. ofSt. Thoillas anda nlenlber of the board of directors of theHouston Museum ofFine Arts.

Florida's Lakeland Prowlers, owned byLeslie and Barbara Hirsch and theirchildren, finished NUInber One the South-ern last season (its firstbut lost in whenthe went with a collarbone. As I write, it's that tinle for Boband Mary Arth Thornasset, 147 W oodcrestAve., White Plains, NY 10604. Tax time."We have our own firnl, Bomar Planners,which doestion," says

the loss of two ofour classillates. Carol Hunt­er Heidlnann died last and VirginiaKerlin Brossman died ofcancer last October.

Chuck and I are off to do SOllIe travel-trip to and Viet Naill.be very Will

next colunm! .:. Jan ArpsJarvie,Brook, Dallas, TX 75240.

Assn. Officers(CACO) was headed by Class President RonDerner and included Eleanor Applewhaite,Bill Day, Suzanne Rollins Fried, FredHarwood, Pat Hurley, Marian Fay Levitt,and Harry Petchesky. Pat, our treasurer, isr'""",,,,.r~"-'f\f-,~r... C"'l"'l",::>ct-,"""rl<' for the next class

ideas to her at 46 HartfordAve., Greenwich, Cl' 06830. Gwen Wood-son Fraze of Anlarillo, TX, has to chairour 45th Reunion in 2004, will serve an

40th ReunionNancy Sterling

ahead even further, to the "Big One:" for our50th Reunion in 2009, we'll the return ofThe I)ave and Show, the Snl:aShlng' SU(:::-cess Dave Dunlop andfor our 25th Reunion.

I"ton renlinds to..... ,./",.............. 1,,, to the letter.

In(~nllbel"sh:LDcontinues to increase, which isCOJLllrnendabJle since it betweenreunions," he writes.include news about this colunln!

And here's a reconlnlendation froIn Ron:"Those in or the NewYork area will dinnerat Restaurant EtatsUnis on E. 81st St., wherePat's son, is owner/chef. Noted

gourrnet NeilJanovic says it's thebest restaurant in the " Fred Harwood,

reconnected with Cornellson Peter '96 transferred

"It has been won-derful for wife Northwesternand nle to relive C:ornell our son's

and to learn about the aweSOIne accom-ph~;hnlenltsof the Rhodes era. "

Fred of the1"1-prl-rflh::.r,,,nr '-J'-" ....~"v~~/. He's

team of un-de:rgraduat:es. alunlni, and

to revitalize the Greek systelll at Cornell.been a and I

"'''',Tl L::"l"c,rf to be Cornell after all theseback, and en 10Vl1t1 P-

Cornell in a nlost cause.interested in the plan for fraterni-ties and sororities contact nle at (908) 332-0091 or tnarwoO(1(a;seCluent.,corn.

Fred writes and have spentsonle great tirnes with Bob Higgins,JohnTeare, and Fred Andresen. Last Septenlberthe Fred and wife Carol(Shaw) '62 her sister, Ann Shawat the nlenlorable of the f\rldrest~ns

Nancy in NC.Carol Clark Tatkon has elected to retire

fronl Exxon after 32 with the conlpany.

where husband Mark has started a newbusiness-Princess Inc. are do-

world ,...,.-""rd-.".,o,c\

"Ll'-l'-'l~\...a\..lVll, and deals. Not a full-time deal, so still have lots of tinle forand have built a new house,"suicidal to so the East Coast!"

the land in 1993 and it took until Sep­1996 to move in. Ronni Schulbaurn

Strell is a editor of law books,Sp(~Clall:lln_gin and corporate law. Shenlet her fornler roomInates, Arlene ScharfKelvin and Dottie Berens for

and and greatwent to Cornell W om-

:::'VInpIOSI1Jm at the Cornell Club-Newwas terrific. She had a chance to

see WOlllen in the classes that were on caInpuswhen we were students

Peter Stifel retired fromyears at U. of Maryland and is now 1"\"",-",+""c<,,..,.,,.

enleritus. Last year he served as pn~S1(jerlt ofilie mdilie

W ~lshln9~O]ll. He is="-,-,,,,,,,",,,,-,,-'0- ..-.-''''''"0 active involvetnent with ShoalsMarine Lab and the PaJleont(JlolgyResearch Inst. in Ithaca. He also dedicatedAndrew P. Stifel '91 salle lastin the Field House at Mal Johnstonretired fronl but still does

He has nloved from Bos­ton to S. Dartlnouth, MA, a seacoast townabout 70 nliles froIn Boston. He ishouse which Inakes him wonder how he everhad tiIne to work! His son alsoa lot of his tinle. He is on the ofMassa-chusetts Audubon the land conserva­nn,n--~'n.T~he doesn't know one bird from an­other!).

Bev Blau Miller retired from the'-.J' ll'UllU_c1~c1County (NY) Health Dept. to be­

a new career with an HMO tothp',r",,,,,rl1rfll case manageillent utilization.

and runs with anat 6:30 a.lll. Her husband

and hip but is .".=,.""",-"".".,..-.",,"

Ron Lewis owns theness, Morris' Men's Wear in Ithaca, ithas relocated to the Comillons. N orrnaEdsall retired years ago, but to do SOlnecOlJns:el1]ngreg:arclln~~ re~tlrc~lllent financial

is in her second term as councillllember on the town board. She is active inthe local historical and can also be

Intwo llliles

We have few new addresses frolll movesin the last six lnonths or so: John Danielnloved to 1415 Ashwood Cir., Myrtle Beach,SC 29575 from Alexandria, VA; BruceHerrington is still in California, but now at9938 Lanning Lane, 92256.Dr. Rachelle Rernen is also in at762 Sequoia Rd., Mill 94941.Ben Bowker in Dallas but now residesat 9520 Springwater Dr.-75228, and DonAlpaugh llloved within Massachusetts to Box195, Marion-02738. No news frolll thesetnovers on this next time.

It is with a sad note I this COIUIlUI with

78 CORNELL Iv1AGAZINE

CLASS NOTES

BILL KANDER '61

vUlnelraC~lllty.',

"

Net. Contact Dave Kessleran who wrote with your

sea:rchlng the thesaurus .f-r..-' ''lrhL:>f'f-n: rL:>C I

ATTENTION: Print Mis­Web Master. If

be

compuserve.com.Richard J. Schwartz has

chaimlan ofthe National Museum ofAnleri­Art of the SInithsonian Inst. A resident of

~Cdlrl)()rOUgJtl.NY, Dick is pre~sldent

Ackley, Bill Fisher, GeoffBullard, GaleJackson, Ginny Seipt, Ray Skaddan,Phyllis Pugatch Schecter, and Irene Klein­singer. Also Mike Abrams,Harry Blair, Carolyn Carlson Blake, JohnBurget, and Bob Cohen, who treated the

to fronl hist-r''I'''Y\'l'l,Y\r'',,,,"'' in New and elsewhere. Alsothere Mary Di Gangi, Gloria EdisSchoenfeld, Joanne Isaacs Alanand Ellie Ross Garfinkel, Jerry Gauland,Sam Gilbert, Margaret Gordon, MichaelGreer, Lorraine Buzzutto BenHehn, Elizabeth Heine, Jean Lahey

Bobbie Spelmanjosepher, HerbM. Kaplan, Allen Klein, Steve Kornreich,Sandy Leff, Abby Herzfeld Litt, CarrieWarnow Linda WurtzmanRosenheiIn, Phyllis Yellin Schondorf, ElliotSeley, and Emily Frenkel Soe1l, '" IAf-.rr't'tT1f-h

nunlber andJohn

MAYI] 79

corllpetI1:0r. Wife Heather is an artist.terKatherine, 24, is an art dealer inT om is active with the Cornell Club of Lon-don and is its Ira D. Ross is inBedford, at Mitre SonColin is a senior at Fumlan U. andball. Lexie is a at Den­ison. Ira would like to comnlunicate withclassnlates on e-nlail, but thereisn't colunln space to list e-mailcontacts. I an address list-

Ine want inforrnation.Mary Falvey writes fronl San Francisco

that her step-daughter got 3and she \vas

to concentrate on her r"',,Ct' If-,,',rr

the new year. Bob Fitner was re-to a third ternl in frorn the

LOingresslonal District in California62 percent of the vote. e-rnail

canle ne\vs fronl Russ Stevenson: heto beconle

Inc., an Irlt'o.'-"'1""t- n r ,,.rl,r,o.lc"\f-

conlpany in Reston, VA. HeAxtell ' 66 are enjoyingDaughter Amanda '99 is in Arts Sciencesand Lauren is at Colurnbia. BobBouton is executive\vith PSI International in Wilton, CT.

U. of Southern California held ana\vards luncheon last October to honor threebusiness leaders. Lewis E. Platt, chairnlan,tJL'-_0L'-''-d'.~, and CEO ofHewlett-Packard Co.

the 1996 Award for Business Excel­Lew also serves on the

Council and on the Wharton School'sof overseers. In 1995, President Clinton ap-

Platt to the US conlnlitteeon trade policy negotiations.

Susan (Fidler) and husband LoringSmith '61 are still and in Bos-ton and also sinceMarch 1995. 1996, Mark Spitzer

eXt:ClJltlv'e director ofEnvironnlentalcenter.

'97 is in Hnrr1y\"""",-"n!'r

Bill Frances "Frankie" CampbellTutt still in Colorado

Pat Padgitt Wellington .)\-Lll- a.,lV~J.~

of ne\vs story shePalmer Anderson re~~an1Ing

Duffield's recent rro.,no.l1"'"t'C

David is pn~slc1ent,

rl',cc'-'''''rl'C forand Duke will be attt~n(llng

George Agle suc:ce~;stlJlllV

L.C;. Balfour Co. to ,,,,-.,,hl-,,h,l1f,r

artis Art-Tech t\SSOCllate~s.

What a wonderful we have arnongour classnlates! thern in .:. JanMcClayton Crites, 2779 I)elhvood I)r., Lake

OR 97034.

As I write this article, Warren'62 and I have been back inthe United States for aboutrnonth.We nliss but

pnliY\Tlnn the transition back to lifeWI, \vith lots friends and

ofcold Please noteaddress end of this article. Be-

l left London, I talked with Tom Wills-Sanford,\vho in the Class of'62,but had his in our Cornel/ian. Torn'scredit card business \vent1996 and

.":r'1""'>'Dff,o ,-.,:'nr,,·f-c that

UJ)pE~ntlel]mE~rDonath has cho-,..,.,-."",(',rl.Orlf- and CEO of the LonUlluuuty

Bankers Assn. ofNY State. She has been activewith 1979 and hasserved CFC) of federaltions. She lives in Scarsdale.

honle in Villa Park,C=A, Leslie Avery Giacobbi (Mrs. Peter'61).Judy Alberts Chinn is the director ofChinn in CA, whichoffers, anlong other SAT I and SAT II.Barnett "Buzz" Rukin is also a railroadutive, with Short Line. He and Donna(Proopis) '71live Ho-Ho-Kus,

John Carlson is consultantAudit in Chadds Ford, PA. PeterNathan is an in W. Paltn Beach, FL.Wayne Kelder is fanl1erin Accord, NY. Priscilla Snow

(0); 325-8488; David S.Kessler, 288 Le~(lngto!nAve., #7B, NYC10016; tel., 416-7600, X203 (0);

418-3084;

I N

1[m1·IIt . \von't be th.e. sanlewithout read-e this and not

80 OI(N IN

NEWSLETTER OF THE CORNELL ALUMNI FEDERATION

CAAANDO!Admissions AmbassadorsPerform A Valuable Service- And Have Fun Doing It

BYDEANNE GITNER '66

MYFIRST ASSIGNMENT AS

a Cornell Alumni Admis­

sions Ambassador Net­

work (CAAAN) volunteer was

twenty-four years ago in Stam­

ford, Connecticut. As a new par­

ent and a new homeowner, I re­

member there wasn't a stick of

furniture in the living room, and

my two-year-old (now getting

ready for his 5th reunion with

Cornell's Class of '92) was nap­

ping. One of my first local high

school student interviewees

walked quite a distance to my

home on a snowy day. I had grad­

uated six years earlier and we had

a wonderful conversation about

Cornell. I remember how much I

enjoyed speaking with someone

older than two.

In those days, CAAAN volun­

teers were not told whether or

not their interviewees were ulti­

mately accepted. About a year

later I received a letter from that

young woman saying how much

she loved Cornell and thanking

me for having talked to her. She

was the first in her family to at­

tend college (as I had been) and

she was grateful for the opportu­

nity. Iwill never forget that letter,

nor meeting her. Cornell is one of

the best things that ever hap­

pened to me and Iwas so happy to

help someone else experience it

Orientation Week for freshmen. 6,000 alumni speak with more than

10,000 Cornell applicants each year.

that I've remained a CAAAN am­

bassador for nearly a quarter­

century.

Some 6,000 dedicated Cornell

volunteers are involved in

CAAAN activities. As members of

305 committees in nine regions,

we contact more than 10,000 ap­

plicants each year-and host

send-off parties, college nights,

and accepted-candidates recep­

tions throughout the country.

Many CAAAN volunteers,

when asked why they give time to

this effort, say that talking about

Cornell with prospective appli­

cants and their families is just

plain "fun." Eliese Fisher '88 vol­

unteers for CAAAN and helps with

minority recruitment because

she was once "one of those stu­

dents" and wants to give back

to the university. Susan Phelps

Day '60, MEd '62, and her hus­

band, Bill '59, BME '60, have

volunteered. since 1961. ·'We

enjoy promoting Cornell and

telling the Cornell story," says

Susan. '·CAAAN work also helps

us stay current and in tune with

the younger generation."

NEWYORK, NORTHEASTERN OHIO

Good CoverageNOT ALL CAAAN VOLUNTEERS

receive training, although in

areas of the country where it is

feasible they are instructed by

other alumni or admissions staff­

ers from Ithaca. There are 540

CAAAN members in New York

City, where Ken Nagin '74 gives'

updates to new members about

university programs and admis­

sions office standards. A few

years ago he and other members

admissions volunteer efforts in

the greater Cleveland/Akron area

for fifteen years. He coordinates

activities for the west suburbs

and is assisted by Chuck Skinner

'63, BME '64 (northeast suburbs),

John Burke, MS '74 (southeast

suburbs), and Sue DeRosay Hen­

ninger (Akron/Canton). Ap­

proximately eighty-five North­

eastern Ohio volunteers meet

with applicants and complete re­

ports, which are then included in

each student's application file.

Last year 85 percent of the stu-

CHICAGO, NEW JERSEYIthaca Trips &MoreADMISSIONS VOLUNTEERS DON'T

just meet with applicants. They

also help with recruitment, yield,

and retention, and serve as role

models for future alumni. While

admissions officers from Cornell

visit local high schools, CAAAN

volunteers attend college nights

and other prospective student

programs throughout the year to

meet applicants and their fami­

lies and to provide a broader

knowledge of Cornell. CAAAN

alumni also make referrals of

strong high school students and

student athletes to Cornell and

encourage prospective students

to visit the campus.

Many Cornell alumni associa­

tions and CAAAN committees are

chaired by people who concen­

trate on encouraging minority

students to consider Cornell, and

dents applying from the area

were contacted by alumni and

had an official CAAAN form on

file.

~~(AAAN involves more than justng applicants, although

the volunteers say thatng with applicants is the

best of the job."

of the CAAAN Commit­

tee-a group of twenty alumni

who meet with admis­

sions staff on CAAAN issues ­

produced a training video which

sent to committees through­

out the country to help educate

new volunteers.1'1 for

Cornell. It is a fun way of beeom­

ing involved. You get to meet

young, prospective students and

get to give your viewpoint of the

message of Cornell. It

back to the univer-

sity. Even if a student is rejected,

it is important to make sure he or

she has a good experience with

Cornell," Nagin says.

CAAAN work involves more

than just contacting applicants,

although most volunteers have

said that speaking with the appli­

cants either by phone or in per­

son is the best part of the job. An

interview usually takes an hour.

Some volunteers meet prospec­

tive students in their homes,

while others do so in their offices,

in the students' homes, schools,

or even the public

HNortheastern Ohio is

of many regions where the

CAAAN committee and the

Cornell Club of Northeastern

Ohio work together, and

where the commitment to re­

cruiting students is very strong,"

Susan Miller, the director of

Cornell's North Central Regional

Office. Atypical CAAAN organiza­

tion has a committee chairperson

who coordinates the volunteer

efforts. In Northeastern Ohio J.

Ward Simonson '39 has led the

Bench Restaurant in Buckhead for guest

sP€~ak(~rs,ancl netw()rkilng, 6:30 p.m. Call

Kim Brown Bixler '9 1, (404)

MID-ATLANTIC

Pam Bobins on "Kitchens of the

/I 6:30 p.m. Call Judy Riehlman

For updated information on Cornell Club events,call the Office of Alumni Affairs, (607) 255-3517.

O'Donnell Brownell

NORTHEAST

dinner, Shanghaijazz Restaurant. Thom-

the Jacob Gould Schurman

professor of biology, speaks on "The

Value of Nature./I Charge. Call Rolf

Frantz '66, (201)

to the

Technologies, on

Nancy Gustafson Toth

NE YORK/ONTARIO

ITHACA

METRO NEWYORK

Genesee-Orleans Cornell Club honors volunteers with the "Spirit of

Cornell" Award. Top, from left: Maryanne Sovocool '52, andAlfred Richley

,44, present the 1996 awardto MaryWright'45. Bottom: the Classof2000.

assist with the application pro­

cess. Eliese Fisher, who now lives

in Chicago, began her CAAAN

work in her hometown of Cleve­

land, where she and other volun­

teers targeted students in at-risk

high schools. With the help of the

schools' guidance departments

they identified students who they

thought would benefit from

Cornell. In the fall, workshops

were held for these students,

where college life was discussed.

Cornell volunteers then helped

the students through the admis­

sions process, even calling the

guidance departments of the high

schools to make sure that the

transcripts were sent in on time.

"The first year of this program, we

took six students who were ac­

cepted to minority weekend. Five

decided to attend, and I believe

all have graduated," said Eliese,

who is now working with the

Cornell Club of Chicago to set up

a similar program.

Another group, the Cornell

Club of Northern New jersey,

sponsors a bus trip to Ithaca for

prospective applicants. The two­

day trip, chaired by Lou

Nisivoccia '90 and Marissa Rago

Hedengren '87, was sold out, with

forty-four prospective applicants

staying on campus, visiting class­

es, and learning whether or not

Cornell was for them. This organi­

zation also increases awareness

of Cornell by giving Cornell book

awards to high school juniors in

six New jersey high schools.

To become a CAAAN volun­

teer, one needs only to have been

an undergraduate or graduate

student at Cornell. Volunteering

for CAAAN \lis a particularly good

activity for recent graduates,

since it is a no-cost activity and

they have great expertise, having

so recently been students them­

selves," says Susan Miller. There

is no age limit for CAAAN volun­

teers. Older alumni often gain as

much rapport with applicants as

recent graduates do.

Many CAAAN volunteers get

started as undergraduates by

participating as campus ambassa­

dors in recruitment and admis­

sions events or by helping at

send-off parties or accepted-can­

didates nights in their home cit­

ies. For some CAAAN groups and

alumni associations, another re­

cruitment activity involves rais­

ing funds to send a local student

to the Cornell Summer College

Program. In Northeastern Ohio,

Tom Williams '76 chairs the Schol­

arship Committee. "Although this

program may only affect one or

two high school juniors each year,

the program is well known by

many high school counselors who

recommend their top students to

the program," Miller says.

Many alumni associations host

receptions for accepted students

and their parents, with discussion

groups made up of recent gradu­

ates and parents of current un­

dergraduates helping prospec-

tive Cornell families get to know

the university better and encour­

aging the accepted students to

choose Cornell. Once students

decide to enroll, they become

part of the Cornell family. In Au­

gust, many alumni associations

and CAAAN committees have

send-off parties or receptions for

the students and provide them

with a list of other students from

the area who attend Cornell. This

helps them to network, to find fa­

miliar faces on campus, and to

share rides to and from home.

Some CAAAN groups also host

events for undergraduates injan­

uary when they are at home for

winter recess. In Northeastern

Ohio, an educational program

followed by a social gathering

gives students, parents, and

alumni a chance to get to know

one another. Northeastern Ohio

also sponsors a Summer job Net-

work for students, co-chaired by

Betty jacques Browne '52 and

husband Mike '55, MBA '56, and

Meg Mitchell '78. They contact

alumni in the area and collect in­

formation on jobs and intern­

ships for students, communicat­

ed to students bye-mail.

Even in areas of the country

where there is no Cornell club,

there is often an active CAAAN

committee. CAAAN groups pro­

vide the easiest and best way for

young alumni to get involved,

says jim Mazza '88, director of

student aid development. "It is

amazing how many Cornell vol­

unteers started that way and then

branched out into other forms of

helping Cornell. As alumni move

around the country, CAAAN vol­

unteering is a great way to keep in

touch with the university, as

there is always a CAAAN commit­

tee that needs volunteers."

Campus admissions people

say that CAAAN reports help in

the admissions process by giving

it a human element. "CAAAN vol­

unteers often help to explain the

Cornell structure to an applicant

or encourage an applicant to em­

phasize something he or she may

have taken for granted. In addi­

tion, they often provide the uni­

versity with a local context for

student activities or provide an

explanation for a major glitch in a

student transcript," says Brenda

Bricker, director of admissions

for the College of Human Ecology.

"Often, the most important thing

CAAAN volunteers do is to encour­

age students to take a closer lookat

Cornell by enabling them to speak

with someone who really loves the

university. just getting students

excited, so that they go home and

read the information they have, is

important. Iam grateful to CAAAN

volunteers for the work they do,"

Bricker says.

TO BE A CAAAN VOLUNTEER,

orformore information, callthe director of volunteerprograms in the AdmissionsOffice at 607-255-5020.

As the acadernic conles toa close, I want to certain alllllembers of our class areaware that the Class of '65

Scholar for 1996-97 is Eric Dalland '00. Ourco]ngI~attllatl0rlsto Eric, who is fronl Coxsack-

NY, and is a freshnlan in the ofbnlgll:le(~nllg.Dean ofAdrmssions and Finan­

Donald A. Saleh wrote me, "Pleasesincere thanks for this generous

undergI'adua1te students

you, your fanlily, your interests, etc.•:.BevJohns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield,IL 60015; e-mail,

bre~attltaJ~ang--ttLefall colors, the campus, theLibe Tower chimes-even seeing an oldfessor or two. It was the first tinle since Ileft that I was able to feel the true bond that

with the school and the area. "L)t,stetn(:larl-gynleCC.lO~~lst Paul KrugerHarris Dr., Watertown, NY) each

offers an during winter toCornell students interested in obstetrics and

Through February 1996, fourdone it. Two ofPaul's three sons

are Conlellians: Michael '94 and Nathan '98,both in the Arts college.

John Randall is a researchthe US N uclearRegulatory Commission,rl'lII1'711nO" '111 a~erc'sp;lcenuclear safety. John,"-JU.\.<..L.L'~.L..L',.LV, and three children still live at

Stone Gate, Colunlbia, MD. His in­terests aikido,judo, and camping, andhe volunteers with Alumni Admissions Anl­bassador Network (CAAAN). William andGudrun Rule MacMillan split their extra­curricular activities: he's into w()o(1worl~C1nlQ"

biking, sculling, and soccer; she, gar-both, square and round dancing. The

IVlalclVlllllans live at 5720 Brooklyn Rd. ,Jack­son, MI. He is a senior engineer with ConsurnersPower Co. there, while Gudrun is a volunteer atBirthline Pregnancy Crisis Center.

Jody Hutchinson (121 Talleyrand Dr.,Wilmington, DE) joined an Annapolisclub, and between the club and people she met

the club, has sailed around the Turksand Islands in the south, the coast ofNewfoundland in the north, and lotsin between. All on OPBs (other people'sboats-the in my opinion). Finally,number of classmates participated in AdultUniversity (CAU) off-campus progralns lastfallI winter: Wistar Morris went to and

in October, Nadine Felton went toNJ, in October and to Costa Ricaand Tom and Diann Goodman

nearin NY, drop by 4920

Herenden Rd. for a visit. (Note: soybeans areawful

ArchitectJoel Cantor Euclid Ave.,San Francisco, CA) returned to Ithaca last Oc­tober for the first time in 28 years,COllle back east for areunion. He

will go offto col-

as the InternationalAssn. ofFinancial Planners. The

advice tonew book out for

proites~aorJLals: Wealth lV1Clrna$;!ement.On other hand, Alicia Vogt

seems to be Or rnaybebottonls. That's because Alicia learned to scu-ba last year. Alicia is at In-diana U. husband Neil

"'1 __ ""111" traveler is Andre

arbitration.international attJUla1tIo:n Olt lIlde~pend,entand conID1erciallaw finns. Ken,in the Honolulu la\.v finn of Darnon KeyBocken was also honored re­

ottleralnrla l:nater, Penn State, whereofearth and min­

eral nallled him a Fellow aspart ofthe 100th anniversary celebration ofthe

Ken, wife Patty (Geer) '67, and their'\.Tr\1111.rpr 'S()fll sp,en1t t11ree week) last fall in Berlin,

chiefHamlJsI1Jre Diabetics

consider Wil­and trademark at­

in 1995 vacationed inBhutan and last in Fiji. He lives onCharles Rd. in Mt. Kisko, NY.

George and Pat Lenihan Ayres'ssonJeremy'96 frolll the

InrlP--::lnn now works on thehis father and brother-in-law

Jim Gray '87 ..L../UI ...... .;;;.•..L..L\.<'~.L Kris Ayres Gray'87 and Pat run the market and green-houses. the fann 1,400in sweet com, field corn, wheat, and

etoWIl!RATED •••

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Contemporary.Comfortable.Courteous.Convenient.

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1995, Frankie was nanled to the President'sCouncil ofCornell W ornen. She operates atravel travel school, and writes for

pUbllCa1tlOns. Son Ben, Grad ishis master's at the Hotel school. Bill

and Frankie divide vacation time betweenhomes in Vail and a InN est Wilderness Area.

Class President Craig Peterson an­nounced the Cornell Class of1963 _L/..LV vLu..L\.< v

Awareness Award, last to Water-Education This 1-'..L'J~L.a..LL..L ..L...'

effort to prornote undeJrstculcLlnl2:,amicable relations 'lrY11 r\11, 0" ctl1 r1p11itc

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Briefnotes: Dr. Walter Zent is a veteri-nanan In KY; Christine House-holder librarian CapeVincent (NY) School; FloydHummel Jr. is a progranuner and nlathteacher at Penn State U.; Dorothy Samuel is

designer with California in Los An-Allan Bergman director, state-feder­

relations for the United CerebralIn DC.

That's for this nlonth! News and dueswill be out soon, so with

.:. Nancy Bierds Icke, 42 E.Ct., Racine, WI 53402.

84

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From horne in California, Lee andJoan Buchsbaum Lindquist '68 travelaround the world, heli-skiing,

Norm Alvywrites ofhis dallgtltel~S:

graduated from New LawSchool in 1996 and Deborah attends U. ofWisconsin, Madison, class of '98. DavidBaxter lives in Acton, MA, where he is activein the Friends As the localchaimlan for Girl Scouts, Barbara AllenAriano works with Senior Citizen pro­

Valley, NY. Bill Maxfield,withJohn Monroe, has

1'""11,~1",n- +'1y,ri" to the Phi Kappatr"1t·p,rrI1nr house on Hill. Bill's son Pe-

lives in PaloL ...... \{ ~ •••• <:=: to Japan,

Korea, India, and Ithaca. Art Purcell writesthat he

andworld. He has

Traveler.works for the Seattle

::-'vrnollor:LV while three children. NeilTeague, Fayette, NY, shares news that sonScott, Grad now in the Vet InNanuet, NY, Sharon Family Grieerlbl:lth

has sent 18,000L ~L"'L>o.c~L.L.>o.c·",". Also in

pre:sIdent and CEO ofbnterpn.ses (1r>.11y\'" ·,r<=",·,"',"I'"<=" between US af-

...................L. L "LL 'UL"'~'<.J and Texaco).MBA '68, in

he and wife Ruth

he continues to fly oldl::5eecl1lcraltt 150r:Lan:la airplane!"John Duggar's

underwater constnlCtion,nelenllg ;an(l rrlanag(~Inent: In New Orleans. He

filiatesPete Salinger,

Bethesda, MD,(Dritch)

please remember to send usFlorence Douglas Bank,Bethesda, Md. 20817.

MacEwan infornls us he still inthe local Cornell Club in Portland, OR,where heand

MAY IJUNE 1 85

is a Inember ofthe veryactive Cornell Club in London.

Michael and Cheryl Cibulka Gordonand their three children live in Moscow,

Mike is The New York Times correspon-invites Cornellians "in need

to contact her.

t,.-",., C!?',I,,,t'r'" the winter,many. Meanwhile, Claire on~arl1z~es

for a women's group and isup on her French.Rich and Nalevanko also live in

London, where for Mobil'scrude oil and r1"..-.rt,y\C'r f\rr11"{T,t"'\T

In of theirdren on the Hill-Megan '95, whouated froln decided to start all overin the Vet Amanda '99 is in Arts.The Nalevankos are visited classrnates and

Monica reportslows. She

with paper she pn~se]t1te:d

rllotion at the nUSI.-'~r~lllU~l.e

health where her ownin 1981. However, the lows whenMonica was breast cancer andhad to The =,"J'J"-I. ........ vv"

more appn~clatl0n

thingswas lucky to rec:el\Te rnesUt)OClTI

Robert Arnold lives in Short Hills,Carl Acebes is an investment rr.1I'Yl"nl'",1" '''T1t-h

Rochdale Investment lVlan;lge~mlentJeffrey Burtch is aOrangeburg, NY. Kevin Bertrand istor in Pullman, W A. Randy Bus is consult-"'", p.",t'!"1rlp.p.1i" "{'X TA""'-'" ,)" ,,, Winfield, IL. Robert

Machine Co. inPh:l1aclellJhla. Warren is a financialecutive with Baxter Intenlational in Deerfield,IL. Robert Cane is sheriffwith St.

County in St. FL. KristinLeigh Davis David lives in Scarsdale. J on-athan Schwartz lives in NH.

I look forward to Sendfronl a recent vacation. re-wonderful trip at Tellu-

ride, CO, where I at The whichIS run Ken Humes '81, oftheHotel With nle were illy andthat of Susan Lewis Solomont '77. IrecoInnlend Telluride and TheGordon H. Silver, Putnaln Investrnents, 1Post Office Boston, MA 02109.

frorn his classnlates."(CAU) reports that

Ueltchrllan (BS 6625HH~hlalnd, MD, attended the

tJl.'-"~l.(cUl.l.l.a..,,, fall on Ecology in thewhile Susan Axelrod

2501 Porter St., NW, Wa.shlngton~

DC, Inade it to Down to the Wire: Theof 1996 at Mohonk up in New Paltz,

NY, ElectionI regret to report the of Pamela R.

Herriott, late ofChapel Hill, NC, on Mar.25, ~94 . •:. Richard B. Hoffinan, 2925 28thSt., NW, DC 20008; e-mail,

in "solnetwo new

"still rY'I '1," '1C'rp.c

Marathon that I love. RichardG. Moore, 575 Auburn Rd., Groton, NY, is--rp'..-.rlh'Yl,fT info systerns at the Hotel school"

he sees classmates and" Liz Fein is at 42-09

St., Little NY. Dr. Jeffrey A.Chesky, 700 S. Durkin Dr., Springfield, IL, ispresident of Phi the nationalacaderruc h","'''..·,..-.:T ..... gelrorltolo~:v "He is still

ofFlorida. Hen-oldest son, David, has been theschool. Susan Frankel Hunter is an an-

dealer in GA. David Weberlives in ltochester, NY, and is

Monica Bernheim is and

11400 Albata, CA~ executivedirector of Sundance Inst. and saw SteveGelbart in LA. David Yewell writes~ "Hav­

ball at new start-up in SiliconBlvd.~ San

t-nI11Ylr'r rn,n about a

reports that Rogerand Ruth Mandel Pincus

tended CAU's program May last year.Also at CAU program were Marshall Kat­zen and wife Bari Boyer '71. Ken S.Greenberg is of history at SuffolkU. in Boston in Newton, MA. Bar-bara Lichner lives in Santa Monica~

CA. Eleanor Zenn Zweibellives in NewYork and works in realnlent.Jane Bennett Moore lives inDE, and works at theU. ofI)elaware. BillFalik lives CA,Jon Ellman and thattinle ofhis lifecourse withJohnny

Henry ShapiroGardens, FL, and

Inc:1u(11ng~ we some ,,'C,r1P'_",_

TTlf-"::Jn,r--rn'~n,class standouts inside thewho was at the 25th­

one!Now to the e-mail: I)r. Patricia

Putnam Keir

More at and after reunion, now:Paul Schlenker, Mills ltd. ~

Media, PA, who andsoe~C1allZ(~de:nglneenngsottware used

to irll-and enlissions" says

back!" Kenneth Brecher ~

86

CLASS NOTES

about ofthat!Sunlffier is have

nlelnber, our 30th Reunion.:. Connie Ferris

Tholnas Rd., Malvern, PA 19355.

and adolescent +"'I.,""rrh,r,j-YfT ,rl""'"',.,,..,t-..Tl,nnt"

dren's 1\/1 ":>1"Y\.r.r1,., I

head of the Warrenof Northwestern Menlorial

,-,'LLv'"",,,,-'J. She earned her InedicalState and did her in psy-

at the U. Westernchiatric lnst. and Clinic. Mina has been

child and adolescent +"'I.,""Trl.. ,,.,t-1"l,~t-

1978 and has nla,deslgluulcallt

MARSHA ACKERMANN '71

"

law school, 1240heinl, CA; e-rnail, staJUw'Orl:aJ(:ha,pnlarl.eeju.

In 1996, Dr. Mina Dulcan wasdesIgnate for

SacksRaton, FLnet; (561) 362-6135-lnternet Conunu-nications

Marion has beenHe,

son andter Louisa have rnoved

Killara, Australia, toSouth

"Vincent" Chen livesan investor

in Hehave two sons. The oldest, Wengyew'99, studies at Cornell. RonWatanabe consultant with Hotel Partnersin Honolulu, where he has "lots oftravel andlot offun. He notes that the company hastracted nUlnber of Hotelies in theUS, as well

and .:">lulgat)ore .had the "'1"\1"'\"'1"'t"111"\1t"'\7

87

Inve\;tel~dav(), .11,,,",,""-'11LlCC;) Incluc1ed Paul

Bower,Jeff Detwiler '75,David Harding '72, Wayne '73 and NancyRoistacher Merkelson '72, Ed Schechter,Jim Stone '74, and Dave '74 and SueFranklin Wofthal '76. Folks fron1 all

country toRobin Story Powers would love to

fron1 \vho in the neJlghbolrhc,odofW. winter that should be

Robin's children

Dr. Fredi Kronenbergin NYC at the ColumbiaU. of

IJh,,,clr~l'1t"Cand Elaine Hui-Koo isInt~te()ro,lo~!1st atJohn Sulzycki is a put)llsJ1er'for Harcourt Brace in Other

slgJl1tUlgS: Alar andJane Gunz Arras,Manlius, NY; Gerald and Elaine CanalAuerbach, Rockville, MD; Mark Bodden,NYC; Bonnie Brier, Penn PA;Whitman Brisky, Glenview, IL; JudyChock, NYC; Linda Cole, El CA;1)r. Margaret Coleman, Winchester, MA;David Commito, MA; WayneConrad, PA; Henry Coufos,

CA; Scott Dorsey,ville, M1); Warren Gager, ~OlLltl1LanlpttJn,

NJ; Bruce Gelber, Bethesda, MD; L. Mi-chael Goldsmith, Montclair,Mark Hornberger, San Francisco, CA;James Grotberg,Wilnlette, IL;John Hill,

NY; Douglas Hulle, Middletown,NY; Mickey Kaiserman, Canada Flint-

CA;Judith Leonard,DC; H. Chesnel Llop, Minneapolis, MN;Philip Martin, Eagle NY; Sheldon andAlice Kopan Miller, Wichita, KS;JamesOhargan, Clarksville, MD; Harry Pape,Princeton, MA; W. Lewis Perdue, Sonolna,C:A;Jeffrey Phillips, City, MT); Sa-rah Roholt, NI); Alan Serotta,

TX; Glenn Silverman, DelMar, R. Owen Snyder, Atlanta, GA;Stephanie Stern, Mount Kisco, NY; Rod-ney Sutton, NY; WilliamWalther, Greensboro, Dr. Irene Weiss,Scarsdale, NY.

We report, with the death ofFredFries NJ, on Feb. 9, .:. GaryL. Rubin, 512 Westfield,07090; tel.,7700

used

fonner No-..... h"'.'t"'("r'n./;c at hon1e in Water-

town, MA. attended Sarah Birss'swedding last year along with Ruth Ferguson,Kristen Wainwright, andJennifer Shea,and their husbands and

Jeffrey Erickson writes:N ovelnber 1996 C;0Y1ZelllV1'H!aZZ1Ze

for a ~at:unja\T-alttel]lo!on

location notthat Barton Hall and the

but \vhat better draw '-''-J'"U\.A..l.l'-JJ"a.J~.Ja

R U Im

-JEFFREY ERICKSON '72

1)r.Joseph R. O'Con-nor ofBruns\vick, ME. We Iryo'"," ,(1"n.111'" 1 ,>,n. ..'> "'"'(,

\vith Cla~;snlLate

Ken Lowenstein. In Inernory hisRobinson '61, Rich­I~obinsonMernorial

tennis andof Cornell

88

CLASS NOTES

In

Sheand

--IArI{'rr1rY\t::> no list is Wil-classmate from Horseheads

~ A.L ......LL'-""-'.L.L'-f ....'L./. Bill is now a lieutenant colonelUS 't"XTn....I?,r1rr't"XT'i-h the Penn StateROTC. Another I missed at re-

union wasJoel Helmrich, attorney withl\n~nSIJerlg.PC in t'ltt:sbllrgJt1.

We have news frolnare nowMDs. Ellen Wetter

at Mainlonides AssociatesKrr'AITITTrI NY, back fronl her extended stay

........'l'rf-'r'Y\, .... medicine in Her dalug,hte~r

is 2-1/2.

toofnews fronlwe have to share. I've

found out where SOlne of the folks fronlIny freshnlan dorm these RandyFriedman Freedman, who across thehall, is program director with the inYork, PA. Anita Picozzi Moran is an archi­tect with F&S Partners in Dallas, TX, whereshe of the -,-, r-, H."'''.II' ll.~~~.~ .)1J''-'-.l<1.l~L~-

also finds tinle toBen, 9.

InW. Hemt=)ste:ad, NY, Karen Lieb-haber the role of

to col­and

ULL'.... L ',"",".L.L.'.U• .L.L~ their c1ean-wears" controller" hat

as Karen learns soft­ware to return to in the trafficnlent ofa radio station. John Guran

Time Warner Cable of Northeastas director of the first full-scale

Inent of Road Runner, Time Warner'son-line service cable modelns.

From cornes \vord fronl NancyPorter, been at the BurnetPark Zoo for alnlost 12 years. Among her fel-low are Theresa Fiedler'84, Henry L. "Ted" Fox '91, and ChandaLindsay '94. Diane Wright-Hirsch writesthat she is still foodist for the U. ofConnecticut LClOP,er2rtlv'etension. She's Hl c0 1orcllnatlnggo1vern-Inent, and acadetnia tofood to Connecticut citizens. Charles,

11, 7, are active in sports,church, and activities. AnnShedd is a Hitch-cock Clinic in Nashua, NH. •:. Steve Raye,25 Litchfield Dr., CT 06070.

and husband Arnie '73 have daughter Rachel'00 in Hunl Ec.

Parts yet unknownSaturni, who's "t"XT1'nrl',1,rr

as consul atLagos, Nigeria. Also inMichael Pastirik. He and(Morrow) with the US in TelAviv. Robyn Berger Nottennan is in

in Princeton,for kids Arielle,

nal~aS~ml(~nt COl:nplallt1ts. Much ofthehas been ge11erate:d as a result of the ...... 'I,..,I',·'hT

stenlrrnrrg t:rOlm the case years ago in­nS"\TchoIC)9V Prof. James B. Maas,

alumni nlagazlnethe Hotel

the editors of theAdministrationMorris wrote that shecel,ebt'ate:d the first anlllvers;arvof their store, The

floral and store in'-JU.L.i.,,,(... 'I-.L". NJ. Marcia and husband Paul '75

an weekend in LakeGeorge with Gwenn Tannenbaum Can­field '75 and ht::>... +"'Y\""'\' ITT

Jeremy Rabkinin the government r1t::>·t"\'1,r-rrl,t::>1,r

He's very involved innew unlve~rsltylprc)cedures

ly

ceived the fronl ourclassmates: Attorney Art Leonard wasto the board ofdirectors of thebian and Studies at U. of New York,Art is a at New York Law School.He on the conlmittee ofthe CLGS board, which awards academic

for endowed lecture­an(1 SllpeTVlses the selection of two resi­

dent fellows each year under RockefellerFoundation grant.

Dennis Pape's conl-pany, Photonic its tenth-

anll1vers;arv in Melbourne, FL. The com-

m2tnagelrnent, nutrition education,rec:ycllng plro~granls to school dis­

'~v.' ... ~,~-,~~ ... that our

t::>rI.'Y'1Y\.t::>t::>r1r1rr c()nt:rac:tlnlg finn in theHe

in Asia, which has made him "valuablecustomer for United Airlines." Barry Hart-

the of Vedder, Price,r ....dLU.LJl.lldll & in Chicago as labor

ell1l01()Vrnetlt partner. John McCarthypre'sldent of ARAMARK's

division. The division

sends news frornHe and wife Violet have chil­IVllclL~~.<1~~. 11, and Kailene, 3.

t"\ ....o.(',r1t::>Y\f- for business de-Pacific for ABB

Arnold Gordon writes fronlWood­mere, NY, that he and Lynne (An­stendig) '74 have children. Rachel '00 isin Hurnan Ecology. Jeffrey is 16, 11,and Elliot, 9.John AllenJr. and wife Susan(Saloo) '71 also sent ofa child on theHill from Seaford, DE: daughter Lindsay '00is in Sara McMahon Bentley wrote fromSalem, OR, where she is the of theGannett Northwest Her

Rob '98, is in Arts JanetFromer Hedge invites classrnates in the Los

to call. View,cornp'uter c<)nSultJLng rAYY\t"\rlrl'tT ofhusband

rentalsons Mike ULH.... .L ~.LL'-.Ly •

MAY IJUNE 1997 89

George R. O'Connor lives in LittleRock, AR, where he says he is still hr,"'T1"t"\I"r 1-1 "In

In fact, he is now on thethe National Beer Wholesalers Assn.also serves on the board ofthe ArkansasCenter.

A number ofConlellians were at ar'T~",rtri1nrr in Venezuela, No-venlber, Benny Seibald , whosework is in the Latin Arllerican market for fi-nancial Also MarciaUlrich Seibald '75, who runs US opera-tions of Citco, financial..."'-./llr- ...·'r-"'T of which is owned the

Foundation; Peter D. Kaplan '74,who in and tennis clubs inWestchester; Bruce Colley '75, who workswith McDonald's franchises in the New York

area; Angela Maria Tafur, LLM '93,works in the counsel's office of a

bank in Col0111bia; and Michael Goldsmith'72. Back in NYC, the Seibalds had dinner atMorton's Steakhouse withJose A. Perez, aformer roommate of Benny's. Jose was visit-

from Bucharest, Itomania, where he hasspent the last five an ad'vertls1ng-agency. Also at dinner were Carol Ro-senblum Levin '77, Loren Krause Luzlllore'77, and Perry M. Gandelman '78-whowould love to other Cornellians at hisFendi store in Stanlford, CT. This news comes

ofMarcia Seibald. Thanks! We'd loveto from this sunlmer. .:. PatRelf Hanavan, Lane, Rich-land, MI 49083; e-mail, l.\...l.l.\I.>LjClVl..\...Vl.l.l..

Latin America for the Business SoftwareAssn. of Anlerican Publishers, and Inter-

active Software Assn. He also handlesinternational transactions for a number oftecnn()1O£~VC()Ill1Janles. His Neffand Associates, is in Torrance.

time devoted to his wife and three chil­dren-and their three horses. His wife, AliceV\lTIlJlta~~e), and one the1111"Y\n1"t"\c'r rlr,ccpc at horse and /If+,:>r CO,,<H::lor

al years of riding western style, Rich, too, isEnglish-style jU111ping. He

that he visited Robert S. Simon and hisat their renlodeled house in

into itsot ]lnt~enllatlonalU..LJ\"L. .LiJ •.A. .....L.U' .... , cover­

111artial arts and culture.issues cost $35, fronl Press, PO

Box 61637, Honolulu, HI Thehas had excellent

and Internet Life,to check out its Web site. says the

and creative out­chairs theSchool of

in Houston.Another had to

nliss reunion last year: R. Stephen andKathryn Gollin Marshak and children Da­vid, 11, and E111111a, were in Brazil,Steve, has been f"rr,',rpl"I"t"lc'r

for nlore ten yearstectonics short courses in nlaster'sthe Universidade Federal de Ouro

own field studies. On thistravel around Brazil ~J ,.< .LA.• r

weeks and let the kids absorb some Portu-is freelance editor,

and in Charnpaign, IL.Cynthia M. Powell, now

the U. of North Carolina at111ade it to reunion and hadsaw Catherine Baldwin Kit,and their Cassandra, who hadconle all the California. Then, whilein Atlanta had din-ner with Lynette Turner '77, who now livesin Indianapolis, andJo-Ann Klinewho lives outside ofAtlanta. Randy H. and

Katz live in CA, wherechairs theU. of California, KprIT,o.Ip1r

en~QJllleenngand computerment. He also been aPl)Olnte'dMicroelectronics

electrical en!~neer1n~~ arId O[)rrLpultel~ SC1­there. Congratulations!

Wayne M. Muromoto's

sunlmer! Sendthem '''''''Y'I{""rT''''~"",r

next column. •:. Joan Pease, 6335 HillaryCt., Alexandria, VA 22315.

Karenlin~en1Nlcl1,CT, Myrna

NY,Randiin PA, Nancy

in Ba1Te, VT, Karen DeMarco

of" ........ r'''<T'..'''",rtof i ... .L•.4.L.Lf..4.. L~.

plenty of news. MyIIJlllt'J[-Vt"~;,~1 roomnlate, Louise Belevich,

own managernent COJt1SlLltlJt1gtlOl1'-J'J,J.L.. .L.L....~, NY. Val Novak Sheline is

nh'UC1r1'lrl with student health services atin California, but is new

31, '95, Nicoleand brother Curt, 11.

Sorne write fronl far \.J v 'vL,J\~aJ.

Arlene EspaldonRamosop(~ral:10rlSfor O()G Corp. in

In Robert S. Greenberg,ME I '76, now IT for ExxonCherllical, where he'sfor a .... ...L..J1>..'>.'V'LV

resear'cl1ers in the field of soil and crop science.Other scientific endeavors are rprll'lrrpr1

Elizabeth Dobisz, rnaterials scientist atNaval Research Laboratory inDC, and Michael Quaid, who

Griffin International in Williston, VT.As he'll be their

the Brocton/W. Veterans Adnlinis­tration Medical Center in Brockton, MA, isDr. Andrew Weinberg. Father of two poten­tial Cornellians O. D., 10,

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""",t-h,p.r'7",~"t-'Ir.n to Florida we visitedwith and Kurt Erlenbach, childrenElizabeth, 12, Alison Adrian, 9, andrul~Xi::LIlLler,5, at their hOlne Titusville. Kurtand Sue are partners in their own law finn.Also that part ofFlorida Dianne ZulIow,CardlC)lo~rIst at the Cardiac Clinic in Kissinl­

and husband Scott"-"J.J.JLJ.\.A,l,,,-"J.J./, and Alan Londy, a rabbi

As so alsodoes titne to think aboutCornell Reunion Weekend.

one short year fronl nowwill be our Reunion, so save the

'98. Prelpar~ltlo:ns

interested in voLuLltet~ntlg1tllTleentertaintnent,

-LORRIE PANZER RUDIN '77

p"f~nl1ncr<;: will be availablenat10tlally accredited child-care

your ownlllJaC<:L-aJlea bat)Vslttt~rs. For

, , Ke4ilCClua.lnt YOllrSE~lt

who let you know which peanutbest, or what the best, or

which stereo the clearestsound. Maxine the work fun and

she now does work otherevaluations. Maxine says, "Life is

.:. Lorrie Panzer Rudin, 14833 Bot­N. Potonlac,Ml) 20878; e-mail,

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.:. Kathleen ZappiaGould, Meadowcreek Dr., RichInond,VA 23236; Cindy Ahlgren Shea, PO Box1413, NY 11937.

staJrtlfl2" 2L CC)m'OaIlV 1:hat weill nlncountries on the foodand its role in the culture. Bnlce that\vould love hear froiTI alumni abroad who

th(~In:sel'ves"foodies"! Bnlce

"-B. MIKE STOCKER '81

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and _~~~~.-ITT"TT~_lr~.rJ

Mississippi. In Los ChristopherSorrentino is a manager of business analysisfor Containers Corp. in of stra­

pldlnnJn~2:. As a hobby, he's enrolled inwriters and has written two

scrleerlP12lVS. He interested Cornellproducers out there?" Nanette Fondas relo­cated fronl California last year with her hus­band to N C. She is at Duke's

of Business and her husband isan executive at Big Blue. In Charlotte, NC,Todd Anderson is an en1:relJreneUr--SCllentlstwith LDT Inc.

Lana (Carlsson) and Andy Irwin havelaunched Irwin Inc., a consllltlng

area, Andrew Kaufman is an I"'Yl{r1Yl.I"'I"'~

DuPont. Joanne Pattenworking, and a on ahilltop in Delaware. She is a dietitian forCrozer Chester Medical Center.

B. Mike Stocker writes fronl Easton,PA, that he is a Technolo-

is married to Becca, and has son Michael3. He "fatherhood is as stnnulatlng

as Cornell In Pittsburgh, Scott Living-ston became a partner in the Marcus andShapiro law firm. In addition to and

sons Andrew, 10, and Alex, 8, Scottruns, rows, plays and coaches Little

Sari Feldman her own health-care Feldnlan and Associates,in Richboro, PA. Sari, husband Stuart Pilch,and Alyson, 8, and 5, aret::'Yl1rY"(r1Ylrr t-h,I'" Philadelphia area.

.... J\J'J.J.~jLaL~ to Nancy Haas on the birth of'-'=""'=E'.r'<1'"\r1 child,Justin Wyda, in 1996,sister Madeleine, 3-1/2. Nancy is an attorneyfor Abralno~ and Under in Balti­lllore, MD.

Jennifer Pressmanseven In IVLldlSOll,

earnedDebbeen for SemllIes, Bowen, andSell1illes. Most important, in 1994,our Elnily Hannah IJt'JII<_lJr,p~~n''1ln

was born." In Ellicott City, MD, RonaldKomsa writes that he works for a USDA

(APHIS) as a program IS mar-to Tricia, and has children 7 and 10.

Paul Gleichaufand wife Sue also relo-cated to Ellicott after 12 years in the Bos-ton area. Paul is vice careand planning at HowardHospital. He states, after we arrived

welcomed our son Max, whobrothers Pete and Gregor. New newhouse, new state, new kid, no tillIe for any­thing else!"

MartinJacobsenrnent consulting timl of in NYC.He has visited Carl Guerra '82, who is a pro­fessional comedian and actor in MianIi, FL.

adds that he is "still " lives inIVLlnttattan, and has a winter hOlne in

interested wornen can contact

to hear di­troJnlc:lass:mates.Ifyour

news is hot, I want to get itinto the column ASAP! Jim

Kent writes frOlll Round Hill, VA, that he stillworks for Mobil, but for a new manager,Aimee Sugarman Poll '74. Jim was also pro­nloted recently to cOlnnlander in the NavyReserve, where he ran into Paul S. Schmitt'78 when they were both on active lastfall aboard the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.Eric Schaufert is also in where heworks in for Inc. inLynchburg.

In April 1996, Rhonda Brauer was pro­ruoted to senior counsel and assistantof the New York Times Co. She livesGreenwich Village with husband Holchand daughter Jillian, 3. Also in New York

Lisa Johnson announces that she wasrecently nallled vice at PenguinUSA, a book publishing company. Congratu­lations to another New Yorker, JeanneArfanis, who had her first child, Katie Mc­Loughlin, in March 1995.

Paul Dale lives on a lake six miles fronlhis orthopedic office in Alexandria,MN. He and Karen been married for 11years and have children Matt, 7, Samantha, 6,and Kate, 5. Paul has run into classmate DaveChalk at orthopedic rneetings. Marie VayoGreenbaunl reports, "Life is crazy but won­derful" with twins Aaron and Celeste, born in1995. She is an earth and physical scienceteacher for Tower Hill Middle School inWihnington, DE. Also in the Wihnington

the Poconos. S. Lee Bowden, vice IJL\.-~J.U,,-"J.J.L

and manager of The Equinox inNl~lnc:hester,VT, reports, "Still expandinghere at The Opened six two-bed­rOOln and three one-bedroom deluxe suites, aprivate bar, and billiard room. Also opened inSeptember the first British School ofin the US. This is the only place in the USwhere the 'hands on' of

with birds of prey." Leewent in Snowbird with Scott Melby'81 and Steve F. Price '78. Kids Austin andTanner are now 7 and 5.

Finally, froln the "I told you so" file,Dave Schrage, advice to the con­trary, insisted on bulding a house in Old

CT. Beside the usual aches and pains ofwith a builder, weather cost

over-runs, etc., Dave's wife Kimsonle real-life aches and pains, when during awalk-through she took a tumble and broke averterbra in her back. Happy to she is onthe nlend and that she, Dave,Catherine are moved in ... kind of1 .:. BrianP. Myers, 2679 Amesbury Rd., Winston-Sa­lem, NC 27103; e-nlail, [email protected];Carolyn Louie, 606 Magnolia St., Winder­mere, FL 34786; tel., (407) 827-2780; e-mail,car"Ol'{n 10UH~(a~W(ja.dlsne'v.conl: Eric Mer­en, Sutton S., tel., (212)371-9297; email.eric_llleren_at_abn_anlro_dd;)J.\U/~IJ~.dUll.\._VJ."lJ..Jodi Diehl Nestle, 80

Trail, Brockport, NY 14420; e-

Maria Di Gregorio, MAT '82, andhusbandJoseph P. McCann, PhD '84 havepurchased a clinic in Cleveland,OK. Maria and snlall animalnledicine on reproductiveprc)ble~ms in small founded the

hormone lab inat Oklahoma State U. are alsowith the care of daughters GiovannaRoisia. Their first business, RockErin FieldGoldens, is rapidly asthree or ofgolden retrievers eachyear and train as nlany as 20-30 hunting

Ira and Ellen Kaplan Halfond areprcLctlClftg cLttc>meys in New York City. Ira is apartner in Martin, Zolewski & Halfond, PC,and Ellen in real estate and elder­care law, with offices in Kew Gardens. Theyhave children Paula and Matthew. DouglasMerlau wrote to us last year about the newaddition to who

Doug is(Merlau a

dairyfann in Arcade, NY.JohnM.Dowd and wife Heidi live in San Diego, CA,where they time with twin dallgtlteJrSAllison Rose and Kate Lily. The girls in

1996) went on their first road trip lastyear to Lake Arrowhead, CA, whereited with Richard Steams '79 and his

Dr. Michael W. Fried writes that he isin Atlanta, GA, with wife BethJonas,

MD, and their children, Joshua, 10, and llana,6 Inonths. Michael is an assistant ofInedicine and chief of viral researchin the Division at EmoryU. medical school. the years, Michaelhas in contact withJeffHadrick, wholives in the area.

Now, more news, gathered byBrian P. Myers: OK, folks, after somewhatof a of news toward the end of 1996,we've kind of hit a dry sincethese columns are now more lengthy and are

pUblI~ihed every other nlonth. Pleasewait for your News and Dues fornls to

submit news. It could be old by the time weget to it.

Niel Golightly is public affairs Inanagerfor Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, MI, andcontinues to serve as a commander in the USNaval Reserves. Robert Holzer lives inDemarest, NJ, where he is president of ChickMaster Incubator Co., which is now active inmore than 70 countries. Robert is

Cornell alulllni in his travels.Peter Nolan, MBA '82, and wife Stephanie(Perry) '84 welcomed a second son, David, inNovember 1995. Peter was also promoted tohead Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette's LosAngeles investlllent banking division.

Antonio J. Fiol Silva is an ar-chitect in PR, where he serves asmanager of "Tren Urbano," anew-start rail transit system for that city,soon to construction. He and wife Eliz-abeth their first son, Anto-nio Sebastian. Frank A. Bates and wifeVickie live with their two lovely In

in Seattle and can be reached at e-mail address

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risk assessn1ent atResearch First IS

in the first and J aillle toswirn last sumlller. Brad Busscher was pro­rnoted to r>£:>"'>1 ",." T7'1 ,-L> preslde~nt//SenlC)r attom(~yat EVEREN Securities in Chicago. Hewife Beth have a 2-1 /2-year-old son, Brett.Brad fills us in on Charlie Mills, who is a divi-

her husband and two Rosa De-berry King is in Massachusetts withhusbandJeffrey their children 5,and twins Jared and 15 months.Katherine Herring is director ofemergency medical services with IHSin Arizona and also takes care of daught(~r

1-1/2.Kirk Engel writes from New York

that he is in global atand is in on occasion with fonner

roommate Adam Sappern. Lynn SarisonWells works in the high-tech aslllarketing nlanager and has two vv \..1J.J.'-"''-'J..LUJ.

step-children, ages 11 and 14. In NYC, KenBalick is director of international business de­ve.Lot=,ml~ntat Nomura Securities Internation-al. Ken is also assistant to the CEO andsays he would to hear fronl anyone

NYC. Lauren Hefferon di-Classico in MA.

11e'v SlJeC:lallze in Italian 1'-.1 "'"11''\,'r rvt'\rl

vacations, great way to see countryside.Another Massachusetts resident, David Cha-bon, to further his roots inIthaca his parents, Robert S. '52 andJudith Resnick Chabon '53, moved therethis year. David and wife Karen recently visit­ed with Jeff Mintz '79, Greg Azia, andBrian Conlon '82.

Seth Krosner is a trauma surgeon atCook in PetraMoessner earned MS in and is

on one in at Eastern Mich-U. She teaches and tutors while

on her thesis in Elizabeth SagerMetz lives in Littleton, CO, with husbandMike and two sons. She welcomes friends toconle visit. Richard MacKinnon is an

librarian at a finn in Alexandria, VA..L.L.L()U.La·~'-'J .L.l\.-',-,,-,. .L.L.LUI--f'" and related data. In his

time is on theboard gan1e to the

bal market. Niels Nielsen of Rockville, MD,IS his to director ofelectronic at institutesand the purchase home. MichaelSchonberg has relocated to Cleveland for apf()rnotlon to n1arket unit lllanager.His wife is and are Alison, 3,and Matthew, 1.

In Atlanta, GA, Leland Sykes is a con-tractor with Lockheed Martin andmakes his with wife LaShawn and theirchildren, Maya and Xavier. Michael Pros-pero is inJoliet, IL, with wife Theresaand Francesca. Also in thearea is Geoffrey Williamson. He is associaten ...r"t"",,,,,r.. ... ofelectrical and co]tnplut(~r ~lnV1ln~~r-

at the Illinois Inst. ofthere since 1989. Marc

Strum Odin write fronl Hrv"7'~t'+-~"T1111~

thatRoz

and,-.a~.J.~J.J.\..'-'.L, ..L.J-L&~~"J,",,"Jl~. Carolyn Davis Bensel is

a human resources consultant withShe lives in Ft. Worth with

Congr'atulatl0ns to Thor Nil­sen, who was awarded theVinci diExcellencei in the1996 Louis Vuitton-Moet

H(~nrleS~;VScience for Art ThorSClllptul~ebased on the rnolecule

included a trip to Paris,entries were at the

Natural Museunl. This news aboutAlec Schramm came fron1 Laurel, his wife oftwo After PhD in at

D., AlecIn

where heearned tenure this pursuinghis research in physics.Jef-frey Gibb is now rnJlnaglnlg the office ofColenlan Search in Iselin,NJ. was rnost an in-housecounsel at GE

Ed Seydel is with Lockheed Martin Ad­vanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA.He n1arried wife Sarah last fall in w~lShln9~0]n,

DC. Alumni in attendance included DonnaDeSilva '82, Kathy Sferra, James Salvie,Dolores Roeder '84, John Bradley '82,Alisa Shirvan '82, David A. Lee,Elizabeth Parrella '84, andJose Nieves '84.

Vivian Schiller was

democratic skills.Lisa Piccinino works in FL, as a to-n1ato breeder. Brandy Alvarez lives inwhere anl0ng other things, she leads tours ofFlorence. Mary Parkman is a painter inNYC, where she had an ofher one-person show at Prince Street Gal-

Ahni Margenau Kruger had aat saIne gallery. Mark Dwortzan isBoston D.'s progralll. He

to research about ecologicallysustainable Kath-leen Bundy Kirshe owns acompany, doing fitness training out ofhOllle. Jon Anderson lives in Bedford, NH,and is director of Internet services for Conti­nental Cablevision.

It's been a fun five Intouch with your new.:. Neil Fidelman Best, 207 Dellwood Rd.,Metuchen, NJ 08840; Nina M. Kondo, 120E. 90th St., 2H, NYC 10128; e-ll1ail, ninak

Nina Kondo and I are look-forward to all of

you at reunion. Rernember,we're both as class

RUNIONmin Ithaca for the +-£:>0i-'T7"+-'£:>0

SOllle fresh news via e-mail:Michael Panosian was selected for promo­tion to lieutenant colonel in the Air Force andwill be services at thebase hospital at in Ohio.Lori Friedman 1.'-\.JUiU;:)\.JLl 'cUI\.... +-.ld'",Y.lr',lJ',lh\r¥Y1 f'T7',,~ri

to and encouragethe area to be in touch tmrolblI:tLll4ol{Cl;aOl

Before the Robinsons enjoyeda farewell dinner at home ofJeffand AlisaKishinsky Hare. Emily Oshin Turell andSuzanne Brenner Sanborn also attended.

Earle Weaver, MBA '84, and wifeRebecca welcomed Sarah Louise to the

19. moved to St.Louis, he then10tor division of Elllerson Electric Co.Scott Lang lives in but scheduled toreturn to the States at the end of the year.

Mary Nozzi Del Balzo sent news thatshe had jumped on thebarldvvaQ~onand her job as an Intelll~ctual

attorney Intel, t.,. ..."'~t~t·rlYlJ'r

IJcu,aJ.J.\~'-'ULJ.J.J.'-'. She is fora software cOlnpany on a contract basis, butwill also more time to at honle.

Portland, OR, where she and hus­Carl '81 live with their children.

N ow for sOlne news that arrived the old­fashioned way, which makes it about aold: Craig Fishman lives in Falls Church,VA, and was promoted to pn~slclent/

CEO ofAll-State Financial Corp. Guy Sul­livan is at Putnarn Mutu­al Funds in Boston. John Rowley was ap-

f~,hrT ",ri".£:> in Ithaca. Brad Kauffmanstarted his own a video Pf()dllctllonco:mt>anv called Silver Ridge Productions,

SPc~Cldll1ziesin and pf()motlon;alvideos n1edical aP1Jll(:atJLOnlS.Marks is assistant nrl,,,\tp·,,,,r\r

department at of Peinn~~vj'varl1a.

Klotz Grossrnan hasbusiness in Manhattan eight years as an at-

Donald '83 and Gail Soltan Payne,with children, live in NY,where Gail isan fannhouse soccer.

Mark Hyman is the nledical director atRanch in the Berkshires after four

finn chemical and environn1en-tal Lana also works forthe new law of Connors, Bliss, andCourville in Boston. continue totheir children, ages 8, 6, and 4, and live in

MA.To Jim Hahn: We loved the train card!

Hope everyone's home, work, and travelssnloothlv. •:. Jennifer Read '-'a,L.l.L .....'IJ'-'.l.L,

1--1 11 ,V\t-,¥v rr Path Pl., Centreville, VA 20120;Kathy Philbin LaShoto, 114 Harrington1~d.,Wa1than1,MA 02154; Betsy Silverfine,1601 Third Ave., 4E, NYC 10128.

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Bella Vista Views

tor device pilot process line. He saw ChristineFlass '85 on a ski trip to Loon Mountain inNew Hampshire and saw Patrick Hindle ona ski trip to N. Conway, NH.Janet Insardivisited classmate Lindsay Liotta Forness inEngland lastJuly. Lindsay is living in Londonwith husband Bob '87, daughter Keri, 3, andBrian, 1 (Janet's godson).]anet has also seenAnnemarie Schultz in Convert Station, N],and Lynn Leopold '83 in Lynnbrook, NY.

Dr. Randolph Katz and wife Eileen haddaughter Lauren on Oct. 1, '95. Randy sayshe's "learned some very important parentinglessons, the most important being never feedan infant an entire bottle of Gerber Stage 1prunes. Other than that episode, everythinghas been great with this change in lifestyle andthe new parental existence!" Wendy KarlanKramer and husband Larry '85 have daugh­ters Jennifer, 5, and Alison, 2. Wendy is an at­torney at Emmet, Marvin and Martin, whereshe's been practicing trusts and estates lawsince 1987. Hope Kuniholm married PeterVerheyen (Johns Hopkins U. '85) three yearsago. In August 1995, they moved to Syracuse,NY. Hope works at Syracuse U.'s MaxwellSchool of Citizenship and Public Affairs as adevelopment officer and Peter is a conserva­tion librarian at Syracuse U.

Melissa Jacobs Strugger is a social work­er in New York. She saw Beth (Goldstein)'85 and Neil Weissman '84, MD '88, atbrunch in NYC. Dr. Dolores Roeder "dis­covered and 'became addicted' to the compet­itive world of racquetball." She is playing intournaments in Northern N], "winning some,losing others, but all-in-all having a greattime!" John W. O'Neill and wife Alicia arehappy to report the birth of their second son,EvanJames, on Mar. 7, '96. Dr. Blaise Vitalewas published in theJan. 25, '96 edition of theNew EnglandJournal ofMedicine. His cornmit-

bow Campbell completed a residency in smallanimal surgery at the U. of Wisconsin's Veter­inary Medical Teaching Hospital, and is cur­rently working on her PhD in the College ofVeterinary Medicine at Cornell. SuzanneCohen Hard has children Alison, 7,Jacob, 5,and Claire, 2. Somehow Suzanne still managesto find time for her favorite leisure activities­gardening and reading.

Thomas Collins is in his last year of aPhD program in agricultural chemistry at U.of California, Davis. He and wife Susan(Goodison) '85 had their first child, ErinElizabeth, in April 1996. In 1995, Thomastraveled to Europe, where he presented someofhis research on wine analysis at symposiumsin Switzerland and France. Brian Delahuntaowns a business called Hotel Renovations Inc.He recently expanded with a second companycalled International Di tribution Group andjust completed renovating a 400-room hotelin War aw, Poland.

Susan Feldinger and Linda KasdanBenowitz are writing a humorous self-helpbook about in-laws. Susan encourages anyonewith good stories to call her. She socializeswith fellow Cornellians Micheline Donja­cour, Gail Freiman Schnur, Linda KasdanBenowitz and Shari Zuckerman. She alsosaw Brian Bornstein in the elevator at work.David E. Goodman has been married to wifeCarolyn for seven years and has children Zach­ary, 4, and Taylor, 18 months. Carolyn and thetwo kids were in COACH windows nationwidefor a Mother's Day Promotion in 1996.

Dr. Dorian Gravenese is the chief ofdermatology CHP-the Medical Group,New Hyde Park, NY. In her spare time, sheruns marathons. She ran the Disney WoddMarathon inJanuary 1996. Henry Hendriksaccepted a new position within Raytheon Co.as a process engineer in the III-V semiconduc-

E ight months before the bombingofPearl Harbor, the U. S. govern­ment interned 1,000 Italian mer­

chant marines at BellaVista prison camp inMissoula, Montana. In contrast to experi­ences ofJapanese internees duringWorldWar II, these prisoners ofwar made gour­met dinners, played in soccer tournaments,and staged musical dramas.No~ they're thesubjects of Bella Vista:An Unseen View ofWorld Jilrar II, a documentary film written by formerWVBR reporter KathyWitkowsky. Funded through grants and support froID'Missoula's public radiostation, the documentary took four years to produce.

"The most interestingpart ofthe project was the extraordinary patriotism theItalians had for the U. S.;' Witkowsky says."They weren't thrilled with the intern­ment, but they knew it was much better than fighting in the trenches."

Jose Nieves and wife Kellyannounce the arrival of theirfirst son,]oshua Alejandro. Hewas born in October 1995 in

Smolensk, Russia, and was adopted at the endof September 1996.Jose went by himself topick Joshua up in Russia. Currently, Jose isabout to defend his dissertation for his PhD atGeorge Mason U. He is a manager for EIS­Pulse Inc. Thomas Kellerhoff, assistantmanager of the Country Club in Brookhaven,and an employee of the Capital City Clubsince April 1991 , has been accredited a Certi­fied Club Manager (CCM) by the Club Man­agers Assn. of America. He saw a whole groupof Hotelies in Hawaii at a club managers con­vention, including: Dave Bullard '81,JimPetzing '82, and Frank Stover '65.

Alan Portnoi married Sharon W olmer atthe Tamcrest Country Club in Alpine, NJ, inDecember 1996. Alan is a managing directorin the risk arbitrage department of Bear,Stearns & Company, the New York invest­ment bank. Sharon is a vice president for stra­tegic marketing at Turner Broadcasting SalesInc. in New York City. Dr. Bonnie Gram-

sional president for Medline Industries inMundelein, IL, and is also in touch with BobMuha '82.

Kelly Buhr Trott is happy to report herfamily has ended its globetrotting and is livinghappily in central Florida. She is married toAndy, a controller, and has daughters Katieand Courtney. Benjy Goldman sends in a lotof news about himselfand other classmates.He lives in Great Neck with wife Sara andchildren Daniel, 4, andJessi, 2. Benjy is a full­time faculty member attending physician atNorth Shore U. Hospital and assistant profes­sor in ob/gyn at New York U. Medical Cen­ter. Chris Lofaso is married to a doctor andthey live with their two children in upstateNew York. Dominic Fote lives in Malibuwith his assistant district attorney wife and theirtwo children. Living in New Hampshire isPolly Kristen Rouhe. She and her farmerhusband have one child and Polly sells an­tiques. Last, but not least, Benjy hears from thegrapevine that Bob Bollinger is practicinglaw in Miami Beach, FL. Just on the other sideof the hill from me in Northridge (as inNorthridge Quake), lives David Speyer.David is a workers' compensation defense at­torney with a Glendale firm, is married toToni, and has sonJake, 3.

I recently participated in a Cornell Clubevent as a panelist at a networking brunch. Itwas very rewarding and a great way to meetother Cornellians in the area. Let me also re­mind everyone, again, NO NEWS ABOUTPENDING BIRTHS AND WEDDINGS,ONLY REPORTS OF THE EVENTS AF­TER THEY HAVE OCCURRED. Ifyouwrote about a pregnancy or engagementplease write again if the event has takenplace.•:. Matthew Tager, 14055 Tahiti Way#208, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; e-mail,[email protected]; Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5Elmcrest Cir., Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail,[email protected].

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company wasLinda Manaster '88.he is responsibleadvertisers, manufacturers, Inagazines,communications companies.touch with Warren Fields, who is ho,--.ri, ...... /'rxx"-"

the of a new hotel conceptDouble Tree Hotels.

Dr. Stephen Weinman has been quitebusy in the past year. has been work-

as an in Guan1 at theGovernment He returns to NewYork to work in eITI,eq~enlCY

roon1S in the Northeast. While inStephen lnusic at an outdoor beach baron In the or so, Stephenhas traveled to dive locationssuch as Palau, Truk, as well as to theisland ofBali, Indonesia. He thefirst trail guide to the Mountains

"Gunks") ofthe Hudson Valley, NY, en­titled "A Rock With a View." Stephenthat Brian Hirsch '86, BA '88, is astudent at U. ofWisconsin, Madison and BobA. Meier is a in Coo-

years work in "'J.J.~;;;"J.J.J_,","jLJ.J..Lj".,.

Christian Silge Inoved to in Octo­ber and is Goldman, Sachs &Co. E-lnail Christian at CP~;W"+j~l(aJ,prcJdllgy

com. Tony Martinez reports thatin NJ, and is the m3111agJnlg

Martinez, which nlaintains offices inNutley, NJ,NYC, and DC.

is also involved in federalgovernn1ent on healthcare issues.

Not so new news from The New YorkTimes weddings column-In July 1996,Karen Hovsepian n1arried Philip Ayoub.Karen is the director of event lnarketing forthe National Hockey Karen,you can ideas on sportsJ.J..lCl. .LJ...... 'iv\.-J.J.J.~. In 1996, Maria Heid-kamp Steven were wed. Mariaand Steven are based in Budapest, where she is

field rl' ....or~t/" .... ,1-r-.. .... ,,-,. .... /"" ......·... 11'\ opieratl0JllS

for the US of Laborconsultant for the Barents Group. DaveSchechner nlamed Lori Doynow in Decem­ber 1996. Dave is the director ofconlmunications at Bears, Stearns & Co. Inother Mark Irgang, who is ahotel manager in NYC, married Laura BethSchwartz at the NY Marriott Marquis andhone--VllllOClned at the Aruba Marriott. (Mark

for Marriott, DeborahSchondor£ an investn1ent at GKNSecurities in NYC, married Stuart Novick inher hometown of Greenwich, CT. Cor­nellians in attendance included Keith andJen­nifer Ellenberg Symonds '86, LindaMichalski '84, and Dave Rimple '83.

Andy Raimist repotts that he has started hisown architectural practice, Raimist ArchitectureInc. in St. Louis, MO. res­idential and institutional projects, both in newconstruction and renovation. Laura Rabin­owitz Lefkowitz reports that she has started anew podiatric in Beverly Hills, CA.Franklyn Farace, who is in Laguana Hills, CA.,

interactive multin1edia in-storethat

"

Marcy Levine sends her froInand warm Mialni. Marcy is

cial attorney at ""-L'J.Lj".,U-.L.L,

Bockius LLP. Marcy weddrich in Boca Raton. Harry is an att1en(11ngcardiologist at Mount Sinai Center in MiamiBeach. Peter and Dina Wisch Gold '89 wel­conled Theodore Louis Louie into their livesin Novenlber 1996. Peter has been .... Tr'..... b-.'11r'r

for the DC, bureauCommunications IntI., oneworks. Dina reports that oneaSSJlQ:nme:nts was thetheJapanese aIllbassador's in Lima, PenI.Barry Greenblatt wrote to announce the birthof not one, but two and Brandon.The twins were born but is

to that quite wellare sleeping night.Jonathan T. Foote started Fulbright

tpIlO'\NTshlt1 at the National U. of InOctober 1996. had nrF',,\T1,"\l1,,-lu

tended '-"U-.L.L.L.L/.L ... 'A-j".,'"

News from the e-n1ailJaan Janes writes that he isthe director of nledia devel­0pIllent for the NFL, devel­

business and for thein the interactive and on-line lnedia.

in New Yorkwith wife had plen-

of Cornellians to keep them conlpany atas Dr. Bill Urban, Bill Goldy,

and MikeJones served as ushers and StephenDadourian, E. Paul Hoop, Patrick andLauren Miller Collins, and Rob Tchackrounded out the '85ers in attendance. Directall NFL to Jaancorll.Dr. Scott Bookner ..."r./,,-v">f-hY' 1r--'1-v">c,r-i

ranks of those conlrnunlc:atllng: 011-l:Lnereports that he is and !--'.LCI.Ll..lv.lJ.J,)::.,

rics in Scarsdale, NY, and is fatherHana and Scott would love tofrom

thesetorRichard JJr--.lp-nhprrr 'Yt"I-r,\p'lrc

Sievers McManus, 1465 Hooksett Rd.,#299, Hooksett, NH 03106; e-nlail, KLorax~L-U;cLV,1..\-VJ.l.l, Guy Donatiello, 321 N. IthanAve. ,Rosenlont, PA 19010.

and is counsel ofhood Assns.

Kathryn Witkowsky corllpJletc~d

MFA in creative at the U. ,,II. J. V.LLJJ..ll.(:l-J..la

1995. That October she finished adOCUllne:nt:lrv filnl elsewhere on

BLUESTEIN '85

a house; and is innlanagers in

labor managenlent. has started anin finance at Webster U.-"In

short, I nlust be crazy!"Patrick Murphy and wife Barbara

have lnoved to the Chicago area. Pat isdent Controls, a divisionof Enlerson Electric. Vicki Seiden Shernlan

as vice director of ac-COlLln1tlnQ: services at Clarion to

hOlne and care for children Alec,Katie, 3. Vicki has been SOlne ad-

on a basisfrom Lisa Fishman Snlith and herhusband nloved to Pound Ridge, NY, where

their first home. Last year,traveled to Thailand. Christopher Lindsayand had a son, John Allen, inI--<plh"11'~",'''n 1995. sisters Barbara Hel-

7, and Theresa Greer, 5, are thrilled.·h ....,ctr''''"""~ .. o .... is of the Hp'\Tp""--n;n;rrlz-

the schools corll-

LIS AM.

1995. have Samantha, 4,Daniel, 2. Anne Mattson and husband

Karl have a little Meredith Anne, born inOctober 1995 on the" .... i-h,,-ri ""XTOriri,...,,,'r "'"1'""\'/1"1'< TO',-

Karl is Exten-in Delaware as whole-farnl

~-"I"''/1'/1o.... "tr".... the NYC watershed area.Kathryn McCullough has been

a lot. She went to the Newval with Sarah Kiefer '82 and also went toPrague, and Vienna with RoseFajardo '86.

Eric Poncelet and wife Susie had aond little 1996, whois now crawling and havoc.C;reat fun though. Big sister Kira, 3, takes

ofher. Michael Simpson has selni-re-tired to take full-time forcare ofhis children, 6, Southern,4. Miriam "Carrie" Vargas reports that heroldest child, CiaraAlexis, born one week be-fore our in 1984, fronlsixth last and is now 13 years old!Ciara now has brothers, 5,

Antonio, 3. Carrie has beenfor sanle conlpany for the past years

sales adnlinistrator. Holly Hansen'-' L,val.v~I".L.l had her second baby boy, in

nlent with the National Health Servicehas been fulfilled but he will be Inthe northwest Wisconsin townWI, 1100. I)r. Stuart Lowen-kron wife Laura (Paskuly) '85

1995. l--Ioct"'"I'+ori

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he is well-connected withEast C:oast Cornell babes, Inc:luc11n.g ::::>1tep,ha:nleEichler (daughter of Lisa Bragin and DavidEichler '92), Sophie Allen (bairn ofKeithAllen and Gail Schlussel),on of Randy Wolpert andKilnberly Bizenov (who to motherJill Friedman and husband Michael Biz-

Not to out Brad Turano ofPhil Turano

rel)re:selntaltl\Te for an internationalcarrier, was married 1995

Scott C;iordano in the ofJenny Graap, Anne Ferree, and ElsaWaymer l)ernpsey. Paul Hickey was to

Viventi in a on the shores ofLake in upstate New Octo-

1995, with Susan O'Dell, Holly Hart,Karen Nelson, and Thomas Germano '85

on. 1996 was nlonth for seriousInatrilnony. Laurie Rosseau Flowers, BarbWeisfeld, and Pam Isaacson attended the",xrarirl1'rlrr ofNabisco Karen Gray

Kate Knobil wedKeith in western thatmonth; and now-Bostonian Emily Mathesnlarried fellow and real nice guy1'-",1...•• .LlL'W. V ,1..,1.,1. on Memorial

Laura Bartow the autunln-in-Ithaca she wed Bill LaFontaine,PhD '90, last October in withoodles of Cornellians on: parentsDouglass '47 and Doris (Dittman) '48, un-

Fay'44 and aunt Phyllis Ditt-man McClelland '43, cousins Lane Mc­Clelland '70, MBA and LarryVandruff, PhD '71.Inooned in and are now

works for IBM.A few done the -cxrt=l,riri"'rlrr

rnoved on to the step. The'R Us" crowd includes Warren Goldblatt,

ophthalnlologist in Dover, NH, whose son,Jonah, was born in Decelnber 1994; andSharon Harriott and husband SteveJureller'87, who celebrated the arrival of Zachary inMarch 1996. Fred Hedengren and wifeMarissa (Rago) '87 had twin sonsAnd Rob Gross, MI) '91, andMichele rnarried in 1994,Inonth and France, and

banker and vicein London, where

central Euro­she

chair.old habits die hard!"

Todd out with thesecopy of the video

l:Zd., New Canaan, CT,972-2190. And for the bene­

the real ch:::llr--ddlncernle:ase

full for Todd Baker,gra.CIC)US.LV wrote with

on HeBethwelconled son

into the lastFred McCord

unlnists.stein, SunNY 10560;M. Messinger, DVM, 2401 S. LJ''-JVVLL.LLL<:::'

Denver, (~O 80210-5811;

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in our room,n. ....~,AI11'"lYl(' to view

To top

of'-'~'L""V"L"'-"LL"!.Torn earned

atnno~;ptlef]lCsciences at theU. of Illinois and is now as the sys-

administrator for the environmentalcouncil at the is the networkand netware adrninistrator for the mainat the U. ofIllinois.

Lindsay (Liotta) '84 and RobertForness (Lindsay_Bob_Forness (aJ,(:01110l1-

who relocated to 1996,moved to a new house in "The new

rniles farther away frorn the centeron street. We will have five

bedrooms, rOOlll, andcan walk Keri to school

r1".",y,..-.r'r +r,,,. 20-30 minutes oneaccessible from the TTl'l"£~T- 'H1r .

British Rail.

troIs; moved from Buffalo to Salt Lakeand couldn't believe how rnuch nicer theweather is here. lllinutes away, anotherworld the I've ='<H:>'" 'rY'l'"lr'r

ined. is ... " Filip Dubovskyknows how to live it up: "Moved to Baltirllorefor crabs and at the U. ofBaltirnore. I'm alsoical rtAr11 '"If'"'n rc

More old friends are via e-nlaildays: Tom and Jeanne Biemer

Grzelak ([email protected]) "are theof Stephen Robert, born Nov. 3,

Thomas, born April 4, '96.

it off, we went atMarket with Winston Lo, MS '67, chaimlanof an international bean and soft drinks

treated us to a surnp-

'-./.l.y.l..l..l.I-..I.l.'-"', and saw~=n.'1"T¥Q.,<y,,., a chemical

Air Products, too. FromN], Orren D. Schneider .l.'-I-"J.l.''''-~

"finished PhI) at U. of Massachu-Amherst in environmental en:glnleenng

and started at CHZM Hill as an environ-mental consultant. Lisa W. Luiwc)rlcLbank.. or:g) wrote, "Would like tothat I arn with the

In UI ']C hln er_

ton, DC. I comlllunicateDebbie Gaines, who is now the labor andPlnnl(HrrnPllt counsel at ASARCO Inc. (a

COJTIoan'vl in NYC." in Res-Leora Rosen Greene (CeCIHllw,

U.V'L,'-U'L.l..l.! works as cOJnputer prograrnmer.ThomasJ. ([email protected])and Maria Sileno DeLoughryVA, welcomed their first child, Ryan Tholllas,

6, '96. He was four weeks pn~m;ature,

but a seven HappyBirthday, little Ryan!

Thomas R. Frederick1.11\.Jl11..'-'J"-.'-'V'111J sent this note from Utah: "I

rne Inass:lgnlrn(~nt "vas

located in eastern Perlns"vlvanla.wife Karen Petrus '87 and

in Montclair, And Sean McMur-Konomi Takeshita '85

civil forThornas in Cincinnati.

you know what we want,to send it . •:. Michael

Ave., PhJLlaclell)l11a,

to Ohio in 1995 tolaw firm Fumier

Don't beand you knowBerkwits, 8707PA, 19118; e-rnail,

PARTICIPATIONis the 0 a succesiful

Class if '8710th Reunion!

June 5-8, '97

WAYSTO PARTICIPATE

7202alone, ornect withused to call horne.

After lived Ithaca, for the rnostpart, since our freshnlan I did theunthinkable: I took sonlewhere andll10ved to Boston. I have been

director for East Asia oper­ations in the unlverslt:v dievt~lot)ment office atHarvard U. wife,I""L,,, .. \.\JI.Lanlt)nclge in March.

• Join us at Reunion '97!

• Bring your friends!

• Volunteer to help! Contact Karla Griffin,(215) 545-0308 or [email protected]

• Can't make it? Send us a note and pictureto post at Reunion headquarters!

• Visit our new Web Page!http:/ 87.comell.edu

• Help with the Class gift! Even a small giftmake a difference!

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With the new

made mention ofand thus indicated

COlngJ~atlllat1011Sare to Helene Fine-gold on Nov. 23, '96 llla1.11(:lc~v

Ganlffion, Steven Gal on his Oct. tripdown the aisle with Lisa Barnhouse, and FaithSkolnik's Nov. 10, '96 with MarcAckerman.

Oncefor (CAU), espt~ClallV

I (Alison Minton) anl now onCAUlattended class this

for the sunlmer in a row,CAU adventure overall, and as

tvtHGlllv'w,ondel:tul Cornell t:>'<T1C'"'\t:>"'"1 t:>¥\ rot:>

alums than ever part inCAU SUIlUller, classmates SusieDavis-Bower and Suzanne Bors. I encour-

all classnlates interested in ation to check it out. Have great

and thanks for all thellt-'l.r1'1t·':'C__kr ,:.,:.t-'l thenl

.:. Alison Minton, 333 E. St.,NYC 10022; Wendy Myers Cambor, 14Beach Ave., Northport, NY 11768; e-luail,carnb()rvv(a;~IllS.COlm;Diane Weisbrot Wing,727 Anita St., Redondo Beach, CA 90278.

rnedicine.comt)letlng his r':'C1r1r-'f-'lr"'U

in tow-brand Kroll, born lastDecember to and wife Nona. TheKrolls live in w clSh:ln~:tO]l, DC,

Tseng (ttsen~!,(aJ,~halrvard.ledll),

Mt. St., La]nb]nd~!,e

Caryn S. Weinberger (welrLbe:rc(aJ,C:lbl:.conl), 1619 Third10128; Risa Weinberger \lLVVJV\Ul/,dL1LLUILIJ.

1619 Third Ave., 19G E., NYC 10128.

MAY IJUNE 997 99

".,.. ..."CY\r.. "".. ~"JrH'''1.lLL''LLLV.lLon the ArtsClass of2000 is

on Sun.,4, from 1-4 plll. classmates inwant to nleet our Inentees,We'll be milling about betweenAndrew and Ezra. We'd love to see you there,so come out us. For more informa-tion, call llly Rose Tana-sugarnat

News colunm seellIS torive in my e-mailbox.from everyone, it Lots seelllS tobe out in the West, so let Ine

you on the coast that is perpetuallyin weather than we poor upstate NewYorkers. I do get news from formerClass Kristyn Benzinger,and of course, that bastion of news, Rose.Rose told me that Alexandra "Alex" Taskeror~:anlzeda Cornell Club of Los tripto Museum and inPasadena of Blue Boy andwere treated to a lecture on gaI~denlnLg

on the Plantations.50 Cornellians arrived early to

brunch in the tea roonl, and about 100Cornellians and attended in total. It wasa beautiful manynolias in bloolll. me ofin " Rose said. and Scott Whit-ney were also there. works forPictures, between r"rr"" ....."" ..'r

ments,the hOllle department~.. ro,"T1r\rr r\rl to feature films. Hollywood, wow.

TTT~,_lr."",~~."", "the biz."......r-,C'n_,,,"'''''' roommate, Susan

"Susie" Mrozek, started work in November1996 for Cornell's relocated Western

office in San Francisco. Rose sawandJim Cavalieri '91 in LA after New

Year's. Susie metJim through mutual friendand sister Elana Adelman Feinsmith'89. works for Oracle, a conlpany I'vebeen to stock in!

It's a I received an e-nlailfroIn Nancy Neuman llle about her

in 1996 to Kevin Koteckiin Durango, CO. And Rose,

over to the East Coast for the Assn. of.'">'t:>,ai-"..,r-.. "'''''' New York

halJPt~ned to meetparents whowhen we heard that the r.'D,riri,Y\rr " .. ,,,,,

take on dude ranch, but ... it wasMeg Talty Susan Kallfelz

Vander Meer, Scott Amy KarlenNeuman '93) were in the wedding.Guests Deanna Conoscenti '91,Ellie Hirshberg '93, and Shawn Walker,MBA '90. is also to be-conle director Mar-ket, headquartered in CO.

Stephen Hawthorne wrote with weath­er woes back in December from .l....IaJ..av·~LL'~.

LA, where he has been oil andwork for over year. He earnedTulane in 1994. Not that he's cOInplauung.He admits, "1 can't 1miss the I,......-,r... ,,,,,,.~h,,,..,.,

native but there is defi-

Outdoors! Cold leIn­>J.lL.:.qJI-'.LV. Fire up the

on the SPF!one for with A.D.

White and Ezra Cornell? OK, sostatues, but nevertheless we have been invited

Malin Haugwitz was one of 15AInerican professionals awardedBosch Foundation and will be

~elJtemtler,where shewill for the government.Malin is living in Bethesda, MD, until shegoes. Lt. Matthew Berta re­turned fronl a six-month del0lclvn[leIltthe h .....~ .....'V~.... ........... ...,..., ...... 'V

of Middle Eastwas able to visit Bahrain, ~ ~~~~~,..., ~~.~~~,....,lia, and Saudi Arabia.

Is star in ourmidst? Can anyone confirm that classlllateElizabeth Payne role of a waitressheld at gun-point on "Nashsode last winter? If so, let us know.Write soon! .:. Robyn Wesler Landow, 315E. 68th St., Apt. 15S, NYC 10021.

a L.L \-.Llr;GL \-JL \J .1..1.

NY. She seen KathrynSchmauch Karen Leshowitz, who is

in NewJersey and as an attor-the Appellate Division, De-

IJGL.l. \-LL.Lv.l.l.\-. Mark Nelson is an atGottlieb in DC, but

current address puts him in Belgium at themOInent. Mark Fornasiero is consultant atA.T. Kearney in .... n."dGL='l.J.

Rich Day on Christnlas Evewhile on call at New York ~ rIo".,..,t-" I'

on intothe tri-state area.John Tishler, who attt~r graduatln~~tn)mlaw school nloved to wife Kiln.Barbara York works for Calvin Klein inNYC, where she lives with Su-san Curry a house in "'-Jvu-LL.l.\JL,..... ,

and is working at an aC(:Ollntln~~ tlrm

Jersey. Ron Yunis is "-'-... .L• ..., ......" ......~ ............,

idency in Texas.Dina Wisch Gold and husband Peter

'85 welcoIned Theodore Louis "Louie" Goldinto the world on Nov. '96. Dina is a

associate at the DC office ofHunton & Williams, where she .,.. ..."r-t-'r-a"

mana~~en:lerLt-sldelabor and elllPlclvnlent lawtheir first in Oc-

finished remod-"The end result is but we

recomInend it in the first weeksbaby home from the hospital,

we Deborah Skolnik married T. P.Enders '91 last Novelllber in Westchester,NY. Deborah features editor at McCall's

Rudzki Povich, who Inarried husband An­drew in October 1995.

Susanresldc~ncvat the U. of Susan and

to move to I)urham, NC,she can sPt~Cl:1112:e

del~m:ltO.lo~:v at Duke

5542." Carolhas earned her

health-care consult­in touch with Izabella

the -L. .I. "U..-,LLLGLLL

drew Ringer isthe U. of Cincinnati.

Aisling Cusack

aShJlngt:on, DC,H. Randall

escorted the aisleBert Weidberg '62, and the

included Suzanne Weidberg~re:edlma:n,Robyn Wesler Lan­

Korakis Anderson. Lynn'sDaniel Blaugrund '35,

vrt'~:-I[-IHILIeHowardBlaugrund'30, relatives, including RafeBlaugrund '67, Larry Golden '64, andMike '62 and Vicki Greene Golden '64, allhelped Cornell friends attc~ndlng

cluded Dick Squire '62, Bruce RogersDanielle (Spark) '~8 and David Bier '88,Alisa (Kossowsky) '90 andJay Strauss,Jeff

'87, and Sarah PeabodyAlex Martin

WIRED on a late .,.,..r..h<-+I.,·... h<-

he Nick Fowler'sad. Alex reports that is in band

called Tonto Tonto and should be rec:ondlnlghis CD soon. Sally Hawkins Alling

husband, Doug '90, in his...a", ri".Y\ r"'" at Ohio State U. I'nl

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"LINDA MOERCK 91

, 'Toctd ~Got:teS;mCJLn

toJames Dritz '63 is"and proud ofit. Her sister Alyson, MHAHE '95, in NYC

101

Mike F. Wolfe is stationed at Ft. Carson, CO.Douglas Delamater is in the Air Force,

based in North Carolina. Danielle HaasLaursen and husband Kirk are both PhD can-

at Tech. Danielle is t-l1""'1"H'h11"'t'r

up her degree in atn10spheric rhi"'rrllC't-l"1T

garet Mitchell is pursuing her PhD LL~ _L.a~~""LLJ~L

the U. of Connecticut. Karen C. Lu is astudent at Harvard, Amanda Moore is ancount executive for Young & Rubicanl inNYC, and Dwight Brimhall-Vargas is a

"""I"' 0"1 ", "",n,.. for MRJ Solu-

Mindy (Zane) wasRosenthal in Novenlber 1995 inBeach. Richard Brewer finished his work atTufts and is now a market analyst "r.':TD<'t'""I11 ... t-h,,,,,

COJmr)utennetw()rkJnlg ll1dllStlty at InternationalData Corp. in rranungJharn,

Paul and Suzanne LaForge Greeleynow have sons Connor and Alec. Paul worksfor Chilis in the Boston area, while Suzanne is

full-tinle mother at home with the Alsoin the Boston area is Robert Arrieta, who is

student at MIT's Sloan School, afteran environn1ental consultant in At­Katherine Christiana started her

at BostonU. in the fall. Den-nis Mark with a master of fine artsdegree fran") the NY ofArt.

Continuing his pursuit MD/PhD atDuke is Greg Della Rocca. He hostedJenWrazen andJon Stanford on in-terviews and noted that Raj JainDuke for a residency in rnedicine andrics. Meanwhile, Alan Gura law

frOITl in 1995 and went toas a law in North

Carolina, then nloved to to work as

at "lr\rt-~""{",7"D<('t-,,,,,r"t,

Bettina Panahon is to-ward her MBA at SUNY, Sheworked in China for three years at an invest-n1ent firm in Beijing. JenniferDavis her PhD in evolutionary psy-

and is on a post-doc at Max Planck Inst. in Munich. Kim­berly Sanders works for LaMore, Brazier &IZiddle in CA, and Dana Baueremlolc)ved by NYC. Teresa Min-Jung 0 is a general archi-tect with the Space of Korea in Seoul.

Diane Gale works & Moorein Lathan1, NY. T. J. Lepore

1'"'\1 ... rYlr.1T"" fronl New York to Dallas,is now for Lucent

eC11nC)1og1es. Lucy Ledogar is with theIZadisson Inn Sanibel Gateway in FortFL, and Kristin Ahrens Vest is an aPl)lICatl<)nSsupervisor for AMD in AnnaPolimeni an assistant actuary for Kwasha

in Fort Lee, NJ.

Relnenlber the three Rs: Re­union, Reunion, Reunion!

will

5-8, to newtoo! You should have received

on reunion no\v, butinfonnation, contact Marc Wallace at352-2815 or e-Inail CU92Reunion(~llot:nl;;l1l.(:orn.We to you there!

I received SOIne letters. First, a BIGweIconle back to Kate Buehl, who returnedlast sunlmer fronl with the

She across the US toget Cornell friends,including Mat Zucker, Adam Rosenberg,Mariela Markelis, Heather Bouchey, SueBystrak, Ian Kutner, andJenny Abbott.Kate also nlentioned had heard frornJ 000Balet, who best man at Bill Forbes's

was also n1arried last Novern-ber in New Harnr)shlre.

Ondrea Levittwhere she isas the directores. She is theCornell of Hotelmen and nlcntionedthatJennifer Perna and Tracy Furneralso active in the chapter.

Michael Arnold said he's theand has

the world of Cornell, it hardto keep in touch \vith Cornellians. But, hemanaged to see Ken Christy and CourtneyMeeks Inarried in Ohio. Ken is also in theNavy Courtney is in the Air Force.JimTucholski Philadelphia '",T".,..1T'11""'1t'r

'-~~~""~~Jl'-'-L' and Forrest Chamberlain worksin Boston. Michael, hinlsel£ is ,,"1..,..D<11t-1,7

Charleston, SC.f-\tter ~graduat1l1g :trom the Colun1bia busi-

ness Carmen Disunno went to workfor TIAA-CREF the placenlentcurities division in New York City. JenniferSpencer is nurse at Bassett Healthcare inLCloperstO\Nn, NY, and Renee Dake is with

Graybeal Architects inCC1. Deepak Gupta is a consultantacle in California. Ifyou in Tucson, you

see Pamela Davis on the NBC channel,she is a And if

happen to in the Dover, NJ, area, lookAlex Nussbaum's in the

Record.Caryn Roberts is now a Se({HIU-Vfdlue

teacher in New "It's far crythe Hotel school, she writes. Shesaw Maria Politis and Shelly Cerio Wett-1aufer in NYC. Maria is andworks for GE in alsoStacey Welch in Plt1:sbllrgJh,working on her in medical ethics.

Meghan DeGolyer and husband RickHauser celebrated Rick'sfron1U. witharound the country.on theRick is Doranin Rochester. Emily Franco is inwith the US She has visited

Sweden, She noted that

un:Lversltv! Here

in corporateAInerica. Scott T odd Gottes-man is still in Houston andbut Inisses those N ew YorkDebra Epstein fronl NYC:teaching first in Briarcliff, NY, (~LL\~~ c)IJ'-~~'"

last ('11"1"""1"'"'''''''' t-l~"'T""iI11""'1('rH-,,,,, Pacific Northwest-Vancouver,

out toJulie Nielsen,who in North but will relocate inthe fall of 1997 to start medical school at theU. issearch at Duke and spent last sunlnlerpacking out in and Colorado. Me-lissa Franklin fronl NYC, whereshe has started at the Bank of NovaScotia \vorking derivativeIJL\.JU\.L~l"':). Vicki June is in Hudson,NY, and is currently working as a snlall aninlaland veterinarian. Lara DeLong isr"""I",r11Ylt'r" post-ba(:calallreate progranl at U. of

"t'l'hhTl"1"'t'r to Inedicaland all advice

Short-

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Helping HandsKAY F R lED LAN D ,E R '9 3

fromJohns Hopkins U. and is now workingin Wodd Wide Web development for someinternational company. "

Lori Elliott is working for a technologyconsulting company. She writes that AmySkidmore is in NewJersey working for USHealthcare, Karen Cooperman is workingfor NBC in NYC, Heather Toomey, KateCarroll, and Deanna Smith '92 are roomiesin Seattle, Jodi Krause is in Pittsburgh work­ing for Westinghouse Co., andJeanne Wha­len is in Russia promoting the free enterprisesystem. Scott Goodfellow is working forProcter & Gamble in Cincinnati and rebuild­ing a 16-foot sailboat in his spare time.

E-mail brings news ofJeff Bernsteinwho graduated from Harvard law school lastJune and is working as an attorney at Cravath,Swaine & Moore in NYC and Emily(Vacher) who is completing herJD/MPA atSyracuse U. and was married to Ian David Kuperon Sept. 1, '96. Matt Kall expects to be clerkingfor a federal district court judge in Detroit un­til September and then is going to work inCleveland for Baker & Hostetler. Clay Adleris in Hawaii in the second year ofa joint de­gree program getting a master's in Asian stud­ies and aJD at the law school, where they havea special program for Asian legal studies.

Lisa Capron completed a master's in en­vironmental management and now works forthe US Environmental Protection Agency inChicago. InJuly she visited Nora Bensahel atStanford and also tells us that Amy Chizkcompleted her master's in deafeducation andhas moved to Austin, TX.

Angela Celso writes that Vernon Chimoved to NYC from LA. Josh Wells gradu­ated from Boston U. law school and is now

W ith more and more babyboomers caring for aging par­ents, many people face heavy

burdens and tough choices. Kay Friedlandersaw a vocation. At forty-six, she left herjob asa dental hygienist to study social work atCornell. Now owner of Ithaca-basedElderhelp, Friedlander works with elderlyclients and younger people providing care forolder relatives.

Friedlander helps her aging clients figureout how to meet their physical, emotional,and medical needs."I work;' she says,"like the adult child ofmy elderly clients."Friedlander's duties include accompanying clients to the doctor, finding alterna­tives to nursing home care, and even lobbying the NewYork State legislature onissues affecting senior citizens."I look at the whole person," she says."I'm alsosomeone they can call when they're frightened and just need an ally. I do thesame for the caregivers."

award which honors one first-year teacherfrom each state for excellence in teaching. Herformer roommateJennifer Hurt is in NorthDakota, havingjust finished her master's inspace studies at U. of North Dakota. JohnMcDonnell is happily working in Hacken­sack, NJ, as a quality assurance man testing datamanagement and scanning software. RossLevin is finishing his law degree at Vanderbilt.Lewis McCarthy is working on his PhDthrough U. of Massachusetts, Amherst,though right now he is at Cornell for a yearwhile his advisor is a visiting professor there.

Emily Coggshall Kahn was married lastsummer on the hottest day of the year in abeautiful outdoor ceremony and reception.Wayne Loo lives and works in New YorkCity andJeremy Yielding was married lastyear in British Columbia to a wonderfulwoman he met on a dig in Greece. CareyEpstein writes that she and Kena Evans areboth back in Ithaca for two years to get theirMBAs from theJohnson school. GeoffWil­son wrote, "Marc Kesselman just graduatedwith Risa Cherry from U. of Pennsylvanialaw. Maisie Ganzler is working for a chain ofrestaurants in California. Carl Dragseth isworking in operations at American Airlines inTexas. I think he's an axeman. Ari Ellis isworking in real estate in NYC and plays in aband with Rob Hadley '92. While thesepeople were not recently in NYC, they aredoing the following-Dan Levison is goinginto his third year of law school at Penn. E.Christopher Lewis is on his way towards aPhD at U. of Washington in computer sci­ence in Seattle. Jordan Kramer is working asan analyst in Los Angeles. Manuel Terrano­va got a master's in international relations

Hi, and welcome to summerand the one-year countdownto reunion! I just want toapologize for the backlog of

info. I have tons of news and not so muchspace. Much of this information may be a littleout of date. Please be patient, I do try to get allthe information I receive published eventual­ly. On to the news.

Will Gluck writes that "Pete Hedlundwill be going back to Cornell in the fall as agrad student in the College ofArchitecture,Art, and Planning. Since graduation he hasbeen living and working in Puerto Plata, Do­minican Republic, as a special assistant in theagriculture and farming technology depart­ment. Derek Chollet has just completed hisfirst year as a PhD candidate in government atColumbia U." Ellen Johnston wrote aboutnumerous people but I can't fit everything in,so I'll have to paraphrase. She writes that she isteaching high school mathematics atJohnJayHigh School in Katonah, NY (WestchesterCounty). She was selected as the 1995 SallieMae First Class Teacher for NY State, an

a deputy attorney general defending the stateand its offices and employees against civil law­suits. Dana Rozansky also has earned herJDand is working with Begley & Pepe inMoorestown, NJ.

Kraig Marquis earned his master's fromU. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill last springand is working for a consulting firm and twomunicipalities near Chapel Hill. He men­tioned that Eric Schuls is doing his medicalresidency at a hospital in Charleston.

Tracy Furner was a national sales managerfor Hinton & Grusich. She and a group offriends have gone on a trip every year. Their1996 destination was Vail and Aspen. ShelleyHalloran, Heather McHugh, Sarah Cham­bers, andJ en McSorley Cloutier made thejourney with Tracy, and they all met up withAlec Berger in Aspen. Wendy MartinRodriguez is the food service director forMonroe Community College in Rochester,NY. Chuck Shafer works for Ford MotorCo. in Dearborn, MI, and Kristin McGloneis living in Tampa and working at SalomonBrothers. She has seen Kim Mayers who is invet school at the U. of Florida, Gainesville.Jennifer Grindle Clemens started a new jobwith Mobil Oil in Fairfax, VA. She saw an adfor the job in the ILR alumni publication­see, you should read all those newsletters! Liv­ing in the Washington, DC area is JenniferRubenstein. She is working for a governmentcontractor doing computer training and tech­nical assistance for the Head Start Bureau. "It'sa far cry from what I thought I'd be doing witha master's in social work, but I absolutely loveit!" she writes.

I am looking forward to catching up withmany of you at reunion inJune. I enjoy yourletters, e-mails, and phone calls, but talkingface to face will be even better. It's hard to be­lieve it has been five years! See you at thePalms! .:. Renee Hunter, 27 Prospect St.,Lebanon, NH 03766; tel., (603) 448-2548; e­mail, [email protected].

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off, I nlust do Neil Cantor aall those Comellians who to­

a total ofmore than $4,900 toCoalition for Cancer Survivor­

in support of Neil's efforts in the MarineCorps Marathon last October. Here goesvery long list: Marty Becker, JD '94,Madhu Bewtra '93, Victor BIas '95, IanBrown '93, Evan Cagner '95, Brian Can­tor '92, David Cantor '61, Sean Carey '93,Kathy Chang '92, Robert Claypoole Jr.,Robert Claypoole Sr. '58, MBA '61, andwife Nancy (Tetzlaff) '61, N. CathyClaypoole, JD '93, MRP '93, LarryAbrams '61, Greg Gordon, RobertGreenblatt, Craig Hymowitz, Scott Ising'96, David Kim '95, Peter Lamoreaux '95,Lowell Figur, Daniel Lockwood,Merza, Jessica Newill, Seth Cohen, TonyPrentice, David Fischer, Sanjiv Kayastha,Penner Schraudenbach '97, Nate Schrie­ber '95, Mike Sloan '96, Lowell Taub '96,Sarah Temkin '93, Wally Weinstein, andArt Witebsky '91.

Have great sunlmer, and thanks for all"T"'~V- '.--.a'''T'' 1 .:.Jennifer Rabin, 885 Westnun-ster Rd., Woodlnere, NY 11598; e-mail,

I amoverhave been T7'~""'~' IITT

with news frOIlI allthe side, ofcourse, is that,the e-lnail and the of News andDues forms it may takesorne time for everyone to see his or her name

ber in Florida. Attendees included ElizaMoore and Eric Clawson. works forAndersen L~onstlltlng,

the alsoVerrico is still inLisa Gerber works for theMarina Marriott,Julie Newtson hashome to and Becky Emerling is cur­rently pursuing a rnaster's degree in education.

Joshua Varsano is working as compen-sation in NC, with IBM, andwife Karen Ellis is ef-forts for North Carolina arc:hlt:ect:ur;althe couple is hOIlIe in Cary, NC.Michael Lebowich andJenna (Saidel), whornarried back in 1996, that LisaKeswick is at Albany school, MattSolomon, MBA '95, is for AMS,and Susan Greenwood expects tofrom U. of law school

I had the of attending theof Seth Feuerstein to Sharon Major on

Nov. 9, '96. Comellians in attendance includ­edJeffrey Goodman '93, Glen Abramson'93, Craig Gordon '93, Adam Feuerstein'93,Jason Hitner '93, Brett Silverman '93,Jeffrey Weiss '93, Kim Altman '93, BethFrankel '93, Fern Weinfeld, MichaelMarchant, Scott Weiss,Jeffrey Hurtgam,Jackie Bender, Scott Markow, MichaelAlpert, and Glenn Gandelman '95. Sethand Sharon live in Manhattan, where Seth is inthe nliddle of a MD/JD prograln at NewYorkU.

Before Ifavor and

'93, Melissa Marks '93, Kaku Kimura, andalso by bridesmaids Amy Melnikoff'95, Ali­cia Schwartz, and Debby Bushell. Carrielives in NYC and works for Bloomingdales.Michael Reed, scientist at the Na-val Research Labs, to say that MatthewMcQuinn Inarried last fall.

Another wedding took place last Octoberthat ofDonald Patterson and Sandra

(Lean), and lots ofalurnni were there, includ­ingJon Barnes '95, John B. Schutter,Todd Chalfin, Mark Bullard, Todd Bick­ford '95, Chris Bell '93, Holly Hicks, LizTukman, Karen Morgan, Andy Horvath,Paul De Marcellus, Vic Vizgaitis '95, andMaddie Sullivan. The Pattersons live

where Donald is a gunnery officer onJ..l1.,-"'" L Jl1.,1.,'-'.L~J.J. JoJU.LJ.·...'-' class destroyer, and

physics stu-Adam Burks has

been Brandon Bigelow hasmoved to Hawaii, Brian McKay isunder the on the USS Topeka, and StuLiventals is for Fuji Bank.Nathan Niemi is in aPhD progranl at Cal andwrote that Julie Ferguson nlarried RossBerntson '93 in Ithaca. Amy Mos­kovitz is teacher, and she reported aboutCarmen Santana's in

Leslie Abner wrote UIJ,-,,-,<,,,l:;el~ "TTL"rL1~'V"lr-r

to Kevin Strauss '92. Present were DianaSulimovici, Amy Fischberg, SariLeichter, andJulie Mendelson.

Caren Leffler reports that EileenHannigan and Christopher Dolan havebeen rnarried for rnore than and both

students at the U. Wisconsin.Caren is work on her MSW fromNew York U. that Amy Masnick

a grad student at Cornell; David Hanna,Todd Silverstein, andJeanne Tibbetsall working in Manhattan; and Lori Diloren­zo is finishing her of med school atU.ofPennsylvania.

mari Vihinen, a lieutenant in the US AirForce, went back to to attendthe ofMarty Newhouse and An­drea Palm. Christopher Cherry marriedKimberly (White) '95 in Novenlber 1995,and has started his own salesand service business NY. Kurt andJennifer Quin Henninger live in Colorado,

an MPA, and Kurtis an officer.

Emma Perez married Matthew Sal­azar in Sanjuan, 31, '96; attendees in­cluded Valeria Jose, Julie Seda, LiliannePerea, Steve Hewitson, and Pete Minneci.EIlInlaworks a human resources ".... Cl.r-~""~"t-for and Matt is a laborrelations officer for Southern. MikeHeraghty wrote about Kim Stewart's wed-

Derek 31,in Dublin, Beth FishmanMichelle Colford made the to observethe Angela Fernandez wrote thatColleen Annstrong and Rob Larcom mar-Li'-"~ iO'''''' L, J.U,~U~IL. and Amy Moor onMaria de la Fuente's toJeffSullivan '93 t",.--.,n.t-haV-"TTarlrh",r-r

Number One took re-cently: Christopher W ozencroft nIarried hishigh school sweetheart on March 9, and Ste­phen Scotto and Scott Silversteinushers. Chris is a controllers associateat Scott Silverstein

frorn New York U. and will be­gin a career with the NavyJAG LeslieTax, Jennifer Fang, andJessica Leone allwrote about the wedding ofAlee Wilson andMark Nicandri '95, in Houston. Alurnni at-

included Charlie Skipsey, DrewNugent, Kelly Reyelt, David Gogolak,Dana Popovsky, Jennifer Gus War­ren, Nicole Lingos,Jennifer Vingerhoet,Kimberly Moffitt, and Pamela Gladstein.

works the Waldorf-Astoria in NewYork and lives with Leslie, who worksthe Marriott Marquis; Nicole, who works atPfizer; Jackie DeLuca who works for An-

LOlnsllltlng; and Karen Heidelberger,who for Merrill

Carrie Skolnick Rothfeld also marriedschool sweetheart; the ""Tarlrl111'\rr

Oct. '96, and was att(~ncled

Laurie (Appel) '93 and Martin Barkman

Smith isU. ofMassachusetts, L -Liiiii"-'i"",.

Derek Harrisonstruction for Gilbane Co.and Solomon in NYC,where for the Classic N et-work. Thanks for all the ~"'T,"__ VL>£~Y'\

.:. Yael Berkowitz, 310W.NYC 10025; e-mail, "7h£~v-IT.(Y'''7,t-I7(/l')

buckconsultants.com.

104 MAGAZINE

James WhitakerSherry WhitleyPatrice Winter

David Podwall

*Jason StipeVictorSuMatthew ThomasSharon Tregaskis

*Jessica ShevitzMichael Shurm*Andrew Slocum*Andrew Smart

Rachael Rothman-QuIdMarcSallette

*Robert Lind

*Matthew QuickeYannis Retsos

Dickson Lee

*Jennifer Henderson

Scott Horowitz

Michelle Knudsen*Robert KronzakEllen Kwan

Jeffrey Hart*Shawn Hecht

*Valerie Ghibaudi

Jack ChenSteven ConineAntonetta CuccaroChristian De Leon-Horton*Matthew DobbinsJacqueline DuncanJames DzakowicDavid Foti

Surasree AcharyaStefanie AhlemeyerHelene Arbouet

The following Giving Tree mem­bers have helped raise more than$800 towards offsetting the hous­ing cost of our first Reunion in2000. In two years, the GivingTree has raised over $1500.

The Class of 1995 would like toextend a sincere thanks to all ofour duespayers for the 1997 year.Through your support, the Classof 1995 is able to keep bringingyou all of the latest activities andevents happening on campus andacross the country.

CLASS NOTES

rYl",n,)O"Pl~/rllrprtr\r of small COInrrlunlltyWrites Kate, "It's

'l.XTr''I'"1r111' 0" in the theater and remindsthe shows I watched and worked on intheater while I was at " She would also

to know if there any other C:ornellians~<11""'C>.1"f-hr <.., Israel, and, she would love to

theln. Her e-mail address

,ntprtT,P'I,XT,tlO" 1~r\r the AluInni Admissions Am-bassador Network it

,..,h"'1""""ci-"',,rr to be the of theElissa Tolle also checks in

JayHoofnagle, iswould fit forthis isthat group

including HeatherAndrysiak, Michael Bergelson, SigneFreiberg, Sara Griffen, Rob Hargreaves,Les Hilger, Reginal Leichty, Silas Martin,Colin McCarthy, Dana Roth, DanielRoyalty, Jessica Shevitz, and JessicaWright at "the first

and three of reliv-'l'"Pt-pll1lnrr old stories

ones-in niralYork, about hours fronl ""'I'" -t"i,i-h,-t1,.

nlater. "MIA from the event was Hani H.Rashid,

Menlorial

city."is BrianJ. Smith,

Midtown Manhattanrelations and Int:egrated

COlrpC)rat:e brochures, n12Lgazlnles,He also writes that

Conlell-Colunlbia football lastber 16 up with some fornler roonl-

"Andrew Martin, Lori Goodman,lliya Shell, all tookin the and follo\vedthe froIn St. Patrick's Cathedral to theC:ornell Club-New York, where

the " On the side, Brian

FronlAmy Kaplan, whowith fellow '95ersJonathan Ho, DharineeSanganee, Sabena Arora,Michael Rollins, to a few. liveswith Taraleigh Lamb, who works theWaldorfAstoria Hotel. Several Inonths

two roonlmates cel.ebratedwith Erika Lintner, who

Brothers, and GretchenHarris, who works for Ann and re-

in the NYC Marathon. Indance a brunch in of Gretchen's nUlwereJake Karam, on the floor ofthe NY in convertible securi-

and Blair Ettles '94, who works forMerrill writes "those

... this

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dc.infi.net.

have of yourown accord, so far, so subtle pleas for news ap­

don't do it. Let's try this: PLEASEWRITE and save tue from the gossip Saharathat is nlY inbox. don't you want to

your name in nice bold print?) Cheers, andn1ay the force be with you. •:. Courtney Ru­bin, 1727 Massachusetts Ave., NW, #403,WashIngton, DC 20036; e-mail.pn(~ste:s(CQ

master's inamong them]oshua Steiner, in op­

erations research and industrial engineering,major Michael Tessler in electri-

en~!Jnt~enng. Laura Han-Ming Chan alsoto pursue a master's in J:.nguleennlg

11a"'Tt- """""'1"" Dennis Leon will remain in Ithaca,.,n'..... t-h,""1""tr'l.ll1"" """""'1""C' as a student at the Col-of Medicine.

Also lined up for a course in up1rpr1n':lru

medicine is bio major Victoria Milne.is headed for wanner climates, name-ly U. of California, Davis or U. Florida.Before she buckles down for another demand-

she plans to road-tripGraceland will be our

For the old news round-up that'sget don't write force

classmate I for in-.L'-'.L.L ......u""... '-"~.L/. Kassy Weidner married Jason

last in NYC. They met in anInternet chat room in the fall of 1995, butdon't worry, the was an intimate-not an The Weidner-

PIttsbufl::!h, where IS

fronlCatherine Oh ventured intotory. She's almost done with her IHl'''-IJ;..J{,I[;..J­

laureate studies course at the U. ofto attend medi­

Catherine'sk1""r.... t-ka1""I"T love is

as a research

(nIckname: Thethe ocean.

out there, soshe was surprised to bump into ChristinaKim,]ess Antola, and]ohn Heffernan-allin night!

A little +,.,1""t-ka",,' 11""

Lauren Garson iscOlun~;el1lng Inner kids on selfesteem andcareer college for the NYC

and Career Center,]essica Kaplan is do­'"y\"'1""Ir,::.t-,r1,rr for the Book of the Month

and Danielle Petersel is formed school next alltnet up

NewYorkU.

the trarlsItlon,with her friendsGail Rosenberg, who

Point."An awful lot ofclassmates have gra,duated

yet titne thelunlbia, David Biek is an

and Ellen Tchernovitz isin social work. Dave

that

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'29 BA, JD '30-Arthur LeffofEvanston,IL, formerly ofNew Yorkton, DC, Sept. 8, 1996; chiefadminis­trative law judge, National Labor Relations

'29, CE '31-William A. Kerr ofClemlnons, NC, ..."' ...rot-.c....hr

NY, Apr. 23,1996; colonel,US veteran; insurance executive andCOllsultUlg (~n~;1n(~er, INA Insurance Co.; Del-

'29 BS Ag-Claude H. Colvin Col-Beach, FL, of S. Yarmouth,Apr. 14, 1996; Zeta.

'28 CE-Sherwood B. Smithton, DC, Sept. 5, 1996; consultant and re­search retired civilian engineer,

bnlg1l1et~rS~veteran; primaryAlpha

'28, BA '29-Iverna Hill H'1"'1'"'1'n£"Tf-nYl

R. FL, -t-", ...rn£:j.... hr

FL, NY,tired teacher, Draper High

active in COlllilluruty prc)tes,Slollal,and alumni affairs.

'27-Harland A. Hofer ofPenfield, NY,exact date unknown; retired automobile deal­er; active in alumni affairs.

'28 BA-Eleanor Goldstein Edelstein (Mrs.fiUJldU<iUlj ofRochester, NY,]une 23,1995;retired teacher. Alpha Epsilon Phi.

'27 BA-Thelma Keitel Call Irving].)ofStafford, NY, 6, 1996; active in conl­

alunlni affairs.

'27 CE-Foster S. Bowden ofSarasota, FL,ofCookeville, 1996; re-vLL~;"LLL"'~vL, Grumman Aircraft Com-

'26 CE-Mauricelottesville, VA, f-", ...yy>£:j....hr

Sept. 9, 1996, retiredneer, New Yorkaffairs. Pi Phi.

ofTuscaloosa, AL, ofLh:arlcltte5;Vllle, VA, and Ithaca, NY, 30,1996; active in civic, reli-

affairs. Delta Delta Delta.

'26 BA--:Jack Gold ofLongboat FL,ofRichmond, VA, Sept. 15, 1996;

r1a1... " · YY>,aY\t- store and distribu-rn"Y\,,£"Ta • active in and alumni

Delta.

'26-29 Grad-Anne Gordon Steward

'25 CE-Richard I. Land ofLas NV,ofDunnellon, FL,]une 1,1996; re­

tired vice president, Vermilya-Brown Co.,NYC; veteran; active in community,sional, and alunlni affairs.

'24 BA-Florence Daly 'U'L '"-L ...... s-, ...... "'-""',

tnr'rn""",":r of New Rochelle, NY,1996; artist and owner, Old Cannonactive in CO]lnnlUll1D{, protesslorlal, L'-'LJl~L'-'U".

and alumni affairs.

'21-Howard T. Saperston Sr. ofBuffalo,NY, 22, 1996; retired attorney,~al)erston& PC, Buffalo; active in com-

and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau.

'24 BCE-Burke D. Adams of Atlanta,GA, 1, 1996; retired vice anddirector of Batten, Barton, andOsborne, founder ofBurke AdamsInc., Atlanta; active in alumni PhiGamma Delta.

'24 BA-Loretta CoffeyNY, 1996; active in alumni

'26 BA-Ira Koenig of New YorkOct. 2,1996; attorney. Phi Delta.

'24JD-Victor O. Wehle ofSt. Petersl)ur~g,

FL, Aug. 20,1996; retired circuit judge; activein alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha.

'24 BA-Edith HarrisH.) of Hendersonville,NY, Sept. 8, 1996; active in

'19, M Eng '18-Charles F. "Mike"Hendrie of Watertown, CT, formerly ofGlen N], 20,1996; retiredneer and public inin civic and alumni affairs. Phi

'17 CE-Harold G. MillerBeach, FL, Aug. 2, 1996;man, Vanity Fair Mills Inc.; active in alumniaffairs. Theta Chi.

" Samara Friedman is tois Val Novellano,end at the New

N], whereroad towards be-

default.html. •:. Erica Broennle, 1641 Hunt­ers Cir., West Chester, PA 19380; e-mail,

you in five yearsIMPORTANT NOTE:

the of

cOIningMore graduate school include

Katherine Baynes's: she is to lawschool. Miessha Naomi Thomas intends topursue master's in health management and

and a law degree.December graduateJason Rife is work-for Pratt and an aircraft

Inanufacturer. Matthew Karp has beguncareer in real estate and Kristy-J0

Shoemaker has been since her De-cember as a malrk(~tulg/mt~rcJlarl-

coordinator at Sysco inHClrsene~las,NY. Carl Mittelman will be en-

the Denver as an associate di-rector for Aramark at KristinMatter, ofNew Paltz, NY, andJeffNason,ofCouer d'Alene, ID, both members of the

team, are to theSeattle/Portland area Thewest called Cho To Wong, also; he's work-ing in a computer in California.Denis Kurakin a to the Eastand is Moscow.

That

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'34 BS HE-Elsie Hanford Willianls (Mrs.ofMarietta, GA, ofHol-

12, 1996; active in af-Husband, H. '32

'34-Emlou ReddickWilliam ofSunHusband, William T. Ih()111pSOm

1993. Seal

'29-Charles M. NicholsNY,S, 1996; Phi Delta

Board; active in alull1ni affairs. Tau Delta Phi.

'29 BA-Rae Rose RothmanM.) OH,bus,

'29 BA-Woodward A. Wickhamson, 21,1994; active in alumniAlpha Phi.

'30 BA-Daniel H. Denenholz of NewYork 23, 1996; retired televisionand radio active in alumni affairs.Tau Delta Phi.

'32 BA-Jane F. O'Neil ot jjlnghalmton,NY, Sept. 7,1996; emeritus ofclini-cal Medical

:"'\vr::l("ll,\jf" tr,..,.yy"\"",.,hr administrator,c} v "-J ..........Cl.L ... "L"-' Center; active in

COllilllUll1ty, prc>tesslo:nal, L'-'LjL~.I.\ ..JU.J, and alurn-ni af£1irs.

'35-Martin C. Besemer ofTucson, AZ,29, 1996; retired executive,

'35 BS Ag-Kenneth L. Coombs ofPalmHarbor, FL, and Wakefield, RI, Sept. 25,1996; retired ofRhodeIsland, active in COllilllUll1ty,sional, and alumni affairs.

'30 MEE-Hui Huang ofBethesda, MD,Taiwan, 30, 1996;

senior Taiwan Power Bethesda,active in alunmi affairs.

'32 BA-Frederick T. Rope ofWestford,VT, Sept. 5, 1996; retired diplomat andsp(>ke:Sll~Lanfor the American Mission to theUnited Nations; veteran; active in civic, corn-

and alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

'35-Esther Mandeville (Mrs.Nelson ofGreenfie1d Center, NY, fonner-ly 29, 1996; active in com-

... 'V ...,'I'".... '-, .....cJ, and alumni affairs.

'36 MD-Mary Heiss ~"-J v ...... 'C"-J ......

ofNew Yorkaffairs.

'35 BA-Pearl Samuels Kravitz (Mrs.ofScarsdale, NY, March 19,1995; active in

and alumni affairs.

'36 MD-E. Tremain Bradley ofNorfolk,CT, ofSanibel, FL, Aug. 18, 1996;retired Norwalk Hospital; active inalumni

'35 EE-William E. RummIer ofStevensville, PA, NY,

1,1996. Seal &

'35 BS Ag-Bernard H. Quick ofIthaca,NY,]uly 30, 1996; operator ofQuick Cenle­telY, Brooktondale; retired mink rancher;eran; active in alurnni affairs. Pi ..I.""-u...,..." ... .L ...... ..., ......u.

'36 DVM-Martin H. (Friedman) Fre­mont ofLos Gatos, CA, and W A,Mar. 16, 1995; alumni

'36 MA-Isabel Morgan MountainD.) VA, 18,1996;

co-author of53 scientificsearcher

'36 BA-Parker C. Wright ofBeach, FL, ofSodus Pt., NY, Oct. 3,1996; retired, Eastman Kodak '-..JU'll.LIJd.L.! v

Rochester, NY; active in COlnUlurntyand alumni affairs.

'36.

'37-Robert L. PearsallNY, 12, 1996.

'37 BS AE M-Joseph B. Simpson ofSarasota, FL, Mar. 1, 1996; retired engineer, Pa-

'37-39 SpAg-Cornelius W. Kuhn of.L ........~.;;.<A,..... v. NY, exact date unknown.

'33 BS Hotel-HenryJ. Brady ofSeattle,WA,]uly 27,1996; active in professional, reli­

and alumni affairs. Phi Delta Theta.Wife, Elizabeth '35.

affairs.

'32 BA-Frances Ginsburg Ruditzkynell1arnln D.) NY, and Ithaca,Dec. 18, 1995;rebredseclonc~sL:hl,00~1,.~u~ ......~....

'33 BA-Arthur B. Middleton ofSarasota,FL, ofHaddonfield, 23,1996; chernist and

affairs. Lambda Chi

'33 BA-Michael L. Wolfe ofNorthport,NY, 6, 1996; Nu.

'34 MD-Elisabeth Clarice Adams ofGuilford, CT, ofN. Branford, CT,

14,1994; active in affairs.

'33 BS HE-Dorothy Tench SimsFrederick ofTallahassee, FL, ofSarasota, 10, 1996; retired, AtlanticRichfield; active in alurnni affairs. Delta DeltaDelta.

'34 BA-Elsie Miller Betty Paul ofWIJmln~~O]t1,DE, 17, 1996; active in re-

alumni Delta Galnma.

'33 MD-Betty Husewalshlngton, DC, Sept. 5,cn1oarlal'yrst; active in prc>tes;slonal

'34 M Eng-Ralph E. Hoffmann ofSunCity, AZ, forll1erly ofNorth NH,March 15, 1996; Alpha Tau

'34 BS Ag-Max Sochenel, forll1erly1996.

'31 CE-Robert C. HazlettWV, 21, 1996; retired,~tdlll11Plnlg Co.; active in alumni affairs.

'31 BS Ag-Amos G. Allen Jr. ofNorthbrook, IL, +,.....~"',...-.C.~hT

31, 1996; retired vice pn~slclellt, .L..J~."'."''''''''''''L''''

Allen Lumber ,--",V'.l.l.lI-JGU.lY, Momence; active inalumni affairs. Phi Kappa.

'30 ME-James W. Young15,1996.

'30 BA-Joseph M. La Rocca of SilverMD, 27, 1996; retired chiefof

international activities, US De-partment ofHealth, Education, and Welfare;veteran; active in COlnUlurntyand alumni affairs.

'31 BS HE-Marion Bretsch Burbank(Mrs. ofIthaca, NY, Oct. 7,1996;active in alunlni

'31 BA-Helen Wetzler MichaelsM.) ofAubum, NY,

20,1996; active in

'31 BS Hotel-J. Paul McGinn ofScottsdale, AZ, Nov. 21,1995. Phi Gamll1aDelta.

'31 BA-John A. Noble Jr. ofLittleton,CO, of Ithaca, 25, 1996.

'31 BA-Helen Nuffort SaundersDonald of Devon, PA,

and Alexandria1996; retired librarian, M~lnlc~w()od

Memorial active in alumni affairs.Husband, Donald B.

'31 BA, MA '33-Norman S. Wagner ofBakersfield, CA, ofBaker, OR, Oct.

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ALUMNI DEATHS

'43 MD-Leyland E. Stevens ofSan Fran­cisco, CA, Nov. 26, 1995; active in alumni af­fairs.

'44 DVM-Thurman C. Vaughn Jr. ofGlenmont, NY, Aug. 21, 1996; active inalumni affairs.

,44, BA '43-Dora Storms Hunter ofLakeOswego, OR, formerly ofMorehead City,NC, and San Clelllente, CA, May 18, 1996.Pi Beta Phi.

'46 MS-William R.Johnson ofFredonia,NY, formerly ofGowanda, July 28,1996; re­tired guidance counselor, Gowanda; active in

'45, BS HE '44-Marion CarolynHall Siudzinski (Mrs. Edward S.) ofWappingers Falls, NY, Sept. 25,1996; retirednutritionist.

'44-Thomas C. Spriggs of Naples, FL,Sept. 14, 1996; veteran; active in comlllunityand religious affairs. Alpha Chi Rho.

'46 BS Nurs-Jane Vansickle Feil (Mrs.Ted Maurer) ofFort Pierce, FL, forlllerlY ofCornwall-on-Hudson, NY, Aug. 20, 1996.

'45 DVM-Alexander D. MacCallum ofNew Hartford, NY, Aug. 8,1996; veterinari­an, Utica A1lilllal Hospital; active in alumni af­fairs. Delta Tau Delta.

'45, BA '44-DonaldJ. Siskind ofWestHempstead, NY,July 23,1996; attorney.

,45-Paul E. Magdeburger ofAustin, TX,formerly ofWashington, DC, Oct. 4, 1996;retired senior technical writer, Tracor Aero­space; veteran.

'45, BA '49,JD '51-Howard FernowofCedaredge, CO, formerly of GlenwoodSprings, Aug. 31, 1996. Delta Upsilon.

'46 M Eng-J. Mark ChamberlainJr. ofCroghan, NY, formerly ofAtlanta, GA, Aug.30, 1996; retired vice president and chieffi­nancial officer, Lockheed Aeronautical Sys­tems COlnpany, Marietta, GA; veteran; activein community, professional, and religious af­fairs.

'43 BS Ag-William S. Pendergast ofMiddletown, NY, May 10, 1996; retired farmmanagement advisor and former teacher ofag­riculture and extension associate. Theta Chi.

'45, BA '44-Barbara Srenco Brier (Mrs.Jerome W.) ofPenn Valley, PA, formerly ofMiami, FL, Aug. 16, 1996; bridge teacher,Mialni, former world bridge champion. SigmaDelta Tau.

of Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 18, 1996; retired,New York City Board ofEducation.

,44-45 SpAg-Savilla Maney ofAlto, GA,Jan. 19, 1995.

'41 PhD-John G. Cady ofSykesville, MD,fomlerlY ofBaltimore, Aug. 26, 1996; retiredlecturer,Johns Hopkins Umversity, former of­ficial, US Departinent ofAgriculture; veteran;active in alulnni affairs.

'42-John P. ButlerJr. ofWest Fulton, NY,exact date unknown. Lambda Chi Alpha.

,42 JD-Vincent F. Dooley of Gilford,NH,]une 1, 1996; Abranlson, Reis,and Brown, Manchester.

'42 BS Ag, '46 BS Nurs-Doris PlaceMorgenthau (Mrs. Lester N.) ofLittle Rock,AR, Sept. 20,1996; retired administrator/reg-istered nurse, ofArkansas llledicalschool; active in affairs.

Ina Delta.

'42 MD-John G. Chesney ofMianli, FL,Aug. 6, 1996; pioneer in open-heart surgery,att(~nCLln~~ sULrg(~On University ofMiami medi­cal numerous other hospitals; vet­eran; active in US Masters active inprc>tessional affairs.

'40 B Chern-George F. Polzer ofRedbank, NJ, Sept. 19, 1996; retired vicepresident, Witco Chetnical Corporation, NewYork active in alumni affairs. Tau KappaEpsilon.

'41-Ellen Moore Hamilton (Mrs. Harry S.)ofIthaca, NY, Oct. 9, 1996; had owned KnotsUnlinlited; active in and professionalaffairs. Husband, Harry S. Hamilton'40,JD '46.

'41 PhD-Richard T. Allman ofToronto,Ont., Canada,June 26,1996.

,42 BS Ag, DVM'43-Leonard Ferber ofFloral Park, NY, Sept. 27,1996; veterinarian,North Shore Animal Hospital, Bayside; activein alumni affairs.

'41-George W. Pottle ofSouthern Pines,NC, 3, 1996; retired owner and opera­

Shorehanl Hotel, Spring Lake, NJ,co-owner and operator ofThe Hol­

Hotel, Southern Pines; veteran; activeCOlnnlurnty and religious affairs. Phi Gam-

'43, BS Ag '42, MFS '48-Edward Morris

Phi.

,40 BS Hotel-A. Carl Moser ofPinehurst,NC, Aug. 20, 1996; retired general manager,Carolina Inn at Chapel Hill; veteran; active incommunity and professional affairs. Phi KappaTau.

'4o-F. Clark Ogden ofRiverside, RI, for­ofBurlington, VT, Dec. 3,1995; Sigma

'40 BS Ag-Merritt W. Means ofPenneyFamlS, FL, formerly ofRoswell, NM, May 22,1996; Wife, Laura (Smith) '38.

Jr. ofLaurel, NY, Dec. 13, 1995; retired hor­ticulturist; active in alumni affairs.

'39 MD-Ivar J. Larsen ofHonolulu, HI,24,1996; retired chiefofsta~ orthopedic

hh'l7Clr"1'"lYl and surgeon, Shriners Hospital for"-""-,.1-/1-/ .."' ..... Children, Kohala; active in

and alumni affairs.

'38 BA, MD '41-Hayden O. Evans ofFrederick, PA, ofPottstown, June 6,1996; active in alunmi Alpha Chi Rho.

'39-HarrietJohnsonRohlfS (Mrs. Albert F.)ofPittsfield, MA, Apr. 14,1996. Pi Beta Phi.

'39 CE-Ivan L. Bogert ofDenlarest, N],31, 1996; consultant, Clinton Bogert As-

sociates, active in alumni affairs.

'38 M Eng-John H. DavisJr. 'J"- .L.-f'J,... <;;....L,,'v.

AZ, 30, 1996; retired chiefofWesternHYlrY"lr,,,,,,,,,,,rlY1rY" Phelps Dodge Corp.; active inCOJmrnu:nItv, L ....LL~LVU_J, and alunlni affairs. Phi

'39 BS Hotel-Deloss A. Rose ofSunAZ, of Rochester, NY, 20,1996; auditor, State ofArizona. &

'38 BA-Alfred GoldsmithJr. ofBethesda,MD, Sept. 16, 1996; founder and retired edi­tor, Washington Insurance Newsletter; veter-an; active in affairs.

,40 BS Ag-Frederic Herman Boutcher

'38 BA, PhD '53-Philip J. Nolan ofNorman, OK, March 31, 1996; hrr\t"",ccnr

emeritus and former chair, ofc1as­"-' .. jL.. V ,"_"-V..L" y of0 klahonla; active in profes­

affairs.

'39 BS Ag, PhD '51-William R. KunselaofSarasota, FL, ofDelhi, NY, Sept.26, 1996; emeritus and fonner presi-dent, Utica;active in prc>tes>Slonal

Kappa Psi.

'38 PhD-Karla Longree ofBlack Moun-tain, NC, of Ithaca, NY, Sept. 26,1996; etneritus of nutrition at

IYlrI"CN"'1""'C' veteran. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'38-39 Grad-Kenneth R. Crispell ofCharlottesville, VA, Aug. 23, 1996; retiredhrr,t"",,'cn1~ '"lYlort adnlinistrator, University ofVir-

medical school; expert on US presidents'and the 25th AInendment, co-author of

Hidden Illness in the White House; active in pro­fessional affairs.

'38 CE-Francis H. Aspinwall ofCortland,NY, ofPonchatoula, AL, Sept. 23,1996;

'37 BS Ag-Julia Bockee Winans (Mrs.Robert C.) ofFort FL, Sept. 18, 1996;retired, ofEducation;active in Husband, Robert C.Winans '36.

MAY IJUNE 1997 109

cOlnrrlunlIty and affairs.

'47-49 SpAg-Richard H. Burns ofLakeLuzerne, NY, Aug. 1996; retired soils

New York State ofTrans-In and

'47 BA, MBA '49-Robert W. Farrell ofNY, of NYC, Oct. 10,

chairman, Farrell Follert Inc.; activein alumni affairs. Phi Psi.

'51 BA-Elizabeth C. Hamilton ofFlush­NY, Oct. 8, 1996; freelance medical

writer and editor, Associates; ac-tive in alumni affairs.

'51 MA-Faye Riter Kensinger (Mrs. LewisH.) City, SD, formerly ofPalo Alto,CA,]uly 1995; active in alumni affairs.

'52-Robert K. ChristenberryJr. ofRedBank, ofNew York City, exactdate unJk:n()Wltl.

fessional affairs.

'55 B Chem E-Conrad V. Chester ofClinton, TN, ofOak Ridge,20, 1996; retired senior research staffmernber,Martin Marietta Oak Ridge.

'55 PhD-William R. Young ofWest Au-VA, ofBogor, Indonesia, Aug.

1996; retired executive, The RockefellerFoundation..

B. Lillich of3, 1996; ...... ?-n.i-"""","l?- of

law

'57 Grad-Norman W. Stice ofDavis, CA,13,1996.

'57 JD-RichardCharlottesville, VA,law, Unlve:rslt-;vIn prc)tes:slonal

'57 M Ed-Loron B. Burnham ofPahnHarbor, FL, ofTarpon Springs, Aug.3,1996.

'57 B Chem E-Robert P. Merrill ofIthaca, NY, Sept. 20, 1996; Herbert F.

orcltessor of industrial atCornell; active in religious affairs. Sigma

'58 MILR-Kesse A. Friedman ofBethesda, MD, Sept. 17, 1996; executive di­rector, American Institute for Free Labor De­vel1oprnerlt, briefly Inter-American repreS(~ntl­

tive of the AFL-CIO; active in prc>teS:Sl0naland alumni affairs.

Delta Phi.

'56 PhD-Leland S. Wittwer ofBelleville,WI, 9, 1995; retired professor, animalscience, University ofWisconsin; active inalumni affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'56 BA,JD '58-Sanford L. Rosenberg ofAvon, CT, formerly ofW. Hartford, Sept. 22,1996; Sorokin, Sorokin, Gross, Hyde,

Hartford; active in community,prC)tessl01tlal, JL"-'JLJ,~JL\..,/U.J, and aluI11ni affairs. Tau

'57 MS ILR-Gene L. Everhard ofAkron,OH, Sept. 28,1996; retired I11anager,.bngtrleenng; active in civic, community andprc)tes:sl0nal affairs.

'53-54 Grad-Raymond A. Booth ofCo­lumbus, OH, formerly ofMequon, WI, Aug.29, 1996; retired, Eaton Corporation, Mil­waukee, WI; veteran.

'53 BA-Jane Heitkamp Cudlipp (Mrs.ofGrand Rapids, MI, Aug. 10,

1996; in andaluI11ni affairs. Alpha Theta. Husband,Chandler CudlippJr. '53.

'52 BA-Henry R. Hansen of Char­lottesville, VA, 7, 1995; Pi Kappa Alpha.

'52-53 SpArts-Cecile Billig Dunn (Mrs.Stuart B.) ofNew York, NY, Oct. 7,1996;Husband, StuartB. Dunn, MEE '53.

'52 BS ILR-MichaeIJ. Ryan ofBatavia,NY,5,1996; ofofficesof Inc., of E. F.Hutton; active in the formation

active in cornrrlunlltyaffairs. Phi Kappa

'52 BA-Suzanne Taylor Faller (Mrs.ofLower PA, Aug. 9,

worker, AbingtonYMCA official; active in community andaluI1mi affairs. Pi Beta Phi. Husband,]aI11es H.Faller '52.

'52 BA-Arnold R. Kane ofVienna, VA,()ct. 20, 1995; Frank E. Basil.

'53, BS Ag '54-June Petterson Sekoll of'-" ....'L!J",!J"-"L, VA, forI11erly Greenwood, NY,July 1996; writer and editor ofFarm Chronicle, former farm-

Greenwood.

'48 PhD-Richard A. Carrigan ofWash-DC, 23, 1996; retired director,

National Scienceprc)tes;Slonal and alumni

'48 BS Ag-Harriet Parks PowellofVacaville, CA,

ny, NY, Dec. 1995; Husband,Powell '50.

,48 MD-Paul L. Summers ofSaint Peters-FL, ofMarietta, OH,]an. 6,

'48 BA, JD '50-Donald H. Clark of1996; retired attor­

ney and Richardson,New Britain, CT; veteran; active in COmI11U-

prC)tessl01tlal, L,,-"LJ'~L~/\,..LJ, and alumni affairs.

'49 BS ILR-Arthur J. Bean ofPOl1gh.ket~PSle,NY, 12,1996; In

,49 PhD-Sundar L. Aggarwal ofAkron,OH, Oct. 1,1996; founder, Global Technol­ogy Associates Inc.,

and de,relc)pn1enlt, '-J,,-"LL'''--'VJL!J

'48 MS Ed-Alexander C. Ducat ofBethesda, MD, date unknown.

'47 BS Hotel-James W. McLamore ofMiami, FL, 8, 1996; founder '-"L -&.J\,..LL;;;;,vL

active in COrllITJlUnlty, prC)tessl01tlal,alumni affairs. Phi Delta

'48. 23, 1996

'61 JD-Leland Featherman ofSan Diego,CA, Sept. 17, 1996; retired Wife,

Sue '59.

'58 BS Nurs-Carol Hunter Heidlnann(Mrs. Armin R.) ofLa Crosse, WI, Aug. 6,1996.

'62 MBA-Shimon D. Magen '-"L J .....JJJlLo.'""'-"

'59-60 Grad-Frank S. Alo ofIthaca, NY,Oct. 21, 1996; retired administrator, SchuylerHospital; veteran; active in civic, cornmlunlty,and affairs.

'60 B ME-Prentiss H. Heck ofLebanon,OH, of]upiter, FL, Sept. 1, 1996;Delta Chi.

'54 PhD-Herbert G. Zollitsch ofPortFL, Sept. 2, 1996; retired proltes~;or,

the industrial I11anagelnent de-1\1I'l1"rI11""t-ir"" U1nl'iTer'slt'i1: author of

Admi1tistlratiIJn.;· active in pro-

'54 MS ILR-Geraldine Senderoff ofNew York Sept. 3, 1996.

'54 MA-Jeanne Hugo Carruthers L.of New York of

Duarte, CA,]uly 27,1996.

'53 BS Ag-Marvin M. Weissglass ofBoca Raton, FL, and Ft. Lee, N], Sept. 10,1996; retired vice Magruder Color'-''-'' .• JL!Jo.JJY Inc. Pi.

allunni

'50 PhD-Ross D. F. Thompson ofLosCA, 1, 1994; Wife, Viola

'48.

'50, BS HE '51-Frances PellensTholnasH.) NY,

16,1996.

1995.

'50 DVM-Stanley M. Aldrich of.......... , v 1"/11_ NY, Oct. 8, 1996; veterinarian,

Associates; active in C0I11­prc)teS:Sl011al, and alumni affairs.

'50 BS Nurs-Victoria Cook :::>pI'en:gerofCharlestown, WV, Nov.

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Over 2,000 members

THE CAYUGA SOCIETY

-Dutch

Nothing is difficultto those vvho have

the mIl

".. . for what isimportant: truth, justice,

beauty and love."

c

Cayuga Society membersCharles S. Green and Jean BalfourGreen took the time to create theirown legacy. They have a will thatthey review every two years. Theirbequest to Cornell will save themestate taxes that can be as high as 55percent. Students in the College ofHuman Ecology and the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations willbenefit from the Charles and JeanBalfour Green Graduate StudentScholarship Fund to be establishedthrough their wills.

Generous bequests like theirsare an important part of Cornell'ssupport and have been since itsfounding.

To find out more about howyou can make a gift toCornell as a part ofyour estate plan,contact the staffat:

Office of Trusts, Estates andPlanned Giving55 Brown Road

Ithaca, NY 14850-1247

607-254-6174800-481-1865

e-mail: [email protected]

Charles S. Green, MS '64, Ph.D. '71 andJean Balfour MS '64

IVlrnne:apc)lls, MN, Dec. 23,

ALUMNI DEATHS

'83 BA-Celia Mann-Catan (Mrs. Mark A.ofWhite Plains, NY, 3, 1996;

NY MedicalWhite Plains.

NY, +r" ..'.....'£O...h:,

1995.

'84 BA-Robert F. Depippoton, DC, NY, Sept. 6,1996; section ofthe US De-partnlent criminal division.

'85 MS Ed, PhD '95-Ronald Lafrance ofRooseveltown, NY, Ithaca, NY,

29,1996; forMohawk of Akwesane at St.

former director ofthe American Indianat Cornell. 26, .)etnelntJl?r

1996 Corne111vldlga2~lnc:.1

active in COlnIllUrutyHusband, "'" v .L","~","","()'~'" .1.. ....

'75 MBA-Robert W. Barnard ofSomerville, ofBuffalo Grove, IL,and Malvern, PA, 1996; vicedent, Ulano Brooklyn,

in alumni

'78-80 Grad-Philip R. Sprague ofHull,IL, 18, 1995.

'80-81 Grad-Randall S. Short ofPorts-nlouth, VA, 23, 1996; staffwriter, NewYork active in affairs.

'74 MBA-Peter R. WeinerMA, ofHouston, TX, and fJenver,CO, 1996; assistant vice pn~SIClent,

Robert McNeil Lo:rporatlon.

'74 BS Hotel, MBA '75- Lloyd W. MillsofCranston, RI,]une 5,1995. Tau Kappa Ep­silon.

'87 MBA-Bart Vandebroek ofPenfield,NY, ofLeuven, 21,1996; director of ENI Inc.,Rochester, NY.

'89 MPS-Robert C. Romero ofDallas,TX, ofPelhanl Manor, NY,26, 1996; nlanagement infor-mation systems, Bristol Hotel Dal-las; active in and

'91 BA-Lauren S. Neuborne ofCinein-nati,OH, NY, 1,1996; active in ahllnniDelta Delta Delta.

'67 PhD-Peter Weissenberg ofArdlnore,PA, Oct. 5,1996; Univer-

business . veteran;In and reli-

affairs.

'64 BA-Ellen Rausen]ordanofWoodland, GA, formerly ofAthens,

1996; school dean,asso­law

Delta

'62-P. Geoffrey Nunn ofLa Habra, CA,28, 1996; president, California DOlnestic

Water Phi Gamma Delta.

'66 ]D-Joan Burrier Harnlanof Ithaca, NY, 27,1996;

with Harris Wilcox,Treman

'63 BS ILR-Lewis]. Perl of Scarsdale,NY, Aug. 24,1996; senior vice Na­tional Economic Research Associates, WhitePlains; active in alumni affairs. AlphaMu.

'67 PhD-Thomas F. Weaver ofCharlestown, RI, April 1, 1996; t"'\rn.tp(,c~r\r "lnrl

chaimlan ofthe ofenvironlnentalresource econonucs, ofRhode Is-land, veteran.

8. 1996; ofbusiness,UnllVc~rsl1tv ofthe District ofColumbia; active

'63 BS Ag, PhD '73-Helen Leeds Greis-en Kenneth I.) NY, Sept. 23,1996; retired Baker Institute ofAnimal Health;sional, l.vJ.JL;;;J.'-'U-',

Kenneth I.

'67 BS Ag-Christi Caldwell Merritt (Mrs.William T.) of Forestville, NY, 13,1996; co-owner, Merritt Estatetive in and alumni affairs.... ..Lu.,HJa.LJ~,

Willianl

'72 PhD-Thomas]. Englert ofMalvern,16, 1996; professor ofnlatheluatics,

'-'"'"'~ v ~"'Uc.U_~ State UnlveTsltvAeronautical

State UnlveTslt:vschool

'69 BA,]D '74-Robert M. Stewart ofWakefield, MA, of Keene, OH,Oct. 5, 1996; United Stationers.Delta Chi.

'73 BA-Eric L. Shambach

MAY IJUNE 111

CORNELLIANA

RITE OF SPRING

You'd think groundskeepers would dread Dragon Day, but

they actually have some fondness for it. Maybe not the all­

out glee of a freshman hefting a roll of toilet paper, but a

certain affection, nonetheless. "We can't wait for the Green Dragon,"

says landscape operations manager Pete Salina '79. "It's symbolic ofspring. Cleaning up after Dragon Day is teets' day of celebration, held on orthe beginning of our push to get the about St. Patrick's Day.campus looking nice for graduation." Since then, Dragon Day has be-

Cornell has had its bit of March come a rite of spring in a town wheremadness more or less continuously since "May" and "blizzard" can occupy theWillard Straight '01 founded Dragon same sentence. The Arts Quad becomesDay a century ago. Long before he be- a toilet-papered fantasyland, the dragoncame a building's namesake, Straight parades about, and engineers pelt archi-was legendary for his efforts to promote tects with frozen projectiles. Cleanup-unity in the architecture school. He easier since the advent of biodegradabletried such affairs as a student-faculty toilet paper-still costs about $10,000.weenie roast before founding the archi- Some Dragon Day lore: The event

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was banned early in the century for of­fending Catholics. In 1933, the paradefeatured a papier mache beer stein inhonor of the repeal of prohibition, andin 1966, a green pig was let loose in theIvy Room. The event was canceled toprotest the McCarthy hearings and, in1968, the dragon was painted black inopposition to the Vietnam War.

In 1994, an anthropology class de­cided to do a report from the front linesof Dragon Day. The papers are pre­served in the university archives, alongwith a single cardboard scale. "Whilethere are still many aspects to DragonDay that history has not accounted for,"Rob Kronzak '95 writes, "perhaps theyare better left shrouded in uncertainty."

- Beth Saulnier

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