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V A C A T I O N B U L L E T I LIBRARY

July 1990

ProgramsNear...

Florida EvergladesThe rapidly vanishing Everglades are thejewel of South Florida. Come explore itsecology and habitats, and those of Cork-screw Swamp, Sanibel Island, and othergems of nature, with the guidance of Cor-nell naturalists Richard B. Fischer and Oli-ver Hewitt. February 20-25, 1991,

Biloxi to the BayousHistory and ecology will be your fare in aweek-long expedition to the Gulf CoastSouth, including the barrier islands of Bi-loxi, Mississippi, the historic districts ofNew Orleans, and the "Cajun" country ofthe Louisiana Bayous. With Daniel Usner,March 18-24, 1991.

Chesapeake BayThe cultures and landscapes of the Chesa-peake, from the seventeenth century to thepresent, will provide us with marvelousclassrooms, from Easton and St. Michaelson the eastern shore to Annapolis and St.Mary's City on the western banks. WithJohn B. Heiser and Mary Beth Norton,May 8-12, 1991.

Cooperstown"American Preeminence" will be our focusfor a weekend seminar at the lovely OtesagaHotel in historic Cooperstown, New York,May 3-5,1991. With Theodore J. Lowi andothers.

Cornell's Adult University

ProgramsFar...

IndonesiaJoin geologist and Cornell President FrankRhodes, anthropologist Milton Barnett,and historian David Wyatt for a voyage toIndonesia and the Java Sea aboard theM.V. Renaissance. We will explore the re-markable cultures and paradisic landscapesof Bali, Komodo, Sulawesi, Salayar, Java,and Krakatau. January 2-19, 1991.

Eastern EuropePoland, Czechoslovakia, and Germanyshare memories of ancient empires, maddictatorships, and sudden, recent change.We shall try to understand better the placesand peoples of the center of Europe, includ-ing Warsaw, Crakow, Prague, Dresden,and Berlin. With George Gibian, May13-29, 1991.

TurkeyAt the sites of the lost civilizations of theHittites and Atlantis, among unforgettableislands including Rhodes, Crete, and San-torini, and in the great cities of Ankara andIstanbul, Turkey and the Aegean Islands of-fer clues to our past. We'll enjoy the com-forts of the M.V. Illiria and the teaching ofFrederick Ahl and David I. Owen. May23-June 10, 1991.

LondonJoin Anthony Caputi and Alain Seznec forthe fourth edition of CAU's London the-ater expedition. With the comforts of theWaldorf Hotel, the best of the British Na-tional Theatre, the Royal ShakespeareCompany, and the West End, and daily lec-tures and discussions, this study tour is fastbecoming one of CAU's longest runninghits. April 4-14, 1991.

For program details and registration infor-mation please call CAU at any time.

Cornell's Adult University626 Thurston Avenue,

Ithaca, New York 14850Telephone 607-255-6260

Vol. IV, No. 6

Programsin Between...GuatemalaFrom the Mayan ruins hidden in the jungleat Tikal and Copan, and the fascinating In-dian-Spanish culture of the highlands, tothe busy streets of Guatemala City, we willexplore more than one thousand years ofcivilization in settings as lovely as they aresignificant. With John S. Henderson, Janu-ary 5-20, 1991.

BelizeTucked away just beneath Mexico's Yuca-tan Peninsula, bordered by one of the mostmagnificent coral reefs of the Caribbean,and topped by the great canopy of the Cen-tral American jungle, Belize is likely someday to become a great tourist mecca. But,before it does, John B. Heiser will help youappreciate its remarkable ecologies, fromthe highlands to the sea. February 2-15,1991.

British Virgin IslandsCAU's annual Caribbean winterlude willgive you a wonderful opportunity to ex-plore and enjoy the marvelous land- andseascapes of Tortola in the British Virgin Is-lands. Join John B. Heiser, John M. Kings-bury, and Louise G. Kingsbury. February19-March 1, 1991.

JULY 1990

VOLUME 93NUMBER 1

16 Banker to the WorldBy Barton ReppertAfter twenty years of service in the US Congress, BarberConable now travels the world at the helm of the World Bank.

22 A Historic ReturnImages from an extraordinary Reunion. Reports of theReunion classes.

D E P A R T M E N T S 14 News"Let us Commence."

4 From the Editors 38 News of AlumniCampus planners suggest direc- Class notes of the non-Reuniontions of future building.

6 LettersA Collingwood war storyis shared.

8 FacultyUnlovely rodents are the sub-jects of exciting research.

10 StudentsAward-winning students honor 51 Cornell Hoststheir favorite teachers.

60 Professional Directory12 Sports

Veteran coaches step down. 72 Cornell Classified

classes.

69 Alumni Deaths

70 Alumni ActivitiesA bi-generational Commence-ment for the Travises.

73 Another ViewSam Zia-Zarifi '90 describes Cor-nell as (he thinks) it should be.

CoverBright bloomsand otheradornmentscontrast withthe caps andgowns of grad-uating seniorsas they providea photo oppor-tunity amid thebustle of Com-mencement onMay 27.

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Cornell's campus in the year2020 will reach out toward Syr-acuse (well, toward Varna atleast) and fill in a number ofopen spaces along what are

now its eastern and southeasternboundaries. So predicts a thirty-yearmaster plan that was being shownaround the Ithaca community in latespring.

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remote areas of the growing univer-sity—West and North campuses andthe eastern parts of the domain, outby and beyond the Vet college at theend of Tower Road. Today busesmove people to and from a centralcampus that planners seek to keep asfree of automobiles as possible.

For more than a decade, the uni-versity has brought research labs into the central campus—to assurethat faculty, grad students, and evenundergraduates benefit from contin-uous association with one anotherand with the scientific process. Thehigher-tech the research, the morespace has been required—witnessthe huge new buildings for biotech-nology and the supercomputer.

University officials told their au-diences this spring that no moreroom exists for parking lots or gar-ages in central campus, and littleroom for more buildings of any kind.

They observe that a strip oflarge buildings already runs acrossthe campus from gorge to gorge-starting with the giant new TheoryCenter on Cascadilla Gorge behindHoy Field, and including, succes-sively, Barton, Statler, Olin, SpaceSciences, and Clark halls and BakerLab and its research tower. Thesebuildings, some seven stories high,are about as tall as a campus shouldbe built, they add.

Any construction at thecampus's center should be under-ground or behind existing struc-tures, the planners say. Administra-tors are to vacate valuable space inDay Hall and move eastward. Aseries of central buildings will berenovated to serve academic ven-tures better—Sage College, DayHall, Baker Lab, and the Industrialand Labor Relations campus (the lat-ter to provide added library space forILR). Whole new additions are pen-cilled in behind Lincoln and Sibleyhalls, Baker Lab, and Mann Libraryon the Ag quad. And battered oldRand Hall looks to be in for eventualreplacement.

Significant new athletic and aca-demic buildings are planned for openspace to the east of the original quad-rangles—on the uphill side of TowerRoad, across Upper Alumni Fieldwhere a tennis bubble now stands,and in behind existing Ag and Vet


buildings further out Tower Road.But most of the new square foot-

age is proposed for areas even fur-ther afield, east of the present-daycampus and south of Dryden Road-out where apple and other orchardsstand today—and even south of up-per Cascadilla Creek, above the uni-versity fish hatcheries and on towardthe East Hill shopping mall. This ex-pansion is projected to embrace newresearch and library buildings, avisitors center, new offices foruniversity administrators, and hous-ing for graduate students.

Cornell staff told public officialsthe university now houses 49 per-cent of its students in university-owned and fraternity and sororityhouses, but hopes to provide facili-ties for more. They said the universi-ty expects to hold enrollment at therecent level of 18,000 students in Ith-aca. The undergraduates of tomor-row will be served by more dormsnorth of campus, near Balch Hall andaround the present North Campusdorms.

Clusters of new apartments arealso planned for graduate students,along a hillside south of CascadillaCreek, above Judd Falls Road as itclimbs from Dryden Road towardthe East Hill shopping mall.

All this is blue sky, unfunded,speculation, so no one is makingpromises that the details will sur-vive. As if to prove the fickle natureof master planning, several elementsof earlier plans are missing, includ-ing a closed-in Engineering quadran-gle that was proposed several yearsago, and any building for the currentAlumni House site on Beebe Lake.

Thirty years is a long time, andmany other ideas may inter-vene to alter the long-rangethoughts presented in thespring of 1990. Cornellians

were already braced for a one-yearbreak in their use of East Avenue,and a scheduled closing of Tripham-mer Bridge this summer. As if toprove the administration did notwant to build up in the central cam-pus, its first new project is an under-ground addition to Olin Library. Thesite is between Stimson and GoldwinSmith halls, in an open corner of themain quadrangle. The coming and

going of trucks starting right afterCommencement is the reason EastAvenue will be blocked off for ayear.

Next on the university's agendawill be renovation of Sage Collegefor academic uses, and four land-scaping projects: a pedestrian plazaalong Central Avenue in front ofGannett Clinic and Willard Straight;another in front of Bailey Hall; abroader walk from Bailey plazadown past Rockefeller Hall; andsome new treatment of the space be-tween Martha Van Rensselaer Halland Ag buildings that present theirbacksides so unceremoniously to thefront of Martha Van.

Other imminent jobs include anAmerican Indian residence and aca-demic building near North Campus;a major addition to the College ofVeterinary Medicine, south of thecollege's present buildings at theeast end of Tower Road; a major en-largement of Mann Library east-ward; the landscaping of the space tobe left by razing Roberts and EastRoberts halls on the Ag quad; andfinally a straightening out of CampusRoad between the new athletic fieldhouse and Judd Falls Road to theeast, so that Campus Road becomesessentially a straight route from infront of Anabel Taylor Hall on thewest all the way past Schoellkopf toJudd Falls Road.

These near-term projects shouldkeep dump trucks rolling in UpstateNew York long enough to allow uni-versity planners and fundraisers thetime to solidify their grander hopesfor the campus in the twenty-firstcentury.

ContributorsBarton Reppert '70, who writesabout Barber Conable in this issue, isa freelance writer and editor based inIthaca after a career with the Associ-ated Press since 1971 in New YorkCity, Moscow, and Washington,D.C., where he was stationed mostrecently as a senior editor.

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July 1990

L E T T E R S

THE FALL OF PARISEditor: This Telluride and DeepSprings alumnus is most ap-preciative of your recent coverage ofthe school and one of its most il-lustrious graduates, Charles Coll-ingwood.

I was in New York in 1946 withJohnny Johnson, Telluride's chan-cellor, who mentioned he'd heardCollingwood was back in town. Aphone call brought Collingwood andwe were treated to several hours ofgreat wartime stories. Chiefamongst them was his tale of how hehad singlehandedly been responsiblefor the "false fall of Paris."

He had been traveling norththrough France with the AmericanArmy in the company of other corre-spondents like Ernie Pyle andErnest Hemingway. One morningthey were summoned to a briefingby a very knowledgeable officer whodescribed the next day's plans totake Paris with such hour-by-hourconfidence that "it was almost as if ithad already happened."

Collingwood hit on a plan thatmight gain him precious momentsover his print competitors and madethree copies of a tape recording thatbegan: "This is Charles Colling-wood. Paris has just fallen." andthen proceeded to describe it all inthe past tense as it had been pre-dicted. He knew Army censorswould hold up any such transmis-sions until after the fact, at whichtime he could cable London to cancelin case things didn't go according toplan. If they did, he would be first onthe air.

The trouble was, one of his re-cordings got through to Londonwithout being stopped and CBSopened it with astonishment. "Ohmy God! Collingwood has scored thecoup of the century!" They clearedthe CBS Network coast-to-coast, LiliPons was dragged out of bed to singLa Marseillaise in Rockefeller Cen-ter, etc. An embarrassed govern-ment, presumably hoping that theenemy was not listening in, notified

CBS of its mistake, and the wholething was retracted, only to becomehistory as Collingwood had de-scribed it a day or so later.

At least, that's the way I remem-ber him telling it.

Robert Gatje'51New York, New York

Belated WelcomeEditor: In the April class notes of '36acknowledging their "excitement"on learning of the honors bestowedon Margaret Morgan Lawrence,M.D., they offered their congratula-tions to an "outstanding classmate."Belated?

It seems to me, rather, that anapology is due Dr. Lawrence fromCornell University for its discrimina-tion against her during her staythere. Also, one is due from CornellMedical College for refusing her ad-mittance on a ridiculous excuse (seeher biography, Balm in Gilead, byher daughter, Sara Lawrence Light-foot).

When I applied for admission inthe summer of 1931—in person—theregistrar did not hesitate to tell methere was a "Jewish quota." At leastthe color of my skin did not excludeme from living in a dormitory.

Vivian Lampert Jarvis '35Stamford, Connecticut

Missing EditorEditor: Of course I can identify thephotograph on page 8 of the MayAlumni News.

Early in the 1940s, ProctorManning authorized the StudentCouncil to capture, crate, and shipthe editor of the Cornell AlumniNews, who suggested changing thecover to look like a mail order maga-zine and who tried to use funny littlepage numbers, centered at the bot-

tom of the pages. Once the editorwas crated, his destination was chos-en by drawing the names of deserv-ing universities out of a hat. Dart-mouth was an excellent choice, be-cause, as the saying goes, "You canalways learn from a Dartmouth man,but not much."

The unidentified man in the pho-tograph is J. Edgar Hoover, formerdirector of the FBI, as he lookedbefore putting on the "fat" makeuphe always wore in public to disguisehimself.

Please feel free to call on me forany other information you may re-quire about them days.

Leon Schwarzbaum '43North Woodmere, New York

Editor: That seems to be Ed White'41, who was manager of footballduring the 1940 season. The Cornell-Dartmouth game that year was thefifth-down game. Since we won thegame on Saturday and gave them thevictory the following week, he wouldbe sending them any trophy in-volved. I do not recall ever seeingsuch a trophy, but you will un-doubtedly hear from other membersof that squad. Perhaps they willdescribe it.

Dan Nehrer '43San Diego, California

Cost of LivingThe following remarks respond to aletter in the April issue from GusKappler '61, MD '65, which in turncommented on figures in an article byPresident Frank Rhodes in the Janu-ary issue. Rhodes said the cost ofhigher education rose at roughly thesame rate as medical and automotivecosts. Dr. Kappler cited medical coststhat had risen less rapidly.

While I can readily relate to the in-hospitable climate affecting healthcare in the 1990s, I stand by mystatement that tuition increases havenot been out of line with cost in-creases in several other areas overthe past several years.

My data on the costs of an ap-pendectomy were supplied by theAetna Life and Casualty Company,


A trans-Atlantic branch of the traditional watering hole for Cornellians? Seea letter from Leon Schwarzbaum '43.

which administers Cornell's en-dowed health care plans. They rep-resent the average (mean) charge forsurgeon and anesthesiologist in theNew York regional area during theyears in question, and, admittedly,may be somewhat higher than com-parable figures for the nation as awhole.

Using Dr. Kappler's source,Medical Economics, which tracks sur-geons' fees alone and which presentsits data in terms of medians, notmeans, the cost of an appendectomyincreased by roughly 300 per-cent—from $200 in 1970 to $801 lastyear. But only 20 percent of the sur-geons surveyed charged between$800 and $895 for the operation,while 37 percent charged higherrates, including a full 10 percent whocharged $1,100 or more.

The point, I think, is not to quib-ble about sources of data or whethera better picture is presented by me-dians or means, or whether anesthe-siologists or surgeons or educatorsare to blame for increasing costs, butto acknowledge that costs are aproblem in both medicine and highereducation and commit ourselves tothe same kinds of tough-minded ef-forts to control costs and increase ef-ficiency and productivity that havebecome facts of life in so many otherparts of our society. I would wel-

come the opportunity to work withDr. Kappler in achieving both thosegoals.

Frank RhodesIthaca, New York

Zinck's LivesEditor: While on vacation in Den-mark (Odense, H. C. Andersen'stown) last summer, I came upon theenclosed sign (this page). Nice toknow that Zinck's is not dead afterall but has been reincarnated on thisside of the Atlantic.

Frederik von Bergen '65, MBA '67Hardstίgen, Sweden

Blind at WorkEditor: Congratulations on your arti-cles in the May Alumni News, "AWalk With Dan Sisler" and "HisLoss, Students' Gain."

Professor Sisler does an excel-lent job explaining how he is able tosuccessfully function as a facultymember of the College of Agricul-ture and Life Sciences. More impor-tant, he offers constructive sugges-tions for helping a person who isblind.

One statement in the latter arti-

cle deserves clarification: "Knowingthat he couldn't continue in the phys-ical sciences, Sisler turned to thehumanities and discovered the dy-namics of economics." Readersshould be aware that currently anumber of blind persons have ca-reers in the physical sciences.

The American Foundation forthe Blind has identified in its CareerTechnology Information Bank blindand visually impaired people in awide variety of careers, includingprofessors of physics, chemistry,research bio med engineer, researchassociate (molecular biologist), andelectrical and mechanical engineers.

Readers interested in learningabout the diversity of jobs being suc-cessfully held by people with visualhandicaps and who may wish to net-work with them may write the Amer-ican Foundation for the Blind, 15West 16th Street, New York, NewYork 10011.

Gerald Miller, directorNew York, New York .

Water MusicEditor: There is a lot of reading aloudin our house and one of the latest wasmy reading 'The Flushing Song"letter of Walter Lee Shepperd Jr.'32, in your May issue.

That's a dandy song, but mywife Ruth wondered what happenedto the next verse:

We were walking through the park,A-goosing statues in the dark.

If Sherman's horse can take it, Whycan't you?

Growing up in Ithaca as thedaughter of Romeyn Berry '04, Ruthexperienced a lot of aloud reading inher house as you can well imagine.She says she thinks you ought toknow—referring to a piece you ransome time ago about a lady chimesringer there—she played the clocktower chimes for weddings and fun-erals during the '30s when vacation-ing at home. She was already playingthe chimes at Wells College, up thelake, from which she was graduatedin 1935.

William McDonald IIΓ36Pelham Manor, New York

July 1990

MOLE-RATS,A GENETICANOMALY

Mole-rats move along a test tube sim-ilar to the environment in which uni-versity researchers raise them. Hold-ing the glass is Hudson K. Reeve,Grad.

T H E F A C U L T Y

Naked mole-rats of Kenya, vir-tually sightless, hairless, tun-nel-digging rodents close tomouse size, have long fasci-nated scientists because of

their highly social nature, unique inmammals. Now, geneticists at theuniversity have found, in these mole-rats, DNA "fingerprints"—geneticmarkers specific to each individu-al—that are nearly identical from onecreature to the next.

Hudson Kern Reeve, Grad, prin-cipal discoverer of this geneticanomaly, and Professor Paul W.Sherman, neurobiology and behav-ior, have spent four years tendinglaboratory colonies of animals thatwere captured in Kenya and in-stalled in Ithaca in labyrinths oftransparent plastic pipe. The Cornelllaboratory's semidarkness, highheat, and humidity, and ready sup-ply of "fresh vegetables simulate con-ditions of the mole-rats' native habi-tat.

In colonies holding anywherefrom 75 to 300 creatures, mole-rats'

behavior closely resembles that ofants, termites, and some species ofbees in that all but a ''queen" and afew favored males live and serve thecolony without ever reproducing.

Such cooperative behavior,known as "eusocial behavior," is anexception among mammals and alsocontradicts Darwin's theory of nat-ural selection, in which evolutionfavors self-interest behaviors thatmaximize the individual's chances ofsurvival and reproduction.

'Έusociality is one of the mostimportant issues in all of evolution-ary biology," Sherman said. "Dar-win said that if anybody can find anyattribute of any species—or even ofany individual—that evolved for theexclusive good of a reproductivecompetitor, it would annihilate his[natural selection] hypothesis."

After extensive study on mole-rats' DNA fingerprints, Reeve,Sherman, and Professor CharlesAquadro, genetics and development,found that all the individuals withinthe colonies were virtually identical.

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' There are differences [in the DNAfingerprints] between the colonies,but not as much as one wouldexpect."

They concluded that intense in-breeding was responsible for thelack of genetic uniqueness withinmole-rat colonies. "By 'inbreed-ing/ we don't mean the preferentialchoice of individuals that are closelyrelated," Reeve explained. "Wethink that inbreeding within mole-rat colonies occurs because of eco-logical constraints. These animalsare in a situation where dispersal hasgreat costs, where it is unlikely thatan individual venturing off on itsown can successfully found a newcolony. When individuals stay in thecolonies in which they were born, theavailable mates over time tend to becloser and closer relatives."

The mole-rat finding could helpsettle a debate about the evolution ofeusociality, according to Reeve,whose studies compare the roles ofqueens in mole-rat societies withthose of paper wasps. "One campsays it is the ecology that is primarilyresponsible for the evolution of euso-ciality. Another camp emphasizesthe genetics. We propose that bothare involved and that they interact ina novel way in naked mole-rats."

Further studies are planned toperform still finer analyses that canreveal more exact values of geneticrelatedness within and betweenmole-rat colonies.

Post MortemNational attention focused on Babe,a 36-year-old pregnant Asian ele-phant in a Syracuse, New York zoo,in May. Her stillborn calf died in thewomb in April and Babe herself diedthree weeks later.

Professor Robert M. Lewis, vet-erinary pathology, headed a teamthat performed a Caesarean sectionto remove the dead calf, and anotherteam that determined later that Babedied from failure of both her renaland reproductive systems. She wasunable to expel the placenta, afterwhich a section of internal tissuedied, allowing infection to enter herabdominal cavity.

GLASS OF'57

We're Beginning to Rekindle the Glow.

Join us for a mini-reunion duringHomecoming, October 27, 1990.

The game: Cornell vs. Brown at 1:00 p.m.The party: Gather at the Cayuga Lake home of

Nancy Krauthamer Goldberg and husband Stan '55.The dinner: O'Malley's, on the west shore of

Cayuga Lake.

Visit our 1992 Class project site: Main (Uris) Library,2nd floor. Class gift campaign is chaired by Susan AlderBaker '57 (607) 844-8762.

A limited number of rooms has been reserved at Best Western UniversityInn, East Hill Plaza. Contact Nancy for tickets and information at (607)387-5946.

AlumniSearch1990

The Alpha Espilon Pi fraternity is overjoyed to announcesuccess in the Beta chapter's Alumni and House Historysearch. We have located over 400 lost alumni since our re-founding during Spring '90. If you have not heard from us, orif we have not heard from you, please contact us at: AEPiAlumni Programs, 140 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, New York14850. Also, please make plans to join us for the greatestAEPi Beta chapter homecoming reunion ever. Thank you.

July 19909

S T U D E N T S

HONORSTO TOPTEACHERS

Scholarly team, from left, PresidentRhodes, Tarquin Collis '90, and Col-lis's school teacher Elizabeth Foster.

For the past six years, somethinga little different has been addedto the traditional Commence-ment protocol. The occasion isthe presentation of awards to

the year's Merrill Presidential Schol-ars, thirty-five graduating se-niors—the top 1 percent of the class.

The awards themselves, whileprestigious, are only part of thepoint. Merrill Scholars are also askedto honor their favorite teachers, bothcollege level and high school. Thehigh school teachers are invited toCornell for the ceremony as well asfor some special lectures and paneldiscussions. Twenty-seven ac-cepted, coming from all parts of thecountry. And one, a teacher of math-ematics, flew in from Cyprus. Hisprotege, Georgios Kassinis, had ma-jored in urban planning and econom-ics, receiving degrees in both fields.

Selected by undergraduate col-lege deans for their " intellectualdrive, energetic leadership abilities,

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and propensity to contribute to thebetterment of society," the chosenthirty-five were asked to write state-ments about the high school teachersthey wished to honor. The state-ments, gathered together in a book-let, set any reader to thinking aboutwhich teacher he or she would havechosen in such a circumstance, andwhat might be said to them now ifgiven the opportunity.

Something, perhaps, along theline of what Tarquin Collis wroteabout Elizabeth Foster of PunahouSchool in Honolulu. "Liz Fostertaught me creative writing at a timewhen I was just deciding that Eng-lish professorship was what the restof my life was going to be about. . .People got excited about writing,and about reading what other peoplehad written. I felt that this was some-thing rare and impossible enoughthat I should throw my life after itand see what happened . . . " Al-though Collis has since chosen to go


on to medical school, he added: "Γdstill like very much to teach at somepoint, just to see if maybe I couldn'tdo some of the mad inspiring whichcame to Liz so easily."

And Alan Durell of Dumont,New Jersey, writes of his apprecia-tion for Barbara M'Gonigle: "She isdemanding and critical, yet patientand compassionate ... day after day,with her contagious enthusiasm, sheguides her students through a sub-ject which often perplexes, alwaysaware of the immense value of a fewsimple words of encouragement."

One man, Brother Thomas A.Kingston of Christian Brothers' Col-lege in Monstown, County Dublin,inspired Ciaran 0 Faolain, whowrites: "According to one criterion,good teachers distinguish them-selves by 'taking an interest in theirstudents'—and it goes without say-ing that that description fits you. Butthen there's that rarer individualwho takes a primary interest in ideas,who approaches a body of thoughtaggressively, hungrily, so as to beable to digest it afterwards in periodsof creative reflection . . . Such indi-viduals compel themselves always towork with ideas ... Ah yes, there youare now, Brother—that's just the pic-ture of you: an excellent teacher, anda thinker!'

According to President FrankH. T. Rhodes, who initiated the pro-gram and who officiates at the annu-al ceremonies, the purpose is "to em-phasize the continuity of teachingnot just in the conveyance of knowl-edge but in the inspiration of stu-dents. We feel it is important to re-cognize the unique contributionsthese excellent teachers have madeto the lives of our best students."

The program is supported by agift from Philip Merrill '55 of Ar-nold, Maryland. Donald '47 andMargaret Schiavone Berens '47 funda scholarship for freshmen enteringCornell from each of the Merrillteachers' high schools.

Greek WorriesFour fraternities are under investi-gation for hazing incidents and threeother fraternities and sororities were

penalized for a variety of other of-fenses, including dangerous acts,property damage, and failing to reg-ister a party.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon and AlphaChi Omega were put on probationfor the balance of the spring term.SAE failed to register a party and Al-pha Chi Omega damaged flowersand tree ornaments at Statler Hallduring a dance. Chi Psi will be onprobation until mid-March 1991 fordrinking and dangerous actions onone occasion, and for failing to take aresponsible part in alcohol educationprograms.

The university was looking intohazing incidents involving Alpha Ep-silon Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Pi,and Kappa Alpha Psi.

Administrators withdrew recog-nition of Kappa Alpha Psi, whichdoes not have a house, because it vio-lated a ban by having a pledge classwhile on probation. Three membersof the Cornell chapter were ar-

raigned in Ithaca City Court, chargedwith hazing pledges earlier in theyear. Police told reporters a victimwas beaten so badly he had difficultywalking.

The chapter was on pro for a1988 hazing incident, and was notsupposed to have a pledge class thisyear. Because of the withdrawal ofrecognition, the chapter cannot beconsidered for reestablishment untilAugust 1994.

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S P O R T S

COACHESRETIRE

Coaches Jack Warner and TedThoren closed out long careerson the Hill with improvingteams, and the women's andmen's crews bettered their lot

at the close of spring season insports.

Warner's women's track teamplaced third in the Heptagonals andhis runners won both the men's andwomen's 1,500-meter races at themeet. Stephanie Best '91 was alsonamed top female performer at theHeps and both she and Bill Rathbun'90 were named Ail-Americans fortheir performances in the 1,500.

The teams' season ended the fol-lowing weekend. Best finished fifthin the 800 at the Easterns, and at theIC4As Rathbun was eighth in the1,500 and Scott Edwards '91 fourthin the decathlon.

Stephanie Best closed her springwith a strong third-place finish in the1,500 meters at the women's Nation-als.

Thoren's baseball team closed a21-23 year with a sweep of Haver-ford 7-0 and 7-5, and a split with Itha-ca College 1-3 and 1-0. A 7-11 East-ern league record left the Red ineighth place.

Catcher Trevor Schumm '91made the league's second all-starteam and was third in batting. Pitch-ers Kerry Brooks '90 and Joel Nies'92 had the most wins, six apiece.

Warner was head coach twenty-three years and Thoren for twenty-nine.

Among crews, the women'svarsity, defending National champs,placed second to Princeton at theEasterns and the squad placed sec-ond in overall scoring. The juniorvarsity and novice shells both fin-ished third.

At the Nationals, the varsity hadto settle for third, behind Princetonand Radcliffe. The JVs and noviceshells both won, and the team placedsecond in overall scoring.

The heavyweight men didpoorly at the Easterns, finishingeleventh as a team. The varsityplaced thirteenth, the JVs eighth,and the frosh seventh. In a dualregatta with Penn, the Red frosheight won and the varsity and JVslost.

At the Intercollegiates at Syra-


cuse, the team moved up to seventh,with the varsity boat fifth, the JVseighth, and the frosh sixth.

The lightweight men were sev-enth as a team at the Easterns, withthe varsity and JVs both in fifth placein their events and the frosh seventh.At the Intercollegiates, the varsityplaced seventh.

Coach Dave Kucik contendedwith a number of injuries that re-quired shifts in boatings during this,his second, year at the helm. Froshcoach Chris Morris, also in his sec-ond year, is credited with a good jobof recruiting, though the Red relieson registration lines at Barton as aplace to encourage former highschool athletes to try the watersport, a tradition on the Hill for gen-erations. John Ferriss continues aslightweight coach and John Dunn '73leads the women.

Post-season lacrosse honors in-cluded induction into the UpstateNew York Lacrosse Foundation Hallof Fame for Coach Richie Moran,among ten charter members VinceAngotti '90, a third-team All-Ameri-can, and Bill OΉanlon '90, played inthe annual seniors all-star game.

Ria Tascoe '92 was named to theNortheast Regional Ail-Americanwomen's first team.

Scott Burnham '91 played on theNative American team at a sportsand arts festival in Syracuse lastmonth.

Seven alumni were in Australiawith Team USA at the World La-crosse Games late last month:player-coach Dave Bray '77, goaliePaul Schimoler '89, attackmen Kev-in Cook '84 and Tim Goldstein '88,and midfielders Norm Engelke '81,Bob Henrickson '78, and Matt Crow-ley '83.

Rob Koll, assistant wrestlingcoach, upset world and Olympicchamp Kenny Monday in trials forthe U.S. World Freestyle Team andwill go to the Goodwill Games in Se-attle this month and the world cham-pionships in Tokyo in September.

Gridders StartJim Hofher. '79 completed his foot-ball staff and broke with recent prac-

tice at the one day spring workout al-lowed in the Ivy League.

Hofher added Andre Pattersonof Western Washington Universityto work with the defensive line andPeter DeStefano of RIT as freshmancoach and academic counselor to theathletic department.

And he worked his new team intwo sessions May 6 to acquaint play-ers with how he will run practicescome August. His predecessors,Maxie Baughan and Jack Fouts, usedthe day for wind sprints, a barbecue,and talk.

Hoops Go OnFans kept an eye on both the men'sand women's basketball program inthe off-season.

The men recruited two promis-ing forwards, 6-foot-7 Justin Tread-well from Knoxville, Tennessee, and6-4 Zeke Marshall from Baltimore,and a 6-0 guard, Kari Gates, fromFramingham, Massachusetts.

Most of last year's squad will re-turn, and there's hope forwards NateGrant '91, out for knee surgery, andSimon Lincoln '91, who took a yearoff in Europe, may return.

Karen Walker '91 went to theOlympic Training Center in Colora-do to try for U.S. teams in the Worldand Goodwill games and OlympicFestival, and Jennifer Cochran '90was to attend a camp in Illinois to tryout for teams in a European league.Mary Brown '87 played in Ireland af-ter graduation several years ago.

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N E W S

ΊET UsCOMMENCE'

President Rhodes applauds this year'sgraduates, flanked by a beaming Nel-son Schaenen '50, chairman of theTrustees' executive committee, at left,and Acting Bearer of the Mace JeanR. Robinson, associate dean of Hu-man Ecology. Standing at right isEmployee Trustee Dwight Widger.

May 27, scheduled for grayskies, rose out of the bluefor, someone said, the elev-enth year running. Understrong sun, the day seemed

to climax at 11 a.m. at Schoellkopffield where thousands heard Presi-dent Rhodes give the 122nd Com-mencement address to the 5,650graduates.

"Percy's Paradox/' he'd titledhis talk, and with carefully pacedsound bites, meticulously geared toflow between loud displays of gradu-ate exuberance, Rhodes began:"Members of the Class of 1990 ..."(wild cheering) ". . . candidates foradvanced degrees . . . " (more ofsame, champagne added). "Today isa great day for us all as we ..." (tu-multuous drowning out the rest).

Things did settle down. "Springof 1990 is not just another Com-mencement season," he continued."It is a time of unparalleled change,

HΪLORETH

taking place at unprecedentedspeed, that has made the world a fardifferent place than it was when youbegan your Cornell careers . . . Notsince the late eighteenth century hasthe ideal of freedom carried suchforce in world affairs."

And it is at this moment of grad-uation that Frank Rhodes intro-duced the enigma of Percy's Para-dox, from the late novelist WalkerPercy. Simply stated, it is possible toget all As in college and still flunklife. The president explicates:

" Ήow could I,' you say. Ήowcould I after all this? How is it possi-ble after all these skills?' "Let mesuggest to you that flunking life isfailure to recognize that from thoseto whom much is given, much is re-quired.

"Flunking life is to ignore thelink between professional practiceand personal commitment. Flunkinglife is to deny that your diploma


gives you, not only an obligation tolead, but also to serve. Getting As inlife has, at its heart, not catchyslogans but commitment reinforcedby deeply and courageously heldconviction. Those are the things thatform the private face of public lead-ership. Those are the things fromwhich change arises.

"What recent political upheav-als, played out each day on the frontpage of the New York Times and thescreen of the nightly news, teach usis that leaders of courage and com-mitment can and have changed theworld. In twelve brief months, wehave seen what might be the mostextensive social change that has everoccurred in human history.

"And although some of its archi-tects were politicians, most werenot. They were instead a playwrightand a political prisoner, a shipyardworker, a music professor, and the60-year-old widow of a newspaper

.editor. These are people who havescored straight As in life. Whatdrives them and what unites them, itseems to me, is that they are not onlymen and women of commitment, butmen and women with the courage oftheir convictions . . .

" Έvery calling is great whengreatly pursued,' said the great juristOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That isthe calling, the life, we wish for youtoday.

"To gloss over that, to ignore itin pursuit of other goals, is to flunklife, however many degrees youhave. That is Percy's Paradox."

The Medical College granted 87doctor of medicine degrees, 15 doc-tor of philosophy degrees, and 3masters of science at ceremonies atLincoln Center in Manhattan May22.

Trustees Hearof Budget Woes

Financial matters dominated the an-nual Commencement meeting of theBoard of Trustees.

The state had made good on ear-lier threats to cut expenditures forthe four statutory colleges at Ithaca,so that state funds for Cornell will

grow from $113.1 million this year to$115.8 next year, or about 2.3 per-cent, compared with the 5.3 percentrecommended by Governor MarioCuomo in January. But state legisla-tors, with a variety of items com-monly referred to as "pork barrel,"added another $1 million for Cornellprojects as diverse as labor studiesand regional business development,so final university total stood at near-ly $117 million.

The failure of state funds tokeep up with inflation will mean cut-ting 40-70 jobs in the statutory col-leges, Provost Maiden Nesheim toldthe trustees.

Earlier, Senior Provost RobertBarker drew the ire of some facultywhen he called for a 10 percent in-crease in the average number of stu-dents each professor teaches. The"P" word, productivity, as Barkerlater referred to it, brought a host ofcomplaints.

"No one denied that our budgetproblems are real and important,"he said later, "and no one suggesteda more workable solution than accel-erating the generation of revenuesthrough a higher ratio, campuswide,of tuition-paying students to facultymembers."

One faculty member replied toBarker that he has accepted a steadyloss of teaching assistants, buys sup-plies out of pocket, types manu-scripts because secretaries are over-worked, and works at home to saveoffice electricity.

Total expenditures in the univer-,sity are scheduled to rise 6.9 percentnext year, to $1.05 billion.

The rate of increase in financialaid supplied by the endowed gener-al-purpose budget has risen at twicethe rate of tuition, largely because offederal cutbacks in grant programs.

Another casualty of the NewYork State budget crunch was theuniversity's Theory Center. Thestate withdrew $1 million it plannedto provide to help buy a new modelsupercomputer in 1992. Federal dol-lars were approved earlier, based onexpected matching dollars from thestate. A university spokesman saidhe hoped the state pullback will notchill further promised federal contri-butions.

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Barber Conable traded the busylife of an Upstate New Yorkcongressmanfor a busier lifein internationaldevelopment

BY BARTON REPPERT

B arber B. Conable '43, LLB '48 may nothave much name recognition in Peoria,Keokuk, or Pocatello, but when he travelsto countries of the developing world, Con-

able ranks as one of the biggest people in town.On a mid-March visit to India, for example,

he was accorded a red-carpet welcome at theNew Delhi airport by the government's financesecretary and chief of protocol, then assigned apolice escort for the drive to his hotel.

The former Upstate New York congress-man had a round of meetings with India'sfinance and industry ministers, as well as withPrime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh, whohosted a state dinner for Conable and his wife,

Conable confers with an unidentified official about asmall-scale irrigation project in Kano, Nigeria.

July 199017

Charlotte Williams Conable '51. Thenhe was off to Bombay to meet withthe governor of the Central Bank ofIndia and take part in another officialdinner, this time with leaders of thatcity's business and industry commu-nity.

It isn't surprising that the Indianswere so hospitable toward Conable.Since July 1986 he has served as pres-ident of the 152-country World Bank,which last year provided about $3billion in loans and credits to India.Around the globe, the Bank is thelargest source of development assis-tance for the Third World, with itsoverall lending activity amounting tomore than $21 billion a year.

Under Conable's leadership, theWorld Bank has sought to pursue newstrategies for tackling its prime tar-get, poverty. It has focused seriousattention on the environmental impli-cations of economic developmentprojects. The Bank has undertakenexpanded programs to help deal withthe Third World's population surgethrough family planning, better edu-cation, and job opportunities forwomen. And it has launched an ambi-tious effort to assist the newly emerg-ing democracies of Eastern Europe.

At the same time, the 45-year-oldinstitution has come under fire onCapitol Hill for resumption of lendingto China only a few months after lastyear's Tiananmen Square massacre,amid continuing political repressionagainst democratic reform forces inChina.

Conable, 67, came to the WorldBank after a twenty-year career inCongress, representing a districtthat included part of Rochester andsurrounding counties. He servedeighteen years on the tax-writingHouse Ways and Means Committee—the last eight years as the commit-tee's ranking Republican. His politi-cal skills and contacts have proved amajor asset in overseeing the Bank.

'This is a much harder job thanbeing in Congress," Conable said inan interview at his office in theWorld Bank's Washington headquar-ters building, three blocks awayfrom the White House. "In Con-gress, you can pick your issues andkeep your head down and be a herowhen you want to be. It's a discur-sive occupation in which you don't

make any decisions singly. You'reaccountable only to your constitu-ents."

"Obviously political skills arenot a detriment here, where I'm in-volved in the politics of 152 coun-tries. And I do believe they choseme, as the first politician to comehere . . . because of the sense thatmany countries were nervous abouta bank that was imposing condition-ally on them without, in some cases,an awareness of the political sensi-tivities involved."

The United States is the WorldBank's largest contributor and holdsan 18 percent share of control underthe voting system weighted accord-ing to a country's financial supportof the Bank. But, as Conable ob-served, "America really doesn'thave working control unless othersgo along with it."

"Of course, during the Cold Warperiod, American leadership wasgenerally accepted because all thenations of the world had to clusteraround one of the superpowers. Sothere were lots of linkages that led toAmerican leverage on this institu-tion." Now, he said, "I think theWorld Bank really is a paradigm forthe post-Cold War world, in thesense that America—if it's to be suc-cessful in this institution—must cul-tivate the arts of cooperation to agreater degree than was necessarypreviously."

Conable is confronted with thecontinual challenge of trying toshore up U.S. support for the Bank,both at the White House and on Cap-itol Hill, in the face of political pres-sure for freezing or cutting foreignaid levels. In that task, his insideknowledge of Washington and itsmajor players helps him considerab-ly.

''I know all the people,'' Conablenoted. "I sat next to George Bush forfour years on the Ways and MeansCommittee. I was the chairman ofhis steering committee when he ranagainst Ronald Reagan [for the 1980presidential nomination]. I did notknow Reagan well, but of course wasin the Republican leadership for hisfirst term so I met with him regular-ly. I know [Secretary of State] JimBaker very well. I have a pleasant re-lationship with [Treasury Secretary]

Nick Brady."Conable's prior experience on

Capitol Hill has made for a betterworking relationship with Congressthan that of his predecessor at theWorld Bank, A. W. Clausen from theBank of America.

Rep. Matthew F. McHugh,D-N.Y., a member of the House Ap-propriations subcommittee on for-eign operations, said about Conable:"I think he's done a very good job. . .I don't see up close the internal work-ings of the Bank so much, in terms ofhow Barber is managing the Bank ona day-to-day basis. But what's rele-vant to me is, number one, that he hasa personal commitment to thedevelopment goals of the Bank, and,number two, that he has considerable


In Dingxi, one of the poorest regions of China, the Conables (standing, third and fourth from left) and others observeschool children practicing their writing on the ground, for lack of paper.

credibility up on the Hill.""Frankly, it's not easy getting

appropriations for the internationalfinancial institutions, including theWorld Bank. So it's helpful for thoseof us who believe in the Bank's pro-grams to have someone like BarberConable at the Bank leading it," Mc-Hugh said.

Mark Constantine, a WorldBank specialist on the staff of theHouse Banking subcommittee on in-ternational development, said"there's been a lot of moaning andgroaning within the Bank bureaucra-cy" since Conable undertook a majorreorganization, cutting the Bank'sstaff by about 500 people down to alevel of approximately 6,000employees.

Ln Congress, youcan pick your issuesand keep your headdown and be a herowhen you want tobe:

"One gets the sense—certainlythe criticism has been levied—that[Conable's] strength is not as an ad-ministrator or a manager and thatthere's been a fair amount of resent-ment at the changes that have beenmade," Constantine said.

Conable said he believes the re-organization has improved the func-tioning of the Bank. "But a big cross-cultural bureaucracy like this, ofcourse, was stunned to find that em-ployment wasn't permanent. And sowe've had some morale problemshere that made me quite controver-sial when I first came. I think I'mless controversial now, because themotivations and skills of the peoplehere are being better used than theywere before."

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In recent years the World Bank hascome under increasing criticismfrom environmentalists due toconcern that the kind of develop-ment projects the Bank tradition-

ally has financed—including dams,roads, and power plants—frequentlyhave had an adverse impact on theenvironment.

Conable said he has sought todeal with such criticism by institu-tionalizing environmental input intoreview of proposed projects.'There's a big overlap between de-velopment and environment. Youcan't sustain development unless it'senvironmentally sound. Also, ifthere's global change it will be hard-est on poor people who have less ca-pacity to adapt than more affluentfolks."

He contended that "we havebeen consciously building environ-mental values into our projects . . .We've established environmentaldepartments on the policy level andhave built environmental personnelinto our operational arm."

Since Conable took charge, theWorld Bank also has been attempt-ing to cope with mounting popula-tion pressure in the Third World. Ata conference late last year of the In-ternational Planned ParenthoodFederation, Conable pledged to "re-new the Bank's commitment to is-sues of excessive population growthand to help make family planning ac-cessible to all."

"We will increase substantiallyour lending, first, for the delivery ofeffective family planning servicesand, second, for investments whichwill improve opportunities for wom-en. For population, health, and nutri-tion alone, we are increasing ourlending to $800 million for the nextthree years, compared to $500 mil-lion for the past five years. I will per-sonally monitor our performance onboth quantity and quality," he toldthe conference.

In the interview, Conable notedthat "the population explosion is afunction of poverty, to some extent.You give women a role in the econo-my, you give them some way toachieve status other than by havingmore children, and they'll takeit—you give them choice. Educationalso helps in that respect."

L here's a bigoverlap betweendevelopment andenvironment. Youcan't sustaindevelopment unlessit's environmental-ly sound.'

Responding to the wave of dem-ocratic change sweeping throughEastern Europe, the World Bank re-cently stepped up its programs to as-sist countries of the region in re-building their economies and en-couraging the changeover to free en-terprise. Conable went to Warsaw inFebruary to sign two loans totaling$360 million, the first by the Bank toPoland. Czechoslovakia and Bulgar-ia also have been seeking WorldBank help.

Conable observed that in East-ern Europe, "one of the big tests isgoing to be whether the people canbe patient enough to achieve thebenefits of a plural economy, havingachieved the benefits of a pluralpolitical system. I think it's going tobe tough. We're going to have to sup-port them very heavily."

Asked about the chances thatthe Soviet Union eventually would

be able to join the International Mon-etary Fund and then the WorldBank, Conable said: "They'll have todevelop a convertible currency.. . IfRussia were to establish a realisticexchange rate so it could have a con-vertible currency, they'd have totake away all the savings of the Rus-sian people. They're going to have todo that gradually. So I wouldn't holdmy breath for Russia becoming amember quickly."

Strong Cornell ties in Conable'sfamily included his parents,Barber B. Conable Sr. Όl andAgnes Gouinlock Conable '08.He was born and grew up in

Warsaw, New York, where his fatherwas a prominent lawyer who servedas a county judge.

Conable enrolled at Cornell atage 16 and managed to earn his B.A.in three years. "I had a strange rec-ord at Cornell," he recalled. "I hadmore in scholarships than it cost meto go there—that was back in thedays before it was based on need—although I worked at the Straightmain desk for 55 cents an hour."

He tried to play football hisfreshman year, but "they found Ihad a heart murmur and made mequit. So instead I went out for theyearbook and Willard Straight. I ma-jored in medieval history. I took ex-tra work all along and discovered atthe end of my junior year I hadenough credits to graduate. . . I hadbeen elected president of WillardStraight, president of Q&D [Quill &Dagger], editor of the yearbook. Iwas in a number of other things thatI was doing as well. I had an academ-ic record to be a Phi Beta Kappa if Ihad come back in my senior year."

From Cornell, Conable went in-to the Marine Corps, where he roserapidly through the ranks and was afirst lieutenant by February 1945,when he went ashore with an assaultwave on the first day of the invasionof Iwo Jima. He served with theAmerican occupation forces in Japanbefore being released from the ser-vice in 1946.

Conable came back to CornellLaw School, where he was editor ofthe Cornell Law Quarterly andearned his degree in two years. Hejoined a Buffalo law firm, served


Conable takes part in his investiture as a sub-tribe's honorary chief in the Daloa region of Africa's Ivory Coast.

again in the Marines during theKorean War, then established a lawfirm with his father in Batavia, NewYork. He made his first run forpublic office in 1962 when he waselected to the New York StateSenate, but served only half his termthere before winning election to theHouse in 1964 despite that year'sDemocratic presidential landslide.

Conable has frequently demon-strated to friends and colleagues thathis knowledge ranges far beyondpolitics and international finance.

Sol Linowitz, LLB '38, a Wash-ington attorney and former ambas-sador who has known Conable formore than twenty-five years, said:"He's astounded me a number oftimes by his quotations from Shake-speare, his ability to recite poetry...He's a student of the classics, ob-viously, and makes good use of it intrying to formulate positions and try-

ing to make his points."Conable's wife has been active

on women's issues and has traveledextensively with him on World Bankmissions to Africa, Asia, LatinAmerica, and Europe. CharlotteConable served as a Cornell trusteeand is the author of Women at Cor-nell, published in 1978 by CornellUniversity Press. She took part inthe 1980 U.N. Conference for Wom-en in Copenhagen and the 1985 Nai-robi Conference.

The Conables have three daugh-ters, Anne, Jane 78, and Emily, anda son, Samuel. In Washington theylive in a condominium apartment atthe luxurious Watergate complex,while their permanent home is in thecrossroads village of Alexander,New York, where they own a farm-house that was built in 1835.

Conable serves as a Cornelltrustee fellow and said he manages

to attend' 'at least a couple of trusteemeetings a year." But getting awayfrom Washington is difficult, be-cause "I don't know what my sched-ule is going to be a couple of dayshence. Pressures build up. Some bigshot comes into town and wants totalk to the World Bank, and I have tobe available."

"I come to work at 7:30 in themorning . . . and it's usually 7:30 atnight when I go home," Conable said,noting that when he took the WorldBank post he had to give up virtuallyall outside activities, which had in-cluded membership on the board ofthe New York Stock Exchange,writing columns for U. S. News &World Report, teaching at the Univer-sity of Rochester, and work with theMuseum of the American Indian.

"I had to get out of it all when Icame here," he said. "This is a total-ly preoccupying job."

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A HISTORIC RETURNKicking off a birth-day celebration forthe university,alumni note boththe familiar andthe changed intheir campus andtheir classmates

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About the Photographs

For this year's Reunion, we asked fiveIthaca photographers to shoot one rollof film, for one hour, at one eventeach. The only direction given wasthat they were to shoot theirassignments from a personal point ofview—that is, their own experience of

the occasion, in their own style. Thefive photographers are: Dede Hatch,Susan Mack, Kathy Morris, MFA76, Jon Reis, and David Ruether '64.We also acknowledge the work of TimMoersh, University Photography.

—Stefanίe Lehman


BY JOHN MARCHAM '50

Development Officer W. Barlow Ware '47 is prepared forshowers as he makes his way through an All-AlumniLuncheon crowd in Barton Hall.

Maybe being the kickoff of the 125th anniversaryof Cornell just jacked everyone up a notch, but Ican't remember better speeches, greener trees,more inspiring music, younger looking class-mates, more good times.

I doubt you'll ever hear three speakers who hadmore to say, and said it more entertainingly, thanGeorge Will (the pundit) on Friday afternoon, and Pro-fessors Walter LaFeber and Fred Kahn at the launchingof the 125th in Bailey on Saturday morning.

Naturally, the skies were gray and drizzling early inthe weekend, when we went in to the Will speech. Hereminded us he'd lived in Ithaca before. It was rainingwhen he left town several decades ago, he said, and al-though he'd heard tell the Sun had shown since then, hefound it hard to believe. Fred Kahn reflected on theclimate again when he told an audience jammed into hu-mid Bailey the next day that the university tried toplease alumni by keeping Cornell as unchanged as pos-sible. 'The air in the auditorium is the same as whenyou were here in college."

Will was funny but devastating when he criticizedthe Bush administration and Congress. He said politi-

Reunion speaker,George Will.

cians simplify all issues into 9.8-second sound bites forTV (''Lincoln would have had to say, 'Read my lips: noslaves.' "); follow polls rather than propose painful andnecessary solutions to the nation's problems; and trans-fer the high cost of their handiwork to our children andgrandchildren.

Will's wit impressed the 2,200 reuners who heardhim, but I think I'd rank LaFeber the next morning aseven better organized, more humorous, and more tell-ing. He keyed his talk on "Prospects in the Post-ColdWar Era" to an article titled "The End of History" thatshook so many public officials last year. (Y. F. Fukuya-ma 74, who wrote the piece, is a former student of his.)LaFeber prepared us for a time when Europe and Japanwill replace the U.S. and Soviet Union as the majorworld powers, and when nationalism among newlyfreed and underdeveloped countries may dominate ourworries as the East-West rivalry has since World War II.

Professor Kahn was none too upbeat, either. Hefound little precedent in history for the enormous up-heavals facing Communist countries that are today sud-

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denly abandoning central controls and subsidies and try-ing to leap into a free market way of managing theireconomies. He foresaw many problems, but was not de-spairing of U.S. opportunities. He saw the flow of for-eign capital into this country as salutary.

President Rhodes came on after LaFeber, Kahn,and a multi-projector sound and slide show about Cor-nell's first 125 years. The president was carrying aheavy load—he undertook to touch on what had madethe university distinctive in its first century and a quar-ter (the "first truly American university in its mix ofteaching, research, and public service"), what was be-ing done well today (he cited eight specific areas of na-tional and world prominence), and where it should go inthe future ("to become the world's first truly interna-tional university"). But he did it, with his usual elo-quence and in spite of a touch of laryngitis (this was thesecond of seven speeches he would give before the endof the day).

At first I was put off that we alumni couldn't driveacross campus. Workmen had fenced off EastAvenue above Gold win Smith, and big powershovels were excavating next to Stimson Hall tomake a hole for an underground extension of Olin

Library. The shovels filled a steady stream of hugedump trucks that took off up Tower Road with theirloads all day long. At night in the tents, though, webarely noticed that fenced-off corner of the Arts Quad.

The skies cleared by Saturday morning and we hadthe sort of glorious summer day that makes you forgetthose grim Ithaca winters. The tents were cooking Fri-day. Peggy Haine '65 and her Lowdown Alligator JassBand drew the liveliest crowds Friday but by Saturdaynight all four tents were drawing well and jumping,each to the cacophony of a different era.

Susan Davenny Wyner, another member of the25th-year class, was vivacious, leading the audience andthe Alumnae Chorus during Cornelliana Night in Baileythe final evening of Reunion. What music they make.Dini Sathe '90 was sensational as soloist on "Summer-time." (So too were the soloists with the GleeClub-Dick Bump '55 on "Cornell" and Rusty Davis '50on the "Alumni Song." (Never a dry checkbook in thehouse when Rusty sings.)

Speaking of which, Reunion is reporting time forthe Cornell Fund. President Rhodes observed that byFriday morning the quinquennial-year classes had al-ready raised 3V2 times the $7 million they raised onlyfive years earlier. Seven different classes broke recordsfor their respective anniversaries: '25 for donors, '30 fordollars, '40 for donors, '55 and '60 for dollars, '85 fordollars, and '50 for everything—donors and dollars for a40th Reunion, dollars for any Cornell Reunion, and for awhile, we thought, for dollars from one class at any uni-versity anywhere—$8.8 million and still going. (It turnedout they are Number Two, to Penn's 25th year classthat broke $10 million the same weekend.)

Samuel C. John-son '50 sports hisclass's Reunionuniform—a poloshirt in (youguessed it) red.

MOERSH

Sam Johnson '50 explained a challenge he decidedto make to his classmates Friday night. His class presi-dent introduced the unassuming CEO of Johnson Waxas "the nicest prominent person I know."

Johnson proceeded to explain how his father, he,his wife, and all their children have gone to Cornell andbenefited from the experience. He particularly respectsthe leadership of Frank Rhodes, he said, and found him-self overwhelmed by the fellowship, enthusiasm, andcommitment of classmates during the weekend. So ifthey would round the $8.8 million they'd given Cornellalready up to $9 million by June 30, he'd make it $10million.

Alot of social issues being fought out on the nation-al level reflect at Reunion. Alumni wanted to talkabout black students and faculty at Cornell, thehigh cost of higher education, and the status ofwomen—in the country and on campus.

Quill and Dagger Society inducted Patricia CarryStewart '50 (twenty-three years a trustee) as anhonorary member during the weekend. Q&D now em-braces women members as undergrade, a considerablechange from Pat's time. Much joshing not only that herhusband Chuck Stewart '40 is a member of the rival se-nior society Sphinx Head, but also that Sphinx has yetto admit coeds.

For every serious discussion there were a hundredthat were light, oriented to family (many pictures ofchildren and grandchildren!), college pranks long forgot-ten, and "whatever happened to ..." Taking stock wasinevitable: "Your class leaders decided to shoot theworks on this anniversary because we may not have ourmarbles by the next one." "We may have waited toolong as it is." "Did you notice what one more halfdecade did to the class that's celebrating the anniversa-ry five years beyond ours?" And, "Everyone seemsmore relaxed than at the last Reunion."


A number of classes paid to have bands at theirdorms and in tents near their headquarters. Singing anddancing went on until at least 1 a.m., some until 3 Sat-urday among the older classes and almost indefinitelyamong the younger.

A lot of living is packed into three days. Voicesgrow hoarse; legs weary by the end of the period; per-spective may occasionally cloud. Austin Kiplinger '39,introducing President Rhodes on Saturday morning,had described so exemplary a person he was half wayinto saying, "I give you the president of the United . . ."before he caught himself ". . . of Cornell University."Given the job Rhodes and Cornell are doing, we wereprepared to argue Kip was really on the right track.

The durability of Cornellians was apparent on atleast two occasions I noticed. First, just before a speechin Bailey and in full view of 2,000 fellow alumni, a verydignified alumnus about age 70 took a very long timeswinging first one leg and then the other over the backof a row of seats before settling into an open spot in thesecond row. And at Cornelliana Night three members ofthe Class of '20 were introduced—90-year-olds eachfrom Florida, New Jersey, and nearby McLean, NewYork.

As a local I'd always stayed at home and commutedto Reunion. Never again. I stayed in the dorms and bythe end of Thursday supper had found more time totalk to more people than at all my five-year Reunionsbefore put together.

An alumna at a Reunion event in Corson-Mudd HallDEDE HATCH

went looking for a restroom down a long corridor andfinally found a young person working in a lab to ask.'Oh, is it Reunion time?" the person asked brightly, "Iguess I hadn't noticed." The work that drew us to theHill in the first place was proceeding despite, butmaybe in part because of, all of us who look to the placeas home and return from time to time to celebrate thatkinship.

BY ELSIE MCMILLAN '55

Q uite a lot of history comes to light at any Reunion.It may be purely personal history—when the wife(companion?) of a member of the Class of 75comes to realize the importance in his undergrad-uate life of Bob Petrillose's Hot Truck (and gets to

try a "Triple Sui" sandwich, herself)—or social, whenan undergraduate member of the Hangovers confesseshis curiosity at a Sunday-morning send-off party hostedby the Class of '45: "What is milk punch, anyway?"(Several recipes, none precise, are immediately forth-coming.) This sort of interplay goes on all weekend.Reunion is a wonderful place to share traditions.

This June the university's own history took a prom-inent place in the proceedings (as noted elsewhere onthese pages) and at least one recognition of the pastcame from what historians might call an "originalsource." Ag college alumni and faculty gathered forbreakfast on this misty, cool Saturday heard Professor

Warren "Holly" Hollenback, LLB '17, at left, visits quietly withmembers of the oldest official Reunion class at a Barton Hall lunch-eon. Lively members of the youngest Reunion class, above, dancethe night away at tent parties on the Arts Quad.

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Emeritus Stan Warren '27, PhD '31, ag economics, re-port on the state of that college in the year 1910. (Hewas 3 years old that year, but his father George Warren'03 was busy teaching farm management.)

The college operated in four buildings, Warren re-ported. Farmer's Week that year included lectures ordemonstrations by faculty members now long gone, butwhose names remain familiar to current students, if on-ly for the many buildings bearing their names. No com-parisons were necessary for those in attendance to real-ize how far the College of Agriculture and Life Scienceshas come in eighty years.

The next speaker's approach to the podium left themore than 300 assembled alumni and faculty mystifiedand amused. Here, dressed in a black frock coat andwith an iron-grey beard reaching to his chest, came aman bearing uncanny resemblance to old photographsof Isaac P. Roberts, the college's first dean. Doffing hissilk top hat, the figure spoke in an unpretentious butserious way, emphasizing the importance he saw in thework of the college with educating farmers and schol-ars, learning all that can be known about "the plants,animals, water, and soil" upon which our lives depend.

Professor Richard Korf, a mycologist in the plantpathology department—and for the year 1985-86 theacting chairman of the theater arts department-portrayed Dean Roberts so convincingly it seemedperfectly natural that he closed his remarks by passingthe "Dean's Hat" to David L. Call '54 with a request fora report on the college as it now stands.

Reunion history of a sort was made this year bysome new events on the schedule. Friday after-noon a reception for Vietnam veterans drewtwenty-five to thirty for cordial conversation in aseventh-floor lounge of Clark Hall (commanding a

view of Ithaca and surrounding countryside to rival theJohnson Museum's famous vista). Most of those in at-tendance were men from the Class of '65, as could beanticipated, but the classes represented ranged from '48to 70, including the '49er mother of a Vietnam War vetand a retired career Navy man in the Class of '50.

The talk soon turned to the shared desire for somesort of memorial at Cornell honoring alumni who died inthe Vietnam War—and, as no Korean War memorial ex-ists, either, it was proposed that a plaque could recog-nize the losses in both conflicts. Before the group dis-persed, plans were being made for an effort that willlead to a meaningful memorial.

Meanwhile, down the hill and across the Arts Quad,in a tent on the north end of Libe Slope, a reception for"singles" was underway. This was no stag party. Wom-en were as numerous as men among the hundred or sowho stepped up to the refreshment table and launchedinto animated discussions. Singles from the '60s, 70s,and 'SOs (plus a few from '55) were solitary only briefly... or, as for one or two, by choice.

Another new event this year acquainted members

•KATHY MORRIS, MFA 76

Elizabeth Searles, who spent Saturday at Reunion withhusband Howard '25, is greeted by Joe Nolin '25 at theFaculty Tea in the Statler's Regent Lounge.

of the earliest classes ('20, '25, and '30) with the rela-tively young Faculty in Residence Program during aFaculty Tea held in the comfort of Statler's RegentLounge early on Saturday afternoon. Professors Ken-neth Wing, associate dean of agriculture, and Lee C.Lee, director of Asian American Studies, were on handas participants, but Arim Meyburg, professor of civiland environmental engineering, demonstrating he is"still talking and standing up after living among 500freshmen and sophomores," did most of the talking.

Meyburg and his family have resided in an apart-ment in one of the West Campus dormitories for thepast two years, and he had advice for newcomers to theranks of the ten faculty in residence and eighty facultyfellows currently involved in the program. First, hesays, it helps immensely to move in with a small child.University students flock to kids, then interaction withthem is much easier to establish. Also, he suggests,when inviting students to an event, "stress refresh-ments." For participating faculty, this is a fine way tolearn what students are really interested in outside theclassroom. After only ten years, every residence hall oncampus now has either a faculty member in residenceor one who is associated with it as a fellow.

With all the new activities at Reunion this year, afew of the events that Reunion regulars have come toexpect were not on the agenda. The Savage Show wasmissing, for the first time in the Alumni News editors'collective memory, and it was missed.

In addition to the speakers at Reunion who arescholars of and commentators on the past and present,Friday afternoon an alumnus whose job is making histo-ry, Tom Downey 70, returned to his old ILR classroomto speak on "Childcare Legislation and Other Chal-lenges of the 1990s." Ives 213 was well filled with alum-ni (and a few of his former professors) to hear theDemocratic representative of the Second CongressionalDistrict of New York. Sixteen years ago, Downey hadbeen the youngest person ever elected to Congress.Although in the beginning, he says, he tended to disap-prove of a system according more power to those with


the longest terms in office, "now Γve come to ap-preciate the genius of the seniority system." Downeycurrently chairs both the House Select Committee onAging and the Ways and Means Committee.

He explained the political maneuvering and com-promises required to arrive at recent legislation, now inconference, to help meet the childeare needs ofAmerica. It was to be expected in the Labor School thatthere were plenty of questions. Asked if he sees anypossibility of a shift in governmental spending to sup-port solutions to pressing social problems, he respondedwith some optimism, noting that the military budget isdropping and that he is sure the income tax will bemade more equitable: "We're going to have to."

The Class of '55 was one of several classes enlistingone of its own as a speaker. Television sports commen-tator and author Dick Schaap entertained his classmateson Friday evening. "This is the toughest audience," hebegan. "Other people may think I'm full of ,but you know I am."

Margaret Gallo '81 of the class programs staff inAlumni Affairs was in charge of overseeing all the de-tails of Reunion this year, from being sure enoughchairs and tables appeared—on schedule—to putting to-gether a weekend of events that offered something foreveryone. Mindful of the historical importance of thisparticular Reunion, she stood fast against the modern-ists and produced a printed program using a traditionaltypeface and format, illustrated with archival photo-graphs to remind former students of those earlier times.In the bargain it provided all the information an alum-nus returning to the modern Cornell would need to fill,rewardingly, every waking moment.

BY MARY JAYE BRUCE'85

Ichose the Class of '65 for the center of my Reunionactivities. With them I made a show of taking photo-graphs, to justify hanging about, because their agen-da for the weekend seemed the most interesting.

Friday morning the class featured a sell-outsymposium in the Center for Theater Arts's maintheater (amazing acoustics), on "Courting Creativity." Itwas put on by Bruce Eissner '65 and four Cornellteachers who obviously take their missions seriously: toopen students—virtually anyone, that is—up to thebroadest of their potentials. Seeing things through dif-ferences in culture, perspective, realizing how energiz-ing one can make life if it is not seen as a single path.

David Feldshuh (Dartmouth '65), artistic directorfor the Department of Theater Arts, described thewonders of human beings' natural imaginative nature,the lack of self-consciousness we possess as childrenbut must work to foster in ourselves as adults. SusanDavenny Wyner '65, associate professor of music,described the oneness of body and mind that she tries tohelp her vocal students sense, along with the power of

imagination and "otherness" that can be found throughthe combined worlds of music and poetry.

Ken McClane 73, professor of English and creativewriting, spoke passionately about the differences thatcan be made for students if they can receive simple butsincere encouragement. Jean Locey, associate professorof photography, described how she helps studentsrealize their own vision of what is expressive, what isartistic, what photos are successful—on their ownterms.

From there I, a lifetime member of the CornellChorus, took to singing for Reunion, with virtuallythe same group that returns every year plusseveral new faces, brave souls who dove right intoarrangements n£w to them. In two rehearsals this

Alumnae Chorus worked up a program suitable forthree appearances. We sang Cornell songs arrangedespecially for women's voices, a couple of madrigals,and some Gershwin pieces Professor Wyner had ar-ranged for the occasion.

I couldn't help but wonder how we sounded—evenknowing that just for the chance to sing and the joy ofthe communion, we shouldn't care. But at the sametime, I was aware of how much it means to performwell, especially in this traditional, conservative, gleeclub-is-all environment that pervades Reunion.

However, the show of support we received was re-markable, from women and some men, too, who "hadto come up and tell you all how wonderful it was!" Inwide-sweeping gestures, they tried to convey that it wasmore than the music itself, that it was the spirit of thething—the involvement, the earnestness, the leadership,and the fact that here we were singing and being heard,which in prior years had not happened.

Reunion 1990 was to me a sensitive rendering oftradition combined with a welcoming of change.

Members of the Alumnae Chorus blend their voices at theHuman Ecology Breakfast, one of the group's three ap-pearances during Reunion Weekend.

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REPORTS OF THE R E U N I O N CLASSES

FIFH REUNIONAfter months of encouraging all°f y°u to attend our wonderful5th (five-year) Reunion, I amsheepishly forced to confess thatmv °wn attendance at this func-tion was preempted by the pro-

verbial Powers That Be at my law firm, whosent me to Detroit for the week. With all ap-propriate apologies to fans of the Pistons andCecil Fielder, I must say that the Motor Citycan't hold a candle to our beloved Ithaca.

Happily, however, a record number ofyou did attend Reunion and enjoy the festivi-ties brought to us courtesy of Reunion Co-Chairs Margaret Nagel (who, to set the rec-ord straight, is at Johns Hopkins' School ofPublic Health getting a master's in health poli-cy and management) and Jill Hai, and theirregistration assistants, Jennifer (Sidell) andCurt Cornelssen; kick-off party chairpeo-ple, Jenifer Steig, Larry Vranka, andMichele Payne; and fundraising co-chairs,Mike Bloomquist, Rod Rougelot, andPhil Finch, who helped raise a Sth-year Reu-nion record-breaking $96,000! Thank you, all.

According to my well-placed spies, a largecontingent from the Washington, DC area rev-eled in Reunion celebration, including: Mi-chael Hayes, who left the National LaborRelations Board to join Sherman, Dunn, Co-hen, Leifer & Young; Andrea GottehrerPasserelli, an attorney with Dechert Price &Rhoads and proud mother of daughter Ariel;Michael Liess, a marketing executive withXerox; Joyce Zelkowitz, a sous chef at theCity Club of Washington; Glenn George, anuclear engineer with the Office of Naval Re-actors; Robin Gillespie, a field engineerwith Hewlett Packard in Rockville, Md.; LoriDeckelbaum, a hotel developer with Mar-deck Ltd., also in Rockville; Jaan Janes,graphics coordinator for Sports News Net-work in Arlington, Va.; Carolyn D'Ambro-sio, at George Washington U. medical school;and David Derwin, an Air Force captain,who represented the US military in the Inter-national Military Skiing Championship giantslalom competition in Austria and who wasthe highest-finishing American in that event!

Also amply represented on West Campus(and eyewitness to the thankful demise of thecinderblock decor) were these New England-ers: William Gorlin, an engineer withThune Associates in New Canaan, Conn.;Mark Martin, a product design engineerwith Analog Devices in Wilmington, Mass.;David Young, an electrical engineer withAnalogic Corp. in Peabody, Mass.; DebbieCluff, a mechanical engineer (do you sense apattern amongst these folks?) with GeneralDynamics in Groton, Conn., hard at work de-veloping the new Seawolf submarine; HeidiLane, a computer programmer with theSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory inCambridge, Mass.; Daniel Kraut, a consul-tant with Vertical Systems in Dedham, Mass.,who will attend MIT's School of Managementin the fall; Kathy Burroughs, an attorneywith Day, Berry & Howard in Hartford,Conn.; and Anne Mitchell, newly promotedchief dietitian at Winchester Hospital in Win-chester, Mass.

Vying for the "Long Distance Award" at

The Class of '80 puts together all the ingredients of a realfine clambake on Saturday evening at Cornell Plantations,including a Dixieland jazz band.


RUETHER

Reunion were: Becky Greenberg Jackson,a technical trainer with IntelliCorp in Moun-tain View, Cal; Mike Delrnan, a real estatedeveloper for Blockbuster EntertainmentCorp. in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Tammy To-bin, who will soon leave College Station, Tex-as for DC and a position at the National Insts.of Health; Benoit Deshaies, a consultant atLaventhol and Horwath in Montreal, PQ, Can-ada; Todd Shallan, who took the Red Eye infrom his home in San Francisco; and GreigSchneider, a Navy pilot who is leaving thewarmth of San Diego for the intrigue of work-ing on a "top secret mission with the Pen-tagon." Greg achieved what he calls his "15seconds of fame" by appearing in the movie"The Hunt for Red October" as the pilot whodrops the torpedo. (No connection betweenthose news items, is there, Greg?!)

Reunion-goers with a considerably short-er distance to travel included this crowd fromthe Metropolitan New York area: ConstanceMoy Eng, an apparel merchandiser with JohnHenry Womenswear; Ron Prague, an at-torney with Richards & O'Neil; RichardStrassberg, law clerk to the Hon. RobertWard; Naomi Weinstein, an event plannerfor the National Assn. of Female Executives;Elisabeth Armitage, a manager at FirstChicago Trust; Maria Berman, an engineerwith the ASCE; Leslie Nydick, who workswith the housing department to select sites forhomeless shelters; Nancy Harrison, afreelance writer for the NY Times; ShelleyDropkin, an attorney with Winston &Strawn; Eleanor Stevens, a regionaltheater enthusiast who runs E. J. Stevens Inc.,a real estate agency founded by her grand-father; Leslie Lock wood, a caseworkerwith the St. John's Home for Boys; TaraShuman, banquet captain at Hilton Hotels inShort Hills, NJ; Michele Wolf Corsey, asocial worker with the Salem Co. CounselingService; and many, many more classmatesthan I could possibly squeeze into this smallspace.

By way of closing, our new president,Debra Neyman, asked two favors of methat, as an old friend and now member of hercabinet, I could not ignore. First, she made mepromise that I would publicly thank Jim Tac-ci, Pete Lee, and Jim Rosecrans for man-aging not to get arrested at Reunion the waythey did five years ago at Senior Week.Thanks, guys. And, second, she asked that Iofficially welcome on board the other class of-ficers whom you elected to represent youthese next five years: Vice President JenniferSteig; Treasurer/Secretary ElizabethDolinar; Reunion Co-Chairs Margaret Nageland Jennifer Cornelssen; Cornell FundRepresentative Scott Witlin; Regional VicePresidents Jon Miller, Kelly McKenney,Kara Kerker, Jennifer Li, MarkSheraden, Stuart Sheldon, ChristineStefanou Perry, Judy Argentieri, AbbyStrongin, and Susan Seeman; and, mak-ing a return engagement as class correspon-dent, yours truly, Risa Mish.

I greatly look forward to writing anotherfive years' worth of Alumni News columns foryou. Please keep those cards and letters com-ing and thanks for making the first '85 Re-union a smashing success! G Risa Mish,630 1st Ave., #5H, NYC 10016-3785.

TENTH REUNIONY'know, I used to take a lot ofpride in the fact that never oncein my four years as a Cornell un-dergrad did I ever spend a nightin a U-Hall. Well, nothing lastsforever. U-Halls 4 and 5 were

the headquarters for the gala 10th Reunion ofthe Class of '80. But these were not theU-Halls we all shudder to remember. Gone arethe cinder block walls, the scary bathrooms,and the feeling of being trapped in a rerun ofHogan's Heroes. It's amazing what a littlesheetrock, some carpeting, new furniture, anda big fat endowment can do for a building!

True to form, classmates arriving on cam-pus Thursday and Friday were greeted withvintage Ithacation. But the rain and fog gaveway by Saturday to beautiful blue skies andwarm temperatures. It was Camp Cornell, allover again. Especially for the multitude of tod-dlers on hand. My, what a busy class we'vebeen over the past decade! And good lookingkids, too. So much for genetics.

Friday's dinner at Robert Purcell Union(nee North Campus Union) was most nostal-gic. Especially the Turkey Tetrazini, whichI'm positive was held over from sophomoreyear. Following dinner, the traditional tentparty on the Arts Quad gave everyone achance to catch up with one another and withtheir drinking, though not necessarily in thatorder. True to form, Andrew Feldman andMichael Ullman, MPS HA '78 made theirpresence known. Nate Weiss was on handwhen Diana and I arrived in town with DaveHahn and his wife Ella Yang in tow. We had achance to chat a bit with Dave Durfee andhis wife Debbie Clovis, as well as with Steveand Mary Ellen Phillips Riegel. It wasgood to see Jim Blum again, too, not to men-tion Mark Brozina, Loren Selznick,Joyce Rosen, and dozens of other familiarfaces and friends.

Classmates arrived on into the night. Andwhat better way to greet them than with an icecream spree—just the thing for those expand-ing waistlines many of us have picked up overthe years. In fact, as a whole, the women ofour class looked a lot thinner, while the menseemed to have . . . well, uh . . . why don't Ileave it at that. Just know that after runninginto nutritionist and fitness expert S. LeeWalters and his wife Meredith on Saturdaynight, I am now eating rabbit food.

By Saturday morning, we were more than300 strong. But the only Reunion record set byour class this year was in the Reunion Run.Sam Mallette won the five-mile race, firstover-all, and Sam Richards finished secondin the 30-39 age group. Among the women,Karen Benz Merns finished second,Valery Rossman, third in their age group.

A day of tours, speakers, seminars, andshopping at the Campus Store was punctuatedwith trips down to the gorge and into College-town (again, unrecognizable), lunch fromHal's Deli under the tent in front of Sibley andthe election of new class officers. KathleenCote Snyder will be taking over for LyndaHershey Spalding as class president. IraHalfond will be one of four regional vicepresidents, the remaining posts to be filled lat-er. Lily Chu is back as class treasurer and so

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is almost everybody else, with the exceptionof yours truly, who will be passing on his classcorrespondent duties to Pam Simons.

The highlight of the weekend had to beSaturday night, when the Newman Arbore-tum at The Plantations was transformed into averitable playground of food and entertain-ment. The grounds were absolutely beautifuland it was evident from the look of awe onmost of the faces present that many of usnever even knew such a place existed at Cor-nell. The main course? Lobster! The Reunionchairs outdid themselves, and special creditmust go to Nancy Macintyre Hollins-head (and husband Jeff '79) and CelesteSant'Angelo, not just for the dinner, but forthe entire weekend.

After dinner, we made our way back tothe tents and danced our butts off, none moredetermined than Nick Boxer and Rita Teutonico, who left a three-foot trench on theArts Quad. Sunday morning, it was a quickbrunch, some last-minute reminiscing,pledges to stay in touch better, and a bitter-sweet farewell to Ithaca and return to reality.

One classmate whose presence was keen-ly missed was Fred Unger. Fred and hisyounger brother Jim were killed in Februaryin a car accident in Namibia. In his memory,his family has authorized the establishment ofa scholarship fund to provide assistance toacademically qualified and financially deserv-ing students who might otherwise be unable toattend Cornell. A special appeal is going out toall of Fred's friends in the Class of '80 to helpraise $10,000 over the next three years. Allclassmate contributions to the fund will alsobe credited to the Class of '80. Contributionsshould be sent directly to Ann Golden Mc-Cann, MBA '80, Cornell University, 55Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, and please besure to indicate on your check that it is for theFrederick David linger Memorial Scholar-ship Fund. For more information, contactJohn Levitt at (212) 532-6286.

Since this is my last column as one of yourclass correspondents, let me thank you all foryour news, notes, comments, ideas, and sup-port over the last five years. Good luck andgoodbye! D Steve Rotterdam, 200 W.93rd St., #3J, NYC 10025; Jill AbramsKlein, 12208 Devilwood Dr., Potomac, Md.20854; Jon Gibbs Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd.,Syracuse, NY 13207; Pam Simons, 269Elm St., Albany, NY 12202.

FIFEENTH REUNIONOur 15th Reunion represented atime for renewed friendships,new friends made, a little Ithacarain, lots of great sunshine, foodand drink abounding... all in all,a great Cornell weekend. Many,

many thanks to Reunion Co-chairs GarySmith and Emily Coffman Richardson.They did an outstanding job of making ourweekend a memorable one.

Special thanks, also, to Sergio Kogan,who recorded the chronicles, of our 15th Re-union on video. Copies of this video are avail-able from Sergio at 5 Claudette Cir., Framing-ham, Mass. 01701; (508) 877-7301. The priceof the video is $34.50, which includes a dona-tion to the Class of 75 Tradition Fund. Orderone today to remember this special occasion,or if you didn't attend, order one so you can

see many classmates and share in the Reunionevents through the video!

L. Vicki Rath, president of Today'sKids, donated some great toys, the proceedsfrom which will go to the Class of '75 TraditionFund, too. Thank you for your generosity! Wealso want to thank fellow classmates BillHoffman, Sue Fulton and husband AlanBurrows '76, and Jeff Zimmerman, whoso graciously donated their time to host ourclass functions.

There are also lots of new buildings oncampus and construction is still underway!However, our old standbys still stand strong,and Cornell never looked better.

Thursday night started off in the greatCornell tradition with dinner at the Hot Truck.We had MBCs (MeatBalls and Cheese), PMPs(Poor Man's Pizza) and Triple Suis (Sui-cide—Pepperoni, Mushroom, Sausage... oh,to be young again!) to our hearts content! Thisyear marks the 30th anniversary of the HotTruck. Congratulations, Bob Petrillose, andthanks for being part of the memories.

Friday night gave us a chance to visit ThePlantations and its Newman Arboretum. Wecelebrated with an "Island Luau."

None of us were sure how Saturday wasgoing to work out. The skies looked ominous,with threats of rain. But it didn't stop thesmiles and hugs of the Saturday arrivals. Wehad a great barbecue on the Ag Quad, fol-lowed by our class meeting. There, PresidentGeorge Murphy thanked Sam Liao, whochaired the nominating committee, and hisstaff, Carol Dorge, Al Schapiro, and IraSanders. Sam and his team worked hard andlong, soliciting for candidates for class office.This was an important task, because these arethe people who will lead the class to our 20thReunion in 1995!

I'm happy to be the first to let you knowwho our new class officers are: Al Cleary,president; Arthur Taft, vice president; Al-len Klein, class secretary; Emily CoffmanRichardson, treasurer; Walt Krepcio, Cor-nell Fund representative; Karen LeungMoore, class correspondent coordinator; andour class correspondents—Barbara Peter-son Champion, Zach Gerbarg, Mike Tan-nenbaum, Mary Alice Curry Bankert,Mitch Frank, Eileen Nugent Simon, andJoan Pease Keefe.

We also had our treasurer's report fromBill Martin, stepping down after ten years ofservice to our class! Thanks, Bill, for yourdedication to our class. The good news is thatwe have a positive balance in our class fund(but won't, for long,.unless all of us pay our up-coming class dues).

A class advisory council was set in placeat this meeting. This council is made up of for-mer class officers, as well as other classmateswho are interested in functioning in an ad-visory capacity to the class officers.

A wonderful dinner in the Ivy Room at theStraight was the prelude to a great evening ofmusic, dancing, and drinking on the ArtsQuad. Much to the chagrin of many, thestatues did not get up to shake hands at thestroke of midnight!

All in all, a great time was had by all. We,as a class, are going to be faced with manychallenges in the next five years, and we needeveryone's support!

As a closing note, the Class of '75 would

like to extend heartfelt thanks to George Mur-phy, our outgoing president. You accepted theposition five years ago under duress, George,but your commitment to our class and to Cor-nell have set high standards for our new classofficers. We also want to thank departing offi-cers Pam Hanna, Amy Cohen Banker(who is now in Japan), Charlie Temel, JimMueller, Sam Liao, Al Schapiro, GarySmith, Carol Dorge, Ira Sanders . . . you allleave big footsteps to follow in!

Keep the news flowing! D KarenLeung Moore, 18 Tolland Cir., Simsbury,Conn. 06070.

TWENTIETH REUNIONi^ ^^ Our 20th Reunion was fun- and

Mm food-filled from the official be-m I ginning on Thursday night withm I I a six-foot hoagie/submarine/m mm grinder/deli sandwich buffet inm ^J our High Rise 5 fifth-floor

lounge to the buffet and made-to-order omeletbrunch in the Robert Purcell Union on Sun-day. Our Reunion Co-Chairs Hank Britting-ham (he's the one from Delaware—that May-issue listing was an editing typo. I know whichHank is which) and Betty Ann MacDonald(Devon) Abbott did a fantastic job, and that'sputting it mildly! Betty Ann was particularlyand deliciously responsible for the menu plan-ning and working with the mix of caterers forthis Reunion (receptions/dinners at theJohnson Art Museum, the Straight's IvyRoom, and Lynah Rink). Great job, Mrs. Ab-bott! Delaware Hank did so many things it'shard to list—it seemed as if he had moved hisoffice and most of his household goods toIthaca for the week. They were a great teamand deserve a great round of applause from allof us. Our third Reunion Chair, A. L. "Hank"Baker, was regrettably unable to attend Reu-nion due to last minute business problems.Thanks also to California Hank for his helpwith Reunion and we hope to see him in 1995.

One of the traditional activities at Reunionis the election of class officers who will servefor the five years until the next Reunion. First,and of crucial importance, Hank Brittingham(Lewes, Del.) and Betty Ann MacDonald Ab-bott (Lexington, Mass.) have agreed to co-chair our 25th and will be joined by a third co-chair, Christine "Buzzi" BruecknerMcVay (Minneapolis, Minn.). Jeanne OlsenDavidson (New York City) has served the classfor many years and in many capacities. Shehas been our vice president for the last fiveyears and was on the nominating committeefor the new slate of officers. She has been agood friend to me and to the Class of '70 andwe wish her well as she travels to London inSeptember for a two-year stint abroad. JaneGegenheimer St. John (Blue Jay, Cal.) hasalso been a good friend to the class and wethank her for most recently serving as oursecretary. John's and Jane's oldest child, ason, has been accepted at both Cornell andBerkeley! Steve Ludsin (NYC) has been (forat least ten years), and will continue to be, ourCornell Fund representative. As a class wehave passed the $1 million mark in accumu-lated giving to the university since our gradua-tion. Steve has worked hard in this effort withhelp from an enthusiastic group of classmates.Thanks.

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Alumni of the Johnson School of Management loosen up to the music of the Uptown Review, one offour groups providing sounds of all sorts at the tents on the Arts Quad each night. Tighter security isin force these days as the university tries to ensure that alcoholic beverages do not Πnd their way in-to the hands of anyone under 21.

and 20th Reunions has been the very ableHsiao-Ping Liu Katz (Franklin, Mich.)-Her abilities with computers and with inter-preting the information on the Reunion regis-tration forms is amazing and indispensable.She will now play a dual role for the class bothas treasurer and, once again, as Reunion regis-trar. Marty's and Hsiao-Ping's oldest child,also a son, graduated from high school on Reu-nion Weekend and will attend the U. ofMichigan in the fall. Thanks for all the tediousand hard work. Ruthanne Kurtyka (NYC)has always been a "very willing to help"classmate. She has officially been our classcouncil coordinator. She will now be our classvice president, as well as being very activewith the Law School with her husbandHarvey Corn, JD '73. (She's JD 73, too.)

Our other new class officers include SallyAnne Levine (NYC) who will serve as oursecretary. Joanmarie Alano (NYC) will beour new class council coordinator. A new "of-fice" has been added for these next five years,25th Reunion yearbook editor. We are verylucky to have two—Susan Linden Fried-lander (Dix Hills, NY) and L. Felix Kramer(NYC). Lastly, I (Connie Ferris Meyer) willcontinue as class correspondent while servingas class president.

I would like to thank an "honorary" classofficer, as well. My husband Glenn has at-tended more Cornell Assn. of Class OfficersMid-Winter Meetings in NYC with me thananyone else in the class. In fact, if he had not

gone with me I might not have attended themeetings, myself. He has dropped letters atthe post office, made copies of all sorts ofthings, and faxed a letter or five to Ithaca, aswell. I thank him for all his help. We have an"honorary" Reunion chair, too. Thanks toSusie LaBarre Brittingham '71 for allher help, as well.

Here are a few 20th Reunion facts. About220 adults attended, 165 of whom were class-mates. We were also blessed with 90 children,ranging in age from 5 weeks to 18 years, or so.By most accounts, everyone had a great timeand there are already plans to come back in1995 and bring back more friends/classmates.We had an 'almost tie' for the classmate whohad traveled the farthest to get to the 20th Re-union. Anne and Martin Tang came fromHong Kong; Eileen and G. Toby Marioncame from Bangkok, Thailand. Three couplesbrought four children back to Cornell withthem: R. Dan and Jill Jayson Ladd '73(ages 10, 8, 5, 3), John and Jane GegenheimerSt. John (ages 18, 14, 6 x 2), and Jenny andSteve Steinberg (13 months to 10 years).Kathy Landau Cornell won for having theoldest child (Amy is 24). Kathy will alwayswin this award! And Doug (Wohlfeiler)Wyler has the youngest child (5 weeks). Theperson with the most unusual job (who at-tended) was Marie Sposito Cerino, wardenat Connecticut's Women's Correctional Facili-ty. I was pleased to present the Honeymoon-ers/Cradle Robber Award to Betty Ann Mac-

Donald Abbott, who was married to Natethree weeks before Reunion. Congratulations!Many thanks to every one who attended our20th and made it such an outstanding suc-cess. D Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 JamesThomas Rd., Malvern, Pa. 19355.

TWENTY-FIFTH REUNIONSome Reunion statistics: 335classmates attended; withspouses, children, and friends,the number grew to 602. Gradu-ations, weddings, and bar mitzvahs caused some to arrive late

or leave early: Jim Maglisceau was the lat-est arrival, at 10:37 p.m., Saturday, while El-len Fluhr Thomas, Susan Hatkoff Patricoff, and Billie Schildkraut had come andgone before dinner on Friday. Bruce Eis-sner left Saturday to attend his daughter'sgraduation at Exeter (she expects to be at Cor-nell in the fall), and Billy and Judy Silver-man Kaufman '67 arrived that day afterhaving watched their daughter's high schoolcommencement. Traveling the farthest wereAggie Taylor Beecham, from Ghana, JanetWhite Gibbens, from Australia, and RefiBerent, from Turkey. Among the attendeesfrom England: Larry Feinberg, NatalieTeich, and Dick Evans. Bob and LaurieBaker brought the youngest child, 13months. The Pi Phi's had a contingent of 11:the group who gathered for the 20th had hadsuch a great time, they convinced others to

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This year's Alumni Lacrosse Game provides action for Brian Myers'80 on the team wearing white (representing even-numbered classyears). Other identifiable players are brothers Clarence Reed '79, atleft, and Henry Reed '81, wearing red. Final score: White, 7, Red, 6.

join the festivities at the 25th.We partied, we ate, we walked, we remi-

nisced, we traded stories about kids and jobs,and we heard several interesting speakers.President Rhodes told us his vision of Cornellexpanding to be a truly international universi-ty, the world's first land grant university. Weattended the first in a series of symposia tocelebrate Cornell's 125th anniversary. Pro-fessors Walter La Feber and Alfred Kahnspoke on " Problems and Prospects in the NewPost Cold War Era." Their lectues werefollowed by a wonderful multimedia presenta-tion, "Cornell, 125 years of creating thefuture," produced by Professor James B.Maas, PhD '66, which reminded us of Cor-nell's mission of teaching, research, service.

The '65 Beebe Beach Party on Friday

night was moved to Barton because of incle-ment weather. For a record of that evening,contact Maddy Gell Handler and husbandPhil '62, who videotaped the proceedingsfor posterity.

At the banquet on Saturday, we were en-tertained by a chorus directed by SusanDavenny Wyner. Then Stephanie SchusRussin, outgoing class president, announcedour newly elected officers: Co-PresidentsDoren Poland Norfleet and Chuck Ando-la; Vice President for Finance Joe Ryan;Vice President for Communications BobKessler; Vice President for Regional Plan-ning Natalie Soroka Green; SecretarySharon Hegarty Williams; Reunion ChairsPenny Skitol Haitkin and George Aran-gio; Class Correspondents Florence Doug-

las Bank and J. D. "Scott" MacEwan.Tom O'Connor and Steve Hurwitz pre-sented a check to President Rhodes for$5,509,000, a record amount to be donated byany 25th Reunion class. Judy Levy Lesleyled the class in the "Alma Mater" (with thewords printed in the program for those whosememories had failed them after 25 years). Ar-nie Rabinor held the winning raffle ticketfor the '65 Mustang convertible donated byJim Venetos. Later, many classmates en-joyed Henra Solomon Briskin's impromptupiano playing in Donlon while others "rockedaround the clock" in the tent outside.

Thanks to Penny Haitkin, George Aran-gio, and their committee, who did such a greatjob of organizing our 25th. Thanks to TomO'Connor and his committee for raising somuch money, and thanks to you who so gener-ously donated it.

Special thanks to Bob Kessler and the '65Reunion Yearbook volunteers. Banquet thanksgo to donors Bert Adelman '64, John S.Dyson and Millbrook Vineyards; Thomas"Griff" Dixcy and Vroman Foods; and Jef-frey Furman of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

President Rhodes ended his speech on"The State of the University" with his de-scription of a leader. In his remarks at our ban-quet, he repeated those words to describe ourclass, telling us we'd set landmarks for othersto aspire to: "You have to risk more than whatpeople think is safe; you have to care morethan what people think is wise; you have todream more than what some think isrealistic."

Mark Scoblionko said the highlight ofthe Reunion was that he "came to the finalbrunch and there were no prunes; they aresaving them for the next Reunion." See you atthe 30th! Scott MacEwan will have more to re-port in the next (September) issue. D DebbieDash Winn, 5754 63rd Ave., NE, Seattle,Wash. 98105; (206) 522-8198.

THIRTIETH REUNIONReunion is rediscovering a spe-cial place in your heart and shar-ing the experience with a friend-ly family known as Cornellians.We came "home" to Ithaca tocelebrate '60's 30th and begin

the celebration of Cornell's 125th, and leftwith new connections forged to each other andto the university's past, present, and future.

Clad in red rugby shirts, the nearly 300 ofus, spouses, guests, and children, delighted inpersonal reunions with classmates, friendsfrom other classes, and professors; devouredfeasts for mind and body; and savored the re-cognition of our contributions to the universi-ty—over $8 million in contributions sincegraduation (up from $3 million at the 25th), amajor conservation fund for the Cornell Li-brary (an opportunity to view the Library Con-servation Lab was enjoyed by many), theClass of '60 Garden on Tower Road (its useand admiration by young and old were wit-nessed immediately), and the Scoreboard atthe new Alberding Field House (its installa-tion—before we have paid for it—shows theuniversity's faith in our Super Class!).

Thursday: Early arrivals enjoyed a tour ofPlane's Cayuga Vineyard (how many remem-bered those 1956 mimeographed copies of thechemistry text that was to become a classic?),



and others began to gather in the eveninghours, from all across the US, Hawaii, Cana-da, England, and Israel, for a buffet under thestars in the courtyard at our Balch headquar-ters, renewing friendships around the picnictables until late into the night.

Friday: Bright and early, members of theclass council gathered at the Reunion recogni-tion breakfast, where Dick Schwartz andSue Phelps Day accepted our award as an $8Million Class. We enjoyed the campus, ex-plored familiar spots and new buildings,shopped at the Co-op (now called the CampusStore), and heard lectures on investing, archi-tecture, South East Asian literature, estateplanning, creativity, and child-care legislation.Noon brought rain, but spirits were undamp-ened at a wonderful barbecue lunch under atent at the restored Beebe Lake (probably thesingle campus landmark most mentioned atour 25th and now even more beautiful than inour undergraduate years). George Will, thisyear's Olin Lecturer—amidst baseball analo-gies, thoughts about the effect of sound bites,and well-grounded insights—left us with themessage that " Leadership is the ability to in-flict pain and get away with it," words worththinking about in meeting challenges as a na-tion, as a university, as citizens, and even asparents and employers. Vietnam veterans metfor the first time at a Reunion on Friday after-noon, to share experiences and begin to thinkabout how Cornell might honor those whoserved and gave their lives in that turbulenttime. (Logan Cheek, 8 Lodge Pole Rd.,Pittsford, NY 14534, is our class contact forsharing information about Cornellians of anyclass who served or died there.) A magnificentlobster-shrimp-clam feast with Dixieland bandat Stewart Park capped the day's festivities.(It's amazing how the years slip away and theconversation flows when you're cracking lob-ster shells and up to your elbows in drawn but-ter!) Time at the tents was followed for manyby a wonderful spontaneous and sentimentalsongfest by alums, Cayuga's Waiters, Sher-woods, Hangovers, and others under theBalch archway. (Music truly is one ofCornell's great assets!)

Saturday: College breakfasts and the Re-union Run began the day. At mid-morning, wehelped inaugurate the 125th Anniversary Cel-ebration with Austin Kiplinger '39, Pro-fessors Walter LaFeber and Fred Kahn in athought-provoking symposium on "Problemsand Prospects in the New Post Cold War Era,"and President Rhodes, who outlined the stateof the university. Following a champagne boxlunch at the new Biotechnology Center, wewent our separate ways to receptions andtours, including views of our class gifts. Wegathered as the sun set for cocktails on theUris Hall terrace, where we dedicated theClass of '60 Garden, across Tower Road, andthen went on to an elegant dinner in the Ball-room at the new Statler where those who hadworked so hard for the class and the Reunionwere thanked, we learned we had broken therecord for the number of donors at a 30th Re-union, and we elected class officers (PresidentSusan Phelps Day; Vice Presidents GaleJackson Liebermann, Richard A. Schwartz,and Leonard Stark; Treasurer DavidFlinn; Class Correspondent Gail TaylorHodges; Reunion Treasurer RaymondSkaddan; plus a class council of regional

representatives, soon to be announced). Thenit was on to a stirring Cornelliana Night atBailey Hall, a last visit to the Reunion tents onthe Arts Quad, and talk into the wee hours ofSunday.

Sunday: A delicious brunch at the newTrillium dining facility in Kennedy Hall on theedge of the Ag Quad provided an appropriatesetting for goodbyes. Vowing to keep in touchand return for the 35th, we headed out overthose familiar green hills and through the lakevalleys back to our lives beyond Cornell. The30th came so quickly—make your plans nowfor the 35th! D Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257W. Deer Path, Lake Forest, 111. 60045.

THIRTY-FIFTH REUNIONYou missed a good party if youweren't in Ithaca for our 35th. Itwas a blast! Two hundred class-mates showed up, and withspouses and children we num-bered 323. While not a university

or class record (we had over 200 for the 30th),we did come close. Thanks to the creative andvery hard work of our Reunion Chairs JoanWeisberg Belden, Betty "Hilly" McCannDearden, Phil Harvey, and Joan SteinerStone, we had a great time. Good food, goodentertainment, and, best of all, old friendshipsrenewed and new friendships established.Who could ask for more?

But even more important, '55 set somerecords for fundraising, thanks to Jay Hyman and Joan Stone. We topped our goal of$3.5 million for the 35th, but are still 28 donorsshort of our target number of 700. So get outthose checkbooks if you haven't already. Wealso have 70 Tower Club members (those whohave given $2,500 or more). GREAT JOB!

The memorable event of Reunion Week-end was the dedication of two racing shells inthe name of classmates Jim Sylla and AlSpindler on Saturday morning at the CollierBoat House. Ginger Sylla and daughter Marychristened a German-built eight-oared shelldonated by the class in Jim's memory. Earlierthat morning she dedicated the Sylla Lab inOlin Hall.

Al Spindler, who died in April after a los-ing battle with pancreatic cancer, had beenthe driving force behind the fundraising forthe Sylla memorial. His widow Dickylee andtheir two children, both dedicated rowers,christened a "four with coxswain" in AΓsname. Back for the dedication were fellowcrew members Ed Arps, Erwine "Ted"Buckenmaier, Dick Bump, Bob Bunt-ing, Roy De Boer, Frank Dill, ArnieFoss, Don Johnson, Ron Mulliken, GilRankin, Ted Reusswieg, GordonWhite, Otto Schneider, and Pete Spar-hawk '54. Other missing members of ourclass were remembered at Saturday night'sdinner at Willard Straight Hall.

We also had our traditional election of offi-cers for the next five years. I turn over thehappy chore of this column to Nancy Sav-age Morris, who shall evermore be known as"Loose Lips," and take over as your presidentor "Chief Whip Snapper." Ed Arps becomesvice president and Dick Bump, treasurer. Re-union chairs for the 40th are Phil and PhyllisHarvey, Ginny Wallace Panzer, and MaxMattes.

We have added a class council to our

class organization in an effort to get more in-put from you guys. Members are DonaldBiederman (California), Hilda BresslerMinkoff (Pennsylvania), Carol SugarShulman (Ohio), Otto Schneider and JoanSteiner Stone (New Jersey), BarbaraLoreto Peltz (New York), and Hilly McCannDearden (Florida). As you can see, we havepretty good geographic distribution, so if youhave any great ideas for class projects itshould now be easier to let them know.

Some observations on the 35th:Best Surprise: The All-Alumni Luncheon

at Barton Hall. Instead of the usual WonderBread sandwiches with processed cheese, wewere treated to a gourmet buffet which in-cluded teriyaki chicken, fresh asparagus andchocolate mousse.

Worst Surprise: The midnight fire alarm atCascadilla that emptied the dorm and sent'55ers into the streets of Collegetown in vari-ous states of dress and undress.

Hardest Working Spouse: Lew Stone'54, who not only kept the class Reunioncomputer working, but all of us supplied withfresh-popped popcorn.

Best Sorority Representation: Kappa AlphaTheta with ten members back: Nancy Liv-ingston Hopkins, Carol RittershausenByron, Jan Peifer Bellamy, Marty BlissSafford, Pat Wells Lunneborg, Lorrie Pie-tryka Plamondon, Jinny Brane Schulz,Anne Morrissy Merick, Joan Belden, andHilly Dearden.

Nicest Addition to Reunion: Bob Ben-zinger '54 who came back to play for ourlate-night sing-alongs.

Best Athletes in Reunion Events: The over-the-hill gang who participated in the annualReunion Row; David Levin, who won theAlumni Run with a time of 33:21; and DickSchaap, who made 16 saves in the ReunionLacrosse Game, but lost the contest 7-6 to themuch younger men on the White Team, repre-senting the even years. Dick also took theprize for being the father with the youngestson (age 5).

Most Comforting News: Zinck's is comingback. The resurrection is spearheaded byCarroll "Duke" Dubuc, Bill Tull, Al Ehr-inger, Dick Thaler '53, and Dick Barger'56.

We hope to be back in Cascadilla in1995—see you then! D Anne MorrissyMerick, 5004 Sangamore Rd., Bethesda, Md.20816.

FORTIETH REUNION

MHerewith the farewell columnfrom your loyal and devoted cor-respondents nigh on these pastfive years. Verily! And what bet-ter time than today, June 10,1990, as we wind up our most re-

markable and glorious Reunion with bannersflying and, as President Rhodes put it at Cor-nelliana Night, music, always music. Speak-ing of music, records fell this weekend whenthrough typical '50's generosity, contributionsto Cornell exceeded $10 million, establishing aformidable Cornell record. Another very spe-cial benefit for '50 from the Sally StroupDeGroot/Warren Harms Cornell video, wasthe return to the Hill of a number of class-mates for a first visit since we ventured intothe big wide world 40 years ago. As President

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A sextet from the Class of W sits for a Reunion portrait under the steady gaze of the university *s founder.

Rhodes said to all returning alumni, we say toyou, Welcome Home! It was equally heart-warming to see other Reunioners coming backfor a second or third visit, indicating a deepen-ing relationship. This crowd produced a rec-ord number of donors for a 40th Reunion, 711folk, 88 of them for the first time, and a recordnumber of attendees, 248! Warren and Sallysend heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the175 volunteers who worked so hard on thisproject. In case there wasn't enough on ourclass schedule to fill our days and nights, theuniversity provided a feast of activities: speak-ers George Will, Professors Fred Kahn andWalter LaFeber, and our own top of the heap,President Frank Rhodes! There were openhouses given by a greater number of affinitygroups in many fields, with near "gridlocktraffic" on campus as alums pushed andpoured in and out of various events.

The highpoint for '50 was the official pre-sentation by Sally and Warren in the hand-some Memorial Room of the Straight of our40th Reunion gift to the university, a total of$540,000 (as of June 9) to completely repairthe Terrace roof; refurbish the Straight Desk;publish an anniversary history; provide aplaque making the contribution in honor ofFoster Coffin '12, and endow the Straight.The continuing connection of '50 with theStraight was further underlined by the remi-niscences of our classmate John Coffin onhis long family association. The class lunch-eon was noteworthy for remarks by otherclassmates, in particular Sam Johnson.Sam happened to mention that while Reunion-ing Friday night in the Risley tent he had anidea, decided to sleep on it, slept on it, got up

Saturday morning, decision firmed up, andtold us he'd give another million dollars to Cor-nell on behalf of '50. Sam, cheers and love toyou! Our own president John Marchampaid tribute to his loyal cronies in his "polit-buro" and gave us the slate of our new offi-cers. President Jim Hazzard, Vice Presi-dents Pat Gleason Kerwick and BarrieSommerfield, Treasurer Ben Williams,Secretary Jim Preston, Cornell Fund repre-sentatives Mary Adams Williams and StanTaylor, Class Correspondents JocelynFrost Sampson and Ralph Williams, andchairing the Willard Straight EndowmentFund: Sally Stroup DeGroot. The outgoingpolitburo wishes them well and pledges itssupport whenever and wherever needed.

As we write this, we are on the west sideof Cayuga, dark blue in the morning sun. Highon the hill across the lake "reared against thearch of heaven," so to speak (or sing) standsCornell. And that is where this all began. Itwas a joy to see you all return, to renew oldfriendships and start them afresh and equallyrefresh the longstanding ones. As JohnMarcham said "How nice that our parents hadall of us about the same time," thereby givingus our initial start on the road to Cornell.Those were very special years we shared andso was our coming together this past week-end, where it all began. A toast to each andeveryone of us. Here's to 1995 and, even moreawesome, year 2000, when the Half-CenturyClass (as President Day addressed us as in-coming freshmen) becomes the Turn of theCentury Class at '50's 50th! Til we meetagain, The Voice and The Hugger sign off.D Libby Severinghaus Warner, 24935

Outlook Dr., Carmel, Cal. 93923 and E.Chapin "Rusty" Davis, PO Box 2331, Dux-bury, Mass. 02331.

FORTY-FIFTH REUNIONOf the 150 '45ers who attendedReunion, everyone I talked to atthe final Milk Punch Party onSunday morning said it was asmashing success. We are allgrateful to Stan Johnson and

Gloria Urban for their devotion to makingour weekend super memorable. On arrival atClara Dickson Hall we were met by Stan,Gloria, Ed Leister, and our Reunion classclerks. They were exceedingly helpfulthroughout the four days. Everyone at the uni-versity was hospitable and friendly. Rated ona scale from 1 to 100, Cornell gets a BIG 100.A neat red cotton sweater, a huge name but-ton, and a tremendous Cornell mug were giv-en to each attendee. We were easily identifiedas '45ers.

Beginning Thursday evening, for the ear-ly arrivals, there was a buffet at the dorm.Some took that time to be with former room-mates and special friends. Libby Hemsathde Prosse arranged a small get-together at arestaurant overlooking Cayuga's waters.Great way to start the weekend! Thanks, Lib-by. The class breakfasted together Fridaymorning, and got things rolling. Right off thebat, Frances Shloss had a happy surprisephone call from her freshman-year roommate,Helene Scheuer Rosenblatt (Scarsdale,NY), whom she had not seen in 44 years. TheBarton Hall All-Alumni Luncheon was the us-ual stand-in-line jam—but so very Cornell, we



wouldn't miss it. Much hugging and catchingup with the likes of Julie Kamerer Snell(Silver Spring, Md.) who has started a newcareer in accounting after a year of book-keeping at the Insurance Rating Bureau inWashington, DC. She's taking courses in ac-counting at Montgomery College. She'll prob-ably be our next CPA. She has three childrenand five grands. We wish you well, Julie!

The class reception which was to havebeen on the Uris Library Terrace while thechimes played, had to be held at WillardStraight because of rain. Actually, the fewsprinkles during the weekend did not interfereor dampen our spirits one bit.

The '45 banquet at the Straight was a bigsuccess. Ed Leister conducted a snappymeeting, at which the officers for the next fiveyears were elected: Ed Leister, president,Vice Presidents in Charge of Reunion StanJohnson and Gloria Urban, Bob Ohmsted,treasurer; Jane Knauss Stevens andGeorge Rautenberg, Cornell Fundrepresentatives; Prentice Gushing, classcorrespondent, when he frees up his time,1991? In the meantime, I (Eleanor DickieRichardson) will continue to prepare themonthly columns. Two new offices wereestablished, Co-coordinators of the 50th Re-union, to promote contacts and activity duringthe next five years. Jim Shaw and I agreedto give it our best shot. You'll be hearing fromus. We need your ideas and lots of help. MaryJane Dilts Achey led the singing (and stayedup 'til 3:00 a.m. again with a select group).The Tent Reunion Parties on the Arts Quadeach night were, as usual, a high point of Reu-nion. New Orleans Jazz, Top 40, Dixieland andRockabilly—we took them all in.

The barbecue on the shores of BeebeLake, Saturday evening, was the perfect set-ting for a relaxed dinner. Speigel Willcox, age87, and his group were better than ever.SUNY College, Cortland gave him a doctor ofmusic degree. (No music department, but whoneeds one for Speigel?)

There's so much more—Maxine KatzMorse (Manchester, NH) the world's greatestfacilitator; Mo Knowlton Lambert (Dayton,Ohio) ever glamorous; Joe Douglass '48(Miami, Fla.) the voice for all ages; Joe Dris-coll '44 (Drexel Hill, Pa.), THE ContinuousReunioner; Joe Minogue (Ithaca), THEpower behind the scenes; the college events.Olin Lecturer George F. Will; the 125th An-niversary Celebration on Saturday morning,at which Austin Kiplinger '39 introducedProfessors Alfred Kahn and Walter LaFeberand President Frank Rhodes, tours of thefabulous resources of the campus—the Cor-nell Plantations is spectacular—and enter-tainments by Ithaca classmates betweenevents. Maralyn Winsor Fleming andWayne hosted a yummy Sunday-morningbrunch for a bunch. Tod Knowles (An-napolis, Md.) has found a computer programthat handles his schedule much better than theprevious cards in the pocket. Andmore—which we'll put in a follow-up newslet-ter soon. We did miss all you who didn't makeit. Please plan for 1995!

Betty Binzel, Phil's wife (Gary, 111.) dur-ing late night talk, when asked what she likedbest, said, "President Rhodes's speeches.He's a man we can look up to, sets an examplefor all. He challenged us to reach out to our fel-

low man—to have a global focus and to helpCornell become the first truly internationaluniversity."

We left the campus, hearts bursting withpride and love for Cornell. D EleanorDickie Richardson, 1201 W. US Hwy. 20,LaPorte, Ind. 46350.

FIFTIETH REUNIONThe best way to describe our50th Reunion: "Read mylips—Music, Sports, Spirit!"^eorβe Will, the well-knownWashington Post columnist andABC-TV news analyst, was the

Olin Lecturer and used these three words at vari-ous times in his outstanding presentation, enti-tled "Public Policy and American Society." Mu-sic was with us throughout Reunion. Betty Ole-son Garvais and husband Sid reported the re-sults of our Reunion poll naming the top four fa-vorites as "Stardust" by Artie Shaw, "In theMood" and Moonlight Serenade" by Glenn Mill-er, "Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw, again!An a cappella group called "The Sherwoods"sang for us and serenaded Mildred "Mimi"Wells Ludlum and John, PhD '42 on their50th wedding anniversary. Twenty-five womenfrom the Cornell Chorus sang for the Hum ECbreakfast, featuring "Summertime" fromPorgyand Bess, with a lovely young soloist. Anundergraduate coed a cappella group, "TheClass Notes," entertained us with spirit, innova-tion, and vocal skill at Saturday's banquet. Forone number they were joined by our own, still-young, singer Johnny Thatcher. John spentfour years in the Glee Club, sharing tenor honorswith Gil Cobb '41, and is still singing tenor inhis church choir and barbershop group. He en-joys most his service in retirement and nursinghomes. During the past ten years he has donemore than 200 programs, each 45 minutes of pot-pourri of old favorites. Betty and Sid Garvaisgave us so many happy memories, with theirtwo-hour "song fest" late Saturday night.

Friday morning found about ten of us play-ing tennis with expert tournament leader BobOgden. The winner, Bill Habicht from Con-necticut. About 25 people played in WrightBronson's golf tourney. The winner, BobKnowlton, with 84. The College of Engineer-ing contingent took the croquet tourney by de-fault, led by Bob Johnson. Better competitionexpected five years hence?

The intense football enthusiasts in our classwere well satisfied with a speech by Dean Emeri-tus Robert J. Kane '34 at the Saturday-nightbanquet. Bob Pickel, former men's class cor-respondent, was "very touched" by Kane'sdetailed explanation of the story of the unusualscheduling of our underrated 1939 football teamwith Ohio State U. It seems President Day, uponlearning of the scheduling, said, "We don'tbelong on the same field with Ohio State andthese games must be canceled." Jim Lynah'05, former CEO of General Motors in Michigan(and then Cornell's director of athletics) backedup the scheduling action of his assistant (BobKane) and replied, "Cancel and I leave." Presi-dent Day gave in and the Lynah-Kane footballteams came through with two underdog vic-tories! Kane went on to explain the current prac-tice in all athletic endeavors of focusing oneducation over winning. So be it!

How does anyone report on the "spirit" of aclass other than to say that the Class of '40 still

has it? Personally, I felt its presence during theclosing song of the Hum EC breakfast as our ta-ble of ten stood and joined hands in heartfelt ap-preciation of our years at Cornell. Other forms of"spirit" reported by Class President CurtAlliaume: Our Cornell Fund activity since June1940 has amounted to about $1 million over a45-year period; another $2 million in the past fiveyears; totaling over $3 million by June 1990. Nothigh as compared to other classes, but CurtAlliaume is a very proud Cornell Fund worker,along with Ellen Ford and a few others overthe years.

C. Fred Tears, coming from Texas, in-spected the newly repaired McGraw Towerchimes—another area of class contribution re-ported in an earlier issue. Fred had played thesebells routinely during his four years on campus.Today the chimes are played mostly by women!Even with the overcast weather I heard thebeautiful sounds way out in the North CampusTownhouses, where we were housed.

At our closing banquet, Don Weadon,from Weston, Conn., a very effective speaker,gave us "Perspectives on the Class of '40,"touching on our individual contributions to socie-ty, including the 32 classmates lost in World WarII. It was inspiring to us all.

Although the newest rhododendron plantshad not yet been planted, our class has donatedabout 30 of these beautiful shrubs for display on aslope in Cornell Plantations, which was dedi-cated at a simple ceremony on Saturday after-noon. Later, at dinner, President Frank Rhodescomplimented us by saying we were mostthoughtful in giving enduring gifts to the gratefuluniversity.

Overall, Cornell is third-highest in alumnigiving over all of the US, with Stanford and Har-vard a bit ahead. We all owe special accolades toEllen Ford and Curt, and the other many donors.Statistical proof of "spirit" resulted, this Reu-nion, when 230 classmates, spouses, and guestsreturned, with a total attendance of 339. This hassurpassed '39's 50th Reunion total of 219, and'38's 224! Congratulations to Bob Schuylerand his large, very active committee and helpers.

Just about all class officers have agreed torepeat for five more years of leadership. So! Seeyou in 1995! D Carol Clark Petrie, 18 Cal-thrope Rd., Marblehead, Mass. 01945; sum-mer,PO Box 8, Hartford, NY 12838.

FIFY-FIFTH REUNIONFor our 55th Reunion, 92 young-looking, spry '35ers returned toa campus that was reassuringlyfamiliar yet lengthened, broad-ened, and strangely compactedwith many, many new buildings

and facilities. The Straight was intact andSage Chapel, the Library (McGraw) Towerand the chimes, the green expanse of the ArtsQuad and the ever-watchful founders, BakerLab., and Beebe Lake, crystal clear again.Barton and Bailey had held their places, butalong Tower Road and elsewhere the campuswas replete with breathtaking newness: anEngineering Quad had materialized since ourday, and more recently myriad science andtechnology buildings, Agriculture, HumanEcology, Veterinary Medicine. Come backand refresh your spirit by roaming to discoverthe new Statler's amenities, the Johnson ArtMuseum, facilities for recreation, athletics,housing, the fine arts.

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We happy Reunioners were housed inHurlburt House (double rooms with privatebath), superbly catered to by three classclerks—real charmers Becky Jacobson'90, Andy Brooks '91, and AlyssaHandler '92. They and private campusbuses were available at convenient times toensure we arrived and left without stress,leaving us to explore the byways and huff andpuff to our hearts' content. The highlightswere so continuous they seemed a veritablesound and light.

Thursday, President Rhodes joined in-vited guests and the Library Associates tohonor Carl A. Kroch as "one of the library'smost generous friends." As a boon, incoming'35ers were able to unwind at a buffet dinnerat Hurlburt. Friday, at the All-Alumni Lunch-eon at Barton, everyone had a chance to table-hop and see friends from all reuning classes.The afternoon held what turned out to be anintellectual treat, the Olin Lecture, "PublicPolicy and American Society" by Pulitzer-winner George Will. (Even we liberals wereimpressed!) Cornell's 125th anniversary wascelebrated by a musical soiree at Bailey; theArts Quad vibrated with the legendary tentparties. Nuff sed!

The report of the class banquet may eatyour heart out, the band played the tunes thatwe had hummed and danced to 'way backwhen: "Me and My Shadow," "A Fine Ro-mance," "Once in a While," "Muskrat Ram-ble," "I'm Confessin' that I Love You." (Seewhat you missed!) Saturday, at the businessmeeting, officers elected are: 'President JimMullane; Vice President Jules Meisel;Second Vice President Cal Hobbie; Secre-tary Frances "Sancy" Lauman; AssistantSecretary Florence De Reiner; TreasurerM. G. "Midge" McAdoo Rankin; AssistantTreasurer Vi Henry Mullane; Fund Repre-sentatives Bo Adlerbert, Al Preston, PegTobin. Jim will inform you of the Walk Main-tenance Fund and dues. At the ribbon-cuttingceremony, President Rhodes honored theclass by dedicating the Class of '35 Walk. Atthe class dinner, Ed Miller led a tapeablechorus regaling us with Cornell songs (joinedby a lot of us). Jim recognized our honoredguests, President Emeritus Dale Corson andNellie Corson, and the class officers. EmceeBill Barden recognized the farthest travel-er—Betty Williams Stavely—and the "Os-car winner" for the most children, grandchil-dren, and great-grands—Doris RathbunLee. The cap of the evening was viewingslides of the old and new '35 Walk and the"Evening Song." We missed you a lot.Π Mary Didas, 80 N.Lake Dr., OrchardPark, NY 14127.

SIXTIETH REUNIONJune in Ithaca! Here we have allbeen for a long, event-filledwee^en(^ Not all of the womenwho planned to come couldmake it, but those who did werefrom all borders of the country:

Sylvia Hilton who summers in Nova Scotia,Martha Fisher Evans from Delaware,Phoebe Parrott Burdick and daughter fromFlorida, Betty Irish Knapp from Texas,Mary Page Crouch from San Diego, DoraWagner Conrath from San Francisco, andmy daughter Gail Bolstad and I (Eleanor

Smith Tomlinson) from Portland, Ore. Alsocame Frances Crossman Bailey, MiriamBloomer, Phillis Brill, Rachael Field,Rose Margolin Fishkin and her daughter,Helen Lipschitz Glick, Ruth GorbatyGoldman, Joyce Porter Layton, JanetDalton Mann, Osea Calciolari Noss, Bea-trice Ramagli Pacifico, Hazel Reed, Elis-abeth Towne Schaeffer and her daughter,Louise Marks Steuber, and Mary BishopWahlig, and at the very last moment arrivedJane Barker Pringle.

No one required a wheel chair, but we sure-ly were not able to walk the campus trails as indays of yore. We were housed in the new Stat-ler Hotel—in the lap of luxury, compared withour 1985 dorm-like living in Risley. Gail and Ienjoyed the Plantations tour and the rhododen-drons, and the delightful faculty tea featuringspeakers telling of a new Faculty-in-Residenceprogram, whereby faculty families live and eatwith students in the dorms, becoming friendsand counselors. It should have happened longago! Founded by anonymous donors, it was thebrainchild of President Rhodes, who had exper-ienced the system at Oxford.

Many of our class members attended theGeorge Will lecture, President Rhodes's talkto the alumni, an evening of choral music atBailey, tent parties, and Cornelliana Night.Buses carried us around campus and to ourSaturday-night dinner at Balch, which we hadbeen the first class of women to occupy. ThereRose led the united class in a rousing THREECHEERS for Joyce Layton, who has done somuch for many years to make our Reunions asuccess. Joyce had broken a long tradition.When the men of the class invited us all totheir council meeting, Joyce was the only oneto attend and she even spoke a few words. Weare accepted at last! At our dinner, Joyce and Ireceived cards of loving appreciation fromclassmates for our past contributions.

Sorry I can't give more details on events,but it's the human factors that count! Joyce gra-ciously agreed to turn this in for the July issue.Now, it's back to Rochester with Gail, thenhome to Portland. D Eleanor Smith Tomlin-son, 231 SE 52nd, Portland, Ore. 97215.

This is being written in Ithaca, at the close ofour 60th Reunion, where a non-official, non-complete count shows a total of 67 attendees,not including spouses and offspring.

Highlights of the weekend included: a re-ception at Kay Heasley's (Mrs. Walter C.Jr.); address by George Will, author, newspa-per columnist, TV panelist; symposium withAlfred Kahn, professor emeritus of politicaleconomy, and Walter LaFeber, professor ofAmerican history; a multimedia presentation,"125 Years of Creating the Future"; PresidentRhodes's Report to Alumni; a Garden Party atthe Plantations; a Musical Soiree; and campustours.

The class was cited: "In recognition ofoutstanding achievement in a Cornell FundCampaign," setting a record for 60th Reuniontotals. Officers elected for the next five-yearterm include Mat Homan, president; BillHarder, treasurer; Ben Cottone, class cor-respondent. Jim Rice continues as secretary,and Jim Paxton, as Cornell Fund represen-tative.

This is my valedictory column after 20years as class correspondent. I'll be turning

over the chores to the competent hands of BenCottone. Ben, now a Floridian (Sarasota) wasformer general counsel to the Federal Com-munications Commission in Washington,DC. D David Denenholz, 250 E. 65th St.,NYC 10021.

SIXTY-FIFH REUNIONOur 65th Reunion coincidedwith the inauguration ofCornell's 125th Anniversary Cel-ebration, so, when we gradu-ated, Cornell was less than halfas old as it is today. When we

first landed in Ithaca, in the fall of 1921, itlooked (to me, at least) like a finished job; welater discovered that there really was a bit ofwork in progress, like the new Baker Chemis-try Lab, but Morrill, McGraw, and Whiteseemed to have been around since the dawn ofhistory. This year, even those of us who hadreturned for recent Reunions (I thought I hadbeen there five years ago, but it must havebeen ten) were overwhelmed. Yes, there was abit of underwhelming, too; e.g., what lookedfrom a distance somewhat like a huge en-trance to a Japanese shrine appeared to be anugly press box looming over the west stands atSchoellkopf.

Nineteen of our classmates made it for our65th, along with at least as many spouses,progeny, and friends. Not a record atten-dance, but nowadays we just can't do every-thing we'd like to. Along with the Classes of'20 and '30, we were housed at the elegantnew Statler, where we also had three classdinners and other activities (including break-fasts) and were within walking distance(though buses were provided) of Barton,where the All-Alumni Luncheons were held,and Bailey, where most of the principal go-ings-on took place. As usual, Helen "Hap"Perrell dropped in from Hong Kong to winthe greatest-distance-traveled honors withease.

Thursday morning we went by bus to thenew (to most of us) F. R. Newman Arboretumat The Plantations, where the rain barely heldoff while Joe Nolin presented our class gift, ateak bench and, more important, a group ofnew rare plantings, which were described byThe Plantations' new director, James M. Af-folter, and landscape designer, Rick Bogusch.

After our Friday dinner, a hastily-assem-bled nominating committee made up a slate ofreplacements for our sadly depleted corps ofclass officers. Joe Nolin, who, while acting astreasurer, has in fact guided all class affairs forseveral years, was the nominee for president;for vice presidents, Elias Markin and Hel-en Bettis Higley; for class correspondents,Sabrina Needham Luck (women) and theundersigned (men); and for treasurer, IrwinWeill. At the business meeting followingSaturday night's class dinner, the slate waselected.

Before the business meeting Saturdaynight we enjoyed an excellent speech by Deanof Admissions Susan H. Murphy '73 aboutpresent conditions, especially relating to ap-plications and admissions, the funding of tui-tion and other expenses, and the outlook forthe future.

General Reunion activities included lec-tures and symposia covered in detail else-



Martin Beck '20 stands to be recognized as the Cornelliana Night program gets underway in BaileyHall on Saturday night.

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where in this month's issue, as is the "MusicalSoiree" which your correspondent avoidedbecause he was told that it consisted ofmodern music produced on modern devices, astory which apparently was only partly true.The grand finale was Cornelliana Night,which included a report on the Cornell Fund'squite remarkable performance, rousing"Remarks" by President Rhodes, and a greatvocal performance by a large group of menand women billed as "Alumni GleeClub/Chorus." They sang a few classical andsemi-classical numbers, but their mainstaywas the best of the old Cornell songs, conclud-ing with the "Evening Song." After whichthere was not, to coin a phrase, a dry eye in thehouse. Or was it just me? (or I?) D Walter T.Southworth, 744 Lawton St., McLean, Va.22101.

SEVENTIETH REUNIONWith the help of the Alumni Of-fice, last fall we started planningfor our 70th and last '20 class Re-union. In May eight memberswere intending to come. We endedup with four: Agda Swenson

Osborn, women's president; Dr. EvaTopkins Brodkin; Cortlandt Donaldson,our class secretary, with wife Virginia; andmyself (Martin Beck, men's president).

Class Treasurer Robert Dewey calledFriday, too ill to attend. I had talked with

Lyman Stansky, Cornell Fund representa-tive, shortly before Reunion, and he plannedto come, but did not make it. Leo Guentertplanned to come also, but did not. CharlesReese broke an elbow and had to cancel.

The Classes '20, '25, and '30 shared head-quarters in the Conference Foyer, Statler,with a desk and clerk appointed for each class.Reunion started slow for '20—until Fridaynoon, I was the only member present. We hadplanned a morning tour of various classmemorials on campus and the Plantations andthese were canceled.

Friday lunch was at Barton Hall at the '20table. Then, bus tours were available showingmany changes on the campus. At 3 p.m.,George Will, national columnist and TV com-mentator, spoke to a full house at Bailey Hall.Dinner in Statler's Yale-Princeton Room wasshared by '20 and '25, followed by music atBailey Hall.

Saturday brought a few light showers, butnot enough to dampen our spirits. Tours wereavailable and we visited with classmates.Lunch, again at Barton, where a 1917 LawSchool graduate joined our table for an inter-esting talk. Dinner was in the Rowe Room forthe Class of '20 and guests. Letters from thefollowing classmates were read: Aaron V.Wallace, Joseph Doan, Walker Smith,William Kuhrt, and Leslie Townsend.Each sent best wishes for our Reunion.

Prof. Walter R. Lynn, dean of the faculty,

spoke. He has a degree in civil engineeringand told how engineers in that field are work-ing in the field of ecology to make a cleanerworld, as well as presenting interestingfigures on Cornell in 1920 and the present. Weenjoyed his talk. After dinner it was Cornelli-ana Night at Bailey. At all events in Bailey the'20, '25, and '30 contingents were ushered tofront-row seats. The songs and music broughtback many happy memories of Cornell. TheClasses of '25 and '30 were asked to stand andbe recognized, and each member of '20 wasasked to stand and, when introduced, wereceived a great welcome. After PresidentRhodes spoke, the evening ended with singingof the "Alma Mater."

Our guests were Virginia Donaldson, hersand Cort's son Robert Donaldson, Eva'sdaughter Hyla Brodkin Garlen '48 andhusband David '49, my sons Ronald Beck'61 and wife Carol, Robert Beck '64 andwife Gwenn, and friend Marion McElhenyBarry '34.

Our class thanks the Alumni Office staff,especially Margaret Gallo '81, for the helpthey gave us; Diane Nelson, for the overall su-pervision in meeting our needs and questions;and our Class Clerk Nicole Beauregard '90 forher cheerful help. All enjoyed a wonderful Re-union and agreed that the university is still ingood hands. D Guest correspondent MartinBeck, 526 Fall Creek Rd., Freeville, NY13068.

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In keeping with tradition, this year's Reunion Weekend culminates in the Cornelliana Night program in Bailey Hallon Saturday. Long life, distances traveled, dollars raised and donor and attendance numbers are celebrated by theassembly as the combined Alumni Glee Club and Alumnae Chorus wait on stage for a chance to "Lift the chorus,speed it onward."


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Class columns for this year's non-Re-union classes follow. Reports of theclasses celebrating Reunions in June—those with class numerals endingin 0 and 5—can be found in the sec-tion beginning on page 22.

The Class of '93 includes many'legacies" (the children, grand-children and great-grandchildrenof alumni). Among these are Jen-nifer J. Dye, great-granddaugh-ter of Christine Burkhalder

Sweetland ' 18, and Erick Thompson, sonof William A. Thompson '48 and grand-son of our Sawyer Thompson, of Oakdale,NY.

Judge E. P. Tuttle wrote in March, re-gretting the death of Dagmar SchmidtWright, a "very active and generous memberof our class." E. P. remembers Dagmar's fa-ther, Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, an authority onancient languages. Our class president stillsits "on the circuit court of appeals," and tellsus that wife Sara (Sutherland) '19 and hecelebrated their 70th wedding anniversary atPonte Vedra, Fla. in October: "Thankfully,we are both in good health." We are thankful,too, and hope all of us find 1990 a good year.

Norman Elsas reports that the Judgeand he had a mini-reunion in March. "We hadseen each other from time to time, more orless, in passing, and just saying hello." Nochance to sit down and talk, "so we had lunchat.the club and took it easy and look forward toanother such occasion ... He is just as spryand as active on the bench as he has everbeen." In the 1970s Norm was "a consultanton special machine design," and also was a"trustee of Howard School for Learning Disa-bilities, and active on the board of directors ofthe Humane Society." He listed one of his ac-tivities: "bird hunting."

However, we classify him among our in-ventors for he has had several inventions pa-tented. When the patents' 17-year life beganrunning out, he says, "I began pulling in myhorns," so to speak. "The basic ideas are nowbeing used by ... other manufacturers,"which made Norm decide to "get rid of thepayroll and other problems that go along withhandling people and machinery... Fortunate-ly, I have enough interests to keep me busy,and keep an office, but only have a typist whenI have enough work."

Some not really trivial facts: Each week"10,200 bagels are comsumed at campus din-ing units." Also, 5,400 undergraduates wholive in university units are in halls that have "aresident or affiliated faculty member." Fur-thermore, "just over a third of undergraduatemen belong to the 50 fraternities, while one-fifth of the women belong to 20 sororities." Dothese facts give you an idea of the studentbody?

Two other items: (1) The new addition tothe Law School, Foster Hall, named for ourclassmate Jane M. G. Foster, was built ofstone from the same quarry that providedblocks for the main building. (2) Olin Libraryhad an exhibit, from October to January, enti-tled "Subjects into Citizens—Image and Dis-course in the French Revolution." Olin has anextensive French Revolution collection, in-

cluding original documents of the philoso-phers, drawings such as caricatures of leadingactivists, and other memorabilia. This first ex-hibit will be followed by one dealing withRobespierre and the Republic, and another on"Exporting Revolution: Napoleon and Eur-ope." [See also an article on the collection inthe May 1990 issue.]

Joe Lay got through the winter in goodshape, he writes, and in April was makingplans for his annual gardening. Any sweetcorn by now, Joe? Or have your raccoons got-ten most of it? D Irene M. Gibson, 119 S.Main St., Holley, NY 14470.

As I write this during the lastweek in April, the packers havebeen here and my Glen Ridgehome is a cluttered mess of car-tons and boxes, to be moved outApril 30 and into my new condo-

minium on May 3, near my daughter in Water-town, Conn. It's in the last phase of a complexof 125 condos on the top of Artillery Hill, witha fine view to the east and woods to the west.It's ranch type and sufficiently spacious to ac-commodate nearly all my furniture, which willeventually go to my grandchildren. When youread this, I will have attended the wedding inMartha's Vineyard of my oldest grandson-more on this later.

In spite of my pleas for news from class-mates, my cupboard is still bare! With one ex-ception, a welcome phone call from Lt. Col.Charles Baskerville, who had just cele-brated his 94th birthday, and reports he stillpaints in his studio at 130 W. 57th St., NYC.He still exudes good cheer in spite of a recentfall and some eye problems. We have enjoyeda close friendship since undergraduate days,and Charlie insisted that I report on some hon-ors I recently received on the occasion of mypending move from 49 years of civic andchurch service in the Township of Glen Ridge.So, with apologies, here are a few happeningswhich gave me much pleasure.

The Second River Joint Meeting is a re-gional group of seven municipalities in EssexCounty, NJ, established years ago to super-vise and maintain an extensive sewer systemserving the seven towns. After 26 years on theboard, 23 as chair, I resigned in March, and onApril 18 was given a dinner attended by pastand present mayors and councilmen, and waspresented with a gift. The mayor and councilof Glen Ridge also passed a resolution (with acopy to me) in appreciation of my six years onthe council (1964-69, the last two aspresident); my 16 years of involvement in theproblems of solid waste removal and recy-cling; 26 years on Second River Joint Meetingrepresenting Glen Ridge and as chair; 22years as charter member, trustee, and vicepresident of Freeman Gardens Assn., whichmaintains a recreational park within GlenRidge noted for a beautiful planting of 400rose bushes; 15 years as judge of the electionboard for my district, officiating at primaryand general elections; and on other local or-ganizations. And on April 29, I've been toldthat I will be given a farewell party by the rec-tor and fellow parishioners of Christ EpiscopalChurch in Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, for mylong service as member of the vestry, usher,and on many committees. My late wife was al-so a devoted member, and served on the altar

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guild. D C. F. Hendrie, 67 Cannon RidgeDr., Artillery Hill, Watertown, Conn. 06795.

My husband G. Eugene Dur-ham '19 and I came back toIthaca when he retired in 1964. Itis a great place to be. One has thepleasure of seeing old collegefriends when they come to visit

Cornell. Also many things happen: theater,music, lectures, and student demonstrations.The good Bailey Hall concerts still offer de-lightful evenings. Do you remember the nightthat Fritz Kreisler came and the Legion triedto stop the concert by turning off the lights?Excitement!

There are not many '22ers, here. I missRuth Van Kirk Royce, who died last year.Helen Howell Stevens and Evelyn DavisFincher are in Ithaca but we don't see eachother. I keep busy with church work and com-munity interests. Last summer I went with mydaughter and her husband to Switzerland. Itwas a wonderful trip to the eastern part and upinto the Austrian Tyrol. Once in a while I go toMiddlebury, Vt. to see my granddaughterKaren Spiegel Tashjian '77 and husbandJoseph '77, DVM '84.

One takes a chance leaving the Cornellarea: upon returning there will be anotherbuilding. It takes a new map every couple ofmonths to find where departments and profes-sors are located.

At present, I am working to establish atrust to supply our hospital with a certifiedchaplain in honor of Eugene Durham. I wasnaive in thinking it would be simple. I quicklyfound out that any public project becomesvery complex. But we will succeed, I'm sure.

Yes, Cornell and Ithaca are great. Come tosee for yourself. That's the Cornell spir-it-NEVER TOO OLD. D Guest Correspon-dent Mary Porter Durham, 110 W. CourtSt., Ithaca, NY 14850.

The usual spring News & Dues letter shouldreach all classmates for whom we have validaddresses by about May 25, thanks to FrancesShumway at Alumni House. D Rollin H.McCarthy, 19-B Strawberry Hill Rd., Itha-ca, NY 14850.

I nave been very busy in themonth of April, hence very littleto report except for the News &^ues rePorts sent to Itnaca

Thanks for your early responsesto my recent letter. Your corre-

spondent was recently elected as president ofthe member's council of the Rochester Friend-ly Home. I have a lot of back-up support here,as I do with the Alumni News in Ithaca. Thedoctor says that the secret to my long life andability to function at my age is being active. Aslong as it doesn't interfere with my Class of'23 activities!

H. Ward Ackerson (Brightwaters, NY).writes that he still works seven days a weekdestroying or donating old records of local his-torical value. Ward was a realtor in SuffolkCounty for 67 years. Carl Baker has been aresident of Gourtland Gardens Health Centerin Stamford, Conn, since 1986; he has threegrandchildren.

Russell T. Bennett (Stowe, Vt.) hasbeen busy trying to get his income tax fin-

ished. "What a job!" He thinks he may havetime for hobbies later. Henry Blewer (St.Cloud, Fla.) writes that "it is great that GeorgeWest is still going strong—we have slowed alittle." He still manages to keep in touch withBroder Lucas, though.

Ted Crabtree turned 90 on April 18, '90;he lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Mary Butler Da-vies writes that she traveled recently to New-port News, Va. to visit her daughter and re-tired Army husband. Mary spent "many hap-py years in Germany" where her son-in-lawwas in charge of the American forces; now,although she's confined to the house with ar-thritis, and finds her old friends graduallydeparting, she plays bridge once a week.Mary has five great-grandchildren.

Rowena Morse Langer (Cambridge,Mass.), who has four children, ten grandchil-dren, and ten great-grandchildren, writes, "Tomy amazement, the library at Radcliffe hasasked that I give them the letters I wrote myfather and mother from Paris when I wasthere (1923-24) studying. I never expected tofind myself in anyone's archives, but there Ishall be!"

F. Van Epps Mitchell writes, "Sincemy wife's death last November, I have movedinto a new retirement residence in RedwoodCity, Cal., and find it very comfortable." Al-exander "Alec" Morgan (Atlanta, Ga.) listsdove hunting as his hobby. His grandson Ian isa freshman at Carlton IL, and granddaughterMarthame is a sophomore at Yale. Alec is adeacon at the First Presbyterian Church inAtlanta and a member of its property manage-ment committee. He recently spent five daysin the hospital with angina, but is now "doingok."

I may get to Reunion in June, dependingon transportation and physical ability to re-spond to the rigors of Reunion activity. I neednews from you members who are still young atheart and want to let your classmates knowyou are still alive, in the 1990s—as membersof the OLD, OLD, OLD generation—and stillbreathing. Lawrence M. Vaughan paid mea visit last year (see photo on facing page)proving himself such a member. D GeorgeA. West, Room 280, The Rochester FriendlyHome, Rochester, NY 14618.

MThe past nine months must havebeen joyous ones for JohnKartell and wife Sylvia(Muller) '23. Not just one, buttwo, of their grandchildren be-came third-generation Cornell

freshmen last fall: John Cattarulla, son ofElliot '53 and Karin Kartell Cattarulla'55; and Matthew Quint, son of MariKartell Quint '53. Then, in November,John had his successful month-long showingat the Kraushaar Galleries in New York City.Another classmate famed for his artistic pro-pensities, the late Albert Milliken, and wifePhyllis (Myer) '32 also have a third-genera-tion grandchild in this year's freshman class:Patricia Bruner, daughter of Ellis Bruner, MS '52. Still another '24 descendant is amember of this select group: David Nasjleti, grandson of classmate Edmund Roy,son of David Nasjleti, PhD '71. The Classof '24 has indeed provided for Cornell's futurein many ways.

The year 1989 was a sad year for Norm

Miller, who lost both his wife Audrey and hisbrother Ken, causing him to miss our 65th Re-union. Over the years, Norm has been one ofthe most faithful of our classmates, attendingall of our previous Reunions, practically all ofour mini-reunions in Florida, and in earlieryears, all of our class dinners at the CornellClub of New York. Happily, 1990 has foundhim "completely healthy." Keep it up, Norm!

Henry "Cotton" Givan, also a Pitts-burgher and very ardent classmate, com-ments that he "can hardly believe it was 69years ago last fall that we entered Cornell."Unfortunately, he too had to miss our 65th,then had a hip operation, but after two monthsin the hospital was "back home and recuperat-ing." Cotton isn't specific about the date, buthe says "I have been retired from EquitableGas Co. for a long time." D Max Schmitt,RR2, Box 2498, Brunswick, Me. 04011.

It was interesting to note in the April AlumniNews the names of three women classmatesappearing in columns other thanours—Dorothy Lamont in '18 for attendingthe Adult University (CAU) lectures; Mar-tha Kinne Palmer in '21 with husbandJames B. '21, as Plantation sponsors; andHortense Black Pratt in the column ofhusband Schuyler B. '25. Other classmembers will be making special news during1990 by celebrating wedding anniversaries of60 years or more: Fanny French Perrineand David '22, their 67th; MildredDeisler Wright and Forrest B. '22, PhD'33, 65th; Gwendolen Miller Dodge andS. Webster, 65th; Hortense Black Pratt andSchuyler, 62nd; Vera Dobert Spear andKenneth B. '23; Mary Johnson Aultand E. Stanley '21; Dorothea Johann-sen Crook and Mason N.; Edith KlenkeReinhard and Warren D. '22; MarionRoberts Joor and Samuel F.; KatherineCone Todd and John. If we have missedany, please let us hear from you.

Alice McCartney Holgate reports thatshe is "still breathing regularly" and is able toenjoy gardening and reading. Apparently shewas well enough in 1988 to travel to New YorkCity for a granddaughter's wedding, and toLas Vegas to celebrate a family birthday. Wehope her good health has continued.

The above indicates we are still an activeclass. D Gwendolen Miller Dodge, 230Shirley Dr., Charlestown, RI 02813.

Where's the best place to live inthe Northeast, when you want ablend of big city sophisticationand country calm? Ithaca wins,of course, hands down andthumbs up, according to the just

published Rating Guide to Life in America'sSmall Cities, by G. Scott Thomas (PrometheusBooks). The guide, which studied US citiesbetween 14,000 and 50,000, ranks Ithaca firstin the Northeast, and 23rd nationwide. Butwait, there's more. It ranked Ithaca firstamong all US cities studied for the best edu-cated population. During our senior year (1926Anno Domine) Vanity Fair Magazine statedthat Cornell was a mixture of yokels and harddrinkers. That was the year VF's editor'smother wore combat boots.

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moving about. We are in the process of buyingan apartment in a retirement condominium inCharlottesville, Va., where we lived for sever-al years before moving to Florida. It has turnedout to be quite a process. Construction haslagged. We put our house up for sale in De-cember, since Florida is seasonal in sales. Toour surprise, we sold promptly and had to finda place to live for the months before moving toVirginia. We did find a place, but had to storeour stuff for six months. An intriguing exer-cise trying to figure what you'll need in theway of clothes and other items for the next sixmonths." Beano says he'll let us know whenthey get to their new apartment, and the loca-tion of the doorbell, streetwise.

Our Memorable Celebration (our 65th,and Cornell's 125th): lots more later. Reuniondates are June 6 to June 9, inclusive, 1991.Add June 6 and 1991, and what dp you get?Answer next issue. A directory is plannedsoon, and our Cornell Fund Rep. is hoping for100 percent of the class to contribute to ourfund. D Stew Beecher, 106 CollingwoodDr., Rochester, NY 14621.

Phyllis "Phee" Bodler Dunning keeps busykeeping her three acres of woods cleared dur-ing the summer and refinishing furniture inthe winter, blessed with excess energy shefeels may be due partly to her four years of ac-tivity in the women's athletic programs.Grace Morris Campbell enjoyed a very nos-talgic trip back to New York State last sum-mer, including a return to her home town ofLockport, visits to relatives in Niagara Falls, asister in Ithaca, and the campus, and thenback home to Savannah, Ga.

Dorothy Burnett Townsend spent twoweeks in England last July. She keeps busywith church work, Cazenovia Public Libraryboard, and the League of Women Voters.Helen Bull Vandervort and John -23 en-joyed a family reunion in celebration of John's90th birthday. To John—many happy returns!Their granddaughter Amy graduated fromWilliam Smith College in Geneva and is nowworking for the Cornell Athletic Dept. Helenwould welcome any suggestions for our 1991Reunion.

Charlotte Beach Owens is in the pro-cess of moving to Newberry, Vt, where one ofher daughters, Dianna, lives. She says if andwhen it gets too cold, she can always get warmin Portugal. Dorothy Lampe Hill is proudof our class response to the Cornell Fund in1989 and is counting on us for the 1990 drive.

A few classmates who have sent greet-ings—Ruth Carlson Frankel, KittyWhitehill Fischer, Adelaide RomaineKinkele, Alice Hagedorn Silverman, RuthPurdy Hewitt, Agnes Lester Wade. Moreto follow. D Billie Burtis Scanlan, WoodRiver Village, M202, Bensalem, Pa. 19020.

^^^• More than 25 classmates en-jfm f joyed the annual class luncheon

M m at Le Pyrenees restaurant inM m New York City last May 1.

f M Gary Wood '64, one of theB i m Big Red's all-time leading quar-terbacks, held an attentive audience spell-bound as he recounted his inner feelings andthe psychological and physical challenges in-herent in making the transition from intercol-legiate football to the gruelling professional-

Lawrence M. Vaughan '23 settles infor a good visit with his class corre-spondent.

ism of the New York Giants. Gary, along withPete Gogolak '64, the great place kickerwho first introduced into American footballthe soccer-stroke kick he had mastered in hisnative Hungary, were both considered by theexperts to be the outstanding acquisitions ofthe year when upon graduation they relin-quished their amateur status.

Class President Judge Ray Reisler, whotook time off from the bench to preside, lookedfit as the proverbial fiddle after a two months'sojourn in California. Ray and wife Harrietspent the first month in lush San FernandoValley with their daughter (a gerontologist),their son (a foundation executive), and theirgrandchildren, who apparently showeredthem with such enthusiastic attention thatthey spent the second month in the desertrefuge of posh Palm Springs. Fortunately,Class Secretary Al Cowan had returnedfrom his peripatetic globe-trotting in ampletime to send out notices of the meeting, princi-pally to residents of New York, New Jersey,and Pennsylvania. Al (who during his under-graduate days relished the unusual combina-tion of headlocks on the varsity wrestlingteam with verbal jabs on the varsity debatingteam), when not lawyering nowadays in Man-hattan, travels extensively: during the firstquarter of this year alone, he has journeyedsouth to Argentina and Brazil, west to Hawaii,and east to Sicily, where he attended an Elder-hostel, at which, he says, the lively discussions"kept the brain busy," surely rememberingChaucer's lines, "Nowhere so busy a man ashe there was/And yet he seemed busier thanhe was." D Charles L. Kades, PO Box130, Heath, Mass. 01346.

A letter from Anne Makuc, CarmenSchneider Savage's niece and the mother ofJohn '85 and Jim Makuc '87, our one-time scholarship holders, and a telephone callfrom Barney Savage Jr,, brought the sad newsthat Carmen's daughter Sue Savage Bartel-

man '55 died on March 5, 1990. Sue went toCornell for two years and graduated fromNorthwestern in 1955. On the brighter side,Anne reported that John, after working forfive years, has been accepted at Tufts for vet-erinary medicine, while Jim is a chemical engi-neer.

Fran Hankinson, despite two morebad falls, was still able to fly to Arizona inMarch to visit her niece and brother after un-answered telephone calls to HildegardeWhitaker Tanno. "I finally learned that Highad broken her right hip (it was the left onelast year) but was doing well ... I shall visither." Margaret Plunkett was contemplat-ing a trip to Buffalo for a family wedding, but,she wrote, "Making arrangements are toughas my leg (for which she takes constant thera-py) deteriorates daily."

Ginny Van Slyke continues steady im-provement of her broken hip. She is happy tobe able to live in her own home with the help offamily and friends. Norma Ross Winfreeand Tom plan to arrive at their summer homeon Lake Ontario on June 4, unpack, preparefor the mini-reunion, and arrive in Ithaca June7. More about this in the July newsletter aswell as further interesting items on the "Sagebathtub" pool. D Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

N our President, LeeForker, and our vice president,Ira Degenhardt, were at theUniversity Council meeting inIthaca. The new building iswinding down and soon, at least

before our 65th, the campus should be back toits usual beautiful condition with the turfcovering the building scars, including the newlibrary addition which will be completelyunderground. Deggie had a long trip and Ihear he enjoyed it. Our treasurer, Ted Adler,and I were at the January Assn. of Class Of-ficers (CACO) meeting in New York City. Thebest part of the meeting was a talk by Univer-sity Librarian Alain Seznec. The UniversityLibraries are among the ten largest in theworld, with one of the most modern computer-ized catalogues around. The statistics aremind-boggling; one of the most pressing prob-lems is that paper of some of the books andmagazines is crumbling to dust. In the medicalmagazines the glossy paper on which the adsare printed does not turn to dust, so in 50 yearsscholars will think that fancy color ads werethe only thing in medical journals. What to do?This is one of the stimulating thoughts givenus by Librarian Seznec. We also heard about anew system the university is adopting forhandling alumni dues, so the classes will nothave to have accounts at commercial banks.We will substitute accounts at the universitywhere we can do everything we used to do atcommercial banks, get higher interest, andcompletely avoid any question about the inter-est being tax exempt. Our class has never had


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this problem, as Ted had things set up so thatall of our interest is tax exempt. Eventuallyyour dues checks and Reunion checks will allbe deposited in our account with the universi-ty; the checks should still come directly to ourclass officer, including the dues checks to Ted,who will deposit them in the university ac-count. If you have not already sent in yourdues check, now is the time to do it. D LouFreidenberg, 200 E. 57th St., NYC 10022.

Thanks to all who wrote notes when sendingin dues; Ruth Lyon relayed them to me.Gwendoline L. Reid was just back from adelightful trip to Arizona and Californiavisiting relatives. Snow in Minnesota whenshe returned, but they needed the moisture.Her correct street number is 1020 E. 17th St.Helen Griffin Lapp (Mrs. R. G.) keeps busywith Meals on Wheels, day care, and writing aquarterly letter for the church school.

Margaret Humeston Rogers (Mrs.James II) hasn't been back to Reunion sinceshe left to be married. A widow now, she isabout to give up her eight-room house andmove into a four-room apartment. Her advice,"Don't be a packrat." Aren't we all? Her newaddress will be 2F Queensbury Gardens,Queensbury, NY.

A letter from Eleanor Bretsch Burden(Mrs. H. W.) tells of stopping on the way backfrom a trip to Cape Cod last fall to find outabout Miriam Crego Becker (Mrs. GeorgeM.). At that time a niece told Eleanor that Mir-iam was in a nursing home very ill with can-cer, too ill for company. The niece called theday before Thanksgiving to say Miriam haddied that morning. Miriam and Emily Duntzwere the first people I met when I arrived atCornell. I insisted that we walk around cam-pus and learn the names of the buildings in-stead of moping in our rooms.

Eleanor's daughter works in public rela-tions for NYSEG in Elmira and checks on hermother frequently. Her son is with the FederalHighway Commission in Washington, DC. El-eanor has two granddaughters and one grand-son. D Rachel A. Merritt, 1306 HanshawRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Marvin B. Freeman writesbriefly from Los Angeles and ar-dently claims golf to be his parti-cular hobby. Recent travel toFrance and England combinedbusiness and pleasure. Marvin

has served as a consultant on road buildingmachinery and acted as an official in a divisionof Allis Chalmers Corp. His wife Louise has aninterest in art and poetry. He enjoys MusicCenter, Hollywood Bowl, and Fellows of Con-temporary Art.

Huntington "Hunt" Sharp sends anice bit of news from Iowa City, Iowa. Huntand wife Helen have son Huntington D., whois a successful businessman in California, anddaughter Elizabeth, who attended U. of Illi-nois, and grandchildren attending various uni-versities. Hunt retired in 1971, and he andHelen toured North America in a travel trail-er. They were in Alaska in 1976 and tookmany color slides. They presented color sjideshows to churches, schools, hospitals, and oth-er audiences across the country. Subjectswere wild animals, flowers, forests, birds,shorelines, mountains, and the like. Hunt fin-

ishes his news account with this statement: "Iwant to express my heartfelt thanks and ad-miration for [the late] Meyer 'Mike'Bender—a loyal, hard working, andthoughtful guy." Well said, Hunt; we allagree. D Albert W. Hostek, PO Box 2307,Setauket, NY 117633.

Rosalie Cohen Gay and husband Erniemaintain a lovely little home in E. Hartford,Conn., where Ernie is careful to prune theshrubs and keep the bird feeder full. He worksfor Aetna Life Insurance Co. Rosalie is verygenerous in sharing her talents with her com-munity. Last winter she helped plan a benefitBobby Kaye Big Band concert, and she alsosang at the Avery Church Homes. Her selec-tions included "Rosalie" and "Stopping by theWoods on a Snowy Evening."

Your correspondent took time off to go onan Adult University (CAU) trip to Sapelo Is-land off the coast of Georgia the first week inApril. It was a fascinating on-the-spot study ofthe natural world of the island, with Dr. How-ard Evans and wife Erica as our leaders.Among other things, Howard was a professor-at-large of biological science at Cornell, and in1973 he and Erica lived on Sapelo Island whilehe studied the anatomy of the spotted seatrout. They have led many CAU tours andmake the trip most enjoyable.

While studying the birds, animals, fish,and shellfish of the island, we had the pleasureof staying in the huge mansion of R. J. Rey-nolds, whose widow sold the island and themansion to the State of Georgia as a Richard J.Reynolds Wildlife Refuge. The mansion is theheadquarters of visiting groups such as ours.

It was not only a fascinating experiencefrom the point of view of a nature lover, butgreat fun to meet Cornellians from otherclasses and their friends. D Charlotte KolbRuney, West Hill Rd., RD3 Delv. 28, Elmira,NY 14903.

t With our "Sensational 60th" com-ing up, we might try to locatesome of our classmates for whom

I the university's computer showsI only "Bad Address." They are not™ getting the Alumni New sand class

letters, so unless they are already on the"Worst Address" list (deceased) we want tostart letting them know about the Reunionnext June. On the following list, to help youidentify the individual I have shown the origi-nal home town, the college, and some affilia-tion or activity as reported in the 1931 Cornel-lian. If you have a lead on any of these men letme know at once.

Nelson J. Bell, Dayton, Ohio, Arts,Scorpion; William A. Breedlove, Zionville,Ind., Ag, Phi Gamma Delta; Stanley I.Brooke, Brooklyn, Ag, Beta Sigma Rho,football, lacrosse; Henry M. Clark, Eccles-ton, Md., Ag, Sigma Phi; Stephen Cooley,Trenton, NJ, Arts, Zeta Psi; Millard B.Cross, Eutawville, SC, CE, Zodiac; WilsonD. Curry, Elmhurst, NY, Arts; Jack A.Borland, West Orange, NJ, Arts, Cornellianboard; Lyle G. Durham, Cony, Pa., Hotel;Russell K. Franz, Stockbridge, Mass.,Arts; Adolf Furrer, Ozone Park, NY,Cosmopolitan Club; Leo Levine, Brooklyn,Arch., Gargoyle; Wilbur K. Parker,Baltimore, Md., ME, Zodiac; Stuart D.

Paterson, Rochester, NY, EE, Pi KappaPhi; Dr. Julius Y. Pomeranze, Beacon,NY, Arts, Phi Sigma Delta; Thomas H.Powers, Mount Morris, NY, EE, Theta Xi;William C. Redding, New Rochelle, NY,CE, Alpha Tau Omega, hockey; Dr. EdwinR. Sammet, Elmira, NY, Arts, Phi SigmaDelta; Stanley B. Schreuder, Edgewood,Pa., Arts, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sphinx Head,basketball; Arthur R. Tobin, Chicago, ME,Alpha Tau Omega; Dr. Albert Tomasulo,NYC, Arts, Theta Kappa Phi; Warren S.Wright, Mamaroneck, NY, Arts, Phi KappaPsi. D William M. Vanneman, 174 ShoreRd., Box 234, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870.

As noted by Bill Vanneman (above) we aretrying to locate our classmates for whom theuniversity has no valid address. If you can helpus on any of the following, please let Bill know.

Cecelia Aust Andrews, Otto, NY,Home EC, Alpha Xi Delta; Mary ElizabethArmstrong, Whitestone, NY, Arts, SigmaKappa; Gertrude Griffith Bayer, Buffalo,NY, Home EC, Kappa Delta; Mary NorthBostwick, Perry, NY, Arts; Elizabeth FryCaldwell, NYC, Arts, Phi Beta Kappa; Ros-anna Crow Harrah, Marion, Ohio, Arts,Kappa Alpha Theta; Hilda W. Havens,Wormleysburg, Pa., Arts; Barbara CollyerKachmar, Forest Hills, NY, Arts, Alpha Phi,Raven & Serpent, Sun Board; Margaret L.Leidig, Waverly, NY, Arts; Priscilla KingMeachem, Chenango Forks, NY, Home EC,Phi Kappa Phi; Sara Mende Richards, Al-bany, NY, Home EC; Jeanne H. Simon,NYC, Arts, Alpha Epsilon Phi; DorothyFoley Steele, Sodus, NY, Home EC, Pi BetaPhi, Omicron Nu; Sylvia Harman Taub,Brooklyn, NY, Arts; Ruth Umlauf Walker,Kulpmont, Pa., Arts, Kappa Delta; Sara A.Welch, Ithaca, NY, Ag. D Helen NuffortSaunders, 1 Kensington Terr., Maplewood,NJ 07040.

L< Herbert Allcorn, a NorthCarolina resident, was kept busylast summer cleaning up afterthe tornado of May 6. He lostabout 15 trees on his property,one landing on his garage and

two on his house. He continues: "Then whilewe were up north, Hugo struck and felled fourmore trees (not on any buildings, however).All in all this has not been one of the betteryears!" In amelioration, he enjoyed his trip toQuebec, the Gaspe, and Prince EdwardIsland.

Our classmates are becoming writers of Let-ters to the Editor. A recent letter in thismagazine expressed John A. Bullock'sperplexity (perhaps "chagrin" would be amore suitable word) at being required to pay atoll to take his car on campus. I can assureJack that the university relaxes this rule dur-ing Reunion, so he should plan to join us in '92.Then Ben Falk chided the editor for lack ofnews concerning athletics (Ben was anoarsman, y'know) and the editor explained itall, to my satisfaction, at least, as having to dowith timing. And finally, Robert E.Newman wrote a letter that appeared in theMarch 1990 issue of this magazine. The urgeto communicate is becoming epidemic.

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of course, their news has appeared in MarthaTravis Houck's column. Be that as it may,we'd like a few first-hand items from Twig.Donald C. Nichols, widowed in 1988 (hislate wife was Jean Rosbrook '31), is busyoverseeing the running of the farm, keepinghouse and riding herd on five daughters, oneson, their children, and their children'schildren.

Stanley E. Oren says that after 55 yearsof marriage, 20 of retirement, four children, andnine grandchildren, "it has turned out to be agood life." Stan has at various times served BoyScouts, local school board, Red Cross, andchurch. One of his hobbies is genealogy. Theonly negative observations: "In spite of ailinglegs and assorted ailments, I try to improve mygolf game. However, my wife can still beat me,as well as a good Cornellian from the Class of'23." D James W. Oppenheimer, 140 Cha-pin Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14209.

The private, non-profit village in Georgia whichElisabeth Jones Berry and Maxwell '31,MD '35 founded, and which is home for morethan 100 mentally handicapped adults, has avery high rating while maintaining minimumtuition costs, as significant donations are re-ceived regularly. Anyone interested in furtherinformation may contact Betty and Maxwell,now living at 1 Magnolia Point, Panama CityBeach, Fla., where they would love havingvisits from friends. Their eight grandchildrenare "all out of the nest." One, Kim Berry,Grad is working toward a PhD in anthropolo-gy. The Maxwells have a beautiful great-grand-daughter Heather Marie.

Katherine Rogers Hodges had an ex-ceptionally good garden in Vermont last sum-mer—the best tomatoes she ever raised, love-ly big squash, and beautiful flowers. Back inBronxville for the winter, she enjoys thebranch meetings of the OAWU near her and amonthly literature group. Son DavidHodges '59 chairs the engineering and com-puter science department at UC, Berkeley,Cal.; daughter Caroline, with twins in college,chairs the sociology department at New YorkU.; and daughter Nancy is a clinical psycholo-gist at the State Hospital at St. Peter, Minn.

Hildegard Schloh Feick is glad sonKurt lives near enough to take care of theirgrounds and pond. Hiccy says: "Our mindsare willing but our bodies can't take it. Butwe're still hanging in there." I'm sure many ofus echo these words. D Martha TravisHouck, PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

Wonderful news from Elinor(Tolins) '32 and Paul Laza-rus for 1990. Upon completionof his teaching chores in Aprilthey planned to take a triparound the world—London,

Egypt, Singapore, Bali, Taiwan, Hawaii, andfinally back to Los Angeles. An important spe-cial feature of the trip—they will be travelingfirst class all the way: Paul added, "Someonetold us that if we didn't fly first class, ourchildren would: so by a vote of 2-0, we decidedto do it ourselves." We look forward to a futuredetailed report.

And there is more travel news from Judyand Bill Neff. They enjoyed a 16-day vaca-tion cruise on the Royal Princess in the Medi-terranean and Black Seas with ten ports of

call, including Naples, Istanbul, Yalta, Ath-ens, and Venice. Saw the battleship Iowa in theharbor at Istanbul. They were overwhelmedby the beauty and grandeur of the Blue Mos-que. Bill proudly reported he managed toclimb to the top of the Acropolis, gimpy legsnotwithstanding. After the trip it was back to"Lean Cuisine" to return to fighting trim forour next Reunion.

Donald Russell still enjoys bowling andgolf. He and wife Odette plan to celebratetheir 50th anniversary on August 17. SonsDon and Dave are planning a party at theBrook-Lea Country Club in Rochester. Con-gratulations and best wishes.

Last fall Barbara (Crandall) '36 andFrederic Garrett enjoyed the Adult Univer-sity (CAU) trip to Australia, from Tasmania tothe Great Barrier Reef. Carl Richmondwrites, "Hanging in there for 1993." Swim-ming, church work, and activities at the clubhouse keep Margaret Schillke Williamsbusy and enjoying life in Englewood Fla. Sum-mers she enjoys driving north for family visitsin Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, NY.Last February plans called for a ten-day cruiseto Venezuela and the Caribbean Islands. As a fi-nal bit of news, she added—"By the way, I nowhave three great-grandchildren."

The African safari taken by Helen Belding Smith and Henry '36 was a truly mem-orable experience. The extensive game parksin Kenya and Tanzania have great aggrega-tions of animals and birds, but dwindlingherds of elephants and rhinos. Helen urges ac-tive support of African Wildlife Funds. Thispast year was an active period for IsabelGuthrie Russell and Donald '32. In Janu-ary they sailed out of Fort Lauderdale aboardthe MS Rotterdam to the Eastern Caribbean,and later traveled on the Nieuw Amsterdamfrom Tampa to the Western Caribbean. InJune they spent several days with MaryKing Crooker at her cottage on Cayuga Lake.Their third great-grandchild was born in Oc-tober, and they returned to Virginia forChristmas and a visit with Katherine LongBobbitt. A very busy year.

Dues but no news from Evelyn Char-ney Stein, Eleanor Bradley Tunison, Dr.Jacob Matis, William Stevenson Jr.,Herbert Blau, Ruth Vanderbilt, Co-rinne Edgerly Bucknam, Dr. WilliamPaff, Mildred Coats Bassett, HermannRahn, and Bertram Brooks. Others willbe listed in future issues. Add some currentnews—next time or sooner. Thanks!

It is with great sadness that I inform youof the death of Willard S. Magalhaes, ourclass vice president, on March 28, 1990 inHouston, Texas after a short illness. Bill was aloyal and always active member of the Class of'33 and will be sorely missed by his manyfriends. Our most sincere sympathy to hisfamily. D Garrett V. S. Ryerson Jr., 1700Lehigh Rd., Wantagh, NY 11793.

M To borrow from my colleagueLucy Belle Boldt Shull, whoopened her '34 women's columnin the April issue with an inter-esting paragraph and a few sta-tistics, I would like to do the

same. As of mid-April when this column is be-ing written, 174 members have paid their duesfor the current fiscal year, but only 67 in-

cluded any news, and to them I convey mygrateful thanks. But as Lucy wrote, I find itdifficult to believe that nothing of some inter-est happened to the other 107 duespayers. Weare very happy you paid your dues to maintainthe financial integrity of our class but you allhave classmates who wish to hear about you,to be in touch with you, and I ask each of youto send an update in care of the address at theend of this column.

It was great fun to see Tom Haire backat our 55th Reunion. He sold his business inNew York City and retired to Little Compton,RI, where he is currently recovering fromthroat cancer treatments which involve dailytrips to Boston for radiation. Our best wishesto you, Tom, for a complete recovery soon.

As a result of their performances in theNational Masters Ski Championships in 1988and 1989, Max Dercum and wife Edna (Dil-lon, Colo.) were named members of the 1990US Ski Assn. Masters Ski Team. Edna wonthe 1989 International Masters Cup in herclass (70 to 74) and the US Championships.Max was third in the International MastersCup in 1989 (he won the Cup in 1988) but wonthe "Triple Combined" trophy in the US Na-tionals with a first in the giant slalom, and asecond in both the slalom and the downhill.The three 1990 European races were canceled(no snow), but Max and Edna were to racefour Internationals at Loon Mt., NH, and theUS Masters Championships at Sugarloaf inMaine.

A freak, unexplainable accident whilehiking in the Utah mountains in August 1989,resulting in three fractures of his lower rightleg, will keep Karl Schmidt (Dallas, Texas)from skiing in his llth Mountain Reunion thisyear (he skied with Max Dercum in the 10thReunion at Keystone, Colo, in 1989), but aftersix months in various casts, Karl is now learn-ing to walk again and expected to be up for amonth's trip with wife Jeanne to Germany,Austria, and Hungary in May-June, includingattendance at the Passion Play in Oberammer-gau. The mountains still beckon but this Julyand August, it will be a motor trip to the Te-tons, Yellowstone, and Glacier Park beforeKarl and Jeanne return back home.

Dr. Duane Gibson's ''roots are stilldown" in Okemos, Mich., on the outskirts ofMichigan State U. where he settled in 1938 af-ter eight years at Cornell. Although he retiredten years ago, MSU continues to provide himan office as a base for his service on the boardsof several area social agencies. Duane alsocontinues to be active as the archivist of theCommunity Development Society, a nationalorganization of which he was a founding mem-ber 21 years ago and president in 1975-76.

It is with much sadness that I report thedeaths of four classmates' wives. On behalf ofour class, we convey our deepest sympathy toSaul Cohen, Gary, Ind., whose wife Alvinapassed away on Dec. 30, 1988; Bob Frost,Plattsburg, NY, whose wife died in May 1989;


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Ed McCabe, Stamford, Conn., whose wifeEthel died in October 1989; and JohnBrownrigg, Feura Bush, NY, whose wifeIda (Aplin) '33 died Jan. 5, '90. D HiltonJayne, Carter Point, Sedgwick, Me. 04676.

The class sincerely thanks the 11 women whooverpaid their dues to swell our class fund.

The alumni office has notified me that So-phia Press died in February 1989 with noknown survivors. Beatrice ChristmanBruner died Feb. 21, '90, survived by herhusband Dorsey W., PhD '33, DVM '37,40 Horizon Dr., Ithaca. Georgianna Robin-son Walker wrote that husband MarshallJ. '33 died Oct. 29, '89 after a long illness.Her address is Star Rte., Chaplin, Conn. SonRobert S. '61, MD '68 is practicingobstetrics and gynecology in Blue Hill, Me.,and daughter Dorothy Ducharme is apediatric nurse at a local hospital. Georgieretired some years ago from the Dept. ofNutritional Sciences, where she worked in theresearch laboratory at the U. of Connecticut.Marshall was emeritus professor of physics.

Elsie Starks Shreeve and husbandCharles continued touring the US and visitedArkansas and Oklahoma, two of three statesmissed on a 3,900-mile trip; Alaska must wait.They spent the rest of the summer at OceanCity, Md. where they enjoyed a week's visitwith Charles's two brothers and all their pro-geny. The visitors all rented nearby condos.One evening all went out to dinner; grandpar-ents to one restaurant, childrea to another,and grandchildren, who are all 16-20 in age,chose pizza. Elsie and Charles will celebratetheir 50th this summer.

Hazel Smith Bloomer and Rundle,Carmel Ave., Brewster, NY continue caravan-ning. Since Reunion they have visited Minne-apolis, Bozeman, Mont., San Francisco, Ver-mont and New Hampshire during fall foliagetime, and Florida for the winter, where theysaw Betty Bell Powell. They returned toIthaca for the dedication of the new AlumniAuditorium on the Ag campus last fall. The in-dividual dedication of all seats in its auditor-ium was achieved by the many alumni contrib-uting. D Lucy Belle Boldt Shull, 3229 S.Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota, Fla. 34239.

One of the nice things about Cor-nell is the availability of theAdult University (CAU), and wealwavs seem to have a few class-mates going on the programs.During the past year William

Huckle and wife Eleanor attended the CapeCod program; Marshall S. Eldridge took aweekend seminar on Latin America; andReinald Werrenrath, with Elizabeth, tookthe Australia program. They found all the pro-grams very interesting and enjoyed them.

Wallace W. Lee Jr., Timber Trails,Box 300, Sherman, Conn., states that theyhave been wintering in Florida at 1055 Ken-sington Park Dr., Apt. 404, AltamonteSprings, from December to May, but continueto prefer Connecticut in the spring, summer,and fall. Since his retirement in 1980 his onlyhotel industry activity has been serving on theboard of Similey Brothers Inc., owners andoperators for 115 years of Mohonk MountainHouse, New Paltz, NY. Don Woodworth'57 is president and chief executive officer,

doing a superior job for the past two years andvery much appreciated by the staff, family,and guests. Also on the board is Ben Matte-son '43. When driving south, Wallace stopsat Fripp Island for a visit with sister Florenceand her husband Edwin Merwin. Wallacesends his regards to all.

Paul W. Van Nest, 5 Renfro Rd., Som-erset, NJ and his wife are very proud of grand-son Paul V. Braun '93, who is in the Col-lege of Engineering. They have been up twiceto see him this past year and have enjoyed see-ing the new look of the campus and the entirearea. They are both excited about the 55th in1991 and look forward to this fine Reunion ofours.

Paul Deutschman, Coburn Rd. Rte. 3,Sherman, Conn, is still writing and his newbook will be finished within the year. He is stillworking with wife Regina Ryan's book pack-aging company, and still trying to live in bothNew York City and Sherman. Their major oc-cupation is still digging up rocks on the Con-necticut hillsides. They still run the JewishAwareness Group in NY, which is getting big-ger and more exciting for all concerned. He isstill in good health except he can't get that oldarthritic arm up for that once-reliable tennisserve of his. They took off this past year for areunion in the deepest Ozarks with his WorldWar II outfit, the 319th Bomb Group. It hasbeen 45 years since he saw many of his bud-dies of the group. A very interesting itemabout his trip to Gabon was that he was bittenon the rear end by a gorilla and he will tell usabout that at the 55th. He looks forward toseeing the many changes, as he has not beenback since 1939. Hope you will make it, Paul,and we look forward to seeing you again.

Jerome Sherk, 3401 N. Country ClubDr., Apt. 702, N. Miami, Fla. traveled to Alas-ka and Hawaii this past year. Volunteer workin literacy programs and with "at risk" chil-dren in middle schools has been keeping himbusy. Franklin F. Karn, RR3, 110 ClarkLane, Spearfish, SD, and wife Lois spent fourweeks last year with a group experiencing In-dia. It was a very different type of trip to avery ancient and different country. D Col.Edmund R. MacVittie (AUS, ret.), 10130Forrester Dr., Sun City, Ariz. 85351.

The latest undertaking of Elizabeth Fes-senden Washburn is serving as NY Stateconservation chair for the DAR. With her ex-perience and background, Fessy is certainly anatural for the job. In a long overlooked replyfrom G. Ethelwynne North Gibson, sherecalled living in the Forest Home and BeebeLake area. Husband Duane '34 lived at theInn his first two years at Cornell, and"Wynne" lived there one year working forroom and board. At that time the Inn wasowned by the late Jean Kilkenny Mott'sparents, who employed Jean and several otherstudents to wait on table. Wynne wrote thatthey wore down the paths on both sides ofBeebe racing to get to class. In a more recentcommunication Wynne told about healthproblems they were then, unfortunately, cop-ing with. However, before that they'd beendoing some traveling to Florida, to the Easttwice, and also to St. Louis.

Last June Vivian Bartheld DeBrito andEdward had an interesting trip to northernFrance to observe ceremonies commemorat-

ing the Normandy invasion. They visitedOmaha Beach where Ed landed on D-day plusseven, St. Lo, and Mt. St. Michel, as well asthe square in front of Notre Dame, where Ed'scompany slept on the paving stones. Aftersome time in Paris, they visited the chateauxand gardens along the Loire as well asMonet's garden at Giverney. It must havebeen exciting for Barbara Crandall Gar-rett and Frederic '33 to be on the AdultUniversity (CAU) trip in early Novemberwhich explored Australia from Tasmania tothe Great Barrier Reef, under the expert guid-ance of Professor Emeritus John M. and Lou-ise Gerken Kingsbury '57.

Our sympathy to these classmates whohave, after more than 50 years of marriage,lost their husbands: Elizabeth Tierney Na-tion, whose Bill died of Alzheimer's in May1989; Hannah Asai Culver, whose hus-band Andrew '35 died in March 1988; andMarjorie Webb Edgerton, whose husbandDick died in March 1990. D Mary EmilyWilkins Lytle, 119 Bedford Ave., Buffalo,NY 14216.

Jeanne Paquette Clark re-turned in September from her^h tr*p to China- It was tne

third delegation that she hasheaded of speech-languagepathologists and audiologists

participating in professional exchanges on com-municative disorders. They were more thanwarmly received by medical personnel in hospi-tals and universities and by faculty in anoral/aural preschool for deaf children which hadopened shortly after her first visit in 1984. Theywere told they were the first professional ex-change group that had been seen since thetragic events of last summer. Jeanne's son, apsychotherapist, was with the group—fun forher, welcomed by the Chinese, and a reassuringpresence within their delegation.

Pauline Messinger Clark has broughtus up to date on her doings and her family. Sheis active in AAUW, does volunteer work,plays bridge, and organized the first CornellWomen's Club in Lehigh Valley, Pa. Paulinehas a daughter and a son, one granddaughter,and two grandsons. The boys are 15 and 11,sons of her son. Her granddaughter, LaurieYeisly, was graduated summa cum laude fromMoravian College with a BA in clinical psy-chology. She has since earned a master ofdivinity degree at Eastern Baptist Seminaryand is working on a masters in Christianeducation at Southern Seminary in Louisville,Ky. She is youth pastor at Suburban ChristianChurch and will be ordained shortly.

A correction is to be made to the last col-umn. Dorothy (Shaw) and Richard L.Jones '35 have two sons and four grandchil-dren. Inadvertently, I left out ''grand" whenmentioning the number of grandchildren.

It is with sadness that I report the death ofAdelaide Elizabeth Briggs on March 11,'90. Our sympathy is expressed to her brother,Lynton I. Briggs '39. D Mary M.Weimer, 200 E. Dewart St., Shamokin, Pa.17872.

Two of Lawrence A. Christ ensen's threesons are following in his footsteps as engi-neers and both were Cornell oarsmen.Charles '67 was in the lightweight crew that


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won at the Henley, and Norman '73, thecommodore of his heavyweight boat. Chrisand Grace also have two daughters and 12grandchildren.

Sidney and Doris Meisel returned froma Hawaii visit last May to be welcomed by twonew grandchildren, bringing the total to 11.Under "your work" on the News & Dues formSid writes an enigmatic "no change yet-maybe soon." Retirement? Dramatic changesin the paper business? Keep us posted, Sid.

If you need to consult lawyer and retiredjudge Joseph W. Cribb, visit his Canandai-gua office in the afternoons, because in themornings he's at his carriage house with hishorses. Joe raises, trains, drives, and showsMorgan horses, as he did for a week at the1989 NY State Morgan Horse Show in Syra-cuse. With the Carriage Assn. of America, Joevisited Poland last year. Joe's lifetimesidekick Bernard Shenkman is back inNaples, Fla., recovering from the summer'sfestivities at their Canandaigua Lake home,which Bernie and Henrietta shared with eightchildren and grandchildren, one foreign ex-change student from Germany, and two dogs!It must seem blessedly relaxing and peacefulout on the golf course these days.

Albert W. and Marion Eagan Hart-man spend summers in beautiful Aspen,Colo., and winters in the Caribbean. Baldy en-joys gardening when at home in Mansfield,Ohio, and fly fishing whenever he's near apromising stream. The three Hartman sonsinclude Kay E. '66. Richard Steele's artistic hobbies include sculpture, drawing, andpainting when he's not playing golf or tennis inGreensboro, NC, or, in the winter, at Boca Ra-ton, Fla. Richard and Joan have three childrenand five grandchildren. Herb Raisler andDick Kaltenbacher '36 are close by inFlorida. Π Robert A. Rosevear, 2714Saratoga Rd. N., DeLand, Fla. 32720.

Our fearless president HarryMartien survived a painful un-scheduled feature of a trip toGeorgia, Hilton Head, and Flori-da; a fall "wrecked" one knee,necessitating surgery and a cast

for several weeks, including lots of "fun" forwife Barb on the trip home; but Harry's backtugging at the class reins. Bill Miller's trav-els have included Spain, Dominican Republic,France, and England; he's retired for the sec-ond time and now does occasional consulting.

' Wes Franklin, after a Walter Reed hos-pital trip for surgery, is back sharing with wifeBobbie their work for many years of invest-ment-advising. Phil and Elsie HughesWolff '39 were in a group that spent a monthvisiting Eastern European bloc countries, in-cluding East Berlin, just prior to the "fall ofthe wall," so that once home they had the ex-citement of seeing points of interest they'd ex-perienced being featured in the TV news; theywintered in San Diego and report not missingthe ice and cold of the Adirondacks one bit.

John and Libby Sly had a two-weekMediterranean/Black Sea cruise on the RoyalPrincess after a brief visit to London; othertrips Ve been to visit children in Seattle andMaryland. Big recent event for the DavidRussells was the wedding of daughter Shar-on, an executive buyer for Sibley's in Roches-ter, NY.

Carl and Helene Irish Johnston havemoved from Glendale, Cal. to Palm Springs"to escape the traffic, smog, and hectic natureof life in the Los Angeles metropolitan area."(New address: 7562 Regency Dr., PalmSprings, Cal. 92264.) Carl's continuing as apart-time consultant in waste water manage-ment and hazardous materials for JacobsEngineering in Pasadena, and announces hisgoals as "swim three times a day; function asvice president of homeowners' association,and learn to play trombone to participate inDixieland jazz." When not thusly occupied,he's helping a campaign to restore the PhiGamma Delta house on campus and urgesCornell "Fijis" of all the '30s classes to sendhim newsy tidbits for a fraternity newsletter.Besides which, "Anyone wishing to enjoy thePalm Springs way of life for one delightfulweek, ask me about our Palm Springs TennisClub time-share vacation for two." D FredHillegas, 7625 E. Camelback Rd., #220-A,Scottsdale, Ariz. 85251.

Recent notes from Fran (Otto) and JimCooper tell of plenty of activity in their familycircle. Two children celebrated their 25thwedding anniversaries, and two great-grand-daughters made their appearance last fall.Their daughter Judy was elected to the Weth-ersfield, Conn, town council with the secondhighest number of votes for the winning party.One grandson works for Multinational Com-puters at the NY Trade Center, while anothergraduated from the U. of Vermont. Still anoth-er is majoring in architecture at Pratt Inst.,while a fourth is in pre-med at Vermont. Franand Jim had a recent visit with Vera FordBiehl while in Florida.

Gertrude Johnson Thomas now hastwo sons living in Phoenix, with other childrenspread across the country, so family visits en-tail much travel; there are five grandchildren.Priscilla Stevens Stringham and Dick'37 celebrated their 50th anniversary withtheir three sons and their families, as didJulie (Robb) and Paul Newman, PhD'37, who sent a wonderful picture of the origi-nal party members taken "50 years later." Re-cently the Newman-Robb clans establishedthe "Georgia G.-Byron B. Robb Ίl Schol-arship Fund" in Ag. Engineering to honor fourgenerations of close family ties to Cornell. DHelen Reichert Chadwick, 225 N. 2nd St.,Lewiston, NY 14092.

Some dates for you to thinkabout: the men of '39 are organ-izing a cocktail party and dinnerafter the Homecoming game thisfall for the whole Class of '39,and discussing plans for a mini-

reunion during Reunion Weekend in 1991.Forewarned is forearmed—mark your calen-dar . . . especially, perhaps, those of you whoso regretted missing our wonderful 50th.

From Bryn Mawr College's Alumni Neu>s:Mable Lang, Greek and Latin emeritus pro-fessor, received an honorary doctorate of hu-mane letters from Hamilton College. Dr. Langis a native of Utica, NY. From Jean PettitLentz: "We sold our home and moved acrossthe street to a condo. Less work for me nowthat my roommate had a stroke. I was de-lighted with the news packet from Reunion.Thank you! My daughter Janice opened a gor-

geous one-woman show at Madison-90 Gal-lery in New York City November 13—somepaintings she did in Lady Lancaster's gardenin Oxford, England."

Sally Splain Serbell: "I have been afriend of Fort Hunter, one of many French andIndian War forts along the Susquehanna Riv-er. On its site is a beautifully restored 1810mansion. This year I was apple butterchair—at fairs, making apple butter in a bigcopper kettle is a big attraction and our mon-ey-making project." Edna Schmidt Aakre(Mrs. Arne): "My husband and I thoroughlyenjoyed Reunion. We spent time last summerwith our new twin granddaughters in northernMinnesota, visiting a daughter in SouthDakota, and sons in Wisconsin. We keep busywith our usual activities—Audubon Chapter,Delta Kappa Gamma, Retired Educators,swimming at the Y. When winter gets too badwe head for the South—maybe Texas in1989-90." D Sally Steinman Harms, 22Brown's Grove, Scottsville, NY 14546.

Happy Independence Day! Don't get too closeto the fireworks! Firewater OK, fireworks no.Happy also to report that the Mort Dur-lands and Lew Fancourts had a great timein Hawaii. The highlight was a submarine(recreation-type) dive to the sandy bottom offthe "big island" to view all the sealife first-hand. They also visited Kilauea volcano abouta week before it started erupting! Lew says hehad to hold Mort down when the hula girlswere dancing.

Our leader, George Peck, celebrated his75th birthday on May 8. He, Willard "Bill"Lynch, and Bill McKeever get together of-ten for early breakfast at the St. Davids Inn. J.Ward Simonson is still active, chairing theAlumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN) for Northeastern Ohio. A year ago,after our Reunion, he and Helen traveled toVienna, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, andPoland, and are glad they had this very in-teresting experience before "the walls cametumbling down."

Prof. Jim White, now of Florida and Ith-aca, has published three books on acid rain.Not long ago, he visited Yellowstone Park towitness results of the fire there. Jim and Ruth(Babcock) '41 and a half-dozen other Cor-nellians went together to Scandinavia thisspring. "Happiness is everyday living!" saysHerman Hegyi. "Seeing and loving myfamily and friends. Doing what I want to do,staying healthy, and learning something new.Gratitude to my Higher Power for a long andquiet life." Thanks, Herman. W. HarryJohns, of Aspen, Colo., who says he's "still abadly paid dreamer," last year enjoyed hisfourth consecutive Christmas in Sweden. Har-ry says: "With all the Nordic scenery—skies,fjorden, and seascapes I've seen lately, I feelthere must be an embryonic esthetic about tosurface." He then asked "How do you put thatin class notes?" Well—there it is, Harry!


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Dr. Bob Michtom is still doing psycho-therapy and is taking constitutional law atHofstra U. (Long Island) on the side. He andJoan enjoyed three weeks last year around theGrenadines in the Caribbean. From Kerrville,Texas, Ed Heckel writes that he would haveattended Reunion but his doctors wouldn't lethim. In hospital seven times in last eightyears! Must be trying to compete with JohnBrentlinger and Oliver "Bud"Gildersleeve, who are both doing OK at lastreport. John had a birday on May 11. Goingback to Ed, he and Jean did get to Rio last yearand Ed is still secretary/treasurer of the Cor-nell Club of San Antonio.

Γm starting to run short and would likesome fresh news from you guys. Γm sure a lotof you have interesting travels and ex-periences or accomplishments to tell about.There will not be an August issue so we sendyou best wishes for an enjoyable summer. Wehope you will talk up the get-together after theHomecoming football game October 27. Willgive you details again in September. DHenry L. "Bud" Huber, 152 Conant Dr.,Buffalo, NY 14223.

J Jl This will be the last column untilmM ^B September, for which I hope

Mm I there will be lots of news sent in^^L with dues. For this issue I would^^ like your help in tracking down

• some members of our class whoare pictured in our yearbook but are not on ourofficial class lists. Because our-lists includemany who attended but did not graduate, andalso those who have passed on, a search seem-ed in order. Thank you for any help you cangive: Betty Jeanne Asen, Arts; HelenEllis Dedowitz, Ag.; Esther Forbes,Home EC.; Paula Therese Maenak, Arts;Shirley Ruth Plotnick, Arts.

Now for some additional 1989 updates.News came from Betty Niles Gray via Ed-die Burgess Bartholomew telling of a verybusy 1989 traveling—first to Australia withhusband John for six weeks for two Elderhos-tel programs, then in July a solo driving tripNorth to see friends and relatives culminatingin New York City, where John joined her anddaughter Chris, a US attorney there. Bettyand John also enjoyed a golf resort vacation inWest Virginia with friends and a visit withdaughter Jennie and family in Illinois duringAugust. Unfortunately, Hurricane Hugo hitthem hard and one of the eight trees that camedown hit the roof. This did not keep them froma trip in late October to the Canadian Arctic tophotograph polar bears. Home base is still 13Oakwood Ct, Clover, SC, when they arethere!

Ruth Pierce Hughes attended the sum-mer Olympics in Seoul and also served as avisiting professor in home economics educa-tion at National Taiwan Normal U. in Taipei.She has been retired in Ames, Iowa since1987. Mary Witbeck Chaplin has retired af-ter teaching art for 25 years but still designsand makes jewelry, mostly gold and silver.One very important commission was thedesigning and construction of the pectoralcross and ring for the newly elected Episcopalbishop in Albany. She keeps very busy withchurch activities and serves on the board forMultiple Sclerosis. Becky, I hope you areplanning to attend our 50th—keep me posted!

Have a refreshing summer and do shareyour thoughts, activities, and plans for the fu-ture with all of us. Π Shirley Richards Sar-gent, 15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

Adult University (CAU) reports that ClarkD. Burton and wife Mary Jo, and RichardNewman with wife Betty (Rosenthal)'46 attended the weekend seminar on LatinAmerica last October. Richard G. Davis re-ports they have moved their winter addressfrom California to Green Valley in Arizo-na—summers are still in Vermont. B.Charles Ochojski and wife Vicki cruisedthe Far East on the Ocean Pearl in 1988.

Sidney D. Rubin retired in January andsays he is looking forward to the 50th nextyear. Robert D. Simpson retired in 1982from the NY Dept. of Labor Job Services Div.,and has lived in Napa, Cal. since retirement.Julian C. Smith Jr. spent three weeks inAustralia and New Zealand on an alumni tour.He reports retirement is great.

Frank J. Warner Jr. is still practicinglaw and in court, too, but is thinking about re-tirement. He says he's about halfway con-vinced himself that he's not indispensable.That will be the day, he says! Edward H.Carpenter sends congratulations to HerbErnest as our new treasurer. He says life isgood in Stoneham, Mass, and Port St. Lucie,Fla. since retirement in 1980.

John F. Carr sold his company, theMacton Corp., in March 1989. He and wifeHelen (Ziegler) '39 spend their time be-tween the ranch at Cotopaxi, Colo, and Aspen.They are both healthy and ride and ski. Jackflies his own Kingair based in Aspen. He saysafter nine years raising Arabian horses he is li-quidating the herd—too much care—like kids!Dr. Adolph R. Wichman retired in 1989from active surgical practice. Since retiring hehas played golf in Georgia and Scotland, andwas looking forward to a summer of golf and alowered handicap.

Jack Weintraub retired in May 1989and finds himself busy with projects but nopay. William G. Shoemaker and wife Car-olyn toured Europe in 1988—England, Bel-gium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy,France, and Monaco. Last summer it was Bos-ton and Cape Cod, and, to quote Shoe, the "carwash" at Chappaquiddick. William K.Stamets Jr. and wife Mona have movedback to Evansville, Ind. where he is involvedin the design of special mining machinery forFrontir-Kemper Constructors, one of theworld's largest tunnel builders. They are look-ing forward to 1991. D John Dowswell, 7Sequoyah Rd., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906.

Our ever-diligent class officersand the 50th Reunion commit-tee were to be at Reunion, plan-ning our Nifty Fifty festivities.Are you making plans to bethere in 1992? All suggestions

should be sent to Edwin "Buck" Buxton'snew business address: Buxton Mfg. Co., 100Richards Ave., Dover NJ 07801. And did youknow that the Assn. of Class Officers (CACO)honored 1942 for outstanding work in the lastacademic year? Kudos to our leaders. Anotherarchitectural treat for us to see at Reunion willbe the new Center for Theater Arts in College-town. The complexity of the interior must be

seen to be appreciated as its six levels encom-pass three theaters, three dance studios, sixlabs, a library, and 32 offices.

Dave Beach (Vergennes, Vt.) enjoys vis-its from Peter Gogolak '64 and his familyat Basin Harbor Club, Dave's Lake Champlainresort. He tools around in a 1950 Jeepster. Iknow the feeling as I have a 1967 convertibleVW Beetle that runs like a dream and oftengets notes, such as "wash this beauty or sell itto me!" Dave reports that Bob Beck (Slater-ville Springs, NY) goes to Key Biscayne, Fla.

Jean Cameron Brown Blodgett (Wil-ton, Conn.) and Bill now have four grandkids(son Ed Blodgett and wife Betsy(Martens) are both Class of '80). Theyrevisited World War II sites in Switzerlandand Italy and then toured Great Britain,visiting relatives. In Scotland they attended acousin's full-kilt regalia wedding.

Joe Weinberger (Scarsdale, NY) andEdith (Newman) '43'toured Europe. Joestill heads his law firm now grown to 70 law-yers. They'll visit the firm's Swiss office inZurich. Summers in Westhampton Beachhighlight their year.

H. Donald Bliss (Pt. Townsend, Wash.)is into the right stuff in many ways. Followinga cordial divorce, Don signed over his car tohis ex in 1988 and he's been walking eversince. And I mean 35 miles per week. Now,that is cutting down on emissions in a big way.Don has gained notoriety for his declaring hisright to not have a car and he has benefitedphysically, and finds walking "enchanting andhabit-forming." We'll ask him about all this atReunion. And I hope to hear from more of youthis month. D Carolyn Evans Finneran,2933 76th, SE, #13D, Mercer Island, Wash.98040.

Margaret Shepherd West-fall, a scientific illustrator, hastraveled to Madurai, India, Aus-tralia (where she and her hus-band spent a glorious day at theGreat Barrier Reef), New Zea-

land, and the islands of Maui and Oahu. Noth-ing like those international meetings, I'd say.Jane Strahan Davis is also a scientific illus-trator. She and husband Jack live in Oman,where he teaches fisheries science and is alsohead of the fisheries department. "Oman is astark, desert country, run by a wise and en-lightened, but absolute, monarch, SultanQaboos bin Said. He has been in power for on-ly 18 years but has transformed the countryfrom a medieval, even biblical, society to mod-ern times. Schools, highways, and hospitalshave been his priorities so far."

Bea Swick Ornitz was in Ithaca last fall,said the campus looked great, and the newbuildings are proliferating; they stayed at theStatler, which afforded excellent accommoda-tions. Granddaughter Alexandra applied for ad-mission. Bea stopped at Alumni House to chatup Jim Hazzard '50 and reminisced about



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A Woman's Work

Connie Cook's opinions have been tested in the real world. She wasthe first woman ever to chair a committee of either house of theNew York State Legislature. From 1963 to 1974, five terms, sherepresented the Ithaca-area 125th District as a Republican, andfound herself in the thick of many issues that are still on the na-

tion's legislative agenda.She introduced, and saw passed, the state's first abortion reform

law. She chaired the Assembly's Standing Committee on Education inthe late 1960s when college campuses were erupting in riots and whenbusing for integration and the decentralization of New York Cityschools were making headlines. She fought for divorce reform laws,Medicaid, and education for the physically disabled.

Since the early 1950s, Cook's base of operations has been in Ithaca,where she has practiced law and where she and husband Alfred '37have raised their two children. After her years in the Legislature, sheserved as Cornell's vice president for land grant affairs from 1976 to1980. Now she is practicing law again, with the firm of True, Walshand Miller, down on the Ithaca Commons.

Connie Cook believes women have been losing in the politicalarena in the past decade. Plain and simple, she'll tell you that legisla-tors who don't support women should be replaced by people who do:"A person can be right on all the other issues, but if he's not for wom-en, he's not for me."

Professor Cushman and government courses,Professor Briggs, et al Met the director of theCenter for Theater Arts and checked out thisbeautiful theater and the four seats they boughtin honor of Martin '42, Bea, Barbara '71,and Richard '67. Alexandra would be fourthgeneration, following great-grandfather Na-thaniel Ornitz '20, grandparents Martinand Bea, and father Richard, as well as auntBarbara, great-uncle Robert '45, and great-uncle Emanuel Farber '36. "Guess wecould own a building at Cornell.. ."

Annette "Mitzie" Jackson Youngheaded to India in January with a Har-vard/Peabody Inst. group to examine archi-tecture and antiquities. She'll report on it andI'll publish it. Keep those missives headed to-ward South Jersey. D Helene "Hedy"Neutze Alles, 15 Oak Ridge Dr., Haddon-field, NJ 08033.

From Sam Hunter: "Last November Thel-ma (Emile) '45 and I spent a sunny weekwith Milt Coe in Kobe Sound where he andConnie spend half the year. We drove Alliga-tor Alley to Naples and had a day with Joannand Howie Parker at their retirement quar-ters, a beautiful spot on an equally impressivegolf course not 100 yards from the Parkerpool. Not bad duty for an old basketballplayer. Howie and I compared midline chestincisions and Milt is still proud that he hasn'tneeded cardiovascular surgery. I think we atetoo much ice cream back in 1940-43. We'replanning for the 50th but request a golf tourna-ment." Richard Morgan writes: "Marriedin 1943 to Mary Sears, raised four kids:Michael S. '69, Mary Patricia, Claudia J.,and Christopher J. Three grandchildren todate. Worked 40 years, the last ten in Brazil,Spain, and France. Retired from assignment

in France 1985. Love retirement in Rockland,Del. Every day is Saturday. We travel both inthe US and abroad. Enjoy golf and am en-gaged in independent consulting with in-dustrial clients overseas. I'll see you at our50th."

Dr. Susannah Krehbiel writes: "Asretired physicians we were terrified when wefound that our eighth grandchild, 2V2-month-old Jonathan Moffett, had a hole in his heartand was in heart failure. The cardiac team atArkansas Children's Hospital repaired thedefect so successfully that he is now develop-ing normally. That result was the best thing tohappen to us in 1989. Others: trips to see ourchildren and families in Arkansas, Utah,California, and Georgia, a trip abroad to Ger-many, Austria, and Switzerland, visits withfriends in Boston, Maine, and Nantucket, at-tending my high school 50th reunion in NewRochelle, NY, and my husband's (EugeneHorger) medical school class 45th reunion atDuke."

"Had a great thrill at Reunion in June1989," writes Fred Johnson. "Rowed downthe Inlet in a four-oared shell with my two sonsFrederick S. Jr. '75, Anthony S. '80,and son-in-law Brian Behm '76, all of ushaving rowed on Cornell crews sometime inthe past half-century."

Bill Dickhart's report on the alumni tripto the Canary Islands hasn't arrived, but hereis the story up 'til then: "Peg and I traveled toIstanbul where we boarded a Russian ship,sailed across the Black Sea and up the Danubeto Vienna with stops—always by boat—in Ru-mania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, andCzechoslovakia. Bucharest was interestingbut depressing: long lines for gas and for whatlittle food was in the stores; wagons hitched totractors or animals; few trucks. In Pleven wewatched the celebration of the Russian revolu-tion with bands, blaring loudspeakers, danc-ers, and, compared to the large crowds pro-testing in the same square a few days later, asparse audience. At least they own theirhomes and enough ground for a garden. Bel-grade was much better off, although the coun-try is being pulled apart by the factions fight-ing for the power Tito once held. Budapest is acharming city and, of course, Vienna is tops. Itwas a fascinating time to be there at the outsetof the transition in Eastern Europe." WhenBill was commodore of the Big Red crew, ifmemory serves, he almost always sat back-ward in boats. D S. Miller Harris, PO Box164, Spinnerstown, Pa. 18968.

Lew Mix retired as researchdirector of farm management,Agway Inc., but the Interna-tional Executive Service Corps(IESP doesn't seem to take"retired" seriously. "In July

and August 1989 I served as a volunteer toTurkey, working with an agricultural coopera-tive in Adana. Connie (Avery) '48 and Iwere able to visit Ankara, Istanbul, Antioch,and many other points of interest. Then, be-ginning in December, we spent nine weeks as-sisting an animal feed manufacturer in Bang-kok, Thailand. While there we traveled toChiang Mai, the River Kwai, and many otherpoints in this fabulous country. Stopped enroute in Hong Kong, Seoul, Korea, and Ha-waii." IESC reports that Lew interviewed the

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As this issue of the Alumni Newswent to press, word was re-ceived that J. Joseph Driscoll '44died on Wednesday, June 27.This last class column of Joe'swas already in place.

Thai Feed Mills deputy directors of manufac-turing, marketing, and quality control to de-termine the problems faced in each area. "Heinstalled a Net Energy Management Systemand was able to upgrade nutrient specifica-tions on all current feeds. In addition, he vis-ited over 30 dairy and beef farms in differentprovinces of Thailand, evaluating feeding andmanagement problems and training the tech-nical staffs."

Dick Alexander "finally decided to re-tire after 43 years of medical practice. Perma-nent home is in Rancho Mirage, Cal. Expect tofinally enjoy nine grandchildren but so far nonew Cornellians." Dick received his MD fromCornell in 1947, as did another classmate,Marvin "Mike" Huyck, who writes, "Stillworking, but plan to hang up my stethoscopethis year." Those double classmates have onething not in common. "Am frequent visitor toLynah Rink, despite the long ride—great ex-cuse to visit Ithaca, even in bad weather." Ob-viously, not written in Rancho Mirage ... butin Walton, NY.

But the following was written a bit closerto Rancho Mirage. "Haven't been back to Ith-aca since the winter of 1943.1 see Bill Woodfrequently—he's married to my wife's sister.They live in Borego Springs, Cal. Had a goodvisit with Dave Sisson a year ago; he lives inHermosa Beach. Dick Bard '49, who livesin Colville, Wash., and I get together about ev-ery year." Those are notes from Herb Lyttlein Kerman, Cal. Maybe Herb can get hisgroup together for the Stanford game on Oct.12,'91.

And we can put our two West Coast vicepresidents on the project. Joe Flynn, in SanDiego, must be in charge of the BoregoSprings area. And Ruth CoslineRhynedance and Hal, are "just down thestreet" from Spike Sisson. How two WorldWar II types, one from the field artillery andone "old" Cornell football and hockey playerfrom Marine Corps (via Tupper Lake, orthereabouts) could travel 400 miles to a foot-ball game remains to be seen. The trip homemight be a quiet one . . . unless 1939 isrepeated. However, the trip to Columbus wasa bit different than that to Palo Alto will be ...there's no Lehigh Valley station to return to!Herb will have the toughest job, recruiting hisgroup of fraternity brothers. But he'll have theshortest trip.

Maybe we'll have to assign our spokes-man for the West, Al Owczarzak, to routout Dick Bard from 90 miles north of Spokane,Wash. Colville is a long way from AΓs homebase in Corvallis, Ore., but he won't be able todecline if we make him the official '44 photog-rapher for the Cornell Western program.That's a big one on the university calendar...the official end of the 125th anniversary ofCornell's founding. But Al might haVe onehang-up—San Francisco and Palo Alto will beswarming with Easterners whose attendanceyour correspondent will be forced to report,

along with the many long-ago transplantsfrom the East whom we haven't seen in toomany years. Yes, plan on it now. Many of ushave already decided that we'll be in the BayArea for several days surrounding that Oct.12, '91 date. A social success is guaranteed,though a 1939 Columbus repeat certainlyisn't!

One of our classmate retirees has becomeunretired. As reported previously, JackMurray retired on New Year's Eve, 1987, asassistant provost and director of continuingeducation at the U. of Delaware. Last fall, hewas asked to come out of retirement and serveas acting dean of the University Parallel Pro-gram. A publication states, "Murray's currentcontribution is to supervise a full-time under-taking that has given him five offices, a port-able typewriter, and a multi-faceted mission."Jack writes, "The Parallel Program actually isthe U. of Delaware's branch campus system. Iam responsible for all UD activities at each ofthe three campuses—academic programs, stu-dents, faculty, staff, and all the rest. I spendone day on the main campus, and one day ateach of the three branches. It may sound hec-tic, and it is in some ways, but I feel that theprogram is making a lot of progress and that itwill emerge as one of the university's premieracademic programs. So, I'm having a greattime, but will be glad to get back on the tractorwhen they find a permanent replacement."

And a happy retirement, whatever shapeit may take, to each of you. D Joe Driscoll,8-9 Wilde Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa. 19026; (215)259-1908.

Orrie and Ann McGloinStevens (Avon, Conn.) wroteto tell me of an AOPi traditionbegun in the fall of 1956 whenthose living in the New YorkCity area got together at the

Cornell-Yale game followed by dinner."Two/three couples became five/six, andeventually we added tailgate lunches andpost-game 'victory' celebrations. As membersof the group left NYC, they still continued toattend and made it a weekend including Sun-day breakfast. Over these 34 years, two orthree couples missed only one or two games.Several classmates, not sorority sisters, and afew children and friends also attended; thehighest attendance was 19.

"Group members include: the Stevenses,Nancy Aimgier Beveridge and Bill (StatenIsland, NY), Charlotte Fry Poor and Bob(Peoria, 111.), Joan Flood Snyder and Phil(Salem, Va.,); and Marcia Noyes Archi-bald (Kappa Kappa Gamma) and Doug '45(River Edge, NJ); from the Class of'45—Mary Jane Dilts Achey (Pennington,NJ), Gwen Owen Faith and Buz (Atlanta,Ga.), Ginny Dahm Towle Myles and Mil(Boca Raton, Fla.), Marilu Rutan Snowdenand Harry (Barrington, 111.); from the Class of'48-Dorothy Flood Flynn (Dallas, Pa.).

"One unbending requirement is that allmust sing whatever they sang as undergradu-ates, and often, but always after the game andat dinner. They always sing the "AlmaMater," standing with great dignity, justbefore leaving the restaurant. Photos as un-dergraduates and at prior games are sharedyearly—an interesting observation is thatwhile the men seem to have lost a little hair

and won a few pounds, the women seem tolook about the same." (This note obviouslywritten by Ann.) Wish you could have read herletter—she related some hilarious situations.,Orrie and Phil claim a tactical advantage in thestorytelling by having dated AOPi membersand thereby having known most of the othermembers before they met their husbands. Sheended with this note "Friendships are as valu-able for me as I choose to make them, and, likea savings account, the value seems to go onbuilding as the years pass." Π Elinor BaierKennedy, 503 Morris PL, Reading, Pa. 19607.

fl H It's vacation time again. Forβm J those classmates now enjoying

m I M ample R&R, the whole concept^^ί M takes on a different perspective,^^ί M doesn't it? Here's to your super

• M summer wherever, or however,you spend it! Here's great news concerningone of our favorite classmates. The CornellClub of Rochester has awarded a lifetimemembership to Arlie Williamson Ander-son. The accompanying citation reads: "ForYour Many Years of Outstanding Service toCornell University and the Cornell Club ofRochester." Arlie, from undergraduate daysonward, has always exemplified the very besttraditions of service and concern for all therest of us.

Another Cornell tradition is being nour-ished by the Arthur S. Brown family ofFair Lawn, NJ. The Browns are regular cam-pus visitors, and last fall they included their12-year-old granddaughter Megan. The hope,of course, is that Megan, or one of her youngersisters, will make that fourth Cornell genera-tion dream happen. We're all pulling for you,Megan Brown.

Helen Fehrer Bernstein and husbandArthur '48 check in from White Plains, NY.Helen regularly commutes to Northvale, NJ,where she is an executive with the GameParts organization. Sounds like fun and gamesto us, too. Esta Solo way Goldman writesfrom Hicksville, LI, that she, too, is still veryactive as a social worker at the Pilgrim Psychi-atric Center in West Brentwood, LI.

It's again time to take note of a few moreretirees: Ralph E. Peters, a CE from Balti-more, joins Amelia "Amie" Streif Harding,hailing from State College, Pa., and Bur-dette E. Erickson, husband of Harriet(Hammond), who now calls Chapel Hill,NC, home. Let's add Joyce McCluskyZweibel of Rensselaer, NY, and Richard G.Tousey from New York City. And we windup this list with Eugene S. Carlson, Cha-grin Falls, Ohio, and Valerie "Val" FiktarzFloro from Whittier, Cal.; Val was a nursinginstructor at nearby Los Angeles CommunityCollege for several years.

This column's Community ServiceAward (he writes with tongue somewhat incheek) goes to our former prez, ex-marine,scholar, and resident of beautiful Cazenovia,NY. That, of course, would have to be the oneand only John L. Ayer. John, no doubt withno little help from classmate (and wife) Helen(Allmuth) was re-elected supervisor of theTown of Cazenovia. We know that it's toughout there in twp. politics, John, but trust thatyou are holding up.

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as artist and traveler, writes of recent trips tothe USSR and an alumni trip to Guatemalaand Honduras. Dr. John Henderson, represen-ting Cornell, dealt with the archaeologicalhighlights on the Latin American visit. Thosealumni trips get high grades from our par-ticipating classmates. Let's end this month'seffort with a ''cooling" update from RD #2,Treleven Farm, Vergennes, Vt. Treleven ishome for Lauraine Serra Warfield andhusband George W. '50. Lauraine lists herpresent occupation as "self-employedquilter." (How "cool" can you get?) When thequilting frame is folded away, the Warfieldstravel, and list Australia, New Zealand,England, and Scotland as recent stops. AddLauraine's extensive volunteer work, grand-children, and family farm chores, and it allcomes out just fine, thank you. Your news andcomments are cordially invited. Π Stu La-Dow, 4211 La Tour Court, Allison Park, Pa.15101; (412) 487-3613.

Paul Pinkham, Spofford,NH: "Retired over a year ago.Spend half year here and otherhalf in Carmel, Cal. New Hamp-shire taxes are increasing. Solu-tion to today's most pressing

problem is to put it off until tomorrow." Wil-liam Purcell, Wallingford, Pa.: "I'm presi-dent of T. A. James and Co., food brokers.Wife Mary was elected president of Interna-tional Fedn. of University Women at their con-ference in Helsinki, Finland last August."

John Saunders, Plandome, NY: "Re-tired as president of Slattery Associates. Keepbusy as I want to with consulting work. Sonand daughter have given us three grandchil-dren. All live locally. Have to give my golfgame more time." Russ and Doris WolfeSchultz, West Islip, NY: "One grandchild.Son Randy works with Russ in the heatingequipment business; I teach fourth grade; anddaughter Betsy practices law in Boston. Cele-brated Russ's birthday October 7 at SagamoreInn on Lake George, then spent October 10 inhealth club pool and hot tub for aching back(any connection?). Took part in yacht clubcruise to Cape Cod and Nantucket. Spendsummertime and weekends at home on Shel-ter Island." Charles "Jerry" Swan, Lima,Ohio: "I play golf 24 hours a day." Tom Traf-zer, El Dorado Hills, Cal.: "Retired fromAerojet Tech Systems last year. Help out withLions Club activities." Richard Vlock,Gloversville, NY: "I'm an orthodontist. Twoof three children married, three grand-children. Would rather be clipping couponsthan filling out this form. Have been electedgovernor of Dental Soc. of NY State."

Bob Yarnall, Philadelphia: "I'm chair-man of Envirite Corp. We're growing fast inthe management and treatment of hazardousindustrial wastes. Since selling the YarwayCorp. in 1986, this has been my principal busi-ness interest. Very exciting." Hal Andrews,Arlington, Va.: "Solution for today's problemis to relax—maybe it will go away." PeteBaum, Manhasset, NY: "Youngest daughterElizabeth '91 is in Arts and Sciences. SonChristopher '74 was in Hotel. DaughterSusan, mother of four. Daughter Victoria,lawyer in New York City with PhD inmedieval history. Wife Virginia, well andbusy. Me? Retired (from Hazeltine), got

through five heart attacks and struggling withParkinson's, but keep going. My doc says I'mtough." Isadore Roy Cohen, Tarrytown,NY: "Heard Lech Walesa speak at ForbesMagazine headquarters. Getting ready to re-tire as CEO of A. L. Laboratories next year.Loaded up on good wines for next year duringtrip to Napa/Sonora Valleys in California."

Bill Copeland, Hamilton, Ohio: "Fourgrandchildren. Attended nominating commit-tee meeting at my church—in self defense. Iwork part time at the Miami U. Pulp and Pa-per Foundation, having retired from papermanufacturing and sales. Recently learnedthat the nicest thing about a bad reputation isthat it is easy to maintain." Larry and JoanEgan Dows, Bon Air, Va.: "I was programmanager with GE, then a business own-er/manager and am now retired. Six grand-children. Last year I was eating Halloweencandy. Last week I was buying Halloweencandy, and yesterday I was eating the candythat I just bought. Solution for today's press-ing problem is to get out and wash the car."

Charlie Elbert, Clifton, NJ: "WifeMaryiris retired early from Peugeot Motorsafter 15 years to join retired husband for morefun. I traveled Germany and Austria. Lastweek I was painting, cutting grass, golfing,painting, cutting grass, golfing, painting, cut-ting—. I would rather be traveling or attend-ing another Reunion party. Found that travelrequires mucho dinero. Solution for today'smost pressing problem is more money for re-tirees."

Geraldine Rogers Glover, Weston,Conn.: "I'm a real estate owner-broker (atpresent on hold). Last October visited Mary"Liz" Mears Kiely in Ithaca, V. HopeGastmeyer Booth in Toronto, and attendeda regional doll conference in Buffalo. Liz,Hope, and I, Delta Gammas, were roommatesin the Chi Psi house our sophomore year." Pa-tricia Reinfeld Hale, Massapequa, NY:"Had such good time at 40th Reunion in '88,and the year before at the 40th of husbandBill '47, that we spent three days at Cornelllast May, picking up a Boston rocker while wewere there." Fred Jenks, North Rose, NY:"Last year, hunting in Adirondacks. Lastweek did assessing for the Town of Rose andinstructing at the Wayne Area VocationalCenter. Yesterday worked on my modelrailroad, and would rather be doing that nowinstead of filling out this form. Solution: If weall worked a little harder at what we do andcomplained a bit less, it would not be longbefore 'no complaints'." D Bob Persons,102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050.

For years I have saved an oldNew Yorker cartoon of two exec-utives with their feet up on aconference table, cocktails inhand. The caption is: "Nextyear we've got to get organ-

ized!" This column completes semi-old newswhich is proof that all your news will makethese pages eventually. Betty Wood Ries,Highland, Ind.: "After Al '51 retired, wespent time as volunteer tax aides. Then tookan Amtrak tour to Yellowstone and, later,journeyed through the Panama Canal on oneof the Love Boats." No comments on the LoveBoats! Eugene Sullivan, Charlotte, NC:"Semi-retired and acting as a consultant. With

an empty nest, I am trying to improve my golfgame." Improving the golf game appears to bea consistent class comment. I suspect there isa little "sand-bagging." Paul Sundheim,Marco Island, Fla.: "Becoming an 'almost'Florida resident (still in Sparta, NJ, in thesummer) and hope to slide into full-timeFlorida residency soon." John Tewey,Sarasota, Fla.: "Retired, but still do somelocal consulting, last year, in Guatemala. Alsotraveled to Tahiti, Australia, and Hawaii. Istay active with tennis, skiing, and helping'hotelies' with job placement." ConsideringJack's travels, the skiing could be water orsnow. Norman Tinkle, Brattleboro, Vt.:"Realtor and grandfather for the fourth time.Born to our son Marshall, LLB '82 andwife Amy Seltzman Tinkle '79, Shanajoins her brother Adam."

Sallee Lynch Way, Pinehurst, NC:"Walt '48 and I enjoy retirement here withour beautiful fairway view and working on ourgolf game." Sylvia Alessandrini Williamslocated missing classmates Anastasios"Tasso" and Adda Dunn Cotsis inDionysus, Greece. Thanks for the address.Stuart Paltrow, Massapequa, NJ: "I am co-chair of the Special Committee on Women inthe Courts and actively engaged in addressinggender bias problems presented by the NewYork State Report on this subject." MarilynGruenberg Luebeck, Birmingham, Mich.:"Have two grandchildren. Also have twosons: unmarried, employed, and eligible. In-stead of retiring, I am employed by theLutheran Adoption Service. Even after 37years, I cannot get my U. of Michigan hus-band to Ithaca. However, it took 15 years toget him to empty the dishwasher, so I havehope." Marilyn, your husband probablyremembers that the Cornell football teams are12 and 6 against Michigan, but, more impor-tantly, I have an unmarried, self-employed,eligible daughter in Vermont. Can we cut adeal?

Bill Sprunk, West Springfield, Va.:"Retired but involved in advising 'high tech'start-up companies in the Washington, DCarea on financial planning. Also own an inter-est in a software development company."Austin Story, Chillicothe, Ohio: "Retiredfrom Mead Corp. but keeping busy with vol-unteer work and a five-acre front yard. Couldnot make Reunion as I had the opportunity tovisit three places in the Pacific which wereless than friendly during World War II. I waswith the 165th Infantry, but this time it is theSocial Security Brigade." Joe Swartzman,New Canaan, Conn.: "I am with NordenSystems as a senior materials design engineerwhile my wife Ann (Ryan) '48 is the highestproducer for Realtech Associates." JaneLouise Williamson, Hilton Head, SC:"Retired from active veterinary practice after35 years. I settled here to find out how theother half lives and what I have beenmissing."

Diane Barkan Kurtz, Roslyn, NY: "Myhusband sold his business and joined me in re-tirement. Looking forward to travel, enjoyingour Florida home, lots of books, learningbridge, improving golf and tennis, and playingwith our little computer. I do local communitywork so there is never enough time. Ouryoungest is a doctoral candidate in Germanstudies at Stanford. Will Cornell be ready for

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him in 1992?" Come on, "Dede," was Cornellready for you in 1945? As for bridge, remem-ber the "Ten O'Clock at the Straight" meth-od—bid them as if you have them! RobertBiggane, Stuart, Fla.: "Retired as managingdirector, NY State Assn. of Electrical Con-tracting. Plan to take up alligator wrestlingand martini mixing, but not necessarily in thatorder." Bob is the class answer to JamesBond. Sorry, Bob, we cannot help you with anaddress for Ed Delane. He is still on themissing list.

The next paragraph is the last of pre-Re-union news. It was typeset but we could not fitit into our space. Rather than reset it, we arerunning it as set. To be consistent with ournew format of telling you where people live,here is a rundown on these clasmates: BillHover, Roseland, NJ; Bob Brigham, Mon-roe, Conn.; Hannah Schwartz Cohen, ColdSpring Harbor, NY; and Jerome Farber,Boca Raton, Fla.

Bill Hover, now a partly retired physician,sent words of activity and wisdom: "Workingpart time, professionally. Backing up full-timespouse worker. At least one of five childrenmoves every year to exotic locations. House-work is good exercise. A dollar saved is threedollars earned. Travel by plane and bicycle on-ly. Keep animals; they can be trained to keephouse, wash, and run microwave. If not, themess is their fault. Volunteer, or just say may-be, or NO. It is too late for yesterday, too earlyfor tomorrow, so (fill in the blanks) today!"Bill, you are a '49er Dear Abby.τBob Brighamand MaryLou missed Reunion because theywere touring England and Scotland. Bob re-tired from Superior Electric Co. and is a part-time sales consultant for Amigo Mobility Aids(three-wheeled electric wheelchairs). HannahSchwartz Cohen is happy to be a retired sci-ence teacher so she can visit the grandchil-dren in San Francisco. Jerome Farber is a manto watch on the links. He won a golf tourna-ment which entitled him to play in an interna-tional tournament in Munich, Germany, as arepresentative of the Boca Raton West Club.Jerome and wife Ethel were to competeagainst 49 other couples from around theworld with all expenses paid by the sponsors,BMW, Lufthansa, and Bogner. Eat your heartout, Richie Reynolds. We are awaiting tourna-ment results from Jerry Farber.

Your response to the "loaner program" ofthe 40th Reunion videotape has been over-whelming. Please be patient as we keep theavailable tapes moving around the country. Ihave the feeling that this "buried offer" byPresident Richard Lustberg in the classletter surprised him. However, it proves thatyou do read. Sometimes. You are getting bet-ter at sending news, too.

Sadly, two classmates, William J.Thalman, Hermitage, Pa. and Ann Law-rence Lerohl, Alexandria, Va., died last year.("Ann was my roommate, her annual newsyChristmas letters will be sorely missed,"


writes A. Brett Crowly Capshaw.) Also, Ilearned of the recent death of Phyllis Carver,wife of classmate Paul Carver. A loyal,honorary '49er, she will be remembered forher great spirit and participation at our 40thReunion. D Dick Keegan, 179 N. MapleAve., Greenwich, Conn. 06830.

The first batch of 1990 Roll Callreturns has arrived to put my partof the column back in business.From now on Barry Nolin and Iwill combine our columns to take

I full advantage of our increasedspace. As for Roll Call, I like to know whereyou are and our treasurers appreciate the bot-tom line, but please put some news on theback of the form. Mary Osborn Gallweyreceived the William 0. Douglas Award fromthe Washington ACLU for her outstandingcontributions to civil liberties. She has been anactive member of Pullman ACLU since theearly 1960s and is credited with making thechapter one of the most effective in the state.Sheila "Shelley" Epstein Akabas reportsthat four of the prints donated by the Class of1951 to the Johnson Museum will be on viewat the museum through the end of the semes-ter as part of an exhibition planned by theJohnson's ten student interns and entitled"Estile Latino: Twentieth Century." Shelleyhad a good visit with Joan Petersen Sgour-os who was in New York to help her daughtershop for her wedding dress for a May wed-ding.

Julianne Dye Cristy and husband Al-bert had a marvelous trip to Asia in Novemberand December. At the Dusit Inn in ChiangMai, Thailand they met Sangworn "Sunny"Suntisuk, who has Hotel school connectionsand is regional director, soon to be national di-rector, of the Dusit Thani Hotel Group. Lastsummer Jack and Betty Meng Howell at-tended a week-long National Wildlife Federa-tion program at the U. of Vermont. Like theCristys, the Howells are new grandparents.

Celeste Skeen Lankier of Bay HarborIslands, Fla. is innkeeper of the Bay HarborInn, the only authentic waterfront inn in theMiami area. It's near racing, theater, muse-ums, and art galleries, sounds wonderful, andoffers high tea with champagne. Catherine"Kitty" Welch Munn plans to continue as aconsulting dietitian on a very flexible schedulenow that husband Dev has retired after 38years with IBM. Real plans include travel intheir new Scamp travel trailer to the Southand West as well as time at their cottage on theNorth Carolina coast.

Jeannine Boyton Robertson shouldbe a veteran retiree by now, since Frank hasbeen retired from Morrison-Knudson Co. forfive years. They are just back from six weeksof fly-fishing and sightseeing in the lake dis-trict of Chile. Nancy Carver Shene teachesat Clinton Correctional in Dannemora. In thepast year, she has visited Egypt, Australia,and New Zealand. She is secretary/treasurerof the US Bobsled Federation and helps at thetrack with the Olympic athletes at Lake Pla-cid. Nancy is planning to be at our 40th a yearfrom now. Aren't we all!

Bob Fuchs reports in from Golden, Colo,where he is spending most of his time as an in-vestment banker. The balance is with Geolog-ical Society of America where he is treasurer

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Ken Riley, 436 Heritage Dr., Rochester,NY is still working but had time last summerto visit Seoul, Korea for a visit with the familyof wife Heesook. Their last visit was in 1983just before their departure from Tokyo wherehe had worked for three years. Heesook is fin-ishing her undergraduate degree in interna-tional business and intends to continue with anMBA, probably at Cornell. Steve Roundsputs in a big plug for our 40th. He still derivesgreat satisfaction from developing sales op-portunities for Eastman Kodak chemicals. Hereports that one more year completes his com-mitment to his children's education—all threedoctors. Vacation time is divided between res-idences in Greece and the White Mountains ofNew Hampshire.

John Sherwood reminds all that theCornell-Stanford football game is in the fall of1991, the same weekend as Cornell's 125thcelebration in San Francisco. All are not onlywelcome, but expected. Contact him at 995Matadero Ave., Palo Alto, Cal. 94306. If anyof you have any comments or suggestions onhow to make these news items more interest-ing and readable, please speak up. D BarryNolin, 8752 Half Mile Rd., Climax, Mich.49034; and Winifred "Wink" Bergin Hart,115 N. Highland St., Arlington, Va. 22201;(704) 528-3243.

HNotice up-front to all reluctantdragons '52: should you hesitateon planning to come for Home-coming (October 27 weekend),be advised that block seating isready, the Andrew D. White So-

larium class reception post-game Saturday isin place, and there is further momentum. Thefame of the congenial Saturday dinners of thepast two years up at East Hill's What's YourBeef Restaurant has gathered in a third classfor a good meal and a rousing sing-a-long.Classes '51, '52, and '53 are the 1990 contin-gent; review your lyrics! Your officers arethinking about Friday events also for thosewho can schedule an earlier arrival . . . moreabout that later. (Spring retirement panelevent in New York City was postponed for fur-ther study.)

About the time this arrives, PresidentJean Thompson Cooper will be headingfor a final two-week teaching certificationclass in rug-hooking at Worcester PolytechnicInst., Worcester, Mass. She and Peter '53will host an RV pre-game tailgate warm-up(chili and dips) again; this happens on KiteHill, almost opposite new basketball courts,etc., edifice called Alberding Field House.Homecoming is a bit later this fall, so, colderalso?

When asked for an update since his su-perb co-hosting (with Al Rose) of the 35thReunion, Eliot "Whit" Mitchell had lots totell: "Have had another busy winter in real es-tate . . . staff of 15 and have just added MaryDorrance (widow of Jack) who's been arealtor in the New Jersey area for some years.Had dinner with Fred and Marge Eydt, whoplan a visit with us in Nantucket in Septem-ber. Talked with Tom Martin to arrange ac-commodations for him in April, and I find thatCornellians of years past stop in when they seethe realty sign on Hutchinson Island." Whit'sletterhead reads 2090-B NE Ocean Blvd.,Stuart, Fla. He continues, "John Ash due to

look... have several advance bookings for mysurf fishing guide business this summer . . .had a wonderful cruise with all four childrenand spouses to Bermuda to celebrate my 60th. . . cheers and best wishes." Aha, most of usare passing this further divide? Terry War-ren got 60 cupcakes, plus fire department at-tention (a set-up), 60 balloons, 60 light bulbs("You Light Up My Life"), etc. . . overdone.The cruise sounds better?

Recent news from Ruth "Pat' DwyerBrickman: "Life is fun, busy, and pretty mun-dane except that Bud and I and friends are go-ing to Italy for a couple of weeks—to explore,eat, and go to a couple of auto races." (Mun-dane, no longer?) She reports that MaryShear Brennan put together Cornell songs tobe played on the chimes in Albany City Hall asa reception for incoming freshmen for the areaat the May alumni meeting. Their familiesspend time in summer in Adirondack cottageswithin meeting distance. Pat's report on aBrennan wedding highlight there says, "Justbefore the new bride and groom walked backdown the aisle, the bride's nephews clam-bered up the back steps and rang and rang theold church bells . . . perfect!" They also gottogether for a picnic supper and "BennyGoodman—honest" concert. Home addressfor Brickmans is 45 Upper Loudon Rd., Lou-donville, NY, and Brennans are in Schenecta-dy, reporting a trip to Belize earlier.

Trivia corner: good coverage of the termspicaro ana picaresque in new biography of Cer-vantes by Jean Canavaggio. Who remembersdaily 8 a.m. basement Spanish classes andreading Don Quixote for an entire term?

Your correspondents signed up to joinAdult University (CAU) Holland and Belgiumexcursion in early October. Hope to haveheard from a lot of you before that so the col-umn won't take up our traveling time ... andbecause your other auld pals want to hear,too. D E. Terry and Dorothea CrozierWarren, 1046 Locust Dr., Ashtabula, Ohio44004.

Hlnto the air, senior birdman! Skyking Barry Merrill flies hisPitts S2B biplane in PacificNorthwest acrobatic competi-tions when not on the golf courseor ski lift. Sun Valley, Idaho

locals since 1982, Barry and Patty, his wife of34 years, retain a Manhattan pad. A limited in-vestment partnership dealing in equity securi-ties keeps coyotes from the doors. After see-ing son Mark off from the Isle of Wight in theEnglish Channel for the fifth Witbread 'Roundthe World yacht race, Lesley and ChuckBerlinghof hit the D-Day beaches of Nor-mandy, the Champagne country, a winery atBad Durkheim on the Weinstrasse, the MoselRiver valley, Luxembourg, and "lively" Brus-sels, where they saw Alice Ann "Biff" Mar-quardt and Bruce Boehm. Bruce is finish-ing a five-year European tour as president ofDow Corning International.

Bernard West, who formerly filled thisspace with distinction, wasn't one to repeatthe same names all the time and we haven'theard from him in a long while. So. He tells ofa Baltic cruise last summer and a new place inBeaver Creek, Colo., for skiing. DaughterJane, a producer for WGBH, in Boston, did aseries "on how we are (messing) up the

world's environment, we being all people."Daughter Stacy and husband are Philadelphialawyers. Eastern European travelers NancyEgan Webster and John saw a "mass exodusof Bulgarians of Turkish descent attemptingto cross the border" as they went fromMunich to Istanbul (with a blue Danubecruise). Herb Neuman helped daughterElena '88 settle into Balliol College, Oxford,for a three-year PhD course in American his-tory with a British accent. Herb's wife Stepha-nie researches international affairs at Colum-bia. Herb has been "enjoying immensely"three years' worth of philosophy courses atColumbia.

In London Dot Jeremiah Jackson andhusband Pete '54 are ensconced at the USInternational U., where Dot is handling alum-ni relations, developing a career-planning andplacement system, and looking for Cornell ac-tivities. In Washington, DC, Beth CrabtreeTurnbull chairs the Cornell Club membershipcommittee. In Ithaca, Pete Lent says he hassailed on Cayuga, in Stars and Lightnings, fornearly 60 years, and has been keeping his eyeon Chi Phi. Birder Claire Engle migrated tothe vast, wild ocean coast of Cape Cod at East-ham, Mass., for an Adult University (CAU)course on Cape ecology and the fall flights.Larry and Catherine Austin Smith madethe woodland Pocono mountain scene at Sterl-ing, Pa. with CAU last fall to investigatedemocracy's comeback in Latin America.Hank and Deniese Angelino, back from sixweeks in Australia and New Zealand, say they"had New Zealand's non-nuclear policy ex-plained at length" by hosts.

If you build a better algorithm, like Willard Eastman, you might get a certificate ofrecognition from NASA, like Willard. It's animproved mathematical routine that stream-lines the decoding of intelligence from outerspace vehicles. Willard has been a computerwhiz for Mitre Corp. in Bedford, Mass., since1983. The nest of Sheldon Sorokoff andwife Nancy is less full—but active. Nancy isnow a master of divinity from Union Theologi-cal Seminary and licensed to preach by theReformed Church in America. Sheldon prac-tices medicine in the lower Hudson Valley.And Morris Shorofsky has a daughter,Karren, who's a Yale law grad, and another,Sharon, who graduated from Barnard andstayed on to work in admisisons. Dad contin-ues in private practice and on the Medical Col-lege faculty. Dave Simon sold his publicrelations firm but remains Simon/McGarrypresident and CEO. There's time for the LosAngeles Cultural Affairs Commission, whichhas $15 million for city arts funding, and "in-teresting work" as a reserve deputy sheriff.Dave's the only reserve ever to be assigned tothe city's homicide bureau.

Robert K. "Dutch" Van Leer is still inthe housing business around Concord, Mass.,dad of a former Princeton heavyweight crewcaptain and another son who was at North-western grad school last year, and husband ofRachel-for 36 years. Helen WallaceMiksch visited Paul and Roberta FriendDowney in San Rafael, Cal., for "amarvelous dinner with an expansive view."Beverly Keller Orel reports three kids outof college: Stephen '81, still with a NewYork law firm; Matthew (Yale '84), with In-tellicorp in Palo Alto, Cal.; and Gwen (Stan-


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ford '86), acting in Berkeley, Cal. PeteYuhas, who began with us but finished atSyracuse, asks to be removed from our listsbecause "I do honor my alumni status at SU."There's no accounting for tastes. D JimHanchett, 300 1st Ave., NYC 10009.

MIncredible! A year has passedsince our great 35th Reunion,but Γm still reading rave re-views! Reay Sterling wrotefrom Crownsville, Md. that itwas his first Reunion and he

really enjoyed getting reacquainted with oldroommates and friends. He has done somesailing with Ken Pollock on the Chesa-peake. Lawrence Cohen enjoyed not onlyold friends, but a family reunion as well. Hismother, Helen Spiegel Cohen '28, cele-brated her 61st and his father, Irving"Murph" '29, celebrated his 60th. Unfortun-ately, Larry's son, Randall P. Kirk '82,MS '84 and wife Laurie Kerschner Kirk,PhD '83 were unable to be there. Still on ahigh after Reunion, Larry and Ilene went heli-skiing in the Canadian Rockies in September.

Doris Caretti Oniskey said Len '55was unable to attend Reunion but she had agreat time and friends made her feel verycomfortable. Her advice to those whosespouse or ''significant other" can't make it,not to hesitate in going alone: "The Cornellfamily is a warm and welcoming place. Sing-ing around the piano until 3:00 a.m. broughtback wonderful memories." Marian "Herm"(Russell) and Dave Boslaugh particularlyliked the sweaters—and the good news is thatKen Hershey tells me that there are still afew left—a great gift idea! Send $30 plus $5shipping and handling to Ken, 385 PanoramaTrail, Rochester, NY 14625. Net proceeds willgo to the class Reunion fund (it's only fouryears away, you know). He's also in the pro-cess of making up a "Reunion snapshot classof '54 album," so if you have any good pic-tures that you'd like included, please write thenames, dates, and events on the back and sendthem to Ken at the same address. Hischallenge to one and all is to recruit a missingclassmate for the 40th!

Some news notes include one from JohnFodor, an architect with a private practiceand director of Yale-New Haven Hospital fa-cilities planning and design. In addition toserving on the University Council, he is activein Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN) interviewing and is CAAAN chairin Bridgeport, Conn. Bill and Mary SavageWebber '58 are in St. Louis where Bill is as-sociate professor of surgery at St. Louis U. Heis becoming their Macintosh expert, doing an-imated versions of surgical procedures.

Bert Rosen is also a physician^in NewYork City. He writes that he was in Italy lastsummer, mostly in the Bologne-Florence area,in the hill towns. He found "some very expen-sive deluxe hotels, views, and visits to friendswho also had swimming pools; Italy is catch-ing up to California." He visited his formerprofessor, Douglas Dowd, in Bologna, "still atreasure trove of economic information," be-fore going on to London for several weeks. A.David Bernanke has been practicing inter-nal medicine and endocrinology for 25 yearsand is vice president of the board of the Alex-andria, Va. hospital. His wife Judith is a law

librarian and daughters Karen and Jessica arenow out of school and on their own. He enjoysgardening, walking, and vacations anywhereand often! Jim Buchan, who is a teacherat Yuba College in Marysville, Cal. also haslaunched his children on their own with thegraduation of son Jim from UC, Berkeley in1989. His wife of 13 years, Joan, also recentlyreceived her associate's degree, along with adozen roses and a standing ovation from thefaculty of Yuba, since she was not only a facul-ty wife, but has been the college receptionistfor 26 years. John Page, also in California,recently married Ann Madsen and has retiredfrom Rockwell International after 30 years ofmetallurgy, materials, and test engineering.Also retired is Esther Corcoran Namian,who was a dietitian in Washington, DC.

In the expatriate division, Mary Raceliswrites from Nairobi, Kenya, where she is inher seventh year as regional director forUNICEF. She has traveled extensively in the20 countries of the regions of Eastern andSouthern Africa to ensure that UNICEF pro-grams "respond to the needs of children andwomen and strengthen national capacities toaddress their needs." Her travels also take herto New York and Manila, where she can getreacquainted with her three grandchildren.Richard Miller is deputy director of CibaGeigy Ltd. in Basle, Switzerland. NormaUrtz and Paul DeWitt are back in Troy, NY,after an eight-month assignment in Australia,where Paul was an industrial engineering con-sultant. Shortly after their return, their firstgranddaughter was born. The parents, Maryand Brent Gilmore, are Purdue grads. Dickand Ruth Bell live in Glenview, 111., so they'renot really expats, but Dick has recently com-pleted the construction of five new tankers inNagasaki, Japan for the Amoco Ocean TankerCo. for whom he is new construction projectcoordinator.

Our sympathy to Sylvia Taub Bern-stein, who writes that husband MaynardC., MBA '54, passed away in August 1988.She lives in Encino, Cal., and is coordinator of"Lifeline" at Cedars/Sinai Medical Center inLos Angeles. D Louise S. Dailey, 51 WhiteOak Shade Rd., New Canaan, Conn. 06840.

Ellie Schaffer, our globe-trotting classmate, was inNew York recently. Home isstill Paris, France, and she iscurrently studying at the Ad-vanced Ins.t. of Social Sci-

ences there. Ellie is taking courses related toCentral European politics, history, and litera-ture, and is planning to return to China thissummer to work on her PhD thesis. Whilehere in the US, Ellie had visits with BettyDavidson Gray, who teaches English to for-eigners; Lois "Mimi" (Ullman) '59 and EdBerkowitz in Washington, DC; and a shortvisit with her old friends Barbara and ErnieStern. Ellie plans to be here next summer forour 35th Reunion.

Our best wishes for a speedy recovery toEd Janus, whom we all remember seeing atour 30th Reunion. Ed, we look forward to see-ing you at the 35th.

Naomi Spatz and I will be sharing abeach house in Amagansett, Long Island. Welook forward to seeing any classmates in thearea.

It is with sadness that I report the death ofCecile Plaster Cammarata in April 1990.D Phyllis Bosworth, 8 E. 83rd St., NYC10028.

jj i An organization mentioned in[ M the news with more frequencyHA m these days is the Centers for Dis-• m ease Control in Atlanta. Ruby^W m Tomberg Senie is involved^^ ™ with research at the Centers.Currently she is participating in research onAIDS, especially the effect of the disease onwomen and children, while continuing her re-search into breast cancer. Louise SarkinLeaf retired from full-time work as an urbanplanner in Hastings-on-Hudson due to compli-cations of cancer. However, an experimentaldrug has given her new energy, and the sup-port of her sister, Elaine Sarkin Jaffe '65,director of hematopathology at the NationalCancer Inst., has aided Louise's recovery.Louise and Martin, a New York City lawyer,have traveled frequently to Aspen, whereMartin is on the board of the Windstar Foun-dation. Their three children are married andLouise and Marty have three grandchildren.

Don't miss our Class of '57 ad on page 9,this issue!

It is with sadness that I report the deathsof two of our classmates, Judith Rothenberg Tishman in December, and LucilleSuttmeier Palminteri, who succumbed tocancer last October. Judy was well known inher field of art and advertising, owned her ownbusiness, and was listed in Who's Who inAmerican Women. She leaves a husband,Peter, to whom we extend condolences. Myfriendship with Lucille, "Cheebie" to thosewho knew her, goes back to our freshman yearwhen we were corridor mates along with Car-ol Cochran Winnert, Mollie Turner,Anne Home Warder, Jane Lueck Tal-mage, Theresa Lighten Cahn, RoxannaUrquhart Phillips, and Judith GolubHalpern on the corridor of Anne Marcy Tep-po '56 in Risley. That freshman bond is onethat stays with you through the years. It wasalways a delight to see Cheebie at Reunions.She was an active and loyal alum and a faithfulcontributor of news to this column. Our deep-est sympathies to Tony, DVM and their chil-dren. D Judith Reusswig, 5401 WestbardAve., #1109, Bethesda, Md. 20816.A visit with Tony Cashen in New York and aletter form Paul Miller in Chicago allow meto announce that these former Boldt Hallfreshman corridor-mates are back together.Lamalie Associates and Flanagan & Websterhave merged their executive search busi-nesses. Lamalie Associates has offices in sev-en cities, and Tony and Paul are partners intheir respective offices. If you want to searchor be searched, give them a call.

Dwight Ryan, after 28 years with Xer-ox, has joined Document Technologies Inc. in


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Palo Alto as chairman and CEO. DTI special-izes in image processing products, andDwight believes the company possesses tech-nology that can revolutionize the electronicdocument market. He succeeds the founder,who will now concentrate on concepts for thenext generation of products. Speaking of thenext generation, Glenn and Ann Wise wereto attend commencement this spring at Cor-nell and Penn in honor of their twin daughters.The elder Wises have just returned from a6V2-year stint in Tokyo to Washington, whereGlenn has become director of internationalmarketing for Honeywell.

While the above gear up, Jeremy Fitz-patrick and Don Garrett report that theyare gearing down a notch: Jeremy is still an in-vestment analyst with GFR Associates inNewport News—but the kids are educated andmarried (there are those who would say thatthose words are mutually exclusive); Don hassold all but one of his stores in Downington,Pa., and he has a daughter doing graduatework at UC, San Francisco and a son in thetraining program at ESPN.

Amadeo Lopez-Castro sends alongword from Miami that Corali, the youngestoffspring at 24, has graduated from MiamiLaw School. D John Seiler, 563 StarksBldg., Louisville, Ky. 40202; (502) 589-1151.

Your correspondents now arewel^ SUPP^6^ with news fr°m

many classmates thanks to yourresponses of the last six months.Those who sent only theirchecks are thanked again and

we'll watch for their news in future years. Spe-cial thanks to the following on this round whosent in an extra contribution to the class: RonLynch, Richard Stout III, Dick Stein-berg, and Charles "Chic" Robinson. RonLewis did the same, and reports that sonMartin passed the NY State Bar exam recent-ly and daughter Debbie graduated from U. ofMaryland and is working in Washington, DC.Daughter Amy Gerhart owns a women'sclothing store in Cortland after graduatingfrom Syracuse U. Ron, their old man, is still atMorris's Men's Wear selling suits! Dr. Ger-ald Mandell also sent along some extrafunds, and reports that Scott '92 continuesthe family tradition of Jim '84 and Pam'87. Gerald is a professor at the U, of Virginiamedical school. Another mate with an extracontribution with his news is Joel Van Wyn-en, who returned for an alumni weekend andreports being impressed by all that he saw.Son James '92 remains "in good standing,enjoying the place tremendously, as did hisgreat-grandfather Edwin J. Fort 1893,grandfathers Kenneth Van Wynen '25and Robert E. Fort '28, and father."

Barry Zacks, a real estate developer inColumbus, Ohio, reports a new address: POBox 03325 in Columbus. D. Allan Hersheycontinues as president of Hershey EnergySystems, the firm he started in 1971. Son Dan-iel is a sophomore at U. of Rochester andyounger son, David, is an avid sportsman atVictor Central Junior High. The Hersheysmust be neighbors of Marilyn (Zeltner) andLarry Teel '57 reported in this column a fewmonths ago to be in their new home in Victor.Evelynn Clark Gioiella writes that 1989was her year for travel to fun places. Lynn

"used some of my Frequent Flyer miles totake my sister Catherine "Kate" ClarkMilnor '59 to Paris for an extra long weekendin April. Then in June, I spent two weeks inAlaska ... a spectacular trip. I also got to theDel Coronado in San Diego and the VentanaCanyon Resort in Tucson, both lovely placesto play. This year will be quiet bycomparison."

Joel R. Justin, a senior vice presidentfor Cigna in Philadelphia, reports that his fam-ily all got together at their summer place inMaine last year, and their first grandson, afourth-generation Joel, was there, too. BobKlumpe is state conservationist for RhodeIsland, administering the USD A soil conser-vation program there. Three grown childrenare all busily employed, as is Bob's wife Shir-ley, an administrative assistant at New Eng-land Inst. of Technology. Dr. Al Lefkovits,physician in New York City, says, "Why notsend a class bill for three years and save workfor everyone?" I think I remember somethingsimilar from Albert Podell a year or twoback, only AΓs suggestion may have been forfive or ten years or "life-time" class dues.Something the class officers may want to re-consider. Chase Lichtenstein and wifewere grandparents for the third time last No-vember. Chase travels to Europe and the Mid-dle East several times a year in the teach-ing/consulting and project management com-pany he founded.

Phyllis Yates Marshall has her ownconsultancy to the food service industry, Phyl-lis Ann Associates, in Costa Mesa, Cal. Phyllisspent a weekend last October with her "won-derful roommate," Judy Carlson Allen, inNewport, RI. Dorinda Larkin McNamarais a systems analyst and back to work at Met-ropolitan Life, having fully recovered from herhip operations. Last summer, she and hus-band Terry took an Alaskan cruise and alsovisited Newfoundland to trace Terry's roots.The McNamaras hope to visit Europe thisyear. We have a note from Herb Meltzerstating that some of his research on schizo-phrenia has led to the approval of a new drug,Clozaril, hailed as a first major advance intreatment for that disease in 40 years. Bothchildren are in school, David obtaining hisMD/PhD at Chicago and daughter Danielle asophomore at Yale. Herb is psychiatry profes-sor at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.

Attorney Anita Podell Miller has a landuse law practice, and recently has been help-ing "rural New Mexico communities draftland use regulations to confront a threatenedonslaught of garbage shipped from the EastCoast!" Anita also is involved in local andstate politics, particularly concerned with"quality of life" issues. Son Jon '85 is an at-torney with the Dept. of Interior in Washing-ton; daughter Alison is an aspiring actress andcomedienne in NYC. We end on the sweet sidewith a note from the president of the DeliciousCookie Co., none other than John W. Mor-


rison. John has been president for the last tenyears, and writes: "Look for our Teenage Mu-tant Ninja Turtle cookies nationwide in early1990." The Morrisons' eldest daughter is afrosh at U. of Kansas; three more childrenfollow. We know what you're saying, John.Good luck! D Dick Haggard, 1207 NashDr., Fort Washington, Pa. 19034.

Summertime, and for many ofus, school's out! A break fromgrading papers for Mary JoSigler Tennant, 1317 BreckfordCt, Westlake Village, Cal., whochairs the English department at

Redwood Intermediate School in ThousandOaks. A well-earned diploma for dentist CarlResnick, 6739 N. St. Louis, Lincolnwood,111., who just graduated from DePauΓs lawschool. Those of us who have traveled to Eur-ope this year have had wonderful if too-briefopportunities to talk with people from bothsides of the now-defunct Iron Curtain aboutthe dramatic changes occurring in their coun-tries. "You need patience," a Soviet scientisttold me. "Perestroika is not a simple process.Life in our country is not simple now." Othersprobably share my envy of classmates wholive in the midst of all the activity. Mimi Nie-pold Home, 28 Avenue Raymond-Poincare,Paris, writes that "We have a ringside seat forobserving events." She and her husband spenta weekend in Berlin and could hardly find aseat in East Berlin's Grand Hotel for lunch, "itwas so packed with businessmen from allover."

Mimi recently moved from fundraisingfor the American U. of Paris into the adminis-tration of adult education for one of its smallerbranches, WICE. "Since adult education isvirtually unknown in France, this attracts arather international group, even though allcourses are given in English," notes Mimi."It's lots of fun planning and carrying outcourses in writing, inviting journalists and dip-lomats to speak about the unfolding events inEastern Europe, etc."

Steve and Elizabeth "Lissa" RogallWeseley, Tall Tree Lane, Pleasantville, NY,celebrated their 30th wedding anniversarywith a ten-day cruise from Bali to Singaporeon the Sea Goddess II. "It is an extravagantway of life ... to be repeated in another 30years," writes Lissa. Enjoying their first yearof marriage are Laura and John Murphy,who married on Dec. 30, '89. The marriagegives John three stepchildren in addition to his22-year-old twin sons. John, a professor of lawat Villanova law school, has written State Sup-port of International Terrorism: Legal, Political,and Economic Dimensions (Westview Press,1989) and co-authored The Regulation of Inter-national Business and Economic Relations(Matthew, Bender, 1990).

Diane Hoffberg Eisen, 1390 TerraceDr., Pittsburgh, Pa.; is program director forthe Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council,where she has worked for more than threeyears. Joanne Mattson De Voe, 3014Barclay St., Baltimore, Md., is now workingwith the city health department as an analyst. . . and indulging her love of folk music,hosting a monthly sing-along at her home, go-ing to coffee house concerts, doing Englishcountry dancing, and "even attempting(again!) to learn to play the guitar."


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Kudos for the new Cornell Club of NewYork City from member Phil McCarthy, 20Wells Lane, Short Hills, NJ—"an outstandingclub and location," he writes. Morgan Lar-kin Rankin, 222 Ice Cream Grade, BonnyBoon Rte., Santa Cruz, Cal., writes: "I spent aweek at the [club] in March and found theamenities, ambiance, and personnel top rate. Iam glad to see us with our own club there,since I've been a member almost 30 years andhave been through a variety of locations. Myson Andrew is in his second year at EugeneLang College, New School for Social Re-search, so he is an added incentive for my tripsto the Big Apple." Accolades, too, for the Stat-ler Hotel on the Hill. Ruth Rosen Abrams,1000 Park Ave. #1 A, NYC, stayed there whileattending the Real Estate Council weekendlast fall. "Could not believe the four-star ser-vice ... very impressed!" she writes. In addi-tion to owning and managing commercial realestate, Ruth has a new career, part time atChristie's Auction House doing bids, sales,and customer service. "Fun, long hours, andno $," she says.

After several years of teaching hearing-impaired children in rural Missouri, JeanFinerty Wandel is back in the Finger Lakesarea, at 1618 James St., Apt. 3, Syracuse, NY.Jean recently completed her doctorate in hear-ing-impaired education at Teachers College,Columbia U., and has accepted an assistantprofessorship at Le Moyne College in Syra-cuse. Joan Travis Pittel, 25 Neptune Blvd.#9K, Long Beach, NY, continues to teachkindergarten 'and first grade children withphysical handicaps, under the auspices ofUnited Cerebral Palsy. She also has inte-grated children who use augmentative com-munication devices into a class of childrenwith oral speech. "These children are to bemainstreamed into their local school districtsand will use these devices in their classes,"she writes.

New addresses: Jim Weisbeck, control-ler with Kraft General Foods, has moved to3196 Carroll Hill Rd., Holcomb, NY. JohnWebster is at 127 E. 30th St., Apt. 12, NYC.Enjoy your summer... and be sure to write tome about your vacations, sailing trips, andother warm-weather activities! D JennyTesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel,Conn. 06801.

| Have you marked your calendarfor June 6-9,1991? Please do so! In-

I dicating already that they will be inIthaca on those dates are Peter

I Greenberg, George Hoffman,William Eaton, Adelle Case

Picking, Andrew Philip, and Sylvia Cot-tingham Smyth! George Downs left Pasa-dena four years ago to take a position with Lin-coln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., wherehe now is helping build orbiting signal proces-sors, which, when connected to a telescope,look for other satellites in orbit around theearth. Also in Massachusetts is StuartCarter, who celebrated his 20th year withHuggins, Dimello, Shaffer & Assoc., Archi-tects, the firm which recently completed boththe new African Tropical Forest Pavilion forBoston's Franklin Park Zoo and the new Ip-swich Country Club.

Business or pleasure travel opportunitieshave taken James Baden to Brazil and Ar-

gentina, Susan Williams Beelick to Peru,Deanna Spitzer Nass to Peru, Equador, andBolivia, Burt Neuborne to Moscow andLeningrad, James Moore to Paris, andRichard and Janet Nelson Lipinski toAlaska. After two angioplasty procedures andone double-bypass surgery in 1989, LeonardKalcheim reports a clean bill of health. Hewas to be in Ithaca this May for his son'sgraduation from Cornell, as were EdwardCapra and Niles Brown.

Career updates include the following:Lewis Krulwich is the managing partner ofNortheast managering consulting services forPrice Waterhouse and lives in Summit, NJ.Kent Dohrman is in charge of businessoperations' at U. of Virginia, where plans are inthe works for new housing, new dining, newbookstore, additional parking, and a new daycare center. Stan Marks, living in Scotts-dale, Ariz., was elected to the board of gover-nors of the Assn. of Trial Lawyers of America.Ruth Bohrer Bramson of Dover, Mass, issenior vice president at Employee Communi-cations Services Inc., a communications con-sulting firm. David Prihar, of Anaheim,Cal., is marketing manager at Magnavox Ad-vanced Products and Systems Co. And JoeCarroll is plant manager of 3M's MagneticDivision in Minnesota. Gerry and VickiWillis Kumpf spend much of their timetraveling to the growing number of golf tour-naments at which their company, Food Ser-vices International, provides all of the "on thecourse" concessions, including the LA Open,the Byron Nelson in Dallas, and the Bell SouthAtlanta Classic. Fran Goldreich Raab isproduction manager (Boston) for the Harvardmedical school video series to be shown on theLifetime TV channel in September.

A number of classmates have taken ad-vantage of Adult University (CAU) programs,including Peter and Judith FriedmanBrandeis—Arizona, New Mexico, and Istan-bul; Constance Fekete Drapeau—NewMexico; Fran Beach—Exploring the FingerLakes Trail; Helen Litton Greer—Humor;Erna Fritsch Johnson—Natural Life in theFinger Lakes; and Barbara Ela Randall—SoThat's How it Works. For first-hand impres-sions of the programs, you may want to con-tact some of those who have attended.

We look forward to hearing fromyou! D Nancy Hislop McPeek, 7405Brushmore, NW, N. Canton, Ohio 44720;business (216) 438-8375, home (216)494-2572.

I'm overwhelmed! A 2.5-centimeter stack of pink News &Dues forms arrived from AlumniHouse yesterday to fill the de-pleted news coffers. Now Γmbegging your indulgence, while

trying to report new addresses and "lostsheep" in the earliest issues. A plea to theladies—please include your first and maidennames on the form so you will be properlyidentified. Feast is more fun than famine, sohere's the latest:

New name for Carol Lounsberry: Mrs.Harold N. Boris. The Borises reside at 8 War-ren St., Lexington, Mass. Alice DaltonBrown (Mrs. Eric, MEd '67) has moved to305 E. 24th St., Apt. 8G, NYC. Alice is an art-ist on Broadway (611—go see!).

Carl Werner's new address is 1109Sherbrooke Dr., West Chester, Pa., and R. F."Dick" Stern has moved to 660 Hidden PondLane, Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Dick is an attor-ney with Stern and Hendler in Jenkintowη. InAllentown, Dr. Arthur E. Fetzer is at 1230S. Cedar Crest Blvd.

Bedford Hills, NY (292 Cantitoe St.) is thenew home of Myron and Marilyn NankinSchuster. Dr. Mark and Nedra Oren havemoved from Coral Gables to 3526 BayshoreVis. [sic] Dr., Coconut Grove, Fla. Mark is ahematology-oncology specialist.

From Barbara Nelson McDavitt: "Wemoved to Andover, Mass. (6 Robandy Rd.) af-ter having lived in Minneapolis for 12 years.We gave up wild rice for wild drivers." Daugh-ter Sarah graduates from UC, Santa Barbarathis year and son Bill is at Middlebury. Barba-ra recently visited Betty Allen Little in Cali-fornia, where Betty teaches political scienceand comparative government at a communitycollege in the Los Angeles area.

Motorola provided the impetus for DickHeimlich's move to 21360 White Pine Rd.,Kildeer, 111. He's a vice president, with an of-fice in Schaumburg. Jack Loose wrote hisnews as preparations were underway forlaunch of the Hubble space telescope. "I'vebeen deeply involved in its development since1981, with some participation going back to1969. So it's a big deal! The calamities thrownat us rival Tom Clancy's—we surmountmost." Jack is with NASA in Huntsville, Ala.Congratulate him at 7815 Haven St., SE.

What a wonderful spring to be in Germa-ny! John F. Abel, a professor in Civil Engi-neering, and wife Lynne (Snyder), associ-ate dean of Arts and Sciences on the Hill, werespending spring term on sabbatic leave inStuttgart. They enjoyed side trips to Switzer-land, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, andGreece. Home base is 1001 TaughannockBlvd., Ithaca.

"Don't know the sex yet" of the firstgrandchild, say Arlene and Karl Baker.Karl is a veterinarian with San Diego CountyDept. of Animal Control. They're childproof-ing their house at 5025 February St. Theirdaughter and son-in-law are research assis-tants at UC, San Diego's University Hospital.Karl enjoys his term on the University Coun-cil, with October visits to campus.

Also in Southern California (sometimes)are Ken '61 and Margie McKee Blan-chard. They celebrated their childrens' im-pending graduation—K. Scott '90 (Hotel)and Debbie (U. of Colorado)—with a three-month business/pleasure trip around theworld. "The highlight of the trip, by far, was asafari in Africa." Blanchard Training &Development is based in Escondido.

D. Jeff Blumenthal, an executive withFollett Corp. in Chicago writes, "I was givinga speech before a convention in San Jose, Cal.,last October on bar codes in distribution. Ithought what I had to say was relatively im-portant, but not as earthshaking as it turnedout to be." Let us know your future travelplans, Jeff.

John and Janie Curtis spent part of lastFebruary in Ecuador, at the invitation of thebishop of the Episcopal Central Diocese. Theyled the first Marriage Encounter weekendsthere. Three communities have begun andseveral couples will be coming to the US for

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training. "Certainly this has been the highpoint of our two-year tenure as National Exec-utive Couple for EME." When they are notdoing these adventurous things, John designssubdivisions and golf courses in Palm Desertand Janie edits the local business newspaper.Address: 72853 Tamarisk, Palm Desert, Cal.

When next in Colorado, look up John D.Ziegler in Aurora. He's president of RockyMountain Regional Cornell Soc. of Hotelmen,vice president of Colorado Restaurant Assn.;owns three Jackson's Hole Saloons, and is ac-tive in Little League and Boy Scouting—"andother duties, as assigned." John chaired lastspring's dinner for President Frank and Mrs.Rosa Rhodes.

"After 40 years of dreaming aboutflying," J. Narl Davidson got his pilots' li-cense last fall. Narl has taught at Georgia Techfor the past 17 years in the school of mechani-cal engineering. His wife, Edi Guyton, is onthe faculty at Georgia State.

And on that note, I'll say tune in nextmonth for more! D Jan McClayton Crites,2779 Dellwood Dr., Lake Oswego, Ore. 97034.

News is beginning to flow infrom the News & Dues letters.Your class correspondent andy°ur classmates appreciate itgreatly! First is word from KeyBiscayne, Fla., about Judy

Fischer Reinach, who recently traveled to Is-rael as part of a group of 11 prominent Ameri-can Jewish leaders. The group, part of the Na-tional Jewish Coalition, discussed issues, suchas resettlement of immigrating Jews, directflights from Moscow to Tel Aviv, andprivatization of industry and construction,with Israeli leaders such as Yitzhak Shamir,Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin. In additionto pursuing these serious matters, Judy foundtime to visit an archeological dig and some his-toric sites. She also co-chairs of Republicansfor Choice and is director of community affairsfor VMS Realty Partners on Key Biscayne.

Al Aragona writes from Houston, Tex-as that he is president and CEO of Uncle Ben'sInc. In addition, he is an investor in the AvantiRestaurant in Oakview, Cal., which PeterSoracco manages. AΓs son Jared is '91,while daughter Jessica is a freshman at the U.of Tampa. Al is also involved with GeorgeSlocum '62 in various Cornell activities.

Norman Smith has a lot of tales to tellabout last summer—he has just moved backinto his home on Sullivan's Island, SC, afterthe ravages of Hurricane Hugo. He says he isfortunate to have "good insurance and a faith-ful builder." From Midland, Mich, comes anote from Leslie Verdier Armentrout: "I'vebeen a paralegal at Legal Aid representingpoverty-level clients for three years. Myoldest child is out of college, middle onegraduated in May from UC, Berkeley, and theyoungest is at the U. of Miami. I became certi-fied in scuba last summer and still work instained glass."

Dorry Hall Ross lives in Newark, Del.,and keeps busy teaching English compositionat the U. of Delaware, doing freelance editingand writing, teaching grammar in local indus-tries, and writing a domestic humor columnfor the local paper. Hardly seems enougfi! Heroldest is a graduate student in environmentalscience in Washington, the middle one works

in Portland, Ore., and the youngest is at Col-orado College. "I'm not sure how/why theyounger generation slid west when we havealways lived in the East." Dorry's husbandSeth '64 is an engineer at DuPont and spentpart of last summer hiking in the Cascadeswith their oldest son, who is a park ranger inthe summer. Francine Geber Buckley ispreparing to move from New Jersey to RhodeIsland—be sure to send your new address,please. She recently returned from extendedtravel through Namibia studying seabirdresources. In addition, she is editor of thenewsletter of the Colonial Waterbird Society.

Christopher Le Sourd lives and worksin Redmond, Wash., where he formed a con-sulting firm in 1988 after 30 years in the fran-chise and hospitality industries. His firm "pro-vides franchise and management strategiesand planning to franchise and hospitality in-dustries." He also does expert witness work inthe franchise and hotel and restaurant fields.Chris's three older children are grown, withdaughters aged 7 and 5 still at home. Anotherclassmate starting his own business is R.Garret Demarest III, a training consultantin the areas of leadership, management, teamdevelopment, and customer service. Heworks as an associate with fraternity brotherKen Blanchard '61 and Marge McKeeBlanchard '62. I'm still actively sailingJ-24s, Lightnings, and Lasers, as well as run-ning and biking in Traverse City, Mich."

Finally, we extend our sympathy to thefamily of Richard Endreny, who died inFebruary.

Thanks again to all who are sendingnews—please write and tell us how you spendyour summer vacation. D Elenita EckbergBrodie, 80 Sheri Dr., Allendale, NJ 07401.

MMany thanks to those of you whoresponded promptly to our News& Dues appeal. Now I have a lotof good new info to pass along inthis column. For those of youwho have not yet responded,

it's not too late! And do send news—I needmore to last a whole year. Belated Congrats toPeter and Susan Mansky—their third childis almost 2. And more Congrats are in order asPeter, a psychiatrist, was recently awarded anAmerican Psychiatric Assn. fellowship. Withtheir other two children, now teenagers, theystill live at 33 Daniel St., Slingerlands, NY andenjoy tennis and downhill skiing.

Wedding bells chimed for three class-mates—Congrats! Last October, RobertDietz married D'vora Tager, with Mike andBonnie Tavlin Kay '65 and Bill Ponzeramong the witnesses. In January, the Dietzfamily of five moved from Dallas to 8401 WildOlive Dr., Potomac, Md., when Bob becamedirector of operations for AIPAC in Washing-ton. Last November, Bill Tomlinson remar-ried Rita Duggan, then took a Bahamanhoneymoon. Still at 26 Rockhurst Dr., Pen-field, NY, Bill owns Rockhurst Corp., a pro-perty management firm, and is vice presidentof the Alexandria, Va.-based CommunityAssociations Inst. Research Foundation. InMarch 1989, Alice Schwartz Chaboradivorced Peter, PhD '67 and this May shemarried Jerry Tobias '60. You can sendcongratulations to orthodontist Alice and vet-erinarian Jerry at 28-19 214th St., Bayside.

Both of Alice's daughters are now in college(the younger one, Paige '93, in Arts). A ten-nis player and skier (with trips to Utah lastwinter and Switzerland in 1989), Alice recent-ly traveled with Jerry to Israel.

Lots of classmates have had moving ex-periences lately. A belated welcome back tothe US to John and Rita Lindell and theirtwo children, who moved to 910 GeneralWayne Dr., West Chester, Pa., about twoyears ago after having lived in Europe for sixyears. John, international manager for Du-Pont, is also a tennis and skiing enthusiast,and also finds time for squash. In August1989, the Lindells went back to Europe—astourists.

Last December, after living for 7¥2 yearsin Europe, Stephen and Phyllis Blair Dar-rah moved back to the US: 1331 GrummanDr., Richmond, Va. With both sons in college(the younger, Gregory '91, in Engineering),Phyllis has time to enjoy taking graduatecourses in French at U. of Richmond.

William "Hank" Ritchie and wifePamela moved the other way: they left Massa-chusetts and can now be reached at PO Box5335, Mobil Saudi Arabia, Inc., in Jeddah.Their two sons still go to high school in Massa-chusetts. Hank is vice president for relations,industrial products and services for that Mobilcompany, and spends free time jogging andserving as vice president of American Busi-nessmen of Jeddah.

After 23 years at Cummins, Carl "Kim"Ahlers joined Ford New Holland as chief en-gineer for diesel engines. With two sons in col-lege and wife Sandi in grad school in Bostonuntil next May, Kim moved from Indiana to2492 Somerset Blvd. #203, Troy, Mich. Fortheir 25th anniversary last fall, he and Sandispent a week on Virgin Gorda, BVI.

After a few years in Connecticut, PhilipGrinstead has moved back to Chicago, 111.(1111 N. Dearborn St. #1705). Also instead ofConnecticut, Charles and Elen Kentnorcan now be reached at Box 3883, SteamboatSprings, Colo. And instead of New York City,you can reach Jim Wooden at the easternend of Long Island, at PO Box 1116, Quogue.

Veterinarian Edward French, wife Pa-tricia, and their teenage son are now reachableat 131 Queensbury Ave., Queensbury, NY in-stead of Glens Falls. Depending on the season,Ed enjoys spending his spare time snowboar-ding, skeet shooting, fly fishing, and fly tying.Instead of Kingston, Bill Cornelske's newaddress is 98 Riverview, Port Ewen, NY. Andinstead of Arlington, Mass., Jim Becker'snew address is 94 Juniper Rd., Belmont,Mass. After I wrote the April column, JohnRandall sent word that he, wife Catherine,and their three children moved into a newhouse in November 1989; 6318 Dry StoneGate, still in Columbia, Md.

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10th Reunion. His widow, Carol Green-wald '65, wrote that he was thrilled to learnin December that their daughter expects toenter Cornell this September.

Be sure to keep those News & Dues corn-in'. D Bev Johns Lament, 720 Chestnut St.,Deerfield, 111., 60015.

News from Judy Bourne, St.Thomas, Virgin Islands: she sur-vived Hurricane Hugo but it didcause serious damage to herhouse and disrupted her lawpractice. The situation remains

difficult but the community is continuing thestruggle to recovery. We all wish her and theisland well. Judy also complains about thenegative publicity the island received after thehurricane, but assures us that now the situa-tion is well under control.

Harold "Hap" Gray of 23112 RobertsRun, Bay Village, Ohio, writes that wife Patri-cia is getting her PhD in urban education atCleveland State U. and is the director of edu-cation at Metro Health. Son Curtis, 15, plays amean game of football and basketball, and is asure starting offensive tackle on the Big Redfootball team, hopefully in Hotel '97. Hapoperates and co-owns the Watermark Restau-rant in Cleveland's historic Flats area. Hedescribes it as a large fresh seafood upscaleeatery oriented to businessmen in the area.For relaxation the family visits their cottageon Atwood Lake in central Ohio; Hap invitesall Cornellians in the area to drop in during thesummer.

Arnold S. Berger, 445 Delmonico Ct,Colorado Springs, Colo., writes that hisdaughter is going,through the college waitingprocess at the moment. Unfortunately, aftervisiting Ithaca on a dreary fall day, she hadsecond thoughts about Cornell. Arnoldmanages an R&D group for Hewlett PackardCo., logic systems division, a bit of a careerchange, since Arnold's undergraduatespecialty was metallurgy. Fortunately, Cor-nell made him flexible. He had plans to ski inFebruary with Keith Jurow and we assumethat all went well.

Samuel J. Fox, 327 llth St., SantaMonica, Cal. attended a Tau Delta Phi reunionin New York City in November, where he re-united himself with many of his old fraternitybrothers from the Classes of '62-'69. Samuel isstill practicing entertainment law in Los An-geles, representing assorted rockers, come-dians, managers, production companies, etc.We wonder whether he has ever run into Cole-man.

Maurice Cerulli, MD, 24 Andover Rd.,Rockville Center, NY, attended the holidaydinner at the Cornell Club of New York City inDecember and listened to a wonderful readingof Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol byPresident Frank Rhodes. The new club is atremendous asset. The dinner was organizedby Alice Katz Berglass, who urges all Cor-nellians in the area to drop in and see the newfacility.

Andrea Jacobson McClaskey, PO Box723, Boonville, Cal. is involved with a grant todevelop a literature-based, multi-media, inter-active reading program for at-risk students ina rural district near Boonville. She tells us thatshe knew her degree in Home Economicswould come in handy for something.

MadeleineLeston Meehaiϊ

Fort Christian,St. Thomas,built in 1672 anda former churchand police sta-tion, is now amuseum.

An American Paradise

L ast February, just as many alumni were wishingfor a winter respite in the tropics, MadeleineMeehan's book, Golden Beaches, Crystal Waters,was published (by the Honey Press of St. Thom-as, U.S. Virgin Islands). The slim volume con-

tains Meehan's lively line drawings, glimpses of thepeople of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John in set-tings urban and rural, capturing the style and vitalityof their lives in the sun. Meehan's running linessketch in details of the islands' history.

Born in Cuba, Meehan came to Cornell from NewYork City, earned her BFA, and continued to studyat Columbia and New York University and in acade-mies in New York and Paris. Her paintings and draw-ings have been seen in a number of galleries andmuseums, in publications and on posters, and inprivate collections throughout the United States,Europe, and Australia. She lives on St. Thomas.

Judith Jayson Sonfield lives in LaurelHollow; older son, Brian, is a junior at Har-vard, younger son, Adam, is a junior in highschool, and husband Matt '64 is a professorat Hofstra U. Judith is an elementary schoolsocial worker with children in kindergarten tosixth grade. She has news about fellow class-mates: Barbara Hauptman Goldstein liveswith husband Howard and three children inRoslyn, NY; Elise Frank Sterman lives withhusband George and daughter in East Setau-ket, NY; Deanne Gebell Gitner lives inShort Hills, NJ with husband and youngerson, and their older son, Daniel '92 is inArts; Tina Su Cooper lives with husbandDoug '64 and son in Millwood, NY; Made-line Daub Kanter lives with husbandStan, JD '68 and younger son in Harrington,RI, and their older son is a freshman at Grin-

nell College; Suzan Kerss Goldhaber liveswith husband Fred and two children in EastSetauket, NY. We have to make sure Judith isin charge of one of the affinity groups in theNew York area—she knows where more of ourclassmates are than even the fundraisers atCornell!

Barbara Allen Ariano, 108 Grotke Rd.,Spring Valley, NY, writes that she and Antho-ny continue to operate their own company,Three C's Sanitation Corp., a Manhattan ref-use collection firm. Their children, Michael,9, and Katherine, 6, keep them in a continualwheel of activities. She recently saw ToveHasselrϋs Abrams '65. She and husbandSteve have two children, Seth and Analise.Tove and Steve frequently sing and play thepiano at various Long Island musical events,and Barbara and Tove have many wonderful

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memories of singing with the CornellSavoyards.

A note from Yearbook Editors CandyMoore Harrington and Lorrie SilvermanSamburg: "The first responses to our 25th Re-union Yearbook mailing have been terrific! Ifyou haven't yet sent in your bio, we're sureyou'll find the forms buried somewhere onyour desk... if you need new ones, call Lorrieat (703) 821-2211. Five years ago, many of youexpressed regret at not having joined the hun-dreds of classmates who participated in our20th Reunion Directory/Survey. Here's yoursecond chance! Please send us your bio to-day—don't be left out when we go to press!"

KEEP THE NEWS & DUES FLOW-ING. D Bill Blockton, 38 Vine Rd., Larch-mont, NY 10538; (914) 833-3066.

Elias Purow, 96 Joseph Ave.,Staten Island, NY, is a gastro-enterologist whose son Josh,now studying in Israel, expectsto attend Cornell this fall. Da-vid B. Rutherford Jr., 90

Rhinecliff Dr., Rochester, NY, is a consultingengineer for rail transportation systems. Hereports seeing John Wilson and KenPriest, both '66.

This month's award for accomplishmentby offspring goes to Kathia SloughterMiller, 520 Murex Dr., Naples, Fla., whosedaughter Lynn, 12, was both pitcher andshortshop (At the same time? Shades of TheKing and His Court!) on the World ChampionNaples Queens softball team, 1989 monarchsof the 11-12-year-old girls division, and travel-ed to Kalamazoo, Mich., to win the title.

Fred C. Sake, 999 Washington Ave.,Miami Beach, Fla., is a litigation attorney whosays he hasn't "seen anyone in many yearsand would like to hear from old friends in theCornell Rowing Assn." He's traveled to theNortheast Kingdom of Vermont to go sculling.

Karen Shields Henes, BramblebushRd., Croton-on-Hudson, NY, is a certified fi-nancial planner whose son Jonathan, 21, is ajunior at Union, daughter Rachel, 12, is in 7thgrade, and there are two dogs, five cats, onehorse, and husband Michael there, too.

Addresses: Dr. Eileen Tyrala, 152Highland Ave., Jenkintown, Pa.; Peter E.Grebow, 704 Buckley Rd., Pennllyn, Pa.;Dr. Richard T. Hoppe, 340 E. Edith Ave.,Los Altos, Cal.

Three class members were among thoseattending an Adult University (CAU) program(reminds me of Chicago's American) last fallcalled Cape Cod Ecology and the Great FallMigrations: Sandra Nellis Custer, SarahNellis Kuehl, and Avanelle Morgan.

Richard N. Weisman, RD 3, BlackRiver Rd., Bethlehem, Pa., says he "just re-turned from living in the UK for six months asa Fulbright exchange scholar." He's a profes-sor in water resources engineering. James S.Cooper, 214 W. Springfield St., Boston,Mass., was admitted to the National Academyof Arbitrators last year and points out that it'salready halfway from last Reunion to the big25th.

June Sobelsohn Lee, 30 HickoryKnoll, Easton, Conn., runs corporate-eventsfor investment bankers and interviews Cornellcandidates in her part of the Nutmeg State.Judith Klimpl Blitz, 1715 Flora Lane, Silver

Spring, Md., is a high school French teacherand saw Jane (Natter) and Steven Stra-vinski. Ellen Kaspin Henkin, 14 DelawareDr., E. Brunswick, NJ, is a systems analyst fora food cooperative. Sons Scott, 16, and Evan,14, play soccer and basketball, and run trackon school and township teams.

John M. Funt was named manager,product and applications for the Carbon BlackTechnology Div., Cabot Corp. in Waltham,Mass. Mark C. Sholander, 5546 Aber-deen, Fairway, Kans., is general counsel forKansas City Power & Light Co. D RichardB. Hoffman, 2925 28th St., NW,Washington, DC 20008.

Hope you all had a very pleasantspring. Ira Goldman is a law-yer with Shipman & Goodwin inHartford, Conn. John Loeblives in Redwood City, Cal. Wil-liam Mazzeo lives in E. North-

port, NY. A note from Bill De Cou reportshe and wife Nancy (Schweinsberg) '70spent five weeks trekking around the moun-tains in Nepal last year. Bill is a field investi-gator for Montana Workers CompensationInsurance. Nancy is a manager of adminis-trative information systems for the U. ofMontana in Missoula.

Joan Smiley Libshutz and husbandAlan '67 live in Great Neck, NY. GerryLevitz lives in River Vale, NJ, and is an in-vestment counselor with the firm of Thorson,Brown & Plunkett Inc. in Greenwich, Conn.

Steve Levine lives in Holyoke, Mass.,where he is a family physician in private prac-tice. Steve and wife Marianne have twodaughters. James Levin lives in Chicago.Craig Shumate lives in Mendham, NJ.

Neal Sher continues to be director of theoffice of special investigations of the US Jus-tice Department in Washington, DC. This jobinvolves investigation of former Nazi warcriminals. Naomi Weinstein Berman is ateacher in W. Babylon, NY, where she andhusband Emory live.

Joan Weinstein Pettis is a dietitian atStrong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY.Phil Sickinger continues to work for Pro-cter & Gamble in Cincinnati, where he is anengineer. Also working as an engineer isFred Scholl, with Codenoll TechnologyCorp. in Yonkers, NY.

Robert Sleeth works on business mat-ters for the Harris Moran Seed Co. in Hay-ward, Cal. Another Californian is JohnStambaugh, who lives in El Toro. SteveUnger lives in Stratford, Conn. How are you,Steve? Hope you, Jane, and the family are allwell. Please send some news. A note fromDan Wolff reports Al McNaught and fami-ly vistted with the Wolffs while the Mc-Naughts were on vacation at Disneyworld.Dan reports that Al hasn't changed a bit ex-cept for the color of his hair. The Wolffs inviteother classmates who are on their way downto Disneyworld or other parts of Florida togive them a call at their home in Jacksonville,on Yacht Club Rd.

Jeff Gorwit is a cardiologist with the Es-condido Cardiology Associates in Escondido,Cal. Adele Diamond Thompson is a nursein Portland, Ore. William Wise lives inNewton, Mass, and is chief of pathology at theNewton Wellesley Hospital. Byron Wittlin

and wife Linda (Goldspinner) '71 live inPerry Point, Md. Susan Whittier lives inPennsylvania and works with consumer ser-vices with the Campbell Soup Co. in Camden,NJ. Susan reports having spent a wonderfultwo-week vacation in Bangkok and HongKong in February with her sister. AurelioTio lives in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

That's all for now. Let's hear some detailson how you spent the summer. Send a post-card or some pictures. Look forward to hear-ing from you. D Gordon H. Silver, ThePutnam Companies, 1 Post Office Square,Boston, Mass. 02109.

Since last report, Jeffry R.Olesen and family have trans-ferred from the US Consulate inGuadalajara, Mexico to the em-bassy in Abu Dhabi, UnitedArab Emirates. During home

leave, Jeffry, his wife, and two children spenta week at Adult University (CAU)—"a greatexperience!"—where they met Barbara Spen-cer, who lives in Milan, Italy, and GregBaum, who calls Lake Oswego, Ore. home.In Abu Dhabi Jeffry met classmate Lei-anneEllis Grounard, whose husband Jean-Mariewas manager of the Abu Dhabi Hilton. "Jean-Marie is being transferred to the Quebec Hil-ton. Lei-anne is looking forward to being clos-er to Ithaca than she's been in many years.Other Cornellians in Abu Dhabi discovered sofar are Frank Ryan '55 and FredSchneider '59."

In addition to his job chairing the internalmedicine department at the Naval Hospital,San Diego, John Mitas has become special-ty advisor in internal medicine to the surgeongeneral. "Our three kids are still too young tobe thinking seriously of college, but they allthink they want to go to Cornell—especiallyour 4-year-old."

Arthur M. Phillips is curator of theMuseum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.Travels in 1989 included "ten days in Belize,Central America visiting rain forests with wifeDede and my mother Ruth Mason Phillips'37." In August 1989, Art says he "spent fourweeks in the USSR with two other amateurradio operators from Arizona visiting Russianhams and families in Moscow, Leningrad, andsouthwestern Siberia. We were the firstAmericans to visit some areas in Siberia onlyrecently opened to foreigners."

William J. Marston Jr. (Philadelphia,Pa.) says he's "struggling with new architec-tural consulting practice (sole proprietorship)specializing in master planning and design ofhospitals; fighting for bicycle commuters inCity of Philadelphia; an avid Macintosh com-puter user—would love to share info with oth-ers." He also noted that he saw an articleabout classmate Michael Leineweber, anarchitect with his own firm in Hololulu. Mi-chael designs hotels around the Pacific rim.

Harvey Leibin's architectural firm,Leibin Associates, in business since February1987, has a new address at 56 Arbor St., Hart-ford, Conn. Harvey is the father of Brad, 9,Katie, 8, and Kara, 5.''Wife Flo plays a part inthe operational end of Leibin Associates."

Becky Faith Bever writes that she andhusband Jerry "still adore living in KeyWest." Becky is president of the Key West Artand Historical Society, "which is in the pro-


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cess of restoring our lighthouse and keeper'squarters—a $900,000 project. My free time isspent supporting my husband, who is presi-dent of the United Way for our county, and oursons, ages 15 and 13, in their soccer, BoyScouts, choir, and band activities."

Edward C. Johann, wife Lori, and chil-dren Michelle and Ryan are also active innumerous sports activities, which include bas-ketball, Softball, golf, and bass fishing. Familytrips to Table Rock Lake in the Ozark countryof Missouri allow for boating, water skiing,and more fishing. Edward is the GE majorconstruction sales engineer in the St. Louismetropolitan area for electrical distributionswitchgear, transformers, and motor controlequipment. "If you get to St. Louis, give me acall at (314) 225-0397."

Jeffrey S. Kaiden is presently in pri-vate practice (ophthalmology) with his brotherRichard '62 in Westwood, NJ. The brothersare also the ophthalmologists for the NewYork Giants football team. "Happy to reporttwo nephews, Jon '88 and Doug '91, andone niece Mindy '87 are Cornellians. Wouldlove to hear from some of my old classmatesand particularly some of my old fraternitybrothers."

Stan Chess was recently named vicechair of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal andProfessional Publications Inc., and presidentof its BAR/BRI bar review division. SaraWeisblat Schastok (Evanston, 111.) has beenpromoted to the position of assistant dean forpublications and external affairs in North-western U.'s College of Arts and Sciences.Larry Crockett is now battalion command-er of the 25th Signal Battalion at Ft. Bragg,NC. His wife Ellen (Victoria) is still judgingcats and "has discovered quilting as a newcreative outlet."

Judy Lehman Mazess (Holland, Pa.) re-ports that 18 members of the Nursing Class of'69 met for dinner in New York City last fall.She and husband Steve are "pleased that ouroldest child Wendy Suzanne '93 is in Arts."

Twenty years of Mark S. Kaufman "ina nutshell": after finishing Harvard law in1973, he moved to Atlanta to practice andmarried Chris Kestle, a native of Columbus,Ga., in 1981. "We have two assertive childrenwho run our household—Olivia, 6, and Dylan,4. As a partner with the firm of Long, Aldridgeand Norman, I chair our creditor's rights andbankruptcy reorganization group. I still enjoywhat I do, but not unlike most of us who'vebeen on the treadmill for two decades, I'm fo-cused on ways to reorder priorities. After all,we of the 1960s were supposedly the "me"generation, and I see a trend to returning toour core values."

William A. Macbain is senior vicepresident and administrative director of theGeisinger Health Plan, the nation's largestrural health management organization (87,000members). "Living near Lewisburg (nearBucknell) with wife Lisa (Barnes) '74, son


Rick, 10, daughter Abigail, 8, and three WestHighland terriers (McRuff, Tippecanoe, andTyler Too)." D Joan Sullivan, 1812 N.Quinn St., #627, Arlington, Va. 22209.

•^ Λ This July column could have pre-Ί Iβ sented itself as a fabulous oppor-β tunity for a gifted writer, had it

M been the good fortune of the Classm I of 71 to have a gifted writer inm charge of writing the.column this

month. Such a creative mind could haverambled on, either in fact or in fiction as to allexemplary things he or she was doing, seeing,enjoying, participating in, or had imaginedhimself or herself doing, seeing, etc. Yourclass correspondents have exhausted in priorcolumns all the news provided to us. Perhapsyou could say that we have adopted the jour-nalistic motto, "All the news that fits, weprint."

I have been in telephone communicationwith the alumni affairs office, and am advisedthat our next News & Dues questionnaire wasscheduled to be mailed on or about May 1, '90,by first-class mail. Since that mailing will pre-date this column, either I have told you thetruth or told you a lie, but in either event, Ifilled up a little bit more of the page. If I wastelling you the truth, you should have receivedyour News & Dues questionnaire by now, andI would solicit you to send back news of your-self and your family, classmates, and friends.Go ahead and brag a little about yourselves.'You've made it into your 40s, you're 20 yearsout of college, and you're entitled to exercise alittle bit of bragging rights. Let us hear fromall of you company presidents, CEOs, etc.Send us your press releases.

Well, as I live and breathe, I have just re-ceived a press release from Boston ThermalEnergy Corp. announcing that classmateRobert P. Whitney was recently promotedto vice president/controller. I do note that thepress release reports that Bob received "a BAin business from Cornell in 1971..." In fact,according to the Alumni News, Bob received aBS in Agriculture that year (probably in ageconomics). See what I mean, it's okay to bragjust a little bit! Bob also received an MBAfrom Suffolk U. in 1984.

Although I could continue this columnwith filler, as well as the few small detailsabout my own comings and goings (after all, Iam an ILR graduate with a law degree, both ofwhich entitle me to abide by life's philosophynot to let one word do where two will suffice)nevertheless, modesty inclines me to limit mycomments to but one: We recently celebratedMarissa's first birthday with a birthday bashfor nearly 50 parents and children. Marissa,whose eyes have retained their deep blue col-or, was mystified by all the attention paid toher, but she nevertheless seemed to have agood time. Her mother had a great time. Herfather, who was in charge of putting the wholeaffair together, had an unabashedly marve-lous time. The affair is recorded on video, and,certainly, we can prepare a special screeningof the party at our 20th Reunion next year!

Please complete your News & Dues ques-tionnaires and return them as soon aspossible. D Joel Y. Moss, 110 Barnard PL,NW, Altanta, Ga. 30328; also Matthew Sil-verman, 356 Smith Rd., Yorktown Heights,NY 10598.

••1^ We may have found a way toV bring rain to the drought-m m plagued San Francisco Baym f Area—invite a Cornell athleticm f team. In March 1989, the Cor-M •• nell baseball team paid a visitand it rained for the entire week. This pastApril the women's varsity and novice crewsparticipated in a regatta in the area and itrained for the only time in two months. De-spite the weather, a strong contingent ofNorthern California alumni rooted each teamto a win in 2 of 3 races. Rick Krochalis and Irepresented the Class of 72. My daughterKelly, 10, was impressed by the female rowersfrom all the schools.

Janice Kulik Schmidt has a busy medi-cal practice in Pueblo, Colo., despite two chil-dren. She wonders if she'll finally feel like a"grown-up" when she turns 40. Janice invitesany old friends to visit if they are in the frontrange of Colorado. Susan Farber Strausmaintains a private practice in clinical psy-chology in addition to working as a psycholo-gist at both a residential treatment center forseriously emotionally disturbed children, ages5 to 12, and at a residential center for abusedand neglected children, ages 3 to 10. In herspare time, Susan takes piano lessons, worksactively on the PTA of her children's school,and chauffeurs her two daughters to ballet andpiano lessons. She and spouse David, PhD'77 reside in Owings Mills, Md. Dr. StanleyG. Fish, DVM 75 is a veterinarian at theMassapequa Hospital for Animals. He lives inMerrick, NY with wife Sarita. Dr. Dirk Du-gan is an orthopedic surgeon in Ithaca.

Mimi Sheiner Nierenberg is an art di-rector in Berkeley, Cal. Sharon (Burstein)and Dr. Donald Walker call Flanders, NJhome. Arlyn Reiser Grossman and hus-band Robert C., JD '71 live in Rochester.Gail Schlesinger Zimmerman is a budgetanalyst with the federal Office of Manage-ment and Budget. Gail and spouse Samuel'68 reside in Arlington, Va. Andrea SiegelFeinberg and husband Joseph '69, MD73 are domiciled in Mill Neck, NY. JaniceJohnson Wormington moved to Otis, Mass.

In June 1989 Whitman H. Brisky lefthis old law firm and started the firm of Linden-baum, Coffman, Kurlander, Brisky & Hayes,Ltd., specializing in corporate, commercial,real estate, tax, and litigation. The offices arelocated in Chicago's "Loop," near the court-houses. Whitman and wife Judith had a visitfrom Bill and Ginny Neptune Esson '74,who moved to Nashua, NH. Bill transferredfrom the Chicago to the Boston office of Ar-thur Young, where he is involved in computerauditing. Steve and Debbie Bienstock wereblessed with son Joshua in November 1988.Whitman reports that the new member of theBienstock family was not letting Steve andDebbie get much rest. Fred Bohen lives inPalm Harbor, Fla. Thomas L. Bartlett is aresident of Maumee, Ohio. Helen C. Blohmsends her dues from New York City.

Donald K. Bpyce is a program managerwith Wang Labs in Lowell, Mass. Don andwife Janice spent ten days in Paris last sum-mer taking almost 200 photos. He was parti-cularly impressed by LΆrc de Triomphe,Sacre-Coeur, and the Eiffel Tower. The foodwas fabulous, particularly the cheese, pate,and desserts. Don claims he didn't gain any

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weight and highly recommends the trip. Dr.Bob Efron, DVM 75 has a small animalpractice in Cromwell, Conn. Bob and wife My-ra have son Jay, 12, and daughter Dayna, 8.Bob would like to hear from 2+2 dormmatesand Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity brothers.Write Bob at 5 Patricia Lane, Cromwell, Conn.06516. Dr. Salvatore March Jr. resides inEden Prairie, Minn. Catherine Hurt Mid-dlecamp lives in Madison, Wise.

Nicholas Smart was named generalmanager of the 402-room Long Island Marri-ott Hotel, adjacent to the Nassau Coliseum inUniondale. Nicholas will be responsible for su-pervising and managing all financial and oper-ational functions for the 550-staff-memberproperty. He has been with Marriott since1982, serving as resident manager for theOΉare Marriott in Chicago from 1982 to 1984and, most recently, as general manager of theDes Moines Marriott in Iowa. Ginny VanGeem Donegan is manager of Erie Crate &Mfg. Co. in Orlando, Fla., where she lives withhusband Ken. Bill Reinhardt does energyresearch for the NY Energy Authority in Al-bany, where he lives with spouse GailLandsman. Bruce Raynor and wife Joanwant to brag about their newest addition,daughter Robin Sydney, who arrived Nov. 11,'89 and joins their three other children. Brucehas been an international vice president of theAmalgamated Clothing and Textile WorkersUnion since 1981. He also holds the position ofSouthern director of ACTWU in Atlanta.Bruce has served all of us as a UniversityTrustee since 1988. Π Alex Barna, 1050Eagle Lane, Foster City, Cal. 94404.

Carol Worman Nolan has re-cently moved to Blue Bell, Pa., asuburb of Philadelphia, whereshe has taken a job with SmithKline and French Laboratories.She is supervising the produc-

tion of experimental drugs produced via bio-technology. She has a son Scott, who is 8. Shesent news of several classmates from Cornellwho she saw at her 20th high school reunion.Margie Smigel is a film maker in Chicagoand has both a daughter and a son. MarcieGoldstein Angel now has two daughtersand, according to Carol, still looks 21! AndDavid Cuddeback has returned from Bah-rain, where he was in banking, and is workingagain after a temporary retirement. She alsosaw Marterese Pasquale. Bill Cagney,one of Carol's fellow ChemEs, has just movedto become director of engineering at Biogenand lives in the Boston area with his family.

David Pesses and wife Chris Dickie-son wrote that they had a mini-reunion withsome old friends from freshman year inU-Halls. They got together with Eric Shir-ley, Peter Block, DVM 76, Gary Ben-nett, and Jerry Lupu in Saratoga Springsfor brunch. David and Chris live in Glovers-ville, NY. Several others were unable to jointhem that day, but sent their regards: FrankMorra, Andy and Beth SimonSchwartz, and Tom Donaldson.

Richard Schrafel and wife Carol '72are living in Bellerose, NY, where Richard isthe second deputy fire chief of the village firedepartment, and Carol is president of theBellerose Junior Women's Club, which sup-ports a shelter for homeless women in Queens.

They have sons Andrew, 8, whose interest inscouting has resulted in Richard's enlistmentas an assistant scoutmaster, Douglas, 6, andPeter, 3.

Elizabeth Tresch wrote from Zug,Switzerland that she is heavily involved in anew hotel project which was to open in June.The Chateau de Chailly, in the Burgundy re-gion of France, is a renaissance castle sur-rounded by a superb golf course. She encour-ages anyone from our class to visit her, andafter a round of golf you can relax with finefood and wine and stay in one of the luxuryrooms.

Robert Rice is living with his son Eric,8, in Austin, Texas, where he is assistant vicepresident and general attorney of SouthernUnion Gas Co. He is still actively involved inrowing—for two years as the coach of the U. ofTexas women's rowing team. He is also direc-tor of sweep rowing for the Austin RowingClub, and still rows as a master's rower (forthose over 27) at the national and regionallevel.

Ann "Weze" Wiedner Merino was pro-moted to western regional merchandisingmanager for Allied Fibers Co. last summer.That resulted in a move from Atlanta toSouthern California, but she says that was an

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easy adjustment—especially to the weather!She is responsible for 13 states in the West,promoting the Worry Free branded carpetthat is made from Worry Free fibers made byAllied. While trying to build her organization,she is traveling extensively. LindaHochman married Bob Levine in October inArlington, Va. Wendy Buchberg andPaula Hochman were the other Cornelliansattending the ceremony. Linda is still workingas a labor economist at the Congressional Re-search Service, Library of Congress, whereshe has been employed for the past sevenyears.

Kathy Kudler moved to the West Coasta year ago and is working for Citicorp as west-ern division sales and service quality manag-er. Christine Kallas recently started herown legal practice in Manhattan, with an em-phasis on real estate and estates and corporatematters. D Martha Slye Sherman, 48Woodstone Dr., W. Berlin, NJ 08091; (609)627-1984.

• J Here is news that hopefullyf MM hasn't changed from last fall.mmm. j^ter finishing residency train-m ^^L ing in Ann Arbor, Mich., Rich-

M ^^p ard Mogerman, wife Lisa, and• m son Joshua moved to Waymart,Pa. where Rich joined his brother in partner-ship practice of orthopaedic surgery. JohnHupcey reports that he and Ron Linton'75 work together as engineers for IBM inPoughkeepsie, NY. John and wife Diane havetwo children, Sarah Jane and Elizabeth.

Also working with other Cornellians isSandra Smith, who is a clinical pharmacol-ogist at Squibb in Princeton, NJ, where shesees Kenneth "Kirk" Field and Adriennelymiak '76. David Wilson also reportsfrom New Jersey that business is hopping atthe ad agency he founded two years ago inMorristown. Most of his work involves tradeprint ads and packaging development for thefood industry. Last year he ran into EllenHobbie at a Natural Foods Expo. Ellen is abuyer for GreenStar Food Coop in Ithaca.

The glamour of global stock trading in theBig Apple has captured the attention of L.William Kay III, with business hours gov-erned by the habits of contacts in Tokyo andLondon. Between 12-hour catnaps on the week-ends (the only sleep he gets) he spends timewith daughters Jessica, 5, and Rebecca, 1.

Art Leonard also writes from New YorkCity that he was promoted to professor of lawwith tenure in May 1988 at New York LawSchool. He is publishing a law school case-book on the topic of AIDS and the law. LindaKlein Shapiro runs the Long Island affiliationof a national employee assistance program inaddition to a private psychotherapy practice inPlain view, NY.

In the Boston area, Douglas Kahn ispresident of Interactive Images Inc., a ven-ture-capital financed software company. He


and wife Vicky have two children, Stephanieand Jason. Ezriel Kornel has been in privatepractice in neurosurgery in Swampscott forthe past five years.

We received news of numerous honorsand promotions. Bill Howard, executive ed-itor of PC Magazine, who resides in Westfield,NJ, won best-story honors in the ComputerPress Association's annual awards competi-tion. The story was a compendium of tips fortraveling users of laptop computers. In addi-tion, PC Magazine was named the industry'sbest magazine for the second year in a row.

Harold Levy, portfolio manager withArnhold & S. Bleichroeder in NYC, was fea-tured in a recent issue of Fortune magazine.Jaclyn Spear was elected last fall to vicepresident for member services of the Societyof Women Engineers. Jaclyn lives in Trafford,Pa., is a senior engineer with WestinghouseNuclear Services Division.

Mary Berens was promoted to directorof college and unit public affairs for Cornell.Mary will manage the public affairs activitiesof 17 colleges and units (such as the JohnsonMuseum and the University Libraries). Maryhad news from two classmates. Chris Tichymarried Jim Place in April. Chris has threechildren and her own architecture practice inCortland. Nancy Maczulak Fisher, whoworks for Interleaf in Cambridge, Mass., andLaurie Allen '75 attended the wedding ofCarol (McKenzie) and Tom Moore '79,brother of Betsy Moore. Mary is also thefocal point for our class beautification project.We need to raise $3,143 by Oct. 27, '90 to hitour goal of $10,000 to provide plantings infront of Purcell (a.k.a. North Campus) Union.Checks can be sent to Mary Berens, 245 DayHall.

Norman Bloch joined the law firm ofScolari, Brevetti, Goldsmith and Weiss inNYC as a partner specializing in white collarcriminal practice. Previously Norman wasspecial counsel with the Organized CrimeStrike Force of the US Dept. of Justice inBrooklyn. James Dodd joined Signet In-vestment Banking in Baltimore as vice presi-dent, marketing/origination specialist. DBetsy Beach, 5 Hitchinpost Rd., Chelms-ford, Mass. 01824.

••^ It may be hard to believe butMmm next year at this time we willM HA have completed our 15th Re-

m union. Mark your calendars nowm mm so that you can plan to spendΠ ^0 June 6-9, '91 in Ithaca. Many of

you might be interested in the Reunion YouthProgram, which is for children 3-15 years ofage. Activities are provided each day from8:45 a.m. until evening: 6:00 for 3-5 year olds,9:00 for 6-8 year olds, 10:00 for 9-12 year olds,and 11:00 for 13-15 year olds. Parents' andchildren's responses have been very positivefrom previous years. You could predict thattours of campus and surrounding areas will beincluded for recruitment purposes! The costof the youth program in 1990 was $35 per day,which included lunch and dinner. Remember,children are absolutely forbidden in the beertents, so you must make your plans according-ly. This June, the Class of 75 providedchildcare in the evening and breakfasts forchildren over 3 years old. If you have anyideas, need information, or can help with any

part of Reunion, call Karen Rupert Keat-ing, Reunion chair, (212) 348-0650 or EllenGobel Walsh, class co-president, (607)273-7050.

On to classmates' news: Vernon Ellin-ger, our past class treasurer, moved last fallto Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles) from Lon-don. He and wife Deborah took two monthstraveling through Asia, including Nepal andNorthern Thailand, to get to California. Theywere looking forward to alumni activities suchas they had enjoyed in London. Also movinglast summer was Ken Freidman. He movedfrom Wisconsin to Albuquerque, where he is ahematologist at the U. of New Mexico and as-sociate medical director of United Blood Ser-vices. He says although Albuquerque doesn'thave the lakes of Upstate NY and of Wiscon-sin, there is plenty of beach. Larry and Kar-en Hasby Epstein '77 had a daughter,Katherine Diana, in March 1989, joining Mi-chael, 4. Larry is director of planning and ad-ministration for WCAU-TV in Philadelphia,commuting from Princeton Junction, NJ.George Farmer started an import/exportbusiness (Ambruk International Inc.) whichhas taken him to New Zealand and England.This is in addition to his consulting engineer-ing and development firm in Hollywood, Fla.

Around the country as you think of facesand names to remember: Russell Goldmanis an attorney in Eatontown, NJ, and lives inShrewsbury, where he works on the AlumniAdmissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN).Phillip Goodman is a physician at the U. ofTexas Health Center in Houston. JanisLang and David Giles '77 live in Burling-ton, Mass. Nearby in Lexington is Lisa Dia-mant, who is a day care consultant. LindaAltman Fischer is a psychiatrist at Wilming-ton Hospital and lives in Chadds Ford, Pa.Peter DiGiulio lives in Bridgeport, Conn,and is an engineer with Pitney Bowes. EllenCord Dember is a recruitment manager forCooper and Lybrand in New York City, whereshe lives. Gary Dukart is a clinical researchphysician with Lederle Laboratories in PearlRiver, NY, living in River Vale, NJ with wifeBonnie (Smith) '78. Peter Einset is alawyer in Geneva, NY. James Ellithorpelives in Oakland, Cal. and is a senior petrole-um engineer for Chevron Overseas in SanRamon. Patricia Nelson Fast is in Rye, NY.Susan Seiller owns Jack Fry's, a restaurantin Louisville, Ky. Carlton Geer is vice presi-dent for Peppermill Hotel Casino in Reno.Thomas Hatzis Jr. is general manager forFasteners and Metal Products Corp. in W.Roxbury, Mass., which is also where Jane(Schwarzschild) Hodgetts is living withhusband William '74. Gary Swergold isin Potomac, Md., Judy French Thomson isin Burke, Va., and James Lang is in Wayne,NJ. Diane DiStefano Trocchio and hus-band Joseph '74 are in Kinnelon, NJ.William Valavais is in W. Henrietta, NYand, finally, for your maps, Adeline Wu isliving in Hong Kong.

Cara Schnaper and George Jarroldand Jacqueline Shelby Jarrold, born in De-cember 1988, live in Summit, NJ. Cara is abanker with Morgan Guaranty and George iswith Morgan Stanley. Dave and Jill BakerIsrael are in Metairie, La., where he is practi-cing labor law representing management in-terests. Jill is manager of financial services of


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Entergy Services Inc., formerly Middle SouthUtilities. They had their second child, JodyMichelle, in July 1989. Donald and KarenKrinsky Sussman are in Cresskill, NJ withsons Joel, Kenny, and Lloyd, ages 7, 5, and 2.Donny is director of sales and merchandisingfor the Eastern division of Pathmark. Karendoes some part-time tennis instruction, but ismore than occupied with their children. Thereturn on investment is great and the IRScan't tax it. Michael Hilf is deputy directorof prosecutions for the NY State EducationDepartment's office of professional discipline.He recruits and trains a staff of two dozen-pluslawyers who prosecute cases of misconductcommitted by New York's licensed profes-sionals. May all our contact be social. D Mar-tha Plass Sheehe, RD 3, Box 555, Blooms-urg, Pa. 17815.

•••• My apologies for having missedM M the May column, which was due

m m as I was trying to close severalm M transactions before returning tom U the US on my annual home™ ™ leave. Our most recent dues

forms contained news from two classmateswho, like me, are living overseas. TerenceScott is with Shearson Lehman Hutton inLondon, and Claud Young, after serving asthe branch public affairs officer at the US Con-sulate General in Jeddah Saudi Arabia from1986-89, last summer became the cultural at-tache at the US Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

In the Southern US are Eugene Wypyski, a financial services manager in Atlanta,Ga. with C-Staff Inc. (an "employee leasing"firm) who was married last summer to StaceyRobinson, and Carol Inglis Waterman, afarm finance specialist who has been workingon contracts for US government agencies andlast August gave birth to a second child, TarynAshley. In the Carolinas are Craig Drake, afinancial analyst with Burroughs-Wellcome,and wife Amelia (Fischer) on the faculty atthe U. of North Carolina medical school, whoare the proud parents of David; and AliceBenton Lanham, an architect with LS3P Ar-chitects, the largest architectural firm inCharleston. Thomas Dugdale, a Navy lieu-tenant commander, has been an orthopedicsurgeon in the naval hospital at Portsmouth,Va., and was set to enter private practice inHartford, Conn.; William Steers is asurgeon and assistant professor at the U. ofVirginia medical school in Charlottesville.

Several classmates have settled in Flori-da. Todd Frankenthal, who is married andhas two children, is an attorney in Ft. Lauder-dale. Down Interstate 90, in Key Biscayne,Mark Mayrsohn, the executive vice presi-dent of Mayrsohn International, last summermarried Kathy Koral, in the presence ofDavid Joseph and Bob Bowers, amongothers. In St. Petersburg Nancy Terry, adance/movement psychotherapist, marriedBill Sharpe, a stockbroker, in 1987, and hassince trekked in Nepal and climbed Mt. Kili-manjaro.

In Texas Maria Reyes Schoen is achemical engineer with Union Carbide inLeague City, where she administers the "YourIdeas Count" suggestion program. Mariamust be the model Cornellian; not only doesshe hold down a full-time job, but she is raisingtwo children with husband David, is active in a

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An Economics Lesson

F red McCray, a teacher of social studies at Erasmus Hall HighSchool in Brooklyn, got a civics lesson himself in May. One of hisclasses discussed boycotts, in particular a four-month-old boycottby blacks of a Korean-owned grocery in their neighborhood. Mc-Cray said he was going to the store to make a purchase, ''backing

up what I teach—the philosophy that this is the best free economic sys-tem in the world . . . everyone has a right to work and earn a living/'Thirty of his students asked to go along.

McCray and his students were jeered by pickets as "traitors." Thenext day police and his principal criticized him for exposing pupils torisks, while New York's mayor described him as a courageous exampleto inner city youth and the superintendent of schools praised him. Na-tional talk show hosts sought him out; he also received phone callsthreatening his reputation and his life. McCray spoke first, admittinghe had been jailed in 1973 for drug possession. While in jail, he said, "Iread and I studied and I was paroled to Cornell University. They ac-cepted me, and I did something with my life while I was in prison." Heearned a Cornell BA in Africana studies in 1978.

As the school year drew to an end, authorities accepted Fred Mc-Cray's request for a transfer, which he had made for his own safetyand because "the kids had to get back to learning."

local church, has traveled to Belize to help inthe renovation of a schoolhouse, and helpedfound a Texas chapter of the National Assn. ofSuggestion Systems! Also in Texas, in theHouston area, Bill Pilat is a marketing exec-utive with Morris Architects, and JoanSampson is a resident at Hermann Hospitalof the U. of Texas at Houston; and in Irving,Peter Storti is an operations support manag-er with Abbott Laboratories. Peter reportsthat he and wife Tina last year lost their firstchild to stillbirth.

Despite the earthquake, Northern Califor-nia is home to Chris Haynes, a project engi-

neer for Bechtel Corp. in San Francisco;Ralph Zingarro, a horticulturist, also in SanFrancisco; and Benjamin Miller, who lastsummer left a job as education curator at thePotawatomi Zoo in Indiana and moved to PaloAlto with his wife (a faculty member at Stan-ford) and two daughters. Ben reports that he islooking for a new career direction (isn't every-one, in one way or another?), and is consider-ing home remodeling, science education,graduate work in psychotherapy, etc. Report-ing from Southern California are GregoryBillion, a lawyer with Newmeyer, Landrum& Billion in Newport Beach; Ann Potter, a

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financial advisor with Atlantic Richfield inLos Angeles (and, since August 1989, themother of Sarah Grace); Mark Louchheim,vice president for marketing for BobrickWashroom Equipment in Los Angeles, wherehe lives with wife Cathy and two children, andserves as vice chair of the LA Child GuidanceClinic; and John Bennett, at last report alieutenant commander in a Navy ASW heli-copter squadron in San Diego, but contem-plating a move to Washington, DC.

Finally, swinging across to New England,we find Julie Taylor (hi, Julie!), a lawyerwith the EPA in Boston, where she deals withthe clean-up of hazardous waste sites through-out New England, and volunteers in a Lawyer-'for-the-Arts program which she helpedestablish; Thomas McLoughlin, in Cum-berland, RI; Linda Weiss Ruth, veterinarianand owner-operator of Marlborough AnimalHospital just outside Hartford, Conn.; andPeter Lloyd, who lives in Ridgefield, Conn,and works as an associate logistics manager atKraft General Foods International in WhitePlains, NY.

Hope your summers aren't as torrid as Iexpect mine to be here in Singapore, some 80miles north of the Equator. Π Gilles Sion,27 Claymore Rd., #13-03, Singapore 0922, or515 Έ. 79th St., NYC 10021.

Thomas "TVL" Van Leeu-wen and wife Sally had daugh-ter Laura on Oct. 3, '89. TVL isa securities analyst with Shear-son, Lehman Button in NewYork City. Daniel Rosen an-

nounces with joy the birth of second son Isaacon October 31. Daniel is with Bankers Trust.Jeff Albertine is loving life in Atlanta, Ga.,where he is a computer engineer at Zsoftworking on Paintbrush. His and wife Judy'sfirst child is Scott, and the boy's great-grandfather on his mother's side was in thefirst Electrical Engineering class at Cornell!

A great note from Judy Gelber Lee re-ports the birth of second son Zachary late lastyear. They live in Falls Church, Va., outsideWashington, DC, with husband David and sonJoshua. Judy works part time as an attorney inthe enforcement division of the Securities andExchange Commission, investigatingsecurities fraud. She writes that the Leesrecently got together with Maggie Chon andhusband Ted Diamond, who live in Philadel-phia with their two children. Maggie is prac-ticing law.

Another classmate in Philadelphia isRobert "Rocketman" Williams, now incharge of international and commercial prod-uct development at Boeing Helicopters. Hesays his most interesting project is the com-mercial tiltrotor—a prop-driven airplanewhich lands like a helicopter. Rocketman'sprevious job was with Toshiba in Yokohama,Japan, where he lived in a company dormi-tory.

He writes that it was very interesting. I'llbet. An unheated, matted room; morning ex-ercises; daily public baths; rice and soy soup,three times a day, sounds more like bootcamp! The postscript says Gene and CindyWebb Cunningham had their fourth child,Kimberly, on Thanksgiving.

Dushica "Dee" Babich married JohnProtic on June 11, '88. Dee is an attorney with

Weil Gotshal and Manges, NYC. AndrewGilman married Pamela Slater on Oct. 14,'89. Andrew is in software marketing at IstelInc. in Burlington, Mass., and they live inBrookline. Timothy Minton, a reporter forWABC-TV in New York, married Linda Saxlon April 7 of this year.

Michael Berman was recently namedvice president of marketing for SciMed, a rap-idly growing medical devices company inMinneapolis. Keep eating bacon; SciMedmakes products to open clogged coronary ar-teries. Wife Judy (Van Adelsburg) Ber-man spends time in her molecular genetics labat the U. of Minnesota and keeping an eye onenergetic 4-year-old son Oren while Mike isout of town. Last January, Doug and JaniceReiser Nafis enjoyed a trip to Hawaii withDoug's family to visit his sister Dian Nafis'77. Mark Hansen is on a leave of absencefrom Booz Allen and Hamilton to study Chi-nese at the National Taiwan Normal Universi-ty in Taipei, Taiwan. He'll be returning towork and his home in Singapore later thissummer.

Jerome McQuie apologizes for havingnot kept in touch in the past five years, butwrote that he's still with Amoco Oil in Chicagoas a chemical engineer. He's been a homeown-er in Evanston for five years, now, andbecame a married man in 1987 when he said"I. do" to Beth Spencer. Al Sun '78 andKeith Billings '79, former Cornell room-mates, were groomsmen. D Linda Rust,1131 N. Hamline Ave., Apt. 14, St. Paul,Minn. 55108; Elizabeth Rakov Igleheart,4811 Mill Creek PL, Dallas, Texas 75244;Mary Maxon Grainger, 12 Highgate Circle,Ithaca, NY 14850.

^ There's a good mix of news to re-port this month as classmates con-tinue to write to us about their

I comings and goings. If anyonehappened to see the movie "BlueSteel" this past spring (it stars

Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver), you wouldhave seen our classmate Larry Kasanofflisted with the credits. He was the executiveproducer, along with Oliver Stone (of "Pla-toon" and "Born on the Fourth of July" fame)and Ed Pressman. Larry entered the enter-tainment business with Vestron in Connecti-cut after he graduated with an MBA fromWharton in 1984. At the end of 1985 he be-came the head of film acquisition; in that posi-tion he put together the deal for "Platoon." Hehas been with Vestron since and is currentlythe senior vice president of production. If youmissed "Blue Steel" at your local theater,you'll be able to catch it on video in early fall.Larry currently lives in Los Angeles.

Michael Nolan '77 did his brother Jim'81 a favor by writing to tell us about Jim'smarriage to Theresa Cauthern '83, Jim'ssweetheart of many years. Both Jim and Terrywork for the Hershey Foods Corp. in Hershey,


Pa. Jim is responsible for worldwide sales ofHershey chocolate products to governmentoffices. His wife is in internal audit with Her-shey. Jim Kent send his regards from U. ofVirginia, where he is working on his MBA. Heis in good company with these other Cornel-lians: Rod Darden '84, John Doyle '82,Dan Griffen '83, Rod Harper '84, andEric Randall '83.

Needless to say, the families of our class-mates continue to grow. I recently spoke toMark Jackson, who lives in New York Citywith wife Karen, and found out they had adaughter, Rachel, on May 13, '89. Mark iscurrently on leave from the Manhattan lawfirm Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent and Lehrerand is working for the American Civil Liber-ties Union (the ACLU). His cases deal withAIDS and civil liberties. Congratulations alsoto Alison Fial Greene and her husband Mi-chael (Colgate '81) who had a son named Jor-don Ross in March 1989. Alison received anMBA from. New York U. in 1985, around thesame time that she got married. She then be-came an account executive with Lewis andNeale, a public relations agency specializingin food products. Her husband is a partner atDavid J. Greene and Co., a money manage-ment firm. Alison and her family recentlymoved from Manhattan to Scarsdale, NY,where they bought a house.

Fred Hillegas, the class correspondentfor the Class of '38, sent me an interesting ar-ticle from the Arizona Republic, a daily Phoe-nix newspaper, about David Southworth.In 1989 David and his business partners pur-chased Phoenix's Mansion Club, which is ap-parently one of Arizona's greatest landmarks.Their goal is to make it "the nicest privateclub in Arizona." This club was originallybuilt by William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gummagnate, in 1931 as a part-time residence.David, a native of Scottsdale, Ariz., and hispartners in DKS Properties have plenty of ex-perience running clubs. (One of his partners isDavid Dodwell '71.) Before he returned toArizona, they ran the Pompano Beach Club, asmall upscale resort in Bermuda. They alsoown a resort on Nevis, in the British West In-dies, and are developing a resort on a penin-sula in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Davidand wife Amy Lamb '81 lived in Bermudafor eight years; they now have three sonswhom they want to go to school in the States.

Jennifer Rosenberg married MichaelMarkovitz '82 on Sept. 10, '89 in Summit,NJ. Cornellians in attendance were: JamieLustberg, Robin Leibman Simonson,Peggy O'Sullivan Conway, Stephen '80and Cathy Crocker Moser '80, Gary La-pera '82, and Ken Gruskin '82. Jenniferis a graphic arts coordinator in the packagingdepartment for the Thomas J. Lipton Co. inEnglewood Cliffs, NJ. She and her husbandlive in Milburn, NJ. Her husband and KenGruskin have been in business together atAGM Architecture & Design, Union, NJ,since 1984. They do commercial, residential,and design work. Jennifer also reported thatPeggy O'Sullivan Conway and her husbandhad a baby boy, Joseph III, on Dec. 31, '89.

That's the news! D Robin Rosenberg,145 W. 67th St., Apt. 11A, NYC 10023; JimHahn, 47 St. Joseph St., Jamaica Plain,Mass. 02130; and Jon Landsman, 811Ascan St., N. Valley Stream, NY 11580.


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The spirit of entrepreneurshiplives on in Pamela Brewster,who left banking to start her ownpublishing company, ProtegePublications, in February of lastyear. She graduated from Stan-

ford's business school in 1987. Steven Foxhas formed a law partnership with Paul Fallon.Fox & Fallon's practice focuses on business, es-tates, personal injury, and construction litiga-tion. Steven has practiced securities law, in-cluding private placements and listing one issueof two classes of common stock on the Ameri-can Stock Exchange and has practiced beforethe US Supreme Court—drafting appellatebriefs for the second circuit and a petition forcertioraro to the court. In addition to represent-ing private clients, Fox & Fallon works withother attorneys as independent contractors andsupplies limited services when conflicts of in-terest require separate counsel.

Sarina Monast was married on March24, '90 to Kenneth Bronfin at the Lotos Club inNew York City. Sarina received an MBA fromthe U. of Pennsylvania, and is now a vice presi-dent of marketing and sales for the CorporatePresence gift store in NYC. Her new husbandis the director of technical strategic planning atNBC in NYC.

Eric Arnett finished his doctorate at Car-negie Mellon's program on international peaceand security in 1988, and now works for theAmerican Assn. for the Advancement of Sci-ence program on science arms control, and na-tional security. He writes scholarly and educa-tional material on science, technology, and con-flict resolution.

Alan Beggs is a research fellow at Chil-dren's Hospital's genetics division in Boston,where he is doing research on muscular dystro-phy. He received a PhD in human genetics atJohns Hopkins in 1987, was married to JamiLevine in March 1988, and moved to Bostonfrom Baltimore in June 1988.

Those of you who have wondered whatthose Adult University (CAU) programs arelike, talk to Elaine Dyl. She attended theCAU progam "Cape Cod Ecology and theGreat Fall Migrations" last September. Ananonymous News & Dues form was receivedlast September. The unknown author writes:"Cathy Murphy married Scott D'Amelio inApril 1988. In attendance were Mike Aron-son '81, Paul Bingham, Joanne Arm-strong, Nancy Ricciardi, Paula Worth-ington, and Irene Hutter Cameron. On theirfirst anniversary, their friends request that theyget out of the tub!"

Here are a few more of our missing class-'mates: Diane K. Fleming, Harlan M.Flint, Frederick C. Foote, Michael G.Forbes, Peter R. Fraissinet, Enrico A.Franciosa, John R. Friedeburn, Paul V.Friedlander, Samuel B. Friedman, Su-san Alice Fritts, Hisao Fujita, LisaAnne Fullam, Cathy Dobkins Gabel, Ed-ward R. Gabor, Arthur G. Gardiner,Elizabeth Caldwell Garnett, Peter F. Gel-ber, Elizabeth Ann Geno, Sheila AnnGeorge, Victoria Ann George, James H.Gibbons, Nancy V. Gibson, ChristopherJ.Gill.

Lisa Ann Gilliland, Beverly R.Gladstone, Larry Godding, BarbaraGoldberg, Arlene Janicki, Clinton W.Jeske, Peter Jucha, Alex M. Justman,

David W. Render, Steven M. Kerner-man, Frances Killam, Daryl P. Killip,Kyung Suk Kim, Laura Sooryun Kim,Cathy Sue Kinzie, Robert Kistner, Ken-neth W. Klimpel, Sharon Lea Knapp,Derek D. Knorr, Susan M. Knudson,Bradd R. Konert, Christine M. Kowal,Tammy Lynn Krieger, Lynn E. Kron-man.

Frederick R. Krueger, Carolyn P.Krutchen, Patricia A. Kuranda, JamesC. Labue, Damon C. Ladson, StephanieR. Laidman, Christine Anne Lambert,Jane E. Laut, Catherine Montague Law,Therese M. Lawless, Ann Lawrence,Alexander B. Lee, Charles F. Leitch,Myrna Suzette Leonard, Peter D. Leon-ard, Sheryl L. Leventhal, Carlton D.Lewis, Eric Lewis, Paul M. Lieberman,Martha Christine Lind.

Ruth C. Logan, Dale L. Loh, LindaMarie Lodgson, Clifford Trinidad Lorn-boy, Catherine B. Lott, Michael W.Lovegrove, Michael L. Lucas, Chris LeeLukas, Rolf G. Lund, Bernice E. Lut-cher, Oscar Marcelo Perotto, Susan M.Peters, Edward A. Phillips, Alison LPiper, Nadine N. Pobjecky, Peter J.Poole, Laurie Poppen, Julie E. Porter,Brian V. Pratt, Veda Michelle Price.

Steven T. Prisco, Marie-LouiseProtopapas, Andre A. Proulx, NestorA. Ramirez, Evelyn Ramos, Ralph S.Rathbun, Samagita Ratnaike, RuthAnn Raym, Judy Ann Read, Marie P.Read, Cynthia Ann Reeves, Anina K.Rehkugler, Thomas M. Renaud, JohnH. Reppy, Jesse R. Richter, GretchenRitter, Mark G. Roberts, Richard F. Ro-chow, Victor Rodriguez, Preston ReidRoper, Richard E. Rosberger, HowardE. Rosen, Shelly P. Rosenberg.

Sending news directly to Nina Kondo orme is the fastest way to see your name in print!Thanks... D Nancy K. Rudgers (Boyle), 25Mist Hill Dr., Brookfield, Conn. 06804, andNina M. Kondo, 323 W. 82nd St. #4A, NYC10024.

Our plea for more News & Duesgot the thoughtful attention ofRuth J. Welsch '40. In themiddle of preparations for her50th Reunion, she clipped newsof James S. Hamilton from a

Norwalk, Conn, paper. James, a highway en-gineer for Berger-Lehman Associates in Rye,NY, was selected recipient of the AmericanSoc. of Civil Engineers' 1989 Daniel W. MeadPrize for Young Members, for his paper onprofessional ethics.

Nancy Schlie is in Philadelphia workingfor CIGNA Corp. after graduating from theJohnson Graduate School of Management in1989. Nancy saw Jeff Grant last year andlearned he owns a record store on Cape Cod.Turner Odell finished law school at Rutgersin 1989. Gustavo Delgado completed hisfirst tour with the US Foreign Service in Ad-dis Abbaba, Ethiopia, and is now in Santiago,Chile. John Geresi moved from New York toLos Angeles, where he works with TorontoDominion Bank. Robert Nelson was teach-ing full time in Drexel U.'s new hotel, restau-rant, and institutional management programlast year while finishing his MBA.

Wedding bells rang on March 4, '89 forCynthia Harris. Donna Joyce, Marga-ret Moore '86, and Brian Harris '86were in the wedding. Cynthia and husbandSteven G. Gray started a business together inAvalon, NJ. It's named Steven G. Gray andAssociates. They are independent advertisingsales representatives primarily contractingwith medical publications.

I saw Kathleen Orr early this spring inSt. Michaels, Md., at a Mid-Atlantic RegionAlumni Leadership Conference. Kathleen isassociate director of member relations for theAmerican Hotel and Motel Assn. in Washing-ton, DC. She reports Elaine Howard '84 ismanager of embassy relations at the EmbassyRow Hotel in DC.

Please remember to write when you seeor hear from classmates this summer. D Vic-toria Raudonis Mclntosh, 2105 WoodforkRd., Timonium, Md. 21093; CaroleenVaughan, 699 King of Prussia Rd., Radnor,Pa. 19087; Michelle Silverman Krantz,1811 19th St., NW, #5, Washington, DC20009.

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Hopefully the summer has got-ten off to a fun start for every-one! Γm happy to say that lots ofnews has been coming in fromour classmates. Linda Zell isin Miami Beach serving as gen-

eral counsel for IGT Services Inc., the largestprivately-held credit card company in the US.Linda says this new position came as a wel-come change after a hiatus consulting for theDade County Public Schools and for a histori-cally-registered hotel in Miami Beach's ArtDeco District. Linda writes that Jon andLouis Kimball, both Hotelies, are presentlyenjoying a vacation in London and Paris, pre-sumably "checking out the competition." Lin-da saw several Cornellians at a gathering atthe home of Sandi Conant Leigh and hus-band Steve '73, including Reuben KingShaw '83 (ILR), who is now director of mar-keting at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also inFlorida is Holly Hansen. Holly recentlymarried Ernesto Uzcategui from Venezuela.Jeanette Allen attended the wedding. TheUzcateguis honeymooned at Breckenridgeand Vail in Colorado.

In Ohio, Fred Pfaff was recently pro-moted to executive vice president and generalmanager at his family-owned firm, AnchorTool and-Die Co. in Cleveland. The companymakes stamping for automotive, aerospace,medical equipment, and other industries.When not working, Fred enjoys golfing andplaying basketball.

David Sangree sends news from thebeautiful country of Malawi. He is currently aPeace Corps volunteer working as the trainingofficer for MUSCCO (Malais Union of Sav-ings and Credit Cooperatives). David and wifeLaura, a lecturer at the U. of Malawi, are en-joying their time there. They will return to theUS in September 1991.

News from the five boros of New YorkCity includes word from Janet Insardi.Janet passed the New York and Connecticutbar exams, and is now working for the LegalAid Society. After the exam, she traveled toIreland, England, and Scotland. Janet sawLynne Leopold '83, Anne MarieSchultz, and Marie Vincinanzo at a partyat Casey's in Manhattan.

Ellen Strauss married Joshua Fried-man, received her JD from Fordham lawschool, and practices at Dewey Ballantine inlower Manhattan. She recently traveled toThailand and India. Stacey Fried is nowworking at Citibank as a personnel generalist.Aviva Weintraub received her MA in Yid-dish folklore and ethnography from ColumbiaU., and presently works in the Broadcast Ar-chive at the Jewish Museum in NYC. GaryDattner graduated from the Veterinary Col-lege and practices in Queens.

Thomas Cantone married Mary Evans(U. of Virginia '86) and they honeymooned inMaui, Seattle, and British Columbia. SteveNachman attended the wedding. The Can-


tones presently live in Brooklyn, and Tom is alawyer in New York. Michael Cahill is a realestate appraiser and recently co-founded Mi-crotel Franchise and Development Corp., anew hotel chain developing and franchisingsuper-budget properties.

Other news from the "Big Apple" . . .Lisa Sotto is an environmental lawyer withthe firm of Hunton and Williams. Lisa wentskiing at Courmayeur in the Italian Alps withTammy Bieber. She has also seen MariaHamberger, Joy Feldman Bunson, Kar-en Beckman, and Susan Marotta '85. Inher spare time, Lisa enjoys pottery and cy-cling. Elizabeth Zucker married AdamBarnett; many Cornellians helped celebratethe wedding. Dr. Angeleke Saridakis isfinishing her second year of a five-year train-ing program in general surgery at Mount Si-nai. Christina Melite graduated from NewYork U. with an MS in nutrition. She has seenGlenn Faber, Joe Ferri '86, Troy Ro-sasco '86, and Scott Williams '86. Chris-tina spends time running road races.

On the West Coast, Staci Norkin Kap-lan gave birth to son Justin Michael and hasmoved to Los Angeles as regional sales man-ager for Four Seasons' national sales office.Staci's new territory is San Francisco. Whilethere, she saw Liz Schaef er, who just movedto Washington, DC with Four Seasons.Stephanie Perry, who lives in HermosaBeach, saw Sarah Hanlon, Susan Reus-swig, and Peter Nolan '80 at a St.Patrick's Day party on the beach at her house.Stephanie has been skiing at Squaw Valley,Mammoth Mountain, and Alta, Utah.

Please continue to send us your news. DLisa Starsky Bronstein, 237 Chaucer Ct,Old Bridge, NJ 08857; Tim Becker, 615 Mc-Arthur, Mississippi State, Miss. 39762.

I continue to greet you from thebanks of the Seine in Paris,which seems a far cry from Cay-uga's waters. But I'm disap-pointed to report that I haven'trun into a single Cornell alum-

nus! So if you're breezing through Paris, lookme up. Mostly wedding news, this month,folks. Jolie Kahn writes that she marriedLaurence King, a Wharton grad. A bevy of'86ers were in attendance, including AmyUnderberg, Rhonda Woolfe Nichten-hauser and David, and Debbie Hodes,plus Jen Herskowitz '88. Amy and Rhon-da were bridesmaids. Jolie is working at theNew York law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Mangeswith fellow '86er Stacey Davidson.

In ano her wedding that could also havedoubled for a mini-reunion, Allie Augusta"Gussie" Ownby married George Fox (Duke'86). Gussie is pursuing a graduate degree ingeology at U. of Southern California and herhusband is a science teacher at a local prepschool. Kara McGuirk '87 was maid ofhonor. Kara is working on her master's in ge-ology at Northwestern U. Bridesmaid KarenMurk just finished work for her high schoolteaching certificate. Matt Krane, who wasan usher, had previously finished his MSE de-gree at U. of Pennsylvania and now lives insouthern New Hampshire, working as a hard-ware engineer at DEC. Matt proudly notesthat he caught the bride's garter—so, watchout ladies! It may be mere coincidence, but

Kathy Robinson, who also works for DECin New Hampshire, as a software engineer,caught Gussie's bouquet.

Other attendees at the wedding includedAlison Carter, back at Cornell working onher PhD in pharmacology; Rose Fajardo,who is a marketing representative for a broke-rage firm in Philadelphia; Dee Gardner,now a geotechnical consultant in Redmond,Wash.; and Sandy Marky, who is finishingup at the Vet College. Also toasting the newly-weds were Pat Moran, who is working inmanufacturing engineering at Xerox in Roch-ester, and Bette Robo. Matt writes that thewedding festivities lasted the better part of aweekend, starting with a cookout and endingwith an informal brunch with the bride andgroom. The post-reception party, Matt notes,ended with a stirring, if slurred, exchange ofCornell and Duke alma maters and fightsongs. Go Big Red! (And thanks for the letter,Matt.)

Edward Decker writes that he ex-pected to graduate from1 SUNY, Upstate Col-lege of Medicine and was planning an intern-ship and then residency in ophthalmology inAkron—but not before a much-deserved Eur-opean vacation. Peter Skura is back in Itha-ca, this time working for Cornell, operatingthe mainframes (including, he gleefully re-ports, the CNSF Supercomputers!). Go nuts,Pete.

OK, the rest of you who haven't written,get it in gear! Our 5th Reunion is just a yearaway and there is a lot of catching up to do be-fore then. So take a few minutes and jot off anote telling me where you are and what you'redoing. Again, I apologize for being so mobile.You can still reach me via my parents. Au re-voir! D Karen Dillon, 23 Virginia Rd.,Reading, Mass. 01867.

Three down, two to go ... untilthe Class of '87's first official Re-union. Hopefully, many of youwere able to attend local mini-reunions held last month in anumber of cities across the coun-

try. It's a wonderful opportunity to see who'sin your area and to make some new Cornellconnections. On the subject of Cornell connec-tions, some classmates recently tied the knoton campus. Michael Fischette married Dr.Nancy Benson on Dec. 3, '89 at the AndrewDickson White House in Ithaca. ProfessorEmeritus William Tucker Dean, Law, per-formed the ceremony, which was attended byclassmates Roy Greenberg and SteveCase. The happy couple now resides in,RedBank, NJ and they work in research and de-velopment for AT&T. Norman Hurlbutmarried Elyssa Katz '86 in Sage Chapellast September 3. John Hastings, CharlieEcker, Chris Meyer, Scott Worcester,Jose Davila, Zach Shulman, Bob Max-on, and Erik Oneill were among the manyCornellians in attendance.

In other matrimonial news, ElizabethHwang and Mark Levenson were marriedlast August in Pittsburgh. In attendance wereclassmates Marin Tomasz, Kevin Down-ing, Cindy Williams, Joanna Feltham,Larry Edelstein, Peter Elkins, and Ra-fael Rosa. Elizabeth and Mark now reside inChicago, where Mark is pursuing a PhD instatistics at the U. of Chicago and Elizabeth is


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a program editor forStagebill magazine. JudyCohen and Jay Rivlin were married last Ju-ly 3 and now live on Long Island. Judy isstudying for her master's in education and Jayowns a chain of retail pet stores. Finally, Sar-ah Williams married Marc Bonnefoi lastDecember. The couple met while Sarah waspursuing her master's in French education atthe U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, afterhaving studied for a year in Munich and Paris.

On other foreign fronts, Jessica Irs-chick has been an investment banker-equitytrader for Salomon Brothers in Tokyo for thelast two years. She is learning both the Japa-nese culture and language and. has been ableto travel extensively throughout the Asia/Pacific area. Carol Schwarz just returnedfrom Israel after spending six months workingon a kibbutz and studying Hebrew. Now thatCarol is back in the States, she is looking for-ward to using her master's degree in specialeducation.

David Bolton is a financial analyst forAT&T in Basking Ridge, NJ. He writes thathe and Mike Stein went to visit classmateKevin Roman, who gave up the engineer-ing life to play the bass in a local New Jerseyband full time. Rod Recker writes from Edi-son, NJ that he is now a software developer forAT&T Pixel Machines after completing hismaster's at Cornell in computer graphics.

Roberta Tulman has finished up at theLaw School and will begin working for a Mor-ristown, NJ law firm in October. Diane DeMallie has completed her third year at DukeU. medical school. She is studying depressionin the elderly and is getting ready to apply toresidency programs. Bonnie Deutsch grad-uated from the American U.'s WashingtonCollege of Law, and plans to settle in Washing-ton, DC, after taking the bar exam this month.Finally, Lisa Cocchi is a teacher at PS 197 inBrooklyn and is pursuing a master's in specialeducation at Hofstra U.

Keep the news coming. We now have thelatest News & Dues forms, but they last onlyso long, and we can always use up-to-datenews. D Amy Marks, 1558 Lombard St.,San Francisco, Cal. 94123; Stacey Pineo, 45Mt. Sumner Dr., Bolton, Conn. 06043; RichFriedman, 10 Vairo Blvd., Box 329, StateCollege, Pa. 16803.

It's rather strange to considerthat this may be the last article Iwrite from California. My em-ployer, a local school district of31,000 students, finds itself indire penury and is to lay off more

than 250 employees—including me—at theend of June. I'm looking for jobs outside theBay Area, so I don't know where I'll be in Julyas you read this.

Perusing the pile of News & Dues formswhich just arrived, I realize my transient stat-us mirrors the class as a whole. Two years (!!)after graduation, many of us have made recentcareer and life changes. Alex Albone offersdramatic proof of this trend. A year ago he lefthis commodity brokering job and returned toEngland, where he runs the family farm and aside business of shipping the finest Scottishsmoked salmon. Those in the States wishingto order may write him at: Hackthorn ManorLtd., Home Farm, Scawby Brigg, S. Humber-side DN20 9AF England. Visitors are always

welcome.Elsewhere, Rich Balew writes from To-

kyo that he assumed the position of sales man-ager for Tech Sports' office in Japan last Sep-tember. He encourages all who have the op-portunity to live in Japan to do so. ScottBeck is now with the Peace Corps in Mauri-tania. A friend who also served with the PeaceCorps in Africa once told me that mail offeredone of few diversions. Therefore, Scott's ad-dress is: Corps De La Paix, BP55, SelibabyGuidimaica, Mauritania, North Africa. Final-ly, the US Foreign Service, in August 1989,

Many other classmates returned toschool recently. Anne Welch started a doc-toral program in human development and so-cial policy at Northwestern U. last September.She finds big-city life is a tougher adjustmentthan the academics. Evan Raskas is also atNorthwestern as a first-year law student, afterreturning last summer from a year-long fel-lowship in Israel. In New York City, MichaelPoles and Marcy Joseph finished their sec-ond year at New York U. medicine and law, re-spectively. Other Cornellians in academia in-

: elude Bradley Berg, now at New Mexico

In theNews

Yuri Orlov, the former Soviet particle physicist whohas been at Cornell since 1987, began a letter-writingcampaign among scientists to secure the release ofFang Lizhi, a Chinese astrophysicist. Many promi-nent scientists, Nobel laureate Hans Bethe amongthem, have pledged not to take part in scientific con-ferences in China until Fang and his family are freed.

Ithacan Sidney Piburn, MFA '69 has madeheadway in his quest to preserve Tibetan cultural lit-erature since that country was invaded by China in1950. His publishing house, Snow Lion Publications,this year boasts sixty-five titles and projects half amillion dollars in sales. The key to success was theacquisition of the Dalai Lama's own Kindness, Clarityand Insight, some 35,000 copies of which have beensold, most since the exiled political and spiritual lead-er won the Nobel prize in 1989.

Ronald Kuby, JD '83 is getting his name spreadaround New York City. Teamed up with civil libertieslawyer William Kunstler (of Chicago Seven fame),Kuby is representing Greyhound's striking driversunion in its battle to stop the company from employ-ing replacement workers in the city.

Three professors flew to Taipei to attend the in-auguration on Sunday, May 20, of Lee Teng-hui,PhD '68 to his first elected term as president of theRepublic of China on Taiwan. Professors Dan Sisler,Bernard F. Stanton, and Randolph Barker, all inagricultural economics, attended. Lee studied underSisler and Stanton; Barker worked with Lee in Tai-wan on the U.S.-China Joint Commission for RuralReconstruction.

Ken Dryden '69, former goaltender for the Mon-treal Canadiens, received the 1990 achievementaward of the Canadian Society of New York.

posted Ethan Goldrich as the vice consul atthe consulate general's office in Jerusalem.

Military types seem to change addressesmore quickly than anyone else. Chad Sneeproves this by volunteering a huge list of per-sonnel changes involving former NavalROTCers. In September, Chad started flightschool at Pensacola after five months on boardthe USS White Plains. He notes numerousCornellians are somewhere in the process ofearning flight wings, among them Steve La-bous, Dan Rolince, Tom Lawrie, TomWallace, BiU Scillepi, Rich Zims, ScottLepage, Erik Dullen, and Steve Duni-pace.

Tech and soon at U. of Rochester; Scott Idle-man, at Indiana, whose dog Tucker (also '88)is now 115 pounds and growing; Erik Fayeand Kristin Hileman at American U.'s lawschool; Peter Beernink, at Boston U., whoadmits to attending their hockey games; andWilliam and Jennifer Truman Bern-hard, at Duke.

I'll finish this column with news of theBernhard wedding, which overflowed withalumni. Held on campus at Sage Chapel in Au-gust 1989, Cornellians in attendance includedLorrain Gold Maguire '27, Clara CladelBernhard '26, Robert '62 and MargaretMaguire Bernhard '64, Elizabeth

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Bernhard '92, Richard H. Bernhard'56, Sally Maguire Tobin '60, MabelCladel '43, Wayne Bartsch '88, JeffBrandes '88, Kelly Cowles '88, and 11others. Anybody wishing to try for a record(?)23 Cornellian alumni attending a class wed-ding may forward their entries to any of theaddresses below. Happy summer to all ofyou! D Jason McGill, 2956 Shasta Rd.,Berkeley, Cal. 94708; Jacques Boubli,40-806 Newport Pkwy., Jersey City, NJ07310; Pam Chertok Caine, 223 BloomfieldSt., Apt. 3C, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

Hello. Hola. Shalom. Aloha,Bonjour. This month's columncan be titled, "A Journey Far &Near ..." First, let's see what ishappening hundreds of milesfrom our "old home" in Ithaca.

Siow Wei Ong is involved in risk manage-ment and futures trading at Shell Eastern Pe-troleum in Singapore. Along similar lines,Anthony Sutherland is working at Com-modity Trading Co. as an administrative assis-tant in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. If you'retraveling through England this summer ornext year, you may run into Anne Cham-bers, who is working towards her master'sdegree for Western European politics at TheLondon School of Economics and Political Sci-ence. Peter Ray is having an experience of alifetime being a part of the Peace Corps inCentral African Republic, while Ana Martelis enjoying her work as an account executiveat Dela Crus & Goatehet, an advertising firmin her home of Puerto Rico. Christina Carl-son is also at home in Honolulu, working as aconsultant at Connell Kerr Forster.

Now, let's move to the western part of theUS and work our way toward Ithaca and theNortheast. Meggen Shepherd is a researchassistant for the microbiology and immunolo-gy department at Stanford U. AlexandraMurray is enjoying her summer working out-doors as a horse trainer at Rancho de Robles inPaso Robles, Cal.

Elise Billings writes that Tracy Rubinis living in San Francisco and teaching Eng-lish at Mercy High School. Elana Adlemanalso lives in San Francisco and is a real estateanalyst for E. S. Merriman.

The greater Chicago-area is a home formany of our classmates. A couple among thisbunch is Zacharias Kollias, who is employedat Household Bank as an assistant manager, andRandi Rose, who is attending Medill School ofJournalism at Northwestern U.

Carol Borack is working at Denison U.in Granville, Ohio as an assistant to the direc-tor for cultural affairs for campus activitiesand union. Lorna Luebbe is a geologist, oth-erwise called an environmental consultant, forVersar Inc. in Langhorne, Pa. Another sci-ence-oriented classmate, Linda Chase,works for CIGNA as an ocean marine under-writer in Philadelphia. Tracy Souza is achemical engineer for Air Products & Chemi-cals in Allentown, Pa.

The US Air Force is fortunate to haveGregory Toussaint as a second lieutenantbased in southern Ohio, as well as TheodoreSchoenberg, who is an officer at Ba'rksdaleAir Force base in Louisiana.

Two hotellies are part of the Hyatt Corp.Laurie Berliner is in the corporate manage-

ment training program at the Hyatt Regencyin Orlando, Fla., and Thomas Cleary isworking in the engineering department of theHyatt Orlando in Kissammee, Fla. LeahReutlinger is also in Florida working as abrewing supervisor at Anheuser Busch inJacksonville.

Sheri Miller writes that she and AllisonWarner are sharing an apartment in Boston.Sheri is working as a research assistant at theChildren's Hospital of Mount Auburn. She wassince promoted to an assistant manager posi-tion at the credit union at the hospital. MegFlaherty is also in Boston completing an in-ternship in dietetics at Massachusetts GeneralHospital. Joe Tagliente passed on the follow-ing news. He is working for his father in Bostonin his restaurant and hotel business. Two of hisfriends are sales representatives: Jeff Milne isin Philadelphia working for Carnation, whileDoug Langan is working in Long Island forProcter & Gamble.

David Vogel is self-employed, selling hisown desserts in Barrington, RL Jill Kaspro-witz is an assistant program manager forMBI Inc. in Norwalk, Conn. Nearby in Stam-ford, one may run into Shari Jaffess, who isa benefits consultant at Mercer HeidingerHanson. Happily working in the US capitalare Tracy McMinn, manager in the govern-ment relations office for Pennzoil Co.; Daria.Schwartz, staff accountant for The Pruden-tial comptroller's department in S. Plainfield,NJ; and Maddy Eckstein, assistant depart-ment manager at Saks Fifth Avenue in Hack-ensack, NJ.

Now, edging our way to the Big Apple, wefind Kristina Schneider, a social worker atEncore 49; Robin Strauss, an insurancebroker at The Strauss Agency; and EllynHurwitz, assistant manager at Stanley Kap-lan Educational Centers, with which many ofyou are familiar, probably more familiar thanyou had hoped.

Well, it's time to end our journey. Pleasekeep us posted on where you are and whatyou're doing, and, who knows, you too mayappear in the column someday. D Steph-anie Bloom, 425 E. 76th St., Apt. 5F, NYC10021; Dan Gross, 2414 10th St., NE,Washington, DC 20018; Alan Rozen, 839Reily Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45215; DinaWisch Gold, c/o Parker Chapin Flattau &Klimpl, 1211 6th Ave., 17th Floor, NYC10036.

Graduation is still two days awayat this writing, but here we areamong the alumni. Finally, thefirst class of the last decade ofthe second millenium is ready totake its place in the world.

Chronicling our class's adventures in thepages of the Alumni News will be four corre-spondents, and we have lots of great ideas ofyour future entertainment and enlightenment.But I'll let you discover that for yourself asyou read this column over the next few dec-ades.

In the nearer future, though, yours truly(address below) will be responsible for writingthe next column—September issue (there is noissue in August)—after which Regina Duf-fey will take over. She will be writing fromher Ithaca headquarters at 101 Brook Lane.Kristyn Benzinger is set to write after Re-

gina; she is going to be staying at 4 Scott Ct,E. Setauket, NY 11733. That is, until the firstsnow, when Kristyn will consider moving toCalifornia. While there, she might look upJennifer McComb, our Western-most cor-respondent, who hails from 1230 Eva Ave.,Los Altos, Cal. 94024.

Our class council boasts another Califor-nian: Vice President Nuntica "Rose" Tana-sugarn of 5419 La Mirada Ave., Los Ange-les, Cal. 90020. But don't go looking for hernext fall—she will be teaching somewherenear Hiroshima. Rose describes herself as"Joe Social Chair," and we're sure to hearmore from her about Homecoming and asecret special event she only calls "Rock 'n'Roll Class of '90."

Also involved with these events, as wellas all other aspects of our alumni life, will beEl Presidente Scott Beijer. After July, Scottcan be reached at PO Box 46082, Denver,Colo. 80201-6082. Scott will be working forPepsiCo, administering the famous taste testto lucky consumers (actually, he says he willbe an employee relations representative).

The other member of the class officers'Western cabal is Secretary Steven "Slip"Rueben. Slip is going to face the cruel life atLake Tahoe, Cal. next year. It's a hard job, butSlip is the man to do it.

Meanwhile, back on the Right Coast,Treasurer Carolyn Saake will be keepingtabs on the funds. She wants you to know thatyour dues are all we have for the Alumni Newsand other activities, so keep 'em coming. Andtell your friends, too. Because you don't wantto show up at the 5th Reunion not knowingwhat your classmates have been doing.

But, if you do come to the 5th in 1995, I'msure you will find it wonderful. The people tothank for that will be our Reunion Co-ChairsAnna Barnsley (PO Box 3064, Soldotna,Alaska 99669) and Katrine Bosley (SunriseCt., Mentor, Ohio 44060). I'm sure CornellFund Representative Nancy Neuman willhave a lot to tell us of her work with Lisa Cook,Cornell Fund staffer, at Reunion, too. We willbe updating you on their activities over themonths and years.

All these people and their titles should befamiliar to you if you attended the senior re-ception/eat-all-you-can on May 24. If you werethere, you also met the rest of the class coun-cil, the folks responsible for maintaining ourclass unity. Deborah Klein, Marc Lan-dau, Margaret Mordy, and Maria Potterwill be lending their talents to the councilalong with the others mentioned. Last time Isaw them (at the reception) they were hard atwork on our first project—designing a spiffyletterhead logo for the Class of '90—in be-tween bites of cracker and cheese.

Those of you who missed the reception al-so missed out on the wonderful door prizes.Lorna Bayer, for example, won her owncopy of the famous Cornell Doorways print,giftwrapped in red paper (of course). KevinWalsh was the beaming recipient of a Cornellpen and pencil set, which he will use to fill outhis News & Dues forms. And KristenCocker settled down with that perfect gradu-ation gift: a Cornell chair. Three more and shecan have company over for dinner.

Have a good summer as new alumni.Here's to us. D Sam Zia-Zarifi, 3640 Car-diff Ave., #110, Los Angeles, Cal. 90034.


'15 DVM—J. Henry Allen of Russell, Pa.,March 8, 1990; veterinarian; active in profes-sional and community affairs.

'15, BS HE '17—Eugene Webber Morri-son (Mrs. Henry W.) of Wayne, NJ, March 23,1990. Alpha Phi.

'18 BA—Dagmar Schmidt Wright (Mrs.Oliver S.) of Oceanside, NY, Feb. 28, 1990;had been partner and sales manager of Duro-Flex Co., metal furniture manufacturing firm;founder of the Oceanside chapter of the Amer-ican Red Cross and of the Oceanside FreePublic Library; active in community andalumni affairs. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'20 BA—Helen Wilcox Bard (Mrs. James)of Thornwood, NY, July 1988.

'21, BChem '22—Harold A. Jewett ofWashington, DC, Feb. 23, 1990; retired in1962 after 25 years as patent attorney for Du-Pont Co.; had been a professional musician;active in professional affairs. Alpha Chi Rho.

'24—Thelma Chapin Easterbrooks (Mrs.P. B. Jr.) of Southbury, Conn., Feb. 25,1990.

'24 ME—Morris Shapiro of Washington,DC, March 7, 1990; consulting engineer withGeneral Engineering Associates. Tau EpsilonPhi.

'26 MD—Edward L. Keyes of St. Louis,Mo., Feb. 11, 1990.

'27—Mathew O. Reynolds of Syracuse,NY, March 11, 1990; owner and operator,Matt's Nursery, in Lysander, NY; active inprofessional affairs.

'28 BA—Helen Powell Davis (Mrs. Theodore) of Princeton, NJ, Jan, 31, 1990.

'28 BChem, MChem '32—Albert K.Shadduck of Wilmington, Del., March 11,1990; chemical engineer; active in profession-al affairs. Alpha Chi Sigma.

'29-33 SpAg—John R. Walker of Gas-port, NY, Feb. 21, 1990; retired in 1970 after40 years with the Carborundum Co. in Niaga-ra Falls; active in community affairs.

'30 EE—Donald C. MacRae of Delmar,NY, Jan. 8, 1990; had been an engineer withNiagara Mohawk Power Co.

'32 BA—Henry H. Hatfield of Jackson-ville, Fla., Jan. 18, 1990. Theta Xi.

'34, BA '35—Florence BornsteinGluckman (Mrs. Sidney) of Tampa, Fla., May2, 1978.

'34 PhD—Swarn Singh of St. Croix, Vir-gin Islands, 1961, exact date unknown.

'34 CE—Edward J. Slezak of San Anto-nio, Texas, Dec. 5, 1989.

'35, BS Ag '36—John W. Cadbury IIIof New Lisbon, NJ, Feb. 13, 1989.

'36 BA, MD '40—Ezra J. Bridge of Port

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Huron, Mich., Jan. 20, 1990; physician; re-tired in 1986 as chief of staff at Port HuronHospital; active in professional and communi-ty affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon, Nu Sigma Nu.

'36 BA—Richard E. Gill of Naples, Fla.,Feb. 27, 1990; retired president and chief ex-ecutive officer of the cement division of Na-tional Gypsum Co., where he was employedfor 43 years; active in professional and com-munity affairs. Kappa Delta Rho.

'36, CE '37—Carl H. Scheman Jr. ofGreensburg, Pa. was incorrectly listed in the"Alumni Deaths" column in the October 1989issue of the Alumni News. The item was basedon erroneous information supplied to the uni-versity. All concerned regret the error, but arepleased that Scheman is alive and has broughtthe mistake to our attention.

'37 BS Hotel—Frederick M. Babbitt ofCamp Hill, Pa., February 1990.

'37, BFA '38—Adelaide E. Briggs ofIthaca, NY, March 11, 1990; artist; retired in1981 after more than 30 years with Cornell'sWiegand Herbarium; active in community af-fairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

'38 BA—Marjorie Silverstein Braun(Mrs. Ernst F.) of Atlanta, Ga., March 5,1990.

'38 CE—Carl J. Browne of Canaan, NH,April 1, 1990; engineeer with Panama CanalCo., Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, for manyyears; active in professional and communityaffairs. Phi Kappa Tau.

'39 BArch—C. Frederick Wise of Quakertown, Pa., Jan. 27, 1990; architect.

'40 PhD—Donald W. Andrus of NewHaven, Conn., October 1988.

'41 BA—Howard S. Dyer of Syracuse,NY, March 21, 1990; retired in 1985 after 20years as professor of European history at On-ondaga Community College.

'41 MS Ed—Vera LeMasurier Thomas(Mrs. Wayne) of La Plume, Pa., May 1986;was a teacher of home economics.

'43 BS AEM—Robert D. Griffith of War-ren, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1990; industrial engineer.Alpha Tau Omega.

'46 BA—Barbara Summerill Caldwell(Mrs. Keith) of Bellaire, Texas, July 18,1985;was paleontologist with Shell Oil Co.; active inprofessional affairs. Pi Beta Phi.

'46 BS HE—Priscilla Reed Goll (Mrs.Richard E.) of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., Feb.20, 1990. Husband, Richard E. Goll '46.

'48 MS Ag, PhD '50—Wendell G. Earleof Ithaca, NY, April 3,1990; professor emeri-tus of marketing in the College of Agricultureand Life Sciences at Cornell, where he hadtaught for more than 20 years; active in pro-fessional, community, and alumni affairs.

'48 BCE—David S. Summerville ofSackets Harbor, NY, March 20, 1990; con-

sulting engineer; village trustee; active incommunity affairs. Psi Upsilon. Wife, Janet(Bassette) '46.

'49 BA—Charles Cabot of Hopkins,Mich., Feb. 7,1990; manager of analytical de-velopment with Perrigo Co., where he hadbeen employed for 30 years.

'49 MA—Ronald F. Drew of Houston,Texas, Jan. 10, 1990. Wife, Katherine(Fischer) PhD '50.

'49 MS—Mary E. Purchase of Ithaca,NY, March 6, 1990; professor emeritus, de-sign and environmental analysis, College ofHuman Ecology, where she was on the facultyfor 25 years; active in professional and com-munity affairs.

'50 BS ILR—Rubin Diamond of VanNuys, Cal., Feb. 6, 1990; retired in 1986 aftermany years as human services coordinator forSouthern California Assn. of Governments.Wife, Marion (Altaian) '48.

'50 BS Ag—Albert J. Slaight of Avon,NY, Feb. 4, 1990.

'50—Arthur C. Sloane of Newark, NY,June 1982.

'52 BS HE—Janet Burkinshaw Eskew(Mrs. Raymond) of Pine Bush, NY, Jan. 16,1990. Omicron Nu.

'53, BCE '54—James G. Davis of Glenwood, Md., Jan. 18, 1990; chairman of theboard of the James G. Davis ConstructionCorp.; past president of the WashingtonBuilding Congress; active in professional af-fairs.

'53—William G. Hutchinson of MerrittIsland, Fla., Aug. 15, 1988; was a lieutenantcolonel, US Air Force, for many years.

'55—Sue Savage Bertelman (Mrs. Ray-mond) of N. Palm Beach, Fla., March 5,1990.

'55 BA—Henry R. Newbaker of Saraso-ta, Fla., March 26, 1990.

'58 LLB—Lawrence J. Lee of Phoenix,Ariz., Nov. 5, 1987; had been associated withMitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles,Cal.

'63, BChemE '64—Richard A. En-dreny of Selkirk, NY, Feb. 16,1990; systemsplanner with New York State Public ServiceCommission for 18 years; active in communityaffairs.

'69 MS ILR—Yemane Araya of AddisAbaba, Ethiopia, March 1988; vice ministerfor labor and social affairs of Ethiopia.

'80 BA—Frederick D. Unger of NewYork City, Feb. 10,1990; attorney with Unger& Unger; judicial law clerk for the HonorableMurray G. Simon; adjunct professor at Cardo-zo Law School.

'81—Rodney B. Chase of Brentwood, NY,March 14, 1984.

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Father and songraduates Van-Cleft Travis Jr.'60 and VanCleftTravis III'90pose atop newRoberts Hall inthe year fathergot a PhD andson his BS.Bailey Hall is inthe background.

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C ommencement 1990 addedmany to the list of multi-Cor-nell-degreed families, but theTravis family of McLean, NewYork, captured attention by

adding two more degrees on the verysame day. Father Van Travis '60 andson Chip received a doctorate andbachelor's, respectively, on May 27,making for their family a total of fourCornell degrees (Chip's sister Karenreceived her bachelor's in '87).

"The likelihood that I ended upat Cornell and that we're graduatingtogether is probably one of theproudest things of my life," Chip(VanCleft III) told an Ithaca Journalreporter.

Chip's dad, an Extension agentat Cornell, received his doctorate ineducation thirty years after receiv-ing his bachelor's. He and his son,whose degree was in business, areboth members of Alpha Zeta, Vanjoining the fraternity just this past

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year.The list of couples with five or

more children who hold Cornelldegrees grew at Commencementthis year when the sixth child ofFlorence Conover '50 and ProfessorNathan H. Peck '51, PhD '56, hor-ticultural sciences, emeritus, receiv-ed her B.A.

Alice Peck '90 is the most recentof their children to earn a Cornell de-gree, preceded by Nathan Jr. '76Arts, MBA '78; Nancy Peck Whaley'77 Ag; Henry '79 Engineering; Wal-ter '81 Arts, MBA '84; and Virginia'89 Arts.

Four of the children are alsomarried to alumni or alumni chil-dren, Nathan Jr. to Robin Treat '77;Nancy to Steven Whaley '78; Henryto Leigh Markham '79, who is alsothe daughter of Theodore Markham'44; and Walter who is married toBarbara Burdin, daughter of ArthurBurdin '38.


The list of couples with five ormore degree holding offspring hasgrown considerably since the Alum-ni News began publishing it in 1963.

The family of Robert '39 andRita Schoff Markham '45 producednine degree holders. In order, theothers are the Loehr family, 8; Hornand Shaw, 7; Bernstein, Call, Malti,Payne, Young, Warren, Pasto,James Rice, Sawdon, Hertel, Foster,and Gibson, 6 each; and, with 5,Blostein, Bradfield, Davenport,Hanford, Irish, MacDonald, Palmer,Pendleton, Ross, Whinery, Hoff-man, Clemente, Earle, Hughes, Mis-call, Ferrara, David Rice, and Flana-gan.

Singers on TV"Geographical Fugue," a one-hourvideo documentary of the GleeClub's tour of Singapore, China, andHong Kong in January 1988, will beshown on Public Broadcasting Sys-tem stations in the fall. WSKG-TVin Binghamton, New York, showedthe program in May.

Trustees NamedThe Board of Trustees added newmembers and granted others emeri-tus status in late May. Newly namedare Jon Lindseth '56 and StephenFillo '59, who had completed a four-year term as alumni representative.The board conferred emeritus statuson Eli Manchester '52, Margaret Os-mer-McQuade '60, Professor DanielSisler, PhD '62, and George Peter,for ten years an employee member.

Severinghaus FetedThe university named a researchroom for its Asian collections in thenew Olin Library addition for LeslieSeveringhaus '21, trustee emeritusof Cornell and headmaster emeritusof Haverford School in Pennsylva-nia. The Luce Foundation gave $1million to provide the room.

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Maybe it's senioritis, maybeit's apathy, but I can barelydredge up the outrage toproperly answer PresidentFrank H. M. S. Rhodes's

subtly oxymoronic question: "Whatkind of University do we want tocontinue to be?"

I'll tell you what kind. I want tohave the kind of university wherepeople fall in love across crowdedrooms, where puppies are alwaysfrolicking on an unblemished ArtsQuad, where it's always warm. Iwant the university to continue to beStanford.

Or Yale. Or Princeton. Why is itthat when Cornell students consolethemselves, they always say "Don'tworry, you're going to an Ivy Leagueuniversity?" . . . People at Yale orPrinceton never invoke the Ivybrand. Not that I think we are infer-ior to any of these other schools. Wejust feel inferior. Call it the CornellComplex.

When the Frank urged theBoard of Trustees to raise tuitionagain, asking them to continue theCornell tradition, exactly which tra-dition was he talking about? I mean,we're paying a lot of money to go toschool, and there are people attend-ing classes on Clothes Designs forHumans. Students, ostensibly in anagricultural school, studying com-

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munications. Communication withwhat? Cows? Corn? Would a real IvyLeague school be like this? I hope so.

No one has taken the time to ex-plain to most Cornell students thatno matter what the rankings, we are,as far as I know, a truly unique insti-tution. What we have most in com-mon with the other Ivy Leagueschools is uncompetitive athleticsand eerily similar tuition levels. Weare much younger than our sister in-stitutions; we didn't make our repu-tation by teaching Yankee blue-bloods, but rather by being the firsttrue American University.

It's no accident that unlike theother ancient seven, our school mot-to is in English. No lame Latin into-nations of Truth, or Justice, or aVoice in the Desert for Cornell—werepresent the American dream. Re-member, this university had twofounders: one, a self-taught, self-made multi-millionaire, and theother, a highly educated, genteel An-glophile. The union—and disagree-ment—of these two men shaped theuniversity and still influences it to-day.

Cornell shouldn't be just a poor-er version of the Big Three—say, theway a Brown or a Columbia mightbe. Cornell was, is, and should be afundamentally different institution.The reasons that lead to the CornellComplex are exactly the reasons weshould be proud of Cornell.

That's the kind of university Ithink we should continue to be. It'shigh time someone from Day Halltold us how they envision Cornell in125 years.

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